The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: DEI Firefighters

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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the back of the home. The victim said he confronted the guy, it told him that he was armed. And that's when the intruder ran away from the scene before officers arrived. The guy, Antonio Cruz, Appariccio, he was attempting to gain entry into a home. He was yelling for help saying his house was poisoned. They actually had a tasing beginning under control. And they found his wallet at a separate residence. So he got charged, a couple charges, burglary resisting with violence.

Yeah, that's kind of. freaky. Just, I didn't even, I mean, obviously, they probably did a mental health check on him. This, let's see. Oh, I got a couple of other ones. This is, oh, a Florida woman was arrested after she accidentally texted a sheriff's department instead of her drug dealer. That can happen, I'm sure, to people like Octavia Wells, 41 years old. She sent a text message trying to get fentanyl before leaving town. Apparently, though, she accidentally texted an narcotics investigator within the sheriff's office. And, oh boy, the investigator adeptly engaged her in conversation, masquerading as her drug dealer,

arranged to meet with her. She went to the gas station thinking she was meeting her drug dealer. And instead, she was met with a team of investigators. And she was taken into custody because they charged with a whole bunch of stuff. and I don't know if buying with the intent to distribute was part of it, but this, let's see, a couple. There's a Lee County man that got in trouble for slashing tires following a road rage incident. 37-year-old Matthew Tobler.

He was slashing tires of a vehicle, according to Lee County Sheriff's office, and he was making obscene gestures, hand gestures at nearby motorist. and when a victim said that he, why would you approach the vehicle? There was an incident, a vehicle, the victim approached that Tobler's vehicle. He got out of the car, began threatening him with a knife, and then started slashing his tires before leaving the scene. So they were able to take, I mean, what the hell is wrong with, what is, I'm going to tell you what? People can't drive, that is for sure. I've got some stories. I actually have a story that happened to me over Christmas that I'll share when I'm able to share it.

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personally seen hundreds of homes burn. What were they doing just recently? Audio somebody 11. This is what they were doing. This is how the city was handling stuff. Listen. I'm super inspired. She took time out of her already busy schedule

to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity. People ask me, well, what number are you looking for? I'm not looking for a number. is never enough. Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now. She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose,

attracting the best and brightest for the job. They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team. The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community. That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, oh, I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. Oh, man. Things that I would rather say right now that I can't. I mean, you know, they could be focusing on firefighting and stuff, but, you know, it's California, specifically L.A.

We got to make sure that we include people who have sex a certain way in our hiring process. Like, are they, is it like a job for firefighters or are they also who, hookers. I don't understand. Yeah, like how, why does that have any impact on that? Why does that, why is that a consideration on the job? You know, my bosses don't care that I love cilantro. They don't care. They wouldn't care if I dislike cilantro. It's not a thing, right? It's just some, it's just a preference. This, this idea that this is somehow, you have to include this into firefighting.

I just, I don't understand it. Does it make them fight the fires a better way? Like, do gay, does a gay dude fight a fire better than a dude who's not gay? Like, is how well you fight fires predicated upon how you,

you know, get it out privately? Like, I'm curious. Is there something I don't know? Is there a study? Yeah, I don't think even straight people don't have an advantage over,

gay people in that regard because that doesn't matter to your firefighting skills. I am made of jokes right now. It's taking everything I have. All of my self-restraint right now. All of them. The fact that we're arguing this part of it to me

is beyond absurd. I mean, this is stuff they were doing just a few months ago. Yes, it's very important. You know, got your first... I don't care if the fire chief is alphabet. I don't care. Can you... I don't know, fight fires.

It's very important that we get a fire chief who likes tail. It's very important. And that it's a chick who likes tail. It's very important. And this does what concerning the impact of fighting fires? Absolutely nothing. Then why is it an issue? I, this is what's so confusing coming from, you know, my perspective as someone who was a teenager in the 90s and a young adult going into the early odds.

I was always told, like the rhetoric that we always heard is that what happens behind closed doors is none of your business and stay out everybody's private lives. But now it's like the doors are flung open and they're having a housewarming party in their bedroom and you're forced to attend and applaud. That's what it's what it's like now. And I just, it's so hypocritical. and it is completely fair to bring these things up and point this out because the fact that that was like a huge goal for them do you know they don't have enough firefighters Adam Carolla was just saying what he reiterated the story that he shared a couple of years ago that he had tried to be a firefighter and they told him that he had to wait he was on a wait

list to be considered because he wasn't a minority we don't need any of you white dudes out of fighting fires. Oh my gosh. This is so, it's just so weird. It's so weird. I don't know. I, I'm just, that's what they focused on.

