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Kiss him now. Yeah, so that happened over the weekend. We had a bill that that passed, that like made its way through. We got a lot of stuff to hit today. And the fight brewing in the house between.

Matt Gates and Kevin McCarthy, and I'm so tired of the political stunts. I am so tired of it. We're going to say some unpopular things. It's the day of some popular Monday.

So happy Monday to you, Dana Lash with you. And a lot of stuff to discuss because we've had the.

Well, because you have Trump showing up in New York. You have Jamal Bowman, who pulled a fire alarm. You have. What, the 60-minute stuff? You've got the budget, the GOPN fighting, the immigration, the oh my gosh.

And uh, oh, and then net neutrality's coming back. Yay! Kane is so excited about this because net neutrality is his most favored thing in the world. What's not? It's fake news.

Is that what you're telling me? Fake news.

So we got all of that, and that we're going to jump into because, yeah, the. It's a busy week. All right, so a lot of stuff is happening over the weekend. As you know, there was a continuing resolution that passed. Uh made its way to he side w like literally he had like minutes I think wasn't it?

Something like that, minutes of narrowly avoiding a shutdown, which I think we all actually wanted.

So it's only a 45-day thing.

So don't get too excited. Government's only gonna be funded for 45 days after this last-minute plan was approved. There was total chaos. There was weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

So, yeah, I was right, 45 minutes. At first, I thought, no, that's not right. No, that's correct. It was 45 minutes. 45 minutes.

And he signed this thing.

So we're going to do this again November 17th. I know you guys are so excited to have that big fight right ahead. Thanksgiving, yay. Who doesn't love to argue about that? Yay!

So exciting.

So. The The whole um the push for it. This now, it would have included $6 billion to Ukraine. They decided that they were not going to vote on their own CR. That's what the Senate had.

So the Senate's $6 billion. That was in the Senate version of it.

So they ended up. Voting on the House's CR.

So all the House's CR did is just extend. Funding levels as they currently are.

So that's all the house, that's all the house did. That's all their CR did. But again, we're going to be having the super fun again the super fun fight going right up to November 17th.

So it's just a 45-day, I don't want to say reprieve because it doesn't sound right, but it's like a 45-day, it is like a 45-day kind of reprieve.

So that's what we have.

So that fight, and then we've got from that, there was a lot of weeping and gnashing of the teeth. Oh, and then I'm sorry, I forgot we got the Feinstein replacement announcement too. Then there was the weeping and gnashing of the teeth. Within the Republican Party that was over this, which we're we're we're gonna touch on that.

So the whole situation with the CR, again, 45 days, November 17th is when we're gonna be back. I mean, it was a narrow thing, 45 minutes to spare. I just it just shocks me that all these people and this is what we got. We narrowly avoided a shutdown. Narrowly.

Please don't roll your eyes or just please do roll your eyes whenever you hear the phrase clean CR because I just don't know if I think this was a clean CR. Nobody, I don't think, thinks that. I mean, the current bill, we still are. Again, current funding levels, that still means current funding levels even for Ukraine.

So there's not new money for Ukraine because it wasn't the Senate's bill. We went with the House's bill. But still, to that point, It it just extends everything to it it just extends all the current levels.

So I'm not um I I don't know if I look at it as a win. And I don't look at it as a win because no matter what we would have done in the House, I think it was still going to be, it's going to be a disaster arriving in the Senate. The fact that the Senate, though, I will say, Went with the House's bill as opposed to pushing for their own. I think they did that only because they knew that they would be yoked with the responsibility, and their narrative about this being the Republicans' fault would have blown up otherwise because everyone knew that it was in their court at that point. Everybody knew that it was the Senate Democrats' responsibility then.

So. To that point, they kind of had to do it, but I don't think that that was a purposeful strategy from the House. Yeah.

So Biden's, he says it's not going to, the government's not going to shut down. While all this was happening, though, can we talk for a moment about, let me pull this up.

Well, let me get all my Jamal Bowman notes up over the weekend. Fire alarms are super confusing for Democrats, but I was told that this was an insurrection, so I'm going to go with the f with the insurrection stuff.

So Jamal Bowman. And he's the guy. Do you remember him? He's the anti-gun guy that got into a big old fight with Matt Gates. Do you remember that?

Or not Matt Gates?

Sorry. Not him, Thomas Massey. On the floor as they were like walking through and they were casting their votes. He got into a big old fight with him.

So, Jamal Bowman, he's very theatrical.

So he, it was, it was in the Cannon building on Saturday. Democrats were trying to delay a vote. They were trying to push all this stuff forward and they were demanding that Republicans vote on it without actually having read it, which this, I don't know how anybody does that, but that's what was happening.

So. He I mean, I'm just going to tell you what I think he did. I think he pulled a damn fire alarm to try to disrupt the boat. That's what it was. That's an insurrection.

Insurrection. I was told it's an insurrection. He's an insurrectionist.

So everybody was working. To avoid a government shutdown, and he decides: let's, what can I do? To Just to to create a distraction so they don't take this vote.

So you have squad member Bowman. He's and he's on I mean there's cameras everywhere. He pulls a damn fire alarm He pulls a fire alarm. And do you know what his people told Axios later? As to why he pulled the fire alarm.

'Cause he thought it was gonna open the door. I, too, also believe that pulling random fire alarms open stores came. What does he do if he like can't get into his house 'cause it's locked? Does he call nine one one? Hello, please.

This is Representative Jamal Bowman. I can't get into my House. Have you tried the garage door opener? I didn't even think of that. Do you have a key to access your home to unlock it?

Oh my gosh, yes, but. I mean, what does he do? Does he call 91 it's this is like the guy who goes to these great lengths over basic things. He tried to obstruct congressional business. There were people during J6 that were literally charged for that.

They were literally charged for obstructing congressional business. It seems a little Hmm. How does one say insurrection y? Right? Do you know he's a principal or was a principal?

Yeah.

Do you know that? I mean, so it's not like he's unfamiliar with buildings that have fire alarms and stuff like that.

So he's trying to sell this story. About fire alarms. He knows what the hell a fire alarm is. He knows that a fire alarm is not going to open a door. I mean, this was, they're trying to, Democrats were fighting this measure.

and they wanted to blame Republicans.

So they were saying, oh, well, we need to reread this stuff. We need to reread some of this that you're. They had stuff that they had in their possession that they could have taken this entire time to read. Then you had the Democrat whip. They wanted to adjourn to give a whole day.

Now keep in mind this was Saturday. The government shut down twelve oh one. A.M. The Democratic whip wanted to Shut everything down, give everybody a day. To read uh read some more stuff.

Democrats just wanted to stop it.

So thus You have. Jamal Bowman. pulling the fire alarm in the cannon building.

Now, some people, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, want him prosecuted with the same law that they used to prosecute J6 defendants for interfering with an official proceeding. Others called for his expulsion from the House. I think that would be a, because it would require a two-thirds vote. And that's if you can convince enough Democrats to go along with it. And that would mean Democrats would literally have to vote to expel one of their own, which is never going to happen, much less in an election year.

I mean, this guy's a member of the squad. They are going they would bitch and moan for the next forever. Democrats just don't want to deal with the drama. Jamal Bowman is a drama queen. He absolutely is.

He is as dramatic as a high school girl having a tantrum in Claire's boutique because they don't have whatever she wants. That's what he is. He's a drama queen. I think he's one of those people. I have like a group of people that I just mentally file away as not being serious lawmakers.

And I have some Republicans in that list. And Jamal Bowman is one of the Democrats that's on that list as well. And he knew exactly what the fire alarm was. He pulled it so he could create a distraction and delay the vote. That's exactly what this is.

So I just think that he should face the same strict rules and penalties that Democrats made other people face when they were throwing out the obstruction of proceedings charge. I mean, that's exactly what it is. I mean, the other two. I mean, you have. Um You know, in looking at this.

I mean, I've been in the Capitol. I mean, I don't even know why the hell he even needs to open the damn door. Because you can take an chamber floor, you can go to the lower level. And there are a ton of tunnels that go to the different buildings from the Capitol.

So lawmakers can just walk in the tunnels. That's remember back during the healthcare fight back in 2010 when Nancy Pelosi came with her giant Acme gavel and they were going to sign the healthcare bill into law and they made this great procession about doing it publicly. And I was on air at the time and I said the reason, well, it was Friday, they signed this on Saturday, but I had said that the reason that they did that is because they were making a theatrical spectacle of it. They could have taken the tunnel to go underneath and go to the floor from Cannon, but they chose not to do so so they could have the optic of them having to walk past the protesters. That's the whole reason they did it.

