In this episode, we dive into the curious case of Portland’s tree lighting ceremony where traditional festivities took a political turn. Join us as we dissect the involvement of non-traditional speakers, the absence of Christmas mentions, and the public reaction to this uniquely modern take on a holiday favorite. We also explore comparisons with more traditional celebrations in places like Grapevine, Texas.
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Okay, so let me tell you about what Portland’s doing. There’s a piece up right now on Chapter and Verse. Portland has a, I don’t know, a woke tree. I’m trying to figure out what was going on. Okay, so when you think of a Christmas tree lighting, what usually happens? Like if your town has a Christmas tree lighting, what happens? Tell me.
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Usually you find a central location in the city, in the town. They get this giant tree. They install it, and then they go forward with decorating it.
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And they’ll sing Christmas songs and stuff, right?
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Yeah, all the celebratory things around it, yeah.
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So at the tree lighting ceremony in Portland, they kind of did it differently, right? They had, I mean, what, a thousand or so people. They were in Pioneer Courthouse Square for the city’s 41st annual tree lighting. And they didn’t mention Christmas. And the… Event kicked off with, and I’m going to try to get through this, a woman from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs thanking everyone for coming out on Native American Heritage Day. And then they referred to the ceremony as the tree lighting. And then the microphone was handed to another speaker who was a Hamas lover and decided to chant, quote, free Palestine. and said, quote, this is the perfect time to bring this up. There are lots of genocides going on. Can I get a free, free, quote unquote, Palestine? And then some of the crowd. Oh, but it gets better. Then she decided to lead the crowd in the strong woman song. Is this from South Park or is this like an actual song? What is this strong woman song? I don’t know. And I guess it’s like a Native American. I don’t know. I don’t know what it is. It’s just not appropriate for a Christmas tree lighting. You miss the mark here. You have one job. And then she goes, I felt it appropriate since we’re representing our matriarchs up here. And in our contributor piece over at chapter and verse, you know, famous Christmas matriarchs like Jesus. Right. The world. So then this was like an hour of this. They had a couple of Christmas carols at the beginning and then it kicked into the Hamas stuff. I don’t know. Then they had the mayor address the crowd, bring out Santa Claus, and then they switched on the tree. Apparently they didn’t even say Christmas. They just said tree. It’s the tree. Man, it’s not like that. So there’s a town nearby where we are called Grapevine, Texas. The main street, you can’t even walk down it. It’s so bright and like the coated, coated with lights. It’s Merry Christmas, Baby Jesus, Nativities, Santa. You got trees, you got everything. And it’s they call it the Christmas capital of Texas. It is. Can you know that? You know, that street is tell the folks how bright that them lights are.
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Yeah, it would put the vacation home to shame.
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Christmas vacation? Yeah, it makes Christmas vacation look like amateur hour. So why does it? I mean, what’s the problem in saying Christmas tree? Don’t do it if you’re going to do this stupid stuff. No one wants to hear you up there filleting Hamas. Nobody cares. Get down like nobody cares about all your, you know, your ridiculous. Do they actually have a Christian up there on the stage? I’m curious. Was an actual Christian on the Christmas tree stage. You got this terrorist, this terrorist be up there with her flag of a non-existent entity. I don’t know. I’m just I’m curious. Why does it, and people were asking, why does it have to be so divisive? Why is everything so, well, that’s the left. That’s what the left does. They have to ruin everything. So I don’t know if they actually had any real Christians up there, you know, talking about the Christmas tree, as it were. It’s the people over at Kel-Tec. Kel-Tec has a peacekeeper program that they have introduced, and it supports those who protect communities. So church security teams, school resource officers, you know, the whole thing. Faith-based teams and SROs rely on small concealable pistols that have limited range and power. Caltech has long guns that solve that problem, and it folds compact for discrete carry, deploys in seconds. with full rifle capability as well. The Peacekeepers participants also get mission-ready support like extra platform testing, armor training, and direct peacekeeper pricing for budget-conscious organizations. It’s already active program. They’ve equipped a couple dozen churches throughout the Faith-Based Security Network and Brevard County Schools as well. They use a variety of different Kel-Tec firearms and Kel-Tec also partners with the Faith-Based Security Network so it gives members access to that peer training the security insights, mission-ready tools, and the pricing as well, again, for budget-conscious organizations. If you’re interested in the new Peacekeepers program, you can use the contact form at keltecweapons.com slash Dana. That’s K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com slash Dana.
