Wednesday March 13 - Full Show

Now, people say that this TikTok ban will only apply to TikTok or maybe another company that pops up just like TikTok, but the bill is written so broadly that the president could abuse that discretion and include other companies that aren't just social media companies and that aren't. As some people would believe, controlled by foreign adversaries. Again, we're giving the President that discretion to decide whether it is controlled by a foreign adversary. There were some people who were legitimately concerned that this was an overly broad bill, and they got an exclusion written into the bill that I want to read. It says the term covered company does not include an entity that operates a website or application.

whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews. Why is this exception in the bill? Why did somebody feel like they needed this exception if the bill itself only covers social media applications that foreign adversaries are running? These and other questions we hope to answer in the course of this debate, and I reserve the balance of my time. I love Thomas Massey.

He's like the conscience of the nation, isn't he? He really is. Welcome to the show. Daniel Lash here with you, top of this very first hour here on Wednesday. I almost said Tuesday, and you would have been mad at me.

It's Wednesday. We're halfway through. It's hump day. And that was just from the debate that took place because they passed that, the House passed, and it's going to go to the Senate, they passed the TikTok bill. The bill about the TikToks came.

That's what they passed. I hate this damn app. I just, you know, I feel like I'm in a black mirror episode. Every time I get up and I'm like, oh my gosh, I hear the phrase TikTok star and I want to yeet myself off a cliff.

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So This bill Which we talked to Brendan Carr with the FCC yesterday. He and Massey agree on a lot. They agree on more than they don't agree on. Let's just be clear with that stuff. But he was saying that he isn't.

You know, Brendan Carr wasn't as concerned with some of this other stuff that we were bringing up. And we asked him, I pressed him on it. I'm like, well, you know what, did Amazon get a carve out? He did say that foreign adversary was defined essentially as what? North Korea, Russia, uh and Iran and China.

So foreign adversary of the okay, well there are TikToks right there with China. Uh and then we talked about the difference between illicit conduct and free speech because you know, if you're doing something that's c that's espionage, that's You know, under our laws, that's not necessarily free speech. That's not a free speech issue.

So. We had that whole conversation yesterday with Brandon Carr, and you can find that discussion also up at YouTube. We have it archived up there if you missed it yesterday.

Okay, so the. Situation with this bill, it's going to go to the Senate, like I said, and they are demanding that TikTok be sold. If you don't understand the hierarchy here, so you have ByteDance, which is a CCP company, CCP, the Communist Chinese Party.

Now, in China, and we've talked about this with Stephen Yates before, and I'm just bringing everyone up to speed in case some people had an extended weekend, et cetera. With doing business in China, if you're going to do business in China, you have to be a member of the Communist Party and good standing, all the whatever that means. And you also have to have like a member of the CCP on your board.

So, Byte Dance, which is the parent company of TikTok, is CC, it's CCP-owned. I mean, it's made up of CCP board members, and they have a CCP party member on the board, too. I mean, it's crazy. I mean, they're one in the same, and that's how a lot of businesses are in China. That was one of the aspects of the big takeover with a lot of business in Hong Kong as well, that people were protesting against.

So, TikTok is a subsidiary of Byte Dance, Byte Dance being owned by the CCP.

So, what the bill is demanding is that. ByteDance sells, they can sell TikTok. They can sell TikTok just so long as they're not going to be. Under that CCP umbrella. And there's been a lot of debate as to how much or exactly what information has been shared with the CCP by Dance, because there's information.

One thing that's unarguable is that. There is information that TikTok is sending to ByteDance, and ByteDance is sending information to Beijing. Exactly what all of that is.

Well, that's one of the big giant questions. But with everything from the IP theft and, you know, digital warfare and everything else that we've seen just from China in the past, you know, decade plus, I mean, they're up to nothing, no good. I mean, there's no reason why you need to send all of that information on users, such as, you know, like that, to Beijing through ByteDance.

So they're saying, look, you got to divest. You have to divest. Byte dance has to sell TikTok, or they're going to ban it in the U.S. 352 to 65 is what it passed.

So now this fight shifts to the Senate. And this is where this is going to go.

Now, China, interestingly enough, and I'm always endlessly amused when tyrants and You know, communist countries decide that they want to try to say that, oh, but you guys have free speech. How dare you not let us be part of it? They don't even have free speech in China. But they have been trying to use that as a way to stoke maybe some opposition on the right, to use the language of patriots to get you to support something that is CCP. uh advantageous right And I do agree with Brendan Carr in that illicit conduct isn't free speech and espionage isn't an act of free speech.

But I also am concerned about even getting anywhere close to the idea of giving the executive branch the authority to ban apps. And that's now, I think for me to completely adopt the former, I would have to totally disregard nuance because we understand. that that's not what this bill does. But we also understand And I actually spent I spent some time going through the text of it last night. And Brendan Carr, we talked to him again, FCC Commissioner yesterday, is correct in that.

Yes, the adversaries are defined. I there's still some parts of the language that's a little bit vague to me, some parts of the text that's a little vague. I thought the exclusions were interesting. I mean, I'm not going to ask a member of the government and expect them to be like, yes, they did actually. Did Amazon get a carve-out?

Oh, yes, they did. Do you believe them? I don't care who does. I don't think they're going to tell me. But that being said, The legislation is called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.

So it's going to the Senate. We don't know because the Senate's pretty divided. And it's not just Democrats and Republicans, like Republicans versus Republicans, and Democrats versus Democrats. It's really weird in that there are, this is not a party line thing. I haven't been able to say that about a piece of legislation in quite some time.

This is not actually a party line vote. Situation. This is, I think, people who are maybe. I think you can be on the left and be more libertarian, and I think you can be on the right and be more libertarian. And that's where the divide seems to be.

Because there are some senators on in the Democrat Party who agree entirely with some senators in the Republican Party. And there are some of those Democrats that disagree with those Democrats, but they agree with the other Republicans that are disagreeing with those Republicans.

So it's a little bit uncertain to see because they feel pretty divided. And when you look at other efforts that states have made, Whether it's state-led efforts, I think Florida's been one of the most aggressive and most successful. Other federal attempts to curtail this with TikTok have kind of stalled out.

So the other thing that's really Makes this all confusing is you have Two the two dudes running for president again. They're both like TikTok. Donald Trump likes TikTok. He's defending TikTok.

Now, Guys, here's let me tell you something. Patriotism isn't kissing the ass of a leader and thinking that that is being true to your country. Patriotism is calling balls and strikes where they hit. There is not a single politician on God's green earth that I agree with 100%, and that even includes Ron DeSantis. I don't know.

Maybe it's 'cause I got the balls and I can say it. I think everybody else needs to also be just as clear-coded on this stuff. Because we can't have Trump going out there bragging about the vaccine, and we can't have Trump going out there sitting here talking about how he likes TikTok more than Facebook. and that he doesn't think TikTok should be banned. Stop it!

Just stop! Don't do that! Why? Why do you do that? Oh my gosh!

It's like I want to shake people and go, Do you not want to win in 2024? What is the matter with you? Stop it. I feel like a Muppet.

So I feel like. Animal. Oh my gosh. 'Cause I saw that yesterday. I asked Brendan Carr about that.

And you guys you guys saw it, come on.

Now, I don't care where you fall. This is not about, well, I can't criticize Trump because then I'm not MAGA. You're golly, stop. Right now, this is about consistency. Do you want to win in 2024?

Do you want to be able to have Companies that are based in Beijing getting information and using it in acts of espionage against the interests of the United States. Or do you just want to argue that you don't think the government should be able to ban? I mean, this is what we need to be honest about.

So, what makes this whole thing muddied is that you have both Biden and Trump out there. They both essentially agree on TikTok. I don't know. Did we accidentally get a boomer high? What the hell?

What is happening here? I don't like TikTok, so they've been trying to tell me, oh, we need to get a show account on TikTok. Telling me to do anything I don't want to do is really just a f- fool's errand. And I'm like, I'm not going to get on TikTok. And they're like, well, maybe we'll create a show ticket because you got to go to where I understand you got to go to where the culture is.

But out of spite, sometimes I just will.

Well, I don't want to do it. I just It's like that penguin meme when he crosses his arms. I don't want to do it. I feel like that right now. Because Biden, he just literally created a TikTok account in February for his campaign.

And they try to go. The Democrats who are trying to cover that up are like, well, you know, it wasn't Joe Biden that did it, it was his campaign. Shut up. Whose campaign is it? Oh, it's Joe Biden's campaign.

Okay, there's enough said. End of story. The end. That's it. But I need I need I need Trump to not be like, oh yeah, TikTok.

We don't want because he said that he's mad at Facebook, right? Look, I don't like Meta. I probably have more reason than most people listening to not like Meta. They have throttled the hell out of me. They have removed things, they have demonetized things, they have come at me six ways, they've hurt me professionally, so has YouTube.

Very much so.

