The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Funeral Lip-Reading

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

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Dana Lashes of Surr Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Florida Man Dylan Brewer from Clearwater Beach was sentenced to probation and community service for vandalizing a graffitied crosswalk in Delray Beach. So it's a graffiti crosswalk. They vandalized the crosswalk and made a pride flag on it, and then he vandalized the vandalism, and he got in trouble. They said that he performed a burnout on the crosswalk, and that's why he was charged. Someone charged him for driving and burning out on a crosswalk, specifically because they painted the crosswalk with pride colors.

They revoked as license for a year. He's got 12 months probation and 150 hours of commute. community service. That's the dumbest stuff I've ever heard of. That is so stupid. That is so stupid. So, someone should give him Uber for a year. So goofy. Let's, I mean, it's, it's, it's, you're vandalizing a city street. You can't van you, you, you can't get in trouble for vandalizing somebody else's vandalism. That's so dumb. A Florida man ordered about $500 in food without pain at two separate restaurants. And I, that's a lot of food. Pult County, Florida. He ordered $500 in food and drinks at two separate restaurants in less

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And you can also get on the inside track so you can be made aware when they drop new stuff. Innovation Performance, Keltec, K-E-L-TEC, Keltecweapons.com. I started the year as the would-be Democratic presidential nominee, and we all know what happened after that. Again, you didn't see a particularly warm greeting between the first couple and the second couple, but again, we are at a funeral, so one has to take that into account. Oh, they're not all so super sad that they can even greet each other cordially. That's Jake Tapper, who's narrating, because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they did not like seeing any. other at Jimmy Carter's funeral. And it's like you could not even act for five seconds. You couldn't act for the cameras for five seconds when you walked in and took your seat.

You couldn't do that for five seconds. Just, it was weird watching all of that. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the bottom of this third hour. Or sorry, second hour. And I'm, and if you're tuning in, there's no video today because Texas is covered in ice. We had a thick layer of ice laying down and then a big oh thick layer snow and it's not safe for the crew to drive in because the roads are horrific. So everybody stay safe out there. And of course we're praying for everybody and whose homes are being burned down. It's horrible. The funeral for Jimmy Carter, you had all of the presidents, all the surviving presidents that go in, they sit in the order of when they took office.

And you had the pences who were sitting next to Gore and then Trump and Molon and Milon. come in and they shook hands with Gore and Pence who rose to greet them. Karen Pence stayed seated. She did not look at Melania, nor did she look at Trump. And then they took their seats. And then you had Obama come in and he didn't shake Trump or Melania's hand, but he briefly kind of, you know, acknowledged them. And then he shook Mike Pence and Karen Pence's hand and then Al Gore. And then he sat down. And then the Bush. And then the Bush. has come in. And George Bush comes in and wraps Obama on the stomach just doesn't even look at the Trump's. And then he goes and greets the Pence's and Al Gore. And then the Clintons come in. And everybody

greets each other except for Trump and Melania. It's so weird. So the only people, it was Mike Pence and Al Gore and Obama that were actually the nicest. And we're actually greeting and greeted. Trump and Melania. And it was weird to watch because it seemed like Obama and Bush were the kind of joyful ones, you know? They were the ones that looked kind of joyful and happy and relaxed and normal. Everyone else looked like they had a except, and Trump did too. But, you know, in terms of how people were treating him and Melania, everybody else kind of looked stiff.

It was weird. But the Bush just did not acknowledge the Trumps at all. I think Bush is still angry because Jeb, exclamation point, was supposed to be, remember, he was supposed to be the next in line. It didn't happen that way. He was the next in line. He had an open path. And it didn't work out. It didn't work out that way because Republicans, you know, you can't give us more of the same if you're not, you don't change anything.

I mean, Republicans were part of the immigration problem, part of big spending, part of all of it. So it's a very, very, very interesting thing to see. with all of that. So this, um, and watching it, I'm just, it, you can tell that they didn't like each other. Kamala and, uh, what's his name? We don't have to remember his name any much longer. Uh, the second lady. Doug. Doug. Uh, what's, what's her husband's name? Kamla Harris's his husband's name? Doug Imhoff. Oh, that's right. Doug Emhoff. The second lady or dude or whatever the hell, they come in and she's just stony-faced. And then the Bidens, nobody's greeting anybody.

