Monday April 15 - Full Show - The Dana Show with Dana Loesch

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Is it not fair to say,though, that there have been moves by
this administration that have opened up cashand other opportunities for them, which we
know are fungible in ways that arenot helping the Iranian people but are benefiting
the elites and people there who chantdeath to America. And that's you and
I have had this fungibility argument before. I obviously take a different issue or
take an issue with that characterization.The sanctions relief that has come about,

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or it's not even sanctions relief,but the additional funds that have been made
available to Iran due to sanctions reliefprogram that the Trump administration put in place
can only be used for humanitarian goods. It doesn't go to the regime and
the idea that the regime was somehowfelt like they were freed up to support
these proxies because of that, itjust doesn't comport with the facts they have

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been supporting these many many years,and it concurts with their language though saying
we will use this money in theway that we want to use Okay,
So that's that's what fungibility is.I mean, I think I really feel
like Herbie John Kirby needs to understandthis. That's what fungibility is. It's
it's and I love it. It'slike, well, you know it was
the relief program, but it wasunder Trump. That's not exactly. That's

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not what happened, Biden. Unfrozewhen you when okay, look, let
me explain this real quick before wedo the greeting consaliations. When you have
a penalty that is enforced against ageopolitical opponent, and part of that includes
uh freezing assets that they are receivinginternationally as a form of oil sales,

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and when you unfreeze that, guessguess what that is. That's that's your
You're literally lessening a sanction. Soyou're rolling back like actually a sanction.
That's that's what that is. Asanction relief. Yeah, it's sanctioned relief.
Kine, That's exactly what it isbecause you're providing that relief. Wow.

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So yeah, welcome to the show. It's a little over the weekend.
Dana Lash here with you top ofthe first hour on Monday. I
really hate to disappoint you guys,but we're not going to get into World
War three. I know you're gonnabe I hate why are you looking at
me like that. I hate todisappoint you. Yes, Kan, it's
not disappointment if World War three doesn'thappen. Well, I feel like some
people are like, yeah, worldWar three, and I'm like, I

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don't think you really know what thatall entails. Let's not and say we
did. We're not gonna get intoworld War three. It's not gonna happen.
Uh. And the reason it's notgonna happen is because I think there
are still, thankfully some smart peopleout there. So let me just give
you if you're in a tl DRkind of mood too long, didn't read
kind of mood. The little theirlittle missile show, their drone show was

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for show, and they did itto save face. That's all you need
to know. That's it. That'severything summed up right there. It was
for show so they could say,face, what was I telling you in
the lead up to this? Andthis was after the bombing, which,
by the way, wasn't in aconsulate. Guys, can we just correct

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that the general that they took outwasn't in some kind of state building,
He wasn't in an embassy, hewasn't in a consulate. That's fake news.
Okay, the guy was in atheater of war and he wasn't in
any kind of hollowed ground, allright, so stop. And it was
I mean. And and by theway, the dude that the general they
took out, that Israel took outin that rocket attack, it was the

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guy who literally planned October seventh.So I just yeah, sorry, I'm
not gonna feel bad for that.They do deserved it. He was the
mastermind for October seventh. He deservedto get murked from the sky. I'm
totally fine with it. But Israel, remember what I told you in the
lead up to this, and that'ssome of these proxy groups were feeling a

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little bit dis They were feeling somediscontent. They were feeling some discontent with
everything because they were feeling as thoughthey've been doing a lot of the heavy
lifting and Israel and Iran was in. Iran was in a very weird place
because if they decided to like openup on Israel, then Israel could strike
back. So they had to dosomething to save face, to keep the

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proxy groups happy, to make itseem as though the proxies weren't doing all
the heavy lifting while Iran wasn't reallydoing anything and letting everyone else take the
hits for it. So they neededto do something to save some face.
They couldn't do an all out openassault, so they decided that the drones.
And this is because this is literallywhat this is what it was.

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This is the first thing I thoughtof when I saw these drones coming up,
because and did you see how slowthese damn things went? And they
spotlight them too, by the way, I don't know if you guys were
aware of that they wanted them tobe shot down. This was still such
an embarrassing move on behalf of Iran. They did this to make their little
warlords happy and to make it looklike they still had some kind of muscle.

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This was not because otherwise what theylook like a smacked ass. That's
all they look like. They stilllook like that. I don't think it
saved all that much face, becauseyou had Saudi Arabia and Jordan even standing
and not well you knew Saudi Arabiawas but I ran acted in a way
where they still look like the badguy. They didn't look like the good
guy in this. But what givesme was how so many morons on the

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left were rushing out like hands offIran, hands up to shush up.
I noticed how the ceasefire people,the ceasefire crowd wasn't screaming ceasefire to Iran.
Do you guys notice that I did. I noticed it. So that's
like the first and foremost. That'sthe first thing that I thought of.
So I know, every World Warthree had been trending and everyone was talking

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about it, and oh my gosh, what's gonna happen? You know what
that's that's no, it's not gonnahappen. This was just them trying to
muster up some kind of show offorce to make it look like they weren't
there. Iran isn't totally worth it, worthless. So that's that's ultimately what
this was. But the reactions fromthe left and even our own administration,

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and this is where I want toget into some of this other stuff,
because they were saying, no,it could be a catastrophic escalation depending on
how Israel wants to respond. Here'sthe tricky part. I and I made
this mention on social media over theweekend, and this was in response to

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I can't remember if it was PeersMorgan or who it was, Oh yeah,
people are saying Israel must show restraint. Now, there's two ways of
looking at this. I feel likewe're here, and I don't feel like
this is We're here because terrorists havethrived off of the indulgence of the restraint
crowd for the entirety of our lives. They've thrived off of this, They've

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been emboldened by it. But simultaneously, I also understand that there's a chance
for major escalation here, and itall comes down on what Israel feels like
it's necessary to do. I'm notgoing to tell another country what to do.
I'm also not going to have mykids go and or people I know
go and fight somebody else's war.I don't think it's anybody's place to tell

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Israel to show restraint. I mean, they've been dealing with us for how
many decades now, how many decades? And honestly, you know, I'm
very happy to see Iran get hit. The reason being is because I got
a friend whose legs were blown offby an Iranian mind, and I know
a lot of people who who lostlives in their families because of Iranian munitions
and terror groups in the Middle East. So you know, I don't have

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any tears to shed for that entity. At what point, though, do
you is the lesson learned? Ithink that that's what Israel their wark Habinet
is meeting for the second time already. I think of twenty four hours.
I think the lesson that they haveto figure out is, or the path
forward that they have to figure outrather is has the message been sent as

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long as Hesbela and Hamas keep firing? Though I don't think so. Remember,
Iran completely funds them, has fordecades. So has the message been
sent? That's the big thing.So the response from the left has been
kind of crazy. Yes, we'vewe've we've basically financed this because we on

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froze those accents. I guess,don't audio sound by two? Can we
have a flashback? I don't thinkthis was very effective. This was not
effective messaging on this listen. AndI wonder, mister president, what you
would say to him if he isconsidering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.
Don't don't, don't. And Iwonder what is your message to Hespola and

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its back? Just run this back, don't don't, don't don't. That's
message all, that's it. That'swhat he said too. At the podium
for the other thing. He cameback and said, don't is this supposed
to sound hard ass? Don't.Well they did so. But here's the
thing. Now, some are wondering, well, did Biden did he did

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he signal? Did he did?He basically give them permission to do this.
Here's where geopolitics gets weird and whereI hate social media because you've got
to look at this in a veryclinical fashion. Iran was desperate to save
face after this, after this generalwas taken out right, desperate to save

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some face. And Israel was verysmart on how they took out this general
because despite the fact that it wasI mean, this is the guy was
the mastermind of again October seventh,and it was this, I mean,
the guy deserved it. The guydeserved to be hit. They didn't.

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They didn't bomb anybody's consulate, theydidn't do anything like that. I mean,
the guy was out in the open. I mean, you know FAFO
that said, so Iran's in this. They needed to save some face.
They were going to do something Regardles, so they could have done something super
stupid or you can just you cansend off some drones and knowing full well

(10:07):
that the United States and other Arabnations in that area are going to shoot
them down. Okay, so youhave that. Is that preferable to them
going full crazy ham and by notthat they could outmatch Israel, but that
they would be so reckless that itwould be catastrophic. I don't remember.
I ran to the country that literallyphotoshopped a missile launch. Go back,

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what was it? Was it intwenty fourteen that they did that. They
literally photographed a missile launch, andpeople internet sleuths easily figured it out because
they just cloned the smoke at thebase of the rocket and they acted like
that was all. I mean,it was incredibly embarrassing. They had put
it out on their official military socialmedia accounts and everything, and it was

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completely photoshopped. It looked worse thanmost people's pictures on Instagram, you know
when they put all those filters overand I'm like, hey, you're not
I mean, you're white, you'renot brown, and you don't look like
Marzapan. You're totally completely overfiltered.Stop. It was like that. I
ran to the eight Yeah, Imean, it looks so bad too.

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So they they either that or theywere going to do something completely reckless and
stupid. We're going to explore thismore, but there's there's an option there.
And did was it helpful that theadministration did they walk them down the
path of less destruction? We'll talkalso it's National Government Theft Day. This

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revenue in and we have yet crazydeficit and major government spending. We're going
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in different sections. We're going totalk about that. The warrantless spying.

