The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Zohran MA'AMdani's Weight Lifting

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

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Dana Lashes of Sur Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. Like Sands Through the Hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I took my grandson to see what was the movie with a buzz light. Toy Story? Not that one, but the same. Oh, the new buzz, the light year. I think it's called Lightyear. Yeah, with Kiki Palmer's in that movie.

Okay, okay. She plays like the daughter. So we're watching it, and the lady, which is, Kiki's mama. They move on into the space years. They move down the line. They're like, then she had a baby with a woman.

My grandson, in the middle of the movie, like, Papa Snoop, how does she have a baby with a woman? She's a woman. Oh, shit. I didn't come in for this shit. I just came to watch a damn movie.

Hey, man, watch the movie. Uh-uh. They just said, she and she had a baby. They both women's. How did she have a baby? The movie ain't over with. So it's like, it's fuck me.

I'm scared to go to the movies. Like, y'all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don't have an answer for. You know, he's not wrong. I think it's hysterical. And he's getting all kinds of hate for this, too. Why are they flaming him so hard for? I mean, it's not too.

It's true. I mean, there's different ways to to showcase things like that in film. But apparently what that film did is they just basically insinuated that it is the same as just a woman coupling and having a baby. And that's true. You want to go to a movie, especially for the kids'

movie, and you don't want to have to sit here and answer questions about this stuff. You want to escape. This is why, is that Disney movie? It's a Disney so damn garbage. They opened up a Pirates of the Caribbean bar somewhere. I saw this. I was almost going to include it in my headlines, but I'm like, they don't deserve it. You can open up however many Pirates bars you want to. You're trash. You're still trash. You're trash. You're

It's just nonsense. Nobody wants to have to answer those kind of questions. It's something that if people want to bring that up with their kids themselves on their own timelines, that's their right to do it. But incorporating things like this into kids movies where it's something that is way above their level of understanding. And there's a lot of nuance and a lot of, it's not for kids. It's not for kids. And it's not wrong to say that there are certain things that are just way age inappropriate. And that's one of them. I mean, how you move up in the polls. This is just so weak. Dude, you can't even level up for nothing. So this is Mam Danny.

What was this at the men's? I was looking for what the name of this event is. Some kind of, I don't know, men's health thing. And he shows up and he's trying to do a bench press. I can't tell what the hell the spotter's doing. There's like barely any weight on this thing. And the spotter is basically doing it for him. He's not letting it go.

Man Danny could not do it without that guy doing it for him. That is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen. And I made this mention, I told Kane this and I'm sorry, but I've got it. One of the reasons that you sit next to me and we talk every day is because I say the things you think. I don't know how this guy's wife looks at him after that and wants to sleep with him. I'm sorry. That's so, that was natural birth control that I just watched. That's, that is so sad. That's, I mean, I can lift that. That's, I can do that. That's, that's, oh, man, he should not struggle as a man that much with, basically it's just the bar at that point. I, I, I, and I get it that it was just this impromptu thing, right? I get it. But the spotter, like what, is the spotter trying to add, weight onto it. Now, just let me entertain this for a moment. Is the spotter to this ma'am Donnie stunt trying to add, like push down on him almost?

Who spots like that? Well, I guess he's used to spotting heavier weight because that's what you would do for somebody who's struggling with heavier weight. You want to make sure you've got one hand underneath, one hand over. I've just never, maybe it's because there's hard their way on it. There are some people that deadlift that way as well. I have never seen anything like that with just that kind of weight. what are those on there those aren't even 25s probably what is that on there? Oh yeah no if that I think those are maybe 20s yeah that's like those are the middle the mid size those could be 15s those are oh my gosh I mean at least help them out and put like the oh what is the one that everyone always says that they do

no the type of weightlifting where they cross-fed jee but geez so maybe they could help them out and put those weird little cross-fit rubber weights on that are like five pounds, but they're huge looking. And they made, they could have helped him out and done that at least. So that way he looked real. I would have done that if I was this guy. You know, I would have just kept the, you know, kept the Victorian freak show going and just put some fake ones on. That is just, it's so embarrassing. And I'm not the only one who saw that. Obviously, every, all of his, all of his competitors seized on it. Man, it was Brooklyn Men's Day is what it was. That's what I was looking for. Because at first, I was like, why is he doing this in the middle of the street? Did he just like walk over and, oh, your

lifting, let me lift. No, it was Brooklyn Men's Day. And I get the sense that he was not expecting to do those. He completed two assisted reps, men. He completed two assisted reps. I can hear the ribbing. All the guys in the audience are giving him right now from here. I feel it. I'm like, 200 reps. Oh my gosh. Two. Two reps. Two assisted reps. Wait, two sets? No, reps. man scrawny is what eric adams called him he goes the lifetime of hard work versus a silver spoon eric adams went out there and you mean just saying i can't believe i'm in a position of talking positively about eric adams this is why i hate the left look what they've done to us look at what they've done look what you did to my boy look what you did to us and even quomo got out there

so now they're all out there lifting ma'am danny that was I don't know. You don't go to a men's day event and celebrate masculinity. Like a. Okay. You know what they did? They saw the heck Seth and RFK Jr. video. And then they're like, you know, we have got to appeal to men.

