Monday August 12 - Full Show

This is about Kamala Harris's judgment. And I think that when you ask why has Kamala Harris allowed the border to be wide open, why has Kamala Harris supported policies that have promoted the increase in inflation, I think it goes to the heart of her judgment, and I think that that's what we should be talking about. One last question. Donald Trump didn't serve in the military. He received a medical draft deferment for bone spurs to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, reportedly as a favor to his father.

Do you find that shameful too? I think that Donald Trump didn't serve in the military, but he didn't lie about it, Dana. I've known Donald Trump for a long time. He really honors our veterans. He honors me for my service.

Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't. This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody. Whether they served our country or not, I think it's honorable to serve, but obviously a lot of people have reasons for not serving.

I criticize somebody for embellishing their record, for lying, saying, I went to war. Dana, do you think that it's a problem that he said I went to war, but he didn't, actually? That seems to be a problem to me.

Well, they've corrected that. No, they haven't corrected it. I mean, why in the hell are you rat bastards running? cover for this. I'm so tired of this nonsense.

I'm so damn tired. Every flipping day when I get on this damn program, I have one of these absolute rat bastards on the press that sit here and run cover for these absolute clown cars that are in Washington, D.C. Do your damn jobs, you absolute welfare queens. I'm tired of it. I get so aggravated.

I mean City Well, they corrected it. No, they what wh whose ass are you kissing? Seriously. Unstick your lips from her ass. And just do your job.

I'm so tired of it. Good night It's just it's just asinine. I get aggravated, Kane. I get aggravated at all of this stuff, as you can tell. It is Monday, after all.

I can relate. Yeah, that's that's it. It is. It is. It's Monday.

God help us all. It's Monday, and we're just now getting started.

So, welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you here. And We are at the top of this first hour, but that was the big audio sound bite. That uh We had coming in Uh it was J.D. Vance and I, and he was, he did a couple, he did some really good media hits.

When he was talking with members of the media, he had some really good hits. And I thought that was a really good one because. When you these people like, oh, well, she, you know, she changed it, she fixed it. And it's like, no, no, they, they didn't change it. All they did was like try to retcon the all they did was try to retcon.

What They had on the website, and I was there. There's a couple other things too. They tried to change what was on the website, they tried to change a few things. I mean, he had a challenge coin for Crying Out Loud. We're going to get into all of this.

So, welcome, top of the top of the show. I get it was like, I've been mad about that since I saw that interview. I've been mad about it since I saw the interview. And you know what gets me? Can I just not done yet, so you're gonna have to deal with it.

You know what really gets me with this? Is that You have these people. You have the people like the Dana Bashes and all of this. I'm going to say my name how I want to. And that run out there, and they run cover for these lawmakers instead of asking questions of these lawmakers.

I mean, he was right. He's like, all your, you know, your top three, your top three questions. Uh had to do with Uh Her not taking questions from the press or her or about Kamala Harris. I mean, you could just ask her. You know, you could just ask her as a member.

You know, you're in the press, do your job. And there, I mean, there was, what was the other cut? Because we have. Uh, what was it, five? I think it was five when she was like, Well, there aren't any media lies about Donald Trump.

Yeah, listen to this. This was nuts. The second thing, Dana, is I believed, and I'm ashamed of it, I believed a lot of the media lies about Donald Trump in 2016. I believe that he said things like, for example, the media said Donald Trump accused all Mexicans of being rapists and criminals. You actually look at what he said, he did not say that at all.

And I think it's important when you see something, you change your mind, and that's all I've done. And my pitch to the American people would be, I imagine a lot of folks who are thinking about voting for Donald Trump in 2024, maybe they've bought in to the media lies about him. Think for yourself, look at what he actually said, and I think you'll find that he's, one, a very engaging guy, but two, was a very good president. There aren't media lies. We play him and we let him speak for himself, and so people are getting exactly.

I'm not accusing you of lying down, even though I like you, but the media lies from time to time. You're not balancing. He's very nice. I wouldn't be. I mean, whose side are you on there aren't media?

Um, there aren't medialized? Yes, there are. There are absolutely medium medialized. There are media lies. I don't know who you who you think you're fooling here.

I mean, I'm just glad that I thought he did a very good job on the campaign trail, by the way. I thought it was. I thought he did a good job with that. Uh but I get I just I honestly I get super aggravated about all of it because It's It I mean, I've been doing this for... I mean, my first radio program was in October of 2008, and I've been doing it for that long.

And I get super aggravated when I see these people in the media that try to run defense for these politicians for candidates. And these are the same people. They only do their job, but then they don't even really do their job, as you know. They don't get antagonistic until it's like a Republican in elected office. And then they act like they're the journalists that they've, you know, they've always been doing this.

But look how quickly, did you see the Time magazine cover? The Time magazine cover, which I think Juan has, the Time Magazine cover is insane. It has Kamala Harris on the front of it. And it's, you know, a new Kamala. They are, you are, I told you it was going to be like this, but it's still, you're never prepared for it, are you?

Uh, it's still pretty amazing. The Time magazine cover, she's on the front of it, and they make it out like she's Joan of Arc or something insane. Like, I mean, the way that they have, the way that they're portraying her is crazy. And so the media has gone above and beyond to rehabilitate her, to recon her, to do whatever they need to make sure that they can get her across the finish line. And she's, I mean, the press attention that she has received is just amazing.

We're going to talk more about this because they're doing it with Tim Waltz as well. I can't imagine, you know, you have Walt out. Uh I don't know if you saw this over the weekend. Uh but He was just completely Utterly destroyed over the weekend by an individual. First off, he misprinted his.

uh rank as command sergeant on all on his congressional challenge coin Remember, they kept saying that it wasn't him that was doing this, et cetera. Then you had more campaign literature come out. And then someone said that they were looking up at Waltz's battalion commander, and his own battalion commander, his direct supervisor, actually came out. and blasted him. Uh he posted.

On, I think this was like on, what was it, Twitter or Facebook? I think it was Facebook. He put, or no, this was Instagram. He said, quote, feeling a need to say this. This is, again, this is John Cole.

And he's Wallace's battalion commander, his direct supervisor. And he comes out and says, and he's retired Colonel John Cole, Minnesota Army National Guard. He wrote, I do not regret that Tim Walsh retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeant's Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract, and did not successfully complete any assignment as sergeant major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. Thomas Brenz was the right leader at the right time.

He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, his business, his farming partner brother to train, lead, and care for soldiers. He earned the privilege of being called Command Sergeant Major, he said. Like the great leader, like a great leader, he ran toward and not away from the guns. I have no opinion of Mr. Walsh's decision to leave service at the time he did.

It was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and an E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent chief of firing battery, gunnery sergeant, and first sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service, sitting frocked in the CSM chair. He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an.

E9, and it is an affront to the non-commissioned officer corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane. It does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path. Hashtag not my CSM.

That is a nuclear blast. And you know what's amazing about all of this? is that the rat bastards in the media, they didn't find this guy. You know, if it was a Republican, if it was anyone else, they would have. They didn't look him up.

They didn't find him. No one in the media found him. The same media that Shield and Kamala Harris didn't go and find him. He outed himself on Facebook. He came out and outed himself on Facebook.

No one in the media is interested in Tim Wolse's stolen valor. No one in the media is interested in him fabricating his service record. He didn't just misspeak. He printed it on a survey, a challenge coin. He printed it on his congressional materials.

He was in ad after ad after ad saying the same thing. He was on the campaign trail when he was running for House of Representatives saying this. He was on the campaign trail when he was running for governor saying this over and over and over and over. And where, pray tell? Are the attack dogs for the people?

Where? Pray tell. Are all of those backpadding Pulitzer Prize sopping up horrible excuses for a free press? They're not looking this up. They're not asking these questions.

They're not going out and finding. Retired Colonel John Colb? Have you seen retired Colonel Colb anywhere on MSNBC, on CNN, on MSNBC, on ABC, on any anywhere? Have you? Have you seen him?

You haven't. And why is that? Because these people, this so-called free press, that want to pretend that what they do is so sacred, they want to act like they are somehow the last bastion of freedom in this country, that they are the modern-day oracles of Delphi, that these people. These people are the real truth tellers. They have no interest in introducing America to any of these people that actually know Tim Walls.

That either serve with Tim Walls, Served under Tim Walls or served after Tim Walls, or even people in his own state that are currently with him. They are not interested in any of these people because their priority. Isn't you? It's not even to this fake thing that we call a free press because people who are tied and tethered to a political ideology are not free. It's not to the Constitution it's not to the tenants of the s free republic.

It is to power adjacency. Because they want to be adjacent to power, because they want to be able to be the bullies, they want to be on what they believe is the winning side. That's what it is.

So what it's all ever been about with these people. These are activists who couldn't cut it. In the activist world, so they decided to go into journalism. That is why you haven't heard about John Colb. John Cole told you about himself.

He wasn't going to wait around for Dana Bash to schedule an interview with him. He wasn't going to wait around for Jake Tapper to schedule an interview with him. He wasn't going to wait around for Katie Couric to schedule an interview with him or anybody else in the legacy press. He just came out. And spoke for himself.

