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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Man, all right. So first up here the Man alive.
I'm telling you some of the stuff does not want
to load, all right. I having a little bit of
a technical issue. So first up, I think I had
this story before, but there is an update to it.
I got a couple So this first story, do you

(00:34):
guys remember the seventy year old who apparently urinated all
over ten thousand dollars worth of food at a Sam's Club.
Remember that story? So the I didn't have this information
Patrick Mitchell. When authorities got there to arrest him, he
was taking a nap on the lawn furniture that they

(00:56):
had displayed in the middle. You know how they have
all this stuff in the middle and they have like
the lawn furniture out and sometimes they'll set up the
umbrellas and all that. He was under an umbrella that
was set up relaxing on a lounge chair. I had
no idea that would have And apparently there is cell
phone images of him doing the deed that and the

(01:19):
reason all this is coming out is because he's now
going to court over it, finally, even though he was
originally arrested during the summer. But now the court cases,
now he's the litigations. I don't know what there is
to litigate. I mean, you're literally videotape urinating on one
hundred and eighty eight cans of Vienna sausages and three
hundred and forty five cans of spam over ten thousand dollars.

(01:43):
That's a lot. So anyway, just a little, just a
little update to that story because I thought it was
just hysterical that he's lounging on you know, lounging on furniture.
Let's see, a Central Florida teenager was charged because deputies
say he faked an abduction that caused an amber alert.

(02:03):
Oh okay, he's a minor, he's seventeen years old. He
apparently faked his abduction. They issued a statewide amber alert,
and then well, he wasn't abducted. So he's been charged
with presenting false evidence, making a false report of a crime,
possession of a firearm he apparently had a handgun, and

(02:23):
shooting into a conveyance. According to the press release of
the Marion County sheriff's office. It seems like the family
was kind of end on it as well. We're speaking
about this in context of media. Did you guys read
about NBC. They're having one hundred and fifty layoffs. They're

(02:44):
gutting Black, Latino, Asian, American and LGBTQ plus. They put
the plus there because it was like a host of
letters and numbers that fall. I don't even know what
we talked about that yesterday. The verticals focused on those issues,
but now apparently this is the headline, and this is
from the rap. It says that it's a broader shift

(03:05):
in media away from diversity efforts. That's not what it
is newsrooms. For people to argue that newsrooms weren't already diverse,
I think you're a racist if you are arguing that
newsrooms weren't diverse before the alphabet, namely the T mafia.
You know what I mean. If you did not realize

(03:27):
that there was already a diverse representation of people in
the news, then you are a racist because you ignored them.
You ignored and marginalized them, and only began really paying
attention when it became trendy. And that's the truth of it.
This wasn't about diversity. This was about critical race theory

(03:48):
and critical race theory. You can say DEI. All of
it is really critical race theory. DEI is basically a
subset of CRT. I've written and talked about CRTs for
a good night like fifteen years now and to recap
critical race theory. In fact, you guys remember way back,
this was right about the time that Andrew Breitbart passed away.

(04:12):
And maybe you guys remember this. Do you remember the
video that he had talked about and it was Barack
Obama hugging somebody. Guys remember that there was this video.
I was on CNN about it. I had to go
out when I worked for Andrew at the time, I
was the editor of Big Journalism before everything got combined.

(04:33):
They were able to obtain this video of Barack Obama
on campus. And he was friends and very close with
this professor named Derek Bell. And this is when he
was a law student and it was at Harvard Harvard Law,
and he had spoken there was a video that we

(04:55):
had where he was in he was at a rally
there and he had given him a hug and they
had done a spoken in defense of him and all
this stuff. And this was in nineteen ninety Obama spoken
support of Bell. At this they had a protest at
Harvard and they were demanding diversity on the faculty. Now

(05:16):
all of this whole protest was started by this Derek Bell.
Now who is Derek Bell. Derek Bell is one of
the biggest proponents of critical race theory in the United States.
And critical race theory comes from Marxism. It is a
it's a tenant of Marxism Frankfurt School of Marxism. It's

