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Liberty Nation with Mark Angelides. First relates to gain of function research. Gain of function research is a type of biomedical research where pathogens are adulterated viruses or adulterated to make them more potent or to change the way that they function. Many people believe that gain of function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in the last decade. What this executive order does, first of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain of function research abroad.

It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms related to that issue and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research in general is being conducted safely and in a way that ultimately protects human health more. It's a big deal. It could have been that we wouldn't have had the problem we had. A lot of people say that, sir. If we had this done.

Uh Earlier. Thank you. All right, I love the guy that tells him all this stuff. He's like the town crier.

Well, Mr. President, this right here... has to do with uh gain of function research and the stupid stuff that Anthony Fauci was secretly doing. And he never runs out of patience explaining this to POTUS. Like, he never, he doesn't.

He doesn't. Uh What am I thinking of? He doesn't get tired of it, and he doesn't edit this or editorialize. He doesn't editorialize any of it. And he's just like, well, Mr.

President, this is what this is. I just love it. I love that aspect of it. And I think I want him to do all of it all the time, everywhere. I think that's a good idea.

I don't know, you're gonna hear, you know what I'm gonna say. None of this matters anything if Congress doesn't do Congress doesn't do its job. Doesn't matter. None of it matters. I know I'm so sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but at least I'm being honest with you.

If the people, the other people that you talk to or listen to aren't telling you this stuff, you got to be questioning what their end goal is.

Sorry, but you got to. Trust no B, y'all. You got to be wondering why they're not talking more about this.

So welcome to the program. Daniel Lash with you, and we're at the Top of this first hour. And then we also have, we've got a lot to hit because we've got. Cain, we've got the The the Pope World Series. And we're going to be talking about.

I don't.

So, my husband's family is. There are some of them are Catholic. And I just, we're going to get into some of what is happening because they shut the doors a little bit ago. to St. Peter's.

the uh there where they and it's beautiful in there i can't imagine a more beautiful place. to have to work. than the Sistine Chapel. It is Absolutely gorgeous. You're not supposed to take photos there.

And I think it's trashy. J.D. Vance was given permission. I think it's trashy when people. don't listen because the rest of us listen.

And we don't take photos, but anyway. It's beautiful in there and they were explaining to us exactly what happens. When we were there, the one and only time I've ever been at the Vatican a couple of years ago. But I mean, the beauty of the room. cannot be Appreciated.

Enough. It is one of the most amazing things to work. I would be so distracted if I was a cardinal, I'd be looking at the ceiling. I mean, I wouldn't be 'cause I'd be a woman, that wouldn't happen, but You know what I mean? I'd be looking around, looking at the ceiling, like, did you guys see this part here?

I wouldn't get anything done.

So, all that started. They just shut the doors of the conclave, and then everybody's going to be watching the smoke. And uh It's, I mean, it's very interesting how you have the new pope's election happening and you have this new administration happening simultaneously. I'm not saying the two are related. What I'm saying is that there are major shifts underway.

Look at it like that for a moment. This is what my brain does to me at night when I go to bed, right? This is my brain. My brain's like, Do you think if we had emailed back and they asks me all my brain asks me all kinds of stupid questions and I can't go to sleep? But then I was thinking Michael Howe.

There's like a major shift. happening right now. And we're going to talk about that a little later on in the program with a friend of mine who is the most experty expert that I know. He's literally the most Catholic person I've ever met in my life. And I have a lot of Catholic friends.

Except for maybe one of my other friends. And who's a she? But we're going to talk to Matthew Marsden, who's also an actor. He's been in some stuff, but he literally is the most cat. He's got a million children.

That's like the first thing, you know, that's like. You're either, I mean, you're either Catholic or you're redoing Cheaper by the Dozen, one of the two. That old movie, one of the two. Anyway, so we're going to talk to him about that because there's There is a growing number, and it's really Gen Z. And there's been a lot of rumors about this for like the past 10 years or so, that they are maybe the more.

conservative generation, you've heard this too, Keene, right? Like mm they might be the more conservative. Generation because I think Gen Z and Gen X don't like millennials. And boomers and millennials hate each other. Gen X gets along with everybody.

We'll talk about this too because Vogue had a piece saying, Are Gen X really the cool ones? And I'm like, Yeah, duh, welcome. But I bring this up because there's a crazy amount of young people. that are becoming not spiritual, but becoming Christian. And particularly amongst that group, there is a huge movement towards Catholicism.

And I find that fascinating. With Gen Z. What contributes to that? Because no one, I don't think anyone thought to study it. No one really was like paying attention to Gen Z.

And Gen Z has been raised by. Gen X and super old millennials. Old millennials and Gen X have raised. Gen Z, young boomers raised millennials.

So that's it's just fascinating. We're going to discuss some of that. Oh, also. The other big thing uh kind of kicked off. Yesterday between India and Pakistan.

I don't know if you saw this. I saw a lot of headlines joking about. Mole goodbye. That was it. We had a good we had a nice run.

So, India launched a military operation in response to a terror attack. A lot of the headlines. We're really misleading about this stuff because see, again, it's like Hamas. and Israel. You know, Pakistan commits a terr they have you have people in Pakistan, they carry out a terror atrocity in India.

India responds militarily. And they're like, oh, India attacked Pakistan. They didn't, though. It was a response. Pakistan has vowed, I don't know how Pakistan can vow retaliation because it's what India did.

But this has to do with the Pakistani administered territories in Kashmir. India's Ministry of Defense said it was targeting specifically terrorist infrastructure because of that deadly attack last month. And everyone's been saying it's a major escalation. Can we just full stop? I am so tired of whenever terrorists decide to kill people, that's not considered an escalation.

But when good people respond to put an end to terrorism, that's considered an escalation. I really feel, I think at this point, if you're writing those type of headlines, you're also a terrorist. CNN had some terrorists describing it as a quote-unquote major escalation. Done with it. Done with it.

That the, I mean, this is asinine. Kane, how many times have we seen this? They protect terrorists, whether it's Hamas or whether it's these terror cells in Pakistan. It's mind-boggling. I mean, okay, cause uh we all learned cause and effect and In like elementary school, right?

At least middle school. I mean, I remember learning about cause and effect like in first or second grade. If someone does something. To you, that's considered the provocation, right? That's the cause.

If someone responds, that isn't the cause, that's literally the response. That's the effect of that original action. But yet, I have a CNN headline, I have CNN, I have an Associated Press, I have an As France Press. I'm looking at They're all saying, oh, India escalates. India escalates.

India escalates. India escalates. Over and over again. That's all I've seen. That was a response.

That's like saying Israel escalated everything after Hamas carried out the genocide against them on October 7th. It is like this every single time. Why are these people so hard up for terrorists?

Okay. All over. It's crazy.

So we're going to come back to this because. You have two nuclear powers that are slat fighting right now. I'm just, I'm team Team India, by the way. I'm Team India. I'm just going to say it.

You're going to see a lot of these experts, though. I'm Team India just because, I mean, it's terrorism. Pakistan has been fighting over, they've been fighting over this area.

Sounds very familiar, right?

So we're going to get into all of this stuff. Also, We uh ooh ooh ooh. I got law and order for you, and we're going to get into some of the immigration issues because this is pushing forward in the House this idea to have people self-deport. And I'm just saying maybe if we had harsher penalties, Against people who entered the country illegally, we wouldn't have to pay them an additional $1,000 in taxpayer money to encourage them nicely to go back across the border to their place of origin. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Also, what if we had E-Verify? Wouldn't E-Verify also be? A good deterrence against that so we don't have to pay people $1,000 of, again, hard-earned taxpayer dollars. I'm just saying. It just seems like that would.

Seems like that might be the the the thing to do.

So we're gonna touch on that as well. We also have Uh again This law and order stuff, I wanted to pull this up. The It's a There's a a couple of self-defense. Issues. One of them was in, was reported by Fox DC, and this is in Virginia, where a homeowner.

Is they're considering whether or not they're going to charge this homeowner in the fatal shooting that happened over the weekend of a teenager.

Well, he's 18 years old, so he's a young adult. He's a legal adult at this point.

So they said that these three young adults were saying that they were just doing ding-dong ditch. First off, if you're 18 years old and you're doing ding-dong ditch, you're a loser. That's like, why don't you go and play with some Legos next? That's so stupid. But that's not what they were doing.

Because, Kane, when you do, explain to the radio audience. Ding-dong ditch. What's the practice?

Well, you go up to the front door of the home where the. Doorbell, dinger, as one goes. Right, the dinghy thing. And then you press. The doorbell dingy thing.

Right. And then you run away. Right. Okay. So that's that's it.

So they were in the backyard. There's no doorbell. Yeah, I mean, do you guys have doorbells in your backyard? I don't have a doorbell. In my backyard.

Steve, do you have a doorbell in your backyard?

Well, you're in DC, so you're but I mean, you know, did your folks have a doorbell in their backyard?

