Legal Bills, Cabinet Thrills, and a Deadly Crawl: The Weekend in Politics

So Beyond the question of whether or not Congressman Gates broke the law, and certainly there's a presumption of innocence for anyone. Um A lot of House Republicans Your Colleagues, the people you lead, have real issues with Matt Gates as somebody to lead. the US Justice Department. I'm sure you've heard them. Because I've heard them.

I want you to take a listen to now Senator, former House Member Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma talking to our Manu Raju months ago. about Mac Gates. Gates, Hex.

So, this is the Speaker of the House facing, he's talking with Jake Tapper because they're trying to drill down. And I think really kind of get into some of the drama. With the way to undermine it, because they're all looking at a way to undermine this for House Speaker and for the House Speaker and the cabinet picks and all of that stuff. And this is we're going to see more and more of this. I saw a lot of these articles kind of Uh Drip out over the weekend.

I saw there's a couple of few interesting things that happened over the weekend.

So we're going to break everything down, get just set up this week. Welcome to the program. Top Of the first hour to you, top of the morning to you, top of the first hour, Dana Lash with you, and uh, you can listen across the country, channel 347, direct TV, also X, and elsewhere. Uh, the chat is at Rumble. Uh this um does everybody feel like you're like taking kind of an exhale?

Yeah. It feels I don't know. It's very different. It's, it is, and this is, it just feels like you can exhale a little bit. And I think that's one of the other reasons why People are just like, we have no time for Democrats drama.

We are not interested in Democrats' drama. We're not interested in their objections over anything. And I get it. Because I'm like that too. My gosh, we've been doing this for How many years?

I've been on air since 2008, and I've been in activism. Since maybe a little bit before then. But It feels as though. I don't know how to put it. I was thinking about this.

Like they got spanked finally and deserved it. Like a real. This was the follow-up to the shellacking. that they got under Barack Obama in 2010. And It is well deserved.

But now we've got to get everything in order. They had that, one of the things you heard about that Speaker Johnson was addressing was this health this health, I was going to say it like that, House Ethics Committee report. About Matt Gates and on going on for AG. I think that's going to be a tough thing to get through. I'm just going to tell you.

It's going to be a tough one to get through. The other ones I think are going to be a heck of a lot easier. Uh but The Selections. And this was interesting. They're bypassing.

Some of the well, it's not that they're not doing background checks. It is that They are using a outside, a third-party private company. to do background checks because they can't trust The FBI. I don't know if you read this story. This is over at the Washington Times.

And they're saying that they can't really trust The FBI with doing background checks for the president's nominees. And it was a whistleblower that came out and said this. It's very interesting. It was a whistleblower that came out and said it. They said that the allegations, you know, of political bias, this disclosure, and this is the proper way that they're doing it, they sent this disclosure to the House Judiciary.

And apparently, it was made available to the Washington Times. The officials said that. The reason why the Trump camp is now bypassing it, and the left was trying to make it like they're not going to vet anybody. They're using a third party because the whistleblower says the process, the clearance process, has been wholly contaminated. And this is their quote: contaminated by the political agendas.

of officials in the division. and other executives within the FBI. And The process is also subordinate. to the same executives. that Trump said he was going to sweep out of the agency.

So you have The FBI, which has been politicized, you have uh Chris Ray, who's been Obviously, politicized. You have the deputy director politicized. Do you trust these same people? To go through and say that they're performing clearance, and do you just trust that they're not going to just. Feather up some kind of evidence as a way to discredit any nominee that comes forward.

Think about this, though. This is the same FBI that was literally just months ago. calling parents domestic terrorists. at school board meetings. This was the same one that was using, that was using its authority to retaliate against.

people within its own agency. if they had views alternate to that of the administration.

So many whistleblowers have come out about this, which is why we know all of it.

So the FBI were saying, no, we are the appropriate agency responsible for candidate background, et cetera, et cetera. And you know, we're going to do it as expeditiously as possible. And they were really saying, you know, we are our role is purely fact-finding. They lost all. All expectation of trust from the public.

I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Kane, do you trust the FBI? Do you trust them to? to do these background checks and to do them. in a way where they're not go I don't I I mean I don't I don't trust that every single individual in the agency wouldn't try to fabricate some kind of evidence.

Do I trust them? That would be a hell no. Hell no. Hell no. I The way that the media put it over the weekend Is that, well, the Trump administration is they're just not going to background check anybody.

That was the intimation with all of these accusatory headlines that I saw all weekend. I was collecting them. But that's not what's happening at all. They're using a third-party agency that I dare say would probably be even more. expeditious, probably more thorough.

and also probably more Accurate. with less of an agenda. I mean, think of it. Under the leadership at that agency. They were refusing clearance to people who didn't get the injection.

To military veterans, to employees who didn't get COVID shots, to people who attended Trump rallies and people that had. uh Christian beliefs according to the whistleblower. These same officials are going to be adjudicating. the President's nominees. I d I agree, I don't think that you can trust it.

I don't think that they should get any more taxpayer money until there's a full audit. Yes, that's a very dangerous, austere thing. But we didn't put ourselves in that situation. They did. Why are I I don't I I'm refusing this thought of going forward and acting as though it's just business as usual.

That's what kinda pissed me off about the Joe and Mika thing.

So did you hear they went to Mar Lago hat in hand? to beg for forgiveness. MSNBC is their ratings are cratering. CNN's ratings are cratering. You have these people who host these television shows that are making ten, fifteen, twenty million dollars a year.

and the ratings don't support the salaries of these people. Their advertising revenue doesn't support the salaries of these people. We're in a very interesting time with media. Where the shift from old to new is underway, and it's not all the way complete yet, but it's underway. On top of it, to further compound it, you have these These legacy networks like MSNBC that are incredibly biased.

Their bias is incredibly obv obvious and people are just turning it off. They're not interested in it. There's no deep thought. There's no deep discussion on these networks. It's just a bunch of people, just a bunch of.

Just progressives complaining to each other, and they all exist in this vacuum.

So, no one's watching.

So, they're freaking out right now. There was a story that was circulating all last week: ABC's trying to find a pro-Trump or like pro-conservative. uh hosts for their panel. They make it a pretty toxic environment there.

So I don't know. I don't know how successful they're going to be. You got to offer a big check, but your advertising doesn't support the check, so I don't know what they're going to do. But you had Joe and Mika that went down to Mar a Lago hat in hand. And I don't even think they should have been granted an audience with the president-elect.

I don't even think they should have been given that much. These are part of the these are people this goes beyond disagreeing with him on a couple of policies. This isn't, oh, well, you know, I'm I, this goes far beyond.

Well, he doesn't have a record on this, so what's he gonna do? I don't know. Or, maybe I don't know if I necessarily agree with this move all the way. That's not what they did. They literally said he's Hitler.

And not only that, but they castigated all of you. for supporting him and saying that you were Hitler at Jason. You were also Hitler. Everybody can't be Hitler. But you're Hitler adjacent.

They sold that. They told people that day in and day out. And now what they Yeah. They're gonna try to save their network and By butt kissing, going down there, and they think that that's gonna be all is forgiven. And that's and that's all it's that's all it takes.

They think they're going to get maybe an interview because of that. There's a difference between loyalty and submission. A very big difference. And they're not the same. Submitting does not take kniving you in the back off the table.

As we have seen time and time again. What they're doing, this isn't some performative loyalty. They're they're going down and attempting to bend the knee. Not because they feel that they've been beaten, but because they want something, it is a It's a move on the board. They're They're going down to get something in return for it.

But Make no mistake. That's not loyalty. That isn't agreement. and submission builds resentment. And these people They know they they'll they are very quick to stick the shiv and twist.

So be careful of welcoming the people who are telling everyone that, oh, they're Hitler. They're just like Hitler or they're fascist or they're racist or whatever they've been saying about everyone. I just have a difficult time. When you use language like that, and this is the problem with some of the language of the left. is that I enjoy politics and I can disagree with people.

and I can get on with my life. I don't define people by their ideological views. But when you start calling people Hitler, And saying some of the stuff that the left said. last election cycle and even before then and before then we can go on. Not only does it get tiring, but that's beyond.

I can't sit down and act like someone who was saying that I was Hitler or that I was. A racist or a bigot or a fascist. I can't sit at the table and pretend that they didn't say that. That's not, we're disagreeing over policy. That is, you are, you're trying to wound me maliciously.

by accusing me of some sort of moral deficiency. And that can't go forward unless that person pushing that offense recognizes it, apologizes and attempts reconciliation because that burden is on them.

So, until that happens, I'm not interested in any kind of compromise. I'm not interested in any kind of peace. I'm not interested in let's go along to get along. Oh, hell no. And I think that that people need to remember that.

That's what they called you. We got a lot more to hit. We got headlines on the way as well.

Some of the other stuff also coming up. Are the cabinet officials? Did you hear that they spent a billion dollars in political ads in all these swing states? And Harris didn't even win a single county. Did you know that?

A billion, it was a billion dollars. That's what they spent in ads. Remember how I told you months ago that they were buying up all the ad time? That got them nothing. Wow.