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Today is World AIDS Day, and I’ve got some very good news for you. Today, the UK becomes the first NATO country to open up every single role in our armed forces to people living with HIV and on treatment, meaning that they can’t pass the virus on. This is a substantial milestone for equality and enhances our warfighting readiness by valuing people based on their talents and abilities, not outdated policies and stigma. We’ve been working closely with our partners, the Terence Higgins Trust and the British HIV Association.
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So I’m curious. First off, this isn’t Britain. You know, I guess the prevailing thought is if you don’t fight, you can’t bleed. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour of the chats at Rumble, Channel 347, DirecTV. So this is a real thing. I’m not making this up. It is from the Ministry of Defense. It’s in Britain. And they’re described as secure at home and strong abroad. Official X channel for the UK Ministry of Defense. And they’re talking about World AIDS Day. And in their post on X, they say the UK is proud to become the first NATO nation to open up every single role in our armed forces to people living with HIV on treatment. You know, because it’s super easy to get the treatment in an active war zone, meaning they cannot pass on the virus so quickly. Their idea, I mean, seriously, if you’re in an active war zone, how do you get a consistent supply of your treatment? Anybody? What is the cost of this also? I mean, this is Britain. Does the British taxpayer have to foot the bill for treatment? You know, the song I have in my head right now is the AIDS song from Team America. AIDS, AIDS, AIDS. How bad is their recruiting? I mean, if you’re if you’re diabetic, you know, screw you. You can’t enter. But AIDS, come on in. If you have like flat feet to the point where you have orthotics, you can’t come in. But if you’ve got the HIV, come on in. You know, I I’m I’m trying to wrap my mind around this. How do you. And then NATO, where’s NATO on this? I mean, I don’t know. They said, we’re the first NATO nation. Okay, you’re the only one. You’re going to be the only one. Imagine you’re out on the battlefield and you’re trying to, you know, you’re a medic and you’re trying to patch up some dude that got blowed up. And, you know, what if he’s got the HIV? And what if he can’t get treatment? I mean, how do you get treatment in an active war zone? You know, it’s real easy to get the stuff they need, right? This isn’t, this isn’t hell divers. You can’t just like, you know, put in a code and have the ship beam it down to you. It’s not how this works. It’s not how it works. Doesn’t work like this. Stop it. Oh, wait, I need to make sure that in my stratagems I get the Hiv treatment. Got the Hiv treatment that’s just blasted down on. Oceane, is that the correct? Yeah? You’re not even listening. What are you doing over there? No, not you. So, I’m just trying to understand this. How this, King, would you? I mean, you know.
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I just think of all the industries where blood could happen. It’s the military. So I don’t understand. Are they avoiding conscription by doing this? What’s the effort here?
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It’s like if it’s a bad policy, the UK wants it. The dumber, the better. Surely, I mean, this is the stupidest thing I think I’ve ever seen in my life. And it’s also such a small number of people as well. I don’t know. And by the way, apparently it would cost British taxpayers about 400,000 pounds in treatment costs per patient. And that is according to the UKHSA.gov.uk. Okay. So are you supposed to tell people, hey, it’s not a big deal if your risky lifestyle choices in which you engage results in you catching a disease that would ultimately cost the taxpayer 400,000 pounds in treatment costs per patient? You have the option of just not going in the military. You also have the option of just not being a drug user or a whore. There’s that. Dana, that’s so mean. What am I supposed to do? Be like, oh, poor you. Who knew that you could get all these diseases by screwing everything with a pulse? Who knew? I just can’t believe they did this. I mean, the extent to which some people on the left will go to make it seem like they have a no problem with whatever issue you’re dealing with is crazy. No, don’t type it in. What are you saying? Oh, yeah, the monkey pox.
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Kane, who were the people that got the monkey pox?
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It was the gay people that engaged in gay people stuff.
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Basket weaving.
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Yeah, that’s what it was.
