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Yeah. I feel like it needs to just play it rolling. It's a very interesting story. Go ahead. It is, yeah.
So I'm Somali. I'm proud to be Somali. To me, being Somali isn't just eating bananas with rice. It's a lot. It's like.
It's an interesting thing. It's very hard to describe what it means to be Somali and what it means to be American, but. It's like a cultural fusion. It's kinda like the bananas and rice. You know, people don't really see like, you know, it's a it's a you know, people don't think, oh, you can eat.
I mean, it's not like bananas and rice, but it's like bananas and rice. Because you can eat bananas and rice. And it's bananas and rice. Such as maps. I personally believe That US Americans are unable to do so because some People out there in our nation don't have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as South Africa and Iraq, everywhere, like such as.
I mean, that's. Her, she actually made more sense because I knew what the hell she was talking about. She was talking about maps, and people in Iraq may not have them. And this chick is like, I mean, what is it? The guy behind her, though, is a meme.
He was like. At first he was serious and then you could just see confusion. kind of spread across his face. And he's like, the hell. He's like, what is happening here?
It's like bananas and rice, but also. No, it's like that. Bananas and rice at the Early Learing Center. It's hard to describe it. I went to the Early Learning Center.
I'm a graduate and I'm also a teacher. The present. And the president. Yeah, it's in rice. Wow.
I mean, uh no. That and that was from St. Paul, Minnesota.
So I I I I don't know, man. This is crazy. This is just.
Somebody made a decision to put her. Out in public in front of a microphone like that.
Somebody did that.
Well, I mean, have you seen the guy who was running for, like, who ran for mayor over there? Early Learing Center graduates. Let me see. That says it all. That says it all right there.
She was probably top in her class at the early Learing Center. I'm beginning to think Somalia hasn't sent us their best. I'm beginning to think that. Ha ha ha ha ha. January is when a lot of people finally stop and look at their money.
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It's all very weird though. I don't know. Oh my god. Oh my god, he's bracing something on us. I need a napkin to know like a nail, not there.
I don't know. No, we won't be. No, no, no. I don't believe her because she lied about marrying her brother, so I don't believe anything she says. Those are the rules, right?
And these are the people that blamed Charlie Kirk for his own death. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. The guy, apparently a security guard took the guy down. Um There was no serious injury. Uh was it staged?
How does s how does somebody get that close to Somebody in Congress. How does that happen? The guy Anthony Kazimirzak. He was booked in the Hennepin County Jail for third degree assault. He doesn't have a previous violent record.
He's got some DUIs. Uh and that's uh per Newsweek. They He's a pretty loud online. He, let's see, they had a bankruptcy petition. This is Newsweek that filed in Minnesota's 3rd District 2019.
He had credit, medical, and legal debt. He's not married, registered as disabled, receiving social security payments. He has a history of political posts. It said that he was critical of Democrats like Biden and Harris. He posted a political cartoon in 2021 criticizing Illinois Mars' security spending.
The New York Post says it's weird because He was like hinting. As to what he was going to do to his neighbor before it happened. and he had sent a text to his neighbor. That said, I'm going to the Omar thing. The neighbor said, I'm like, What do you mean?
And he goes, The town hall thing, and I might get arrested. and the neighbour said I figured that it was nonsense, that he wasn't going to do anything dumb. Uh So I don't know. He's held without bail. I mean, I don't know what it is.
He's going to face some serious penalties regardless. It is weird though. I gotta say. It's a little odd, Kane. I mean, you're being cautious, and I get it.
Cut nine, she was like looking at him before he stood up. It was totally staged. Play cut. You think it was? Let's play cut nine real quick.
Kane thinks it's totally staged. I don't know if I believe it or not, but it seemed inorganic. in a way that I can't describe. You guys know what I mean? Like, my gut feeling is you guys.
Oh, you know what it is? It's because it was staged. It's because she married her brother and I don't believe her. Yeah, cut nine, she looks at him really quickly before he stood up. And I don't know what are peop people saying online that this is indicative of something?
I mean, he's sitting in front of her. Can we just go over the timeline of just this video that he's playing? Right? First, she does a little nod to him, right? Look at that, right there.
You saw that little what? Look, there it is, that little head. Was she just looking down, or was it a nod? Oh, come on. Looking right at the dude.
And by the way, if you saw the video of this exchange on C-SPAN, The camera actually shows this dude. 20 to 30 seconds. In a frame all by himself. Yeah, I saw that. Drinking water and looking weird.
Yeah. And so then she does the nod, right? Then he gets up right after that nod and attacks her. By the way, she doesn't flinch, right? She doesn't flinch at all.
If someone's going to be squirting something on you, first of all, I'd flinch. Second of all, I'd be like, what the heck did you just scored on me? What if it's acid? I may need to remove a piece of clothing here so I don't get. damaged it any more.
She doesn't do that. What does she do? She doesn't flinch. She runs after the guy. Runs after the guy.
Completely staged. This is 100% staged. Not an inch of this is genuine or real or authentic. None of it.
