The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Trump's VP Pick

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

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into custody and he's in Volusia County Branch Jail. Good heavens. This Florida man was arrested for assaulting a victim with a coral. Piece of coral. Okay. This was in Big Pine Key, Florida, 33-year-old. Wow. Why does he look so older than that? So much older. That's messed up. But they said the authorities said that they took him into custody. This guy, the suspect, what is with these names today? Newton Brungart That's actually his name. Brungart. So the victim got nine

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This is a weird one too. This Florida man was arrested after he broke into a Georgia home and made hot chocolate. I don't have any mugshot to give you. I know. It's a Florida man who went to Georgia, broke in to the house,

and made hot chocolate for himself. The deputies say they responded to a call about a suspicious dude knocking on doors. And one homeowner said when he came home, his drawer was unlocked, and he saw that someone had made a cup of hot chocolate before leaving the home. A second resident

went into his home and found the suspect in his kitchen, barefoot. And he told the victim to leave. The victim told him the man to leave. The man did not. So the victim called 911. The suspect only identified as the 44-year-old from Doral, Florida,

was taken to jail and burglary. Apparently, okay, how many people in Florida have hot chocolate? Because this guy drank hot chocolate at this first dude's house made himself some. Then broke into this other house, made himself some. Standing there at the damn sliding glass door, sipping hot chocolate while the homeowner comes in. I just think it's bizarre that, yes, he broke into two separate houses and made himself hot chocolate. But that two separate house, you're in Florida. Two separate houses had hot chocolate in Florida.

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The audience has been asked who they think would be a good, choice and various names came up. One of them was, of course, Vivek Ramoswamy. He's made a big splash. Ron DeSantis, who's making an appearance today in South Carolina, we just found out. Obviously, Tim Scott, Byron Donald's,

and a big presence here for Tulsi Gabbard. Very interesting. And Christenome as well, I should say. Are they all on your short list? And when can you So he says they're all on his short list.

That was Trump last night on Fox. And then he singled out Tim Scott, audio sound like won when he was asked. Check this out. And he pledged he was going to pick a female vice president in 2020. What qualities are you looking for in your vice presidential pick? Well, always the first quality has to be somebody that you think will be a good president. Because if something should happen, you have to have somebody that's going to be a great president.

A lot of people are talking. about that gentleman right over there. And he's been so great. He's been such a great advocate. I have to say, I don't, this is in a very positive way, Tim Scott. He has been much better for me than he was for himself. He's BLM light. If you guys remember the policing bill and all of that stuff that he did, he, like, gave a lot

of lip service to that. And that, to me, is no. I mean, he's real nice and all. And he campaigns like a nice guy. But he also, a lot of people viewed it as capitulation. Yeah, I'll go back and look at some of that. stuff with that policing bill. Tulsi Gabbard, no, hell no. What are people thinking? When the hell do people start going for anti-gun candidates? This is a woman who said who had backed, who had previously

voiced support for the assault weapons ban. What in the world? Jiminy Christmas, just because you can go on Fox and talk a good game without having to address her record, that makes people think that it's acceptable? No, I think he's just keeping it out there because he wants to keep the momentum. The reason I think he was talking about Tim Scott, Tim Scott being from South Carolina, you know what that does. that makes South Carolina voters like him more even though they're going for him over Haley Moore that he's just keeping that out there because he doesn't want any of these guys to go against him right before the side he wants to tie it up after South Carolina so very interesting very interesting but in terms of his VP pick and yeah some of the people that I think were shortlisted or knows welcome back to the show Dana Lash here with you top of this third hour can listen across the country, you can stream the radio program, the video component, channel 347, direct TV, YouTube, and Facebook as well. I think there's two people that I think, I think there are only two choices

for him when it concerns a vice presidential pick. Really, there's three, but one will not do it. And another one may not do it. I think that he has to pick a governor. And I think it would have to you could either look at Brian Kemp out of Georgia Brian Kemp will not do it Brian Kemp and Trump do not get along so it's not ever going to happen but you definitely lock in Georgia

now you might think Georgia's red Georgia's been red but you know Marjorie Taylor Green's district did not vote that way during that special election in 2020 when you had what's that one crazy dude down there Lynn Wood telling everyone not to vote and everyone went okay and they didn't go out to vote

