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Air Force Academy. He actually fell down. Hazel.

Well, I hope he wasn't hurt. I hope he wasn't hurt. But it's the whole thing is, look, the whole thing is crazy. You gotta be careful about that. You gotta be careful about that because you don't want that.

Even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp, you gotta tiptoe. Remember when he tiptoed down the ramp? It was the Trump Shuffle, I think is what it was called. And I will never forget. Because That well, I I I remember When it happened and I was watching it, were we live or were we live?

I don't remember. If we were at the time. Wasn't it a nighttime rally? I think it was a nighttime. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it happened the day after because I remember we had the video of it. And when we were watching it You could tell that he wasn't Like shuffling down the ramp because he was old and feeble. You could tell it was because the ramp, it had been raining. It was wet. Guess what happens when inclined metal surfaces get wet, Kane?

They get slippery, yeah. And he didn't want to fall and bust his ass. And all of the press was like, must mean he's old. He probably has. And then they railed off like a list of things that he possibly could have.

And it was just because he was being careful. Because, can you imagine if he can you imagine if he would have fallen? Jiminy Christmas. Welcome, geez. Welcome.

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So I'm not trying to be petty. But When I watch it, and I know everyone's saying this, everyone's like, I didn't feel any kind of, okay, shut up. We know you didn't.

Okay, nobody's like going to look at that and laugh. But what I did think was interesting is the chick that was coming up to take her diploma. It was like a meme now because she was walking up and froze. as he fell. And then she turned around and was like, Well, I guess I'm just not going to get anything.

Just walked away. But. The thing i as Kane noted, he had trouble getting up. And The sandbag, whoever advanced that for him and had that stage, didn't have that marked. I thought that was kind of lame that they, I will say, because it now they said it was a sandbag.

That's pretty lame that your people don't have that marked. That's literally your security's job. That's a major I have a major problem with that. That is literally your security's job. Case in point.

I've done, I don't know how many events. And when I've worked with different organizations before, there's mass, there was always massive security there. And there have been times when I traveled around in an official capacity with work. And I've had like two security people. And I'm always like I mean, because they're hardcore and they're very cool.

And I traveled, I would usually have. but more often than not, ladies. And I just remember every single time there was an event involving a stage. They knew where everything was. Every wire, every sandbag holding out whatever, every anything.

That was in addition to the people putting the stage together. They're supposed to tell you this, especially if it's, you know, the most protected man in the world and he's 80 years old. They're supposed to tell you this. But then, secondly, your security should know this because if you trip, if something happens to you, that's a security issue. They should have known that.

And when you look at the stage, and I saw other photos later. They had different sandbags. I mean, I could see a couple different sandbags out there. I mean, I guess I could see how he would hit it. But also, it was a black sandbag and a black stage.

You got to mark that. That has to be marked. That's like Stagecraft 101. You have to you have to have that mor but his security should have told him. But also You're 80.

Now I keep hearing from the left. And I put a note about this on Substack last night. I keep hearing from the left, oh, he's 80 years old. That trended last night.

Some days when I look at the trending topics online, on whether it's stories that are being written or on social media. I kind of determine You know, how much I want to jump off my roof, the percentage by which how much I want to, varies depending on what's trending that day.

So I was looking, you know, last night and it The Trending topics included he's 80. In caps lock.

So that's what all the left was saying. They were like, oh, he's 80. You're so ignorant. He's 80. That's great.

He's 80 years old. I know a lot of 80-year-olds that every now and then have a little spill or have a little fall or have a little trip or a stumble. I don't know a lot of 80-year-olds that are leaders of the most powerful country in the United States and literally travel with a dude that has the nuclear football so that they could launch World War III at any second. I mean, that's kind of important, right? But the That's I mean, to me, I don't care who he's eighty yeah, but he's also the President of the United States.

You don't get a pass while he's 80 when you're President of the United States. Either you're fit enough to do the job or you're not. The end. There's a lot of stuff that rides on this line, and we don't have time for vanity contests. Oh, well, he's you know, we don't this isn't a participation trophy.

It's the flipping presidency of the United it's the most powerful job in the United States. We don't have time to sit here and rustle the jimmies of people who need their vanities tickled. We don't need that. Either be fit enough to do the job or GTFO. Yeah.

So Now for the media that was downplaying it, I just want to go back to the you have the audio of the ramp thingy where Trump was talking about it. I will say I've been mad at him lately because I think that his people have been advising him wrong. And I think it's he's been some of the stuff he's been saying about some of the people that worked with him has been crummy. But I will say this is one of the funniest damn things I've ever heard in my life. Is this the one where he was, it's hysterical.

This is this is he should just shut up and talk about his accomplishments and be like this. And that's all he should do in the primary. But this was funny. This was him explaining it. Listen.

I said this speech was so good. And then I said, How do I get down? Sir, you have to go down the ramp. I said, the same when I came up, it was a long, like an ice skating rink. And they said, yes, sir.

And I had the general next to me, the commandant of cadets, nice guy, big guy, strong guy. I said, General, and he's wearing combat boots, they don't slip too much. I said, General, get ready because I may have to grab you here. But I said, I'm not falling. There's no way.

So I'd go tiptoe down the thing. That was a mistake because it didn't look so good. I even agree it was. But I got killed, and they never covered that speech. I said, It was my best.

Someday they'll in 100 years they're going to put that speech on. I really, but you can't fall. You just can't fall. And he actually said at one point, he's like, I didn't want to fall, bust my ass. He finally was like, I just didn't.

But, and that's, and the press. The press? They I remember, like, Chris Azilla over at CNN. This is, this was, I mean, literally like almost a year or two years. He says why the Donald Trump West Point ramp story actually matters.

Oh my gosh. Everything's gate. I'm such. I hate everything. We're smod.

Burn us all to death, please. But it was why the Donald Trump West Point Ramp story actually matters. All of this stuff. Look at the way Trump descended a ramp so carefully. It's right to question his health.

That's another reporter. I mean, I went back and I was looking at all the stupid stuff. Trump's problem with ramps. That's literally a statement. That's literally a headline.

It was one ramp. It had rained. I hate you people. Hate you!

So This is what they ran with. And they're like, his medical past is a mystery.

Now, he was apparently 74 at the time this happened. Is it fair to if someone was like, it's It's fair. Is it fair to ask if a 74-year-old should be doing this job and it was under the picture of him on the ramp? Yes, it's totally fair. How old is Bye?

Seven.

Well, he's what? I don't know how old he is. He's 80-something, right? I don't know. He's like a thousand.

Yeah.

They just and then ooh ooh ooh. Do we have hang on? Pull this up. Yeah, he's 80 years old. But then do you remember?

Do we have the audio? I put it in, yeah, audio summit four. Can I? This was, so this was Biden. back in 2020, like date like two days after.

Trump Walked, shuffle down the ramp. And this is how Biden remarked on it. Just listen to this. Look at how he steps and look how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps, okay?

Come on. If I were the Trump camp, and here's another reason why I hate, I just think that the people surrounding him, advising him, are completely incompetent. I would have had a video of that out in an hour. I would have had that video out of him falling repeatedly with that sound bite. Over and over and over, and it would have been all over every damn social media platform.

Instead, what are they doing? They're out there trying to have a phallus measuring contest and calling women ugly and making fun of their knees. That's what these people are doing. I'm like, where the hell is your acumen? Jiminy Christmas.

I would have cut that damn video. I would have had that sound bite over it, and it would have been out within the hour. Look how I step, and look at he, how he steps. Mehmed, man. From under the bed in his basement.

Hear that, Jack? Hey, fat. I mean, I li I would have it would have been ridiculous. I would have had it covered. You would not have been able to get online and not see it and hear it.

I would have had it everywhere. No, nothing's been done. They didn't even find it. They didn't even find that video. I don't even know if they knew that existed.

Germany.

So Man. I mean, I thought the way that he responded to it. That 45 responded to it was classy. But I have all these people. I've seen every damn talking head that's out there.

It's cracking me up. They get out there and they're like, well, Like they have to pay this coin before they can talk about the issue.

Well, you know, none of us think it's, it is, I was so sad to see this. I was so sad. It hurt my heart. I was so, I'm like, we get it. No one thinks that you're making fun of it.

Stop being a pansy. Just say your damn opinion. Quit trying to pay this stupid woke indulgence of, well, I shut up. Nobody cares. He's too damn old.

That's the end of it. I don't think that's wrong. No, it's not wrong. I'm not going to tell you I don't think it's wrong because I said it, obviously. It's not.

Oh, golly. But that was a huge the way that the press dealt with that. The way they dealt with it. was just wild.

So, the difference in coverage, anyone who's talked about it is a horrible person. How dare you make fun of his stutter, Kane? That's his stutter. Like when he says that his son was killed in Iraq and he wasn't. How dare you make fun of his stutter?

How in the what the That's a stutter? Stutter is now redefined as any foobar that Joe Biden does. That may not involve talking. Just maybe he screws up. Anyway.

So, um I've got a lot of stuff to hit, including one that I'm adding to the rundown. Uh, 'cause we got some wokery. That little mermaid movie I don't know why we needed a live-action version of it, but okay. Everybody's mad at this movie. Everybody's mad.

