November 5, 2025 • 29 mins
Dana Loesch reacts to Brett Cooper attacking Sen. Cruz for condemning support for Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 BILLION on DEI grants and delayed air traffic control upgrades.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Florida man allegedly listed stolen rocks on Facebook, using the
photos from a construction site that they were stolen from.
It doesn't seem like that's smart. By the way, why
I can't pronounce what kind of rocks these were? Coquina
Coquina rocks. I don't even know what that means, but
they were. He stole these rocks from a construction site,
(00:36):
posted them for sale online using photos of them at
the same site. Floyger Kind of Sheriff's Office said deputies
met with the victim on October twenty second. They were
reported seeing the rocks stolen from a Palm Coast construction
site and then listed for sale on Facebook marketplace. Facebook
Marketplace listed the used photos of the rocks. Uh and
detectives learned.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, seriously, he.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Was just to listen to all his charges grand theft,
dealing and stolen property, unlawful use of a two way
communications device. He bonded out at seventy five hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's like if I stole your car but took a
picture of it first in your driveway in order to
sell it online.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's not the best. Speaking of rocks, what a segue?
Florida man was arrested for throwing rocks at marked police
cards at their cars. What is he wanting to get arrested?
It took place minutes after the guy was released from jail.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Two.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He cost three dollars worth of damage. I think he
just wanted to go back into jail. He's facing criminal
mischief charges. Authorities say he intentionally threw rocks at two
marked deputy patrol vehicles and shattered the window of one dented.
Oh yeah, there's a lot of damage. They have some
photos of it. Now he faces a criminal mischief charge
(01:53):
and he's back in jail. Nobody's surprised with that. A
police office he was impersonating a police officer, stole a
corvette at Hard Rocks Hollywood Casino. They but he and
apparently nobody thought to intervene because he was like impersonating
a cop and I guess dressed up as one. So
(02:16):
the parking attendants told the police officer that a man
he had he was wearing clothing with Florida Department of
Correction insignios. He jumped in a running carvette and fled.
It was a vale at a valet stand. He jumped
into a running carvette and fled and one of the
attendants said, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Not his car.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Uh and the driver, Angel Diaz of Miami Gardens sixty,
he was seen smoking a joint as he sped away.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It is like a movie. They finally got him.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
He's got grand theft, auto impersonating, law enforcement, trespassing, tampering.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
With physical evidence. So he's at least has three felonies.
He's got a long ramp sheet.
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this was really unfortunate last night. This is cut on that,
and then we're going to move on to some of
this other stuff with the election. This is cut twenty four.
This is a podcaster defending I guess Nick Fuentez, listen so.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Blinded by your ridiculous, insane hatred of Tucker Carlson that
you cannot see how irresponsible and hypocritical R being. I mean,
these tweets from Ted Cruz I'm gonna read you next
are a great example of this. So just a month
ago he tweeted this, He said, they don't kill you
because you're a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so
they can kill you. Political violence is a left wing phenomenon.
Enough is enough, we need to shut it down. And
(04:45):
then in response to fight doesand Tucker. This week, he
tweeted this, Trump's bombing of the Iatola's nuclear facilities made
the little Nazi mad good. So now you're turning around
and you're calling somebody that you don't like a Nazi.
You're doing this out of blind rage because you're so
angry that the conservative face's attitudes are rapidly changing, that
Nick Twentez is getting national attention, and so you have
turned around it in response. You are compromising your own
(05:08):
values and anger, which is such so dangerous precedent to see.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I get the jump cuts all the time, but I
think this is a podcaster named Brett Cooper. I think
she needs to take a deep breath and slow her
voice down because that's a lot. But number one, Nick
Foiuentez literally said repeatedly that he was a Nazi, and
that he said that he was Hitler. And if she
was unaware of this before she recorded that, that's part
of the problem. You can't be miles wide and inches
(05:31):
deep in politics if you're going to get out here
and talk about this stuff, you know, you don't make
the mistake that Kevin Roberts did and be unaware of
what was said before you make a video, because otherwise
it looks really bad and we're citing the stuff that
has actually literally been said by these people with their
(05:52):
own mouths. So if somebody comes up to you and
they say that they're a Leninist and that they love
Lenin and they think Lenin was great and that Lenin's
policies were fabulous, and they make video after a video
where it's not just a cut or it's not just
one thing that might not be in context, like hour
long videos where they discuss it in depth, how much
(06:14):
they love Lenin, how much they love Lenin's policies, how
they think Lenin could do so many great things in
the United States. It's fair to call them a Leninist,
it's fair to call them a communist, it's fair to
call them a Soviet. So on that same hand, if
you have someone who has spent literal hours on camera
(06:39):
talking about Nazis, how much they like them, how much
they wish those policies could be implemented in the United States,
If they have tweeted out that they were team Hitler.
If they have tweeted out that, why do it? Can't
Nazism work here? A number of other things, it's pretty
fair to call them by what they choose to identify as,
(07:01):
which is a Nazi and making a very you know,
I mean, take a breath so that people know what
you're saying, making a video to where you're just like
motormouth and through it with jump cuts. That's not without
having apparently known all of this is not great. That
was really disappointing to see. But this is why we
(07:22):
need to have people understand history so that they know
who these you know, these people in history are and
the things that they've done. So and of course, you know,
you have her coming out and Influentes was like, she's great,
she's a graper. All this stuff like, oh boy, so
there's a you know, another one for his graper army.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Just really unfortunate to see.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But I think it's desperately unfair, and it seems like
it's clout chasing to accuse someone of correctly identifying someone
as they have, verbatim with her own mouths identified themselves.