So, I have more reason than most to not like Facebook and Meta. But I will say, They refused to bend the knee in China. That is why there is no Facebook in China. They have a CCP friendly alternative.

So they don't have a Facebook in China because They wouldn't bend the knee to it.

So I got to give credit. credit to where credit is due.

Now some of the other stuff we're going to be hitting, we're following the TikTok and the Senate. The late do you know that came? This is file as under Reason 50114. as to why I don't do cruises, because apparently they're still making port in Haiti. Oh man.

Anybody up for a barbecue? Anyway, I shouldn't have said that. But I did.

So we're going to get into that. We got some law and order. We got all kinds of stuff to hit. Immigration. We've got some culture.

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Who said that? This is a ghost. Scientists apparently just got closer to creating artificial life in the lab.

Well, we already know that they've done it once because it's President of the United States. They said that this is the road to how life could arise in a laboratory. This sounds horrible. Who's your mom and dad? A lab!

Washington Post quotes scientists saying that they've created an RNA molecule that made copies of other types of RNA, and they're closer to doing something they shouldn't be doing. I'm telling you, you guys read about the tower in the Bible, right? Right? I feel like that Natalie Portman meme, that Natalie Portman meme. Remember the Tower of Habel, right?

It's the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Those scientists word from the theory that there were there before there were DNA or proteins, RNA existed as the initial ingredient in the quote-unquote delicious primordial soup, nom nom nom. And as part of their research, they said they created lab-made RNA, just stuff they shouldn't be doing. Stop it. Stop it.

Do we not have enough of a horror show in this world that y'all gotta be doing more of it in the lab? Stop.

Somebody get these scientists. Golly. Creepy. Why? I don't know why the Metro, a British publication, is envisioning what a murder would look like in space, but they are.

Apparently, in Britain, they paid for someone to study space murder. Ooh. That almost sounds like a great cane, a futuristic punk rock band with thrash metal. uh inspiration. Space murder.

They said it's CSI in space. I wouldn't watch that show. I don't think I would. It'd be kind of annoying. They said that it revealed how forensic science would apply in space by simulating blood spatters.

Splatters and microscopes.

Somebody's a little too excited about the blood splatters. What? Two headlines in a row about weirdo scientists. They were studying the way blood explodes out when you merc someone in zero gravity. Maha.

Need to solve all those space murders. Yes, a lot of space. I mean, are they going to go up there and be mercing some aliens or I don't know? Like, how's this going to happen?

So they actually used, they try to get the viscosity of human blood. And basically, they had a Jackson Pollock moment in a zero gravity environment, and they were looking at what happened to blood.

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Now, I've heard of prison breakouts, but I've never heard of someone breaking in the prison. But that's exactly what happened in Standish, Michigan. Inmates trying to break out, that happens, but trying to get into a former maximum security facility.

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Okay. A 12-year-old was found spending the night alone inside of an Ohio Target store. They said Columbus police found the boy at 6:15 a.m. and that he was unaccompanied. He was there all night and he was a runaway.

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But we are alert to that. We are alert to that possibility. I think you are right that the driving conditions in Haiti could very well press more people.

So we've recently approved some additional assistance that we can provide to the Coast Guard. I think that that has now fully been approved. We'll be providing notifications if we haven't already to provide additional shipboard assistance.

So, this was this audio. This actually came, I think, a little late yesterday. It was Department of Defense officials who said they were alerted about a potential maritime mass migration from Haiti into the United States. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of this first hour: Dana Lash here with you.

And this is. I was going to talk about this in our second hour, but I kicked it up because of some new information.

So that is true. Uh there there have been there's been a lot of discussion about that and now uh just came out literally says well maybe what Maybe thirty minutes ago. DeSantis is now deploying additional personnel assets to southern Florida and the keys. to stop the potential influx of illegal immigration from Haiti. And they said that they've been already for some time dedicating significant resources to combat these illegal vessels coming to Florida from countries like Haiti.

So they have the Division of Emergency Management, the Florida State Guard, state law enforcement agencies, over 250 additional officers, soldiers, and a dozen air and sea craft to the southern coast of Florida. They said we cannot have this happening. And he's right because they, and they've also added to Florida Fish and Wildlife as well there in southern Florida.

So they're doing that. They have a whole other deployment from Florida State Guard to the Keys alone to assist because apparently they're worried about these vessels coming up on some of these some of these islands in the Keys and kind of overwhelming the area. Because one of the reports that I have, and this is from a British Yeah, British publication. I mean, some of the vessels you could have like anywhere from 200, something to 300 people on. And this is you know, we talked about this on Monday when I I told everyone spring break we went to Turks and Caicos.

And they have been since and it's gotten worse since twenty nineteen. They have been spending um a good chunk of their GDP. Repatriating and repelling Haitian illegal immigrants that are coming over on these sloops. You know, some they said no, there's no fewer than 40 or 50 of them on a boat at a time, and it's a daily thing now. And that their military used to, they would get a call out and they would respond.

Not really so much their military, because as a Commonwealth nation, they fall under British protection, but their own state security agency would respond. And they used to do that. They said maybe like once or twice a month.

Now it's every single day, multiple times a day. And their crime rate, their violent crime rate has skyrocketed. And this is not just happening to Turks and Caicos. I was reading last night that a number of other nations have been dealing with this in the Caribbean as well. And I mean, you're talking about these islands that, you know, they're more tourism focused and they want to make sure things are kept safe.

This could potentially rock their entire economy, especially if you have people who are going for a summer vacation, spring break. No one sits here and goes, they want to go to Haiti. No, they go to Puerto Rico, they go to the Dominican Republic, they go to Bahamas, they go to Turks and Caicos, they go to St. Thomas, they go to all these beautiful islands that are all now under threat of getting completely run over. Locust style by people coming from Haiti, and you don't even know there's no way to guarantee who's coming.

You don't know if some of it's like some of the Haitian gangs looking to get a stakeholder in one of these countries that they're going to. And Florida They're trying to get ahead of this.

So they got wind that it was, this was something that was going around yesterday. They got wind that it's coming. And so It's getting worse and worse and worse over there. The Pentagon. Also, I said yesterday that they had evacuated the embassy over there.

Now the Pentagon sends anti-terrorism Marines to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy because the company, they say it's on the brink of civil war, but for all intents and purposes, they're in civil war.

So they sent more.

So they're already boots on the ground there to help evacuate the embassy. I guess they learned their lesson maybe from Afghanistan.

So they were sent to Haiti to beef up security. This was 24 hours after their prime minister fled, actually 48 after he fled the country, 24 after he resigned. They have the elite fleet anti-terrorism security team, FAST. They were dispatched. The guy who's basically in charge of Haiti right now, Jimmy Cherzier, they call him barbecue, he called for a quote, bloody revolution.

And so the EU said they were sending humanitarian aid. That's about $21 million to Haiti. That's what Turks and CAICO spends. Oh, actually. Not even they spend over that annually.

To repel illegal Haitian immigration, the EU could probably do more. Britain could probably do a little bit more. That was something that I heard from I mean, how many of these nations down there fall under the Commonwealth? You know, we know Puerto Rico and the United States, but how many, like, you know, what, like Turks and Caicos, for instance, some of these other, you know, Commonwealth nations. What what is Britain doing about this?

Watch this area. Because We already know at the southern border there have been a ton Of Haitian illegal immigrants at the southern border.

Now they're just going straight for Florida. But they said that The organization of crime, one of the reasons that these gangs have been able to very easily take control is that they already had a gang element and a criminal network in Haiti for quite some time already, and they were able to just maximize it. And they've been spreading it to other nations, trying to get toeholds there as well and expand their operations. The embassy technically in Haiti is still open, but they've had gangs in open firefights. The cops and soldiers are trying to, you know, in Haiti are trying to do as much as they can, but the gangs tried to seize the airport.

They've been targeting government sites. But this. It's been tough. They've had what, Corey Mills, he was there at the Have Faith Orphanage at Port-au-Prince. He's been heavily critical of the president.

He said that this is another, it's a clear pattern of abandonment. And he says that he thinks that the group was left behind by Biden and the State Department because they were requesting. their help in country. Uh so We'll see. They said U.

S.

Southern Command is prepared with a wide range of contingency plans to ensure the safety and security of U. S.

citizens in Haiti. But they said and the other thing, too, that I see is they're trying to some media are trying to rehabilitate barbecue. The gang, that's what we're calling, you know, Prime Minister BBQ over there. And they're like, oh, he's a former police officer, as though there are never any bad cops, right? But he actually went out and said, Yes, the violence is all mine.

I want a bloody revolution. He's already gone out and claimed it. And they believe that Haiti, a little over 80% of it, is entirely.

Well, they said that the the capital's now under it's in gain control. Poor Our Prince is totally controlled by the gangs now. And they think 200 gangs. operate around Haiti. And it's mostly in Port-au-Prince, mostly mostly in the main city.

