The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Ben Shaprio UNLEASHES At AmFest

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Two Haitians are arrested & charged in an alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain millions in SNAP benefits in Massachusetts. Ben Shapiro UNLEASHES On Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson at TPUSA’s Americafest. Netflix cancels 'Boots', a Queer military dramedy after just one season. Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…HumanNhttps://HumanN.comNow’s the perfect time to try them—get $5 off Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club through December 29.Byrnahttps://Byrna.comMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/Dana  OR CALL 972-PATRIOTWhat are you waiting for? Switch today during the Red, White, and Blue sale and get a free smartphone with code DANA. PreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DANAThis Christmas, for just $28 you can help save a life.. Dial #250 and say “Baby,” or give securely online. Make your gift today.AmmoSquaredhttps://AmmoSquared.comDon’t get caught without ammo and be sure to tell them you heard about Ammo Squared on this show. Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaMake sure your family stays secure online with WebRoot.  Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection today.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore Info

Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. Let me tell you guys this story. I don't know if you saw this story from ABC. It's a great ABC story, guys. Ready for it? Here's the headline. Two Massachusetts men traffic nearly $7 million worth of benefits intended for people who cannot afford food, so it's more snap fraud.

Two Massachusetts men. So crazy, these Massachusetts men. These just random Massachusetts men. These just random Massachusetts men. Just a couple of guys. Just a, yeah, just a couple of people. I hate the auto play ads. Two, just two of these dudes, like Maryland dads.

Oh, well, wait a minute. Antonio Bonheur and Saul, Elise Mae. Okay, all right. But wait, Massachusetts men? And nowhere, at nowhere in any point in the story, not only does ABC not share the photo of the perps, but it doesn't tell you that they're actually Haitian. Okay?

I got a just quick question for everybody. Chat, check your maps. Just a quick question. Is Massachusetts in Haiti? I'm going to go with no on that one. For 500? Can we do for 500? I was sure.

Yeah. Massachusetts is. Or did they mean to say Haiti and they just said Massachusetts instead? I mean, you know, typo. One hell of a typo. Yeah. I mean, instead of writing Haitian, they said Massachusetts. It's just.

Is there a fine line between typo and lying? Mm. Yeah, I don't know. But not at any point. And it wasn't just ABC. So four other newsagent, none of the big news agencies even mentioned that they were literally from Haiti. And they were engaging in snap fraud. Seems like that's kind of important to mention.

Especially when we're talking about state after state after state, where you have people who are coming in and they are targeting these programs, exploiting them and using them to build taxpayers out of. billions of dollars. In fact, to that point, I was reading that, let me pull this up, bear with me. So in Somalia, I think they had what a GDP of something like, what is it, is it 17 billion? I have notes on this. Let me look this up. So essentially, the amount of taxpayer money that they defrauded taxpayers of in just Minnesota, it exceeds the entire GDP of Somalia. Yeah.

Yeah. 18 billion in claims paid out. And that's greater than the GDP of Somalia. That Kane, that seems kind of importante.

Yeah. I would say so. That seems kind of important. That's huge. Now, you know we're going to find this in other states. We're only just now finding this in states like Maine and now Massachusetts and elsewhere. It is so unbelievably bad. As we move, the folks who will bring you the program, it's the Superbeats turmeric chews, which you can get right now, $5 off at Sam's Club, but that's only, I think, until like, what, the 20, yeah, December 29th. So, you know, there's a lot of turmeric products out there, but a lot of times it's difficult for the body to utilize effectively. It has great

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But I caught a couple clips and I was talking to my friend, Ben and I are friends. And we talk. You know, we're not like best friends where we, you know, have house parties together. thing, but we talk. I've known him for over a decade. Actually, 15 years now I've known. And we kind of grew up together. He's only a couple of years younger than me. We sort of grew up together in this industry, which is weird in this industry, because these are people that I've seen, people that I've known since they were like thin and war bow ties or when they were a lot younger and less mussely or younger and they didn't have gray hair. It's just weird to be in an industry like this. So I

watched clips of it. And I really liked, I mean, what I thought what Ben said needed to be said. And he's exactly right. And it's not just, you know, he's, you know, he, well, let's just play cut one. This is a quick cut. Listen. And the people who refuse to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks, and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice. Yes, cowardice. The fact that they have said nothing, while Candace has been vomiting, all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into the public square for years, is just as cowardly. And it's true, but it's more than just cowardice. I would add it's a lot more than just cowardice.

