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This is Nikki Glaser from the Nikki Glaser podcast. On a more serious note, I'm still thinking about that commercial with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg hating on each other. Because when you listen to the reasons for hating someone or something, you realize just how stupid they really are. There is too much hate in this country and it's gotta stop.

So join us at iHeart in standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up, call it out. And you can learn more by following at What's Up With Hate. I think both parties want to settle. I think if I wasn't president, this war would have had no chance of settlement.

Zero chance. But I think we're going to get it settled and stopped. We've got to stop. They're losing, on average, 2,000 soldiers a week. That's a lot of soldiers.

Do you agree, Peter? It's a lot of soldiers on both sides. I agree. Do you, Mr. President, think that Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the U.S.

pause right now and intelligence and military aid to Ukraine? I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do. I think he wants to get it stopped and settled, and I think he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now. He wants to get it ended, and I think Ukraine wants to get it ended, but I don't see it.

It's crazy. They're taking tremendous punishment. I don't quite get it, but I suspect, Michael, he probably wants to get it in. He does, Mr. President.

The Russians are taking incredible losses on the front. As the president has said, this is a meat grinder of people, of material, of national truth.

So we are listening to POTUS right now, who is speaking from the Oval Office. That was Mike Waltz there, DNI, who was explaining some of the Russian comments, some of the remarks that the president was making, giving a little bit of context to it. a lot of stuff there and to dive into now we got we're going to reconfigure some things on break because we got a lot of we got a lot of stuff to hit we obviously the president's address this is probably going to be ongoing we're going to dip in and out of it and bring it anything new live as needed obviously because it affects the content we're covering on the show we have headlines on the way we've got guests today and if you're a subscriber over at sub stack you know who's coming up on the program today.

So we have a lot to get to. We're going to continue monitoring the press conference, but we do because it's never a broadcast. We do have to hat tip to the people who make all of this possible.

So we're going to do that and then we're going to return. We've got headlines on the way, all of that good stuff.

So in the meantime, the folks who will bring you the program, who do we have? Because I closed it like a genius. I closed it like a genius. All right, We got headlines on the way. We got to take a quick break.

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

So Americans have fallen behind on their car payments and it's at the highest rate in decades.

Now, we all here at The Dana Show would like for you to know that included not just in this, but also in Financial Times, and it was briefly mentioned in a Wall Street Journal piece that I actually had saved a week and a half ago, that it's the people who are affected. Nobody's fallen this far behind. The people who are affected got their loans before January 20th, 2025.

So that's before Trump was in office.

So Cain, what does that mean? It wasn't Trump. It wasn't Trump. And they actually do have the drop on that.

So just saying more Americans are tapping their 401ks to pay for financial emergencies. Pre-COVID, the average was about two percent in 2023. It was three point six.

Now it's four point six. And once again, Cain, when did this measure begin? Oh, this began under Biden. Oh, my gosh. It began under Biden.

Well under Biden. The reason I'm saying this is because Democrats are trying so hard to make what's coming look like it's going to be just Trump's decision. Even though, keep in mind, the CR is literally just carrying over the Biden financial framework literally for another fiscal year.

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Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Big gains for native-born Americans for the first time in 15 months. The job gains for native-born Americans, for American people, people born in America, exceeded job gains for migrant and foreign-born workers. This is the first time that's happened in more than 15 months. Employment for native-born workers went up by 284,000, while foreign-born workers went down by 87,000.

Now, you know, you've heard the same stat where foreign workers were taking up all the jobs or almost all the jobs, in some cases, literally all of the jobs. and now it's 284,000 native-born jobs here, people born in our country, 284,000, while foreign-born workers went down by 87,000. First time that's happened in a long time.

So these are incredible numbers, and they're very early. I mean, you know, we're here for five weeks, but we have been talking about it since the big win in November.

So POTUS is going through some of the jobs numbers there from the Oval Office. I think he's actually he has finished his discussion. He has finished his questions and answers. Just had a few like questions from the press and he took those. By the way, how weird is it?

We're so not used to it. But for the past four years, whatever the hell Biden was, we had that. I don't wait. Correct me if I'm wrong here, because I don't want to I don't want to be I don't want to exaggerate, you know, for any kind of purpose. But I didn't Biden have like a sit down in the Oval Office like that where he just like took questions from the press.

Biden, did he have did he sit in the Oval Office and do that? The hell are you talking about? No, that didn't happen ever, ever, ever. Seriously? Not once.

That never happened. I'm pretty sure it never happened. If it did, I really, really forgot about it. I don't remember it happening. That's why I didn't want to go out and say, well, Biden's never done that because, you know, I mean, I don't want to I don't want to like mislead anybody.

but where he sat there for an hour dude i gotta be real yeah i don't ever remember him doing that yeah no and just being very frank and and comfortable with answering questions it makes me laugh that you've been saying that well it's weird i mean i'm not it's so weird it's so weird you when you i gotta explain and i'm not like this is not like reaction for show purposes When I was watching this earlier I Because you guys see this and some of us you know Because we're nerds and we have no lives This is our job is no lives and we watch this And that's fine I like it But day in and day out like we're Immersed in everything that the White House Would say you know Trump or Even before Biden and We just got used to Not having any Answers I was talking to a friend of mine who works In the White House press corps And she was saying that she goes i've never been busier in my life And I and I said, oh i'm like, well, you know, yeah, you know new administration She was like no, you don't understand She goes I filed seven stories just this morning And when I talked to her it was like right after the show.

So it was like, you know, 2 30 central She's like I filed seven stories just this morning. She was like there's so much happening She's like I am lit. She's like i'm living here at the white house She said before it wasn't like that She's like I mean I would have I would be just like in the offices of the publication she works at And she was like it's so weird because no one that was the joke before when trump was in office No one was ever at the desk because they were always covering everything that he was doing And she said when biden was in office, you know, I just we just we were here We were actually in the newsroom, which you know, if you're literally part of the press corps That's not really something, you know, you're usually out covering Anyway, long story short We we had the realization that we just got trained over those four years Especially when you're covering it every single day that You're just not used to them telling you things You're used to them not answering questions. You're used to not knowing what the hell is going on right?

Now it's like you know too much. I'm pretty sure that you charmin in the white house, right? I think we all like we know everything that's happening Can I just touch on this one story that came out? And I know that the press is so excited because they think it's fodder. They think we got something.

We got something that we can use to finally divide POTUS from Elon Musk. And they've been looking for something like this for forever. It's the story that came out where I guess what is it there was while Doge was going through things. They said that the accusation is a sensitive CIA facility was exposed by a property sale mishap.

So Doge apparently The accusation is that There was the sale of federal properties And this list of sale Of what federal properties had been sold And it inadvertently Kind of released the location Of what they said was a sensitive Facility in northern Virginia And it was described as being Previously used by the CIA For training or other intelligence activities Now the original article That talks about this does not say the phrase black site. You guys know what a black site is, right? That's usually it's a location in a foreign area. And that's where the CIA takes the baddies. And they have a very, how do I say this?

Energetic question and answer session. Robust, as you would say, Kane. That was an excellent description. Thank you, my friend. Your mastery of the English language is second to none Robust A robust question and answer session You know, for the baddies Now, the original article And it's from, I think it's from Bloomberg Now, Bloomberg, I tend to think, is trash This is the first of two Bloomberg stories I gotta talk about today They didn't actually say Blacksite Now, I'm not saying that because they didn't say Blacksite It doesn't mean Blacksite But they didn't say Blacksite But I understand how everyone thinks because I think like that too.

I was immediately like That's a black site. That was immediately what I thought I read it. I was like What's a black site mean? What's it doing here? That was my first thought Would any jury convict me for just simply speculating?

