Cabinet Chaos: Gaetz, Hegseth, and the GOP Divide

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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Bottom.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
I mean, it's I would describe it as God to
your level trolling to just trigger a full on Shina syndrome,
to own the lives in perpetuity.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
So I think that's that was kind of a funny reaction.
This this remark from from John Fetterman. This this, this
trolling from Fetterman is because he's trolling, because he thinks

(01:07):
they're trolling, is really what it is. And it's uh,
it's because that's I We're gonna break this down. This
is one of the cabinet appointments that took place yesterday,
Well it took place, was it yesterday? Day before? Yesterday?
Is yesterday? And then Gates resigned from his seat and
which I think may have been a little bit premature,

(01:29):
but I think that there's a reason as to why
they did it.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
And we're gonna break all this down because I got
some suspicions. Just let you know, I know some stuff,
Like I know, I know all these cats in DC,
like I know all of them. I know every single
one of these people. I've met them repeatedly. I hear
about gossip and I kind of like, if it seems ridiculous,
then you know, I always disregard it. But there's a
lot Sometimes when there's smoke, there's fire. Is all I'm

(01:54):
gonna say. Don't get mad at me because I have
to say this from now on, but don't, but it
really is. Uh, you know, I want to make sure
you have all the information in hand. So anyway, long
story short, we're gonna break all that down today. We've
got some of the culture stuff. We've got immigration, We've
got the latest with the Senate. We also have a

(02:15):
couple of guests today that we're gonna get into with
how blueing On. Yeah, the Blue and On I think
is David Harsani's got a book out about that, and uh,
it's it is pretty Uh it's a because it's really
what the left is now we're gonna get into all
of that. And then later on Dexter Taylor aka Carbon

(02:36):
Mike joins us. He's gonna he's gonna join us from
the jailhouse where he is uh sadly incarcerated because gun
laws New York's gun laws they decided to get ridiculous
and didn't grandfather or anything in So we're gonna talk
to him, and we got a whole bunch of stuff
to get into. So first and foremost welcome. Yesterday it
came out the one of the late the attorney general nominee, uh,

(03:02):
the nominee for Attorney General. Trump put it forward and
it was I think it kind of shocked people, as
you could tell from Fetterman. Uh, it was mac Gates.
It is Mat Gates. And then Matt Gates resigned his post.
Now here's there's a lot of stuff going on with this,
and let me let me get into it, because there
I have a suspicion. And then there's you know, you

(03:26):
kind of gotta have to know the little the history,
a little bit of going back to when Gates was
fighting with everybody in the house. And there's a reason why,
there's a reason why he was fighting with McCarthy. And
because I've I for the people for the drive buys
who read with pictures, let me smell spell this out
for you really quickly. Me talking like this about Kevin
McCarthy doesn't mean that I like Kevin McCarthy. I have

(03:48):
disliked Kevin McCarthy since before some of these drive buys
got peach fuzz. So let's not all right, number one.
So he got into a fight with Kevin McCarthy. Rumoredly
it was because of this ethics investigation. Now you're like, okay, well,
what what does that entail? What is this ethics investigation?

(04:10):
So the ethics investigation with Matt Gates concerned this while
it concerned underage girls and human trafficking is what it is.
What it had to do with. I mean, it's not
easy to talk about, but that's just the way it is.
So the accusation is that he was with some girls

(04:32):
that were underage and that they had flown on a
plane to a different part of the United States, which
apparently merits, you know, if you wanted to pursue it
a trafficking charge, if that makes sense. So that's sort
of that's the accusation, and an ethics investigation was opened

(04:53):
up into him quite a long time ago, like a
really long time ago. So this introduction of Gates is
ag That's where all of this is, That's where all
this comes out on, is there was an ethics investigation.
Gates wanted McCarthy to shield him from this ethics investigation.

(05:16):
McCarthy declined, reportedly, and that's where the big fight was.
Like they were okay until that happened. That's the rumor mill.
I've been hearing this from my people in DC for
a very long time, and it's not something that generally
garners headlines until there's like a filing or a report

(05:36):
is released, and interestingly enough, a report is about to
be released. That's the other aspect of this.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
There people were other Republican congress members, and not everyone
that you dislike or that says something about someone you
dislike as a rhino. There were apparently other reporter there
were other congressmen who went on record saying that he

(06:03):
was bragging about his sex life and showing videos and
all this stuff on the floor. And it's not one
or two congressmen that said that, not three or four
or five or six. There were a lot of them
that apparently came forward. They when he was when the
FEDS investigated him, they declined to bring charges, but he
was already under a House ethics investigation at the time,

(06:26):
and McCarthy apparently when they he was being leaned on
to excuse and intervene Gates. That's apparently according to the rumor, Well,
when Gates McCarthy got roll mad at each other, and
that's remember that one fight that broke out on the
house floor and they turned it into like the lip
reading video, that's apparently what happened. So I don't know.

(06:47):
I mean, Andy McCarthy has discussed this as well. He's
not and McCarthy likes Trump. I don't think that you
can say that Andrew McCarthy's been on the show before,
is like a Trumpeter. He really likes Trump, but he's
also an attorney and he's very clinical, and he does
not agree for that and some other reasons. He just
thinks it's a it's less trolling and more reckless, is

(07:07):
kind of how he came out on it. So whether
or not, I don't know. I don't know all of
the information that led to the ethics investigation. I only
know what I've heard other people talk about and describe videos.
I only know what I've heard people say and what
they've told the press because they've done that. I mean,
there's there's there's some there's video of it. So the

(07:28):
reason why I bring this up is, I this is
my first theory, and this is the one I'm kind
of leaning towards. A lot of lawmakers try to wrap
themselves in the veneer of really loving Trump as a
hedge of protection, which is exactly what Rick Scott did,
and some of these other guys tried to do it
a little too late. And it just depends on how

(07:50):
you do it, because even Vance did it before. But
then Vance, you know, apologized and all that other stuff.
There's loyalty and submission, and I think some of the
latter plays into this. The reason I'm explaining this you
is to kind of let get you into my perspective
of what I think is happening here. There's this how
the ethics report that is going to be released like
what in the coming days. I don't know if they've
got an ETA on it, but it's apparently going to

(08:11):
be released, and that's speculatively That's one of the reasons
why some are saying that he resigned his post so
quickly and was looking for this nomination. There is not
a lot of confidence amongst anybody that I've spoken to
that he would get nominated, and a recess support appointment
is very difficult to do, and that has a shelf life.

(08:33):
That doesn't mean it gets to last the term. It's
very different. We'll talk about that later. But there the
thinking and some of the rumor mill that I was
hearing was that Trump doesn't dislike Gates but kind of
looks at him as a liability, and this is the
best way to get rid of him while still having
the appearance of standing by him. That's that's the one.

(08:55):
Or it's just completely not like that at all. I mean,
this is the fun stuff of cloak and dagger, is
it not with DC politics? I mean, maybe it means
and I feel like Samuel Jackson who's sitting across from
Ringo in pulp fiction. Maybe it means that Trump means
business and putting a lawmaker with a very petty streak

(09:17):
like Matt Gates in charge at DOJ guarantees revenge, It
guarantees a reckoning or maybe Trump is done with Gates
and he's sending them out to the wolves while the
public picks apart his record and ethics, accusations and all
this other stuff. So that when Gates is rejected and
his ambition of seeking higher office ends, then Trump can

(09:38):
say that he stood by him and he didn't have
to expend any public political capital in order to rectify
the situation. I don't know, it could be either of
those things. Just saying I'm gonna lay that out on
the table, it could be either of those things. Now,
you can't just fill House seats by appointment. So I've
had some people say, oh, well, DeSantis can just fill it.

(10:00):
You can't Senate, you can do by appointment.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
House.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
She got to go through special election, special elections. You
got to call for him, which I think he already did.
You got a call for him. And then in some
instances it could be months. So you're talking about going
in to a new Congress and having these seats unfilled
four months, which jeopardizes the majority. Right out of the gate.
You've hamstrung the agenda. That's the reality of the situation.

(10:23):
There's no other pretty little way to put it. All
these people who are like, well, you can just appoint
for the House. That's not how this works. You have
to have special elections New York. Hell, they could take
six seven months to do it. With Stephonic, it could
take a long time. Think about how long that is, y'all.
You're talking about going all the way into next year,
all the way into summer. Then you're in midterm cycle.

(10:46):
What are you going to tell people for midterms when
you haven't got a damn thing done because you didn't
have the numbers in the House. And the reason I
bring this up is because I really want us to
stop taking people from the House. I am nervous about
the majority. And people say, well, you know Gates comes
from a solid red district. That's great, that's not the issue.
The issue is the time, the time, how long. It's

(11:11):
not an easy do or done thing. There's all this
tape that you got to go through and it doesn't
matter how much you fast track it. There's a reason
why they have these things set up the way that
they do. That's the reality of it. You know, you
can avoid it by not taking people out of the house.
That's my thing. I just don't think that he's I
don't I think that for AG, there are a ton

(11:34):
of other better options for AG where you don't have
to go through all of this. You don't have to
start off the new congressional term with drama, and you
don't have to reduce your majority. That's my that's my
whole thing, and we've been doing really good with these picks.
I have greatly enjoyed, as I'm sure you have, watching
the left lose its mind over Pete Hagsath. I mean,

(11:54):
I don't. I mean, that was my dessert last night.
I mean, it was just really not They were going
with the tattoo is my gosh. These people have no
idea what a cross is. They were losing their minds.
There were I'm not joking with you guys, no fewer
than three articles where they were dissecting his tattoos. And
then they were trying to go back in history, well

(12:14):
where else have these symbols? If it will, this is
a Crusader tattoo. Guess he likes the Crusades. What I
am not kidding you.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
The Crusaders drink water and wear shoes.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
They do the Crusaders Cane wore shoes. I guess if
you like shoes then you know that goes Hitler drank water.
What do you like? Hitler? This is so dumb, that's all.
They have three articles about that today. So I have
greatly enjoyed that. I don't want to lose that momentum
because I like watching. I'm not gonna lie to you.

