Monday January 15 - Full Show

They are scared of trouble. They are scared of you. And they will stop at nothing, but we're not going to let them get away with it. I've got fresh legs. I'm not wounded.

And they're not going to let this man do it. You know, when you said 118, that gave me a chill. Because I'm scared of that. Because you think it's false or because you think it's true? I think it's true.

I think they will stop at this thing to stop them. Stop drugging. It's sad, but it's the truth. It's the sad, but it's the truth.

Some ask if you do your part, and we're going to do that. We can do this. We can do this. They say, how do you feel about the United States? And I say, I'm worried and I'm fearful.

My job that you don't have to feel that way in this country. But we're losing it. We're losing it. It pains me to hear that. We need people like you.

Young were diagnosed. And that's where our founding fathers were. It's 1776 Merlin Sioux. I want your support at that Iowa caucus. I need emotional.

I'm emotional about this country. I need your support on Monday night. You do this, I'm gonna do my part.

Okay, you're picking at my shell. You are. But, you know, I've got come get some balance. It's about this country. You want to save Trump, you vote for me.

I'm telling you that. You vote for Trump. You're sending him. You're not sledging him. But you're sending him to his own demise.

You're falling into the trap that not only a country's falling in, that he's falling. You want to save Trump, you vote for me. I need your support of the Iowa caucus. That's a good argument. That's a good thing.

It's a good argument. It's not an argument, it's the truth. Do the right thing for him. for this country that That's what I'm asking.

So that apparently got him in a lot of trouble. And Because he was like, What is it? A vote for Trump is like a vote for your demise. Is that what he is that how he said it there?

So that got him in a lot of trouble. Uh and That Is Yeah. Because now they're not best friends anymore.

Now they're not best friends. I know. Welcome. To the program. I'm trying to figure out how to start this because today's Iowa caucus states, caucus is a lot different from the primaries because primary, you know, it's an all-day voting thing, everybody goes out.

And they vote. And they go out and they vote, and caucuses are when the party comes together and they figure out who they're going to back at that point. And so. That's That is that's, you know, where That's where they, that's that's how this whole process goes. That's how the whole process goes.

So, welcome. We're going to get into all of this. I'm looking at a lot of data today. Dana Lash here with you. And make sure that you listen because it's going to be a packed, crazy, busy couple of days.

You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program, and you can also watch the video component of the radio program as well. Yeah, I saw that yesterday.

So, just to let you know, in case you missed it. Uh The Whole I don't know. They didn't have a friendship. It wasn't like it was a friendship. It was this relationship.

I've always maintained that I always thought Vivek was the stalking horse for Trump. And I still maintain that. But I also think that sometimes you can get high on your own farts and you can actually believe, you know, I don't dislike him personally. I just don't prefer him as president. Talking about Vivek Ramaswamy.

And so. I guess that video came out and it made Trump's people mad. And so he turned out and started tweeting mad, crazy, or going on his platform and started going off on Ramaswamy. He said, he tweeted, quote, Or posted, quote, Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, the best president in generations, etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks.

Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the other side. Don't get duped by this. He says, Vote for Trump, don't waste your vote. Vivek is not MAGA. Wow, okay, so he's not MAGA.

What is he then? Because it seems pretty I mean, he's I just And he was asked about this. But Vic was asked about this. And he was he his his response was that he wasn't going to get into The back and forth of it, and he wasn't going to criticize. He's like, he goes, I've defended him at every step.

He was defending himself on X yesterday, and he said that. He goes, This is the plot. He goes, They're trying to narrow this to a true horse.

Well, that's the primary. That's the whole point of the primary. That's the kind of the goal, is you like you whittle it down to like one. Canada. That's like sort of the whole point of it.

But I think That I don't know. I just Trump snipped the strings there.

So he's, that's it.

So he says he's not MAGA. I don't even know. I I don't know. I guess you can be inducted into it. I don't know.

I just I get really, my bristles raised whenever I hear people bounce other people from movements because I'm like, we don't have bouncers. Like, we don't have. You know, I mean Good grave.

So there's that bust up. I don't know how that's going to impact him, though, in Iowa, because I kind of feel like. Um His I don't think that Vivek is going to have a strong showing in Iowa, but I think he is. I think he might overperform.

Some of what is being polled. But again, you know, as we've talked about on the show, the polling is so weird. It's just, it's so incredibly weird because a lot of these polls, you have to realize that a lot of this is Uh Really Polsting, pollsters, as we've talked about, and the whole polling is really like it's a whole thing. It's like a grift. I really do think that because it's very old school, the whole process of, Taking a survey, you go and you talk to thousands of people and you cast a very wide net and not everybody has landlines and not everybody is even, it is one of the most unscientific ways to measure voter sentiment, which is why so much of it's incorrect.

And I really do believe that there is an effort to try to mislead you, even by the left, and I think from operatives on the right who are trying to just win, to try to shape public opinion how they would like it using polls. That's why I like really, I mean, the AI data different stuff that we talked about last week is so interesting to me.

So this is the, I don't know how, like, going back to Vivek, I don't know how this is going to affect him. I really don't. This is a lot of, and in Iowa, you know, you can essentially. Register the day of when you show up to caucus. And so I don't know.

I don't know. 2016 was kind of odd. All the polls were wrong. All the polls were wrong in 2020. They were also wrong in 2018.

They were also wrong in 2022. Let's see if they're going to be also wrong, you know, now in 2024. But. The Iowa caucus though Is not everybody wins who wins goes on to become president, which we're going to talk about. But I don't know.

I think a lot of, I think with for Ramaswamy, he would have to come in number three, I didn't think to even try to venture to New Hampshire. I think this is this tonight's going to be the tail of the tape for a lot of these candidates, for a couple of these candidates for sure.

So, you know, we'll see. I think some of the ones, I was watching some pollster on Fox today, and it was really weird for me to watch this pollster on Fox because I know for a fact that this pollster had been hired by a campaign previously to do surveys for the campaign, like hard push polls. And I just thought that it was really weird that it wasn't disclosed on the program while they were trying to act talk to them as though they were some like biased, you know, objective pollster. This is what I tell you. It is, you realize that very few of these things, these entities are independent entities.

They can be bought and sold. And they can, they can, their methodology can be very questionable. It's all about developing a narrative so then they can say, well, a poll was taken. This survey was taken and a poll is the be-all end-all. And that's kind.

of that's the whole how they how they run it so it's it's it's so It is so, I just thought it was disingenuous to see that, to see that earlier today. But It's cold in Iowa right now. Everyone's wondering if the cold snap is going to discourage voters from coming out. I don't necessarily think that it will. It's Iowa.

I mean, it's not like, you know, these people are not used to snow. They're kind of used to snow. They're used to all of this stuff. But it does all come down to who has the most energized energy. The most energized campaign.

And this is where electioneering and making sure that you put this infrastructure in on the ground. I mean, that's, you know, that's where it comes into.

So it's very interesting. It's very interesting indeed.

So we're going to get into all of that. One of the other things that we noted, and I broke this exclusively, although I've seen this reposted elsewhere without proper attribution, which is really lame to see. But I had this exclusive yesterday. This was actually sent by someone, like someone in my market. In Iowa, where they had a lot of these candidates were canceling their listening events or their meeting with their caucus goers.

And one of those was Nikki Haley. And so she decided she was doing a virtual event, which is, you know, it's fine if you're, you know, whatever. She was doing a virtual event. And she was asked, it was the last question of this thing. And she was asked by a voter named John.

Whether a man could become a woman. And I want you to listen to this exchange because this is the kind of stuff that gives me and a lot of people pause. Listen to this exchange. This is fascinating. Hi, John.

A lot of the stuff that Trump does you know, written says really bothers me and I'm concerned about it. you know, one thing I saw him do was He said that uh You know, he had trouble answering the question, could a man become a woman? And I'm just wondering what your response to that question is. Yeah, I mean, I think first of all, let's look at the facts. Again, I'm sorry that we didn't make it to Dubuque.

And I hate that we're not there, but I appreciate you coming on here. Look, I mean, I have said I want to start with Trump and then get to the question. You know, this is a hard truth on my part. believe Trump was the right President at the right time. I agree with a lot of his policies.

But rightly or wrongly. Chaos follows him. And everybody on this call knows that. And we can't be a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. We won't survive it.

And I think a lot of that is how he communicates and what happens. It just sets us all in disarray. And we can't afford a President Kamala Harris.

Now, can a man become a woman? There's been a lot that's been talked about when it comes to all of these roles and all of these issues. I strongly believe that we should not allow. Amy? Gender change surgeries.

to anyone before the age of 18. Period. We kids now can't get a tattoo until they're eighteen. We shouldn't have them permanently change their body until they're eighteen. And that includes puberty blockers.

That includes any sort of hormones that would do that. After the age of eighteen. We want to make sure people can live any way they want to live. I don't think government needs to be in control of anybody's life. You go live the way you want to live.

You should be free to live the way you want to live. And every and government and everybody else should stay out of your way. But prior to eighteen, It is an important time. Especially when you're going through your teenage years, it can be confusing. I don't think we should ever in any way have any sort of permanent changes.

