Tuesday March 26 - Full Show

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So that's the latest of the story that all the media is following. That bridge, apparently, they're going to give an update about that, that took place into the river there in Baltimore. There was a vessel that I guess they were getting ready to go out to sea. And they ran, like they lost power, apparently, and ran right into the. Like the support.

at the the support beam on the bridge and it just I mean, it was, I mean, you can imagine, and the water is super cold. I read a thing where it said rescuer said that once you get into the water at that temperature of like, what, three hours or something like that, before hypothermia sits in and it and it gets uh And it gets even harder to Recover. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you to start this Tuesday. A lot of stuff to cover because it's been very busy, a little jet lagged, very busy, but a lot of stuff to go over with you, though.

With everything that's happened, the stuff that I learned about over the weekend, all that good stuff. And we're going to have all of the latest for you on that. And we're gonna go over some of the policy stuff. The National Red Flag Center. Oh my gosh, I got so many emails from you guys about that.

Of course, you know we're gonna obviously talk about that today.

So, a lot of stuff to touch on, but this bridge, this cargo ship hitting this. This key bridge is a container ship. That's the top story today.

So, again, welcome. And you can listen coast to coast. You'll be able to follow along with the video as well. All right. I know nothing about cargo ships, Kane.

I know literally nothing about cargo ships. Bridges. I had one time. Yeah, I had to I had to make a bridge one time in a science class. And um It it it was like uh one of those things out of popsicle sticks.

Oh, yeah, I remember those. It had to support My weight. And I didn't, I wasn't popsicle sticks were supposed to. Yeah, you had to use like a lot of them.

Okay. Stupid.

So stupid. Anyway, I had my cousin help me because it was horrible. But I didn't do very well.

So I know literally nothing about bridges. I just know that this is bad. I mean, this whole thing, this wasn't, this didn't have to do with the bridge's structure. It had to do with this cargo vessel. And I think people were because it lost power and they had Mayday, Mayday.

I mean, golly, that's terrifying by itself. But just looking at some of the photos, and of course, it was still dark outside when the bridge fell into the water. They had construction crews that were filling potholes on top. And yeah, four-lane bridge, and it was just cars, people plunged into the river. It lost.

propulsion. As it left. the port And they said that, and this was an Intel report that was released, but they said that. They lost propulsion, so they weren't able to steer. They weren't able to do anything.

1.6 mile Francis Scott Key Bridge. That's the bridge there that crumpled into the water. Mass casualty, obviously, they said this event's gonna, it's the rescue and all of that recovery is gonna extend for days, I can imagine. The Maryland governor declared a state of emergency. You just heard him speaking.

This is the worst bridge collapse since 2007. The I-35 West Bridge. in Minneapolis that plunged into the Mississippi. Thirteen were killed.

So this was around 1:30 something in the morning. Still, I mean, kind of in the middle of the night, technically. And all the traffic has been suspended at that port. I mean, that's just, good heavens, just awful. And the company, Marisak, is the company that chartered this ship.

And they said that they were horrified that, you know, obviously about what happened. But they handle all kinds of stuff, all kinds of auto imports there.

So it's a very, very busy thing, a very busy port, a lot of traffic there.

So we're going to continue following all of that and bring you the latest, especially as they give any news about any kind of recovery. But they were missing a number of people. I know that they were saying that the missing, they had released some numbers and some fatalities. Just horrifying, though. I'm not.

Bridges, can I be real? Bridges are just completely they freak me out. I'm not scared of heights, it's bridges. Because you're. This is how much I don't like my fellow man.

I'm sorry about this. I don't like my fellow men. I have no trust in men. None. You're driving across something that is literally Built by someone to get you across an expanse of something.

And you're trusting them with your life when you go over. the bridge. Do you think like that or am I just morbid? Do you think that can?

Well, now.

Now I will. You know, I mean, you didn't think that before I put it in your. I'm so sorry to all of you guys who are out there driving, to say nothing of our trucker audience who's out there like, thanks, Santa, you jerk.

Alright, so some of the other stuff we're watching. I'm going to get into the GOP stuff. I'm not going to get into it now because I'm just hateful the rest of the show. The situation in the United Nations, you guys know the United Nations, it's a. Almost said what I thought it was, and I stopped myself because there's a microphone here.

The United Nations, which is just basically a circle of clowns that's out there in prime real estate in Manhattan. You know, the things that I think are a waste of real estate are cemeteries in the United Nations. And it's kind of the same thing. And they had the UN Security Council, they approved this resolution, and I was listening earlier. Choose John Kirby insisting that it was a non-binding re resolution.

Well, here's my non-binding foot up your backside. To approve a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between Gaza and Israel. The U.S. abstained, which is nothing. It's meaningless.

It was 14 in favor. And the text wanted an immediate ceasefire. They wanted a permanent, sustainable one. They wanted all hostages released. And they wanted lifting up barriers to aid entering Gaza.

Interestingly enough, there's still weaponry and rockets coming out of Gaza. It's amazing how they don't have money for food, but the elected government of Gaza still has money for all these rockets and everything else. They still have all that came. You know, that's the thing they have.

So. Yeah, you know, priorities.

So the and then, of course, because of that, then now you have this, I mean, this disruption in relations between the United States and Netanyahu. He had an Israeli delegation that was expected to visit, and they were, they're not anymore. That came out from Reuters yesterday. Netanyahu said he's not sending a delegation as planned. They were refrained after the United States abstained from vetoing a UN Security Council proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

He said that they failed to block it. It is a clear retreat. I mean, you know, you can say what you want about Netanyahu, which I love how the anti-Semites out there like to go, oh, well, you know, they say all this stuff about Tajuz, and then when you criticize them for being little. You know, little mini eight-offs, then they get all butthurt about it and say, Well, you know, we're just criticizing Netanyahu. There's a difference between criticizing Netanyahu and Israeli government and then going off about to Jews.

You single-cell product of cousin humping. There's a major difference. Learn it. We are all, we are all discerning, sentient beings, so we can understand these things.

So the delegation is not going to leave. They demanded because it's true. The ceasefire, you're only going to get a ceasefire from Israel. And you had a ceasefire October 6th. Everyone needs to shut up and they need to turn the strip to glass.

I'm tired of it. Tired of it. This is what happens when you elect terrorists. This is what happens when you repeatedly elect terrorists to be your elected government and when you support them overwhelmingly, including a poll that was recently just taken at the beginning of the month by Gazan residents in the Gazan press and released by Gazan entities to reflect and show the world that people still support the elected terrorist government of Gaza. And they also supported the October 7th.

Massacre, not just in Gaza, but also in the West Bank, where elections were suspended because Hamas was about to beat Fata and take over West Bank too.

So there you have it. You're not going to have a ceasefire. There's no ceasefire until Hamas ceases to exist. It's a cease existence. Cease Hamas from existing, and then they need to release their hostages.

The prisoners that they keep demanding being released, you know who the prisoners are, right? They're all terrorists who try to kill people. I get it that there are some stupid Americans that are convinced that Israeli soldiers are just running along the desert streets in Gaza, picking up innocent Gazan residents. And note that I don't say Palestinian because it's not an ethnicity. And I swear to high heaven, I am not going to be bullied into using terms that have never existed in all of antiquity to describe an ethnicity that has never existed, a place that has never existed, a people that has never existed.

Call them Jordanians if you're going to call them anything. Oh, but there's a reason why the Queen of Jordan, when she was out running her mouth about Israel and Gaza, didn't actually say that herself because she doesn't want to lose her throne.

So there you go.

Now that being said, The Administration's really stepped in it because they're, I mean, this is just, it's a disaster. This is a disaster. And it also shows. That Hamas is not, Hamas isn't going to negotiate. They're not negotiating anything.

They're not negotiating a single thing. And here's why. Why would they? At this point, why would they? They see everyone on the United Nations Security Council, they see them all pressuring Israel.

They're not gonna get they're not gonna do they wanted 800 terrorists to be exchanged for 40 innocent hostages. And yes, 800 terrorists because the pe those prisoners are terrorists. They tried killing innocent people for Hamas. That makes them terrorists. Do we have to have a lesson, like a schoolhouse rock type of lesson, on this stupid stuff?

You guys missed me, didn't you? I know. I learned some things. I also learned that I am super conservative. I mean, I knew I was super conservative.

But when you have European media portray certain elected European conservatives as being super conservative, then you kind of want to tell the press: I would make you defecate yourself then. It's kind of interesting. Very interesting. I'm going to get into all that. Oh, yeah.

Well, we had a very interesting weekend.

So we'll talk about all of that. Also, the diddler. Is he still in the U.S.? Did you say the diddler? Yeah, it's like the riddler, but he touches kids.

It's P. Diddy.

Okay. Right? I heard he was arrested in Miami. Was he not? I don't know.

You know, I don't care. I just was real all about the nickname. I'm gonna be honest, that's all. I I've heard some stuff. All I'm gonna say is this, my husband knows a lot of people in music.

