The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Wednesday March 20 - Full Show

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

A judge rules that undocumented immigrants can own firearms. Dana explains how you are getting set up to support border security or the Second Amendment. Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford goes on a book tour and doubles down on her sexual assault claims during an election year. A New York homeowner was arrested after squatters called the police for changing the locks on her own home. Americans are still rejecting EV’s while the White House pushes forward with a green energy transition. US troops leave Niger after two women incensed Niger officials by speaking to them in a “condescending” way. Dana warns about the lack of enthusiasm showing up in recent primary elections.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaJoin the Coffee Club today and get 30% off your first month’s subscription.ExpressVPNhttps://expressvpn.com/danaKeep your online activity private and get 3 months free with code DANA.Fast Growing Treeshttps://fastgrowingtrees.comUse code Dana at checkout to save an additional 15%.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 online courses.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.Wise Food Storagehttps://preparewithdana.comSave $50 on your 4-Week Survival Food Kit plus free shipping when you order today!

I want to be crystal clear. From my direct personal experience and what I've subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Biden family. His family's foreign influence peddling operation from China to Ukraine and elsewhere sold out to foreign actors who are seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government. Joe Biden was more than a participant in and a beneficiary of his family's business. He was an active, aware, enabler who met with business associates, such as myself to further the business, despise being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability. I ask this big question. If there's no evidence of corruption here today,

if Joe's conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper, then why are they so dishonest about it? Why indeed were they so dishonest about it? That's Tony Bobolinsky. There's a lot of hearings that are going on today, and I'm going to bring you up to speed on all of that. But that was Tony Bobbolinsky testifying there. And he is, it amazes me because this is the guy who has all the receipts, but the media doesn't want to pay any attention to it because

again, the media's all in on protecting. They've got to protect Joe Biden. Joe Biden's who they've got to protect. So, you know, they're all in for all in for Biden. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour on Wednesday. It's finally kind of sunny in Texas. So always good to be

with you. And you can listen coach to coach, you can stream the radio program. You can watch the video component of the radio program as well on YouTube, Facebook, always good discussion on YouTube, channel 347 Direc TV as well, in X, I almost forgot. We're also on X and everywhere you could get stuff. So hello to everyone watching on a million different things. So the, I mean, he's saying, Bob Winski is saying, well, let me clearly, Biden was the brand. I mean, he was the brand. He was the brand for all of this. And that that makes perfect sense. I mean, it makes perfect sense when you look at the emails. It makes perfect sense when you read all of the, like some of the previous

testimony from these witnesses. I mean, for crying out loud, what else are they going to be selling? It's not like they're farmers. It's not like they're manufacturers. They're not making products. None of that. They're not doing any of that stuff. They're not doing any of it. So the brand, he's right. It's the access. It's the brand that's being sold. That's. That's exactly what was being peddled here. It was that influence. I mean, good grief. It's asinine that we have to, I mean, that this even has to be reiterated.

It's obvious. It's obvious to a media that spent, count in the days in my head, however many days on bloodbath, I think it was. The bloodbath narrative, however many days that was. they're actually I think they're still on it so it is yeah however many days that is the the bloodbath non-traversy so we're gonna we're gonna continue follow to follow all of this like I said

the there's a lot of hearings that are happening today and some of it is you have the like I said the witnesses that for the Biden Business Associates you have Jason Galanis Tony Bobelinski they're going to be testifying with house oversight and accountability. Then you also have a lot of meetings and things like that. Some of the hearings, House Financial Services, that's the overreach, looking at the need for reform. They have judiciary, House Judiciary, looking at the administrative state, the agency

education and other agency, you know, etc., etc. House Armed Services is meeting. They're looking at NatSac issues in the Indo-Pacific region, i.e. China, House Homeland Security. They're looking at Iran. You have agriculture. China and the danger that China presents to American agriculture. There's a lot of stuff. And then, of course, you have the Senate Judiciary. They're looking at post-obs, quote-unquote, reproductive freedoms. That's the, that's a Democrat one run. You know, that's Democrat run. So we have all of that. And then, of course, Biden's traveling today. He was in Nevada yesterday. He's in Arizona today. Then he's heading to Dallas for two different campaign events because they want to make Dallas. They want to try to do everything that

they can to make Dallas competitive. So all of the stuff, that's everything that we, that's a lot of stuff that's happening today. So we'll get into it. And of course, you know, Hunter Biden not testifying. He was offered a public hearing. He has declined it. He remember he, along with, I think Eric Swalwell, who reserved it on the calendar, they had this big thing on Capitol Hill where they were, oh, he was making a big show of how he wanted to have a public hearing and he wasn't going to do what was protocol for such investigations, for such inquiries, rather, which was to have a private, private Q&A, have a private hearing. All of that was transcribed. And then afterwards, they go and they have the public hearing. That's how everybody's done it. Everybody, Democrat or Republican, Hunter Biden didn't want to do it. He just wanted to make it look like, you know, obviously he's being advised and being told to make it look like they're persecuting him and then they're not offering him transparency. They're trying to get the narrative up that it's a witch hunt. It just looks pathetic, especially now that they said, okay, you know, you came in, we had closed it. Let's have the public hearing.

Now he doesn't want to have the public hearing. He doesn't want to do that at all now. So it was all theater, as you all know, all completely theater. Now, as this has been happening yesterday, this has been going back and forth, back and forth. So the, so Texas, this is has to do with SB4 in Texas. And this is the law in which law enforcement, Texas authorities, could arrest and detain illegal immigrants. And the bill does not, the, the, the law does not provide

deportation. It doesn't allow for deportation. I think that there was some lack of understanding or lack of clarity on this. But they had that, you know, as before, they were going to allow to, the, you know, enforcement of that and they still have hearings in the Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. That's going to have to go through the appellate courts and they're going to have to have their big giant fights over that. But it's, they issue the order that prevented them from arresting it. So this is hours after they allowed it to take effect. It's been going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,

back and forth. So we're going to bring you all the latest on this, deep dive in this as well, because this is also Mexico had said that they're not going to take under any, they're not going to allow under any circumstances, the repatriation of anybody who came up through their country and they would

they said that they would send any, if they were deported to Mexico they would send them back. Well, you can come and try. They can come and try. So this has been just an absolute, this has been mess. This has been a mess. It's insane. In addition to that, so we have more on that. In addition to that, I had a piece out, and we're going to explore this more coming up at the

bottom of the hour, just to put it on your table, as it relates to illegal immigration, earlier, there was a judge. It was an Obama-backed judge, an Obama-nominated judge in Illinois that ruled that illegal immigrants can carry guns. Now, I wrote a piece up about this over at Chapter and Verse, and you should have that. That's the newsletter that, you know, goes out every day. day and it gets into this decision. It happened when this individual entered the country illegally and then in 2020 was caught carrying a handgun that he had said that he had obtained for self protection during the George Floyd riots, etc., etc. So went through the legal system and now you have this leftist judge that is saying that this illegal alien, which is the correct legal

term can carry firearms. Now, I want to caution you, the right is being baited with this so hardcore. You're being baited into doing one of two things. You're being baited into either defending open borders, or you're being baited into advocating for more gun control. And they're trying to conflate several different arguments here, the main thrust being that, well, the natural rights don't just exist for American citizens. And if you believe in natural rights, then you believe that they are not created in a court of law at all whatsoever by man and given to anyone, be they a citizen or not. I think that that's a grotesque understanding of the creation of the republic. I mean, literally stuff like this is why Hillsdale College does all of its stuff. I think it is a misunderstanding

of the nature of the republic, the reason our republic was created and the origin of sovereignty in this country, which we're going to do a deep dive on, because no one denied this individual, this illegal alien, no one denied him citizenship. He just never bothered to apply for it. He entered the country illegally, and it's amazing that he can do all this stuff. He can sit here and file lawsuits and do all of this stuff and be used to Zapati to advocate for, you know, a one, two shot of open borders and gun control, but he can't begin the process to become a legal citizen. And you cannot be prevailed upon to enter the country legally. I just think that if you want to have the protection of affirmation of rights in the face of government, you have to join

this citizenry which the government derives its authority. And we're going to talk more about that coming up to put that on the table for you. Because all of this, as you can imagine, American jurisprudence is under attack. It's under attack. Every word is losing meaning. We have a legal system now that doesn't even want to identify or define what a woman is, which think of the legal ramifications of that by itself. We have a legal system that is honoring people who are, who are, like, house jacking people's property. I have a whole bunch of stuff that we're going to talk about on the squatting phenomenon. There is, particularly in New York, it's so incredibly restrictive and insane. In New York, if you, I mean, you can, you're a, if you're a squatter,

you can go into someone's property. And if you can make the argument that you've been there for 30 days, you can more easily establish squatters' rights than you as the homeowner or property owner assert your own property rights. It is one of the wildest things I've ever seen. There was a woman who was most recently arrested because she changed the locks on her own property after people moved in and then house jacked her. Now, if you were to do this with a vehicle, this would be considered grand theft auto. But apparently you can do it with a house because the left argues that giving someone a home is a right akin to a natural right. That's what they tried to argue with the whole rent and lease all of that moratorium, rent moratorium during the coronavirus. And that's when

you had the CDC that, you know, finally there was the Ninth Circuit that said, no, we're not going to, I think it was Seventh Circuit, actually. We're not going to, we're not going to honor this. You can't be a government agency and rule that people don't have to pay their rent, particularly when people still had to pay their mortgages and they still had to pay taxes on the property that everyone else was given a reprieve from paying rent on. The craziest thing I've ever seen. So when you look at American jurisprudence, it is being absolutely destroyed and the innocent are being made into criminals because of the rot of restorative justice. Case in point. Look at Daniel Penny. His trial date was set. He is being persecuted by the state because he defended not just himself but other individuals

against a violent, dangerous repeat offender who had already had a warrant out for their arrest because they were beating up elderly women. He had broken a woman's nose for crying out loud as 63-year-old woman's nose just a few weeks prior. And he was threatening to kill other people. His past behavior proved that he had the ability. And clearly, he had the motivation and the will to do it. To me, that presents a clear and present danger.