So, you know, with this, Jamal Bowman, if he needed to get back, you know, if he needed to get back to the floor, he didn't need to pull. Pull the fire alarm to open the door. And by the way, there are security dudes at every door. They have dudes. They have security guards at every door.

All you had to do was just go to the tunnels from Cannon and then go to the cap. That's all you had to do. I mean, it's not difficult.

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Okay, so uh Finance experts are warning of a bloody Sunday for Americans with decades-high mortgage rates, student loans kicking in, and Christmas spending all pressuring families. They start and the inflation, to say nothing of the inflation crisis that's continuing. The median monthly home payments are all going to have hit record highs. Hey, great job, by the way, great job. Joe Biden, you've really done it.

Really, you've just really outdone yourself with the economy on this, I gotta say, I gotta say. Also, moving on here. Oh, do you guys remember the bodega clerk? Oh, I'm sorry. Bogoda, according to Dr.

Jill Biden. Everyone's always like, Dr. Doctor, Dr. Jill Biden. His name is Alvin Bragg.

The bodega clerk who sued, well, who sued Alvin Bragg?

Sorry, Jose Alba is the guy who sues DA Alvin Bragg. Because remember, Bragg put Jose Alba in Rikers because Alba defended himself from this repeat violent offender. He was attacked by 35-year-old Austin Simon. Jose Alba, 61 years old. He was behind the counter of his bodega and he defended himself.

And in the ensuing fight, Simon was stabbed to death because he was trying to kill Alba.

So Bragg charged Alba with murder. And then he actually had to drop the charges because of the public outcry and he released him from Rikers.

Well, now Alba is suing DA Alvin Bragg for racial discrimination. And he said he was slung into Rikers for killing an attacker who was trying to kill him, killing the guy in self-defense. I hope his suit is actually successful. I really do. Because this is, I mean, I think that this is honestly something.

I really do believe this is the only way the left will ever learn. The world's first, okay. I swear to you, this is how Killing Floor started. the game. World's first humanoid robot factory is set to open later this year where they're going to have robots helping to build other robots.

It's like the Matrix meets killing floor, although, you know, right now it looks pretty rudimentary. They said that Agility Robotics has revealed plans to construct the thing that's going to kill all of us humans. The humanoid robot factory in Salem, Oregon. The engineers say that they hope to produce more than 10,000 robots annually and they want to enable humans to be more human. Basically, they want to get us all killed like that Will Smith slapping Chris Brock.

I can't ever talk about him without mentioning that. The iRobot movie, right? That's what this is. They said that they can, it's like they're giant Roombas right now, but don't let them fool you. They're gonna kill us all.

Also, very, let's see, a very large pig bittled through a Kingsland home, attacked a family, and has returned several times. Kingsland, Texas. It's a wild hog. They said the pig has come back repeatedly, attacking everyone, grandmas, grandpas, nobody's safe. Stick with us.

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Check out the best highlights from every show in Dana's Absurd Truth podcast, posted daily from The Dana Show. Do you still stand by your statement that Billy Fire Alarm was an accident? You know, I don't know why this has gotten so much attention. I was literally just in a rush to go vote, man. That's all it was.

Are you afraid of any repercussions either from leadership or from legally from California? I mean, listen, I take responsibility for what I did, you know, but like I said, I was in a rush to go vote. And, you know, the investigation will sort everything else out. Have you talked to Jeffries about it? Oh, yeah, of course.

That's day one, yes. How was that conversation?

Well, I got to keep that between me and the leader, so I'm not going to share that publicly. Yeah, but we've been in touch with each other.

So this was like just what, like a minute ago? Ten minutes ago. Jamal, it was five seconds ago, Kane. Welcome back to the show, Daniel Lash with you.

So, this is Jamal Bowman, who was just asked about all this, all the shenanigans that were taking place because dude legit straight up pulled a fire alarm, right? And, you know, that's what I always do whenever I want to leave a building. I just go absolutely spastastic and I just start pulling random levers. Oh my gosh, I can't get out of the building. Huh?

That's what I do all the time. Right? Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash here. You're hateful.

Smart Alec Cormudgeon. top or no sorry bottom of the first hour this Monday.

So I mean, it King, what does that red box on the door say? In giant letters. Fire. And so You would pull. that handle down in in case of A fire.

Fire. Yeah.

But in this this particular alarm, you have to push the guard that little plastic piece that's two steps. Yes, there's two steps. You have to push that guard in and out of the way, then get your fingers onto that lever and pull that lever down. And No door switch.

So Kay, what you're telling me is that you have to be incredibly purposeful. Oh yeah. Pool. That clever. Or Hank Johnson.

You're right. I mean, you know, Guam tipped over somewhere. But he just, the man just wanted to just, you know, leave the building as opposed to. Again, I've been to the Capitol, I've been in the tunnels. It's so much faster.

If you're going from like the house, the cannon building to the capital to just take the underground tunnel. As opposed to going out the door, going outside, then having to re I mean, it's so much faster to take the tunnels. And I don't know why. No, that's why nobody believes this. He just knows that most people.

Aren't dorks or lawmakers, and I haven't been over there and been in this. I mean, you should not. I mean, y it's your tax dollar, so I think you should know, but I mean, people are busy. They're trying to just like keep their butts covered, right? Like they don't they don't have time to sit here and and study up on the orientation of the cannon building as it relates to the capital and then all the tunnels underneath and then how the you know the egress, et cetera.

And he's counting on that. The every it just Like I said, does he call nine one one when he can't get in his house? If he's if Jamal Bowman meets his biggest challenge, a door. What the hell, dude? What is this?

They're trying to keep me in here. There's no way out. It's a door. And you know how many like security people are there? Like at every there was a dude who was probably right there.

This is all on camera. And then you had this, golly, the media.

So, this chick, she's got too many flipping vowels in her name. She's on MSNBC. That's all you need to know. She's just really trying to like run cover for him. Listen to this.

Audio soundbite two. Last thing I want to mention, and then we're going to take a quick break. There was a mention of Jamal Bowman, Congressman Jamal Bowman, and the pulling of some sort of fire alarm. And I just want to read for you some of the reporting so you understand what actually went on there. There were some reports that began to emerge about Representative Bowman, who was seen pulling some sort of fire alarm in the Cannon House office building earlier today.

We got a statement on that. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it from saying some sort of fire alarm. You mean a giant red-ass box that says...

Fighter alarm on it, that? Yeah.

It looks like he was trying to pull some sort of fire alarm. I just like, you know, I just want to comment on this really quickly. Why is she talking like she's his mom?

Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to like cut out, roll the little graphicky thing, and then we'll go back into the video.

Sorry, Juan.

Sorry. Juan's gonna kill me. Trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The congressman regrets any. Confusion, just to clarify some things on that, because I know there was likely some folks kind of scratching their heads wondering what it was they were asking Speaker McCarthy about.

I just, you know, I just want to run and I just, you know, they're probably like trying to. He didn't realize he would trigger. You know, Jamal Bowman is so stupid as a man. He didn't realize that when he pulled the trigger, when he pressed in the plastic with one hand, and then with his second hand, he pulled the trigger. That said fire alarm, pull in case of fire.

that it would actually trigger an alarm. He didn't know that. I mean, you can't expect him to know these things. You can't expect a grown-ass man in Congress, Kane, to understand that. Push in case of fire means it will sound an alarm.

And it's a two, he's smart enough to figure out the two-step mechanism. To trigger the fire alarm, but he's not smart enough to realize this says fire. I should put, I mean, what in the world? This is the guy. If he saw the red button, he'd be like, Should I push it?

Oh push it. That's him. I mean, I have like, okay, audio sunbite 4. Of course you had uh A or C. The Megan Markle of the Democrat Party.

Go ahead, go ahead and play this one. I said it. But they're filing a motion to expel a member who, in a moment of panic, was trying to escape a vestibule. Give me a shot. Oh my gosh.

What? In a moment of panic he was trying to escape a vestibule. I too have been trapped in vestibules, Kane. We must fight the tyranny of the vestibules. They are remnants of an oppressive society.

We no longer should have vestibules. I hereby therefore call. For an outright vestibule ban. We need common sense vestibule control. I mean, who among us, when they find themselves in a vestibule, Who among us doesn't go, I Who among us?

Gotta pull the first lever I see. I'm trapped in this vestibule. I'm going to die. I mean, literally, he walked in it freely, but you know, let's ignore that. Ignore that.

That isn't you know, come on. Oh my gosh, that's probably one of my favorites. In a moment of panic. Jake Tapper. He found himself.

I mean, it's like listening to Moira from C S C H I T T S, Schitt's Creek. If you love fruit wine as much as I do, Who among us has not found ourselves trapped in a vestibule? I could make one of this all day, and I actually may. But wait, there's more If you like that soundbite, you're going to love this. Audio Soundbite 13.

