Friday April 26 - Full Show

I want to start by wishing my wife, Melania, a very happy birthday. Nice to be with her, but I'm at a courthouse for a rig trial. It's a rig trial. Terrible. But we're doing very well in this rig trial.

Everybody knows it. Yesterday was a big day, but I do have to begin by wishing Melania happy birthday. She's in Florida. I'll be going there this evening after this case finishes up, this horrible, unconstitutional case.

So that was the president's ongoing case in New York, which. It's so stupid, I haven't talked about it because I just would rather die. It is the dumbest damn case. It's stupid. It's stupid.

Look. Here's I've talked about this before. You can dis I don't care if people dislike I just don't care. I literally have no bandwidth. None.

I don't care if they dislike him. I don't care if People are They, you know, I think he acted improperly. It's not what we're talking about here. What we're actually talking about here is whether or not this guy, whether or not he violated the law. And I've explained this to you before, which is why I'm just not spending.

any more time beyond this talking about it because I've explained it to you before. You know, the whole situation with this is that. They were accusing him Of hiding uh of campaign uh fraud, right? Of of essentially trying to To act with impropriety and act fraudulently with regards to the campaign. They were trying to manufacture this thing and make it seem like it's a.

A felony when it's not. But remember, the case, and we talked to Andy McCarthy about all of this with the case, is that in order for any of this to make sense. Because the statute of limitations ran out on that first charge, they had to try to, they contrived and We're trying to make it as though He did something wrong in That he was using this smaller criminal action to hide.

So, even if it was a misdemeanor action, it could be ramped up to be that of a felony because he. Was taking it out, it was in commission of hiding another crime, that they've never actually stated what the other crime was. Not only did they not state what the other crime was. But They also couldn't even Make the case that the first, what they were saying was a bookkeeping error, that Alvin Bragg's office was trying to act at, was this like, you know, major misdemeanor. They were trying to act as though that was still within the statute of limitations, which it wasn't.

So then it's like, okay, so are you applying this retroactively? If this is already past the statute of limitations, you're still trying to make it to where it can rise to that of a felony because it was done in commission of covering up another crime? That's, I mean, that's literally, I know if your brain just got scrambled, that's literally what they tried to do in order to make this a case, which is why I, because New York is a cesspool. I can't say, can I say what I want to say about, it's Friday. Brennan Carr's still at the FCC.

I gotta get out of jail pass. Yeah. It's, yeah, he's going to be on later today. I'm not going to tell you what I think of it. There is no justice system there.

There's a justice system there. I feel like I need to slip something in my coffee today. There's no justice system there.

So I haven't, so to that point, I haven't been, I haven't been covering it because it just makes me mad. It just makes me mad. And you guys, I'm not going to sit here and hover. You guys, you can stream cable news all day if you want minute-by-minute coverage because I'm not doing it. But I do have a million other things I got to talk to you about today.

So, first off, welcome to the program, Dana Lash with you. Top of this very first hour on a Friday, and it's supposed to be sunny in Texas today, and it's not. Whatever that's about. What's happening with our weather cane? It's the climate change.

I have a story for you. that no fewer than four of my girlfriends sent me yesterday. That has to do with climate change and wine. And I'm like, ladies. We just need to calm down.

You know what one it is, Cain. Did you see it on the rundown? Literally, four women sent this story to me. I did not find the story. Four literal.

Full-grown women sent the story to me. Like, is this true? Like they have to check it with me. Is this true? Like, I don't.

I'll share that. Apparently, like, we're going to have less wine because of climate change. That's what they're trying to say. It's so nonsense.

So, we're going to break that down for you. But, again, welcome. You can stream it all over the internet. And you can also find us over at Substack Chapter Inverse. Lots of good stuff that happens there.

All right.

So, first and foremost, we talked about this a little bit with. Grover Norquist when he was on. the cap gains tax because now the details are coming out about this. Do I really wanna it's Friday. I I wanna talk about happy stuff, Kane.

I'm for that. I want to tell I don't want to talk about this story. I don't want to talk about this. It's It's yeah. Yeah, it's news.

It's news that's going to make all everybody out there in Radio Land mad, and they're trying to live their lives. Go about their days. You know, people watching the simulcast, people in the chat, they're just hanging out. They're trying to live their lives. This is a dilemma.

It's the biggest capital gains tax in 100 years.

Now because the budget's coming out. And all of the details are coming out about this. Do you want to know what the rate is? Do you want to know? You don't know what the rate is?

They're looking at 44.6%. What? Yeah. Yeah. Almost half.

Yeah. forty four point six percent. in states like California, New Jersey, New York and some others. the tax rate will be over fifty percent. What do they commit to deserve that?

What do they do? I feel like if you're going to be taxed that amount. I expect every government worker to put on a show for me. I own you and I want to be entertained. I don't want to just be entertained.

I want my mind blown by the level of entertainment. I mean, I'm just saying, if you're going to force this on me, I feel like. If you a I always roll my eyes when people talk about a Civil War. You're getting me here, though. And I'm not even joking.

Like, we went to war for far less than this back in the days of throwing tea in the harbor. the proposal They announced it last month, now the details are coming out, they're increasing the top marginal tax, the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains dividends up to 446.6%. I mean, goodbye investing. Goodbye tech. Good by middle class.

And The last time I noted Because I was reading about this, and I was asking if you saw on Twitter yesterday, I was asking the radio, I was asking the audience out there, everybody. Who was worse if you lived through Carter? I didn't live through Carter.

So if you were around and you were old enough to be aware under Carter, I was curious as to people's Thoughts on comparing Biden to Carter in terms of job performance. Oh my gosh, we had over a thousand answers in like an hour. It was crazy, still going through them. And the last time that the cap gains tax was this high was back in the 70s under Carter, and they topped it out at 40%. Otherwise, it's been like around 30, and it went as low as like during the 1920s and 20s, it was as low as 13%, but it capped out at 40%.

and that was an all time high under Carter in the seventies was at forty percent. And now you're looking at 44.6%.

So, the, and you guys know what capital gains are if you have. Stocks. If you have any kind of investment, you have an asset, you have a home, you have a business, you have any. any brick and mortar, you know, anything like that. Uh that creates what they view as taxable income.

And the lowest it was was really b Oh, look at the chart that's telling me from the U.S. Treasury Kane. If you were to guess in the past ten years, when was the cap gains tax the lowest? What years would you say it was the lowest? The capital gains tax?

That would probably be during Trump here most recently. And that answer is correct, Kane. That answer is correct. It was under former President Trump that it was at its lowest peak. And yeah, the lowest peak.

What's important to note is that we got record revenues into the Treasury. After the tax cut, what the narrative they're trying to make people believe is that somehow Trump's tax cuts cost $2 trillion, when in fact that's not how tax cuts worked. As a matter of fact, the tax cuts sparked more job growth and not. Public sector Job growth. We're talking private sector job growth, and because of that, you created more taxpayers, and because of that, more money.

came into the treasury. Kane's so mad right now. I am. He's gonna throw he's gonna throw his bacteria to you. He's mad.

No, but you make a good point though. And the other and guess what also? I went back and I was looking because you can monitor investments for businesses, tech, RD, particularly through the medical sector. And if you just had a guess, like what in the past 10 years? The Most investment.

In emerging businesses and technologies, Kane, at what point did we have in the past 10 years like the highest point of investment, you know, where we were really expanding our technology and progression in that as Americans, Kane? What would you guess? What is during the Trump years? Yes, sir, that is correct. Yes, that is correct.

Thank you. Can I be very honest with you for a moment? Jeopardy. I've got my issues with Trump. Everybody knows this.

I don't care if he paid off a hooker. I want lower taxes. I really don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't care. Can't say it enough. Get mad at me. I don't care. Yeah.

Can I just say one more thing about the New York thing? One quick thing. Do they not know? What campaigns are? What is a campaign?

What do y what is the point of campaigning? Uh to ensure someone gets elected.

Okay, yeah, but if you're the candidate, what's the point of campaigning? What to put your message out there. Yeah, and do what? hopefully follow through after the fact of getting elected. You're trying to persuade people.

Right. You want to persuade people with your campaign. You're trying to persuade them. to vote for you. Under Alvin Bragg, that's supposed to be um Considered Uh Meddling in elections.

Did you know that? In order for any of this to make sense, it has to be like that. I said I'm not making the rules, I'm just telling you what they're doing. I'm just telling you what what how they look at this.

So this, you know I'm telling you, this the capital gains. on this. This is why that that's why all that stuff makes me angrier. And yes, Trump did create a lot of his own problems with the legal stuff. I'm not going to lie.

But still, I don't care if somebody pays off a hooker. I literally don't even care. Lower my taxes. cut them, in fact, abolish the IRS and I don't even care if you bury the hooker in your backyard. Abolish the IRS.

I'm slightly joking. I may not actually be all the way joking. I don't know yet. I was choked in my water. Did you?

Yeah, well, I don't care. As long as you didn't do the ending of it, you know. I'm just saying, you know, because they got standards.

So. Super. Selling things like stocks, businesses, that's all Cap Gain stuff.

Now, it gets crazier because we've got this, it's going to be a 44.6%.

