The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Wednesday April 17 - Full Show

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

Biden tells a weird story about answering the door in a towel and shaving cream as The White House wants him to operate at a “low-boil”. New York finds 2A Advocate Dexter Taylor guilty of making his own firearms and sends him to Rikers to face up to 18 years in prison. The USC valedictorian gets her speech canceled after posts surface of her calling for the elimination of Israel. Red State Journalist Jeff Charles Jr. breaks down the details of the case of Dexter Taylor. Joy Reid audibly roots for DEI because it’s helping prosecute Donald Trump. Former Trump White House Advisor Matt Mowers joins us to break down the city of Brussels SHUTTING DOWN a conservative forum for no reason.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Goldcohttps://danalikesgold.comGet your free Gold Kit from GoldCo today.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and sign up for Hillsdales FREE Imprimis publication.KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSign up for the KelTec Insider and be the first to know the latest KelTec news.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet free activation with code Dana.ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.Zbioticshttps://zbiotics.com/radioGet 15% off your first order when you use code RADIO at checkout. 

One day I showed up at off-year convention and I was in the motel after the local motel getting changed after the afternoon session go back to the evening session I'd come down with some young activists through a little older than me but still young activists who were involved in trying to reform the party and I was in one of those eight by ten bathrooms you know they have shower toilet in the sink and I got a towel on me and shaving cream and I hear bam, bam, bam, at my door really loudly. And when I went to hell is that, I thought of this guy, Bob Cunningham on a radio show and a couple of the guys.

So I said, okay, okay, guys. And I walked to the door and opened it up and standing there was the former governor of the state of Delaware, Albert Ann Carville, a big guy about 6'5 talked at you like, and the state representative who got defeated four years earlier as a Democratic state rep, who was retired and one of the from the family that had more some more senators appointed than any other family in American history to the tunnels and a former retired justice and the state chairman

and they said I'm standing a towel and shaving cream my face what did what did we all just hear oh my gosh some people saw it some people were there and they they saw it they saw it Yeah. Trying to figure out how I'm going to set the... We were just like, we don't know. We're just going to play it for the people. And I... You guys are all like, what would just have this?

That was President Biden. And if... I've never done drugs, but is that what it feels like when you're trying to figure out what is happening? And you're just like in this fog of like confusion and what?

and you don't feel anything else because it's so confusing. I imagine that's what it's like. That's what we... It's pretty damn close. Okay, well, Wednesday. That's, I... There you go, guys.

That's the show. Goodbye. Goodbye. Have a great day. Good night, everybody. That was the President of the United States. Why was he telling... I'm trying to...

First, I'm made of questions right now. It's a weird newsday. There's several stories that we're following, and there's... There's one big story that I wrote about last night. There's several stories that we're following. And there's a bunch of weird stuff. Like, what is?

It's the eclipse. You know what it is? It's the damn CIA. I'm telling you what it is. So welcome to the show. It's your very confused, still lovable, but a crumagin, unless, Dana Lash, with you here at the top of this first hour. And I am still just trying to figure out what I just heard.

And me reading the transcript is not helping. It makes it actually worse. If I'm being honest about it, it makes it worse. How many times did you reread that last half? I still don't understand it. Do you know if something, someone was talking this morning and apparently they're actually doing, I'm not joking, they're apparently doing, oh gosh, inter-party surveying on this. So it's not like it's something they're going to release to everybody.

but apparently whenever he goes out and talks to anybody he does badly it doesn't go well for him it's just bad he's just he actually runs voters away and that's making it really difficult for his campaign and the people in his campaign to campaign with him and to try to attract voters so they're they're keeping him shut up i know that they're they've been trying to get these debates going. And I think all of the news networks are like, oh, wow, we just realized that this could be a ratings bonanza for them. This is where you're going to see the media get ignorant. Because if you don't give the media what it wants, they're going to get you. If you don't, they want eyeballs. They need something to sell their ads on. They have ad time. They need people

to buy it. It's an election year. And if they're not, not going to get this debate, then you're going to, I would imagine you're going to start seeing some negative coverage happen if they don't get this debate. Democrats are going to have to concede this and they're going to have to at least have one debate, one debate at least. So I don't know. It looks worse, though, the more Biden speaks. There was a Politico piece this morning. I don't know if you saw those. And it's literally called, has Biden considered having an Iran strategy? And it's not a good, it's a very unflattering piece because it portrays him as, as, I mean,

it's just bad. As Juan says, they better get Hunter's Coke ready. He's going to need something. Go ahead and get, yeah, have Hunter teach him. I probably already did. Actually, who taught Hunter? That's a bigger question. So they write that

they literally this is a sentence in Politico which by the way we will run Democrat Oppo is just like their articles quote but for most of Biden's time as president his aide's number one goal hasn't been to solve this puzzle but to keep it off the president's desk they said that the strategy is to keep it low

boil on all fronts clearly these people have never been in a kitchen Tell me that you've never cooked anything without telling me that you've never cooked anything. Keeping it at a low boil on. Kane, did it look like a low boil with the drones and the, you know, the missiles and stuff that Iran was throwing over Israel's way. That would be the definition of boiling over. Yeah, actually, that would be.

Yeah, that would be the very definition of boiling over. I mean, they can't pretend this away. Oh, it's just so bad. I mean, the Politico pieces, I'm sorry, I'm still trying to get over that sound bite. That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's one thing when you read the transcript and you're preparing or nationally syndicated radio program and you're like, okay, I just, I'm reading the transcript because there's a bunch of other audio I was looking at. And I'm like, oh, this, it's Biden. It's, you know, yeah, it's crazy.

Of course it's going to be crazy. It's another thing when you hear it live and you're, you're listening to it and you're, I mean, that guy literally has control of the nuke button. I'm sorry. I'm going to move on because, dude, gosh. but they said that Biden has political rights he has no strategy for Iran he has well wait I take that back

yes he does don't well what do you mean don't uh uh uh what do you mean uh uh no no no okay well what's no don't okay let's we're back to don't um

can you elaborate uh uh uh super effective it's I I don't know That's his strategy. That has been his strategy. Now, what that entails, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know what that entails. Yeah, he doesn't either. And neither does any way. They're just like, maybe that'll suffice. That's what the left think sounds like a hard-ass response. They think that. Meanwhile, I'm going to tell you what. I will tell you this.

I don't care where you stand on Trump. Heaven knows that I have my critiques. Heaven knows. I don't care. I don't care about the mean tweets. Have you seen me tweet? I don't care about them. Okay?

I don't care. I reveled in the fact that there was a guy, we'd a guy in the White House who everyone else, all the other foreign leaders, including, let's be real, our allies, were terrified of. Not because, I don't think that's because they thought he was a brilliant strategist. I don't think that it's because they thought that he really understood the, lay of the land and the geopolitical area, I think it's because they knew if you ticked him off and aggravated him enough,

oh my God, he'd probably press that button on you. And that scared them half to death. I mean, you had short stack down there in the Pacific in North Korea who was terrified to do anything. Because Biden or Trump would say, I'm going to rain rockets down on you. I mean, he would just tweet it. He didn't focus. He would just tweet it. And it for sure freaked out the Pentagon and the Department of Defense.

But it terrified every other leader. So they were like, well, let's maybe just chill for a little bit. Because he actually might be nuts enough to do it. Oh no, he is nuts enough to do it. I mean, it was just, it's fascinating. As Kane said, piece through unpredictable strength. So I would take that over. Don't.

And then trying to walk off the stage, but you don't know where to go because you're just, you're barely sentient. I would really, I want the, I want the, everyone's terrified of us because the Americans have a crazy leader. I want that again, because that was peace, right? Like, that's, nobody really wanted to do anything. I mean, sure, they might, you know, rattle the saber, but they're not really going to do anything. Because who knows? He may be mad about it while he's eating breakfast of Marlago and press a button. They don't know.

So to me, Kane, that's a strategy. Yeah. I just, I really, that's a strategy. Oh my gosh. I haven't talked much about the Trump trial and all that because I just, I don't care. And you guys are besieged with it. You guys have cable news covering it wall to wall like it's a little Jessica that fell in the well. You guys cover it enough.

Juan and Steve have no idea what I just said, Kane. No, they don't. That was the first time sidebar for a minute. Humor me. I think that was like the first time that it was real time everyone was following along. And you know that if Twitter existed back then, it would have been well experts and baby Jessica's in experts. Right? It would have been, yeah, you would have had a whole bunch of well experts.

That's that little girl that fell down the well in Texas. I was in elementary school when it happened. And I remember watching it. It was just wall-to-wall coverage. And it was a big thing. And they finally got her out of the well. She was trapped in there for like two days, something crazy. She fell in the well in her backyard plane.