But after eighteen, I'm not going to say anything. I think that you always have to believe in freedom and allowing people to live the life the way they want to live. And if that's how they choose, then you know I don't think government should have any say in that.

So I had this exclusively yesterday. You might see it on attributed elsewhere, but I had this audio yesterday. And here's the thing: she've never answered the question as to whether or not she actually believes a man can become a woman. She never actually answered that question. She endorsed gender surgeries for minors once they hit 18, if they so choose.

But here's the other thing, too: this is like a one-foot in, one foot out. Attempt to triangulate this issue for her because she's like, well, I don't want to have the government to have a say in it. News flash to Nikki Haley. You need to wake up because the government has already had a say in it. People are literally losing their jobs.

Women are losing opportunities. There are new regulations in schools. My gosh, they're also trying to fight, they're fighting right now to include it in the American with Disabilities Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act. There's literally a lawsuit ongoing right now. Women's sports is being colonized.

This is the weak Dodge that has allowed the government to do this.

So the government has already had its say, Nikki Haley. They've already had their say. And additionally, You know, It so the magic number is 18. That satisfies what the legal status. But if a minor has bulimia and anorexia, is it more or less ac an acceptable condition based upon whether the bulimic or anorexic is 18 years old?

Body dysmorphia is body dysmorphia. We realize this, right? I mean, so she thinks does she think that parents who would sanction medically unnecessary experimental surgery For minors are going to be dissuaded from that because you know, and because of the age 18. I mean, teenage brains don't even reach maturity until 25 years old. They think with the more emotional part of their brain while adults think with their prefrontal cortex.

I mean, age is just a number here. And it's also a veneer that Haley's hiding behind to dodge the issue. That's lame. I wonder how iONs will respond to that. You know, when you search for something on Netflix, what you get is only a fraction of what Netflix actually has.

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So the Chiefs and Dolphins played the... Fourth coldest game. in NFL history at minus four degrees. I don't love anything that much to go and watch it in that kind of cold. Like nothing.

I don't love anything that much to go and watch it in the cold. Yeah, they said it was the fourth coldest game, minus four degrees. People were in ski gear. That's dedication. That's crazy.

The coldest game in the league history there still remains at minus 13 for the 1967 NFL Championship where Packers beat Cowboys at Lamba. Wow. I can't even, I don't even want to talk about those numbers. Like, I've like I've said, like, I shared online, when the weather gets younger than me, I don't go outside. It's just the rule.

So, oh, by the way, weather delays the bills and Steelers game, the New York governor announced.

So, didn't they, weren't they, weren't the Buffalo Bills asking people to come and shovel snow out of the stadium? Are they still doing it? They were offering $20 an hour to go and shovel snow out of their stadium.

So the playoff has been postponed. It's supposed to be this afternoon. They got heavy snow, high wind. Yeah.

So they are actually, I saw it on X, so I was wondering about that. Winter storm in the United States leaves many without power. It is lit, it was, it felt negative one degrees in Texas last night. It was seven degrees. It is approximately 18 degrees now in Texas.

Just saying. Just saying. So a lot of people have been left without power as a result of those storms. Flights have been delayed. I don't know how many flights have been delayed.

A lot of the people that were going to see the football games, they said a lot of people are now either on delayed flights, they've had their flights canceled. It's just mass hysteria. I just don't like going anywhere this time of year because for that reason, for that reason, because you can't really count on it. All right.

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We have to stop the cheating. The biggest risk we have is the cheating of the elections. Because if it's up to the votes, we have so many votes, we don't even have to be here today, we don't have to campaign. Oh, well, I think you might need to. Just, you know, do it and just so you don't have to worry about not doing it.

So that was Trump. He just got to he just got to Iowa yesterday. Uh and uh and I don't even want to th look at the temperature. It looks cold there. You don't even know you know what?

You know what's temperature? It's cold. That's all you need to know. Welcome back to the program. Dana Leish here with you, bottom of this first hour.

Yeah, I think you kinda might want to b be there. I'm wondering if he and Vivek are going to be able to patch things up after Trump announced that he is not MAGA. Right. He says tr he says Vivek is in MAGA and he went off on him.

So Now what? Like, I criticized Vivek Ramaswamy because I said he was a farmer bro, which he is.

So now am I am I in the right? I'm just wondering, you know, am I in the right to have said that? Because now he's not MAGA, so you know, it's been officially declared. Just Got a question. I got a mill I got a lot of questions about that.

So, you know. We'll see what happens in Iowa. They it everything doesn't everything kick off? I think it's seven central tonight. is so you're not going to get results till this evening, and then tomorrow we're going to go over all of it.

But we will see. Candidates start at their whole, if they had the whole. Uh kicking off everything. Uh down to the caucus wire just last week. I want to go back very briefly though to the call that I played.

Um we got that from uh With the Nikki Haley story, because I played this audio of her. Uh because she was asked Whether or not a man could become a woman. And I don't know why, like Trump was asked this question as well on another podcast, but he was asked this question as well. Uh our show obtained the audio of that. And He was saying that I think how, and I'm not going to get into all, I'm not going to, I don't really know if I want to play everything, but.

He was saying that You know, with with In answering that question, he goes, Well. He says, in my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman, and I think part of it is birth. Can the man give birth? No, although I'm sure they'll come up with some answer to that someday. And he goes, I just heard the other day that they have a way that now the man could give birth.

I would say, no, I'll continue my stance on that.

Okay. I don't know why that's such a hard question for anybody to answer. Can a man become a woman? Like, who are you offending? Who are you worried about offending?

If On that on that. That question be no, a man cannot become a woman. Are you high? That's what I would have probably said. Maybe this is why I don't, thankfully, I never want to run for office, but maybe this is another reason why I shouldn't.

Is that really a game to be played though? Do you really have to? And Haley was just, she didn't even answer the question. She went into, well, after 18, I'm not going to say anything as long as you get to the magic answer of 18.

Now, as I pointed out, that might be fine. For her? But She says the government needs to just, you know, not have a say.

Well, the government already had its say. Let me share this story with you. The Supreme Court, and this is just a piece into this run. This was, I'm going to make sure this is just last summer. The Supreme Court allowed to stand a ruling.

They're looking at gender dysphoria. They're going to put that, the trans issues, they're moving to, they let Stain this ruling to incorporate it under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Now, that opens up a lot of other things other than just that classification. You're also looking at public funding. That's one of the things that that opens up is public funding. People are losing their jobs over this. I mean, there are lawsuits right and left.

For instance, there was one, this was just last month. A Virginia court is dealing with a lawsuit from a teacher who was fired. Because they would not use a transgender student's preferred pronouns. And so, because the teacher did not adopt that student's false. perception of self, that teacher was fired.

I mean, people are losing their livelihoods. They're losing opportunities. I mean, there was a there for instance, New York Post, a track star. She calls herself Chelsea Mitchell the fastest girl in Connecticut. She started losing race after race to trans athletes, men LARPing as women.

and going into track and field. And she lost 20 races to 20 men. I'm not kidding you. This is in Connecticut. That's how many are doing this.

And she teamed up with other female athletes in Connecticut. And they're fighting with the Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Because they allow men to compete as women.

So, I don't know what Nikki Haley thinks here because the government has already stepped in. This thing, well, 18, that's just a dodge. That's just a weak distraction. Because all of the government already had its say. If they're forcing you to adopt someone else's false perception of self.

If you do not affirm someone else's self-perception, then you could lose your job. You could lose opportunities. And not just you, but your kids. This is where this is. And the idea that somehow body dysmorphia is body dysmorphia, the idea that this is somehow safer or healthier than like bulimia or anorexia is weird to me.

It's all a form of body dysmorphia. I mean, when you're cutting off, when you're slicing off your male copulatory organ. and inverting it Into an artificial female copulatory organ and making it to where you literally have to be on medicine for the rest of your life. You're dealing with constant pain. I don't know if you've read some of the stories of the the smaller number of people who have gone through those surgeries.

They deal with pain forever and a lot of them end up regretting it. And it's one of the reasons why the suicide rate's so high. Instead of accommodating someone's body dysmorphia, Maybe you should think about how to treat it. And I don't mean treat it by allowing people to to mutilate themselves with surgical experimentation. It is so much more than just turning 18 here.

That is asinine that that this is her answer. And this isn't the first time that she's flubbed this either. I mean, so is it if somebody has bulimia or anorexia, is it going to be okay once they hit 18? I mean, this is just asinine. You see what it's doing to the military.

Military is now dealing with this issue. This is an issue that far reaches this whole lie to stand with the government have to say. Woman, the government has got its say. Already. She just doesn't want to give a decisive answer because she doesn't want to make her liberal supporters mad.

If you're going to be milquetoaster lukewarm, then I don't understand why you think that you deserve to have a position that requires giving decisive answers, especially on something so basic and so scientific. This is just, it's asinine to me.

Well, I just don't want... The government to have a say in that. Excuse me? Wait, suddenly you're limited government now? You're fine sending all these people to go and fight in foreign wars and foreign land disputes, but oh my gosh.

All of a sudden, I'm just very much realizing that I don't want a government to have a say in people's lives right here with this issue. Really? It's just such a dodge. It's cowardice. Stop being a coward.

