In this episode of Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth, the conversation takes a dive into how decency and humor intersect with political activism. The podcast discusses the anti-fascist movement, highlighting the paradoxes within political maneuvers aimed at maintaining a facade of protection while avoiding true accountability. Through a lighthearted lens, the speakers explore the convoluted definitions of fascism from mainstream academic sources.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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And what they do is they prey on our decency. They’re preying on our decency. They’re preying on our ability to speak the truth to power. That’s what this whole anti-fascist move is. Notice, they don’t call out an organization. They call it anti-fascism. Okay? Because they don’t want you fighting against fascism. But that’s what we’re doing here. He’s so stupid.
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I am made of jokes right now, and I’m trying to sift through them mentally to figure out which one is appropriate. Kane, can I say… Sorry, give me a second. Can I say… Can I say that? Yeah, I think so.
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Okay. Most of that’s okay.
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Okay, so I said, well, who shoved a porcupine up his ass? Like, who… Have you noticed that every time you hear him talk, he’s just so mad about everything? Oh my gosh. What is fascist? I didn’t think you could define it.
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Matter of fact, I think Cambridge and other places have been redefining what fascism is and not at all pinning it on the left where it absolutely belongs.
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I’m so done with this. So he’s mad because… What? It’s a day that ends in Y. What is he mad about today?
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And how does… The Incredible Hulk sound more articulate.
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I feel like he and Mark Hamill are in a bish, B-I-S-H, off. Right? I didn’t say anything sassy. Look, I’m telling you, I ain’t Big Bird. Don’t be sitting your kids in front of me for screen time, okay? Because they will walk away hating the Fed and thinking all taxes are theft and they’re going to want to buy a gun. So I’m just warning you now. Or you may like that. That’s how my kids were raised. Anyway. I feel like he and Mark Hamill are constantly in a fight to see who can be the biggest whiner on the left. Did you guys, by the way, did you guys hear the story of the Jezebel? I remember we had it as a headline. It’s a website named after a whore that a bunch of other women think is empowering to write under. Can you imagine telling your parents, yes, I write for a website named after a biblical whore. Jezebel, who ended up getting her just desserts. And I mean, let’s not forget how she ended. I mean, way to way to go and pick in a winner there, ladies. Anyway, they were talking about these witches that put a curse. The story of the witches that were cursing Charlie Kirk and then people were reacting to it. And all the people on the left were like, gosh, what is this? The 1600s. How dare you? I can’t believe you guys are getting mad over these witches. Like, what is wrong with it? It’s not the 1600s. You are the people who literally flay your male copulatory organs and turn them into frankenjiners. And then you want everyone to believe that you’re a lady. You guys literally believe that with the snap of your fingers, you can bippity boppity boo some boobs on. You guys are literally the people who get upset over pancake syrup and pancake mixes and butter and everything else. And you’re going to get you’re going to try to point fingers at other people for objecting to the story of individuals cursing someone. Yeah, maybe you ought to be reminded that it isn’t the 1600s. Welcome to 2025, where women can vote and they can do more than just be abortion machines for Planned Parenthood. Welcome to 2025, where we women can do math and we realize that we were getting screwed over a barrel by the last Democrat administration. Yeah, you’re right, ladies. It’s not the 1600s anymore. Also, find a better Boudica other than the whore from the Bible who ended up getting thrown to her death. Good night. Our partners over at Kel-Tec. PR-57, I think, is one of my favorite 5.7s. It’s a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7s. Super light. 40% lighter than the competition. Shoots like a dream, too. Trigger sweet. Really simple, easy field strip. Really low recoil as well. And if you’re wondering how is it lighter than all of the competition, I mean, it’s a 5.7. They accomplish this in a couple of different ways. So you have the rotary barrel, number one, that contributes to the lightweight design. But also a very unique top-loading design. They actually replaced traditional magazines with… with stripper clips. So that gives it a slimmer carry profile, and you have 20 plus 1 capacity. Super affordable. MSRP is only $399. It’s from Kel-Tec. It is the Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered N57 PR57. You can learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com, Tell them Dana sent you.