I read it and it didn't say black site, but I was like I didn't say that to you. I just thought it. You heard my thought.

So I'm not claiming it. I just thought it as a question.

Now, they're not supposed to have those here. If it in fact was that very thing that we were like about. They're not supposed to have them. It's like illegal. I don't know what the law is.

I just know that it's like apparently not allowed. It's so it's illegal for that to be here. And I don't know. Maybe they were training it. Maybe they were bringing people here and debriefing them.

I don't know. You know, I feel like I should know now, right? Like, I want to know more about this.

So now there's all kinds of discussion about transparency. And some people are saying, Doge went too far. This is what happens when you have some nerds going through. No, no, no, no. Uh, wrong.

This is what happens when you have a rat bastard government because of the people in it, the people leading it, the people running these agencies and acting like they're de facto little monarchs and mini bosses. This is what happens when you have a completely unaccountable, too big to govern government and there's no accountability and no oversight and there has been no transparency. It has been weaponized against innocent people, zero accountability, zero transparency.

So no, you don't get, for all of those people out there, you don't get to sit back and go, oh, well, see, this is what happens when the people try to hold their government accountable. Blank you. No, you don't get to say that. And even if, in the grand scheme of things, Doge accidentally found a CIA black site. First off, why is the left going, how dare you find that illegal black site?

Shame on you. What the hell is wrong with you people? Why are you not going, is that a black site? What is that? Why is that not your first question?

Why is the left like, our precious government's under attack. Save them. Why is that their first reaction to everything? My gosh, it's so tiring. It's so tiring.

That's their first reaction to literally everything.

Meanwhile, us sanees are over here going, we're like that meme. You know that meme of that, what is, I don't know what animal it is. It's not Arthur, but it's just this weird little meme where the cartoon character is looking kind of sideways. I feel like that right now. That should be the first response.

But no, everyone's like, oh, how dare you attack it? And then you have all these liberals out there making the jokes that, oh, Doge thought it was code for a DEI project. You know, black, sorry. They try so hard to be funny. And I You know the nice The good part of my psyche Wants to pat him on the back and go You tried But I don't follow through with that So I don't know If it inadvertently exposed something I just think Again the article didn't say it But if it did Why isn't the first question WTF what is it doing here I mean that seems like That's the biggest that's the bigger question right somehow that's not journalism to wonder that thou shalt not ask questions of thy government no no that's the 11th commandment and it was on the other side of the tablet you know a lot of people don't flip that over i didn't even you didn't know that yeah it was like double double printed god was double printing like before anybody before we invented it it was double-sided today you're sold you never i know right still black and white but it was double-sided.

I mean, it was like mega advances back in the time of printing with the stone tablets. And by the time Moses realized, he's like, wait a minute, there's another flip it. They already were going crazy.

So it was, you know, you got one chance.

So I just feel like that's, you know, so now they're using that as a way to attack Doge.

Now, again, in the grand scheme of things, even if, even if that was accurate, even if Sage at Doge was, oh, we just, We accidentally uncovered an illegal black site.

Sorry, guys. That pales in comparison. First off, it's kind of a whistleblowing thing, but it pales in comparison to anything that the government has done in the past four years.

Sorry, you guys locked us down in our homes. Redact it off. OK, go do something unflattering to your face. No, I'm not. I'm not having it.

I'm not having it And I feel like I'm not alone in that Right?

Sort of feel like I've got some company here But seriously The black site Let's just let me operate If you're going to do something off the books like that Give it to me I don't want an elected position I don't ever want to run for office And I feel really uncomfortable Representing anybody who would vote for me I'm sorry but I'm questioning you I just want to be And I will take it unpaid Let me be in charge of like torture or something or going after the like devising ways to punish baddies I would be happy with that. I'll do it as a service to my country Won't even charge. It's for free. We got a lot more on the way. It's friday I mean you guys are like already like a spring break here.

It's the time for a spritz I know you, uh, we got a lot still to get into because coming up. Hold on. Let me pull this up And we've got John Burke is going to be joining us because Texas is getting, I don't know, like nobody, you know, the meme where it's nobody colon and then there's nothing. Nobody's saying anything. Texas.

Oh, let's go ahead and make THC illegal. I mean, it's been legal this whole time, but now they're like, you know what? We haven't done enough. I guess they got tired of trying to pass like anti-gun bills. And so now they're going, oh, you know what?

Let's try to ban this. Let's ban all the things.

So we're going to discuss that coming up We're also going to get into We've got Will Held who's going to be joining us And he's going to be talking with us A little bit about the Black Rock stuff We need to keep an eye on that So we've got a lot of stuff to hit All Family Pharmacy helped me out I got my azithromycin Actually I got it overnighted And it immediately started helping Obviously with my symptoms and sickness Helping with the super sore throat All of that They have over 200 different medications All of the antibiotics that they have It's all made in the USA. I don't know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don't have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It's simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Congressman, Congressman, how are you? I'm okay, thank you. Congressman, why should men be in women's sports? shorts sports why do you think they should not be in shorts just run him over you don't have to be a jackass about it just run him over already run over his feet shorts because then you just look stupid and it makes us question why he should even be in congress at all like for real that was steve cohen representative steve cohen shorts it's not as bad as what rosa delaro just did here and i had to see this so you do too.

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Serving Connecticut's third district. Oh my gosh, no. It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era. We're going to have to drop.

Alright, besties. House appropriation is the money moves in Congress. We are not chasing the bag. We are the bag. Stop it.

Democrats are making life smoother for government. I can't handle anymore. It's giving. Just turn it down. It's hurting my soul.

she's trying to say all of like the millennial stuff it's giving main character energy she's like if gargamel had a wife and you guys remember him he wanted to either eat the smurfs or turn them into gold like we don't know but he's you know that's what he wanted he just you know um i i don't i don't understand her it's like manic panic became sentient and then developed you know developed the ability to be a bipedal human i don't know it's just i'm fascinated by this. Who is this supposed to reach out to? We're trying to reach out to the people to get all their news on TikTok. The kids do though. The kids do get their news from TikTok.

And this is why I'm totally fine with them not voting. I'll say it if nobody else will. Look, dude, when I was younger, I was raised totally entirely by Democrats. Older me is so glad that younger me was not allowed to vote before she was 18.

So glad. Because I was so dumb. When I was under 18, I was so dumb. I got smarter the more educated I became. And as I got older and I realized that the fantasy that was spun by the Democrats that surrounded me was just that.

It was a horrible fantasy that was actually a nightmare. And there are certain things that I never agreed with them on entirely anyway. But that's why. This is just, what is that? It's giving me, I'm just going to say a bunch of stuff.

Phrases, words, little microphone. What? Yo! It's like their messaging has gotten lower quality since that USAID money started drying up. Yeah, you're right.

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What is up? What is up? I can't deal. All right.

So I had to watch it.

So you had to suffer that with us. We're only going to inflict that punishment on you once. Thank you. Unless you're not behaving. We got a lot more coming up because we got the Pentagon DEI purge Did you hear the story They trying to be jackasses about this now Wait until you hear what they did as a way to get back at Doge At Pentagon.

Wait until you hear about this. It has to do with, I'll give you two words, Enola Gay. Let your imagination run wild until we come back in just a couple of minutes. Stick with us. Second Hour Next.

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And I think we have to be open to the idea. If you want to be a numbskull like Justin Trudeau and say, oh, we're going to do this, then it's going to, tariffs are going to go up. Yeah, I don't, I don't understand some of the leaders of some of these countries. You think that by picking a fight that that's going to make it easier? I mean, this is geopolitics.

This is negotiations. It's diplomacy. I mean, there is an art to it. And diplomats, which is why diplomatic skills, you know, diplomacy skills are incredibly important. It is an art.