(12:49):
I don't give a rats ass about like unity and
harmony and all that. Nah, I don't care. I'm here,
I'm the joker, and I want to watch it burn
I want to watch the left lose their minds. I
want to watch them tear each other apart. I want
them to have a political civil war on their little
party side so that they can figure out where they're
going to go next. I don't want to disrupt that
for us. You know, like we've worked really hard. I mean,

(13:13):
we deserve this. I'm just saying we deserve all this.
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Is it like a pig?

Speaker 5 (16:53):
It's a rat. So I don't know why it would
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Speaker 10 (19:24):
Well that he is, he's shown that his absolutely absolute
lack of experience and his lack of suitability for the job.
Because anybody that truly knows the military knows that we
cannot go to war without over two hundred and twenty
five thousand women who are serving on active duty right now.
Our military cannot go to war without our female service members.
You know, this is not the revolutionary war where there's

(19:46):
some sort of a line in the sand, and you
know combat is on one side and and the rest
of us can stay behind the line.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
And that's not combat.

Speaker 10 (19:53):
I would ask him, you know, where do you think
I lost my legs in a bar fight?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
I'm pretty sure I was in combat when that happened.
This is the problem that I have with Tammy Duckworth
and all of these other people who keep saying this
in response to Pete Hegseeth who said he doesn't believe
that women should be in combat. Did you listen to
his words before you decide to rush to cameras to
say this nonsense? Did you even bother like extricating head
from backside before running to the television cameras and spewing

(20:20):
Did anybody actually listen to what the man said? He
specifically then outlined positions in which women are fine in
helicopter pilots. He literally said, pilot. The hell do you think,
Tammy Duckworth? She was a pilot girl. He wasn't talking
about you. Why do these people try to make themselves

(20:43):
the center of the story so damn bad If you
disagree with him with what he said, woman the hell
up and just disagree with him without having to do
this basic bitch stuff of making things up and putting
the words into his mouth. Do not expect me to
be nice about this. I loathe this as a poor, absolute,

(21:05):
broken down rhetorical trick. I cannot stand it. I think
It's disingenuous, malicious, and self serving when I see people
do this, and you deserve every ounce of the invective
coming to you as a result. I'm not big bird,
I ain't raising your kids, but I am telling people
when they need to get told. She needs to get

(21:26):
told over this. To make up something and attribute it
to him is malicious and ridiculous. All she had to
do was say, well, I disagree with what he said
about women in combat because he wasn't talking about you.
He wasn't talking about being a helicopter pilot, he wasn't

(21:46):
talking about any of this stuff. He was specifically talking
about being on the ground. You know, you're breaking down doors,
you're going to with a strike team. Come on, Why
do people act stupid and pretend otherwise? Oh, because then
they would actually have to present to the American public

(22:10):
that they might kind of agree with him, and the
public might kind of agree with him too, And you
can't have that. And I just find it disingenuous, especially
for a female member of Congress and a veteran, to
make up something about a double Bronze star reciproty and
combat veteran. You can say whatever you want, but your
service doesn't inoculate you from criticism when you make things
up as she just did. And I'm so tired of

(22:34):
the misrepresentation and the lies in politics. To this extent,
he was very careful with his wording. I watched the interview.
He was careful with his wording. But notice how they
only want to play like a cut for you, and
they don't want to get into everything that he said
about the issue because it was a long interview. I mean,
I'm not going to play the whole interview of that

(22:55):
he gave on this program because it's long. But he
was careful in his word choices. And I know female veterans.
I have friends who served and they said, yeah, he's
absolutely right. I have friends who were pilots in the military,

(23:17):
and they say, yeah, he's absolutely right. But Duckworth is
a Democrat. All these other chicks out there are Democrats,
so they got to go, oh no, and misrepresent what
he said so that they can pretend to be victims.
I just think you're already losing when you have to
when you get to that point. There's nothing that he
said that's incorrect. Nothing, And this idea that you have

(23:42):
like women deploying in strike teams already and like going
down and like it's like call. Everybody thinks everything's like
call of duty, which we were just talking about Black
Op six on Bright. It's not right, it's not just wild.
Just be honest. If you just with him, then say
I disagree with him. If you just don't like him

(24:04):
because he's a Republican and he was on Fox, then
be honest. But see, people are afraid to do that.
This gets done to the psychology of it because they
know they're wrong. They know that they're trying to They
don't like him because he was on Fox, and they're
like trained monkeys. They gotta hate they gotta hate Fox.
They don't like him because he is a Republican. They

(24:26):
don't like him because he was oh my gosh, he
was supported, he was nominated by Trump, so they don't
like him. I'm not even asking them to justify they're
a rational hatred of the man. I'm just asking them
to be honest about it. Don't feather up some straw
man and pretend that you're so valiant and virtuous by

(24:49):
taking a position against that when it's not even true.
I would have much more respect for her if she
came out and said, I I just dislike him. I
just like him because he as a Republican and because
Trump nominated him, and because he's on Fox. But they
know how stupid that sounds. They can't just come out
and say that to you. So they have to come
up with a reason. Well, let's just make one up.

(25:11):
If he didn't give them one, let's just make them up.
What is their reasoning against him? Think about this. They
got mad, We talked to the last seg. But they've
been trying to go at his tattoos. So wait a minute.
Military dudes don't get to have tattoos anymore. Sarah telling
me they got mad because he was on Fox, but
it's okay for them to be on CNN and MSNBC. Okay,

(25:34):
why else did they Why else are they mad? I mean,
come up with give me a good, genuine reason. Are
you mad that he got two Bronze stars and he
fought for his country? Be mad? Be mad, then cope
and seed, but be honest about it. I just wish
that they were honest, but they can't be because they
really that's the stupidity of their position. They know how

(25:54):
bad it looks if they're honest about it, so they
got to make something up. I mean, it's this is
so frustrating, it really is. It's very frustrating. They're losing
their mind. They are losing their minds. Did you see this?
For instance, the snow white chick. This Rachel Ziegler guy
is the most annoying theater kid I've ever seen in

(26:15):
my life. I don't like her. She's like, she's ran
her mouth enough where I'm pretty sure I don't like
her as a person, which is sad. I don't like
being like that, But that's the truth of it. She
went into this social media meltdown after the election and
she posted all this stuff. She says, I'm speechless. Another
four years of hatred leaning us towards a world I

(26:37):
don't want to live in. She doesn't even she doesn't
even have a kid. She's like, it'll be hard to
raise my daughter in Okay, A will that'll force her
to have a baby she doesn't want. Are you like,
what is your damage? Is what is wrong with you?
They're just gonna what are you saying? The government's gonna
rape her and make her have a baby. Is that
what you're saying leaning us towards the world that's fearful.

(26:58):
She is not a mother, and she just speaking of
a hypothetical daughter that she doesn't have, and then she
just kept going on and on, and then she went
on and said that she she wants basically bad stuff
to happen to people. She hopes Trump supporters never know
peace is what she said, and her Twitter and her

(27:20):
Instagram rant news flash to Rachel Zeigler, I've noticed that
there are not four media outlets that can correctly spell
your name in any given time. No one can tell
you anybody else what the hell you've ever been in.

(27:41):
So maybe you should have more of a career before
you start running your mouth and ruining what you've built. Now,
you don't. You're not Meryl Streep. You don't have a
Meryl Streep foundation to run your mouth on. You don't
have a Clint Eastwood body of work to run your
mouth on. You haven't proven your capabilities enough that people
can say, oh, well, she's nuts about politics. But at

(28:03):
least she's a good actress, because I don't even think
that she's got a film coming out with Disney snow White,
which she has been a nightmare for they've already had
to go back. Remember all the stuff that she said
previously where she was blasting Prince Charming and she went
on this feminist rant and people were like scratching, even
moderates were scratching their heads, like why is she doing this?