Right. He had a recording facility before uh Hitler Youth Rain him out. Uh that's n actually not a joke. Hitler youth. I'm not even joking you.

I mean, I could say names if you want to tempt me, but um At far-loved Hitler youth got mad at him, and because his wife was a conservative, and it just, you know, it's crazy being in the entertainment industry is a nightmare if you're conservative, especially, you know, 15 years ago. But, um, There were a lot of stories back then. And a lot of jokes made about and It's one of those things where is it an urban legend or is it real? It's like if you see Bloody Mary in the mirror in the bathroom three times, will a decapitated bloody woman appear and like kill you? You know, that was a thing that we believed when we were kids.

You guys never heard that? We're weird. And this was like one of the one of the things about what's a sit face, the diddler, pea Diddy, whatever. Anyway, so he was gonna go he was on his way. Wasn't he gonna go to Antigua where they don't have any kind of extradition agreement?

Story seems sus, bro. We're going to get into all of that as well. I got culture.

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The, uh, oh, what did I have? How did I, I'll get into the Diddler stuff.

Now you guys are seriously. I don't understand the story. There was a guy arrested because he was suspected of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was struck by an Amtrak train in California and eating it.

So like he jumped onto the tracks? This is KBAK channel whatever 2 in KUTV in California. The guy was arrested. He they accused him of removing evidence. They identified him as a 27 year old.

There was a pedestrian hit by a train, and then this guy took the leg and ate it. And the crew laying concrete outside of the station said it was horrifying. He literally waved the person's leg and started chewing on it. It sounds like the guy was chewing on it like a DM6 Flex turkey leg, walking around. They said he was biting it and hitting against the wall and everything.

All the construction workers. When you freak out construction workers in a bad part of town, That working early in the morning, that's scary. You know what I mean? If they're freaked out, They found and arrested him without incident. But they they is there a law about eating people?

So far, the only thing that they mentioned was that he removed evidence. Don't tell me there's no law against eating people.

Well I mean There better be. I thought this was America? I don't know. I mean, I just. I'm gonna save this because I just feel like this shows how far we've fallen.

So, the diddler, his Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided by the feds. Looks like all those uh Those stories and legends may have been true. We're gonna come back to this because it's too much for this headline segment, but I had to put it out there. A geomagnetic storm from a solar flare could disrupt radio communications and create a striking aurora. Another geomagnetic storm.

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Uh let's see. Russian forces tortured that Moscow terrorist. by hooking up his franken beans. To an 80-volt battery. And uh You know, I don't dislike that.

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That is the Senator, Senator Chris Van Holland, there on the Francis Scott Keybridge accident. They're going to release emergency response funds. This is.

Now you might be thinking, if you're sitting in Kansas, maybe you're in traffic, maybe you're a truck driver.

Well, if you're a truck driver at all, you know. But maybe you're just, you know. You're listening while you're running around doing your errands, all that good stuff, right? One of the things that you need to realize, and we were talking about this on break, and again, welcome back, Dana Lash with you. bottom of this first hour.

This is the third Largest Port out for a number of things. I mean, this is basically how DC, Maryland, they all get their Amazon stuff here. It might be the number two port. Number three for coal to Europe. Number three for coal to Europe.

But number two, I think, overall. In the world. Because as Steve was explaining, and Steve is captain crab cakes out there, he's the born and raised, you know, Maryland, Virginia. That's all. They're a different type of people, man.

They've got the waterways, they got everything out there. But the D the water in and around DC is too shallow for boats of that type, is what Steve was saying. But Steve, you were also saying too, this is like a major Amazon thoroughfare. I mean, not just Amazon, but I mean, other I mean, I mentioned earlier, you know, the automobile stuff, but it's this is like the a big area of distribution. Yeah, so like um that if you go up the Chesapeake Bay the only way to get into the entire Baltimore which feeds DC and a lot of Delaware is under that bridge and then once you get under that bridge there's two more tunnels you're going over even to get into the inner harbor.

So there's the McHenry Tunnel and the Harbor Tunnel but you don't even get there unless you go under that bridge.

So nothing can be fed into this entire mid-Atlantic region right now.

Now, Lorraine shares that this bridge, this port of Baltimore, is the top handler of imports and exports of cars and light trucks. But it's ninth for both tonnage and dollar value of foreign cargo passing through. That's ninth a month, really, amongst all U.S. harbors. And they handled 52.3 million tons of international cargo.

That's over a little over $80 billion, according to their archives. A lot of dr jobs, direct jobs, indirect jobs. But closer to the Midwest. This is closer to the Midwest than any East Coast port. Yeah.

They said it's within an overnight's drive distance. We actually had one person. It's a female fucker, Shelly, who had reached out and said that this was. uh the the quickest port. Yet, which makes sense because in in terms of drive, because this is they according to this Axios piece, uh Lorraine dropped, it's within an overnight's drive distance.

from one-third of the country's population.

So yeah, that's That's huge And it stretches for a little over one and a half miles.

So, obviously, immediately you're going to see traffic issues, but you have FedEx, PMW, Amazon, all kinds of distribution warehouses, an industrial park. A lot of the uh moving of goods between west coast ports.

So this now could create a potential supply chain. Issue depending on how quickly all of this stuff is, you know, how they figure out a way to get around this. That's what ultimately we could end up seeing. That's. Dang, that's uh that's huge.

Huge.

So, yeah, not only the traffic, but also. I mean, just distribution of a lot of different things. And especially since, yeah, I mean, if it's a day, I mean, that's a really quick drive to get to most of the country's population.

So that would be the quickest thing to get out to the Midwest. Goodness. We're going to continue watching that as well. Over the weekend too, actually this was on Friday and yesterday, the Justice Department launched a National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. in a press release Promoted by both the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States.

This uh center Was created with omnibus money. I'm going to try to keep my hatred of what the Republicans did in passing this latest spending bill that funds all this stuff. I'm going to try to keep that out. Let's just focus on what they call the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. They call them ERPO.

Now here's the. the argument that they're making to you. The Democrats and gun control activists, they want you to believe that the only way to quickly remedy a potential or to solve or to prevent a potential mass killing is to immediately. Deprive a potential mass killer of their weapons of destruction.

Now, we're going to start from that because there's a few things wrong with this. First and foremost, there was a story out of California several years ago, and I covered this in a number of articles, where there was a guy, California was the first to pass, they call them ERPA, the red flag laws, that's what it is. Uh they They were the first to pass these red flag laws, and there was an individual that neighbors had called police repeatedly on. And they had said that he was violent. You know, he was assaulting his mother, et cetera.

They also feared that he was, you know, dangerous to others, not just himself. And so they enacted this red flag order on him. They showed up, they removed weapons from his house, but they left him there. And this is the problem with, I'm not joking, the vast, actually, all of the red flag laws, there is not a single red flag process that brings in a mental health professional. Meaning, someone to evaluate.

That's just the first problem with the red flag stuff. I've written about this extensively in books, articles. We've talked about it on the show because they tell you that in order to act quickly, they have to remove. These due process hurdles. The due process hurdles are there.

If you're depriving someone of a right, then it is. Then, yes, you should have to go before a judge to deprive someone of a right. If you are depriving someone of a right, if it is that serious that it is serious enough to go into court and have the court system adjudicate them ineligible to purchase or possess, adjudicate means go through the legal process and have a determination made. There are pathways already to do this. The problem isn't that there aren't any means of doing this, the problem.

is that They want to just They want to use this as the doorway to deprive everyone of due process. You see how they're trying. They think that if they tell you that these things don't exist when they exist, then you're going to be baited into creating something worse. If it's serious enough to deprive someone of a right, it's serious enough to go into a courtroom. And these pathways are already there.

The other problem is that people don't take advantage of them. In every single one of the mass casualty incidents that were most hyped by all these gun control activists, the killers, without exception, and I've written about each of these cases. THE KILLERS in every instance. We were known to be violent and had a violent record. And if they would have gone through the process, there is no doubt in my mind, nor is there a doubt in the mind of the experts who evaluate the case afterwards.

And I'm talking about prosecutors and mental health professionals, that the individuals would have been rendered ineligible because they were unstable and a danger to themselves and others violently. In the case of Parkland, because you had the vice president, Kamala Harris decide to hype that. It made my friend Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter in this tragedy, enraged because they constantly exploit her death and the deaths of others as a way to push policies that failed. Here's the thing. The red flag uh order.

Remember First off, The individual in Parkland. as I had noted. had a very violent record. He had a very, very, very violent. background.

Uh You didn't need a red flag. You know why none of that would have worked? Because she had said, and I'm reading the vice president's tweet here. The Vice President had said in her tweet, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, we know what works. She says universal background checks, red flag laws, and assault weapons ban, et cetera.

None of that would have worked. You know why? Yeah. Because you had over 30 calls made to the police, Scott Israel's office, warning them about the killer's violent behavior. Right?

The killer? Was so violent, he had already pulled a gun to a classmate's head. He had already repeatedly, online and in person, threatened to kill his classmates. He had already threatened to shoot his classmates. He was so violent, he knocked the teeth out of his mother's own head.