They're mad. Everybody's mad because it was a black actress that was cast. And then apparently, now black activists are mad because it erased slavery, and the feminists are mad because this girl gave up her voice for a man, and everybody's mad at this movie. Everybody's mad. It's PCU.

This is your homework this weekend. You're gonna watch PCU. Starring Jeremy Piven. You're gonna watch that movie. And you're going to be like, oh my gosh.

It's now. You're going to realize that. It's great. We have Wokery to get into. Washington because the Senate nixed The Biden student loan scheme.

We've got that for you as well. It's also Wear Orange Day. Coincides just the day after Hunter Biden's lawyers came out. They're trying. I'm going to explain a little bit about the potential precedent that McCrackface hooker scum is.

That he's trying to set with his defense here. We're going to explain a little bit about that. We got some, we got a whole bunch of stuff. 2024, somebody else wants to run. We got a lot.

Let's make fun of people today because they all suck. As we get moving, they do. I'm not being mean. It's just honest. It's not mean if it's honest.

Stop judging me. It's my stutter. Our partners had this.

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But given voters' concerns about the president's age, this is an image that his critics are already capitalizing on and pouncing on. Donald Trump was quick to weigh in on this. But David, the bottom line tonight, the White House says the president simply tripped and he is doing well. Welcome back to the Daily Pounce. You alright over there, Kane.

Can we not just point out what actually happens with them? No, we can't. How dare you pounce on them? As pouncing. Seizing the pounce.

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So The media has been egregiously bad this week. Not that they're Let me rephrase that. They're always bad. They're bad error this week. Just seems I kind of sat back.

I was looking at some of this after the whole fall thing, and I was watching the way that the media was like, that's not anything you gotta rush to spin. We're not like you people, we're not like y'all on the left. For the drive-bys listening, we don't go out and make fun of old people falling. You know, we don't sit here and, oh, we don't do that stuff. That is not.

And if we see, if there would be anybody on our side that does it and they're within smacking distance, they get smacked. We don't do it. That's what the left does. The left runs out their how. Like, look, the Trump shuffle with the ramp.

Look, I'm just one example. They went out there and immediately began making fun of him. Like yeah, for oh I mean like for maybe for a whole year. There were animated little carts. There was all kinds of stuff.

And so It's um This whole way that they I they d they don't need to sit here and rush and jump and try to It's not gonna it they don't need to do that. It just looks stupid. But I will say It does bring up a lot of questions because this is one of many, many, many times this dude's fallen in public in front of everybody.

Now, that one, he made trip to he couldn't really get up very well, and that kind of concerned me. The fall didn't concern me as much as he was struggling to get up. And then, you know, he's fallen upstairs. He's falling downstairs. He's.

fallen when there have been no sandbags around. I mean, it's just, you know. Bikes and on bikes. Let's not forget that. That was horrible.

It looked like somebody didn't know how to ride a bike. What is up with them? You got Feinstein, Fetterman, and Biden? Like they're gonna whatever they gotta do to keep something. Maybe we got Putin deep diving for treasure and riding bears.

And we got by.

Well, that was like 15 years ago. No, I know. He's now shaky-leg McPillow face. I'm just saying, there's some world leaders. He looks like a bald Jocelyn Wildenstein.

That look at this guy. Don't Google her. And lose respect. They lose respect for this guy. Yeah, I don't know how old he was when he pretended to dive for treasures in the And uh Yeah, I don't know how old he I don't know how old he was then, but I just I don't want Even if it's a Democrat, I do n I do not want the leader of my country to look weak.

Right? I basically want the leader of my country to basically look like a character out of BroForce. Which is a video game if you've never played. And it's hysterical. But I want my leader to look strong.

I want you to go, is he on steroids? I want you to ask that. And I want you to be like he might be crazy enough to push a button. He might he might be aliens are afraid of him. We're not afraid of aliens.

Aliens are afraid of him. Those are the kind of feelings that I want to inspire. I'm not electing your BFF, you know, your Saturday morning cartoon character. I I I want a jackass in the White House. I always have wanted this because I think that peace through strength and that's part of it.

And that's why I think the media is like with the DeSantis stuff. They're trying oh, he's so he just doesn't like reporters, and who would? I mean, who you had that one silly cow from what was it, the AP? Who asked him that question yesterday? One of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

What an idiot I mean, he's talking to voters. Why are you checking credits out from voters? Just one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. But they're trying to, oh, he's too, you want it to be just mean enough, but not too mean. And they're trying to make him look like, oh, he's too mean.

They've had a banner week. How do you pronounce his name? Uh people are pouncing on the Biden fall, oh, and then the Hunter-Biden stuff. Jimmy Christmas That's a whole other thing.

So it's Wear Orange Day. I don't know if you guys have seen this. I talked a little bit about it on social media already. And people wear orange because they are talking about something, something, gun violence, but there are no solutions. Don't think about offering a solution.

You just wear your orange and you shut up. Wait, what if I have a s what if I have a solo no, nobody wants to hear your solutions. You are just supposed to complain about quote unquote gun violence and wear orange and not do a damn thing about the concern you say you have. And then you hashtag it and take a selfie on social. Yes.

Social media activism. That's all you're supposed to do. I saw some chick. I don't know who this broad is. Shelley?

Heddelman. Yeah, maybe what? Yeah, she's uh Senate of Maryland. She's in this and I didn't mean to target her specifically. She just, you know, gave me a softball.

And I thought this is, you know. An easy hit. And it's great to use it as an example.

So she goes out there. And she tweets, Children dying by gun violence is a uniquely American tragedy. I hashtag Wear Orange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day because no child should live in fear of gun violence in their schools, neighborhoods, or anywhere.

Now I had a little issue with this, as you might imagine. Because She's not being honest. Our old gal Shelley here. She's not being honest. What Shelly is not telling you.

is that in order to make this claim That Firearms are the leading cause of death for kids in America. Is because the term children by the CDC, which rendered this under Obama Biden back in 2017, has been expanded to include all the way up to 19 years old, which sidebar makes sense that they refer to Hunter Biden as Joe Biden's baby child because he's in his mid to late 50s.

So, you know, a 19-year-old can still be considered a child. That makes some sense.

So they expand the deaf, the age criteria of children. to include up to nineteen years old so that the fatal consequences of drugs and gang violence. That can all be added to push homicides with illegally possessed firearms. That can all be added. It pushes all that past drowning, auto, drugs, and alcohol.

Without fudging these numbers, Which we would call lying. then it's not the leading cause. And that's That's something that they don't want to tell of you. My friend David Harsani wrote a great piece about this not long ago. Gun violence is not the leading cause of death amongst kids.

I've written about this in a couple of books. He wrote with some new info where he was going after this misleading Kaiser family study. They were saying one in five Americans have a family member who's been killed by a gun. But they inflated all of that based on this tiny, weeny little bit sample size of self-reported answers that actually couldn't be corroborated and there were no parameters at all whatsoever. And they keep saying, oh, gun violence is the number one cause of death of kids.

And it's made to scare people into thinking that their kids are going to be gunned down in school. And that's not the truth of it. In fact, some of the studies, the study that I mention that has been cited often includes kids up to age 19.

However, there are studies. And he links, there's one that's uh let me pull this one up. There's one that was done at John Hopkins Center for Gun Violent Solutions. They include all the way up to age 25 as children. They literally go all the way.

It's I mean, I'm looking at the PDF of. The study. It's a year-in-review, 2020 gun deaths in the U.S., John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, April 18, 2022. And they get into They go all the way up. It's it's on page uh pages starting on page twenty-nine.

of this study. They go all the way up to age twenty-five for kids. And when you are under 18, you cannot purchase a firearm legally. If you're purchasing like a long rifle, you can carry a long rifle. You can't carry a handgun.

And You Fatalities with illegally possessed firearms are from handguns. I mean, it's drug and gang crime. And so under the age of 21, I mean, really, it's like that 18, 19, 20. That's what really drives that in that demo. And it's those numbers that they are using to add to this to inflate it.

Because without that data, You have drownings, car accidents. Uh opioids, alcohol, I mean it falls all the way down the list. They do that to inflate the numbers and lie to you. When you take all of that other stuff out of the equation, that number of firearm-related deaths absolutely plummets. And so, and actually, after you take that out, the number one killer of kids is accidents.

whether it's automobile accidents, drowning, suffocation. Twice as many kids under age 12 died in cars than from guns. Twice. Actually, it's a little bit over that. It's a little bit over.

It's like two, it's like 2.4 times more. And so you've got to consider all of this stuff when you see this. That's why so much of this, I question the advocacy, I question. The motive And the purpose of any advocacy movement that doesn't base itself on truth. I mean, you can be against guns without having to lie like this.

It's unnecessary. But see, they understand. That They're really, really bad messengers of their Of their agenda.

So they have to lie to you because they can't win an argument.

So they lie to you. They try to appeal to this or that, and it's appeal to emotion or appeal to the, and it's just not working.

So they lie and they inflate this stuff. The other thing that I saw, I'm going to add this. Here's me. is I c I saw the Mayor's Against Illegal Guns thing trending.

