The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: ANOTHER Woke Statue

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

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Dana Lashes of Surtruth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. Everyone thinks you've been kicking back, drinking margaritas on the beach. But really, you've been hard at work, writing a book, meeting with leaders, thinking about the future of our country. Who said that? I just, I hate everything. I, especially her, loathe, I should say. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

That's Kamala Harris, who's trying to sell her book. a slow news day. She's trying to sell her a book. And I don't think anybody's going to buy it. I'm really interested in seeing sales after the first week, aren't you? Oh, yeah. Very interested. And seeing what them sales look like that first week. Very much so. Because that just, why is she so like that? Why is she so awkward? She can't help it. It's just who she is. You either love it or you don't, and we clearly don't. But that's just who. who she is.

She should be in politics. What was that even supposed to be? I don't understand the meme of that. It's a thing going around online where people say these like, quote unquote, existential things while they're not looking at the camera and then turn around and be like, who said that? Like, who was that? Said that.

Even though they were the ones that literally just said it. Like they were channeling some message from on high. I can't. I can't deal with these people. I swear if I have to, if I have to endure a. another campaign cycle of this woman. No one's safe. No one's going to be safe.

No one's. It would be self-destruction of the party, I think, if they did that. I couldn't imagine them doing that. She was trying to tell Colbert, because she was on Colbert, his stupid little show, that the reason that she doesn't want to run for re-election again is because she lost. It's not because she lost an election. It's not because she doesn't, she, or, the reason she just want to run for governor.

It's because she, it's not because she wants to run for president because she lost. She, she said, I don't want to go back into the system because the system is broken. And so, wait, she just gave up,

I guess. I mean, the system is you. The system is you. You're the system. What does that even mean? You are literally the system. I just don't want to go back into the system.

Listen, audio something three. Listener. You announced yesterday, you made an announcement that you're not running for the governor of California. Correct. Even though in early polling, you beat every other candidate by double digits, you said you're going to set this one out.

Why are you sitting this now? Are you sitting yourself for a different office that might be? No. No. Obviously, people project on to your hopes and dreams. And honestly, it's more perhaps basic than that. I am, listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people.

And I thought a lot about running for governor. I love my state. I love California. I've served as just elected district attorney, attorney, general, and senator. But to be very candid with you, I, you know, when I was young in my career, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family. And one of the points that I made is why is it then when we think we want to improve a system or change it? So she's just on the outside on bended knee or trying to break down the door.

Shouldn't we also be inside the system? I'm asleep. I'm going to sleep. She's putting me to sleep. I can't do it. I can't listen to her. I can't deal with her. That's how Cold Bear's audience felt too.

Yeah. I mean, clearly, that's just, oh my gosh. So, yeah, they're all falling asleep as well. So you're the system. And the system actually, I mean, what we're learning, I don't know, from some of the stuff that we've been seeing was irredeemably corrupt and was designed to actually favor you. I mean, I guess, I don't know if she, I guess, didn't, she didn't catch that part with all of the collusion documents and everything else, all of this stuff. I mean, everybody's now really starting to understand how far the left went to alter the question. to alter the course of an election.

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Did you guys see this? You guys are aware of the first statue that was in New York, right? And it was a heavyset woman in New York. Now in Ontario, there is a 12-foot bronze statue of a portly woman. And I'm assuming they say she's a black woman. I mean, I don't, she's, it's bronze, so I don't know, 12 foot bronze statue of a woman that went up, a portly woman that went up in Ontario. Can, how did we go from David to that? I think it was years and years of people just accepting mediocrity.

I mean, look at this. Look at the statue. Look at the statue. Those are sweatpants. Right. She's in sweatpants. It's a T-shirt. What is the purpose of this?

Look at this. She's in. Those are that. They're celebrating mediocrity. This is what has been going on for the longest. Mediocrity has been celebrated for so long that this is now what we see. It's a nine-foot sculpture. It's by some, this is how it's described.

Acclaimed British, it's an acclaimed British artist, Thomas J. Price. He's an acclaimed, he sucks. He's horrible. The sculpture depicts a casually dressed woman in front of the Art Gallery of Ontario's entrance. Price said that he hopes that the sculpture can lead to greater empathy and connection. He says, quote, I want people to recognize themselves and feel valued. I don't recognize myself in this because I don't wear sweatpants in public.