They did not look to be like they were happy, sitting next to each other. They didn't acknowledge each other. How do you walk into a few? I don't care if it's a funeral. How do you walk into a funeral and you're walking into an aisle like a pew? And you're sitting next to people, the people who are your vice president. And you don't even acknowledge them. They didn't acknowledge them the entirety of the service.

it is so wild. They hate each other. And Hillary Clinton just recently learned how to style her hair again. So she's got this big bouffant 80s hair going on. Steve, you saw her hair, right? Yeah, well, let you kind of roll her a bit. I mean, it's wild. It's gotten bigger.

She keeps her secrets in it. I don't know. It's gotten bigger. It's a lot of those. But they, she just had like this weird, not a smile. I don't know how to describe it. It was this weird expression just plastered on our face.

And Bill Clinton, he's kind of like Obama and Bush. They're just sort of laid back and they can kind of hang together. I think they purposefully also, I know that they sit them in order that they've served, but I really think that all the organizers were glad that they weren't sitting the Bushes next to the Trumps and that Obama was the buffer. I think Obama had to take one for the Bushes because the Bushes can't stand the Trumps. It's just so fascinating to watch all of the little pettiness play out because you don't really get these sorts of, you don't get these public displays like this very often. And so when you get them, it's completely acceptable to Zuprooter level analyze them.

And I just, I keep watching it. Did anything stick out to you, Steve, when you were watching this? My favorite part was there was a moment that C-SPAN caught where Trump kept whispering jokes to Obama and Obama kept laughing at him. and then you see the camera pan out and Kamala turns over her left shoulder, sees them laughing, and then turns right back around with like a pout and looks at Doug.

It was the best. Wow. Yeah, he was cracking up. I want to know what he said. Wasn't there, I think there were like lip readers or something. Oh, I can't wait for that. Oh, my gosh.

That's going to be great. But I don't know. I just, I did the whole thing. It was very interesting. But it was, yeah, when Bush came in, it was like he skipped in.

And he, They all acted like they were running late. When the Bushes came in, they like barreled over. And Obama stood up. The Trumps didn't. And he, Bush wrapped Obama like in the abdomen. Because he and Obama apparently could along very well. And it's just very fascinating.

I'm watching some of this now. I'm super fascinated by all of this. Do the Bushes and the Trumps have beef? I don't know. Bush and the Trumps? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They think that.

So Jeb was. going to be the guy and then Trump made fun of him. And then just ripped it right out of his hands. Remember that? They are, they, they, they did not like him for that. They did not like him for that at all. I mean, it went so far that W would even defend Obama from Trump's criticisms. He, he kept saying that he wasn't going to get super political and politicize anything.

And I don't know. Maybe there's other stuff that they know that we don't, but I don't know. It was just very interesting. And then when the Clintons came, Bush stood up for the Clintons, as Hillary and Bill approached. And Trump and Melania just stay seated. And I thought it was interesting. Obama stayed seated when Hillary walked up too.

Because Obama and Hillary don't like each other. They never have liked each other historically. I feel like we're sitting at the lunchroom table and we're gossiping about people. And it's so worth it. Because you never get these displays like this ever. You never get to see stuff like this ever. And then all, and it is really hard. I think when you get old like that too, one of the things my grandmother told me is that as she got

older, she had less energy to pretend to like people that she didn't want to like. And I always thought that was hysterical when I was younger. But that now, you know, I get it. Like, as you, as you get older, you just don't have time for the nonsense. And I, and I think that all plays out. I don't know if Biden knew where he was. I don't know. But Obama and Trump were cutting up. And it was funny. It's our friends who have we're at all family pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so. easy. All family pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because, you know, right on Thanksgiving, when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it's just, it's a mess,

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They filed it against the commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. And the law wouldn't do affect January 1st. They're trying to say it's unconstitutional and unenforceable. The Forever Chemicals that are in the district that are in the cookware. And the law is banning the sale and distribution of such cookware. And it covers, you know, everything from rugs, cookware, all kinds of stuff. So they said that it imposes a burden on, interstate commerce and discriminates against out-of-state commerce and as a result, it violates

the Commerce Clause in the Constitution. So that's the angle that they're going for to try to stop that ban. This, Girl Scouts are retiring two cookie flavors. The s'mores, and I don't even know that these existed. I haven't bought Girl Scout cookies since they're Planned Parenthood stuff because I just thought it was inappropriate for young girls selling cookies to be, you know, for them to have an association with Planned Parenthood. But they said that they are discontinuing those. I didn't even know there was the smores and the toastier cookie.

