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In the case of the President, Do you get a sense that his regular attendance and adherence to the faith? resonates with American Catholics. I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other The There is a phrase that we have used in the past: a cafeteria cafe. You choose.

That which is attractive. and dismiss that which is challenge it. Or as Thomas Aquinas would say, you You allow your conscience to guide you. Is there something on the menu he's Not ordering? In your view, I would say there are things Especially in terms of the life issues.

There are things that he chooses. to ignore Or He uses The uh the current situation as a political pawn. Rather than saying look My church believes this. It's also possible to be a practitioner of the faith as a public leader. And not require everyone that you lead in your country to be guided by all of the precepts of your faith, right?

And in my coverage of him, it seems. That's what I would interpret. I fell asleep. Yeah, I guess we'll go on camera now.

So people can stop emailing me before the start of the show. Welcome to the program. It's good to be with you. That was, can we, guys, I was really well behaved yesterday. Oh my gosh, I was just lovey-dovey.

I was so good yesterday because they didn't. Get On online. and talk about the proclamation and all of this stuff. And, you know, it would be, I'm just saying, and that's what this archbishop was talking about in this. It's some of the most boring audio I've ever heard in my life because they think it's like in PR quality.

So it was Kane, right? This was the Archbishop. He called Biden a cafeteria Catholic. Because of this proclamation. that he put out.

On Resurrection Sunday. First off, welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the top of this first hour. And uh Good to be with you.

So Did you guys read that proclamation? Did you read it?

Okay. Mm yeah. Oh, well, Kane sent it to me first. You sent it to me like the crack of dawn, like the second it came out. My bad.

You sent it to me that the the Well, no, I mean it was it was good 'cause you saw it first. This I had a piece, I had a short piece up at Substack that I had written about this because The Proclamation, and I saw some people saying, Well, this came out before. This has come out before, I don't care if it's come out before. Every single time it comes out, I'm going to say something. Stuck with the whole well, I came out in 2000 and er.

Every time somebody murders somebody, you say it's bad, right? Do you just ignore somebody doing something bad because, well, they did it before. That's such a stupid argument.

So this proclamation About the trans day of visibility. On Easter Sunday. On Resurrection Day. That's That was a a A big that I mean, that's this proclamation, and we're going to talk more about it later on in the hour. It stated that Easter Sunday was the trans day of visibility, whatever that means.

I don't even know what that means. What does trans day of visibility mean? What is that? All the time. I mean, it's we see it.

I I see them all the time. It's not like they're hard to miss.

Okay. The women that on the trans day of visibility are like eight foot tall. and they have beards and balls. I mean, it's not difficult. Don't even get me started on the dudes, right?

So insisting that it falls on a Sunday, the Lord's Day is bad enough, but insisting that it comes on resurrection. Sunday is that's just straight up blasphemous.

So it says Blah, blah, blah, virtue. And again, I understand the arguments from the people who have been saying that.

Well, this is something that I, again, I don't care. I don't care every single time it happens, I'm going to call it out. Said that they, it's the National Trans Day of Visibility. All Americans, lift up the lies and voices, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's a couple of things wrong here.

First off, I think it's like we were saying that there's too much trans activism, not too little. It's a tiny, little bitty, weancy segment of the population that is struggling with a mental issue, and it's overrepresented by an astronomical margin. In entertainment and even and in news and then discussions with news. It's completely overrepresented. But that's on by design.

It's all on purpose, the way the why why it's overrepresented. It's on purpose. Because They want Uh They want this, it's a tactic of mainstreaming it and forcing acceptance. Instead of people just living their lives. Live your lives.

Make your choices. Stop trying to shove it down everybody else's throat. But oh no, no, we can't do that because this is America. We can't do that anymore, apparently.

So the second thing is we see too little Jesus. We see too little Jesus in entertainment and daily life, everything. Nobody's immune. But That's you know, that's kind of the point of all resurrection. Sunday.

And so To send this thing out. And I was really nice, even in the thing that I, the post that I had sent out for Easter Sunday. I was very, very nice.

Now it's Monday, and I'm not nice anymore. Because I Am just so fed up with the saturation, the over, the militant overrepresentation, and this idea that unless you affirm someone else's. View of themselves, no matter how fantastical it may be, then you are a bigot, or you are this, or you are that. That's asinine. There's nothing ever said about the bigotry of people who are trying to, by force or penalty or whatever, demand that other people affirm how they see themselves and refuse to acknowledge any other Any other view, regardless how based in science or reality it may be.

If we're going to have a discussion of bigotry, let's talk about the bigotry demonstrated by those people. They had this Easter egg roll.

Well, aren't they doing the Easter egg thing? Aren't they doing some kind of roll today or something like that? Or did they do it on Easter Sunday? I don't ever pay attention to anything the Bidens do unless I have to. Yeah.

I just I just Yeah. And so this whole thing. The Easter egg rule, the rules for that apparently were they couldn't have any Christian symbolism. I don't know if you heard that. That was reported by...

a couple of different uh outlets. They couldn't have any Christian symbolism or any religious symbolism is what they said. But I mean, it's Easter. I mean, if it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it's a Christian holiday. And The New York Post, it was Newsweek, it was a number of things.

They said that. The religious theme designs were banned from the Egg contest. Is what had been reported. And then you had the American egg board that I didn't even know. Did you know there was an American egg board?

You did? Why? I mean, not why did you know, but why do we have to have it? No, you're right. And you know how they've been flip-flopping on how bad eggs are.

Remember, eggs were bad for a while, then eggs are good, and then eggs were bad for a little bit, then they're back to good again? Yeah. So they were saying, well, no, that's not right. What do you mean that's not right? Religious symbols aren't banned?

No, I mean they are. Oh, oh, they are banned?

Okay, then what?

Well, what they've been they've been banned from the Easter celebration since 1978. What does that have to do with the fact that they're still banned? And? Are you so desperate to stand for Joe Let Me Kiss Your Butt Biden that You're good. Oh no, they're I mean they are banned.

Okay, they're still banned. What's the point? That's stupid. You're literally talking about, guys, did anybody else rise from the dead? Any other religious figure?

No?

Okay. It's Christian holiday. Don't sit here and have A Christian holiday about the Messiah coming back to life, and then say we're going to ban all symbolism of Christ resurrecting at the Christ resurrection event. You don't get an Easter event without Jesus coming back up from the grave, guys. And it's the single most corroborated thing in entire history.

Entire history. You had the disciples that were tortured for it. You had guys, who was it that said this? Is it Chuck Colton who said that? 12, you had men, the men at Watergate, they couldn't keep it quiet and keep it wrapped up for three days.

And then the disciples, how many years? And it was immediately corroborated where it happened by the people who were there who witnessed it happening. Never else in any other religion, in any other bit of history, has that ever occurred.

So anyway, my point being You have A celebration of Christ's resurrection, and you're banning religious symbols for this stupid egg contest. I never thought anything could make me hate eggs, Kane, but it did. Congratulations, everybody. And they're like, well, you know, the policy's been in place, and I don't care.

Next So, what, eggboard? I love that these people are so desperate to defend. their progressive messiah. They will do whatever to defend this guy.

Well, you know, it's been. I don't care if it's been banned. What does that have to do with the fact that add insult to injury?

Now You also still, for the past several years, have had this in another proclamation. He issues another proclamation for it. You don't see the tone-deafness of doing this on Sunday. It's not that it's tone-deaf, it's that it was done on purpose. It was a giant finger in the air to all Christians across the United States of America.

Christians are hated and still persecuted, and you have Christians killed every single day. This is nothing new. And then everybody else has the audacity to act like Christians are the bullies. I mean, you realize that issuing a proclamation like this and continuing to do it. on Easter Sunday.

This is the administration that said nothing about the Christian children who were murdered. By a trans terrorist in Nashville. You remember how all that went down? It was apparently, you know, the trans terrorist that murdered the children was the victim, according to the press and the left. That person was the victim.

They were the true victim in all of this, not the dirty Christians. It was almost like the media reacted as though they deserved it because of their faith. The White House never said anything about that. Ever. You're having an event.

At the White House, but you can't about literally, what would this event be without the resurrection of Jesus? It's rhetorical. What? The Easter bunny isn't real, and eggs are stupid. I always thought it was dumb.

I never really practiced at my house. I'm sorry if anybody, I'm not a big bird. You shouldn't have me babysitting your children. That's not my job. I'm not welfare Dana.

