Monday June 24 - Full Show

There have been more than 6.9 million apprehensions at the southern border thus far. In Biden's term, there were just over 2 million in Donald Trump's entire term. What did the president do wrong? No, this isn't about what the president did wrong. Remember, on the very first day that he was sworn into office, President Biden asked Congress both for the resources and for comprehensive immigration reform.

The Republicans blocked it, blocked it, blocked it, blocked it. Donald Trump didn't have that either, Senator. He didn't have that either, and there were two million during his entire term. Until last fall, the president tries to deal with the problem that is presented to him. He can't deal with it if Congress and the Republicans continue to block him.

And so the president is using the tools available to him, both to create border security, but he doesn't have the resources because the Republicans are blocking access. But he is president. Understood, I do think you've made your point. But poll after poll, as Matt Rivers just pointed out, say that this is a very weak poll number for President Biden. Trump surpasses him by 17 points in trust and working the border.

I understand that. And I understand that the president is doing what he can with the resources available to him. But you know as well as I do that he can't manufacture more judges, he can't manufacture more guards if Congress doesn't give him the resources to do that. You know, the president is out there doing everything he can, not just at the border, but overall for families. And the action he took in this last week is exactly Joe Biden being Joe Biden.

Think for just a minute about what it means for half a million families that little kids go off to school in the morning and they don't have to worry about whether or not Elizabeth Warren's Her Sunday mornings, the Sunday morning talk show circuit, her interview here. And I found it fascinating because there she's Saying that That Trump is not, or that Biden is, he's doing everything that he's allowed to do, except. You know One of the things that he did was that Biden did. was immediately Undo a lot of those Trump-era regulations. And now you don't have to have an act of.

Congress to do that. That's been one of my big uh criticisms of all of this because when you Legislate, or when you don't legislate, when you constantly do executive order after executive order, that's you know, ultimately what ends up happening. It's undone by executive order.

So, welcome to the radio program. Dana Lash here with you. And we are at the top of this first Hour, and we're gonna get through everything. God, I hate Mondays. We're gonna get through all of it because it's debate week.

And we have the debate this Thursday as well. Yay! Who's so excited about that? Not me, said cynical Dana. I'm not excited about it.

I'm so tired of this boomer off. Is what it is. I guess so. I'm just so tired of this boomeroff. And I swear to you, if I get one more email from someone who's like, not all boomers are bad, that's not what I'm saying.

I'm not like Kane who says all old people are evil. Are not innocent.

Sorry. That's what you said. Not all old people are innocent. No, you said old people aren't innocent.

Sorry, I messed it up. Uh I will print it out and I I got this segue for Mother's Day. Like a couple of years ago. and I'm gonna put it on my driveway. First off, I'm gonna shoot shoot it full of holes.

And then I'm going to print it out. I'm going to print it out, shoot it full of holes, your response, and then I'm going to roll over it with my little mini segue, back and forth, back and forth, while staring like a demon into the camera. That's what I'm going to do. But it is, and you guys know it is.

So, welcome. I gotta have some black tar to drink. It's my coffee this morning. Plaque Rifle just needs to put caffeine and tar and just serve it to me. That's all they should do.

All right, so we've got the debate coming up on Thursday. And we're getting ready to prove you. I've been reading about some of the debate prep that the candidates are undertaking. Biden's isn't hand dealt isn't He in Delaware until Thursday. Camp David?

Sorry, Camp David, yeah. You know, because he's doing work, whatever work he's doing there. They've already reported that we're not going to see Biden. He's not coming out of his gopher hole until the. Till the debate.

Not till the debate, huh? I mean, he's been gone he takes more vacations than I do. If you get that much of my taxpayer dollars, Then you don't get vacations. I'm going to run you ragged. You don't get vacations.

How does this guy get more vacations than all of us? Seriously.

So this is and it's true.

So, we got the debate coming up Thursday, and we got a couple of other things. We're going to be, so I'm going to be diving into, just to get you up to speed, some of the stuff we have. The big Second Amendment case, the Rahimi case, which was out on Friday. If you are a subscriber, which you should be, and please monitor your own accounts because it's not my job. Over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, I have a piece.

On that, up there. We're going to deep dive through some of that here in a little bit because the more I read it, I had time to read. I mean, on my days off, the last thing I want to do is work because I'm trying to, you don't want to get burned out. I know too many people in this business that work non-stop, their phones constantly ring, they don't see their kids, or if, or if they got kids, you know, the either the spouse or a nanny raises them. And I just don't have time.

I just don't have the patience for that. I'd like to do long haul and not burn out fast.

So when I'm off, I'm very, you know, although I did read this case and I did write something about it because the more I stewed in it, the madder I got. The more I read And by the time I got to Thomas's fireworks at the end of the 11 Defrollian pages, three-quarters of those were Kavanaugh's history on the Second Amendment. The more I got into it, the madder I got. And now I'm mad.

So I didn't start out mad. I didn't start out celebratory. I didn't even think that this was a draw. I think this was just bad. I think it was a bad ruling.

And I'm. This is why you can't make idols of people on the Supreme Court. This is why you cannot allow Things to be murky because we don't do our job as citizens. Oh, I know you're not supposed to blame the voter. This is why I'm not a politician because I do blame the voter.

I blame the voters for being apathetic. I don't care how busy people are. I know people who work three jobs and homeschool their damn kids, and they still have time to do all of this stuff. I have zero excuses, and nobody else should either. But this case, it should never be ever left up to the Supreme Court to do anything to make these serious decisions like this.

It should never be.

So we're going to deep dive on it. We're also going to get into how Planned Parenthood is going to spend $45 million of our taxpayer dollars on the election. They announced that, and I have a little bit, I went through their 2022-23 report, their fiscal report for their budget. And you're, yeah, you're going to fall over and have a million strokes. And I tell you how much of our taxpayer dollars they've received.

So we're going to get into that. We've got some of the other SCOTUS decisions that are going to be out this week. I think it's Wednesday that they're coming.

So we'll get into all of that as well. We're also going to talk about this big, giant, controversial thing in my own town, the big old gateway church. And I got some things to say about that.

So buckle up. And we got Stephen Yates coming up.

So we're going to get into all this stuff into all of it. And then, of course, you know, some of the stuff, the crime, law and order over the weekend. Did you guys see the Range Rover driving anti-Semitic Hamas lovers that were driving around and beating up Rando Jewish people in the street? Yeah, because that was happening in Gavin Newsom's hood.

So, lovely. Real quick, just to get it out.

So, the SCOTUS case, and again, I said that. And I want to remind you. I don't care if you don't own any guns. If you're only interested in rights because that pertain to things that you like to do and that you're interested in, you're doing yourself a disservice, you're doing your kids a disservice, you're doing your grandkids a disservice. You need to pay attention to all of this stuff.

So, this case, let's just get down to it. Let me give you the cliff notes.

So, this case had to do with a jack wagon whose last name was Rahimi. A horrible, heinous jackwagon. This guy is a POS. Is he a guy that I would sell a gun to? Heck no.

Which was why he was classified as a prohibited possessor when he had a domestic violence protective order laying against him. But this is the thing. You have to separate two things here. You have to separate this guy being a jackwagon, and you have to separate that from the issue of due process. And it's not an easy issue to talk about for people who are miles wide and inches deep.

And so I wrote about this: Zaki Rahimi, he's a violent abuser. He used to beat his girlfriend, all this stuff. And that's when he got a domestic violence restraining order against him. He challenged it all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Now, the difference with this is he had his due process in court, so it wasn't an ex parte process necessarily because, you know, to compare it to Red Flag. But the issue is whether or not the government has the constitutional authority to prohibit firearm possession by an individual who has a civil domestic violence restraining order against them, absent a conviction or a charge. And the court ruled eight to one in favor with Thomas Descenti.

Now, prior to this, the Fifth Circuit Court had actually said he couldn't be denied his right. And the Supreme Court overturned it.

Now, I've always erred on the side of caution, and this is my logic. If someone is dangerous enough to take from them a natural right, they're dangerous enough, and there should be enough evidence to then put them in jail. And the shocking thing about this case is: if, you know, with all of the stuff that has been laid against this guy, Some of the stuff that he had done already that what that uh Under the as it pertains to dangerousness. I mean this guy Apparently, all kinds of crime, huge, huge record. And a lot of the stuff that he had done could have been like felony assault, et cetera.

Under Texas law, every single one of these charges could have been litigated and he would have already been a prohibited possessor without having to do any of this other stuff. That's what I don't get. I feel like people are so damn lazy, including gun, like 2A supporters, even.

Some of these people arguing this, like, well, that makes sense. You know, if he has a domestic job, well, then why isn't he in jail, genius? If you're going to strip natural rights from people, if they're that much of a violent jackwagon, why are they not sitting in jail? I don't want a terrorist running around. I don't want a guy who's out beating women and is a danger to everybody else running around.

If you can take from them a right, then logic dictates that there is enough evidence to put them in jail. Yes? Or are we just gonna, I don't know, drop a deuce on due process altogether? Are we going to sacrifice it at the altar of laziness and expedience? That's my question.

I get so aggravated at this. I always tell people there are legal pathways for every single one of these things. The problem is that people are either too lazy, they're too, and I don't mean this as a pejorative, ignorant of it, and you've got politicians out there telling you that there's no other way to do it unless you completely deconstruct due process a founding building block of this nation's republic, unless you completely destroy it in order to satisfy that fast-tracked prosecution. And that's not the case. Not the case.