Now think about what happens. And how this is going to hit middle class too. Because when you look at home ownership, which is the entryway into building wealth with these things, with building not just wealth for you, but generational wealth. I mean, home ownership, you have a lot of. And this is important to the left, minority families, right?

A lot of minority families, you don't have as much stock ownership, et cetera.

So, what are those assets that they do have? Houses?

Well, what if you're a family and that's your way that you are building your wealth, not with Wall Street, et cetera? And You leave that to your kids. I mean, they're going the step-up basis, they're going after unrealized gains, which are insane. That's the dump, that's your taxing nothing, literally, it doesn't exist. But the idea that it exists, you're taxing it.

You're going to make it. They're making it to where people can't afford to own anything, which is the point. We're going to talk more about this because we got Charles Payne, who's going to be up. Later on. I mean, think about what this is going to do to the middle class, also, in addition to just investment into RD, et cetera, et cetera.

Uh also, as it relates to the trash baby Hamas lovers. College protests. George Soros He's been caught. Which you knew this, I'm not surprised, paying a lot of these left-wing activists. He did this with the Black Lives Matter stuff.

So, George Soros is painting a lot of this. There's a piece that is out. Today, getting into how his groups that he has they're They're giving these these people with these Soros-funded groups Anywhere from $2,800 to $3,600 for working eight hours a week. And the organization tells its fellows to rise up and spark revolution. That's what they're telling them.

However, you would like to take that.

So, we've got this and a lot more coming up. We got Charles Payne who's going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour. Then, later on in the program, because net neutrality, I thought we were all dead because of that. Brendan Carr, apparently, we're not, is going to join us to talk. There's not I we gotta find a feel-good story.

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That's not surprising at all. I mean, the numbers are so great, right? I mean, we were told that everything is just transitory. Yeah, they rose. Benchmark 10-year treasury yield climbed 4.8 basis points to 4.7%, a little over 4.7%.

The rate on the two-year treasury gained 6.1 basis points to 4.9. And we, it's just bad. It's going to ever, and any kind of growth is going to be revised down because it always is. Let's see. This is the dream of federal rate cuts.

Why do they keep acting like it's a possibility? They're like, oh, the dream of rate cuts is slipping away. No, it's not going to happen. Wall Street Journal is like, oh, the dream is slipping away. It's not going to happen.

The Fed made the promise, though. Exactly. Oh, yeah. But do you believe your government when they tell you? No, they don't.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Investors are stepping away from expectations that the central bank can reduce rates in the coming months because they can't as long as government keeps spending. That's just the way it is. In highly sought-after areas, this isn't uncommon, but housing in all parts of the country are gonna see a drop in value. to combat the monthly payment increases because of inflation.

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So you're okay with this GDP report? Yeah, I think this GDP report, especially once you get under the hood, you take out some of those more volatile components, consumer spending and investment look great. You got to love these. You got to love these politicians. I mean, if you take the bad stuff out of that report, you know, it doesn't look too bad.

That's Jared Bernstein talking about that. My first guest with us here at the bottom of this first hour, my good friend, host of Making Money with Charles Payne, which you can watch weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox Business. Charles Payne himself joins us via phone. My friend, always so good to talk with you.

I just got to get, I really am interested in your reaction to that spent. You know, if you take some of this bad stuff out of that report, Charles, you know, it starts to look kind of good. It's, oh my goodness. I mean, it's, I've sparked with Jared maybe, maybe 100 times over the last 15, 20 years. Golly.

So I have not had the pleasure of interviewing him since he's been in the administration. And I don't know if I could with a straight face because. Golly, d you know what though, Dana? They just all they do is insult the American public, though. Because if your boss goes on T V the day before or somewhere and says, hey, we've got the best economy ever, we're the envy of the world, and the next day you're making excuses, you've done like which one is it?

And by the way. It is the greatest economy ever for wealthy people. What they have done to this economy, pumping in So much money, trillions of dollars, an avalanche of cash that's still working its way in. still pumping in more money at this very second. We s we saw what happened with rates.

We saw what happened with inflation, we saw what happened with rates, and Rich people have assets that make big money when interest rates go up. Poor people just have to pay higher credit card fees. Exactly. It's crazy. That's a good point.

Which gets into that whole capital gains thing now that all these details are coming out of this plan that was announced last month. The Biden administration now pushing, what is it? I think we were talking 44.6 percent. I mean, at the top, the capital gains. Did you see the details on it, though?

It's worse than even that. Yeah, but no, the details, why they justify it. Yes, because they're saying that it's to like to solve racial disparities. Right. To impose a minimum income tax.

They want to propose a minimum income tax on wealthiest Americans on top of the capital gain stuff, right? And this minimum tax, they say the reason is for the preferential treatment of unrealized gains, disproportionately benefits. High wealth taxpayers And provides many high wealth taxpayers with lower effective tax rates and lower middle income. Then they go gender, geography, race, ethnicity. But essentially, they're saying that this proposal W would balance everything out.

It really is absolutely nuts. And they go on to show how few black people have money in this and that. The asset table that comes with this, white families have 73% ownership and of homes. Black families 46%, white families have 65% of stocks. Black families have 39%, white families have 16% business ownership, black families 11%.

The question is: beyond this being stupid, racist, um unAmerican is how does this even level the playing field? Confiscating money from someone else does zero for me. You're assaulting me. You're just pimping. All they ever do data, they pimp black people and black children for every program out there.

None of them are designed for black people or black children. Or success. No success, no, it's always a lowering of expectations. You know why I say is there a success for them? Because there's no success where you and I are concerned because we are thinking about it in economic terms.

It is success for them because as long as government gets bigger and more powerful, that's their only game. But they know they can never, ever truly go out to the American public, even now, w where, you know, more and more people are sort of second-guessing capitalism and say, Hey, we want to simply have a gargantuan government that dictates everything.

So they do it under the guise of economics or the guise of environment uh you know, whatever thing they can sort of use the leverage But that's never the goal.

So yeah, for us it's unsuccessful because it doesn't do anything economically. For them, it's successful because it gives them more power. That's a good point. Talking with our good friend Charles Payne, host of Making Money with Charles Payne, that you can watch on Fox Business weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern.

I was trying to figure out: I guess, is 87,000 agents, Charles, is that going to be enough to go and check everybody's unrealized gains to look for the only way I can, I mean, I guess the white tax for unrealized gains? How are they going to do this? Yeah, well, you know, eighty seven thousand is a start. Um yeah it's uh this is why I mean listen, they're checking six hundred dollar BIMMO uh at transactions, right?

So It's a surveillance state. And by the way, crypto folks, They better take a look at the capital gain stuff. There's a lot of things in there for surveillance. Of crypto. Essentially, they're going to gut crypto.

The essence of crypto and the anonymity of crypto. They're going to gut it if they have their way. And you think about it, why do they always talk about crypto and criminals, right? Criminals use crypto technology. And I'm saying to myself, well, what were they using yesterday?

Dollars? We didn't ban those. But you associate it with crime and criminals because how did they get Al Capone? They never got him on anything but taxes, right? Taxes.

Yeah. So you sort of, you know, they set the stage for these things, but I tell you, there's a lot of, I think a lot of crypto folks are sleeping on this new capital gains tax. I know they won't because they're very aggressive. But they're also really sort of like they feel like they've won. And these big governments, particularly in the United States, not going to let them win that easy, I don't think.

Yeah, I don't think they are either. And I think you touched on something that a lot of people kind of overlooked, especially the way that they try to characterize crypto. I hope those people are paying attention to all this. Talking with our friend Charles Payne, because with this, we got the capital gains. They're talking about raising the tax rate.

We've got capital gains. That's going to, I think, gut, well, I mean, I think that's going to gut investment. I'm just, I was talking with Kane just on last segment about. You know, the investment into tech, into R and D, et cetera, when businesses are not being taxed to the nth degree, that's when you're seeing the greatest gains, for the lack of a better way to put it, in terms of technological progression, small business expansion, because that's the soul. I mean, that's the soul of small business and investment and how all of these other businesses get started.

What is that going to do, especially when it's accelerated to the extent that the Biden administration wants to push it, Charles? It's it's people get a become afraid. I mean, you're starting to see it now in some of these certainly with small businesses, small business small business sentiment is just plunged. It's falling completely apart. And to your point, Here's one of the ironies is again, and I say Biden keeps bragging about how great the economy is, and of course, he's always comparing it to Europe, which The funny thing is, he would like us to be more like Europe.

Of course, we're doing better than Europe. Euros is a cautionary tale for every American, particularly Germany. But. you know, the the thing is is We're where we are now with a certain system, but also under certain taxes. Whose taxes are we operating under right now?

The Trump taxes. You how can you say Trump taxes are unfair and at the same time say the economy is booming? How can you say that Trump tax I'm going to hike taxes and get the same result? It just can't have it both ways. These are the Trump taxes that we're living under.

And this is how helped to spur some of this. Record-breaking entrepreneur, at least people are filing for businesses, right? And things like that. It's when people know that they can take a chance. And if it works out, be rewarded for it.

They're going to take more of a chances. The CEO of a major of Norway's fund, Norway's got this big fund. They struck oil It's so funny 'cause they won't invest in oil. But anyway, they've got they've got this big sovereign wealth fund. It's a couple of trillion dollars.

