X Marks the Spot: Disney Returns, RFK Joins HHS, and Gaetz Faces Fire

This is the absolute triumphant takeover of the Republican Party by MEGA, and it will be the takeover of the U.S. government by MEGA if the Senate lets all of these people go through. Elections have consequences, right? I mean They have consequences. And one of the consequences is that You don't get to make cabinet picks.

One of the consequences is that The people who against whom you lost get to make the picks. I mean that's That's the result of Not winning your election. That's the result of that's what happened. with Democrats. I'm not quite sure.

That was Jamie Raskin. who is he was complaining about this. Uh, I mean, I don't know what they thought was gonna go down, but You know, this is how it works. And they can bitch and moan and do whatever, but one of the things that they haven't done. As they you know somehow console themselves with rage But It's It's just not, this is not gonna do it for them.

This is not what voters are looking for. It's not The answer. this kind of stuff because you got to remember The blue state, blue state wall, the blue wall voted for this. And what comprises the blue wall? What is the What is the uh predominant Ideology that comprises the blue wall.

Well, it's Democrats.

So Democrats voted for this. Uh and that's the truth of it. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. And we're at the top of this.

First hour on Friday as we get ready to go into the weekend and watching all the fights over the cabinet appointments. But we're going to get into all of that, but I've got to go to one of the things that I've noticed. This is very interesting. Did you guys, do you guys remember? Let's go back for a moment to.

When was this? Was it over the summer? It was over the summer and you had The This it was this um uh a conference. This this conference or whatever that That was it was a Bloomberg, wasn't it? Bloomberg Economic Conference, the one where Elon Musk was there and Bob Iger apparently had spoken the day before.

Bob Iger, who's the executive over at Disney. Anyway, I I think it was in August. And We got I Can't Play It On Air. But we got that famous sound bite from Elon Musk. You remember that sound bite came, right?

Oh yeah. All of the companies that had threatened to uh pull their advertising from X. And it was these companies. It was Disney that led the the charge. It was Disney, it was Comcast, it was IBM, it was all of these companies that said that they were going to pull their ads.

from X. They were going to boycott the platform. And this was after I think it was after one of the reinstatements that Musk said that he was going to announce.

Well I don't know if you guys noticed this, I posted about it yesterday, but now Disney is advertising again. And the reason we can't play that sound bite is because Elon Musk told all of them to go. do something unflattering to themselves. Hand emphasis. And I guess Bob didn't want to go blank himself after all.

I guess that's he didn't want to go blank himself after all.

So They've returned to advertising on X. I saw the story over at Adweek. And it's not just Disney. It's Comcast. And Disney.

and IBM. And all of these are turning. Back they're turning the ad on the ads on again on X.

Now They are resuming at Lionsgate, Comcast, Warner Brothers. They've resumed the ad spending.

Now it's at a lower rate than it was previously. but they've resumed it nonetheless. And That was this stupid story, if you guys remember. It was the stupid story that came out. where they were saying that their ads were coming Up.

alongside of Like anti-Semitic content. It was basically trolls and what they call fecal posters, but you can't, it's with the shift part. And They were upset over their content. showing up on the site like that. I guess somebody didn't explain to them how.

X works. I mean, you can have trolls, you can have all kinds of content that comes up.

Furthermore, I think that when people were researching, The ads coming up, I think they were actually researching like terms with the companies. I think that they were trying to get screenshots to show without showing that they were doing, they were manipulating the search, that the ads were coming up across this type of content, right?

So They had, oh my gosh, like all kinds of companies. And they were trying to say that this is what the companies are paying for.

Now, X when they find accounts that violate the terms of service. they suspend those accounts, right? There are accounts that get, you know, troll accounts that get suspended all the time. They get suspended. And so These companies then decided that they were going to stop their spending.

On X, because of that.

So this whole idiotic narrative that came out. I think it was manufactured to hurt X's ad revenue. And then as it turns out, now they're coming back anyway. Because Kane, I guess they didn't want to go do something unflattering to themselves. I guess that was the real truth of it.

You knew they were going to come back. You knew it was just a matter of time. But that was just like one of the latest things. And I saw that. I'm like, well, is that a sign?

And maybe I'm looking too much into it, but. Is that a sign? That maybe Maybe There's a pendulum swing. to normalcy.

Now I know the pendulum can then if it goes too far one way it can go too far the other way. But Can the pendulum just stop s s like swinging for a moment and sit in the middle? Is it maybe is it is that where we are? Because it feels like The left realizes what they've done, but they won't verbalize it. They realize they've gone too far.

Notice how you haven't seen any of this push. for this DEI stuff. or anything like this in any of like there I was anticipating in a way, I was like halfway anticipating after the election there to be a segment of the left that lost their minds and was going to do this huge push to DEI and all of that stuff because they were going to use the the excuse, we're under attack. We're under attack. You know, like we've got to, we've got to double down and do it even more.

But that's I haven't seen that cane of you Whew. Hmm. It's almost like maybe they realize some of them anyway. Not all. But some of them have realized that maybe it was a little too much.

Maybe it was a little too much.

So That's one of the, I just saw this from Disney, and I thought this was absolutely, it fascinated me. Uh because I This was th they were walking back. Hat in hand, this was an apology. This was a white flag of surrender. That's exactly what this was.

So I'll take that. I'll take that. Because they realize they want to be where people can see them. And I think X had record usage. I'd like to see, honestly, and I don't think this has been made available.

I would like to see the increase in users and like new accounts from like now to maybe a year ago or two years ago.

Now, the cabinet picks.

So we had RFK Jr. announced as HHS.

Now, I am of two minds on this. I'm of two minds on this. I Agree with him on the VAC stuff. And I think so long as he's siloed. specifically just to look at the VAC stuff.

and big pharma, I'm okay with that. But this is where I get, and I've written about this over at Substack. This is where I do get a little concerned.

So let me walk it back for you so I can give you my full perspective and explain why. Do you remember back Six years ago. When gun control advocates got the idea. to pressure the C D C to classify quote unquote gun violence as a health issue. Not a crime issue.

but a health issue, right? And you had the every town and the moms demand, all the Bloomberg groups. They were really trying to pressure the CDC to do this, and they were lying. and telling you that the C D C was prevented From examining any of this stuff when that wasn't the case at all. The law just said you can't use taxpayer money to advocate either for or against gun ownership or Second Amendment issues.

That wasn't good enough for them.

So they decided they were really going to try to push this. They even were able to pressure the CDC, if you remember, in removing. In removing the defensive gun usages. from their It's the C D C's website. And so I kept that in mind when I was looking at all of this because that's a case of the CDC.

going beyond what the C D C was supposed to be doing or Don't even use that. Use the rent moratorium. Remember during COVID, the CDC. And later, after it was litigated and people were hurt because they weren't getting money for their properties, remember the CDC was telling people: no, no, no, you have to suspend. Rent.

Remember the rent moratorium? you have to suspend rent. It was a real thing.

Okay, so I get a little nervous about departments. Going beyond their intended purpose.

So that brings me back to the RFK thing. I'm fine if it's siloed. if he is specifically siloed. And we don't have any kind of concern of him going beyond. the big pharma, the big this, all of it.

But the issue that I have is Is he going to just stick to that? Because if you remember, and I wrote about this, he's got quite a big. Slate of opinions on a lot of issues that aren't traditionally considered maybe MAGA issues. He was kind of odd on gun control. He sort of walked back from it.

I'll give him that. But. He is a big climate change guy. He had said that industries like Coke and Exxon should be, quote, put to corporate death. He said that global warming deniers were traitors.

And that they and j and coal companies should be in jail for all of eternity. I have this over at Substack, the video of him saying it. And that's not something from eons ago. That's like a handful of years ago. And I'm not even going to get into 2004 when he was denying the election results.

Now, you can say that people change and I'm fine with this. But when you argue that, you also need to provide people who are aware of past statements. With assurances that that isn't going to bleed over into his. Scope at HHS the way that the CDC has been weaponized before. or the way that these other agencies have been weaponized before.

Does that make sense? Because we have seen people who have been very, very zealous about issues, go above and beyond their purview. And If he stays siloed specifically on one thing, fine. But I get a little nervous about that because what happens if you remember, there was a big push. For climate change, to try to push that under a health issue as well.