Let's play it. When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strong Thurman to vote for the Voting Rights Act.

Som Ferris. Um Okay, wait a minute. He was able. To convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act? He said this seriously.

So Strom Thurman. The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. Strong Thurman voted against it. And Biden left the Senate in 2009. Strum Thurman.

up and kick the bucket in 03.

So let me just figure this out for a moment. I know, right? I mean, I think you need some of that crack that Hunter has.

So Biden says, when I left the Senate, so he left the Senate in 2009, he convinced Strom Thurmond, who is dead, to vote. to to change his vote in 1965 against the Voting Rights Act. That's what he just said. Dude, he's magical.

So what I did is I went back in time, When Straun Thurman was alive, and I convinced him to change his vote. on the Voting Rights Act. and then I came back in time here. No, the reporter did not. Press him on this.

How are you a self-respecting person in the press. And you do not press back on that. What in the hell is wrong with you? I would do it even if I liked him, just for the giggles and the byline. I would do it just because I would want to do it, because I'd want it to go viral.

I literally would, shamelessly. I would absolutely do that. Perfect. Just to illustrate my point, if DeSantis had done that, I'd been like, wait a minute, so you're telling me. Yeah.

You're doing me right now. What is this? That story's not real. What if it's related? What if she saw Strawn Thurman on the flight?

I don't even know anymore.

So Man, he got a dead guy to vote against a bill that he voted against, or to not vote against a bill that passed all the way back in the 60s, dude. That is something else, Kane. The believable part is that somebody dead voted Democrat.

Well, yeah. I mean, totally believable. Totally the only believable part of that whole story. I I completely believe it. I How Oh my gosh.

The fact that the reporter did not, I just can't get past this little point. I'm so sorry. You're talking to a member of the press. And the press person is either a moron and doesn't know this. And I'll grant you, there are a lot of stupid people that work in journalism.

It used to attract people who were smart. But then it started attracting a bunch of thirsty fame whores who weren't pretty enough to be models. They weren't good enough on stage to be musicians or actors. They really weren't good enough writers to just write the great American novel. They really had no other discernible skills.

But they had a political bent, and that's all they knew. They had their politics. And so they decided to enter the journalism profession as like really just like a practice of self-adoration. And and they're some of the stupidest people that you literally will ever meet. And I've met many of them.

So I'm saying this from everyone. expert Expert opinion here. And the fact that this person did not, it's pro publica, isn't it? the fact that they did not Say, wait a minute. He's dead.

And he voted against it. The hell's wrong with you? It's stunning. Do they think it's good manners? To not correct him, you know, oh, well, I'm just gonna let him go.

It's rude. You're whether rude or courteous, that's irrelevant. Do your damn job. Good night. This is just embarrassing.

Here's the other thing. Do you think that he's just like super confused? Or is he such a liar that he just doesn't even care? Both I don't know. I think it can, I don't know.

I'm just. All right, so I have a million other things to get into because we got to talk about the Diane Feinstein replacement. It's crazy. Did you know Maryland's going to have three senators? Mm-hmm.

Because she lives in Maryland. I don't know if you knew about the Emily's list head. This chick from Emily's list that Newsom's pulling. And Selected to be Diane Feinstein's replacement. She didn't even live, girl didn't even live in California.

Girlfriend didn't even live in California. She lives in Maryland. Maryland's going to have three senators. How great for them. We're going to discuss that coming up.

Uh we're also going to get into the stupidest slap bite. between Matt Gates and Kevin McCarthy. And Matt Gates is well, he's in a super safe district, so he can kind of do whatever he wants to. I don't, I've met him before, and we were always like friendly. But now at this point, I'm like, what is your, I mean, I get that, I think he's a little self-obsessed.

And he kinda screwed up some stuff with the CR. And we're gonna have to have this discussion.

So if you're like his biggest fan, Uh, if you're his ver, if you're the you know, the political swifty for Matt Gates, you're gonna get really upset probably here coming up.

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Mm. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I hope you can. This experience. For the speaker.

has been one of a personal revelation. I'm not being facetious. I uh um Anyway. What? Dude, it gets worse every week.

We were just talking about this, it gets worse every week. It's like he got stuck on his loading screen. What in the world? And then the left will go, oh my gosh, but you know, Mitch McConnell. I would Mitch McConnell doesn't have the nuclear football.

Lunch box? He doesn't have that. He doesn't have the red button control. He's not the commander-in-chief of the United States. That's uh What's his name?

Bob Peters? What's his name? What's his second name? I don't even remember anymore. He's got.

I don't know. I can't remember it. This family's so weird. I too like to make up names to surreptitiously talk to my family about the weather, huh? No, nobody believes us.

Oh my gosh. I it is bad. It's bad with the his remark about him going back in time with Strom Thurman and it's It's Bad, it just gets so much worse. I don't think that he can make it through mentally. If he doesn't just completely have a meltdown or just stop talking or moving at all, I just don't see him making it through.

An actual another general election and another term. I don't. I really don't. I don't think his health's good enough. I don't know, but then Democrats, they'll keep him alive for forever.

You know, they'll hook him up to Michigan. They'll weaken a Bernie Zem. I don't put anything past these people. I mean, you know. I don't.

We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up, and we got to talk about this stupid slab fight right now. Between It's like watching the fight between the brothers and Napoleon dynamite right now with Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy with the House speakership stuff. We're going to break that down for you coming up. We also have some culture stuff.

People are mad over Bambi because I guess some people just realize that Bambi's mom gets murked. Yeah, I'm not kidding. Stick with us. Kevin McCarthy is going to get his wish. I don't think the adult in the room would allow America to sit atop a $33 trillion debt facing $2.2 trillion annual deficits.

I don't think the adult in the room would allow $8 trillion of this debt to come into refinancing at a higher level without serious spending cuts. And I don't think the adult in the room would lie to House conservatives. And that is exactly what Kevin McCarthy did.

Okay, this is where we're going to start having a little come to Jesus discussion because I get really, really tired of like congressional buttheads doing some really dumb stuff, no matter what side of the party they're on. This is why nobody wants to invite me to any parties because I hate everybody. I hate everybody, DC. Welcome back to the program, Top of the Second Hour, your lovable curmudgeon Dana Lash here with you. And let's break this down.

So, this is the big old power five. That's what Matt Gates said. He's arguing back and forth with Kevin McCarthy, who said this. Uh audio sound bite. Uh 19.

Listen. That's joined together to do what is right. If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it.

Now, McCarthy has his, he's got his faults. Everybody does. There's nobody perfect. And I have been, and I'm just going to say, before any of these populists who just joined the GOP and they think that history began the day that they were A, either born or B, had their political awakening when they were smoking pot at a college party, let me enlighten all of them. Like people like me have been bitching and moaning about the GOP establishment since Kevin McCarthy was part of the quote-unquote young guns.

Literally, that's the type, that was the title of his book that he did with Paul Ryan.

So take a seat, get behind us, because we've been like wailing about this for forever. We were out in the streets about stuff like this for forever. But if you're going to go with someone, A, make it legit, B, have a plan. None of which Gates does. Audio Sun by 20.

This is what McCarthy had to say about him specifically. Matt voted against the most conservative ability to protect our border, secure our border. He's more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something. He wanted to push us into a shutdown, even threatening his own district with all the military people there who would not be paid only because he wants to take this motion.

So be it, bring it on, let's get over with it, and let's start governing.

Now Whatever your opinion of Kevin McCarthy, that's irrelevant right now. Put it to the side. He's right there. What he just said is accurate. Would you like further insight into this?

Because the CR, and there were different fights and different versions that people were pushing. The one that was the most conservative. push forward because Regardless of what you think. There were going to be Republicans that were going to bring something forward. And people like Chip Roy and Thomas Massey, these people are more conservative than any of the people who are complaining about them or who ever have complained about them.

They were trying to get the most conservative elements beefed up. They got the Ukraine funding out. If they were going to have something pass, then let's actually have border funding. Let's actually make sure that our veterans are taken care of. And that's what the bill that they, that the, that the, that Royce supported actually was doing.

It was 30 days of funding. For military and veterans, it was a 30% cut in discretionary spending. And it was making a priority about Closing the border. And That's what Gates scuttled. And then, what you end up getting in exchange.

was literally nothing. All you got. Was an extension on funding at the current levels, including Ukraine funding. You tell me how that was a more conservative trade. I get it.

This is what I'm talking about. You get these thirsty ass people that get into Congress and they want the book deals or golly. I mean, they'd take over for Trump and shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue if they thought it could get them a damn contributorship on a cable news network. Damn, people are so thirsty and so desperate and have such low standards for themselves, it makes me sick. This is why I hate politics in D.C.