We're going to talk about all of that and more. We're also going to get into the budget cutting with the government, all of that, lots of stuff as we move. No matter why you're preparing emergency survival food, it's crucial that your supplies last as long as you need them without compromising on flavor. It doesn't have to taste awful. Check out my top recommendation for the best survival food available, and that's Readywise Foods.

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So over the weekend, this is kind of an, I think it was Vegas Larry that sent this to us, cops swarmed Mar-a-Lago because they heard loud pops nearby, but it was an elderly Florida man shooting iguanas with a pellet gun in his backyard. Remember, they tell Floridians to do that because it's an invasive species. And so they actually eat them and they've come up with recipes. And so that's Pelican, does it make loud pops though? I think some people don't know what a Pelican sounds like and they just called because they were nervous and everything that's loud and.

You know, it sounds like that to them. I thought that was kind of funny. Uh, USPS honors Golden Girls actress Betty White with a forever stamp. She got Rosen Island. She got the icon of American television.

And she got the forever stamp. And that was announced on Friday. Maybe they can now take less of our tax dollars. That's great. You came up with a Betty White stamp.

Take a fewer of our tax dollars, please. Please. That's all we're asking. There was a oh my gosh, there was a plane grounded for five days in Portugal as 130 hamsters escaped cages, sparking a mass search for these cable-eating rodents. I didn't realize that they chewed through wires the way that they do.

Hamsters, they seem like. You know, hamsters. They're like Kids' pets, and they're kind of adorable for rats in a way. But they said that they were, uh, they eat through power cables like crazy. And they said 16 are still on the loose, but they had a mass escape, so they grounded this plane while they figured out.

Can you imagine flying it and it falling out of the sky because it's some loose hamsters? Ate through all your power cables and it caused the plane to short circuit and stop working. Geez. A $12,000 surgery to change eye color is surging in popularity. I don't know who needs to hear this, but they have color contacts.

And I also don't know who needs to hear this, but I cannot stand when people get like lavender contacts and wear them. It doesn't look cool. You don't look like one of the Targaryens. You just look like a freak. It's weird.

Stop it. They i'm not even gonna say this right keratopigmentation They said it could be dangerous. Patients say it's worth the risk. Like this one man went in with brown eyes. And he's Hispanic and he walks out with blue eyes.

Okay, no one believes you. Stop it. Stop it. Just stop doing this. Why would you spend that much money?

People have too much time. And pharmacies are yanking cold medicines from shelves. Also, we may now have soda with cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us.

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We want to give them credit for doing the right thing. Elon and I aren't in this for the credit. But I think we're going to build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven't been made for most of our history. President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example. Are you going to be closing down departments?

We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.

So yes, we expect all of the above. And I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we're able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us. Interesting, very interesting.

So that's Vivek Ramaswamy who's talking about what Doge is going to be doing. And what they expect to happen. And they also said they're going to be wrapped up by July of 2026, if not sooner. Ma one of my favorite You know how you can put words together and they make beautiful beautiful masterpieces. When you talk about government and then deleted.

Just amazing.

Sounds amazing, does it not? Welcome back to the program. Retired goth curmudgeon Daniel Lash here with you. I. And heaven knows that I've had, and he's been on my show, and we've talked, you know, he's been on a couple of times, and we've talked, you know, I've, I've, See him around at different things every now and then.

But The If they're able to do this, If they're actually able to do what they're saying they're going to do, Then I will walk back. My not my n n I will walk back my Any ongoing criticism I would have of previous past positions. that they may that he may hold. If you're actually able to do this, Katie barred the door. What?

Dude. That's you know, I'm just saying, cutting government. deleting outright certain agencies That's um Well, Kane, ah, in the movies that's how they become best friends. That's how that works. That is how that works.

Because that That is something that needs to happen so badly. I also think we need to reduce the scope and budget for HHS.

So The uh I don't know if you guys watch, you know, UFC or UFC House. here, but they had the big UFC. Fights that were taking place in Madison Square Garden on it was a Saturday evening. And It was, I gotta tell you. I was watching the line up when they were all standing there.

Is the House speaker just like twee or what? Yeah. Dude. Mike Johnson was standing there next to Jr. and Eric Trump, who are like 110,000 feet high.

Yeah. Tall. Normally, you would say tall. We just say hi now. They're like skyscrapers, they're very tall people.

And Then he's with Kid Rock, who actually really holds his own in height. I was looking at him standing next to Eric Trop and I'm like, dude, you're actually, you are tall. And Mike Johnson, like they could have picked him up and carried him in there. Who is the guy that Mike Tyson thought was a kid and he wasn't? He was like a 30-year-old dude.

And they were dying because they were saying that because Mike Tyson thought he was a little kid, and he was like, he gave him a kiss on his forehead and was pretending to box with him. And all these people were just dying laughing because they're like, no, that's actually. That's Hasbulah, right? Hasbula, that's right. He's actually he's a grown man.

He's like, he's not in Hasbula territory, but he's awful close. I'm not saying that to be mean, but I mean, it was just funny watching. You kill me. But did you see it? I was like, is he sitting?

Or is he? No offense to the speaker. Don't nuke me, bro. But. I it was just, you know, it was kind of interesting to see that there.

And then RFK Jr. was there.

Now, let's just be lighthearted for a minute. I am fascinated by this because RFK Jr., for all intents and purposes, is still a Democrat. He got he was we agree with him on the cor the coronavirus vaccine. I got other objections. But I just aside from all that right now.

What culture shock is that for him? Think of it. Is that not a Trump had him on Air Force One? Is it Trump Force One, I guess? It's not Air Force One until he's.

Yeah, I confirm. But I guess he made them all eat McDonald's. Did you see this photo? I was dying. They were all sitting there.

It was the Trumps, POTUS Elect, the Speaker, and then Elon Musk, and then RFK Jr. is sitting there about to tuck into some McDonald's. RFK Jr. about to eat some McDonald's. The look on his face was comical.

And I was just thinking like that's Death has to be a culture shock for him. You go to UFC and then you you finish the night on Trump Force One with McDonalds. Culture shock. I think about think about your RFK Jr. You're you're Kennedy blue blood bougie Democrat in the Hamptons and you're at UFC and then you're at McD's.

It's funny. It is funny. I was just, I thoroughly enjoyed that. But they came in, it walked in with Dana White. And they watched, I mean, John Bones Jones.

He did That spinning kick that he did was wild. The hop that it made, the sound that it made was wild. I mean, it's a pretty epic fight. And then everyone's doing, they're all doing the Trump dance. Which Does he?

Because Trump does the same dance move. He just does the thing where he's almost like. What do you call that? I don't even know what you call it. It's like skiing.

It's like you're skiing, the Trump ski, but that's what it is. But everybody's doing that now and and John Jones did it too, when he was when he was in the ring. But he had uh And he was 'cause he's had, you know, John Jones has had his problems in the past, but this was audio sun by three. This was.

Well, he gets actually, let's play one. Let's play one first. This is part of his victory speech. Listen. But While everybody's cheering and so happy, I want to acknowledge Jesus Christ.

Um I tell you what, man, I cannot take credit for a gift like this, man. I really owe it all to him. And I know that there's millions of people around the world watching right now. And I just want to let you guys know that Jesus loves you so much. I also want to say a big, big thank you to President Donald Trump for being here tonight.

What was that? He did the Trump dance. He did the Trump dance. That was funny. But that is a a It's a A good way to, it was just lighthearted.

It was that after the crazy election, I think that was a good move. That he made to go there and to attend. And you know that it was also a culture shock for the House Speaker. You know it was. Uh Speaker Johnson, very religious man.

you know, from s the southern part of the country. You know, this was Well, I don't know. Maybe you're used to seeing, you know, UFC kind of style fights at your family reunions. I don't know, maybe depending on where in the set they're from, but It was uh it was a very interesting culture shock. But it was nice though.

To see that after the hellacious two weeks that we've had, you had the election, it breathed a sigh of relief, and then you started fighting over the cabinet picks.

So it was good to have something like that. Yeah. This uh ongoing battle over how to Reorganize this existing infrastructure and Which agencies to cut and how to go about you know, certain bits of this. Uh is That's going to be an ongoing fight as we go into the confirmations. And With some of this This is Audio Soundbite 6.

This is Trey Gowdy talking about the Department of Justice.

Now, remember. Matt Gates was selected for AG.

Now Lorraine has a theory about the letterhead treatment. She thinks if your name didn't go out on Letterhead, then there is the expectation that you may not get confirmed. Because some of the picks went out on the letterhead, some of them didn't. And it's always the ones that got any kind of head scratches, those are the ones that didn't go out on letterhead. I don't know.

I think it kind of makes sense, right? That is something I think he would do. But anyway, this is Trey Gowdy talking about This whole issue with the DOJ, listen. Gates has never prosecuted a criminal case. Would you hire a surgeon who never held a scalpel, never performed an operation?

Would you hire a babysitter without a background check, a lawyer who didn't know which side of the courtroom to sit on? There are scores of qualified candidates, so why pick someone who resigned so you couldn't read his background check? Justice is too important to play games with. Americans want a DOJ devoid of politics, not one just as bad, but on the other side. Yes, DOJ is in desperate need of an overhaul.