So there they go. The prime minister, Juan, he went to Puerto Rico. Oh. And he recorded a statement.

So, man, you see what all these other nations now are having to deal with and absorb.

So that barbecue dude is the most powerful dude in Haiti. And in the meantime, uh, they have uh Florida's getting ready. for the influx. And uh So he's so this guy, the prime minister, he was redirected to Puerto Rico. He's been there ever since the weekend.

The Dominican Republic wouldn't have him. And uh now the Kenya what is that I read this morning that Uh Kenyan police were on hold.

So apparently That's I guess they were gonna rely on some of them to kind of push back against the gangs in initially.

So we'll keep an eye on this hole. It's a weird, a weird. The way that this happened, it's just odd. The whole thing is weird. All right, a couple of other things to get into.

Law and order. Speaking of law and order, all Taco Bell locations in Oakland have announced the indefinite closure of all of their dining rooms due to a series of robberies and a crime surge. They're switching to cashless drive-through only. That is how bad it is in Oakland. Cashless drive-through only.

They said all the Taco Bell restaurants They said that it's this is sadly, it's a new reality for customers. They can't go in and sit down. And they have to go get drive-through. And they said it's a safety and business decision. That's what they said.

It's a safety and business decision. Uh so that's because they can't They're they're they they can't deal with the crime anymore, they can't deal with it.

So I'm That's pretty that's kind of wild. The fact that Taco Bell You can't even have a fast food first off, who robs a Taco Bell? The fact that you can't even have a Taco Bell be open in Oakland. I mean, that tells you everything that you need to know about Gavin Newsome and the state of I mean, California is the ultimate culmination of every Democrat policy. If you want to know what the end game is, look at California.

In Oakland, six months, their crime has skyrocketed just like in the past year. But they said they had a Denny's, which was. An iconic Denny's that closed after 54 years in the same location. And they said it was crime and the safety and well-being of their employees and customers. They were cl they closed an in and out.

In Oakland, they're clustering in and out. They even had the NAACP. Let me pull this story up. This was over at Red State back in July of last year. Oakland NAACP absolutely rips into Woke DA defund police activists in a call to action on crime.

Because they said that Oakland has a public safety crisis.

So they actually were at odds in AACP. With BLM, in Oakland. And all of these far-left activists in Oakland, they said, quote, Oakland residents are sick and tired of the intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities. Murders and shootings and violent armed robberies, home invasions, car break-ins, sideshows, highway shootouts, that's a pervasive fixture of life in Oakland. Wow.

Now The uh Restaurants that Taco Bell has closed. They're well, they're closing just the dining rooms only. But it is all cashless drive-through. And they did confirm that we had to because they had to hire, even by doing that, they still had to hire extra security guards because it's that dangerous.

So, this is what happens though when you have soft on crime restorative justice. This is what you get with it.

Now we have more law and order on the way, including coming up, and I know later on this week we have Missouri AG Andrew Bailey on about this. We're going to talk about this story that came out of, we had mentioned it before, I think we mentioned it Monday. Of this girl who was nearly murdered by another teenage girl in St. Louis, our hometown, and it was at East Hazelwood. And it was outside of the school.

We talked a little bit about this. And she. I mean, I don't know how she wasn't killed. She's still alive. But she was attacked so viciously, and the other teenage girl took her head and repeatedly bashed it as hard as she could into the concrete, trying to kill her.

She was trying to murder her. I don't know what, well, you look at that video and you tell me that your mind thinks anything else. And The police are investigating all of this stuff. But it was a 15-year-old girl. The victim's fighting for her life.

She's still in critical condition. And you can even see in the video, after another teenage girl, thankfully, shoves the attacker off the victim, the victim's laying on the ground and she's seizing. She's convulsing. She's twitching. It's horrible.

It is terrifying to watch. And uh Andrew Bailey is now involved. He's done with this. He's done with this stuff.

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I never even heard him say a naughty word. And he stood there looking at her like. He needed to, he needed to call his pastor because of what he just heard. I was dying laughing at that. Dying.

Oh my gosh. 'Cause Lawrence is like an old school southern gent, right? And he just doesn't know how to deal with those ladies. He just does not know. But that was, and like this chick, that reporter talking to her, you could almost see his brain short circuit.

He's like, what did I just hear? And you heard it. He goes, your cousin? She's like, yeah, my cousin. Oh my gosh, what?

Oh Lord. Oh my gosh. That's not like breaking news or anything. That video's been circulating for a little bit, but it was just fun to, you know. I think it's the epitaph for our society.

We're supposed to have a solar eclipse. When's the solar eclipse? These days of the United States. April 8th. April 8th.

And Maybe, I don't know, maybe we'll the world will end. I'm just saying, you know. Don't get sad about it. We've had a good run.

Now it's just a mess. You know, it is what it is. No, for real. But there's going to be a solar eclipse. And I was.

I am still shocked.

So I was reading about this right before I went to bed last night. And this is where I get all my stupid questions from because I'm the person right before I go to sleep. And I'm like, I'll ask my husband, like, you know, what if I had three legs? How fast could I run? I ask him, like, questions like that.

Like, how much would an additional leg speed me up? I ask him things like this, and he looks at me like I've spouted another head into my neck.

So I was reading about the solar eclipse and how Uh this Texas like, isn't it a Texas town that had declared some kind of like emergency because they have so many people coming through. It's the Te Hillsboro and I think this is in Te this is in Texas. And they they call it totality eclipse. Is I guess what it is? I don't know.

I don't know this stuff. But anyway, they said that, um It's on April 8th and Hillsboro is the seventh best place in the country to view it. By Astronomy Magazine. They're expecting 60,000 people.

Now, here's what fascinates me. There are 60,000 people. that are going to like go on a trip to go and watch an eclipse. From a plane even. There are people booking flights.

They're booking flights so they can be in the air at the time this eclipse is happening. And their flight path is right in the path of the eclipse. Who the hell are these people? I don't know. That sounds incredibly inconvenient.

I don't like to be inconvenienced on my downtime, right? Are you like that with me? Like, I am allergic to it. That sounds like you're you're willingly, sorry, going through an airport. How long does the eclipse happen?

How long does it last? Like a few minutes? I don't know. I can't imagine much more than a few minutes. That's I don't know what I think of that.

Those are some very odd folks. Odd folks, I'm just saying. I'm going to inconvenience myself to watch the sun get covered up for a little bit. I don't, I don't, I mean, if that's your jam, you know, it takes all kinds. We got another hour on the way.

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If the President is so concerned about the national security risks around TikTok, why is he posting on the platform?

So I'll say this. Jake Sullivan, our National Security Advisor, just spoke to more broadly why this bill is important, why we welcome this bill. Obviously, it's going to the process. And we're offering technical support.

So I'll just leave that piece there. As it relates to the campaign, I would have to, and their strategy as it relates to TikTok, I'm just going to leave it to them.

Well, the TikTokers are very sad. They're very upset. That was Carrie Jean-Pierre talking about The TikTok bill, which passed the House and is now making its way to the Senate, where it's a little less certain what's going to happen there because you have a number of Democrats who actually. Uh Oppose they are in support actually of the divestment between Byte Dance and TikTok because Byte Dance is the parent company. Welcome back to the program.

Top of this second hour here on Wednesday. Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can find us Channel three hundred forty seven DirecTV as well, the simulcast the video component of the radio program. The TikTokers are quite upset.

I think it's interesting if the Chinese government How much uh how uh how many billions do they have wrapped up in TikTok, Kane? Oh, man. I wouldn't even know. I would say it's at least Because it's one of the Not every social media platform is in every country, but TikTok is. Right.

So like Facebook isn't in China because Mark Zuckerberg always refused to his credit, had always refused to Play that game. Parts that like X, all this other stuff.

So they're not. TikTok is like the one that is actually everywhere.

So that way bigger. More billions, I think. I they really, if I think here's the stunning thing. I am with great interest watching what China does. If the Senate does if the Senate, let's just say That the Senate passed passes this bill, the House bill, on on demanding for TikTok to stay.

available in the United States. What is What's China's reaction going to be to that? Because if they. Divest. If they sold it, I can't imagine how they wouldn't lose money.

I'm just trying to think of who could buy it. Who could Could afford the price tag for it. That's number one.

So wouldn't it be uh number two, wouldn't that be kind of a fire sale for them? It would have to be.

So then that brings me to my third point here. If They do. I mean, if they if they end up doing a i I I'm just wondering If they end up doing the fire sale or not, if they end up divesting and they sell it. Clearly they want to control it. And if it looks like money is no object to them to still have influence with it.

Isn't that significant? I mean, doesn't that kinda tell you everything that you would Would maybe need to know about their motivations for this. Yeah, I mean, it looks like only the government. could afford it. Yeah.

You know what I mean?

