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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.

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Florida Man allegedly listed stolen rocks on Facebook using the photos from a construction site that they were stolen from. That doesn’t seem like that smart. By the way… I can’t pronounce what kind of rocks these were. Coquina? Coquina rocks? I don’t even know what that means. But he stole these rocks from a construction site, posted them for sale online using photos of them at the same site. Flaugher County Sheriff’s Office said deputies met with the victim on October 22nd. They reported seeing the rocks stolen from a Palm Coast construction site and then listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Facebook Marketplace listed the used photos of the rocks online. And detectives, I mean, seriously, he was just listening to all his charges. Grand theft, dealing in stolen property, unlawful use of a two-way communications device. He bonded out at $7,500.

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It’s like if I stole your car but took a picture of it first in your driveway in order to sell it online.

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He’s not the best. Speaking of rocks. What a segue. A Florida man was arrested for throwing rocks at marked police cards at their cars. Is he wanting to get arrested? It took place minutes after the guy was released from jail, too. He cost $3,700 worth of damage. I think he just wanted to go back into jail. He’s facing criminal mischief charges. Authorities say he intentionally threw rocks at two marked deputy patrol vehicles. and shattered the window of one, dented, oh yeah, there’s a lot of damage. They have some photos of it. Now he faces a criminal mischief charge and he’s back in jail. Nobody’s surprised with that. A police officer, somebody who was impersonating a police officer stole a Corvette at Hard Rocks Hollywood Casino. And apparently nobody thought to intervene because he was impersonating a cop and I guess dressed up as one. So the parking attendants told the police officer that a man, he was wearing clothing with Florida Department of Correction insignias. He jumped in a running Corvette and fled. It was at a valet stand. He jumped into a running Corvette and fled. And one of the attendants said that’s not his car. And the driver, Angel Diaz of Miami Gardens 60, he was seen smoking a joint as he sped away. It is like a movie. They finally got him. He’s got Grand Theft Auto, impersonating law enforcement, trespassing, tampering with physical evidence. So he at least has three felonies. He’s got a long rap sheet, by the way. It’s the folks over at Kel-Tec. You guys are very familiar with Kel-Tec, Florida-based company. They have a peacekeepers program that they’re doing. It supports people who protect our community’s military and law enforcement, insured security teams and school resource officers. Faith-based teams and SROs often rely on small concealable pistols that have limited range and power. So Kel-Tec is offering long guns to solve that problem, folding compact for discrete carry and deploying in seconds with full rifle capability. Their participants also get mission-ready support like extra platform testing, armor training, and direct peacekeepers pricing for those budget conscious organizations it’s already active the program so they’ve equipped over a dozen a couple dozen churches throughout the faith-based security network in every brevard county school and they’re working with the faith-based security network giving members access to all of this training security insights and mission ready tools so that are tailored to those faith environments if you’re interested in the new peacekeepers program Use the contact form at caltechweapons.com slash Dana. That’s caltechweapons.com slash Dana. I wanted to play this because this was really unfortunate last night. This is cut on that, and then we’re going to move on to some of this other stuff with the election. This is cut 24. This is a podcaster defending, I guess, Nick Fuentes. Listen.

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So blinded by your ridiculous, insane hatred of Tucker Carlson that you cannot see how irresponsible and hypocritical you are being. I mean, these tweets from Ted Cruz, I’m going to read you next, are a great example of this. So just a month ago, he tweeted this. He said, they don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so they can kill you. Political violence is a left wing phenomenon. Enough is enough. We need to shut it down. And then in response to Fuentes and Tucker this week, he tweeted this. Trump’s bombing of the Ayatollah’s nuclear facilities made the little Nazi mad. Good. So now you’re turning around and you’re calling somebody that you don’t like a Nazi. You’re doing this out of blind rage because you’re so angry that conservative base’s attitudes are rapidly changing that Nick Fuentes is getting national attention. And so you have turned around in response. You are compromising your own values and anger, which is such a dangerous precedent.