Remember, they were trying to say it was disproportionately affecting minority neighborhoods. They were trying to make that a big health issue.

So there's that's the concern that I have with it. This also comes down to when you build a coalition and not everyone agrees on everything. And some of the issues that we disagree on are a little big, I would think. But I just would like some assurances. And I don't think that that is too big for anyone to ask, correct?

We got a lot to hit hit. We got other cabinet stuff. Tom Homan's going to be joining us later on. He has the Borders R. Yeah.

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Alright, so let's move on to the meat and potatoes. I don't even know how to present this.

So, this is our Vegas Larry who sent this story. And I am. Um Okay, a Frontier passenger had hot tea. And he spilled it. And he's suing.

Uh because the He got third degree burns and disfiguring scars on his male copulatory organs. His franken beams, if you will. after he spilled hot tea on his lap. He was flying home, he spilled the drink filled to the brim. And It did a lot of things to his male populatory Oregon region.

He had to get an ambulance as soon as they touched down, and he had to go get treated for severe third-degree burns. He suffered a herniated disc while writhing in agony. That actually had to be pretty bad. He requested hot tea, but he said it was handed to him in a highly negligent fashion, filled to the brim. without any form of a lid, unsafely and unreasonably high temperature.

Can I just say also that maybe there's an argument there? He only wants $150,000.

Well I think it was hospital bill and the ambulance ride and all that. But I will say. This is why you don't get hot drinks on planes, then. I do not order a hot drink on a plane. You know why?

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Welcome back to the program. Your retired goth host here, Dana Lash. Coming in with a little depeche mode if you're listening terrestrially. I don't think you hear it though on the simulcast. We always have really good bumper tunage.

So good to be with you. Bottom of this first hour. Channel 347 DirecTV as well. All good things. All good things.

So we were talking a little bit about the cabinet picks and I watched, they're still trying to figure out Pete Hegseth. Everybody's losing their minds over Matt Gates. If you get the prep, I sent some stuff out, including, no, I just sent it out because I don't care what your opinion of Gates is. It was an entertaining read. Ben Dominesh over at the Federalists had a peace out.

And he's a pretty pro-Trump dude.

So you can't say. That of him. I think he just. think he doesn't like Matt Gates. I just, you know, put it like that.

But they're The woman that testified to the House Ethics Committee, this is the story. And just let me set you up with this. And I'm not going, I'm going to kind of take Andy McCarthy's approach. Because I'll tell you what the accusations are, but unless there are convictions. You know, but there's a reason kind of why something wasn't pursued.

So the woman who testified to the House Ethics Committee was claiming that Gates got it on with her when she was 17. And then the DOJ declined to pursue the case.

Well, they declined to press charges, is what they did. They pursued the case. They declined to press charges because they said that they were concerned about securing a conviction because they couldn't prove that Gates and the others knew that the woman was underage at the time. Lorraine reminded me last night I was doing some work and she was in Slack. She reminded me of Do you remember the Madison Cawthorne thing?

No, I'm not saying. I'm just... I'm just throwing things out to you because I'm looking at all my puzzle pieces on the table, right? I'm putting together one of them thousand piece puzzles, right? And you're looking you're just looking around and you find this one piece and you're like, what is this?

Do you remember when Madison Cawthorne got made fun of because he said that there were some shenanigans going down in DC? of the sexual variety, S-C-C-K-S-H-U-L. Remember that? He was the youngest person ever served in Congress, and you guys, you might remember. Madison Cawthorne was in a wheelchair.

You guys might remember him. And He was very popular with the ladies. And he apparently said that they went after him and made fun of him after he called Zelensky a thug. And then they lost their minds and all this oppo came out.

So He had said that apparently there he was invited to an orgy in D.C. and he just could not believe that that stuff happened in D.C. Sweet Summer Child. Um R that and it just so the rumor was is that That He was one of the ones that maybe kind of said something about Gates. I don't know.

That's there's a lot of rumors going around. This is like a soap opera. It is.

Now, he's already resigned his piece from Congress, so you're not talking bad about a lawmaker anymore.

So shh. Mm-hmm. The Story around Gates that house house ethics report was going to come out. And him resigning Congress so quickly now means that he is not under the purview of the House Ethics Committee anymore. I am leaning more and more honestly towards And I always kind of joke and say people talk about 4D chess and it's not 4D chess.

This actually might be 4D chess. I kind of get the sense. That Trump didn't want to have to drag him. And so he's going to let him go through the process. And not say anything so it can look like he's standing by him, but he's kind of getting rid of him at the same time.

Because there, guys. I met him one time. I don't know people's history. I can only tell you what I hear. And I've heard a lot.

Now, whether there's fire with the smoke. I guess that report or any kind of investigation, I don't know. But the reason that the DOJ didn't pursue it isn't because there wasn't anything apparently that. that didn't happen, it was because they could not prove that he knew He and others and I don't know who the others are that she was underage That's all I know. I can't even read Ben Dominich's piece on air.

Kane's like about to die. I have it open, but I'm not going to read it, Kane. Especially this like uh First sentence. Or the second one. But he did.

Eve, regardless of whether or not you like him, can I just and don't get mad at me? This is just creative. To say that someone smells like overexposed axe body spray and stale astroglide. Oh gosh. And I'm even more impressed when a man does it.

Because men don't get caddy like that very rarely, very rarely. You know, that was impressive. That was impressive.

So anyway, You know, I don't know. I'm just putting I'm just putting out there what I hear. I'm not telling you what to think and I don't care if you disregard all of it. But I want to give you insight as to why this drama is happening.

So there's a lot of drama, there's always drama in DC. And I hear about it from everybody. There's always some kind of like real housewives of the capital always happening. And they're all housewives in this scenario.

So Dick Durbin has demanded that the House ethics panel share that report with the Senate. I don't know if he's gonna get it, but That's what they've said. When I say that You know, that this might actually be for, I really do mean it. I think this actually might be 40 chests because just some of the stuff that I've been hearing. Trump's got new people around him this time.

And I will say, for the criticism that some people want to give Susie Wiles, I will say. I think that she's uh Pretty strict on some of this stuff, which is why. you saw a more disciplined campaign this time around. Not to say anything about the people who ran his campaign in 2016, but maybe from 2020, I think that's why you see a more disciplined campaign.

So I just sort of feel like mm that's kind of what this maneuvering may be.

Now that being said, To some of these other cabinet picks. All good. We got Tom Holman, who's going to be on later in the program. And I am positively giddy. with the nobody even knows what to say about Tom Holman his borders are.

They act like he is like some Viking that's going to go down to the border and, like, with one giant axe the size of, you know. Thor, he's going to go and just in one cleave, swing clear of the field. I don't know. It's hysterical. We're going to have him on later, though.

But RFK Jr., I will say one more last thing about that. And I just, as long as we can silo things off. Uh because it's not my pick. As long as we can silo things off. then I think that But there's there are some questions.

Like he's a very he's not a very pro-life dude. And I just want to make sure that abortion Don't get included as an activist thing for him in health and human services because remember. HHS is the largest department in the federal government. It is the biggest. And I think So Phil Klein said that one out of every $4.

And then this is over at usaspending.gov. One out of every, actually, more than one out of every $4. in the budget goes to HHS. Because you have Obamacare, you have Medicaid, you have Medicare. All of that.

With the passage of Obamacare, you didn't just get government health care. You also had a significant number, a significant amount of regulatory. Power. That was Reallocated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. And That's how when you talk about policy in terms of Abortion on demand and all this stuff.

All of that happens through HHS. I mean, RFK Jr. said, and this was in BC. And And the date was May 9th, 2024. He was doing an interview with Sage Steel.

And he was asked if there should be a limit. for women to have an abortion or go all the way to full term. He said that he doesn't think anyone would want to do that at eight months of pregnancy. But quote, even if it's full term. He says, I think we have to leave it to the women rather than the state.

Even if it's full term. Just that's a That's a concern. That is a legitimate concern. And remember He's coming, and it's great to have a coalition, but here's where the 20% of the 80-20 rule starts to be a stickler. What if he doesn't agree with you on abortion and he also thinks that it should be treated as a healthcare issue?

