The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Santos' Cameo Problem

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

Dana shares her spat with George Santos over the weekend with her town’s mayor and a paid Cameo. Meanwhile, New York City’s robotic police officers are taken off the street.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaJoin the Coffee Club today and get 30% off your first month’s subscription.Goldcohttps://danalikesgold.comGet your free Gold Kit from GoldCo today.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and reserve your free pocket copy of the Constitution.KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSign up for the KelTec Insider and be the first to know the latest KelTec news.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet free activation with code Dana.Wise Food Storagehttps://preparewithdana.comSave $50 on your 4-Week Survival Food Kit plus free shipping when you order today!

Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. So I have a couple, I have a whole handful. First off,

there was a Florida man who tried to sick his pit bull on police and then the pit bull attacked the Florida man. Didn't actually work. You're doing that. You're not a good dog owner. It was Palm Beach Post who said that it was in South River Beach.

It was a reported burglary. cops arrived and they observed the guy matching the description of the suspect. He was carrying hair products. And they ordered the guy to lay on the ground. He did so while hugging his dog. He told officers, quote, y'all going to have to kill us before getting up and trying to run away. They fired a stun gun, temporarily knocking him back to the ground. He got up again and as officers pursued, he released the dog from its leash and yelled, quote,

kill him, boy, kill him, and pointed at the officers. And the dog, because it has morals, just literally took a, I think it about ripped a butt cheek off. and then it bit his head. He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center. I hope, yeah, it's a very good boy. His uncle, boy, I hope that they, I don't know what happened to the dog, but nothing better have happened to that dog. You don't want me finding out right now, after just losing Rocco, that something happened to that dog, because it's not going to be nice. It's going to turn into John Wick, so, there you go.

Oh, by the way, speaking of dogs, the Snoop Dog Bobblehead statue, the Cantina Laredo, it was returned. It was a $2,500, no, sorry, $1,250 bobblehead. It was returned to the cash register. It was like a special collectible. I cannot believe this dude stole this thing and then got arrested for it. And because of the price, it's like, you know, it's a felony. It's grand theft. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine? What are you in for? I stole a bobblehead. It's grand theft. Yeah, stole a bobblehead. That, he can really pick him. A Florida man purchased a Porsche 9-11 turbo with a homemade check. Wow.

So Casey William Kelly, he's got three first names, made a false check. He literally made it up at home, apparently, to purchase a $140,000 Porsche 9-11 turbo. He's been charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and uttering a false bank note. That's apparently charged per Walton County Sheriff's Office. He used his home computer and printer to copy and print a convincing, looking, cashier's check. Who accepted this? And they had no idea. The place in Dustin apparently had no idea. And he had the keys in title and he drove off. And then they learned it was no good. And so they contacted Okalusa Sheriff's office. They found him. Oh my gosh. Like you couldn't really? I think you're all

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Friday I don't know if you followed this story Lorraine has a great piece that just ran up at substack on chapter inverse my substack that you can go and look at so I was noting that in the 26 congressional district in Texas. I don't really get involved in a lot of the like Senate or congressional

primaries and all that other stuff because there's so much happening. And I always feel like it's the candidate's responsibility to, it's the candidate that has to persuade people to vote for them. It's nobody else's job to do that. I mean, good grief. I always think that candidates who require other people to persuade people to vote for them, they're already outsourcing their job. And we have too many people like that in D.C. But one of the things that I noticed with us is that in this primary, and it's kind of a crowd of primary, and you've got, and I don't want to, you know, I have a lot of friends that are involved in this. And I don't want to, you know, name names, but I'll say like the top three contenders is like the mayor of my town, a guy who is the son of a Texas legacy candidate, and then another guy who is the son-in-law of a commentator. and one of the guys is, you know, older and is kind of moderate, you know, and he's, I just don't think of, you know, conservative ideals the way that we need to return to them with the older guy. And the other guy literally just moved in from New York and has literally never worked a day in the private sector and lived in the Trump Tower and has his father-in-law that's literally buying the seat for him. None of this stuff is exaggerated.