So there we are, and that's all I'll say on that,
(08:04):
But I made the point last night because I saw
a number of Graper that's what they call Nick Fuentez's acolytes, influencers,
tried to blame the reaction to all of this for
the losses last night. I got Matt Gates almost stepped
in it with me this morning. And there's a reason
why Matt Gates had to leave his elected office and
(08:26):
why he will never run for elected office again because
remember that investigation that they started, and then he inoculated
himself by stepping aside so that the Ethics Committee couldn't
investigate him longer. There's a reason why he stepped out
of his seat, and it wasn't due to just saying
it's not something that an innocent person I would think
would do. But the point of this is that there
were these influencers that were running around saying blaming all
(08:48):
of the people who had a single criticism of the
Fuentes interview and criticizing Fuentas for his admitted Nazism. And
remember fuente also hates Trump and he actively campaigned against
him in twenty twenty four, And they were all the
people that were criticizing that, people like Jack post Sobic,
(09:11):
I don't know what his last name is. Some of
these other people, they were out there blaming all of
those voters, saying, well, you guys cost the election last night,
which seemed really just even if you don't have a
dog in the fight. I wouldn't want anyone giving me
political advice that is myopic enough to believe something like that, because,
as I said, they're ignoring kitchen table issues. And if
(09:33):
you're not going to pay attention to those issues, the
real motivating issues for why people voted the way that
they did, then you're never going to win another election,
and neither would anybody that would pay you to advise
them either. So the point of this is I mentioned
I said, wow, how did I put it last night?
Let me look I had said with this, I tweeted,
(09:54):
I guess it was last night, I said, Thank goodness,
so many podcasts hosts spent so much time host and
defending Nazi twinks rather than host winsome Earl Sears or
Jack Jiterelli or Jason Mirez or even talk redistricting. They
were so helpful to the movement tonight because I saw
a ton of tweets blaming the people who objected to
Nick Fouintez. And then Matt Gates decided that he was
(10:17):
going to step in it, and he says, Hi, Dana,
are you really suggesting that these candidates lost because podcasters
didn't do enough for them? And I responded, don't maybe
your huckleberry. By the way, I said, Hi, Matt, I
guess you didn't pay much attention if you missed these
exact same things being said ad nauseum all of last night,
prompting this response. Looks like you may have missed something.
(10:37):
You know, it's okay to blame people who reacted to
a softball interview, but not to question the timing of
a softball interview. I mean, Tucker Carlson never once had
any of the people I mentioned on his show. Why
didn't anyone say why? Ask why Tucker Carlson never had
Winsome Earl Sears on his show? Why has he never
done a single show where he talked about Jay Jones?
He's never talked about Jay Jones ever. Don't you think
(11:00):
that's pretty significant considering what happened in September?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Because I do.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But yet the people who criticized him spending his time
talking about Fuentas and not any of the things I
just mentioned. Those are the people that are getting criticized
by the people who hope that some of Carlson's money
falls on them. And that's what this is all about,
you know, because he has his Tucker Carlson media network
and a lot of these people are angling for jobs there.
And that's the truth of it. There's a lot of
moving pieces here that you have to realize with this,
(11:33):
and it's true. It's more than just power jocking to
leave the Republican Party. It's power jocking with the consultancy class.
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Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Data's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So first up at ups playing crash near the Louisville
Airport last night. This was the video looked just horrific
and a lot of the photos as well. A US
MD eleven plane crash shortly after takeoff. According to the FAA,
was just after a five pm local time. It was
headed to an airport in Honolulu. The crash is being
(13:13):
investigated along with the National Transportation Safety Board that is
leading it. Three crew members were on the plane. They
haven't contayed Apparently there weren't any fatalities, but they had
a massive plume of black smoke that could be seen
for quite a long distance.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
A lot of photos of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Another reason the FED should lower rates affordability was push
the US median first time home buyer to age forty.
And not only should the FED lower rates, but we
should have an even more I mean, we need to
be cut in taxes for people right now. We need
to be stopping government spending, which you know, the only
reason we aren't right now is because of a shutdown.
We haven't done anything to reduce government spending, which is
(13:51):
one of the reasons why people are saying that we
can't lower taxes because of the government spending. And so
until we get a handle on how government is operating,
you know, the FED can do whatever it's going to
do and it's not going to matter much. Unfortunately. That's
the position that we're in. And if people don't believe it,
then tell all the folks who voted that last night. Also,
a first of its kind of AI food pantry opens
in Brooklyn. I don't trust AI anything. It's the future
(14:15):
there saying maybe the future of fighting hunger. Wait until
Mam Donnie shuts it down. It's the met Council unveiled
a state of the art pantry warehouse. They said it's
the first AI warehouse and pantry twenty two thousand square
feet and they said that it's helping with efficiency and
it can tell you what pantries, which pantries need more food,
(14:35):
which need less food, which have specific needs. It sounds
like a database more so than AI.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
An Oakland mom and her teen daughter were arrested in
a rubber mallet attack at a downtown cafe in Oakland.