And it was a big thing. thing, big ordeal, wall-to-wall coverage. The first time it predates OJ, predates all of that. It was the first time wall-to-wall coverage, and everyone was just obsessed with baby Jessica in the well, two days straight. I mean, Oprah did a thing on it. It was

everywhere. And cable news is really treating the trials kind of like baby Jessica in a well. So you're kind of like, wow, what else is happening? I mean, I get it. The L.A. riots were like that too, but that happened after. So, yeah, baby Jessica in the well was like the first time that really

can you imagine the insufferability of Twitter if it had been around then Jiminy Christmas we probably had a civil war a lot earlier I'm just saying well I'm an expert on a well no you're not your parents had a well shut up so it's true yeah I feel seen

right so they have the Mayorkas impeachment this is ongoing as well this is I really feel like the House I feel like Johnson needs to deliver on this they're demanding Republican senators are demanding a full trial in this. They're beginning this

impeachment trial because, you know, the House kicked it over. And so they're demanding a full trial. I would love for the cameras to be there. I want my sound bites. I want the memes from his goofy face. I need all this. Senate won't touch it because Schumer wants to table it. He wants to keep it. That's the last thing that they want going

into an election. Is Majorca sitting here talking about all the ways, all the ways that he failed keeping the border secure. They don't want to talk about that. I mean, you blame them. Now, 2024, you saw this headline last night. before we go into headlines. We're going to talk about this coming up.

George Soros. Yes, he owns a bunch of Odyssey stations. Don't take me off you status. George Soros drops 60. Am I not supposed to say that? Am I going to make a headache for everyone? Because I exist to put wrinkles and stuff. I mean, I've got a bucket of wrenches and I'm ready to throw.

George Soros has dropped $60 million into Democrats' war chess. It's the second biggest donation of 2024. You know he's going to do it again. Because, see, there's not a limit when you're doing to these groups like this. It is if it's like a direct to a candidate. But he's spending big. He's the guy who's bankrolled all of the judicial rot, all of the restorative justice, all of that stuff. He donated $60 million to a democracy pack that he uses.

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Boeing engineer said in an interview, he thinks that all judges all the 787 should be grounded to allow for proper safety checks of the police. plane, which obviously they've come under fire in recent months. It was, he was on NBC, and he said, yes, he goes, you got to have attention to it. You got to check these gaps. Make sure you don't have any kind of potential for premature failure. Yeah, that's great. Let's all get on a plane. Bill's totally safe. Sesame Street Workshop Writers unanimously authored a strike, and they're going to walk out Friday

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maybe you could just, I don't know, keep your stuff out of the, you know, out of the reach of the kids. That would be great. All right, we got more on the way, including a huge Second Amendment story you need to be aware of. Stay with us. Hi, I'm Margaret, a rhetoric and media major at Hillsdale College. Here's Hillsdale President Dr. Larry Arne with a Constitution. minute. Many argue today that the Constitution is outdated because it addresses problems peculiar to the 18th century so long ago, and some of it does read sort of quaintly. But consider the injunction

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I'm in favor of the Second Amendment. No, you're not. And I believe we need assault weapon bans. We need background checks, universal background checks. We need red flag laws. No, you're not a fan of the Second Amendment. You're not a fan of the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment. I mean, we can go on because you can't hold that position

and then say that you are, and particularly when they can't even define it, That's Kamala Harris, the vice president. That's just a recent remarks she made just a couple of days ago. Welcome back to the program, bottom of this first hour, Dana Lash, with you. If you signed up for my newsletter, you get all kinds of good stuff out of there. And something I sent out to you last night because of a verdict that was rendered last night. And I got to tell you, I was pretty shocked by this.

New York is such a fallen state. And I don't advocate for people abandoning fallen states. I do advocate for you getting involved as much as humanly possible in taking it back, because you can't just keep seeding ground and running from fights. And New York, this is, New York's got some really stupid laws and they're in a, they're in the courtroom over a lot of them. I'm not going to get into the weeds with all the different things that have happened with them with, since Bruin and everything else.

But what they did last night, and he was a guest on our show in February, Dexter Taylor, aka Carvin Mike. And he's a Second Amendment enthusiast. He's, I mean, I don't say this as a pejorative. He's a dork. He's like one of those guys who love. I bet how it's made is his favorite show. He loves putting things together. He's really into engineering. He loves to understand how things work. And he loved cars. And when he figured out about making his own firearms, that really

interested him. And he thought it was fascinating the way everything goes together and all the stuff that you can do. And so he started doing that, even started doing it, you know, before New York started passing all of these insane laws, trying to purposely make innocent people into felons. And so he started doing that. And so he started doing that, you know, he started doing it, you know, before New York started passing all of these insane laws, trying to purposely make innocent people into felons. And so he was on the show in February because the state of New York had NYPD and the ATF raid his home, bust his door in because they were accusing him of making ghost guns. Now, you have to understand the accusation was predicated upon their belief. And again, another accusation that he was like somehow distributing or selling these guns, which he absolutely wasn't. I mean, Taylor is an innocent man. He has no criminal record at all whatsoever. And he

was not selling the things that he was building. And by the way, that is protected under federal law. I don't give a rats backside what your state wants to pass. The ATF, this is 18 USC 922-O, that's subsection O, subsection P and R, and it gets into 26 U.S.C. 5822. A license is not required to make a firearm solely for personal use. A license is only required to manufacture firearms for sale or distribution. Furthermore, you do not have to serialize your firearm that you are making if it is for your own personal use. That's something that manufacturers used to use to track product. And then the government came in and decided to exploit it and use it as a way to sidestep any kind of federal law prohibiting a registry. So this is what they're going after. This is what they're going after

Dexter Taylor over. And so he was found guilty yesterday. He was found guilty yesterday. And he was sent to prison. He's in Rikers right now. They're going to try to put him away for 18 years. 18 years. This is just one of the craziest things I've ever read. So the state of New York thinks that he's a dangerous felon because he's a gunsmith. And he was looking at, he wanted to actually at some point get his FFL and he was building up to that. He was exploring weapons science. He was looking at all of the different ways you can do things better. And this is really one of the coolest things about the firearms industry is so many of these, the manufacturers are small mom and pop shops and they all are looking at ways to do it better. And he was getting to the point where he wanted to become an FFL and he wanted to leave New York. This is one of the things he was talking with us about. Well, he was using his credit card to make purchases of legal products to do his legal activity at home. It would be like me using my credit card to purchase yarn and then I'm crocheting at home

for my own personal enjoyment. And then NYPD and ATF came and raided his home, knocked his damn door in and decided to take him to prison and now he's convicted and he's looking at 18 years. They took him immediately into custody last night. He's in Rikers right now. The same ATF, by the way, that helped raided his home. This is the same ATF. Yes, they do love shooting dogs.

That had such lax security that they literally allowed a security guard, to steal guns from their national firearms and ammunition destruction branch for three year straight. There was an Office of the Inspector General report that came out in September of 2022, headlined DOJ OIG, Office of Inspector General, releases report on the ATF's disposal practices. And they said that they noticed that thousands of firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition had been stolen from the ATF from 2016 to 2019. And that it required a DOJ, OIG, ATF, and DHS investigation. And they found that security guards were convicted, they convicted them. these people in connection with these thefts. The ATF could not keep their own stuff on lock.

Thousands of guns, ammunition and parts stolen. Thousands. These are the same people that want to bust up into your house if you're making things for your own hobbyist enjoyment. Hmm. I've never had a gun stolen, but the ATF has. Hmm. Same ATF.

And this is, by the way, also the same ATF, as you know, that has zealously worked to revoke the federal firearms licenses, which I'm going to explain in a moment. Those are called, that's when I say FFL, that's what that means. Since this administration, since Biden took office, there has been an over 500% increase in the revocation of licenses. And do you know what the number one cited reason is? Clerical error. Paperwork. they're not going after enforcement of criminal activity. They're going after reduction.

They want to reduce FFLs. So see, if the voters, if the American people are just going to give their Second Amendment away, then they'll try to do it in a bureaucratic fashion. The government will. Yes, the ATF, very, very eager to do this. Lee Williams wrote how previously, you know, usually you would have a revocation of maybe on average 40 licenses a year. But in the 11 months, in 11 months when Joe Biden took office, within that 11 month period, they revoked over 273 FFLs. And that's just one 11 month period his first

year. It's skyrocketed since then. I can't tell you, and because it's an ongoing litigation, I'm not allowed to tell you, well, I don't want to jeopardize their cases. If you guys knew the number of manufacturers and FFLs that have personally reached out to me, and explain to me the way in which the ATF has been harassing them relentlessly, it's not about enforcement. It is about intimidation and they want to shut them down. You would fall over if you knew the number of people who have reached out to me personally to share with me how the ATF has been harassing them, making their lives a living hell,

and trying to take away their FFLs and they've done nothing wrong. Meanwhile, the ATF allows for thousands of guns to be strolled. and from their own property because they can't keep their stuff on lock. Same ATF. So this is who rated Dexter Taylor's home. And the main justification, as I told you for all those revocations, is paperwork errors. Now, the state argues that Dexter Taylor should have obtained a license to make his own firearms. Now, a lot of this stuff that New York is doing, they're trying to, which is, I mean, technically, they're not actually allowed.

what they're trying to do is say that, well, a perfectly legal action, activity that has been legal up to this point that you've done, you know, for years, we're going to decide to statewide. We're going to try to ban it and then we're going to try to retcon it and not grandfather all of your past activity in and then try to convict you for what you were doing when this was legal. That's what New York is trying to do. There's a name for that and there's actually court cases against it. But so you have the state trying to. trying to fabricate criminality for an innocent man that has a clean record. And they're doing this. New York does not hand out licenses. I talked to a friend of mine who hosts his own primetime show on Fox News. And I've had to talk with him about getting his license. And he was waiting.

