Denver has officially submitted its bid to host the “2030 Gay Games”. Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott joins us to react to Democrats’ claims of racial gerrymandering, the FBI’s search for House members who have left the state, and what he plans to do next.
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The Gay Games. I didn’t even know that they had these. You heard about those? The Gay Games. Oh, they do. Denver is wanting to host the 2030 Gay Games. They have a lot of sports with balls on here. Gay Games 2030. The Gay Games in 26 are going to be apparently in Spain. And that’s in Valencia, Spain. And, yeah, Denver’s inching closer to hosting the Gay Games, Cain. What do you?
SPEAKER 09 :
You couldn’t wait to do this, could you?
SPEAKER 02 :
This is a news story. It’s part of the news. I’m just, here’s my question. What makes the Gay Games different than other games?
SPEAKER 09 :
That was going to be my question. Are they still doing things like shot put?
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What would you like to know what some of the Gay Games are?
SPEAKER 09 :
High jump.
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Artistic swimming.
SPEAKER 09 :
What?
SPEAKER 02 :
Mm-hmm. Makes sense. I don’t know what the hell that is, but it’s a thing. I was trying to find out more about it on their website, but they literally don’t tell you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Synchronized swimming?
SPEAKER 02 :
I think it’s pink Speedos, from what I can understand.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think we all understand that’s probably.
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And body paint, and I don’t know what else. I guess that’s what that means.
SPEAKER 09 :
Swimmers are doing body paint?
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t know. Let me look at it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I feel like it’s a synchronized swimming thing, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
Like it would be, that is pretty gay. So let’s see the artistic gay games, this gay swimming or the, sorry, artistic swimming. Oh yeah. I guess it’s formally known as synchronized swimming.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. So yeah, it makes sense.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s a cultural event that promotes inclusion and diversity. You know, what does,
SPEAKER 09 :
So are they good at synchronizing their swimming or are they not? What does this have to do with diversity?
SPEAKER 02 :
No clue. I mean, do they… Fuck. Do they… Hang on. I got to ask a question. I got to pull this movie button. Do they stop and have breaks for… I just want to know. Yes, no?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know and I’m glad I don’t know. I’m not going to answer that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Just curious. Okay, so the artistic, sorry, synchronized. Why is it not called synchronized swimming anymore? That’s kind of dumb. Sorry, but that’s pretty gay. To stop calling it synchronized swimming and call it artistic swimming, that’s gay.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s totally gay. Totally gay. But you know why they would not call it synchronized swimming anymore? Because there’s very little synchronizing going on. is probably why. So instead of calling it horrible swimming, they’ll call it artistic swimming.
SPEAKER 02 :
All right, well, they got that. They have all the stuff with balls. Bowling, basket, badminton. Beach volleyball. They got all that. Cheerleading. The gay games. They got cheerleading. It’s pretty gay. They have dance sport. Oh, dodgeball. I would be rocking at dodgeball. But not in the gay games. Let’s see. Kickball. Again, all the balls. Pickleball. Soccer. Rugby. Softball. Let’s see. What else do they got? Wrestling. It’s going to be a popular one. The wrestling. It’s going to be a popular, popular sport. Basically, you got to wear pink. Everything I see, it’s like all variation on pink. But do they not have straight sports that do things like basketball and beach volleyball and things like that? Are those are those today? I’m just curious. Like, why do you have to have like a whole we have to have a whole sports competition based on how we have sex. But yet sex isn’t a part of the competition. It’s weird. I mean, that’s you know, it’s the gay games like you got to be gayer than everyone else. That’s what I’m assuming. Like, who is the gayest? That’s what the gay games is supposed to determine. Who is the gayest one of all? And I’m looking at this and I don’t see Beto O’Rourke competing in here. So I don’t even know how you can even have a competition without competing against one of the gayest people in politics. But, you know. Well, tell me that I’m wrong. Steve, you were the one who was very excited about this story. Shouldn’t it be who’s the gayest person ever? It’s the gay games. This is just boring. I don’t want to go see basketball because, honestly, it’s going to be people who can’t play as well. If I wanted to watch that, I’d watch WNBA. Come on. Which, by the way… Why is that, Dana? Well, maybe. You know how they do? I’m surprised Cornhole’s not on here. Do you know how they do? Well, that’s a competition. It’s like skee-ball. I can’t believe that’s not on here. That’s an actual competition.
