The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Bosses vs. Workers

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

The International Longshoresmen Association is asking for a 77% raise with a total ban on automation while its union boss, Harold Taggett, lives a luxurious lifestyle. Meanwhile, could FEMA’s lack of proper response to Southern states getting hit by Helene be attributed to their DEI policy to treat certain areas equitably? Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaVisit today for 10% off and get the protection you need.  Cozy Earthhttps://cozyearth.com/danaGet the ultimate in comfort at up to 40% off with code DANA. Hillsdalehttps://danaforhillsdale.comClaim your free pocket Constitution today at DanaForHillsdale.comKelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comInnovation. Performance. Keltec. Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com today.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet a free month of service with code Dana.ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comDon’t mask pain, fight it naturally with Relief Factor.  Visit online or call 1-800-4-RELIEF today!Tax Network USAhttps://TNUSA.com/DANADon’t let the IRS control your life—empower yourself with Tax Network USA. Visit TNUSA.com/DANA

Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. So a Florida man shows that he can kayak in his living room during Hurricane Helene. Tampa Bay resident, he told a Canadian news outlet how he was able to get a kayak out. There was so much flooding in his house. I mean, it's not unusual that he got a kayak. I mean, he got a kayak in his living room.

I mean, there's people dying, but okay. Am I being mean about this? Am I? Am I being like too cynical? Maybe. I might be. Maybe. I don't know.

Now this one, though, I don't know if I should feel bad for the gator. I'm real confused here. Because, you know, gators are everywhere, right, in Florida. And when you got hurricanes that roll through, it brings the water to you. And guess what's in the water that is brought to you? Oh, yeah. The gator. So one homeowner

saw that an eight-foot gator was trying to get some shelter on this dude's doorstep. He was kind of musing through several yards, just kind of rolling through. It's not entirely unusual. And then he went right up to someone's door, according to the sheriff's office. And they had to call Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, who joked. Well, the standard practice is to not enter the door when the alligator's there. Okay. And it happened right as Hurricane Helene was off of Florida's Gulf Coast. And they were thinking that the alligator knew something was coming and maybe he was trying to seek some shelter or something. But it's not the first or only time. There are other alligators that showed up. In fact, people were calling Florida Fish and Wildlife saying he's just looking at me. The skaters here and he's just looking at me. Just saying, be careful out there. Let's see. In addition to that, there's old. Also, yeah, I know you got this one too.

I got a, I don't want to get the naked Florida man. Did we have the naked Florida man who had the devil, who said he was the devil and he was naked? I think so. Can we talk about the Florida doctor who accidentally removed the wrong organs and two surgeries? Yeah. So this is really bad. This is a Florida doctor. And Destin.

The guy's medical license is now suspended. and he kind of removed the incorrect organs. And at least is the kicker, at least two surgeries. Yeah, one, it killed one patient and the other suffers long-term permanent harm as a result. In March of last year, the guy who survived, he's 58 years old, they took out his pancreas instead of his adrenal gland. Both procedures took place at the ascension, Sacred Heart, and Miramar. in Miramar. Isn't it the fancy part of Florida? Isn't that a fancy area? So this is like a fancy hospital in a fancy area, right? My Floridians will tell me if I'm wrong. So they settled that on

a malpractice claim. Then last month, the 70 year old who didn't make it, his liver was removed instead of his spleen. Oh my gosh. I am shocked. So yeah, so they said that the formal discipline proceeding is going to take place. I would imagine a malpractice is going to happen with that guy too. Wow. That's just, it's crazy. So, I don't know, man. I get when people say that they're nervous about going to the hospital. Stories like that don't help. And let's see, this is, I wanted to get, oh, oh, a Florida man and his dog. So he and his dog were rescued off the coast in the Gulf because, and this was on Thursday, the guy had a 36-foot sailboat. It became disabled, started taking on water. It was 25 miles off of Sanibel Island. His dog had a life vest.

They were in the waters, sweet pup. And the, as Helene was approaching, I guess he was trying to get his boat in or something. He had been out and I guess he was trying to get to land. But they said that they did, they were actually able to get him. The Coast Guard said that his, his boat took on water. They were rescued. So, yay, thank you. United States. Coast Guard. That was nice. A Florida man got 25 years in prison because he stole the identity of a Texas dude in a coma. 40-year-old Donald Wood pled guilty to over 20 felony charges. He stole this dude's identity back in 2021. And he took out loans for vehicles and all this stuff. And then finally, investigators started looking into it. And it's the state attorney's office in Florida.

