Cabinet Chaos: Gaetz, Hegseth, and the GOP Divide

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It was yesterday. And then Gates resigned from his seat, which I think may have been a little bit premature, but I think that there's a reason as to why they did it. And we're going to break all this down because I got some suspicions. Just to let you know, I know some stuff. I know all these cats in D.C.

I know all of them. I know every single one of these people. I've met them repeatedly. I hear about gossip and I kind of like if it seems ridiculous then you know I always disregard it but there's a lot sometimes when there's smoke there's fire is all I'm gonna say don't get mad at me because I have to say this from now on but don't um but it really is uh you know I want to make sure that you have all the information in hand so anyway long story short uh we're gonna break all that down today we've got some of the culture stuff we've got immigration We've got the latest with the Senate. We also have a couple of guests today that we're going to get into with how blue and on.

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So first and foremost, welcome. Yesterday, it came out the one of the late the attorney general nominee, the nominee for attorney general. Trump put it forward and it was I think it kind of shocked people as you could tell from Fetterman uh it was Matt Gaetz it is Matt Gaetz and then Matt Gaetz resigned his post now here's there's a lot of stuff going on with this and let me let me get into it because there I have a suspicion and then there's you know you kind of have to know the little the history a little bit of going back to when Gaetz was fighting with everybody in the house and there's a reason why there's a reason why he was fighting with McCarthy and because I've I for the people for the drive-bys who read with pictures let me smell spell this out for you really quickly me talking like this about Kevin McCarthy doesn't mean that I like Kevin McCarthy I have disliked Kevin McCarthy since before some of these drive-bys got peach fuzz so let's not All right. Number one.

So he got into a fight with Kevin McCarthy. Rumoredly, it was because of this ethics investigation.

Now you're like, OK, well, what what does that entail? What is this ethics investigation?

So the ethics investigation with Matt Gaetz concerned this.

Well, it concerned underage girls and human trafficking is what it is, what it had to do with. I mean, it's not easy to talk about, but that's just the way it is.

So the accusation is that he was with some girls that were underage and that they had flown on a plane to a different part of the United States, which apparently merits, you know, if you wanted to pursue it, a trafficking charge, if that makes sense.

So that's sort of that's the accusation. And an ethics investigation was opened up into him quite a long time ago, like a really long time ago.

So this introduction of Gates is AG. That's where all of this is. That's where all this comes out on is there was an ethics investigation. Gates wanted McCarthy to shield him from this ethics investigation. McCarthy declined reportedly.

And that's where the big fight was. Like they were OK until that happened. That's the rumor mill. I've been hearing this from my people in D.C. for a very long time And it's not something that generally garners headlines until there's like a filing or a report is released And interestingly enough, a report is about to be released That's the other aspect to this People were other Republican Congress members and not everyone that you dislike or that says something about someone you dislike is a rhino there were apparently other reporters there were other congress members who went on record saying that he was bragging about his sex life and showing videos and all this stuff on the floor and it it's not one or two congressmen that said that not three or four or five or six There were a lot of them that apparently came forward.

When the feds investigated him, they declined to bring charges. But he was already under a House ethics investigation at the time. And McCarthy, apparently, when he was being leaned on to excuse and intervene Gates, that's apparently, according to the rumor, when Gates and McCarthy got real mad at each other. And that's, remember that one fight that broke out on the House floor and they turned it into like the lip reading? video.

That's apparently what happened.

So I don't know. I mean, Andy McCarthy has discussed this as well. He's not. And McCarthy likes Trump. I don't think that you can say that Andrew McCarthy, who's been on the show before, is like a Trump hater.

He really likes Trump, but he's also an attorney and he's very clinical. And he does not agree for that and some other reasons. He just thinks it's less trolling and more reckless is kind of how he came out on it.

So whether or not, I don't know. I don't know all of the information that led to the ethics investigation. I only know what I've heard other people talk about and describe videos. I only know what I've heard people say and what they've told the press because they've done that. I mean, there's, there's, there's some, there's video of it.

So the reason why I bring this up is I, this is my first theory, and this is the one I'm kind of leaning towards. A lot of lawmakers try to wrap themselves in the veneer of really loving Trump as a hedge of protection, which is exactly what Rick Scott did. And some of these other guys tried to do it a little too late. And it just depends on how you do it, because even Vance did it before, but then Vance, you know, apologized and all that other stuff. There's loyalty and submission.

And I think some of the latter plays into this. The reason I'm explaining this to you is to kind of get you into my perspective of what I think is happening here. There's this health ethics report that is going to be released, like what, in the coming days? I don't know if they've got an ETA on it, but it's apparently going to be released. And that's speculatively, that's one of the reasons why some are saying that he resigned his post so quickly and was looking for this nomination.

There is not a lot of confidence amongst anybody that I've spoken to that he would get nominated. And a recess appointment is very difficult to do. And that has a shelf life. That doesn't mean it gets to last the term. It's very different.

We'll talk about that later. But the thinking and some of the rumor mill that I was hearing was that Trump doesn't dislike Gates, but kind of looks at him as a liability. And this is the best way to get rid of him while still having the appearance of standing by him. That's the one way. Or it's just completely not like that at all.

I mean, this is the fun stuff of cloak and dagger, Is it not with D.C. politics? I mean, maybe it means and I feel like Samuel Jackson, who's sitting across from Ringo in Pulp Fiction. Maybe it means that Trump means business and putting a lawmaker with a very petty streak like Matt Gaetz in charge at DOJ guarantees revenge. It guarantees a reckoning.

Or maybe Trump is done with Gates and he's sending them out to the wolves while the public picks apart his record and ethics accusations and all this other stuff so that when Gates is rejected and his ambition of seeking higher office ends, then Trump can say that he stood by him and he didn't have to expend any public political capital in order to rectify the situation. I don't know It could be either of those things Just saying I'm going to lay that out on the table It could be either of those things Now you can't just fill House seats by appointment So I've had some people say Oh well DeSantis can just fill it No you can't Senate you can do it by appointment House you got to go through special election Special elections you got to call for them Which I think he already did You got to call for them And then in some instances it could be months So you're talking about going in to a new Congress and having these seats unfilled for months, which jeopardizes the majority. Right out of the gate, you've hamstrung the agenda. That's the reality of the situation. There's no other pretty little way to put it.

All these people who are like, well, we can just appoint for the House. That's not how this works. You have to have special elections. New York, hell, they could take six, seven months to do it with Stefanik. It could take a long time.

Think about how long that is. Y'all, you're talking about going all the way into next year, all the way into summer. Then you're in midterm cycle. What are you going to tell people for midterms when you haven't got a damn thing done because you didn't have the numbers in the house? And the reason I bring this up is because I really want us to stop taking people from the house.

I am nervous about the majority. And people say, well, you know, Gates comes from a solid red district. That's great. That's not the issue. The issue is the time.

The time. How long? It's not an easy do or done thing There's all this tape that you got to go through And it doesn't matter how much you fast track it There's a reason why they have These things set up the way that they do That's the reality Of it you know you can avoid it By not taking people out of the house That's my thing I just don't think that He's I don't I think that for AG There are a ton of other better options for AG Where you don't have to go through all of this You don't have to start off the new congressional term with drama and you don't have to reduce your majority. That's my whole thing. And we've been doing really good with these picks.

I have greatly enjoyed, as I'm sure you have, watching the left lose its mind over Pete Hegseth. I mean, that was my dessert last night. I mean, it was just really not. They were going with the tattoos. My gosh, these people have no idea what a cross is.

They were losing their minds. I'm not joking with you guys. no fewer than three articles, where they were dissecting his tattoos. And then they were trying to go back in history.

Well, where else have these symbols appeared?

Well, this is a Crusader tattoo. Guess he likes the Crusades. What? I am not kidding you. The Crusaders drink water and wear shoes?

They do. The Crusaders, Kane, wore shoes. I guess if you like shoes, then you know how that goes. Hitler drank water. What do you like, Hitler?

