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Grainger, for the ones who get it done. Hey everybody, Pete Hegset here. We're about to land in Washington, D.C. on our way back from Japan, where we've been meeting with the troops, talking to allies and partners, reestablishing deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. It's Sunday, but of course we're still working.

I want to show you one thing. It's a new memorandum that's coming out today on combat arms standards. You see, for far too long, we allowed standards to slip and different standards for men and women and combat arms MOSs and jobs. That's not acceptable. We need to have the same standard, male or female, in our combat roles to ensure our men and women who are under our leaders or in those formations have the best possible leaders and the highest possible standards that are not based at all on your sex, if you're a man or a woman.

So I'm signing this memorandum today. The services will review and soon we will have nothing but the highest and equal standards for men and women in combat.

So that seems like it was a long time coming, right? I mean, this is something that we've needed for such a long time. And it's one of the things that, you know, we've talked about quite a bit for years, actually, on this program. The need to really evaluate these standards and, you know, essentially, you know, make sure that our fighting force is in the best shape that it can be in. and the reaction obviously from the left as you can imagine is glorious and full of weeping and gnashing of the teeth and all of this stuff it's just i mean i i don't know how anybody could be well i mean unless you're leftist i don't understand how anybody could be against this this is something that uh sec def announced today and it is the latest from the new department of Defense.

And this is more of what we can expect from the new Department of Defense. And we'll see how this, you know, because obviously you're going to have now as members of Congress come back in to D.C. Everybody's going to be because they're all coming back. Everybody's going to be using this as some kind of, I don't like they're going to they're going to grandstand on it. They're going to grandstand on this to the nth degree.

Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top here of this very first hour. And this is just one of the things that we're going to get to today. We're also going to be touching on now that Congress is coming back, we're going to take a look at some of the stuff that they're going to be, hopefully, some permanency that hopefully we can get some movement from Congress on some of these making some of this permanent.

But you know, we will see. We'll see.

So we're going to get into that. Of course, you know, we've had storms blow through we'll look at all the we'll look at all the weather we're gonna look at all this stuff but first and oh and then of course the tesla protest across the country this though the equal standards for combat rules this seems like it's something that's incredibly obvious it's it seems as though it's i mean it is incredibly obvious i just can't believe that this is like a uh what you're you're chuckling over there why in the hell are people just freaking out about this i don't I guess they've been used to the mentally ill way we've been doing it for so long. Yeah, that could be it. That could be it. We could have some of that, the mentally ill way.

It's the idea that we had to reduce this, this criteria by which we evaluated our soldiers and reduce it in order to accommodate someone. Isn't that making it unequal? I mean, that's not equalizing something is is the act of making sure that every I mean, you're equalized. I mean, you can't you can't really do it in this equalizing is making it standard all the way around standard all the way around is, well, if you're coming into the military, you need to at least be able to do X, Y and Z.

So having these equal standards for combat roles seems. I just that seems like common sense. He said that on X that the services would review the guidance. They want the, quote, highest and equal standards for men and women in combat. And they said that standards have slipped for way too long.

It's unacceptable, et cetera, et cetera. And that because the way that it is, they do have different standards. The U.S. Army decided to make different standards for men and women in Army combat fitness tests. And that was in 2022.

There was a study that came out from the Rand Corporation that noted that women failed the test at higher rates than their male counterparts. And that at one point, 65% of women were failing the test at one point.

So instead of saying maybe this isn't a job for women, they decided to lower the standards. I wouldn't want anybody going into the army with standards low like this, where your life may be dependent upon getting dragged out by a 110 pound woman.

Sorry, but you want equality, then you got to be have equal consideration. And that's some equal consideration right there. They said female candidates in army ranger school were given more chances to pass tests during the so-called wrap week. The first five days of ranger school, they said. And I have friends I had a one friend who actually posted about this jenny who a good friend of ours from st.

Louis She writes I think over a daily caller and some other place or daily wire But she had said that the day and I remember she was on air I had her on there that day because she's a retired military and She's always been against women in in Low she's always been against, you know aside from chopper pie, you know, there's there's different nuance there But like on the ground strike teams, no. And she said that lowering the standards is going to absolutely, which it did undermine lethality. It undermines readiness.

Now, it's great that he's doing this. But my concern is what happens in four years when he's less than four years now? What happens in three and a quarter, three quarter years when Trump is out? heaven forbid, Republicans don't do their job, this goes back. You know, this slides back to what it was.

I mean, this is just, when you consider that 65% at that point of women were failing these tests, these fitness tests in the army, that, I think that that kind of signals that, yes, women are great, but they can't do everything. We can't do everything and neither can men. I don't know why that's so controversial to say such a thing. I get it that people have ideas in their heads of stuff that they want to do in their lives. But you also have to be realistic.

If you have women failing 65%, the problem isn't the test. The problem is your recruits. The problem is that women don't have the same strength as men. I mean, good grief. We all, you know, we all attended school.

We all know, we all understand the facts of the matter here. 65%. This isn't like a, you know an instance of a bad teacher who made a bad test this is a standard fitness test and if you're not able 65 of women and then lowering the standards not now and then what happens is if there's if there's consequences as a result of lowering those standards then what ends up happening is uh it's used by and large uh not only against lethality and readiness but how does that undermine cohesion? I'm like thinking if I was in the field, and I knew that if something happened to me, someone would not be physically able to help me because of their smaller stature, etc. I just if I was a dude, I would find that incredibly disconcerting.

Like, what did I sign up for? You signed up to make sure that, you know, you're serving a purpose and that your fellow soldiers have your back. It just seems like these standards don't have the backs of our soldiers. This is not a place where you experiment. This is not a social experiment.

It's the military, for crying out loud. It is the military. And I also think that this, because we've had this huge idea, a debate about the draft, right? Or not the draft, the select service cards that all the men have to fill out, which is, you never own your own body. I think that's a ridiculous outmoded insanity, big government FDR type thing.

But how, at this point, it's just trans military play. It's cosplay. It's not the same as men. Everyone, if you want lower standards, then you're gonna, you're gonna have to lose something. It just aggravates me.

It aggravates me because there are certain things that men can do that women can't and you are endangering the lethality the cohesion the success rate the mission the objective etc so this is completely this should be standard operating procedure we'll come back to it also the big protests that happened the tens of people so in my town there were protests we have some of the video i think although you can't really play actually i don't can we show it because all these old people were flipping the camera off can we show that we can show we can't play some of the audio okay because yeah there's cussing and stuff yeah we can't they had all of the communist boomers come out this is in my town so i live in a little town called south lake everybody knows because the left and the left and some disgruntled jealous righties doxed me so everybody knows where i live this is my town and they bust tens of these people in because i'll be honest with you Now, can I just show this for keep it on up one because let me describe what people are seeing.

So this is the largest red urban county in all of the United States. The last one. These are literally all old communist boomers. There's a like three or four communist boomers that live in my town that organized this.

So they had a bus everybody in. There are a bunch of old people standing outside of a Vineyard Vines. Nothing. It's across from an Apple store and next to the Vineyard Vines. If you're looking at the simulcast, which you can see on Channel 347X, Rumble, where the chat is, the little white top, there's the Vineyard Vines is the brown building.

Just down from it, the little white one, that's the Tesla building.

So you see, it's not just like a dealership that's in the middle of everything. I know some of the business owners that have businesses next door and near it They had to close their doors for the afternoon Because these old communist boomers just would not move on the sidewalk You have a lot of families strollers young kids that you know people like to come out And they like to walk around the square right there's they have uh mom and pop shops and with big brand stuff right So it's it attracts stuff for the small business and it's a very nicely laid out thing It's one of the reasons why we like the town and moved here. But they actually had to make these businesses close their doors for the afternoon because these old communist boomers would knock it off the sidewalk. They just stood there like a bunch of damn morons. They're standing there and they were cussing at everybody and everything.