and so we lost the Senate that happened. Yeah, that's just how it worked. I was down there, I know. It's not going to happen, but that would be, you know, that might not be bad. Might not be bad at all. But there's a lot of bad water there. And then, I think Sarah Huckabee-Sanders would be a good choice. That would definitely help him, I think, with more of the, his, more. More, of the, because you have conservatives and then you have Republicans. And I think a lot of the Republicans are already in. I think she would help with a lot of conservatives, if that makes sense. And then the other option is Ron DeSantis. And I think if I'm looking at this

strategically, it's a 50-50 double-edged sword for DeSantis to do that. But it's a 50-50 double-edged sword if he doesn't do it. because if he runs on that ticket and just say, let's just say that nobody does anything to change the polling, and then Democrats start spending their war chest, nothing changes in the RNC, they're broke, they can't bail Trump out, nobody's got any money to spend on ads. You have all these special interest groups and packs eating everything up, and everybody ends up having their backside handed to them, then DeSantis has that on his record. if he's the VP and Trump wins,

it all depends on how that term goes. Because it's only four years. Then we've got to do this again. We don't get eight years. It's just four years. And then it depends on how that term is. Because the left will then ratchet up and they will target DeSantis just as much. because if it's a, even if it's a mildly successful term,

DeSantis could easily pivot off of that and leverage himself in the White House. Because Democrats will not be able to raise up anyone other than Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer. Those are the only two they got. It's Amy Klobuchar is too unlikable. She might even be more unlikable than Hillary Clinton. I don't even think that's possible, but it may be. All they have is Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer. They don't have enough time to raise up anyone else so that,

would, if it's mildly successful, it would put DeSantis, he could run and he'd put him in the White House. And really, you could say the same for any governor. But the reason that I think it would be better for Georgia or Florida is because you have to look at the number of electoral votes and then whether or not you'd take that state anyway. You know what I mean? Would you take that state anyway? And would it be by a significant amount? do not think Florida's ever safe. Florida was pretty solid blue in 2012. Only just recently have they been flipping everything to red.

That's because of their gubernatorial leadership. So it's still a smart, but then at the same time, you can't have two guys from Florida running. So that's a strike against considering DeSantis for it. Because Trump is now based in Florida. You can't have two guys from Florida running. So it makes it a little less likely. But I think those are really your only options.

You can't have a Nikki Haley. Even though that might be attractive to some of Trump's insiders, and I'm hearing from folks that it is to some of the people inside his circle, because she can raise money and he's going to need it with all the legal stuff that he's got going on. He's going to have to, as Andy McCarthy said yesterday, he's going to have to be in trial every single day. He's already struggling with raising money. and we're in a period of inflation.

And I think the last quarter, what is it, he raised $43 million. His legal bills were $50 million. And the RNC's a mess. And a lot of state parties are broke. Nikki Haley's been raising in some cash. Just know if she ends up being the VP pick, that's why. That it will be the only reason why. Not kidding.

There are a lot of people opposed to it. but money talks. I'm just letting you know. That will be the only reason why. Now, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders is good, and I think she can raise money in that. And she, I think, is a good temper to him, personality-wise. But again, from Arkansas,

they're already going to vote Republican. You know, they have fewer electoral votes in some of the other states that he needs and needs to consider pulling from. So that's kind of a strike against it. But these other people, it's a joke. I know I've criticized Vivek Ramoswami. He seems like a nice guy. But no, you don't get to not participate in any of the biggest fights and literally donate to Democrats up until like 2017 and not really do anything and then decide that you want to

run and be the general of everything. No. You got to prove yourself in the trench before you can make the people trust you to follow you. That's how I look at it. I just don't follow people blindly. just because they seem to speak well or can, you know, set up these confrontations where they come out on top. I am just not that easily persuaded to just blindly follow somebody. I got to see them. I got to see a record from them. I got to see them in the trench. There is this idea that is becoming ever more prevalent on the right where the right will easily gamble on stability by going with unknowns who a heartbeat to go were far left and then decided to go far right.

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So a new AI video tool, we're going to talk about AI coming up, because I don't know you've seen the Google AI. Look, this is going to, this is emerging as the number one issue. I'm telling you is the bias that is being baked into AI. And the experiments with Google have been pretty eye-opening. But this AI video toolmaker by chat GP creators are worrying people. And they say that this new AI tool, it promises to create short videos from simple text commands. a lot of people are being are really upset over it.