His neighbors and his own family members repeatedly called police. They even made a call to the FBI. They were all ignored by Scott Israel's office. He was so violent. While he was still at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, they had to hire a babysitter to accompany him to every class because he was so violent.

These were all things that we knew even before the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Commission. was put together And they went over all of this and released it in their port sub in the report subsequently after they made their determination about what happened. They removed Scud Israel. Scud Israel didn't even keep up with his officers' training regularly. That's the other thing the commission discovered.

So none of these would have worked because the sheriff there ignored over 30 calls made to the police. All of them were ignored. Every one of them. The school stopped reporting felonious criminal behavior to the police because Artie Duncan, who was Secretary of Education under Barack Obama at the time, that superintendent, Robert Runcy, wanted his school under his watch. He wanted the accolades to be the first school that reduced the school-to-prison pipeline.

And you know how they did it? They'd stop reporting it. It's not that they reduce felonious activity. They literally stop reporting it. That's why the school Didn't report any of this stuff to the police either.

They ignored a security threat assessment that was done by a Secret Service member parent. Three months prior. I told you about this. The parent walked in, slipped into the school, had a stack of post-its, and put them on all the students. And then walked into the superintendent's office, the principal's office, and said, Look, if I was a killer, all these people would be dead.

You have no security here. I r I talked to the teachers at the time. In a program that I did, it was a special. I had to protect their identity, and they all attested to this. All of them.

I mean, this is, and Marjorie Stillman Douglas Commission also discussed this in their final report.

So you how in the world do you have do you think that this is gonna work when it you've never made it work before? In order the red flag, you have to report this stuff. The school left its doors unlocked. All of these things we already knew. We knew all of this stuff.

I mean, I hear these people say you need the destruction of due process so people can report killers to the police. They reported them to the police. The police, the people that you want to enforce your red flags, didn't do anything. But you need to make it easier. What do you mean?

What's easier than telling Scott Israel that a kid who threatened to shoot up his classmates and previous previously held a gun to a kid's head and knocked his mom's teeth out might need to have his an eligibility evaluation? Are these offenses all not criminal? I mean, look. This This is the problem. You know why we can't have national red flag laws?

You know why you can't have the destruction of due process because that's what it requires? Because bad cops exist. And I know, because I sat on stage next to one of them named Scott Israel who tried to blame me for not doing his job. I would have done Scott's damn job. I would have done Scott's damn job better.

I would have had deputies regularly trained. This would not have happened. I would have responded to the calls. That's the difference. That should be the number one argument.

And to make this The requirement. For a red flag center, the due process, you don't even. You you most of them are done in an ex parte process, meaning the penalty is rendered before you ever have your day in court. You have your property confiscated and you have this judgment against you. You are guilty and you have to go to court and prove your innocence.

That is how due process works. And in every single state, there is no exception. It is a complete destruction of due process, and I warn you. Right now it's just with guns. But guns are a variable.

Soon? any variable will be substituted. Not just guns, maybe drugs, maybe this, maybe that. They're already kind of doing it with some of the trans stuff. You don't let your kid transition, we're going to render you guilty of child abuse, and you have to come prove your innocence because of it.

It's already happening. It is the destruction of American jurisprudence. And they and Republicans voted to fund it. Our friends at Goldco, Goldco Precious Metals, the gold IRA field can seem kind of confusing. And so finding a precious metals company that you can trust isn't an easy feat.

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Yeah. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. History teaches us that democracies and I will also say, you know, if you care what I think about this, I will tell you the fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News. To me, that is inexplicable.

I mean, you wouldn't, you wouldn't. You wouldn't hire like a wise guy. You wouldn't hire a made man like a mobster. To work at a DA's office, right? You wouldn't hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener.

And so I find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable. Oh gosh, you know how many people at MSNBC worked in the Obama administration, Jen Saki being wash is she had seen in her MSNBC? It's all the same thing. They all freak out she was in the Obama administration. Jim Schudo was in the Obama administration.

George Stephanopoulos was in the Clinton administration.

So, first off, this is stupid. They're just mad because it was someone that it was that was Trump aligned. But then you have Trump people that are mad because they look at it as a betrayal that she went to in BC, which my response is: how in the world are you shocked? It's Ronna Romney McDaniel. She used Romney as her middle name to get name recognition until it became inconvenient, and then she dropped it and went to Ronna McDaniel.

I mean, this is who these people are. Come on, you're you're shocked by all of this? I'm not shocked by all of it. And then apparently, now she's like criticizing and saying, what she's saying now, yes, I think the J6 people, et cetera, et cetera. Again, I'm not surprised by any of this.

I knew the way that the RNC was run that this was a person who was going to go wherever the wind blew. I've got, you know, I've always got along with her. She's been on the program. We know, I've asked her questions, but this is just, you know, this is a completely objective observation, also known as fact, not just because I say it, just because it is. It's true.

So you can't be surprised at this. But these reporters melting down over this. How many people on their staff? At their network, literally came from the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. All of it.

Tons of them. Tons of them have. I mean, for crying out loud, Donna Brazile was leaking debate questions to Hillary Clinton. I was friendly with her, and then she blocked me after I asked about that on Twitter. I mean, we used to be on the Sunday morning talk show circuit together.

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So I'm going to keep waiting out with Wayne to talk to the last member of the delegation in the region. Good afternoon. Before I leave for North Carolina, I'm sure I'm going to do a few minutes. I want to speak briefly about the terrible incident. and an accident that happened to Baldwin or something like that.

About 1.30, container ships struck Francis Scott's Key Bridge, which I've been opened many, many times, commuting from the state of Delaware, either by train or by car. We've been in Baltimore Harbor many times. And the bridge collapsed, sending several people and vehicles into the water, into the river. And Malibu U.S. Coast Guard Units, which were stationed very nearby then were immediately deployed along with local emergency personnel.

And the Coast Guard was leading the response to the port where representatives from the Federal Highway Administration, the FBI, the Department of Transportation, the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as Maryland officials in Baltimore Police and Fire, were all working together as a response. Officials at the scene estimate eight people were unaccounted for still. Not still were unaccounted for. That number might change. Two have been rescued, one without injury, one in critical condition.

The search and rescue operation has continued for all those remaining. Mr. President, talking about that Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Welcome back to the program top of this second hour. Dana Lash here with you.

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Some of the discussion that I've seen on this, apparently, people who are involved in the biz, the Dolly, this is the boat. The ship in question apparently came out in 2014.

So there's a lot of doubts that it's hackable. Because that's one of the narratives that's kind of going around. Like, is this hacked? Was this boat, could this ship, could the system be hacked? And apparently, there's a lot of cold water getting poured on that just because of the year that it came out.

And apparently, the system is like not advanced enough, et cetera, that there's, you know, I don't know, but there are people who do know that are talking about it. And they're saying no way, they're very familiar with the operating system on the ship. they are and they've worked on similar ships, etc. And they're saying no, that's And uh Now, Kane, you're saying that the NAV system was separate. They're saying that that that that's not necessarily true, that it could be operating off of an older nav system too.

And that still doesn't mean that It's cap their cable. I'm sure somebody could cable what they're doing. Absolutely. I'm sure it's possible the old NAV system is still on there, but my guess is all the updates, especially with GPS and it being tied to steering and everything being automated. I don't know.

I think I think it there is a possibility here that The hack is a possibility. What other possibilities are there? That seem feasible. The thing shut down a couple different times, and they tried to get it back, and it just steered right into the damn bridge. Like, this is what we're just supposed to accept.

I think there might be somebody. But why do you immediately think we're just supposed to accept that that completely obvious Occam's razor thing happened? Why do you think that all the other options are off the table? Are you so sure that this is the option? I didn't say I wish I was where I'm.

I'm going to sound sure. You're going into tinfoil can be a little bit of a matter of fact because of the tinfoil hat association. And I don't, you know what? I wear that tinfoil hat proudly. But I'm not saying I'm sure.

I'm saying that that's a possibility. Personally, I don't know. I'm just like listening to a lot of these experts. The Mariners go on and on about it, and they're like, not with this one, not with the system, blah, blah, blah. They said it sounded like, you know, there was like something obviously went wrong, but you know, it wasn't like that.

I also understand that we're a nation that we don't trust anybody right now. I don't trust a single damn soul. Right. I don't trust anybody. And I Always want to be I'm super cynical and super suspicious, but that is applicable to everything.

So that's why whenever I hear conspiracy theories, I'm like, mm, it's not because I don't think it's possible. Hi, I've been in some pretty interesting situations, more than the average pair.

So believe you me. But at the same time, I also don't want to blow past. fixing something that Maybe it's a a if it's a system Issue. Maybe it's an issue that are in other ships also. Let's maybe fix it instead of blowing past it.

And because I feel like a lot of people that are discussing this. online at least, you know, which is not the real world. are are going are are going down going down that road. But we I mean we are like we are a very suspicious People. And I get it because you have every reason to be.

