The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Tuesday March 12 - Full Show

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What did that ghostwriter do with the information Joe Biden shared with him on his laptop? What did he do after you were named special counsel? Chairman, if you're referring to the audio recordings that Mr. Wander created of his conversations with Mr. Biden. Exactly what I'm referring to. He slid, if I remember correctly, he slid those files into his recycled bin on his computer. Tried to destroy the evidence, didn't he? Correct. You know what I think we're going to start requiring now?
Starting point is 00:00:31 whenever we have these hearings. You know how you have the, what is it, the little clock, the little sand thing? Gosh, what is it? Hourglass. My gosh. Days of our lives. And I was waiting for Stefano to pop up and that.
Starting point is 00:00:51 Damn you, Stefano. Welcome to the show. It's the her testimony. He's like a, you can't flap that dude. he's unflappable. Yeah, he's like, he's the kind of guy you would want to be like investigate stuff, right? That dude. So he's being questioned right now. It is fascinating.
Starting point is 00:01:13 You had Hank Johnson maybe 10, 15 minutes ago asking him questions. And I don't exactly know what Hank Johnson was talking about. That's, that's some of what you heard that. You heard Jim Jordan questioning him there. But this is the transcript. all of this is out so you have the her report and the full transcript of the that special council interview and they are so mad they are livid democrats are p-oed that robert hur was like oh he's just this uh he's just a forgetful old man they keep going back to that they're so mad and they're
Starting point is 00:01:55 like well you didn't have to opinionate you didn't have to put that in there you did that to mean and he was like my report would have been complete incomplete if I didn't welcome to the show Dana Lash here with you top of this very first hour we've got all kinds of drama we have intrigue we have drama we're going to be talking about TikTok with FCC's Brendan Carr who needs to be on the FCC forever so my get out of jail free card can stay like this yeah we got five years so we got five years so if you know something goes sideways and you know I got I got a pass right I got that pass. So we're going to talk with him. We also are going to get into, it's like, I was trying to figure how to classify it. This border, NatSec, immigration, because now you have FBI director
Starting point is 00:02:41 saying, yeah, you guys, the people crossing at the border could be ISIS. If Stup Brothers, the movie was an administration, it would be this one. We have, so we're going to get into all of that. Also, the latest with Gaza and Pallywood strikes again. Culture. I don't know if you saw Put-Booted judges don't give me sass for saying his name correctly, by the way. That's the way that our illustrious President Joe Biden says his name. And also, what's his face? Larry O'Donnell on MSNBC,
Starting point is 00:03:12 the great Shakespearean commentator. Lawrence. Yes. Apparently, Putt-Budad Judge's husband-partner dude, Chastin, how kind of name is that, was making kids pledge allegiance to the alphabet flag. making kids pledge allegiance to a flag that represents how you have to sex. So we're going to talk about that.
Starting point is 00:03:36 The trans tyrants canceling of a icon and rock and roll. We got a whole, I mean, that's not even the first hour. So we got a lot of stuff to get into. But first and foremost, this special, this little transcript, I love how Walpo was like, it paints a nuanced portrait. Nuisance, do you say? Okay, we'll go with that. They said, listen to this.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Did you read the subhead on this? This is such heavy lifting. Now listen, the president doesn't seem as absent-minded as Herr has made him out to be. And Herr doesn't appear as crass as Biden has portrayed him. So they're trying to be like, look, we're giving a little bit to Robert Hur to make it look like we don't hate him. But no, Joe Biden's not absent-minded. They are all in. All the wagons are like hysterically circling.
Starting point is 00:04:24 They don't really have a plan yet. They're all just running around screeching at the, point. Sidebar. When I was a little kid one time, my grandparents had a little chicken yard, and then they had their little chicken coop, their little hen house. And I one time just ran in there and all the chickens went, that's exactly what's happening. I got in trouble. That's exactly what's happening right now. That's what it brought me back, man. It brought me back. Interesting piece over the Daily Caller, though, there was a time that Democrats had no problem with Robert Hur. Do you believe it? There was
Starting point is 00:04:58 a time when they didn't have a problem with him, because he's on Capitol Hill testifying this report, on this report. And they used to praise him. They've praised him. In fact, Democratic Maryland Senator Ben Cardin told Wapow at the time Robert Hur was appointed, quote, he's a true professional. And he was appointed. Do you know who Robert Hur was appointed by? He's a, they got into this maybe a little bit ago. And they're like, oh, what are you? You're a registered Republican. So Hank Johnson was like, you're basically a mag of AIDS fire, aren't you? He didn't say it like that, but he was intimating. But guess who he was, guess who he was appointed by? Do you have any idea, Cain? You know who he was appointed by?
Starting point is 00:05:46 Trump? No. No? No. He was appointed a special counsel by, and this was in January of 23. His name rhymes with, Shmeric Barlin. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:06:02 That sounds familiar. Yeah, what is Shmaric Barland? Remind you of, Kane. Merrick Garland? And you would be correct, sir. He was appointed by Biden's own attorney general. Merrick Garland, who looks like an extra out of the labyrinth, like he's hoggle's cousin. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:24 But anyway, I don't know why I keep, I don't know why I keep going. One of you asked me, When have you sent me an email? Why do you go back to the labyrinth? Because like there's literally, Lord of the Rings in the Labyrinth, you can take everything back to either of those two. I just, you can't. But before he was assigned to a special counsel, oh my gosh, Chris Van Hollen, Senator Chris Van Holland, they love them some Bobby Hur. What, what? They love them some Bobby Hur. In 2018, they praised his confirmation as the next U.S. attorney in Maryland. They were looking forward to working with him, effused Van Hollen.
Starting point is 00:07:00 Garland himself said, quote, Her will carry out his responsibility in an even-handed and urgent manner. He will conduct investigations. This is what he said when he appointed him a special counsel. Quote, he will conduct investigations with a fair and impartial and dispassionate judgment. They loved them. He's no nonsense, said one-biden ally to Wapo. He's always fair-minded.
Starting point is 00:07:24 He's a nonpartisan seeker of justice, said another. He won't be politically swayed one way or another. Even MSNBC, Daily Caller Notes. They loved them some Bobby Hur. Rachel Maddow herself even said that he was an experienced justice department professional. Ooh, they loved him. They loved Bobby Hur. Until they didn't.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Now they hate him. Now they look at him. like he's basically a mega AIDS fire. Huh. They've been going at him all day. So you're a registered Republican, huh? Aren't you basically a Nazi? I mean, they didn't say that, but they would if they could.
Starting point is 00:08:09 So this was, this is where it was. I mean, he literally forgot when his, you know, so Bo has, I don't, I, Bo Biden, maybe the only person in the history of the world who's died multiple deaths at the hands of multiple things. Like he's died in tarpits, combat, killed by an illegal immigrant. I mean, he's, you know, he's been killed six ways to Sunday. And Joe Biden couldn't remember when he passed. He couldn't remember when he passed.
Starting point is 00:08:39 And then he forgot when Trump got into office. What? I'm just saying. So now you can kind of see why they're all freaking out. And so apparently, one other thing I wanted to point out, it was, was it Adam Schiff or Eric Swawa, I think it was, it was Schiff, it was Adam Schiff, just literally like in the last 20 to 30 minutes, he was getting on Robert Her, because Robert Her had characterized the president as being forgetful in his, you know, basically the synopsis of this investigation in this interview. And so Adam Schiff was like, well, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, not that he's forgetful. I mean, in fact, many times lawyers advise their clients to say, well, I don't remember or I don't know or, you know, all of this other stuff, or I don't recall,
Starting point is 00:09:35 which is true. Lawyers will say, if you can't pinpoint something specifically, because you don't want to get yourself caught up and, you know, the appearance of making a false statement, just say, I cannot recall. You can say that. Biden said, I don't recall, I don't remember, and I have no GD idea. Quote, I have no GD idea more than 100 times. So you go. mad several times. That sounds a little bit more like than what Schiff is trying to characterize it as as simply being, oh, well, his attorneys had advised him to say this. It sounds a little bit more than that.
Starting point is 00:10:16 And they were really, they were not happy about this. In fact, go ahead and play this, because this is when Schiff, this was actually, I think, right after Schiff brought this up, where he tried to rip off special counsel hers head because her basically suggested that Biden was unfit for office. Listen to this. It's catty. And it was your obligation to follow that policy in this report, was it not?
Starting point is 00:10:41 It was also my obligation to write a confidential report for the attorney general explaining completely my decision. What you did write was deeply prejudicial to interest, the president. You say it wasn't political, and yet you must have understood, you must have understood the impact of your words. You must have understood the impact of your decision to go beyond the specifics of a particular document, to go to the very general, to your own personal, prejudicial, subjective opinion of the president, when you knew would be amplified by his political opponent, when you knew that would influence a political campaign.
Starting point is 00:11:14 You had to understand that. And you did it anyway. And you did it anyway. And her's response to this was, if I would not have included, included these aspects of the investigation into this report, it would have been an incomplete report. I mean, they can sit here and go at him for being a registered Republican six ways to Sunday, but y'all, it was Mayor Garland who selected him as special counsel. It was Chris Van Hollen who effused, who lavished praise upon him. And not just him, but a whole host of Democrats that absolutely adored them some Bobby Hur up until the point where they didn't. So if they're mad that he's a Republican, then blame you all.