So Mayors Against Illegal Guns was trending. And in addition with the Wear Orange Day, you have some of these mayors going out there saying, We join Mayors for Illegal Guns. I just wanted to remind everyone on this We're Orange Day of the various disgusting crimes that members of this group have committed and how the gun control lobby has tried to cover them up. For instance, Mayors against illegal guns included former mayors like Gary Becker. Pust busted for possession of child pornography.

Second degree sexual assault of a child. Craig Lowe. Regarding attempted sex crimes with a child, James Shirillo, who held a young man hostage at gunpoint. he wanted him to return his romantic overtures. There's a huge offender list.

It is, I mean, that's just the. I mean, there's, I've, again, included this in my first book, and I've written tons of stories on this group. You have a group with convicted child predators as members and then they're quietly, quietly deleted from the website. and no one ever says anything about their crimes. There are more people in that group with felonies.

then I can count on both of my hands. And they just very quietly Take them off the list. Shh. And they continue with their gun control agenda. It's why a lot of some of these other mayors began dropping out, and the membership dramatically dropped.

And all the Bloomberg groups, all of them scrubbed their past support because they had gone out there and endorsed these, like the Moms Demand people had gone out and endorsed a number of these. These these Ghouls. And then they quietly scrub their websites of past endorsements, and they delete the tweets and all that stuff. Mm-hmm. We need to firearm owners against criminal mayors group, honestly.

So that's all on Wear Orange Day, which is going to bring us up to something we're going to hit here coming up in our next hour: the Hunter Biden case. Because it's funny to talk about, but I want you to understand. the potential precedent. that he actually If I'm being very clinical. and just very straight legal no chaser.

He could try maybe very nearly establish a precedent that stems off of a previous rule. And we're going to talk about this because it gets into. uh use of controlled substances or use of drugs and possession of a firearm. Because the argument when you distill it down is natural rights. cannot be infringed on, period.

And the capital L Talking about capital L Libertarians' argument is that it doesn't matter, you can't sit here and use drug use as a way to nullify a natural right.

So we're going to talk about that because you probably want to understand it a little bit. It's going to I would imagine when that investigation, if it ever wraps up, that's going to be a bigger story. If charges are filed, you want to be ready. We're also going to get into some culture. And I just think that Aunt Jemima and Uncle Benz and the Washington Redskins and everybody else would like to have a word with the, I can't believe they're so mad over Bear Can't Tuxits crowd.

Catch the Dana show noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on DirecTV Channel 347. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. By the way, I met with the Who are those guys that fly over shortly? You heard of them, haven't you?

Three of them are women.

So don't screw around, guys. What? Today. That's our president. They fly over shr three of 'em are women, so don't.

So the three pi women pilots?

Okay. I don't understand why. That uh That was awkward. Was that before or after he fell? Before, after?

Yeah, good heavens. Ah, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. And uh coming up in our second hour. Are we are Are people, A, prepared to fight? the Marxist onslaught in culture.

And B Can they define it? I mean, I just think. That That's something that honestly We really need to have that discussion on it because I really feel like, too, there's some politicians who. Don't really, you know. I don't know.

I don't think they really understand. I don't think they understand some stuff. We need to talk about that. Because I feel like this cultural battle that we're getting ready to have is I'm trying to think, it's kind of one of the final battles, I think, before things are really determined. A a cultural fight.

This isn't the Battle of Helms Deep. Like, if you were thinking about this in Lord of the Rings style. This isn't the Battle of Helm's Deep. This is like right after. Yeah, this is this is You know, m like Meenus cheereth.

This is like the one the one fight. We're going to talk about this a little bit coming up. Also. The uh NAAC piece is the dead ceiling. Is racist.

That the bill that was passed, so you were waiting for that. Yeah, I know you were. I know you were waiting. We also have 2024 because other people. Or now.

Talking about getting in. There's somebody, what I think Penza's supposed to get in next week, and now Sununu. Says that he's going to run too. We have to have that discussion. We've got a lot still on the way.

Stick with us. More of the Dana Show back in just. A moment. But on the other hand, the increase in the unemployment rate is much worse than expected and very significant, as you know. Usually when we rise by half a point from the lowest unemployment rate, it means the economy is going into recession.

We just rose three-tenths in a month and we're up three or four tenths. No, three-tenths now from the lowest.

So in other words, if this isn't revised away, the increase in the unemployment rate is potentially more meaningful than even the continued strength we're seeing in the payroll. Yeah, new jobs numbers out, and it's not good. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. and top of the second hour.

And There's a lot that's not good about this. Of course, this is stuff that we knew, we all saw. The warning signs of this? You can't lie to people about how much money they have or how far their dollar goes. And so as a result, We have Just an absence of consumer confidence.

No one people are losing jobs. And then as the economy continues to restrict, There are gonna be fewer jobs. It'll all be a vicious circle. And that was actually from I'll give credit where credit's due. That was from what what network was that?

That was uh Oh, CNBC. Yeah.

They keep going. I keep hearing, oh, that means the economy is going into recession. It means that, well, we're kind of there already. There's no going into, we're just there. And for all of the people.

Who Because I see this fight happening. Like, I see some Republicans saying, well, there's too much. focus on culture. There's too much focus on Disney, or there's too much focus on Bud Light or this. You do realize.

That One of the reasons in which we find ourselves here in this Recession. One of the reasons we find ourselves And this economic hell in a handbasket is because of culture. It's the culture of spending, it's the culture of immediate satisfaction, it's the culture of freebies, the culture of entitlement. It is all culture, all policy. is downstream from culture.

And if anyone says otherwise, that is not a person. Who has wisdom? That is not a person to be trusted. It is not a person to take any kind of direction from. It is not a person to be considered.

Everything. is downstream. from culture. What your kids are learning in school. has to do with culture.

How much the administration wants to spend has to do with culture. It's all culture. Everyone likes to think that the Marxist fight is somehow restricted to this imaginary there's an imaginary boundary around economic issues and that you know the fight for Marxism against Marxism doesn't go past that. And that's simply not true. It's insidious.

It's ubiquitous. It's everywhere. And it's now in every single aspect of American life.

So, you can't just say, Well, I'm going to give up in this arena and I'll focus on this arena only.

Well, that's great, but it's like fighting with one hand. This all has to do with Marxism. That's why I take issue with this soundbite. I wanted to go to this. Audio soundbite 14.

I think this was what is this Hannity thing last night? I think so. The term woke, listen to this. It's gone sick. And I don't like the term woke, because I hear woke, woke, woke.

You know, it's like just a term that used half the people can't even define it, they don't know what it is.

Well I know, I realize that the term woke. I think it's easy branding. I think people know what it is. It very much defines The Marxist Cultural Battle.

So it's easier to say this is woke and it's easier to say. Easier to convince people that something is stupid. When you're saying this is woke, as opposed to saying, well, this is cultural communism. Because that's also think go I mean think back to to Maoism. What did they do in China?

What did they do in China? The the their cultural revolution. It's all the same stuff that you see that's termed as woke here. Destroying iconic pillars of a culture. replace them with manufactured Marxist ideals.

That's wokery. That's cultural Marxism. But people, for some reason, think that it can't happen again, or that that's like relegated to history, and it's not. Woke is an easy brand and I think it's easy for people to recognize. And ultimately, when it comes down to political marketing and political strategy, if you can recognize it.

Well, then you don't need to define it. And I think it's where he messes up. Because people know what it is when they see it. And that's that's significant. That's recognition.

That's branding. And a lot of politics is about branding. He ought to know that. A lot of politics is about branding. It's psychological.

But that was The Cultural revolution. I mean, a lot of us, I think the first time we were introduced to some of this is when we were kids and we saw Tiananmen Square. And and we saw what happened. That was in I was in sixth grade when that happened. And I didn't really know what was going on.

I remembered that. China was I knew that they were communist and I knew that they were they were oppressive. But I didn't I don't think, you know, when we when you're young, you don't well you see stuff on T V and you know that it's significant, but you don't understand why until you're older. I mean the Cultural Revolution. They had Old culture, old customs, old habits, old ideas.

All of that stuff was bad and old. Like everything here in the United States. I was reading that they're changing the names of all these forts and everything else. And you know, one of the reasons why you had certain forts named after certain things after the Civil War concluded is that, you know, Lincoln was trying to keep the everybody together and he was trying to be gracious in in hi in the Union's victory. and there were certain concessions that were made out of graciousness.

Not to entertain any kind of support of enslavement or anything else. It was Oh, it was him being gracious, regardless of what you think about habeas corpus. He was being gracious to those people. to the people that he was trying to unite. Both sides.

And that's been rewritten to, that's like one of the olds. All American history has to be torn down.

So this is it's it's literally a a a redo of Mao's Cultural Revolution. It's wokery. And that's easier to brand and easier to put out there than talking about. Marxist activism and culture. Cultural communism.

And so that's like I said, that's where I think he messes up. This, you know, I was thinking about this. It is. How Are people at pushing back against this? You know, I was looking at the reaction to the Bud Light.

