Tuesday October 1 - Full Show

You break- Are you worried that this strike is going to hurt the everyday American, the farmers that need to reach the export market? They're telling me that they're going to hurt the farmers. Nobody cares about it. People never gave a s about us until now, when they finally realized that the chain is being broke now. Cars won't come in.

Food won't come in. Clothing won't come in. You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world. And it's time for them and time for Washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us because we took care of them.

We're here 135 years and brought them where they are today and they don't want to share.

So that's the uh long shoreman guy. Who's, I, you know what? I don't have anything nice to say, and I'm ready to throw stuff. Just welcome to the radio program. Radio, radio, radio program.

Dana Lash with you at the top of this first hour. This is the guy who is all over, video all over, who has Um All of this. He's been giving these interviews. He's head of the Longshoremen's Association because, as you know, the strike began today. The strike began today.

And It's projected to be absolutely catastrophic. for the American economy. I read that every for every one day that and these are the ports on the Eastern side of everything. I read that for every one day that the ports are shut down, it like puts us seven days behind. Did you read that?

That's what I read. That's insane. Um I don't even know what to make of that. And so For every one day Every one day we are Down that seven extra days that we are behind. And in addition to the what I've been seeing described as biblically catastrophic.

The biblically catastrophic devastation coming from the hurricane. And the Uh pursuant mudslides and storms and flooding and everything else. This is like the worst time. I just want to scream. Can we read the room?

And we're going to talk a lot more about this because Holy cow, we got a lot set up. I mean, it's a lot. And I was looking at how many construction supplies, for instance. come through these ports because you would think That construction supplies, I had one smart ass on social media telling me, well, you know, I don't think construction supplies, I'm going to tell you to do something unflattering to yourself if you try to argue with me on this. An ungodly amount because we outsource all of our damn manufacturing comes in from overseas.

If there's ever a more timely argument for making our manufacturing more domesticated, then this is it. If it wasn't the pandemic, then it's this. I mean it's just asinine.

So, an ungodly amount comes in from this, from our, you know, these ports, these overseas, these eastern seaports. And now, it's not the western ports, and we've talked about that before. It's not these western ports. Those have a separate. Those have a separate Contract in a separate union, and a year ago, they had their whole thing, they did their whole contract negotiation, et cetera, all of that like a year ago.

But I was reading. on this Just some of the stuff that where it concerns, like for instance, cement, concrete, artificial stone. We imported over $3 billion of those materials. Uh that was last year. It was much higher.

It was $3 billion worth. And it was higher than the $285 million worth exported. I mean, it's really kind of nuts how much this is. How much comes in over there? In wood?

In wood, the U. S. imported more wood construction materials than it exported plywood. Veneered panel. builders' joinery were the most imported types.

Iron and steel. U.S. imports construction products that's for all kinds of iron and steel.

Well, we've known we know a lot about that, the steel stuff anyway, because we've had tariffs, we've had tried to make it We've we've tried to make it to where We have to compete with all these other countries that put an exorbitant amount of tariffs on us. And they tax our goods coming in.

So we're trying to make it somewhat, you know, an even playing field.

So we've talked about the steel. This, I mean, I was actually shocked at the amount of construction materials. That We import in. An ungodly amount. An ungodly amount.

And so When you look at all of the devastation caused by this hurricane, I want to go back to just all the stuff that I just told you about. All the stuff that I just told you about. All of that stuff that you have to import in.

Now you consider how that's going to work out. You consider how that's going to work out. For all of these people. in these devastated areas. It's disastrous and it's going to be made even more disastrous now.

We're going to talk more about this here coming up because we also have a debate tonight. The Vice Presidential Debate. Are you ready, Kane? I'm not doing bingo because I'd rather open my veins up in both arms. What?

What? Steve note that. I would. I would rather do that. I'd rather jam splinters into my eyes.

I'd rather jump off my roof and break my legs to nubbins. I'd rather open the veins up in my arms. I'd rather listen to Green Day than watch one second. of to than than to engage longer than I have to with this debate. It's not like there you know why?

Because I can't stand Tim Walls. Personally, I have never come across another politician that I actually just in the fiber of my soul don't like. There is something about this guy that screams jackass. I'm with you on that part. The only other part that brings me joy is over the past, I don't know, a couple few months, ever since J.D.

Vance was announced as Trump's VP pick, he's been surgical with a lot of the left-leaning media, and it's been glorious to watch. I've seen him in past debates as a senator, and he's done really well. I'm actually excited to see him dismantle. uh Tim Walls calmly. As he's done.

I almost don't give a rat's backside because we got people stuck in trees in Asheville. I don't want a giant, you know, circle. Ego self-flattering. Contest with these cats. I didn't want to say the word I wanted to say.

I'm not sure you heard what I was saying, but I'm just excited to see the vice president, Trump's vice president, pick. uh take apart Tim Wallace. You you don't like Tim Wallace so much, so you you should probably enjoy that. Yeah, yeah, it's I well, I should. Yeah, I should.

So I don't know. I'm not a fan of this guy. I'm not a fan of him at all. I don't. like his demeanor.

I don't like his demeanor. I don't like his attitude. I don't. Listen to this. I'll get some by three.

He's running. From reporters. As he heads in for the debate, listen to this. Audio Summit 3. Governor, how do you feel this morning?

So you do it some of it. Yeah, he's running away, running up the stairs. I mean, of course he is. course he's running up the stairs. I mean, you honestly expect this guy to No, you don't.

You don't at all.

So I I don't know. That's uh I'm not I don't got high hopes for the debate. I can't stand him. I can't stand his wife. She seems like a psycho.

I don't like any of these people. I don't like him. He's a jerk. He's a jerk. He knows nothing about governance.

He knows nothing about it. He has I mean I mean, he he's I just am not a fan of this guy. I'm not a fan of them. I He's never he hasn't given one interview. He hasn't given one interview.

So, I don't know. I'm not a fan of it. I don't even like his. I mean, it's just, I'm not a fan, just the whole thing.

So anyway, we're gonna see, they're gonna sit here and battle it out. And I'm just not in the mood to go, oh, that's a great hot take. Oh, good, Mr. Candidate. I like your answer.

I'm just not in the mood for it because there are people who are literally lost everything in multiple states. In multiple states, multiple southern states. And the press doesn't give a tar about it because it's southern states. And they're typically red, so they don't care. Does that mean being mean?

Because I feel like it's me being honest. I just don't care about the shallowness of it all. I don't care about this shallow, stupid debate. Are we honestly going to learn anything from this? No, you're not.

Everybody's just going to watch somebody get their punches in. That's it. We're not going to learn a stupid thing. It's just an ego, it's an exercise in ego fallation. This doesn't serve the people at all.

You're going to be hearing a bunch of stupid questions from a bunch of brain-dead anchors, and they're not even going to cover the stuff that we actually care about.

So I don't care about this debate. It's stupid, it's pointless, it's a dumb exercise for a shallow, vapid, soulless society, and it's measured on television. Go to hell. There you go.

Well, happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday indeed. But my thing is, if you don't watch it, you're only going to see what the mainstream media digests to you. You're going to see what they digest to you anyway. No, I get that.

But my point is, you seeing the whole thing, at least. Opens your eyes more to the deception. I'd rather whip myself with cat o nine tails. Good lord. I'd rather fall down stone steps after stepping on Legos.

There's no pulling you out of this. I'd rather have alcohol poisoning due to moonshine. Good lord. All these things. I just I'm not sure I'd feel the same way.

No, I do. I totally believe this is where I am at. I would rather watch the debate than do all those horrible things you just talked about. No, no, because nothing's going to be. I mean, when I said, by the way, listening to Green Day is worse than all of those things.

I mean, I immediately went right there.

So you, you know. I don't know. I um I just um like I said I just feel like I'm not in a mood for the debate because I have zero expectations. I have been to multiple debates. I have watched more debates than I can think of.

I've seen it all. I've never learned anything new. Either my like is maybe slightly rewarded of a candidate. or my dislike of a candidate. is confirmed further.

It's just a confirmation bias exercise.

So, I don't know. That's kind of how I look at this. I look at it like that. And I wish that I I just don't I'm not into rewarding the Republican Party for stupid stuff that they should be able to do easily, and that's defend your ideas, especially in front of someone who is such a stupid Marxist that he lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. That's the other thing.

This guy lies about everything on God's green earth. You know, he lied about something else now. That's where we're at. Listen to this. Listen to this.