The way that the left says. What if there's money? And this is all plausible. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but you have to, this is. It is reasonable.

and responsible to speculate with every nominee. Is that something that He is going to Oppose or facilitate as head of HHS. He was someone who said he in he had in the past he highly totally supported single-payer health care. He said that. Uh He said that you need to have a single program available to everybody.

Well, that's government-run health care. That's Obamacare. That's part of the problem with healthcare right now. Anybody who has had to go from their nice plan to the Uh crappy Obamacare. You know.

It's garbage. And it's expensive garbage too, on top of it.

So That's an issue. And He's going to be running HHS.

So that's I mean, Kane, I think it's reasonable, right, that I'm just raising these as potential. Look, having concerns before, you know, doing a little future tripping, I get it. I just think on a federal level that the abortion thing is not. It doesn't exist anymore on a federal level. But when states get federal grants, it can, yeah.

Yeah, like they they of course, you know, I guess have to do what the You have to do what the state says? Do you have to do what the federal government says if you're receiving unless you're incentivizing it? Remember how the DOJ was incentivizing participation in maximum mandatory instead of minimum mandatory? And so they. What was it, the exile program?

Yeah. And so, although I agree with being cautious, I have no problem with that at all. I think that there is something here that. Is probably a little more valuable to the American people than the way the status quo has been going and the way things have been going. I am not saying that I oppose him as HHS secretary.

I'm trying to find assurances that. I don't want these departments. weaponized because Well, or continued to be weaponized. What am I talking about? They're already weaponized, and continued in the weaponization.

And I think that that is something that we've seen the left do and big pharma do. And I don't see this administration or the picks that he has made. As long as he can come forward and tell me, look. Yes, I agree. These are huge HHS issues that I Completely not even in the same universe on with MAGA, by the way, or the Republican Party platform, however, you want to put it.

As long as he can say, my focus, I mean, if we're going to make it a singular thing. with you know pharma and all of that I just want that assurance, and I want him. to give assurances that none of my Outside of that, my views, which still trend super left on this, he needs to say my views, which are still left, are not going to be involved in the day-to-day or any part of the regulatory activities of these. And I think that's like a fair request. Yeah, and it's easy for him to be able to do that.

I just think that I don't think Trump has given him a rogue. Um green light. I think that everything that he does through that agency has to be greenlit through Trump. And so that's why I have less of a concern, although it's understandable to have the concern. Yeah.

I mean It'll be, I mean, it's going to be interesting to see, because it is an outside of the box thing. Uh it will be interesting to see.

So, we have a number of other things to get into. We're going to talk the latest about the Daniel Penny case because the way that the state Railroaded him is a horrible miscarriage of justice. It is a horrible miscarriage of justice. Of course, you know, it's the same state. That did what it did to Dexter Taylor as well.

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So does Doug Bergum. That was funny, though. Yeah, we're going to announce somebody. He's going to run for it, rhymes with Doug Bergham. It's Doug Bergam.

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So coming up. We have a few things. Ray and Paul. He calls it the Festivus Report. He's aired his grievances over the f.

Over $482 billion worth of federal waste. I okay, just let me give you some of the highlights. Hamsters on steroids, puppies on cocaine, and drunk mice.

Okay. Why? For real. Wait until you hear. What?

You spend your money on. Ugh. Just right. I know. You're going to be so excited.

I know. We got all that and a lot more coming up. Second hour on the way. Stay with us. By the way, it's Eugene Levy.

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That's preborn.com/slash Dana. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour on Friday. And in Texas it's Almost fall, it's 67 degrees.

And I have to tell you that because we went from What, ninety to eighty nine? No, it's 60 degrees. We don't know what to do with ourselves right now.

So, we got a lot of stuff to hit. We've got to get into, I got some culture for you. The Daniel Penny case, we've got the latest with a cabinet. uh fights And oh boy, we've got a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff to hit. And then you've got...

I mean, w w where?

Okay. This I'm looking at just some of the audio that we have. You also have this, what is it? I don't even know what, it's COP29, which I read it as COPE. When I first saw the headlines about it, I was like, oh, Cope, like Cope and Seethe.

But you also have this uh Uh, environmental conference that's happening, and you have Al Gore over there. I remember him, man, Bear Pig, he's over there.

So, all kinds of stuff. But in the first, but in the meantime, can we play audio somebody 24, please? Because I. The left still is not over the election, and then we're going to get into some of the cabinet picks, and then we're going to talk about if your dog is racist.

So let's start with Whoopi Goldberg, who's saying you're not getting any tail because she's mad. uh because the way Keynes died, because of the way the election went.

So, meh. This. We all came here. I dare, yeah. You didn't get here by yourself, man.

You can't do this without us. And if we don't let you, you don't get any. It's that simple. It's that simple. So far, rewarding any?

Kane asks the question that We all had in our minds, did someone want any? I'm guessing no. Yeah, I'm thinking that nobody wanted any.

So Why is it Yeah. Dare I say. You dare you dare Why is it always the ugly chat? For real. It's, have you seen it?

It's always like these chicks that get out there and they're like, we're going to go on a sex strike. Think you already were, hon. Just unintentional. Pretty sure. You don't have to worry about it.

I double dog dare you to say what you just put in slack. No whoopee for whoopee. Oh my gosh. No up. Bye, guys.

It's Friday. See you later. Don't give up.

So the erection. Yeah. Sorry, I was chuck shooting. I didn't say it.

Somebody else did. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so uh he just it's It's pretty it's it's pretty Yeah, I don't think anybody was asking. I don't think anybody was asking her.

Don Lemon, he left X because he was so mad. He got trolled on TikTok literally within hours. That was it like in an hour. Watch, this is Audio Soundbite 2022. Oop.

That's what's happening.

So, all the guys, he's like, hey, I'm going to reward the guys that helped to get me in. I'm going to get all of the wokeness. You know what? The softness.

Some of the LGBTQ. I don't know if he's going to have an LGBTQ band, but I'm getting that. He's getting that out of the show. Is this where he's doing his show now? Is he just doing a show on on On TikTok.

And then I love that you can put a turkey on it. on somebody's head. I cannot get over my the fact that it's owned by the communist Chinese government, so I've not I'm not on TikTok because of that. Uh but I you know. I think that's hysterical though.

They're they're very upset, y'all. They're quite upset. And I just have to say, uh get over it. They're still trying to figure out about, I think, some of the cabinet picks.

Some of the cabinet pics, I will say. Or exactly, if you wanted to stick your boot in someone's backside sideways, that's kind of how you do it. For the people who get upset, let me just put it like this: for the people who get upset with some of Trump's picks. You guys could have me for president and I would horrify you. You don't even know the horrors I would unleash.

You don't even know, man. You do not even know of all of the people that I would pick for my cabinet. Oh my gosh. It would yell, people would just be f fallen in the aisles. You'd have to get them some smelling salts.

That it would be would so be happy that it's not me. See, does that make some of the drive-bys feel better? It could be me. Right? Could be me, but it's not.

So uh A few things. to get into. Audio sound by one. The discussion of recess appointments.

Now. The recess appointments, it is a very complicated. No, it's not a con it's it's a It's a difficult process to actually get through. They're not as easy as people think. Because you Have to have all Republicans agree to recess, not just like a minimum.

This is John Thune talking about recess appointments as it pertains. to the cabinet and now he's senate leader. Audio Summit won.

So you have said that you would do recess appointments if it came to that. What's the threshold for getting to that point for recess appointments?

Well, what I've said is, Brad, and I think that all options are on the table, including recess appointments. Hopefully it doesn't get to that, but we'll find out fairly quickly whether the Democrats want to play ball or not. And I think part of it is getting these folks, we'll start having confirmation hearings as soon as the new Senate is sworn in in January. President takes the oath of office January 20th. By the time he takes the oath of office, hopefully a lot of those nominees will be through their confirmation hearings and will be ready to act on them on the Senate floor.

And then it's a question of how much do the Democrats resist or object or try to block those nominations from going forward. And we're going to grind them out. I mean, we're just going to keep consistently moving and we'll see what kind of cooperation we get. And then we'll, you know, like I said, we'll make decisions about where do we go from there.

