Join us for a packed episode where politics, media, and absurdity collide. From accusations of media bias around inflation to the comedic yet bizarre notion of a rage clap, Dana explores how effectively or ineffectively politicians handle opposition. Listen in as she dissects moments of grace and indignity within Congress and highlights the enduring tension between Democrats and Republicans in power. Throughout, Dana remains unapologetically honest, bringing humor to serious discourse.
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Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
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The rage clapping. 2,000 people being killed every single week.
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More than that. And people were showing all the… Did you see her, how hard she clapped? And it was… It was one of those weird, slow, serial killer claps. First off, welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. First off, let’s full stop. There are difference in claps. Okay? Right? So you have the… You know, polite little, like, what is it, an opera clap? When they do that, they’re like, or a golf clap, whatever. I don’t know. There’s the little barely clapping because it might be gauche. And then there’s the more like, yeah, that’s great. Like, I really appreciate what you just did. Then there’s the excited like valley girl seal clap, right? And then you have like the clap that affirms. It’s more of a, like the Shia LaBeouf gif where he’s, yes, like I am affirming you. And then you have what she is doing. We call this kids, the serial killer clap. So there’s another movement that goes along with the serial killer clap, right? So not only do you have the, I’m trying not to hit the mic. Not only do you have the, but you got to stare like a psycho. At the person to whom you are addressing the clap. So in her mind, as she is doing her rage clap, I mean, it’s purposeful and she’s got she’s so offended. She’s so offended. You can. Oh, my gosh. It’s just almost the perspiration almost created a cloud of rage over her in the room. I mean, she’s rich. She’s like her jaws clenched. Her lips are pursed together. Her fingers, even though she’s clapping, her fingers are pressed together. She’s tense. Her thumb is stretched out tense. I mean, her arms are I mean, it’s rigid. She’s probably imagining violent acts with every clap. She’s rage clapping. I just wish she would have said Foka and not Pocahontas. I do not feel bad about this broad. First off, if you are unfamiliar with the stuff that she’s claimed in her life, hold up, hold up. Wait, full stop right now. Wait. Am I going to get cited for even like humming it? Gosh dang it. So are you guys, I wrote about her extensively back in the day. Do you guys remember? Because she said she was in a Native American, right? I don’t even remember what all nation she was claiming membership to. Just to remind you how ridiculous this woman is. Guys, she wrote a she had a book called Pow Wow Chow. recipe, Indian recipes, right? Indian recipes because she’s an Indian, right? She was telling her, she was literally marketing herself at Harvard as the first woman of color that’s on the bar, whatever. White as can be. And remember, they ran her DNA. It was actually Cherokee genealogists that ran it. And they said that, uh, The closest she ever came to Cherokee in terms of genealogy was maybe being near the blood of those her ancestors murdered when they were rounding them up for the trail of genocide. But I digress. So she said that she was Cherokee. She’s Cherokee. You know, you know, the famous Cherokee recipe came of cold omelets with crab meat. It’s a French recipe, but apparently Cherokee were great French food connoisseurs. Did you know this? I had no idea. Oh, my gosh. They loved Worcestershire sauce and probably could pronounce it better. They loved all of that. They loved imported mustard. Did you know? Because that’s in her recipe. We’re told that the crab dip is a famous Cherokee food. And nobody questioned it because she was a Democrat. And they were they were like, maybe no one will notice that we’re putting up this blonde haired, blue eyed white woman and saying that she’s a Cherokee Democrat. Nobody will know. So I don’t feel in no way bad. Of course, our partners who make it possible are friends at Kel-Tec. The PR57, it’s a 5.7, and this is a really ingenious gun. I always say that George Kellgren is kind of like a mad scientist. So the PR57 is the smallest, it’s the thinnest, lightest 5.7 that you can get. It’s actually 40% lighter than the next super light 5.7 that’s on the market. And the cool thing with Kel-Tec is With this firearm particularly, and this is the one that came out of their new Wyoming plant, I think. I think this one did, the PR-57. It’s the way that, well, they incorporate actual stripper clips instead of magazines. I