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That means overall we've created more jobs in two years than any locations we've created in the first four years. And uh I think all this matters. Snow accident. Hmm. Uh except A huge chunk of those as we were talking about.

The government jobs. And In addition to that, Wage still greatly lags behind. inflation. A cost of living because These policies have contributed to that. Hoo-hoo!

Woo-hoo!

So This is, I'm telling you, there's a lot of stuff here. Welcome to the show. Happy Friday to you. Dana last year with you, your lovable little curmudgeon. And nice little Friday to get started, get kicking.

And We have the budget. I have a whole bunch of headlines about some because Congress is getting ready to go on their little break. We have some economic news. Also, where I have a ton of wokery. Interestingly enough, it's like two of the dumbest woke stories that I have heard.

Maybe this year. That's it. One of them is definitely one of the dumbest that I've heard this year. I know. We can just wait.

So, Daniel Ash here with you. Good to be with you. Top of this first hour this Friday.

So, right off the bat. I was listening I listened to the President's remarks live on this. Um I got some questions. I don't know what numbers he's looking at. Wages still behind.

Growth is still at a record low. And then I was reading this interesting write-up at the. Let me pull this up. It was Wall Street Journal. And they had They were discussing how it's you know, people are kind of survey proof.

And it's even it's difficult to even gauge Any kind of, for the lack of a better way to put it, economic temperature, so to speak. simply because It's you know, peop people just they're they're sort of survey proof. In the Wall Street Journal, they had this piece. And I'm opening this now. They had this piece that they said, falling survey responses rates undermine economic data.

And it talks about how. there's this decline in a real measure. of inflation in the job market, and it's skewing What is able to kind of be reported, at least that's what now that's what the Wall Street Journal is saying now. BLS says that their reports are based upon two surveys. They look at households and they look at businesses.

And the people who are compiling all the data, they're worrying that there's this sort of. Um I guess pushback or resistance to surveys that they are. Wondering and questioning whether or not they can get reliable.

So, me, it's actually might be worse than it is, is what I was reading out of this.

So that's what I was looking at of those. But I think that they're going to look at. This report, the Fed, and think that they're going to have to get, there's going to be a more aggressive move.

So that's, I mean, wage growth has cooled still. Uh you have the uh unemployment rate ticked up slightly. Uh in a huge sector and a huge how many of these were government jobs? Kane, let's see. 15% federal.

There was a percentage that were local government as well.

So, I mean, essentially, like federal, municipal, I mean, state and local, yeah.

So, uh, yeah, the government's growing faster apparently than our the well, really, ultimately, it is, the government's growing faster than the private sector. That's kind of a terrifying terrifying thing. Good heavens That's that is slightly terrifying.

So This is the state of the economy. And Biden, he actually, one of the things that he was saying up there. When he was speaking to the press on this, he was h whole had his uh His little jobs remarks, and he only spoke for a couple of minutes, and he took one singular question. Mm-hmm. But he was saying inflation was over this morning.

He was saying that, oh, well, you know, inflation, we're not seeing it anymore. You're not seeing it anymore? I mean how does this this is nuts? How are you not seeing it any more? Audio sound by 29.

Listen to this. This seems like an ad to me. And on top of that, what they're really focused on, that I saw here, is kind of surprising, they want to make sure we don't have enough IRS agents. Who was the IRS agents we had? Council this will be just required a lot of time.

A lot of things look at it. And my gorilla. I don't know. They need to have a very different kind of any He, um He did that earlier, too, when he said, when he said he's talking about Reagan, which we're going to address here coming up. He's like, you know, Reagan's tax rate.

Twenty-eight. He leaned over and I cannot stand the He thinks it's dramatic whispering. He just looks crazy. It's not somebody to make him stop for the love of all things, holy. Uh so he was lamenting.

The Republican opposition to the addition of 87,000 IRS agents. And he's like, well, it's because all these rich people. We gotta, you know, they need a lot of accounts. You gotta have a lot of accounts to look at all the rich people. That's literally what he just said.

That's what he just said. That's what he was explaining in that. That's not no no no no no no no no.

So this is Government jobs are expanding. And you know, it was in the the uh budget that he came out with yesterday. a massive pay raise for federal employees. It's like the largest pay raise in forty three years. for Federal employees.

It's a 5.2 percent raise. And This is expected to be what, I think not since Carter? Which is fitting. It's fitting that it since Carter. Obviously, Republicans are gonna Oppose this.

So this is it looks like it'll go into effect if this would even pass to the House. The salary boost looks like it would go into effect in January, and it'd be the biggest pay increase. And affect about $2.1 million. federal employees.

So that's um and Democrats wanted more. Federal employee unions wanted more. I don't like I I'm I do not like government unions. Private sector unions, that's one thing. Because people can choose and companies can choose and everyone gets a vote.

But A. a public sector, a government union is literally nothing more than a politician and a union boss sitting down discussing how much they're going to shank the taxpayer for.

So, no, no, no. Taxpayers do not get a vote. The middle class does not get a seat at that table.

So, this is the, that's, I have a big problem with this, major problem with this, as you should as well.

So This Looking into all of it, this budget blowout, we talked about how much The debt, I mean it's $5 trillion tax hike. And then you had the Silicon Valley Bank. Did you guys see this today? Because we're in a recession. They just won't say it.

Silicon Valley Bank is seized by regulators after a run on deposits caused the lender to collapse in the largest U.S. bank failure since the Great Recession. Panic over tech industry slowdown is now spreading to Wall Street. says the eighteenth largest bank in the country in Santa Clara, California.

So Silicon Valley Bank, the financial regulators came in. There was a run on all the deposits that tipped it into collapse. That's a big red flag to me. It was shut. They closed it down today.

California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. They protect the FDIC stuff as receiver.

So they said that depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning. And it this this I think assets are 212 billion. And it's u it's a tech start up bank. It's it's typically for venture funds and tech startup for Silicon Valley. And they said shares of SVB dropped as as like, what, sixty four percent premarket trading after slumping about sixty percent in previous session.

When it disclosed plans to raise over $2 billion from investors to counter the $1.8 billion in losses from the sale of bonds. Mm. Troubling.

So Kinda makes you want to put stuff in I kinda wanna bur bury stuff in my yard.

So this is really, um There's a lot of things at play here. There's a lot of things at play here. I mean this when you look at when you look at the I think this is coming into not just a we've seen a fight over. speech We've seen a fight over information distribution. and and messaging and and all of that with tech companies.

Government now? Would really love to control currency more so than I'm not talking just like Department of Treasury level. They want to control I mean, what you use as money, your money, and what you're doing with it. That's what this is all about.

So, we're going to get into this a little bit more as well.

Now, as for the border, I saw the story last night. This is wild.

So, do you remember this was the big story, you know, going into this week? It was the four individuals who went across the border in Matamoros and they ended up getting hit by a cartel, and two of them were killed, two kidnapped. And then the two who were left, who were alive, were returned to the United States. They're apparently still in a hospital in Brownsville, Texas. It was carried out by what they what they call the Gulf Cartel.

And they had of the golf cartel a subset group, five members called the Scorpions Group. And apparently, it was five members of that little group, which is subordinate to the Gulf Cartel, that. were the ones who carried out these kidnappings. There's a lot of questions over whether It was they mistook them for Haitian drug smugglers, that was one of the things that I'd heard. But then some of the family of the four were like, oh, well, they did drugs, you know.

Maybe they were going down there to for drug I mean somebody just volunteered that to the press.

So The Wild thing about this is there it was like uh The night before. Five of these individuals were hogtied, their shirts pulled up over their heads, and they were left in the middle of the street. Buy the cartel boss. And the cartel boss also left a handwritten note with them. This is crazy.

They were in the center of Matamoros. This was Wednesday night. Hog tied shirts over their heads. And they had a note from the bosses that was left with these henchmen. apologizing for what had happened, which is wild to me.

So they had these the the letter And this is crazy. The letter. Which they had, and I shared a picture of the individuals tied up in the newsletter, by the way, if you sign up for that.

So they hogtied these guys. They said that the note said that the killers acted outside of cartel rules. That was their quote: cartel rules. And they said, the note was written in Spanish. They said, and for this reason, we've decided to hand over those involved and directly responsible for the facts who at all times acted under their own determination and in discipline.

