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Well, it's very frustrating for the free speech community because standing is often used to block meritorious claims. This is one of the most fundamental issues that we are facing. I just wrote about this issue, this case, in my recent book, because you have one of the largest censorship systems in our history, if not the largest. It's been called Orwellian by lower court judges. And what the court is saying is that we won't hear you on this issue because you're not the right litigants.

Now, I have to admit, I've always been something of a standing dove. I believe that these standing decisions are too narrow because they do prevent the court from rendering a decision on such important constitutional questions.

So this issue will have to wait for another day. But one of the things that many of us have been arguing for years is that the government is engaging in censorship by surrogate. I testified about this in Congress, that they have made a mockery of the litigation. of the First Amendment by doing indirectly what they're barred from doing directly.

So that was Jonathan Turley discussing this. Murthy v. Missouri case, which one of the SCOTIS, you know, it's SCOTA season. They still have some other decisions to come out with, and we're going to discuss all of that. This case, I gotta say.

I was really, I was surprised. Maybe, I don't know, that's naive. but I was surprised by it. simply because I mean, how would you not, how would these individuals not have standing? And that's ultimately.

What the court decided here, and we're going to dive into all of this. We got some notes, we got some debate pre-gaming. That debate is tomorrow. Apparently, Biden is infuriated because Trump suggested, suggested or asked. Because I keep reading conflicting reports.

Like, he didn't demand it, did he? Because he kind of already agreed to. the parameters of the debate.

So I don't really think that he can, you know, agree or demand all that much, but The uh the situation as it is That debate, it's going to be quite interesting. And so apparently, Biden has. he he got mad because they demanded a A drug test. He's still in Camp David. He's in Camp David.

He's not. I mean, he's staying up there for, I mean, till tomorrow. Then he's going to come down tomorrow. They're going to pump him through, you know, pump him full of God knows what. And uh then he'll be at the debate.

So we're going to have all of that. We're going to have bingo. We'll have all kinds of stuff.

So welcome to the radio program, Dana Lash with you. And to start off with, this is first and foremost. this Murphy v. Missouri case. And this case, as you remember, let's go back.

Let's go back for a little bit and talk just some about The Hunter Biden laptop story, right? Because that's ultimately, I think, the biggest. One of the biggest examples that affected so many people was that story. It was the the Hunter Biden laptop story. And that story You had all of those intelligence officials that went out and they said You know, this story is Russian disinformation.

This isn't a real laptop. They were trying to act like it was planted and that. You know, their arguments, and this is what is so fascinating about it. Everything, all of their defenses about it are actually what they were doing. With regards to Russian collusion, And the Trump case, you know, the whole Washington collusion and all of that stuff.

And what was the phrase that they all said? Mueller is coming, and all, it's just so stupid. But That was ultimately all of the stuff that they were doing. in that in that story was was I mean what they were accusing everybody else of.

So The New York Let the New York Post that when they were originally ran The laptop story. I was suspended. I'm trying to remember all of the people like I was suspended a couple of times. I was suspended and then when I got my account reinstated, I was like suspended again because I had shared. A piece That was about the technical suppression of the stories.

Like everybody was getting. Everybody was getting suspended. It was ridiculous. Like thousands of people were getting suspended for the story. Intel officials were saying, oh, they are going out there and they are sharing.

Russian disinformation on purpose, like we were terrorists or something like that.

Meanwhile, You know, these same intelligence officials that were vying for, verifying for, vouching for. the uh Russian collusion, which was all fake. They were the same people who signed the letter saying that their the laptop story was completely false. Totally, completely false. False story.

It was Russian disinformation. It's so so bad. These people are so s such bad people for. for sharing this. That's what it was, you know, that's kind of how it was presented, right?

So Now We know the truth about it. And in addition... The government, we got the receipts. We're working and pressuring these social media companies. to follow through and suppress all the speech of all these people.

Not just with that, but also. With regards to the shot? that they called the vaccine. With regards to Ivor Mekda, I mean, all of this stuff related to the lockdown. And I I mean, when the receipts came out, we weren't surprised because we lived it.

And we knew this was happening. We knew that we were being suppressed. I could see an engagement in all of my accounts drop precipitously, even more so than it had. Prior. I had all kinds of.

Suppressive algorithms on me already because of Parkland and because of Second Amendment advocacy and all of this. A lot of people don't realize that. I mean, you knock yourself out of the game almost when you're advocating for Second Amendment rights. And I have receipts upon receipts to unequivocally prove it. beyond a shadow of a question.

Not even a doubt.

So We lived it. And a lot of us, it hurt. Financially, it hurt professionally, it hurt irrevocably. It hurt our ability to grow digitally. And now we have this this case.

And I realize that there are some people that are sane and I disagree with them. Yeah. They say, well, it's a case that wasn't a determination on whether or not the government Could engage and uh affect censorship over people. It was about whether or not the plaintiffs involved in the case. had standing.

Meaning, were they directly affected by this? Because you had all these attorneys general. That We were suing on behalf of their states. You know, I mean, Missouri, we had talked to Missouri Attorney General just yesterday about this. And I mean I kind of question that because What who did the Attorney General sue for if not on behalf of the people?

That Jay Bhattachara, I really agree with him on this. I actually tweeted him earlier. uh tweeted or re reposted something that he had earlier because it's it's completely true. My apr my immediate Reaction, and I'm pulling this up because I'm still reading the, I was reading the court opinion, I was reading concurrences and dissent. My imm immediate thought on this was that the the government censorship is fine if it's done through a corporate agent.

That was my immediate take. And I was disappointed by that because That's, I mean, ultimately, that's really what it seems like. I mean, whether or not someone has standing, who are they suing? They're suing on behalf of people who are directly affected. They're suing on behalf of their taxpayers who are directly affected.

And they're saying, well, no, you know, it's just, it's a, they just lacked standing. That's all it was. They just lack standing, and it's still going to be able to go up through. You know, it'll be able to be litigated again. Maybe Elon Musk brings it on behalf of X or something to that effect.

But I disagree with that. I think that that's an egregiously optimistic. Look at this, and I disagree with it because that's one of the things that AGs do. That's one of the things that that's one of the reasons why these suits and the approaches like this exist. I was reading.

particularly Alito's dissent. and Alito's descent. He said that the court shirks the duty because they're permitting the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what people say, what they hear, and what they think. He says it's regrettable. And he says it's because of the perpetrators' high positions, it was even more dangerous.

It's blatantly unconstitutional, and the country may come to regret the court's failure to say so. He says if a coercive campaign is carried out with enough sophistication, it may get by. This is not a message that the court should send. And so essentially If a corporation can act as a third party agent, on behalf of the go on behalf of the government, then it's censorship. It is, but you don't then the government's protected from any kind of abridgment on First Amendment.

That's my interpretation. And I disagree with the syrupy, optimistic hot takes that say. Uh that this is, well, it's just about standing. That's what? How is it just about standing?

Because they had standing. The plaintiffs in this case had standing. They're representing taxpayers who were irrevocably affected by this. If you didn't get to read that New York Post story, for instance, immediately, you were affected by this. If you watched information disappear on social media because the government was pressuring social media companies to remove it because they classified it as disinformation, you were affected by this.

As a viewer, as a listener, as a reader. as a participant in this Republic. You were affected. Negatively.

So that's the My immediate, and we're going to talk more about this, immediate. Perception of this ruling.

Now, I got some other things to hit too because we had some primaries last night. And uh one of those in New York The primary Uh Bowman. Fire alarm bowman. The guy who actually made a campaign on hating Jewish people. George Latimer has unseated Jamal Bowman in that Democratic primary.

That was New York's 16th congressional district. He lost by plus twenty.

So that's one of the squad down. He was defeated. In it's considered the race is considered a measure, a battle between the two. opposing factions within the Democrat Party. That's how it's, and I think that that's kind of accurate.

And do you know the other thing, too? Do you remember the video that we showed you? Was it Monday that we showed this video with Jamal Bowman? And and he was running running out with um Uh A or C. And they were running out and jumping on stage.

So that video, where were they at? Weren't they in Brooklyn? Yeah. Okay, so he was twenty miles outside of his district. What?

Oh, you heard me. He was the little boys outside of his district. That came out later.

So, who was he campaigning for? I think we're all pretty curious on that.

So, what effect is that going to have on the squad? We're going to talk about it because, see, the other thing, too, Latimer has a fraction of the followers that Jamal Bowman has on social media, which further goes to prove to you that social media isn't real life.

So we're going to discuss that. The debate. The drug test. That uh Biden was asked to have, he's not happy about it. He's refused the request that they both take a drug test.