So we're going to dive deeper into this because this actually, my opinion is that this gives momentum to red flag. This case is bad. It is a bad case. It's bad reasoning, and I think Clarence Thomas is the only person that understands the point of it.

So, we're going to talk about that. I told you it made me mad.

So, we got that. We're also going to dive into here coming up. Uh, like I said, the debate. We got some other SCOTUS rulings that are coming out and more Trans Tifa violence. Of course, there is.

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Alright, so first and foremost. Flooding, record flooding in Iowa. More rain. Than they expected, and it's prompt evacuations. One city is entirely isolated.

Historic flooding has struck parts of Iowa over the weekend, damaging 2,000 properties. Disaster declarations. Governor Kim Reynolds said that the devastation is severe and widespread. And it, I mean, all weekend, just tons of direct rain.

Some areas had 15 inches in two days. And it said it also flooded all the dry communities downstream.

So goodness, stay safe out there in those floodwaters. 91-year-old Willie Nelson is not feeling well, and he's taking a few days off from his Outlaw Music Festival tour. He said it from inside a pot cloud. Just say.

Somebody wrote blank Elon on dozens of cyber trucks in a Florida parking lot. They were set for delivery.

So someone drew on the drawings. Drew on the child. Yeah, they got mad. I guess they don't like Elon Musk. They decided these were a bunch of cyber trucks that were getting ready to be delivered.

And somebody wrote F Elon on all of them. That's a hate crime, right? Because you can't. Yeah, it's like a hate crime or something. You can't put tire marks on a paint on the road, but somehow.

Yeah, that's like a mega hate crime. That's a big-time hate crime, I'm told. We're all told that reliably. The stock market is in its longest stretch without a 2% sell-off since the financial crisis or pump before the dump. Legos have gone from a humble toy.

I don't, how in the world? It's now a big black market item fueled by Los Angeles heists. The minifigures. This is crazy. In a really bad story, Daniel Miller and Summer Lynn, two people have a byline on this story at Yahoo News, and neither one of them knows how to write a balanced lead and they should be dragged to death.

uh rhetorically speaking of course wink but uh apparently the minifigures like hundreds of them are stolen like regularly they said uh in fact one case the thief stole stuffed a garbage bag with ten thousand dollars worth of figurines i just wanted to say these are plastic miniature children's toys ten thousand dollars and they said that out of one bricks and minifigs outlet uh there was a 100 000 plus 100 000 plus crime spray uh i know um i feel like we got to start stealing legos to make some bank now right i mean that's where the i mean yeah borrowing legos because my theft identifies as borrowing Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate. Uh, yeah, it's they said it's. I didn't know this, one of the highest rates amongst this profession. They said 6,000 construction workers committed suicide in 2022 alone. That's insane.

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Looking for the drive-through version of The Dana Show? Check out the best highlights from every show in Dana's Absurd Truth Podcast, posted daily from The Dana Show. What's up everybody? We are just a few days out till the election day, our primary election on Tuesday, June 25th. But the good news is that the polls are open right now and we are here for our brother, Jamal Bowman.

We want to turn out the vote. I don't care if you live in New York 16 and are turning out to vote for him. I don't care if you live outside New York 16. We are texting our friends. We are turning out.

We are calling our friends in Tuckahoe and White Plains and New Rochelle and Yonkers and Star to vote for Jamal. Isn't she the grown woman who is like, baby girl, baby girl? Like, how are you a grown woman and you're saying stuff like that? Does this look like the bathroom of a club? And do I look like a drunk sorority girl who's asking for your advice?

I didn't think so.

So why are you baby girling people? Who does that? That's so cringe. Democrats, how do, fellow kids? That's what they are.

That's what they're like. They've always been the squares forever. They've been the neo-Puritans, the squares, always. They had this, that was AOC. Welcome back.

Daniel Lash with you. They had this video where they were trying to get energy in New York. Because see, Trump had it where was he at? Bronx, Brooklyn. Where was he at again?

Brooklyn. When Trump's thing was there.

So I guess they're trying to get energy or trying to make it look like people are excited about them too. Look, people are really happy to vote for us too. Look at everybody, they're so excited. And everyone's just like, this doesn't help.

So they had this thing where they came out. We can't play the music because the Nazi baristas at YouTube will ping us. But um They had this They came out with music and she came out like she was flavor flave, right? Did you see that video, Kane? She came bopping out and she was like trying to, like, she's raising her arms, like, trying to get people to raise the roof.

There was no roof there outside, trying to get them to, you know, get real excited. And then Jamal Bowman came out, and then he dropped, I don't know how many MFs. How many did he drop? We can't play anything in the days out on air. Because he's being tough you guys and everyone knows that tough people cuss I mean, it's literally however much you cuss, that is directly proportional to how big your muscles are.

Did you know that, Kane? Oh my gosh. Right. It's like you're tough. Oh, wow.

I didn't believe this person was business until he dropped an MF. And then I really believed him. Just gonna have a drink of my coffee. Mm-hmm. Uh I can drink coffee.

It's radio. That used to be a big no-no back in the day, but now everything's simulcast, so you can, and this is good coffee, and I'm not going to not drink it. Do I need more caffeine though? Wasn't it cringe? It's just not cool.

They're just not cool people. But I think it kind of shows you. How desperate they are. Oh my gosh. Is Juan running?

Is that Juan is preparing for you guys? The video of Jamal Bowman. We can't play the audio because he's cussing this, cussing that. but he's out on stage and he's acting like he's bringing on a group. Right?

Like he's acting like he's bringing a group on. There's tens of people in the crowd, tens of people. Where did his sleeves go, Kane? He got tough. One of his sleeves is gone.

It just straight up fell off. Look, he's going to throw a stool.

Now it's WWE. Oh! Ah! I can't, man. What is he doing?

He is trying to get people hyped. Hyped up. Jamal Bowman, hyped up. Oh, it's just cringe. It is just cringe.

My favorite are the uh middle-aged Cynthias.

Now, what's the difference between a Cynthia and a Karen? I'm going to get a hate mail from both of them. There's no difference. The difference between a Cynthia and a Karen is the Cynthia is more suburbanite, right? Like a Karen can run the whole spectrum, but a Cynthia is targeted.

A Cynthia is the chick whose favorite author in college was Sylvia Plath. That's a Cynthia, right? Everybody knows that. A Cynthia is a chick who had third eye blind on repeat. when she was in her 20s.

That's a Cynthia. You know what I mean? Like that's a Cynthia. Like if she drinks bottled Spritzers, right? That's a Cynthia.

She doesn't know how to make a cocktail. That's a Cynthia. So All these middle-aged Cynthias that are out there eating it up, like, yes, this is their first time at anything political. They think it's crazy. Look, they're being extremists.

They don't know what to do. Golly. But They're desperate, I think. Go on ahead, go into this debate. They're desperate.

There isn't anyone. I was thinking about this. Over the weekend, there's not anybody that Biden can look at and say, that's an asset to me.

Now think about this for a minute. Consider his Circle. Is there anyone that you can? consider he has as an asset. Think of it.

Just a minute. Anyone in Biden's circle. You can think of that is an actual asset to him, right? that adds some value. that gives him a bit of pump, right?

Anybody?

Now And I think Democrats are actually realizing this for the first time. They're freaking out over it. Ooh. Whereas I'm sitting back and having popcorn, they're freaking out over it, which is why I feel like this debate is so you know who Trump should take as his debate guest? London Roberts.

They should have London Roberts and Navy Jones sit in first, front row, and center at the debates. Cain. Yeah. Please tell me that's somebody in whose camp thought of it. Please.

I should be the Ministry of Pettiness. Just, I won't take a check. I just do it for the love. Just give me a plaque and give me some, you know, give me a door fob. I'm cool.

But they should that's They should have London Roberts and Avie Joan sitting front and center. Right? And every single time Biden brings up something that Trump can't address. Because of the gag order, Trump should just then point to the granddaughter and just mess with him. every time.

Every time he could just, well, let's ask Navy Joan, what she thinks. I just every single time. That's what I would do. If I were debating Biden, I would do everything possible, right? Everything to throw, because Biden, you can push Biden's buttons easily.

He's always been like that. Always been like that.

So this debate's Thursday. He's in Camp David. He's getting all jacked up with who knows what. I bet Hunter's up there. You know, he's his middleman, getting all the booger sugar he can.

doing everything he can, getting em all getting em all decked out. He's going to need it. He's going to have to go back on commercial break for infusions. Goodness. While this was happening, one of the debate moderators, and this is.

Audio symbol. One of the debate moderators came up in a segment, and it was the press secretary for the Trump campaign. who is on with CNN's Cassie Hunt. And it didn't go well. And apparently, You're not allowed to be on CNN and mention that Jake Tapper has repeatedly compared the former president to Hitler.

or called him a Nazi or something, which, you know, Godwin's law. Apparently, that's not something you're allowed to. I don't know. Listen to this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go ahead, listen to this. 12. Audio Somebody. What do you expect from Joe Biden?

Well, first of all, so it would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently stopped this interview if you're going to keep it president to Adolph Hilter. Ma'am, I'm going to stop. I'm stating to attack my colleagues. I would like to talk about Biden Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for. Yes.

If you are here to speak on his behalf, then I will be here to have this conversation. I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.

Now, ask ourselves, Caroline. Thank you very much for your time. You are welcome to come back. It's just weird because I can't tell you how many times on CNN, they would have guests on that would say that I was a murderer, that I was a Nazi, that I owned Congress. people.

