Intentional Pentagon Leaks, Biden's Photoshopped Easter & Gov. Abbott Joins Us

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And lost in the blitz of executive actions has been a massive assault on environmental protections, including a near-complete rollback on the previous administration's commitment to environmental justice.

So now the communities most susceptible to pollution and climate change have even less of a voice, while at the same time, Trump's defunding science and opening more of the country's natural resources to his industry backers. Joining me now. I know you guys hate me right now because I just opened with Al Sharpton. And you were like, what did we do to her? Her eyes hurt, and she's making us listen to Al Sharpton.

You guys are cursing me. That's okay. It's okay, I deserve it. It's all right. It's Earth Day, so it's it's my It's incumbent upon me to remind you.

about the glory of Earth Day. It's all about like saving the planet and stuff, and composting your girlfriend and stuff. Oh, wait, you didn't wait. Is that. Yeah, the composting your girlfriend part.

Yeah, I feel we need to get into that. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. It's her day, guys.

Now, let me just set the tone. First off, two things I'm gonna let you know about. You're about to un Juan is about to unleash my weird eye on you. I have a scratched eyelid.

Okay, so your girl does not have the luxury of the show must go on. Thankfully, I love what I do. The show must go on.

So must I.

So my eye is weird.

So don't judge me. Women are already self-conscious. Don't judge me. Juan's promised not to zoom in on my wonk guy.

So, you know. I have a little scratch, and so we're recovering. And so I, you know, I so just bear with me. That's why I'm wearing my big, ugly glasses, and my eyes are swollen. And so you're tuned.

I want people to tune in for that, right? I feel like this is an exaggeration. No, it is. It's pretty rough. Yesterday was rough.

Like, I had kids mistaking me for sloth and trying to take me home, like in the goonies. And they were like, I'm going to take care of you now. It was totally like that.

So, I want to, I so, apologies to everybody yesterday because you're, I came in hot and my eye was swollen, and it was all bad. I couldn't see out of it, and it was really bad. I had to go to the eye doctor. It was a real rough, it was a real rough ride for your girl. I'm still occasionally going to be nursing it.

So, just bear with me, right? This ain't, no, no, no, this is digital streaming. This is where it's real, y'all. We don't got a little fox team of fairy makeup artists to decide. No, this is real.

All right, so let me get to Earth Day.

So, um Earth Day, right? Celebrating the Earth. You guys know how Earth Day was founded? Just to set the tone for the show today. Y'all know how Earth Day was founded.

Earth Day was founded by a guy named Ira Einhorn. And uh Ira Einhorn He, this was in 1970, so I wasn't alive. I think Kane was barely alive. Were you a fetus? I think you were a fetus in 1970.

No, I wasn't alive in 70. Oh, yeah, no, you weren't alive. You were you were a just a glint. Just a thought. Yeah, you were a thought.

Most of you, some of you were alive, some of you weren't. Anyway, 1970. And April. Actually, yeah, this day and all these years ago.

So he founded Earth Day and he had this big speech in this park in Philadelphia, right? And then seven years later, The Popo raided his closet and they found dun dun dun. the composted body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk. Yeah.

Now before you judge. This guy who was named Unicorn the nickname unicorn makes sense. He was a big O, he was a bad hippie, right? He was one of the bad boomer hippies that we talk about. Like, we have annoying, we all make fun of Gen Z.

So, yeah, there's some bad boomers amongst the good boomers. Anyway, I'm not saying it again.

So He, um really believed in Earth Day so much. that he murdered his ex-girlfriend and composted her. Holly or Helen Holly Maddox. I don't know why her nickname is that. She dumped him.

And he said that he was going to throw her personal belongings in the street if she didn't come pick them up. He was mad. Five years, they were together. And then uh on September 9th, 1977, I still wasn't alive. He went back to the she went back to the apartment she and Einhorn shared in Philly to get her stuff, and she was never seen again because Einhorn, Earth dater.

He did. He uh totally earthed ate her and he I chopped her up. Yeah.

He claimed that she came back to the apartment and then left to go get tofu and sprouts. Can I just stop there? If I'm a cop and you're telling me this, I don't care if you're a hippie. You're a damned liar. And here's why.

Who says I'm gonna tuck into some delicious tofu and sprouts? You know who eats tofu and sprouts? Nobody and rabbits. Tofu is just like congealed soy. Isn't that what it is?

It's like a bullion cube without the beef. It's a bean curd. It's a bu bullion cu cube without any of the fun. It's a bean curd that's nasty. I mean, I like lemon curd, but bean curd is I'm like I'm like dissolving into myself.

Kill me now. Sprouts aren't bad, though. It's making my eye hurt. It's my excuse for everything today. I'm going to see how far it gets me.

So she went to go buy tofu and sprouts, never came back. And so, if I'm a cop, I'm going to be like, dude, you're lying because you killed her. Nobody goes out and willingly gets tofu and sprouts, you psycho. That's like the first thing I'm thinking of.

So She goes out and he he composts and they find out later. Obviously, uh they found out that, you know, she uh that he murked her and chopped her up and you know how they found found it? Wow.

Okay, guys, put your sandwiches down if you're at lunch. Just give me a second. Excuse me a second, I'll make it quick. There was a the neighbors complained that a reddish-brown, foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below his bedroom closet. And they found her beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk.

He put some air fresheners in there, you know, a little little glade will do it. Little Glade'll do it. You wanna get rid of that dead body smell? Try 50 Glade. Plus fifty glade.

You get an anti-small buff. It's just, I don't know. That's... How it happened.

So, happy Earth Day, guys. Yay!

Now, if you really want. to celebrate Earth Day. I feel like you got to murk your girlfriend and compost her. I'm just saying, you know, I don't know. What are you saying?

Are you saying no?

Sounds too orthodox for me. Too orthodox for you? Yeah.

I mean, it may.

So it's Earth Day, and this is how we're acknowledging Earth Day. Ira Einhorn. And so This is uh I don't celebrate Earth Day. I don't even, I mean, yeah, I recycle because the city provides it to me as part of my tax dollars. And so I get this bin and I get to put my recycling in there and act like I'm doing something great for the planet.

Nobody cares. Nobody cares. I don't care every day. I'm all about being a good steward. Uh But at the same time, I don't also want to be made uncomfortable.

Can I just be honest? I just don't. I just don't want to be made uncomfortable. And uh I just um I don't know. Like, I take care of my plant.

I don't like throwing. I'm not out there throwing tearing up styrofoam and throwing it into the. On the side of the road, or anything like that, right? Anymore. I just don't do any of the stupid stuff that all the Earth Day people say that you have to do.

Like that, oh, you gotta do this and you gotta like garden in a certain way and do all this stuff a certain way. And I just don't, I just don't do any of that.

So I recycle. And I also don't like buying things that are made of other, like, recycled things. I will do it, but I saw like this ad, this ad when I was looking for shoes.

So a couple years ago, I swear I'm gonna end this.

So a couple of years ago when um we were on vacation and I don't like um I really don't like wearing shoes if I'm on vacation. I turned into a hobbit and I just don't really want to wear them. You know, just mm-mm, no. But I do because it's gross. But I wanted to find like swim shoes because if we're going fishing, especially if you're going like stone fishing or anything and you want to go, we want to cook it up on the beach, I got to get swim shoes.

Anyway, long story short, I saw this ad for, I think I was like in an academy or whatever. And it was a pair of shoes, and it said, These are made with other recycled shoes. And I immediately Like They're made. Oh, with other recycled shoes that other people's feet have been in. Yeah.

Just can't do it.

So, if I was being judged on whether or not I love the planet based on that, guess I hate it.

So, happy Earth Day.

Alright, so that's how we're starting it off today. Scratched eye and leaky girlfriends in the closet. Golly.

Alright, the couple of things here. We got to start right off the bat. Can we talk about Mahmood Khalil? This is the guy. Who was a the Columbia University graduate?

He was detained by ICE. He was denied permission to attend the birth of his first child. Oh my gosh, that mean old nasty Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam. Why'd you do this, Uncle Sam?

His attorneys wrote to the director of ICE's New Orleans field office. They were like, how dare you do this? Mr Khalil. He was just there harassing some Jews. He should be able to Attend the birth of his first child, and they're just like, Can you believe that he was denied temporary release for the birth of his first child?

May I ask a question?

So My question is. What kind of a dad are you? That you Violate the terms of your stay. and you risk missing the birth of your first child. Assuming it's his first.

What kind of dad are you? I don't know. I mean, I really want to go see the birth of my child, but I really hate the Jews. What do I do? Do I hate the Jews and then hope I don't get deported?

Like, how do I do this? I mean, he didn't just like hate on them. He was like, he was part of the people that they, you know, according to all of the documents that, you know, these, these Jewish students were harassed, like physically harassed. If you're denying me entry and shoving me around, denying me entry into a building, I'm going to go ahead and. Yeah.

So he wanted to he he violated the terms of his stay. That's a big bad no-no. It's like if I go into Target and I want to do a five-finger discount, that's a big bad no-no.