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(13:48):
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(14:11):
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They have all these octopities and they'vegot video of it. That's that's really

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a couple of things, actually,I think it really demonstrates how it's

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astonishing that we are not a standingfirmly with Israel and there should never be
any kinds of conditions on all thatwhen a nation can launch hundreds of drones
towards Israel and I'm not going tobe talking about conditions ever. And second,
I think that also was Iran hadto have some fireworks after Israel smoked

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that Iranian general and I'm here forthat. And I think it's just a
matter of theater part of it aswell too. And finally, it demonstrates
how unstable things are and why weneed to lean in and stand with Israel
after they smoke that general. AndI'm here for that, got Lee,
I'm here for that. I'm herefor him being for that. Yeah,

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welcome back to the show, Dana, lash with you. Hoodie pass Man.
That's all I got to say.Two words, hoodie pass. He
can wear a hoodie all day long. He just does not gaf Why can't
other Democrats be like him? Ican't even believe I'm saying this. I
actually think it's probably better that hewanted instead of Oz. Right. No,

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yeah, who knows. Welcome back, Dana, last with you.
Bottom of this first hour. Thatwas John Futterman talking to Jake Tapperty.
He's like, yeah, that dudegot murked, and I'm here for that.
Sk oh my gosh. And Ithat's my assessment also is that Iran
needed to kind of make it looklike they're not total weenies, and so
they go, We're going to sendover some slow moving drones, a drone

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attack that you know, you canit's like watching it's the equivalent of an
aerial mobility scooter, you know,just across the sky. I mean you
can see it coming from a millionmiles away. And they didn't they put
somebody said they had a spotlight onthem to make it easier for the Saudis
to shoot down. Because the Saudiswere helping Israel deflect some of this stuff.

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And then of course the Iron Domewas in play, and the US
was assisting and Jordan was assisting,and yeah, this is a different I
like seeing the cooperation, but that'ssort of what it feels. And one
of the reasons that maybe you hadsome of this cooperation was because, you
know, people knew that I Ranlooked like a bunch of weenies and they
needed to try to pretend to betough for a hot second, and that

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was the saving face thing. Butit was a huge win for Israel.
I'm watching video of what happened thismorning. Did you see the trash babies
shutting down the highway leading to Chicago? O'Hare again, did you guys see
this? People? I read peoplewere having to walk on foot to catch
their flights. I'm gonna tell yousomething. I would beat you to ever

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loving death with my carry on.I will beat you to death on the
highway with my carry on. Iwill take it and swing it up over
my head like Tarzan. I willbeat you to death with my care can
you imagine? And O'Hair is anightmare anyway, Oh my gosh, it's
a nightmare airport. But people werehaving to literally get out on foot and

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go. Now, why were thetrash babies shutting this down? Again?
Pro palace? Oh it was uhHamas souls, right, I said it.
It's a word we're saying. We'regoing with that. Now. Those
people they were mad because Hamas,they love Hamas good. This, this,

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that's this. They're trash babies.So that it was all the outbound
lanes on Kennedy Expressway. And whydid police just let it happen? Thank
you? It's supposed to be themost secure part of when you travel.
Is the airport not the most securearea? Yeahly supposed to be. What

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who the hell is letting this happen? Oh, I'm looking at it now.
I would have dragged them all outby the scruff of their neck.
Yeah. Or you know what,if you're going to block a highway,
you're it's like that's it's just likeit seems like you're trying to ask for
suicide. You shouldn't be able toblock a highway. That's not protests,
that's inconvenience and everybody else. That'snot a protest. No one, you

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don't get to block a highway Ican't believe that was allowed to happen.
They were out there with their bucketsand their stupid signs and stop genocide.
Free this non existent state that's beingtaken over by colonizers, and it was
given to us in two thousand andfive, literally with everything like a welfare
gift. But whatever, which politicalparty runs Chicago Democrats? Ah yeah,

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I'm watching video of people literally gettingtheir suitcases out and trying to make it
on. Oh my gosh, Iwould have lost my mind. I can't
even I hate airports anyway. Ijust don't like sidebar. It's already a
mess going to the airport? Right, do you know the thing that I
hate the most? We got someother stuff to get into, but do
you know the thing that really wheremy rage is at its all time peak?
It's at the moment that you're goingthrough TSA and specifically the gray bins.

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Can we just have a quick conversationabout those? Have you been to
the airports where they've changed it up? Now? Have you been to where
there's like two little conveyors and thenthere's a gray bin that goes like there's
slots of them and you have tostand in front of the slot and take
your gray bin, and people losetheir minds, like the TSA. Now,

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not everybody, but this one chicklost her mind. I can't remember
what airport I was at. Yougot to get in front of the slot.
You gotta get in front of theslot. And I was like,
you can shut your slot right now, yeah, but you have to,
and then they make it. Youhave to get you to put everything,
including your carry on in the grayin the gray bin. And it's like

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different. There's nothing that's consistent everyairport. And I've been to airports where
they're like, you got to takeyour liquids out. You don't got to
take your liquids out. It's inconsistent. So I'm getting there and there's no
signage. There's no signage that saysyou don't have to take any of this
stuff out, and I'm already thelady's losing her mind because my gosh,
there's an helping slot and you know, you gotta get in there and get

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your bin. And I'm and thenshe's like, you can put your carry
on in your bit. And I'vebeen to airports too where they tell you
don't put a carry on in abin if you're in front of. If
you're at the one that has theslot stuff, I just and touching them,
knowing everybody else's touch them, andit's so weird and I can't stand
it. And then when you getto the other side, the people who

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stand there and they get and aftergetting their stuff, they continue standing there
and then they dress. They theydress. It's their dressing area. I
don't know if you knew that,but for some people it's their dressing room.
It's where they put their stuff on. You're trying to get your stuff
and they won't move and they're there, and I just You're forced to undress.

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You got to take your belles.Oh. The whole thing enrages me.
Yeah, it's so stupid. AndI run my mouth the whole time.
And I don't do the most.I I don't do the most.
I do not have the most Christianbehavior whenever I'm forced to go into the
the tubes. You know what Imean, because I give a one finger

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salute on both hands every time.I'm not gonna lie. It's not the
I don't don't judge me. I'mnot Barney and I'm not your pastor.
I'm trying people Okay, I'm trying. I'm trying to beat the shepherd here
ringo. I just can't deal.Oh my gosh, And I'm I don't

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know. I'm one of the peoplethat I think when I get mad,
I'm like, maybe scary, butI think it's just it's just funny when
I get mad, because I justcontort and I you know, I hate
the idea you have to have aseparate bin for every like your shoes have
to have a separate bin. Yourcomputer has said, then you don't even
have to take off your shoes atevery airport. Belt and jacket and stuff
have to have a separate bin.That's a good thing. Are making me
take my belt off. I hada big giant bomb in it, like

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four or five of those big oldgray bins with me. To do it,
I had somebody take out my electrictoothbrush ones. I'm not going to
tell you what I said to them, not because I will get in a
lot of trouble. Usually when peopleare nice, I'm nice. But when
you're stupid, I am not niceat all. So I don't know.

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I anyway, let's move on.It's already people are already stressed when they
go to the airport, you throwthese trash babies in there with it,
and the police are just standing there, they're just standing there watching them,
letting them do this. And thenI love it how you have more of
these d bags that are running aroundtaking pictures of these goofballs than you have
people who are actually blocking the highway. Make that one makes sense, now,

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you know what, I really hopethey do this ahead of the DNC.
I hope these trash babies shut downthe whole city for their little convention.
That's gonna be hysterical because then you'regoing to see the full police state
come out. Democrats don't like beinginconvenience. They like it if they're not
being inconvenience, But when you inconvenience, then then they're gonna bring out the
They're gonna bring out the night sticks, They're gonna bring out those batons.

(27:07):
They're they're gonna they're gonna bring themout, just saying that's gonna be interesting.
So we've uh in light of allthese headlines about Iran. You guys
remember that story from was it earlierthis year that it first came out that
there was a spy. That ispart of that is the top Pentagon aid

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that has major security clearance. Didyou guys hear about this? So it's
a Pentagon official that some are saying, and by some I mean a lot.
They're alleging that she's part of thiscovert influence campaign run by Tehran.
She's like apparently and she works withthe Tehran Foreign Ministry. Uh Semaphore.
You know that big conservative website,Semaphore. So conservative like Reagan came back

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to life for a second, waslike, congrats on your conservatism, and
then he went back to the grave. How conservative there. But they reported
that she literally is part of awhole operation from Tehran's Foreign ministry, and
there was all these receipts that theypublished. She's keeping her job in our
security clearance, you know, thebig Iranian spy during the time when you

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have people saying death to America herein Dearborn and you know, Iran's doing
all the stuff that they're doing.She's been chief of staff to the Pentagon's
Assistant Secretary for Defense for Special Operationsand Low intensity conflict. She was previously
a key ad to suspended Iran envoyRobert Malli. And remember all of the

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I don't know if you guys rememberRobert malle but that all hit the fan
when his he had ties to Tehran. That just came out, and yeah,
so this is I'm just wondering,you know, I'm like, how
serious are you people about actual nationalssecurity? When you have Iranian spies that

(29:03):
are there in the Pentagon and they'vekept all of their their classified their they
are their their security clearances. Imean, she's been there since twenty two.
This has been known for a while. I mean they got pictures of
her and uh different with different officials. But yeah, the Robert Mallley,

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he was suspended because all these emailsshow that he was working with Tehran to
basically lobby, they say, topressure. It's lobbying on behalf of Iran
to get preferential treatment. So she'skeeping her job. She's not allowed.
I mean, their lawmakers are furiousshe's keeping her job. It's unbelievable,