Oh, gosh, it was over a year. This is, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It is insane. They make it prohibitively impossible for you to get a license there. and that was just to carry. He wasn't going to try to make anything or receive anything. New York is not in the habit of granting licenses.

And they don't grant licenses so then they can say, if they think that you're doing something for which they would have had to grant you a license, they try to entrapment. They want to get you and make you into a felon. Dexter Taylor has literally no offenses ever. He probably has a cleaner record than some of you listen into this program right now. And they're trying to make him into a felon. because of this. This is a civil rights story about a natural rights issue. And because race is so

very important to the left in these stories, where is the left out in the street protesting the case of a black man who's being unfairly targeted by the state? Where are the protesters out in the street claiming injustice over the case of an innocent black man who is targeted by the state had his door knocked in and raided. Where are the people who were out there in the street for Breonna Taylor? Where are the people who were out in the street for George Floyd? This is an actual rights activist who is innocent and has been bullied and harassed and persecuted by the state. And I dare say, I would venture so far as to say that he was specially targeted because he is a black man,

exercising his Second Amendment rights. And there's nothing that progressive historically hate more than free black Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights. And if you don't believe me, I dare you go back and look at the decision of Judge Roger Taney. Where are the protests? Where are the hands up don't shoot people at? For Dexter Taylor. He didn't do anything wrong. But he's being bullied and targeted and harassed by an administration.

where the vice president has put more people of color in prison than any other AG in California really before her, and the president of the United States who eulogized a clan member. Because I know the left is really big on this, so let's check the boxes, shall we? The left is always silent on constitutional abuses, particularly when it concerns the Second Amendment, and particularly when it concerns the Second Amendment and people of color. You won't hear them on that. You won't hear them. Otis McDonald's. Did you ever hear the left celebrating Otis McDonald? Are there any statues to Otis McDonald anywhere in Chicago?

Do you all even know who Otis McDonald is? Because the media won't tell you. They don't care. Why? Because it was a black American who lived in Chicago who wanted to exercise his Second Amendment rights. And they don't believe that the Second Amendment is a legitimate right. So they treat it like a second class right. and they treat people who advocate for it like second-class citizens. Otis McDonald's single-handedly took down the gun ban in Chicago, a veteran who lived in a bad part of town and who did not want to move because he had lived there and raised his family there, and he wanted to stay there.

He wasn't going to let the criminals win, and he saw his neighbors being attacked and robbed and mugged and assaulted, and he was tired of it, and he wanted to be able to carry a gun for his own protection, and I dare say this guy, Otis McDonald, was more trained and had better sense. than some of the people wearing the badge carrying it. No offense, but he did.

And Lisa Madigan, the AG in Illinois and the city of Chicago said no. So he had to take him to court and he won. He has since passed God rest his soul, but he's a hero. A civil rights activist, but it's for a natural right. He's a natural rights activist because these are rights that are not created by men for men in a court of law. They are rights that you have by way of being an American citizen. They are taken out of the domain of man. So man cannot pervert them.

Man cannot pollute them. And he cannot take them away. The left doesn't want to acknowledge this. You don't hear a lot about Otis McDonald. You're not going to hear anything from the left about Dexter Taylor. There will be no protests. You will not hear Al Sharpton talk about Dexter Taylor. You will not hear his name on MSNBC.

You will not hear Jake Tapper talk about him on CNN. There will be no CNN town halls for Dexter Taylor. you're not going to have MSNBC do an interview with him from jail like they did Avanotti. No, no, no, because see, Dexter Taylor is the wrong type of activist, the wrong type of advocate, and the wrong type of American. That is why. The left is showing you who they are by who they don't support. They're showing you how seriously they care about natural rights by how quiet they are when those rights are severely abridged. they're showing you that they really don't give a rat's ass about police violence or any kind of government violence when they stay silent when an innocent man has his home broken into by the federal government that the state government the ATF and NYPD on behalf of New York State raided and tossed into Rikers for nothing he's in Rikers with murderers and rapists an innocent man who has done nothing wrong and you're not going to see any big gun rights groups take up his

his cause publicly either because they're afraid. They feel like, oh, the case might be too complicated. We don't know how to talk about ghost guns. That's not an easy sale to put up on the big screen at our fancy luncheons. So they're not going to say anything either. And they never do. So that's the case of Dexter Taylor. an innocent man who has facing 18 years in prison for doing not a damn thing wrong. Hands up don't shoot indeed, right? We're going to talk to Jeff Charles from Red State about his case later on, and there are, I'll share with you, ways to donate to his case, because if anyone needs legal help, it's Dexter Taylor,

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One of the items in this post calls for the complete abolishment of Israel. Is that a position that you endorse? If you're asking me if I stand for human rights, if you're asking me if I stand for equality and unequivocal and unconditional right to life for all people, including Palestinians, then I'm not apologetic. I believe in what I believe, and it is because of the people around me that I've met at USC, the classes that I've taken, the professors that I have learned from, that have led me to look at the world in this way. And, you know, it's unfortunate that, you know, human rights is controversial.

The reason I'm asking is because that's what the link said. It called for the complete abolishment of Israel. Abolishment of Israel was in the actual language. Is that something that you endorse? How many ways are you not going to answer this question? So the abolishment of the state of Israel, I'd like to clarify, is the abolishment of an apartheid system. It inherently is a system that subjugates Palestinians

as dehumanized and it's such it's past me life as not worth She's a terrorist She's a terrorist supporter And it's made up gobbledygook And as much as I think

That this Bimbo terrorist And yes, you can be book smart And street stupid And she is She earned her position As valedictorian She did I wasn't given to her

She did earn it She's like Was she in like Biomedical or something Or other Do I think that she's An absolute Hamas supporter? Yes, do I think

She's a disgusting Low Life Meat Sack? You're absolutely right I do. I completely think that she's a disgusting Creighton. And it's not her political positions that make her less than human. It's her nastiness and her raging anti-Semitism, her hatred of America, and her disgusting soul that makes her less than human. That being said, she heard her position as valedictorian. I don't know why they're making her a martyr. Because they are. Now she's acting like she's a martyr. Look at me. I'm not being allowed to. Yeah.

because you're probably going to incite a terror attack. That's why, I mean, I get why they're doing it, but do I agree with it? No. USC made its bed. They can lay in it. I understand that I think some of this stuff is too little too late, and then when you take the action of silencing someone,

then you look like you're the baddie, when they're the batty, and you elevate them to this martyr-like status, and that's what they're doing. Asna Tasbom, she's an Islamic, she's a Muslim, an activist pro Hamas, and she was posting on social media. I mean, she was outright promoting anti-Semitism. I wouldn't look at her post. She wasn't just talking about the government of Israel.

She doesn't believe Jews should exist. She's out there saying Israel should be completely, they don't have the right to exist, et cetera, et cetera. So she literally believes exactly as Hamas does. And so people criticized her post, and they sent links of Tabasim's post to USC administrators. And she's made her Instagram account private. She's removed her postings, which is, you know, it's, that's, I find hysterical.

Everyone's so brave until it costs them. Principles mean nothing if you're not, you know, going to pay for it. And she gets called out on her anti-Semitism. And then she decides to try to delete everything and hide it. She's a biomedical engineering major. And guys, can I just pause? right here. Her minor. Her minor, I'm going to sneeze. Excuse me. Allergies. Her minor is in resistance to genocide. How was that a course study? I mean, I think every bit, why is that a course study?

Resistance to genocide. So she applied to be a speaker at graduation with 100 other applicants. People that have, you have to have a 3.9 or higher. And she was chosen. And so the safety, according to the provost, Andrew Guzman, he wrote in a letter to the university community, and this is from Daily Mail, the decision is necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students, consistent with the fundamental legal

obligation, to protect students and keep our campus safe, et cetera. And then now, Tabesam says that she's being silenced in the university abandoned her, that they're no longer allowing her to speak a commencement, et cetera, et cetera. And then CARE, the

Committee of American Islamic Relations, they decided to get involved. They said it's cowardly, it's disingenuous, et cetera, et cetera. But what about the Jewish, has anyone actually given a care about the Jewish students? Everyone's bending over and kissing the butt of this, a pro-Hamas activist. But what about the Jewish students that she's victimizing by being a raging anti-Semite terrorist-loving meat sack? Oh, I think that when people let their freak flag fly, you should let them. I do not believe in the government sanitizing things.

I want everyone to see her evilness. she's evil. I want everyone to see how evil she is. I think that she promotes hate. I think she promotes anti-Semitism and she tries to mask it by saying that they're going actually targeting her when it's her and her social media, very public postings where she has targeted her other students and tried to make the campus through her activism here. Seems like she was trying to make the campus more uncomfortable for her fellow students who happen to be Jewish. That's what it seems like to me. You smile as much as you want. I mean, even the devil can quote scripture. But I think that colleges should stand up to students when they do this. But I also think that she earned her position.

