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Teixeira is an employee of the United States Air Force National Guard. FBI agents took Texira into custody earlier this afternoon. without incident. He will have an initial appearance at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

I want to thank the FBI. Justice Department prosecutors, and our colleagues at the Department of Defense. for their diligent work on this case. This investigation is ongoing. We will share more information at the appropriate time.

So, that is A. G. Merritt Garland. Who was explaining the arrest of this 21-year-old who was uh who was placed into custody because of that. Pentagon leak.

And it was weird. I was watching some I saw some of the footage. He was like sitting on his deck reading stuff. before they rolled up and put him under arrest. And it seemed like a pretty uneventful.

arrest. New York Times was there even before law enforcement. Welcome to the program. Happy Friday to you. Dana Lash here with you.

And we're going to break this down. We've got a bunch of stuff to break down: some foreign policy, et cetera. And you can enjoy. This is kind of like the calm and the storm before Congress comes back, because that's why it seems like a little quieter, because the House is out, because they're out for now. And then there's a whole bunch of stuff, debt ceiling, all kinds of stuff that everybody gets to fight over.

Yay! It's a summer of fighting over debt ceiling.

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So a quick thing on this guy. Because I'm um I'm torn, but I'm not torn. And here's my line of thinking on this. With the Edward Snowden thing. Like, one of the reasons that I and I think others were critical of the Snowden thing is because.

There was troop safety and security that was compromised, in addition to a couple of other things. And I have said prior, That if you're going to be a whistleblower, so to speak, and I don't think that that's what this guy necessarily was going for. I mean, I don't think he I don't think he was going to be like as a Whistleblower. I mean, you know, maybe stuff will come out and that will, you know, seem like. you know, that's the case, but It doesn't seem like that's the case.

But there, I mean, if you're going to try to blow the whistle on something, I mean, there are. A million ways. There are pathways to go and bring information into. the public you know public knowledge. There are ways to do it, right?

I mean, you have a number of different ways that you can go and you can bring stuff up to people if you're you know con if you're concerned about it. You have the various committees within the House and then Senate. And this guy didn't do that. Apparently, he was just like posting. these documents online.

Um I I mean for like what I think they said a year. For like a full, I think it was over a year. He was posting stuff and talking about classified stuff online for a long time. And The apparently was totally not ignored. I mean, I guess the military didn't know.

Lloyd Austin was saying that, which I thought was funny. The government's gonna have to crack down on social media channels. They're gonna have to, guys, they're gonna have to, government's gonna have to crack down a little bit on this. They're gonna have to go and look at things like Discord and chats and things like this.

So my first thought was, so wait, so you're you're gonna spy on people Because you lost track of classified documents. That's literally what they're saying. It came from NBC last night. The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms. after all of this.

And again, my thought was that, okay. I mean, because they failed to realize that classified Pentagon documents were circulating online for weeks. Hmm. Just curious. Just you know cure.

So they're they've are looking to I guess They think it's easier to just surveil all discussions online.

Okay, that makes all the sense in the world. Sure, whatever. But this, like I said, This you know this this person This guy. He didn't follow the path of a whistleblower. Is there anything there to even blow the whistle on?

A lot of this stuff. I to me seemed kind of like a nothing burger. And some people are saying that, oh, well, he's showing everyone that the United States is lying about. You know, what's actually happening in Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera. I don't think anyone thought that the United States or anybody else has been telling the truth, if we're being honest about it, right?

No one thought that anybody was telling the truth. I didn't. I mean, there's certain things in there that were confirmed from suspicions that we had, but.

So I'm just I'm kinda d I I'm kind of like on the fence about it. I think, for one thing, I think that there should be a consequence to leaking information. And if you feel like it's serious enough, to blow the whistle on it, then you need to go through those proper protocols to do that.

So I feel like we got to be consistent on that point. Whether it's somebody like Snowden or whether it's anybody else, I mean, there are. There are ways to go about it. But the thing is though The other thing about this is because I was asking this yesterday: how did this guy say, so he had access to classified material?

Now, he's twenty-one years old. He's in the Air National Guard. How does a 21-year-old in the Air National Guard Get access to that high level of material. Am I wrong in thinking that? people who are new 'cause he was wasn't I I I I don't I don't know how a twenty one year old Who doesn't have like any kind of superior rank?

How do you get that level of information? Clearance, granted. Apparently his stepdad served in intelligence. For a number of years? Does that implicate the dad?

I'm just, there's so many questions that I have. And the fact that the, the, the, Department of Defense has no idea. About any of this? They have no, they can't sit here, they can't explain how the guy got it. Wall Street Journal had a piece.

And the press secretary said yesterday: the leak was a deliberate criminal act, a violation of guidelines, blah, blah, blah, blah. But he could none of them could explain how They had access to what? How this guy had access to something. I mean The Air National Guard in Massachusetts You're protecting Massachusetts unless something comes from the federal government. I mean, the stuff that this guy had access to dealt with South Korea and Israel and Mossad and everything else.

So how did a guy who I mean he was they weren't under any kind of federal order To go beyond protecting the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

So, how does he have access to this?

Now do you see where I'm going with this? How does that work? There's a lot of questions here.

So how did he get them? Because I'm I'm getting the impression that he did not have the clearance to do so. I I I'm just, you know, I'm wondering. There was an interesting piece, and I'm going to put this up. I'm actually going to put this in my notes section.

It came from Yahoo News, and it was a discussion. It was this like World Economic Summit website, I know. But they were referencing Brad Smith, who's the president of Microsoft. And one of the things that he was saying, and this is something that anybody who I think plays games is aware of, that you know that intelligence people, like they have Intel services and you have like recruitment and stuff. They get onto gaming, like different platforms, communications platforms, like for gamers, like for Discord.

And I mean, hell, I wouldn't imagine they're in a Call of Duty lobby for recruitment and propaganda distribution. That's like a whole. sphere that people on the right don't even consider. A lot of people on the right don't even consider. And They were saying that literally, like, there apparently were like people from the Wagner group that had been in these communications.

spheres like discord, etc. They and and he was talking about that this is, you know, the it's a it's a Gaming communities can be used to distribute and publish information and as well as recruitment.

So it's interesting. And Discord, I mean, how many things have been leaked? There's a lot of stuff that's been leaked on. I don't want Discord, I don't want Discord moderated. I want people to monitor their documents better.

It's not everyone else's fault that you can't control your own, you know what.

So that's the other so that's the dovetailed part of the that goes into this other part of the story. I see this being developed as a way to remember the disinformation board. That what's her face used to be on? and how it was tabled, but it was never really destroyed.

So this would be a great, you know. Excuse for some of those people. to get in and try to use this as an excuse to further surveil, further compromise, or further curtail. exp free expression. It's a fascinating thing.

So that's one of the things that we're watching today because I'm I just I mean, we're getting more details out about it. But I am could not be any more Suspicious of all of it. Question everything. Always question everything.

Now we've got a couple of other things to get into too. We've got uh the President who's been over in Ireland. While you have China doing everything that they're doing. You also, I don't know what Kamala Harris is doing. Audio Soundbite 9.

This was cracking me up. this morning.

So She's talking about bridges today, guys. China did a simulation where they surrounded Taiwan and were like pretending to kill everyone. And here's Kamala Harris.

So you know, when we think about America's bridges, I'm a Californian, so I'm gonna tell you one of the things I think we think about. We think about things like the Golden Gate Bridge. Or, you know, some of you might think about the Brooklyn Bridge. But bridges like the one behind me are just as important. Because you know, every day more than 100,000 people cross the northbound 395 bridge.

So, my first thing was: what? First thought was She's talking about this. Second thing was, wouldn't this be a speech that uh Pete Booty Judge would give? Right? Why isn't Secretary Mayor Newman Put talking about this stuff?

This is like. Great Paul. His wheelhouse. Great pawn. Mike, where's that dude?

Where is that dude? We got like trains falling off tracks. We had like people that out in the ports in LA last week that were going on that they had a ton of ships out there. They had they Like basically going on strike. Where's he at?

Where's that guy? And then you got the VP up there. I guess they didn't like her performance when she was out there stumbling all over everything in Africa, so they. They made her talk about bridges here. It seems like a demotion.

I'm just saying, it seems like a demotion.