And against the rules that the CDG, that's the Gulf Cartel, has always operated, respecting the life and integrity of the innocent. They said that they added, the CDG apologizes to the Motamoran Society, the relatives of Mrs. Arley, the American individuals and families affected. The CDG asks society to be calm because we are committed to not repeating those errors caused by indiscipline, and whoever is responsible will pay. Uh Well, that's.

I I don't even know. Cane I know words. Hey, what? It's like they're more a responsible government entity than anybody else. Than our own.

I mean, I just got to say it. We're going to talk a lot more about this. We have a whole bunch coming up. We have headlines on the way as well.

So you want to make sure that you stick around for that. And we got a whole bunch. We still got to get into even more of the taxes. The woke story. I told you I got a crazy woke story.

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This took place in Kentucky, in Somerset, Kentucky. It was a Dodge dealership and brand new Hellcats, $600,000. And the dealership. According to Don Franklin Chrysler Dodge Jeep. Apparently.

Made it easier because they left the keys inside the cars. Why would you do that? This. Juan has for the simulcast of the radio show, he's got like actual security footage of them driving them out. Although they said four of the six stolen cars were retrieved in neighboring counties, one of them was recovered as far away as Alabama.

Another one was discovered in Tennessee. Six Hellcats gone in. one minute. That is crazy. And so, National Crime Insurance Bureau, they said that annual car thefts across the country have exceeded a million for the first time since 2008.

And last year, thefts totaled around 75,000. That's unbelievable. This hurts my heart because I love it. Ohio police are not going to press charges against those who allegedly chased and assaulted some conservatives on campus. This is from the Daily Caller.

Erie County District's attorney's office is not pressing charges against people who mobbed conservative students. It was a Young Americans for Freedom YAF at an April 2022 event at the University of Buffalo. They said that there were three group members of YAF who were chased across campus by a swarm of 50 to 100 people, according to the student newspaper. The police investigated reports that the three students have been harassed for months by conducting interviews and reviewing security footage, but they couldn't identify the responsible individuals, probably because they weren't JSIC. There's crazy.

So, I mean, that's kind of crazy. I mean, they had to actually call 911 and be escorted to safety because people were screaming threats at them and trying to get a mob together to run at them. This was wild. In New York City, the rent has not gone down. In fact, it's gone up 18 months in a row.

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Eastern Time. Finally, I'm so glad that Elena Zelenska is here because women are. Good job. Women and children are the primary victims of conflict and of climate change, and there is no. I'm sorry, I have an interruption.

This is so stupid. I'm so done with this. First off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Yeah.

And feminist curmudgeon. Obviously, that's Hillary Clinton. And I don't understand this line that somehow, what was it, that women are the primary victims of climate change? What the hell does that even mean? The weather affects us.

Is that what is that what that is? I was attacked by the weather. My guess is that they think this climate change issue is, you know, a few years down the road.

So they think that. Our kids are the only ones that are going to suffer from it. I think that's their thought process.

Well, she was saying that women and children, they were the primary victims of conflict and climate change. And I'm just like, How many dudes have dropped dead around you? Right.

Okay. Just saying. Don't Vince Foster us, bro. I just can't I These are such empty. Do do people actually sit there and the ones clapping like seals, is there anyone who really believes this?

Or they just like, say whatever you need to. We know it's all BS. We just want everyone's money. That's all it is. Is that you cannot honestly convince me that people are that?

I mean, I understand some are, but not. as many people as they think are stupid are actually stupid. Who sits there and applauds that? Oh, yes, women are so affected by climate change. I just, there was a thunderstorm.

It was really mad at me the other day. It didn't even rain on my husband. It was just me. I just, it doesn't make sense. This is so stupid.

They're prime you know what? Women are the primary victims of Democrats. How about that?

So tight. This whole thing, this internet what our International Women's Day, the women's month, is it women's month? Is it March's women's month? It so it actually is okay. That makes sense, I guess.

The international way. I don't know because I don't care. I think it's all lip service. The irony of telling everyone, you need to celebrate Women's Month while telling women that they don't exist just is stunning. And you the the first lady wore probably horribly.

She's short-waisted, so you can't wear the types of waists that Dolce and Gabbana do. And I realize that that's her favorite dress designer to wear, apparently, except for the Minecraft dress that she wore with these god-awful looking tennis shoes. But I just, I really have a problem with that. Don't, you know, get a dress for your body type. I'm just saying, don't look frumpy.

Don't look frumpy. But. the wa that that she awarded I gave this women's award to this dude. And then now you have all the marketing. Everyone makes this move, and apparently if you don't Kind of curtsy to the idea of women's month and somehow you're sexist.

But the audacity of the people who make up these Fantasy rules are the same ones who tell you that if you don't accept men casa playing as women. As actual women, then you're the bigot. It just doesn't make sense to me. You can't have it both ways. You have to pick a lane.

Now Juan asks a very, very good question. He asks whether or not Men who identify as women Are they also disproportionately affected by climate change? Hmm. That's a very good question. I mean Really?

I mean, do you think that the weather is out there looking down at everyone, going, hmm, that one's got a vagina? Let's get them. I mean,. Just wondering about all this. Just kind of wondering.

It it is it's interesting. Lorraine notes that She had said that In Ukraine, the women were allowed to evacuate, and the women were not.

So that that's kind of That kind of argues against the idea that they were somehow disproportionately impacted over that more so than than men. Hmm. Mm-mm-mm.

Now. This um Getting into all of this. You had the Glenn Young. First off, I don't know why Republicans agree to do town halls with CNN. I can tell you a little something about CNN town halls.

So Glenn Young. Governor of Virginia. CNN had a seventeen-year-old trans student. Stand up and ask Glenn Yunkin about school bathrooms. You need to listen to this.

Nika? Governor Youngen, your transgender model policies would require that students play on the sports teams and use the restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Look at me. I am a transgender man. Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?

So first of all, Nico, thank you for again asking the question and being here tonight and engaging in this important discussion. I believe first, when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together. And I met your dad, and I'm glad that you're both here together. That's really, really important. I also think that there are lots of students involved in this decision.

And what's most important is that we try very hard to accommodate students. That's why I have said many, many times. We just need extra bathrooms in schools. We need gender-neutral bathrooms, and so people can use a bathroom that they in fact are comfortable with. I think sports are very clear, and I don't think it's controversial.

I don't think that biological boys should be playing sports with biological girls. There's been decades of efforts in order to gain opportunities for women in sports, and it's just not fair. And I think that's non-controversial and something that I think is pretty well understood. I mean, we're talking about a place where you take a deuce, okay? This is not like we're treating the bathrooms like, you know, these are like holy relics or something.

Like, this is a holy sanctuary. And you go in. And thou ma I mean, it's it's where you literally drop a deuce. Why are we acting like stop it? And you still look like a chick.

Stop it. I mean, that would have been my, again, why I could never run for office, because I would have said that, except I would have said. You know I'm sorry, but you're talking about a place where you take a That's what you're doing. Never take it. You always leave it.

That's right.

Okay. Let yeah. That's a place where you where you leave a It's not. Why is this such a big deal? Why is it such a big deal though?

I just need to know. See, here's the problem.

Now they want to, it's about punishing people. Because they they use the word affirm.

Well, you have to affirm someone's Okay, that just means you have to accept as they accept. Affirmation Means You have to wholly now embrace their ideology. And if you don't embrace their ideology, tolerance is non-existent with the left. They really don't believe in tolerance. They believe in full-on Full on um Practice and not even acceptance.

Acceptance is too light of a word. You have to wholly embrace their ideology as they do. Anything less than that, they define as bigotry. I mean This is I can't the bathroom thing is so dumb. I mean, real simple.

It's a real simple question here, Slick. Uh, you got a franken beans? You go to the franken beans bathroom. If you don't, then you don't. That's it.

Ann, any questions? I mean, it's And it's sexist either way. You know how I've always said that if men feel uncomfortable in men's rooms. They're accommodated and told that they can use women's restrooms. And then, if the women feel uncomfortable, if the men are in there, they're called bigots.

This goes the other way, too. If a woman wants to cosplay as a dude, And she feels uncomfortable in the women's room. Then they force the dudes to accommodate her.

Well, what if the dudes feel uncomfortable? Oh, shut up, dudes. That's sexist. You're upending the world for a tiny fraction, tiny little. I mean, nobody has a right to a bathroom.

