The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: DNC Day 2: Irony, Lies & Reaction

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

Both Michelle and Barack Obama speak at night 2 of the DNC and ironically trash rich people. Meanwhile, the CNN panel sure had its differing opinions following Obama's speeches.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.  Hillsdalehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit DanaForHillsdale.com to pick your new favorite podcast today on the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.  KelTechttps://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.

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to try to create a side hustle during all the challenging times that we're all living in. He put up flyers at all kinds of hotels, pretending to be a real pizza place, a Roman's pizzeria. But he's not. He's just some other dude who put up a flyer with his phone number. People would call him to order from Romans. He would make a frozen pizza and deliver it and eventually got caught doing this. This is crazy. Here is the real owner of Roman's pizza.

His name is Jesus Roman, talking about how somebody was stealing his business name and giving it horrible, terrible press because of how bad the pizzas were. Bad, uncooked. Sometimes they said in a box, a piece of road dough. And they just give it to them, and they just, by the time they realize that they're done already. When the manager went to confront him in the parking lot, he tried to get away, he almost hit him. Yeah, he tried to run away, hit the guy, he got arrested, he's in trouble now. You can't do that. You can't just put the name of a real pizza place, their logo, and then your phone number on it. But you know, it's kind of scary how easy this was to succeed for a bit, where people just call the number they see on the flyer, order the pizza from. the guy, not really check anything else to see that it makes sense.

And he'd show up with a sometimes frozen, sometimes undercooked, but often just store-bought frozen pizza that he was trying to pass off as Roman's pizzeria. This is nuts. And that's good old Florida. As always we know it. One other Florida story I saw out there that I thought was kind of interesting, a Florida man was busted when he checked in with his probation officer because he was carrying meth with him.

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I kind of hope. But by any chance, are you currently high? And is there currently drugs on you? And the answer was yes. CBS 12 in Florida covered this story. The mugshot of this guy looks exactly like what you think it looks like. He's got both a neck and an eye tattoo,

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ridiculous it is to stand up and cheer for someone that has a net worth of $160 million, multiple homes, all kinds of, you know, high-end elite lifestyle things, telling us that her family was taught at a young age not to take more than they need. You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that striving sense of hope every single day of her life. She believed that all children, all people have value, that anyone can succeed have given the opportunity. She and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of thought. folks who took more than they needed. Like you?

They understood that it wasn't enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. Okay, that's an interesting premise. Again, I'm not going to attack being wealthy in general. That's a thing that's silly to attack. If people are successful in the private sector, in the private world, that's exactly how our system is designed to go. If you have a good idea, you might make a whole bunch of money off of it. But if you wind up working again in politics, serving the people, all of that stuff, for as long as you do, and you're worth $160 million at some point, it makes no sense to me.

So play that game. If you're someone who passionately defends the other side of the aisle as the good guys and thinks of people like Donald Trump as the horrible, terrible, evil people of the world out there, just look up the net worth of your favorite Democrat. You know, I might even make like a card game of this where you flip it over and you find out the net worth of each. democratic individual and then also how little work they've ever done in the private sector or how maybe there's been some, you know, I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine after they get out of the world of politics. But all of this should matter when you're hearing these words from these politicians. Barack Obama said something that was incredible. Incredible because the founding fathers would hate the premise of this statement. The statement being that

the right is making the government into the boogeyman. And of course, we should trust the government. Of course, we should believe in the government. Of course, everything the government does has to be in our best interest. Governments are inherently corrupt. They actually are. And so if you say that they're not, you seem to be screaming out loud. Stop looking at us.

Stop looking into the things that demonstrate all of the crap going on. My favorite is probably, and I hate to say it this, way, but it's probably the only way to say it, all of the Hunter Biden and Joe Biden stuff that's been coming out now that he's no longer running for the Office of President again. I think just the other day, they reported that Hunter Biden, $27 million in money that he made off of his father's name as a politician. The left is not arguing that point. Mainstream media is not arguing that point. Mainstream media is trying to have a stupid win by telling us that the only thing that the that the uh... biden's didn't do was give any of this money to joe biden which sounds

ridiculous but they think that that makes him innocent when it should be irrelevant how much money joe himself put into his own bank account the stupidity of that couldn't be under overstated by the way if you chose to do that i think you would easily understand how how easy it would be to get caught but nonetheless i digress from that i'll move on and say that if you can make $27 million for you and your family off of the name of a politician within your family, then Washington is broken. We don't want that to be a way for people to buy influence or even think they're buying influence, even if they didn't actually buy any influence.

