May 23, 2025 • 23 mins
The Trump Administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students. Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gets called out TO HIS FACE about his racist treatment of white residents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's right, it's time for Florida Man. This is the
Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled
to be with you. First Florida Man is Olivier Riu,
who is a seven foot nine Florida basketball player for
the Florida Gators. He didn't actually play this season, even
though they won the championship. He was red shirted because
he's developing some of the skills that might be lacking
(00:35):
fundamentally and a guy that's seven foot nine inches tall,
but they expect him to be very good next year
for that team. He met President Trump Florida Man in
the White House, seven foot nine, hanging out and having
a conversation. Here's how Trump reacted to the giant human
that stood next to him for a sec.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And you're a beautiful looking glide. I think it's.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great coming over.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It's good. He is.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
He a good player, Florida pink.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What a big advantage that's going to be in life.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Trump is not short and his son is not short
and still Olivier.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Riu is gigantic. He's huge.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
He's actually the kind of dude who can cut down
the championship nets without getting on the ladder at all,
which is something you might have seen after Florida won
the national championship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
If you were watching, you're like, who's that giant dude?
They weren't playing.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's that's this guy out of Canada who is hopefully
going to be good, but at least going to be
ridiculous to see regardless for that school. All right, other
things out there, as far as Florida man stories go,
a Florida man was accused of setting fire to a
strip club and throwing a urine filled bottle at a
police officer. This is the kind of story that only
(01:50):
comes out of Florida. It actually is coming out of Tampa.
The Pink Pony Showgirls strip club in Tampa had a
crazy thing happen at five am Wednesday. You feel like
anybody who's hanging out at Pink Pony Showgirls at five
am on a Wednesday is the kind of person that
might make certain life decisions.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This guy's name is Arvin. He's twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He did as I said, set fire to the building
because he was upset and experience he had inside the club,
and he then started to throw urinated empty bottles that
he had urinated in at officers as they were trying
to arrest him for being an insane, horrible, terrible person
who does horrible, terrible things and makes all the other
people that were at Pink Pony.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Showgirls at five am upset.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know how many people that is, and I
don't know what the plan is to, you know, respond
to it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But I feel like this isn't over.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I feel like Moore is coming out of this story
and none of it's going to be good and all
of it's going to be terrible. There's a simple rule
that nothing good happens after like two am, and it's
usually true, and I feel it's especially true in Tampa
on a Wednesday. All Right, another story out there, one
last one for a Florida man. A Florida woman actually
struck a man in a maga hat at a Largo
(03:06):
park before battering an officer. Sometimes women seem to think
that the rules don't apply them. I guess Laura Elizabeth Garrett,
who's thirty three, thought she was allowed to get mad
at a seventy year old seventy two year old dude
in a maga hat, and so after a confrontation and
Laura demanding that he think what she thinks, no matter
what it is they were talking about, I'm sure it
(03:28):
was a lot of stuff. She hit him and she
attacked him, and that's going to cause some issues. And
then when the police got there, she also attacked them,
which is probably going to compound the situation. It will
be unsurprising to many people, but Laura has blue hair,
entirely blue hair that looks sort of ridiculous. I don't
know that she went the expensive route in getting it
(03:50):
dyed that color. But she's also someone who's obviously very
much of a certain side of the political aisle, which
is not common in Florida. By the way, I feel
like Laura lives her life fighting with a lot of
people a lot of the time. I lived in Florida
for a few months. I had planned to live there Logger,
but I lived there for a few months, and then
eventually I moved to Texas in Houston, where I am now,
(04:11):
and I remember one of the first things I saw
when I got there was a dude shirtless, driving a
motorcycle with a tump Trump flag attached to the back
of it, just waving in the wind. And that dude
was feeling good about himself. And I think it was
like two or three am, since I was driving from
somewhere else when we were relocating to Florida for a bit,
(04:32):
which is a story for another day, but I remember
seeing that and thinking to myself, Yeah, I'm in Florida.
I'm in the place that Dana talks about a lot
on the radio. And I wasn't sad about it. Laura,
this person in this story probably is quick break a
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Speaker 1 (06:04):
All right, let's talk about something that's causing a rift
and even some pushback from his own side of the
political aisle, President Trump's fight with Harvard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
This is the latest move.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A DHS letter from Christy Nome to Harvard says that
they're no longer going to be able to have foreign students,
in fact, students that are currently there with F or
J visas are going to have to transfer to another
school to keep the visa or the visas being taken away.