Now, you can't blame us for merely being cautious and asking questions because, again, this is a woman who lied to get in the country, married her brother. She took taxpayer dollars from the Somali diaspora in Minnesota. They have millions and hundreds of billions of dollars, actually, at this point. And receipts show that she directly benefited from that.
So, yeah, we've got a lot of questions. She's engaged in fraud after fraud after fraud after fraud. Yeah, I mean, we've got a lot of questions. And I think those are that's what happens when you're a fraudulent person who commits fraud is people might not believe you when you do other things. That's a good point, too.
But she also refused medical attention and then went right back to speaking. If you got a substance, do we know what that substance is? Has anyone told us? Did it damage your clothes? Was it acid?
I mean, the way that they acted like they were personally touched by J6 when they weren't even there.
So that makes me think, okay, well Why aren't they making a bigger deal out of this? If it was really a big-time Trump guy, That was going after her. Her pattern of behavior. Would dictate that she would be making a major deal of this. She would have had, she would have gone to the hospital.
Right. She'd have done a damn CNN interview from her hospital bed. She, oh my gosh, it would be about but it's just weird that it's not, which immediately makes me think, mmm, there's something about this that's off. And immediately, like noisy sheep. Right afterwards, the Assensteins and the rest of them online are out there saying, Look, it's a Trump supporter attacking a Democrat.
It's like, is it though? Yeah, is it really? Jesse Smollett was like, well, that's even I did a better job than that. I mean, yeah, his guys literally wrote a check to buy kidnapping supplies. I'm not even kidding you.
Like they wrote a check. Yeah, it was in the memo, the check. Memo, kidnapping supplies. Got a rope, you got some tape here, you got some alcohol. What are you boys looking at doing tonight?
You know, I mean, come on. By the way, does anybody else, when they go to the grocery store, love writing entire life stories in your head about the person in front of you and all their groceries based on all of that, like a Kaiser Sosé usual suspects thing? Wait, I'm not the only one that does that? I will literally have a whole life story made up about the person next in in front of me just by going off their groceries. It's fascinating.
That's funny. I do that just so I can tolerate people better. I'll make up good stories about them just so I can tolerate people better. Oh, man. Oh.
So I I don't know, it's just it's just it's weird, right? And we don't know anything that we haven't heard anything else about it. No, it's fake. It's staged. I know no one's wanting to make that definitive.
Conclusion, but I'm going to do that right now. I'm just saying that there's something that seems very inauthentic about it to me. Yeah, it's staged, that's why. I don't know. It just seems weird.
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A NASA jet erupted in flames as it skid, skidded, skids down the runway at a Houston airport. Ooh, ooh. That's kind of, it was a belly flop landing in a way. It was a mechanical failure that prevented its landing gear from deploying. It was at Ellington Airport.
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Says, apparently they're suggesting that shoes can alter your mind. I totally kind of love shoes. Oh my gosh. Shoes. Dishes roll.
They do! But they're talking about athletic footwear. Nike says that its shoes can activate the brain, heighten sensory awareness. You know what else can do that? A pair of Labutans.
They can, the heel height and the pinch in the toe can definitely heighten your sensory awareness. But they were saying that it improves stimulation with the bottom of your feet. I think this is all stupid. Do you believe any of this, Kane? I mean, it's a company that makes shoes.
Neuro insoles. We have smart shoes now. Everything's got to be smart. Your souls can tweet. Positive info on their new line of shoes.
I think it's all so dumb. It's all snake oil. It all is. I don't believe any of that stuff. I do think that you should probably not wear platform tennis shoes, though.
Just aesthetically speaking, yeah. Uh Seattle's named the most expensive city to host host a Super Bowl party. Probably because you would have to buy a plane ticket to get the hell out of there because it's Seattle. Oh, Dana, you're so mean. But yeah, apparently, that's the most expensive place.
Everything's super expensive there. Doctors are staying loyal to their pocketbook, apparently, and ignoring new federal vaccine recommendations. What? This is an ABC 7 story. Wait a minute.
What? So they're saying it's because doctors want to get paid. You know, they get kickbacks from. Vaccines in that, right? Big time kickbacks.
So actually, they're not ignoring, they're actually penalizing their own pocketbook to delay instead of going along the schedule that the big pharma would have you go on. This is Obaxy Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Oh, it's by somebody who also works at CNN. Jen Christensen over here at CNN. Yeah, so they, I mean, it's literally speculation.
It starts out with how the American Academy of Pediatrics released an updated recommendation for what vaccines should get. And then the headlines like: doctors are ignoring because of their pocketbooks. Or maybe because they're following science. I mean. Hello.
Just that's also an option. I get so sick of this stuff. Rice University copper aluminum filter can destroy forever chemicals a hundred times faster. Um Why don't you just stop making them? Yeah.
Who wants them? What are they for? Hi, would you like some forever chemicals? No. No thanks.
I um But they are everywhere, the PFAS, P-F-A-S. PFAS. They developed at Rice University a material for filtering out all the PFAS, the Polyfloral substances and synthetic compounds.
So, since Teflon, Teflon did it all. And they said that it's new tech, it's a mix of copper and aluminum that can absorb long-chain PFAs 100 times faster than traditional filtration systems. Again, or just stop buddy. Just a suggestion. Ethan Hawk, this is 23.
