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over education for our country's future today. If he is re-elected, do you hope to serve another term as Secretary of Transportation?

Well, you know, right now I've got my head down seeking to deliver on all of the historic opportunities that are in front of us. It's demanding work, but it's rewarding work. I'm very glad to be doing it. And, you know, the future is, we'll find out what's next. But right now, we've got a lot to be proud of and a lot more to do.

Mm. That's uh Secretary Mayor Poot. Buddha Judge. And he says that he's got his head down and he's just seeking to deliver. I don't know.

I don't know. That seems to. kind of be emblematic of the entire administration. Welcome. to the program, top of our first hour.

Happy Wednesday to you, your lovable curmudgeon, Dana Lash here. And this gosh, where to even start? There's a number of things. I I I I mean, first we have the I can't can you really I just don't think That I think it would be problematic for them to keep him. But then at the same time, If you're like think of if you're Democrats, think of you know imagine yourself in Joe Biden's position.

If you get if you get rid of them and you switch 'em out, then you're admitting that there was something wrong, right? And then that becomes a story.

So it's like you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Mm-mm-mm. Just saying.

So he says he's got his head down. He's seeking to deliver. Seeking to deliver. I mean, this is the guy who thought that there were too many white people in construction.

Okay. Sit down. Just say. Just saying he did. He did.

All right, so some of the other, because we're going to come back then. We've got all kinds of stuff to hit today. As we start this hump day off, by the way, Steve is very, very proud of his show tweet. I don't know if you've seen it. He's very, very proud of the alliteration in his Uh show tweet.

And it's the uh today's Hidelike Hunter Hump Day edition. I work hard for these alliterations on our show account, by the way. I think hard days. I give you A's, dude. I give you A's for this.

So It's like, yeah, I'm a collaborative. Oh my gosh. All right, so uh Lay of the land. Let's get a lay of the land here as we look at everything. We're going to get in the Hunter Biden stuff.

We're gonna get in that. Can we immediately start? Can I start with the woke, please? Can I start with awoke? I know we got other things, we got the little drone thing that was happening too.

Real quick, I'll mention that. Russia's claiming that Ukraine tried to kill Vlad. Did you see the video of that? That looked Fruit. That's so stupid.

Nobody believes it. That's the dumbest false flag thing I've ever seen in my life. They said that they tried to use a drone and they tried to first off, are you telling me that a drone can get near wherever Vladimir Putin is staying? In was it the Kremlin? Is that where he was?

Are you telling me a drone can get anywhere close to that? Because I don't believe you. I've played Call of Duty Cold War. I know how difficult it is to get a group. No, for real though, the video shows it looks like a drone that somebody would have to to record, to look at fireworks for Fourth of July.

And they and it looked like it flew into the building and broke. That's what it looked like. And they're like, It they tried to kill him They tried to get him with a Drone! No one believes you. No one believes you.

I just I mention it because it was funny and the video was a hoot. And I think that they were trying to click on claim it. The Ukraine said it wasn't them. I actually believe them. I don't think it was them.

I think it was probably the Russians being stupid. I don't know what else to, because it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. First off, why would it, how could you even have it get that close to the Kremlin in the first place? It's the cr don't they watch everybody? But don't they watch everything?

Good heavens and it showed it flying right into the Like right into the building. It just was dumb looking. Juan has the uh on the simulcast. Yeah, one drone it flew and then boom And they said, I guess, that it was near where Vlad Putin was staying or something like that. I how did it get that close?

Why wouldn't it just wouldn't they have shot it down forever ago? Right. I'm really just I thought that they had like a m a much wider and more in-depth spy system than this. I'm just, you know, who knew? But uh no, no one on that was the most obvious thing ever.

If you were going to conduct an assassination attempt, seriously, in full, like you see all the lights there. The cameras pointed at the building. We're going to fly this drone. No, that was the Russians thinking that they could do it. I don't know.

That's so goofy. That is so goofy. It's not as goofy as what the Navy did. Oh boy. You're a why.

Recruitment is down. They said that naval recruitment is falling short by 8,000. Oh man. Yeah. And so they were trying to figure out how in the world How are they going to do this?

How are they going to fix this issue? And they figured out Because, you know, you keep hearing about all of these, um influencers that are being hired. whether it's by the administration, et cetera, et cetera.

So they have uh They decided that they were going to have a digital ambassador. The Navy did.

So they hired yeoman second class Joshua Kelly. To be a part of their outreach. They said they want more Gen Z sailors. And they Turn to this guy who is a drag performer. His stage name is Harpy Daniels.

and he performed drag Oh, I guess on TikTok. Did they really oh my gosh, guys? What do we know about TikTok and the CCP? And we have our Navy doing digital outreach on TikTok with Drag. Did Xi Jinping write this whole thing?

Let's see. We're going to further demoralize our armed forces and Undermine preparedness, and then we're going to use the CCP completely compromising app TikTok to do it as the way to distribute the information.

So this guy. He uh Gets all up and drag, and he announced on TikTok that he's the Navy's first digital ambassador. And he's performing in drag. 'Cause I guess that's how They They're gonna try to get Gen Z. We're going to get our asses kicked in a war, aren't we?

What in the world? What in the world? And then he's, of course, he's got a sign of him where he says, Make America free, pro-choice, my body, my choice. Dude, you can't get pregnant. Jimmy Christmas.

He was also, he said he was inspired by the drag queens on RuPaul's Drag Race. He started watching when he was 16. And so that's apparently what the Navy is doing. Is that going to make anybody really Uh Really sign up for the Navy? The answer is no, and being entirely rhetorical.

It's not. Is it would you say RuPaul is a gateway trans? That's what it sounds like.

So he first started performing on ships after a sanctioned. Morale, welfare, and recreation, MWR lip-syncing contest in 2017. He was deployed on the USS Ronald Reagan, and then he became a regular in competitions. He says he's never experienced harassment or anything like that. He said that when he was scheduled to perform at a DEI event at Langley Air Force Base in 2022, he says it caused an uproar to many conservatives and Christian extremists.

Yeah, people who were wondering why in the hell the Navy was hosting a drag event. Like, why is that? What is going on? I mean, are they? It's like they're, they, this is what you do if you want to totally undermine.

Their preparedness of the military. And you're focusing on all of these identity politic things instead of focusing on a united fighting force. This has nothing to do with unity. This has everything to do with how do you troll people who are going to otherwise criticize the military and how are you going to drive away people who would otherwise be inclined to maybe enlist. This is insane.

Our military has gone entirely woke. They have. And they wonder why they're falling short of recruitment. Why are we following? We just don't know.

We can't figure it out. Let's do more of what's actually driving people away. That was their apparently their thought. Let's do more of it.

So this individual I guess. I don't I don't even know what that entails. But is he gonna make like drag videos about the Navy? Why don't they win wars?

So he identifies as non-binary according to the daily caller. Uh yeah, he's a digital I mean If the Navy brought him on, does that mean they're paying him? And you know the Navy's money is our money. I'm just wondering, is that are they paying him?

So he's the new digital ambassador. I, what is this? Again, what is this? The reason why people are criticizing this is because it has nothing to do with the purpose of the military. you are infusing cultural warfare into the military.

which undermines unity and preparedness. Because the issue is that The I mean, nobody cares who you sleep with, how you identify, etc. No, that's that's irrelevant. when it comes to the fi uh fighting force. You have to have the strength of unity in order to complete these objectives.

And I just don't see how this fulfills this. And what is this? I mean, it makes us look like a joke. We look like a joke. And we don't look peace through strength, peace through superior firepower.

This conveys neither of those things. I just, it's not going to, but it's, that's their DEI policy update. The Navy is committed to recruit and retaining soldiers, fostering an inclusive culture. I just, can you, can you kick butt? That's it.

Can you fight? Do you want to fight for your country? Can you fight? Are you willing to pop a commie? Yes, no?

These are the only questions worth asking. No one cares what you do in your private time. No one cares how you choose to sleep with people. No one cares if you dress up in women's clothes in your private time. Can you fight?

Are you willing to fight? Are you willing to make that sacrifice? Those are the only things that matter. Everything else is a distraction. And it gets people killed.

We're sacrificing The safety of service members at the expense of political correctness DEI Marxist BS. A bunch of dudes in cosplay and woman face and cosplay.

So On top of this, and I have this, I actually, I think I sent this out in your rundown, your email rundown. Bud Light is trying to make good. They're freaking out right now. I told you that we had some advertising ideas for them. That they could do to help remedy this situation.

So, but they think giving free beer to every wholesale employee. as a way to ask for forgiveness, that's going to help.

So they're handing out free beer. to try to squash the backlash. I'm telling you, this is what you do. If you're a Bud Light, if I was the marketing director, and if you guys steal any of my ideas, I'll come for you. Bud Light This is how you do it.

You have every single like icon. Have like your hardcore dudes, you know, like the old, like what they would say, like your Burt Reynolds-looking dudes. Get the eighties pin ups. Get You're millennials. I read this story today where it said millennials hit middle age, and there was somebody that they quoted as saying that they were 44 years old and they were a millennial.