Shut up. It's a bathroom. Golly. Everything's a felony and they turn everything into a natural right and everything that's a natural right isn't a natural right anymore.

Well, you can't defend yourself, but you do have a right to leave a deuce anywhere in anyone's toilet at any time.

So that's the trade-off you're getting here. Anyone else f like a little bit disillusioned by that?

Okay, I have more. Oh my gosh, are we going to get through this headline? I got more woke ready for you. I'm so sorry. This is going to happen, though.

So, um The LA Times actually wrote this story. This is the headline. How white and affluent drivers are polluting the air breathed by LA s people of color What? Yes. They said that They are citing a new study cane from US C.

researchers. And they said that It's a function of racism. The fact that all of these white wealthy Los Angeles these are the individuals polluting the air for the people of color in Los Angeles to breathe.

Now Just let me pause for a moment. The reason, if you were to make this article work in your head. You have to immediately accept The premise that is assumed on the onset. And that's begging the question. Because they're assuming the conclusion, Of their premise is true, and they're just going to go into this big, old, long article in the Los Angeles Times based upon that.

Except it's not.

So, you would have to immediately believe at the onset of this piece to make it again work in your mind. That There are two things that are her that are actually real. that black people in Los Angeles don't own cars or drive. And also apparently that white and affluent people in Los Angeles have a special alien in-body filtration system. That immediately filters out all the pollution and dust and and other particles from their precious, precious, superior lungs.

Apparently you have to believe those things. in order to read this article and make it work in your head. Because I just think that even intimating I mean, it seems kind of racist. The way that they approached it. Right?

So They said that It's You know, it's because it's racist. That's why cars are racist. Traffic is racist. They cite. how there were more highways near Minority communities than white communities.

Well, guys, uh who was in charge of that whole highway program and all of that stuff after World War II? Hmm. What party was it that did the urban planning and the big new deal and everything else? And all oh, that's right, it was Democrats. Oh yeah.

But we're gonna ignore that, I guess, right? I don't know. Maybe. I just I it's one of the dumbest things I've ever read. I mean, who knew?

I mean, I just I I have I know a lot of black Los Angeles residents and they have cars. All of them. Everyone of every everybody I know has a car there. No one walks in LA. That's why Missing Persons did a whole song on it.

Nobody walks in LA. They don't. It's not a pedestrian community. It was the USC's Soul Prize School of Public Policy. Golly, literally everywhere is racism.

This is the gold medalist. this year of racism everywhere.

So basically If you what if you don't support certain Like uh Highway programs or something? Are you going to be racist? I don't even know. But wait, do we not all breathe the same air? Yeah, we we do.

Author in the Los Angeles So they're arguing that the air for people of color is different than for people not of color? And like, what if you're You know, maybe partially of color and partially not of color. Like, Kane, do you have to take turns with each nostril and breathing certain types of air? Yeah, my left lung maybe. differently processing things than my right lung.

I mean, I feel like that bears investigating in terms of science and research. Think about that. I mean, you know, who knew? I mean I mean, maybe. You know how we uh Are you able to make these electric vehicles and you can They're putting these devices on them that mimic the roaring engine.

Maybe. you could put some sort of system on the car that only sends the pollution to the white people's houses. Just funnels it right there. I mean, I don't Quite an idea. I don't know.

I d cannot even get around this. I cannot even get around this. But when you look also too at the Los Angeles, the makeup, the county makeup, It's something like almost 50% are Hispanic. The white population is 25%, Asian is 14%.

So, are they saying that Hispanics are white? Are they why did Jason There is white adjacent. Oh my gosh. This is one of the dumbest articles that I ever had the misfortune of reading. It killed several of my brain cells without the benefit of alcohol.

And I feel like I'm owed an apology or some kind of restitution. You know what I mean?

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I don't want to look. Actually, I don't really want to look at it anymore. I was looking at all this budget stuff. I'd actually rather look at the Wokery than I would the budget because. This cannot pass the House.

I really don't think that it will. But You know, at the same time This is a lot that they're throwing at it. I mean, it just. It is wild how they think it's and this would be worse, I think, too. I think if they had a House majority, it would be worse.

It really would. I think it would be a lot worse.

So this is just as pretty. Uh pretty comical.

So The Yeah. The red, the five trillion. A lot. and a lot of middle class are going to get hit. I mean, I'm just looking at some of this stuff.

There's Republicans have their own budget. They want to cut back all this government spending. They don't want to penalize taxpayers with higher taxes. I mean, they're just they're asking why do we have to s why do we have to spend all of this excess cash? that we really don't have on things that we're really not supposed to be spending our money on.

I mean, that's including the big giant pay raise. We have too many damn federal employees. Why do we need to have a pay raise? You know what? We need to have a job cut.

with federal employees. We have too many federal employees. and to expand it by 87,000? I don't want these, you know, and I really don't think it's going to be like that. I feel like Kevin McCarthy is hell-bent.

On Rebuilding Any like his reputation as like a stalwart, I really am getting those vibes from him. Because a lot of people were saying that he's a moderate, all this stuff. I mean, he's busting kneecaps out there right now, I will say. We're going to talk about some of this because you better be glad this budget may not pass. We've got that.

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And even with Twitter. You cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. And when I say lawful, I mean non-criminal speech because plenty of speech is non-criminal. I'll give you one. The gentleman's time expired.

I'd ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the following email from Clark Humphrey, Executive Office of the Presidency, White House office. January 23rd, 2021, that's the Biden administration, 4:39 a.m. Hey folks. This goes to um Twitter, hey folks, wanted to use the term Mr. Mr.

He used they used the term Mr. Goldman just used wanted to flag the below tweet and I'm wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it Removed A SAP. Boom.

So he goes, and then if we can keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same genre, that would be great. This is a tweet on the very issue that Matt Moffat. Why would you do that? Why would you do that to yourself? When Jim Jordan asks you a question.

You just go ahead and figure Jim Jordan has every bit of dirty evidence that related to that question sitting right there in front of him. He's baiting you and this This Blockhead walks right into it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Top of our second hour, ladies and gentlemen.

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Now, this was from the ongoing subcommittee, House Oversight Subcommittee, the Weaponization of Government. And you have Government officials going, We weren't talking to Twitter. We weren't talking to Twitter people. Oh, here's the email. Where you were literally saying, hey, pull this person's tweet because we don't like their bad thoughts.

I mean, that's that's what he just did, they're lying. They're lying about this is golly, this is Whenever Jim Jordan questions people, I just feel a warm, fuzzy feeling of satisfaction, right? It's the same feeling as getting a cup of hot cocoa and sitting by the fire. As you watch your enemies burn. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

No, that's not the last part. But there was that was pretty that was that was a good line of questioning. They are absolutely hysterical. Listen to this. This audio is 1 by 7.

Representative Garcia asks Barry Weiss, who is a lesbian. And has a partner. And Matt Taibbi, a question that I can't even believe this was asked in a professional or government setting. Listen. Led by a friend, Barry Weiss.

My friend Barry Weiss.

So, this friend works for Twitter, or what is her journalist. Sir, I didn't ask you a question. I'm now asking Mr. Schillenberger a question. Miss Ma'am, Barry Weiss, is a journalist.

I'm sorry, sir? She's a journalist. She's a journalist. So you work in concert with her? Um Yeah.

Do you know when she first Was contacted by Mr. Musk? I don't know. You don't know.

So you're in this as a threesome? There were many more people involved than that. There were many more people involved. She did that on purpose. Are you being paid to be here today either through consulting fees, campaign contributions to your next run?

Gentle ladies. This woman is nuts. She was the one who was like, I don't know what a sub stack is. I mean, can we not have a technologically illiterate lawmaker? Ask questions about this stuff.

So it was Schellenberger, Weiss, and and Taibbi. Who We're there. She was I mean 'Cause I think that who came out with the first Barry Weiss came out with the first, and you had Michael Sh Mike Schellenberger. And then met Taibbi, and then they each took turns. putting out stuff on Twitter.

And then I think Schellenberger would put stuff on SubSec. He was the one where she was saying, Well, I just don't know about the SubSec. What is that? I don't know any. Why are you asking quiet?

Why are you asking questions? You have, again, technologically illiterate. Lawmakers asking questions about something they do not understand. My gosh. I this is they they're just mad because they can't control.

this facilitator of discussion anymore. it was har it was hard to watch any of her questioning. I watched a couple of clips from her. I'm not going to play him because I'm going to get frustrated and mad and throw something. Because it sh this she was When she was read first off, when she was reading the questions.