I mean, that's what it is. When you create a pack and you fund it exclusively and you're. buying Republican dinners and all this other stuff. I mean, that's just, it's some of the dirtier politics I've seen. But it's also antithetical to the conservative spirit that really fuels the movement that created the Tea Party that I helped co-found back in 2008, 2009, and also led the way to Trump taking the White House and all this other stuff, tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera. It's antithetical to the spirit of that movement because we don't believe in political aristocracy and we don't believe, i.e., we haven't fought in the streets for as long as we have against the old

establishment for New York people to make themselves the new establishment. And so there's, you know, there was a contingent from New York that was trying to, you know, get involved and going after some people in that 26th district for speaking out. And that made me angry because I don't like to see people try to big time in a district. I just, I really just rubs me the wrong way. And one of those guys worked with George Santos, right? He was like his right-hand guy. And he got real nasty about it. And, we exchanged some barbs on social media because George Santos had made this cameo where he was reading this discredited ridiculousness and accusing, you know, the mayor of my town, John Huffman,

of doing all of these egregious offenses, none of which were true. And so then I got a hold of George Santos. And I'm like, well, who paid for this cameo? Because, you know, I would hope that they would have, you know, would have at least disclosed that, you know, it's probably for a campaign. Or were you just, you know, used as a stooge for it? I'm just curious. Anyway, long story. short, after some back and forth barbs and all of this stuff, Santos came to dinner on Friday. Now, I've, I've never met him before. I had no idea, but I wanted him to meet the guy that he was, that he did the video after, and he apologized to him at the dinner. He was like, I didn't even know who I was making this for. It was anonymous.

I'm not on cameo, so I don't know how, sometimes I'm like, is it really anonymous, though? But he apologized, you know, profusely to Huffman and said that he was, you know, sorry that he just, you know, he just gets stuff all the time and he just reads whatever script is put in front of him. And he didn't know that it, you know, had caused such a problem because he, you know, was going after like the legitimate, you know, conservative candidate in the primary. And it was, you know, it was a, they basically made up, long story short. They, although Huffman didn't really have a problem with him, they made up. And Santos apologized.

And, you know, and I told him, I'm like, you know, it's one thing to have an opinion in politics, but to get involved in an area that you've never even been to. and that, you know, you don't even know the people involved. At some point, you can say to an extent that I was just reading a script. But then, you know, on the other end, you have to assume the consequence that goes along with just reading a script. And so, you know, he agreed on that. But so we parted an agreement. But he did apologize profusely and was very nice about it and realized the error of what he had done.

So that ended nicely because most stuff in primaries don't. Primaries can get super, which I've never understood because I'm like, are people not always on the same side? And I also, too, think that it should be the most conservative person who is electable who can win in that particular race. And I just think that people who've never worked in the private sector and have had literally everything provided to them, including political action committees and everything else. I just don't think that those people are the best fit to represent hardworking American taxpayers who are working. in the private sector and deserve to have someone with a work ethic that reflects theirs. And that's just, you know, this is kind of where I stand on it. So for the people who are asking, you know, what happened? Lorraine's got a great piece where she wrote a little bit more about it over at Substex. You should definitely check it out because it has some photos up there, up there as well of all of us together. Look at that. And now all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Canada has halted their controversial assisted suicide program for mentally ill people due to lack of doctors willing to participate. They offer euthanasia to terminally and chronically ill people. They were going to extend the program to those with mental illnesses, but it's divided Canadians, according to the New York Times. Some say it's due to a lack of adequate psychiatric care, etc. And it's just there's a lot of, it's sad.

It is sad. But the fact that there aren't enough doctors willing to participate, though, gives me a little bit of hope. So that's just the whole thing is sad. another dead whale on the beaches in Maryland. So this is apparently, this has been happening quite a bit. 37 humpback whales were discovered dead last year. It was the highest number ever recorded, according to federal data.

They said that the definitive cause they were unable to determine during the examination, and they're looking for, they said they sent the samples that they shipped out for diagnostic analysis. and they discovered another hump back just a few days ago, or actually January 16th of last month, beached in the exact same location. In NPS National Park Services, there was no obvious signs as to the cause of death. So some people are wondering if windmills,

the offshore windmills, some of are wondering that. Do you think that could actually be a thing? What, it kills the whales? Yeah. I think it's the actual, they had to do the survey of that sea floor. And in order to do that, they have to use high frequency sounds.

and I think that there's a lot of that that has to do with what we're seeing with these whales washing up on shore. Golly. This is sad. San Mateo County becomes the first in the U.S. to declare loneliness as a health emergency. It's because we're so tech where everybody's like so digital. You've got to go out and touch grass every now and then. They had a unanimous vote in San Mateo County in California by their board of supervisors to become the first county to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. and that was their supervisor says, quote, we have 45% of the people who find themselves lonely, suffer from loneliness. So what are you going to do?

If you say it's a health issue, what are you going to do? Like, what's your response to it? Stand next to them? Yeah, are you going to, like, going to go to people's houses? Like, what? I don't, it's like, I can't stand like these, you know, do nothing, do-gooder, you know, here's my virtue signal and they shine it at like a spotlight into the sky a la

all a Batman. I just, I don't get the point. What was the point of it? For those people still buying Girl Scout cookies, I know there was the whole thing with Planned Parenthood and all of that some years ago. I haven't had any since then. They apparently are going to be more expensive than they ever were before. Inflation hits everything.