He is I mean uh the artists, they never have any room to speak about anything, you know, listen. I never felt scared about what I was going to say until the last couple years. Where you feel like, oh, I have to be careful, or what? I don't know, but there's a kind of fear in the air that I've never felt before. And it's not America.
To get to be an artist in a free country, that's that. I've had enough of an education to know what privilege that is. And I don't feel that way anymore. And that's something that has to change. Wow, he doesn't feel safe.
He should talk to Charlie Kirk about that. Oh, wait, he can't. Because someone shot Charlie Kirk in the neck for speaking because they didn't like him because he was a conservative. Or, you know what? You should maybe at least ask Trump because, you know, twice they've tried to kill Trump just because he's a Republican.
Or maybe he should go and ask Steve Scales and Rand Paul. Steve Scalise because he almost got murdered on a ball field by a leftist, and Rand Paul because he was almost beaten to death by a leftist. I mean, I could sit here and go on and on. Maybe t maybe ask Brett Kavanaugh. There was a leftist that wanted to kill him and his whole family that was caught on his street heading toward the house.
Maybe he should ask him. You know, oh, just I just can't believe it. I'm here literally on the red carpet talking into a microphone about how I don't feel like I've ever been able to talk before. I'm just, you know, talking to you on this microphone and making all my movies and giving all these interviews. But I've never really felt like I could ever actually like talk before and like.
These people are so self-involved. and so self-obsessed. It's truly stunning. But I mean, when I, Ethan Hawk doesn't, I don't want to dislike him, but I'm like, hello, self-awareness much. Just It's like going to...
It's like going to like South Sudan and looking at the starving children and going, wow, I'm starving. I'm so hungry. It's just like that. It's just tone deaf and completely. This is John Leguzamo.
He doesn't want you to go see any of his movies. He hates you. Listen. If you follow ICE, unfollow me. Don't come to my shows and don't watch my movies.
Okay, so what if What if We never watched any of his shows or movies anyway. What do we do now? Oh, yeah. Wow, got me there, John. Wow, I'm not gonna go see whatever the hell you're doing.
Whoa. Boy, we are all super punished and stuff, right? Ooh, bummer. Seriously, what do we do? 'Cause I don't Yeah.
I wouldn't even count him as one of my grandma's rule of three if he kicked the bucket tomorrow. Yeah, that's I heard somebody out there in Radio Land go, oh It's true.
So he doesn't want anybody to go see his shows?
Okay. Thanks. You're doing me a favor. It's all right. Good heavens I I I um not I he's always mad.
He's just always mad. Always mad. Never ends. Is it always great to go out there and say Mm-hmm. Don't Don't enjoy my work.
Don't enjoy my business. Don't enjoy what makes me money. Yeah. Like, why would you tell half of your potential audience that?
So you can turn around and then bitch about how no one goes and sees your stuff. Because you're Hispanic. That's what he'll say. Oh, God. He's John Legozo.
Just realize this. John Legozamo's mad because you want rapists and murderers deported. Think about that. That's legit it. I'm not exaggerating.
That's why I'm running circles around the block with this, and I'm going to do it. like ad nauseum in perpetuity. Because that's how insane this is. This is some Ike Turner stuff, man. Like using it loosely.
You imagine Democrats, you now you get out there in the street and you protect those those poor rapists and murderers.
Meanwhile, all the people that got raped and murdered are sitting like on the sidelines, like, well, damn, what about us? What about us, the victims? No, you're not the victims. It's these poor rapists and murderers. Oh, forgive us.
The guy stopped raping somebody long enough to turn to the camera and go, oh, I. I don't want to go back to my third world hellhole. where I was also convicted of rape and murder. I just, that's what these people are asking. I cannot even, I can't even imagine being an elected official in a straight face.
Like, that's your narrative. Because that's what this is. I really feel like Republicans have a missed opportunity here. You know what? I would be taken out Uh AI generated campaign ads.
Where these rapists and murderers are like, you know, vote for this person. I endorse their campaign. Because, you know, why wouldn't they? They don't want them deported for rape and murder. Oh my gosh.
Republicans, what are you doing? Can you just get over the bot accounts for five seconds and maybe actually be creative? Oh, oh, wait, you haven't hired anybody that's creative lately? Oh, that's the problem. They haven't.
That's why everything that they're putting out, they have no, like, their ads are bad. They need to hire like memers and trolls. make these ads. Imagine that. Imagine giant billboards up around Minneapolis.
That would that would be damning Make them own this. Make them own this. Make them own the Somali fraud. I mean, that would be, that's my whole campaign strategy. That would be my whole ad in that area.
Oh my gosh. I would have giant, giant poster boards. And I we would play like a guess who game outside of any and all of their Their events in Minnesota, Minnesota Democrat events. I would have people at every single ICE operation. To dare to counter protesters with literally the pictures and the rap sheets on giant poster boards of all of these criminal illegal aliens.
So that way these protesters can see who they're out there in the streets protecting. And any all media, any all video, any and all footage would have that element as part of it. It would be inescapable. I would saturate everything that they do with the association. Where are Republicans in this?
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