So we're going from China? Harvesting our data to just the US government harvesting our data? Mm-hmm. I don't know about that. Um And I know that there's been, like I said, I know that there's been like a lot of um A lot of uh debate on how much information TikTok is actually sharing and sending back to ByteDance and, you know, what they're, you know, all of this stuff, like what they're sending, what they're sending in and what.

What ByteDance is receiving, and what information is it, and how is it like tracking our, you know, I get it, that there's a lot of, there's a lot of debate over that. But again, you know, espionage isn't under the First Amendment. Illicit conduct isn't covered by the First Amendment. But I also understand the First Amendment implications of it. And I'm also very wary of giving government a thumbs up, thumbs down, because when you give government control of something, I just feel like you, as humanity, as a citizen of that nation, are waving a white flag of surrender at self-governing.

The more control that you give the government, you are saying that you cannot be. You are not responsible to govern yourself. That you as a people are incapable of governing yourselves, that you are incapable of making smart decisions. This is, by the way, why I hate the idea of term limits. And I disagree.

This is one thing I disagree with Ron DeSantis on: is term limits. I think that term limits are the responsibility of the voter. I think the more. power we give to the government. That we are waving the white flag of surrender, saying we are ungovernable.

We are too, we can't govern ourselves, we are too stupid to determine how long someone should be in office. We're shortchanging ourselves as citizens.

So that's one thing I always come back to. I try to run everything through that lens.

However, at the same time, I also understand that if you are engaging in what is essentially espionage, that's not a First Amendment issue. Tracking people's data and learning American behavior so that you can foist upon them some psychological warfare.

Well, that's not really First Amendment stuff. I actually understand both sides of this argument. I'm I'm inclined to I am inclined to actually more or less I I just wish that the bill wasn't so vague. I wish it wasn't. Because there's some vagary there that I think we all have an issue with.

And I that's kind of my main problem, one of my big problems with it. But if we I feel like, you know, this comes down to. Our ability to manage Digital Uh communication, really. That's it. I don't think, but on the opposite end of that, I also don't like the idea of.

Giving Power or encouraging a nation that is classified as a foreign adversary. And again, when I spoke with Brendan Carr of the FCC yesterday, he was saying that here are the four: you got China, you have Iran, you have Russia, you have North Korea. These are the four. that we define as foreign adversary, so that is how it's defined in the context of this bill. I also don't like Giving power Two A foreign adversary to determine what it is that we as Americans see.

What we see, we talk about all the time the algorithms of Facebook and X and all this other stuff controlling what we see. That's the same argument with TikTok, but With TikTok it's not American leftists. It's communists in Beijing. that are determining what you see, what information you're consuming.

So the TikTok. Have you seen some of the protesters out there, Kane? We were talking about this on break. How much money do you think people make on TikTok? Or, how much, I mean, what's like a more successful TikTok salary, you think?

I can't even believe I said a phrase. To be honest with you, I wouldn't even know as far as the numbers, but I do know that people live streaming can make money. I know that people with content on TikTok can make money. You know, in my opinion, they were smart to monetize it because now people get so locked in.

Now it becomes more than just something they're scrolling through for entertainment and it becomes an income source. and it becomes really important to people. And I think that's why they chose now to have this fight. I hate the idea because I keep seeing these articles. I'm sorry, I'm pulling up one right now.

I have a million windows open. The TikTok stars came. The stars of TikTok. They're all out. They're protesting.

It is kind of difficult. Like I said, when you have the current president and our former president, both have different parties who actually both like TikTok. Uh is true. We d I discussed with you yesterday. It's true.

I don't get mad at me. That's just the way it is.

Now, Trump, I liked Trump's original position where he was hostile towards CCP owned by Dance. owns TikTok. But now he had said, I'm not a fan of Facebook. And he was he was trying to compare TikTok to Facebook. And again, I have more reason than many.

to low the meta and the algorithms. That and YouTube, they have hurt me professionally, the thwarting, and it really kicked up after Parkland.

So I have more reason than most, but they didn't bend a knee to China. That's why Facebook isn't in China. That's why Meta can't do business there. They were very Tarantino about it. You know the story with Quentin Tarantino, right?

Once upon a time in Hollywood, in order to gain access to all of China's very coveted movie screens, which are a multitude of them and growing every year. you have to go through their censorship board and it has to be pro China. It can't be any criticism. And they were mad over the way that Bruce Lee was portrayed and once upon a time with uh that Tarantino had directed once upon a time in Hollywood. And they had asked him to change it and he Told them to go pound sand so they didn't get a Chinese opening.

It's kind of how Facebook was. Not kind of, that's how they were too. They said, go pounce in. We're not doing that.

So I give them credit. I am not going to sit here and champion a CCP entity over an American-owned entity. I'm not going to do it. Just my American DNA prevents me.

So I understand because they say, well, Meta suppresses pro-Trump content on Facebook and Instagram, but it does very well on TikTok. There was an operative who had said that. And I'm like, okay, you need to question why. Don't take the bait. There's a reason why you are being baited.

I don't know. Maybe you have to be cynical or be in this to watch this for a number of years before you can see it. You're being baited though. The answer isn't to empower the CCP more. There isn't.

It's not to empower them more.

So I just um I don't know. Like, I I know that there's some relations with. Uh funders and backers and fundraisers and bundlers and You know, you have Vivek Ramaswamy who once said it was digital fentanyl, but then he's on TikTok and extolling the virtues of TikTok. I just, to me, if it's a conflict with Biden, then it's a conflict with Trump. Right?

That doesn't make you less of a fan of Trump to acknowledge this. Be a bigger fan of yourself before anybody else, including politicians. Be your be your own biggest fan before you put the interest and fandom. of a politician or another entity before yourself.

Well actually be a fan of Jesus, then be a fan of yourself. Nat Water.

So I don't know what's going to happen in the Senate. Because they're very they're not split along party lines. It's like Democrat versus Democrat, Republican versus Republican, and they're Democrats and Republicans that. line up on the side of this. But I gotta say The TikTok folks It's kind of funny.

That they're very upset. This is our lively. I'm just like, what would you have to do to get it? You'd have to get a job, you have to get a J-O-B. Rand Paul made this point.

He said, people who want to be on TikTok claim the data can't be secured because the algorithm is in China. He says it's not true. The algorithm runs in the U.S. and Oracle Cloud with their review of code, not in China. He says it's 60% of the company is owned by U.S.

and international investors. 20% is owned by the company founders.

However, In 2021, The CCP purchased the Golden Share stake in Byte Dance.

So they outvote all other shareholders.

So that's not actually accurate. And I love Senator Paul. But that wasn't actually accurate. They are controlled. Let's be entirely fact-based about this stuff.

When you have the golden share, you can outvote all the other shareholders. And that's the CCP's ownership of Byte Dance effective 2021.

So that is incorrect, what he said. We have a lot more. To hit on, including some cultural stuff. I've got an update.

Now you have Missouri's Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is weighing in. on that brutal video. of that fifteen year old girl. getting beaten um to almost death. outside of her school.

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All right, I realized, you know what I did? That I read our this hour's headlines last hour.

So now we're going back to so apparently, this is The Guardian. The American dream of owning a home is dead, according to a majority of renters. They were surveyed by Harris, it's a Harris survey, who said that the areas that they live in have become so unaffordable that they're barely livable. It's the Harris Poll Thought Leadership and Future Practice. I'm curious as to where, I haven't looked at the crosstabs for this, but I'm curious as to where they were looking at this because, you know, there's a reason that starter home is a phrase and why you don't always get in your chosen neighborhood.

That has been true. just as much now as it was 20 years ago. But they said that most people, it is true, it is very difficult anymore to be able to purchase a home. And it's been made even more unaffordable by this administration. Ireland surprisingly stopped this leftist assault on women.

Ireland rejected, this is according to the New York Times, they rejected a constitutional change. There were two proposed amendments and they were going to reflect the more secular liberal values of the nation's modern era. And they were going to remove language about literally the word women and about the definition of family beyond marriage and a woman's chosen role if she should lean that way towards the home, all of that. And they actually rejected it. They rejected it by a wide margin.

It was an unexpected defeat for quote-unquote equality campaigners.

So good for that. I'm happy that Irish citizens went to the polls on International Women's Day, no less. to protect women. They weren't going to allow women to be erased from their constitution.

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What? They now can it was they said a 20-year study. There is a calcification Situation, but we'll have to. We don't have time to talk about it right now. Look at him, he's already formulating a book in his head.

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using cost savings from previously approved Pentagon contracts. The package includes munitions and rounds to help Ukraine hold the line against Russia's brutal attacks for the next couple of weeks, which I have the authority to do without asking Congress for some more money right now. But I've asked them for a lot more money. And uh So we're, but it's not nearly enough what we're announcing today. Are they gonna drop 'em on people like they did in uh Gaza?

Give us your aid. Scott is my witness. I thought those turkeys could fly. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of the second hour, Dana Lash with you.