So, why should he get to break the law? And I don't see that's the brilliant thing that these people who are immigrating here illegally are not immigrating. They're just breaking and entering into the country. The thing I love the most is that wait a minute, you mean we're equal under the law? That's not fair because they all want special treatment.

You don't get special treatment until I get special treatment. Damn it. That's how this country works. But they want special treatment. What do you mean we're equal under the law?

Yeah, if you violate the law, there's a consequence for it. What? Yes, it's shocking, I know.

So they are trying to make him this super, super sympathetic figure. Oh my goodness. He's just, can you believe it? His baby, infant, baby. He was just denied being able to go see there.

Well, he shouldn't have violated the terms of his stay. I mean, it's really clear. Like, don't be killing no people. Don't be hitting no people. Don't be stealing nothing from no people.

Don't be harassing no students and bullying them and physically assaulting them. You know, uh that's not a protected speech.

So I mean, that's kinda his bad, right? Yeah.

So coming up. We're going to get into the Democrats' dates with that MS thirteen member in El Salvador. It's like the dating game. It's like they're all rotating. They get five minutes and then the next date sits in.

How many margaritas has this thug had now? Right? He's probably got his britches on his head at this point. He's so damn drunk. We're going to get into all of that and a lot more.

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So that's POTUS at the White House Easter event. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour, Scratch Dye Edition. That's why it's weird.

I'm self-conscious about it if you can't tell. Anyway. POTUS was being asked about sec death heg Seth, which is one of my favorite phrases to say. Just try it, even if you have to say it quietly to yourself. Sex, death, hex, death.

It's fun to say. He's not firing him. He's not firing. Secretary of Defense Hexeth, it's not happening. Let me set something straight.

I saw this rumor floating around. Last night, and this comes on the heels of these leaks coming out of the Pentagon. And this op-ed, if you're a subscriber, I sent this piece out to you. Yesterday, top Pentagon spokesperson details month from hell inside the agency. This is over at Politico.

I have a major problem with people who seek to help an institution. And they're not whistleblowing. There's people in there trying to write the ship, and instead they go and they cry to the press. I just have a problem with that. I think it's a bureaucratic response to undermine him because I like him.

Here's the thing: you serve the position. Not the person. You serve the realm, not the ruler. And regardless of what somebody thinks about Heg Seth. Leaking as a way to undermine the Secretary of Defense because you disagree.

with POTUS's pick. is pretty damn antithetical to how we're supposed to do things in this country. And so I have a major issue with these leaks coming out. As a result of this, conspiracy theorists with all these axes to grind, they started circulating this rumor last night that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had pitched himself for sec death. And he had been lobbying to oust Peg Seth.

Now, I spoke to a couple people. I'm not going to tell you who. But trust that I mean it's Pretty solid sourcing is all I gotta say. It's an absolute outright lie. Thank the house on it.

It's an outright lie. I don't even know why anybody's pitching it, except maybe for the purpose of just creating chaos.

Now, DeSantis and Trump Are they best friends? No, they're not best friends, but they have buried their primary beef, although. I think some of the grifters that are in POTUS's orbit Who don't respect him enough to follow his lead on unity? They're ignoring that, if you can't tell. Because there's a cottage industry about hating DeSantis, and these people, I mean, gosh, they're going to have to go out and go back to.

uh you know, waitressing, or they're gonna have to go back to being a Starbucks barista. If they are not able to gatekeep on this, if they lose their gravy train.

So I do know that they've played golf several times together. Trump has asked him to come out to Mar-a-Lago. They've come out there. He also took the Florida First Lady out there one time. And I do know before.

Hegseth was Confirmed, and before he was totally cemented as POTUS's nominee, an offer was made to DeSantis. That's true. DeSantis, however, and now I see why. I mean, he wanted to stay on as governor of Florida. And it's not because of any animosity towards Trump or anything.

And at first, when. I started hearing about this and talking to my contacts in Tallahassee. Ann in DC? I I have to say I kind of wondered why. And then later on, all of the stuff with the Florida rhinos exploded, and so now it makes sense, doesn't it?

So let's look at it like this. I think that the rhinos in Florida, the ones that are trying to ban open carry and campus carry, because it was Republican Rhinos that defeated that. I think that they thought DeSantis. was going to take this position. I think they thought He was going to be offered this, and Hegseth was going to be moved aside.

And because they would take it, these people are falling all over themselves to try to get. a a place in the Trump administration, right? And When DeSantis didn't do it, I think it left them in a predicament. Because They were trying to undermine all of these gains that the more constitutionally minded Florida lawmakers have made. And I think they were trying to undo it.

They thought DeSantis was gonna take this role. And when he didn't, oh my gosh, they're left with a fight. That's why all now it makes sense. That's why all this stuff like exploded in the public the way it did.

So he now it makes sense why December just wanted to stay on because he's got to clean up the this rhino mess. You know, it's a handful of lawmakers that are dragging their feet on everything. They're going to cost the majority. They're super majority. They're going to do that if they don't stop.

So I know that Trump liked him as a potential seg deaf. I know it was offered. And now it makes sense why DeSantist Why DeSantis stayed to finish out his gubernatorial term? He's got some stuff to clean up. That's why.

And no, Trump's not firing Hegseth. First off, Trump isn't going to fire someone. And the speakership is different because that was something that's triggered by other members. Trump isn't going to can someone unless he's got somebody else waiting in the wings.

Now, you can say whatever you want about POTUS, you can disagree with his policy positions, whatever it is, but I will say one thing that he's not going to have. Not going to not have somebody waiting in the wing.

So I think that that's kind of what some of his strategy was on that. But he's not firing sec, he's not firing hexeth, it's not happening. And Heg Seth, quite honestly, Um What are we so The fact that there are people leaking. Because they're Disloyal to purpose, not to person. but to purpose.

They feel like serving the r the realm, for the lack of a better way to put it, is by colluding with leftist publications and whining to them. That seems to me. more of a them problem and less of a hexeth problem. He's still trying to establish Control. in the DOD.

And I want you to realize how tough this is. You kinda need a jack wagon to do it. And that's kind of one of the reasons, I mean, I'm not saying that I like him, I get along with him. And I think he's fine for this role. You kind of have to be a jackwagon, I think, to just roll into DOD and be like, look, boys and ladies, this is how we're doing things now.

And you can see the massive amount of pushback that he's getting. There are people who would rather rule over the ashes. than to not rule at all. And those are the people that he's dealing with.

So, this is, you're talking entrenched bureaucracy, decades of entrenched bureaucracy. It's a huge thing. And he's just got in there, and I think he's doing everything that he can. Can um I want to touch back I want to touch on this. There's a couple of things.

That I want to talk about these trade deals really quickly. I saw this in the New York Post. One of the things that we're watching as it relates to the tariff battle, Charles Gasparino wrote that the Trump team needs a trade deal to stop investor panic. And this was one of the headlines that I had a little earlier with some of the investor confidence. This is a real thing.

We got to get these deals done and we got to get them done quick. India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, the Treasury Secretary said the other day that he was making some big strides finalizing these deals. And it's all well and good, but people need to see the ink. They need to see the ink dried. Scott Passent said that he was uh moving the president to lock in uh to make uh some of these more advantageous trade deals.

And they have been, I know they just met with Italy last week. JD Vance, Vice President Vance, is over in India right now, meeting with Modi. He's, you know, obviously, this is something that's coming up.

So The issue with this. is We got to get these deals done. This is where all the uncertainty driving all of this volatility is coming from. And so far there hasn't been any. When I did our event with WRVA, and by the way, KTTH in Seattle, they're brand new this week, and we're sending a big old welcome to our new Seattle affiliate.

When we were out in Virginia, With the Politics and Pints event, WRVA. One of the things that my friend Brian killed me'd and Brian and I have been friends forever uh that he brought up was that Uh these These deals, this is, I mean, it is, and I agree with him. It's, he's got to start making them immediately. I mean, we need one after the other after the other. Uh, because otherwise, we're going to start losing any advantage that we had.

This is where, and this is what I was anticipating right after he. Took the oath of office, and right after he comes into the White House, he has to deal with all of this, you know, the foot dragging from all of these lawmakers, and his agenda is going to get caught up on all of this stuff. And he, but they got to get these trade deals done, or nothing else matters. And it needs to start happening. It's not happening fast enough.

I'm going to be honest. That's my one thing. And it's not because of the administration. I mean, it's a dance. But they need to happen faster than this, especially as we roll towards summer and we start getting into midterms.

And that's it, that's a. We got to get this done. We have to lock it down. Uh this Harvard So, we got a couple of things. You got a Supreme Court case about parents wanting to be able to opt out from inappropriate stuff.

Although you have, I think you have what oral arguments in that today? I was pulling up Scott's blog. But you're not going to get any kind of decision on that until June. That's the. That's the uh What am I thinking?

The Supreme Court season. That's Supreme Court season. But in addition to this, you also have Harvard. Which is Heading back At the Trump administration, they filed suit over the administration's decision to freeze $2.2 billion in federal grants.

