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real and these decisions These very personal, intimate decisions are now being made by nine unelected judges, one of whom flies his flag upside down. The other one One of the others drives around in a $267,000 gift. on vacations. And I think we are all wondering what we can do about this. Elect me.

Again, I'll tell you why. You know, I'm not just saying. The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees. Two more. Two more.

He's already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. The idea that if he's reelected, he's going to appoint two more flying flags upside down is really I really mean it. Could this be the scariest part of all of it?

Well, I think it is one of the scariest parts of it. Look, the Supreme Court has never been as out of kilder as it is. I think you have a responsibility not to not to like freak people out. when you're in these you know, when you're in elected office, I think that you have a responsibility to not you know, completely freak out people and you know, all this stuff and and when you're talking about Supreme Court and when you're talk because the stuff that he's saying there, especially as it pertains to what I mean, do we didn't we talk about was this last week that we talked about this? And they're still going on about it?

The whole um uh flying the flag and all of that stuff with uh Uh, the justices and their excuse their way to keep trying to go at. At uh Packing the court. I mean, I think you have A responsibility to be honest about what you're talking about because what he just was getting into there is. wasn't wasn't honest about it.

So for gosh this is I can't I gotta talk about this stupid This stupid press confere or the his fundraiser that he had. I don't want to talk about it. I'd rather I'd rather talk about anything but. I'd rather talk about video games and anime and grill and meat. And instead I gotta talk about this.

Old ass decrepit dude. I'm just saying, forgive me. I'm a little crabby about it. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you.

Top of this first hour. It's Monday. And we'll get you set up for the week. Joe Biden had a big swanky fundraiser where he had to have Barack Obama come out and help him. Did you guys see some of those?

This is bad. I mean, this was on the heels of uh all of this stuff coming out of um G7, when the leaders were saying, Oh, Biden doesn't look really healthy. He doesn't look really good.

Well, no, he doesn't look really good because he's. He's it's about mental acuity. It's all about mental acuity. He's not all the way there. It's pretty obvious.

And it just, I think they think that it helps to have a bunch of people around him, but I think you're just comparing Biden to other people. But he was at this. This is audio zone by two. Watch this because this was Obama helping. Him off the stage.

Like he just, Biden just sort of froze up. He got on the stage. And even you can see even as Biden's walking, or Obama's walking him out. He still isn't like moving well. I'm just, again, body language.

I could watch this ad nauseum. He just doesn't, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good, does it? It does not look good. It does not look good.

He's on the stage and he just sort of stood there and he didn't do anything. Everybody else is waving. You know, they're looking, they're pointing at people. There's a minder that's standing there by Biden, and then Obama's like, oh my gosh, Joe's not moving.

Okay, let's let's move you, Joe. Yeah, I and you and you have to know how bad that looks. I and the fact that Yeah, it's just bad. Hey, buddy, we got some ice cream over here. We got some ice cream.

Let's go get some ice cream. We can walk over this direction. Yeah, I just saw a uh uh pony soldier over here. Let's go. Let's go look at 'em.

You remember what they were like when they campaigned together in 08. Right. I remember. It's different. It's a different dynamic now.

It is different, is it not? That is different. He does not look good. And then you got this. This is Mitch Landreau, whose ex-wife, or ex-wife, his wife used to, it was, is the ex-governor of Louisiana.

Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landreaux.

Now, you see stuff like this, and you hear Biden's speech, and then you hear one of Biden's surrogates go out and say, well, and say this. Audio Assembly 3. Yeah, we're talking. I mean when this guy when his lips are moving he's lying and then when he tries to confuse when he tries to accuse somebody else of speaking improperly he can't keep two thoughts in his mind. I would encourage Americans to go listen to Donald Trump's full speeches and try to put that word spaghetti together and I wonder why anybody is questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity.

Donald Trump can't string two sentences together. What is this? This isn't this isn't about Trump, though. This is about Joe Biden, and it's about Joe Biden's inability to Like speak. and and talk and and uh walk around on stage.

and look normal while he's doing it. That's what this is all about. I mean I I get that he's got to go out there and he's got to stump for his guy. But To try to turn the tables on and say, oh, have you seen Trump? Trump was fine.

I mean, you can hate him all you want to, but he's not up there. dying when he's When he's giving an address, Kane, you saw him just talk over the weekend. I mean, he's not up there like flat, but he knows how to get off a stage. I don't want to make fun of Joe well. I go back and forth because I've never liked Joe Biden.

He's always been a very nasty person. He's been a nasty guy. For those of you who listen to the radio show or who watch the simulcast, because we're on X, we're on everywhere, some of you guys may not remember. How nasty he was. And I was a little bitty kid when he was in the Senate and he was going to Reagan.

But he was always, I mean, he was a jackwagon, Kane. How tell? You mean, I'm not the only one that remembers Biden being so ignorant, right? He was dismissive. He was.

He had a very sharp, curt attitude. He was um Like, of all of the good old boys, he was a good old boy. I have no other way to put it. He was even like that when asked about Obama before they became. You know, a team, so to speak.

Didn't it seem too when he was being asked? Because he ran against, he was in the primary. He was. He challenged him in the primary. But do you guys, I don't know if you remember, when he.

was running against Barack Obama in the Democrat primary. He was dismissive, and he walked on that stage as though. It was, everyone thought it was their turn. Like Hillary Clinton thought it was her turn. Joe Biden thought it was his turn for some reason.

And then it turned out everybody wanted it to be Barack Obama. And He just, I think that he was mad about having to play second fiddle to Barack Obama.

So they crafted this narrative that Joe Biden was this. Elder statesman, even though he didn't have this foreign policy experience. I mean, this is a guy who goes and he sits in his Senate office and he doesn't even write the legislation that he sponsors. Other, you have special interests and lobbyists that do that. He maybe glances over it, gives it a signature, but he's whining and dining most of the time.

And to act like this guy was some kind of upper, you know, elder statesman was, you know, he and he knew all about foreign policy is kind of a joke. And He went in when they first paired up I mean, it was very, it had all the feels of an arranged marriage, right? It was just very contrived. It was very clinical. And you could tell that there wasn't any real chemistry between the two of them as, you know, partners going into this.

Not to say that, you know, you had that with any on the Republican side, but it was real weird because they came from two different kinds of worlds. And then now, just watching Barack Obama kind of walk him offstage. He just, there's no animosity there. And for there to be no animosity there, that means neither of them view the other one as a threat. And Barack Obama is still a big fundraiser and a kingmaker in the Democrat Party.

And the simple fact that Joe Biden is still there, because it's all Barack Obama's handlers that are in his inner circle. If you've ever, if you've paid attention to the people that Biden's brought over in his camp, it's all holdovers from, it's all people from Obama's camp. It's kind of like his third term.

So he doesn't view, I mean, Joe Biden's just a vessel for his continued agenda. He doesn't view him as a threat. Joe Biden has no idea where he is. These debates are going to, golly, Is it elder abuse to watch? Is it elder abuse if we watch the debates?

That's a legitimate question. You're going to have to have like visiting angels on the side. You're going to have to like an IV of insure, whatever Booger Sugar Hunter Biden slams. We're going to talk more about that. But uh I got other stuff to get into as well.

So Anyway, he he collected $28 million there in in Hollywood. George Clooney, I think, wasn't he one of the hosts? Of this? I'm really curious as to if there were any sort of questions about George Clooney's wife's. remember she was the one who was advising the fake International Criminal Court as to issuing a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials for their arrest.

And I'm just wondering if that came up because they apparently got into a fight. Like Clooney apparently was screaming at Biden's people. And I read a thing over the weekend where it says that they made up, you know, because $28 million for your campaigns, you know, that's going to make up a lot, right?

So I guess they made up because they went ahead and had it and they had everybody there. Julia Roberts was there, a bunch of other people that haven't been in a lot of movies in a long time. They were all there. And it was. Just awkward.

I have sound bites from this too. It's just all of it is so unbelievably awkward. There's sound bites from this that we're going to get to. Also, looking at the border parole in place, Biden is planning to offer legal status to people who enter illegally if they've lived in the United States for a decade. This, according to CBS, they are making plans to announce one of the largest immigration relief programs in recent history, developing a policy.

that would offer this status to To hundreds of thousands of people living in the country without proper documentation, according to people have been telling this to media outlets. They said that the program, it would offer work permits and deportation protections to those who entered illegally. If they married US citizens and have been in the United States for 10 years, so it has nothing to do with merit. It's called their parole in place program. is what it's called.

I'm just gonna say it's just a little odd. Mean, there's no meritocracy here. It's are you married? Do you have a blood relative? That seems to be like the only thing that matters.

So they said no, no final decisions have been made. The White House spokesperson said that the administration was taking actions to address the broken system. That's just going to make it more broken. I don't know if you know how that works. In addition to that, Border Patrol has seized a whole bunch of, I love this, AK-47 style rifles.

Headed to transnational criminal organizations. AK-47 style? AK-47 style.

So they're probably like paintball guns that just, you know, identify as AK 47s. They said uh these but they did they did say I wonder how many of these rifles came from the uh the old ye old fast and furious program. The people arrested two individuals, including a 25-year-old. And they said Border Patrol searched the vehicle. They found all kinds of rifles, and they only found 30, they found 30 round magazines and a couple of pistols.

