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Especially when the king of Britain, King of England, King of Britain. went to uh Congress. and was addressing members of Congress and Democrats. all stood up and gave him a standing ovation. Which was it was very polite, it was very nice, but POTUS joked that The king was able to do something that he wasn't ever able to accomplish.
Which was kind of funny. I just thought it was, can I just, first off, welcome. Your girl's burning the candle at both ends here. Good to be with you, Dana Lash. Top of this first hour.
Can I just say. And I'm going to be, again, I'm not Dora the Explorer.
So if you're expecting me to be PBS, you know. whatever kids' shows are on there, you're a bad parent. Don't make me entertain your kids. Because there's a bunch of ass kissers in this thing. That's why.
I I was uh taking in the amount of people I I l I like look I Agree with the fact. That we are good hostess. We're good hosts, right? United States of America, we're good hosts. POTUS.
Uh the first lady. They were welcoming an ally. I get that. But Can we stop Americans going, it's His Majesty? King Charles.
Did that bother anybody else or am I being am I like being picky? Am I being does that bother you? Does that bother you? Did that stick out? Because I mean, everybody and their brother was doing it.
People I know were doing it. No, it's not. It's Majesty. Yeah, it does bother. Only because we have American DNA running through our veins.
I am so I mean, how anti-authority are you? Do you see little warning labels on things and you're like, not today, King George, right? I mean, I'll, you know, I'll honor the ones not sticking forks and toasters and stuff like that. Oh, it makes me want to stick a fork in a toaster. I'm telling you.
But you're right. It is a little egregious these days. I just I saw a number of people like oh it's King Charles King Charles His Majesty and now you call him king, that's his title, but You know for everyone to be like, oh, his majesty. And then I saw a press report. I can't even remember the link now.
There was a report where He apparently or some some uh it was a reporter that was mad That the first lady didn't oh my gosh, the word curtsy, didn't curtsy.
Okay.
So, this is what I'm building up to, and then we're going to get to the SCOTIS decision, and we're going to get to all this other stuff. But this is just sticking to my craw. I just gotta be real for a second. You don't curtsy because you're not showing deference to them. I'm not curtseying to someone.
I'm not curtseying to anybody. This is the bottom line of it. I'm not curtseying to anybody. I'm um I'm an American. We all have that.
Crazy American. DNA, right? We're all And when you curtsy to someone, you're showing deference to them. You are You're curtsying to, I'm a subject, it's a little bit more than. I'm just not a c I'm not a curtsier.
I've never curtsied anybody in my ever-living life. Have you ever bowed to anybody, Kane? Bowed? No, I've nodded heads. I've never bowed.
What do you mean you've nodded heads? Like you nod an acknowledgment. Like, hey.
Okay, well that's not the same thing. You know what I mean? It's not like it yeah, it's not Steve, have you ever bowed to anybody? See, I've never so head nodding cane, they have correct answers, you haven't. That's true.
You have not even, because the little head acknowledgement is way different than I'm bowing. Because I think what dudes bow at the waist. to the monarch over there and the ladies curtsy or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So there was a actually a reporter that was upset. Where because Melania Trump did not curtsy. And Lorraine brings up the point: this is true. I mean, they're equals. I mean, you know, the president of the United States and the First Lady.
run the United States and you've got The king and queen. I mean, so they're equals. They're both, you have two sovereign entities. And I dare say that, you know, King Charles ain't all by himself because he's got parliament. It was just weird to watch journalists try to.
make a thing over that. And that was something that they were trying since yesterday. It was just very odd to see it. All right, so where to even start? I guess some stuff happened.
Yeah. I was traveling for work, so it was not for pleasure.
Some stuff happened, I think. Yeah. Okay.
It always happens that way. Like I'm torn. You know me, I support you taking time off. I think it's important for you to recharge and all that.
Well, I wasn't doing that, but that's right. I know. But what happens is whenever you leave town or whenever you take time off.
Something happens, and I don't know what I can do. Should I prevent this? It's either, you know, like the abort, like Roe v. Wade's overturned, or healthcare passes, or POTUS, you know, Butler, Pennsylvania, as I was coming back from vacation a couple of years ago, which was one of the last vacations I took. Ah.
So two assassination attempts you've been out of town for? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So This uh Incident, this attempted assassination. that we had. This was I feel like I'm made of questions right now. Do you guys know the hotel, right? Maybe non-DC people don't.