This is weird a mallet a rubber mallet. She was
arrested and charged with attacking another woman, robbing the victim
of a cell phone, and contributing to the del inquancy
of her two daughters, who allegedly joined in the attack.
(15:03):
You know, because the family that hits people with a
rubber mallet together stays together.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When she she was arrested thirty seven, she said that
the victim had started the altercation by using racial slurs.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And then she and then filming them.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And she said that she then hit her with the mallet,
ripped out her hair, and took her phone. The phone
was found in her possession and one of the daughters
was seen swinging the mallet on cafe surveillance footage, which
didn't exactly support what the mother was saying there which
she was alleging. This is exciting because the first Mummy
was fantastic. Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss are apparently teaming
(15:41):
up for a fourth Mummy movie. They said it had
been in the plans and the works for decades and
that they are reuniting. The first one came out in
nineteen ninety nine. The second one was really good too,
in two thousand and one, but Fraser alone did in
two thousand and eight and it was all right. The
one in twenty seventeen did not have the same draw.
So now they're talking about bringing those two back. That's
(16:01):
going to be interesting. I think they both that would
be nice nostalgia. We need something a little nice, do
we not? Welcome back to the program, Dana lash with you.
The former Transportation Secretary Secretary new Dad poot boota juice. Well,
he wasn't a very good Secretary of Transportation. I mean,
I really don't know what he knew about transportation other
(16:22):
than He was the one time mayor of South Bend,
and he was also the Vice Admiral rear Vice Admiral
of the Kannoue Fleet at Camp wimpy Tonka. And he
liked buses, you know, couldn't fill a pothole to save
his life though, and his agency. While he was at
Department of Transportation, his agency apparently spent eighty billion dollars
(16:50):
on DEEI grants and apparently it delayed air traffic control upgrades.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now you know he went strun for president in twenty
he's very much like he's on board with that, but
apparently he is eyeing a twenty twenty eight presidential run.
He told executives that air control upgrades would allow them
to fly more planes, and so why would that be
in his interest?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Sources said.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They handed out over eighty billion.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Over four years.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That was half of all of the Department of Transportation's
entire budget for a typical fiscal year, according to records.
They said, yes, he was definitely pushing an agenda, and
he apparently had quote little to no interest and took
zero action towards air traffic control modernization. Oh my gosh,
(17:51):
the safety system that hasn't been updated since the Carter administration.
And he did nothing there. What do you I mean,
don't you think, Okay, this might be a naive question,
but if you're going to be the Transportation secretary, shouldn't
you at least have some sort of working knowledge about
how the hell it works. I don't know how Department
of Transportation works. I know that they're supposed to handle
(18:13):
stuff like that, right, Yeah, and he didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Remember he was also how long was he gone?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
He was like gone eight weeks after he purchased some babies.
He was gone for eight weeks from maternity leave. The
best the cherry on the top was when they both
got into like pajamas and sent in a hospital bed
like they pushed the baby out of their birth canals themselves.
And he.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Did not take any questions.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He was basically not basically he was am I according
to people within the Department of Transportation. If you remember,
while we had the supply chain crisis and all that stuff,
he was nowhere to be found. So the Booty Juices spokesperson,
Chris Meager, of course his name is Meager.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
His Meager spokesman.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Said, no, no, no, I mean there was some like
new flight routes and stuff that was added. What are
you talking about? They had an air traffic controller shortage apparently,
and they weren't upgrading systems, and he was doing nothing
to help with that. According to all of these insiders
that are blowing the whistle on him right now, the
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eighty billion and eighty billion, eighty billion dollars on DEI grants.
Isn't the thing with Delta that happened over the weekend,
wasn't that said to have done. Weren't people complaining about
DEI also, you know where they had a pilot that
had to take aggressive maneuvers and all.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
This stuff because they got too close to this other jet.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
A lot of people have been talking about the air
traffic control industry and how they need more actual, like
competent air traffic controllers. So, I mean, apparently he didn't
do a whole hell of a lot over at dot Caine.
He didn't do anything. I mean, what is the point
(20:08):
of having the department if you're not doing anything that
has to do with transportation?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That does DEI have to do with this?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You know, if I spent eighty billion, even just eighty
billion in that department, which, by the way, more was spent.
I would have something to show for it. I would say, hey,
look at this, Look at this thing I did with
eighty billion. What does he have to show for it?
Because there's no improvements in the Department of Transportation as
(20:35):
it relates to air traffic control. So what do he do?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, absolutely nothing. The focus of his it says under
Buddha judge, the focus of the department shifted dramatically. They
had four hundred DEI related grants approved, and that was
an audit of federal spending between twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty four. Grants for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
(21:02):
They said that programs like Justice forty, which sent about
fifty five percent of about one hundred and fifty billion
in infrastructure investments to quote unquote disadvantaged communities pursue it
to an executive order that Biden signed to quote advanced
(21:24):
equitable outcomes. So that's the Justice forty Justice forty initiative.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
They say.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The categories investment are climate change, clean energy, energy efficiency,
sustainable and affordable housing, remediation, legacy pollution. That's that's that's
the they're Yeah, and this was Biden's twenty one one
point two Infrastructure Law five billion equity that was, by
(21:54):
the way, that part of that money. Do you guys
remember the oh my gosh, this is going to create
the eraasiest stories the electrical the electric vehicle charging stations.