I mean, a good diplomat, not everybody can do it. It really is. I think you have to be predisposed in terms of personality. I see Justin Trudeau talk, and I just I'm like, what an A double snakes. You're not, I mean he's Leaving but still you're not helping your people Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash With you, a number of things To touch on, we were talking about how the left Is trying to go crazy on Doge Because Doge inadvertently May have found, now Lorraine says Yeah there's some sus stuff happening Over there, she said that It's They apparently were training people Kane to do some shadiness Over there so it was like not a full-on black site maybe but a gray site i'm saying that that yeah and that they wanted to redevelop the area she said they couldn't because the cia was secretly but not so secretly there so why are people i mean why is i just i'm trying to understand why the response is that that people are mad that the left is mad that that doge may have inadvertently found something that's illegal unless Congress, I think Congress has to explicitly authorize it under wartime powers to have that on U.S.

soil because you cannot have facilities like that operating on U.S.

soil. And there's a ton of different statutes that govern this and you have to have congressional action. And I'm pretty much guaranteed that we all would have probably known if Congress, you know, I'm sure Thomas Massey would have been screaming about it from the rooftops if they had to authorize a black site on U.S.

soil. So I'm just saying, seems a little illegal, illegally, right? A little illegal-ish. Do you want to hear something really, really dumb? Always.

So, you know how we've had the DEI purge, right?

Okay, so we've had the DEI purge. Doge has been going through, looking at everything. and it seems like they're trying to get a little bit of revenge on it.

So the Pentagon, their DEI purge has led to photos of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. And you guys know the Enola Gay. That was named after Enola Gay Tibbetts. And I mean, it's, you know, historical, historical plane. Everybody knows it or you should.

But apparently they've deleted, they've marked all of these photos of the Enola Gay for deletion. And apparently photos of soldiers who have the last name Gay are also apparently marked for deletion.

Now, here's the crazy thing. It's not a joke. AP. References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient. The Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the DOD works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press.

And they're doing it. It's malicious compliance is how a friend described it. And I really feel like that's they're doing it to be malicious. Oh, but it says gay in it I mean, that's so dumb And no, I reject the argument that, well I mean, why do you say malicious policy? Isn't it just bad policy?

No, if you're, so a friend of mine is like If I tell you to clean your house and you start ripping out the stove And put furniture on the curb, that's malicious compliance That's true This is Amelia Bedelia, but on purpose You guys know Amelia Bedelia, right? I grew up with her books It was, in fact, it's how I learned about literalism um they our teacher would read it and you would tell they would have to be very careful and um amelia bedelia is the adults in her life because if they told her to do something she would do it literally literally and it would and then the stories were the chaos and fun that ensued right so they're doing this on purpose they they and and this is probably why i would think that i some of the agencies were like oh we got a little discretion over here as to how to exercise this. That's one of the things that Kash Patel had said, Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio even. Excuse me.

So I don't know if this is, I know that they've been using some AI to go through things, but I don't think they've been using it to go through everything. But like I said, this just seems, it seems like it's maliciously on purpose. Do you think it's an algorithm? Do you think, Kane, that they were using, because the article doesn't actually discuss whether or they're using AI to go through. They're just saying that they're going through the database.

And I still also don't think that they would, I mean, obviously, if you're going through that, you know, these things are going to crop up. And I don't think that AI would just, I think that they would have, they would have like some parameters attached to what they're feeding it in terms of the algorithm. It's, this is just maliciousness. This is, this is deep state going okay and then they're amelia bedelia in it oh it says gay here it's the enola gay you absolute jack wagon you fecal bird it's my new word but not the fecal part right it's not a new word it's my favorite word it's magical thank you for censoring i didn't i just voluntarily gave you a gift thank you for cleaning it i didn't have to i didn't want to have to call brennan car and be like mr car so so are they also upset the fact that it was named after a woman is that part of their thing too like because oh they're just they're just going overboard they're going overboard on purpose yeah it doesn't sound like this is just an ai no it sounds like it's overboard totally on purpose because i mean that's especially in nola gay come on ai is gonna know no everybody knows in nola gay i don't care if you don't know anything about history you know about this plane everybody knows about this plane Everybody knows about this crew. You know about it.

That's so dumb to say otherwise. This is them just being malicious. Oh, man. I feel a great big backhand trying to form. I mean, it really does.

It's malicious. I mean, think about all the other stuff that they've done malicious. Yeah, I completely believe it. I absolutely believe that this was willingly done. But this is, you know, it's an actual story.

Actual story. And this is what they've been trying to, I don't know, I guess I feel like they're trying to blame the AI, but I don't really think it's not AI. This is them just trying to be smartasses. That's really what it is.

So speaking of DEI, Wells Fargo is apparently backing off its DEI policies. One executive finally came out and said, yeah, it's over the top. Think about this for a moment. and I was writing this piece last night that I sent out on my sub stack about Gavin Newsom and how he's like, he's, you know, we talked about this yesterday and he said, yeah, you know, I think it's deeply unfair for trans, you know, for boys to be on girls teams. By the way, if he really did think it was deeply unfair, he would have signed an executive order like now, because he's still governor of California.

He would sign an executive order right now, protecting women's sports. He has not done that.

So he doesn't really care. Also, his wife is like, Isn't she like on the board of some like group, alphabet group that's trying to assimilate trans into everything? I believe so. Yeah.

So this is all goofy. I don't believe him. And he did sign the bill that actually allowed schools to socially transition kids without informing their parents or obtaining their consent.

So it's all stagecraft. Anyway, think about this, though. The number of people, especially at businesses now that are coming out saying, yeah, this is bad. It went on way too. It was just way too much.

It went on way too long. It was pretty egregious. They thought that this whole time. This isn't a realization that they just had. Like this DEI, this one executive at Wells Fargo.

This is not a realization that they just had. They knew it was crazy from the get-go. But they're lemmings. Oh no, I guess I better go along with it because I want to be socially acceptable and still popular in my social circles So they go along with it I can't stand that I cannot stand it I Go along with it. I can I tell you a story?

I'm not going to name any entity names I I don't have a problem with people who live differently than I do so long And everything is peaceable So long as no one tries to hijack my speech My behavior Or limit my rights in favor of another entity You don't do those things You know I'm good I like to be left alone I'm not a big fan of unity Because I want to be left alone And unity implies that I can't be left alone So I was at this event And it was a ladies event I really don't I'm so close to telling you who The organization But it was a ladies event and there was a gentleman at this lady's event, clearly a gentleman. I mean, I don't know if they were kitten heels that they were in the largest kitten heels I've ever seen in my life. And the guy was nice. He wasn't mean. You know, I actually, you know, I had a conversation with him for quite some time.

But dude was legit over 6'1". You can't really wear like a four inch heel. You can't wear a stiletto if you're over 6'1". And plus the structure of the shoe with a man's foot just makes that impossible. Anyway, kitten heel.

So we're at this event. And this gentleman clearly would identify himself as being trans, right? And it really shocked me because out of everybody there, and this was a few years ago, there was only like one or two other women that I spoke with that were like, this is because it wasn't a left-leaning organization. and we're like why are we all pretending that this is not a dude in kitten heels who's over six feet tall really nice but it's a ladies event and this is kind of nuts no pun intended you know and there was one woman who was a part of our conversation i'm not even kidding you and she had like her giant you know cross necklace you know her republican pin all this stuff And i'm like so what do you what do you you know, I I can't remember how I Broached the subject but I said oh yeah, the ladies are getting pretty diverse these days or something like that She's like, I don't know. I don't know what you mean I don't see it.