And I actually don't think that she should be barred from speaking. Now, if the college wants to say, we want to know what your remarks are going to be before you give them, because you've literally been promoting, like, trying to incite, like, anti-Semitic rage. And she had a ton of stuff on social media. You guys didn't see all of it. They only showed the nice stuff. They only showed you the nice stuff on cable. I think they have every right to do that. But don't make her a martyr. Because that's what these terrorists love. And yes, when you talk like that and when you're defending a terrorist group, there's no gray area. You're a terrorist. Don't make these people martyrs. Now, a couple of other things to touch on. Last segment, I was explaining to you.

you, we talked about Dexter Taylor's case, and I made mention of, I'm going to talk about that in a minute, the FFLs. Because the federal government wants to, they want to create a registry. But it's illegal to create a registry. That's true. It's very illegal to create a registry. But that doesn't mean that they're not stopping. In fact, one of the things that they're doing, I was telling Kane about this. I'm going to pull this up. I wrote about this the other day. situation, the DOJ and ATF, you know, obviously worked together. The DOJ came out with a, they did a 2016 survey where they came out and stated that their conclusion was that the majority of convicts that they had interviewed, that they had surveyed who were in prison, the majority of them got their firearms from the black market. So they did another survey they came out with. And this one, I'm pulling this up, it was weird. because it's like they were trying to also loop in social media. And it was a study that the DOJ did, wherein they said that, oh, it's still crazy that people are just,

the majority of firearms are still legally obtained firearms from people who are prohibited possessors. They're still doing this on the black market. They're still getting them on the black market because they're trying to make the argument that somehow it's ghost guns. or they're using social media to facilitate it. They surveyed 8,000, over 8,000 of these cases. And it was something like less than 2% was facilitated by social media.

And the majority of that they determined was TikTok. But Merrick Garland said this like this is brand new. Quote, this report makes clear that black market guns sold by unlicensed dealers without a background check are increasingly being found at gun crime scenes. Or at crime scenes. Yes, the black market, you absolute weasel. Yes, the black market. They're trying to argue that social media platforms are somehow driving black market sales, except again, that's not supported by the statistics. But even then, none of this is unregulated, which is why there were cases to study in the first place.

But that's not what they're going for. This gets into my national registry. One of the things that they're trying to push, and Biden came out with us the other day when they came out with the red flag thing, they came out with their, they have a whole anti-gun committee. They are trying to redefine who is a seller. Now, how does this affect you? Say you just own a shotgun, it doesn't matter. You'll be affected by this. Why are they trying to redefine a seller?

Well, here's why. FFL stands for federal firearms license. And this is all federally regulated. If you sell X amount of firearms to the point where it can be considered even a modest supplement to your income, you've got to get a license. Otherwise, it's a felony, and you're going to go away for a long time and pay a minimum of $25,000 in a fine. And this is one of the things they're trying to get Dexter Taylor on, even though it's like he wasn't selling anything. and there was no evidence that he was selling anything. It's this, they keep going with the loophole.

That's why they keep saying gun show loophole, even though there's no loophole. A criminal act is a criminal act, not a loophole. If you have a suspended license and you still drive a car, that's not a loophole, that's a criminal act. Like if you're a prohibited possessor, not a lot to possess a gun and you possess a gun, that's not a loophole.

That's a criminal act. If you're selling somebody a handgun across state lines, that's not a loophole. You've got to go through an FFL. It's criminality. I mean, this is the thing in common here. So they're trying to redefine what a seller is because right now, the way federal law stands, the government cannot keep a registry of everything you purchase.

When you go and you fill out of 4473 and you buy a gun at a retailer and they run that back to the National Crime Information Center, they cannot keep track of what you're purchasing, et cetera. They only know that a check was done and it was at a gun store. They don't know what you bought. And that's a problem for the left and Democrats that want to know what everyone has. This is also part of their push for universal background checks. We have background checks, but they said that they want to expand them. They don't want to expand background checks.

These are the same damn Democrats who fought to even improve the system. Whether you like the system and think it's legal is a separate argument. They wouldn't even improve the system that they said they needed so much. This is how you know that they're not interested in actually expanding or improving the system. They want to registry. So if they're having trouble doing it this way, they figured out that if they can redefine every single person as a seller and make you get a license, then they can have their registry. And why is that? Because in order to have your federal firearms license, you have to do a full inventory of everything that you have. And the ATF gets to come into your house, a minimum of one time a year, gets to come into your house and do a full inventory of everything you have. Look at all your financials and they keep records of all of it. There's your registry. So if they can redefine everyone as a seller and try to make it to where everyone who even has so much as a shotgun, make them an FFL, boom, registry. They don't need a repeal federal law. They can go about it this way. And that's what they've started to do. And Dexter Taylor?

is the first step in this legally. Well, one of the first steps. They've been trying this for some time. That's why this case is important to you. That's why you need to pay attention about them expanding what a seller is, trying to redefine what a seller is and what it isn't. It is amazing, amazing stuff. And we're going to talk to Jeff Charles, who's been writing about this quite a bit coming out, because this is a major case and it has major implications, and you need to be aware of it. The other thing that we're going to be looking at as well coming up is, I don't know if you've seen, well, we're going to get into this USC valedictorian more

because this again, and there's a couple of situations like this. Everyone's using these commencement ceremonies as ways to make political stances. We're going to talk about some of that. We're also going to get into some of the immigration stuff, some of the border

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gosh, where are we now? Channel 347, DirecTV, the simulcast of the radio program. You can also catch us on X, Rumble, everywhere, Facebook, all the places. We were talking on and off throughout the first hour and a half of the program about this incredibly important Second Amendment case that's coming up and it deals with Biden's war on ghost guns, which is, you know, the scary term that they like to create to describe completely legal actions that are just, you know, done by hobbyists, ordinary, everyday, innocent law-abiding people. And we had him on the program back in February, Dexter Taylor, and as we told you, he was convicted yesterday on a multiple felonies, has a clean record, never done anything wrong. He was simply, he's a hobbyist, which is perfectly legal,

federally. But New York State is saying, uh-uh. So now they want to put him away for 18 years. That's what he was looking at. And this happened yesterday. I first heard about Dexter Taylor's case from my next guest who had written about this and was, you know, really kind of sounding the alarm because I hadn't really seen Taylor's case anywhere. That's the thing. Like I hadn't seen really anybody right about it. I hadn't seen it from like the big gun rights groups. Nobody was talking about it, which really kind of shocked me. And Jeff Charles, who is a contributor at Red State as well as Newsweek, and you can find him on X, joins me now via Skype to talk about this because he wrote about this back in December.

about how this innocent man from Brooklyn had his house raided, his door knocked down, and all because he was simply exercising his Second Amendment rights and doing nothing wrong. Jeff, thank you for your advocacy on this and, you know, getting everybody's attention with us. Just for the latest, tell everybody what happened yesterday because there were multiple felonies that, I'm actually really shocked by this, that Taylor was convicted of. And, you know, when we had him on the show, and I don't say this as a pejorative, he's a nerd. Like he's like an engineering nerd. He loves to, you know, put stuff together.

And he's, he really wanted to, at some point, do this as a business. And he wanted to get to that point where he understood the mechanics of it. And now he's in Rikers. Yeah, exactly. And I appreciate you, Dana, for really highlighting this. I mean, because you're right, it's not getting a level of attention that it should be. And this could be a landmark second amendment case. But just to kind of give you the rundown, I've been speaking with Dexter.

yesterday and also his attorney of Vinu Vargis. And basically, I mean, he was facing 37 counts. And he was found guilty of all but two that were not voted on. So they took him into custody right away. They started processing him. I'm not sure whether he's in Rikers now or if he's being sent to another place. His lawyer said that it could be one of two places for right now. But yes, he is facing some prison time.

The sentencing is coming up in about four weeks. And I'll tell you this, Dana. I mean, the trial itself was the prime example of a kangaroo court. It was clear from the beginning that the judge was citing with the prosecution just in how they treated the defense in all of that. They definitely have an agenda here that is just beyond just like a normal trial. That's, and I'm not shocked when I, especially after I was looking at the arguments that prosecution was making. So for people who, you know, maybe they didn't catch last hour, Taylor, he just, he's a hobbyist. I mean, it's perfectly legal. And this existing federal law, ATF, it's legal.

If you're a hobbyist, I mean, this is all federally regulated. If you're just doing it for yourself at home, I mean, that's no big deal. If you're going to sell it, you've got to serialize it. And if you sell it to a certain point where it accumulates a percentage of your income, even supplemental, then you have to go out and get your federal firearms license, your FFL. And he wasn't doing any of these things. There was no evidence that he tried to sell anything. There was no indication that he even had the intent to sell anything.