So this is some of the other stuff that we have on deck for you today. We got ongoing coverage of this leak. Foreign policy. Is Zelensky buying fuel from Russia with money that we sent him? Don't ask.

If you ask questions or ask about any accountability, you're just like the Russians or something. I don't know. Isn't that what they all say? Yeah, that's like what people you can't ask for accountability. Heavens, no.

We're going to get into that. We also have uh some tech stuff to touch on uh that is also supremely important. Here's the other big story. Your primary care provider was bribed to suggest that you take the Government injection that they call the COVID vaccine. Thomas Massey was dropping receipts last night.

And we're going to talk about this as well.

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So, apparently, when it comes to tax refunds, payments averaging $893 from 2019 are still waiting to be claimed. Go and get your money. The IRS reminded people promptly, very quietly, that there's still a billion and a half dollars in refund money from 2019. and you got three months to claim it.

So, they're going to be really, really quiet about letting you know this so that they can probably keep sees it, right? I'm just saying. The government theft of your money. Why do people get excited about tax returns? This is the government going, we stole too much of your money.

Here's some of it back. We stole too much. Here you go. I don't get excited about that. Also.

I'm still gonna get mad. The uh, do you know that you can actually save up to two days per year of your life by not saying goodbye at parties? Is this just Midwesterners or is this everybody else? Because you know how there's a process.

So there was, it's called, they call it the Irish goodbye.

Okay, that's fine. That's when you leave a party or function without telling anyone goodbye. You just leave unnoticed. The Midwesterners, though, they're like, well, slap the knee, then you say goodbye, then you get up, talk more, say goodbye again as you go towards the door, talk more, say goodbye again as you touch the door, talk more, say goodbye again, go through the door. I mean, it's a whole process.

It's UNSW's Time Management Institute. They said it's 45 minutes to say goodbye at a party. I'm the type of person that will leave and not tell you. Unless it's like a fancier party and I'm trying to be, you know, polite. But yeah, two days, two days of your life, you can save by not say goodbye.

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Download the podcast every day to catch up the Dana Show. The solutions are clear. We must have reasonable gun safety laws. at the state and the federal level. And by the way, most gun owners agree.

Well on what? That was the vice president just a few minutes ago. Um What? I'm just curious. What it They agree on what?

On gun safety laws, Dana? That Like what loss? Yeah. Safe ones. Uh Still I'm I'm Bikes.

Specifically. The safety the safety laws. I mean, this is what she just goes out and says, yeah, would they agree on what? What? That's like, yes, all the people in gun control do agree.

They totally agree. On what? I'm not going to tell you that part. 'Cause I don't know. That's the same thing.

Welcome back to the program. Bottom of the first hour here. She spoke about that just a little bit ago. Man, they're still full because you got they they saw Bill Lee. The Republican governor of Tennessee goes out there and is like, Yeah, we've got to have some red flag laws for what?

If you haven't read, there's a really good piece that Lorraine, who is a. contributor over at Chapter and Verse and Substack. And she also moderates the discussion, the online discussion over at YouTube. And she wrote a very, very honest piece talking about how mental illness is so often Um used as An excuse for evil because, as we said yesterday, you know, evil and And Mental illness are not the same, it's not the same thing. They're just not the same thing.

Now you can have people who are Uh Evil who might be mentally ill, and you can have some people who are mentally ill who might be evil, but mental illness and evil isn't the same thing. Just because.

someone is getting assistance for whether it's depression or anxiety or, you know, all the various different kinds of mental illness, that doesn't mean that somebody's violent and they're going to be a mass murderer. You know what? You know what's an indicator of that? Evil is an indicator of that. And this dude, I just, it gets thrown out there so often, and it aggravates, it makes me mad because.

The way that the left and people in the press talk about it. they speak about the issue so universally. as to discourage it's almost as if it's discouraging A discouragement of people who want to go out and maybe they need assistance, maybe they need some kind of treatment, but you're making it to where people are too afraid to even say anything because the way that it's discussed in the media and amongst the left, it's like every single person that has a mental illness is going to be a danger to themselves or society. And that's not the real, that's not the real, that's not the truth of it. That's a total ignorance of what mental illness is.

Of course, I don't expect the people who don't know anything about firearms but when regulated to know anything about mental illness either. Evil's evil. I this dude sounded evil. Yeah. And so the VP is out there.

Well, we need to have. We need to have these things. We need to have this. I the Republicans that get out there. Like Bill Lee, who think that compromising your due process Is going to bring you some more security, even though it hasn't done that in any of the states where red flags already exist.

And they already exist in a number of states that have seen mass casualty incidents. By the way, Illinois, Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, all of these states that have read flag laws have had since, even since then, multiple mass casualty incidents. They don't. They don't do anything. They don't work.

There's no evidence to support that they work. They have gotten a guy killed, though, an innocent guy in Maryland. They did get a guy killed there. The Republicans who get behind things like red flag laws. who say take the guns first and then you know, and then go to the judge.

That's the antithesis of a uh of being in support of an enumerated right. It's or it's the opposite of being in support of an an enumerated right. And it just giving fuel to Democrat claims. and uh and and momentum.

So, I have a piece that's going to be coming probably either over the weekend or next week. It's going to be a deep dive into red flag because I thought, okay, well, we talk about it. I sit here and tell you there's an evidence to show that it works.

Okay, well, here's the evidence that I'm going to put in: everything receipts. You're going to want to bookmark this.

So, you can reference it, and it's going to include some of the latest data. Because when I wrote about red flag laws last time, I think it was like five years ago, we have a lot more data now.

So, I'm updating a lot of the previous posts. It's going to be kind of an update of everything that I've written about previously with new information, and also new studies showing there's zero evidence that they work.

So we're going to get into all of that. All right, a couple of other things that I want to touch on here. As we roll in.

So this story from Thomas Massey is Amazing. I don't know if you guys saw this last night. I saw this. He posted this. Uh at like nine o'clock last night.

Your primary care provider was bribed to suggest that you should take the quote-unquote COVID vaccine. They said here's this thing from Anthem, Blue Cross, and Blue Shield. And it discusses how Providers can Uh earn incentives. For instance, they discuss the eligibility. with the COVID-19 Provider Vaccine Incentive Program.

The Incinta program, says the documents, It is open to you if you are a participating Kentucky primary care provider with an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid Anthem panel size of 25 or more members. All Anthem members identified as receiving COVID-19 vaccination services are included in the methodology. Vaccine results will be determined by a COVID-19 vaccine claim or by confirmation from the Kentucky Vaccine Registry. How you can qualify for a bonus. If your practice meets the below thresholds for vaccination with at least one dose by September 1st, 2021, you will receive the initial incentive payment based on the following rates.

30%, for 30% of Anthem members vaccinated, it's a $20 bonus per vaccinated member. For 40% of Anthem members vaccinated, it's a $45 bonus per vaccinated member. For 50% of Anthem members vaccinated, it's a $70 bonus per vaccinated member. For 60% Anthem members vaccinated, a $100 bonus per vaccinated member. And for 75% of Anthem members vaccinated, a $120 vaccined von $25 bonus per vaccinated member.

They add the final incentive payment is calculated based on members who are newly vaccinated between September 1st of 2021 and December 31st of 2021. Oh, and then there's more. If your practice meets the below thresholds for vaccination with at least one dose by December 1, 2021, you will receive the final incentive payment based on the following rates. And they have a whole bunch.

Now, here's where it's even more.

So, as the Blue Cross Blue Shield Anthem Provider thing says, quote, for 30% of Anthem members vaccinated, a $100 bonus per newly vaccinated member. For 40% vaccinated, a $150 bonus per member, vaccinated member. For 50% of Anthem members vaccinated, a $175 bonus per newly vaccinated member. For 60% of Anthem members vaccinated, a $200 bonus per newly vaccinated member. And for 75% of Anthem members vaccinated, a $250 bonus per newly vaccinated member.

So they can make Bank.

So Don't you think? That if you have a provider who is suggesting that you get a shot that actually does not prevent transmission, by the way. Shouldn't they disclose that they're getting paid? For recommending for get for if you get the shot that they get paid off it. I mean ethically.

Shouldn't shouldn't they disclose that? Wouldn't you want to know? Because Then Is it really genuine medicine? Or is it Well we don't know if it works. Could be do something bad, but we get paid off it.