How many billions they've lost, how Target has been impacted, and all the people who are like, I can't believe they're freaking out of our Barracons and talk swimsuits. I mean, they, you know, Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben and the Washington Redskins and a whole bunch of stuff would like to have a word with you. Dr. Seuss would like to have a word with you. Y'all, we're out banning his books.

But that's the thing. I mean, ultimately, and a friend of mine made a very good point. That society is going to, there's society, cannot have an absence in terms of a standard of morality. You have to have some kind of standard of morality. And so you can either have You know, our country, you didn't have to be a Christian to enjoy the benefits that that.

precept provided. because it encouraged pluralism. And a friend made that point, and I thought that was a very good point.

Now if you look at Cultural communism, there is no dissent allowed. It is locked step, it is hive mind. There is no dissent. There will be a standard applied. Do you want one that is actually Pluralistic, or one that is not?

Because the cultural communism, what the left is promoting, that is one that is not. There was a great A couple of points that were made. And I was thinking about and building off of some of these ideas. Because I've had, you know, some of you have sent emails in. They're like, oh my gosh, don't share my name.

I'm writing this at work. I shouldn't even be doing this. Which I appreciate. I never ever say anybody's name and they they email. I'm not gonna say where you work.

Your secret is safe. But some of this, do you remember when we had the separate, when everyone was pushing? I think it was this maybe, I was in elementary school, because I remember that's when I started hearing a lot of the discussion about. separation of church and state, And the only way that it affected me was the songs that we were singing at the Christmas concert for the parents. It was still called a Christmas thing instead of a winter festival and all that, like they do in a lot of school public schools now.

But there was this idea that you could have government institutions. Or public schools, or whatever, that they are going to be neutral and they are not ever going to weigh down on one side, weigh on one side or the other. And that, you know, and this comes back to that standard of having a moral standard. But now that we've seen, I mean, particularly in the past four years, there is absolutely no neutral way because institutions are people. And there's people are not neutral.

Try as they might. There's a line. You know, the saying is that everybody has a price, everybody has a line. You're only neutral until you're not. And that's what these institutions are.

There's no neutral way to operate all of this. And so Back when people were like, oh, get the get the Get the the Bible out of schools and separated church and state. No, we're not going to have any government institution have a formal endorsement of any kind of religion. And we're going to pretty much ban it. from being represented in the public square.

Well, then what takes the place of that? You have this void. And when you think of cultural communism, there is no, they don't have any kind of, they don't have a Bible. They don't have a Torah. They don't have any kind of religious Book.

They don't have anything like that. They don't have a Quran. They don't have anything. It's just cultural communism. And it's a lot easier to occupy that space because you can say, oh no, you can't go after us.

We're not a religion. We don't have a Bible. We don't have a Quran, we don't have a Torah, we don't have any of this. Can't go after us, we're not a religion. But they could still impart their viewpoints in all of these public squares that have been considered off-limits to every other religion.

So You we ended up as a society shooting ourselves in the foot here. And it adapted perfectly. And it filled this space that had been previously occupied. And now How do you turn it back? That's the thing.

I mean, you a standard will be applied. And to deny your own standard means that there will be another one put in its place in society.

So, you can either hold the line for your standard or you can just surrender. Those are your two options. I love, there was a point that someone made saying that the only reason. That this happened is because people were deciding what it kind of snuck in. People were trying to determine what kind of Protestant Christianity they were going to follow.

And that this kind of well, I think there's some truth in that, and they're kind of snuck in. I don't think anything snuck in. I think people were apathetic. I think people thought, oh, well, clearly our neighbors have more sense than this, when they didn't.

So how do you You can't How do you eradicate cultural communism? Because if you don't have anything to replace it, it's just going to come back, or something worse or similar is going to take its place. And then it becomes the question of, well, what what standard? That's where conservatives are. That's where people on the right are right now.

Is there an answer? Do they have an answer for it? And how well will they adhere to it? And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So this apparently just happened at Ron DeSantis' rally in Wisconsin, South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen to this. This lady called him a fascist. We're not gonna let you impose an agenda on our kids. We're gonna stand up for our kids.

We had to be careful to be because it just came in, and so she called him a blanking fascist.

So, you can just, you know, let your imagination work there. And I do think that it's interesting. This disruptor apparently believes that it's fascist for parents to control the age-appropriateness of the material to which their kids are exposed. We have a crisis of abject stupidity in this country. Jiminy Christmas.

So, that just happened. Also, some of the other stuff that. That we have here. This CIA chief made secret visits to China. In a bid to thaw relations.

Now, is that? Same. I don't know. Cain, is that? I don't know.

I don't know. It's a Bill Burns. Traveled to China last month. And you visited secret. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They went to China last month and they were trying to fix, I guess, some deteriorating relations.

So send the CIA. Stuff with Biden's in China and now they're being secret with China on this. It's like, that's not a good look. Neither the White House nor CIA commented.

So I don't know if they're having, I mean, surely they have a White House press conference today. Maybe KJP can be asked of that. Like, it was, this was the highest level visit to China by U.S. officials since. Sherman.

Wendy Sherman visited in July of 2021. And so apparently it was a very delicate mission. Trying to restore. I don't know if it worked, but they've been trying to, I guess, try to fix that. I would be, if I were China, I mean, you guys, you all are the ones who've been sending spy balloons and stealing IP and doing all this other stuff.

You all kiss our ring. They don't go that way. We don't work that way. It doesn't run opposite to that. I just think.

Speaking of China, apparently they have this. This is a there's videos of these people riding electric bikes and then falling down like boom right in the street because their rent a bike their e-bike they automatically cut the power off if you ride out of its service zone or if you go past your time And it just like, well, you'll fall down in the middle of the street. I'm like, I don't like watching these people potentially break all of their necks. I just, it's wild.

So, coming up, Trent Staggs, he's a mayor in Utah, and he's going to try to run against Mitt Romney. I bet he can define Woke. Stick with us. To catch up on all the headlines in Crazy Wokery, download the Dana Show podcast and get Dana's perspective on the Dana Show. Overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats voted for the bill.

A majority of Republicans voted against it. And it's not just how Democrats carry the bill to the finish line, but why. Why'd we get more votes? We got more votes because the bill beat back the worst of the Republican agenda. I don't think that makes that much sense.

Obviously, that's Chuck Schumer talking about the debt ceiling, the approval of that that the House pushed through just the other day. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, a little vitamin string quartet, a little GNR cover there, playing in Chuck Schumer. You can listen to the show Coast to Coast. You can watch the simulcast of the radio program, YouTube, Facebook, or Channel 347, DirecTV.

So there are a lot of bad people in the Senate. I think too many Republicans voted for this in the House. Everybody's watching the Senate. They did beat back that student loan, the student loan bill. But of course, we're still waiting for a Supreme Court decision on that whole fight.

Yeah, 6336 in the Senate.

Now, Obviously, just because someone has an R after their name. Don't necessarily mean that they are a constitutionalist or that they are a good steward of your tax dollars. And for that exact reason, there's why that's that's why Mitt Romney has gotten a lot of criticism. A lot of criticism. I mean, he's been on the wrong side.

I, you know, my history. He like they, his campaign did not like me back in 2012 when I was the token conservative at CNN. They were not fans.

So that relationship has not improved.

So, just to give you perspective, but imagine if there was an actual conservative in that seat. Wow, what would that look like? What would the Senate be able to do?

Well, joining me right now is someone who's trying to make that happen, Trent Staggs, and you can find him at Mayor Staggs. And I vary carefully with the T because my family is with the S C.

So, Staggs, he's the Mayor of Riverton, Utah. And he said he has four trillion reasons why he's not like Mitt Romney, and it's because of that debt ceiling. I know, we'd be here all day talking about that. Mayor, good to have you. Thanks for joining us.

So, you're going to take on Mitt Romney. I know he's quite a machine. He seems very nice, but he's a political animal. And I just wanted to get your insight into this because you're going from the frying pan to the fire. Yeah, Dana, thanks for having me on.

Yeah, absolutely. He is quite the political machine. You know, I've had people ask me, he fits in pretty well in Washington. How are you going to feel? Yeah, that's been my response.

It's: look, I'm not going to fit in. I'm not going to make friends. I'm going to make change. We've had far too many quote-unquote Republicans. Go there and really not do anything.

I've been incredibly frustrated, as have all Utah's, with Senator Romney, because five years ago. He made very clear promises. He said, if you elect me as your senator, I will put us on a pathway to a balanced budget. I'm going to rein in federal spending. I'm going to stop federal overreach.

I'm going to end illegal immigration. And I'm going to appoint conservative justices to the court. Not only has he not done that, he's done just the opposite. Here's somebody who's voted for trillions more in spending, wouldn't sign on to Senator Mike Lee, our great Senator Mike Lee's letter just a few weeks ago, had 42 other Republicans on there that said, including Mitch McConnell, and said, we're not going to raise the debt ceiling unless there are substantial spending cuts. wouldn't even sign on to that.

Um, you know, he's been on the record. Supporting radical Supreme Court Justice Catondra Brown Jackson. And of course, he supported, was one of the few Republicans that actually supported Homeland Security Mayorkas, who has been a complete disaster with the borders.