Just answer the damn question. You realize why so many people just kind of, you know, how you watch ever been to a little kid's soccer game and they all follow the ball like a like a swarm of bees? I feel like that's what we're seeing in a lot of politics right now because people don't, there isn't any real decisive leadership. I mean, when you are flubbing, even saying, Yeah, no, a man can't become a woman. Don't act like you're tough or a fighter.

If you can't answer that basic A double snakes question, don't act like you're a fighter. Good grief.

So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Do what you want with that. But I'm just it just shocks me. That's the that's the That I don't know.

Is that the new Republican Party? I don't know. And normally It wouldn't be that the primary season would be seem like it's already wrapping up, doesn't it? It's got started so early, it's so weird.

So a couple of other things that I want to touch too. This whole situation with immigration. You know, we had Governor Greg Abbott on the show last week. And I asked him, you know, point blank, I said, so, Governor, what are you allowed to do up to the limitations of the law? I want to know what you are allowed to do.

And the reason I asked him that is because it has changed, and certain things that governors were allowed to do, there have been lawsuits filed, and so they're barred from doing it for a certain period until an appeal is heard, et cetera, et cetera. And this all began kicking off. And I bring this up quite a bit because this is really when it exploded was under Biden, was under Obama Biden with Jan Brewer, who's governor of Arizona. I mean, they were threatening to arrest her.

So I was asking Governor Greg Abbott, you know, what. Can you do as governor up to the limit of the law? And one of the things, you know, he was saying, you know, we're doing everything. He's like, look, he goes, you know, you, you, and he was like, giving like up to the like Absolute limit. And he's like, well, you can't, you know, you can't shoot people who are trying to cross illegally because the administration would, you know, would charge you with murder.

And he's saying this as like, you know, he's, he's. Explaining to you, like, this is like the absolute, almost absurdium level that you would go to. And the way that the media reported on this. They said, where's one of my headlines at? Greg Abbott laments that he can't shoot illegal immigrants, or he can't shoot migrants at the border.

Lament. This is the first time they ever used that big word. Can you believe that? That's what they that's what they said. I mean, look at let me read some of these headlines.

It's crazy. All right, so here's the it says, uh, shooting migrants would be word murder. What about letting them drown? Because Border Patrol already said that never happened. You had Eric Swalwell who went out and he made up this story about uh, let me pull up his tweet.

Or sorry, Adam Schiff, they're all the same, they're all the same schmuck. He says, deliberately shift tweeted deliberately stopping Border Patrol from rescuing a mother and her two kids, resulting in preventable and senseless deaths, et cetera, et cetera.

So they were blaming Abbott and Border Patrol. They said that they allowed a woman to drown in the Rio Grande, and that never happened. It literally, they acted like Border Patrol were there and ignored it. And Border Patrol. Via Bill Melugin said, no, it was the Texas Military Department.

They're aware of the social media posts concerning the drownings, and they're referencing. And it was Queyar, too. Henry Queyar also made this false claim. They said that Texas soldiers blocked Border Patrol from rescuing people at Shelby Park and in Eagle Pass. And they said that the Texas Military Department observed a group of Mexican authorities responding to an incident on the Mexico side of the bank.

They reported those observations to Border Patrol. and confirmed Border Patrol independently confirmed that the Mexican authorities required no additional assistance.

So somewhere from that, Henry Quayar and Adam Schiff start saying that Border Patrol allowed a woman and a woman and children to die. and the river. When They were actually working with Mexican authorities on the Mexico side of the wa are are Schiff and Queyar arguing that our border patrols should cross over into Mexico illegally and usurp control from the Mexican authorities? That's literally what he's talking about. And they said at no point was the Texas Military Department uh or even Border Patrol made aware of the bodies in any park.

I mean, this is asinine.

So, this is what they were putting out there.

So, now the media is just, whoa, they're trying to marry that together. They said, oh, Greg Abbott brags that he wants to shoot migrants at the border. This was non-stop. His rhetoric is criticized after interview response about shooting migrants. All this over I asked him a very simple question.

And he there was nothing wrong with his answer. But the media, and then you had others going, oh, well, we saw, there was another Democrat congressman that went out and said, well, remember when Border Patrol was whipping migrants at the border? Wasn't that already debunked? With the horse reins? That was already debunked.

These people will stop at nothing. They just don't want to close a border. I mean, Abbott said Abbott's line was, quote, the only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder. I mean, he was what is wrong with his statement? Came?

Does it sound like he said what the media is claiming that he said? No, not at all. It's like me saying if someone came into my house. uninvited And I shot them. Uh, the police might charge me with murder.

That's I mean, what's he saying that isn't Factual. Yeah, it's NBC. And the way that they're presenting it is that he's just stopping short of ordering Border Patrol to shoot people. That's how they're. Oh, and it's not just NBC, guys.

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A visionary who saw what could be unburdened by what had been. Why is she talking behind a big giant wall of like sneeze guard? It's sort of teleprompter. No, like that's that like the in front of her though. Was a giant Oh.

Plastic sneeze guard. Probably a windbreaker. I I got questions. Welcome back to the program. That was new.

That's not old. That's not old audio. That's new. Ten minutes ago. Ten minutes ago came Sars.

Why is she still saying this? Why? Is she trolling us? We're getting trolled. We're getting trolled.

That's what this has to be. I don't know how else you would. I don't know how she would describe it. I really don't. Um She's a heartbeat away, man.

Heartbeat away. 2024, guys, is very important. Notice you didn't hear really anything about a whole heck of a lot of from Biden. over the uh weekend. Or Hunter, baby hunter, after his stunt last week?

He just, you want to know something? I'm not going to say who it was. But one of the things that I noticed, so there was a photo after he went to DC and he pulled his stunt. He was at. uh the airport, right?

He was at Reagan International. And He had a Secret Service agents with him. one of the Secret Service agents that was photographed being with him, is the one that I met at SHOT Show last year. Who came? and introduced himself and got a signed copy of Hands Off My Gun.

He's very cool. It was him. I told you how I met. He had to, because you have to put the organization that you're with, and he was with Secret Service. Uh, but I that he's and he's part of the detail at Malibu.

I was just gonna say, I'm not gonna out the guy, but I just thought that was interesting. Can you imagine having to? I mean, they're professionals. It's their job. They protect the president's family, no matter how cracktastic they may be.

But can you just? Imagine. I mean, that's some devotion to duty. We got a lot more. Second hour coming up.

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It's really been about him and the fact that he would attack Governor Reynolds, not because she's done anything wrong. No, to the contrary, she's done a great job. But he's just attacking her because she's supporting me. That's the only reason. That's not leadership.

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Uh, but this with um Governor DeSantis, he Was he's upset. He got upset.

Well, he's taking criticism. He's leveling criticism at Trump because Trump was going at Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa. Yesterday is when it was, he was on his platform. And I will say, I don't Get, I understand competition, and competition is fine, and I have zero problem with it. But I just think it's fruity to attack legitimately good elected officials that have solid records.

That's like the opposite of America First. Like you're attacking someone that you want more elected officials to be like. But Somehow They're bad because they didn't endorse Yo. And I don't like that. I mean, you can you can say, oh, I wish they'd endorsed me or I disagree with their choice, but to say that because they didn't pick you, that it somehow undermines their I would say more conservative record is silly.

I mean, this isn't about one man. It's about the future of the country, post-lockdowns and vax mandates. I mean, this is it. That's not a joke. It is.

Because if we don't win the White House, we will lose the House. It'll have a depressing effect all down ticket, as does, as typically happens every election. And the Republicans still have no way to handle split-ticket voting because they're, I don't know who's higher, Hunter on crack or the RNC leadership right now. I really don't. I guess I won't be invited to any cocktail parties.

Oh, no tears. Anyway. But I just, I do, I don't get that. I don't get it.

So we'll see how Iowa goes. Everything kicks off tonight, beginning 7 Central. It's super cold there. That's what you need to know. There's nothing happening right now.

People are doing meet and greets. The caucusing has not begun. Primary and caucus, primary is like an all-day thing. Voters come out all across the state. The caucus is for the party people, and it's like an event.

So it's a very different thing, same results, basically. All right.

So a few other things that I want to make sure that we are hitting. We were talking about some of the immigration stuff as well. Can we talk about this FAA diversity push, please, for the love? Because we just, Kane and I are going to be flying coming up. And if you see me, if I sneeze or if my eyes look dry, it's because it's seven.

Is it seven? No, it's a whole 19 degrees here in Texas right now. We drop like 30 degrees in a 24-hour period.

So pray for us. We don't know what's happening. But Kane and I have got to get on a plane. We're going to be, we got a shot show coming up later on this month, and which, you know, we go to every year. And I just don't want the doors to fall off.

Right. You know, I just like when some basic I don't want a window to pop out. Yeah, I want like windows and wings, basic amenities on the plane. You know what I'm saying? I don't care about the genitals of the person in the cockpit, no pun intended.

I just don't. I'm surprised they haven't gotten mad over that. You ever have that moment? For like 50 jokes. simultaneously fire off in your head.

Because that's where I'm at right now. Mostly when we're not live on the air. Oh my gosh, and none of them I can say. Not a one. Not a one.