I don't mean to be so cranky today, but I do. I'm cranky because all of these, I just feel so bad for these people in these southern states, and we got this stupid political stuff happening. And it's and and y where's where's Biden and Harris? You got Florida that's like doing the job of all these all all these other federal folks. I think Trump opened a GoFundMe.

Uh where's everybody else? Where are the stooges in D.C.? Where's Ms. Doritos? I'm going to go to my fancy Vegas fundraiser.

Where I'm going to sit with my skinny white chicken legs on the beach with my mouth gaping open to catch flies Biden. Where are these people at? I got nicknames for everybody today. Come at me. But you got you got Tim Walls, who literally lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

He lied about it. That's a new big story over at the Free Beacon. He light his McLion face off. I can't even I'm just what does this guy not lie about? Every little thing that this guy lies about, he lies about the stupidest things and then it becomes something bigger.

And the more little things that he lies about, it just becomes like part of the his like record. It could be it's it's just it's asinine. I've never seen anything like this. Oh, and then um Here's the other thing that's making me really upset today. I swear I'm going to give you some goofy stuff, but I got to get all this out of my chest.

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Alright, so first up Saltwater is making electric cars blow up after Hurricane Helene. Yay, EVs, EVs are great. We love EVs, said no one ever. Burn them all. Burn them all.

So the salt water is getting in there. And it's getting into the battery components and the EVs and it's leading to dangerous chemical reactions that no one ever saw thought could happen. No one ever thought that could possibly happen. People who have left electric vehicles behind when they evacuated, they're being urged to contact local emergency services. Don't get in the car.

Could blow up like Godfather 2. Don't do it. Uh according to police, hurricane looters are hitting of all the places, the Trump merch store. Like, what are you getting though? Like, really?

I mean, you gotta, they're going for LGB. Let's go, Brandon. The Trump 24 banners and stickers, fight fight. Like, people are literally. This is over at Smoking Gun.

So there's like actual photos, there's mug shots. These two old dudes who look like they were found in the bottom of a meth pipe. They were arrested. People are literally looting it, though. And this is in the Tampa Bay area that they were doing this.

Uh, let's see here. Got a couple. Oh, I want to get to the cheese one. Apparently, some mummy, almost 4,000-year-old mummy, was found with some neck cheese. Keefer Cheese.

It looks like actually somebody who would shop at Agin M. A Zoomer and they're wearing neck cheese. They had too much Ozempe and they had some neck cheese around them. And I'll save this one for next headlines. We got a lot coming up.

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These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port. A lockdown. You know what's gonna happen? I'll tell you.

First week Be all over the news every nine, boom, boom. Second week. Guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships. They get laid off. Third week.

Malls start closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't sell clothes. They can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship.

They go out of business. Construction workers. Get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in.

They lose their job. Everybody's hating the longshoreman now because now they realize how important. Our jobs are.

Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting a tough holly on you. Go ahead. TF Holly means I have to go back to work for 90 days. That's a cooling up period.

Do you think when I go back for 90 days those men are going to go to work on that pier? It's going to cost the money, the companies, money to pay their salaries. It went from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight. They're going to be like this. Who's gonna win here in the long run?

You're better off sitting down and let's get a contract and let's move on with this world. And today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you, and you have no idea. You know, I think the gold chain and that nugget ring really. It's a nice touch, you know.

The gold chain and the nugget ring just really. make it such a nice they add such a Nice touch to the whole vignette there. Don't they? I do believe they do. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash with you, Channel 347 DirecTV, also Rumble, where the chat happens. And X. That's the head of the Longshoreman's group, Daggett, Harold Daggett. He's like, I will cripple you. Ah, Crip talking about this strike.

Again, I mean, that's why Jay-Z's big pimping was so apropos there because, you know, you got mudded-out roads, you know, you got down power lines. You got uh buildings you gotta rebuild, but uh you don't got no materials. You know, you Well, Big Pimpin' here, Captain McGold Chain, he needs a new he needs a new gold nugget on his finger.

So sucks for you. And I can say that. Because that man makes big fat bank. You wanna know how much money that man brings in? This is the thing that amazes me.

It's like waiting for lefty gone wrong. When the little guy fights the big guy oppressing him, and then he becomes the big guy to oppress others. I don't dislike unions. I dislike some of these union bosses though, because they're always in Democrats' back pocket. I've never understood that.

How you gotta have a union boss who literally votes for the party that sends your jobs overseas? How do you have a union boss? That fights against things like more, like, and literally fights against by the way he votes. Bringing manufacturing home, having more manufacturing based here in the US of A. I will never understand that.

It's like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. I will never get it in all of my life. And I come from. Look, I don't need to measure my bona fides against anybody. I come from southern Missouri.

Union family. I just don't get it. Why do you sit here and vote for the very thing that is your detriment? That is your peril. That is antithetical to your To you living your best life.

I just don't get it. And this guy. I mean, read the damn room, gold nugget. Read the room. You got a natural disaster in a number of these states.

Caitanya, how are they describing it? biblical proportions. The the the disaster, biblical proportions. And then this is happening. I mean We it's a major nast natur national disaster, natural disaster.

And Captain Gold Chain is demanding a seventy seven percent raise, plus they want a cut of the containers. You know that, right? That's what they're demanding.

Someone told me, well, you know, what they're unions are service. That's what they're asking for. No, no, no. This is 77% raise plus a percentage of the containers. That's not a service, that's a stick-up.

And they want a full-on ban on any and all automation of ports. What? You know that, right? That's part of the demand. Full ban on automation.

Full ban.

So, sure. Let's just refuse to automate our ports and have the United States fall behind every other nation in that regard instead of, I don't know, maybe like working on a plan to grow technology while integrating existing jobs. No, we'll just have a full-on ban plus a 77% raise and a percentage of every container that comes in. Again, that ain't a service, that's a stick-up. And it is true, they are demanding for a total ban on any and all automation.

Now, not every port has a ban on automation.

Some of them, like on the West Coast, they got what they call automation assist.

So it's not full automation, but they require assistance. And so they're integrating jobs in. They're not banning it. They're making sure that their jobs are on pace with their tech. I have less of a problem with that.

I have a major problem with, well, let's ban all the automation. It's like McDonald's going, no, we're not going to, we're going to demand $50,000 an hour for the people who just ring out your prize. A job's a job and there's no shame in a job, but there is shame in demanding more and trying to hold a whole country hostage by demanding more than what the service is worth according to how the market supports it. and to try to kneecap with tech. I mean, they want a total ban of automation, not a partial, I'm reading it, total ban.

It's on their website, their list of demands, their whole. Manifesto.

Now The Saying that, and they've been, you know, they've been criticized for it because what you do is you make it to where you're globally uncompetitive. We don't need the U. S. falling behind in that regard.

So I don't know. I mean, I'm looking at, you might want to get some things. I don't know how long it's going to last. But You know, and as I was saying, this guy, let me pull this up. Because it's the other thing.

How much money did this dude make? This is what I you got always got the little guys and the big guys, right? Little guys and the big guys. And that's like the classic story of Little guy worker, and you know, if you the old, the old play waiting for lefty, with the with the reason, you know, people started organizing. You got the big guy oppressing the little guy, but then what happens when the little guy becomes a big guy and starts oppressing other little guys?

That's the thing. This guy Dag it. He banked just last year alone. He got paid. Uh Over a million dollars.

Over a million dollars last year.

Well over a million dollars. For his total pay. It was uh $1,049,416 approximately. This is according to publicly available records. Because of the uh ILA local 18041.

Then you got the International Longshoremen's Association headquarter. His their their their paid secretary, treasurer. They paid their Secretary of Treasurer Stephen Knotts. Over half a million dollars. He ended up just shy of $800,000 for last year alone.

Daggett's son, you know, because we we may we don't have a monarchy, but we do. Daggett's son. Isn't that nice? We keeping that nepotism in the family, just thus defining nepotism. We're keeping it in the family.

Harold Daggett's son, Dennis. He got paid. Almost, well, he got paid almost $700,000 last year. That's a nice check. He's the Executive Vice President of ILA.

And then Oh what that's right, Daggett's other son. Why, he's got his family set up real nice, doesn't he? Real nice. Wouldn't you like to have your boys set up like this? I got boys.

I'd love to have my boys set up like this. Each of these boys is getting your half over half a million dollars in pay. Huh. He's also his son John works for the union too.

Well, isn't that something? He got paid Uh $642,631. And there's a picture of him holding a sign saying, profit over people is unacceptable. and he was at a Democrat event. Isn't that interesting?

Profit over people. What do you do?