So the recess appointments. I mean I mean, it's not a fast track to getting things done. It just really isn't because you can't. You have to have all of the Republicans agree if they're going to go to recess or not. It is, it's a lot.

Uh It's a lot more there's a lot more to it than just that. And a lot of, you know, like we were talking about with the appointments to these departing House seats, you know, that's that's a special election. With the recess appointments, in order to go to recess, you have to have all the Republicans, then it has to be confirmed by the House. Uh and then um It's a temporary thing that you have to go through the process again. It's not a way to get past.

Uh The confirmation process. It's not. It's not. I mean, there are tons of caveats, and that's not a bug of the system, it's a feature of the system, if that makes sense.

So. It's not you know, necessarily Uh Uh that's not necessarily something that I think I would bet on. Because you're not going to get all these Republicans to go for recess. It's just not going to happen.

So I really don't think it'll happen. And I also, too, think the recess appointment is kind of. or re the recess I said this yesterday. That's back when Members of government lived very far away. From each other, you didn't have the internet, you didn't have the telephone.

Uh It was very, there was a reason for it. And I don't necessarily think that that reason exists anymore. Maybe I'm wrong. But as it is right now, I just don't think that that reason exists anymore. And so that's why I said yesterday, maybe that's something that we should, you know, maybe kind of reevaluate.

I don't know. Maybe kind of look in. Uh but you can't You can't just like recess like Thune can't go okay I call for a recess and that's it that you have to have 60 votes. I mean And the filibuster also is still comes into effect even with a recess appointment.

So you have to have 60 votes. And I I just That's how that works.

So I've had people ask me a lot about it. And That's the reality of the situation.

So that's how recess appointment that's how the recess appointments work.

Now that being said I want to switch gears here. Let's just throw a bomb in it, shall we? Is your dog racist? Is your dog racist? This is where Britain's going.

You think that they got some problems with like immigration issues and some crime lately, right? Britain. But no. What they're very concerned about, Kane, is whether or not your dog is racist. and of course in very, very, very left leaning whales.

They're trying to make the outdoors more inclusive. And they said that their experts are telling people how to handle awkward incidents because their dogs might be racists. Yeah. And they The experts are trying to defend the dogs and put it all on the owners. By saying There's a misconception that dogs can display racial prejudice.

They react because of lack of experience. And of course, that lack of experience is brought to them came by their owner. Mm-hmm. They're actually saying that you're being mean to your dog if you live in an area that is predominantly one race over the other, and your dog is not used. I am not even making this up.

This is where. The former A former great empire is now. Labour-run Wales was told to ban dogs from part of the outdoors to help make the outdoors anti-racist. They're actually pushing this in their Welsh government. I am not making this up.

It is a real thing that they're pushing. And laborers, of course, they're socialists. They're far, super far left.

So they said that uh the story goes that according to a report funded by the Welsh Government to help steer its anti racist policy, dog free zones should be set up to make the outdoor areas more inclusive. Because dogs are racist. Uh wh why do you hate dogs, man? It is a taxpayer funded report. They pay British people paid for this.

They paid for it. And One Tory leader, which is their version of conservative, they're not really, over there, says that it was nonsense. And they said that the Welsh government has concluded that ethnic minorities face barriers to the outdoors created by racism. A taxpayer-funded report. says that minorities feel like they can't enjoy the outdoors because of racism.

I I don't even know. And they said that uh they did focus groups and they said that one female who is black said that she feels unsafe with the presence of dogs. And I guess that I don't know.

So they They're actually banning they're they're actually trying to get dogs banned from the countryside in Wales Because of this. Like you can't take your dog you wouldn't be able to take your dog to the park Because it's racist. I cannot even believe that that's what they think that their biggest problem is and they had to spend taxpayer dollars on this. That's insane. Almost as almost insane, almost as insane.

As some of the stuff in the Festivus report. Oh, wait. See, it's not just Britain, it's also us. Do you know that we spent $118,000 taxpayer dollars to study whether or not? Uh Thanos.

Right, from Marvel, would actually be able to snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. Do you know that? $118,000. To study whether or not he could actually, I am not you guys, hands to sky. To see if he could snap his fingers while wearing the gauntlet.

He found, I don't even want to tell you this. Oh my gosh. It's billions upon billions upon billions upon billions. Half a trillion dollars of federal waste. Half a trillion dollars on federal waste.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So an influencer, which I hate, I hate that whole. Got charged with a DUI, is fighting to get back her pet monkey who was found. sick and malnourished.

Because she is a horrible person. This Brandi Botello, she's 30 years old. She's a three-year-old spider monkey, and she got into a single car crash in Dallas. And she's was, it got a DUI. Uh but uh she said that It wasn't her fault somehow.

But her monkey. She had this monkey that was like taken from her and it she posts photos of him and outfits and that. She doesn't have permits to keep him, whatever. But the thing, the monkey had fractured bones and it weighed half of what the monkey is supposed to weigh. And uh the monkey also had rickets.

So it was not, she was not feeding or taking care of this monkey at all, whatsoever. I mean, we saw a chimp crazy. This chick looks like that. Take that damn thing away from her because she wasn't taking care of it. I mean, if it has broken bones and rickets and it's half its body weight of a monkey that's supposed to be that size.

Take that bee's monkey away and doing this. That's horrible. Uh, let's see here. They're trying to say that cannabis is causing an alarming rise in cancer birth effects and accelerated aging. Cannabis?

I don't understand that how. They don't actually say they're like, oh, there's all kinds of, but the vax was okay. The government injection was totally safe, guys, and cigarettes are mostly okay. Yeah, that's how that goes. They said, oh no, like all kinds of bad stuff.

Male copulatory organ cancer, you could get it. Birth defects, missing limbs, everything. Chromosomal disorders, everything. From a plant, huh? From seed from cannabis.

I'm not a pot person, but some of the arguments are just dumb. Oh my gosh, so they pulled these wicked dolls from store shelves because of a really embarrassing error, according to Daily Mail.

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And Stephen Chung is going to be the comms director for the... President-elect that was just announced. We were joking on break because you guys remember one of my favorite skits ever is Stefan from SNL. Right, where he's like, and the music is DJ Baby Boktoy with knees like biscuits. That was actually like the funniest.

He's a great, he was a great comedian. But we were trying to think like. Trump's cabinet, the way that they're responding to it, it's like a s it's like um or it's like a Stefan club from SNL. It's got everything border Thanos, sumos, butthead Cubans, cross tattoos, spy Moana and a falconer with a brainworm who fights wheels with chainsaws. That's funny.

You guys know who Spy Moana is, right?

So Welcome back. Uh coming up, we got Border Thanos. Hope he joining us next hour. That's his name now. You could call him Border Czar.

But he's border Thanos. Speaking of Thanos, and here's the reason why it's in my head. Can I just tell you what you spent your money on real quick? I'm so glad to spend so much money in taxes. Hey, if they cut $2 trillion, can our taxes go down?

Can they? Makes sense. I would like that. They're hiring people. over at their depart uh, over at Doge.

But they're not paying them. They said it's a non-paying job, which I love. That's yes.

So, um Some of the stuff, according to Rain Paul posed with his festivus. grievances about big spending. With the most sullen look on his face ever. Department of Defense, and Lorraine was freaking out over this because her husband. what worked in the military and was saying that their computer systems were always like behind the current systems.

They spent $200,000 on espresso machines from Starbucks. What? I don't even know. That's crazy. Two hundred thousand dollars.

The Vera Institute of Justice got $168 million to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation. Oh. They've gotten over a billion dollars since two thousand and eight, that group.

So we have been paying. over a billion dollars. in taxpayer money, our money. You work your butt off, and you're paying money that the government is giving to this group. the Vera Institute of Draftath.

That has been helping paying for illegal immigrants to skirt Deportation. We went to war for less than this during the days of the Revolution, I just want to say. They also, our government is obsessed with injecting animals with stuff.

So They literally spent $3 million in grants. To inject hamsters with steroids, and then get them to fight. You know, they wanted to see if it about, they wanted to study steroid-induced aggression. I don't even need steroids. Come and study my aggression.

They spent 2.3 million. Oh, is this one of Fauci's to inject beagle puppies with cocaine? Is that a Fauci study? One point one million to get mice drunk. I mean if you give me a mouse I'll get it drunk.