Shut up, you're Gen X, you're not a millennial. They and and have like Gen Z and everybody. and quit over compensating and quit trying to overrepresent a tiny fraction of the populace. And shove this cosplay, especially with someone who treats it like this. That's the thing.

Can I make this point too? I was having a conversation with a friend over the weekend, and I was saying, you know, the difference between somebody like Dylan Mulvaney and somebody like Kitty DeMure. He was on Jesse Waters' program. Kitty DeMure is like, no, no, no. And I thought, and he's a dude, he knows he's not forcing people to do their pronouns and all this stuff.

But he was saying, do you realize that drag actually is misogynist? Because it started when women were barred from performing on stage and men dressed up in makeup as women because women were barred from performing. It has a misogynist origin, which, of course, they're not telling anybody that. Uh but Kitty DeMo Demure was saying that um That you know, not doing the pronouns and was you know criticizing Dylan Mulvaney and criticizing Bud Liser and Anheuser-Busch. The difference between somebody like Dylan Mulvaney and Kitty DeMure is that Kitty DeMure knows that he's a dude.

And he's not forcing you to acknowledge anything else, and he's not wanting to criminalize you if you don't affirm his self-perception. Whereas Dylan Mulvaney is making the most ridiculous caricature, a stereotype of a woman, and it is mocking and it is disrespectful. That's the difference. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So apparently Iran has seized its second oil tanker in a week. U.S. Navy reveals footage of Tehran's vessel surrounding the ship in the Strait of Hormuz. It's a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the strait. This happened earlier today.

It's the second such capture by Tehran in recent days. The first was another Houston-bound tanker. The Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet identified the vessel as the Niuvoe. Can't even say it. It said Iran's paramilitary revolutionary guard seized it at 6 a.m.

local time. Navy published pictures of these vessels surrounding the tanker. They forced it to reverse course and head towards Iranian territorial waters, according to the Navy. They said that's contrary to international law. Second time they've done it.

You see all these other, I mean, that is, man, that's dangerous. It's uh, the shipping registries show the ship is being managed out of Greece. And they haven't commented on it, but this ship had been traveling from Dubai to UAE's port and it was forced to change course.

So, and we and all on camera, I mean, there's no denying it. 25 counties with the longest life. Expectancy revealed. Apparently, a fishing community in Alaska is where people live 25 years longer than the average American. That's interesting.

It's in the Aleutians. Isn't that interesting? That's the little chain up there in Alaska. They said that's where they lived the longest. Scientists, I did not even know this.

Mount Everest makes terrifying noises at night. Did you know this? It does. The rapid temperature drops at night cause ice to contract and crack deep within. And they apparently, all these researchers spent weeks measuring vibrations in the glaciers.

But people say that there's a chorus of these chorus of these splintering noises, and it sounds terrifying. And they figured out that this is exactly what is causing it. That's creepy, though. I don't like that. Stick with us.

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Well Chris, I think there's a difference between catching somebody in a criminal act and catching them in a politically problematic act. I mean, as I read that transcript, this was a 2020 interview, and they're asking Secretary, current Secretary Blinken, about events that occurred in 2015.

Now, as you said, he clearly says no. They ask him whether or not he had any conversations. He says, not that I recall. And then they move and they say, how about emails or texts? And he says flat out no.

Now, whether, you know, clearly, and they say they found information off of Hunter Biden's laptop that clearly shows correspondence back and forth between now Secretary Blinken and Hunter Biden. If that's accurate, that's still a long way from being a violation of the law. My favorite thing about this whole video, first off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Is uh Oh my gosh, I totally have spaced on his name.

Chris Quelfa. No, no, no, the other dude on there. Oh uh Carville. James Carville. Yeah, I used to I was when I was the token conservative at CNN, he was on with me all the time.

He was actually very nice. Uh and he hated some of the same people I hated, which made us friends. He's he will not not wear LSU gear. He will physically he will fight like the vice president of standards and practices over it. It is so funny that he was all ducked out in his gear.

He just doesn't even care. But that was Peter Strzok. The disgraced FBI agent that CNN still loves to have on, right? And uh wait, no, not CNN. That was uh what's his face is Uh the yeah other Cuomo.

The spare. His little whatever that is, the news near I don't even know what that is. But Peter Stroth, the disgraced FBI agent. who looks like the elf on a shelf in a suit. He does.

He was the guy, remember, I'll never forget the hearing that turned into a gif where he'd like fidgeted in his seat like a weirdo. who was texting Lisa Page, the other FBI agent. And discussing how they wanted to stop the 2016 election, et cetera, et cetera. He's saying that it's not a big deal. You know, if Anthony if Anthony Blinken lied under oath, it's not a huge deal.

I mean, he's facing questions because apparently, you know, he was misleading members of Congress about Hunter. I mean, it seemed like he was closer. to Hunter Biden that he was Joe. than he was Dad Joe. I mean, when you look at go back and look at some of the emails.

Now if he did lie. Then That's perjury. But but see, Peter Strzok has to defend. Anthony Blinken. testifying in twenty twenty that he never mailed Hunter ev emailed Hunter Biden, even though he did.

Because then he would incriminate himself. or or give credence to his wrongdoing, which he denies to this day.

So that's why he said the whole thing: well, there's the difference between catching someone in a criminal act and catching them in a politically problematic act. Oh, we're not doing what is, we're not doing that. And there's cane notes out. They threw the book at General McFlynn. him saying I don't recall.

And he literally did not recall. He didn't purposefully lie. He just didn't remember. And they said, oh, well, that's just like lying.

So they that's what that's what his whole thing came down to. It's D different. There's a D difference. I mean, he was you know, Peter Strzok, he was FBI.

So he's defending. This is why you can't, you know, they will always justify. whatever means Because it serves the end. If it's the measure of whether it is right and good. isn't determined.

By our actual Definition of what is right and our definition of morality, of expectation of ethics, or what we define as good.

Now their measure is whether or not it advances the end. If it serves their ultimate goal, then it is justified. Then it's good because it serves the ultimate goal. It doesn't really matter. I mean, if it violates a law, but it serves a bigger purpose.

So that's. inconsequential. This is wild. And he just I He and he the that he sits there and he's just so sanctimonious about it. it it's it's still perjury.

It's not just problematic. It's that's the wrong P. It's perjury. It's Perjury. It's not a politically problematic act, it's perjury.

He's Anthony Blinken perjured himself. That's just that's that's the bottom line of it. I mean, there's no getting around it. Good heavens.

Now A couple of other things. I saw this this morning. This is a daily caller piece. about of all places. Nordstrom is leaving San Francisco.

They're closing up shop. They're one of the latest, but they're a huge business that's they're closing both of their San Francisco locations. and the off the rack the Nordstrom rack. Wait, it's like Saks off the rack fifth. Nordstrom rack.

They're they're closing that one too. According to the San Francisco standard, that's about 357,000 square feet so they're closing these stores they're not renewing its lease obligations. And they said that The reason that they cited was a deteriorating situation. I mean, which meant, oh my gosh, the crime and vagrancy is out of control. Feces and needles everywhere.

As far as the eye can see. They said they're done they're they're done dealing with it.

So they're leaving. That's like the twentieth business that's left. And What? Uh the past, like, year and a half? Almost two years now, I guess.

Whole foods left? Yeah, the Nordstrom pipeline. that uh Corine Jean-Pierre believes exists. Not the Nord Stream. No, no, no, no.

The Nord Strom.

So it's like when you order on Nordstrom, like all your stuff comes in the pipeline. Whole food shutdown.

Now, think about this. This is San Francisco. What do you think?

Now, normally, when I would ask this, if I would ask this like 10 years ago or five years ago. your answer would be different. If I say, what do you think of, Kane, what do you think of when I say San Francisco now?

Now?

Now.

Now it's just horrific. Everything that we've seen in the world. What comes to mind? What is the image in your mind when I say sea? You mean needles, feces, lots of hills?

Maybe even needles and feces rolling down hills.

Okay. Now if I were to ask you 10 years ago Oh. Then what would you think? 10 years ago, if I would say, Kane, what comes in your mind when I say San Francisco? Like the Bay.

You know, the bridge. Um you know just this San Francisco treat, rice-aroni, maybe. You know, the other thing too. I it Hippie, I blame the old hippies there. I think there's a difference in type of hippie.

By the way, we have some of our audience includes, and I'm going to say it because this is how they identify themselves, boomer hippies. But they always insist that they're the good boomer hippies. Which I believe this. I believe some of the hippies are actually classical liberals, like Tocqueville, and they want to be left alone. They want to organically farm.

And they want to drink on pasteurized milk and they want to do whatever they want to do, they want to weave their sandals out of hemp. That's fine, they want to live their lives and not bother nobody. Then you got these hippies. That gave birth to the neo-Puritan hippies. They're not even hippies anymore.

And they want the man in every aspect of their lives. By the way, think about this for a minute. Because I don't really necessarily think this is a Gen X thing. Gen X were used to being overlooked. forgotten about.

