The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: MAHA VS. POCAHONTAS

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

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If you want to be one of only a very small handful of people who follow my random Yankee tweets on social media. But at D. Lash, at Dana Lash Radio, to get the good stuff. A boy was found at a Chick-fil-A in Florida. So this is Florida boy, I guess. He's going to grow up to be a great Florida man. He's five. He decided to leave his house in the morning to get breakfast at delicious Chick-fil-A.

So smart kid, he knows value. Video went viral, audio went viral of this, because cops got the kid at the Chick-fil-A and brought him back home. And he had a, quote, adorable reaction. to the fact that cops had to pick him up and bring him back to the house. Again, starting a trend that hopefully doesn't exist for the less of this young man's life. Although he does live in Florida, where police bring him back home. Here we go.

We arrived on scene. Hello. And as we walked in, we see a little kid sitting at the table eating his breakfast with one of the managers. We asked where he came from, and he kept saying he walked to Chick-fil-A. You know where your house is, right, honey. It's my house just to be right over there. I walked him to the back of my patrol car. I'm going to get me in jail.

No, I'm not going to put you in jail. And we started checking here. He had a white fence. That's where it is. Right here? Yeah. And that's when we pulled it up in the Trowbridge. Oh, you have a son in the league?

Brilliant. Yeah, a little boy? Yeah. Yeah, he was down at the Chick-fil-A. Are you kidding? No, we haven't in our police car. You could just see the look on his face. It would be for any parent, including myself.

It's disbelief. Yeah, what do you mean? My kid was at the Chick-filet. Yeah, he got a free meal because a five-year-old walks into a chick-filet by himself and managers take care of that, call the police, the police get the kid back home. I do love the little boy being like, am I going to jail?

I hope not. I don't know if I am, but also this Chick-fil-A is delicious. Again, I agree with him entirely. Some other Florida stories, more of the typical version you expect during this segment. A Florida woman was recently in a court case about losing her legal license.

She might be disbarred because she missed a meeting. She is a divorce lawyer who skipped out on a divorce, divorce lawyer, you know, hearing, which is not usually a good thing. The reason why, and this is probably what makes it so Florida, she actually was in jail because she wasn't paying alimony to her ex-husband after her divorce. So a divorce lawyer by the name of Dorothy Huffnagle decided that she doesn't have to pay her own alimony that someone else got on her, and that causes her to miss a hearing for another, you know, person that she's representing in a divorce. I got to think that her advice is going to be terrible. You probably don't listen to anything and everything she says.

All right. One last one. This one just interesting. 29-year-old Michael Hudak was recently arrested in Florida. He stole a $16,000 Rolex from his neighbor's home while his neighbor was traveling. The negative for Michael is that he's actually a television reporter for an ABC affiliate in Miami, Florida. So the guy who got arrested and was talked about on television is a reporter who used to work at that station. I imagine you get fired after you steal a Rolex out of your neighbor's home when you're pretty sure they're not catching you, even though I guess they have surveillance video that showed what happened. He was suspended without pay. And again, I'm pretty sure he's getting fired.

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is testifying in front of senators, and they're playing a game of ridiculous gotcha that seems very stupid. J.D. Vance, Vice President Vance, actually tweeted this out a little bit earlier. When I see all these senators trying to lecture and gotcha Bobby Kennedy today, all I can think is you all support off-label,

untested, irreversible hormonal therapies. Therapies is in quotes for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of bleep, and everybody knows it. That is J.D. Vance today. Let's play a couple of these clips. First, let's play this moment demonstrating how unsurious Democrats are in the way they're questioning and handling. Robert F. Kennedy sitting, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sitting in front of them and having a discussion about how maybe it doesn't make sense for our medical experts or the medical people in charge in our country to advocate for a bunch of untested pharmaceutical things that we probably shouldn't be taking.