Okay, see, just the front. This is like kind of typical. Juan, you don't have a doorbell in the back, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to make sure.

Like, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't one of the poor. you know, losers that didn't have a doorbell in their backyard. I don't know, maybe it's like something for fancy people. Anyway, These three young adults, 18 and up, were in this guy's backyard. breaking and entering.

And he had no idea what was going on. He's like, holy cow! And he fires in self-defense. One of them is killed, and they're considering whether or not they're going to charge this guy for self-defense. We're going to talk about this case because, again, it always comes down to self-defense is under attack.

So we have a lot to get into. The ongoing conclave, I don't think. From what I understand, from the Vaticanistas or whatever they call the people that monitor the day-to-day. I don't think you're going to see any indication that they have concluded a round of ballots until I think it's like 2 Eastern.

So it'll probably be like 1 Central, 2 Eastern, because there's a whole process that goes along with it. You know, when you cast the ballot, you say the name, or the Cardinals that are adjudicating it read the name, then they say it out loud, and then they, you know, they poke the hole through the thing, the red string, it's like a big thing. It almost sounds like they're making garland. There's a whole process.

So, I don't think that you're going to see any indication from first round till later today.

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So, apparently, in Ohio, police found a raccoon with a meth pipe. in the driver's seat of a car. I'm not making this up. There's an actual video of it. The officer couldn't stop laughing.

The raccoon was trying to smoke a meth pipe during a vehicle search in Springfield Township, Ohio.

Now, there is a crazy lady also in the car in the driver's seat, but the raccoon. was in her lap. and it had a meth pipe in its mouth. And the lady was being stopped for a suspended license, and then they found this like massive drug supply in her vehicle. The raccoon's name is Chewy.

And it was making use of the meth pipe. The owner, Victoria Vidal, 55, was detained. No, Chewie was not driving the car. The human occupant, whom also had, she also had a warrant out for her arrest, was the driver of the car. But Chewie got a hold of the glass meth pipe, and then officers were like, well, you know, now you're being irresponsible with your raccoon, so now we gotta go and.

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Okay, I need stop. This got stop. It's Smokey Robinson. Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson. I mean, do you believe that in him?

Do you think he did this? Dude's 85. He's 85 years old. If he didn't move, I'd be like, he's done dead. If he didn't move, I'd be like, that man is deceased.

There is, he is not with us because he's got this perpetually like dead look on his face. I don't know. Anyway, there, I just, I don't know if I buy it. I think somebody's trying to shake him out for money because they've never launched these accusations against him in his career. This came out of nowhere when the man's in his mid-80s.

Left-handed people are apparently more, it's more common to be left-handed if you have a certain mental disorder and major study finds. I think this is all nonsense. It's nonsense, Kane. Ambide what if you're ambidextrous? I'm not asking for anybody.

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Proud of you. But A twelve foot tall Bronze Statue. of a woman. that's been erected in Times Square. It's the only Erection that's going to be related to this statue.

It's Constructing the statue, Kane, because once you put it up, it's up. What are you talking about? Welcome back. Dana, last year with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour.

I bring this up because you guys know I hate modernity, right? I hate modern art. and I hate this monstrosity. To compare it to Michelangelo's David, is like taking your thumb. grabbing the skull.

of all of art and shoving your thumb into the eye hole. Of that skull and just digging in. It's just, that's exactly what it's like. And um I mean, this ain't no David, I gotta say. I mean, first off, let's just talk about the factual aspect of it because woke is infecting art, as you know.

And with Michelangelo's David, he studied anatomy and physiology to the point where you could see. Raised Portions of the skin indicating what tendons were being used to hold his hand a certain way. Everything, I mean, down to the the angle of the eyebrow and the tenseness of the muscles in his jaw. It was all uh pointing towards he was about to get into A fight. with Goliath.

It's young David. I mean, it is a masterpiece. I've seen it up close. uh at ac at the uh academia where they have the the museums there in Florence. And it is amazing.

It is so detailed. And so lifelike, you can't even appreciate it just from the photos of it. And they let you get right up to it. I mean, his butts right in your face. Giant five-foot butt, you know, anyway, but it's fan, I mean, it's amazing, just the attention to detail.

And for that era as well. To note that for that era. When I look at this. modern day equivalent of the stay puff marshmallow man. Think Ghostbusters, like choose your destroyer, I don't know.

That is not it. It's not it. What does it celebrate? What is this supposed to celebrate? They just put it in Times Square.

And you saw some of the The celebration or the ceremony that they had for it. It's going to be on display through June 17th. It's part of a series. That's called Grounded in the Stars and it's about stupid identity politics. Oh, sorry, this is how they put it.

It confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation. Whatever the hell that means. It's garbage modernity. It just looks like a frumpy woman who needs a better bra. That's what it looks like.

I'm not going to lie. It does. And they're like, oh, she wears everyday clothes. Her stance is a subtle nod to David. Shut up.

It just looks like she's mad at her kids. I I don't understand. I mean it's Could I sculpt this? I mean, probably. No.

I I have no interest in it. I crochet. But What is the what is the point? I mean, David, every inch of David was kind of. calculated and and the the proportions of it.

We're all to send a message. Like, for instance, The story of how it's meant to be viewed from below. David is meant to be viewed from below, and there were a lot of questions as to the proportions of everything: his wrists, his hands, his head, everything. It's actually mathematically perfectly proportional when viewed. from the ground because it was supposed to be I mean, they were going to, it was actually something that was supposed to be, I think, up near towards the Duomo, and then they ended up putting it in front of Palazzo Vecchio.

And Uh There I mean, it's it's just perfect. There was a story of one of the um Rich noblemen. Who came to see the finished product? And when he showed up, he's like, Oh, Michelangelo, his nose is just a little too big. I don't know.

Michelangelo's like, Oh, let me fix that for you. And he had some marble dust in his hand. and he climbed up his ladder and he was pretending to chisel on the nose and letting dust fall out of his hand. He did nothing to it. And when he got back, and this is a true story, when he got off the ladder, the nobleman was like, oh my gosh, it's perfect now.

Like he was able to, you know, with his expertise, fix it. This is not that. It's not. I mean, it's not I don't know what it's meant to convey. What is I mean, what does this what does the sculpture say to you?

What does it say to you? I hate when you're like, what does art say to you? Can I just appreciate it for being for what it is? Does it have to always have a message? Does must art always preach Stop.

I just look at, like, gosh, I want to get her a better bra. That's my first thought when I look at this. Stop it. You know it is too. I mean, it just seems.

Defeated Right? I don't know. But they said that, oh no, it's a You know, it's uh they're celebrating whatever identity. I don't know, some stupid stuff. It's a bunch of word salad.

That's all it is.

So, I don't know. To sit here and compare it to David is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. It's not. And the reason it's not is because there's no detail in it. It's all smooth.

There's not even detail in the jeans. There's not even seaming on the jeans. Like if you're wearing pants, if you're wearing denim, you have seams on the denim, you have tailoring, you have stitching. On the arms, the arms are smooth. There's no veins on the arms.

There's no appearance. I mean, they're not lifelike at all. It looks like she's covered just by, you know, like with fondant. That's it. There's no detail.

Michelangelo had incorporated all of that detail into David. Every bit of detail.

So to compare them. Is artistically, intellectually stupid. It's one of the dumbest comparisons I've ever heard in my life. Stop. I had to get this off my chest because this sculpture is horrifying.

I'm like, when you're comparing it to David, why do we sit here and devalue? skill sets. You know, there are some really amazing sculptors out there. but they don't get any attention. Because they don't do woke stuff.

There are some phenomenal sculptors out there, some that their genius probably could. You know, propel them up into that upper echelon with those Renaissance grades, but you never hear about them because they don't do stupid woke stunts like this. This is just an embarrassment. If I had done this sculpture and someone was comparing it to David, I would immediately have to get out in front of that and be like, oh, dear heavens, no. I mean, all you have to do, again, look at her wrists and there's other photos that show you.

what her hands look like and her arms, and it's all smooth. There's no detail, there's no bones, there's no veins, there's no valleys in between the tendons that go towards your fingers. David had all of that. That's why it is so amazing. It is one of the most lifelike sculptures you're ever going to see.

And They this is not it.

So, I feel like the people making these comparisons literally know nothing of what they're speaking about, not at all. All that stuff aggravates me. Gosh, I hate modernity. Modernity is just garbage. The Supreme Court ruled that POTUS's ban on transgender troops can stay for now.

They lifted a lower court's decision to pause the policy, which is a significant win for POTUS and SECDAF. And it allows the DOD to continue removing. transgender service members from the military and denying enlistment. I don't think transgender, you can get mad at me all you want to. I don't think that transgender soldiers, if you're not able, to serve first and be a part of a unit.

without bringing that with you. then you are not fit for service. I think it's a mental illness. I think pretending to be a different sex is a mental illness. Either that or it's a selfish demand upon society that masks itself as a mental illness for greater acceptance and to avoid any kind of challenge.