Okay. I'm not out here baby. You know, that's a consequence of having kids listen to me. It is. I'm doing you a favor.

I never did it in my house. Because I thought I was stupid. I mean, I get it. There's like renewal of spring. I'm like, but I also didn't go to the event where I had like a chocolate Jesus that you would eat.

Have you ever seen those, Kane? They actually mold them. Have you seen those? I swear to you. What would you do?

Like if somebody gave your kids like a Shopping geek. Yeah, like a chocolate Jesus to eat or a chocolate cross to eat. It's weird, right? I've never gone that far. Yeah, neither have I.

But I'm like, I don't do the bunnies. I don't do any of that. I've never done any of that. I've never done, like, the family will do Easter eggs, but I've never been like, yes, there's the magical rabbit that somehow gets eggs and they have goodies. I've never done that.

I have a joke I'll tell you in break. Oh, so it's not it's a good one. What do you think? Yeah, it is. Uh what do you think about peeps?

Peeps? Oh, I'd love to bite the heads off of them. They're great. First thing I did. I did because it's just the most obvious place to go first, right?

And I remember I did it not to be mean. My oldest son was little bitty, and I bit the head off this peep, and he just bawled: like, oh my God. Like that was sad. I guess can't do that anymore.

So, I didn't have peeps in our house for a while, but I did. But as they got, I just bite the heads right off them. And then, after that, they're no good. That's the only fun part. That's all they're good for.

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Welcome back. That was Jill Biden on the White House Easter egg roll. It's education. What does that even, what does that even mean? That's so stupid.

Edjucate, golly. I mean, I get it. They do this thing. You know, the White House, the Easter egg roll. I think all of this stuff is performative anymore.

I think everybody just needs to come out and be like, you know what? We don't care about certain faiths. Certain faiths will bend over backwards to excuse their brutality. You know, like Islamofascism and the new Islamic jurisprudence that says that it's okay to stick grenades in women's vaginas and cut their boobs off and do all of this other stuff in the name of war and a fake occupation because you're the real colonizers, not everybody else. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this second hour. And our first hour rather. And so This, and I'm going to say it again for the people who are slow on the uptake, right? Because I keep getting, well, TransJ has been, this has been this for this long. I don't care.

Do I need to draw these people a picture because they struggle with listening comprehension to the point where they have to have some kind of visual aid to help them process the information that's being distributed from my mouth to their ears? Do they require some sort of visual crutch to assist them? Do they need somebody there to explain it? Do they share the same sort of desiccated intelligence that Joe Biden does that prevents them from fully grasping that that actually makes it worse? The fact that this year it fell on Easter and they didn't decide to like move it a day.

That makes it worse. Thank you for making my point all ever more the stronger. Good grief. That's just That's it though. I mean, look at the way that all of the religions are treated in these United States.

Look at the way that the Jewish faith is treated, the Christian faith is treated. But there's some that you can't touch. There's some faiths you can't touch. What gets me is that. Take for instance the battle over What kids, children, minors, are allowed to learn in school and what they're not allowed to learn in school.

What they're not allowed to learn in school. About, they're not, that's not even a lesson. It's not even academics. I mean, they shouldn't be presented with materials that are. Considered of the hustler variety, right?

Particularly without their parents' knowledge, which is what a lot of bills, like in Florida and elsewhere, have sought to remedy to make sure that parents are still involved and can still make determinations about what is or isn't something that their kids can have access to. And in Michigan, there's a huge group of parents that got together and they were like, yes, they should not have access to it. And it's amazing because Democrat politicians are like, oh, okay. The difference is that those parents, their faith, they're Muslims. Their faith is Islamic.

They're Muslim parents. And they can say this and they're not attacked as bigots. And they're not attacked as name a pe insert pejorative here. They don't have their characters impugned. There's like certain things that only like one religion can bring up, and then it's considered okay that if they bring it up, and then nobody talks about it in the press.

Like, go back to what was it, Prop 8 in California. Prop 8, that was a traditional marriage thing that they were going to vote on. And there was this huge organized effort to try to shame and bully people into not supporting it. And they decided to go after the Mormons more than anybody else, which was the funniest thing ever, considering it was black and Latino families in California that were literally driving the support overwhelmingly for that measure. And the Mormons were only like a small percentage of it.

They even went after the Scientologists, which. I mean, don't even don't know who we started. They like protested around their thing. They protested at all the Mormon. Churches, they were targeting like all the Mormons in Utah.

I'm like, they're in Utah, not even California. Because it was easier to target them than it was to target the black and Latino voters who were driving this because their values are more traditional. They couldn't target them because then they would be violating their own rules by their own rules. You cannot disagree with a person if they check an identity politics box because that makes you either sexist, racist, bigoted, etc. See, that identity politic is used as a veneer to deflect any kind of criticism, it is a pass.

So You can't criticize them.

So, the left ran afoul of their own rules. They're like, what are we going to do? Let's go after the Mormons. They're an easy target. Mormons are easy to kick around.

They don't chop off anybody's head or blow up anybody's buildings. They don't do anything like that. They're not out there raping women in Gaza. They don't do anything like that. We're just going to go ahead and target the Mormons.

And that's what they did. They weren't going to go after the black and Latino voters in California that were driving it because then they'd be racist and bigots, right? And they'd probably lose a very important demo that they needed in order to actually get votes. It's just amazing. I don't know why this, the fact that it fell on that day, they could have moved it by a day.

I'm so tired of the visibility. There's too much visibility. There's too much damn visibility. It's oversaturated. It's being shoved down your throats incessantly because that's the tactic, that's the purpose.

This isn't about tolerance. A lot of people say the word tolerance and they mean total acceptance, not even acceptance, they mean total adoption. Tolerance to them is a word that they use when they mean adoption. It's not enough to live and live to these people. It's not enough to go about your daily life, do what you got to do day in and day out, and then just get done, raise your kids, pay your bills.

It's not enough. You have to affirm whatever their heads cook up. You have to affirm, and not just affirm, but praise, applaud. When I was growing up, everybody was told: well, what happens behind closed doors is those people's business. Stay out of their bedroom.

Now they're dragging you in by your collar. forcing you to watch and applaud. Big difference from then to now. But that was always ever the goal. No, it's about adoption.

and if you don't adopt it, then you're penalized. You lose your job. You lose your friends. You're ostracized. They target you in your community.

You lose out at sports competitions, scholarships, places on teams, recognition for merit, for your born sex. There was a track meet. I just saw this. It happened, I think this was Over the weekend. It was like an N C double A thing.

And uh It was a student. Who is a a man? A male student. and running In a women's track event. Anybody who's ever, and I ran track.

Anybody who's ever participated in track and field knows that Women and men Are very different with their abilities, right? Very different because they're women and men. Very different thing. The NCAA allows male athletes to participate in women's. track events and I was watching A female athlete That was at the University of Idaho and Idaho State University.

They lost second and third places. Because dudes competed against them. And they And they won. This has been going on for years. The NCAA women's trek and field champion for 2019 is trans.

You have the women's cyclists champion for UCI, two-time trans. The 2019 New Zealand's women's weightlifting champion is trans. The top player in International Women's Volleyball League is trans. Meaning, it's a man competing as a woman. These are men who suck.

as as male athletes. They cannot compete. At the top level as male athletes, and they treat women's sports like the JV League. They treat women's sports like this is our backup plan. They absolutely do.

These are guys who went through puberty as dudes. They competed as dudes, even. They competed as dudes. This is recent for the, and this is not. The exception, this is 99% the trend.

Because they want that scholarship opportunity. They want all this.

So they prey on my They it is this isn't an ethical dilemma, it's insanity. Insanity. No event. There. For women.

Nothing like that. I mean, you know how different it is with men and women's races? My gosh. I read track and field. in a high school.

I went to state. I was varsity like the moment I became a freshman. I was varsity. I didn't select. throughout the summer, all of that.

I was a distance runner. The least I could, the shortest I could do was an 800, and that was hard on me. I haven't, I can like run forever at the same speed. I can keep a great speed, and I literally can run for miles. I have crazy endurance.

I just didn't have a lot of the fast twitch muscles that you need for sprinters. I'm not a sprinter. But I would run four by eight every now and then as like a sub if somebody got hurt, but I ran mile and two mile. And I was varsity for a mile and two mile. And I think uh my best time that I had in mile.

was like five fifty. I was a five forty eight or five forty nine fifty. Yeah, I was a crazy Miler.