You get these people out there, they're willing to do whatever it takes in order to get their name out there or to get a little, get a media attention for themselves. I mean, this is uh Gates was fundraising off this stuff. He was using the division to fundraise. They don't have a plan. He doesn't have a nobody wants this job.

You literally Oh, yeah. of the Republicans in the House to agree to cut government. Granted, I agree with everything that's being said. Sure, you can cut more. But do you want to cut government spending?

Or do you want perfection? to be the enemy of good and not get n anything. This is what political strategy is. And some of these people are like, well, I'm a populist. I don't know nothing about no political strategy.

That's what that's like, what it's like dealing with. I'm just like, you've got to have some strategy. And no, you don't have to go to Yale or Harvard to understand this. Hell, I sure didn't. But I want to win, so I understand it.

You want to win, so you get it too. You don't want You don't want Like perfection. You don't want to make something ruin something because you want perfection. You've got to incrementally cut it back. And you literally had the entirety of the house that was on board with it.

You were for the next 30, you were funding military, you were funding veterans, you didn't have Ukraine spending, you were prioritizing the border, and Matt Gates literally decided to create a stunt because he wanted to fight with McCarthy more.

So now government is going to continue expanding and everything is at its current levels. That's what Matt Gaetz got you. I don't care if you love him. I don't give a rat's ass if you like him or not. That is the reality of what happened.

That is what he did. I get mad when anybody makes me spend more of my hard-earned money. My hard earned tax dollars on government to pay for someone else's ego trip. And that's lit that's exactly what happened. We have buying inflation.

Your wages are not keeping up with the cost of everything else. If you think that things are tough now, just you wait until it gets cold. And we're supposed to have a super cold winter this year. Your gas price, oh, wait till you hear about those regulations coming up. I mean, golly, people are gonna get pummeled.

And instead of cutting spending, instead of prioritizing our border, You're going to continue paying more. and extending funding at current levels because one congressman decided to have an ego trip with the Speaker of the House. And they make a real gaze is out there saying a real oh, I want to go and shit. We're going to challenge McCarthy. You never had the votes to do it.

Nobody wants the job. It's a thankless job. You have to hate yourself to want that job, honestly.

So they get I get aggravated at this stuff. Forgive the Portuguese, but I'm mad over it. Mi Gali, who isn't we're getting hit with taxes. We got eighty eight thousand new IRS agents out there. People are getting audited right and left.

You've got big government. We're spending tons of money on Ukraine. That's going to keep happening thanks to this little ego trip. that we had in the House over Speaker. I mean, good heavens.

Matt Gates is like the Eric Swalwell of the GOP.

So I wish that they did have. I mean, I wish they had like a backup plan, a realistic, practical, workable backup plan that got as, that can get as much. support as this one does. Or had. I mean, wow.

This is crazy. Crazy. This is performance. Art on the back of the taxpayer. And it was a Republican that did it.

Now I hope you may, if you're not, if you don't live on social media, I have to for my job. You might notice that the Trump digital surrogates are now going after Matt Gaetz. Pretty hardcore. Trump likes McCarthy. I don't care if you are not a Trump person or not, that's going to be an area.

His opposition to what Gates did is going to be an area of agreement with you. That's where the general thinking is on the right. There's a lot of digital surrogates just blasting him on Trump surrogates. that are blasting him. And there's a reason why.

I mean Trump backed McCarthy. And also, this was a great C R The beginning of a beginning step. Look, if I got my way. Have these people, have these departments wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't be having this discussion because we'd have a budget and we'd be cutting everything. But we don't, I don't get to make the rules.

I can vote and I'll make the rules. But I I don't get to make the rules in this particular situation. In this scenario, I'm was looking at what can we get to reduce spending as much as possible, not fund Ukraine, prioritize the border, make sure vets are covered.

Something. What do we what can we get? We had it. And lost it because somebody wanted an ego trip power play. I mean, you had The House Freedom Caucus.

And everyone's like, well, it's just 8%. Only in DC would someone say that because you know how many. Like that's that you know how much money that is? Oh my gosh! Everything across the board, except for Veterans' Affairs.

and defense.

Now You could say, well, you know, that's not going to get anyone in the Senate.

Okay, then it's on the Democrats. What do you fail to see about that strategy? Then it's on Democrats. This this was The entirety of the House GOP that had come together and unified on this.

So I w I want Government to shrink. And I'm not going to get government to shrink if actual good faith negotiations that were, by the way, spearheaded by the House Freedom Caucus. The House Freedom Caucus, which is the Tea Party Caucus. That's the Small Government Grassroot Caucus. the people who've done the most caucus.

If they're going to get stymied by self-promoters who just want to prop themselves up. And that's the truth of it. I think that some people don't know I mean, I don't know. Does Gates know the difference between conservatism and populism? We got a lot more to discuss, too.

Yes, I'm mad because I'm mad because we're paying the same during inflation. Ex and it's just extended. And you ought to be mad too. I don't care if it's a Republican or not. Who needs Democrats when you got Republicans doing stuff like this?

And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right, so earthquakes struck Northern California in a couple of different regions. They were pretty far apart, 100 miles apart. There was one that was near the Nevada border, and then almost 500 miles away, there was a 4.7 near in Humboldt County that was near the Oregon border.

So there was no flag, they didn't have any reports of damage or anything like that that were available, but very, very interesting.

So, a couple of others that I wanted that I didn't get to the last time.

So, before they announced, Diane Feinstein's replacement. They, Megan Markle's lame, pitily, pathetic, and sad PR firm was trying to promote the possibility of her. Being selected. The game show briefcase girl? Yeah.

Uh-huh. Her. Can man, I am literally made of just... Just invectives over this.

So ridiculous. I've, you want to talk about thirsty? There you go. Apparently taking the stairs more than five times each day slashes your heart disease risk like 20%.

Well, duh. Like, I would imagine, like, exercise in general. Do you take the stairs? Like, if you see an escalator or an elevator, do you take the stairs? Yeah, that's how I am too.

I usually, because it's usually quicker. And I can't stand, I don't know why, but just being on an escalator, I don't like being, you know, those things that are at the airports, unless I'm using them to power walk faster, I cannot just stand standing on them. I don't get that. And always get to the right. Let people pass on the left.

Get to the right, just like the highways. Don't be hanging out on the left like that person. Anyway, but this seems like an obvious study. I just, you know, feel like putting that out there. Let's see.

Uh, this is dumb, and I'm not ever gonna listen to it. Yeah, the shocking number, apparently, a shocking number of Europeans say you should be able to only fly four times in your life due to climate change. Do you know how many absolute sovereign nations would crumble into the sea without tourism if that was actually a reality? Yeah, so these people should shut up. It was a Consumer Science and Analytics Institute found that 41% of French citizens would support such a limit.

France is just turning into just the Anal orifice of Europe. With a stuff. Stop it. Stop it. Beautiful architecture.

You know, amazing food, beautiful countryside. I exclude northern France from this entirely. But, you know, it's like, why, why? Why would you like, oh, well, we gotta ban all the things. You can only fly, you know, for you know how much that would impact them for tourism?

Right? Oh my gosh. Powerball jackpot, is it still going over? It's a little over a billion dollars now. My husband says it's a tax on stupidity.

And every time I'm like, hey, what if? Because I would just literally finance my law fare after I gave to my church and everything in an animal shelter. I would just like wage lawfare on everybody that I didn't like.

So maybe I shouldn't win. Stay with us. Elevate your commute, workouts, or downtime with the Dana Show podcast. Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. What about what Elon Musk has done to Twitter?

Lowering guardrails against misinformation. Does that contribute to it? Yeah, it does. Look, one of the things, as I said to you, when I thought I wasn't going to run, I was going to write a book about the changes taking place. And most of it's directed over the years with these fundamental changes in society by change in technology.

Gutenberg and the printing press changed the way Europeans could talk to one another all the way to today. Where do people get their news? They go on the internet, they go online, and you have no notion. whether it's true or not. He just doesn't, it's not about what's true or not.

He doesn't care about that, it's about control. It's about what he can control and what he has the ab what Democrats have the ability to take control of. That's it. That's what this is about. Welcome back to the program dating last year with you.

Bottom of the second hour, you can listen coast to coast. You can stream the program. You can watch a simulcast, YouTube, Facebook, channel 347, DirecTV. He's remarking on Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Musk was, I think he was with my friend Chris Barrett shooting off Barrett FityCal over the weekend, too, by the way.

Chris had posted that on Insta and I was like, hmm, interesting. He seemed to enjoy it. He was hip firing it.