And I thought about this when I first heard from this group. And I wrote about this, it's the EU-U.S. Forum. It's a new entity that is existing to really encourage conservatism in Europe. And also, they're very aligned with groups that are not fans of the European Union.

But also, when you look at what's happening in Europe, that's a maturation of the policies that we're creating here. They're just, you know, a few more years down the road ahead of us. and you can see the hellscape that it's turned into. And they're trying to figure out how to extricate themselves, at least the conservatives among them, from the situation that's been created. Whereas we're trying to stave off that inevitability by trying to change course here at home.

So there's some learning opportunities both ways. And when they first reached out, and it was kind of a last-minute thing, they ended up just putting this thing together. And they said, Would you like to come to Rome and meet some of these conservative leaders and have discussions? And I thought, you're kidnappers. That was my first thing, first thought.

I'm like, you're kidnappers. And so immediately I wanted to know who's in, I need to know everybody who's involved in this. I need to know who the big groups are and the people who aren't named. I want to know who's involved in it. I always like to know everything before I agree to go to any kind of event, even to observe.

And as I wrote in my piece, because I wrote about this and I sent it out. On social media or on Substack. It went out on Substack last night. That, you know, I I'm always very I like to ask questions and I like to know. Everything about everything.

And like with this one, because it was, I, it was hosted, the there was an event Saturday that I attended and watched, and it was hosted by the ID party. And the ID party, Is a right-leaning coalition within the European Union made up of right-leaning coalitions of different individual European countries because that's how the EU is organized. And so the ID party held this event on Saturday, and the EU-US Forum was the group that hosted me in Rome and at the Saturday evening dinner. And I never get paid for any of this stuff because I always feel. Weird about it.

I know people do. Um I'm just not one of them. And I've I've never I was never paid. I was never I never promised anybody any kind of coverage or anything like that. Uh and one of the reasons why I'm never out at a lot of these events is because I don't promise that.

So you kind of need to watch who it is. Just saying. Uh, I'd never promised anything like that, and I've always been strictly independent even since I began from the day I began broadcasting in 2008. It's been like that, and even before then, as an activist.

So, I don't even like running and getting pictures with politicians. Like, I asked them, I was asking them who were some of the people there, and they wouldn't give me a guest list. And they said, Well, one person we can say is Vivek Ramaswamy, he was at this event. And I thought, well, I guess they're not going to kidnap him, so okay. You know, I'm like, I guess it's safe.

And I went, and I did talk to him Saturday evening, and he was at the event Saturday. And I don't, again, I don't snap, I don't run and snap selfies with politicians or ask people to take photos of me with politicians. I'm always weird about that because I guess I have some harbor tea in my DNA. I don't know. I'm just real weird about it.

You know what I mean? I just, and sometimes I think it seems rude to people. For instance, like at the Saturday evening dinner, there were some individuals that were wanting to get photos of some of the leaders, and I just don't. I stayed seated at my table and I was talking to the people I was at my table with. Like, I just, I get how it looks rude.

I'm not trying to be, that's just, I just don't rush and idolize politicians, right? I feel like they should idolize us, like everyday people, because they get their authority from our consent. Anyway.

So we um The whole thing over there, and let me explain a little bit. You actually do need to care about this. And I'm going to explain why.

So that Saturday, when we arrived at the event in Saturday in Rome, it was real weird because right off the bat, The European press is a different breed.

Okay. And they're empowered, even more so than here.

So, in Europe, they have all these like hate speech laws. You don't have free speech in Europe. You have all these laws that hate speech. If you say that, oh no, I know that guy tucks and he wants to say he's a chick, but if you call him a dude, then you're gonna go to jail. They have laws like that, it's wild.

And that emboldens them. And it encourages the yellow type of journalism that you've seen that you know, really that that we saw here in the earliest the earlier 20th century in the United States. I mean, it really encourages it and it gives it this false stamp of legitimacy, right? Because there are laws that say you can't say this stuff.

So, of course, those laws exist. That means we tell the truth. It's very logical, but that's how they pass themselves off. And We got to the event on Saturday. And I only s know like certain phrases and certain words in Italian, and I can understand enough of Italian, French, and Spanish where I can.

figure out where to go and what to do. Didn't, I mean, we show up, and we didn't. I mean, we knew some of the people from the EU, U.S. Forum were there. There were some people that I knew that were in conservative media here in the United States.

There are a few people that were there. But the event was to have these leaders, and they had the conservative party leader in Portugal, Maureen Le Pen, made a video message, and it was the first time I ever heard her speak. And she's from a right-leaning party in France. And then, of course, they had Matteo Salvini, who is the deputy prime minister of Italy. And he's their transportation minister as well.

And he's the head of one of their parties called Lega, Lega Nord. It's, you know, the Northern League.

So in Italy, you have different, like with any kind of parliamentarian sort of system, you have different parties. A lot of them are very short-lived. Like I feel like the Republicans and Democrats have long lifespans compared to these parties that have cropped up in Europe.

So you have different parties that lean right, and then they have to form like a team of these different parties in order to control their government, their parliament in their particular country.

So you have Lega Nord or Lega, that's the party that Matteo Salvini is the head of. And then you have Giorgio Maloney, who's the prime minister of Italy, and she's for Telli d'Italia. That is the, they won 25, 26% of the vote compared to 8% of the other two, including Lega, their parties. And they make up a right-leaning coalition in Italy. And a lot of the press, including the press here, are freaking out because they're like, oh my gosh, this is how they look at European leaders that are conservative.

They think that conservative equals fascist. Nazi. and they want to sell dumb Americans on this idea.

So, if you're right-leaning in Europe or Italy, then they're like, oh my gosh, he's Mussolini adjacent. That's how they look at it. That's how they want to portray it. And then our press over here picks it up from their friendly press on the left in Europe and they run with it. And then they try to taint any conservative in the United States with that same mark, that same smear.

And when you evaluate the positions of these people, these people are not like Mussolini adjacent. They're not fascist. They're not socialists. They're not any of those things. You like, for instance, you like the idea of being able to determine who crosses your country's borders, right?

You want to be tax-less. I think the income tax needs to be a go-away entirely. You want to be tax-less. You want to protect your nation's borders. You want to be able to have sustainable food and not have overreaching government regulations, right?

You want to be self-sustaining on energy. That's literally the positions that all these people hold. And yet, they get labeled fascist because they hold them over there. The biggest thing is the immigration issue.

So, in Italy, they're trying to push back against decades of the open borders approach. And then, of course, with the European Union and the Schengen Agreement, when you can travel between all of these EU nations, that really exacerbated the problem. And so, for instance, Matteo Salvini has been charged with a whole roster of crimes because he refused to allow a boat full of illegal aliens to dock and then make land and then deboard debark in Italy. And so he's up on like all kinds of charges for that. They want to put him away for 15 years.

It's insane. But that's the kind of stuff you can't. Acknowledge the truth because you get in trouble over there if it hurts someone's feelings. You don't have protected speech.

So, and again, and I'll touch on this throughout the broadcast, but one of the reasons why this is important is because after Britain has left, after Brexit, Italy is the largest and most influential right-leaning government in the European Union.

Now, I think the EU should be abolished, and there are a lot of People who were there that thought feel the same way. But until they have that momentum within their country, dealing with the EU is a reality for them. And so they're trying to shape that policy however they can and try to neutralize some of the stuff that's also bleeding over into the United States. And that was one of the points of this whole event that weekend. We're going to talk more about this because I thought it was very interesting.

And I have to tell you. My one one last point. It was not lost on me. During dinner with these leaders discussing these issues On a rooftop that overlooked the Colosseum and the Roman Forum and Capitoline Hill, which is where our Capitol Hill derives its name, that that city. in some respect.

Serves as a very beautiful mausoleum. for Western civilization's creation. And I thought it was very ironic. the setting and the discussion. And also a warning.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So, a new spending bill prohibits pride flags at U.S. embassies worldwide. I actually agree with this.

I think that the only Flag that should be flown at embassies is the U.S. flag. I even like recoil when I see EU stuff. President Joe Biden signed this bill into law. Biden signed it, guys.

Biden signed it. It prohibits the pride flag at U.S. embassies all across the world. When I was in Rome on the embassy, they don't have just like the pride flag. Cain, what is it with the weird?

Yeah, it's a triangle, the pink and brown, like the stupidest colors ever. I don't know. I'm like, is that Illuminati gay? I don't know. Like, what is the symbol here?

Like, you know, I don't know. Anyway, so that passed. That passed. France raises their terror alert warning after the attack in Moscow. And then in Gaza, over 170 terrorists were killed, 800 suspects captured in an ongoing Shifa hospital raid, according to the IDF.

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Is there any reason to believe that the company behind the ship should be held responsible? And then also that... We're going to pay for it to get the bridge rebuilt and open. What did you Hmm.

So Biden says that they're Coin So Pay for the bridge in total. We are going to pick Uh, who's where? That's us. Taxpayers. I don't.

want to seem unfeeling. Because there's search and rescue operations right now in the river, and it's very cold there. And, you know, there's, you know, people are, I want to make sure everybody's safe and all of that, you know, all of that stuff.