It's ruthless ambition. Because a lot of these people, they just want a slice of the digital pie at any cost. at any cost, even if that means debasing themselves and debasing the movement they're grifting off of for their lifestyles. A lot of the people that are trying to weigh in on this now, these are people who were never in the streets with us during the days of the Tea Party. These are the people who don't know what heavy lifting in politics is. These are the people who've never gotten the threats and have never taken the arrows ever that is who these people are they're opportunists or some of them just do commentary or some of them you know they they these are that's the

difference between i would say people like myself and ben and some of these others and then some of these other you know thought influencers and i would put kandis in that exact and tucker in that exact same category. You know, reading copy that your producers prepare for you on cable news is not the same as authoring your own speeches and doing your own research and helping to pass issues, get people elected, and stop bad candidates. There's a big difference. And I say that because it's like the people that have the least amount of skin in the game

that want to control the game. And now that everything is shifting to digital, it's just ruthless ambition. They realize that in order to be relevant, they have to be seen as kingmakers in terms of the movement. And they have to somehow create this veneer of having been part of the movement structure from the beginning, which they weren't. It's not about gatekeeping. It's about questioning someone's moral compass and their ethical consistency. And when you have people on your program, as I have had people on this program, when you're bringing people on and you're asking them questions, you have to make the determination. What are you doing? Who are you?

Are you an activist serving only your own interests? Are you there to serve your audience's interests? Because if you're serving the interests of the audience, you need to be asking the questions that are going to help inform the audience, not just manipulate them. You know, going out and saying, well, you know, I don't know, but I think we might be having war in Venezuela. Oh, I don't know. That's just manipulation. You're not informing anyone. That's just stupid.

Some of these people are my friends or that I'm friendly with, and I mean no ill will, but I'm not going to not say anything about it. I operate by kind of the book of Matthew. I'll go to somebody privately first, and we'll have that conversation privately. And then, you know, if they're resistant or if they're nasty, then, you know, we'll have the discussion publicly. But it's just, it's incredibly disingenuous. It's all about, it is ambition. It's all about people who are trying to get a slice of the digital pie. Like when people go, oh, well, we're just asking questions, you know, they exclaim super defensively while literally not asking any questions at all whatsoever.

How in the hell do you sit across from a Nazi twink who basically pleasureed himself to Hitler and loves Stalin and not ask him about that? How do you sit across from a guy who called the wife of the vice president a jeet, a guy that would not be in office had you not helped him? And you not ask him about that. That's what the audience is wanting to know. They're wanting to know about the moral consistency. not a well yeah he said that but no they won moral consistency and accountability is part of that there's no reconciliation without it either and that's biblical or they say we don't want to attack our side i watched one commentator say oh i'm not going to attack our side you know

candis is like my sister i'm not but then went on like and did three videos attacking ted Cruz or goes off on Mark Levin. What do you mean you don't want to attack your side? You're all about attacking your side if you're attacking the people that are trying to hold you accountable for the dumbass things you're saying. Yes, you are attacking your side. You traffic and attacking your side. In fact, all of Tucker Carlson's episodes are about attacking our side. This is where I'm starting to get mad and where I'm starting to be like, you know what, may the burning bridge light my path. Let's play cut for. because this is ridiculous.

What you're watching now? Attacking people on the attacking millions of Americans because they're Muslims? It's disgusting. And I'm a Christian. I'm not a Muslim. I'm never getting, I know there's a lot of effort to claim I'm a secret jihadi. I'm not.

