The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Hegseth's Hectic Hearing

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida, man. All right. So first up, some of these are so inappropriate.

It's ridiculous. Let's start. Well, I got one that was for just regular thefts, and then I got a guy who stole a cross. I just feel like that's, if you do that, you're going to get in trouble with the Lord. It just feels like a guy stole a giant cross from a Pensacola church and he was caught with it at a Tennessee motel in Sumner County.

It was early December he got caught with it. Wednesday night at a Tennessee motel. Jacob Vanderberg, 31 is facing charges of theft, trespassing, and robbery. He stole it from the St. Paul Catholic Church on Hyde Road. And he said that he was just looking for Jesus. Put the Big O Cross in his van and took off. and they found him at a country in motel and they were able to get it back to the

you know to the church the church was looking for it you know came off the front of the church so wouldn't like a little necklace it was a big O'Cross of all the things to steal why like why that one I don't know a Lakeland man was arrested for being a pervert at a playground

golly and he looks like one too Polk County Sheriff's Office they arrested this 56 year old freak in Lakeland. He was at a park having self-time, and he shouldn't have been. It was bad. Intimate self-time. I don't know how else to say it.

And in front of full view of kids. And he has two previous convictions for doing the same thing. He was arrested. He's being held in $10,000. Bond, third degree felon. because he goes to where kids are and does this. What is the argument against just, you know, taking him off of this plane?

Where's the argument against that? I don't see any good ones. So he's going to be, if they don't do something about this guy, this guy's going to molest a kid if he hasn't already, honestly. This South Florida man was accused of calling in a bomb threat to the police department. That's a great way to get yourself arrested.

He called and hung up at 8.42 in the morning. There's a bomb in your parking lot. they had the whole shut down the whole block cordoned off for the day the close the parking garage evacuate police headquarters they found no hazards nothing and then they reopened everything later that day uh they found him though in palm beach county he called from a medical facility uh they detained him and they booked him in palm beach palm beach county sheriff's office i just want to know like how why would you why you would do that did he want to go to jail because it's a great way to go to jail. If you want to go to jail, calling a bomb threat to the police, they'll totally take you to jail.

Let's see here. This, um, we've got, oh yeah, there's this one. This is wild. This is a sad story. A neighbor was taking down his Christmas lights and he found, he spotted as he was taking his Christmas lights down, a body in the pond by his house in a retention pond. That's so sad. Bradley Sugar, 48 was reported missing January 7th, found dead January 12th, according to Collier County Sheriff's office. His mother reported him missing. She said that she got a frantic call from him. He sounded out of breath, but he said he was out of medication. His house was in disarray. They couldn't find him five days later. Neighbors taking out Christmas lights and finds him floating in the retention pond. So they think that they're just trying to figure out what happened to him. I mean, good heavens.

It's just so sad, incredibly sad. A Florida driver who's blood. His alcohol levels, his blood alcohol limit were six times the legal limit. Good night. He was found with tons of a dozen empty wine bottles strewn across the floor of his car. His blood alcohol content was over six times the legal limits. Wait a minute. If 0.08 is the limit, six times that is 0.48, which is almost half? So half your blood is alcohol?

Wow. What? The Haines City Police got a 911 call about an unresponsive driver, and they found him Miguel Rodriguez, unconscious behind the wheel, car in gear, engine running, foot on the brake. So they parked their patrol car in front of his, so he would lurch into traffic. They couldn't wake him up.

They had to break the passenger side window because he had it locked to put the car in park and remove the keys. That's when they found 12 opened and totally consumed bottles of wine. And he was, like, drifting in and out of consciousness. They took him to the hospital. Yeah, that's where he had, it was a more than that, point 523, Kane. How do you survive? That's God's work.

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performance, innovation performance, KELTEC, KELTEC Weapons.com, KELTECWeapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you. You're telling me I did not miss a Democrat actually asking a question about war fighting. I actually have audio from Crazy Herono. She just recently... Did she ask a question about war fighting? Ooh, we can hear it and you can't... Really?

You can determine if that's what she was asking about. All right, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Play this nightmare. As Secretary of Defense, you will swear an oath to the Constitution and not an oath to any man, woman, or president. Correct?