I'm going to tell you guys something. Mentally, I'm 90 years old. All right. I am so old school with things. don't think that leggings are pants, cover your ass. Nobody wants to see it. And most of you don't have a good enough backside anyway to just wear them as pants. Let's be real. That's number one. Number two, crop tops and muffin tops do not work. Any woman over the age of 30 should not be in a crop top. Sorry, I never want to see men in open-toed sandals unless you're literally at the beach

with sand on your feet. I'm sorry, but I don't like it. Flipflops are for beach. Sweatpants are for never. I subscribe to the Carl Lagerfield way of thinking that sweatpants are just a sign of surrender. You are giving up in life if you're wearing them out publicly. I don't care. It's not a matter of money. It's just a matter of

just valuing yourself. It has nothing to do with money. You don't have to be rich to not wear sweatpants to go to the supermarket. Okay. Yes, I am a little bit like old Southern lady in that thinking. Anyway, I we went from, this is the second, like, overweight woman.

The first one was the fat black lady in New York. And then now this is the portly lady in Ontario. What is up with that as the subject matter for sculptures, number one? Number two, she's in sweatpants. I am, not only do I not see myself in this, but I'm offended by it, because she's in sweatpants. And number three, how did we go from Michelangelo's David to this. There's nothing remarkable about this sculpture. There's nothing celebratory about her form. There's

nothing in her expression. No one even knows why she's there. With David, you knew immediately why he was there. David and Goliath. And it was very different in that it wasn't in the moment that he was launching rocks at Goliath. It wasn't after he took Goliath's head. It was the moment right before where he's all tensed up so that Michelangelo could show His amazing artistic ability. And you could see the tendons. You could see every muscle. You could even see the one bone in his pinky that was raised. And all his weight was shifted on his dominant legs as he got ready to hurl the first stone at Goliath. It was not just a story of David and Goliath, but it was also a celebration of Florence, Forensia. It was a celebration of that town standing up against all of the storms around it leading up to the unification of Italy. It was all of this stuff, all of this stuff from Renézell. on, so on. And when I look at this, what story does this tell? What story does it tell? T-shirt, sweatpants. It's a white flag of surrender. If an alien were to come to this planet, and that was the first piece of art that it would see, it would see us as a people that it doesn't need to conquer because we are already conquered. If this is what we consider a high ideal of art,

we are already conquered in spirit first and second physically. We will be. That's what this is. I mean, it's depressing. What is this? It's not uplifting. It doesn't tell a story. Just some fat chick and sweatpants going ho-hum. And you know what? The weight isn't even an issue before people get upset. The weight isn't even an issue. I don't even care if it's a portly person. It's just a bad sculpture. And do you know why I don't care that it's a portly person? Because look at Rubens. Look at some of these other amazing masters. all the women were voluptuous back in the day our standards would my concern well some of them maybe were portly they weren't morbidly obese but they weren't you know heroin sheik thin either that was before the fat jabs

right and it was celebrated the female form was celebrated that's not even celebrating the female form she's in a sloppy t-shirt and sweatpants she's not you know dressed in like silks and and finery and and it's celebrating her curve. She's standing there with bad posture in sweatpants and a t-shirt. So the weight isn't even an issue. The issue is that it's just bad. It's not even art. It's just a bad waste of bronze.

That's what this is. Those are the two, the New York statue and the Ontario statue, side by side. It's a bad waste of bronze. There's nothing celebratory. They're not celebrating the beauty of it. because when Rubens and other masters would paint women that were not heroin chic thin, they were celebrating their form. They didn't just throw on a surrender shirt and pants and sweatpants.

I don't, no, I'm not reading too much into it. It's the decay of culture. How in the hell is that guy a celebrated artist, celebrated British artist? He's horrible. I want to see what this guy looks like. What's his name? Hang on. No, no, no, no.

We're doing this right now live on air. because this is bad. Oh, of course. He looks like a hipster. Oh, of course. He's studied the Royal College of Art. All of his sculptures are dumb. So he did a girl with bad posture looking at herself on.

And it's horrible. It's just bad. There's no muscle definition. There's not even a celebration of form. It's like the most basic thing. The hands have no details. The fingers have no details. If you compare this to actual, like, you know, magnificent sculptors, they, I mean, musculature, vascularness.

It's about celebrating the human form, not checking a box. This guy is horrible. I'm looking at all of his stuff right now. Oh, my gosh. Like, all of his stuff, it's like, you know, in the same way that Banksy just uses, like a cutout and then spray paints. I mean, this is basically what this is. It's bad as we move our part. partners that bring you the program. It's the folks over at Caltech. The PR 57 is one of the latest from

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They said three and ten people, however, believe that DEI does increase discrimination. It increases discrimination against white people. And this is a survey that was conducted by the Associated Press. And they said that slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that black Americans face a, quote, great deal or, quote, quite a bit of discrimination in the United States. It's a decline from a solid majority that was 60% in 2021. and that was after the George Floyd

situation. It's interesting too because the belief of, I think there's probably more discrimination, particularly in collegiate levels for Asians than black Americans. So that's very interesting. So also, Justin Timberlake says

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says, it's, you know, what you get, it's like a tick-borne disease. You get tired. It affects you in a number of different ways. But he says that he was diagnosed with that, and so he's had headaches, rashes, palsy, shooting pains, numbness, and nerve pain. And so apparently that's why he's not been moving a lot on tour because

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today's young adults are four times more likely to have rectal cancer. Colon cancer, rectal cancer, all the cancers. Well, I do think with the colon stuff, I actually don't think it's necessarily related to that because this was spiking way before COVID. It was way before COVID. They already had plans in place to literally create an entire wing, I think at Baylor and Houston. Well, not this bad in this age group. That's the nuance here.