It's the biggest one in the world. Maybe Saudi Arabia is right up there. And I think it was the CEO of there earlier in the week. Europe just blew it. He says that they can never catch Americans because we work hard, and he's imploring them to do what we do.

And the irony is President Biden is actually imploring us to do what Europe does. Ooh, ooh. Yeah, while they're doing the reverse. And speaking of. This, we're talking with our friend Charles Payne just about the budget, the taxes, cap gains tax, all that.

Inflation. That's the other thing. Because with the report that came out, all the promises that the federal government made, Charles, about cutting rates, not going to happen. The government's not stopping spending, but I've seen a lot of people trying to spend, I guess, the ending of the stimulus spending. They're trying to say, no, no, no, government spending's moderating now, which it really isn't.

That's just the end of the stimulus stuff, as I understand it.

So, rates, I mean, Are we going to have another inflation scare? Where do we stand with that? We're in the midst of an inflation scare right now.

Now, we had an inflation readout that actually came in higher than Wall Street expected, but because of the GDP report. They came out earlier. That shocked the heck out of everyone. Prices exploded higher. And you know, it's interesting because these economists.

They always try to sugarcoat things.

So in January, we had these inflationary signals. They said, well, you know what? It was it was the it was the weather. Like and I'm always surprised when they think they're surprised when it gets cold in January. Like, oh, like, you mean they didn't factor in it was going to be cold in January?

Yeah. That was a surprise to the numbers?

Okay. And so now they can't do this, right? It's been three months. And here's the problem, you can't put this much money into an economy, it's not organic. It's economics 101.

Too much money chasing too few goods and services is inflation. It triggers inflation. In this case, forty year high in inflation. And we're not just going to simply waltz away from it. What's going to happen is money is going to all of this cash.

is going to gravitate toward the one percent. Stanford University last February put out one of the most amazing papers in a sense that, first of all, it was Stanford, right? I'm like, oh man, they explained. How this money trickles up. By the way, I've never talked about a trickle-down economy, it's always trickle-up.

The average person gets money, and they can't wait to go out and give it to someone who's a billionaire. One way or the other, we love to give our money to billionaires. It trickles up. We leave we won't hold on to it. We can't wait to give it to someone who's a gazillion times richer than us.

But this all of this money, that one point nine trillion over the next five years, goes to the top one percent. In the meantime, as it makes its way there, still in the economy, people are spending. We found out this morning that people are spending, but our savings rate is now down to three point two percent. We're near the all-time low, near the all-time low. And it's a psycho psychological thing that they do, and they give us a lot of money.

they spark something. I equate it to in India they have these you know, they they monitor these villages. Have these tigers, and every now and then one will have a confrontation with a human being and kill it, kill a human being. They call them man-eating tigers or whatever. And once they get that bloodlust, they never lose it.

And I feel like a lot of times in Americans, they gave us so much money during the pandemic, and people were waiting for these checks. Running to the mall. And then they s they had to have more. And we can't stop. They knew we wouldn't be able to stop.

They did this on purpose. And if you're the and if you're the president, you say, look at my GDP numbers. But that's what they call nominal numbers. In real life, people now are making more but are making more nominally, but it doesn't go as far.

So net net, we're losing and we're losing big time. And those things that they say don't count, don't count food, don't count energy, don't count housing, don't count auto insurance, we have no choice. The bills never stop coming. We have to count them. Last question for you.

I know you got to get to start doing your get ready for your awesome show coming up.

So, what's next? I mean, what can we expect? You know, this is the ultimate showdown this November. And people don't realize just how important it is because Essentially, what we are going to be voting on is freedom. individual and economic freedom versus a big government that knows all, does all.

And a good Study of this would be fascism in Italy, political fascism, and economic fascism. People associate that with the, you know, with the, it was an economic system. were essentially the state It was sort of state run capitalism, similar to what China does. but they also had a carve out for wealthy individuals. I've just said the richest people in this country, also known as political donors, the George Soroses of this world, Are the ones pulling the strings for all of this stuff.

So they want a world. where the federal government still creates a tremendous amount of wealth. but it goes almost directly to them. There you go. Goodness.

We got a lot to deal with in November 12th. The good thing, though, Dan is people feel this in their heart. They don't know what. They don't connect the numbers. They don't crunch the data.

They don't look at the data. They don't pull it apart. But they know.

Some people know something is wrong, and that's a good thing for now. There you go. Charles Payne, host of Making Money with Charles Payne, the best show on money and economics on TV. You can watch it weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox Business.

My friend, always a pleasure. Hope you have a great weekend. One day you're going to be on, and we're going to be celebrating good news, good economics. Low taxes. It's gonna be a party.

I'm coming to the studio for that one. Yes, yeah, we'd love it. We'd love it. You have a great weekend, my friend. Take care.

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Yeah. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. And so Be glad. Be grateful. That I'm not just going out.

And murdering Zionists. I've never murdered anyone in my life and I I hope to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep it that way. I hope to not murder you too. Murder you back.

Just saying.

So that's a Columbia protester. I love these people that run. their mouths and you know their backsides cannot cash the check that their mouths are writing Oh my gosh, these people, dude could not bust, is that's a dude, right? That's a great question.

Next check. I don't really. That's a great question.

Juan. It couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight. Gotta see see its neck. See its neck. Check its neck, Kane.

Uh I wish you guys could see the forensic audit we're doing here of this video. I don't see any Adam's Apple evidence, although. It's a little shady. I can't really see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's that kind of thing. I don't know. I just feel, I don't know. See, people aren't seeing that. Juan was just showing us.

Yeah. You ought to see them zooming in on the video. They're looking at this, trying to look at this person's neck. Like what? Murder?

Can this dude, whatever, even? I'm calling it a dude. Can unless I'm proven otherwise, you know, otherwise show me your boobs and then maybe I'll think you're a chick. I don't know. But Yeah.

Not even care. It's Friday and it's this really that's this is me any other day, but Friday I get away with it 'cause you guys feel bad for me after the week. Like, oh, she bless her heart. She had to put up with all this nonsense and read all this trash all week. But I mean, could this person even define what a Zionist is?

It's like people who use the term neocon. I use the term neocon correctly. But I see a lot of people out there neocardia, like using it like it's like, you know, it's like Halloween Katie. They just use it for whatever. This is goofy.

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Unemployment hasn't been this low for this long for 50 years. Wages are rising. Instead of importing foreign products, we're exporting them and exporting American jobs. Yeah, you are, aren't you? Exporting American jobs.

That was Biden yesterday. What was he talking? He was talking. Yeah. Oh, he made some campaign stop.

Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you, Top of the Second Hour. They're exporting American jobs. I asked this question on Yesterday evening. And I was very genuinely was I am very curious and fascinated by the answers here and you all out there gave me some really good answers.

Because I didn't live through Carter. And I keep hearing, you know, I hear. about how bad Carter is was. And how bad his administration was, and you hear about the gas lines. And I'm very familiar with his foreign policy.

I've read two biographies on him. One was a little more neutral, one was highly critical. I think it's kind of hard to not read a super critical one on them. And it seemed as though there was this consensus that You know, of modern day presidents, Jimmy Carter was the worst, was the worst. And I was thinking, you know, is it because I have recency bias?

Having, you know, a lot of us, most of us out there, I mean, I think some of you out there maybe were teenagers with Carter, and some of you were adults with Carter, but a lot of us were not. And You know, we Biden seems like the closest thing we have to a president who is that bad. on the economy and foreign policy. And I was trying to put it in perspective: like, who was the worst?

So, for the people who lived through Carter. If you could compare Carter to Biden, who would be the worst? And this is what I asked last night and it has about six thousand responses. I'm still going through the responses. And I've been bookmarking some of them because it's been very interesting.

Like for instance, you know, on the issue of the economy. There were some really good points that some of you made, like when Carter left office, for instance, and this was one that was interesting. Uh Double-digit inflation, that was the thing that everybody talked about, double-digit inflation. And apparently, when Carter left office, it was about 11%. And that was Five presidents before Barack Obama.

removed from that equation food and energy.

Now under the same metric, Biden's inflation is closer to 18%. That's interesting. And I'm I mean, they and they did, took food and and energy out of that equation. And It it it's Some were saying that it was so bad under Carter, it required a Republican revolution to save the nation. And Then there were others who were saying that the economic recession wasn't as bad as the economy today.

There were more jobs or are more jobs available now, but the inflation is particularly devastating for younger generations.

Someone said Biden is a criminal carter, was just a commie. Which I thought was interesting. We're going over if you're joining the program. I had asked everyone last night for the people who lived through Carter, who was his worst, Carter or Biden?

So again, welcome to the program, Dana Lash with you, top of this first hour. Second hour. Second hour. Thank you. It's a long Friday.

Second hour, top of the second hour.

Some said that they believed that Carter was actually ma was actually a Christian. I don't know. Like, I the only Carter I know is the old Carter. I've never h seen him give a speech. The only stuff that I've seen him like speeches I've seen him give are old And it's stuff on YouTube.

Some were saying that he they felt that at least Carter was trying to kind of be decent back when decency was still something that Democrats valued. Uh but And someone else said, Biden, Carter didn't hate us. I thought that was interesting.

Now The Foreign policy. Like, for instance, Carter opened up China.