Daniel Penny should be given a citizenship award, not be, not charges. and be taken to court. So we're going to talk about all of this coming up. And we're also going to get into, like I said, the latest with culture and policy EVs. Looks like they're dead. American financing because everybody's broke and putting stuff on credit and you're not going to like the headline that I have for you coming up about all of that. It's kind of sad because that's Biden inflation. So here's the thing with American financing. Like I just said, people are putting everyday essentials on credit and that's making their debt skyrocket and the interest rates for that. I don't even want to think about it because they're super high. But if you're a homeowner, American financing can help you out.

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That is what city council was told earlier. They said that the uncleanniness of the building is off the charts. So not only did they tell the press, but they also went to city council because apparently nothing is happening at this building. All the vermin are high. This, I think, is a hysterical, hysterical story. So the New York Post has this story. I don't know if you know, look, unless you are boozy brains out, nobody pays attention to this stuff. Most people only know it from TV.

Hermes, which is a French brand, they have this stupid, it's a tax on stupidity. the price of this like purse that apparently all these famous women want to have. And they are now being sued for unfair business practices that block the sales of the so-called Birken bag. I knew this was a matter of time when this was going to happen. They had two California plaintiffs allege that in order to order to even get to buy this bag, you have to kiss the butt of this company. You have to purchase so many ancillary products like their stupid scarves and all this other stuff

before they even give you the opportunity to buy. one of these so-called burken bags that are like $25,000. I mean, that's like a salary. And so they were sued. They said that it's violating antitrust laws because they make them chronically unavailable, that it's an unfair business practice, and that it actually drives up the power and it gives or drives up the price and it gives the defendant's total market power. So, I don't know.

So they're actually petitioning the FTC and they filed suit. They said the plaintiff tried to purchase the stupid purse because he's a moron multiple times, but was advised by sales associates to buy other items first before getting an invitation to take the bag, to be able to buy the bag. And then apparently you can only buy the one that they offer you. It is the craziest thing I've ever, it's like a cult. It's a crazy thing I've ever heard of. So in addition to that, if you are tired of crying alone, apparently you can go somewhere to cry.

It's called the New York sob parlor. and it allows people to go into private rooms and cry because apparently your house isn't enough. They literally cry. It's called the sob parlor in New York City and they've been getting attention where people go to a private room. I don't know how much they pay, but they go and they just like cry. Like no one gives you therapy, no one counsels you. They don't even give you a drink. Nothing. You just go and you just, you go in there and cry.

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every show and Dana's absurd truth podcast posted daily from the Dana Show. You said, quote, assault weapons may be banned because they're extraordinarily dangers and are not appropriate for legitimate self-defense purposes, close quote. Tell me what you meant by assault weapons. Thank you, Senator Kennedy. Just to clarify, just to clarify there, I was local counsel. But you wrote the brief. Tell me what you meant by assault weapons. Senator Kennedy, actually, I did not write the brief. The brief was written by... You signed the brief, though, did you?

Correct. I signed the brief. When you sign a brief, you're testifying to the court that everything in it is true, right? Yes. And I... So they're your words in terms of the court, right? Right? Well, I, you're correct, Senator Kennedy. I would never sign. Tell me what you meant by assault weapons. So I am not a gun expert. And at the time, that brief, I think, was about 10 years. But you were giving the court advice about, say, ban assault weapons.

What is, I just, you told the court you were, you were an expert. Just tell me what you wanted to ban. Senator, sitting here today, as I said, I did not write that brief. I was local, Sign the brief. I understand. At the time. Tell me what you wanted to ban. That's all I'm what I'm going to know, Judge. I don't remember the exact definition of assault weapon.

But she's rubber stamping this stuff that she doesn't understand what it means. Why is then she's signing off on it? So this is the questioning. That was Senator John Kennedy there. That was the questioning of Biden's Seventh Circuit judge nominee Nancy Maldonado. And she says, well, I'm not a gun expert. But she's telling everyone that, well, then you need to ban assault weapons then. You need to do this.

She's rubber stamping of pieces of gun control legislation. She's rubber stamping this stuff without even knowing what the hell it is. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. The she is, if you're a bureaucrat, and that goes for these, you know, selected judges from our politicians, you should know what you're talking about if you're aiming. to regulate it. That doesn't seem like a crazy thing to ask. I hear a third wave feminist all the time complain about men getting involved and intervening if they're trying to seek abortion on-demand-t taxpayer

funded as, you know, as birth control. And they say, oh, man, you don't know enough to regulate this. What the hell do you think this is? I love the, you know, the situational requirements they have. Anyone who talks about this stuff, if you have no idea what you're talking about, do the world of favor and shut up. You don't, no one has a, you don't have a right to make other people value your opinion, particularly when you don't know anything. And this judge, this nominee for the seventh circuit clearly doesn't know. That's scary that you have someone who's going to make the determination on what you can do with your freedoms based on their complete lack of knowledge about the thing that you are accessing. That's terrifying. Do your due diligence. These people who

claim that they care so much about this issue, notice how they're the most ignorant about it. They do the minimal, if any, work required to understand what it is they're talking about or what they want to regulate. And this isn't just an instance of, you know, being a snot and trying to exercise a greater understanding over people, which, you know, that actually, that's kind of a self-phone, the people who use that as an excuse for their own ignorance. If you do not take the time to learn what it is that you were talking about. Why should the rest of us take you seriously? If you can't take the time to learn about the issue

that you want to regulate or ban or whatever, then why should the rest of us take any time at all to take you seriously or to give your opinion air? It goes both ways. Which brings me to this Obama appointed federal judge. This is a crazy story. And so I wrote a, about this last night. You can access it over at Substack chapter and verse for you subscribers.

So a judge, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman, she's out of the Northern District of Illinois, no surprise, was referencing lower court ruling. She dismissed a firearms possession charge against Roberto Flores, who was illegally in the United States and was caught with a handgun in Chicago on June 1st of 2020. Now here we are almost four years later, and this is now, finally, there's movement on it. They said that, quote, this is what she wrote. She was appointed by Barack Obama. This is what she wrote. She had an eight-page ruling.

The court finds that Flores his criminal record containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the nonviolent circumstances of his arrest, do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety, such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms and self-defense. Now, as I noted in my piece, he doesn't have a Second Amendment right to self-defense. Now, I know that there are some, like, of the anarcho, or what is it, the, what do they call them, anarcho-capitalist, things like that out there, or capital libertarians. I had a very nice conversation, though, with a couple of them yesterday. I, this to me is not an issue of gun, it's not so much an issue of gun control. And I want the right to be very careful to not get baited

in this because I feel like they're trying to bait you the left into either defending open borders so as to, in your mind, protect 2A or to advocate for more gun control so as to oppose, you know, people in the country illegally possessing a firearm. Here's the problem with all of that. You don't have to do either of them. You don't have to do either of them. I've seen people get into nasty arguments with others and they, people disingenuously argue. that denying someone a Second Amendment right based on whether or not they are in the U.S. illegally, others them, or is somehow a racist, which is the stupidest thing. It's a bunch of deflective DEI word salad chum.