And fascinatingly, none of this is anywhere this morning on any of those big networks, is it? No, but they're all about. Let's talk to J.D. Vance about Kamala Harris. What do you think, J.D., about this?

Or you said this statement six years ago. But notice You don't get the same thing with Tim Waltz or in fact, there hasn't been a sit-down interview with Tim Waltz. There hasn't been an open Q and A with Tim Walls. There's been an open QA with Kamala Harris. This whole thing is a joke.

It is an absolute joke. You have every right to ridicule and to discourteously as possible treat the legacy press because not only do they deserve it, they earned it, and it is part of your obligation as a citizen of this free republic. Unbelievable.

So yes, they're going to do everything that they can to protect their trash. And I don't feel like I should be. I don't even feel the need, obviously, to be courteous anymore about this. I'm tired of it. I'm sitting here, I don't know about you, I'm sitting here trying to plan our family's finances several years in advance.

And I have to sit here and hold breath and wait to see if my tax rate's going to double after November.

Well, people put out these magazine covers of Kamala Harris. And while they sit here and they excuse Tim Waltz's stolen vower, that absolute FUD.

Now we're going to talk about all of this and more.

Some of the other things that we have coming up, the media, the economy. Can we just stop with the no tax on tips thing? It's stupid. Let's just get rid of the damn income tax. Don't sit here and flirt around on the fringes.

Either go whole hog or STFU.

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

So, first up, this is just something that happens almost, you know, every single day now at this point.

Now, in the UK, because they're having major, major issues with their stupid, flaccid leadership. And this is what happens also when you don't have a Second Amendment. They're arresting people on speech, they're arresting people for criticizing the violence that led to some of the protests, etc.

So, now, according to new figures, there's over 700 illegal immigrants who arrive in the UK. In fact, one in 11 different boats in a single day, according to new figures. And they're paying people thousands to get them across the channel in small boats. And you have their prime minister, Kier Starmer, who said, Oh, he's going to smash the gangs that are paying. No, he's probably going to get a kickback from them because that's what he does.

Also, this Boeing, why? Gets a $2.5 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force for an E-7A wedgetail aircraft. Why? Why are they getting contracts?

Yeah, why are they cane? Kane, what has been the make of plane that has been like falling out of the sky and having a plane? You mean the ones without bolts on the wings and the pop out of the door while in flight? That sort of thing. Oh, yeah, that's a Boeing.

Oh, that's right.

Okay, I thought it was something else that maybe.

Okay, that's right.

Okay, so they got a two and a half billion dollar contract from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Air Force. It includes life cycle development, training, and support for the US E7A fleet, according to the company in a statement.

Well, that's good. You know, people are getting rewarded. We're entering an AI price fixing dystopia, apparently. They said that this is an interesting thing about the markets. They said that a lot of people, landlords, etc., are using AI to set the price, enable AI-enabled price-fixing conspiracies.

So, something else to look forward to. And the real estate market, yay. An Alaska Airlines flight diverted after the pilot shockingly confessed that he wasn't qualified to land the plane.

Okay, so I thought it was just Boeing. Maybe it's now just people. Yeah, it was the SkyWest regional partner. They had issues. They had to give him some help.

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She's different depending on who she's in front of. That was a good take on that. Welcome back to the program, Taina Lash with you. At the bottom of this first hour, you can listen coast to coast. We also got the simulcast up channel 347.

Rumble, an X. Rumble's where the discussion happens. It's where the. That's where the discussion takes place. Two things.

My first thought. I was thinking this while I was talking. Do you know what he were you know who he is? J.D. Vance, do you know who he is in this?

Election cycle. He is the more disciplined, distilled Trump. Yes. Think about it. Let's all be honest for just a split second.

It's his strength and his weakness, his his sh the impresario-esque nature. Of Trump, and he goes out and does all this stuff, and he can talk to people for forever, et cetera, et cetera. But also, he can completely lose focus, discipline, and the messaging just goes over the hill and into the woods, all right? We know that. JD Vance, though, is like a more Distilled disciplined Trump.

You know it, right? He's I mean because he goes out there And he'll answer a question and they try to take him off of it. And I'm not saying this, I don't like to be fanboys with people. And I'm not being a fanboy with him. But that's I mean, he's very, very disciplined.

That's a strength. He's very disciplined. He gets out there. I don't care what you think of him. You know, even the left's got to be admiring it a little bit.

He gets he's an absolute asset to the campaign. He goes out there and he stays focused and he smiles. He's a happy warrior. I don't know if he's had media training or what, but. That is the exact type of that he has to project.

What do they get him on? Think about this for a moment. Oh, you're weird.

Well, hell, isn't everybody? Ain't everybody weird? Right? Everybody does weird things, right? Like, I don't like odd numbers 'cause I feel like somebody's left out, something's left out.

I gotta keep it, you know, even numbers. Everything's gotta have a buddy. You know what I mean? Is my one that does that? Everybody's weird.

Everybody's got weird stuff. Like Kane with his tinfoil. Weird. And it's just complete, just innate distrust of elderly people. I'd argue that I'd argue that.

You know? I mean, it's just like Steve is so joyful all the time, it's weird, right? Juan is so pure. It's weird, you know? Like, everybody's weird.

Everybody's got to pay for it. Juan is weird. What you said. Nothing is weird about what you said. Yeah, it is.

None of it. Yeah, it is. I mean, we live in like the industry we work in, we feel like we got to protect Juan and like, and Steve, because Steve's like, hi, guys. And he's like, Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. Hi, guys.

He's just so happy all the time. And we're like, golly, it's a Monday. And he's like, yeah. Yay! It's weird.

That shouldn't be weird. It's weird. Come on. That should be normal. We should normalize stuff like that.

And you say you're Gen X. What's the matter with you? I don't think so. I'm going to be gatekeeper now. Because I am.

Oh no, we're don't you be gay for with me. We're gonna fight right now, they're gonna fight. But my whole point is that that's all they've been able to say about him. I think if he was nasty and undisciplined in his messaging, they would be able to take their attacks a lot further, but they can't because he's like, nope, just not going to do it. And even when he's talking to Dana Bash, now most of us would already have been in rage mode.

He wasn't. That's a skill. He's very disciplined. He is a kind of a disciplined trunk. The other thing, too.

And this is, I'm going to get right back on topic, but I just got to mention this because I saw it. It was a story that was happening over the week, and it's since been, you know, it's. frittered away. Uh but people were trying to there there were like there was gossip o as to whether or not he wore eyeliner. And his wife was like, no, you absolute morons.

Those are his eyelashes, like at the bottom of his eye. He's not wearing. Eyeliner. And my sec my, you know, the second thought I had after watching that, or reading about the story was. Gosh, I would love to be so lucky.

You know, you just wake up and you're like, well, go ahead like this. And, you know, it looks like you have eyeliner on. That's maybe a chick thing or a goth baby Gen X thing. I don't know. But I was like, that's kind of neat.

Okay. Anyway, moving on. Very disciplined. Very disciplined. If he Trump needs to be that.

That's exactly what Trump needs to do. Oh my gosh, if both of them were that disciplined. This is this race is over. I don't think you guys realize that. This race would be over.

It would be done. Just give me a couple of weeks of him being super hyper-disciplined. And it's done. It's a done deal. Wall Street Journal says the pool of undecided voters is shrinking.

That sounds like a bad horror movie, doesn't it? It's the pool of undecided voters. The race is on to reach the rapidly shrinking pool of undecided voters.

Now, six weeks ago, Wall Street Journal polled and found that 28% of voters were up for grabs. They were not fully committed to any candidate yet. Late last month, only 15%, same pool, were up for grabs. Many people are starting to settle.

Okay, another quick sidebar, guys. I know you guys, everybody out there in Radio Land, everybody listening, even if you hate me, you all know where you are at, right? You know where you've been at. It's not like you have two undes un people who are completely unknown. They're not two unknowns.

You know where these people are. And The fact that people are still making up their minds is just staggering to me. But there's something to this.

So they talked about positive views of Harris, Rose. Late July from early in the month up to 11 points to 46%. Positive views of Trump also increased four points. I think some of that has to do with. Uh You know, maybe post-assassination attempt, the addition of Vance, Trump had a really good week where he was very focused.

And then people are just relieved that. Biden's out of the way and it's and it's Harris. Even though they don't really like Harris.

So I think some of it's a little bit of a honeymoon stuff, honeymoon honeymoon effect. Uh however One of the things that In talking about the focus and discipline of Republican messaging that they are going to have to really distill down, is talking about her. And they, as I said, this is not a case of two unknowns. We know because we've already had one term of Trump. And we have already had one term of Kamal Harris.

Kamala Harris, in the way that the Republicans need to present her. Is running against herself. She wants to act like she's the outsider because she's the vice president and now she's kind of walking to the middle. And so she's sort of the maverick in all of this. That's what she's desperately trying to recraft herself as.