That was the president announcing more monies going to Ukraine.

Well, it's equipment 'cause you can't get the money yet. Yeah, but he's sending more stuff over there. That's so we who owns that? That's my stuff. That's our stuff.

I mean, I don't even know what stuff I have. I just wish that I was as well armed as the Ukrainian military that we were sending all our stuff to, right? I just want what they left for the Taliban. That's all I'm saying, right? I just want what I have coming to me.

I just want what's mine. If you follow peanuts and I don't know, anyway. Anyway. Deep dive.

So, uh It's what well they did announce, they did announce money, though. Listen to this, audio somebody too. This is Jake Sullivan. National security, listen.

So today On behalf of President Biden, I'm announcing an emergency package of security assistance of $300 million worth of weapons and equipment to address some of Ukraine's pressing needs. This is possible because of unanticipated cost savings in contracts that DOD negotiated to replace equipment we've already sent to Ukraine through previous drawdowns.

So it's money. I mean, it's, you know, regardless. We could send some of the stuff to Taiwan, but we don't. Or Taiwan wants to buy it. You know, weapons are fungible, too.

Yeah, they are. All of that. It's money. Everything's in money. You know, all of that's money.

Like I tell my kids, you know, whenever you're making a purchase, you have to determine whether or not. The dollar is the amount of your life. Your money is a measure of your life. If you want to Spend that much of the life that you spent making that money on this item. You have to determine if you're spending your life on that item, that much of your life is worth it.

It really changes the perspective of buying things when you talk about it like that. And it also further enrages you when you consider Just how much inflation is hurting everybody. But I am curious. Are they just going to just drop stuff on people? I'm just, you know, I'm wondering.

So, all that money, and then, of course, we have. The peer That they're dock pier. here. Four. Yeah It's a peer.

for Gaza. That they're constructing. And I am made of questions about this still. Like, for instance, I don't understand why we don't just scooch it on down a little bit. Scooch it on down.

And at least enjoy, if we have to do it, be in Egyptian waters and then go through. put it up on land and just go down the little road and make a left at Rafa. Why don't we do that? I mean, we're These are hostile forces. The enemy of our ally You're gonna have Rockets, you got snipers, you got, I mean, it's total destroyed urban warfare.

What happens if You know, the Marines setting all this up. What happens if they take fire? What happens if they fire on them? It's it's Hamas. What happens?

They have American hostages. You think that they won't? I mean what What what happens then? I mean, this is such a stupid idea. Of course, this is from the administration that was like, yeah, let's close Bagram and move our staging area to the Hamid Karzai International Airport there in the safe center of Kabul, which is entirely run by the Taliban that we saw coming two months ago when they were telling everyone that they were coming on WhatsApp.

Because they did. That administration. But seriously, what happens if how far do we know? How far away? Offshore, they're they're putting this pier.

The reason I ask this is because what happens if people overwhelm the area? If it's close enough to shore. Which I don't know if it is, that's why I'm asking. It seems dumb that it but what if you have boats commercial, what happens if things just go sideways? None of that makes sense.

It's just one of the goofiest things I've ever seen. But we're committed to it, I guess, so I don't know. Speaking of Gauss. You had the queen the the Turkish or sorry the Jordanian queen queen Rania of Jordan And she was saying that She was mad at Israel for defending itself. And I wanted to play this soundbite because I found this to be absolutely asinine.

We had this from yesterday. that we held over. And she was saying that this was about Israel and how much what people in Gaza have experienced is so much worse. It's so much worse. We had this.

Do we have this? It was from the audio soundbite from yesterday. Ins And this was We should have it. 'Cause I really would hate to skip over it. We were supposed to carry this over from yesterday.

But she was talking to CNN's Christiane Amanpour. And her response was that Well, Israel has experienced only one October 7th. Palestinians have experienced 158 October 7ths. And I'm thinking, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I have a lot.

First off, no. And secondly, no Israelis have been sticking grenades in Gazan women's vaginas. Listen to this. You know, I would say that as devastating and as traumatic as October 7th was, It doesn't give Israel license to commit atrocity after atrocity. And Israel experienced one October 7th.

Since then, the Palestinians have experienced 156 October 7th. No, they haven't. That's not true. And you know what? They shouldn't have voted for Hamas.

And they shouldn't Keep electing Hamas. And you shouldn't have to suspend elections recently because Hamas was so popular they almost assumed control in the West Bank as well. as Gaza. That's the problem. No, they ha you had a ceasefire on October 6th.

And I really do question. I know that people are trying to keep this separation. And I don't I don't subscribe to the idea that there are no innocents there.

However, You voted for Hamas. There were citizens that took part. in the terroristic atro the the atrocities Against Israelis, There were videos, mass amounts of civilians spitting and kicking on the barely living bodies of Israelis that had been kidnapped and brought back into Gaza. Hostage after hostage, who had finally been freed, although more still remain in captivity. Talk about how they were kept in civilian homes.

We're civilians.

So stop. Pretend that everyone's stupid. And I just found Rainier's. remarked to be absolutely racist and ignorant. And it betrays a deep bigotry on her part.

I don't recall Israelis, like I said, putting grenades into the vaginas of Gazan women. I don't recall Israelis cutting the breasts off of Gazan women while they gang rape them in front of their children. I don't recall Israelis putting babies of Gazan women in the ovens and cooking them to death.

So you can't be both the aggressor and the victim. The idea that a country doesn't have the right to defend itself. is asinine. That's why everyone just needs to get out of their way. I hope every single dog that is a member of Hamas is burned to ash.

And I hope that anyone that had been in any way culpable or even sympathetic to their plight. is terrified.

So terrified that they never ever commit another atrocity like that, and that lesson reverberates throughout the generations.

Sometimes brutality should be answered with brutality. That is the cost of war. It's why war is horrible. And it's why your backed Hamas should not have entered into it so lightly. You they F A'd?

Now they're F O'ing. While Jordan looked the other way. If Jordan feels so strongly about it, why don't they take all of these Refugees in. You can sit there and do your little interview by all the boxes of aid and everything else, but that's weird. I don't see any refugees there with you.

Are they welcomed into the palace? All those quote-unquote Palestinian, if we're going to use the name of an area that has literally never existed at all in antiquity, and it was actually a spiteful name given by Hadrian to a conquered people named after the Philistines who were from Crete and were seafaring, but I digress. Where are the refugees? Are they in the palace? Is that why we don't see them there with all the aid that is supposedly going over that Hamas is going to take again, like they took the last time and the time before that?

Terrorists thrive on the indulgence. of this concerned theatre. Because if all of these people were so concerned, They would have bent over backwards to make sure that Hamas honored the ceasefire that was in place on October 6th, and the one that was in place before they broke it the last time, and the one that was in place before they broke it the last time before that, and the one that was in place before they broke it the last time, before that, before that.

So spare us.

Now, moving on. This story that came out of my home state of Missouri. and my hometown of Saint Louis. East, Hazelwood. The video is horrific.

a fifteen year old girl. She wasn't attacked just by another team. And I feel like this is more media malpractice to describe it this way. She wasn't just attacked by another teenager. She was attacked by a group of teenagers, but there was one main aggressor who wouldn't let up.

and it was the girl who grabbed This 15 year old Her head, her name is Kaylee. slammed it against the asphalt ground. Repeatedly. She was in Full mount, grabbed her head, bashed it onto the ground. She was trying to kill her.

You don't watch that, you can't watch that video. and walk away. thinking anything but that teenager was trying to kill that girl. I think it's attempted murder. I think she should be arrested and charged for attempted murder, not just assault.

And if this 15-year-old victim dies because she hasn't woken up. in the video when thankfully another teenage girl knocks her out of the way. And I want to make a quick note. I actually don't look at this unless the motive comes up that it is racial. I don't look at this as a racial thing.

It was a black teen fighting a white teen, the victim's white, but it was a black teenager that knocked a black teen off the white girl in the first place. The reason I say this is because I've watched six videos in three days that are all recent. of a multitude of white kids and black kids attacking older people or other people. This is a youth problem. Kids aren't getting their ass beat enough, if you ask me.

So this victim Is fighting for her life. She hasn't woken up. She's in critical condition. She has brain swelling, brain bleeding, frontal lobe damage, skull fracture. She is seen in the video when the one team saves her.

She's on the ground still and she's Contorted, and she starts convulsing and twitching, and it looks, you know, she's never going to be the same. if she survives.

So, if The family Has already started, they've started to go fund me. They have actually a modest $40,000 goal. Her hospital will probably exceed that already. Because They said that Apparently, they've been told that even if she does survive, she's going to require help for the rest of her life. Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General of Missouri.

called out the 15-year-old girl. He wanted her to be tried as an adult. He said, quote, This evil and complete disregard for human life has no place in Missouri or anywhere. I am praying for the victim. He says the criminal should be charged and tried as an adult, and if the victim dies, that offense should rise to a homicide.