You should not attack people on those grounds. And you're seeing it from Republic. What the hell are you doing? What you're doing is trying to divide the country. And I've lived through 50 years of this crap. All these fake race wars that they're always promoting. Who's they? Who is they? First off, what do you mean?

Who is they always promoting? Secondly, I couldn't tell you were a Christian by your behavior. Or by the demonstrated lack of understanding on scripture. Or the idea of calling people who interpret revelation differently, blasphemous, and likening them to the demons that you fought in bed. I don't, I don't, that's what gets me. The way that he put that is, disingenuous misrepresentation. That is the same argument that the left uses when they talk about

deportation. You're just deporting grandmas and tomato pickers. What are you doing? It's the same, it's the same formula. Disingenuously misrepresenting the number of Islamist terror attacks and the percentage of, you know, who are Islamist terrorists, which by the way is a way higher percentage than any other demo, maliciously misrepresenting that as race, hate is preposterous and suicidal. So essentially what he's saying is if you're upset over Bondi Beach, then you're a bigot.

If you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets in Bavaria, in Brussels, in France, in London, in Spain, in in Italy. If you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets, I guess you're a bigot. If you're upset about the acid attacks on women, I guess you're a bigot.

If you're upset over female genital mutilation, you're a bigot. If you're upset over the Navy Yard shooting, you're a bigot. If you're upset over Fort Hood, you're a bigot. I mean, that's just the logic going all the way through to its final conclusion. Who is they? Don't sit here.

and talk about people they want you they who the hell is they if you're going to present this then you have not only a moral ethical but also an intellectual responsibility to define those whom you are accusing otherwise i'm just assuming he's talking about jews who the hell is they oh they with their race hate they with their race war who is they because the only people perpetuating a race war are literal Islamists. This is just doing heavy lifting for the Islamification of the Western world. That's all that is.

They, with their race hate, lecturing the United States about hating Muslims, while you defend Qatar and act like it's a Christian bastion, you know, where you can't even worship amongst their over 95% slave labor

population. You have to go to the outskirts of Doha, where you can't even erect a cross on the side of your building. You have to worship very quietly indoors and you can't talk to anybody about it. And if you try to proselytize, oh my gosh, you could be killed. Who is they? Why wasn't that ever answered? He sounded defensive and it was one of the worst things. I mean, I don't think it was his brightest moment. I really don't. And I thought what Ben said was correct. I mean, you know, especially over Nick Fuentes and other things. This is the problem, you know, having these debates on the right, fine.

No one's talking about not having a debate, but you're talking about ideas that were settled in 1945 with the blood of Americans. Entertaining the idea that was entertained on some of these podcasts was settled by the blood of our grandfathers in 1945. And you spit on that legacy. by tickling the jimmies of the people who traffic this stuff. You're no better than a westernized Bacabazi. And that's an absolute truth. And the sad thing is, is they know it. And that's one of the things that fuels their resentment.

Imagine being reduced to defending the very thing that would debase you. Imagine being reduced to defending Islamism. I mean, imagine being reduced to political dancing for Islamist masters. And then you had Owens that posted yesterday that she thinks Shapiro's, oh, more than ever involved with, you know, attacks on America. etc. I mean, just the insane stuff that she says. I don't even remember her whole post. She's trying to do everything that she can to make her money before her gay husband is disinherited by his father because then they're going to be in a world of pain. I don't think the Macron's are letting up. I don't like the McCrone's, but I don't like Owens either. They're all one and