Not that one either, the one I just thought of. That I definitely can't say. I'd probably lose all of our affiliates in Pennsylvania if I said that one. Don't ask. Just don't.

Don't do it. Don't ask, Kane, because I'm not going to tell you.

So they say that the FAA has a diversity push. That includes a focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.

Now, It's one thing if you're hiring someone to like candle bags or I don't know, like, you know, in that regard. But I don't trust them to just, I don't trust the FAA to just do that because everybody has to try to prove a point. You know what I mean? Like, if you don't have The general sentiment right now seems to be that if you don't have a completely medically unqualified trans person doing your open heart surgery, then you hate trans people, to say nothing of the qualifications. You know what I mean?

That just seems to be like the new litmus test in society. And I'm looking at this and I'm like, is there a guarantee that we're not talking about flying the planes? Is there a guarantee? Because I'm not seeing one. Yeah, remember Secretary Mayor Numan Put Booty Juice.

Here's the That is, sir, that is Joe Biden, President Joe Biden's. That's true. And we all know that he is a God King on earth, right? Secretary Mayor, former Rear Admiral of Canoe Fleet at Camp Wimbetonka. Uh peep poop booty juice, Department of Transportation.

They said that they this is something that they've been pushing through the FAA because the because Booty Juice oversees FAA. And they, and this was again after a door on a 737 just blew right the hell off midair.

So, the FAA's website, the last time, at least on their website, it shows that the diversity. The guidelines on diversity hiring were updated was on March 23rd of 2022, sorry, two years ago. And so it's part of their new diversity and inclusion hiring plan, and they claim: quote, diversity. is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond. It's very important to them about this stuff.

I don't know. Just like it's important to people, like, I'm sorry, there are women flying the plane 'cause I just don't know. I don't care if they have flight experience, is there just a woman in the cockpit? Like I don't know. You know, planes are not like, you know, road trips.

You don't have someone in charge of snacks.

Well, that would be like the attendants. They're the snack people. And the music, they handle all the stuff that you think you would handle. We don't need to run the cockpit like that. That's not.

Stop it.

So I don't know. You could say that it's not DEI, but in everything that I've read about it, I don't really have any guarantees. Like, how do I know that the FAA is not going to push someone that is. has serious psychiatric disabilities. to fly a plane.

Because have you seen who is in charge of our nuclear waste? The luggage twink. The guy who stole every all the ladies' clothes in the suitcases, that dude. Right? I mean, have you seen who's the other dude that's up there who's like in health and human services?

Like, he's like the deputy secretary of HHS. It's a dude that they want you to pretend is a woman. Like, yes, he is a dude. He's one of those who is such a dude and looks like such a dude. There's literally nothing you could do to him to make him look more like a woman.

There's no amount of surgery you could do.

Some people are just so dude. That there's nothing that you can undo on them. Do you know what I mean? Like you could do all this other stuff. And you would see them and go.

That jawline, that's a dude's jawline. That's a dude. You know what I mean? Like, there's just so much there. You know who I'm talking about?

The dude with the long blonde hair? I do, Rachel Levine. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that dude. They want you to pretend that that dude's real, Nikki Haley, who says the government should have no say.

They want you to pretend that Rachel is a ma'am. They want you to pretend that that's a dude. Or a woman. I am all confused now. And I'm looking at it.

him I'm looking at him and I'm like you are clearly a man Excuse me, it's ma'am. I'm sorry. It is ma'am. Bro, man. Hmm.

Da da da da da. But you look at Rachel Levine, him, and you look at it, I look at him. And you're like, okay, he's a dude. No, you got to call him by his preferred pronouns. You got the government promoting that stuff, Nikki Haley, who says the government should have a say, but they've already had a say.

This is the kind of stuff we're talking about. You have the government right now that wants to put in the cockpits. It's more important for them whether or not they have a vagina than whether or not they can fly a plane. Nikki Haley, who says that this government shouldn't have a say, but clearly the government has had its say and a lot of other says since its first original say. Like what in the world is this?

So they say, well, you know, we have, they're employing, they're looking at people to employ for a range of positions, like administrative roles to oversight, all this other stuff. Guarantee me. that I'm not going to have this person fly in the plane. I don't want them even checking me into a into the plane at all. I don't want them touching my luggage.

I don't want them pointing Where the bathrooms are, when I ask, I don't want any of that from people like that. When you can get in trouble for a 3.4-ounce bottle of liquid. I don't want somebody that has serious psychiatric disabilities, like someone who could go off and be an axe murderer, because that's the other thing. It's all so vague. Like, what is the gradient here?

What's the scale? From a level of like Ted Bundy to, you know, maybe. Oh gosh, give me an example. Joe Biden, what are we looking at here? I don't know.

You know what I'm saying? Like what are we talking about? If somebody has O C D, okay, if somebody's whatever. But that's not I feel like they're talking about more than that. You know what I mean?

It's it's well yes, this person was an axe murderer, but they've you know restorative justice and all, it's okay. I don't know. But if you don't go along with it, But the wording is just so Outrageous. It's sketchy. Severe intellectual and quote psychiatric disability.

Those are their words, not ours. Those are their words. Like, what do you mean severe? Like, not able to figure out. Are you able to Like not have assistance in life?

In one sentence, if I'm the company. WILL HIRE BASE ON MERIT. Look at that. I didn't have to mention any problems, didn't have to mention anything else. It's just racist bigotry now.

Okay. I mean, who cares about merit if, you know, I mean, when, you know, you could have a non-phallus. You could have an unphallaced individual. Little thing. Yeah, you can defat with someone apparently.

That's a thing. Without a thing? Yeah.

Okay. I mean, there's other names for it. No, it's not. We still got a couple minutes. I can still run this right down.

It's all right. I'm just saying. I mean, uh you got doors flo blown off airplanes. But this is what they're worried about. What about the pronouns?

I mean, the door fell off. But the pronouns though. When the screws are looser on the staff, I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan. Yeah, I agree.

I mean, that's it just makes me, I don't, I don't know. I don't I don't know. Like, would you? I would not want me to fly a plane. I wouldn't want me to fly.

I'd see one bird and I'd Have you seen you know you haven't, never mind. I'll tell you a story real quick. One time, I was still in college. And I had a, don't laugh, I had a Geo Metro. If you don't know what a Geometro is, kids, it's a roller skate.

With a lawnmower engine. That's it. I had to basically punch my feet through the floor of it, Fred Flintstone style, and try to help sprint it up to the speed limit whenever I would get on I-270 in Missouri. It's horrific. Anyway.

So I'm driving. to go i think i was going to class or somewhere it was either work or class i can't remember And, you know, we lived kind of out in a rural area, and, you know, there's deer everywhere, and you're always looking for them. But I swear to you, there was a deer. They never could find it. I swear to you, hands to the sky.

And I was dumb. I was like, well, if I hit the thing, I thought all of this in like a split second. I'm going to die because roller skate with a lawnmower engine. I mean, the the the cars themselves, you could probably die looking at it.

So I swerved and I went into a ditch. Catch up right into a ditch. Like the back wheels of my car were not even on the ground. And I had a can of soda that like fell forward and got punctured and all I heard was ps. And I immediately thought what any rational person would think.

And I thought, oh my gosh, this car is going to explode.

So I MacGyver dived out of the side of it into a ditch and I laid flat on my stomach because this is what I've seen them do in the movies. At the same time, one of my friends from high school drove by and she was like, What the hell is wrong with you? I'm like, my car is going to blow up. Get away. I'm yelling this from the ditch.

Like, get away. The car is blown! It was my can of soda that was punctured. This is why you don't want me flying a plane. And I don't even have any of these things that they're talking about with the FAA.

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And she's going to have Staying here forever. That's insane. That's the whole thing. And it's a uh There's like a specific, apparently, there's like a million kinds of it. There's a specific kind that she was on, but yeah, that's what she's gonna have to deal with forever.

I've been hearing like other weird stuff about this. It's Big Farmer. It's a big farmer. Just, you know, hmm.

So a spirit airlines passenger was arrested for asking a flight attendant to join the Mile High Club, which apparently that's a federal offense. Is that a federal offense? Was the guy flirting? Yeah.

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There's no doubt about that. And I think that the president needs to do more. The Congress needs to do more. Cities out here that are the target of this political game that Governor Abbott is playing are suffering. And here in Illinois, it's minus 29 degrees outside with the wind chill.

We have migrants that arrive from Texas virtually every day, hundreds. And we don't have places to put them. We don't have enough shelter space here. There are plenty of other cities where, you know, if he's going to send people, they could be sent. But no, he's choosing only Democratic states, Democratic cities.

He's choosing sanctuary cities, you cow. Good grief It's JP Pritzker, bitching and moaning because heaven forbid. He after running on leading a sanctuary State.

Now he's mad because people took him up on it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, bottom of the second hour. That's just ridiculous. It's not just Democrat, it's sanctuary that all happened to be Democrat.

Maybe you shouldn't have advertised that you were Sanctuary City if you didn't actually, you know, want to be a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. That's just a thought. You advertised it. They just wanted to make you honest. by sending up people who crossed illegally to your sanctuary.