Now, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. As good as I was as a varsity miler, You know, I went to district, sectional, state, as good as I was. When I ran against dudes, I was JV level.

That was JV. I couldn't keep up with the varsity dudes. And I was one of the top athletes in my state. Could not keep up with varsity dudes. It's the reality of it.

That's that's the way we're built? They could keep a pace faster than me. And they could outrun me. They could out endure. Because that's biology.

as good as I was. And as much as I trained. And I was running every day. I was such a jock in school. I did all the sports, I also did classical ballet for 17 years.

To the point where I was like fatiguing my muscles. I was so into everything, into all the athletics, but track and cross-country were my top. As good as I was, as disciplined as I was with training, And as much as I beat the other chicks. I was J V. Runnin' is a dude.

And that's just the biology of things. I never thought that was unfair, or I should be accommodated. 'Cause I live in reality. And I look at these dudes. Out there.

in sports today. Track and field. These guys, instead of these track, they'd be JV. Actually, they wouldn't even make their college team, I don't think. They'd be JV.

They they wouldn't they wouldn't be They're not uh first string. They're not good. But they run as they figured out if they run as chicks And they compete with women Oh, hey, then they could go somewhere. I mean, they're outpacing the women in all of these track events. It's crazy.

You've seen the videos of them, men playing volleyball against chicks. Have you seen video of men playing soccer against chicks? Basketball? In every sport, it's biology. They don't want to be women.

They want to be men playing as women. Don't sit here and say you want to be a part of the sisterhood when you're willing. to unfairly use your biological advantage. as a way to get ahead of that sisterhood in sport. You're a fraud.

That's exactly what all this is. And it's tolerated. Thank you. Why do peop what you know, it's not gonna stop. Women are gonna have to quit.

En masse, they will. Because this is not a thing where the men can stand up and defend the women. The women are going to have to hit back. Third wave feminist. have put women in this very unfortunate position.

They sold out the sisterhood. They sold out the very thing that they say they were fighting to protect. Not only did they make it to where you have to have a dual income family, you can't even stay at home with your kids anymore if you want to, but I'll be damned.

Now you gotta worry about competing against women in sports. They think the only true measure of a woman is being out in the field with a man as long as the man's out in the field. That's asinine. Talk about setting women back by centuries. All the work gone.

It wasn't good enough to To be able to inherit property and vote and have get paid equally, that was good enough. No, they they went too far and now they're reaping what they've sown What's happening now to women is a reckoning for what third wave did. Those are facts. It's our friends over at Keltech. It's time to get to the range and just blow some holes through stuff, I think.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. And I'm coming down to do that Easter egg roll in just a minute. Thank you all very, very much. Thanks, everybody. And by the way, Say hello to oyster bunnies.

Come on up, bunnies. Get up here. No one has seen an oyster bunny. That sounds terrifying. The why does the other one have Jim Jones glasses on?

Yeah. One of them has them Jim Jones glasses. You guys know those sunglasses, those big old 70s sunglasses? I had an uncle that wore those. The uh White House Easter egg roll.

That was pied in it though. Days of these United States. Didn't that kick off? I thought it was like on yesterday. It kicked off today.

They had a storm delay, so it started. They Had the Easter egg roll 90 minutes on Monday. Uh let's see. They had 40,000 people, 10,000 more than last year. And you have to roll hard-boiled eggs across the lawn to a finish line.

You can't have any. Religious decorations on them, and if you note that, the egg board comes out and is like, Well, it's built like that. Since the 70s, because they're so eager to defend against Biden, which is stupid. No one said anything about your precious. stalker you know target Biden You absolute fruitcakes.

Golly, these people are obsessed. We're noting that it's stupid that you can't put it on there. It's dumb. And then the whole declaration of this trans day of visibility, he issues a proclamation every year. And the fact that this year it fell on Easter makes it even worse.

So you can sit here and say that he didn't declare that Resurrection Day was the Trans Day of Proclamation, but he literally did. I don't give a rat's backside how many years prior he did. He did it again. And this time it's on Easter, and it makes it even worse. And yes, it should be called out every single time.

But there's a little nuance there that they're trying to seize on that and try to defend it because Biden has literally said he didn't say it now. He literally has now said That they didn't do it. We're going to play that audio for you coming up at the top of the second hour. They've actually literally said that. I mean, it's in writing.

Who's in the who's in the White House? It's Biden The US President Sent out a proclamation. He said it. We're going to talk about that in a lot more coming up. Second hour on the way.

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So the criticism over the transgender day of disability, the White House said that the President wouldn't abuse his faith for political purposes. Does the President think that's what Republicans are doing on this issue? I mean look, just a couple of things and really so surprised by the misinformation that's been out there around this and I want to be very clear. Every year for the past several years on March 31st, Transgender Day of Visibility is marked. And as we know, for folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on different Sundays, right, every year.

And this year it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day. And so that is the simple fact. That is what has happened. That is where we are. And I do want to say a couple of things because I think it's important here.

As you just stated in your questions, what we've been hearing out there, a lot of misinformation done on purpose. And as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.

Now, sadly, and it's not surprising, right? It is actually unsurprising that politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and disciplined. But that's exactly what he does. He's dishonest. That's uh first off And as I've said this before.

for the conservatives that are helping the media. The fact that there's been a day since 09 Is irrelevant to the fact, and I'm gonna say this very slowly so the drive-bys can understand. The fact that This whole trans visibility thing. has existed since 2009. is irrelevant.

to the absolute fact that the very first Presidential proclamation for it, Took place this year on a Sunday, and not just any Sunday, Resurrection Day, aka Easter. And that was the first presidential proclamation for it. This isn't rocket science. That makes it different. Welcome back to the program.

Dan will ask with you, Top. of this second hour. And that was KJP just a little bit ago saying that.

Well, it's, you know, just misinformation. She's trying to say it's misinformation. And they were also. This is what I don't get either. This is.

from Real Clear Politicses White House reporter. Phil Wegman, who says That Biden was asked. about proclaiming Easter Sunday the trans day of visibility. And Biden said, quote, I didn't do that. When asked about Speaker Johnson's claim otherwise, The President replied, quote, he's thoroughly uninformed.

But he did literally do that. He literally issued the proclamation. And that's the thing that KJP wasn't being honest about. When she was explaining this. She wasn't being honest about it.

She was saying that Well this It's, you know, it's been around since whatever and it just happened to fall this year on a Sunday. And, you know, sometimes Easter f you know, it's Easter falls on different Sundays. Like they she's in she's purposely trying to insult you and she's acting like you're stupid by trying to explain to you how calendars work. The the lady who can't You know, say the, doesn't know the difference between Nordstream and Nordstrom. That's not a joke.

Can't say the word emeritus. Can't say a whole bunch of other words. Her vocabulary is miles, wide, inches deep. Can't pronounce a whole bunch of stuff. You know that chick?

She wants to lecture you about how calendars work. But what she's not telling you. As I said, Is that this is the first time a presidential proclamation was issued for it? And it was a. presidential proclamation that was issued on Easter Sunday.

Big difference, don't you think? And of all the years to issue a presidential proclamation. for the trans visibility thing. You made it Easter Sunday? And now you're going to try to whine about getting criticism for doing so?

Maybe you shouldn't have issued the proclamation. Maybe you should have had your calendar whiz. KJP, check the calendar. Why didn't you do it last year, or the year before? Why did you wait and do it when it fell on Easter Sunday?

That's the million dollar question. That's what she does not address to reporters. Because if she did mention that, if she included that very relevant and very important piece of information, Then she would be asked well, why did he do it this Sunday? Easter Sunday, why didn't he do it last year? Or the year before that?

Why didn't he do it any of those times? Why didn't Barack Obama do it? I mean, it was 2009. Why didn't he do it? Oh, well, she wouldn't have an answer to that, would she?

And then She would have to address Then The claim that it was done purposefully to antagonize Christians. You know, they've been trying to come out with this. Narrative the national Christian nationalist. They did this on purpose to try to inflame that. They want to provoke a certain reaction out of you.

They are trying to, with their actions, draw out a specific response from you. They need stuff to bolster this Christian nationalist thing. This narrative that they invented because someone said that our rights, our natural rights, come from God.

Now a quick note on that. That is literally the recognized difference by the founders between natural and civil rights. Civil rights, as we've discussed so often, being created by men. In a courtroom, four other men. They go through the legal process.

It's either done legislatively or it's in a court of laws. They create laws. That Give that that are privileges, not rights. Natural rights fall under the purview Of the divine, meaning they cannot be polluted by man, they cannot be perverted by man, they cannot be taken by man or controlled by man. That's why communism feared God.