But you don't do it with a fundamentally flawed person. Without real justice, we aren't a nation of laws. And without the law, we are going to be able to do it. I think that if anyone ever, if ever there's a movie done about Trey Gowdy. Matthew McConaughey, he's gonna have to shave his head and bleach it out and do that draw like that.

Trey got he made I think his point is interesting about resigning the seat so you're not under the purview of the House Ethics Committee any longer, and therefore that doesn't have to be made public. I think that is significant. And I do think that that's worth taking into consideration. I agree with him on this, and I don't agree with Trey Gowdy on everything. He and I definitely disagree on the Hunter-Biden gun thing.

And there's a few other things we disagree on. But I think That that's that's a pretty astute point. to make you you're trying to hide the the conclusion of the stuff that's in this report. And I'm not, you know, I'm not going to say that he did it or not. I'm just telling you what the facts of the matter are.

Because I haven't read all of the evidence, and I don't think anyone else has either, but I think it would be. It's always smart to make sure that you acknowledge all of the evidence and all of the actual facts that exist in a situation like this. As opposed to pretending that they don't exist, it's not that there wasn't anything there to investigate. It's that the biggest apparently objection from the feds was that. Uh they couldn't they were Cautious that they couldn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that he uh knew that the girls in question were underage.

And that was sort of the big concern that they had, which is why they didn't they didn't press charges, but not that they felt that there wasn't anything there, apparently.

So I don't know. I mean, whether it's true or not, But I do think that he makes a good point about Qualifications, and it's one thing to deliver sound bites. And to debate with people on the House floor, it is something entirely when you are in charge of an entity like the Department of Justice. You have to know the ins and outs of all of this. You have to be a pretty seasoned Pro.

At this stuff, because there are people that are in that agency that are always going to undermine you. And there's no point in putting someone in charge of that agency. When they're just going to be undermined by the deep state within, because the deep state is going to know more about the standard operating procedures than you do, or rather, the person put in that position. And I think that that's, to me, is one of the biggest objections. With certain of these agencies, You really do have to be careful.

I think you want someone that can outmaneuver these people. And I don't think Gates can do it. I don't know about all this other stuff with the ethics. I just know that there was a lot of investigations. And that he was very mad at McCarthy that it didn't go away.

And I know people who were on the House floor who said they saw stuff. And they're just saying, so I don't know. I'm not going to weigh in on innocence or guilt because I'm not trying the case. But I will say You want someone who is mean. But who also knows How to maneuver through all of this stuff at the DOJ and is not going to get outwitted by Deep State.

That is my objection, and I don't think he can do that.

Now, some people might think that he can, and that's fine and good. I just don't believe that that's the case. Uh and Mike Johnson, even let's play audio somebody 18 really quickly. Speaker Johnson even really even acknowledged this because he's talking about this committee report on Gates. Listen.

So I have no idea what the contents of this report would be. I didn't even know about it, Jake, until the middle of this week when it was announced in the press. What I have said with regard to the report is that it should not come out. And why? Because Matt Gates resigned from Congress.

He is no longer a member. There's a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the House Ethics Committee's jurisdiction does not extend to non-members of Congress. I think that would be a Pandora's So It could be interpreted, which is the view I think that he's promoting, that it's a sign of strength to resign your seat like that. Or it could also be It is a maneuver designed to protect oneself from further investigation or wide more wider public knowledge.

So, just saying this, all this stuff is important to consider because part of your responsibility as a citizen isn't just protecting your government when the opposition is in charge. You also have to do it even when your side is. We got a lot more to hit as we roll towards the conclusion of this first hour. Burn a gun. This is what I'm talking about.

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You know, our country was built on those fleeing persecution. And it would be just absolutely terrible if we don't protect those that are doing it the right way. Legal immigration should never be mixed with these hardened criminals.

Well, that's true. And it it it shouldn't be. I don't think everybody is fleeing persecution, but Um there's a process for Legal immigration. The fact that we have to say this over and over again is just m it's like I'm talking to toddlers. It's like talking to toddlers when you're talking to left.

But it looks like Trump's plan was to go after the people picking tomatoes. He's articulated time and time again that he's going after the most violent of those who have entered the country illegally.

Well Tony Gonzalez is I mean, he He he's kind of a he's a Very much a moderate. He's he's a he's kind of a gun control guy. Anyway, but I'm not surprised that he But that's the thing. I mean I don't know that Trump has ever said, Yeah, we're going to go after the people who are Coming over here for agri-workers, agricultural workers. We're going to target those people.

He's never actually said that. He's just saying he's talking about illegal immigration, trying to diminish it down. to just a tomato picker. First off, that's Stupid hyperbole, number one, but number two. They're trying to, in a very weak way.

They Do this emotional appeal. to make you think that That, you know, well, I guess there's a difference. Like, your illegal immigration is different if you come here to do this as opposed to this. That's not how this works. It doesn't work that way.

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PatriotMobile.com/slash Dana 972 Patriot. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. It's uh good to be with you. at the top of the second hour and uh of course getting this week started It's actually kind of fallish in Texas today, so we're in a good mood.

And we might actually have cane sugar back in soda. I don't know. We'll see. Welcome. You can find the chat at Rumble347 DirecTV.

It's the channel X, everywhere else, terrestrially. Can we just talk about first off, before I get into Cane Sugar stuff, Brendan Carr tweeted over the weekend. Uh and the president-elect announced he is the new Head. I'm the FCC. He's not just on the commission.

He's also the CEO. He is now the head boss, the head honcho. Brendan Card FCC.

So That means a lot of things. In fact. Uh that means that The makeup of the board is not only changing, but I'm wondering if they're gonna put the skids on that uh Soros deal. acquiring Odyssey and all of that now? Or is it a done deal?

Hmm.

Something to explore. But Censorship? Nope, not with Bern and Carr. And also, our uh someone had said that our get out of jail. Free pass got a major upgrade.

Yeah, it did. It got. Yeah, 50 plus resistance to BS. That's what it got. I knew exactly what I got.

But can we talk about the sugar?

So that's good with FCC. The uh cane sugar.

So RFK Jr. You know, I've got I got my issues, but you know, there it is. Uh, my, my, uh, Thought is, I don't know why, why does the government have to be? cajoled into or what do companies have to be persuaded to go to cane sugar. It just tastes better.

It does. It tastes better.

So There's been like discussion on whether or not, you know, if it's a caloric difference, glycemia, all of this other stuff. I don't know. I'm not going to get into the, I'm not, I'm not going to get into the food science of it. I just think it tastes be tastes better. the whole idea of having uh cane sugar because they use corn sugar And corn sugar is cheaper than sugar.

And corn farmers, it is true, there's heavy subsidies. Big horn is a thing. I've gotten a lot of heat for criticizing Iowa and all of that before because of Big Corn. Ethanol, all of that. It is a big thing.

It is just, I mean, this is Atlas shrug completely. You've got to support this industry.

So you're going to Demand that we put it in everything from soda to fuel. It's weird. Oh, it makes it cheaper and we're s technically subsidizing this industry so it works. I I don't know. But cane sugar is just better.

Is this something that you want the government to micromanage? That's fine. I always go back to that question. It's something I want the government to make sure companies aren't putting. Problematic ingredients in there.

I don't think this is a, you've got to use cane sugar. It's more of you've got to stop using this crap you've been using. What? Did you hear what you just said? What?

You can't use this, you've got to use this. But I'm not going to tell you to do it because you can't use this anymore. But it's stuff that's we know is harmful for you. Obviously sugar is too, but the point is we've been using high fructose corn syrup, and that actually exasperates Do you feel like it's still an error to make the government mandate this stuff instead of giving the the the market time to to develop the demand because I feel like we are too lazy and too impatient to wait for the market to to generate that demand organically so we try to fast track it with government mandates.

Well, it starts with government subsidies in the corn industry. When you talk about why we have high fructose corn syrup and everything, it's because it doesn't cost companies to actually put it in there. It's a byproduct of what these the big corn, the stuff that has actually been subsidized by the government. And so now they have this high fructose corn syrup that's extremely cheap, if not free in some cases. And so they've added that as their sweeteners to the ingredients because it's cheaper.

So if we do stop those subsidies, I agree. I think we should just get free Nutella. Ooh, that's actually I'm I'd be up for that. Yeah. Just put it all together in one.

Just give me all the things that I like. I can see a podcast happening. Rain or Satan. Yeah, cane sugar just tastes way better. I get so torn on this, but I will always err on the side of limited government.

So, when we went to Italy a couple of years ago, everyone told me. And it was the first time we had gone. Everyone had told me your mind is gonna be blown at the difference in quality of food. And not just because we romanticize. How good the food is.

Or that it's quintessential Italian food and it's you romanticize it because you're there and this amazing because the country's beautiful. But They have government mandates so that they don't put preservatives in their stuff, even their wines, like the sulfites and all the stuff that you find in wines here. And I'm not encouraging that you do this, and I'm not saying that you know I rarely drink, but. when we went over there, my husband and I would we'd have a bottle of wine at dinner. And In the past, I could maybe have like a glass and a half because my whole head would close up.