Look, two young ladies in Las Crucese, New Mexico to town hall recently gave me this starfish pin. I was going to give it to you today. But after your questioning today, I don't think you deserve it. Because what this represents is to remember that every one of us can make a difference, sir, something as small as a starfish on a beach that maybe got washed up, you throw it back in the ocean. You might not save them all, but you can save one. I'm sorry that you're not worthy of this nice little pin, sir, is a nice reminder. I'm going to pray for you, Secretary Kennedy.

I hope we do better. I want you to do better. But today was a failure for you, man. I'm not giving you my pin, man. That's what I'm not doing. This is so dumb. You can't have my starfish pin. I'm sorry.

I'm taking my toys. I'm going home. I'll see you guys next time. You're also not invited to my birthday party. It feels like that's a version of things. I hear is Elizabeth Warren going back and forth with Bobby Kennedy about a variety of topics. But among them is her demand.

that he go back on some of the changes that have happened with COVID, even though the vaccine is available for almost anybody still, even though very few Americans want any version of this anymore, even the ones who got a multiple jabs a couple years ago. I no longer have interest, but Elizabeth Warren and the money she makes from pharmaceutical companies, I mean, she has to be irate. And Bobby calls it out at one point. Here we go. You are effectively denying people vaccines.

We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication. Is that what I should be doing? What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job. You're going like this. And that is you promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them. You just changed the classification of the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from people, Senator. It takes it away if you can't get it from your pharmacy.

Well, most Americans are going to be able to get it from their pharmacy for free. Most Americans will be able to get it from their pharmacy free. The question is everyone who wants it. That was your promise. I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication. When you said, and I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies out there. Did you hold up a big...

Hold on. You know what's amazing about this, too. And this is something that I think Vice President Vance was trying to get to in the discussion. The Democrats want you to believe two things. They want you to believe that Republicans are the bad guys,

whoever they are. President Trump, of course, is the big, horrible bad guy. He's the devil himself. And then everybody else is also a bad guy. And they want you to believe that Democrats are fighting the bad guys. That's the whole job of the Democratic Party.

They're the good guys. They care about you. They want to give. you know, money and support to you through the government. That's the entire narrative that they want. And so when they get mad and yell at a bad guy, a Republican, you're supposed to like whatever the thing is that they're yelling about. However, the problem with that is when you actually look at the topic itself. You remove the assumption of bad guy and good guy and do what every American should do as a, you know, intelligent, well-thinking individual, not bite-in-brained human

being is the best way to say it. You should think about the topic first. And in the discussion here, what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is saying is that he would not like to recommend things that have no medical basis as a treatment for whatever the issue is that you're trying to treat. Meaning there's no test, there's no information. Nothing proves that there's a value to this medicine being put in your body. That's a very simplistic, a line to draw. It's actually one that a lot of people would ask would be even harsher than if you can give me some medical studies that prove the value of this, I can go ahead and continue to advocate for it. That's all he's saying.

When Trump is trying to send National Guard troops into cities that have a huge problems with crime, all he's saying, and it's very simplistic is, I'd like crime to be eliminated. Here's a way that I think we can do it. And again, all these other avenues where you go down this road and that road, the question itself or the conversation, should men play women's sports? Should men be able to go to the bathroom in women's restrooms?

All of these topics. If you remove bad guy and good guy and just think about the, you know, conditions and the context of the discussion, you can't support the democratic position. They know it. We know it.

You should know it if you pay attention closely at all. It's just not a position that's supported. So instead of that, you're not supposed to think about the topic itself. You're not supposed to think about the, you know, which side of this common sense issue do I deserve to be on. You're just supposed to perceive the Republican position is bad and the Democratic position is good and nod and say, thank you. More of that, please, even if what they're fighting for is medicine to be readily available for free through doctors where pharmacies get a ton of money for it that has no medical reason to be given to you and no proof that it's going to help you at all for whatever the issue is, COVID-Earvel. other things that you're being treated for.