Ultimately, I think that's what the majority of it is. But no, if you have a mental illness, no, you should not be. In the military, I mean, for crying out loud, if you have flat feet, I don't even know if that works anymore, but they used to deny you for that. They would deny you if you had like scoliosis. They would deny you if you had like a number of other, even what we would consider to be minor ailments, minor physical.

uh uh issues you would be uh considered unfit for service. And the whole purpose is that a unit is only as strong as its weakest member, and you want your weakest member to be tough. and to not have any vulnerabilities. at all whatsoever. And I just, this it's either about having a fighting force and caring about the lives of the other individuals who selflessly said that they were going to serve, or it's not.

I think it's selfish to demand that everyone else lower their expectations and endanger their lives to accommodate cosplay. That has no position in the military. I don't care. It has zero, zero belonging in the military.

So I'm glad that the Supreme Court did this. They said that it's so it's this because this is all from that executive order that was signed towards the end of January, and you know they immediately started. started in on that. They immediately started to uh litigate it. And they had, um Obviously, so do my Oric Hagan and Jackson.

would have they indicated in the filing that they would have decided against them, but So, this is a big celebratory thing because we can now maybe. Start to get back to restoring the purpose of our military. Of course, again, broken record, if Congress doesn't do any of this, this will all revert in three years. If you have a Democrat president. Heaven forbid.

All of this is gone. Every bit of it. Every bit. And now, do you know the excuse that I'm hearing? from some not hearing but reading from some Republican lawmakers.

When they're pushing back against voters who are demanding action and stop dragging their feet, do you know what they're saying? Oh, we gotta wait till after midterms. That is actually I told you I told you I told you. I told you. They're going to constantly use that.

Is it because they don't want to do it? They don't want to do any of this stuff. You know, sometimes you got to ask: is the real opponent Democrats or is it other Republicans within the party? I think that's the big that's the big question. This is also the historic anniversary.

uh the ending of all Hostilities. I mean, the Nazis gave up today. This is, there's a lot of. Uh the ending of World War II. And I think most everybody sells it on May 8th, but actually it apparently happened at 2.41 a.m.

local time on May 7th. at a ceremony in Rheims, France. And that's when Eisenhower, who was at the time the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, had actually, that's when he actually officially accepted. the unconditional surrender, surrender of Nazi Germany.

So most everybody cele celebrates it the um the uh V E Day on the 8th, but technically it was. 2.41 a.m. local time, May 7th. is when it happened. the unconditional surrender.

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And there are hundreds of victims. And no one victim will ever get released. It's just the volume, and that's what they're going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that. I don't believe any of it.

I'm sorry. I'm so tired of hearing this stupid nonsense. I don't believe any. Didn't she have this stuff on her desk? What are you saying?

Like a month ago? No, didn't she tell everybody? She tweeted it out. She had the stuff on her desk. Where is it at?

All these people, all they are, are a bunch of damn pimps that use this stuff for clout and they don't release a single bit of it. Who's reviewing what put it all out there? Put it all out there. It doesn't jeopardize a damn thing. Why are you looking at me like that?

Because these victims, they have to redact all the information out of there to make sure these victims are protected from the how long have they had these files that redact on them? I don't know how long. I don't know how many files there are totally. For forever. This stuff's been sitting on this chick's desk since January.

What do you think is a reasonable amount of time to make sure these victims don't get their names in? It's not difficult to do. You can use AI to strip the names out. How much time do you have? Five seconds.

Five seconds. Second thing. Use AI, strip the names out. These people think you're stupid. They think you're stupid.

They're wasting time. Yeah, they are. They're wasting time. Remember when they were like, oh, we got this on our desk. Yeah, we have them in our possession.

Then where did that talking point go? That was over a month ago. All I hear are a bunch of political pimps that are just using this stuff for clout. That's all it is.

I'm tired of it. I'm so tired of the press conferences about it.

Well, we've got it. Yeah, we're still reviewing it.

Okay, y'all said that a month ago. I'm also hearing rumors of thousands of documents and records being destroyed in regards to this Epstein. All they have to do, the files that they have, it's not difficult. You can control F it. Control F it.

Find the names. Get them out. Use AI to strip out any names. Control F it. It's not difficult.

That's actually one of the easiest things you could do. Just F it. Is to redact it. That's not even an issue. The issue is that they won't do it.

Because they, I don't know, give me a good idea. I have no faith in anyone.

So clearly, you need to understand my perspective on this. I have no faith in anyone, be they right or left. I completely understand your perspective on it, but I don't have, I'm not going to sit there and say Pam Body's lying. I didn't say she was lying. You said she's not telling the truth.

I said that these are I said that this is like a political pimp stump. I'm so tired of hearing about it. Oh, we got it. Yeah, wink, wink. Yeah, we're going through them.

Okay, you said it a month ago. You said you don't believe them. And then a month ago, you said that a month ago. You said you don't believe them, which would imply that they're lying. Yeah, I don't believe them.

I didn't say lying, though. There's a difference. I don't believe them. You can have misdirection, which technically isn't a liar if you're omitting certain information. Government certainly knows about misdirection.

Yeah. I just show me the files, man. That's all we've been asking for. There's always some kind of excuse that they got. And now they're re-victimizing the victims more by acting like they can't redact their names.

Come on. Maybe some ghost stole this stuff.

Okay, yeah.

So we've got, it's a whole other thing. My husband insists. than in the last night. he heard what was a bone chilling sound, and he has spent all morning Being Detective Lash. Looking at all the security cameras, trying to figure out where.

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So now he's like got these images of like the driveway and different parts of the property. And he's like, look at this white, this white fog smoke. You guys have a ghost. Like, it's fog. There's a fog in.

advisory out there. I'm just saying. I'll let you. We'll talk a little bit about that coming up because it's funny. We got a lot more on the way.

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Go to hometitalock.com and use promo code DANA. What's been confusing on this is some people see due process like that's an American citizen. That's a right to a jury trial. That's all those different things. That's not true for due process for someone who's not a citizen of the United States.

It's a different process. It's often just literally what people call an immigration judge. It's not a typical federal judge or a state judge. This is someone that's in the bureaucracy that their task for DHS is that task on it.

So they're a government employee career. That's an immigration judge.

So it's a very different process for it. But yes, there is a need to be able to give an opportunity for someone to be able to make an argument before they're removed in the country. It's just No, that's where I think he's wrong.

Sorry. I disagree with him on this. And I like Lingford. He's a. uh uh Republican out of Oklahoma.

And he's saying, yeah, people who come into the country illegally should get due process, is what he's saying. I'm sorry, what? And he was talking with CNN on that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

We're at the top of the second hour. Yeah, he says there's a different process, but yeah, we got to have an opportunity to make an argument. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You lose that the moment you break the law by entering illegally. Let's talk about the due process of American citizens who are robbed of due process by having this injustice perpetrated upon us to the tune of billions of dollars a year.

Let's talk about that absence of due process for all of these people who fetishize illegal immigration and constantly want to kiss the ass of people who break into the country illegally. That's the due process is entering the country illegally. When you forfeit that, you forfeit any claim. because you're not a citizen. You have no legal standing here.

This kind of accommodation is for people who have legal standing. when you break into the country illegally, when you break and enter, You forfeit that. And then the due process of the people who are here legally must be respected. And I need these lawmakers to get this stuff straight. They sit here and they Bend over servicing the people who can't vote for them legally at the at the expense of the people who can.

I was very disappointed to hear this answer from Lankford. incredibly disappointed. I mean, there is a reason why we have this system and we have law and order. And you are you are equal before the law and you are equal underneath it when you violate it. And when you enter illegally, you are not part of that legal framework.

The end. I'm so tired of everyone thinking that you can sacrifice the due process of law-abiding Americans to accommodate this criminality. And it's disgusting to see a Republican from Oklahoma no less. give lip service to this trite nonsense.

Now I have In my digital hands. A letter that Pull this up is apparently now we've got a commitment to framework. and recon reconciliation. A number of lawmakers have sent a short letter to Speaker Johnson and Leader Scalise. about a reconciliation bill.

That goes after certain objectives while extending the president's tax cuts. growing the economy, securing borders, continuing unleashing domestic energy production. And emphasizing peace through strength. Although I will say, I wish it was made permanent. I'd love to see that made permanent.

But This uh This is a good step.

Now, they list in this, and I'll tell you who these lawmakers are here in a moment. There's only a handful of them. The minimum criteria for their support. They said the reconciliation bill must not add to the deficit.

Now, this letter is not yet public. You're hearing about it first here. Under the House's framework, they write, the reconciliation bill must not add to the deficit. The House budget resolution assumes that enacting the President's agenda extending those twenty seventeen tax cuts will generate About two and a half trillion dollars. and additional revenue.

Three economic growth.

Now, I know it's not abolishing the IRS, but when you talk to me about tax cuts, dude. My dudes, what? That's how we become friends, just like this. See how easy it is, Kane, to be friends with us? We are s but simple creatures.