I mean, I think it's a legitimate question to ask. Wow. Just wow. That's I mean, awful. Not surprising, but it's still horrifying nonetheless.

So there's an actual commission structure. For Your provider, corporate health care, corporate medicine.

So, your primary care provider?

So, it's a bribe. They're bribing doctors to encourage. quote unquote vaccine. injections. Yeah, they did it for hospitals too.

But now it's like the hard data. I mean, we always kind of knew it, but now it's like here literally is them on their letterhead, their official documents. Telling you Here's the exact structure. Hmm. So When healthcare is politicized, And when The distrust actually now extends to your provider.

How are you? How can you be sure that what you're receiving is actually health care? Right. I think that's fair to ask. And the ethics of this.

You know, if this was done with anything else, people could lose their license for this. But not with this, not with the vaccine.

So I think that's a good idea. I mean obviously there were some providers, there were some doctors out there who said don't do it. Or who encouraged people not to do it or who didn't push it. I mean Who's it almost is like there were do they I mean do they It's like they're working for the vaccine companies in a way. Really?

That's exactly what it is. I mean, it's And are they actually telling it? Because remember, while they were doing this, Don't forget, were not doctors also discouraged from talking about side effects. Yeah. Like they couldn't really tell you.

To not get it because all of this other stuff has been happening. But they could they would get paid if they pushed it on you. How is this is not informed consent? Not at all. And Yeah, Kane has Where they what they had a twenty dollar bonus for treating Yeah, for these.

Coronavirus in patients. Yeah, remdesivir was another drug that the government was pushing, even though it had a higher mortality rate than the other treatment. the drugs used for treatment. But the government pushed Rimdesavir the more You know, deadly version on the hospitals and gave them monetary incentives for it. I'm I mean good heavens Good heavens.

You can't trust anything, not even your doctors anymore. I mean, I like my doctor, but I don't know. And it's weird trying to, like, if you have to get a new doctor. Have you ever noticed this? Like, if you try to go and get a new doctor, and you're just, I mean, It's Yeah.

I mean, how do you handle it? 'Cause I like to talk to people before I go and get any kind of care. And I will sit there and I'll grill you no matter how uncomfortable it is. Cause I'm like, this is, you know, you're literally treating me. Like, how is this?

Come on. You just you can't ugh You can't you you you you can't trust anything. All right, so a couple of the other Things. Retail sales are falling. Oh boy.

That's not good. And I saw this piece as well. Consumers Research, it's this advocacy group, they've launched Woke Alerts. Over companies that go woke. I think it's kind of funny.

But it's a way because ESG is a real thing.

So we're going to get into all of that. No, Mitch McConnell. There's rumors that Mitch McConnell is going to retire. Mitch McConnell's not retiring.

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Let's show you what we're looking at for today. Hey, how about a little baseball? Climate change and home runs. That's right. Home run weather.

Heat and humidity reduce air density so baseballs can fly further.

Well, guess what? They have been taken off. The baseball season has warmed over two degrees since 1970. Each two degrees of warming adds about 95 runs per season. That's right.

And that's why we've been seeing all these home runs. Look at this: top 10 ballparks that see more home. We'll see more home runs with climate change from Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, even Minneapolis. Yeah.

Yeah. This is what that makes me feel like. This is a visual representation for people watching the simulcast of the radio program, Channel 347, DirecTV, and elsewhere. It's ridiculous. First off, you know what?

Basketball scores, according to Sports Gita, have also increased. Wow. Basketball scores have increased. Every sport has seen an increase in scoring. No, you know probably what it is.

It's probably because of a number of things that includes athleticism and training and I mean, you know, it's just possible. And I know this is, you know, you're not supposed to do this when talking about science, considering other possibilities that may not confirm your bias. But There just may be other factors involved in this that contribute. Shocker. News alert.

No, it's 'cause the sun is making it hotter, Kane. Yeah, it's not steroids or HGH or better training or nutrition. It's totally. It's yeah, the climate. Mm-hmm.

That's right. It's uh the climate. It's the weather. I mean, literally everything has all scoring everything. Has There's no, I mean that's just, that's like saying this is his logic.

Well All serial killers ha wear shoes. Therefore shoes cause serial killing. Yeah. Guess what? Hitler drank water.

Are you drinking water? I'm drinking water. You Nazi. Nazi. Yeah.

Same thing. It's the exact same logic. I hate that I drink. Right. You should dehydrate yourself for the cause.

Otherwise, you love Hitler, Hitler lover. There you go. Right? You know people who beat seals? They probably also like water, so you could be like an a seal abuser.

This is crazy. Oh my gosh, we live in the stupidest era ever. Why? I mean, the fact that it coincides with the greatest. I mean, ability to get all the information that you want.

And yet we live in the dumbest time ever. We I mean, I honestly think that if a natural disaster happened, Save for a handful of people, nobody would know what to do. Save for us. Nobody else would know what to do, right? I mean, I think everybody would lose their, it would be like idiocracy.

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for victory. Winners get to make policy. The losers go home. And I think we need to end, and not so much in Ohio or Florida, but I think nationwide the Republican Party has developed a culture of losing. I think that needs to end.

No more excuses. Just get it done so we can save our country. That's actually, yeah, that's good advice. Can we win some elections? That would be amazing.

Welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash here with you, Top of the Second Hour. That's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

So he signed today into a six-week abortion ban into law. They've been busy. super busy and he's been recruiting other Republican governors Because that's the thing. I mean, think about it. If you get.

I mean just like look at the look at the long game of this. You know, if you really strengthen these red states and you get the population entirely shifted, does that change the electoral map? I'm just saying. Right. At some point.

Yeah. I mean that's the long game of it, but Like I said, welcome back to the program. Your lovable curmudgeon Dana Lash here with you. You can sign up for the newsletter, chapter, and verse over at Substack. And you can also.

Uh get into uh everything, YouTube, Facebook, see all of our discussions, etcetera.

So the um Loot I mean yeah that's the thing you don't You want to win elections. I mean, I'm just looking at all of this stuff that's coming up. In the next couple of years.

So, first off, just like when Congress is back, because the House is on recess, when Congress is back in session, You're gonna have the debt ceiling fight, and there have been some signs. I had a link for you, subscribers, out there. Who get the news who get my prep there? There was. A Um some concern.

that Republicans may They may Hmm. cave. on debt limit. Maybe. There's some fights happening.

So, we're going to wait and see.

Next week is going to be interesting.

So, we're going to wait and see.

They The GOP is trying to move Democrats here. They're wanting to select one of the proposals, and again, none of this is final, but one of the proposals was lift the debt limit until May of 24. A cap on non-defense discretionary spending or a cap on overall discretionary spending after reducing it to fiscal year 22 levels. They wanted to consider one of the cap, excluding any kind of Veterans Affairs programs, one of the caps considered was the 585 $584 billion. uh cap on non-defense discretionary spending.

And they wanted to limit the budget growth to 1% annually over the next decade. And that would rescind any kind of unspent coronavirus money, prohibit student loan forgiveness, repeal some green tax credits, institute work requirements for social programs and implement the House Republican Energy Plan, which is H.R. One, and the Regulation Cutting Reigns Act. And then there was a representative from Louisiana, Graves, who's taking the lead on crafting the proposal. And then it would you'd have to have several action several committees take action on this.

And So that is That it looks to be like what? I don't know if they're going to have a lot of progress on this, but the issue is that. Graves is The reason that people are saying that they have fears about this is that Graves is kind of moderate. And everything sounds great initially on paper when you put it down. But For having him in charge of it.

The concern is that If you have this moderate taking on the task, Is it actually going to get done to the letter as is just as is outlined that I just shared with you? Right? So, if you're saying you're going to do all of this stuff and then you put a moderate in charge of it, are you really going to do everything? Is that all going to make it in there? Is that all going to actually happen?

So there are some concerns about how their how Republicans are going to move on that. And I think that Some of these lawmakers, especially in a little more competitive districts, there's a couple of ways to look at how they're gaming it. Either they're moving this way because they want to kind of save their backsides as they gear up towards a 24 election, but I'm just telling you, especially moderates, even moderate Democrats think there's too much spending. Moderate Democrats even think this. Why?

This is watering down any kind of conservative proposal for a budget never is going to win. Everybody has been so damn scared of this fight. Cain, when was the fight that they They had, it was during one of Ted Cruz's reelections. Do you remember this? Was this, I'm trying to remember when this was.

