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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me tell you, guys this story. I don't know
if you heard saw this story from ABC. It's a
great ABC story, guys, ready for it. Here's the headline.
Two Massachusetts men traffic nearly seven million dollars worth of
benefits intended for people who cannot afford food. So it's
more snap fraud. Two Massachusetts men. So crazy, These Massachusetts men.
(00:27):
M these just random Massachusetts men. Just a yeah, just
a couple of people. I hate the AutoPlay ads to
just two of these dudes, like.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Maryland ads.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh wait, wait a minute, Antonio bon Hur and saw
alis Me. Okay, all right, but wait Massachusetts men and
nowhere at nowhere in any point in the story. Not
only does ABC not share the photo of the purpse,
(01:07):
but it doesn't tell you that they're actually haitian O.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
King, I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Just quick question for everybody chat check your maps. Just
a quick question.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Is Massachusetts and Haiti?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm gonna go with no on that one for five
hundred can we give stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, Massachusetts is or did they mean to say Haiti
and they just said Massachusetts instead?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean, you know, typo.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean instead of writing Haitian, they said mass
and choose its.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It's just is there a fine line between typo and lying.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
M Yeah, I don't know, but not at any point,
and it wasn't just ABC so four other news agent,
none of the big news agencies even mentioned that they
were literally from Haiti and they were engaging in snap fraud.
Seems like that's kind of important to mention, especially when
(02:14):
we're talking about state after state after state where you
have people who are coming in and they are targeting
these programs, exploiting them and using them to build taxpayers
out of billions of dollars. In fact, to that point,
I was reading that let me pull this up, bear
(02:36):
with me. So in Somalia, I think they had what
a GDP or something like what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Is it seventeen billion? I have notes on this. Let
me look this up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So essentially, the amount of taxpayer money that they defrauded
taxpayers of in just Minnesota seeds the entire GDP of Somalia.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, eighteen billion in claims paid out, and that's greater
than the GDP of Somalia.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That Cain. That seems kind of importante.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So that seems kind of important. That's huge. Think about it. Now,
you know we're going to find this in other states.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
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A thing yesterday because I was working.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I had stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I was getting ready for today, et cetera, and then
also getting ready for Christmas. But I but I had
I caught a couple of clips and I was talking
to my friend. Ben and I are friends and we talk.
You know, we're not like best friends where we you know,
have house parties together anything, but we talk. We have
known him for over a decade, actually fifteen years now.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I've known him. We kind of kind of grew up together.
He's only a couple of years younger than me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We sort of grew up together in this industry, which
is weird in this industry because these are people that
I've seen, people that I've known since they were like
thin and war bow ties, or when they were a
lot younger and less muscly or younger and they didn't
have gray hair. It's just weird to grow. It's weird
to be in an industry like this. So I watched
(05:52):
clips of it and I really liked. I mean what
I thought what Ben said needed to be said. He's
exactly right, and it's not just you know, he's you know,
he Well.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Let's just play cut one. This is a quick cut. Listen.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And the people who refuse to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks,
and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice, Yes, cowardice.
The fact that they have said nothing, well, Candice has
been vomiting all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into
the public square for years is just as cowardly.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And it's true.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But it's more than just cowardice, I would add, it's
a lot more than just cowardice.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's ruthless ambition.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because a lot of these people, they just want to
slice of the digital pie. At any cost, at any cost,
even if that means debasing themselves and debasing the movement
they're grifting.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Off of for their lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A lot of the people that are trying to weigh
in on this now, these are people who were never
in the streets with us during the days of the
Tea Party. These are the people who don't know what
heavy lifting in politics is. These are the people who've
never gotten the threats and have never taken the arrows.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That is who these people are. They're opportunists, or some
of them just do commentary, or some of them, you know,
they they these are. That's the difference between I would
say people like myself and Ben and some of these others,
and then some of these other you know, thought influencers,
and I would put Candice in that exact and Tucker
(07:46):
in that exact same category. You know, reading copy that
your producers prepare for you on cable news is not
the same as authoring your own speeches and doing your
own research and getting helping to pass issue, get people
elected and stop bad candidates.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
There's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I say that because it's like the people that
have the least amount of skin in the game that
want to control the game, and now that everything is
shifting to digital, it's just ruthless ambition. They realize that
in order to be relevant, they have to be seen
as king makers in terms of the movement, and they
(08:24):
have to somehow create this veneer of having been part
of the movement structure from the beginning, which they weren't.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It's not about gatekeeping.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's about questioning someone's moral compass and their ethical consistency.
And when you have people on your program, as I
have had people on this program. When you're bringing people
on and you're asking them questions, you have to make
the determination what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Are you an activist serving only your own interests? Are
you there to serve your audience's interests, Because if you're
serving the interests of the audience, you need to be
asking the questions that are going to help inform the audience,
not just manipulate them, you know, going out and saying, well,
you know, I don't know, but I think we might
(09:13):
be having war in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't know. That's just manipulation. You're not informing anyone.
