Thursday July 18 - Full Show

These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who For whatever reason, he was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we'll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength. This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID.

Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn't that convey exactly the same thing that he's strong enough older than Trump to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age?

So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same? I mean, it's not exactly the same. It's not the same incident, but it's an elderly man coming through. First off, I didn't even recognize Joy Reed without her simple jack hairstyle. I guess that, you know, I don't know.

I guess that wig got put up. Welcome to the program, Taina Lash, with you at the top of this very first hour. And the media reaction. To this, are insane. We've entered a whole other next level, so you have.

And by the way, I just have to tell you, I don't watch MSNBC. I don't watch her. Unless she says something stupid, which is almost daily at this point, and then it hits and becomes, you know, it hits and becomes a clip. And that's exactly what this was. It became a clip because she said something unbelievably stupid.

I'm, I, so, you know, we've had the COVID, Kane. I've had COVID, just like getting shot. You know, I took a nap. I took a nap when I had COVID, like in the very beginning of it. I got COVID.

It was like over Christmas break. I think it was like 2020 and something like that. And I took a nap on the couch and it was just like getting shot in the head on live television. Just like it, Kane. What's it like being shot?

Oh, wait. I got COVID too. Yeah. Yeah. You got you also basically like getting shot in the head.

I personally know how it is to be almost assassinated. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, it's just, you know, they're so desperate. They're so desperate.

Well, and they're they're they're mad at him. And she's like, oh, he wanted to give a photo. The guy just got shot, you absolute moron. He just got shot. They're mad because of that photo.

They're so mad. They don't know what to do with themselves. Let them debase themselves on television. My gosh, I revel in the desperation. It is my joy.

I love it so much. I can't even I cannot even put into words how happy it makes me. Just, I mean, it almost turns my black and bitter heart a shade of kind of purple. Almost. We're almost there.

I know, right? We're real close.

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So. That's uh it's pretty it's pretty bad. I mean, she's like, Yeah, well, oh, but she didn't stop there. Uh MSNBC Simple Jack didn't stop there. Audio sound now Why I'm getting ready to we're gonna call for fifteen.

But I want to, I'm prefacing this by saying this is not a one-off, guys. I have been collecting. And we're going to go through some of this today. The media reactions, they're now in this stage. It is unbelievable.

This is what, can you imagine her? Can you imagine sitting and I hate recording myself talking into the camera like this, which is why I don't really do it because I feel like a douchebag. It looks so cringe and so self-like worship. I can't stand it. But, you know, the social media people are like, you got to do that more.

I hate doing it. Joey Reed, though, she has no problem sitting on her sofa and just, you know, speaking out of her A double snakes into her phone. This is cringe, guys. Listen. Mm-hmm.

We still don't know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet. Oh my gosh. Whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel. We don't have those details. We actually have no details from his physician, even though this man is still a Secret Service protected presidential candidate.

It We knew almost nothing. Why? Why don't we know that much? We know that three people were shot. One person, unfortunately, was killed at the rally.

We don't know where they were sitting or standing relative to him. What? We don't know why. for nine full seconds. Just because we can back up.

during an active shooting. An active shooter situation, even though they at that point had said the shooter, the shooter was down. How would have they known? How would they have known if there were more shooters or not?

Well, that is that we didn't know because and that's part of the Secret Service failure, which she's not asking about. She's not asking any questions about Secret Service. She's not asking any of that. She's just, well, I mean, how do we know shrapnel? Do you even know what shrapnel is, Simple Jack?

Do you even know? Was it glass? From what? I think From what?

Sorry if I made your cat shriek. Like I probably startled everyone's animals at home if you're listening at home. I'm just I These people are asking more questions about, like, we just don't have any proof of like these things happen. Oh, yeah, we do. We totally have all the proof in the world.

How high are you? We have all the proof in the world. It happened on camera. There are multiple angles of it. There were multiple cameras.

We got every angle that you could possibly imagine. We We also have computer-generated reanimations of the entire event as well. Yeah. We got all those things, but we got Simple Jack over here like it's too new. She's not the only one, though, y'all.

We're going to talk more about this because, oh my gosh. I'm going to need y'all to get you a frosty bev, right? Get you a frosty beverage. Just get ready. All right, so we have the other simple jack.

Biden's got COVID. He was just in Vegas, wasn't he? Maskless, shaking everybody's hand. What is touching everybody? COVID Joe touching everybody, hands on everybody, sniffing everybody's babies' hairs, all that.

I mean, oh my gosh.

Now he has COVID. And so they already called a lid for today. He went back to his beach house. And One of the, I think it's funny, one of the reporters was like, After the White House announced last night that the president has COVID, there's a lid for the day. And we asked why he wasn't wearing a mask after he tested positive.

There was no response.

Someone was like, well, masks don't work. No, the left says they do. You know, the left that is in disbelief that Trump has a bandage on his ear after being shot in the head is the same left that wanted to wear like plastic face covers and masks and all this other garbage on their heads because, you know, they wanted to protect themselves with magic, this talisman from this virus that they had no idea. That's, you know, same thing.

So They uh He's he's in his Delaware Beach house. And he's got the Rona. Did you see him walking up the steps? Yesterday. Was this yesterday?

This the footage came out this morning. But it was like yesterday evening. He was trying to and so he I knew exactly what he's doing. He's trying, he could barely get up the steps. And then, when he was getting down from walking, there's like a little short flight of stairs.

How many steps is it, Cain? Like seven, eight? Yeah, I was going to say. It's like Marine One, didn't it? He's like, get on Marine One.

He's like stepping down off the little steps. And he can't do it. And he kinda stops at the step. And almost like someone Interrupted his movement by asking him a question and he had to stop or something. I don't know.

He was delaying because he didn't fall on his ass in front of everybody. He knew that he could barely get down the steps.

So he was like trying to figure out. It looked so bad. Oh my gosh. Donald Trump gets shot in the head and he gets up and he puts a, you know, my pillow on his ear. And then he goes off to the RNC convention.

He's giving a speech tonight and Biden can't even, my gosh, Biden can't even get down the damn steps. And that's not even the one, though. There was another one where he was getting, that's bad too. But there was another one where he was coming. He couldn't, he's just stopped on the stair and just stared.

Juan's like, Juan's got all the step footage. He's got step footage for days. He's like, it all he can't walk in any of them. Which one am I supposed to get? It's all so bad.

That's just one, it's all so bad. You can do it. Come on, Ed. Annie's getting Yeah. I feel like, um I was watching this video, sidebar, of these British dudes who were sitting in a pub.

I guess it was like before or after some kind of football game, or I'm sorry, soccer. And. They uh were watching this chick trying to park her car. And they they were real nice. They were cheering her.

And they were going, oh, oh. And then when she finally got it, they roughed it into cheers. Yeah. And they were jumping on top of the chairs and everything, and it was hysterical. I feel like that with Biden going down the stairs.

Like, just don't fall on your face, you know, in front of the world. Let's please not. Let's just not do that.

So he's got COVID, right? He's got COVID. And he was touching all over everybody. And wouldn't you know COVID-Joe? And then apparently, Adam, well, Adam's shift is a shift.

Whatever. Adam Schiff has called on Biden to drop out. He's got serious concerns that he can't win. I don't feel any ways bad for these people. They made their bet.

Now they got none of these people had any concerns until Biden just foobarred the debate so bad. And then he did three, he's done three one-on-one interviews since then. He's done one with Molester Holt.

Sorry, Lester Holt. He's done, it's a verbal typo. He did one with him. He's done another with BET and another with some other dude I don't know. And all of them were just trash, garbage, just absolute disasters, every single one of them.

They were so bad They were so bad Yeah, he was I mean he was literally at a super spreader event. In Vegas, an hour, one hour. before he announced that he had the Rona. He was literally touching on everybody in Vegas. Rona Joe.

touching on everybody in Vegas.

Well yeah, leaning in, sniffing people's heads, you know, the whole Joe thing. Oh my gosh. So that's I'm just saying, just saying. And apparently Nancy Pelosi privately told Biden that he can't beat Trump. She hasn't said anything publicly yet, and I don't think Biden's going to do anything until she does, if I'm being honest.

Yeah. Now, I've got competing stories coming out about this.

So, I have one headline, and I know that these are all operatives that are all trying to get their digs in.

So, it says, White House says Biden is unmoved by discussions with Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies because Schumer apparently said, told him yesterday, he also wants him out. By the way, Biden had a disastrous phone call yesterday.

So, he had three disastrous interviews, all trying to make up for that FUBAR debate. And then he got on the phone with the press, the press on the phone too, talking with other leaders. Oh my gosh, he was like yelling to people. He was, it was, it was an ew golly, it was so bad. And we're going to talk about that coming up after headlines because we're going to need a whole segment for it.

But I have one headline that says he's unmoved by discussions. I have another headline that says, well, he's now going to consider it. You know, he's going to maybe consider this now. He's going to, you know, maybe he'll, maybe he'll consider some of getting out of this debate. You know, he hasn't made a decision yet.

So I've got all of these different competing stories about this. But One thing that I am hearing is that this weekend is going to be the make or break. He could be perhaps persuaded. To get out, maybe over the weekend. I don't know.

He's not, he's gonna be in his beach house for four days. They already called it a lid for today. And the betting tables are going for, man. They think that he's going to get out. This is just, I mean, I've never seen anything so disastrous for the Democrats in a long time.