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let me find something to you these people today don't know what a strike is right when my men hit the streets from main to texas every single port a lot down you know what's going to happen i'll tell you first week be all over the news every nine boom boom second week guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships

they get laid off third week malls start closing down they can't get the goods from China they can't sell clothes they can't do this everything in the United States comes on a ship they go out of business construction workers

get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in. They lose their job. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting a Taff Harley on you.

Go ahead. Taff Hartley means I have to go back to work for 90 days. It's a cooling-off period. Do you think when I go back for 90 days, those men are going to go to work on that? here. It's going to cost the money, the company's money to pay their salaries. Well, they went from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight. They're going to be like this.

Who's going to win here in the long run? You're better off sitting down and let's get a contract and let's move on with this world. And today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. You know, I think the gold chain and that nugget ring really, it's a nice touch, you know. The gold chain and the nugget ring just really make it such a nice. They add such a nice touch to the whole vignette there, don't they? I do believe they do.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Channel 347, DirecTV, also Rumble where the chat happens. And X. That's the head of the Longshoremen's group, Daggett. Harold Daggett. He's like, I will cripple you. I'll cripple talking about this strike.

again, I mean, that's why Jay-Z's Big Pimpin was so apropos there, because, you know, you got mudded out roads. You know, you got down power lines. You got buildings you got to rebuild, but you don't got no materials. You know, you, well, big Pimpin here, Captain McGold Chain, he needs a new, he needs a new gold nugget on his finger. So it sucks for you. And I can say that because that may it makes big, fat bank. You want to know how much money that man brings in? This is the thing that amazes me.

It's like waiting for lefty gone wrong. When the little guy fights the big guy oppressing him and then he becomes the big guy to oppress others, I don't dislike unions. I dislike some of these union bosses, though, because they're always in Democrats' back pocket. I've never understood that. How you've got to have a union boss who literally votes for the party that sends your jobs overseas? How do you have any union boss that fights against things like more? It literally fights against by the way he votes, bringing manufacturing home, having more manufacturing based here in the U.S. of A.

I will never understand that. It's like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. I will never get it in all of my life. And I come from, look, I don't need to measure my bona fides against anybody. I come from a Southern Missouri union family. I just don't get it. Why do you sit here and vote for the very thing that is your detriment? That is your peril.

That is antithetical to you live in your best life. I just don't get it. And this guy. I mean, read the damn room, Gold Nugget. Read the room. You got a natural disaster in a number of these states. How are they describing it? Biblical proportions.

The disaster. Biblical proportions. And then this is happening. I mean, it's a major national disaster. disaster. And Captain Gold Chain is demanding a 77% raise plus they want to cut of the containers. You know that, right? That's that they're demanding. Someone told me, well, you know, what their, unions are a service. That's what they're asking for. No, no, no. This is 77% raise plus a percentage of the containers. That's not a service. That's a stick up. And they want a full-on ban on

any and all automation of ports. You know that, right? That's part of the demand. Full ban on automation. Full ban. So sure, let's just refuse to automate our ports and have the United States fall behind every other nation in that regard instead of, I don't know, maybe like working on a plan to grow technology while integrating existing jobs. No, we'll just have a full on ban plus a 77% raise and a percentage of every container. that comes in. Again, that ain't a service. That's a stick up. And it is true. They are demanding for a total ban on any and all automation. Now, not every port has a ban on automation. Some of them, like on the West Coast, they got what they call automation assist. So it's not

full automation, but they require assistance. And so they're integrating jobs in. They're not banning it. They're making sure that their jobs are on pace with their tech. I have less of a problem with that. I have a major problem with, well, let's ban all the automation. That's like McDonald's going, no, we're not going to demand $50,000 an hour for the people who just ring out your fries. A job is a job and there's no shame in a job, but there is shame in demanding more and trying to hold a whole country hostage by demanding more than what the service is worth according to how the market supports it. And to try to kneecap with tech. I mean, they want a total ban of automation.

