Join the spirited discussion where historical insights meet present-day economic quandaries. Our host delves into the heart of controversial subjects like critical race theory and the concept of a shared American identity, examining their implications through the lens of history and cultural evolution. As the podcast explores the intersections of freedom, identity, and economics, listeners are encouraged to reflect on the ever-changing political landscape while unraveling the knots of misinformation and hyperbole that often cloud public perception.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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Oh, my gosh. All right. So here’s the headline. Florida Man, dressed as Ronald McDonald, wrestled to the ground by cops, saying, quote, I am a clown, stupid. Is that his actual mugshot? I think so. So he’s a white dude with dreadlocks. You know how I feel about that. He’s got real messed up teeths. Okay. They’re not teeth at that point. They’re teeths. Yeah. When it’s the color of honey, you got teeths. So apparently, so the story is body cam footage has a Florida man being busted while dressed as Ronald McDonald in a scuffle. Oh, my gosh. He’s 40. Christopher Marlowe, this guy, he’s 40. Oh, wow. Dude, he looks like Jeff Lebowski. He’s 40. He was dressed as the McDonald’s character, bright yellow, red, white costume, big nose. He was trespassing at a shopping center. Palm Bay police were called and they had to wrestle him to the ground. And he was told by one of their arresting officers, you look like a clown. And he yelled back, no redacted. I am a clown, stupid. But they were cited for trespass at the shopping plaza once, this guy. And he went back and then he got in trouble again. So he was taken into custody.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s a hard 40. You sure it didn’t say he’s in his late 40s?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, dude. It said he’s 40. I know, right? I’m like, what? Can we talk about a dude who, I saw this, I think it was Vegas Larry that sent this to me. The man wrangling, brand new, this is a new one. I think we’ve seen this guy before, a barefoot alligator wrestler. So he was there to go and get this gator off the road. And it was on Sunday. It was a giant alligator. Dude was barefoot. I think he was in camo shorts and barefoot. And he was, he wrestled that gator in true Florida man style and got it off the highway. Barefoot.
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Each community on earth. If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, We’ll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn’t survive because it didn’t have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity and it died. If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you’re voting, y’all.
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Not only is she a racist, but she is an absolute bimbo, too. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. It’s completely historically illiterate. And it’s embarrassing that she felt that that was a OK thing to say and then put it out online, ignoring the racial part of it. I think I’m I think I’m more offended by the stupidity of what she just said than I am the racism that is within it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That’s Joy Reid, who clearly Harvard is meaningless. That’s the kind of brain the brain trust that Harvard produces. You have her and then you have what’s his face? That pig kid, David Hogg. Those two are products of Harvard. Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever seen. So first, welcome back. If you’re joining us by listening terrestrially or if you’re watching the stream, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat’s at Rumble. You can also find us at X and Facebook. So I love history. I am a major history buff. And one of my favorite things is reading about ancient empires and love reading about ancient Rome. And I watched, yes, I did watch the Hillsdale thing, the rise and fall of Rome. I’ve also been watching, I actually watched a thing last night that was about the construction of Roman roads and how all roads literally did lead to Rome. But more so to her point, she’s saying that the U.S. isn’t diverse enough and that’s what is, and that lack of diversity is what killed Rome. That is a historical nonsense. And here’s why. In fact, it was too. You can now listen to me. It was too much. I don’t mean that in the racial sense because it comes down with having a shared identity. This is one of the ways that America learned from Rome’s mistake and our founders learn from Rome’s mistake because at some point there was admittance of, I mean, every scene, everybody got Roman citizenship. Everybody had Roman citizenship. And I don’t know. I don’t know if people realize that, uh, the Roman emperor at the time, uh, Karakala was the one who he, you know, that’s the sacking happened on his watch. But every free person in the empire got citizenship. And previous emperors also did that. And at first it was looked at like it was Rome’s strength because they would conquer and then incorporate. And that was really different in those times. They didn’t just leave something conquered and they didn’t force them to adopt every single thing that they did within Rome. But they did incorporated it. They incorporated it namely so that they could say, OK, you’re a conquered emperor. You have to now give us X amount of foot soldiers. It’s one of the reasons why they had the biggest armies is because that was part of that incorporation. But there was never any diligence in in. Creating that singular identity. Everyone talks about a Roman identity, but when we look in history, it was kind of all over the place. People wanted to consider themselves Roman, but there has to be a shared loyalty, a shared identity. And that was just one of the things. And that’s like one part of it that went that went into it. is that, you know, there was citizenship given to every single person. The overspending was crazy. The amount of spending was just even on Caesar’s time and before was entirely irresponsible. And then you had a lot of instability because