This is so dumb That's all they have Three articles about that today So I have greatly enjoyed that I don't want to lose that momentum Because I like watching I'm not going to lie to you I don't give a rat's ass about like Unity and harmony and all that Nah, I don't care I'm the joker and I want to watch it burn I want to watch the left lose their minds I want to watch them tear each other apart I want them to have a political civil war On their little party side so that they can figure out where they're going to go next. I don't want to disrupt that for us. You know, like we've worked really hard. I mean, we deserve this. I'm just saying.

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Well, he's shown that his absolute lack of experience and his lack of suitability for the job because anybody that truly knows the military knows that we cannot go to war without over 225,000 women who are serving on active duty right now. Our military cannot go to war without our female service members. You know, this is not the Revolutionary War where there's some sort of a line in the sand and, you know, combat is on one side and the rest of us can stay behind the sign and that's not combat. I would ask him, you know, where do you think I lost my legs? In a bar fight?

I'm pretty sure I was in combat. This is the problem that I have with Tammy Duckworth and all of these other people who keep saying this in response to Pete Hegseth, who said he doesn't believe that women should be in combat. Did you listen to his words before you decide to rush to cameras to say this nonsense? Did you even bother like extricating head from backside before running to the television cameras and spewing? Did anybody actually listen to what the man said?

He specifically then outlined positions in which women are fine in. helicopter pilots. He literally said pilot. The hell do you think Tammy Duckworth, she was a pilot. Girl, he wasn't talking about you.

Why do these people try to make themselves the center of the story so damn bad? If you disagree with him with what he said, woman the hell up and just disagree with him without having to do this basic bitch stuff of making things up and putting the words into his mouth. Do not expect me to be nice about this. I loathe this as a poor, absolute, broken down, rhetorical trick. I cannot stand it.

I think it's disingenuous, malicious, and self-serving when I see people do this. And you deserve every ounce of the invective coming to you as a result. I'm not Big Bird. I ain't raising your kids. But I am telling people when they need to get told.

She needs to get told over this. To make up something and attribute it to him is malicious and ridiculous. All she had to do was say, well, I disagree with what he said about women in combat. Because he wasn't talking about you. He wasn't talking about being a helicopter pilot.

He wasn't talking about any of this stuff. He was specifically talking about being on the ground. You know, you're breaking down doors. You're going with a strike team. Come on.

Why do people act stupid and pretend otherwise? Oh, because then they would actually have to present to the American public that they might kind of agree with them. And the public might kind of agree with them, too. And you can't have that. And I just find it disingenuous, especially for a female member of Congress and a veteran, to make up something about a double bronze star recipient, combat veteran.

You can say whatever you want, but your service doesn't inoculate you from criticism when you make things up, as she just did. And I'm so tired of the misrepresentation and the lies in politics to this extent. He was very careful with his wording. I watched the interview. He was careful with his wording.

But notice how they only want to play like a cut for you and they don't want to get into everything that he said about the issue because it was a long interview. I mean, I'm not going to play the whole interview of that he gave on this program because it's long. But he was careful in his word choices. And I know female veterans. I have friends who served and they said, yeah, he's absolutely right.

I have friends who were pilots in the military. and they say, yeah, he's absolutely right. But Duckworth is a Democrat. All these other chicks out there are Democrats, so they've got to go, oh, no, and misrepresent what he said so that they can pretend to be victims. I just think you're already losing when you get to that point.

There's nothing that he said that's incorrect. Nothing. And this idea that you have, like, women deploying in strike teams already and, like, going down, and like it's like everybody thinks everything's like Call of Duty, which we were just talking about. Black Ops 6 on Bright. It's not.

Right? It's not. Just wild. Just be honest. If you just disagree with him, then say I disagree with him.

If you just don't like him because he's a Republican and he was on Fox, then be honest. But see, people are afraid to do that. This gets down to the psychology of it because they know they're wrong. They know that they're trying to they don't like him because he was on Fox and they're like train monkeys. They got to hate.

They got to hate Fox. They don't like him because he is a Republican. They don't like him because he was. Oh, my gosh. He was supported.

He was nominated by Trump.

So they don't like him. I'm not even asking them to justify their irrational hatred of the man. I'm just asking them to be honest about it. don't feather up some straw man and pretend that you're so valiant and virtuous by taking a position against that when it's not even true. I would have much more respect for her if she came out and said, I just, I just dislike him.

I just like him because he's a Republican and because Trump nominated him and because he's on Fox. But they know how stupid that sounds. They can't just come out and say that to you.

So they have to come up with a reason.

Well, let's just make one up if he didn't give him one. Let's just make him up. What is their reasoning against him? Think about this. They got mad.

We talked the last segment. They've been trying to go at his tattoos.

So wait a minute. Military dudes don't get to have tattoos anymore. Is that what you're telling me? They got mad because he was on Fox, but it's okay for them to be on CNN and MSNBC.

Okay. Why else are they mad? I mean, come up, give me a good, a genuine reason. Are you mad that he got two bronze stars and he fought for his country? Be mad, be mad and cope and see, but be honest about it.

I just wish that they were honest, but they can't be because they real, that's the stupidity of their position. They know how bad it looks if they're honest about it.

So they got to make something up. I mean, it's, this is so frustrating. It really is. It's very frustrating. They're losing their mind.

They are losing their minds. Did you see this, for instance, the Snow White chick? This Rachel Zeigler guy is the most annoying theater kid I've ever seen in my life. I don't like her. She's like, she's ran her mouth enough where I'm pretty sure I don't like her as a person.

Which is sad. I don't like being like that, but that's the truth of it. She went into this social media meltdown after the election. And she posted all this stuff. She says, I'm speechless.

Another four years of hatred. leaning us towards a world I don't want to live in. She doesn't even have a kid. She's like, it'll be hard to raise my daughter in.

Okay. A world that'll force her to have a baby she doesn't want. Are you, like, what is your damage? What is wrong with you? They're just going to, what are you saying?

The government's going to rape her and make her have a baby? Is that what you're saying? Leaning us towards a world that's fearful. She is not a mother, and she just is speaking of a hypothetical daughter that she doesn't have. And then she just kept going on and on.

And then she went on and said that she wants basically bad stuff to happen to people. She hopes Trump supporters never know peace, is what she said in her Instagram rant. Newsflash to Rachel Ziegler. I've noticed that there are not four media outlets that can correctly spell your name in any given time. No one can tell you, anybody else, what the hell you've ever been in.

So maybe you should have more of a career before you start running your mouth and ruining what you've built now. You not Meryl Streep You don have a Meryl Streep Foundation to run your mouth on You don have a Clint Eastwood body of work to run your mouth on You haven proven your capabilities enough that people can say oh, well, she's nuts about politics, but at least she's a good actress. Because I don't even think that. She's got a film coming out with Disney, Snow White, which she has been a nightmare for. They've already had to go back.

Remember all the stuff that she said previously Where she was blasting Prince Charming And she went on this feminist rant And people were like scratching Even moderates were scratching their heads Like why is she doing this Is she wanting this movie to fail And then she says I hope they never know peace She says May Trump supporters and Trump himself never know peace Is what she said on Instagram Maybe she feels like that in her life I kind of get the sense that she feels like her career is stalling out and she's got to do this political stuff to claw more attention and at the same time it's one bird or two birds one stone she can claw for more attention by saying stupid political stuff while also taking out her rage against people because she's mad that her career's stalling because i don't know what the hell she's been in do you she was in that west side story remake and she was the worst part of it uh and then what this i don't know what else she's been in there are other actresses her age that are doing laps around her in terms of work and accolades and all she's doing is bitching on Instagram and saying this kind of stuff. I mean, maybe you should focus on your movie. You know, because as it is right now, they already had to take it back because that's the Snow White film that got into a lot of trouble with the little people, the dwarves, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, because the king little person, a guy who played Tyrion Lannister, what's his name? He's the king of all little people, apparently. which made all the other little people actors very upset because he acted like he was the valedictorian of all of them and the union president of all of them.