That's just stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Some of these people are my friends or that I'm
friendly with, and I mean no ill will, but I'm
not going to not say anything about it. I operate
by kind of the book of Matthew. I'll go to
somebody privately first, and we'll have that conversation privately, and
then you know if they if they're resistant or if
they're nasty, then you know, we'll have the discussion publicly.
(09:49):
But it's just it's incredibly disingenuous. It's all about it
is ambition. It's all about people who are trying to
get a slice of the digital pie.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Like when people go, oh, well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're just asking questions, you know, they exclaim super defensively
while literally not asking any questions at all whatsoever. How
in the hell do you sit across from a Nazi
twink who basically pleasured himself to Hitler and loved Stalin
and not ask him about that? How do you sit
(10:22):
across from a guy who called the wife of the
vice president a jeet, a guy that would not be
in office had you not helped him, and you not
ask him about that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's what the audience is wanting to know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They're wanting to know about the moral consistency, not a Well,
yeah he said that, but no, they want moral consistency
and accountability is part of that. There's no reconciliation without
it either, and that's biblical. Or they say we don't
want to attack our side. I watched one commentator say, oh,
(10:54):
I'm not going to attack our side, you know, Candae
is like my sister, I'm not it. But then went
on like and did three videos attacking Ted Cruz or
goes off on Mark Levin, What do you mean you
don't want to attack your side. You're all about attacking
your side if you're attacking to people that are trying
to hold you accountable for the dumb ass things you're saying. Yes,
(11:15):
you are attacking your side. You traffic and attacking your side.
In fact, all of Tucker Carlson's episodes are about attacking
our side. This is where I'm starting to get mad
and where I'm starting to be like, you know what
made the burning bridge light my path? Let's play cut
for because this is ridiculous what you're watching.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Now, attacking people on the attacking millions of Americans because
they're Muslims. It's disgusting and I'm a Christian. I'm not
a Muslim.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I know there's a lot of effort aclaim. I'm a
secret gee Hotti, I'm not. You should not attack people on.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Those grounds, and you're seeing it from republic.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
What you're doing is trying to divide the country. And
I've lived through fifty years of this craft, all these
fake race wars that they're always voting.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Who's who is they? First off, what do you mean
who's they always promoting? Secondly, I couldn't tell you were
a Christian by your behavior, or by the demonstrated lack
of understanding on scripture or the idea of calling people
who interpret revelation differently blasphemous and likening them to the
demons that you fought in bed.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I don't. I don't. That's what gets me.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The way that he put that is a disingenuous misrepresentation.
That is the same argument that the left uses when
they talk about deportation. You're just deporting grandma's and tomato pickers.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What are you doing? It's the same.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's the same formula, disingenuously misrepresenting the number of Islamist
terror attacks and the percentage of you know, who are
Islamis terrorists, which, by the way, is a way higher
percentage than any other demo malicious. Representing that as race
(13:04):
hate is preposterous and suicidal. So essentially, what he's saying is,
if you're upset over Bondai Beach, then you're a bigot.
If you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets in Bavaria,
in Brussels, in France, in London, in Spain, in Italy,
(13:29):
if you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets, I
guess you're a bigot. If you're upset about the asset
attacks on women, I guess you're a bigot. If you're
upset over female genital mutilation, you're a bigot. If you're
upset over the Navy yard shooting, you're a bigot. If
you're upset over fort hood, you're a bigot. I mean,
(13:50):
that's just the logic going all the way through to
its final conclusion. Who is They don't sit here and
talk about people, they want you they Who the hell
is they?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
If you're going to.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Present this, then you have not only a moral, ethical
but also an intellectual responsibility to define those whom you
are accusing. Otherwise, I'm just assuming he's talking about Jews.
Who the hell is they? Oh, they with their race hate,
They with their race war? Who is they? Because the
(14:21):
only people perpetuating a race war are literal Islamists. This
is just doing heavy lifting for the Islamification of the
Western world, that's all that is. They with their race hate,
lecturing the United States about hating Muslims, while you defend
Cutter and act like it's a Christian bastion, you know,
(14:45):
where you can't even worship amongst their over ninety five
percent slave labor population. You have to go to the
outskirts of Doha, where you can't even erect a cross
on the side of your building.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You have to worship very quietly indoors, you can't talk
to anybody about and if you try to proselytize, oh
my gosh, you could be killed. Who is they?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why wasn't that ever answered? He sounded defensive, and it
was one of the worst things. I mean, I don't
think it was his brightest moment. I really don't. And
I thought what Ben said was correct. I mean, you know,
especially over Nick Fouintas and other things. This is the problem,
(15:30):
you know, having these debates on the right. Fine, No,
one's talking about not having a debate, but you're talking
about ideas that were settled in nineteen forty five with
the blood of Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Entertaining.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The idea that was entertained on some of these podcasts
was settled by the blood of our grandfathers in nineteen
forty five, and you spit on that legacy by tickling
the jimmies of the people who traffic this stuff. You're
no better than a westernized Bacca Bazi. And that's an
(16:04):
absolute truth. And the sad thing is is they know it,
and that's one of the things that fuels their resentment.