there was a lot of corruption. There was a lot of intrigue. And the other thing, too, was you were losing a lot of traditional values. And, you know, the Eastern Empire was already starting its rise. And then you had So there were a lot of things that factored into it, but I think one of the biggest was this strain. On or an absence, a strain caused by the absence of a shared identity is one of the things that played into it. And the idea of being a Roman and what that meant and being a member of that empire was diluted as a result of that. In the United States, it’s one of the things that our founders did differently. They didn’t make a shared identity on a race or a religion or anything else, but it was about that animating spirit of liberty. So if you want to be free, then we are kinsmen. And that’s how the founders set this up. And in the Roman Empire, they didn’t even do that. They’re just like, okay, you’re here. You get a Roman citizenship. You get a Roman citizenship. And the absence of a shared value led to an absence of cohesion. It led to instability. It led to a complete dearth of… cultural values the whole nine yards. There was so much internal fighting as a result of that. Rome, by the time the Goths came in and sacked it, Rome had already sacked itself. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. So everything that she’s saying, it’s literally actually the opposite of that, that created the fall of Rome. Now, in the United States, this is where this communist… This this cultural warfare comes in, you know, the critical race theory. Everybody says DEI. DEI is an offshoot of critical race theory, CRT, which is the Frankfurt School of Marxism. Right. It is an absolute Marxist theory. And I wrote about this 15 years ago. When Andrew Breitbart was still alive and I was working with Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell, who was a prominent academic, and he was at Harvard. He was kind of a mentor to Barack Obama. And I remember at the time we had this video. Barack Obama hugging Derrick Bell. And I thought it was pretty significant. The media tried to bury it and act like it wasn’t a significant thing. But we’re like, there’s a new there’s an introduction of a new tactic here. It’s critical race theory. It’s been it’s been exploding on college campuses since the 60s. And here’s how it’s affecting you now. All of this stuff that you see now with DEI and wokery all came from that. Every bit of it. It all came from CRT. And it started on American college campuses in the 60s. Derrick Bell was a huge proponent of it. And that gets into… That was a tactic to… identify, isolate, and destroy their shared cultural values by turning everyone against each other based on intersectionality. So that’s where all that comes in. Oh, if you have two women, if one woman’s a black woman and a white woman, well, she has one more intersectional box to check than the white woman. So now she has more power. Ah, but if this chick is gay, ah, then she may have, they may equal out then. But if one of them’s trans, then you see what I mean? It’s like a constant one-uppance. So instead of focusing on shared cultural values and that shared identity that’s based on liberty, you’re now weaponizing all of these other variables to destroy that. It’s an ingenious way to go after the thing that really did separate us from the Roman Empire was that singular shared identity. We had something around which we could rally and be loyal, and that was we are free to be free, and this is where you come to do it at. That’s why you can be from anywhere and you can be a kinsman. and freedom. And so that’s why what Joy Reid just said there is so incredibly embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for her. Can you imagine making a video and showing your ass like that with how stupid you are? I mean, there’s no excuse. She’s like a 50 something year old woman. There’s no excuse for you to have the money that you have, be on television and have the internet and then not understand the basic concepts of history like this. I mean, that’s truly something. But that’s the thing. And you know what? When you are removing the recognition of that shared cultural value that is your identity, because when you think about, well, what does it mean to be an American? At its most just distilled core, what does it mean to be an American? Free. Freedom. I think that’s what ultimately everyone would come down to, yeah? Freedom. Freedom. So that is the American identity. Well, when you start weaponizing all of these other things around it and attacking it, destroying it, doing this, reinventing the Mao cultural revolution with going after and attacking our history like they did with our founders. Oh, our founders were imperfect. Thus, everything that they have done is imperfect. Well, that’s illogical on its face because all you got to do is read the Bible. I mean, David was imperfect. He came from one of the most imperfect lines in all of mandum. I mean, David, who sent Uriah to be killed so he could get Uriah’s wife. David. And from him came the Messiah. So that completely blunts that argument. But they don’t care. They want you to be separated from God. So you don’t understand that. And they also want you to turn on your fellow man. and ignore that animating spirit of liberty so that we can destroy the social cohesion and obscure the identity of what it means to be American. Now, Rome did that to itself. Because they were allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving everybody citizenship with just completely unfettered immigration, not even just immigration. It wasn’t people even coming to Rome. Rome would go elsewhere and they would conquer a land. Oh, you’re Romans now. Here’s your citizenship. We are incorporated. The incorporation was smart, but everything that happened afterwards was not. So there’s the she doesn’t even understand she she doesn’t even understand the warning cry of the fall of the Roman Empire and what that means or what it looks like in current times because she’s just focused on the racial aspect of it. Immigration is a variable. And racists like her don’t understand that. And I’ll say it again. Immigration is a variable because the identity, once again, is about being free. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. It doesn’t matter what your religion is. Do you want to be free? And we are founded on Christian values, but we’re singular in that we do not demand that you worship as we worship. or do what we do in order to accept the perks of freedom, for the lack of a better way to put it. I mean, it’s just one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. I’m like, golly, has she ever read a book? I don’t know. But it’s just truly stunning to me. But I had to I had to talk about that. I had to talk about that. Gold prices have surged over 40 percent since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. 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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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Oh, so now they’re trying to tell you that these federal cuts to weather organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oh my gosh, it’s going to negatively impact climate. I don’t care about climate change. I don’t care about climate change so bad. I actually care more about Nickelback. than I care about climate change. It is a stupid theory of brain-dead zombies who are lazy and don’t want to get off their fat, slovenly asses. And so they’re trying to scare you about the planet melting so that you give up some of your money and shoot it to the sun, which is no more scientifically advanced than back in the day when people tossed virgins in volcanoes to make the fire gods happy. So tick off with all that stuff. I’m so done. Blah. If I was president, I would round up the climate change people. Oh, yeah. You don’t want me. I’m glad to rail with the one ring. Not going to happen. I don’t even care about this headline. I want to take that headline, print it out, and shoot some buckshot through it. All right, done. Six hours a day of sedentary behavior is linked to neck pain. You know what else is linked to neck pain? Climate change. So sedentary behavior, what does that mean? They said six hours of sedentary behavior a day is linked to neck pain. Stupid stories like this are linked to head pain. That’s my other headline that’s coming out. I don’t know if you guys saw it. I don’t know. This is like, duh. They spent money on this? Were they laundering money? That’s the only thing I can think of. There was a jet that just fell off an aircraft carrier. Was there a cat on board? Like, what happened? Did a giant cat knock it off into the sea? A U.S. Navy F-A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet literally fell overboard. The U.S. says Harry S. Truman. I’m not going to ask if it was a woman driver. It was me. U.S. officials said that they indicated Truman made a hard right turn to evade Houthi fire. So there’s a lot of stuff happening. So it wasn’t because, you know, people were just kicking around. I mean, the Houthis were trying to kill them, OK? And they made a hard right turn. The jet fell off. Stay with us. Can’t do it without our partners. And of course, that’s Kel-Tec. They’ve raised the bar again. The new Thurgen Sub 2K folds fast. Optics stay in place and it deploys just as quickly. Zeroed and ready. And the innovation is with a twist. It’s a 10 millimeter. Now, I heard about this when we were in Virginia, WRVA. I wasn’t allowed to say anything because they’d probably find me and, you know, drag me out of my house and make me shoot like a subpar firearm as punishment. But no, amazing. This is the third gen. It’s a fold and you fold the whole carbine. You fold it all up. It’s like gun origami and it’s available in a variety of calibers. Now, with new 10 millimeter chambering, single twist and fold motion of the rotating forend so it folds super fast and half optics and all and deploys super fast at yeah as easily folds down to 16 and a half inches for easy storage and transport standard 15 round Glock 20 mag it takes Glock mags offers ample capacity internal buffer for softer recoil five pound trigger pull I mean it’s amazing make sure you check it out Kel-Tec makes everything right here in the US of A K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com innovation performance Kel-Tec Kel-Tec weapons.com tell them Dana sent you on the Amazon thing We were talking about how Amazon, it was reported where, and it was Punchbowl News that said this. And I read this this morning over, I saw this at Punchbowl this morning. They were saying that Amazon is going to display the tariff costs for consumers. Where did they get their sourcing? Because Amazon is now, is denying this report. Let me pull this up. This is over at USA Today. Now Amazon is saying, no, Punchbowl News, that’s not right. They said that Punchbowl cited an unnamed source that they’re going to have the increase in prices caused by tariffs next to the products. And… They but it was even what’s more, it was even underscored by Caroline Leavitt, who said that she got off the phone with the president of Amazon and she said it was a hostile and political act by Amazon. But then the spokesperson of Amazon said, that’s not true. So what is it? Are they Amazon’s trying to, I guess, clarify that?
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I was under the impression when I saw that conference this morning, the presser, that when she said she got off the phone with the president, she was referring to Trump and that they were responding to that rumor. I didn’t get that apparently she got off the phone with Bezos.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I don’t think she was because he’s not even in charge of Amazon anymore.
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But I mean, my impression was that she talked to President Trump about it.
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Let’s pause all here for a moment. I would like to think that if you’re a business, you wouldn’t be responded to so publicly if you knew or if it was known that you weren’t doing this. And it was unconfirmed. You see what I’m saying? Right.
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Which is why I think she had to talk with President Trump as opposed to anyone from Amazon.