Now remember. After Harvard denied uh to protect Jewish students from being assaulted. and targeted on campus. And what progressives think is protected speech. The Trump administration said, Okay, well then you're not going to get any of our federal money.

Harvard said the funding freeze was arbitrary and capricious and violated its First Amendment rights. Hitting someone in the face because they're Jewish isn't a First Amendment protected expression. Stop. Like literally barring them from entering buildings is not a First Amendment protected expression. You're arresting their movement.

I mean, some might say that that's involuntary detainment. You can't prevent them from leaving a building either. That's also not a protected form of speech. All of these actions are very real actions that predicated. or that preceded this decision.

from the administration to freeze this funding. Harvard, what did we say came there? endowment was Something like 50 something billion. 53 bill.

Okay, they don't need this from us. They can they can handle it themselves. That's a lot, can you imagine? They don't need this from us. Not at all.

It's just an effort to, again, it's about clogging up the system, making things difficult instead of doing what you're supposed to do. This is literally the left's game and has been for such a long time. And in the case with parents at SCODUS, this is the case of Mach Moud versus Taylor, and it's a group of parents from Montgomery County, Maryland. By the way, notice the name. I bring this up because the left loves to play identity politics.

I gotta be honest with you. you know On this issue with regard to appropriate materials for school children. you are going to find Muslim parents, Indian parents, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant parents. Uh Asian parents, Hispanic parents. I've never seen And I've been in activism for a long time.

I started in OPPO research. I have never seen. Uh, other than maybe school choice. An issue? And two A issues.

That Particularly with this, they are so far-reaching and literally have every Single. a type of uh American family involved. And in this in this Montgomery County, Maryland case, The school board wanted to end this opt-out policy for these lessons. I don't know if you saw some of the books, we'll talk about this coming up. Let me just say How do I put this?

Gently. for our more sensitive viewers and listeners.

Some of the books Are so inappropriate, I would be fined if I read them on air. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that the parents who are speaking out, you're talking about elementary school kids. In fact, the first group of parents that brought this issue up with the school board had elementary school children. I don't know why a seven-year-old needs to read a picture book. about two men having sex.

Do you? I can't even read the book on air. I can't. And there's a handful of them. This is like the story of what happened literally down the road for me.

A woman that I know, we have a mutual friend, her 13-year-old daughter was in the library. and found that book. Uh Where They Drew, um, oh gosh, how do I say this? Oral Romantical times. Yeah.

And they talked about like trans students engaging in that and that was drawn. Like we can't even show that. I'd be fine. They'd pull us off air across the country because we have FCC standards that we have to follow. Oh my gosh, Kane.

Yeah.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I have no regrets. Not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms. I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country.

And although I was not one of the celebrities who announced that that's what I would do, I made the decision within my family and my therapist. And should he win? And then when he did, we made the plan into action and we were gone before he was inaugurated. Nobody cares about her. Why does she have to?

It's not, this is not an airport terminal. You don't have to announce every departure, okay? You don't have to. That's not something that you have to do. They put her on the Rosie O'Donnell, why did you leave the U.S.?

Because I'm a giant whiner. That's why. Nobody's persecuting me, but I decided to go somewhere that has higher taxes. Welcome back. It's Scratch Die Edition of the show, so don't judge me.

We have coming up in our next hour, Texas Governor Greg. No, next hour? Yeah, next hour. Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He's going to be joining us on a whole host of issues.

And remember the guy who. Caused $21,000 in damages to Teslas. He was an official with the Tim Waltz administration. He was an employee. He's going to get to skip out on any and all criminal charges.

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Right? Because nobody asked me. And nobody asked anybody to look like me.

So, why should I care what some old white judge and some old white legislature and some old white president decided was right for me? Living under the laws of the people who kidnap my people. and held us in bondage, that's not something they do anywhere else in the world. It's not like South Africa said, like, oh, that apartheid was bad, but you know what? We're just gonna like clean up some of these laws.

And okay, now we have no, they were like, take your Boer Constitution and put it in the trash. We will write another one. this time including everybody. Oh, so that's who's this guy? He wants to be Al Sharpton so bad, Ellie Mistle or whatever, Mistall.

Yeah.

Welcome back to the show, Dana Last Year, Scratch Tie Edition. Bear with me. Uh he's saying that he doesn't want to live under laws that white people wrote.

So you don't want to get protection from those laws either then, huh? Apparently not. I am the type of person laws are written for because if there's not a law, I'm going to assume I can do it. And that's not what you want. I mean, you know, I try to be a good person and I go to church, but I am also a sinful person.

I am a corrupted species. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We got Texas Governor Greg Abbott going to be joining me coming up. And like I said, scratch dye edition.

That's why my eye's weird. If you see it, I'm wearing my glasses real low to help. But uh so you get that bonus today if you're watching the stream. The chat's at Rumble. three forty seven direct T V.

I think I feel like race baiting Doesn't Have the power that it used to. Do you get that idea, Kane? Yeah.

I think people are seeing it for what it is, and it's peaked at its use, and now it's just it's meaningless at this point for most people. Yeah, we can hope with this. No, he's I I just this is the type of stuff that is he on MSNBC, the miss stall guy that wanted to be Al Sharpton. Yeah.

You know, like like CNN is the sewer and M S N B C is whatever's underneath the sewer. MSNBC is just as easy. even worse. I don't know why they put some of these people on. To say this stuff because it's what's the purpose of saying something like this?

Like, oh, I'm just, I'm not gonna live in a country where all the white people did the laws. What about the white people that were abolitionists? What about people like Elijah Lovejoy who were literally killed for what they believed? which was actual equality. and citizenship.

You know, what about those? Oh, disregard those. What about people like my husband's great-grandfather? who was in Andersonville camp. He was with the Union.

He was captured. He was held in a prison camp. He lost about, oh, I don't know, a third of his body weight. He was barely alive. He was able to walk out.

He lost all of his weight. That was a notorious. P O W Camp. And they would drive uh like a donkey or an ox or something or or in the middle of the uh in the middle of this um Oh, I don't know, the structure. And then they told all the prisoners: if you're hungry, you need to eat it, rip it apart by your hands, your teeth, whatever.

That's what they had to do to feed them.

So, what about those people? Is that what LM is? Shut up. This guy, he's sitting on top. Of He's sitting on freedoms that were paid.

By blood. Black and white, and a lot of white people lost their lives to rectify what they didn't do, what other people in the United States did. But like, let's say nothing about, you know, he wants to sit here and talk about South Africa. Let's say nothing about the South the African nations that sold. cap their their their They'd go to war with different tribes and they would sell.

People that they defeated into captivity. They were making fat bank on that.

So let's not omit how it started. We have, like I said, a lot in store here. One of the other things, can we touch on this? This guy, this. He was a an employee in Tim Waltz's administration.

And He's going to pay the owners of Tesla vehicles that police say he vandalized to avoid criminal charges. This is in Hennepin County. The a city attorney there, Mary Moriarty, said that They're going to pursue precharge diversion per daily caller instead of felony charges against Dylan Adams, who is a fiscal policy analyst, apparently, for Tim Waltz's Department of Human Services. He is on video keying six Tesla vehicles around town. and he was caught on their sentry cameras.

He caused over twenty thousand dollars in damages to the vehicles. And they said that, well, criminal prosecution remains a possibility should his unlawful behavior continue. And they said, oh, the client's very remorseful. The client's remorseful that they got caught. He's remorseful that he was caught, but I don't think he's remorseful for what he did.

I just don't believe it. I don't I I just I don't believe it. He's he he got caught. But the reason From I mean they're treating this like it's a federal they're treating it like it's a federal crime in some respects. This, I mean, this is crazy, this guy.

I mean, he's on. I'm watching one of the videos of him on camera doing this. Like, like. Keying a car. He's on camera keying a car.

And he owns a dog. I feel like I wouldn't trust him to own a dog if I'm being honest. This guy, I hope the dog's in good care because I don't think this guy can give it. He's a neckbeard. I don't think he can give it.

Uh and Just over $20,000 of damages.

Some of these people, let me tell you something. Yeah.

Some of these people work really hard. And They buy a car. And they're proud that they've got a car that is reliable and that can get them where they need to go, and a car they like. And this guy, because he doesn't like Tesla, thinks that I'm going to key this person's property and ruin something that they worked hard. to own.

Because this guy is apparently not evolved enough. to express disagreement any other way. I've seen apes throw their feces more intellectually than what this guy did. This is not protected speech.

So they're saying, oh, it's a pre-diversion.

So that's what we're doing. They said we think that there's going to be no likelihood of repeat offenses. the attorney for this D bag. What's his name? I feel like his name needs to be out there a lot.

Dylan Adams. Dylan Adams. His attorney said, quote, my client is very remorseful, and we're making sure the victims are made whole financially. Really? Yeah, he's and this is in Minnesota County Uh she's a left-leaning prosecutor.

And They I o of course she is. Left-leaning prosecutor.

Someone was trying to tell me, oh, it's federal jurisdiction. Shut up. You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a Soros prosecutor who's not wanting to. Really, I mean, can you imagine if this was somebody who J6 or good heavens.