Senator, on multiple occasions, including as a young second lieutenant, I have sworn an oath to the Constitution and I'm proud to do so. Yes, ma'am. In June of 2020, then President Trump directed former Secretary of of defense, Mark Esper, to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown D.C., an order Secretary Esper refused to comply with. Would you carry out such an order from President Trump? Senator, I was in the Washington, D.C. National Guard Unit that was in Lafayette Square during those events holding a riot shield on behalf of my country. What are these people as directed? I saw 50

secret service agents to get injured by rioters trying to jump over the fence. set the church on fire and destroy the statue. You know what? That sounds to me that you will comply with such an order. You will shoot protesters in the leg. Okay. Oh, my gosh. First off, dear God, please put a hand off from my mouth because I'm not going to be able to get through the show without Steve burning through the dump button.

It's just not going to happen today. I am so, this is how the question is going. And by the way, if you're just joining us welcome, Dana Lash, top of the first hour, these are how the questions are going. So if Donald Trump told you to go and shoot baby peasant, puppy dogs in the head. Would you go do that? Would you take out that order? Like, what's the context here? Like, are they vicious baby puppy dogs? Are they mutants? Are they rabid? Do they pose a threat? Yeah. Like, what's the context here? To your crazy-ass question, you crazy-ass woman.

What is the context here? So if Trump asks you to eat the world's hottest pepper, would you do it? I mean, like, these are how the stupid these questions are. Would you eat a ghost pepper for Trump? Would you Pete Huxap? Would you eat a ghost pepper for Trump? I just can't even take it seriously. If I don't laugh at it, I'm going to scream. So you will indulge me.

These are how their questions are going. And then what was, there were like three, oh, gosh, I'm trying to think who is the other, I don't know, old white and Democrat. That's like the whole party. I could, you know, with a posture of a cocktail shrimp, that's still the whole party. Krusty old, still the whole party, you know. Where they have like the skin texture of a cat and dee's cracklin where it's like that, right? I think Senator Gillibrand might have been one of them you were thinking of.

She's not the old man who basically was like, how many times do you beat your wife? But her rant was insane. So imagine you're, you know, going in for your sect deaf hearing. Here's Kirsten Gillibrand, losing her mind. What is she freaking out about? Oh, the women and the gays. Go ahead. Soundbite 11T. Ferreillion.

I don't even know. I don't even know what the hell soundbite it is. I just know we have it because there's like two pages of audio. It's 27. I think it's 27. So women, you have denigrated. You have also denigrated members of the LGBTQ community. Did you know that when Don't Ask, Don't Tell was in place?

We lost so many crucial personnel over 1,000 in mission-critical areas. Who did that? Okay, stop, stop. I'm not going to get there. Wait, stop. We're going to have to be... Who did it? Who did it? Sorry, I just made your dog's death.

Who did it? It rhymes with the close bin of cigar. Under the desk, Schmielbenton. Rines with that name. Who did? Don't ask, don't tell. It's Bill Klack? What is the party affiliation of one Bill Clinton? Kane?

Party affiliation of one Bill Clinton? That would be Democrats. Democrat, you don't say. Oh. What? Okay, go ahead. Let it go. This is going to be a day.

No, then when Don't Ask, Don't Tell was in place. We lost so many crucial personnel over a thousand in mission critical areas. We lost 10% of all our foreign language speakers because of a political policy. You said in your city, you don't want politics in the DOD. Everything you've said in these public statements is politics. I don't want women. I don't want moms. What's wrong with a mom, by the way?

Once you have babies, you therefore are no longer able to be lethal. I mean, you're basically saying women after they have children can't ever serve in the military in a combat role. It's a silly thing to say. It's a silly thing to say. I mean, you can, you can. Yeah, he didn't say it. He totally didn't say it.

Why do you hate women? Why did you say women are stupid and I hate them and they're not allowed? Like, well, I didn't say that. Why did you say it? He just has to sit there and listen to this. Dear heavens, I would never make it through this process. I would be bitch-slapping everybody and hold off in jail. There's no way I could, no way.