(28:24):
Is she wanting this movie to fail? And then she says,
I hope they never know peace. She says made Trump
supporters and Trump himself never know peace, is what she
said on Instagram. Maybe she feels like that in her life.
I kind of get the sense that she feels like
her career is stalling out and she's got to do

(28:46):
this political stuff to clawed more attention. And at the
same time, it's one bird or two birds one stone.
She can claw for more attention by saying stupid political
stuff while also taking out her rage against people because
she's mad that her career is stalling. Because I don't
know what the hell she's been you she was in
that West Side Story remake and she was the worst
part of it, and then what this. I don't know

(29:07):
what else she's been in. There are other actresses her
age that are doing laps around her in terms of
work and accolades and all she's doing is bitching on
Instagram and saying this kind of stuff. I mean, maybe
you should focus on your movie, you know that, because
right as it is, right now, they already had to
take it back because that's the Snow White film that

(29:28):
got into a lot of trouble with the little people,
the Dwarves, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves because the
King little person, a guy played Tyriyan Lanister, what's his name?
He's the king of all little people apparently, which made
all the other little people actors very upset because he
acted like he was the valedictorian of all of them

(29:50):
and the union president of all of them. And he
went out and said, oh my gosh, can you believe
that they have you know, the little like dwarves in
a movie. I mean, it was called Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves, but whatever I mean, I guess it
should have been you know, snow White and the you know,
seven ambiguously gendered hobos. I don't know, like what, so

(30:10):
this movie has just like run into controversy after controversy
after controversy after controversy. It is really annoying. At least
what's her face? Jenna Ortega doesn't go this hard. Jenna
Ortaga at least knows when to like to shut up,
to not burn her audience. This chick doesn't. I think
she wants to be Jenna Ortega. I don't know. I

(30:33):
just can't stand this stuff. Somebody in her management needs
to tell her it's not a wise career move to
do things like this. They fired Gina Carano for less.
Gina Carano said something entirely accurate on Instagram about fascism,
and Disney lost their mind. All the woke scholds lost

(30:53):
their mind and they fired her. This chick is literally
wishing harm on Trump supporters and it's crickets. Crickets. Now,
that's pretty unbelievable. So you tell me who's the bigot.
Good grief. I don't know. These people are damaged. They're

(31:16):
just damaged. I don't know. Now a few other things
I wanted to touch on as well. This is like
completely well, maybe I should get into this later because
it has to do with have you seen these I've
noticed an increase in this. Have you seen an increase
in articles where it says, don't go here because the
locals don't want you if you're a tourist, don't go

(31:39):
here because locals don't want you. And I saw this
thing about like Venice where they were saying, oh, the
Venetians there, I mean there's like ten people that I'm
exaggerating slightly. I mean it's a town that's entirely built
on tourism. Now, I mean, unless you're telling me that
the Morano glass, which is beautiful, is like their entire export,
I don't think so. So they are are giving like

(32:00):
these like it bubbled up in Spain because there were
a number of people in Spain, like in Barcelona and
in other towns that were essentially protesting against tourists and
other places. Now four Doors came out with their travel
go and know lists and they're saying, well, tourist spots
are collapsing under the burden of their own prominence, and

(32:21):
how some of the locals in some of these areas
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Speaker 5 (34:09):
Did she had literally make a video about this and
pub music to it.

Speaker 11 (34:13):
And the reason for doing it and kissing goodbye my
one point nine million followers over there is because I
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trying to take over that name and using it.

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For nefarious purposes.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
I was a little bit worried about that. And also
every so often I would use it to just like
sort of look at news that was trending and what's happening,
and I would just sort of use it as like
an aggregator. But I just realized that that's not really worth
it because in order to like do the news aggregation
and just look at all, you have to wade through
a lot of drek and a lot of just abuse
and a lot of just negativity. And it's just not

(34:59):
worth it.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
No one cares like this is you know, as we
said yesterday, this is not an airport. You don't have
to announce the departures. Nobody cares. These people who think
that being without their contributions on x or on social media,
or they think that that's like a big that's actually
makes me like it more. It means it's going to
be a better place. I think. I said, want to

(35:22):
contribute content, Well you're not contributing content. All it is
is just whining. You're part of the drek. That's all
you contribute. I mean, she's one of the meanest, most
bigoted people that is in media today. So I don't
see this as a loss. Why all these people that
do this, what is it? Don Lemon? He released a
statement with a picture of himself at the bottom of it.

(35:47):
I know, Don, come on, dude, that's so goofy. I mean,
it's just so self aggrandizing. That's the last thing that
democrats need to be doing right now. They need to
be taking invention of where all they got it wrong.
It's just it's funny. I I don't know. I can't imagine.

(36:10):
And there were there were a few of them that
did Mark Campbell leave x I don't remember somebody. There
were a few others that left too. Okay, bye, don't
let the door hit you with a good lords blitch.
You ain't gonna, ain't gonna be shed no tears. I
don't care. I just don't care. Is he there? Okay,
I don't know. Just this just goofy. These people that

(36:32):
have to announce this stuff, I just you know, after
it was Purga's. The problem is is they didn't want
to be confronted with dissent. They are very uncomfortable when challenged.
They take it as a personal affront. Sometimes I think,
are they just lazy and they don't want to have
to do the work of defending their their position or

(36:55):
is it more than that? And I think with some
of these people it's more than that. They have a
God complex. They view themselves as being so self important
that when you challenge them. It's a it is you're
offending them, you might as well slap them to challenge
them on an issue. The right better not get like this.
I'm telling you, I know that the left is trying

(37:16):
to pull everybody over into its cesspit of ridiculousness. But
let's not follow now coming up blueing on because that's
all playing into this as well. We're going to get
into all of this and more, and then we've got
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We've been going over a lot of stuff lately, just
with the cabinet selections, with the UH all of it,

(38:47):
with the with the Senate, with everything. It's been busy,
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let's get into some of the latest here with the

(39:09):
Senate and the Cabinet, because now we've got House, Senate
and White House, and I was talking a little bit
last segment about my concern but pulling too much from
the House. A lot of people think that if you're
pulling too many from the House for appointments, that you
can just appoint someone. That's not how that works is

(39:30):
to recap you have to have a special election, and
that can take months and months depending on where. So
you're looking at going into the new year and new
Congress and you might be going all the way to
summer before you get to special elections, maybe all the
way to next fall. It all depends. Everybody's every state's different.
Why would you want to immediately necap the administration like that,
especially when there are tons of other options that exist

(39:51):
outside of a very narrow majority in the House. So
that's incredibly important. A few things the I've been really
enjoying everything that I've read about all the people freaking
out over Pete Hegseth. I think it's great because he's
a really solid pick. There've been really good picks. There's
some picks that I'm like, uh, I don't understand that.

(40:13):
Christy know, on one Tulci Gabbard over at as a
director of National Intelligence, or she was on the terror
watch list. So I'm hoping that that gives her a
little bit of empathy towards innocent Americans being targeted by
their government. I got a lot of questions still about
some of her other positions, but the like, for instance,

(40:35):
because she was hardcore supportive of gun control, because I've
got tweets and video and all of that, and I
don't think she's ever explained it. But that isn't really
required for Director of National Intelligence unless she starts targeting
to people for supporting Second Amendment. So maybe that place
to her particular skill set in that role. And like
I said, we've tried to get around before, but she

(40:56):
absolutely refuses to talk to me, so I don't know.
But anyway, uh, maybe that will work for her particular
skill set. And I think every other appointment works with
that individual's skill set. The know them I don't get
because I don't for Department of Homeland Security because I
just feel like Tom Holman would be a much better

(41:17):
you know, he's the borders are I feel like, and
that falls under DHS. I just don't know. Tom Holman's
clearly the person to do it. So I don't understand
the GNOME appointment, But the only one that I was
kind of questioning was the Gates thing, because I knew
that that House invest that House Ethics investigation, was going
to make the confirmation super choppy. But as we talked

(41:39):
about last hour, and you can revisit that, I have
some theories now looking at the House, we're gonna have
special elections for the House because Gates already resigned his seat.
Don't know how that's going to work out. I don't
know how quickly that will happen. And you don't want
to be out maneuvered by the left when you have
a reduced majority. So that's the thing in the Senate.
And one of'm my friends, Daniel Horowitz, and made a

(42:01):
really good suggestion. And I think that this is true
because he says, he's talking about all of these senators
from all of these red states. Right, this is one
of the reasons why we keep getting in this position
of having the same swamp rats over and over again
to consider for these leadership positions.

Speaker 12 (42:15):
Right.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
So, for instance, you know there are a lot who
are coming up for twenty twenty six right in midterms,
and this is the time now that you start getting
ready for those midterms and upgrade these seats to people
who are more constitutional right, more constitutionally minded, fiscally conservative

(42:38):
candidates right. And so there's a lot of focus on
this Florida Senate seat and I have no idea why
we're not looking at primary in some of these others,
like Tom Tillis up in North Carolina. Right, there was
a movement that came out for Lara Trump to be
appointed in that seat. And I like Lara Trump, I've

(42:58):
met her, I know her. I think that this is no, no,
absolutely not uh and not a knock against her at all.
I mean I shouldn't really have to say that. It
should be kind of understandable, but not a knock against
her just doesn't make sense, especially when, uh, you want
to be able to have a strong, strong constitutionalist that

(43:23):
understands the parliamentary procedures of the Senate, and with that
particular appointment, you can really go hardcore for somebody like
a Mike Lee in Florida. And they there are I
think with Meyer is one of them. There are those
picks that exist there. But the other thing is she
just got RNC chair and we can't appoint her to
every single You're going to appoint her to R and
C chair and the Senate. Are you going to appoint

(43:45):
her to a cabinet position? I mean, come on, it
gets a little dynastic. And I also think, with all
due respect, they just moved to Florida, they've only they
haven't been They've been there a couple of years. Floridians
are very particular, which I've learned about their voting daylight.
People have a history in the state and then have
ties to the area. So and that makes sense. And

(44:05):
I get that. I'm not against any anybody like lar
Trump ever running for office, but if she really wants
to be in office, why not take her to Gates
District and run her in a special election in that
seat then or her home state of North Carolina primary
the Rhino senator up there where you could use all
of the pressure from all those online influencers and you
could flip that seat. Well, not flip it, it's a Republican,

(44:28):
but you could make it. You know, you could have
her be installed in that seat. But we can't just
like hand out appointments to Senate, you know, like it's
Marty Gras beads. I don't want to have like a
Harris esque moment here where we're just handing and pointing
things out over and over again. And I think that's
a really fair assessment, especially considering how our country was founded.