Honestly, I'm looking at it. I'm like, that's not a lot. Everybody's freaking out. They're like 25. 25 rifles.

You would not want to know what I have. I'm like, oh, that's all? That's it? Coming up, we got to talk about how Chuck Schumer. Can you imagine having a backyard grill out with Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren?

One of whom does not know anything about beer, nor does she know how to drink it, and Chuck Schumer, who thinks that you put cheese on raw meat. Yeah, we're gonna have this discussion. That was nasty. I would never Some people are not made to grill, and Chuck Schumer is one of them.

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So apparently everybody's broke and living in poverty in California. The unemployment rate, this is crazy. 20% of the state of California, it says, lives in poverty. And of course, they're blaming Democrat policies, which, you know, obviously. And of course, instead of changing course, they've decided to.

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Southwest Plain plunged within 400 feet of the ocean near Hawaii. This is terrifying. The flight. This was in April, but it's just coming out now. It says it came within 400 feet of slamming into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii in weather conditions that forced them to bypass a landing attempt.

They said it dropped at an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute before the flight crew pulled it up to avoid disaster. That's terrifying. They said that it was reported it adds to a whole bunch of safety incidents that caught the public's attention as airlines have ramped up flying since the pandemic. Of course, it's been a couple of years now. Half of travelers are now avoiding Boeing planes in the wake of safety incidents.

This is, they said customers are turning to search engines that exclude Boeing planes when they're searching for flights. They said half, as many up to half passengers are deliberately avoiding flying on Boeing plane. That's wild. I didn't even know that. Or, do you do that?

Do you like, do you just try not to get on a Boeing? I'm gonna start. Can I just be honest and say that I haven't cared? I haven't either. Not yet, but now I'm not sure.

I'm too busy trying to find how to not purchase things in China. That takes up all my time. The city made it illegal to advertise SUVs because the green agenda is so stupid. This is an actual thing that happened.

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Oh my gosh, this is so stupid. Can we just stop with it? Just stop with the whole thing. First off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

Bottom of this. bottom of this uh The heck hours is first hour. I feel like it's like a pre-Monday. I don't even know where that comes from. You can listen coast to coast, you can follow along.

Uh on online. Uh we we're over at X and Rumble and Channel 347, DirecTV, all that good stuff.

So that's Chuck Schumer. We're going to talk about his. Yeah. The way the man cannot grow meat here in a minute. But he's mad over the whole situation with the bump stock thing.

Guys, this is not, it was not a Second Amendment case, and this was not a case that was determined on a Second Amendment ground. I mean, you know. Congress They could technically write something. Uh, they could write something about this, they could write. A law banning bump stocks.

Although I don't know that that's, I think that would be litigated six ways to Sunday, and I don't know that it would ever, it would actually be successful. The issue is that This was a statutory authority. Uh fail on b on on the fault of the ATF. And it didn't have anything to do with the Second Amendment. And first off, I, you know, bump stocks, I think people don't know what they are.

I've fired with bump stocks many times, I think that they're just stupid. I think it's a waste of ammo. And I don't think the government should regulate them. That's also stupid. And, just like I think that pink camouflage is weird.

I mean, unless you're in strawberry shortcake land, well how does that help you, you know? Yeah. Same same same thing. You know, I'm right on that. I don't want to be hateful because I know chicks that wear pink camouflage, and I'm like, why do you do this?

Just put on an orange safety vest vest already. That's the s same. Just d go ahead and do it. Can we just talk about the grilling for a moment? I'm pulling this up.

This photo is disgusting. I didn't even read the text with the photo when I first saw this. The first thing I saw. was The photo. And Chuck Schumer.

Now he said in it, he's like, I've never, what did he say? He goes, we've lived in apartments our whole lives.

So this photo up, Juan's getting the photo up for you. He's like, we've lived our family's lived in an apartment building for all of our years, but he says that her daughter and her partner bought their house with a backyard. And for the first time, he said that they're having a a barbecue. with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill. I don't think you need to be that redundant with stuff.

You know, it's just you're grilling. You can just say you're grilling. And I was looking at his hamburgers because whenever somebody's at the grill, my first thing is I want to look at what you got on the grill, right? I want to look at what you got.

Now you can see Juan's putting it up there right now. He's got the hamburgers and he's got the hot dogs. And you know, got some decent grill marks on those burgs, or on the hot dogs. But then I want you to look at the hamburgers real closely here. I want you to very just real closely look at those hamburgers.

And I want you to tell me what you think is wrong with these hamburgers because he's got, I don't even know what kind of cheese that is on there. Is it it's not like a cheddar. Is it like a pepper jack? I don't know what it is. But he's got he's got these um These hamburgers, these these sad little gray burgers.

that he's got on there. And you know why they're sad and gray, guys, right? Because they're not cooked all the way. They're not cooked at all. Those are raw.

hamburgers that he's just slapping some cheese on. Kane, you're a man. You grill. At what point do you put the cheese on the berg, dude? Yeah, that's.

at the end. But When I first saw the picture, I'm like, well, there's no smoke coming off that grill at all. Like, is that real food? And then I zoomed in, and I'm like, oh my gosh, that is. Re not only is it real, but it's raw.

And why is there a slice of cheese on a thick raw patty? Like that. It just doesn't. Like, I can see the a like a really smash burger type thing where you throw the cheese on it. you know, when you sma after you smash it, whatever.

This? No, no, no. Did he take this down? Yeah, he did delete it. I was like, I can't find it anywhere anymore.

But what's forever? The internet. I'm I mean I'm just zooming in. Those are some raw Those are raw. That's raw.

That's so raw. That's so nasty, guys. Look at the pink and that that's just like they just oh. Ah Oh my gosh. Would you like to have nonstop diarrhea?

Well, then have Schumer's burgers. And he's got some thick cheese on that too. You gotta, dude, you gotta cook that. Who's told him to do this? This just makes my ovaries cry.

When you see a grown man who doesn't know how to deal with a grill, I don't care if you've lived, I feel like it's a skill whether you've lived in an apartment or not. Look, man, you don't get a pass on this. I don't care if you've lived on an apartment block your whole life. There are certain things that men know how to do. Right.

If you throw a man out in the wild of the lawn, and a man's never mowed a lawn, never been out, he'll know how to do it. That's just things that I as a woman take for granted that you men are you just know how to do. You're grilling stuff, man. You know how to do this. Go out there and grill it.

Throw him out there in the wilds of the deck. You know? They're going to know how to do it. He doesn't. He's an alien.

How do you not know how to do that? How do you golly, that burger's making me so sick. Would you eat that burger, Kane? In its current state in that photo?

Well, you know what he did. He cooked it long enough to just have the cheese melt, and then he's like, okay, I guess it's done. You know he did that. And it's not even melted. Barely the corners are bending on the cheese.

No, it's like, yeah, that's like some thick cheese that's not. It's two slices, it looks like he put on there. And those are pre-bought patties. Two slices of the battle. You can tell, can't you?

Those are pre-bought patties. Pre-bought, pre-formed, quarter-pound patties that he clearly. has not yet put a flame to. I mean, I'm looking real hard at this girl. I don't mean to spend so much time on this, you guys, but this is a very important part of American culture.

So we got to examine this. This is like one of the top stories of our lives. Is there a hint of flame under there anywhere? It looks like there could be a flame under there. Like, you can kind of see between the grates on the grill that you can see that there's a little orangey flame.

I mean, the grill, I can tell, hasn't been used that often, but it is dirty from the elements.

So it's been outside uncovered. I can tell by looking at it. But the grill itself isn't like a totally used grill, like I'm used to seeing. You know what I'm saying? And nobody smiles that big when your burgers aren't done.

This is not what happens.

Well, he said he said that he's lived in an apartment for all their lives. This is like what Elizabeth Warren does. Can you imagine him and Elizabeth Warren holding a barbecue? Can you imagine them holding a barbecue together? And that's a gas grill, isn't it?

There's no charcoal in that. Yeah, that's a gas grill. He mmm. I'm a little picky about that. You get all the heat without that flavor.

As someone, let me chime in here because as someone who lives in an apartment building in an urban area, you know how to do this already. I do, and I'm not the most manually masculine guy of all time. But if you were to see some people's reactions in the building trying to start a flame with no start, it's embarrassing. I love that Steve just said that. See, you can throw Steve in the wilds of the lawn.

And he immediately goes into dude mode. He's like, oh, no, we got to get this grill working. Nope, nope, them burgers. Don't you be slapping that cheese on them burgers, Chuck. Because them burgers ain't ready.

All you men here, you know it. It's just a thing. Like Just like you can throw women in a makeup store, or you can, you know, things like that, or throw women with some. We're just different. We're different.

But um, that I feel, oh man, can you would you imagine? It's Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer we're gonna have a Capital hell barbecue, guys You're gonna get food poisoning for sure For sure, food poisoning from them. The only reason, as a dad, I would ever take a picture of raw food on the grill is if I'm going to give you the picture of the finished cooked stuff from the grill. That never happened. We don't even know if those burgers ever had enough flame.

Are they all alive? I don't even know if they're alive. He may have killed his whole fame damn. From Salmonella. I don't even know.