Oh my gosh. Dude, you need to go on steroids stat. Like, why would you try to even do that? Oh, my gosh. I believe that this was an actual strategy. I'm not kidding. Oh, my gosh. Chairs are in the corner.

I, I, I just got to tell you I'm I feel like I'm not speaking for all ladies but I feel that I can speak

for enough of us sisters right enough of us especially as conservative ladies yes strength absolutely matters I'm not into the I'm not into the

beta shaped people you know what I mean or the man Danny shaped kind of people I want to feel like if our car was going off a cliff that my husband could hold onto a tree and then literally hold onto the car with one other hand

and then shoot another hand out of his neck and grab me and save it. I mean, I want to feel like that. I want to not be able to get my hands around your arms. That's what I want to do. And I don't care how you achieve it. I don't, my husband does not take steroids or anything. I don't care how it's achieved. I'm not throwing no shade on it if you do.

I'm just saying I don't want to be able to put my hands around my husband's waist or his arms or his legs. I don't want to do that. Now, I'm not saying I want you to be, you know, morbidly obese and 7,000 pounds, but I don't want to feel like we could wear the same shirt, right? I don't want to be the same size as you. I just, I'm the woman, you know, it's me. So I don't know. That is a big deal. And I, I'm very old school about this stuff. And I just feel like this dude is too femme, man. He's way too, he's a lady dude. He's, I watch this and I'm like,

that man's poor wife. Can I have something so inappropriate to say? Go ahead. I'm just going to say, I know why you call him ma'am, Donnie. No. Ma'am. It's ma'am, Donnie. You know what I wanted to say is can he

even lift I just, I'm asking for a friend inquiring minds. She's probably good. I mean, I don't want to be able to lift the same as my husband, right? I want to just collapse of exhaustion, just looking at the weight that my man does in the gym. You know what I mean?

I'm very old school about this stuff. So, I don't know. And when we're at the gym, my husband will spot me. I'm not even going to pretend that I can spot him. But, and he's just like with a finger. like, okay, and here I'm like, and I'm feeling pretty badass for a lady, I'm doing a lot, you know, and I'm just saying. So I looked at this and it hurt me. It hurt my soul. It hurt my heart. And I'm like, man, like, how would, like, how does his lady even get romantical with that? Is that mean? I can't get away from this subject. This is what is wrong with the left. You know,

why their birth rates have fallen? Because look at their damn men. Look at the men. Do you think that men could storm beaches? No. Do you think the men could fight off like a horde of invaders? No. Hell, they're tucking and calling themselves ladies. No, that's why the birth rates are falling because the men are ugly. They're weak and they're thin, thin alarms, little noodle arms, and then the women are bigger than the men. Stop it. Good night. I don't care who gets offended over that. It needs to be said. You know, we need to go back to that. Good heavens.

So, as you can imagine, now Cuomo's getting in on it. I don't, he'll bust a blood vessel in his face. Let's not do that. Is that going to play, though, with New York voters? I mean, that kind of stuff absolutely plays with me. But I'm not a New York voter. I'm not, you know, one of those people. I think at this point, if you're still living in New York, you're, you know, and it's,

and you have a choice of leaving. I don't know. It just feels like I don't, maybe it doesn't matter to them. Doesn't matter to them? Honestly, I think it was focus grouped and I couldn't be, you know, overjoyed more about the whole idea. Just laughing about this whole thing. They literally had a meeting and decided to do this. You know that they did.

Do you think that was just like some avant-garde thing that happened while he was getting a bagel or something? No. He wasn't out. No, no, no, no. They planned this. They actually, this was a strategy of theirs. It's amazing. I don't, and I swear I want to move off of this, but I also don't know any man that would allow another man unless he's lifting an ungodly amount of weight and going for like a PR.

I do not know anybody that would allow that kind of spotting. Like, dude, broke it off of it. I got this. Just like actually spot me. Don't like help me, you know. That's a good point. I don't know any man that would subject themselves to that publicly even. And Mandani was like, okay.

You can tell the dudes never lift. Look at his wrist. Look at the way he was lifting. Juan, you know that's right. My comfort is never this heavy. Juan's like, I could toss him up into the sky. Like, what is he doing? Juan could spin him on his finger.