So, on all these things, he hasn't delivered. Utah's deserve. A conservative, a true conservative in the Senate. That's why I'm running. I've got a very conservative and consistent record.

And you have a background in economics, which I think we have uh I think that's a we have a uh a crisis in Economic illiteracy in this country.

So, you have a background in economics. For those people who don't know, Mayor Staggs out of Utah, he's challenging Mitt Romney, who has filed the candidate, I think, the intent for candidacy. I can't remember what the form is called, but has, I mean, he's going to run again. He's 74 years old. That's all he does is let's run for public office.

But Mayor Staggs has a background in economics, and you also have a background in technology. From what I understand, you were a VP of corporate leadership team. You've worked with technology for I don't know how many years now.

So, you understand the business side of it, but you also understand how quickly things have been changing for businesses. And without understanding that, I think that that's a great opportunity for government to come in and try to exploit that and use that to create more government.

So, it's good to have that background. Yeah, no, absolutely. Thank you. That's not only do I have that background, I'm authentically Utah. I'm not moving from out of state to run for U.S.

Senate. Look, I like to say from elementary school to graduate school. I've attended Utah schools. I've raised my family here. I've got two children.

I've also operated several businesses, as you've outlined. And I ended up even being on the board of directors of a company that was listed on NASDAQ last year, took them public.

So I have great experience on the economic side and also for the last 10 years now being in elected office in our great city of Uberton. Utah has about 3.2 million people. We've got 50,000 residents approximately here in this city. We're a top 20 city by population count. And I've got all kinds of relationships with other elected officials.

And that's what we want to be able to do is take all that experience. and understanding of our great state. Take it to Washington, somebody like myself who's a demonstrated fighter. I have been fighting as a mayor. I'm on the front lines of government overreach.

Believe me, it's at federal, state, and even county levels. I've been pushing back for the better part of 10 years there. And that's exactly what we need.

Somebody who's going to fight the establishment of D.C. And Utah is not some kind of, it's not excluded from, I think, a lot of these progressive fights that we have seen. A lot of people sort of assume, oh, a mayor from Utah.

Well, that's a pretty safe red state. And that's probably a safe red town. Yeah, that's not been the truth of it anymore, especially with so many people leaving California. They look at Utah and are like, that's close enough. That looks like a safe bet.

Talk to us a little bit about this because I think a lot of people think that lawmakers from red states, they don't have a lot of experience in dealing with that kind of progressive push when, in fact, the opposite's true, really, anymore. That's right. You just highlighted one of the issues. We've been the number one growing state by population percentage. For the last decade, I believe, and also in job growth.

And so we've had, you know, in net migration, we've had many more people now the last several years move into the state than just being added to the roles by just by birth. And so it's starting to really change the demographics here, and it's a little concerning. I actually ran for Salt Lake County mayor, the county of 1.2 million. Salt Lake County is the most populous here. And it is really, it's fairly blue.

And I think that surprises a lot of folks that this county, the most populous county, is blue in what people perceive as a very, very red state. And so I experienced that firsthand. There's a lot of progressivism, a lot of wokeism that's infiltrated. This state, I've had to push back on it time and again. It's entered our school system.

That I've been calling out for some time, and just all of the other policies that have been pushed. into the state. It's very concerning. Yeah, very, very, very concerning indeed, especially, but, gosh, a blue county like that in Utah, that kind of worries me. I mean, we saw that happen with Colorado, two election cycles after 63 years of Republican administration, and they went blue.

Everybody thinks Utah is like a safe bet, and it's not necessarily. Trent Staggs is the mayor of Riverton, Utah. You just mentioned wokery, too, because there's been a lot of, I don't know if it's because we're going into an election season, and I've seen a lot of people that have been very tough on what really is cultural communism. And woke is just like a really easy way to brand it. Even if people can't necessarily define every precept of it, they know what it is when they see it.

They know what it is when they see it in their kids' schools. Talk a little bit about this because usually in an election cycle, and I've been seeing this, as I just said, some lawmakers kind of want to try to appeal a little bit more to the middle because they, I think, lack confidence in their ability to articulate a message to those voters and attract them to their side of constitutionalism. Where are you on all this? Yes, that's a great question. I mean, if people go to TrentStags.com, my website, they'll see my issue set.

I am going to champion smaller government, safer families and a strong economy. I think I can speak credibly across all three of those. But with respect to safer families in particular, Education. Um, and woke, I say, we need to have a separation, we need to build a wall of separation between woke and state. Far too often, especially in this administration, the Biden administration, it is endorsed.

and is being pushed. On On governments at all levels. And we've been pushing back in my community and in our state against ESG practices. Um, you know, you name it, CRT, DEI, all of these things that its stated goal, like you said, there's a lot of pretext. To it, but the stated goal is really division and control.

That's what it's all about. If they can separate the American public and bifurcate them into these different camps, they can control them more easily. And we need to root that out. I say, as a senator, I will be woke's worst nightmare. I'll be their enemy, number one.

And people always understand, as I've told them, however long we've been on air now, the policy is always downstream from the culture. All right, three quick issues, just kind of because a lot of people may not be familiar with you, Mayor.

So I want to kind of help them gauge where you are. Second Amendment. Obviously, you know me on this issue. I'm curious as to your thoughts on, like, say, the ATF or national reciprocity. Where do you stand on those issues?

Yeah, no, a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. I think it's absolute. I'm a gun owner myself. I've got my 13-year-old son. We go shooting often.

And that is something we absolutely cannot, we can't relent on. At all. That's always the first step that tyrants want is to be able to take control of weapons and of guns. And that Second Amendment to me is absolutely. absolutely critical that we that we maintain that.

So and so you would support like national reciprocity or if somebody if Congress, which I don't ever expect them to do, but if they said, you know what, we need to get rid of the ATF, let's have states manage this, that's something you would probably be in support of. Yes, absolutely. On taxation, a lot of people are upset with the IRS. I don't think there's any government agency anyone's not upset with anymore. A lot of people push for fair, flat tax if we are to revise or redo the tax income system.

Your thoughts on that? Yeah, absolutely. In full support of that. I mean, I have this on my website as well. When you contemplate back in 1913 when the income tax was first instituted, It was, you didn't pay any tax up to $3,000 then, which is $91,000 today, zero.

And the top marginal rate was at 7%. And you needed to make the equivalent of $15 million today to be at that top rate. What are we doing? We're paying 25 to 30% of our income now on average to the federal government. In the last 100, 110 years, Why have we risen to those levels?

I mean, we fought a revolution over taxes. That's a fraction of what we're paying today. We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. I've demonstrated in my role as mayor, I've actually cut taxes.

We've taken property taxes, we've cut them. We have the lowest fees in the valley, and I've ensured that we've done that. And I've been able to do that largely because of my business background. I've taken a real innovative approach to government and being able to identify ways in which we can do things better. And actually lower that cost curve.

That's one of my favorite things to hear is when someone says, I cut taxes. Like, what? I love that. Last question for you. We're talking to Mayor Staggs, Riverton, Utah, who is challenging Mitt Romney for that Senate seat out there.

He'd be along with, if elected, he'd be serving with Mike Lee, too. You'd actually have two conservatives coming out of Utah. We just mentioned, just talking about how much in tax we all pay. We have to be accountable for what we pay to the government. I mean, for crying out loud, if you sell anymore, like a lawnmower, I think the new rules governing taxation and how we exchange money, the IRS, I think now it's like $600.

If you exchange money or whatever on any kind of pay system, online, digital system, you're probably going to get looked at now, the $600 limit. But yet we can send, what was the last amount, Kane? I don't know, to Ukraine. No accountability. We have no idea what we're paying for.

We have a rumor of pensions. I don't know. I'm just curious about accountability with regard to tax dollars and foreign engagements and essentially financing a proxy war. with Russia in Ukraine. Yeah, no, absolutely.

I mentioned this in my launch video, actually. I said, you know, while we're paying $4 a gallon for gas, they're sending your money unchecked to Ukraine. It's a problem. There isn't that accountability. There isn't that transparency there.

We should expect that. of our government. Absolutely, we should be expecting that. And, you know, I saw. I think I saw President Trump talk about this recently, where he said we've spent, what, $100, $170 billion over there?

And what if the European neighbors, those nations closest to Ukraine, They've contributed around 20. I mean, something is wrong. What is going on? And then, as you indicated, just all of the transparency issues and rumors of Swiss chalets being purchased and money being funneled through that country. It's incredibly problematic.

So, huge believer in transparency and just. Just pushing back on the regulatory state, that the framework is so huge, it's a two to four trillion dollar drag on our economy as a business owner. I understand the issues. I've had business owners here in Utah that have told me, hey, Trent. They talk about too big to fail.

What about too small to succeed? It feels like we are too small to even succeed anymore because of all the regulation that's layered on us. And we don't have the ability to hire armies of accountants and attorneys. We have to get rid of that. And be able to set business free, right?

And that way, our economy can really take off. But it's being woefully dragged down right now with this regulatory system. That's a good point. Too small to succeed. I mean, that's a really great point.