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It's time for Dana's Quick-Five. That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana Show, a D-Lash, a Dana-Lash radio, and X on Twitter to stay connected to everything going on with her. One and eight Americans are overthinkers, according to a brand new survey. 41% of us say that our daily decisions are second-guessed by us, that we're not really sure what we're doing there. But one and eight of us dives real deep into all the different things that we contemplate if we did right or wrong. Second-guessing is kind of normal, as I said, almost 50s. percent of people do that part. But I think that more often than not, your first decision is usually the better one. Whenever I've gone to the second-guess decision after doubting my first decision,

things end up worse, not better. 27% of people admit that they're regularly stressed over simple decisions. That's stuff like anxiety at the supermarket on what you buy there. There is also a portion of society. I'm not saying it's just younger people, but it feels like it is a lot of younger people who are stressed by things that everybody else isn't stressed by. Maybe because you're less conditioned to work in the real world and more conditioned to see the internet version of society as some portion of the real world. I really think that's a problem or that's the cause of some of the issues we see. You shouldn't be nervous when you say order a meal at a restaurant. Just pick what you want, man. And if it doesn't go well, pick something else. Order a second thing.

do life however you need to do it in order to survive. Other things out there, a man bug sprayed a couple. This is because they had cut him in line. A 65-year-old guy got upset. He was cut in line. He was like, how dare you do this to me? His name is Daniel. He actually was in Florida.

I should have saved this as a Florida story, but I'll do more of those later. But he was in line at the public's grocery store, and after they decided that they weren't going to change, he just started whipping out and spraying him with bug spray right in their face. right in their faces too. He then ran off, which is my favorite part of the aggravated battery

and bodily harm assault. One of the victims was actually hospitalized. They're both going to be okay, but bug spray to the face is not usually a good idea. Daniel seemed to think it was appropriate after he got cut in line. And then finally,

I'm going to play a quick game with you. I know we only have about a minute to do this, and I know you can't actually respond as well as I hoped you could. The game is called, is it TikTok or medieval health? I have a list of six medieval health tips and a list of like 10 TikTok tips. So I'm going to throw one out there, wait for a second for you to decide which it is,

and then move on to the next one. You should shove garlic in your nose. Is that medieval or is that TikTok? The answer is actually that that's a TikTok trend and it also is quite dangerous. That you should put a vinegar mask on your face for glowing skin. Is that medieval or is that TikTok? That one's actually a medieval trend. Apparently they used to rub vinegar, flour, and oil on their face to make it better.

Finally, and this is my favorite one, dead vulture to cure everything. You decapitate a vulture after you catch it in the wild, and then you use every portion of it to do certain things. One of them tie feathers to a woman's leg to induce labor. Yeah, okay, fine, that one's medieval. Maybe I'll do this more later. Ben Shapiro crushed CNN. It was hilarious to watch on a multitude. of issues. Ben Shapiro was, you know, seen even just making faces sometimes when the Democrats

were talking. But what I think is really funny is when you show up unprepared and you're going up against a guy like the Ben Shapiro and he has all the goods and all the receipts and you do not. It doesn't go well for you. And I'll play a couple of these pieces of audio. We probably will play more of this throughout the show. But here's a couple moments where Ben spard with talking heads on CNN. There's pictures around. It was about patriotism. It was about trying to get people excited about what could happen in this country. This president is trying to raise money by putting tariffs on our adversaries and allies alike in ways that don't make any sense. There is nothing. The two administration oversaw the largest tariffs in American history. Nothing in common. Spent most of his administration ripping on what he called the malefactors of great well. You know, we're still living off of a lot of the public works of administration. I wish we were building highway.

Why are you against what Trump is doing? Because he's doing a much lesser version of what FDR. No, Trump has, again, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Let me give you an example. Shipbuilding. If you're a competent, it would be better. Well, you're just, this is rhetoric. But shipbuilding is a great.