Well, he is the head of the local he's the VP of ILA Local 18041. And he's a general VP of uh the Isle Atlantic Coast District. That's what he does. How dare you ask him?

So that's nice. The whole fam damily of daggets are all set up, aren't they? And that's something. That family is getting millions of dollars. From the longshoreman.

D'ye all know that?

Okay. But they will cripple you. Then you got The uh paid general VP. Wilbert Rowell.

Well, he didn't make he he made uh in 2023 he made over eight hundred and four thousand dollars. Yeah. John Baker. He's the International Longshoremen's Association headquarter. He's a general organizer.

All in all, he ended up, he got 627,761 and 23. And all the 22 unions, because the union has 22 vice presidents, isn't that something? twenty two Vice Presidents. Just on that, because they have multiple tasks, they have multiple titles, and you get a check. A six-figure check per title, right?

So the union VP title, they all got paid almost $200,000. And we keep going? These people are making fat bank. Got the assistant general organizer. He got over half a million.

You got, oh, you got this guy. He's the, oh, another general organizer. He got $762,462. I mean, I can keep going if y'all want. Upper management's getting their checks.

What's the wages of the folks they're out there supposedly advocating for? is what I want to know. I mean, I'm looking at these guys and I don't think any one of these damn men who are making six figures have lifted anything heavier than a cardboard box that's empty. If I had to make a guess. But, you know, they will cripple you.

If you don't give them what they want, do you think, Kane? That Their wages go up if they get the 77% demand and a percentage of the containers and a ban on all automation? With the average worker? No, no, no. No.

Let's be real. If this were about the average worker, they would have accepted the 50% increase and they wouldn't be doing this stuff now. They also probably wouldn't be making a six-figure check per title that they got. Exactly.

So, do you think that their wages, these management wages, are going to go up? Oh, the answer would be hell yes. I wonder how much of that cut they're actually going to get. Mm-hmm. I love the way that they present this, like oh, you individually are going to be getting a cut of this container.

Like hell, you ain't getting nothing. They will cripple you. Who talks like that? Representing the little guy, because see what you're talking about is putting all these other people out of business. They were offered a 50% raise.

They were offered a bunch of stuff, but they wanted a 77% raise plus cuts of every container that came across, and they wanted a full ban on all automation.

Now think for a moment. about all the businesses that are going to be affected. Think about construction. I just went over with you last uh Last break or last segment. What all you get, you get iron and steel, which, you know, I agree with you.

We should have all this should be made in the US of A, but it's not. And until it is, this is what we got. We imported more wood construction materials than we exported. Concrete, cement, artificial stone. We imported $3 billion worth of these materials.

Now, until we get to the time when we can sit here and play footsie with that supposed what-if all we want to. Until we get to the time where we actually can manufacture more of our own stuff. We got to import it in. What's that going to do? To all the smaller, what's it going to do to the construction businesses and the workers that work for those construction businesses?

What is that going to do for steel workers? What is it going to do for The welders, and what is it going to do for all of these other jobs that rely on these materials coming through? They're not getting a 77% pay increase. for being put out of work. They're not getting a cut of those containers for being put out of work.

Hell, I doubt that even their union bosses make a fraction of what these union bosses make. Has anybody ever made a union? against the union bosses, the workers. It makes you wonder. I just listen to guys like that.

I've been around them my whole life. I got some of them in my family. I've been around them forever. I listen to these guys and I'm like, you don't represent the average, every man. I know you.

I see you. I know you very well. You don't represent the average man going out there with your gold chain and your big-ass gold rings on your fat sausage fingers. People don't, you do not represent the average man. Those average men aren't taking home the pay you're taking home.

They don't got their sons set up in these sweet jobs with these sweet checks and these sweet benefits and these pensions and everything else that you secured for your family. What about everybody else's family? Oh, they're just. Pieces on the board, deal. If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours or only have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I hear you're reacting, but in terms of being proactive, was the federal government adequately prepared for this? We were. The extent of devastation is very, very difficult to predict. No one expected Hurricane Helene to actually traverse the amount of land it has indeed covered, but we are responding accordingly.

We have been speaking about the need to prepare for extreme weather events. No one could anticipate that the hurricane would do like Hurricane Things. and traverse the water. and bring with it winds and water. Like hurricanes do.

No one expected that. And so he's like You remember Woolly Willie? Kane? Woolly, Wooly Willie? Yeah.

You remember that? They still got him for sale at Walmart. Remember Wooly Willie? I don't remember Wooly Willie.

Sometimes I would take.

So, if you don't know what Woolly Willie is, because you're a Zoomer. Willy Willy was uh it was a a board that was magnetic and you would get these like iron powder things and you would use this the pin little this magnet pin stick And you would drag the The little iron shavings on his face and make facial hair. I always give my Woolly Willie crazy eyebrows. And I just now realize where I've seen I just now realized where I seen my orcas before. He's my woolly willy.

That is my Woolly Willie with the crazy eyebrows. I made him. I made him, and he came to life. I'm sorry about that. It's all my fault.

Damn you, Dana, and you're woolly willy. Tell you what. Man, I we got so much. We got we got is uh uh uh Missiles going in Israel. We got all kinds of stuff with the strike.

We got the debate tonight. I mean, it's just kicking off.

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It's one of those news days. Yesterday was real, kind of, you know, I mean, we were watching the storm and we're still watching the aftermath of Helene. We've got a headlines for you on that. We also have all hell breaking loose in the Middle East because The uh it's going crazy with Lebanon and Israel 'cause it's it's Hezbollah. And fight in fighting Israel, who's been defending itself, because Iran threw Hezbollah and Hamas, Hezbollah from the north, Hamas from the south have been attacking Israel nonstop.

Israel's defending itself today. We're just a week away from the one year observance of october seventh. And the iron dome is working overtime.

Now, I will say, from what I understand, I don't think that the dome intercepts ICBMs.

So, and I don't know if that area because if missiles that one of the things that the dome does and the way that it operates, from what I understand from a friend who's in IDF, was that if it's like a less populated open area, that is not. As covered as the more populated areas by the dome, if that makes sense.

So I don't know if that's like an open area that. There's a lot of videos spreading online, and I don't know if that's one of those open areas or not.

So just be really careful. We're in a really weird news cycle, and I really want to caution you guys. Normally, I mean, I can count on one hand the number of times I said, I really need you to listen to me because I don't like to tell people what to do. I got my own life. But I am going to tell you this.

Take a beat. Before you believe something online right now. Especially right now. Not every time. But right now.

It's October 1st. We are mere weeks away. From the general election. Early voting's underway. We are in the territory of the October Surprise.

We have Hostilities in the Middle East with our only ally in the Middle East. You can say you dislike the way their government runs or what it's our only ally in the Middle East. We've got a strike here at home that's going to affect domestic issues, we have a major natural disaster in a number of states. Because of Hurricane Helene. People are dead.

People are broke with inflation. We're at a really sketchy time right now. And with all the breaking news due to the strike, Due to the war with Israel that Iran is hell bent on. and due to the aftermath of the hurricane. there will be a lot of fast and furious reports and takes thrown your way.

It can be overwhelming.

So I caution you. Take a beat. before you believe what you read. I try not to contribute to that noise. I don't put stuff up online, if you've ever noticed.

I'm not one of those people. that puts all that stupid clickbait up. We ended up bringing up some real awesome folks that helped us with our social media, and we all had meetings, and they're not like that anyway, but. I was really clear. I'm like, I don't put up stupid clickbait.

It's not who I am. I don't care if it costs me traffic because that's what everybody's into now. Gotta get clicks, gotta get traffic. I don't care about that. Because the one thing that lasts longer and is more valuable is the respect and trust of your audience.

And when you lose that, because you're razzle-dazzling them with clicks that you think are going to fill up something in the short term.

Well, that doesn't that doesn't help anybody. It doesn't help you, it doesn't help them, it doesn't help anybody at large.

So you're going to get a lot of stuff. That'll be thrown at you 'cause we're in that weird time. Just take a beat before you believe what you're reading. Like I said, I will not contribute. I'm not going to contribute to that stuff.

What I put up is stuff that I have read. and stuff that I have verified. And if I put up something that I'm maybe researching and maybe I hit a wall and I'm asking a question about it, that's the only time it's not, it's me asking a question and I make clear that I'm not speculating. But I don't want to contribute to any of that stuff.

so I will be straight no chaser with you.

So just take a beat. Before you believe it.