That actually happened. Quote, I don't care about these children's lives, and they're talking about me. She owns these congressmen. And everyone's like, mmm, everyone from Jake Tapper to Brian Selter. I mean, to say nothing of the town hall that Tapper moderated, and we, you know, we're all there.

You, it's so apparently you're attacking people if you said this is stuff that they actually said. How is that an attack? Wait a minute. Laughs in Geoffrey Toobin. Yeah.

But sh but That would have been my response. I would have just, I would have said, oh, I'm sorry. I should have realized that the only acceptable way to treat your colleagues is to. Have it. singular romantical time on a zoom call.

Like Jeffrey Toobin did. Tubin It is a verb for a reason. She should have brought that up. Just to throw it back in her face. She just was already, you can always tell when you do these hits, if the ma, if the, if the television show, if the host.

Of that, I didn't even know what's her name, Cassie? Casey? I don't know. Her name's K-A-S-I-E. Right, her mom sounds like a Tiffany with an I.

How do you say her name? I think it's Cassie. I don't know. Did she host a show? I don't even know she hosted a show.

Cassie with a K. I can tell she owns a flatiron because, golly. But Oh, am I not supposed to say that? Am I not supposed to say that?

Well, you're watching for a reason, let's be real. I didn't realize though that acknowledging something, and that's kind of important to acknowledge, going. In front of the debate, that dude is moderating, right? I feel like it's, I don't know, kind of significant, maybe. To bring up all the past stuff that said moderator dude has mentioned or remarked on concerning one of the people who are going to be participating in the debate.

Yes? Yes? Do you think Democrats would be silent if the roles were reversed? Like if there was somebody who was so anti-Biden and who's the moderator and they have proof they could just Google? They freak out if it's Brett Baer.

Right. They freak out. And Brett Baer, who is not a, he's not a progressive. But he is a newsman. He's a newsman.

And They freaked out because of him, just because of his affiliation, because he's viewed as being on the right. It's just so wild. Yeah, I I don't know why anyone's participating in this debate. I don't know why the GOP agreed to the terms. I think it's stupid.

This is one of the instances where the audience actually matters, right? out of any debate. I think the audience would have been v they're participation would have been very interesting in this debate. And the fact that the GOP, once again, the RNC agreeing to stupid debates on hostile networks with hostile moderators. And then they're going to be shocked if Trump doesn't get to speak.

Wow, it's almost like he went on a hostile network with hostile moderators. Who could have seen that coming? Not the RNC. Woohoo! They do this all the time.

Golly. It's like that meme where the little cartoon figure is riding a bike and then the cartoon figure sticks a st a a stick into the spokes of the tire and he falls down and then he blames everybody else but him doing it. It's the same thing, the RNC. It's just the goofiest thing.

So This was, I'm just saying this, it it's I don't know what to expect out of this debate. Do I think it's going to be fair? No. No, it's not going to be fair. It's not going to be fair at all.

Now, Trump said that he is going to apparently.

Well, he said his his running mate will attend the debate. I think he's going to drag that out as long as possible. Is it important, you think, Kane, if he announces one now? I don't know if he needs to announce one now. I don't think it's necessary.

I think it Well, especially depending on who it is. I told you, I think that he should pick Glenn Young, who turns out. or uh Brian Kemp. I know a lot of people said DeSantis, DeSantis of Florida, Trump is now domiciled in Florida. I don't think that that necessarily would work because Florida is already a solid red state.

I think you got to do a swing state. And give him a swing steak out of it. I think he wants to milk this for as much as possible. Oh, he should. He should milk this as much as possible.

And I think that's what he's going to do. And he's going to wait until what did did he say the convention or something? Was when he's.

Well, he just said that he's already privately chosen someone to be the running mate. and he didn't say who it was, but he said that Uh He said he's decided in his mind. And that that person is going to be. At the debate. My question is: does the person know?

Because if they don't, then you're going to have all these people that are going to be pick-by girls. all trying to like get in there and do it, right?

So I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. I just think it's Brian Kemp or Glenn Young would be great choices. Because Georgia, that's the state you need, and Virginia's the state you need.

Uh and Virginia could go I mean it's within the margin of error it could go that way And we'll see. But uh, you know, he said he's going to be there at the debate. All right, coming up.

Some more SCOTUS decisions are coming out, and I'll explain why I think that Rahimi case, the 2A case. actually fuels red flag lie. I don't think it was a good case. Thomas's dissent was was fabulous. We're going to talk about that.

We also. The George Sorosan Odyssey situation. Finally, going to talk about it. I know.

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And Everyone in an election for President of the United States will critically examine all the issues and make a decision.

Well What? It's the election for President of the United States.

So I'm going to say something very obvious here. She brings so much to the table. Really, she does. Just quality word salad. It's my favorite word salad.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Uh we are Going to be rolling in here shortly to our second hour. And we're gonna, we've got a the debate coming up on Thursday. We're gonna have debate bingo.

I feel like that's the only way to do this. I think I'm gonna have some stuff with Fox pre-debate. But I think that's the only way to do this: debate bingo, right? We're going to have to. And also, the Planned Parenthood spending $45 million.

for the 2024 election. You know that's our money, right? When they make They're according to their own website, you can go to their website and they have Uh there Information for the prior year and in 2023. I mean They had $699 million. It was up from $670 in 22.

That's over a half a billion dollars, and it used to be in the fives. Like five years ago, it was like 500 million something. Their taxpayer funding has steadily increased. And their abortion as birth control remains their top Service. That's their top thing.

But they try to fudge the math and act like, no, it's all this other stuff. No, that's literally your money maker. Yeah. And before people go, well, you know, without Planned Parenthood, you realize that community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics in every single state in the nation three to one. And they actually, again, you can get free stuff.

It's for low-income people, people in need. And they don't just cater to women. They also have a full suite of services. They deal with men. They deal with children.

They don't use your taxpayer dollars on Democrat campaigns as well. And they actually do mammograms, which Planned Parenthood lies about doing and they don't because they're not actually licensed for the mammogram machine and they don't even have the machine.

So I digress. The community health centers are where it's at. Why is this outfit getting our taxpayer dollars? We've got that and a lot more coming up. Second hour on the way.

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So tonight We'll refer to him as Sleepy Joe. Because right now. As you know, it's been reported that right now Crooked Joe's gone to a log cabin. Two. Study, prepare.

No, he didn't do. He's sleeping now. Because they want to get him good and strong.

So a little before debate time he gets a shot in the ass and that's Yeah, he's right there, and it's true. I don't know what they're gonna do. Brought to you by Hunter's Cocaine. I'm not quite sure how they're going to get him to stand up. It's this Thursday, though.

Thursday. Uh welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. And uh this Second hour, top of the second hour. And we've got Stephen Neats.

He's going to be joining us later on in the program, and we've been following all of this stuff. including Uh we're gonna h touch on some of the uh the immigration stuff, the debate. Which is coming up. We got some Supreme Court decisions. More going to be out.

on uh Wednesday, I believe. And we were going over some of the ones that are already there, that already came out, the Rahimi one as well. I'm looking at this. The press conference right now. that has to do with the This is in Pennsylvan this is the Pennsylvania one, I believe.

Because they're having that press conferen. This is just these horrible stories. It was this 12-year-old girl. No, this is a Texas case, but this guy ended up, he was running around the country, finally taken into custody. Uh but this twelve year old girl Uh who was murdered and then Just what wasn't I I just awful.

They had her celebration of life. I listened to an interview that her mother gave. And it was just heartbreaking, but heartbreaking. These guys, though, I mean, they're grown dudes. One of them I think looks like he's got gray hair.

I was looking at their mugshot. Uh They were released. They uh murdered uh this twelve year old girl, Joce Jocelyn Nungery, And They I mean, the history of this. I mean, they were detained and then they had been released because it's, you know, catch and release, all this stuff. She was found strangled.

They were trying to determine. Because I think it's assumed that she was raped as well. And I think that they were trying to Make a determination on that based on the evidence because that charge doesn't just make this That charge elevates this to a capital punishment case. if rape is involved in it. I don't know.

I mean, I just think they killed a 12-year-old. That enough should be a capital. punishment that should merit a capital punishment. uh penalty itself But in Texas, apparently if that's a part of it, Uh, then it's elevated to a cat. I mean, he could get the death penalty, which I mean, I think that should be a given anyway.

I feel so bad for her mother. Ah, goodness, her whole family. She's such a a pretty girl. And two people from Venezuela entered the country illegally. I mean, they have records.

They had, what, $10 million bond? uh for uh Franklin Ramos, one of the suspects. And he when when Uh Ice First, captured this guy, they gave him an ankle monitor when they released him. Ice gave him an ankle monitor when he released him. That's from ABC thirteen down in Houston.

But hey, you know, there's no problem with the border. There's no gotaways, there's no catch and release, none of that stuff's happening. Has Biden said anything about this? Has he tweeted about it? Has he mentioned it at all?

I mean, he was so eager to get up there and talk about George Floyd repeatedly on X, but has he said anything about. Twelve year old Jocelyn Nungery. I I don't know. But I think they were looking for a $1 million bond minimum for each for the for both suspects. One guy, the 26 years old, the 26-year-old, he was given a $10 million bond.

Uh and It was him and another illegal immigrant who from Venezuela who apparently repeatedly crossed illegally. and uh that were they were twenty-six and twenty-one years old. and they were taken into custody. and uh just awful. Awful.