(44:49):
You know, we wanted people to demonstrate their merit for
certain things and not just have like King George put
the edict down from on high. Okay. So it's just
kind of how I look at it, and I think,
you know, if and if she and she just barely
got in the RNC, let her, let her flesh that
out a little bit so she could run for Gates'

(45:10):
seat special election or again go to North Carolina and
do that seat up there. But look at some of
these other there. I mean, there's some other people that
we could really uh seats that we could really make
more conservative. Like I know that there's been some criticism
of you know, obviously Tom Tillis in North Carolina. That'
where LARIDR. Trump could go and challenge Tom Tillis. And
she's North Carolina's her state. She could do it, and

(45:32):
you could use the pressure there. You got John Cornyn
in Texas, I mean, good heavens, Bill Cassidy out in Louisiana.
There's a number of others that have been a little
disappointing in their votes, you know, and I think that
there's a lot that you could be done to change
that you cannot. Though it's so weird to target just

(45:54):
one floor to seat when there are all of these
other seats that are prime. So that's kind of how
I'm looking at it. Everybody always struggles with these rhinos
and primaries, and as my friend Daniel says, because you know,
they lack the challengers often are new, they are going
up against the machine of the rhino. They're going up
against name id and money. So if you have her

(46:18):
challenge tillis in North Carolina, that's an easy pickup, but
that's her home state. But Floridians, I think you need
to be there a little more than a couple of years.
And you just got nominated for R and C chair
where we can't. I don't think that you can consolidate
all these different positions under her. That's so we need

(46:38):
to be or she could run for, like I said, Gates,
a seat special election in the House. So those are
some options. But there are a lot of seats out
there that we really need to start thinking about, and
some primaries that we get to start thinking about. Here
in twenty twenty six, because I guarantee you too. Depending
on how these other appointments come out, there are going
to be some rhinos that are going to be looking

(46:59):
to try to shore up their numbers in the Senate
and in the House. So we got to be really
aware of that, be very very aware of that. Now.
In the meantime, one of the cabinet picks, Pete Hegseth.
I got to share this piece because I saw who
is this guy? This is He's like a professor somewhere.

(47:22):
He's like a totally annoying professor, Matthew D. Taylor. I
don't even know where he's from. He is, oh, some
scholar in Baltimore. Scholar in Baltimore. That's all I know.
It's so dumb. And he went on this Twitter thread
about Pete Hegseeth's tattoos, and he was going on and

(47:51):
on and he said that he was talking about his
tattoos and his Christian faith and he was getting into
Christian nationalism and he was saying that his I guess,
his tattoos, I guess were somehow like I guess, evidence
of Christian nationalism or whatever. And then he got mad

(48:12):
because he had, and I don't know if he deleted
this or not, because I was pulling this up. He
was very upset in that he had tweeted that one
of the he was talking about the books that he
had said he'd read and he was just like getting
into all of it, and he said that he has
a far right Christian Zionist fantasy. He was talking about
the Temple of the Mount and things like that he

(48:35):
had For some reason, it just does not want to
pull up for the life of me. I think he
deleted this tweet, but he was saying that he was
talking about Temple Mount and how you know you have
a mosque on Temple Mount now, and he was saying that,
you know, he seems to be very anti Muslim and
he gets involved in this like Christian Zionist fantasy with

(48:56):
this et cetera, et cetera, and thinks that these things
can just be removed, these that these holy sites can
be removed. Can I just like, what did the what
was under the Temple Mount? Again? Cain remind us of
what that was originally? He says that a far right
Christian Zionist fantasy that Muslim holy sites can be removed

(49:19):
and He's like, oh, the re establishment of the Temple
on the Temple mount He was saying that there's no
reason why the miracle of the re establishment of the
Temple mount, of the Temple on the Temple mountains is
not possible. So there was a holy site already there,
and then other people came and put a site on
that site. The latter wasn't wrong, but saying otherwise is right.

(49:44):
That doesn't make sense. That's what this guy's using to
go after a heg Seth about he's trying to cast
him as like this this zealot, and he says, well,
he goes He says that that you could the idea
that someone raise the third holiest site in Islam dumb
of the rock to build the third Jewish temple is

(50:06):
a wild scheme. And he talks about how it's crazy
and that that how it is fueled by hate from people,
and uh that this is you know, his wild This
is Hegseth's wild theology and what influences him. I mean,
you do realize that long before Muslims were around, that

(50:27):
was a Jewish holy site, right, so there's no anger
for a mosque being established on it. But so you
think you can't raise a whole, but they raised a
holy site to put a mosque on it.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I guess what, no one attacked them.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Yeah, I mean, don't even get me started about the
uh Haker Sophia, don't an is sampul, don't don't get me.
I mean, I'm just saying, so where why is it
a very situation outrage? Like he's trying to make Pete
Hegseth out to be this Christian like nut job. He
has like a twenty some odd Twitter thread and it's

(51:11):
gotten hundreds of retweets already thousands of views, and he's
trying to make them seem like this Christian nutjob. And
while he's slaming him for can you believe that he
thought that you could just like put a different holy
site on this holy site? That holy site went on
a holy site? What are you talking about? So that's
like the people who are like this is stolen land

(51:31):
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Speaker 5 (53:22):
So they discover they discovered an alligator in Michigan.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Quite the circumstances too.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
It was during a drug bust. It's even weirder and weirder.
So they discovered this alligator by Michigan State Police and
apparently it had to do it was like some drug bust.
I just I'm just because that's not something that you're
going to be able I mean it's cold up there.
It's not like there's any like tributaries or anything that

(53:54):
they can swim up. I'm just made of questions right now, honestly.
So the gater hole it frozen. I'm gonna pull this
back up. So this alligator that they found, it was
starting to drug bus They did take it in fishing
Waila took it into custody obviously, but it was it
was in a home. They executed a search warrant. They
found an alligator living there in the house. Okay, well
there you go, like just randomly did they thought we're

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Speaker 5 (57:10):
So Cain was telling me on break that AOC apparently
removed her pronouns from her ex bio. If it is,
I had to go and check myself. I didn't know
she had them on there anyway. I don't really look
at our bio, but apparently everyone was noticing that they
were gone. I don't know if that's a realization that
the left is having or not that are maybe they

(57:31):
catching on, I'm not quite sure. Welcome back, Dana lash
with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can
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seven as well direct TV. This is kind of I
think goes into what I was going to talk about
with my guest today, David Harsani, who is a senior
writer over at DC Examiner. He's got a new book
out which is a pretty dystopian cover, the Rise of

(57:53):
Blue and On. And I love that phrase because he
says in this book, this is how the Democrats became
a party of conspiracy theorists. They've always kind of been,
but it's now like on steroids as of late. And
when you think to everything that they said over this
election period, like you're we're all going like they're gonna

(58:14):
put us all back in chains or whatever. That first
they were gonna kill us with healthcare back when Paul
Ryan ran. They've always run these conspiracy theories as a
substitute for policy, and now look where they are. Are
they gonna stop? Now? Is this AOC like pronoun changing? Maybe?
Like the first sign? Am I am I being? Am
I doing hopefulness wrong? I'm a senic? So I don't know.
David now joins us via Skype. David, good to see you.

(58:36):
I just real quick, what do you make of that?
I mean, because that's really I feel like this last
election is sort of the culmination of all the conspiracy
theories that the left has tried to sell us for decades. Now,
I mean, you go all the way back to the
Bush years and before in this book. What do you
think about this?

Speaker 6 (58:54):
It does seem like maybe the fever broke a little
bit just because it was so because Trump won. So
I think that maybe they're they're just regrouping and thinking
about new ways to approach this. Once you call someone
Hitler and you say that they're fascists, you.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Really have no place to go. There's no up from that, right,
you can ratchet to eleven. That is it. And so
maybe they're rethinking it.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
I suspect we're going to go back to things as
usual pretty soon, though. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
I was thinking about that when I saw Trump in
the White House in the Oval office there with Biden.
I'm like, wow, that's like Hitler's getting a really good
reception there. They got a roaring fire. I mean, looks
like they got snacks and drinks. I mean, you know,
that's just really not really how you would entertain the
guy that you said was an existential threat to democracy.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
No, not at all.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
And you know there are cynical people who spread those things,
but I don't think, you know, Biden really believed that.
But then there are a lot of credulous voters. Sorry,
to say, who do believe stuff like that, they're the
person who might pick up a gun and try to
kill you know, Donald Trump, or you know, doesn't want
to have Thanksgiving with their aunt or whatever. So yeah,
it's a really destructive way to talk about politic It.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Seems we're in such a weird time because we have
you know, if you want to know anything, you can
look it up. If you want to know about the
history of the people who lived in POMPEII, you can
google it really quickly. If you want to you know,
read about I mean, whatever it is, you can find.
You know, how to videos, you can you know, all
the encyclopedic knowledge you can get at your fingertips. But

(01:00:23):
yet we have the Left telling us, well, you're all
going to be in Handmaid's costumes and you're going to
be in jail, and we're going to be in World
War three, and not to you know, just not to
skip over all the sciences, real stuff that they had
with the COVID and everything else. I'm just where do
we go from here, because as you said, you can't

(01:00:45):
go past that. People aren't stupid. They they can look
things up, they can determine what is true and what
isn't I don't know how you can reconcile, or how
Democrats reconcile. Mostly intelligent, you know, there's some dumb people
out there, but we've got an intelligent electorate. And then
what they've been selling, I don't know how they go
forward as an entityer ideology after last week.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Well, I mean for a lot of people, this is
a bigger topic.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Maybe, but for a lot of people, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
They've lost faith or real faith or religion and they've
replaced it with politics and ideology. So point there's a
kind of line faith connected to this kind of the
way that they speak. So you're right, some people don't
believe it. It's not a good way forward because it
doesn't work. But there is still a like think about
all the people left Twitter went to Blue Sky or
whatever it's called. They want to be more siloed than

(01:01:38):
they were before, Like they want they don't even want
to hear an argument.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Think about this.