Now, the other thing I see, and I got all kinds of people asking me this: oh my gosh, Dana, should I stock up on all these things? I see crazy stuff on social media. I'm doing, well, my first thought is. And I thought you were a prepper. That was my first thought whenever I see this stuff.

I'm like, if you got to stock up on this stuff, then you have not been prepared. Have you? I never worry about this stuff. I literally am always prepared. I have a bug out bag 24 and I just that's that's not me being Weird, it's just me being always ready to rock.

That makes me feel more comfortable and relaxed when I'm always ready to rock. I feel more comfortable and relaxed because I have faith in my ability to rock. See what I'm saying?

So. I just, I see these people sharing the stuff on social media. Like, you better go stock up on them. Like, how are you not? I got my ReadyWife stuff.

I got tons of bottled water. I always, not like I need it. I'm just always, don't freak yourself out over stuff. Do not. Because first off, that's the mu stupidest mindset you could ever have.

Calmest person in the room always figures their way out of any situation. And it's the calmest person and the coolest head that always prevails.

So you don't need to re-react into all this stuff. You know you you know the you know your area, you know your community, you can read the room, you can read the temperature. Just chill. Because people, there are so many different factions at play here that want to get you all worked up. They want to get you stressed out, freaked out.

They want you bugged out. They want you nervous and anxious and unsure and on weird footing. You do not owe anyone. Your peace. and you do not know any one Your Emotional stability.

So just take a beat. And you don't have to read it. Make fun of it. That's what I do. I see these people freaking out and I'm like, you fake prepper.

I actually had a friend that shared something on Facebook and I literally was like, you well, I can't say what I. Would I message them? I was like, you fake blank prepper. Yeah. And they were like, What?

And I'm like, I can't even believe half my pantry is a preparedness pantry. It's a matter of the my dog is even prepared. I even got my da Dude, I got my dog prepared. That's how crazy it is. It's not crazy, it's just me all the time.

And I don't even need missiles falling from the sky in Israel or a strike looming. I just always assume. If you just, I don't know, you grow up poor, you know what I mean? When you grow up a poor kid in a poor part of town. You just always want to be prepared.

You know what I'm saying?

So it's just a lifestyle. Kane is a lifestyle, right? It is. It's poor chic, man. It's a lifestyle.

Like, we save things. Like, you need a safety pin? I got you. You know, you need like little scraps of this and that. I got you.

I'm like an old lady. I save everything. I'm prepared. There you go.

But I'm not a hoarder. All right, so. A few things happening. We got the debate tonight. We got the live rockets over Israel.

I don't know if that's going to be up in the in the debate or not. But they have that, they have Iran.

Now, this would be a big deal if it was Iran that's doing it, because normally they always use their proxies, as you guys know. We've talked about that before. They always use their proxies. And so we're going to keep an eye on it. But apparently, it's being reported that it is Iran that's launching.

that missile attack and apparently there was a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. And This is an and I know uh There's a I'm looking at because we got a lot of this stuff that's breaking now, but they said 400 ballistic missiles launched so far at Israel from Iran, direct hits in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem. Ahadhashron, Beersheva, no reports of injuries yet. And then there is the report of a terror attack in Tel Aviv. Multiple casualties ten Israelis wounded, four critically.

Uh it looked like it was a terrorist attack. We can't play any of this footage 'cause there's a lot of um There's just a, it's a, it's, some of it's pretty grim.

So I, I, you know, I think, I think you all got enough on your brains today. Just this bad. That's all you need to know. It was in Jaffa, a central uh city in central Israel. Right there on the boundary of Tel Aviv.

So they had some fat they had fatalities there as well.

Now I'm looking at all of this and I'm thinking You know this was This was And it's a little bit. It's Israel defending itself and they're being told they can't. Where are all of the, by the way, where's the ceasefire people? Where are the ceasefire people at? Where are all the ceasefire folks telling Iran to cease fire?

Where are the de-escalation folks? Anybody want anybody to know? Cain, got any idea on them de-escalation folks? Yeah, I don't know. If they're pro-Palestinian or pro-Hamas, I guess they uh Pretty silent at the moment.

Yeah, I'd just like to know where they're at. It'd be nice. And can I note too that any of these back in 2020, when Democrats were campaigning against Trump, they were. Saying that Trump would get us in all these wars. Remember, and even in 2016, they were saying the same thing: that all the unrest around the world would happen if Trump was elected.

Well, now we have four years. of Democrats in office And Looks like they've had a lot of wars. You know, I'll say this: one of the things I liked about having Trump in office is because he's a loose cannon with a big mouth and an itchy finger. Yeah. Little itchy button pushing finger.

I want I want colour. I didn't want my president to seem Like he's crazy. I'm not gonna lie to you. I've said this before, and here's why. Just don't don't pass judgment on me.

Hear me out. For the love. I can hear some people going, Dino, that's not shh. Ah. I want people to think my president is crazy and here's why.

I especially want tyrants to think That guy could be crazier than me. I want them to think that. That sounded like Count Choculan. I did not mean for that to happen, but you get my drift. I want the baddies to be like, he potentially could be a worse baddie.

I I want them to be able to do it. to think Dude, this guy is nuts and he will merk me off this rock. He may murk my family off this rock. He'll murk my pets, my farms, my goats Everything. I want them to be terrified.

I mean, I'm not even against him going, I'm going to press it. And then faking every I'm not even not even kidding. I want them to, because it's a great deterrent. If they look, peace through strength, we live in that kind of world. I get it that Marxists and Marxist adjacent.

people whose brains are made of cheese and pot. I get it. that they think that We live in a kitten and sunshine world and I don't want a leader like that. Everybody should get along and we should live in peace and sunshine and it should rain gumdrops and the world should be made of rainbow kisses. That's what everything's like that.

We love it. This is Kentnan. Look look hitting a sunshine world. Yeah, it's a So we don't live in that kind of world. Get the hell up.

We don't live in that kind of world. You have brutal people that only understand brutality. You if you have a brute that only understands brutishness And they've only practiced brutality for decades upon decades. And their forebearers only practiced brutality for decades upon decades. And their forebears, and now it's turning into a Wrigley commercial, and their forebears, and their forebears, or a pantene when you give it to all your friends.

You're not going to sit here and think you're going to solve all these problems by patting them on the back and giving them a hug. It ain't going to work that way. This diplomacy in this fashion has not worked. Israel needs to wipe Iran off of the map if they keep this up.

Now I know the Iranian government doesn't represent their people. Every time their people have tried to rise up, Unfortunately. This is what we have. They kill them all. They shoot them from rooftops.

They merc them in the street. The Green Revolution was exactly that. Israel needs to just be let loose to do what Israel does, let loose the dogs of war. And that is why war is always a last option, because when you get to that point, Well, there are some unfortunate things that go along with war. And it is a consequence of going to war.

But it is not a choice that Israel made, it is a choice that their enemies made.

So let's let the dogs of war. We got more coming. We got headlines. We got the latest on this. We got a lot of stuff to watch today.

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I actually, I'm not surprised. 18 and older, 96,000 people have used cocaine within the past year. Who's honest about that, by the way? Like, ring, ring! Hello, would you like to take part in our survey?

Have you snorted any cocaine?

Well, yes, I snorted a lot of cocaine. Who does that? Yeah, sure, have you snorting it right now? Booger sugar. The 96,000 people have used it within the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHASA for short.

Uh the uh Colorado followed by Vermont. Vermont. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up, Vermont. Like axe cutters and Maple syrup. Yeah.

People with their ball vignettes and the flannel shirts and LL Bean people. Yeah. Those people. That's that Vermont. Wow.

Followed by Rhode Island- Rhode Island? I would have not had a single one of these on my bingo card for cocaine. I would not have. Golly, that's crazy.

Well, I don't know what's happening there, but uh Yeah. Let's see, Tropical Storm Kirk, who's a real jerk I hear, forms over Atlantic. The Atlantic expected to become a major hurricane. Got our eyes on that one. AI is stressing the grid.

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We have the debate tonight. We've been watching. Uh and giving you updates on the recovery from Hurricane Helene and then now all hell's breaking loose. in the Middle East.

Some of the latest. Iran has bombed Israel. The Iron Dome shot down a bunch of the rockets. There's video going around where some people say the Iron Dome failed, but I don't think that people have a good idea of the perspective on that. A lot of that stuff fell in, a lot of it's fallen in what they call open areas or just plain desert.

And so the dome doesn't intercede or intercept those rockets that go into the non-populated areas. I saw some different perspectives of some video where they had them going into just the water. You know, because they're not, Hezbollah and Hamas aren't exactly the best when it comes to precision. munitions. Just an FYI on that.