So. But I I've gotta I do have to say, wouldn't that be, Kane, the responsibility of the vessel? Yeah, it appears. It is a 948 foot long ship called the Dali, operated by a Singaporean company called Synergy. And It's being reported that the doomed cargo ship was being piloted by a local crew who were trained to avoid obstacles.

in the Baltimore port. And it lost control and propulsion. Right. I mean, it's on video. One's been showing some of it on the simulcast, and you can see the ship hit the.

Dang, that's just That's terrifying. Terrifying. And it was chartered by the Danish shipping company Marzek, who, or Marisk, Marisk? And the only reason I know the Maersk company is because of that one Tom Hanks movie. Right, where it was the guy who's like, I'm the captain now?

And they were right off the horn of Africa and that's where all the Somali pirates are, and it was that guy that they, yeah.

So, anyway, I that's the only reason why I know the Maersk. Entity. But The ship had gone undergone 27 inspections since 2015. It had two deficiencies. From the And this was the electronic quality shipping.

Yeah, the electronic quality shipping information system. We all know this. We're we are all very we are Mariner Twitter, which by the way Can I just sidebar real quick for a hot second? Whatever. Big things happen in the news.

There's always A group of people. That have waited their entire lives to be called up from the minor leagues. into the big leagues to offer their expertise on social media. When it was Harambe, that gorilla? I mean, all of a sudden, the experts on wildlife that emerged on social media were insufferable.

Anytime anything happens. And now you have Mariner Twitter. Usually it's like legal Twitter. where people pretend to be attorneys. And I look, I understand.

Taxpayers, you understand what happens with your government and your expertise should not be degraded simply because you didn't go to an Ivy League university or go to law school because you can understand basic concepts just the same as everybody. The shipping stuff is a little different, I think, right? Because I know nothing about Any of it. I mean, I barely even, I don't even know what type of bridge that was. There were people who are like, well, that was a whatever type of bridge.

I mean, good for you. But now Mariner Twitter has has uh emerged. And it is pretty amazing to watch Mariner and Twitter call each other slurs that I cannot repeat on air. Because someone disagrees with the installation of a nav system from whatever. I don't even understand.

Or the propulsion or whatever that is. I don't even know what those things are.

Some things I don't know, and they're arguing with each other. And you know that they're probably like. you know, midlife professionals. you know, sitting in an important office somewhere or sitting like at a control thing. and arguing with each other over this stuff.

I don't know. So now you got you, there are, it is, it's kind of amazing. They said that the deficiency. Going back to this electronic quality shipping information system. There was a June 2023 inspection at San Antonio, Chile, where they found a deficiency in their propulsion and auxiliary machinery.

Yeah, the propulsion and auxiliary machinery, Kane. We know those things. Yeah. And apparently this same Ship, boat, doesn't matter what term I use because I'm going to hear it from the mariners. Say floaty thing.

The floaty thing. I don't want to make light of it because they're searching for missing construction workers, but I'm just trying to best bring you in my own perspective. Right, I want to break it down from ya for ya. Uh and I know that you don't understand the propulsion machinery of a Dolly container ship either, unless you're Marin or Twitter and you're literally listening right now and you're gonna argue with me in a hot second.

So there was apparently an incident back in 2016 in the port of Antwerp. They found a deficiency in their structural, in its structural conditions. The vessel, we'll say vessel. But then they didn't find any deficiencies when it was inspected last fall. By the U.S.

Coast Guard in New York.

So all of the trade has halted out of this port, one of the most important ports in America. And uh Yeah, and so this is now we're gonna see ultimately because they're still searching, like I said. For These missing construction workers. And There, I mean, I mean, this whole bridge, it's, I, I understand that they're doing Oh Rescue and recovery. Kane, I'm going to ask an obvious question.

Especially when I look at aerial photos of how Huge, this waterway is. There's no way. I mean, you can't be like, okay, the boat can make it over this. You can't go out there and do that. I wouldn't risk it now that you have I sound like Joe Biden talking about guns, don't I?

You have hundreds of tons of steel now in that waterway laying across it under the watermark. It's pretty deep, though, isn't it? Maybe. You might have enough water to float a canoe or two above some of that some of the parts. But I'm not thinking a jump.

Steve, how big is it? That waterway looks. I mean, it's 9,000 feet. Wide. And the biggest part of the bridge is right in the middle.

Can't they kind of go around it? I know that sounds dumb.

Someone out there listening is thinking of it, and I just voiced your concerns.

So there you go.

There is a search and rescue effort still going on. They're not going to be like, hey, container ship, why don't you just come over here so you have the potential of chopping up human bodies?

Okay, I know. All right. I can't do that yet.

Okay. Not yet, at least. I'm just asking for, because someone out there radioing was thinking it. I'm sure they were. Couldn't have been just me.

I just was because it just looks like a big, you know, I don't know. I've driven over this bridge a ton of times. Yeah, it seems huge. It is huge, but there's only one space where they're like, there's a lot of regulations and laws. You can only let one of those ships go through that one center point.

So they have to take turns, like. Getting through the highest elevation of that that sort of Top part. Wow. Sure, it's deepest in the center there.

Well, obviously, yeah.

So, if they try to go off to the sides, they're probably not going to have enough depth to do it. Dang. Yeah, that's true. Gosh, dang. This is tough.

I feel bad for search and recovery in this area because it's cold. You've got the current. And it's not like it's the clearest water. And then you have all the debris on top of it. That is not a tough that or not an easy job, not at all.

We'll keep on monitoring that and bringing you any of the latest. In addition to all of this, I wanted to touch on a few other things. This, we were talking about the National Red Flag Center creation. I was letting you know what was happening to. With when I went to Italy and we were talking about some of the stuff with the conservatives over in Europe.

And the things that they've been going through, and how those are, you know, the policies that they're dealing with are really just like. ours but matured in a way.

So you know warning, warning. Let's Touch on a couple of other things that are taking place because. This is, and looking at this, you've got the Supreme Court that's looking at this legal. The case that involves the abortion pill, the uh mifpristone. And It is.

one of I I think it's I think it's probably the most Uh the biggest name abortion pill. Usually it's given Uh it's the medicinal form. Is it a medicinal? I mean, it has one purpose. And at nearly two-thirds of all of the abortions that took place last year, MyF Pristone is apparently.

the drug that uh Claim that. That's like the two-thirds of the abortions last year apparently came. As a result, Of that drug. I guess it's what, the morning after pill, the abortion drug. And so the FDA, because of all of this stuff with the pandemic and COVID and the lockdown.

The FDA had some of their regulations changed as well. See, it wasn't just voting that changed. There were a lot of stuff that a lot of things that changed with regards to the pandemic. And apparently, the way that this drug was prescribed is one of them. They began just sending it.

in the mail to people without Requiring an in-person doctor's visit. I mean, I literally. have to go. To the grocery store pharmacy and sign my name in a book to get suda fed. Which now they're saying it does work.

What they were testing was when they reduced the efficacy of the active ingredient in it, and then they were trying to say it didn't work after they reduced the efficacy. But you could end a life by just not Just, you know, getting it through the mail. That's so weird to me. And the usually it would say, after seven weeks, you couldn't use this pill. And then they apparently they extended that up to ten weeks.

So this is the case that's going before the Supreme Court. Uh now they're trying to Decide whether or not this is it, whether or not this is going to be suspended, and the FDA's control over it, et cetera, et cetera.

So we've got that. That's one of the things that we're watching as well, and of course, with this bridge. And then, additionally, the 2024 race: Joe Biden's not performing well. They keep saying that they have a turnaround plan for him. I was reading this piece that was published at Time this morning, or last evening, rather.

They were saying that. They have a Turnaround plan to help Biden. They sent out Jill. Didn't they send? I think I.

Let me pull this up. I have this in my. My show notes. They sent out Jill Biden. And they were trying to, she's just as awkward.

She's not an asset. She's like one of the first. Political wives I've ever seen who is actually not an asset to her husband's campaign. Because she went out. To California over the weekend, and Biden's been trying to fix his def his poll deficit.

And she was talking to a Democrat audience, they paid $100,000 a ticket. I guess that was to the pack because you can't make that To a particular candidate. You're maxed out to the nth degree. But she was telling the Democrat audience that paid $100,000 a ticket. that Florida's Parental Rights and Education Act was a step towards dictatorship.

And she compared Florida to Nazi Germany. And she said that history teaches us that democracies don't disappear overnight. They disappear slowly, subtly, and silently. A book ban, a court decision, a don't say gay law. She says, before World War II, I'm told Berlin was a center of alphabet culture in Europe.

Uh, you realize that they killed gay people, the Nazis, right? The Nazis that were on the left, that's why they were called socialists, national socialist Nazi. They kill gay people. And this, I don't know why they keep calling this don't say gay bill. You can.

It's not about staying gay. It's about allowing parents the power and authority to determine whether or not. A teacher in their kids' second grade class can tell them that they have anal sex every night. Literally, that's what the law gets into. It safeguards kids and allows parents to control what the teacher exposes them to in the classroom.