I just I would go out I would go so far as to say she didn't prep at all. before this hearing, number one. Number two. She read the questions, not like somebody who wrote the questions, somebody who was familiar with the issue that they were talking about. It was like a ha a uh a staffer handed her a list of questions.

Because she was just struggling over basic concepts related to different platforms. And she was just struggling through these questions. It was so frustrating to watch. Oh, gosh. It's like, why are you even here?

This is such a joke. An absolute joke.

Okay, a couple of other things. The White House has ruled They've ruled out designating Mexican cartels as a foreign terrorist organization. That was Wednesday, yesterday well, Wednesday evening. They said that designating them would not grant us additional authority that we don't have at this time, as the Karine Jean-Pierre said. She said the United States has powerful sanctions.

I mean, the sanctions can be powerful. The Taxing can be powerful. But they don't do that either. That's the problem. They're not even doing that.

We were talking about this a little earlier, how the cartels. Hogtide, the the five of the So do you have the the golf cartel and then they have a little subsidiary group? called the s it's like the s the scorpion group. Actually, it's what they're called, the scorpion group. And those were the ones who apparently went and attacked.

These four Americans, and the golf cartel hogtied them, pulled their shirts over their heads, and left them literally in the middle of the street in Matamoros for law enforcement. They had a note that says that we're so sorry, and anybody who they didn't follow, this is, they said it was quote indiscipline, and that these people, these individuals didn't follow their rules and all that stuff. And they apologized to like the Americans and the families. That was very different. I mean, we laughed about it when we first talked about it last hour, like, wow, they're.

They act like they're more accountable than our own government, but trust nothing. What have I told you? What is one of my many, many, many sayings? Trust no B. I just I don't trust it.

There's a there's w a reason why Now, you could think that it's PR. They're trying to make themselves look. There's no you cannot have Look, there's no way to wash dirty work and make it good work, okay? It's still dirty work. I just Think that they did not want the additional eyeballs.

And some say that And I've heard this, and I've read a couple of think pieces on this: that it's the discussion of treating them as a terrorist organization, or it is the move to maybe send the military to battle the cartels or something like that. They want to be able to continue doing their work, so they did this as some cartel PR. to show that No, no, no, we can we don't need you down here to do this. We can do it. We can police it and keep it safe.

Ah, that's what we can do. I don't know if that's going to work though. But you know the problem is that It doesn't matter. Because the administration is not going to do anything. When I listened to Corinne Jean-Pierre When she was stating that, no, there's a, you know, there's no reason why.

She said that they That uh She said that there's no reason to treat, to classify them like this at this time. And she said that, oh yeah, we have sanctions and other tools to combat these narcotics trafficking organizations, and we have not been afraid to use them.

Well, no one's arguing whether or not you're afraid to use them. The issues that you just don't. It's not that they're afraid to use them. It's that they just don't because they need. the influx at the border.

I'm telling you what. I mean this is And there's all kinds of stuff. There was a cartel. That there was a cartel that was sanctioned, one cartel that was sanctioned, Treasury Department. They were a part of the Sinaloa cartel.

And they are part of the network of cartels that work with uh fentanyl trafficking. And they apparently Uh they and the Jaliska New Generation cartel, CJ NG. The New Generation Cartel was engaged in timeshare fraud. And so they were the that group was hit. by the Treasury Department.

But if you can the Treasury Department can find you and hit you. That means you're pretty hitable. You know what I mean?

That's That seems like the least you can do. And just put that out there on the table. It just seems like they could you could do a little bit more. Hmm. Okay, so Uh a couple of other things.

A new low. Did you guys see this story about uh Colin Kaepernick? Colin Kaepernick. Who is a horrible player? Which is why he's been out of the game for so long and he wasn't even a valued player when he was in the game.

He's completely overrated and he is mad that he wasn't worshipped as a star player and then he has decided to interpret that as racism instead of having to confront the fact that he just sucks.

So that's really ultimately the core of the issue here. You're welcome. Free therapy.

So he's now accused his white adoptive parents of, quote, perpetuating racism. And he called parts of his upbringing, quote, problematic. He has a new graphic novel called Change the Game, and he told CBS News that he knew his parents loved him, but there were still very problematic things that he went through. And he said that His parents disagreed over his hairstyle. He wanted to get, he said corn roast so he could look like Allen Iverson.

And his parents said that it wasn't professional, basically telling him he's going to have a harder time to get a job if he doesn't have a professional hairstyle. And He basically was like, that's racism. You know one, when I was in college, I had shaved my head and I had piercings in my face. And my mom said that I was I looked unemployable. I didn't realize that she was racist.

Listen to this. I have somebody 21. This is him talking about it. It was crazy. I know my parents love me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through.

I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home. And how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated. He took cues from his icon. Basketball star Alan Iverson, who he said. His mom was, his parents were saying, look, you have to have a professional, I know what they were saying, you have to have a professional hairstyle.

And He's like, Oh, that's racist. My mom told me, she was like, You can't have that in your face. It's unemployable. You look unemployable. Did I guess she's racist?

Who knew? Wow. Any time parents tell you that you're you're a parents may harm your job opportunities. Who knew that was racism? Wow.

so problematic. He's the male Megan Markle. You know what? Except he actually did at least get in the big leagues on his own for a second. I just Man, suitcase Kaepernick.

That's right.

I just, I can't even. This guy is so, when does he not bitch about something? Oh, woe is him Oh, it's the NBA. Oh, it's all this other stuff. Oh, it's this.

Oh, it's that! No, my parents did love me. They're so mean to me. They wanted me to look nice. and get jobs and be wealthy.

And do good. Oh, they're so mean. I mean, shut up. Gosh, you have such first world problems. First world problems.

I just it just amazes me. There's like poor people with like one tooth together on meth sitting out somewhere in the backwoods that wish they could have these problems. Gale. Shut up!

So tired of this. Everybody's mean to me. The cars are bad, roads are bad. My parents just t We have a lot more to get hit as we have some headlines coming up, too. We have some Second Amendment cases.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick V, brought to you by Caltech.

So apparently there's an epidemic of e-bike fires ripping across the country. According to New York City officials, a supermarket and an apartment building were destroyed on Sunday due to a fire caused by an electric bike. The rise in reports of lithium-ion battery fires across the area is apparently, they say, an intended consequence of the green mobility trend. Wall Street Journal had reported a New York City fire department revealed the number of e-bike lithium-ion battery fires had more than doubled. Last year to 216.

They've injured 40 people and killed two so far this year. I saw one. It took like a whole firefighting crew to actually deal with one of them. That's nuts. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized.

He said he's going to be apparently going to be being treated for a couple more days and treated for concussion. He tripped and fell at a DC hotel. The 81-year-old remained in the hospital Thursday being treated for concussion, but he's expected to recover and then be back at work.

So that's man, that's a third senator's out now. Come on. Tiger Woods's ex claims that he sexually abused her and she's suing him for $30 million. It sounds like she's just looking for some cash. That whole headline.

Sometimes I'm like, okay, the dude messed up.

Now can you stop? I don't know. But he also can pick some better chicks, I think. Uh let's see. This is this is wow.

This is a Maryland bill. Assist WSBT that would prevent anyone from under the age of 25 from being charged with felony murder. Yeah, they so like if there's a getaway driver and they kill a pedestrian while fleeing the scene of a crime, that's still felony murder under current law.

So the Democrats in the state want to remove that so that anyone under the age of 25 can't be charged. Are you going to also do that with voting? You're going to make it to where they can't vote until they're 25 too? Good grief. Where's some of the stuff?

I just, I'm like, where are you getting the ideas for this insane, this insane legislation? And the FDI, the FDI, FDA approved a Pfizer nasal spray for migraines that apparently is supposed to relieve symptoms in 15 minutes. I don't believe it. I don't believe it either. Stay with us.

We got more in store. Politics, pop culture, and whatever else gets canceled, tossed in a blender paid for by sponsored hate mail, it's the Dana Show. Healthy and corporations just begin. to begin to pay their fair share. You know, when we talk about 28% tax rate, Where are we?

break and was 28% tax rate. you know, that wacko liberal guy, you know. The idea that that's an unreasonable amount, but I'll get into that later. Anyway. Wow.