That's what you wanted, but you actually thought you were going to get to advertise as a sanctuary and not actually, you know, provide sanctuary? You can listen to our radio show, Costa Coast. You can stream it. You can watch the video component also. Channel 347, Direct TV, YouTube, and Facebook.

Yeah, that's. Just stupid. That And that's the take that he and Eric Adams and these other cats out there are all, oh, he's just so mean. Greg Abbott's so mean. Don't tell Greg Abbott.

Go tell Joe Biden. Go tell Joe Biden to stop allowing people to come at the border and then maybe busloads will stop arriving in your sanctuary state. That's how you do this. Because if you think that Texas is going to pay for your welfare grifting backside there in Illinois, Pritzker, you're wrong. Not going to happen.

You don't get to grift off of all the Americans that live at the border. You don't get to enjoy a forced welfare off of all those people while preaching a false this false doctrine of sanctuary that you're actually not willing to provide. And what a bait and switch that is, too. claiming that you're a sanctuary state, but not actually providing sanctuary. or complaining when you're finally forced to live the values that you espouse and have for years.

This is just classic. And so That's the That's the Very I mean, that's just ridiculous. And I've seen who while I was looking at because we played audio before, who has it been? Every uh uh Eric Adams, there was a couple of other lawmakers that were complaining about it. It's just so sad.

I guess they just don't like illegal immigrants, or as they say, undocumented migrants. I think that's the. Isn't that the what they state? It's just it's just expect everyone else to pay for your policies. Especially like this.

And then, of course, you have the media that's mad because Greg Abbott answered a question. Just going back to this, this NBC piece, I'm looking at this. They're trying to find another way to go with Greg Abbott, and he was on our program Friday. And I had asked him, you know, what is the limit? What's what's the absolute limit of what you're allowed to do?

Like, what's the hierarchy here? You know what Abbott's like, okay, well basically Abbott was saying we're doing everything because apparently the Stooges at NBC don't have uh uh listening comprehension. And he added, he says, The only thing we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder, is what he said.

So the media immediately went after him and said, Oh my gosh, Greg Abbott wants to shoot migrants at the border. The same people who said that border patrol agents, horses' reins, were whips. Are the same people now that are claiming that Abbott was talking about shooting people at the border? And that's been, I mean, they've a ton of them have been reporting this. That's not what he said at all, actually.

It's not his fault that Susanna Gamboa is a moron. Or some of these other people with these bylines are morons and they can't actually deduce what he said from his very obvious answer. His answer is that they're doing everything that they can possibly legally do at the border. And because that's what the question was. The fact is that the left doesn't want a closed border.

They want an open border and they want to be able to say that they support open borders, but they don't actually want to have to deal with open borders. They expect people in McAllen, Texas to pay for it all. They expect all these towns, all these border towns, Two Uh They expect them to pay for all of it. I mean, how is that? How are you?

Actually, four. Immigration, or how are you really an open borders? Advocate when you don't want to have to deal with any of it, you don't want to pay for any of it, you don't want to really offer sanctuary. How are you a sanctuary state when you complain if people are sent up to your state for sanctuary? I mean, that's but that's the left kind of encapsulated in one one policy example.

They are so generous with everybody else's time and everyone else's money. But when they have to spend any of their own resources on it. They're outraged. It's suddenly unfair. It's something that someone else is doing to them.

Imagine They're living out the policies they espouse, and when they actually have to experience The consequence of the policies they espouse, they claim that it is something that someone is doing to them. It's something that a Republican is doing to us. He's sending these these people to our state. He's sending these people to our city. No, this is your policy.

Did you not know that's what you were advocating for? When you ran for governor? When you ran for mayor, did you not know that these were the policies, this is how this works? They're shocked over it. They're shocked.

And then they keep voting for it. No, send it up. I think I hope he continues sending him up until we actually finally do something about the southern border. Otherwise, you don't get to ask any of that. You don't get to ask for it's not our responsibility to pay for you.

Remember when the the the uh left was trying to say that blue states pay more in tax than red states. And what they were ignoring is that they actually tax people at a higher rate. That's what they didn't tell you about that whole scenario. They're like, oh yeah, check. It's the people in red states that don't pay.

And they were looking at actually income taxes and the state percentages added on to that. And they weren't actually being honest that it's because they tax people more in their states. They weren't being honest with that, but they were trying to use that as an argument to say: look at the blue states constantly taking care of the red states.

Well, what is this then? This is actually is that. Red states, particularly border states, have done more to shoulder the burden of illegal immigration than these states at Spout Sanctuary ever have. and cities that spout sanctuary. I mean, that's for sure.

Absolutely for sure.

So, a few other things to hit because we got the caucus scene happening in Iowa that'll take place this evening. And uh We'll have all the we'll recap all of that and what that means tomorrow. I had to touch on this Fannie Willis thing. I haven't followed a lot of the stuff with Fulton County District Attorney and everything going down there in Fulton County because it gets so into the weeds. We have pieces that come out about it that Lorraine has on Substack, chapter, and verse because it really gets into the weeds.

And people's eyes kind of glass over. But if you want the deep dives on all that stuff, we have it over at the newsletter. But Fannie Willis was mad. Because she's being accused of misconduct. She, the Washington Post and others have written these pieces, how she.

Um was accused of hiring her lover. And that And then and and apparently uh Engage in some impropriety with taxpayer dollars, et cetera, right? I mean, there's a lot there.

So she went. She went to church on Sunday. And she was saying that the reason that people are criticizing her is because she is black and also the first female district attorney in Fulton County.

So She says that it's not it's racist to try to hold her account. for acting with impropriety.

Okay, so It's not Not that she didn't do it, it's racist because you noticed. You see how that works? I mean, yes, she completely acted with total impropriety and misconduct, but it's racist that you noticed. That's her argument. All right.

I don't understand that. That doesn't make any and the woman part How are you preaching equality when you want an exception because you're a woman? You know, there's no exceptions made. Equalities, you get judged by the same standards, whether you're a dude or a chick. I mean, what you're arguing, and what ThirdWave has been arguing, is for exemptions.

That's not how that happens. There was a video that came out. I don't know if you s all saw it over the weekend. I saw it and I think I had retweeted it. But it showed it was At a DeSantis event in Iowa, and this relates to which we're going to get into some of the latest foreign policy just to keep you up to date on it.

There was this uh it was an event that he was at. And he was there was like a a protester. Wasn't it like a pro-Hamas protester? that jumped out And or no, this was in.

Sorry, this was in an event in, was this an event in Texas? It was in an event in Texas. And this. Pro-Hamas protester jumped out at this event in Texas. And he was absolutely, well, he was grabbed and walked out.

It reminded me of Roadhouse. with Patrick Swayze. It was amazing. I uh I'm trying to figure because I my I just lost some of my stuff just uh closed down. But I think I'd I'd retweeted it out there, but I was like, God bless Texas, because It was a It was at Greg Abbott's speech.

It was a speech that he was giving. And this happened the same day yesterday. You had a bunch of pro-Hamas protesters that tried to breach the fence outside of the White House. And so this was at a campaign event in Collin County, Texas. and this pro-Hamas protester was absolutely pummeled.

And and he wasn't really pummeled. I mean, he was just walked out. And he jumped up and he was disrupting the event. And there were a lot of people who were there who were tweeting about how he was super disruptive and screaming, and this was just finally the end of it. And they grabbed him, they picked him up by the collar and they marched him right out.

I mean, they were not messing with it. It was amazing. God bless Texas. Or, you know, try that in a small town. Just saying.

But That's not about persuasion. This isn't about persuasion. Have you seen some of the stuff that they've been doing? The it's not about persuasion. It's it's it's just about destruction of any kind of dissent.

That's what it's about. Just up and screaming, running his mouth. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Man, oh man, so gosh.

A Florida man fell asleep at a stop sign and deputies found codeine and forloco in his car.

Now isn't For Loco, isn't that like the... It's liquor. Right. Yeah.

What is with what is in Forloco? I don't know. I don't know anything like that. But anyway, this guy is in Brevier County, Florida. He's facing multiple charges because deputists said they found codeine in a Forloco and meth residue inside his car.

They were patrolling Merritt Island. It was like 1:40 in the morning on Saturday and they saw this black Nissan sitting just at a stop sign, brakes on. Stationary. Deputy walked up to the car. Guy was passed out behind the wheel, right hand on the gear shift, and he had a four or a loco in the cup holder.

And then he stumbled out of the car. They asked to perform a field sobriety test. Uh he they didn't say what he was actually what he blew, but he uh was placed under arrest 'cause he failed it. And then they found a clear crystalline substance inside of a glass pipe that totally tested positive for meth. That's not a surprise.

So he's charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, all kinds of other stuff, driving under the influence. Why would you risk that? And why for a loco? Why? It's so cuz.

Uh this Florida man was busted for creeping through the back yards with uh people's back yards with underwear around his neck. But he said he was just exercising.

So he told police that he was exercising, and the reason he had underwear around his neck was to stay warm. What? What? Cape Coral said that they arrested Troy Dean Stewart. After somebody called 911 about a prowler.