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I get the jump cuts all the time, but I think this is a podcaster named Brett Cooper. I think she needs to take a deep breath and slow her voice down. Because that’s a lot. But number one, Nick Fuentes literally said repeatedly that he was a Nazi and that he said that he was Hitler. And if she was unaware of this before she recorded that, that’s part of the problem. You can’t be miles wide and inches deep in politics. If you’re going to get out here and talk about this stuff, you know, you don’t make the mistake that Kevin Roberts did and be unaware of what was said before you make a video. Because otherwise it looks really bad. And we’re citing the stuff that has actually literally been said by these people with their own mouths. So if somebody comes up to you and they say that they’re a Leninist and that they love Lenin and they think Lenin was great and that Lenin’s policies were fabulous and they make video after video where it’s not just a cut or it’s not just one thing that might not be in context, like hour-long videos where they discuss it. in-depth how much they love Lenin, how much they love Lenin’s policies, how they think Lenin could do so many great things in the United States. It’s fair to call them a Leninist. It’s fair to call them a communist. It’s fair to call them a Soviet. So On that same hand, if you have someone who has spent literal hours on camera talking about Nazis, how much they like them, how much they wish those policies could be implemented in the United States, if they have tweeted out that they were Team Hitler, if they have tweeted out that why can’t Nazism work here, a number of other things, it’s pretty fair to call them by what they choose to identify as, which is a Nazi. And making a very, you know, I mean, take a breath so that people know what you’re saying. Making a video to where you’re just like motor mouthing through it with jump cuts, that’s not, without having apparently known all of this, is not great. It was really disappointing to see. But this is why we need to have people understand history so that they know who these people in history are and the things that they’ve done. So, and of course, you know, you have her coming out and then Fuentes was like, she’s great. She’s a griper, all this stuff. I’m like, oh boy. So there’s a, you know, another one for his griper army. Just really unfortunate to see, but I think it’s desperately unfair. And it seems like it’s clout chasing to accuse someone of correctly identifying someone as they have verbatim with their own mouths identified themselves. So there we are. And that’s all I’ll say on that. But I made the point last night because I saw a number of Graper, that’s what they call Nick Fuentes’ acolytes, influencers, try to blame the reaction to all of this for the losses last night. I got Matt Gaetz almost stepped in it with me this morning. And there’s a reason why Matt Gaetz had to leave his elected office and why he will never run for elected office again, because remember that investigation that they started and then he inoculated himself by stepping aside so that the ethics committee couldn’t investigate him longer. There’s a reason why he stepped out of his seat and it wasn’t due to just saying it’s not something that an innocent person I would think would do. But the point of this is that there were these influencers that were running around saying, blaming all of the people who. had a single criticism of the Fuentes interview and criticizing Fuentes for his admitted Nazism. And remember, Fuentes also hates Trump, and he actively campaigned against him in 2024. And all the people that were criticizing that, people like Jack Posobiec, I don’t know what his last name is, some of these other people, they were out there blaming all of those voters, saying, well, you guys cost the election last night, which seemed really… Just even if you don’t have a dog in the fight, I wouldn’t want anyone giving me political advice that is myopic enough to believe something like that. Because as I said, they’re ignoring kitchen table issues. And if you’re not going to pay attention to those issues, the real motivating issues for why people voted the way that they did, then you’re never going to win another election. And neither would anybody that would pay you to advise them either. So the point of this is I mentioned, I said, wow, how did I put it last night? Let me look. I had said, uh, With this, I tweeted, I guess it was last night, I said, thank goodness so many podcast hosts spent so much time hosting and defending Nazi twinks rather than host Winsome Earl Sears or Jack Cittarelli or Jason Meares or even talk redistricting. They were so helpful to the movement tonight because I saw a ton of tweets blaming the people who objected to Nick Fuentes. And then Matt Gaetz decided that he was going to step in it. And he says, hi, Dana, are you really suggesting that these candidates lost because podcasters didn’t do enough for them? And I responded, don’t make me your huckleberry, by the way. I said, hi, Matt. I guess you didn’t pay much attention if you missed these exact same things being said ad nauseum all of last night, prompting this response. Looks like you may have missed something. You know, it’s okay to blame people who reacted to a