I think it should even be more than just a homicide charge. I think it's premeditated murder because this girl, which I know that when you file these charges and when you're a prosecutor, you want to go for the one that you're sure you're going to get a conviction on. I think murder will be tough for to convince a jury of a 15-year-old because they're going to, this, again, the indulgence. Criminals thrive on this indulgence. But she's 15, and you got to be realistic.

That's going to sway whatever jewelry makeup is there.

So, homicide's probably it, although I think it should be murder. If this girl died, I think the reason I say it's premeditated because she was apparently, according to the family that called the school to warn them. This girl was threatening to get at this girl all day. She was planning on it. That's premeditation.

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It's time for Florida Man. Guys Isn't this a happy Gilmore? Plot. A massive alligator attacked a Florida man fishing in a golf course pond. took his hand off.

A man is in the hospital following a gator attack that happened Sunday afternoon in Leesburg, Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates the gator's length to be approximately nine feet. The man was fishing in a pond. Penbrook Fairways when the gator attacked him, biting off his hand. A witness spoke to Fox Channel 35, saw the whole thing play out in his backyard.

He said, quote, while the guy was on the ground the gator got the guy in the hand, and the two rolled. The wife called 911, Lake County Fire Rescue, released the calls. And it sounds like total chaos. People stopped in their golf carts.

Someone screamed, Hand is gone, Hand is gone. He was reeling in a fish. I mean, there's literally a sign that says beware of the alligator. Even if there isn't a sign, just Be aware that in Florida, even if it's a puddle the size of a shoe print, there's a gator in it. Mm-hmm.

Do you know when we were at cyber the last time I was in Florida, like in Florida, not just passing through. Leaving the airport, And it was on a tram going to baggage claim or whatever, and I never check a bag, so I was just going to get a vehicle. There's like a little swampy park area that all the trams go over. I saw two gators hands to sky. I hadn't even been in the state for 10 minutes, and I saw two gators.

They looked large-esque. by my scientific estimation. Just saying. Yeah. All right.

Also. Another dude got bit up by a croc. Because I know. Was it a gator or a croc? His boat capsized in the Everglades National Park.

I'm gonna come back to this tomorrow. because we have our third hour that's rushing up on us. But this one, if your boat capsizes in a park and there's water in Florida, Nice life you lived. Stay with us. First of all, this is not a ban on TikTok.

I'm a grandmother of teenagers. I understand the entertainment value, the educational value, communication value, the business value for some business on this. This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tick, tack, toe, a winner.

A winner. Bless her heart. Tic-tac-toe, a winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Oh boy.

Yeah, so I Um Sorry, it's not about making it. Is it about making it better? Is it I don't I get weird when I disagree with Democrats on anything. It makes me immediately think. That What?

You mean agree with Democrats? Yeah, that's what I said, right? Do I say that? You said disagree. Oh, no.

Whenever I agree with them, I'm freaking out. Yes. It's like, wow, you like this, and I like, I may like this, what? I'm sceptical. I am I'm always a sceptic.

I am Diogenous. Reborn. The original cynic. Skeptic.

Alright, so welcome back to the show. Daniel Lash here with you. Top of the third hour. It's Wednesday. Uh always good to be with you, of course.

I'm letting you know just what we're watching all this TikTok stuff that's happening. It's got to go through the Senate. Here's my Here's what I keep coming back to on this bill. And I actually think you might not think that this bill is important. Maybe you're not.

I'm not on TikTok because I just can't. I'm allergic to like, I'm annoying about this. Let me just set it up. I needed I'm going to bring the tugboat in, so bear with me. I needed to get a, I like to bake, right?

And I needed to get a white like marble pastry board because I have black countertops, right? And we have full sun in our kitchen. My countertops are always weirdly warm. Doesn't matter what time of day it is. They're just warm.

They hold all the heat. And it's like the opposite of like a travertine, right? Like a travertine is always cool. My countertops are always warm. And I like to bake.

And it was a real problem whenever I was doing, and I noticed this especially over lockdown, whenever I was doing my pie crust and everything else, it didn't matter if I had my butter in the freezer. It didn't matter if I put my rolling pin in there. It just was so fast I couldn't work fast enough, and my pie crusts were just sucking.

So I was reading all these cooking websites, baking websites, and all this.

So I was like, I'm going to get. Like just large enough for a pie crust that if I want to, I can even put it in the freezer for a minute of time. It's marble, so you can't, you know, you got to be careful. But, you know, just to have something cooler that I can use. to make my crust.

and keep it in the shade. And I Looked everywhere because whether it was at Williams Sonoma or Sur La Tableau or even like restaurant wholesalers. Everything was made in China. Everything I found was made in China. Made in China, made in China, made in China.

I looked for like two months, almost three months, trying to find a good pastry board, and I finally found one that was made in Taiwan. And the marble was so. Oh, yeah, I look where the marble source from. It was like sourced from.

South Asia not It wasn't uh it was maybe a little China adjacent, but it wasn't Chinese. per se, but it was made in Taiwan.

So I got that one and I've been happy with it, right? And ever since then, I, unless I can absolutely avoid it, because we have to be honest, there's so much that comes in from China. I, if it's made in China, I don't eat it. Like, I have a rule that if I can't pay cash for it, I don't buy it. Like, I don't like to have debt.

I am nuts. Um And if I can't get it not being made in China, then I don't need it.

So I'm really I know it's difficult with things like antibiotics and stuff like that because that's where they're sourced from. Yeah. So Going back to this. I'm not on TikTok for that reason. I don't like doing Zoom for that reason.

I mean, I have told people who wanted to have meetings about this or that, whether they're in New York or DC, can you hop on a Zoom? And I'm like, no, I can't.

Sorry. I will literally not meet with you if that's what you require. I don't care. I won't do it. As King can attest because he's been privy to a lot of this.

So with this app This is even weirder because Byte Dance owns them. And I like Senator Rand Paul. He's like one of my favorite people. I did correct him a little bit last hour because he was saying that sixty something percent of Byte Dance is actually owned by other people. But then in twenty twenty one, we forget that the CCP Byte Dance they bought the golden share so they can outvote all the other shareholders.

They control all of that. That was in twenty twenty one that that happened. The golden share they purchased at CCP. I do not want to run the risk. And I'm seeing this happen everywhere.

of being tempted to Use to have my patriotism expertly used against me. by a foreign adversary. And that's what I hear happening. Those who are saying, well, it's not really owned by it is, though. Those who say, well, the government shouldn't be able to tell you what I agree, but that's not what this is.

I don't believe. That Illicit. behavior or espionage is a free speech issue. a free speech purist. I don't believe that harvesting your private data and sending it to Beijing is a First Amendment protection.

that falls under that. But at the same time, I can't say that I'm entirely comfortable. With the idea of the government demanding any companies divest or sell this. As a result as a as a In order to continue doing business in the US or being available on app stores in the US. Even though I understand all of this nuance.

It is so ingrained in my DNA, I have such an issue with it. Where do you stand on this, Kane? Where are you at on this? The TikTok thing. It's what we were talking about just now.

Well, I know. I'm just. Looking ahead. But so, yeah, the TikTok thing for me, I've never used it. I know my youngest.

But are you uncomfortable with like With like bite dance. Or them telling by dance they have to devest in order to continue doing business here. It's suspicious to me. Because I think the government control is what will always be the thread that continues through all of this, no matter how it evolves. Government control will always be there.

And how are they going to like you-you had brought this up last hour. How are they going to afford a $240 billion company? Who's going to buy that? Company. Yeah.

Only governments can do that, could collectively do it. Or Sud Musk. Or somebody well, he's, you know, he's even limited. At 240 billion, he's pretty limited too. I don't know.

To me, it's a dangerous thing for government to get involved. The fact that the left is. happy about this? Makes me suspicious. I wouldn't say it's all the left.

No, it isn't. I mean, you have people like. But all the suspicious players on the left. Yeah. Oh, I agree.

I agree. And I know you had brought it up: well, doesn't this open an attack on Elon Musk? I don't think it does because Elon Musk is not considered one of the four foreign adversaries. No. That is defined as a business.

I did look. And so, what I'm thinking is, this is just a step towards. In what way? How would they expand on this? Say, for example, they find some way to justify saying that Elon Musk's operation of X is causing something in the realm of national security, and somehow they manufacture something that allows at least the narrative and the public.

To at least seem that X has gone through those four hoops that they talked about in this legislation. And now they can target whoever they want. They just have to manufacture enough. uh information that fills those hoops.

So that they can go after whoever they want. Because he's not China or Iran or North Korea or Russia, I think that that kind of frees him from it. I will say that it is specific there because when I talked to Brennan Karn, I was like, okay, defined foreign adversary. And he's like, well, it is defined in the does he have any business interest in China? He does.