And the whole point of it is to hook, to bait, to hook unsuspecting, unassuming, second amendment supporters into defending this garbage. But like I said, this individual was in the country illegally. That alone. that's that's in the united states criminal code it's 18 u.s.c subsection 922 sub subsection g and what this states is that prohibited persons are identified in this part of the criminal code and this is for whether or not you agree with the gun control act or not and that's a whole other issue and believe me i could wax patriotic about opposition for a long time but cert this law says that if you are if you fall

these categories of persons, then you are not allowed to transport, receive, possess, or anything, firearms, ammunition, et cetera. If you're a fugitive, if you've been convicted of a crime that punishable by imprisonment of a term that exceeds one year, if you're a drug user, that's Hunter Biden, if you've been adjudicated mentally defective, that's the legal term, or been involuntarily committed to any kind of mental institution, if you are an illegal alien, in fact, when you fill out your 4473, that's one of the questions that you are. ask if you are in the country legally and you're legally able to purchase because that is a disqualifying factor. And so this has this has been law for quite some time. Now, that's to me,

that's the issue. This individual violated was in the country illegally and is a prohibited person. I'll be damn. If I got to get a tax stamp to get a silencer, you bet you're eightable snakes we're going to go by the letter of the law on this. Now this has nothing to do with othering. It has nothing to do with any other DEI word salad garbage. Although, I got to say, you got to give the left some credit. I wrote about this in my first book, hands off my gun, because they've always been on the wrong side of history on this. They've always wanted to disarm minorities, to disarm women, even to the extent of arguing as Chief Justice Taney shamefully did in Dred Scott v. Sanford, that the recognition of black Americans would automatically affirm their as citizens would automatically

affirm their Second Amendment rights, as they can't be considered citizens. As everybody else. Flores' case, though, is not a case where citizenship was denied. He didn't even ask for it. So that is a straw man argument to claim that this is somehow, and that's the crux of this, that there's discrimination involved or that he was othered or that there's any sort of any identity political box that has to be checked. He wasn't denied anything.

He did not apply. Now, here's where I differ from a lot of people on stuff. I believe, now let me finish my thought, I believe that the Constitution affirms the natural rights of U.S. citizens. The difference between natural and civil rights, you all know this. Natural rights, you have by nature of being a citizen of this United States, whether you become a citizen of the United States or you were born here. You have these rights.

They are not civil rights, which are created in civil courts by humans, and then given with conditions to other humans. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, simply affirms and reasserts the sovereignty of those rights where it originates in the face of government. Now here's where I differ from people. This is an issue of we the people. We were fashioned as a republic.

and the people who comprise the republic, unlike monarchies and everything else, we are the sovereignty because government derives its authority from the power of our consent. We the people, this is evident, not just in the terminology used in our founding documents, but in the ancillary debates that were underway by the founders at the time, these documents were crafted further supported by the Federalist papers. We the people, we being the Republic. We are the sovereign. The people are the sovereignty.

Those outside of the Republic cannot lay claim to the protections of it. And sadly, as I mentioned at the start of the hour in this very upside down world, American jurisprudence is under-broad. brutal attack. Our legal system doesn't even want to define what a woman is. So it's no surprise that they're trying to change the definition of our republic and we the people to further erode the people's sovereignty and our borders. That is what this case is about. That is what this issue is about. This Flores individual who willingly entered the country illegally didn't even ask for citizenship, but demands the protections via the affirmation in the face of government

from it. He wasn't denied anything. He never sought it. So he wasn't othered, but you know who is being othered? And don't let them get this twisted. It's us. It's you. You're being othered. You're being tossed by the wayside. The respect for the authority of the people is what is being tossed by the wayside. And they're going to try to bait you into arguing that, well, I guess you don't believe really in natural rights. Ah, but see, our republic affords the protection to the citizenry, we the people, a fist in the face of the government asserting and demanding that they recognize the natural rights that we were endowed with by our creator. as citizens of this republic.

That's not a discriminatory position. It's a position of empowerment. And it is not the people's fault that this illegal alien chose willingly to go and do everything else but apply for citizenship. Even so far as getting a lawyer and litigating this issue for years.

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poorest man in Congress for 36 years. I got a phone call. My wife was campaigning up. I was campaigning up in New Hampshire back when that statistic came out in the 90s. And she called, I used to call one because the kids were little when I was away. They said, how's everything going? I got this fine. You know you're in trouble when your wife or husband says, fine. I said, what's the matter? She said, only elected officials, husband or wife to understand this. She said, do you read today's paper? I said, they don't have today's paper. Wilmington paper, Delaware, up in Nevada, up in, uh, where I was laying here in Vermont.

And she said, well, let me read it. Top of the fold headline, Biden. poorest man in Congress. Is that true? I thought, I don't know that that was true. He's not the poorest man in Congress. I mean, he's been making millions of dollars. I mean, don't forget, what is it, 10% for the big guy. They were making fat bank off of trading influence. There's no other skill or service that the,

Biden family provides unless it's snorting up white powder like a Hoover. I mean, that's like the only thing I can think of. You know, they suck more powder than a Dyson. Maybe I don't know, like something like that. But I mean, the idea that that he's, he's not the poorest guy in Congress. They all get so rich. They all get so rich, don't they? On their power and authority, just look at Nancy Pelosi for crying out loud. Coming up, this is some of the stuff that we have to talk about. I don't know if you saw this. thinking about, I was going to put this in the headline segment, but now this guy's written this piece, trying to explain himself. So this former NBC senior executive made a super creepy statement about Baron Trump. And I don't care where you stand on politics. Kids are off limits.

I want to break people's fingers when I see them go after kids online. I don't care who they are. I just let the kids are not their parents. Don't be anti-biblical and anti-Christian and assign the sins of the father to the sins of the children as the sins of the children stop it so this idea this nbc executive he went on about baron trump and made a really creepy statement he said baron trump turns 18 today he's fair game now and now you might think oh well i know maybe he was just talking about criticism yeah um no uh especially if you read his previous post where he fond over baron Trump's appearance and his height and went on and on about him. Their screenshots. It's gross.

So this guy's getting dragged on social media. And I mean, why go after the sun? You absolute pervert groomer psychopath. Why? We're going to talk about this coming up. We're also going to get into the squat off. Squatting. This is like a thing.

Like people are house jacking other people. What would you do? I mean, I had a question of, can't you just squat on the squatters, especially in these blue states where they don't allow any kind of recourse. That's what one guy did. I'm going to share this story coming up that you don't want to miss. We got a lot of stuff still on the way. Stick with us.

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Were you prepared for that kind of response? I was prepared ahead of time that none of the Republicans were going to speak with me, and they were going to use an outside interviewer. And so I was actually surprised at how kind some of the other Republican senators were, broke that protocol and said hello. Who was that? Do you name a good one? Senator Flake and Senator Sass.

Both came over and said hello. The needle was gone in Congress anymore, right? But still, it's still good for them. Both good men. Yeah. Wow. So that is, do you remember her? She's back.

Christine Blasey Ford. She was the woman that Democrats trotted out and were trying to use to torpedo. Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court. You all remember that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the top of this second hour. And I mentioned this last night because I saw the Atlantic. I'm pulling this piece up.

Had written about this. They said Christine Blasey Ford's new memoir because that's why she was on the view. That was Sarah Haynes on the view. And she was making a round. She's promoting. She's got a new book out about her memoir, probably full of life. like her testimony. And that's what the Atlantic was doing.

They were promoting her book. So if I haven't already, welcome back to the show. You can find us the simulcast on Channel 347, Direct TV, listen across the country. This book, I have no, I can't,

this is what the Atlantic said. They said, they wrote, quote, Christine Blot, they wrote to Kavanaugh spoke after Ford, and the gulf between the two testimonies was in retrospect, an omen she offered evidence. He offered grievance. She spoke science. He spoke politics. She was piecing together fragments of a story, parts of which she had forgotten. He was controlling. He was controlling the narrative. She, Christine Blasey Ford is a liar and she's an embarrassment who shamefully tried to character assassinate a man with zero evidence, all to prevent him from getting on the bench. And ironically, this is an example. This is an examiner. of the progressive matriarchy that was weaponized for politics just as described and misattributed by the Atlantic.

This was bitch ink. That's what this was. You don't tear down men to build up women. I'm so tired of that BS haggery that masquerades of some perverted form of quote unquote equality or or quote unquote gender justice or something like that. It's bitch ink. That's what this is. And that's what they tried to do. Democrats worked hand in hand with it. And the sad thing is, is that it killed the belief that people would normally have towards actual real female victims that exist. You know, like the Harvey Weinstein victims and the Jeffrey Epstein victims and the Bill Clinton victims, all the women that Bitch Inc. wanted to ignore for their own political and professional advancement. So please spare me your crocodile tears over the shameful liar of a woman, Christine Blasey Ford, who discreet. credited herself multiple times when she was testifying before the Senate. I mean, there were witnesses from that time that spoke in favor of Kavanaugh. None of Christine Blasey Ford's,

none of her friends, none of Christine Blasey Ford's friend corroborated anything she said. Do you remember the one lady who said basically she was making it up? She could not even remember the date. She made up some story. She is about going to a party and she witnessed. something except no one ever actually, no one who was there witnessed it. And they said, we don't even remember her being there. Why would she be invited? She was the woman, how much older was she than Brett Kavanaugh? She, there was no evidence that they even met. Christine Blasey Ford, I think, was demonstrably older than Kavanaugh at the time as well. And I think it brought up questions as to why was there a grown-ass woman at a college kid's event. But okay. And then her friend

Leland Kaiser said she doesn't, she didn't believe Ford's story. She didn't, she didn't, believe her story at all. And then Ford's friends were pressuring Leland Kaiser to change what she said. They pressured the woman who said she's lying. They tried to pressure her to change her story. I mean, good grief. Christine Blasey Ford's own father had backed Brett Kavanaugh. He didn't even believe his daughter's story. And everything, I remember sitting there listening to her speak, she had no recollection of date or year or time or anything else. She had no recollection of if she had anything to drink there because she said, oh, he was trying to assault her or something.