So they, because so rectal cancer, it's apparently two times. for colon cancer. So rectal cancer is increasing. Colon cancer, they're attributing to processed foods and antibiotics, which really does predate the pandemic. We've, here's some, let me get this news out of the way. This has to do, where did I go? This has to do with, uh, ooh, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. You have to talk about it like that, because that's how they all sound. What do you think that they are front desk people before they got all cut sounded like? Was it similar? So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, says it's going to end operations within months.

The announcement being posted just minutes ago. This, according to CBS News, King. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said they're going to wind down operations. Wait, okay, my question. Here's the lead. It says, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they're winding down operations after its funding was eliminated by the Trump administration and Congress.

Why is it after its funding was eliminated and not because progressives refused to fund us to the extent that we need? Yeah, that should be the story. The left always claims to love this stuff, but then they don't ever actually like patronize it themselves, like WNBA, but then they don't patronize it. If they loved corporation for public broadcasting, if they loved all of this stuff as much as they say that they do, why isn't George Soros? He's made of, he's literally made of money. If you cut him, he bleeds dollars. Why doesn't he just write a check for this? Why doesn't his son, Soros Jr., write a check for this? Why don't the Clintons give up some of their money? Why doesn't Barack Obama sell one of his beach one of his beachfront houses and fund corporation for public? broadcasting. Why is it always no, we have to force everybody through taxation to pay for it? I have never, I don't care. I don't get my news from that. I don't get my news from any of that.

Nor do you. The only people who pay attention to any of that are, I think they're progressive boomers, maybe. Maybe some progressive millennials who try to be hipsters, but that's really kind of what it is. I cannot tell you a single thing that they, I know that they did such. Sesame Street, and I know for a while they had Bear in the Big Blue House, and that was it. So my kids watched that. But, like, I don't mind. Now, here's what I'll do. If there's something I want to watch that's on, like, Corporation for Public Broadcasting or something, like, say it was downtown abbey.

When everyone was watching, Julian Fellows is Downton Abbey. Now, if you said, like how you, the way that they have it set up right now, like on your streaming, if you have Apple TV, your streaming services, you could, either get a subscription to corporation for public broadcasting and then you could watch all their shows or you could just purchase the series and you could do it episodically or you could do the entire series. I'm fine with that. Like if it's something I want to watch, I will purchase the series or I will spend $1.99 and watch an episode or something, you know, I'm totally fine with that. But making me fund all of this stuff is asinine. That's like making you, it's like attacks to buy theater tickets for everyone, even though you don't really go to the theater.

This is the same thing. We have a history of doing this with everything in government. That's why our health care is absolutely heinous. Because people like Steve and Kane and even Juan, you know, they've got to pay for gynecological care, even though they don't have wounds and any of the other stuff that goes along with that. But they have to pay more for their health care to cover that stuff so other people can get it at a reduced cost or for free. And that is not my. I, I, that's, that's, no, that's not our obligation. Families struggle just to pay. I mean, good grief.

Most people can't even make their deductible. Don't even meet the deductible that they have for the year. Sometimes it's like, what is the point of insurance? I mean, and that's the point. It's asinine. Oh, then you're fine if you don't have it. It's a, they do this with everything. They do it with literally everything.

So we have this executive order, and this is one of the reasons why Congress needs to do something so that if we, heaven forbid, get a Democrat in office in 2028, they don't turn this spigot back on because as it stands right now, that's all they got to do. It can be reversed with another executive order. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, their CEO said, despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, petitioned Congress to preserve the federal funding, we now face difficult reality of closing our operations. Wait a minute. So all of these people called, wrote, did they write checks? Oh, apparently what they wrote did include checks. I used to do, back when we lived in St. Louis, I would do, I had a good relationship with the,

the local PBS station there, Corporation Public Broadcasting. And it was, it's weird because that was in, in, around downtown St. Louis, just outside of downtown limits. They, the PBS studio, that's where they did, uh, what am I thinking of, Donnie Brooke. That's where they, I did that a couple the times and they would do some of their little local programming there but the really they made a lot of bank off of acting like a satellite station they had a hot spot for all the all the networks so if CNN wanted to have someone join their program that person would go to the PBS station and then CNN would hire them out to run the cam cameras and light and they would get a makeup artist and all that CNN did it. A.B. All of the networks used it. That was the

place to go to. So whenever you see anybody in Missouri, anybody near it on the east side of it, and they have the St. Louis background, they're at the PBS station. That's where they all are. Everybody goes there. Anybody. That's where it all happens. I have been in that green room before with some of the craziest people. And I told you once how I was in there, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And she let my youngest son play with her phone, play angry birds on her phone. And it took 80% of me wanted to snatch that phone and run out, but I didn't. 20% of me was like, Dana, that's your son there. You know, you take him too.