And I might, you get hot, just you're reacting to the sulfites and all the preservatives that they put in wine. Did not have that like the entire time we were over there. My so one of the things that my doctor thinks is, I have an actual which I'm raging about, gluten sensitivity. I think I'm just going to keep eating gluten. I'm like, no, we're not doing that.

We're not doing that. That's the most ungen X thing I've ever heard of. Shut up. But I did not. Like you feel tired and bloated and you're my sinus is like I notice like inflammate, I notice it.

And I didn't have any of those issues over there with any of the food because they are very, it's to the point where I could never condone such oversight here in the United States. But they are very strict with what they allow in their food, with the dyes and the types of sugar and all of that stuff. And even in some of the restaurants, If you like, say that you have an Amatra Shiana sauce, well, it better be actual Amatraciana, or you're gonna have the food police come and tell you that you can't put a matrician. It's wild. I could never condone.

Something like that, that sort of oversight. But I have to tell you, it made eating easier. Because you just knew that you didn't have to research every single thing and take hours out of your life every week to research every single ingredient that you were consuming. It made it a hell of a lot easier. But then I'm like, as much as I would love that, do I want to trade liberty for ease?

And that's how I look at everything. I don't know. I don't here's how I look at it. Like, government is we have laws where you can't hurt somebody else, which would be a violation of their rights. This is a situation where government- Yeah, but you're removing the free will.

Like, we freely eat this stuff. No, I guess. We're not freely signing up to get hurt by anybody. Right, but if those ingredients aren't disclosed, or if there are some things that the full amount of the danger that these ingredients actually impose aren't publicized, this is what I'm talking about. The government is in place to prevent those things from hurting people.

Now, I get that, and that's why we have laws. They're not forcing people to use certain ingredients, they're just making sure you can't hurt someone with certain ingredients. And I see it as. Less big government, but more of them in that role. It does, I will say, it makes it easier.

I mean, everything over there. It was so simple. The most simple of ingredients you could ever imagine. And you had no, I had no issues. I had like no sensitivities with any of the pasta, nothing.

Oh my gosh, it was so good. And then of course you have to walk every we walked on average like 10 miles a day. I think I'm the only person who actually went to Italy and lost weight. And I ate like a man. I can sit down and I can eat like a dude.

Like it is nothing for me to sit down and I can hold my own, man. I dunno, it's weird. But um So I think going back to the high fructose corn syrup. Is it Do we want to say you can't do this or do we want to remove any Burden or obstacle that companies might have in using cane, because the reason that they used corn was because it was more, it was cheaper. They started using corn syrup because it was cheaper.

You got to subsidize big corn. Can we stop subsidizing big corn? Number one. And then. What do we have to do to make sugar as affordable?

I mean my gosh, you can get Mexican Coke. With real cane sugar. How come we call it Mexican Coke? Why is that? You know what I mean?

Like why Mexican Coke really means something. Means two different.

Well, didn't they only make it there for a while? That's why how it got the name? Yeah. Yeah. So I've got questions about this, and this is a huge issue.

And I, you know, I'm not like trying to get into the weeds with it, but HHS controls 20% of our budget. Obamacare, the scope of it, is crazy. This is a major, major position. And These You know, these battles over this, I think it one that it's like one battle at a time, but it comes down to. You're building a foundation of how much power the government has.

in ratio to how much power the people have. And I don't know, like I'm I get real torn on this stuff when it comes to food. Because I think that people should have the freedom And it's the responsibility is on you to make sure you're eating properly, not the government. and you do your due diligence.

However, What complicates it is that we've had years and years and years of subsidizing this or that, and this stupid government mandate making this ingredient more expensive. And then they have to do all this other Rube Goldbarg machine, Rube Goldberg machine of trying to offset the increase in price.

So instead of sugar, it's corn syrup to try to make it more affordable, et cetera, et cetera. And then it's impossible to choose certain things knowing that it's impossible to make them healthy and to have it mass produced and massively consumed and have it be healthy because of all of that stuff that goes into it.

So I feel like you're already You already have a strike against you, and it's already harder for you to try to fight against that and say, Well, let's let the market organically make it happen when the market itself is constructed to not organically allow it to happen, if that makes sense. Currently, the market is cost-prohibitive to eat healthy. Oh, it totally is. You know what I mean? And I think that's the biggest obstacle.

I think that there is a sign, and this Doge department has talked about ending subsidies of all kinds, even for the oil industry, which I agree with.

So, if they do end up ending these subsidies, I think we're going to see more of a smaller gap between what is less healthy and what is actually healthy to eat in price. In the near future. At least that's what I'm hoping.

Now, one of the other big changes, well, we're going to see what this means at the Department of Defense because Stars and Stripes, which is kind of a isn't it Military Times or Stars and Stripes that's left-leaning? Like one of them is owned by like a private entity that's super far left and all this stuff. But they're mad because there's Stars and Stripes are there. Same Pete Hagseth, nominee for defense secretary, has made it clear that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units. And if confirmed by the Senate, he could try to end the Pentagon's practice of making all combat jobs open to women.

My whole point in this is that The military is not a social experiment. And treating the military like it's a social experiment has destroyed recruitment. It has obliterated readiness. And it has actually made us less secure. You've diminished the effectiveness of our fighting forces by treating them like social experiments.

I think that his position is complete common sense. Complete common sense. I I the only the only objections that The only way I can make the objections make sense is if the true Objective is to, as I said, diminish readiness. It doesn't make it, it doesn't make it, there's no point to it. We have a lot more on the way.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Oh my gosh, Australia, what is your problem?

So they, so a reptile park in Australia is warning people. To keep their eyes, I can't hardly talk about this story. It makes my mouth numb. I just have such a terrifying fear of spiders. I'm not scared of anything except this and crickets and some goats.

They keep your eyes peeled for a large, deadly spider species. as summer approaches down there. It's the funnel. Ugh. It's a funnel web spider.

Actually, it makes my mouth numb. I don't like this. Yeah. It's one of Australia's deadliest spiders. I'm not looking at the camera right now because Juan's showing a photo of it, and I'm not gonna look.

And the mating season for the arachnids is coming up. Why do you not stand out with us the flamethrower? I don't get that. This is a great time for you Australians to do that. The funnel web spider can kill a person in as little as 15 minutes.

13 people have been killed from this spider species. They said that they've created the anti-venom in 1981 so they're able to save people only if you do it within 15 minutes of being bitten, though. Otherwise, you're. Ah Oh, they said they have to have 150 spiders just for one. I don't even like saying the word.

One vial of anti-venom. Ugh, go out there with flamethrowers and just as they're floating through the sky. Juan said he killed a message. I just don't even like it. Urrh.

It's not a funnel. You killed a big spider this morning. No, I mm-mm. I don't care how little they are. Like, I don't mind snakes.

I don't mind all this, but that. Yeah, phobia? Oh no, that's not even proper, what I have. That doesn't even cover it. Does not even cover it.

I literally can climb on the ceiling. from the ground. I can fly up to the ground like a cat. and crawl on the ceiling from fear. I'm not even kidding you.

Oh, let's see. You call it involuntary euthanasia. We call it murder. The assisted dying Bill Hussain could open the door to involuntary euthanasia. Or murked.

Just sane. That's Gunfire struck a southwest plane on the tarmac off of Dallas. Love Field officials say, I knew this is a matter of time. There's a gun range up there. It's an outdoor range I like going to.

And I'll go up there to do trap and skeet and all that. And it's like right by Lovefield. And I'm always, whenever I have my shotgun and I'm looking at the sky and I can see planes, I'm like, Willie! I mean, I know it's a shotgun, but it's still, I'm like... There's something that the net up.

But it's a great place. But it wasn't from that range, by the way. It was from, if you guess gangbangers and drug dealers, you're correct. You're correct. Residents woke up to police outside of their front doors as a herd of cows took over a street in the UK.

It's a gang of. What do you call a gang of cats? I know it's a herd, but what if they're like there and they're malcontents? What do you do? Yeah, they're there.

A cow murder. Uh, they had to they had to go and and 'cause they were everywhere, they had to tell people to stay in the doors. Uh, we have a lot more on the way, a lot more on the way. Cabinet picks, the left melts down, and Pennsylvania. Stick with us: Black Rifle Coffee, the best coffee that you can get.

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On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist? Follow Dana's Absurd Truth podcast for bite-sized, informative episodes. Perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We've been going over all of the ongoing cabinet pics, and just, it feels like it's just kind of calmed down.

Everybody's like a little chill. And maybe it's because we're also going into the holiday season. Are we really? We are. We're there.

We're like a week away from Thanksgiving. And uh Are we I I think m have th have have the has the left stopped lecturing you about how to behave at the dinner table, at the Thanksgiving table? I don't know. Audio Sun by 9, John Fetterman. He's saying maybe Maybe the left needs to stop having their meltdowns.

Senator John Fetterman. Senator, always good to see you. You have said that Democrats shouldn't be, quote, freaking out. over every single thing Trump does. Are you freaking out at all about any of these cabinet picks, I wonder?