(05:40):
I mean, it is designed to either supplant or work
parallel to economics in terms of dividing the classes. So
where economic Marxism would focus on dividing people by finances, income,
et cetera, critical race theory is all about dividing by

(06:02):
race and intersectionality where you check off all these boxes
of things that you believe have been wilfully done wrong
to you. Where that whether it's race or gender or whatever,
that's what when you have all of these things, that's
what intersectionality is. That is a phrase from critical race theory.
And they used they critical race theory. They are the

(06:24):
people who promoted race as a social construct and at
the very heart of critical race theory is the idea
of systemic racism. That is like the core belief of CRT. Now,
why is that the goal of CRT is to distable,
is to is to destabilize societies, not just with economic

(06:49):
means as with most what most people normally think of
Marxist narrative warfare, but critical race theory is about destabilizing
societies amongst people socially promoting actual I mean literally promoting segregation.
That's why. So the equity instead of equality that's a

(07:11):
from critical race theory. DEI is just an action of
critical race theory that lends itself to the hiring practices
and the changing of your employee structure. So back to
the point the video where Barack Obama was hugging Derek Bell.
One of the reasons that was that we came out

(07:33):
with that was because we were talking about this is
back in twenty twelve Critical race theory. It was like
the last video that Andrew had published, and it was
the last story roll out that he directed before he
passed away, and it was about the talking to trying
to inform people about critical race theory and warning them
of what was to come. And we were out there

(07:54):
warning people about this and warning this. You know, Derek
Bell started this at Harvard and it went from there,
and it was Barack Obama that helped mainstream it amongst
the students. So that's why it was so incredibly important,
and a lot of people didn't really understand it at
the time. A lot of people came out and defended

(08:14):
him in twenty twelve when we started our expose of this.
So the whole point is this critical race theory. This
is what they were using as it means to determine
hiring in newsrooms. And you guys saw this. You guys
saw everything, whether it was a school board fight, you
guys saw all of this. All of this unfolded, all

(08:37):
of it unfolded, and it was all because you had
Derek Bell, who was a Marxist, Barack Obama, who was
a Marxist, and Obama mainstreamed it amongst the student body
and to this point with these newsrooms. So the newsrooms

(08:59):
they were all about trying to they wanted to really
promote stories through that CRT lens. And so this is
where you get into the hiring of people who maybe
didn't have the resume or the merit but that's where intersectionality,

(09:20):
remember the CRT term, that's where the intersectionality comes in.
If you were black, if you were gay, if you
were lesbian, if you were trans, if you were whatever.
The more of those intersectional boxes that you could check,
that was a substitute. In the context of critical race theory,
that is a substitute for merit. And so that's how

(09:40):
a lot of these hiring practices went. So now here
we are today. NBC News is eliminating its teams that
specifically only covered those issues. You realize that they had
like a handful of staffers for specifically alphabet plus issues.
Do you really need that many stats? What in the world?

(10:03):
I mean, you have news and then you have things
that you're trying to make news. So I think that
their insistence at trying to explain that this is a
shift away from quote unquote diversity efforts, this is a
shift away from propaganda. So the NBC laying off one
hundred and fifty people, that's pretty big, but that's not

(10:27):
all they also have. In addition to that, you have
the Los Angeles Times. Same thing. They're trying to divert, well, undiversify.
I guess you could say the media is changing. And
then of course you have the CBS thing. You have
the CBS thing where they acquired the Free Press. And

(10:49):
by the way, those are the people. And I'll talk
about this more. That's the entity with which I'm doing
the debate coming up after the election. I'm debating Alan
Dershowitz in Chicago on gun control and the Free Press,
and Barry Weiss, she's moderating the Free Press is hosting it.
You know, CBS acquired the CBS paramount acquired them and
a major deal, and she's going to be heading up

(11:10):
the news and political department at CBS, and a lot
of people in the media are livid. There are all
those old school lefties that were really trying to incorporate
CRT into every aspect of the newsroom. It affected the story.
I mean, you got to realize critical race theory affected
everything from how police staffed to the stories that you