So they said that There was a They call her soft on crime because she is soft on crime. Moriarty is incredibly soft on crime. She's a super left-leaning prosecutor. She believes in restorative justice, which is a rot. And it's uh and it's an indulgence on which criminals thrive.

And she had a lot of reforms. They've been really going after her for a while. Last year, Uh she was Uh she was elected. Uh this was what? July 24.

She was a public defender. She uh had a lot of uh Soros donations come in. And even some of her supporters were questioning why she was seeking light sentences. For Violent crimes. And she thought her reasoning is: well, if you reduce the penalty, they're going to see that and be thankful, and then they're going to commit fewer crimes.

That's literally the whole. Ideology of restorative justice. Oh, they're going to experience kindness, and because of that, then they're going to want to be kind and they're not going to want to commit crimes. That sounds like drunk logic. Does that make sense?

Has that ever worked anywhere it's ever been implemented, Kane? No, I don't think so either. I don't think it's ever I don't think it has been.

So she's been criticized quite a bit, so it's no surprise that this is something, it's no surprise that this is how the story, what she's doing here. Not at all surprised. And it's unfortunate because then you, you know, you have people. I bet some of them were leftists because there were a lot of leftists that went out and got. And they went out and they got uh uh these vehicles.

Like that they were telling everybody to go out and get Teslas in the beginning. Hm, how quickly? That changes.

So, I want to. Can we touch on really quickly? I didn't get to this last hour and I didn't get to it yesterday. Do you think that the Biden family photo, Easter photo Kane, is photoshopped? What?

Say that again? The Biden family photo. Oh. Do you think it's Photoshop for Easter? I did you see it?

I saw it, but I didn't see any indication of Okay, I think it's weird, dude. It's weird. I I think it's weird. I don't know if it's photoshopped. I think I I kind of lean towards I think it might be.

I can't imagine it 'cause they're all real casual. And they're sitting on, he's sitting with his, most of his kids and grandkids. Hunter's not in there. And of course, you know, Hunter's, all of Hunter's kids aren't in there. They put Joe, like, Joe's in the back, but why is he in a full suit?

And why is his lighting weird? And what is he doing with his hand? Like see where the red circle Juan is showing you. On the simulcast, channel 347 direct TV, Rumble.

Okay, wands like that is Photoshop. The family legit put this out. Wow.

They legit tweeted this out. That looks fun. Look at his hand. Look at his hand Biden himself tweeted this out. He tweeted it out and they didn't say anything about it.

They acted. I mean, look at it. Look at it. Do you see that little? Do you have a super zoomed in of the circle?

Do we have a zoom-in version of the circle? Look at the lighting on his suit, though, while Juan does that. Look at the lighting on his suit. It's all just, and why is he in a suit and everyone else's cash? Look, now that you make it.

Maybe one dude's in a wrinkled chambray shirt in the front. It looks like the lighting on his suit is different than the lighting on his face. Right. Juan's zooming in on that. I am fascinated by this whole thing.

I was looking at this and I felt like I was in CSI.

So all yeah, all of the lighting is we and then he's in the back and also I just feel like the sizing is off. And he's flat. Like if you, when you really zoom in on it, and I think Juan can, Juan, doesn't his suit, his tie look flat? And compressed? The colour on it?

I think it looks compressed and flat. Do you see what I mean, Kane, on there? Yeah.

And the lighting on even his fingers there just. Like what does he just have his hand on that dude's neck? Do you think, was this like a photoshopping him into a photo because he couldn't make it? Uh-huh. I mean, he's like making constipation phase.

Or was this just a standard photo shot to correct a photo, just you know, to clean it up for? I mean, I really wouldn't doubt it. It just looks weird. I don't know why you would put this out. I mean, clearly he wasn't there.

I mean, he is by those posts back there, so I guess he would have slightly different lighting. No, but he's like in full sun, though. You can see. I mean, he's not under the shade of the awning. Yeah.

I mean, he's, it's so weird to me. I don't know why they put this out because then you've got, I feel like they want conspiracy theorists. If you're watching the simulcast, for real, look how what gets me, not only the hand is weird. And okay, so Lorraine asks this. She goes, I can see where Jill's hair has been cut and Ashley's hair is feathered and the lighting is different.

And then she goes, Is he seated or crouching? That's a great question. That's a good question, too. How is he sitting? Because how does he fit there?

Yeah, his knees would have to go right into the backs of the people that are in front of him. Why did why do something this weird? Why couldn't they just like, here's an Easter bunny? Meh. You know, why couldn't they?

And then, like, you know, have they literally have to just tempt fate every time they do something stupid like this. Also, Jill's smiling. That's weird.

Well, and when I zoom in, I don't mean to be like all Zerpruder about this. But I just I'm fascinated by this. When you zoom in, and I'm hyper-zoomed in on my monitor in front of me, I have a giant four and a half foot wide screen, which is why I look down a lot. I'm reading the prep because we don't do teleprompters. But I'm Her hair Lorraine's right, that's been clipped.

I know enough about Photoshop where I know a not totally cleaned-up clip job. I think Ashley Biden's hair is a little bit easier, but Jill's, because she has all those layers, it makes it hard, especially up against that navy. And his suit, and it just highlights the fact that his suit is a flat color, his tie is flat. It's like a compressed color. And then he's got his awkward hand out like that.

And then, is he tiny? I don't know. Like, it's weird. Remember when they posed with the Carters? Yeah.

in that house and they looked giant. I never understood like why do they do weird stuff with their foot just be normal just be normal and do normal stuff If you're not in it, it's okay if I they're like, Oh, we gotta put him in or people think he's dead. We gotta move to headlines, I know. And then we've got Governor Greg Abbott. Uh coming up.

What did Jasmine Crockett call him? Oh God. I mean I'm not against like taking it and making it your own and coming out with an action figure. That's what I'm saying. He's like Professor X.

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So a gay guy travels to Afghanistan to prove that the Taliban Argay. New York Post. Oh, here's literally the headline. I took a vacation with the Taliban and fell in love with a terrorist as we watched Gossip Girl. A British tourist is a gay dude.

He likes extreme travel. I'm surprised that he wasn't kidnapped. He's 30 years old. He's visited 69 countries to Yossi Osidoni. And he went to Afghanistan and he said he flirted with all the Taliban.

And one of them, let's see, they all had heavy machine guns. And then one of them he had romantical times with. That makes sense. And he said, Arabs love to flirt with men. They love me.

I was obsessed, is what he said in this New York piece. You're a post-piece.

Okay.

Well, yeah, there you go. I believe I like it. Uh Z moving on. Oh This, a study links, gosh, geez, who would have thought of this? A study links heavy drinking to brain injuries.

Alzheimer's. Like, so what's heavy drinking?

Well, I mean, you know, if you're getting drunk on the reg, it could probably lead to some of it. They said that the brain injuries, they researched this. They said that if you drink more than eight alcoholic drinks a week, it's associated with injuries linked to Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline.

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We're at the bottom of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast, hundreds of markets across the country, and of course the stream channel 347 DirecTV. Joining us now, the great governor of the Republic of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, who I understand was under the weather. We're glad to see that he's back in fighting form. Governor, good to have you.

Great to be back. How are you doing, Dana? I'm doing well. I'm doing quite well. Not staying as busy as you.

I don't think you sleep. I think I see you everywhere and you're tackling every issue, which is what I want to get in. There's so much stuff to discuss because Texas, everything is happening in this state. And I first wanted to start off with asking you about this weird story involving Epic City. Tell us about this.

So for people who don't know, who aren't in Texas or maybe who haven't seen, it's essentially a development where you have Muslim developers that are trying to create an Islamic community in Texas. And some might say, okay, well, there's, you know, nothing, nothing really wrong with that. People can choose to, you know, move and live however they want. But there is some concerns about exclusivity and also Sharia, because in Texas, we've had to deal with that before. I mean, we've had to deal with certain elected officials trying to promote Sharia within city councils.

And we've had, you know, we've had some of these issues before. Tell me, what is the latest with this? And what is your take on it?

So, first of all, it is an attempted development. It has not yet begun. Second, in what you were talking about, listen, in 2017, I signed a law banning Sharia law in the state of Texas. Any attempt to impose Sharia law whatsoever is in violation, and a lawsuit from the Texas Attorney General would put a stop to it. That said, what's Taking place as we have dug into the proposed development of this epic city, we found potential violation of Texas law after violation of Texas law after violation of Texas law.

I have launched about five or six different investigations through different state agencies, including the Texas Rangers, who are investigating potential illegal acts by the leaders who are forming this potential epic city. And because of the potential legal violations, everything has come to a screeching halt. And some of the legal violations, I mean, I don't even think, like you said, I don't think, I think they've just sold some plots and they were talking about building a mosque and a school. And I just. I think maybe I understand the concerns that people are raising with this.