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
Was there a single real debate over policy this last election?
I don't think so. And what they do I start
the book this way. I talked about how no one
debates me anymore. They just call me a Russian dupe
or bought by the NRA, or there's some shady group
that's controlling me. Too stupid or too evil to care otherwise. Right,

(01:02:03):
So that's a short that they started taking mostly in
the two thousands, I think, and then it just enveloped them.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
That's all they do now. They do not debate. They
play the man. They don't play the issue anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
So I'm you're playing suicidal tendencies, you know where gen
xer is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Maybe we're a little cynical.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
About that stuff, but you know so I'm pretty cynical
about the future in that way.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
Oh, we wanted was a pepsi man. That's all we wanted.
That's all, you know. Come on. Just talking with David Harsani,
whose new book The Rise of Bluing, on how the
Democrats became a party of conspiracy theorists. I think one
of the worst conspiracy things that I ever saw floated.
I mean, and this is just of our general lifetime,
was this this Russian collusion thing and then the laptop
cover up. This is the craziest stuff that I've ever seen.

(01:02:47):
And I don't know, we're already cynics. I mean, we
were raised on hose water. I mean, We're the people
who's like we were left into the woods and in
the neighborhood's our own devices all day long. So you know,
I think we're like made a pretty tough stuff. And
I see what was it fifty one or fifty two
intelligence experts that sign this letter to say that this
laptop is this is all Russian collusion, disinformation, et cetera.

(01:03:07):
How do you read? I mean, they did more than
just puddle conspiracy theories. They peddle distrust of our nation's
institutions that might be irrevocable.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
Yeah, COVID, I think finally destroyed that. But I'm happy
you brought up Russia collusion. It's the most successful political
conspiracy theory in history. Nothing, no, none has had more
of an effect on certainly our lives. We where completely
that's all we talked about for three years. It was
completely made up and what happens, And it's a good
example of how the left's conspiracy theories are far more

(01:03:38):
dangerous than the right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Like Alex Jones or whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
He's out there and he has fans, no doubt, but
on the left, they take it, they launder it through media,
they polish it up, they calibrate it to be plausible.
They get experts, you know, who are just partisans to
come in and say it's true. And a lot of
people think that the bigger conspiracy theory is the easier
it is to debunk, but it's the opposite, apecially when
you have institutions behind it. So when they tell you something,

(01:04:03):
we used to trust the seat form or CIA director.
You wouldn't think he would just make something up, right,
or even the New York Times, you wouldn't believe that
they would just make something up. That's not bias, it's
something much worse. So I think it was super successful.
It hamstrung the administration that could barely do anything, and
no one there was no reckoning, no one lost their job.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
You know, they just went on. They did the Hunter
laptop stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
They hid Biden's you know decline, his acuity and his
physical decline, and you know, these are the same people
are still there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
So that's why I'm skeptical that things are going to
change in the long run.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
I love that we were to believe that we were
all going to be you know, basically spied on and
treated horribly by Republicans, But yet they we were expected
to believe that Joe Biden was completely fine, especially if
you're watching him try to walk on the beach the
other day and Jill would not even extend an arm,
Like what a horrible woman you are, not even to
help your husband talking with David Harsani. Uh, this this,

(01:05:02):
I I'm amazed at how Also this is really driven
the tribalism of the left. And I don't want the
right to get tribal in response to the left's tribalism,
because that's the thing with these conspiracy theories. And I
try to be very and I'm trying to be very
careful of it, and I'm not inclined to be careful.

(01:05:23):
I'm trying to be But how does this pan out?
I mean, where do you see? What do you see
happening from here? Because and I'm I'm maybe I've asked
you this in somewhere or another, like just you know,
a couple of minutes ago, But I mean, I'm reading
your book and it goes all the way back. You
go all the way back to like the Bush ears
and Bush was you know when they when it was
Bushitler and they would burn in effigies of him in

(01:05:47):
the streets I would crash protests and I would see
them doing this and it was wild. Where I mean,
where do we go from here? Do we can we
go back to a nation of reason where we actually
have debates on reasonable things, or do we just get
more siloed in tribal.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Take more tribal. I want it's going to be great,
It's going to be great.

Speaker 6 (01:06:08):
No, here's what worries me, you know, I you know,
think about what democrats so think of. In twenty seventeen,
Donald Trump wants to get rid of the philibuster and
the Collums said, no.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Whatever, that is what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:06:20):
But imagine if they had gotten rid of it, if
Democrats could get rid of it, what would they have done.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
They would have passed.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
One huge, overwhelming national you know, anti gun legislation, anti
uh speech legislation, you know elector you know election the legislation,
and they would have packed the Supreme Court and they
would have destroyed the Constitution. I just believe that the
progressives hate the Constitution. They're not pro first Amendment, they're
not pro second, not four fifth tenth, forget it. So

(01:06:47):
just because Republicans win, Now, if that's not a culture change,
when Democrats come back, and they will.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
It always happens.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
They're going to do things that are going to be
irreparable so we used to do in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
I believe share some common and values.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
We disagreed on a lot of stuff, but everyone believed
in the first amendments. Say, do you think that that's
the case anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:07:06):
I mean New York Times has a piece like every
week about how the Constitution's getting in the way of
democracy and stuff like that. So that's what really worries me,
you know, that sort of thing, and it is driven
by paranoia, just a quick thing. You know, think about
voter suppression or you know, the idea that police are
hunting black men. These are lies. These are paranoia. Lies
that a lot of people believe. It's easier to vote

(01:07:28):
than ever, and yet people walk around thinking that their
agency has been taken from them. Right, and if people
believe that they're going to it's going to be difficult
for them to live with other people they think are
doing it to them, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
So, and it hasn't helped that you've had you know,
legacy press for so long controlled by one ideology. I mean,
they kept saying that with Georgia's new voter law, that
it was nobody was going to go out and vote.
It was not Jim Crow, Jim Eagle, Yeah, Jim Eagle.
So Biden called it. But then they had a record
number of people who came out to vote in Georgia.
So then you have the presence of social media and
Elon Must taking X. But X can't do it all

(01:08:01):
by itself or can it?

Speaker 6 (01:08:03):
No, but it is important. I think people shouldn't underestimate
how important it is to left. Like social media in
one way is just nefarious, right, you have such bad
people on there, right, I mean, just ugliness and all that.
But on the other hand, you know, I hear a
lot of young people say that it's worse than ever.
You know, No, I grew up with three television stations
and they were controlled by gatekeepers and there's no way

(01:08:25):
to fight back, no way to debunk what they were saying,
no way to have our own conversations. How you can
do that, And that's important, So we shouldn't forget that either.
So I think must buying Twitter was huge because it's
the biggest and most I think influential platform there is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
So do you think that that's going to maybe spark
like because I know Zuckerberg's he seems to the left,
but not like an ideological Zela like at least that
they they boxed out China and they wouldn't allow Facebook
to go into China, so China had to get their
own thing. And there's certain things that they I've been
surprised at how Facebook has handled certain issues, although the

(01:09:00):
suppression still exists. I think that's the lower level staff.
But do you think it's going to going to inspire
some of these other you know, tech companies or tech
execs or future you know, any kind of you know,
technological advancement in terms of social communication. Are they going
to be more middle road because they I mean, everybody
wants to be praised, and Musk has gotten a lot

(01:09:21):
of praise. That's an attractive incentive.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
That's right. Yeah, thanks for letting me be positive. I
actually have something positive to say.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Look at that I didn't mean to I didn't mean
to be.

Speaker 6 (01:09:32):
I think that that is one of that is a
positive that there has been. It's more acceptable or people
are braver now in supporting Trump. We're supporting ideas that
maybe leftists don't like you know on higher levels like
other like tech bros.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Or whoever.

Speaker 6 (01:09:48):
Also, now that you mention it, you know, just looking
at how this election went, I don't view this as
a conservative win more.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
I'm viewing more as a Normy win.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
I think Normy's look at Donald Trump and they think, oh,
he's not saying They them right. He is normal and
we've been to vote with the normal guy because he's
not very ideological and he's actually quite moderate on policy
in almost everything.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:10:11):
So a lot of seeing all the minority groups and
everyone moved to the normy side, I think that should
give us some hope that maybe they're going that they
won't just move to Trump, but they'll start thinking about
the other ideas that the left has and rejecting them.

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
So that's a great point. That's a great point.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
The book is the Rise of bluing On. It's a
great read, gets into a lot of history. Then you
realize how wrong we've been all these years, and it
kind of makes you mad. You get to recount all
of it. David Harsani always get to talk with You'd
love to have you back, Thanks so much, congrats on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
The book, Thank you anytime of course.