Who knows? It's just so sad. I mean, you should first, you shouldn't be doing no meat like that. Nobody thought to tell him, Dad, take the cheese off the burg. He needs to worry more about botulism than bump stocks.

Oh my gosh, right? I just look: if you can't figure out how the hell to grill meat, you do not get to lecture me about what guns I can have or what accessories I can put on my guns. We ain't even g I could grill better than that.

Alright, so I had to get that off my is bothering me so bad. This man's never grilled.

Okay, also, and stupid, can I just point this out to you? This was an op-ed from the New York Times. The Surgeon General says he's calling for a warning label on social media platforms. The Vic Murthy. He says that the mental health crisis amongst young people is an emergency, and social media is an important contributor.

Oh my gosh, I'm already bored out of my mind with this thing. Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, well then, why are you letting your adolescents spend that much time on social media, mom and dad? Why do you feel like the government has to put a warning label? Are you that stupid of a parent? Oh my gosh, parents, this is a hot stove. We're going to have to put a warning label on it because you're too stupid and make your kids not touch a hot stove.

put a put a warning label on running out into the street. Audio sound by 20. Listen to this. This is the Surgeon General talking about this.

Well, here's how we're approaching it for our kids. My kids are young, and we're starting to have these discussions actually among parents in our school as well. But I would delay the use of social media for kids until at least after middle school. I would also, if your children are on social media, I would create tech-free zones in their day to protect sleep, in-person interaction, and physical activity. That could look like not allowing technology at the dinner table when you're eating together.

It could look like taking technology away one hour before bedtime. Also, parents, you guys are also part of this. You have to model this. I cannot stand it when I see grown-ass adults with their phones at the table with their families. Like, put your phone down.

I, this is a constant point of contention in our house. because I'm one of the people, I'm like, when I put it down, it's down. And Kate and I were just talking about this. You got to be protective of your time, especially when you got a lot going on. And it's like when we're off, we're off.

When the phone is down, the phone is down. I make sure that you can see my focus status, meaning don't bother me. You know, I'm at dinner with my family, or I'm doing this, or I'm at work, or whatever. I can't stand it when I see parents not mirroring that kind of behavior, like using that as an example. But you don't need the government to sit here and tell you that it's not good.

To have your kids always, because it's not, they're not using it just to interact with people. And by the way, interaction digitally is not the same as interaction in person. And it's a poor substitute. It really is. And I feel like lockdown got everybody used to the idea that that's an acceptable substitute.

And it's really not. My kids, when they got old enough and they were getting on social media, my rule was: you got to be friends with me. Which was great, you know, to be able to be friends with your mom on social media. But that's just the way it is. I want to see where your friends are, I want to see where your activity is.

And it's ma I mean it was monitored. But there I mean I know people that have kids that are like 10 and 11 years old and they just let them run loose. With social media, which is so wild to me, and they think, oh, well, we got a little babysitter app on the phone. Like, it's a thing that's supposed to, that's not going to be enough, mom and dad. But you don't need the government to do this.

But this is a problem when you allow for this sort of lax oversight on your part in the family, then the government can exploit it and say, Oh, this must mean we need to come in and start doing stuff. And that's not necessarily that you guys know that that's not the case. We have more on the way, including more with the WNBA. The cattiness and thuggery. Oh, yeah, we're going to get into all of that.

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The 90-minute debate will include two commercial breaks, and during those breaks, the candidates and their staff will not be allowed to interact. Both presidents will appear at uniform podiums, and their position will be determined by a coin flip. The microphones will be muted throughout the debate, except when it's a candidate's turn to speak. There will be no props or pre-written notes allowed on stage. Each candidate will be given a pen, a pad of paper, and a bottle of water.

There will be no studio audience. And the moderators, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will enforce timing and ensure a civilized discussion. This is going to still be a. train wreck. Those are the rules, the CNN debate rules that they just announced.

And You're not gonna have any audience, you're not gonna have this, you're not I don't even care if there's an audience really. Uh because sometimes the audience is annoying. And I don't want to hear them hoop and holler for their candidate in the middle of an answer, especially whenever if they're like getting Biden on something, I don't want the audience to and like come to his defense for the moderators to have to pause what they're doing and deal with it.

So I don't know. This is just going to be such a train wreck. But those are there. That's their rules for the June 27th debate. Ooh.

Oh, yeah. Oh man, this is this is gonna be something else. I um I feel like it's going to benefit Biden more to have it set up this way, don't you think so? Came? Absolutely.

It's like if I was playing a major league baseball team me and my buddies, and we change the rules. to where we get you know, like six outs. and when we hit the ball it's an automatic base hit. Anything past the infield would be a home run. All of these different rules.

that I would be making up would benefit me. Mhm. Yeah. So that's exactly what they're doing. Yeah, all of this.

It's uh do you I don't think that they're gonna enforce any kind of time limitations to I think Biden will run over I think it'll probably get antagonistic with Trump, but I think they're going to baby Biden. I really do. This is I don't know, it's just um Sometimes, like I said, sometimes the audience annoys me.

Sometimes they'll keep the moderators honest, but it really that's not the format to do it though, because then you end up having the moderator and the audience go back and forth and and it's um it it's a distraction. Uh but I don't know, is it gonna be an actual There's going to be some tough questions asked. It's going to be, but our tough questions are going to be asked of Biden. I think. Dana Bash would probably be the one that would ask Biden tough questions.

I don't see Jake Tapper doing it, although Tapper was a Hillary acolyte.

So there's some, you know, historical animosity right there off the bat.

So who knows? I mean, it's gonna. It's going to be interesting. Yeah, Jake Tapper worked in the Clinton White House.

So it'll. It's gonna be interesting. It'll be interesting to see how this goes. and some of the questions. I don't know what the topics are because How they can't cover everything.

So I don't think that they've released what topics they're actually going to touch on. You know they're going to talk about the trial. And that means they're going to have to bring up hunter stuff. And then that means they'll have to bring up the impeach the impeachment inquiry. And then where will it go from there?

Hmm. I mean, if they were going to protect him, they would have to have the tightest moderation, and I just don't see that happening. I just don't see it happening. Why are you over there? Your king's all smug looking.

I don't see it happening. It's clearly not going to be an entertaining debate. Oh, it's going to be boring. It's going to be so boring. It's almost like they cut everything that would have made people watch.

I mean I think that People are going to find it interesting to see if Trump can push Biden's buttons or vice versa. That's what Biden's people are going to want him to do. That has to be his number one objective: to not look ridiculous and to push Trump's buttons. That's all he's got. He's got to get Trump mad.

So Trump looks unreasonable and mad, and that makes Biden look more competent. even as Biden's a hot mess. That's that's ultimately his only play here.

So but is Trump going to be strong enough willed to withstand that? Because he hasn't been previously, so he can't get taken in by that. Come on, you tell me you can see that coming a mile away. He's got to avoid that. We're going to game all this.

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We are 1,800 miles away from the southern border, and the American citizens are not safe because of failed immigration policies. Hmm. Well, that's this story is really just exploding. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour.

This has to do with the murder. of well there was this it was a 2023 rape and murder of this mother of five on a Maryland hiking trail. And This guy who did it, Victor Hernandez, 23, was tracked down in Tulsa, Oklahoma. because they matched his D and A to the crime scene. And they said that this, I mean, she's she went out, she's a mother of five.

She has five kids and our family is like they that's just a horr such a horrible story. He's got all kinds of connections to Salvadoran street gangs. He's had a violent history. Apparently, he already killed one person. Uh he already killed one person, apparently.

And The Law enforcement said he didn't come to the country to make the life a better life for himself or his family. He committed crimes in El Salvador. He killed a person, killed a woman in El Salvador, apparently, and came here to run away from it. crossed into the country illegally in February of last year. And He apparently committed homicide in El Salvador, killed another person after he moved here in February of 23.

And then he was in the U.S. for six months before he targeted this woman, this mother of five. And they said that her body had suffered, and she was found naked. They said that her, uh, she had suffered so much trauma. and it looked as though her head had been smashed in with a rock.

And A month after he killed her. The way that they got him or they identified him was that his DNA was matched to a sample that was recovered at the seam of a home invasion. where he assaulted a young girl in Los Angeles.

So he's been all around the country. They did not have any kind of identity on this guy until May. and they tracked him down in Tulsa two weeks ago. And just on Fridays, when they executed the arrest warrant.

So he's been running around free this entire time. Five kids.

Now they don't have Apparent. Just horrific because of this guy who's allowed to come in. And You know, nothing is allowed to enter the country illegally. That's the open border at work here. That's exactly what you're seeing here.

This is what is at play. And he crossed the border. uh finally taken into custody. He crossed the border apparently several times. According to uh b uh Border Patrol.

And They didn't exactly say the nature of the crime that he committed in El Salvador, apparently was homicide. That's all they say. And then he killed another per uh killed another person when he crossed in February illegally. And then, of course, there was the home invasion and then the assault of the young girl in Los Angeles. That's how they were able to get the DNA.

I mean, golly, this guy was a repeat violent offender. This is one example. The Biden family, the Biden administration hasn't said a single thing about it. How quick are they to say something about The trans killer. in Nashville.