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Airports are bringing back love actually magic and allowing non-flyers through security lines for the first time in decades. This is interesting. Now, they said that this is in Britain. Well, actually, no, it's in Oakland, too. Oakland, San Francisco Bay Airport's the latest airport offering passes for non-ticketed guests

to go past TSA checkpoints. And they have to be approved for the Oak pass. OAK. That's what the airport announced on Monday. It's the first time since the 9-11 attacks that this has happened. They said that visitors can go through

the TSA checkpoint with their digital pass, as well as their real ID or passport, they said they were trying to boost traffic to the airport, which is stagnated since the pandemic. And they said it's, you know, it'll generate more people going. They want to make it the most convenient airport, et cetera. Seattle Tacoma also did it. They started it back in 2018. Detroit began offering a destination pass. Now, Philly has done the same thing. Several other airports have rolled out a guest pass system, like a hangout pass. It's not a permanent program. and you can get into, you can go through and without having a plane ticket just so long as you go through security and you can get into the airport. So that's, actually, that's kind of helpful. Like if you've got like

family members that need assistance, especially if they're grumpy and they don't want assistance from the airport. You know, if you have that kind of stuff, it's super helpful. It's helpful, like if you're meeting family members that are a little younger, you know, like I remember before 9-11 going to the airport and getting my little cousins. So that's, that's, That's helpful. In, let's see, Waymo. Oh, no, another Waymo driving down the wrong street, literally on a busy highway, literally driving in Austin, Texas down the wrong side of a highway.

It's like planes, trains, and automobiles. You're going the wrong way. How does he know where we're going? Okay. Oh, it drove right by. I mean, apparently it even blew past a school bus. bus even right past the lights and you know

his kids were getting off the bus. We got to figure out this stuff. I'm just saying every time we, I just hear all of these accidents involving these Waymo cars right. Patriot Games so the White House is revealing things to celebrate America's

250th birthday, including the Patriot games where they're having two Americans from every state compete. They're going to have the UFC. Biggest fire works display in the world. I mean, they're going to have a state fair on the national mall, all kinds of stuff. It's going to be, I think I actually may go there for this. It's going to be a party. I'm saying that would be kind of cool to see in person. You know what I

mean? Also, every New York City subway station is going to get spikes and paddles to combat fare evasion. And now they're trying to say psychedelics might fix your depression. This was the mushroom thing that they were talking about. I mean, it's not like getting high on drugs. It's a very clinical thing. Do you guys like watch a lot of Netflix? I have Netflix because you have the Great British Baking Show that's on it. So I watch that. That's good. Yeah.

I use Netflix mostly for comedy. But I, they had a, let me just read it. Netflix was going to come out with a gay military series called Bits. Not like the Red Yard Kipling boots. What's it called? Bits Oh They

It was previously described as Woke Garbage Let me just read it Hang on I'm going to pull this up Because this was the official Descript from Netflix Before it totally got canceled

It's totally canceled So it's There's only so Oh my gosh It's so funny There's only like a couple of episodes Oh man It says

Boots follows the story of Cameron Cope who plays Miles Heiser, a gay teen from Louisiana, who's bullied and finds new purpose, an unexpected brotherhood, with his motley team of fellow recruits. That's it. The show depicted the character's experience joining under Clinton's 1990s, don't ask, don't tell, which meant you could join the armed forces, but don't gay it up, right? You don't need to go out, wake up every morning and go, I'm gay, gay, gay, gay.

You don't need to do that. Just, you know, you go serve and do your job. Weird. I mean, because it's like that in every other job, really, isn't it? I mean, do you, if you're, I don't know, if you're a dentist, are you screaming at your patients? I'm gay! You know, I mean, you just show up and do your job. You're not constantly regaling people with how you do to sex.

Right? Like, why does everything have to be about how you have sex? If my mouthwash doesn't affirm which door I enter, then, you know, I just don't over. I can live my life. If you are so sensitive and fragile that you have to have inanimate objects with their packaging affirm your life, you might need help. So they, the policy, you know, 93, 2011, I love how they go. Well, critics largely praise the series. Boots are in a 90% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you don't know what Rotten Tomatoes is, Rotten Tomatoes is a hellscape of people who never leave their house. They're miserable. They hate you. They hate

themselves. And they like the crappiest stuff out there ever. So if it has a great rating on Rotten Tomatoes, chances are it's heinous, especially if it's a horror film, especially if it's sci-fi, especially if it's history. Really anything. All of it. So it shows this guy, like for instance, he's holding, I mean, he doesn't even look like he has enough arm muscles to hold a gun, number one. His hair is way too long to even be in the military. Number two. I mean, sorry, you're not going to have like a South Korean K-pop hairdo and be in the U.S. military. It's not, you're not an operator. You're 18. It's not how this is working. So the Pentagon Press Secretary back in October told Entertainment Weekly that it was woke garbage.