How is the Trump administration validating or at least how
are they claiming that it's valid that they're going to
(06:38):
do this. They said the campus is unsafe, and this
part I easily agree with. The Trump administration says that
Harvard has allowed for a very anti Semitic, very anti
Israel sentiment to exist on their campus, that certain students
who come from other countries enhance that problem. And this
is probably the most important caveat of ITV has been
(07:00):
absolutely unwilling to work with the Trump administration and some
of its requests, demands, whatever you want to call them,
to gain more information about that. The Trump administration, this government.
They want DHS information about what students are coming, what
countries they're coming from that go into Harvard, and more
background information about it. And Harvard is unwilling to give
(07:23):
that information until say it would be too late and
people are here in this country and the United States
wants to stop that.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Look, I get every objection to this as like this
is too far, this is trying to act like a dictator.
I understand those or saying that, you know, penalizing certain
students or whatever it might be. But here's the part
that I find good or uniquely interesting about stories like this.
Trump is absolutely willing to make someone the demonstration of
(07:54):
why you should follow the rules so that everyone else
behaves differently. And Harvard is trying to stay and up
against him for whatever political or you know, I guess
optic when they think they're getting. But Harvard doesn't get
as many federal dollars if it decides, if it decides
to fight the federal government.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's simply true.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It doesn't mean that the United States is shutting Harvard down,
of course, it's not doing that. And it doesn't mean
that Harvard can't recover the money and funds and all
the things that are being taken away from them by
the federal government some other way. And it's not even
a huge part of the money that exists in that
university anyway. But this is just showing them the extent
(08:36):
of power that the US government has. And essentially all
of this goes away if Harvard starts playing ball as
far as the DEI initiatives go, as far as any
of this stuff. But they want to stand firm. They
want to stand tall and say we can resist, we
can you know, say no to you. And this is
the byproduct of doing that within the rules that exists
in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's not going to go further.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No one's breaking any laws though, and deciding to change
things this way or that way and counching them. And
I'm sure that'll be challenged in court as to whether
or not what I just said is actually factually true,
and we'll find out if someone decides it somehow isn't.
But nonetheless, and this is the thing, I do support
the idea that if you want to mooch off of
our government in some way, shape or form, and you
(09:21):
wind up getting kicked in the teeth for it, especially
if you're bragging about doing it, that it kind of
sounds like it's a self inflicted won't even if the
way they're kicking you in the teeth is a way
I wouldn't personally do it. I don't like government taking
control of things that it shouldn't have control of, but again,
it's not really totally doing that. All right, let's play
some audio. This is a CNN interview. This is a
(09:42):
Harvard professor who melts down over the outrageous, awful, authoritarian
decision by the Trump administration. Will this same guy and
people just like him, people who work at that school,
would love to be invited onto television to brag about
the ways that they're fighting the trumpet. They'd love that.
They want the publicity of that. They want to be
(10:04):
the tallest person in the room of short people saying
look at me, look at me. I'm great because I'm
fighting back, and sometimes when you fight back, the bully
punch is harder. This decision that Harvard can no longer
enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students have to transfer
or lose their legal status.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What's your reaction to this.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I think it's awful and it's outrageous. It's another pattern
of the Trump administration taking authoritarian actions in the United States.
The president does not have the power to punish people,
target people for punishment because he doesn't like their politics,
and he's targeting Harvard because he thinks he politically disagrees
with them, and it's a political vendetta. And he's doing
(10:52):
this on the back of students who were admitted to
Harvard from around the world for their merit, for things
that they accomplished in life.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Here's what's amazing about this being a thing that people
are saying, because on its face, I agree again that
you shouldn't try to enforce your will by any means necessary. However,
they're literally talking about the guy who was almost sent
to jail in New York for a case that absolutely
wasn't a felony, has never been tried as a felony
(11:20):
before a business you know, accounting error, if that's what
the Trump companies would say it was, and if New
York says it's something else that got inflated from typically
you know, a misdemeanor charge to a felony without the
explanation of what it was, to try to throw the
political opponent of Biden into prison so that he couldn't
(11:40):
run and the only case that actually got that far.