So we're going to talk about all of that. The latest also coming up, J.D. Vance gave his speech last night. The RNC, apparently tonight, Elon Musk is giving a surprise speech on election integrity. Hulk Hogan.

It was announced that he's speaking tonight. Yeah, brother if he doesn't come out and say that. If you send Hulk Hogan out without a kerchief on his head, I hate you. Don't you be messing with like the American standard. You know what I'm saying?

Don't send him out without his do-rag. Don't be doing that. And if he doesn't say, hey, brother, it's not him. It's a robot. It's one of those damn AI sentient things.

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So John Hinckley. The guy who shot former President Reagan denounced violence in the wake of the attempted assassination on Trump. He literally wrote, Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance. Of course, he quotes John Lennon.

Oh my gosh, that's. I don't know. Yeah, I said, I don't know. You know what? I was reading an article about him like a couple of years ago, and one of the profilers who Works with these kind of like these kind of criminals was saying that he still has a lot of the behaviors.

and attributes of someone who is not. Reformed. Of someone who has not gotten over, he has these obsessive qualities, and that's what fuels.

So, it's a very, I'm gonna see if I can find this piece. I got it buried somewhere. All right, so Trump sneakers with a photo from the assassination attempt on sale for $299 on the Trump site. If they're not making available t-shirts of that, Where he had his fist in the air and making it like gangsta style. I don't wanna talk.

I need the t- You gotta do the t-shirt. I mean, I've seen like different iterations that are printed badly on Etsy. I'm just saying you need like that kind of merch. The Trump said, What are those Trumps? I'm real particular about my shoes.

Like, I'm real weird about my shoes, but you know, people are gonna eat that up. That's $299 on the site. Trump says he would let, and I don't know about this one. He says he would let Federal Chair Powell, Jerome Powell, finish his term if he, Trump, wins in November. Kane does not like that.

You're not a fan of that one? I'm not a fan of the Fed chair, but I think it's a smart move by Trump to say this right now. This is what I don't get. Because there are people that the Fed are tied to, at least I believe this, that have these large hedge funds, these huge amounts of money, BlackRock and others that are involved. I think he's smart to not try and raise the red flag in that regard just yet.

Maybe, maybe, okay. I will take that right now. I will take that. All right, moving on. We have the.

Oh, Fandango. That's a thing still. Wait, it is. Yeah, he people. I just don't go to the theater as much anymore because I'm real weird about that.

The founder apparently jumped to his death from his luxury New York City hotel. He was identified. Last night by NYPD Kane's like Immediately when Cain hears somebody jumped, to their death. He doesn't believe it. It's a luxury apartment.

Who wants to jump from that?

Well, money can't buy you happiness. I mean, it can help, but you know, it doesn't buy you happiness totally.

Well, yeah, yeah.

So I don't know. They identified him. He, I don't know what building. I mean, it's one of those real nice swinky ones, you know, where you got like the penthouses and all that. I mean, they like literally were rolling him right out the front door there in the body bag.

And Elon Musk is pulling his companies from California because Gavin Newsom signed a new law where they can keep if your minor children want to change their gender. Ah, then you can. Bennett. They hide it from the parents. By the way, he just tweeted that contrary to reports, he's not speaking at the RNC.

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I named Kataji Brown. I mean, because of the people I've named. What the? You mean Lloyd Austin? Katanji Brown Jackson is the Supreme Court Justice, you desiccated old turk.

Yeah, th one has a vagina, one doesn't. They're totally different. He's just like, what are their black people doing? Oh, going through the Rolodex in his head, which is struggling. It's got one card and it's torn up.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. The bottom of this first hour. He's just sitting there. Was he trying to say that people were mad because Lloyd Austin's black?

Because that's brand new to me. I mean not that he's black, but that anybody's mad about it. Nope, he's completely incompetent. It has nothing to do. Is that the goal?

Like Democrats, just let's put in the most completely incompetent, irresponsible person we can into this position and make sure they're a minority.

So that way, if we get any criticism, we can be like, you know, race. This is Is that the goal? Is that the strategy here? You make it sound so simple and dumb, but that's exactly their clear. That's exactly what they're doing.

That's exactly what it is. Totally what they're doing. That's exactly it. I'm just saying, you know. Just seems a little It seems a little transparent.

You know, the black guy. Jeez. It's like watching a bad Dave Chappelle skit. 'Cause it's real life, though. Good night.

Can you imagine me the defense secretary and watching the president not know your name in real time? Yeah. He doesn't know who's running the military. He has no idea who's making these decisions. He doesn't know anything.

And this was supposed to be one of the interviews that was supposed to redeem his foobar. at the debate. It was supposed to that's that's It was supposed to be Uh the thing that helped him. Like, kind of recovered it. And then he did this.

This is, yeah, play five. Let's get five queued up. Oh, you thought that one was bad. Go ahead. Go ahead and play that one.

Make sure there's access to affordable internet, just like in Roosevelt's time. Oh, Roosevelt's time with the internet. Yes, you know, the internet in Roosevelt's time. You know. Because they had, you remember the internet during World War II?

I don't know about you, but I remember my grandpa telling me about how he learned on Twitter before Elon Musk bought it back in World War II when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And he was like, Well, you know, I saw that tweeted, and then I like, you know, snapped one of my friends and was like, I'm so enrolling, yo, going in the military. YOLO. And then he was out, right? You don't remember that?

Your grandparents, you know, with their Snapchat accounts and the internet and Twitter and all that, right? Rotary phone dial-up internet was really slow back then, but it still worked. Mm. Yeah, grandpa told me it took like forever to text someone with a rotary phone. Yeah, yeah.

And that insta insta stories were still real clunky back then with the internet to make sure the inter Is he an alien? Because at this point If he doesn't have Parkinson's and a stroke and I don't know, everything else, then he's an alien. There is no other. Literally no other option here. he there has all these ailments Or he's an alien because It's like he's a person in a meat suit that can't figure out how it works yet.

He can't it's like the it's like a fleshy mecha suit and he can't Figure out how to do it right. You may be closer than you think. Gosh, that would be scary if like o like his face fell off and it's just like C3PO under there. That explains the whole beep boop boop with the arms. Yeah.

Damned. His these interviews were supposed to help him. And the Democrats Democrats are now trying to push him out. He was on uh Biden was on the phone call. Oh my gosh, this one was bad.

He was on this phone call. With all these folks. And it did not go well. He uh I sent out prep email. Yeah.

He read a note. This was crazy.

So he was. Let me pull this story up. You got this in your, if you get the newsletter, which you should, honestly, you get so many good things over at chapter and verse, my sub stack. You get so many good things over there. But um Hehehehe He was handed a note during because he had a phone call with Democratic House lawmakers, and apparently there were a couple of.

I guess members of the press, and the reason I say this is because they were tweeting about it. at the time. And while he was on the phone, okay, while he's on this call with Democrat lawmakers. And he was yelling at them. He yelled at one Democrat lawmaker about his son's bronze star.

I don't know if you he got nasty with a bronze star Democrat. And it was really bad. Daily Beast, New York Post, they said he was rambling. Jason Crowe, who's a Democrat out of Colorado, he's a retired Army Ranger. He was on three tours in the Middle East.

and he was a Bronze Star recipient. And the and Biden yelled at him. And he said, quote, first of all, I think you're dead wrong. And he goes, he was saying that. Uh He was saying that he, like, something like, You've never done anything with your bronze star, like my son, or something.

And he was yelling. And then this call, he was. He they were saying he couldn't complete an answer. He was So he was, he yelled at Crowe, and then another said, He was rambling, he'd start an answer, he'd lose his train of thought, and then he would just say, Whatever. He could not complete an answer.

Another one said He was dismissive of concerns. unable and unprepared to present a campaign strategy. And that person's a sitting member of Congress. And it was a very tense call. And what's worse?

Is he's handed a note. while he's on this call. A staffer hands him a note. And it was a private note. And I'll be damned if he didn't read it in front of everybody.

Biden. The note Said You are sounding defensive. stay positive and he read it. I am not making this up. It was the New York Times reported it, New York Post, everybody, Associated Press, everybody's reporting this.

End of quote. Repeat the line. You are sending defensive, stay positive. Biden said it. and didn't even know that it was like a note.

That A private note for him. not for him to share. Guys.

So I I don't know. Chuck Schumer apparently privately told him he's gotta go. Uh the I don't know, movement of Nancy Pelosi. If she comes out publicly and says something, then I think he's got to. But he's they've already called a lift for the day.

He's at his beach house for the next four days. And now everybody's watching him because they said if it happens, he's gonna it'll be this weekend. And they were t that's why they were trying to do that virtual uh election of him uh or a nomination of him For the for at the DNC? And Democrats apparently were really upset about it. They didn't like that.

I don't know. This is a disaster. They were freaking out about it. Democrat delegates were just freaking out about all of this. I mean, his.

I mean, listen, listen, listen to this. Audio zombie 3. This is what he's telling BET. This is Biden trying to do outreach to the black. Voting block, listen to this.

I'd like you to take a moment and tell black America what you want them to know. Why should they turn out for you? Because they know where my heart is. The number hit is. By the way, if you notice whether it's young blacks or young whites or white Hispanics or young Asian Americans.

They've never focused until after Labor Day. I mean, the idea is they're focusing intently on election right now. It's not there. Wow. And by the way, take a look at the president's new house.