This is like what the fourth, third, or fourth case, something similar that we've had like this. of people who come across the border and then they Uh end up They have records and then they end up attacking, murdering. a female. I mean this was a 12 year old girl. Ah.

But, you know, there's nothing wrong with the border. Nothing wrong. And it's not because Joe Biden doesn't want to do anything, it's because Republicans can't pass anything or something. At least that's. That's just that's what Elizabeth Warren had said.

Mm.

Now Obviously, I hope this is one of the things that comes up at the debate Thursday: immigration. Trump should be super prepared to answer questions on this. He should name and say the names of every single one of these victims. He should ask Biden why you're so eager to tweet about Mike Brown and you're so eager to tweet about George Floyd and all these other people, but these individuals that are murdered. By your border policies.

You haven't said anything about them. Why? he should absolutely bring this up. And every single time that Biden tries to deflect and talk about something that Trump can't mention because of gag order, he should deflect to that. And then he should point to Navy Joan, who should be with London Roberts, her mother in the front row of that debate.

They should point to her. He needs to go back to that every single time. Every single time.

Now, we got more Supreme Court decisions, like I said, coming down. On Wednesday, as the court is finishing up its term, they announced, too, and I was looking for the story, they announced that they're going to. Apparently, make a disease, so next year they're gonna be looking at the case about the gender surgery for minors. That's a case SCOTUS is going to be looking at for next year. That's going to be interesting.

But they had some of the other, where did this go?

Some of the other cases that they have that will be coming up. for their term. as they finish, you've got there's a couple of others. They have 61 cases this term, 15 still require decisions. They have the presidential immunity case.

That's going to be Whether or not presidents are immune from prosecution for official actions taken in office. And that the indictment that he has on election interference, whether or not that's going to be dismissed.

Now previously Supreme Court has ruled in That presidents can't be sued in civil court, like for civil cases. But this is a criminal immunity, so this is where they don't really have, there's not any groundwork.

So this will be kind of interesting. And then, of course, they've got a January 6th case. Whether it has to do with the Pennsylvania officer who is challenging the obstruction charge brought against people who were there at the Capitol for January 6th. And the issue is whether or not a law that is meant to. discourage tampering with documents.

That Are being pursued in investigations whether that can be used against the people who are arrested for January 6th. You have the emergency abortion case. Whether doctors can provide medical procedures in emergencies in states that banned abortions. Which that's a weird case to me. And I feel like when you get down into the Weeds of it.

Some of these cases are about more than just that because the states already have. Carve outs for the life of the mother. They have the homelessness case. This is where. If people can be banned from sleeping outdoors when shelter spaces, there aren't enough spaces in the shelter.

There's a Chevron case, it's a 40-year-old decision whether it's going to be overturned.

Social media case. Uh this Texas and Florida, uh Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube, all of this stuff. Uh these are the social media laws. It has to do with uh censorship.

So this is one of the cases. You have a Purdue Pharma case, an air pollution case, and an SEC case.

So, you have a handful of cases that still were awaiting you. All of this could come down Wednesday. That's going to be a crazy Wednesday. The Rahimi cases I talked about. This was, and if you get the newsletter, the substek newsletter.

When I took this, when I looked at this case and I was reading the opinion of the court, and then I read, it was 8 to 1, Thomas's dissent. I was really actually disappointed with the case, with with how this how this all came out. And there's a couple of things in here because What you have to do, there's three things that this case is looking at. First off, it's a real test of Bruin, because under the Bruin case, The established was, it was a constitutional test that was established under Bruin. And that was: you know, if you're making a gun law or if you're looking to abridge rights or something to that effect, is it consistent with our Republics History Of firearm, our traditions on firearm regulation.

Like, is there the analogs for that? The other thing that it's looking at is the dangerousness. Because when you look at the federal statute, it's 18 U.S.C. 922 subsection G. That Looks at if you are a person who's got domestic violence restraining order, et cetera, you're a pivoted person.

It It doesn't, it doesn't require a finding the way the federal statute is written now, it doesn't. require Uh A level of dangerousness, which is interesting. That has to do with the Cantor V bar case. It and it doesn't It doesn't require like any kind of determination on whether the individual is dangerous. And that's...

Really not what the court looked at here either. It was weird. I mean, the decision doesn't validate all of the statutes for restraining orders. Uh and There's it, I think it gives some momentum to red flag law because it. doesn't um I don't think it was very clear when it talked about.

things being determined by a court, does that mean that the other party has to be notified? Is that going to be an ex parte process? What is it going to be about? One of the things that Thomas said in his dissent And And this is something in the Fifth Circuit opinion because the Fifth Circuit Court had said. That it was unconstitutional to deprive someone of a natural right like this, whereas the Supreme Court overturned it and Thomas dissented.

And he was saying this is not about whether states, in his dissent, can disarm people who threaten others. States do have a mechanism for that, as Thomas notes. They have a mechanism for disarming anyone who uses a firearm to threaten physical violence. It's criminal prosecution. And Texas, as I had made mention of, and Thomas noted, has all kinds, I mean, this could have been aggravated assault.

It could have been a felon, it's a felony punishable by 20 years in jail. And Texas could have convicted and imprisoned Rohini for every one of his acts.

So the question before us, he says, is not whether Rahimi and others like him can be disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment. It's whether the government can strip Second Amendment rights of anyone subject to a protective order, even. If he has not been convicted. or accused of a crime. And that's what's important here.

because that is what the court did not determine. They just said, yes, it can be. The court says a credible threat can justify. But it doesn't add Address at all whatsoever if there's not been any adjudication, it doesn't address it.

So it's It's I mean you have to have a hearing for the restraining order. But Thomas even noted in his dissent And this is like with red flag, that the other party doesn't have to be privy to it. And And a lot of times, these can be used in reverse against victims of domestic violence. There are cases of this. I just feel like this was a bad case.

It wasn't a win for Second Amendment. It Re I think it was more of a win for gun control than it was for Second Amendment. Because it does nothing to neutralize momentum for red flag. It does nothing to. Underscore the importance of due process.

And again, I err on the side of caution. If someone is dangerous enough to remove from them a natural right, they're dangerous enough to be in prison.

So, you're going to affect penalty. You have to separate these things in order to be able to litigate this. logically. It's true, but see, the left has it to where you can't talk about things clinically or logically because then they'll accuse you of being heartless or supporting. domestic violence, which is weird because some of the biggest gun control groups have actually worked, partnered.

with domestic abusers. Happy to provide receipts whenever they want. I agree with Annie Oakley, who said, I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

Now, I myself regularly can still carry a nine millimeter.

Now, that said, not every woman is like me, has had the hours of training that I've had, or feels comfortable around firearms due to years of use, or maybe they're by a gun-free zone. I'd like to change that what I can while encouraging self-defense at the same time.

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This is a horrible This is see, this is why I hate cardio. A treadmill tragedy as a fitness fanatic stumbled backwards off of a treadmill and then plunged to her death out of her gym's third floor window during her workout. And it's on video. It's a gym user in Indonesia. Apparently the treadmill is like by a window.

And they face to the s like, I guess the mirrors and that and behind them is a window. And she had gone to the gym with her boyfriend. And she, there's a row of treadmills. She stumbles backwards on it and goes right out of the window, tries to grab the window frame, but just disappears out of sight as she fell through. And to her death.

That's just, oh my gosh.

So, if you go into a gym and you see a treadmill and it's by the window, don't use it anyway. If you see a treadmill and it's not by a window, don't even use the treadmill. You know what cardio is? It's rest. It's rest between sets.

That's it. That's it. That's your cardio. Apparently, you're not supposed to, we've talked about this before, but now they're saying that there's all these stories of people herniating their lungs. I don't even know what that means.

How do you herniate your lung? Or eject your own bowels if you try to not sneeze. Don't keep it in. Just sneeze, just do the sneeze, okay? Just, this is an actual study, a scientific study that was released by some big hospital, but they're saying it's also sub-arrack, I don't know, some kind of brain hemorrhage that you could have.

Just don't try to hold it in. It happens. People sneeze. It's not rude. Confidence in colleges and universities hits a new low, according to College Fix, who have a bunch of polls on this, Gallup and some others, where they're saying that nobody, it's a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

They're saying that nobody has any trust or confidence at all, whatsoever. since the curtain has been pulled back. About as it pertains to colleges and universities. And they said there was a significant decline in this since just the Gallup poll last year. but it was particularly severe amongst people ages 18 to 34.

and the Democrats that showed the largest drop. Democrats and women. Very interesting. Democrats and women have the biggest drop. Also, DeSantis is making it legal to kill crack bears in self-defense.

These are like. We've had we've talked about this before. WFLA has it lethal force against bears as long as certain criteria is met. You know, you can't just like go hunting for bear out in the street, but if they're going to come and kill you and they're in your house, et cetera, yeah, you can kill them. Stick with us.

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So when we talk about these recent crimes, and gosh, we've had a list, they are tragic, nobody wants them to happen, but that legislation would not have stopped those people from coming into this country. You can't assume that every person seeking asylum in this country is going to commit a crime, Shannon. Correct. It only matters that it's one. I mean, when it's an American life.

What's your question, Shannon?

Well, the question is, and we know the vast majority of people coming here are simply seeking a better life or asylum from a dangerous situation at home, but because the situation has become so porous at the border, it does allow for bad actors, and whether it's five or 10 or 15, these are American lives that have been devastated because of them being able to manipulate and leverage the system as it now exists. I agree. Shannon, we need to get control of our border. And I hope folks will pay attention to what the former president has said and done. I'm going to say that with a serious face and then.