I mean forget giving the mouse a cookie if you give a mouse a beer. You know? They uh oh, they also studied, by the way, uh, they also spent $689,000 to study parrot romance. That's we're not real, is that? Romance between parrots.

Yes, they did. And then they also spent $187,000 to just confirm. that the relationship between kids and their pets is a beneficial one. This is the dumbest stuff I've ever heard of. And this is like what Oh my gosh.

I mean, this is crazy. It's crazy. And they found all kinds of ways to spend money, all kinds of ways. I mean, we spent money on some of the dumbest stuff. I mean, I'm looking down the list.

Some of it's just completely unnecessary. Why? Oh, and then Remember how we had uh the COVID money? Right? Are taxpayer dollars the COVID money?

You're gonna get really mad. We spent $31.5 million of COVID funds to buy luxury cars. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Okay. That's right.

We spent $1.7 billion to maintain empty Federal buildings. $475 billion was just to paint interest on the national debt. Yeah. So, uh This is This is horrible. This is where our money's going.

It's not so great with other people's money. No, it's not really. He uh it's this is bad. It's all bad.

So Rand Paul has the list up. I think he tweeted it too. Is it you still say tweet even though it's X? Which is, yeah. I always get confused.

Like, I always try to fight, I always try to stop myself, and I'm like, okay. Uh but This is just it is crazy. It is, it's just crazy. It's a crazy list. I mean, I'm like still, I'm scrolling by the way, still scrolling.

I had to adjust to just make everything smaller so I could like scroll through fast. There's so much in here. But uh yeah, the Hamster Fight Club. $3 million to watch hamsters fight on steroids. By the way, there's the uh Tyson and Paul fight coming up.

Is the undercard the hamster fight? I'm just curious. And in this corner, hamster McAmpster face. Just curious. And then I love that they try to put they try to when he tweeted that out.

They were trying to put um Uh Community note on it. And they're like, no, they were studying. Steroid aggression. No joke. That's why we're complaining, you moron.

Thank you for confirming. Thank you. Hempster Fight Club. I mean, this is just it's it's shameful. It's absolutely shameful.

So, hopefully, I don't know, maybe. Yeah. Maybe we can cut some of it, the $15 million that they use for U.S. Marshal Security detail for Fauci. He got that much money.

That much money in security. Uh it's just just unbelievable.

So I um I don't know. We'll see how all this goes. But if they can cut that, if they can start cutting some of that stuff, I will be supremely happy.

Now, as it relates to Switch Gears, the Daniel Penny case, have you guys seen a lot of this stuff about Daniel Penny?

Now, you guys remember Daniel Penny. was the uh uh marine veteran. Who was on the subway, and then Jordan Neely, they were trying to act like Jordan Neely was just this little Michael Jackson impersonator. He. You know, he wasn't harming nobody.

He don't have no beef with nobody. He wasn't hurting anybody. He was just. They acted like he was doing. That's me being a bad Michael Jackson.

They acted like he was just doing a Michael Jackson impersonation on the subway and that Daniel Penny saw him and just put him in a in a chokehold. If you listen to the media, that's the way that they present it.

Now, we've talked about this since it's happened, you know, multiple times. And they I mean, it is It's It's pretty crazy. Uh the testimony that has come out All these one of the key witnesses admits to lying about it. In fact, Jordan Neely, who was a violent, violent, violent vagrant on drugs, had a violent record, had broken an older, broken elderly woman's nose. Uh and was actually wouldn't didn't they have a warrant out form on that because he he skipped the he uh didn't follow the the conditions of his release And he had pushed somebody on the tracks earlier.

He was gonna kill somebody, and he was threatening all these people. On the subway, including women with children, saying he was gonna kill them and all this stuff. And then they were trying to act like Daniel Penny just unnecessarily used unnecessary force. and that he killed him. Except Jordan Neely wasn't dead.

In fact, he wasn't dead because the video, all the video that's out there, it also shows that Daniel Penny put him in the recovery position and that Neely was actually not dead. In fact, they were saying that they didn't provide care to him right away when emergency responders arrived. And as a result of that, they think that's the biggest contributor. Because he was on drugs. Hey, guess what?

If you do a butt ton of drugs and then you try killing people and someone puts you in a chokehold, you have put yourself through some horrible choices in a position where your health might be compromised to the point of fatality. That's the reality of it. And all these witnesses were coming forward. There were witnesses who came forward after the fact saying that we are so glad that he stepped in. The New York Post, to their credit, was the only outlet.

The only one. that actually reported on them. Nobody else did. Nobody else did. And they were young moms and older women.

There was like a mom with a baby and then an older woman that were like, We are so grateful that he stepped up because they were terrified. And remember, There was, remember me telling you, there was a thread on Reddit that was over a year old. Where people were warning on Reddit, everyone traveling in Manhattan about that subway platform because that's where he liked to go. And they were saying, Yeah, he used to just show up and do Michael Jackson impersonations, but the last like, five to ten years they said he had stopped doing it and had gotten really violent. He was well known to be violent.

New York didn't send, and despite the fact that apparently law enforcement was told repeatedly. about him and the danger that he posed to all the people at that subway platform. Nobody Mayor didn't do nothing. City council didn't do nothing. Law enforcement did, they didn't send extra patrol down there.

I know they're probably stretched thin because nobody wants to be a cop anymore. But They had nobody down there to protect anyone save Daniel Penny. is left to do the job that nobody else wants to do and he stepped in. And The guy who lied, Eric Gonzalez, who helped restrain Penny? He actually had to admit that he lied under oath.

He was interviewed by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, and he lied about when he got to the scene and about what happened because all the other witnesses were not corroborating what he was saying. And Daniel Penny, he's innocent. And they were trying to withhold evidence. The prosecution was trying to withhold evidence. I mean, this is crazy.

This story is. New York, you do not I would leave New York. You do not get justice there. Let them completely fall in on themselves and be their own prey to the criminals they protect and promote and do all the advocacy for. I mean, and Penny faces 20 years in prison.

They're trying to make this a race thing, and it's not a race thing. Do you realize that some of the women on the platform who told law enforcement and told the prosecution during interviews later were black, and they were saying they were so glad that somebody stepped in? But let's discount the black women who were saying they were terrified of this guy. You want to talk about race? Let's talk about.

New York DAs and investigators ignoring the testimony of black women in New York who were terrified of this guy. to the point where one of them had said that she didn't even like going to that subway platform 'cause she was scared. If you want to have a discussion about race, ignoring their testimony, that's racist. Because it doesn't serve your narrative of trying to lynch Daniel Penny because he's white? Good heavens.

I mean, you know, do you realize that he had tried to kidnap a seven-year-old girl before? He's on video dragging a seven-year-old down the street. He tried to kidnap her. That was in 2015. Nobody talks about this stuff.

And they said that Passengers were terrified. Terrified. And Neely was alive. Daniel Penny is accused of killing him. He didn't kill him.

And they're saying toxicology saying, oh, it looks like the drugs may have contributed more than anything that Penny ever did. to his death. Hmm. But they're going to go for Daniel Penny anyway anyway. Daniel Jordan Neely murdered Jordan Neely.

Jordan Neely chose to do drugs to the point where it compromised his health. Jordan Neely chose to be a violent vagrant. Rea very, very violent. Violent choice after violent choice. Kidnapping, beating up old women, pushing other women on train tracks.

It was a matter of time before he murdered a woman. Jordan Neely killed Jordan Neely. Even Eric Adams. had intimated that Daniel Penny shouldn't be charged. But this is New York.

New York hates it. If you are Ah, ah, ah, ah. and they hate it if you're a black conservative defendant. Because progressives look at black conservatives as the white adjacent. They look at Hispanic.

uh conservatives as white adjacent because to them They're going to other you. to justify their bigotry. I mean They had a retired medical administrator in that car who said that he was screaming, I will kill you, I'm ready to die. She said she was terrified. That he was trying to get at a child that a mother was protecting with her stroller.

And that's when Penny got involved. when he was trying to grab at that kid. I mean he had kidnapped a seven year old before. And he's on camera dragging the child down the street. Yeah.

Jordan Early killed Jordan Ely. Stop glorifying violent Criminals stop We got a lot more on the way. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. You know how you have like the Highland games, the Scottish games, and they throw uh s what is it?