Karl Marx. Communism is the opiate of the asses. You know, he was trying to say that religion is the opiate of the masses, well, communism is the opiate of the asses. And Karl Marx was terrified. of Christianity.

Because Christianity challenges Tyrants Challenges all of that. If you look throughout biblical history, God even challenges monarchs. Trying to force people into being led by themselves and putting God first. Your only monarch should be The Lord. He's challenged people throughout biblical history to this.

People demanded a king. People love having something to worship. They like to have something on earth to follow and tell them what to do. Not everybody, but a lot, throughout history. It's And so this This effort at Trying to invent this idea of Christian nationalism, they want to do one of two things.

They want to tie in populism. Which too much populism weaponized is is very dangerous. Populism in small amounts is fine, just like anything in small amounts. Too much and it gets nutty. They're trying to wrap up populism with faith.

And by faith, I mean the recognition that natural rights are under the purview of the divine. And that's the cool thing about it, too. You don't have to be a Christian. in order for your rights to be protected under That jurisdiction, the heavenly jurisdiction, a natural right by way of being a citizen of this country. You don't have to be a person of that faith or any faith.

In order to have your rights. protected from the pollution of man in such a way. That's the beauty and the gift. of this faith. and its place in this country.

But there these people are too goofy to realize that. They want to divide and they want to destroy. Every time it's always a different vehicle, but it's the same mode, right? It's the same goal, different means, but same end. They want to destroy.

Faith. Because if they can If they can displace God. As first and foremost in the United States, then what can take his place? A tyrant? I mean, that's literally every throughout history.

I mean, that's why history's important. It's been like that throughout the ages. That's why communists are terrified. of Christianity. Karl Marx was terrified of Christianity.

Tyrants are terrified of Christianity. Because it gives people freedom and it also reminds these tyrants that you're not number one.

So that's what they're doing. This is all about that Christian. Nationalist narrative. They want to make you ashamed for identifying as a person of faith. They want to make you feel ashamed that your rights fall under the purview of a God that would have Christian nationalists.

They're not coming right out and saying it, but believe it, that's exactly what they're doing. That is the entire purpose of this. They want to pervert it in your mind. And misrepresent it to you. They want to cast the seed of doubt in your mind.

So as to chill speech And also. to not affirm that truth. that natural rights do not fall under their purview. They always misrepresent it. Whenever you hear any kind of elected official or anybody really say that, you know, we have natural rights that were granted to us by God.

They're like, what do you mean you think God gives you rights?

Well, yeah, actually. And Wait, you prefer men give you rights? Notice how the tyrants always yell and holler about. tyranny because they want to be the tyrants. That's what it always is.

They get mad at everybody else, and they try to cast everybody else as being a tyrant because they want to be the tyrants. And they don't want you to acknowledge that your rights are untouchable. That's ultimately what that means. Your rights are untouchable. They don't want you to acknowledge that.

They don't want you to affirm that.

So they got to pollute it in your mind. That's what this whole thing was about. elicit a specific reaction from you.

Now, I think the best way to respond to this is that it's Jesus' day of visibility. Jesus basically gets two days. It's sad. Don't take it a whole month. The letter people?

And then some. And it's not a problem with visibility. We see you.

Okay. I was watching the video. of this uh dude who's competing with chicks. At a track meet. I don't know if y'all have seen this.

Woo! We were talking about it a little bit last hour. They had one Olympic track winner hit out at transgender athletes. And it was the trans athlete Cece Telfer. Who parti who as a man competes against women and hurdles.

And of course, guess what? He wins. He won the title. I mean, he's He beats everybody. He's also like almost twice their height.

He's huge. He looks like a dude. You can wear pink, you can put lipstick on, you can grow your hair out. You look like a dude. Neck check, you're a dude.

And We are sacrificing women at the altar of this insanity. You could see him though. You can see CT. There is no problem with visibility. I mean, spot the dude in the image that Juan is showing in the simulcast.

Is it A, B, or C? One of these things is not like the other. Jeez. Yeah. It's not difficult.

No, we see you. But we see too little. of Jesus and all of it. We have more. in stores we roll towards headlines.

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So, an American YouTuber was kidnapped in Haiti. Because he tried to meet the new gang leader BBQ. How did you think that was gonna come? That happened. This uh Tabbed on Friday.

The guy is known as your fellow Arab, or simply Arab. He left his Atlanta home, Addison Maloof. Travel to Haiti. to interview barbecue, right? The gang leader.

Of uh Haiti now, and within 24 hours, the YouTuber, along with a colleague, they were abducted and held for ransom by members of Barbecue's gang. And so they said that uh the and they've i mean they've completely run all of the major areas They have already abducted 17 Western missionaries since 2021. And they said that they confirmed the kidnapping on social media on Friday, saying, yes, keeping it, we've kept it private for two weeks, but now it's out. Yes, he's been kidnapped in Haiti. We're working on getting him out.

So that's kind of, that's it. I mean, why would you do that? Why would you go and interview I can't, man. Let's see, half of senior staffers in Congress are so fed up they may quit. I hope they get fed all the way up and do quit because there's too many of them as it is already.

A helicopter dropped 10,000 Easter eggs. On Indiana kids, this sounds like that could be problematic. Just saying, but they have, it was the Easter egg hunt hosted by the Ross Foundation. And they said that they've been dropped, they dropped, it's their egg dropped, 10,000 Easter eggs on Indie Kids. It was a helicopter, dropped the eggs.

I'm assuming that it's like they didn't have the kids right there. It was just over a field, they dropped them, and then they allowed the kids to go to the field. Yeah, they didn't let the kids come in and then, you know, dropped hard eggs on them. That would have... That would have been bad.

So, a state of emergency was declared in the Niagara region because. Of the solar eclipse.

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Well, apparently the speaker finds trans people abhorrent. And I think he ought to think about that. The fact of the matter is, as you said, March 31st has been a day to lift up transgender people who endure violence. And bigotry Easter, the date changes every single day. But this is just one more instance of folks who do not know how to.

leaders trying to divide us.

So Raphael Warnock just proves that even the devil can cite scripture right there. That's what that does. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash here with you. We are at the bottom of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast.

You can stream the radio program, channel 347, direct T V. YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, X. All the places Substack, chapter and verse. Again, what they failed to mention to you is that this is the first time a presidential proclamation has been issued. It doesn't matter that it's been, you know, that they've had this day of whatever, because trans people have been invisible this entire time.

I don't know if you guys knew this. They were invisible, in fact, until 2009 when a wizard named Barack Obama declared that they are to be visible only on one day of the year. Actually, he didn't declare it. It was just a thing that went up on the White House website. But this is the first time a presidential proclamation by a president was actually issued saying that these trans people are invisible and now they have to be visible one day of the year.

And it just happened to coincide with Resurrection Day, which is funny. And I slowly joking. I d I hate that ha I have to explain that because our world's so ridiculous. But seriously, what is the visibility day? If they are invisible, why are they not in the military?

I'm just envisioning an entire force of invisible transgender people. It's gonna be a bunch of dudes in lipstick. And when you send them over there, and when they become visible for the one day, that's gonna scare the hell out of the enemies. I mean, I'm for that, Kane, right? That sounds like that's, you know, I'm for an advantage.

So if they're invisible all the other days, because what else does this stupid stuff mean? It's not, the problem isn't that they're invisible. We see them, they're really hard to miss. But again, like I told you, it's all part of that Christian nationalist thing. It is.

I have a couple of others. Oh, and what he's talking about there, too, Raphael Warnock, no one was, they were talking about it's abhorrent. To actually issue the proclamation on Easter Sunday. That is abhorrent. That's ridiculous.

And that was done on purpose.

So let's stop. Just stop it. A couple of other things I wanted to touch on with you is we have a bunch of law and order stuff as well. We're going to get into some of the got some Republican issues. This I w I This is a real tweet.

I just saw this. I'm going to talk about law and order, so this dovetails right into what we're getting into. This is an actual real tweet. This is Bellevue, Washington. It's their official verified account.

I think it's an April Fool's joke. Because it is April Fool's Today. I am not allowed to do April Fool's jokes. Isn't there a law about that, Kane, by the way? It's not a law.

You know that people on air, you can't do jokes. No, and you, I think, ruined it, actually. If you remember back in the day, I think this was like 2011. I didn't ruin it. Oh, I think you did.