None of that makes any sense to me. It shouldn't be something that we allow. We also shouldn't allow these politicians to play the stock market when they have insider information that, of course, they have. and when Nancy Pelosi is worth millions and millions of dollars and says, we get to play the stock market too, darn it. There's nothing that makes us different than anyone else, and obviously there is. But here's Barack Obama telling you that the right is the side that's convincing you that the government needs to be put in check, needs to be paid attention to. There's no reason, I guess, in his mind, that we have a checks and balances system where the judicial system and the legislative system have to check the executive. branch from time to time, even if they don't do that as well now as they used to. The judicial is

better at it these days than the legislative is. But nonetheless, I love that this is the premise of a statement to not only tell you that I'm a good person. My wife's a good person. Kamala is a good person. Whatever they say, we're the good guys. But also the government itself is just a really nice good guy that you should stop paying attention to and just trust. That's essentially the statement. and it's terrifying that people actually believe it. Now, it won't be easy. The other side knows. It's easier to play on people's fears and cynicism, always has been.

They will tell you that government is inherently corrupt. Because it is. That sacrifice and generosity are for suckers. That's not true. And since the game is rigged, it's okay to take what you want and just look after your own. also not true that's the easy path we have a different task

our job is to convince people that democracy can actually deliver yeah for you and your family and the hundred plus million dollars that you seem to be worth all of this is it's so ridiculous it's so insane and look I'll say this again and it might not be helping me to say this

I guess I don't really care Dana's back tomorrow and if you hate anything that I said of the show I just love the fact that I'm only going to be here for the day. But the Obamas are both good at giving speeches. They are. The speeches themselves, if you wrote them down, if you, you know, reviewed them in, say, Speech 101, these people would both get A pluses on their report card.

They both do a great job. But when you actually dissect the information shared and the narrative that is built, the narrative being that we're the good guys who fight, fight, fight for the little people, whoever they are. And the other side is the bad guys. They love business. They love the elites. They're just horrible, terrible people.

The funniest part about it, and this is the part that's missed on many Americans, I don't mean to repeat this as many times as I am, but I'm going to keep repeating it today. The thing that's missed on most Americans is all of these individuals are the elites. It's like when Hollywood lectures us, when Hollywood yells from the rooftops that we need to do better, that we need to do more. When people got so mad at Oprah Winfrey and I think The Rock for trying to ask you for money to help Hawaii or one of the devastating things that happened over the last few years, during the pandemic and people said, I don't have any money. Maybe you guys, with the money you have, should actually be the ones doing it.

I think this would wake up a lot of younger voters, because older voters probably do know this, what I'm saying. But younger voters might not pay attention to the net worth of all of the individuals that they listen to, that they believe in, that claim that they're essentially reincarnations of Mother Teresa. And when they're not, and when they made all their money in the dirtiness of D.C., you should start to realize how their narrative is built entirely to convince you to vote for them and not at all built in fact. And our partners that help bring you free radio Caltech, the P15, lightest, as thinnest, 9mm on the market, double stack mag ships with two of them. You've got a 15 round and a 12 round capacity. The 15 is, I mean, you're not losing any of that stopping power.

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That's right. First on the Quick Five, I thought this was interesting. I feel like some of these studies come out just to make you feel like you don't have to try harder in your life. But a study claims that arts and crafts will boost happiness more than a good job. Well, I don't believe this to actually be true. And maybe there's some sort of weird solace in like, oh, I'm enjoying arts and crafts right now. But I think a good job, probably. probably helps more. But nonetheless, it's out there. It's a study.