White people don't pay attention until after Labor Day, apparently. You know, I don't know. Good grief. That was supposed to like help him because he's hemorrhaging support amongst the black community. You're okay.

How is it not? How are we still doing this? It's like we're just playing along? Like what are we doing? I uh that's a million dollar question here.

Million dollar question. I don't know. I mean, you compare what's going on with Democrats right now and then you look at the RNC. The RNC, by the way, conventions are weird because It's when People wear the craziest things. It is, and you guys know you all know this, even if you've ever been in Canada.

I don't care how hardcore you are, you know, you do. You watch it. You try to see who has the most sequins on, who's got light-up shoes. You guys do all this. Come on.

And it's, you always can tell who the Texas delegation is because they always get the hats like, you know, a woman is running the Texas thing, right? I just point this out. 'Cause other states get out there, their delegations, and they're all dressed nice, red, white, and blue, or red, usually, you know, Republican red, red, white, and blue. Oh no, Texas gets out there, they all have the same outfits. the owl have.

Owl OWL. They owl have the cowboy hats, and they're all wearing them button up Lone Star shirts.

So there is always a woman in charge of that because there is no way a man's gonna sit back and go, guys, now, all right, we gotta all wear the same shirts. Everyone got their sizes. No one's doing that. That's a woman running that. Oh my gosh.

But they all had, and they were all pressed. I noticed this too. All the shirts were just pressed. Not a wrinkle in sight. That is someone's meme mall.

Someone's granny is running the show with the Texas delegation. You all saw it. It was it's one of my favorite things to look for. Because there is no way you are you can't tell me that there is nobody named Joe Smith Who's heading up the delegation? He's like, all right, everybody got their cowboy hats, everybody get their shirts, you all have your sizes.

Gentlemen and ladies, nobody's. doing that. That's a woman running that. But they're all and you can see them. They they just an army of cowboy hats and Lunstar button-ups.

And they're all sitting there looking like they just sprung out of bandboxes. They're all sitting there in the floor ready to go with their Texas sign, their cowboy hats. I love it. It's just and then it kind of like if you're from another state, do you feel bad? Do you are you like looking like, well, why didn't we get matching outfits?

Why didn't we get that? Like, what do you wear from our home state of Missouri? Like, what do you wear if you're Missouri? Oh, man. 'Cause you can't wear an arch hat because that makes the Kansas City side upset.

Yeah. You know, 'cause there's some there's a little bit um it's gotta be unifying.

So something Ozarky or Jefferson City-ish. Yeah, I mean, you gotta go you know, what I don't know what you do with that. The best you can do is like a blue shirt.

Well, this represents table rock. The blue. I don't know. Like, what do you do? What do you do?

That's a tough one. Like, if you're from Kentucky, what do you wear? That's why they have consultants for things like this, I guess. No, that's why they got somebody's Mima up there, like, you know, running the show. I'm always so impressed.

I'm always so impressed. So, coming up, we're going to talk a little bit more about the RC. J.D. Vance officially accepted the nomination. And I something struck me.

Uh 'cause I was watching a portion of his speech. And I know that there's some people out there who don't like J.D. Vance. And he doesn't have much of a record, let's be real. He's a brand new senator.

But what strikes me though is that his coming up is not unlike a lot of other people's. coming of age. You know, my family's from the Ozarks, his family's from Appalachia. And There's a lot of there were there are a lot of things that I could identify with a lot And When you compare that to like the routine that Joe Biden does with Scranton Joe. Which one sounds More Realistic.

Like, which one resonates with you more? Like, the Scranton Joe, which sounds manufactured. and just sort of he sounds distant from it. Or, like, Vance's background, we're going to talk about this coming up. Our partners that help bring you free radio for this portion.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Like Mr. Thiel, who has named his companies after things in the Lord of the Rings series of J.R.R. Tolkien books, Lord of the Rings is a sort of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures, both in Europe and the United States. Peter Thiel names all his things after Tolkien figures and things.

They get his name right. Like his company Palantir, for example. Tolkien. Like his mentor, like Donald Teal, who had given him all his jobs. It's not Tolkien.

What? Go ahead. I'm sorry. This is a. You guys know if you've ever watched the show for like a second.

This is a sore spot with me. It's like people who pronounce Ain Rand's name wrong or people who pronounce Tolkien's name wrong. I just think for someone who sits here and constantly fluffs about her Oxford education, you know, get the guy's name right. I'm sorry, Kane. Kane's like, you missed the whole point of the clip, but that was killing my soul.

She's trying to compare far-right figures with the characters in Lord of the Rings as though it's some sinister plan from the right.

Well, she's an orc. And the GOP, and she's. Yeah. She is an orc. She's a couple fries.

She's born in the pits. Couple fries short of a happy meal. Yeah. She's mad because everybody talks about that. You know what?

I think if you're going to criticize it, say his name correctly. Oh my gosh. She doesn't even know what she's talking about.

Well, it's something that someone on the right says, so it must be far right. I guess she injected whatever Matt Gates was injecting into his face last night to freeze it like that into her brain. I don't know what happened. But I mean, who comes up with that kind of analysis? Oh, Lord of the Rings.

Oh, he likes Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings must be Hitler. I hear he likes drinking water too and breathing air. Maybe you should stop. I'm just saying.

I can't, Kane, 'cause you that's I can bring anything back. If you give me you you can give me any topic. And I will bring it back to Lord of the Rings. I've actually read it, like, prior to the films.

So I'm like a huge Tolkien fan. Not token. And I just To sit here and act like it's a far-right concept because J.D. Vance likes it. What in the world?

She's in work. You know she is. She's an orc. Uh-huh. That's that's they're they're desperate.

They're melting down right now. on the left. And tonight it's going to be even crazier. I'm telling you, if Trump goes out. At the RNC tonight.

And gives this like Reagan, you know, beacon on the hill unity kind of speech, and everyone's up on their feet. And, you know, you have uplifting music that plays in the background. They are, their heads are going to combust. It's going to be an instantaneous combustion with their heads on MSNBC, on CNN. It's just going to be.

Mad chaos. They're not going to know what to do. His speech tonight, I think, is incredibly important.

So tonight, apparently. Dana White, UFC, is speaking. Franklin Graham. Obviously, Eric Trump, Tucker Carlson speaking, Hulk Hogan speaking. Let's see who else.

Ah Those are the big ones. You got uh some some billionaire business people. talking about business, Linda McMahon. Let's see here. You got you got a number of people who are going to be out there speaking.

So that should be I don't know the order of it. And then obviously the president himself. is going to be speaking. Hmm.

Now coming up, we're going to talk about The vice presidency, the plotted course so far for the RNC, Scranton Joe versus J.D. Vance. Those stories. We've got a lot coming up. And the latest with Secret Service, stick with us.

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Sources tell me that the president lashed out at Congressman Jason Crowe in a Saturday call with House Democrats. That happened after the Colorado moderate relayed voters' concerns about the president's vigor and strength, especially when it comes to the world stage. Biden, I'm told, got so upset with Crowe's blunt assessment that at one point he said, cut that crap out, and told Crowe he could walk away if he wants. Woo.

So Biden's For the people. Yeah, he's not going so well, I don't think. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash with you. Top of the second hour.

He's kind of freaking out. Because. I mean, it's getting more and more difficult for him to make the argument that he needs to stay in the race. He had a disastrous phone call, three disastrous interviews in a row that were supposed to be a rehabilitation of the debate. Democrats have taken to downplaying the attempted assassination on Trump as a way to try to save Joe Biden.

It's just insane. This is. They're th this weekend is make or break. He's already called a lid for the day. He is at his beach house, Joe Biden, for four days now.

Four days he's going to be there. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. Can listen coast to coast. You can stream the show.

You can watch the simulcast uh of the radio program, channel three hundred forty-seven, DirecTV, Rumble, where the discussion happens. Uh make sure you check out uh the whole uh newsletter, chapter and verse over at Substack. Tonya. This is bad for Joe Biden. And you know what, too?

It's I don't know what Democrats are going to be able the polling is bad. And I wanted to share some of this polling with you. We're going to get in the Secret Service and all of this. Virginia is now being classified as leaning R. Uh it's moving to Trump, Pennsylvania.

Trump is one point above the margin of error. He's plus five, or point, sorry, a point and a half above margin of error. He's plus five in Pennsylvania. He's two points or no, three points above margin error in Georgia. He's plus six in Georgia.

These are states that you got to win. that Republicans have to win. And it's Joe Biden is not. He's not doing well. Normally I I would say to disregard polling because it's been so wrong.

It was so wrong. In 2022, because we were told of this red wave. And I think that they. overstated the polling to make Republicans feel Like they had it in the bag, and kind of make them lower their guard a little bit and make them, eh, maybe they didn't, it wasn't as urgent for voter outreach, canvassing, things like that. But because the internals that have been leaked.

as a way to push Biden out are so bad. I actually kind of think that this May I I'm actually putting a little bit more stock in some of the polling that I'm seeing than not pre th than I have ever, I think, at this stage in the game in terms of measuring support for the candidates. I think it might be more accurate than not. That's odd for me to say that because I and I've been looking. I spent a good portion last night going over these polls and looking at the cross tabs and the demographics and the over if anything was oversampled, where they pulled from when they called.