Well, I mean, there's some that I would absolutely be excited to vote for. like my colleague from Florida or the representative From New York, of course. And then there's others that are just absolute trolls, just like Gates and those things. And that's why, you know, Democrats. And I would like.

Trump gets the kind of thing, I mean, he gets the kind of thing that he wanted, you know, like the freak out and all of those things. And he hasn't even been, it's still not even Thanksgiving yet. And if we're having meltdowns, you know, every tweet or every appointment or all those things, I mean, it's going to be four years. Yeah, he's right. I love it.

He's like, I mean, you're an absolute troll. You got to stop freaking out. He's right, though. They have to stop freaking out. This does them no good.

It does them no good. I I mean they're I don't even they they've got bigger things to worry about. I mean, they're trying to cause World War III, it seems like. Like with the latest round, we're going to talk to Stephen Yates about this coming up next hour, but. as to whether or not Ukraine can blast targets inside of Russia with US missiles.

And Zelensky's like Ah, the weapons will speak for themselves I'm going to tell you what, if that short stack drags all of us into World War III, all our kids into World War III, I will personally kick his ass. I'll find a way to do it. I don't care. I've been told that illegal immigration is allowable, so I will illegally cross the border over there and kick his ass. I'm not dealing with this.

And the fact that the See, I'm torn because I feel like the Biden administration Is mad at their own party, and Jill wore red. And I don't know, I kind of wonder if he didn't vote for Trump himself. But then at the same time they it seems like they are putting the pedal to the floor. on this issue with Ukraine and US uh long-range missiles. Because that's considered That's been at least described as an escalation from the non-US point of view.

And I'm just saying, it seems like it's a little bit worrying. Trying to go full full throttle. Ahead of the change of power. I mean, that's. Makes me wonder if they're just fast tracking it.

and doing this with such speed because of that, for that reason. Junior had said that it was the military-industrial complex that wants to make sure they get World War III going. before the new administration is installed. I mean, clearly, you can see the difference in what the American people want and what this administration is doing. They they don't They don't want an escalation of of anything.

They don't want to be involved in it. We're going to talk to Stephen Yates about this more. coming up. But not just with that, but also the issue of immigration. I had um let me pull this up.

Uh There was this story uh over In this is what it was in Boston and some of these other states, these. sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. And the Boston mayor, for instance, was saying that she was not cooperating with deportations. And that she thinks that her city might be able to reverse or override parts of federal immigration law.

somehow. Which is Wild to think that. You have ICE, and Bill Melugin noted that in Boston, ICE's office there has been arresting. illegal immigrants who were charged with child rape, And they have to they're releasing them for local custody because they're they're refusing or ignoring ICE's detainer requests. This is just fomenting lawlessness and disorder.

That And I can't believe I, you know, this, there was no follow-up on that in the in their interview that they had. And she's not the only one like this. She's not the only leader. You heard Pritzker saying, no, no, no, you're not going to come. And this is all based this is all predicated upon that false narrative of massive deportations, which when it comes to people who are here illegally, yes.

They had this story. This was this morning. Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien from Venezuela. who's charged with uh uh Lake and Riley's murder. Apparently He and his brother They said that they were picked up.

They had a humanitarian flight. to Atlanta. back in September of 2023. and they got the flight, and Ibara's brother picked them up from the airport. in Atlanta, drove them to Athens, and that's where he murdered Riley this year.

So they were they had gone to the uh Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. But they were housing. a huge population of illegal immigrants. And they got a humanitarian flight to Atlanta, which means it was a taxpayer subsidized flight. How do you get a humanitarian?

I would, yes, I'm here illegally. I would like one flight, please. How does that work? I mean, what about the what about the people who, like, live here? They want to go fly and see family.

Can they go to that hotel and ask for a free flight too, please? That's wild.

So we're just flying people who are in the country illegally, flying them around. on the taxpayer dime. Or whether it's not directly booked by the government, the government-funded third-party NGOs. That's just I mean, we funded Think about it this way. As Taxpayers We financed The flight that enabled this murderer who is in a country illegally to fly to Georgia to kill Lake and Riley.

We paid for his way there. That's one of the. I hope that all of this with NGOs is one of the first things that they cut. With Doge. The amount of money these entities get is unbelievable.

I mean, how is this this is horrific? And and then it It brings us all as parties into this. There's the Roosevelt in in New York. at Roosevelt Hotel in New York. And they said it's about $220 million.

to provide accommodation $220 million annually. Uh for three so they leased it Uh, it's been leased for three years, uh, they're helping to provide accommodation to illegal immigrants. etcetera, etcetera. By the way, Pakistan owns that hotel, I think. I remember it was like a foreign entity that owns the hotel.

Very interesting. I hope that that's one of the things I think these third-party NGOs, they get so they. I hope that this is one of the things that they cut. They receive so much money, and there's no oversight. There's no oversight in how it's spent.

There's no oversight, and I mean, you're encouraging. the further deluge across the border using our tax dollars. This is just wild. And I would be curious as to the full amount of tax. paying dollars that goes to this.

You know. I would be Catholic Charities is one of the biggest recipients of it. I was looking at some of the stats on it. They're some of the biggest recipients of all of this. They said that in San Antonio, They got uh let's see, because DHS When they were allocating taxpayer dollars, and this was over this past summer.

They said that 380 million went to various entities nationwide through their shelter and service program, and that's administered by FEMA. and they work with Customs and Border Patrol on that. They gave 17 million and again they announced this in August of this year they gave 17 million to Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio. they received in April, just in April of this year. Catholic charities had received ten million already.

And then the San Antonio, the Archdiocese of San Antonio received 17 million. Uh people were questioning how that money was being spent. After whistleblowers were saying, well, they're purchasing tickets, airline tickets, for people who entered illegally. I remember when we flew in uh through Miami. When was this?

I think it was this past summer, spring or summer. And while we were there, we were going through Uh, 'cause we had to go through customs in Miami. and there were a string of people And th from what I was told, and I don't want to get anybody in trouble because it was, I think it was somebody like-minded from TSA, and because I know it's important to the left, they were Hispanic. And I think that they did not agree with what was happening. But there was a group of illegal immigrants, and they all had the lanyards.

And like the badges where they have their in or the not the badges, like giant neck lanyards where they have their uh their materials and a pouch that they wear on their neck. And um they were being led through. The airport, and I guess being put on a plane. And I'd I'd seen videos of it and I've seen photos of it. I never saw anything like that in person.

But we were watching it happen, and we had a huge long line to go through customs, right? And These individuals were led right on through. special entrance. The rest of us were just waiting for about forty minutes in line to get their customs. It's pretty wild.

Pretty wild. I and I was thinking, well, who bought their tickets? Who buys the tickets? Who? Who organizes all this?

Who provides the transportation when they get to their destination? Who does it? How do they even know where to go? Who facilitates all this? It's these NGOs that are receiving millions and millions of dollars.

And in fact, Uh Henry Quayar. He was ranking member at the time of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. And he was one of the people apparently that helped set up the the program. And he was saying, Well, I never, it was never designed to subsidize travel for people who are here illegally. And it was never designed to purchase hair.

Oh, that maybe that was your intention, but maybe. This is why you don't do this kind of stuff. You had no safeguards on it, it was used. As nothing more than just just constant stream of disposable income for these agencies. I mean, we were paying for food, shelter, toiletries, all kinds of stuff.

We were paying for that. Our veterans get less. We were paying all of that. We don't put our veterans up in, you know, nice, swanky accommodations when they're at the VA or anything else. But my gosh, if you're here illegally, you get the treatment.

Kane found too the charges Do you remember the story? We covered it at the time that it happened. There were these two Iranian nationals that were trying to access a military base in Virginia back in the spring.

Well, apparently the DOJ dropped charges against them. They dropped any kind of charges against them. The J6ers are Well, yeah, that's different, Kane. If you're an old lady and you walked past the Capitol building on January 6th, you're a terrorist. But if you're an Iranian national who tried to produce false credentials and were lying to the people that were keeping you in the holding area and you were trying to repeatedly gain access to a military base, then that's totally fine.

I see.

So citizens exercising their right to their you know air their grievances to their government. Arrested in jail. Jordanian Nationals.

Well, as you know, and as the left has repeatedly characterized it, sir, the J6 was greater than 9-11, you know. Worse than 9-11, the worst attack ever on our country's soil. No attack has ever been worse. Good lord, I'm getting mad now. On our country's soil.

I'm getting actually mad now. None, nothing. I mean, that was what the Levt has said, not me. I didn't say this. Other people have.

Still makes me mad. Yeah. We got a lot more on the way. We got Florida Man coming up. Caltech.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. All right, so some sanity into the day. Florida man. This first one.

This guy was accused, Florida dude was accused of attacking an Amazon driver on a delivery route, according to deputies. I don't know why you got to be doing like that, but stop it. The driver. was attacked. This was in uh Ocala, Florida.

Uh someone's gonna tell me it's Osala. It's Ocala. I'm saying it's Orlando. It says Orlando, but it's on, it was the Ocala route. But we're just going to go with Orlando.

