In this enlightening episode, we delve into the significant issue of SNAP fraud in Massachusetts and the broader implications of media coverage on these events. Our discussion questions the narratives presented by major news agencies and how overlooked details, like the background of the perpetrators, can change public perception. We also highlight the startling revelation of how fraud in one state compares economically to the entire GDP of other nations, underscoring the importance of transparency in media reporting.
00:00:58 Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth Podcast introduction
00:01:02 Massachusetts SNAP fraud and media coverage
00:06:26 Interview with Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan
00:08:35 Discussion on political commentary and ambition
00:34:34 Podcast outro and additional advertisement
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SPEAKER 06 :
Let me tell you guys this story. I don’t know if you saw this story from ABC. It’s a great ABC story, guys. Ready for it? Here’s the headline. Two Massachusetts men traffic nearly $7 million worth of benefits intended for people who cannot afford food, so it’s more snap fraud. Two Massachusetts men. So crazy, these Massachusetts men. These just random Massachusetts men. Just a couple of guys. Yeah, just a couple of people. I hate the autoplay ads. Just two of these dudes, like Maryland dads. Oh, wait a minute. Antonio Bonheur and Saul Alisme. Okay. All right. But wait. Massachusetts men? And nowhere, at nowhere in any point in the story, not only does ABC not share the photo of the perps, but it doesn’t tell you that they’re actually Haitian. Oh. Okay. I got a just quick question for everybody. Chat, check your maps. Just a quick question. Is Massachusetts and Haiti…
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m going to go with no on that one for 500. Are we sure?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Massachusetts. Or did they mean to say Haiti and they just said Massachusetts instead? I mean, you know, typo.
SPEAKER 11 :
One hell of a typo.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I mean, instead of writing Haitian, they said Massachusetts.
SPEAKER 11 :
Is there a fine line between typo and lying?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I don’t know. But not at any point. And it wasn’t just ABC. So four other news agents, none of the big news agencies even mentioned that they were literally from Haiti. And they were engaging in snap fraud. Seems like that’s kind of important to mention, especially when we’re talking about state after state after state, where you have people who are coming in and they are targeting these programs, exploiting them and using them to build taxpayers out of billions of dollars. In fact, to that point, I was reading that, let me pull this up, bear with me. So in Somalia, I think they had what a GDP of something like, what is it? Is it 17 billion? I have notes on this. Let me look this up. So essentially, the amount of taxpayer money that they defrauded taxpayers of in just Minnesota exceeds the entire GDP of Somalia. Yeah. Yeah. $18 billion in claims paid out. And that’s greater than the GDP of Somalia. That… Cain, that seems kind of importante.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I would say so.
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SPEAKER 12 :
I’ve got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how’s it going today? It’s going good, man.
SPEAKER 03 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It’s actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 03 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That’s Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America’s large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 06 :
I did not watch the, uh, I didn’t watch the live TP USA thing yesterday cause I was working. I had stuff to do. I was getting ready for today, et cetera. And then also getting ready for Christmas. But I, but I had, I caught a couple of clips and I was talking to my friend, Ben and I are friends and we talk, um, you know, we’re not like best friends where we, you know, uh, have house parties together or anything but we talk we have known him for over a decade actually 15 years now i’ve known him we kind of uh kind of grew up together he’s only a couple years younger than me we um sort of grew up together in this industry which is weird in this industry because these are people that i’ve seen people that i’ve known since they were like thin and wore bow ties or when they were a lot younger and less muscly or younger and they didn’t have gray hair i it’s just weird to grow just weird to be in an industry like this So I watched clips of it, and I really liked, I mean, I thought what Ben said needed to be said. And he’s exactly right. And it’s not just, you know, he’s, you know, he, well, let’s just play cut one. This is a quick cut. Listen.