It was a huge budget fight, and I think it was like in a midterm year. Everyone in the media was saying, Oh, Republicans are going to lose their butts on this because they're fighting against the debt ceiling and they're wanting to do all this stuff. And that was literally, and it was to the point where a lot of Republicans started believing, a lot of Republicans in D.C. were believing it. And so they were trying to pull off pushing for some of these more restrictive cuts and, you know, regulation cutting and that.

And that then that hurt them with the bass.

So why do they do this? Why do you do this? Huh? This is our money. I got so mad.

the other day. Actually yesterday. Because um James Quintero, who is With Texas Policy Institute was talking about why are property taxes so high? Because governments spend too much. And then he had a bunch of receipts as to how much, you know, especially if you're looking at some of these, like some of these officials.

And some of these superintendents of some of these schools get major six-figure, like half a million dollars a year, and some of them are from really small schools. It's like how do you how wait what? And The Idea that you first off, property tax. You never really own your own property, number one. Number two, when you see where your money goes.

to state by state. People are overtaxed, their purchasing power is gone. And you have Coming up here for the next election, not just federally. but statewide and then local, you know, municipal elections. all kinds of tax proposal increases.

This is where I think Republicans are are missing they're missing The strategy here. When when you have The push to increase taxes in local communities at a time when you're in a recession. Inflation is high. Your purchasing power is gone. Everyone's paying the invisible tax of inflation.

And then you can't even cut how much we're spending, which is driving this. People are not stupid. It's like they are mess, they're fumbling a perfectly good play. It's infuriating. I mean, the Associated Press had the headline, The deadline to file your taxes is Tuesday, which is just around the corner.

Yes, everyone make sure to pay your fair share of Democrat voters' grad school loans and Ukrainian pensions. Gotta pay your fair share. How dare you deny those those pensions? How dare you? Just saying.

It is Infuriating, and then they're gonna fumble this. I'm gonna get so mad. I'm gonna get mad anyway. I always get mad during the month of government theft, which is April. I always get very mad on National Theft Day.

But This is going to make me even angrier. I'm just saying. Republicans would be wise to not fumble this. And I'm just Like, for instance, check this out. This is a piece.

I had this. I mentioned this in the first hour. What all is Ukraine purchasing with our money? There was a very good piece written by Seymour Hersh in it. Ask the question, does the Biden administration have an end game to this conflict?

So, you have, for instance, this, and I've seen this reported at Reuters, Zelensky. Taking money that the United States gives Ukraine to pay for things like diesel fuel. I don't know how much, and I don't think it's been made public how much they're paying per barrel or how per gallon. But The Pentagon, No Church, was paying about $400 per gallon to transport gasoline. from a port in Pakistan via truck or parachute into Afghanistan when we were there.

What Hirsch asks is Is he buying this from Russia? Is he buying fuel from Russia? I think it's a legitimate Question I mean you There's so much corruption in Kyiv. There was an analyst from CIA. They have.

They were questioning whether or not it was $400 million. The total was $400 million in embezzled funds last year. And some were saying that the corruption in Kyiv as Basically, they said, quote, approaching that of the Afghan war, although there will be no professional reports emerging from Ukraine. Intel officials were telling Hirsch that Zelensky has been buying discount diesel from the Russians.

So who's paying for the gas and oil? We are.

So we are funding. What? Here. Funding the people who are waging the conflict against you with our money. I've got questions.

Okay. I have no answers. This is like um I put in a note on Substack. What was the What how many What was the number of um Hey, look at this. The And forgive me because I have this in my notes section.

And I wasn't going to, I referenced this yesterday, and I wasn't going to talk about this today, but I ended up talking about it today. The amount of, what is it, like phones and household household go household goods. that we import in from China. What was it like in the billions? Almost 80 billion.

So how are you Going to fight an opponent on whom you defend. Or depend upon. How do you fight an opponent that you depend on? That's exactly the question that The White House was asked the other day about how do they square the fact that they have this green agenda. that pretty much relies on everything China, yet they're going to somehow be adversarial to China?

Like how do they how do they how does it pass the Green New Deal? That requires literally all of China's resources. to be totally dependent upon. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm.

So That's kind of the how is how is the how are we serious on this? How is this a serious thing? I mean, this is the difficulty here. I mean, it doesn't seem like a serious prosecution of conflict. Not at all.

Now, some of the latest with this leaker, this 21-year-old.

Now I get I get that there are a lot of younger servicemen. Most servicemen I know, they're they're quite young. Uh And if he was in any kind of, you know, intelligence or security field, I just the fact that ha that you are able to take this stuff out of the secure area. And apparently took it back he took it back to his house is what they determined. uh and was taking pictures of it, but then doing this for a year.

Now, again, I go back and forth. It's like I, you know. I go back and forth on I understand whistleblowing and there's a process for that. I feel like it would be inconsistent of me to say. That This guy gets a pass because this confirms everything, you know.

Well, it does, it puts more confirmation on what we suspected with regards to how the United States is dealing with Ukraine. But there's a process for that. This was an earth-shattering information. That's why I've said I feel like, in some respects, it was kind of a nothing burger what was leaked. It's not earth-shattering information.

That's why I don't know if you can classify this as any kind of like whistleblower thing. Can you? I mean, all of this stuff we all suspected. Arms, China and Russia. I mean none of this is like, ooh, shocking.

So does Even i I I there's a whole process to bring this to the attention of lawmakers and then pursue A path of being classified as a whistleblower so that you actually have protections against. uh any kind of legal action. And this guy didn't do that. What was the motivation? I really hope we get that answer.

We got a lot to get into still. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So this was an interesting Headline that came out of Yahoo: the LinkedIn founder is secretly fun. You know, E. Jean Carroll, I actually had to go back and remind myself who that broad was. You remember her? Yeah, she was like Yeah.

Actually, I kind of forgot. She's like some lady who made some kind of accusation about Trump, but apparently it came out that the LinkedIn founder is secretly funding her whole lawsuit against him. Sarah. I'm not surprised, but I had this. I wanted to just give you more information on this one.

Experts that are on red alert for a mega earthquake off the US coast, they found this crack, a 600-mile fault line at the bottom of the Pacific. They said it might be leaking. Fault lubricant that reduces stress on two plates. They said there was the potential to unleash a magnitude nine earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. And it is, it's, The hole that spews hot liquid is 50 miles off of Oregon's shoreline.

It's known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It sounds terrifying. Like a giant kaiju is just gonna. Break out of the earth. Anyway, it is terrifying.

It's really think, you know. Do you guys remember Sam Brinton? The guy who was stealing everybody's luggage? And wearing the clothes.

So, guess what? He finally was in court, he got a plea deal. He accepted a plei deal, a 180-day suspended jail sentence.

Okay. Is that not insane?

So he was charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony. He was ordered to pay $3,670 in restitution for the stolen luggage. Are you kidding me? You know, what was Kamala here saying about justice? We're going to play that when we come back because it sounds like it doesn't happen for anybody.

Anybody really. Stick with us. We got a lot more in store. To catch up on all the headlines in Crazy Wokery, download the Dana Show podcast and get Dana's perspective on the Dana Show. Because you voted in 2020 and we now have a Department of Justice that actually believes in the pursuit of justice.

Really? Really, though? Ask the parents about that that y'all were spying on because they were raising concerns, legitimate ones, at school board meetings. Ask those parents about that. Ooh, how about Sam Brinton, that bald dude who was stealing all them ladies' clothes out of the suitcases at the airport?

And then he was running around in ladies' dress. He stole this woman's original designs and all of her jewelry. And he got a plate he they played him down to a misdemeanor. Oh, but Cedar and tell us about justice. Mm, okay.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. You're a lovable curmudgeon. Man, that was at uh Al Sharpton. AKA Mac Daddy Valore tracksuit.

His NAN event, National Action Network, NAND. I just, the just you really honestly believe, you know, we're actually about justice. You mean wait, the Justice Department? That used campaign materials to spy on American civilians. Because You didn't like their political affiliations during in the lead up of a general election?

And so you literally wiretap them. And you got a surveillance warrant on them based on falsified materials that weren't even thoroughly vetted either by the DOJ, unverified by the FBI, and definitely didn't go through the process with the FISA court. Really? Really? Nobody thinks so.