So politicizing and fighting and showing strength by using any
sort of you know, loophole you can find is absolutely
something that the left constantly does.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That Harvard I'm sure does all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They find a way to maximize every federal dollar they get,
even when they don't need all the federal dollars, even
when they'd be just fine without them. And a lot
of organizations do it, and a lot of organizations feel
they're smart for doing it. But when you depend on that,
when you use those sort of things, you can also
stand up in the middle of the room and say,
by the way, I hate you, now give me more money.
(12:16):
He usually winds up being a thing that causes conflict.
And so again, I know that Harvard's being made an
example of, and I know that Trump is trying to
tell the entire United States play by our rules, especially
our DEI rules, which I firmly believe in. I think
he's absolutely right in trying to get rid of DEI.
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Speaker 6 (13:30):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's right, it's time for the Quick five on the
Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in Dlash
Dana Lash Radio. Two great ways to stay connected to
her and everything going on with this show. First, this
is kind of ridiculous. ABC News, their news boss has
told the view to tone down the Trump bashing. Guess what,
It's not good for the ratings. Unsurprising this has continued
(13:58):
to happen. And actually what's also hilarious is that it's
May of twenty twenty five, and that's when news of
this story gets out.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know when Trump wins reelection.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
By also winning the popular vote, something people thought he
couldn't do. You feel like at some point the decision
makers would be like, you know what, we can just
at least skip some of these topics, just not talk
about them, instead of continuing to make most of our
audience or some of our audience mad, because I doubt
much of that audience that cares would even be left
at this point. But nonetheless they're continuing to try to
(14:29):
tell them to rein it in. That story is interesting
out there in the world. Also revolutionary new contacts that
are being created in China that would allow you to
basically have night vision without ridiculous goggles on your face.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's another thing out there in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It sounds kind of intense, to be honest, if everybody
had night vision. I don't know if it also would
ruin your day vision. If someone just popped a light on,
would you have to rip the contacts out of your
eyes to see again? I'm not sure, but this seems rough.
Seems to be something that's not going to be invented
for any sort of good reason. It sounds like it's
invented for ninjas or some other.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thing like that.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't mean to say that, but my brain couldn't
help me from saying that. That's where it went, and
darn and I'm okay with it. Another story out there
that I thought was amazing. A guy graduated from the
University of Buffalo in New York with a baby in
his hands. He asked before and I'll play some audio
of him talking about it, if he could bring his
infant son with him. And his infant son was dressed
(15:30):
up in his own graduation gown, so both people matching
outfits walk across the stage to accept a diploma. But
here's the ridiculous part. He was being slowly chased by
a police officer because the day of the event, the
venue tried to not let him carry his baby on
the stage, citing some sort of safety concern. Stupid rules
(15:52):
enforced by stupid people who seem angry is something I
hate in society, and it seems to have plagued this
whole situation here.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I've asked last semester if I could walk with my
baby and commencement prep session, and they were like, yeah,
it's okay, No one's gonna tell you no. But they
said it was a safety hazard. They don't want the
baby on stage. I won't walk then, and I run.
That's what I did, you know, I promised him, I'm
gonna walk with them on the stage. I run with
them on stage. I have nothing against to Be. I
(16:21):
love you Be. I graduated from you Be. I'm doing
my master's right now to Be. It's a great college.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He got a standing ovation from the audience when he
walked across the stage with his baby in a matching
gown graduation gown. So of course that made sense. And
some moron who's like, nah, the rules apply here. It's
too dangerous. This baby might not make it across the stage.
Is someone ruining things? And you know, these people in
your life, they're angry, they're upset, they're they're you know,
(16:49):
horrible to be around. And they spread that misery in
whatever way they can, mostly by if they have the
power enforcing stupid rules at stupid moments. They definitely exist.