So Biden's Biden's unhappy because not because Musk bought Twitter. They have nobody has any ideas to what's fake or not. People are too stupid to deduce what's real and what isn't real. I mean, that's what he's saying. He just they really don't have a very high opinion of people, I think.

As opposed to what, the fake news that came out from your C D C? As opposed to the fake news that came out from your intelligence department, where you had 50 intelligence Like members of the intelligence community, including former CIA director and other, like all these different spy agencies that came out and stated that the laptop doesn't exist, it's Russian disinformation. Opus accept it exists, it actually does exist, and the FBI now Hunter Biden suing over it. As opposed to that? What is he talking about here?

No, I love how they try to redefine. You can't tell what information is true. No, people are using social media to actually, yes, there is always the double-edged sword. There's always the ability of people to use. different tools to fool other people.

But I find this incredibly rich coming from the administration that has really taken it to a new level to use the government to actually misinform people. Ultimately, that's what this is.

Now speaking of big government. The Guess, have you seen gosh? They're issuing new restrictions on gas furnaces. And they said that the efficiency rules are going to curb residential energy usage and carbon emissions. No one believes this.

The administration, they announced this late, late, late evening Friday. that they're now going to look at targeting gas-powered furnaces. They I love how the government wants to slash what they say. They say they want to cut utility costs by $1.5 billion. Like, that's a good thing for you.

Why don't you just lower taxes? if not get rid of them entirely, at least lower them. You know what, that will save people a lot of money, more so than telling them that they can't heat their homes and stay warm. That's so ridiculous. They say, oh, well, we're also going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

So the Department of Energy says that energy efficient regulations is going to cut these household utility costs, guys. It's going to cut them. The proposal Will require non-weatherized gas furnaces and those used in mobile homes to achieve more efficiency than cheaper models.

So notice how they're targeting. the middle and lower classes specifically. If you have to buy a cheaper, if you have to buy a cheap gas furnace because you're broke, you're going to get hit harder. This is it's a penalty for the poor. Biden just might as well go out there with Paris Hilton shirts.

Stop being poor. He should just do that instead. That means, same message. Just like with everything, this is going to punel p uh g going to punish The Not the not the wealthy, not the rich people. It's, I mean, who who buys the cheap models?

People who can't afford to buy a bougie model, we'll buy a cheaper model. This isn't like a statement of against character. It's just an observation of economic fact.

So they act like the Department of Energy is taking it upon itself to lower. Your costs. Out of the goodness of their heart came. They're going to lower your cost. They're going to lower all our costs because the government cares, Kane.

There's one thing that you can't say about it. They care. They want to lower the cost by telling us we have to use less of it. Wait, they're not making it more affordable? Hell no.

They're not going to make the furnaces themselves more affordable? Hell no. They're not gonna like maybe waive any kind of tax on it. Oh, hell no. Uh-uh.

They're not going to lower income tax. Nope, no, not that. They're just going to restrict how How Much you can heat your home? Yes. And that's their cost saving.

And you have to actually buy the appliance that does it. Yeah, yeah, you have to buy the appliance. And you know that their models, the government, what the government tells you you have to buy is usually not the cheapest. I wonder if the people who make the ones that they're going to tell you to buy are their friends. Remember like the solar-powered stuff with Cylindra?

Just curious. Just, you know, I wonder. Maybe, you know. Hmm.

So they said that the administration's energy efficiency actions are going to save Americans money. That's what the President has said. It's going to save Americans money. By making you buy a new gas furnace and then telling you you have to heat your home less. That's like saying, you know what?

We're going to save you money. Eat fewer meals. Look at that. Look how much money we just saved you. Wow.

Crazy, right? Eat. fewer meals. Look look at how much money we saved during your grocery bill. Y you can thank us the Government you can thank us.

That's what this is. All right, Gavin Newsome. Has a little pay-for-play here. That's what this is. He's appointed.

LaFonza Butler as Feinstein's replacement, except She lives in uh Maryland. They've been tidying up uh Emily's list. Hello. Or they've been tidying up their um Web pa web page, people caught them. They said she grew up in Mississippi and attend or she grew up in Mississippi and attended.

She lives in Maryland. With her partner, and they removed Emily's list surreptitiously edited in their screenshots. They edited. There Uh, webpage to remove that she lives in Maryland.

So She hasn't lived in California for years. She lives in Maryland. So. Gavin Newsom appointed someone who lives in Silver Springs, Maryland. To run or to take Dian Feinstein's Senate seat.

So Maryland is going to have three senators. Look at that. Three senators, Kane. They're going to have three of them. I mean, no, but you know who it's D difference.

It's different. I want wait, I want three senators. Why can't I have three if Marilyn gets three? That's a good point. I mean, I don't even care about it.

I mean, I don't even know how this woman's getting. I don't even know how she can get the seat. I mean, she's. How? She doesn't live live in California.

That's like me saying I'm gonna be your new senator. I'm going to go and I'm going to take a Senate seat in Missouri. I haven't lived there in years, but I'm going to go take a same thing. It's literally the exact same thing. That make any sense.

Love my home state.

So I guess that means I can go be a senator. Look at that. Now, some of you would actually allow that. That's not, don't you do that? I I is You know why?

It's because they... She can fundraise. You know that played a lot into this. She's with Emily's list and she's already she can already fundraise in her own right.

So that place pardon it. And it also, apparently, they didn't have anybody else in. They apparently they didn't have anybody else in California to to run. They didn't have anybody else in California to run. Really?

Because remember, Gavin Newsom said that he had needed, he wanted to appoint. And this is, it made them really, really mad when he had previously said that he was going to appoint a black female for one of the last seats that he selected somebody for, and it was Alex Padilla. And then that made everybody mad.

So he had to, but you're telling me that there's literally no other black females in California?

Well, Kane, they had that suitcase game show girl. That ginger, the ginger's spare, his suitcase game show girl. Her? Yeah.

All chicken legs out there in uh California, leg day. Like it's important for women too. I said it, and you can get mad at me all you want to, but it just means that I'm writer. The angrier you are, the writer I am. Yeah.

It's true. Everybody knows it. Yeah, it did. Women cannot forget leg day either.

Okay, it's very important. My point is, is that like she was, she was real thirsty for it. She had her whole PR firm. Her sad little PR firm floating this idea. Like, oh, phones are ringing off the hook.

I'm like, is she calling herself or is she calling backgrid, like the paparazzi firm that she always calls whenever she wants to go and get captured, spotted at In N Out getting a burger or something? Come on. Come on. But apparently they didn't have anyone else that you know, in the in the state. Man.

By the way, one more note on that. How sad is it when you're the suitcase briefcase girl game show lady and married to the ginger spare and they still overlooked you for a chick that don't even live in the state? Mm. Just saying. All right.

We that's gonna She'll be there, but then who there's gonna be a fight for after. There'll be a fight for her after, unless she raises a ton of money for the party in California. There's going to be a huge fight for her seat. I'm not going to talk about football and the Taylor Swift thing because I don't like Taylor Swift. And I don't like, and I'm not going to pretend to care about football, but I probably still sound smarter than like the average Swifty.

Maybe. I don't know. Maybe I don't. I don't know. They need to get a new thrower guy.

For that. I just, um can I just say I think it's a whole stunt. I think it is a whole uh uh publicity stunt And I think that he's he's super sketch, 'cause doesn't he push Pfizer? Cain? Yeah.

Isn't he like a Pfizer bra? Yeah.

Okay. Like would he do commercials for them? Or is he an influencer for Fizzar? Yeah, so I just think that that to me is pretty sketchy. And then the fact that they left one of the games in a convertible.

Also, I think that she's a grown-ass woman who still writes breakup songs. Like she's a 15-year-old. It's weird. It's weird. Like she's 30-something, right?

Like, why? Like, that's just weird to me. It's super weird. And apparently, she nurses these grudges against these dudes that she dated before. It's just weird to me.

You can mad me all you want to. I eat hate. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. I just, I just don't, I don't like it. And all of my friends, like my chick friends who do like football, are mad because they're like, we don't give a crap about what she's doing in the stands.

Like, just talk about the game, just show the game. We don't care. Like, they're mad about it.

So there's a lot of division right now, particularly with the football ladies.

So I don't know. I'm just that's what I'm hearing from my the women with whom I am friends and they like football game. Maybe. Do you did they show a lot of that during the game or something? 'Cause I didn't watch it.

I was too busy watching Aliens. What? Apparently, they do. Yeah.

Well, yeah, my friends kept texting me, and I'm like, I'm not watching this game. And if you guys are trying to get me to hate watch it, it's not going to work. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Headline, I'm gonna keep calling 911 back, said Florida man charged for repeatedly calling 911.