Do you guys remember that? So they only built seven,
good god, seven like seven by June of twenty twenty four.
(22:17):
And that was a five billion dollar equity effort. They
were supposed to build five hundred thousand electric vehicle charging
stations and it only only seven were built.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Now you might be like, well, what is that? What
do you what do you mean? Equitable f what is
the equity effort? The equitable effort? What does that mean? Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I remember we had this story. Let me just bring
it back up because it's been almost a year ago.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Let me just bring this back up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So they had this program where they were supposed to
build like half a million of these charging stations. They
only did seven of them. And the people in DOT
like or or in departments in which they fallen the
purview of department or transportation like the Federal Highway Administration,
et cetera, et cetera, they were the ones who started
(23:06):
talking to the press about it. And the reason being
is because of that equitable thing, that little equitable equity
word in there that I had mentioned, they were not
a lot. Remember, they had all these requirements if you
were going to build a charging station, like you had
to be like minority owned, and you had to have
x amount of minorities, Like it wasn't enough to be
a minority owned. Like if you were a black business
(23:28):
owner but you didn't have enough minorities on your staff,
then you were not considered.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, that's how crazy it was.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And you had to have like an interpreter and they did,
Oh my gosh, what was it?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Block parties?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Remember all this stuff, and uh, people were saying, you're
not going to be able to get anything built with this,
with these type of requirements, you're not going to be
able to get anything built. And it actually, I mean
(24:01):
it was blamed for holding all of this back. There
were all of these secret documents that came out. Daily
Caller had a big thing on it, and so did
the Free Beacon and they were reporting on how all
these internal documents showed how all of these stupid DEI
demands made it impossible to. I mean, I'm surprised they
(24:22):
got seven built.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Honestly. It was described as.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
A quote mess and it said that the DEI requirements
were hamstringing Biden's ev agenda and that was why they
were behind the charging station goals. And I'm saying this
because this is all part of this eighty billion dollars.
Apparently that poot pooty juice was just given away to
DEI stuff. That's how bad it was. Like they you
(24:48):
had to be able. You had to show like neighborhood initiatives,
like if you had held a block party and all that, Like,
what the hell are you doing. You're building an EV state,
You're building a damn charging station meaningful public in.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It wasn't enough to do it a one off it
you had to prove that this would occur throughout the
project's life cycle. They never actually meant they never actually
defined what public involvement was, but they just gave The
reason I said block parties is because they gave that
as an example. The Department of Transportation documents. By the way,
all this is on the internet. That's the stuff. Yeah,
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Visual preference surveys, games and contests and neighborhood block parties.
Those were some of the examples that they gave, and
that the grant recipient had to provide multi lingual staff
or interpreters to interact with community members who use language
other than English. So it wasn't even that you had
to have an interpreter for your employees. You literally had
(25:47):
to employ an interpreter to talk to the community. You
the person building the EV charging station, So Cain. If
Cain had a company that wanted to that was bidding
for a contract to build a charging station, they'd be like, Okay,
well you're half Hispanic. I guess that's half enough. How
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many people of color do you have in your staff?
How many minorities do you have in your staff? And
if he didn't have enough minorities on his staff, he
wouldn't be considered. If he did, then he had a
further show that he had an interpreter on staff, not
even to deal with his own employees, but to just
talk with the community. He would have to prove that
they were doing all these events and stuff for the
community as part of the quote meaningful public involvement that
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was never defined but was only really only showcased by
examples of which block parties were mentioned. You would have
to do all of that, even the sourcing of the
materials that you used. You had to make a good
faith effort to show that you were getting sourcing for
your production from other minority owned or disadvantaged minority owned
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companies or companies in disadvantage areas.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Wrap your head around that. Wrap your head around why.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Do you think we only had seven of these damn
things built. This was under Pooh Booty Juice, and people
in Department of Transportation were like this, like actual other
leftists were like, this is the stupidest burp that we've
ever seen. They said, you are ham stringing this, ham
(27:21):
stringing it. Meanwhile, Department of Transportation is out there going well,
since Biden took office, the public public available charging ports,
it's grown wildly. It's to grow like over ninety percent.
Not because of you, not because of you. So they
this was just a slush fund. DEI is just a
slush fund. All it is is another way to redistribute money.
(27:43):
That's all it is. That's all it is. It's just
a way to redistribute money. So going back to this,
this was under this is all that justice forty stuff.
This is all a part of that eighty billion dollars
that poot Booty Juice was in charge of, and that
he was spending more towards like DEI and all of
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this other stuff than actually going and pursuing air traffic controllers,
upgrading safety systems, doing all of those things. And what
was his and his excuse was, oh, well you can
walk and chew gum at the same time, meaning well
I can do this and I can do these other things.
Remember that time that was Remember we had that whole thing,
but here not doing the other things is what people
(28:27):
are pointing out to you. So I mean, he he
just I honestly all of this stuff. I think it's
very interesting that we had all of these incidents that
stemmed from the perfect storm of his if you want
to call it leadership over a Department of transportation.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Good heavens.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
By the way, we spent four billion dollars to refunds
for customers because of consumer complaints. Remember he had that
whole initiative setup. That wasn't airlines that was paying that.