(29:48):
you know. But they're really seriousabout you know, terrorism, guys,
They're real serious about it. Now. The uh one of the big scoops
that came out yesterday was Biden toldNow and Yahoo that the US want support
an Israeli Kunter attack on Iran.This is where it gets weird. We're
going to talk to Steven Needs aboutthis because if this was if this was
a move by Iran to save face, I mean it's Israels to escalate if

(30:12):
they want. I'm not going totell a country to restrain themselves after decades
of being kicked around. I'm justnot I don't think that we have any
obligation to be part to anything,but I don't think that we should get
in anybody's way either. Depending onhow they want to do this, but
that's going to be the big thingto figure out. They've had their work

(30:32):
habin at meet I think twice alreadywithin the past twenty four hours. In
the meantime, the US has movedforces more forces over to the Middle East,
not so much as a show ofwe're going to get involved, but
it's more of a show of don'tliterally, do not target any of our
assets, because we do have someassets over there. We've moved more forces
to the Middle East. We hadan aircraft carrier that can intercept missiles that

(30:55):
was sent to the Red Sea,which is being viewed as a big warning
to Tehran. But we've already hada couple do we have our carrier strike
group that we moved over there already, and then we had what one Navy
friend told me was the shit thathas the big bosses on it that went
over there as well, kind ofas a show of force, but just
you know, getting some things inplay. You know, there's peace through
strength. There's some peace through strengththere. When we come back, it's,

(31:19):
as I said, it's National GovernmentTheft Day. We're going to talk
a little bit about taxes, andthen we're also going to talk a little
bit about whether or not I mean, did I know that I Ran was
going to attack? And there's alot of there's a lot of discussion that
this was really telegraphed to help IRan safe face. But here's my question.
If everybody knows this, are youreally saving face? If it's coming

(31:41):
out that it was that they wereso you know, handled with they were
handled with such kid gloves and babiedto make their egos feel better, is
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So are the days of the UnitedStates. I just want to note
that a short time ago, wehad a graphic up earlier that said that
President Joe Biden would be addressing thenation. That was an error. We
just want to clarify that, andwe regret that mistake. But I do

(33:29):
want to go to MJ. Leeat the it wasn't a mistake. He
was going to do it, andthen I don't know, then they decided
the White House then said no,he's not going to He cut his beach
vacation short. Imagine though, goingto your beach house for a beach vacation
knowing, I mean, we hadheadlines like Iran's going to do something all

(33:51):
last week. Imagine being that guygo into your beach house for beach house
vacation and then having to come backearly because Iran did something and you knew
this since last week. That's justso dumb Golly. I had this mean
that I put that I retweeted withit where it's mister Burns getting shut up
with something and his eyes are allbig except it has Joe Biden here,

(34:14):
same thing, so I can imaginethat though. And then they called a
lid they had he had no appearances. Oh my gosh, he was gonna
the word it was that the gossipwas that he was going to do a
taped address to the nation, andthen he didn't because they thought, no,
let's not do that. Not toomuch production. They yeah, too

(34:34):
much production. They probably had toomany jump cuts in it. Can you
isn't it the proper term. That'sa proper term. One right, Yeah,
where you're like talking and then youmess up and you got it.
Because that's what he does. Ifyou notice, even if he does like
a sixty second video, there's likea million cuts in it, a million
and it's really weird, and Ifeel like they try to mask it by
acting as though, no, it'sjust different camera angles. But no,

(34:57):
that's not what they're doing. They'redoing it because he can't can't get a
sentence out of his head. That'swhat's happening. That's what that's what's happening.
So this, uh is just Idon't know, it's wild. So
I'm so coming up. I'm supposedto be moderating a Republican Party debate on
Saturday next Saturday for a congressional seathere in UH Texas and Mike County.

(35:25):
And I gotta tell you, it'sgetting annoying because one candidate won't do it.
If this person's involved in, theother candidate's not going to do it
at all. And I one wayto make the moderator hostile is by making
it difficult for the moderator to preparefor said debate. Just going to just
let's just put that out there rightnow. The best way to get a

(35:50):
hostile moderator is to make said moderatorunhappy because you're having a petty slap fight
and you can't do it this person'sinvolved. I dude, if bad person's
involved, oh my goodness, justshow up and do your damn job or
drop out of the race already.Nobody cares. Nobody cares. We're busy,
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people watch what happened in the skiesover the Middle East overnight and they are

(38:02):
wondering this morning, has this nowescalated into a wider war. I don't
think there's any reason that it needsto has it is, are we now
in the midst of a wider war? The President doesn't believe that it needs
to move in that direction whatsoever.Kristen, I don't think it does.
I mean, I know Kirby can'tsay that because he's got to keep some

(38:23):
kind of something open there. ButI really don't think that it does.
We're going to talk a little bitabout that. We're also going to talk
with Steven Yates later on in theshow in our third hour about some of
this. Welcome back Dana Lash withyou top of this second hour, and
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And don't forget subseach, chapter andverse the newsletter. I don't think that
it will simply because, as Isaid, I feel as though if you're
asking my opinion on what I thinkhappened or how this went down, I
think that it was well telegraphed beforehand. Apparently Turkey was notified by Iran that

(39:07):
they were going to be doing thisin the first place. And it looks
like Jordan to Saudi's everybody was awarethat this was coming. And I ran
through some what I call them themobility scooters of the air. They are
drones out there that were easily UHfor the that were for the most part
completely overtaken by the Iron Dome,and then there were other things that were
shot down by this. The Saudiswere helping out Jordan as well, was

(39:28):
helping out the US as well.Uh. And then Iran quickly released a
statement saying that that was that wasall they were going to do. I'm
not kidding. That's what they hadsaid, and they're in their own language
and Farsi. They released the statementsand that they were done. That was
it. That was That was theirresponse, as though, like this is
where we're we're flexing, but thisis the extent of it. Because they
know that if they were to escalatefurther, there are enough people in the

(39:52):
in the Middle East that dislike Iranthat it would not work well for them.
Russia doesn't have the ability to backthem because they're dealing with Ukraine and
I know is not going to backwhat it views as a loser. They're
not going to back losers. Andwith the Saudis, and then UAE has
been standing with Israeli the Abraham Accordsand everything else, it's not going to
go well for them. So there'sreally nowhere else they could go. And

(40:14):
I want to touch on a coupleof things because they keep seeing these people
go, oh, well, youknow that that striking Damascus, that was
a that was a that was aconsulate or something like that, and it
wasn't. Let's correct this lie rightnow, the building that and this was
the general that masterminded the October seventhterror attack on Israel, right, this

(40:34):
was the general that was taken out, that was in Damascus. And they've
been what I've heard from the Hamasapologists is that Israel started this because they
took out this Ris Fetterman said theysmoked that general in Damascus. No,
actually, the guy in Damascus wasliterally the guy that masterminded and planned,
he did all he organized all ofOctober seventh. So let's get it right.

(41:00):
These people that abridged the timeline toa point where it's convenient for their
narrative. That's number one. Numbertwo, it was not a consulate,
it wasn't an embassy, it wasnot a state facility. It was literally
the local headquarters of the Iranian RevolutionaryGuard Corps, literally the local headquarters of

(41:23):
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, whichis the exact opposite of a consulate or
an embassy. So stop, andwhy is it important to note that it's
a member of the Iranian Revolutionary GuardCorps. That's a terrorist organization. Our
country literally has the Revolutionary Guard Corpsas a listed terror organization. So it

(41:47):
was a terror headquarters in Damascus.That's fair game. So all these people
that are out there saying that itwas a consulate or it was an embassy,
they have no idea what they're talkingabout. Disregard them. They are
just now and everyone that was struckthere from the they had five other Iranian

(42:07):
officials, all of them were involvedin the planning and execution of October seventh.
That's it. So that's the building, end of story. So I
don't know why people keep saying,oh, because it's not It isn't.
Now the other neat thing I waswatching ort have you've seen the video of
all of this of the Iron Domeand what did they call them? The

(42:30):
exo atmospheric strikes? Remember when peoplewere going at Reagan for Star Wars by
the way, so the exo atmosphericstrikes the way I understand it, those
were strikes from space that neutralized therockets that were coming over because there was
some drones and it was some ballisticmissiles and rockets. So apparently they were

(42:52):
able to intercept a missile. Isn'tthat kind of some of the Star Wars
stuff, the exo atmospheric because itwas outside of the atmosphere. Yeah.
Interesting. So this was a jointventure that the United States has with Israel
and Boeing. So you have theconstruction, the building, et cetera that

(43:15):
Boeing is involved with that they overseeagain joint venture with the United States and
Israel, and then you have someof these other defense contractors on this and
we share the tech and the weshare the tech and we share the construction
of it essentially, so we're weare getting we're getting some tech out of
this. We're our there's a militarybenefit for us with that. But it

(43:40):
was I mean, it was prettywild watching some of that stuff because it
looked like I mean, it lookedlike lasers exploding in the sky. Don
a house that I don't know houseto describe. It was very interesting.
But all of this was made possiblebecause Iran made eighty billion dollars in illicit
oil sales. Free Beacon had apiece not long ago where they looked at
the Iranian policy from the Biden administrationeighty billion dollars since the administration took office

(44:05):
and they relaxed sanctions. They infact, I would say they rolled back
entirely the sanctions which were barring themfrom earning money on their oil sales.
I mean eighty billion dollars from thesesales. Their exports hit a five year
high because of this, and thiswas all part of that deal that they

(44:29):
were trying to redo in twenty fifteen, and this was under Obama Biden.
They were trying to revamp that Iraniandeal and that was all part of it,
and that allowed them to give alot of cash. That's like when
a lot of cash started being freedup to go to Hamas, right.