And he went out and said, oh my gosh, can you believe that they have, you know, a little like dwarves in a movie? I mean, it was called Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but whatever. I mean, I guess it should have been, you know, Snow White and the, you know, seven ambiguously gendered hobos. I don't know. Like what?

So this movie has just like run into controversy after controversy after controversy after controversy. It is really annoying. At least what's her face? Jenna Ortega doesn't go this hard. Jenna Ortega at least knows when to like to shut up to not burn her audience.

This chick doesn't. I think she wants to be Jenna Ortega. I don't know. I just can't stand this stuff.

Somebody in her management needs to tell her It's not a wise career move to do things like this They fired Gina Carano for less Gina Carano Said something entirely accurate on Instagram About fascism And Disney lost their mind All the woke scolds lost their mind And they fired her This chick is literally wishing harm On Trump supporters And it's crickets Crickets Now, that's pretty unbelievable.

So you tell me who's the bigot. Good grief. I don't know. These people are damaged. They're just damaged.

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I don't think so.

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So are the days of the United States Hey guys, so today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for a while Did she literally make a video about this and put music to it and And the reason for doing it and kissing goodbye, my 1.9 million followers over there, is because I hadn't been posting for a long time. I just didn't want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner. But just having it there, I was only holding on to it because I really didn't want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes. I was a little bit worried about that. and also every so often I would use it to just like sort of look at news that was trending and what's happening and I would just sort of use it as like an aggregator but I just realized that's not really worth it because in order to like do the news aggregation and just look at all you have to wade through a lot of dreck and a lot of just abuse and a lot of just negativity and it's just not worth it no one cares like this is you know as we said yesterday this is not an airport.

You don't have to announce the departures. Nobody cares. These people who think that being without their contributions on X or on social media or they think that that's like a big, that's actually makes me like it more. It means it's going to be a better place, I think. I just don't want to contribute content.

Well, you're not contributing content. All it is is just whining. You're part of the dreck. That's all you contribute. I mean, She's one of the meanest, most bigoted people that is in media today.

So I don't see this as a loss. All these people that do this. What is it? Don Lemon. He released a statement with a picture of himself at the bottom of it.

I know Don. Come on. Dude, that's so goofy. I mean, it's just so self-aggrandizing. That's the last thing that Democrats need to be doing right now.

They need to be taking inventory of where all they got it wrong. It's just, it's funny. I don't know. I can't imagine. And there were a few of them that, did Mark Hamill leave X?

I don't remember.

Somebody, there were a few others that left too.

Okay, bye. Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. I ain't gonna be shedding no tears. I don't care. I just don't care.

Is he there?

Okay. I don't know. This is just goofy. These people that have to announce this stuff. I just, you know, after it was purchased.

The problem is, is they didn't want to be confronted with dissent. They are very uncomfortable when challenged. They take it as a personal affront.

Sometimes I think, are they just lazy and they don't want to have to do the work of defending their position? Or is it more than that? And I think with some of these people, It's more than that. They have a God complex. They view themselves as being so self-important that when you challenge them, you're offending them.

You might as well slap them to challenge them on an issue. The right better not get like this. I'm telling you. I know that the left is trying to pull everybody over into its cesspit of ridiculousness, but let's not follow.

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Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. Dana Lash with you. We've been going over a lot of stuff lately just with the cabinet selections, with the all of it, with the with the Senate, with everything. It's been busy.

So welcome. You can find us all across the country. Channel 347, DirecTV, Rumble as well, podcast, all the good stuff. X as well.

So coming up, we're going to be talking with my friend David Harsani about Blue Anon because it's a real thing. And the latest, though, let's get into some of the latest here with the Senate and the Cabinet, because now we've got House, Senate and White House. And I was talking a little bit last segment about my concern about pulling too much from the House. A lot of people think that if you're pulling too many from the House for appointments that you can just appoint someone. That's not how that works.

is to recap, you have to have a special election. And that can take months and months, depending on where.

So you're looking at going into the new year, a new Congress, and you might be going all the way to summer before you get to special elections, maybe all the way to next fall. It all depends. Everybody's, every state's different. Why would you want to immediately kneecap the administration like that? Especially when there are tons of other options that exist outside of our very narrow majority in the House.

So that's incredibly important. A few things. I've been really enjoying Everything that I've read About all the people freaking out over Pete Hegseth I think it's great Because he's a really solid pick There have been really good picks There's some picks that I'm like I don't understand the Kristi Noem one Tulsi Gabbard over at As Director of National Intelligence She was on the terror watch list So I'm hoping that that gives her A little bit of empathy towards innocent Americans being targeted by their government. I got a lot of questions still about some of her other positions, but the, like, for instance, because she was hardcore supportive of gun control, because I've got tweets and video and all of that, and I don't think she's ever explained it. But that isn't really required for director of national intelligence unless she starts targeting people for supporting the Second Amendment.

So maybe that plays to her particular skill set in that role. And like I said, we've tried to get around before, but she absolutely refuses to talk to me.

So I don't know. But anyway, maybe that will work for her particular skill set. And I think every other appointment works with that individual skill set. The Noam I don't get because I don't, for Department of Homeland Security, because I just feel like Tom Homan would be a much better, you know, he's the borders are, I feel like, and that falls under DHS. I just don't know.

Tom Homan's clearly the person to do it.

So I don't understand the gnome appointment. But the only one that I was kind of questioning was the Gates thing, because I knew that that house invest that house ethics investigation was going to make the confirmation super choppy. But as we talked about last hour, you can revisit that I have some theories.

Now looking at the house, we're going to have special elections for the house. Because Gade's already resigned his seat. Don't know how that's going to work out. I don't know how quickly that will happen. And you don't want to be outmaneuvered by the left when you have a reduced majority.

So that's the thing. And the Senate, and one of my friends, Daniel Horowitz, made a really good suggestion. And I think that this is true. Because he says he's talking about all of these senators from all of these red states, right? This is one of the reasons why we keep getting in this position of having the same swamp rats over and over again to consider for these leadership positions, right?

So for instance, you know, there are a lot who are coming up for 2026, right? In midterms. And this is the time now that you start getting ready for those midterms and upgrade these seats to people who are more constitutional, right? More constitutionally minded, fiscally conservative candidates, right? And so there's a lot of focus on this Florida Senate seat.

and I have no idea why we're not looking at primarying some of these others, like Tom Tillis up in North Carolina, right? There was a movement that came out for Lara Trump to be appointed in that seat, and I like Lara Trump. I've met her. I know her, but I think that this is no. No, absolutely not, and not a knock against her at all.

I mean, I shouldn't really have to say that. It should be kind of understandable, but not a knock against her. It just doesn't make sense, especially when you want to be able to have a strong, strong constitutionalist that understands the parliamentary procedures of the Senate. And with that particular appointment, you can really go hardcore for somebody like a Mike Lee in Florida. And they there are I think with Meyer is one of them.

There are those picks that exist there. But the other thing is she just got rnc chair And we can't appoint her to every single you're going to appoint her to rnc chair in the senate Are you going to appoint her to a cabinet position? I mean come on It gets a little dynastic and I also think with all due respect. They just moved to florida They've only they haven't been they've been there a couple of years Floridians are very particular which i've learned about their voting. They like people who have a history in the state And then have ties to the area So and that makes sense and I get that I'm not against anybody like Hillary Trump ever running for office, but if she really wants to be in office Why not take her to Gates District and run her in a special election in that seat then?

Or her home state of North Carolina primary the rhino senator up there Where you could use all of the pressure from all those online influencers and you could flip that seat Well, not flip it. It's a Republican, but you could make it You know, you could have her be installed in that seat But we can't just like hand out appointments to Senate, you know, like it's Mardi Gras beads. I don't want to have like a Harris-esque moment here where we're just handing and pointing things out over and over again. And I think that's a really fair assessment, especially considering how our country was founded. You know, we wanted people to demonstrate their merit for certain things and not just have like King George put the edict down from on high.

OK, so it's just kind of how I look at it. And I think, you know, and if she and she just barely got in the RNC, let her let her flesh that out a little bit.