Especially considering, I mean, in Irving, Texas, there was a guy who, a father back in 2008, last name was Saeed, he killed his daughters in compliance with Sharia because they were becoming too obsessed with Western culture. I mean, this stuff is real and it is happening in Texas.

So it's legitimate to ask questions like this.

Well, and listen, anytime that you have, let's say, a potential imposition of something like Sharia law that needs to be looked into and Put a stop to. That said, once we dug into what was going on in the potential development of Epoch City, we found legal violation after legal violation that necessitated both an investigation as well as a referral to the Texas Attorney General for potential legal action. And from what I understand, Governor, those include whether or not it's in violation of the Texas Fair Housing Act and any potential harm to investors and potential violations of Texas consumer protection laws. Correct.

Well, that and more. There are some other, even more potentially serious violations, including allegations of fraud and some other things, that we will continue to look into and have the Texas Rangers investigate. I mean, and you would do this with any development, really.

So I think the accusations against you that you're targeting a Muslim community are pretty weak.

Well, you know what happens, Dana, and that is whenever anybody or any group is a target of an investigation, the first thing they have to do to try to defend themselves is say this is racism. This is against our religion. And when you learn more about the details of the investigation we are undertaking, you would find it has absolutely nothing to do with any race, with any religion. These are violations that if anybody else had committed these. Alleged violations, they would be subject to the same investigation.

Same thing. Talking about Texas Governor Greg Abbott, I wanted to say you said Texas is grateful for the tireless efforts of lawmakers who pass school choice. Has that reached your desk yet, sir? Not yet. It is nearing my desk.

But for those in your audience who may not have followed this, I've been pushing for school choice in the state of Texas for. A decade now. And time after time after time, it passed in the Texas Senate, but failed in the Texas House. And so, what I did this last election cycle is I went out and campaigned in Texas House districts across the state to garner enough state representatives who would support school choice. More importantly, who would support the avowed choice of their voters?

In Republican primaries for the past two years, Republican voters have said by about 90% they want school choice and they want a representative who will support school choice. And so we elected school choice representatives. We still had to push the issue up the hill in the Texas House. We finally got it across the finish line. On the day of the vote, I was talking to the members of the Texas House in a caucus meeting, and we got a phone call from President Trump.

where President Trump, who's a big pro-school choice advocate, weighed in and cheered on the Texas House members before they went and took their vote. And it turned out to be a much larger margin than I anticipated. You have to have 76 votes to pass something in the Texas House. We had 86 votes in favor of school choice. It will soon be reaching my desk.

That's great to hear. And school choice, that's one of the most unifying issues, I think, in any state. And the accusations again, oh, they're using taxpayer dollars to fund private school. But these people never had any problems with talking about using taxpayer dollars for public schools and DEI and all this stuff that we've been fighting in school boards over the past several years, Governor, which brings me to my next point. Property tax, I know that's been on your list of legislative items.

You were looking at bail reform. You had other priorities. Please tell me that property tax relief is a realistic and attainable goal for Texans this year.

So it is, but listen, there's two components to this. One, because the Texas economy is so robust and because we've been responsible in spending, once again, we have a very large budget surplus. And we're going to be returning that budget surplus to taxpayers by buying down the property tax rates. Remember this, and that is the state does not impose a property tax. Only local governments impose a property tax.

And so we can't, as a state, go in and literally cut the property tax rates, but we can buy down those rates. But here's the deal, Dana. We did that last session also. We used $18 billion last session to buy down those property tax rates, but a lot of people didn't feel it for one reason. And that's because local property taxing jurisdictions went back and raised those property tax rates.

Dana, what we have to do to make sure we provide enduring property tax relief is not just Buy down those rates, but also limit the ability of local jurisdictions from being able to raise your property tax rates again. Is that something that you would sign? Are you encouraging that in the legislature? Sure. This is now that I got school choice behind me, this is what I'm really leaning into because listen, I hear more from constituents across the state about the necessity of property tax relief.

We have an obligation to deliberate, not just buying down those property tax rates, but also limiting the ability of local taxing jurisdictions to raise your property tax rates. That would be a great thing if we could do it. I mean, and it would be even, it would, I mean, I'm just saying if we abolished it outright and had like a graduated consumption tax, that would be even better because you never really own your own property. I'm sure you've heard all of this before because I know a lot of people that have been. And have been down in Austin talking to you about this, talking to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been doing some good work.

I also wanted to ask you about this story. I'm going to pull this up. This is wild. Texas Tribune, I normally don't cite them, but you know. It says, early Texas hospital data shows millions have been spent in care for non-U.S.

citizens.

So this is just something that Texans have had to deal with. And our communities, Governor, as you know, have had to deal with in the past several years. You ordered hospitals last summer to begin asking patients to disclose whether or not they were lawfully in the United States. And they were told that your answer is not going to jeopardize your access to health care, but you're not legally required to answer.

Some did, but the numbers that have been coming out of this have been pretty startling when you see what our tax dollars have been subsidizing.

So, and I'm not surprised, but as you point out, I wanted to get to the bottom of what was taking place. I wanted to find out how much either the state or hospitals were on the hook because of illegal immigration. And the numbers that have surfaced, as you pointed out, have been enormous. And it's an enormous tax on Texans, on Americans, on our health care facilities. And a primary purpose of this is to gather the information that we need because it.

Immigration is the federal government's responsibility. Texas taxpayers are having to foot the bill for what Joe Biden did to this country. And we need to be prepared to bring legal action against the United States to recoup the money that we are entitled to, the money that we had to bear the burden of because of Joe Biden's illegal immigration policies. Yeah.

And with the immigration, the president authorized military to take control of public land. For those who don't know, we talked about this on the show before. A strip of public land along the southern border. How much of a help is this? I was looking at the map, Governor, and that seems to be, I mean, to my eyes, it seems to be a pretty big swath of land there at the border, and they're going to come in and take control.

I would have to imagine that that's a relief for those overextended border agents down there.

So it's a tremendous relief and very different than the Joe Biden approach where they let in everybody who came across the border.

Now we finally have a president who's finally enforcing the laws of the United States of America and putting the resources on the ground to deny illegal entry. And if you look at the numbers, they are astounding. Last month, in the month of March, we had the lowest illegal immigration ever recorded in any March, I think in any month ever in the history of America recording illegal entries. And it's in part due to the fact that President Trump has taken a hard stance on it, in part because he's deporting people who do cross the border illegally, but also because they're finally putting up personnel resistance on the border, including the military. And what Texas is doing, you know, we already have thousands of National Guard down on the border.

Those National Guard are deputized to make arrests of people coming across the border, to work with ICE on the deportation of them, to make... Sure, that anybody who thinks they're coming into the state of Texas is going to realize they picked the wrong state to come into because we have the personnel, the resources, the manpower to arrest you and to deport you. Last quick note for you, Governor, Governor Greg Abbott. Jasmine Crockett, her remarks on you I thought were completely uncalled for. I thought you handled it in a very classy way.

I didn't know if you had anything to add to it or if you thought about turning yourself into an action figure. Code O'Brown sure wants to turn me into an action figure. But listen, this is the Democrat Party of today. The Democrat Party today is the Jasmine Crocketts who say derogatory things about people in wheelchairs. It's the Democrat Party that is embracing MS-13 gang members and trying to bring them back from El Salvador as opposed to deporting them to El Salvador.

All I can say is if the Democrats keep this up, Republicans may never lose another race. There you go, right there. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, we appreciate your time today, sir. Thank you for all you do. We'll talk to you again.

Thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Dana. I always tell people to carry. I will always carry. I will always encourage people to carry.

I get that some people want to diversify their weapons array. I understand that, especially like what we were just talking about, gun-free zones. I have friends who were, all I can say is that they work in the media. New York. Yeah.

Washington, D.C. They are out at night because, as you know, apparently our government now with this administration never sleeps. And even though they went through all the hoops and jumped through all of that stuff and got their license to carry, they're barred from carrying it a number of places.

So they went out and they got what's called the Burna SD. That's the most popular model. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And it is a way for you to still have some means of protection when you are barred from carry. I mean, think about it.

You carry knives. You know, you'll carry blades. You can't have different calibers. You know, I think the saying is, what, I use my pistol to get to my rifle. You see, you have all different kinds of stuff.

It's always good to anticipate varied situations and plan accordingly. And this is the niche that I feel that Burna fits. And you can look and go to their website and see everything that they have to offer. Like I said, the Burna SD is the most popular model. And when you go, when you go and you can look at the different projectiles.

That's the word I'm thinking of. The different projectiles, the different accessories, all this kind of stuff. They have different things up there. And this has five rounds compared to regular stun guns, which only have one or two.

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It's time for Florida Man. An angry Florida man got his stolen Ram T R X back himself. You got to be careful with doing this. This guy can do it. I mean, he looks like you know, he's he can handle himself.

He had his beloved Ram TRX stolen from in front of his house, so he took matters in his own hands. First, he contacted the police and waited for the Broward Sheriff's Office to perform an investigation. But when that started to drag on and on, he started searching for info about where his truck might be. He was randomly looking at Facebook Marketplace, and then he got a notification that an additional 800 miles had been logged onto the TRX's odometer. And the thieves thought they disabled the GPS tracker, but apparently, Ram still sent the key notification to the man.