And they, critics on Rotten Tomatoes said, it's a likable dramedy that explores masculinity and queerness to powerful effect. It's not a war. It's a queer war. But do we need to explore it? Like, what more do we need to explore in this subject?

Honestly. I mean, the military is supposed to be about fighting. Not the other F word. Stop, Cain. I didn't do it. But,

so they canceled it, boots. Because it's nobody's going to, who's going to watch that? Yeah, we're going to really miss that show, huh? In all of its four episodes? Gosh, I can't believe. I mean, how many, yeah, how many, to your point, how many ways has this been explored? Right.

Has that topic been explored? That tends to be the way they market these things. I don't think that you can explore it any more than it's been explored. It's a gay soldier. In this, it's a gay soldier. it's a gay soul another gay soldier it's a movie but a gay soldier I mean hell hallmark is gay soldier I mean everything is gay soldier they've had a million of these gay cowboys even they've had a million just stop what is the point Steve goes it's faking oh my gosh I'm reading what Steve put in slack Steve put fake and gay is he serving or serving true just like Nobody cares. I really feel like some gay activists still think it's a big thing to go, I'm gay.

Because most people are like, so? Like 99% of people, so? Because we're living our lives and we just don't care. That's like somebody coming up and saying, I shave my armpits today. Nobody cares. Literally nobody cares, right? You're talking about just like, nobody cares. Stop it.

Why do people try to make you care about things that you don't want to care about? I don't like being forced to care about things I don't want to care. care about cane it makes me uncaring it makes me a hate bear not a care bear the grumpy was my favorite he was underappreciated and underutilized was that the one with the storm cloud on yes he was my favorite i had him when i was a kid i loved grumpy bear he was the best he really did have a soft heart but he had no it was no nonsense he was no nonsense anyway to my point i didn't there was no way I was even going to test this out because the promotional footage enough was bad so like apparently there were even gay members of the military going no way he carries

that gun for any amount of distance with the I mean they were just shredding it just looked bad I mean I think even when you have to gays that don't like it because it's too what's the word I'm looking for pandering it's you know it's just super pandering wondering. I don't know. I'm looking at this and it's just something else. Did you, I didn't watch it. Did you even see it on Netflix? I didn't even see it on Netflix. No. Any teasers for it or, no, I haven't seen it. Yeah, I didn't see anything on it. So I don't know, which is weird if it got such a great reading on, you know, Rotten Tomatoes. I don't think that Netflix promoted it enough. I think

they were like, oh, it's another Megan Markle type content. Oh, it's hide this away. They have algorithms in their systems, too, that just shows where people are consuming similar content. They're going to push that marketing towards that. My Netflix algorithm has no idea what is going on with me. It's like, does she like baking or does she like anime or K-dramas? We don't even know. And then here's some serial killer stuff. Mine's like ancient aliens and comedy.

It's like they don't even go together. Oh, mine's all, it's aliens because I watch all my westerns like on Amazon and Paramount. So it's aliens, baking, K-dramas, and, because K-dramas are wholesome, by the way. That's some of the most wholesome stuff you can watch. K-dramas, and what's the other one? Oh, serial killer stuff. Or not really serious, but like unsolved mysteries. The OG with Robert Stack.

That man's voice was terrifying and also amazing. So I don't even, I don't see any of that stuff. So maybe that's why. It's never going to show me. Here's some gay military stuff. I mean, it's literally the tags for it are gay military. Nobody, nobody care. Who made this?

Like a baby boomer? Like a baby boomer. Like an old elderly Gen Xer that still thinks this kind of stuff is relevant? I don't know. Just odd. Super odd. So I'm not going to be watching that. None of us are going to be watching that.

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