Starting point is 00:11:53 yourselves because you appointed him. You're the one who picked him to be special counsel. You thought you had this locked up and you didn't. They always get over their skis, these people. Now, additionally, I wanted to touch back on what we hit. FBI director Ray is warning that, guys, he's a little concerned with what's happening at the southern border that crossers could launch another 9-11 attack. He says human trafficking cells have ties to ISIS. We're going to talk about this more because this is something a lot of people have brought up. But yet when they bring it up, you know, you're told that you're a bigot or, what is it, xenophobic or something if you bring up the possibility that this could be exploited. So coming up, we have this. We also have that
Starting point is 00:12:35 Mr. Putte Buttigieg making kids pledge the allegiance to the rainbow flag. Yeah, but don't call them groomers. We have that. We're going to get into some of the 2024 gossip. Biden's team. They're at each other's throats. They're all leaking to Politico. I've got that for you. Taco Bell's closing all over Oakland. Great job, Gav. So we have that a million other things. The budget, it's $7.3 trillion budget, the tax hikes, ATF and FBI get proposed multi-million and billion dollar increases. Proud partners for this portion of our show. It's our friends over at Goldco, because really this is what everything should be based on. The gold IRA field can seem confusing. There are a lot of things out there. It's a little saturated. Finding a precious metals company
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Starting point is 00:14:32 What's the real truth about the jobs reports? It's all fake. Check out the watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. What is... So 50 people were injured.
Starting point is 00:14:51 by what's being called a strong movement on a plane. Don't not let me forget to tell you about my airplane horror story. Oh, dude, I can't even believe if I forgot to tell you this. Anyway, 50 people were injured by a strong movement on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand. This, that's what they're calling it. They just, they said it was going from Australia to New Zealand, 50 people. It was a Chilean plane. Their airline said that there was a technical event during the flight, which caused a strong movement.
Starting point is 00:15:20 They did not elaborate. They had 10 emergency vehicles when the flight touched down in Auckland, and most of the injuries were mild. 13 were hospitalized. One was in serious condition, and a number of them were not wearing their seatbelt. So it suddenly dropped in the air, is what it sounds like. But still, that's kind of, speaking of planes and stuff, a Boeing whistleblower, John Burnett was found dead in his truck outside of South Carolina Hotel just days after testifying in a lawsuit against the aviation giant. I'm sure this is just total coincidental. A 62-year-old man found dead in his truck in a hotel parking lot on Saturday just days after he, you know, gave a deposition about Boeing, claiming that they were using second-rate parts.
Starting point is 00:16:00 And that's why things were, that's why there were some problems. They said that the ex-quality manager, that it was a self-inflicted wound and they're still investigating. Self-inflicted. I'm sure. Okay. Yeah, just let's go with that right now. Daily marijuana users, they say, are 25% more likely to have a heart attack. But Kane, in that it's not the Vax, guys. Because it is the Vax guys. Do pot people? Did they get the vaccine?
Starting point is 00:16:29 Probably, I guess. Because the pot people, like pot people, aren't they like hippies? And so they drink that bacteria team and they like go out into the woods and get hemp wherever that is and they weave it together into sandals and stuff. Some don't go that far. It seems like they wouldn't get it. Yeah, some don't go that far. I don't know. Doctors can out edit the genes inside of your body, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Starting point is 00:16:49 But as Kane would like for you to know, it's not the Vax guys. 47% of parents still financially support their adult children. Do you know why? Because the economy is a giant deuce. And they literally are trying to make it to where you can own nothing. You don't make anything. And you're a serf to Uncle Sam. There you go.
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Starting point is 00:19:12 What you just heard, if you were listening coast to coast on an affiliate near you, if you're streaming, if you're listening later to the archived podcast, or if you're watching the simulcast live, either on Channel 347 direct TV, YouTube, where the discussion happens, or Facebook. That was mayor's secretary, vice admiral of the canoe fleet at Camp Wimpy Tonka, Poot, Booty Judge. And that was Mr. Poot Booty Judge, Chastin, who is basically mocked. Now, basically, he's mocking the Pledge of Allegiance.
Starting point is 00:19:51 It was recorded at a 2019 Iowa Safe Schools annual governor's conference on alphabet youth. And I have no idea why they feel the need to do this. And this dude's a middle school teacher. That was, yeah, it was the Iowa Safe Schools thing. It was their virtual graduation ceremony. and they that's the it's first off can I just point out the the
Starting point is 00:20:23 ludicrousness the lunacy of having you don't have to have a flag for everything right this is a flag for how you like to have sex okay and with whom I get it that everybody wants to turn themselves into a brand which is infuriatingly and sufferably
Starting point is 00:20:42 annoying nowadays but you don't need a flag or a marker or, I mean, are you that star for attention? Because people who need attention do this stuff. It's like, I need a flag because I like, I like brownies without nuts and I need a flag for that. Or I like ankle socks over Chris socks. I need a flag for that. It's my laugh. It's my truth. It's just, it's a flag for how. people have to sexes, okay? Why do you need that? It's like saying, oh, I'm a dude. I prefer to sit to pee. Where's my flag? I mean, you know, where? I don't get why you have to have some sort of announcement
Starting point is 00:21:32 for every aspect of your life. You're, you're cordoning yourself off by insisting upon having some kind of flag with some kind of, it's goofy. Just be a human. Be a part of a human. Be a part of a human race, right? And then to have these kids do this? Look, Poo-Boot a judge was, he was a D-E-I hire. He got selected, this Bob the Builder guy, got selected because he's gay. That's why he got picked for this role. It's not because Secretary Booty Judge has some sort of immense qualifications and transportation. It's not because Secretary Booty Judge is a lifelong affinity for vehicles. They act like he's like the American Jeremy Clarkson or something. He got picked because he has sex with dudes.
Starting point is 00:22:25 That's why he was selected for no other reason. He ran against Joe. Joe wanted to make his administration look young. Then he could also check the box of, well, here's a guy who's alphabet. And he installs him in this position. And Pooh Booty Judge immediately puts out his identity politic of how he has sex before any other qualification, like merit or skill or anything else. See, that's it. At some point, that's what our, that's what our world's going to be. We're getting there. We're getting there slowly,
Starting point is 00:22:57 but surely. Your doctor will be, the surgeon operating on your guts will be the guy operating on your guts, not because he had the merit and skill to do it, but because of how he has the sex. It's going to happen. Just get used to it, right? You're going to die. So, it's true. I mean, at least Rick Rinell, who was D&I, had like Intel experience, right? Can I be real? I don't even know that dude was gay until it came out and they tried to shame him over it because the left likes gay people until they find out you're dirty Republican. And then all of a sudden being gay is bad. Because they patent identity politics. You can't be gay. You can't be black. You can't be Hispanic. You can't be a chick unless you're a Democrat. The Democrat aspect
Starting point is 00:23:48 validates all the other identity politics. So you can't truly be any of, I mean, Joe Biden told you if you're not, if you're not voting for him, you ain't black. That's how they literally view it. I'm not exaggerating. That's how they look at this stuff. So he was a DEI hire. Why is he holding up this flag? What is it, I'm confused as to how this is written. Was it a conference talking about alphabet youth or was it a gay kid camp? And then why are you sending your kids to gay camp. I am made of jokes right now. You have to realize I came of age in the 90s and I wish the 80s were my coming of age because that was I feel like a way better time. But things were still pretty politically incorrect then, right? I mean, the Goonies was out when I was a kid. Goonies, right? Remember
Starting point is 00:24:43 that? The breath pack was like a, you know, they were a thing when I was growing up. I just feel like there could have been like a PCU sort of thing with like, which still, I found the link on that, by the way. You got to look at it online because for some reason you can't watch it anymore. Jeremy Piven, PCU, the best movie that was really a prophecy on where everything was going. It was making fun of identity politics and all of this woke stuff before, like decades before it happened. I, the whole Iowa Safe Schools thing, they were mad because Kim Reynolds was like, okay, we don't want dudes changing. in women's locker rooms. Now that should not be a controversial thing.
Starting point is 00:25:27 I told you how we had a cousin. And this was in Hillsborough, Missouri, right? At the school there who was an athlete, and there was an 18-year-old male who was over six foot, who just decided, you know, one month he wanted to be a chick, demanded access to the girls' locker room so he could change. The girls were like all having to cram into the back. bathroom to change because they didn't want to have to change in front of this dude,
Starting point is 00:25:54 understandably. Because remember, as Caitlin Jenner said, you can be a dude and still attracted to chicks and dress like a chick because he still liked him, the ladies. That's how goofy all this is. And so he insisted on being able to change in the girls' locker room and the girls had no, the female athletes had no, what were they going to do? So they, all of the Iowa Safe School things, All the other alphabets, all the other letters, they're thrown into the street. It's all about the T. Oh, the L's and the G's, get out. LGB, get out.
Starting point is 00:26:30 It's all about the T. The T's running all the other letters off. The T's telling L's that they can't be truly L's. And they're telling the G's, they can't be truly G's. They're not saying anything to the Bs, but that's, you know. So they had Motos that said 246, 8, how do you know your kid is straight?
Starting point is 00:26:58 How about 2468? STFU. It doesn't rhyme, but it serves a purpose. Like, seriously, what in the world? But they had their whole curriculum. They had a queer book club. What does that even mean? Do gay people read books different?
Starting point is 00:27:12 I know gay people. They don't read books differently than non-gay people. how does how you have to sex affect how you read to books? Do I not know something? Do they just put their face on the book and absorb it by osmosis? Like, how does that work? Dude, right? So they had that, they had, let's see.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Oh, queer current events. Okay, whatever that is. Gingerbread, I mean, this is the dumbest stuff ever. I'm just going to say it. If I even was a, if I was a super left person and I encourage this and my kids, I would actually be offended by this list because it's patronizing and stupid. It's really dumb. So they had a whole thing about pronoun prep. This is what Chaston was involved in.