It was like the mariah carey meme. I don't know her. I don't know her and I looked at the other woman. I was standing with because we were having a conversation about like is this where this group is going now? and you know again dude was super nice and that's all fine and good but it's a lady event right for ladies I mean I couldn't even bring my husband to it it's a lady event that's fine but I'm just saying and we're like what do you mean you don't know what we're talking about of the ladies here is there one of these things that does not look like the other she's like no I don't know and I'm like the balls lady the seriously I'm like come on we're not dancing around this anymore but what got me was that there were so like people were just like I don't want to see it they put blinders on and then when people put blinders on they they think that everyone else is going along with it when everyone else is is only going along with it because they think everyone else is do you see what I mean it becomes this like giant psychological group conditioning effort and I'm staying I'm just looking around at all this and I'm like it's the tallest person in the room literally And I'm pretty sure that's a wig A blonde like corn silk wig With curls like I swear to you I had a cabbage patch kid with hair like that That's why I recognize it And I think it was all what Barbie Hair was made out of anyway I mean the dude was nice And I Did say something like you know how them heels Treat me out you know I And I was real nice I can't I am Any kind of small talk I will make a smart ass comment comment and I can't help it.

It's a thing. But I was thinking about this in context of this DEI story with Wells Fargo. These executives who are all coming out now like, yes, that's true. This has gone way too far. At what moment did you realize it was going way too far?

Right? And I began thinking about this. It's a mass hysteria. It is a form of mass hysteria. No one wants to be left out.

So they're willing to put on their blinders and pretend that everybody else is going along with it to make themselves feel better about not challenging the status quo. That is so weak.

So weak. And that's what's happening here. It's a big just psyop. We got a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up as we move.

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But generally, supportive of things that can help people that are not addictive and that don't do harm.

So, you know, this is a bill that helps our veterans deal with health issues in a way that's not detrimental to their health. I'm all for it. I so this was from yesterday when we had on Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Now, I like Ken Paxton. But as you guys know, I'm also not an ass kisser and I'm not a ring kisser. And I'm because I'm the taxpayer. I'm like, you work for me. What do you do for me?

But I like Ken Paxton. I think he's a fighter. I think he's been real good on two way issues. You know, of a lot of politicians out there, you know, I tend to favor him. I like him.

But I still got questions about some of this stuff that's rolling through. And this is part of like this ongoing look that we have. You got to watch stuff that's happening in your own state. It's super sexy to watch everything that's happening federally. But you got to watch what's coming through your own, you know, your own state legislatures.

So what's happening in Texas is nobody was talking about really, you know, THC. Nobody was talking about any of this. And then all of a sudden legislators in Texas are like, you know what? out of nowhere. Let's just make some stuff illegal.

Now, some of these are the same Republicans that keep passing these weird anti-gun bills and trying to get them out of committee. And I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on there.

So I don't know why they decide out of nowhere, we're just going to go ahead. There's like two different bills. There's SB3 is the baddie. The other one is the teacup bill. And they're both completely contrary to what they're trying to do in terms of THC, you know, the chemical, as you know, Nana would say, in the pot, in the marijuana.

And I want people, before we get into this, I want people to put aside, this is not about stoner stuff. It's not about hippies. I need everybody to get that out of their head. I am very sensitive to the government telling people what they can and can't do that is out of the scope of what they're allowed to tell you what they're supposed to be there as a partner, as a facilitator, not as your nanny, not as your boss. Joining us on this, a friend, a good friend of mine, and he's like, he's a veteran and this is his business.

John Burke, who is a Texan and he has his own politics. He's got his own podcast. He's an entrepreneur. His show is the All-American Savage Show, but he also owns Shellshock CBD and he's, you know, making products that are helping veterans and, you know, other individuals. What I like about what he does is that big pharma is not there and i think we're all a little bit done with big pharma and psychotropics and everything else john joins us now via skype john good to see you you too i was uh i was looking forward to yesterday but you know somebody had ken paxton oh i know ken paxton sorry i appreciate that thanks sorry i know i see where i stand as your good friend so i appreciate that what did you think of his response to that i don't think he was expecting the question but i wanted to ask him and kind of so you've gotta you've gotta gauge this right off the bat he's saying anything that supports veterans we've got to distinguish between the two of the teacup bill and sp3 now the teacup bill is already in existence the issue that we're bringing to light on that one is that essentially it's putting the the state more in play to issue your medication your thc like you previously said delta 8 and delta 9 that we're currently selling that's basically saying the state says we get to regulate we get to say how much you get at whatever point also the teacup is expensive at the actual testimony there there was a female veteran Iraq war veteran that said, I can't even afford the teacup.

So SB three and I going to know because John was in Austin he was at the state Capitol and he was at the hearing on this and he and others were speaking as to this proposition to ban outright ban all THC in Texas Yeah And so Ken Paxton, I get where he's coming from. He's going to support anything that supports veterans.

Well, a teacup technically supports veterans. It's SB3 we've got to put a halt on. And the reason we've got it right now is you've got Lieutenant Dan over there wanting to say like, well, I don't like weed. I don't like THC. I want it banned.

And of course, you know, you've got Perry down here. And I think what is it? District 32 that when tenant Dan snaps, man, he just he comes to a little accountant over there just typing away on this little bill, wanting to ban something that he himself, he said he didn't understand. And Dana, I got to rant for a second. I sat there.

I support our boys in blue. But I sat there and I watched the chief of police of Allen blatantly lie to the people. His expert analysis couldn't even tell us the difference between Delta eight and Delta nine. That's how stupid these people are that want to regulate and tell you what you can and cannot. It's like people who don't know about guns trying to regulate guns.

Yeah.

Thank you. So if we're talking about safety because they kept hitting on that, well, kids are getting it. No, they're not. You have to be 21 to purchase this.

Now, if they want to put that into law, that's fine. I support that. What they've done, though, is those people like myself that showed up at that meeting were the law biters. We actually go by the law.

So these people that they're catching selling actual marijuana, which, you know, I don't care. Do your thing. I'm not going to sit here and be upset about it. It's your body. You do what you want to do.

But they're trying to lump us in with them.

So here's the basis of it. If SB3 does get passed, you are going to see 8000 Texas businesses be destroyed like that. This is an eight billion dollar economy. And I have to say, this is not about safety, Dana. You and I both know the argument between the Second Amendment.

Don't sit there and tell the Texas people that this is about for their own safety. You've got vape shops. Matter of fact, if you sat down with me right now and we had a joint in one hand and we had a mcdonald's meal in the other mcdonald's is actually doing way more damage to your body but we can't complain about that because you know it makes it makes no sense right yeah so that's what sp3 is it's a complete and total ban complete and total ban that's that's insane to me and you're you're right it's these people who have no expertise in this regulating it it's it is literally just like hearing people trying to regulate firearms and that's kind of the crux this is how i look at it for me because you're talking about this as a business you're a your law going by the law some of the stuff that i heard well thc is killing people and the kids are all getting literally impossible i don't even know about all this stuff it's so dumb though you can't even od on thc that we could sit here's here's how here's how it would work for you to actually die from a thc overdose you would have to smoke roughly 1500 pounds in under 15 minutes and ma'am if that was possible snoop dog would have been dead a long time ago nobody's pulling that nobody's doing that so again it's not about safety and these boomers can sit there and so like oh it's the devil's the gateway drug they brought that one up too we're really still regurgitating this nonsense like okay fine whatever now this is because your your product so you have shell shock cbd so you make this man the drop you have the dropper so that's like the liquid and then you have the gummies and then you have like melatonin stuff we've we blew up dana because here's the thing we now give the power of veterans and it's not just it's for everybody but veterans can now self-medicate with something that doesn't have secondary and tertiary negative effects. If they want to get a bag of gummies that contain THC to get high, to get baked or to relax, whatever, they have that option because Dana, I've been consuming Delta 8 and Delta 9 now for about three years and it has made a difference in my life as a combat veteran. I'm telling you, the most reoccurring statement I get from our customers is that I used to be on 15 medications from the VA.