It's called the Hinkley Hilton. Yeah. It's called the Hinkley Hilton. And why is it called the Hinkley Hilton? Because that's the hotel.
That John Hinkley, who by the way is free. I mean, he's he's, you know. He was offering, somebody in the media was asking him his thoughts about security. Dear heavens.
So if you remember. That was the, and I've stayed at that hotel before. It's right there in DC. It's very easy to get to from everywhere. It's like literally, John Hinkley goes, Well, you know, Washington, the Washington Hilton isn't safe.
It's literally the Hinkley Hilton, is what it's the nickname for the Hilton there in Washington, D.C. And so you have. Uh, you would think that this was back in 1981, and that's when John Hinckley tried to kill Reagan. He shot Reagan, and then you got those all of those amazing photos of the guys like pulling out Uzis out of briefcases and all kinds of stuff. I mean, they were ready to rock.
They, you know, they loaded him into the limo and they took off.
So, You would think that the the hotel Where They were where Reagan had been shot. You would just, you would think that maybe, perhaps. they would have some security, higher security there. Right? You you would think that they would.
Yeah. That's not, apparently, they didn't. I was reading a Washington, that's what I'm pulling up right now: this Washington Post piece. where Washington Post said that They had a lower level of security at this event than they had at previous events.
Now, my question is why? Because you didn't just have POTUS at this event. You also had the vice president. You also had I mean almost all the cabinet. You had sec war, sec state, you had everybody.
And do you know that the designated survivor, the person who I think is like sixth in line or whatever, to the, I care, or no, maybe third. Six, I think. Uh it's uh Chuck Rasley. God love Chuck Rasley, but So he was the one who would have, you know, heaven forbid, if the worst had happened. But at Washington Post said that they had had A lower level of security at this event than they had previously.
And I'm just thinking, you know. You're at the Hinkley Hilton. Maybe. That's a thought. Maybe just have some more, a little more security there.
Because it's the what is it? Hinkley Hilton. Mm-hmm. Maybe just have a little bit of experience. I've stayed in a hotel where the President of the United States spoke before.
And when we checked into our room, I can't remember what hotel it was. when we checked into our room. There was a note that was, you know, how they give you, oh, here's the menu, and all that stuff, whatever. It was included on top of that. on the desk when you checked in.
And it said due to the nature of the event, etc., Secret Service will be sweeping all guest rooms. And you know, they're not going to disturb anything, and they're going to, and they gave you the time that they would be doing it. And you know, so please, you know, it's and so it wasn't even an issue. And the reason I bring this up is because this guy was staying at the hotel. He was staying at the hotel.
People saw him bringing stuff in. And he was able to access the inner stairwell. for a few floors before he got into the general entry area. And I I'm just shocked that the stairwell wasn't secured. I can't believe that you're having the White House correspondence dinner.
And you have the cabinet, the president, the vice president. And they d I I mean, apparently they didn't sweep guest rooms. And I just, I don't know, man. I mean, you would think that after Butler, when you had this very obvious roof that no one secured. You would think that maybe, I don't know, maybe let's look at the hotel rooms.
What about these backstairs here? No, there's no way. Because when I watched the video of this guy storming, The entry area. And by the way, he got to the last layer of security.
Now, he didn't get all the way outside the double doors, but he got through the last layer of security. After that, it was just walking. And if there had been more than one guy that bolted, Through that security checkpoint, there would have been a mass casualty incident because they would have all been focused on one guy, and the other guy would have sprinted through two. If it had been more than two. Dear heavens, what if they took different ways?
I'm just shocked at this. I was talking to a friend of mine that works in law enforcement the other evening. He was saying that Secret Service, while it has this aura of being a very influential, impressive thing, it's not a job that a lot of guys want because it's a lot of travel. And the thing is, the pay apparently doesn't equal the amount of travel that you do. And it's a grind.
And dudes don't want to do it, which is apparently one of the reasons why there's, you know, for certain positions within security, within federal government, there's a deficit. And I mean, I get it. And also, they were treated horribly. You know, they've been treated horribly before. You know, the whole thing with hookers and the Secret Service in Columbia and all that stuff?
Well, apparently, that was arranged by some Obama staffer, and they decided to blame it on Secret Service and have Secret Service take the fall for it because, God forbid, you incriminate a member of the Obama administration. That's how that went down.
So they get hammered for a lot of stuff. And so When they mess up, j great, give the criticism due. But at the same time, I think we need to have a major conversation about recruitment and training. Because apparently they're not given as much training as you'd think. And this is talking to some friends of mine that were pretty high up.