He and Trump take a drug test beforehand. Apparently, they were pretty sassy about it. We're going to talk about all that. We're also going to get into coming up. Uh the uh Hysteria because it's climate warming, but it's also climate cooling now.

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So, oh my goodness, there you go, right there. That's a Jamal Bowman. Who? Is very upset because he lost by over 20 points in his congressional race. And this was even after who thought, who thought that it wouldn't work, him running out there on stage and MFing this and MFing that, you know, to show how tough he is?

Maybe he should go pull another fire alarm. Gosh, did you see Marjorie Taylor Greene said before he has to leave? I just want to show him that this is a fire alarm and this is. That's funny. I love it.

Alright, so. This uh It's it's Really? It's going to be very interesting going into the convention because now the squad, at least to the progressives, their Marxist God can bleed, right? And that's It kind of shows that this was what happens on social media isn't real life. There are people on social media.

And Jamal Bowman is one of them. He's got what? Hundreds of thousands of followers. The guy he ran against has, what, 53,000 followers? Like just a fraction of what Bowman has.

And everybody likes to measure the social media stuff by what you can do to move the needle politically in real time. It is not the same, y'all. There are people, there are conservative quote unquote influencers that get online. And I've seen them on TV. They've never walked a block.

They have never fundraised. They have never been in the street. They have never literally done anything for the cause except sit and bitch on social media. That's all they've done. And they act like they're some great warriors for the cause.

Jamal Bowman is the leftist version of that.

So is AOC. AOC is the same way. And they like to look and interpret. their reach online as Equal to their ability to move the needle in real life, in meat space. And it is not, as we saw with Bowman last night, it is not the same, not at all.

And he's mad. But what he said there was so, he's so ignorant. America's a sixth society and rat and Democrats, so basically, Democrats that didn't vote for him are radical, racist, right-wingers. Those include black voters. You see how they try to assert their patent over identities?

That's why identities, any other identity except being free in the US Is ridiculous. Being a child of the kingdom or freeing the U.S., any other identity is stupid. because they weaponize them like this that's why marxists push all this division That's where critical race theory, aka DEI, it all comes from the Marxist theory of division, and it's supplanting the economic tools with these cultural ones like identity politics. And it's worked for a while, but I think now it's played out because people are tired of it. They're not getting anything from it except a more divisive society and more hateful interactions with people.

That's it. But for him, he pulled the Hillary Clinton card because they said this was Hillary Clinton after 2016, remember? Oh, my gosh, you didn't vote for that old white woman who fell down in the middle of Manhattan and lost her Tory Birch flat? You didn't vote for her? Oh my gosh, you're racist.

She's an old white lady. Yeah, you're racist, though. That's how it is. Democrats want to assert that patent. every single time.

They want to call in they want to call in the chip every time. I just He also said this, audio something by two. This was Jamal Bowman on APAC. That's the American Israel Political Action Committee. He hates him some APAC.

Listen to this. Even as I've talked to voters, there are some who are like, I don't want to share who I voted for. I don't want my neighbors to know. It's not intense. It's intense because APAC are bullies.

APAC intimidates people. And my opponent, and my opponent has sided not just with APAC, but with Republican billionaires. And because he's been in office so long and because he's been county executive, giving people jobs, people are afraid. AIPAC. But don't mention all the political action committees that fund Democrats and fund people like Jamal Bowman.

Don't mention any of that. You can't do that. Good heavens Can't mention any of those That is disallowed. Disallowed. All right, so one of the things that we started the show off with was this ruling, Murthy v.

Missouri, which I'm really disappointed with. And quite frankly, I think the court acted cowardly. Where are all the Pack the Court screechers, by the way? Where are all the people that have been so disappointed with the Supreme Court? Where are they at?

You know, all the people that have said that they're just it's tyranny. Are they calling for uh are they they're awful quiet on this because they got what they wanted? They got what they wanted.

So this case, Murphy, sorry, Murphy v. Missouri. It's uh about government censorship. Because previously, and this is now the second. Decision: the first being the Rahimi one just this season that from the Fifth Circuit that was overturned by the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit.

held that uh the plaintiffs in the case That they were they had that they they were correct and that they had their rights infringed Is what it is.

So it was it was Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General versus Missouri. And of course, you know, you have Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General of Missouri there. The respondents they had two states and five individual social media users who sued dozens of. Government officials and agencies saying that the government was pressuring platforms to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment. And there was a ton of discovery.

And, you know, that's when all of those emails came out showing direct conversations between people in the Biden administration and people with Facebook and people with X and YouTube and everything else. And so That's what They alleged in this case, they said that in the Fifth Circuit, you know, they were saying, yeah, they were coerced, they were encouraged to moderate. You know, the speech, these social media platforms. But now, what the court did, what the court determined. And I was reading, I was actually on break just reading Amy Coney Barrett's D uh her uh uh r uh written decision for the majority.

They were saying that she said it begins and ends with standing. And they said neither the individual nor state plaintiffs have established standing to seek an injunction against any defendant. You know, people who actually were affected by. The The actual Censorship. That's like saying if you had your stuff deleted on social media, I guess you don't have standing.

It's just, it's insane. This case is, this decision was just incredibly disappointing. Missouri and Louisiana let it. Eric Schmidt, who was then attorney general, was lead in this case.

Now he's senator. And Any kind of view that was critical of Biden, any kind of view, I mean, again, going back to the laptop, all of that stuff.

So, even the people, social media users, and states on behalf of their constituents. Brought the suit. How in the ever-living hell is that not standing? And by the way, saying that it's not standing is a cop-out. That's an absolute cop-out.

And I mean, they even they even admit so Alito even says in his dissent. to which Gorsuch and Thomas concurred. He even says that it's cowardice. Barrett was agreed with by Sonia Suromayora Kagan and Kentanji Brown Jackson. She wrote for the majority.

She said the plaintiffs have a redressability problem. Without evidence of continued pressure from the defendants, the platforms remain free to enforce or not to enforce their policies. And she even says that it's, I mean, she says we go, we lack jurisdiction to reach the merits of the dispute. Yeah. This was active intervention on behalf of the federal government into the free speech of American citizens.

using as a third party a corporate entity. That is the very definition of censorship. Rights being violated and the people who brought this case based on that offense and the AGs of Missouri and Louisiana who had filed That is standing if there is if you want to have a definition of standing. Alito says in his dissent. Where he was joined by Gorsuch and Thomas.

The lower court's assessment. Of the voluminous record is correct. This is one of the most important free speech cases to reach this court in years. He said freedom of speech serves many valuable purposes. And he gets into how the speech at issue falls squarely into these categories, talking about advances of humanity's store of knowledge, thought, and expression in fields like science, history, et cetera, et cetera.

He says, quote, it concerns the virus, which has killed more than a million Americans. Our country's response to the pandemic was and remains a matter of enormous social, medical, political, geopolitical, and economic importance. And our dedication to a free marketplace of ideas demands that dissenting views on such matters be allowed. And he says, now we know the valuable speech was suppressed. He says, and that is what inevitably happens when entry to the marketplace of ideas is restricted.

Alito continues in his dissent and says, Of course, purely private entities are not subject, like newspapers are not subject to the First Amendment. As a result, they can publish or decline to publish whatever they wish, but government officials. May not coerce private entities to suppress speech. He cites the Volo case, and this is what happened.

Now, Volo. That was Volo and the Rifle Association. They said that he cites the case of what happened. That was earlier this year. the case that case and the precedent that it set.

He says that the decision sets in this case It's He writes that it's essentially incentivizing puns like this. He says these past and threatened future injuries were caused by and traceable to censorship that officials coerced. The evidence was more than sufficient. to establish one of the users standing to sue. He cites case law on it.

He said that he goes, We are obligated to tackle the free speech issue that the case presents. The court, however, shirks that duty and thus permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what people say, hear, and think. And he adds what the officials did in this case. was more subtle than the ham-handed censorship found to be unconstitutional in Volo. And Volo's a great citation for that.

He says but it was no less coercive. And he cites the high positions of the perpetrators involved, all the way up to the executive office. He goes, and that makes it more dangerous. He says it's blatantly unconstitutional.

Now, if a plaintiff can establish standing You know, to satisfy the court, then you know, they'll hear this case again. But you realize the high bar that they've set for that? If these people Who previous case law? Establishes provided more than enough evidence. To argue injury due to the government's censorious actions, then how in the hell can anyone else?

Meet whatever standard of measure they're establishing here, set this high bar of standing. This was a cowardly punt. Plain and simple. That's it. Now, Congress could do something about it.