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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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Uh, I’m pretty sure, Kane, is this an anime? Species in Chernobyl, in the Chernobyl disaster zone, is mutating and it feeds on nuclear radiation. It’s a black fungus. It’s the blob. That’s what it sounds like. They, the mutants of Chernobyl. It’s apparently… A dark fungi. And it displays a radiation hunting behavior. So it didn’t just survive the fallout. It now grows faster when radiation is present and actually moves towards it. That’s insane. And it has a radiation eating superpower that is… It’s given from melanin. The name of the… I’m not going to say this right. The fungus is the C. spherospermum. That sounds right. Yeah, it sounds legit. Let’s see. A man was killed by a tree that fell on him while snowblowing. Yeah, it is that time of year. Oh, this was this is sad. It’s in Minnesota National Weather Service. A man was killed by a tree that fell on him Wednesday morning. The 69 year old was found by his wife and the high winds. The tree was covered by heavy wet snow, just made for a disaster. Let’s see this. A lost generation of news consumers. Surveys show teenagers dislike the news media because it’s garbage. That’s why. It’s absolute garbage. No shock there. No shock. Also, the last supermoon of the year. Do you watch this stuff? I don’t. It’s going to be coming up in December skies here soon. It’s going to be 14% bigger than the last supermoon. Apparently it’s Thursday. Stick with us. More in store. Can I save this story for you? Because, you know, we’ve confirmed a planet, the UN said that they, when the UN says that they have planetary defenses, what they mean is our planetary defenses.
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Yes.
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So they said that Earth’s planetary defenses are going to be observing the interstellar comet 3I Atlas as it races through our solar system. Somebody said it had a heartbeat.
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What?
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I’m pulling this up. Okay, yeah. So hold up. Here we go. Let me pull this up. New York Post. So this one dude who terrifies me because of all his science stuff, Avi Loeb, he’s from Harvard. He says it has a heartbeat, a pulse that could provide evidence of artificial origin. A space turd’s got a heartbeat, Cain.
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Well, I mean, there’s a lot of celestial bodies that give off a frequency. No, he said heartbeat.
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He said the pulses could be periodic thrusts for orbit corrections or some internal cycle with a spacecraft.
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Cain. I just think they’re finally catching up.
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Listen to me, aliens. Let me tell you something.
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What we’ve all known.
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Come to Texas only. Everybody else is weird. Florida’s all right, but be careful because you’ve got Florida men down there and everybody’s got machetes. Tennessee’s all right, but they, you know, they get real proud of having some better gun laws than we do, so it makes me mad. You know, Oklahoma’s great, but real windy and flat. They’ll see you a mile away. Just come over here to Texas because we got brisket. Just come to Texas, you know, and don’t go to California. Don’t do that because you’ll immediately get stuck with a fentanyl needle and die. Yeah. Don’t go to New York because you’ll get killed by a bunch of illegal aliens. I mean, the dangerous ones. And just come to Texas. But I mean, I would be all right with this. What a nice fun thing for Christmas if it just, you know, that space church just descended and it’s like, hello, where’s your… Texas brisket could reduce the amount of abductions.
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That’s how good Texas brisket is.
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Don’t abduct me. Here’s some brisket.
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Right?
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Right. But I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t, I don’t know. They said that there is all of these images. Some of this stuff I don’t. They said the periodic modulation of its light has to originate from puffs of gas and dust that scatter the sunlight around it. They said the puffs are periodic like the bloodstream of a heartbeat. And it has multiple jets. which they speculate it could be like advanced artificial thrusters. I don’t know. And it looks like maybe an intergalactic Morse code. I don’t know. They said if it was a natural comment,
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comet that there would be some indicators for that uh so i don’t know it’s very weird i feel like this is a really long setup to something that is a psyop that they’re planning like what i don’t know like they want a one world government so imagine what would unify the world all these suckers are on their own hell no
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I would want to enlist the aliens and then make everyone fall in line behind us. Yeah.
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I mean, I’m enjoying these little stories and updates and the heartbeats and all this, but I think that there’s a larger sigh up in play with this as the narrative beginning.
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You’re not wrong to be nervous about that. Yeah. But it just needs, we’re the leaders. Only come here. That’s all I’m saying.
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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.