I'm on none now because this is what helps. That's why the Vietnam generation were a bunch of stoners because they had all kinds of nonsense thrown at them and THC He's the only thing that worked.

So, again, they say they support veterans.

Well, veterans showed up in mass at the Capitol. And God bless them. I love seeing those little funny hats, the VFWs. Don't get mad, guys. They're funny.

But everybody was there. Veterans, they're for banning or they're for against SB3.

So if they actually care about what the veterans want and these public servants actually work for us, then you better listen. Because, you know, old Perry boy there just sitting there talking about, oh, he wanted to regulate it, too. Yeah.

This is the libertarian to me. He wants to put a $10,000 tax on it. Because it's about money. I want to touch on this because you said that veterans, and I've heard this from so many. We have a lot of, in our family, we have a lot of combat vets, and we have a lot of friends who are combat vets.

And I've heard this from so many individuals who have said, we didn't want to be on all these drugs. We don't want to have to take this for anxiety. Because they've seen some stuff. They're just trying to live their lives. With something like, and I had a friend explain it to me.

They were taking, I guess, an edible gummy that had THC in it. I don't know how much it was in it. But they said that it's not about getting high and it's not about being like a stoner. And that's what everybody thinks. They said it helps in a way to help regulate their anxiety that isn't addictive and it doesn't have all the side effects of prescription medication.

And I just don't understand why lawmakers are so averse to that, because if they ban it, does that mean they're going to reintroduce it as like a licensing scheme? And then you have to go through like, you know, the government or an entity that they then what? Partially, yes.

So Perry even led into this, like I just said, he wanted to put a $10,000 licensing fee.

So if you look in states like California and Colorado, they've banned Delta 8 and Delta 9, and they call it synthetic. Synthetic just basically means you're getting the Delta 8 and the Delta 9 from the hemp plant. It's the same that you get from a cannabis. It's just less. We blow it up a little bit, and therefore it circumvents the 2019 Farm Bill.

That aside, they ban it because it is in direct competition to the actual weed.

So big weed becomes big pharma. that's why the libertarian aspect of let the market be free and let because here's the thing a stoner or a weed marijuana smoker they're always going to want that and then there's those of us that i prefer the gummies and the edibles because you don't have that smell and it's you can microdose you can basically get a more measured amount of what you want to take so let just people choose for themselves that's all i'm saying but we're going to watch this bill and i guarantee you they're going to red pen some stuff and it's going to come down to just more government regulation and more government taxation and dana i'm mainly e-commerce you know it's Shellshockcbd.com, I will move my operation an hour up down the road to Oklahoma, and then Texas will lose out on all of that. And if that's what he wants to do, that's fine. But I'm blessed in the fact that, geographically speaking, I can do that. But a lot of these businesses, they know blood, sweat, and tears.

And they shouldn't have to. I mean, it's Texas, for crying out loud.

So I want to tackle this because I hear this a lot. And I have some friends who are very good-natured, but I'm like, don't spare me the Barbara Bush. and no offense to Barbara Bush, but you know, spare me the Barbara Bush, the Republican pearl clutching, you know, where, where people say, well, then you're just going to turn the whole state blue and it's going to smell like Heineken. And that's, that's what I hear from. What do you say?

She didn't say hi. Did she say hi? I added the Heineken part, but, but you know, that's a legitimate thing. Look, fair enough. Let's treat it like alcohol.

Then you can't do it in public. You can do it in your home. You can grow it yourself. That I can understand. I don't want smell it down the road either that's fair but still make it legal yeah and because again who's it really hurt this is a victimless crime that i have to tell you the the only time i think my first exposure to like pot smokers was when i went to a willie nelson concert and me and my friend were behind these old people like dude like they were really they were they were advanced in age god loved them they were very sweet but they were in their 70s and they smoked more pot than i'd ever seen in my life and i thought i don't know am i going to be on drugs because i'm sitting behind them and i'm like how am i going to do this to my mom the way the politics are going probably like i don't know what's up anymore like the big tent of conservatives like but it smelled so bad and i it does it smelled so bad and i just and i so i understand dana so does the trinity river but we don't ban that heineken beer smells just like it it's a legit complaint i understand it but it's like with there are the best that you're gonna get it is how you've got it right now in edible format but we also sell pre-rolls so technically i could walk down the street and smell a flower smoke a flower a bud and it smells exactly like it i just choose not that smells that that sounds fancy when you say that to smoke a flower that sounds like a nordstrom it's the flower of the yeah that's that's like almost like you know neiman marcus marketing just there that's let me ask you this uh we're talking with john that was totally unintentional too but yeah but you I think you may have just stumbled on some marketing.

Isn't it legitimate to tell people if you're worried about the state flipping blue because THC is allowed in edibles or whatever, why would you export that responsibility and give it to the government instead of doing your due diligence and your civic duty to win hearts and minds yourself as a free citizen? Isn't that the spirit of the republic in the first place?

Well, first, we have to go back to the original point you made. You said that. And, you know, DeSantis, you know, DeSantis fought against this in Florida. And I understood that was a big corporation, big weed monopoly in terms of Amendment 3, why they didn't legalize weed. But here's the deal.

If we want to talk about states potentially flipping, it's legal in Oklahoma. California was blue long before they legalized it. Colorado, I forget the actual one on that one. But here's the deal. We first have to look at what conservatives are actually bent up about.

And I don't think it's THC. I think you're going to find more conservatives have the position that like maybe you yourself or Ken Paxton has like, look, I don't consume it. But I believe in the freedom of individual citizens.

So, yeah, you probably will draw a lot of liberals. There is the possibility of that. But at the same time, it's like, again, look at the states where it has been legalized and they haven't flipped. I think it's just all about how you introduce it to the populace. And then there's other things that come into play on something like this because you do have the teacup bill.

And the other part of this, Dana, is here's where it proves them all wrong. It's been legal since 2019. Texas, during the last the last election, we had what, four counties flip red. Yeah.

Even though there were border counties, we've gotten more conservative. of. That's a great liberalism is confined to places such as, again, Houston, Dallas, like that. You don't see it spread. It's not spreading.

And, you know, to be fair, we've got other issues like, I don't know, fentanyl pouring over the border, stuff like that.

So it's like if this is like you said, why this all of a sudden? It's because Lieutenant Dan got a wild hair and somebody's probably paying him. I don't know. We need to watch this. SB3.

Everybody in Texas needs to be calling their lawmakers and saying, no, don't be doing this to us because we'll remember that because it's just, again, more encroachment on individual liberty. John Burke, appreciate you sounding the alarm on this and watching it as closely as you did. Also appreciate your service. The website is shellshockedcbd.com. You can go there to learn more and you can follow John on X at JohnBurke39.

Always good to talk with you. We'll have you back, my friend. Of course. Good to see you. Have a great weekend.

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Do you think they're going to come and protect us? They're supposed to. I'm not so sure. I think he's I like the way I like his his elocution, his voice, his his. What am I thinking of?

Not his pitch, but just the way that he talks. Yeah, his whole demeanor. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour.

That's POTUS. Yesterday he was asked about, you know, can you get NATO protections and not be a member of NATO, meaning not pay into not just NATO, but have meet the basic bare minimum litmus of spending, what is it, two or three percent of your GDP on defense. And I think POTUS gave up. I don't think there's any wiggle room out of the answer that POTUS gave just there. I don't think so.