(44:50):
But the Free Beacon had a reallygood rundown on some of this. All
of the different sanctions that had beenrelaxed that contributed to that eighty billion dollar
in sales, whether it's the exports, the tankers. They have a huge
portion of oil that they shipped toChina. In fact, China is one
of Tehran's top customers and their exports, their oil exports have hit a five

(45:13):
year high. And that is letme pull this up. This five year
high is directly I mean, it'sdirectly related to that. I mean,
their revenue has soared under the laxsanctions from the administration. We have stopped
seizing their tankers that they are sailingand operating illegally, even though apparently what

(45:34):
Congress was given was a lot ofintelligence about these Iranian oil tankers that are
not supposed to be doing business.That's supposed to be part of a sanction,
but we stopped enforcing it. That'stheir number one source of income over
there, and all of their oilexports from twenty one to twenty two they
increased by over thirty five percent,and that meant that the Abiden administration was

(45:54):
no longer paying attention to any ofthe sanctions. This was even before they
announced that they were relaxing sanctions.So the announcement came as just a formality.
They weren't doing anything to prevent thesales. And by the way,
this is what funds the attacks onother nations tankers going through the Strait of
Hormuz. This is where you seethe Houthis attacking vessels. The Hoothis are

(46:19):
funded also by Iran, in additionto Hesbela, in addition to Hamas.
Those attacks have all increased. Imean, you can pinpoint it specifically since
the Biden administration stopped enforcing those sanctionsand so they were supposed to, I
mean, it benefits China, Syriaand Venezuela. Iranian oil sales via free
Beacon they were forty four billion dollarsas of August twenty two, that is

(46:40):
seventy seven percent up from twenty twenty. And this piece that was over then
pulled this up because there were acouple of sources here as Wall Street Journal,
Free Beacon and elsewhere. Back injust twenty twenty two, they had
made forty four or almost forty fivebillion, actually forty five billion in sales
at that point, twenty seven billionof which was going to China. So

(47:01):
that's a lot. And they've beenable as a direct result. So when
you hear, you know, Kirbyasked about these sanctions, they absolutely did
relax sanctions. I mean that waspart of Iran's punishment and they weren't following
through with it, not at all. So we've been discussing this, this

(47:22):
whole situation and how I think italso makes it difficult for the Biden administration,
particularly going into twenty twenty, goinginto November, because he's trying to
keep certain demographics happy, certain demographics. There was a really good David Harsani
had a very good column over theweekend in which she said, Joe Biden

(47:42):
is now chasing the death to Americavoter, and he's not wrong. They
had you guys. I think weplayed some of the video of the she
was sentenced. She got in trouble, that Riddy Patel. She's from California,
and this Riddy Patel chick, she'sthe pro gaza, isn't she the

(48:04):
pro gaza? Like whatever? Shewas on social media and she's anyway she's
involved in. She was in Californiaand she was speaking before the Bakersfield City
Council and she literally threatened to killthem, like she absolutely like literally threatened
to kill them. And she's avery prominent activist, and she had said

(48:27):
in this speech she was arguing fora ceasefire, and she was speaking up
and she was she was standing forHamas, and then she got in trouble.
She was like sentenced. She hadsaid quote, I don't have She
said, you guys are all horriblehuman beings. She says, Jesus would
have killed you himself, and Ihope someday someone brings the guillotine and kills

(48:49):
all you blinkers. Yeah, yeah, she actually said that on video.
Oh and then she added quote,she goes, we'll see you at your
house, will murder you. Shewent to Saint Louis University, came noted
she's from Saint Louis. That's sheliterally said that in front of the Bakersfield

(49:10):
City Council. So that's like anactionable. That's a death threat because she
was actually threatening public officials. Sothey immediately they she was arrested and she
was taken to prison because they saidit was you know, she'd it was
a death threat. And then shebroke down in court. She got sixteen

(49:31):
felony charges, including terrorism, andshe was in court crying well, there
you go. I mean, that'swhat you know. You're a terrorist.
You're a literal terrorist, Riddy Patel, So go to jail, dump dump
Pasco. Do not collect two hundreddollars. But that's that's what we're the
death to America folks. That's her, Riddy Paateel. She feels that way.

(49:53):
I would, honestly, I'd belike, Okay, here's here's a
bag of your belongings. We packedhim up for you, drop her off
at the border, and be likebye, go ahead and go. She
can say that here because there's noconsequence. Now, there's one thing to
engage in free speech. I haveto say this for the drive bys,

(50:14):
and then there's another thing to literallystand in front of officials and tell them
that you're going to personally murder themthree different ways. She said it three
times. So that's not protected speech. So I think people need to understand
the concept of free speech when theytalk about what is speech that is legally
protected against litigation and speech that isnot. And when you stand in front

(50:34):
of the city council and you lookelected officials right in the face and you
tell them you're going to kill them, Yeah, that's not protected speech,
and she found out the hard way. Speaking of protected speech, I always
get mad when I see the leftgo after satirical sites. Have you seen

(50:57):
Babylon Bee and Carrie Lake. SoBabylon Bee made a joke. I think
it was Friday because Carrie Lake ranto the center and she actually came out
against the new statute in Arizona asit pertains to abortion. So they have
an abortion band with exceptions for youknow, the life of the mother,

(51:17):
et cetera, et cetera. Likeevery state has these exceptions. You just
can't use it as a form ofbirth control. So she came out against
the law, and Babylon Be joked, Oh, Carrie Lake something something.
She's you know, basically arguing infavor of murdering babies or whatever. So
both the Carrie Lake's campaign and herstand accounts like run by her campaign officials

(51:37):
began arguing with the Babylon b overthe weekend. They said that the Babylon
Bee needs to stick to valid satire, which I cannot think of anything more
ironic in my entire life. Whyis Carrie Lake running such a crappy campaign?
Stop arguing with satire sites. Finda defensible position as it relates to

(52:00):
abortion in Arizona, because literally,we played audio last week of Lake defending
the very law that she's trashing rightnow. Ver Betum happy to play it
for you anytime. She needs tofind and keep a consistent position on life
in Arizona and not deflect by usingleftist talking points and leftist attacks and going

(52:22):
after a satire site. It makesyou look like a clown show stop it
and now all of the news youwould probably miss. It's time for Dana's
Quick five. So I apologize.I went really really long last segments,
so I'm robbing you a bitch.So both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge
have been shut down because of apro Hamas protest, both both both of

(52:44):
them. It's blocked I eight eightyin Oakland, so if you're out there,
you're going to be sitting in sometraffic. Bird flu they said it's
spreading to more farm animals. They'retrying to scare you. And they're also
looking at New York City how tointroduce birth control intorect. Yeah, we
uh, we got a lot onthe way. Apologize for the short segment.

(53:05):
I'll make it up to you comingup stick with us back in a
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Spotify, or wherever you get yourpodcasts. Ran launched an unpreshented aerial attack
against Israel, and we mounted onpressing military effort to defend Israel. Together

(53:30):
with our partners, we defeated thatattack. Kamatlamun sh Iran Hujum and Joey
and Raima's book, well, KmaroRama's book defra the United States has committed
to his room security. We're committedto a cease fire that will bring the

(53:55):
hostages home and preventing conflict from spread. This is also dumb. Yeah that
Hamas has to agree to the ceasefirelike the one that they had in place
October sixth. So that's what whatdid First off, welcome back Dane,
Dane lash with you. I forgetthat, I'm not I'm not forgetting to
say hi to you. I justget full of responses immediately after we played

(54:16):
this audio, what did he say? In the very beginning, it was
like, as you know, who, Ran launched and attack against Oh my
gosh, I'm personing. I'm personattack. Oh my gosh, can you

(54:37):
I mention him and Carne Jean Pierretrying to have a conversation with each other.
Don't make fun of his stutter.Though he can't talk. He doesn't
know who he is. Half thetime he forgets what he he forgets.
He's president, all right. Itwas literally just a week ago that he
was making a speech and said,send me to the Senate. He does,

(54:58):
he is running for president. Ithink he also forgot that he sent
all this money over to Iran byallowing them by unfreezing these sanctions. I
love the battlon bead. This headlineis so spot on. Quote White House
claim six billion dollars to Iran absolutelynot related to the exact six billion dollars

(55:19):
worth of rockets being fired into Israel. No relation, isn't it fungible?
No? No connection exactly six billion, no connection at all? None,
good, good, heavens. Ijust whose vote does he want? Why

(55:43):
is it so hard for Democrats togo, you know what, knock it
off, stop picking on Israel andstop screaming at death to America. You're
in Michigan for crying out loud.Okay, you're in Michigan. The Supremes
got started, didn't they get startedin Detroit? Like you, honor the

(56:04):
legacy of this state and don't makeit known for death to America. Nonsense
Motown for crying out loud, it'sMotown. Don't be like dead to America.
You're in Motown? Shut up?What is the matter with you?
The irony of like saying that whereyou would get marked out of nowhere for
saying that in the Middle East.That's why people do it. I'm all

(56:29):
for free speech, but I'm alsofor the consequences of free speech. Does
I uh now free speech? Doesit mean I can say whatever I want?
No one can say anything else inreturn. That's not free speech.
That's you claiming that you support freespeech while denying others their free speech.
Not the same. But that's whatI keep seeing. And I pulled this

(56:52):
up. I had I think Ihad this on my rundown for this time.
But we also, where's this audio? We had audio? This didn't
we I just saw it. Ijust saw it and I lost it because
I have the attention span of asquirrel. Is it twelve? I think
it's twelve? So this is isthis the celebratory one when people got all
excited after it was announced that therewere rockets in that Yeah, listen to

(57:15):
this. So this was a ceasefireonly for one side, Israel, never
for Hamas. A pro Hamas gatheringin Toronto in Canada on April thirteenth,
when they announced that Iran had launchedmissiles and drones towards Israel listened to this.
I'm like to make I just talk. They cheer. There needs to

(57:59):
be some boor at controlling of thisstuff. This is Toronto. They're supposed
to be like happy maple syrup loveand Canadians like when you think of Canada,
you know, you think of that, and that's but what they're cheering.
Can we stop pretending that it's thatthis is about wanting any kind of

(58:19):
coexistence or anything else. Stop it. This is about one entity that wants
one nation and it's people to notexist anymore. And then the other side
is we want to exist and we'dlike for you to exist also, but
not if you're going to keep tryingto murk us. That's this, that's
the reality, that's the situation here. So let's stop pretending that it's about
anything else, because it's not.It's a very black and white area.