softball interview, but not to question the timing of a softball interview. I mean, Tucker Carlson never once had any of the people I mentioned on his show. Why didn’t anyone ask why Tucker Carlson never had Winsome Earl Sears on his show? Why has he never done a single show where he talked about Jay Jones? He’s never talked about Jay Jones ever. Don’t you think that’s pretty significant considering what happened in September? Because I do. But yet the people who criticized him spending his time talking about Fuentes and not any of the things I just mentioned, those are the people that are getting criticized by the people who hope that some of Carlson’s money falls on them. And that’s what this is all about. You know, because he has this Tucker Carlson media network and a lot of these people are angling for jobs there. And that’s the truth of it. There’s a lot of moving pieces here that you have to realize with this. And it’s true. There’s it’s more than just power jockeying to lead the Republican Party. It’s power jockeying with the consultancy class. 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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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So first up, a UPS plane crashed near the Louisville airport last night. This was the video looked just horrific. And a lot of the photos as well. A U.S. MD-11 plane crashed shortly after takeoff. According to the FAA, it was just after 5 p.m. local time. It was headed to an airport in Honolulu. The crash is being investigated along with the National Transportation Safety Board that is leading it. Three crew members were on the plane. Apparently, there weren’t any fatalities. But they had a massive plume of black smoke that could be seen for quite a long distance. A lot of photos of that as well. Another reason the Fed should lower rates affordability was push the U.S. median first-time homebuyer to age 40. And not only should the Fed lower rates, but we should have and even more i mean we need to be cutting taxes for people right now we need to be stopping government spending which you know the only reason we aren’t right now is because of a shutdown we haven’t done anything to reduce government spending which is one of the reasons why people are saying that we can’t lower taxes because of the government spending and so until we get a handle on how government is operating uh you know the fed can do whatever it’s going to do and it’s not going to matter much unfortunately that’s the position that we’re in and if people don’t believe it then tell all the folks who voted that last night Also, a first-of-its-kind AI food pantry opens in Brooklyn. I don’t trust AI anything. It’s the future. They’re saying it may be the future of fighting hunger. Wait until Ma’am Donnie shuts it down. It’s the Met Council unveiled a state-of-the-art pantry warehouse. They said it’s the first AI warehouse and pantry, 22,000 square feet. And they said that it’s helping with efficiency. And it can tell you which pantries need more food, which need less food, which have specific needs. It sounds like a database more so than AI, but there it is. an oakland mom and her teen daughter were arrested in a rubber mallet attack at a downtown cafe in oakland this is weird a mallet a rubber mallet she was arrested and charged with attacking another woman robbing the victim of a cell phone and contributing to the delinquency of her two daughters who allegedly joined in the attack you know because the family that hits people with a rubber mallet together stays together apparently when she uh she was arrested She’s 37. She said that the victim had started the altercation by using racial slurs and then filming them. And she said that she then hit her with a mallet, ripped out her hair, and took her phone. The phone was found in her possession. And one of the daughters was seen swinging the mallet on cafe surveillance footage, which didn’t exactly support what the mother was saying there, what she was alleging. This is exciting because the first mummy was fantastic. Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are apparently teaming up for a fourth mummy movie. They said it had been in the plans and the works for decades and that they are reuniting. The first one came out in 1999. The second one was really good, too, in 2001. But Frazier alone did 2008, and it was all right. The one in 2017 did not have the same draw. So now they’re talking about bringing those two back. That’s going to be interesting. I think they both… That would be nice nostalgia. We need something a little nice, do we not? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. The former Transportation Secretary, Secretary New Dad, Poop Booty Juice. Well… he wasn’t a very good secretary of transportation. I mean, I really don’t know what he knew about transportation other than he was the one-time mayor of South Bend and he was also the vice admiral, rear vice admiral of the canoe fleet at Camp Wimpy Tonka. And he liked buses, you know, couldn’t fill a pothole to save his life though. And his agency, while he was at Department of Transportation, his agency apparently spent $80 billion on DEI grants, and apparently it delayed air traffic control upgrades. Huh. Now, you know he wants to run for president in 2028. He’s very much like he’s on board with that. But apparently, yeah, he is eyeing a 2028 presidential run. He told executives that air traffic controls control upgrades would allow them to fly more planes, and so why would that be in his interest, sources said. They handed out over $80 billion over four years. That was half of all of the Department of Transportation’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, according to records. They said, yes, he was definitely pushing an agenda. And he apparently had, quote, little to no interest and took zero action towards air traffic control modernization. Oh, my gosh. The safety system that hasn’t been updated since the Carter administration. And he did nothing there. What do you mean? Don’t you think? OK, this might be a naive question. But if you’re going to be the transportation secretary, shouldn’t you at least have some sort of working knowledge about how the hell it works? I don’t know how Department of Transportation works. I know that they’re supposed to handle stuff like that. Right. And he didn’t do it. Remember, he was also how long was he gone? He was like gone eight weeks. after he purchased some babies, he was gone for eight weeks for maternity leave. The best, the cherry on the top was when they both got into like, like pajamas and sat in a hospital bed. Like they pushed the baby out of their birth canals themselves. And he, uh, did not take any questions. He was basic, not basically, he was MIA according to people within the department of transportation. If you remember, uh, while we had the supply chain crisis and all that stuff, he was nowhere to be found. So the Booty Juice’s spokesperson, Chris Meager, of course his name is Meager, his Meager spokesman said, no, no, no. I mean, there was some like new flight routes and stuff that was added. What are you talking about? They had an air traffic controller shortage apparently and they weren’t upgrading systems and he was doing nothing to… help with that according to all of these insiders that are blowing the whistle on him right now uh the uh 80 billion in 80 billion 80 billion dollars on dei grants isn’t the the thing with delta that happened over the weekend wasn’t that said to have done weren’t people complaining about um DEI also, where they had a pilot that had to take aggressive maneuvers and all this stuff because they got too close to this other jet. A lot of people have been talking about the air traffic control industry and how they need more actual competent air traffic controllers. So I mean, apparently he didn’t do a whole hell of a lot over at Cain. He didn’t do anything. I mean, what is the point of having the department if you’re not doing anything that has to do with transportation? What does DEI have to do with this?

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You know, if I spent $80 billion, even just $80 billion in that department, which, by the way, more was spent. I would have something to show for it. I would say, hey, look at this. Look at this thing I did with 80 billion. What does he have to show for it? Because there’s no improvements in the Department of Transportation as it relates to air traffic control. So what do you do?

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Yeah, absolutely nothing. The focus of his, it says under Buttigieg, the focus of the department shifted dramatically. They had 400 DEI-related grants approved, and that was an audit of federal spending between 2021 and 2024. Grants for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. They said that programs like Justice 40, which sent about 55% of about $150 billion in infrastructure investments to quote-unquote disadvantaged communities pursuant to an executive order that Biden signed to quote, advance equitable outcomes. So that’s the Justice 40. Justice 40 initiative, they say the categories of investment are climate change, clean energy, energy efficiency, sustainable and affordable housing, remediation, legacy pollution, What? That’s, that’s what they’re, that’s what they’re, yeah. And this was Biden’s 21-1.2 infrastructure law. Five billion equity. That was, by the way, that part of that money, do you guys remember the, oh my gosh, this is one of my craziest stories. The electrical, the electric vehicle charging stations, do you guys remember that? So they only built seven. Seven. Seven. like seven by june of 2024 and that was a five billion dollar equity effort they were supposed to build 500 000 electric vehicle charging stations and it only and only seven were built now you might be like well what is that what do you what do you mean equitable what is the equity effort the equitable effort what does that mean okay so I remember we had this story. Let me just bring it back up because it’s been almost a year ago. Let me just bring this back up to you. So they had this program where they were supposed to build like half a million of these charging stations. They only did seven of them. And the people in DOT or in departments in which they fall under the purview of Department of Transportation, like the Federal Highway Administration, et cetera, et cetera, they were the ones who started talking to the press about it. And the reason being is because of that equitable thing, that little equitable equity word in there that I had mentioned. they were not a lot… Remember, they