She had no recollection of anything, nothing. And she never mentioned him until his name began circulating in the press as he started ascending higher and higher in the justice system. Hmm. She said that she had wanted to ruin his reputation. And when Sarah Haynes said, well, you know, even today, some people remain skeptical of your story. That's because she's a liar is why. She's a liar.

I mean, this, and it also, I think her book kind of tells on her. I don't believe that she's a smart woman. I think that she is a clout chaser, and I think that she wanted personal and, or she wanted professional advancement. But they, this was, and she was encouraged by abortion activists. far left and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They went and took this believe all victims to the nth degree to the point where they robbed real victims of the benefit of the doubt. That's what these women did.

That's what bitch ink did. Bitch ink robbed true women victims of the benefit of the doubt. And they made everybody suspect. That's what they did. They set women back a century. It's shameful because there are real female victims out there. And sadly, they're usually at the hands of the men that bitch ink tries to promote and protect. Always.

Because they're predators, too. They just don't want to admit it. Christine Blasey Ford is a predator. She's not prey. She's a predator. She targeted a man as a member of the progressive patriarchy, as a member of bitch ink. She targeted the man to try to ruin him because she knew she could play on society's stereotypes about women. How ironic.

she would try to play to the perception that she was the weaker sex and weaponize that against Brett Kavanaugh. And they accused him in front of his wife and his children. Absolutely shameful. It's that moment, I think, radicalized an entire generation. And if Democrats want to bring all this up in an election cycle, by all means. I beg them to because it was a disaster for them. There were a lot of women out there who are more moderate women. Maybe they identify second wave who thought, you know, this is a little bit hypocritical.

To watch some of these Hollywood actresses come out and demand that everyone believe Christine Blasey Ford while they were simultaneously defending and cozying up to Harvey Weinstein so long as he could get them through Miramax roles and funding for films. Interesting, right? Hmm. And so, yeah, she's back because it's an election year. She's, I, and I think it also paved the way for that E. Jean Carroll stuff. I do. I think it paved the way for, for, for that stuff. It took believe all women to the, you know, a crazy degree. So that's where, and, and these women, by the way, who promote this stuff are also the women who are silent when men are invading women's spaces. Or when people are invading people. people's spaces altogether. Did you guys hear about this? So there's a homeowner who was arrested because she changed the locks on her own home. This was in New York. A homeowner in Queens was arrested because she inherited this home from her parents and she was trying to sell it. And these people moved in and house jacked her. And they squatted in her house. She hired a locksmith. She changed the locks back on her property. And

police took the woman, Adele Andraloro, into custody because the squatters actually had the audacity to call the police. It's her house. They're not paying her rent. They're not paying utilities. And that's the law in New York. You can't even, if you're paying the light bill, you can't even turn off the electricity in the house because you can get in trouble. You're supposed to provide these things for squatters for free. They don't owe you anything. You have to pay taxes on the property and everything. you don't get a benefit. You don't get to have a moratorium on paying tax on property, but they can live there for free. And you have to provide everything. New York, states like New York, give people squatters more rights than the property owners. That's not even, in fact, that is such an under-exaggeration of that truth. And so the police said that she had to deal with it as a landlord-tenant issue.

she had to she had to initiate an eviction an eviction is kind of a straw man in this case because it or it's just about it presupposes that there was an agreement for these people to live there in the first place

which there was not nor was their consent the squatters claimed that she was a burglar it's her property this is it's one of the craziest things I've ever seen and this isn't the only instance where stuff like this has been happening. I mean, there are a lot of examples of this.

But this woman, she, yeah, it was her, it's in a million dollar house too. She got this. It was her parents' house. She can't even turn off the utilities. She has to provide the water, the electricity, everything. She can't turn any of it off. What if she couldn't afford it? What if she inherited her parents' home and she couldn't

afford to assume the, she couldn't afford to assume any of the bills for it. What happened? What would happen? So now she has to go through this very lengthy process of having them evicted. Now, my thought was, well, can't you just like squat on the squatters? Like, isn't that something that you can do? Well, that's what one guy did. New York Post had this story. This was from last year. This was a man in Nevada. He went, so his mother lived in California, this Nevada man. He went, his mother passed away and or his father passed away. His mother couldn't live in the family home. So they put the house up for rent.

And there was a woman who reached out to the guy, said she wanted to rent the house, but she couldn't pay and she had no credit and she had no documents or anything like that. And so he declined her. But she showed up and moved into the house with all her furniture anyway. And all the realtors were telling him, did you agree to allow? Because he had contracts with realtors. They're like, did you agree to? like allow this woman to move in your home. He said no. Then the neighbors started telling him.

The sheriff's department told him there was nothing they could do. So what he did was he squatted the house back. He wrote up a lease agreement with his mother making him the legal tenant. He loaded up his car, set off to California, waited for them to leave a day, entered while they were out. And then he ended up being to squatter and he made them leave. And they left. Now he was like, it's not always going to be peaceful like that. No, because, I mean, if you, I think that you should, I believe in Castle Doctrine personally. I think if you're going to FA, you're going to FO, and you'll leave in a bag. That's how I look at it. This is just crazy. It's crazy that people have to do this. Again, an attack on American jurisprudence, as I was telling you about in the first hour,

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So billionaire investor Nelson Peltz is backing the former president of Donald Trump for 2024. Peltz is in Palm Beach. And curiously enough, he's the father-in-law of David and Victoria Beckham's oldest son. So there's a little, there's some overlap there. Very interesting. But he's also been waging war on Disney, too, and taken over that Disney board. and they've been firing barbs at him, but I don't think they're going to be very successful.

Very interesting. Also, this, let's see here. Ooh, staff at a Virginia Wildlife Center pretend to be red foxes as they care for an orphan fox because apparently that's a thing, I guess, an imprint. That's almost too close to furries for me. Or it could also be like a viral, that one viral video years ago.

A woman found a live grenade while cleaning out her deceased father's home. This was in, Montreal. She's just going through her late father's stuff cleaning out the house, a sad process and she said that while she was going through all of this, she opened up a toolbox and right there in the toolbox

was a grenade. She wasn't really sure what the best course of action was. She was like, do we drive it to the police? She's like, I really don't want to touch it. So they called the police. They're not an emergency line and they were immediately transferred to the emergency line. And the first thing that they were asked was, quote, okay, are you guys not touching it?

like don't touch it right don't touch it so they actually had to wait they had like a whole crew that arrived including Canadian Armed Forces and the guy said and remember no no touching it she's like I have no plans on touching it no plan I don't want to pick it up so they had a detonator and everything it was intact so they secured it loaded it and went off and everybody's safe now

but that's kind of funny how they were very nervous about those ladies let's see a YouTube a YouTuber was arrested for allegedly applying snake venom as a party drug Wow, that is, he's, I think, anything for clicks, right? So apparently this guy's got millions of YouTube subscribers was detained under the Wildlife Act, according to an Indian broadcaster, Indy TV. He was at a party in November, it was rated.

Apparently they were all using snake venom. I guess it's like a hallucinogenic or something. I don't know. An alligator twice the size of a man was seized after being illegally kept in a home. That's kind of terrifying. It is a huge, huge alligator, 11 feet, and it was allowed to swim with. with other people in the water. The guy says it's a pet and it's tame.

It's also a gator. You know, so we got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Elevate your commute, workouts, or downtime with the Dana Show podcast. Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, I watch the gap. One of the first clicks I do when I get up in the morning,

which probably isn't a sign of a healthy person, is precisely on this gas price. So I track this very closely, and I think perhaps more importantly at CEA, we're always looking at the underlying factors to get to your question. So one part of this is seasonality, and this time of the year, there's a switch from the winter to the summer blend. That puts some upward pressure on price. We had a big refinery come offline in Indiana.