They're claiming to know these things. So you can believe it if you want. I also saw this in the Wall Street Journal. Teens don't want their license as much as past generations did. This makes absolutely no sense to me. I literally remember the day I got my license and how excited I was, how desperate I was to have it, and all the places I started to go on my own with the beat-up junk car that I think was a hand-me-down that I was given, which to me was the best vehicle.

ever owned in my entire life. A Mazda 323. I think like in 1986, Mazda 323 with a crank sunroof and a lot of broken pieces. That's the first car that I drove and it was awesome. Again, it was just barely older than I was or younger than I was at the time that I got it. Anyway, teens don't want to drive. It's changing how they spend money and I can't make any sort of sense of that at all. Get your license kids. You're going to love it. You're going to love the freedom of it. I don't know why they don't want freedom. Another thing out there that I saw, Kentucky school changed their bus route. And so kids made up a hip-hop song where they got upset that they didn't know where their bus was.

I think I have a little bit of this. I think we can try to play it here. Yeah, she's going to keep going for a while. But these little middle school kids objected to their bus route being changed by putting out a song, Where My Bus at? It might actually hit the top 100, which will be very sad for a lot of us, but very amusing for these kids. I'm not sure if it's going to help the school decide to change their mind and fix the bus route and put it back the way it was. But I guess some children don't know how to go

to school now. And I'm sure they're not all that upset about it. They're probably pretty happy that they can't get that route. The average person also knows if their day has been ruined at 836 a.m. That's one last stat out there that I love. So the next time you're thinking about this and it's just a little after 8 o'clock, you're right if you think that it's a bad day or a good day. CNN has its panel talk about stuff. Van Jones was overly praising the Obamas and how amazing they are and how much he misses them, which is interesting because Kamala Harris won't be able to get the same level of support in at least the way in which she delivers a speech. But here's another moment from CNN that I thought was pretty valuable to so many of us. Here we go. In all these speeches, as good as they were, is that she's in the White House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years.

For all of the talk about division and the problems in the country and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country. Trump had it for four. The Obamas and Biden had it for the rest of the time. And somehow, it's still all Trump's fault, and somehow she hasn't been at the center of it. So to me, that's still the glaring hole in this campaign. Has it yet been solved at the convention? No, it hasn't been solved at the convention

because they're also crediting Harris every time they talk about the Biden and Harris administration in a beneficial way. Anything they say they do, any bill that they got passed, any legislation. And again, this is something that Biden would hang his hat on and say is the reason why you should think of him as a good president.

He got things done, at least according to him, not that many of the things he got done actually were done very well. There were a whole lot of mistakes there. But now apparently there Harris things too. but if it's anything bad, anything negative, the economy itself, Harris the other day, complaining about the prices of stuff, which is amazing to listen to her say because you're in the White House now. And if Biden has been shoved to the corner as much as he has been, you think you have even more power now than you had before. But nonetheless, it's just sort of amazing to hear those things stated in that kind of conversation, as if she's both in power and not in power, depending on what the discussion is. And I think that's one of the other big reasons that she also skipped last night,

is that the Biden, the Obama's excuse me, were there to talk about all the great job they did when they were in office and how much the Democratic Party loves them, even if they didn't really do that great of a job well in office, as demonstrated by that point just made there, that if things are bad, if division exists, you know what I'll say this to. One of my other favorite narratives that exist in politics and is all over the DNC for the first two nights and probably will be again tonight and we'll be again tomorrow, is that there's division in our country.

Now, they say there isn't at times. And Obama even said there wasn't, that we're all actually Americans, we're all connected, but they say there's division. And yet they take no responsibility for developing that division. You have people like President Biden saying that MAGA Republicans are horrible, terrible people. Essentially, there are a threat to society itself, that January 6th and all the supporters of Trump are going to upend democracy as we know it. They're going to ruin everything.