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I didn’t watch the South Park thing yesterday. Apparently they aired, as the New York Post describes it, a merciless spoof of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel, blah, blah, blah. I really don’t care. But, I mean, if it’s funny, it’s funny. Funny is funny. We on the right don’t get offended over everything the way the left does. Like Charlie Kirk, when he got parodied by South Park, he did a video where he was like, this is the greatest thing ever. And he was so excited about it. And then he used the South Park version of himself as his avatar on all these platforms. So they did… I’ll just tell you. They did a spoof on Brendan Carr. And apparently… It shows car falling down greased stairs. He eats a laced stew that makes him soil his pants. He lands into the hospital with toxoplasmosis. What is that, Kane? You know all these things. seen it before but i don’t i don’t anyway and the doctor warns if the toxoplasmosis parasite gets to his brain i may i am afraid he may lose his freedom of speech and then vice president jd vance in the show is overjoyed that car is in critical condition since he wants any potential road box roadblocks to his presidency out of the way and he threatens car on his hospital bed we can do this the easy way or the hard way and the that’s what they i mean I still think the way they do Vance is actually funny. That is actually funny. Like, I think it’s because they use all the memes of his head for his face. And it’s hysterical. But the car thing, I’m going to need a little bit more than someone deuce in their drawers, man, to laugh at. Right. You know, I’m going to need a little bit. By the way, can I just say, how much does the South Park version of Brendan Carr look like the actual version of Brendan Carr? Right. Like when they did Barbra Streisand, it didn’t look anything like her. When they did Robert Smith, it didn’t look anything like him. This looks just like Brendan Carr. If he does not make this like his masthead on X, I’m going to be really disappointed.
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I think we know him enough to know that he’s going to love that.
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Yeah, he will actually like it. But that’s just not funny. I want it to be funny. Make it funny. There are things that you can do without going, oh, he blanked his pants.
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You know what I loved about what they did over these past couple few years is they’ve taken the media narrative of what’s going on and used that as comedy because they knew it was absurd. But now what they’re doing is sort of supporting the current media narrative, which is absurd.
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Yeah. And they know how this stuff works. They know how regulation of airwaves works. And I told you guys yesterday, you know, when Sinclair filed the complaint with the FCC and they said that they were not going to have his show, that is – for people who aren’t in broadcasting, that is the – Standard operating procedure and that, OK, somebody this this cluster or these stations or this company, they file this notice. The FCC has to look at it. So that’s the only reason why the FCC was even involved in the first place is because that actually is they’re required by statute that that’s how they follow up. Anyway, long story short, it’s not a First Amendment issue. And I think it belittles the First Amendment issue to say it’s a First Amendment issue. And we talked about this. I’m not going to relitigate it. These are the companies that they have to do what they think is right by their listeners. And that’s their right to do so also. Those stations also have rights. My whole issue is I’ve watched South Park since the beginning. And I feel like sometimes, like all shows, they go through peaks and valleys. And some of the valleys, they’ve gone through this before where they’re just not as funny. And then they come back new season and it’s funny again. I don’t want comedy to suffer any more than it has. Comedy has already suffered so much because of the woke stuff. And you can’t laugh at things that are funny. I don’t want unbridled progressive rage to take over and kill comedy because just trying to create things as a means of shock is to exercise your rage that’s not funny that’s just boring any basic animal can do that any basic animal can be shocking you know i’ve seen apes throw feces shocking i’ve seen dogs eat vomit shocking anything can be shocking It doesn’t take a lot of wit. It doesn’t take a lot of creativity. I just expected a little bit more, right? Be funnier. I don’t care who you make fun of. Just please, for the love of all things holy, be funny. Showing somebody, oh, look, can you believe it? He fell on the stairs. Oh, my gosh, he’s got a pair. Oh, he grabbed his pants. That’s not funny. That’s just basic. And I know they can do better than this. I don’t know. Maybe they had to switch some stuff out because of the Kirk stuff and this was all they could cobble together that week. I don’t know. But it just seemed flat. Although the J.D. Vance thing is always funny. And I, you know, I don’t dislike Vance. I don’t dislike, you know, I like him. It’s funny. But this isn’t funny. It wasn’t funny. I don’t know. The Cartman thing, even being Kirk, was funny. This isn’t funny, though. It just seems like they were mad and they thought we’re going to try to troll him at some point. Controlling someone is just it just gets annoying for the viewer. If all you’re doing is the same outrage. And this is some advice for some people on the right. If all you’re doing is just every day you’re outraged. Oh, my gosh. And you just you are so outraged. You forget how to be funny. That’s when it’s just blows for the viewer. It’s just bad. And I don’t want them to be like this. Because I feel like in