I mean, sorry to be that graphic, but the stuff that these teachers, you know, or groomers, whatever you want to call them, the ones that were pushing this, and there are good teachers out there that fought it. I should have to say that, but we have, you know, honestly, we have some stupid people out there that listen. Uh But It was all about empowering parents. and protecting kids. And I just have a problem with an adult that thinks the classroom is the stage for them to talk about their sexual recreation.

What the hell is wrong with you? Like, who goes, who, what teacher does that? I didn't even know what the hell my teacher looked like outside of the classroom. I saw my teacher in a grocery store once when I was a kid, and I froze because it was like seeing a damn alien out in real time. It was weird.

I'm like, I thought you lived at the school. I didn't know. I didn't even know that they were married. Or had kids, it was weird. Wasn't it weird?

Like to see your teacher outside of the, they kept it professional, you know what I'm saying? Like they didn't sit here and go, Well, let me tell you about the anal sex that I had with my boy. I they don't talk about that stuff. Kane's dying. But it's true, Kane.

And you know I'm right. That's the ka they think that you don't have a right to the the students are not your buddies. They're students. This is so weird. And it was also about the books that were out there.

Some of the people that were clueless as to these books, when I showed them, and I'm like, look, this is what. A mutual friend that I had was someone here in Texas. This is what her junior, her seventh grader, literally pulled off their library shelves. And I showed them pictures of the book, and it included students that had a strap on in the book. It was a graphic novel.

And the person who didn't believe me. was horrified. And I'm like, this is what this is about. And this book is actually recommended to that age group. Do you think that this is something seventh graders should be reading?

school really Seriously? What is this? This is a fetish. This is adults pushing their baggage on the kids and then acting like it somehow harms the kids that they can't get at them. That's what this says.

But when people see What was really at stake with this law? They're like, yeah, what are they talking about? This had nothing to do with saying gay or not saying gay. It was so dumb.

So dumb. And then to have Joe Biden compare it to Nazi Germany.

So she kinda she stepped in it.

So I just don't think that you're you they should send her out on his behalf anymore because it's a disaster when they send her out. If it's not this, then it's Cease Puadway or something. But Democrats Are they having a problem, and I think they're also having a crisis of. Optimism.

Now, that sounds like a weird thing to say, and I know we got to get moving, but we'll talk about this more next hour. Democrats have overperformed in polling recently, and they've overperformed in some elections. And that might be undercut by the reality of having to cast that final vote in November. It usually does. And I don't think that they're taking that into account.

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So, this Florida man is facing charges as police say he stole a gator and tried to throw it off a roof. And I want him to have his A double snakes beat. Police say that William Hodge was arrested. He was slamming the animal by its tail and trying to throw it off the top of a building. He told the police that he was, quote, teaching it a lesson.

I would like to teach Hodge a lesson and slam him around on the roof of a building and then try to throw him off. That's just me. I'm just saying, you know, teach him a lesson about it. They returned the alligator to the uh place where the guy stole it. Short on time, third hour on the way.

We have been. Clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. I have studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go.

Jordan. And we're looking at about a million and a half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them. Jordan. And so we've been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into Rafah with any type of military operation. A mistake, but would there be consequences if he does move forward?

Well, we're going to take it one step at a time. But we've been very clear in terms of our perspective on whether or not she doesn't believe in an Israeli offensive there in Gaza coming in from Rafah. She studied the maps, guys. The maps. Mm.

Very Venn diagrammy. Welcome back to the program Top of the Third Hour. Dana Lash with you. You can listen to the program. Uh coast to coast, you can also You can also stream the radio program.

You can watch it on uh channel 347, DirecTV, YouTube, Facebook, all that good stuff. Sign up for the newsletter over at Substack. All kinds of good stuff that comes up over there. They just need Biden First off, The Refusal of the United States to back its ally in face of the UN Security Council, they abstained from that vote on the ceasefire, which is basically a vote in favor of it at this point. And now you have Israel canceling this.

Trip. to Washington, DC I don't know why all of these other countries get to vote on whether or not Israel can defend itself. And yes, it's still a discussion of defense because for the past twenty plus years, every single time that Israel has withdrawn, and has stopped any offensive. Hamas regroups, and then they have the same thing over and over and over again. There was already literally a ceasefire agreement on October 6th.

And they just Hamas ignored it, just like they ignored the numerous ceasefire agreements that they broke that predated the ceasefire agreement that they broke on October 6th. No one so far has been able to explain what this new ceasefire would magically do that the litany of other ceasefire agreements did not do. And it's stupid to even be engaging with these terrorists. In negotiations while they still have hostages and apparently American hostages. But we all know that the Biden administration cares not for any type of American hostage or American anything.

I mean, we see that. Saw that with Afghanistan, for crying out loud. But for them to say, well, you know, there should be no ceasefire. No cease fire at all whatsoever. None.

The Hamas has to cease. And that Hamas, it now is not going to, they're not going to negotiate at all. And they've said they're not going to negotiate. They already rejected. the one offer that Israel made.

They think all the terrorists that were trying to kill innocent Israelis previously that the IDF arrested and is there incarcerated, that they should be released. They are not going to give up a single innocent hostage, including the babies that they stole and kidnapped, if they are still alive. And so The problem here. The abandonment. of an ally in a region where we don't really have any others.

This is a horrible misstep by this administration, but he's doing it because it's an election year. He is, if you've noticed, the left is so far left now. That they're They're really anti-Jewish. It's not about being anti-Israeli government. It's not even anti-Israel or anti-Netanyahu.

These are people who have problems with Jewish people. I mean, that's the reality of it. And that's why you see this. They try to manifest it into some type of policy and hide it behind a veneer of, well, we're criticizing the government. But you're actually not criticizing the government.

I mean, you call people Zionists and all this other stuff and use all of these stereotypes. I mean, that's bigotry. It's anti-Semitism. But Israel should not have to ask anybody for a vote on whether it's going to defend itself. I think they're already taking too long to just turn everything to glass.

That Hamas can't cease it cannot cannot continue to exist. And as you remember, the Gazan media polled Gazans and even those in West Bank, and they discovered that the majority of people actually thought that the October 7th attacks were justified. Still They believe us.

So what happens when you elect terrorists? members of your government. Speaking of the Like the all of this because she's I don't know that this is gonna I mean this has gotta hurt him. He's hurting in the polls, which is why he's making these moves right now. And sacrificing an alliance.

For it. It I it's like telling the United States, trying to vote on how the United States can respond after 9-11 or you know, if there had been such a thing in existence and all these, you know, these countries came together and you know, et cetera, after Pearl Harbor, it would have like try to vote on how the United States responded after that. Countries don't get the right to tell another country that they to vote on whether they can or cannot defend themselves. It's just this just so dumb. Speaking of dumb stuff, I thought we were going to have flying cars and we got this instead.

So there were a bunch of people arguing all over social media. over the weekend, I guess. Over the slogan Christ is king. And It ended up. I'm not going to get into all the slap fights on the right because I literally don't care.

I just don't care. There's so much else out there to focus on. And I'm already multitasking with a number of different issues. I just don't have the bandwidth, the tolerance, or the patience to deal with clout chasing competition on the right. And that's what so much of this stuff is.

But I do think that you have frauds that are on the right as well. I mean, people who literally got started in OPPO as hardcore progressives and only just became conservatives in 2016, you're all about people changing their ideology and coming around to a more sensible view, a more realistic view of the world. But that doesn't mean you make them the damn generals of an entire movement. See what I'm saying? And I think some of this fallout is because people did that.

So I think it's pretty simple. And I had I talked about this. Actually I only I only made like one tweet. And I was trying to find the the tweet that I put up actually, because people were arguing over oh, whether or not you know Christ is king, etc., etc. What that statement means.

Is it anti-Semitic to stay it? I think that's dumb, that that's even an argument. I think. Like with anything, motive is the heart. Motive is the heart of everything.

You know, whether or not you use the Lord's name in vain or you're actually crying out to Him in prayer, I mean, motive and intent. is is everything.

So anything can be made into a verbal weapon. First and foremost. Yelling that to people who don't accept Jesus is their Lord and Savior as a way to shut down conversation. Yeah! It's probably taking the Lord's name in vain.

That's like uh when uh oh southern grandmas go, Bless your heart. And they don't mean it. They're not blessing you. And you know that. They're not blessing you.

I had tweeted one thing about it, and I quoted Matthew 7:21 because I quoted my friend Frank also, who says, It's disgusting to see anti-Semites adopt the slogan to cloak hate. And someone goes, I'm going to misinterpret that as you telling me I can't say that, and then get angry, because that's. Apparently, what the internet is for. And again, it all comes down to intention and how you want to use a phrase. But Matthew 7:21, remember they said, Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

And many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name and perform many miracles in your name? And then I will tell them plainly, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. Acapella, which is a fantastic Christian singing group.