But the Iron Dome was shooting down a lot of the rockets.

However, there have been parts of Tel Aviv that have been hit. There were two terrorists that opened up fire at a Tel Aviv train station in a coordinated attack just right as missiles began raining down, and there were some many injuries on that. Seven wounded, eight people killed from that terror attack at that train station.

So a lot of stuff that we're watching and The White House says that they're monitoring the situation. I don't know what exactly that means, but they said that they're monitoring the situation. And Biden has said that as a strong warning to Iran that they would defend Israel, it's our ally, etc. But of course, this is the same administration that was. Helping.

Iran. They were helping them. Remember when they unfroze. When they unfroze a lot of that money in that sanctions relief, which they were trying to argue wasn't sanctions, reliefed. The IDF had detected it was they had originally It was a detection of 100 different missiles, but then there was a report of it was like 500 missiles.

But it was Iran this time that lied. They didn't use the Houthis, they didn't use Hezbollah, they didn't use Hamas because Iran is behind all of these groups. They, in fact, did it themselves, apparently. I don't know if it's the first wave, that there's the only wave. I don't know if it's just ballistic missiles.

I don't know if they have drones or any kind of crews. I don't know what all they have. Uh but The uh There's a lot of video and there's a lot of targets. There's a CBS had video. Where It looked like there were missiles approaching their targets and it says some of them hit.

Uh but I we don't know anything else about that at this point. And there were a lot of interceptions.

So, and some of the stuff that you saw that was just going to the ground was just wreckage of it, too. this but apparently the idf says that their missiles are still coming in Uh the apparently the attack It was a lot larger than it would had first initially been reported by some of these news agencies, and at least they said one missile at least got through into Tel Aviv. They reported some 400. I've seen some reports of like 500. Initially, it was 100, but now it, you know, that's that's what it that's what it looks like at this point.

And so They uh Their guards say they've lost this. They said that if Israel retaliated, Tehran's response would be more crushing and ruinous, according to Iranian state TV. And Biden had tweeted out this morning that he and the Vice President convened their national security team to discuss Iranian plans to launch an imminent missile attack against Israel. We discuss how the U.S. is prepared to help and protect American personnel So, and the Yashar Ali had reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran, their media, and I've seen this mentioned elsewhere by BBC that they were the way that they're describing it is that's the first wave of the attacks.

that it's the first wave. And I you know I don't know what that what else that you know, I guess there's gonna be another wave, we don't know when or what, but you know, that's And uh but a lot of the stuff that you see And the pictures of the Iron Dome shooting down. A lot of that I want you to keep in mind is the wreckage that's falling to the ground because the Iron Dome intercepted. Uh I mean tons of stuff and it looks like it's It looks different than the missiles, and it looks like shrapnel.

So, just keep in mind over that. Again, like I said, in one of our earlier segments, one of the things that you need to keep in mind is take a beat before you believe everything or anything that you read online right now. It's October. A month before election, we are in a very sketchy time right now. It's always like this, ever more so, especially now.

Uh lately. And we've got destabilization in the Middle East. You've got a strike that's happening that's going to just, it's going to affect us domestically. We were recovering from a major hurricane that wrecked several states. The disaster is being described as that of biblical proportions.

So we're in a real sketchy period right now.

So take a pause, take a beat. before you immediately jump into something and believe or take it to heart what you read Online.

So that's, I just want to make sure that's, and don't feel overwhelmed by all this stuff. I know it's easy to, you know, take, give yourself a break. I do. You know, at night, I literally make it to where I'm unreachable. And I think Keynes worked with me for a long time.

And he knows that and it's different. I've practiced it different. Than I have previously. Like, I've implemented, like, I'm not answering any email. If you've got, even if it's sale, you got a question for me, I ain't going to respond to you.

Not until the next day. I you have to be very purposeful with it, especially lately. And it's not always been like this, it's just because there are. Forces in this world that want you to feel overwhelmed. And there's no reason why you should.

Do not give people or entities your peace. That's the one thing that that you owe nobody. Do not give anybody your peace.

So don't feel overwhelmed because there's always cycles of insanity as tragic as it is and as horrible as it is. but have some perspective with it. But always take a beat before you believe everything that you read online, or see online even.

So, we're going to keep you updated with this.

So far, there haven't been any casualties reported in these rocket attacks.

Now, one of the reasons why people are so nervous is: oh my gosh, there's going to be World War III. We are very far off from that. I know it's fun to say and throw it out there as clickbait. And throw it out there because it gets you put up on a gravian and your sound bites then get played everywhere. And it's great for talking heads to say stupid stuff like that and be superfluously provocative.

But I don't think that it. It benefits anybody. And I don't think it benefits discussion at large. When you've got enough hyperbole out there, you don't need to add to it. We're still a long way off from that.

And again, it's a last resort because I always believe that when you are forced to when your enemy forces you to choose war, there is destruction and there is no, no, no It is in in it's indiscriminate. There are no considerations. Everything must be destroyed. That's how I look at it. You don't fight a political battle like with a military.

So, this is the latest that we're looking at in the Middle East.

Now, we got the debate tonight. The VP debate, which I think is kind of less important in all of this stuff. Because let's be real, nobody's really making a decision on the debate so much in that you're looking at maybe who's going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Tim Walls got busted by the Washington Free Beacon because he lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre when he was actually in Nebraska. Don't know why he's lying about something again.

It seems like it's little. Except he's lied over all kinds of stuff, and those little things, when you lie about enough little things, it shows a pattern of behavior which ends up being quite big. And the same with him. But the VP debate is tonight. And I'll be watching.

We're not doing a live event, but I'll be watching and I'll have a wrap-up later for you subscribers over at Substack, over at Chapter and Verse. And then of course we got the strike that's happening as well on the eastern seaboard.

So, all of this stuff. I wanted to play. Do we have this? Can you play that audio soundbite for me? The don't policy?

Do you guys remember what the. President and Vice President, what was their response? Like if Iran started acting up and getting some shenanigans under their belt. What was the response? Let's hear it.

Let's hear it from her. Let's hear it from the VP. Two or wrong. As President Biden said, just don't. Exactly.

It's one word. Pretty straightforward. What's the Don't.

Well, they did. Yeah. So now what?

Now what? Biden was asked about where he was. During the hurricane response, we're watching all these southern states dig up from the hurricane. Asheville, I've been reading about Asheville. Uh, was it North Carolina?

Utterly just decimated, more than decimated, more than 10%. It's just devastated. And only what two roads provide any kind of accessibility to the area. I read a story about a guy who had to hike almost 12 miles to reach his parents. his elderly parents because they were completely cut off.

Biden was really He was very upset. when he was asked about What did he do? Where was he at? He was at the beach all weekend for an extended beach vacation. Audio Soundbite 4.

This was how he responded to this. Listen. Why weren't you and Vice President Harris here in Washington commanding this? this weekend? I was commanding.

I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I command called a telephone. Is it not important for the country to see It was it's called a telephone. They you can bring phones on the beach, Jack. That's just the wrong optic.

That's just that's horrible. And then Well, I'm gonna just add fuel to the fire. Audio sound by twenty five. This is his response on recovery efforts. We have rivers that are still rising.

The danger is still occurring for a lot of people. And by the way, as the FEMA can tell you, they have pre-positioned an awful lot of material, an awful lot of material throughout that area from the Bend all the way up into Tennessee. And so the idea that we weren't prepared, the question is, no one knew exactly how devastating it would be. We knew it would be significant, and we've got a lot already in place, but there's more. But here's the point.

I'm going to be asking the American people to continue to help fund the needs of these people. It's not going to be one hit and it's over. It's going to take a hell of a long time. It's going to cost a hell of a lot of money. But this is the United States of America, and we've got to do it.

Hmm. Wow. Help fund that? Yeah, help fund help fund what? Help fund what?

Tax sellers doing. Yeah, I mean, isn't that why we pay so much in taxes? Isn't that why they, I mean, they're, and they want more in taxes for what? Million dollar question. We got Florida men on the way.

and uh then coming up on our third hour, we're going to give you the latest on Iran versus Israel now, which it kind of always was through Hezbollah and Hamas. Where are the calls for deescalation on that? You know, they just had the big UN event last week. Notice that Iran waited Until they left the United States, left the UN event. And then they started this.

We got this strike. As well, longshoreman strike. We got a lot of stuff to make sure we go over and give you the latest updates on as we move. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah.

It's time for Florida Man.

