Join Dana as she dissects the recent surge in inflation and the media’s attempt to wrongfully place blame. Also, she navigates through the complexities of Biden’s controversial use of auto-pen signatures on important presidential pardons, questioning the implications of such actions. In this episode, Dana blends critical analysis with humor, offering listeners an engaging experience as she unpacks layers of political intrigue and absurdities that make up today’s headlines.
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He’s not the one to talk about anything. I mean, this is a guy that doesn’t seemingly want to own a suit, own a suit. I’m not really sure. But I don’t show up in hoodies when I’m going on the floor. And so the idea that you would say that we could not have a moment in which an influencer asked us to do this.
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Now, I’ll be perfectly honest with you and tell you that when she asked… She doesn’t show up in hoodies on the floor and he doesn’t show up with… Size 18 lashes on his eyes on the floor. Where it looks like he went and robbed a spider of their legs. Welcome back to the show. Top of the second hour. Really, nobody needs above a 14. Thank you. Ladies know guys are like, what? It’s like difference in like tools, right? Welcome back to the show. Dana Lashley, the top of the second hour. Democrats are at each other’s throats. I’m here for it. I love watching Democrats fight. Put that stuff up on Worldstar. There are like so many. Let’s just like have them body each other in a Twitter account. That’s all we need. They’re all mad. They’re mad. And they’re now lashing out. We’re at the what level would this be like of stages of grief?
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I’m trying to think they keep moving those goalposts to.
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Yeah, they yeah, they do. We I don’t know what stage of grief we’re at, but all I know is that Democrats are angry at the world and they’re now going after each other. So I wanted to highlight just some of this because it’s so adorable. So excited about it. So their their party has hit new polling. They got new polling out. The party’s hit a new low. A new low. In fact, they’re and this is from NBC, who love them. They said, quote, unlike in Trump’s first term, Democratic voters just say Democrat voters say two to one that they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done. They also noted that only 27 percent of registered Democrat voters have a positive view of their own party. It is the lowest positive rating NBC has recorded since 1990. Only 7%, 7% of registered Democrat voters say they have a positive view of their party. Wow. Wow. That made one pollster say, with numbers like these, the Democrat Party is not just in need of a rebrand. It needs to be rebooted. Now, they attribute… these lower poll numbers to fed up Democrats. According to data, after they watched their party lose to Trump in 2024, now they’re saying that they’re mad if… Some of them, they feel like their party’s not holding the line. Some of them, they feel like they’re more interested in fighting with Trump than delivering on what they voted for. And then some say they just want to fight. So… It is. It’s it’s pretty wild. In fact, Pete Aguilar out of California said, quote, When Trump wakes up in the morning and says you’re doing the right thing, Senate Democrats, we don’t feel that that’s the right place to be, is what he said. That was his direct quote. Oh, I love it. I love it. Now, contrast this. Contrast this with this polling. Highest approval ever that he’s ever had Trump. More Americans say the U.S. is on the right track than in any time in the past 20 years. Also an NBC poll. Oh, look at that. Same NBC poll or another one. Same outlet. They said that the he’s still now the only problem here. And I’m going to come back to this in a minute. Deals with the economy. But they said that according to the survey, they said that people are supporting his trade policy, 41% that oppose. They, a lot of key, they said 56% on the border, positive, 56% positive. Government cuts, 47%. Only 29 were opposed. Even like on Ukraine and NATO, he has some pretty good, he’s got pretty good polling. The only thing, And NBC notes that this is the first time that he’s lost a majority on this issue in an NBC poll is the economy. I have warned you guys over and over again. This is what it’s going to come down to. This is what Democrats are going to exploit to take back because they’re and they could. I want everyone to know Democrats could absolutely easily really take the House and midterms. And the Senate. They want to do it through the economy. I know. You’re like, wait a minute. How? With the same party that was lined up? Yes, because voters are fickle. It’s not something that they don’t look at the whole body of work and judge it. It always comes down to what have you done for me lately? 