So it's like, what, half a box of the lemonade's cookies is like $6. I don't even know what those cookies are because the only ones that mean anything are thin mints and everything else is trash. So the one that has on one side that like a lemony icing and it's a lemon cookie and it's got that logo stamped on it? thin mints are the only ones that count. This are good, too. Yeah. By the way, you can get thin mint tasting chocolate covered almonds at Costco in a giant plastic jug. I'm not telling you how I know this or how many of them I eat, which I'm not saying I do.

But they taste just like it. And it's an almond, so I tell myself it's healthier. And there's more protein involved. Tastes just like a giant jug. Like you can fit your head in the jug. It's that big. I'm not going to tell you how many I go through, but they're really delicious maybe. Let's see.

An Italian court ordered Getty images to remove photos of Michelangelo's David. I, okay, I'm for this because Getty itself is so litigious. I am all for them putting a boot up Getty's butt. I'm all for it. So they said that their Italian operation is facing a lawsuit for the Tribunal of Florence regarding their content depicting Michelangelo's David. They said they temporarily removed it from their local Italian websites, but they're convinced that the legitimacy of the conduct are unconvinced and they're going to contest it. So they said that it's basically an infringement. You can't, you know, they have to, you have to have proper appropriation, and it has to include the following words.

And we're protecting, they said they're protecting the cultural and heritage memory. I'm all for whatever Florence wants to do, because Getty will literally sue you if you so much as wink at one of their photos. So, I'm, all right. Now, speaking of Law & Order in New York, do you guys remember when Eric Adams was talking about that robot? Do you remember that little police bot that looked like that, gosh, I can't remember the name of it now. From Doctor Who, the little trash can with the toilet plunger. Dalek. Yeah. So they had these robot security cops, right? And they were these weird looking wallie type things. I don't know. And it said NYPD on it. And it was basically a security camera. And I think it could

talk to you in its little robot voice. And they unveiled a whole fleet of them. Remember, they spent a lot of money on this. And it was going to be, they put these NYPD bots in the transit system and the subway system. And now they're And Eric Adams gave this big speech where he said that these things are part of the fabric of our future and all that stuff. And they put, they had, he, he did a photo op with it. Can we stop doing the heart thing? Because I'm so tired of this where they do this because he did a photo where he did it with the robot. But he only had one part of it so it looked on. But now they're no longer being deployed.

Yeah, they're not, they're not using them anymore. I love this. It says, it's unclear whether the AI program was considered a success. What? But everyone talked about these things. Like, crime has risen in virtually every category in New York, even after these things were deployed. Now, they leased these, what they called fully autonomous bots for six months. I think was it 12,500 per bot? That's a good question. I feel like it was more than that. They called it a K-5 device. And it had the NYPD colors and all of this stuff.

And it can move at an astonishing speed of three miles per hour. What? Hmm. And they said that the robot, $12,500 robot, can capture video footage but not audio. And members of the public could press a button to report an emergency or ask questions. So in 2015, one of the robots knocked a baby to the ground and ran over its feet. Then there was in D.C. when another one of these robots, heeded itself into the fountain and a sad attempt at suicide.

And, yeah, it rolled itself. I love how it was described as the K-5 model rolled itself fatally into a fountain. There was some of the MTA employees said, they told the New York Post, we don't think they're working. They were saying, we don't think that they're actually working. They're just kind of sitting there. 400 pound egg shape thing. They go, one MTA worker said, I think it's just to scare people.

It didn't do a damn thing. Is what she said? That's what she told New York Post. It's so funny. They're like, we need police, not robots. And it worked 18-hour shifts. And then it had to go, I guess, get charged or something like that. And it just, I'm actually surprised they weren't graffitied.

I will say, I, you know, I was, I was wondering whether or not that was going to happen. But think about this. They're leasing them for $12,500 per month. And I'm assuming that's like one bot. Why would you lease a bot that can't even record audio? If somebody fell on the tracks, it can't do anything. It's not armed. It can't do nothing.

You could, for that amount, you could have two officers there. Or one really well-paid, really well-trained security guy at the busiest transit stops. Why? Do you see what I'm saying? Why? that is so dumb. You could have two well-trained dudes, and that would be a nice salary. What in the world?

I mean, like, not like, like, NYPD train. Like, you could have, like, spec-op dudes there. If it's that worrisome, if you can spend $12,500 for a stupid robot to patrol one transit system, then you can one-stop, then surely you could have, like, an actual person who can carry a gun and can save people if they fall on the tracks, right? that little bot can't do anything golly people said that it was a waste of taxpayer money

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