Um They don't get what you'd think.
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So at Costco, apparently they're rolling their eyes at a New food court hot dog combo. Uh Apparently, I mean, get to the whole point of it. This article's stupid. What's the point of this dumb article? Like, literally, dear God, they banned, they buried the lead.
Again, six graphs down. Costco's known for their, isn't it the dollar fifty? And apparently, the takeout is known for their inability to write a story, delete your website. Those are fifty for a hot dog and a drink. Um, has been the price.
So, I don't know what their story is on the hot dog, but that's been a pretty big story. They're saying that the water combo price at the same 150 makes it less economical. Like so if you get a water it's still the same price Because water's supposed to be free, you know? Apparently, oh, why not? Why not make the hot dog free too, you welfare recipients?
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Let's go to the museum and go see the multicolored lobster. I mean, that's great. I'm sure it tastes just, I mean, sorry. Sure, it tastes just as good.
Okay, this is actually crazy. A woman gave birth. on a flight. Towards on going to Portland on the plane, a passenger on a Delta Airlines flight. From Atlanta on their way to, I think, Portland, right before it landed, two paramedics happened to be on the flight, thankfully.
and they borrow blankets, et cetera, from other passengers, et cetera. But they helped deliver the baby. The baby was two weeks ahead of schedule. Why are, can I just ask why you're flying? I mean, maybe, I don't know why she's flying the mom.
She was going to be with her mother for the birth, but didn't quite make it. Then why didn't the mom fly to you? Like that's stupid. You're literally about to have a baby. Make your mom fly to you.
You don't fly to your mom. I don't get it. One of the paramedics said that she and the other paramedic were returning home after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. And she was in labor, her contractions were close, there were 153 passengers on board, and she was born like right on. the plane.
Uh, crazy apparently, mom and baby are doing well. Uh, so there you go.
So, thankfully, they were right there at the right time when needed, and they were able to assist and help that mother. But, man, alive, that's Already, can you imagine as the plane's landing? Because it's already like with the air pressure and everything else, it's not entirely comfortable. But you know, let's see. We also have SFO and Oakland settle their squabble over an airport name, they were having a dispute.
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He was there. like, you know, pretty much kind of like front and center. And I wanted to get his thoughts on this and also the latest with Iran. But first off, Steven, I'm glad that, you know, I'm very glad that obviously there was no. Mass casualties at this event that you were at.
But I want to ask you first the most obvious question in the world. It was at the Hinkley Hilton. Right. Everybody I've stayed at this Hilton before. How is it?
that we have Less security when the president and vice president and cabinet members are at the Hinkley Hilton. It's at the Heekley Hilton. And this is allowed to happen. When you went through security, I mean, what were your initial thoughts when you, and first off, thank you for joining us, but what were your initial thoughts there?
Well, Dana, I've been there many times, not necessarily to the correspondence center many times. I think this is only the second time in my life, and it's nothing really I've aspired to. I don't really like crowds. I don't like to have to wear a tuxedo and all that cool stuff. But my first impression going in was they sort of had a perimeter out at the street because there's the usual crowd of dopey protesters trying to say no kings before a king's coming.
But then we go in, you sort of flash a ticket, but they weren't really looking at names and matching the tickets. You go into the building. There were some pregame activities there in different parts of the hotel. It's a huge hotel, which you know. And so there's no security anywhere really until you go down in the direction of the ballroom.
And so you go down an escalator, you're going in the direction of a ballroom. Finally, you see the familiar magnetometers, wanding is going on. But really, you just handed the contents of your pockets to a human who looked, yep, there's a phone, there's some keys, there's a wallet. On you go. If you set it off by going through the magnetometer, they wand you and everything's fine.
But really, that is it for security in terms of screening.
Now, I wouldn't discount that there are cameras and people watching different humans, but really, it felt like less security than I go through every week going through TSA at an airport. And at least there, everything is x-rayed. And so I think there were a number of people that went through and said, you know, something just feels a little different.
Now, going back year after year, I think also part of the factor of this is they always have this event at the same place because our nation's capital, oddly, has a scarcity of ballrooms of sufficient size to have reasonable sized events. Hence, the discussion about a White House ballroom, but really it shouldn't just be that. But it was also very unusual, I think, even for the correspondence center to have the president, the first lady, the vice president, and so much of the National Security Cabinet there. And then you look out of that room. And if you, it might not be perfect to see in the photos, but people have seen it tons of coverage.