That was taxpayers that were paying that paying that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
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for Florida Man.
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Florida man allegedly listed stolen rocks on Facebook, using the
photos from a construction site that they were stolen from.
It doesn't seem like that's smart. By the way, why
I can't pronounce what kind of rocks these were? Coquina
Coquina rocks. I don't even know what that means, but
they were. He stole these rocks from a construction site,
(00:36):
posted them for sale online using photos of them at
the same site. Floyger Kind of Sheriff's Office said deputies
met with the victim on October twenty second. They were
reported seeing the rocks stolen from a Palm Coast construction
site and then listed for sale on Facebook marketplace. Facebook
Marketplace listed the used photos of the rocks. Uh and
detectives learned.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, seriously, he.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Was just to listen to all his charges grand theft,
dealing and stolen property, unlawful use of a two way
communications device. He bonded out at seventy five hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's like if I stole your car but took a
picture of it first in your driveway in order to
sell it online.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's not the best. Speaking of rocks, what a segue?
Florida man was arrested for throwing rocks at marked police
cards at their cars. What is he wanting to get arrested?
It took place minutes after the guy was released from jail.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Two.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He cost three dollars worth of damage. I think he
just wanted to go back into jail. He's facing criminal
mischief charges. Authorities say he intentionally threw rocks at two
marked deputy patrol vehicles and shattered the window of one dented.
Oh yeah, there's a lot of damage. They have some
photos of it. Now he faces a criminal mischief charge
(01:53):
and he's back in jail. Nobody's surprised with that. A
police office he was impersonating a police officer, stole a
corvette at Hard Rocks Hollywood Casino. They but he and
apparently nobody thought to intervene because he was like impersonating
a cop and I guess dressed up as one. So
(02:16):
the parking attendants told the police officer that a man
he had he was wearing clothing with Florida Department of
Correction insignios. He jumped in a running carvette and fled.
It was a vale at a valet stand. He jumped
into a running carvette and fled and one of the
attendants said, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Not his car.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Uh and the driver, Angel Diaz of Miami Gardens sixty,
he was seen smoking a joint as he sped away.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It is like a movie. They finally got him.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
He's got grand theft, auto impersonating, law enforcement, trespassing, tampering.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
With physical evidence. So he's at least has three felonies.
He's got a long ramp sheet.
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this was really unfortunate last night. This is cut on that,
and then we're going to move on to some of
this other stuff with the election. This is cut twenty four.
This is a podcaster defending I guess Nick Fuentez, listen so.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Blinded by your ridiculous, insane hatred of Tucker Carlson that
you cannot see how irresponsible and hypocritical R being. I mean,
these tweets from Ted Cruz I'm gonna read you next
are a great example of this. So just a month
ago he tweeted this, He said, they don't kill you
because you're a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so
they can kill you. Political violence is a left wing phenomenon.
Enough is enough, we need to shut it down. And
(04:45):
then in response to fight doesand Tucker. This week, he
tweeted this, Trump's bombing of the Iatola's nuclear facilities made
the little Nazi mad good. So now you're turning around
and you're calling somebody that you don't like a Nazi.
You're doing this out of blind rage because you're so
angry that the conservative face's attitudes are rapidly changing, that
Nick Twentez is getting national attention, and so you have
turned around it in response. You are compromising your own
(05:08):
values and anger, which is such so dangerous precedent to see.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I get the jump cuts all the time, but I
think this is a podcaster named Brett Cooper. I think
she needs to take a deep breath and slow her
voice down because that's a lot. But number one, Nick
Foiuentez literally said repeatedly that he was a Nazi, and
that he said that he was Hitler. And if she
was unaware of this before she recorded that, that's part
of the problem. You can't be miles wide and inches
(05:31):
deep in politics if you're going to get out here
and talk about this stuff, you know, you don't make
the mistake that Kevin Roberts did and be unaware of
what was said before you make a video, because otherwise
it looks really bad and we're citing the stuff that
has actually literally been said by these people with their
(05:52):
own mouths. So if somebody comes up to you and
they say that they're a Leninist and that they love
Lenin and they think Lenin was great and that Lenin's
policies were fabulous, and they make video after a video
where it's not just a cut or it's not just
one thing that might not be in context, like hour
long videos where they discuss it in depth, how much
(06:14):
they love Lenin, how much they love Lenin's policies, how
they think Lenin could do so many great things in
the United States. It's fair to call them a Leninist,
it's fair to call them a communist, it's fair to
call them a Soviet. So on that same hand, if
you have someone who has spent literal hours on camera
(06:39):
talking about Nazis, how much they like them, how much
they wish those policies could be implemented in the United States,
If they have tweeted out that they were team Hitler.
If they have tweeted out that, why do it? Can't
Nazism work here? A number of other things, it's pretty
fair to call them by what they choose to identify as,
(07:01):
which is a Nazi and making a very you know,
I mean, take a breath so that people know what
you're saying, making a video to where you're just like
motormouth and through it with jump cuts. That's not without
having apparently known all of this is not great. That
was really disappointing to see. But this is why we
(07:22):
need to have people understand history so that they know
who these you know, these people in history are and
the things that they've done. So and of course, you know,
you have her coming out and Influentes was like, she's great,
she's a graper. All this stuff like, oh boy, so
there's a you know, another one for his graper army.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Just really unfortunate to see.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But I think it's desperately unfair, and it seems like
it's clout chasing to accuse someone of correctly identifying someone
as they have, verbatim with her own mouths identified themselves.