It's going back online, so that should provide some relief. And, of course, the conflict in the Middle East has raised the price of a barrel of oil, by a bit north of $10 a barrel. And so all of those factors are coming into play here. Yeah, all of those factors. So this is one of Biden surrogates trying to explain why it is. This is Bernstein. He's saying, no, it's seasonality in the Middle East conflict for the increasing gas prices

without noting that, you know, here we have the issue with refineries, which Democrats have, like, been for perpetual opposition to for some reason. You know, well, we know why. as well as this demand, this EV mandate. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of the second hour. And with this, I keep reading about how his auto emission rules keep hitting snags here and there. He's, I explained a little yesterday that he is sort of kind of another gun a little bit because he needs to, he needs to not make the Rust Belt mad, but he also has to keep the greenies happy. And so they had these emission.

restrictions from passenger vehicles that the EPA was pushing through. But the administration actually was, I think they intervened because it was hurting them in Michigan, particularly. But they were also, they're also having a problem with nobody wants the EVs. Nobody wants EVs. They don't want them. But Biden's still not going to stop with the attempted murder of the combustion engine. He's not going to stop. And so in addition to this, let me start with this, some of the bad policy coming up. So we have this. suspension of the LNG leases, et cetera, that export ban. So that's under investigation right now by House Republicans. They are saying that the president is, you know, I mean, he did weaponize this.

That was a way to kick Texas, which is the net exporter because of the border issue. So that also, you know, in terms of energy prices, that also plays into all of this. And then this piece that came out, there's a couple of pieces that came out, because he's been trying to crack down, doing whatever is possible to push people into super expensive EVs. You have the administration, I just was telling you about this emissions rule. They want to phase out gas cars, as you know. They want to make sure that the majority of vehicles sold are EVs or at least hybrids by 2023.

And they're looking to increase the rules that they're looking at pushing through on all of us. they would like to increase EVs from 7.6 to 56% of sales in 20203. This is not something that's supported by the market, as you know. This is going to destroy people financially because it is a horrific policy for consumers. It is a horrible policy for consumers. The proposal, this specific proposal that has to do with EV mandates and all of this stuff, the EPA pushed through, this incentivization of adoption of EVs. They, everybody's, they, there was introduced first in, I think, April of last year.

And they had already submitted in January this month, their final regulations to the White House for review. But now they're having to go to the alternative C approach. They went through plan B, now they're on plan C because the rust belts reacting to it and people's pocketbooks are reacting to this. is not something that they're going to be able to actually, they're not going to be able to, America can't handle this. I mean, to outlaw the, you're going to be basically have your, attack your car. My friend Stephen Green over at PJ Media had a really good piece on the EPA

specifically with these new rules with gas and diesel powered cars and light trucks, because they were, apparently today, they were going to release these, you know, final emissions rules that would still require like two-thirds of this 20-23 sales, sorry, 20-32 sales by them to be all electric. I will not drive an electric vehicle out of spite. I like gadgets too, but I just out of spite. I don't like it. I don't like having to be tethered to an outlet. I don't like it that, I mean, there's not a charger, you know, that you can just portable charger that you can take over. The batteries are heavy. They're super expensive. In many instances, in fact, most instances, they're more expensive than the car when it's time to replace. Coal depletes it quickly.

there's a number of factors. It's just not something that is a reality or doable for every American and the cost of them. And I just think, if I'm being honest, EVs are hella ugly. They are ugliest sin. Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Now, my husband loves EVs. He thinks that, you know, it's great. It's a marvel. It's the fastest car. You know, if you want to go from zero to plaid in like five seconds, it's great, you know, or 0.5 seconds, it's great. But I still, no, I like my regular gas-powered. vehicle. I like that. I will, I mean, you'll have to send me to jail. That'll be the thing that I hold out on the longest. It's not, it'll never happen. Never going to happen. At some point, they'll tie in license plates to this if Democrats get their way. They will make it to wear in order to even have your car street legal. It'll, it'll have to be an EV. I'm just waiting for it. I feel like this stuff with the EPA is the first step with it. But they said, yeah, by 2032, they wanted two thirds of the cars, new ones, the new cars to be all electric. They're going to turn us into like Cuba because of, you know, how Cuban cars, they're like the old school cars because they had to be and people have gotten

really, really good at maintaining older vehicles. We're going to turn into that if they, if they push this. Everybody's going to be driving the older vehicles that are much more affordable and easier to maintain than the EV stuff. So they're requiring car makers. You've got to cut your emissions by whatever, 52% between 27 and 32. That's going to push everything into EV territory. So that'll make up, you know, that plus the light trucks of new vehicles will make 60. percent of it by 2032. And they said that they have gotten pushback, though, some strong pushback. They said strong rebuttal from manufacturers and dealerships and all this other stuff. And apparently they weren't, I guess they thought that people were going to be much more amenable to their regulation, but they're not.

But we don't, I mean, the charging infrastructure, that alone. I mean, for crying out loud in California, they have rolling brownouts because they tell people. don't run your dishwasher in the afternoon. In Texas, when it gets super hot, we get these kind of these warnings where it's like, oh, well, don't run this at this time or make sure, you know, conserve electricity. No, no, no, no, no. Can you imagine if everybody has to plug in their vehicle?

If you make everyone have to plug in their vehicle, we do not have the infrastructure for it. It isn't doable. Now, if it gradually, organically moves that way, fine. But right now, the EV is the avatar of bad. policy. This is like Atlas shrugged when they were all going to soybeans and then they were trying to get away from like all of the stuff that people actually could live with and was doable and practical and affordable. This is just dumb. And Toyota, they've, they've, I don't know, like some of

these manufacturers, like Ford Pawn manufacturing, Toyota is keeping like hybrid. So they're focusing a little less on all electric and looking at more hybrid. But a lot of people, they're not selling. These are not selling. Tesla's growth. stalled. They're not selling. And the government's giving the billions and billions and billions and billions of tax credits for EV purchases. And that's plateaued. So these things are not moving because people are not attracted to them. I mean, to have to sit here and plug and then be limited to however far you can go and then have to make sure that you can go plug in your vehicle. And then you can't just plug in anywhere. I mean, it has to be something that's fitted to be able to handle, you know, the amount of power required to charge up the vehicle.

I mean, it's not just as easy as, you know, as they try to make, they limit, they omit all of this stuff when they are trying to push the public onto this. It's just so dumb. It's so dumb. But all of this is to boost EV sales. But I have a story here is the CNBC. EV Euphoria is dead. Automakers, by and large, kind of an excumbus. exception, as I mentioned, was Toyota, although they're kind of looking at more at hybrids,

but automakers are scaling back or they're delaying all their EV plans and expansions, everything. Everybody from Mercedes to Jaguar to Aston Martin to Ford, everybody's been scaling back or just delaying altogether, any kind of EV plans or push. And they are looking at more of hybrids and then, you know, regular, you know, the basic, you know, gas powered vehicle. And they said that hype was, hype has dwindled. You know why the hype dwindled? Hype always dwindles when it meets the rock of reality. Hype, actually, reality is the rock against which the wave of hype crashes. So is it true with this. But yeah, even Tesla stalled. They said that they're bracing already for what they're considering a notably lower rate of growth. That's something that Musk said back in January. They

were imagining, they had said that they estimated about, to account for about 55% of EV sales in the country in 23, but they said it's going to be a lot slower. The growth is going to be a lot slower after that. And with other vehicles the same. But hybrids are still actually, hybrids are actually still outpacing EVs. The total EVs and hybrids sold in the United States, looking from 2017 to 2023, hybrids have outpaced EVs by a pretty sizable amount, literally the entire time, the entire time. And they, I mean, it's been, it's been interesting. I mean, it's been about, I don't know, several hundred thousand difference in sales.

So they're saying, well, maybe a balanced approach is better. But that's not what, that's not what Biden promised. That's not what he promised the greenies and it's not what he promised his base. He said, full on EVs. That's what he said. Hmm. So coming up, we've, we've, we've got. got some cultural stuff. First off, you have Seattle was mad because its residents went out and

enjoyed the sunshine and they were mad because they said that you shouldn't be enjoying the nice weekend. You should be lamenting for climate or something like that. I'm, I know. I get it. It's the dumbest thing ever. Also, there literally is a debate over, I can't believe it, but there is, should straight actors allowed to be able to play gay roles? This is a joke, right? It's acting. It's not, you know, reality. And 2024, be warned about the enthusiasm deficit GOP. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida, man.

So I just saw this one. This is from TMZ, and this is hysterical. So John Taffer, who's been on the show, in fact, one of my favorite shows is Bar Rescue, because I've learned so much and it's hysterical. But he is now, he's suing a guy who has been impersonating him. So a guy is getting sued because he's been impersonating bar rescue star John Taffer in Florida bars. This is the craziest thing I've ever heard.