They said that they it has to include now this is a kicker They write, this means. that the reconciliation bill MUST include At least two trillion in savings. either through spending reductions or scaling back the size of the tax package. If savings fall short, what they're saying is: look, We've got to get these people tax cuts. No one's going to agree to give them tax cuts if you don't stop spending because they're going to try to misrepresent that as a cost.

And they get the deficit reduction in other committees, and then maximum ways and means instruction. They said bottom line A two-trillion reduction in spending may sound substantial, however. It only equals 2.3% of projected federal outlays over the next decade and only reduces the rate of growth in spending. Even with these savings, annual spending is expected to grow from seven trillion to ten trillion over the next ten years, and debt will exceed fifty trillion by twenty thirty five. They said the House reconciliation instructions are binding.

They set a floor for savings, not a ceiling. And we must hold the line on fiscal discipline to put the country back on a sustainable path. This is good. It's signed by Lloyd Smucker. All these are representatives, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert.

Uh Josh Josh Breachen, Timber uh Timber Chet. Eric Burleson, Michael Cloud, Andrew Clyde, Elijah Crane, Brandon Gill. Uh Paul Gosar, Andy Harris, Mark Harris, Diana Harshberger, Clay Higgins, Morgan Luttrell. Rich McCormick. Mary Miller, Ralph Norman, Jay Obernult.

Andy Oglis, Robert Onder, Scott Perry, Chip Roy, David Schweikert, Keith Self, Victoria Sparts. Greg Stuby, Marlon Stutzman, Tom Tiffany, Beth Van Dyne, and Ryan Zink.

Now, these are all pretty fiscally conservative lawmakers. And we I mean, Spartes also, if she didn't like it, she would spit sooner spit on it than sign it. And I think to get her to get Biggs to sign on it as well, I think some of these others. I think that's pretty significant. Van Duyne, McCormick.

So these are all in Chip Roy. These are all pretty fiscally conservative lawmakers, and this is a really good first step.

So what you're getting insight into is some of these lawmakers, they're brawling with some of their other fellow Republicans in Congress because some of them don't want to pass any meaningful cuts. And then to that point, they're not going to pass any meaningful tax reform. They're not going to give you any kind of tax relief. What they're calling for is: look, you've got to reduce this if you want to help out taxpayers because we don't have enough money in the pot. To keep spending the way y'all are spending.

They're spending like a bunch of drunk sorority girls getting ready to go rush at Alabama. Come on. No offense, ladies, but come on. You can't be spending like this. You gotta cut it back.

You gotta roll it back.

So I'm happy to see this. And we'll see. How? We're going to see how this kind of rolls out. But this is so far pretty significant.

They're talking about: look, this is the reduction that we're going to need in order to accommodate this. For The tax cuts.

Now, of course, because this is, we're all going to have to fight over this bill again, that's why it's an extension and not a permanent cut, because that's the framework of this reconciliation bill. That's going to have to be a separate fight. And that's, you know, again, I don't know if that's something that they're going to actually be able to do, unfortunately. I mean, right now, I already see some of the moderate Republicans making excuses.

So they said that this, they said the spending level, any additional tax cuts or increases in spending has to be offset. That is a reality. I hate when people say that tax cuts cost, and this is how Democrats finagle it to pull the wool over everybody's eyes for that talking point. Tax cuts, this is your money. that the government extorts from you under threat of injury.

They they steal your money. And then they spend it on a bunch of stuff that is actually not under Article 1, Section 8, the enumerated powers. It it it everything that that the government can do that then is relegated to the states. That if it can't. And so The argument always from Democrats is, well, tax cuts cost.

If we give you more of your money back, that costs us. They act like that's an expense on their behalf. That's your money. That's an expense on your behalf, not theirs. The expense that they accrue is when they don't stop spending.

That's the big issue. The major issue.

So I'm very happy to see this. It's a small number of lawmakers, but they're all fairly fiscally, they're all very fiscally minded.

So, this is a very good thing.

Now, we're going to wait and see what happens because they're going on break. When do they leave? Tomorrow's when break starts, right? They got four days. Why are you shaking her head like that?

What are they? Tell us. What do they need the time off for? We have a lot of work to do here. What is this extra day for?

I don't get it. I don't get why they have to take off. and get a four-day weekend here. when we have a lot of important work right here on the cusp of everything. The issue is whether or not they can get some of these other issues, it's not so much Democrats.

If Republicans could keep their caucus together. They could make this happen.

So, are they doing like vote whipping, or what are they doing at this moment? Probably, I would imagine. But this isn't committee, though.

So this is this so we'll see if this they got to get it out. Under the floor, but they're Uh I I mean, I'm It's a great step in the right direction. And this would be a major major uh talking point for POTUS if they can give it to him. Can you imagine Trump going out there and saying look We've come to an agreement.

Now, yes, sidebar. Is this bill what I wanted? No. Um But it's I get it, it's incremental step by step by step, even if it's like a little baby step, but still. You got to have the optics of a win.

If you have POTUS go out there and say, look, we got an agreement. About the reconciliation. We're going to reduce spending by X amount, and that means we're going to be able to extend these tax cuts for you because we know you're hurting right now. You're gonna get people That are going to say, oh, okay, we got relief with taxes. We'll be able to hold on for a little bit more with the tariff.

issue. We'll be able to hold on a little bit more. What are Democrats going to say? What is the argument that they would have in the media to fight? to fight this and try to spin this as something bad.

This is a net positive. for the voter. if Republicans in the House can give this to POTUS. I mean, hell, he can walk out there and say, look, we got some great savings for the American people. We're extending these tax cuts.

That's going to help them. It's going to help sustain them as we finalize all these trade deals. And we start winding down our strategy. if we it maybe potentially wind down our strategy. uh of enacting tariffs So that we can equalize the playing field.

And this is going to be a shot in the arm to Americans who have suffered from everybody else's bad trade deals. And under the last administration, we're here to help. This would be a huge talking point for him. I hope someone in the administration is telling him this. And same, Mr.

President. You have this group of lawmakers that are about ready to give you a major talking point. He could go out and say, Happy Mother's Day. Oh, my gosh Dude. I almost gave myself chills over that.

Can you imagine? I hope That people can put their petty partisan bitching over the last primary aside, and someone can get in his ear and be like, POTUS. This is a major talking point. We got to get this done. Can you imagine him going out like I have in my hand?

This letter Framework for reconciliation. We need to get this done, Republicans. You need to follow the example of these lawmakers and get this done for our voters. It's like, you know, I would do it, but I can't. They'd call me a tyrant, so you got to do your jobs.

I mean good night. Just push him out there to say it, someone, please. 'Cause this would be good. This would be a great first step. And then you know what?

How the market's going to react to that. Consumers have a little bit more discretionary spending. You know how many people were doing the payload stuff, a quarter? A quarter of Americans doing the paid later for things like groceries and all of that. compared to 14% Last year?

You know what a boon this would be for them? Come on. Come on. We have a lot to hit today. And you don't want to miss any of it.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this second hour, and you can listen across the country the stream on channel 347. I always get that wrong. Channel 347, Direct TV, X, Rumble, all that good stuff.

So, if you're just joining us, we've been talking about a lot of stuff, but particularly. What's going to happen? And Congress. You know, Trump keeps wanting his big, beautiful bill. We have some Republicans that don't want to cut spending, some Republicans who do.

I can't even imagine being in DC right now, especially if your colleagues are some of those who don't want to stop spending.

So we have this amazing, big, beautiful letter. It's a commitment to House framework and reconciliation. We were just talking about this because there are some members of Congress who can do math. and like to save taxpayer money. And they're warning everyone, look, We have to have serious and substantial cuts.

We have to have these and this is what we need and hopefully we can make this happen. Joining me now is one of the signees to this letter, Representative Beth Van Duyne, Congresswoman out of the Republic of Texas. It's good to see you, Congresswoman. Thanks so much for joining us. This, I mean, this bill, what you're talking about with this reconciliation framework, reduction in spending.

Commitment to extending the tax cuts, which I think we absolutely have to have right now with this ongoing tariff war. And I mean, I love that there are so many names on it, but I'm also sad that apparently there are only that amount of lawmakers in the House that want to save taxpayer money. Tell me about the strategy on this.

Well, look, what we continuously do since I've been up here is we have these negotiations, we have these negotiations, we try to compromise, and then we wait until the very last minute, it falls apart, and we end up voting for basically a Democrat bill. And I think what we're the 32 members who signed on to this letter are saying is we're letting you know in advance. This is something that we have been championing for the last year that we've been talking about this reconciliation, this tax bill. We have got to cut spending. We look at $7 trillion that we're spending per year, $5 trillion that we're collecting in revenue.

It does not balance. And we're not just continuing to add to the $37 trillion debt. We're growing it. And so, even if we can get to a bill that is deficit neutral, you're still not attacking the debt. And then we have got to start taking that seriously.