You then proceed to try to argue against the steps required to do it. Million dollar question here. That's Shannon Braem talking to Senator Chris Coons. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

And he says, Well, you can't assume that everyone seeking asylum is going to commit a crime.

Well, you can't assume that everyone actually needs asylum. or that people are seeking it. I mean that's The truth of the matter. You can't assume that everyone is deserving of asylum, requires asylum, or is even seeking asylum. And isn't that an argument that you hear?

so often from the gun control left, like even if it just saves one life. even if it just saves one life. Apparently that's a talking point to them, because in instances where it actually matters i.e., the border and preventing this deluge of people coming across. That's doesn't matter then. It's not that much of an issue.

Even if it just saves one life, They don't care.

Well, I hope that comes up this week. I really hope it does come up this week. A couple of things to also touch on. Because r one more quick thing with regards to uh immigration. The crackdown on this in Florida is apparently paying off.

I was reading this. Update from one of their local media. It was their medical emergency medical assistance program. They saw a 54% drop in expenditures. that were being billed to Medicaid because There's an exodus of people who entered illegally into the state.

They're not coming in. States like Texas and Florida that are being really strict about this. You're not seeing. the types of numbers that you did. previously.

They said that according to the administration, They told Politico that people who have medical necessities are treated. But they said that people who enter illegally cannot use benefits that are intended for taxpaying Americans that use their taxpayer dollars to pay for those things. I mean, that's the whole thing of it. And that's a huge problem. That's what some of these Medicaid expenditures are.

And there were hospitals that had to cover About a half a billion dollars in medical bills for services that were used by people who entered the country illegally and had no. interest in paying it, or ability to pay it.

So that's already changing in Florida. It should change everywhere. This is one of the stupidest articles that I've read. I just share this with you. This is just actually so This is such a dumb piece.

So, this has to do: here's the headline: study finds. that the United States doesn't have a housing shortage. but a shortage of affordable housing.

Now, you got that right, then you came. It's not that there's a housing shortage. It's a shortage of affordable housing. How'd that happen? They said that.

The United States is dealing with this housing shortage. It's research from the University of Kansas. And it finds that, you know, the the nation's markets have ample housing. but they lack enough units that are affordable. Hmm.

This is like some Soviet logic, is it not? I'm like reading this. This is some straight up Soviet logic.

So they said that the guy who did this, that he and this other dude co-wrote this study, was in the housing policy debate. And that this is This it's just a bad study. Kirk McClure. Professor of Public Affairs and Administration Emeritus at KU. Wait, how does Corinne Jean-Pierre say it?

Emerititis or however she's she makes it sound like it's a disease. Emoritis, thank you. I agree. They examined Census Bureau data from 2000 to 2020, and they were comparing the number of households, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and that it had to do with. The nation's 381 metropolitan areas that experienced a housing shortage.

And they said that they need to urgently address housing affordability and not just build new homes. You realize how dumb this is? How bad? I mean, this is a Soviet. This is like some Soviet Type nonsense here.

I have to, I have to. Share this with you. It reminds me of what they this what they uh the registration system. that I read about that they use in China. It's called the Uh What is it, the Hooji system?

And it's literally registration of individuals. that have That have homes. Like, you have to register to have a house. Like, you, it is, it's the system. that Makes it to it's a cop that communist China uses.

It's household registration that they use, and they call it huji. That's what it is: household individual. And you have to register. And it Bit. dis differentiates between like rural and urban and so it Uh uh promotes that rur that urban rural division It's just a weird, commie thing.

That's what this sounds like, doesn't it? It it sounds like this. I was reading about their their little housing registration system that they use. But this is such a bad It's like saying, Gosh, can you believe there's like so much traffic, nobody's driving? I said, The problem isn't housing affordability, the problem is this economy.

The problem is inflation. The problem is the promise of taxation that this administration is promising. That's the problem with it. I mean, it's it's Not the fact that there's a sh this like shortage of affordable housing. I'm going to put this, by the way, in your email prep because it's just such a stupid It's such a bad study.

And The Idea That you're owed. Like a level of housing, and that it's the people who own the property that owe that to you. Instead of a government that's taking your money and irresponsibly spending the money that it's already taken from you. and therefore devaluing the dollar. and driving the downward turn in the market.

It it doesn't make sense. Like, I don't think that people understand Housing markets. And when you look at some of these cities, it's not a problem. It isn't that there's a shortage of housing, it's that. I mean, in fact, some of the cities that have The What they would call a shortage in housing, like San Francisco.

Kane, what's like the average salary of people who live and work in San Francisco? It's insane. It is. They make major cash. You could make six figures and still be in poverty and live like you're in poverty.

It's just a weird Line of argument. I mean, and by the way, It's job growth. And it's incomes, that's what drives the pricing in these markets. It's not. You know, shortage of housing shortages doesn't drive affordability.

That's not an issue. I mean It's I I don't know. And doesn't San Francisco, isn't there rent? I was actually looking up there, their rent is literally like a mortgage everywhere else. For a nice house everywhere else.

San Francisco's. Mortgage. Parts of San Francisco, like it outpaces parts of Manhattan. That's crazy. Silicon Valley doesn't have a problem with income.

In Santa Clara County, If you have a family of four that makes $140,000 a year, you get housing assistance. Kane is about to die. I'm not making this up. It's a ripple effect. The source of this earthquake in the economy is the fact that government overspends.

If government didn't overspend, we wouldn't have to have higher interest rates to combat inflation. And because we have higher interest rates, now mortgage rates are higher.

So a $300,000 house that was a $2,000 payment three or four years ago is now a 3,000-plus payment. Today, same house. It wasn't like the value of the house went crazy up or anything like that. It was literally because of interest rates, and it all goes back. to the government overspending.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Such a, oh my gosh. That's what, but you know what? Then, if you're on the left, you have to admit that those policies haven't worked, so why would you vote more for more of them?

It's a denial. I'm sure everybody's read this story about what happened to this church. This church is actually in my town. Uh, whenever I'm like on the highway I see it. It's a big giant mega church.

Can I be honest? I don't understand megachurches. I'm very, I said something on Twitter a little earlier today. Actually, I think I said something over the weekend too. But what I had said was that uh it kind of pertaining to this That Church was never meant to be a corporate entity.

and worship wasn't meant to be big business. and pastors are not meant to be unaccountable. And it kind of seems to me that Jesus would be flipping some tables over what's been in the headlines lately. This. Pastor at this mega church, Robert Morse.

It's the Gateway Church, and it's in my town in Texas. It is a huge megachurch.

So apparently, and this case is beyond the statutory limitations for any kind of prosecution, criminal prosecution, but they said that the guy, like years ago in the 80s, when this woman was 12, she's 54 now. Uh he apparently sexually abused her for a while. and he c stayed at the head of the church. And she was trying to come to terms with it over the years. And there's a lot of email receipts.

He never denied it in any of the emails. And he even told her that, you know, it would ruin everything. I mean, he was like, he admitted it in the emails and reading that have been published about this in the texts later. And apparently some of the people in the church knew.

Some of the elders knew. And I was reading something that a friend had posted yesterday. They had a guy who apparently was an elder who went out this Sunday and was talking about it in the church and saying that they were going to make amends. And my friends were like, We've never seen this guy. And we've been going to this church 17 years and we are active in this church.

And we don't even know who this guy is. Like did they just send out some dude to just, you know Pretend that he's an elder and that everything was, but it does bring up questions like what else is happening? And clearly, somebody else had to know because apparently the girl's family knew they were very good friends. They like vacation together.

So there's, you know, there's some. Apparently it wasn't Good. totally wasn't totally publicly known, but it wasn't entirely a secret either. And I just like I don't Can I be? I don't like corporate churches.

I don't like it. I don't like corporatized worship. I don't understand how you can be like these pastors at these big churches. How are they millionaires? How in the world are they millionaires?

I don't understand this. You're doing church wrong. And especially in an era when you have a lot of people that are struggling with so many things. I just I think it needs to get back to what it to the heart of what the church is supposed to be with some of these institutions. It's not supposed to be like this giant corporatized thing.

I'm always just totally I if that's the kind of church you go to, I'm not throwing judgment your way. But I don't I don't Like that kind of stuff. I just like just straight note chaser Jesus, right? I don't need all of these levels of hierarchy. I don't need a corporation.

I don't need a giant show. I don't need, you know, huge screens that rival that at Jerry's Dome. I don't need stuff like that. But this guy finally, this pastor finally stepped down. And, um It came out because there's a website that talks about abuses in churches and cover-ups, and apparently her stuff came out on it.

They had protesters out over the weekend. that were in front of the church. You can't just send out a guy that nobody knows to talk about it and then think that it's all going to be over. And then it's all done. There were discussions like if this guy's son was going to take over the pastor, or what?

It should not be a business. It's not a business. Golly. So I just, I don't know, I feel for this victim, and I also feel for a lot of those parishioners who were going to that church, and now people might feel duped. You know, this guy was standing in front of you for so long, sitting here lecturing about all these people are not supposed to be unaccountable.

I don't know. They need to get back to being shepherds and stop trying to chase fame. Nobody, I'm just done with it. I'm done with it. Everybody's got to write a book.

Everybody's got to have a hot take. Everybody's got to have a podcast. Everybody's got to have something. And I think some of these pastors have too much power. They're not supposed to be dictators.