So, a Florida man shows that he can kayak in his living room during Hurricane Helene. He a Tampa Bay resident. He told a Canadian news outlet. How he was able to get a kayak out. There was so much flooding.

In his house, I mean, it's not unusual that he got a kayak. I mean, he got a kayak out of his living room. I mean, there's people dying, but okay. Am I being mean about this? Am I?

Am I being like too cynical? Maybe. I might be. Uh Now this one though I don't know if I should feel Bad for the Gator? I'm real confused here.

Because, you know, gators are everywhere, right, in Florida. And when you got hurricanes that roll through, It brings the water to you and guess what's in the water that is brought to you? The gator.

So one homeowner Saw that an eight-foot gator was trying to get some shelter on this dude's doorstep. He was kind of moseying through several yards, just kind of rolling through. It's not. entirely uh unusual. And then he went right up to someone's door, according to the sheriff's office.

It's a and they had a call, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, who joked, Well, the standard practice is to not answer the door when the alligator's there. No. Okay. And um it ins the ha it happened right as Hurricane Helene was off of Florida's Go Gulf Coast. And they were thinking that, you know, the alligator knew something was coming and maybe was trying to seek some some shelter or something.

But that's not the first or only time. There were other alligators that showed up. In fact, people were calling Florida Fish and Wildlife saying, He's just looking at me. The skater's here and he's just looking at me. Just saying, be be careful out there.

Uh let's see. In addition to that. There's also Yeah, I know you got this one too. I got a I um I don't want to get the naked Florida man. Did we have the naked Florida man who had the double?

Who said he was the devil and he was naked? I think so. Can we talk about the Florida doctor who accidentally removed the wrong organs in two surgeries? Oh god.

So this is really bad. This is um A Florida doctor. And destined. The doc the guy's medical license is now suspended. And he kind of removed the incorrect organs in at least is the kicker, at least two surgeries.

Yeah, one it killed one patient and the other suffers long-term permanent harm as a result. In March of last year, the guy who survived He is 58 years old. They took out his pancreas instead of his adrenal gland. Both procedures took place at Ascension Sacred Heart in Miramar. In Miramar, isn't that the fancy part of Florida?

Isn't that a fancy area?

So, this is like a fancy hospital in a fancy area, right? My Floridians will tell me if I'm wrong.

So they settled that on a malpractice claim. Then last month The 70-year-old who didn't make it, his liver was removed instead of his spleen. Oh no. Oh my gosh. I I'm shocked.

So, yeah.

So, they said that the formal discipline proceeding is going to take place. I would imagine a malpractice is going to happen with that guy, too. Wow. That's just that's crazy.

So I don't know, man. And I get when people say that they're nervous about going to the hospital. Stories like that don't help. And g girl who ha Let's see. This is...

I wanted to get oh oh oh a uh Florida man and his dog.

So He and his dog were rescued off the coast in the Gulf because, and this was on Thursday. The guy had a 36-foot sailboat. It became disabled, started taking on water. It was 25 miles off of Sanibel Island. His dog had a life vest.

They were in the water, sweet pup. And as Helene was approaching, I guess he was trying to get his boat in or something. He had been out, and I guess he was trying to get to land. But they said that they did, they were actually able to get him. The Coast Guard said that his boat took on water.

They were rescued.

So yay, thank you. United States Coast Guard, that was nice. Uh a Florida man got 25 years in prison because he stole the identity of a Texas dude in a coma. 40-year-old Donald Wood pled guilty to over 20 felony charges. He stole this dude's identity back in 2021.

And he took out loans for vehicles and all this stuff. And then finally, investigators started looking into it. And it was the state attorney's office in Florida. And they realized, wow, none of this stuff is adding up, and that he had been, I mean, he was. I mean, you're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars at this point.

So they arrested the guy. He pled guilty to all these charges on the 27th, and so he's going to be going to trial. We've got a lot more on the way. Third hour of a very busy Newsday. Stick with us.

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So craziness, we got the strike that's looming.

Well, it's here. It's actually here.

Now we're gonna wait and see how that affects everything from uh you know the price of like construction materials, especially when we're dealing with the aftermath of Helene. And that's the other thing. FEMA, the big government agency. tasked with You know, gets where part of our tax dollars go to, you know, FEMA. And that's the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

It's part of Homeland Security. And FEMA is supposed to be there and helping people lead the agency the lead agency in responding from these natural disasters. And there's been some criticism. Over FEMA. And I was actually shocked to see that When you look at FEMA's website, you go to FEMA.gov.

and you look at emergency management. They have a strategic plan. that they have posted. I'm looking at the live website right now. It's a strategic plan posted.

And the goal number one, goal number one.

Now keep in mind, it's emergency management. They're the lead federal agency in responding to. a crisis. Natural disaster. Goal number one, quote, instill equity.

as a foundation of emergency. Management. I don't actually know what that means. They said that. Quote Disasters impact people and communities differently.

Every disaster occurs within a unique context based on a community's geographic, demographic, political, historical and cultural characteristics. These unique contexts require tailored solutions that are designed to meet their unique needs. What? So they're saying that specific identity groups suffer disproportionately from disasters. This is Marxism.

that gets into Emergency management. This is literally on FEMA's webpage, on their page, like on their main page under emergency management. They think that FEMA assistance can be delivered in an equitable manner. What? Now they highlight Biden's executive order.

Defining equity as As quote, the consistent and systematic fair, just in impartial, impartial. That's actually the irony there because it's not. Treatment of individuals, blah, blah, blah, race, race, race, you know, L G B T alphabet, all that.

So they say that It It is the the treatment. without Uh Discrimination, but you literally have to use discrimination in order to be equitable. Whereas equality, is the opport is the is the opportunity To achieve a desired outcome, equity is the guarantee of a desired outcome, meaning that everyone is going to be shoved into the same opportunity.

Some maybe will be discriminated against based upon variables which they cannot control. This is insane. And this is what We see. With FEMA. I'm uh Not It would be remiss to not uh mention Kamala Harris's Flashback audio where she talks audio somebody eight exactly about this.

Listen. Okay. It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color. that are most impacted. By these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making.

Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities.

So this is their racial equity community that came up with all this stuff. And I'm I mean I'm just Amazed at this. I'm amazed at this. And this isn't the first time that they've gotten And that the criticism before, in fact, Harris's remarks about this, wasn't this in the wake of Hurricane Ian? where she was talking about giving resources based on equity.

Even you had the FEMA administrator at the time, and then DeSantis had to go out and assure people. DeSantis was like, no, no, no. People who need hurricane relief are getting hurricane relief. But it's equity over equality, and they're bringing this into I mean, when you consider FEMA and emergency management, shouldn't the goal number one of the three goals listed on their priorities under emergency management, shouldn't the goal be like, I don't know, like emergencies response? That just seems, I mean, I just, that's just kind of what it thinks.

I think of it. Shouldn't it just be that? I mean, you're building this Marxist nonsense into. Our Our federal agencies that respond to emergencies. This is insane.

Equity. Equity requires discrimination to carry out because, like I said, it is guaranteeing an outcome, whereas equality is guaranteeing an equal opportunity. Equity is guaranteeing an equal outcome. Very different. That means y discrimination is required.

for an equitable outcome. And it's an equitable outcome regardless of how much work someone puts into it. It's Marxist at its very core. It's truly wild. But this is I mean, where we're looking at, this is what it is.

This is where we're at. Oh, my goodness.

Now we have the strike. As well. that's been taking place. the Longshoreman Strike. We talked about that in our first hour.

The uh ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance, they represent these dock workers at these 36 seaports that could be affected by the strike threat and impasse because the union is demanding a ban, a full ban on any and all automation at its ports. They want a 77% pay increase. And they want a percentage of the cargo of the what comes in on containers, I guess. They rejected a 50% pay increase. Previously.

And we went over. You should go back and you need to listen to our first hour because Daggett, the guy who's the head of the dock workers' union, that man makes over a million dollars. Not only does he make over a million dollars, he's all kitted out and his gold chains and he's got gold nuggets on his hands. Both his kids, both his sons. Grown men, they all they're all they got a whole nice little nest set up for the Daggets.

Man, tho both those boys are making over half a million dollars. They all got titles in the union. This one's an administrator, this one, this one's a manager over here. They're all set up. I mean, they can do this kind of stuff.

They can, you know, they can it and we played Daggett saying, I'm gonna I wanna get just the end of that sound bite if we can, because he was saying, Oh, we're gonna crip I'll cripple you. And he's I just I just thought the chain and the nugget ring were a nice touch. But read the room. I mean, we're coming up against a A natural disaster? We're recovering from this.