Imagine being reduced to defending the very thing that would
debase you. Imagine being reduced to defending Islamism. I mean,
(16:32):
imagine being reduced to political dancing for is Lomist masters.
And then you had Owen's that posted yesterday that she
thinks Shapiro's are more than ever involved with, you know,
attacks on America, et cetera. So I mean, just the
(16:54):
insane stuff that she says. I don't even remember her
whole post. She's trying to do everything that she can
to make her money before her gay husband is disinherited
by his father, because then they're going to be in
a world of pain. I don't think the Macrones are
letting up. I don't like the Macrones, but I don't
like Owens either. They're all one and the same. Somebody
(17:15):
has a giant male copulatory organ, and sometimes I wonder
if it's not Brigitte.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
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Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick Five.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Airports are bringing back love actually magic and allowing non
flyers to the security lines for the first time in decades.
This is interesting now they said that this is in Britain.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Now this is well, actually no, it's in Oakland too.
Oakland San Francisco.
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Bay Airport's the latest airport offering passes for non ticketed
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Speaker 3 (19:37):
For the Oak Pass. Oak That's what the airport announced
on Monday.
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It's the first time since the nine to eleven attacks
that this has happened. They said that visitors can go
through the TSA checkpoint with their digital pass as well
as their real idea or passport. They said they were
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since the pandemic, and they said it's you know, generate
more people going. They want to make it the most
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(20:06):
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(20:29):
actually that's kind of helpful. Like if you've got like
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you have that kind of stuff, it's super helpful. It's helpful,
like if you're meeting family members that are a little younger,
you know, we like I remember before and eleven going
to the airport and getting my little cousins.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So that's that's helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
In let's see waimo, oh no, another waymo driving down
the wrong street.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Literally on a busy highway.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Literally driving in Austin, Texas, down the wrong side of
a highway.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's like planes, trains and automobiles. You're going the wrong way.
How does he know where we're going?
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Speaker 3 (21:24):
We got to figure out this stuff.
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I am just saying every time we I just hear
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Speaker 3 (21:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Patriot Games, So the White House is revealing things to
celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, including the Patriot Games,
where they're having two Americans from every state compete.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
They're gonna have the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
UFC biggest fireworks displaying the world. I mean, they're gonna
have a state fair on the National Mall, all kinds
of stuff. It's gonna be it's shape. I think I
actually may go there for this. I'm saying that would
be kind of cool to see in person, you know
what I mean. Also, every New York City subway station
is going to get spikes and paddles to combat fair evasion.
(22:08):
And now they're trying to say psychedelics might fix your depression.
This was the mushroom thing that they were talking about.
I mean, it's not like getting high on drugs. It's
a very clinical thing. Do you guys like watch a
lot of Netflix? I have Netflix because you have the
Great British Baking Show that's on it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So I watched that. It's good. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I use Netflix mostly for comedy.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I they had a I just read it. Netflix
was going to come out with a gay military series
called Bits, not like the radio Kipling Boots Bits. They
(22:54):
It was previously described as woke garbage.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Let me just read it. Hang on, I'm gonna pull
this up.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Because this was the official descript from Netflix before it
totally got canceled.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's totally canceled, so it's, uh, there's only so oh
my gosh, it's so funny. There's only like a couple
of episodes. Oh man, it says. Boots follows the story
of Cameronkope, who plays Miles Heizar, a gay ten from Louisiana,
his bullet and finds nitpopass an unexpected brotherhood with his
(23:26):
motley team of fellow recruits. That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The show depicted the character's experience joining under Clinton's nineteen
nineties don't ask, don't tell, which meant you could join
the armed forces, but don't geet up right. You don't
need to go out wake up every morning and go
I'm gay guy, gay gey you don't need to do that,
just you know, you go surf and do your job. Weird,
I mean, because it's like that in every other job, really,
(23:52):
isn't it. I mean, do you if you're I don't know,
if you're a dentist, are you screaming at your patients?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I'm gay? You know?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I mean, yeah, you just show up and do your job.
You're not constantly regaling people with how you do to sex, right, Like,
why does everything have to be about how you have sex?