They're going to riot. They're going to kill people. Whatever it is, they say, whatever the boogeyman might be. And then they go on a microphone and they're like, and by the way, there's a lot of division and we don't understand it. I've told this story before. I'm going to tell it again here. I don't know if I've ever told it filling in on Dana's show,

but it's one of the more amazing moments in my own personal career where I realized just how insane someone on the left can be. So I was working at a radio station that wasn't exactly politically on one side. They said they were in the middle, but all the shows were allowed to say whatever they wanted. I did my show my way, and some of the other shows I worked with did shows differently and didn't like some of the stuff I said on the radio. It was not exactly a fun time to be at a radio station where there was that much weird division within the talent themselves. And this was a while ago for anyone that has heard me in more recent places. But nonetheless, I fill in on a show

with a host, a host I didn't work with before, who's also our news person at the time. She was the news director and a co-host of a morning show. And right before the show starts, and this is right at the beginning of the pandemic, when a whole lot of people, especially on the left, were terrified that if you got COVID, you would definitely die. But this person tells me, like the bump song is playing. We're getting ready to start the first hour,

the first segment of a morning show that I wake up early for. And she says, oh, by the way, just so you know, if I were to get COVID, I would find the closest Trump rally so I could give it to them and kill as many of them as possible. And she said it in this weird, I'm kind of joking, but I'm really not way, and sort of smiled at me as she said it. And then I had to start talking because the music ended. And the whole first segment, the back of my brain is like, holy crap, that was insane. But I just, but I shouldn't talk about it.

I should have outed her, actually, but I tried to be nice. They were my coworkers. I didn't change my opinion, by the way. Her attempt to silence me failed, even though she said she was going to kill people. But I can't tell you the amount of liberal people that I've either worked with or know who have a similar sentiment that they think that the opposite side of the aisle, the people who support Donald Trump or are willing to vote for him, even if they don't love everything he's ever said or done in his life, whatever it might be, are evil. They're terrible. They're racist. They're sexist. They're the worst of the worst in our society. And they deserve to be handled with vitriol. They deserve to be handled with screaming and yelling. This is something that a lot of times. Democrats believe. A lot of that room of people when they hear division, what they hear, in my opinion, is where all the rational sane people and that other side of the aisle, the side that's voting for Trump, those people are terrible. And if they could just be smart like us and vote for our side,

then we'd like them. But if they don't, then we're going to keep hating them. Division isn't fixed. This is a weird thing to get up on a soapbox and say, but I'm going to say it, darn it. Division isn't fixed by having a uniform opinion. That doesn't fix the world we live in. That's what they preach. That's what Democrats want. They want everyone to believe the same thing, to be comfortable in a room because they all say the same thing. Division is actually fixed by accepting the differences in others. Accepting that the opinion on the other side does exist. It exists probably more prominently than you want it to. And the best way to discuss it is to actually talk about it and not try to silence it. But that's something they don't care about. More than half the country votes a certain way

in elections in which people decide who wins the White House and who doesn't. And if the conservative wins, I know, the electoral college makes my point a little less perfect. But nonetheless, the way in which it works is one side wins, one side loses. And I don't know why Democrats ignore that because Trump won in 2016. Many people believe he won in 2020. He got the most votes of any sitting president in the history of the country. Even if I don't go, the whole, was there cheating or not? And yet most Democrats will act like five out of a hundred people are actually Trump supporters or MAGA supporters.

And that's so inherently flawed. And the best way to fix division is to accept that someone doesn't think like you and it doesn't make them an evil pile of crap. And honestly, I've said this a bunch before. And sometimes I get attacked on my social media for saying it. But I don't care. Bring it all over again if you want to. I think that the narrative within the Republican Party, within the conservative party, is that Democrats are kind of dumb. uh... democrat supporters are not as smart as as conservatives it's not

nice to think that but it's not evil how you think yourself you're naive you you want things that can't happen or you want things that would cost so much money that they'd cause more good are they'd cause more bad than good whatever it might be but this is the conversation i have a lot when you talk to a conservative a conservative about supporters of the other side is that they think that there's something they're not seeing that they should see that would open their eyes and make them vote a different way it's the old if you have a heart you vote Democrat when you're younger, and if you have a brain, you vote conservative when you get older.

Now, conservatives, according to Democrats, are Satan. I don't know how to say that differently. They're evil incarnate. They're sexist, racist, whatever they might be. There's something horrible. And that's a through line. That's the whole, I don't understand how people can vote for Donald Trump, because they must be as horrible as I think he is. And I think that's very interesting. The core statement, the core thing that you preached, your side of the aisle is going to influence how, say, divisive they are with the other side. Democrats saying that the other side is evil is more divisive than Republicans saying the other side

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