Someone replied to the United States and tried to kill farming before the climate hoax. And then of course there was the giving away of the Panama Canal. Which who runs the entity that runs Panama Canal. China. C C P And others said that Carter was an incompetent fool who still at least loved his country, but Biden's far worse.

It's not even close.

So it's really It's fascinating to see. The responses to this. And a lot of people who lived, people who have the experience of having lived through Carter. They don't excuse the bad job that he did, but they think that his motivations and character are different than that of Biden's. And that makes that makes some sense.

This has just been, it's been fascinating to read all of the responses, and I'm still going through them. And I I mean I guess It's kind of also difficult to tell who would be the worst because We, I don't believe, have seen the full consequence of Biden's policies yet. Is that something? Wouldn't you agree with that, Kane? I don't think we've seen the full effect of it yet.

We'll see it in a decade we'll still be feeling this stuff. And could you and could a republican revolution Save the nation. I mean, is it just that simple? We have a blueprint for it. I mean, back.

We have a blueprint for it. We were talking on break about how Reagan, one of the first things he did was tax cuts. And I mean, that just kick-started the economy. And for all the people who got mad at him, it was interesting because when I was going back, and I talked about this on the air before, and I've written some stuff about this, he incorporated a lot of the John F. Kennedy.

Economic approaches in their the Art Laugher approach with the tax cuts here. that Reagan implemented. And I mean, you saw government revenue surge because people had more of their own money. You saw investment. You saw just an explosion in terms of business expansion, small businesses.

And it very much was the old-time JFK sort of approach, back when Democrats, you know, in the 60s at least understood economic freedom and they weren't completely compromised. But this has been very interesting and I I just I I wanted to compare the both of them because they seem very, very similar. You know, Carter historically to me, and then Biden, but then also. One of the reasons I wanted to compare them is well Thi we know what it took to get out from Carter. But is that enough to get out from Biden.

And the destruction wrought by his policies. Is that enough? And government, someone else made a very good point, government wasn't as big back then. That's true.

So does how much of the equation does that change? In your mind, Kane. Doesn't that I mean, I think that that changes the equation quite a bit. Absolutely does.

So, it means to me, that suggests you need a little bit more than just a Republican revolution. Yeah, it's a larger problem to deal with today. And I don't know if We have the As a if the Republicans, as a party, have the spine to do what's needed to be done, you have to have. serious austerity. In order.

Two. really accomplish what needs to be accomplished in terms of s r of just stopping this economic slide into oblivion. And so, I don't know, we'll see. But uh People usually say that they want cuts and then they get it. Like, why are Argentinians protesting that Javier Malai's economy?

What do they call it? Economic shock therapy. Have you seen that? Mm-mm-mm. economically.

They're on the path to not only surpluses, but These government, like this is what happens when the government's got its claws in the society like that, and then you take the claws out. People are They freak out. They don't know what to do. And there's going to be a period of time where you've got to get used to that. And then you're going to start realizing that, eh, we didn't need these government claws after all.

They're used to being kept. Yeah. It's really what it is. I want to change gears here because there's a lot more. Today is apparently Lesbian Visibility Day.

What? Yeah, because lesbians, as you know, are invisible. Had no idea. 364 days of the year. only being visible today.

Which then Begs the question of why there isn't in existence A spec ops team of lesbians. Thank you. Just hear me out. You send a highly trained Highly skilled. Just uh a group of invisible lesbians to deal with the cartels.

They won't know what hit 'em. Like literally they will not because they're invisible, you know. Do the same thing with Hamas. You know how easily you can sneak them in and out? You don't need paperwork.

They can go right across borders. They could go they could go into the Kremlin if they wanted to invisible You just can't send them today. Because that's when they're visible.

So it's lesbian visibility day. Another thing is, do they become just like visible all of a sudden? Or is it like a gradual thing as it nears towards, you know, twelve AM on Lesbian Visibility Day? That's a good question. I've got questions.

Now this is not a this is actually a real story right here.

Well, the Lesbian Visibility Day is too. That's a real story. This is crazy. We talk about the dangers of AI. Right?

and how AI can be abused and it's basically gonna put everybody out of a job.

Well A guy using AI almost put another guy purposefully out of a job. A black Baltimore High School Athletics Director has been charged with using AI. to generate a recording of the school's white principal going on a racist rant. DeJawn Darien, 31, was the athletic director at Pikesville High School. But and he was the target of an investigation that was looking at the mishandling of school funds.

And as a way to retaliate, According to Not the Bee and several others this is one of the local stories In order to ret he in act of retaliation, Darien allegedly, allegedly, doing a lot of heavy lifting there. generated a fake recording. of the school's principal, Eric Iswert, spewing racial and anti-Semitic insults about staff and students. The recording was posted to an Instagram account. And I mean, it's it's wild.

I'm not going to repeat some of the stuff that was being said, but it's really bad.

So, the Baltimore County Police Chief and his department worked with the FBI and forensic experts from the University of California at Berkeley. and they investigated the the recording which was circulating online in January of this year. And they discovered that Deshaun Darien, the school's athletic director, had produced the recording to retaliate against the principal because the principal was the one who apparently discovered the mishandled school funds and initiated the investigation. And so Darian was arrested at the airport Thursday morning of this week, according to ABC 13. And he now faces charges of stalking, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness, and he's being held on a $5,000 bond.

And all of this became All of this started in July of last year, and that's when Darien became the athletics director. They fired this coach that had worked for Pikesville. high school, he fired this coach without the principal's permission. And so then Darien authorized a payment of almost $2,000 to his roommate. and who was the JV basketball coach at the school.

And Darien claimed that the basketball coach, a female, That she had been acting as assistant soccer coach, and so she needed to get a little something, even though she apparently never actually did that during the season. And they said that the payment was suspicious, it bypassed the procedures that they have in place because it's all taxpayer dollars. And so he got mad and apparently used AI to do this. And That's that is crazy. That is crazy.

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Alright, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for aliens.

Alright, so here's the story: a mysterious orange orbs. have been spotted. Across the world. And the latest photo off of the UK coast. People, according to the British paper The Daily Star, so I have to read this with a British accent, have been apparently seeing mysterious orange orbs appearing in the sky all over the world.

And now the bizarre phenomenon has been filmed off the coast of the UK. You have to read it like their news people do too. Footage of the bizarre bright shades was shared on the UFO sightings footage page on Facebook yesterday. It was in Mercy Side is where they were spotted. Is it aliens though?

I don't know. Is it I just feel like it needs to be aliener. It's a word now.

So, we also have Walmart removing self-checkouts and going back to traditional lanes, but not because it's a customer service issue. It's because people have been robbing the blind. They've been doing things like scanning TVs as bananas and all kinds of stuff and just robbing them blind.

So, two stores: Shrewsbury, Missouri, Kane. It's a suburb of a city suburb of St. Louis. And another place, Cleveland, they said they're replacing kiosks with staffed checkout lanes so that they can provide more personalized and efficient service. But really, they're tired of you bringing up TVs as bananas.

That's really what it is. That is actually fascinating.

So they're doing away with this. The self-checkout makes me mad. Because it'll be like, put the item in the bag. I'm like, I did put the item in the bag. You didn't give me enough room for my stuff.

I just get so mad. Anyway. A 77-year-old Quincy woman survived a stabbing in her front yard and then decides she drives herself to the hospital. This is in Quincy, Illinois. She was attacked and stabbed multiple times in front of a rental property that she owned.

Yeah, the stepdaughter of the woman that attacked her told local news that her stepmother arrived at the property to repair the roof. When she was working, Thomas Delacour approached her from behind and said hello. When she turned to respond, he stabbed her. She drove herself to the hospital. She's recovering.

The most serious injury was to a lacerated liver. Delacour was arrested and he's in Adams County Jail. He faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

So that's pretty hardcore. This woman says she got brain damage because she drove over a Portland Port. Pothole. in a $3.6 million lawsuit. That's kind of really like how hard did you hit?

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She said, remember when they were desegregating Linfield, a neighborhood with 70 homes built suburbia? And I told you, and there was a black family moving in, and there was people who were down there protesting. I told you not to go down there and you went down. Remember that? And you came, got arrested standing on the porch with a black family?

Right. And they brought you back, the police. And I said, Yeah, mom, I remember that. Are you serious? This is Joe Biden.

He did an interview earlier today with this old lady. Uh and uh It's true. Welcome back. to the program, Daniel Ash with the U, bottom of the second hour in his interview. He claimed According to my friend Greg Price.

That Biden claimed that he saved six people from drowning as a lifeguard, which is not true. He claimed that he received salacious pictures from women in the 70s that he had to hand to Secret Service, which is an absolute lie, unless he's majority leader, which he wasn't. He didn't have Secret Service protection. You have to be in leadership in the Senator House in order to get that, and he wasn't. And he said that he, then he said what you just heard, that he was arrested as a kid while standing with a black family on their porch as people were protesting desegregation, which is also false.

And then he also said that he was a runner-up in state scoring and football, which is also false. Keep in mind that Joe Biden actually was pro-segregation, he was against the integration of schools. He was for, well, there's audio of him out there. What did he say, Kane? He did not want his children to be raised in a racial jungle.