Because you know, polling is such a disingenuous, it's a farce because you're immediately stacking. You're immediately biasing the pool because you're calling people landlines. I mean, now they're starting to incorporate more with mobile, but that's still such a small percentage compared to the landline. And so. It's not an exact science.

I mean, it is as reliable as like an online poll, for real.

However, like I said, the internals that the internal polling that usually campaigns kind of keep in pocket and use that as a way to Shape messaging and strategy that's been leaked out kind of as a penalty to Biden to try to like turn up the heat and push him out. It's just it's not showing anything good for Democrats.

So that's why I'm inclined to put a little bit more stock in what we're seeing now with polling than I have previously.

Now, that being said, they're going to have the debate with Harris and Vance that's coming up. They settled on the date, it's August 12th.

So that's like, I think right before the convention, right? Wait. The DNC Convention. Because this debate is August 12th, the the VP debate. And the Democrat convention, which is going to be, was it going to be in Chicago?

Oh boy.

So they're having it's on Aug so this is right before the convention. Like days before, L Night days, like almost a week before the convention. Interesting.

So What's going to That's J.D. Vance has a great opportunity here to rhetorically take out Kamala Harris. which she's going to do because it's going to be like watching I don't know, think of something insulting in comparison. There's too many choices. It's going to be ridiculous.

To watch J.D. Vance debate Kamala Harris is going to be something else. And JD Vancey accepted the invitation last night, or accepted the nomination last night. He had a very he had a forty I think his speech was like forty minutes long. He had a very good speech.

And I think a lot of people I was talking about this with Um I was talking about this with Kennedy. Yeah. A lot of people, we know who J.D. Vance is. Because We work in this industry, and you know who he is because you're like us, you're a political nerd.

I don't say that as like a pejorative, that's just who we are. The average everyday person isn't as familiar, and he's very new.

Now, I want to be very clinical here because there's some good and then there's some things that he's going to have to overcome. The name recognition is something he's going to have to overcome because I think he has less. He has J.D. Vance has less of a political record than Barack Obama did when Barack Obama left the Senate to run for the White House.

So, you do have to keep that in mind. And for a lot of people, that record is a big deal, and that's where Trump is going to have to come in. But in terms of energizing and being able to go out and retail politics, They're going to be able to split the difference on this a little bit. And I think that's going to help because Trump has lagged in voter outreach and ground game in some of these battleground states. And I think now this is going to help offset some of that.

Going forward because they're going to have a very aggressive approach. But the other thing that's interesting, too, and I don't think they did this on purpose by design, I do think with the inclusion of Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters guy, which was really the big thing that more so than the coalition building with Amber Rose and all of that, the Sean O'Brien thing was the thing that actually got me the most, that made me most concerned. I wasn't as concerned with the other stuff, and that's because I look at this as a coalition and not a party thing. Sean O'Brien thing, though, he was talking about stuff that's a party thing. He was talking about Market principles, and I did have concern with that.

That being said, I keep seeing article after article pop up about how The Republican Party is going for the working class because the Democrats have kind of taken the working class for granted, right? Go back to 2016 when Hillary Clinton ran and you had a bunch of guys that voted union members. They didn't like Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton's not very much liked by the Democrat Party, much less the women in it or the dudes in it. And they, you know, they were kind of called, they were called racist in that if they didn't deliver for the Democrat Party by voting for the old white woman.

And these are people who are just trying to figure out how to keep a roof over their head and make sure that they can pay their bills. And they didn't much appreciate having their characters impugned because they were reliable and they showed up to vote with Democrats every damn election. And then the one time That they legitimately have concerns that weren't addressed by that party and they took their vote elsewhere. Democrats repaid that loyalty by savaging them in the press, savaging their character, and taxes, inflation. You're paying $7 for a dozen eggs now.

You feel better?

So, people, they rightly have access to grind, right?

So, introduce. J.D. Vance. Now, J.D. Vance.

There's a lot that people Recognize of themselves in his coming-of-age story. And I've told you myself, and I wrote about it in my book, Flyover Nation. You know, my family is rural Missouri, rural Missouri. And, you know, they all came, they're farmers, they're ranchers, they worked in mines. I mean, that's, you know, I got a lot of union folks in my family that worked that went up to the big city.

And they they work for Chrysler. Back in the day.

So there's a lot, a lot of people in America identify with that coming of age sort of story, coming from nothing, because that's really, isn't that kind of the soul of America? I mean, that's what Tocqueville wrote about when he toured the United States, you know, during its emergence as its own sovereign entity. And he was trying to figure out why the American Revolution was so much more successful than the French Revolution. And it's because of that can-do spirit to raise yourself out of the dust and turn yourself into something. I mean, at least, you know, with economically speaking and with property.

And That's what that encompasses, right? Joe Biden only plays lip service to that. He sits here and talks about scranton Joe and all this other stuff. But none of his choices actually reflect that. I mean, if you look about what's being delivered, what policies has the Biden administration delivered that actually help improve domestic manufacturing?

I'm telling you something. The United States was a powerhouse when we built everything at home. The United States was a powerhouse when our workers here were building our cars, were building our planes, were building our immune everything. That is when the U.S. was a powerhouse.

In World War II, the reason we weren't knocked on our ass is because we had that domestic production on lock. And not only could we recover our shipyards in Pearl Harbor, but we could turn around on the other side of the country and across the pond, go and help the British and the French beat back the Nazis too. And that is because of the strength of our domestic production capability. And we lost that. And Joe Biden always pays such lip service to this kind of stuff in the American worker.

But then what happens? The business taxes, the cap gains taxes, the corporate taxes. Where do you think he tries to drive this Marxist policy that blames businesses for succeeding? And when businesses want to make more money, what do they do? They hire more people.

They pay more money. They give better benefits. They can't do that anymore.

So now they got to export all their jobs. They got to export all their manufacturing, all their labor. They outsource everything. That was done by Democrats that drove those policies all the way through the 70s and the 80s and the 90s. And so, one of the big things that Democrats are going to lose this election cycle is that narrative because those policies do not reflect that.

And I'm telling you, that is going to be one of the major prongs of this election. It's all about the economy, stupid, but there's a very important aspect to the economy going forward right now in this election, and it is that domestic production factor. And that is one thing that Vance has been, I will love him or hate him. And I liked him better than Bergram and Rubio and these others. That's where he's been consistent.

Now, people say it's isolationist, and I think that that is a myopic, uneducated take. I'm not trying to be ignorant in saying that it's uneducated or mean-spirited. I just think it's a myopic, uneducated take. It's not isolationist to want to beef up our own production. And it's not isolationist to want to make sure that you can handle what your nation needs.

And then if your allies need assistance too, I mean, look back again, the example of World War II. That's not isolationist to think that. And so that's what Vance brings to the table. You have that hard-won homespun approach. And then you have Trump's business approach compared to Scranton Doe, a guy who's only paid lip service.

And has only ever worked in the public sector. This guy has been in elected office longer than I have been alive. And he's a multi-millionaire. How is that? 'Cause all the business deals that he's been making.

using his elected office.

Now people are going to contrast those things You have JD Vance who lived in squalor until, what, fifteen years ago? Audio soundbite uh Twenty. I don't care who you are. This was a touching thing. Let's play this.

And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here. 10 years, clean and sober. I love you, Mom. His mind is dangerous. When I wrote my book Fly Over a Nation, I was writing about these people.

'Cause I have these people in my family. And there's something you recognize in that. I mean, I'm I think most Americans any day of the week are going to take a good old boy over somebody like Scranton Joe. 'Cause the Scranton Joes didn't build the country. The good old boy and the good old girl's dead.

Scranton Joe's didn't do it. That, I'm telling you what, is going to be a major, major prong going forward. I'm going to be interested to see how Trump. Kind of dovetails in his remarks tonight, if he dovetails into what Vance said last night into some of Vance's discussions on this. We're going to talk more about this coming up because.

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

So, scientists say they're one step closer to unlocking the secrets of anti-aging. They discovered a drug that switches off a protein linked to accelerated old age. They found that the treatment extended the lifespan of rats by 25%. And they also had like no-gray hairs, improved vision, better muscle functionality, resistance to diseases, all this kind of stuff. The 75-week-old rats, equivalent to a 55-year-old human, lived for an average of 155 weeks compared to 120 weeks of those not treated.

Humans apparently inherited the protein. It's called interleukin-11. We've developed it over the years, so I don't know. It's wild. That's interesting, though.

So the Big news in Texas. There's a ruling in favor of making your moonshine. What? I mean, it's protected by the Missouri Constitution. I mean, Texas, come on, why are you going?

The law was unconstitutional, according to a federal judge, the law that banned it. That was the ruling in Texas last week. And they're protecting some of these do-it-yourself distillers. I cannot even believe that there would be a law against it. Like, stop it.

This is so stupid. Microsoft laid off their DEI team as diversity ideals are, quote, no longer business critical. Wow. First suicide pod use soon in Switzerland, according to campaigners. This thing is terrifying looking.

It's a pod that you get and it kills you. It's yeah, and it's like uh it replaces the oxygen with nitrogen and it costs $20 to use. That's terrifying. Isn't that scary?

So that's what they're looking at in Switzerland. Gemini, Christmas. A North Korean official drowned during a Moscow visit, say Russian media. Sure, says the world. A North Korean official visiting Russia as part of a military training delegation drowned in a pond near Moscow.