And there was, I can't remember the specifics. If I had more time, I could probably remember the specifics of it. But I do know that you ruined it for everybody after that because then the boss of that station that we work for. Put out the memo always that weekend before Easter. Or I'm sorry, the weekend before, you know, uh April Fool's Day.

He put out a proclamation. Yeah. He put out a proclamation. And it was specifically made sure that I saw it. Because then I would have to say that.

I remember what I did. I'm innocent. No, you're not. I remember. I remember.

I don't remember specifically, but give me time. I'll figure it out. I'll remember. But you ruined it, and now we can't do any of those April Fool's jokes on the air anymore. We can't do any of that stuff.

Because you ruined it like a decade and a half ago. I did not do anything like that. I'm not kidding. I don't actually think I did. Selective memory.

That's what I'm saying. I mean, I may have. It sounds like something I would do. I mean, To be fair, but I just don't recall it.

So it, because I don't recall it. I don't remember specifically, but I remember something. It was something you did on air. We couldn't we just couldn't do it anymore after that. Yeah, I don't remember what it was.

It became a l a law at that point. Anyway, this looks like the crazy thing is that this, I think this, they didn't say it was, but I think it's an April Fool's joke. Uh but This actually could be real. Huh. It could be real.

They never actually get it. They never actually say it's an April Fool's joke, which is kind of funny. Maybe it's not. The world's so dumb, but they go as part of our effort to reduce our carbon footprint. We're excited that Ten announced that we're going to replace several of our Patrol SUVs with state-of-the-art skateboards.

And it says possible delayed response time if you live at the top of the hill. I think it's of That's a joke. Seriously, you had to think, didn't you? For a split second, you're like, could be, because things are so dumb. Everything is so stupid that You actually have to take a beat before you figure out whether or not it's real.

or not. I mean, it's it's that's the reality. In Texas, there was a judge. This is via El Paso Times, who ordered the release of illegal. immigrants that were accused of a border riot.

So they, this magistrate judge on Easter. Order the release of illegal immigrants accused of a border riot. And it's on camera, by the way. There was a stampede that overwhelmed the National Guard troops there at the Rio. And This golly, this article Is so clunky because they're trying to use certain politically correct words, and it is so ridiculous.

These undocumented purchases, oh my gosh, stop. I have meant, I, this is an undocumented purchase. I'm just gonna steal stuff and be like, this is an undocumented purchase. How dare you? Asking for records.

What are you a Nazi? That works now. I mean, I'm just saying, they said that that's apparently how things go. But this judge said, Umberto Acosta. made his ruling on Easter.

And said that he they've the writing participation cases will be released on their own recognizance. That's what he said. And they I mean, it's on video. They tore down the razor wire. They assaulted a pub.

They assaulted some of the guard troops. They knocked one of them down. uh they ha I mean the guard had to work to regain control. And I don't know w what one thing that they haven't actually stated And apparently This isn't evident in the judge's ruling because there were like actual assaults that had taken place during this riot. At the border.

And it doesn't actually state whether or not The ruling to just let them go is applicable only to. people who participated in the riot and not The assaults in that, it doesn't actually make it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a blanket. You know, they're just, you know, across the board, let them go. I'm not, I wouldn't be surprised. There were hundreds of arrestees.

Hey, Kane. If you write it at Mexico's border With the Federales, what would happen? Yeah. I don't know. I'd probably be in Heaven.

You'd be in a Tijuana jail. That's what happened. Just Wow Wow wow wow That is uh And that judge is just letting them go. That's a new identity politic. If you enter the country illegally now, It is just like being gay or trans or a woman or a person of color.

Apparently. But I think actually is that isn't that only applicable to some people who inter illegally and not all? You have to go and get a You know how you can get those paint cards at Home Depot? And it shows you the different hues. On it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Swatches are like a Uh the swatches at Home Depot or Lowe's or wherever. and it shows you all the different hues of the paint. You gotta get one like that, I think, for skin color and apply that card. To the arm of the people who enter illegally.

And if it's like one way on the gradient, you're clear. If it's another way, then no, you don't get to use the identity politic box because whatever your lighter hue meant that negated your illegal entrance. See what I mean?

So. Certain things you have to have like two or more identity politics to not be negated by your skin color. Yeah. Unless you're trans. It's hard to keep up.

The rules are difficult, man. Hard to keep up. Yeah, it's like really. Like whack bat makes more sense. These are very difficult rules, and none of them make sense because they change.

to fit whatever narrative exists. whatever the narrative is.

So with uh squatters This is crazy. New York Post says in Texas, this is in Texas.

Now in Texas they The governor was like, Yeah, you can use Castle Doctrine, et cetera, et cetera. They said squatters turned a Texas woman's home into a drug den and sold her possessions at a yard sale. Terry Boyette was in Florida caring for her sick mother. when a friend called to tell her someone squatted her Dallas area home. She had previously hired workers to renovate her house, but after she left a painter broke in and wrecked the place, leaving crackpipes in her oven and needles in a drawer.

It took six months for her to get her home back, and she says that all of her belongings have been damaged beyond repair or sold. Her bed's in the backyard. Her dishes are gone. She says all of my stuff has been sold through the yard sale and online. And then apparently the guy who squatted the house was letting people rent it.

Short term and collecting money on that. She was literally leaving, she was caring for her mother. her sick mother in Florida and her neighbors called. She called police to report the break-in. But she was told that because the squatter had been there for more than 10 days, she would have to evict him.

I'm not going to do that, I'm going to go in. Throw some lead down. and then ask questions after. and not apologize for anything. She tried to evict the squatter herself, but it took.

I'm not doing that. That is absolute BS. If you want to get killed, there's a great way to do it: squat in somebody's home. Ten days? Are you kidding me?

Ten days. And they had to go through, you have to hire an attorney and go through this whole process. thousands of thousands of dollars just to get an intruder out of your home. In Dallas. And of course, when she finally did get a court date, guess what?

The squatter doesn't show up. And then the judge extended the appeal? Because she didn't, the judge didn't want the squatter to be homeless over the holidays. I am not joking you. And the homeowner was like, I'm actually homeless over the holidays because this intruder took over my home while I was caring for my sick mother in Florida, and this intruder was only there for 10 days.

Yeah. Yeah. And It is oh my gosh, the photos of the devastation. are crazy. They say that squatters in Texas can claim adverse possession, but they say it's a very involved process, but clearly it's not.

Because this was able to happen to this woman very, very easily.

So I'm telling you I'm I I'm not uh What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna call I would call the police to report. uh that I had killed an intruder. That's how that would work. Um I have to tell you guys, when we moved 'Cause we kinda had to. Our old house that we were in we didn't put on the market for a while.

We were waiting for everything to calm down, and we had this psycho who flew halfway across the country. and tried to break in my house 'cause he thought I was there. He had a bunch of m uh pills. And um yeah, it was crazy. Like I and our neighbors had called the police.

And I was at home with my youngest son and my husband was out with our oldest son. He had a a a game. And he was out with him. He was like they were like two hours away and God love our police because they called me. Because I made sure I got to know our police and all that stuff just in case anything happened.

Because they were the ones who alerted me to what happened. They called me and they said, We just wanted to make sure that you, but was funny why they called me. Because they weren't They really weren't checking to see if I was okay. They were checking to see if they were going to arrive on scene and there was going to be a dead body there. And it was kind of in hindsight, it was a little funny because they said, you know, Mrs.

Lash, we just want to check in. You know, we, you know, we got this report from your neighbors. We just wanted to, you know, find out where you were. And, you know, and because, you know, we just, they just like, you know, we know you're lawfully armed and all this stuff. And I'm like, wait, what's going on here?

And then, you know, I talked to them later and I had said, yeah, if I was there, this would have been a very different type of phone call. I mean, I've literally trained hours for just that kind of scenario. And, you know, not that I would gleefully take someone's life, but I. You know, when you develop a certain set of skills and you never use them, you know, and then an opportunity presents itself. I'm just saying, if you're the stupid perp that's dumb enough to like try to squatter bust in on my house.

You know, some of us may be like, wow, we get to actually use these skills.

So. I'm just saying, it was a very interesting conversation. And they were very sweet and very cool about it. And we had to, I mean, it was, you know, they acted real quickly. And I cannot imagine, first off, You know, they have to stake out these houses to make sure these people are gone.

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It's time for Florida Man.