And I think it's like millennials, younger millennials, not, you know, older millennials, but younger millennials. That How do you go from being a hippie boomer? Because a lot of the. Millennials were from younger boomers. How do you go from like being the hippie, you know, hippie generation to raising the antithesis of that?

Like you are against the man, but now you want more of the man. How does that happen? That fascinates me actually from a sociological perspective. I have a take on that.

Okay, yes. Because. Isn't it natural for you to rebel against your parents? I guess so, to a certain extent.

So in my mind, I think that this generation saw their parents who were rightfully against overreaching of government and things of that nature, and they've worked to be not their parents. And I think that's how it's played out. And I think, too, I'd add to that. I think that the. Rebelling against your parents isn't Because you just are trying to be an activist or something.

I think it's you're trying to find your identity. Kids are trying to find their identity. They want to define themselves, their own. Like, for instance, my husband and I. you know, we're retired goth kids.

And My My younger son likes to wear black, and he has more of the aesthetic of us than my older son does. My older son thinks it's ridiculous. And he's just like, I am so not into that. Like, he's very. My younger one, when he was a lot younger, his rebellion was to basically try to be Alex P.

Keaton both visually and he is him mentally. But he was like very suit and hat. Like he was very now he's more of our aesthetic, way more. But when he was younger, that was how he rebelled. He was a prep.

I didn't know how to deal with that. He would come home and ask because he would, like, he would do stuff with his friends on the weekends and be, and then they, because they have a uniform at school. And he would be like, oh, his like friends would have like a preppy kind of shirt. And I don't know, it was like some prep brand. I don't even know where to get those clothes.

I literally buy what I'm wearing right now, I got for free. At my gun range, and you I wear black t-shirts all the time because I buy them in bulk. I, in some ways, I'm like the dream shopper. I buy t-shirts in bulk, in black, and when I want to dye them, When they start to fade, throw them in a top loader with dye. There, you're welcome.

Because I hate buying the same thing. I literally will wear the same thing over and over again because I cannot stand. I can't stand trying to figure that stuff out. It's annoying. I hate shopping.

I hate it to death. I just want to wear the same thing every day and I'd be happy. But you guys would complain. I hear that. I hear it.

You're like, why don't you wear some color? Because I can't dress myself. And I won't hire a stylist. That's why.

So, anyway, long story short. Kids rebel. I get it. And so now he's not like that.

So I guess that to your point, Kim. They decided to go and be little Minions of the man because their parents were very opposite that. Gosh, they have to be disappointed. There's certain things I just wouldn't allow, right? I just won't allow on my house.

I would not have allowed it. I gotta say, I would not have allowed it to get that far. I'd be like, that's detrimental to your well-being. Knock it off. Like I tell I taught my kid about taxes.

Like when we gave when they would do work around the house, because I told you I didn't give allowances. And I would literally, they'd have to write the little check and they'd come to the bank of mom and I would give them after I took taxes out. and they were appalled. And I'm like, that's taxes. I'm like, don't vote Democrat then.

That's how I ran my and they were like oh But that's how we did it.

Some of my their friends' parents thought I was nuts, but you know what?

Now look at them. Mm-hmm. They're very responsible kids. They understand money. You can't expect that reality from media.

Exactly, but there's certain things I just will not allow. You know, I told my kids, I'm like, I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for someone that raises my taxes, if you vote for CRT and DEI, I will take it out on you in terms of how you are supported. That will expedite how soon you are out on your ass in the real world. There are consequences to elections. That's what I've told them.

I'm like, I'm not going to tell you how to vote, but I'll know. Because you are horrible liars. I will know.

So there's just some things I won't allow. Like if I was a boomer. I would kick the crap out of my kid if they were going to turn into like a minion for the man. If they were going to go out there, we want more guns. Government, shut up.

Oh my gosh! I would have beaten you to death in the street No way. There's just certain things I just will not allow because I'm the parent. It's a mom tatorship. There's no freedom in this house.

This isn't a republic. even acknowledge that it's a democracy. Come on. I just don't understand how the old hippies got millennials. Steve, you're the only one we like.

I don't get it. How does this happen? Your parents did it right, Kane. True. 'Cause your parents are boomers.

Yep. And they didn't raise you to be a yes man for the man? No, as a matter of fact, I never really. What did they do different? I never really got anything politically hammered into my head.

Until I at least showed some understanding of it, like in my teens, right? None of this was burdened. By, oh, unburdened by what has been. Oh my gosh, I hate you. I wasn't burdened by, as a kid, with.

You know, outrageous emotions and lack of understanding, and then trying to then fit in this political narrative. To me, it just doesn't work. Your emotions get too crazy. But when you get a little older, I think that's what it is. You don't want to get kids involved in politics too soon.

True. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can't stand that when people are like, Yeah, I can't do that. We've had, I've told you guys before, we've had like groups that have wanted. The kids to get involved in stuff, and especially the oldest, they're out and they're like, Oh, you should have him come and get involved in this.

And I'm like, You only, you only want him because you think it's because of his, you know, he's my kid. I'm like, He doesn't pay taxes. This kid doesn't have nothing. I'm like, I mean, he does, but no, he's not ready for this. I'm not putting him out there, it's not happening.

He's got to get tested. He's got to get tested more. But um I I just that is a thing that absolutely fascinates me with us. And I know we were talking, I didn't mean to totally go off into the, you know, I had all this whole other stuff, wokery, and we got to talk about, you know, gestos and all this other stuff. But.

I just, that absolutely fascinates me. It really does. All right, we uh we got to move because otherwise, they're we're gonna go to commercial and I won't be able to control it. If you have not changed the way that you buy meat yet, you should make the switch to Good Ranchers today. When you subscribe, Good Ranchers will give you one and a half pounds of free bacon in every box for a year.

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Well, at EPA, we've built environmental justice into our very DNA. And so, number one, we have some very concrete metrics that are attached to this $27 billion to be sure that disadvantaged communities and those who are disproportionately impacted have access to this capital. What? For the trees. What is that though, for real?

Like I'm wanting to know. Justice for the environment, Dan. But what does that mean? Like, people throw out these stupid words and they never mean what they actually intend on. meaning.

They never actually mean that. Hey, how about you fur focus like on actual justice? Like the criminals that are being repeatedly let go in these like majorly run democrat cities. I mean, that might be, you know, that might be something to consider. Just, you know, FYI might be something.

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You have said for months that House Republicans need to produce their plan. They did. You said they didn't think they had the votes. They had the votes. You probably don't have 60 votes for a clean debt ceiling increase.

So, is it incumbent upon you and the White House to negotiate a deal with spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling? These cuts, as we have pointed out as our hearings will, are so draconian. The American people don't want them, and we cannot, these are not even cuts. And this is not a plan. This is a hard right-wing wish list.

What does that even mean? It's not a hard right-wing wish list because if it was a hard right-wing wish list, the IRS would be defunded. The ATF would be defunded. I wouldn't be giving my taxes to the absolute scum of the earth, demonic, evil rat bastards that work at the agency that is the IRS, and you can take that with a red bow on it. I wouldn't be having to adhere to the ridiculous rules put out by the blank hole TF agency.

I wouldn't have to be doing any of this stuff. You know what? We wouldn't even be spending the amount of government money that we're spending. We wouldn't even have to be doing any of that. We wouldn't be sending another $300 billion to Ukraine.

If this was a right-wing wish list, there's a lot of stuff that I would have on here and a lot of stuff that I would have off. Chuck Schumer, I don't know what kind of crack he's hitting, if it's the specific rock that Hunter had, but no, that's not how any of this works. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of this, here, our second hour. Oh, Wednesday.

And With this, the debt ceiling, I keep reading all of this, this back and forth stuff about the machinations of Kevin McCarthy and what Republicans are going to do and whether or not they are able that they have the support from some of the Democrats in the House. How are they going to work on et cetera, et cetera? While all of this is happening, we have the. Eight days. Eight days for Title 42.

Title 42, you've got the. uh situation that we were talking about with With whatever Russia's going to use to try to justify. I think, I don't know if this whole drone thing that they came out with earlier today, as we talked about in the first hour, whether or not this drone attack from Ukraine, this awkwardly looking drone attack, that just decided out in full view of all their cameras to try to go at the presidential apartments, the Kremlin, or whatever, they're going to try to use that to justify something. Who knows? We have this going on, we have China going on, all of this stuff, and they're upset.

Because they can't get their entitlement spending. They're upset because people are pushing back on spending the godly, ungodly amount of money going into Ukraine that's being spent. I just and then in addition to it. You have Democrats threatening to remove security funding for the Supreme Court. Also, on on top of all of this, we Now wait a minute.

How are you... How are you figuring out? What How is this working? How are you figuring out what you're going to spend your money on, what you're not going to spend your money on, and you decide that this is one of the things you don't want to spend your money on? I don't know if you saw this.