They speak out on behalf of trans people. When you had this woman who wanted to be a dude and wouldn't shot up a bunch of kids at a school because targeting them for their faith, they immediately say something about that. They have nothing to say about this at all. Nothing. No words, no words for the family, nothing.

They'll only acknowledge someone's loss if it's advantageous to their gain. That's the only reason they'll say anything. But this is becoming very slowly. I think it's a political hot potato now for. The for Democrats.

The sad thing is, it shouldn't be. You know, I mean, it, it. They should just be like, wow, this is horrific. We've got to do something about this. There are other Democrats that are saying this, so it's not like as though they are without shade.

But this isn't about str I mean, this you guys know what this is about. Good heavens, this is just about them wanting to be able to make a certain demo of their voting base happy. And also I think to get more voting base, honestly. I was reading this story about how Abbott's now having to bust fewer people. to sanctuary cities because everyone's coming in through California now.

And also, there are some restrictions that Eric Adams has on bus companies that transport illegal aliens to the area. I guess it's okay again if Joe Biden does it. New York City is demanding just under a billion dollars from bus companies. Court records in New York show that nine companies agreed to stop busing. illegal aliens into New York, from the Texas Division of Emergency Management because they're going to court over this.

There are legal challenges. That's where the largest number of these people being sent has gone to, is in New York. And Eric Adams had all these restrictions out. They've been filing lawsuits. Or maybe you could just not have a sanctuary state.

That might be easier to do. Just stop advertising yourself as a sanctuary state. Going to go out on a limb and suggest that that might be helpful to do.

Now I think it's Completely justifiable to do this. I also think it's justifiable to close the DM border and to know who's coming into the border and who isn't coming into the border. It's just just wild that we're even having this conversation. They didn't they never and this they just got this guy came in from El Salvador on Friday. Not a single.

There's going to be a price availability with Kern Jean-Pierre at 2 o'clock. That has to be, well, that's 2 o'clock Eastern, 1 Central.

So here within what, 45 minutes? That has to be a question that comes up today. It has to be related to this story because this is this it's just too bad to not discuss. And I think also the administration needs to start talking about what it's doing to keep people safe. You have these open border policies, nothing in place.

No and it's just pure chaos. No guarantee that people are going to be safe and that there's going to be a certain type of individual, quality individual, coming in from across the border. Clearly.

Now In the meantime, With all of this, because maybe this will be a topic at the debate coming up on the 27th. I would hope so. I would hope it would be. I want to make sure that we're getting to all this other stuff that I have as well for you as we're getting set up for the week. Yeah, they're doing the parole in place, legal status if you've been here for 10 years.

That's the plan that the Biden administration is putting out. If you've been here for 10 years and you haven't started the process, of becoming a legal citizen or being here legally. I don't want you here. If you haven't started that process of doing all of that, then why should we continue? Why should we allow you to stay in the country?

People can, they are here. This is why I've always been critical of. Uh like what the quote unquote dreamers and all this stuff. Because they They have been here for this long. You could start the process, but no one ever chooses to do so.

But they start the process of getting college scholarships and getting government benefits and doing all of this other stuff, everything except becoming. Illegal citizen. And that's even because under that DRAIM Act, you guys remember, they couldn't be deported. As so long as as if they were brought in as minors, they couldn't be deported.

So there was no excuse for them to start the process. for not to avoid it. But it's amnesty. It's what it's about. Amnesty and just letting everyone come in and then saying Democrats did it.

Remember that when you go vote. You know that's true.

So they have the parole in place. This is going to be just another amnesty plan. the largest program since DACA, the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival, that's the DREAMER program. This was first announced in twenty twelve. It was that stopgap measure because that's when Congress was considering revoking parts of DACA.

And even though it was never on the table to deport people, which is asinine. Uh that was what was sold as like a fear tactic. to keep it in place.

So now the policies are going to benefit. This is, we talked a little bit about this last hour, 1.1 million people here illegally who have American spouses. And if you're here for 10 years and you apparently haven't committed any other crimes, then it doesn't matter if it's merit. Uh it's not merit-based. It's are you married to someone here?

Do you got a blood relative? Again, the United States is the only country on God's green earth that's not allowed to use meritocracy as a basis for admittance into this country. It's asinine. Everybody else does. If you don't believe me, go try it.

Literally every other nation does. Even in Mexico, you have to demonstrate some sort of meritist behavior. You can't just be like, oh, I got an aunt over here and Oh, we gotta go down here to the Yucatan Peninsula. We're gonna be all the way down here. We're in Kuatana Roo.

We got family over here. We got some family over here. Let us in. We got cousins and an aunt. No, Mexican authorities will not do that.

But in the United States, hey, we got family over in California.

Okay, come on in. That works. It's like it's a it's a huge crit, and it's it's a justifiable criticism too, especially when you have people that are waiting to come in here to the United States and maybe they don't have blood relatives here, but they've demonstrated you know serious merit. They want to bring their skill set to the United States. It's exactly the type of person that you want to become an American.

And yet, all of that, because they can't claim a blood relative, then they're what? Pushed back to the end of the line. They should just cross over to the border illegally. At this point. It's not a s it's not serious.

Yeah, and his cane notes: the people we don't want are the ones who are like, oh. But I have a relative over here. I have an aunt. I have an auntie over here. I have a relative.

It's not merit-based.

So that's uh Just a huge amnesty program. That's just a huge amnesty program. That's all that this is. Can we talk for a minute about the, speaking of the terror attacks and everything else? This is, I mean, we keep getting warnings from our intel chiefs about serious threats, like apparently repeated warnings from top FBI and military officials, including a former acting CIA director.

I don't know if I even take any of these seriously from these cats. Aren't these the same? agencies that were telling us that the laptop was Fake. I mean, I know it's like different Intel chiefs. But They're from the same agencies that were telling us the laptop, which was entered into evidence, was fake.

So it's kind of difficult to believe anything anybody says because they've lied about so many other things. I just I'm under the impression that there is always going to be a potential for a terrorist attack, and particularly so with a wide open border. There have been I mean, I I I would imagine the family of the the mother of five who was raped and viciously beaten and left on the side of a trail from someone who entered the country illegally. I would imagine that that's their own little terror attack within their family.

So you're you're basically getting death by a thousand paper cuts as is right now. Death by a thousand cuts now. We have more on the way. We got headlines coming up and then we gotta This story just keeps getting dumber and dumber. I don't even follow WNBA, but now I am just because of the cattiness.

And the the politics that's playing out in the court and it's not From forces outside of the court, it's from the players themselves who are making it political.

So apparently Angel Reese just like smacked Caitlin Clark in the head over the weekend because they played Chicago Sky again. And not Caitlin Clark's own teammates didn't even help her up. What is wrong with you bitches? This is so, I'm so dumb with this stuff. Like, nobody wants to watch WNBA.

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So let's see here. Starting off, we got Hampton's Deli now charging $120 for a pound of lobster salad. What? $120 for a pound of lobster salad.

So apparently the uh I mean, I like lobster bisque. That's all good and all. I'll tell you something. I don't like dynamics at all. Yeah, this is like bug meat salad though.

I don't like a seafood salad. I don't like seafood in a salad. I like it only in a soup if it's a bisque. But $120, it's the Red Horse Market. Who packages this stuff?

Like, bald eagles? Like, what the heck? They said they'd gotten complaints from some of the customers, but they said, I mean, it literally is $120 a pound for their lobster salad. That's ridiculous. And they said, well, it's because of the quality we have to charge these prices.

I don't believe you. I don't, I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. Pizza Hut. Closed this four central Ohio locations.

Thanks to Bidenomics. They closed four. I love Pizza Hut. Remember, like back in the olden days when they would bring out the pizza and the little, like the actual hot skillets, and you had to eat, you couldn't touch it. Everybody at least seared part of their fingerprints off at one point.

But they've been close in some of the locations in Ohio. I don't think we knew how good we had it. With pizza back in the day, right? You had those red cups, you had those skillets, you had the salad bar. And you knew that when you were a kid, you'd only go up and get croutons and ranch, but you know, some cheese.

But it was all good, right? It was all good. Greece is turning an abandoned airport into an $8 billion smart city. Where are they getting this money at? Because they're broke.

Where's Greece getting this cash at? It's an abandoned airport into an $8 billion smart city. And they said it's gonna be a green city. It's been a decade in the making. It's gonna be a former Athens airport.

It's called, this is a weird name. Uh Elenikin. Ellen Whatever, it sounds right. I don't know if it sounds right. A new high-tech city.

This sounds like hell. A high-tech city, that sounds like my idea of hell. Yeah, uh, two dozen people stuck for 30 minutes dangling upside on a ride at Oaks Park. And Herenberg police shot a man with an axe ahead of the Euros match. Dude, he brought an axe.

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That's just not how I'm thinking about even the near future. Really? No, if anything, having kids that little makes you think more than anything about the really long-term future. Past when I'm even around. A political wonder kid steps into fatherhood and embraces the unscripted when you went on your first date with Chastin.

Did you ever imagine you would be here today in this place in your life? Part of what's Amazing about falling in love and getting married is that you're in it for this journey that you just don't know where it's going to take you. But Is this him trying to get emotional? I can't imagine I could have asked for anything better. He's so hot and hard, but.