(11:33):
watched on TV, to the things that you read online,
the movies that you watched, the music you listened to.
It kicked off the behavioral credit thing that they were
trying to do with banks. I mean, this literally spawned
since twenty twelve a host of things and Now it's

(11:55):
changing in the media because the media realizes the way
that they were doing it is not working anymore. And
this is a huge shift in media. And remember Barry
Weiss was run out of the New York Times. And
what's funny is she checks all these intersectional boxes, right,
she's a lesbian, she's a woman, she's Jewish. You would

(12:17):
think that that would be considered a protected class with
the left, But all of those intersectional boxes are rendered
irrelevant if you are not a far left progressive. It's
not even good enough to be an independent. It's not
even good enough, as you can see with John Fetterman
to be a moderate. If you are not far left,
your persona on Grada, intersectionality is no longer applicable to you.

(12:41):
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Speaker 2 (14:01):
Now all of the news you would probably miss it's
time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I gotta be honest, it seems like a big problem.
PayPal's crypto partner minted a whopping three hundred trillion dollars
worth of stable coins in what it called a technical error.
Why can't these technical errors ever happen to me? Why?
Why are we always left out? Kane? I mean, that
would be great. There are even enough dollars in global
circulation Notes CNBC to back it that would literally require

(14:31):
not theoretically, but really require more than double of the
world's estimated total GDP. It's insane. And they said Paxos
mistakenly minted the stable coins as part of an internal
transfer before it then immediately identified the error and burned
off the excess p YUSD. That's what they said in
a social media statement. That makes me see, this is

(14:54):
why people question not like crypto. I've gotta be honest
with you, That's why this stuff like this, I'm just saying,
just saying, uh this, seventy five percent Americans report soaring prices. Now,
granted this is from the Guardian, which is a British
turn of a publication, but inflation, it's still a reality.

(15:16):
We're not going to biden this stuff. There's still pessimism
about the economy, and honestly, regardless of you know, who
they voted for on the right, people are pretty divided
as to whether or not, you know, the economy is
going to hold. Now. The President says that there's virtually
no inflation. There are, there is some there's a new

(15:37):
Harris poll showing that Americans are still reporting soaring inflation.
A lot of people are pretty pessimistic about the economy. Uh.
I know Cain saying, let Trump cook, are you gonna
say what what get on? Then? What Robert I.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Think what they're mistaking are these companies responding to what
they believe the tariffs will do, and so companies are
trying to protect themselves. Customers may see a little increase
in price, but we're talking about actual inflation. It's not
really there. It's way down.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
There are certain things that are more, that is for sure,
and and some of it is because I mean, we
really could, like for instance, construction costs giminy Christmas. But
that's also because we don't have a lot of those
resources here domestically, and that's a huge problem with it.
But it's going to be harder to create them domestically
if we can't get a handle on the pricing. You know,
heg seth Second War. His plane made an emergency landing

(16:27):
in the UK. I've never heard I'm sure this happens
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There was a crack in the aircraft's windscreen. It was
a Boeing C three to two, a military version of
the seven fifty seven. It was going to d C
from Brussels because he was attending NATO meetings. They declared
an emergency over the Atlantic Ocean and they ended up

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Okay, and I want to get to that absolutely, But
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and leave the leadership in Gaza.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I believe that any future here in New York City
is one that we have to make sure that's affordable
for all, and as it pertains to Israel and Palestine,
that we have to ensure that there is peace and
that is the future that we have to fight for.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their
arms and give up leadership in Gaza.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas
and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and
the fact that anything has to abide by international law,
and that applies to Hamas, that applies to Israeli military,
applies to anyone you could.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Ask me about.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Okay, it's not an answer. That isn't an answer. You know,
maybe the New York Yrs, Middle Aged Yrs, maybe they
if they weren't texting so much and doing all of that,
they could have maybe put up a bigger fight to
this guy. Because he's leading. He's gonna win. He's gonna
be Mayor of New York. Welcome to the program, Dana
Lash with you top of this third hour. That's Zorn