Verbatim. That's literally what he said. He was a major. Major And I all yeah, he f So to try to see him Retcon, history. in his position as it pertains to civil rights is stunning.

because there's an audio of him. I mean, you have recorded votes. You have the stuff that he said, interviews, all kinds of stuff. I mean, my gosh. Yeah, there's there's certain things that have been saved by history, even pre-Internet.

And that's I Yeah. I it's it's crazy that he's trying to redefine all of that. I'll tell you. I uh if you get the newsletter and pull this up. over at substack, uh chapter and verse, especially if you get the prep stuff.

There's some stuff in there in particular. Let me pull this up. I was so aggravated when I was compiling the headlines.

So it starts with Hamas and trash baby protesters. But I. I don't know if you saw this.

So The Gazan terrorists. fired mortars at Biden's little floaty pier? Right. So they fired mortars. The construction They said that the the construction was going to begin.

It actually has already begun. And that is Agence France Presse. They said that the peer to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza. And That They, it was, remember, it was the international pressure. They were saying that Al Gaza needs this aid.

Well, hold up. Then They ended up taking fire.

So they There were mortars that were raining down on this pier that's being built by our troops. Off the coast of Gaza.

Now you have some Israeli forces. That are there because the, even though this was advertised as a direct line to get aid to Gazans. The U.S. was demanding that the IDF be involved because they wanted the IDF to protect. The construction of the pier and to protect the deliveries, which just think about this for a minute.

International pressure. Is demanding that the country that was attacked provide aid to the territory that attacked it. And also protect the people that are delivering aid to the territory that attacked it. Just keep that out there.

So it's The platform is 270, it's 72 feet wide. 270 feet long. It's going to get shipments of food and other aid. It's transported from, I guess the aid's coming in from Cyprus, is where they take it into. And so they said that the construction began Thursday, and that even though they were firing, Gazans were firing mortars at the pier.

it was unaffected by the attack.

Now this is where a lot of the Conflict in some of the reporting comes from because some agencies say, Well, this was Hamas that attacked the peer. Others say, No, it was just a random Gazan group that attacked it. Nobody knows. Mm-mm. I don't know.

But they said that they were unaffected by the attack. There were some mortars that landed in the vicinity of this area, and this is, you know, this is the delivery site, that's where it came in. They said no troops were on the ground in Gaza. And aid agencies have already been expressing concerns about Their safety. They're like, we have no idea how this is going to be safe.

Because you they keep getting bombed by Gazans. And so they said that they're trying to still finalize how the security and and aid deliveries themselves are going to be negotiated. And they want to make sure that aid workers aren't harmed, et cetera, et cetera. This doesn't sound like it's g getting off to a great start, does it, Kane?

So now it's all that pier is coming under fire. Nobody was wounded, but I could have probably told you that this was a good idea or a bad idea. I think we all could have said, you know, this seems like it's going to be a bad idea if you try this. If you build this pier. In a war zone.

And you're demanding that the entity that was attacked provide aid to the entity that attacked it. And that just assumes that this aid is going to go to the people who need it, which it doesn't, as we know, two times before it went into the hands of Hamas. It's always gone in the hands of Hamas, they run everything. And this was after that World Central Kitchen. the the Israeli airstrike.

And they said that uh They need Israel to ease obstacles and aid and to the delivery of aid.

Well, it hasn't been Israel that's been a pro. God lead these people. I'm just amazed at seeing some of the stuff that I'm seeing, not just in college campuses, but in commentary, period. It is truly stunning. Truly stunning.

And so I don't, I mean, I don't, maybe, maybe people could tell homostases fire. I mean, again, think of it. The terrorists are now attacking the entity that it attacked and is being forced to deliver aid to the entity that attacked it. You can't. You can't make this up.

You can't make this stuff up.

So yeah, they're getting fired upon. And officials say that the pier is going to be operational. by next month. For the delivery of aid.

So here's the question: then: What happens if aid starts coming through and they start attacking with more than just some mortars? Or what if the mortars strike, you know, you're as good as you is where you can land your punch? I mean, But what if the mortars actually do strike? uh troops, what if they strike American forces? What if we have American fatalities?

You know, what if they attack the people who are delivering aid? Because this, again, this is stunning to me. I don't know why they just don't go, why they don't scooch the whole damn thing down. and be off of Egypt's coast. and then go through Rafa.

And do aid that way. Why they gotta go right the smack dab in the middle of a damn war zone. This is stunning.

Okay. I don't know why they don't do it that way. Mm-hmm. Think about Just the logistics involved, and then you're in a you're in a war zone. Terrorists are firing rockets at you.

They're shooting at you. They're trying to bomb you. They're raining down mortars on you.

So what happens if if people they start getting fired on? Is IDF going to get a slammed if they defend themselves? What happens if it's American troops that aren't technically boots on the ground, but they're there helping to process and helping to deliver aid? And this again all is based on the presupposition that aid goes to the people who need it, which we all know it doesn't, because twice it has not. This is so stupid.

This is just, it's crazy. But this is what This is what they want. There's been new evidence challenging the Pentagon's version of events. about the attack. that took place at the Kabul airport and our eventual withdraw from Afghanistan?

So I can't I this is CNN, Kane. Yeah. The right leaning? CNN. It's well, the C and the CNN doesn't stand for the conservative news network, does it?

No, it sure doesn't.

Well, this is apparently new evidence that they found that undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which released last week into that ISIS suicide attack outside the Kabul airport during the twenty twenty one withdrawal. And it was You know, it was the attack that left thirteen dead. 170 Afghans who were trying to flee. the Taliban takeover of Kabul. And remember, We had moved from Bagram Air Force Base, which was not in the middle of a high-density city center.

And it was more easy to protect, more easy to control entrance and exit. We m we left Bagram. and then relocated to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul. And it was just I mean, it was impossible to, it was impossible to secure it. It was impossible to even get people.

There and out safely. It would have been better for them to have left through the background Air Force Base. And I'm and that comes by way of people who have been over there and who know the area, who actively served there, have been in both places. Everybody that I know who had ever served in Afghanistan and has been at Bagram and is familiar with Hamid Karzai, I've not heard a single one go, why? Oh, yeah, it was way better that they went to Kabul.

They are all stunned. They're like, they could have easily, people who needed to get out would have had an easier time actually going to Bagram, they said, and then having Ex-Fil there as opposed to trying to leave through the chaos that was Hamid Karzai International Airport.

So remember the claim from the Pentagon was that it was one explosion, right? They insisted that it was a singular explosion. And that troops that reported coming under fire. And returning it, they were confused in the aftermath, etc.

Some apparently had blast concussion, obviously. But There was video. Captured by a marines. GoPro camera. that has not been seen publicly in full before.

And it shows there was a lot more going on than the Pentagon apparently ever admitted. And they said that It wasn't just onesies and twosies. It was a mass volume of gunfire.

So they took fire. And now they're saying that uh There's a lot of people are challenging the credibility of the Pentagon in this. I mean, basically, they left our servicemen there to deal with. Total chaos. And it was not Well managed, and the officers on the ground were doing the best that they could.

But remember, they also had their hands tied, rules of engagement, all that. And they said that the scene outside the airport's Abbey gate was the was gruesome even before the blast. And that the Afghans who assisted the near 20-year NATO presence had a wade in trash and knee-deep sewage. There was that drainage canal right before that Abbey gate. And that this little walkway went over.

And it was like a moat of sewage. Wild, just wild. If you look at Ariel of Kabul, of that Harmi Karzai airport in Kabul. you can see how crazy it is and how densely populated the area is around it. And so I kind of feel like the CNN piece is also trying to lay some blame on our service members by saying that well, by intimating that maybe they shot some people because of the chaos following the blast.

But it also sounds like they came under fire from terrorists, including an explosion. I don't know. Am I reading too much into that, Kane, and assuming that? Because I kind of feel like they're trying to point fingers at our servicemen. No, no doubt.

As a matter of fact, I think that's what they lean on in order to shelter themselves from the responsibility they clearly shoulder. Because I get the impression from this piece, although reading between the lines in this piece, I'm getting something else. But I feel like they're trying to defend the administration by casting aspersion on the character of the service members on the ground, but then trying to act like they're giving them, you know, an out by saying, well, you know, it could have been just, you know, blast, concussion, or confusion after the explosion. But, you know, they, but there were some civilians that were shot by whom? Because one of the things that apparently also came out is that they were not, it wasn't just an explosion from terrorists, they were being fired at by terrorists.

See And you wonder why people aren't enlisting. Because you're Incompetent military leaders who haven't won a war since. Send their people out to To the meat grinder like this with zero support. Strict ROE. And they make them endure and implement horrific, horrific operations.

Where there's not really a clear objective. They increase. the likelihood of terror attacks and casualties. Because of They don't understand logistics. They don't understand tactic.

They don't understand strategy. And you wonder why people don't want to enlist because of stuff like this. Afghanistan literally is like the avatar for. Decreased enlistment. It's why, I mean, good grief.

It's one of the worst ops I've ever seen. And I'm a civilian. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Man, this is the worst disguise I've ever seen.