A lot of people are wondering how that happened. Python's touted as a protein alternative, no thank you. And the Twisters director, they didn't mention climate change, and he said in response, well, movies shouldn't preach a message. Coming up. Our good friend John Rich joins us next.

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I love the mix. It has that dark country vibe. It's like goth country. I love it so much. I heard the first opening notes of this, and I was like, ooh, ooh.

It's so good. Everything that he does is so good. John Rich, you guys know John Rich, founder of Redneck Riviera Whiskey. Oh, Glory Bank. This is his new song, Revelation.

And I got to tell you. I was looking at I was watching the video and I'm like Wobby Dang, we had the devil on the show yesterday. Nick Searcy plays the devil on this video. It's a brand new song by John Rich, and we're going to talk to him about this. I love, first off, John joins us via Skype right now, my good friend.

Good to see you. Congrats on the song. I love this song. I love the mix. I love everything about it.

I love the vocals. I mean, I love the guitar tone. It's so warm. And it's, I mean, I could sit here and like go into old college music review mode right now, but it's such a good, this is a good song. All your stuff is good, but this is some goth country right here.

I loved it. Congrats. I appreciate it. Yeah, this is unlike any song I've ever written before. I doubt I'll ever write anything like this again.

Oh, you've got to, though.

Well, if it hits me again, trust me, I'll write more. This was a special situation, not only. The way it sounds, but what it's talking about. You know, that video, if people haven't seen that video yet, it's powerful. Go watch that.

Yeah, I mean, you've got the devil and Michael facing off. Yeah, it's spiritual warfare. You know, people talk about that kind of like it's science fiction or something. Like, yeah, that's it's good versus evil. Yeah, but it actually is.

I have to tell you, I have to interrupt you because I had this, I don't know if you can see it, Ephesians 6:12 through 13 tattooed on my arm as a reminder, like over a decade ago, because that's really the reality in which we live in. And so when I was hearing the song, I could, I could hear, you know, not just, you know, the book of Revelation, but also the other parts of the Bible that were inspiring you or leading you to write the lyrics you wrote. Yeah, you know, people have said, How'd you come up with those lyrics? I say, I didn't. The Apostle John came up with those lyrics with those words.

I just made them rhyme. That's really all I did. That second verse. It says, brimstone upon their heads and millstones around their necks. They'll feel the shaking when the trumpet sounds.

You know, this song is talking about a lot. It's all been written how this thing ends at the final when the boss comes back. And when he comes back, they're done. I mean, it is unequivocal. They are finished.

And so as we see them out here, You know, thrusting this evil into our faces every single day, like there's nothing gonna ever happen to them. It's just not true.

So, I said about the song when I posted it just a few days ago: I said, I hope it brings. Yeah. conviction to the laws and absolute terror. To the truly wicked out there in this world. And I think that's exactly what it's done.

I'm into that. Talking with our good friend John Rich, who this video, I have to ask you, where was this shot at? Where'd you film this video at? The church is, I mean, that looks like the Baptist church that's in my family's hometown in the Ozarks. Yeah, it's about a 130-year-old little church out in the woods in Tennessee.

I thought that was the perfect place to do it because when you see the devil blast through his fiery portal, and then you see Michael come blasting down in the woods. And they start coming at each other and Michael pulls that sword and I'm standing in between them. I mean, what a scene. It is. I wanted to take this thing all the way over the top, Dana, because.

The bad side of things in the entertainment business, they have unlimited budgets. They can make these grandiose productions out of it. And even though you don't want to look at it, it's done so well that you find yourself watching it. I thought if we're going to combat that. We need to come with content that comes to that level.

We need to hit them with everything that we've got. I am so glad you said that because this has been my one. I always complain. I'm like, why? Is like Christian music or God rock treated as a second class industry to the secular sound or any of that messaging?

Why does that not get the first fruits? And so, this is, I love the way you did. I mean, it's like epic. I mean, it's it looks like a movie. It's, I mean, really well done.

Yeah, thank you. Maybe it'll be a movie someday. Can you imagine a movie about the book of Revelation? As long as you do the whole score. Do the entire score.

Not letting you off the hook on that one. No, not at, because this is such a good track. I want to come back to it, but I got to ask you, too. I mean, obviously, the timing of this, you know, the song, it's been out just barely, the video's been out barely a week. And then of course we had what happened on Saturday happen.

I want to get your initial thoughts. When you First, saw when you first heard about this attempted assassination attempt, and then you know, a little bit later we all see, you know, just a slight turn of the head. Is what saved the. I mean, that we could be in an entirely different world today had he not turned his head, the president, and looked at the Jumbotron for some like immigration graph, I think, that they put up there. That, you know, just moving his head like an inch saved his life.

How did that hit you?

Well, it hit me that the whole world just got to see an act of God on live television. I mean people that I don't believe in God, your sky daddy, all the stuff that they say about it. Yeah, but they all just saw that and they know in their spirit what that was. I would also say this. The same God, the Lord, that turned his head at just that exact moment, is also the one that allowed that whole situation to happen in the first place.

You got to remember, he controls all of it. And so it's interesting that a near-death experience on Donald Trump. The impact that must have had on him personally. He doesn't look the same. I know we've all seen that.

When he walked out at the RNC with the patch on his ear and all that, we're gonna hear him speak tonight. He has a different look in his eye. And um I happen to think that that whole thing was orchestrated on purpose to be scary, but to let the man survive. And and the boss reminding him, I got big things I need you to do, Donald. Pay attention.

I view it from both sides, that that it wasn't just Turning his head. It was the whole situation. I think that's a smart way to look at it. Talking with our friend John Rich, and I agree with you on the way he looked because I've known him for over 10 years. He used to come on the radio show all the time.

I introduced him at CPAC some years ago. I have never seen him get emotional. I've never seen him get like. Like watery eyes, you know, anything like that. He's always been very, very straight.

And when he walked out on the that was weird. It it was weird in a very not in a bad way. I don't know how to describe it, but you could tell, like you just said, you could tell. But when you have a near-death experience like that in the way that he did, how do you? How does that not change you?

So it makes sense. I mean, it makes, and his kids, too. I mean, I think Junior was crying when he came out. Yeah, well, near-death experiences in the Bible, there's been many of them. Saul, who later became Paul.

Saul's whole job was to go out and murder Christians for the Roman Empire. He was going town to town, cutting their heads off, lighting them on fire. That's where Roman candle comes from, they'd light them on fire. And then on the road to Damascus, he has a near-death experience, and for three days, he's blinded. He can't, he's like.

What just happened? And he realized that was God giving him one last shot. And when he came out of that, he changed his name to Paul and he wrote half the New Testament.

So God has a history. of doing this with people that he's got very big jobs for. That's a great point. Talking with our friend John Rich, his new song, Revelation, which has been out now just for about a week. A fabulous new song that really gets into the heart of this.

I want to switch gears and ask you real quick about two.

So, J.D. Vance announced he accepted the vice presidential nomination. He's part of the ticket now. And I was thinking about this: you know, because you come, you know, you come from like Appalachia territory. I come from Ozark territory.

You know, you come from the woods in Tennessee and all that. And I'm, you know, we're down by the, you know, down southern Missouri. And there, whenever people. Try to resonate, I think, a hard Scrabble upbringing message with people who really lived it and they're not genuine. It shows like the Scranton Joe stuff.

I never took that seriously because I never believed the man. But when I see people like J.D. Vance, and people like him or don't like him, I don't think that you can dispute that he came up in a way that a lot of flyover nations can recognize. Tell me a little bit about how you think that's going to play out to a nation. Because you've got Scranton Joe, which I think is like a manufactured, hard-scrabbled upbringing.

compared to J.D. Vance, who lived it and was very transparent about it.

Well, you know, when you grow up and your mother's a raging drug addict, and your dad abandons you, and everybody in your neighborhood. is messed up on something. And you have to claw your way out of that. I'm hoping. That J.D.

Vance has extreme empathy for people who are dealing with those situations in our country. And I hope he advises Trump very well on how to help those people, how to turn some of the things around in our country where those people can get a leg up finally. And you know, I'll say this about JD Vance: the jury's out. Show us what you got, man. You know, I thought Pence was great.

Until I watched him operate and then I went, nope. And Pence is nowhere to be found now. He didn't even go to the convention because he would have been booed the second he walked in the door.

So I hope JD follows up with what we all hope. He's going to do. I mean, he's a Marine, former Marine. I like him.

So I'm like, all right, thumbs up on that. Let's see what you got, buddy. Let's see what you can do. Yeah, I think that's a good point. A lot of people, you know, unless, and I don't say this as like a mean way to say it, but unless you're kind of a political nerd, you know, you really don't know a lot about his background.

A lot of people around the country are meeting him for the first time. They met him for the first time last night. They got the debate scheduled for August 12th. How do you think that? J.D.

Vance versus Kamala Harris. What do you think of that one, John? I think that's like a piece of birthday cake debating a steak knife, is what I think. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, good luck. Maybe a chainsaw. That might be angel food cake versus chainsaw. Oh, my God. She stared at it.

It will be so horrific. It wouldn't shock me if they don't do it. If she pulls out, I mean, there's no. She's the border czar? Yeah.

Wait till JD starts drilling her on that.

So you're the border czar, huh? That's me. There's nowhere to run. You know, the Frankenstein monster that the Democrats and the left have built has now turned around and is eating them. They are being attacked by the monster they created, and deservedly so.