Trent Staggs, Mayor of Riverton, Utah. You can follow him on Twitter at Mayor Staggs, Mayor, your website. Yeah, trentstaggs.com, trentstags.com, and yeah, S-T-A-G-G-S, that last name. But we've had thousands of people come there, want to join the fight, donate, help out any way you can. I'm not under any illusion that it's going to be easy to take on a very wealthy incumbent like Senator Romney.

So we need all the help that we can get. But I like that surrealism because you know it's going to be a tough fight and you're ready for it. Absolutely. Mayor Trent Staggs, appreciate it. Appreciate the time today.

Best of luck. We'll be watching, following your campaign. Thank you so much, Tina. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah.

It's time for Florida Man. Mm-hmm. Alright, so. First up, I don't know what it is with Gators right now. Is it like spicy Gator season?

Are they just particularly sassy right now? I'm not quite sure. Daily Caller has this piece of a veteran MMA fighter. And a, well, he's a military veteran and an MMA fighter, Mike Dragich. He Fought and caught a 10-foot alligator outside of a Florida elementary school.

And the image is of literally him with like a pole. And him, he's like holding all these people back. Everybody's got cameras. It looks like there's some emergency vehicles in the back. And he's like brawling with this gator.

He is a licensed alligator trapper. And it was a glorious brawl. I mean, he wrestled with this thing, he wrestled with it. It was at Jacksonville Elementary School, and he caught it. It is, I mean, he dragged this thing around.

It was, and I will say, the gator was like nearby where the playground was. Holy cow.

So this guy needs to be cloned. and sent out all throughout Florida.

So uh yeah, he's uh I mean, man, what a that it was an amazing brawl. I'm gonna I'll make sure I send that out to y'all, those of you who uh get the email newsletter. And last but not least, this is a good story. A 14-year-old Florida kid won the national spelling B. With a word used to describe animals and plants that live in sandy soil environments, samophile.

It has two M's and starts with a P S. And the eighth grader from Largo, Dev Shaw, won. And he also spelled some other things that I can't say.

So, I mean, because I literally can't pronounce them.

So he wins. 14-year-old from Florida. Congratulations. We have a lot more on the way. Third hour next.

Are you happy that we have a bureaucracy that's been weaponized against people it doesn't like? If Hunter were a Republican, he would have been in jail by now, and we all know that.

Well, that's absolutely right. That's Governor Ron DeSantis. I think he was in.

South Carolina. Making that remark saying that, yeah, the just the Hunter Biden situation, if he were a Republican, yeah, he absolutely would be. They fabricated stuff to try to charge other Republicans with it. Why would this? Good heavens.

Welcome back to the program. Top of our third hour, Dana Lash here with you, your lovable curmudgeon. You can listen coast to coast. You can also stream the simulcast of the radio program on YouTube, Facebook. And uh channel 347 Direct TV.

So The fight over this, and I told you about this um What just um Yesterday. When the story first started coming out, because it's wild. I mean, you have. Hunter Biden, who may invoke Second Amendment rights. If in fact he is charged with with falsifying.

that 4473, the form that you fill out when you go and purchase a firearm. and it asks you If you are on drugs, if you're a habitual user, all this other stuff. And he went and bought the gun at the exact same time in his own memoir, which I'm pulling up right now. He says he was quote smoking crack every fifteen minutes. And then photos.

from that exact same time period. And some of those came out Oh, about a year ago, a little over a year ago? And it was a New York Post story. Shows him with his illegally possessed firearm while he's smoking crack. in a hotel room with a hooker.

This was literally one year ago, almost, yeah, about a year ago, that this story came out. Hand on the trigger and everything. I mean it's just it's just wild. And I'm I had asked on social media thought was the gun that he had illegally purchased, the one that ended up being tossed in the trash can across the street from a school, which may or may also not have violated the Gunfree School Zone Act, depending on how far away that trash can was from the school. I mean, these are the laws that Democrats push and create, and I'm just wondering why they don't seem to ever follow.

them.

Now I think it's funny because his own father is like, oh, yes, you know, the Second Amendment, right? It's not absolute. These rights aren't absolute. Then there was this case, which is going to come into play here. I'm pulling this up.

It has to do with a case that was out of Texas. This was a U.S. judge, a W appointee. It was this El Paso woman. She had a firearm and she had pot.

She was transferring the gun and some ammo to her husband. He was apparently abusing a number of illegal substances, more than just pot. And the judge in this case, Judge Kathleen Cardone had said that that it was to to have prohibitions regulating That these federal prohibitions deviate from our nation's history of firearm regulation and are unconstitutional. And so here you have a judge, a federal judge, that was. basically rendering moot possession in a case of firearm.

uh the firearm case.

So That's like not the first one. There was like an Oklahoma judge. Associated Press, I have a story. This was. an Oklahoma judge that had struck down Again, this had to do with marijuana and firearms.

It always is like marijuana and firearms. Associated Press, February 5th, 2023. Judge says banning guns for marijuana users is unconstitutional. These are Jared Harrison. His lawyers were arguing that their client's Second Amendment rights to bear arms were being violated by a federal law that makes it illegal for unlawful users or addicts.

of controlled substances to possess firearms.

Now Here's where I'm getting like aggravated about this because I knew that, and I have some very good friends that are libertarians, and they're running into this. Saying, yes, this is the case, and they're really highlighting this case, which I think is taking the bait. I think two things. I don't think that Hunter Biden made this, his lawyers made this defense or floated their invocation of this potential defense. without consulting.

Joe. I really don't think that they did. Joe Biden, by the way, is on record of disliking that Texas case. He thought he they they've actually he's on record as to not being supportive of that case.

So My point is that I think that they're allowing that friction to stand, And they're to use this as a way to exonerate Hunter. Because clearly this is all about hunter. They'll trash whatever. precedence they have. in order to save baby fifty something year old Hunter.

Right. Got to save 100 at all costs. I mean, they clearly value this. Deadbeat crack addict, more so than even his own kids, like the granddaughter that they refused to acknowledge.

So I'm not surprised with this. I do think it's bait. Because they're saying well. His Second Amendment rights have been violated because this is an infringement. And then this court case comes up.

Which, if I'm reading, I think they were barely referenced. I think they kind of referenced it, but they didn't dive into it. But they would have to reference it because that's one of the bigger cases.

So I think it To me, I feel like it's um They're trying to get people to take the bait on this.

So There have been a bunch of lower court rulings on this as well. They're looking at the legality of like the laws that exist as to who can buy or possess a firearm. And this is after New York Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin. And that decision and then some of these others I mean, there have been a lot of other things, you know, like what constitutes an infringement on a natural right? Can you have, like, what, what line do you draw?

Here's where my position has always been on this. I don't care about your damn drug use. I don't care because if I can't carry in all 50 states, why in the hell am I going to jettison that to the top of the list before I can even carry in all 50 states? Why would I immediately focus on that, which I think is a way lesser issue than the issue of open carry in all 50 states? Why would I focus on that more so than before abolishing the ATF?

I feel like some of these people get so zeroed in on an issue that fine, debate it, do whatever after we do all of this other vastly more important stuff. That's how I've always looked at this issue. And everybody is getting baited into this crap. It's infuriating.

So they used This judge, she cited the New York Rifle and Pistol case in Bruin. That's the case, remember New York Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin. This was a case where leftists literally got way over their skis and they started freaking out because they're like, oh my gosh, we actually accidentally set ourselves up for this major precedent. Coming towards the ballpark of Heller to be established. And that was the case where.

Uh in New York, obviously. They have so many restrictions on carrying, and they were trying to argue that. Going back to the Sullivan Act, that in order to get a concealed carry, you had to show proper cause. Like you basically had to You're uh and then they would determine whether your proper cause was good enough. It couldn't just be, you know, for my general security.

That's not good enough. That wasn't good enough. And so they were taken to court, and they lost their butts on that. And I love the phrase that Justice Clarence Thomas said, the historical tradition of firearm regulation. He went after them.

And in his opinion, he authored the majority opinion. And it it was that's the case that was cited in this Texas case. And so This woman in Texas, Paola Connolly, she told police. She's like, Yeah, I use marijuana. You know, the police came to her home.

They were investigating her husband because apparently somebody called him in for shooting off a shotgun outside, and the neighbor heard it. And when they were searching the home, they found marijuana and some various drug paraphernalia. And she's like, Yeah, you know, we regularly smoke, we smoke pot. And she said, Her husband. does crack.

and cocaine.

So she smoked marijuana. The case was was about her, but her husband smoked crack, etcetera. And so this is the case that they're actually going to try to cite. As a way to argue that Hunter Biden's innocent.

Now, there's a caveat to this. The caveat is this. That You are Telling you're filling out a form and you're swearing under penalty of perjury. that you're being honest. When you're not being honest, that's also a violation of law, regardless of whether or not you think that that pledge is predicated upon a law that's valid or not.

So that's a whole other separate issue. I mean at at the most basic that's a law that's been violated. But that's not the point. None of this is the point. What is the point?

So does that mean the Gun Control Act is like, is it just that part of the Gun Control Act, or is it all of the Gun Control Act that's now invalidated because Hunter Biden cannot stop snorting stuff up his nose? I mean, I'm just asking, like, how, I mean, if that violates our rights, is he opening the door for a full-on? Relitigation of that 1968 act? I'm curious. Anyone else curious?