Absolutely everything. One of my friends who runs a business right by there was there with her young son. And she said that they had to make sure that they were on the other side of the street They had an errand to run Because they were screaming F this and F that and F you In the middle of our town Because they're mad over Tesla They're mad because of the car that some people have chosen to drive That's what these people did And then when the clock struck noon They promptly went home Because I guess they don't get paid for overtime We got more because somebody got hit by somebody for being a Tesla owner. Remember when the left wanted you to buy an EV? Remember when they wanted to make it mandatory?

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21 plus terms and conditions apply. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right, so the S&P 500 slides to the lowest level since before September. stocks are selling off before the tariff rollout because remember tomorrow is the famed liberation day it's gonna be wednesday what is it wednesday oh well yeah that's right well no that's right yeah the first so it's the wednesday the second so we're just days away so this i mean this was i don't know the s&p dropped 0.4 percent am i freaking out over 0.4 percent no no i'm not The NASDAQ composite fell 1.3.

Am I freaking out over that? I don't know. No. Dow Jones, what did it slide? 0.3.

I mean, the way that they made it sound like it sounds like a crash, right? But it's not.

So I think everybody needs to chill and not freak out right now. Richard Chamberlain. I almost know who he is. His name sounds familiar, and I think I've seen him before. He looks like the guy who played in Sound of Music but isn't.

The Von Trapp dude. But it's not him. Anyway, he was in Shogun and the Thorn Birds. My mom watched that, so I remembered the Thorn Birds. Anyway, he passed away.

Does it count as my three? I would say so. Do you think so? Because we've had two others, so this would be the third. Yeah, I think so.

Okay, yeah, because we had two last week.

So, yeah, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, all right, that works. Also, now apparently we have to worry about cat flu. I hate everything. yes apparently birds cats got bird flu and now it's cat flu per this article they do eat birds well yeah but they said that the cat got fever stopped eating the test from the vet came back positive for bird flu the cat was lethargic trouble breathing so if your cat's being weird take her to the vet I mean it's just real simple I don't mean to sound mean but let's see this I really don't want to have this headline So apparently the skanky dating apps that are based upon skankiness, they were exposed and 1.5 million private users have images online.

That is some messed up stuff. I don't even want it. And you know what I mean by images? I'm not talking about like avatars and stuff. I'm not talking about memes.

Way. How much of it though? Here's the big question. How much of it is Hunter Biden's? And the second part of that is, do you actually want to know?

I would say no. I'm interpreting the silence as a no. Police arrested parents for complaining about the school on WhatsApp. Oh, today in Britain. Oh, yes.

The parents in Britain at Cowley Hill Primary School, they exchanged messages through the WhatsApp. And the conflict began when the couple began complaining over the education of their special needs daughter. and the Hertfordshire police, they arrested them. They said it was malicious communication. Wow.

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The tariffs will be far more generous than those countries were to us, meaning they will be kinder. than those countries were to the United States of America over the decades. They ripped us off like no country's ever been ripped off in history. And we're going to be much nicer than they were to us, but it's substantial money for the country, nevertheless.

So POTUS also says that the secondary tariffs that he's imposing, for instance, on countries that are buying Venezuelan oil, that they've already had a strong effect. He said all the ships left. He said they dropped the hoses right into the ocean and they left. They're not playing. We're not playing no games.

We play no games is what he said. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you are at the bottom of this first hour. And this all kicks in on Wednesday. And apparently, in addition to the tariffs with as it relates to Venezuela, they were saying that the there could be secondary tariffs on Iran as well.

if they don't make any kind of progress on a deal to end their nuclear program. And POTUS says, you know, he said, I wanted a deal, preferred something to the alternative. Everybody knows what that is. And then he goes, it's not going to be pretty. If basically they don't go along, he said, it's not going to be pretty.

Well, and meanwhile, he also hit Zelensky saying he wants to back out of that mineral rights deal, that rare earth elements deal. And he goes, if he does that, he's got some problems. And he also said he's never going to be a member of NATO. If he's looking to renegotiate the deal, he's got big problems. Yeah, Ukraine's not going to be a NATO member.

It's just not going to happen.

So the, I don't know, it looks like, I mean, really the stock market for all of the headlines, and I feel like the press is really trying to get everybody all amped up and all freaked out, and everybody's going to take their money and they're going to hide it in their bed. Where's your hiding spot for your money? I just realized something right as I was telling this to you guys. I don't have like a special like hiding spot for all my money. I mean, I've got, you know, like what did our grandmas do back in the day?

Like, didn't they put stuff in jars? Shoe boxes? Sidebar to my sidebar. Going through your grandparents' stuff after they pass away, Downsizing and going Like with my stepdad's mother Going through all of her stuff That woman had things And stuff in boxes With more stuff in it And then it was like a Russian nesting doll Of stuff The stuffery It was everywhere She had stuff hidden everywhere Just like where crazy I don't have any crazy places I feel like I should When does that kick in When you start hiding things in crazy places It's around 55 I just realized I need to develop that My problem is I hide things To save them and then I totally forget Where they are I do this with Christmas presents all the time I hide them and then I Totally lose them no idea where they are And then I find them a year later Oh there you know it's so horrible So bad anyway If you randomly get a gift at some point It's your Christmas gift I just found it It's what it is Anyway back to my point The media is trying to get you so freaked out about all of this. They are so terrible.

They want you to make a run on the banks. They want you to flip out. They want you to stop investing. They want you to shut down. They need the economy to be bad.

And they're so giddy because they don't understand how tariffs work. And they also don't understand there's a difference between having it as a policy and then using it as leverage, as a tactic to get better policy. There's a major difference. And I feel like some of the people don't understand this. And I feel that way because they don't understand this.

It's the truth of it.

So, I mean, honestly, 0.3 here and 0.5 there. Cain, that's not a dramatic. That's the way, like when I first saw the headlines, like, oh, the stock market is sliding. I'm like, oh my gosh, what happened? How many points?

Do you remember during the Biden administration when we had two negative GDP quarters and they refused to call it a recession? Matter of fact, they even changed the definition of recession. Remember that? They literally downplayed actual 15 plus percent drops in the stock market at that time and didn't call two quarters in a row with negative GDP a recession. That was during the Biden administration.

You are correct, sir. I do remember that. I do remember that. That wasn't a recession. It wasn't a big deal.

Negative growth. No, no big deal. Whatever. Huh. But the stock market does.

Point three. Little ebb and flow in the stock market. All of a sudden, it's the end of the world. They're losing their minds. And all of a sudden, when Democrats leave the White House, they turn around and go, have you guys seen those egg prices?

What? They're actually down now.

Well, I know, but you know how they immediately, the second he was out of office. Guys, seen those egg prices? Why does Trump hate eggs? It was literally like that. Like, November 4th, economy's great.

November 5th, oh boy, that economy. Yeah. Wow. Who knew the economy was so bad? And we're like, yeah, we've been telling you guys this.

This the whole time. We've been telling you.

So, I don't know. Elon Musk was in Wisconsin. And he's up there. This is one of those races I was telling you about because they're going to gerrymander everything up there. He was talking about the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, which we talked about last week.

That and the 6th Congressional District in Florida. Really interesting ones to watch right now. And he was explaining, too, if they're able to redraw these districts, they're going to gerrymander this all up. And they're going to deny. You're going to basically deduct two House seats on the Republican side.

There goes. That puts us, what, one plus one in the House? And it makes no sense because we actually had the population move into these red districts over the last four years. We've seen it. They come from California.

They come from New York. They come from all these other lefty places.

So in reality, we should be getting more representation. Yeah, well, we should. But that's not going to be that way. I mean, it's 218 to 215. That literally put...

Now, keep in mind, that is already two seats short. because you have Waltz and Gates's seat, both out of Florida, because Gates couldn't get over his baggage, and that ended up being totally foobard. And then Waltz is serving in the president's cabinet, and now that sixth congressional district race that Mike Waltz was in, they got a guy. Who's that right now? He was on the show.

Randy Fine. I'll give him credit. Look how nice I am. I am so nice. Can I just take a moment and just appreciate my niceness?