You think they're going to replace Joe Biden? Because he's at his Delaware beach house. They called a lid on today, so he's not talking to the press anymore today. He's going to be there for four days. Apparently, they're all pressuring him to get out of the room.

I mean, what do you? I mean, what do you? It sounds to me like, I don't know, he may not be here Monday.

Well, if he gets out of the race, he should also get out of the White House. I mean, if you're not cognitively able to run for office, you're definitely not cognitively able to be in the office. I mean, come on. We've got China circling Taiwan. We've got the Middle East in flames.

We've got Russia going for we've got warships off the coast of Cuba. I mean Listen, man, if you're not going to run and you're too sick and weak to do it, then get the hell out of there. And if it's got to be laughing Kamala Harris, all right, come on in. I'm so excited. To me, it's like, Dana, to me, I would use this analogy.

It would be like changing the captain out of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg and thinking now it's not going to sink. That's the way, exactly. I think that's the perfect way to put it. Our good friend John Rich, you know. Where yeah Tough times, but we can take some refuge in the knowledge that the battle's already been won.

But this video, Revelation, you can find it. It's out on YouTube, it's out everywhere. And make sure you go get some of that heavenly whiskey, Rednick Riviera. Oh my goodness, the best whiskey out there, John Rich. Uh, and find Old Glory Bank, all of that.

You do so much, you do so much, and we appreciate it. Congrats on the song. Appreciate it. Thank you. I'll give you one quick update.

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So, this is kind of the last day if you don't have it. Go download it. It's like a buck 29. You know, it's not a big deal. Go get it and see if we can flip it to number one.

It'd be pretty cool. Regardless, it has had the impact. My interview with Tucker Carlson that dropped a couple of days ago now has four and a half million views across the platforms. And the whole conversation was about revelation, spiritual warfare, and all of that.

So go check that out too. Exactly. Yeah. And it's the best $1.29 that's ever been spent.

So I and it's a great song and a great, great. I mean, truth, a great story as well. I mean, it's the truth. John Rich, always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much.

God bless you. Thanks, Dana. Of course. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this second hour of the program. And of course, we're going to be rolling into some Florida, man.

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I immediately want to go to the guy who is trying to steal steak.

So, I'm not going in order. I'm sorry, but this immediately caught my eye, as you can imagine, it would anybody's.

So, this Florida man. Stole four rib eye stakes and hid him under his shirt. Hid them under his shirt. out of Walmart, according to deputies. Man, just wanted some red meats.

That's all. Angel Rivera, 66, was charged with petty theft of $100 or more after he on this. Walmart. Ribby theft. He hid them on.

And they got him on camera. He went and picked out four packs of ribeyes. place them uh on the top part of his shopping cart and then He went to a different aisle where I guess he thought cameras couldn't get him. And he hid them under his shirt, which he was covered by a jacket. And then he left without paying.

Walmart Asset Protection Officer confronted him. He gave the stakes back. They waited until deputies arrived. It was they were recovered but damaged. $102.

For four stakes. For four steaks, $102. Mm-hmm That's a lot.

So he gets in trouble. He gets in trouble.

So. We also have this guy. He, um, Didn't want to share his uh Uh Passcode? On his phone, he did not want to share his passcode, his password, his phones, like to unlock his phone with his girlfriend, and he jumped into the ocean. Hmm.

This dude doesn't sound trustworthy, just gotta say. He would rather literally jump to where the sharks and gators live. A Florida man, he did not want his girlfriend or his cops to access his phone, and he jumped into the ocean. To avoid giving it up and tried to flee arrest after he was being grilled by police while out on a boat. There's body cam footage.

It shows two female Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officers questioning the guy. He identified himself as AJ, him and his girlfriend on a boat in the keys. And he was arguing with the officers and his girlfriend over the phone. He got agitated and jumped into the ocean. And he goes, What if I just swim away?

And then he led I love this line he led the cops on a seven-minute pursuit back to shore where they promptly arrested him. I don't know what they didn't actually say, like what. They just said his boat was breaching code. And they didn't have any like documentation with them. And that's pretty much all they because I really don't know why they were stopped or why, but.

To me, like not even letting your go. Just saying, just saying, it sounds a little sketchy.

Sounds a little sketchy. What else we got? This. Oh, yeah, this one. This is one I.

Pompano Beach woman. Man, this woman had a bad day. She flipped off the camera, plowed a car into a school, and then she also hit a bunch of wheelchairs and a cop car. Deputies say she caused more than $20,000 worth of damage. She drove through the closed gates of a South Florida school where 12 children with special needs were, the Brad Horizon School.

And she plowed through the glass door. She ran over a whole bunch of wheelchairs. And then she backed into a sheriff's patrol car and then did donuts in the parking lot before speeding down. The school hallway. Oh my gosh, they totally arrested her.

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Now my mamma died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005. And when we went through things, we found 19 loaded handguns. They were. The thing is, they were stashed all over her house, under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer. Yeah.

And we wondered what was going on. And it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, Mamma couldn't get around so well. And so, this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she was within arm's length of whatever she needed to protect her family. That's who we fight for. That's American spirit.

This is like, I think DeSantis briefly mentioned Tua in his remarks. This was like the most that the Second Amendment that guns got mentioned, and I was very, very excited about that. Obviously, last night by J.D. Vance and his acceptance of the VP nomination. Welcome back.

Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. And uh You can listen coast to coast. You can also watch the simulcast of the radio program on X. You can watch it on Rumble, all that good stuff. The discussion happens on Rumble as well.

So I was very I was you know I was uh I was happy to hear that. And that makes sense, right? To have guns all over your house. I mean, that's not. That's not uh abnormal at all.

One quick thing about this, and we're going to switch gears to all the latest with the Secret Service stuff because there's all kinds of new developments that I've been watching some of my friends argue back and forth over. Vance's VP because I think his Selection as VP is A. much more consequential than it than when it was Mike Pence. picked. And then the second thing is that I think it is projecting the plans for the future of the Republican Party more so than Mike Pence ever did.

Mike Pence was done because Trump didn't have a political record and they needed somebody who could act like the vanilla statesman, right? I don't know. That's why Pence got picked. That's why they ended up putting Biden on Obama stick. I mean, it's, you know.

Just this hi that's kinda how it is. But with Vance, he is going to have to, he's going to have to get out there and make the case. He really will. And because he doesn't have that much of a record. He's brand new in the Senate.

So he actually has less time being in elected office than Barack Obama did when he left the Senate to run for the White House.

So he's really got to make the case. Because flyover nation voters, it's not enough. I feel like, and this is just what I've been hearing from a lot of you that have reached out to me. uh over the years it's not enough to be like oh yeah i grew up the same right That's, yeah, a lot of people grew up, you know, in rural areas. You know, a lot of us grew up like that.

A lot of us grew up where, you know, you didn't have like the supermarket down the road or something like that. I mean, that's not unusual. But to. I think what so many people and fly over country, they're they're used to two things. They're used to A being denigrated as bitter clingers.

right, like they were under Obama, or deplorables under Hillary. And they're used to being patronized. Like how Biden does the Scranton Joe shtick, right? They're used to it.

So they're going to be watching for authenticity. And I feel like it was really, I do feel like it was authentic last time. I mean, that's how he grew up. And he's been very transparent about his upbringing. I think Partly because that's just who he is, but also partly because Democrats can't weaponize any of that now.

Think about it. Think about this. 20 years ago. Don't you think that Democrats would have, it would have been easier ground to like weaponize someone in your family that maybe was an ads? You know what I mean?

It just seems like that now that's not a weapon anymore. But I will say this. Vance does have to make the case. And I'm going to bring this up only to show you what you got to overcome. When Vance ran for Senate in Ohio, and again, I liked him better as a pick than Bergman or Rubio.

Or Haley. When You look at Ohio, Mike Dewine, the governor, is a moderate. And he outperformed Vance by like over 2-1. He got way more votes than Vance. He had a double-point lead as opposed to Vance.

It was single-digit, it was very close. in his Senate race. That is something he's going to have to overcome. It's not a guarantee. I think it was actually kind of a risky move.

It was a gamble to secure. Trump's legacy and the future Plot for Uh the Republican Party, the pathway for the Republican Party. Because he could have gone with somebody like a youngin', a safe bet. But Vance is, he's solidifying that portion of the Republican. party that pathway forward.

So Vance is going to have to he's going to have to work because they Republicans lost a lot of ground in the suburbs. Republicans underperformed in 2022. That we lost, the GOP lost a lot of ground in 2020. The GOP lost a lot of ground in 2018. These are all true things.

So That is something you do have to consider. That means there's a lot of groundwork to get done, a lot of groundwork to do. And so I will say that the GOP was su more successful. At the state legislative level, and the gubernatorial level, and the congressional level.

So there is that silver lining in it. And Presidential elections and presidential politics can be very, very tricky.

So, we're going to see how this plays out. But They got some work to do. Vance has to increase his name recognition. August 12th is going to be a real like people got introduced to him last night. The next time people will get introduced to him is august twelfth.

when he debates Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris does not perform well under pressure, and she's bad in debates. J. D. Vance.

He cannot come off as shrill, or anything other than how he did last night. He has got to stick that tone. He sticks to that tone as a guy who just wants to improve things for America, American workers, and all this. Oh, man, Harris won't have a shot. She won't have an opening.