And I get so fed up with these people and
even trying to deal with them a little bit or
have any sort of conversation with them, because it's an
absolute nightmare. All right, one last thing you can tell them,
(17:09):
uniquely mad about that, one last thing that I thought
was interesting out there. Jennifer Lopez is suing for the
cop is being sued excuse me for copyright cases involving
photos of her. So essentially, she put up photos of
herself in social media that she didn't take. It is
her and she is like wandering around and someone else
who took them is like, how dare you use my
(17:31):
photo of you? This would be the weirdest thing to
deal with in the world of being a celebrity, because
no matter how much I understand the law would allow someone.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
To sue for this, it would feel real stupid.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
If I was the person that was putting up photos
of me and someone was like, how dare you use
that photo of you that I took? I would be like,
come on, man, it's me. If I don't exist, there
is no photo. So again, I'm not saying she's right
to be mad, but I'd be mad too, all right,
quick break a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling
in on the Day show. The mayor in Chicago. His
name is Brandon Johnson has been viral multiple times over
(18:06):
the last few days for crazy stuff he is saying,
mostly because he seems proud that he hired a bunch
of people based on their race. He hired a bunch
of people into this this administration, the one currently running Chicago,
because they're black and he's a black man too. And
so now that he's getting in trouble for that, even
though he bragged about it as he was doing it,
(18:28):
he's upset.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He's like, how dare.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The Trump administration comes after me because they also disagree
with me. They also, you know, politically, don't like me
and find something that I actually did wrong and try
to hold me accountable for the thing I did wrong.
Let me play a little bit of Brandon Johnson's audio.
But this is amazing so well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
As far as you know the president's animus towards women,
people of colored working people, we have always known who
he has been.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I mean, this is not a surprise. He's a monster, period.
End of statement. We have the most diverse administration in
the history of Chicago, and he is threatened by that.
You can tell when someone is fearful is because they
act out. We have a president that is screaming and
(19:23):
having tantrums right now because we have an administration that
reflects the city of Chicago. But he would much rather
have administrations that reflect the country globe.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It is ridiculous. Every part of this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
My favorite part is when he says that someone who
behaves at all is you know, someone acting out because
they're afraid. So that means anyone who takes any action
for anything is afraid, and that's why they're behaving the
way they're behaving. Even say, like a cop who's stopping
someone from killing someone else, that cop was terrified. That's
why he did what he did, and that cop might
actually be scared, but nonetheless, that's not why you take
(19:55):
the action. Sometimes you take action because people are doing
things that are bad and you want not to do
the bad things anymore. And by the way, when he
says that his current administration reflects the population of Chicago,
oftentimes an excuse used by people to say they do
things the way they do them.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
The truth is that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The majority of people that live in Chicago are actually white.
About thirty six percent of Chicago is white people, twenty
nine percent is Black, seven percent is Asian, zero point
one percent is Native American, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
There's other races.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A lot of people who describe themselves as Hispanic might
also describe themselves as white by the way, so significant
population and diversity there not exactly reflected in the Brandon
Johnson administration. And so here's what's so funny about all
the virtue signaling and all the ridiculousness of these sort
of conversations. They don't have to exist. And what I
(20:49):
mean by this, and I am not trying to help
the bad guys do their bad stuff better. Politicians need
the political win of hiring people that don't look like me,
a white guy. They desperately want it because if they
didn't tout it, if they didn't brag about it, if
they didn't celebrate it, they could do it and no
one could object to it. If they told us everyone
(21:12):
they hired got their job solely based on merit, I'd
have nothing to be upset about. Now, I could be
suspicious that that's not true, and I could talk about
it in a different way. But the fact that they
admit it, and they admit it because they know that
it's politically advantageous to them with their voters that they
want voting for them, is the thing that causes the problem.
(21:32):
Because when you use simple logic, you understand easily it's
not a good policy. You shouldn't hire anyone based on
their race or their sex. That's not why they should
get a job. They should get a job because they're
good at something. And anyone who wants to yell at
a radio or me or anyone else saying that, how
dare you? If that's true, then the people that have
(21:53):
these jobs won't get them, well, then they don't deserve them.