So there we are, and that's all I'll say on that,
(08:04):
But I made the point last night because I saw
a number of Graper that's what they call Nick Fuentez's acolytes, influencers,
tried to blame the reaction to all of this for
the losses last night. I got Matt Gates almost stepped
in it with me this morning. And there's a reason
why Matt Gates had to leave his elected office and
(08:26):
why he will never run for elected office again because
remember that investigation that they started, and then he inoculated
himself by stepping aside so that the Ethics Committee couldn't
investigate him longer. There's a reason why he stepped out
of his seat, and it wasn't due to just saying
it's not something that an innocent person I would think
would do. But the point of this is that there
were these influencers that were running around saying blaming all
(08:48):
of the people who had a single criticism of the
Fuentes interview and criticizing Fuentas for his admitted Nazism. And
remember fuente also hates Trump and he actively campaigned against
him in twenty twenty four, And they were all the
people that were criticizing that, people like Jack post Sobic,
(09:11):
I don't know what his last name is. Some of
these other people, they were out there blaming all of
those voters, saying, well, you guys cost the election last night,
which seemed really just even if you don't have a
dog in the fight. I wouldn't want anyone giving me
political advice that is myopic enough to believe something like that, because,
as I said, they're ignoring kitchen table issues. And if
(09:33):
you're not going to pay attention to those issues, the
real motivating issues for why people voted the way that
they did, then you're never going to win another election,
and neither would anybody that would pay you to advise
them either. So the point of this is I mentioned
I said, wow, how did I put it last night?
Let me look I had said with this, I tweeted,
(09:54):
I guess it was last night, I said, Thank goodness,
so many podcasts hosts spent so much time host and
defending Nazi twinks rather than host winsome Earl Sears or
Jack Jiterelli or Jason Mirez or even talk redistricting. They
were so helpful to the movement tonight because I saw
a ton of tweets blaming the people who objected to
Nick Fouintez. And then Matt Gates decided that he was
(10:17):
going to step in it, and he says, Hi, Dana,
are you really suggesting that these candidates lost because podcasters
didn't do enough for them? And I responded, don't maybe
your huckleberry. By the way, I said, Hi, Matt, I
guess you didn't pay much attention if you missed these
exact same things being said ad nauseum all of last night,
prompting this response. Looks like you may have missed something.
(10:37):
You know, it's okay to blame people who reacted to
a softball interview, but not to question the timing of
a softball interview. I mean, Tucker Carlson never once had
any of the people I mentioned on his show. Why
didn't anyone say why? Ask why Tucker Carlson never had
Winsome Earl Sears on his show? Why has he never
done a single show where he talked about Jay Jones?
He's never talked about Jay Jones ever. Don't you think
(11:00):
that's pretty significant considering what happened in September?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Because I do.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But yet the people who criticized him spending his time
talking about Fuentas and not any of the things I
just mentioned. Those are the people that are getting criticized
by the people who hope that some of Carlson's money
falls on them. And that's what this is all about,
you know, because he has his Tucker Carlson media network
and a lot of these people are angling for jobs there.
And that's the truth of it. There's a lot of
moving pieces here that you have to realize with this,
(11:33):
and it's true. It's more than just power jocking to
leave the Republican Party. It's power jocking with the consultancy class.
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Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Data's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So first up at ups playing crash near the Louisville
Airport last night. This was the video looked just horrific
and a lot of the photos as well. A US
MD eleven plane crash shortly after takeoff. According to the FAA,
was just after a five pm local time. It was
headed to an airport in Honolulu. The crash is being
(13:13):
investigated along with the National Transportation Safety Board that is
leading it. Three crew members were on the plane. They
haven't contayed Apparently there weren't any fatalities, but they had
a massive plume of black smoke that could be seen
for quite a long distance.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
A lot of photos of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Another reason the FED should lower rates affordability was push
the US median first time home buyer to age forty.
And not only should the FED lower rates, but we
should have an even more I mean, we need to
be cut in taxes for people right now. We need
to be stopping government spending, which you know, the only
reason we aren't right now is because of a shutdown.
We haven't done anything to reduce government spending, which is
(13:51):
one of the reasons why people are saying that we
can't lower taxes because of the government spending. And so
until we get a handle on how government is operating,
you know, the FED can do whatever it's going to
do and it's not going to matter much. Unfortunately. That's
the position that we're in. And if people don't believe it,
then tell all the folks who voted that last night. Also,
a first of its kind of AI food pantry opens
in Brooklyn. I don't trust AI anything. It's the future
(14:15):
there saying maybe the future of fighting hunger. Wait until
Mam Donnie shuts it down. It's the met Council unveiled
a state of the art pantry warehouse. They said it's
the first AI warehouse and pantry twenty two thousand square
feet and they said that it's helping with efficiency and
it can tell you what pantries, which pantries need more food,
(14:35):
which need less food, which have specific needs. It sounds
like a database more so than AI.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
An Oakland mom and her teen daughter were arrested in
a rubber mallet attack at a downtown cafe in Oakland.