So she could run for Gates's seat special election or, again, go to North Carolina and do that seat up there. But look at some of these other there. I mean, there's some other people that we could really seats that we could really make more conservative. Like, I know that there's been some criticism of, you know, obviously Tom Tillis in North Carolina. And that's where Larry Trump could go and challenge Tom Tillis.

And she's North Carolina's her state. She could do it. And you could use the pressure there. You got John Cornyn in Texas. I mean, good heavens.

Bill Cassidy out in Louisiana. There's a number of others that have been a little disappointing in their votes. You know, and I think that there's a lot that could be done to change that. You cannot though It's so weird to target just one Florida seat when there are all of these other seats That are prime So that's Kind of how I'm looking at it Everybody always struggles with these Rhinos and primaries and as My friend Daniel says because you know they lack The challengers often are new They are going up against the machine Of the rhino they're going up against Name ID and money So if you have her challenge Tillis of North Carolina, that's an easy pickup. But that's her home state.

But Floridians, I think you need to be there a little more than a couple of years. And you just got nominated for RNC chair. We can't. I don't think that you can consolidate all these different positions under her. That's we say we need to be or she could run for, like I said, Gates a seat special election in the House.

So those are some options. But there are a lot of seats out there that we really need to start thinking about and some primaries that we get to start thinking about here in 2026. Because I guarantee you to, depending on how these other appointments come out, there are going to be some rhinos that are going to be looking to try to shore up their numbers in the Senate and in the House.

So we got to be really aware of that, be very, very aware of that.

Now, in the meantime, one of the cabinet picks, Pete Hegseth. I got to share this piece because I saw who is this guy? This is he's like a professor somewhere. He's like a totally annoying professor. Matthew D.

Taylor. I don't even know where he's from. He is. Oh, some scholar in Baltimore, scholar in Baltimore. That's all I know it's so dumb and he went on this twitter thread about pete hegseth's tattoos and he was going on and on and he said that he was talking about his tattoos and his christian faith and he was getting into uh christian nationalism and he was saying that his I guess his tattoos, I guess, were somehow like, I guess, evidence of Christian nationalism or whatever.

And then he got mad because he had, and I don't know if he deleted this or not, because I was pulling this up. He was very upset in that he had tweeted that one of the, he was talking about the books that he had said he'd read, and he was just like getting into all of it. And he said that he has a far right Christian Zionist fantasy. He was talking about the Temple of the Mount and things like that. He had, for some reason, it just does not want to pull up for the life of me.

I think he deleted this tweet. But he was saying that he was talking about Temple Mount and how, you know, you have a mosque on Temple Mount now. And he was saying that, you know, he seems to be very anti-Muslim and he gets involved in this like Christian Zionist fantasy with this etc etc and uh thinks that these things can just be removed these that these holy sites can be removed can i just like what what did the what was under the temple mount again can remind us there what that was originally he says that a far-right christian zionist fantasy that muslim holy sites can be removed and he's like oh the re-establishment of the temple on the temple mount he was saying that there's no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the Temple Mount of the Temple on the Temple Mountains is not possible.

So there was a holy site already there. And then other people came and put a site on that site. The latter wasn't wrong, but saying otherwise is? That doesn't make sense. That's what this guy's using to go after a Hegseth about.

He's trying to cast him as like this zealot. And he says, well, he says that the idea that someone could raise the third holiest site in Islam, Dome of the Rock, to build the third Jewish temple is a wild scheme. And he talks about how it's crazy and how it is fueled by hate from people. And that this is, you know, his wild, this is Hegseth's wild theology and what influences him. I mean, you do realize that long before Muslims were around, that was a Jewish holy site, right?

So there's no anger for a mosque being established on it. But so you think you can't raise a whole, but they raised a holy site to put a mosque on it. And guess what? No one attacked them. Yeah.

I mean, don't even get me started about the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Don't don't give me. I mean, I'm just saying.

So where why is it a very situational outrage? Like he's trying to make Pete Hegseth out to be this Christian like nut job. He has like a 20 some odd Twitter thread And it's gotten hundreds of retweets already Thousands of views And he's trying to make him seem like this Christian nutjob And while he's slaming him For can you believe that he thought that you could just like Put a different holy site on this holy site That holy site went on a holy site What are you talking about That's like the people who are like This is stolen land Whenever they talk about Mount Rushmore Yeah go ahead and tell me the indigenous nation That your indigenous nation took it from Oh, it's interesting then, doesn't it? Our partners at ReadyWise want to make sure that you're always ready Because you never know what's going to happen After we had the big ice storm I had some survival food And I had a prepper pantry But then I just added a whole bunch to it And I liked ReadyWise because I knew the chain of command They have U.S. ingredients and it's packed in a U.S.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So they discovered an alligator in Michigan? Quite the circumstances too It was during a drug bust It's even weirder and weirder So they discovered this alligator By Michigan State Police And apparently it had to do It was like some drug bust I just Because it's not That's not something That you're going to be able I mean it's cold up there It's not like there's Any like tributaries Or anything that they can swim on I'm just made of questions right now, honestly.

So this gator, hold on, I just froze. I'm going to pull this back up.

So this alligator that they found, it was trying to drug bust. They did take it in Fish and Wildlife, took it into custody, obviously. But it was in a home. They executed a search warrant. They found an alligator living there in the house.

Okay. Well, there you go. Like just randomly, did they thought we're drug dealers now? Might as well have like every drug dealer is a weird pet. We're going have a gator.

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So, Kane was telling me on break that AOC apparently removed her pronouns from her ex-bio. I had to go and check myself. I didn't know she had them on there anyway. I don't really look at her bio, but apparently everyone was noticing that they were gone. I don't know if that's a realization that the left is having or not.

That are maybe they catching on? I'm not quite sure. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast.

You can find us digitally as well as terrestrially. Channel 347 as well, DirecTV. This is kind of, I think, goes into what I was going to talk about with my guest today, David Harsani, who is a senior writer over at DC Examiner. He's got a new book out, which is a pretty dystopian cover, The Rise of Blue Anon. And I love that phrase because he says in this book, this is how the Democrats became a party of conspiracy theorists.

They've always kind of been, but it's now like on steroids as of late. And when you think to everything that they said over this election period, like you're we're all like they're going to put us all back in chains or whatever. that first they were going to kill us with health care back when Paul Ryan ran. They've always run these conspiracy theories as a substitute for policy. And now look where they are.

Are they going to stop now? Is this AOC like pronoun changing? Maybe like the first sign. Am I am I being am I doing hopefulness wrong? I'm a cynic.

So I don't know. David now joins us via Skype. David, good to see you. I just real quick. What do you make of that?

I mean, because that's really I feel like this last election is sort of the culmination of all the conspiracy theories that the left has tried to sell us for decades now. I mean, you go all the way back to the Bush years and before in this book. What do you think about this? It does seem like maybe the fever broke a little bit just because it was so because Trump won so handily. I think that maybe they're they're just regrouping and thinking about new ways to approach this.

Once you call someone Hitler and you say that they're fascist, you really have no place to go. There's no up from that. Right. can ratchet to 11. That is it.

And so maybe they're rethinking it. I suspect we're going to go back to things as usual pretty soon, though. Yeah, I was thinking about that when I saw Trump in the White House and the Oval Office there with Biden. And I'm like, wow, that's like Hitler's getting a real good reception there. They got a roaring fire.

I mean, it looks like they got snacks and drinks. I mean, you know, that's just really not really how you would entertain the guy that you said was an existential threat to democracy. No, not at all. And, you know, there are cynical people who spread those things. But I don't think, you know, Biden really believe that.

But then there are a lot of credulous voters, sorry to say, who do believe stuff like that. They're the person who might pick up a gun and try to kill, you know, Donald Trump or, you know, doesn't want to have Thanksgiving with their aunt or whatever.