And what Republicans need to do is say, no, this is someone who is soulless and selling out for whatever political victory she can get. She is running against herself. She's been in office for four years. Before beyond that, she was in the Senate. And then beyond that, she was AG in California as well.

So, you know, she's not an unknown. And this is where she's moving on all of these issues. You know, she how like for instance, she tried to glom on And I don't like the taps on the no taps on tips thing. Because I think there should be no tax on your income. That's me.

And I get mad when only one area is being serviced. That seems weird to me.

So I don't like any of this. But I do think it's funny that she just plagiarized this: Audio Soundbite 9. and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers. Hospital. Damn, did KJP write that for her?

Hospital. What is the hospital industry?

Well, it's like the hospital. But there's like Hospitality in the hospital.

So it's like hospitable hospitality. That's what it is, you know? Hospitable, hospitality, same thing. Audio Sound by 10, this is why it sounds familiar to you. Listen.

For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you're going to be very happy. Because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips. You do a great job of service. You take care of people. And I think it's going to be something that really is deserving.

So those people that are. I wish that we could just not have like, let's just get away from taxes at all because. I have my own issue with that. But what I'm talking about right here is she just decided to go with it. And everyone's like, wait a minute, have we heard this before?

And the press is going, look at this brand new original idea from Kamala Harris. It's brand new and very original.

So she's. Here's the funny thing you should know about this, though. She weaponized the IRS. against all of this. The Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS is going to crack down on underreported tips.

She, as presiding over the Senate, cast the tiebreaking vote on the bill that made the IRS allowed them to crack down on underreported tips. She cast the deciding vote in favor of it. She could have killed it, and she didn't. She voted for it.

So wait a minute, I'm all confused now. Where which way is she going here? I mean she cast thee Tie-breaking vote. For the Inflation Reduction Acts, the IRS cracking down on underreported tips. That was part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the thing that was never about reducing the inflation.

It secured $80 billion of new funding under these false pretenses. This is where they wanted 88,000 agents. They wanted to double the size of the IRS. All of this. This is where Uh in the bill Because tipped employees, you have to pay both federal and payroll tax on the tips you get.

And I worked in the service industry, like all through college. Workers, you report tips to employers. That's why cash is king, y'all. Whenever you can, tip in cash. I'm not saying that we just were skirting the system.

No one's saying that. Wink, wink, nod. But the 15.3% payroll tax. Workers report tips to their employers. They pay that tax to the IRS on the employee's behalf.

They adjust the wage withholding to account for the taxes that they hold on tips.

So to ensure compliance, they do this tip reporting program thing with the IRS. And so now they want to replace a lot of these existing programs and require employers to use these point of sale systems, these POS systems that they have in all of these establishments.

So the POS would record all the sales subject to tipping, et cetera. And then they have to, the employers. They have to use these transactions. They have to have a digital annual readout, like a very. Detailed readout that they send to the IRS.

And they're required to report tips exceeding. This is from IRS.gov. The minimum month threshold that includes all electronic tips charged. You also have an estimate of the tips paid in cash, an estimate. And that's calculated on the amount of sales that were subject to cash tips.

Now, she signed that. She passed it.

Now, there was scrutiny on this. Heritage reported how when the IRS got that $80 billion in new funding, they were told that the funding was meant to crack down on the rich folks, right? The rich taxpayers and the rich corporations and the small businesses that made under $400K, they wouldn't have anything to worry about. People who worked in hospitality or hospitality, what, how did she even say that? I don't even know how she said that.

That they're not going to be subject to any of this.

Well, that's a bunch of absolute garbage because they absolutely are. They absolutely are. IRS estimated that 10% of underreported individual income tax gap is from TIPS. even though that only accounts for a fraction of income. of US income.

Like a fraction of a percent.

So They're targeting all of that. She signed it. This is the stuff that Trump needs to hit. Like, okay, who is Kamala running against? She signed this bill.

She was the determining vote. She had the authority. She had The discretion to Satan out. I don't want this to pass. Presiding over the Senate tiebreaker vote, she voted for it.

Now she's going to turn around and say that she wasn't for the thing that she was the tiebreaking vote for?

Well, that didn't make any sense. And you can't undo it. She can sit here and go out and say, Oh, I don't believe in text. You can't undo it. This is law now.

So, what is she going to do? That's what, if we had actual people in the media, not activists, they would be asking her. Uh Vice President Harris. Are you going to push for a repeal? of this law?

That makes your promise about no taxation on tips impossible? You were the tiebreaking vote. How Can you promise that you're not going to tax the tips when you were the deciding vote in favor of it? You think anybody's going to ask her this question? Do you think She's going to make herself available to be asked this question.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Why are y'all voting for Kamala Harris? I don't want to lose my rights. Like, I'm a trans man and I'm gay and I have been pregnant and I've had an abortion before and I don't want to lose that. I'm afraid of not being able to be myself anymore because from what I've heard, Trump's America doesn't want me to look like this.

So. That's why I'm here today. We don't care what nobody cares what you look like. Just keep the craziness away from us. Like, what is okay?

Let me help me break this down for a moment. Clearly it's a like a Check. It's a chick who wants to be a dude. Right. She's a trans man who's gay.

You're just a lesbian. Why do you gotta try to add like... That's like saying that you're a democratic socialist. It's like putting glitter on, well, democratic socialism is like putting glitter on a turd. To say that you're a trans man and you're gay.

Like a lesbian is the real thing. Like, you just say you're a lesbian. Why do you why is she like, does she hate lesbians? It makes me think that there's, like, they think there's something wrong with being a. You can't be a woman, and you can only be man and gay.

You can't be a woman. I don't understand what I'm hearing here. I'm very confused. She had an abortion and doesn't want to lose. I am so confused.

What is that? Why can't she just say that she's a lesbian? Oh, it's not fancy enough? Oh my gosh. Not oppressive enough.

We are in a time when apparently just being a lesbian is no longer a fancy enough.

Sorry, lesbians, you guys are just boring old beige. Old hotness. Yeah, you guys are just boring. Nobody cares. That's wild.

That's You know, you really don't hear a lot about lesbians anymore. You know that? It's all trans men's who are. And I've noticed in Bread and Circuses, none of the controversy had to do with women who wanted to pretend to be men and compete in men's sports. Kinda interesting too, right?

Huh. I just I'm fascinated by all of this. Uh I also Don't I'm not going to make fun of people's like goth appearances, although they're not goth, that's just that's just hot topic throw up on them.

Okay. I stopped trying to be special.

Okay, just stop. Stop with all the things. Stop trying to be precious. This is not. No.

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I was Attorney General of a border state. I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels, and human traffickers. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won. We know our immigration system is broken, and we know what it takes to fix it. comprehensive reform.

Yeah. Getting through. Yeah. Strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship. And she said Trans National, I'm so used to hearing the trans stuff.

I was like, wait a second, what? Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour. And This is um I I mean, you know she's the vice president.

of the United States. This is her on the campaign trail of the weekend, and she's saying, Well, you know, I was, I went after these gangs, and no, no, you didn't. When did she ever do that? She's really trying to like rewrite. Her whole history with all of this.

When did she ever do that? I don't remember. She went down. She had a new ad. She has an ad out.

It's called Tougher. highlights her work when she was a prosecutor and then she was in the senate and it goes fixing the border is tough.

So is Kamala Harris.

Well, you can tell this this hurt them. You can tell his his attacks on this. and the criticism of her record. that stung because they now feel the need to do all of this.

So she The ads running in Arizona and Nevada. And She's what they told the Hill, let me highlight this. It said her campaign told the Hill when they were writing about this that they are going to, quote, continue to hit Trump for his role in the failure of a border deal negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators, end quote. That was the deal that was Wasn't that Earlier this year that fell apart, like in spring of this year, the deal that fell apart. And it was this bill.

That was coming in the wake. uh increased border patrol uh feet on the ground More for force multipliers like buoys and the wall, et cetera, et cetera. And they wanted to spend the money on immigration judges. Uh What was it? Like the what do they call it?

It's not called a fentanyl scanner, but it was for that purpose of like scanning for fentanyl. And all this other stuff.

So they wanted the money to be spent on ways to process people coming in illegally faster instead of stopping it. And so that's what the big deal was about, and that's why it all fell apart. Because Democrats were like, well, if we just can't get what we want with open borders, then that's it. They didn't want to include any other funding for any of this other stuff. We don't need new immigration judges.

We don't need any of that. I gotta tell you. I was and this is where I'm going to switch it up because I feel Uh This is something I, particularly with regard to immigration, not just that I hear Kamal Harris talking about it. But I keep hearing this. in a number of places, even places where I don't want to hear it.

So I almost walked out of my church sermon this weekend. I have never felt like that. in my entire life. I am sitting there and it's kind of been building for a few years. I will say that it really kicked off during lockdown because I was angry that churches closed during lockdown, and ours was no exception.

And I was really upset that our church had closed. And there's a lot of things that our church does with kids and women's clinics and things like that. And I was mad that all these services were stopping under bunk science, right? And then things reopened, et cetera. And I noticed, you know, the language had been kind of shifting.