They had an album out in the late 80s where they do a whole song, it's Elijah Rock, and they cover this whole song. It's awesome, by the way. All right, so. Just a touch on that. A few other things that we got to hit on.

Speaking of like Some of this other dumb stuff. This, the House majority shrinks further via Washington Examiner. Mike Gallagher. is out.

So now what? Uh what plus one majority? He's out of Wisconsin. He's leaving. I think the date is April 19th.

We have a tiny house majority, so now that seat's going to be empty for the remainder of the term. And it is a one-vote majority. There will be no other meaningful legislation passed. 'Cause all you would have to have are two Republicans to stop it. That's it.

And I don't know. This is they, the state has an April 2nd deadline for a special election. Apparently, I guess that's not. He's leaving on April 19th. It was approved by House leadership.

The Washington Examiner reported that. And he's gonna serve, he also serves as the select committee on the select committee about the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party. It's a mess. The house is a mess. And you have Mike Johnson, got that big old spending bill, they passed that.

That included funding for that red that's where they're getting their funding. After that pass, of course, it's no coincidence that the administration announced the creation of the Red Flag Center. No, no coincidence at all. And it goes back, it makes me doesn't it make you just feel so good that the Cloud Chasers and the Republican Party decided to have a phallus measuring contest over who could exercise the most influence where it concerns House leadership, and they promised everyone that all of these problems would go away if they could just switch out House leadership? And then you get somebody who's had the same record as McCarthy, but less political capital.

Oh my gosh, it's a disaster going into an election year. It's like Republicans don't want to win. That's what it feels like, doesn't it? It's like they don't want to win. It's like they don't want to win.

And then you have the RNC where I'm trying to be optimistic about them not spending money to pay off entire legal bills and take that money that really should be spent on down ballot races, but I'm not confident of that. I have no confidence in that. At all.

So I don't know. I mean, I just hope all the wannabe operatives and the non-needle moving. clout chasers and all their Performative clowns. I hope that all these people who try to sell you on this idea that if we just switch out this hood ornament, If we just rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic of our party, that things are going to change. I mean, they time, this was time wasted that could have been so much more wisely spent.

It's it's sad. It's so incredibly sad. We have more on the way. We have headlines coming up. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So the antibiotics pledge on chicken was dropped by Chick-fil-A. They dropped their no antibiotics pledge, citing supply. They said that they have a less stringent standard that's going to allow the use of some antibiotics. They said that the complete ban, which the chain put in place in 2019.

They said it was to lessen our antibiotic resistance, but they said that they had to ease their rules because apparently there was a major, I guess there's a supply issue of it. That's Really? Not as many people are putting antibiotics in their chickens? Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of chicken in the United States. Yeah, I mean, like, that's one thing that there's a lot of, you know?

I don't know, that's just kinda so how do you say it's the same standard of chicken? when it's not. out. You know what I mean? I mean, I just, I don't know.

Also, the honeybee, okay, this is actually terrifying. A honeybee colony is at a heightened risk of collapse in the Pacific Northwest. We've got to be concerned about this, guys. And I don't think it's climate change. It's not flipping climate change.

Stop it. I think there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. I think it's some of it's pesticides and all of that stuff that goes into the honeybees. But they said Pacific Northwest colonies are gonna endure spring collapses in the near and long term. We were considering putting, there was like a service that said we'll put honey bee.

Hives in your backyard, but then they wanted to charge you $500 a month to come out and then collect the honey and do all of that. And like that's, so you get to use my yard and I have to pay you? I tore it up and put it in the trash. But otherwise, I thought, you know, if it was a free service and I got a little honey for my problem, then I'd be like, that's, you know, from my. For my effort, for my land, I'd be like, that's cool, come and do it.

But yeah, they wanted to charge $500 a month. Like that seems shady, right? That seems to waste sauce, broth. Anyway.

Uh I am worried about the honey bee. Issue though. The $27 trillion treasury market is only getting bigger. Argonomics. $27 trillion.

I can't even wrap my head around that number. That's insane. This is from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. They said the annual issuances of issuance, sorry, of U.S. Treasuries has exploded, doubling since the pandemic.

began. $23 trillion were sold in 23. And they said that's not going to slow down anytime soon. And it probably doesn't matter what will happen in November. either.

That's That's even scarier. That it just says you got everything that you wanted in November and it still wouldn't. Turn it around. Retailers are turning to extreme bargains to lure shoppers because consumer spending is in the toilet. By dynamics.

They said it's underwhelming. They said that, like for instance, they're offering designer clothing at discounts, like at 70% or more. And they said that, actually, I will say, I do benefit from this because I have a kid who grows constantly. And it's amazing how boys can literally go through three sizes of jeans. In.

It's six months or seven months. It's insane. I'm like, what? How are you processing this food that's like a tomato plant? At some point, I'm gonna have to pick that top leaf and like get a control on your height.

Come on. But They said that it's all over. It's even including even designer stuff.

So it's everywhere. It's like every consumer aspect you can think of. From furniture to accessories to homeware to all of it. And apparently, the whole industry is still reeling from a bad Christmas season, which is a super critical time for shopping and shoppers and all of that.

So that's yikes. We have more in store, medium outpractice. Apparently, The word is, is that they already fired Rona McDaniel. We'll talk coming up. Ready to grow your intellectual Rolodex?

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Well, I think that it's very clear that Trump is a grifter. That's just the way it is. And integrity, which is something that we all want to always deepen in politics and in government, has just flown the coop with him.

Okay, first off, that was Nancy Let me be professional. Hang on for a second. Welcome back, Daniel Lash here, bottom of the third hour. That's Nancy Pelosi on with MSNBC talking to Jen Saki. We're going to talk about Ronna McGino getting maybe fired here in a second.

That's the word coming out. Wanna, you know what I'm gonna ask you? He's reading my mind right now. What in the eyebrow hell did I just look at?

So I'm So the as it's playing, right, so the soundbite's playing.

So for those of you who are listening and you're not watching the simulcast of the radio show. Uh One has the video, the soundbite, the video running in the monitor that's in the camera.

So I'm looking at the camera like a loon. Because I'm trying to figure out what is going on above her eyes. I'm going to get to what she said in a moment. Can we just Guys, Gals If you're drawing your eyebrows on, They're not meant to look like commas. that have been twisted to lay horizontally, okay?

The bulk should not be. Right by the nose bridge, the bridge of the nose. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's. That's turning into an asterisk.

Right there. It should not look like that. It's not supposed to be looking like that. And if it's looking like that, you ain't doing it right. There's there's lots of tutorials on YouTube.

I can't hear a thing she's saying because all I can hear is awesome. I can't hear anything else. It's an asterisk. Stop it. Stop it.

To that point, your eyebrows should not look like a gradient. It should not look like a damned paint card from Home Depot where you can see light to dark. It's not supposed to look like that. Ladies, stop it. Stop it.

And if you don't know how to put on bronzer, don't do it because then you just look dirty. Quit.

Okay, are we done? I feel like I got through that. She says that Trump is a grifter. Uh wait.

So The person who's been in office and government for 50 plus years and has been insider trading for the last 20. Um Was broke before she got married. Yeah, I mean, clearly. She married money, but she had no. She's cut multiple millions and millions of dollars now on that $140,000 salary.

So, uh. Trump's the grifter, though? One guy the guy that's got into politics for four years. That dude's the grifter. I mean, she's made with her insider knowledge.

There's a whole Twitter account out there that just follows her stock trades. Yeah. And it's really fascinating because something happens two days later. It's wild. Means she?

There are insider trading money that apparently isn't grifting. She but Two sub-zero freezers full of that bougie. Ice cream that's like eleventy million kergillion dollars. A pint or something. You know, I They don't think it's, she doesn't think it's grifting.

Democrats don't think it's grifting if you're a Democrat and you're grifting. It's like saying that someone who has someone who has money but is crazy, it's like calling them eccentric. But if you're broke, you're just crazy. But if you got money, you're eccentric, right? You don't want to make the eccentric person mad just in case they give you some of it.

That's what it is. That's the same thing. What's a fancy word for grifting, Kane? Like how eccentric is for crazy. Oh, I don't know.

Politician? I feel like the internet's going to come in clutch here. Chat, give me a suggestion. What's a fancy word for grifting? Since, you know, she thinks.

It's not grifting when she's out there using insider trading. And make him fat bank. That's different. That's not grifting. That's Yeah, you're right.

Yeah. Something social something. I don't even know. Again, it's like. If you've got money, it's eccentric.

If you're broke, it's crazy. No, no, no, eccentric crazy. If you're a grift, you're just socially misunderstood. No, that's not. No, that's not what it is.

It's like. I don't I we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Big Grifton spending G's, you know what I'm saying? Like.

Big Grifton with all these monies Speaking of the diddler. Um Even though that was Jay-Z's song. Uh He's is he Arrested? I don't think so. I saw the reports that he was, and then I saw the community notes on the fact that he wasn't.

And then I saw that his uh I guess electronic equipment, laptops and stuff. We're taking. Mm Yeah. Mm. He I'm just going to say.