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I’ve never ever won in commercials.
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Anyway, it’s not going to happen. We still have like 10 other minutes. It’s not going to happen. Not going to happen for you. Sorry, I’m going to run this right up to the clock.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s not time for the break yet, Steve?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, we got time. So anyway, my whole point was, speaking of WNBA, they’ve been throwing like… intimate items made of silicone, I think, whatever, onto the court. Neon green ones. Now it’s like a, it’s a meme now on social media. That could now, you could have that as a part of the competition. The phallus throwing onto the court.
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It’s like javelin.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like how far can you throw this phallus onto the WNBA court? Now that would be, I’d be like, you know what? That is a competition for the gay games. I get it. I get that, right?
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Not a game. I mean… That’s not a competition.
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Otherwise, this is just like JV stuff. I’m so bored. Like, don’t sit here and be like, it’s the gay games and then give me basketball. Okay? What? Don’t do the gay games and be like, well, here, guys, here’s some cycling. Well, yeah, cycling’s pretty gay. But that’s, you know, I was thinking more than that. You know, I’m just… Come on!
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Is the triple jump still a triple jump?
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Figure skating. That’s already gay. That’s already a gay games. We just assume. Johnny Weir? Hello?
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Wait, too long for this one.
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Are we going to get sued for that? Yeah. No, it’s only on radio. It’s the gay games. Featuring… badminton the phallus throw cornhole and esports they have esports those people are gonna just not be good at esports oh my gosh esports they’re gonna have a hole on for the love maybe straight people should take it over and just be really good on the sports so that way they get you know then just how what men are taking over women’s sports oh no it’s the straights they’re coming in wait is it are the gay games where women can outperform the men I really don’t know. I just imagine there’s a lot of glitter and pink. That would be… I’d watch that. And Speedos.
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I’d watch that.
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This is a basketball court, sir. Speedos are for swimming. No, Speedos are for everything. It’s the gay games. I’m just… It’s like a South Park episode. Flag football? That is gay. So, all right. Some of these I get. But I don’t know. I just don’t understand why it has to be its own thing. That’s like saying, here’s a bunch of, well, let me just throw out something. You know, like this is, it’s the redheaded sports. Only redheads. Redheaded esports. Redheaded beach volleyball. Redheaded artistic swimming. Redheaded badminton. You know what I mean? Or like people that have four toes. It’s the four-toed games. Four-toed ice hockey. Four-toed rugby. Four-toed tennis. I mean, things like that. You know what I mean? Why? Why do this? It’s the stupidest thing ever. The way the humans try to silo themselves off. I’m a part of this clique. I’m a part of this clique. They’re so desperate to be seen as being included into something that they would actually participate. I just don’t get it. I don’t get it.
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Is winning bronze in the gay game something to brag about?
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Yeah, I do wonder about those trophies. I mean, do they give medals? Do you get a trophy?
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Denver’s going to host it?
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Denver, where you immediately step off the airport and you are consumed by plumes of pot. And then there’s like questionably looking homeless people outside of every street corner. The last time I was in Denver, they were literally questionably looking homeless people outside of every street corner. And everywhere smelled like stank. It smelled like a skunk’s anus everywhere. It was horrible. Or Heineken, one of the two. I mean, the whole city smelled like Heineken.
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We can break now.
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No, we’re not going to break yet until I say we’re going to break. That’s just how it’s going to be. We’re going to roll in this, Kane.
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Pretty sure it’s time.