I mean, at Parkland, I prayed for like two hours straight to that event. I don't think that there's the flight, I don't think the flight's that long from Dallas to D.C. I wouldn't be able to go through that confirmation price. It's not a long enough time for the Lord to firmly, for me to pray for the Lord to firmly put a hand over him. mouth. Good night. Can you imagine you show up and this is what they're, they're just making up stuff and attributing it to you. Now look, look, I'm not a blind tribalist. I am a practical Machiavellian. That's how I look at. That's how I would describe my politics. A practical Machiavellian who wants to be left T.F alone. That's me. And yes, there's things you can criticize Hexeth for. I think that, you know,

you, this is where living in a social media world and going for clicks can work against you. Because everybody has to be flashy all the time. And then when you are considering a position where you have to be measured and discerning and look like the steady hand of control, then those two realities meet and you have to reconcile them and that's a tough thing to do. That said, if you're going to go after the guy for something, make it for something he actually, I don't know, said. I don't know. I mean, they're asking whether or not this guy is competent enough to run DOD. Can I remind you about the twink that they had literally as the deputy nuclear, whatever, he was the deputy nuclear twink. And he stole ladies' suitcases, ran the hell around the country, stealing women's bags right and left. If you were missing a bag at any point in the last few years, I'll be to him. Sam Benton probably stole your luggage. And he's out there wearing your panties right now.

just saying. They had that twink running around, stealing everybody's luggage. And that man had a security clearance. That man was the deputy nuclear twink, Kane. Or if I were saying it in a Texas way, nuclear. Nuclear twink. By the way, sidebar, new band name, nuclear twinks. And it's like a Scissor Sisters cover band, a very, very flashy Elton John, early Elton John.

But yet conservative gay dudes. How about that? Noting. Okay. Gosh, I've already had the costumes in my head. So, I have more audio. How are we doing this today? Because, oh, my gosh.

There's, like, other stuff that I have to get. I can't, man, I would be escorted out. There's no. I couldn't even sit there. Couldn't even sit there for this. So with Hegg-Seth, and again, I haven't heard a single question from a single Democrat about. war fighting.

What do I care how you have sex in war? Can you shoot a dude between the eyes if he's a Terry? Can you? I default to my position on terrorism, by the way, is the key and peel skit on it. If you wanted to know what that is, when they're on the plane, it's one of the funniest skits I've ever seen in my life. I can't, I've seen it a million times. I can't play it because they'll fine us.

But it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. life. And I would probably freak them out if I were sitting next to them talking about my preparedness on a plane. And they wouldn't be able, I wouldn't be like the scared dude they were talking to. But that's my, you know, why, why do we care? So and so likes Lisa Frank's stickers. Should that be allowed to the middle? Shut up. What does this have to do with war fighting? Well, blah, blah, blah. What does that have to do with war fighting? Can you do a Mozambique? Two in the head, one in the chest. Can you do it? Yes, no. I don't know.

The whole thing is frustrating. This is about war fighting. This is about the fighting force. There are no feelings in this. It is very, very clinical because there are objectives to accomplish. And when you don't do your mission right, people die. It is serious. And they're sitting here messing around with identity politics in a hearing, asking questions about, well, if someone

wants to pretend that their penis is a vagina should they, I don't know, are they mentally stable enough to pop a terrorist? Are they? I mean, are they, is it possible for them to give that much of themselves and serve their country without having to put how they have sex or whether or not they like

to tuck as like their priority? I mean, do we really have to sit here and consider special badges for them a tucker? Like, do we have to do that? You know why? It sounds absurd because it's absurd that this is even a conversation that we are having. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation,

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Okay. And they're like, it's not only Alzheimer's, you know, and they get into blah, blah, blah. They make you read the whole article before they go, okay, here are some risks things you can do. Blah, blah, blah. Like, they actually said one of the things in here was wear a helmet when biking.

I have a story about bicycling, by the way. I don't know. And they're like, exercise is good. if exercise is good just generally. Let's see. Third of Americans say their partner acts like a baby when they're sick. How are so many people soft? When I'm sick, I still show up unless I'm real bad.

Most vulnerable part of your life is when you're sick. I think it's when you're a baby. What if you're a sick baby? That's even worse. I just, they said that they did this research and they found that, And they were looking at what's the most common complaints in winter. And then they said, you know, their partners acting like babies when they're sick. Jeez.