That sounds like a psychopath. Nine years ago. Told me what was going to happen. And this, it would have seemed Greedy. to even hope.

to have all of that. nine years later. Um I'm this is so cringe. Welcome back to the program. That was CBS like flipping out over Poot Booty Juice, the transportation secretary.

And I think I have a conspiracy theory. Think that the reason why they keep promoting him like this is because they don't have anybody else. That's it. What, they got big gretsch? Pff she's not really likable.

And he's awkward and he just smiles like a psychopath. Dana Lash here with you. Bottom of the second hour. You can listen to Coast to Coast Channel 347, Direct TV as well. He just smiles like a psychopath.

He um he's not good at his job. And the reason you know he's not good at his job is because you know that he's the Department of Trans that he's the Secretary for the Department of Transportation.

Something I don't even know that we need. What what is it why do we need that federally? He's supposed to oversee transportation. And the reason that you know who he is is because it's absurd, and he's so bad at it. That's why you know.

And The stuff that he's talked about, like racist bridges, racist roads. Racist construction work. Everything's like race, everything's inequitable, everything's something or other. It fits, it's, you know, that's it, it just is. And he Assigns these values to processes and inanimate objects, and it's just weird.

And in the meantime, he couldn't even explain why is it that the administration hasn't been able to build. You know, they said what did they say, like some like half a million charging stations, and they built seven. And they were going to have half a million by twenty thirty. And they've built seven. Yeah.

But he's bad at his job. And He's everything What I find weird about Poot Booty Juice, or actually interesting, about Democrats' obsession with him, is because Democrats need radicals. They have to have radicals to inspire. momentum within their own side. But they don't like taking all the baggage that comes with it because it can be a headache to deal with.

And so he checks a lot of boxes without being a dirty radical, without seeming like one of those radicals that they can't. that they can't control. And I think that's part of his attraction. He checks he's he's a DEI hire. He's a DEI hire, but and he doesn't have the radical behavior.

I mean, you know, like being out in the street, like Trans Tifa and that. This guy has no idea. about anything That has to do with transportation. He has no idea about supply chains. He has no idea about Railroads, except that Democrats are supposed to like them.

He has no idea about. you know, shipping and ports and maritime nothing, absolutely nothing. And He's I mean, he's also the guy who thinks that eight billion dollars. Because That's how much is being earmarked for this. And you only have, what, seven EV stations?

That's like the start of a successful program. Do you guys remember what he did? Right when Everything's shut down. The country's shut down. the supply chain crisis.

Do you remember where he went, Kane? In the midst of all that. Where did he go? Remember, he was on paternity leave. He just had babies.

That's right. He birthed them and uh went out and took paternity leave. You know what's funny about that photo that he took? They took it in a hospital bed.

Okay, that's what ticks me off, and that's why I constantly come back to making fun of this. They didn't just adapt. Why did people do this? He, like, they posed in the hospital bed, like, one of them pushed them out. Right.

They did that. They pose like new moms. They laid in a hospital bed and act like one of them just gave birth. And held that's guys, come on. Stop.

And he was gone for how long? He was gone for months. And do you remember the complaints that came out after? Politico ran them. That meant it came from someone within the trans the department.

Politico ran them. They were upset because People were mad. Because They uh couldn't get a hold of him. He would ignore very important emails and he's like, I'm on paternity leave. He would ignore emails.

Wouldn't respond. They had pressing issues that they needed addressed and he just would not do it. He was on he they couldn't get a hold of him forever. He was drawn a paycheck. He was the Secretary of Transportation.

I mean, he just He's, I don't know what, what is his purpose there except to be the DEI hire? He is He's miles wide, inches deep. He's completely without substance, completely without seriousness. He is a walking caricature. And Democrats encourage it.

Juan says that Democrats would rather have a gay president than a woman president.

Well, considering the women that they keep putting up, you know. Kid Heavens. Pete Buttigieg, they keep building it up because they want him on the back burner. They don't really have a bench, they don't really have anybody after. Joe Biden, Barack Obama saw to that.

He sucked up all the energy in the room.

So they weren't able to really groom anybody. And I I don't know who else they're going to get. They got big grudge, they got him, they got Gavin. That's it. Oh my gosh, I just realized.

Do you want to know what the most insufferable ticket in the world would be? Gavin and Pete. Oh, I'm sorry, I made you all sick. It's That is probably the most annoying ticket I could ever imagine. I just think Poop.

I don't like Poop Booty Judge because. It's easy for him to inspire resentment because he's in a position that he didn't earn. He only got there because of how he has sex. That's the truth of the matter. He bones a dude and that's why he got hired.

You can roll up, people can get mad at me all they want to, but that's God's honest truth. And you all know it, and that's why it makes the left so angry because it's not about merit, it's about oh my gosh, do you check this box? There's no way that this guy was qualified to be in this position. Hell, there's no way the guy was really qualified to be mayor of South Bend, but he was. And he wants to be in government forever.

He wants to be on the government teet forever. He never ever wants to really go out and make his own way. I don't know. I just he's He is a Whole Foods Progressive. I don't like limousine liberal anymore.

Whole foods progressive is what it is. It's a Whole Foods Progressive. Can we talk about the WNBA? Speaking of like. All the DEI and all this other stuff.

I don't know. You guys tell me. Did you guys see the move? And I don't even really want to follow WNBA. But the players are being so petty and political that they're making it to where everybody has to.

So Angel Reese was fouled because she or she fouled Caitlin Clark. Uh because she hit her in the head. I watched this move like a million different times and I'm trying to be very gracious, but it honestly seems like Angel Reese knew that the basketball, she wasn't gonna she wasn't gonna really get it, so she just wanted to hit Caitlin Clark on the head. That's me looking at it because that's exactly what I would have done if I wanted to hit a chick and try to get away with it. That's exactly what I would have done.

So that's. And that's what it seemed like. And they of course knocked her to the ground. Are they not going to be happy? Are these chicks in the WNBA not going to be happy until they injure her and ruin her career?

I mean, Steve and Kane, and I know Steve follows basketball, I want you guys to weigh in. Am I reading too much into it? Does it look like she hit her on purpose? I mean, there's an argument that could be made. She was going for the ball there, and her arm follow-through just hit her in the head.

I mean, there's an argument there, but because of the history. And because of a previous targeted actions on Caitlin Clark. It makes that Theory a little less believable. But I mean, there could be an argument for that. Because look at her going for the ball.

One's showing it. Yeah, I've got the simulcast. From the back, you can kind of see she's going from the bottom of the bottom right here, and then. Boom. keeps her arm going down.

Like she keeps her arm going down. Come on. Yeah. She wanted to slap that. That was intentional.

Or she wanted to slap. Caitlin Clarkhard. Steve, am I reading too much into it? Be honest. No, 'cause um the refs changed it to a flagrant one, which means it's fully intentional.

It can be s fines or suspensions, so it's that's what the refs said. And her teammates did not like rush over to help her up. Right. I don't know. who are horrible advocates for WNBA.

WNBA players. The worst representation for women's basketball are women's basketball players. We've heard nothing but bitching and moaning. About why don't you watch WNBA? WNBA doesn't get paid like the men do.

WNBA doesn't get the attention that the men do. And won't you all get it? You get mad because of the chick that's bringing you eyes. And instead of looking at it as a rising tide raises all ships, you're all mad at her. And then you decided Jackie Robbins and her.

What's the problem with you? And that's exactly what it is. She's being classy about it. Caitlin Clark's being classy about it. She's not saying anything.

Jackie Robinson was classy about it. But how is this any different? First off, Why is this such a big deal? I've heard everyone talk about it's because of militant black lesbians. That's why.

It's militant black lesbians that are mad because a straight white chick is playing basketball. The only people that I've heard bring up like the black lesbian part are literally like other players and commentators. that hint at it. Players will hint at it, and then commentators will say, Oh, well, Caitlin Clark is only getting these sponsorships because she's white and straight. What does that have to do with anything?

I'm so done with that race argument. It's tired and it's cheap and it's used by people with lesser talent to explain their deficiencies, and I'm tired of it. You had Tiger Woods that came in and brought a whole new golf. I never ever even followed golf. I never even paid it.

I didn't even know anything about it until Tiger Woods started playing. Didn't even know. Look at tennis. Serena and Venus Williams brought a whole new generation of people into tennis. Ann?

Stop with the race stuff. I'm so tired of this. This isn't anyone's turf. It's everybody's game. And she's being really classy about it.

I mean, I think she has to be professionally. I mean, I don't know that that's a hard thing to do. But her own teammates, what are the coaches doing? What is her coach doing? I'd be whooping my players' asses if they were not out there.

With the camaraderie and helping her up and defending her a little bit here. This is where men are better than women because women. Stupidly believe that there's a scarcity of opportunity. And the sad thing is, what you see in the WNBA is what you see with women in any industry. You have all of these catty.

I can sit here and tell you, one day I will name check some of the cattiest chicks that are in politics. You would, and some of them wear the biggest, shiniest crosses going on Fox News. And they are some of the, and you see them on CNN or AB's, and they are some of the cattiest chicks you will ever meet in your life. always back biting, always cutting people down, always trying to go around. And it's the same with the WNBA.