It's elbow to elbow all through that whole room. Uh, I can't believe that it's a fire marshal-approved kind of venue because once the shots were fired outside of the room, and I would emphasize there were no shots fired in the ballroom. People should know that by now. The threat was stopped before it really got to the most dangerous position, thankfully. But When security comes in after the hammer goes down, that we've got to secure our protectees, that's kind of what freaked everyone in the ballroom out.
And people went under their table because guys that are very well trained and armed to the hilt are stepping table to table to table because they can't run between the tables over the chairs and the people to get to the protectees. But that's kind of sort of the quick and dirty on that. It was chaotic. Lots of people traumatized. I don't know what's wrong with me.
I just sort of sat there and watched it like I was a movie I was in and didn't really feel like I was a participant. And once people sort of ran to different areas and were under their table, I could kind of see there was no ongoing threat. The president was down and taken out. At that point, they're just verifying whether there's a threat in the room or it's outside the room. Once it was very, very clear it wasn't in the room, it was just sort of winding down what happens now.
And that's been famously covered. Was there a thought? Because there was a lot of discussion that maybe perhaps the president would rejoin and it would continue. Was that Were you aware of that at the time? Or did it seem pretty obvious that, oh no, this is no continuing with us tonight?
Well, I mean, some of us have been in the Secret Service bubble and been around these kinds of events quite a lot. It's pretty unusual if it was important enough to evacuate. The protectees that you're going to bring people back. And of course, there's the very, very self-important members of the press who evacuated themselves. And some of them were not.
Some wine bottles, too. They evacuated some wine bottles, I hear. Yeah. That was kind of a wild thing to watch. But the president was adamant.
It didn't surprise me one bit that Donald Trump was: no, the show's going to go on. And frankly, I was all there for it. I wanted to hear his routine. This is like going to be grade A stepping into his element, rip roaring into the press while celebrating the First Amendment. I was really, really ready for that.
And his attitude was, yeah, they come at me, but I'm not going to let them stop me. But he relented just out of respect for the concerns of law enforcement. And I can respect that decision. But they announced twice that he was intent on coming back, that they were going to serve dinner since we had tickets. To a dinner.
My hungry old age tummy was ready for a dinner. But no, in the end, the security folks, the people that needed to investigate the incident, after the appetizer was done, they said, all you humans need to get the heck out of this building. And so do not pass go, do not get your coat from Kochek, get out. Oh, wow. I mean, I'm not going to lie.
Like, I watched a guy, I think he was with CAA sit in the corner on video and he was eating his mashed potatoes or something. He was eating something. I'm not, you know, I probably, and you're pretty chilled. It seems like you're pretty chill under pressure. I probably would have done the same thing.
I got out because that salad did look delicious. I just didn't want anybody to run into me. Just don't, just don't violate my personal space. It took everything I had to get into that area with a lot of people. I do not want ignorant people running into my personal space.
Yeah. But, you know, but it was, it was pretty clear quickly. I mean, initially, when the thump, thump, thump was going on and I saw sort of the armed folks going in to get the protectees, you couldn't tell that there wasn't a threat in the room because there's just 2,500 or so people in there. And, you know, you're not really that close to where the action was. And so for the first few seconds, you don't know.
Are you watching something horrendous unfold? But for me, I'm just sort of looking, well, then where's the pop-pop coming from? This doesn't sound like a gun to me. What else is going on? But that's my overly analytical mind.
And other people pretty much are convinced I'm crazy about that. No, no one thinks you're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates, who was there at the White House correspondent. Dinner, as you know, he, I don't think I said this outright, he with heritage, foreign policy expert, worked in previous administrations, which, you know, this isn't your first rodeo. How did it compare, you know, security level to previous administrations? events that, you know, like of these sorts that you went to under previous administrations.
Yeah. Well, there's the large scale events like national conventions and state of the unions and other, you know, of course, you expect a government campus like the Capitol Hill to have layered security. The perimeter is very far from the venue, and there's different checkpoints. You have to match names with IDs. Conventions are like that, too.
There's areas for protesters to do whatever there is. And then there's areas for people who've been screened. And you can sort of in the crass world of security say there's the dirty zone, those are unscreened outside, and the clean zone of everyone who's already been screened and you're operating and can move about. But you usually will have a badge or some kind of way to show that you've been through the screening at these highly, at these big events. At smaller scale events that might be campaign events or others, there's a range.