Now, I was thinking about this. There was a story we're in yesterday on Substack, my Substack chapter and and it has to do with this exact topic.

Now, I like watching what some conservative leaders in European nations do, because I think that you have to have, you know, I just look, I want everything else to be cool and chill so that the U.S. doesn't have to worry about nothing and that factors into our national security.

Now, there was a story, and this is the second story, the second Bloomberg story that I mentioned in the first hour of our broadcast today. I said, here's a trash Bloomberg story and I explained it. This is the second one that I think is trashy. And this is why I can't, I mean, this could be just more garbage reporting from Bloomberg. They kind of have a history of it.

So what they said is that Georgia Maloney, who is the prime minister of Italy, that she was claiming that Ukraine should receive NATO protections without membership, meaning NATO protections, defense of Ukraine should be applicable, but they shouldn't have to pay anything into NATO.

Now, the whole claim for this story rests on one indirect quote and one, it almost looks like it's an abridged quote. I get the, it seems like she's replying to something and it's not like a statement, but she's, I don't know.

So there's only two actual quotes from her in the whole story. And this is what Bloomberg is using to prop up this whole narrative.

So that's why I'm saying I mean, I'm hoping it's just garbage Reporting The two that are quoted It says, quote, speaking on the sidelines of a European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday She, Maloney, said that Quote, we need to think about more durable solutions End quote, than sending European peacekeeping troops To Ukraine. Then later on in the story She had this, quote, it's a different thing Than entering NATO, but it implies Extending the coverage that NATO countries have Also to Ukraine, end quote Neither of those quotes support the claim that Bloomberg is making, that Italy's Georgia Maloney is demanding for NATO protections for Ukraine without membership. It almost seems like it's a way to try to, like they're attacking her for something she didn't even say. It seems like someone asked her and she was just having a reasonable, nuanced discussion about it. And unless she says otherwise, I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt for this because she is fiercely Euroskeptic.

And she, I mean, if you remember how she came into office, she blew through the messaging as part of Fratelli d'Italia, Brothers of Italy, and her populist messaging, and this is, again, the difference, this is why populism isn't a set of beliefs, but it is a tactic. She had populist messaging that was underpinned by very traditional conservative principles, and she easily took office in 2022. She immediately formed alliances with Lega, formerly Lega Nord. That's headed up by Matteo Salvini, who's the deputy prime minister in Italy. And they have arguably held what is, I think, Europe's hardest stance against illegal and unregulated immigration.

and their refusal to bend a knee to the demands of the eu and the socialist members of parliament in in italian parliament in italy uh they've they've refused to bend a knee to it i'm just thinking of all the lawfare i can't remember how many lawsuits they had like the socialists were filing against milani's government and the mateo salvini i think you guys remember they wanted to take salvini to jail because he wouldn't allow a bunch of illegal immigrants coming in from what was it Algeria to disembark in southern Italy he wasn't going to allow it and they were trying to they were accused him of all this stuff and of course he was you know victorious every single one of these cases um I like I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt because they have worked really hard now it's been difficult I think a lot of people thought it was going to be something that happened overnight because it's a little different with Italy because they're part of the EU they're part of the Schengen agreement so there's that to consider again they're super fiercely you're a skeptic but they're they're trying to deal with years of just completely unfettered not just immigration illegal immigration people just coming in and it's on the honor system and then you know they go through they either stay or they go through everywhere else there was this one story of an italian island that was just absolutely besieged by people coming in for northern africa uh boats full of people that are just disembarking and taking you know i mean just crazy they've they've threatened to use their their italian navy to uh dispel some of these attacks. And so, or some of these, these entries, these mass entrance, illegal entries.

So like I said, I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. They've been working very hard to try to stop this. And then I feel like it's a psyop for the socialist in the country. They, they work with the media and then they try to say that because they have, they, they have been undertaking this laborious effort to turn the immigration problem around. If it doesn't happen as fast as the media claims it will happen, then it means that Maloney is soft on immigration.

And I just think that the actions of their government don't support that.

So that's why I'm like, I'm inclined to kind of give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean, there were even accusations that, you know, Germans, you know, leftist leaders were trying to undermine what Italy was doing with, you know, Travel in and out of different EU countries So there's a lot there So just be really careful with some of these stories Particularly, you know, Bloomberg and some of these others Because they have a history of really garbage reporting And the whole claim on this rests literally on two crappy quotes That don't actually support what the headline's claiming And I just don't want conservatives to start trashing The most conservative leader in Europe right now She is the most conservative leader in Europe, and she is single handedly. She, Salvini and others through Lega and Fratelli d'Italia, they have been trying to bring Italy back to a point of normalcy. And then from that, they are providing shade to a lot of these other European leaders who are conservative, whether it's, you know, the conservatives in France or in Spain, where they've been absolutely destroying socialists in elections. whether it's, you know, Orban in Hungary, whether it's, you know, some of the German conservatives or some of those German conservatives elsewhere.

I mean, it's conservatives like in the Netherlands and in Belgium and Flanders and all of this. There are a lot of conservatives that are that are enjoying the shade that their very fierce leadership is providing in Italy. And I sort of feel like it's a bait to try to get, you know, conservatives, whether it's in Europe or in the United States, to start attacking each other. And not only I would say not only are they pretty conservative by European standards, they're almost pretty conservative by American standards. You've got to think about that, too.

When you talk about conservatism, it's different, obviously, in Europe because you have a different founding document. You have different constitutions. You have different charters, etc.

so it's still different that's why i like to define conservatism about conserving individual liberty and national sovereignty and they are the most conservative right now in the eu absolutely uh and um it's i just feel like it's kind of a bait does it am i being too tinfoil hat did i steal your tinfoil hat doesn't it seem like it it seems like they're trying to delegitimize that's the impression i get of course because they've always been pretty like they've always been pretty hardcore like we're not sending boots on the ground to ukraine we are not doing this and she'll listen to different leaders i think they also under the draggy government uh they ukraine was a contributing factor the government that preceded hers uh in collapsing all of that so i think they're very sensitive to all of this but anyway that's uh that's over at substack if you want to read more about that now uh also over at substack is lorraine's deep dive on and this is coming up again in the news today, Judge Amir Ali, he is the she describes him as a dual citizen DEI hire. And he is the judge who's trying to usurp. I mean, that's I don't know how else you present this. Usurp POTUS's authority to determine taxpayer dollars, right, as it relates to the Treasury and what the Treasury can and cannot do, which is weird because correct me if I'm wrong, King, and I know I'm not, that's under the executive branch.

So if you're president, you control the treasury, because it's part of the, it's under the purview of the executive branch. It's kind of how that works. Really weird how that works, isn't it?

So there has been this effort, and I know that there's stuff happening today as well. They've, I mean, I just, it seems, It kind of seems law fairy, but they are they've been trying to constrain what POTUS can actually do, whether it's, you know, and the piece in here gets into USAID funding for all of this, these projects. And if this came out, you know, if you read what excuse me, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had all said when they were talking about whether or not a judge who I don't know how this judge has the jurisdiction to by the way to do what he did. But a judge does he have unchecked power to make the to compel the government of the United States to pay out billions in taxpayer dollars Now they said they literally wrote quote the answer to that question should be an emphatic no But a majority of this court apparently thinks otherwise I am stunned This guy is dual citizenship. He's a Canadian-American judge.

He has a long history of super far left activism that Lorraine gets into. She's got his donations, his nomination, like how his nomination was already pushed through after Trump won the election. And he was able to get confirmed because some Republican senators missed the vote. Remember, we talked about that. That's one of the reasons why some of us were very angry.

