The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Lowering The Standards

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

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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. Yeah, Florida Man. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. A couple quick ones.

Florida Man was arrested for hurling chairs and planks of wood off a roof of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. No idea how the guy got all the stuff he was throwing off the top of the roof up there. I feel like somebody should have noticed that. but he's just throwing it out there and getting arrested for it. Another Florida man bought a mask at a gas station so that he could cross the street to a bank to try to rob it. That's a real thing that happened. The guy was like, ah, I need one of them masks right now.

What are you going to do with that, sir? Oh, it doesn't matter. I'm just going to go over to the bank and cross the street and withdraw some funds. He was also arrested. Deputies cracked that case because, well, it was very, very easy to find out who it was. All right. That's an abbreviated version of Florida man. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

All right. Other things out there that I thought were interesting, James Carvel has been popping up. He pops up more often than I ever thought he would at this time in our lives. Talking about how Biden's poll numbers are so, so bad. They're, well, like a very horrible mental photo or mental image. Here we go. I don't think people really appreciate how bad Biden's poll numbers are.

when you look at them, it's like walking down your grandmother neck. You can't unsee him. Why does he say that so often? Why is that his go-to, James Carville, that Biden's poll numbers or whatever it is you're talking about is the same as seeing a site you'd never, ever want to see, and he'd want to have burned from your brain. But he's saying that yet again, it's out there. It's in the world, and you can find it if you want to. And he is right, by the way, that Biden's pull numbers are terrible. And yes, I know there's a couple polls recently, including one out of Fox, that says that Biden is now tied with Trump on a, you know, registered voter scale.

Trump is still doing well in states that are likely to actually decide the election, which I think is very interesting. Trump will likely, I assume, be doing well after this first debate. I can't imagine that Biden will actually be successful when he is asked to respond. bond to things and not just speak with some sort of canned speech the entire time. But we will see. That is something that I guess will be determined about a week from now. And as I said before, he has holed up in Camp David, practicing everything he can possibly practice to be as good as possible for this individual.

But again, I think that we will see a stark difference in the mental capability of two individuals, both of which who are in their 70s plus or 80s. but honestly, it's not just how old you are, it's how well your brain works. And I do love all the cheap fakes. I loved a lot of what Dana was saying the other day about the cheap fake videos and how stupid all that is. And honestly, whether or not that was just an accidental misspeaking by Corinne John Pierre, that she meant to say deep fakes, but her brain stopped her because they are real videos. So what came out was cheap fakes, which is ridiculous, because there's so, so many of them.

All right. For some reason, CNN called Brian Stelter and put him on TV, the ghost of Brian Stelter, whatever you want to call this, since Stelter was fired by CNN. And he was talking about the cheap fakes himself. And of course, this is one of the fearmonger stupidity, far left guys during the pandemic that told everybody how horrible they were if you decided not to get vaccinated. And then, oh yeah, it comes out that everybody was transmitting COVID, even if you had to. the vaccine again, again, all these things. And actually, Stelter hasn't had the apology tour, not that it's actually a full apology tour that Cuomo has had. Quamo is now somebody who's vaccine impacted or has a long-term illness due to the vaccine by his own statement. So the things he says are now more nuanced while not apologizing for the past, but here's Stelter being stelter about where the president's defecating in public imagine we're going to be by October.

You know, the White House president is going to use the phrase cheap fakes, the idea of cheap fakes. Let me explain what that is to people. We've been worried about AI deep fakes, that computer generated images are going to trick people to do something that's totally false. Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler. They're cheap. They're just distorted out of context videos, chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways.

That's what we're seeing. That's what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, is so worried about right now. But made no mistake, they are worried about this. This is a real problem. It's a real problem because it's a real thing that Biden does. My favorite one, actually, if I can talk about it for just a second, is the one with the parachuters. You probably saw this one, and you've probably now seen the debunking of this video.

It's where Biden is turned around and all the other world leaders are pointed at just one person, one trooper who's parachuting into an area where world leaders are. Yes, there are other people parachuting into that area. and Biden seems to be paying attention to them. But the problem with understanding the dynamic of all this, you're a world leader, you're in front of other world leaders. You know there's a camera rolling because they do that on purpose whenever they do any of this stuff.