Dana you're so nice Thank you me High fives So I was high fiving myself That's not an air clap That's me giving myself a high five Because I deserve it He doesn't even live in the district He doesn't live there He legit does not live there How do you run for a district In which you don't even live If you're in Florida And you can't get mad at the people In the six congressional district in Florida This is where Republicans just get so stupid. They could have run like an actual conservative, but then they choose that dude, the rhino we had on, Mr. Special Interest Money Taker. And he has foobarred that race to where he's tied with the Democrat. Mike Waltz won that seat by like plus 30.

It was like actually 28, I think, plus 28. He won that seat by double digits And Randy Fine is tied He tied Because he doesn live there And he such a bad candidate And you can get mad at those voters in that district because they know the Democrat They don know this guy He doesn even live there I mean, when you put up a bad candidate and you're a Republican, you put up a bad candidate, you can't get mad at voters for, for questioning why you, this is why I get so aggravated.

So these two, these two races are important.

So he was there. He was in Wisconsin over the weekend And he was asked, you know, why is it that you're doing what you do? Audio Sunbite 6 Well, he gave an answer to that here I mean, I worry generally about the strength of America You know, America is the central column That holds up all of Western civilization So if you like The temple of western civilization America is the central column If that column fails, it's all over And he's right It's the central column That's holding up all of civilization And I think that he He is a Weird protagonist For the right, right I mean, it's a weird thing This is what a coalition looks like though and he did hand out checks etc he did all that uh he also explained uh that uh social security was a giant ponzi scheme which again it was and he's while this is happening there were more and more attacks on tesla owners pulling up the story 70 year old tesla protester hit a trump supporter with their car why are they're old they're calm they're boomer communist they're not like the hit the boomer hippies that just like stay in the woods and pick mushrooms they're not like those people you know they come in and they watch some jeopardy and they never watch jeopardy by the way with anybody over age 70 just don't do it because you're gonna lose horrifically it's sad and makes you question your existence. But this is why Cain doesn't like old people. That's not true.

So, what? I was talking to the listeners. That isn't true.

So, this 70-year-old, he ran down this Trump supporter outside of a dealership. And the guy said that the Idaho resident, Christopher Talbot, allegedly made an obscene gesture to a counter protester and then drove his car into him.

Okay, that's not protected speech lefties. I don't like you. That's just not protected speech. That's attempted murder. That's attempted murder.

The victim was struck. And then he apparently had just got out of his vehicle when Talbot struck him with his car. And if you had to draw a photo of what the guy looked like, It's exactly what I would do right there.

So Talbot was booked in Ada County jail. He didn't qualify for bond. He's being charged with felony aggravated battery. They don't have the speed at which he hit. It was something I was looking at.

I'm just kind of curious. Like, do you gun it? I mean, don't. You're going to run down somebody because you don't over Tesla. You people are freaks.

These people are freaks. I don't like the Indian on the butter. I'm going to protest. I don't like the black woman on the pancake syrup. They don't want minorities on any products.

They hate minorities. They don't want any minorities on any products. They actually literally confiscated the syrup from the black woman. And they confiscated the land from the Indian on the butter box. Just like Democrats have done in history.

I mean, damn. They gotta be consistent with this stuff. Even in marketing. Who knew? This guy's in jail and uh there were there were more there nobody got run over uh at the one in my town square but there were there were people who i got another one for you i think we have this audio too uh we got so wait here this is this is another one this is a different one audio somebody 24 this is a totally different person going ham on somebody over tesla watch take a look at this this This is video from the victim's Tesla camera.

It shows a green car pulling up to a Tesla on busy Route 66, then swerving in front to box the Tesla in. The driver then walks over to the 61-year-old woman in the Tesla and reportedly starts hitting her while she's sitting behind the wheel. At one point, the woman says she bit the man's hand. Moments later, the passenger of the green car appears to walk over and pull the attacker away. They finally get back in their car and drive off.

Okay, I'm not going to lie. I would have rammed into their car as they were getting into it. And if there was a cliff, I'd have pushed them off it. I'm not going to lie. Don't listen to me.

I'm a horrible little bad voice that's on your shoulder. Don't. I mean, at least for that. That's insane. I mean, I've disliked people's bumper stickers before, and I wanted to peel them off their car when they weren't in it.

But I never thought about doing anything like that. Because, see, I like to think I'm a normal, happy person. These people are freaks. Who does this? who sees what you know how many the left was telling you for so long to buy a a tesla like not not even just like even a not just any ev but tesla they they all went out i have friends on the left who pertinent friends family members who purchased teslas because they wanted them you hated the environment if you didn't have one oh my gosh you hated Mother earth And all the baby animals You hate all of them if you did not buy a Tesla Why do you hate the baby animals It's just that's the stuff they did And I I mean I just I don't know now I feel like I want to buy One is this a giant psyop to get us Now think about it This could be a way To make everybody go out And get and get a Tesla get an EV Out of spite spite purchasing I'm saying, you know, it's making me kind of want to go do that.

If that was the end goal, this is a brilliant psyop. I mean, this shows some progression, I think, right? This guy who ran this lady over, or this 33-year-old Robert Antherton, Antherton, Robert Antherton, I'm going to use that guy's name, in his green car, he could face up to 20 years in prison. He just not only, didn't even know this broad, gets out of his car. And just starts wailing on her.

And the other, this is wild. Over a Tesla. This is what the left wants. They hate you. This is what the left wants.

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The way they're pulling up with masks on, with unmarked vehicles, no badge, no nothing. It could be anybody. uh no it couldn't be because they usually come out with their badges and they come literally with ice cars and just you know here's the thought this is going to be crazy but maybe come in legally you know or self-deport yeah or or go back and then try it again legally you know i mean they make it easy. Coming up in our second hour, we got all the latest with Liberation Day.

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Well, yeah, there that looks like what's going to happen. That's UAW president Sean Fain, who. I mean, if we are on the same page of onshoring jobs and manufacturing, then, yeah, I get it. But let's not forget, we've kind of been at odds over everything else. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you We're at the top of the second hour Everybody is trying to get you to freak out over Liberation Day, Cain, April 2nd What can we expect?

So what's going to happen on Liberation Day? I mean, now, if you listen to the way the media tells you And by the way, Dana Lash with you Again, good to be with you, top of the second hour You're going to wake up that morning? And Cain? it's going to be a red sky red sky at night sailors delight red sky in morning sailors take warning right if you think Dana does this eerily sound like the burbs yes when Ray was talking to Tom Hanks it does but let's move past that you're going to wake up it's going to be a red sky and it's going to be raining acid acid rain acid rain it's going to be doing that my lord yeah and um we're all going to be broken there's going to be no none of your products coming in don't think about ordering shine or timu not gonna happen shouldn't be doing it anyway but definitely not gonna happen mainstream media is that you oh you're gonna go to the bank to get some money and it's gone all gone because elon musk ate it all he went in there and hoovered it all up or Dyson did all up. I don't know.

Hoover's better. And then you're not going to have any food. You're going to open your fridge and the food that literally was just in there is all gone. You know, it's like a it's like a rapture, but for all your stuff, you know, and then you're not going to be able to afford anything and then you're going to die poor, broken alone. And that's what's going to happen on April 2nd.

If you listen to the media, does sound believable. It does. You know, I mean, man. Yeah, it does sound believable. Like your dog will disappear.

Your kids will hate you. You'll be broke. You know, it's, you know, all the calories that you think you worked off at the gym, they're going to come back twofold. Yeah. Wait, food's going to disappear, but the fat's coming back?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm just saying. Man. You know, that's what's going to, if you listen to the media, that's what's going to happen. Stupid Trump and his tariffs. Dang, Trump.

And it's because of those tariffs. It's crazy. Eggs are going to disappear. Chickens will randomly blow up in the barnyard. That's what's going to happen.

Crazy weeping and gnashing of teeth. Lakes of fire. Just horrible. You're going to be writhing on spits. It's just horrible.