Starting point is 00:28:09 That's the, yeah, the secretary of transportation who knows nothing about transportation. That's like making me the minister of football. Can you imagine? I would immediately say all the teams with ugly colors change them because your uniforms like heinous. I would immediately do that. I totally would. Some of these colors out there,
Starting point is 00:28:32 I'm like, that's gross. Like nobody wants that color. That looks like a 70s Afghan. Stop it. Like a quilt, like a crocheted quilt or crocheted Afghan. No, nobody wants that. You know what I mean? The brown and gold?
Starting point is 00:28:41 No, change that. You all know what I'm talking about. I heard you all go, oh, because you all have one. your moms have one or you got one from your grandparents i know now speaking of trans tyranny you guys know uh cherry curry right and if you don't why the runaways one of my absolute favorite bands because it was a girl rock band and they just pioneered girl rock and there are a lot of women today that are in rock and role or people who like women in rock and roll that owe a debt of gratitude to Jerry Curry. She was the singer, right?
Starting point is 00:29:17 So she got canceled by trans tyrants at the ironically named Riot Girl Festival in Bisbee, Arizona. They canceled her because she spoke out against the grooming of kids and targeting of kids with trans surgeries. The Riot Girl Festival. That whole festival wouldn't exist without people like Sherry Curry. All of these remedial power cord playing bitches can only have a space in the musical sphere because Curry blazed the path for you. People like Susie Quattro, people like Sherry Curry, people like Lita Ford. So bow down and give thanks. I just find that incredibly asinine.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Yeah, she opposed the transitioning of minors. She's like, if you're an adult, and she's even like more to the left of a lot of conservatives on the issue. She's like, if you're an adult, you choose to do this with your own dollars, that's one thing.
Starting point is 00:30:26 She's like, but if you're a child, and I agree with the reasoning that it's not informed consent, it isn't informed consent. You're pumping people full of hormones. that I'm going to tell you, I had an aunt, I don't want to give anybody's names, who when she went through menopause, they did all the hormone stuff with her. She ended up developing a serious health issue because of that. They have no idea. There are no long-term studies on this stuff.
Starting point is 00:30:53 You're just jacking kids up with hormones to hell with the consequences they're going to have to deal with a decade down the road. Big Pharma's like, yeah. That's not informed consent. And so they're actually, they're actually canceling her from the riot girl festival. That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard of. Because that whole thing, if you know that term, like, took off like early 90s. And that was, it was like L7 and really, you know, hard, grungy, guitar driven rock. I mean, there were like a bunch of bands that were there. But you have like a lot of these new chicks that are out.
Starting point is 00:31:35 And I'm like, how are you canceling this icon? and some of the chicks that got big in the 90s, how are you canceling an icon like this? You either want to protect kids or you don't. She's saying, can we protect kids from this? This is an informed consent. She's a thousand percent correct. And I think it's incredibly brave for her to go out
Starting point is 00:31:54 and say stuff like this, especially in this environment. There is nothing more metal or punk rock than what she just did. And she's not stepping down. She's not backing down off it either. She is an absolute icon. If you think you're going to sit, or make Sherry Curry back down from something,
Starting point is 00:32:11 you're a moron. You have no concept of this lady's history. She's a chainsaw artist for crying out loud. You think that she's got time for your stupid political sensitivities about grooming kids? Kane, who the hell are these people think they are? I don't know. The whole reason I ever picked up a guitar, I play rhythm guitar horribly. And I can play drums.
Starting point is 00:32:32 The only reason I ever did was because people like Sherry Curry. I had a runaway's t-shirt that I still have. You don't believe me, check my Twitter. True story. golly instead of like complaining about her performing somewhere I would be punching chicks in the neck
Starting point is 00:32:49 to be first in line to get a ticket to be front road to see her and she's and she's absolutely a thousand percent right you know pointing out that that kids should be protected from this hormonal experimentation
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Starting point is 00:34:38 Save money, free shipping. Blackwiflecoffey. dot com slash dana don't let fomo get the best of you stay in the loop and ahead of the curve by following dana on apple spotify or wherever you get your podcasts like sands through the hourglass so are the days of the united states tremendous amount of things you can cut it may be precisely tremendous an amount of things you can do, not cut. He said, I will, and the bottom line is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Tremend, I mean, I could understand Cousin-It from the Adams family better than I can understand Joe Biden. Yeah, like, true. Way more animated. Man, they need to get him some of Hunter's bugger sugar. For real, man. like animate this corpse. Good night. Welcome back to the program. You're a lovable quramogen. Dana Lashing are with you. It's always all going to be with you. Happy Tuesday. You're like, don't tell me happy Tuesday, girl. It's not even halfway through the week.
Starting point is 00:35:48 Okay, Tuesday. There you go. So a few of the things that we're going to get to coming up, we're going to hit his budget and the proposal he has to give $2 billion to ATF. And I think it was 51 million to FBI. And this is on the heels of House Republicans claiming that they have cut the funding of these agencies. This was post-Soto, State of the Union, by 7%, which is a giant, giant lie McLei. It's a huge lie because they didn't, actually. They just simply cut the rate of growth. And they included construction funding for a facility in Alabama for the FBI as like the basis in order to achieve the 7%. It's like not even half a percent. So they lie to you. that's House Republicans that did that. They lied to you. Not all of them, but Johnson did. Mike Johnson did. So we're going to talk about this. We're also going to get into, and again, the reason I'm bringing this up is because this is going to have far affecting consequences. So Haiti's Prime Minister resigned. Now, what does this have to do with you? My question is, how many Haitian, quote unquote, refugees are streaming across the border? And there's a lot of talk about a suspected Haitian gun smuggling operation. How are they getting all the?
Starting point is 00:37:02 stuff in Haiti. That's a big question. So we're going to get in, we're going to talk about all of this stuff. I mean, nobody, apparently the administration doesn't seem the least bit concerned that any bad actors could exploit this. But at least FBI director Christopher Ray, too, I will say this, is saying, you know, you need to watch what's happening at the southern border. We're going to touch on this and so much more coming up. Second hour on the way. Stick with us. All charges are warranted in this matter. Correct. So this lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden. For every document you discussed in your report, you found insufficient evidence that the president violated any laws
Starting point is 00:37:39 about possession or retention of classified materials. The primary law that you analyzed for potential prosecution was part of the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 793E, which criminalizes willful retention or disclosure of national defense information. Is that correct? Congressman, that is one statute that we analyzed. I need to go back and make sure that I take note of the word that you use exoneration. That is not a word that I'm going to continue with my questions. I'm going to continue with my questions. I know that the term,
Starting point is 00:38:10 I ultimately reached, I know that the term, whether sufficient evidence existed such that the likely outcome would be a conviction. I know that the term willful retention has a, Mr. Hur, it's my time. Thank you. As Premier Jayapaw,
Starting point is 00:38:27 questioning special counsel, her just a little bit earlier. That's been ongoing all morning, all afternoon. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program as well. You can also watch the discussion on channel 347 direct TV, YouTube, well, that's where the discussion is. YouTube, Facebook, all kinds of good stuff. So the report, they're livid, as I talked about last hour, they're super mad, Democrats, because this report is bad. It's bad for them and it's bad for Biden. Case and point. He forgot that his, when his son was deployed, he forgot when his son died, his eldest son Boe, he forgot when Bo died.
Starting point is 00:39:16 He was asked, was it 2015? And he had to have an aid come in and say was May of 2015. And Biden couldn't remember. And then he said, and Trump gets elected in November of 2017. He, I mean, that's what the transcript. I mean, he was, and he was mad because her claim that he couldn't remember when his son passed. And then he said it was false. But no, he literally, first off, her never made that claim verbatim. Her never said that. They said he was confused. You have what's her face out there. This is, and there's already a community note over it. Wea Young, who is with CBS, and she was saying that she sets up,
Starting point is 00:40:02 this is classic straw man, she sets up a claim that's completely demonstrably false, and then reacts to it and acts as though hers report is biased because her portrayed Biden as not knowing a specific date. When her actually never made that claim, he just said that Biden seemed confused,
Starting point is 00:40:21 which Biden absolutely did, when you read the transcript. So they won't show you the actual transcript when they make these claims. They just want you to take their word for it. And he literally thought in another part of the transcript that his son Bo was deployed in Iraq in 2017 when he shuffled off this mortal coil in 2015.
Starting point is 00:40:49 So they're just, they're mad. They're livid over this. I mean, it's right there in the transcript. Her was absolutely positively correct in the way that this was the way that he described it. That was absolutely positively correct. And as I said earlier, Democrats never had a problem with her until now. Until now. Now they're super angry.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Now a couple of other things I've got for you. I've got a piece coming out later today over at Substack on Chapter and Verse. And it's going to dive into some of this because we have this, you know, this super awesome budget that's coming up. And in this budget, this was issued, what's, today's the 10 days of 12. Yeah. So this was yesterday. There were a number of little, you can go to the White House and they have their statements or their press releases. And there was a ton yesterday.
Starting point is 00:41:43 And it's like one towards the bottom. But it's, I have it linked. You'll be able to read it. But it's a major taxpayer funding increase. It was called fact sheet. The president's budget tackles crime, keeps Americans safe at home, and they get into funding for the ATF and the FBI. So they're saying that they're investing. Now here's the subsection, quote, addressing the gun violence epidemic.