They said it's biblical proportions. Listen to what he's saying here. This is a flashback, what he's talking about now. Listen. Salaries, money eh?

It went from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight. They're gonna be like this Who's going to win here in the long run? You're better off sitting down and let's get a contract and let's move on with this world. And today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means.

Hmm. Interesting. I don't know, I think that some of the families in some of these states that are affected by this are already crippled. By the hurricane that rolled through. You got entire towns that are utterly destroyed.

Utterly destroyed. You want to know what some of this stuff is? Because I was telling you about how much construction material. comes in. Would I was actually shocked.

Yes, I agree with the people out there who are arguing that, you know, this is why we should have more domestic manufacturing. That's not an argument over whether or not we all agree on manufacturing here in the United States of America. The argument is until we get to that point, Does this help? What about the workers, the construction workers? What about steel workers?

What about automobile workers? What about workers at a lot of these factories, a lot of these plants out there? They're going to be. They're going to be crippled. Because All of their stuff is affected by all of this.

That's the thing. And what about the average American person dealing with Biden inflation? This is crazy. Thirty-six ports made to Texas. It's going to be billions of dollars.

For every one day that it's non-operable, that's seven days we're put behind. I mean, don't everything from coffee, coffee particularly, fruit. If you're doing any kind of Christmas shopping, That's up. Pretty crazy. All because they wanna, they want, they were gonna get 50%, they said no.

They went to 77%, so they want wages to go from $81,000 to $143,000. That's a lot, and a ban on all automation. No automation at all, whatsoever, which is going to put us, the United States, behind everybody else because they're already working in automation. You know, the smart thing to do would be to figure out how do you integrate jobs and start with automation assist before moving technologically forward while continuing to integrate those jobs. But no, we're dumbasses, and we're going to do it the dumbass way.

And we're going to sit here and ban automation and fall behind further. Globally.

Something else. Know everything. There's gonna be major if there's gonna be major uh uh effects on shoppers too. Major, major. Everything, Walmart, Home Depot.

Amazon. And you're going to look at it, you're going to see empty shelves, you're going to see high prices. It's been said that it's going to be typically what it was like at the peak of pandemic. when everybody was locked in. It's going to be very similar to that.

The ports affected by the strike handle almost 4 million metric tons of bananas, 75% of our nation's supply. Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, eighty per cent of fruit juices. And European manufacturers are going to be hit real hard. Uh Lego. Lago comes in primarily on the eastern ports.

You're going to see lots of stuff. And railroads are going to try to carry more freight from the west coast, but they're not going to be able to move fast enough. JPMorgan estimates it's going to be about $3.8 billion to $4.5 billion per day.

So that's what we're looking at.

Some have been asking, well, all right, what about Taft Tartley? You got an 80-day cooling off period with that. Daggett didn't even get the number right. He's like, I got a 90-day cooling off, you got an 80-day cooling off period. Look, I'm all about asking for what you're worth and and negotiating and all that stuff.

But one of the big problems that I got with this is I really don't feel like a lot of these union bosses represent the little guys that work for them. They they started out as little guys that became big guys that engaged in the same game of oppression that people that they criticized from the start. And I say this with full authority of growing up in, you know. A southern Missouri family that worked in unions. I saw all this stuff.

I know all these cats. I know all this stuff. I grew up with it. I saw it. And honestly, there's one of the reasons why who was the big what was it, Teamsters Kane?

The last big union, they went out and they endorsed Trump. The union members voted for him, but the bosses were like, no, we're going to back Biden. Or no, we're uh they're not gonna do anything. I mean, th 'cause they they can't just ignore the the members. but they're not going to do what the members want.

No one's contesting the hard work of the workers. We're looking at these fat cat bosses out there. I had some moron telling me online, well, you know, don't these the union bosses are out there making sure that the workers who work through lockdown and risked their lives during the pandemic. Get what's theirs. I'm like, shut up.

I'm not buying into your big pharma nonsense over the woo-flu, number one. Number two, there were lots of people that were out there working through the lockdown, and they're not asking and demanding a 77% increase, a ban on automation, which is going to hurt America and other American workers, and overall hurt you. Put us behind everybody else, all these other foreign countries globally. And demanding a cut of the cargo coming in. What?

Like I said, that's not a service, that's a stick up. You gotta Look. There's a saying that my grandpa always said Always had an old saying, and I've heard it, I know other people have heard it. My grandpa always would say, Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. Do you want to be a pig or a hog?

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Okay, so we're trying to figure out the rule of three because Lorraine brought it up. John Amos, who was on good times, he's the actor on good times. He was, oh, he was a dad coming to America.

That's right. He has passed away natural causes in LA according to his son, 84 years old, via the Hollywood Reporter.

So we just lost uh the uh So, Pete Rose. Pete Rose. John Ashton, who was on Beverly Hills Company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you also have Dame Aggie Smith.

Literally just tech the other day. We didn't count her yesterday. No, I did. I've been counting her. I was like, okay.

I was like, John Amos makes it three, but then Lorraine's like, no, we also have John Ashton.

Well then, that starts it all off again. It does, doesn't it?

So now there's two more that are gonna die. Oh. That's just my grandma's rule. of threes. Three celebrities gotta die in a time because death comes in threes because he just likes to be efficient.

I don't know. That was her rule. I just don't ask questions. Granny Boots, we called her boots. With Boots, that's Boots' role.

That's just that's how it is.

So this makes I'm oh, oh my gosh, yeah.

So, yeah, John Amos. All right, not Stamos. Amos, drop the. Yeah, you gotta be careful with that. Oh my gosh, am I really out of the time?

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So we got uh the Middle East pushed to like the brink of an all-out war. Iran has struck Israel. Uh And Israel, they threatened Israel saying if you respond, we're going to get crazier. I don't know. I just, I, Lorraine reminded me, I gotta go back to this.

See, this is why I like peace through strength. Where's this at? She reminded me of uh Trump's Tweet. Hold up.

Well okay. Yeah. It's alright. It's just funny. I can't read, you know how, like, when you read something that he tweets, you can't read it in like a normal, like, your inner voice.

It's his voice, right? I can't do his voice, so I'm not gonna try, but He wrote this on the 20 on 2018, January 2nd, quote: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un just stated that the quote nuclear button is on his desk at all times, end quote. Will someone from his depleted and food-starved regime please inform him that I too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my button works. He got so much garbage for that. That's actually my favorite tweet of his.

Is that one? He also, to Iranian President Rouhani. Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me that one.

Never ever threaten the United States again, or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. Be cautious. Be cautious. See, that sounds like a lot more than just.

Don't. I mean, I couldn't tell if he if Biden burped that or if that was a response.

Well, what's your response? Spirit of? I wonder what is your message to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran? Don't. Don't, don't, don't.

Don't. Don't come across the border. Don't escalate this war. That's right. Don't.

I think my response, see, you cannot have me as ever, I could not ever occupy that office. 'Cause it would be my response would be horrifying. That's so lame, what he just said. Don't. Because you know what?

What I want to do. Like If this is if there's a line here. I want to be like, yeah? Just tiptoe over it and? I'm not touching you.

I'm not touching you. That's all. Yeah. I'm telling you.

So that's uh we're watching all of that. And then we got the strike. And then we've got the Good heavens, the Just uh the recovery from Halleen. It is wild. Asheville, North Carolina, some of the stuff, it's just horrible.

So there's all kinds of, we got the debate tonight, too, the VP debate tonight. There's a lot of stuff and it's apparently going to be super messy. Democrats are said to be a little concerned politically, or Politico said Democrats privately worry how Waltz will fare against Vance in the VP debate. You mean the guy whose wife was like, I loved keeping my windows open when all them people was out there writing. I love the smell of them burning tires and the destruction of people's businesses, dreams, joys, and livelihood.

I love to have that scent just wall through my home as I kept my windows open. I mean, she didn't say all of that, but that was like the general sentiment. Kind of what she said, right? And then she talks to everybody like their kids. I can't stand when people do that.

When grown adults talk to other adults like their kids. I just start getting Rowdy. I just can't, just can't deal.

So, I don't know. But they said they're supposed to be a little worried. In the in the debate. tonight. About the debate tonight.

They're a little worried. By the way, speaking of worry, Kamala Harris would not take any questions on the botched hurricane response as the press was forced out of her little FEMA briefing, the little staged briefing. Watch this. Or listen. They're going to do the same thing about all the briefings.

Thank you very much, thank you. That's why we're going to come to my briefing. Thanks so much. This way. Thank you.