I don't know. I have feels about that headline. It's just seems ignorant. Let's see. A theorist warns humanity is teetering between collapse and advancement. Yes. Does it involve an asteroid? Some sweet asteroid action.

I'm just wondering. Doesn't it? Oh, there go. Oh, here's where I immediately stopped caring about this article. When is the end for humankind? The article states, and you can tell that because I'm reading it in a stupid voice.

Whether it's by a nuclear Holocaust or the result of exceeding a critical climate threshold, and I'm done. Moving on. Let's see here. Oh, you can't just hang out at Starbucks anymore. You have to order some of their burnt bean water in order to continue being there.

Coffee chain has reversed the policy that allowed open access to its cafes because they're trying to improve store environments. I don't go into Starbucks's. I don't. I don't like their coffee. And I think that the, what is it? What's the one? Not the peppermint mocha. Pumpkin spice.

It tastes like turkey water. I don't like it. I used to like the pink spice tastes or the peppermint thing. He tastes like diabetes. The pink drink was good for a little bit. What the hell is that even? What? You've had that before.

I don't have that estrogen swill. Yes, you have. It's been a long time. I have not had no pink drink. I haven't had it in a long time, but I remember when I did have it. It was good. It tastes like pink. Are you going to tell me next?

Anyway, they reverse their policy. That's really the only point of sharing that. Also, a hotel booking site were caught overcharging travelers from the Bay Area. They're from the Bay Area. Don't go there. You don't have a problem. Facebook has been getting, look, I get it. Mark Zuckerberg.

didn't realize how bad the censorship was until he legit got censored on Facebook. And then he was like, what? And now he's, they're undoing all their fact checking stuff. I get it. I mean, whatever brings you around. But now all, like, there's these leftists are upset. And some of the people who got, who are on the left who got super upset and we're supposed to care. It's the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Where America? What the hell do those titles mean? Nothing. Nothing. I love the people who are like, we just want our privacy. But then they're like, they have to constantly use that all the time. That, that chick cannot go anywhere without being like, well, judges of Sussex with everything. So what is it? The Ginger and his D-List, not even a main role on some Canadians drama. I don't even know what it was. What was it called briefcases? Suitcase. No, that's it. She was in a game show. And then she was in a game show.

and then she did a drama. She was the suitcase girl on a game show, and then she did this Canadian drama. I don't know. I don't do dramas. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, I didn't watch it. Nobody knew it until, I mean,

her biggest role was pretending that she's in love with this guy. The Prince Harry. Anyway, they released this statement. Tina, why are you being so mean? Because they released this statement, and it's so stupid. I'm not going to read it out loud to you

because I've never seen anybody write so much and say so. little. I can tell this me again, or sorry, Megan, verbal typo, wrote it because it's one of the dumbest things I've read. It has, it goes

on and on. It's just a bunch of rambly word salad, bad grammar, and five-star cringe. That's it. I mean, it's wild. They're upset because meta, allowing more free speech, is going to undermine the free speech, my guys.

It's going to undermine it. It's going to... So I'll share with you some. They go. Contrary to their company's talking points, allowing more abuse than normalizing head speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it.

Wait, what? So I love how the left goes. If your speech isn't what I want, then it's hate speech. They consider hate speech to be things that disagree with them. like if they go, the best color is blue, and you go, I really like green. That's hate speech.

Duchess of Essex, that's what they do. So they're upset over Mehta. They're upset. And they say, they write, millions of people are using Meta's platforms and the United States. Hundreds of millions more are using them globally. Wait, full stop. What? What?

We didn't know that, Cain. We would have known it if the Duchess of Essex hadn't put it. in a statement. What? They add many, this is so, this, why even waste the energy to put these dumb sentences in a statement? Many use the platform to spread joy and build community and share empowering information. Unfortunately, Matt has a recent decision go directly against its stated mission to build a human connection and instead prioritize those using the platform to spread hate and laws and division at the expense. of everyone else.

The Duchess of Essex. Constantly. First off, I love how, you know, lots of people can use the meta. They use the Facebooks. She sounds like a grandma writing this. And I can tell that she wrote it because it's particularly dumb. And then they say, oh, we're alarmed by plans to abandon the commitment. Who cares what you're?