So he had that. And then he went looking at cities that far away. He checked Facebook Marketplace again and he found his stolen truck listed for sale near Nashville. He discovered the seller had ads for quite a few other things, thinking that they're all stolen. And so he noticed that the vehicles, there was a house in the background of all the photos.

He spent nine hours on Google Maps using Street View, combed through the area, found the location of the house, and then he reached out to the sheriff's office in Tennessee, hopped on a plane, got his car back in one piece within hours. That's pretty hardcore. Hire that dude. Yeah, now he's helping other people who had their cars stolen. And I think he's thinking about a career switch and private investigation.

And he's, I mean, that's, I mean, I think he's key for it. I think he could absolutely do it. You do have to be careful with that kind of stuff, though. Like, I, you know, don't be thinking that you're going to go and Lara Croft Tomb Raider it in there. You know, you got to be, you got to be careful, folks.

Uh, Lent thing, I got a couple of other ones here. No, I don't want that one. Um, oh.

Okay.

This one. A New Jersey man apparently flew to Florida to attack a fellow gamer with a hammer.

Now why did he do this? I bet they were playing like Fortnite. No, I'm kidding. He got mad because the fellow gamer killed him in the game. And so he decided to try to kill him in real life.

I'm not even making this up. It was Nassau County Sheriff Bill Lieper said at a press conference. This was yesterday, announcing the charges. He said it stemmed from an online altercation. He said the case was a, quote, weird one.

Edward King, 20 years old, gained entry into the victim's home through an unlocked door, wearing all black clothes, gloves, and a mask, attacked him with a hammer when the victim got up from gaming to use the bathroom late Saturday, early Sunday. The victim's the same age as King. He was able to wrestle his assailant to the ground. That's King, K-A-N-G, not Arkane. And he and his stepfather was woken up by screams for help.

They disarmed King and restrained him until deputies arrived. There was a lot of blood everywhere, blood on the hammer. The victim had severe head wounds during the assault. He's been released from the hospital. And so they.

Kang told deputies that the victim is, quote, a bad person online. Wow.

That's when you're taking it a little too seriously. You need to. You can't be going and beating stuff within here. Just because you're not good enough and you got merced in a game does not mean you get to go and merc somebody in real life. Not at all.

Oh my gosh, I can't even tell this one. Oh man. Um, nope. Ah, we got the vl oh, do I wanna this is a crazy one though. Newberry.

A Florida man, Christopher Kelcey. He's another one. He's 47, but he looks like he's 90. He, uh The victim told police that she and Christopher Kelsey were arguing outside of their apartment when he grabbed her by the throat and choked her. When police arrived, They said that he appeared to be intoxicated, had a strong odor of alcohol, and he told them multiple times to.

How do I put this? Yeah.

How do you put it? Hey. told the police to do something. unflattering to him. With his male copulatory organ.

Really? Yeah.

That's all I'm gonna say. Multiple times. Which, guess what? That doesn't go very well with the cops. His bond is at $100,000.

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Thank you so much for being here. I just got to read your lengthy and really heartfelt statement that you and your husband Paul released. I'm sorry. What? Please.

She's such a great Catholic. That was on CNN with Dana Bash. And Kane and I were having, you know, we were having a little bit of a discussion about this because, like, what makes her such a great Catholic? Kane and I both believe that she collects communion. In bottles.

She's got uh, you know, the blood, bottles and bottles of it. Probably takes it every couple of minutes. You know, just saying. Several times. I mean, if she can be a good Catholic, then I guess a man can be a woman, you know.

I mean, good heavens, I don't know. Welcome back to the program pro program again, Dana Lash, top of uh this third hour scratched eye edition. My time boobo. Yeah, booboo. Uh Can we talk about Lesbian Visibility Week?

No. Yeah, we need to, because I didn't know it was this week. I don't really wanna. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this week.

Hold up. It's this week. Uh it's like goes till Friday. I didn't like apparently it kicked off, what, yesterday, today? Lesbian Invisibility Week.

So you gotta tell me. It has a graphic, so you know it's official. When they come out with graphics, it's official. Lesbian Visibility Week, the one week. which you can see lesbians.

Any other time. And look, the graphic, why I'm showing you the graphic on this, on the signal cat, it is official with that graphic. It's Lesbian Visibility Week. Uh it's the week where lesbians can uncloak themselves and be visible. in our community.

That's right. You didn't know that, did you? They have the power of. There could be. I mean, well, this week they can't.

But any other time, there could be an invisible lesbian like in your car, Kane. You wouldn't know it because they're invisible. I had no idea. I'm telling you. And I have to Freed thus.

Tweet I saw this last night. From um Now, her name is Governor Tina Kotek. I read it. As Tina Cotex. And I'm like, that makes all the sense in the world.

She tweeted, I'm one of two lesbians who hold the title of governor in the United States. I'm proud to live in and serve a state where every person can be their authentic selves. How are you not being your authentic selves?

Now, this is going to blow your mind, but hold up. Do you know? That there are actual lesbians that go to work and don't talk about how they're lesbians all the time and preface everything with, Did you know I'm a lesbian? That's how they're invisible. I'm telling you.

I mean, if you're a lesbian and you're not telling everybody you're a lesbian, are you a lesbian? It's like if a tree falls in the woods, you know? Here's my question with the whole thing. Again, I have my scratched eye, so deal with me. If they're invisible lesbians.

This angers me. Mm. Why are they not going out on strike teams? Right? Think about the baddies that we don't, like El Chapo or something, like when he's done, we could have sent in an invisible lesbian strike team.

And they could have just But kill build. Uncle Chalpo. Right. And then nobody would have been the wiser because invisible, right? invisible.

I just don't understand. And then you get this governor who says I'm one of two well I why do people have to constantly affix to themselves these identity politic boxes? It's like they think that somehow their specialness is magnified by however many identity boxes they attach, right?

So, like, okay, you're a lesbian. What if you're a trans lesbian? Oh my gosh, that person's more special than you are. I just, you know, I don't sit here and tell people, like, I really like guacamole, and I'm like, really proud to be like a big guacamole lover here behind the mine. You know what I mean?

I don't, I just don't do that kind of stuff. I don't understand why. you know, it doesn't make any sense to me why why people Do this. I I I don't know. I mean, then DOD needs to send them out as strike teams.

I'm still trying to get over Governor Kotex. I'm one of two people who believe the number of intersectional boxes you check determines your worth. Hold the title. That's what she's basically saying. Stop with this stuff.

This is so goofy. You you don't constantly, you know. Need to List identity politics as like your lead in order to somehow give you worth. I mean, you you have worth without all of this stuff. It just looks s it just is goofy.

We need a whole month uh devoted to how we get it on. What about like straight dudes into fat chicks or, you know, skinny dudes into, you know, super skinny chicks? I don't know. Like, I mean, are we just going to start? Dudes who be sitting down, they get a whole visibility week.

Like, how are we? Is this where we're going to go? Every little thing has to be. played up as some sort of like identity politic check You know, box checks. I mean, but why are you not having representation?

Is my question. Like, for those, you know, faking that you don't have representation is kind of the griffin. I mean, you're governor, I'm pretty sure you're visible. No one sees me. I'm the lesbian governor.

How did you get to be governor?

Well, I was a lesbian and then I talked about running for office, that's what. I think she's a DEI hire personally. But yeah, I was really trying to get over Governor Kotech. It's Kotech, but still. I have a couple of audio soundbites and we got some other stuff we're gonna get into as well.

Nancy Mace had a time at her town hall. Audio sound bite uh 19. Listen. Does your husband call you babe?

Okay, so even better. And I don't I don't fear.

Okay, so I would like to be able to apologize. But it isn't provocative. Is tranny provogatory? No. Yeah.

Tranny, tranny, tranny. If that's derogatory, you will have ready when they throw away. I think that there's a way that you can do it. And still, although I say this as somebody who matches your energy. Right.

Like whatever energy you come at me, I will double it. And then people get like, people who are mean to me online, they're so surprised when I like punch you in the throat back. They're like, why did you, it's like that meme where somebody's riding a bike and they put a stick in it. Why did you do that to me?

So, I was a person being mean. If a man comes up to me, though, I have like a visceral reaction. If a man comes up and tries to police my speech, Um I'm just saying. Yeah.

Man or a woman. No, anybody, but particularly a dude who's trying to cosplay as a woman. Don't police my speech. But um I don't know. I feel like some of the stuff that she does is like for stunts.

Tone it down, right? Like, we don't, we get it. You know, you just do the work. Just do the work. I mean, that's great.

You're arguing with trainees, but where the hell is our tax relief, right? Why are these EOs not cemented and legislated into law? That's all well and good. You know, have your trainee fight, but look, can we do this other stuff too? I would love to see as much attention put on all this other stuff.

Why are you making that face over there? I'm just. I don't know. I think it's a little unfair. These people are coming up to her.

Yeah.