They're not going to. And it's not and I want people to realize this is on the voter. Oh, don't say that it's not. This is years of apathy. and just checking the box of voting and thinking that is your duty and nothing more.

It's coming home to roost. Nobody wants to say it. Because everyone wants to play Butt Kiss. Nobody wants to anger the people who vote for them. or her read their stuff, et cetera, et cetera.

But that's the truth, and we're all indicted in this.

Now, if you think that this could be used. as justification to further pursue censorship, you're right, because it absolutely can. I mean, I don't know. Maybe what sort of standing is established here? They have they still have a bunch of cases.

Uh they got the ruling on T Trump's immunity. That's going to happen. But they only have two days, so everything. Everything's going to drop this week 'cause their term ends after this week. But this, I think, is incredibly disappointing.

I don't think that you can just say, well, it's a lack of standing. These people had the evidence was sufficient. I mean, that's why I mean, you didn't have a majority ruling on this. You had three of the most conservative justices Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch saying that this is, particularly Thomas saying that this is, no, what are you talking about? There's no standing.

There's no standing? That's like me bringing a case before SCOTUS saying that I was injured by having all these suppressive algorithms put over me because I was tweeting about the pandemic or about the laptop, and then I was professionally harmed by it. And because you can make money off social media, I was financially harmed by it, and them telling me that I don't have standing. It's the exact same thing.

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Sometimes 28. I am the super fat you say I'm speaking over. What in the world?

So this chick Now says that there's a Spectrum chart for fatness. And that your oppression is directly related to your body mass. Correct? And that if you are Not fat enough. Then you don't Get to speak out as much as someone who is.

Selfish with mass. I don't know. Yeah. It's almost like Gravity. What?

Like the larger you are, the more gravity you have? She literally goes: if you're small, fat, why are you speaking over super fats? Really? Right. And if you're a guest giant you get more rights.

What? Like what is What did she say what what? things she's done. But The super fat, is she super fat? There's infinifat.

Infinifat? I don't even know what that is. InfiniFat? Yeah. I guess that's if you're above a certain size.

So she said she's this a real thing? Like, are they actually? Hang on, hang on.

So it looks like she's in the super fat range. Oh my gosh, it's a real thing. Understanding the fat spectrum. No.

So the Small fats are 1x, 2x size 18 and lower, and they can find clothes that fit at mainstream brands. Mid-fat. Really have to do plus brands in online 2x, 3x. Uh super fats. They have to wear the highest sizes at plus brands.

four X 5 X InfiniFat can't I mean no they have to have like stuff made for them.

So she's a super fan. Yeah, sh I think she says she's a super fat. Is there a reason why She cannot employ the same amount of discipline with her. Health that she does with her eye makeup. I'm just curious.

This is so dumb. People want to victimize themselves over everything. I just You know, if you're, she made a chart, put the effort into exercise. We have the whole, whole other hour coming up. Brennan Carv, the FCC will be joining us, so stick around.

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Of course, no one expects that Joe Biden would be on cocaine, but they do ask questions, and I think they're objectively. I mean, I think it makes sense why people are asking: will he be on some sort of energy drinks or something?

Okay, look, his energy. Why does Mike Johnson. He's got this ability to look completely over it. And also answer the question at the same time. Like he is a breath away.

And I know he would not do this because he's a religious man. But he's like a breath away from telling you to go do something unflattering to yourself. Like, really? I'm over it. Just blank off.

You know, he does, look at every single time. He gives an interview. He has that exact same expression, right? He's like, ugh. I don't think anyone, Caitlin, thinks that he's going to be on.

I don't think anyone expects that he's going to be on cocaine. I actually do. I think that there's not a drug enough that is that a drug that's strong enough besides, I don't know, PCP. They're going to put him on some kind of hopper. I don't know what.

I don't know. They never did determine of the White House, the White House cocaine they found. They never did determine. who actually owned it. It's probably his.

So welcome back, everyone. Dana Lash here with you. It's the top of the second hour. We've got the FCC's Brendan Carr going to be joining us. Ooh, I know got a lot to talk about, but The debate?

They're gonna have him on something. Look, I'm telling you, when I was at the State of the Union. And I went as a uh a guest of my congresswoman. When I was at the State of the Union, not last but the year before that, Uh I was sitting up in the chamber, so wherever you see the dais at, I was on. Uh The left side of it.

So if you're looking at the screen, I would be on the right side. And I saw Biden walk in. He did not look like a guy. He was healthy. He was like leaning on the podium for support.

And I wasn't that far away, so I could really see everything. When you see it, you know. I mean, the guy's not healthy. I will, I'll die on that hill. Dude's had strokes.

He's had strokes. Strokes, plural. There's no way you just had one. This guy had. Has had some serious issues, and they aren't being transparent about it because they have to use him as a vessel for Obama's third term.

It's kind of what it is. But They get him on something. It's not an energy drink, and we all know it. And it's not just a B shot. We know it, okay?

They're not doing that. What, okay, this is me not knowing anything about drugs. First off, did I welcome everybody back to have the second I did? Make sure you watch us on Rumble and X and all that 'cause I've sent a bit sub stack. I just am so excited to talk about this topic because it's like I don't know any, I don't know a lot about drugs except what I've learned on cops.

Kane, what can they give him? Like, what would realistically they give him? Not like you're an expert on dope, but you know. Yeah. No, you're right.

I'm not. I mean, caffeine is clearly the same. Caffeine is not going to do it. Come on. I get it.

He's got to go for 90 minutes in this debate. But at the gas station, they sell these little white pills that are apparently concentrated caffeine. That's supposed to keep like truckers that have been driving for 20 years. It sounds like they're giving him FinFin. Ginkgo Baloba.

I don't know what they're going to give him. Like, what can they give him that is not going to kill him? But we'll keep him. Um cognitive. that you you can't have It contrad or or c uh conflict with.

But what They've got to put him on something. I'm telling you, that booger sugar. Every pharmaceutical comes with a couple few. Yeah, yeah.

So Whatever they're giving him may have a couple side effects, which then they'll have to give him more things for those side effects. This could get bad. Is it mean that if I were Mike Johnson sitting there, I would be like, Yeah, well, what if he is, Caitlin? Yeah. What if he is on cocaine?

Do you know for a fact that he's not? I mean, they did find that old baggie of booger sugar there in a cubby. It was in right down the hall by where he is.

So what's up? That would have been my response. Just to do it. And wasn't there a second cocaine discovery? Can I just also add to?

How idiotic is it? They're like, I can't believe that you would dare suggest that Joe Biden would be on cocaine for the debate. Wait, you mean you can't believe that the guy who has his actual crackhead son living in the White House, the guy who actually literally snorted blow off of hooker's butts? You don't believe, and there's video of it because he is an oversharer. You honestly don't believe that there could be cocaine associated with that family?

The guy who banged his sister-in-law, that guy. You know, Joe Biden, who it there's come some questions as to when his relationship with Jill Start and his relationship with his dead wife ended. I mean, you're s you're shocked? Oh, my heavens, pass me the smelling salts. We're bringing class up in the White House.

Right? They act like I can't believe you suggested that. Your guy got... Your other guy that you lionized who's been raising money for Joe Biden got a hawk ta in the Oval Office.

Okay. Let's not. Are you alright over there, Kane? I'm okay. It's like being on Thunder River at six flags in it.

It kind of is. I always hated that ride. You know why? Not because it was like a ride that was scary or because, you know, I thought we were going to flip. It's because I was buckled in to a floating device with a bunch of damn people I didn't know.

Yeah, exactly. Those people scared me more than the actual ride itself. You know, you could have Godzilla waiting at the end with an open mouth, and we had to get past it. That wouldn't scare me. Being trapped on a floating device with those people.

That's where my fear of cruises came from, really. That's terrifying. But anyway, everybody knows he's going to be on something. I don't know. They're going to dope him up like Mr.

Burns from The Simpsons. I bring love. And that's what that's who you're going to see on stage. At the debate. I was on Jesse Waters last night and I was saying that Because they're not going to have an audience, so he can't stick London Roberts out there with Navy Jones.

But he can't have her as part of his entourage because you know these dudes are going to be traveling with entourages.

Well, in Joe Biden's case it's going to be visiting angels. But They're going to be traveling with entourages and Trump should have her is a part of as a part of uh his entourage. I had said last night that I think Trump's biggest disadvantage is not having an audience. Because think about it, there are people that when they perform or when they speak, they feed off of the energy of the audience. And I I'll tell you that if I tape stuff as opposed to doing it live, I don't know, it's weird.