You had Senator Ted Cruz and Mike Braun. He was going to leave to become Indiana governor. And Tom Tillis at the time told Roll Call, and this is via Newsweek, that he was, quote, Very angry that Republicans Failed to stop the confirmation Why wasn't Ted Cruz there To be honest That pisses me off Why did Ted Cruz miss that vote You're Ted Cruz How did you miss that vote Why is any Republican missing a vote this important Because now Because that vote was missed This guy is where he is Now he's engaging in lawfare to stop the president, all the way up to the Supreme Court, from being able to determine U.S. aid funding through the Treasury. And the Supreme Court now has a precedent for it.

Thank you, Republican Senators Mike Braun and Ted Cruz, because you made that happen. I know I'm supposed to be kissing butts and being like, oh, you love your podcast. I'm not doing that. You work for me. I pay your salary.

Those two Republican Senators allowed this to happen.

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A mental patient has escaped from a New York hospital and cops have been warning the locals, quote, do not approach him. Don't approach him. No, it's not. I mean, I was going to make a joke about it being some kind of Democrat. I mean, who knows?

But I can't tell in the CCTV surveillance footage. Is that like a straight jacket or a puffer jacket? I can't tell. But he was like running down the hallway. They caught him.

His name's Christopher Morgan. He fled the Garnett Health Medical Center in Middletown, according to New York State Police. He sprinted down the hallway during his escape. Yeah, he looks like he's got crazy eyes. He was seen wearing a long white jacket.

And they were been telling all the locals, stay away. You got to call State Police Middletown. He's got crazy eyes, totally.

So just, you know, FYI. Also, South Carolina plans to carry out a firing squad execution. They say, is it safe for witnesses? Are you a moron? Of course, don't walk down range, you absolute jackwagons.

It's so stupid. Is it safe for witnesses? You're not going to be right there by the gun watching. Shut up.

So they said they're going to execute. This is pretty boss, dude.

South Carolina is going to execute a baddie by a firing squad. And that's, isn't that today? Yeah.

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We have been talking about a little bit about BlackRock throughout this week. We had Carol Roth on yesterday. We were talking about it because of the change up.

Now BlackRock is taking over the two of the biggest ports in the Panama Canal that are kind of like bookending. You know, you have Bobo, you have Crystal Ball, and they're taking over these two ports, which were owned by C.K. Hutchinson Holdings. That's based in Hong Kong. Of course, that's a CCP entity after everything that's happened there.

And a lot of us are kind of scratching our heads going wait a minute. Is it better that black rock? Is taking over these ports? Is it then there was this piece and the timing i'm always suspicious I thought the timing was suspect this came out march 2nd And it said headline black rocks woke era is over subhead asset manager has exited climate groups and eliminated diversity targets As it tries to end esg Controversy and I thought that seems like somebody's trying to clean up something so that this with what's happening in Panama goes down a little bit easier. I wasn't the only one who thought that.

In fact, I retweeted Will Hild, who's the executive director of Consumers First, who had a big threat about this. And he said exactly what I was thinking, that don't believe this article. Will joins us now via Skype. Will, so good to see you. I'm so glad that you said this because I felt like I had a tinfoil hat on and it just felt like they're just trying to clear stuff up for BlackRock here.

What was your response when you saw that story? You're 100% correct to be suspicious, Dana. And thank you so much for retweeting me because I was trying to sound the alarm to people. Us conservatives can sometimes be very cheap dates. People can hate on us and attack our values and our way of life for years and years and years.

And in the second, like, for example, Governor Newsom goes on a podcast and agrees with one small portion of our agenda. Oh, great. Like, welcome to the team. And that's really what BlackRock is trying to do right now. Even during the first Trump administration, no one was pushing back harder on Wall Street against conservatives than Larry Fink and his firm BlackRock.

They were pushing harmful net zero targets across all of corporate America. They were pushing race and sex based quotas into boards and hiring and promotion. And so we really should be very weary, as you rightly point out that you were. They are absolutely trying to cozy up to us, but we should not take their initial word. We need to see changes in actions.

And while I'm obviously glad I support the president's agenda of making sure that Monroe Doctrine is is intact here and we have control of this hemisphere. The fact that BlackRock was so quick to jump to try and complete that for the president should be viewed very suspiciously, especially, as you noted, on the heels of this W Wall Street Journal article that basically is just a corporate press release. If you read that article, they don't quote a single person except for the head of a far left activist pressure group called Ceres, of which BlackRock is still a member. They have not reportedly dropped out of that far left climate activist group.

So we should be reading this very suspiciously. You're right. You're right to look at it that way. That's a very good point that they're still even part of that group.

So I guess they've you know, they're not too dedicated maybe to extricating themselves from that whole ideology. We're talking to Will Hild via Skype. And what are the companies that they invest in and help grow? I mean, I'm sure a lot of those companies are still operating according to those ESG and DEI standards. That's exactly right.

And even if BlackRock ended all of what they call their corporate engagement, that's the mechanism by which they push this far left agenda. Even if they ended that today, it is a little bit like you've had a factory dumping toxic waste into a river. You could shut down the factory, but downstream you now have a pond that's completely contaminated with toxic waste. That is a little bit what like corporate America is now that you've had over a decade of BlackRock pushing this far left agenda. Because you have ESG metrics built into the compensation schema for hundreds, if not thousands, of major U.S.

corporations. And this was adopted at the behest of BlackRock and other woke asset managers like Vanguard and State Street and these pressure groups that they were part of, like the net zero asset managers and Ceres and the UN principles for responsible investing that BlackRock was a signatory to all of these.

So even if they shut down all their operations, they have a responsibility, I should say, to clean up the damage that they have done to corporate America. There was an investor named Jesse Felder also on Twitter, and he had a statistic, and I don't know where he got the data, but this was his information. He's a hedge fund manager. He said that when he looked at it, 90% of oil companies, both majors and juniors, people finding new oil and developing those fields, have ESG metrics built into their short and long-term compensation schema, which means that they are being punished for doing the very thing they're supposed to be doing, investing in oil, gas discovery, and recovery.

So we have a long road to go. We're probably only the fifth inning of this fight. And we certainly shouldn't take BlackRock's word for it when they say, oh, you got us. It's over. Please just go home.

We will know we've won when all the damage that BlackRock has done has been removed from corporate America.

Well, that's just it, because so much of the damage is already done.

So it costs nothing for people to go, yeah, we're done with this now, because they already got in deep enough where they were able to affect some kind of detrimental change that they wanted to. And isn't it true, like in some of these instances, well, they're just like renaming it. They're just renaming certain things. It's still DEI and ESG, but they're just calling it something different. Yeah, we're seeing, especially you're seeing this in the DEI space.

You know, you're seeing some companies are just dropping the E because that kind of requires the most violations of U.S. labor law.

So it's becoming the DEI department. Other companies are changing it to the Department of Belonging, which is just sort of an Orwellian euphemism for race and sex based discrimination in hiring and promotion. but that's all DEI ever was.

So renaming it belonging doesn't change anything. And there's also a question of even the stuff where they say we're just trying to make an inclusive work environment. That can go so far that it basically creates a hostile work environment for other groups.

So when you push the LGBTQ agenda, for example, so far in people's faces and your workers' faces every day, how is that not a hostile workplace environment for believing Christians who don't share that position? That doesn't mean that you have to discriminate for one group or the other, but they should both feel okay having their own opinions inside the workplace. And you've seen a lot of companies, for example, like what happened with Target, you know, how could a believing Christian feel comfortable working in one of those workplaces?