DEI is going to get everybody burnt up. People will burn to death because of DEI. That's exactly what I just, this is just so stupid. So stupid. I was looking at who voted where. So the Palisades, they L.A. Times had a story where you can go and you can read and see on this map that they have.

You go to remove paywall to get around their paywall because I'm not paying them for this stuff. But they were saying that the Palisades, it was pretty close. A lot of them voted for Karen Bass, but barely more of them voted for Rick Caruso. But Karen Bass ended up winning for mayor in L.A. So, I mean, and all the people who were very, very competent, you know, Rick Caruso, a billionaire, very successful real estate developer, understands land management, understands all of it. You know, you would think that you would need somebody like that, particularly with wildfires that have been plaguing the area lately. But no, no, they went with Karen Bass, not even in town when all this stuff happens. Remember how the left lost their minds when Ted Cruz went on a previously scheduled spring break trip during,

ice again a couple of years ago. Karen Bass is legit at an inauguration in Ghana while her town burns, so shut up. And then Cruz didn't even go. He canceled his portion and stayed. Which is stupid. Yeah, and he's, yeah. So stupid.

So I don't know. Meantime, in Seattle, another city being ravaged by progressivism, who would have thought their $20 per hour minimum wage law is forcing all the restaurants to close? There's five more restaurants that are closing, they have a law where they demand that you pay someone over $20 an hour,

$20.76 an hour. And the hospitality industry came out with a prediction that a ton of small businesses will go under as a direct result of that. And so one of those, Belgado Bakery, they posted a sign in its store. They said that they're no longer able to service their customers. they're not able to close that 20% increase in mandated wages and that they're going to have to close their doors. And they're just one of tons of other people, tons of other small businesses that are closing

because they can't handle it. That's because it's stupid. To demand 20 over $20 an hour for this is so stupid. And I say this is someone, I started as a server. My first job was as a server. And I worked every Friday and Saturday night and I made a lot of money and tips and I worked really, really hard. It's an entry-level job and I never expected to be paid $20 an hour mandated. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

You're making the market pay overpay for a lower skill set. And that's exactly. It is. People can get upset about it. But I mean, come on. This is dumb. This is how you get. $70 hamburgers is this kind of stuff right here.

Because people then bitch and moan about capitalism, they don't account their cost into the capitalism. When you are forcing businesses and why stop at $20? When you're forcing businesses to pay, where do you think that cost is coming from? The business doesn't exist just to tickle your jimmies. They don't exist just to, you know, make you happy. It's a business. They're going to pass the cost on.

That's just how, and why stop, like I said, why stop a $20 an increase in $20? Why don't you give them $50,000 an hour? If you really love the poor. If you love the poor so much, you'll give them your salary. Notice how none of those people ever volunteered to do that. Just, it's killing businesses there. But that's people voted for it. And they'll probably continue to vote for it.

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Well, since that time, Trump ain't even in office yet. We can't. He's not even in office yet. That's Akeem Jeffries. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash with you. I mean, I think I didn't, I don't want expansionism. I didn't vote for expansionism.

I voted for America first. And I feel like right now, if it's not anything that we voted for, it's not one of the animating issues around which everyone coalesced, then it's, needs to be kicked to the back of the list right now. However, I do think it's been funny to watch. I'm torn because I keep thinking, gosh, this is, it's just, let's focus. But I also think it's funny. I think it's funny because after Trump started talking about it, I don't know what the Danes thought they were doing. But King Frederick, has it, wait a minute, has he been the one? Hold up. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Is this the guy who got in trouble with his wife? Hold up. Oh, it is. So,

the Danish king, if you don't know this, and the only reason I know this is because of the trash British tabloids. So Frederick got caught like two years ago in staying overnight at his Spanish lady friend's apartment. I think they were in Madrid. And they went out and had dinner and did all this and they went back and he didn't leave her apartment until the morning.

Well, they're old friends. You know, how many of you married out there that would fly? How would that fly with? Yeah, just yeah. Uh-huh. Anyway, his wife is Australian, but she speaks the language and she's very well revered in Denmark. Anyway, so they've had some drama. So Frederick, he's the king of Denmark. His mom abdicated the throne. I think her name's Marguerite, so he took over.