Starting point is 00:42:08 And it reads, invests in federal law enforcement to combat gun violence. The budget makes significant investments to bolster federal law enforcement capacity to strengthen public safety. I thought you guys wanted to, this is them trying to push back on some of that defund stuff, too, remember. They said the budget includes $17.7 billion for DOJ law enforcement, including $2 billion, an increase over 30% since 2021 for the ATF to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. And then they also talk about how it includes an additional $51 million for the FBI to support the continued implementation of quote unquote enhanced background checks, which that's dumb. That's so they are proposing a major taxpayer funding increase for gun control policies.
Starting point is 00:42:51 So that's a 30% increase from 21 for the ATF. So that's $2 billion. And then the enhanced background check for the FBI for $51 billion. Now the other issue with this is because this is right on the heels. Let me pull my notes up on this. This was right on the heels of the house claiming that they had cut 7% I think it was from FBI. Yes, FBI and ATF. They said that they were bragging that they were going to save taxpayers.
Starting point is 00:43:26 This was from, they were going off of a CBO projection about national debt expending by $20 trillion and eclipsing our GDP. And they were saying that this is, we're going to save taxpayers $200 billion over the next decade. And they were claiming that some of the cuts came from, cuts from federal law enforcement agencies, ATF and FBI. But the problem is that they have. they were talking about this appropriations package, they were saying that they wanted to utilize
Starting point is 00:43:55 their power as the House, House's power of the purse, to do this. And they wanted to, they were trying to say reverse the ATF's anti-second amendment overreach by reducing their overall funding by $122 million, as well as the FBI. They said reducing their overall operating budget by $654 million and cutting their
Starting point is 00:44:18 construction amount by 97%. They were saying it was a 7% decrease for ATF. But here's the problem. The FBI's salaries and expenses, and this was a piece that Reason did when they were looking at their budget for 20, 23. That was 10 billion in 23. They wanted 11 billion and 24. Appropriations gave them 10.6. That was less than they wanted, but it's actually only 1.5% less. That's not the 6%, 7% that they were talking about. And then in the omnibus bill, that was in 22, that's that $652 million construction project on this Huntsville, Alabama facility, apparently that they were going to build. And they include, when they say that they're cutting construction costs by 95%,
Starting point is 00:45:03 they literally use that whole number as a baseline and then slowing the rate of growth as a way to act like they've made these major cuts when actually they really didn't. This is similar to Joe Biden and Democrats saying that they created all of these jobs. by allowing people to go back to work after they shut the economy down. I just don't like it when Republicans aren't honest with you about stuff. I don't like it and especially if you're going to sit here and act like you're doing a great favor for me where it concerns the Second Amendment. I'm going to look into it. This is not a giant great favor.
Starting point is 00:45:35 You're not cutting, you're cutting nada. Like a half a percentage point. They're still getting, you're slow, what? It's still more than the previous appropriations. It's still more than 22. It's still more than 21. you're just you're just slowing it barely it's not a 7% cut they're trying to act like i mean the at f this was justice dot gov and who wrote there was a piece i think this is show lancaster
Starting point is 00:46:09 uh this was in 23 1.6 almost 1.7 billion for salaries and expenses for the atif and that was in 23 and that the appropriations bill gives them just a little bit less. The official was $1.6.72 billion for $23. This is $1.625. So what? That's like maybe 2%. That's not 7%. They were claiming 7%.
Starting point is 00:46:38 That was supposed to, that 7% they were acting like it was a cut of 122 million. The ATF didn't ask for any construction stuff. I get that making any kind of a cut is a step in the right direction. That's not what the issue is here. The issue is on the fuzzy math that they're using in order to try to get you to believe that they're cutting more than they actually are. When in fact, they could cut a lot more. I don't care if you can't get it through the Senate.
Starting point is 00:47:07 Do it anyway. And then gum everything up so that nothing passes. Because it's ridiculous at this point. You're talking about increasing the budget for an agency that was so abusive towards people of political opposition to the administration that they were parents were getting surveilled by going to school board meetings and speaking out as is their free speech right to do so about a school that they fund with their tax dollars that their children attend and you want to expand things for them i mean i'm thinking that we need a drastic overhaul and serious cuts
Starting point is 00:47:39 to start with so i don't like the false claims and that made me very suspicious of mike johnson if I'm being honest about it. So I have a thing coming out about that over at chapter and verse that you're going to want to take a look at as well. Now, in the meantime, this was interesting. I swear when we were on our, I think when we were on our flight from, we had to do a layover in Miami to get back to Dallas. And I swear that when we were on our flight, I think they were shuffling around people who were not in the country illegally because people had neck pouches and they had no idea where to go. and there were different, you know, government officials, I could tell they weren't just basic TSA
Starting point is 00:48:20 that were there directing them on what lines to get into, et cetera. The Biden administration admits this is Vyath, that it secretly flew 320,000, quote-unquote, asylum seekers into the U.S. That was just in 23 alone, because they were trying to reduce the delugee at the border. Now, when Joe Biden sends people to different cities, as he has done since he took office, it's okay. But the moment DeSantis or Abbott did it,
Starting point is 00:48:45 the left lost their mind and then they pretend that Biden never did any of this stuff. I mean, I can't get my, I have to take in, because I only carry carry on. I don't check bags. I can pack for a week and one carry on. But you can't take anything, what is it, over 3.4 fluid ounces or something like that,
Starting point is 00:49:07 you'll get in trouble. But I'll be damn, you can cross the border illegally. You can have no ID. It's just the honor system and it's totally fine. Republicans are seeking answers on this, by the way. House Republicans are demanding more information about how much the flights have cost. Because don't you want to know? I mean, hell, look at the price of everything.
Starting point is 00:49:27 People aren't going to be going on vacation like they used to this year because everything is so expensive. But your taxpayer dollars are buying plane tickets for other people that aren't even here legally. We're going to talk more about this on the way. Also on deck. They're going to ruin King of the Hill. Oh, yeah, they're looking at a reboot with new people. people. I'm not excited about it. We're going to talk about this coming up. We're going to get into all of that and more. And then also the FBI director's warning of dangerous threats at the border.
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Starting point is 00:51:39 But yeah, y'all need to be real careful with that stuff. I know times are tough, but man alive. Airbnb is banning all indoor security cameras. Can I just be honest? I don't like Airbnb's. No, I stayed in one. One time, it was weird. I don't like being in,
Starting point is 00:51:56 even if it's a rental income that are like that they use it for. It's just weird to me and I don't like it. I know, like some people is their jam. I'm weird. In the past six months, I've probably stayed in two different Airbnb. Yeah, I can't do it. I do it because they have the grills and they have like the stuff that you want
Starting point is 00:52:13 that a hotel doesn't. I end up grilling. I never, I don't like to be in a room for a long period of time like that. Like I, so I'll just be like, if I go somewhere and I'm in a hotel, I'm usually not in the room. And I don't need any of that. I don't want, it's just weird to me. I don't, the only upside is you can do your old laundry, but I, I don't like it. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:52:31 Anyway, my whole reason I'm bringing this up is that they banned, the whole service is banned indoor security cameras. They're reversing its course on surveillance policies because some people were perverts and they were peeping Tom's checking on people. See, that's another reason. A 45-year-old was killed after a tree fell under their home in Pennsylvania in Cumberland County. A person was, this was on Monday. A tree, a huge tree up, just like fell right over roots and all. And just, I mean, took the roof in, knocked the brick down. It was a massive tree.
Starting point is 00:53:02 The 45-year-old was killed. Two others were able to escape uninjured. And crews were, it was like three in the morning. That's horrible. That's horrifying. Can you imagine? That's horrifying. Let's see. This apparently in New Orleans, the rats are high.
Starting point is 00:53:18 All of them. Yeah, that's a thing. They said that heavy mold and deteriorating elevators, HVAC units and plumbing are problems that are plaguing the NOLA PD, New Orleans PD headquarters. But apparently also, they said the rats are eating their marijuana and they're all high. That's a direct quote from the NOPD Superindexamination. and Kirkpatrick.
Starting point is 00:53:43 That's where all the evidence went? Yeah, the rats. It wasn't, all of a sudden, all their pot disappeared. The rats, the rats are high. I mean, they are. The rats started drinking bacteria tea and driving volvos and everything.
Starting point is 00:53:56 It was weird. Let's see. Also, a man who is disgusting, this is the nastiest thing ever, and I am for the death penalty here. This is so nasty. I'm not looking at this. I hate feet.
Starting point is 00:54:08 A guy who hasn't worn shoes for three years because he's a whore, but like a walking horse. story sells pictures of his dirty feet online because he's a disgusting gross person. The internet is not for him. Shouldn't be. We have more in store. I'm going to vomit.
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Starting point is 00:55:37 The more you use it, the more it knows about you. The problem is not that TikTok has that. But the problem is that bite dance and their engineers in China are the ones that own that artificial intelligence. And no matter where you put my data or anybody, I don't use TikTok, but people that use TikTok, no matter where you store that data, you could store it in a safe in the United States. Those engineers in China have to have access to the data, but they control the brain of TikTok.
Starting point is 00:56:00 They control that artificial intelligence. The point I made today, and the FBI director agreed is, if the Chinese Communist Party goes to them and says, we want you to defeat Donald Trump. We want you to put out messages that are anti-Trump and pro-Biden. BightDance has to do it. It doesn't matter that they're a company in China. By Chinese law, they have to do it. If they say we want the data of all your users that live in Florida, they have to give it to them.