We don't bel we don't believe you. All right, so I want to make you aware of a narrative that's being developed, and they're going to use it during the general. They're going to use it, they're trying to use it during the primary, but they're really. They're going to use this against any and all Republicans in the general election. And I'm I have a piece coming about it now.

Or not now, but later. later today.

So I it's Let me pull this up. This is the politico piece. But I want to go back to The uh the the last election. And was it was it Michigan or Wisconsin? That Who was it?

And then the sound bite that we had. From Ronna McDaniel. Because There was, I think it was Michigan. It was the election of Michigan, and there were some losses from the Republican side. And Rona McDaniel had, and then we had the soundbite of Ronald McDaniel saying that, oh, well, you know, abortion, people have to get their messaging right on abortion and all that stuff.

And that, and, and was kind of sort of. Um Not addressing the real issue of the problem. Remember, we talked about that. And that was right at the time that the Florida state legislature had passed. The six-week abortion ban, and they were, it was going up through the Florida Senate, and then DeSantis signed it today.

Which brings me to this politico piece. Because Democrats have been trying to use the issue of abortion against any and all Republicans. And this politico piece, if you've read or checked out at all. Any of the particulars of it. It's this, it's the six-week ban.

And The A headline at Politico was this, quote. DeSantis could be walking into a general election trap on abortion. Democrats prepared to pounce after Florida governor backed a six-week abortion ban.

Now this was pretty much the same thing that they were saying after Um after the election. Right after the the midterm this was like the same thing that they were saying after that. Uh especially like in states like Michigan and even Wisconsin really. They were saying that Republicans, oh, they o they were over their skis. Because of the Roe v.

Wade, they were over their skis on this, remember? And there were a lot of, there were some losses attributed to that. This is Democrats trying to use this as a cudgel to control Republicans, and you've got to ignore this.

However, there's a way that you've got to play this stuff. And I was looking. At this peace, this politico peace. Pull this up here. It says, um They they were talking about DeSantis, but they hit a bunch of basically Republicans in the past and past elections in this piece.

They were saying they have, they quote this guy from NARAL. They said Florida joins 12 other states, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, and Louisiana, that have approved bans on abortions after six weeks. And they said that Democrats' confidence is rooted in both public polling.

Now, the stuff that's being cited is a little ridiculous. They said that it demonstrates a little bipartisan appetite. is what they were talking about. And This piece On this, you also have, I see it bubbling up everywhere now. It's um it's over at Media.

It's the LA Times, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Bay, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press. They're all talking about, oh, this is going to be this could be a trap. R Republicans having this position is going to be a trap for them going in the general. Here's the thing to consider. With the discussion on life because I think that we are all You know, all of you out there, I think, were pretty similarly minded.

on this issue. And you you want to save lives. The choice is before conception. Which is why I never understood why Democrats killed twice Uh having birth control over the counter. Last time was, uh, what, eighteen months ago, almost two years ago, that Republicans were pushing it and Democrats killed it.

Over-the-counter birth control. No, no, no, we gotta control that. I will not, and no, they did. I will physically fight you on this. You can go to thomas.loc.

You can see all of the history on all these failed pushes to get this out. They would not deal with it. They did not want it.

So here's the thing. Primaries and generals are two different animals. And some of the biggest mistakes that Republicans make is running a general like a primary and running a primary like a general. They also fail. to take into account all of the different For the lack of a better way to put it.

Flavors of tone State by state. You know a message on life? We'll work one way. in states like Texas. Or Florida.

But in Wisconsin You actually may end up getting more Democrat voters. Depending on if you use the same message. Everyone is about saving lives. But you also have to be a strategist about how you want to do that. And there are too many, not too many, there are some on the right.

who were allies actually. And we have the exact same end. But some people are a little off on the means. And this is what I mean. I've had discussions with, oh gosh, some very dear friends of mine.

And they say things like no compromise, no compromise at all whatsoever. It has to be a total full-on-out ban. And I understand what they're saying. But in the reality of our fallen world, What they're demanding And that message, what they're demanding, message as policy is not going to happen. You have to convince the people of this.

And you're not going to do it. by just having a an immediate Oh, it's a total full-on ban right away. And what aggravates me is that some of my dear friends turn around and say, well, because. You view it that way, you're compromising on life, therefore you're not pro-life.

Well that's false. Because it's a difference in strategy. What do you think is going to save more lives? If the discussion is truly about saving lives, do you think? that you were going to bring more people on board.

with a message like We're going to ban all of it and ban everything, no exceptions, and then that's what we're doing going forward. with abortion. Look, I get you. But do you think that you're gonna win people like that in Wisconsin? Ohio?

Dare I say like Nevada? With that message? Or, and hear me out. If you just started step by step incrementally. You come out and say, Oh, let's do an X-week abortion ban or a six-week abortion ban.

You know, I think it is. The what was it was it the 15 week That they did polling on. And what they discovered is that the majority of Americans actually do like. a ban after fifteen weeks. I have receipts here from Forbes Wall Street Journal.

Uh pew? I mean, it it vastly outweighs opposition. Even New York Times had to acknowledge it. Right? So, if you walk up into some of these states like Nevada and you just start incrementally, because Democrats are pushing.

Taxpayer funded abortion Up until birth, and if you don't think I'm accurate on that, then I would direct your attention to the bill. That was proposed before midterm elections that had, like, I don't know, 20-something Democrat sponsors, co-sponsors, and it was literally the bill. It was called what, the Women's Protection Act, I think, which was about anything but. It was literally a bill. That legalized abortion up until birth and redirected federal funds to facilitate it.

I'm not making this up. I've read the text. I linked it for my subscribers so that they didn't have to take my word for it. They could literally go to thomas.loc, which is if you want to look up any bill, you can go there and look it up. And you can read exactly what's going on in what committee and everything.

That's what they did. And that had the major support in the Democrat Party. But it was literally to the opposite of what the majority of Americans want.

So again, do you think you're going to get more people? By saying total ban, let's go full hog or If you start where they are and then incrementally work.

Now, in some states, you can do six as opposed to 15. There are some states that are that are that are more conservative, more uh predisposed towards protecting life. And so they're going to totally be fine with this six week. Florida is an example. The 12 states that have passed this are examples.

Because these lawmakers, this is one of the things that DeSantis campaigned on. And he grew the conservative Percentage in Florida state legislature. Same thing with these other states that also saw re-election bids.

So they can do that, but in other states you can't. But you have to start where the general population is and then work from there. That's not losing anything. It is not compromising anything. It is strategizing.

And who do you think is going to save more lives? Because I guarantee you, you go into states like Wisconsin or you go into states like Nevada and you start telling people we're going to have a full on, you start using language that would work in the Texas and you go into Michigan and say it, you're going to get more Democrat voters. If you want more Democrat voters, that's how you get them. This is about moving the ball down the field. And we have to be strategic.

That's what this is about. And what all these stories are that are bubbling up They're trying to scare Republicans off of this. The biggest fear Democrats have is that Republicans realize this and start using this strategically. start going into these states. Again, 15-week, the majority of Americans greatly outweighs.

Opposition on that. Their biggest fear is that Republicans go into these states, start where the majority of people are, and then start hitting: do you really want to pay? For someone else to use this as birth control? Do you want your taxes going towards that? I mean, we're already in a recession and you're dealing with inflation.

Do you really want to spend some, do you want to cut what you're, you know, leave out some items off your grocery store list so you can have more of your dollars go towards paying for someone to use this? as a form of birth control. I that's the message. Democrats are terrified of Republicans coming up with that. That's why they're pushing this fear-mongering garbage.

So, for some of these Republicans out there, they're not just talking about DeSantis and Florida, they're also talking about some of these other states. These are the Republicans. The Republicans criticizing this are the ones who are terrified to fight. They're terrified to fight on this. They're terrified, and they don't trust themselves or their comms teams to deliver good messaging on this.

Those are the people who can't lead.

So I mean that's And he campaigned on it. They got it done in Florida. You've seen it in these other 11 states. This is significant. That is how you win on this.

And the Susan B. Anthony, they've been, they were very happy about it. I know Life Site News, there are a bunch of pro-life organizations that are like, that is the way. That is the way forward. Gotta be strategic.