Do you know why he can't actually get in that later? First off, welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash here with you. That's Joe Biden who was speaking just a little bit earlier. You know why he can't get into that later?

Because when Reagan took office, the tax rate was like 70%, a little above 70%. He lowered it to 28%.

So be honest. And he could have lowered it still. That's one of the reasons why the tax cuts were so monumental. That was the BS that everybody had to put up with under Carter.

So when Reagan took office, taxes were jacked so high that the country could barely withstand it. He cut taxes to that point. Democrats would raise taxes beyond that. The number that they've landed on now, that was after a fight with their moderates, like there's two left, Sinema and Manchin, just to get to that point. They wanted it a hell of a lot higher.

They sit here and act like Reagan jacked taxes up to 28. No, he wanted them lower than that. And he was also fighting against Democrats in Congress.

So get it right if you're gonna quote it. I mean, hot damn, this man was in DC at this time. How in the hell am I, who wasn't even alive when that stuff was going down? How am I remembering this better than this old fart? Golly.

I can't stand that! Stop it! Get it right. That's I mean he the lowered it drastically That was a huge, and by the way, he also raised revenue. And you know, one of the reasons one of the ways that he did this, ways that Democrats won't even consider right now.

He used methods that Democrats will not even consider. He lowered the top marginal tax rate. And it was 70% in 1980. Like technically I was like two.

So he lowered it. It was two in 1980.

So I still don't really remember. But I mean, it was by the time 1988 came around, it was 28%. He had to chip away at it. And here's the thing, while he was doing this. And this is all public information, government data.

In revenue from the income tax, individual income tax, as people were taxed less. Revenue to the government increased. Huh, imagine that. The same phenomenon happened under Kennedy. Yeah.

And that's even when you adjust for inflation and wage growth. or population growth, I should say.

So That's that's the big difference here. Democrats aren't wanting to do any of this. Democrats are wanting to tax everything. Crypto, your Etsy transit, everything. We're going to have the debt hitting $51 trillion in 10 years.

That's what his budget plan would do, because he doesn't want to cut. Government spending. And while he does not want to cut government spending, he also simultaneously doesn't want to. Continue tax cuts. They keep saying that it was reckless and irresponsible that the previous administration with tax cuts.

I thought they could have cut taxes more. They lower the corporate tax income rate to make it, you know, one of the it's crazy that the freest country in the world should have one of the most punitive tax systems in the world. It's ridiculous. But lower the corporate tax rate. We saw businesses booming, all kinds of good stuff happening.

Revenue increased because people had more of their own money to do with what they saw fit. which is usually means they're better stewards of it than the government is. And now he thinks that the and there was some spending, there was some spending initially that was cut. There was a lot of bureaucracy that was cut. The one thing I will say is that Republicans in the previous administration did not cut spending as they should have, and that was a problem.

Because now Democrats can say, oh my gosh, you gave all these people tax cuts and look what it costs. No, the spending didn't decrease. That's what was the cost. The government can't look at people's revenue and be like, that's our money. That's how they justify saying tax cuts cost.

That isn't your money. That's our money. You're not owed a thing. Hmm. So this Him saying that is so incredibly disingenuous.

And you have people out there going, oh, that's right. Right.

Woo! Seal clap. Oh, oh, oh. Jimmy Christmas. Economic illiteracy is a major problem in this country.

Yeah, but that's the that's the budget. You couldn't you couldn't lower You could not lower the tax rate doing the stuff that he wants to do. that Biden wants to do now. You couldn't do it. Because he I mean, golly, and the fact that he's presenting this as I'm still going to reduce the deficit.

You have a 5.2 percent raise for Federal employees, largest since Jimmy Carter. Increasing taxes. And uh the tax on households It's going to be what, like $100 million. I mean, it's crazy.

Social Security tax increases, Medicare. Oh my gosh. I mean, it's n and really nothing for the border. Nothing for that. Kind of an issue, you would think.

Yeah, you want to make sure that you Or I mean, the southern border, that's a big problem, especially if we're having all this issue with the cartels. All these taxes. And We still are struggling. But jobs. Revenues down.

All audio sound by 17. Janet yelling. The way that the fact that she says our investment in the IRS, which is a phrase I never want to hear. Listen to how she listen to how she talks about the IRS here and your money. A strategic priority for our administration this year is to work with you to effectively implement these laws.

And we're seeing the early results. In just seven months, we've seen a wave of tens of billions of dollars of investment in clean energy manufacturing across the country. and our new investment in the IRS is already paying off. Taxpayers are getting drastically improved customer service this year. Oh, it's the customer service, the taxpayers we're stealing from because taxation is theft.

Are getting good customer service.

So we're treating them nicely as we stick our hands in their pockets. That's what she just said there. What a joke. Yes, they're getting good customer service. The customer service isn't the problem.

The fact that they exist is. That's the issue. $87,000, the investment. What's the return on our investment? Because normally, when you make an investment, you do so with the expectation of making money off said investment.

I mean, we live in a realistic society. Do you work for free? Do you just out of the goodness of your heart get up at the butt crack at dawn, going to work and put in all those hours away from your family?

So for free? Because you just love the people you're working for so much. You just want to do it for free. You so believe in someone else's vision that you want to do it for free. Is that is that the point?

I mean, kudos to you if you're one of those people who can live off magic. Everybody else gotta pay their bills. Everybody else has to pay to put food on the table. They gotta pay to keep the lights on, to keep the house warm or cool. They have to pay for gas in their car.

Now they, everybody else, they have to pay. It's like that skit from Dave Chappelle when they were like, Now tell us why you would like to work in. Working frozen yogurt. And he's like, well, I've uh always had a lifelong passion because I'm broke. I mean This investment.

When you talk about investment, you should be getting a return on that investment. What is the return that we're getting? I mean, I know one thing came. I don't think I could say it. That's what we're getting.

I can't tell you guys that. But That's what we're getting. That's the r that's that's all we're getting. That's all we're getting. Walk on walk on fine line there.

It's not a fine line, it's the truth. It's just uncomfortable and you all know it. It's the truth. It's painful and uncomfortable. You know it.

So I uh I don't know what the return, what return, have you gotten a return on your investment, Kane, how much money have you made on investing in the IRS? Oh, man. How much do I make? What amazing customer service? Am I right?

I'm sorry. I have no return on investment. None. It's all negative. I mean, they act like you show up at the IRS office and they're like, hello, would you like a chilled bottle of water?

Thank you. I mean, they should be rolling out the carpet for you. Right?

Rolling out the carpet. You ever go? To so I have to do this. When I was younger, I was in college and A great aunt I could tell that Nordstrom really liked her. because when she would go in to do some shopping in the lady section at the Nordstrom, they'd bring her like some cool bottled water and all this stuff and I could tell they really liked her.

Uh because she spent a lot of money there. And I'm like, hmm, you know, and then they've really rolled out the red carpet. Like, she had, I didn't, I didn't know this until literally I was then years old when I learned that certain department stores had what they call these concierge, like people that you can shop through. I mean, it's kind of an amazing way to make money if you think about it, but And I was just thinking about this in terms of the IRS when I heard Janet Yellen say this. I'm like, the way that she's talking for your investment, you should be showing up at the IRS office.

And they'd be handin' you a chill bottle of water. If you needed to use the restroom, they'd ask to even clean you off after. I mean, you know, for the investment of all the dollars you're putting in there. Would you like a glass of champagne, sir or madam? Sit down here in our most comfortable chair.

I mean really that's if you think about it For that kind of money, that's the service that you should be getting.

Now, pray tell, what kind of service are you getting? Janet Yellen acts like: well, the reason that you've been so mistreated is because you don't give enough of your money. This in any other context would be a scam. Right?

It would be a scam. But no, this it's government, so it's legit. I mean, theft is theft until the federal government sanctions it. Then it's legit. Good grief.

It's what it is though. Gun running isn't gun running unless the it's not legit until the federal government does it. You can't hand guns to the cartels, but we can. You know? I mean It's this whole it's it's just it's It's a scam.

It is a scam.

So This uh man, the Medicare taxes. They want to go after those me it's all the class warfare same stuff. Republicans would like to have they have their own budget, they want cuts. Can you imagine? And if people are getting entitlements, or if people are on any kind of government.

uh any kind of program They think that there should be some sort of, you know, evidence of trying to obtain work as well, so you don't just live off of government benefits. if you are young and healthy enough to work. Oh my gosh, it's offensive though. to Democrats. They find that offensive.