Starting point is 00:56:24 They don't have a choice but to do it. That is Chinese law. And so as long as Bight-Dance owns the artificial intelligence that powers TikTok, we got a, we got a Trojan horse living inside our country. I understand. So this is Senator Marco Rubio talking about this. and I there's this has been it's a very interesting debate that's happening on the right within the right right now between more libertarian right people and more Republican right people welcome back to the
Starting point is 00:56:53 program Dana lash with you bottom of the second hour and this has to do with TikTok because there is this it's we're actually going to talk with FCC's Brennan Carr coming up because there is this debate over whether or not it should be restricted right whether or not there should be restrictions on this because TikTok is literally owned by the CCP. This is not a conjecture.
Starting point is 00:57:20 It's not hyperbole. You know, it's a real thing. And there's a I mean, for the instance, like the idea that shareholders at TikTok who just like criticize or do make, you know, say anything about
Starting point is 00:57:36 the company at all, they could have their entire holding seized. I mean, this is something that I do think especially with all of the everything that's been written about the algorithms and what American audiences are presented as opposed to like what Chinese audiences are presented. I understand the concern of I would say division and like a it's like a it's like psychological warfare in some instances. TikTok is claiming that the first amendment blocks Congress from requiring that they divest from the CCP. Now, what Brennan Carr is going to join us on later
Starting point is 00:58:13 is to discuss what the law actually says on this. And as you know, Carr is commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. He was General Counsel of the FCC previously. And he says that, you know, the Supreme Court draws a distinction between laws based on the content of speech and those based on conduct.
Starting point is 00:58:34 And he's arguing that the bill is not based, on the content of TikTok's protected speech or lawful content. It's taking action on their illicit conduct, he says, namely the threat, very concrete threat, documented threat to national security that it presents with all of these illicit actions. He says that is conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Now, that makes sense. And he also argues that the First Amendment does not protect against, does not protect espionage as an act of protected speech. That's a very, very good point. And I feel like it's being lost in a lot of the discussion on this. Now, there are also people like Thomas Massey who say the so-called TikTok ban is a Trojan horse. He says the bill goes too
Starting point is 00:59:23 far and that the president would be given the power to ban entire websites, not just apps. He says the person breaking the new law is deemed to be in the U.S. or offshore. or internet hosting service or app store, not a foreign adversary. And he says, if you think it's not a Trojan horse and will only apply to TikTok and foreign adversary's social media companies, he writes, and this was four hours ago, then contemplate why someone thought it was very important to get a very specific exclusion for their internet-based business written into the bill. And he cites this subsection that says exclusion. The term, quote, covered company does not include an entity that operates a website desktop application,
Starting point is 01:00:06 mobile application, augmented or immersive technology application, whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews. Now, you could extend that, and I understand, and I think his concerns are legitimate, because that is a Trojan horse buried inside of this. So TikTok has major problems. I mean, the fact that it is financially intertwined with the CCP, and you have to understand business in China, as we've talked about with Stephen Yates, who ran Radio Free Asia and, you know, worked in the previous, worked in two presidential administrations now,
Starting point is 01:00:50 is an expert on this, lived there for a quite, lived in Taiwan for a number of years. he you know as many others say yes you can't run a business in china and not be a member and good standing of the CCP you have to essentially be a member of the CCP they have i mean that's something that they have you have to have a CCP member like if you have a board of directors you got to have a CCP member on your board and so bite dance that's the parent company of ticot bite dance is under cc control that's public information TikTok is a subsidiary of bite dance. So the proposal is to de-invest and separate bite dance from TikTok and that if they refuse, then based on the illicit conduct, which as Brennan Carr argues is not protected speech under the
Starting point is 01:01:37 First Amendment, then there would have to be a ban. Now, there's a lot of nuance in that, that people who are motivated by different, you know, opportunities will argue for or against. Because, you know, you have people who have, you know, you have people who are like TikTok famous, which I can't even believe is the thing. And they argue, oh my gosh, you're going to affect this. You're going to affect that. They're motivated by personal advantage. They don't want, they don't give a ransom about national security. They just may, you know, they are famous on TikTok. And then you have business entities too. Like, there's the argument about Elon Musk. Elon Musk wants China to be an open economy for Tesla. You know, they have, they have factory. They have, uh, they have, uh,
Starting point is 01:02:22 gigafactories in China. And he wants to make sure, because that's how China is. If you're critical, if Elon Musk were to call for a ban on TikTok, China would close its economy to Tesla. That's a fact. Is it a conflict? It's a conflict. I mean, it's, it's, but he's in business. He hasn't come out against TikTok, but I think he's open to it. And I also think that he's, and I don't want to like shove him into a basket of, oh, well, he's going to be owned as a subsidiary of CCP. I think that that, I think that that's less gracious. And I think that we need to stop being so damn stupid about this stuff. Honestly, I just literally want Smod to obliterate the sweet rock because it's so moronic to even have discussions anymore.
Starting point is 01:03:04 That being said, the fact that it extends the executive branch's power to essentially go after everything on the internet that it dislikes is a major problem. And it's interesting because who would you guess that exclusion would be for? what I just what I had read to you remember I said the term covered company does not include an entity that operates a website desktop application mobile application augmented or immersive technology application primary purposes to allow users to post like product reviews business review travel information reviews Idada I think of a giant big company that would be affected by that you probably use them every day any ideas came Apple?
Starting point is 01:03:50 Close. Amazon. Amazon. Big company. They felt that they needed to seek out an exclusion, clearly. Hmm. I mean, you would have the executive branch that would be able to extend its fingers into everything like, you know, the app telegram. Or VPN programs.
Starting point is 01:04:19 Think about VPNs. I use a VPN when I travel. Think about it. So that, they don't actually even define, and Massey had hinted towards this when he talked about foreign adversary. They don't define what that is. What do you mean? I mean, I want everything to find in black and white, don't you? So this bill, for all of the alarms that they are raising over bite dance, this bill seems to have some very concerning aspects to it. Now, is it something to where you could have an amendment to take some of this out? I mean, I, because the bill, I mean, there is, as Brennan Carr noted, a major difference between protected speech and illicit conduct.
Starting point is 01:05:14 And does the bill, it seems like the vagueness of the bill is the poison of the bill to me. Right? And I understand people talking about government control, but elicit. conduct, well, that doesn't fall under free speech if it is something that violates the law and if it's espionage. Because again, First Amendment doesn't cover espionage. So people who are going, oh, government control, well, yeah, you're not allowed to finance cartels. That's not considered, so that would be government control too. So there's, there's nuance here. I want you, I want to caution you to not use
Starting point is 01:06:00 what I would define perhaps as maybe limited government rhetoric as a way to protect or enable a brutal communist regime. It's a very brilliant trick that the CCP is doing. Do not be taken in by it because they don't have to defend themselves that they can get some people
Starting point is 01:06:24 here to do it. And under the flag of limited government too, that's why I'm not. I'm very cautious about all this stuff. So we're going to talk to Brendan Carr about this. And I'm going to ask him some of those very things. Like, why can't we have a little bit more specificity? Why can't we define foreign adversary? Why does the power extend to the executive branch to be able to ban all, you know,
Starting point is 01:06:45 what I have seen, there isn't a limitation on that. I feel like that's a legitimate concern, right? But I stop it saying that they should not be made to, divest because illicit conduct and espionage do not fall under First Amendment activities. If you want to be straight letter of the law, that's pretty straight letter of the law. I mean, I'm open to being persuaded otherwise, but that's the way I see it right now. So like I said, we're going to talk more about this coming up in our third hour. We do have Florida Man on the way.
Starting point is 01:07:20 It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Who, who. All right. So first up, we, a man wearing a wig. It is, sorry, this is hysterical. I'm not trying to laugh at this, but it's so, guy looks so funny. Okay. And maybe I was trying to stifle the laugh and it made my eyes water. Police in Central Florida are on the hunt for a man who was accused of robbing a Bank of America while wearing a wig. Now, he was, is that a face mask that he's wearing? Like not. like pre-COVID, but like a COVID face mask? See? Ah, he entered the Bank of America in Edgewater, showed the bank teller a note as he displayed a firearm. He had a fake wig on, well, obviously fake wigs. He had a wig on. And he's a big dude. And they, police are sharing photos of him. He was in a long-haired wig, blue jeans, a white shirt, gray zip-up jacket, carrying a little black bag. And nobody would ask questions because we're in that era where, I mean, don't assume
Starting point is 01:08:32 his pronouns, you know, he's just doing very poorly as a woman. No, right? Am I right? You can't ask questions because maybe he's worried about the pandemic. Maybe he's a trans. You know, so you can't ask questions. Pre all of that, people would be like, you're here to rob us. But now you can't because you're assuming it's pronouns. So I don't know. Anyway, so they can't find him now. Let's do rob to bank. He robbed a bank and your urge to contact a detective. So this is the way. Yeah, apparently that's it. You know, the people that are happiest about the trans stuff and the face masks?
Starting point is 01:09:09 Robbers. Yeah. Bank robbers. Because, like I said, before all of that, y'all would have been like, that man's going to rob us. You need to hit the alarm. But now you can't because it's considered mean. Maybe he's here to rob you. Maybe he just started trying to be a woman.