56% disapprove of Trump’s handling on the economy. That’s the first time they noted he’s lost a majority on this issue. He has not won over a majority of Americans on this yet. This is why I keep hammering the point home that they need to be out front and center messaging on tariffs, messaging on tax cuts. And I, again, I really think that the sequencing was wrong on this. I think you should have done tax cuts first. And then if you were going to do tariffs, then you do tariffs. But you have to have consumers need a shot in the arm. They’re overburdened. They’re overworked. They’re overtaxed. You can tariffs without a reduction of government spending and tax cuts will be an additional tax. That’s just the fact of the matter. Just like guys have schlongs. That is how this works. Right. We don’t trans the language of the economy to suit one side over the other. So that’s the realism of it. So now if they’re going to get tax cuts done, since they didn’t do it in the proper order, they need to be messaging on that hardcore. And Trump needs to be beating the heads, the brains out of the heads, politically speaking, of House members and Senate members to get this stuff done. Otherwise, midterms are gone. You can say hello to President Newsom in twenty eight. That’s not an idle threat. That’s just prognostication. That’s all that is. So the good news is that he’s got really good approval on all of these other issues, but the bad news is that he has not won over, at least according to this poll, and it’s a pretty decent poll, the economy. Well, so Lorraine says that the stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Democrats are at anger. So they’re at step two. Great. Great. Great. We still got bargaining depression to go through before they just accept it. How long will that take? I’m just wondering. Just wondering. So this is important to again hit Democrats, or Republicans rather, desperately, desperately, desperately need to get on the messaging. Now, with all this, you’ve had Schumer who has just been taking, he’s been throttled by his fellow Democrats because when they pass that CR to fund government, and I don’t know, I’m going to interrupt myself. I have no idea why Democrats were so mad about voting for the CR because it’s literally theirs. There are no changes. There are no cuts. What they did is they moved around certain quantities of cash to make it look like there was a modest cut, but there has not been a cut at all whatsoever. Tax cuts aren’t permanent. There’s not a single damn Doge cut. In fact, all of the cuts that Doge recommended, they’re still funding them until September. All the stuff with USAID, you know, the headlines that you see. No, it’s all still getting funded until September. Nothing has changed. So I don’t know why Democrats were were were screaming and crying because they still got their whole Democrat framework all the way up until September. You know, and Republicans were saying, well, we got to wait until we have, you know, we have to have 60 votes in the Senate to make sure this happens. That’s why we can’t do this now. So they’re going to wait till September when they still don’t have 60 votes. That was only ever an excuse. I hope you guys realize that you got played by the GOP establishment with us. Just so long as we all recognize what happened, we can move on. I, you know, I wasn’t screaming into the wind for nothing. So. Schumer, though, he was like, yeah, I’m going to go ahead and back this bill. And Democrats are mad. They weren’t mad when they literally voted for it back in what year? Remember? No, actually, December. It was like in December when this one passed. And remember, in December, this was after the election. Everyone said, no, we can’t do this bill. We can’t do the CR or have a budget bill. We got to do a CR. We’re going to wait until Congress, the new Congress, is seated. That was the excuse in December. Do you remember September? The excuse before that was we can’t do anything before the election. We got to wait. There’s always an excuse. Always, always. Spring is here and it’s the perfect time to refresh your yard with fast growing trees. The largest online nursery in the US with thousands of plants from fruit trees to privacy hedges tailored to your climate. They make landscaping easy and plus they’re alive and thrive guarantee ensures that your plants arrive healthy and ready to grow. I love how hassle-free the process is. You don’t have to get your car dirty. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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A man was set on fire in Times Square, surprisingly, leaving him horrifically burned. He was apparently a dude, torched a guy in Times Square early Sunday. It was a horrific attack. He used an accelerant off of a food cart. Golly, the guy looks horrible. He looks so, oh my God, I didn’t want to see the photo. The search for the attacker continues. He apparently knew the victim. grabbed something containing flammable liquid off a nearby cart, used it to torch the 45-year-old man just before 4 a.m. I mean, the guy was standing on the sidewalk, shirtless, huddled in a blue blanket. I mean, he is burned pretty bad. And they had him in an ambulance. The footage also showed cops talking to a female companion of the victim, but they’re searching for this person. It’s just horrible. New York City we’re gonna have to do New York City man a guy was caught in a viral video calmly eating a raw dead rat on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight guys zombie movies begin this way this is literally how it happens he’s on a Bronx sidewalk and he picks it up and just starts gnawing on it um It is one of the… I can’t. Dude, I can’t even. I’m done with this story because it’s so… I mean, the video, someone was recording it and they zoomed in and it’s horrible. I got to move because I’m going to get so sick reading this story. I’m not even kidding you. Apparently, walking backwards could be exercise that you need. They’re saying that there’s a benefit. I don’t know. I mean, maybe for balance, but there’s a million things that you can do for that, right?