SPEAKER 02 :
And the people who refuse to condemn Candace’s truly vicious attacks, and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice. Yes, cowardice. The fact that they have said nothing while Candace has been vomiting all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into the public square for years is just as cowardly.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it’s true, but it’s more than just cowardice. I would add it’s a lot more than just cowardice. It’s ruthless ambition. Because a lot of these people, they just want a slice of the digital pie at any cost. At any cost, even if that means debasing themselves and debasing the movement they’re grifting off of for their lifestyles. A lot of the people that are trying to weigh in on this now, these are people who were never in the streets with us. During the days of the Tea Party. These are the people who don’t know what heavy lifting in politics is. These are the people who’ve never gotten the threats and have never taken the arrows. Ever. That is who these people are. They’re opportunists. Or some of them just do commentary or some of them, you know, they these are that’s the difference between I would say people like myself and Ben and some of these others and then some of these other, you know, thought influencers and I would put Candace in that exact and Tucker in that exact same category. Reading copy that your producers prepare for you on cable news is not the same as authoring your own speeches and doing your own research and helping to pass issues, get people elected and stop bad candidates. There’s a big difference. And I say that because it’s like the people that have the least amount of skin in the game that want to control the game. And now that everything is shifting to digital, it’s just ruthless ambition. They realize that in order to be relevant, they have to be seen as kingmakers in terms of the movement. And they have to somehow create this veneer of having been part of the movement structure from the beginning, which they weren’t. It’s not about gatekeeping. It’s about questioning someone’s moral compass and their ethical consistency. And when you have people on your program, as I have had people on this program, when you’re bringing people on and you’re asking them questions, you have to make the determination. What are you doing? Who are you? Are you an activist serving only your own interests? Are you there to serve your audience’s interests? Because if you’re serving the interests of the audience, you need to be asking the questions that are going to help inform the audience, not just manipulate them. You know, going out and saying, well, you know, I don’t know, but I think we might be having war in Venezuela. I don’t know. That’s just manipulation. You’re not informing anyone. That’s just stupid. Some of these people are my friends. or that I’m friendly with, and I mean no ill will, but I’m not going to not say anything about it. I operate by kind of the book of Matthew. I’ll go to somebody privately first, and we’ll have that conversation privately. And then, you know, if they’re resistant or if they’re nasty, then, you know, we’ll have the discussion publicly. But it’s just, it’s incredibly disingenuous to, It’s all about it is ambition. It’s all about people who are trying to get a slice of the digital pie. Like when people go, oh, well, we’re just asking questions. You know, they they exclaim super defensively while literally not asking any questions at all whatsoever. How in the hell do you sit across from a Nazi twink who basically pleasured himself to Hitler and love Stalin? And not ask him about that. How do you sit across from a guy who called the wife of the vice president a jeet? A guy that would not be in office had you not helped him. And you not ask him about that. That’s what the audience is wanting to know. They’re wanting to know about the moral consistency. Not a, well, yeah, he said that. But no, they want moral consistency. And accountability is part of that. There’s no reconciliation without it either. And that’s biblical. Or they say, we don’t want to attack our side. I watched one commentator say, oh, I’m not going to attack our side. You know, Candace is like my sister. I’m not. But then went on like and did three videos attacking Ted Cruz. Or goes off on Mark Levin. What do you mean you don’t want to attack your side? You’re all about attacking your side. If you’re attacking the people that are trying to hold you accountable for the dumb ass things you’re saying. Yes, you are attacking your side. You traffic and attacking your side. In fact, all of Tucker Carlson’s episodes are about attacking our side. This is where I’m starting to get mad and where I’m starting to be like, you know what? May the burning bridge light my path. Let’s play cut for because this is ridiculous.