(19:52):
ma'am Donnie who was on Fox yesterday. I didn't hear
a condemnation Caine, did you.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
And he's the anti character.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, like what, Yeah, he's anti gun except for Hamas.
He doesn't think Hamas should. Let you know, guns for Hamas,
but not for you. That's the real truth of it.
So he repeatedly, repeatedly refused to say that they should.
And that's one of the conditions. You know, the peace

(20:23):
deal that uh Trump outlined, the twenty point piece plan.
That's one of the conditions of it. That's absolutely one
of the conditions of it. And he wouldn't do it.
He wouldn't say it. He wouldn't say that. He could
not even back like back something, back up, something that simple,

(20:44):
which is a real problem. I don't know. And he's leading,
he's leading. Is that in New York, the biggest, you know,
the most the biggest city really in the world, and
he's leading there. He's going to be mayor and it's

(21:04):
going to be horrible. It's going to be so bad.
And I think they should have people vote for him,
should not be barred from leaving. I think people should
be forced to live under what they voted for. Is that,
I mean, call it tyranny. That's why I'm not running
for office ever, because I would make that happen. Let
people suffer under the indignity of their own vote. Just crazy.

(21:28):
But he would not even say, could not even, couldn't
even do that. Just wow, it's pathetic. And he's going
to win. It's crazy, but he's going to win. He
couldn't even And that was just like one part of it.
I mean, this was a train wreck interview. And Martha
mccowm's not even a difficult interviewer. He is, He's just

(21:51):
he's so bad. Listen to this. Listen to this audio
Somebody twenty eight. This is cut twenty eight where he
talks about the tax levels. If he wins, this is
what people are going to pay in tax Listen.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
So a lot of individuals in this city pay more
than fifty percent of their income and taxes. When you
talk about a fair share, how much more than what
is the fair share?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
What's the number I've said that we should increase personal
and complexity.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Is fair? And my point is this is more than
half of your income.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
If you're making a million dollars in New York City
or more than that, you can afford to pay two
percent more. And the reasons you can afford to do
so is because that money will be used to better
your quality of life as well. Because when I speak
to the wealthiest New Yorkers, I hear concerns about the
cleanliness of the city, the quality of life in this
questions of public safety. This money is the money that
will be used to liver on those things, so that

(22:42):
we can ensure that we have a return on investment
for all of the money that we are raising and
spending right here.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
But wait a minute, though, Like, what so, it's already
they're already the highest text one of the highest text
people in the nation. Why isn't that all all of
those issues met? Now? Thank you? If you're already paying
people are paying fifty two percent of their paychecks in

(23:08):
taxes already. Why isn't it working? You already have Democrat leadership.
Now you're gonna get even worse Democrat leadership. I wish
that would have been the follow up. Well, wait a minute,
why isn't that working?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Now?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Over fifty two percent of your paycheck goes to the
government in New York? Why is crime out of control?
Why are the streets filled with homeless and drug dealers
and everything else? Why are they hemorrhaging high earners? What's

(23:42):
why isn't it working? He's never been asked that question.
I thought I was anticipating waiting for that to be
the follow up, and it wasn't. I'm like, okay, well,
but why isn't any Why isn't why not asking that question?
I feel like that's that's fair to ask fifty two percent.
Can you imagine audio this is cut twenty six. He

(24:06):
was asked, well, how does it help affordability? Because you know,
you have companies that are flean Manhattan. I don't know
what they're going to replace that tax revenue with.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Listen, is that JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have moved
major operations to Texas. They've not abandoned New York, but
they're hedging their bets on New York because of the
increased taxes that they see coming if you become mayor
so when they do that, jobs move out of the
city as well. So, how does that help affordability if

(24:36):
people in the city don't have the jobs that they
had that they once had here.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, I'm looking to make this a city that every
person chooses, whether they're a business leader or there's someone
who works for that business, and the key ways of
doing that are actually delivering quality of life, public safety,
and affordability for each and every person. Because what we're
seeing right now is we have a broken status quo.
We have a corrupt political system, and we have the
politicians that sustain that. That's really what's on the ballot