Anyway, I'm joking about the last part, but not the phone. So anyway, everybody, everybody always goes and they use that and they get a lot of money because those hits, those satellite hits like that or those hits through those other stations. Those are thousands of dollars. So whenever someone joins a network for if they like you're watching fox news or something or whatever and you see you know the three paneled and they have the different people if they're joining from another city that's thousands of dollars that's a couple thousand dollars just for that hit and it's usually like five minutes and that doesn't include bringing in they always bring in makeup artists for people because they want them to look nice on air it they were people started relaxing their standards a little bit after

COVID? Because previously, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, you were never allowed to use Skype or Zoom or any kind of like mobile device unless it was an emergency and you were there on the front lines. You know, you were never, that was never allowed, ever. You were never not allowed to have good lighting. You were never not allowed to like not be Foxified or CNNified or whatever. Now it's a little bit different. But still, those costs for those little, those hits like that, for those stations remain the same. And so PBS in St. Louis, every time they had an event, and I'm not saying, and kudos to the people that actually support this stuff that they believe in. You know, that's great. You can support the stuff that you believe in and you can write the checks.

Just don't force everybody else to. Because I have had hits there before where they have had like a big donor thing happening the same night. and it was always, I was always fascinated by the old money that was there, right? Wealth, wealth whispers, you know, money screams or money shouts. I was always very interested in the old money, the old St. Louis money that showed up there at these events. And I mean, they were always very elevated and age people. But they would come in and you could, the parking lot would be full of like Mercedes and Cadillac and. Jaguar, lots of Jaguar, all of that. And you knew, I mean, they, they, they, that was about as loud as it was, but they all were

very nice looking and, you know, but they would have these big events there. So people would come and they would support it. But apparently they never had enough people that believed in it enough to support it, that they could actually get by without the taxpayer funding. And that's not your problem. That is not a you problem. It is not a me problem. it is a them problem.

And every multiple times a year, didn't they do funding drives? Oh yeah. And they would have people, I don't even think they do this anymore. Gen Z may not even know with this. Juan may never have seen anything like this. So do you remember the old school like telethons

where they would have like one row here and then a second row and a third row. And sometimes like for big things, they would have famous people sit there and answer the phones and people will call in to donate. They used to do things like that at the PBSes. And they would do different local PBSes. They would do like big, you know, a couple times a year.

These fun, one was always around Christmas, these big fundraising things. And so the, I don't know why they feel like the failure is because the government won't fund it. When clearly the demographic that they are targeting, the people who watch their programs apparently don't find enough value in it to fund it themselves. That is the issue. You can project it onto government or this administration all you want to, but that's

not an accurate reflection of the real story. The real story is that your own people clearly don't find enough value in it. Like, I will tell you this, the last thing that I purchased, it was a series to watch, and it was from PBS. It was

Marie Antoinette. It was like a new series. It's actually a really well-done series. and it was a new, there's two seasons of it out, and I purchased, and it purchased that, and it was pretty well historically accurate. The costumes were great. The lighting was really good. The scoring was very good. The casting was very good. Yeah, it was a masterpiece theater thing. And I have no problem with, you know, I'll pay $12.99 for a season. I'll do that. If it's something that I value and something I find interesting and I want to watch, but I sure is hell, I'm not going to sit here and pay for an entire season of an entire network where they have kids shows. and they talk to kids about trannies. Not going to do that. So that's one of the things that I like about streaming services. And have you ever noticed, like,

Kane, have they ever done an actual breakout of what people are doing al-a-cart purchases for on streaming? I would be very interested in seeing that. I'm sure there's some way to find that data. That is, that really is, I think, probably the most accurate snapshot of what people are really driven to, because money does not lie. not going to one thing that I know about people is that they are not going to part even if it's like two dollars two ninety nine they are not going to part without money unless it's something they really want to watch they're not just going to be like they really want to watch it they're

not going to part with their money because when you look at it think about it it's not anything tangible that you could touch you're sitting there you're looking at it like do i want to pay two 99 for this series do i want to do that like you you sit here and go back do is anybody else did that or am i the only person i'm like two $299. What? You know what I mean? But like if you're at the ballpark, you're like, oh, okay, I'll get a small tiny soda for $2.99, whatever.

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