some respects, they sort of prevented the left from entirely losing their sense of humor. Because most of the left has. And it’s just, does that make sense? It just gets boring. Doesn’t it get boring when all you’re doing every day is trolling? It’s the same stuff every stupid day. Oh, let’s see what predictable garbage they came out with today. It’s just not funny anymore. Just be funny. Damn. Quit being so damn sensitive. goodness it’s not the it’s not the punk rock south park that i you know kind of that i remember and of all the people to get you know jimmy kimmel wasn’t i i think disney was trying to offload him and uh then they realized gosh maybe we should just it’s they’re paying protection jimmy kimmel is their version of paying the woke mafia protection don’t do anything to us that’s what this says you know it is it’s just like that So I don’t know. Our friends at All Family Pharmacy. This website can never cease business because I will not know what to do. I love All Family Pharmacy. I use it. Not only can you get the stuff that gatekeepers try to keep from you, the hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, the whole nine yards, NAD+. all of that. But you can also get your emergency medications and daily medications. You can get antibiotics. Like for instance, if I know that I’m getting strep, I’ve had it enough. I know what it is. I’m not an idiot. 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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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The new… This makes me… This better not be electric. I didn’t read this story before. These are the ones they like to surprise me with. New fastest car on the planet beats Bugatti to record speeds of 308.4 miles per hour. Now there’s some asterisks here. Oh my gosh. It’s an electric vehicle. Burn all of these plants. I am so done with it. I don’t think that counts. I think electric vehicles are like the trainees of the car world. They are. You can quote me on it forever because they are. And I’m right. And I’m tired of pretending that I’m not. Again, I’m under the weather, super crabby, and I hate EVs. So it and Kane, it gets even worse. It’s not just I’m going to just get sick all over this mic. It’s not just an EV that did it. It’s a Chinese EV that did it. This is like beating an eagle in front of me. What?
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Twist the knife. Why don’t you?
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I am done with this. It’s I’m not even naming the car because it doesn’t count. It’s a trainee. And they did it at this Poppenberg testing facility. And they had Mark Bassing. He’s like, you know, world champ. And it eclipses the previous record that was set by the Bugatti Super Short 300 prototype. So they had. Oh, gosh, I’m sick. I’m sick in my soul now getting past this horrible headline. The CDC warns a surge in highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Okay, here’s a couple things. Don’t take antibiotics unless you know you need them. And then when you take the antibiotics, if you don’t take all of them, if I were president, I feel like your neighbors should have the full right and be excluded from any penalty, the ability to drag you out of your house by the hair on your head and beat you almost to death in the street. Because that is how you get… the antibiotic resistant stuff when you don’t finish your dosage when you don’t do it so they said this has been happening for a long time i don’t know why everybody’s like red lighting it now because they’ve been discovering that they’ve become increasingly resistant we also haven’t had any new antibiotics in well, what, my life? Like, I think it’s been that long. Yeah, I mean, it’s been a long time. And by the way, some of these resistant, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they’re causing about a thousand deaths in the U.S. every year. This is according to the latest numbers out in 2022. So I’ve been seeing this for quite some time. It’s incredibly important to make sure you finish it. And apparently Houston may have a serial killer problem, or maybe it’s a social media problem. And Did you hear about this show that they pulled? It is called The Savant. I made mention of this yesterday. Speaking of divisiveness. It’s going to be on Apple TV. And I mentioned this yesterday with Jessica Chastain. So I really think, and I was reading, let me pull this up. So someone previewed, previewed it. And they said, yeah, it really does look like this was this character who was trying to infiltrate radical right wing like white dudes groups like on Discord, for instance. And she stars as this computer Karen who infiltrates all of these groups. And they decided to postpone it. They said that this week in a statement to Deadline Hollywood. Now, they wouldn’t say why, but everyone thinks it’s the subject matter behind it. And the fact that they were about to smear and defame a whole bunch of people simply because they don’t like their politics. Apparently, the series included a sniper in action and the bombing of a government building. And then, of course, we have, you know, the assassination of Charlie Kirk that took place. And you had a leftist that was shooting into an ABC affiliate, shooting into an ICE facility and putting bombs under media vehicles. Those are all left wing. And it followed the premise or the synopsis of it as it follows an undercover investigator known as the savant. And that’s Chastain. And she infiltrates these online hate groups to stop domestic extremists before they act. In the trailer, her character says, we’re on the verge of serious violence. And they got a bunch of other people that I don’t know in this. I think that they were getting ready to push the, ratchet it up even more. Don’t you think so, Kane? Oh, yeah. I mean, look, it sounds like that’s exactly what it sounds like they were going to do.