Not a partial. I'm reading it. Total ban. It's on their website. Their list of demands. Their whole manifesto. Now, the saying that, and they've been, you know, they've been criticized for it. Because what you do is you make it to where you're globally uncompetitive.

We don't need the U.S. falling behind in that regard. So, I don't know. I mean, I'm looking at, you might want to get some. some things. I don't know how long it's going to last. But, you know, and as I was saying, this guy, let me pull this up. Because this is the other thing. How much money did this dude make? This is what I, you always got the little guys and the big guys, right? Little guys and the big guys. And that's like the classic story of little guy worker. And, you know, if you, the old, the old

play waiting for lefty with the, with the reason, you know, people started organizing. You got the big guy pressing the little guy. But then what happens when the little guy becomes a big guy and starts oppressing other little guys. that's the thing this guy daggett he banked just last year alone he got paid over a million dollars over a million dollars last year

well over a million dollars for his total pay it was $1,49,416 approximately this is according to publicly available records because of the ILA local 18041. Then you got the International Longshoremen's Association headquarters. Their paid secretary treasurer, they paid their secretary

treasurer, Stephen Knott's over half a million dollars. He got, he ended up just shy of $800,000 for last year alone. Daggett's son, you know, because we we don't have a monarchy, but we do. Daggett's son. And that nice, we keep that nepotism in the family, just thus defining nepotism. We keep it in the family. Harold Daggett's son, Dennis, he got paid almost, well, he got paid almost $700,000 last year. That's a nice check.

He's the executive rights president of ILA. And then, oh, that's right, Daggett's other son. Well, he's got his family set up real nice, doesn't he? Real nice. Wouldn't you like to have your boys set up like this? I got boys. I'd love to have my boys set up like this. Each of these boys is getting over half a million dollars in pay. Huh. He's also, his son, John works for the union too. Well, isn't that something? He got paid $642,631. And there's a picture of him holding a sign saying profit over people

is unacceptable. And he was at a Democrat event. And that interesting. Profit over people. What do you do? Well, he is the the head of the local, he's the VP of ILA local 18041. And he's a general VP of the ILA Atlantic Coast District. That's what he does. I dare you ask him.

So that's nice. The whole fam family of Daggots are all set up, aren't they? Isn't that something? That family's getting millions of dollars from the longshoremen. Do you all know that? Hmm.

But they will cripple you. Then you got the paid general VP, Wilbert Rowell. Well, he did make, he made, in 20203, he made over $804,000. John Baker. He's the International Longshoremen's Association headquarters. He's a general organizer. All in all, he got 627,761 and 23. And all the 22 unions, because the union has 22 vice presidents, isn't that something?

22 vice presidents. Just on that because they have multiple tasks, they have multiple titles, and you get a check, a six-figure check per title, right? So the union VP title, they all got paid almost $200,000. When we keep going? These people are making fat bank, got the assistant general organizer. He got over half a million. you got, oh, you got this guy.

He's the, oh, another general organizer. He got $762,462. I mean, I couldn't keep going if you all want. Upper management's getting their checks. What's the wages that the folks they're out there supposedly advocating for is what I want to know? I mean, I'm looking at these guys, and I don't think any one of these damn men

who are making six figures have lifted anything heavier than a cardboard box that's empty. If I had to make a guess. But, you know, they will cripple you if you don't give them what they want. Do you think, Cain, that their wages go up if they get the 77% demand and a percentage of the containers and a ban on all automation? What, the average worker? No, no, no. Let's be real.

If this were about the average worker, they would accept the 50% increase and they wouldn't be doing this stuff. Now, they also probably wouldn't be making a six-figure check per title that they got. Exactly. So do you think that their wages, these management wages, are going to go up? Oh, the answer would be hell yes. I wonder how much of that cut they're actually going to get. I love the way that they present this. Like, oh, you individually are going to be getting a cut of this container.

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18 and older. Ninety-six thousand people have used cocaine within the past year. Who is honest about that, by the way? Like who, ringer-ring, hello, would you like to take part in our survey? Have you snorted any cocaine? Well, yes, I snorted a lot of it. Who does that? Yeah, sure have.

Snorting it right now. Bougar sugar. The 96,000 people have used it within the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or Samhasa, for short. The Colorado followed by Vermont? Vermont. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. Vermont.