I don't think ultimately that this is going to pass the House. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to try to take another run at it. It actually is kind of dumb for Democrats to do this this close to the election. Republicans should drag it out until it's time, until it gets closer to the election. 'Cause then that Democrats would have to sit here and argue about why they want to tax everything.

Just saying. It just seems like that's that would probably be That would probably I think be the best strategy. We have a couple of other things coming up, including a Second Amendment win.

So via the Associated Press, Visa and MasterCard. have paused a decision to track firearm purchases. You know how they were talking about affixing these codes to different different purchases and you can kind of track what's who's buying what It's not really a registry, but it's kind of a registry.

Well, they've decided that they're not going to do that anymore. We're going to talk about that coming up. As well. We'll also get into. Ooh, I got some China headlines for you: Democrats, Wokery, Ridiculousness, and more.

We have Florida Man on the way. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. Woo! It's time for Florida Man.

Mm-mm-mm-mm. All right, so first up. No, I'm not going to do that one. No, not doing that one either. Dude.

Let's do this one. This seems very very First off, floor to man Trevor. I can't I'm not he was like daria that was literally this the email It was to Dana Radio and it said, dare ya. Dare ya. Yay.

Oh no, I'm going to do it now.

Now I feel, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Florida man tries to assault woman. In Brevard County And Tripped.

He had his stuff hanging out of his shorts, and he tripped, and it got bad. I don't know. Just say this.

Okay. He's been arrested and charged with several felonies, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and robbery.

So his name is Donovan Adkins. He tried to, he was trying to sexually assault a woman at gunpoint. She refused and said, you gotta shoot me first. And he had been apparently. I mean, she fought him, and that's awesome.

But the thing is, is that when it started, he apparently. was trying to assault her with his stuff. Hanging out? No. And He ended up tripping and it was bad and apparently There was some stepping on some things, and I don't know.

No, dude, dude, when don't ever. Oh my gosh, there's no way I can talk about this story. There was the dumbest way to approach a woman and try to assault her with the franken beans already out because then you're just she's gonna just totally kill you. She's gonna murk you, and that's exactly pretty much what happened. Did she stop them out?

Yeah, yeah, she didn't care that he had a gun or not. I mean, she's just like, if you're gonna be this stupid. All right, there you go. Trevor, you happy now? A woman in a f in Florida found a f There Hundred Pound.

Eleven and a half foot alligator. In her pool. Her swimming pool that she swims in, her pool. You literally have to look in every body of water.

Now, I saw another story. It was a Florida story that it was from a couple of years ago, though, but somebody found a Gator in their attic. I don't even know, but they found a gator in their attic. This woman, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, arrived to collect the gator. Four.

Hundred. Pound alligator. and a half feet. That is insane. Absolutely insane.

Thankfully that, you know, they're all okay and they they came and they You know, they Golly. Uh, let's see here. Oh, I can't do this one either. No, no. There's also a beachgoers report an unexpected encounter with a fat naked Florida man.

Again in Bradford County.

Some Florida beachgoers are describing surprise encounters with nudists at a popular stretch of Santa Brevard County. Says one lady, there are big fat guys laying there like this, she said, demonstrating for the camera. I'm not even kidding you. There's apparently no federal law addressing nudity on that particular beach because it's a national park, but there are parts where it is illegal to go nude, Brevard Sheriff's Office says. Or just don't.

How about that?

Stay with us. So you described that the price increases had a disproportionate effect on black, brown and low-income communities, families. How did the administration's actions and the ensuring the ensuing drop in gas prices, how did it help those same families? We need to What? What?

High gas, you know, because all the white people are just swimming in their money, like Scrooge McDuck or something, and you know, the high gas prices don't bother those people. I just, what is with this? This is Corey Bush. Who is such a divider? Don't say too much about her there.

Don't talk about the what is it, Magic McShaman that they have with him. Her security guy I'm making this nub. It's like magic mc teeth fall out. We'll make you. Guy.

Ham. Yeah, he's a hundred nine trillion years old. I don't know. Good heavens.

So, welcome back to the program, top of the third hour. Corey Bush was saying that high gas prices only affect apparently black and brown individuals in low income. They affect everybody. And the fact that they affect everyone, including those demographics too. is why we need to really seriously address our energy problem.

But no, no, no. I got somebody 24. That's not what she wants to do. She's got the answer. It's giving our money to this.

We need to focus on making more public investments to lower our energy demand by taking actions such as expanding public transit and installing. energy efficient technology like electric heat pumps. Mr. Drummer, how does making investments in people through safe energy systems and people benefit climate justice? The hell is climate justice?

Well, it's funny that you ask that. It is a completely made-up term that is used as a veneer for just redistribution of income. That's literally all it is. That's it. That's all it is.

climate justice. It's a made-up phrase. It's a phrase used by grifters and snake oil salesmen. Climate justice. That's what climate justice is.

Climate justice. This is so dumb. Yes, let's go ahead. You know what? We live in such an amazing time.

We have at our fingertips. A tool to learn anything we want to learn. We have all these different forms of energy, one that always replenishes itself. oil and gas, petroleum industry. And You have far left Democrats like Corey Bush who want to take us back.

to the times when Our light bulbs were dim and made noise. We had the I mean, everything sucked. Everything sucked.

So it's like going backwards in time. Stop. Climate justice. That just doesn't, I'm just, golly. Doesn't make this makes no sense.

And then You have These issues, audio sum by twenty-six. Rashida Tlaib. All the members of the What is it? Bratpack, I guess. Yeah.

Telling Jerome Powell, they have to focus on executive pay and corporate profiteering. That's going to fight inflation. Oh my gosh. You have a lot of economic you know Projections, economic projections, various data. various reports that are coming out.

How much, and you've studied inflation, right? Obviously, it's your number one priority right now. How much is inflation impacted by these three things. Corporate profiteering. Executive.

Egregious executive pay. And the use of share, you know, stock buybacks. Spoken like an economic illiterate. It's embarrassing. That you have You know, as a woman, I would like to see other smart women in Congress.

And I feel like it sets my sex back to have someone so economically illiterate and just absolutely. purposefully ignorant. inexcusably purposefully ignorant. on this issue. as Rashida Taliban others.

Like I said, we live in an age where we have information at our fingertips. No, autodiadism should be celebrated. You can go and teach yourself if you don't know. And yet there are people who choose to remain ignorant on these issues. They have their own egos to believe in.

They don't need any facts. No, that's not Executive pay is not what drives inflation, okay? Golly, that's not what drives inflation. Whatever corporate profiteering is, you know, because companies are supposed to make things for free. You know that, right?

They're supposed to make products This is their mindset. They believe companies should just make products and give them away to you for free. I mean, who makes the products? That's what they forget. Like, they have a labor force that does that, they have a manufacturing.

Team that does that. There are people who do the packaging and the delivery. I mean, all of this.

So. Are they supposed to work for free too? That's what Democrats, their plan. an attack against corporations and all of that, it fails. No, that's people making money on goods or services.

That is not what drives inflation. Sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. drives inflation. Saying that you're spending money on infrastructure for 10 years and then you don't in 10 years actually spend any money on infrastructure and you waste it all on other stuff, entitlement spending, and then you have to come back and say we're going to need more money for infrastructure like three more times, that actually drives inflation. When you have a government that wants to spend more money.

than it can feasibly bring in. That drives inflation. Not this. There's a good piece of the New York Post that gets into some of the taxes. particularly on social security.

You know, it would be one thing. And I don't agree with this. I know some have made the argument. They've said, look, you could try to defend new theft. Oh, I'm sorry, taxes.

If you were cutting spending and you actually had a plan for a reduced deficit in a balanced budget.

So, even with this, though, here we're having a massive high tax burden. And we still have $17 trillion in new deficits. That doesn't make sense. That's so stupid. We would have I mean, our spending.

According to This is a good write-up by Brian Rydell. would surpass 25% of our GDP for the first time. after World War Two and the pandemic. Not a single cent. by the way, goes towards averting.

the insolvency of Social Security.

Now, what that means is that Democrats all the money. that my parents, grandparents already paid in. All their social security money is gone 'cause they took it and they they spend it on other stuff.