It's just crazy. I don't know. That's the stuff that they're... Guys, we're going to have to... We're going to have to... Oh, gosh, help us all. I just realized this. We're embarking on a new type of

Democrat electioneering. they're going to pretend to be tough. God help us all. We are going to be subjected to this. This is why this keeps happening. They're like, look, we're talking tough. And then you got Newsom out there, almost stuttering when he drops an F-bomb because he's so unsure of himself. I don't know. This word's too explosive to come out of my mouth. I don't know. And I can't deal. And now they're going to try to outlift each other. Heaven help us all. Keltek, the PR-57. It is a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5-7, 40% lighter than the competition. if you're looking for something for concealed carry.

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58,000 U.S. home purchase agreements were canceled. Cancellations are most common in Texas and Florida. Home sales, they said, are falling through the highest rate in years. You got record prices, elevated mortgage rates, economic uncertainty. A lot of people are walking away. And so that's really destabilizing this whole market. This protest as a newborn has been removed from its mother in Greenland. I don't know if it's a boy or girl.

from the baby's mother in Greenland because they were saying that she underwent Danish authorities she underwent a parenting competence test and apparently I guess didn't pass it. That's kind of terrifying. The local municipality

took her baby into foster care. The mother who is 18 says she's only seen her daughter once. They said that even though there's a new law that bans the controversial psychometric assessment on people with Greenlandic back

grounds. This woman who was born to Greenlandic parents, et cetera, she gave birth to her daughter in Copenhagen and they apparently, they sent all the law that's clear. What? This is crazy. They said that they started testing her before the announcement that the ban was coming in. And then when they completed the test, the law was in force. But because I guess they started it before the law that banned those psychometric test went into effect. I guess it's considered like allowable. This is insane.

Again, big government. Big government, guys. This is what you get with it. This, a 92-year-old sprinter is said to have the muscle cells of someone who is in their 20s. That's crazy. She lives in Apagua, Italy. So like Apagua is, you know, it's like north of Venice.

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You not liking speech is not a reason to use the government to limit it. So that's, you know, we've got to think of this stuff as. well. This order that POTUS has put out where they want to prosecute people who burn the American flag and they want to reclassify it as being an action that is tantamount to fighting words. So they're trying to argue that it is unprotected speech because it's fighting words. And for you to understand that if you're just tuning in, we talked a little bit about this last hour, you have different forms of speech that are protected and speech that isn't protected. What that means is that you're protected from litigation. You're protected from the government persecuting you or prosecuting you. So libel, slander, defamation, and then fighting words. Fighting words is an interesting thing because it's specifically about incitement and incitement that is immediately trying to get a retaliatory response. And if you hear Wick, WIC is trying to interject in here.

He brought through his gate. He desperately wants to be a studio pub. I see you. We're talking about liable and defamation. These are issues you do not know about because you're a dog. He's confused. He's looking at me. So this idea of this being something that's this being fighting words,

I just don't think that's accurate. I don't think that's, I don't think that that's, I worry about reclassifying that. So, yeah, I worry about him reclassifying that. This is audio sound, well, no, that's Chicago. I don't want to play that. Four, four, four. Oh, four, four, so, no, that's not what we're, that's not.

No, that's not it. That's crime coverage. That's not the flags up. No. So this idea that you're going to reclassify this as being an unprotected form of speech. Again, I don't care how violent is. That's not the litmus as to whether or not it should be protected or not.

Here's one thing I sure as hell know. I don't want to hear from the left on this at all. I don't want to hear from the left on this at all. Because if you remember, we have had, I'm going to pull this up. We have had these issues where people have been charged for driving over pride flags, right? So they've been, there's one instance where you've had two kids. Do you remember this?

I think it was in like Florida where there were kids that had like their little bikes and they were driving across these crosswalks that had been painted like pride flags. And oh my gosh, they left tire marks. And so they were talking about charging these kids. There was a guy. This was in, let me pull this up because I had this story. I think this was like Delray Beach. No, well, here's one team.

This is the teen facing felony charges for leaving tire marks on alphabet pride intersection. I mean, they painted the pride flag on the street and people drive over. Can't where to cars go? On the street. Okay. Yeah, that's where they go. They go on the street. And when you drive over the street, sometimes you leave tire marks, especially if it's like a newly painted thing, which that was.

they were going to go after Delray Beach was going to go after this 19 year old because they said that he left tire marks on an intersection and thus that's considered vandalizing it. So the left has nothing to say about this. They've tried to go after people who have burned alphabet flags and all this other stuff for I don't know how long. The BLM stuff, they went after people who drove over like BLM things, whether it was like in New York or in Florida or California or wherever. So the left has no, nothing to stand on with this. I just think that this is a slippery slope, right? And Lorraine brings up a very good point for the people who are talking about the flag. I mean, I think there needs to be consistency. You're not supposed to wear it as a shirt. You're not supposed to write on it. You're not supposed to have, I mean, and we see that a lot.