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Speaker 14 (01:12:22):
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Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
The stuff that happens on break is insane. All right,
let's see here. So okay, let me look at the
Trump banner one. So this guy I've read I think
I've read something similar or there was a guy who
painted his house in American flag that he was mad.
This guy is the it's a virus. It's a thirty
a house and he has giant Trump banners and one

(01:12:50):
of them is Trump pointing? It's hist I mean it
goes like three levels and he's going Who's your Daddy?
At Seagrove Beach, it's a house along the coast. They
a homeowner would not take down his banners, and so
he got hit with sixty three thousand dollars in fines,
and so he draped a new one over the balcony

(01:13:10):
that said Trump coming home. I mean they're three stories long,
so it's a big banner, just so you know that,
like it's the size of an office building. He's displayed
various Trump banners since twenty twenty. He had one that
says Trump coming Home twenty twenty five. That was the
latest one, And he took a picture of in front
of his house in a stars and stripes jacket that

(01:13:31):
says Trump on it. I see dancing or posing, I
don't know. And he's in front of his banners. One
of them says bulletproof, the other says Who's your Daddy,
and the other says Trump coming home twenty twenty five,
and he's this he's not taking them down. So they
it's Walton County code compliance. They're saying that his banners
are violating these Scenic Quarter Code six ' ten oh

(01:13:53):
five and it enforces a fee at fifty dollars per
day for every day a banner is hung. He's had
these things up for forty two months. He says, he's
that it's protected by the First Amendment, and he goes,
I've got great lawyers. I think he does. Like the
guy is in front of a three story house. Yeah, no,
technically four if you count the ground level. Uh, that's crazy.

(01:14:18):
I don't even know what kind of steel had to
go into building that house on the coast. But I
think he's probably got the resources to fight fight his case, right.
I feel like he's got the resources to do so,
just you know, it seems that way. Let's see, I
got a couple of oh yeah, so this guy, Grady
Judd said that this Florida man should have hit his

(01:14:39):
cocaine before calling the deputies. A Florida man and a
teenager were arrested in frost Proof, which is the actual
name of a town and I could not love it anymore.
Paul County Sheriff said that a group of juveniles had
been aggravating and harassing fifty four year old Everett Brown,
and he said that a fourteen year old kicked in
Brown's door and hitting him with a red broom handle
and burglar and battle felonies. But then while the deputies

(01:15:01):
were processing the scene, Brown had left his cocaine all
out on the table encounter, and he said, well, he
forgot to hide his cocaine before he called for us
to come and investigate the crime. So then he also
went to jail four possession of cocaine at paraphernalia, and
the other kids went to jail for burglary and battery.
There you go, folks, We've got more in store. Another

(01:15:24):
hour on the way. Stick with us, Welcome back to
the program. It's Dana Lash with you top of this
third hour, and we are waiting. We're watching all the appointments.
We're watching all of the the drama unfolding, whether it's
the Senate, whether it's the House, whatever it is. We're

(01:15:44):
keeping you up to date with everything, and you can
make sure you follow along two of its substack, chapter
and verse, because we've got a lot of stuff that
goes on over there as well. I saw this headline.
I just I wasn't going to start the show off
with it. But it's like trendy. Now they're saying evil
Longoria has left the United States after Donald Trump's victory.

(01:16:04):
What has she been in lately? She's leaving the United States.
She left, She fled the country and moved. She's now
living in Spain and part time in Mexico. I read
a piece in Daily Mail that she like left over

(01:16:25):
a year ago. She moved to Spain over a year ago.
Why are they acting like she just left? Trump won
and now she loved so like the I don't understand
these people. Nobody cares, nobody cares, nobody cares about any
other stuff. Just stop. These people that are uh pushing

(01:16:50):
that are like announcing that they're leaving X or the
United States. Oh nobody cares. But I don't think she's
been in an lately. I think she just like every
election cycle, she comes back up because she raises money.
I don't know if she's been in anything since that
Housewives show, right, and that was that was on since

(01:17:11):
before I moved to Texas. So it's been a bit,
it's been a minute. It's been a little bit of
a minute. Coming up later at the bottom of this hour,
we're going to talk to Dexter Taylor yes, the one
who is in jail because he's fighting for freedom and
Second Amendment rights. He's been wrongly, wrongly convicted. You want
to talk about injustice. I hope Trump pardons him. In fact,

(01:17:32):
that's what we should be pushing for, is a pardon
of Dexter Taylor, because that would be huge. So maybe
that's something that we should we should talk about. But
we're going to talk to him, like I said at
the bottom of this hour, get into all of that.
And we've been following along with all of the all
of the complete freakouts from all these appointments that have

(01:17:55):
been coming in, and there's there's more to come still,
although I'm we were talking about the Matt Gates one
for ag that's the only one where I'm like hm,
because for a few reasons, I have every justification to
worry about picking from the House. We have such a
narrow majority, and now we got Walts Stephanic and you

(01:18:19):
take Gates out, that is going to leave us with
a narrower majority than what we have now. And people
don't understand that you can't just appoint someone in a
House seat. It has to be a special election. Now,
the governor of a state can appoint for Senate, but

(01:18:40):
for House, it just can't be an appointment to House.
It has to be a special election. And some of these,
depending on where they are, can take some time. You're
talking months, Like someone was saying, I think for New
York it might be what until summer or fall or
something like that. I was I had this in my notes.

(01:19:02):
Uh that's uh, that's too long to wait. That's that's
way too long to wait, especially when you're going into
brand new Congress, you got a brand new administration. You
want to hit the ground running. And this is you

(01:19:24):
cannot hamstring yourself. You got you remember what we said,
time is of the essence. So if you're going to
cut all these departments, so you've got Elon Musk and
Vi vike Ramaswami that are running DOGE, and I just
like saying it, it's the Department of what is it?
Government Efficiency? DOGE. They will look and see what they

(01:19:47):
want cut. And by the way, I had heard a
SoundBite from vivig Ramaswami where he said they want to
be they want to have all this done by twenty
six and then do away with the department. I think
one of the best things he's ever said. Genuinely, I
loved hearing that. Loved hearing that we should get him
on the show. I loved hearing that. I was like, wait,

(01:20:09):
you're talking about cutting government and then cutting the department
or cutting the outside agency that's cutting government. What. When's
the last time you ever heard anyone go, yes, we're
gonna we're gonna get rid of our own department. No
does that? It's funny. So anyway, I was like, very
excited over that, because when you start talking about government,

(01:20:29):
I'm like that Vince McMahon thing, that meme that he
has where he makes an excited faith and he gets
more and more excited. Oh, I love it. Except when
I look excited, I look creepy because I have RBF naturally,
and I'm not a super exuberant person in that fashion.
So when I look super happy and joyful, it's creepy.
So I always have to train myself to keep a nice,

(01:20:51):
pleasant expression on my face because if I don't raise
my eyebrows up onto my scalp, then I look mean
and crabby or terrifying. So anyway, but I genuinely really
liked hearing that. So the these positions I don't. I
don't want to jeopardize the House. And I love that
we're talking about cutting all of this stuff. But if

(01:21:12):
you when they come up with programs that need to
be cut, and when they recommend that to Potus or Congress, Congress,
because it's the power of the purse, all spending, all
of that stuff has to originate there, you're not You're
going to have a difficult time getting things past if
you keep reducing the majority, and you need to have
a buffer because y'all know, we got some rhinos up

(01:21:34):
in there, so you got to have a buffer. And
that's where I get really nervous. And people say, well,
you know it's a solid red district. That's not the point.
The point is that you have to hit the ground running.
It has to be speed. That's what we talked about
two weeks ago. It has to be all gas, no break.
They have to race to do this before the bureaucratic

(01:22:00):
state can move to oppose it. They need to be
unpredictable the way that they go about slashing and removing
this stuff. And so when you gum it up by
reducing the majority and making it take longer to get
all of these cuts approved, you are shooting yourself in
the foot you have in order to do what they

(01:22:22):
need to do, because they're guys. They're talking about cuts
the size of which are pretty mind blowing and the
reduction of even entire agencies that you need speed with that,
and you cannot help them do it by having a

(01:22:43):
smaller margin in the House. You're going to have to
have a buffer. You want to have so many votes.
You want to have not just a majority. You want
to have a majority to where you can spare a
couple of rhinos, where you can spare a couple of
people who watch as you are cutting the special interests
to their state. So you need to be able to
get beyond that. That's what makes me really nervous about it.