We need to make sure whatever happens on April 2nd doesn't happen. Yeah, if you're listening to the media, this is what's in store for you when you wake up on April 2nd. You know, makes you want to be against those tariffs, right? And then they're going to come. And then you know what also is going to happen on Liberation Day?

Again, if you're listening to the press, you know what else is going to happen? Those Republicans are going to come and take up all your health care. they're gonna come and scoop it up and run away with it do you know that kane they're gonna break into your home and scoop up your health care and run away all of it it's gone i mean after they did it with the aca all your health cares are gone after the aca did it they're gonna do it again uh-huh yeah they're gonna yeah yeah that's right and then your social securities are gone they're gonna scoop that up and take that away i don't know this is what that's what the media says all because of trump's tariffs that's what i'm told i mean right betting a thousand as far as truth you know i'm saying the media rarely are they wrong you know i mean they wanted you to freak out and have a stroke this morning over a 0.3 dip i mean it just you know horrible your life alerts won't work anymore you know coming up on april 2nd if you hit that button thinking And someone's going to go, ma'am, are you okay? It's not going to work because Trump's tariffs. Horrible things.

Right? It's going to be, yeah, it's going to be horrible. I mean, if you believe the left. If you believe these things that they're telling you. Or not.

Or, now just hear me out. Or they're not going to do that. That's not going to happen. It's actually not going to be that. It might be like a 0.5 or a 0.3 dip in the S&P or the NASDAQ here and there.

But again, it's one thing if this is just the policy. It is another thing if it is a tactic in obtaining better policy. And the left, just like they don't want to pay attention to the phrase illegal immigrant, they like to conflate all of this as well.

So I'm I don't want you to think that I'm downplaying Any kind of concerns I just don't care It's just the truth of the matter You know And I share this story with you This guy has been complaining Do you know John Boyega? The actor He was in the Imaginative Oscar winning Star Wars The Force Awakens where they take this chick from literally out of nowhere. And they make her into somebody who's apparently better, like, immediately than Luke Skywalker ever was.

Somebody who is immediately better than even Darth Vader ever was. Than even the Sith Lord himself. Out of nowhere. You might say a Mary Jane. You would, yes.

But, remember that one? And then he was in it for a little bit. Remember him?

So when they came out with The Force Awakens, they uh it was really because in order for films to be released in certain countries you have to like particularly china if you want access to all of their screens and they have a lot of screens then you have to jump through a lot of hoops you're going to do a lot of stuff in order to to access that and they did it they made sure that china was happy and one of the things that china had requested was they because they're the ccp the communist china communist china is super racist. And I don't say that the way that left the left says everything racist. I mean, they really do hate black people. They, they are so racist. Go back and look at what happened to black people during COVID with the CCP.

Just go read some of those fun stories. It is crazy. The CCP is hyper, super, legit racist, right? And so one of the conditions that they had with Disney, and this was a huge thing when it happened, they had John Boyega erased from all of their marketing materials.

Now, he was a pretty central character in The Force Awakens, right?

So he was removed from their promotional materials. And he complained about Disney bent the knee, and they did that. They did that to him. And so he complained about it, you know, understandably. And I haven't really seen, you know, he hasn't done a lot.

He's he's he seems to have a chip on his shoulder a little bit. He now says, let me pull this story up. This is out of variety. And I think this is I mean, there were a lot of people upset, by the way, when Disney wrote his when they literally CCP he washed his character out of all the promotional materials there.

Now, he says this, quote, Star Wars is so white that a black person existing in it is a big deal. He says toxic fans are okay with us playing the friend, but we can't touch their heroes. That's what he said. He said, quote, let me tell you, Star Wars always had the vibe of being the most whitest, being in the most whitest delete space. He says it's a franchise so white that a black person existing in it was something.

James Earl Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Dee Williams would love to, their legacies would love to have a word. And then he said that, like, he's like, they can play their best friend, but don't touch their, what are you talking about? What is he talking about? Why is he so mad?

Nobody in the United States whitewashed him out of promotional materials. That was done for the CCP. I don't know why he's still complaining about this or about going on this race. He didn't even get it right the first time. He got mad at Disney when they whitewashed his character out of it.

But then now, apparently, it's everybody's problem. It's everybody's issue. That's him there. That's John Boyega there.

So I, I mean, and he was, he's a good actor. He's been in a couple of other things. Wasn't he in that one, the one film where they had like the two robots that battled all this? I don't remember the Jaegers. I don't remember all that.

Remember that? That was like a, it was like loosely based on anime. Anyway, long story short.

So he's complaining about this and he's bringing up, making this like a racial thing, which I just, I don't understand. Because again, when the people who erased him out, it was the CCP. And a lot of people here in the United States were upset about that. There's only so many main characters to go around, right? You have Darth Vader, and then you have Luke Skywalker, and then you have Princess Leia.

What is he mad about? I mean, the guy of guys was voiced by James Earl Jones. And he turned out to be a hero in the end. What are you talking about? He's got a chip on his shoulder, honestly.

If you want better roles, maybe. Here's the thought. Be a better actor. No one's canceling you because you're black It's probably because you're not a good actor You need to be a better actor You should be as Your acting should be louder than your bitching about it Just saying Let that talent speak for itself Good heavens, these people It's always with something Alright, so we got Liberation Day I don't know if you were You probably don't follow a lot of this stuff with, and we'll talk more about this also with Stephen Yates coming up, as it relates to France and some of the stuff that's been happening over there. You know, in a number of these European countries, you've had a major conservative movement underway.

You have AFD in Germany. You have more towards their constitution, not ours, conservative candidates in Hungary. The Socialist Party had major defeats last election in Spain. Italy now is the conservative leader of the EU. France had some pretty humiliating defeats and it busted up their parliament coalition.

And with France, too, here's what's crazy.

So the party of Marine Le Pen, and she is a conservative, a big conservative in France. She, looking at all the polling and all the metrics, is she stands to win in 2027, their presidential election in France. Emmanuel Macron is so just defeated right now. They're, I mean, conservatives are making huge inroads. A lot of it has to do with immigration and finance.

Well, there was new polling that was published. She's like, she's beating everybody. She is the number one candidate right now in France and she's gonna win.

Now, guess what? They decided, they trumped her. They decided that they're going to find her guilty of embezzlement or something. I mean, it's a sham persecution. We're going to talk more about this because they're trying to keep her off the ballot in 2027.

She's going to win. You think, by the way, she's had she's like been fighting the socialists in that country for two decades. She's not going to be stupid and do something so dumb that they would be at first off. But number two, this is an absolute witch hunt. We're going to talk about this more coming up here.

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So apparently Roger Daltrey is pretty much deaf and blind. He says that he revealed a devastating health battle on stage during a charity concert. Roger Daltrey of The Who. And he said that in this piece over at The Sun, which buried the lead seven paragraphs down, he said that he's also going blind.

So he's like deaf.

Now he's going blind. And he says, fortunately, I still have my voice because then I'll have a full Tommy.

So that's, there you go. There you go.

So he's got, at least he's good natured about it. Let's, yeah. I thought this said meth. The headline, using a tiny bit of meth may approve heart health. You can see now why I was pausing.

According to, you know, I was going to say, honestly, it's 2025. If you put that, I'd be like, yeah, that tracks. You know, I don't know. A study suggests a new measure that looks at your daily heart rate per step or DERPS. it's called derps what are your derps today yeah i don't care about this story because it's just it's health stuff i'll die when i die just i'll get a body scan just let me know i'll die when i die no they said that you can monitor uh your daily heart rate per step gives you insight into how efficiently your heart is working according to some smart people who researched it and uh so apparently that's the measure that you got to use so there we are uh let's see elon musk said he sold x to his ai company so it's still the same owners uh one dead after a plane crashed into a home in minneapolis in a suburb of brooklyn park that's horrific and very scary and a united flight collided with a kite brand new incident at reagan national airport i mean it a kite and why who flying a kite right by an airport and who and i find that boring if you like flying kites that great for you but you just putting some up in the sky and staring at it you know i don't know it's new like paintball sounds way more fun good for benjamin franklin yeah well we're past those days now you know we're we're here in the future just saying we got a lot more in store including uh some of the latest with I Got Culture for You and also Immigration.