I got elected in 2020 during COVID when they added trillions and trillions of dollars that we were not making, that we were not generating. Generating to our debt, and we're not going back to those pre-COVID levels of spending. This package, this reconciliation package, the extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, pretty much 100% of that focus is focused on economic growth, making sure that we are not having mom-and-pop small businesses shut down because they're facing some of the largest tax increases in our nation's history, making sure that 90% of working Americans that pay taxes aren't going to see their taxes increase, the largest increase that they've ever had in their history as well. We have got to get this tax bill passed, but at the same time, we can't ignore that we are spending so much more that we're making and putting on this debt to future generations. You note in here a $2 trillion reduction in spending may sound substantial, but then you put the context with it.

However, it equals only 2.3% of projected federal outlays. I'm trying to do this, Matt. This is insane. And that's just over the next decade, and it only reduces the rate of growth. Spending.

That's how out of control this is. I mean, that really puts it in stark terms.

Well, when you start thinking about how much we spend, we talk about the debt. What does the debt mean? It means that we're actually having to pay to service the debt every year. We are almost at a trillion dollars on our debt service, which is more than we pay for Medicare or on all of our defense put together. Those are significant dollars that we are spending.

Basically, if you have a credit card, how much you're paying in interest. We're not getting a program for that. We're not getting a service. This is not going to anything other than simply our debt service. We have got to get control over it.

And we saw it spike during COVID. We're not in a pandemic anymore. We are seeing the economy grow. We are seeing our markets grow. That needs to mean something and we need to stop spending like, and I don't want to offend Navymen, but drunken sailors.

I apologize. I don't think they're going to be offended. I don't think they'll be offended. We're talking with Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne out of Texas and this framework for reconciliation. I know that there's a mini break for Congress coming up.

Is this something that you all are tackling today? Or is this where the big fights next week? Look, I've been in meetings. I'm on the Ways and Means Committee, and we're coming up with this tax bill. We have been in hours and hours and hours, days-long meetings.

And we just had one today. We're going to have another one tomorrow. We have got to get this tax bill package, this tax bill done in a draft put out. We need it sooner rather than later to give some kind of security to our businesses. While you mentioned earlier, you know, they're going through kind of the shuck and jives of what we're looking at with tariffs right now.

They need some kind of stability, and having a very strong tax bill is one way in which we can aid them. At the same time, we want economic growth. We've got to be able to do what we can to prevent that from eroding, which is what we are up against. At the end of this year, you're going to see the tax cuts and jobs act provisions expire. That includes things like research and development, expensing, the 199A pass-through, which for small businesses means that they're at the corporate rate, which is 21%.

If we allow that to expire, it jacks up to almost 40%.

So you're talking about, you know, you know, these mom and pop, these small businesses, these job creators in all of our communities, many of them have come and talked to us and said that they will be driven out of business if this is allowed to happen.

So it's within our ability to not let that happen. We've got a framework, but we also have to stop fighting amongst ourselves. And when there are areas that we can cut that make sense, such as in Medicaid, when we can draw, you know, make sure that people who are here illegally are not getting those Medicaid dollars that we need. For other members of our population, which means when we've got people on there who are able-bodied, able-aged, who could be working instead of living on Medicaid benefits, we have to get them back into the workforce. Those are things that I would hope not only can Republicans and Democrats both get behind, but that the entire Republican conference has to get behind.

You would think so. And I would assume that when you talk about the $2 trillion in cuts or $2 trillion in reduction in spending, does this include any of the Doge stuff? Because I know so far those have only been recommendations to Congress.

Well, right now, a lot of the Doge cuts, a lot of the Doge savings are stuck in courts right now. And so that's going to be a while until we find out whether those dollars can actually be put into an equation. The same thing with tariffs. A lot of people want us to use a tariff revenue as a payoff, but the pay fors have to be legitimate numbers. And the tariffs right now, it's so dynamic, you know, whether or not it's 125%, is it 20%?

Is it 50%? You know, are we going to give a 60-day, 90-day pre-leave while we negotiate? We don't know what those numbers are yet.

So we're trying to be as conservative as possible, but also as realistic as possible.

So we're taking the numbers that we know. And I'll give you a perfect example. I'm going to call it the Inflation Act. I know that the Democrats call it the Inflation Reduction Act, but we all know what happened to it. But the numbers that were in the IRA, which is basically a green new scam bill, had all sorts of tax deductions where you had the government putting its thumb on the pressure on the pulse.

Of what was happening and on the scale of what was happening in the energy sector, and just favoring a ton of green new energy programs that got us nowhere, but were extraordinarily expensive. All Republicans voted against that bill, but we've got some of us now who are fighting to get this provision or that provision. That is a huge pay for if we could get all of us on board saying it was a terrible bill at the time, which is why we all voted against it. And we can't sit here and pick and choose.

Well, this might be good for this business that's in my district. We all have to understand at the end of the day, when our spending is such that it is, everybody is going to have to put a pound of flesh on the table because we cannot sustain it. And the government has grown at such a rate. That it's quite honestly, we are outspending our ability to ever be able to pay it off, and it's putting us in really dangerous territory.

Well, and to that point as well, apparently, so there's, I know, some of your more moderate colleagues that are apparently jousting back and forth over funding, for just as an example, Planned Parenthood in the reconciliation package. There's a couple of them, apparently, I think it's Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lawler, and Jen Kiggins that are some of the ones who made it clear to leadership that, and this comes from a couple of different sources, that they made it clear that they oppose a measure to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood in the reconciliation bill. I mean, they've been getting a half a billion dollars annually for I can't even remember how long. I mean, that's not sustainable. I mean, are you privy to that fight?

I am not privy to that fight. I know where I stand in that fight and the fact that 95% or more of the services that Planned Parenthood provides is abortion and that they spend over $500 million a year on marketing. And who are they supporting? Our Democrats. I don't know why our Republican colleagues would want to defend that kind of an animal, but it has long been a fight of ours.

We're a pro-life party. There's a pro-life for a reason. And what we're trying to do with this tax bill is make sure that we are supporting working American families.

Now, whether or not it's through a child tax credit, whether or not it's looking at ways of being able to grow the economy, giving really good, nice, high-paying jobs, supporting those institutions that support families. That's what we're trying to do with a tax package.

So I am going to stay away from support of Planned Parenthood because I think it's a typical organization. I think there's a lot of birthing centers that if we are really interested in providing for a healthy place for moms to go, we have those within all of our communities that we can give. To. I know Texas does a great job of being able to help supply them with the resources that they need to be able to grow and to service that population. There's a lot better without funding Democrat campaigns either.

Last question for you, talking with Congresswoman Beth Van Dine from the Republic of Texas. Is this something that that POTUS would support because I keep thinking he needs A a bigger Victorious talking point, other than, well, we have some trade deals coming. Because I think, you know, people have been waiting this out, waiting to see what happens, but they need something. They need something because, you know, tariff, no matter how people want to slice it, it is double taxation. And to be able to give voters a shot in the arm like this, I would think that the White House would want to be able to come out.

I would love it if they said, oh, Happy Mother's Day. We're extending the tax cuts. We're going to be reducing spending. We're cutting $2 trillion. I mean, that would be amazing to have that.

Is that something that you think the administration would support? I know that they're still kind of forming what they want and kind of weighing out some of the things that they would like to see in it. But I would love to hear from the White House on that. Do you think that this was something that they would embrace? He definitely looks this president has definitely said what he wants to do with a tax bill.

He has not been shy at all whether or not it's two reconciliation bills or one. He wants one big, beautiful bill to make sure that we can get it over the finish line. We're looking at not Mother's Day, Mother's Day would be great. We're looking at a Memorial Day as our deadline to get this out of the House and hopefully on the president's desk by July 4th. You know, those are the dates that we're working with.

So we've got a lot to do between now and then. But again, it has to be a bill that the majority, we can only afford to lose three votes.

So you brought up three members who are fighting on Planned Parenthood. We've got another group that's fighting to keep the salt or to lift the salt cap from places like New York and California because they are getting, you know, their constituents are getting overtaxed by their local and state agencies. But Texas shouldn't have to pay to make up for these really bad decisions made by Democrats that are elected in blue states. But the salt cap deduction is one that we're a fight that we're having. The fight over the green new scale.

Scam tax cuts. Those are decisions that we're having to make right now to put into this bill, making sure that we're being fiscally responsible, fiscally conservative, and being able to move forward. But the White House has been very clear. They want to have a tax bill and they want to have it sooner rather than later, which means Memorial Day.

Now, can we get everybody on board when you only have three members? I don't know. That will be left to have. And we're going to have, I'm on the WIP team. I'm also on the deputy whip team.

We're going to have a lot of conversations one-on-one with members who are pretending to be holdouts right now. But the 32 members that signed onto this letter have been very consistent. They have had conversations with the White House. They've had conversations with the president, with Vice President Vance, with our leadership. I just want to make sure that we are very clear.

I think that's the purpose of this letter. This is what our expectation is. We want to be team players. We are 100% on board with what this president administration wants to achieve, but we have to. To do it in a fiscally conservative manner.