(01:23:05):
The ethics investigation. I know that report was coming out.
I just like watching like people fight with each other
in Congress, especially if they're on the same side. It
is very entertaining. Ladies, don't ever, don't let any dude
ever tell you that you're dramatic. After you watch away,
some of these dudes slap fight and argue about stuff
in the house. It's hysterical. I mean they actually did
almost fight in the house. There was that one where

(01:23:27):
it turned into this like great liperating thing and one
guy was physically held back by his face. So I
think that there's some ethics I know that they had
the ethics investigation that was happening, and that it's there
might be some forty chests. I talked a little bit
about this last hour about you know, maybe this might

(01:23:50):
be why this is happening, because look, if you have it,
either means that Trump means business and he's not just trolling,
but he's putting a lawmaker that has a very well
known petty streak, and pettyness isn't always bad, but a
petty streak in charge of DJ you're guaranteeing that someone's
gonna get revenged upon. You're it's a guarantee. Or Trump

(01:24:12):
is very aware of this report from the Ethics Committee
that's coming out, and he is aware of it, and
he wants to get around it by uh, you know,
since he the public can pick apart this record and
these these ethics, these accusations of impropriety, so that when

(01:24:32):
Gates is rejected, then Trump can say that he stood
by him Gates resigned his seat, so he doesn't come
under the jurisdiction of House ethics. What that means for
the report coming out remains to be seen, but all
that comes out in confirmation hearings. So this might be
Trump doing a Machiavellian move, actually genuinely maybe. So it's

(01:24:57):
you know, there's there's all kinds of rumors and speculations
and all kinds of stuff, but it is that I
think his would be probably the toughest one. And you know, two,
it's something maybe he threw out there to distract everybody
from the other nominations. I mean, that also could be
the case. So then they they they're talking about recess

(01:25:21):
appointments to speed up the case. And I wanted to
touch on this because that's they're not as easy as
people think, and it's not necessarily the answer, and they
don't last like you think that they last if you
sometimes this is a way to get around not being
able to get a majority. But there are all there
are limitations to it. If you do recess appointments that

(01:25:45):
and you can do that under Article two of the Constitution.
You can appoint principal officers, et cetera. And this is
something I think that Fune had said that he would
consider doing he would he would allow recess appointments or
something to that effect, and that would be something that
he would consider because he would have to call recess.
But to get recess appointments in the they serve it's

(01:26:09):
not supposed to be a permanent thing, and they get
into it. It was Federalist sixty seven where they talk
about recess appointments and there's it's supposed to be like
a backup to do these appointments to fill up vacancies
that happened during the recess of Senate. I would actually
argue that recess is a lot different now than it
was then because during the time of the Founders when

(01:26:29):
they went on recess, they didn't have the Internet. They
didn't have the telephone. You know, you had like Pope,
you had the post where someone would get on their
horse and ride you a piece of mail. But they
did not have the instant way to communicate. They didn't
have Zoom, they didn't have Skype, they didn't have any
of that, and so it was very, very difficult to
communicate appointments when they were actually recessed. I think that

(01:26:50):
that's changed because of the communications that we have, and
I'm wondering if that's something that should be revisited. Honestly,
but recess appointments, to use recess appointments as a way
to dance around majority is a very unconstitutionalist way of
doing things because you are pushing the limits of these

(01:27:13):
this authority to its extent and beyond, which is something
we're used to seeing with Democrats, but I just don't
want to see Republicans emulate the same thing, even if
it's to get back at the left there. I don't
think that there's going to be a delay though, in
getting his cabinet officials confirmed, because they were really quickly.
I mean they had so his DoD and his DHS

(01:27:36):
after he was elected in twenty sixteen. They literally were
confirmed like a week and a half, like after he
assumed office. So there isn't a record of there being
a delay to get his appoint his appointees confirmed. His
age was confirmed on February eighth, and Secretary of Treasury
February thirteenth. And you can't have Senate. They would have

(01:28:00):
to go on recess right after the inauguration and for
ten days or more, and you just can't have that's
that would be really really bad. Move and a bad
look for a Senate majority leader. And then you have
federal law because you can't pay salary to recess appointees.
That's a thing. There's a lot, and they're limited. You
can only have them serve in that role for a

(01:28:22):
short amount of time and then you either have to
go through the confirmation process or go through another recess
appointment and go through that whole. So it's not as
easy as you think. There's better ways to do it,
and I think they need to stick to the confirmation process.
We have more in store as we roll towards the
bottom of this third hour, and we're going to have
carbon Mic aka dexter Tailor going to be joining us.

Speaker 7 (01:28:44):
it's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
So veterinarians are reporting an alarming trend. Apparently dogs are
getting sick from marijuana exposure. Do not feed your dog
your pot gummies or let your dog get in your
pot gummies, f fs, do not. They said that this
has been something that they've seen a lot. They said
that pets don't really get high, they get sick and
if they and any loss of control is very, very

(01:29:13):
scary for them, and so they said that there was
They talk about how a frenchy got into a bag
of THHC gummies and then the dog was limping and
falling over and he had ingested three ten milligram gummies.
And like all these people have like these stories, these
vets have stories, and they're same. Please because I mean,
it makes your pets super sick, and they're seeing and

(01:29:35):
pets vets are seeing this more and more. A cigarette
smuggler tried floating across the river designed as a water plant.
This is actually hysterical. Uh this uh where was this at?
This is an Argentina, So from Paraguay to Argentina. They
had a guy in military military fatigue fatigues, their their

(01:29:56):
their troops came out and they had looked at this plant.
It looks like a houseplant, a mound of it, and
it looks really suspect. When you're in the river and
there's no other foliage like this, or foliage really in
the water like this, and you just see a mound
of it floating across the river end of the bank.

(01:30:17):
It just looks kind of sketchy and suspicious. And that's
how they were able to easily find out. You know,
it's funny, So I don't know, don't he ended up
getting in major trouble. Now they're trying to say there's
a quandemic concern amongst winter illnesses. I don't know what
that means. What is a quandemic concern? They said that
you've got instead of a triple demic, it's a quandemic.

(01:30:40):
See you have whooping cough, walking, pneumonia, RSV and flu
or maybe people could just wash their hands and stay
home and they're sick. That's also a possibility, you know,
just ah what? A Chinese mother shared a photo of
a toddler urinating on the family meal. What in the world?

(01:31:03):
This is what News eighteen. It was South China Morning Post,
which is a comedy paper. Apparently, I guess this mom
decided to share it on social media in Beijing and
she said, yes, we did go ahead and with the dinner,
so they yeah, I hate everything carbon. Mike Dexter Taylor

(01:31:23):
two A writes next.

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Speaker 5 (01:31:36):
Welcome back to the program Dana Lash here with you.
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You guys know too. One of the biggest issues that
I push for is Second Amendment issues, Second Amenden issues,
And of course a lot of stuff has been wrapping

(01:31:58):
up in two A issues, four A five issues as well.
In one of the cases that we have followed quite
extensively has been that of Dexter Taylor. And I've written
about this a lot, the Dexter Taylor case in New York.
Uh And if you're unfamiliar with him, you know he's
a hobbyist. He has no record. He's just kind of
a brainiac the engineer dude. That's kind of how That's

(01:32:20):
how he is. And he always he'd as a hobby
had engaged in the completely legal practice of building his
own firearms. They he never even fired, by the way,
The first time they were fired is after his home
was raided and the ATF and FBI and everybody sees
and everything. But it was completely legal. And then New
York starts passing all these gun laws and then they

(01:32:42):
make felons out of innocent people. In a very very
unjust trial, Dexter Taylor aka Carbon Mike was sent to prison.
That is where he is now, and that is from
where he joins us on the phone. Dexter Tailor aka
Carbon Mike joins us from prison on the phone, and

(01:33:05):
he is still fighting the good fight. My friend, how
are you? How are you doing?

Speaker 12 (01:33:10):
I'm very good much sister, how are you doing well?

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
I would be a heck of a lot better if
you got a pardon from the President elect. And maybe
that's something that could happen if they get familiar with
your case. But you've been fighting the good fight and
tell me, I mean, I know you've got to go
through the appeals process. Where does all that stand right now?

Speaker 12 (01:33:30):
Well, our process is kind of at a standstill until
we raise some more money to pay my legal team
to actually draft the appeal, file it and get us
on the docket. So that's where we are now. The
situation was complicated by the fact that after you know,
as you know, because I am a quote unquote violent

(01:33:52):
selling because I owned and kept filons inside my own house, right,
I couldn't get bail. Uh, after the verdict. So after
the verdict that went the Right to Records Island and
I stayed there until sentencing, and then sometime after that
I was going to the state system. When I moved
from like to the state system, I'm a process of

(01:34:15):
a Liverpool called transit and the intermediate put of me.
You can't call your people and know that where you are.
So a lot of the stuff I was lovingikers, you know,
doing caps with people like the to Fly Reverend him
so on, I couldn't do any of that stuff. So
our PR effort kind of fell off in the last
month or so. We've just made a concerted effort to

(01:34:36):
now kind of reignite that p PR effort and you know,
get back out there and hit the circuit, so to speak,
and remind people of what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:34:47):
Yeah, and we're talking with our friend Dexter Taylor, who
is a he's a two to a natural rights icon.
He's in prison. He wouldn't take he wouldn't cut a deal.
He was he's unfairly unjustly targeted because he was a
hobbyist built his own firearms, which is a perfectly legal
thing to do, except New York decided to change their
law and then they made felons out of completely innocent

(01:35:10):
people with zero record at all whatsoever. And I know
we're going to talk coming up about the Gibson go
and all of that. But what would you have what
would you have dex people know right now? What do
you need people to do? What would you have them
know right now to help you?

Speaker 12 (01:35:28):
That's a good question. I would have them know more
or less what you said that not only do I
have a clean criminal record or did I have a
clean criminal record before I was rated?

Speaker 6 (01:35:42):
Now?

Speaker 12 (01:35:42):
Long was I remember in good standing of my local
gun range. I was a thirty slat veteran, ear veteran
of the software industry, a father, productive citizen, a good neighbor.
In my politics, I've been doing conservative politics online since
about twenty fifteen. Nothing in my politics would mark me
out at someone who, uh, you know, the average show

(01:36:03):
on the street might say, hmm, are you sure that
got shod that weapons? Nothing? So I encourage people to
kind of follow their skepticism. There's a lot of people
who understand. People hear about this case and say, there
have to be something else right, There have to be
some reason why they went after this guy, go ahead
and run down all those angles. And when you're done
with that, what I'm hoping people will do is uh,

(01:36:25):
you know, contributing in whatever way they see fit. They
can send prayers, they can send reading, they can send
more support, and of course they can send money through
my gifts and go to help to help pump up
our legal fund. But that's and and the other thing
people can do, by the way, and the thing I
would have people to do if they can, is spread
the work. New York Democrats have been able to get

(01:36:48):
over with this kind of thing for years because they
think no one cares, because they think they will not
pay any political price for violating people's Second Amendment rights.
And we aim to show differently. So for example, Ara Gonzales,
the Brooklyn DA that publicly, who's going to make an
example of me? I want to help him. I think

(01:37:12):
I should help him. I think that we should have
more people around the United States understanding this is how
democrats quote unquote care about us. This is how democrats
quote unquote care about the city. This is how democrats
quote unquote care about black people. Like I want everyone
to know what a great thing Aer Gonzales did when

(01:37:34):
he decided that he did not care what the Supreme
Court said in twenty twenty two. So yeah, sunlight best disinfected.