A 56-year-old Florida man was arrested for calling 911 multiple times over two days, according to Marion County deputies. Deputies said that this over the weekend, they responded to a dispute. Or sorry, last week. involving James Ubain and his neighbor. Ubain reportedly tried ordering deputies to conduct an investigation as he demanded.

I don't even know what's happening here. This is just such a bizarre It's Fox 35 and we'll land up.

So They He said that he wanted them to conduct an investigation as he demanded because he called 911. When they were on the scene, he began to call 911 again while they were there. Like, why? Literally, I know, right? Like, what is it?

I don't get this.

So, they told him, they're like, look. If you have concerns that you want to address with a supervisor, you can call the sheriff's non-emergency number. And then, about an hour after they left, Over the next two days, he called 911 repeatedly for just random reasons. And then he finally told the emergency call taker, You want to charge me with abuse of 911? Go for it.

I'm going to keep calling 911 back. You can charge me all you want.

So they did. He's taken into custody at his residence, and he is now being held on an $8,000 bond in Marion County Jail. I mean, yeah, he was like demanding that they do this and so I guess you know. Guess they did.

So, how much time do we have with this one? Because I. Fortunately enough Oh man. All right. Alright, give me a minute here, guys.

So this lawsuit was filed Wednesday last week. A woman is suing Disney. Over a painful wedgie. And vaginal lacerations after writing a water slide. How did you write it?

So, one woman, according to her lawsuit. But no. Emma McGinnis visited. Oh my gosh, her name is out there. God love her.

Girl. She visited Typhoon Lagoon. And the tagline where it says dreams come true, she said they don't because I suffered severe injuries on the. Humonga Kawabunga slide. I swear to you, this is a new real, actual story.

She was celebrating her dirty 30 with a ride on the aquatic attraction, and it's a five-story drop into a pool. And she said that she became airborne and she was slammed downwards on the slide. She said that Her clothing was forced between her legs in a painful wedgie. And after she landed in the pool, she said she stood up and blood rushed out. And she said that she was hospitalized for a permanent bodily injury, vaginal lacerations.

Oh my gosh, her complaint stated that her bowel protruded through her abdominal wall in a hernia.

So she's accusing Disney of negligence and asking for $50,000 in damages. It is the humonga cowabunga slide. She says that it should warn women of their increased risk of injury.

Well, couldn't you get, I mean, if it does that, it could take your willie off. I mean, I think this probably goes more than just one way here, right? Yeah, the humunga kawabunga rite of your life promises to give visitors a surprise ending. But not a happy one. All right, folks, that does it for Florida May.

We have a whole third hour on the way coming up. Yeah, Stephen Yates will be joining us. Stick with us. Well, we want them to have a limit on who can come across the border. It is too open right now.

People coming from all over the world are finding their way through, simply saying they need asylum. And the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York. And that is a real problem for New York City. Oh, whoa, who is it now? Or is it?

That's uh New York governor, Kathy Hochl, who says that It's a a big time problem. you know. That These illegal immigrants that have broken the law to enter the country illegally and now are winding up in New York, they're causing problems for New Yorkers. Who could have seen who saw that coming? Nobody did, right?

Which is so surprising that that would happen, Kane. I'm just perplexed. Right. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

Top of this Third hour. And you can listen to the nationally syndicated radio show across the country. You can also watch the simulcast, YouTube, Facebook channel 347 Direct TV. Hmm.

Just pretty amazing that Kathy Hochl is having this. new um thought. Yeah, a new perspective on Immigration. It's I'm pretty pretty crazy. But I mean, I don't know.

I just who knew that they were. I guess they're having some problems. It's weird because Democrats are now starting to sound. Like Republicans.

Well, some Republicans anyway, on the border. Yeah.

I mean, it's, um Shocking. Almost. But is that going to make the party change? No. No.

The party's not going to change anything because then they would have to they'd have to walk back like a huge get out the vote apparatus that they have spent years building. Of course. And I think too many of them are in cahoots with the cartels. I mean, you're bringing a product, that's how you gotta look at it, a human's, that's their product across the border. And it's much with much less overhead than the drugs.

And yeah, there's there's a lot more opportunity to make money there for them. And of course, I mean, I y you can't be doing stuff like this at the border without somebody in the government being in on it. You can't. You can't. I mean, you you're you're sending federal troops down to to actually cut fencing.

On camera, like in front of everybody. Yeah, come on. This is. This is a no-brainer. A couple of other things I want to make sure we touch on here, and this one's going to make you so mad.

Our friend Larry pointed this out to us.

So it's a kind of a shot chaser sort of thing, okay?

So here's the shot. The Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on money to replace weapons that the U. S. has sent to Ukraine, and it has already been forced to slow down Resupplying some of our troops.

Okay. And here's the chaser. Breaking. The US is to announce another air package for Ukraine soon. The White House press secretary says.

Oh. Hmm.

So That We're losing billions of dollars a year sending that to Ukraine and You know what, what? By the way, we could have also. Uh stop that. We could have stopped that, but now we're still sending money to Ukraine because Matt Gates decided that he wanted to have an ego measuring contest against Kevin McCarthy and torpedoed the House Freedom Caucus' efforts to open negotiations with the Senate with an 8% reduction, across the board reduction, still taking care of veterans and military without any money at all whatsoever for Ukraine. And Gates helped scuttle it.

And so now we're still funding Ukraine and there are no cuts. Great job. I'm still mad. I don't know if you can tell. You have this audio?

This is the White House spokesperson just now saying, yeah, we're going to be sending another big O aid package over. Listen. And so we will have another package of aid for Ukraine soon to signal our continued support. You said we'll have another package of aid for Ukraine soon to signal our continued support.

So I don't know where that money's gonna come from. I don't need it.

Okay. No, yeah, I had no clue where that's gonna come from. But Uh, that's the situation. I had mentioned this before. I swear I'm gonna stop being mad about it.

Like, super. I'm not gonna stop being mad about it. I'll stop complaining about being mad over it. But I. I I just want to point out that we would not even be having this conversation if we would have passed.

Uh, the CR, that the House Freedom Caucus, the super conservative, like actual limited government con uh uh constitutionalists, what they were trying to fight for. Uh, but but Gates threw a wrench and all of that. Yeah, I am mad at him because we're all still paying the same amount and we're also still funding Ukraine. We were going to have, and only in D.C. are they going to say 8% is enough.

But what people don't realize, and the people who say that want you to not know that that was the opening negotiating point for this bill in the Senate. Uh, that's how we were going to negotiate with the Senate across the board 8% cuts. You had the entirety of the GOP House, except for Matt, I love myself Gates on. You had the entirety of the House GOP on, you had the House Freedom Caucus, which are the most conservative people leading the revolt on this. Across the board cuts, no funding for Ukraine, actually prioritizing border security.

and the still funding veterans and essential military. And that's what and it was a thirty day, thirty day yes, I agree that we have to pass a budget, but in order to do that, we have to take this first step. And in order to not have CRs, we have to all get off our asses and go vote and not have low turnout, give these seats over to Democrats. We have to win elections. It's true.

But instead of getting that, now we're just continuing funding at existing levels for 45 days, and we're still paying for Ukraine. And the guy who stopped the cuts and made sure that Ukraine funding was included thinks that he can be Speaker of the House. and wants to be governor of Florida some day. Matt Gates, who's a Nepo baby. Do I sound mad?

I hope so, because this is ridiculous. The reason that we are paying so much in taxes, the reason why inflation is so crazy, is because of out of control of government spending. And when you have Republicans that get in the way of cutting this spending because they're having ego measuring contests against other House leadership, I have a major problem. When you have to go and work with Democrats to undermine your own side, I have a major problem. And that's exactly what happened.

You should be absolutely ticked off about this. You have every right to. This is your money. This is your kid's money. Hell, this is your grandkids' money.

That's how bad this is. I mean This literally was it makes zero changes. The only new addition is sixteen billion for uh Uh disaster. Disaster spending. That's it.

That's lim that's it. And you had some Republic, you had some Republicans, Gates, who. killed the actual plan that was cutting. Spending. And again and I'll touch on it again.

'Cause I I keep hearing like his his surrogate say this. 8%, when you say 8% isn't a lot, that only makes sense in DC to say that. That's uh more money than most of than we'll ever know in our lifetime. And it it's thirty days. Of of providing military and veterans Of funding military and veterans.

It's also a 30% cut in discretionary. Uh Closing it prioritizes closing the border and border security. And it was scuttled by Congressman Gates. Because they think that populist is the same thing as conservative, and it's not. I think Gates wanted.

to put McCarthy in a position. of having to go across the aisle. in order to Get past uh a continuing resolution and that didn't happen. It kind of backfired on him. Because he wanted to use that.