So it's not, you're saying, like, she's, I mean, her putting it out on social media is part of that. And I think that's maybe is she up for reelection? I don't know. I probably would have been like, I can say what I want. And then if they ratchet it up.

Is she up for reelection in 26? I don't know. Probably. That's what I'm guessing. Yeah.

Is the case. That's what a lot of it is. But um Yeah, I... I've never had anybody try to control my speech before. I don't think anybody would try to.

Yeah.

Just, you know, but still, I just think we need to get some of this other stuff done.

However, Uh Can I just go back to that guy's outfit real quick? Oh, we weren't getting away out of this one. Guy's outfit. Yeah, forgive me. I have a scratched eye, so I'm constantly attending to it.

So, I need to talk about this guy's outfit for a minute. What in the brunch hell is he wearing?

So, first off, women don't dress like this. Why are you wearing a giant straw hat? Is it a straw hat? Is that raffia? Looks like you're not at the beach.

You don't need a sun hat if you're not at the beach. Or also, is this trying to be like Easter wear? Also, you cannot wear a sweetheart cut like that with an empire waist unless you actually have like a chest to fill it out. I'm not trying to be mean, but it just doesn't look attractive. Otherwise, it just looks like little sunken pancakes.

It doesn't look any good. And that necklace is, I get that it's a statement piece, but it's too big. No self-respecting woman is going to walk out dressed like this.

So if you're going to try to cosplay as a woman, dear heavens, give us the respect that we're due and do it properly. I turn into Joan Rivers when I see people dress badly. Dana, you wear black all the time. Exactly. Exactly.

Now you get it, don't you? A few other things that I want to. Do we have time? Yeah, we do. I'm trying to get everything in today.

So, The red dies. I need to talk about this because, Kane, when is this tick kicking into place? Four o'clock Eastern today.

So three central. Yep.

So artificial food dyes. are going to be Uh banned. Like red forty. They're phasing them out.

So artificial dyes derive from petroleum. And there's a lot of them that are there. I mean, there are some some studies say that they're associated with mood moodiness and irritability and All that good stuff. They're all the good stuff. They said that they uh are I guess they're trying to replace them with more um natural, like food-based things like turmeric and paprika and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Uh But it is going to be, so they're phasing them out.

So that means they're still going to be on the store shelves, but they can't make anything new, as I understand it correctly. Right. Okay.

So kid all your red dye right now. I'm actually okay with this. I'm totally okay with this. The fact that it's been going on this long, we've had years and years of examples of other countries that have wiped out these artificial dyes years ago. Yeah.

And we still haven't. Like, what is the motivation for that? Great question. A little mift. Yeah, great question.

Well, I mean, in. I mean, if you travel out of the country and depending where you go, I mean, you notice a difference in the food. Like, Italy, there's a huge difference in the food.

Some say even France is a huge difference. I I haven't been to France, a huge difference in the food. And elsewhere, And there's a lot of stuff that we put in ours. Like, none of this stuff is, you can't, a ton of European countries don't have this stuff. Nobody else has this stuff in their food.

We do, we allow it. Um But Kane, what do you say if for the people who go, This is big government? Big government? No, it's big government to allow All the crap that makes us unhealthy. That's big government.

What we're doing is dismembering big government's influence that we've had over the last decades as it relates to what's approved. This makes me think of so I work with a nutritionist and all this stuff and one of um and I have an allergist because I have crazy allergies. And they were telling me that They were suspecting, and I don't know if I believe it. that I'm I'm might be gluten sensitive. And I'm like, I'm not gluten-sensitive.

That's stupid. I'm gonna eat all the gluten in the world. And then I started thinking, I'm not gluten sensitive, I'm chemical sensitive. It has nothing to do with gluten. When I was in Italy, I ate my weight and pasta three times a day, and I had gelato.

I mean, I ate like a morbidly obese child. When I was in Italy, I'm not even kidding. You didn't gain anything. You actually lost weight because I walked like 10 miles a day. I'm not exaggerating that one at all.

I've got the, I had the data to prove it. And You I didn't feel tired. I didn't have like any of The Issues that I normally would have if I eat a lot of bread or if I eat a lot of carbs or pasta or something like that. I didn't have any of that. And it was just so different.

So when they were telling me this, I'm like, mm, I'm not gluten sensitive. I'm chemical sensitive. That's really what this is all about. And I really do think that. I think that our food, I mean, this is like preventative.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So while we were talking to Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas House was being very, very busy. What did they do? They just passed a giant corporate welfare package to keep property taxes high, per Brian Harrison, and explode the size of government.

Let's get him on tomorrow to talk about this. This is unbelievable. A $2 billion surplus. Remember how Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that that was going to go to pay down? The government regulation, like taxes, the property taxes, now it's not going to.

If you want to drive people out of the state of Texas, this is how you do it. Texas, I'll move my ass out of Texas. I am not joking. Either get a handle on it, you rat bastards in the Texas legislature, or maybe I'll show up on all your damn doorsteps. You think that you got to be afraid of the left?

You wait until you piss off the right. Bunch of commie, I can't say what I think of them. This enrages me. Absolutely enrages me. I want to know every single one of these heifers that voted for this, every one of them.

Oh, all right, we got more. I'm coming back to this after the break. Also, let's. That is what we were talking. That's what happened while we were having the conversation.

A man allegedly rips out a stranger's eye in a random attack after the, I mean, that's this is crazy. This was in Arizona. The victim's eyeball was dangling from a socket. Daniel Links was arrested and charged with felony-aggravated assault after allegedly ripping out a stranger's eye. The 38-year-old also punched the unidentified victim several times, fracturing his jaw.

He's being held in Maricopa County Jail on a half a million dollar bond. It was an unprovoked. Attack. And the victim, all he said was, hey, how are you doing? As he passed by, as people do, you know.

And he just lost it and went at him. Links had just literally been released from jail two days prior. And uh yeah, that's why, I mean, he like literally stuck his fingers in the guy's eye socket and pulled it out like uh Like Killbill. It was like a Killbill episode. Unbelievable.

And let's see. Oh, that was a bad story. Oh, apparently, HBO, this is a whole other issue. They're going to have to apologize for what is being called blackwashing Severus Snape. They decided to do Well, they're really messing up Harry Potter.

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Dana Lash here with you, Scratched Eye Edition. I have a scratch in my eye, so. Mm-hmm. I am livid over this story. Literally, minutes after we concluded our interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

The Texas House. Past. A major corporate welfare bill. We have state rep Brian Harrison on tomorrow to talk about this. And it's House Bill 14.

They want to create Basically, it's a $2 billion effort to jumpstart the state's nuclear power industry. And That Governor Greg Abbott literally was just telling me that money. was going to be used. To pay down the exorbitantly high property taxes in the state of Texas. I would encourage everyone to not support Texas Republicans anymore if they don't stop stabbing you in the back.

Because they are indistinguishable from Democrats. That's not hyperbole. Texas Republicans are literally on paper and in action absolutely indistinguishable from Democrats. Either they stopped stabbing us in the back. Or I can't support them anymore.

I'm not giving this rat bastard party another dime. I donate to some of these candidates, and then I get millions of text messages. What have you done for me, Republican lawmakers? Aside from raise our taxes, what have you done? Not a damn thing.

And the ones in DC, they can't even get it together. to cement any of these executive orders. to codify them with legislative action. Worthless. It is the Uniparty.

It's actually worse than the Uno Party because the Uno Party suggests that two sides came together and they have an equal share of. the mind space. That's false. Republicans just morph into Democrats. I want to know every, let's find out.

I want to know how every single Republican voted on that bill. Every single one. And I want to know, I want every single one of them to come on this show, and I want them to explain. Why it is that they felt it was okay to stab voters in the back, and that's exactly what they did. It is a corporate welfare bill.

This is what Democrats would pass. This is crony corporatism. You know, you can support nuclear energy without supporting crony capitalism or crony corporatism. You know that, right? There's a million ways to support.

nuclear energy without stealing taxpayer dollars. And doing it By using our taxpayer dollars, that we were promised was going to lower our property tax. Because we don't ever really own our own property, as you know, you pay rent to the government. And if you don't give the government its rent, then it comes and takes your property because you don't really own it. In the meantime, we have all these people that are complaining because they have to, oh no, they got to have their student loan repayments.

Oh, they're weeping and gnashing of their teeth because the student loan repayment. Oh, they're going to start collecting for student loans. On May 5th. five point three million borrowers. They could face wage garnishments or offset of Federal benefits if they do not pay their defaulted loans.

They have until May fifth to make payment arrangements or explore repayment plans. Yes, I'm totally fine with that. Totally fine with that. Especially after this. This is what your taxes go for.

You don't get my tax dollars. You're not my dependent. And by the way, we should be able to d claim all this stuff as dependent. I should be able to d to claim every one of these damn illegal aliens coming in as my dependent because my tax dollars have been going to 'em. Every one of them I should be able to to take.

Absolutely.

So I'm I am really I'm mad. over this two billion dollars of surplus that we were supposed to get to help with property taxes, and they gave it. to crony corporatism. Better be watching the Texas Senate. You better be burning down them phone lines to your Texas Senate.