know. Now the left, when they talk about firearms and they try to use clips and magazines interchangeably, well, guess what? You can actually be right with us. It has a very unique top-loading design, so it replaces the traditional mags. You’ve got the clips in there. It’s for a slimmer profile, 20 plus 1 capacity, low recoil for ease of use and accuracy. And it has this innovative rotary barrel. That’s what helps all make it the lightest 5.7 on the market. MSRP is only $399. Super affordable. And it’s the first of its kind. It’s the Kel-Tec PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered in 5.7. Kel-TecWeapons.com is where you can go to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec. K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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It was like watching two brothers in the backseat of a car. Wasn’t it? Like Johnson is the smarmy one. And Vance was the guy who’s like, is there a fight? Yeah, it’s a fight. Yeah. Like that guy. I got that total vibe from them. Welcome back. Top of this third hour. That was how Trump started his address last night. The media is losing their minds. You guys want to hear more? Yeah, you do. So we’ve got… Let’s see. Where do we start? Do we start with, let’s see, Democrats? Do we start with booty juice? Do we start? Actually, let’s talk with the DNC chair. And all yesterday, they were all apoplectic all day yesterday. The DNC chair does not like Mr. Musk.
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What would be your message to Elon Musk and his teenage doge dudes who are currently firing career civil servants?
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Well, go to hell. I mean, the reality is what you’re doing is destroying our country.
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That’s what he just told voters. He just told the voters to go to hell. Go to hell. Career civil servants. That phrase makes me want to vomit. I just react viscerally to hearing that phrase. And look, Keep in mind, and I really shouldn’t have to say this, I need people to not be sensitive. I’ll get the email from people who are like, well, I worked in a government job or whatever. I agree with you. I follow your show. It’s still a little hard to take. I appreciate that. I get that. I really feel like a lot of the ire isn’t aimed at those folks. You know what I mean? I feel like the people that deserve the ire are the ones who go, well, I don’t have to tell you what I do in a week. Well, you’re not telling them. You’re telling us, the taxpayer. And by God, I got every mandate. I own you. As much as I pay in tax, I could buy and sell you. So do not give me that. I will physically come to your house. And if I have to force your fingers to type out what you did in a week. Oh my gosh. The one thing that will make me absolutely unhinged is for anybody in any publicly funded position to tell me or you that we don’t have the right to know what they do. By God, I pay mid six figures in taxes. You don’t get to tell me that. And if you feel like you do, I’m going to send you an invoice and you can refund me what I am owed since I am not getting the return on my investment, which is your authority comes from us. Without us, you ain’t got nothing. And I don’t feel at all bad about saying it because that’s the reality. That’s how it should be said. Oh, it’s still bad. Oh, they lost their minds. And then you had, do I want to play Stephen Colbert? I really don’t feel like it. Do I really want to? I mean, he’s so insufferable. He’s still on air. He’s on at night. What is he on? I don’t even know. Isn’t that like what 110-year-old people watch? They watch Stephen Colbert? Yeah. The Social Security members? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the people who, what’s his face? Willard? Who’s the guy who’s on the Today Show and he would tell everybody the Smuckers Jam? It’s their birthday and Smuckers.
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That was Willard Scott.
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Willard Scott. Yeah, it’s the Willard Scott Club. Those are the people that still watch. No offense. They watch the Colbert. They watch him. He was talking about their little the little paddles. Audio somebody 26. Go ahead. Those little auctioneer auction paddles. That’s what they were. I thought it was pickleball. Can I just tell you real quick? I’m sorry. I have never even seen a pickleball instrument. I don’t even know what pickleball looks like. It’s probably a ball that looks like a pickle. I don’t even know. And I don’t know, is it ping pong? Whatever. I was trying to ask my husband last night. I was like, what are those little… I was like, what are those little skibbity-bop-rock paddles that they got there? What is that? What are they? The little paddles that they were holding up. I don’t know. Anyway, 26.