So in Tampa, this dude decided to play Grand Theft Auto in real life. He stole. And by still, I mean he totally had a violent carjacking incident involving an ambulance. Of all the things you're going to carjack, it's an ambulance, really. They said that they got carjacked, the ambulance did Friday morning.

36-year-old Lakeland resident Gregory McGall. McGall, yeah. Threw himself through the window into the ambulance and then wrestled with the ambulance driver for control of the vehicle. The driver, feared for his life, exited the vehicle, called 911. And then he fled.

The dude fled in the stolen ambulance, crashed it in a fenced in grass lot, and then left the scene. They got the ambulance back. They got him a couple of days later. And he also had multiple community tips on him, and he also had some other offenses, too. Yeah, nobody's shocked by that.

This. Florida man was arrested for possession of ecstasy pills that were in the shape of Donald Trump's head. They were orange ecstasy pills. In the shape. Not kidding.

Brendan Dolan King. He, according to Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, he was caught with pills that were color orange and in the shape of Trump's face, said authorities. They were labeled Trump in L. And they Clearwater Police told ABC News that they occasionally find ecstasy pills, you know, in different shapes. They found a Superman logo and a Batman logo.

They said they have never seen this shape before.

So that was a new one for them.

So interesting. I don't even know how that's made, but so somebody would have to make a mold of that. I'm just thinking out loud here. A Florida man fights with deputies after he fled on a go-kart. You really think that was going to work?

Pensacola guy. He fought with deputies and then tried to get away, forty two year old Brian Peterson, on a go-cart. And they said that he was real easy to follow because he was driving a gas-powered go-kart that could not go very fast down the roadway. This is not Mario Kart, dude.

So we went from Grand Theft Auto to Mario Kart. That's exactly what happened. We have more in store. Our third hour on the way. Our friend Stephen Yates will join us at the bottom of our third hour too.

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To that point about funding, we've heard that it sounds like most of this is going to be paid for by the federal government, either about 90%, 80%, depending on how it works, the rest by the state. Where's that money going to come from?

So we're using an authority called the emergency relief. This is through our Federal Highway Administration. That's how we got those first $60 million out, and there will be more where that came from.

Now, it is possible we may need to turn to Congress to supplement that fund. That has happened in the past. If you remember the 2007 bridge collapse in Minnesota, ultimately about $260 million put together, including funds that were put through Congress on a bipartisan basis. And I hope and expect this, too, will be a bipartisan priority. Yeah, except the problem wasn't like an infrastructure issue.

The problem was a boat lost power and ran into a bridge. And so it's the responsibility of the company that ran into the bridge. They're a boat that ran into the bridge. They're the people who are on the hook for the cost of repairs and cleanup, not the American taxpayer. That's not, and the fact that they just like rushed into that.

Without Even clarifying that is wild to me. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, Top of This Third Hour. Always good to be with you this Monday. That's the first thing that they should have done.

They should have just said that we're going to await the outcome of this investigation to see exactly what happened before making determinations about if we're going to step up and pay for anything. Because It is clearly the shipping company. They own the boat, or they leased this boat that another company owns, and have assumed the liabilities from that via the lease.

So that's your issue. That's your you ran into a bridge because you had a malfunction. And it can still be a mistake for the first time. You know, it can be a mistake, it's fine. But an accident, that's fine.

But that doesn't mean that you're not culpable still. And that doesn't mean that all of us taxpayers are on the hook for this. They just act like it's a grab bag of cash to just throw out every single time. That's what they act like. And it's it's It's just wild that they didn't even wait for that.

So we've been discussing a number of things here. We've the from proclamation, we talked about that. There's still some there's some audio from that. I put some audio, I think it was in our Slack channel. Where Corine Jean-Pierre was asked about this just a little bit ago when they had the White House press briefing.

And she was asked about whether or not it was misinformation that's what she had said when she she said it was misinformation that Biden declared Easter Sunday as a transgender day of visibility. And what They're driving this narrative, and you're going to hear this on cable news tonight. They're trying to say that Biden didn't declare it, so that's it's misinformation and these are all lies. They're like, well, it's been like this since 2009, but the issue is that. This is the first time a presidential proclamation was given.

But just listen real quick to the back and forth here. Uh s really, um So surprised by the misinformation that's been out there around this, and I want to be very clear. Every year for the past several years, on March 31st, Transgender Day of Visibility is marked. And as we know, for folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on different Sundays, right, every year. And this year it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day.

And so that is the simple fact. That is what has happened. That is where we are. And I do want to say a couple of things because I think it's important here. As you just stated in your questions, what we've been hearing out there, a lot of misinformation done on purpose.

And as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.

Okay, just be honest about it. Just be honest about it. Just be honest that that this is ultimately Uh It was bad optics on your part, and you could have. Moved it. I hate this thing that, well, Republicans, shame on you for noticing this day.

Again, it's the first time that There was a proclamation given for it. Number one, so if you don't want Republicans to notice it, then you shouldn't have said anything about it. But you see what they did. The White House issues a proclamation for the first time ever, a proclamation for this day. And Republicans notice it, and yet Republicans are the bad ones for noticing it.

So they bait you on purpose so they can complain about your reaction to being baited. They wanted to create this thing.

So they could try to paint you as like Christian nationalists or something. I think you guys, I think they're bigots because they decided to exploit Resurrection Day for a mental illness day. That seems, and it's unfair. And I'm kind of tired of some of the Republicans and conservatives that I'm seeing that I thought had more brain power than this, being honest. Sit here and go, Well, it's been like this for this long.

I mean, I don't know why, you know, et cetera, et cetera. Again, first time a presidential. Proclamation was issued. And so Republicans are apparently bad for noticing this. This is so stupid.

I mean, I I again, the whole thing is goofy. They want a specific reaction. But it's the first time they had a proclamation for it. That is true. That is true.

A few other things that we're touching on today as well. As we roll towards, let me pull this up because I had some. I wanted to play. Where is it at? This is audio soundbite 13.

So apparently. Marjorie Taylor Graham. is is already Uh pushed to have uh another speaker race.

So she's pushed for a motion to vacate. And Johnson had responded and said that we fought like warrior poets.

Okay, what? But I think all of this is done. Listen to this. This is Johnson talking about this motion to vacate. This is what Republicans are now dealing with.

Audio somebody 13. Sure. I don't think it does. And I think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission. Again, the mission is to save the Republic.

And the only way we can do that is if we grow the House majority, win the Senate, and win the White House.

So we don't need any dissension right now. Look, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed the motion. It's not a privileged motion, so it doesn't move automatically. It's just hanging there. And she's frustrated.

She and I exchanged text messages even today. We're going to talk early next week. Marjorie's a friend. She's very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills. Guess what?

So am I. As we discussed, Trey, these are not the perfect pieces of legislation that you and I and Marjorie would draft if we had the ability to do it differently.

So they have a horrible spending bill that's going to be even worse because they only have a plus one majority in the House come April. No. A key and then. They've you're you can't vacate the speak think about this for a minute. Think about this for a minute.

You barely have a majority in the House. You're going to vacate the Speaker when your majority is even smaller? Because you have to have a certain percentage of the vote in order to. You see how this works, right? I mean, there was a threat when we had a wider margin of Republicans in the House of having Hakeem Jeffries.

Now you want to do it when we have a smaller margin?

Now, are they purposely picking the worst times? To have a speaker raise. I mean, I was told, guys, that we weren't even going to have these issues anymore if we just got rid of Kevin McCarthy. And then you get a guy that has his exact same record, but none of his political capital in the seat. And now we have a smaller House majority.

And now we're going to do this again.

So if it was close to getting Hakeem Jeffries the last time that we did it with the smaller with the small house majority that we had, how was it going to be any less risky to not have Hakeem Jefferies with only a plus one majority in the House now? Why is nobody else talking about this? This is so dumb. This is what we're doing in an election year. I get it.

The spending bills are bad. I don't know what else to do with the elected officials that we have, though. They're as conservative as the people who elected them to Congress would allow. And not everybody comes from conservative areas.

So What's to do about that? You know, there is a thing that you can do, and I've done it before, and I've never gotten paid doing it. I paid my own flight and my own gas and my own hotel room is you can go and help, you know. In different areas, try to turn out the vote for more conservative candidates. That's a heck of a lot easier than just having non-stop.

Like musical chairs for the speakership, thinking that you're going to land on somebody more conservative because the smaller your majority gets in the house, the less likely you are to get somebody super conservative as your speaker.

So you're going to risk getting someone who's even further to the left. with probably even less political capital. That just doesn't make any sense.