And the caller said someone was in their backyard and they noticed the person on their surveillance cameras. They found him in an empty lot lying on his stomach between a hedge and a brush near a seawall. He was wearing an outfit matching that of the suspected prowler and he had a pair of underwear around his neck. And he said, I just wanted to run along the canal. And I just wore underwear around my face to protect me from the cold.

So they they a neighbor said that he stole some of their bonsai trees and all this. That's like seven thousand dollars, like a bonsai trees. Those are very expensive. They said that they discovered him, they discovered the trees at the guy's home. Uh, anyway, they charged him with a whole bunch of stuff.

And I that's the worst excuse I've ever heard in my life. Oh no, I was just gonna go in at night, run along the beach with underwear on my face. That's Not That's totally not normal. Uh, let's see, a Florida man was arrested for battery because he threw a brick at a guy's face.

Well, yeah, that'll do it. Uh, a man was hit in the face with a brick Friday night. According to the Tarpon Springs Police Department, the victim told officers that he got hit in the face of the brick. The injuries were consistent with getting hit in the face of the brick, as you could imagine. The victim said that the suspect smashed his car window, left the area before police arrived.

So they arrested the suspect. They found 42-year-old Eddie Saunders at home in his bedroom. They arrested him. Oh, and they also found a ton of fentanyl. on his persons as well.

So he's going to be charged with a number of things. There you go. Uh, let's see. No, no, no, I can't read that one. Can't read that one either.

Um no. A Florida woman was charged because she tried to kick police, like try to actually kick them. You know, you can't do that, right? Yeah, thirty nine year old Elizabeth Curry, who looks ninety, was clearly under the influence of alcohol at Rose's pub. Law enforcement noted she could not stand, she couldn't walk hardly, had glossy eyes, slurred speech, and totally smelled like liquor.

As she was being arrested, she tried to kick officers, but because she struggled to just stand, it wasn't successful. And uh they found meth on her and meth accoutrements. You know, I guess like whatever you use for the meth. They found all the. She's totally going to jail.

So there you go. Yeah, you can't. You can't kick police. You can't do that. All right, we have our third hour.

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So if you want to save America from crooked Joe Biden, You must go caucus tomorrow. First step. Really, the first step. We're going to do it. We're going to do it, Big.

You've got to get out. You can't sit home. If you're sick as a dog, you say, darling, I'm kind of like, even if you vote and didn't pass away, it's worth it. Wait, vote and didn't pass away or vote and then pass away?

Okay, 'cause at first when I first heard that Earlier today, I was like, wait, did he just say pass away and then vote? Wait a minute, what? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lesh here with you. Iowa is on.

I want to just give you a couple of different ways this can go as well and sort of get you set up. I'm not going to predict it because I think it's weird, and I'm going to tell you why. First off, welcome back to the program. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program.

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Okay, so. In Iowa, Everyone keeps saying that Nikki Haley is like doing like she's skyrocketed to second place. And I was looking at the polling that stated that and I don't understand where they're getting that because there are literally only two polls that are really weird in terms of their sampling that put her there. And when you compare that to her enthusiasm level, it doesn't make sense. It makes zero sense.

I mean, I'm I'm looking at this like, wait, that. That's not how that washes out. Because they said This was a Des Moines register. Only 61% are mildly enthusiastic or even not enthusiastic. Wait.

How did she move up to number two if that's her enthusiasm? And there are literally two polls that put her in second place, and it's NBC. There's one from uh NBC. And they did it with the Des Moines Register, and then there's a Suffolk University one. That's it.

There's only two po there's only two surveys. That's it. Everything else has them either just santis leading or has them tied.

So I don't and then the enthusiasm does not match that of a candidate that's ascending.

So there's That's why a lot of people are questioning sort of some of the unreliable polling because it seems unreliable.

So there's a few things here.

Some people are predicting an upset. I don't know. I don't know if there will be one. I think the weather has to do with it. Also, polling hasn't been that reliable because everything's been really split-ticket.

And when I say that, do people understand what I'm talking about when I say split-ticket?

So in Texas, you had to be A, you know, you'd be with the Republican Party or Democrat Party, and then you could, you would just get your ballot and you would vote. Either, you know, one and done, or you'd vote all the way down, you know, all the lines for Republicans. When they remove that, you have to go through each and every choice. You can't just do one and done, all Republican candidates. And that a lot of places have that have incorporated it.

And so, as a result, That's one of the reasons that contributed to what we saw back in 20, was it 20, yeah, 2020. I mean so This is uh I'm looking at this And I don't I just don't see I don't see anybody super overperforming. Although That's like the only prediction that I think I might make. And I think some of that may be, it might be fatigue, and I think it might get down to weather. But I do feel like voters are kind of fatigued, even though it's just now the first caucus.

And that's because we've started this back at the summer. I told you guys this: that people were going to be super fatigued because we got started so early because Trump announced early. And so people were going to be, I mean, by the time you get around to South Carolina, I feel like people are just going to be frayed. I really do.

So. In Iowa, electioneering counts, going door-to-door counts, canvassing counts, phone banking counts. And I think of all of the campaigns, DeSantis has had the absolute best ground game, bar none.

Now, that does not guarantee a win. It usually contributes to a win, but it doesn't guarantee a win. And the past few election cycles, I think one of the things that we've seen is that the polling's garbage. And that's pretty much it. You can't really, you know.

I mean, it can be a whole SIOP thing. It really can't.

So, DeSantis has staked a lot on a win in Iowa. And I think if he wins in Iowa, obviously it helps him in New Hampshire. If he doesn't, I think it could end up tanking him in New Hampshire. And it could, I mean, it could wrap him up. I mean, there's a lot that depends on it.

Normally, it wouldn't be as important as winning just one caucus, I think, but. Uh would it not be for the n the weird nature of this of this particular caucus because it's Like I said, it almost feels like we're wrapping up a primary because it started so early as opposed to just beginning it.

So, that's, I think, is kind of important. This, one of the things I saw, there was a survey that came out, Caleb Howitt Mediite. Haley supporters are twice as likely to vote Biden than Trump if she loses the primary. That tells you who she's pulling from. This is a very interesting.

This is a very interesting thing. This. There's a couple of different surveys. This kind of matches some of the enthusiasm elsewhere, but it says that she. Uh yeah, her It I mean It's just weird.

Like, her people, if she loses the primary, her people. Are going to have indicated that they're going to kind of float on over to Biden. And that's again, that comes from that's a media poll, twice as likely. to vote Biden than Trump if she loses the primary. And this was an NBC News Des Moines Register survey.

And this was released yesterday, yesterday late evening. Yet they said half of those polled, 43% of her supporters specifically said they'd go for Biden over Trump.

So I watched this one really disingenuous pollster who previously worked for another campaign, and they didn't clarify that when they had them on Fox, but they were saying. That, oh, well, Haley's cemented a never Trump vote. I don't necessarily think that's never Trump. And I think that word has been weaponized by campaign operatives to the point where it's stupid. Everybody has not everybody has the same choice in the primary.

That doesn't make you never someone. That's so stupid. And I but I and I would not describe People who are Democrat voting for Biden. as never Trump. I'd describe them as Democrats.

If you're voting for Biden, you're voting for Democrat. But I think that shows you where she's pulling from. Because she is the most establishmenty. of the candidates. Although I would say it's a close tie for I mean there's you know But She's pulling from such a moderate position that she's getting Democrats in.

That's just a very interesting survey to me. The other thing too. With this, a lot of people are expecting, they think Trump is going to like just, yeah. I heard Bryant's prebus say, oh, he could have like a record win. I think that he's actually going to underperform.

I don't think it's gonna I would be shocked if it's a blowout. Because I don't see how you turn that around three different election cycles of surveys and then get something completely opposite for the fourth, especially with fatigue and a low enthusiasm across the board because it's been going on for so long. I just don't see it. And I don't know how much the brutal winter storm is going to impact it, but I just don't see that as being. uh helpful for that for that claim.

Now, uh, let's see, and looking at this, uh the Des Moines, like I said, the Des Moines Register, the enthusiasm for Haley, I mean, is not non-existent. That it's just weird to me. There's. I mean, Trump could take Iowa, but then have a smaller margin. And that could, you could have another candidate.

Present that as a win depending on the difference in how far apart they are. I mean, for instance, if you have Trump that goes first and then he is only plus 18 over DeSantis, that is like a major thing because that was advertised as, oh, he's plus 50 over DeSantis this whole time. And that might be a lot more difficult for the Trump campaign to make the argument that that was a clear and decisive victory when it was more than half of what they were expecting. But, I mean, then again. Who knows?

The other reason why it's a little difficult to predict this stuff is because you're looking at hardcore Republican voters and not like you know, people who just go out in a regular general. That's why I tell you, it's so stupid to look at the national polls because the national polling isn't just looking at the most hardcore people. The most hardcore people are the ones who are the ones who turn up for primaries. And particularly with participating in caucus, caucuses, those are like in radio, we call those your P1s. Those are like your most dedicated listeners.