This isn't just something with WNBA, this is a problem with women. That's the thing. You're just seeing it spill out, and then there's the additional. the additional layer of race and uh Sexual identity involved in it. This is a problem with women, though.

Men don't do this. Like men will foul each other and they'll have problems and then they take, they, you know, they play their game and then they leave the drama. Like, they don't continue to perpetuate, and they will help each other out. They have camaraderie, they have teamwork. Women don't do that.

And you want to know who puts women back? Women do. Women put women back. Just like it's women who didn't want to watch WNBA. It's women who didn't want to go to the games.

And now you're making it to where women don't want to have anything to do with it now because they see that petty stuff in their workplace every single damn day. Why do they want to go and watch it on the court? What a horrible sportsmanship, and what a horrible advocacy and representation of this sport to all other girls. I loved basketball when I was in high school. I tried out every single year.

I was varsity every other sport, but I could not be varsity basketball. I was a horrible basketball player, and I have no idea why, but I love this sport. And it was so fun. Just just horrible. What kind of message is this sending to young girls?

That Well, if you make it up to a certain point, you have to forfeit any kind of support. or or uh teamwork or camaraderie. Because that's just for the course that goes along with it because other women are jealous of what you got. This is a problem with women. First and foremost.

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Alright, so a couple here. A Florida man attacked a gas station clerk with a box cutter inside of a locked bathroom. Woo! This was in Sanford, Florida. He was arrested and accused of locking himself and a woman inside of a Seminole County gas station bathroom, attacking her with a box cutter.

Randall Lee Lawton, 62, was booked into jail on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer, and kidnapping, according to online jail records. They said it was a racetrack gas station. The guy looks like Kenny Rogers. And the woman told police that she'd been at the gas station to buy cigarettes and coffee. The guy came in.

Uh she said uh he looked like he was talking to himself. And when he went to the bathroom, and then he came out and asked for toilet paper, and she went there. She uh uh The man had been at the gas station to purchase stuff. But she said she went to go refill the toilet paper in the bathroom, and he went in and locked both of them in there. Produced a box cutter.

She fought back, cut her hand. But once police entered the bathroom, because somebody called 911, he finally stopped. He apparently knocked a tooth out of her head.

So she's recovering from her injuries. My gosh. That is. I always wondered how safe it is for people at service stations, man. I always get.

you know Like, I'm always super nice when I go in, especially if it's like night or anything like that. Because I always and I'm always worried about people's safety. and stuff. I don't know. It just makes me A Florida man on a bike is accused of stealing a tip jar fundraising for a baby at a diner.

What in the world is wrong with people? I'll have to save this one for you tomorrow, but this is in Port Charlotte, Florida. This guy's a bad dude stealing somebody's tip jar. Fundraiser. Stick with us.

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Yeah. A semi-automatic rifle to fire rapidly, just like a fully automatic weapon. The bump stock is attached to the receiver of the rifle, replacing the standard stock that fits against the shooter's shoulder. The stock then uses that recoil effect to bounce the rifle off the shoulder and essentially bump, that's where the term comes from, is the trigger, back into the trigger finger, thereby allowing the shooter to fire the weapon repeatedly without having to release the trigger. God help me, it's Monday.

That was CNN. No one tell them about rubber bands or belt loops either. Please. None of these people know how this works. You know how many times I've seen people say, well, You know, the bumpstack thing, it just turns it into a fully automatic firearm.

No, it doesn't. Strawberry shortcake, it doesn't. I promise you, Dunn, that's not how it works. I wanted to show what they were showing and not the audio, but. Just look at how.

Man, put the image up. I mean, I want to see the animation. This is like a joke. Look at how. Right here, they're going to show you how accurate the weapon is, What's the trigger doing this whole time?

Look at this guy. Murder. Hurder! Hurdle! I thought!

I dance! Hurt! Look at this. Yeah. No, the trigger doesn't move.

You realize that it's still means you have to depress the trigger. Every single time in order to get around out, correct? Every time. You have to press it every single time. Um A hundred percent of the time, it works all the time.

Yeah. This is so dumb. Ah yeah. This is honestly this is a meme template I just want to make fun of this over and over again. It's one of the goofiest things ever.

See, all you gotta do is you just gotta sit here and you just gotta shake it a little bit like this or third part. Look at it. Look how that trigger ain't do nothing. It's magic. You put it bump tap on this thing?

Whoop, boop. Don't give it to an epileptic. Look what happens. Man, they got every attachment on this damn thing too, don't they? Look at it.

I got everything on this gun. They have the suppressor too. Oh, yeah, you got it. all of it. That's how it works, see.

If you just do this with it, that's what it does. That's not how it works. Because I need an optic when I'm just throwing lead indiscriminately downwards. I mean, you know, can you really throw lead indiscriminately just all all the places without an optic? You know?

I mean.

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I that's what CNN thinks that it is. And they keep They keep um Uh insisting and I've seen everybody from politicians to uh editorialists, they all keep saying that Uh It changes this. This is about the Supreme Court decision, and they keep slamming this as a part of their, we want to pack the court. Scheme And That's not how any of this works. That's not how bump stocks work.

You still, one press of the one squeeze of the trigger, one round, it comes from the barrel. That's how that works. But they think that you don't know, or they think that the rubes who watch their programs don't know.

So they're like, this turns any gun into a fully automatic gun. Keek, kick, kick. That's what they believe. And that's what they've been telling everybody all weekend. That's what they were telling everyone.

Can you believe the Supreme Court did this? Mm-hmm. We we got to pack the court. We can't have this like this no more. We gotta pack the court.

You see what they did? Skate, skate, skate. They they got made it to where every gun's an automatic gun now. Look at that. Get yourself an automatic Glock with a forty eleventy frillion round clipazine.

What? Tink tick tick. That holds two hundred shells. Two hundred whole shells. What?

A thirty clip magazine. No, a thirty magazine clip. That's what they were saying. Oh. See, this is why maybe I should be elected to office.

Because no, no, hear me out. For like a second because what I would do is I would pass an executive order. All the people who are this stupid get rounded up. Oh, you said two hundred shells? Away with you.

You said you said magazine clip, away with you. You made this video about how you think a bump stock works, away with you. Nope, nope, there's no due process for you, 'cause it's completely upon my discretion. I don't like you. Go.

I'm going to run this like the Democrats ran Trump's impeachment. Go. No inquiries. Just me. I'm presiding.

So there's my judgment. It's down, it's passed. Seems right to me. Seems right. And then I would abolish my office immediately.

Well, unless I was president. I couldn't really do that. I'd leave. I'd just leave. Be like, yeah, bye suckers, and then I'd be out.

That's all I do. I heard a sound. It'd be a wild ride, that's all I know. Everybody'd hate me, the CIA tried to take me out, it'd be a mess. It'd be an absolute mess.

FBI'd be working against me. Everybody would hate me. Oh, man. Because I hate everybody more. There it is.

The s see they couldn't possibly hate me more than I hate them. All these agencies.

So I'm just saying. I just don't really feel like these people. Have any Uh In position at all, whatsoever, to lecture all of us about this stuff. But they're using this as another example. Of why the Supreme Court needs to be packed.

you see what they did on the bump stocks? They didn't even know what these were. I was watching these peop like these people, who was it? I tweeted this one dude. I don't oh gosh, this loser.

Who is this guy? I tweeted about this. Oh, yeah. I don't even know who this guy is, this Lawrence guy. He tries to he he googled some history.

Oh hurr Good job You googled something. He's like the nineteen thirty four Firearms Act bans civilian ownership of machine guns. The six justices have blood soaked robes. They overrode the ATFs. What is all you guys are obsessed with blood soaked stuff?

Overrode the ATF's common sense conclusion that keeping pressure on your trigger finger long enough for your gun to fire 13 times per second in a single function. Wait a minute, that's not literally at all how that works. Literally, all of that is wrong. All of that literally is wrong. That's all literally a thousand percent wrong.

Bump stocks do not make a semi-automatic into an automatic, and the trigger has to be depressed. I fired bump stocks many a time. This dude clearly has not. This dude clearly is a chick. Who knows nothing about guns?

He's a I I I don't know. I can't stand this stuff any more. This is so damn stupid. You know, The issue didn't have to do with guns at all. It didn't have to do with the Second Amendment at all.

It had to do with the egregious overreach of the administrative state. And that's what this was. And this is applicable to like a million different things. This is applicable to whether the CDC's rent moratorium, it's applicable to any kind of government agency that wants to put down something that hasn't been congressionally passed or vetted and then act like it has the full scope and effect of law when it doesn't. That's what this was about.

So I um These are all the people, and they, again, this is all about going after the Supreme. Court. It's all about the Supreme Court and literally nothing else.

Now, 2024, let's talk about that a little bit because I know we keep talking about the VP stakes. Please, for the love of all things holy, let me tell you who I don't want as VP. I don't want Marco Rubio as VP. I watched Marco Rubio collapse on stage uh at Parkland. and compromise on red flag law and universal background checks.

And whether or not he's changed his mind from that then. is irrelevant. The fact that he felt the heat and didn't withstand under pressure No. Uh, JD Vance, uh, no, unless you want his seat to go to a Democrat because he barely won that seat. He barely won that seat.