A Florida man in Tampa decided to put on his best dress to go and steal himself a boat on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Clades County Sheriff's Office. Just after 3 p.m., deputies were investigating a stolen boat in the Old Calusa Lodge in Lakeport. They said deputies were surveying the area, Kane, and they spotted the suspect, identified as Joshua Kolkota, at 33 years old. He left his house as a lady to disguise himself. He did not want to be caught by the police.

And he was arrested for the stolen boat, the theft of a John Deere Gator vehicle. And uh he was out he also had two warrants out on his name. And uh he They're working with the Seminole Police to help identify some of these other stolen items. He is in the worst wig ever, and that dress is heinous. Let's put that out there.

That is one ugly man. Unconvincing. I don't know if Juan can put that picture up on the screen.

Well, Juan's getting it. I mean, that haircut is heavy and is in need of some serious layering. I am not convinced. And what is up with them icy highlights? Like, what?

I don't, I don't, man, I don't know. That's it. If you're going to try to dress as a woman to disguise yourself, like, be convincing. You know, like, we ain't asking for a lot. A Florida man passed out in the turn lane, starts singing to the radio, and he's arrested for suspected, really, you think, D-U-I?

Also, in Tampa. Florida man was found passed out behind the wheel of his truck in the middle of a turn lane and Marion County Sheriff's Office, when they arrived on the scene, he broke into song. David Boost, he was unresponsive when they first got there, and then as they as they awoke him. He began to sing along to the radio and quote showed signs of impairedness. Really?

Deputies ordered him out of the truck. They asked him, This is the best. No, it's not. It's bad, but it's funny. They asked him to get out of the truck, and they go, How much did you have to drink that night tonight?

And he said, quote, not enough. The deputy responded, I would disagree with that. When they asked him to perform a field sobriety test, he denied and he refused to provide a breath sample at the jail, but he was clearly inebriated. And yeah, it didn't go well for him. We have our third hour on the way.

We got culture, we got some stuff in DC, we got 2024 November. Stick with us. And by not taking it on an expedited basis, sort of taking it under regular order here, they've already created a significant delay here that means that this election case, however they rule, can't go to trial probably before the fall. And now we come to exactly what they're considering here, which is the question of whether a president has absolute immunity. And then there's a second question here, which is whether anything that Donald Trump is accused of would actually constitute a president, a presidential act implicated in the immunity question.

Yeah. Just making sure you're okay. Do you need, is everything okay when you hear someone yelling? Yeah, it's fine. We have a heckler here.

Yeah, you know, I've got to say, they obviously have been following the David Packer testimony. They're yelling fake news. And they obviously want viewers to know that Donald Trump lied about JFK's assassination, tried to blame Ted Cruz. He's yelling fake news also because Donald Trump lied along with David Packer. He's so worked together to lie about King's dying because there was a troll that literally just rolled the whole MSNBC morning show crew.

Mm. Hahaha That guy, God, thank you. What exactly was he saying?

Something fake news. Yeah, you're fake news. You're fake news. At first, I didn't know what he was saying when I heard it. I'm like, what is he saying?

Yeah, you're a fake news. The truth is painful. to the media. And they were just like going on, trying to act like he wasn't back there. That guy, I feel like, deserves.

Deserves a medal, really. You know, I just, first off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Uh we are at the Top of this third hour. And apparently we got tornadoes rolling through Texas.

It's super easy. to be on air and focus when you got all your kids out there in tornado land. Let's go! But uh anyway, so everybody be safe out there, right? And this I was thinking about this.

You know, if you can listen to the show, by the way, Coast to Coast, you can stream it, simulcast, which you're watching if you're watching the simulcast, simulcast of the radio show, you can catch on 347 Direct TV, X, all the other platforms. I really You know how some people you can get stickers made up? Or, like cards made up, or how people put ducks on people. What is that? When people put ducks on people's cars, have you guys seen that?

What is that? It's like a thing. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. Yeah.

I got it. 'Cause I it's not a Jeep thing either. I don't think. Like, apparently, okay, so well, maybe it's just a jeep thing. Apparently, if you get a duck.

It is a show of respect for your car from another Jeep owner. Jeep owners have their own world. Yeah, that's true. There's like, you do the Jeep Wave and all this stuff. They have their own thing.

And I love it because I Google this and somebody goes. Why do people keep putting ducks on my car? Usually it's like nice rigged s it it is a jeep thing. It's it's called jeep ducking. Really?

It is. You know what, Kane? Be careful when you say that. We got a lot of bad things that are happening in this world.

So, if somebody, if a grown man wants to place a rubber dock on another grown man's Jeep. Let him.

Okay, let him do an act of kindness. Let the bras have their moment, okay? Although this sounds like a chick thing, if I'm being real. Like, I don't care if y'all guys do it. But y'all guys did not come up with this.

This is a chick that did this. Yeah, it seems like it.

Now, is there a law? That it would violate? I don't know. There's no issue with this. Apparently, they are badges of pride.

for the Jeep folks. I used to have a Jeep. I had to cheat for a long time. Uh and you you put them on the dash for other people who drive Jeeps to see.

So if you get ducked, Then you put the duck on your dashboard. It's like a Got it. Yeah, it's like a, I don't know. It's like one of them sticks that's like us getting a booket sticker, right? How many books you read, how many ducks you got, right?

Something like that. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if someone leaves A duck on your Jeep. It's like if it's, it means you've been ducked and somebody likes your Jeep and wanted to make you smile.

Kane's favorite topic is the ducking. No, it isn't. It's called ducking, jeep ducking. Just be.

Okay. Have we not exhausted? No, it's a new word. We're learning it today. It's educational.

This thing? Yeah. We haven't exhausted this yet? No, we haven't.

Okay. And apparently, sometimes if you sell your Jeep. The ducks go with it. Oh really? That's a new one.

I didn't know. Is that Kelly Blue Book? Like, it adds value? I don't know, but can I also say that if you've got all the ducks up in your dash? You're, I'm gonna immediately assume that you are a hoarding cat lady with like 50 cats.

and you're a hoarder. Because it looks something like hoarders would do. Have you seen the images of it? of like a million people that have like a million ducks in their in their I can afford to give a damn. Windshield?

They could afford to give a duck or two. It just looks like you look like a hoarder. I mean, a couple is okay, but you don't need it from end to end lined up. That's a little much. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. That seems like that's a lot. And you can't take turns at that point, or they're falling out the side. Yeah, but I don't know. But yeah, if you get a little duck like that, that's what it means.

And they're actually called Jeep Ducks. People pay to get this done. Anyway. I would do this with like little inexpensive metals.

So if I see someone Being like the real MVP that day, I would give them like a great job citizen medal. You know what I'm saying? Like that guy, I'd be like, sir, sir, can I speak to you for a moment? And then on my phone I would play like uh some award music. like pomp and circumstance or something like that.

And as that played, I would bequeath the individual, I would lay the metal around their neck. Great job, sir. It's your citizenship medal. Good citizenship. And I'd walk away.

Maybe Olympic style theme. Yeah. Putting the metal right on my phone. I like it. I don't know how many meta, because it's not often, but every now and then I see something where I'm like.

Yeah. Good job. And it's usually something like this. But yeah, that guy out there. Oh, fake news.

And he just rolled the whole morning show there. He got Joe Scarborough. All upset. And Joe Scarborough had to like like he was talking like that dude could hear him. Only?

Well, I just this guy's probably upset because they'll talk lied.

So Like the dude could hear him. Yeah, dude couldn't hear him. Come on. This is ridiculous. Y'all.

So it looks ridiculous.

So anyway, I'm just saying, I I would like They have like a citizenship and you know you could put them on your rearview mirror. When you get one. Right. Right? Yeah, like, and you're walking in a parking lot and you see one of those metals, and you go, wait a second, you double-take.

That person performed a good deed. That's a good citizenship medal.

So I'm just saying, I I'd probably do Or like that union worker? Audio we played yesterday, and the guy was like, You know, what would you tell Joe Biden? He's like, Yeah, I'd tell him to blah, blah, blah. I can't even say it. Be like, sir.

Then play the music. lay the metal around his around his head. You're a good citizen.

Well done, sir. That's it, right? A good deed deserves a good recognition. Dost thou agree, Radioland? Yes.

I'm actually not even joking. I think I actually want to do this. We should always acknowledge good deeds, that's how we get more good deeds. Yeah, but I'm one of the kids who has to have a sticker in order for it to count. Like, I need.

I need a visible measure of it so I can not brag personally. but it can look like it's something, you know? Just you know what I mean? Like if it's if you can see it, I don't need to brag about it. It's like all the emblems and stuff that you get with Dark Tide, right?

You get your skull frame if you kill like however many hundreds of thousands of bad dudes, and I got a skull frame, right? I don't need to brag that I've killed a lot of stuff. I got my skull friend that does it for me.

So, see, that's what the metal does, it does it for you. Speaking of metals, I wasn't going to go this route. Sart Juan's like, great, what is she doing now? Does she give me this element? Do I have these assets?

I'm sorry. Let me pull this up. It just made me think of it. I ended up saving it because I thought maybe. I'll talk about this.

Maybe I won't.

Some of those things that I saved. Uh I'm like, well, if I talk about it, it'll be on a Friday when it's a little more cash.

So that ginger Harold. From uh Britain. The guy who comes over here and acts like he's Prince, I don't know. That you know what I'm talking about. Winge and ginge.