If my mouth washed doesn't affirm which door I enter,
then you know he stone overking live my life. If
you are so sensitive and fragile that you have to
(24:22):
have inanimate objects with their packaging affirm your life, you
might need help. So they the policy, you know? Ninety three,
twenty eleven. I love how they go well. Critics largely
praise the series. Boots are in a ninety percent positive
rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you don't know what rotten
(24:44):
Tomatoes is, Rotten Tomatoes is a hellscape of people who
never leave their house. They're miserable, they hate you, they
hate themselves, and they like the crappiest stuff out there. Ever,
So if it has a great rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Chances are it's heinous, especially if it's a horror film,
especially if it's sci fi, especially if it's history, really anything,
(25:08):
all of it. So it shows this guy like, for instance,
he's holding I mean, he doesn't even look like he
has enough arm muscles to hold a gun. Number one,
his hair is way too long to even be in
the military. Number two, I mean, sorry, you're not gonna
have like a South Korean k pop hairdoo and you're
in being the US military. It's not you're not an operator,
(25:29):
you're as now how this is working? So the press,
the Pentagon Press secretary back in October told Entertainment Weekly
that it was woke garbage, and they critics on Rotten
Tomatoes said, it's a likable dramedy that explores masculinity and
queerness to powerful effect.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's not a war, it's a queer war.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But do we need to explore it? Like, what more
do we need to explore in this subject?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Honestly, I mean, the military is supposed to be about fighting,
not the other effort.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Stop Kane.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But so they canceled it, Boots, because it's nobody's gonna
who's gonna watch that.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Miss that show.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Huh in all of it's four episodes. Gosh, I can't believe.
I mean, how many, yeah, how many?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
To your point, how many ways has this been explored?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It tends to be the way they market these things.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I I I don't think that you can explore any
more than it's been explored. It's a gay soldier in
this it's a gay soldier. It's a gay so another
gay soldier. It's a movie, but a gay soldier. I mean,
hell hallmarks gay soldier. I mean everything is gay soldier.
They've had a million of these gay cowboys, even they've
had a million. Just stop, what is the point?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Steve goes it's faking.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh my gosh, I'm reading with Steve Putt and slack.
Steve Putt fake and gay? Is he serving or serving?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
True? Just like nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I really feel like some gay activists still think it's
a big thing to go I'm gay because most people are,
like so like ninety nine percent of people. So because
we're living our lives, we just don't care. That's like
somebody coming up and saying, oh, shake my armpits today.
Nobody cares. Literally, nobody cares. Right, you're talking about just
(27:39):
like nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Why do people try to make you care about things
that you don't want to care about. I don't like
being forced to care about things I don't want to
care about.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Kane.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It makes me uncaring. It makes me a hate bear,
not a care bear. The grumpy was my favorite. He
was underappreciated and under utilized.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
The storm Cloud, Yes, he was my favorite.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I had him when I was a kid. I loved
Grumpy Bear. He was the best.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He really didn't have a soft heart, but it was
no nonsense. He was no nonsense anyway. To my point,
I didn't there was no way I was even going
to test this out because the promotional footage enough was bad.
So like apparently there were even gay members of the
military going no way, he carries that gun for any
amount of distance with the I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
They were just shredding. It just looked bad.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I mean, I think even when you have to gaze that,
don't like it because it's too what's the word I'm
looking for, pandering? It's you know, it's just super pandering.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I'm looking at this and it's just something else. Did
you I didn't watch it. Did you even see it
on Netflix? I didn't even see it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No any teasers for it or no, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I didn't see anything on it, So I don't
know which is weird. If it got such a great
rating on you know, rten Tomatoes. I don't think that
Netflix promoted it enough. I think they were like, oh,
it's another Megan Market type content. Oh, tiede this away.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
We don't want to romote it. Like they have algorithms
in their systems too. That just shows when people are
consuming similar content, they're going to push them.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
My Netflix algorithm has no idea what is going on
with me. It's like, does she like baking or does
she like anime or K dramas?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We don't even know. And then here's some serial killer stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It's like ancient aliens in comedy. It's like they don't
even go together.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Oh, mine's all as.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's aliens because I watch all my westerns, like on
Amazon and paramounts, so it's aliens baking K dramas, and
because K dramas are wholesome. By the way, this is
some of the most wholesome stuff you can watch. K
dramas and what was the other one? Oh, serial killer
stuff are not not really SERI but like unsolved mysteries.
(30:00):
The og with Robert Stack, that man's voice was terrifying
and also amazing, So I don't even I don't see
any of that stuff. So maybe that's why it's never
gonna show me. Here's some gay military stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean it's literally the tags for it are gay military.
Nobody cares. Who made this?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Like a baby boomer, like a baby boomer like almost
like an old, elderly gen xer that still thinks this
kind of stuff is relevant. I don't know, just odd,
super odd. So I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Be watching that. No one, none of us are going
to be watching that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me tell you, guys this story. I don't know
if you heard saw this story from ABC. It's a
great ABC story, guys, ready for it. Here's the headline.
Two Massachusetts men traffic nearly seven million dollars worth of
benefits intended for people who cannot afford food. So it's
more snap fraud. Two Massachusetts men. So crazy, These Massachusetts men.