As a reason to oust McCarthy. And That's that's why I think that's why he wanted that scenario. I I I'm just, you know, and yes, and those who say, well, you know, Dana, this wasn't going to go, it's just going to pass in the Senate. Tell me that you don't know anything about negotiations in Congress without telling me that you don't know anything about negotiations in Congress. Because that literally was the opening shot for negotiations with the Senate, was that?

And now it's been tanked.

So yeah, I'm mad because with Republicans like that, who in the hell needs Democrats? I mean, why in the world would you someone who literally has their own machination, their own scheme, backfire on them? And then they end up actually costing taxpayers more money. And then you're going to make the case for yourself based on that for House Speaker? Seriously?

Come on. I'm just so done with this stuff. I it it's Grifters Inc. I'm done with it. That's what and you know and you know I remember I'm like he's like the Eric Swalwell of Congress.

There's certain people that I feel like I need to be called out. Like I said, Carrie Lake was Sarah Palin, except Sarah Palin won races. Carrie Lake hurt herself because she went to Sedona and told McCain voters to go F themselves. No, I'm not literally, I'm not exaggerating. That's what happened.

You can have your problems with me not liking her strategy, but there's one thing that you cannot deny. And her being an Obama voter and brand new Republican didn't help. You cannot go, no matter what you think of McCain, and heaven knows I had my differences, you cannot go to like the hometown son's hometown and say stuff like that. You can't. We played the audio last week.

You can't do that. What in the world? Uh, I had a friend that raised money for her in Arizona and walked off. Left after that. I'm not kidding.

I'm not gonna tell you who it is, but it was a friend who raised money for her big time. And was like, I am done. I was like, you want to come on air? Nope. They said nope.

Oh my gosh! You c people have got to stop. like these unforced errors. You hurt your own side. You I cannot just stop it.

But this is why this is why the CR is the way it is. And one other th quick thing to note. All the Trump surrogates on digital, on social media, are going after Gates Hard. because Trump had backed McCarthy. And this also is going to be, it could be a reflection on some people could try to use it against Trump too.

So you'll notice that some of his more hardcore surrogates are really going after Gates today. I just think that a lot of people deserve, I think he deserves criticism from a lot of places. I think this is a guy who thinks so high, thinks very highly of himself. He loves himself. He loves the idea of himself, loves the idea of himself being in Congress, and has these romantic notions about being House Speaker.

You can't be House Speaker when your own schemes to oust the House Speaker blow up so spectacularly in your face that you actually screw over the American taxpayer. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Yes, because it is October. That means, yes, it's Alice Cooper Frankenstein time. All right, TSA is reminding travelers to not. Put their pets. Stop it.

Their airport x-rays. Don't do this when it comes to packing for a flight.

Some people like, you know, I get it, especially if it's like a little dog, you can go in. Cabin, but they said that you're not supposed to just like put them through x-ray screening. And apparently, that's been happening a lot. They're like, do not put them on the carry with your carry-ons through the x-ray conveyor belt. They said that sometimes they've seen fish come through there, but they say dogs and cats are actually the most common.

You have to bring, like they say, they tell you to bring a handheld travel carrier and then remove them right before the process. I mean, I've gone through airports, you know, with Especially when Rocket was little bitty. And they sometimes they can walk if they're leashed right through the screening process. But yeah, do not put, that's just, no, do not put your scared pup or cat through the TSA excess. I don't know, but that's we have to have a thing for that.

A Vanita Park woman is charged for driving. Miles, four miles with her husband on the hood. This was in. St. Louis County, KMOV.

This is in our home state of Missouri. She's charged with felony assault after she allegedly drove away from an argument and traveled for several miles with her husband on the hood of the car. I wonder if it was like that. One Tarantino movie, Death Proof, which is one of the best. One of his best, by the way, where you had the really awesome stunt driver or the stunt stunt woman on the hood of the car for death proof.

It's such a great stunt. Anyway, it doesn't sound like the Berkeley police investigated. And they said she and her, the woman, and her husband got into an argument in their home at Veneto Park. She got in the car to leave, drove off with him on the hood. She drove, Kane, she drove onto I-70.

She was on I-70 with this dude on the hood for almost five miles. Like through a construction zone. She's by the airport. Oh my gosh, this is crazy. This woman is nuts.

Thankfully, nothing happened to him, but good heavens. A motorist was fine after their dog was seen behind the wheel of the car. This was in Slovakia. I mean, are you telling me that you're. What kind of dog?

It looks like a lab, maybe. Lab's driving. Apparently, the dog leapt into the driver's lap. You can't do that. They'll fine you for it in Slovakia.

But it does look like the dog's driving, though, in the. And the uh in the images. Oh boy.

So this is Britain. A 30-year-old woman. Left her own wedding early as the best man proposed, and all hell broke loose. The best man decided to propose to his girlfriend. At someone else's wedding.

If you do that, I hope you get your ass kicked. You deserve to get beaten if you ever do that at someone else's wedding. That is so tacky. And it just, oh my gosh, it's horrible. And honestly, I'd send them an invoice for half the reception.

I would. Stick with us. Stephen Yates next. Tired of the same old predictable commentary? Spice up your day with a Dana Show podcast, where dynamic discussions, compelling guests, and Dana's unique perspective await.

Download on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. We have the strongest economy in the world today. The strongest economy in the world today. We have more to do. But we are the indispensable nation of the world.

internationally and domestically in terms of our economy. What does he mean more to do? That's what I like was zeroing in on there. That's uh President Daddy Showers McKinnon who's uh speaking about Our economy and the world stage. This comes right after I had the headline of the Pentagon was warning that the Army, or sorry, not the Army, the Pentagon is worrying that defense military in general is having a little bit of difficulty.

Uh because we have Essentially, given all the stuff that we have in weaponry to Ukraine, and now we're forced to slow down resupplying some troops, as according to the AP. And then, literally right after this, you had Corrine Jean-Pierre, who was holding her presser, saying that the U.S. is announcing another air package for Ukraine soon. Maybe that's what he's talking about. Joining us on this and other issues, our very good friend, Mr.

Stephen Yates, from his undisclosed bunker somewhere. Looks like maybe a high-rise. We're not sure. At YatesCom's. We never know where he is.

He's like, he could be here. He could be under the floor. We have no idea. And you can find him, by the way, at YatesCom's on Twitter. He's a senior fellow at America First Policy Institute and chair of the China Policy Initiative.

So, Stephen, always good to see you. I'm looking at, so just these two headlines: back to back. We've given everything that we have. to well, all of our I guess whatever wasn't claimed, I guess in storage to Ukraine. And now we're running slow with resupplying our own troops.

And we're announcing another package to Ukraine Just get some of your thoughts here. I mean, is it really, have we, have they, can government actually allow? It's kind of rhetorical. Can government actually allow it to get that bad that we're running that low on our own artillery and munitions and we're giving everything away to this power? I really wish it couldn't be so, but it sure does look like that's what's happening.

And it doesn't shock me given that it takes us forever in dog years to get something done and produced. Uh and we seem to give it away very, very quickly. Uh, so we've talked a number of times. I'm a huge fan of selling what America makes to those who have the wherewithal to buy it. Like to do it, and uh, and I also think that the Europeans generally ought to be paying for more of this.

That's the fundamental divide, not this false choice between America doing everything and forsaking Ukraine to the wolves of Moscow. Uh, and so there's you know, we just live in this fantasy world, but the geniuses of the Pentagon and our appropriators have spent so prolifically. In recent decades, and they have not replenished our supply chains. We seem to have a perfect record of being ready for the last war, not what's right in front of us.

So, I mean, all of that is very frustrating and familiar. I hope that we sort of get a sobriety checkpoint and can shift those gears. But I think it's going to take people demanding to say, We've given away a lot. You can't say we've just given up and haven't supported Ukraine. I mean, $100 billion is a lot to give anybody.

Uh and I bet that's a low number. In terms of total costs. That's a really good point. We're talking about their friend Stephen Yates because Ukraine's not buying any of this stuff. We're giving it to them, right?

Yeah, we're running their government. I mean, it's not like just weapon systems. But Tim Scott, but Stephen, Tim Scott said they were going to pay it all back. Yeah, well maybe they will. I mean, they could have like a thousand pieces of paper that say, I owe you and I will pay you, but that's all they are is pieces of paper.

And if they end up getting smoked by bad Vlad, they're not going to pay anything back. And so I mean really we have to be realistic. They're in a war. Uh and their neighbors actually have a lot of money and materiel. And this has just been the constant nag.

That's a lot of people on the left and a lot of people who treat this as borderline a religion. just won't engage the conversation of That when you have enough resources in theater and they're hitting below their weight. I think that there's a perverse disincentive for Europeans to be responsible if we keep showering the material in. And I don't buy the idea that we're deterring China. I think China looks at this and says, these guys can't organize a sack lunch.