Yes. Wow. They were forced out. She's up there pretending pretending that she's being president. Good heavens.

So, I don't know. I can see why Democrats would be a little worried. Uh by the way, speaking of uh the debate tonight. Hold up.

This is uh Audio sound byte here to 16.

So, Washington Free Beacon just totally destroyed him with this piece because he lied. about being in Hong Kong. Who lies about that? Who's like, Yeah, I was in a Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. Listen to this.

As a young man, I was just going and going to teach high school in Fosan in Guangdong and was in Hong Kong in May of 89. And as the events were unfolding, several of us were went in and I still remember the train station in Hong Kong. It was a large number, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened. But it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels. And he lied about people to people and the opposite of the people.

He completely lied his backside off about this.

So he actually was in was like in Nebraska. Who lies about something like that? This is, I mean, that's why he's so weird because you lie about the goofiest little thing. He lies about the why would you lie? What consequence does that have if he's not there?

And he's just honest about well, I wasn't there, but I. This is why Democrats are worried. They're worried about this debate. A lot's on the line. Here's one thing to watch out for too.

I was looking back and reading about Reagan and the air traffic controllers. And you remember when all that happened?

Well, some of you may not, if you're Zoomers, I think what year was this? This was in. Yeah, I was like a toddler. But he had fired. the air traffic controllers.

There were 11,000 of them. They were striking. And They We're uh Is it 81? Oh my gosh, yeah, I was like. Not barely a toddler.

Reagan stood against them. He stood against all of that. And he replaced them. I mean they And of course this was coming this is like what Cold War period? And There was I mean, there's probably One of his more I think important political domestic moves.

And so he understood, he understood strikes and all that. Because, wasn't he president of Screen Actors Guild? I thought I went, because he came out of Hollywood. I think he led SAG, Screen Actors Guild. That's like the union for the actors and all that.

So he knew. what it was to strike. He knew all of that. And he he and he knew for the right to strike.

So you had the air traffic controllers. It was the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, or PATCO. And they They actually in the beginning weren't, I think. They were one of the few. who actually of the unions who actually supported him when he was running for president And so, when they had asked, they wanted a raise, and he was going to work with them because they had had a good relationship.

So, he offered, I think the original offer was like, what, 11%? And that was during a time when they were doing budget cuts, but they wanted a 100% raise. And they knew that if they carried out a strike, that it would paralyze the American economy. And then you also had national security because you had You know, the Cold War and the the with the Soviets and everything else. This is before the Berlin Wall.

fell. And so everybody was watching Reagan face off against these air traffic controllers, right, or Patco. And he made it Clear. He was like, you know, you're a critical federal employee. You're not allowed to strike.

And he was like, he's not going to take, he would not negotiate or deal with an illegal strike. And they thought he, you know, they thought he was just BSing them. Patco thought, well, you know, he's saying that he's not going to blink. He's bluffing. He's going to blink.

So we're going to force his hand. And something like, not all, it wasn't all of them, but a huge percentage of them walked out. And so he fired him. He bit He went at it and fired him. And that kind of the repercussions for that went on for years about how people dealt with that.

Everybody was watching, they thought he was going to buckle under pressure. They thought Reagan would crumple under pressure, but he thought it was necessary and he thought it was a necessary position to take. He was like a 100% pr r raise is out of line. And You know, that's He wasn't the only one who thought that. Everybody else likes folded when when in Canada they shut down Gander Airport.

and they folded. The French folded. Brits didn't. But And and Reagan actually worked with Teddy Kennedy at the time. You believe that?

Teddy Kennedy actually worked with Reagan and AFL-CIO. To try to make it not a partisan issue. Is that not crazy? They all thought that it was nuts what PACA was asking for. That was before everything was so tribal.

But he stood against. That He stood against the pushing. He's he held his ground. And he didn't move. And he was not going to be Dealt with belligerently.

He just held the line and he ended up, he won.

So now everyone's like, all right, so what would Reagan do now? I think Reagan would probably. It'd probably be similar, I would think. I mean, they illegally had walked off the job, and it's a little bit different than what you're looking at with. The longshoreman, but look at the longshoremen.

You know, you got this union boss out there. How many, what is it, like $80,000? These guys are making $81,000? And they and the union boss, who makes over a million dollars, He's demanding a 77% pay increase. A ban on full automation, no automation at all whatsoever, which is actually different from some of the other ports that we have here in the U.S.

And I want to add that the longshoreman strike is East Coast. The ones on the west coast, they have a different union. They struck a different contract a year ago. And They wanted a percentage of uh the containers. I think at some point Like I said, pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.

It's rhetorical. for the people who read with pictures and think everything is so literal. I eat Populism can go too far because now we're going to be in a standoff with a populist ideology. Populism is a tactic, it is not a set of principles. One of the dumbest things that I've seen happen to the movement on the right is think that populism is a set of beliefs, much in the same way that conservatism is.

Conservatism is all about conserving the individual against the reaches of big government. Populism is a tactic that is used to deliver a message. Right and left can use populism.

Some of the worst tyrants in the world that are not aligned with you used populist rhetoric. Anyone can use it. Too much salt ruins food, too much populism ruins a movement.

Now we're in a face-off. We had AFL. Was it Teamsters or AFL? Was it Teamsters who spoke at the RNC? Yes.

Yes. And I actually was more put off by what that dude said in his message than I was by the slut walk lady who spoke. Amber Rose. You got to be real careful with this because you don't want to get Republicans in a position where, oh, well, you've paid too much lip service and you tried to compete with Democrats using their own rhetoric on their own ground instead of standing strong for a limited government and making the sale that a rising tide raises all ships. You don't want to get into a point where you can't move and you limit the amount of responses you have because of everything that you did, all the deals you cut to get there.

Are there any Republicans that can stand up to this? Because this is going to be just as devastating to the economy. depending on how long it goes. And for what? You got a union this boss up there makes over a million dollars.

All his kids are set up for life. All his kids got swanky titles, swanky paychecks.

Meanwhile, it's on the backs of the workers that are making a little over $80,000. I believe that everybody gets paid what they're owe, but at the same time, some of these bosses, I think. Again, it goes down to pigs and hogs. Are they really best representing these workers, and especially a full-on ban on automation? That's unrealistic.

You're going to put the United States behind everybody. And you're going to kill all the other workers, all the other blue collar workers that rely on all these goods that come in. You're going to make it even harder for us to be more domestically independent when it comes to manufacturing. We'll talk more about this as the week goes on, depending on how long this goes on. But this is where it gets into a kind of a lesson on you got to be careful about too much populism.

Because I don't know what Republicans would stand up to this in the way that Reagan did. Reagan was like, go pound sand. What Republican would stand up and be like, hey, Dagger. Pigs that get fed hogs that get slaughtered, rhetorically. You're a little over your skis here.

Come on, dude. Let's be more realistic. Can't have full on, you can't ban this. You can't do all. You can't have all this.

Come on. I can see Trump doing it. Would he? I think I could see him do it. I don't know.

I don't know if I see any Republican doing it if I'm being honest. I really don't. Because I think some of these Republicans have been dancing a little bit too close. to this populist Marxism. In order to compete with Democrats for blue-collar workers, instead of being like, look, our policies are the best.

Never water down your principles or your policies because they sell good on their own. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. Okay, so with the time we have left, real quick, Lorraine says the power of three, the deaths and threes that my grandma has roll is satisfied.

Pete Rose, John Ashton, John Amos, because Chris Christopherson, Dame Maggie Smith, and Mutumbo, Takemay Mutumbo, are all in one group of three. And then before that, it's James Earl Jones, Chad McQueen, and Tito Jackson. They're in a three. Then it's Bob Newhart, the Godfather of British Blues, Mayall, and then Phil Donahue in a three. And then before that, it's Doherty Dobbs and Simmons in a three.

So she's right. We're done. No one else die.

So we don't have to do this again. Thank you, Lorraine, for counting the dead people. All right. All right. It is so stupid what I saw yesterday.

KJP was asked by Deucey, this is cut 1-1. Why don't we just go ahead and play this? Because it's unreal, what she says, and then I have a little follow-up. 13,000 people who have been convicted of murder cross the border illegally and are living. Among us.

So how much danger are U.S. communities in right now because of this? I'm assuming you're talking about the ICE data. Yes. So just a couple of things, and I think it's important to correct the record here.

First of all, the false representation of the data. No, there's no false representation of the data. I wish we had time for her follow-up, but. We'll have to save that for tomorrow. It's one of them days, though.

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