Let me pull my piece up here. This was uh this Well, this morning. The story ram. And I saw it on Twitter first, and then I saw the r the Daily Signal had a piece on this. Uh because Ted Cruz apparently was the first to kind of blow the alarm on it, so to speak.

The senators, Democrat senators, are attempting to leverage the SCOTUS budget. they want an enforceable ethics code.

So they're fighting with Supreme Court budget for an ethics code. And you have the House Republicans fighting to not spend taxpayers into an even more insurmountable debt. This is how they prioritize what they want to spend their money on. Of all of the things I would think that you could use for leverage, and they decide Democrats in the Senate decide to use. the Supreme Court budget, which includes that's their security.

That's the security for the Supreme Court and I don't know if you remember or not. When Brett Kavanaugh was threatened. And the leak for the Roe leak came out. I mean, there were a number of of justices that had their lives threatened. And they've been going at Clarence Thomas.

They've been going at repo progressives, white progressives have had a race problem with Clarence Thomas for a long time. He they they treat him horribly. And they've been going at him since I was a kid. Since I was a child, they have been going At Clarence Thomas. I don't know if they've ever stopped.

They're going at him again. Because they're trying to act like ethics probes or whatever. There was a letter that was unanimously signed by all of the justices, including far left, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Kentanji Brown Jackson, all of them unanimously signed this letter denouncing this witch hunt into Clarence Thomas. But the left is relentless. They have a big problem with the black justice on the court.

You know what I mean? That's historical for them.

So They've and and I was watching some testimony from Josh Hawley on this. He was saying, you know, you you've ba you've I mean, you basically threatened them. You you had a an assassin, he says, that went to the home of of Justice Kavanaugh. Uh he says that you know, and and actually they were, you know, they were going to try to murder him. I mean, that's a I mean, he was arrested, what, just like a block away?

and he was going there with the intent of killing him. And Then they had the Supreme Court asked For an increase. to help protect the justices. Because they said they needed an expansion of protective activities. This, by the way, comes.

after you had that that leak Uh, that was right before Roe, and everyone remembers that. That oh my gosh, that was that was crazy. And so The the leak that was right before Roe, that I mean, really caused a lot of problems. There were threats, increased threats towards the justices. I mean, this was even there was even more after Kavanaugh.

And so And this is You know, this was the, what, a year later after all of this?

So now we're playing around with their funding. We're playing around with Supreme Court. Security funding. There was a piece that was out. Marriott Margaret Olihan had written about how the Dobbs leak had led to attacks on justices and pro-lifers, pro-life clinics.

I mean, how many times do you read a story about a pro-life clinic that's been like fire bombed, etcetera. And They said that it was the, what is it, the radical abortion, pro-abortion group, Ruth Send us, urging protesters. to go to the homes of six justices. three in Virginia, three in Maryland, and those were all of the Conservative justices on the court. And then you had shut down DC that was targeting people's homes.

Offering bounties for tips as to the justices' locations. I mean, they coordinated. They went to their houses. It wasn't just Kavanaugh. They targeted all of them.

And now, Democrats who created all of this.

Now, they want to play around with the security of the Supreme Court justices. I mean, what kind of signal does this send? Oh and I know what kind of signal that sends, but good heavens Now I wanted to get into a couple of other things too. While uh Because we're going to come back to this. Audio Soundbite 3.

The question. That was finally asked. at the press conference yesterday. This ongoing custody battle. with Hunter Biden and his Child, his love child, I guess, with London Roberts.

Listen to this. I wanted to ask about the trial going on in Arkansas with Hunter Biden and the child support. Are the president and personally monitoring that? And how come they haven't acknowledged the seven friendship? I'm not going to speak to that from here.

How come they haven't acknowledged the seventh grandchild? Oof. Oof. What B but why couldn't she speak to it from there? I'm curious, why why couldn't she speak to it from there?

The reason I ask is because they are so eager to use the pulpit for everything else, the dais for everything else. they he brings out his grandkids when it's convenient for him. He brings out the women in his family when it's convenient for him. He puts up his kids, six of his grandkids' stockings on the fireplace. and he runs on this uh perception that he's some sort of affable grandfather.

So, why can't she speak to it from there? I mean, when you look at the story It's it is heartbreaking. to have I mean, i this i he abandoned this little girl. This isn't about petty politics. This is also about Democrats talk this huge game.

About Caring for the single mother and caring for children, et cetera. And then when it comes down to it, what do you see? They he wants nothing to do with this child. What she's like, is she like three now? Three or four?

She's she's like two years older. Or maybe a year and a half older. I can't remember how much older she is than his, uh, son with his Instagram influencer wife that they were just married. But To ignore this little girl. Not only did he, he wants to ignore her, so first off, He Was actually fighting, he didn't want to pay child support.

And then they he didn't want to take cut he didn't want to claim her and then they had to drag him in for uh a court Demanded paternity test, which proved he was the father. Then they had to fight him to get him to pay child support. And then he's now he's trying to play the the part of the poor artist and say that. He can't afford it. He doesn't want to pay child support.

He lives, guys, he lives in a three-plus million-dollar mansion in Malibu. I. Met one of his Secret Service agents. At Shatcho. Was it Shotcho?

Yeah, was it Shatcho? And he came up And it said Secret Service Malibu and I knew immediately who who he didn't even have to tell me anything. I just said if he is uh respo I s I just asked if he is uh protecting anyone from the President's family in California. And all he said was, yes, ma'am. That was it.

He didn't say anything else.

So, I mean, you know immediately.

So, Hunter Biden lives in a Malibu mansion. I don't know if you've seen it. If you've seen pictures, it's gorgeous. I can't remember the square footage. It has like, what, five or six bedrooms, a huge gourmet kitchen.

It has a pool. It's like up on the hill.

So, like, when you stand in the backyard, according to all the photos, all you see is the ocean. It's really amazing. And then next door, they had to, and that's $20,000 to $25,000 a month that he pays for that house.

Next door, it's also like $25,000 a month that we have to pay for Secret Service to live next door to Hunter Biden so that they can protect him.

So they live in the house next door, and we, the taxpayers, pick up the lease on that. We pay for that per month. And he doesn't have to live in Malibu. They have no family in Malibu. He has no family in Malibu.

He just wants to live out there because that's where he thinks rich people live. Because as I've said, they're white trash. He thinks that that's where rich people live, is Malibu. I mean, it's like, you know, progressive mentality. And so he drives, he has a Porsche, Porsche panorama.

He also has, what's that six-figure electric car? Can't remember what it is. It's like some super. There's a lot of, it's a company that he apparently invested some of the Biden money, which is taxpayer money, some of this money in. And there's a lot of controversy.

It's this energy, green energy company that had a lot of problems and was going bankrupt. He was driving the six-figure. Electric supercar around, his Porsche. He lives in a mansion, and he has the audacity to go down there, hat in hand, in Arkansas, and act like he's too poor for his kid. Not only that, but he's trying to block her from taking his last name.

Now, a lot of people might say, Oh, well, you know, London Roberts is smart. I mean, why would you want the little girl to have his last name? I mean, that's problematic. I get it, but he's going to make millions of dollars trading on his last name. Why shouldn't his little girl?

And you know what? Here's the thing: the mom is simply arguing, and I'm happy that she's standing up to this guy. All of his other kids live a privileged lifestyle, right? One of his granddaughters, one of Hunter's kids, was literally living in the White House. When Vogue went over there to do a piece about her for their magazine, she told them that she was living in the White House prior to their wedding.

All of Hunter's kids have these privileged lives. And what the court will recognize is that this little girl, they do not draw a distinction. This little girl has to live the same lifestyle as all of these other kids.

So London Roberts is pushing that. He's got a pony up. He absolutely has to pony up here.

So, and what's what it's going to do? He's shooting himself in the foot. He's going to have to open all of his records. That's what the judge demanded this week. When you see judicial rot running rampant in American companies embracing insanity and wokery, you got to fight back.

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Open, right? How many times?

So now, the President of the United States, it was his mandate to demand that international travelers and federal employees get the injection. It wasn't the CDC. The CDC was going along with his edict.

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So that means Novik Djokovic is actually going to be able to come to the U.S. Open this year and finally compete.

Now, the requirement for international travelers for the VAX ends on May 11th. And he's been one of the most, he's the most high-profile athlete who's been uninjected. And he's missed all these competitions from this. But I'll remind you, and I say this because it's been misreported: it wasn't the CDC's mandate. This was Biden's mandate that the CDC followed.

I still see news articles that don't exactly have that correct.

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Do you guys remember TJ Ducklow? He sounds like a horrible rapper, but he's not. He's actually a former White House deputy press secretary. Do you remember how he got fired because he had all of these threatening and abusive remarks? This was literally within the first three to four months of Biden's term.

He was threatening and using horrible language to a political reporter. And so now he's being welcomed back in the fold. Very quietly, the White House is bringing him back. They think that he's a talented operative and he's paid for his mistake. Really?

Do you think so? Because I don't. I really don't. Let's see. So Jimmy Kimmel is being blasted because he allegedly, or sorry, Jimmy Fallon, he allegedly skipped the writer's strike.