(58:43):
There's no gray area here. Okay, there's no gray area when you for
like twenty plus years, when youwhen you're messing around and killing people and
raping women to death, and youknow, shooting missiles and suicide bombers and
all this stuff, and then Octoberseventh, they're going to respond. I
I I don't think that they needto ask the United States for permission or
for advice. I think Israel justneeds to go in and do what Israel

(59:06):
needs to get done, and thenthat's it. Now. As for their
response to Iran, I would lovefor us to not get into World War
three, but I'm not going totell Israel to show restraint. I feel
like it's weird for me, ofall people, to tell someone to not
show restraint, you know. Imean, I'm just saying. I don't

(59:29):
know, if you saw me overthe weekend, I was really trying to
behave myself. My friend David Lumbaugh, he was he was laughing at me
because he's like I just because someof my responses were probably a little snarky.
For those of you who follow meon X I'm sorry on some days,
but I usually try to stay offif you notice, I try to
stay off all internet on the weekend. I've been really trying to be very

(59:52):
well behaved about that and very consistentwith it. But I you know,
obviously you got Iran launch and stuff, so I had to check, and
I got all these turds in mymentions, right, and I don't even
remember. One of them called mea Zionist whore, which sidebar no,
But what an amazing punk band name, right, Like, that's a great

(01:00:14):
punk band name. Who has notdone that yet? That's amazing. But
anyway, I can't remember what Isaid something that I can't repeat on airon
then I told him to go,he can go shave his back now.
And that's where David Lumbaught was like, I can't, here's just dying.
It is what it is, man. I'm trying real hard. It's really

(01:00:34):
difficult to to indulge the fantasy thatthis conflict is about anything other than the
way that I just laid it out. It is. It's beyond. And
then there are the people who Isee get out there and I and they

(01:00:57):
say, oh, well, youknow, uh, Israel fun to this
et cetera, et cetera. FundedWell, they were funding hamas you mean.
Israel, the one country over there, surrounded by enemies on all sides
in the seat at its back,was trying to figure out the best way
to play, to keep its enemiesdivided and to keep itself safe. Wow,
welcome to geopolitics, genius. Oneof them is this old MMA fighter.

(01:01:19):
I think he got hit too manytimes in his head. He's a
moron. He gets out there andruns his mouth. I had to unfollow
him. I'm like, you're makingme feel like I'm drunk just reading your
tweets. It's that stude. You'rekilling my brain cells. Welcome to geopolitics,
slick, Am I being mean rightnow? Good? I Sometimes I'll
feel like I need to be nicer, and then the feeling quickly passes.
So I wanted to touch on becauseI got a million little things too to

(01:01:45):
hit as well. For you,we got the Hunter Biden thing real quick.
The judge denied hold up. Judgedenied Biden Hunter Biden's bid to toss
out the federal gun charges for lyingabout being on dope when he bought his
firearm. Remember he lied about allthat. Yeah, and he faces it
to twenty five years in prison.So the judge Mary Ellen Norrieika refused to

(01:02:08):
throw out the gun case brought againsthim. His lawyers say that it was
politically motivated so he could go fortwenty He could go to jail for twenty
years. Now, what I ammost fascinated about in this case is what
his defense is going to be nowhold up because he has said before and

(01:02:30):
I this is I'm not engaging ina debate about like a white collar crime
and losing your natural rights, etcetera, et cetera. I'm looking at
it specifically as to what the lawis right now. I think it's going
to be hysterical if Hunter Biden triesto use the whole the defense of this.

(01:02:51):
You cannot abridge a natural right withthis, because there has been that
case. And remember it was AmyCony Barrett, and I can't I'm trying
to remember the I wrote about itat the time. Amy Cony Barrett,
when she was a circuit judge.She had she was on a case where
she had weighed in with the decisionsaying she did not believe anything less than
being a danger to oneself and otherswas a way to forfeit your natural rights,

(01:03:15):
meaning and had to do with thisguy. Let me pull this up
because I wrote about it actually quitea bit. It had to do with
this this guy who ended up gettingnamed a prohibited possessor. I was Canter
v. Bar the Canter Bvar case. He was this individual had been arrested,

(01:03:37):
he had a disqualify and felt aconviction, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. And in this case, and this was back in I
think it was like twenty twenty nineteen, he was this guy was convicted of
mail fraud because he was like sendingout these like shoe inserts. I don't
want to get too much into whatthe case is, but basically they were
ended. They ended up successfully gettinghim on a federal charge. And because

(01:03:59):
he was using the post office andsending you know, involved and sending stuff
out in the mail, they wereable to get him on mail fraud.
So that was a felony charge.So that made him a prohibited possessor.
And he was going to try tobuy a gun. He couldn't by gun.
So anyway, Canter v. Barended up going before. Horror argument
was this guy was not a dangerouscriminal. So therefore she disagreed that his
natural right of Second Amendment a firearmownership, could not be forfeit or struck

(01:04:21):
down because he was not a dangerouscriminal, and she believed that danger going
back to even the statutes during thecolonial time. She thought that was,
you know, really the big factorin making that determination about a forfeiture of
natural rights. I bring this upbecause that's literally the argument hunter Biden once
he used to defend himself. Hey, they've already said it. His lawyer

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already came out and said it.Dude, Can you imagine, like you're
I want to watch this happen.He would destroy Democrats inadvertently on the Second
Amendment if he did that. Canyou imagine being the president of the United
States and coked out kid is actuallygoing to undo every trying to undo everything

(01:05:04):
that you've ever done related to firearmlaw. I want to watch this happen.
I'm gonna sit back, I'm gonnahave some popcorn, I'm gonna drink
a Sodi. I'm gonna watch thishappen. Oh my gosh. So this
is a case to watch because it'sgonna be fascinating to see what happens with
us, and then I have amillion things like I said to get with

(01:05:26):
you today this pull this up.We're gonna get to the dude who beat
all the chicks in the track andthe track and field meet. But did
you see what happened in Japan?They had thousands of people who went out
to protest Japan joining the World HealthOrganization pandemic Global Health Award. Thousands of
people came out on April thirteenth againstthe who I can I be real?

(01:05:55):
Literally never seen a Japanese protest.It looks very polite. Gotta say,
everyone's just, you know, clappingpolitely. There's no screaming. They're very
very polite. But that's wild.Thousands of people they were in there,
apparently very against the lockdowns and everythingunder the previous pretense, which was shown

(01:06:16):
to be fraudulent. Never saw that. Did you have the Japanese turning up
by the thousands to protest the WorldHealth Organization? Kate on your being go
card? I didn't. I didn'thave that on my being go card either.
Coming up, we've got wait untilyou see we got some cultural stuff.
There's a track and field meet andthis dude just beat these chicks in

(01:06:41):
this race and it's all caught oncamera. Is a huge story of the
weekend. I'm trying to figure outwhy. And I would not have stepped
on the track. I would nothave competed because it immediately you're you're already
at a disadvantage. We're going todiscuss that the guy who's in Reacher,
he needs to shut up. AlanRichson needs to stop talking because he's making

(01:07:06):
me not want to watch a stupidshow. I cannot stand people who get
so political and dumb about it thatthey make it to where I can't watch
you. You poison yourself in mymind an actor. One of the reasons
that certain actors are so good isbecause they prioritize their craft more than they

(01:07:27):
prioritized the ego fillation that comes withgiving their hot take on a political issue.
And he apparently cannot avoid that bait. So we got to have this
conversation. We got a lot stillto get into, and we got Florida
Man. My gosh, we gotFlorida man coming up. I need to
go. It's his laugh mission tomake bad decisions. It's time for Florida

(01:07:48):
Man. I am trying to getaround this headline. So you know,
you can't bring guns into airports,right, they don't. They don't even
you can't even bring a bullet.You can't even bring anything that's bullets shites.
You know, I'm gonna make somejokes here. This guy brought a
firearm and it was loaded into theairport, but he tried to conceal it

(01:08:13):
with toilet paper. Is the partthat gets me. It's really hard for
me to like. This guy's fromlake Land. He walked into Tampa International
Airport. He was trying to geton a flight to Vegas, and he
unloaded his backpack and apparently like heforgot I guess I understand, like if
you this is why I always thinkyou should never ever just use your range
bag or like range gear for everydaystuff. Because maybe he forgot that he