I am. That's the question. That's what we should be focusing on. Why is it that we're sitting here talking about damn drugs? And we're not talking about, okay, Joe Biden, do you support your son on this?

Do you support now? Do you think that this question on a 4473 is a violation of constitutional rights? Do you think further from that? Is it just this aspect of the GCA or all of it that is an infringement on natural rights? I mean, where do you and it's not just our media that's not doing this?

Damn conservatives are taking this stupid bait too. I can't tell you how many stupid pieces I have seen talking about drugs. Oh my gosh, with strategists like this back in the times of our founders, we'd all had the damn queen on our money. People are like, oh, what's happening? I don't care.

I'm going to be very frank with you, and I'm not going to be polite about it. I don't give a rat's ass. I don't care about the marriage. People are like, where do you? I don't care.

Shut up. I don't care. I feel like it's such a stupid question in a time when we have the ATF. It's such a dumb question at a time when, how many of you are felons because you're pistol braces? And we're seriously gonna sit here and focus on this stupid drug issue?

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen and everyone's just taking the bait on it. I have to actually give an interview after this.

Somebody's writing a piece up at Fox. What do you think I'm going to say? They're like, Can you do a quick like a Zoom call? I'm like, I don't do Zoom. Like, okay, well you need like a quick video column, we'll have a piece up that we're gonna write about it.

And My whole point is that this is not about drugs. Why is no one asking Gavin Newsom what he thinks about this? How many days has this story been out? Have you heard a single Democrat being asked about this? This is going to, this could end up being a major case.

Have any Democrats been asked about this? No, you haven't heard a single one of 'em. A single one, because everyone's like, oh, falling all over themselves. What about drugs? What about the?

This is not what this is about. Have that discussion after the ATF's abolished, and not, and people aren't felons for purchasing, like until a second ago, it was a perfectly illegal product to purchase. I just think that's so stupid that that's what we're focusing on.

So that's going to be my answer with all of this. This is going to be if they end up charging him with this, and I realize it's if, if, if. There's some potential, especially with some of the lower court rulings. And this federal cour this Federal judge uh from out in Texas just earlier this year. There's a potential for, I mean, you.

Could have this case, people are calling. Oh, this could be a huge Second Amendment case. I think it would be not so much with drugs, but in the respect of affirming natural versus civil rights. and where that line is. But are we seriously going to get drawn into a conversation where we're like, well, is pot more illegal or crack more illegal or?

Like pot's okay, but crack, I don't know. As it well, again, you have all these felons with pistol braces. Brand new baby felons. You see what I'm saying? Do you see why I get so mad?

You see why I want to pull my hair out? Do you see why I'm praying that Smod hits this pitiful rock? There you go. We have a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. Man, falling up. Lori Lightfoot, former Chicago mayor, is she has a new role. She's now teaching a course. Yeah.

Titled Health Policy and Leadership at the Harvard University T.H. Chen School of Public Health. She's going to be a senior leadership fellow there. They announced this just yesterday. She's going to start teaching the course in the fall.

What is she going to teach about health, like how to get haircuts when you're locking down your entire city and anyone else would be fine? Yeah, maybe that. I don't know. I mean, I just think. I'm going to immediately jump to the Splash Mountain story because this is wild to me.

This was At Disneyland, this is KTLA, a writer jumped out of the Splash Mountain log after having a panic attack. And It was like days before the whole Splash Mountain thing. I forget why people are mad at Splash Mountain. Those are the people mad over at the people who are mad at the Bud Light stuff. Yeah.

The P okay. Uh, I mean, you're literally mad over a ride, but all right.

So they had a panic attack. They were in one of the logs. Why don't you, first off, I'm sorry, why don't you just like change the name of Splash Mountain to something else? And then you don't have to redo the ride. Save yourself some money.

Just be like log on a fast river, semi-fast river.

Something like that. A writer had a panic. I'm still in the story. Had a panic attack. They were in the there's like video.

They a writer was walking down the ride platform. They jumped out of the log, and the person was asked, What's wrong with you? And the person replied, I can't. I'm seriously having a panic attack. They didn't seem injured, but the person in the video was like, Can you actually do that?

Can you just like get? Out of the log? Like, how do you get out of there? I mean, how do you? Why would you?

Wouldn't you know that you were having a panic attack because you're getting on the ride? I mean I just, you know, I got some questions here about this. I don't know. I don't know. Also, one last quick thing.

I was going to have this as a separate thing, but we're running out of time. Greg Abbott says he's going to use the TPPF roadmap to end property taxes.

So, because property tax is literally just paying rent to the government for property you already own in perpetuity. Stick with us, we've got more in store. Whether you just want to stay informed or just hear her vent about all the ridiculousness in the world, make sure to download the Dana Show podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We have enacted strong protections for election integrity. We weren't a model of that 20, 25 years ago in Florida, as you know, but now we've done a lot.

We've banned ballot harvesting. We've banned Zuckerbucks. We have voter ID, not just for the voting booth, but also if you request an absentee ballot. But here's what we have to do: each state has different rules. And, you know, a state like Nevada, if they have ballot harvesting, I'm going to tell you this: we're ballot harvesting there.

We're going to do Zuckerbucks. We're going to do whatever we need to do to erase what the Democrats are doing. I'm not fighting with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not telling people not to vote in these things. We need to exploit whatever we can.

He's making a really good point here that I think is being widely misconstrued. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. That's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is speaking in South Carolina. And some of the headlines I've seen, oh, Ron DeSantis is going to go out and ballot harvest everywhere.

That's not what he said. For the for the drive-bys, the people who lack the reading, the listening comprehension, I don't know how you can hear what he said and walk away thinking that. He's talking about the states stupid enough to allow that because they want Democrats to cheat. They're going to take advantage of it too.

So that way those leftists are going to be forced to like stop the unfair practices because their campaign's going to be taking advantage all of it. I can't believe that some people weren't smart enough to walk away with that, what he actually said. Like, good grief. I saw a couple of like uh uh legacy press headlines on that. And that's exactly what he's saying.

Ballot harvesting when you're taking bundles or bundling uh all of the absentee The ballots, and you're, you know, you're kindly is a nice gesture. You're going to take them and. submit them and A lot of people say, well, it can lead to fraud, it can lead to if you're going to be stupid enough to allow that stuff in your state, because all rules over that vary state by state, but for the states that are going to be dumb enough to allow that, then why not take advantage of it? I'm all for it. Because this is about winning.

It's about winning. and winning can be a virtue.

So, do it. And he's like, I'm going to fight with one hand behind my back. They're counting on. They're counting on people to not take advantage of they of the laws that they uh these laws they put into place to create this unfair playing field. And then were they gonna get mad when other people take advantage?

of the thing that they created? Then maybe you shouldn't have done it. Maybe you should have kept it fair. You know? I bet they don't want to do that, so okay, this is uh UFAFO, this is the other side of it.

And I, and their campaign so far is really well organized from everything that I've seen. They've been raising money like mad. which you need because Democrats are going to be pouring everything into that old feeble dude who's running for Democrats. Has he come out and actually said yes, he is running? Joe Biden.

I think he has sort of said so. Yeah.

Is Kamala still the VP? Because I don't think he said that. She said it, but I don't think he has. Sure, he has. Who could he have?

He's called her President Harris, though. Yeah.

They should swap her out with Newsome if they wanted to be really competitive. Cause she's just dead weight. They should if they I don't wanna give anybody an i any ideas, but You know, that might be. But then, if he, because this is going to be one of the elections where the primary is kind of the general. on the Republican side anyway.

And the downside of that is, I don't think that they. I don't think that they could I don't think Newsom would even accept it. unless he was confident that they would win. And then from the V P spot he would run for office. Because at that point, I mean, you would take your chances, I think.

It really. hurts you when you run. and you don't win, especially if you're on part of the ticket. you know, like Paul Ryan. And you don't win, then, you know, you've kneecapped yourself.

So, I don't know. He may, I don't think that he would do it unless they were confident. that they were going to win. But we'll see. I mean, that's just not looking so good for all of them.

I mean, really, and some of the polling. Speaking of 2024. New Hampshire governor. Sin Yu Nu is uh he's I love how they're like, well, we're entering the decision timeline. No one cares.

No one was sitting around waiting, going, I wonder what this governor was thinking. I wonder what New Hampshire Governor John Sununew said. About whether or not he's going to run. If you're in New Hampshire and you're listening, I'm sorry. I mean, no offense.

This is all business, it's not personal, it's the business of the country. Isn't he an Epo baby? I'm pretty sure. Like Hunter's a Nepo baby? That's true.

Like you I mean you've got you have a lot of Nepple babies in politics.

So he's the son of John Sununu.

So he's a Nepo baby. I'm just saying what, you know, what's true.

So he was saying apparently he told Bill Hemmer uh that he's considering Getting into the race. He's going to make a decision as whether, I mean, we've all been just waiting. Not I just I don't know. Can you have, you're getting too many Chris Christie types in there. You know what I'm saying?

Have you noticed we're kind of moving away from?