So if you have I mean you you We have I mean, this is just this is not what we should be spending our time on. I really don't think that we should be spending our time on this. And they're going to engender a lot of discord within their base. Republicans are. if they keep pushing this kind of stuff.

Because it doesn't, I mean, you're not getting a lot of bang for your buck out of these fights, but you do get a lot of. A lot of ink about it, and you do get a lot of really bad narratives about it that I think end up hurting. Republicans. uh later on uh this Okay. A few other things.

to get in here. Uh this piece right here. A Rutgers University professor. had a seminar, right, talking about the conflict in Gaza. And What do you often hear about how letter people, alphabet people are treated in Gaza.

You hear that it's they usually don't get western style treatment correct.

So Maya Mikdashi, who is the associate professor of a really stupid line of study, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. At uh New Jersey State University, told students she was approached by people At uh Pro Gaza protests. who told her she would be treated horribly by Hamas, And she started telling everyone, she and this Rutgers, they were saying that it is homophobic. and violent, to tell about how uh alphabet people are treated in Gaza. She says that.

It's violent and homophobic if you ask A gay person, do you know what Hamas would do to you if you were if someone who is A letter person supports Hamas And if they're asked, do you know how Hamas treats gay people? That's considered homophobic. Not factual, just homophobic. Wow. I don't know, guys.

I don't know. This is all so stupid. I can't even deal with this. This is all so dumb. Oh my gosh, what it This is and it's a Gender study professor.

But that's real life. That's what happens. I mean, the punishment is death. It's not allowed. Which like makes it weirder that someone Who would identify as being of one of the letters?

why they would support Hamas? And You see where I'm going with this, right? But you can't ask about it. You can't.

So coming up, we've got headlines. This story cracks me up. Americans were sold a van life dream by influencers, and they say it's a real nightmare. It's not at all what we thought it would be, really. You didn't think You thought actually that living in a van down by the river was gonna be great?

Because some influencers on social media told you and had a very, very specially curated fake life, because you know they went back to their their big old McMansion. Really? And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So, this was in Iowa. Apparently, a fertilizer spill killed more than 749,000 fish in Montgomery County. It'll kill fish elsewhere too, as Kane knows, like in Missouri and anything downstream. But they say that this happened in early March. It's a 50-mile stretch of.

You people and I work and get me for this. East. Nishna Batna River. You said that genuinely. Look at that.

Don't ask me to say it a second time. They said that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources was notified, and they said 1,500 tons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer discharged into a drainage ditch. And uh an above Ground storage tank valve left open, caused a spill, blah blah blah. But they said, Yeah, there they found a lot of fish. We're getting upwards of closer to a million, and they broke it down all kinds: uh, you know, carb sucker, common carp, gold lye, minnow, suckers, flathead catfish, channel catfish, green sunfish, silver carp, uh, grass carp.

Uh, all, yeah. And they said, Ammonia, ammonia levels are declining in the river, but. That water ain't fit to drink. the same. Uh oh, by the way, golly, Iowa.

Indianola's National Balloon Museum damaged in a fire a week before its grand opening. I'm dealing with that, and then I'm watching my friend. Dave Burge goes off on Sinato, which is apparently the new. Mascot or something for Cyclone Nation, Iowa State Athletics. Sinado, he says that He says it looks like Blood Nado.

Kids love Blood Nado. It does look like a deep fried bloody muscle of some sort. I don't know. I'm not saying that a native Iowan is. I'm just repeating what he's saying.

LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app, and I can't think of anything more annoying. LinkedIn is where people that I want to associate with the least are. I never go to my LinkedIn account. I ignore all messages and notifications. And I can't think of anything more heinous than expanding this hellscape that is social media and adding a video component to LinkedIn.

I don't like it in case you can't. Do you engage with your business context on LinkedIn? No. I don't like engaging, period, on LinkedIn. It's so stupid.

It's so dumb. I get it that it makes, maybe it makes sense for some people. I know. Uh-uh. A nine-year-old driver led California police on a short chase.

Yeah, because he can't drive, is why. California Highway Patrol were surprised to find a small child behind the wheel. Uh, when uh, it was a Volkswagen that sped away during a traffic accident. No one was hurt, thankfully, but it was a nine-year-old. They were trying to drive themselves to school, which is kind of sad and also makes me worried about what that nine-year-old's home life is: that there was no adults there to even stop him from driving himself to school.

That's sad. Oh my goodness, we've got more in store. Stephen Gates joins us coming up next. Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show Podcast has your back. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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So it's good to be with you. Bottom of this third hour. I saw this story about London Breed, who is the mayor of San Francisco. Right? You guys know very very familiar with London breed.

So do you remember when the CCP came to San Francisco. And Gavin Newsom was having his little Lovey Dovey thing with Xi Jinping, and they, I mean, literally rolled out the red carpet, commie red, rolled out the red carpet. They had the commie flags all up. It was really weird to see in an American city. And Protesters that were protesting the CCP's brutal regime were attacked.

By CCP squad baddies. Like actual CCP members, government members were attacking our citizens. And San Francisco did nothing. And so now London Breed is apparently going to Hong Kong. And China, which now China says are one and the same now.

This is a why is there such a relationship there? And can you imagine? Like 2024, nobody does anything. Joining us right now, our very good friend, Stephen Yates. He's a senior fellow at America First Policy Institute, and he's also chair of the China Policy Initiative.

He joins us via Skype. Stephen, always good to see you. What is, so why is London Reed? I mean, I know that it's. It's not unusual for Mayors of large cities to do these sorts of international goodwill trips.

But this is weird to me, especially considering the Gavin thing, Gavin Newsome, with Xi Jinping and the CCP, and the way that they acted when they came here to the United States. I mean, we flew communist flags in a major city in the United States and welcomed them with a red carpet. Why is she doing this?

Well, I can only imagine that the justification for this is what they don't say out loud, but it rhymes with Kaching. And so she must be going and trying to get some money flowing back to the golden city there. And Uh it's really just so gross. I mean our American cities Used to be great sources of pride. This was the first gateway into the Americas.

We had fabulous buildings, great workers, the hubs of culture civilization that were actually kind of cool. And now, I mean, for a commie leader, they'll clean the feces and the needles off the street and throw the tent villages off a few blocks away. And now she's going to do what? Go over to a city that used to be great, Hong Kong. It was a wonderful place to go, that now has political prisoners.

Is she going to say anything about Jimmy Lai, who's still in prison for running a newspaper that the poor commies couldn't handle digital commentary about themselves? Yeah, and so I mean, he's a, you know, it's just to me, the easiest thing that a mayor could do is A, not go. Maybe there's some things to take care of at home. Didn't Gavin suck up enough? I mean, for the whole state of California, does the mayor really need to go and clean up on aisle four or something for that?

There's just, the whole thing is just so gross. But this is where the city of San Francisco is, and a lot of other American cities. Governors and mayors do this kind of thing, but it's usually to promote trade and investment and exchange and stuff like that. Who's doing that with San Francisco now? Yeah.

And it's weird talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comms on X. And it's weird to see this too, particularly with the. the collection of stories that have come out about For instance, you know, the whether it's the Chinese infiltration of United States academia, uh, and then, of course, you know, you and I have talked about too, those police substations that they had here going after either Chinese nationals or Chinese people who immigrated legally to the United States as a way to like punish them or their family back home for dissent. It's weird because nothing's been done to remedy that, nothing was done to improve those relations in the eyes of Americans. Everything was kind of swept under the rug, and it still is.

And I just find that to be incredibly suspect. And now you have this giant, I mean, it's just a sycophantic, weird thing with San Francisco. And it just, I just don't know why, with a geopolitical foe that is communist and has the worst. desires for the US at heart, why it's allowed by this government.

Well, I actually don't think it should be, but even during the Cold War, we had people who would come and go to the Soviet Union and other places. But, you know, you'd think that if you were representing San Francisco, you might go to China and say, hey, we've had this whole debate about TikTok in the United States, and we really think maybe you should divest from that. And oh, by the way, what about blocking all of my tech companies from having any access to your people? Are you going to raise any of those things? Miss big city mayor going and representing Silicon Valley, near abroad, all of that?

I doubt it. And so there's not even just the basic stuff of representing your constituencies and the driver of your economy. You touched on one story that I was going to bring up with you as well. China blocks the use of American AMD and Intel chips as it's called the tech cold war, which it really is.