SPEAKER 08 :
What you’re watching now, attacking people on the, attacking millions of Americans because they’re Muslims? It’s disgusting. And I’m a Christian, I’m not a Muslim, I’m never gonna, I know there’s a lot of effort to claim I’m a secret jihadi, I’m not. You should not attack people on those grounds. And you’re seeing it from Republicans. What the hell are you doing? What you’re doing is trying to divide the country. And I’ve lived through 50 years of this crap. All these fake race wars that they’re always promoting. Who’s they?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, go hate each other. Who is they? First off, what do you mean who is they always promoting? Secondly, I couldn’t tell you were a Christian by your behavior. or by the demonstrated lack of understanding on scripture or the idea of calling people who interpret revelation differently, blasphemous and likening them to the demons that you fought in bed. I don’t, I don’t, that’s what gets me. The way that he put that is a disingenuous misrepresentation. That is the same argument that the left uses when they talk about deportation. You’re just deporting grandmas and tomato pickers. What are you doing? It’s the same formula. Disingenuously misrepresenting the number of Islamist terror attacks and the percentage of, you know, who are Islamist terrorists, which, by the way, is a way higher percentage than any other demo. Maliciously misrepresenting that as race hate is preposterous. and suicidal. So essentially what he’s saying is if you’re upset over Bondi Beach, then you’re a bigot. If you’re upset over the attacks on Christmas markets in Bavaria, in Brussels, in France, in London, in Spain, in Italy, if you’re upset over the attacks on Christmas markets, I guess you’re a bigot. If you’re upset about the acid attacks on women, I guess you’re a bigot. If you’re upset over female genital mutilation, you’re a bigot. If you’re upset over the Navy Yard shooting, you’re a bigot. If you’re upset over Fort Hood, you’re a bigot. I mean, that’s just the logic going all the way through to its final conclusion. Who is they? Don’t sit here and talk about people. They want you. They. Who the hell is they? If you’re going to present this, then you have not only a moral, ethical, but also an intellectual responsibility to define those whom you are accusing. Otherwise, I’m just assuming he’s talking about Jews. Who the hell is they? Oh, they with their race hate. They with their race war. Who is they? Because the only people perpetuating a race war are literal Islamists. This is just doing heavy lifting for the Islamification of the Western world. That’s all that is. They, with their race hate, lecturing the United States about hating Muslims. While you defend Qatar and act like it’s a Christian bastion. you know, where you can’t even worship amongst their over 95% slave labor population. You have to go to the outskirts of Doha where you can’t even erect a cross on the side of your building. You have to worship very quietly indoors and you can’t talk to anybody about it. And if you try to proselytize, oh my gosh, you could be killed. Who is they? Why wasn’t that ever answered? He sounded defensive and it was one of the worst things. I mean, I don’t think it was his brightest moment. I really don’t. And I thought what Ben said was correct. I mean, you know, especially over Nick Fuentes and other things. This is the problem. You know, having these debates on the right. Fine. No one’s talking about not having a debate, but you’re talking about ideas that were settled in 1945 with the blood of Americans. Entertaining the idea that was entertained on some of these podcasts was settled by the blood of our grandfathers in 1945. And you spit on that legacy by tickling the jimmies of the people who traffic this stuff. You’re no better than a westernized Bacabazi. And that’s an absolute truth. And the sad thing is, is they know it. And that’s one of the things that fuels their resentment. Imagine being reduced to defending the very thing that would debase you. Imagine being reduced to defending Islamism. I mean, imagine being reduced to political dancing for Islamist masters. And then you had Owens that posted yesterday that she thinks Shapiro’s more than ever involved with, you know, attacks on America, etc. I mean, just the insane stuff that she says. I don’t even remember her whole post. 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SPEAKER 12 :
I’ve got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how’s it going today? It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It’s actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 03 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That’s Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America’s large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 11 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick 5.