It's one of the reasons why you get the elders there. We got more on the way as we roll towards Florida, man. Probably the sanest person in the world today. And as we do so, Caltech, Florida-based company, George Kellgren, immigrated over here from Sweden and started an awesome boomstick business in Florida. And they've been founded in 1991.

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So when you know you know it's like a a bad news week when Florida man is like the smartest or like the the person that's like the sanest. All right, so first up What'd that fish do to you? A Florida man broke into his ex's home and flushed. her fished on the toilet after smashing the tank.

So he got he was mad. This is in Lee County in Cape Coral.

So he broke into her home. Uh Brett Dahl, who is 29. and uh two thirty in the morning, attacked her. Threw a picture frame at her, demanded she tell him where oh, he apparently is a prohibited possessor and he had a gun there too. Pushed her in a closet, went after her fish tank, her $300 fish tank.

It contained her fish named Bean. And then she said that she heard Dahl go into the bathroom, flush a toilet, and did not see her fish after that. And he also apparently bashed up her headlight and then left in his friend's Jaguar. Jaguar. I mean That's That is so ignorant.

You're flushing her fish down there. It was like her pet fish. I don't understand how you can have a pet fish and you talk to it because you can't pet them. It's weird, but I get it. A Florida man was charged after breaking into a C V S and pulling at Ron Swanson with the Viagra.

So he broke in and he says, I want all of your bottles of Viagra. You know how Swanson was like, I don't mean some bacon and eggs, I mean all of your bacon and eggs. He's been charged with a number of felonies now on a misdemeanor. He went into the CVS and asked for all the bottles, literally, all of them. I am made of jokes right now.

This 23-year-old guy, he was in Orlando, CVS. He handed the pharmacist a note, and then apparently he told them all of it, not some, all of it.

So he did not have a weapon at the time. He's been arrested, and yeah, he's been charged with more things than I can actually. He's very specific with his note, too. We have more on the way. Uh, we have Stephen Yates who's going to be joining us coming up in our next hour.

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And with President Trump right now, where he is with Hispanics, with blacks, with People under age 30 and with independence. I mean, he's very strong across the board.

So he can pick someone that he can focus on: like, hey, let's get someone to get stuff done. Let's get someone who helps him govern. He doesn't have to make a choice like some of the other names that you cited, where maybe they needed a blend to actually get the electoral block. I don't think that that's necessarily incorrect. I just don't know why Doug Bergham is talking about it.

Why is he talking about it? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Doug Bergum, as you know, he was one of the guys we talked about this last week who's being considered. He's a governor of North Dakota.

They were he kind of looks like Uh I don't know, like a more generic Eugene Levy. It's the eyebrows. It's the eyebrows that do it. I I don't necessarily think that's wrong, but I don't think it's entirely correct either, what he just said there. And before we get started, by the way, hi, welcome back.

Good to be with you. Top of the third hour, Daniel Lash with you. Listen, Coast to Coast. You can follow us online, stream us, channel 347, DirecTV as well. I think that it is important if it is a swing state.

I think it very much adds to Trump's momentum. I think that it helps him, especially if it's a state like Georgia or Virginia. Because there are, you know, this, it always comes down to like the hometown politician. Like, if this is one of their own, and then it's going to be a lot easier to get those voters in that state. And I think with people like Brian Kemp or even a Glenn Youngkin, I think that there's a greater chance of Trump to be able to unite kind of the frayed factions of the right.

And bring in Republican but traditionally non-hardcore Trump voters, if that makes sense. It's not like they dislike him, it's just that. They're Republican voters, but I don't think that they would define themselves as MAGA. And that's a demo that you have to understand and that you still want and need in order to win.

So I think that. In those instances, I do think it is important who his VP pick is. He's got a great opportunity. I just don't think that he can have somebody who is super charismatic like he is. You can't have two charismatic people like that.

But At the same time, I think a lot of people were left wondering what Mike Pence did. Right? He seemed real milquetoast, didn't he? Like to the point where you just I don't know, it it almost didn't seem like it worked there either.

So, I don't know. I don't think it can be Doug Bergham because North Dakota is sorry, with your electoral vote, you're not bringing a lot.

Okay, I'm just being honest about it. Great state. You're just not bringing a lot electorally to it. Come on. Let's be real.

It's not like a Georgia, it's not like a Virginia. It's very different. I also think that Christy Noah is officially out. I don't if she was ever being considered, it's still not happening. By the way, she had um she said she wasn't formally vet formally vetted Audio Sunbite 10.

She said that she hasn't been formally vetted to be his running mate because she's out of it. She got. She's out of the running. Listen. Let me ask you about some of our reporting that shows there are three names now on Donald Trump's shortlist to serve as his vice presidential pick.

Yours is not one of them right now. Are you being vetted? Have you received the paperwork? The only person who knows who the vice president is going to be. Have you received the paperwork, though?

No, I haven't received any paperwork. No, I haven't. I've had conversations with the president, and I know that he is the only one who will be making the decisions on who will be his vice president. I'm just saying it's not going to happen. They did ask her about Audio Summite 11.

They had to bring back to the Kim Jong-un thing. Again, she wrote it in her book. She's never going to get away from this. We got to. It's audio.

What is it? Audio Summite 11. Listen. So let's talk about the book, having gone through much of it right now. This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.

In the first release of your book, he wrote: I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. There was no evidence that that meeting happened.

So, how did it make it into your book, Governor? I'm not going to talk about that. You're not going to talk about it. That's so weak. That is so weak.

You can't do that. You can't put it in your book. And then I'm not going to talk about it. But you put it in your book. Not only did you put it again, you put it in your book.

And then you I had to go through the editing read. And then you had to okay the excerpts that were released to promote the book.

So she had like three different occasions, three different opportunities to say. That's not going to work. I'm not going to do that. I can't have it. It just looks weak to be like, no, I'm not going to talk about that now.

You're not going to talk about the meeting that you said happened and literally the entirety of your staff contradicted you? You're not going to talk about that? Really? I've never seen so many unforced errors.

So now she's out of the running. Out of the running. And I gotta say, with her moderate record, I'm happy. 'Cause she's a moderate. She tried to like reframe herself and she got a she tried to what is it?

She had a blow up. went to the salon, She totally changed her look. seriously changed it. And It didn't, then she decided to shoot herself in the foot and come out with this book where she thought she was going to flex, and it ended up looking goofy. Just didn't work out.

So who do you think it's going to be? I know who I want it to be. I kind of think it might be Tim Scott. I don't know. If you see Tim Scott at the debate, I'm going to be like, it's Tim Scott.

But then, what if he's there with Doug Bergam? What are you going to think? There's no way Trump picks Doug Bergham. No offence, but No. Right.

No. Does he inspire anything? I think he would actually be a drag on the ticket. He would be a drag. He doesn't bring anything electorally.

It's just dumb. It's a waste of a maneuver. Don't do it. I actually don't think I don't know. Does Tim Scot I don't know if that works.

Tim Scott?

Well, like you said, I mean, what does the VP really do except just support the president, right? Yeah. And who does that then could be president?

So it's like and then who does that? The best. I don't think it's going to happen with Rubia because of the whole Florida thing. No. And him crumpling on stage and moderate.

Bergham doesn't really move the needle. And I think even his audio pointed to it: that Trump doesn't need a VP to move the needle for him in some way, shape, or form, I guess, at this point. In certain respects, I think he does in non-maga Republican voters, independents in those swing states. I think he does. Yeah, I agree with that.

That's why I hope he picks a Yunkin or a Kemp. I know that Kemp is like a fine. That's like me asking for a Ferrari, right? Or a 1970 Challenger. Black with Black-tinted windows.

You'll poke your eye out. Black leather interior. No, I don't have you'll poke your eye out. Mine is, you'll ramp it around a tree. That's what I'm told in my house.

So, what if I'm a woman driver and just be get away from me on the road? Just let me have my lanes. I said lanes.

So I don't know who it's going to be. Can we throw this picture? I forgot who this dude was. Who's this dude? Don't tell me.

I need to show you guys this dude. Yeah, and then I f lost my link. Uh I need you guys to guess. If you're watching the simulcast, I'm going to show you a picture of a guy. I'm just gonna have you like I don't know, take some guesses as to what you think his job is.

This would be fun. Yeah, what do you think this guy does for a living? Wands steady in the picture and he's going to throw it up.

So I just want to critique the photo real quick. We have a mullet. It doesn't Look like his hair's dry, or he put way too much product in it. I don't know what in the Betelgeuse world is happening with his jacket. And I say this as a fan of Betelgeuse who loves stripes.

Your lapel and the rest of the jacket should not be like going every which way. It's just a bad cut. I think it's a barcode. I don't understand the earrings and the kid toucher stash. Or the glasses.

I don't, and that is a kid toucher stash. I don't like his lip that's peeking through the curtains there. I don't like that. It I I what what would you think that this guy If you were to guess Like, what it is that he does for a job, Kane.

Well see, I I look at this photo. And you can't say pedophile. That's not a job. Oh. Oh, then I got nothing.

Oh, my word. I'm kidding. No, so I look in the background and I see that there's an American flag there.

So I automatically assume. that this guy has either served in his community or the country. In some way. Right. At that And then looking at his hair, glasses, and You know, dress choice.

Um I think he works in the Biden administration. Honestly. This looks like someone who would work in the Biden administration. I think he works in the Biden administration. Right.

I'm pulling up his name. Wait, there's another photo of him? Yeah, let's throw up. There's one more photo of it. Oh, good lord, seriously?