You just know the difference, right? If I if I'm speaking in front of groups and there's a smaller group as opposed to a big giant group, you feel it. You play off the energy of those people. And and that's one of the things that Trump really does. And so I think the biggest disadvantage that he has is not having an audience there to feed off that energy.

That's to Biden's that's plays more into Biden's sphere. But I don't really think the only reason he's not having an audience is so they can't see how bad off he is, which all that's all you're going to hear about from Trump after this debate, by the way. You know it.

Somebody needs to s sneak some like surpt ti surreptitious video of Biden like shuffling around. That needs to come out. That video needs to come out from this debate. You need to get in there in this green room, something. But That's uh, and I think Biden's going to try to push Trump's buttons, but he's going to have to be really doped up to be able to string together the thought process to do something like that.

Uh, and it's really easy to pick to push Joe Biden's buttons. Joe Biden. And I I remember before he was vice before he was vice president. And even if you look at videos of him, like in the 70s, he's always been a jackwagon. He always has been a jerk.

He's always been, hasn't he, like an arrogant. but arrogant in a way that's offensive to people with merit. Because he's He's He's like a dumber John Kerry. Wow. He is.

Think about it. John Kerry He is a sugar mama. He married money. And That's why I say Joe Biden's a dumber John Kerry because Joe Biden couldn't even do that.

So he's got that's why he's got all those mortgages on his house, like 15 on one house. I don't even know how that's possible. How do you do that? I don't know. And Kane worked in finance, and we're both like, what?

How do you do that? That's just one house, one house. And he's got all this debt.

So, John Kerry at least married money. Joe Biden didn't. And he's they're both real arrogant. John Kerry is a little slower, but he's still super arrogant. And Joe Biden has always been arrogant, but now he's trying to go for the softer pawpaw approach, right?

He wants to be seen as the soft pawpaw. That's his whole thing going in this debate. He wants to make Trump look like the jackwagon and he come off at the soft pawpaw. But see, you can push Biden's buttons. It's super easy to make him mad.

All Trump has to do, if there's a way that he can artfully.

Well, he just needs to mention Hunter outright. And if Joe brings up both, then Trump needs to go.

Now, which story is this again? Trump needs to go which story is this again? Thank you, Sharon here. That'll really push his buttons. But then they're going to be muting the mic, but you know he's still going to be able to hear them.

Right. Trump just has to push Biden's buttons, and that'll upend the whole apple cart for Democrats. All they have to do is make sure that Biden keeps breathing on stage, and that will be considered a moderately successful night for them. That's all they got to do. Make sure he doesn't fall, make sure he doesn't deuce his pants, make sure that he stays upright.

And that he's breathing. That's all they got to do. That's a tall order. It's a tall order, you know. But that's why he's going to have visiting angels out there helping him.

Right? They're gonna actually plonk him right down on the stage. Right before the debate starts.

Some true, true story. But I don't know. I don't think I'm ever going to be watching a debate as closely as I'm going to be watching this one, except the one. Where it was, I did watch the Hillary Trump one, and she got mad because every time she was standing, he would walk over to her, and it made her mad. Oh my gosh, it's going to be a smiling friends episode, isn't it?

This whole debate. It's going to be like that, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It's going to be like that. All right.

And we're watching it. And we've got Steve has completed. The Bingo Card.

Now you're going to be able to play along. and I want you to share your progress. We're going to be doing this onto Facebook's. And I'm also going to have either. I'm trying to figure out, I got some debate covers with Fox pre-debate stuff.

So I'm trying to figure out if it's a chat or thread, how we're doing it. But Lorraine will be helping helm that. But we do have. It's the Dana show Debate Bingo.

Now let's, you know, you got your bonus space in the middle. But let's look at this. My favorite, I don't know what my favorite one is yet. But I love, because you know, all of these are stuff that they've said over and over again: price of McDonald's. Talk class at Penn.

Wait, we're gonna get into this. Hold on, let's.

Okay, yeah, Steve. Uh He's all right, now you can go.

Okay, alright. It is the Danish Show Debate Bingo. Featuring the Joe Biden free space. There we go. Look at all of these options that you have.

Not a joke. Amtrak, come on, man. Border invasion. You got CNN brings up J6. You know that's going to happen.

Trump brings up Hunter. Tells Bo's story. Crooked Joe. How many times is he gonna say Crooked Joe? I'm waiting.

Now, is Crooked Joe on there more than twice? Crooked Joe's on there twice a little bit. Is it? Did I do the typo? Top right corner.

Yeah, we're gonna just on twice. One of them is sleepy. Sleepy. I'll do that right now. It goes back and forth from sleep.

Sleepy Joe to Crooked Joe. That is true. Got it. Here's the deal: convicted felon. You know, that phrase is going to come up so many times.

Biden, they're going to tell Biden to say that repeatedly to Trump to make him mad.

Now, everybody's got a currency, right? I've said this a million times. Everybody has a currency. And There's our Joe Biden's currency is legacy. He wants to be like the new Kennedys.

And if you insult that and make him look like the trash that he is, he gets very upset by that. Trump's currency is public aulation. He loves the love of the public. And so I don't know how Democrats are going to deal with that. This is going to be a tall order for them.

They're all freaking out. You know this, right? They're shining up Gavin Newsom as we speak right now. They're shining him up. Kamala Harris is just sitting in a corner somewhere cra just cackling.

I don't I don't think Can I be real? I don't think anybody's going to be as excited about this as she is because she wants to stay VP, but I think she also hates him. 'Cause she's a DEI hire. And I think she also hates him. We all know it.

Come on. I don't know, man. I am super, I'm excited about this one. I'm excited about this one. Price of McDonald's threat to democracy overturned Roe.

I will say there's one thing about maybe the injections. How would you put that on there? The vaccines. The vaccines. Yeah.

Vaccines, please. I mean, were you actually given immunity about it? No, you weren't. Maybe something about that. Maybe we'll replace one of the Joes with that.

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Okay. As soon as we saw this issue blown up, we knew we had to go and shine the bat signal. For Brendan Carr, the FCC. You all know Mr. Carr, who we will address however he would choose to, because he wields a huge sword over at the FCC.

He's a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, previously general counsel at the FCC. He joins us now via Skype. Mr. Carr, always so good to see you, my friend. Thank you so much for giving us some of your time today.

So, we've been talking about this whole Soros Odyssey, $400 million into Odyssey last February. I'm just going to come right out with it. Are we all going to get kicked off air? Yeah, look, you know, as you indicated, this is a buy by the Soros Link group who purchased something like 220 local radio stations across 40 markets, including a number of stations that carry your show in Florida, in Virginia, in Texas. And once this new ownership group backed by Soros comes in, then yes, they have complete control over who goes on the air.

And I'd be very surprised at the end of the day if you and other conservative voices like Sean Hannity that are on many of these stations end up staying there over the long run. It would be surprising to me. That's a terrifying prospect. But it's not, as you were saying, it's not unrealistic. The question, how was this even able to happen?

Because I know that there is. You know, a restriction on either foreigners or foreign-owned entities making purchases of radio stations. I mean, what is it like? I think 25% is something like the threshold. You know, it can't be a majority owned by a foreign entity, which in this case, this Soros fund, which of course is George Soros himself making this purchase, defies that rule, which is why Democrats are seeking an exemption for him for this buyout.

Why does he get an exemption? How is that even lawful? Yeah, look, this is one where Congressman Chip Roy has been sounding the alarm for quite a long time, and I agree with him.

So, what is happening here is the Soros Fund has bought Odyssey out of bankruptcy, but in order to sort of fully control the licenses, the FCC has to transfer the licenses That is Toros back. Group, they filed a petition to do that with the FCC.

So far, so good. We should review that on the merits. In their petition, they're asking for a waiver of the normal process that the FCC applies when an entity has too much foreign investment, as you noted, in excess of 25%. And what the Soros Group has said in their filing is that they have various investors and other companies that are going to have sort of stock or other sort of ownership interest that is going to exceed that 25% benchmark. We don't know where that money is coming from.

And they've said, just waive that rule for now. Let us take full control of these stations immediately. And then we'll come back to the FCC down the road and go through this longer, could be six-month. For an ownership review process, and I agree with Congressman Roy, we should not be creating. A special Soros shortcut.

This is something that they should come forward to us right now, give us the information, and then we can make an up or down decision on the merits. But this shortcut, process is not one that I agree with. We're talking with the FCC's Brendan Carr. You said something very noteworthy just then. We don't even know where really the money's coming from for the for this for bailing Odyssey out of bankruptcy.

We we don't even know where the for the source fund. We have no idea where the cash originates. Yeah, that's right. That's what they say in their filing: they have determined that more than 25% voting or ownership. Will be from a foreign entity, but they haven't disclosed what that would be.