SPEAKER 06 :
Airports are bringing back Love Actually magic and allowing non-flyers through security lines for the first time in decades. This is interesting. Now, they said that this is in Britain. Well, actually, no, it’s in Oakland, too. Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport is the latest airport offering passes for non-ticketed guests to go past TSA checkpoints. And they have to be approved for the Oak Pass, O-A-K. That’s what the airport announced on Monday. It’s the first time since the 9-11 attacks that this has happened. They said that visitors can go through the TSA checkpoint with their digital pass. as well as their real ID or passport. They said they were trying to boost traffic to the airport, which has stagnated since the pandemic. And they said it’ll generate more people going. They want to make it the most convenient airport, etc. Seattle-Tacoma also did it. They started it back in 2018. Detroit began offering a destination pass. Now Philly has done the same thing. Several other airports have rolled out a guest pass system, like a hangout pass. It’s not a permanent program. And they you can get into you can go through and without having a plane ticket, just as long as you go through security, and you can get into the airport. So that’s actually that’s kind of helpful. Like if you’ve got like family members that need assistance, especially if they’re grumpy, and they don’t want assistance from the airport. You know, if you have that kind of stuff, it’s super helpful. It’s helpful. Like if you’re meeting family members that are a little younger, you know, like I remember before 9-11 going to the airport and getting my little cousins. So that’s that’s helpful. And let’s see Waymo. Oh, no. Another Waymo driving down the wrong street, literally on a busy highway, literally driving in Austin, Texas, down the wrong side of a highway. It’s like planes, trains, and automobiles. You’re going the wrong way. How does he know where we’re going? Okay. Oh, it drove right by. I mean, apparently, it blew past a school bus, even, right past the lights. And, you know, his kids were getting off the bus. We got to figure out this stuff. I’m just saying, every time we… I just hear all of these accidents involving these Waymo cars, right? Patriot Games. So the White House is revealing things to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, including the Patriot Games, where they’re having two Americans from every state compete. They’re going to have the UFC, biggest fireworks display in the world. I mean, they’re going to have a state fair on the National Mall, all kinds of stuff. It’s going to be it’s I think I actually may go there for this.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s going to be a party.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m saying that would be kind of cool to see in person. You know what I mean? Also, every New York City subway station is going to get spikes and paddles to combat fare evasion. And now they’re trying to say psychedelics might fix your depression. This was the mushroom thing that they were talking about. I mean, it’s not like getting high on drugs. It’s a very clinical thing. Do you guys like watch a lot of Netflix? I have Netflix because you have the Great British Baking Show that’s on it. So I watch that. That’s good.
SPEAKER 11 :
I use Netflix mostly for comedy.
SPEAKER 06 :
But they had a… Let me just read it. Netflix was going to come out with a gay military series called Bits. Not like the Rudyard Kipling boots.
SPEAKER 11 :
What’s it called?
SPEAKER 06 :
Bits. It was previously described as woke garbage. Let me just read it. Hang on. I’m going to pull this up because this was the official script from Netflix before it totally got canceled. It’s totally canceled. So it’s, there’s only so, oh my gosh, it’s so funny. There’s only like a couple of episodes. Oh man. It says, Boots follows the story of Cameron Cope, who plays Miles Heiser, a gay teen from Louisiana who’s bullied and finds no purpose and unexpected brotherhood. With his motley team of fellow recruits, That’s it. The show depicted the character’s experience joining under Clinton’s 1990s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which meant you could join the armed forces, but don’t gay it up. Right. You don’t need to go out, wake up every morning and go, I’m gay, gay, gay. You don’t need to do that. Just, you know, you go serve and do your job. Weird. I mean, because it’s like that in every other job, really, isn’t it? I mean, do you if you’re I don’t know if you’re a dentist, are you screaming at your patients? I’m gay. You know, I mean, you just show up and do your job. You’re not constantly regaling people with how you do to sex. Right. Like, why does everything have to be about how you have sex? If my mouthwash doesn’t affirm which door I enter, then, you know, I just don’t know if I can live my life. If you are so sensitive and fragile that you have to have inanimate objects with their packaging affirm your life, you might need help. So… The policy, you know, 93-2011. I love how they go. Well, critics largely praise the series. Boots earned a 90% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you don’t know what Rotten Tomatoes is, Rotten Tomatoes is a hellscape of people who never leave their house. They’re miserable. They hate you. They hate themselves. And they like the crappiest stuff out there ever. So if it has a great rating on Rotten Tomatoes, chances are it’s heinous. especially if it’s a horror film especially if it’s sci-fi especially if it’s history really anything all of it so it shows this guy like for instance he’s holding i mean he doesn’t even look like he has enough arm muscles to hold a gun number one uh his hair is way too long to even be in the military number two i mean sorry you’re not gonna have like a south korean k-pop hairdo and be in the US military. It’s not, you’re not an operator, you’re 18, it’s not how this is working. So the press, the Pentagon press secretary back in October told Entertainment Weekly that it was woke garbage. And they, critics on Rotten Tomatoes said, it’s a likable dramedy that explores masculinity and queerness to powerful effect. It’s not a war, it’s a queer war.