And everyone else is looking one direction at one person, and you're the only guy off in the corner doing your own thing. And you don't notice. That seems to be mentally bad, no matter what you're saying. And yes, the internet made jokes that he was just, looking at ghosts or just veering off into the netheres and didn't know at all what was going on. But even in the real context of the video, it still looks horrible. And he has to be grabbed and turned around in order to pay attention to what he's supposed to be paying attention to.

So this refuting of cheap fakes is just the most ridiculous new Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation thing. because that's the thing too. When mainstream media and the left, which I guess you can also just call mainstream media, but when politicians on the left are in uniform in rejecting something and telling you it's a lie, most likely that's the most true thing you're seeing

right now in your life. And all those videos are real, and there's so, so many of them. And even if it's just a few moments, and I think I heard said on Fox and Friends, either this morning or yesterday, but you all have somebody in your life, or at least a lot of us do, someone who's getting older, someone who you start to worry about more, whoever that might be. And these little moments, these little reflections of things not being what they

used to be, at least for the person mentally, are the things that you obsess about, the things you tell their doctor about, because they're the signs that you know everything's not okay. And we're seeing these on world stages from our president, even if it's for a few moments and even if people like a Barack Obama are helping pull him off a stage somewhere, the recovery doesn't matter. It's the moment itself that's terrifying because this guy is in charge of the entire country. I don't know how to say that differently, actually. I do love the fact that people say, at least I hear them say, that, you know, the far right media, the conservative media, the crazy media. is what the left wants to call it essentially, is over-inflating these issues. When the person we're discussing is the president of the United States, it's not like you're

picking on your boss who's showing up at work and getting confused every so often. That wouldn't be great. I'm sure you'd want to discuss that with the other people in your office, but that's not something that needs to be national news. This should be. These are the kind of things that news should be reporting to us, should be telling us that this is what we're worried about. They should be peeling this onion back, not pretending it's an onion that no one should be talking about at all.

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Let's do a quick five. And now. All of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. We forgot about that. All right. Hurricane Alberto. the first named hurricane, not sure that that's something you want as an achievement there, is moving through Mexico right now on its way to Texas, heavy rain, heavy flooding in parts of Mexico and Texas. There have been three deaths so far, so this hurricane is officially deadly, and it's going to move throughout parts of the United States at some point. There remains a threat from tornadoes or two other things across the deep south in Texas. So be prepared wherever you are, if this is something that's going to go through your own area,

just a story that we hear every so often. And of course, a lot of people probably talking about hot weather and all weather-related stuff. And I'm not going to reposition it to be about something else. Weather happens. This is one version of it. San Francisco has a new tourism pitch that is interesting. It's not that you could pick up some free natals on the ground if you want them,

or there's some homeless people you can make friends with who are hanging out, or even that they've left some gifts along the sidewalks that are human in nature and things you don't want. It's chillier there than in a lot of the rest of California. They say they see temperatures in the 60s around now. So you should go hang out in San Francisco because you can cool off a little bit and then also wind up in a, you know,

trashed, very interesting version of a U.S. city. But hey, ignore that stuff because it feels a little cooler. Another thing out there for a quick five, employers are trying to lure the remaining employees that don't want to go back to offices with fancy desks or just desk space or even maybe an office space of your own. They're also doing something called hot desking, which is where you sort of share spaces. Nobody has their own office. Everybody uses other spaces occasionally. Apparently this is a thing that people think is going to work. Maybe even some fancy coffee,

some yoga classes, a DJ party in the office. I am glad I don't work in places that do any of these things because that is horrible. would not want to see a DJ coming into a party during my workday. I feel like that would throw a lot of us off. Another quick five thing that I thought was really interesting. An entire playground was stolen in Jacksonville, Florida. I'm not lying about this. An entire playground was taken. And from autistic kids, too, which makes it even meaner, here's an executive director, Melissa Kramer, talking about how you show up at school one day and the playground's gone. And you don't really know how to evaluate that. Hold on a second. Let me make sure that you

actually can hear that audio well. I think that's my fault here. Let's try that out. Again, here we go. Girls were shocked. A couple of them got here before me and they were like, Melissa, what, what are you doing with the playground? It was just gone. I don't know how you take a 30-foot playground. They took the swings. They took the slide. They took the monkey bar, like everything. It's just gone. Why? It's really bizarre. Why do that? I don't know if you're selling it for metal. If there's all of a sudden now a playground at some sort of other spot that it shouldn't be at, like somebody's backyard where you're like, wait a minute. That really. seems like the playground from that school.