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So I could not be more happy and more grateful to this guy for making the trip to Texas and showing up for us. Thank you. We're glad to do it. To Texas, Tim Walton, making me relevant again, even for a half second, says Beto. Beto O'Rourke.

The guy whose dad literally admitted that he gave him a Hispanic nickname to be more appealing to voters because he just thought his dad, a judge, thought he was just going to hand over that, like, you know, a dynasty. Welcome back, bottom of the second hour. I don't know why they're together. They're amplifying the stupid. What?

You didn't see how authentic that friendship is? They're so authentic. They look like they've known each other. Two bros hanging out. What?

Just some couple of bros hanging out there, wherever they're hanging out at. That's I forgot about Beto. I forgot about him. Yeah, we all did. And then Tim Walsh is here.

They come together. They're like the same person at different points in the time continuum. All right? They're the same person, just different points in the time continuum. You have David Hogg, who is the first iteration.

Then it's Beto O'Rourke. and then it's Tim Walls. They're the same person, just different points. And Beto O'Rourke is still, I don't know how you can look so thirsty, meaning desperate for attention, by just standing there and talking. But he does.

He gives off that vibe, doesn't he? I will never forget after he lost Beto. I don't even remember, don't remind me. It's not important, but I can't remember which race it was because he lost like all these races in a row. And then he thought, I'm going to go on the road and go find myself and then upload dispatches from the road.

You guys remember all of that?

So that's what he did, right? He went on the road and he would like give these like little camp letters, letters from camp while he was on the road. And he's like, yeah, he just left his kids with his wife and took off.

Now keep in mind, this is a guy who's never worked a job that he's gotten himself. He works with his wife's furniture Family's furniture business I think And he always His dad had always gotten him a job The reason I mean if you read the reporting Remember he got hit With a DUI and they said he was trying To flee the scene and his dad Was apparently instrumental In getting all of that Taken care of Kane says that Beto Looks like a young John Kerry John Kerry Who also grifts off as a married yeah i i agree john carrey is ew he's kind of like a it looks like beto would graduate into a john carrey type character i don't think he would ever win a senate election though i don't think i don't think beto could even go to a democrat state and win an election he just isn't likable there were a lot of women that thought it just gross he's gross he's i when the left sits here and they talk about toxic masculinity. I don't believe that it exists. But if I had to be pressed to say that it did, I'd point to him. That's toxicity.

A guy who just, I'm going to go find myself after I lost like two or three seats, two or three elections, left the kids with the wife and hit the road. Jeez. Remember when he did a picture with his dog and his dog acted like he didn't even like him?

So he's there with Tim Walz because they're that desperate. That's how desperate they are right now. They're all fighting for control of the Democrat Party, and they're so desperate. They have no – they're trying everything that they can, even bringing back him. I'm waiting to see Wendy Davis.

Beto O'Rourke was a guy who – they ran him as a way to cede the ground for more voters. That's ultimately why he was a thing, if he was a thing. That's the reason why. He was ceding voters, and he believed his own hype. if that's all they have to offer i i'll say this democrats have a big problem ahead of themselves well they have a big problem they're dealing with right now they are in a fight it's a it's a fight for the direction of their party it's a fight for the the spiritual soul of their party and they don't know really what to do.

They have no idea. That's why you see the Jasmine Crockett's and fighting with the people like Chuck Schumer and then you have the AOC's. AOC is just, she's taking the safe track and going with Bernie because Bernie's kind of outside the whole construct and so she just went outside of it. By the way, speaking of Jasmine Crockett, can we play? And Cain's laughing.

Do you know what I want? Let's play audio sound by 11. Let's do this. Boy, you're going to want to hear this. And if we continue to put people into office, and that even means some of our skin folk who definitely are not our kin folk, such as Byron Donalds, who are going to continue to say that, like, I mean, the fact that you're sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow.

Like, is this because you don't understand history? Or literally it's because you married a white woman. and so you think that that whitewashed you. I'm not really sure what it is. You didn't even be married to a white woman under gender.

Correct. Correct. And it's a joy to call him out.

So I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? What are you saying? And it's a joy to call him out? I feel like they give him his talking points and he's like, yes, sir, I got it. She's like a black Klansman.

Good grief. What in the world? I mean, she really is trying to be that Maxine Waters. She's trying so hard to be her. When you are this crazy, you make yourself irrelevant.

I don't think that she's moving the needle for anybody at all. I mean, she's not moving. She's not winning over moderate. She's not winning over independence. And she's clearly a racist.

Absolute racist. That's ridiculous. Calling out somebody because they married a white woman. And why is she so invested in his marriage? Why does that matter?

It's 2025. I mean, why do you have plantation mentality? good grief. That's, I mean, just when I think she can't go low, she goes lower. It's, but this is, that's the left.

I mean, I think she should talk even more than she's talking now. I want to hear more from her. Love it for the Democrats. I love that for them. That's such a great journey for them, right?

Just think of all the promotional materials. It's amazing. No one else in the party, though, will check her. Why is that Have you noticed that not a single person in that party has been like can you maybe stop Can you calm down a little bit ma'am? This is a wendy's.

Can you just maybe not do that? Be great It would be great. I wanted to bring up this story too. I had this saved from last week and it had to do with Firearms in the caribbean.

Now you're going to be like, well, do you know what they're trying to say first off? They're trying to go after American manufacturers through this.

So Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he's been, I think, absolutely everywhere. And he was in Jamaica for work to talk about gun running because there is a major problem. And a lot of it is centralized, not really like so much in Venezuela, but in Haiti. This has been a problem. If you've listened to the show for any period of time, you've heard us discuss this.

So he was there in Jamaica and they were talking about the global war on gangs. And he was saying that there has to be more done to stop the flow of firearms. This is all black market stuff, by the way. That's why it's black market, because they're trying to evade the laws that are already in place. And you can't make it illegal or right.

Does that make sense?

so the firearms that have been popping up in the caribbean uh some a lot of them have been coming from u.s ports right and they're saying like the compass was saying that 75 percent of some of these offenses could be linked you know to originating in the u.s or whatever and they may have but again this is black market i don't the way that the press talks about it makes it so confusing because they're acting like these are somehow legit sales. Like gun manufacturers are just selling guns to Haitian gangs. It's not really at all how it's working. I mean, a lot of this stuff, if they were, I mean, it's either they were stolen, they were acquired versus, you know, on the black market. I don't think this issue, this isn't an issue of sales because that's all again done outside of the law that exists.

Now, if you don't, if you have exports of arms like this, and you're you're going through that process, you have to go through the State Department. Otherwise, the State Department has to sanction all that stuff. And that's, I mean, that's just the way that's the process. Clearly, people supplying guns to gangs aren't going through those processes. I'm so shocked that the criminals aren't going to follow the laws that they're the criminals in their pursuit of violating an even greater law are not following the smaller laws wow right so i don't know um why the atf isn't looking at that if they're a department that wants to do something that's something that they should be looking at because a lot of the stuff like for instance as it particularly relates to haiti they've been there have been a lot of guns coming in from Haiti into islands, into Jamaica, into Dominican Republic, into Turks and Caicos.

Now, the reason I bring up this story is because, especially as it pertains to some of these other islands in the Caribbean, why is Marco Rubio there and not somebody from the UK? And here's why. These nations are all Commonwealth nations, these islands in the Caribbean. And yes, we have our Coast Guard and our National Guard and all this stuff that go miles and miles out. But these countries all fall under the association of the Commonwealth.

So you have England, you have Great Britain, you have the UK, and you have the Commonwealth. And those are all different collections of nations with each one. The Commonwealth, you have preferred trading. You're a preferred trading partner. There's economic attributes that are shared.