So even the Department of Belonging, even if they just stick to the quote unquote inclusion, which is where you see a lot of these internal cultural left-wing moves, even that I don't think is fair to the American worker. And it's weird to me, we're talking with Will Held, Executive Director of Consumers Research. It's weird to me to watch a lot of people cheer, particularly the move from C.K. Hutchinson Holdings to BlackRock, because to me, that's a pretty powerful acquisition. You're talking about two of the biggest ports that bookend that waterway.

and you know we we were flirting with having all of corporate america in it take part in i guess the americanized version version of the chinese you know behavioral score uh which is what esg and dei all is so i mean naturally then you think well if that's still pretty much incorporated through a lot of corporate america and even really to an extent of black rock how does that factor into i mean i think it's it's not beyond the realm of you know you know realism to say is that going to factor into what we're dealing with that in the Panama Canal and the fees that are being levied and what happens if people wanted to really like weaponize DEI and ESG because it has happened, you know, at that level. I don't know. I just feel I have a lot of questions and I feel very uncomfortable about them being there. No, you're 100 percent right to have these these concerns and these suspicions. Our first campaign, we've run about five million dollars of ads educating the public about the damage that BlackRock has done to their way of life.

And our first campaign was actually BlackRock loves China. And it talks about all of the foreign entanglements that BlackRock has over there, all the quid pro quo that they seem to be engaging in as they push a destructive agenda on the US economy, doing things that they would never do to the Chinese economy. China's building 100 coal plants a year in China. They're building gas pipelines. BlackRock's helping to finance some of this stuff at one point.

So I guarantee when they walk into the boardrooms of the Chinese companies that they're invested in, they do not tell them that they do not have enough blacks or women or gay people on their boards. They only push that kind of nonsense, that kind of race baiting and race and sex based quotas here in the United States.

So it does raise the question, has China really lost control of this port? If they've got their hooks in BlackRock, then maybe this is just a cover for them to still have a lot of control. And I will even go one step further. There's an interview of Larry that I'm sure he wishes he could make disappear, where he is back in like 2012, 2013. And he's talking about BlackRock.

And he says, you know, in America, BlackRock is an American firm. In Mexico, it's a Mexican firm. In Italy, it's an Italian firm. We serve our clients wherever they are.

Now, I understand to some extent, I get that when he's talking to an Italian investor, he needs to be coming out from their perspective. But it does raise the question in China, is BlackRock a Chinese firm? Should we really be thinking about this canal being having been reacquired by an American firm if they don't really see themselves that way? And Larry's own words would suggest that he doesn't really see BlackRock as a at core, a purely American firm.

So I think it raises some significant questions that you're you're right to raise. And that kind of goes into that. I mean, that really validates this whole story. You know, the Congressional Select Committee that was investigating BlackRock, because they were concerned that American savings were being unknowingly invested in a lot of these Chinese companies, these CCP companies that were blacklisted by our government for NATSEC reasons and human rights abuses. And I don't even know if we have a full understanding of even whether or that's still occurring.

I mean, now it's probably, I mean, now with this, I think you're, you're, you're, I think that was completely accurate to say, is it still, China's still running this? I mean, is it though, is it really entirely different with BlackRock? And then it makes me think, well, how bad was it down there that we have to have BlackRock come in? And, you know, that was Rubio's first trip was going down there. It just makes me a little nervous.

Will Held, you guys have done such a great job watching all of this. I would love to have you back because we're going to keep an eye on this. I feel like we, you know, we absolutely have to as good Americans.

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So one of my favorite things to do is sometimes I'll see the drive-by comments on things and people are like, you know there's like a big CI facility at Langley. Yes, I do, scuttlebutt. I do know that. All right, Lunchbox, I got you. I know that there's a headquarters there.

We're talking about maybe this isn't a headquarters. Maybe it's like, I don't know. I said I had said that questionably legal. I can't remember how I worded it, because if Congress authorizes it and that's how you would get around the statutes of not having like a CIA black side on U.S.

soil. That's, you know, then that's how you get around it. But I just think it's weird that the first response from the left is like to protect the government. Like, what the hell is wrong with you people? You got turned inside and out.

You would have literally been telling on washington and going and snitching To general how in new york during the days of the revolution that was you you would have been snitches Snitches get stitches just saying i who said that not me It's just weird to see people who are like but the government says and here's the other thing that we were just talking about so we were talking about like the gum the gummy thing and the t in the difference between just like the cbd oil and the thc stuff the chemical compound or whatever i sound like a fruitcake talking about this because i know i know a little bit more about this than football and that's about it i'm trying not to sound like joe biden talking about guns so we just we were we were saying well you know because kane was like well you should take one one day and do radio i'm like i could not going to do that. Yeah, that would be like if you took it at the end of the second hour and then the third hour, was you just experiencing the gummy? And I was like, I don't want to trip my beans off. And then you were laughing at me. Because you wouldn't trip your beans off.

I know. I'm just saying, I don't have an interest in it. And then I go, well, I don't do drugs. And then you're like, well, it's not. You know what I just realized?

I mean, I'm still not going to do it, but the difference between what we view as, ooh, good drug or ooh, bad drug is literally the D.A.R.E. program. It is. D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs.

I told Keane, I had a basketball. I want a basketball from the D.A.R.E. program. We had like whole assemblies and then they brought in their drug sniffing dogs and I don't know, were they sniffing us out as an elementary school? I have no idea.

I was just like, ooh, pets. You know, I was just thinking about that. I'm like, hmm. That was from that program. That's a no, no drug, then it's an okay, you know what I mean?

Things like, interesting. I'm just processing there's so many more side effects with pharmaceutical drugs that we consider to be just safe like even like tylenol but i think if people want to want to do consume that and especially if it's like you know that i i mean as long as you're not like running a car into my house and you're taking my guns away and taxing me i just i just don't care i just don't it's not i just i'm not opposed to it that's the beauty of freedom yeah exercise i don't like the stinky stuff though. Like the boomer hippies that smoked all of the marijuana in the world in front of us when I was a teenager at Willie Nelson, a Willie Nelson concert. I kept thinking, are we going to get arrested because we're sitting behind them smelling of it? Oh my gosh, this is crazy.

I'm like, are they going to get arrested, these old people? Because they were in their 70s. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. Like, the first people I ever saw do drugs were old people. Like my grandparents' age.

Not all old people are innocent. I knew that was going to Come in, you've got to stop hating on the old people. It's not hate. Poor old people. They're just recognizing the reality of society.

I don't know. But they were real nice. And then one of them was like, can we get you a beer? And I'm like, I'm 17. I really don't think that that's appropriate.

And you don't understand Nana. Nana's kind of, so no, not going to happen. Anyway, just very interesting things to kind of keep an eye on. But, you know, I'm just I also think, too, if people are worried about their states flipping, conservatives need to stop feeling comfortable with outsourcing. There are civic responsibilities to the government.

You actually are going to have to go out there and doorknock and canvas and change hearts and minds in some fashion, in some way. You can't just go, well, let's let the government regulate it. That's where I actually am very against that. I don't like excessive government regulation, and I don't like the government weighing in in places where they shouldn't. And I am very sensitive to that stuff just because it's my Tea Party DNA.

I can't help it. I'm just, you know, I don't even like following directions. Like the moment I see the tag that says do not cut, I'm like, cut. I don't know. All right.

Today in stupidity came. All right.

It is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC or, you know, dummy. Here's what she says about taxes and how they're... This is so bad. If you have a tax cut, somehow it's a cost. She couldn't be more wrong.

Listen to this. And I want you to understand, I want everyone to understand, that tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. No, you don't.

So every dollar that you spend... They don't cost! It's our money, you little commie. ...is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon, and it's also going to cut... How dare you keep more of your own money to buy things that you would like.

That's our money. Maybe, I don't know, stop spending because it's government spending that costs, not people who keep more of their own money. You don't have a right to it, you bartending Marxist. Good night. I can't with these people.

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