Likely at the end of the day, it's probably not something that will be too controversial, but that's all the more recent to bring it forward right now and let's run that process. And again, I think it's also important that the full commission, so there's five of us. That are commissioners, three Democrat, two Republican. We need to vote on this decision. And my instinct is that this is something that not only will the agency give a special Soros shortcut, but they'll likely jam it out at what we call the bureau level, meaning without even a vote.

Of the full commission, and I'm worried. That's what we're going to see, and we could see it any day now. And it's good to see you and others sort of shining some light on this because there should be a public debate about whether it's in the quote public interest. That's the standard we apply at the FCC for Soros to take over these 220-plus stations. And that's really ultimately the point for that role, of foreign ownership of American broadcasts, American airwaves.

I mean, there is a purpose behind that regulation. Yeah, that's right. You know, we have all sorts of limitations so that entities can't come in that are effectively foreign governments, like whether it's Russia or China, and own. Broadcast stations. And so there's a whole process that I think the Department of Justice would run called the Team Telecom process.

And so I think it's important that the Soros back through, just bring that information forward. Let's run our normal process. But at this point, I'm a no on the FCC approving this transaction until we run that normal process. If this was anybody else, I don't think that they would be getting an exemption. I don't think that, you know, if they had asked for a waiver, if this was some kind of big Republican donor, if this was, you know, Peter Thiel, who was coming in and had some, you know, foreign investment buying up airwaves, I just, I just really don't think that he would get the same treatment.

Do you? Yeah, this isn't a process that the full FCC commission Has ever blessed. There are some cases where the Bureau has done this before, but again, it's nothing that the full commission has ever signed off on. And I'm not aware of one at this scope and scale, and where it's what we call contested.

So there was a group, MRC Media Research Center, Fren Fozell's group, that filed a petition to deny this transaction based on the same reason that there shouldn't be a special Soros shortcut.

So there's some Bureau precedents that. They point to, but at the end of the day, this is one to me that feels like we have to have this decision at the commission level. There should be a robust public debate about this. Yeah, it should definitely. We were talking with Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission.

You had mentioned that there were some exemptions, but they didn't even come anywhere to the, because this is a huge per, I mean, this is $400 million, and it's the second biggest broadcaster in the United States. And you said that the previous cases don't come anywhere near.

So this really is a singular, a one-off situation. Oh, we just lost your photo.

Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, I think that's right. You know, look, there was a New York Post story that came out and had people talking about other purchases that the Soros groups have done. I believe it was the Post, and they had South Florida radio stations that were conservative that ended up being bought. And those sort of conservative talent ended up moving elsewhere at the end of the day.

So there is a track record here that. that people have been raising concerns about. Yeah, they said it was a Univision's sixty million dollar sale in twenty twenty two of eighteen mostly conservative Hispanic radio stations that they had. And so I mean, which is still not anywhere close to the amount of money that Soros is dumping into this.

So say I you know, if this goes through, what Sort of options then are left for folks. I mean, I don't know how you put the brakes on it or you can test it. If, as you said, because this could be fast-tracked any time now, I mean, what options, if when that happens, what are the options left? Yeah, look, again, first and foremost, people speaking up. We've got to bring this up at the commission level.

Then, if it does end up going through, which ended up would be over my objection, because I just looked at the record. I don't think the case is there for the public interest to be served by this. Then people could take cases to the court that have to show standing. And as we saw from another social media case today, standing is sometimes a tough thing to get in court, but people can challenge this in the court system as well. Or the FCC could reconsider this down the road if there's a different number of commissioners that have different views on it.

Yeah, and you just brought up, that's right where we're going talking with Brennan Carr with the FCC. Standing. I wanted to ask you about that because, you know, I would say if people were to bring up a case on this, you know, obviously I think some people would have standing. But now I sort of feel like the Supreme Court has thrown that bar to meet standing, kind of, it seems to have upended it up into the stratosphere because I don't know. I mean, looking at the plaintiffs that were involved in Murthy v.

Missouri, I mean, especially, I think Joe Hines was one of them. I mean, these people seem to demonstrate. Know sound evidence that necessitated them petitioning the Supreme Court to weigh in on this. They were seeking to enjoy the government, they weren't seeking to go after so much of these platforms. And I wanted to get your thoughts on that because is that how you view this?

I agree, obviously, with Thomas and Alito and Gorsuch on this. I was actually shocked. Yeah, I think the Supreme Court majority got this one wrong. And as you note, I think Justice Alito in his dissent was right. It is clear to everybody exactly what was going on.

The Biden administration was colluding with these big tech companies to censor Different political viewpoints, scientific viewpoints, and for the majority to sort of do the, you know, see no evil, hear no evil, it's not quite clear to us what was going on here. You're only looking for forward-looking relief. It's sort of too cute by half. And again, I think we all know what was happening here, and I'm hoping we're. Beyond this sort of surge in censorship that we've been going through in a country, but I'm worried about it.

I think political speech, diversity of opinion is so important. And I think this Supreme Court decision sends all the wrong signals to the administration about jawboning and pressuring social media companies to censor speech they don't like. And at the end of the day, It emphasizes why we need, in my view, some reforms to Section 230 to put some guardrails in place to prohibit discrimination, censorship based on political viewpoint. I think that's a good, yeah, exactly. And I'm glad you mentioned that reform of Section 230 because when I looked at this decision, and I realized it felt like they were punting it.

I mean, at least when I was reading Amy Coney Barrett's remarks on it for the court, her written opinion for the court, because they were saying it was about standing, but yet doesn't it establish? A precedent, and this is me non-lawyer Dana. I have flirted with law in college, but non-lawyer Dana. Doesn't this just establish, though, the idea that? That censorship, if it's done through a third party by the government, that it's somehow going to be harder to contest.

for in future cases. I mean, that's kind of what I got out of this. Yeah, look, there's still some good Ace Law and doctrine out there under this rubric of jawboning. That says, look, the government cannot take a third party and compel them and force them to censor someone when the government itself can't do it. This decision recognizes that doctrine, but just says the evidence here wasn't clear enough.

I think as a practical matter, you're probably right. This does effectively, whether they wanna say it's standing and therefore doesn't substantively change the doctrine or not. It does sort of take a little bit of the teeth. Of that doctrine, and I think that's a mistake because what we're seeing right now is censorship by Letterhead, and there's all these efforts by members of Congress and others to censor. Have third-party censor speech.

In fact, we just saw it recently that Loudoun County. School District, which has been very famous nationwide for trying to hide Malfeasans and try to keep parents in the dark. They just filed a petition with the FCC the last couple of days asking us to censor the local ABC TV news station for shining a light. On some of Loudoun County School District's activities. And that's not the first.

We saw another complaint by a Democrat Baltimore City prosecutor asking us to censor a newsroom for covering her activities, including the fact that she was under a grand jury investigation.

So there is this clear pattern that has taken hold post-2016 of either members of Congress or other government officials. trying to pressure Newsrooms and others to censor. And it's a mistake, it's a cultural mistake. And I don't think that the Supreme Court Does us a very good service today by not applying the doctrine here. Last question for you.

This might be kind of a more generalized one, but is free speech under attack? I mean, I always kind of think that it is anyway, which is why you got to be vigilant, but it seems like we're losing it.

Well, I think so. And I think a lot of this is downstream from these real extreme versions of whether it's DEI or identity politics. Once you divide the world into the oppressed, in the oppressor then nothing else matters. We can take the rights away from the categories that we label as the oppressor. And I think that's part of what we're seeing right now.

Hopefully we're seeing a little retrenchment in these extreme versions of DEI because you can't have free thinking and free speech unless we sort of continue to allow these diversity of opinions to flourish. And so I think we have to get back there as a cultural matter. There's some signs that we're heading that way, but I'm still very concerned. Yeah, very much so. I so appreciate you always being on top of all of this and making sure that we all know everything that's coming down the road.

Brendan Carr, follow him on X at Brendan Carr FCC, Federal Communications Commission. Commissioner, so good to talk with you. Thank you so much. We appreciate you. Yeah, good to be with you.

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I just gotta say something real quick about our bingo card. You can't call bingo now. You gotta wait. It all has to be within the confines of the debate. You can't go, I can't tell you how many people are saying this, and I'm getting emails.

They're like, Well, he just did all this like in the past couple. I've called him being like, That's not how it works, it's gotta happen in the debate. All right, so first up, I don't even know where to start with all this.

Okay, so the guy, remember the guy in Florida who his house got. rammed by space Trash, space junk.