This is weird a mallet a rubber mallet. She was
arrested and charged with attacking another woman, robbing the victim
of a cell phone, and contributing to the del inquancy
of her two daughters, who allegedly joined in the attack.
(15:03):
You know, because the family that hits people with a
rubber mallet together stays together.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When she she was arrested thirty seven, she said that
the victim had started the altercation by using racial slurs.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And then she and then filming them.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And she said that she then hit her with the mallet,
ripped out her hair, and took her phone. The phone
was found in her possession and one of the daughters
was seen swinging the mallet on cafe surveillance footage, which
didn't exactly support what the mother was saying there which
she was alleging. This is exciting because the first Mummy
was fantastic. Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss are apparently teaming
(15:41):
up for a fourth Mummy movie. They said it had
been in the plans and the works for decades and
that they are reuniting. The first one came out in
nineteen ninety nine. The second one was really good too,
in two thousand and one, but Fraser alone did in
two thousand and eight and it was all right. The
one in twenty seventeen did not have the same draw.
So now they're talking about bringing those two back. That's
(16:01):
going to be interesting. I think they both that would
be nice nostalgia. We need something a little nice, do
we not? Welcome back to the program, Dana lash with you.
The former Transportation Secretary Secretary new Dad poot boota juice. Well,
he wasn't a very good Secretary of Transportation. I mean,
I really don't know what he knew about transportation other
(16:22):
than He was the one time mayor of South Bend,
and he was also the Vice Admiral rear Vice Admiral
of the Kannoue Fleet at Camp wimpy Tonka. And he
liked buses, you know, couldn't fill a pothole to save
his life though, and his agency. While he was at
Department of Transportation, his agency apparently spent eighty billion dollars
(16:50):
on DEEI grants and apparently it delayed air traffic control upgrades.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now you know he went strun for president in twenty
he's very much like he's on board with that, but
apparently he is eyeing a twenty twenty eight presidential run.
He told executives that air control upgrades would allow them
to fly more planes, and so why would that be
in his interest?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Sources said.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They handed out over eighty billion.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Over four years.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That was half of all of the Department of Transportation's
entire budget for a typical fiscal year, according to records.
They said, yes, he was definitely pushing an agenda, and
he apparently had quote little to no interest and took
zero action towards air traffic control modernization. Oh my gosh,
(17:51):
the safety system that hasn't been updated since the Carter administration.
And he did nothing there. What do you I mean,
don't you think, Okay, this might be a naive question,
but if you're going to be the Transportation secretary, shouldn't
you at least have some sort of working knowledge about
how the hell it works. I don't know how Department
of Transportation works. I know that they're supposed to handle
(18:13):
stuff like that, right, Yeah, and he didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Remember he was also how long was he gone?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
He was like gone eight weeks after he purchased some babies.
He was gone for eight weeks from maternity leave. The
best the cherry on the top was when they both
got into like pajamas and sent in a hospital bed
like they pushed the baby out of their birth canals themselves.
And he.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Did not take any questions.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He was basically not basically he was am I according
to people within the Department of Transportation. If you remember,
while we had the supply chain crisis and all that stuff,
he was nowhere to be found. So the Booty Juices spokesperson,
Chris Meager, of course his name is Meager.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
His Meager spokesman.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Said, no, no, no, I mean there was some like
new flight routes and stuff that was added. What are
you talking about? They had an air traffic controller shortage apparently,
and they weren't upgrading systems, and he was doing nothing
to help with that. According to all of these insiders
that are blowing the whistle on him right now, the
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eighty billion and eighty billion, eighty billion dollars on DEI grants.
Isn't the thing with Delta that happened over the weekend,
wasn't that said to have done. Weren't people complaining about
DEI also, you know where they had a pilot that
had to take aggressive maneuvers and all.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
This stuff because they got too close to this other jet.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
A lot of people have been talking about the air
traffic control industry and how they need more actual, like
competent air traffic controllers. So, I mean, apparently he didn't
do a whole hell of a lot over at dot Caine.
He didn't do anything. I mean, what is the point
(20:08):
of having the department if you're not doing anything that
has to do with transportation?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That does DEI have to do with this?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You know, if I spent eighty billion, even just eighty
billion in that department, which, by the way, more was spent.
I would have something to show for it. I would say, hey,
look at this, Look at this thing I did with
eighty billion. What does he have to show for it?
Because there's no improvements in the Department of Transportation as
(20:35):
it relates to air traffic control. So what do he do?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, absolutely nothing. The focus of his it says under
Buddha judge, the focus of the department shifted dramatically. They
had four hundred DEI related grants approved, and that was
an audit of federal spending between twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty four. Grants for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
(21:02):
They said that programs like Justice forty, which sent about
fifty five percent of about one hundred and fifty billion
in infrastructure investments to quote unquote disadvantaged communities pursue it
to an executive order that Biden signed to quote advanced
(21:24):
equitable outcomes. So that's the Justice forty Justice forty initiative.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
They say.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The categories investment are climate change, clean energy, energy efficiency,
sustainable and affordable housing, remediation, legacy pollution. That's that's that's
the they're Yeah, and this was Biden's twenty one one
point two Infrastructure Law five billion equity that was, by
(21:54):
the way, that part of that money. Do you guys
remember the oh my gosh, this is going to create
the eraasiest stories the electrical the electric vehicle charging stations.