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The man barked out one appalling claim after another, but don’t you worry. The Democrats came ready to fight back with their little paddles, okay? That is how you save democracy, by quietly dissenting. Bidding on an antique tea set. It was hard to tell what was going on. I’m just kidding. That was very cool, Democrats. In fact, I made my own sign.
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I’m not I still don’t think he’s funny because he comes off as I mean that it wasn’t that what he was saying wasn’t funny. It’s just his delivery. He’s so full of spite. And you can tell that whenever he tries to deliver something. I thought the paddles were stupid. By the way, when were they supposed… Everybody, like most of… One lady was feigning herself with it. What… At what point were they supposed… Like, false said one, Musk lies. But then I saw several… Who got what paddle? Do you get two paddles? Was it bothersome for them that they could only basically have two messages? Because you only had two sides? You know, I don’t know. What was it? Rashida Tlaib became a meme because she just brought a whiteboard. Why are you that dumb? Why would you do that? Why, dear heavens, would you just bring a whiteboard and hold up a whiteboard… You’re inviting a whole entire Reddit army to meme you. Oh, and they did. They’re glorious. They’re absolutely glorious. But they, I will, I really do believe that they just don’t know how to react. They, and I’ll play it. Because every now and then he has to say the obvious thing. See, there it is right there. Golly, with that, oh. Got our little picnic blanket. Audio soundbite 24. I do think that there’s some truth in this. Listen.
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uh… it is i have to say you can really sense john king can really sense republicans with a happen there step and democrats rather demoralized i mean understandably so given the fact that republicans control the house the senate and the white house not to mention a conservative uh… lean on on the u s supreme court but beyond that uh… Even when Republicans are out of power, you sense like an energy quite often when Democrats are controlling things. The Democrats, not to be cliche about it, but they are in disarray. They do not know how to… They don’t know how to be an opposition party.
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I don’t feel like hanging on for the 5,000 walk-in seconds, Christopher walk-in seconds it takes for him to say this. They do not know how to be an opposition party. They do not know how to do graceful, smart opposition because they’ve had a billy club this whole time. They have no idea. They’ve got to relearn that. And they just they are a mess. Everyone sitting here talking about the fragility of the coalition on the right, which I acknowledge. And I’ve been one of the first to talk about it. I get that. But no one’s talking about whatever goopy mess the left is right now. What is happening with these people? Nobody knows. They’re they’re a mess. They’re not they can’t even be on the same page with their little. They’re little paddles. They can’t even be on that same page. Audio somebody 21. This was a hot mic moment. And I thought I was hysterical because Johnson noticed it after he said it. He just kind of moved the mic away. We’ll try to be real subtle with it. Watch this.
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By the way, I think the speech is going to be great.
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But I don’t know how you do this. The hardest thing was doing it during Biden. When the speech was a stupid campaign.