Authorities say. This 37-year-old jumped into a moving delivery van, scratched the driver. leading to his arrest. And he the the truck had to stop. He somehow lashed onto the driver's side door, grabbed the guy's shirt, scratched his arms and legs.

And try to punch him several try to, and then the guy, the driver responded by punching his attacker. They said that your actions constitut the guy's actions constituted his burglary. There was body camera footage.

So he's facing battery and burglary charges. Literally, nobody knows why he did it. Nobody knows why. Like, why are you nuts? I don't know.

Okay, I uh this is crazy.

Okay, so this is a wild story. This is a Briti, it's from The Mirror, which is a British paper. Uh Boy.

So A Florida mom tricked a man who was sexting her 13-year-old. Yeah, to meet him at a Popeyes where he was shot by cops. The hair? Yeah. So she set up her own sting at the local Popeyes.

Love that chicken from Popeyes. And she was confronting this dude who was sexing her daughter. And the woman became aware that her daughter was having an inappropriate text relationship. He was 18-year-old. Uh Sari Roderick Roderike Banks.

Uh, Jacksonville said their deputies confirmed it. They said she took her daughter's phone, she set up a meeting with the subject. Banks said he was still messaging the teenager. He agreed to meet her. They arranged to meet on November 10th.

And the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office apparently They said the mother was accompanied by her two kids, and then they were confronted by an armed suspect who brandished the weapon at her. She told them, when you hear shots tonight, He well, Banks is alleged to have told him when you hear shots tonight, you know what's up.

So she took her kids into the restaurant, contacted police. The officer pulled up in the back. The guy was still at the back of the business. He wouldn't leave the business. He had his gun.

They told him repeatedly to drop his gun. He didn't. And then he pulled it from his waistband like he was going to shoot the cops and they shot him. Yeah, that's a bad idea. And you're also a child predator.

So, you know, I feel like there's a double favor that was done here. There you go. There you go. Uh, let's see, this guy no, why do you do this? The Florida Dad keeps 200 exotic snakes in a converted garage, and some of them even sleep with his kids.

No, let's not. Let's not. It's in Fort Lauderdale. Uh the guy's name uh This is very fascinating.

Socrates. Christofaru. And they could strangle you. The snakes are big enough to where they could strangle you. Don't know why he would do that, but he's doing it.

Tomorrow I'll tell you about the lady who tried to commit hurricane aid fraud. Stick with us. Third hour next. Welcome back to the program, top of this third hour, and our good friend Stephen Yates will be joining us later on in the program at the bottom of the hour. You can also find us at Facebook, find us at Substack, the newsletter, chapter, and verse, always good things.

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So. The uh Where to start? ABC is all in on the AG. I just saw this story hit about the House Ethics Committee talking about the AG, that whole fight. The media is going to be getting into it more and more.

I'm just telling you. There's smoke. for some reason. What type of fire and how big the fire is what needs, I think, to be. investigated or looked at.

I don't know. There's a lot of stuff there. I'm not going to, as I've said before in the Gates case, I'm not going to litigate. The because I don't know I know what people have told me. I know what other actual people on the floor have told me.

Who've maybe seen stuff or heard stuff? I remember that whole Madison Cawthorne story when they were making fun of him because he said he got invited by other lawmakers to go to like some of these weird parties and. Rumor was is that And this is just what the one of the rumors were, and it came out in defense of him. Like it was Gates that had asked. I don't know.

I don't know. It's D C, it's weird. I think people think that DC, that they're lawmakers and that they are Republicans, and that they're not going to be weird.

Some of the weirdest people I've met. Are in DC. They're lawmakers. They're weird. They're just, you know, no offense to anybody who's a lawmaker, but But this story though is there I don't want this to be used as a way to discredit everyone.

And I think for all the time that some people laugh and joke over, oh, he's playing 4D chess, I actually think this may be it. I said this last week. Because Trump could I mean, he didn't put it out on the letterhead. Lorraine has her letterhead theory. It didn't go out on the letterhead.

It's like Cybar.

So the town where my family's from in southern Missouri. There's a there was this like old timey theater across the street from a church. a or like movie s movie theater, like cinema. And um And then they're, they're, it got used for something. I think they're in a bowling alley or something like that.

And then the church also has a. the white sign. I it's not I guess it's a marquee, like the 'Cause s they they ended up get so anyway, if someone ki kicked over, their name would go up on the marquee. Like, oh, well, we're, you know, you know, so-and-so, something like that. And they would be advertising the services, like the funeral services for a cry.

Long story. But the saying is Well, is their name on the marquee if there was a rumor that someone had passed? the rumor the the response would be, Oh, well, is their name up on the marquee? Did they get It's funny. Anyway.

I The same applies here. All I'm saying is that I just, I don't. I don't know if it's I I I don't want to get in and litigate the the the particulars of this case, but Because nobody knows. The feds didn't bring charges because they didn't think they could prove that Gates or the others knew the age of these girls. But as I said, you need to have somebody as AG who is going to undermine deep state, not be undermined by deep state.

And there's a huge difference here. And I don't think that he knows. enough about the protocol to do it. That's it. All this other stuff, you don't want this to be used as the...

tool with which to seed doubt in the minds of senators. In the confirmation process with all these other people because of this one. And there are tons of good choices out there. But like Trump could be, this could be 4D chess. This could be Trump is just kind of letting him go through this process and he can maintain the appearance of standing by him, although it's not going to go through because he didn't, and maybe that's why he didn't put his name out on Letterhead.

Seems like the ones that aren't on the letterhead announcing the nomination. Seems like those are the Those are the ones that might be harder to get through. Just a theory. But still, interesting none all the same.

So did you hear that Hunter Biden's been hitting the Hollywood party circuit? Complaining about his New York page six had the story. He is apparently doing because he's out there living in Malibu. Uh he was at a party in Los Angeles last week. And people said that he was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA.

And he was complaining that he has $18 million in legal bills with cases hanging over his head. And he said that. The uh stories about him were all setups. Do you believe that? No one does.

So they remember he had a sugar brother. He had the sugar brother. And the guy apparently went broke. He couldn't. He couldn't pay for Hunter Biden anymore.

Lorraine has a piece about it right now up at uh chapter and verse That he's been looking for a new benefactor because the Sugar Brother was like, My money's gone. I can't afford Hunter Biden anymore. I can't do it with him any more.

So $18 million in legal bills and all of the stories against him were a setup.

Sounds like he learned his lesson, didn't he? No, he didn't. He didn't learn his lesson. He didn't. Uh Lorraine has her uh Everything that's happened in the legal world, even getting into the Egypt stuff and the business fraud case, and because now it looks like everything could go away.

I still hope he doesn't pardon Hunter Biden. No no commutation, no pardon. None of it. No none at all. But uh who do you think would be a good Going to the A G thing.

If you had to pick an A G I wouldn't be against a guy like an Andrew Bailey. Honestly. Yeah, I don't think he wants it. I think he wants to see it. Yeah, you're probably right.

I also think he's got eyes for governor, but I don't know yet. Right. I just don't want to pull. Like, obviously, in this instance, if it's Gates or whatever, he's already resigned from Congress, but I'd hate to pull from another congressional seat. Don't you dare.

I'm just saying. You don't need a pull for it. You got so many others out there that are so good already. There's tons of really good people that are out there. Yeah, I do like the rain suggestion of Trey Gowdy.

Yeah. Nonsense, no nonsense. Why couldn't she be AG? You don't have to pull from Senate. Don't have to pull from the house.

That's true. Don't have to risk or gamble upon your very narrow majority. Still have to get that confirmation, though. True. Lorraine says Trey Gowdy would be a good Agie.

He could get confirmed easily. Because of his history in Congress.

So he would get confirmed easily. It's just that hair is so severe. He's got that tilde swinton do. You know. I'm not saying it to be mean.

He's a fascinating character. He is. But he has Tilda Swinton's hairdo, and you guys know it. Look at uh d look at him save Google Google. Tilda Swinton.

and look at her and be like, Well, I'll be damned if that ain't Trey Gowdy's hair. Just saying. Just saying. It's like when you look at Joy Reid and you're like, that's simple Jack's hair. What in the world is happening?

Just saying. So that's putting it out there. I'm not saying anything that's not, you know, what's mean. A few other things to touch on. We've got Stephen Yeats coming up.

Uh in uh Here's one other thing that I wanted to point out, real quick, and then I want to talk about the Pennsylvania stuff.

So here's one of the issues that I think I hope that Trump and his inner circle are watching out for. Because this was a problem in twenty sixteen. Remember last hour I was telling you the difference between loyal and submissive? There's a difference. There's loyalty and submission, and they are very, very different things.

And people who are submissive may not be loyal. They can still stab you in the back. And the reason I say this is because there was a huge problem in 2016 with leaks. People who wanted to be gatekeepers in his Inner circle. Who would they would leak to the press if it was something was happen as a way to try to manipulate.

POTUS' behavior because Trump likes positive press coverage. That's a currency of his. And I felt like there were some people that were should have been working with him instead of against him that leaked as a way to use the press coverage to manipulate his behavior. And I feel like there are people trying to sow Discord already. This is the third story that I've seen on this.