So, Democrats have, well, maybe it's just that's the Republican side of things. Democrats have like their cut and paste Democrat candidate. And they all looked like this Bill Paxton kind of dude. It's the John Ossuff's the Uh Secretary yeah, New Mir Poot. uh booty juice and then you have Beto, they're all these khaki wearing button-down loafer, weird, goofy haircuts dudes.

And they all look the same. They all look like they stepped out of this failure to launch factory. And then on the Republican side, you have like the Sununus and the Christie's. who are very similar. in more than one way.

So you know what I'm saying? I'm just wondering. I'm just gonna put that out there. Just gonna put that out there.

So He's apparently considering getting into the race. I know we were all very, you know. And then. You have, I will say, one of the things that Trump had said. He was talking about ending birthright citizenship via executive order on day one, and I don't know why he didn't do that.

The last day one.

Now there's a difference when you're talking about going around Immigration law and talking about what the phrase that has been used, the quote-unquote anchor babies. I don't it's not referencing children of American citizens. They're talking about people who are not citizens and then come to the United States and have children. That's what he's directly referencing, but I'm just curious as to why it hadn't been done previously. You also have to be very careful in.

Administrating via executive order, because that can be a lazy way to govern in a way. You know, you can have all these executive orders, but then if Congress determines that they're invalid with legislation or if they're overturned by the next your predecessor, then you haven't really accomplished all that much.

So people have to be really, really careful. with uh with that kind of stuff. And I think he had said at one point they were going to have what was it, the nas a celebration, national celebration or something? I think that was like how many let me put this out here. Uh That was like one of the Oh, he wants a year-long bash.

a massive birthday party for the nation, to Salute to America 250. He has a video, it's a policy video, and he called it the Great American State Fair. We're in a time, we're in a recession and everyone's broke. Who the hell's paying for this? I think this is a legitimate question to ask, yeah?

Who's paying for this? That's sort of like um Back in the days when they had, back in the old, the days of yore with the Romans and the Colosseum, and they wanted to satiate the. Attention of the people with great public spectacles. And that just hits a little too close to that for me. You know what I mean?

I'm just I'm like who would pay for that? I mean, would that all be like privately funded? All Trump money? Yeah, I mean, whose money is that going to be? Because if you're talking about taxpayer dollars for that, I'm going to lose my, you know, what.

My mind, thank you. I just I don't know. He needs to just stick to the hits. And focus on what he's done. I mean, we have the 4th of July, about a year long.

And I was just looking at some of the details of it. No one's proposed like actually Uh They're supposed to be like what? The Oh, saying that it would help the tourist industry and they would have a thing with Mount Rushmore and all I don't I don't I will say the Fourth of July during lockdown with Mount Rushmore, that was neat, but we don't need a year long thing that taxpayers would have to pay for. We don't need that. That's not what we need.

Meanwhile, TV networks are battling for the Republican debate. CNN has pitched. No. NBC is pitched. No.

We don't need that. The CNN's pitch says that Chris Lyke told the RNC that CNN would air the debate. not just on its linear feed, but maybe like Warner Brothers, Discovery. Uh they said that uh l likes argu arguing that CNN could reach more conservatives than Fox and Independents too. And they said that the pitch Includes distro across all their digital channels, and they said that they would also partner apparently with like Axios and uh who else like some other like kind of partnership and they would invite They offered a partner with a conservative leaning outlet and have a co-moderator.

in the spot. And NBC's pitch, they have their VP for politics heading that. And Lester Holt. Would moderate the debate, and then they would have a colleague from CNBC and Telemundo.

So you would have three leftists and one conservative. Is that what I'm reading out of this? Psh. Pee off. I'm not gonna happen.

And then you have, and that shouldn't, that should not be agreed to, RNC. You don't need all these people. Who cares? Shut up Tell Mundo, shut up, see me. We don't need all of them.

Just pick one. You guys get one.

Well, no, we have to have from here and here. Shut up. Just have one person, one and one. That's it. But that would be three leftist and one conservative.

So I don't see how that's fair. They act like they're doing such a big thing by partners. Uh and it would be for Fox, Brett Baer and Martha McCallum. And then, who was it? NBC, they had Lester Old CNN.

The CNN didn't say who they would. I don't know if they have an idea. I think what. Uh I don't know who they uh who they would use. in terms of questioning.

Uh Andrea Mitchell, remember when she was She was kind of panned with some of her questioning last time. DeSantis says he's not going to do anything with NBC. Because uh Kamala Harris was asked by Andrea Mitchell. Basically, why DeSantis didn't want slavery taught in schools. And since that was an absolutely absolute falsehood, and she never corrected it.

DeSantis said he's not doing NBC or MSNBC. I wouldn't either.

So that's what's happening. You're gonna it's gonna get crazy. But RNC should be smart with these debates, and they shouldn't fear doing an all-digital. Yeah.

They shouldn't be scared of technology.

So I don't know. We we will see. But um It's telling you what, it's going to be. I know you CNN wants it 'cause they know it's going to be ratings. Can you imagine?

The r it's going to be the first the first Republican primary debate is going to be Radiance Gold. And they want it bad. R M C should make em pay. They should like get they should RC doesn't they they don't need them all the other networks need the RC on this And the RNC needs the candidates.

So they should be doing everything possible to make the candidates happy. And to make their voting base happy by ensuring that it's equally represented, conservative. Progressive. Goodness. Between Twitter, Facebook, or any of your social media, there's a lot of information out there.

That's why your lovable curmudgeon is here to help you make sense of it all, live or on demand. The Dana Show. Hey pumpkin, it's pride month. Let's talk about it. I'm not a big fan.

I don't know what the f ⁇ y'all are so oppressed about. I don't know what everybody's crying about. I don't know why everyone's so upset. I just don't feel oppressed. I don't remember the last time somebody had something bad to say about me because of my sexual preference.

Maybe because I don't talk about it. If you haven't noticed, I am a homosexual. I don't feel like I need any rainbow flag signs or signals to alert those around me that I am a homosexual. Here's my opinion. You don't have to keep listening if you don't want to, but I think a lot of you guys are manifesting this sh ⁇.

Wake up in the morning and you're like, oh my God, I'm so gay. And everyone around me is going to hate my gayness. And somebody's going to be mean to me. And then somebody's mean to you. And you're like, oh my God, I'm so f ⁇ ing oppressed.

See, I wake up in the morning and I'm like, I'm just another regular f ⁇ ing human. And I didn't go do regular human s ⁇. And none of it involves rainbow flags. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is my pride flag's still red, white, and blue. You can follow me if you want to.

I don't f ⁇ care. Mama didn't raise no f ⁇ ing. We're in a censor that's so bad. It was great. I told Kane, I'm like, I feel like I'm watching Borderlands.

Welcome back to the program. Dana last year with you. You know, I was reading this interesting piece to go to line in that over at New York Post, and the title is, I fought for quote-unquote gay rights, but trans activists have destroyed it. They basically say trans activists have destroyed everything and gets into the corporatization of all of it. And he says, being gay is an attribute, not an accomplishment.

People can, I know there's even debate on all of that. But I want what I'm pointing out to you is that The letters in the the alphabet brigades acronym, they're not all getting along. And some of 'em don't want some of the the mother letters involved in it. Like the L and the the G and the B, they don't want the T. And they're real mad and they fight about it all over social media.

There's like memes on this stuff. There's like actual like imagery that has gone viral where the first part of the letters are kicking the T out. And then some other people have like put in there the T, attacking the other letters because they're mad that those letters. I mean, it's like it's ridiculous. These are grown people.

Yeah.

But the point is, is it's this Corporatization, and I love one of the points too, because like the Anheuser-Busch thing, I think, is probably the most successful boycott in history. American history. It has nothing to do with conservatives. This is America is rejecting this because Americans still believe that boys can't be girls. And girls can't be boys.

And that's the whole point of it. I mean, the reason why targets lost so much money, it's not because conservatives or politics are out there creating all of this, it's because. Americans are fed up. And they're like, are you kidding me? Like, why are you body shaming boys?

Americans are fed up. Don't let them. That's like the, we finally got common ground, and they are working overtime to obscure that. And don't let them be successful. Don't let them be successful at that.

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All right, it is OIM. Karine Jean-Pierre. I knew it. She is forced. I mean, she's forced to lie every day, but then she chooses to lie about what we all saw on video, which is really weird.

She says Biden fell down over a sandbag and got right back up, which is not the case, but listen to him. And just to just, you know, make sure we clear the record here, he tripped over a sandbag on the stage, and briefly he tripped and got up. And he got right back up and continued what he was there to do. He didn't get right back up, though. Yeah, he wasn't.

We all saw the video, so don't. Don't believe your lying eyes. Believe the serial liar. I mean, we're just saying that we just don't we don't like to see you know, the leader of the United States in that position at all. I mean, he did make fun of the Trump shuffle.

I mean, he did that. He wasn't very gracious about it. He was like, he literally said, look how I walk, or how he steps, look how I step. Who does that? That's so weird.

All right, folks, that's this week for us. We'll be back together on Monday. Find us on Facebook, YouTube, Substack, chapter, and verse, like and subscribe. Have a great weekend.