Like you're not even, you're not, no, you're not supposed to have an American flag button up. No, that's like a repurposing of it. That's actually against flag code, U.S. flag code. But we've also had these cases, too, in 1990, as she notes, Texas v. Johnson. Now, this was, actually, it's in 1989, Texas v. Johnson, where the court has never held that desecration that is in any way done, that it amounts to incitement or fighting words. In fact, what they said, and this was the case, there are a car. of cases, Texas v. Johnson 89, United States v. Eichmann in 1990, both ruled that desecrating the American flag as a form of political protest is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First

Amendment. The court affirmed that while society may find flag burning offensive, the government cannot suppress this form of expression simply because of its controversial nature. And I think that that's true. This edict is not going to stand because it's going to get overturned in court. And we're going to have to spend tax dollars to litigate it. And that's what aggravates me. sorry, but we don't have that kind of, I mean, we're all taxed to death and we're broke. We don't have the time and the bandwidth to sit here and start trying to defend against litigation that should never even be happening because this is, I don't see, why this? Now, there are other things that I like that he's done, but I don't like this. I don't like this also because of everything that we all just went through the past eight years with different government agencies trying to silence people.

and trying to argue that you asking questions about Ivermectin online is tantamount to misinformation and that enough of this misinformation is going to be a threat to American health and that constitutes a national security threat. So that's why we, the government, are going to press upon these social media companies to shut people down that do this. We are all still living, many of us, with the consequences of those actions from the previous administration. You know, we went through the whole we had, I mean, I lost my damn social media accounts because I simply asked about the laptop story. I didn't even tweet the New York Post laptop story. I wrote about it on my newsletter and then I tweeted it out. But because it was about the laptop story, I ended up losing for

several days my social media accounts. They, I put a strike against me over at YouTube. I was briefly suspended on Instagram. I was briefly suspended on X. I got locked down. I was locked down. out in Facebook, YouTube. I mean, it was nuts, all because we were asking questions about a very legitimate thing. So I am absolutely completely a thousand percent against the administration

doing this. And again, that is completely separate from how vile you think flag burning is. Nobody likes flag burning. I think it's I don't know why people do it. I mean, it's the greatest nation in the land even with all of our problems. Still, it's heads and shoulders above everybody

else. And that's just, that's just the truth of it. That's, you don't even have to classify yourself as a nationalist to observe this accurately. But my point is, is that the flag burning is vile, but that's not, that is not justification to set a earth-shattering precedent that will affect so many aspects of American culture, law, et cetera, policy, because it's built on a dislike of something. Someone's dislike of it is not enough of a legitimate. reason to use the government to control it. And this is where I get very, very nervous with this stuff. There is no reason.

I don't know. I have something to add to it too because the way they described it today was like, well, if there's an incitement or some underlying crime, we can go after them and not run afoul of the First Amendment. And it's like, well, if that's the case, then we should be able to prosecute based on those other crimes. Why are we doing this with the flag burning? If there's property damage, you go after him for that.

If you're not supposed to be burning in a public place, no matter what it is, whether it sticks or a flag, there's an avenue there. Why do we have to do this and label it as an EO and a flag burning thing? And the other thing, too, is if this is going to be constituted as incitement, then what happens if someone's wearing a flag? No, what if you just have like a flag jacket on? A lot of people consider that to be very disrespectful.

full. I mean, I've seen people get mad because someone had an American flag beach towel and they laid on it. This was like several years ago. It was like on Instagram. What did in the top gun movie? And people get very upset. So is that going to all? Oh, that's incitement. Then how are we defining incitement? This is the problem that I have with us. It opens up so many other doors and you're setting up a dangerous, dangerous precedent. because if you can if you can define what incitement is just simply based on dislike of it I mean I hope that you all are prepared to weather the storm if we lose in 28 the hammer that will come down on conservatives if you allow the left that how the hell do you think that that's going to turn out if they ever get back in power these people are not thinking things through

this is what I'm saying you know going back to my original point you know, getting upset over Trump for crime, fighting crime. I mean, that's dumb. There's, there's things I don't agree with that require legitimate dissent because this is, this is an action of big government. And this is one of two moves that this administration has made in the past week that I don't agree with. They've done a lot that I agree with. But I also am not going to be held hostage and saying that, well, you have to agree with every single thing the administration does or you're not a, you're not a patriot. Well, that's un-American.

That's some red coat garbage. So that's reject that stuff. Because we're going to talk about the government taking ownership, taking a stake in Intel. I got problems with that, too. What in the hell is happening? This is where nationalism isn't bad, but there's too much of anything can be dangerous. 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 Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.

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