But at this day and age, You know, at this point, no one in their right mind can say that Donald Trump is able to operate as an average president. There is an unprecedented amount of radicalization aimed at him 24-7, 365 at levels never known to mankind. And multiple assassination attempts and lots of people who should be okay, but the cheese done slid off their cracker. And so this is not an environment in which you can have normal security.
So even if the correspondence dinner has always been there and has always been done this way, I still don't think it was the right kind of layered security, but everyone's got an opinion after an event like this. But if you just begin with the proposition. That just an incredibly irresponsible, malicious. Manipulation campaign is out there and radicalizing people no less. Then radical jihadists have radicalized suicide bombers.
And this guy was the functional equivalent of a suicide bomber. Yeah, yeah. If he had had explosives instead of firearms, it would have been a different situation. If it had been five to 10 people instead of one, it would have been a different situation. That's the razor's edge we were on in terms of continuity of government.
And that's why, if I was advising the president and others, I would not put a critical mass of my national security cabinet in one place in public unless it's really necessary. And a correspondence dinner is not necessary. No, not necessary at all, especially, you know, you mentioned the previous threats. I mean, for crying out loud, Iran tried to assassinate the president of the United States, which brings me to my last thing for you, completely switching gears here. Apparently, so the United States and a number of allies have issued a joint statement backing Panama's sovereignty because apparently there's some tensions that are rising in the Panama Canal.
And I was very interested that Marco Rubio's first trip was down to South America, going to Panama and talking. To Panama leadership about this. Apparently, they said that they were monitoring what's described as China's targeted economic pressure and what's affecting Panama-flagged vessels.
So, is this a sign, do you think, is this increasing tension on behalf of China in the Panama Canal a resort a result of what how it's being affected from not just Venezuela, but also the blockade that we have in the Strait of Hormuz?
Well, you're absolutely right, Dana. It really stood out to me that Secretary Rubio's first trip was down to Panama. And I saluted him for it publicly. I don't know whether he knew or he cared, but I saluted him publicly for it because I think it really matters what's in our hemisphere. And it is a geopolitical flashpoint and it matters in a time of crisis.
I think that what you're seeing now with the Chinese trying to sort of act in gray zone pressure-like tactics, it's really a position of weakness they found themselves in. Counter to a lot of what critics say about President Trump, he has methodically taken chess pieces off of their board. And so, whether it's the sources of energy going after the ghost fleets that have supplied them with discounted oil out of Venezuela and the Caribbean, but also the vicinity around Iran, their options are dwindling.
Now, they used to be able to throw around filthy lucre to be able to buy banana republics up and down Latin America, and Panama is for now standing up against that. And so it's the government of Panama and it's also the Panama Canal where they are now reduced to have to try to compete. And so there's no question in my mind that they're going to try to accentuate that because the other checkpoints with the US and Indonesia just made a defense pact that is right on the Strait of Hormuz. We have, or Straits of Malacca, I should say. The Straits of Orhmuz have been all over the news.
Panama Canal, another one of those choke points. The U.S. is checkmating them on all of that and reordering energy flows. It profoundly exposes a huge weakness that China has. And those around Xi Jinping have to be a little bit concerned about it.
I don't know, but he is rational enough to see it. Yeah, wow. I mean, amazing. We'll watch and see what happens. Steve Yates, we're so happy that you're safe, everybody's safe, and you're here to kind of share some insights with what you saw over the weekend.
You can follow Mr. Yates at Steve Yates on X. Always a pleasure. Thank you so much for being generous with your time and giving us insight on this. We appreciate you.
Have a great day. Always thank you, Dana. Take care. Thank you. As we move, the folks who help make the program possible.
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All right, so first up, a ooh, geez. a Florida man with a katana Atiki Torch was arrested after setting multiple fires in a state park per deputies. Jensen Beach. He was armed with a katana. It's different.
Usually it's a machete. And he was arrested after he set multiple fires using his giant tiki torch. That's not obvious. And he was walking along the boulevard carrying it while it was lit. He ignited multiple spots in front of people and set portions of a preserve on fire.
They located him in a preserve, literally with a burning tiki torch and a katana, trying to light things on fire. And it showed that the moment I mean, that the fire's burning as they cuffed him.
So obviously, he's you know, he's gonna be going away. He's in trouble. Florida man drove a lawnmower through a Target. in a bonched botched TikTok stunt because things aren't stupid enough.