Well, okay, before we okay, he just okay, so you know how some of us, like, you'll go, or maybe, maybe you've never done the whole um. You go to Olin Mills or something and you get your photo taken, right? And Something like that. Right, with a background of like a fall Afternoon. Yeah.

It's like a beautiful fall vignette. and you have your photo taken. Like a lot of people will do that. Uh or like back when I was in like school when I was a little kid, everybody did the glamour shots. Uh I don't know what in the hotastic world that is, but he went and he did that.

So that's, yeah, I think, I don't know, but this is a guy.

Now, I will say, you are correct. And then he does work. Oh. Wait, is this a staffer that did that deed in the Senate chambers? Is it?

I don't want to talk about it anymore. I'm going to turn into Christy Nell. I don't want to talk about that. I don't. All I know is that it was some Senate staffer, some Democrat Senate staffer.

That was doing like you know, sexual things on video in the Senate. Chamber. Um Uh it's bad. That's this guy works. He's like a deputy communications dude.

Oh good board. In the administration. Really? Yeah. That guy.

I don't know what he's communicating there. But And then that's like a I guess this the one photo that Juan showed where he's got the flag. I guess that's on his badge.

So, because you have your little photo on your badge that you take when you go to the White House, I think that's like his part. Yeah, can you imagine? That's your photo. That's what you go with. You're going with that.

All right. Beautiful word. That's what our administration is.

Now, I wanted to share this story with you before we get going because we got headlines coming up in Stephen Yates. We've been talking about the mentioned earlier the case of the 12-year-old girl who was. uh murdered by Illegal immigrants came in from Venezuela. Did you hear about the 20-year-old woman in Germany? You want to know why Germany made the moves that it made towards the right, towards actual border security?

Uh because a woman in Hamburg was sent to prison after she was gang raped. After or a 20-year-old, she was sent to prison after the gang rape of a child. She's one of 140 people being investigated because she made what they called harmful comments towards the rapists because they are illegal immigrants into Germany. There were multiple groups of illegal immigrant men who attacked a 14-year-old girl in Hamburg in one night. They attacked her.

Apparently, they isolated her. They separated her from her friends. She was defenseless against the mob. And they raped her over an extended period of time, took her wallet, her cell phone. They assaulted her.

She was disoriented from the first attack. She wasn't able to call for help. And everybody. And and they use their their what like WhatsApp or something to get more people to come down to Violator. And when she was finally able to break through and ran, she was pursued by the rapists.

People called she ran to people who recognized her traumatized state. They called police. They arrested an Egyptian guy, a Libyan guy, a Kuwaiti guy, an Iranian guy, an Afghan, a Syrian, an Armenian. The guys had twenty defense attorneys. And There were people who called them racist pigs.

including this one woman who's twenty years old, and she literally spent a weekend in prison because she called the rapists rapist pigs. That actually happened. That is a real story. That she spent just this, and the time she spent in jail was just like over the past week. I'm not, that's a real story.

Pro public, or the public, I had the story. Unbelievable. We're getting close, honestly. How far are we from that here in the US? How far are we from that?

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So car dealerships in North America are apparently dealing with major disruptions that began last week with cyber attacks that is making it harder for them to like process their financials, et cetera. They use this company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers, CDK Global. They got hit by back-to-back cyber attacks last week. And so now everybody's having to do pen and paper. All have pen and paper for their stuff.

That actually sounds like it's gonna take even longer, doesn't it? Good night. It's gonna take a lot longer. It takes forever. Let's see.

A private boat fireworks cause wildfire on Greece's Hydra. their island. Passengers of a private boat caused a huge wildfire on one of these beaches. off of the Greek island of Hydra in the late hours on Friday. And the fire service had to show up, and they said it was a very difficult-to-access location of Hydra.

There's no road infrastructure, and so it was really, really hard to apparently put the fire out. It just looks awful, it just went crazy. And it's they said 13 people were arrested. As a result, yeah, don't be doing that kind of stuff. Germany's autobahn bridges are falling apart.

I know.

5,000 bridges along their Autobahn. They said they're so decrepit that they have to be renovated or rebuilt as quickly as possible. But they're restrained by a national debt break because they've been spending their money horribly.

So they said they're trying to fix all of it. I would be a little worried about driving on some of these now, knowing, like, they had included some pictures and they're spanning these huge gorges and rivers. And oh my heavens. An 88-year-old Montana man who was a getaway driver in bank robberies was sentenced to two years in prison. Two years in prison.

As Kane says, old people are not innocent. 88-year-old man, two years in a federal prison medical facility for his role in two bank robberies in Billings last summer. 88 years old. Not all old people. Yeah, I know.

Not old people aren't innocent. We know how you feel. Hungry Seagull causes chaos as it gets trapped in a kebab shop. I don't think that the seagull himself was sad, but it was a flames kebab shop. This was in London.

A seagull barged into the shop, tried to help itself to a meal, and then it couldn't get out, and everything was crazy. Because you know how people are when they're with nature indoors. It's nuts. Stick with us. Stephen Yates coming up.

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Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this third hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can find us on channel 347 Direct TV. I was going to do it after we talked to our good friend Stephen Yates, but apparently. There's the McGroy Nation who's in our Rumble group.

I just like the name, and I want to say it a thousand more times.

So, hello to all those good folks as well. It's good to be with you all here. At the bottom of this third hour on Monday. All right, so I saw this over the weekend, and I immediately had to fend off. I am positive they're just Chinese bots.

because I made a remark about something that the Global Times had tweeted out. And I'm just amazed at and that's the the Communist Chinese newspaper newspaper. They will just say what just say things that are just blatantly untrue. And they're taken seriously even by members of our media. And I made mention of this with our good friend Stephen Yates, who I'm going to bring on in a second to set this up for you here.

But apparently, there, you know, in the South Sea, there was a little bit of a skirmish between some, like a Philippines, a fishing boat from the Philippines and the China, I guess, their Coast Guard version of the Coast Guard. And China was acting like they're in your Chinese waters. Go back to the Philippines. And the Philippines, the fishermen, were like, no, we're literally not. Like, this is literally our territory.

And everyone was saying that they were getting mad at Philippines, saying that they were going to drag us into a war with China. But Philippines says that the sea clash doesn't actually invoke that defense treaty that they have. It was a very interesting, there was like an actual fight. They got into a fight.

So I got to bring on our very good friend Stephen Yates on this issue. Our very good friend, you guys know him. You find him on X at YatesComms, but he's also senior fellow at America First Policy Institute and chair of the China Policy Initiative. All right, so Stephen. I don't think that I would want to pick a fight with some plucky Philippine Uh, yeah, a Filipino fisherman at sea, if I were the Chinese Coast Guard or Navy or whatever that is.

But the gist of it is that they were out, they were out on waters that they could be out on, regardless of what I don't care what they were doing, setting off fireworks, fishing, or whatever. And China was saying that they were in their waters trying to cause trouble, and that doesn't seem to be the case at all when you consider how far away they actually were from the Chinese coast. No, this is a part of a peace where the Chinese have been very, very aggressive about this. It is basically all the way to the Philippines' territorial waters. They have their extended economic zones under the UN theory that they call international law the law of the sea, but I call it a theory because everything's an idea unless it's enforced.

And so it's probably technically true that we wouldn't want to go to war because someone's being a jerk on the high seas. But if they start killing people, we do have a treaty with the Philippines. Uh, and so I think that the government of the Philippines was trying to be more grown up than the leadership of China has been, where they're basically saying, Yeah, this these people are jerks, they're belligerents, we don't like it, we're not going to accept it, but we're not trying to threaten war or escalation over this. They're trying to cool things down. Uh, but there's no real ambiguity.

This isn't Chinese water, and these are not what we would call professional exercises by the Chinese, whatever they are. I, I was because they have the video, and it's pretty chaotic. Uh, and they were apparently uh playing, they were strobe lights, they were hitting their, they had wooden boats, they were hitting their wooden boats. Uh, and then the guys in the because it was Chinese, this is after Chinese forces also injured, what is it, Filipino Navy and some other military personnel.

So, I mean, they were like facing off. They had the, they were blaring sirens, they had the strobe lights, they were hitting, uh, hitting their boats, they were arguing, yelling, all this stuff, go back. to Philippines, et cetera. The claim that that China was trying to make is that there's some sort of ship that's run aground and that the Philippines government is trying to keep it from sinking so that they can lay claim to whatever. But, Stephen, it's so far away from China.

How in the world is that considered their territorial waters? Yeah, it isn't. And basically, every sensible government around the world should be calling them what they are. They're international toddlers. They're throwing tantrums, throwing food, and throwing cutlery.

And they should be treated with no more respect than you would an out-of-control toddler. Yeah. And that's literally what he's not joking. Like, they're literally doing this. This is actually what they were doing.

So they, so China sent 66 military aircraft into Taiwan over two days. And then now we have the German vice chancellor warning China of some consequences, not just so much on that, but on their Russia stance. It's weird how they get mad over their stance on Russia, but they kind of overlook the treatment that they have towards all of these other nations in the South Seas. Yeah, they're very willing to sacrifice everybody that isn't in their immediate abroad or within their own boundaries. And they do seem to talk high church when it comes to Russia, but really only on some things.

They still are okay doing some deals now and then. But when it comes to China, it seems far away and it's opportunity land to them, and they're very dependent. On China, as are we in some ways that don't make sense anymore. But they talk a good game every once in a while, but it's not consistent. And yeah, when it comes to places like Taiwan, they act as if, well, who needs them?