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Look at him. He saw that mic and he’s like, get that down. I didn’t think what they said was bad. It was right. But I like what he said. It was when it was Biden. It was a stupid campaign speech. I will say to one of the other things that when Trump walked in last night. So there were a couple of things. The I wrote about this. If you again, if you’re at Substack, if you get my Substack, I wrote about this last night. Talking about the lack of decorum from Democrats last night. There were two instances where I guess they just decided to just say to hell with the norm. Actually, it’s one thing to heckle. I don’t really even like the heckling. But you can talk all you want to about Marjorie Taylor Greene. She never stood up and waved a cane and refused to sit down and was shouting down entire sentences of the president. You can say what you want, but she never did that. I don’t care what you think about her. She didn’t do it. Al Greene did it. That wasn’t even how it started, though. According to CNN and Manu Raju wrote about this and I cited it in the newsletter, Democrats boycotted a longstanding tradition. So Democrats in the House and Senate, usually they join what is known as the escort committee to walk with the president into the chamber and through like, you know, they escort the president inside. There wasn’t a single Democrat that joined the escort committee. You have had Republicans that have previously joined the escort committee for Democrat presidents. Not a single Democrat wanted to do it for Trump last night. And CNN pointed, quote, knew in a sign of protest, House and Senate Dem leaders didn’t leave to join the escort committee despite being called to do so. And the escort committee typically escorts the president in. A spokesperson for Hakeem Jeffries told me, quote, it speaks for itself. So their insolence didn’t start during the address. It started way before when you couldn’t see, when the cameras weren’t rolling. And there were others who were escorted out even after Al Green. That is just shameful. Their respect for the office is predicated upon whether or not they control it. Just like their respect for the powers of SCOTUS. is dependent upon whether or not they’ve got one of their people in to be able to make the calls for nominations. But this was such a bad look. I’ve never seen it. Have you ever seen the Speaker have to call for the Sergeant Arms?
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No, I haven’t seen it. Not like that, especially.
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What do you think? If I was a sergeant at arms, I’d be like, I’ve been waiting for this, because you don’t do anything.
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Because there’s two levels. Actually, three levels, technically. Number one is like, hey, settle it down, and then hopefully they comply. If they don’t, then the speaker’s like, sergeant at arms, let’s get them settled down. And then the third level is if they still don’t want to settle down, is kicking them out of the chamber. So they actually have many chances leading up to that whole getting kicked out thing. But it was clear that Al Green wanted to be kicked out.
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Yep. Jennifer Hemingway is the current sergeant at arms. And so, yeah, they got to score. You got to score people out. You got to get people out of there if they’re not if they’re not going to behave themselves. But I mean, because they can carry a firearm and all that. I’d be like, I’ve been waiting all my life for this because normally, you know, they’re the person who opens the door. And, you know, it’s Mr. President of the United States. the folks who help bring you the program. It’s our friends at All Family Pharmacy. This is a great company, a great website, and I love what they provide because All Family Pharmacy has over 200 medications. They’ve got the ivermectin. They have the other thing that I can’t pronounce, Cain. What is it? The minbendazole? That one. They also have the hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotics. Look, I’ve been sick a couple of times. Once over the holidays, I was getting strep throat. Immediately got hooked up at All Family Pharmacy. I know what my symptoms are. You know what strep’s like when you’ve had it a million times. And was able to bypass like a trip to urgent care and $150 deductible and all this kind of stuff. Oh, yeah. And was able to get my medicine and skip the hassle. And all of the medicines are made in the USA. That’s the one thing you do not have to worry about at all. Family pharmacy, the inputs, they’re not getting the stuff from China or India. This is all USA ingredients. You have the highest standards of quality and safety. And it’s affordable. No insurance, no problem. Straightforward pricing, online ordering. Shipping is just either two to four days or if you’re in a pinch, overnight. So your health is always within reach. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don’t wait. Protect yourself and your family. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 to save 10%.
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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 more than half of the adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, according to a report. And this is from a piece of garbage. British publication, but oh, well, it’s called The Guardian. More than half of the adults, they said in the study, it’s published in another journal that I don’t really have a lot of faith in, The Lancet, considering everything with coronavirus. But they said more than half of adults and a third of children and young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050. They said it’s an unparalleled threat. So 2.11, you know, well, maybe if, you know, we didn’t put so much processed junk in our food, For, you know, to be faster. I don’t know what. We’re faster and unhealthier. Apparently, I don’t know if this is like regular animal behavior. I saw this. I don’t know that I would consider this a headline. But there was apparently a mouse that was videotaped giving CPR to his unconscious mouse friend. As evidence of animal first aid, this mouse, this is wild. Are you sure that’s what he was doing? See, I feel like this is a Monty Python thing. So, you know, to me, it looks like the mouse is trying to eat his tongue. You know, maybe pick out his teeth. You know, finders keepers, right? You don’t need them right where you’re going. So maybe that’s what he’s doing. And we, as stupid humans, are looking at this going, oh my gosh, look at the mouth. That’s not what he’s doing. He’s, you know, because he’s a rodent. Did that thought occur to the people who were studying these mice?