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No, without a doubt. And they even padded this in advance by saying, well, Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned in the show, not even once.
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We just had a guy that had his total likeness. Right.
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It’s like everything aligns with how the media narrative has been trying to play out for the last few years. And it’s completely obvious to all of us.
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Yeah. Yeah, they said, well, it doesn’t mention his name, and it just depicts white nationalists in a negative light. It’s non-controversial. You know what? And it’s about one woman trying to stop domestic terrorism. The computer Karen. Sorry if your name’s Karen. Please don’t send me emails about it. It’s a cultural thing. I didn’t make it up. I literally will read your name and email address out loud if you do. Just not into it. Get over it. The… They make it sound like some middle-aged woman is going to barge into all these Discord servers. What are you guys doing? Hey there, fellow kids. Do you believe this? Do you guys believe any of this? Nobody does. But I do think that they… It sounds like they were going to make a bad example of a Charlie Kirk kind of character. That’s what it sounds like. Now, this comes on the heels, and I’m going to dive into this more coming up in our second hour. Have you guys heard of this study about right-wing extremism? I see all these stupid progressives out there sharing it. Have you seen it, Kane? I’m going to have my turmeric tea here.
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Yeah, I sure have.
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This ridiculous study that The Atlantic pulled out. First, let me just frame it like this. It is a stupid study that in order to try to get the numbers that they wanted, they pulled an Everytown for Gun Control trick. So in Everytown for Gun Control and Moms Demand, you know, the box wine moms, all AstroTurf groups, whenever they were trying to scare suburban families about school shootings, what they did is they made up all of these different scenarios and just padded the numbers with it. So I did a deep dive into this in my first book. And literally one of the things that they did was they would use, for instance, they called it a school shooting that took place in Virginia, but it wasn’t. It was literally a drug deal at two in the morning, three blocks away from the school that they decided to frame, I’m not exaggerating, as a school shooting. And then there was another incident of a contractor who was working at the school and he was there on a weekend after hours in the morning. And he did something where he accidentally like fired into his leg inside his vehicle. So I don’t know if he didn’t have something properly holstered or what. They counted that as a school shooting. So this is the stuff I’m talking about. They did the exact same thing with a study. They in order to pad their numbers, they counted all of the prison crimes and tried to say that, well, here’s an example of right wing. And then they eliminated all of the left wing stuff. So if you wanted to make it right-wing, left-wing in prison, they eliminated the left-wing stuff in the prisons. They only cut the right-wing stuff in the prisons. And then they added it to the outside of the prison population and then used that as an example of, oh, look, this is right-wing. Now, they didn’t release their methodology in the beginning and people were scratching their heads like, this doesn’t even add up. This isn’t even, what are you talking about? And then when people started going through it after it was released, they realized you guys literally lied. You lied about this. So we’re going to talk more about this coming up because I see leftists, like I saw some stupid leftists trying to argue with some of you, like our listeners and that out there. And it’s always somebody that has, Cain, like a million emojis. If you’re a grown person, especially if you’re a grown man or a grown woman, if you’re a grown adult and you’re using emojis in your handles on social media, I just want to hook you up behind a car and just drive 100 miles an hour. Jokingly, ha ha ha. I just, whenever you have all those identifiers, BLM and all this other stupid stuff, you’re just, every time you add a letter, you’re just lowering your IQ. And it’s all those people that are, like, in the comments arguing with everything. Sometimes I think they’re bots. Some of them, they’re just people that have no lives. But it’s an entirely bunk study.
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