Okay, I really love that if he were competent, it would be better as opposed to being incompetent about how he's adding tariffs to society. And how FDR himself very much believe the tariffs with the right road to gain money. for the government, not necessarily to take a whole bunch of our money via taxes, which is what Trump also believes. And by the way, I do love that everybody pretends as though this is all willy-nilly. Like, it doesn't make any sense. But all of it is an aggressive, this is how I understood the math, an aggressive version of whatever our deficit is as far as trade goes with the country, we're going to go ahead and fix that by having a tariff that corresponds to that deficit. And then you're like, well, wait, some of the countries we added tariffs to, we don't actually have a deficit

it with them. Well, we kind of feel like we do in other ways, whether it's red tape and things that block the amount of goods that we think we should be sending into those countries that are not actually going there, the inability for our, you know, companies to make a lot of money when going into other countries. There's other ways that we do the math. You can call it girl math if you want, which is a funny thing from social media, where you decide to buy something based on all the money you're saving by not buying it more expensive later down the road. Like if something's on sale, you have to buy it is what I've heard is the version of GirlMath because if you buy it when it's not on sale anymore, twice the cost. So really you're saving the sale money. We could have done a version of that with tariffs.

But who cares, by the way, too, because the effective part is that it's creating a bunch of deals, which is all Trump really wanted. And for anyone that's not doing a deal, we're raking in tons of money. Hopefully money that the judicial system doesn't make us go ahead and refund and send back places. But I just love every part of that one. Here's another one. This is Ben Shapiro blasting CNN and their tone-deaf stance on Trump's crime crackdown. This is something that even amazingly, David Axelrod is all four. He's saying again and again, just accept the help from Trump.

Stop saying that you love the crime that exists in cities. So we'll go ahead and play the Shapiro clip now. We'll probably play Axelrod a little bit later on in the show today. But here we go. What is to stop that, Ben? I mean, I think that, to be fair, the exertion of more power by the executive branch has been an ongoing process for the course of the last 20 years minimum. And you saw the Obama administration declared national emergencies, something like 12 national emergencies or under President Obama, something like nine under Joe Biden. Now you've had President Trump declare a wide variety of national emergencies.

This isn't a unilateral problem. I think it is a bilateral problem. With that said, I think that we should separate a few strands here. One is the legal that Eli was talking about. One of the other things here, though, is I think what Van was referring to, which is President Trump does have a habit of wrong footing his political opponents in a unique way on this sort of stuff. There are 574 murders in Chicago last year. And you can make the argument, I think a plausible argument, that National Guard troops should not be on the ground enforcing crime, both legally and just as a matter of general policy. But if the position you end up taking is that there is no serious crime emergency in Chicago on a rhetorical level, not on a legal level, on a rhetorical level.

or you make the case that actually crime in Chicago just isn't that big of a deal, which seems to be the mistake that many Democratic politicians are making right now. Trump is going to win that battle all day long. I mean, I hear you, but I also think... I hear you, but I don't want to listen. I hear you, but I don't want the thing you said to be true that's evidently true. There is the rhetorical level, which we could focus on. But, I mean, I also want to focus on the reality, like the actual things that are happening.

And even to that point, I mean, voters are not... I think we treat voters as stupider than they are. You ask them in goals and they say, we think crime is a problem. We don't like the way Trump is handling it in the way that he is sending the National Guard. Yeah. Why do you think some voters are saying that?

Not all the voters, by the way, just some of the voters. It's because of the way Democrats are reacting, pretending as though this is some sort of authoritarian takeover. When the reality is that if you just accepted the help, if the National Guard came in, assisted Chicago, assisted all these places, in whatever fashion that looked like

worked with the police there instead of working instead of the police in certain places whereas Shapiro is starting to talk about the legal problems in that world. Yes, there are laws, there are things that prevent military from behaving like local police forces,

but it doesn't prevent them from assisting local police forces. So a willingness to accept help, which again, even David Axelrod is begging Democrats to start doing, makes all of this problem. go away. It's the defiant fight, the refusal to take the support that is the only problem in this entire situation as of right now. And it is something where the American people definitively

believe I'm not a fan of crime. I want less of it wherever I live. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. 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, wherever you get your podcast. Thank you.