(00:27):
M these just random Massachusetts men. Just a yeah, just
a couple of people. I hate the AutoPlay ads to
just two of these dudes, like.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Maryland ads.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh wait, wait a minute, Antonio bon Hur and saw
alis Me. Okay, all right, but wait Massachusetts men and
nowhere at nowhere in any point in the story. Not
only does ABC not share the photo of the purpse,
(01:07):
but it doesn't tell you that they're actually haitian O.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
King, I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Just quick question for everybody chat check your maps. Just
a quick question.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Is Massachusetts and Haiti?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm gonna go with no on that one for five
hundred can we give stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, Massachusetts is or did they mean to say Haiti
and they just said Massachusetts instead?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean, you know, typo.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean instead of writing Haitian, they said mass
and choose its.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It's just is there a fine line between typo and lying.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
M Yeah, I don't know, but not at any point,
and it wasn't just ABC so four other news agent,
none of the big news agencies even mentioned that they
were literally from Haiti and they were engaging in snap fraud.
Seems like that's kind of important to mention, especially when
(02:14):
we're talking about state after state after state where you
have people who are coming in and they are targeting
these programs, exploiting them and using them to build taxpayers
out of billions of dollars. In fact, to that point,
I was reading that let me pull this up, bear
(02:36):
with me. So in Somalia, I think they had what
a GDP or something like what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Is it seventeen billion? I have notes on this. Let
me look this up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So essentially, the amount of taxpayer money that they defrauded
taxpayers of in just Minnesota seeds the entire GDP of Somalia.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, eighteen billion in claims paid out, and that's greater
than the GDP of Somalia.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That Cain. That seems kind of importante.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So that seems kind of important. That's huge. Think about it. Now,
you know we're going to find this in other states.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're only just now finding this in states like Maine
and now Massachusetts and elsewhere. It is so unbelievably bad
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A thing yesterday because I was working.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I had stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I was getting ready for today, et cetera, and then
also getting ready for Christmas. But I but I had
I caught a couple of clips and I was talking
to my friend. Ben and I are friends and we talk.
You know, we're not like best friends where we you know,
have house parties together anything, but we talk. We have
known him for over a decade, actually fifteen years now.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I've known him. We kind of kind of grew up together.
He's only a couple of years younger than me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We sort of grew up together in this industry, which
is weird in this industry because these are people that
I've seen, people that I've known since they were like
thin and war bow ties, or when they were a
lot younger and less muscly or younger and they didn't
have gray hair. It's just weird to grow. It's weird
to be in an industry like this. So I watched
(05:52):
clips of it and I really liked. I mean what
I thought what Ben said needed to be said. He's
exactly right, and it's not just you know, he's you know,
he Well.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Let's just play cut one. This is a quick cut. Listen.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And the people who refuse to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks,
and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice, Yes, cowardice.
The fact that they have said nothing, well, Candice has
been vomiting all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into
the public square for years is just as cowardly.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And it's true.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But it's more than just cowardice, I would add, it's
a lot more than just cowardice.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's ruthless ambition.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because a lot of these people, they just want to
slice of the digital pie. At any cost, at any cost,
even if that means debasing themselves and debasing the movement
they're grifting.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Off of for their lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A lot of the people that are trying to weigh
in on this now, these are people who were never
in the streets with us during the days of the
Tea Party. These are the people who don't know what
heavy lifting in politics is. These are the people who've
never gotten the threats and have never taken the arrows.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That is who these people are. They're opportunists, or some
of them just do commentary, or some of them, you know,
they they these are. That's the difference between I would
say people like myself and Ben and some of these others,
and then some of these other you know, thought influencers,
and I would put Candice in that exact and Tucker
(07:46):
in that exact same category. You know, reading copy that
your producers prepare for you on cable news is not
the same as authoring your own speeches and doing your
own research and getting helping to pass issue, get people
elected and stop bad candidates.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
There's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I say that because it's like the people that
have the least amount of skin in the game that
want to control the game, and now that everything is
shifting to digital, it's just ruthless ambition. They realize that
in order to be relevant, they have to be seen
as king makers in terms of the movement, and they
(08:24):
have to somehow create this veneer of having been part
of the movement structure from the beginning, which they weren't.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It's not about gatekeeping.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's about questioning someone's moral compass and their ethical consistency.
And when you have people on your program, as I
have had people on this program. When you're bringing people
on and you're asking them questions, you have to make
the determination what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Are you an activist serving only your own interests? Are
you there to serve your audience's interests, Because if you're
serving the interests of the audience, you need to be
asking the questions that are going to help inform the audience,
not just manipulate them, you know, going out and saying, well,
you know, I don't know, but I think we might
(09:13):
be having war in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't know. That's just manipulation. You're not informing anyone.