(01:08:39):
had something in there. I don'tknow, but I'm trying to give him
the benefit of the doubt. Butthen he realized, oh my gosh,
I got my gun, and youcan and he's on CCTV. He took
it off the conveyor belt, walkedinto the bathroom, wrapped it in toilet
paper to try to hide it,and then clearly it was found they had

(01:09:00):
to evacuate the whole terminal. Theyhad to delay all these flights. Is
there anything you can conceal with toiletpaper? No? Literally nothing, I
mean gum, if you're throwing gumaway, I don't know. I'm just
like so a again these headlines anaccused. This Florida man is an accused

(01:09:25):
serial police impersonator. He was arrestedagain. So he's been They didn't even
say, they just said multiple times. They didn't even actually give me a
number. This guy's been accused apparentlya ton of times in Florida of impersonating
police officers. Jeremy DeWitt, fortyfour, was booked for failure to report

(01:09:45):
a change in vehicle ownership. Healso had a warrant out for his arrest.
He apparently would just like dart aroundtraffic and make people stop their cars
and all of this stuff. Andhe's also convicted sex off a he would
he would wow. In twenty nineteen, he got in trouble as a funeral
escort for pulling drivers over. Thisguy's a fruitcake. He was booked on

(01:10:11):
five thousand dollars bond. What inthe world, Oh my gosh, and
a Florida man who's in his fiftiessays he feels sorry for young people.
He says the nineties was easier.It was. He's not wrong. Stay
with us. We have a wholeother hour on the way. Stephen Yates
will join us. We got culture, track and field. Stick with us.
I love it, properly property andlet me tell you something, if

(01:10:34):
you care about your count I'll readLudovic von Les He's had the sixth classes
off. They ask me economic school. I did not have reading about,
you know, economic principles from aconservative perspective in a UFC shout out.

(01:10:55):
But that happened. Uh. Thiswas in the Lightweight back UFC three on
Saturday. You had a fighter Renadomakanawho knocked out Dalen Turner and that was
that was his That's what he saidafterwards. That's so that's actually awesome.
I had retweeted it and I said, based as the kids do, welcome
back to the program, Dana lashwith you. At the top of this

(01:11:18):
third hour, againt Stephen Yate's comingup, So apparently they I'm watching video
of pro Hamas protesters blocking the entiretyof the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco,
and apparently I had asked, theygo, WI, are cops not

(01:11:39):
dragging them off? It's California,you know, it's kind of a rhetorical
question. It's it's California. That'sthat's why one of so I had a
friend who said, couldn't this becouldn't this constitute fell any criminal offense of
false imprisonment because these people are havetrapped the people on the bridge. On

(01:12:00):
the bridge, I think, don'tit doesn't You can't impede someone's travel.
It's not legal. Yeah, it'snot legal to impede someone's travel. And
the friend who set up by theway as an attorney, he says,
I think this constitutes felony, criminaloffense of false imprisonment. I would know,
I would do totally do that.All these people should file charges.

(01:12:21):
Now do you see what happens whenyou allow people to like riot in the
streets and shut down entire blocks andyou know, burn down buildings and all
of that with total impunity. Canyou see now what happens when you allow
for that to take place for monthsand months and months on end, in

(01:12:43):
city after city after city across theUnited States. The Chaz Chop you know,
going down to Louisville, going downto Nashville, everywhere. So that's
the uh there it is. Theysaid, stop the world for Gaza,
Oh shut up. That looks itlooks like it's that seems to me,
I agree with that assessment. Thatseems like it is felony, criminal,

(01:13:08):
false imprisonment. You're not allowing anyonebecause these people are stuck. And I
just when are the police going tomove in and drag them out? This
has been going on for what anhour? Now? When are the police
going to move in and drag themoff? I'd like to see that,
because that's ridiculous. You can't thisthis, You can't just like shut things,

(01:13:29):
just shut the road down. Itold you before you and it and
that it should be applicable evenly.There was I was at a protest one
time and I had one foot onthe sidewalk, one foot on the road,
and man, I had an officertell me that if he saw my
foot on the road again, hewould arrest me for disruption of traffic.

(01:13:54):
And he's like, if I seeit again, even one foot, I'm
gonna take you into custody. AndI was like, uh, what,
you can't block roadways. You can'tdo that. That's like anywhere. I
just why the hell are people justletting a mob shut down a bridge.
You're allowing terrorists to shut down abridge. That's what it is. These

(01:14:15):
people are terrorists, So I don'tthey're like standing in front of cars blocking
the cars. That's happening in theGolden Gaper both ways, it's both ways.
You can't. I mean, thewhole bridge is at a standstill.
How long are our officials that aregoing to allow for this to happen?
How long are they going to allowthis to happen? This is crazy.

(01:14:35):
I bet the people there are livid. This is wild that. I mean,
it's twenty twenty four and we haveall these little Nazis running around everywhere.
I watched Masters of the Air finishthe last episode of Masters of the
Air last night. That's a greatseries, by the way, if you
haven't watched it, it's a reallywell done series. There's an accompanying documentary

(01:14:56):
with it as well. It's basedon the true story. It looks at
you know, it's it's aerial warfareduring World War Two, and it's really
the I think the especial effects aredone really well. The casting is really
good, the stories well paced,it's very well written. Uh it's it
was a really good series. ButI will never I just it just kind

(01:15:20):
of shocks me. I gotta tellyou, it really does shock me.
They had one episode where they hada guy who one of the characters stumbled
across a concentration camp, and itreminded me of this interview that I saw
with this World War two event.I think he was in a tank division

(01:15:42):
and I'm trying to I saw itsome years ago, and it was it
was an older interview, but I'llnever forget because that guy's words haunted me.
He had said that they came acrossone of the camps because they had
been hearing about how bad these campswere as they were getting closer and closer,
and they were in German at thatpoint, and it and I could

(01:16:03):
tell the guy that was talking wasthis and forgive my French, but this
is the only other way I candescribe him. He was a hard ass,
like you could tell, even thoughhe was like an old great grandpa
probably at that time, because andthis was some years ago, you could
still tell in this guy's you know, in his younger days. This guy
probably snapped him necks right. Andup until that point, you know,

(01:16:26):
it was just straight no chaser.He was giving, you know, his
answers in this interview, and thenhe was talking about, you know,
they came across these camps and theystarted seeing these bodies laying on the ground
in piles, and some of themhad those little prisoner uniforms on and some
of them didn't. But he said, the thing that got him, he
said, is some of them werestanding, and they started walking towards me,
meaning they were so malnourished and soin such bad shape that they didn't

(01:16:50):
look any different from the dead oneson the ground. And then he just
stopped talking. He didn't cry,he didn't get upset, he just stopped
talking. And that was it.And that's how those guys did it.
They just they that's all he's goingto say. You tell it, deeply,
deeply gutted him. And the wayI I don't know, like I'm

(01:17:15):
I'm I'm endlessly fascinated by Obviously I'ma huge World War one, World War
two buff and I'm very interested inwhat happened after in the build up of
the Cold War because it is fascinating, the cult of hysteria that can erupt
in different political movements and within Germanywith World War two and the Nazism and

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all this stuff, and you know, people making excuses for stuff that's allowed
to happen, and the narratives,and you know, the the propaganda,
the stuff, and I see ithappening the same as now I see it.
I see there's a lot of similaritiesbetween the stuff that I see with
Gaza and the stuff now. Thereis no gray area. I mean,
I think that the situation with withHamas and Iran and Husble, I mean,

(01:18:02):
these these are people who just hateJewish people. It's not even about
they don't like Israeli government. Theydon't like Israel. They just hate Jews,
that's it. They hate Jewish people, bottom line. And I see
a lot of these these coddled progressiveshere in the United States that think it
looks trendy to go along with it. They think it's trendy. They think
that they're the ones that are standingwith the underdog when they're being trolled so

(01:18:25):
hard. They're Hamas and all theseterrorists are not the underdog. There are
some of the fattest, most wellfed, well financed people on the planet.
They they use you like prostitutes.They use these at these these activists
like prostitutes. These people on theGolden Gate Bridge, they're just prostitutes for
these fat war lords that run hamasthat are sitting fancy and cutter. That's

(01:18:45):
that's who these people are. They'reuseful, idiotic prostitutes for their stupid propaganda
for colonists, colonizers who wanted totake a strip of land from a sovereign
nation, and then they tried.They made it an absolute healthscape and blame
the sovereign nation that gave them asa welfare or gift. This entire this
entire strip, complete with infrastructure andbuildings and irrigation and sewers and waters and

(01:19:08):
even greenhouses, the whole nine yards. They have beachfront property that they could
develop, but instead they're too busybeing backwoods centuries ago terrorists, It's exactly,
and they'll never change. And thesepeople that are on the bridge doing
this year all damn terrorists. Everysingle they're terrorists. You're either a terrorist
or you're not a terrorist. Ifyou're defending terrorism, you're a terrorist.