Starting point is 01:09:25 And he's just horrible. You don't know. And he's worried about germs. You don't know. I don't even know how this. said a Florida woman was missing for days and they found her in a shipping container. You know, that happens sometimes. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:40 It was Click Orlando, Marlene Lopez. She was missing. They found her the next day just before noon in a shipping container next to a business. They asked, what happened? She said she didn't know. I was in one place and found in another. And apparently the people who owned the shipping container, they went it, they secured it for the night. They didn't know she was in there.
Starting point is 01:09:59 But finally, they heard her, New York Post said somebody heard her band. hanging on the from the inside and they call police. I'm not saying it's aliens, but. What the heck? Yeah. Well, she drugged and just stuffed in a container? Good Lord. Or aliens.
Starting point is 01:10:15 She's wearing an early 90s neck choker. So I'm assuming drugs. Because it had a charm on it. If it was just a thin black choker, I'd be like, okay, maybe she's just, you know, retro. But it had a charm on it. And I always thought that was the trashier version of it. So I'm thinking drugs. that's my that is detective dana figuring this out yeah yeah yeah yeah uh apple air tags a florida man
Starting point is 01:10:38 is accused of stalking his axe using apple air tags i mean yeah the girlfriend of robert roberto quion of uh 57 years old florida man he his girlfriend left him in october but he began began harassing her and stalking her he would pass her home every day duct tape handwritten letter start cars windshield and she also found Apple air tags in her vehicle several times. And then he was threatening that he would do something better. So he's in jail, Miami-Dade, held without bond. Now this one, hold up. I want to, this is actually, I just think incredibly,
Starting point is 01:11:18 this man is living in the future. Florida man was accused of posing as a drug cartel captive and extorting $80,000 from his wife, all to support his own drug habit. Yeah, a Melbourne, Florida man. He lied and pretended that he was kidnapped by drug cartels, and he extorted his own wife for $80,000 so he could go buy more drugs. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:44 Eric Paul Johnson, 29 years old. And his wife reported him missing. And then she said that she received messages from an unknown number demanding sums of money, and they told her that apparently we're the Mexican cartel, and we have your husband, and she believed them. I'm just saying. We have a third hour on the way, Brendan Carr, F. CC Commissioner will join us. We got a lot to hit. Stick with us. From an FBI perspective,
Starting point is 01:12:07 we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. There is a particular network that has, where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we're very concerned about and that we've been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating. So that's the FBI director who is, nervous enough about the stuff of the border to warn during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing just earlier this morning that there's a threat, a terrorist threat. It could be an interior attack on U.S. soil. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of this third hour. And this disclosure, this was, I mean, again, all just this morning.
Starting point is 01:12:57 there was an annual report put out yesterday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, wherein they stated the U.S. is facing a fragile world order, was the quote, due to accelerating strategic competition with major authoritarian powers working to undermine order. Now, the top concern is this ongoing crisis of illegal entries at the southern border that has seen since Joe Biden took office over 7.2 million illegal aliens entering into the interior. Now, that does not even include the gotaways. So you can imagine. Now, where he was asked, if you're wondering what prompted that soundbite, he was asked about the issue of the southern border being used by adversaries of the United States. and he said, yes, absolutely.
Starting point is 01:13:55 And when he was asked, well, what about the gotaways? Because there's almost two million godaways that have evaded captured, thus, godaways by border officials. Could terrorists possibly be amongst those? And he actually says, well, no. And then he cited former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld saying, we don't know what we don't know. He said that there were major national security ramifications.
Starting point is 01:14:22 and he added quote and we don't know about the people who snuck in provided fake documents or in some other way got in when there wasn't sufficient information about the time they came in to connect the dots and he says it's almost more significant because those people for the most part are stopped detained in process he was saying that the gotaways yeah
Starting point is 01:14:43 and he says that he did share the concern that people coming across the border were evading law enforcement maybe maybe and we know a couple of of them already. One of them was an actual terrorist who's been in custody before. But he says there's a threat
Starting point is 01:15:00 stream that he is concerned about. That's falling on deaf ears, however, with the administration and with other Democrats. Audio soundbite 8. Primae Jopal says that, well,
Starting point is 01:15:16 I guess they're now saying it's a border crisis, but listen to this. he should point out that the reason we have chaos at the border is because Republicans have continued to refuse to fix the legal immigration system to actually make it possible for people to have legal pathways to come in, whether it's for family or employment or asylum or refugee seeking. There are no legal pathways anymore. Everything is so backed up because we haven't had changes in 30 years. And I think he needs to say that we will get rid of the filibuster, carve out the filibuster so that we can pass comprehensive
Starting point is 01:15:56 humane immigration reform. Because, as you know, this Republican Party is not the Republican Party. She wants amnesty. She hasn't, the Democrats haven't done a single thing. I mean, for crying out loud, I'm going to just take you back really quickly to when they had a super majority for the first portion, the first half of Barack Obama's first term before special elections changed the math. They had a super majority. I mean, they could have gotten over any filibuster. You're not going to, what, that's such a stupid response. You don't need to remove the filibuster, which is a key component of
Starting point is 01:16:27 how our Congress is functioning and should continue to be. She's like trying to conflate two things here at once. She wants to attack the filibuster and try to use this as a stupid way to do it. That's not the issue. And Joe Biden could alleviate a lot of this with some executive orders. I mean, he undid
Starting point is 01:16:43 the executive order so he can reduce some executive orders and do other executive orders. He absolutely has an authority as executive. but he just refuses to do so and Democrats refuse to do so also because they want amnesty. The people who are trying to come into the United States legally and they get work visas
Starting point is 01:17:01 and all of this stuff, they play by the rules because they want to be a part of the United States and they don't want that held against them. They play by the rules. That's not who we're talking about. We're talking about the people that are sneaking in illegally. And the number of people that I have met who have done it the right way,
Starting point is 01:17:17 everything that they have told me, It's the people who would have the most trouble getting in following that pathway that are the ones sneaking in. Now, do there need to be some changes made to the bureaucracy that makes it so incredibly ridiculous? Like, for instance, Idafer who just became a citizen a couple of years ago and his son from a previous relationship. And they're in Britain. His son can't can only come over here for extended periods. He can't get, he can't come over and be, get the certain type of easy that he needs yet. and he can't come over and be a citizen,
Starting point is 01:17:48 it's a long process for him. It's like several years in the making now. I mean, I have a number of friends who, like actually four friends in the past three years that became American citizens after waiting a decade plus. It's a, could a lot of that bureaucracy be remedied?
Starting point is 01:18:04 Absolutely. Especially for those who are wanting to come to the United States, bring their skill sets with them, raise their families, and then add to it. And yes, but Republican, as long as the Republican Party deserve, it. But I'm just saying
Starting point is 01:18:18 this that's not those aren't the people that we're talking about and Democrats already showed their cards on that because you had Nadler up there saying oh well you know who's going to come in and pick the weeds and you know I mean golly these racists already showed you who they were good heavens. Now a new thing I wanted to touch on this because this happened actually right as the show began
Starting point is 01:18:36 landmark ruling this is in Britain children will not be prescribed puberty blockers it's it's a huge huge huge ruling and it is the this was their health services over in Britain and they said that the ruling comes months after a public consultation on the issue and that they've had different groups studying it etc but they said that there have been a rising number of detransitioners who regret having the irreversible procedure
Starting point is 01:19:10 and they have been coming forward over and over again in recent months, claiming that they have not been challenged enough. They were not challenged enough as children as to their commitment to having this irreversible surgery. And they're now, they went from being perfectly healthy to now they have to be on medicine for life. This is very interesting. And so they said that it is a bill, it's the Health and Equality Acts over there. It's a ban on the prescription of body altering horn. hormones to children. They're saying if you're a minor, if you're a child, no, we're not doing this.
Starting point is 01:19:47 Now we just need the U.S. to do it. That makes sense. And there have been a number of detransitioners that are rightly infuriated because the adults that were in their lives that should have protected them, even sometimes from themselves, failed to do so. Because the adults are more interested in public perception of their own actions than they are the well-being of those minors who are entrusted to their care. That's the truth of it. These adults care more about their perception because you cannot tell me that you think it's better
Starting point is 01:20:20 to take a healthy child, put them through experimental surgery, and then have them on medication for life before their little bodies are even done growing. So that's a huge significant improvement. Now, whether or not something like that can pass in the United States, I don't know, that remains to be seen. A couple of other things. I wanted to touch on this. Haiti and the Biden administration, I mentioned this a little earlier. One of the reasons I mentioned it is because remember, there was discussion as to how many Haitian illegal aliens were coming across the southern border. And I was telling you about how this is affecting a lot of different nations in the Caribbean because they're seeing their resources just drained and their economies besieged, basically. And they're being strained beyond all capacity. Now, Haiti is teetering.