So let's see. By the way, for the people at Yahoo, particularly Michael Andrew, delete your face, go back to school and learn how to write a story because we're not going to read seven graphs into the story to find out what the hell you're talking about.
So I had to go somewhere else. Two 18-year-olds were arrested for disorderly conduct after filming a social media stunt where you had a teen drive a lawnmower through a Target store on Saturday, damaging the door. And then his dumb friend recorded the incident. The other night they used a leaf blower inside of a culverse. And caused property damage so they could get clicks on TikTok.
Here's a thought: you're 18 and 19 years old, the two of you. Maybe get jobs. Instead of trying to make, you know, pull stunts with, it's just so stupid.
So stupid, by the way, seven graphs before they actually tell you what's up. And that story. Oh my gosh.
Well, not even that, they just don't know how to do it. Let's see. This is came. I don't think you can fix this one. Uh Uh-huh.
Now I don't think you're going to be able to fix her. It's got to be bad then. Never make a stripper mad, man. Her name is Princess Aaliyah. Of course, it is.
Okay.
23. She's charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer without violence, giving a false name when she was being arrested. She got fired from a North Miami Beach strip club and then returned and literally attacked the manager with the literal stripper pole. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
The club is called Taboo. And they fired her because they said she fought with her coworkers and she just was bizarre. And so the manager allowed her to come back to the club and collect her belongings. But then she started running around, creating a disturbance, grabbed, literally ripped up a seven-foot metal pole and began beating the manager upside the head with it. You can't make this up.
They did take her into custody.
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And it's not just happening in one place. Hate is rising across communities in different ways and Jewish communities are getting hit especially hard right now. And hate doesn't just stay in one lane, it spreads.
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launched. I stand by it. You can continue to criticize me. For it. I don't give a damn about your criticism.
We never have. Mm.
Okay.
Yeah, well, yeah, he never has.
So after. Oh man. He's You can't sit here and and demand that Trump turn down the Temperature while you're like, no, I'm gonna turn it up. I'm gonna turn it up, raising the temperature. I am the thermostat.
I only go higher. You know that's not. Not how any of this works, but they're upset with POTUS because they blame POTUS. Of course, you know, you have another violent. Left-wing moron who decides to go and shoot up a ballroom, and by the grace of God, and him who tripped him, clearly.
Uh That didn't happen. I mean, come on, guys. This is just crazy. This is crazy. Crazy!
So I don't know. I um Feel like They don't really get to call. and make demands as to tone. And this is, you know, we're concerned about redistricting, which we're going to talk about. Like, for instance, the, you know, law in Louisiana.
I don't know if you saw the way that those maps were drawn. They literally drew them just to have a black majority. District. Can you imagine if that had been done, where you would have Republicans draw districts for a white majority district? That would be racist.
So it's also racist when Democrats did it for black majority districts. And they are. The way that they're drawn, it's like a child did it. It is ridiculous.
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And it's not just happening in one place. Hate is rising across communities in different ways and Jewish communities are getting hit especially hard right now. And hate doesn't just stay in one lane, it spreads.
So even if you think this isn't your issue, give it a minute. You don't have to agree with people. You just have to decide you're not okay with hate. That's it. The blue square is a simple way to say that out loud.
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I don't even, I was hesitating as to whether or not I wanted to read this story. An Indian villager dug up his sister's corpse and carried it to the bank.
So he could withdraw $211 from her account. It is on video and it is real. I dove into it. Uh Giro Munda, 50. This dude is 50.
He ain't no way he's 50. He apparently exhumed her remains Monday because he went to the bank. And couldn't provide the necessary proof. And the bank is like, this dude is illiterate. Like, he literally has no idea the requirements.
He carried her skeletal remains wrapped in a shawl down the street in broad daylight, dumped them outside the entrance to the branch of the bank in the capital of his area. And uh He was trying to withdraw $211, which is a lot of money there. And the bank was like, yeah, this guy's a moron. They're like, he can't understand the process that, you know, to nominate him as his sister's legal heir so he could access the money that's in her account. That's insane.
So he apparently was successful, but the police made him take his sister's body back, and under their supervision, they had a rebarrier. Dude. I don't know, man. That's it. Ha.
Somebody who was in the voice, his Tesla veered off the road and killed him. That's a sad story. And a jihadist planned a bomb in a Red Bull can for a Taylor Swift concert as well, according to The Times. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us.
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