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

Okay, so we have two of them for you that are just ring-a-ding ding. First up, The NBC affiliate. Here in Port Orange, WFLA. A Florida man was found hiding in a tree to Tuesday of this week, two hours after he fled Port Orange police. 33-year-old Jonathan Kaiser was accused of speeding away from police during an attempted traffic stop.

They tried to use stop sticks to. Damage the Nissan Maximus tires. This is in Volucia County. The aerial unit found the vehicle in a backyard where Kaiser and his other passenger, Caitlin McCartney, 31, abandoned it. McCartney was arrested nearby.

She was charged with resisting without violence, possession paraphernalia, probation violation. They had to call the canine unit to search the area for Kaiser. They found him hiding two hours later up an oak tree, a big old oak tree.

So they have body camera footage. They were telling him, Come down. Get out of the tree, don't run away, or they're going to send the canine after him.

So he moved down towards the end of the branch, appearing to run away in the tree. As one officer described it on the radio, he said, quote, he's literally in a tree right now trying to climb it like Tarzan. And Kaiser was caught on camera, and this is the just the chef's kiss. failing to swing from run one branch to the other. He dropped to the ground, trying to swing to the other branch, and then fell to the ground, tried to run away from officers, but K-9 Draco subdued him along with the handler.

He was taken to Volucia County Jail where he was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude. And the amazing thing is that it's on video. God bless technology. It is on video. He hung from the branch for a second.

Realized he wasn't going to make it, couldn't stay, couldn't keep hold of the branch. I mean, it is just. Chef's kiss. Shirtless, swinging in the air, and then he fell. I'm surprised he didn't break his bones.

Uh and then of course We got this guy in Naples, a drunk man. Caused total chaos after he broke into the Naples Police Department. Total chaos. Joseph Moulton, 36 years old, jumped the fence of the south parking lot, went inside an unlocked patrol cruiser. He sat for a few minutes until he saw people come outside.

Then he hid in the bushes and took action. According to the police report, he used the nozzle of a water hose, shoved it underneath the door before turning the water on, causing an inch of flood damage. He went to the men's locker room, took a shower, helped himself to clothing, and then he took a uniform, shirt, pants, cap, bulletproof vest worth $900. Then he defecated on the women's bathroom floor and dumped a police radio in the toilet. It wasn't until he got to the 7-Eleven outside that they were suspicious and they thought he was under the influence as well.

They called Naples police and he was arrested. He's being charged with grand theft and two counts of burglary. He was a busy bee. Stick with us. Third hour next.

And there was literally 10,000 people on the other side of the track waiting to hear me speak. And he kept saying, now, Joe, remember, remember, these people are not, these are my people. They're Hispanic. They're not used to being taken. You've got to show respect and seriously.

I said, I understand. And he kept it up. Finally, I turned him to God's Truth. It's refurbished. Train station, okay?

It had like linen kind of wallpaper on it. and about every 20 feet. There was a brass plaque that said No Irish allowed. I said, I get it. I get it.

What? What? All right. Um Do we accidentally get drunk? Or did that not make sense just normally?

No. Welcome back to the program, Top of This Third Hour. Your lovable cormudgeon, Dana Lash here, with you this Friday. And that was the president. It's our president, our illustrious president.

The I so he was saying that he knows how to speak to a crowd of Hispanic Americans because there were signs that said no Irish allowed? What? Yeah, it's really sad. I am so confused right now. Uh okay.

Well, um did he You know, sometimes I'm like, is he just actually um having problems with you know, cognitive cognitive stuff or is it Because he's hitting Hunter's stash. I don't know. I mean, I really don't know. I mean, I think Democrats would be forgiving of it if he was, right? Unless he was a female Democrat.

Democrats don't like no old senile old ladies. They don't like them. Case in point, Diane Feinstein. But John Futterman's okay. By the way, he's going to chair a committee or something.

You knew that, right? Did you know that? Oh you didn't know that? Hold no no no no hold up. Yeah, uh I don't know how.

Um but apparently he's going to chair Let me pull this up. This is a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He's going to chair a hearing. His first week back. He's going to chair his first subcommittee hearing.

It's about food stamps. Snap program. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Mm. You yeah, you he'll he'll do a good job, right? He's gonna chair a meeting. He's heading the meeting, is what you're saying. He's the chair.

Chair. Of the meeting.

So, yeah. But Diane Feinstein now, you know. Get her up. She's gotta go. You know, the only reason they want Feinstein to go is because they have people who want her seat.

And it's more advantageous for them to run now as opposed to later. They don't want Fetterman out because they don't got nobody there. Who can run?

So they're going to protect him at all costs. But they want Feinstein out. She's stepping out of that judiciary committee. She did say she'd step off that. They want her out of the seat entirely.

And you got people like Rochanna and others out there going on and on about it, but they won't say a single thing about John Fetterman. I mean, I saw him when I was at the State of the Union. I sat Um on the upper level of the gallery right across from him. And I I I mean I could I looked straight ahead and he was right in front of me. And he was watching everybody else for cues.

He had no idea what Biden was saying. And he would watch Like he was watching someone, if people stood up and clapped, he'd he'd go, okay, and then he'd stand up and clap, and then he'd watch, and you could just, you he'd watch the room. He didn't watch Biden, he was watching everybody else, because no one was there with him giving him cues. And so then he'd everybody sat down, he'd stop clapping, he'd sit down. And then he would just sort of stare at the chair.

He'd lean over and he was just staring at the chair. And then he'd kind of look, he'd look up and watch. And there were a couple of times he looked up, and everyone else was already, his side was already standing up and clapping.

So he was a little. I'm not kidding you. I'm not. That's exactly how it was. And I, and in a way, I got to be honest with you, just as a human, I felt bad for him as a human.

Because I do, I think they abuse this dude. I'm not kidding. No wonder he had depression. I think it was more than that. I think it was he's having some serious cognitive issues, but.

He He needs to have someone give him cues. There. This was not. I mean, I've had family members that have had strokes and had to have major brain surgery after. And they were.

impaired cognitively. As a result after this, And he demonstrated the exact same thing that I've seen. Before And it was really I mean, it was just, it was kind of, you know, and I know that's anecdotal. I know it's also anecdotal that I was sitting up there, that one of the people who was in front of me was a doctor. And they were, I could listen to them talking to the person next to them, and they were kind of remarking on his.

Behavior and how he was taking these behavioral cues from other people. It was just a quick remark, but I thought it was interesting. And I knew that they were a doctor because afterwards, you know, everybody stands up, stretch their legs, you wait for Biden to leave before you can leave. And I introduced myself and we were talking because I wanted to know, because he sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Um but I just I I as a human, I I did feel bad for him.

Watching him there because he, it, it is such a sensory overload, number one. And I, don't he when he left the chamber, One of my friends was telling me that Eight. Because he had to s he you can't obviously people who are lawmakers You can't bring someone in there on the floor, they go up to the To the gallery. And when he left the floor, people were there, right there, waiting to get him to walk with him. Because I don't know that he could have.

honestly gotten navigated through everything. I really don't. Because you have you go in the statuary hall and you have the press and it's literally everything's roped off and you have to walk in the middle and there are so many lights And there were so many there are so many flash bulbs, it I've been on sets. I've been on, you know, obviously, I have a ton of set lights here. This was Insane.

It's insane because everybody's got their own setup, and you have a lawmaker or whatever, or any kind of lawmakers talk, or and the press is there getting pictures. You got Democrats and Republicans giving sound bites to cable news, to print, and a lot of these lawmakers have to walk through there. I can't imagine he would have been able to do that without assistance. I felt bad for the guy. I legit felt bad for him.

Politics aside. He is so far over his head. And he's going to chair a committee? And Democrats are so damn obsessed, and they act like though this is a good thing, because they feel like, oh, well, our mission's a virtuous one, so we got to keep him in here, even though he can't really do this job. But Diane Feinstein's gotta go.

Is it that virtuous though if they're willing to throw her under the bus just because someone else's ambitions can't be bridled any longer? You know. That's what that's all about. Yeah, he's actually going to chair a committee. I don't know how.

It is the they're looking at they're having a hearing supplemental nutrition assistance program and he's it's next week And it's going to be also about a farm bill for Pennsylvania farmers, and so that's what That's his his he's back and that's is going to be his first thing. Wow. So That's Okay. There you go. We'll see how Democrats are going to.