And I don't know. I can't imagine that this is anybody that is like in his family or inner circle. But it said that Musk had, and this is New York Post, had a massive blowup with Trump aide Boris Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. and it was apparently during a dinner. And they said that they, I guess, disagreed.

They didn't really exactly say what they disagreed on. But Epstein, who was a special assistant during the president's first term in 2017, apparently they. Got into a debate on an issue and it got pretty acrimonious. And then Musk lashed out at Epstein about tipping off the media. And apparently, dinner guests witnessed the argument, and Epstein was told.

Well, he he told Musk, you don't know what you're talking about. and they apparently were, you know, arguing.

Now This is why I say this. Last week, NBC ran a piece, and it was cited by the New York Post. And it said that they were a source in Trump World said that Musk is, quote, behaving as if he's co-president and making sure everyone knows it. End quote.

Now Musk Axios reported, and this is the third piece. Axios had said that Musk thought Epstein had too much influence over Trump's picks. including the Gates pick, because that was Epstein apparently. And a I guess that's where it is.

So There I just feel like Someone is trying to undermine Musk. That is, and I don't think it's Trump. I think Trump is, he's, I think he's evaluating candidates, but I think someone is trying to.

So it sounds like somebody that is adjacent to him is too big for their britches and they're trying to gatekeep. And they don't think that Musk's influence is a threat to their influence, and so they want to gatekeep and they're leaking to the press. That's not loyalty. That is not loyalty. You are actively undermining the President-elect by doing stuff like this.

You think that you're helping? Maybe? Actually, I don't know how anyone could leak and think that you're helping. That that sounds like someone's trying to undermine. One of the allies to the president.

And I've never gotten the impression that Musk was acting like he was co-president or anything of that sort of view. Nope. He's always stood back. I've never gotten that impression. But It sounds like someone is they think that It sounds like somebody's trying to make some dumb picks.

and Musk maybe objected to them. And they're worried that Musk's influence is greater than theirs, and so they want to gatekeep and they want to make Musk look bad in the press. That's what it sounds like.

So I'm just saying. That's not loyalty. Loyalty and submission are not the same thing.

So, someone could act like they're a loyal aide, but if you're leaking to the press, you are a traitor to your cause. If you're leaking to the press, you're a traitor to your cause. Because that's not how the stuff is solved. It destabilizes the whole thing. And we don't have time for this.

Right out of the gate, like this, come on. Get it together. There's always a problem on the right that's different from the left. There's this, the right operates under this delusion of opportunity scarcity. And they are always the left, it's like they want more people to sit at the table because I guess maybe because they're hive mind.

And they think that the greater the numbers, the greater the power. I feel like that's like the difference between the right and the left. Because the right acts like, oh, if we get too many people at the table, there's less for me. as you're seeing with stuff like this. I don't get it.

It's a weird, weird mindset. We have more to come. We got headlines on the way. I'm just saying be careful of this stuff. As we move.

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

So apparently, some woman, a 26-year-old, ran the New York City Marathon drunk. And said she would do it again, but she said that she likes to push herself, but she doesn't think that she's gonna break any records. Uh Okay. Yeah, all right. A commercial plane had a near miss with the UFO near New York, according to a Pentagon report.

I've got a lot of questions about this.

Now, Kane, how many times have we seen stories like this? Dust drip out in the past, like, you know, several months, past year. This Pentagon report says it was a near miss with an unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomenon near New York. According to the Pentagon's latest report, they said there's hundreds of new instances of UFOs, and it was released Thursday, the Empire State's close call. It was about 757 cases of unidentified phenomenon.

Or the U I know I'm just saying. I got questions because it can't all be drones. You know, I mean, that's like the first thing you think of, you're like, oh, well, it's drones. Maybe it should can't all be that. Uh let's see, uh Net oh my gosh, Netflix, so everybody's really mad watching the fight with uh the Paul Tyson fight.

They said it was 60 million households for Netflix, and Netflix couldn't handle it. Did you watch it on Netflix? Did it buffer and all that? Oh, really? You had it?

Oh, they're all shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of problems with connectivity during that time.

So it was pretty much everybody. Yeah, servers crashed or something happened. Yeah. Well Uh this story This is the funny this is so ridiculous These people told insurers that a bear damaged their car. But it was a person in a bear costume.

Four residents from LA, they were arrested this week after an investigation from the California Department of Insurance revealed that they allegedly used a life-size bear costume. to stage attacks on their vehicles in an attempt to secure a six-figure payout. The uh For men whose names I cannot pronounce. We're charged with insurance because they have all the consonants in them, insurance fraud and conspiracy. It's Operation Bear Claw.

They gave their claims to the insurance company, and they said that they said one of the bears entered their 2010 Rolls-Royce, and it was a. And they had video footage of it. But It literally, they said, we watched the video, it's a person in a bear costume. It's not an actual bear. They recorded someone in a bad bear costume.

attacking a car. And they thought that it they said this was the They said that a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife reviewed the three alleged bear videos and concluded that it was clearly a human in a bear suit. Stephen Yates is up next. Stick with us. Get the lowdown on the latest news with a side of laughs.

Whenever you want, subscribe to the Dana Show podcast on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. The fact that we obviously know about these hacks means that those particular hacks probably have been addressed in one way or another. But one thing I can say with great confidence, having worked in the intelligence world for some time now, is that I promise you they are out there in ways that we don't know about.

So my hope is that the president made it very clear that this kind of behavior is not tolerable and that he backs that up and quite frankly that Donald Trump, the next president, backs that up with action. You know, as Teddy Roosevelt said, the big stick, right? We're pretty good at hacking networks too. And I think it's really important for the Chinese to understand that we're not just going to name and shame the hackers and complain about it, but that we are going to go into their networks and give as good as we got. I suspect that in this realm, they need to see that we are capable of inflicting a lot of damage if they continue to get a lot of people.

I'm all about reckonings. That's uh representative Jim Himes on CBS's Face the Nation talking about big stick 2024. Why isn't that a slogan? Welcome back, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour on this and so much.

Our good friend Stephen Yates, you can find him on X at Yates Comms. Notice I didn't trip up and say Twitter, uh, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, it's only been a year, uh, but it's so good to see you via Skype. Uh, welcome back, my friend. Always good to have you. I'm just so, what is this?

So, we've now we've had the election. Everybody can Kind of exhale, but there is a a new leadership now coming in coming into view. What do you think China's reaction was to all this?

Well, the first thing China did was go after poor old Joe Biden at the Apex Summit. The guy was trying to hide in the corner. It seemed like they put him out there behind the drapes. And when he sat down with Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping gave him a list of orders. Of don't mess with me, big China on Taiwan, and don't try to tell us anything about this international system and human rights.

And so otherwise, you know, get off my lawn kind of stuff. And I never really heard what President Biden said in response. But first thing Xi Jinping did was to go after outgoing President Biden, maybe just for fun. That's a I'm so glad that you mentioned that, especially the photo, because I was looking at this. They always do these weird class photos.

And they did one for APEC. And I don't understand. They all had the brown scarves, which, okay. And Biden, the United States was all the way in the back. All the way stage left.

All the way.

So audience right, house right, stage left. Yeah, normal, I mean, you're the United States of America. I remember Trump got so much grief one time for one of these things because he pushed his way up to the front and stood right in the middle and made every, which I thought was hysterical and accurate. Ultimate boss move, America back kind of action. This was that people might try to brush it off and say that it wasn't meaningful, but especially with CCP and some of these other more tyrannical regimes, everything is stagecraft with them.

Absolutely true. And I think all the people that were at the APEC meeting, including Xi Jinping, they might talk tough right now, but they know not just a change of tone, but a change of substance is coming.

Now, I might be overly optimistic about it because I have Big hopes, and I have big interests in some tough policies coming into place. After all, I think there's a lot of accountability that is necessary. Stealing things on economics and trade is one thing, but killing Americans with COVID and killing Americans with fentanyl, to me, you can't have normal relations with people like that. And holding a thousand-plus political prisoners in Hong Kong, you can't. Have normal trade and negotiations with a government that does stuff like that.

So I hope a big adjustment, a change of winds is coming. And President Trump ran on that.

So I trust that his econ team will join the national security team in carrying that out. Yeah, Xi Jinping had laid out four red lines the U.S. must not challenge in his meeting with Biden. This came out this morning. These four boundaries.

That's the wrong guy to be handing boundaries to now. I mean, he's gone in January. Boundaries to him are like, how do I get from this helicopter through this treacherous lawn to this? How do I walk on the treacherous sand four years?

Sorry though. Yeah, it was totally wrong memo for the meeting. if they really meant anything by it. But it's outrageous that a leader like that of China would feel like you can get away with something like that. Right.

I mean, it used to be that the United States was feared and respected. And we could set the tone for, you know, these are the rules of the road. That's how we guaranteed freedom of navigation in the high seas. It's how we extended the peace after World War II with a few bad interruptions. But this is just a sad state of the world that Trump is going to inherit, that only his Americans inherit.