And after Trump started talking about all of this, he decided that he was going to change the coat of arms to more accurately reflect Greenland and their important position to the country. So what they did is they made the bear bigger. The Danish coat of arms features a bear, which is the symbol of Greenland and the ram and a symbol of the Faroe Islands. And now the bear's bigger. At first it was just tiny little bears, two little bears in the bottom left panel. And now it's a big giant bear. And they've got the two dudes with the club standing.

I just am fascinated by these. So they updated their coat of arms like, oh, look what we did. We made the bear bigger. That's what show you, Trump. It's not probably the most accurate Danish accent, but it's the best I can do under the circumstances. So I, do you think that's going to, he's, that just seems silly. Is that silly? It's as silly as what Trump is saying, I think, because I don't give a rat's ass about going into Greenland right now.

Can we just like make reciprocity a national thing and lower tax like get rid of taxes? That'd be great. I see his point on national security. If you got Russian and China ships roaring around up there in North America where there would be a national security concern. I don't see it. And I don't think he's ever articulated it as us going in and invading green. Yeah. When the hell did it ever happen that it was a priority?

Like all of a said, we're like, okay, we all voted in November, right? We're going to have, we're going to secure the border. We're going to build the wall, right? Yeah. We're going to build the wall. We're going to make groceries affordable again. We're going to make America healthy again. We're going to bring back Mexican Coke for everybody, not the booger sugar, but the soda.

And then he's like, yeah, okay, what the best I can do is Greenland. The pawn stars. And we're all scratching our heads like, what the hell? I didn't, Greenland wasn't, I'm checking notes. It wasn't on the list. Well, I know that the Article 1, Section 8 of our Constitution definitely lays out the responsibilities of these our federal government.

I think if you're going to make that argument, they got to make the case and prove it to the area of people. That was my next point. If he's not contextualizing, why? Because we're small government. Why are we expanding government? This is expansionism. Yeah, this is expansionism. So he's got to contextualize why this is important and why this falls under the

purview of, you know, the executive branch here as it relates to article one, section 8. I sure as hell don't want Canada. No offense, Canadians. We got some of you that, listen, I like you guys. And I like that Pierre Polaire. I like him a lot.

But I don't want Canada. I don't want it. There's nothing I want up there. Nothing I want. I don't want the damn liberalism. I don't want the crap health care. I don't want all those damn liberal votes. I don't want Canada.

Don't want Canada. Don't want it. None of it. Don't. Don't. They got good syrup. And Canada's not a victim. I mean,

Newfoundland. What? They've got good lumber and. good syrup. I don't care about the syrup. I don't even like pancake syrup. I don't even like maple syrup. I don't like it.

It's weird. The hell are you saying? It's tree juice. It's weird. You don't like maple syrup? No. No. I forever.

Hate. I'm going to be looking at you through a different lens. I'll eat a pancake plain. I won't put nothing on it. I'm not looking at you the same now for some reason. Give me a fruit compote, you know. But I don't want to. no syrup on it. It's weird. It's like, would you

like some diabetes? I want to pour some diabetes juice all over your pancake, all over your carbs. Yeah. I'm not so sure that maple syrup gives you diabetes, does it? It has sugar. It's like all sugar. Yeah, but it's not like bad it's like refined. It's made of sugar and crack. Of all the sugars that exist, it's not the worst one out there.

It's pretty bad though. Like what you don't need it? You don't need it. It's just why do we eat it? I don't get like what the hell did we do some of the stuff that we do? We're nut milk. It's weird. It's not milk. It's just dirty nut water. That's all it is, right? Like, it's all weird. It's all weird. Why do we do? We are so, no wonder the aliens stay hidden. How I wouldn't want to be like these, oh, I want these people to be my friend. Have you seen us? We're a weirdos. No. I mean, I'm a human and I'm like, ugh. No, thank you. Anyway, back to this. I just love this little Danish king,

this little light in his loafers looking feller, who's like, I'm going to change the coat of arms. I give you to bed. A bay's bigger now. You can't take Greenland's a bay is bigger. Someone asked, by the way, we have a...

Lorraine informs me we have a good kind of a raid happening in the show chat, which happens in Rumble, by the way, which you can join. Someone asked if Greenland's going to get named Mara Igloo. A little he cave? I don't know. A little he glue. It's a he glue.