The Is it the the big log toss that they do? What do they call it? Yeah. What is it called? Dang it.

Ah, gosh, what is it called?

Now, I didn't want to spend as much time on it. Caber toss. Thank you. Caber toss. Florida man has its own way of doing things.

They got a gator toss.

So Scott's got the Caber toss. Florida Man has the Gator toss. It's the Florida Man Games 2025. They're having tryouts. Sunshine State News says that Florida Man, it's like an Olympic Games for people who are Florida Man.

It's the Florida Man Games. And it's going to be in St. Augustine in 2025. And uh they have uh they're having their tryouts. No joke.

I mean, weaponized pull noodle, mud dueling, evading arrest, obstacle course, category five hurricane wind, cash grab, beer belly, Florida, sumo wrestling, and more. Stick with us. Third hour next. You know what I was thinking about. First off, welcome.

Than a last year, your retired goth cremudgeon. Good to be with you. We're at the top of our third hour. We have Border Thanos. Tom Homan coming up at the bottom of the hour.

I was thinking for the people who are super big mad over all the picks. I want you to ask yourself. But have they stole women's luggage? Have they stolen a lady's suitcase yet? Just saying.

I mean Or Can we Can we just look? For I I know that there are like, and look, I understand the objections to RFK Jr. as HHS and others, but who. Who's that deputy HHS dude? Oh, Rachel with the mm.

There's like an Aerosmith song about him. You know the one. I mean, just compare. Yes. The dude looks like a lady sword.

Ma'am. Yeah. Lady, that's stretched too. Kind of, you know. But did they steal ladies' luggage though?

That's the question. Like that's what is his name Sam Sam Brinton? Sam Brenton Brenton, that's right. The guy who legit stole women's luggage everywhere. Multiple times.

And one of them was a black fashion designer from South Africa. He stole her stuff and was wearing it all over. I mean, it was like very colorful, unique, one-of-a-kind pieces. And he was wearing it all over. He was in charge of like what like nuclear stuff.

Nuclear waste? How did he even get? First off, I just don't understand how you could be that damn crazy and then also find time to study nuclear waste. Because it seems like being that crazy is a full-time job. Right?

Oh, you're gonna wear PVC head to toe and go to fetish nights? But yeah, get up at six in the morning and go and do your nuclear waste job. Seems a little odd. You're going to steal ladies' luggage all over. By the way, another thing.

You really have to be demented to do that, to steal someone's luggage at an airport. Think of all the people that are there. You don't know if the person who is waiting for their luggage, is there watching you take their suitcase or not? Because then what if you're caught? That's theft.

You're going to get in trouble immediately. Oh my gosh, and if you're with the government and you have like a clearance, a security clearance, you're going to get even more trouble. Just think about All of the The mental Gymnastics he had to go through in order to be like, I don't GAF and do it anyway. Right. That's just a whole other level It is Friday.

That's right.

Does your HHS Do they look like is it a dude that looks like a lady? Does your waste, nuclear waist head, steal ladies' luggage? I don't know. I'm just wondering. I got questions.

We'd like to have them answered, right? I feel like that's the litmus right there. Yeah. Have you ever oh man, put me in charge. Oh my gosh, this is I would only run for elected office just to be able to sit on a confirmation hearing and troll people with questions one time and then I would resign my seat because then I don't want to do any of the other work.

I don't care. I don't want to cooperate with these people. I hate everybody there. But Just show up. When was the last time you stole women's luggage?

Oh, never. Right. When's the last time you dressed up entirely head to toe on PVC or as a furry? And had puppy piles, wink, wink. When did that happen?

You know what I mean? Kane is dying right now. But you know, it's true. It reminds me of Easter at the White House. Easter at the White House.

That's right.

Is that Not like an OnlyFans thing. I'm surprised no one's done it. Really surprised. They probably did. Oh my gosh.

One of the other things that is the cutting of all of the government excess as well. And they're saying that it's crazy, that it's not something that is realistic. I wanted to share with you this. I'm going to do it real quick, and I'll make sure I link it in your prep on Monday. But I retweeted it, and it's an oldie bit of goodie.

I remember reading about this in college, and Rand Paul reminded me of the story about Davey Crockett, the original, you know, hardcore badass, right? And he was sharing this story about, um Government appropriation. And it's this, this, it was, it was published in 1867 in Harper's Magazine. And it was in the house, and it was a day where they were taking up, they were talking about appropriations. And everyone was suggesting they need to appropriate money for the benefit of this widow of a very distinguished naval officer.

And people were getting up and they were making these beautiful, superfluous speeches, and they were very moving. And then they were about to put it to question. The House speaker was, and then Davy Crockett. Stood up. And he was saying that as much respect as he had for the deceased.

He was asking, in as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, he had said that we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us in to an act of injustice to balance the living. He said that Congress had no right to appropriate that money as charity. And he noted that the deceased lived a very long life after the close of war. In fact, the deceased was a. uh in elected office till the day of his death.

And Crockett noted, I was not aware that the government was in any way in debt to him. And he said, because it's not a debt. Charity is not a debt. And he says we do not have the authority to appropriate. this public money as debt.

And give it as such. And he said, I'm the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill. And he goes, Well, I'll give one week's pay to the object if every member of Congress will do the same, and it will amount to more than the bill asks for. And they took a seat.

Nobody replied. Nobody stood up and offered their own money, also. And the bill did not pass unanimously as it was expected to do. Instead it just spittered out on the floor and that was it. And he was asked why he did that because Originally people thought, well, that's rather cold of you, Davy Crockett.

But he said, no, no, no. He said, several years ago, I was standing on the steps of the Capitol. And he said there were other members of Congress there, and there was a fire over in Georgetown. It was a very large fire, and we went over to help. Many people, many houses burned, and there were families that were made homeless.

And he said a bill was introduced appropriating, and this was a lot of money for that time, $20,000 for the relief. He said we set all business aside, we rushed it through. And he said the next summer when I was thinking about the election, I was going to go and scout around some of the people of my district. And he said, you know, I want to go and talk to some of the voters. And he said, and I found there was a farmer that he found plowing a field, and he came up to him and started talking to him.

And the farmer basically told him to go pound sand. He was not interested in voting for Davey Crockett because he said Davy Crockett was stupid and didn't understand the Constitution. And it shocked Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett got an earful from this farmer. who was like, I do not have time for you, sir.

He said, you're an anti-constitutionalist. And Davy Crockett was like, what do you mean? And he said, I have voted against, and he was given the list of things. And the farmer goes, You remember the fire from Georgetown? When you rushed to appropriate $20,000.

to spend. And he said, That government is not charity. It's not yours to give. He said, people could have donated. A lot of your fellow representatives could have written checks, and they would not have had to live one day out of the luxury to which they have grown accustomed.

But they didn't do it. He said everyone in the Senate could have done it and they didn't do it. You sought to do it with the people's money instead. and call it charity. The farmer told him, he said, It's not the amount, Colonel, I complain of.

It's the principle. And the Government ought to have in the Treasury no more. Then Enough. for its legitimate purposes. And he goes, this is he goes, the power of collecting and dispersing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by tariff.

Because it reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be. And he said Whether it was 20,000 or 200,000. It's not yours to give. And he humbled Davy Crockett that day. He humbled him.

And he said so, see Colonel. You violated the Constitution. He said. Because once you begin to stretch your power beyond the limits of the Constitution and there is no limit, there is no security for the people. He goes, I don't doubt that you tried to act honestly, but that doesn't make what you did better.

And so now you see that's why I cannot vote for you. And David Crockett. was almost speechless. And he was very humble. and very honest and transparent in his response.

And he said, I stand corrected. You are right. He said I thought I had the sense to understand the Constitution, and it is clear by what you just told me I do not. You never hear a lawmaker say that, do you? You never hear a lawmaker say I was wrong.

And you corrected me. They always because now There is no admittance of error because it is taken as a weakness instead of as a sign of strength to be able to recognize and build off of a mistake. And he says He apologized to him. And he said, what you have said here at your plow. Has got more hard sound sense in it than all of the fine speeches I have ever heard.