She's going to play every card that she can. Oh, I'm the woman. I'm the, she, and. Vance by holding the tone that he had last night, we'll circumvent that.

Now, the latest with the Secret Service. I know you saw... I can't believe the Secret Service chief was just walking around the RNC. I mean, I'm sure they're there for a reason, but walking around the RNC, you know, just walking around, was confronted because now so much stuff is coming out about there's a lot with this, a lot with Secret Service. You have.

Uh the briefing that took place where more details came out. They said that Because we have the video. Like, it was like an hour, wasn't it, Kane? Because at first they said it was like 20 minutes before he climbed up. The video, there's he's in video like an hour before he climbed up on the roof.

He visited. The rally sites, the rally site days in advance. He stashed, apparently, he stashed his rifle there.

So his rifle was already there. And Again, that how do you not That means, okay, now this is where they haven't said anything about Kane. Doesn't that mean that it had to be behind the staging area of the building that he climbed up on? Yeah. Yeah.

You're telling me that a guy Can go? To the site where a former president and potential next president is speaking and Stash a rifle? Yeah. It had to have been by the staging area. Yeah.

Yeah. And they didn't find it? Yeah. That's what we're to believe. Really?

I remember when I was in I was a freshman in high school. Arnold, Missouri. One of my friends worked at the McDonald's. there. And uh I think I was doing select sports through that summer.

And Bill Clinton came to town. that summer. That's when you had Dick Gebhardt, who was still in office. I remember that. And Bill Clinton was coming to the school and they were replacing things like windows and stuff that they took all out after he left.

I mean, it was really a shameful thing. But this Bill Clinton loved McDonald's Cokes. And he loved McDonald's. He just loved McDonald's, but he liked their sodas with their ice cubes. And he, the story goes, is that he used to visit a McDonald's and like whenever he was traveling around the country, he always wanted to go to McDonald's.

This was no exception.

So they told the McDonald's and Arnold like two days before Clinton came in to visit that there was uh or two days before the Secret Service visited that they were going to come and advance the the president's visit.

So they came there like two days before and then the day before and then that morning.

So they had three advance visits, right? To ad you advance it, you check and make sure. And my friend was working like two out of those three days. They they were checking everybody. And my friend was there when Clinton came in to visit.

And I mean, everyone was saying how the Secret Service went over literally everything. They were looking at what the food was cooked in, they were looking at absolutely everything, like the shake machine, everything. I bet those shake machines were working. They looked at everything. And they And my friend was like, I've never seen.

We were joking about our moms and how our moms loved to deep clean the house all the time. And they were like, Yeah, we thought our moms were bad. This is crazy. Like, they were looking understood. It was wild.

Like, they were looking at everything. It was like a deep inspection. And I just remember, I had that story in the back of my head when I was reading about how this guy visited this site. He was advancing it for himself. He had visited in advance.

scoped it out and stashed his rifle there. How was that not found? I was just I'm comparing The security there on behalf of the former and potential next President. to the Mickey Mickey D's one. And you could say, well, one was the current president, one was, that's the same Secret Service, or supposed to be.

That's stupid, that's inconsequential, it's irrelevant. There's a difference. I don't know if it's because of DEI, laziness, or just outright maliciousness. And I don't think that anyone no jury would convict anybody for thinking any or all of those things. But I'm amazed.

FBI Director Ray said that there was no established motive as of now. The same FBI that knows anyone who even so much as sneezed in the direction of the Capitol. on January 6th. I'm I'm I'm just Just Just wow.

So they had said twenty minutes Between the time he was spotted by snipers and when he fired the shots. Twenty minutes went by. Sixty two minutes elapsed between the time he was photographed as being suspicious and when he fired the shots. I've had better security at book events. I have had better security at events that I've gone to, book events.

I absolutely have. I Amazing. I had better security at the Parkland Town Hall. Not because of the event there. By the way, you know the event there, the Parkland Town Hall, the CNN Town Hall?

They didn't screen for guns. Know that? They didn't do any of that despite it was a big gun control event. I could have taken anything in. Isn't that interesting?

That was interesting. I had better I've had better security uh at a I had a books a million event. where there was a guy who was trying to start something and I had better security there. Not even kidding you. Yeah, there was a guy who was trying he looked real suspicious and he had a backpack and I think they did detain him and they mark they walked him away.

I've had better security when I spoke at college campuses. When I had Antifa show up and protest, I had better security. Then asked That's crazy. That is crazy. Who is providing security here, Uvaldi?

62 minutes elapsed between the time he was photographed as being suspicious and firing shots. All of this. They had the Senate briefing call. Yeah, so you can understand. I guess, you know, the FBI or the Secret Service chief, she didn't want to answer any questions since she was confronted.

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I don't care about the baby bird and a tortilla. I really don't care. I don't care about that story. Nobody cares about it. Racist?

Nobody cares. Nobody cares about the baby bird and the tortilla. I have that as a headline, and I just don't care. Baby bird in a warm tortilla? Are you going to eat?

That's how they're keeping and rehabbing this baby bird, and you don't. By putting it in a talk. You don't think that's cute enough, just to mention? No, I don't because it's not a dog.

So we're moving on. We're moving on. The politics is. We're moving on. We're doing it.

So, more bad poll news for Biden. I was looking at like the Trump stuff earlier, but there was a new poll out at University of Chicago and AP. Democrats are less likely, or not less likely, sorry, increasingly likely to be concerned about Biden's mental fitness. Duh. In fact, it's like starting to track upward.

It used to be like 38, 5%, so they weren't very confident.

Now it's 48%, or it was 48%, now it's 52%. It keeps going up. People are very concerned, obviously. And also, there's going to be a problem for Democrats in the Senate because if you look at the Senate races for Democrats, 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans right now, presently for independents, a lot of the independents were caucusing with Democrats, and Harris is the president of the Senate, thus controlling the chamber. But when you look at the seats and you look at some of the math ahead, that is actually a very legitimate question as to whether or not Democrats are going to be able to hang on to the Senate.

We're going to watch that close more closely in the days to come. Let's see. Also, a couple of other things to get into. Jack Smith, you know, he's filing the appeal. We mentioned this yesterday, trying to reverse the dismissal of that case.

That's not going to go anywhere. It's not. Not going to go anywhere at all. Also, they say that short bursts of intense exercise for over a six-month period can reduce cognitive decline. That seems obvious, though.

Do you really need to study over that? I mean, come on, that's kind of obvious, right? Yeah. Uh a twenty Oh really? A 20-foot inflatable IUD went up at a Virginia Beach oceanfront.

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Weird situation. We'll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength. This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn't that convey exactly the same thing?

That he's strong enough older than Trump to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age.

So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same? I mean, it's not exactly the same. It's not the same incident, but it's an elderly man coming through out of an incident. It should. These two men are both elderly.

Donald Trump is an elderly man. Read. I couldn't think of her this Every joy that I know is not a joy. Welcome back to the show, Bottom of the Third Hour. That is one of the dumbest sound bites that I think I have heard in.

I don't know. You know, it's just like You know, he had, he's got COVID. It's just like getting shot in the head. I had some. Chatty Kathy on social on X trying to tell me, oh, you can't say he was shot in the head, his ear was clipped.

I'm really trying hard, Kane. I feel like Sam Jackson looking down at Ringo in that final scene. in pulp fiction. which actually was the first scene, but it was done in not in chronological order. And I'm looking at Ringo and I'm telling him Right before I make him dig in the bag and take out my wallet that has bad Mephir on it.

and I'm looking right down at him. with the gun pointed at him and I'm like, you know. Talking to him about Scripture and how I evaded, you know, had my life saved earlier that day. And I'm looking at him like Ringo, I'm trying real hard here. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.

That was one of the best scenes in all cinema. Really was. It's a masterpiece. I'm thinking of that when I hear this stuff. from these people.

You know Time Magazine switched out their cover? They have a oh, they they're trying to defend it and say it's a variant edition. Oh. Switched out the cover. They switched out the cover.

From attack on T Trump to What unites us? Because that photo It's an iconic photo. By the way, on X if you use hashtag MAGA. It now shows that photo of him raising his fist. with the flag behind him, it shows that on Twitter.

If you just do hashtag MAGA, it shows it, or on X, it shows it on there now. And now it's like all over. Oh Telling you. But yeah, they and this was after you have people over at Axios, photo editors, going, Well, I just don't think that we can show that photo. It's like free advertising.

For what? The guy was shot. It's a news article. Joe Biden would love to have some kind of coverage like that. He would love to have an iconic photo.

I mean, this is the same media that put Barack Obama in a halo for eight years. Come on. Yeah, they switched out Time magazine switched out their cover. They and they're saying it's a variant. And that you can still get the the the um Uh the other one online.

Mm. Oh. So you can buy the one with really. Juan is showing them now. the uh two different covers there.

So The old one? And oh, the variant they said. The variant and then the new one.

So I, to me, it's like they switched it out because they thought that it was promoting Trump in a positive light. Doesn't it that's That's why they did it. The media reaction still. Listen to this from Associated Press, this headline. Quote, Trump has given no official information about his medical care for days since an assassination attempt.

Well, that's not true. He told everyone he went to the hospital and they updated everybody through his family and his campaign people exactly what was up. And then he just and then he's got a bandage over his ear as this as it heals with stitches in it.

So what are you? I'm I Really? This one reporter, Margaret Sullivan. She's at the Guardian. She goes very little detail here.