Prince Harry? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Winge and ginge. Him and his briefcase girl. Anyway.

So he Presented a Soldier of the Year award to U.S. Combat Medic. And he said I I don't understand why we're having a British dude Give an award to a US Soldier. That was weird to me. But then he did this cringe video.

Well, we don't need to play it, but if Wands freezes it, we'll show you. Where he was standing, according to the Daily Mail, he was standing at the back door of his Montecito mansion, his olive garden McMansion. Yeah. And uh he was wearing all his little Metals on his thing, you know, like the North Koreans do. All his little medals on his thing.

I don't even know what they're all for. He had a whole line of them. I'm like, why are you doing? You're like British. No offense.

You know, I love my British friends, but like, you're in the U.S. and you're giving an award to a You're a British dude. You're giving an award to a US soldier. And I guess it was because the person who won it participated in the Invictus games, which is something that he does. And I don't understand these.

Like, apparently, his wife out there is out there selling crappy jam. He's with all of his medals. We're watching. You guys can't see it, but we're watching now. You guys can't watch it.

See, he's got all his medals there. He's British. That's his back porch of his Montecito Olive Garden Mansion. Unlimited stick. And he's there giving an award to a U.S.

soldier. Is that weird? Or am I being just, or am I allowing my extreme dislike of him? It's weird and I think it has to do with him wanting to Americanify himself. Yeah, but he doesn't bring his Brit stuff over here to do it.

I agree with that 100%. Boy those metals look impressive though, didn't they? Like the North Koreans do. You know. Just where they they have all their blame.

The North Koreans treat their they treat their medals like a flare. At TGI Friday, right? Like how many pieces of flare do you have? Or like uh office space, right? How many pieces you have to have eight pieces of flare?

And his wife. who desperately wants to get into politics. It's been she created give me indulge me for a moment indulge me. She created this stupid company that has a weird name. And She's selling crappy looking jam with labels improperly attached to it.

And she's has been giving people baskets of wilted flowers, bruised lemons, and bad jam. And that's like her thing. She doesn't even have any products, but she came out with a company. I get Hunter Biden vibes from these two. Like major Hunter Biden vibes.

Maybe, you know, they're not total.

Well, he's, he, maybe she isn't, but he did. You know, maybe Snorton crack off a hooker's backside. I don't know. That's there's a joke in there. But It seems this is so cringe.

It's so cringe. They need to stop trying so hard. But anyway, if you guys didn't, if you guys missed the story, they were trying to get information about whether or not he was even eligible to be in the United States because of his past admitted drug use, and the administration blocked questioning from it. Because he's special. See, he's special.

S P E S H U L special. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So I thought pandas were like funny because they're total funny chaos whenever you look on social media, right? If you see anything about pandas that come up, that's usually what it is. This is a story out of China where apparently Pandas attacked a zookeeper in front of screaming onlookers. The pandas were in towards the zookeeper. She appeared with snacks.

One of them bit her ankles, knocked her to the ground. Then they were climbing over her, burying her underneath them. They're pawing at her head. She's rolling side to side, trying to get them off, not happening. And they say, well, these are highly unusual.

So they had to have another. A zookeeper go in and help her. But yeah, was it the snacks? Like, what was it? Because aren't they supposed to be friendly?

I don't know, they're adorable looking. Aren't they supposed to be friendly? I think they're bears. Yeah, but they're pandas. Yeah, but they're bears.

Yeah, but they're pandas though. Can someone explain to me why this happened or how? Nestle destroyed 2 million Perrier bottles because fecal bacteria was discovered in one of its wells. Oh no. There's a, they said.

Literally, this article starts with: it's the Ivy Times. If you've had a gold class of period recently, not to alarm you, there's a big chance that you probably drank some fecal bacteria. French officials demanded that they stop using one of their wells in Gaudes, south of France, due to contamination concerns. That's so gross. Again, I just, I like good old Zarka water.

I like, or if I have to, aquapana or Fiji. I just I need to know if it's human or animal. What are they talking about? Does it matter? Yeah, because the difference would be a human's pooping in the well.

Is that what's happening? That's France. I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, I don't know. Who knows?

Scientists forge an impossible material, a metal alloy with unmatched strength and toughness in all temperatures. It's actually pretty cool. They said that it's. Researchers in the US, it's super strong and tough. They can retain these properties at both extremely low and high temperatures, which is unusual.

Composed of a bunch of stuff I can't say, and also titanium. And it's great for aerospace engines and other things that are awesome. I mean, do you want me to tell you what it is? Niobium, tantalodum, pifhanium?

Sounds like adamanta. Yeah, it's basically that. It's it. It's made of Wolverine stuff. That's all you guys need to know.

All right.

City removes and preserves a Chicago rat hole after. After complaints from the neighbors. It's in an infamous rodent-shaped sidewalk dent that was removed and preserved this morning. And it's called the Chicago Rat Hole. It's valuable to those people that live there.

They don't got a lot in Chicago with all the crime and all that stuff.

So let the people have their damn rat hole, okay? Let them have it. It first went viral in January and they made a makeshift shrine because that's what people do, including a frame photo of it, a cardboard coffin and coins strewn across the sidewalk. People literally would wait in line down the block to see it. Chicago.

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We're all supposed to be dead because of net neutrality.

So I don't know why we're all still here. Let's go to our next guest on this. He's an expert on it, and he has graciously given us a get out of jail free card, Brendan Carr, who's a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, previously general counsel for the FCC. And of course, we have the passage of this plan for the administration.

Now that's basically an internet takeover. Brendan Carr, you've, first off, it's very good to see you. You've talked about this quite a bit. But I mean, I joke about it, but I mean, really, all of the hyperbole that was sold about net neutrality, we didn't die. We were fine without it.

Now it's being reinstated. And talk to us about this because this is a huge power grab from the administration. It's the government putting its hands on the scale, essentially. Yeah, good to be with you. Look, this is a power grab.

pure and simple. And it's a story about two things. It's about 20 years. And it's about 117. Seconds, for 20 years, there's bipartisan consensus, Republicans and Democrats alike, that the government should keep its hands off the internet.

It should thrive. by the statute unfettered by federal regulation, 20 years. All of that changed in 117 seconds when President Obama. Cut a YouTube video demanding that his then FCC chairman. Flip on this issue back in 2014.

And since then, it's just been a matter of religion for the left. Whenever there's a president of their party, they go back to government control. And to your point, we were told end of the internet as we know it. Speeds are up. Prices are down.

We're connecting right here without net neutrality being back, something we couldn't have done back in 2014.

So it's just all about government control. Yeah, they keep saying that, oh, it's not about the government regulating prices, but I don't know how else you could You could say that it that it isn't. I mean you're literally regulating the price of what broadband providers are allowed to charge consumers and high volume customers. I mean that's exactly it is the exact definition of regulating price. Yeah, it's full-on regulation.

Title II was designed by the Roosevelt administration to regulate the Mobile Copperline telephone monopoly. It's complete regulation. And even if they don't do rate regulation here, We've already seized that authority. Remember, last year there was this digital equity order for the internet where we do expressly bring pricing into the FCC's jurisdiction.

So whether they do it here or there, the point is they have that power and there's just no reason for it. They tell us, well, we need this for internet privacy. No, you don't. The Federal Trade Commission already has. Full privacy regulations.

They say, well, we need it for national security. We don't need it for national security. We don't even have expertise in that area that Title II would help us get across the finish line.

So the goalposts keep moving. They can't say end of the internet anymore because people aren't going to buy it this time. But now they say cybersecurity and national security. But yeah, it's just about getting the government more power. I love the little name that they give it to as a way to sort of bait people into thinking it's very benign.

Net neutrality. Oh, it sounds so, you know, what's, it sounds so innocuous. It's neutral. It's part of the name of it, but it does anything but that. I know that there's going to be challenges to this.

You are, are you going to be one of the commissioners testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Telecom Subcommittee that's, I think, coming up on May 7th? I'll be up there, yep, yep, we'll be up there. And so this. How can this be repealed? Is this going to be taken act of Congress?

Can it be challenged? Or is it just kind of a done deal? Yeah, this will ultimately get overturned.

So it's going to go to court, the various providers that are regulated by it. And whether it's the appellate court or the Supreme Court, this is going to get overturned. You know, these courts have been increasingly skeptical of agency overreach, particularly now that we have Justice Kavanaugh and others up on the Supreme Court. He's the author of something called the Major Questions Doctrine, which is to say: look, we shouldn't assume that an agency, unelected like the FCC, has power that Congress, Where the Constitution puts legislative power, just inadvertently gave us power and no one really knew about it. But we just looked at the 1996 Telecom Act, and all of a sudden we found power almost 30 years later that lets us regulate the internet.

So, because courts are more skeptical of these claims, I'm very confident this is gonna get overturned. In fact, President Obama's former top lawyers at DOJ filed in our proceeding and said, look, we love net neutrality, but this thing is dead on arrival in the courts.

So that's most directly where this will end up. Thank heavens. I'm happy for that. The other issue that you're joining us to discuss about talking with FCC's Brendan Carr is the TikTok issue, the forced sale. If, unless, unless TikTok or ByteDance appeal this, which I think that they are expected to do, I can't imagine, I would just be actually shocked if this works in favor of them selling it.