Yep, exactly. And we need to get these other people on board.

So it seems like there may need to be a pressure campaign against these other three lawmakers. If they don't want to go willingly, then maybe the voters need to drag them. Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne, appreciate your consistency. Your transparency with everything and your fight for voters in Texas and everywhere else. Thank you so much.

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You know, I thought this was America. No, no, you can't do that. He was pulled over while driving a car. He hit a l cardboard license plate with the word private on it. A piece of cardboard with the word private scrawled onto it, affixed his license.

Yeah, it didn't really work that way. His name is Ben Roach. He was taken to the Walton County Jail, charged with making a bomb, possessing explosives, possessions of controlled substances, tampering with evidence, possession. Oh my gosh, a ton of charges. There's just a lot.

He's got a lot. Uh but yeah, they said that they f immediately noticed the cardboard plate. And then they said that he had no identification, but he had a birth certificate that identified him as Benjamin Roach, 37. And then they found meth. All kinds of meth, probably gonna distribute it.

And then they found they took pictures of it. basically uh cylindrical objects with uh caps. Uh PVC with caps on each end wrapped with black electrical tape. Yeah, and he said, Oh, they got gunpowder in them. And they go, Well, do they have a fuse?

And then, yes, they did. Oh.

So, yeah, they had ATF. They had to go BAFT. They had to show up. Uh they uh had to disarm them, and we there they have no idea why he had this stuff. I'm just the fake paper tag was the least of his worry.

Yeah, the paper cardboard license plate. Yeah, it was probably, um Yeah, that's probably the least of his concerns with all of this, I would say. Uh I don't This sounds like a bad news. Bad news. Disney World's announcing a rare adults-only experience at the park.

Oh boy. It's called Blank Dim Kids. And uh. Oh.

That's not the name of it. The experience will offer guests lavish drinks. And bites in the new lounge at Epcot. It sounds like hell. Cause it's gonna be sugary and overpriced.

Everything's gonna have way too much syrup in it. It's not gonna be an actual like. properly mixed cocktail. This sounds, oh, the elevated, I hate the word elevated for anything. Stop saying it.

The elevated experience is only one hundred and seventy nine dollars. It includes theme park admission. I would rather chew off my own foot. Than to do something like to have an elevator. Yeah, to than to than to go to a theme park.

I don't like I like theme parks. But I don't. I just want to go and ride roller coasters and then not do anything and not experience anything elevated. Stick with us. Third hour next.

We have a lot to hit today, and you don't want to miss any of it. And I think we have Senator Ram Paul on later. Is he on with us today? No, not today, later this week, because he's been admired in voting. So, but we do have Matthew Marston on later.

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You know, you carry knives, you carry different What did you make of those scenes in the Oval Office? President Trump and President Zelensky. I found it uh Sort of beneath America. the way that took place. And the way We talk about now that Well, it's the Gulf of America.

Uh maybe we're gonna have to take back Panama. Maybe we need to acquire Greenland. Maybe Canada should be figuring, what the hell's going on here? What president ever talked like that? Is that who we are?

We're about freedom, democracy, opportunity. Not about confiscation. We're about freedom to talk about whatever the hell we want to. And uh that is our golf.

Sorry, but it is. Actually, I'm not apologizing. Why is he still talking? Like he's still I will say, no other president is doing what, I mean, even Obama, who loved the spotlight, didn't go out and seek out to do these interviews the way Biden is, right? Yeah, no.

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash. With you, we're at the top of this third hour. I'll have a piece coming out here shortly on Substack chapter and verse, the newsletter. If you're a subscriber, you get my prep in the morning and you get other stuff too. But you'll be able to read this letter for yourself, follow through their math, and then see who signed on.

And then I have included in that. The story of the lawmakers, we're talking about this framework for reconciliation. There's a small number of fiscally conservative lawmakers that are demanding $2 trillion in cuts and extension of the Trump 2017 tax cuts. And you have three people holding up negotiations. They can only lose spare three votes.

They're holding up any kind of momentum because they don't want to stop defunding Planned Parenthood that receives a half a billion tax dollars every damn year. And then what do they do with your tax money? They reroute it into Democrat campaigns.

So you're being extorted by your government under threat of death. And because they'll shoot and kill you to death. That's why they have all the guns, the IRS, and thousands and thousands of hundreds of thousands of rounds. Remember, there were a House Oversight sending in some letters about why the IRS need all these guns and ammo? I mean, it's the IRS.

But under threat of death, You have to keep paying the government, who then in turn takes your money and supports abortion on demand and really Democrat campaigns.

So you're funding Democrat campaigns against your will. Tell me that that's taxation with representation because it isn't. We went to war for less. There are three lawmakers who absolutely refuse to stop funding up: Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Jen Kiggins. And I'm going to have their contact information and X handles and all that fun stuff so you can go and tell them to pound sand digitally politely and call their offices and tell them they better get on board.

Otherwise, I'll be happy to go to their districts and help raise money for anybody who wants to primary them. Yay! All right, I'll pay my own way. That's right, I asked for nothing. All right, so uh A few things, oh gosh, there's a lot actually to hit still.

Um that we didn't get. Um I don't know if you saw this Woke Scold stuff. Cain, do you have protein? Do you eat protein? In the form of steak and eggs, chicken and stuff.

Yeah, of course.

Okay. So apparently. Uh Protein is right wing. It's probably fascist. It's literally a piece at Vanity Fair.

that talks about how if you eat protein then it's like apparently right wing. Here's the headline. Why are Americans so obsessed with protein? Blame MAGA. Who's the lady who wrote this?

Let me look at this. Why wouldn't they blame her for survival? Or the survival mechanism. I don't know. Uh This woman, her name is Kezia Weir.

I how much you want to bet that she's not fit herself? Oh, she's not. Yeah, that's surprising. Anyway, she's kind of a senior editor at Vanity Fair. And you know, kind of a mid, I guess.

It's important for the discussion of protein. Shut up. Uh anybody who's ever wanted to be healthy has always eaten protein. Has always I mean You know that I've had protein drinks even before Trump was in the White House. They act like Trump invented protein, and it's bad because Trump invented it.

This is so stupid. This is a abroad who no, like a woman, not like overseas. This is abroad who clearly has not paid attention to anything in culture and thinks that history began the day that she became self-aware. She literally just now realized that people consume protein for health. And because she only just now realized it, she thinks that.

It's MAGA related. Oh my gosh This is embarrassing, and it's in Vanity Fair.

So she starts talking about how people hawk protein powder, and she gets into protein foods and protein bars. You know, that's like been a big thing for a while. Tell me that you sit on your fat back side all day without telling me that you sit on your fat back side all day. I just didn't even know that people were consuming protein. It's so weird.

But they're taking it for they're saying people are obsessed. Usually they weren't obsessed with protein. That's like saying someone, oh, you're obsessed with drinking water every day. You're obsessed. It's like, no, I'm obsessed with survival.

She literally tries to say, this is a sentence. Are you ready? Yeah. I need everybody to just hold onto a table because I'm going to hit you with a sentence. Are you ready?

Oh boy. Hmm. Here it goes. The intertwinement of masculinity and red meat is strong and deep-seated. Yeah.

Called The Beginning of Humanity to Now. I know this is going to be shocking. women also. like red meat. I pretty much eat Um Just meat and vegetables.

Pretty much it's all I eat. I don't really do a lot of carbs unless it's with pasta, and then I'm really particular about my pasta. If it's not homemade, then it has to be Italian import because I don't do all the chemicals and all that stuff. I think a lot of the gluten sensitivity is actually chemical sensitivity from all the stupid junk they put in the stuff that we manufacture here. But the idea that wanting to eat red meat means you're more masculine Again, I'm just insulted that this chick is so culturally illiterate.

that she's been unaware. Of The existence of protein powders and consuming protein for health, and having like a heavy meat diet. that she thinks that That is like a MAGA thing. Like no one did protein. Until Trump was in the White House.

Are you kidding me? I mean, I'm not exaggerating. She's literally arguing this. This is the actual story. This is what she's actually arguing.

Oh wait, there's more. Are you ready? Check the sends out. That Men who have what they describe as a strong meat eating identity also tend to perceive themselves as more masculine. An obsession with a protein affords a masculine coated cover on the feminine coated world of body image and dieting.

a subject over which men can bond as boroughs. You kidding me? With us. And then she talks about, because only everybody, anybody ever talks about Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan's done this for forever, by the way.

And I I'm just shocked. Like, she has apparently literally never paid attention to any of these people before until just now. I find that incredibly sexist. Not only is she embarrassingly uneducated, And unaware, like I said, culturally illiterate. These people who think, I just not realized this, so no, it must not have existed until I realized it.

Uh I find it sexist because it ignores the fact that women have amazing health advantages from Whole Foods diets. Healthy diets where you're getting your protein, you're getting, you know, your roughage, all of that, like healthy. Eating. It's just not even dieting. It's called healthy eating.