The meeting before the writer's strike happened.

So, a lot of his staffers are coming out and saying, Oh, well, Jimmy Kimmel, or sorry, Jimmy Fallon, the same thing, had skipped the writer's strike meeting about pay. And so they're super mad at him right now. And they're saying that he's kind of hypocritical, et cetera, et cetera. We have a lot more on the way, including some media. These leaks, where are they from on Tucker Carlson?

Stick with us. 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'd get your podcasts. You assured Congress some time ago that the Hunter-Biden investigation would be conducted without any kind of political interference. And I wonder if you would believe that that is still the case, if that is still the case, that the investigation is not being interfered in any political way, since an agent from Mr. Lee's agency has now come forward claiming whistleblower status and alleging that there has been some kind of interference.

Yes, it's still the case. I stand by my testimony and I refer you to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, who is in charge of this case and capable of making any decisions that he feels are appropriate. Hmm.

So he's not going to sta so Garland's saying that he's standing by his testimony. as it relates to Hunter Biden. Yeah, what but what yeah, exactly what Kane is saying what does what does he mean by Interference. I mean, so this all comes down to this was uh yesterday.

Well, first off, welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash with you. bottom of the second hour. This These were from his remarks when he was talking about this long-running, the long-running, this has been going on for quite some time, federal investigation of Hunter Biden. And The IRS whistleblower was claiming in their With their accusations that there was a cover-up.

And so at this presser, Garland was asked about this complaint. and said that, you know, you assured Congress a while ago That the Hunter Biden investigation was going to be conducted. Without any kind of political interference. This was the question he asked. He's like, Is that still the case?

Are you still not interfering? Because The way that this so first off, collusion is different, yeah, collusion is different from interference. He I mean I think the correct question to ask is are you still colluding with him? Collisionist part. Part of it.

The interference comes when the DOJ and the FBI and everyone else and the intel agencies all got together and said, no, no, no. This story about all of this, because remember, the data, a lot of the data pertinent to this investigation came from these laptops. about his finances because the Investigation is of a financial matter. And you have the IRS looking at his dealings. This is actually the IRS doing something good.

Look at me. I'm telling. Actually, I still think they totally need to be defunded and abolished, but. You know, at least if you have to have them, at least they're looking at this. This is how bad it is, though.

Can I just reiterate how unbelievably bad it must be in an environment where a Hunter Biden can lie on a federal form to purchase a gun, a 4473, about being a crackhead? He can lie on a form, which is a felony. He has, I mean, I don't how many illegal abuses do you want to, how many abuses of the law do you want to count with him? And they protect him. Can you imagine how bad this must be?

If the IRS is still going through with this Investigation? Can you imagine? Because that must mean That there is something there. Right? Because they protect him with everything else.

Think about it, they absolute they're they've protected him with his Child custody. He's been living at the White House Or instead of his Malibu mansion, he's been at the White House for some time so he can avoid being subpoenaed. Can you imagine how ultimately bad this must be? If He's they can't they can't shield him from this ongoing investigation.

So the best they can do is garland getting out there and doing the dance. And so he was asked: you know, you promised Congress that this investigation is not going to have any political interference. Is that still the case? Because the whistle blower says there has been. Garland says, Oh, no, no, no, no.

Yes, I stand by my testimony. And that's when he said, I refer you to the District of Delaware. District Attorney, there, who's in charge of the case. He's going to, you know, make any, so he just kind of pushes it off.

So he did two things there. He pushed it off, and then he also tried to wash his hands of culpability. Oh, no, no, no, it's not me. I'm not overseeing this. You're going to have to ask the DA in Delaware.

You're going to have to ask that person. I I I I you know, I'm absolved of this case, I can't.

So, this has been the case has been going on for three years. And remember when the. the with the laptop, a lot of the information pertaining to the financial A lot of the financial part of this was on that laptop, and it had to do with the firm that he had created. With one of the with his uncle, Joe Biden's brother, the Seneca Seneca Falls thing. Their firm that was working with China getting in gobs of money and then not properly disclosing all of this and not claiming all of it either.

That's what this is all about. Which then makes me think, you know, it doesn't matter who you are at the end of the day if it comes down to the government, you know, making their nut, right? Mm-hmm. So The whistleblower was saying that, yeah, you know what? There has been preferential treatment and false testimony, and the false testimony came from Miranda Garland.

Oh, I believe it. And Merrick Garland's like, No, not me. Totally not me. I didn't do this. This whole thing began in 2018, the Hunter Biden investigation, even before Joe Biden was in office.

They just got more information from that laptop when the laptops came over. That's how you knew it was his laptop. That's why conservatives felt confident, and some other people who weren't conservative felt confident in saying that because the FBI took it. And a lot of the data that was on that also became part of this investigation that started in 2018 into his finances.

So. They I mean this was They took it and they, that's what this was, yeah, it was entered into record in Congress, et cetera. The media worked definitely in suppressing this and interfering with it, and big tech did too. I mean, we don't need to go over all of that, but I. I just Just think about this because Under I want to go back for a minute to uh Paul Manafort.

Do you remember what he was convicted of?

So he had Farah. Violations Foreign Agents Registration Act violations. They said that he had some tax fraud and bank fraud. And they had he had a lower witness tampering charge.

Now He was convicted for all of these things. Paul Manafort was not, I'm not saying he was an innocent victim. What I'm saying is look at the disparity in diff in treatment between him and Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden. has done the exact same things.

I would even argue to a worse extent. He faces fair allegations because of what he did when he was on the board of barisma. Because Foreign Agents Registration Act, if you are representing a foreign entity or working with an entity, That's headquartered in a foreign company or a foreign country, and you're trying to gain influence. With US officials and lawmakers, and you're effectively lobbying, you have to register as a foreign agent. And so Paul Manafort was found guilty of not doing that.

And so, by working for this Ukrainian gas company, he got up to, he's got millions of dollars for this. He faces these allegations of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I mean, and that's obvious. I mean, we have the receipts there. I mean, for crying out loud, you had Hunt you had Joe Biden who was there visiting Ukraine and they were and he's in the there's evidence in these emails of him discussing his son's board appointment, et cetera.

And so He's Was, I mean, I don't know how you skirt this. He's being so protected. There's your interference. And then, of course, he's under investigation for the tax fraud. And that was announced.

That separate one was announced after Uh 2020.

So They're saying, no, it's possible tax fraud. It's just these overseas business dealings. It's China. It's all China. But he's out walking around living his best life.

Knocking up dancers and then refusing to take responsibility for his children. Which just told how much his paintings sell for what? Five figures? I think the lowest one was two hundred and twenty five thousand. On average, you're like 500,000 a pop.

Oh, but he's too broke. to pay child support guys. It's too broke. He's going to ultimately take. I mean, the biggest, the weakest spot in this family is him.

Yeah. I mean, the whole family's a mess. The whole family, the uncle. Joe Biden himself His daughter, a niece, I mean, the sun. Oh my gosh.

It is, it's like the wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia. Oh my gosh. The whole family's a mess. He's the worst though. He's the worst because He thought that no one would care.

that he wasn't respectable. Turns out they still do.

So Garland's part in this. At some point is going to come out. His Untruthfulness in all of these hearings at some point is going to come out. Just it's just a question of when. All right, as for media, have you seen these leaks?

So, Media Matters has been dropping leaks. Have you seen this? I think the leaks, we talked a little bit about it the other day, the yummy one. They came out with a couple of other ones where he. Uh apparently Has funny conversations with some of his colleagues and some of the producers, jokes with some of the producers.

He literally says like nothing horrific at all, whatsoever. And I guess, you know, they're trying to tarnish his image with us. Like how he criticized Fox in one video for how they make it difficult to access Fox Nation. He wasn't actually going after the content. He was saying that it was difficult to find.

He was talking about the ease of use for the website, which he's being honest about it. And, and, you know, I mean, these aren't like any. This isn't anything that here's the thing that I want people to understand.

So, all of this stuff, when you watch the videos, you have the hair and makeup person who's there. This is just he's on a hot mic, the camera's rolling, they're testing the shots. You know, they're looking at the IRS, they're trying to, you know, to to to map out their shots for the show. And This is all all this video feed from the studio. runs through the cables all the way back into the big old control room.

And you have people there in the control room that You know, they if it's live to tape, meaning they'll they'll treat it like a live show and they record it to tape. These things are never published online. The videos that they do, this kind of stuff like this, is never published online. It's not available anywhere. It's not Made like a blooper reel.

It's none of that. It's just them sitting there getting ready to do the show. kind of going back and forth, having casual conversation and getting ready to start. Every single programme has things they did they'd operate like this. And I know everybody's focusing on media matters.

And asking Well, you know, Media Matters, they think that this is gonna hurt Tucker Carlson. It's just it just actually makes him more endearing. 'Cause I think he's hysterical. And then he told at one point, he goes, Hey, Media Matters, for America, go blank yourself. I mean we do that here, except we do it on air.