So they're phasing out these advanced micro devices, these chips made by Intel. They're saying that this is a Erasing 1.5 billion value from Intel and a few hundred million off AMD and sales. They say that this is, you know, it's a Cold War between, you know, these. I mean, it is in a way. I'm not so, I'm actually kind of shocked that they didn't make this move sooner.

But what does that mean? If they're making this move now, then they're in a position where they must feel comfortable that they can take a very adversarial stance like this, and there's not going to be any repercussions for them. I think that is an absolute correct assumption that right now, under current leadership here and elsewhere, they don't fear any kind of cost or retribution. But it also is a really revealing form of projection. Of course, they don't want any American apps or chips or cellular phones to be used by their government decision makers or leaders in their society.

Why? Because, of course, they would use those things to spy on people.

So they assume that we would do all of that too.

Sorry for us, we aren't organized enough or putting the right priorities in place to do those kinds of things to the big bad Chinese Communist Party. But in a way, they're doing this is a tell. And if we didn't have people who are covering their eyes and covering their ears in our policymaking, then it would be a very clear signal to us that we need to be decoupling from these folks in every strategic area yesterday. And what they're doing is saying, I want to be sanction proof and spy proof. Yeah.

This uh Speaking of China, this was the chips. I saw this. China's Sherry. This is one of their Chinese automakers. They are looking at, they're building.

I it gets cheap EVs, right? and they want to sell those to Europe. They're starting to sell these cars in Italy. Uh this year. And apparently, their commerce minister has been all over Europe trying to make this case for their EV company.

I think their cars are ugly, by the way. I just have to say, I hate EVs, and I think these particular EVs from China are super heinous, which is funny to me that they started this, like, I guess, goodwill tour for this auto manufacturer in Milan, you know, a fashion capital.

So they're going to start selling these in Italy in the third quarter. It's going to be their second European market. There's already fears for Italy's, so we're a car family and a food family in my house.

So obviously, Italy kind of hits that on both things. You know, Stellantis, the major auto manufacturer over there, there's a little, there's some, there's some concern about Italy and you know, the EU and all of these green regulations and all of these other member nations being more welcoming in terms of doing business with China, which, as we've discussed, gives them an even greater foothold with this whole move to make everybody reliant on EVs at which China holds the monopoly. I kind of wanted to get your assessment of this because. I was I'm hoping that the conservative wave that we've seen with some of these EU member states might be enough to kind of thwart some of this ingratiation of China into this market, but I don't know.

Well, you would think that Milan and anywhere that's tied to the textile and fashion industry would remember that, that was the entryway of COVID onto the European continent, that the thanks they got for buying into being a part of China's manufacturing supply chain in a key industry was poisoning a generation of Italians and those in their near abroad. And so doubling down on this kind of integration with the CCP seems at minimum foolish at this point. And I thought the prime minister of Italy had wised up a bit to this, but the powers of industry are vocal, strong, and throw their weight around. The EVs themselves, I don't really get bothered one way or the other about EVs. My dad was a car mechanic.

He lived his whole life working on internal combustion engines. I don't think anyone should be forced to choose, but I like things that go fast.

Some EVs go fast.

Some go fast and loud at the same time. And that was my midlife crisis. But when it comes to the car stuff, It's a massive kind of pounding on the industrial fabric of Eastern Europe. The EVs kind of leapfrog past the entire parts and repair and manufacturing supply chain that is Eastern Europe for internal combustion engines.

So, the Germans, the Italians, and others are doing an immense disservice to their European neighbors that they claim they care about when they talk about Ukraine, but then they do things like this that make clear they don't really care about their neighbors if they're going to outsource an entire industry's inputs to China. And when it comes to EVs, that's what the big automakers of Europe have done.

So I think there's multiple levels that are all bad for Europe in this, aside from maybe the few people that line their pocket, just like the mayor of San Francisco. There's people out there that just want to make that money, and what happens with their constituents, that's other people's problem. That's a very good point. I mean, that's, and I love the comparison that you made too about caring for Ukraine because there is, that's a huge, I mean, that's a huge industry over there in Eastern Europe. Going from Europe to, because I've never seen, I mean, I have seen, but I've never seen them actually raise, I'm going to bring this story up for you, an actual criticism like this.

Vietnam is now hitting at China. They don't like what they're doing in the Gulf of Tonkin over there. They don't like that China's trying to once again redefine somebody else's waterways because they think that all of the ocean over there in the South Sea belongs to them. Clearly, it doesn't. But this is, I mean, When is the last time we saw Vietnam?

I mean, obviously you pay attention to this more closely than I do. I just haven't seen a mainstream news article in quite some time where Vietnam raised a serious complaint against China and its activity there. No, the volume on this is definitely at a higher than normal level. Things like this have come and gone for some time. It was actually during the time of Secretary Clinton being in the region for some kind of a summit.

I think it was an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. And her then Assistant Secretary of State is now the Deputy Secretary of State, Kirk Campbell. They talked about this notion of a pivot to Asia. And Secretary Clinton kind of was burnishing her credentials about warning the Chinese about militarizing these reclaimed islands and making these aggressive claims and that the United States and Southeast Asia would stand unified against.

Well, it was very, very clear soon after that those were empty words and Chinese The military has made these islands bigger, definitely militarized them and fortified them, and now their claims are much more aggressive.

Southeast Asian nations have, by and large, not wanted to speak out. They hate being forced to choose between the United States and China.

So imagine how bad it must be. that a country run by a Communist Party Is complaining very vocally about this.

So they're picking fights with Vietnam and the Philippines.

So it makes it at least makes it very clear that this isn't just about those dastardly free and democratic people in Taiwan or those honorary Japanese. They're picking fights with others that just wanted to be quiet and play nice.

So there's clearly a problem with Xi Jinping's China. That's a very good point. It's not just with Taiwan. Stephen Yates, always appreciate your insight. And you educate us on Mondays.

We're so happy to have you. Thank you so much. And travel safe. I know you've been traveling all over the world. Continue your safe travels.

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So this is, if you're watching the simulator. These are pro-Gaza. Or not pro-Gaza, pro-Hamas. protesters that busted up into New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral.

and interrupted their Resurrection Day worship service. It's their pro-Hamas protesters. I don't say pro-Gaza the pro-Hamas Protesters. And I don't think there's a distinction anymore. It's the legitimately elected government of Gaza, and they still enjoy, even as early as this month, overwhelming support.

And their voters backed October 7th. I still do. But can you I mean, that's just hateful to interrupt a church service. At Saint Patrick's Cathedral. in New York City to interrupt a church service.

With a stuff? On Easter. Because of you're mad because the terrorist elected terrorist group of Gaza. Decided to commit a terror attack, and then the country they attacked responded, and now they want to play victim? No.

That's just disrespectful. They were lucky that they just got escorted out. It's so ridiculous. Just just so ridiculous. It's just such a disrespect.

So this uh speaking of which they had these uh uh Iranian uh r their Republic Guard. They had a number of their generals that were apparently killed in this. Attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria? And Tehran says they're going to have a harsh response.

Well, you know, Iran's been funding all this stuff. They fund Hamas, they fund Hezbollah. They fund the Houthis, they fund all of this. But they use all these third-party groups so that they can maintain this very weak uh you know deny a level of denial like that's not us It's not us. I mean, you know, it wasn't it was these groups that they that they pay, but they don't tell anybody.

So they're saying that there's going to be a very harsh response. I would imagine that the response back with them would be harsher. Apparently, the Iranian media confirmed the death of Brigadier General Mohammad Zayedi and a senior commander in the elite Quds force of the Iranian Guard, the Republic Guard there. Uh they said that um him and two other generals.

So, hmm. We have today's stupidity. Yes, we do. There was a lot of, again, a surplus of stupid. Was going to do the Joe Biden stuff where he was slurring or when he was talking about the best economy in the world.

It's just, he's just lying, and maybe he just slurs. I don't know. But Jill Biden's a doctor, am I right? I mean, Broadway, yeah. This is what Joe Biden said.

And Dr. Biden, what's the theme this year? This is something close to your heart. It is. You know, I've been a teacher for over 30 years, so this is education.

So, as you can see, there's a thing for education. Joe thought it was funny. Education. It's not even this is a lot different than the last Easter where they had topless people like jumping up in the front, the south lawn there at the White House. Remember that?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right, folks. I'll be on Jesse Waters' program tonight in the 7 p.m. Central Hour.

Have a great night. See you at Substack as well. Back with you tomorrow. Mm.