That's just stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Some of these people are my friends or that I'm
friendly with, and I mean no ill will, but I'm
not going to not say anything about it. I operate
by kind of the book of Matthew. I'll go to
somebody privately first, and we'll have that conversation privately, and
then you know if they if they're resistant or if
they're nasty, then you know, we'll have the discussion publicly.
(09:49):
But it's just it's incredibly disingenuous. It's all about it
is ambition. It's all about people who are trying to
get a slice of the digital pie.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Like when people go, oh, well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're just asking questions, you know, they exclaim super defensively
while literally not asking any questions at all whatsoever. How
in the hell do you sit across from a Nazi
twink who basically pleasured himself to Hitler and loved Stalin
and not ask him about that? How do you sit
(10:22):
across from a guy who called the wife of the
vice president a jeet, a guy that would not be
in office had you not helped him, and you not
ask him about that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's what the audience is wanting to know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They're wanting to know about the moral consistency, not a Well,
yeah he said that, but no, they want moral consistency
and accountability is part of that. There's no reconciliation without
it either, and that's biblical. Or they say we don't
want to attack our side. I watched one commentator say, oh,
(10:54):
I'm not going to attack our side, you know, Candae
is like my sister, I'm not it. But then went
on like and did three videos attacking Ted Cruz or
goes off on Mark Levin, What do you mean you
don't want to attack your side. You're all about attacking
your side if you're attacking to people that are trying
to hold you accountable for the dumb ass things you're saying. Yes,
(11:15):
you are attacking your side. You traffic and attacking your side.
In fact, all of Tucker Carlson's episodes are about attacking
our side. This is where I'm starting to get mad
and where I'm starting to be like, you know what
made the burning bridge light my path? Let's play cut
for because this is ridiculous what you're watching.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Now, attacking people on the attacking millions of Americans because
they're Muslims. It's disgusting and I'm a Christian. I'm not
a Muslim.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I know there's a lot of effort aclaim. I'm a
secret gee Hotti, I'm not. You should not attack people on.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Those grounds, and you're seeing it from republic.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
What you're doing is trying to divide the country. And
I've lived through fifty years of this craft, all these
fake race wars that they're always voting.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Who's who is they? First off, what do you mean
who's they always promoting? Secondly, I couldn't tell you were
a Christian by your behavior, or by the demonstrated lack
of understanding on scripture or the idea of calling people
who interpret revelation differently blasphemous and likening them to the
demons that you fought in bed.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I don't. I don't. That's what gets me.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The way that he put that is a disingenuous misrepresentation.
That is the same argument that the left uses when
they talk about deportation. You're just deporting grandma's and tomato pickers.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What are you doing? It's the same.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's the same formula, disingenuously misrepresenting the number of Islamist
terror attacks and the percentage of you know, who are
Islamis terrorists, which, by the way, is a way higher
percentage than any other demo malicious. Representing that as race
(13:04):
hate is preposterous and suicidal. So essentially, what he's saying is,
if you're upset over Bondai Beach, then you're a bigot.
If you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets in Bavaria,
in Brussels, in France, in London, in Spain, in Italy,
(13:29):
if you're upset over the attacks on Christmas markets, I
guess you're a bigot. If you're upset about the asset
attacks on women, I guess you're a bigot. If you're
upset over female genital mutilation, you're a bigot. If you're
upset over the Navy yard shooting, you're a bigot. If
you're upset over fort hood, you're a bigot. I mean,
(13:50):
that's just the logic going all the way through to
its final conclusion. Who is They don't sit here and
talk about people, they want you they Who the hell
is they?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
If you're going to.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Present this, then you have not only a moral, ethical
but also an intellectual responsibility to define those whom you
are accusing. Otherwise, I'm just assuming he's talking about Jews.
Who the hell is they? Oh, they with their race hate,
They with their race war? Who is they? Because the
(14:21):
only people perpetuating a race war are literal Islamists. This
is just doing heavy lifting for the Islamification of the
Western world, that's all that is. They with their race hate,
lecturing the United States about hating Muslims, while you defend
Cutter and act like it's a Christian bastion, you know,
(14:45):
where you can't even worship amongst their over ninety five
percent slave labor population. You have to go to the
outskirts of Doha, where you can't even erect a cross
on the side of your building.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You have to worship very quietly indoors, you can't talk
to anybody about and if you try to proselytize, oh
my gosh, you could be killed. Who is they?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why wasn't that ever answered? He sounded defensive, and it
was one of the worst things. I mean, I don't
think it was his brightest moment. I really don't. And
I thought what Ben said was correct. I mean, you know,
especially over Nick Fouintas and other things. This is the problem,
(15:30):
you know, having these debates on the right. Fine, No,
one's talking about not having a debate, but you're talking
about ideas that were settled in nineteen forty five with
the blood of Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Entertaining.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The idea that was entertained on some of these podcasts
was settled by the blood of our grandfathers in nineteen
forty five, and you spit on that legacy by tickling
the jimmies of the people who traffic this stuff. You're
no better than a westernized Bacca Bazi. And that's an
(16:04):
absolute truth. And the sad thing is is they know it,
and that's one of the things that fuels their resentment.