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A little warning to some European tourists near Slovakia. Apparently, a man wandering around wearing nothing but a balaclava and plastic clogs. Actually, he’s wearing Crocs. He’s wearing Crocs and a balaclava and nothing else. And he’s carrying an Intimate Times toy on a stick. has been scaring tourists while wandering around this historic castle in Slovakia. The unidentified intruder posed for a picture carrying his bizarre prop Monday near Giamis Castle. And that’s according to Slovakian television. He apologized to the female hikers who he scared the living daylights out of. Yeah, that’s about it. So he apparently was at the WNBA court and picked up one of them phalluses and taped it to a stick, and that’s what he’s doing. I’m not even making this up. Juan can’t even show you the picture because it’s disturbing. Eye bleach. Well, we haven’t. I don’t think we’re allowed that anymore. Also, we have Francis Ford Coppola rushed to a hospital in Italy. I read this last night. They don’t know whether or not he’s having surgery or not, but he was. He was there because one of his films, he was in Calabria with I think it was Megapolis that he was doing a screening of. And he was also scouting locations for a new movie, which he was going to start shooting in autumn. But he apparently some of the reports are saying that he was taken in for a planned operation in Rome. But then he was rushed to the ward earlier with an irregular heartbeat. So he’s hopefully everything is OK because we really like Francis Ford Coppola. Also, global outbreak fear surge is a virus in China. Once again, prompts quarantines and thousands of new cases are reported. We’re not doing it. I don’t care. Moving on. I don’t care. It’s a virus. We have viruses. Stop eating bats. Super easy. Aging spreads through the body like an infection. Now they’re saying a protein could be to blame. It’s protein HMGB1. And what do you say uh-oh for?
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Well, like a protein, not like a protein that you eat.
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One, they need to win more elections. For another, a reason why redistricting is happening the way that it is is because we are ensuring that the voters in the state of Texas are going to be able to vote for their candidate of choice. And four of the new districts we are creating are predominantly Hispanic. It just turns out those Hispanic voters chose to vote for President Trump. Those four districts will ensure that those who voted for President Trump are going to be able to vote for a Republican for the United States Congress. Democrats are losing the state of Texas to all voters, white, black, Hispanic, and their frustration is the losing. Second, let me go back to the way that you begin. You talked about a knife fight or whatever the Democrats are thinking or talking about they’re doing. You cannot have a fight if you run away. They have run away. They can’t reach us with a knife because they’re up in Illinois, in Chicago, of all places. I don’t know there’s a more gerrymandered state in the country than Illinois. So what a bunch of hypocrites they are. They’re not fighting. They’re drowning as we speak right now because they’re gonna be held hostage And they’re going to be criticized by the people of this state. The people of this state, they have to go to work every day. If they were to break quorum at their job and say, listen, I’m not coming into work this week. I’m going to go up to Illinois or New York. They would lose their job. These House members who are Democrats, some are going to be losing their jobs because they’re not showing up to do the work of the people of the state of Texas.
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That’s right. And they need to lose their jobs. I realize that if they’re absent from their seat for so many days, there’s certain things that come into play and certain things that can be done. In terms of defining what throwing the book at them over this would look like, what would that look like, Governor? What would be the absolute limit in terms of penalties that you could levy against these lawmakers?
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So we’ve dealt with quorum breaks before, and we’ve never thrown as much of a book against them as we are now. Here’s what we’re doing. One is we have arrest warrants out for all of them. If there are some in Texas, which I understand that there may be, the Texas Department of Public Safety is searching for them, will find them, and will arrest them and take them to the Texas Capitol. Those who are out of state think that they are beyond the reach of Texas law enforcement and that they may or may not be. But for one, when they come back, they’re not going to go to their cozy home. They will be arrested and taken to the Capitol. But know this is my understanding that the FBI is going to search for these derelict Texas House members in whatever state they may be in and help identify for them and maybe work with us to bring them back. Point one. Point two is these Democrats, they have received money and benefits at their request to support them while they’re gone. It is a direct violation of the Texas Constitution as well as Texas bribery laws for them to receive a benefit to skip a vote. They could be charged with second degree felony for committing bribery in the state of Texas. Third, and it happened yesterday. I filed a petition in the Texas Supreme Court that begins the removal process of these absconding Democrat members. And the Supreme Court responded immediately last night and told the leading Democrat in this cause, his name is Gene Wu, that he has to respond to my petition by Friday, where we’re going to begin the process of trying to remove these absconding Democrats from office.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s this is all good to hear, because you mentioned that they’ve done this is the third time they’ve done this in less than a decade. I think what was it a couple of years ago? This is the last time they fled. They fled the state, which is part of the pattern for them. We’re talking to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for those just joining. You mentioned something that’s incredibly important, the demographic of these districts, because they are predominantly Hispanic districts. And one of the things that we’ve seen more than any other voting bloc, governors, you’re well aware of the those voting blocs that are going towards Republicans. Hispanic Americans are really leading the way on that, more so than black Americans, more so than even women, college age, etc. It is a huge shift in this voting and this voting bloc. Obviously, that poses a threat to Democrats. They think that somehow by disenfranchising those voters, it’s that’s like a good way. That’s good politicking.