But I still don't and then he had a joke about uh Bill O'Reilly. with his uh blanket we'll do it live which became a meme. It's like one of the first viral videos. And Like he says, like, for instance, in one point, he says, I can never assess my appearance. I wait for my post-menopausal fans to weigh in on that.

And what is it? Like, what, what's wrong with it? Yeah, what is wrong with him saying what he's saying? And Media Matters acts like this is, oh my gosh. But again, here's the thing.

This is a feed of what's happening on set that goes back through the control room. Media Matters doesn't work in Fox. Where's this video coming from? How did Media Matters get this video? I know, I'm just, I'm going to lay that out there.

Think about. Who gave them the video? Who would have it first? I mean. Yeah, it would be like somebody at the first.

On commercial break. 'Cause we oh my gosh, we make fun of horrifically of people. Um it would be like Somebody taking us, like, I mean, some of the people we made fun of. Oh my gosh. Or we'll.

Or it's like a really weird conversation about aliens. It'd be like somebody taking that and then giving it to Media Matters. It's not, you know what I mean? It's not like public. It's not like it's released online on social media somewhere.

Someone had to take this footage and give it to Media Matters. Who are the only people that would have access to it, though Cain?

Well, the source. Would be one. And the sources. Hmm.

Or the first and which one are you talking about? Oh, yeah, Fox and Tucker. Yeah. Now then you have to ask yourself: is this an errant producer? Who's doing this?

Because not everyone is ideologically uniform there. Is it an errant producer that's doing this, or is it a direction of the network? Either is possible. I'm just I'm curious about this. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

It's time for Florida Man. This is the most amazing headline ever.

So, this, I know I said that, okay, I know I said this about two other Florida man stories. This actually is, okay, this is it. A man arguing with a parrot was pulled over for erratic driving in Clearwater, Florida. This is a real story, I swear to you. There's even a photo that the troopers have with the parrot.

Florida Highway Patrol received numerous calls about a guy driving erratically. And they were like, oh my gosh, she's probably intoxicated. This was Saturday night in Clearwater. They located the car near Clearwater Beach and they pulled it over. Yeah.

I swear to you, this is true. I'm not making this up. When they approached the car, they found a man and his parrot having an argument. You know, typical Saturday night. The parrot became angry because it wanted to go home, but the man wanted to go to Clearwater Beach.

The argument distracted the man, causing him to drive erratically, said Troopers. They said that they successfully De-escalated the situation and resolved the standoff. They didn't say who won the argument. He was literally, so just to recap, a Florida man was literally driving erratically because he was arguing with his parrot. And it distracted him.

I want a parrot now. It's my first thought. I want a parrot. Argue with it. Just to argue with it.

Can you imagine? And I could bring it in here some days. How amazing would that be? Yeah, you are wrong, parrot. Yes.

Oh, you hear all these stories. I really want one now. I swear to you, I'm gonna look into this. Do they get lice though? I don't like that.

I don't know. Don't they? I'm sure they did.

Okay, I just, but still, I want one. I mean, that's amazing. My dog can't talk back to me, but this bird can.

Okay, so here's a Florida woman. She sued a gay dudes' resort because they wouldn't let her book a room. And she doesn't like their That b because she's not a gay dude. Um It wasn't clothing optional for her. You know what I mean?

Like, she had to be clothed. Amina Shaudry filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations saying that it was discriminatory and they needed to be reversed. I just don't know why you'd want to go to that sausage party like that. Like, why? Why would you do that?

And it was she placed flyers questioning their all-mail policy and she was saying that it was discriminatory. T lady, you're not gonna like get a a a Boyfriend there. I d I just don't know if that's what you think is happening. This is not It's not how that's going to work for you. Stay with us, we have another hour on the way.

Jobs. For blue-collar workers in this nation are valuable resources. The livelihood and well-being of American families are valuable resources. The ability of America to have our own industry and not be dependent on China is a valuable resource. Why should those things for millions of Americans be sacrificed in favor of your agenda for radical climate change.

Senator, I know that there's like 1.9 jobs for every American in the country right now, so I know there's a lot of jobs. Mm-hmm. You're telling me we've got too many jobs in the country?

Well, I'm saying that we don't have enough people. That's why we are having a hard time finding folks to work at our department. What? Is that the reason? Did she just say that?

Oval spaced out, I'm on some allergy meds. I'm hoping to wind those down here this month.

So and sometimes it just makes you feel like, hey. Yeah. Is that what's happening here? I don't know. I'm really confused.

'Cause I it sounded like Kane. It sounded like she said. Been here in this audio that there's just too many jobs for blue-collar workers out there, and we just don't have enough blue-collar workers. Just don't have enough.

So it sounded like she said.

So there you go. Welcome back to the show. I didn't even know. Dana Lash here, you're bemused cremudgeon. Dab Holland, that was some sound bites yesterday.

Whoo, boy. She, um She didn't know a lot. I don't know how else to put it. She seemed clueless on a number of things, and that wasn't the only thing. Because first off, I just want to say people love jobs.

You guys ruin the economy. And honestly, There yes, there are a lot of I mean, I know 'cause I'm trying to get a con I'm trying to get concrete poured. Oh my gosh. You know it's like a four month away for concrete? Did y'all know that?

Oh my gosh, we're expanding the studio and doing all of this stuff, and you would not believe how it's still, people are still dealing with it. Thanks, Biden. Thanks, Democrats, and any Republicans who went along with it. Good heavens.

So She also, where's this other sound bite at? Because she, Josh Hawley, by the way. Gave me. Having a conversation with your toddler vibes. From this.

Because there I need to oh man, audio sound by two. Had my jaw on my desk. Like, legit, I actually had my mouth gaping open listening. I watched this clip yesterday. Audio Soundbite 2.

This is still Deb Holland, the Interior Secretary. She's supposed to know these things. Listen to this. On the subject of the sweeping mandates related to electric vehicles that the Biden administration has imposed, including now for our military. The metals needed to make the lithium-ion batteries in those vehicles are, of course, lithium, nickel, graphite and cobalt.

Now Can you tell me what nation is the largest producer of refined lithium in the world? No, I can't. It's China. Can you tell me which nation is the largest producer of refined cobalt in the world? No, Senator.

It's China. Do you know what nation is the largest exporter of natural graphite to the United States globally? No, Senator. So, in all of these instances, these mandates your decision to. trade off our energy security in favor of a radical climate change agenda.

is making us more and more dependent on China, and at the same time, You are the Denying. Mining, blocking mining, blocking permits for mines in this country that would allow us to develop nickel and copper and cobalt. Why? Why block the development of these resources in our own nation? in favor of making us dependent on China.

Senator, are you referring to the boundary waters? I'm referring to the Twin Metals Mine in Minnesota, I think, that Senator Bross was just asking about. Yes, near the Boundary Waters, which is an iconic place and, of course, a very valuable ecological system to many. Plants, animals, species. Um So Deb Holland, she's the Interior Secretary.

And one of the jobs of the Interior Secretary is the management of resources. And she has been. part of the administration that has been vocally against Or vocally for the EV stuff, I should say. Promotions up, promoting EV, etc., etc., etc. And Apparently she doesn't realize Or she I I d I honestly, can I just say, I don't think that she's qualified for the job.

Especially with that. Demonstration of knowledge. These are incredibly important things. The Interior Secretary literally manages. The resources of the United States.

And if you're dealing with the resources of the United States, including You know, lithium and cobalt, and understanding how much we have and how much can even be extracted, and you know, what the safe practices for extraction are, etc., etc., etc. Which we don't even have anything up right now, so it's a moot point. But Part of that also is understanding the importance of those materials as it relates to national security. And knowing what other countries are kind of leveraging their. ability and they're they're uh superior amount of resource of those minerals.

And their ability to extract them, how that can become a national security issue, and how that can be leveraged in order to push. Subjugation of the United States, and she seems wholly ignorant of that, which is terrifying because that's part of her job. It's like they spent, they made a bigger deal. I get it. They were like, oh my gosh, first Native American.

Maybe you should have also focused on, you know. Does she know what she's supposed to be doing in this position? It's like Pete Buttigieg. He gets to be Department of Transport Secretary of Transportation. Why?

Because he has sex with dudes. He's gay. Because he knows nothing about transportation. You can get mad at the accurate characterization of that because I put it in unvarnished terms, but that's the reality of it. He was a diversity hire.

He knows nothing about his job. He left it like months into i his first year. And he took all this time off. And then according to. Uh Uh Other members of even Democrats, other lawmakers, he was ignoring all requests for discussion, information, et cetera, when we are dealing with the supply chain crisis and he's MIA.

So yeah, the administration like didn't focus so much on merit. when they were figuring out Clearly. Uh who's doing what in the administration. They didn't really focus so much on merit, apparently. But she finally was forced to acknowledge that the reliance of Biden's green agenda on these materials that.

are monopolized by China. further strengthens China. Because Of the rare earth mining, I know that one of the lawmakers said it was 63%. I've actually read where it's upwards of like 71%. The majority of it, regardless, takes place in China.