Well, it turns out they need them as much as almost anywhere else in the world does, at least for semiconductors, but also a lot of other things too. And you'd think that never again. I think that kind of came out of an experience in Germany and ought to apply to other people that don't deserve to be mowed down by genocidal regimes. Yeah. And this, we're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates.

You can find him on X at YatesComms. Apparently, they have a trade dispute. As how it was reported by the AP, tariffs on cheap Chinese electric cars. And they were asking China to take the European Commission's findings. They've been looking at EVs and all this stuff seriously.

And then China said that they're going to, they're announcing an anti-dumping investigation into imported products from the EU involving pork and buy.

So they're picking.

So now the EU and China look like they're fighting, which I'm going to be honest, I'm fine with that. Yeah, but I mean, if your appeal is I'm going to get my lawyers involved, the Chinese are going to sneeze that away pretty quick. And so, I mean, really, there's been a lot of dumping that's gone on from China's market. And you and I have talked about this for a long time on the EV market, regardless of whether you want to pray to the most high sun god and think you're going to save the planet by going down this road. There's the pure economics of it, where this literally destroys critical supply chains in Eastern Europe.

You make yourself overwhelmingly dependent on China, and they don't exactly respect labor, environmental, and other standards you say that you want to protest others about.

So, I mean, this is not something that snuck up on the German government. It's kind of late for them to be ringing the alarm, but they're not wrong that this is a problem at this point. It's just like, where have you been? Yeah, I kind of like that they're deputy, it was their Germany's Habeck. Mm-hmm.

I like the fact that he was over there telling them to their face, you know, expect competition, expect this, expect that, because I was a little nervous, I got to be honest. And I think we've touched on it before, but it seemed particularly pre-pandemic that a lot of our allies in Europe, they didn't share our animosity or our suspicion of China. And I mean, for crying out loud, I mean, I remember when it was Britain that was entertaining the idea of doing the Huawei and all the 5G stuff until Boris Johnson pulled it and some of the other conservatives over there, they were getting pretty chummy with China. Is it just COVID that changed all that? Or is there, I mean, I would imagine that, you know, the competition and maybe with some of the EV stuff has done it, but it seemed like they were trying to do a European belt and road version.

Yeah, I think with Germany, the EVs kind of went over the top for them. It's kind of odd what is sort of the last straw for various countries, because the Chinese under Xi Jinping have given people a lot of different reasons. For some people, maybe incarcerating and trying to harvest organs from the Muslim minority would be the no-go zone, but not everybody, apparently. For others, mowing down democracy in Hong Kong would have been it, threatening. global security in any number of different ways.

But certainly the pandemic has been difficult. And I think maybe, maybe we've come around the bend to take the mind-warping politics out of COVID to see, yeah, it did come from China. It very likely did come from a lab. And unambiguously, they lied about it and exported it. And it cost people tons.

And so, I mean, that is getting less and less arguable as time passes.

So maybe that is the sobriety checkpoint that we finally crossed. Why are so many nations afraid? To entertain the idea that maybe it was biological warfare. I mean, they won't even breach the topic.

Well, I can only think that it's the intoxication known as the green sugar of money. And so there's just a huge, huge aversion to accept the truth that is right before you when you're very dependent and this is very, very good for parts of your economy or parts of your community. But this is something that, frankly, a lot of us saw immediately when it was breaking out. There's a lot of unknowns when it came to COVID, but what we did know is basically where it came from because in the months prior, there were these people wearing hazmat suits blowing all kinds of weird stuff around Wuhan as if it was a 1950s pesticide commercial.

So, I mean, you knew something was way off and you knew where it was coming from. Yeah, we all knew. We all knew. Last question.

Well, last kind of area of discussion for you. The Russian submarines that have, and the, what is it, the, some of the ships that have been down there in Cuba, are you worried about that at all? Are you worried? Because I know that China's been trying to make inroads and there's been. A relationship blossoming there.

Of course, they've been trying to get into South America as well, Central and South America. Is that something that, I mean, are. I don't think that we're in like the sixties again, but it is a little unnerving. Yeah, I mean, I don't like to see it, but I mean, really, if you're concerned about security in that part of our near abroad, and I am, we'd want to pay attention to where the largest foreign embassy in the world is. And it belongs to the People's Republic of China, it's in the Bahamas.

And so, I mean, really, that's not a submarine that comes and goes, that's a permanent observation deck. Uh, right, we've got all kinds of stuff going on there, and yeah, I mean, we've been distracted. We want to think that these things don't matter. We don't pay attention to building enough ships and submarines. We play around with nuclear power as if it doesn't matter, it's actually vital to us and to our seafaring navy.

And so, hopefully, we'll wise up to this. But the Chinese and the Russians are going to poke us if we are going to let them, or we're not going to do anything about it.

So, I think that's basically a nice little middle finger coming from our south. Speaking of that little middle finger, the biggest embassy you just said in the Bahamas, why the Bahamas? Just because of its Yeah, so I mean look at we have we have Central Command and Special Operations Command in Florida And so, I mean, there's major sea lines that go through that area. It's an extremely advantageous place. And it has sort of approximate distances, sort of similar to what Taiwan is to mainland China.

So, I mean, there's a lot of things that are serious and unserious about that location. But the fact of the matter is, it's the largest diplomatic facility on the planet, not just. Of the Chinese, of anyone. That's actually super creepy.

So, you know, maybe just one question, okay, now one last question, maybe. I was asking for a friend. Would you tell them not to go to the Bahamas now that we know that the big old Kami embassy is right there, probably Nassau?

Well, who knows what kind of vibrations you're going to get from the telecommunications coming out of all of that? I mean, you might want to tighten up your tinfoil hat to insulate your brain. I'm going to wrap my whole head in Reynolds. That's what's going to happen. I'm already looking at photos of it.

Like, he's talking. I'm like, what? Immediately googling this. Stephen Yeats with a nightmare for all of us. Good heavens.

Yeah, I think maybe I have to redo some things maybe this summer. Just saying, right, just saying out loud. Stephen Yates, always appreciate it at YatesCom's Nightmare Fuel. Great, great. Happy Monday, everybody.

There you go, right there. Thank you, my friend. Always good to see you. Thank you, Dana. Take care.

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So a couple of things. We're gonna have. We're going to do the bingo. But I'm going to put it up. What I'll end up doing is we'll have it up.

I know Steve's doing it, put it up on social. I also put it in substack as well. uh our bingo card for the debate. And um I am very. Interested.

Hmm, about how this is going to go. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to put in the squares, like how we're going to.

So, I got to figure that out.

So, let me get that figured out. Cause I. Have more options than there are squares available.

So, Kate and Steve are going to have to help me whittle some down. Yeah, so we're going to ask our listeners for some suggestions and then pick what our favorites and then put them in there and see what we want to do. Yay! So, I want you all to contribute. And, Steve, it's going to be up on Facebook, right?

It'll be fate, I'll put it in about an hour. Facebook and X will do it.

So it's going to be up there in an hour. Uh DJ fun uncle, aka Steve, is going to be throwing it up. on to Facebook's. And so it's gonna so make sure you get it. And uh make sure you put your suggestion in because then we'll start populating.

what we're going to have in the squares.

Now, as it relates to Rumble, yeah, there's like a whole group. It's called the McGroin Nation. I just think the name is hysterical. McGroin. McGroin.

McGroin. But they Are th they're like digital pirates, like the good pirates though, right? I think that's they go in and they hang out in like different streams and they talk.

So they were visiting us today.

So we're very glad that they came to visit us today because I just think their name sounds really cool. And I just want to say it a whole bunch. What's your name? Oh, McGroin. Mr.

and Mrs. McGroin's son, right? It's like McLovin. It is, right? It is like...

It is like that.

So, we're glad that they came and hung out, and that's a lot of fun. And you can like, you have a lot of options. Like, why doesn't YouTube offer options like that? Rumble offers those kind of options.

So, that's really cool that they do that, that they allow that kind of stuff. All right. So, in addition to that, I'm still, I think we're probably going to do like a debate live thread as well. I have some stuff that I'm supposed to be doing with Fox that night, so I'm trying to figure out how all that's going to work before I tell you anything about live threads and all that. I know the bingos for sure.

But so keep ahead of that. And if you're a subscriber over at Substack, you'll get that information. We'll have all that for you. Everything that we'll be doing on debate night, 'cause you guys know we're all going to be watching just because you want to see how crazy it's going to get. Let's be honest about it.

That's Really, that's you're gonna you you're gonna wanna see how nuts it's gonna get and then don't forget we got those supreme court decisions too Wednesday. Isn't Wednesday, I think, the right? I mean, because there's still 15 outstanding ones. Yeah. Are they gonna drop 15?

I don't think so. I think they're going to push some to later. Will it be the immunity one? Who knows? We'll see.

All right, Today and Stupidity Came. All right, this will be MSNBC's Cassie Hunt. That's her name, Cassie. Stop it. Cassie Hunt.

Stop it. She's here. Just. You can't. Bring facts to the table about anybody at CNN or else it's an attack.

Cut 12-1. Listen to this. Oh, wait, is there no audio there? There it goes.

Well, first of all, so it takes someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently offered President Trump to Adolph Hilton. I'm going to stop. I'm stating that.

Okay, so she shuts that interview down, yet she had no problem. Having a smile on her face when Rand Paul was assaulted. Remember that? Yeah, and there's audio and video of that floating around there. We're just out of time right now, but yeah.

Cassie Hunt. Hunt. That's Cassie with a K. Hunt. Yeah, there you go.

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