Now they don't have nothing in there. There's no reason why no reason in hell why it should be insolvent. But it's insolvent because they did they took your money They stole from you. And now They're like, oh man, we're going to have to tax people. Everybody's going to have to pay to make up that money.

And so They don't even address that in this budget. That's the other thing. They don't address it. But as Kane notes and as we've talked about over and over again, All the government would have to do. is to stop their spending.

Cut Anything that is outside of their constitutionally Directed spending, Article 1, Section 8. Anything beyond that, they'd have a budget surplus. It was a really good thing that Dan Mitchell was talking about this on break. Dan Mitchell, I think Art Laffer did. like ten years ago and they looked at cutting You know, what what would it look like if you cut?

All of these different unnecessary programs, anything that was beyond what the Federal Government should be doing. And what they determined was a ridiculous budget. Surplus. You could have the l one of the like the lowest tax rate. and still have a budget surplus.

But see, the reason that we are in this problem is because of unchecked spending. There's no other reason. That's it. And you have, you have also, like, for instance, some of the stuff too, the solutions, even the tax solutions that they propose in here don't do anything. Artle writes that Biden relies on new general fund transfers that don't actually save the government any money.

It doesn't change the trajectory of Medicare's $80 trillion shortfall over thirty years. And see, the problem too, when the way that they present this stuff, they're like, oh, it's 5 trillion, oh, crazy, 5 trillion in taxes. And then Democrats come out, oh, but it's for the rich. But people don't realize this. They're including corporate taxation in this.

That means more inflation because they can't just eat the cost. Would you eat the cost? And this is not coming out of people's salaries. I mean, this is crazy. This whole text the rich thing Is the refuge of the economically illiterate.

I think everyone should be required to take an economics class before graduating. K through twelve education. I think you should have to take it. That should be an absolute requirement. Economics.

I don't care about the physical fitness stuff. I think it's so stupid. Like in college, they even make you take some of that stuff. I get some of the criticisms, it's a racket. You gotta take this, you gotta take it, it's stupid.

Take what your major is. The whole higher education needs to be completely deconstructed, torn apart, and redone. Economics should be a necessity. That should be a requirement.

So should logic. It's crazy.

Now. You guys remember when we had the the uh ice ice magedden here? We remember it well. It's one of the reasons we got a big old honking generator.

Now we're just like waiting for a storm. But you remember when we had uh Ice Magdalen here? And everything, Texas froze, and Ted Cruz was going to go on a vacation with his family. And oh my gosh, the media, CNN, MSNBC, they were going crazy. And it was, you know, it was weird for Texas to to go through that.

California's been going through a major snowstorm. Gavin Newsome, very quietly, Went to Mexico during the entire time. Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's. He went to Mexico.

You know that? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I there was no, um There wasn't any like headlines. about him going.

There wasn't any photo of him in the suitcase. Or him him in the airport with the suitcase. No, he uh went over and he was he was vacationing. He didn't say where he was going, either. He just returned some days later.

All these people hadn't had power for two weeks. They had had volunteer search and rescue teams who were finding there were stories of elderly people who were freezing to death in their homes. And the media immediately came out. No, this is not Gavin Newson's Ted Cruz moment.

Well why not? Oh, 'cause it's D different. I mean, there were people who were stranded, all of it, and he left on a vacation. Didn't tell anybody where he was going. His office wouldn't give any details to the press either.

Now, then he came back all tanned and rusted. And then he requested a presidential emergency declaration after the blizzard. Hmm. No, he's He he left his state.

So that's no, it's not. It's not different. It's the actually, and Ted Cruz was a senator from Texas, he wasn't the governor. Gavin Newsome's the damn governor. Even more responsibility that he has.

And you left. There were literally Californians trapped who could not get help. And Gavin Newsom left. Went to Mexico. He was in Cancun, enjoying the sun and the surf in Cancun.

And people were I mean, you you when now if you say Cancun with regards to politics, people say what do they say in response to Ted Cruz? Mm-hmm. San Bernardino, Humboldt. all kinds of counties, and the others hadn't had power for twelve days.

So they were at. Remember, this follows. Red State had a list. uh his French laundry dinner, Or do you remember in Thanksgiving 2021, right after he extended the COVID state of emergency, he took his family to a $29,000 a night Cabo estate owned by a Russian oligarch? Mm-hmm.

People actually died. People died. and he was vacationing. And he's the governor. Not a senator represent he's the governor.

But it's D different. We have more to come. As we roll down here towards the is this our bottom of our third hour? relatively fast. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

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Yep, you are. You're welcome. Listen, follow, subscribe. The Dana Show. The president is just going back to the old dogma from the left of raising taxes after you've blown out the spending and you have to try to do something.

But his tax increases will be a disaster for the economy. Look, raising the capital gains rate to 39.6%, you might as well just tell everybody to stop investing and stop taking gains off the table. That's number one. Number two, raising the corporate rate back to 28% would make us significantly less competitive across the globe. It would actually diminish our ability to grow economically.

Yeah, he's right. That's Byron Donalds out of Florida. He is absolutely right. Welcome back to the program bottom of this third hour. Dana Lash here with you.

He's, I mean, that's that really, I mean, gosh, you realize what that's going to do to. Business growth. I mean invest everything. It's like if you wanted to totally tank the economy and make everyone's life hell, this is exactly what you would do. Hmm.

Makes me think.

Some purpose. What else are you supposed to think when you take these kind of moves? I keep seeing this headline about the Silicon Valley Bank. The Manhattan Branch called cops on investors trying to pull their cash out. A Boston Tech CEO with $10 million in the bank said it was the worst 18 hours of my life.

There were a dozen financiers, including former Lyft executive. who Dora Levi, who showed up outside of the building. Today. They were blocked from entering. They called the cops.

Man. I'm telling you. That's all in after the FDIC, they seized the bank's assets today as the depositors. They were all startup firms, tech workers. began taking their month their money out after this shock announcement of a $1.8 billion loss.

But investors are only insured up to $250,000. Jeez. There was one CEO of a Boston wellness firm who said she lost 10 million. I mean There were some a lot of startups that use that as their sole account and creditor. I mean oh man.

It's it's Man, by the way, you can always tell if someone's a tech executive because they're in black with tennis shoes and they got a backpack. What is with that, right? It's like the San Francisco peacoat and glasses dude look. I'm just saying. Yeah, there's oh man, this is just it's so bad.

This is so bad. I feel like uh We need to get Charles Payne on. I'm out next week. Uh, but I think after when I come back, we gotta have Charles Payne on. Because I either need Charles to tell me how tall the cliff is, I should jump off of.

Or if or he's going to talk us away from it. Because there is, I also think. Not that this is not a crisis. I mean, this is this is bad. All of this is the all of these signals are bad.

Rates are going to get higher. Inflation's going to get higher. This and if this bill God help us off. This bill passes the House, it's like a bomb going off the economy. We were doing so good coming out of the pandemic.

considering which we should never should have locked our economy down. But Now Hmm. Mm, tell me what.

Okay, so I have a couple of other things I want to anyway, we need to lighten it up. It's Friday, come on. I want to get some.

Well, kind of. Let me get this first.

So, some two-way stuff. I'm sure that you've seen these. It's kind of like it's sort of like a its own operation choke point, but the Visa and MasterCard and some of these other credit card purchasers, they were going to start categorizing using special codes like firearm purchases, purchases made at firearm stores, FFLs.

Now they say that they're not going to do that anymore. They made the decision out today that they will not, actually out last night, will not be doing this. which is that's a nice victory. They were going I mean they this would be allowing I People to credit and debit card purchases, it would allow authorities to see, like, if you purchased. You know, you went to a gun store and you purchased a you know a a a handgun or some ammunition or something like that.

The thankfully, these uh payment facilitators got a lot of pushback. A lot of pushback. And they should. There were also 24 Republican state attorneys general who wrote a letter. To these facilitators, these payment networks, threatening legal action if they moved forward with it.

And there are several bills from the AP. in several state legislatures across the country that would ban the tracking of these purchases at gun stores. And that would have actually made it even more difficult for Visa and MasterCard to implement this categorization system.

Now Visa had indicated in a statement that that pushback and the legal fights in some of these different states is partially the reason. That they have paused their implementation.

Now, it doesn't mean that you just, you know, dust your hands off and you're done with it. Paused the implementation. It doesn't mean they stopped it, it's just paused. They said that there is, quote, significant confusion and legal uncertainty in the payments ecosystem, and the state actions disrupt the intent of global standards.