Do you guys remember that? So they only built seven,
good god, seven like seven by June of twenty twenty four.
(22:17):
And that was a five billion dollar equity effort. They
were supposed to build five hundred thousand electric vehicle charging
stations and it only only seven were built.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Now you might be like, well, what is that? What
do you what do you mean? Equitable f what is
the equity effort? The equitable effort? What does that mean? Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I remember we had this story. Let me just bring
it back up because it's been almost a year ago.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Let me just bring this back up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So they had this program where they were supposed to
build like half a million of these charging stations. They
only did seven of them. And the people in DOT
like or or in departments in which they fallen the
purview of department or transportation like the Federal Highway Administration,
et cetera, et cetera, they were the ones who started
(23:06):
talking to the press about it. And the reason being
is because of that equitable thing, that little equitable equity
word in there that I had mentioned, they were not
a lot. Remember, they had all these requirements if you
were going to build a charging station, like you had
to be like minority owned, and you had to have
x amount of minorities, Like it wasn't enough to be
a minority owned. Like if you were a black business
(23:28):
owner but you didn't have enough minorities on your staff,
then you were not considered.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, that's how crazy it was.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And you had to have like an interpreter and they did,
Oh my gosh, what was it?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Block parties?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Remember all this stuff, and uh, people were saying, you're
not going to be able to get anything built with this,
with these type of requirements, you're not going to be
able to get anything built. And it actually, I mean
(24:01):
it was blamed for holding all of this back. There
were all of these secret documents that came out. Daily
Caller had a big thing on it, and so did
the Free Beacon and they were reporting on how all
these internal documents showed how all of these stupid DEI
demands made it impossible to. I mean, I'm surprised they
(24:22):
got seven built.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Honestly. It was described as.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
A quote mess and it said that the DEI requirements
were hamstringing Biden's ev agenda and that was why they
were behind the charging station goals. And I'm saying this
because this is all part of this eighty billion dollars.
Apparently that poot pooty juice was just given away to
DEI stuff. That's how bad it was. Like they you
(24:48):
had to be able. You had to show like neighborhood initiatives,
like if you had held a block party and all that, Like,
what the hell are you doing. You're building an EV state,
You're building a damn charging station meaningful public in.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It wasn't enough to do it a one off it
you had to prove that this would occur throughout the
project's life cycle. They never actually meant they never actually
defined what public involvement was, but they just gave The
reason I said block parties is because they gave that
as an example. The Department of Transportation documents. By the way,
all this is on the internet. That's the stuff. Yeah,
(25:25):
Visual preference surveys, games and contests and neighborhood block parties.
Those were some of the examples that they gave, and
that the grant recipient had to provide multi lingual staff
or interpreters to interact with community members who use language
other than English. So it wasn't even that you had
to have an interpreter for your employees. You literally had
(25:47):
to employ an interpreter to talk to the community. You
the person building the EV charging station, So Cain. If
Cain had a company that wanted to that was bidding
for a contract to build a charging station, they'd be like, Okay,
well you're half Hispanic. I guess that's half enough. How
(26:07):
many people of color do you have in your staff?
How many minorities do you have in your staff? And
if he didn't have enough minorities on his staff, he
wouldn't be considered. If he did, then he had a
further show that he had an interpreter on staff, not
even to deal with his own employees, but to just
talk with the community. He would have to prove that
they were doing all these events and stuff for the
community as part of the quote meaningful public involvement that
(26:28):
was never defined but was only really only showcased by
examples of which block parties were mentioned. You would have
to do all of that, even the sourcing of the
materials that you used. You had to make a good
faith effort to show that you were getting sourcing for
your production from other minority owned or disadvantaged minority owned
(26:53):
companies or companies in disadvantage areas.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Wrap your head around that. Wrap your head around why.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Do you think we only had seven of these damn
things built. This was under Pooh Booty Juice, and people
in Department of Transportation were like this, like actual other
leftists were like, this is the stupidest burp that we've
ever seen. They said, you are ham stringing this, ham
(27:21):
stringing it. Meanwhile, Department of Transportation is out there going well,
since Biden took office, the public public available charging ports,
it's grown wildly. It's to grow like over ninety percent.
Not because of you, not because of you. So they
this was just a slush fund. DEI is just a
slush fund. All it is is another way to redistribute money.
(27:43):
That's all it is. That's all it is. It's just
a way to redistribute money. So going back to this,
this was under this is all that justice forty stuff.
This is all a part of that eighty billion dollars
that poot Booty Juice was in charge of, and that
he was spending more towards like DEI and all of
(28:06):
this other stuff than actually going and pursuing air traffic controllers,
upgrading safety systems, doing all of those things. And what
was his and his excuse was, oh, well you can
walk and chew gum at the same time, meaning well
I can do this and I can do these other things.
Remember that time that was Remember we had that whole thing,
but here not doing the other things is what people
(28:27):
are pointing out to you. So I mean, he he
just I honestly all of this stuff. I think it's
very interesting that we had all of these incidents that
stemmed from the perfect storm of his if you want
to call it leadership over a Department of transportation.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Good heavens.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
By the way, we spent four billion dollars to refunds
for customers because of consumer complaints. Remember he had that
whole initiative setup. That wasn't airlines that was paying that.
That was taxpayers that were paying that paying that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
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Lash's Absurd Truth podcast.
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