There's no other Republican. that I don't think could step in and be able to successfully defend that seat right now.

So we have too tiny of a presence in the Senate to lose another red seat. We do not have the funds. To battle out to keep that seat red, we don't have it. We do not have the ability to do it. And I just.

I think that's a bad move, and I think that the strategy of it puts the Senate in dire jeopardy. Tim Scott is like the easiest decision because he comes from a solid red area. Uh and uh even though I think he's he's he's Hey, I'm not a I I I wasn't a total fan of everything that he did legislatively. It just seems like the most benign choice that he could possibly make. None of these are choices that I would make.

The choices that I would make would be: I think you need to either have Brian Kemp. Uh e maybe even a Glenn Yunkin. Because you've got to look at I know a lot of people want Ron DeSantis, but you can't have two people coming from Florida. You cannot have two people coming from Florida. Electorally, that does not even work out.

And that's just not possible. Dick Cheney, you could, you know, have him, he domiciled what in Montana so that he could get around being from Texas and Bush being from Texas. But it doesn't work like that when you got two people who are from Florida like that. Republicans got to think about the next 12 years, not just the next four. I know that's very difficult to tell the RNC to do because the RNC can't even see their feet in front of their face.

So I don't know. They've got to think about 12 years ahead in time and not just four. And I think the best bet is to go with a swing state governor. That is my pick. I'm only looking about putting numbers on the board.

I don't care if they like each other. It is irrelevant to me. I don't care. I wish that Brian Kemp and Donald Trump got along. I know they don't.

I wish they'd get over it and get along. We should put them in a get-along shirt like they do, little kids. Make them do that. They need to be able to get along to go along. And that I'm just looking at putting numbers up on the board.

Yunkin though, I like Yunkin, but I when you bring that up with uh the folks in Virginia, they get really, really viscerally angry at you. because they do not want to lose their governor. Like they will hiss at you audibly. It's a little they sound like honey badgers. They get mad at you.

If you're like, oh, Glenn Young. They're very protective of him. That's their governor. They will let you know.

So I think you have to fight them first. Steve says they only have one term, but he's got to finish that out, though. Because when is Steve? He's not out until next fall. Yeah, next fall.

Yeah. I don't even know if he has a successor in place yet. That's the other thing. He's got to lay the groundwork for that. But I mean swing state that, you know.

That might be a good pick too. I would say Yunkin' or Kemp. Those would be my picks. Yunkin or Kemp. And then I think that you put people like DeSantis and Huckabee Sanders and all these other people on the bench.

You have a healthy bench. But that would be. For VP that would be my pick. I don't Know about the people advising Trump, but I think anybody advising Trump that has Rubio on the list is not someone that I would consider a valuable consultant.

So, I don't know how much faith I have in the advice that he's getting on VP picks, but I'm looking at putting numbers up on the board and scoring large margins of victory, and I don't see it with those cats that they got on the list right now. I got to be real with you, I don't. Not that I dislike them, I don't care about them as humans. They are vessels to get my agenda on the chessboard. That is their only value to me.

Do you get me what I want? If not, pound sand.

Next. It's time to win. It's not time to sit here and rustle everyone's jimmies and pat everyone's back and make sure everyone feels love and accepted. Blank you. No, we don't.

That's not what we're doing right now. We're about scoring wins. We're about getting seats. We're about snapping necks and cashing checks. And we're not going to do that if we're trying to make everybody happy with their choices.

That's what it is.

So we'll see. But that's uh I think my picks are good, Kane. Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah. Course that n it will never be followed.

It will never be followed because everybody's got to have their pet projects in there. I think he's getting some bad advice on some of these VP shortlists. I gotta be real with you. I'm like, who in the hell is suggesting Marco Rubio? Who is suggesting that guy?

What in the matter who is suggesting let's imperil the whole Senate? This has nothing to do with J.D. Vance. Who's like, hey, you know this solid red seat? Let's go ahead and risk it going blue.

Woo-hoo! Who's doing that? Stop it! Good night. I guess they don't want to win as bad as I do.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So a California woman was harassed by an agent. Aggressive black bear that she, I can't say what she named him, right?

Okay, she called in Big Bastard. That's what she called him. Is an aggressive black bear, it fatally mauled her in her home. I just assume that when you say mauled, you're fatally mauled. Like, oh, she was mauled to death, right?

Because there's no other way to get out of that, right? Like, let's, why do we gotta say fatally mauled? Is there a chance that she comes out of that alive? Likely not. Patrice Miller, 71, she was harassed by an aggressive black bear in her small Northern California.

Four months. in her town, but uh broken her home and killed her. This bear legit broke right up into her home, and they found her body mauled and partially eaten. Aww.

Now, when they first found her, they thought, okay, maybe she passed away naturally, and then the bear came in. Nope, nope, the bear totally, totally murked her. They said that she even had to put steel bars across our windows to keep the bear out, but it broke down her door. And it's the first documented fatal black bear attack on a human in the Golden State.

So they said that they think that the Sierra, oh, this is horrible. Sierra County Sheriff said they think that the bear had been there for several days feeding on the remains. Oh my. And they think it pulled her from her bed to her living room.

So it broke in on her while she was in bed. That's horrific. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That's terrifying.

That's a horror movie right there. Yeah, more bottles of cherries found at George Washington's Mount Vernon home and a spectacular discovery. BSCBS. They said uh that this It was in the cellar of his Mount Vernon home. Preserved Cherries.

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They were uncovered during an ongoing excavation. Wow, what do you think they taste like? It Yeah, I'm just wondering I'm like curious, you know. A little like, you think, just a little bit like? Probably.

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This is so weird. We played a little bit of this earlier, but it's like a replay of what happened with G7. And this is Barack Obama leading A very confused Joe Biden offstage. This is a big fundraiser that he did, a big campaign fundraiser. I think it was George Clooney had hosted it.

along with Julia Roberts and then Jimmy Kimmel was asking questions because they did it like a panel discussion because Biden can't, all of these events are panel discussions for him. He cannot hold something on his own. And I feel like he looks just as confused as he did when he was at G7. which was startling. Very startling.

And now there's stuff murmur that's like bubbling up in the press, like in the European press, where European it sounded like European leaders had been briefed. On how far he's kind of slipped, but they were still shocked. And there were members of their different respective delegations that apparently also were just really shocked at what they saw. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here joining us on this and a host of other issues.

Our very good friend, the well-traveled Stephen Yates, senior fellow at America First Policy Institute and chair of the China Policy Initiative. Steven, I got to ask you about this. I mean, is it normal where? Because you worked in the Trump administration, you've worked in the Bush administration, you know, all, I mean, people who want to know about foreign policy, particularly as it relates to the Indo-Pacific region, will have you involved. You've seen a lot of this stuff.

You know, these different summits, these leaders come together. It's not unusual for maybe like leaders or delegations to be briefed on, okay, this is what you can expect with how this president's going to act. This is where they are.

So it does seem like they were kind of told, at least, you know, when you watch them, that Biden was slipping. Yeah, well, it's obviously part of the brief. I mean, whenever you're prepping a principal for one of these international meetings, you if you're doing your job, you are going to give kind of a psychological profile of The interlocutor, you're going to give recommended policy points, you're going to give all kinds of context of what to watch out for and if asked, kind of contingency points. There's lots of things that go in when you're prepping a president, vice president, or cabinet-level person for these kinds of exchanges. You know, these things have come into play in times past.

People might not remember because it's long ago when presidents are older and jet lag can hit them. You even have a president who had to bow over and retch on somebody during a meeting. Many you have to be prepared for anything. There are leaders that fall asleep. It's not just the old and kind of infirm.

It's hard to go around the world. Even yours truly occasionally could be guilty of zoning out a time or two going around the world. But this is unique. Never in the history of our republic did we have to give them a brief to say, watch out and make no distracting noises or gestures because it's just like squirrel and he's gone. Absolutely frozen.

There was one video, too, that I saw where Kishida, the prime minister of Japan, I guess this was right when Biden first walked in. They were going to have their big official G7 photo. And there were three steps that he had to go down. And he stumbled down the second step. And Kushida immediately was over there.

And it was almost as if he caught himself. mid trying to help this older gentleman. And he kind of steps back but then extends his arm. Like he knew that he was on camera. He knew he was being watched.

But he also wanted to make sure that Biden didn't fall down the stairs. And then after they did their photos, there's another video and I watched, and Kushida immediately was over to his side, being very respectful of his elders and making sure that Biden could get the next set of stairs. It was wild because I love watching body language. And this was more insightful than almost anything any of these leaders said. Oh, definitely.

And you can see the shock in their faces. And you can bet that they were also told, and their staff was told, you shall not breathe a word about this.

So, I mean, there was complete message discipline among all the others. And you gotta believe that Team Biden is telling their counterparts: don't say anything because, you know, Big Ben Trump may win, and he could come back, and you want us.

So, you guys better just zip it, zip it, zip it. And it's astonishing. That there hasn't been more about this. You would think, even among the comedians out there that can be unkind from time to time, that there would be more about this. But someone has chosen to put a zip on it.