Like axe cutters and maple syrup. People with their fall vignettes and the flannel shirts and L.L.B. People. Those people. That's that Vermont. Wow. Followed by Rhode Island? I would have not had a single one of these on my bingo card for cocaine. I would not have.

Golly, that's crazy. Well, I don't know what's happening there, but I am. Let's see. Tropical Storm Kirk, who's a real jerk I hear, forms over Atlantic, the Atlantic, expected to become a major hurricane. Got our eyes on that one. AI is stressing the grid. According to Wall Street Journal, it's using three New York City's worth of power. And a 43-foot-tall naked Donald Trump towered over Las Vegas Freeway, according to TMZ.

Somebody put it up. Clearly, they didn't like him. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. You can find us over at, I can find us over at Substack, Chapter and Verse Newsletter, on Channel 347, Direct TV. you can also find us at Rumble. That's where the chat happens. So craziness, we got the strike that's looming. Well, it's here. It's actually here. Now we're going to wait and see how that affects everything from, you know, the price of like construction materials, especially when we're dealing

with the aftermath of Helene. And that's the other thing. FEMA, the big government agency tasked with, you know, gets where part of our tax dollars go to, you know, FEMA, and that's the federal emergency management agency. It's part of Homeland Security. And FEMA is supposed to be there and helping people lead the agency, the lead agency in responding from these natural disasters. And there's been some criticism over FEMA. and I was actually shocked to see that when you look at FEMA's website, you go to FEMA.gov and you look at emergency management, they have a strategic plan that they have posted.

I'm looking at the live website right now. It's a strategic plan posted. And the goal number one, goal number one. Now, keep in mind, it's emergency management. They're the lead federal agency in response. to a crisis, natural disaster. Goal number one, quote, instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. I don't actually know what that means.

They said that, quote, disasters impact people and communities differently. Every disaster occurs within a unique context based on a community's geographic, demographic, political, historical, and cultural characteristics. These unique contexts require tailored solutions that are designed to meet their unique needs. What? So they're saying that specific identity groups suffer disproportionately from disasters. This is Marxism that gets into emergency management. This is literally on FEMA's web page, on their, on their, on their page, like on their main page under emergency management. they think that FEMA assistance can be delivered in an equitable manner. What? Now, they highlight Biden's executive order defining equity as, quote, the consistent and systematic, fair, just, and impartial, impartial.

That's actually the irony there because it's not. Treatment of individuals, blah, blah, blah, race, race, race, you know, LGBT alphabet, all that. So they say that it is the treatment without discrimination, but you literally have to use discrimination in order to be equitable. Whereas equality is the opportunity to achieve a desired outcome. Equity is the guarantee of a desired outcome, meaning that everyone is going to be shoved into the same opportunity. opportunity. Some maybe will be discriminated against based upon variables which they cannot control. This is insane. And this is what we see with FEMA. I'm not, not, it would be remiss to not mention Kamala Harris's flashback audio where she talks, Audio Somebody 8, exactly about this. Listen.

It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity. understanding, not everyone starts out at the same place. And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities. So this is their racial equity community that came up with all this stuff. And I'm, I mean, I'm just amazed at this. I'm amazed at this. And this isn't the first time that they've gotten, and that the criticism before. In fact, Harris's remarks about this, wasn't this in the wake of Hurricane Ian, where she was talking about giving resources based on equity.

Even you had the FEMA administrator at the time and then DeSantis had to go out and destroy people. DeSantis was like, no, no, no. People who need hurricane relief are getting hurricane relief. But it's equity over equality and they're bringing this into, I mean, when you consider FEMA and emergency management, shouldn't the goal number one of the three goals listed on their priorities under emergency management, shouldn't the goal be like, I don't know, like emergencies response? That just seems, I mean, I just, that's just kind of what I think of it. Shouldn't it just be that?

I mean, you're building this Marxist nonsense into our federal agencies that respond to emergencies. This is insane. Equity. Equity requires discrimination to carry out. Because like I said, it is guaranteeing an outcome, whereas equality is, guarantee an equal opportunity. Equity is guarantee an equal outcome. Very different.

That means discrimination is required for an equitable outcome. And it's an equitable outcome regardless of how much work someone puts into it. It's Marxist at its very core. It's truly wild. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of

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