It's not just on him. I would think that we're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X. I would think that if China had any. Ambitions about moving on Taiwan, which is, you know, we've had all these discussions the past four years, although they've seemed like 20, about military readiness and the Pacific, et cetera. I would feel like their ambitions towards Taiwan have to be thwarted at least for the next four years, maybe two years at least, because things are going to turn around.

You know, we're hoping economically for the U.S., we're going to be in a better position, perhaps, with military leadership and readiness. Obviously, these are all things that they're watching and they have to take into account.

So are they over there kind of kicking the ground going, well, guess we got to wait. Guess we got to put it on the back burner for now. I mean, it's weird to think of it in those terms, but they surely can't feel emboldened now because it's not just the U.S. I mean, conservatism is like moving in parts of Europe now.

Well, the one thing that they study a lot and they seem to respect in some form is power. And when they were trying to sell this narrative of China on the rise, America on the decline, and you're going to have to make a deal with the new boss on the block before it's too late, I think the sands are shifting on that. People see that China's model is faltering a bit internally. It's still a dangerous place, it's still a big Economy, but they see with the popular vote being convincing, an electoral mandate for a leader they know also understands power. And so, whether President Trump chooses to negotiate or to use leverage, they know it's not going to just be meeting after meeting the way it's been for the last four years.

And so, I think that they have to be recalculating. They're certainly sending a lot of their minions to D.C. to try to ask for meetings with the relevant folks around town, sometimes myself included.

Now, speaking of meetings, one last thing on this, and I'm going to ask you about the Ukraine and. Long-range missiles, or long-range missiles here. When Biden, for those who don't know, when Biden was meeting with Xi Jinping. Uh at that uh at APEC. There was at one point where he was talking about the relationship.

And the word that he used was alliance, but he stopped himself from finishing the word entirely and said, or the most important relationship in the entire world. He had said, like, his brain made him say alliance. And then he like tried to edit it as he was talking. Just wanted to get your quick thoughts on that.

Well, I mean, it's just these slips. I look forward to a time when we have real leaders who can complete a thought and maybe complete a policy too. and complete a negotiation that nets positive results. for American interests. I mean, for too many people, they see politics as a performance art.

And we as consumers of media and these performances might like them, might even subscribe to a tribe. But it's really easy to forget there's real lives and real interests at stake. I mean, for me, you know, it's personal. I mean, my daughter lost her life, and I want to fight every single day for real results to change this for future American families. And there's lots of other Americans that have these interests.

So I'm kind of sick of the performance, especially when it's a bad one. Amen to that. Amen to that. I wanted to shift your gaze to. This is the latest with these missiles in Ukraine and Zelensky.

And is that. Is that viewed if we're if we're allowing Ukraine to hit targets inside of Russia using US long-range missiles? Is that, in your view, an escalation? Because some are saying that the Biden administration is trying to kick us off into World War III before the new power gets into office in January.

Well, just a few base thoughts. I mean, number one, if this was a good idea for the last two plus years, it would have been done.

So it obviously isn't a good idea. Number two, the United States should not be in the business of micromanaging a smaller country's war with a big neighbor. And so it shouldn't be the United States that's calling inshots. It's not supposed to be our war. It should be Europe's war, if anything.

And we can be supportive as an ally, but we shouldn't be in the business of saying, hey, we're going to be the head coach up in the box of the stadium calling plays down to the field. But it obviously is provocative. It's obviously in the transition period. And if you're acting in good faith for a peaceful transition, you don't do stuff like this. The only question I have is whether Joe Biden knew what was happening or whether it was the system that's been running the country that called this shot after Joe Biden may have meant it when he welcomed Donald Trump back.

Yeah, that's a very good point.

Well, we're going to see what happens now as we go into this. What do you think of Pete Hegseth over at DOD?

Well, I've known Pete for a long time. Going back to a television show they used to be a commentator on. He's got a breadth of knowledge that people might take the entertainer side of him. They think it's shallow. It's not shallow.

I think he one time took the draw from one of those life straws out in the streets of New York. That's not a feint of heart to prove a concept for a product you're selling.

So, I mean, I just, there's a lot I like about the guy. The job he is being called to do is monumental. And so I hope that there's a big, strong team coming to him because I think the transformation necessary in our Pentagon to save America and rebalance the free world is huge. But I like him and I love that the President was willing to roll the dice on an appointment that bothers the establishment. Yeah, that's a very good point.

Very good point. Stephen Yates at Yates Comms on X. Always good to see you, my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for giving us your time.

Thank you, Dana. Take care. Of course, you too. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this third hour of our broadcast. And we're just starting the week out.

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So, this is a video that Juan is showing of all of these world leaders at the G20. And they took a group photo without Biden. They couldn't find him. And they're trying to get the world leaders to stand there. Oh stop your friends.

They're telling Biden, they're telling them to wait for Biden, guys. Oh my god. They're telling these world leaders, wait for Biden and not do it.

Okay. Palm tree. Oh my god. They're like, nope. He lame-ducked out of that photo.

Yeah, he did.

So he wasn't even there as they were taking a photo. Ugh. Look at him, look at him. He's like having funnel cake or something. What he got.

My gosh wow wow That is like his whole term. In a nutshell. That's his whole term. That is shocking. That is just shocking.

They didn't even they're like we're not gonna wait We're just, and they walked off. The world leaders walked off. That's crazy. But Why did they not have him up there doing a photo? If he was there by the palm tree, Why did they not take him I'm confused here.

Mm. Please let Peter Doocy ask this. Please let Peter Doocy ask. I can't wait. I can see it now.

They go in for their White House press conference, and you're going to have Corrine Jean-Pierre who walks up on the podium. She's going to take one look at Peter Toucey and just know. that he's gonna ask why didn't Joe Biden Take a photo with all of the other leaders at G20. Why was there no effort to put him on the stage? He was over.

You know, by standing on the side, like, why? Why didn't they get him up? That's just wild. Imagine me in Biden and seeing all the world leaders standing on the the the risers and he's like, Oh, look at all those guys over there It's like missing your bus when you're a kid and you see all your bus drive away. And all the kids and you're like, Well well, damn.

That's just like what happened. This is crazy.

So, I don't know. I am. That's I We've been asking this for four years. This is his whole term in one video. Where's Biden?

Where's Biden? What's he doing? Man, this campaign. and his campaign. Notice how Kamala Harris has has Where's she at?

She's just gone. She hasn't even bothered to make herself like visible. She's just gone. Nobody knows where she is. Have you seen her at all?

I haven't seen her. I don't know where she I mean, she's still in the Senate. Nobody knows where she's at. Nobody knows. I um I'm still trying to get up the memes of uh I gotta drop this in Slack.

The memes of the RFK ED McDonald's on Trump Force One are hysterical. His face. Is not a ha his face reads not a happy camper. Juan, if you can, you've got to throw this up. 'Cause it's hysterical.

We were talking like one of our previous hours about the culture shock that he probably is experiencing right now. I mean, he's a Kennedy and he goes to a UFC event and then he's on Trump Force One eating McDonald's. He can't have a cheap meal. That is one of the memes. I am dying.

That was his actual expression. And then there's like a crying face behind it. That was his actual face. That was the face that he was making. And he's tucking into some kind of hamburger.

I was looking at it. I don't know what it is. And he's got, look what he's got right by him. He's got a Coca-Cola right by him. And you know he's like, I can't believe we're eating this.

Because he's very, I mean, he is very much, he hates, he hates all the fast processed food. I'm telling you, his expression was hysterical. You had to think. When he's like, Well, what are we going to eat? And they're like, bro, we're going to eat McD's.

We're going to have Mickey D's. And he's probably thinking, are you blanking kidding me? What? What? Like it's You know, can we at least like get maybe just how about some chicken, just some fried chicken, maybe do that?

McDonald's? Look, I know it's bad for you, but some of it's good. It tastes good. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not going to lie and pretend.

Some of it tastes good. Chemicals taste good. My son sometimes brings home food from work. It smells horrible after 30 minutes. That was Trump's job for a little bit at McDonald's, right?

Yeah, Trump was, you know what? Trump's. Trump not only drove a garbage truck, but he also was the fry chef at McD's. And it's great that older people that had to work two jobs to make ends meet can now find themselves in the White House. I mean, you know, there's still hope for you, too.

Just bringing food home from work. Yeah, you know, just bringing it home. Extra salt on them fries. Do you think I'm wondering? Extra nugget.

Yeah, get an extra nug in there. All right, did any stupidity, Kane? What are you doing? All right. Believe it or not, it's Adam Schiff for brains.

This is cut 17. It's all around. Look at that.

So. Adam Chiff is talking about how his Russia collusion hoax, remember he was pushing that for so long, and then nothing ever happened with it. He's. Still standing behind that. Listen to that.

First of all, it wasn't an overstatement. There is evidence of collusion. The Trump campaign manager was meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them internal polling. Oh, my gosh. That literally never happened.

So the transition team doing the standard transition team thing? Yeah. Okay. Thanks. They're a transition team and they're doing transition team stuff.

That's what they do. Anyway, that does it for us today, folks. Have a great rest of your Friday. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us at Substack, Facebook, YouTube, like, and subscribe.