Imagine being reduced to defending the very thing that would
debase you. Imagine being reduced to defending Islamism. I mean,
(16:32):
imagine being reduced to political dancing for is Lomist masters.
And then you had Owen's that posted yesterday that she
thinks Shapiro's are more than ever involved with, you know,
attacks on America, et cetera. So I mean, just the
(16:54):
insane stuff that she says. I don't even remember her
whole post. She's trying to do everything that she can
to make her money before her gay husband is disinherited
by his father, because then they're going to be in
a world of pain. I don't think the Macrones are
letting up. I don't like the Macrones, but I don't
like Owens either. They're all one and the same. Somebody
(17:15):
has a giant male copulatory organ, and sometimes I wonder
if it's not Brigitte.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
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Speaker 4 (19:09):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick Five.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Airports are bringing back love actually magic and allowing non
flyers to the security lines for the first time in decades.
This is interesting now they said that this is in Britain.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Now this is well, actually no, it's in Oakland too.
Oakland San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Bay Airport's the latest airport offering passes for non ticketed
guests to go past TSA checkpoints and they have to
be approved.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
For the Oak Pass. Oak That's what the airport announced
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's the first time since the nine to eleven attacks
that this has happened. They said that visitors can go
through the TSA checkpoint with their digital pass as well
as their real idea or passport. They said they were
trying to boost traffic to the airport, which is stagnated
since the pandemic, and they said it's you know, generate
more people going. They want to make it the most
convenient airport, et cetera. Seattle Tacoma also did it. They
(20:06):
started it back in twenty eighteen. Detroit began offering a
destination pass. Now Philly's done the same thing. Several other
airports have rolled out a guest pass system like a
hangout pass. It's not a permanent program, and they you
can get into you can go through and without having
a plane ticket, just as long as you go through
security and you can get into the airport. So that's
(20:29):
actually that's kind of helpful. Like if you've got like
family members that need assistants, especially if they're grumpy and
they don't want assistance from the airport, you know, if
you have that kind of stuff, it's super helpful. It's helpful,
like if you're meeting family members that are a little younger,
you know, we like I remember before and eleven going
to the airport and getting my little cousins.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So that's that's helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
In let's see waimo, oh no, another waymo driving down
the wrong street.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Literally on a busy highway.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Literally driving in Austin, Texas, down the wrong side of
a highway.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's like planes, trains and automobiles. You're going the wrong way.
How does he know where we're going?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, oh it drove right by. I mean apparently even
it blew past the school bus, even right past the lights,
and you know as kids were getting off the bus.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
We got to figure out this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I am just saying every time we I just hear
all of these accidents involving these waymow cars.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Patriot Games, So the White House is revealing things to
celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, including the Patriot Games,
where they're having two Americans from every state compete.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
They're gonna have the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
UFC biggest fireworks displaying the world. I mean, they're gonna
have a state fair on the National Mall, all kinds
of stuff. It's gonna be it's shape. I think I
actually may go there for this. I'm saying that would
be kind of cool to see in person, you know
what I mean. Also, every New York City subway station
is going to get spikes and paddles to combat fair evasion.
(22:08):
And now they're trying to say psychedelics might fix your depression.
This was the mushroom thing that they were talking about.
I mean, it's not like getting high on drugs. It's
a very clinical thing. Do you guys like watch a
lot of Netflix? I have Netflix because you have the
Great British Baking Show that's on it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So I watched that. It's good. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I use Netflix mostly for comedy.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I they had a I just read it. Netflix
was going to come out with a gay military series
called Bits, not like the radio Kipling Boots Bits. They
(22:54):
It was previously described as woke garbage.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Let me just read it. Hang on, I'm gonna pull
this up.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Because this was the official descript from Netflix before it
totally got canceled.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's totally canceled, so it's, uh, there's only so oh
my gosh, it's so funny. There's only like a couple
of episodes. Oh man, it says. Boots follows the story
of Cameronkope, who plays Miles Heizar, a gay ten from Louisiana,
his bullet and finds nitpopass an unexpected brotherhood with his
(23:26):
motley team of fellow recruits. That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The show depicted the character's experience joining under Clinton's nineteen
nineties don't ask, don't tell, which meant you could join
the armed forces, but don't geet up right. You don't
need to go out wake up every morning and go
I'm gay guy, gay gey you don't need to do that,
just you know, you go surf and do your job. Weird,
I mean, because it's like that in every other job, really,
(23:52):
isn't it. I mean, do you if you're I don't know,
if you're a dentist, are you screaming at your patients?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I'm gay? You know?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I mean, yeah, you just show up and do your job.
You're not constantly regaling people with how you do to sex, right, Like,
why does everything have to be about how you have sex?