They'll lead their own on this stuff. They really will.

Now, a couple of other things to make sure that we hit. We were talking about the leaks that. the twenty one year old who is suspected of uh leaking some of this information. in a discord Discord chat. He's been posting top secret document documents since last year.

And his group, the Discord chat room, was called Thug Shakers Central. Oh my gosh. This is like a bad 90s video. Thug Shaker Central, right? And he was Jack the Dripper.

We were asking people about their Let me pull this up. We were asking people about what their handles were. Like what's your most embarrassing handle ever? And I was fascinated by The honesty of so I think some of you lied. Because everyone has like an embarrassing one.

Someone said, Yeah, we had the Casey Ability who said Sir Pimp a lot. That was one of my favorites.

Someone else was Sandman.

Someone else was Camaro Queen. Everyone else, I mean, everybody else was like, you know, most people were kind of. You know, pretty uh Ow. Vanilla. Although apparently Uh There someone's like, nice tri-fed.

Terran Empire. Skateboard king oh man That's that's funny.

So that's uh I think it's f i it cracks. I was like, your first one, not your current one. I wanted to know what your first one was. Because I think most people have kind of changed, obviously, with different accounts, different things. Come on.

Yeah, some of them are pretty hysterical though. Jack the Dripper. That's just That's something else. But um Now the government is saying, well, we we're gonna have to really watch the discussions like on Discord and elsewhere because of this Jack Tashar, this 21 year old. We're gonna have to really we're gonna have to watch this.

But for I mean I there's I've this is some we're not This is a story of incompetence on behalf of the government. How in the world Do you get This is highly sensitive. I understand that some security clearances, that people, no matter like what age they are or what, they'll get some security clearances. But from some of the folks who, I mean, there was a piece, I think Mark Thiessen was trying to explain how. You know, the fact that it was this high level sensitive, you know, that's a whole other ballpark.

How did you get access to that? And then how are you like able to with cameras everywhere, how are you able to take it out? And all of that. I mean, that just what?

So NBC reported that the administration was looking at expanding how they monitor social media sites and chat rooms. We're gonna have Fed boys everywhere, aren't we? And then we're gonna have How Do, Fellow Gamers? Does anybody have any classified documents to share? They said that the possible change in the intelligence gathering process is just one potential shift.

They're trying to figure out how. First off, how it leaked and then how it was going on for so long they didn't even know. Um and then of course they also said Uh uh they had to do the January 6th thing. They said they uh in it they go FBI and Department of Homeland Security have come under criticism on how they responded to alarming posts on social media in the run-up to the January 6th attack. Oh, for the love.

Absolutely. I'm telling you, this is, they're going to try to use this to push more. You're going to be surveilled. You know, you if you yell at someone in a cod lobby, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna, somebody's gonna make a note on you, right? This squeaker here was talking about uh classified information.

I man, I can't. I can't. Are you I ju I mean, not like I say anything anyway, but now I feel like I should, just to, like, you know. Yeah. How much fun can you have?

Yeah, right? Like how far can you push it? Because if you don't have it, is it really a crime? If you're just like playing at it and leading on a you know, I'm just that's not a crime. Everybody should say that they have stuff.

I shouldn't encourage that, should I? But I'm just, it's this is, why is it that everybody else gets blamed for government incompetency? every damn time. Do your job. You steal our money.

And you say that you're going to pay for things like defense and all this other stuff. Instead, we're buying off Ukrainian pensions. We're paying for grad school. Loans that lazy, reckless, entitled snots don't want to pay themselves. And now you're going to be monitoring Discord chats and game lobbies?

Step off. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Mm-hmm. Alright, so first up. A couple of things here. By the way, Fort Lauderdale Airport finally reopened. Uh, this morning after the rainiest day in the city's history, that's crazy how much rain they got.

I have friends who were sharing all of the video, they were driving through like water up to like their truck, top of their truck tires, driving through all the flooding. That's crazy, Pelosi. Calls on Feinstein to resign, says the Hill. She says, I've never seen them go after a man. who was sick in the Senate.

Interesting. This is getting crazier and crazier, I'm telling you. Also. The uh Couple of I'm gonna go this one. Chat GPT is now doing a lot of people's jobs.

There are a lot of workers who are using AI to take on multiple full-time jobs, and their employers have no idea. Daily Mail has a story where they talk about all of these different Really, fields where people tell them stuff, they refer to themselves as being overemployed because they allow, because they use AI to do all of the other work for them. Like, that's crazy. They said that one guy who is an overemployed worker, like whether you're writing software, preparing legal documents, or things like that, he says ChatGPT does 80% of his job. That's nuts.

But you know what? You're going to see more. Who was it that came out and said that they were using AI to write a lot of their filler stories? That's going to happen. Like a lot of the basic, just straight news, no filler, that's a lot of that's going to be AI generated as well.

That's going to happen. Let's see. Also, rapidly growing homeless encampments are popping up near Beverly Hills, where the median home price is $3.5 million. Beverly Hills has been kind of Republican as of late. You know, they've had Republican mayors before and all that.

And they've I know, it's weird.

So it gets near Beverly Hills and There's going to be some changes happening. Uber is accused of charging people more if their phone battery is low. A small study by a Belgian newspaper looked at whether the app changes its prices for users in Brussels based on their battery, and what they discovered is that they it does. They actually do. They determine it by how much a phone's battery has left That's odd.

Stick with this. We got more in store right after this. 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.

That um It was very Just surreal to hear that to hear the commentary and to realize that for them they really are reenacting the Civil War. You heard Representative Sipicki say, you know, we need to come hard against them, you know, because if we don't, Tennessee will fall and the Southeast will fall and the left will take over. And he said, you know, I hate that I have to see, you know, Jones in these sacred halls where the greats of Tennessee stood. And so you hear this mentality that is very extreme and very alarming. I mean, we're dealing with people who want to reenact the Civil War.

What? I am so done with this stupid rhetoric. I really am. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this third hour.

That's Justin Jones, one of the Democrats, because now I mean, he's they've all been reinstated, so you know, good job there, Republicans. Good job. Like, what was your point? You didn't you ended up like you pulled a sun, what'd you do? He's like so apparently Enforcing the rules because they've done this against Republicans.

When Republicans try to get froggy and like protests and this stuff, whether it's in different state capitals or else, they've completely censored or. Tried to take action against them within the body. That's happened before. But when you do it with Democrats, oh my gosh, it's like reenacting the Civil War. I'm so tired of this stuff.

The f you were reinstated. Even. The fact that there were zero penalties consequences for your behavior, and that the fact that you broke the rules. I don't even know if that stuff does that. I don't think that works anymore.

I really don't. I just don't think that that stuff works anymore. Do you guys? No. No mia doesn't.

No, I mean like in general though. I don't think it does. I don't know. All right, a couple of other things.

So I was looking at this, let me pull this up. This is from Politico, Europe Politico. And Germany is apparently mad at France. particularly Macron. They're mad at Macron.

And This Bearbach. He's going to China. But The difference between, so because Xi Jinping is just, I guess, fielding everyone in. By the way, if you needed further evidence that Vladimir Putin wasn't feeling well. the fact that Xi Jinping went to Moscow because all these other people have been going to Beijing.

And because Beijing Is the dominant in their little relationship? The fact that he still had to go to Moscow tells you everything you need to know.

So the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbach is heading to China to represent Berlin, but she's. Not they're they've made it very clear that they're not gonna pull a macrum. They're going to stress that Europe is not going to let the U.S. down and they're not going to stop recognizing Taiwan's sovereignty. And they've made that very clear in the lead up.

So we'll see what happens, you know. during, but they've made it clear during the lead up. And it is also telling because They She had stated that they believe that everyone in, but they emphasize China need to focus on de-escalation. and quote, refrain from aggressive military maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait. Whew?

So she's, it's a two-day visit. She's already probably on her way back to Germany. But they are stressing that Germany and the EU care about Taiwan and stability. But they she knocked China and said you got to de-escalate. And this is after all of the backlash against Macron's comments.

Remember, Macron was talking to the European Politico. And was saying that, oh, well, you know, we don't want to be dragged in. We don't want to be followers, American followers. And so she's splat she's hitting out on that. She's like, quote, we expect all parties in the region to contribute to peace, and that applies equally to the People's Republic of China.