Starting point is 01:21:16 They said on the brink of collapse. They're teetering right there on the edge of the cliff. And they have criminal gangs that have taken control. They keep trying to rehabilitate the image of the one criminal gang leader acting like, oh, he was a former cop or something. Yes, because we know that you can never have a corrupt cop. Just ask Scott Israel in Parkland. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:36 So the prime minister, Ariel Henry, has resigned. And I guess it's now just total. gangland. Haiti's actually turning into borderlands, the video game. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, yeah, it is. Now, I was reading this piece, let me pull this up. It was a very good piece of what Washington and examiner, getting how the US-DEI regime failed Haiti. That's a very provocative headline. They said that now they're talking about how the prime minister is unable to return to the country because of violence, gang-controlled barricades, blocking roads all through the capital city of Port-au Prince. The gang leader, nickname Barbecue, he says he wants
Starting point is 01:22:22 to liberate the nation from corrupt government officials, you know, because he's not corrupt at all. That's right. Now, billions of dollars in foreign aid has flown from the United States government paid for by the American taxpayer to Haiti. Last year, just last year, $34 million in aid. That's been the most since, yes, Kane almost died. Are you okay? Yeah. That's been the most since 2016. In 2010 following the earthquake, it was $1.3 billion. Now, what has the funding been spent on? It's supposed to be spent on, you know, food shortages, health care infrastructure, but there have been no improvement, no improvement. Foreign aid to Haiti, extended government functions. Their country ranks as apparently like the most corrupt in the world. And apparently all of
Starting point is 01:23:15 this money hasn't stopped. Now the U.S., now this is where it gets interesting. Washington Examiner, great piece. I'm going to link this in your prep. It says before the gang coup, Haiti was subservient to U.S. government's endless money spigot. And in turn, the U.S. government wielded considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion that actually endangered the lives of Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being. I would also add that it also propelled and encouraged and maybe put on a fast track these gangs that grew and took over because they said they brag that they pushed the country to hire women to be more gender inclusive and all of this other stuff that had nothing to do
Starting point is 01:23:57 with health care infrastructure and, you know, food. They talked about blah, blah, blah, women, women, women. Well, now, guess what? You didn't actually, nobody gives a rat's ass about gender inclusive policies. Where's the gender inclusive police forces? You see all the craziness unfolding in the streets of Port-au-Prince. I mean, how much money has been given to say nothing of the Clinton's involvement, right? We have more on the way. We've got headlines coming up. We've got Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, going to be joining us. Ooh, and one quick point. If you count Haiti twice, two different times, this is the seventh embassy slash consulate that we've had to evacuate since Biden took office.
Starting point is 01:24:38 Coblin 21. Ukraine's in 2022. Minks, Belarus, 21. Sudan in 23. Porto-Pr Prince, first off July 23. Then in Niger, January 24. And then Port-au-Prince again now. And China, under Trump, they closed the consulate in Houston.
Starting point is 01:24:56 There was a lot of, because they were being shady is why. But there's rumors of suspected Haitian gun smuggling operation. some say they're asking if it's in Florida and remember people got mad because the previous administration called Haiti a blank hole country you got a criminal cannibal gang involved and in charge now doc and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five so this just in the GOP's house majority really couldn't afford to shrink but it has some more ken buck colorado republican is and he announced that he's retired next week. So the very small GOP majority, the weency, bitty, tiny, small majority is now a little weensier, bittier, and tinier. And he entered as a Tea Party Republican,
Starting point is 01:25:45 and he's, well, he's leaving. He said, quote, he's announcing that he's departing Congress at the end of next week, looking forward to staying involved, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's going to spend more time with his family. And apparently, yeah, he's, I don't know what's going to have with this seat, but we'll keep an eye on it. So there's only two extra votes that the House has to pass that Republicans have in the House in order to pass legislation. So it's very tight now.
Starting point is 01:26:11 Thousands of kids are overdosing on melatonin gummies. Knock it off. Parents. You know you have wild fever dreams almost on those things. People are giving their kids melatonin gummies. They said that excessive amounts only leads to minimal side effects. In fact, if you like take too much, it stops working. It actually has the reverse effect.
Starting point is 01:26:31 So stop it. You know, like, I don't know. Can I say something? I'm going to use my Rockwell. The guy's seeding up and the meme. If you have to use that much melatonin all the time to get your kids to sleep, please, like, I don't know, evaluate your parenting. And then, only then, consult a doctor.
Starting point is 01:26:49 And then, you know, if you need that much. I've been hearing this all the time from parents. That's shocking. A guy who is literally named D's Knott's was arrested in charge with battery in Green Bay, Wisconsin. No, that's his name. This is official news. This is professional news. A 42-year-old named D's Nutskroll was arrested on March 5th. They said that Mr. Nuts, I had a Wisconsin ID card that actually was his name, but he got pulled over. He was drunk, didn't follow officers commands. So there you go. So he was, Mr. Nuts is no longer on the road anymore. Not hired by planters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A mother was arrested if it concolle.
Starting point is 01:27:32 acting a drink for her son to give to a school bully that sent him to the hospital. Parents, I appreciate the effort at trying to do something out of the bag here, but A, that's illegal, and B, just tell your kids to fight back, right? That's just, you know, it is what it is. Coming up, FCC's Brendan Carr, the TikTok fight. Stick with us. Ready to grow your intellectual roll-it-X? Download the Dana Show podcast and join the ranks of those who refuse to settle for the same old boring content on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, it's very complicated. I think that's one of the reasons why we're working to have TikTok not have the people's communists of China own TikTok because it is a popular form of
Starting point is 01:28:17 communication for young people. And for a lot of people, it's not just young people, a lot of seasoned people, like the president's campaign, are using it because it's a form of communication. But that's why the People's Republic of China wants control of it. If this bill passed, and they don't disinvest from TikTok, and I think none of us have been up. That's, this is the big fight looming right now, and it's not just about TikTok. There's a, it's exposed, I think, a very interesting divide in the right with the more libertarian-leaning people on the right and the more Republican-leaning people on the right. Welcome back to the program.
Starting point is 01:28:57 That was Debbie Dingle talking about this bill, this, I guess, for the lack of a better way to put at the TikTok bill. Dana Lesh, with you bottom of this third hour. And my next guest, I like the way that he explained this because it isn't really an issue of free speech. Because as Brendan Carr, who is a member of the FCC, commissioner on the FCC, he used to be general counsel as well for FCC, he explained, you know, espionage is not a protected form of speech.
Starting point is 01:29:28 Illicit conduct is not a protected form. of expression. And it's not looking at what people are saying or TikTok speech. It's the relationship between TikTok and Bite Dance, which is a CCP-owned thing. We've talked to Stephen Yates. We've explored bite dance. We've talked about how businesses work in China and you have to have CCP members involved. That's a huge issue. And we have documented that concrete evidence showing that there's some pretty shady practices that China's been involved in on the part of Bite Dance with TikTok. Brendan Carr joins us now via Skype. And he is a commissioner. on the FCC, previously General Counsel.
Starting point is 01:30:04 And he had a great thread about this that I'm going to make sure to include on SubSec for our subscribers. Brendan, always so good to see you. Well, talk a little bit about that because it isn't really, when you break it down, it's not a fight about free speech. It is about their illicit behavior. Yeah, you've got it exactly right, Dan. Thanks so much for having me on.
Starting point is 01:30:24 This is very clear. The Supreme Court draws a line between government actions based on the content of speech, which is presumptively unconstitutional in actions based on illicit conduct. So it's a content conduct distinction. And here, the government isn't acting because of people's posts on TikTok. They're acting because TikTok has been caught repeatedly engaging in conduct. It is itself espionage. So for instance, TikTok said for years, don't worry, no U.S. user data is going back to China.
Starting point is 01:30:53 It doesn't even exist there, they said. But then a Blockbuster report came out based on leaked materials that showed everything is seen inside China. And that is highly sensitive information. That's search and browsing history, keystroke patterns, biometrics, location information. And so that's the reason for the government to be acting. It's the conduct, not the content. And this bill is really smart. First of all, it's very narrow, very targeted.
Starting point is 01:31:18 And it would actually just require TikTok to break up with the CCP. And then people that love TikTok, I'm not one of them, but people that love it can continue to use it. And so that's what it comes down to doing business with bite dance. So the offer is essentially if you, you know, break up with Bideance or if, you know, buy dance sells it because it's a subsidiary, that's their parent company, then there's no issue. But if they don't, then that's what could incur the ban, correct? Yeah, that's exactly right. And some people have argued, you know, is TikTok really any of that different than other big tech social media companies?
Starting point is 01:31:51 And it is definitely so. I mean, look, I, you know, not spared any criticism for U.S. big tech companies that I think engage in too much censorship. but what they do is fundamentally different than TikTok. TikTok has in the BightDance leadership level, a CCP cell embedded. FightDance personnel have used illicit access to TikTok to surveil Americans. There's been independent analysis that looked at the TikTok source code and finds that it pulls an excessive and alarming amount of data. And look, TikTok said, all right, you caught us red-handed.
Starting point is 01:32:23 We're going to stop sending this data back to China. Don't worry about it anymore. Then a Wall Street Journal report came out and showed low, behold, personnel in Beijing are still getting access. Why? It's not because the TikTok people are bad people. It's because they're beholden to the CCP. So whatever you want to do to Big Tech, what everyone do about privacy and data flow laws have at it, but until TikTok breaks up with the CCP, none of that other stuff is going to matter. We're talking with Brendan Carr with the FCC. There have been some concerns raised by people like Congressman Thomas Massey.
Starting point is 01:32:53 And he says he was a little bit worried from what I gather about some of the vagary. for the lack of a better way to put it in the bill. Like it could have been tightened up. It could have been maybe more specificity because he's concerned about the executive authority to go further than just, you know, CCP entities that have apps, but to ban, you know, maybe all websites.
Starting point is 01:33:13 He was cautious over the term foreign adversary not being defined. And, you know, I tend to, you know, give that a little weight, especially in an era where, I mean, somebody who disagrees with you on health care can be considered a terrorist. So I, what do you say to those concerns?