And you also have defense, right? Shared defense is also part of being a member of the Commonwealth. And for instance, like Turks and Caicos Islands, member of the Commonwealth, their crime has tripled. because they are getting an influx and they've had a problem with illegal immigrants coming in from Haiti for so long. I told you guys this story.

Just bear with me if you've heard it. Because we always used to go to Turks and Caicos Islands. They actually upgraded the warning level for tourists there now because of all this stuff. And Turks and Caicos Islands used to be able to, even if you wanted to stay at a resort, you could leave the resort and you could go anywhere. You know, you could go into town.

You could go to like one of the conch shacks. You could go anywhere and it was totally safe it's becoming so much less safe nobody does that anymore and uh talking with a lot of we going there for so long we got to know um a lot of people who live there um and even people who are active within the government and they're all livid because they are they're trying to do as much as they can as it pertains to illegal immigration but they can only do so much when they're just getting overwhelmed i we were on the beach one time, my oldest son and I, and there was a boat coming in from Haiti and they had like over 50 illegal immigrants on it. And they had no idea if they had drugs, guns, or weapons. You have no idea, right? You have no clue.

A boat of people and they were mostly males. They were like 99% males. I think there was one female, all men coming into your small island, you know, and you have to regulate who comes into your island and who doesn't at TCI because you have resources, not just, you know water but power etc and uh they had i watched as like you know uh all these super kitted out law enforcement uh came out of the woodwork and the plants and everything just appeared on the beach and i asked one of them i'm like i'm not like you know i told him i said i'm not you know freaked out by by you know i actually feel safe because you have all this but What's happening and that's when they said well Nothing to worry about but it's a huge boat coming in from haiti I was talking to some friends of ours last time we were there and they said that that used to be maybe one boat every Maybe once or twice a week, right that they would have to repel or they would take them into custody and they did They took everyone into custody and sent them back now. It's like multiple times a day Multiple times a day. They're running drugs.

They're running guns everyone now they said everyone on that island Native from TCI Everybody has been touched by violence or death Because of the gangs and drug violence coming in from Haiti Now they're angry because they're a commonwealth nation And they're saying the commonwealth is doing nothing So my question is why is it just Rubio there? Why isn't someone from the British commonwealth there? Because this is your issue Why are you not getting These are your commonwealth nations Why are you not getting this stuff under control? Because it can't just be the U.S. all the time We have a lot more in store We have Florida Man coming up as well as we move our partners, folks who help bring you the program.

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So we got a Florida woman who got into some major, major trouble.

So this Florida woman was slapped with a felony charge because she vandalized a Tesla with a large wad of chewing gum. uh yamorous morero was initially charged with felony criminal mischief and the sentry camera system caught her it was in uh it was in the jc penny porken lot at the mall in miami date according to local 10 and uh she was pictured literally just sticking it on the vehicle uh She's 45. How in the hell is she 45 also? 45? Hate ages you, dude.

Wait, she? You said she? Yeah. Oh, okay. Because it's a chick.

I don't think she's trans. I don't think she's trans. I guess I was blurred vision when I first looked at the photo. She's not the most attractive woman. You know?

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Yeah, I mean, I I mean, isn't it isn't it shocking how much violence and hatred is coming from the left? I mean isn't this supposed isn't supposed to be the party that they claim to be the party of empathy and yet they're burning the burning Teslas and shooting up dealerships and Calling for the death of the president and me. I'm like guys, you know, this is this is insane like Yeah, but that's what they're doing. That's who they are. That's exactly who they are.

That's the left. Elon Musk is shocked by this. We've seen this for a while. Those of us who've seen it since like going back to the Occupy Wall Street days, we've seen it for quite some time. Welcome back to the program.

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and uh oh yeah there were we played all of the i think we had the video of of all the ones that were in my town we there was apparently at least what four instances there were protests over the weekend but there were a couple of other instances over the weekend too where somebody got hurt because of how they were they were driving a tesla i think tesla owners need to arm themselves this was in my town square and it was all this is when they went they started going home and at noon they stopped it was they promptly stopped at noon and um they were and the tesla is in like a it's set up like it's our town square is like an almost an old 1950s style development i mean they did it to go throw back to main street usa and uh yeah there's all the old boomers the commie boomers that are leaving not the peaceful hippie ones that stay out in the woods and you know like they what do they they ground cane is that what they call grounding and pick them like mushrooms basically little little happy hippies snow white hippies out there talking to the animals these are not that these are the mean commies that are mean to people and cuss at everybody there were business owners that had to close their doors there they're standing by vineyard vines they weren't even in front of the tesla so the tesla building if you're watching this video is if you see the brown building with the blue awnings, that's the vineyard vines. And right next to it, there's a white, you can see a white strip right between the tree and that brown building. That's the Tesla. It's actually kind of a small showroom. That's the Tesla.

So it's, there's no parking really in the front and they were all there right in front of the vineyard vines.

Okay.

Well, all the moms vineyard vines, it's a Saturday. All the kids are going, you know, with the moms in the spring break, they're all going into the vineyard vines, not my jam, but they go in there, right? They're going, and there were people, there were businesses that had to, some of them had to close their doors because these people were so like just nasty, cussing, screaming at people, uh, mean people, mean people. We can't even really play any of the audio. I have other video, but we can't show it to you because they're, some of them have cuss words on their placards that they wrote and everybody's given the finger.

I think that one guy's actually given the finger in the video uh everybody like that was their favorite thing to do a sea of you know commie hippies out there giving the finger anyway so that was uh in my town over the weekend and then they all left promptly at noon there's no overtime pay then they all leave and um that didn't that made me wanted to buy a tesla was that i don't know i feel like if i was a company owner just hear me out I would want it to look like people were protesting and telling you not to purchase my product so that the reverse psychology would work and you would actually want to purchase my product right? That's how it goes. That sounds right just saying. Just saying I'm going to talk to Stephen Yates about this but what's going on in France right now is insane and I it's one of those things that yes I'm actually concerned about it and I think that you need to also be as well, because it is a way to, it's basically the socialists, the Marxists, the people in the EU trying to stop the conservative movement in France. And in the press in Europe, and I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who was born in a socialist country in the Eastern Bloc.

And, you know, there was young when the country pushed back against Russia. And anyway, she was discussing how what's happening over there. That's exactly she's like, that's exactly what they do. That's how it's done. They'll do anything that they can to stop you from ascending.

This sounds just like what they were they were doing to Trump in New York. Remember the case with Trump in New York wasn't that was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life, they were trying to fabricate what could best be described as a disagreement about bookkeeping. And even if it was a legitimate misdemeanor, and the reason I posed the scenario like that is no other prosecutor wanted to take this case because none of them thought it was actionable.

So they had to get what's his face at their Alvin Bragg to do it. At best, a disagreement about bookkeeping. And even then, even if it was a misdemeanor, it had already, the statute of limitations had already run out on it. But what they concocted, if you remember, is an unnamed second crime that they were trying to use as a way to justify the elevation of this to felony level.

Now, in New York, they have a very, they have a different law there where if you commit one crime that's a misdemeanor, you got a misdemeanor, fine. But if that crime is committed in the commission of hiding another crime, even if that other crime is a misdemeanor, then they can choose, the prosecutor can elevate that to a felony.

So in order to get that felony charge on Trump, they had to create out of the ether, a mystery second crime, but they never actually stated what it was in the charging documents. And if you remember, also the jury, and Lorraine wrote about this over a chapter and verse, the jury was instructed to not give attention to or give consideration to the nature of the crime that was the secondary mystery crime Just know that there was a crime that was committed That what the jury was told How do you So they could fabricate even with the expired statute of limitations, so they could try to elevate that to a felony, right? That is some witchery, okay? That's like a Rube Goldberg thing to try to, you know, so they could say he's a convicted felon.

Well, they're doing the same thing in France with Marine Le Pen, who is leading every poll. France, their socialists got their backsides kicked in their last election. They're getting gutted slowly but surely. The French are tired of it. They're tired of it.