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But she said that it was a hostile and political act. Which I don’t necessarily agree with, but… But I do think, is it disingenuous if they were going to do it, if they didn’t do it for inflation? Yeah, but it’s also stupidly disingenuous to not accurately note like, okay, this is legit made in China and this isn’t. So apparently… I guess POTUS called Bezos. Although Bezos, he’s not really involved in Amazon anymore. Because didn’t he sell basically the daily operations of that? I can’t remember. But he did. He’s like removed from that. But apparently… And that’s why it’s so weird that they would… That’s why I don’t think that it’s a political act. Because they donated a million. Now granted, you can make it a tax write-off, I think, to some extent. However it’s structured. To an extent. And… To the inaugural for the inaugural party. And he was there. They were there a couple of different times. He was at Mar-a-Lago. I mean, that’s definitely not the I don’t think that that’s the association, the level of association you would see if someone’s going to do something like this later. I don’t know. But they are. Amazon spokesperson said the move wasn’t considered for the main Amazon site, but for Amazon Hall. And then they sent CNN a statement. This was less than an hour ago, saying that it was not approved and not going to happen. Can I just pause? What the hell is Amazon Hall? What is that? Steve, do you know what Amazon Hall is?
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Is it H-A-U-L?
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Yeah, H-A-U-L.
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No. No.
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so amazon haul i have no idea what i’ve never even heard of this it’s is it like amazon but more nerd i don’t know what is it we don’t know larger items from amazon that require hauling i don’t know yeah i don’t know is it like wholesale maybe it’s like wholesale stuff I feel like I need to be a better consumer at this point to know about it, right? I’m like, how do I not know about those?
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What I’m seeing here is, is this the regular hyperbole that we see from the media? Let’s say there was a rumor that got to the Trump administration that said Amazon’s considering doing these tariff numbers by their items and then trump’s like well i’m gonna get on the phone with bezos and find out if this is true or not yeah and so trump calls and all this the reporting is trump is you know he he actually is complaining to bezos and they’re they’re just the hyperbole from the media is what i think is muddying this thing up it is and i think some of the hyperbole although i mean so if they’re saying that it was supposed to be
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That it was being considered for Amazon Hall and not Amazon. And they said it was never approved and not going to happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
And let’s consider the fact that this was an unnamed source that got all of this started. Have we seen something like that before? Where an unnamed source starts this big media frenzy and it turns out to be nothing?
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Here’s Amazon Hall. I asked AI.
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Oh, well, here we go.
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Amazon haul is a new shopping experience on the Amazon app and website that focuses on budget-friendly products, primarily items reduced at $20 or less. So it’s the cheap stuff. Cheap Chinese stuff. Just call it the CCS, cheap Chinese stuff. That’s what it is. All right. So, okay. I didn’t know what that was. I didn’t know it was a whole thing. Oh, interesting. I mean, how is that different from Amazon?
SPEAKER 04 :
acquiring minds want to know i don’t know how is it different and just so you know it’s not that we impose this big tariff on china it’s always been china’s giant tariff on us the reciprocal nature of of trump’s policies are what is the issue so china’s next move which by the way they cannot sustain what they’re doing right now is to come back to the table and negotiate a fair tariff or eliminate it completely you know what’s kind of funny though because
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In all of the debates between the right and left that I’ve seen on this, you know, people are like, well, why didn’t they do this? It’s Biden’s inflation. Why didn’t they? Can we just admit that both of these things increase prices? The media is accidentally having to admit. We’ve always said, look, the tariff thing is going to be tough. It’s a tactic to equalize the playing field. That’s not what’s being debated. I mean, you’re going to have to take a tough move like that. I wanted tax cuts to come first. That’s my big thing. But what I said, this is going to hurt for a little bit.
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People don’t have the spine for it. Do you want the permanent pain of Biden policies or do you want the temporary pain of the Trump policies?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, but my point is the media is actually having to admit that Biden’s inflation raised prices.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and we’re seeing already inflation year over year is down significantly.
SPEAKER 02 :
These people are clowns. Oh, my gosh. Sometimes when I sit here and try to understand and process like I’m like Democrats were are argue. It’s weird how they argue things from a certain perspective, because I feel like they’re they in order to score a win on someone that they think is a politically ideological opponent. They are admitting something that they were denying forever as as a get. It is. Is it feel like you’re refereeing drunk people? When I talk, I feel like I’m referring a drunk person. Like I’m babysitting a drunk. That’s what it feels like. Whenever I’m trying to dive in and understand what the hell you people on the left are talking about, it’s like I’m the sober friend at the social get-together and I’m babysitting a room full of drunks, which is…
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chaos it’s just what it’s like it’s this yeah it’s who boy 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 podcast spotify or wherever you get your podcasts