I mean, I just am not interested in the expansionism. But I do think it's hysterical that they're like, oh, yeah, well, we change our quotes of arms. Most Americans are like, the hell is a coat of arms. What? What is that even? Like, oh, you made the bear bigger. Nobody knows what that means except those people, right? Like, that's not going to do it. That doesn't create a match. force field around Greenland. Oh, we can't touch them because they made the bear bigger on the coat of arms. There's no more Vikings anymore. Stop. No one's afraid. Good heavens. But I don't want,

I don't really think. I don't care. And renaming the Gulf of Mexico, is that going to make the IRS go away? Because if it does, then I'm all for it. I'm just interested to find out how much. We should call it the Gulf of F off is what we should call it. What? Well, if we're going to rename it, why not name it the Gulf of America? And by the way, how much work does that actually take? I want to name it something scary so no one wants to come through it. Like the Gulf of their straight up monsters here. That's the Gulf of it.

Gulf of death. The Gulf of death. Just saying. What were you going to say? I was going to ask, like, how much effort really goes into renaming it? Like, are we really, like, wasting a ton of time because we decided to rename the Gulf? To Gulf of America? And who do you go to do that?

Who do you, like, do you? Is there like a, is there an old man who lives up in a mountain somewhere and you've got to climb all the steps and be like, I would like to change the name of this golf? How does that work? I think you just declare it and then the agreement of others makes it so. Well, then why can't we just constantly declare stuff? I think we do. I don't think that's how that works. I think there's a lot of declarations over the years and a lot of them go against science.

So you're telling me the next time I'm fishing out in the Caribbean if I come across an island that no one else is on, mindsies? Why not? I mean, until their military shows up. I don't know. Well, if it's somebody's, then yeah, I guess so. But what if it's, is it somebody's, I mean, you're talking about squatting. If it's nobody's, then you've got to deal with, you know, entities like China. I'm all for saying that the Gulf is ours.

Pirates. Yeah, pirates aren't as cool as they used to be. No. I'm all for saying that the Gulf is ours, right? Because we're the, it's ours. Like, we're all over there and we're bigger than everybody else. So, you know, step off. But what does it accomplish?

Wasn't it the Gulf of Pensacola at one point? I don't know. I didn't know that. I thought it was named the Gulf of Mexico, and that's our first recorded naming of that area. It's called the Gulf of your mom and just use that as an insult to every, you know, tyrant, every foreign tyrant. It would be a waste of time if government was doing what you're saying. I just don't know how, like, what that does. Again, if you're like, Dana, do you know that all you have to do to accomplish all these things that you voted for,

it's just change the name of the damn Gulf woman, just do it. And I'd be like, okay, I'm convinced. I want to see that magic happen. I'm totally convinced. But right now, you know, I just don't know. I just don't. But I sure as hell don't want Canada. All right.

Okay. I don't want them. But I envision Trump having his daily list like this to do, this honey-do list every day from his day one. You know what I mean? And I think like number 12 on that list is probably rename in the Gulf. I don't know. I do think it's funny that Denmark decided to immediately give Greenland a whole bunch of money for defense. I don't know if you guys saw this.

But hang on, who pulled this up? This is hysterical. So Denmark, after Trump was saying all this stuff, they boosted Greenland's defense after Trump started talking. So they sent a package that they said was in the double-digit billion amount. In Kron, the Danish defense, Minnesota. troll salons pulsing. That's not, I know, I'm doing the best I can with the Danish side. I can't do it. Everything

sounds like that guy from the Frozen movie. It's a double digit billion amount. It's only a fate. So they're, they, they said that they're, we're planning all of a sudden a stronger presence into Arctic, is what they're saying. So they're including

increasing staffing at Arctic Command and the capital of Newk, which is right where junior went. I can't do a Danish accent. I can do like 10 accents really well. And that's about it. This is not one of them. They said that it's going to be about $12 to $15 billion or Kron.

And it was the day after Trump was trolling about it on truth social. So now all of a sudden they just decided, oh, we're just going to boost the defense here. It's old. I don't know But is I'd not say What if that was the goal Everything is so stupid and crazy

What if it was the goal Because if that was the goal To get these nations to spend more on their own defense Then why not just threaten all of them with taking them over And then they'll be like Oh yeah We'll spend all these NATO nations We'll suddenly start contributing more to their self-defense

So they don't have to be our welfare children anymore I'm just saying You know I don't know I don't know. I just, I just, let's just accomplish what we need to accomplish now. And then later, you know, but changing the coat of arms is hysterical. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.