(01:19:29):
If you're sympathizing with terrorists. You'rea terrorist. If you're defending Hamas's actions,
you're a terrorist. If you're defendinginto the name of quote Gaza,
you're a terrorist. If you usethe word Palestine in a non ironic manner,
a completely made up word for afictional place that's never existed, you're
a terrorist. There is no grayarea, and I'm not even gonna hear
it. These are people who've calledinnocent people like me and you. Actually

(01:19:51):
they've actually called us terrorists for simplyone in our Second Amendment right of self
defense. This stuff, though,and shutting down bridges in that this just
makes me dislike you and your causeeven more. You're inconveniencing people, You're
holding them hostage like terrorists on abridge. Very fitting of a terrorist for
a terrorist, cause there's no grayarea here none. They need to get

(01:20:15):
a snowplow out and go to town. Done with it. So a quick
note on this. So I sharedwith you last hour this mediaite story that
was talking about Alan Richson, andit had to do. The headline says
Trump is a racist and a conman. Reacher star Alan Richon torches Trump

(01:20:38):
and Christian supporters and brutal viral interview. Now the story's still up. This
is what's weird. The story isactually still up. It's on my rundown.
Can you can see and the storyis still up for you. You
can see it. And they quotedthey said it was an interview with the
Hollywood Reporter and I'm pulling this up. They said it was he was talking

(01:21:05):
about mental health and all this otherstuff. And uh, they said it
was an interview with the Hollywood Reporterand that he had said this. Well,
then apparently now they're saying that theyhad inaccurately attributed a quote to Alan
Ridgson. But the quote was sourcedfrom an account on X that was not

(01:21:27):
real what that's what that that's theirand the But the other story's still up.
They said the article inaccurately attributed aquote to actor Alan Ridgson. The
quote was sourced from an account onacts. Well what quote? Their correction
sucks? Like what what quote?Because they they quoted, Uh, this

(01:21:53):
Hollywood Reporter story and is this thebecause it's you know, when when someone
us something like this, you wantto make sure that you're getting it.
You want to get it correctly.He did this video where he says some
some say I can't be a Christianto play Reacher. And is this the
quote that they're talking about, becausethis is citing a video on Hollywood Reporter.

(01:22:17):
But they said that, and theydidn't say that it's on X.
They said that he said Trump isa rapist and a con man, and
yet the entire Christian church seems totreat him like he's their poster child.
And it's unreal. I don't understandit. Now, is that from the
video? Since media it hasn't madeclear which quote until because this they're citing

(01:22:41):
a video here a Hollywood reporter quoteshim from this video. Now, if
that's what he's saying, I thinkthat's lame and weak, and it makes
me not want to watch his showanymore. Not because I don't care if
people think differently than me, butwhen you're such a dbag that I cannot
separate you from the characters you play, and I don't think he's a good

(01:23:05):
enough actor to do that, nooffense, but he's not. I have
issues. Right then you ruin thecharacter. If your character can't be a
blank slate because it's haunted by thestuff that you brought the baggage the stuff
that you said in previous interviews.That's an issue that you have to deal
with. I mean, it's there'sa reason why a lot of these actors

(01:23:28):
and actresses they don't really start spoutingoff politically until they've accomplished quite a bit
because they want to make sure thata they're untouchable. Bit B. You
kind of have to be really reallygood at your craft to assume a role
and chase away any other preconceived notionsthat a viewer or an audience goer would
have in watching your performance. Andthat's also a part of acting. It's

(01:23:50):
not just you know, rehearsing yourlines and all of that. You want
to be able to separate anything thatyou've said or done out off set.
You want to say, separate thatfrom the character that you're playing. And
that's why it gets problematic when peopleget super political, because it builds up
a resentment in the minds of theaudience, and they project that resentment onto

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that character and they can't suspend theirdisbelief and so they can't get in it,
and it ruins the enjoyment and itactually looks like a reflection of that
person's acting skill. As opposed tothe environment that they created because they ran
their mouth before the role right.Unfortunate, we have more on the way.
We got Stephen Yates coming up anda dude who beat all the chicks
and attract meat or you're not surprisedabout that, are you? And now

(01:24:33):
all of the news you would probablymiss. It's time for Dana's Quick five.
So kin does, he does.He's not a fan of the story.
NASA discovered bacteria that apparently was likeimmortal and now it's boosting sunscreen.
They say when a bug in theointment is a good thing. So it

(01:24:53):
is a specific bacteria, Bescillus pumulusthat was so resilient cleaning solutions including ultra
violet light and peroxide won't kill it. And so I feel like, maybe
let's not let this loose in theUS or anywhere else. Because they sent

(01:25:14):
a specimen to ISS astronauts hung itoutside the lab to see what would happen,
and it didn't do anything to it, not even cosmic radiation. So
they're using it for UV resistance forsome block I know, I don't know.
I feel like this is how youget aliens. Let's see Washington,
DC tops this is a lie.List of America's hardest working cities. No,

(01:25:35):
this is a lie. We're skippingthat. That's so stupid. A
tourist was killed in a freak accidentafter being struck on the head by ringing
a church bell in this what thiswas in Spanish tradition. They rang a
bell and it was in Tarragona,and they visitors are invited up. They
can, you know, ring thebell and apparently this guy did it.

(01:25:56):
It hit him on the head andkilled him. Wow, So be aware
of sharks and church bells, gotit? This is crazy? And let's
see a butte man and his dogencountered a mountain lion. Uh. And
a British Columbia man said that hewas he crashed his car because he was
reaching for fried chicken. Stephen Yatesjoins us, next, we don't really
have anything to talk about, juststuff. Whether you're a policy wonk,

(01:26:18):
a news junkie, or simply someonehungry for insightful discourse. That Dana Show
podcast has your back. Follow Danaon Apple, Spotify, or wherever you
get your podcasts. How do weknow that the Iranians do not listen to
President Biden's public warnings. Is thereany regret here about unfreezing billions of dollars

(01:26:38):
for Iranian leaders during the president's administerWhat unfreezing are you talking about? He
unfrozen billions of dollars leaders? Yeah? Really, I don't think so.
Okay, So, first of all, it's for humanitarian purposes. But doesn't
that but you don't believe me,Well, doesn't that free up money for
them to spend on other stuff?Where do you get the money for an

(01:26:58):
unprecedented number of munitions to fire atIsrael? So first of all, I'm
betting if they're sitting in Tewan,they're taking it seriously. When President Biden
says he's going to defend Israel.We put skin in the game, a
whole heck of a lot of itand knocked almost everything out of the sky.
So I'm betting they're taking it prettyseriously. And as for this unfreezing,

(01:27:19):
none of that fund none of thosefunds, funds set up in an
account, by the way, bythe previous administration goes directly to the Supreme
Leader of the IRGC can only beused for humanitarian purposes. We're watching that
account very very closely to make surethey're watching that account, you know,
just like they with the same levelof dedication that they watched uh I don't

(01:27:42):
know, mean Afghanistan and the airportthere and uh yeah, the Hamed cars
that airport and the planes that weretaken off with people falling off the side.
You know, with that level ofdedication and attention to detail, they're
watching this got Lee. Welcome backto the program, Dana. Last year
with you, I was going rightto him. Steven Yates. I've been
waiting to talk to him all day. I'm like, oh, this is

(01:28:03):
get there. We got to getto Steven. You guys know Steven Yates.
He is an expert on everything foreignpolicy his specific wheelhouse. I mean,
he's an expert on everything. He'sworked in two presidential administrations. He's
an expert on China, and heknows a lot about the Middle As.
He's an expert on all of it. You can find him at Yates Comm's
on X didn't call it Twitter.Finally, Andy, he's with the America
First Policy Institute and chair of theChina Policy Initiative. Steven, thank god

(01:28:27):
you're here with us today. Hey, thank you for joining us. I
got to get your reaction to that, because correct me if I'm wrong,
they had waiver after waiver that theyeven bypassed a congressional review. If I'm
I got this correctly, that enabledthem to unfreeze billions and billions that were
frozen as part of sanctions against Iran. No, we had this debate openly,

(01:28:50):
repeatedly, right away about what thismagical word fungible means that when Jay,
you know, if I stuffed fivebucks in your left pocket, do
you have an extra five to spendin your right pocket? Anyone with common
sense knows if you unfreeze bank accountsthat had been controlled because of sanctions or

(01:29:11):
otherwise, it gives the target ofthose sanctions an opportunity to do a whole
lot of other things. It's obviouseveryone knows it. I thought though,
that Kirby accidentally perfectly summed up theBiden strategy. Though they are watchers.
They're not leaders. They're not reallyscaring the bad guys, they're not encouraging
or upholding our allies. They're watchers. They watch the TV, they watch

(01:29:35):
what's happening in the world, andit's just kind of a reactive calm strategy.
And that's all they are, sothe only follow up they got to
it is don't. And it turnsout that contraction of two simple words is
ignored by everyone. So at thispoint, it's just it's stunning to listen

(01:29:59):
to Kirby do his routine and actlike he's borderline offended by Ducy's question.
But the question is obvious and sois the answer, and his tap dance
just doesn't quite cover the gap.I wonder what we're talking with our good
friend Stevin Yates. I want togive you and I want you to judge
my perception of what happened over theweekend with Iran and tell me if I'm

(01:30:20):
just being too myopic about it orwhatever, because I feel as though they
use drones, which I have beencalling the mobility scooters of the air,
the slowest things I can think of. I know that they had some rockets
and some missiles, they had aballistic missile, but it was mainly drones
that they fired at Israel. Iknow that this all stemmed from that air

(01:30:42):
strike, that Damascus strike, whichthe general that Israel took out was the
guy who masterminded the October seventh attack. He was not in a consulate,
not in An embassy was literally inthe Revolutionary Guard or their guard headquarters there
in Damascus, and that's a terrorOur country defines them as a terror group.
So fair game. They take thisguy out, Iran gets mad.