SPEAKER 11 :
But do we need to explore it? Like, what more do we need to explore in this subject?
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, the military is supposed to be about fighting. Not the other F word. Stop, Kane. I didn’t do it. But so they canceled it. Boots. Because it’s nobody’s going to who’s going to watch that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, we’re going to really miss that show, huh?
SPEAKER 06 :
In all of its four episodes? Gosh, I can’t believe. I mean, to your point, how many ways has this been explored?
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Has that topic been explored?
SPEAKER 11 :
That tends to be the way they market these things.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t think that you can explore it any more than it’s been explored. It’s a gay soldier. In this, it’s a gay soldier. It’s a gay soldier. Another gay soldier. It’s a movie, but a gay soldier. I mean, hell, Hallmark is gay soldier. I mean, everything is gay soldier. They’ve had a million of these. Gay cowboys, even. They’ve had a million. Just stop. What is the point? Steve goes, it’s fake and… Oh my gosh, I’m reading what Steve put in Slack. Steve put, fake and gay. Is he serving or serving… True. Just like nobody cares. I really feel like some gay activists still think it’s a big thing to go, I’m gay! Because most people are like, so? Like 99% of people, so? Because we’re living our lives and we just don’t care. That’s like somebody coming up and saying, I shaved my armpits today. Nobody cares. Literally nobody cares, right? You’re talking about just like nobody cares. Stop it. Why do people try to make you care about things that you don’t want to care about? I don’t like being forced to care about things I don’t want to care about, Cain. It makes me uncaring. It makes me a hate bear, not a care bear. The Grumpy was my favorite. He was underappreciated and underutilized.
SPEAKER 11 :
Was that the one with the storm cloud on the chest?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, he was my favorite. I had him when I was a kid. I loved Grumpy Bear. He was the best. He really did have a soft heart, but it was no nonsense. He was no nonsense. Anyway, to my point, there was no way I was even going to test this out because the promotional footage enough was bad. So like apparently there were even gay members of the military going, no way he carries that gun for any amount of distance with it. I mean, they were just shredding. It just looked bad. I mean, I think even when you have two gays that don’t like it because it’s too. What’s the word I’m looking for? Pandering. It’s, you know, it’s just super pandering. I don’t know. I’m looking at this and it’s just something else. I didn’t watch it. Did you even see it on Netflix? I didn’t even see it on Netflix.
SPEAKER 11 :
No. Any teasers for it? No, I haven’t seen it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I didn’t see anything on it. Which is weird if it got such a great rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I don’t think that Netflix promoted it enough. I think they were like, oh, it’s another Meghan Markle type content. Let’s hide this away.
SPEAKER 11 :
They have algorithms in their systems too that just shows when people are consuming similar content, they’re going to push that.
SPEAKER 06 :
My Netflix algorithm has no idea what is going on with me. It’s like, does she like baking or does she like anime or K dramas? We don’t even know. And then here’s some serial killer stuff.
SPEAKER 11 :
Mine’s like ancient aliens and comedy. It’s like they don’t even go together.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, mine’s all, it’s aliens, because I watch all my westerns like on Amazon and Paramount. So it’s aliens, baking, K-dramas, and, because K-dramas are wholesome, by the way. That’s some of the most wholesome stuff you can watch. K-dramas, and what was the other one? Oh, serial killer stuff. Not really serial, but like unsolved mysteries. Okay. The OG with Robert Stack. That man’s voice was terrifying and also amazing. So I don’t see any of that stuff. So maybe that’s why. It’s never going to show me. Here’s some gay military stuff. I mean, it’s literally the tags for it are gay military stuff. Nobody cares. Who made this? Like a baby boomer? Like a baby boomer. Like almost like an old elderly Gen Xer that still thinks this kind of stuff is relevant. I don’t know. Just odd. Super odd. So I’m not going to be watching that. None of us are going to be watching that.
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