And I hate the word dieting. I don't diet. I just eat healthy. I eat what I want. But I I have trained myself, I eat in between certain hours.

So I basically do intermittent fasting all the every day. I eat during certain hours. I eat stuff that's going to fuel me because I have to go, go, go. And I have a very, I'm a very, even though I'm a situational extrovert, I'm a very wound up person. Like I'm eh all the time.

like in a good way, but I have to feel that. I have to have energy. And That's not dieting, that's healthy eating. It's not feminine-coded. And the idea, here's the other.

Absolutely insane thing that she's promoting here is that somehow, if a man wants to eat healthy, Then He is doing so he only talks about protein and eating red meat. To as a veneer, because he doesn't want it to look feminine, that he's eating. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Have you read this piece? Have you perused it, Kay?

Mm. reluctantly because it was actually I thought it was a comedy piece.

Well she has like no muscle tone.

So I'm not surprised that she's unfamiliar with any of this stuff. I thought it was comedy parody. I went and looked at pictures of her. What? I thought it was comedy parody.

I thought she was just. I literally did too. Yeah, that's how I thought it was at first. And then when you get about halfway through, you're like. Oh.

Geez, she's serious. This is how pathetic the left is. They will literally kill themselves with bad cholesterol and greasy foods because Eating healthy is trumpy. No, we're not gonna eat healthy. We're gonna we're gonna smoke crack.

That's basically what they're saying. I mean, the article would have actually made more sense if instead of she said MAGA, she would have said maha. If she said maha, then I would be like, okay, I guess make America healthy again, you're against that. But it's like, You're trying to attribute this to a political movement? This is so ridiculous.

I've always eaten healthy. I don't work out as much as I did, but there for a while I was, we were, and you know this, we were in the gym six days a week. I'm not sometimes seven, six days a week, and I did kickboxing three days a week. Oh, we were like hardcore. It got to the point where I didn't want to look like Madonna.

And I was like, I started getting a little bit too muscly. And I didn't like that for me. It's totally, I mean, it's totally fine if other people, you know, but I'm like, I wanted to maintain a certain level. I wanted to maintain a certain fat percentage, and I have a crazy high metabolism. Crazy high.

And I could look like you know Real, what am I thinking, a vascular, real quick. And I didn't want to do that.

So I got to be very careful about that.

So I started pulling back. But she acts like: if you're going to the gym and working out, like even moderately. That's like a MAGA thing. If you're eating protein, that's a MAGA thing. If you're talking about protein drinks, that's a MAGA thing.

Maybe stop being a bigot. And again, like I went and looked at pictures. She has no muscle tone.

So I have, I, you know, she doesn't follow the stuff. She doesn't follow, you know, healthy eating and working out. And she doesn't, this is not her beat. She's just a political bigot. And she wants to cast aspersions on the character by using stereo, uned, like this uneducated stereotype.

As a way to do so. Can you imagine like you can, if you're just a moron about everything, you can fabricate yourself a little straw man for whatever issue you'd like. Good heavens. Yeah, I just And it's a gender thing and a MAGA thing. This woman would fall over.

I mean, I eat I eat protein. I have protein drinks, I have protein powders, I do all that stuff. Like, it's just about being healthy. I want to just be healthy and have energy. That's what it's about, you know, and have muscle tone.

That's my whole thing. I want strength. And I want muscle tone. That's it. So She just, that's just so stupid.

Of all the things to politicize, why would you politicize health? That's how the left is. They're like, we want to be healthy and all have strokes and heart attacks because not doing that is MAGA. They will literally kill themselves to not have common ground on anything. I've These people are nuts.

We have a I do have Red State Rhinos coming up. Wait until you hear this audio. I got that coming up at the bottom of this hour after headlines.

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So uh apparently Man. A second grader ordered over 70,000 suckers. Yeah, yeah. Accidentally, apparently. That's the headline.

That they ordered over 70,000 suckers. That's doing a lot. You said that that's doing a lot of work. Yeah, the word accidentally. The mom said that Amazon called and they are refunding the money.

Uh and yeah, he ordered seventy thousand Dum dum suckers. Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky. Uh and uh He was playing on her phone this weekend. She tried to stop the order before it came to her house, but it was too late. Her son said, My suckers are here.

Now he has some developmental delays.

So she said his condition affects his decision making.

So he wanted to run a carnival. And so. That The cases had 2,340 suckers inside and they retailed for $130 each on Amazon. Eight of the 30 cases were unaccounted for. Oh my gosh.

That look at your face. Yes, Kane. I'm just saying that I d I don't think it was a disability or anything that led to this. I think the kid wanted a bunch of suckers. I think that's what it is.

He just wanted a Pepsi, man. You know, the kid just wanted a. All he wanted was a Pepsi. That's all he wanted. Let me pull up the other one, but Safari is the worst browser that's ever been created, and the people need to be jailed.

Who created it? Let's see here. I'm waiting for this to load.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashathea, we're at the bottom of this third hour and. That conclave has started. They shut the doors to To the Sistine Chapel, and it is underway. We had a little bit of technical difficulty, so I don't think we're going to be able to have Matthew Marsden join us because we weren't able to get him in and all of that, and there's no audio, so it's not going to work out, unfortunately.

But. Uh we are we're st we're they started I I don't think um What I had heard from folks is that it's supposed to be like the first round of balloting. Isn't really supposed to You're not really supposed to see any results from that until, like, really, like, now. or in the next hour, and that is if everything went pretty expeditiously.

So, I don't know. I mean, you got the black smoke if there is no Pope chosen, the white smoke if there is. a pope. chosen And there are some that a lot of people are pulling for that are a little bit more conservative. And so we'll see as we roll through.

I don't think that they would ever decide it like that fast, though. I don't think that they would ever kick it off that quickly where the first round of voting, you're going to have somebody. But it's you're they're in the Sistine Chapel. I mean the most beautiful place I can think of to work and have a meeting. I don't even know how people could be focused on having a meeting.

With that.

So we have a couple of other things to touch on as well. I wanted to play Audio Sound Bite 18 because this is Congressman Steve Scales. I don't know if you saw this, but the FBI apparently was classifying that 2017 attempted assassination of him as suicide by cop. Listen to this, and he was almost killed from this. Audio summit 18.

So if you go back to 2017 after the baseball shooting, the FBI had brought in the members of the team. Roger Williams was one of those members who was part of that briefing. And at that meeting, they Went through some of the information, some of it was classified, some of it wasn't, but they ultimately. let us know what their conclusion was, and that's when they said it was classified as suicide by cop. And I'll tell you, I was offended.

I think all of us there were highly offended that. That was the conclusion that the FBI in 2017 came to because it wasn't. What happened? That's insane. And this is criticism of the FBI over the investigation.

Into that attempted assassination. It's from a report from the House Intelligence Committee, and they incorporated these records that were released by Cash Patel, now the director of the FBI. And they accused the Bureau, the quote is acting with a complete disregard and lack of investigative integrity.

Now, back in November of 2017, the FBI had briefed lawmakers who were present for. who were there when this attempted assassination happened, and they determined. That it was not a politically motivated act of terrorism. It was suicide by cop, but it's full stop. First of all, the guy, I'm not naming the guy, the 66-year-old nut, I don't even think he's a nut job, he's just evil.

This evil, almost murderer, the 66-year-old, he was killed by Capitol Police. They were having the congressional baseball game. Remember this, let's set the stage. You had members of Congress there, House Republicans. He was a volunteer with Bernie Sanders' campaign.

He was super far left-wing, talked about left-wing stuff all the time online. He literally had a list with him. Of grievances and lawmakers that he was. uh targeting And they it included health care. He was livid over healthcare.

Now remember What was happening at that time in 2017? There was a lot of discussion about potentially. Or not 2017, when it happened. There was a lot of discussion about Um The Ah healthcare repealing Obamacare. All of this stuff.

And the language that the left love to use. Was what? It was always that, oh, Republicans are trying to kill people. They're going to kill people. They're going to rob them of their health care, et cetera, et cetera.

And that's like, that was all that was the tenor of the language at that time. And I mean It That's when people were saying you gotta kind of watch your rhetoric a little bit. You have to watch your rhetoric, some at least. But this, I mean, the fact that this was the way that it was investigated, and they said, oh, well, this was. You know, this was suicide by cop.

This guy, like I said, had a list. He had a list of grievances. He was mad over healthcare. He was mad over a lot of the Republican decision-making in Congress. And he brought it, he made a big plan about it.

I mean, this was all very methodically thought out. And he drove his van. He stationed it outside the field four weeks. Weeks, remember that? And He pulled out two firearms, began shooting at the congressional Republicans.

He almost, he narrowly missed. Trent Kelly, who is from Mississippi, he hit Scalise in the in the hip. He almost bled to death on the field. He had multiple surgeries. He was in the hospital for weeks before he was able to return to Congress.