Because it just, I don't see that happening. I wanted to get your response to that being passed and what you expect ByteDance or CCP or TikTok, it's all the same thing, what you expect them to do. Yes, look, the CCP made a bet, and they thought that they could use TikTok to spy on Americans, to take our data back to members of the CCP in Beijing, and that the U. S. wouldn't have the capacity or resolve To do something.

And so I'm really glad that we did. What TikTok and their parent are saying now is they're going to go to court. That's the first step. They're going to try to challenge the law. They're not going to win, in my view.

And then to your point, what do they do?

Well, right now they're saying they're not going to sell it, that they would rather shut it down in the U.S. than sell it, which is funny because they unleashed their millions of followers into Congress and use them as human shields to try to block this bill saying we care about our users. And now they're saying, actually, you know, we care about the CCP more. than those users.

So we're going to leave you high and dry if it comes down to it. But there's still a lot to play out. Maybe that's posturing. We'll see. Yeah.

And for the people who don't understand how important this is, because I've had, I mean, these are actual conservatives that have told me, well, you know, I understand, you know, if it's a government official, but they don't really have anything to get on me. I mean, there's nothing that I'm, that they would find valuable with my information, but that's not the point, is it? Because I feel as though all of this information is designed to inform. Maybe I'm not trying to be tinfoil hat wearing, but to me, it sounds like they're trying to. Just organize this giant psyop operation.

It doesn't matter if you're not a government official. Are you on Facebook? Are you on social media? Do you take part in politics? Then you're susceptible to the information that they would take, weaponize, and use against you to drive division.

I mean, that's a great psychological warfare tactic that they seem to be familiar with, and yet too many people here aren't aware of. Yeah, it's a couple of things. It's espionage, which is surveillance, all this data going back. It's foreign influence. And as you pointed out, once they have this detailed data, location, face prints, search and browsing, keystrokes on 170 million Americans, imagine what they can do with that data.

For one, they can train their own AI, which is sort of the next frontier of this, but they also have such a granular, clear picture of America that they can use it for all sorts of nefarious purposes. Yeah, that's a very good point.

Well, we're going to be watching how all of this unfolds. I mean, it's, we're in really, we're in such a weird time right now. I was, I keep talking about that Mission Impossible, the latest Mission Impossible film, which has, you know, the weaponized AI and they're in the middle of a conflict. And it actually, it's all AI driven, not to give any of it away. But I kind of feel like we're past the cusp of that, but too few people in government are really aware of it.

One last quick thing. What do people need to be looking out for as these two issues separately, the TikTok issue, and then, of course, Net neutrality go forward. What should just average everyday Americans be looking for as this proceeds? Yeah, continue to weigh in because these are sort of isolated decisions, you could say. But if you step back again, it's all part of a broader plan by the Biden administration, in my view, just keep exercising more and more control over the internet.

So we have to stay very, very vigilant and not just look at these each as sort of isolated pinpricks. The whole mosaic here is concerning. I think we got to try to turn the tide on that. And that starts in the courts. Absolutely.

Brendan Carr with the FCC. Always so good to see you. Thank you for weighing in on this and giving us the latest. We appreciate it. Thank you.

Thanks very much. Of course. And it is. I've heard from so many people who are, you know, they're like-minded individuals and they say, well, we're not. And a lot of them, not like I'm pointing fingers at anybody out in our audience, but there's some people in our audience that have actually reached out and said, well, what does it matter?

If they're tracking my information, you know, I'm not doing anything of importance, what does that matter? You don't think that you're doing anything of importance. But as you heard him discuss, and one of the things that I've been looking at is. You can be weaponized yourself and turned into this little divisive, little divisive bomb just by nature of being involved, for instance, in your civic participation, being involved in politics, speaking out on social media, because if you're information Can be used to construct a psyop operation by the CCP, they don't have to fire a single thing, they don't have to worry about any kind of invasion, they don't have to worry about any kind of war, they don't have to worry about munitions and supplies and resourcing. If all they have to do is focus on an opponent and get them to divide and take each other side out, that's what this is.

I mean, if you see some of the stuff that trends on TikTok for Americans and you see some of the topics that are pushed, and if you look at some of the bot accounts that are out there, just a handful of them, it's all about driving division and getting people to fight with each other. And a lot of it's on bunk information, but it doesn't matter because if it's said once online and is repeated, it becomes. A practicing fact. Whether it's a real fact, that's irrelevant. It's a practicing fact, and it can be used in informational warfare.

And so that's ultimately what this is. And so people are at each other's throats, and it's and you might think that, well, You know, I couldn't be weaponized. You can be. I mean, good grief. I've seen it.

I've seen people arguing with each other over fake stuff all the time. And there's always a flurry of bought accounts. That's one of the things that I didn't like about the engagement, the monetization of engagement on X that Musk is now changing because he realized, oh gosh, this is bad, because it benefited that kind of stuff. You could say, you could throw a bomb out there, something that's intentionally provocative and super stupid and divisive, and people are making so much money on it. And it was a lot of these fake accounts that were doing it.

Now he's taking that away because, you know, it makes sense. It was a trial and error.

Now he realizes it's not going to work. But I just don't think that people understand that in a digital age where information is currency, factual information particularly is currency, it's never been more important to be hyper-aware in a digital space. That awareness isn't just practical for meat space. It's required for the digital space as well. I mean, that's what I would do.

That's very Sun Tzu, you know, to get your opponent to take it. To take themselves out without you having to fire a single shot. The weaponization of technology is just the latest, it's just a modern Sun Tzu application, and too many people are unaware of it. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. And what we have learned is that the IRS, in fact, has been using AI to access bank accounts of American citizens without any kind of a search warrant or even without any specific claim that they have committed a crime.

So this was something that was discovered by an undercover journalist, and what they found is that the IRS has claimed that they have access to every single person's bank account. This person also indicated that they've been working with the Department of Justice and that they have absolutely no problem whatsoever going after the little guy to make sure that they are paying their taxes. This is such a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment that we have, Jim Jordan and I sent a letter to the IRS demanding that they provide additional information about what they are doing with AI and what they are doing to protect the civil rights of American citizens.

So that's Wyoming's Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, who I was looking at this letter that she had sent from the Judiciary Committee with Chairman Jim Jordan on this, because that's the. I mean, that's what they've been saying, is that they're using AI to access your bank account. Without any kind of search warrant, without any even indication or any reason to justify suspicion that you've. committed any kind of crime at all whatsoever. I mean, it is we're entering into a very Or Wellian nineteen eighty-four Huxley and Brave New World scenario here.

With all of this. And they said that. They were only using, and this was September of last year, the IRS was insisting that it was only using AI to, quote, help IRS compliance teams better detect tax cheating and identify emerging compliance threats and improve case selection tools.

Now that's what they'd said. They'd said that that's all we're using it for. We're not using it for anything else. We're not using it for any kind of nefarious. Purpose.

They said it's just about restoring fairness. Really restoring fairness. I mean, I'll take you back to what Charles Payne and I talked about first hour: how they're actually going to tax, they want to tax unrealized gains disproportionately so that they can. Give preferential treatment and what they solve racial disparity, racial economic disparity through the taxation of unrealized gains.

So it's the white tax. You got your syntax, you got your white tax. Or is that a syntax too? Yeah, so. Good grief.

So don't don't talk to us about fairness. And remember those eighty seven thousand agents, you know, they had to hire all of them for something.

So that's one thing to keep an eye on. The other thing, too, just to share this story.

So, you guys remember we played this audio of this one. Colombia protester who was talking about how they'd kill a Zionist or whatever. And anyway, he was saying that Zionists don't deserve to live in this video. And he had he did an interview. Thursday night, where he repeatedly declined to apologize for the video.

And CNN just left that out of the reporting. I mean, apparently, he told CNN that he meant it and he wasn't going to apologize for it. And They just, um didn't include it and the original story was found out. They didn't include it in their original reporting. Consider how they've reported everything else.

They decided that this wasn't, they weren't going to include this in their reporting. Oh, man alive. Media malpractice. I I don't know. They and and the headline was What the pro-quote-unquote Palestinian protesters on college campuses actually want, and they did not include his refusal to apologize in it.

But Wait a minute, I thought Yeah, you thought wrong. Yea, our media. No wonder people don't trust them. I don't know. Maybe the weekend will be better.

All right, today and stupidity came. Yeah, we can only hope. All right, our President of the United States is. Ashley Biden's shower? Yeah.

Um anyway, he is talking to uh Coward Stern about the um Well, I don't think he actually said anything truthful to them during that interview. This is the one I'm talking about. This is the one he said. He was runner-up in state scoring for football. For example, I remember starting off playing Catholic League football, say See Way of football.

By the way, I don't think a lot of people know that you were a star receiver in high school. A star receiver. You were like the first string guy. You were the guy who caught the ball. Runner up a state scoring.

We got two old men, one of them an old woman and an old man. and they're very confused. Clearly, very confused about stuff. Number one in state scoring, huh? I mean, at least all bundies, you know.

football stats were real. Runner up and stay.

Okay. Good grief.

Folks, that does it for us today. I will be back. Maybe I'll let you know on Facebook, Federal Jury Duty, behind the mic on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe in tornadic weather.