If it's not thin mint, it's trash. Thin mint or the no, just thin mint. If it's not that it's trash. So they are discontinuing those. Let's see. This ooh, 200 aggressive monkeys. There's a war that has been launched on them.

The macaques monkey that's in Thailand, they have a huge problem with us. They're actually violent and bitey. And they and they steal people's stuff. It's crazy. So they've tried a sterilization campaign, but apparently that didn't get them

the results that they wanted. And so now they're in the second phase of the war, they're planning to neuter 100 of these monkeys. And then they did 122 of them in one district last year. Now they're going to try to establish feeding zones

to prevent them from straying into residential spaces where they've been attacking people and, you know, I just, I mean, why don't they train them? Train them to do stuff. Male strippers are facing extinctions. They said that there were no male strippers booked for, in Britain. There was not a single male stripper, apparently, that was booked for a bachelor party or any.

I just, women are not like dudes. And they said that bookings for those experiences increased elsewhere, but not for dudes. I wanted to switch gears here. We've got to talk about why are all the lesbians in California named Kristen? I think they have to be. Lorraine found this interesting thread specifically on these fire chiefs. And, I mean, I don't care if they're all lesbians named Kristen. I just think it's hysterical that they are all lesbians named Kristen.

The first fire chief that they have, a gay woman, Kristen Crowley. And then they have their assistant chief for the fire department, Kristen Kepner. She went to the Harvard Kennedy School for managing diverse organizations. I don't even know what that means. She apparently was accused of beating her girlfriend. I don't know. And then there's the first, I don't know what, what is an equity bureau chief? What the hell does it have to do with fire?

The co-founder of Equity on Fire, it's the Los Angeles Fire Department. Department's Equity Bureau Chief, the first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief, she makes $39,000 a year. I think for $399,000 a year, a lot of people would pretend to be gay and interested in equity. I am amazed at this. They're all named Christine or they're all named Kristen, all of them. And then you get to the Los Angeles Fire Department training commander. now I will say this chick does look like a legit dude Jamie Brown she stands out because her name isn't Kristen

so there the entire Los Angeles fire department is a bunch of old white lesbians with the exception of the one lesbian whose name is still Kristen right I don't even

I golly I cannot even this is I can't even make this up So just to recap, in California, the entirety of the fire department is run by old white lesbians named Kristen with the exception of one black lesbian named Kristen. Did they, like, was that a goal? Did they set out to have them all be like? What is the, what is in the world? And what the hell do you have to have an equity department for?

You're the fire department. You fight fires. That's all you do is fires. you do fires that's it you don't do anything else i just you cannot make this stuff up this is and no wonder they're burning no wonder this is crazy i mean i feel like this oh man now i don't think anybody's arguing that the alphabet stuff has anything to do with the fire what we are arguing is the priorities clearly of Los Angeles. Because while they were allowing the,

I mean, the accumulated record rainfall to just drain into the ocean, they weren't capturing the water. They weren't making sure their hydrants were working. They weren't trying to talk with land management, especially in federal land. Bureau of Land Management comes into play with a lot of that. they did make sure that they checked all the lesbian christen's and checked all those boxes to work in the fire department. That's, you've got to admit, it's weird.

And clearly the priority wasn't on actual fire. They created all of these other, they can't afford to hire more firefighters, but they can afford to pay half a million dollars to someone who's an equity bureau chief, whatever the hell that is. Can anyone explain that one to me? What the hell does an equity bureau chief do? Like, it's so prevalent the equity that you have to have like a whole bureau for it. How do you, what school do you go to for that job? I'm all for women becoming firefighters, but like, be good at it, you know? Yeah, be good at it.

Like, you know, learn how to fight a damn fire and learn when to deploy stuff. So they're apparently, they're also getting criticism because they waited so long to deploy. I'm just, think about that for a minute. When you've got, I think they said it's a thousand feet a second. Just think about that in your head real quick. How fast that is. When seconds count, you can't wait to deploy your fire department. You can't wait.

When seconds count, you cannot wait. So they're getting a lot of criticism. And it's interesting because the criticism is coming from within side. the department that they took too long to deploy. That's a whole other man. You know there's going to be lawsuits. 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.