But what New York is doing is they're going and redefining Jeff, everything from what is considered a gun through the ATF, whether a receiver can be considered a gun by itself. If you just have an unmilled piece of aluminum on, that can be good. That's a gun. It's a gun right there. And that's how they're trying to redefine this and then apply the law ex post facto and make felons out of innocent people. Do I have this correct? You have it absolutely correct. I mean, the way, I mean, I read the affidavit, the way they even found out about Dexter is because they pressure a lot of these gun manufacturers who sell parts, which, like you said, it's perfectly legal, legal to buy these.

but they pressured them into giving over the data. They go through it. They see that all these parts are going to one address. They get onto Dexter and then they bust them for doing something that is not against the law. That is not that it's not harmful to anybody. But one thing that I've learned through this whole trial, Dana, is that New York, their system is set up to where the Constitution doesn't even matter. It isn't even relevant. Federal law is not relevant. They would not even allow the attorney or Dexter to bring up the second amendment during the trial.

the judge admonished them multiple times, not to even mention the second amendment. So you can see how New York's legal system is working, especially when it comes to violating certain natural rights that they don't think we should have. I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. We're talking with our friend Jeff Charles of Red State Newsweek. What you just said, Jeff, they couldn't, his attorneys, the defense couldn't even mention in a case where it's really about firearm rights, they couldn't literally mention the Second Amendment and were admonished for doing so?

Yes, multiple times. It is very clearly a Second Amendment issue. It's also a property rights issue. He has the right to do what he wants to with his property. But yes, they would not even allow him to mention the Second Amendment. It was completely irrelevant to them. The judge even said to the jury that jury nullification is supposedly illegal in New York. So even if they wanted to acquit them, they have to go by exactly what the law is, even if those laws are unconstitutional.

There's something like I said before, Dana, this was a kangaroo court specifically designed to convict him case. We're talking about this Dexter Taylor case. And I've written about it, Jeff's written about it at Red State. I have it up on my substack as well. And we also have links to the Gives and Go, which he's going to need help with because the legal bills I can only imagine. They were telling the state was telling him his defense team, Jeff, that, well, he should have gotten a license. New York State where from what I understand, my knowledge of their life. licensing. I have a friend who hosts a program, a primetime program on Fox News, and this person's

very well known, very famous person that was having trouble and waiting 15 months just to get a license to carry. And I'm thinking you, I mean, you're on television. People know who you are. And if it's that difficult for you, and clearly this person at crazies coming to their, you know, their property, all this stuff. And if it's that difficult for you to just get an LTC, I can't even imagine what it's like if you're trying to become a retailer, which Taylor wasn't even trying to do yet because he wasn't distributing or selling. So, Jeff, and then that brings up this dilemma. They say that you need something that they're unwilling to give. So because they're unwilling to give it, then you're the felon. That is exactly how the scheme runs, Danny. You outlined it perfectly.

After the Supreme Court's Bruin decision on that they're ruling on Bruin, New York and California, other states had to revamp their laws in a way where they can still violate our right to keep and bear arms without running a foul of the Bruin decision, which they still are, by the way. But they have fixed it to where you really still can't get a license. And actually one part of the strategy with Dexter's lawyer, Dexter compiled data showing how many times these things are rejected. Using the state's data, how many times people are rejected for getting licenses after the Bruin decision to show that, yeah, you said I should have gotten a license. But you know you wouldn't have given me one. The chances of me getting a license in New York were very small.

even though you had a clean criminal record, had done nothing wrong, like you said. So that's how the system is set up. They don't want to issue licenses, but then they want to throw you in jail for not getting one. That's what, it's amazing to me because he's,

I can't even imagine how much this is going to cost, which him brings me to the point of the raising awareness of it. I mean, I don't know where the protests are, Jeff. I don't know why there aren't people in the streets because we hear the phrase civil rights hero. We don't often hear natural rights hero because a lot of people think that natural rights, particularly relating to 2A stuff, that it's like a second class right, which it's not.

I mean, nobody celebrated Otis McDonald in Chicago when he beat their handgun band. Nobody celebrates Rhonda Izell. Nobody, I mean, Maj Tore. Nobody celebrates, you know, people like Dexter Taylor, who, I mean, this case, as you said, when you joined the program, Jeff, you're right. This is a landmark case. Where are the protests for an innocent man that the state is harassing, targeting, persecuting, busted down his door, stole his property, and now he's facing 18 years in prison. Where are those activists?

Yeah, almost 20 years they want to take from this man's life for building guns that he didn't even use. It's been very, very disappointing to me, Dana, saying that there's a lot of, you know, gun rights organizations, activists and just people who aren't really paying attention to this and or not really taking this up, there should be huge protests. I mean, we saw, look at what happened in New Mexico when that governor tried to ban guns in Albuquerque. You had people show up in protest.

That was good. We need the same thing for Dexter Taylor. And just not to be so doom and gloom, there are efforts behind the scenes to get this out there more. So I think we are going to see more of a campaign for this because this is just an egregious violation. And honestly, Dexter could have taken a plea deal. They offered him eight years. So he could have taken it. He refused because he understands the importance of the Second Amendment and he's ready to fight this thing until the end, knowing that he would have to at least spend some time in prison with murderers, rapists, and thieves, because he wants to fight against this. We all need to be rallying behind Dexter Taylor because it's not just about him. It's about the rest of us. We need to

fight for his freedom as if we're fighting for our own because it very will could come to that, and it will come to that if we don't rise up. So we do need to get more people involved, and I think it's going to happen. I hope so. I really hope it does. And because he is, I mean, he's making a major sacrifice for everybody's rights. Jeff, don't you think this goes into part of the scheme from the Biden administration using the ATF to redefine who they think a seller is. Because I think since federal law prohibits the government from creating a registry, they're figuring, well, if we're not able to go about it that way, if we make it to where everyone has to have an FFL, well, you've got to have a registry for everybody to have an FFL because the ATF has to come and check your premises.

They've got to do a full inventory, what you've got. So if people are going to be a federal firearms licensee, there's your registry right there. I feel like this is part of that strategy. What is your take? It is 1,000% part of that strategy. I mean, I brought up the judge before, but this case has gotten the attorney of the Attorney General of New York. I've heard that even the governor is aware of this case.

So I do think it's part of what the Biden administration is trying to do, that geriatric authoritarian in the White House can't get stuff passed through Congress because of the makeup of the House and the Senate. So he's going through the executive branch. He's trying to use the ATF. And what you just mentioned as far as the FFL thing, that's just the latest in a line of things that the Biden administration has tried to use the ATF to stop people from selling guns, buying guns, owning guns. It's a very insidious agenda. And it's more subtle because it's not being done through Congress.

So people don't really understand what's happening. But your right to keep in bare arms is under attack. I think that we're winning as far as changing minds on this issue. But it doesn't matter if we change those minds if we're not willing to take action at, at the local, state, and federal level to stop these attacks on the Second Amendment. What you said is so important that it's not as obvious because these bureaucratic agencies are doing it, and we don't see it in Congress, and we don't see it flashed up on the screen for C-SPAN and all of that. That's incredibly important.

Jeff Charles, please keep us updated about this. I think we're talking to Dexter Taylor's attorney tomorrow. I know he has a Gibson go, but you've talked to him, what can be done right now? What does he need? Right now he needs awareness. He does need money. So he does have that give send go because I mean, they're already going to appeal it. And they plan to even take this up to the federal Supreme Court if they have to. So it's going to need a lot of money, a lot of prayers and a lot of support. And Dexter is staying strong. Even before he, before he knew that the verdict was in, he was asking about things going on in my life. I'm like, no, no, I'm fine. You're the one facing prison. We need to talk about you. I mean, this is the type of man, Dexter is. He does not deserve. this and we need to rally behind them with money with support prayers well wishes and and we'll also be discussing other ways that we can help to support as well awesome Jeff Charles so appreciate you my friend thank you for raising awareness and and bringing this up to everybody's attention we're

going to keep following this case and well I know we'll talk with you again soon thanks so much thanks for having me of course we have more to come folks as we wrap up this second hour and we'll make sure that we get all that out there if you subscribe to the newsletter over at sub stack the givson go is updated at the bottom of that piece. So you can go and access that you can go to the, just go through your browser and you'll find it. Because even if, and I know, I think it's firearms policy coalition, FPC that said that they were, they were planning something. They were looking at legal options. And there's, there are going to be a lot of attorneys, a lot of people that are going to help pro bono, but then there's going to be some things that

he's going to need money for. And I mean, that's really, he is, he's taken a beating for everybody on this. So we're going to continue watching this case and we'll give you updates regularly on it. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. All right, so we got to talk about this guy immediately. This sounds like, I swear, this was an always sunny in Philadelphia episode, I think. A Clearwater Beach tour boat captain was so drunk on the job that he fell off the boat say police. He had 30 customers on board and apparently he was so liquored up. He done fell in the water. John Beckwith was arrested Friday on a charge of boating under the influence and the captain for Clearwater Fund boat tours had 30 customers on board and he was so impaired, say witnesses that he fell off the boat. When Clearwater police arrived Beckwith was apparently, he said he stumbling and had food all over his face via the arrest report.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he smelled like a, he smelled like a can of beer. They said he performed poorly on a sobriety test and blew 0.118 on a breathalyzer. So, yeah, he was drunk, he drunk. He's been convicted in Michigan and Arizona for DUI, twice in Michigan, one for extreme DUI in Arizona, which I didn't even know they had that classification. This is his fourth charge for operating any kind of, like, vehicle while impaired. And so I don't know. The tour boat company didn't say, it hasn't given a comment, but I'd imagine that he's not with them anymore. You know, I'm just going to say, just, you know.