had all these requirements if you were going to build a charging station. You had to be minority-owned and you had to have X amount of minorities. It wasn’t enough to be minority-owned. If you were a black business owner but you didn’t have enough minorities on your staff, then you were not considered. I mean, that’s how crazy it was. And you had to have an interpreter. And they did… Oh, my gosh. What was it? Block parties. Remember all this stuff? And people were saying, you’re not going to be able… To get anything built with this with these type of requirements, you’re not going to be able to get anything built. And it actually. I mean, it was blamed for holding all of this back. There were all of these secret documents that came out. Daily Caller had a big thing on it. And so did the Free Beacon. And they were reporting on how. All these internal documents showed how all of these stupid DEI demands made it impossible to. I mean, I’m surprised they got seven built. Honestly, it was described as a, quote, mess. And it said that the DEI requirements were hamstringing Biden’s EV agenda. And that was why they were behind the charging station goals. And I’m saying this because this is all part of this $80 billion, apparently, that Poot Booty Juice was just giving away to DEI stuff. That’s how bad it was. You had to show neighborhood initiatives. If you held a block party and all that. What the hell are you doing? You’re building an EV state. You’re building a damn charging station. Meaningful public involvement. Now, it wasn’t enough to do it a one-off. You had to prove that this would occur throughout the project’s life cycle. They never actually meant, they never actually defined what public involvement was, but they just gave, the reason I said block parties is because they gave that as an example. The Department of Transportation documents. By the way, all this is on the internet. That’s the stuff. Yeah. Visual preference surveys, games and contests, neighborhood block parties. Those were some of the examples that they gave and that the grant recipient had to provide multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use language other than English. So it wasn’t even that you had to have an interpreter for your employees. You literally had to employ an interpreter to talk to the community. You, the person building the EV charging station. So Kane, if Kane had a company that wanted to that was bidding for a contract to build a charging station they’d be like okay well you’re half hispanic i guess that’s half enough um how many uh people of color do you have in your staff how many minorities do you have on your staff and if he didn’t have enough minorities on his staff he wouldn’t be considered if he did then he had to further show that he had an interpreter on staff not even to deal with his own employees but to just talk with the community He would have to prove that they were doing all these events and stuff for the community as part of the, quote, meaningful public involvement that was never defined but was only really only showcased by examples of which block parties were mentioned. You would have to do all of that. even the sourcing of the materials that you used, you had to make a good faith effort to show that you were getting sourcing for your production from other minority owned or disadvantaged, minority owned companies or companies in disadvantaged areas. Wrap your head around that. Wrap your head around that. Why do you think we only had seven of these damn things built? This was under Poot Booty Juice. And people in Department of Transportation were like this, like actual other leftists were like, this is the stupidest that we’ve ever seen. They said, you are hamstringing this. Hamstringing it. Meanwhile, Department of Transportation is out there going, well, since Biden took office, the public public available charging ports have grown wildly. It’s grown like over 90 percent. Not because of you. Not because of you. So this was just a slush fund. DEI is just a slush fund. All it is is another way to redistribute money. That’s all it is. That’s all it is. It’s just a way to redistribute money. So going back to this, this was under, this is all that Justice 40 stuff. This is all a part of that $80 billion deal. That Poot Booty Juice was in charge of and that he was spending more towards like DEI and all of this other stuff than actually going and pursuing air traffic controllers, upgrading safety systems, doing all of those things. And what was his and his excuse was, oh, well, you can walk and chew gum at the same time, meaning, well, I can do this and I can do these other things. Remember that time that was remember we had that whole thing. But you’re not doing the other things is what people are pointing out to you. So, I mean, he, he just, I honestly, all of this stuff, I think it’s very interesting that we had all of these incidents that stem from the perfect storm of his, if you want to call it leadership over a department of transportation. Good heavens. By the way, we spent $4 billion to refunds for customers because of consumer complaints. Remember he had that whole initiative set up? That wasn’t airlines that was paying that. That was taxpayers that were paying that. We were paying that. Unreal.

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