Someone was saying that they can actually do a step above a storyboard in production for TV and film because you can give a prompt and even like video prompt, how you want the camera to come in and it will fill all of that in. And so OpenAI, they said that they're creating this text to video model that allows people to create

very realistic videos with simple prompts. Now, people are very nervous about it. They're nervous about it because video games They're going to be impacted by this. And also, at some point, I mean, are we going to retcon history? And we're going to talk about this coming up because that's exactly what Google AI is doing with all of this stuff. So a lot of people are right to be concerned about this. So I mentioned this earlier before, I think yesterday, Hawaii's going to, I guess they want to hurt their tourism industry.

They want to slap tourists with climate taxation. You have to preserve paradise. So if you visit, you're going to have to pay an additional $25 climate tax. because they say it's an assault on areas the area's natural resources. Your number one industry is tourism. And I think the Democrat leadership that doesn't know how to properly steward your resources or even deal with a wildfire is probably the number one threat and an assault on your state's resources, not the tourists who literally come and make your bread.

Oh my gosh. that's what the Hawaii governor, Josh Green, a moron, or Democrat, told the Wall Street Journal. This is so ridiculous. This is so stupid. And they said, well, we're going to follow other tourist hot spots like Greece and Venice. Well, in Venice, in Venice, they really can't, they're, it's, they can't have big cruise ships come in. I mean, they've changed the rules for that. There's a lot more, there's a lot more to say about this, but we got more to come. Stick with us. The Google AI, this is just wild. So they have been feeding Google AI. stuff, like different prompts to see what they came up with. They, they fed at a prompt the other day someone did about, like for instance, a friend of mine, Stephen L. Miller, not the Stephen Miller that worked with the Trump campaign, but a different one. Redstees on Twitter. He said, he entered a prompt, create a portrait of what happened at Tiananmen Square. And Google AI said, quote, well, I am able to generate images. I am unable to fulfill your request to create a

portrait of what happened at Tiananmen Square. This event is a sensitive and complex historical event with a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. It is important to approach this topic with respect and accuracy, and I'm not able to ensure that an image generated by me would adequately capture the nuance and gravity of the situation. That's literally what it said. For Tiananmen Square? It is bizarre. So there were people who asked it to create, I think it was, um, create a, for instance, a portrait of a professional boxer in 1920. It's Gemini. That's what they call it. And it shows like women, and they try to be so overly diverse. It's ridiculous. They said, for instance, Dave Burge said, create an image of a 1900 Alabama aristocrat with his antebellum mansion. And it featured an Asian man. It looks like it. It looks like a. he's from China, like, you know, early 1900s, and in front of a mansion and then a rich black woman in front of a mansion.

So if you didn't know history, that's what you would think, right? And they talked about NASCAR drivers. I mean, they did everything. They had been issuing, they did a prompted for like a recreation, a portrait of a traditional Roman soldier. and it created portrait of like it had like young women as Roman soldiers and Asian people as soldier. I'm like what, wait, what? That's like saying create a portrait of a traditional sumo wrestler and it shows you like a 105 pound girl. You know what I mean? Like it's that ridiculous. Like a 105 pound

white girl with blonde hair or show me a portrait of a traditional ninja. A 115 pound white girl with blonde hair blue eyes. Right? I mean that's like that's basically. what it's doing. It's so weird. And you can't, they are so tied into, this is the DEI that I was talking about. And nobody's really paying attention to it because there's all of this other stuff that's happening. I mean, AI is refusing to produce imagery because of any potential political, whatever, it's trying to be so completely modern era diverse that it actually will sacrifice history

to represent a modern diversity, which isn't reflective of history. And it also is the same AI that refuses to state that biological men are men and they cannot grow in birth babies. This is the same AI. So they have entirely historically inaccurate. renderings when you prompt it. They have anti-science answers when you prompt on that kind of stuff. I mean, they literally said, like for instance, someone said, generate an image of a Viking. Generate an image of a traditional Viking. And it showed me a female African warrior.

Or it showed this person. Or what looks like, honestly, this looks like a Japanese warrior. This looks like the Edo period. One of the images it showed. I'm like, that's not even, what is that even accurate? This is, but this is the problem. There's a lot of stuff that's going on. I'm telling you, thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast.

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