Here's one reason why you need Patriot Mobile. Florida man's trip overseas ended up with a $143,000 phone bill. A T-Mobile customer of 30-year city alerted the carrier of his travel plans, as he always does. But apparently when they said you're covered, it didn't mean that. They said that they were touring, where were they at? They were, oh, Swiss Alps. Or no, wait, no, they jumped high in the Swiss House. They were in Switzerland.

Yeah, they did go to Swiss Alps. They were in Switzerland. And apparently they were there three weeks. And when they got back, because he sent pictures and messages and stuff, he thought it said $143. And it was $143,000 for using 9.5 gigabytes of data while overseas. And because it was roaming, it cost thousands of dollars every day. So he called T-Mobile and this Florida man. And she said, no, it's a good bill.

And he goes, what do you mean? It's a good bill. And she goes, it's what you owe. So they're still apparently dealing with it. He had called and said that they were traveling and apparently that he wasn't covered. So again, this is why you should switch to Patreon mobile because I've never had a $143,000 phone bill. And it takes like two seconds to be like, hey, I'm in Italy or I'm overseas somewhere. Yeah, I know.

It's been super eight. And I never had that problem. Of course, you know, I don't have a completely derelict communist phone company either. So there you go. Uh, let's see. Oh, do I want the guy who steals golf carts like all the golf carts? Or do I want the guy who stole an Elvis? Yes, do the guy who decided to steal the Elvis jacket? He swiped a pricey Elvis jacket from the Seminole Hard Rock hotel and casino. And it was apparently Elvis's $11,670 jacket. And it has not yet been recovered. What? What? So apparently the guy has a rap sheet. Of course he does. Stay with us. Third hour on the way. The first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, the very kind of person that his former staff, the people who work for him, Stephen Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School.

But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he's prosecuting you, Donald. And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia. And a black woman forced you to pay $175 million fine. that's now also in question because the people who put it up, that might not be legit. Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy. Make her say something dumber. I'm so bored.

I am bored to death. Oh my gosh. First off, wait, welcome back to the program. Top of the third hour. Dana Lash with you. I cannot stand. Sit the hell straight up in your chair. What is the, if you're watching the simulcast, I'm going to do what she does.

She hunches over like a cocktail shrimp. do that. Why, who does that? Don't do that. Sit up straight in your seat for the love. Nobody's shoulders slump like that with that simple jack hair. Stop it. The world. Every time we play a clip from her show, I've never

watched her show. I couldn't even tell you when it was on. Was that MSNBC? Yeah. Okay. I don't even know when it's on. I don't even know who MSNBC has on. I have no idea what channel is that. It's like the rec league. It's not even reclety. It's like the JV baton squad.

I don't know. And I, every time we play a clip from her program, it's always race, race, race, race, raceity race. Every topic, doesn't that get tired? Like, even if you were a hardcore Prague and, and you liked her show, doesn't they get really boring after a while? I just, it seems like it's boring and it's stale. the same raised-dy-ray stuff all over and everything. I think it's designed just to infuriate people and get them mad.

I'm just like wondering what her back pain is like, that she's got to slump over like that in her seat. I mean, and no one, no one on, every clip it's like that. I went back and looked, I was like, why is she? Is that why she's so joyless? I mean, if you're slumped over like a cocktail shrimp, perched on the edge of a glass, I mean, yeah, I guess, you know, maybe you're in a bad mood because your shoulders hurt.

Girls up straight. Someone gets you a pillow or something. The last 10 seconds of what she says. Are you going to make me listen to it? Kane is just only because this is intentional and it's all geared with that DEI stuff like she keeps talking about. Oh, that's right. I couldn't even make it to the sound bites. A black woman, you know, got you, Trump.

Oh, let's go ahead and play it. Go ahead. There's something poetic and actually wonderful about that. It says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen. Go DEI. If my DEIs are bringing it home. Oh, what? I don't really think that's how you use that, but okay.

What the simple jack hair hell is that? All right. So for real, though, you know, come on. So moving on, I want to make sure we get into it. Speaking of culture, I forgot. Now, I brought this up on the show because I brought this up like in our Slack discussions because, you know, considering it's very important to the left, the left wants to know the backgrounds of everyone on every single program.

Well, according to the left, apparently everyone on the show is also white or all white adjacent, you know. But for Canaan, do I have to, you're Latine now? Hell no. Well, that's what it says, Latine. That's what the new, so hold on, the new woke scolds are saying that, oh, well, it's, um, Instead of Latinx, it's Latinx now. I feel like that's going to get you kicked in the neck. Teen Vogue actually did a whole thing.

Latine? Latin Vogue? It's one R away from a toilet, man. It is. Latine, Latrine. That seems really offensive. Just why? They are struggling so that you're going to have to rewrite the whole,

all the Latin-based languages because of the, female nouns and the wording you're you're going to have to rewrite languages but Latin when I saw that the first thing everyone's like okay why you call me a toilet everyone why why my toilet what I mean that it's made that I think people are getting tired of the stuff why do you have to change and what is it supposed to mean is it if you're like a gay Latin person Latin or Is it supposed to signify something? I don't.

Look, it's a binary language. They're just going to have to get over it. They're trying to wipe out the idea of male-female. So they hate the Latin languages that actually in the spelling and wording and the way you speak the languages indicate a binary gender system. And they just can't stand it. I still don't even know how to pronounce Latinx or is it latinx? I just now thought, I think maybe we've been saying it, it's Latinks. I don't think the Latinks is the way to say.

Latinks. It's how it's spelled L-A-T-I-N-X. I think the way to say it is to not at all. Also with this, not at all, say it. Not at all. Latins. Are you Latin or Latinks? Do you ever, sidebar, I've been to a couple places where I actually left my old

allergist and went to a new allergist because they had a new form and it asked me what my gender preference was. And I'm like, blank this blank. And I'm like, here you go. I'm out. I left. I didn't even stay.

Screw you. I'm a joy to deal with. How they treat your allergies? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, how does, you know, but it, I, I did write something on the form. I'm shocked at least they didn't put it up in the town's Facebook page. I'm shocked because I have my name on it.

And I did put something on the form because they're like, what is your preferred? And it said, one of the, it was like male, female, non-binary, and then it had like different alphabet stuff. And then, I mean, there was like 13 some odd choices. I can't even deal. That happened to just other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, no, that was at the very bottom. No, it didn't say other. It said, it said prefer not to answer. Like you can't tell. And then there was one that said other, but it was a line. I can't say what I put on there.

I really can't. I'll so get fined. But I thought after I handed it to them and I was like, here you go. And then I just left. I realized, oh, I had my name on the top of it. Well, there you go. So I'm just waiting for that.

I'm telling you all now so no one can use it as blackmail on me later. I just, well, that's so stupid. And like a doctor, it's an allergist, but a doctor's office, a doctor's office for the love. So I went to my new doctor, my new allergist, and he don't play like that. He's like, yeah, this is all stupid. And he's actually a good allergist that actually solves problems, solves allergy issues like cedar fever. But why the need for all that?

Why? I mean, it's nobody cares. Nobody cares. Unless you're going to a specific doctor for your bits, then you should just be scientifically accurate. So that, you know, you're not telling the doctor to treat issues for things you don't even got. Like, if I need stitches or if I need something because of a stomach bug or whatever, that whole question of my gender doesn't matter. Just give me stitches.

Just give me the medicine. But everybody's got a virtue signal. See, we're down with the mental illness. That's what they got to do. They got a virtue signal. We're crazy, too. They got a virtue signal about it. It's so asinine.

It's just, it's just, you can't even go anywhere. Can you go anywhere? Yeah, so the Latin issue, the culture issue. where did I put this up? I had another one that was on all of this. Oh, remember how the other day

we were talking about Alan Richson, the guy who was in Reacher. So apparently he did say all this stuff. He seems like an intention seeking male Bimbo. So I was reading this piece about

him because it said Alan Ritchson fires back at people who people who are trolling him online. Like, this is what, don't you have, like, a set to be on or something? I don't know.

Like, why is your, he's been at odds, they said, with conservative people. He said he, because he called Trump a rapist and a con man, blah, blah, blah. But what gets me is he, I don't care that he said that. What I care about is the fact that he said it while acting like Mr. Christian, right? Don't sit here and be like, oh, well, I'm going to, I'm going to be a shepherd to you. And I'm going to talk to you about faith. there's my faith by the way blah blah blah blah that just that's a really bad witness I don't know

but he apparently like he someone had asked him because he was wearing a shirt at one point that said arrest the cops who killed brianna taylor and it was a photo of him wearing the shirt and when he was asked about it he sounds like the like a basic dumb progressive bimbo he says quote well cops get away with murder all the time and you know we can't really hold them accountable for their improprieties is disturbing to me. I mean, we should like completely reform their way we do it. I mean, you should have to spend more

time getting an education as a hairstylist than a cop. That's what he said, Kane. That was his actual quote. So then National Fraternal Order of Police heard about it and they said that he was virtue signaling for the attention at the expense of brave officers.