So he wants NASA to cover the damages. They should. Uh because you know they did it. They said it was I don't think it Some A one and a half pound chunk of a some, I can't pronounce that, super alloy. That's all I know.

And it crashed through his home in April. It re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. It didn't burn up like it was supposed to.

So it landed in his house in Naples and it caused some damages.

So he's asking for NASA. to repair his house. And I don't know, like, what, you know what? It would set a precedent, but is that common for just, you know, like space junk to fall in people's houses? I don't think so.

So, I don't think they need to worry so much about that. You owe the man, fix his house, right? I mean, it happened through no fault of his own. Oh my gosh, this headline right here, Jim at Christmas. Florida man on a tricycle got into a fight with a man that had a machete.

You don't bring a tricycle to a machete fight, all right? A Florida man was riding a tricycle and using a flashlight as his headlights when he was stopped and assaulted by a man wielding a machete, police said. Volucia County Sheriff's Office said the deputies were called around 1 in the morning to a beach in the area after the victim on the tricycle got into the altercation, according to WFTV. The unknown man, who didn't like the victim's tricycle flashing, shining on him, his flashlight shining on him, started the argument and then things escalated. The suspect was not he knocked the victim off of his tricycle and armed himself with a machete that a victim had in a oh, oh, so it was the victim's machete that he just, of course, normally carried in a little basket on the front of his tricycle.

Not even making this up. And then the suspect hit the victim in the thigh with the machete before they began to wrestle with it. The victim took back the machete but accidentally cut himself with it. That's probably why he's on a tricycle. The sheriff's office said the victim was able to get back on his tricycle, pedal away, and call 911.

When first responders arrived, he was taken to a hospital with non life threatening injuries.

So they're still apparently looking for the guy who attacked him.

So I just Can I just say that I think I'm actually going to blame the victim for once? You're on a tricycle. with a flashlight tied to it and a machete in a basket in the front, where E.T. would go. Yeah.

Yeah. This is insane.

Okay, and this is also the third Shark Attack story I have seen in Florida. in l the past week. A man was attacked by a monster shark. in front of like his house apparently.

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And well, they're very aggressive. They live near high population shorelines. Thus, experts think that because of that, they're the most dangerous sharks in the world. And the 400-pound shark bit down at least twice on Kubinski, and his wife had to watch. And the guy was she wasn't a strong swimmer, so she couldn't help.

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I could make fun of him all day. That Adam could. Why is he still even relevant? He's not in elected office. He's only going to be what a contributor on MSNBC until probably after the election, and then nobody cares anymore because the people only care about him so much as they can get him to say stupid stuff like this.

Well, I'm a conservative or I'm going to vote for Joe Biden. No, I'm. What the who? Like I'm not a cannibal, but I love eating people. What?

Yeah. It's the same logic. I'm a proud conservative. I didn't even know what that word means. Jeez.

These peop Florida man's smarter than this guy. But that's does it even matter? He's so thirsty and so tryhard, I can't even stand it. All right, so That's uh we got the debate coming up on Thursday. Trump said that his VP dude's gonna be there, or his VP's gonna be there.

They've got it. Is it going to be? I don't think it's going to be any of the guys that they've been saying.

Someone said it could be Sarah Sanders, but. Arkansas, you can't really leverage that. I got a clue though. You want to hear my clue? Yeah.

He's uh let me pull this out real quick. Trump is doing an event on Friday. After the debate. It's a rally. And it's in Chesapeake.

In Virginia. I think it's going to be yunkin'. I've, I, I am leaning towards Glenn Young. Really? Yep.

He's termed out after this, as Steve has noted before. True. They're going to be at a rally in Virginia. on Friday. True.

I'm just saying. I'm just saying. And Virginia They're tied. Biden and Trump are tied in Virginia. and he needs Virginia.

So you can't have somebody from Arkansas. You can't have somebody from Florida. You can't have somebody who doesn't have political office and created a database to sell all of your private information to the government. Uh you can't You can't have somebody who shoots their dog and then You know got in trouble for it and lied about meeting North Korean dictators. You can't have that.

Can't have any of those people. You gotta have s some leverage. And with Yunkin he gets leverage. He gets leverage and he gets someone to bring in voters who maybe don't who are Republican but maybe don't necessarily describe themselves as MAGA. Right?

You get all those. And he always wears a sweater vest for some reason. That doesn't really mean anything, but he's just us.

So I'm just saying he's going to be at a rally in Virginia. After the debate. I'm just sayin'. Steve, what's your thought on this? Because you're not in Virginia anymore, proper, but you're right there.

I'm currently sitting in Virginia where I am right now. Oh, well, right now, if it worked. Yeah, I don't know. Is he what is the rally in Richmond or Northern Virginia a big difference? Ooh, is there?

Absolutely. It's like two different countries. He's let me look because I think they said near Chesapeake. In Chesapeake. That's Washington Post.

So they said it's a Friday afternoon in Chesapeake. That's where the rally is. Yeah, it's for swing counties out there. Ooh. The plot, it thickens.

Do you are you do you think it could be Yunkin? No, but I don't think he would. I think the announcement's going to leak out before that. I'd be shocked before the debate if it doesn't leak out, but. I I think if he did, it'd be in Richmond with Jonkin, 'cause that's where the governor's mansion is, but maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah, especially if he he's going to a swing county. It just would be weird if he announces somebody else. If he's like, it's Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and he's in Virginia. Or it's Tim Scott and he's in Virginia. Or Marco Rubio and he's in Virginia.

Or J.D. Vance, who's in Pennsylvania, and that's a state that he needs to campaign into. Or sorry, Ohio, a state he needs to campaign to. Uh And he didn't go to Ohio. You know, he's in Virginia.

That I'm just saying. I think it's going to be Yunkin'. Because he said you're going to be surprised, and that surprise means that the name isn't on the list that's being floated unofficially. I'm just going to go ahead and say, that's who I think it is. He's going to be.

Lorraine thinks it could be Winsom Sears. I think Winsome Sears wants to be governor first. Yeah. I think she wants to be governor. Just like some people were saying Byron Donalds, Byron Donalds is going to go for governor after DeSantis.

That's why him and Gates have been kind of at loggerheads a little bit. Gates and Donalds, Donalds is going for governor. Gates wants governor, he ain't gonna get it. Donalds is going for governor.

So Just sayin'. If it Occam's Razor is coming into play here. I'm just saying, so Because it doesn't make sense any other way. I don't think it makes sense. And if he has all those dudes at the debate, everybody at the debate, I mean, it's just going to be like a red herring.

I don't know if it'll, it could leak out. I don't know if there's any benefit to it leaking out. Unless he just announces it in the middle of the debate. There'll be reporters there in Atlanta for that thing. And if he says he's bringing it, I mean, by the time I think the show's done tomorrow, we'll know.

I hope it's before we're done tomorrow. It would be great if they could keep it locked down until like the debate starts and then he just announces and hijacks the entire debate. That would be great. He just needs to take it over. He's not going to face a lot of uh Because Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, I mean, when we saw Jake Tapper at a town hall, Dana Bash is too.

She's not gonna like push back. He can just take it over. What's Joe Biden gonna do? He falls down on flat services. Just take, just take over the whole debate.

Take over the whole damn debate.

So I don't know.

So we'll see. We'll see. But that's coming up. It's coming up. I'm just saying, I think it's.

Yunkin. I think it'll be Yunkin'. That's a smart choice. It's such a smart choice. Uh you can't have Rubio.

Rubio Is not good under pressure. I've watched them collapse. Tim Scott, no. Why? I mean, he's a nice guy and all, but why?

What? Uh the bro oh I forgot you know who I forgot? The Great Valley version of Eugene Levy. I totally forgot about Doug Bergham. Doug Bergham, that's right.

We forgot he was there. He's a moderate, no. What do you think he's got like what? A couple electoral vote votes. It's not going to happen.

Stop. And you're not going to have anybody who's not in elected office run for it either. But he's also someone who would never overshadow Trump. But So is Yunkin. Yeah.

But he's actually, Yunkin is more of a successful governor. He's got a nice track record. Yeah, and Trump could use that to his advantage. He could. But Trump also doesn't feel great about great governors like this.

Borgham has a super moderate record. Bergham's is super moderate. And he's just boring as all hell. Jimmy Christmas, don't pick him. Which direction did conservatives move when they're reaching the general election?

Somewhere stupid. They always go to something stupid. That's what they do every time. And so, I don't know. I mean, you could be right.

But Duncan is not a hardcore conservative, he's just, you know, conservative. True. So he's a constitutionalist, and he's, you know, he did a lot of stuff for parents.