Oh, he totally does. Absolutely. Yeah, so that's the other thing. And we talked about that yesterday. He totally does.

He totally does. He needs that Chinese market for Tesla. I envision the government finding a way to use that information. But he's not doma-sealed there. No.

But again, how does that matter when the government has a campaign against you? The truth doesn't matter. Oh, I know. I I agree. It is this is a s it's a sticky wicket.

It is. This is where I don't know where I land yet. I agree. that there is some vagary in the legislation. From what I've read, there's I had a couple questions.

I do agree that I don't, in the bill, I don't think that it establishes: well, you know, you, if you're adjacent to one of these four foreign adversaries, because it does list four. And it is defined. a federal statute does define it.

However, I'm very wary. Because of how we saw the Patriot Act abused. They literally used Remember the Patriot Act? This is after 9-11. And I remember Republicans were saying, I got yelled at again by Republicans because I was like, why do we need all of this?

Why isn't this going back to Ben Franklin's quote: if you think that you can give up some liberty for safety, you deserve neither. Um there were people who you're just so oh, Dani, you're so dumb. You don't know. I was in my I guess what twenties when all this happened. You're just so dumb, Dani.

You don't know. Like what I think I do. I feel like this is. A little bit egregious here. just a little bit of an overreach.

And now look what happened. It was Abused and manipulated and extended to include parents who spoke up at school board meetings. That's not an exaggeration. The reason that the FBI was able and other law enforcement agencies were able to look at parents in that way is because every single report was arbitrarily classified as a domestic security issue. Therefore, it amounted to essentially domestic terrorism.

That classification was added later in their system, as was revealed talking to a House subcommittee when they were testifying on all of this. That was made possible because the Patriot Act reduced those boundaries between these agencies to prevent certain bits of the law from being applied to everyday average citizens simply over political dissent.

So that is an actual real concern. And I think that some Republicans can't get mad at other Republicans or other conservatives or even other libertarians for that matter. You have to understand these are people who have seen all of these abuses. For the past decade plus? I remember in Missouri.

Tea partiers were listed as potential domestic terrorists by the Missouri Highway Patrol under Governor Jay Nixon. It was the MIAC report which I had broke the news on and reported about exclusively, still up online on my website. Because flying the Gads and flag, etcetera.

So, the idea that anything that the government establishes like this, the potential of it to be abused and/or weaponized, and extended. To apply to other individuals over political dissent is not only a very real possibility, it's not even a possibility, it's history. It has happened. It has happened. It happened in 2010, 2011, 2012, and most recently with parents at school board meetings with the FBI.

So you can't, I know because I see a lot of infighting. Republicans can't get mad at these other Republicans for simply being worried about history repeating itself again. That being said, do not allow your patriotism to be weaponized against your concern for national security, because China would love to be able to tap into your patriotic sentiment to protect its ass. And that's what they're doing also.

So it's a weird catch-22 area here. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. Um, they have a chief heat officer. and Arizona. Did you guys knew that?

I didn't know that. It's a new chief heat officer in Arizona, they got a new one. right ahead of heat season. They don't even call it summer. It's just heat season.

They actually have one. Arizona Department of Health and Services announced their first statewide chief heat officer. Wow.

Because they had 579 people last year alone, fatalities related to heat. heat-related causes. That's crazy. We should probably should we have one in Texas? I don't want one.

No, you'd be your own chief heat officer. We don't need to spend more tax dollars on it. Florida homeowners are trying to offload their damaged properties, according to some reports. By the way, you know why some of the insurance is higher in Florida? Because they get hurricanes.

It's like why? Oh my gosh, it's called statistics. Florida has more damaged properties up for sale than any other state in the country, according to publicly available data on Zillow. People are trying to offload homes whose repairs actually would cost greatly and they think would maybe exceed the value of the home, even. But they said that as of Thursday morning of last week, there were a total of 202,545 properties listed on Zillow.

Six 963 were described as having some damage, and it's much higher in Florida than it is, like California, which doesn't get hurricanes. New York also doesn't really get hurricanes, and Texas, which also really, unless you're right there in the Gulf, doesn't get hurricanes. Uh, they said, um. that I mean it's like to buy a lot. New York had 20 damaged properties.

Up for sale, Texas at 95. But they just say they have to disclose, yeah, it's been in a hurricane, et cetera. But why is that like a surprising thing? I don't get it. I don't know.

A housekeeper at a fancy Midtown Atlanta hotel found $250,000 of cocaine in a closet.

Okay. Housekeeper at Downtown Hotel discovered a quarter of a million dollars worth of cocaine. It was, they said it was the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Midtown. And the housekeeper was cleaning a guest room and found a duffel bag with nine bricks of cocaine in it. There you go.

And uh the What is this? It's a soup that's almost $2,000. The Drake Oak Brook. which is it sounds like a pretentious restaurant and you're right it is. It is made with uh Louis XIII Cognac.

And it's a recipe that dates back to 1893, and the bowl of soup that's made with this. Cost $1,893. Yeah. Stay with us. We got a lot more in store after this.

Craving a daily dose of intellectual adrenaline? Look no further than the Dana Show podcast, where curiosity meets courage by following on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We just had one of your Democratic colleagues, Congressman Moskowitz, on the show last night. He suggested that, for example, when it comes to the Israel-Hamas war, that China is using TikTok's algorithms to ramp up divisions in this country. And that's one of the concerns that he has in terms of national security.

Do you think there's any validity to that? What I do think that people are finding discomfort is the fact that for the first time. in our nation's history, Americans have access to real images of the horrors that are experienced by Palestinians daily. And the onslaught that is taking place, this horrific assault on Gaza really is being streamed to every single person here in this country.

So we no longer have to rely on legacy media to get that information. Every single person has the information. This is Ilan Omar on CNN. Say, no, we've had like, you know, by the way, we've had that from Hamas's media since the beginning of this, since they started all of this in the first place back in 05, 06. Welcome back to the program, bottom of this third hour, Dana Lash with you.

Hamas's casualty data, they've been falsifying it. There was a statistician at Wharton that looked at it, and not just one, but like several since then. And they've looked and they've discovered that the casualty data that Hamas has been submitting is actually not. Accurate. They said they quote, don't know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts, end quote.

That it's, which we know they've been fabricating. They've been releasing daily fake numbers. And it They said they don't have an understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers. They said that, quote, perhaps what is happening is the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they don't have a clear understanding of this naturally occurring number. They said verified control data isn't available.

And they also added. that uh The absence of correlation between, for instance, the deaths of women and children is very odd. Uh they said the split is different every day, but the total always the same. And there's just all of these other little things that stick out. I mean, they've.

They have a huge there's been I mean, not just New York Times and elsewhere. Looking at the fabrication of their casualty numbers. They can't be trusted.

So, Pallywood has always, I mean, since the, the, Since all of this began, Palliwood has always been doing this. They've been putting out fake images, Photoshop images. I mean, there's the infamous video of a guy who has been in, I don't know how many different videos. He's been killed six ways to Sunday. And all of the videos that they have, I mean, they've been busted.

This isn't hidden knowledge. I mean, it's out there public on the internet for everybody to see.

So, her idea: we don't have to rely on legacy media about the Gaza attack. You're right, we didn't have to rely on legacy media because Hamas took the reporters with them when they committed their atrocities against innocent Israelis. You're right, Elen Omar. We didn't have to really rely on legacy press because they used body cameras when they were raping the women and putting grenades in their vaginas and cutting their breasts off and putting babies in ovens and shooting family pets. You know why we have all of that video?

Because they carried it on their person and then they released it publicly.

So, you're right, they didn't have to rely on legacy media to show the world the animalistic torture that they were subjecting innocent people to because they proudly showcased it themselves. You know, the friends that you have in Hamas that you're defending. Yeah. They showed it themselves.

So You don't have to rely on legacy media for that. Just asinine. Absolutely asinine.

So they, and you, of course, you have members of the squad who have been trying to push the administration further and further. They're responsible for this stupid peer thing that they're doing. in Gaza. I wanted to switch it up and now bring it to this. From the hill Punk is dead.

So South by Southwest has been going on.

South by Southwest, I think, used to be cool. And then it got overcommercialized and over glorified and self-important and sucky.

Well, this is coming out of the hill. Bands are pulling out of South by Southwest over U.S. Army sponsorship. and the Gaza war. You mean Israel defending itself against the terrorists that were elected to operate Gaza.

Okay. So they said multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform at South by Southwest are pulling out because of the U.S. Army's sponsorship and America's support of Israel's right to defend itself. I'm not going to say Israel's war on Hamas because this is, Israel didn't declare a war on Hamas. Israel is defending itself against Hamas, who still has Israeli hostages, including babies, and also has American hostages.

So there's a group from Belfast. It's called they're called kneecap. Nobody's ever heard of them and nobody cares. They're the ones who said that it was depraved.