So, yeah, it's a really destructive way to talk about politics. I it seems we're in such a weird time because we have, you know, if you want to know anything, you can look it up. If you want to know about the history of the people who lived in Pompeii, you can Google it really quickly. If you want to, you know, read about, I mean, whatever it is, you can find, you know, how-to videos, you can, you know, all the encyclopedic knowledge you can get at your fingertips. But yet, we have the left telling us, well, you're all going to be in handmaid's costumes, and you're going to be in jail, and we're going to be in World War III, and not to, you know, just not to skip over all the science is real stuff that they had with the COVID and everything else.

I'm just, where do we go from here? Because as you said, you can't go past that. People aren't stupid. They can look things up. They can determine what is true and what isn't.

I don't know how you can reconcile or how Democrats reconcile mostly intelligent. You know, there's some dumb people out there, but we got an intelligent electorate and then what they've been selling. I don't know how they go forward as an entity or ideology after last week.

Well, I mean, for a lot of people, this is a bigger topic maybe, but for a lot of people, I think they've lost faith or real faith or religion and they've replaced it with politics and ideology.

So there's a kind of blind faith connected to this kind of the way that they speak.

So you're right.

Some people don't believe it. It's not a good way forward because it doesn't work. But there is still a, like, think about all the people who left Twitter, went to Blue Sky or whatever it's called. They want to be more siloed than they were before. Like, they don't even want to hear an argument.

Think about this. Was there a single real debate over policy this last election? I don't think so.

And what they do, I start the book this way. I talk about how no one debates me anymore. they just call me a Russian dupe or bought by NRA, or there's some shady group that's controlling me. I'm too stupid to, or too evil to care otherwise. Right.

So that's a shortcut they started taking mostly in the 2000s, I think. And then it just enveloped them. That's all they do now. You, they do not debate. They play the man.

They don't play the issue anymore.

So you're playing suicidal tendencies, you know, where Gen Xers, maybe we're a little cynical about that stuff, but you know, so, I'm pretty cynical about the future in that way. All we wanted was a Pepsi, man. That's all we wanted. That's all we, you know, come on. Just talking with David Harsani, his new book, The Rise of Blue and On, How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists.

I think one of the worst conspiracy things that I ever saw floated, I mean, and this is just of our general lifetime, was this Russian collusion thing. And then the laptop cover up. This is the craziest stuff that I've ever seen. And I don't know. We're already cynics.

I mean, we were raised on hose water. I mean, we're the people who's like we were left into the woods and in the neighborhoods, our own devices all day long.

So, you know, I think we're like made a pretty tough stuff. And I see what was it, 51 or 52 intelligence experts that signed this letter to say that this laptop is this is all Russian collusion, disinformation, et cetera. How do you read? I mean, they did more than just peddle conspiracy theories. They peddle distrust of our nation's institutions that might be irrevocable.

Yeah. COVID, I think, finally destroyed that. but I'm happy you brought up Russia collusion. It's the most successful political conspiracy theory in history. None has had more of an effect on certainly our lives.

We were completely, that's all we talked about for three years. It was completely made up. And what happens, and it's a good example of how the left's conspiracy theories are far more dangerous than the right. Like Alex Jones or whatever, he's out there and he has fans, no doubt. But on the left, they take it, they launder it through media, They polish it up.

They calibrate it to be plausible. They get experts who are just partisans to come in and say it's true. And a lot of people think that the bigger a conspiracy theory is, the easier it is to debunk. But it's the opposite, especially when you have institutions behind it.

So when they tell you something, we used to trust the former CIA director. You wouldn't think he would just make something up, right? Or even the New York Times, you wouldn't believe that they would just make something up. That's not bias. It's something much worse.

so um i think it was super successful it hamstrung the administration that could barely do anything and uh no one there was no reckoning no one lost their job no you know they just went on they did the hunter laptop stuff they they hid biden's you know decline his acuity and his physical decline and you know these are the same people are still there so that's why i'm skeptical that things are going to change in the long run i love that we were to believe that we were all going to be, you know, basically spied on and treated horribly by by Republicans. But yet they we were expected to believe that Joe Biden was completely fine, especially after watching him try to walk on the beach the other day. And Jill would not even extend an arm like what a horrible woman you are not even to help your husband talking with David Harsany. This this I I'm amazed at how also this has really driven the tribalism of the left. And I don't want the right to get tribal in response to the left's tribalism because that's the thing with these conspiracy theories.

And I try to be very, I'm trying to be very careful of it and I'm not inclined to be careful. I'm trying to be. But how does this pan out? I mean, where do you see, what do you see happening from here? Because, and maybe I've asked you this in some way or another, like just a couple of minutes ago, but I mean, I'm reading your book and it goes all the way back.

You go all the way back to like the Bush years and Bush was, you know, when they, when it was Bush Hitler and, um, they would burn in effigies of him in the streets. I would crash protests and I would see them doing this. And it was wild. Uh, where, I mean, where do we go from here? Do we, can we go back to a nation of reason where we actually have debates on reasonable things or do we just get more siloed and tribal?

I think more tribal. I mean, it's not what I was looking for, David. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. No, here's what worries me.

You know, I, you know, think about what Democrats, so think of in 2017, Donald Trump wanted to get rid of the filibuster and McConnell said no, whatever that is what it is. But imagine if they had gotten rid of it, if Democrats could get rid of it, what would they have done? They would have passed one huge, overwhelming national, you know, anti-gun legislation, anti-speech legislation, you know, election legislation. And they would have packed the Supreme Court and they would have destroyed the Constitution. I just believe that progressives hate the Constitution.

They're not pro-First Amendment. They're not pro-Second, not 4th, 5th, 10th. Forget it.

So just because Republicans win now, it's not a culture change. When Democrats come back, and they will, it always happens, they're going to do things that are going to be irreparable.

So we used to, in the past, I believe, share some common values. We disagreed on a lot of stuff, but everyone believed in the First Amendment, say. Do you think that that's the case anymore? I don't. I mean, New York Times has a piece like every week about how the Constitution's getting in the way of democracy and stuff like that.

So that's what really worries me, you know, that sort of thing. And it is driven by paranoia. Just a quick thing, you know, think about voter suppression or, you know, the idea that police are hunting black men. These these are lies. These are paranoiac lies that a lot of people believe it's easier to vote than ever.

And yet people walk around thinking that that their agency has been taken from them. Right. And if people believe that, it's going to be difficult for them to live with other people they think are doing it to them. You know what I mean? And it hasn't helped that you've had legacy press for so long controlled by one ideology.

I mean they kept saying that with Georgia's new voter law that nobody was going to go out and vote. It was – not Jim Crow, Jim Eagle. Jim. Yeah, Jim Eagle. That's what Biden called it.

But then they had a record number of people who came out to vote in Georgia.

So then you have the presence of social media and Elon Musk taking X. But X can't do it all by itself or can it? no but it is important i think people shouldn't underestimate how important it is to laugh like social media in one way is just nefarious right you have such bad people on there right i mean just ugliness and all that but on the other hand you know i hear a lot of young people say that it's worse than ever you know me no i grew up with three television stations and they were controlled by gatekeepers and there was no way to fight back no way to debunk what they were saying no way to have our own conversations.

Now you can do that. And that's important.

So we shouldn't forget that either.

So I think must buying Twitter was huge because it's the biggest and most, I think, influential platform there is. Do you think that that's going to maybe spark, because I know Zuckerberg, he seems to the left, but not like an ideological zealot. Like at least that they boxed out China and they wouldn't allow Facebook to go into China.

So China had to get their own thing. And there's certain things that I've been surprised at how Facebook has handled certain issues, although the suppression still exists. I think that's the lower level staff. But do you think it's going to inspire some of these other tech companies or tech execs or future, any kind of technological advancement in terms of social communication? Are they going to be more middle road because they, I mean, everybody wants to be praised and Musk has gotten a lot of praise.

That's an attractive incentive. That's right. Yeah. Thanks for letting me be positive. I actually have something positive to say.