What do these two grifters do? I agree with this. What is it? The Netflix or Spotify. I don't know. Everybody that they've ever entered into a. a contract. They never actually develop projects. It's like they half-ass it.

They did this polo thing. I'm sorry, nobody cares about polo. They really don't. It's a rich person sport. I like the horses. I'll pet the horses. I'll feed one an apple. I don't watch it. I don't watch it. I'm not even going to pretend. They did this thing called Polo. And

after they had their weird documentary and then she has a cooking show coming out where she rips off all everybody else's recipes on Pinterest and she pretends to cook and all you see is her fidgeting with every single dish that she's expecting people then to eat. It's gross. And our hair's everywhere. It's like, tie your damn hair back in the kitchen. My gosh. I don't know. But why is it that someone that insists on using British titles in the United

States is trying to control speech in the United States? We don't have a monarchy here. You guys should have actually stayed in Britain and done the work and been content to be behind the, the, the, the, Prince and Princess over there. Oh, but see, they thought that that title, they were upset. They didn't want to have to curtsy to people that aren't them. They didn't want to have to deal with all of that stuff. So they came over here to try to set up a

court in Montecito. So they're rage, they don't have no influence. These are people who come up with these, like all these different organizations, and they send out statements to make it look like they're doing something, but they don't actually do anything. They shut up in Los Angeles. I mentioned this yesterday. Disaster

Tourism is what Just Team Bateman accurately called it. And reports on the ground said that they stayed for like 17, 20 minutes and were gone. And so she basically drove two something hours from Montecito to L.A. to stand around in a ball cap and then

take pictures and act like they were doing something. Seriously? This is so dumb. What have they actually done? Didn't he start a travel company that was supposed to be about green travel and aren't they under now? And their Archwell Foundation, when the because they have to make their filings public because of how their tax structured.

So when they publish their financials, the majority of all the money that's given goes towards people's salaries. Like they don't really do, they don't do anything. And so they come out with this, oh, these are harmful setbacks and blah, blah, blah. And this is dumb. No one cares what the Duke and touches the Sussex. Nobody cares what these two grifters think about what Facebook is doing. They are so uninfluential.

She can't even get an invite. She can't even get an invite to Gayle King's birthday party. She couldn't even get an invite to that. Didn't see them at any of them Golden Globe parties. You know, they were going to go to Hollywood and really shake it up. But, you know, no, they can't. They can't deliver. They said, having worked in this space for the last five years, you didn't work.

Those filings also show how much they work. For basically a couple hours that they might put in a week, they get six figures. something like that's what the salaries that's what the the public financials were showing i mean it's this is so it's so lame the last thing we need are you know two trans monarchists trying to tell everybody what how to think and what speech is allowed in the united states good heavens i it just it's this is it's so on brand for them what have they touched that hasn't just turned to feces nothing. But this idea that you're demanding censorship for speech translates into more speech is dumb. What they're calling for is censorship. More speech is how you combat bad speech.

You combat bad speech with good speech. But the problem is that the left, in order to shut down debate and to secure their rhetorical positions, they just don't allow for debate. They just shut it down because they're too damn lazy to defend. their position. They feel like they are too good to defend their position. Like, how dare you challenge them? How dare you make them articulate a reason as to why they support this issue that they support? So instead, because they don't feel like putting in the work. And half of them, honestly, don't even know why they support what they support, which is why they don't want to debate it. They don't know. It's a seamster trendy thing to just jump on and support whatever issue. Oh, my gosh,

all the right popular lefty people are mad at Facebook and judges is sussis I'm going to be mad at Facebook too and then you come out with this statement a dollar short day late but they don't they don't know really why they support what they support and so as a result they're even more defensive about having to defend it and and and give reasons as to why they support this position they think that they they they don't have to you do but they don't they don't they don't owe you a reason. They just do. But you, you got to prove that you're not hate speech. That's how they do this. I'm done with it. I mean, if they want to get into a battle of like the wits with people on this stuff, they're going to have a hard time. They're going to have a really hard time. Thanks for tuning in to

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