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No, they need good results for their studies.
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Yeah. Oh, by the way, real quick. I don’t think I have this on here. I think I forgot to put it on here. But are you guys aware of the woolly mouse? The what? The woolly mouse. No. Okay, so woolly mammoths are one step closer to de-extinction because, ladies and gentlemen, of woolly mice. Yeah, and they’re, like, hairy and stuff. They’re, like, furry. They look like little dust, like little… What are the things I’m thinking of? The little dusting things. The Swiffers. They look like a little Swiffer with a tail. They said that a biotech firm called Colossal Biosciences is behind the effort. Why they want to bring mammoths back, I don’t know, but they’ve been extinct for thousands of years. So they were able to, apparently through genetic modification, have created an entirely new species called the woolly mouse. It looks like an unkempt rodent. I don’t know if this is something that… Really? I mean, we could be curing all kinds of diseases. No, we got hairy mice. That’s what we got. All right, go humans. So let’s see. Texas middle schoolers secretly tattooed each other with a shared needle in the classrooms. Of course they were middle schoolers. They said that it was temporary ink, but they’re very nervous. How did the teachers not notice that they’re tattooing each other in the classroom? Stick with us.
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I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel, and I let myself feel joy about DJ, and I hope he’s alive for another, you know, 95 years, right? And I hope he lives… the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do. And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you. And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters. And if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
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I can’t believe I can’t imagine anyone that hates Trump so bad that you can’t even you can’t even stand up and acknowledge a cancer survivor, a 13 year old cancer survivor and just be like, that’s great that he got that honor. That’s so nice that he got that. No, that was Nicole Wallace over. Was that CNN or MSNBC? MSNBC. And. I. So she’s saying she doesn’t kill himself. What is the matter with you?
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The kid with terminal cancer, she hopes he won’t kill himself.
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Hey, if the media wants to know why no one likes them, I got an example for you. Yeah, we played Rochelle Maddow. We played her. She did the same thing.
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That dude is bitter.
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Why can’t you just say that was a nice moment? Why can’t you just… See, this is the difference between… I’m going to toot my own horn. difference between me and the left cane because I can call balls and strikes and I can be like, this is a nice moment. They can’t do that. And I don’t do it because I’m trying to be nice. I clearly don’t care about that.
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The only thing you ever get wrong is how I feel about old people.
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Well, it’s not my fault that you hate them. And you think that they’re all suspicious and potential murderers. It’s not my issue. You’re going to have to talk with the Lord about that one, sir.
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I shouldn’t have said a damn thing.
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Just assume. You had to bring it up, didn’t you? I did. Had to bring it up. You going to say anything about the 13-year-old, the old people? No? No. But why can’t they just go, that was a nice moment? They can’t even say that. They can’t do anything that makes, they don’t want to look like they’re humanizing Trump. Even if that means snubbing this 13-year-old survivor. This is what I’m talking about. They have no, they refuse to be normal. They think that being normal is like admitting that Trump won. That’s the psychology of it. Think about it. How messed up is that? I can’t even acknowledge this 13-year-old survivor because it might give someone the impression that Trump did something nice. I can’t acknowledge that. You clearly have lost when you can’t even do that much. And they have lost. All they had left was any dignity that they may have had, which after last night, I don’t think they do. I… I really don’t have any words. I think that they’re going to have to study the mental breakdown of people. You know, what did 2016 do to you? It broke my brain. They’re going to have to study this. This is wild.
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Absurd Truth: Democrats’ Wildest Speech Reactions
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