Look at that. I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to be. I think that that is one of, that is a positive that there has been, it's more acceptable or people are braver now in supporting Trump or supporting ideas that maybe leftists don't like, you know, in on higher levels, like other like tech bros or whoever. Also, I, now that you mentioned it, you know, just looking at how this election went, I don't view this as a conservative win more.

I view it more as a normie win. I think normies look at Donald Trump and they think, oh, he's not saying they, them, right? He is normal. And we're gonna vote for the normal guy because he's not very ideological and he's actually quite moderate on policy and almost everything, right?

So a lot of seeing all the minority groups and everyone moved to the normie side, I think that should give us some hope that maybe they won't just move to Trump, but they'll start thinking about the other ideas that the left has and rejecting them.

So that's a great point. That's a great point.

Well, the book is The Rise of Blue Anon. It's a great read. Gets into a lot of history. Then you realize how wronged we've been all these years and it kind of makes you mad. You get to recount all of it.

David Harsani, always good to talk with you. I'd love to have you back. Thanks so much. Congrats on the book. Thank you.

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It's time for Florida Man. The stuff that happens on break is insane. All right. Let's see here.

So, okay, let me look at the Trump banner one. This guy. I've read, I think I've read something similar. Or there was a guy who painted his house an American flag. He was mad.

This guy is, it's a 30A house. And he has giant Trump banners. And one of them is Trump pointing. It's his job. I mean, it goes like three levels.

And he's going, who's your daddy? At Seagrove Beach, it's a house along the coast. The homeowner would not take down his banners. And so he got hit with $63,000 in fines. And so he draped a new one over the balcony that said Trump coming home.

I mean, they're three stories long.

So it's a big banner, just so you know that. Like it's the size of an office building. He's displayed various Trump banners since 2020 He had one that says Trump's coming home 2025 That was the latest one And he took a picture of in front of his house In a Stars and Stripes jacket that says Trump on it Is he dancing or posing? I don't know And he's in front of his banners One of them says Bulletproof The other says Who's Your Daddy? And the other says Trump coming home 2025 And he says he's not taking them down So they it's Walton County code compliance.

They're saying that his banners are violating the scenic quarter code 6105. And it enforces a fee of $50 per day for every day a banner is hung. He's had these things out for 42 months. He says he's that it's protected by the First Amendment. And he goes, I've got great lawyers.

I think he does. Like the guy is in front of a three story house. Yeah, no, technically for if you count the ground level. Uh, that's crazy. I don't even know what kind of steel had to go into building that house on the coast.

But I think he's probably got the resources to fight his case, right? I feel like he's got the resources to do so. Just, you know, it seems that way. Let's see. I got a couple.

Oh, yeah.

So this guy, Grady Judd said that this Florida man should have hit his cocaine before calling the deputies. A Florida man and a teenager were arrested in frost proof, which is the actual name of a town, and I could not love it anymore. Polk County Sheriff said that a group of juveniles had been aggravating and harassing 54-year-old Everett Brown. And he said that a 14-year-old kicked in Brown's door and hit him with a red broom handle and burglar and battery felonies. But then while the deputies were processing the scene, Brown had left his cocaine all out on the table and counter.

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Welcome back to the program. It's Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. And we are waiting. We're watching all the appointments. We're watching all of the drama unfolding, whether it's the Senate, whether it's the House, whatever it is.

We're keeping you up to date with everything. And you can make sure you follow along too over at Substack Chapter and Verse because we've got a lot of stuff that goes on over there as well. I saw this headline I just I wasn't going to start the show off with it But it's like trendy now They're saying Eva Longoria has left the United States After Donald Trump's victory What has she been in lately? She's leaving the United States She left She fled the country And moved She's now living in Spain and part time in Mexico I read a piece in Daily Mail that she left over a year ago. She moved to Spain over a year ago.

Why are they acting like she just left? Trump won and now she left.

So? I don't understand these people. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about any of this stuff.

Just stop. These people that are pushing that are like announcing that they're leaving X or the United States. Oh, nobody cares. But I don't think she's been in anything lately. I think she just like every election cycle, she comes back up because she raises money.

I don't know if she's been in anything since that Housewives show. Right. And that was that was on since before I moved to Texas.

So it's been a bit. It's been a minute. It's been a little bit of a minute. Coming up later at the bottom of this hour, we're going to talk to Dexter Taylor. Yes, the one who is in jail because he's fighting for freedom and Second Amendment rights.

He's been wrongly convicted. You want to talk about injustice? I hope Trump pardons him. In fact, that's what we should be pushing for is a pardon of Dexter Taylor, because that would be huge.

So maybe that's something that we should talk about. But we're going to talk to him, like I said at the bottom of uh this hour get into all of that and we've been following along with all of the all of the complete freak outs from all these appointments that have been coming in and there's there's more to come still although i mean we were talking about the matt gates one for ag that's the only one where i'm like because for a few reasons i have every justification to worry about picking from the House. We have such a narrow majority. And now we got Walt, Stefanik, and you take Gates out. That is going to leave us with a narrower majority than what we have now.

And people don't understand that you can't just appoint someone in a House seat. It has to be a special election.

Now, the governor of a state can appoint for Senate. But for House, it just can't be an appointment to House. It has to be a special election.

And some of these, depending on where they are, can take some time. You're talking months. Like someone was saying, I think for New York, it might be what until summer or fall or something like that. I was I had this in my notes. That's too long to wait That's way too long to wait Especially when you're going into Brand new Congress You've got a brand new administration You want to hit the ground running And this is You cannot hamstring yourself Remember what we said Time is of the essence So if you're going to cut all these departments So you've got Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that are running Doge.

And I just like saying it. It's the Department of, what is it, Government Efficiency. Doge. They will look and see what they want cut. And by the way, I heard a soundbite from Vivek Ramaswamy where he said they want to have all this done by 26.

And then do away with the department. I think that's one of the best things he's ever said. Genuinely I loved hearing that Loved hearing that we should get him on the show I loved hearing that I was like wait You're talking about cutting government And then cutting the department Or cutting the outside agency that's cutting government What When's the last time you ever heard anyone go yes we're gonna We're gonna get rid of our own department No one does that It's funny So anyway I was like very excited over that Because when you start talking about government I'm like that Vince McMahon thing that meme that he has where he makes an excited face and it gets more and more excited. Oh, I love it. Except when I look excited, I look creepy because I have RBF naturally and I'm not a super exuberant person in that fashion.

So when I look super happy and joyful, it's creepy.

So I always have to train myself to keep a nice, pleasant expression on my face because if I don't raise my eyebrows up into my scalp, then I look mean and crabby or terrifying.

So anyway, But I genuinely really liked hearing that So The These positions I don't I don't want to jeopardize the house And I love that we're talking About cutting all of this stuff but if you When they come up with programs that need To be cut and when they recommend That to POTUS Or Congress Congress because it's the power of the purse All spending all that stuff has to originate There you're not you're going to have a difficult time getting things passed if you keep reducing the majority. And you need to have a buffer because y'all know we got some rhinos up in there.

So you got to have a buffer. And that's where I get really nervous. And people say, well, you know, it's a solid bread district. That's not the point. The point is that you have to hit the ground running.

It has to be speed. That's what we talked about two weeks ago. It has to be all gas, no brake. They have to race to do this before the bureaucratic state can move to oppose it. They need to be unpredictable the way that they go about slashing and removing this stuff And so when you gum it up by reducing the majority and making it take longer to get all of these cuts approved you are shooting yourself in the foot.

In order to do what they need to do, because they're, guys, they're talking about cuts, the size of which are pretty mind-blowing. And the reduction of even entire agencies. That you need speed with that and you cannot help them do it by by having a smaller margin in the house. You're going to have to have a buffer. You want to have so many votes.

You want to have not just the majority. You want to have a majority to where you can spare a couple of rhinos, where you can spare a couple of people who watch as you are cutting the special interests to their state.

So you need to be able to get beyond that. That's what makes me really nervous about it. the ethics investigation I know that report was coming out I just like watching like people fight with each other in Congress especially if they're on the same side it is very entertaining ladies don't ever don't let any dude ever tell you that you're dramatic after you watch away some of these dudes slap fight and argue about stuff in the house it's hysterical I mean they actually did almost fight in the house there was that one where it turned into this like great lip reading thing And one guy was physically held back by his face.