They're tired of the deluge of illegal immigration. France isn't French anymore. They're tired of it. They're tired of people coming into the country illegally. They're tired of the taxation.

They're tired of all of it. And so Marine Le Pen and their conservative party have been making a lot of a lot of gains in that nation. And so now they've been accusing her, Marine Le Pen, because she's poised to win the presidential election in 2027.

So they were accusing her of impropriety with finances, with European money, which is weird because the head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, she is being investigated over like the past year. She's under investigation for financial impropriety. She's like super far left. and apparently you know she also has refused to uh provide the court with information texts discussions about her 35 billion dollar pfizer deal as well so she's super far left so they're kid gloving it with her because she has the right politics they fabricated this just out of the ether with maureen le pen so they're trying to trump her in france and they want her they want an immediate five-year ban. A guilty verdict would mean an immediate five-year ban from holding any public office at all whatsoever.

So they, by doing this, they effectively get her out of contention. This is, they found her guilty. They said she was guilty. I don't know how. They found her guilty of embezzlement of public funds and they banned her for five years running in elections.

That's awful convenient, isn't it? hmm i know they said that no one was judged for having done politics but yeah that's not even and no so they gave her a five-year ban on running for office it means uh it goes into effect immediately so that means the 2027 french presidential election that she is literally in the lead and will win that's not up for debate she will win it uh she's barred she they also gave a four-year prison sentence, two of which will be suspended. She got a $100,000 fine. Obviously, she's going to appeal. And if she appeals the jail sentence, the sentence is inapplicable at this point, the way that I understand it.

Their appeals process is apparently super stupid. I'm not even going to pretend to understand it. Their appeals process is very, very convoluted. But it's this, And it's very time consuming. And that's why they wanted a five year ban on her running for political office.

That even they wanted that to be concurrent, even with the appeals ongoing. How crazy. But here's what's weird. She can keep her parliamentary seat. They just don't want to run for president.

I mean, the appeals can take years over there. But the five-year ban, that kicks in immediately. And that's even while she's going through the appeals process. None of the other sentence is applicable because it is rendered inapplicable during an appeals process except for that. They got that to where that has to stick.

So only one part of the penalty actually can apply, but the other parts, they don't care. That's what it's all about. They are murdering You want to talk about killing democracy The French socialists are actually killing democracy In France right now That is precisely what they're doing This is unbelievable They're trying everything that they can Now This One of the things to note And I'm pulling this up And obviously You know the the the european media is you know they're just south they're they're so excited about this they've been running headline after headline after headline after headline they had wasn't their sitting prime minister uh let me pull this up i think their sitting prime minister actually didn't they get prosecuted for pretty much this for embezzlement I believe so So Just pulling on me So I Just think it's I just think this whole Thing is it's all on purpose it's All by design It is a hundred percent By design And the fact That it's happening and they're trying to Like with the sentence and the penalty And this is inapplicable because Appeals but this one sticks There's a major double standard because they've had people that they've prosecuted before for the same for embezzlement And there wasn't this kind of penalty associated with it And the judge they released a statement and this is from the guardian Regarding their decision to have this ban go into effect immediately And they said the court took into consideration The major disturbance of public order if a person is already convicted was a candidate in a presidential election So they act like they're the ones who are saving the democratic process, which is insane. I mean, this they're they're trying to rob a free and fair election is exactly what they're doing. I mean, even the spectator asks, is France actually still a democracy?

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All right, so first up, this uh this is actually something that's smart thomas massey is proposing to to require disclosure by political candidates if they are dual citizens he says he doesn't think dual citizens should serve in congress i actually agree i don't think that you should have dual citizenship if you're serving in elected office i completely agree with that i think that's going to get a lot of support but whether it goes anywhere because you only have like you know barely a majority in the house we'll see. Oh, what in the world is this?

Okay, so this story, I don't want to read the headline the way it is. In Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood is wondering who is putting gallons of urine in their recycling bin and why. It apparently started in September when one of the neighbors noted that their recycling bin wasn't collected. And he said he went to open the blue bin and there were a deposit of gallon-sized bottles of urine, six of them. The recycling hauler wouldn't take it because it's considered a biohazard.

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We're everywhere. We were talking about the – I'm trying to figure out the best way to use it as a verb. The trumping of Marine Le Pen. That's right. Yeah, that works.

Yeah, I think that works. In France. And there – I'm not even going to – I've already stopped trying to understand the French appeals process because that's one of the craziest things that I've ever – I actually still don't understand it. Bottom line, from everything that yours truly has seen, it looks even it looks as dumb as the New York attempt or what they were trying to do to Trump in New York. And for this and a million other things, because the weekend never sleeps, our very good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comms.

He's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He worked in not one but two presidential administrations. He is an expert on all things China, the best one in the biz and really everywhere. He knows all the things. He's like literally he's literally a magic eight ball.

He really is. He just I don't I don't recommend that you shake him, but I'll just tell you things. He joins us now. Good to see you, my friend. I I mean, I I like to think I'm fairly intelligent and I'm reading, you know, this what they were trying to get Marine Le Pen on.

And honestly, Stephen, it made me think of that New York case where they took this expired maybe misdemeanor. I really don't think it was a misdemeanor then. And they try to elevate it to a felony by tacking it on to some mystery other crime that they instructed the jury to not ever really think about. This seems to be as goofy. I really they just don't want Marine Le Pen to win.

She was poised to win in 27. They're trying to fight back the conservative takeover of Parliament in France and they think this is the way to do it. Is that pretty much your your summation to? It is 100 percent. And the comparison is very much on the mark.

This is the equivalent of an accounting dispute. There was legal campaign finances that were allocated to Le Pen and her party in Europe. There's this oddity of the European Union plus their national campaign. And so it's a matter of funds that came in for one account moving over to another account. This is something that happens with any kind of state campaign in the United States where you have kind of a federal account and a state account.

And you rely on an accountant and an executive director or other people to get that right. But the last person that really knows what's going on in these accounts and is responsible for moving things around is the elected chairman or the candidate of the campaign. They might have someone acting on their behalf, but it's a zero percent chance that Le Pen herself was responsible for this accounting dispute. That's the way I would put it. And that's exactly what happened with New York.

There was an accounting dispute that got magnified and overcharged, and it was all for a political effect to go after a political enemy. That's 100% what's going on here. You can't see it in another context. And unfortunately, it's happening in a few other countries, including Brazil and some others in Europe. it's weird to me that when i was looking at the penalty of this so there's a bunch of things that there were things that they were going to punish her with that were suspended for the duration of the appeals process they're not applicable and i guess until the appeals process is over and she loses that except for the uh ban on her running for office she can keep her parliamentary seat though which is weird but she just can't run in 2027 that just none of this makes sense Yeah, that doesn't pass the skunk meter even a little bit, because that is literally the only thing they were really going for.

They're just trying to keep her out of the race, off the ballot, tarnish her campaign and candidacy. And really, you know, this is just so far afield from innocent until proven guilty. You shouldn't be disqualified from anything until something has been proven. And, you know, I'm like you, I have not gotten myself deep and dirty with the French legal process and appeals process. That is really, really kind of difficult to do.

But this is just naked partisan politics. And I think the whole world can see it. Certainly the French voter can see it. You wonder at what point there's a popular movement to protest against this kind of stuff. You've got to believe that's coming soon to a theater near you.

Do you think that this is going to stick? I mean, are they I mean, I know she's going to appeal, but I mean, what what else can she do to unshackle herself from that 2027 ban?

Well, I think the only thing that could really make any difference is if there's immense public pressure, if this tarnished the reputation of France in the eyes of what it sees as its peers. But a lot of old Europe is kind of snooty about things, and they don't mind the aristocracy keeping the unwashed at bay. And I think that's kind of what they see populist movements as being. Every populist movement gets all the bad words thrown its way, all the worst intentions attributed to it. And so this is the establishment, quote unquote, good guys trying to just keep the world safe for their democracy, not the people's democracy.