So that's why I think that it's. No matter what, Yunkin is the best option. He is the best option. Center of the spectrum conservatives are considered right-wing nowadays. If you don't want to hack off your kid's Willie, you're considered a Marxist.

I mean, that's where it is. Nationalists, if you don't want to do it. Or sorry, right-wing nationalists. That's right. Yeah, you're considered a right-wing nationalist or something.

I don't even know what that is. I don't even know. But I'm just saying. I and I don't think it's going to be a private citizen. I don't dislike Vivek Ramaswamy.

I've known him. I mean, I get along with him really fine. I just Don't think that he has I don't think that he needs to be in that high of elected office. He hasn't been in the trench long enough. And, guys, you can get mad at me all you want to, but I'm really nervous about putting people in high positions of power when they've created databases of private information related to the vaccine and wanted to sell it to the government.

You can get mad at me for saying that. Leftists are mad at me too for saying it because they like that kind of stuff, which is why I don't like that kind of stuff.

So, I'm not going to apologize for stating the exact obvious. I'm not going to sit here and be like trolled because I stated that somebody did something that they absolutely sure as hell did. Like, where are we at with that? Come on. Nice guy though, get along with him just fine.

You know, he's a good speaker, I get along with him just fine, but Yeah. I just, um y you know, there's you when people are new Converts to your political cause, it's awesome to expand the tent. That doesn't mean you put them in charge. Of the battle. And that point's valid and you know it.

Alright, so. I think, like I said, I think it's going to be Yunkin. I think Young. Kane, last looks. Who are you going for?

VP? I mean, if it was me, I'd look at a guy like J.D. Vance. But I think that we would need that Senate seat. Yeah, we're gonna.

I'm crossing my eyes so bad right now because I'm imagining the headache of that reelection. Yes, I know DeWine would appoint someone, but then there's also going to be an election after that. And DeWine's a moderate. Yeah. Who do you think he's going to appoint?

Come on, people. You're going to get a moderate in that seat. Stop it. Stop it. Don't do that to us.

We don't even hardly have a majority in the Senate. Why are you. Oh, Lee, I'm going to jump off my roof. I didn't even consider the Yunkin angle until you mentioned it.

So I think that's, I mean, that's totally viable. They just need to put me in charge of all this stuff. I don't want to be in elected office. I don't want to be held accountable to anyone. And I don't want to have to serve in public office because they just hate everything.

But Just just put me in charge of some stuff and then let me go live my life. Let me make these decisions and then also direct the celebrations for the inauguration because I could do it better. And then I want to go back and live my life and be left alone and be like George Washington and just misdirect everyone with wrong signs all around my property and send them back away. All right, so um A few other things we got to hit on. We're going to be doing.

We got our bingo card, right? King brought up a good point. Should we make more than one? I don't know. I think.

We're getting overly ambitious here, Can't we? Yeah, I mean, we're. Winning, they're always winning a prize. We're not giving a prize away or anything, so I guess it's not that satisfaction. Yeah.

That's a prize. You know where we have an old senile guy at the helm? Wow, he's so bad. I'm going to get all of these. That's.

I had people like, I think I have bingo because, and then they were giving me links of stuff that Biden had done in the past two weeks. And I'm like, no, dude, no, that's not, this is just for the debate. Yeah, you're going to get it in like the first five minutes. I'm positive, right? That's going to happen.

I don't know. He's going to score a goal in his own net. I don't know. Yeah, probably. Oh my gosh, I just don't know.

I don't know. So we're gonna be doing the debate bingo. And I think we'll probably have like a live thread. I have some broadcast obligations and I'll have that officially announced tomorrow. I'm just still getting some broadcast stuff wrapped up for a pre-debate stuff.

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So This, U.S. record labels are suing AI music generators alleging copyright infringement. This reminds me of Napster, but I do think that there's a little bit of a more legal justification, especially if you're using someone else's creation as a way to use your creation. There was a story of. And I can't remember if it was Stevie Nicks or who it was.

She had heard a Prince song on the radio and listened to it, and then she wanted to write a song that because she was inspired by the Prince song, and she even had to go through the whole legal thing to get it cleared.

So, using someone else's work as even as a basis for yours, I mean, in fact, just not to get too in the weeds, you know, the bull in front of the uh uh Wall Street and Wall Street, the Stock Exchange. There was a little girl that was standing against the bull a sculpture that was uh put up by an artist, and the guy who owns uh who was behind the bull sued that the girl, the artist behind the girl sculpture, because hers didn't have that sculpture didn't have meaning without standing across from the bull.

So, it was using the existence and basis of that to form the basis of their art, and that was infringement. And they won that case. Uh, so I think it's very similar to this. Uh, let's see. The We've got the.

Oh, I wanted to do this one.

So, why would you make a statue of Abraham Lincoln? I had this in our rundown for the subscribers a couple of days ago. It was a wax statue of Abraham Lincoln and of him, but it's like him in the, you know, in the chair, and it melted. It's in June, and it was in Virginia.

Now, the artist was like, oh, the sculpture was meant as a reflection on his abolitionist legacy, and now apparently it's also about climate. I think it's just stupid. Yeah, it's just so he melted and his head's laying his head's falling off and he looks like he's exhausted. But it looked like originally the sculpture, and then as it melted, his head fell backwards, and he looks like he's tired and exhausted. I feel like that's all of us right now, but I still think it.

It's kind of goofy, right? Juan's gonna show it. Because it does look like he's like leaning back, exhausted. It does look like that. He's just exasperated like you people.

I'm done with you people. You know how you stretch out because you're just so exhausted and you're like, ugh. Oh, his leg's coming off too, apparently. Uh, but. You know, that happens to us sometimes too.

Why would you make it of that though? I don't, I don't know. I just, I'm not quite sure. Oh my goodness. All right, so a couple of other headlines here.

There was, oh, somebody broke in, the UK's prime minister. Used his back garden, his backyard as a toilet. They were arrested. That's never a good idea. First off, how do you get in his back garden?

Isn't he like super protected? I got some questions about that. Like, how is that guy not super protected? You're the prime minister of UK of Britain, and you can't, I don't know. Also, a couple of others here.

Uh, let's see. The we talked about. Oh, how do you pronounce this? The Dengu? The Dengay Dengay.

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A lot better four years ago. With Biden, yeah, I think that it's issue. As Americans, we should be worried about it. If he was his age and was able to function, speak normally, do normal things like a human could be, that wouldn't be in the question. But he's just not in the mental state to be a president at all.

At the end of the day, it comes down to mental capacity and the ability to handle the job. And I think we've seen that Biden absolutely struggles with that. What do you think? I mean, yeah. Uh, you think so?

Hmm. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Asher with you. At the bottom of this third hour. All right, so we've got the debate coming up on Thursday, tomorrow.

Uh I don't know how he's gonna be It's going to be just crazy. I don't know really even what the topics are going to be because unless it's going to be like a general sort of free-for-all and they just cover everything, usually they stick to, you know, you'll have a debate that's like a foreign policy debate, you'll have a debate that's like a domestic debate, you'll have something that focuses maybe just on foreign policy or something. But, you know, we'll. We don't know. We'll see, but we just don't know.

I hope that they cover immigration at some point. And if they don't, Trump needs to take it back to that every single time.

Something. Occurred and welcome back again. Dana Lash with you.

Something occurred at the bottom of the right when we went to break, right after headlines. And I'm pulling this up. Because It had to do with this abortion rolling That is apparently, we got a couple of more decisions from the Supreme Court to decide. And One of these has to do with the Supreme Court opinion on state abortion law. And apparently The Supreme Court This was a an Idaho case.

And They apparently had a draft opinion posted. Long enough that people got screenshots of the whole thing. And it looks like they're Going to allow abortions to be carried out in Idaho in cases of medical emergencies after they published accidentally this draft opinion and they deleted it. it pretty much almost immediately.

Now This is in Idaho. And what I don't understand is the state already has exceptions. It's already a part of their state law. Again, every state has exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.

So I don't know why they say that they need it. For the life of the mother, because it's already that doesn't make sense to me, but um. Have this draft opinion up that's really similar to the Dobbs draft opinion. I'm going to put this up. Uh that was Wasn't it the Dobbs' opinion?

Yeah. Yeah, I think it was. I mean, I think that they had done it about Dobbs as well.

So apparently, this is about the Idaho case, the Idaho abortion decision. And it suggests that it's going to allow The going to alla going to allow it. It's Moyle v US. is the case. And this draft opinion because I think the rest is their term ends this week.