So I I think that there's some ethics. And I know that they had the ethics investigation that was happening and that it's there might be some 40 chess. I talked a little bit about this last hour about, you know, maybe this might be why this is happening, because, look, if you have it either means that Trump means business. And he's not just trolling, but he's putting a lawmaker that has a very well-known petty streak. And pettiness isn't always bad, but a petty streak in charge of DOJ.

You're guaranteeing that someone's going to get revenged upon. It's a guarantee. Or Trump is very aware of this report from the ethics committee that's coming out. And he is aware of it. And he wants to get around it by, you know, since the public can pick apart this record and these these ethics, these accusations of impropriety so that when Gates is rejected, then Trump can say that he stood by him.

Gates resigned his seat so he doesn't come under the jurisdiction of House ethics. What that means for the report coming out remains to be seen. But all that comes out in confirmation hearings.

so this might be Trump doing a Machiavellian move, actually, genuinely, maybe.

So it's, you know, there's all kinds of rumors and speculation and all kinds of stuff. But it is that I think his would be probably the toughest one. And, you know, two, it's something maybe he threw out there to distract everybody from the other nominations. I mean, that also could be the case.

so then they they they're talking about recess appointments to speed up the case and i wanted to touch on this because that's they're not as easy as people think and it's not necessarily the answer and they don't last like you think that they last um if you sometimes this is a way to get around not being able to get a majority but they're all there are limitations to it If you do recess appointments, and you can do that under Article 2 of the Constitution, you can appoint principal officers, etc. And this is something I think that Thune had said that he would consider doing. He would allow recess appointments or something to that effect. And that would be something that he would consider because he would have to call recess. but to get recess appointments in they they serve a it's it's not supposed to be a permanent thing and they get into it it was federal is 67 where they talk about recess appointments and there's it's supposed to be like a backup to do these appointments to fill up vacancies that happened during the recess of senate i would actually argue that recess is a lot different now than it was then because during the time of the founders when they went on recess they didn't have the internet.

They didn't have the telephone. You know, you had the post where someone would get on their horse and ride you a piece of mail, but they did not have the instant way to communicate. They didn't have Zoom. They didn't have Skype. They didn't have any of that.

And so it was very, very difficult to communicate appointments when they were actually recessed. I think that that's changed because of the communications that we have. And I'm wondering if that's something that should be revisited, honestly. But recess appointments, to use recess appointments as a way to dance around majority is a very unconstitutionalist way of of doing things because you are pushing the limits of these this authority to to its extent and beyond which is something we're used to seeing with Democrats but I just don't want to see Republicans emulate the same thing even if it's to get back at the left there I don't think that there's going to be a delay, though, in getting his cabinet officials confirmed because they were really quickly. I mean, they had so his DOD and his DHS after he was elected in 2016, they literally were confirmed like a week and a half after he assumed office.

So there isn't a record of there being a delay to get his appointees confirmed. His AG was confirmed on February 8th and Secretary of Treasury, February 13th. And you can't have Senate, they would have to go on recess right after, you know, the inauguration and for 10 days or more, and you just can't have that. That's that would be really, really bad move and a bad look for a Senate majority leader. And then you have federal law, because you can't pay salary to recess appointees.

That's a thing. There's a lot and they're limited, you can only have them serve in that role for a short amount of time. And then you either have to go through the confirmation process or go through another recess appointment and go through that whole.

So it's not as easy as you think. There's better ways to do it. And I think they need to stick to the confirmation process. We have more in store as we roll towards the bottom of this third hour. And we're going to have Carbon Mike, aka Dexter Taylor, going to be joining us.

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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. so veterinarians are reporting an alarming trend apparently dogs are getting sick from marijuana exposure do not feed your dog your pot gummies or let your dog get in your pot gummies ffs do not they said that this has been something that they've seen a lot they said that pets don't really get high they get sick and if they and any loss of control is very very scary for them And so they said that there was they talk about how Frenchy got into a bag of THC gummies and then the dog was limping and falling over and he had ingested three 10 milligram gummies. And like all these people have like these stories, these vets have stories and they're saying, please, because I mean, it makes your pet super sick and they're seeing and pets are vets are seeing this more and more. A cigarette smuggler tried floating across the river Designed as a water plant This is actually hysterical This Where was this at?

This is in Argentina So from Paraguay to Argentina They had a guy in military fatigues Their troops came out And they had looked at this plant It looks like Like a house plant A mound of it And it looks really suspect when you're in the river and there's no other foliage like this or foliage really in the water like this. And you just see a mound of it floating across the river into the bank. It just looks kind of sketch and suspicious. And that's how they were able to easily find out. You know, it's funny.

So I don't know. He ended up getting in major trouble.

Now they're trying to say there's a quindemic concern amongst winter illnesses. I don't know what that means. What is a quindemic concern? They said that you've got Instead of a triple dimmick It's a quindemic So you have whooping cough Walking pneumonia RSV and flu Or maybe people can just wash their hands And stay home when they're sick That's also a possibility You know just A uh What A Chinese mother shared a photo of a toddler Urinating on the family meal What in the world This is what News 18 It was South China Morning Post, which is a commie paper. Apparently, I guess this mom decided to share it on social media in Beijing.

And she said, yes, we did go ahead and with the dinner.

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Look, you guys know, too, one of the biggest issues that I push for is Second Amendment issues. Second Amendment issues. And, of course, a lot of stuff has been wrapping up in 2A issues, 4A, 5A issues as well. And one of the cases that we have followed quite extensively has been that of Dexter Taylor. And I've written about this a lot.

The Dexter Taylor case in New York. And if you're unfamiliar with him, you know, he's a hobbyist. He has no record. He's just kind of a brainiac. engineer dude.

That's kind of how that's how he is. And he always he as a hobby had engaged in the completely legal practice of building his own firearms that he never even fired, by the way, the first time they were fired is after his home was raided in the ATF and FBI and everybody seized everything. But it was completely legal. And the New York starts passing all these gun laws. and then they make felons out of innocent people.

In a very, very unjust trial, Dexter Taylor, a.k.a. Carbon Mike, was sent to prison. That is where he is now, and that is from where he joins us on the phone. Dexter Taylor, a.k.a. Carbon Mike, joins us from prison on the phone, and he is still fighting the good fight.

My friend, how are you? How are you doing? i'm very good my sister how are you doing well i would be a heck of a lot better if you got a pardon from the president-elect and maybe that's something that could happen uh if they get familiar with your case but you've been fighting the good fight and uh tell me i mean i know you got to go through the appeals process where does all that stand right now well our uh our process This is kind of at a standstill until we raise some more money to pay my legal team to actually draft the appeal, file it, and get us on the docket.

So that's where we are now. The situation was complicated by the fact that, as you know, because I'm a quote-unquote violent felon because I owned and kept firearms inside my own house, right, I couldn't get bail after the verdict.

So after the verdict, I went right to Rutgers Island, and I stayed there until sentencing, and then sometime after that, I was moving to the state system. When I moved from Likers to the state system, I moved out of a process of a limbo called transit, and I was going to get the income you're caught up, and you can't call your people, and all you know where you are.

So a lot of the stuff I was doing in Likers, you know, doing talks with people, like David Fry, Reverend Tim, and so on, I couldn't do any of that stuff.

So our PR effort kind of fell off in the last month or so. We've just made a concerted effort to now kind of reignite that PR effort and, you know, get back out there and and hit the circuit, so to speak, and remind people of what's going on. Yeah. And we're talking with our friend Dexter Taylor, who is a he's a two way natural rights icon. He's in prison.