This is unbelievable. And I just I can't continue to support this stuff. This is why I'm not a Republican. Because Republicans are trash. I got disinvited from speaking to a GOP group out of state.

I'm not going to say who, but they know who it is. They were going to have me, and then they took issue. With the fact that I was critical of the Republican Party, you can kiss my backside. I don't owe you a damn thing. You better be looking to get right with me and other voters instead of having everybody kiss your ring.

I don't know what country you think that you woke up in this morning, but we overthrew people like you 250 years ago, actually this same week.

So you might want to check yourself, Republicans. Act like they're doing you a favor. Unbelievable. I'm just, I'm done with this stuff. This is, I mean, we, they all talk such a great game.

I mean, while the governor, they made the governor, you know what? The governor ought to be mad at him too. They made him look like an ass. They made the governor look like an ass. The Texas Republicans.

Oh, but boy, they want you to come and talk at all their events. I can't tell you how many times I tell him no. I got this Republican group. Can you come and do a fundraiser for us? Do a fun.

I don't want to do a damn thing for you. I gave enough money to these lawmakers, and what have I gotten out of it? Nothing. I'm tired of rustling your jimmies to help you. I'm tired of it.

Rustle your own jimmies. How about that? Ton with it. I don't think that I'm I'm I had somebody who was telling me in Texas they pay more in property tax than they do for interest and principal. Man.

But imagine paying off your house. And you still have to owe money every year. to a government and if you don't pay it they'll take the property you paid for fully. Mm-hmm. With guns.

They'll show up with guns. Under a threat of violence. It's extortion. And you can't even get any relief. This after COVID, we had the whole damn state locked down.

People lost income. I have friends that lost everything. They lost their business. They nearly lost their home. 'Cause they had they had employees that they had to pay.

I everything. I'm going to tell you, I have and Again, I don't want to name people. I have friends. that own property in Dallas. And because it's important to the left, they're a black conservative family.

And They were told, remember when the CDC said that we're going to have a rent moratorium? And you can't Charge people for rent, but you still have to pay your utilities in taxes. This family they owned a number of properties. They had to allow everybody that was renting, and they have a very nice complex that they own. Everybody that was running from them, they had to pay all of their stuff.

They and they never got a return on that either, by the way. They still have to pay taxes on it. They had to pay the utilities. They had to pay this stuff because they had a rent moratorium from the CDC where people could live for free in properties that other people owned and that other people had to still pay tax on, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You didn't get.

You didn't get a moratorium on taxes, did you? No, but they put a moratorium on people who had rent. They almost lost the property. And it's funny because the banks and the state.

Well, the area in which they live with their property taxes, they didn't care. They wanted what was theirs. I never got a return on the investment of those lost tax dollars. Did you? I feel like There are Democrats that are Republicans that are turning the state blue.

They are turning the state blue. That's exactly what it is.

So if you're in Texas at this point, You have every right. To pretty much riot, honestly. You have every right to protest. You have every right to call these people and scream at them. Because they stabbed you in the back in one of the worst ways possible.

This is the house that did it. You know. I don't have and it gets worse. Yeah, Brian Harrison's gonna Apparently they uh were listening to these investment firms, they wanted five billion of our tax dollars that they wanted to give to these businesses, these corporations, instead of lowering property taxes. Secretly.

And they had a secret meeting, an appropriations committee, They met secretly closed doors, which violates the Texas House rules, by the way. And Brian Harrison was objecting. We're going to play all this tomorrow. This is just, it's infuriating.

So I don't see the point. If Republicans want to lose everything, they need to keep doing this. This is a great way for them to lose everything. And I'm happy to have any Texas lawmaker, if they think that they can come on here and actually show their face to voters and defend this. Oh, we'll find you.

Every damn one of them needs to be primaried. But that's the thing, you gotta actually follow through on it. I don't want to run for office because I hate people. I hate lawmakers, I hate politicians, I hate them to bits. There's some I tolerate more than others.

I just don't like them. I could not sit. at this table. I'm watching this video of this secret appropriations meeting. I could not say, I'd be hitting people with chairs.

Oh, I'd turn it into WWE. I'm not joking. I would be arrested. I wouldn't be able to deal with it. I don't have the the patience for that stuff.

Yeah, that's why, you know, there's other people like like uh Representative Harrison's better suited. I with all think about all of the The economy that Biden left. And now, until we get these other trade deals done, we're dealing with, you know, the taxation from tariffs. It's honest, it's what it is. We got to get these other trade deals done.

And Property taxes have been exorbitant, not just in Texas, but elsewhere. And I think after COVID, when people saw all of these resources that they paid property tax for and they never, it was shut down for two years and they never, you know, why would they? You have a surplus, a multi-billion dollar surplus, and this is what Texas Republicans choose to do. Unbelievable. Oh, he's got more.

Oh boy. And they tried to force the Appropriations Committee to take their votes out of being in secret. Because they were trying to do all this secretively. And then there's one Democrat lawmaker in there who was mad because he was recording it, and she starts recording him. Go ahead.

Go ahead, Ratchet, go ahead and record him. Unbelievable. So we're gonna do uh for Red State Rhino tomorrow. We're gonna do a big oh deep dive into this. I'm I've already started to drag.

And just so you know, this was a voice vote today, so they don't really have roll call vote, but tomorrow they will before we have Brian on.

So we'll have a list of people who voted for this. I um just unbelievable. On I'm I'm actually really mad. You should be. As the governor sat here and was telling us this, this is what the Texas House did.

I mean Telling you what? This is the problem with these fake Republicans. There's a major problem with them, a major problem with these fake Republicans. And you know, I got to tell you too, it doesn't help that you got some people out there who are more interested in fighting with their own side than they are actually scoring wins, like fighting with other conservatives than they are scoring wins. It's just unbelievable.

We'll talk more about that tomorrow as well. We got to get moving because we've got today and stupidity on the way as we move our partners that help bring you the program. My pillow. I just want to take a giant fluffy MyPillow. And I wanna Just hold it over the face of the people trying to pass higher.

Taxes. Just pretty. I mean, for them to sleep. That's what I'm talking about. What are you doing?

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And I know that we also had Representative Chip Roy reach out, but I mean, this is. N I Republicans are playing with fire with this. With With absolute fire, and I am getting very, very concerned. As we get closer to midterms, we should have had more trade deals with some of these nations than we've had. And I think that that would have been.

Even More acceptable if we had any of this stuff. that Trump has passed, if any of it had been made permanent. Right. If any of his, if any of the stuff that he's, if the tax cuts, if a lot of this deregulation, if it had been made permanent by members of Congress, and we don't have that right now.

So it is Are they trying to trip him up? Republicans are doing more to torpedo Trump's agenda than Democrats. That's a fact. Not even up for debate. Absolutely a fact.

And I feel like they just they don't care about taxpayers either.

So We're going to talk about all of that tomorrow. Kane, are you going to go out and get all the red dyes so you can have some red dyes since it's going to be banned? Save the dye. What happens to MMs? You know, one of my favorite drinks was Hawaiian Punch.

I haven't had it in like forever. Remember Hawaiian Punch? Oh, my God. But, you know, it's also red dye in that one. I'm sure Gatorade uses it or used it.

So I'm interested in seeing. I guess comparing, you can compare. Stupid are we as a human, as an animal? Where we're like, we can't buy that, and oh, wait, it's super bright red. Me want like, how does that?

Oh, it's boring. It looks like water. Stupid, boring, and clear. What? This is bright blood red.

Me want me give. It works like that in nature. It's how. Bees find food. Yeah, but I mean those basic biological functions still exist.

I mean we we are attracted to shiny things, we're attracted to colorful things. It's just the way it is. I go to the dark and the shadowy. I mean some go as far as being fooled by those things, but I mean we definitely they catch our eye more. That's what I'm saying.

I don't know. Well, I guess it does, but it's just it's just something I don't know. I I don't know. Uh I saw this Babylon B headline. The Catholic Church is going to consider electing a pope who's Catholic this time?

Yeah.

Oh. That'll be helpful. My favorite thing. is watching all my Catholic friends debate each other on this. All I know is that there's a cardinal who's in contention, and his name, and I'm going to say it wrong, but I'm going to go with it, is Pizza Balla.

Oh. Pope Pizza Bala? It sounds pretty cool. I like it.

Sounds like he's a baller and loves pizza. I'm just saying.

So I could go for that. All right, today's stupidity can, what we got? All right, Juan, this is cut 12. It is Elizabeth Warren, Iowatha, Phocahanas, or Pocahontas. She is here talking about how.

Biden was mentally sharp. Listen to this. Get off the The thing is. He look Yeah. He was sharp.

He was on his feet. I saw him. Live events. I had meetings with him a couple of times. He breathed, guys.

He did the most basic human functions, like talk, and he blinked and he took steps and he breathed. I mean, this wasn't two years ago. This is her saying that yesterday. That's so stupid. This is so absolutely asinine.

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