And so why would I be scared about them right now under current leadership? It just makes me wonder how much I mean, if something were to pop off in the Pacific, I mean, we'd be hit by those same constraints. I mean, we're running low on everything.

Now, we are.

Now, we still are pretty awesome. We still have some pretty incredible power and muscles to flex. It needs to be led. It needs to have a mission. It would be just as big of a mistake to send our awesome power into an engagement with China without some definition of what is the mission, what does an end game really look like in this?

We're still waiting three years into Ukraine about is it going back to the pre-Crimea boundaries? Is that the end point? Where are we going in this?

So, we still have a lot of the mental parts that need to get worked out that not super optimistic about in DC these days. But when it comes to America-provoked and our military, once they throw off the shackles of Wokeism, Inc., the Chinese and anyone else would have a bad day. but we would pay a lot to get there. This relationship, switching well still with in the discussion of China, China and Germany are strengthening their economic cooperation, opening up financial markets to spur more growth and counter global challenges. Of course, this is from the Chinese propaganda source.

It's their South China paper. I don't like that cozy. I don't like the relationship that what is wrong with Germany? What is always making the bad choices, and I'll still today aligning with baddies. Talk to me about that.

I know.

So it's just, it's like World War II Europe just likes to play both sides. I don't know what the deal is. We had the French leadership go and kiss the ring of the emperor and come back and so preach in high church about Russia. But hey, whatever goes with China and Taiwan. Germany, I mean, really through the entire Ukraine experience, through a lot of the NATO kind of erosion of deterrence in recent years, just to have a perfect record of playing both sides.

And I think they do it because they can get away with it. I think that's what happens when you have a welfare-like relationship. People take you for granted and you keep bailing them out.

So, but it's just been true to form. Parts of Europe, especially those who've lived under real communism, they get the joke and they're more serious about both Russia and China. And I think that's appropriate. But old Europe, as Don Rumsfeld used to say, seems to be last in on this conversation. And their priorities are not exactly what I would call in order.

Yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, they want to ensure smooth supply chains. They didn't provide any other detail on that, though. That was kind of interesting to me. Yeah, I'd love to have a smooth supply chain, but how would you like to have that smooth supply chain coming straight out of a concentration camp in China's northwest?

I mean, you know, just at some point, you would think that Europe that was famous for saying never again about World War II might sober up about never again really meant never again. And that supply chain probably ought to go somewhere that's not committing genocide. Yeah, yeah. Last headline throw out, you're talking with our friend Stephen Yates at YatesComms on Twitter.

So diplomatic engagement between South Korea, Japan, In China.

So it looks like there might be a visit to Seoul by Xi Jinping. This is kind of weird to me. Why? I mean, we've been developing this partnership with him. Why is I mean, I understand diplomacy, but still, why?

Well, I mean, I think at one level, you'd say, well, they're neighbors. I mean, it's really across one waterway, and they have a lot of trade that's gone back and forth. In recent times, South Korea has been a little bit more sober about the problems that China's been causing. And I expect that Xi Jinping is getting the message that there's some mending of fences and relationships that are necessary for him to tend to. He doesn't get out that much for fear that the door wouldn't let him back in.

So going to Seoul is a short trip. That doesn't surprise me that much.

South Korea sort of famously refers to itself as a shrimp among whales. It wants to kind of balance these kind of big powers that want it. And it's a big economy with some supply chains that are reliant on China and semiconductors and other areas.

So there's business to do. I hope that it's not one of those sellout operations. But if we had serious engagement from Washington, we'd be at lower risk of that. That was going to be my quick follow-up because I feel like if there was stronger engagement and leadership from Washington, I don't think that they would feel the need to take it upon themselves to try to smooth this out. But this seems like a Plan B in action.

Yeah, I mean it's rational if you're living there and you got a big junkyard dog next to you You'd rather throw him a little meat to chew on maybe I won't chew on you because that's basically what the People's Republic of China is It's taking technology taking industries I mean all the heat our car industry feels the Korean car industry is going to feel in terms of competition from China So they're just trying to survive in a dangerous part of the world. Oh good. Oh goodness.

Well, maybe that'll change in 2024. If not, well, I think we're going to war. I don't know. I don't know. It's horrible to say.

Well, that's a whole other topic for another time. Stephen Yates, always appreciate your time. Thank you, my friend. Good to see you. My pleasure.

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Everybody's talking about the great legislation, and she was a great legislator. The gun violence, she saved lives. She saved people's lives. It was passed. Imagine she was in Congress one year.

She came to 93. In 94, she passed the assault weapon ban and then it was reinstated and then it went away. But while it was there, it saved lives. It didn't actually. In fact, the Obama DOJ.

uh two leftist institutes. Actually two DOJ reports. Uh the RAND organization Uh And there was also, what is it, the gun violence prevention. They all did their own little, oh, sorry, in the CDC. Everyone who studied the reduction of.

Homicide as it pertains to gun-related homicide, as it pertains to the assault weapons ban, it didn't do jack squat. It actually did not lower. It didn't do anything. Because you know why? You know why it didn't do anything?

Because most homicides are done with illegally obtained, illegally possessed handguns. By repeat of funders. in drug and gang activity. Not with rifles.

So no, the assault weapons ban did not do a single thing. You didn't ban the rifle. You literally banned affixing three cosmetic features on the rifle. It's so stupid. It's the dumbest thing.

It didn't do anything. And people who say it did have no idea what an assault, they don't know what a. uh quote unquote assault rifles are. Which is a made up term really. They don't know what semi-automatic rifles are.

They really don't. It's so goofy. But she didn't do any of that. She also carried. She didn't want anybody else to carry, but she herself carried.

I mean she's She, they, she has. Can you explain this to me? Did you see the story? Hold up, of her property portfolio? Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Pull this up.

So she I I I saw this daily mail piece. Hang on. Uh let me p like let me let me look for it on my thing. She had uh very extensive Uh property portfolio. And She had a jet.

First off, she. Only ever worked in government. She's been in government. Since what, the sixties game? Yeah, I think so.

She It's been in government for forever. From California. She was in the Senate. She was the mayor of San Francisco the year I was born. Wow.

And she's literally only ever worked in government. I mean, I'm looking at I mean, since I mean, quite literally, since the. Since 1969 she has worked in government. She's been in government for forever. And Like either board of she got her st started in the board of supervisors, then she was mayor of San Francisco.

And then she became senate. And she didn't come from A super rich family. I mean, she just, you know, she's just in government for a long time.

So explain to me. How someone like that Ends up with a $102 million property fortune. with a $62 million private jet, that she used to shuttle between her mansions.

Now, a lot of people say, well, most of her wealth was her billionaire's second husband. Uh not entirely.

So how does she have all those? Her daughter and three stepdaughters are going to inherit her property and her jet, and apparently they're already fighting over it. She owned a $5 million Hawaii duplex, an $8 million beach house in Marin County, California, $62 million Gulfstream G650. Uh she uh also had A $36 million Lake Tahoe compound. She had an aspen ranch, $25 million.

She had seventy million cash in the bank. She has one daughter and then with her late spouse, her late husband, and then three stepdaughters. And so there are already apparently all going to war over it already. Ugly court battle already. Her daughter and her power of attorney sued the marital trust.

And That I guess that's the right, and her daughter apparently is a San Francisco judge.

So, I don't know how they're gonna, but they're already warned over. How does someone like that have all that money? Just curious. I mean, and it wasn't all her husband's. Insider Trading I mean, you gotta, yeah, look at some of these other cats out there.

Like, these are not, I mean, they're low six-figure salaries. which is still above average, but not above average to the point where you have 'cause she made a lot of money after he passed too, is was like my point with some of this stuff.

So how do you do how do you how are you making all that millions when What? Yeah, insider trading. You know they're all doing it. You know they're all doing it. All right, Today in Stupidity came.

All right, it is Corine Jean-Pierre. She stepped out behind the. Podium and well You did a lot of spinning today. This is what she said about Biden. You think Biden's doing everything he can to deal with the border?

Does anybody believe that? Sure. If the president looks at what's happening at the border, he sees a border that is effectively closed. What I'm saying is that the president, without the help, without the help of Republicans, is doing everything that he can to deal with the border. Really?

Everything he can. Like like To keep it open, does she mean? I'd call BS. Yeah, I'd call shenanigans on this one. Yeah.

Make sure you sign up for the newsletter, chapter and verse. There's a couple of really good pieces up on that. Lorraine has one on all the latest Trump legal case stuff. Make sure you check it out. I will be back with you behind the mic tomorrow.

Have a great evening.