He wouldn't take he wouldn't cut a deal. he was he's unfairly unjustly targeted because he was a hobbyist built his own firearms which is a perfectly legal thing to do except New York decided to change their law and then they made felons out of completely innocent people with zero record at all whatsoever and I know we're going to talk coming up about the Gibson go and all of that but what would you have what would you have to ex-people know right now what do you need people to do what would you have them know right now to help you? That's a good question. I would have them know more or less what you said, that not only do I have a clean criminal record, or did I have a clean criminal record before I was raided, not only was I a member in good standing of my local gun range. I was a 30-some year veteran of the software industry, a father, productive citizen, a good neighbor.

In my politics. I've been doing conservative politics online since about 2015. Nothing in my politics would mark me out as someone who, you know, the average Joe on the street might say, hmm, are you sure that guy should have weapons? Nothing. So I encourage people to kind of follow their skepticism.

There's a lot of people who understand, people hear about this case and say, there has to be something else, right? There has to be some reason why they went after this guy. Go ahead and run down all those angles, and when you're done with that, what I'm hoping people will do is contribute in whatever way they see fit. They can send prayers, they can send greetings, they can send moral support, and of course they can send money through my GiveSendGo to help bump up our legal fund. And the other thing people can do, by the way, and the thing I would have people do if they can, is spread the word.

New York Democrats have been able to get away with this kind of thing for years because they think no one cares, because they think they will not pay any political price for violating people's Second Amendment rights. And we aim to show differently.

So, for example, Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn DA, said publicly he was going to make an example of me. I want to help him. I think I should help him. I think that we should have more people around the United States understanding this is how Democrats, quote, care about us. This is how Democrats, quote unquote, care about the city.

This is how Democrats, quote unquote, care about black people. Like, I want everyone to know what a great thing Eric Gonzalez did when he decided that he did not care what the Supreme Court said in 2022.

So, yeah, sunlight, that's disinfected. There you go. Do you do you think would you I mean, obviously, and I hope that this gets up to President Alexia's a pardon could solve this, couldn't it?

Well, listen, I'll take a pardon if it has no conditions on it. Right. There's no well, you can't talk about it. You can't sue New York, any of that. But a pardon wouldn't solve it because what really has to happen is the laws in New York have to change.

In other words, these laws, remember, are unconstitutional.

So this is not putting me aside for a second. This is not just about me. This is one state in the union running wild. And I just want to also point out to people that I caught no federal heat on this case. Right.

That is so wild. Yeah, because it's legal federally. Right. Well, that's right.

So, you know, ATF drove the search warrant and was there to kind of check their work. But other than that, they disappeared. We haven't heard from them.

Now, you know, if I've been doing anything really out of order, ATF would have been all over me like Hunter Biden on a Coke line.

So, you know, this is entirely New York State being out of line. And so that's all. partner would help but ultimately what have to happen with the law have to change without what they're doing this to other people and also you know i'm i'm i'm interested in the firearms industry and your husband chris knows that arm out of the people in weapons science i prototype one of the things that one of the systems united scott's fire is the open shop registration system on the park out there and podcast uh... you know people need to know that uh... that this is an american industry this is an american tradition and if people are saying well there's people out there shooting the place that will by all means go run down the people who are shooting the place up and while you're at it you know we can also have a discussion about the manner failure of the of the decades long liberal experiment to replace families with fathers with the state and then and then standing back and wondering why we have so much violence in the streets?

Why do we have so much violence in the schools?

Well, it's a good question. It's a very good question. But the answer can't be going after a law-abiding citizen and saying that he can't quietly, privately keep and bear arms in his own home. That can't be right. And so that's what we're fighting.

And I love your point that you made on this, talking with Dexter Taylor, a.k.a. Carbon Mike, who is unjustly incarcerated for a, I mean, really a brand new crime that New York decided to fabricate out of the ether. I like the point that you made, Dex, about, you know, you could get a pardon and that could, you know, that could get you back with your family, but that law would still exist in New York. And you would have to leave New York if you wanted to continue your hobby at that point. That's correct.

I mean, what's funny is I was planning, I was planning to, you know, once I got all the information, I was subscribed to a service run by, I think it's run by Ryan Kultner, an ex-military guy. He has a thing called Rocket FFL.

So I signed up for Rocket FFL again before I was raided. I was studying how to, you know, what I'd need to file to get an FFL. And I was thinking about, you know, in my gun lab in New Hampshire because I have some, you know, family connections to New Hampshire. But yes, it would be awfully nice if New York would get in line and stop violating people's civil rights. And your case, too.

That's the other thing. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, go on. Go on.

Yes, I was going to say, you know, a lot of the people, I just wanted to touch on this, that, you know, a lot of people who claim to be pro-civil rights, who claim to be pro-black, you know, it's like, I hear a lot of this. You know, people always tell me about Harriet Tubman. People forget that Harriet Tubman was packing. Everybody wants to tell me about Martin Luther King. People forget that the safe houses Martin Luther King stayed at were arsenals.

People forget that the civil rights movement was armed to the teeth, actually, because what they rejected was political violence, and correctly so. But they weren't stupid. And so, you know, the other thing I always say, Dan, And it's like, don't get in my face and tell me about how you've got to change all the rules. You've got to indoctrinate my kid with all this nonsense in school because murderous law supremacists are everywhere. And in the other breath, you say, well, you're willing to defy the law of the land to disarm me.

That does not make sense.

Something has to get somebody lying about something.

So we've got to have that up. That's absolutely right. Talking with our friend Dexter Taylor, a.k.a. Carbon Mike, a hobbyist who built firearms in his home, perfectly legal thing. And then New York changed their law to make a felon out of him.

And that's the other important part of this case is that what he's doing, you heard Dex say, the feds didn't get on him. It was New York State because federally it's allowed. And at some point, Dexter, do you think that that I mean, that feels like that's got to get settled at a higher level. And I know that this is going to go through the appeal process because it's protected. It's all right.

I mean, it's it's kind of it's protected federal activity. They're very clear about it.

So you have the state law, which is in direct contribution with federal law. That's got to get resolved. That's right. That's got to get resolved. It's important to note that one good news, because I've been doing a little bit of legal research since I've been inside.

The good news is that federal appeals courts now have started throwing out gun indictments left and right. I mean, they've been tossing them out, left and right, because they accept, and not just tossing them, but tossing them on broom grounds, right?

So that's a very good thing. The liberal judges we happen to have in New York State, in the state appeals court system, are still kind of on that thing of pretending they can't read. But we like our chances in the federal system for just that reason. If the Second Amendment protects any right, it is the right to keep and bear arms in your house. I heard my mom played for me some of the segments that CBS ran on my case, and they included, as I figured they would, someone, I guess, supposed to take the opposite side.

Some professor somewhere who said, well, the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms is not an unlimited right. And, you know, I thought about that. It's worth addressing, even though it's not very well thought out. We're not talking about an edge case here, right? In other words, if I had been brandishing a pistol at the mall, or if I'd been, you know, walking down Broadway with a slung AR, or if I'd been pulling a howitzer through Central Park, then you might talk about, well, that's a bit excessive.

But this was in my house, okay?

So all that noise you hear about a former liberal government, about the Second Amendment not being a suicide pact, I agree. Nobody was talking about suicide. We were all kind of minding our business until they decided to break my door down.

So now we're going to have this legal fight. And I think the best thing we can do is escalate that legal fight into a political fight as well. It is time for these Democrats and local and state governments to start paying a political price for stomping all over the constitutional rights, the civil rights, because that's what they are, of the people who they're supposed to be working for. Amen to that They have Dexter in there With rapists and murderers And he is an innocent man Truly innocent man Who did nothing but a federally protected Hobby that New York only recently decided To take issue with And they've taken him from his kids They took him from his life, his home They've got him locked up in there And you want to talk about injustice That's injustice And it's got to get changed Dex, I want to make sure that you need anything My friend, you please let us know And we're going to try to do everything that we can here to keep the fire on this and to help meet these costs so that you can get this. You can fight this and get this overturned.

And then we can and then we can get New York's laws overturned because nobody should have to go through this for a federally protected, constitutionally affirmed natural right. God bless you, my friend. You're going through the ringer for a lot of people who don't know it or appreciate it, but we sure do. God bless you. Thank you.

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