(01:31:05):
But it was interesting that it wasjust it really seemed to me kind of
like a weak response, like theyhad to do something to save face because
they were getting criticism from some ofthe proxies that you know, it's always
the proxies that are out taking theheat and taking the hits, and then
Iran just does what Iran does.They didn't really have a lot of other

(01:31:27):
Arabic support. I mean, youdidn't see Jordan supporting them. You didn't
see the Saudi supporting them. Theywere joining the US and helping to push
back against that on behalf of Israel. It seemed like they just it was
a babying effort to help Iran saveface. What is your take on it,
Well, I don't think we couldever kind of minimize not saying that

(01:31:48):
you were that any attempt by theIslamic Republic to have a direct hit on
the state of Israel. And Ithink that the White House dangerously has tried
to minimize that in the sense thatthey have overstated how much they expect our
treaty ally to exercise restraint. Now, let's just think about this for a

(01:32:08):
minute. If a swarm of droneswere coming across the southern border and maybe
one hundred percent, maybe only ninetyeight percent of them got knocked out of
the sky, and we said,oh, look at how effective our air
defenses were and how much money theywasted. I don't think Americans would or
should take that too lightly. Andwhere exactly these drones come from? You

(01:32:31):
think the Iranians are just sitting theremaking them with their own two little hands.
I guess is that there's others thatare watching what in the modern era
of where warfare does a swarm ofAI operated drones do against the US and
its allies. So my guess isthat this was a learning expedition. I

(01:32:51):
don't think that Israel can afford tosay, well, it doesn't matter,
They're just they just needed to saveface, sort of get tired of the
safface thing because of the Chinese statementabout it, and so, and you
know, of course I'm very antiChinese statement. I would never have guessed
that about you never have guessed that, But this. I think there's more

(01:33:15):
to this than the tit for tatthat occurred over the weekend. I think
that this is a test by theIranians. I think that the Chinese are
watching very very closely. The mostimportant thing to me is does the concept
of an alliance matter at all toanyone anymore? Because I see the world
as very dangerous if we don't havealliances we can like and we can dislike

(01:33:35):
them. We might want to makethem stronger. But a world without alliances,
for the United States is very dangerousand costly for us. And so
if Israel is our treaty ally andthey're under attack, any equivocation about are
we providing the material support and who'sgood and who's bad needs to be black
and white for this time. That'sa great point talking with our good friend

(01:33:59):
Steven Yates at Yeates X, becauseI at the same time, I know
you hear I've seen a number oflawmakers say, oh, well, Israel
needs to show restraint. I nomatter what, I don't think that we
can tell Israel to show restraint fordecades. They've been taking this abuse from
Iran in this area. I justhow whatever they decide is what they decide.
I just it seems unfair for anybodyto tell them to show restraint when

(01:34:21):
no one says this to all oftheir enemies that have been attacking them for
decades. Yeah, well, thereisn't restraint in response to rape and murders.
That's what happened on October seven,and it was internationalized and Iran was
involved in that, it was usingits proxies for that. So this is
a continuation of the same struggle.It's just now more out in the open

(01:34:43):
about who the main actors are.And they can't really complain about a very
bad Solomani two point zero being outof their country doing bad terrorists like things
getting greased. That's the least ofwhat should be happening. That's the least
of what should be happening. Andso I think in doing that, Israel

(01:35:04):
was showing restraint. They didn't takethem out in Iran, they didn't bring
the fight to them. But mygoodness, they've been anything. They've they've
been restrained all along. I hopewe would not be restrained similarly if our
homeland were under similar attack. Verygood point on that. You mentioned the
allies too. Is it being overplayedthe extent to which, you know,

(01:35:29):
like the Saudis and maybe their Jordaniansand others seem to at least initial reports
were aligning with Israel against Iran.I know that there's, you know,
the weird hate relationship between the Saudisand Iran, but they all kind of
say the same thing about Gaza andetc. I don't know if that's just
for their domestic audiences and that's notreally meant for an international audience. But

(01:35:49):
what is your take on that?Was that significant to you or do you
think it's overplayed or over reported?I think it's strategically significant. And the
reason it's strategically significant, at leastin no small part, is it's affirming
what the logic of the Abraham Accordswas. It kept maximum pressure on what

(01:36:11):
everyone in the region basically agreed wasthe dominant destabilizing threat, the Mulissan Iran,
and it led to an alternative path, the peace and prosperity in cooperation
and opening some diplomatic ties with Israeland the Arab world. The Biden administration
came in. The first thing theydid was to pull back the terrorism designation

(01:36:33):
on Iran's proxy, the hoo Thiesthat was never mentioned in the campaign and
then just unloaded craft City on theleader of Saudi Arabia, who isn't as
clean as the driven snow. Butif you're gonna look at the bad people
of the Middle East, you're here. You're going to unfreeze money, sorry
to say, Kirby, for theterrorist destabilizing force in Iran, and you

(01:36:57):
want to berate the leader and thethe ally of Saudi Arabia in this.
And what's happening now is that Israeland the Arab world are realigning again against
this dominant challenge, and the Bidenadministration has put the United States back in
the watcher position. That's a verygood point on that as well. You
mentioned talking to Steve and Yates,China's watching this obviously. What is the

(01:37:20):
response that Israel could have and othernations in the area that in the US,
you know, allied allies that wouldkind of make that would make China
nervous. Well. If Israel andany other combination of willing forces were to
significantly degrade the nuclear program, theenergy programs, and any of the other

(01:37:45):
fields that Russia and Moscow have openlycollaborated with Iran on, it would be
a pushback against this fancy pants alternativeto the US and free world world order
that they've been talking about with bricksand otherwise, and would show if you
go too far and trying to attackthe free world, the free world is
in fact going to stand up foritself. It's not sunsetting the way that

(01:38:09):
Chinese have repeated, and a lotof really soft minded American and European academics
have repeated that we were on decline, they're on the rise and we have
to make some accommodation, to whichI say, no, we're great as
long as we get our own housein order. And I think we're about
the business of trying to do thatnow. I hope, so, I
hope we are. This has beenIt was wild to see all of that

(01:38:30):
over the weekend, and then ofcourse World War three was I don't think
we're gonna get into World War three, but you never know anymore. I
mean, with this administration in chargeme they called a lid on it.
Is there anything? Last question?Is there anything that they did right at
all in all of this? BecauseI see so many moving parts and so
many competing narratives, I don't know, I mean, is there anything that

(01:38:53):
they did correctly. That might makeyou think, Okay, well, maybe
there's like one person with a braincell that's in the administration that might be
at least preventing us from like goinginto the hellscape of World War three.
Unfortunately, my answer is, notethere is nothing that was reassuring in any
of this, And just because peopleare starting their work week and deserve to

(01:39:14):
know the truth. If you thoughtthat Iran bringing those drones across towards Israel
was shocking and unnerving, just thinkwhat millions of undocumented people coming across our
border are looking at and learning from. And we have got to get our
house in order and now, becauseworse can happen in the United States now

(01:39:36):
under current policy, and may stillheaven't forbid Steve and Yates always a pleasure.
That's a Monday topic, if everthere was a Monday topic at Yates
Comms. We're going to one dayWe're only going to talk about super happy
stuff. I'm going to make anote of it. It's just going to
be super happy stuff. Good tosee you. I'm going to be a
ray of sunshine once again. Ihave a great week. Good to see

(01:39:58):
you. Thank you. David tickertoo. We have more to cum folks
as we wrap up this third hourof our program. I love his honesty.
He's just like, yeah, Nope, not gonna have not anything good
to say. He's right though.He made some really good points on that.
Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify orwherever you get your podcasts, because
knowledge is your ultimate superpower. Well, I mean it. Jaden Vandervet in

(01:40:21):
seven for Episcopal Abbulson very well isGallagher of McDaniel and Lane two. You
can see Gallagher later on the relaysCrazy great drive if you're watching the simulcast.
This is a dude who is justI mean, clearly smoking the other

(01:40:44):
chicks in this track meat. Itis a male sophomore who crushed his competition
at a female high school track meet. It was the two hundred meter varsity
race. That's insane. I can'tbelieve all of these, including Daily Male,
to call him or her Aiden Gallagherwas apparently so this was his transgender

(01:41:09):
athlete, tenth grader Aiden Gallagher.It just blew away in the heat for
two hundred meter twenty five twenty fivepoint forty nine that's what he clocked in
at. That's insane and people wereoutraged. It is misogyny. Championing championing

(01:41:29):
a male in female sports is absolutemisogyny, and the Oregon School Activities Association
allows students to compete with whatever genderidentity they want to claim. Females should
I get it that it's you know, you're they you're robbing women of athletics.

(01:41:54):
I wouldn't have walked out on thetrack and field, and that's what
it's going to take, unfortunately,which sidelines a lot of females. I
wouldn't have walked out on the trackwith this dude there. That's insane.
All right, Today instupidity came.What do we got? Oh boy?
Yeah, that is toopid Karine JeanPierre, we have more stupidity. One,
just go ahead and then play this. That's gas prices. They've been

(01:42:15):
going up over the last month.Twenty cents a gallon is the present,
considering any new actions like releasing moreoil from the strategic Prolions dur anything.
So don't have I don't have anynew actions to read out. I will
say I will note that gas pricesremain well below their peak. Two.
I think that's important. That'd bein your bragging point You've taken the gas

(01:42:36):
prices to a peak, and justbecause they're below that peak, you've taken
it to somehow that's a sales point. Well, yeah, they after they
wanted to shut down the economy,and then when people went back to work,
they wanted to claim those jobs asjobs created. I love how they
try to do this stuff that doesn'tforce today. Folks find us over at
Substack, Chapter and Verse. Makesure you sign up, YouTube, Facebook,
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(01:42:58):
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