And so now he's fighting with the police. So he I feel like someone just him a thesaurus too. Because I see him using words and I'm like, that is too awkward for you to really know that word. He was on Instagram and he like had like a whole paragraph, all this stuff. And he like he got he went after DeSantis. He went after Trump.

He went after. Oh, he was talking about blind allegiance and all this other stuff. And he's like, he just like went off. He went off in Republicans in Florida. to everything. And he just seems like a male bimbo, an angry male bimbo. I don't know how else to put it.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to continue watching his show. Because now whenever I see his big, dumb face, I'm going to think of his big, dumb remarks. And that's just problematic now. I don't care if somebody has their opinion. That's not the issue. I mean, there are people that I get along with and people whose work I watch

or whose music I listen to that I disagree with, like completely, and I think they're wrong. But they're not jack wagons about it. I think when you are that level of ignorant, especially to people who might be fans of your program, when you are that, to people who did nothing to provoke you, they did nothing to provoke you. When you just immediately hit out with that level of like rage and bitterness, then the problem is you, not them. The problem is your issues. I mean, no one, no one did anything to you, dude.

Good night. but he talks like he sounds like a college freshman that took their first year of Polly Sye and now they know everything in the world he sounds like that dude that's just that's a bummer that's a real bummer

I don't know I just it's harder to watch these guys in these roles I know I love the Reacher stuff and I just thought it was great to see you know somebody who just fits so perfectly into that role and then you hear them talk I mean he's not the best actor but he didn't need to be

about politics Yeah, and you're going to talk about politics. It's like you're the one who's doing this, dude. And also I wonder how many people are actually behind his social media posts. Oh, it seems like it's just him. You think? Yeah, I don't think anybody professional. You talked about that thesaurus, but I'm thinking somebody might be helping.

No, the words are used to. It's too awkward for it to be like a learned person. Sorry, it is. I don't mean to be ignorant. It's just an observation. You know, I didn't start it. So, I don't know. This whole thing is weird.

And now, all of the news. news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Okay, I've got to get with the sheep one first. So apparently, Axe body spray not only repels women, but it also helps grouchy sheep. I'm kidding. No, I'm not. A deodorant that's popular with dudes proves oddly useful in keeping Rams from fighting. This is a Wall Street Journal piece. This is my favorite story so far of the month. So they did this thing. They studied it. They were talking to shepherds and shepherdesses about how to calm one ram that was picking on his castrated fieldmate.

And she said, this British lady, I can almost hear her, her ram's very ill-tempered. And so they actually used Axe body spray to calm him down. And they said it worked. And it was like magical. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life. Axe body spray. I don't know. They don't know. Nobody knows. I don't know. Accelerated aging may be a cause of increased cancers under people in ages 55 and under. Accelerated aging. It's not the Vax, though. It's accelerated aging. Could not be the Vax at all. But they said an increase in cancers among people 55 years and younger might be related to accelerated aging.

But I always heard that we were aging slower because we had better up, but then the Vax. It's not the VACs. guys, it's not the clot shot. Repeat, not the clot shot. Oh, sorry, we're going to get demonetized. Not the lot K-a-cha. Not that. Pig Latin counts, right? And not Latin, but pig latin.

Anyway, they said, one of the authors of the study said that we're totally not making this up. It's not the VACs at all. It's accelerated aging. They didn't say that verbatim. I maybe made that last part up that they said that. but anyway, a headless body was found in Queens. I keep forgetting that there was like, you know, they had the huds in there and everything else

because there's all these shorelines that bodies are washing up on. A decapitated body was discovered, washing up on Howard Beach and Queens. They said that officers responded to a 911 call just before 9 p.m. Body of a man was pulled out of the water, and they said it wasn't immediately clear how long, you know, the dude was in there, but they were not releasing his identity

until family members could be notified. And they had no arrest. Wasn't clear if they're investigating it as a criminal matter. But I can't imagine like you're just naturally. Your head would come off and you'd fall into the water. You know, that just seems a little tough. So coming up, man, they are really trying to shut down conservatives in Europe. And we're going to talk about that next.

Craving a daily dose of intellectual adrenaline look no further than the Dana Show podcast, where curiosity meets courage by following on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. No alternative opinion allowed. This is the updated new form of communism. And you know what? If anything ever, ever made me think that Brexit was the right thing to do, it's the events here in Brussels today. It's the most extraordinary situation, Nigel.

As far as you understand three police officers outside right now, do you have any indication how this event will develop, whether police will open these doors? And frankly, how will you respond if you, the Belgian police try to manhandle you out of this conference? Well, you know, Tom, I'm not given to violence, so I won't avail myself of it. But no, it's pretty clear this will be closed down. They're using public order, but that actually is no excuse at all.

There is no public order threat in here. Do you realize that they were creating public disorder by claiming that they were trying to keep public order and then sending in the heavies to do this. That's Nigel Farage who was in Brussels. They had this national conservative conservatism conference, right? Because there are conservatives in Europe. We've talked about this before.

And they're desperately trying to fight back within their own countries against a number of things, the insane immigration that they're dealing with and the EU regulations that are killing their industries like Portugal's fishing industry, etc. I mean, there's a lot of stuff there.

And then in this, they were, I mean, they were having their, event and I mean I saw photos I saw tons of video people in suits and workwear going in exchanging ideas nothing crazy about that but then they sent in the police they had to shut it down and apparently the Brussels mayor had closed it down because they apparently disagreed with because he's a socialist and you can't have that this is what they're facing and if you think it's not going to be like this in the U.S. I mean we're kind of seen some of that we talked about one case earlier. Matt Mowers is the founding board member of the EU U.S. Forum. He was also in the Trump

administration, and he joins us now to discuss this. Matt, good to see you. So essentially, you have a power-hungry mayor who is, from what I gather, had hurt feelings that a lot of people who disagreed with him politically and probably also have far more influence than he does that reaches far beyond his city's limits, all getting together in Brussels. He couldn't have that, so they sent in the heavies. That's, you know, they don't really enjoy free speech there like we do here, but that's even extreme for them. Oh, it's outrageous. I mean, especially actually,

what's unique about Belgium, where Brussels is, right, is that it's one of the few countries that does have some constitutionally guaranteed free speech protections. And yet you have this wacky left-wing mayor who, you know, is so open-minded and so accommodating of other people, except if you disagree with them. Right. And that's exactly what happened. And you see this across the European Union.

You know, just look at actually in Scotland or across Europe, I should say, but specifically in the EU. But if you look at Scotland, they just passed an anti-hate law. But anti-hate law wasn't about anti-hate, it was anti-free speech. You're limited in what you can say in the privacy of your own home. You can now call the police to lodge a complaint against your neighbor if you thought they were saying something that was offensive. And now police are being overwhelmed with these phone calls coming in, over 7,000 or so in the the first day alone that this new law went in place. And it's that type of mindset and attitude.

While you have mayors like this mayor in Brussels who thought they could get away with shutting down something and was really telling, was some of the comments he made where he said, I thought it would be a distraction. I thought it would be the cause of violence because they believe in nationalism and because there's Euroscepticism.

I mean, it's just, it's mind-boggling. And if you don't think, it's coming here. Look at what's happening on college campuses. Look at the cancel culture we're seeing here in the United States already. That's where it begins and it gets institutionalized with policies from there. Completely. We're talking with Matt Mowers, who's been following this insane thing with this national conservatism, national conservative conference. And apparently, am I correct, it was like three in the morning when a judge finally made the decision. Okay, they can reconvene. Yep. Yep. So you actually had the national court come out with a ruling

overnight saying that actually this did violate Belgium's constitutional right to free speech. And again, Belgium's unique here. So, you know, if this had happened in a number of other countries in Europe, there may not have been that guarantee of free speech protections. In Belgium, it's one of the few countries that has it. The only reason why the court stepped in and actually said that the mayor and the police were over the line. It's interesting that he cites the euro skepticism because when I was looking at just some of the things that were being discussed, you know, the way that EU regulations are hurting

different nations industries and undermining their own economic freedom and strength, et cetera, you know, immigration. I mean, these are, these are, this is a policy discussion. And apparently that's disallowed. I mean, they don't even want to have any kind of, that's considered Euroscepticism if you're somehow questioning the EU's policies that have led to, you know, I mean, tanking different countries' economies and an absolute, I mean, kind of like we're seeing here at our southern border. I mean, just a deluge of people. coming through. You're not able to support it, overtaking entire areas, going through resources, creating a strain on the region. I mean, these are all real issues these countries face.

Heaven forbid people get together and talk about it. They're skeptics. I mean, there's like actual hard concrete evidence here that these policies aren't working. Oh, exactly. I mean, it's the same thing. If you go back 10 years ago, remember, if you were someone who said, we need to actually secure the border, they said, well, you know, look, you're just being racist and xenophobic. You don't know what you're talking about. If you said, you know, maybe we should actually quite. what's coming out of China with regards to economic policy event. I don't know, this little virus thing called COVID. Everyone said you were crazy and you're a conspiracy theorism and xenophobic.