But nonetheless, yes, an entire playground stolen in Florida. These are the things happening in the world in which we live. They are horrible. One last one for the quick five that I like a lot. A brand new piece of advice for anyone to stay in shape to stay healthy.

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By the way, Dr. Anthony Fauci is continuing to do a media tour of his own. There's a bookout. She is quite happy about whatever. You know what I'll say about Dr. Anthony Fauci? And you've probably heard all this before, outside of all the making stuff up and definitely lying in ways that more and more we're learning. He absolutely knew what he was saying was not just a bad guess, but utterly untrue. But how much he loves the camera.

Fauci wouldn't be the discussion point he is today if he didn't choose to be everywhere during the pandemic. He wouldn't. Even if he had done that in a few of those press conferences where he stood up, well, quote unquote, stood up to the former president and disagreed with him in that public forum, if he didn't go about it by then trying to be on every radio station, every television station, I don't know, in maybe the airport talking to people as much as he could, we wouldn't all have strong opinions about him. And he gets so upset. And he says it's, you know, the objection to science itself to question this man who made him, self the face of COVID, willingly and intentionally, and is now all over the place just before

this first debate. But here's a little bit of what he said on the view, talking about Trump, talking about the CDC, talking about everything. And again, just go away. I mean, I would like to see him get in trouble. I would like to see Congress continue to haul him in and ask him questions that we need answers for. But other than that, I don't think he needs to be out there anymore. and if he continues to complain that people hate him or people, you know, want to see bad things happen to him, you think that his response would be to not be everywhere again and put his face on every television he can get it on. It's very threatening, I think. It's in jeopardy. It's in jeopardy.

So you dedicate a chapter in the book to your dealings with Trump. The chapter is called, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. and you describe some angry ranting, expletive-filled phone calls where he would be raped you and flatter you in the same breath. I'm wondering, you just said you worked with seven other presidents. Did anyone, any one of them ever speak to you the way he does or did? No, of course, not even close. Okay, let me stop right there. First, no one that he worked for had anything quite like the pandemic that was shutting down businesses everywhere happened.

you know, during that tenure. So what other presidents have gotten mad at Fauci and some of the stuff he was saying, especially if they had information that demonstrated that Fauci was providing an opinion and acting as though it was a medical fact at a time when medical facts were not possible? In all honesty, like if you really talk about it, right at the start of the pandemic, anything they told us, we should have questioned and a lot of people did question simply because you didn't have enough information yet. No matter what you're saying, no matter how well-versed,

you were in these sort of things, you needed more time, more data to study it, and all that data that's come out has only told us we made a tremendous amount of mistakes. But what other presidents have gotten as mad as Trump did, if he even really did get that mad during this moment with this amount of undercutting his message to the American people? Of course they would have. It's ridiculous to say they wouldn't. Let's hear a little bit more from the annoying Fauci. You know, what I meant by it loves me, loves me not. You know, early on in the beginning, you know, he is an engaging character and not a certain rapport with each other. I was trying to figure out what it was.

I think is that two guys from New York City. You know, he was from Queens. I was from the Bronx and we kind of had that, you know, New York, he calls it, swagger with each other that was fine. And all that was really... Okay, I got to stop it right there too, actually. I love how quiet the view goes when Fauci says anything nice about Trump, because mainstream media also likes to take everything Trump says as if he means it

100% seriously. He's trying to say it the way that boring, stiff, a non, you know, Trump people say things, not the way that a guy at the end of the bar might say something, which is how Trump does a lot of his, you know, debates or a lot of his appearances, a lot of his rallies. So I understand what he's saying right there and believe it. But then he started to crap all over him publicly again and again and again,

question his message, tell businesses to stay lockdown, tell people, people to keep masks on, tell people to get COVID vaccines at times when we probably needed more information about all that stuff, and then also resoundingly reject, although you claim not to have rejected it now, the idea that Wuhan, the Wuhan lab is where COVID came from. And Trump said it in a few of those press conferences, and you got real mad about that. That is probably where the swagger went. That's probably why it stopped. But again, I just thought it was interesting that he would actually say something like that.

And then his forceful opinion, being pressed on a president of the United States, is what caused the disconnect between the two. And then, well, a whole lot of American people, right, finding out just how many things he lied about. 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.