So they're going to have apparently more d obviously more decisions coming out this week. But It's this it's a pending case. It's an and it gets into whether or not the Idaho law conflicts with The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. And the draft apparently says it does. They say that it, and that act was passed in 1986.

So this, I mean the draft opinion apparently suggests that it does. How do draft opinions get published, accidentally? How How does that happen? And an election year? Yeah, it's always in an election year.

Yeah, it was in 2022 last time. We had elections rolling up in that November as well. Because remember, that's what kicked off all the stuff with SCODUS. Then they had the draft of, and it was, well, it wasn't the decision, it was the draft of Alito's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.

And then after that came out, then there was there was uh all of the and it was politico that published it that was on may second Ah. And they published, it was a copy of the draft majority opinion. No.

And They had an investigation into it, but I don't think they ever Concluded who did it, did they? Nope.

So far, we have nothing. Also nothing in who left cocaine in the White House. We don't have that information either. Yeah, now we have this. Interesting.

How does this how does this happen? How does it happen? I would love to know.

Alright, so just saying. This is a Fascinating stuff. I would like to know who so that's we're just now following we're following all of that right now. That particular story. But yeah, it was the Dobbs case.

So it looks like they are going to side to that.

Now, SCOTUS did say. That So apparently, the court accidentally published this. Lorraine notes that Dobbs was leaked, and they never found out who it was. Um but This was accidentally posted by the court. And then pull back down.

I don't think there's any, I'm sorry, there's no accident. Because it's always an abortion. This is the second time it was an abortion. Right. Why did no one leak the bump stock thing?

Yeah, why did nobody leak that? Why didn't anybody leak this Murthy v. Missouri case? You know, it's crazy. Like, why does this one get leaked?

Like, what's the purpose of it? If it's a draft opinion. Is it, you know? What's the purpose of leaking something? Because in Dobbs, The thought was that they leaked the Dobbs case to maybe put pressure.

On SCOTUS to reverse their positions, right? To reverse their positions and maybe. Um I don't know. uh determine something different. go the other way and keep it federal as opposed to sending it back to the states.

So we shall see. Very interesting. A few other things that I want to make sure we're hitting on. Because tomorrow's gonna be to Friday's gonna be debate rat palooza. And tomorrow, we're going to start getting some headlines as everybody heads to Atlanta for the debate hosted by CNN, everybody heads there.

A few other things to make sure that we are hitting. We talked about the Bowman loss. Lauren Boebert survived her primary. She switched districts in Colorado. Uh so she's uh she's uh going to be able to stay.

In that, she's going to be sustained in that race. She was up against a guy in her previous district who was well-funded, and she was going to lose to him. And so now she's switching. She switched districts. There's a story that this is what I'm looking on.

This is a Washington Post piece. A couple of things I'm looking at here. This Washington Post piece says law enforcement has spying on thousands of Americans' mail. According to records, the Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and Federal agents seeking information about Americans' letters and packages. And that They don't have to have a court order.

Postal inspectors say they fulfill these requests when mail monitoring can help find a fugitive. or investigate a crime. But They say a decade's worth of records provided exclusively to the Post in response to a congressional probe, show that Postal Service officials have received more than sixty thousand requests from federal agents and police officers since twenty fifteen, and they rarely say no. Each request can cover days or weeks of mail sent to or from a person or address. And they said 97% of their requests were of the requests.

were approved according to the data. And that these inspectors recorded more than 312,000 letters and packages. all between 2015 and 2023. Hmm. Interesting, Kane, is it not?

It is. It's the mail covers program that's the surveillance technique, and they track down suspects or evidence. It's legal. They said that they only share what they see on the outside. They have to get a warrant.

per Fourth Amendment, to look inside. the package or the envelope and But we all trust the government when they say, oh, sure, they absolutely will get a warrant. That's correct. Yes, they will. Do you believe that came?

Yeah. And they won't say how often they facilitate such requests. That's it. In fact, the only thing that we have that gets into that is there was this audit done in 2015 that said that if they Uh Release any details about it beforehand that it would tip off any criminals and it would show how the technique works.

So that's it. They had check this out. For over four years, the agency said it approved more than 158,000 requests from postal inspectors. and law enforcement. That's over a span of four years.

The top people who made the requests. IRS. FBI Department of Homeland Security.

So you had Rand Paul and Ron Wyden. who are asking. the agency to require a federal judge to approve this stuff. Red flag lob it with your mail. Really?

They said that they made these requests. They've recorded, let's see, about the Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale, he refused to change the policy. He provided what he said was a decade's worth of data showing. These inspectors, agencies, et cetera, made an average about almost like 6,700 requests a year. And they recorded data from another 35,000 pieces of mail a year.

Uh So for what? What are you looking for? I'm just curious. There's How is it? They and what Barksteel wrote.

Is that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to information contained on the outside of mail matter?

Okay. But isn't this Warren Wyden said in a letter that you're subjecting thousands of people to warrantless surveillance. You're surveilling what they're getting. That's what this is. That's a sidestep, what Barksdale said.

I don't know. I think it's a stretch to call it like public. You know, like, oh, it's on the outside, so it's kind of like my eyes in public, but. Isn't it a federal offense to open up someone else's mail or to even acquire someone else's mail? It's a federal offense to mess with somebody's mailbox.

Yeah, their mailbox.

So the only way you'd be seeing it is either. Doing it at the post office, or if you're in the truck as it's getting put into the person's mailbox.

So. Yeah, that's a little intrusive, and I'm a little uncomfortable that government agencies are all about this. In 1798, when Thomas Jefferson was vice president, it was noted that he wrote in this letter that his fears of having his own private communications exposed by the quote infidelities of the post office. had stopped him from quote writing fully and freely. I mean Dear, you know how grandparents used to send checks for your birthday?

Yeah. And they would wrap it up in like all kinds of stuff. My grandmother would wrap it up in newspaper clippings and then put it in another piece of paper and then put it in an envelope. Yes. She was, you know, merciless about it.

She'd wrap it up in a couple different pieces of newsprint. Yeah. That was interesting. And it looked like just and I mean, if you try to look at it, it just looked like a letter. You couldn't you didn't know there was a check or anything inside.

So if they admit, law enforcement admits they're doing this with mail. Um What are they doing that they're not admitting to? And you want me to answer that seriously?

Well, I mean. Clearly, our phones, our social media traffic, everything else, it's quote unquote public, just like they're claiming these mail pieces are.

So they're doing it there too? They must be. Yeah. Yeah. Like unprecedented.

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That was Fetterman talking with Netanyahu. Fetterman trolled the left because they expected him to back Hamas. And he was not going to have it. And He I we gave him a hoodie pass. I'm not even gonna complain about I'm not gonna complain about the hoodie He's uh he's I have to say I am surprised.

He just needs to become full on conservative now.

So maybe it's a matter of time, I don't know. He seems to get as he recovers, he gets more and more uh Uh sensible. Right. You know? I mean, whereas Biden went the other way.

He went the other way.

So I don't know.

Well, Over on Facebook, we'll have.

Well, we got the bingo card for debate bingo up there. And Uh we're going to be doing I like I think probably a debate live thread. Because it's going to be a little crazy. Tomorrow night, I have some broadcast responsibilities. But then I also have, you know, obviously we're going to be prepping for the show and all that stuff.

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So, make sure you check it out. And then of course, you know, we're going to be pregaming it tomorrow. And then Friday is the debate wrap Palooza. That's if You know, they go more than one round. Oh?

Yeah. I don't think they have commercial breaks, right? They're going to have to have commercial breaks. Because, like, in some debates, they don't. Like, if it's an hour, they're not really going to have one.

They're going to have to have it. Is it? Angels. All right, Kane, today's stupidity. All right, it is.

Well, Whoopee Goldberg made it. Whoopee and. And by the way, did you know the view? The girls on the view. No, I don't pay attention because they bore me.

They're a bunch of boring bitches. Before Trump announced he was running for president, they were all about Trump. They were so complimentary all the time he came on the show every single time. But now it's evolved into this. Here's Whoopee Pie Goldberg.

Joe Biden knows how to do this. Yes, he knows how to do this. He's quite good at this. And You know, you can't refute anything with him because he just, when I say him, I mean Trump. He tends to just Can I mention one thing?

So she spits after saying Trump's name. These women are so disingenuous. Who watches this? Emotionally abundant.

Somebody's got to watch it to get clips. Intellectually anemic. If it wasn't for clips, I would not know that they existed. The harpies around the table every morning. It's crazy.

I just I can't They're like the type of women that always has to have something to complain about. Folks, I hope you have a great night. Find us on Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Substack the newsletter, chapter, and verse. We'll be back with you tomorrow.