These are the most dedicated people of your candidate. And so it's really difficult to measure that enthusiasm and compare it to what you see nationally because it's a whole different breed of voter and they're pulling from a whole different sample of people. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

So that's when people say, oh, well, nationally, so-and-so, that's so dumb. Because at this point, it's nothing more than a popularity contest and it changes so dramatically at the national level and has every election cycle. That's why I also have always said. This is always a delegate race, and it's about winning the delegates in Iowa and then after New Hampshire and South Carolina.

So these are the most hardcore Republican voters that come out. And so it's a little bit, it's a little bit different, more different to predict. And it's also trickier because we've had the split ticket voting. And because even with split ticket voting, you have still had a lot of hardcore Republican voters in the last several elections that have done split ticket voting. That's why you've got John Cornyn that ended up with more votes in Texas than Donald Trump.

That's because of split ticket voting. It's not because of fraud. And that's because there are a lot of voters that weren't sold. And it's wild to me that that's how it ended up, but that's how it ended up. And again, the RNC has no solution for that.

So that makes it, it's just, it's hard to predict because politics have changed. It's gotten very tribal. And because it's gotten so tribal, no one wants to be honest with how they answer. And I want to caution people with this too. Just because someone has a different choice than you do in the primary.

Doesn't mean they're your enemy. And if you think they're your enemy, you're not America first. You're not country first. You're personality first. And you were the exact type of person that makes this whole thing absolute hell and makes it to where people don't want to participate in the system.

People like you should be publicly ridiculed and shunned. I can't stand it. Everybody has a choice in the primary. People get together and they go to war with what they got in the general, but in the primary, people have different choices. And you're not, I'm not, I can't stand watching other people try to shame other people for exercising their free choice of selection in a primary process in our electoral system, in a republic that people have fought to died and protect.

They've died fighting to protect it.

So I can't stand it. It's monarchist, it's anti-American, and it's annoying. Make the case. But if you think that you're going to persuade someone to see your side by browbeating them or doing this whole, you know, you're not this or that because you're not from my guy in the primary, you're not the, you're not the, nobody elected you bouncer for any movement.

So stop. That's why people don't want to be honestly answer questions. And that's another reason, getting to my point, as to why surveys are so unpredictable and why you can't rely on the polling. Because no one wants to give an honest answer. Do you think that they want their name to be associated with an answer if they think they're going to get bullied for it?

No.

So it's a problem that people have literally created for themselves. It makes no sense to me.

So that's It's the same. Who knows what's going to happen? I mean, it could be where it's a blowout. It could be where there's an upset. It could be where it's, you know, maybe a more modest upset.

Who knows? But I will say if it's a blowout for any one candidate, that does affect, like if it's a blowout for Trump, that could, and you, and you don't have DeSantis in second place, that could mean I don't know how DeSantis goes forward to New Hampshire. And Nikki Haley won't last past South Carolina because people are not excited about her campaign at all whatsoever. But we'll see. We'll see how it goes.

Because one thing that I will say the Iowa voters are very attuned to is they want to see the candidate in front of them. They want the candidate to make their case. And they like people who go out and talk to folks. They like good ground games. And that's one of the things that DeSantis campaign's been really good at.

So we'll see whether or not that pays off tonight. All of this kicks off at 7 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. Eastern. And we'll have a recap of all that for you tomorrow.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. So, Washington State spent over seven hundred thousand dollars on giant rocks. to deter homeless encampments. They spent $700,000 over. Over that on boulders.

to deter homeless camps in certain areas. They literally put up big giant rocks. 718,000. Instead of fix the homeless problem. Yeah.

That's where they spent the money. $718,000 taxpayer dollars on giant rocks. that they put in areas where people congregate and camp.

So basically, you got something to lay your tent next to. Uh and see what I'm saying? How does that deter? That's so stupid. This is so dumb.

Why are people so dumb? I don't get this. Let's see. Oh boy, Picasso, Rembrandt, and other. Paintings damaged in a devastating fire at a Seattle Art Gallery, K-I-R-O Channel 7.

It said that there was at this art gallery in Pioneer Square caught fire last Friday morning, damaged thousands of pieces. And The gallery contains about 18,000 works of art that they collected over 50 years. And there's a Picasso in there, and the Rembrandt, there's a Rembrandt, 90% of it's on paper. They said so it's very difficult to understand what survived and what didn't. They're still trying to assess.

Oh my gosh, but they know it's damaged. They know that much. Oof. Um I'm not doing this one. Let's do no, I'm not because it's I do not have in 60 seconds the time to set this up So apparently two large things of cicadas.

Are going to emerge across the southern and midwest states this summer. I love the way cicadas sound, but I don't like to hear them because they are creepy, terrifying little things that look like they're gonna infest your brain. And explode your head. They're so, they're grossest bugs that ever existed, but I love the sound.

So, all across the southern and midwestern portions of the U.S., they're going to have the periodical cicadas coming out from the underground. There's one big group, brood XIX, and then there's another brood, X, I don't know. There's different broods. I didn't even know this. And one comes out every 17 years, the largest one comes out every 13 years, and they're both going to come out the exact same time this year.

So gross, fun, it's gonna be really loud. I don't know. We've got a lot more in store. Stick with us. Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show Podcast has your back.

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Well, Donald Trump is focused on his issues, and that's what he talks about. I'm focused on your issues. I'm focused on your family's issues. It's not about me. It's about the future of the country.

I've delivered on 100% of my promises. You know, Donald Trump did not build the wall, did not drain the swamp. I've also taken on the left and the Democrats and beaten them on these big issues. Trump, Pelosi, and Schumer beat him on the budget and on all these issues. And so I'm going to be able to get in, win, get the job done.

I'm the only veteran running for president. And that means I'm mission first. I'm going to focus on you, not going to focus on me.

So that is Governor Ron DeSantis. I was supposed to an interview from... This morning, I think, in Iowa. All the candidates are making their cases. Iowans go to caucus this evening.

Welcome back to the program, bottom of this third hour. And of course, we'll recap all what that means tomorrow, what the results mean, because everything gets underway this evening. I will, I mean, it's. It shouldn't be this I mean it's always kind of crazy and tribal in the primary, but it's weird though. To see how crazy and tribal it's gotten in the primary, to where it has pushed any discussion about policy out of the room.

And everyone's afraid of offending people, even on the right. Everybody's afraid. I mean, you should be able. To, and I say this knowing full well that 2024 is the last ramp off the highway to tyranny. It really is.

This is the last exit on the highway because we're slated to lose the house already. There's a great chance we're going to lose the house. And The Senate I d I don't know. You Or if you're going to gamble on personality for the White House, that will also affect all down ticket races. That goes into it.

I mean You got to look at it. People are going to do what they're going to do in the primary. But I think we got to be realistic. A friend of mine made this point as well. Uh And I think this is why some people, look, I say this to somebody, I voted for Trump twice.

I have my difference of choice in the primary for a couple of specific reasons because whenever I'm presented with a more limited government conservative choice, I'm going to go with that. You know, somebody whenever I see the proposal to actually a plan to tax remittances and actually get money from countries that are sending us people across the border illegally, I like that idea. I mean, it could have been done in the previous four years, especially when you had a Republican Congress, and it wasn't. I like the idea of due process and not having guns seized. I mean I I I like the idea of not having a national registry with universal background checks.

That's something the previous president absolutely endorsed. I mean, I retweeted it. Just to day. It was something that, and they wanted to raise the firearms sales, age 21, wanted to end all bump stocks, banned bump stocks, wanted background, wanted universal background checks. That's a gun registry, the whole nine yards.

So, whenever I have a choice of a Republican that doesn't, isn't for that. then I am all for. going with a limited uh having a more limited government, more liberty minded. uh a choice for that. I also look at it too.

I don't know what people are going to do. Like, say if you have Trump as the nominee at some point with all the cases that are going on, and yes, I think the Georgia case, the Georgia case gets in the weeds, and your case is, I think, is just. Is is nuts. I think the New York case is stupid and it's a witch hunt. The NATSEC.case in Mar-a-Lago actually, I think, is the only one that m has some weight to it.

And we'll see what comes of that. But at some point, you know, there's probably going to be a conviction somewhere at some point. And I would say, if there is one, I was talking to a friend of mine who actually worked with Trump's legal team in Nevada with some of the recall, with some of the accounting, Voican and stuff, was saying that that's a case because that is an actual statute that. that could actually develop into something. That being said though, You have to think of the resources, and a friend of mine brought this up that are going to be spent.

just to bail out a White House race for that. During all of that, when and all these are all resources that will absolutely be drained from any House or Senate effort.

So there then becomes a chance of not just losing the White House, but losing the Senate and The the house is In a spectacular fashion. And when I say in a spectacular fashion, I mean you could get to where you couldn't even get a filibuster going in the house. Yeah.

So that's what we're looking at. And I understand people like who they like. And I think for some people, this is about branding. But for For me, I look at this as I have one priority, and that priority is what gets me the most limited government victories. and advances The agenda.

of limited government. And I don't see it. with any of the choices in the primary right now except for one. And that's why I make the decision that I make.

Now, people are going to vote whom they vote for. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for. That's something that you've got to do. You gotta come to that conclusion. But I do think it's going to be made hard, if not impossible.

to retain a majority in the House. And I think it's going to deplete resources in a lot of very competitive races in the Senate because a lot of money is going to have to be used to bail out the White House race. Because I think that Trump's not going to be able to raise money for himself because he's going to be involved in all the legal stuff. And some people say, well, they owe it to him because that's great, and I understand that sentiment. And I don't judge anybody for it, but I don't think that that's what this is about.