And he said, if I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote. And he promised him. And he said, I I ask for your forgiveness. And if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for an unconstitutional law, I wish that I may be shot, is what he said. He ended up being friends with that farmer, and the farmer did support him and ended up getting influence for him.

And David Crockett was true to his word. and was consistent. But it's not easy to be a Davy Crockett. Everyone thinks it's Mr. Smith going to Washington and it's not.

It is not easy to be like Davy Crockett. It is not easy to be consistent. It is not easy to have principle because you are rewarded. For your flexibility. in DC.

You are awarded. for your move to do something temporary. with immediate gain, immediate satisfaction. We are inventing a system where we reward the short term. Only to punish ourselves more harshly than we ever could have imagined in the long term.

And that has to change. And I Hope. that it can change. by cutting some of this government spending. But I am so used to being lied to.

and passed over and abused by my government. That I don't think that any jury would convict me. of an offence of not trusting them. Or you, for that matter.

So we'll see. I hope that they can cut it. I hope because. Nothing will ever happen until we cut government spending. the refineries that we need to produce More gas?

We're not going to have it. better oil, we're not gonna have crude, have more crude, have more uh natural gas, we're not gonna have it. the drilling to become once again net exporters of energy. We have to reduce spending in order to facilitate some of the things like this. And I agree the Treasury should not have any more money than it absolutely needs for its legitimate purposes.

That gets to my point. I always talk about Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. If we actually did keep it that way, we would be running a budget surplus. You wouldn't have the need for income tax. You wouldn't have the need for all of this extra spending.

You wouldn't have the need for any of this. There have been countless analyses done by many an economic expert on this issue, and they all agree If, if, if we had the courage to do it. If we had the discipline to withstand the austerity that comes with it. Do we? Because this is more than just a test of a new Congress.

It's more than just a test of a new Senate. It's more than just a test of a new cabinet. It is a test of the American electorate. It's not just these lawmakers that are being tested right now. It's you too.

All of us. How will we do? We have more to come. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

This is a crazy story.

So, in Britain, their air traffic employees did a work from home day. And it exacerbated a nightmare of delays for 700,000 travelers. Yes, they were stranded. This was over a holiday weekend. The study's coming out now over last year.

Holiday weekend last year. They were wondering why did we have all these technical glitches that stopped planes from taking off and landing and it took hours to fix because engineers were working from home that day. No joke. They literally had to take some of them an hour and a half. To get all the way from their houses to the airport and then take about three to four hours to fix the problem.

And it, I mean, almost a million passengers were affected. That is crazy, crazy. Credit card debt. Hits a record $1.17 trillion according to the New York Fed New Research. Woobie Goldberg claims a bakery refused to serve her because of her left-wing views.

But as it turns out, she's smearing them. They said their boiler broke down. They had massive problems in their kitchen. They did not. Not make her cupcakes because of who she is.

It's a 145-year-old bakery for crying out loud. This is ridiculous. And fears for alien safety. The government's firing high-pulse microwave weapons at UFOs now. Wait, there are things to fire at?

Tom Holman, Border Thanos, next. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. And if you think about how bad the political knock-on consequences of a few million have been and triggering xenophobia and ultra-nationalism, it's difficult to imagine what a billion climate migrants would be.

There is the line Al Gore, they're at that COP29, and he's another excuse as to why you have so many people coming across. Oh, it's because of climate, it's because of this, it's because of that. Always an excuse. There's always an excuse as to why we can't secure the border. And they've been throwing climate change in there for forever.

It's mind-boggling. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy. That last week went the way it did. We live in a border state in Texas. Welcome back to the program.

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What last week is bringing in?

Well, we're going to have border Thanos. I'm calling in that. I am calling him Border Thanos because he's a badass and there's just no other way to put it. It's Tom Holman, who is new, newly announced. As the border czar for the Trump administration, he's a president CEO of Border 911, former acting ICE director, retired federal agent.

And the newly appointed. Are coming into the new Congress, the new term. And he joins us now via Skype Tom. Or, what do I call you as a proper border czar? I mean, we gotta figure out the title for that.

Because border Thanos, I don't think that they make a desk applique for that. No, I think borders are just perfectly fine. I think that says it all. There you go, right there.

Well, congratulations on your selection. And I know a lot of people, I think, are breathing a sigh of relief today because I noticed when you were asked, well, what's going to change on day one of the border, you said it's going to be shock and awe that's going to change. You're going to go in and make some significant differences immediately. Can you give some insight into like what is the most dangerous thing to Americans that you see that can be done with immediately and effectively in the first week?

Well, look, President Trump's made it clear that we're going to get out the gate. We're going to target national security threats and public safety threats. We got criminal gangs in this country committing heinous acts of rape and murder. We got MS-13, we got Train Dagua. We got a lot of criminal alienies we got to round up because this administration, the Biden administration, I was looking at the data the other day.

You know, they sold, they tried to sell that, they're going to concentrate on just criminal aliens, those convicted crimes. But when you look at the data, The removal and deportation of criminal aliens has decreased seventy four percent from the Trump administration.

So we got to target rich environments.

So we're going to concentrate on public safety threats because they pose the most danger to us.

So we'll we're going to go after them right out of the gate. Also, we're going to secure the board right out of the gate.

So there's like three, there's like three rails we're operating right now. There's going to be secure the border, run the deportation option by privatization, and find and save over 300,000 children. Wow. And that's the other big thing. I will, and I've never done this, but I'll give New York Times a little bit of credit because they did write a very critical story about DHS and the border and the administration when they first reported that there were hundreds of thousands of kids missing, like actual legitimate kids that are brought over by coyotes, brought over illegally into the country, and then they go missing.

And then you have, who is it, Becerra? Or no, it's Americus who's running this saying, well, you know, we got to process these people faster. It has to be like the Ford assembly line. We got to process them faster. But then it came out that they weren't doing their due diligence and seeing even where anyone went.

I mean, we have no idea. Hundreds of thousands of kids. No one's talking about it. You are. A few people are.

Yeah, you know in the Becera, I saw him on stage one time talk about How quick they release these children is an all-time record. Because look, this administration has been concerned about one thing. That's the objects, right?

So if they process quicker and release quicker and there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to see here. And we learned that because when Fox News had the 5,000 Haitians on the bridge, that was a bad day for this administration.

So the instructions from then that day forward was process quick, release quick. If there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to see here. We keep claiming the border's secure. You had said that there are 10 times that terrorists coming into the United States are 10 times more likely to come through the northern border than the southern border. And a lot of people haven't been paying attention to what's happening up between the Canada and U.S.

border out there. Everyone, I mean, I know we put a lot of attention, rightfully so at the southern border. Tell us exactly some of the scary stuff that's happening up north.

Well, look, the problem with the northern border is they got very few resources up there to begin with. And I get that, right? You're going to put most of the farm in with a big fire. That's the southern border.

However, what they did the northern border of this administration, because you had historically immigration, they took half of the very small population of Borbergel Asians and detailed them to the southern border. When you do that, that even makes the northern border further weak. And the half that were left at the northern border, they were processing illegal aliens from the southern border virtually.

So there's virtually. But border patrol on the river, on the lakes, or on the patrol up north.

So, the north patrol, the north border, looks like some of the sectors on the northern border, especially where I grew up in upstate New York, it's up 800 percent.

So, we got to pay attention to the northern border. That is virtually processing them. Up at the northern border, which is unbelievable. We're talking with the new border czar, Tom Homan, who's also saying, You're telling these governors, look, you're not going to be a lot of these, you know, people like J.B. Pritzker.

J.B. Pritzker threw down and said, Our citizens, our residents are staying here.

Well, they're here illegally.

So they don't have that protection. These governors, I mean, how are you going to counter these governors that are saying, no, this isn't going to happen? There's not going to be any removal of illegal immigrants here.

Well, first of all, it's it's amazing to me that These left-leaning people, they got the world upside down because, you know. All of a sudden the people who enforce the law Are the bad guys, and the people who break the law are the victims. I don't get it, their world's upside down. But look, they don't want to help, then get the hell out of the way because we're coming, we're going to do this job. The President Trump has a mandate.

From the American people to get this done.

So we got to get it done. And we're going to get it done without their help.