So there's a guy going around Florida bars and restaurants pretending to be him. And apparently he's like being super shady with chicks while he does it. It's a federal lawsuit. The guy's name is Vic Caroleo. He's been passing himself off as John Taffer around Naples for more than three years and has been bragging all over. social media about the likeness. Like he even commented on one of John Tafer's post saying, my twins, so they say. He kind of looks like him, but not really. And he has gotten credit cards with the name John Taffer. Apparently, he's even used him to pay for dinner. And oh my gosh. And so

he's been, now he's got a lawsuit. I feel like he's not the guy's been impersonating Tafer is going to lose at this. That's, that is creepy. That is super. creepy. A, uh, yikes. This, let's see. This Florida man is accused of stabbing and punching men during a religious debate at a gas station. Palm Coast, Florida. A conversation between strangers in Flager County at a gas station turned violent when a man allegedly stabbed and punched the other men as the discussion turned to religion. Hunter Deatherow. Oh, wow. Is it really his name? Dethero? Of course it is. 22-year-old from Palm Coast was arrested in charge with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after the incident at a circle K on Palm Coast. They said that one of the

victims was Buddhist cut off, cut him off as he tried to speak about his religious views. And I guess as a form of witness, he decided to punch and stab the guy. That's just bad witness. It's just bad witness. I'm just saying. The victim sustained multiple lacerations to his neck and back. He had a deep puncture wound on his left side. Everybody was taken to the hospital. This is so ridiculous. is this dude though the main is he the main antagonist is a in flagger county jail no $300,000 bond just why are people like this just why a this is the one I wanted to get to uh this was yesterday my gosh I hate I hate this computer right now it's very slow so this comes from the UK and the story is that this Florida man was pretending to be a

Disney World staffer so he could steal these famous, I guess, character costumes. He pretended to be working a security job and he stole like some character stuff and a statue. I don't know how you steal a statue, but David Emerson Proudfoot did that. He's facing third degree grand theft charges and obstruction by false information. He wore a Disney name tag and tried to steal an R2D2 statue worth up to $10,000. And they said he confused. Proudfoot was allegedly spotted pushing a cart while leaving one of the hotels there.

He identified himself with the name of someone who didn't work there. It was Walt Disney World. And he was moving the statue and a game machine on the property. But they're like, you're not moving this. You're taking it. And he was, in fact, moving it to his own wherever he lived.

That's what he was doing. He was moving it. This, golly, this is one of the goofiest stories. So a man was shot. by a dude who mistook him for a turkey. That's a stretch for me. This dude, this is, again, Flager County. They're really getting it this week.

A man was shot by a guy who mistook him for a turkey while turkey hunting. The guy called 911, the hunter who said he was turkey hunting. He saw three female turkeys in the road and he followed him and he found the male turkey. And that's when he fired a shotgun. And then he was like, wait a minute, that's a decoy. And then someone screamed that they had been shot. he was taken to Daytona Beach. Did the guy have on orange?

You need to have one on orange. So they said that it was Florida Fish and Wildlife. They got involved with us. They're still investigating. And they don't know yet. They haven't actually said of the hunter. This is only like two days ago. If the hunter is going to be charged in this incident.

But yeah, that's, callie. This is just so crazy. That's a crazy story. A man made a horrifying discovery because he noticed toe sticking. out of the ground in his garden. That sounds horrific. This was in Jacksonville, Florida. And I don't know if it's going to redirect and pull up because this is, I'm about ready

to throw this computer across the room. The Florida resident was doing work on his backyard. He saw toes sticking out of the ground. And then they were human toes. Yeah, as you can imagine, they had to dig all that up. Stick with us. We have our third hour on the way. Well, good evening, great to be with you.

It's a deeply troubling decision from. the extreme conservatives on the Supreme Court. It's clear that we have a broken immigration system. We've acknowledged that and that we need to address the challenges at the border. We believe that we should address those challenges in a clear-eyed, comprehensive way in a manner consistent with our values as a nation of immigrants and a nation anchored in the rule of law. We need a strong, secure, and humane border.

What we are seeing from many of our Republican colleagues is that they don't want to actually address the issue. They just want to engage in political stunts. So that's Akeem Jeffries, who is not actually portraying SB4, and that was that Texas immigration law, by the way. He's not actually portraying that in a correct manner because it never allowed for deportation. It was the arrest and detention. Deportation is something that the federal government asserted its right over assuming when it was going after Jan Brewer, when she was governor of Arizona, and that was over 10 years. ago. So yeah, it doesn't actually fully go and go all that way. Furthermore, a decision last night

from the Fifth Circuit, when we left you, the SB4 was allowed to go ahead and go into effect until the lower courts figured it out. That was Prescottus. But now the Fifth Circuit last night put on hold again. So that's the latest. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We are at the top of this third hour. And that was last night. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. They put another stay on the law from it being enforced. They were supposed to have a discussion or a meeting this morning. But that's the latest for it. That's SB4. So it was an effect until it wasn't. It was very short-lived. This is a very short-lived thing. So they're going to battle it out in the courts. it's asinine that you wouldn't even be able to do that.

Honestly, illegal entry into the United States should be a felony. I think it should be a felony action. I think that it should be a felony charge. I am completely fine with it being treated like that. I also think that in addition to it, certain parts of the immigration system need to be entirely overhauled. People who are skilled, who are looking to, you know, create a new way of life and add at the tax base, raise families here, all of that stuff, tend to vote conservative. of those yeah i want i want to reform because those are those are the people that you want to add to the american citizenry uh but this stuff with this illegal all of the illegal crossings and everything else

and the crime that results from it no no no it needs to be made into a felony uh for a number of reasons but so that's the latest with that you had some of that out in your prep email that i sent out to you this morning if you're a subscriber over at chapter and verse on sub stack i send a lot a good stuff out to you on that. And there are a couple of other pieces that have gone out, another one out today. So the, looking at some of the, this, the policy on this. I've got, I've got more the four-day work week that Bernie Sanders is pushing. I want to skip right into the cultural aspect of this because this is one of the craziest things I've ever read. Now, I had this as a headline. Maybe it was either Friday of last week or maybe it was Monday about how this, the news

that Niger was going to revoke its military agreement with the United States, because that seemed kind of significant. There's been a battle over radical Islam in Africa and different terrorist groups. There's been a pushback and a back and forth with this. And so Niger had announced this was the Guardian. Their military, I guess representation, however you want to put it, they announced that they were revoking this deal allowing U.S. bases on their soil. And so that is, it was their military junta that they have over there. and they were saying that the coup government stopped short of calling for American personnel to leave,

but they said their presence violates their sovereignty. Now, that was kind of weird how all of this came about, right? Like, well, why all of a sudden you're expelling, you're revoking consent for this agreement? Why? What happened that led to this? You know, I'm reading this piece and it talks about how this, you know, coup government seized power July last year. They kicked out French and other European forces. They were turning to Russia for some support. And they said, now they regret the intention of the

American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerian people the right to choose their partners, et cetera. And they didn't say that U.S. forces should leave, but now, I mean, there's like an about phase. Well, then the backstory came out. I kid you not. I almost thought This was a joke. If it had not come from these sources, this is from the Wall Street Journal. So there were, Wall Street Journal, and then I got to also give a hat tip to European Conservative as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, you had two women. You had Molly Fee and Celeste Willender. So they were apparently American officials who were visiting Niger. And apparently it was a disastrous visit. So they went to go and meet the men behind the coup government in Niger, the guys who

had successfully taken over the government in July of last year, right? And they were supposed to be there to talk about the need to restore democracy and how to stop. And maybe they should not talk to Iran about providing it with uranium. Maybe don't do that. Oh my gosh. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the two women made the officials in Niger mad because they apparently spoke to them in a, quote, condescending way. This is what happens. As we said, Rod Dreher said, this is what happens when you have a culture war affect real war. I mean, this is one of the craziest things. So these, can I be honest, these women sound like a couple of Cairns.

And they go over there. Celeste Wallander is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. And Molly Fee is the assistant secretary at Department of State, I believe. State Department's Bureau of African Affairs. And so Nigerian officials say, well, they talk to us in a, condescending way. And it was just a disastrous visit. The Hill also has some of this as well.