Speaker 5 (01:37:43):
There you go. Do you think would you? I mean, obviously,
and I hope that this gets up to President Alexiirs.
A pardon could solve this, couldn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:37:54):
Well, listen to part I'll take a pardon if it
has no conditions on it. Right. If there's no well
you can't talk about it, you can't sue New York
any of that. But but a pardon wouldn't solve it
because what really has to happen is the laws in
New York has to change. In other words, these laws, remember,
are unconstitutional. So this is not putting me aside for

(01:38:15):
a second. This is not just about me. This is
one state in the Union running wild. And I just
want to also point out to people that I caught
no federal heat on this case right at.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
That wild Yeah, because it's legal federally right.

Speaker 12 (01:38:32):
Well, that's right. So you know, atf drove the search
warrant and was there to kind of check their work,
But other than that, they just appeared. We haven't heard
from them. Now. You know, if I've been doing anything
really out of order. ATF would have been all over
me like Hunter bidden on a coke line. So you know,
it's it's this is entirely this is entirely New York

(01:38:57):
State being out of line, and so, uh that's yeah,
that is all partner would help. But ultimately what has
to happen is the law has to change because I
don't want them doing this to other people. And also,
you know, I'm I'm I'm interested in the firearms industry.
You know, your husband Chris knows that I have a
deep interestment in weapons science. I prototyped one of the things,

(01:39:20):
one of the systems he and I discussed o Cyrus,
the open shot Registration system on Kyle Saraphin's podcast. Uh.
You know, people need to know that, uh, that this
is an American industry, this is an American tradition. And
if people are saying, well, there's people out there shooting
the place up, well, by all means, go run down

(01:39:41):
the people who are shooting the place up. And while
you're at it, you know, we can also have a
discussion about the manifest failure of a decade long liberal
experiment to replace families, fathers with the state. And then
and then standing back and wondering why we have so
much violence in the streets, why we have so much
violence the schools. Well, it's a good question, it's a

(01:40:02):
very good question. But the answer can't be going after
a law abiding citizen and seeing that that he can't
quietly privately keep and their arms in his own home.
That can't be right. And so that's what we're fighting.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
And I love your point on you that you made
on this talking with Dexter Taylor aka carbon Mike, who
is unjustly incarcerated for a I mean really a brand
new crime that New York decided to fabricate out of
the ether. I like the point that you made X
about you know, you could get a pardon and that
could you know, that could get you back with your family,
but that law would still exist in New York and

(01:40:41):
who's and you would have to leave New York if
you wanted to continue your hobby at that point.

Speaker 12 (01:40:46):
That's that's correct. I mean what's funny is I was
planning I was planning to to you know, once I
once I got all the information, I will subscribe to
a service run by I think it's run by Ryan
Klner Excell Military guy. He has a thing called rocket FFLs.
Signed up a rocket FFL again. Before I was rated,
I was studying how to you know, what I need
to file to get an FFL, and I was thinking about,

(01:41:08):
you know, my gun lad and the New Hampshire because
I have some you know, family connects to New Hampshire.
But but yes, it would be awefully nice if New
York would get in line and and stop violating people's
civil rights. And that the other thing. I'm going ahead

(01:41:29):
go on, Yes, I was gonna say, yeah, I was
gonna say, you know a lot of the people just
wanted to touch on this that you know a lot
of people who who claim to be pros civil rights,
who claim to be pro black. You know, it's like
hear a lot of this, you know people. Everyone wants
to tell me about Harriet Tubman. People forget that Harriet
Tubman was packing. Everybody wants to tell me about Martin

(01:41:53):
Luther King. People forget that that the safe houses Martin
Luther King stayed at were arsenals. People forget because the
civil rights movement was armed to the teeth actually because
what they rejected was political violence, and correctly so, but
they weren't stupid. And so you know the other thing
I always say, Dan, it's like, Uh, don't don't get

(01:42:14):
in my face and tell me about how uh you've
got to change all the rules. You've gotta you've got
to indoctrinate my kid with all this nonsense in school
because murders supremacists are everywhere, and and and then and
the other breath, you say, well, if you're willing to
defy the law of the land to disarm me, that
does not make sense. Something has to get somebody's lying

(01:42:38):
about something, So we've got to have that out.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
That's absolutely right. Talking with our friend Dexter Taylor aka
carbon Mica ah, hobbyists who built firearms in his home,
perfectly legal thing, and the New York changed their law
to make a felon out of them. And that's the
other important part of this case, is that what he's doing.
You heard dex say, the FETs didn't get on him.
It was the New York state because federally it's allowed.
And at some point, Exter, do you think that that

(01:43:04):
I mean, that feels like that's got to get settled
at a higher level. And I know that this is
going to go through the appeal process because it's protected.
It's all right, I mean, it's confident, it's protected federal activity.
They're very clear about it. So you have the state
law which is in direct controversion with federal law. That's
got to get resolved.

Speaker 12 (01:43:23):
That's right, that's got to get resolved. It's important to
note that one. The good news, because I've been doing
a little bit of legal research since I've been inside,
the good news is that federal appeals courts now have
started throwing out gun indictments left and right. I mean
they've been tossing them out left and right because they
accept and not just tossing them, but tossing them on

(01:43:44):
broom grounds. Right. So that's a very good thing. Of
the liberal judges we happen to have in New York
State in the state appeals court system are still kind
of on that thing of pretending they can't read. But uh,
but we like our chances in the federal system for
just that reason. If the Supreme excuse me, if the

(01:44:07):
Second Amendment protects any right, it is the right to
keep and on in your house. I heard my mom
played for me some of the segments that CBS ran
on my case, and they included, as I figured they would.
You know, one of the someone I guess supposed to
take the opposite side, some some professor or somewhere who said, well,

(01:44:30):
the Second Amendment, right, the keeping arm is not unlimited, right,
And you know I thought about that. It's it's it's
worth addressing, even though it's not very well fought out.
We're not talking about an edgecase here, right. In other words,
if I had been brandishing a pistol at the mall,
or if I'd been you know, walking down Broadway with
a slung ar, or if I've been pulling how it's

(01:44:52):
served through Central Park, then you might talk about, well
that's that's a bit excessive. But this is my house.
So all that, all that noise you hear about a
foreign liberal burn about the Second Amendment not being a
suicide actoist, Well, I agree. Nobody was talking about suicide.
We were all kind of mining our business until they

(01:45:14):
decided to break my door down. So now we're going
to have this legal fight, and I think the best
thing we can do, uh is, is is escalating that
legal fight into a political fight as well. It is
time for these democrats and local and state governments to
start paying a political price for stopping all over the

(01:45:36):
constitutional rights, the civil rights, because that's what they are
of the people who they're supposed to be working.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
For came into that they have. They have Dexter in
there with rapists and murderers. And he is an innocent man,
truly innocent man, who did nothing but a federally protected
hobby that New York only recently decided to take issue with.
And they've taken him from his kids, they look from
his life, his home. They've got him locked up in there.

(01:46:03):
And you want to talk about injustice, that's injustice and
it's got to get changed, dex. I want to make
sure that you need anything, my friend, you please let
us know, and we're going to try to do everything
that we can here to keep the fire on this
and to help meet these costs so that you can
get this, you can fight this and get this overturned,
and then we can and then we can get New

(01:46:23):
York's laws overturned, because nobody should have to go through
this for a federally protected, constitutionally a firm natural right.
God bless you, my friend. You're going through the ringer
for a lot of people who don't know it or
appreciate it, but we sure do. God bless you well.

Speaker 12 (01:46:38):
Thank He's just the same to you. God bless you
any family. And let's let's keep the pressure on.

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Speaker 15 (01:46:56):
In the meeting, we saw a unified front related to
a transition, uh in the Old Office meeting, But a
lot was said on the campaign trail, like Trump is
a dangerous threat for our country and our democracy.

Speaker 7 (01:47:07):
Was there an apology today?

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
Oh I'm sorry?

Speaker 15 (01:47:10):
Was there an apology from the apology from President Biden
for the words some of the words us?

Speaker 14 (01:47:14):
An apology from the president President.

Speaker 15 (01:47:16):
Biden to President Electrump for some of the words that
was used on the campaign trip.

Speaker 14 (01:47:20):
Look, when I've answered this a couple of times about
a threat to democracy in the past week, the president
is going to always feel obligated to be honest with
the American people.

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
Okay, what he says to stand? Oh my gosh, all right,
can you're today's stupidity? Top it?

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
That was it? Seconds?

Speaker 5 (01:47:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
Topic, But that was there's no way to top that.
For today it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
Is we're getting closed to day eighties movie that had
Blake g Liively's older sister in it, with that line
of discussion. All Right, we've uh we've uh are Gottlie.
We finished the show today. Tomorrow's Friday, folks, have a
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