Trump's campaign has given no official information about his care.

So you're asking questions about him getting shot in the head live on camera in front of an entire nation? You didn't see that? That's where that information came from. Maybe ask the Secret Service.

some questions about what went wrong if that's not too much for you. These are the people they want to know more. And the Trump campaign was very forthcoming about all of it. That's how we know everything. That's how we know everything about it.

They were very forthcoming about all of it. But these people Have Not said anything. at all about Biden? They haven't said anything at all about Biden's health. I mean, look at this.

This guy can't even get down. I'm looking at, again, the video. He can't even walk down the damn stairs. but the press is not at all interested. No, they'll take the magazine cover off.

They'll take the magazine cover out. Biden, in the meantime, he can't walk down the stairs and nobody in the press asks a question.

Well, we don't have any can y think about this. Imagine if they had said we don't have any detail from the Biden campaign about his medical care. We don't have any detail. They haven't said anything like that. Kane, correct me if I'm wrong.

But They've been very transparent about everything that happened. I mean, hell, we watched it on camera. Right. Multiple multiple angles. Yeah, we had multiple angles.

We saw it on camera. There's Biden that Juan's showing you on the simulcast going down the stairs. Look how slow he's going. You missed those first two or three stairs, though. He was really, he stopped.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He stops and he's like, okay, uh, uh. Uh And he's got a guy going off behind him now, too, which is unusual. Look how close the guy's following behind him. He's like one step up.

Let's see, he's like right behind him. He's watching what he's like, Oh, he hesitated.

Okay. There should be somebody right below him, Casey Falls.

Well, I mean, I guess maybe those two dudes saluting in the front, they have two dudes now. Usually it was like they have a dude there. I don't know. But they're asking all these questions about what we already know because the Trump campaign's been forthright about it, but yet they don't ask anything about Biden. Why is he called a lid for the day?

He's going to be at his Delaware Beach house for four days now. No one's the press isn't interested in asking any questions about no, like mental checkups. Why are they not asking why a doctor who specializes in Parkinson's has been visiting? Why are there that was like reported by a conservative entity, but no one in the media seems interested in asking any other questions about it? And Corrine Jean-Pierre completely dodged it at the press conference at the press avails.

So, you know, I just, we all have a lot of questions about this. Why have they not asked anything about it? I think that's fair to they haven't asked a single thing. Kane, would you describe the media as being very interested in reporting about Biden's health? No, actually quite the opposite because we've had a lot of instances in the past, especially now just recently with COVID.

How's he doing with COVID? What's his treatment with COVID? Have you seen it? I mean, after they announced it, all we saw was video of him getting on the plane without a mask, him interacting with his staff without a mask, all of that stuff.

So. Yeah. Yesterday. Yesterday, he was touching everybody at a super spreader event. I mean, you were a murderer if you walked out of your house without a mask.

If you dare go to church. If you went to church without a mask, you were a murderer. Yep. And you have Joe Biden, who is how many times did he get the clutch at? I think three.

Maybe more boosters, I don't know. Possibly more. And he's out there with no mask, touching everybody. See, I d I don't believe any of that stuff works and I know that they don't believe that it works either. Because they never follow their rules when it affects them.

If they believed it, they would follow their own rules. That just shows you that it's just bread and circuses for you. Yeah, and it's more than just odd for him to yesterday announce that, well, if I have a medical condition of some sort, then I'm going to go ahead and bow out. And then, like, literally 98 minutes later. The Democrats are announcing he's got COVID.

So it's not. Stop. This is all coordinated. He had tweeted that, or he had said in an interview, that nothing was. He wouldn't consider anything unless there was like an illness or something, which I thought was interesting.

But then he tweeted out, like, I guess, or not him, I guess it was a campaign. They thought it would be funny. And it said, I am sick. And the subsequent tweet was about whatever, some policy with Trump. But but That's so dumb.

That was so dumb.

Now there are some polls coming out. The first post-assassination attempt polling. And it's still very early because this stuff takes time. But there's an Emerson College polling group, and the results, and I have not looked. At any of the cross tabs or anything on this.

So I can't. I I haven't looked at it was a July 15th or 16th national poll.

So I haven't looked at Um where you know uh who was polled ages, you know, any of that. But it said Uh 46%. of registered voters supported Trump. 42% supported Biden. How is it even that close?

12% are undecided. And then they said that Uh When third-party candidates were added, Trump maintains or extends his advantage in the national poll. and six of the seven swing states.

Now It I think now this is this might sound odd. I honestly believe that if there is an uptick in support measured support for Trump post-assassination. It's not going to be out of sympathy. I think if people are going to go to Trump, it's not going to be out of sympathy because somebody tried to kill him. I think they're going to look at the absolute contrast between a guy who just was shot.

And a guy who is supposedly fine, no problem, but can barely walk upstairs, who can't even get through an interview. And when he tries to do a one-on-one, heavily edited interview, it is still a disaster, even with all the edits and jump cuts and everything. It's still a disaster. I think people are looking at those two contrasts and saying, oh my gosh, we can't go with it. This guy's not even making these decisions.

Somebody else is, and we don't know who that person is. That's what I think. that will motivate people to go over. uh to that because you you have to understand you're dealing with people who are I don't think they're going to feel sympathy. I'm not saying that they wanted him to have something happen to him, but I think that they were either so ambivalent or so anti that the only thing that's going to be able to convince them to go to vote against Biden is his absolute complete implosion, which they're seeing clearly.

I mean, there's an absolute contrast.

So that's what I think some of this is. And the reason I'm putting that out there is I think I hope that they strategize at the RNC accordingly because of that.

Now, I do think that for maybe some of the more milquetoast Republicans or some of the people who are like maybe perhaps like never Trump or Republicans that were not MAGA. I think the focusing on, oh my gosh, you know, they even try to kill him, et cetera. I think that also might play a little bit more with them than it would with the left. But. I'm just saying that's what I think that that's kind of coming from.

So, this is all fascinating stuff to look at. But we're going to see what happens. And if Biden doesn't get out, I mean. What? There is a story from Politico.

Biden allies retaliated against a Democrat who called for him to step aside. He removed Democrat Representative Hillary Shulton from a coordinated campaign. And the decision to remove her from this campaign was reversed after Politico contacted the Biden campaign. And they said that they were it was a uh Oh. They cut ties with her and it angered a lot of Democrats behind the scenes, reportedly, because they were, you know, the Biden family was, it was revenge.

Interesting.

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When Hunter and the other service members' bodies were returned to the U.S. in Dover, Delaware. Joe Biden met the plane. But he made the occasion more about his son. Lost to cancer than our sons and daughters.

Loss on his watch. Worse than that Kills never said their names out loud. And during And during last month's debate, He claimed no service members. have died during his administration. None.

Mm. That hurt us all deeply. Last night, I don't know if you've... There have been some of the media clips out, whether it's been at ABC or CBS, where these. anchors in these talking heads have remarked how It's um This these Portions of the convention where you have these gold star families go up and speak, or you have.

The families of those who lost loved ones due to fentanyl and other issues, it's incredibly compelling. very, very, very compelling. And That is these are very powerful moments. I don't know what the Democrats can put forward. They're gonna I'll tell you with the Democrat Convention, they're gonna bring forward women and abortions.

That's gonna be that's like the only that's gonna be their shtick. That's what they're gonna push forward. But that's still. That's right here. You can't This was one of the most embarrassing things that administration has ever done.

and you have these parents that are blasting. uh the decisions made by the administration now the opponent. And it is powerful, it's very powerful stuff. And I think that the convention it's been interesting. I want people to realize too, I know people are not wanting to like unify.

This is the 8020 rule living out. I want you to realize that, the Reagan rule, building a coalition. And I think the RNC needs to say those words explicitly. Actually, we're building a coalition. I think that that helps the base understand it a little bit more.

But this is, people say big temp, but they don't realize what it means. You gotta do it if you want to win. Bottom line. When you look at Democrats, because I was just reading a piece on Break Obama, Washington Post, Obama was telling. All these allies back channel.

Biden's got to cons seriously consider his viability. They're going to push to make this happen after the weekend. But the problem is, who steps in? Who in the world would want to step in? At that moment, think you only have like what a hundred some odd whatever days, Kane, to make the case.

Right. for a Democrat president over a Republican one, it looks like a mess. It looks like a mess. Who would want to step in? You can't have somebody like Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro.

They could just stay as their blue state governors and they could just keep doing that and then run coming up next presidential election. Why would they want to torpedo their future chances by jumping on that landmine now? Very interesting stuff. We're going to explore that later on this, probably coming up in the next week. All right, today in Stupidity Kane.

Alright, it is our vice president, Kamala Harris.

Now, Kamala Harris is here bragging about them ignoring SCODA.

So, as you know, the Dems. Don't like decisions that Scotus don't rule in their favor, you know, when they rule with the Constitution. Anyway, so this is her bragging about it in public again. It is we who have cancelled debt, including student loan debt. In fact, the fear is once.

Testify. if you ever saved it. Yeah. Wow. Laughing so bad.

Laughing, Kamala.

So bad.

So that's what they'll do.

So they're going to try and reshape the court, too. I've been seeing a lot of that as well. They want to put reforms on SCOTUS because that's how arrogant these people are. And, folks, that does it for us today. Make sure you go sign up for the newsletter over at Substack chapter and verse.

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