It's the exact same thing happening in Europe right now. You question immigration, you start getting heads turned. You start questioning whether the EU should be dictating these policies out of a capital far away. And they all think you're a little nutty. I mean, I just saw Senator Claudio Borgy from Italy on Monday. on Monday. He was in Washington, D.C. for meetings at IMF and World Bank. So we got together, and he was one of the leaders of really changing this viewpoint beginning in Italy almost 10 years ago is when the first people step up and say, maybe we should actually question what the European

Union is doing every day. Maybe we should question whether we're getting value in this and the everyday lives of us and the workers in our country. And you would have thought, hence had exploded when he talked about these things, all because he had the audacity. to have a difference of opinion. You right now have this go along, get along type of culture in Europe where everyone from the media to the centralized politicians

to obviously the bureaucracies say, you can't question what we're doing. Yet continuously they're now failing the people of Europe. You see the immigration crisis and the rise of crime. In Germany alone, nearly, they have an all the time, one of the highest crime rates in about 17 years or so, and nearly half of it is crime

from illegal immigrants who are in their country. It's just you, God forbid you even talk about that, though, and you might be offending someone, and therefore you should, you know, you might be violating a law. Matt, you bring up a really good point talking with Matt Mowers at the EU-US Forum. And I've talked with people about this on this program before because a lot of these regulations, like you're saying, that are being determined and, you know, the EU regulations are being these by people who aren't obviously no association with the United States, but yet it still affects us. One of the craziest stories I point to is what happened in.

in terms with the explosion of the coronavirus, particularly in Italy, with regards to illegal immigration, because in the Prado region where you have all the textile manufacturing, et cetera, and this was right when Fashion Week was kicking off in Milan. And just years before, they had a bunch of, they had Chinese business people come in from Wuhan, purchase a lot of these Italian factories so they could still have that made-in-Italy label, but then they were bringing in a lot of illegal Chinese immigrants. And when the Italians complained, the Italians were called racist. and they were shamed into speaking out about this. So then, Matt, when the virus started kicking off,

they actually had one of, I think it was like one of the governors of that region who went on record and said, well, we were a little nervous about talking about the virus when it first started because we didn't want to get called racist again. That's how all of this stuff can domino affect the world. Yep, that's exactly right. I remember calling for a travel ban from China in January of 2020, right? Like at the outset of the pandemic,

because I was in the State Department, And I worked on global health issues. I've done a lot of work in global pandemics. I said, this thing's coming to us. And we don't stop travel from China right now. It's going to arrive here. It's going to be, it's not going to give us the time to prepare and do everything we need to do and actually get ready for it.

And Donald Trump, President Trump came out a few weeks later, said, you want a travel ban. Everyone was xenophobic, right? Everyone was xenophobic. And then, you know, of course, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them have a call a month later saying, well, he should have called for this earlier. Yeah. You know, it's like it's a total gaslighting.

You can't work a great point. You brought a great point about how the policies in Europe can make their way here. They are interconnected. I mean, a lot of the crazy ideas we're seeing in the United States, socialized medicine, mandates on electric vehicles that obviously don't travel that far. And actually we get all the battery components from China

and the rest of it. All of those things started with discussion, the European Union, and doctrine in the European Union, and then it made its way here to the United States. And so we've got to be vigilant and looking out for it. It's why we started the EU-US forum to be a watchdog of what's happening in Brussels, to make sure we had someone pushing back and some organization pushing back on some of the lunacy that's happening there.

Because if it cements itself there, it gets its tentacles in in Europe, it will find its way to the United States. We'll start with the far progressive left. It'll be the AOCs and the Ohan Omar's to start. And then slowly but surely you'll see it radiate, permeate throughout the rest of the Democratic Party. into the bureaucracy and into our government. And next thing I know, we'll also be seeing a lack of free speech in this country. We'll also be seeing these EV mandates that don't work.

Yeah. And the last point on that, you mentioned China as well. I know that was one of the things that was discussed. I think it was before they shut everything down or before the mayor shut everything down. Because a lot of these countries that are a part of the EU, I mean, China's the biggest trading partner. And then when you have China coming in pushing EVs and also trying to make deals and edge in on their auto industry, as they're also trying to get a toll hold here in the United States with a, rare earth element monopoly. I mean, that does become, it becomes a world security issue,

not just a NATSEC issue, because you're talking about empowering the biggest geopolitical foe that the U.S. has in modern era. Right. I mean, so we've been, and we're finally moving beyond our reliance on the Mideasties for oil, largely because we have natural gas out of the United States now, which is fine for our energy supply. But prior to that, we were handcuffed our relationships in the Mideast. We couldn't actually address our own interest because we needed them. Now we have policies in the United States pushing us to drive closer links to China at a time when we're supposed to be taking them on at time when we're supposed to equalize the trade relationship at a time we should be pushing them on their humanitarian abuses with the Uyghurs and the rest of it and yet you know

you've got these left-wing policies saying no we need more solar panels and electric cars made with battery parts all of which come from China all of which the core ingredients lithium and the rest of them come from China over 80% of the ingredients needed and the materials needed. Four batteries are, we are dependent on coming from main sources in China. And by the way, every time it's discussed to find them in the U.S., time from New Hampshire, right, right across the border is New Remain. Right. New Remain has the largest lithium deposit on the continental United States.

And yet the same environmentalists who want everything, battery power, you know, everything, put in a place saying they want to ban mining lithium in Maine. And I don't blame them. It involves a lot of, you know, environmental challenges and the rest of it. But you can't have both. You can't have your kick in you to and say, well, it's okay for China to do it with a bunch of slave labor and make us economically dependent more on China. And then also say we need electric vehicles for everyone. Because the pollution doesn't exist if it's in China, Matt. You know, if we don't see it, it doesn't exist. I mean, that's the truth of it. Matt Mowers with the EU-U.S. Forum, we'd love to have you back and talk about this, especially as we get closer to the election. and everybody's watching what we're doing. We're watching what they're doing.

Heaven forbid. We're hoping for the best. Always good to see you. Thank you so much, Matt. Thanks, so much. Appreciate it. Of course, we're wrapping up this third hour of our broadcast folks. And of course, make sure you sign up for that newsletter over at Substat,

because we're going to have a lot of updates there as well as it pertains to the Dexter Taylor case. All that good stuff. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. You know, thanks to the mayor, Paige, excuse me, I was going to talk about the old mayor. What? So, he gets confused reading the prompter. Excuse me, I was going to talk about the old mayor.

What? Why is he so? My favorite story, though, is his endless ranting about how he was in a towel and wearing shaving cream in his motel room. He said motel or hotel. I think he said motel. I don't know. Like, see, that's something. sounds weird.

With a young activist. Yeah. I don't know. I'm just so glad I don't work on his campaign. That's all I know. Good heavens. I can't. I can't deal with it. All right. So we

make sure you send up on substack because I'm going to have all the updates and I'll link it up on Facebook as well. I'll have all the updates to that Dexter Taylor case. And his lawyer is going to be on with us. tomorrow on the program to talk about some of the next steps because I just think that is that has the potential depending on, you know, the appeals on that to be an absolute landmark case.

I mean, regardless, it's going to landmark case. And it's going to affect you at some point because remember, firearms are just the variable. It's a legal formula that becomes cemented. And then you can just switch out the variables. So this is why you've got to pay attention to this stuff. You have to pay attention to all these things. And it's kind of unnerving. like just how weaponized some of these agencies, particularly the ATF have become under this administration.

We're going to talk a little bit about some 2024 tomorrow because the polls for me are still too close. They are statistical dead heat in a number of these states. And keep in mind that the Democrats have only just started to begin spending some of their hundreds of millions of dollars of war chest with ad buys. And I think they're going to do everything possible to keep Biden off the campaign trail. They're going to send his surrogates out. out, right? Not Hillary, because she's just very, very polarizing, even to her own base. But they're going to send out probably Obama, Clinton, some of these other cats to do what Biden can't do.

And I think they're also going to limit Kamala. They're just stuck with her. They can't get rid of her because it's sexist or racist or sexist or something. They can't do it. They're stuck. They're stuck with her. That's it. Maybe they can explain it to her using Venn diagrams.

Because she does love those, I hear. She does. You know, I mean, it's unburdened by what has been. All right. today in stupidity came. All right, this is Jamie Raskin. Now, Jamie Raskin is a Democrat representative, and he is making a false comparison between Biden and Trump, as far as their legitimate businesses. This is how dumb they are and how dumb they think you are. Listen to this. I will tell you this. If you believe that it would have been illegal for Joe Biden to take $5 million from Ukraine,

it was. It certainly would have been. What do you think? about Donald Trump taking more than $5 million from the Chinese government while he was president. Well, we know that Donald Trump had a legitimate business that he talked about, he campaigned the legitimate business was the White House. He sold the White House. What, I'll give me a break? What business was the Biden, what business were the Biden's in? Well, what business did Joe Biden's family own? What business were they in? Did they have hotels? Yeah, I mean, Trump had hotels, plural. That's kind of why. Good grief. that does it for us tonight. Make sure you're tune in tomorrow. Find us Facebook, YouTube,

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