I mean, I like a lot of other people too. But if I thought that and I'm speaking very clinically. If I thought it was going to be a liability on promoting a limited government agenda, I'm not going to go for it because I want a limited government agenda. And that has to come first. That's I mean, I want to put the country first.

And that's how I look at it. And it's not, you know, nothing mean to any of these cats, but that's just the way, that's just the way it is. There are some politicians whose record I really like, but personality-wise, I can't stand them. I'm not going to say who, but because I like their record. I want them to keep voting the way they do, but I just cannot stand their personality.

There's some in the House and some in the Senate that are like that. But um It's about the country first. And that's just how I look at it. And I'm going to tell you, I'm super nervous about the house. I wanted to share this Newsweek story with you, 'cause this was one I thought was a decent write up.

And it looked at a couple of different surveys. It gets into the tough, I mean, Republicans. Are poised to lose control in 2024. That is a real thing. There have been surveys done before, a lot of the races are really competitive.

And you have to think too, going back to 2016. Part of when you're building a big tent is you have to work really, really hard to maintain those ties. And that has kind of run counterclockwise to what has been happening in the Republican Party. The GOP has gotten more tribal. The left has two.

But my point is that you can't maintain a big tent when you're getting super tribal about candidates. And that's the crazy thing. They're not even getting tribal about issues. It's like tribalism about personalities. And I don't understand that.

Like, I totally get if you're like, I want you either abolish the ATF or I'm never going to vote for you. I mean, at least I get that, right? Or you better abolish the Fed or I'm never going to vote for you. I get that. That's an issue.

But people who are like, oh, I like this guy. And no matter what the guy has done. That's what I don't get. Like over a dude, a trivalism. I just don't, I don't think any politician can be perfect.

I just think some. are a little bit better than others.

So I'm just saying, keep your wits about you going into this. I'm not going to tell people who to vote for. I'll tell you who I'm, I told you who I support in the primary just because I believe in transparency, and that's made a lot of people mad because it exposes their grift. Which is funny. And I got people that try to browbeat me into stuff all the time.

If I told you all the pressure that I get from different people, from consultants to people on cable news. To all kinds of folks who have tried to pressure me to go this way or that way. And I just it just makes me want to dig in more. I I just I can't I I've never but it is tribalism to a but be tribal about issues. We used to have wedge issue voters.

What happened to that? When did that go away? You remember the wedge issue? Yeah.

That was the issue. That was the hill I'm going to die on. Hasn't that gone away? You don't hear anybody talking about that anymore, do you? True.

When's the last time you heard wedge issue, Kane? When is the last time? The term wedge issue I haven't heard. What I have seen, though, is them creating wedge issues way sooner than they used to, and us getting into this election process way sooner than we used to. That's what I've seen.

But you're right. Wedge issue as a As a term, I haven't heard that in a while. Yeah, and even focusing on all those issues. Those used to be like make or break issues. The only thing that they've gotten close with it is abortion.

I was watching a thing on cable news, and they had this collection of voters. That were undecided. And I mean undecided is they didn't know who they wanted to vote for, a Republican or Democrat. And I was just like, what? At this point, I get it.

I understand it more if you're undecided. About the Republican side of things, I totally do not understand you if you are undecided about Biden or a Republican. I just don't get, you're like a Martian to me. I don't understand that. And they had this one chick who said that she was a Republican, but she was undecided.

But she really liked what Nikki Haley was saying because woman she talks about being a woman and this all the the only thing that this chick could say was woman. And then she brought up abortion. And I'm like You're the type of person that makes me wish that almost makes me I mean Wish that you had never gotten the right to vote. Because when I hear you talk, I mean, I listen to her and I'm like, this is. You are You are literally manifesting the definition of bimbo right now.

Like, what in the world? Because she's a woman. She talks about being a strong woman. And. Female Starfen.

You know, and abortion and all that. Like, that's all that there is. Like, you and you wonder why female voters get stereotyped because that kind of stuff. But there are people out there who think that and Democrats have tried to seize on that and make that so the abortion thing is the only is the closest they've come to like pushing wedge issues I don't know. It's but we'll see.

We'll see what happens. Because we got a lot of stuff kicking off. You got the Houthis that are. Firing off. Rockets at Naval are our U.S.

naval ships. And then, of course, you have What, yet another terror attack in Israel? And you see Hezbollah now trying to amp up. and Hamas releasing Hostage videos, we are in very, very perilous times, and we have to have like a full command of everything at our disposal, and that means not losing the House and not losing the Senate. And I think that running for office cannot be a vanity project.

It really can't.

I really like what Thomas Massey had. He tweeted out this thread that I thought was fantastic. He said he was fighting the swamp for over a decade. He goes, and I can tell you it's tough. He goes, I'd give anything to have more help, which used to make me vulnerable to falling for fake Liberty candidates.

He goes, I've backed a few who've won and then sold out, but they talk a great game. He goes, after being burnt, I developed a litmus test for candidates running for offices above Dog Catcher. He asks, Before you decided you were such a great candidate for office, did it ever occur to you to back the other Liberty candidates for office? Did you volunteer your labor or money? Long before you knew you were going to run for office, he adds, Did you ever do anything like write a letter to the editor about an issue or sign your name to it?

Did you join or form a group to fight for an issue? And if you were elected to an office before, what does your record demonstrate? Did you do what you said you would do, even when it could cost you your political office? Were you smart about how you went about it? Did you spend your time in that office wisely?

He goes, Perhaps you know why I'm compelled to write this thread. You know, and he he mentions, he goes, Vivek talks a great game, but he doesn't pass my test. He should get in the trenches and fight with us before he asks to be the general. He goes, insert, how do you do, fellow meme here? He goes, I agree with Ron DeSantis at least 85% of the time.

He goes, on those 85% of the issues, I can take his word to the bank. And he says his wife is with him a hundred percent of the time. He goes, There are many liberty issues, but none have presented a clearer test of elected leaders than COVID did. And he says Trump failed the test miserably. Vivek was AWOL or worse.

And he said that DeSantis called him when everyone else was losing their minds and hating him. And he said, Leadership is taking an unpopular position because you know it's right and using your power to empower people instead of forcing outcomes on them. I completely. Agree. with what Thomas Massey has said.

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Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. And as these extreme weather events continue to remind us that this is suicidal, what we're doing, you know, it's crazy to keep going like this. And we've had so many multi-billion dollar events that... And it's the developing countries that are hurt the most.

So Al Gore's like, wow, this extreme cold weather is really extreme and something about global warming, me and Bear Pig. Um It's winter. You absolute pervert stooge. It's winter. Imagine how cold it would be if it wasn't for global warming.

Golly, I want some global warming. You know what? I mean, it's 21 degrees right now in Texas. Give me the redacted global warming. That little brat That 20-year-old brat from Scandinavia was telling me, Oh, there's global warming.

Where is it? Where's the global warming? I am freezing to death. I should not have to be this freezing. This is unfair and it is not right.

Tisn't right, tisn't proper, tisn't fit, and I no, where's my global warming? This guy. Who knows? 'Cause it's so cold out this extreme cold. Yeah, you get it.

You know, didn't they say that there was like solar activity and we were gonna like feel what it did coming up like in January? I think I had his headline but you know, whatever.

Somebody's got the grift of global warming to push. I want to go out and throw some styrofoam around and, like, burn some tires or something. Maybe that'll warm it up a little bit. We need a volcano to go off to like hasten the global warming. One, another volcano.

Yeah, well, I mean, isn't there that one in Iceland that just went off? Yeah.

And there's like lava everywhere, and people are, oh, yeah, because it's a big giant volcano. I will say, when we were in Italy, we went to Pompeii. I was a little nervous. Is that weird? I mean, you've got people living their whole lives there, and they're totally fine with it.

And I'm like, it's still active and they're like, yeah. Like it's still an active volcano I mean, I get that there are signs in that, but Still, you know, like what if? I don't know, just. Anyway, all right, so. We will uh we're gonna recap Uh Iowa to morrow, because the caucusing starts this evening.

And I think it's like 7 Central. And we're gonna watch All the numbers come in, and we're going to break down those results and what that means for you going forward. We'll have all of that. You do not want to miss tomorrow's show. That's one of the things we do best, better.

All right, Kane, today's stupidity. All right, it is our vice president, Kamala Harris. Is it Kamala? Kamala. It's Kamala, right?

I think we can say, I can identify with whatever I want. She's trying to connect with Gen Z. Listen to what she says here. Listen. I see our college students at that point.

Yeah.

And let me just say, I love Gen Z. I don't know if some people, you know, I love Gen Z.

So, okay, for the older adults, this is going to be a humbling thing I'm about to share with you. If someone is 18 years old today, They were born in 2005. I did the math. It's not exactly correct. It's not at all correct.

But why is that a thing that's. Why is she going in front of people and saying stuff? She can't even campaign. I mean, it could be that. Things could be worse, guys.

We could have her.