And I think we, I don't want to put my pastor on blast or anything like that because I believe I'm very Booga Matthew about this. I want to go. All right, now, book of Matthew. I'm very, you know, I agree with Paul's teaching, you know, you take care of this. You know, behind the scenes, and you know, you talk to people in the church, and then when that fails, then you can go public.

But I've been talking to a lot of friends of mine, and I feel like there's like this huge, I feel like there's a major problem with Church of Christ pastors, particularly lately, but a lot of problems with pastors in general. And there's been this language that's been seeping into these churches. I don't like mega churches. I don't like mega churches because I feel like it is the they bash Catholicism while they want to make their own non-Catholic papacy. That's what I feel like corporate worship and mega churches are.

I'm like, stay true to your mission or just, you know, don't bash, you know, I don't get the criticism.

So we're sitting in the cha we're sitting in uh the sermon and It had been building for a little bit, and my pastor says that he just goes right into it. He's like, I want a fair and safe border. He said it twice. And I looked at my youngest son, who has zero tolerance for any of this. I don't want my church to be politicized in favor of my beliefs or against them, it should just be scripture.

There's no politization about that. Either be scripture and just preach from the Bible or don't open your mouth. And there's a reason why the New Testament, you know, it talks about the responsibility that shepherds have. And, you know, I'm sitting there listening to this, and I'm looking. My husband was not happy.

My kids were not happy. And There was zero Differentiation made between people who come legally and people who come illegally. And the intimation that the pastor gave, in a very sloppy way of presenting this, was that essentially, if you have a problem with the complete deluge at the border and the complete unfettered crossing of every single person, then you're a racist. And the church has been really trying to push to expand ethnicity in the church or diverse ethnicity, etc. And I think that when churches push things too hard, you make an idol of things, and they're making an idol of all of these other things other than what they should be talking about in scripture.

But I was really, I was like, what is a fair and safe border? And then he misrepresented and said, you know, these asylums that are coming over. Do you realize that asyles are such a tiny fraction of people that are coming over? And there's a reason for that. When someone comes over as an asylum and that's processed as such, there are certain things that kick in as because of that.

That's why it's not just semantics. Language matters because certain legal protections and certain parts of the law are triggered when certain words are used. And when people who say it's a game of semantics, the people who say that either are too stupid to have this debate, they don't know enough about the law to lecture about it, or they're completely clueless about the laws that make up the system in this republic. I mean, words matter for a reason. And there's a tiny percentage of these people that are coming across the border that are actually.

Asylese. You know, I told you about the woman that I spoke with. She's a businesswoman, and I don't want to say her name, and I don't want to say what her business is, but they were from a South American country. And when she was a child, she and her mother and sibling had to flee in the dead of night and seek asylum protection. She, one of her father and brother, had a construction company, and the brother got roped into money laundering for the cartel.

And when he passed away, the father discovered, I mean, it's like a television series. The father discovered it and was like, and he's a devout Christian and was not going to allow this, was not going to do it. And if he had to die as a, you know, as a way to stand up against a cartel, that was going to happen.

So they killed him. They killed him. They bombed her house. She said that when they were leaving, she was looking at the chart out, her chart-out swing set when they were fleeing. And they came to the United States as a silees.

There's a cap on how many asyles the United States can accept in a single year. And it's a very small number.

So when you have people, most of these people coming across the Border are young military-aged men. In fact, they're predominantly men, predominantly young men. And it's not just men coming from Latin American countries. There are Chinese nationals coming in. There are Middle Eastern nationals coming in.

There are African nationals coming in. And when you have every Tom Dick and Harry claiming asylum status, what about the people who actually are asylums because they do exist that are turned away because it's capped? That's what none of these people realized. And I'm sitting here listening to my pastor just toss this like it's beads at Mardi Gras without any actual full force of knowledge behind it. You can't just say things that you think validate your bias.

And as a shepherd, you have a greater responsibility to your flock than that. And I get doubly aggravated because, you know, I'm like, there's a reason why Paul was telling women to be silent in the church. I get mad because I'm like, who else is going to speak up and say something about this? I was looking at a sea of men sitting there in that sanctuary, and not a single one of them, except for my husband and the men sitting with me, were disgruntled at the lies that were being spouted from behind the pulpit. There is something going wrong with our churches.

Yes, our country, but I think it started in our churches. I'm sitting there listening to this, and I'm like, I cannot believe the venom that is being spat for what? This is not you can say that you want Safe, legal. Border Crossings And it is biblical to respect the laws of your land. Book of Romans highlights this.

It is absolutely biblical to respect the law of the land. You know what isn't biblical is to misrepresent. And to castigate people sitting there in your pews who are going there to learn about Jesus, and to castigate them and impugn their characters and yoke them to the moral failing of bigotry because you don't know the facts of the matter. I was on fire Sunday. If people ever doubted the existence of God, His hand was on my head, keeping me seated, because I was about ready to shoot through that roof.

I was livid. And I still am if you can't tell. I'm at listening to him. Say this stuff, and that wasn't the only thing. He said stuff like this before.

I remember there was another time. Botham Jean was a black man who was who was Shot and killed. You remember the whole story of Atham John? He was in his own apartment. There was a woman.

She was a police officer, Dallas PD. She came back. She pulled like an 18-hour shift or something crazy. Walked into the wrong apartment. She thought it was her apartment.

Uh, and it wasn't the door was unlocked. It was Botham Jean. I think he was like eating ice cream or something in his own kitchen, and she shot and killed him. And it was a big thing.

Well, our and it was already a bad situation enough. And yes, she was in the wrong, she killed him. We talked about that endlessly on this program. But what didn't help was when our pastor got up on stage and said, Yes, as we know, you know, more black people are killed by police every year. I'm like, that's not even supported by statistic.

That's not even supported by FBI figures. Why would you go up there and misrepresent things and further incite and divide? That is not a hallmark of Christ. Nor is it a sign of a good shepherd. It's venomous.

And I question the motivation behind it. And I am tired of having to sit in a church service and try to dig through the pastor's political bias to get to the heart of the message that he's delivering.

Now we had a debate in our family. I'm like, well, what do we do? Because I'm wanting to leave. I'm done. We have some members of our family, my oldest son, too, who's very temperate.

And I was like, well, you know, the church is under attack as well. The pastor's under attack. He's not infallible. I'm like, I agree.

Well, you know, shouldn't you want to help him and get him on the right path? I agree. I tried that before though. After the line that he had said about the police shooting deaths, I wrote. I don't like inaccessible pastors.

I shouldn't have to go through, for people that criticize the Catholic Church, I shouldn't have to go through a million different levels of hierarchy just to talk to my pastor. Never got a response. I don't expect a response because of what I do. I expect a response because I'm a member of the congregation. And I had a legitimate criticism and I brought receipts.

Never heard anything. I finally got like an email back out. Thanks for your la, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, are you serious? I have a problem with mega churches.

I have a problem with corporate worship. I have a problem with churches that bash everything else. And oh, we don't like the Pope, we don't like Catholicism, we don't like this or that. But we're going to sit here and create that, but we're not, but we're different because we're not Catholics. We're going to create the non-Catholic papacy with corporate churches here in the U.S.

I get aggravated by all of it. And I'm aggravated with my own church right now. I'm aggravated with the state. of the of the kingdom on earth. And I don't know.

I don't I'm not I don't plan on going back next Sunday. I don't know if you guys have experienced something like this in your church. And I do think that, yes, you know, you got a responsibility, stand up for your pastor, all this other stuff. But what happens when they're not receptive? What happens when they don't want to listen?

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Salt Lake City flight to Vegas was forced to divert because lightning struck the plane. Y'all made God angry. I'm kidding. No, some of my grandmother would have said that's the fanger. Of the heavens coming down.

I'm kidding. Salt Lake City flight, though, was headed to Vegas, forced a divert, it was struck by lightning.

Now, I know that planes are supposed to be able to handle that stuff. But telling someone who's nervous about it that planes are supposed to be able to handle that stuff and can doesn't make it better. It really doesn't. But it did have to divert. It was delayed an hour.

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So a UK police commissioner, we're gonna talk about this coming up. threatens to extradite and jail U.S. citizens over online posts. Oh, you can come and try that here if you would like. It'll be Lexington and Concord 1775 all over again.

I mean, you can come here and you can try that. We'll be your hucklebears. That's all right. Yeah, he says, we'll come after you. With what?

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But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate. thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race. That would be the topic. You'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say why did someone...

And uh And I thought it'd be a real distraction. Uh, you know what it is, basically, is Biden's just a coward. He is an ineffectual coward who got run out like Elijah Lovejoy. He was run out on a rail. It's what exactly it is by the Democrat Party.

That's why. And uh He's just an absolute coward. And now he's been relegated to what? I don't know what he's doing anymore. Every now and then they bring him out, just be like, no, we still got somebody in there.

Here he is. That's it. That's it, right there. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

top of our or sorry bot bottom of our uh second hour. It I mean, it's it's His um I thought that interview, it was just a sad little. interview that he gave. That was one of the things he had done. It was a nice little pre-tape that he ran.