So I would love to have their help, but they can't help us. then we don't have to move forward on it. One of the biggest things, too, we're talking with Tom Holman, the new borders are under President-elect Trump. One of the biggest things, too, you mentioned Trendaragua and all of these other gangs that are taking root in major cities. I mean, it's here.

I'm in Dallas. It's here in Dallas. I mean, it's everywhere, far, far into the interior of the United States. That's going to be a real effort to combat that. And I know that there's been a lot of red tape that's been put by the Obama-Biden administration and by the Biden-Harris administration, preventing you and DHS and ICE from actually working with these local law enforcement to get detainers, have those detainers followed up on, report this, and then get these people removed.

Is that going to be a lot to work through? How long do you think something like that's going to take?

Well, thank God we got a strong president like President Trump. He's not going to take that garbage. And a lot of sheriffs, I've been contacted by hundreds of sheriffs. That want to work with us. They want to fire up the 287G programs, have their sheriff's deputy self-presentation in the jails.

So I think this Trump win is meaningful to law enforcement. And even in the sanctuary cities, the law enforcement wants to work with us. I'm in New York City all the time, and every police officer I talk to, and I've talked to hundreds, they want to work with us. It's the leadership, the city leadership.

So I think President Trump's going to make a lot of headway with these agencies and the other ones. Look, we need to sue the sanctuary cities like President Trump did during the first administration.

However, When Joe Biden became president, he dropped that lawsuit that DOJ had against Sanctuary City.

So we're going to refile that lawsuit. We're going to take these people to court. There's no downside for any city official. A mayor, a governor, a chief of police to not want. Public safety threats taken off their streets.

That's what it is because we said we're going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or city councilman or governor does not want to take public safety threats off their streets? Their number one responsibility is the safety of their communities, and we want to help them do that.

So, again, they don't want to help us. We'll take them to court, but we're going to do what we're told to do. Yeah, that's, I mean, I know so many people are so happy to see this change. We're talking with Tom Holman, Borders are. I know your announcements of Borders are.

Were you asked to head up DHS out of curiosity? Because you were former ICE. And I honestly, out of the gate, I was like, oh, it's going to be Tom Holman over at DHS. I mean, I know you're going to go wherever you feel that you are best suited to serve and where you want to go, but I was just curious about that. I'd rather not comment on that.

Okay. All right. That's, I just wanted to ask.

Well, I'm so glad that you're going to be somewhere on the border. These personal appointments, I don't, I just hate to get in that and with my conversation with the president, but uh. I'm I'm more where I think I should be. I'm a border guy. Secretary has a lot of responsibility.

You got Secret Service you got to fix. You got FIBA you got to fix. I want to spend 100% of the time 24-7 on the border. There you go. One last question for you.

Border agents, I know that they've got so much that they have to handle, and I know we are in dire need of them. What's the plan to combat some of the fatigue, the demoralization, and maybe get some more on the ground there? Yes, the morale is already sky high because of President Trump's reelection. A lot of the boards related to have their retirement paperwork put in. They pulled it back.

Dana, I got called by hundreds, Texas calls to my LLC, hundreds of board relates who have retired. That are begging to come back to help Trump. Hundreds of soldiers that have retired wanting to come help Trump. Law enforcement officers from all the country want to come help. I've got thousands of people willing to step up tomorrow and do the job.

There you go. Tom Homan, Border Czar. Things are about to change. You said shock and awe earlier, and I like that. There's going to be a lot of change at the border, and we are grateful for it.

We can't wait until you get in there and start getting things done. Thank you, sir. We'll talk with you again soon. God bless you. Bye-bye.

Okay. 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. Did you guys see what was happening in New Zealand?

I thought this was kind of interesting.

So, in New Zealand, They were they're passing this bill that they had with Indigenous. uh tribes in New Zealand and they had uh the Maori That I guess they disliked what the proposal was. And so they staged a protest. in parliament By performing Ahaka, watch. Why didn't they do this when they were locking everybody the hell down with COVID?

Why didn't they do this when they were taking their kids out of schools for COVID? Why didn't they do this when they were shutting down their businesses because of COVID? Why didn't they do this when they were mandating that they get experimental injections with COVID? But there's Ah, we'll do it for this, but not for that. I mean, we're losing actual freedoms, and our kids are losing actual education, we're losing bodily autonomy.

And we're not going to do it then, but we'll do it for this. What people pick their battles over is mind-blowing. It really is. I don't know, like it seems less badassed. Because you're gonna do it for an agreement that you're debating.

But when they were literally ruining your lives, And are and jailing you if you didn't inject your kids and all that because New Zealand was hardcore. Don't forget. Jacinda Arden, they were hardcore. There were parents arrested if they walked outside with their kids. There's video of it.

But they didn't perform They're war dance for that. But they would, for this. I don't get that. That's odd to me.

Now, switching gears here, you know, they had their little environmental thing, COP29. They had a meat buffet and vegan cuisine, and they were showing the difference between the lines for it. Look at this. There is a line at Top 29's Food Corp for the buffet serving meat, another buffet serving meat, and here is the vegan only restaurant. Doesn't quite look like the same amount of interest by the UN delegation here.

You know why? Because none of these people believe. the stuff that they actually promote to you. You think honestly, they just don't want you to eat meat because they want more meat for them. They want cheap meat for them.

That's what it is. I thought that was Mike Morano's reporting that. The COP29, what is it? Just like their big climate thing? I don't even pay attention to it.

If Al Gore is involved in it, I don't pay attention unless there's a dumb sound bite. But I thought that was interesting. The V. What is. I I I know I have friends who are vegetarian.

Uh And then I don't Vegan's kinda hard 'cause everything is like animal related at some point. But that was their vegan line. Nobody's, of course, nobody's there. If they all believed the stuff that they were promoting, that Gates ideology, they would all be in that line. And they're not.

Is anybody surprised? No, no one. No one is surprised. No one at all. No one at all.

So we're following and getting the rest of these cabinet appointments. I did think that Holman's answer was interesting. When I asked that if he was going to. If he was asked about HHS and he just said no, no comment. I'm not going to talk about that.

And I know he's not going to, I still wanted to ask him anyway because he's pushed back when he's been asked about it, but I just wanted to ask him anyway, you know, just to see. Because Gosh, he's just a natural fit for that position.

So I don't know. Maybe there's reasons as to why he is why he was picked for it. But either way, him being on the border is going to be good. And he is bor we came up with that. He's border Thanos.

Yeah, that's uh, he came up with that.

Now, over the now, by the way, one last thing: Mike Tyson, Jake Paul. Can I have audio some by 23 real quick before we go into today's stupidity? Because they're fighting. tonight in Arlington, Texas. I don't know who you got.

Mike Tyson slapped him though. Right here. He slaps him. Slapity slap. Go ahead.

Oh, oh. Ladies and gentlemen, oh my gosh, are they real? They were playing crisscross. I love it. Who do you think's gonna win in this?

Steve thinks it's Jake Paul. Are you serious? Yeah. When that Tyson thing came up a while ago. You and I both?

Yeah, remember when he had that heart problem a couple months ago and he's like, oh, I'm all good now? I don't know, that just seems weird. Is Jake Paul, though, as good with technicalities in the ring as Mike Tyson is? Mike Tyson's been a boxer his whole life. There is a lot more to it than just brawling, although, everybody's got a puncher's chance.

I think the way it's set up, I thought there was an agreement. I didn't see it on paper, but I've heard people comment on the agreement between the two, and it's all set up in favor. Jake, but Yeah, that's why I think that.

Well, we're gonna know tonight, aren't we? We shall know tonight. All right, today in stupidity. All right, looks like the NAACP representative went on TV because they heard Pete Hegseth was gonna be sec deaf. And boy, did they get stupid with the accusations.

Listen to this. Yeah, I'm going to add the Secretary of Defense nominee, Peter Hegsett, the Fox News Committee. commentator as well because this is someone who we can host. Important distinction. Who is this?

You know, it is known to be a white supremacist, known to be an extremist, whose platform is. He's known to be that? What the hell is she talking about? Who is this broad? Trying to diminish a combat, decorated combat veteran just because he's on Fox News.

Who are you? What's good? I'm still done with this. We got a whole weekend to relax, but then it starts again Monday. Back with you then.

God bless.