Hmm. Hmm. She uh they said that they need to s d to uh de-escalate, otherwise they're increasing the risk of unintended military clashes.

So this was I mean, it's very smart. for her to I'm glad that that at least Germany is kind of at least she's sort of holding the line a little bit. Macron was just absolutely humiliated. The weakness of Macron was completely the fact that he said what he said in that interview. What an SOB.

An absolute SOB. Very interesting. The backlash, though, against Macron has been. I mean, there were, well, I told you there was one letter that was signed by a number of significant leaders throughout Europe. that were blasting him for what he said with regards to uh Taiwan saying that The way that he spoke, he was sort of blaming the United States and China for both.

The United States hasn't done anything. I absolutely reject that. It's China who is the one that, if you so much as look in Taiwan's general direction, they sound air raid sirens throughout their cities and act like they're being invaded. They act like damn reverse of Red Dawn. It's ridiculous.

And so The um What gets me, though, is one lawmaker in Macron's party had said that Macron is much closer to the European center of gravity on China than the. as some of his comments would suggest. Hmm. So It did give him, I will say, his remarks have given him a little bit of shade because have you seen the protests that have been happening? All throughout.

France? I mean, my gosh, they stormed a Louis Vuitton the other day. They took over a BlackRock office. They've been the French the French will go nuts. They protest as like part of their DNA.

Actually rioting is part of their DNA, but So they've been protesting him over the pension reform, raising the age of retirement from 62 to 64. He like barely survived a vote of no confidence. by his own government.

So Uh he's very he's very compromised domestically.

So he did get a little from that he got a little bit of a distraction. But With him in power, that is no reliable, no reliable ally. But it's interesting that that Germany Was the country that slapped back? Because it's been Germany that, you know, historically, that we've had the most. Back and forth with.

I mean, under the Trump administration with Angel and Merkel, I mean, they argued over just getting Germany to increase the percentage of GDP that they spent to help out with NATO. And Angela Merkel, remember she was leaning over the table. Trump sat there with his arms crossed, and she was leaning over the table trying to haggle with him. I was uh uh Japan's Prime Minister. I liked uh his Bemused expression.

He sort of stood to the side and had this Bemused expression on his face. It was so great. It was like a Renaissance painting. It really was. That was one of my favorite photos.

Because everyone else is going nuts, and everybody else has a different expression. It's fascinating.

So, also, Budweiser is feeling the pain. They're saying now that it was a mistake. I read another piece last night where it said they feel frozen. Because They Don't Want to look like they're walking back, but at the same time, they don't want to address it, they're terrified. And apparently, the Anheuser-Busch executives are livid at this.

They've donated to more Republican candidates than Democrats. Like Koors has donated more to Democrats than Anheuser-Busch has. And it does now start to look like This campaign was not approved by the senior executives. It seems like she might get canned, right? Yeah.

The chick who was like the V P who said Well, we we need to change their the she said that they had a Freddy behavior or of a Freddy branding. And then all these photos of her came out. I have never done a shot out of a prophylactic before. She has. Yeah, me neither.

I've never even so much as Yeah, she was like doing what Keg stands and all this, which I've never done. I've never done any of that. She seems more bro than most bros. If I'm being honest, so that fratty behavior that led to record sales for Bud Light and the rest of it? She would know it, I guess, huh?

Yeah. Sounds like. I mean there were there were photos of her online and it looks like she's rowdier than the dudes in the photos. I can see it. And then she's up there on her Zoom call.

We just want to change this behavior. I kind of think that she should probably get canned. I don't want to tell them what to do or how to. I'm not, I don't do that stuff. But I mean, it sounds like she sucks at her job and she messed up royally.

I'm just saying. And it also sounds like she doesn't understand not just the market, but demographics as well. If it's good beer, younger drinkers will drink it. If it's good beer. They'll drink it.

I mean, you have to figure out a way with. I remember when maybe this was just in St. Louis.

So, right when I was of age. and you know broke. I ended up like I wasn't Rolling Rock really popular for a while? Yeah. I'm not sure.

I have no idea. I don't drink beer, so I don't know. Um But stag. Gold can? Oh yeah.

Horn like you got the antlers and the gold can. Amazing. It's a stag. And I just remember there for a while, everybody. drank stack.

I liked it because, for some reason, I just liked the taste of it better. It wasn't, and I have the palate of a two-year-old, so I don't know if I'm describing this accurately. It seemed um Um Less sharp. I don't know how to put it. Than other beers?

Does that make sense to you? I think they would describe that as smooth. Maybe. I don't know. Smooth.

People are dying. Beer aficionados right now are dying listening to this show because they listen. They do listen. My husband used to brew beer in the basement, and I remember the left tried to write a hit piece on me for that. Like right when yeah, they try to write a hit piece on me 'cause my husband brewed his own beer in the basement.

And um they were like, She her children are upstairs while her husband shut up. We're from Missouri. That stuff is in our Constitution. Sit down. Anyway, But I it just seemed like there for a while everybody drank stag.

And there was like this word of mouth thing about it, right? Um When you look at the advertising, if your messaging is sophisticated and fun, But this is neither sophisticated nor fun. You have A I mean, I'm trying to figure out the best way. Like, I just A dude who does not act like a normal woman, because he's not a woman, but he doesn't even pattern his cosplay off of a normal woman's behavior. I mean, I guess if a woman takes a ton of meth, then she would act like that?

I don't know. But that's not how chicks act. And they she decides that that's the way to go. That's the way to the VP decides that's the way to partner with it. absent any kind of sophisticated messaging or anything else.

I just think that makes you look like you suck at your job. That's just bad. Actually I want her to be fired. I want this brought out. I mean, the more I think about it, the madder I get.

Yes, I know InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch, but dang it! I lived across that damn brewery. I smelled the barley and the hops, and the warm summer evenings it would just waft through the air. Can you imagine? Like you walk outside and it smells like bread dough.

It's amazing. Oh my gosh, it's so good I just you know, she's like ruining an institution. That my stepdad would say was already ruined because of the MBEV purchase, but can we just not get to that? I feel like that's like the older folks got real mad at that. Yeah.

People were taking their beer out of their fridge and putting it on the back porch. It's in BEB now. It doesn't get to sit in our fridge. I swear, that was like family members would say that. I ju I don't know, I think this chick's gotta go.

Again, I don't want to tell them how to do their job, but I'm going to tell them how to do their job. I just think that she's baggage on you, man. You need to just eject this broad. She's got to go. She's bad at her job.

How hard is it to sell beer? Right? Not with a dude who pretends to be a chick. I know people like my friend Joe Rogan and everybody else are like, oh, well, who cares? You know why?

You know what? Who cares? Chicks that you want to drink beer. What is John Taffer's number one rule when it comes to bars and drinking and establishments? If you don't have the chicks, you're not going to get the dudes.

That is the number one rule in sales when it comes to bars and it comes to liquor and everything else. You got to have the ladies too. And this broad ran them all out. 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. My heart, there's nothing our nations can't achieve if we do it together.

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So thank you all. God bless you all. Let's go. Let's go late, lick the world, let's go. Lick it up.

Lick it up. Give us a chorus. Lick it up. Lick it up First thing we thought of. Because You know.

That's Joe Biden. I mean, I just, I don't think he actually. No, I reject. Your reasoned response that he's talking about fighting, let's go out there and just go kick butt. No, no, he wants to lick it.

Yeah. I'm telling you.

Well yeah, don't broadcast this on the simulcast or we're gonna get beaten to death on YouTube. Yeah, I'm telling you, right? Right here. You gotta just this is what he's talking about. That's exactly what he's talking about.

Come on, it's Joe Biden. He like loses his train of thought in like five seconds. Yeah. What a good way to start a weekend. I'm telling you, right?

I mean, everybody's waiting for it. It's been a long week for everybody, right? It's going to get. And House ain't even been in session. It's going to get crazier for them.

They need a little.

Well a little bit of kiss, even though Gene Simmons is wrong on some things. It's okay. It's alright. It's alright. I'm still gonna play it.

He was very nice when I met him at Fox in New York one day on my book tour. He was very nice. All right, so. Yeah, that's what I'm just going to assume that's what exactly he means. Yeah.

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You look that up. That is exactly what the Democrat Party does. You're right. You look that up. I did look it up.

That's true. That's what they do.

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