But he is. He's kind of. I mean, he's a he's a he's a coward. He'll he got run out. He got pushed out.

by all the same people that said that he's completely fine. He knew he's great. He's going to run. He's a great person. Oh, believe it.

He can handle it. He can handle all of this stuff. That's all the same people who pushed him out. We're assuring the nation of.

So he sat down with he was talking, by the way, it was on CBS with. Uh Robert Costa. And I do think I will give Costa some credit in that he asked Biden about The Really uh The situation with Pelosi and how Pelosi came to be the one who kind of shoved him out at the end. And He tried to act like it was all his It was his idea, it was his plan. And I think that's the intimation he was trying to give that it wasn't anyone who did it for him, but we all know.

I mean, he kind of let the cat out of the bag with that. We knew it was. I mean he said that um Well, you have Pelosi here. This I thought was very interesting. She said this.

Toward the end of last week, after our program, but she was never impressed with Biden's op. Listen to this. Background: I've never been that impressed with his political operation. Biden's operation. Yeah, I'm not.

I mean, I just hadn't been. Yeah. So my concern was This ain't happening. And we have to make a decision for this to happen, and the president has to make the decision for that to happen. Wow.

Yeah, she's um Dang, I'd say so. Dang. Yeah, she's She's just digging the knife in and twisting it. And then she switches. Audio Soundbite 15.

She did an interview over the weekend. She switches, and now here she is trying to build up Kamala. Listen. Officially she's strong. About the issues.

You see one of them, women's right to choose, but there are so many others. She she's strong in that regard officially. Politically, she's very astute and people just don't realize that. She won against the incumbent for a district attorney. She won in a very competitive race for attorney general.

But she figured it out. to be on the president to be the presidential nominee. I mean they p they ended up How weird is it that the person who came in last place in the Democrat primary in 2020 behind Pete Buttigieg? is their nominee now, but not because voters picked her. They're really trying to sell voters on her.

They've been hiring all of these influencers. We talked about that last week. And the Trump campaign, Republicans are going to have to really make sure that they are very disciplined and that they are very focused, and they need to make sure that it is Kamala running against Kamala. I mean, she's the vice president. I mean, she presides over the Senate.

We talked about how she cribbed the whole no-tax on tips thing, but yet she was the person who was the deciding vote. On the Inflation Reduction Act, that expanded the IRS, added 88,000 agents, and absolutely demanded. Uh increased taxation on tips in addition to Venmo and PayPal and all this other stuff.

So That's that's what they need to remind everyone of, of her Her record on this. But Biden's, he's he actually name-trucked her in that interview that he, so he finally, so there's no love loss, I think, between Pelosi and Biden. Biden's done. He is absolutely done at this point. He better hurry up and and pardon Hunter.

Because if they have to throw Hunter Biden out as a sacrificial lamb, They're s to save anything, Democrats will y they will do that in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat.

So they've stolen Valor. With Tim Walls. You know, he referenced being on the tarmac at Bagram during a ramp ceremony. In a 2021 speech, there is so much stuff coming out about him. We shared the comments.

Earlier. that had been made uh from I mean i His actual, like, boss in charge is commander. We were talking about this. uh on Facebook, John retired Colonel John Colb. who was the battalion commander Uh and He was Wals's direct supervisor and he absolutely blasted him.

On Uh, Facebook. I think it was Facebook or Instagram. Nobody in the press has reached out to this guy and talked to him.

Meanwhile, the Stolen Valor stuff continues. This is a flashback. uh interview that Wolse did, audio somebody thirty-one. Wherein he said, and this is being debunked, that he was on the tarmac at Bagram during, but he didn't serve over there. Listen.

the years that happened after that classroom. I had the privilege of serving in this state's National Guard. And when I left, I had a two-year-old. When I came home, I had a three-year-old. But as I listened to Jill.

And I listened to Mariah, the guilt, I came home. And my daughter went on. And when you're two and three, She knew no difference. That's not true for some. They can't do that.

And over the preceding years of watching us, and as our nation changed and as our political systems became more more difficult for all of us to understand. I stood one night in the dark of night on the tarmac at Bagram. and watched a military ramp ceremony. And if you've seen it, which these folks, many have, unfortunately, you don't leave this. This has been on way too long, but you guys get the idea.

That's unbelievable. I mean, he said this in 2021, a 9-11 observance speech. And He went He was there and he didn't clarify this. He attended as a member of Congress in Afghanistan and Iraq. Uh for a trip.

But he never actually clarified in what, when he was giving his remarks, in what capacity he was there. And further, there's more. He this is I'm trying to see what audio. I'm gonna have to restart my yeah, so this is yeah, this is audio somebody six, where he's re he is introduced as a retired command sergeant major. And he never corrects any of this, ever.

Listen. Try and gain support of it. You know, Congressman's a retired Army Command Sergeant Major with time in combat. I think he called this entirely correctly. This process is important.

It's got to be deliberate. Because once embarked, and it's 42,000 killed and wounded so far, this is going to be tough work. It's murky for me. I need to have one quick answer for both of you. Is there a middle course between giving the general in the field the 40,000 troops he wants and saying no?

Is there a middle course between the two? Because he's introduced. in this clip as Retired Command Sergeant Major. He never corrected it. He never corrected it.

Uh ever. And He's got the challenge coin. that he handed out to people. Talked about that. He has a challenge coin that he was handing out to folks.

That had his an E9 rank that he never Yeah. Uh he never actually was never cemented. that he had printed on it, I mean it just this is wild. Nobody is asking about this. Instead what they've been doing is trying to play like what about ism.

The media. They're trying to I noticed this too. This was um Uh Wikipedia scrubbed J.D. Vance's military awards. from its website.

After it was revealed that Tim Walls You know, was lying about his.

Someone goes, Wikipedia has been hijacked. Wikipedia has been a cesspool of garbage forever about maybe. Maybe 60% of my Wikipedia is even accurate. Like they were getting my hometown wrong on Wikipedia. They would not allow me to put my fourth book up on Wikipedia.

They have like i it's just like a bunch of leftist nonsense that they cite. That's there's a reason why Wikipedia is not even allowed in a court of law as like a legitimate Substantial evidence, you can't because it's not credible. But they, Wikipedia was erasing all of his military awards. They deleted it because they didn't want to have to compete against Uh the stroll and valor of Jim Walls. And then I hate every time I see the, oh, well, you donate to Wikipedia, I exit out.

Yeah. Immediately, and I enjoy doing that greatly because I enjoy not giving them any donations, because it's a garbage, garbage website. They do this stuff all the time. It is it's crazy, crazy, crazy. There was actually at one point in Wikipedia, there was someone that has my s my name, my maiden name, my first and maiden name, who also lived in the county that I lived in.

And Wikipedia was literally trying to attribute some of that person's life to my life, and other people were arguing it apparently, and the Wikipedia con and they wouldn't change it. Is that not unbelievable? And you can't edit your own stuff at Wikipedia? I've never had the time to do that, but you apparently, even if I wanted to, I couldn't. They won't let you.

How unbelievable is that? Yeah, that's all crazy. It's all crazy. It's such garbage. It's a bunch of leftists that sit around on government benefits, and that's all they do all day.

That's all they do.

So Media is they're helping to they're helping to save Tim Walls on this. They're helping to save him. J.D. Vance addressed that in one of his interviews, Audio Soundbite 2. Listen.

And I think that the most important thing here, Dana, is it goes to Kamala Harris's judgment. Tim Waltz is ultimately going to be the vice president. Kamala Harris is in great health. I'm sure she's going to be president if she wins for four or maybe even eight years. Why did Kamala Harris choose a person who has lied about their military service?

I think that is a serious lapse in judgment. And I don't want to hear from a campaign spokesperson of Kamala Harris. I want to hear Kamala Harris herself address what I just said. You know, I've seen a lot of statements from veterans, including those you serve with, saying it's just untoward to be criticizing somebody who served for 24 years. Dana, I'm not interested in the ad hominem.

I've heard from a lot of veterans groups who criticize Tim Waltz. The question is: he said he served in war and he didn't. That is a dishonesty. I really couldn't care less what one or the other person says about it. I care about what the truth is.

Yeah, and he did. His rank, and I thought that was a good point. Point that Vance made. You know, there are pictures of his challenge coin. He put uh Uh Command Sergeant Major on his Congressional Challenge Coin.

He has that on his challenge coin. that he handed out to everybody. Kind of a big issue, isn't it? It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

Yeah. I just don't even know what's happening. All right, so first up. We've got I don't know where to start. We've got the A Video I I this is crazy.

Do we have this video of So it's a Florida man who's getting arrested. It's in Southwest Miami-Dade. And I can't Can we play? Actually, play it? Are we safe to play it?

No audio.

Okay, no audio. If we're going to be safe and not have any audio, okay.

So it's. Censored. It's censored.