By the way, the diddler Twitter, like the Mariner Twitter, is very interesting.

So Uh Did he kill Biggie? And Tupac? And probably JFK. I mean, I don't know. He's killed everybody.

I just saying, did he? I'm pretty certain on the JFK One he probably wasn't. There's all these weird stories going on about him and Bieber too.

Well, there's video of that. What? But that video's been around. What? Oh, yeah.

What video? Like, video, like, on the level of the guy who's eating that lady's leg, like a turkey leg?

Well, not exactly, no. But there are some things in the video that are said and some. You know, you could just kind of tell the vibes. What about Usher? Ursher.

What about, yeah? I don't know about Ursher. I wouldn't be surprised to hear something. I'm just saying there's a lot of. stuff going on there.

But he did not flee to a A Caribbean nation that doesn't have an extradition agreement with us, is that correct? That is true.

Okay, 'cause when I first heard that he was fleeing to go to an island, I was like, Epstein. I'm just saying. I just, it's not that. By the way, apparently. Uh Lorraine is saying defrauders, gougers, scammers, swindlers.

Is that better than grifter though? Like a fancy word for grifter? I don't know. We'll still thinking on it. I got a couple of other things to hit you with in the meantime.

I see there's a lot of weird stuff, just all different things. to touch on.

So apparently Ronna McDaniel Yeah. Oh, already At She said, I'm just reporting it. Puck news, which is some stupid startup. I don't know. They're reporting that.

Yeah, she's apparently not She's apparently gone. They're gonna get rid of her. That's the that's the early they haven't made an official statement. But Apparently Uh yeah, she's uh looks like she's She's, they said, Puck News says NBC News is planning to drop XRNC chair Ronna McDaniels, a paid contributor. Following an on-air revolt from all their talent, like the Maddows and the.

Ah. Whose? Oh, Scarborough's and who else? Yeah. Yeah, Nicole Wallace and all these other.

Yeah, so I don't know. I'm just, you know. Hmm.

So They're babies, and that's ridiculous. Again, you know how many people worked on different administrations that went to work at NBC or went to work at CNN. Jim Sudo. J uh Jun Saki. Uh who else?

There's a ton of them there. There's so many, I can't even. Like some of their beat reporters. And then ABC, you know, Stefanobla. I mean, there's a ton of different, this is so goofy.

So yeah, this and then you have Dan Rather. I just saw this breaking. NBC News plans to drop former RNC chair Rona McDaniels, a paid contributor. And he goes, This is a good decision. Dude, you literally faked documents to try to torpedo a candidate.

You and Mary Mapes and PowerLine, the website busted you. What is this guy talking about? Excuse the hell out of you, Creopaul. What are you talking about here? It's a good decision.

Who asked Dan Rather? Who asked him? This is so dumb. I I I I don't I feel like being I f I kinda wanna bully him on the internet, should I? I feel like I should.

I feel like I have every right to. You know, it's like part of my like. It's your Monday today. Yeah, it's like my Monday.

Well, yesterday was like a double Monday. Anyway, all right, a couple of other things. The um Oh man, the gas car situation, hold up.

So you have eight states planning to ban the sale of gas-powered cars entirely because the administration unveiled the plans. to phase them out by 2032. Not going to happen. They only made out they barely made seventy seven percent of car sales. in the US in the last year.

And I I think they all look ugly, except for some of the ones that aren't. There's like a tiny handful that aren't. Everything else is the ones I can't afford are ugly, or not ugly. The ones I can't afford are ugly. Does that make sense?

That makes sense.

So they said you can't, you won't have to take your gas-powered cars off the road. You'll be able to buy used in secondhand. This is not going to happen. This is not. I actually.

Would riot over this. I'm not joking. Like, I would actually be destructive and I would riot, I think. I love gas-powered cars. Love them.

I love gas stations. I like putting gas in cars. But I'm a woman and I don't put gas in my car. I won't even take my car to put gas. That's a man's job.

I have things that are the woman's job. That's one of the man's jobs. I mean, I can, I'm a strong woman, I just don't want to. See.

So They said that the proposals for two-thirds of all the cars sold by 2030 would have to be EVs. Nobody's buying them. Nobody's buying them. They said that Dodge announced their 24 charger will be available as a gas-powered muscle car as well as an all-new EV. That's it.

But everybody else, like some like Toyota and some of the others, have been kind of turning around, halting. We talked about that last week. But yeah, Kelly Blue Book says they barely made 7% of all the sales. in twenty three. And now it's up three percent from twenty one, but The only people switching to E V's are the people who I mean, it it may I guess fine.

If you live in a city and you want to drive like down the road and you want your little E V to, you know, you know, peter around in, that's fine, good for you. Uh but some of us like to drive more. And that's dumb. You can't do a road trip with it. Also, by the way, that 3% to 7% increase you're talking about is only because the government got in and mandated a bunch of stuff and actually provided tax dollars as a subsidy.

So that's the only reason it increased that little bitty percent. That's not the free market at work. That's no, it's not the free market. Not at all. I'm never ever getting rid of my gas-powered car.

In fact, I will buy a giant. Bigger guzzler. of the gas.

So stupid. Pe do people know how E Vs are do you know where the power comes from?

So, this is one of the things we were at the EU-US Forum that all of these leaders, because the EU has been pushing this so hard. And they they can't they can't stand it. And it's amazing. I was talking to a couple of people. uh who one of them was like experimenting driving around a little EV.

uh where he lives and and he's I This is not the Portugal leader. But, um It was saying that he once ran out of literally just like the car died in traffic one time. Yeah. She's And just how difficult it w you know it just it's difficult and not everything can be equipped with like, you know, the charging and in Europe it's even worse to try to like outfit it for the uh the infrastructure for you know charging these vehicles and have the correct voltage, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You don't even I mean, it's it's very similar problem in the States.

And also, they're just ugly cars. They're ugly. They're ugly, ugly, ugly. They fell off the ugly tree. They hit every ugly branch.

I mean, I don't know. They are hideous. I find them to be hideous. There's like three that I think are not. And I only like them because they go from like zero to your face was torn off in 0.3 seconds.

That's it. It's an official measure of speed. Otherwise, I hate them. And if they didn't do it, that's the only purpose why I like them. I just am not a fan of them at all.

Ugh.

So that's get ready because this is, they're pushing this. This is one of the things that they're pushing. And making a central focus to a jewel, rather, you could say, of the Biden election campaign, re-election campaign. They're trying to. Super serve the greenies.

Lorraine put that Bieber diddler video. And uh It's but Justin Bieber's 48 hours with Diddy, and it already looks awkward. I'm just looking at the screen grab, and it looks weird. Kane said that there was a video that kind of Shed some light on P. Diddler.

Well, you kind of see it now with a different perspective after all this news. It was weird then. Yeah, it was weird then, but there's definitely a different perspective today. Mm. Yeah.

Why is everything weird? Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. In this instance, NBC News, either wittingly or unwittingly, is teaching election deniers that what they can do stretches well beyond appearing on our air in interviews to peddle lies about the sanctity and integrity of our elections, which Ronald McDaniels did yesterday at Meet the Press. Can you say as you said today, did Joe Biden win the election fair and square? He won.

He's the legitimate president. Fair and square, he won. It's certified. It's done. But I do think I'm going to say that.

Why has it taken you until now to be able to say that? I'm going to push back a little because I do think it's fair to say there were problems in 2020. Let me say that about this. Here's what gets me. First off, you know, you have people like Jun Saki who go and they work in the Obama administration and then they get a job at MSNBC and they are able to be commentators or be contributors or host their own programs, even.

And their work with a presidential administration is viewed as, oh, it was a job they did. That was their job.

Now they're here. That's how it's viewed. They're given that courtesy, but they don't extend that courtesy to conservatives, really, especially like within the past 10 years, and especially with anybody who's really been in the Trump administration, because their tribalism. Is off the charts. She did a job.

She was, you know, she was with the RNC. She worked with the Trump administration and coordinated as the head of the RNC.

So that's. I mean, for the love. I mean, she did a job. That was her job. Why does she not get that?

And I say this as someone who is not like, who did not champion her as head of the RNC? And I didn't like uh a lot of you know, some of the stuff that she said. But That's so stupid. Oh, all right, Kane, today's stupidity. Oh, my goodness.

There's a lot of stupid, actually, today. But I think we're going to choose. Our president of these United States. Biden was talking about this particular ship that hit the bridge. And they were talking about: hey, this company is behind the accident.

Shouldn't they be held responsible? And this is what he said about that. Pay for the repairs. I'm just curious. This was a ship that appears to be at fault.

Is there any reason to believe that the company behind the ship should be held responsible? And then also, you have to. We're going to pay for it to get the bridge rebuilt and opened. What did you? Wouldn't that be the like the sh if ultimately, if it's the company that owns the ship or the company that chartered it, even, wouldn't that be the responsibility?

Maybe that'll hash out that way. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter, folks, over at Substack Chapter and Verse. Find us on YouTube and Facebook. Like and subscribe, and I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.