Okay, then GTFO. Don't let the customs door hit you in the ass on your way back to the land of the grain. Bye. They go, we can't in good conscience attend an art festival. That's blah, blah, blah.

Okay, then get out. Who are you? Nobody gives nobody cares. Get out. Yeah.

They had a bunch of other crappy bands that pulled out of the event to protest. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. That's it. Uh and they had uh a British group Probably two chicks who can't play instruments.

They said they had to pull out of South by Southwest because they they didn't want to become totally inauthentic in their claims of solidarity with a non-existent entity that's governed by Hamas.

Okay, bye. I just think that's When people wave the flag of stupidity, just let them. They're identifying themselves to you as limited in brain cells. But what I find interesting if I could just you know pick a bone here Who's Heading up the delivery of humanitarian aid. To the Gaza area, Kane?

Who's heading that up? Yeah, our military? Yeah, the army. Yeah. Yeah, the people that they're protesting right now.

Yeah. Did any of the people in the Brain Trust stop to check that out? I'm protesting against the army that's leading up the aid effort. Brain trust. I have to meant that facetiously 'cause we think they're morons.

So they uh that's they're actually spearheading it. They're the they're the our military and our the U. S.

Army. They're They're helping to construct the seaport and deliver of humanitarian aid. But it was the US Army apparently that's spearheading it via the hill. Hmm. And the Army says that it's, quote, proud to be a sponsor of South by Southwest.

Now, I get it. People are like, why we, our tax dollars, support the Army. Why is the Army. doing this because they probably have it allocated within their budget to advertise for recruitment. Did you think of that?

That's probably what it is. They gotta, you know, if you What? What are you shaking your head for? Yeah. I mean, it's obvious.

Yeah. You know what I mean?

Some people are. Just smart people. How do you not get it? I would rather them do that way than Have a draught. But I get it and I don't Necessarily think that that's a bad thing if it's about defense and if we're making the means of defense.

Uh I actually don't I'm not opposed to that. I feel like that's actually not a wasteful use of dollars. Like, you know, sending 300 million to Ukraine. That's a wasteful use of dollars. Uh sending more aid to uh an area run by a terrorist group that was popularly elected and is still popular and takes all the aid for itself.

That's a stupid use of money. But this isn't anything new. Whether if they're either canceling Sherry Curry, who is going to be on with us Friday, correct? Yeah. She's gonna be on with us, the runaways.

They were canceling her for the trans stuff. And now you have these groups. We're mad because the Army's sponsoring it, or because, I mean, it's just dumb. Nobody cares. Nobody's going to remember.

Because people don't go see live music the way they used to. Do they? At now it's South by South West, it's about being seen. It's about being seen and being able to say that you were there and taking pictures of yourself there. That's what it's about.

I don't like festivals anymore. The last big fest, well, the last big actual festival festival that I went to was Memphis in May. Because I wanted to see That's when uh That was right. Susan Todeski performed. I saw Run DMC right after Susan Todeski Allman Brothers band.

Todesky Trux is one of the first. Todesky Trucks is great. This predate, this is right before Todesky Trucks formed. And then Run DMC came on right after. And then the Foo Fighters.

It was amazing. Like, all literally, that's one line up. That's one lineup. Right? But I just don't have a tolerance for a lot of people.

Because you know a lot of people heat and liquor, it gets you know, I just don't like that scene. I I prefer to be quiet and lurk in the shadow. But I like good music, and I really wouldn't be able to go see that. It was an amazing show. But.

But south by southwest Does anybody go there anymore? Aside from wannabe influencers. I'm sure they did. And bands that I get programming and musicianship are different things. And people who can't play music anymore and auto-tune everything.

I don't know. I'm Kane and I are. Just cruel when it comes to music. We're jaded. We're down, jaded and downright cruel.

I mean, you think Simon Cowell's mean? Yeah. Please, he's a cupcake. He is.

So, just say if you want us to review your stuff and be totally honest, if you want us to totally destroy you, just send us your stuff. Sundayson. Because he worked as a music DJ. I can actually play instruments. Will kill you.

So just, you know, just send it. If you want to be humbled or you want to have your day ruined because you're a masochist, I don't know. Just like send it, send it over. I don't know. Yeah.

A free charge. Free of charge.

So a few of the other That's I don't mean to be mean, but yes I do.

So, uh, in twenty twenty four, Just throw this out here real quick. Axio says the story: Democrats' big vulnerability, they're hemorrhaging minority voters. Again, though, what this shows. I looked at this, all these surveys that they're citing. This is what Republicans need to be aware of.

Yes, Democrats are losing these people. That doesn't mean they're automatically there it's an auto migration to the GOP though. They're kind of floating in the independent area. Meaning they're up for grabs, but don't get comfortable and think that you don't have to actually evaluate this. and determine what this means in terms of shaping policy and messaging.

And I hope Republicans don't forget that because they feel like everyone's just assuming that these voters are just going right over to the GA. They're not. They just can't stand Biden. And they think he's bad. which he is.

I watched an interview with a couple, it's a black couple. And they both voted for Barack Obama in 08. Um They voted for him again in twelve. And then they, the one guy voted, the husband voted for Trump, and the wife voted for Hillary. Uh and then the husband voted for Trump and the wife voted for Biden.

And now they're vo both voting for Trump. And she was saying, I can't. Economically, I can't do this. I can't live my life like this. And she says, I want to have children and I want to have a family.

And these policies are not conducive to that. the economy that they've created isn't conducive to that. She's exactly right. It's the economy stupid. Every time, every time, every time, every time.

Republicans need to not get too comfortable, and they need to remember this. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. Inflation is down two-thirds and we have the lowest annual core inflation since May 2021. Prices fell over the last year for gas, milk, eggs, chicken, appliances, and also used cars. Wages are rising faster than prices over the last year since the pandemic and forecasts broadly expect progress on inflation to continue over the rest of the year.

This is a nice fairy tale she's reading. Super nice. Nice little story. Yeah, wages are do you know Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are closing a thousand stores? Yeah.

You get to have the invisible tax of your dollar not going far enough because the government won't stop spending money. Welcome back, Dana Lash here with you. the conclusion of this third hour. Yeah, they're closing a thousand different It's not even really a dollar anymore, is it? That's the Dollar Tree.

I mean they say a dollar. It's not really.

So, but they have a lot of leases expiring. They said that they're. Uh they Well, 'cause everything's getting expensive. They've been They've been dealing with all kinds of issues. And theft.

And theft. And crap like with the Taco Bell and, you know, California, having to close a bunch of stuff in Oakland and elsewhere. This is a result, and Cut 22 lays this out perfectly if you want to play this. But people think inflation, oh, what's it at? Three something?

Yeah, do it. This is Gary Kahn. Listen to this about inflation. Inflation has a compounding effect. Meaning as you look at inflation year over year, you're adding up those numbers.

You're not starting at a zero every year.

So if we had 6% inflation last year, 7% inflation, and now we have 4% inflation, that's 10% inflation.

So if you take a basket of groceries at the beginning of 2020, just a simple basic basket that cost $100, it costs well over $125 today because those 4% one year and 7% one year and 7% the next year, they add up. They're cumulative.

So there's a huge cumulative effect inflation.

So when people are being told, consumers, you're wrong, inflation is setting. No, they're right. They're completely. It is actually. Yeah.

Yeah, there you go.

Well, we all, yeah, we all know it. You know, you know what you're doing. Don't be fooled, people. Yeah, don't be fooled. Don't take the bait.

Don't be fooled.

So make sure you go sign up for Substack chapter and verse, my newsletter. I have a lot of stuff that goes out there. I got a couple of things coming out today. And you can also find us over at YouTube, some of our past interviews. We'll get that up on Substack as well and sent out to the subscribers, especially the one with Brendan Carr, because I think it was a very interesting discussion.

But we're going to see with what happens in the Senate. With the TikTok bill, but they said that Gen Z was like, You're going to lose our votes. And I'm like, You don't vote anyway, so And What are you going to do about it? Anyway, all right, today's stupidity, Kane. All right, it is our, I guess, what do we call her?

The Treasury Secretary, right? Janet Yellen. Janet from the planet. Janet Yellen. Planet Janet.

She is. Oh, I know. That's our one. It's got to be our new one for her. Here she is talking about.

Remember three years ago when she said, you know, inflation is transitory. Don't worry about inflation. Don't worry about inflation. It's transitory. Listen to what she says to this report.

In 2021, though, you did say that inflation was transitory. Do you regret saying that now? I regret saying it was transitory. It has come down, but I think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people. The people lying to you the most about inflation is the government.

That's right. Those are the people lying to you the most on inflation. She just said there, inflation's going down. And we just heard the clip of that economist say: inflation actually gets added year after year. We don't start at zero every year.

Inflation's not going down. It's not going down. Folks, that does it for us tonight. Make sure you find us, Substack, Chapter and Burse, Facebook. YouTube, like and subscribe.

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