Okay. I just hit you again. What the f is to go about? For the first time, we are seeing body camera video when Miami-Dade police say they were assaulted by a quadriplegic man. A case so unusual, even the judge at first appearance seems surprised.

has truly never seen a case like this. It happened May 1st. Police were called to the southwest Miami-Dade home of Brian Amasta. Also known as El Valianti, his stage name when he's performing music. According to the report, Amasta and his mother, seen here in red, were involved in an argument.

Then it's not. But when mom is put in handcuffs, this happens. Hey, stop hitting me with the chair, Brian. Stop putting a battery on your hand. When we interviewed Amastha back then, he told us this.

They claimed that I hit them with my wheelchair. Did you? I absolutely did not. The report stated that you spit at an officer. Right, so I have suffered from acid reflux, so I normally spit.

Um and I expect like the totally different direction. But this is the video we want to listen or not bro Amasa also told us he felt humiliated during his arrest because he was separated from his motorized wheelchair which he says was damaged when it was put on a flatbed. You see one officer appearing to text someone joking that they were going to put him on the tow truck. Officers later seen inspecting their legs. Amass the charged with two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer.

Yeah, so there you go, right there.

So that's one Florida man. Yeah, all right, so that's uh, okay, good. Yeah, we got that. Glad we got that one in. Oh my word.

A Florida man. Got revenge on an in-law's neighbor. The nightmare neighbor cut down his mum's tree, so he got revenge. It's a British Florida man. Who apparently got mad over his mother-in-law's neighbor?

They cut down a bunch of palm trees that separated their property. Uh and so he uh it formed a h privacy hedge. And so They uh and it w it was for their pool. What do they call those? The The little the lun eye?

Is that like a lun eye? Is that what it is? Where they have the glassed in pool? I don't understand, it's a Florida thing. And so they basically are cutting down all the greenery on each other's property.

That's that's what and there's like different videos. I can't we can't actually show the well, we can show part of it, but don't show the part where they say the blanky neighbor. Gotta be careful with that one.

So he had built a 68. 68 feet of a planter box. Box says Uh and I guess trying to dare the neighbor into doing something there.

So I don't The planter boxes look great, though. The planter boxes do look great, I have to say. They look very nice.

So, I don't know if that was like intentional from the neighbor that cut the trees down or what, but like it ended up looking very nice.

So. We have this. We also got the Florida Man. Who uh I got the pee oh gosh. I don't want the people at the adult store.

And I really don't want the people who got into who liter who went to Taco Bell. Husband and wife went to Taco Bell and then they end up getting into a fight and they threw the entirety of the contents of the bag of Taco Bell at each other. During the fight. And the woman, because she was seen by police throwing the burrito at her husband's head, was the one who got arrested. We are a third hour on the way.

Yeah, stay with us. What I would say to those people who think they've got away with being involved in the disorder on Tuesday or on Saturday, you absolutely haven't got away with it. We are coming for you. We've got hours of social media footage, we've got hours of CCTV footage. I've got officers working round the clock to identify who you are, where you live, where you work.

We are coming for you. We'll be coming to you for the next few days, we'll be coming for you for the next few months.

So you might get to next week. You might be sitting with a cup of tea thinking, Phew, I've got away with it. Please let me reassure you, you haven't got away with it. We are coming for you. You will feel the full force of the law.

We absolutely want to reassure the communities that we are absolutely able to cope with what's going on. We have got eight PSUs here in Merseyside today.

So, what do I mean by a PSU? Each PSU has one inspector, three sergeants, and 21 officers. That gives you the scale of the number of officers that we've got here able to respond, being supported by colleagues from across the northwest.

So, yes, we are equipped. Are the officers who are getting injured having an impact? Yes, it is, but we absolutely have sufficient resources. Stick to coke. Wow.

So that's uh Good night. That's so crazy.

So this is uh In the UK, because they're quite upset, as you know, over the rioting that's taking place all across the United Kingdom, Kane. due to the fact that they've got unfettered illegal immigration with boats arriving on the daily. Don't think you're getting away with being on social media. You're not getting away with that. And if you can't talk nasty about any of this.

You can't say. You can't talk about the riots, can't talk about any of it 'cause they'll come get you. What is she gonna do? What are they gonna come get you with? Sticks?

They're not even allowed to be armed. They aren't even allowed to be armed. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the top. of this.

Third hour. We're already at the third hour. And I'm, you know, I gotta tell you, it's just wild. The whole thing is crazy. They're just going nuts over there.

They're going wild over. Uh Social media. And I'm like looking at a couple of these headlines. Bear with me here. I'm looking at a couple of these.

They're going wild because they see social media posts. They have this. This statute that they've had in place for a number of years, but if you If you if you in sight On social media, then they will arrest you. There were people that had a van that was wrapped with a pro-Christian message, and they were arresting people for. Talking about their Christian faith openly over there.

I mean, this is just, it's really. This is one of the reasons why people have been rioting because the UK has been just hammering its own citizens. And hammering its own citizens, but yet the people who have been involved with Aggression, the criminality, the violence, etc., they've been getting slaps on the wrists. And that's one of the reasons why. that people have kind of had it and they've had these protests and then riots from some of these protests break out across Britain.

And you had Uh all of this really kicked off. when they had the uh kids that were murdered. By this eighteen year old British citizen born to Rwandan parents. and he went on the stabbing spray. And this is after, you know, you've had decades of the Rotherham stuff.

This is how you've had people attacked, terrorist attacks, you know, people driving their cars into people. It's been, there's been a lot of stuff has been building. And so this was sort of, you know, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. And Uh It's uh they they've accused Elon Musk of somehow being culpable because people are able to speak on X. And so.

They've been kind of culpable with us. It's just wild. It's just, I mean, I and then if you're in the United States, they've been threatening. to try do we'll will extradite you. I tweeted about that, I think it was over the weekend.

Where They they'll extradite they'll look into extradition possibilities if you're you know, inciting or speaking against what they're trying to do. in the UK. Mm-hmm. But they have no Freedom over there. They said this was Sky News talk to their police commissioner.

and they said that the likes of Elon Musk Like that's how they referred to him. They were like spitting his name. Being a keyboard warrior doesn't make you safe from the law. What? That's this is crazy.

Now remember, they consider mere disagreement incitement. You if you even so much as post a um a photo of people protesting that's considered incitement. I mean, it's entirely up to them. Again, these are also the same law enforcement over in the UK that. visited this um And she was like, What, a fourteen year old girl?

She was uh on the autism spectrum. And they were targeting her because she saw a short haired female police officer and thought that that police officer, by nature of having short hair, must be a lesbian like her grandmother, who has short hair and apparently was a lesbian. And the female police officer took offense and targeted the girl. And the parents were trying to explain, or the mother was trying to explain to the officer, look, this is how she interprets stuff. She's not doing this with malicious intent.

She's just simply stating, oh my gosh. And they were targeted, they were going to drag this kid away. This is the stuff that they have to deal with over there. You have no freedom of speech. Kane, does it make you want to go over to Britain anytime soon?

Nope. Me neither. It does make me want to post stuff here just to see if they'll extradite it. To see if they'll do the extradition. I'm looking for this one story where they had examples of what they were trying to say was incitement, and it literally was just like people posting a disagreement with how the police were handling certain of these cases.

That's not an incitement. People have a free r I mean, that's a a responsibility and an expectation in the United States to be able to criticize your governing authorities. But over there, they characterize it as incitement so as to scare people off from criticizing their governing authorities. See, that's the whole thing. That's the whole plan.

I I mean Good heavens. Keir Starmer, the prime minister through his spokesperson, was saying there's no justification for Elon Musk's comments on Musk hasn't, he criticized Starmer's response to the riots, and he was like, you know, this guy's leading the UK towards a civil war. I mean, these are all labor policies, too, by the way. And Keir Starmer gets mad and says, oh, Elon Musk is inciting hate. And then they're acting like they're.

He's having this interview. Let me pull this up. He's having this interview. with Trump. And I think I accidentally closed it, but He apparently there's like a uh They're trying to God.

Apparently I guess regulate how his conversation goes or something like that. The EU wants to dictate how Musk is going to conduct his conversation with Trump on X. The European Commission. Scent, I'm pulling this up, scent, musk this letter. Wherein They We're telling him, quote, I'm writing to you in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and in relation to the planned broadcast on your platform X of a live conversation between a US presidential candidate and yourself, which will also be accessible to users in the EU.

And they said, they add him, they tell him, quote, I'm compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act as outlined in my previous letter. And as the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users worldwide, one of which one-third is in the EU, has been designated a very large online platform, which, Cybar, they capitalize that. Very large online platform. Is that like a thing over there? Is that like an actual classification?

Yeah. They continue. You have the legal obligation to ensure excess compliance with EU law and, in particular, the DSA in the EU.

So they said that. They're demanding mitigation measures put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events. They said they want informing EU judicial and administrative authorities without undue delay on the measures taken to address their orders against contact considered illegal according to national or EU law, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They get into They remind him that they already have formal proceedings going on against X. Under the DSA, notably in areas linked to the dissemination of illegal content and effectiveness of measures taken to combat disinformation.