SPEAKER 08 :
And there are reasons for the shift that thankfully for Republicans, the Democrats have not yet figured out. It turns out it turns out Hispanics in Texas actually do not like open borders. Hispanics in Texas don’t like men playing in women’s sports. They don’t like transgender surgeries. They don’t like all the leftist crazy ideas that the Democrats stand for. And get this, Danny, you probably have covered this. The member from the U.S. congressional delegation from Illinois who went to another country and said, I think it was Guatemala or Mexico, she was more proud to be a Guatemalan than an American.
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Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Americans and Texans are fed up with that attitude by so many Democrats, whether they support Somalia, Guatemala, whatever the case may be. They need to be supporting the United States of America, period. And if not, they shouldn’t be a member of Congress. And why the Texas delegation dealing with a congressional based issue is up hanging out with members of Congress who are leftists like that. That’s damning for them and their future.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. I would I would even imagine, too, that their refusal to come back and do their jobs. I mean, this is one way to put it, because you got property tax relief that’s up to special session. You have recovery for Texas Hill Country, you know, for flood flood survivors. I mean, they’re putting all of that in jeopardy, getting that done. This session is, I mean, that correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that is correct. Dana, FYI, I am running ads in each of these districts of the missing Democrats talking about how we need to be solving the flood-based challenges our fellow Texans are facing, but we can’t do it right now because the candidate in whose district we are running the ad has left the state. And so their constituents are hearing about this as we speak right now. But as you point out, it’s more than just dealing with flood victims. It’s dealing with trying to cut property taxes. And there are so many issues that are so relevant to our fellow Texans. Our Texans care about those substantive issues, having their taxes cut more than the way the lines are drawn for Congress. Right.
SPEAKER 02 :
And these the gerrymandering that they the accusation that they use. Governor, I was looking at these districts and of the five most gerrymandered. I mean, it’s silly to talk when you look at the map. People, when they see this map, they laugh out loud. They can’t believe it’s real. Five of the most gerrymandered districts in the United States, the 32nd or 33rd and 35th districts in Texas gerrymandered. Democrat run. They look ridiculous, Governor. They look like a child’s drawing. That does not look like a district. I mean, I don’t know how anyone can make the argument that continuing to have a district gerrymandered is gerrymandering. I just wanted to get your last thoughts on that.
SPEAKER 08 :
So hopefully sometime you’ll be able to show your audience what District 35 looks like.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, it’s ridiculous. We’ve shown it before. Throw it up, Juan.
SPEAKER 08 :
So here’s the deal. It’s very appropriately named. So this is District 35 and is drawn down the line of Interstate 35. It connects Austin and San Antonio through I-35. That could not be a better named district, but it is… What the Democrats have in District 35, which is a Democrat district, is a horrible example of gerrymandering. And what we’re trying to do is to fix that, to consolidate the district, make it so that the voters in that district are a whole lot closer to each other.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, that makes sense. That’s a very sensible solution to all of this. So hopefully these Democrats, if they don’t come back, Will governor you’ll have law enforcement that will bring them back? Actually, I should say this is my last quick question. Can we just take I mean, we can just remove them from office. Can we not? I mean, I know states laws differ. Missouri’s is different from Texas, different from Oklahoma’s. We have that authority, though.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, and the authority exists is under a legal proceeding called Quo Warranto. My point, and I made this earlier, I began that process yesterday with a filing I made in the Texas Supreme Court to bring the Quo Warranto to remove them from office. But let me just make sure that you and your audience and the Democrats know what I’m about to tell you. And that is, regardless of all these different proceedings, we know one thing for absolute fact. We’re going to get these maps passed. It could be this week, could be next week, could be next month, could be in a couple of months. They are wasting their time and harming their own families and harming their constituents by failing to show up. We are going to get these maps passed. Get your tail back in the state of Texas. Do your job like every other Texan has to do their job and stop embarrassing yourself.
SPEAKER 02 :
There you go right there. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, he laid down the law. They can either come back or they’ll come back. One way or not, they’re going to come back. It can be easy or real easy. That’s how it’s going to be done. Governor, always a pleasure. Thank you for fighting on behalf of voters. We appreciate it. God bless.
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You too. 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.