A definite double standard. We pointed out earlier that Ursula von der Leyen, who's the head of the EU, apparently she's been under investigation for financial impropriety for like the past year and a half. But, you know, she's still head of the EU and there's no objections to that. But she's not Marine Le Pen.

So there's different standards. You know, they got a whole different, different justice system everywhere. That, um, I, the French protest, it seems to me over everything. I remember reading this story where they got really mad at speed cameras. And so apparently one evening, hundreds of them in cities all across France, they went out and just tore it up, like tore it up, bashed it with bats and left them in the middle of the road.

And, and that's happened actually like once or twice. And I thought if they can get that mad over cameras, surely they could, are they going to get that mad over this? Like what's going to happen?

Well, I think we're just going to have to see. I mean, France today is not the France of 2015 or 2005. France used to be a country that would jealously fight to the death to protect French language, culture, its unique identity, all those things. But open borders for France has really changed what the electorate is there and what the risk calculus is for going out and protesting. Are you going to go out and protest in the name of your culture and get battered down by other people and the government because they're on the side of the people beating you?

It's just a different playing field than it was in the past. I think this is a real question. I mean, you look at the truckers in Canada when they were standing up for freedom. And this was something that was a grassroots movement. And the force of the government beat them down and threatened their livelihoods.

And so it remains to be seen whether these postmodern left-leaning governments are willing to respect the freedoms and cultures of the people that made them great in the past. Yeah, that's – well, definitely we can tell that the European left, they do not like this conservative movement that's been exploding. And I mean even in – I mean France and in Italy and in Germany. Just a quick question about that and then I want to move and talk about Pacific issues. but in germany the afd the party there they've banned they've banned uh police officers people who are in you know policing in germany they can't have any association any affiliation with afd they've been systemically like going after all of these uh whether if they're in the government if they find out that they have like an afd uh association or appreciate i mean they're going after because and it's a conservative party that they're accusing of ironically super ironically of being fascist.

I don't think that's going to defeat that in Germany. I think people are tired, brought on by that deluge of illegal immigration and crime. That would be the equivalent of during the Obama administration, if they have expelled law enforcement officers for being associated with the Tea Party. It was a movement that changed the fundamentals in American politics. I think this movement in Germany is changing some of the fundamentals of their system, but they don't have a system organized like ours.

It's parliamentary, coalitions, all kinds of things that are more complicated than our system. But that AFD got a significant showing. It has momentum. And so, again, this is sort of the establishment and the state trying to stack the deck against the people. I don't like their odds in the long term, but it's really, really hard for us as Americans to see how these things work out.

These old systems favor aristocracies. And those aristocracies have taken hold in parties that pretend to be democracies. That's a really good point. That's a very good point, because that also adds an extra layer, you know, of perspective on this that a lot of Americans scratch their head and they go, it should be easier than that. And it should be.

But, you know, for that, that's that's a very good context. Talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates comes on on X. All right.

So China and the supply chain, very interesting piece over at the Hill that gets into the international trade and the tariff fight is about more than just that. Obviously, a lot of us, you know, you myself, everybody watching, listening, thinks it's a NATSEC issue. The supply chain, how is this going to be affected? Because we get so much from China still even, which is unfortunate. The tariffs and the especially if China is not interested in compliance, what does that do to our supply chain?

What does that do to the stuff that we are not well positioned to be self-sufficient ourselves?

Well, first and foremost, China is going to have the opportunity to maybe abide by the rules and norms that everyone else does. I don't like the odds, but they'll have a shot at doing that. And when they don't, this is going to force a lot of people in business who have made the bad bet. is just going to have to bite the bullet and start changing. That's already underway in pretty significant ways, and it's not free of cost.

But a lot of what's going on, from the Greenland conversation to opening up Alaskan energy and pumping it out to Japan and other parts of the Indo-Pacific region, to taking a new look at this hemisphere economically and otherwise, All these things are putting the building blocks in place so that we are able to lessen that dependency. It gives us leverage. China again gets to choose. But when they choose the wrong way, we have safer, better, more reliable options. Our allies are going through this same calculus, too, because China hasn't exactly been a nice and reliable neighbor to Japan, Taiwan, Philippines and others.

and even parts of Europe, not enough, but parts of Europe are sort of waking up to this. And the great white North has been sleeping at the switch above us for a long time when it comes to China independencies. But I think that basically the genie is out of the bottle. And so I am optimistic this is going to move in the right direction. I've never seen a treasury leadership that was more committed to writing the American fiscal ship and backing up the national security priorities of an administration.

A lot of times it's been wedded to Wall Street, the long game and globalism. Finally, I think we've got a little break from that. And so let's see. But you're right about where that tension is. And everywhere from the Pentagon to the Commerce Department to the Interior and Energy Departments, it's all hands on deck.

And so we're a couple of months in. I think that, you know, we've got more progress than I would have expected. Wow, that's good. That's a good look. We're starting the week out with some good news.

We never thought we were going to at least get to that point. Our good friend, Stephen Yates, he's so generous with us every week. We finally end on a really good note. I'm going to savor that because it's always been like, what's going to happen next? It's good to see you, my friend.

At Yates comes on X. Go find him. He has invaluable stuff that he shares on daily. We appreciate you. Thank you, Stephen.

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Oli, if you plan to go ahead and go.

So if, in the case of Venezuela, as you know, China pulled up anchor and left. They were there. They had two ships there and they left. They left empty. They didn't want to take a chance.

No, we're not playing games. Yeah, they left. They're not going to take a chance.

So that's already, yeah, that's already going to work. He also says that the reciprocal tariffs, that they're going to be way more generous to those countries than they have been to us.

So all good things. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I just saw a quote where the astronauts were discussing at a press conference and they were discussing the long battle to get them back on Earth. And you, man, you Democrats can sit here and say that that wasn't because of politics.

But I'm telling you, the more I hear these astronauts talk, it sounds like it was politics. That's actually pretty unreal. You know, Biden never had, whenever he would have all of the EVs, he had like two or three times, he had an event and he had EV manufacturers come into the White House. You guys remember this? Musk was never invited.

They never invited Tesla.

Somebody else went back and actually responded to an old tweet that I had, like from like a year ago. I'm like, remember this? Yeah, that's like brought it up in the same. Like that's right. They never.

So that makes all the more sense that he would not know. We can't have this, this company with, you know, like the biggest EV seller can't have them at the White House. Can't have them going up and saving these astronauts. Can't have that either. That's just, can, what would you do if you, that was your family, your husband, your wife up there, your spouse your your sister your brother whatever your child in space and they it was prolonged because of the idiotic previous administration and politics kane is made of comments right now i can see literally the smart aleckness building up and you go if it was family i would want to know the details of the political issue for which the delay is clearly hung on i just want to know why there was a delay at all did you not want elon to have a win during your administration like how petty was it yeah how yeah exactly that's yeah exactly it gosh dang that's just so so petty so petty but they you know it was done though and now look you have this huge win for tesla that that then spacex that the uh media wanted to ignore which i thought was amazing to watch them all i mean they would be on the cover of magazines you remember like the the the way that we celebrated this stuff and now it's the left is so tribal now we have to ignore it at the expense of politics that's so sad that's how societies die all right today in stupidity is a good one speaking of how societies die oh boy uh this is cynthia erivo this is um i guess heard political speech at whatever this damn award show was go ahead Sorry, cut 23.

It isn't easy. Glad. None of it is. Waking up and choosing to be yourself. What?

Proclaiming a space belongs to you when you don't feel welcomed. What? Teaching people on a daily basis how to address you. You literally got there on a right carpet. Shut up.

And dealing with the frustration of reteaching people a word that has been in the human vocabulary since the dawn of time. They, them. It went on with her to describe they, them as people who are more. She's like, I'm not included as she's at all these award shows, walking all these red carpets. Stop pretending that you're a victim.

I mean, you know, you might use they, them, but it also seems like you're trans with your victimhood. Stop. That does it for us today, folks. I'm going to be on Jesse Waters' program top of the hour. Back tomorrow.

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