Now, Visa and Master Guard MasterCard have said That the reason for the categorization for purchases at gun stores was out of their hands. They had cited the International Organization for Standardization. That's apparently the outfit that categorizes and uses and applies these merchant codes that are used when these payments are made. And Visa and MasterCard were saying, oh, we're just following their decision. And so When this changed, when people were pushing back against this, they were actually going to the International Organization of Standardization more so than Visa or MasterCard.

But It The I I just don't that's there's no even there's no reason to do this. I mean, anyone who's seen Operation Choke Point and the way to financially browbeat. And treat punitively through the financial system, whether it's gun stores or pawn shops or any kind of company that people don't like because of their politics. I mean, that's there's no reason to give them more leverage to do that. None.

None at all.

So that was. That was some good news here. That was to see that victory. It's nice to finally have a victory. Good heavens.

Now, a couple of other things I want to make sure that we are getting into. We hit the newsome thing. I have some. You guys remember Ratoni's Podesta, right? Everybody remembers the Podesta.

Good friends of Barack Obama. helped to facilitate the purchase of his Chicago mansion. You all remember that. Guess who just hired him? As a as a guess who just hired him.

Different copies? Oh. Huaiwei. Oh man. Yeah.

The CCP giant telecom system. They paid him a half a million dollars to lobby the White House.

Now they've apparently He's uh making some fat cash. He started working for them. Uh a few months ago. And he's a lobbyist for them now. Tony Podesta is literally a lobbyist for a CCP company.

This is wild.

I mean, is anybody surprised about that?

Now, this came, this is, you know, the news is just making the rounds now, but it came out a couple of months ago. But I don't think anybody's surprised about that. I mean this is The Podestas, th those brothers have their hands in everything. In fact, one of the brothers, didn't he want he was the one who wanted to get involved in Libya. He wanted to be there in nation building in Libya.

He was one of the reasons why the Obama-Biden administration, with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, were pushing to get Gaddafi out. Good grief. So in addition to that... You have this headline that comes from the Washington Examiner. Top U.S.

high schools. have collaborated with Chinese state military affiliated institutions.

So, they talk about how one of the top public schools in the United States got hundreds of thousands of dollars from groups tied to the Chinese military. It's the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, part of Fairfax County Public Schools, consistently ranked as one of the top in the nation. Its ties to Beijing, the examiner notes, have been largely unknown until now. They partnered with. A Chinese Uh institution.

And They they said it was for STEM program, but there's a lot of questions about the financing. the CCP influence. The board of directors. There's a lot of questions. Parents defending education.

By the way, I will have you note, that was the group that was founded by a Timocrat mom. A Democrat Muslim mother. And so They can't really sit here and portray it as being just one demo or another. They were the ones who helped unearth this, they were running it down. Fairfax is where they got started.

At Virginia schools, that's where all of that kicked off. And in fact, um parents defending education, they're Uh President. One of their officers said, We already knew that the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated America's colleges and universities through the Confucius Institute programs. They said it was frightening to see the same thing occurring through K through twelve. It's very subversive.

Very subversively done.

Now on top of this You have the story. of China With the we there have been stories of the the Farmland and the military academies. Free Beacon has some really good pieces on this as well. I think I put some of this in your prep. This is why I say not enough attention is being paid to this issue and being paid to the expansion of CCP activities, not enough at all.

So I'm I'm I'm I I'm just kind of uh just sort of shocking here. Uh in the meantime We have, I wanted to get this audio in real quick before, because I have a couple of other things I want to make sure I hit. Audio is done by 12. Listen to this. This is Jennifer Greenholm.

So We've been hearing about Uh, we were told that we were conspiracy theorists for gas stoves, etc., etc. Listen to this: audio sound by 12. This evening, we've done that survey, and I want you to know what is on everybody's mind. Number one. Are you ready?

I'm ready. Are you going to take away our gas stove? Oh my gosh. I hope you're kidding about that being the number one. But the answer is nobody is going to take away anybody's gas stove.

It's, honestly, that's like such a blown-up, ridiculous thing. But we did put out some, the Department of Energy does a lot with appliance regulation, making sure they're more efficient, right? And so we did put out guidance for both electric stoves as well as gas stoves, like we do for all the other appliances. And, you know, nobody's taken away anybody's gas stove if you like it. But we do love the induction stove.

But wait a minute. It's been a it's a blown up ridiculous thing, but We're actually doing it. This is what we're You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth on this stuff. I mean, this is this is one of the reasons why This story was huge in the first place. Then you had, what is it, the AFCL, the Nepo baby whose dad was had AFL-CIO?

Trumka, the Nepo baby Trumka, who is running, what is it, consumer services? Saying that, yes, this is something that needs to happen. It's very important. No, I don't think so. We have today in stupidity coming up.

Listen to the Dana Show live on the Odyssey app, weekdays noon to 3 p.m. Eastern Time. And that's on top of a half a million jobs we added the month before. All told, we've created more than 12,000, 12,000 jobs since I took office. What?

Okay. Okay. Twelve thousand. Yep. Not sure that's something you want to brag about, though.

Yeah, I mean, especially what was there, what were they projecting? Welcome back to the program. Oh my gosh! This is just so just Wild. This is a weird news day.

We were talking about, we keep talking about this SVP stuff. Uh, in the uh on break Because that's the the bank that was That I mean, basically the F D I C had to go in and and seize it. And they'd call the cops at the Manhattan branch and all this stuff. But they were also so exposed with tech. And it seems irresponsibly run.

And I don't know, I got a million questions. Because I was telling Kane, I'm like, there are so many people. I see like multiple attempts by multiple entities to use this for multiple different narratives. And I I agree with what you said, Kane, because we were talking about on break. It is kind of a, it is, I mean, a wealth redistribution scheme.

It really is. It is. Because people trust banks, that's where they put their money. They're always told, put your money in the bank, quit putting it in your mattress or in a shoebox. Make money by putting it in the bank.

And you have this insurance, this FDIC. Um well, people have found out that if banks are not responsible with their money, they could actually lose it, anything beyond that coverage of the FDIC.

So Yeah, one one woman at ten million, she's like a a wellness thing. Ten million dollars only gets a quarter of a million. Insured. That's crazy. That is crazy.

I mean, I so yeah, those people are panicking. There's man, there's some questions here. Questions here.

So the failure of S V B would essentially that would be the second largest bank failure in US history and the largest failure since 2008. I don't know. Kind of makes me want to go and bury stuff in the backyard. Not my backyard, just a backyard, so nobody knows where to look. Right, just like a random backyard.

Yeah, nobody'll nobody will know. I don't know. I feel like I need.

Okay, I need some, like, I need something stupid. I had some stupid stories. I thi I thought I 'cause everything I'm like, we it's Friday, we have to We ha it has to be a little you know, we gotta lighten it up a little bit 'cause it's Friday.

Now, I did have, we were getting to, oh, I will say, you know what? Who was a bright spot a bright spot last night when I was reading through stuff? Is Joan Collins. If I can pull this up, because Google Docs has decided to be stupid, she actually came out and was saying that all of this stuff with the wokery and everything else. is actually it's a it it She went off on it.

She was saying that it it's actually having a horrible effect on on women, and it's to the contrary. I mean, it's I labeled it as anti-wook. She was saying that Women's freedoms are being eroded. by political correctness. She's absolutely right.

That's I love that like some of these, you know, these old school like strong, like she is shoulder pads as a person. or coming out and saying this stuff. All right, I'm going to be out next week. But I will be back behind the mic on the 20th. In the meantime, We have today in Stupidity.

Now, I'll have some stuff at Substack Chapter in Verse coming out. The Harpies on the View brought on Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. And Jane Fonda. Said this about pro-life Republicans. Listen to this.

I don't care what the laws are, we're not going back. The women will rise up. That's the activist speaking, and she probably will get a Nobel Prize. But it's the truth very soon. It is the truth.

I'm not going to do it. Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest? Here we go.

Well it doesn't happen overnight. It's not a miraculous. What did you say? Murder. Murder.

Her hair's blue. Oh my god. Just me? Right?

Not in a punk way. Anyway, that does it for us today. Yes, I did mean to be mean. God bless, folks. Have a great week.

I'll be back with you on the 20th.