Starting point is 01:33:31 And is that something that can be fixed into some amendment process? Yeah, Rett Massey's been so good on so many of these issues of individual liberty. But this bill is actually slightly different than that. There are other TikTok bills that I think a lot of people on the right had a lot of concerns that were two sweeping. But this particular one goes at TikTok and only other applications that clear four separate hurdles. So one, the bill has no authority to go for any individual. user, that's off the table, unlike other bills. Two, you have to be controlled by a foreign adversary, and that's defined by Congress already as only four entities. So it's China, North Korea,
Starting point is 01:34:09 Iran, and Russia. And then you have to go through an additional process, including a public report on the concrete national security threat. Again, it's not enough that you're even controlled by a foreign adversary. That's to be also a national security threat. Congress is involved with process. So there's four or five hoops you have to go to that makes sure that this is very, very targeted. And it corrects course from some overbreath that we saw maybe in other TikTok bill. So I appreciate the concern. But that's why I think this bill is so smart as it is so narrow. Does it make it a little difficult in that we have the current president who uses TikTok? And then the former president just reversed his stance the other day on TikTok on his social media
Starting point is 01:34:52 platform former President Trump saying that he found Facebook was a lot worse, which I thought was a little weird because for all the criticism legitimately of, you know, meta, they at least haven't, you know, to my knowledge, bowed to the CCP in China. So Facebook isn't in China. China doesn't allow Facebook there. They have their own version. But to have that stance to have the former president reverse his position against TikTok, how much is that going to change things as it relates to policing their conduct at through. bite dance. Yeah, look, President Trump is right that we also need to take a look at, you know,
Starting point is 01:35:27 regular social media companies like Facebook. I've long advocated for Section 230 reform. I think you and I've been close on that issue, but maybe I go too far from where you want to be on that issue. But we do need to rein in those big tech companies. But again, it starts with dealing with the national security threat. And President Trump was out front on this. In 2020, he identified TikTok as a real threat, tried to take action.
Starting point is 01:35:48 And so it's important that we step back with this. As to President Biden, it's true. his campaign is on TikTok. That's why partly I think it's so important that we get this bill passed because if they want to, they can stay there, but they can do it in a way that no longer presents the same national security threat as being on there right now whilst a hold into the CCP. Yeah. And that makes, you know, that security, it freaks me out, honestly, that a member of government
Starting point is 01:36:13 would have a personal device or any member of the administration would have that on their personal device, knowing what we know about it. do you have an indication? I mean, does it look like that that sale could happen? I know China's been, you know, rattling the sabres about it, making a lot of noise about, I think it's ironic, the First Amendment, which they don't have in China. But is there an indication that they might actually agree to sell to decouple so that they don't have to lose the American audience? It's unclear, but right now there's a lot of, at least TikTok claims, a lot of independent investors that are invested in bike dance. And that's right. If they're really calling the shots, then presumably they're going to want to turn a profit by complying with the sale provision rather than having the app be banned entirely from the U.S. There's been a lot of people that put their hand up. I thought rumble, rumble recently today. I thought I saw put their hand up as being interested.
Starting point is 01:37:07 Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank put his hand up. So it could be interesting to see where it goes. And it doesn't even have to be a U.S. company. It just has to be an entity. Again, it doesn't trigger those four or five hurdles, which is controlled by a foreign adversary, be a national security threat, in addition. And so there's a lot of sort of process that would happen at that point, too. Yeah, we're talking to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr about the big TikTok fight. Is there any truth to the speculation that I know that there were some, like, exceptions that were cited?
Starting point is 01:37:37 I mean, like the Amazon, some people were suggesting that maybe. Amazon asked for a carve out. I mean, is there any truth of the rumors? No, not at all. There's some confusion around that, too. There's two different pieces of the bill. So the one piece of the bill that we were just talking about, which is how do you get defined as a covered application for purposes of the ban? Those are those four or five hoops you have to go through. The U.S. part of that in terms of this website language is an additional limiter as well. So it's making sure that it doesn't cover any of those companies. So I think there's some just confusion about provisions. Of course, if TikTok chooses not to divest and to take the ban option, then there's a part of the law
Starting point is 01:38:18 that says, you know, Google and Apple can't continue to allow TikTok to operate through backdoors. And so that's the only part that comes in. But again, that portion of the bill that deals with Google, Apple, or similar companies is not covered by the provision that gives the government power to ban. So I just think there is some confusion about the interplay between what we call the substantive ban authority and just this back end stuff that says if they go the non-divestment route, of course, a U.S. company can't enable them to keep doing business here. Again, that's different than banning that U.S. company. Yeah, it is. And I think it, when I see some of the arguments out there saying, oh, well, I don't want the government telling me what apt to have. Well, that's, again,
Starting point is 01:38:57 I go back to that illicit conduct as you, and I was inclined to not totally agree with you on this, but I love the way that you, I like how you did explain that. There's a lot of nuance there because there is a difference between the conduct that a company is engaging in and then, you know, actually, you know, banning, you know, banning speech and et cetera, et cetera. So we'll see how this plays out, but it does open a brave new world because I feel like this is just like one of many hurdles we're going to have to get over as tech becomes more and more integrated in society, even more so now with AI and everything else. Any final observation about this bill you want to share?
Starting point is 01:39:35 No, all good points, you know, just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, came out in favor, which I think is a really good indicator for whatever people think about the Washington editorial board that it doesn't sweep too broadly into U.S. companies. I think if it did, you wouldn't have seen, you know, that outlet come out with that position. So I think it's just further evidence that the legislature have done a smart job of just zeroing in on things that are demonstrated, controlled by foreign adversaries so that it protects our individual liberties as well. It's a smart path forward. Yeah, well, we'll see how we'll see how this performs, but I mean, it is a very good point and nobody likes, I wish we could extend for.
Starting point is 01:40:08 bite dance and look at, you know, like Tencent and look at, you know, some of the other stuff. Because the gaming platforms, it's like a whole other thing with all of the CCP companies. Actually, one last quick thing for you. Kelly and Conway was saying, why start with this? She was kind of defending, I think, the former president's position on it. She was saying, why not start with fentanyl, et cetera, or the persecution of Uyghurs, the vulnerability of Taiwan? Why are you starting with TikTok? That was her question in an interview that she gave earlier.
Starting point is 01:40:38 are what is your thought on that? Yeah, I say we're not starting with it. We're not starting with it here. You know, we've taken action on Huawei, ZTE, China Mobile, China Telecom, and President Trump was the one in 2020 that said, hey, there's a problem with TikTok, and he was right. And so that's why I think it's important that we, you know, follow through on this action. Again, it's not a first one. TikTok is just the next one in a string of entities tied to the CCP that we're taking action on. Yeah, I think we can multitask. Multitasking. I mean, I think we're capable of doing that. Brendan Carr with the FCC.
Starting point is 01:41:10 And I appreciate, I still, you know, I have to double check. I still have my pass. My one time. You haven't used it yet. I haven't used it yet. You still have a FCC jailed. Yes, that's right. So just, you know, we always like to have that record when we have you on, sir.
Starting point is 01:41:23 We always like that record. Brennan Carr with the FCC. Thank you so much. Appreciate your time and your explanation on this. Thank you. Good to see you. Thanks so much. You too.
Starting point is 01:41:33 Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Because knowledge is your ultimate. So apparently, according to Variety, at Hulu, they've ordered a revival of King of the Hill. I am a little nervous about this. They say a new generation of young writers are working on the revival, and they're adapting the, quote, sweet spots of the classic into the new era, which sounds like they're going to sanitize it, woke style. That's what it sounds like to me.
Starting point is 01:42:07 they said that the updated version from Mike Judge, who is behind Beavis and Butthead, which is amazing. All of the new film, everything, this new series is amazing. But they said that they have the series creators, Mike Judge, Greg Daniels, Saladin Patterson.
Starting point is 01:42:23 They're executive producers on the show. Patterson's going to be the showrunner. Judge and Daniels will executive produce. And then they said that they're going to have, you know, the same voice cast. I'm just wondering, maybe it won't be so crazy. If you have Mike Judge, who is definitely not woke, being an executive producer and Greg Daniels, maybe it won't be.
Starting point is 01:42:44 But I don't want them to set themselves up for fighting with new writers either that have gone to woke academy. I don't know. I just, this is me being a cynic. I just don't have any good expectations. I wish you they would just have new ideas and new things. Or that. I mean, why not? I mean.
Starting point is 01:43:02 And didn't know the guy that did the voice for Boomhauer, I thought it, like a few months back, I saw some story about him. passing away or something? Yeah, I think he kicked the bucket. So, yeah, I thought. I wonder who will do Boomhar. So, yeah, they've got, yeah, they'll have the revival of it. Oh, boy. So we'll see.
Starting point is 01:43:20 But if Mike Judge, I, look, I have, I will give, because Mike Judge is involved, I'm going to wait and see. Because Mike Judge has earned that. Right. He's an OG. He's earned it. By him being involved, I'll consider it like a sequel to the series. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:43:37 Yeah, it could be. You know something like that. That's my purse. I don't know you. Bobby. Gosh, all natural propane. All right. It's a longgoing thing.
Starting point is 01:43:47 But if you like to, if you haven't watched a new Beavis and Butthead series, it's been out for a little bit. Brilliant. It is, they have a whole thing on white privilege, a whole episode. And it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It's hysterical.
Starting point is 01:44:01 All right. Without further ado. Today in Stupidity King. All right. It is our president. Joe Biden This is Yeah this is how much contempt
Starting point is 01:44:12 The Democrats and Biden have For the American people This is him in front of the press Listen Anyway Am I allowed to take any questions Anybody here is text Watch what they do to the feed here
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