Dana Loesch
speaker
85 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 Jun
Dana Loesch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it gets very difficult when you start talking about money and influence because a lot of these lawmakers are so entrenched and they have a lot of favors that they can call in. So like Dade Phelan, for instance, he has a huge war chest. If he doesn't spend it all in one campaign, what he does is he basically pays off these other lawmakers to have his back.
They get these Democrats elected to these or installed in these different committees, which is unthinkable.
I mean, if you have a Republican, not a super majority, but almost a super majority dominated state legislature, why are you allowing statists who want to jack up your taxes to an ungodly amount, who want to prevent you from having, you know, constitutional freedoms or age appropriate materials in your kid's school?
People who, you know, wanted to lock everybody down for even longer than what was, you know, obligatory. already happening under COVID, these individuals are empowered and they're put in these hefty positions by people like Dade Phelan and others because they have the cash to throw around.
They come in with a big bank account, a lot of name recognition, a lot of favors to call in, and so they protect their positions. It's really hard for citizens to go after them. It takes a lot of grassroot effort. And frankly, a lot of people don't follow what's happening in their state capital. It's way sexier to follow stuff federally.
It's a lot harder to watch what's happening in your own backyard. There's less attention for it.
Hands off my guns, pretty self-explanatory. Grace Canceled was kind of like right when, I guess, the woke school descendancy and the cancellation that we started seeing. I actually got inspired to write that book from Norm MacDonald. He was a friend. I never met him in person. We only ever talked in messages.
And it was an interview that I saw him give on The View when he was sticking up for Roseanne Barr. And he was very contrite when he went on The View to the point where it disarmed everyone. They didn't quite know how to handle him. He was saying that he was sorry for past offenses. And at first I thought he was trolling them. And to see somebody who is such a powerful, wise ass like Norm Macdonald
in that position in front of all of those women in the view, it just struck a chord. And I kept thinking, these people don't want reconciliation. They don't want to mend fences and build bridges. They just want sheer and utter destruction. And so that's what started the idea for the book, because it's not about that. It's not about unity or cohesion.
It's about destroying your ideological opponent, not even persuasion, which I think is the biggest win that you could have. They wanted a lesser win, which was destruction. Persuasion takes too much.
Last question that he asked me was about gold prices. Really? He's asking me about price of gold. What do you think about that? It was weird little questions, but he was, he was a really nice guy. And I had told him, I said, I got inspired to write this video. Like you, you know, kind of kickstarted that whole line of thinking. And, you know, it was true.
And he talked about that a little bit later on, you know, before he passed away. But yeah, that's where that book idea came from. And I just, he was, he was a great example of that.
I love the idea of having a very flashy auditor. And that's what Doge is. I mean, it's a glorified auditor. And I love it. And I love how flashy they are about it because it's like, let's make cutting spending look cool. And I love the fact that it's a bunch of dorks. And I don't say that as a pejorative. I mean, I really respect these people.
There are a bunch of nerds that are going in there with, you know, read-only access all under NDAs. And they're seeing a lot of the obvious waste and fraud and then some stuff that people haven't been tracking. My concern is that People are going to turn on them and him if there's not a lot of movement in Congress.
None of this stuff matters if Republicans don't get it together in the House and codify this. They gotta make tax cuts permanent. They gotta pass these USAID cuts. They have to do all of this stuff. And they're too busy fighting amongst themselves. And I get it. they got a razor thin majority. But that's not an excuse.
I mean, if you're really good at messaging, it's really easy to get some of these purple state Democrats on your side to do this and use the power of the cudgel that is POTUS. I mean, nobody's better at putting heat on people than he is in a very dramatic public fashion. Kick that into gear and let's start taking names and going after some of these lawmakers that are holding all of this up.
Because what's gonna happen is if they don't do this, the economy, the pulling on the economy We knew it was going to be a little tough with the tariff war and all that. But without tax cuts, you know, the sequencing was a little concerning to me. Without tax cuts, you get basically a double taxation. You need a shot in the arm for the consumer.
If you're not providing that, then the polls are going to start tipping a little bit on the economy. It could bleed over into other things. Then before you know it, midterms, we're looking at losing the House, and then it's going to be impeachment palooza. It'll be a disaster.
A 77-year-old guy with a toupee who said he filed articles of impeachment for what, I don't know, the guy who left all the animals in the animal testing lab to die and then Huffington Post wrote that they had to agree on that guy.
It's hard for lawmakers to stay principled. There's a lot of special interest and a lot of reasons for them not to be once they get to D.C. And I think that's one of the things that some of the Doge folks are finding out. I mean, it's a tough fight, and I love that they're fighting it. I'm a little worried as we roll into midterms, to be honest.
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