It's not disinformation, I mean, it's actual people's videos from like protests and riots, etc. They're like threatening him, though. They said that any negative effect of illegal content on X in the EU, which they add could be attributed to the ineffectiveness of the way in which X applies the relevant provisions of the DSA, may be relevant in the context of the ongoing proceedings and overall assessment of X's compliance with EU law. This is in line with what has already been done in recent past. And they get in and get it.

So they're threatening him. Like, don't talk about any of this stuff. Don't show any of this stuff. Don't get in any of this stuff. And Terry Bretton.

And then they have uh the CEO of XC Seed.

So they're They're They're seeing this conversation. and they're threatening it because they can't shut X off.

So they're threatening him essentially. This is wild. I mean It's not anybody else's fault that the EU is having an immigration problem, that the UK is having this kind of issue, that they're seeing an uptick in crime, and assault, and murders, and et cetera, violent crimes. And to talk about that isn't incitement, nor is it misinformation, disinformation, or anything else that they, any way that they want to spin this. Just something else.

But immediately, Kier Starmer has been in office very long, and he and Musk already dislike each other. Kier Starmer is a far, far left Marxist. He's a Marxist. He's a labor leader, but he's a Marxist. And he's essentially tripled down on continuing all of the same policies that have put the UK in this position.

He was against Brexit, all this other stuff.

So, I mean, this is just. It's it's it's it this is pretty unbelievable. I mean, it's not unbelievable. I m I believe it. It's just.

The fact that they were even looking to see how far their tentacles could stretch here over the United States was something like this. Goodness Than can you imagine what it would be like if Musk didn't own X? I honestly think that some people like Zuckerberg, et cetera, Facebook, I will say Facebook never worked with China or Bentonida China. That's why they have their own similar platform. But I do wonder how strongly some of these other platforms would have held on the issue of speech.

Had it not been for Musk taking over X. And running it the way that he's running it and trying to unravel a lot of the algorithmic censorship that's been taking place. I do wonder.

Some of the other things we're keeping an eye on. The this is an actual headline from speaking of media. Uh from Bloomberg Press, which I hate. Ready for this one? Tim Walls's masculinity is terrifying to Republicans.

Mm-hmm. They are really Trying to shape him as like this crazy outdoorsman, the Midwest dad. They are trying so hard. Hard. to sell him like this.

They say that this is the subhead. Kamala Harris's running mate has traditional manly man traits. He's also not frightened of women, afraid of black people, or terrified of the future. No. That's their headline.

That's an actual headline that they have. That's one of the dumbest things that I've ever read in my life. I that doesn't oh my gosh. This is now do you see you have the time cover where they're lionizing Kamala Harris. You have this over from Bloomberg.

Uh they've been trying to protect walls. The media from all of the criticisms over the stolen valor. I'm waiting for one of them to call the actual retired, the veterans that he served with and under. I'm waiting for them to call them liars because isn't that what the press does? I'm waiting for the press to attack all of these people who served with Wallace, and I've been very hypercritical, unnecessary, I mean, completely justifiably so, of his.

m his lies about his service. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. Alright, so first up. Home Depot, a Home Depot employee in her 70s was fired for failing to stop $5,000 in fraudulent transactions, according to a lawsuit. Doesn't this go again, like if they tried to stop theft before, wouldn't people get in trouble?

Yeah. Anyway, she didn't stop fraudulent transactions. She got fired. And this was at apparently a Home Depot, the same one three months after a loss prevention officer was shot and killed trying to stop a theft attempt. And she felt threatened by the guy that was at the the Yeah, so why would you maybe hire armed security?

It sounds like the store has an issue. It's in San Ramon, California. It sounds like the store has an issue. Maybe higher arm security and don't expect the 72-year-old to take the hits for you. Good grief.

State Fair of Texas no longer allows firearms on fairgrounds.

Well, I won't be going to the damn state fair. That's good, grief. Yeah, they're not going to allow. They said there was a shooting that injured three people last year, so you had gang activity that resulted in a shooting.

So, of course, obviously, let's make it to where the law-abiding people who could actually curtail some of this stuff-you know, heaven forbid if somebody decides to pop off. Let's make it to where nobody can carry. I always am tired of the law-abiding always having to pay the penalty for criminals, and that's it. It includes you can't, it doesn't matter if you have a license or not. And because the State Fair of Texas is a private, non-not-for-profit organization, they can do that on the state fairgrounds.

So, I'm gonna tell you, there is no way, and the 22-year-old, by the way. He was a prohibited possessor already with a criminal record. And he, there's no, and so he was, he was already violating the law.

So now, because one criminal continued to violate the law, now. Won't allow anyone to carry, so I won't be going. I there, no way in hell would I go to the state fair if they're not going to allow you to carry? No way, because they do not make sure that they have enough people there to make sure everyone's protected.

So it's just a Just a, no, not at all. Let's see here. Drones warned New York City residents about storm flooding, but the Spanish translation drew tons of mockery, apparently. They had the drones flying overhead in some neighborhoods and People were saying that literally wasn't Spanish. That was incomprehensible.

They said they couldn't find anybody who spoke Spanish to actually deliver that alert. They said it sounded like a literal Google translation. Oh goodness. That's I mean and it's serious though when you're wanting people to listen to what the weather reports are. Yeah, did Jill Biden do it?

It was probably Jill Biden that they had just do the Good night. We have Stephen Yates, who is coming up next. Stick with us. Keep your finger on the pulse with the Dana Show Podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis, whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kamala Harris has done nothing about this.

She should apply diplomatic and economic leverage over the Chinese to stop manufacturing this fentanyl, which then comes into the Mexican drug cartels, which they then ship into our country. The United States hasn't designated the Chinese government. Oh, we could do so much more. Fentanyl is not easy to manufacture, Margaret. And if Harris was applying proper leverage to the Chinese and to the Mexican drug cartels, we would not have so many people dying in the future.

How do you do that? What's your vision of how you do that?

Well, I think you walk into Beijing, you talk to Xi Jinping, and you say, your entire economy is going to collapse unless you get access to American markets. You need to take this fentanyl, or we are going to impose serious tariffs and economic penalties for not following our laws and not helping us stem the flow of this deadly poison. I think there's something to that. I don't know if it's just as easy as walking into Beijing, though, and telling Xi Jinping that this is what's going to happen, because I don't know if that's necessarily the way to do it. I also think it's weird that everybody, no one has asked in the media.

about the Harris Wolves tickets, connections to China. That's what's so weird to me. There has not been, and I was looking over the weekend. There hasn't really been any deep dives into this at all. And Wallace and Harris haven't sat down to answer any questions about any of this.

So. I just think it's weird that a guy that purposefully selects to get married on the anniversary of the Attenament Square massacre. That's messed up, okay? That's weird. Let's bring in for on the that's weird.

I didn't even mean for that. Uh, on a scale of one to ten, it's a 20. Our good friend Stephen Yates, who is also the uh great adjudicator of what is weird as it pertains to China. Uh, you can follow him on X at YatesComs, and he's senior fellow at America First Policy Institute, as well as chair of the China Initiative, China Policy Initiative.

So, I wanted to get, first off, I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on. On The whole ticket, it's, I find it strange that there hasn't been a greater interest. From our press, just on the basis of self-preservation alone as a nation, that we have someone who might be. Maybe as compromised, if not more compromised, than the first son with a geopolitical foe in this vice presidential. Pick.

And I think it further highlights Harris's, you know, complete inability to make proper judgments.

Well, well, I think there's an unspoken rule out there that the media, the broad mainstream has adopted that they shall ask no questions. You're allowed to ask, well, how lovely was your conversation with your family? You're allowed to ask, how did you pick out that beautiful outfit? But you're not allowed to ask, why did you honeymoon in a communist country? You're not allowed to ask, you know, so how did you make best friends with the Communist Party of China and make it a personal project with your wife to take people to China, not just once or twice, but often over many, many years and have them come visit you too.

I mean, that's a degree of engagement and friendship. People can do it if they want. But it at least ought to be worthy of some questions. And oh, by the way, if you're going to get a security clearance, you get scrubbed for like the last 15 plus years of all of your travel and interactions. And they especially scrub over normal people for any interactions with foreigners, especially those from communist countries.

And so why wouldn't you subject the running mate at least to a little bit of this? And it's just the media has intentionally turned off on this subject. I think it's awful. They've got to start pressing on this. China is our largest geostrategic foe.

And if the vice president potential nominee is going to be a problem, we ought to know about it and talk about it. I think that's a really good point talking with our friend Stephen Yates because he went, from what I understand, it was like in the 90s when he went. And he's been. Tim Wallace has been there like 30 some odd times.

Some of it was apparently paid for by the Chinese government. I mean, put it in perspective with all of us because I remember when Tiananmen Square happened, I was a little kid and I was in elementary school, but I knew it was big and bad, and there was some serious stuff that was happening. And nobody is untouched from the image of the tank man. You know, that is like the iconic image. And I knew what that was, even at a very young age.

And this guy, I mean, it seemed pretty hostile. In China after that, and that's the time that he chooses to go and honeymoon over. There.