They said that the officials were raising alarm with this coup government over the steel that would give Iran access to Nigerian uranium. And then apparently they were just mean and condescending when they were talking to it. And it made them mad. So now, because you have this disastrous and apparently, the way that it was written in in these different reports is that these two women apparently

this is what happens when you have Karen's going over and dealing with men in a not a Western nation that maybe have a little bit more non-Westernized views over women in government and women in leadership positions and they interpret everything to be sexism and blah blah blah

you know, my power, my truth and all this stuff. That's kind of what it feels like. That's the intimation of this. That is the intimation. And this paragraph, this was from Roder, over at European Conservative. He said three summers ago, he went over and spoke with African female lawmakers at a political event in Italy. And he said these women had very strong opinions about Western cultural colonialism. He said all three were Christians, but they did not, and they did not like the encroachment that China was making in Africa. But he said that they all agreed that the EU and the U.S., they are hurting their own interests because they won't accept cultural norms in some of these other countries, specifically as it relates to negotiations,

meeting all of this other stuff. And that's exactly what I got from this Wall Street Journal piece. Like these women just did not like the fact that, you know, these are dudes at operas. in a different culture. They would call it toxic masculinity. This is what happens when the culture war gets out of control. So now here's the problem. This is, this was an important alliance in the heart of a region that is being battled over

by Islamic terrorists for influence. And you got China wanting to expand on this continent. This is, and now in Russia, the fact that Niger is now cozying up to Russia, that gives them significant footing in this part of the world. That makes it easier for Iran to gain access to this uranium also. When you have a diplomatic situation, you can't be sending your Karens over there. They sent these Karens over there, and it sounds like these Karens went over there and ran their mouths and lectured these dudes. And the dudes didn't appreciate it. So they said, get out.

That's what it sounds like. when you have that much on the line, I mean, that's, and you have to respect that, again, this is about moving the ball forward. It's Game of Thrones. You've got to play the Game of Thrones. It's about moving the ball forward. Like when they had the American ambassador to Niger, remember when they had the story, where was this at? I have this in my name. They raised the pride flag at the embassy. And Niger, this is a Islamic, country. They raised the pride flag at an embassy in an Islamic country. And then you think that you're going to go and negotiate to keep a toll hold there to keep out China and Russia and to protect national security interests to stop Iran from getting uranium? Are you morons? But this is what happens when the culture war affects real life. European conservative has a great write-up of this.

Wall Street Journal has a great write-up of this. This is one of the craziest things that I've ever read. You're going to have this in your prep email. Read it. It is worth the read. It's worth the read. But I cannot even, I mean, that's just, that is unbelievable. When there is that much on the line, you can't send your rec team. You can't. And you can't use your position as a diplomat to pressure them about things that go against their cultural norm, particularly if this is about thwarting Iran's expansion into nuclear weaponry. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

A swarm of bees halted the Indian Wells Open Tennis Tournament in California. Apparently, they appeared, went after the players, the umpire, the officials, and some of the crowd. Everyone had to flee the scene. It was mass chaos. They were even all over the camera. It's actually funny. I think it's funny. It was between Carlos Alcraz and Alexander Zevreve and it had to be suspended.

Thousands of bees invaded the court. Don't you have to get like the beekeepers out to deal with that, I think? This was in South Africa. Literally, it's a theme park called Crocodile Creek. I'm already, like already my alarm is going off. A shocked crocodile handler almost lost his Frankenbeams when a, A 15-foot crock bit him between the legs after the man stupidly poked him with a stick in the enclosure. It's aniled crocodile.

Largest living reptile has the most powerful bite force in the world suddenly whipped his head on. He didn't appreciate being poked with a stick. For the enjoyment of tourists, who were horrified, by the way, and began screaming as the giant crock kept the handler pin down. He did manage to stand, and the beast with 64 teeth. released allowing him to run to safety. But he F-A'd, and then he F-Oed. He almost F-Oed all the way. So, who my goodness, that's kind of, yeah.

And then there was a dude who was swallowed by a 13-foot crock. He was saved when his wife beat the thing over the head as it thrashed around trying to drown him at the South African fishing spot. That woman's your ride or die. Like that lady right there, if she's going to take on a crock for you, she's your ride and die forever. Let's see, NFL fans who went to the negative, Really? It was in the negatives, the Taylor Swift game.

Sorry, sorry, I mean the football game with Taylor Swift there, Kansas City. Apparently, the reports are coming out now that tons of football fans across Kansas City had to be treated for frostbite due to the 11-day cold snap at the beginning of the year. Taylor Swift was in the million-dollar, multi-million dollar box. She wasn't out there with the pores. Come on, she wasn't out there. Let's see this. Oh, hundreds of pounds of pasta. was mysteriously dumped in the woods in New Jersey.

Mounds of it. It was near a river basin in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta were dumped in the area. Their origins remain a mystery. One woman who ran for city council in the town of 66,000 posted images of it in a Facebook group. Thank the public for cleaning it up, estimated that it was about 500 pounds. It is an absolute mess. But, I mean, if it's biodegradable, do you really have to clean it up?

is it bad? But they said that they were talking about the waterways got to be cleaned up in the environment, etc. Some people thought it was funny, but I don't know. I really don't care. It's pasta, it's biodegradable. It's food. The bugs will eat it. We have bigger things in life to care about. Good night. Ooh, new James Bond. Well, the rumor is, is that the guy

who was in Bullet Train, Aaron Taylor Johnson is now that he's been formally offered the chance to play James Bond and that he, the rumors that he may sign contracts within the week. I liked Idris Elba, but apparently the requirement was that you have to essentially attach yourself to James Bond for 15 years. So you have to have like that lifespan to be able to age within the role. And, you know, Idris Elba is 51 years old. They're like, oh, he's too old for a Bond candidate. But he already ruled himself out because he was focusing on his crime drama, Luther. So Aaron Taylor Johnson, it looks like he's going to be James Bond. I think he would be a good James Bond.

The director and the people behind it said it had to be a Brit. So we'll see. We have more on the way. Stick with us. Ready to grow your intellectual rollettex? Download the Dana Show podcast and join the ranks of those who refuse to settle for the same old boring content on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, the contrast is pretty clear. I mean, my record is Claire knows is to reach across the aisle and get things done, whether it was the PACT Act, whether it was the Chips Act, whether it's fighting fentanyl at the border, and keeping sanctioning China and Mexico and keeping this stuff off our strout of our country and off our streets. And my opponent is always looked out for himself. He's even said he's not going to work with people whom he

disagrees with in Washington, which means he's not fighting for Ohio. He's not representing Ohio. And I think the best example of that is even though Ohio strongly decisively, importantly passed abortion rights constitutional amendment by 13 points last fall. My opponent continues to say that we should have a national abortion ban. No, no exceptions for rape, no exceptions for life of the mother. Well, that's not true. Number one, number two, I don't like Sherrod Brown. I don't. I have a story. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of this third hour, Dana Lash, here with you. Steve, I don't think I can say exactly on air what I said on break, can I? Canes out, so technically no one can stop me.

Because Juan can't get over here fast enough. Oh, I just made Steve nervous. I can't say that, right? Like what I said on break. So I don't like Sherrod Brown. I think he's a male copulatory organ. He's a Richard completely. I met him in Rhode Island.

I crashed the net route. I didn't crash. I just straight up went and bought a ticket and went in. The Netroots event, which is where, when all the left used to get together to weep and nash teeth over how successful the right was online. And this was back like in 2009 when all this was going down. 0809, you know, 2010, all that good stuff. And went up there and I had a question for him on Obamacare.

Actually, this is probably more like 2012, I think, when I asked him this question. Because Obamacare had passed and he was, you know, basically one of the big deciding votes for in the Senate. And the left was freaking out because they realized that a small group of us conservatives had gone to Rhode Island to attend net routes. And it was wild. It was like walking into the Star Wars canteen up, right? You walk in there and there's, it was crazy. Just crazy. Like Marxist openly being pro-Marxist and socialist openly being pro-socialist.

And then Elizabeth Warren got chased off the same. stage by a bunch of indigenous Americans who were like, why are you lying about being Indian? It was weird. So I saw Sherrod Brown walking around and I had, you know, like my little press microphone and all that stuff. And I went up to ask him a question.

And someone intervened and said, oh, that's, said, no, Senator, that's Dana Lash. And I said, Senator, I just have a question for you. And he looked at me and screamed in my face. No, I am not talking to you. I was with Caleb Howe, who's at Mediaite now, and Caleb Howe was standing right there with me,

and then Sherrod Brown turns around and stomps off. He screamed in my face, and I wasn't aggressive, I was super polite, I was very respectful, but he lost his mind. So I can say, from absolute witnessed experience, that Sherrod Brown is a Richard. So anyway, Ohio. So in Ohio, Bernie Moreno won the Republican nomination for Senate. He's going to face off against Brown this November. And this, he's got some, he's got some good endorsements. He's got Jim Jordan who's endorsing him as well. He's got, you know, he checks all the boxes for his endorsements. This is going to be kind of, you know, one of these primaries to watch. And I don't think that there's, you know, Brown's, he's a formidable opponent. But, you know, also this is, you know, Ohio, you know, the economy's been rough. People aren't happy with Biden. You know, this could have some down ticket advantages.