And really, even if you are a supporter of President Biden personally and politically, is he really better off walking the way he does? Or should they go ahead and put him in a chair? Yeah. Because it's not really like. Is showing off.

On these stumbles. It's very stiff and very awkward. And at least if he was in a chair, you'd have someone pushing him where he needed to go. That's sad that it's even a thought at this point. It is.

It's sad. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X. It's sad, and it also makes me wonder who's doing the negotiating because one of the things that they came up with, there were a host of issues that they had on the table at G7, but they were slamming China's support for Russia and saying that it was enabling Russia to continue on with the conflict in Ukraine. And I'm watching, you know, Biden, who I think is in a stronger position than most to press on China because some of these other countries, even though they're our allies, you know, European nations, they still have a weird perception of China that's very different from our own. I think maybe Italy is the only one that kind of shares that just simply because of how the virus kicked off and just destroyed their economy and really how it began in the Praetor region and all of that.

But that being said, these countries have different. Approaches to China, maybe not as aggressive as ours is or should be. And who's doing the negotiating for this? Like, this is a great time to really put the pressure on, and this is not the guy to do it there. No, unfortunately, there can be only one, as the Heiler movie taught us.

It just really, we don't have. An alternative. If you occasionally would send a vice president when a president can't go, but really we are in this uncharted waters where with either the president or the vice president, there is no guarantee that more than a third or two-thirds of what they say is even intelligible to their counterparts, much less translatable into another language. And so we you if you can't get him. To be fully present and be able to go through the formalities, why would you think he can engage in a deep and perhaps contentious conversation?

And they didn't even foreshadow that there was something they could push. If you really wanted to work this, you could have staff sort of salt the media and the environment in advance to suggest we're going to push for this, we're going to push for that. And then that you'd have sort of dueling negotiations outside of the principal's meetings. But there's nothing like that going on, which leads me to believe they basically just took a trip. And that's all that happened.

Yeah, I don't know because there's such a great opportunity, especially after the elections, the EU elections. And you had Ursula von der Lynn there, who looked the most confused, by the way, out of the clip that Juan was just showing during the parachuting demonstration. She looked the most confused when she saw Biden kind of going away. You have that, you know, the commissioner of the EU there. That's a great time to put pressure on all of these people.

Like, hey, can we all get on the same page about China? Can we all realize that Russia is essentially China's vassal state at this point? And really drive that home. Maybe, I don't know, maybe make some inroads towards India. And if we have to have manufacturing that's not domestic, how about India instead of China?

None of that can be discussed because, aside from him looking so feeble and clearly not being able to host or carry out a sentence, as we saw in the pressers that he did give over there, Stephen, then he, there's just everyone just looks confused and worried about his health. And that's it. I don't, what did we get out of this? Nothing. Well, I mean, you got it right on the substance, and on the form of it, it was also a distraction to have the first lady jetting back and forth across the Atlantic.

It gives the impression that that's where the first family's attention is, and they're only partially present to do the work of the country and our diplomacy while at that. At that venue, because we know the president has to rest. He's not putting in long days and long conversations. And if she's heading back to attend a trial, then that's kind of the indication. She's the one everyone's relying upon to keep him straightened up and flying right.

And so that also. Had to have been noticed by all of our counterparts. And you have to think: if you're really trying to convey a message to our allies. Would it have been better to send someone else in the president's place? Yeah.

Because he basically gave a version of Ronald Reagan's speech. He wandered off on a couple of different meetings. He stumbled and did what he could. And people probably have empathy for someone at this advanced stage of whatever. But it wasn't power.

It wasn't policy. And he wasn't fully present. And that's bad for the United States. And in the meantime, talking with our friend Stephen Yates, China seems to be escalating its attempts to control the South Seas because now I read that they're just stopping and detaining random foreigners. Not only have they been incredibly aggressive towards Philippines, but now apparently anybody who's in the South Seas and China comes across them, it's a new policy that they announced last month.

They can hold what they call suspects. Just random people in the Southeast. They can hold them for up to 60 days without a trial. That's a huge, I mean, am I correcting? That's a big step forward for them.

Oh, it completely violates what people call international law. Yeah. That's kidding. You know, China's basically extending its Communist Party rule out into the high seas. And a lot of our allies and partners in the region are quite shocked.

Some of them are getting shocked into the reality of this. And I don't really want the United States to be the only one coming in to buttheads with these expansionist claims by the PRC. I was just in Japan not very long ago, and they seem to have been pretty stunned by all this and are looking for ways to themselves do more and to help others in Asia do more. I think that's the right general direction. Australia could definitely step up and do some more too.

So we've got options there. But yes, this is aggressive. This encroachment is ridiculous. And I applaud you for not giving them credit for owning the sea. Oh, well, I learned from the best, I have to say.

Well, and and One of the things that I was reading, particularly as it relates to Philippines with us, Because if because they've been very aggressive towards Philippine fishermen, do we not have some kind of Uh Mutual defense treaty with the Philippines. Could that not escalate into something that does drag the U.S. involved and we'd have to take another one? Absolutely. It's one of those things that's been ignored for a very, very long time.

But we do have treaty alliances with places like Thailand and the Philippines, two places that most Americans don't give a thought to, not just any given day, but any given year. And yes, encroachment there is a mutual defense obligation. And it's just like with Japan.

So China's encirclement of Taiwan is not possible without encroaching upon both of these treaty alliances. But even if you take the Taiwan contingency out of the mix, what they're doing straight up with the Philippines is a challenge to the U.S. alliance system. And we need to help buckle up. The Philippines to be able to do more on its own, because I don't think Americans have the appetite to go very far in this matter.

So we better, if we want to have allies, we better find ways to help strengthen them and equip them. And we can't do that if our defense supply chain is worried about what flag is going to fly at an institution on any given day and which pronouns might be applied to the Twitter handles of people in charge. That is not deterring China. They don't really care about that stuff. That's true.

No wiser words spoken. Our good friend Stephen Yates at YatesComms. At someday, we're going to get together and you're going to be like, yes, all these problems in this region have been solved. China's rolling it back. They are leaving Taiwan alone.

We don't have any more vague policies regarding their sovereignty. It's all great. Kittens and sunshine. Maybe that day will come. Maybe it won't, but we'll be here regardless.

Stephen, always a pleasure. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dana. Take care. You too.

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So I want to say a few words in recognition of Pride Month. The Biden-Harris administration joins Americans across the country to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of the LGBTQIC. Get your rocks off on your own time. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.

I don't care how you get your rocks off. You don't care. Nobody cares. No, you're not going to say nothing about the lady who was like raped and beaten, had her head bashed in by rocks, and she was left on a trail? from the open border policy thanks to uh Joe Biden.

You're not going to talk about, oh, can we play, can we hit, do we have time? Yes, we do. Can you hit the more fairer? Can we, I'm sorry, Juan. Juan's like, really?

I knew you were going to do this to me.

Sorry, Juan. Juan has been very clear in making sure that in saying that we need a legislative solution. He also said when he talked about the executive action that he recently took that in weeks ahead he's going to speak on how we can make our immigration system more fairer and more just.

So he's going to be on that, obviously. You don't need to, can I just say you don't need to say more fairer. If you can conjugate it to be er, then you don't need to add the more. in front of it, but whatever. Uh That's the closest they got so far.

To mentioning the woman who, the guy that they just arrested on Friday, of rape, just arrested this guy. of raping and murdering this woman. And he this is what the third person he's killed? Yeah, third person just killed he killed somebody in El Salvador. He killed somebody after he crossed on February 23 here.

And then he uh invaded somebody's home and or and assaulted their miner. In LA. That's how they got the DNA on him for this crime, the woman that he killed in Maryland.

So. Yeah, nothing about that. Nothing about those open border policies and how it relates, how it contributes to that. But more fairer, they're just focused on making it more fairer. You could just say fairer.

If, you know. Oh my gosh. It's the Nordstrom pipeline though. Don't you know? Mm-hmm.

Well, all that tyranny. Ameritis. Yeah. I can't even say it. I had to work to say it hard or to say it the wrong way.

Amerititis. Is that what she said?

Sounds like an ear pain. Amerititis is what she sounds like she's suffering from. Oh my gosh. I just, I can't. I can't.

I don't know what you're using for today and stupidity, but we just got a whole bunch of really bad things. Put it in Slack.

So if one can get to it.

Well, no, I was just saying, I didn't know if that, I didn't want to take up your time, but because there's like five cuts that I'm looking at that we just got. I'm like, I can't believe that all. What is this? It's kind of a multi-tiered. Today, in stupidity, because number one, the idea of that pier in Gaza, boy, that was stupid.

Yeah, so there's one level of stupidity right there. Yeah. The media is asking, though, John Kirby, if there's any update on that botched $320 million pier. By the way, it's gone again. Yeah.

So let's hear what it's updated on the U.S. Built Pier, the humanitarian aid pier that has been removed. Removed that it's undergoing repairs because of severe weather that we talked about being a problem in the summertime here. Nobody could have. I don't.

You have to go to the Pentagon. Nobody could have in the boardroom predicted there would have been possible bad weather. Cloudy with a chance of shelling. Right. Yeah, with some Hamas.

Shelling. They must think we're they must. No, they do. No, it's not they must. They do.

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