(25:03):
is whether New Yorkers want to continue that or that
they actually want to city they can afford.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Wait, that's not even answering the question. That's a Kamala
Harris word salad. He's asked, well, how does it help
affordability when corporations that bear a lot of the tax
burden when they were leaving because of your policies? And
he's like, well, we're going to do this by making
you know, life affordable. Wait, you're going to help affordability
from massive corporations fleeing by making life affordable. Do you

(25:29):
realize how stupid that sounds. He's a bimbo. He is
a Nepo baby bimbo. Just reminder, he's never worked ever.
He has literally never held a job ever. And he
some how thinks I just I I that this is

(25:56):
gonna His mom directed his failed rap video. He tried
to be a rapper that works. I guess the next
best thing is try to run for mayor in New
York City. So his idea to help affordability when from
corporations leaving New York City is to make life affordable.
How well the corruption and the government, you know, he
sounds like a moronic college freshman. Well, We're like gonna

(26:19):
make it like the government's corrupt. It's crazy. We're gonna
make the life affordable. You know, the government's so corrupt.
What what are you talking about? Can you just like
stop with the platitudes for a second and actually think
and give an answer that is embarrassing? Oh that's not
all of it. Last one cut, twenty seven. What is

(26:42):
he going to say about Thatcher's quote on socialism?

Speaker 4 (26:46):
City's already in debt, the governor says no to new taxes,
like Margaret Thatcher said, you know, socialism is great until
you run out of everyone else's money, other people's money.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if he had
nine hundred and fifty nine million dollars and'd give it
to Elon Musk and tax credits, That's exactly what he did.
And I bring that up to you to say that
it's often a question of whether you have the willingness
to spend that money to benefit working class people, not
where that money isn't the first So what would.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
You call I don't think he understands what tax credits are.
Tax credits. That's a reduction in the income tax that
you owe. So you're not, no one's paying you. You're
keeping more of what you earn.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
And it's a common thing for cities to use this
to generate and attract in businesses. It's like, look, all right,
we're going to give you a one year or a
two year little stay on the taxes that we would
require from businesses, so you can get up and running,
get these jobs going, and then you'll start having to
pay taxes. So tax credits are really a benefit to

(27:48):
the businesses because government's already over taxes.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's there's a financial illiteracy.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
There.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
And you know why the people who pay more in
taxes get bigger tax breaks. That's a that's a cyclical answer.
By the way, I'll say it again. Do you know
why the people who pay more in taxes get bigger
tax breaks? I just answered it. The people who pay
more in taxes get bigger tax breaks because they pay
more in taxes. Never forget that the top what is

(28:19):
it like, the top fifty percent pay like ninety eight percent.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Top six or seven percent?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, more.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Like pays more than fifty percent of the entire.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Burden, and then the bottom pay nothing. Uh, it's it
is completely lopsided. It's so disproportionate. The top one percent
of taxpayers, they paid the highest average income tax rate.
In fact, it's uh the most. I'm looking at data

(28:53):
from twenty twenty two, So the average income tax rate
in twenty two is fourteen percent. They paid actually way
over that. It was they got twenty three average rates
six times higher than the three percent average rate. The
top fifty percent paid ninety seven percent of all federal
income taxes. The bottom fifty percent only paid actually they

(29:17):
paid less than three.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, so we and by the way, our progressive tax
system needs to be completely looked at. The more you make,
the more you pay.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
It's punitives.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's left ten percent of my salary as opposed to
ten percent of say Donald Trump's salary or whatever. His
ten percent is paying way more, and we're still both
paying ten percent.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Honestly, all of the discussion about civil wars over everything
other than this is stupid. But if you talk to
me about a civil war over this, I'm in because
it's I mean, we literally went to war for less
than this back in the day. It's so bad. This
is so bad. So the top one percent they pay,

(30:01):
I mean, they have a rate six times higher than
the average rate. This is Matt by Way. This is
literally the summary of all of the latest federal income
tax data. Publishing and looking at this.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
It punishes published, it punishes success.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
So and yes, the top one percent pay the most.
They pay six times higher than everyone else. So what
is he talking about. He's he's an economically illiterate moron.
Good grief, And this is this is what they're This
is what they're that's what they're paying. This is the

(30:39):
and they're going to pay more.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
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