So we're going to see how that works. And the, I mean, Ohio is important. Here's one of the things, though. this is ABC. Nearly half of the Haley voters in Ohio said they backed, said they would back Biden, according to preliminary exit polls. They said two in 10 to as many as three in 10 Republican primary voters in Ohio who had supported Haley said that they would back Biden in November. Okay, well, you know, I mean, you kind of knew she was pulling from the center and from the left, so that's not a surprise. One thing that I do want to tell you on, and I want to warn you about, and I've been seeing this in a couple, this is in Virginia, and also saw it in a couple of other. There was a hint of it in Iowa, but there's also a couple of other places where I think it's safe to say that it is something that I think the Republican Party and the RNC needs to maybe make sure they're keeping an eye on is the enthusiasm, any enthusiasm deficit.

Now, there's a couple of things for this. I think a couple of qualifies, or at least a big qualifier for this. It is, I think this has been the earliest that any primary has ever really kicked off. And the deficit could be, I think it's easier for people who are against Trump to say, well, the deficit is because they don't like Trump. And could be also that. it's a deficit from people are so tired of the election already because the primary has been going for months now. Primary is over, but you understand what I'm saying. People have been dealing with

election issues, period. It all starts to run together at some point and they're tired of it. They get worn out. They get voter fatigue. This is a real thing that can add to this enthusiasm deficit. it. So in the primary in Florida, Trump secured, I think the account was like almost like 160 something thousand fewer votes than he had taken in 2020. So it was a drop of 94% of the of the GOP vote to 81%. And I think their, his campaign needs to strategize a little bit better on how to deal with voter fatigue and how to, I've been warning you guys about this for a year. Did I not warn you? knew about this. Hands to Sky. I know you remember this. I've been telling you that the voter fatigue was going to set in. That, I think it was twofold. It was by design because I think the press wanted it to

last that long. And Trump didn't help by immediately kicking off the primary ages ago. Now, I know he wanted to get in and secure all the endorsements and wrap everything up. I get that. But he didn't just like test it. He formally announced, which sped everything up because then everybody else had to get in. and then it just got kickstarted so much faster. Whether or not that works against him is still yet to be measured. That's not something that's really going to come out in terms of voter fatigue and a deficit with enthusiasm until really, like we really get into early voting for the general. And then, you know, we're going to see that, which, by the way, he needs to stop running down early voting.

I believe, I agree with you, there should be a day, a national holiday, everybody goes out and vote. If you're in the military or if there is some reason that you get an acceptable, because you can't make it back to your place of residence to vote. I'm fine with signature matching, ID, all of that stuff to do a mail and vote for that. But in all the areas where you can early vote mail and vote, Republicans need to exploit that to the endth degree, Machiavellian style, to the point where Democrats cry in the street and riot and protest about ending it. Take advantage of it instead of, you know, taking your ball and going home.

And he also needs to stop talking about how 2024 is going to be rigged. Oh, my gosh, stop. I feel like, what would be? was the movie where it was Kubrick Goody Jr. yelling at Tom Cruise, help me help you. Jerry McGuire. I feel like that scene right now. Help us help you. This is not working.

This is what happened in Georgia. I saw this happen because he had said, oh, your vote's not going to matter. This was the special election for the Senate in Georgia specifically. Remember this? And you had that one crazy dude, Lynn Wood going out there saying your vote's not going to matter. Something the effect of don't vote and all this stuff.

And Trump had said a couple of things. I was in Georgia helping to try to get people out to vote. And people were like, I just don't know if it's going to matter. And I was in really solid red areas. And they were like, I just don't think it's going to matter. I'm not, I don't plan to vote. I can't tell you the number of people I spoke to in person, myself, feet on the ground in Georgia, in the reddest districts. And people were saying, no, no.

And guess what? Republican turnout was abysmal and we lost the Senate. This stuff doesn't help. You can't tell, put, quote. pour cold water on people with this. You can't. Turnout will completely overrun any attempt. And by the way, it will always overrun any attempt to try to be shady. You just can't be doing this stuff. They need to not do that. Make him stop saying it. I don't care how they have to do it. I don't care if somebody's got to be out like W, you know, WWE style and hold up a giant sign and say,

stop talking about it and somewhere on the audience to remind him to not talk. I don't care what somebody has to do, make him not do it. Because 2024 is too important. Now, some of the four pull this up, some swing states, they're close. I don't think anybody knows what's going to happen. Just like 2016 was the weirdest election possible, 2020 was also weird because I do think that people were mad or some of the people that had been brought that Trump had attracted in to be a part of like the coalition. You've got to

look at it more as a coalition. Instead of the same big tent, look at it like that. I think some of them ended up kind of floating back over to Biden. But now everyone hates Biden. It's another super weird election. I don't know that there's ever been a candidate that is as on pop, maybe Dukakis, that is as unpopular as Biden is. And not, maybe worse than Dukakis because he doesn't, at least Dukakis was somewhat sentient, right? Like, at least he looked like he could and sounded like he could string a sentence together. Whereas Biden

is all over the place. I watched him wander off the stage towards a baby at an event. And then I watched another thing where his wife, Dr. Jill Biden face, C. C. C.A. Paudway, had to go out and get him. Because he was, like, not

like, like, following along with anything. It's the weirdest thing. So I don't, I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know. This is, it is just, it's crazy. I wanted to play this too. I know we got to get moving. Juan, are we able to grab? I just dropped this in slack because they're in, in the house, they're testifying about basically, well, it's a great soundbite of AOC saying Rico is not a crime. Now, I want you to realize this is literally what's happening with Trump and Georgia right now. So she's saying that it's not a crime. So what does that do to the whole Willis? What does that do to the Georgia case?

Listen to this. If we can get it, it just dropped. Your testimony today that you personally witnessed President Joe Biden commit a crime. I believe the fact that he was sitting with me while I was putting together a business deal. Did you witness the president commit a crime? Is it your testimony today? Yes. And what crime do you have you witness?

How much time do I have to go through it? It is simple. You name the crime. Did you watch him steal something? Corruption statutes, RICO and conspiracy? What is it? What is the crime, sir? Specifically.

You keep up, you ask me to answer the question. I answered the question. Rico, you're obviously not familiar with. Oh, excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. Rico is not a crime. It is a category.

Oh, it's the category of crimes that you're then charged. You have charges. You have charges. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Okay. Rico is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. And it is part of the U.S. Criminal Code. It's 18 U.S.C. subsection, 191618.

And it targets organized criminal activity and racketeering. It absolutely is. my gosh. So what does that do for the Georgia case? Questions. We have more to come. I can't even believe that audio soundbite. I want to say that forever. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. When I saw Frozen as a grown I'm an ass woman. I cried through the entire movie. There was just something about the relationship between the sisters, the like de-villinization

of the classic kind of fairy tale, bad guy, you know, the concept of true love being between two sisters and not a heterosexual relationship. Like it just destroyed me completely. And I thought, gosh, you know, I would love to make something like this that is, you know, for lack of a better term, Disney, meaning something that, like, my parents would have allowed me to see when I was younger as a queer person. Gotcha. But I would have been able to understand as a queer person, and I think I would have had a

completely different life. And so I really was inspired by it and was like, God, I would love to make a story like this. And so when I was developing this original idea to pitch to Kathleen, I thought, well, you know, it can't just be that, you know, when you're pitching Star Wars, you have to pull from what, you know, George was also interested in. Like, it can't just be like, well, I'm referencing, especially if you're going to set something, you know, during the High Republic or end of High Republic into prequels.

You don't have the Skywalker saga. This is one of the directors of the Star Wars Acolyte series, Leslie Hedlin, who used to be, interestingly enough, Harvey Weinstein's assistant. So, yeah, I just find it interesting that Star Wars like attempts to, you know, try to demonize men and lift up women by employing checks notes. Harvey Weinstein's assistant.

This is so assinine. Oh my gosh. But she's sitting here is saying because Disney can't read the room and they're just bound and determined to ruin everything to sci-fi that they can get their hands on. That, you know, she would like to make Disney like movies that her parents would have allowed her to see as a queer person. Like what is, I don't understand that. What does it even mean?

Like, and first off, I thought you weren't supposed to say queer anymore. It's like they think that like gay people or, Lesbians watch TV differently than because of how you have sex? Well, you know, because they have to sex differently, they consume television differently, whereas other people just sit in front of the television, they press their faces to the screen and absorb the content via osmosis. Doesn't make sense. I'm just trying to figure out on what, it's also goofy.

It's also incredibly goofy. All right, Steve, today and stupid. All right, Kane's taking a little birthday break, so he's out for her today. But I found a good one, very quick one, Juan, if you have it's cut 22. Everyone's favorite congressman, Ted Liu. Man, he's a hot take about his favorite news channels. Uh-oh. The best way to post fake news is for people to watch outlets like MSNBC

where you report real news all the time. Yeah, the MSNBC. They report real news all the time, only real news. Ted Lou doesn't sound in any way accurate. Make sure you find us on YouTube and Facebook, folks like and so. subscribe and you can also find us over at Substack. Sign up for the newsletter, chapter and verse. Lots of good stuff that comes out to you.

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