And that By obsessing and forcing everyone to move to renewables, you are without any ability. To develop it here within the United States on our own, we do not have any working rare earth element mine at all whatsoever in the United States, and we're years away from having one up. One That you are developing an over-reliance upon a geopolitical foe. And that's a very scary thing. Even in the best of times, if everyone was best friends, you would still want to be self sufficient in the event that that situation changed.

This is just common sense. I feel like I would kick the crap out of these people at risk. The game. Oh my gosh. This is like basic one-on-one government stuff.

And the fact that this has to be explained to her? It's just wild. It really it's just really wild to me.

So I don't know. I That was troubling to hear that because it seems like it's like the administration doesn't take it seriously. But you're gonna take it seriously. You're going to take it seriously if you have to be forced into buying an EV and you can't afford it. You're gonna take it seriously?

When your energy bills increase, because we're strangling off fossil fuels, which are renewable, it's literally renewable. I mean, that's these are all this is a serious issue. Yeah, and then when you I don't even want to talk about when you gotta replace the batteries in your E V because then it's gonna be more than the E V is. I mean, it's. I don't, it's not better for the environment.

It's not. Speaking of which, did you, Kane share the story?

So in New York. beginning in twenty twenty six. They're going to ban. Natural gas stoves and furnaces. in most new construction.

Yeah. It doesn't get cold up there at all, does it? New York, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

They it's the first statewide ban. That's passed in the United States. They're going to phase in the mandate beginning in 2026. Any new construction of buildings seven stories or less.

Sorry. Fewer than seven stories. Can we write proper headlines, people? Oh my gosh. Media seven buildings of seven stories or less.

If you can count it, it's fewer. If you can't count it, then it's less. You know, this is what separates us. from like Dogs. Is not only our speaking ability and our posable thumbs, but the idea that we understand the difference between fewer and less.

I just hate when journalists don't do this properly. It really angers me.

next to improperly using the phrase beg the question. Nothing irritates me more. I'm sorry, but it like it totally just removes my suspension of disbelief in sharing the story with you. Inter bad grammar. Anyway.

So the Associated Press says that the law negotiated between the New York governor. and all her other Democrats in the legislature and the state budget, they are passing these all other states, by the way, just to let you know, New York won't be the isn't going to be alone for long. Other states are con are looking at doing this. They're going to phase in the elimination of fossil fuel heating devices. When newly constructed buildings, everything has to have electric-powered induction ranges and heat pumps.

The people mandating this have are not cooks or bakers. I will, if they do this, I will literally make the government. come to my house and arrest me and take out my stove. And then, because Texas is a castle doctrine state, I will literally. like make war over my gas range.

because electric stoves are garbage. They are garbage and they heat unevenly and they're horrible tools of Satan. There you go. I hate them to death. I would rather cook over an open camp fire And bake in some rudimentary construction around that.

than use an electric stove. You might think that I'm being a little Overdramatic. I like to cook and bake. I hate electric stoves. I had mine ripped out.

I had her an electric stub and I ripped it out. Yes, I did. And destroyed it in the backyard like office space. Uh Third in my driveway. Does that count?

I was like, this is this is trash. I ripped it straight the hell out of my kitchen. Put a good old gas range in there. I don't need anything to be like: press a button and it'll bake your cookies for you. Shut up.

Like, who does that? This isn't the Jetsons. I don't want any fancy anything on it. I don't need any digital displays. I don't need it to tweet for me.

I don't need it to do any of this stupid stuff. I just ride the temperature. I watch it. I do all of that. I can't, I mean, nothing gets me.

This is one of the things I can talk for 5,000 hours about. Anyone who cooks, I can hear you. If you're real quiet and you listen. You can hear a bunch of people out there going, mm-hmm, mmm. Mm-hmm, that's right.

You can hear it. Those with my cooks and bakers out there. Yeah, that's what they're not going to be the only state for long doing this. We've got to roll. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Okay, so um Wow. In um South Shore, Chicago, a ten-year-old carjacker struck. Can you believe this?

Somebody snatched keys from a victim's hand and drove away with their vehicle. Uh, this was Thursday of last week. The suspect was described as only someone wearing a furry jacket with a red and black ski mask, but then they uh the Yeah, because 30 minutes later, literally a few hundred feet away, the would-be carjacker opened a driver's doors. They tried to park. And the kid, the police said the offender's 10.

He punched the driver in the face and tried to take the car. The hijacking failed. He's five feet seven and no other weapon. He didn't have a weapon, but oh my gosh, 10 years old. And he's out there carjacking.

I oh my gosh, I can't even big lots manager. In California, two of them are fired because they confronted a shoplifter outside of the store as they tried to get. The cart back that he used to boost 15 jugs of laundry detergent.

So it's now a former big lots manager. She says she was fired because she followed a shoplifter out of her Southern California store to retrieve a cart. And the 52-year-old says she and another manager were fired. Because they, this, this person stole 15 jugs of Tide Pods, and she said she was fired a week after the incident. And this was in, yeah, in California.

I, I mean, she's like, for Christmas, we got 40 brand new carts. She says it's March and we're down to five. We were told no carts are to leave the store whatsoever, no matter what. Customers are not allowed to take them, she said. And so she went to get the cart, and yeah, she ended up getting that's lame.

That is absolutely like, wait a minute, how are you going to sit here and tell your employees, yeah, you can't let these leave for no, you know, under no reason at all, whatsoever? Uh and then when they actually go to Yeah, stop it. Then they are fired. That's so stupid. Environmental groups sue the FAA over SpaceX's Texas rocket launch.

Shut up. There. They're mad. They said that because it went over 24 miles, it exploded over the Gulf of Mexico. And it's the Center for Biological Diversity.

They said they're suing because they said the FAA did not consider the environmental impacts. Shut up, yes, they did. They asked the court to throw out the five-year license that the FAA granted to SpaceX. They hate them. They absolutely hate them.

I think the hot air that this group is putting into the atmosphere should be fine. Really, ultimately. I would rather argue with the parrot like we had in the Florida dude story than I would talk to any of these people. And Oregon is looking to decriminalize homeless encampments and they're allowing the homeless to sue for $1,000 if they're told to leave. That's going to solve the problem, won't it?

Stick with us. 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. Yeah, I mean Eddie, I think part of the reason I haven't covered a ton of the DeSantis political fortune stories is because I I like you, I'm confused.

You know, in in my gut, like who am I rooting for? They're two tarantulas, two scorpions in a bowl, and if they kill each other, who cares? But What the hell kind of analogy is that? It's like two tarantulas in a bowl. It's like two scorpions in a bowl.

It's like two bugs. That looks scary in a bowl. They're fighting each other. As opposed to the current administration, it was like two gummy bears in a bull. That's what they are.

Gummy bears are at least like innocent, and some of them taste good. Yes. Some of them aren't at all sentient or smart. They don't forget where they are. And, you know, can't even pronounce Korean Abdul Jabbar's name.

Welcome back to the. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Bottom of this third hour. My goodness.

So that was Uh hold up, don't tell me, don't tell me, I forgot Nicole Wallace. They're like two tarantulas symbol bugs, spiders, whatever. Praying mantises in a bowl. Where does that? Can I just, I know, I'm going to move past it in a minute.

Just give me, just indulge me for like 30 seconds. I've never heard of that saying. She just. Was What? That's so goofy.

So, you're telling me that you don't. I don't believe people when they say they don't have preferences. Yes, you do.

Now, look, there's a difference between saying that you have a preference. And also that Uh You also belie that you'd also support whoever's on the ticket for the GOP. I mean, clearly we all realize this, right? We're talking about the primary, which some people have a difficulty in grasping. Come on.

But for her to say this, this is the thing. They don't know. I think this is kind of funny. I know that it really aggravates a lot of my friends who work on campaigns because they. Are fighting, all fighting right now.

I know some people in the DeSantis th thing. I know a couple of people in the Trump thing, the two good people that he's got. Um that are working with him. And I hate seeing everybody go at it. But you have to realize something.

This is what happens in DC. When people work on different campaigns, they hate each other. until the campaign's over and then it's like nothing happened. It is the only industry where men and women all act like dudes. Do you know what I mean?

So, like, dudes can fight and get mad at each other and then have a beer. Girls will hold a grudge for life. You stole my hair bret in fourth grade. I ain't yet forgot it. I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Oh, dude, yes. Chicks are so like this. And even if they're nice to your face, they're holding a grudge deep inside. I promise you. Like, so don't ever fall off a ship and drown.

They'll never throw you a life raft with them. Don't ever go on a boat with them. I'm just saying. Dudes will are will like get over it. You know what I mean?

They get over it and they have a beer. Chicks are not like that. But this industry out of both men and women you makes makes you more like a dude. Because you fight during a primary and then you get over it. And then voters are like, wait a minute, you guys hated each other.

We all hated each other. What happened? You gotta realize they don't hate each other and it's also a job. I know it's weird. It's a weird industry.