If my mouth washed doesn't affirm which door I enter,
then you know he stone overking live my life. If
you are so sensitive and fragile that you have to
(24:22):
have inanimate objects with their packaging affirm your life, you
might need help. So they the policy, you know? Ninety three,
twenty eleven. I love how they go well. Critics largely
praise the series. Boots are in a ninety percent positive
rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you don't know what rotten
(24:44):
Tomatoes is, Rotten Tomatoes is a hellscape of people who
never leave their house. They're miserable, they hate you, they
hate themselves, and they like the crappiest stuff out there. Ever,
So if it has a great rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Chances are it's heinous, especially if it's a horror film,
especially if it's sci fi, especially if it's history, really anything,
(25:08):
all of it. So it shows this guy like, for instance,
he's holding I mean, he doesn't even look like he
has enough arm muscles to hold a gun. Number one,
his hair is way too long to even be in
the military. Number two, I mean, sorry, you're not gonna
have like a South Korean k pop hairdoo and you're
in being the US military. It's not you're not an operator,
(25:29):
you're as now how this is working? So the press,
the Pentagon Press secretary back in October told Entertainment Weekly
that it was woke garbage, and they critics on Rotten
Tomatoes said, it's a likable dramedy that explores masculinity and
queerness to powerful effect.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's not a war, it's a queer war.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But do we need to explore it? Like, what more
do we need to explore in this subject?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Honestly, I mean, the military is supposed to be about fighting,
not the other effort.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Stop Kane.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But so they canceled it, Boots, because it's nobody's gonna
who's gonna watch that.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Miss that show.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Huh in all of it's four episodes. Gosh, I can't believe.
I mean, how many, yeah, how many?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
To your point, how many ways has this been explored?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It tends to be the way they market these things.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I I I don't think that you can explore any
more than it's been explored. It's a gay soldier in
this it's a gay soldier. It's a gay so another
gay soldier. It's a movie, but a gay soldier. I mean,
hell hallmarks gay soldier. I mean everything is gay soldier.
They've had a million of these gay cowboys, even they've
had a million. Just stop, what is the point?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Steve goes it's faking.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh my gosh, I'm reading with Steve Putt and slack.
Steve Putt fake and gay? Is he serving or serving?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
True? Just like nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I really feel like some gay activists still think it's
a big thing to go I'm gay because most people are,
like so like ninety nine percent of people. So because
we're living our lives, we just don't care. That's like
somebody coming up and saying, oh, shake my armpits today.
Nobody cares. Literally, nobody cares. Right, you're talking about just
(27:39):
like nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Why do people try to make you care about things
that you don't want to care about. I don't like
being forced to care about things I don't want to
care about.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Kane.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It makes me uncaring. It makes me a hate bear,
not a care bear. The grumpy was my favorite. He
was underappreciated and under utilized.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
The storm Cloud, Yes, he was my favorite.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I had him when I was a kid. I loved
Grumpy Bear. He was the best.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He really didn't have a soft heart, but it was
no nonsense. He was no nonsense anyway. To my point,
I didn't there was no way I was even going
to test this out because the promotional footage enough was bad.
So like apparently there were even gay members of the
military going no way, he carries that gun for any
amount of distance with the I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
They were just shredding. It just looked bad.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I mean, I think even when you have to gaze that,
don't like it because it's too what's the word I'm
looking for, pandering? It's you know, it's just super pandering.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I'm looking at this and it's just something else. Did
you I didn't watch it. Did you even see it
on Netflix? I didn't even see it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No any teasers for it or no, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I didn't see anything on it, So I don't
know which is weird. If it got such a great
rating on you know, rten Tomatoes. I don't think that
Netflix promoted it enough. I think they were like, oh,
it's another Megan Market type content. Oh, tiede this away.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
We don't want to romote it. Like they have algorithms
in their systems too. That just shows when people are
consuming similar content, they're going to push them.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
My Netflix algorithm has no idea what is going on
with me. It's like, does she like baking or does
she like anime or K dramas?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We don't even know. And then here's some serial killer stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It's like ancient aliens in comedy. It's like they don't
even go together.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Oh, mine's all as.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's aliens because I watch all my westerns, like on
Amazon and paramounts, so it's aliens baking K dramas, and
because K dramas are wholesome. By the way, this is
some of the most wholesome stuff you can watch. K
dramas and what was the other one? Oh, serial killer
stuff are not not really SERI but like unsolved mysteries.
(30:00):
The og with Robert Stack, that man's voice was terrifying
and also amazing, So I don't even I don't see
any of that stuff. So maybe that's why it's never
gonna show me. Here's some gay military stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean it's literally the tags for it are gay military.
Nobody cares. Who made this?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Like a baby boomer, like a baby boomer like almost
like an old, elderly gen xer that still thinks this
kind of stuff is relevant. I don't know, just odd,
super odd. So I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Be watching that. No one, none of us are going
to be watching that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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