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We’re talking about issuing preemptive pardons to these people. But was he aware of his signature being used on every single pardon? That’s a question you should ask the Biden White House. Is there any evidence on that that he wasn’t aware of it? You’re a reporter. You should find out. Sean.
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I actually like that. That’s true. That’s what you do. Oh, wait. I mean, if you started your career… rewriting aggregate stories for Daily Caller and I like Daily Caller but they I mean there’s an aggregation aspect of digital journalism that maybe investigative journalism you know isn’t your thing if you just get like stuff from producers I don’t know there’s a lot of people in the news like that they just like get handed packets by producers and they don’t actually go and investigate that has to change welcome back to the program Dana Lash with you top of this uh third hour on St. Paddy’s Day and uh Got a lot of stuff to discuss. Chats at Rumble, Channel 347, DirecTV. Don’t forget the podcast, which is the archive. So the question of, well, you’re a reporter. That’s what reporters do. Reporters are just like, we don’t know. We don’t know anything. They’ve forgotten how to report. They’ve forgotten how to investigate. They’ve… Or did they? They just didn’t want to. Because if it’s not there, then it doesn’t exist. If they didn’t investigate it and get evidence of it, then there’s nothing for them to report on. Then Democrats didn’t do anything bad. That’s kind of like my thinking on it, right? That’s sort of… Why wouldn’t you be interested in that? I mean, the story here is the auto-pin story. You guys are aware of this, right? The whole auto-pin. I’ve got a pin. The… I don’t know. Now they’re investigating… Because there was the question of, is Biden of sound mind, even like with the pardons? Is he of sound mind to do this? They found that he used an auto pin on Trump. like a good number of things, right? How many of the pardons did he use an auto pin on? Like a lot. A lot. Trump had posted and said that they are hereby declared void, this is caps lock, void, vacant, and of no further force or effect whatsoever. And apparently – so he’s saying that he didn’t – Trump says that Biden didn’t know anything about them. I don’t know if a president can revoke a pardon once it’s been issued. This has to do with Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. And I don’t know if there’s legal precedent on that. It just says, this just says, he shall have power to grant reprieves or pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. They have the issue of Bush revoking his own pardon over a guy, I think Red State had a story on Robert Toosey, a conviction making false statements to HUD. Bush revoked that. But that’s the same… president who issued that pardon who revoked it. So I don’t know the legal precedent of that. But Lorraine’s done. She’s looked at some of this and says that a lot of the signatures don’t look matchy-matchy. It is kind of weird. He did sign the pardon for Hunter. That wasn’t auto-penned. But I don’t know. The signatures are kind of weird looking. You know? I mean… There’s a lot of, like, apparently some of the pardons were signed on January 19th, 2025. The signer certified that they were signed in D.C., except Biden wasn’t in D.C. on January 19th, 2025. So why did they say they were certified D.C.? One reporter said… That that day, that’s when Biden was in South Carolina. He was at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston with Clyburn. And he was doing that as it was like a thank you visit to Clyburn. Because remember, Clyburn made Joe Biden. Clyburn delivered South Carolina. We’ve talked about that quite a bit. So I don’t know. I just I don’t know about the precedent for that. And then it does bring up questions. Did he even know? I mean, if they just had an auto pin and they’re just, you know, willy-nilly signing everything, I’m just curious as to how that works. But then the media being told, well, you know, you’re a reporter. Why don’t you find this stuff out? I don’t know. I don’t think that… I think the question is whether or not Biden was aware of it. Now… I’m of the mind. I think you need hard evidence of those first that he was. And I do think you have to have hard evidence.
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How do you get hard evidence that he was?
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I don’t know. That’s the thing. I don’t know. But you can’t say because a lot of things use auto pin like mortgage. I mean, there’s like important. I mean, what are you going to say? What are you going to say? Do it.
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The location matters. If you say if you’re on a legal document, whether it’s a mortgage or just a simple.
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That’s the caveat.
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Sales. the location matters. You can actually legally get out of a contract if it’s proven you weren’t in the area that the document says you were in at the time it was signed.
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I agree. Just the way it is. I agree. I’m curious about…
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There’s no way to prove whether or not he was or wasn’t. I mean, there’s a way to prove he was aware, but there’s no way to prove he wasn’t aware.
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There’s a video that I just saw. Actually, I’m looking at it now where they somebody took all of his signatures and they’re morphing it to his actual real signature. I could honestly watch that video for quite. It’s fascinating.
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I’m like, all the auto pen ones are exactly the same. And then the one for Hunter is obviously his signature in real life.
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Interesting. 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 podcasts.