That's why I don't live in D.C. It's why I don't go to New York. It's why I'm just. I want to stay in Texas. I just.

Because you can't keep up with the drama. It's tiring. It's exhausting. It is one of the most. like and ridiculous.

It makes like soap operas look tame. Everybody's stuffano, you know, I mean Stefano.

So my point is that the media doesn't know what to do right now. Because you have a guy who's announced And a guy who hasn't announced Because I think he's trying to figure out if he wants it that if he wants it badly enough. I always kind of like the people who don't want the job for the job. I there's s an attractiveness in that. But we'll see what happens.

But they don't know what to do.

So they're trying to game it. They want Trump. And I know this is not a slight on him. Can we be honest about this? Because if I don't share this information with you, I feel like.

I am setting you up to fail. Or, I'm setting you up to have unrealistic expectations. This is completely separate from whether or not you like Trump. That's not what is at issue here. We're talking about polling and electability with the independents.

I know. I know you're like, not those damn independents. I know, right? I know. They're You guys, I They're like the weird house guests that you don't know how to deal with.

You know what I'm saying? They're the weird people where it's like, I'm gonna invite you, but I don't know where to set you. Because nobody knows how to deal with you. That's like that. I get it.

And you're trying to strategize and you're trying to figure things out, but I gotta tell you. I'm just looking at the polling. I'm warning people, we saw this come up in 2018. And it really hit in 2020. One of the problems that the Trump campaign has is they.

Don't know how to run a general election.

Now, wait, hear me out. I know, because they won 2016, and you're saying Dana, but The reason being is because they were running, they had a, it was like a mulligan almost, they were running against the worst Democrat you could have ever run ever. People, Democrats who were voting for Trump. Did it was a hate vote against Hillary. That is real.

I will never forget looking at the data that was coming in. I was at Fox that night. I was up in New York City. I was sitting there with Mike Huckabee. Uh w and uh Brett Baer And I mean, the green room was packed.

We were all looking at the exit polling data. And you have I'm trying to remember what state it was. It was like something like a thirty one percent approval. It was so bad. It was so bad.

People hated her. These were Democrats that hated her. They ran the worst candidate you could have ever run.

So It made it easier for him. And I think it would have been like that for any politician. Also, Voters Had this burst of, we're not going to take this BS anymore, energy. And so both of those things coincided. And in 2018, The midterm election was a little rockier.

And then, because Trump took the blue, he burst through the blue wall in 2016, and those are the states, Northeast states. that have always reliably voted Democrat. But then in 2020 it was lost again. And the problem with 2020 is that they ran a primary campaign in a general. Meaning You have to finesse your messaging and your electioneering and your the way that you're presenting policy.

You don't water policy down. You Make the message more you you you change the message and finesse it. To include independence. Does that make sense?

So, they don't feel as though you're only campaigning to your base. And unfortunately, that is the thing that had, that did come into play in 2020. And people, some of the independents, they were tired of the drama, they were tired of all this. I say this because I feel like he's not learning this. Everybody, you cannot run a primary in a general.

Now when I look at There are three new polls out. One of them just came out. And it shows. Uh there's one from AJ C. And in Georgia, it shows DeSantis.

It measures up DeSantis against Biden and Trump against Biden. Biden's forty three forty two over Trump. DeSantis is 46. 41 over Biden. And this goes through a couple of other polls, some national surveys about independence.

And the reason I bring this up is because You Have to con when you look at who is actually competitive against Biden right now. And we're still pretty far out from the election, so anything could happen. But right now... Uh Trump is is uh I think that's why they want him to run, because he is super competitive with Biden. Biden's less so with DeSantos.

And you've got, and him lurching left. There's a difference between being moderate and then kind of going left with like attacks and stuff. hurts him more with those independents.

So I see him making mistakes. These are like rookie mistakes. That's why I'm really heavily critical of the people that he's got advising him. because they're making mistakes that are gonna cost them a campaign. And I bring this up because the media does not know what to do.

They see this stuff. They want Trump because when you look at voters, and there have been two surveys to this, and they've been of registered voters, both of them.

So that is fairly reliable. One of them was I think it was like plus two Democrats, which isn't that much of a honestly over sampling. If it was like plus four or five, they'd be different. But ultimately, what they both showed, and I've sent these out to you in your email prep newsletters. But what they showed is that The when you're looking at um voters having a choice if they're gonna do another Biden or Trump.

Race they're gonna they're gonna go with Biden. And you're going to see a replay of 2020, the results.

So That's just the way everything stands right now.

Now, we're a year out, a year or so out, so there's time. I mean, a lot of things can happen. But One of the reasons that you have to look at this information is because if you actually are wanting to win something, you need to look at where the weak spots are and do something to course correct. Otherwise, you're going to end up with the same results.

Now the media sees all this and I think that's why they are Focusing more ire right now on DeSantis than Trump. Because they want to protect the individual that right now, by poll measure, is more competitive with Biden. And so they don't but they don't know what to do. They have two people here. And they have to be careful too, they have to be careful in attacking one more so than the other.

Because then they're going to set one up to look anti-media. I mean, no matter what they did, so they're going to catch 22. If this was the point all along, it's the most Machiavellian and brilliant thing I've ever seen, but I don't think it is.

Now, Trump said that he is thinking of sitting out some of the debates. If there's any primary debate, primary debates, he said he's going to sit them out. This is also bad for him. And this was one of the headlines that came in last night. One of the reasons that this is also bad for him.

is if he chooses to start sitting out these debates. That's not a power move. It'll look like number one. that he is resistant for reason. Maybe, is he worried about, you know, I mean, it's you.

This is a guy who loves debating people. It looks out of character. But number two, here's where the tactical error is. If he sits out the debates, say that DeSantis announces and say he chooses to run and he's up on stage with the Nikki Haleys and all of that. They're all gonna gang up on him.

And he is immediately he will immediately look like the anti-establishment candidate. default. Trump will have difficulty in countering that if he then decides, okay, well, now I'll get in. And I'll take it head on in a debate. That's going to look troublesome.

He and then he'll risk setting up DeSantis at a debate looking as though Which I think, I mean, for crying out loud, DeSantis founded the F House Freedom Caucus. That's literally the Tea Party Caucus. I think it's ridiculous when people say he's a rhino or he's an establishment. It's just dumb. I mean, I'm sorry, but it is.

It's just dumb. It's like St. Thomas Massey's establishment. Come on. But He makes him look like He s he allows him to steal that self-proclaimed mantle for himself.

It's bad tactically. That's why I'm like, who's advising him? It is so weird to see people. Make Bad moves like this at this level. It is so frustrating.

You know what it's like? Have you ever watched those videos of people trying to parallel park a car? And it's so frustrating, and you're just like, oh my gosh, will you cut it, cut the weed, and you just get so mad. That's what I feel like watching this. It is so frustrating.

And you can't talk to these people. And I know I'm not going to name names because I'm still friendly with some of them. But I just know some of them are in over their head. And they are not going to listen to any advice. because they're so high on power right and they we are advising this campaign.

They don't want to listen to any advice. They believe that it is like some sort like they were selected by the hand of God for this particular position. Thus, they require no consultation or advice.

Okay, you gotta get over that real quick 'cause you're hurting your principal that you're supposed to be advising. It's incredibly frustrating to watch this stuff.

So the swing states In every single swing state where there's been a survey. DeSantis has been leading in any match up. And and this is like him leading over Trump when it's a head on head DeSantis Biden or Trump Biden. Uh and I'm just saying uh that is They got it. The Trump camp has got to figure this out.

And those ads, the pudding cup ads, that's not going to do it. That is not going to he needs to start running on his accomplishments. I don't know why he's. I mean, I could pull my hair out. Why is he not doing this?

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Sometimes they put stuff on Facebook that you won't see. I don't know, it's different all over. Like, we got Notes, we got SubSec, we got Facebook, we got YouTube, all of that good stuff. I still want to pair it. I keep going back to that Florida man story.

That actually is my favorite story ever. I think that's my favorite Florida man story of all time. The guy if you missed it, we had the story of this guy who got pulled over because he was arguing with his parrot. I'm not making this up. The troopers actually took a picture with a parrot.

He got distracted. He was having a quarrel. with his parrot The parrot wanted to go home, the man didn't want to go home. I'm like, were they a thing? Like, what's going on here?

All right, today's stupidity, Kane. All right, so we've been talking about the banning of gas stoves. New York State. And 2026, new construction will not, at least residential, will not have gas stoves. This is Kathy Hochl out there selling this whole idea.

Well, we, just like we had a go from a long time ago, can transition from coal as your energy source. We do have to transition. There are clean energy alternatives. It's going to take time. And I want to make sure that New Yorkers.

Don't get hit hard for the cost, so we're going to roll this out, but new buildings that are going up. They can find out, they can go electric, they can do heat popping. Oh my gosh, said some, like, you don't cook, you don't bake. That's another reason not to live in New York. Honestly.

Another reason not to live in that state. All right, folks, that does it. For us. Today. And make sure again you go sign up for Substack Chapter and Verse.

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