And a lot of lawmakers were injured because they were fleeing. There was a lobbyist that was practicing with the team. He was shot in the chest and he was seriously wounded. Two Capitol police officers were wounded as well. By the way, They were part of Steve Scalise's security detail because none of these people can carry there.

They couldn't carry there. Steve Scalise had a security team because he has house seniority, so he's part of house leadership. If he had not had security detail there, there would have been a number of congressional lawmakers killed. Those those uh armed Security members did so much. to buy some time for some of these other lawmakers.

It's unbelievable. And The Promotion of this as suicide by cop. Insane. It was not suicide by cop. And just say that.

It wasn't, it didn't involve any kind of political ideology.

Well, that's a lie proven by the grievance letter that this murderer, attempted murderer, brought to you. the field with him in his van. I guess people, you know, they didn't they didn't consider that. They're kind of like brushing that under the rug. He had tons of social media posts all about this.

Um he didn't threaten specifically lawmakers, but you know, then he had He didn't have to. But he had uh And sighted. Healthcare. And this idea I mean, he sent letters to the editor, different newspapers. He was like very, I mean, he was like your typical, honestly, your typical left-wing.

lawmaker, who is nut. and an opening fire on this. On the congress at this congressional game.

So to say it was suicided by a cop is excuse. It's excusing it. And What's more, it like diminishes the severity of what happened. It diminishes the severity of it. And so, you know, I'm not if I was skleas, I'd be pissed.

Because they're downplaying the fact that this guy was almost assassinated. For political reasons, and they're trying to excuse it and say, No, no, no, it wasn't political reasons. No, he just wanted to be killed by a cop. No, he didn't. He actually thought he was going to get away.

I think that I think I don't want to say his name, but I think that this murderer was anticipating that he was going to be able to get away. And that's why Disvanny had all of this all meticulously planned out. Meticulously planned out. And yeah, he had list of lawmakers' names on a list that he had in his pocket. He cited health care, cited a whole bunch of other things.

But this is, it seems like the press found a gunman that they liked. Imagine that. They're making excuses for this guy because he was a left-wing guy trying to kill Republican lawmakers. The left was not apoplectic over this at all. In fact, now they.

And their rogue bureaucrats that are embedded in these agencies are making excuses. for it. They're making excuses for it.

So this is, you know, it's it's Insane. This is crazy. And I feel bad for Scalise because I just really don't feel like he got the support. that he needed. Uh at this time.

I mean, I don't. I guess, I don't know what the hell is happening with the show right now.

So, we're like in the bottom of this hour. How much time do we have left? We have like two minutes left in the second. We have like four minutes, yeah.

Okay, so do we did we have his audio working? All right, we got Matthew Marsden on who's joining us. Uh, and uh, first off, good to see you, my friend. Everybody knows Matthew Marsden. He was in all the different million different films all around Hollywood.

You were in Rambo, you were in everything. You were, you, you fought aliens, you fought baddies, you fought commies. And now Texas. Good to see you. So let me ask you about this because the conclave started.

I can't even imagine having to do my job in the Sistine Chapel. First off, can we just establish this? I'd be so distracted. I would be the worst, you know, if I were a cardinal, I'd be the worst cardinal ever because I would be looking at all of the amazingness inside the Sistine Chapel. I mean, we've been to the Vatican, it's beautiful there.

So, my first question: I have like three questions I want to get right out. Has it ever happened that they've immediately gone in and they're like, oh, yes, we know who our pope is going to be? And boom, first round, it's white smoke. Yeah, they've they've done it in one day once before. Yeah.

Who? Yep. Yep, they've done it. I think it was like 1939. It was three ballots, and they got it.

They got it in one day. Oh, so they were all pretty certain about that. Because there is. There is like a political Not like political in the sense of like our political system, but there is kind of a political sense to it where they lobby. They got to lobby for certain cardinals, right?

Well, no, they're actually not allowed to lobby. They're not allowed to lobby. But what they can do is they can discuss them.

So in between each ballot, they have a discussion about it. Yeah. So they'll say, hey, well, you know, isn't there time for like, say, an African Pope or, you know, maybe you want the papacy to come back to Italy, but they're expressly. held not to lobby. In fact, It's my belief.

Can correct me if I'm wrong, but Pope John Paul II actually said if you lobby, then you can be excommunicated. Wow.

So they're really hardcore about this. That's okay.

So the reason that I wanted to talk to you, because everybody knows, obviously. Matthew went from Hollywood, now Texas. He's in Black Hawk Down, all this good stuff. Catholic, family man. He has 110,000 children, so he's a great upstanding Catholic.

They're all beautiful children. They all look like they're clones of him and his wife. Uh There is, and maybe you've seen this with your own kids, but you've, you know, you've raised them in the church. I read this piece where a significant number of Gen Zers are turning To Christianity. And a specific number, like a huge percentage of them are joining the Catholic Church.

And this is such a departure from millennials who I think were. I don't even think agnostic is the right way to describe a lot of millennials. And Gen Xers are kind of apathetic. We just distrust everybody. What do you attribute that to?

And the dovetail part of this question, because Gen Z is so conservative, is that something that the Catholic Church has to take into consideration when they're choosing the next pope? Because I know it's like world youth, something that's also happening simultaneously in Rome. And then you had the new saint who was like the first teenage saint who's going through that process. I know, I think he's from Assisi, and he's like the digital saint. All of the youth are descending right now on Rome.

They're all there at the Vatican. How does that... Is that going to factor into maybe the level of conservatism that is going to be present in the next pope's elected? Do you think that I don't no, I d I don't think so. I mean, I'd like it to, of course, you know, because uh of course I'm on the more conservative side, but uh Just a little bit.

Just in bit. But no, I don't think it will. But I do think that, look, be careful what you wish for, right? You always say that you get the Pope that you deserve. And I think that Pope Francis, my own personal opinion, was he was very, very confusing.

You know, I remember me and you, and me and Chris, like you guys calling me up and saying, what is he saying? I'm like, hey, I always ask Matthew, we're like, what does this mean? What is this? He's like our go-to. Yeah, and I'm like, I don't know.

But, but the. Like I said, be careful what you wish for because we've gone so left. With the leftist policies and all these things that you think are ideal, you know, they put them out as ideals through Biden, they came true. And I think that they've been wholly rejected by the youth because they're like, hey, listen, certainly for like young men, I don't want to be with a woman that's been with 50, 60 men. I don't want that.

I want to return more to more traditional values. Women are now going, hang on a second, this third-wave feminism has destroyed the family unit. People aren't happy anymore. Why would I want to do that? I want to be a housewife.

It's almost like, well, we've said this over and over. And I know you, Dana, you come from that punk rock. You and Chris come from that goth punk rock background. We are the counterculture now. And so the youth are going, hang on a second.

Uh the the The conservative ideals are resonating with them more and more and more. By the way, forgive me, I'm holding my camera, so my apologies for that. But I think that's resonating more and more with the youth. And what they're going to as well is tradition. And the Catholic Church obviously has a tradition of truth and beauty.

So, as you said, I remember when you guys came back from Italy, you were like, Wow, the Vatican is so beautiful. And this is what I tell people: when people go on about the Catholic Church, And the wealth that he has and the art that he has. That's yours. The Catholic Church is keeping it for everybody to remind us of the beauty of humanity.

So I think that that tradition going back to traditional values is resonating. And listen, wouldn't it be amazing when you're seeing what's happening in Italy right now with a conservative prime minister? What you're seeing in Hungary, what you're seeing over here in America is there's this kind of cultural revolution going on. And I think that having a really strong conservative pope would be amazing. Not to interrupt you, but wasn't Pope John Paul like a great like partner with Reagan?

Like I think Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul defeating communism. I mean, that was like the trifecta. And I think people are kind of looking for that again. Yeah, I mean, when we were growing up, I always remember you. I mean, think about you had Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul, Mother Teresa, and these great leaders in the world that were not only political leaders, but they were moral leaders.

And we had clarity. And I think under Francis, there wasn't clarity. And with the conservative cardinals that are out there right now, they are scholars in canon law. They're very, very, very intelligent. And listen, everyone thought after Pope John Paul, we would get a very, very liberal Pope.

And we actually got a more conservative Pope in Benedict. Yes, he was very conservative. Last quick question. Yes, who knows? Cardinal Sarah or Pizza Balla?

Oh, Sarah. Really? Oh, yeah. Do you have a chance? Yes, all right.

We have to run. Matthew, we'd love to have you back, though, as this progresses because the conclave is going to keep going. It just started today.

So we'll see. I don't think they're going to decide it today. I don't.

It's good to see you, my friend, but let's get you back. All right. We'll talk again soon. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast, because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast.

Welcome back to the program. We're really, really short on time because of the technical stuff that we had previously, but. Uh anyway, do we have any ta time for today in Stupidity Kane? We got it? All the cuts we had were like I have a crazy bit of audio pertaining to the conclave.

That you got to hear tomorrow. Oh, Lord. Are you going to play that? I am going to play it because I had to listen to it. Everyone else does cocaine.

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