Well, remember, there was a popular Democrat at the time known as Bill Clinton who ran for president in the 1992 cycle, saying that it was the butchers of Beijing. And that was after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Nancy Pelosi had just kind of settled onto the national scene, and she was a very, very vocal critic of the communist government in Beijing and an advocate for human rights. The first two years of the Clinton administration was meant to be some kind of a course corrective away from the realist foreign policy of Bush 41 that engaged with the government of Beijing after Tiananmen because we were still balancing the Soviet Union through the end of that enterprise.

So there's a whole different world from that period, but a lot of the Democratic Party at that time would have found Waltz's activities as out of the mainstream, and the likes of Nancy Pelosi wouldn't have been advocating. that he'd be a running mate. Under those circumstances, she would have been eviscerating him for engaging with the butchers of Beijing back in the 1990s. That. is great context to know.

That is very good context to know because that really kind of cements just how far left You know, Waltz is when you look at these other sort of stalwarts of the party, the Clintons and you know, the Pelosis, even the Bernie Sanderses. I mean, it's what does it tell you about, and heaven forbid, you know, November goes sideways, what does it Indicate to you the approach to China would be under a Harris-Walls administration, knowing everything seems to be so precariously perched right now as it is?

Well, under normal circumstances, I would say that a vice presidential nominee's point of view would have marginal impact. It could have some significant areas of impact, but the president will be in charge. But when you have a top of a ticket who has no opinions or policies declared at all, there's literally more donation buttons on her campaign page than there are policy papers on her campaign page. And when you have a vacuum at the top, then you have to look: well, if we know she's not going to be driving an agenda on engagement or confrontation with China, then what's this dude's impact going to be? And you'd have to go back to say, well, what did he do as governor?

And what did he do before he was governor? And did he say things like, well, I don't consider them to be an adversary?

Well, yes, he did. I do consider them to be an adversary. And just to echo what you led on, a freaking mend to J.D. Vance for saying, unleash the economic hounds. On Beijing for killing Americans with fentanyl.

And if you're not willing to sign up for that, then you don't have a policy. But we can't expect that from Minnesota Nice. Oh, that's a really good point. A good way of putting it. Our friend Stephen Yates, we're talking to him about all of this with the ticket, everything else.

On that topic as well. Harris doesn't have I get I get vibes of, um I get Obama-Biden vibes, whereas Biden was added to the ticket to give this statesman gravitator because Obama was, you know, this freshman senator out of Illinois, didn't really have much of a record. He needed some kind of weight added to it. And I'm wondering if that's sort of the approach with Harris, which then makes me think: okay, if they were elected, the tariff thing is never going to happen. There's never going to be, there's not going to be any kind of sanctions.

There's not going to be any kind of economic pushback. We're not going to be, I just think, you know, what's going to happen with Taiwan? What's going to happen with the chip production? What's, you know, what's going to happen with our relationship with a foe that has the majority, it controls the majority of the implements used for antibiotics. We're not anywhere near self-sufficient on that or a number of other issues.

So I don't know. I've been stockpiling, essentially, is what I'm saying. But what are your thoughts on all of that?

Well, unfortunately, I think that the warnings are needed. Because if we aren't serious about revitalizing our homeland and our manufacturing and securing our supply chains, if we aren't willing to say out loud that the greater threats to America's future come from outside of our country and that our enemies are not within, as the Biden-Harris administration has declared, or on some lunacy of the weather being the greatest national security threat to the United States, we've got to, if we can't say, look, these are our challenges and this is what we'll do about it, and have the wherewithal at home, then it doesn't matter who we elect. We and so uh I think it does matter. I think that President Trump might not be all things to all people, but he proved willing to take this policy in a different direction for the four years he was in office. He was smarted by Beijing hitting the United States and hitting him pretty hard in the final year with the COVID virus.

I think that he's got a pretty sober mind in looking at this challenge. And the Revitalize America part is right. And J.D. Vance has been very good at articulating that. If you look at Waltz, I unfortunately think he's also pretty articulate, but he's articulating very dangerous and bad policies.

Ooh, so I'm very, we're going to have to talk to you after they debate if they have a debate, Vance and Waltz, because I'm fascinated to see where you fall on with that. Because, see, I do think people think that he's kind of Of, like, this dopey FUD coming from Minnesota. You know, they've been trying to, the left has been trying to say he's like the Midwestern dad because he put a hat on. You know, I didn't realize the hat was like a Midwestern dad thing, but okay. But I don't think that he's entirely innocuous.

The whole weird thing that came from him. That was that, and that, and they ran, the press ran with that for two weeks now.

So he's a guided level of danger. Right. And why wouldn't it? He has spent the last 30 years engaging with the greatest manipulative political warriors on this planet, the Chinese Communist Party. They lead with information warfare.

Name-calling to them is not a hobby. It's a part of their warfare against their enemies. It doesn't shock me that someone who sympathizes with that part of the political spectrum would be very shrewd. And the Minnesota Nice is a facade. These are daggers.

It reminds me of the movie Dune, and I'm sure I'll lose a lot of the audience on it, but where the slow blade that goes in is the one that kills. It's the one you don't see that goes slowly. And that's where this passive, aggressive, beta male stuff on the outside fools people. This is lethal. I think Vance knows it and he'll be ready for it.

I hope the whole Trump campaign sees it and the American people see it because there's no content. This is all about power and manipulation right now. Last quick question.

Well, it might not be a quick question for you, though, on this. Is Waltz compromised? Do you think that's And so, I mean, it's compromised in the sense: is it like Hunter Biden compromised? I don't think so. But in terms of what his thoughts, beliefs, policies, inclinations are, everything that has been his style of leadership and what he has said about China is exactly what the warm, mainstream bath of conventional thinking has said.

For the years of engagement.

So I hear nothing out of him that wouldn't be most welcomed by Beijing. They'll tolerate.

Some liplashes from verbal assaults out of politicians when they know the substance of the policies to their net advantage. Until we hit their banks. and we kill the people who are trying to kill us by fentanyl or otherwise. And the Chinese are going to sit back and say, we got this. This is going to be scary to watch.

We're on a bumpy ride. We definitely are. Our good friend Stephen Yates, as always, at YatesComms. I'm telling you, you got to go and check out everything that he puts up daily. I know you have a whole bunch of stuff that you do.

All the links are out there at YatesComs on X. Steven, always good to see you. Appreciate you. Thank you, Dan. Take care.

The Dana Show Podcast, your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I think in many ways it's the exception that proves the rule. If the only thing that they can find about Tim Walls to complain about is to disparage his military record that was clearly honorable. Remember, You can retire at 20 years.

Tim Walls served for 24 years. That's not the end of the year. And the fact that's being debated, though, Secretary Poot. That's not the issue that's being debated. The issue is being debated is whether or not he was an E9, which he wasn't.

He lied and misrepresented, he lied about and misrepresented his service. He even put it on his challenge coin. I mean, he was telling everybody that he was in combat. Like, he didn't just say that he, you know, served, he said that he was in combat. And he had people that introduced him as being a combat veteran, and he never corrected them.

He put his. Rank that he's claiming that he doesn't have on his congressional challenge coin. The problem is that he lied and misrepresented his service. He denigrated his own service by misrepresenting it. And when other people pointed out the discrepancy, it's not the problem of the other people who are pointing out that this guy lied.

Quit covering for the ass of this Midwestern dad who lied about his service because apparently he didn't feel it was impressive enough. That's the issue at hand here.

So we're not going to be gaslit into thinking, well, you can't point out that the guy lied. And by the way, it's not everyone else. That's pointing out his service. It's the people, his own commander, his battalion commander that's pointing this out, who wrote a very lengthy response. I mean, Secretary Booty Juice might, you know, maybe would want to listen to the guy that outrings them.

I mean, the guy that, you know, was his commander who said, yeah, this is what he did. The moment that they were called to serve, he left. And then he misrepresented it. He could have just left it as he left, and then he could have not inflated his rank or falsely claimed that he was in war, and that would have been fine. The reason we have the issue is because he did those things.

That is why we're even talking about this at all. If he had just retired, people probably would have been like, oh, yeah, you know, he kind of left this guy, and they would have left it at that. But he not only did that, he then lied about it and then misrepresented himself on top of it. That is why people are taking issue with this.

So do not continue to insult people by misrepresenting his misrepresentations. Today's stupidity came.

Alright, it is. Is he our president still, Biden? Oh, yeah, that guy who's here. Is he still president? All right, just check it.

Juan, this is. Cut number 12, right? Yeah. He's Okay, currently Democrats are in power. Biden was asked about the transfer of power.

Listen to what he says here. Are you confident? That there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025. If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all. If Trump wins, I'm not confident at all.

Okay, but as Kane pointed out, he's the one who is transferring power.

So is Biden saying, I'm going to get violent? Is that what he's saying? Right. Is Biden saying that he's going to get violent? That's what dems the rules, Kane.

So that's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm hearing. All right, folks, that does it for us today. Make sure you sign up, Substack, Chapter, and Verse. Find us on YouTube, Facebook, like, and subscribe.

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