If they can't get a job based on merit, they
shouldn't get a job based on something else. And if
you think they're not getting evaluated fairly, we can have
that discussion by proving it, not just saying that you
think it exists. You have to prove that it's true,
which means that whoever gets the job, you have to
demonstrate how they're not as qualified as someone who didn't
(22:16):
get the job. And then we can do this on
a case by case basis and we can figure it
all out. But anyway, I'll stop ranting about this. I
just think it's ridiculous that this is the kind of
conversation we have in society so much, and it emboldens
so many people on a certain side of the political
aisle to say things that are like evidently racist. I
know people that will look at me and say they
(22:36):
hate white dudes to my face, and like, I can't
fathom saying that to someone else, to look at them
and who they are and whatever their race, sex, anything is,
and be like, hey, I hate everybody that looks like you,
And yet people can do it to me to my
face and not worry about any ramifications from it. Thanks
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's right, it's time for Florida Man. This is the
Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled
to be with you. First Florida Man is Olivier Riu,
who is a seven foot nine Florida basketball player for
the Florida Gators. He didn't actually play this season, even
though they won the championship. He was red shirted because
he's developing some of the skills that might be lacking
(00:35):
fundamentally and a guy that's seven foot nine inches tall,
but they expect him to be very good next year
for that team. He met President Trump Florida Man in
the White House, seven foot nine, hanging out and having
a conversation. Here's how Trump reacted to the giant human
that stood next to him for a sec.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And you're a beautiful looking glide. I think it's.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great coming over.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It's good. He is.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
He a good player, Florida pink.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What a big advantage that's going to be in life.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Trump is not short and his son is not short
and still Olivier.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Riu is gigantic. He's huge.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
He's actually the kind of dude who can cut down
the championship nets without getting on the ladder at all,
which is something you might have seen after Florida won
the national championship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
If you were watching, you're like, who's that giant dude?
They weren't playing.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's that's this guy out of Canada who is hopefully
going to be good, but at least going to be
ridiculous to see regardless for that school. All right, other
things out there, as far as Florida man stories go,
a Florida man was accused of setting fire to a
strip club and throwing a urine filled bottle at a
police officer. This is the kind of story that only
(01:50):
comes out of Florida. It actually is coming out of Tampa.
The Pink Pony Showgirls strip club in Tampa had a
crazy thing happen at five am Wednesday. You feel like
anybody who's hanging out at Pink Pony Showgirls at five
am on a Wednesday is the kind of person that
might make certain life decisions.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This guy's name is Arvin. He's twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He did as I said, set fire to the building
because he was upset and experience he had inside the club,
and he then started to throw urinated empty bottles that
he had urinated in at officers as they were trying
to arrest him for being an insane, horrible, terrible person
who does horrible, terrible things and makes all the other
people that were at Pink Pony.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Showgirls at five am upset.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know how many people that is, and I
don't know what the plan is to, you know, respond
to it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But I feel like this isn't over.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I feel like Moore is coming out of this story
and none of it's going to be good and all
of it's going to be terrible. There's a simple rule
that nothing good happens after like two am, and it's
usually true, and I feel it's especially true in Tampa
on a Wednesday. All Right, another story out there, one
last one for a Florida man. A Florida woman actually
struck a man in a maga hat at a Largo
(03:06):
park before battering an officer. Sometimes women seem to think
that the rules don't apply them. I guess Laura Elizabeth Garrett,
who's thirty three, thought she was allowed to get mad
at a seventy year old seventy two year old dude
in a maga hat, and so after a confrontation and
Laura demanding that he think what she thinks, no matter
what it is they were talking about, I'm sure it
(03:28):
was a lot of stuff. She hit him and she
attacked him, and that's going to cause some issues. And
then when the police got there, she also attacked them,
which is probably going to compound the situation. It will
be unsurprising to many people, but Laura has blue hair,
entirely blue hair that looks sort of ridiculous. I don't
know that she went the expensive route in getting it
(03:50):
dyed that color. But she's also someone who's obviously very
much of a certain side of the political aisle, which
is not common in Florida. By the way, I feel
like Laura lives her life fighting with a lot of
people a lot of the time. I lived in Florida
for a few months. I had planned to live there Logger,
but I lived there for a few months, and then
eventually I moved to Texas in Houston, where I am now,
(04:11):
and I remember one of the first things I saw
when I got there was a dude shirtless, driving a
motorcycle with a tump Trump flag attached to the back
of it, just waving in the wind. And that dude
was feeling good about himself. And I think it was
like two or three am, since I was driving from
somewhere else when we were relocating to Florida for a bit,
(04:32):
which is a story for another day, but I remember
seeing that and thinking to myself, Yeah, I'm in Florida.
I'm in the place that Dana talks about a lot
on the radio. And I wasn't sad about it. Laura,
this person in this story probably is quick break a
lot more.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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All right, let's talk about something that's causing a rift
and even some pushback from his own side of the
political aisle, President Trump's fight with Harvard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
This is the latest move.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A DHS letter from Christy Nome to Harvard says that
they're no longer going to be able to have foreign students,
in fact, students that are currently there with F or
J visas are going to have to transfer to another
school to keep the visa or the visas being taken away.
How is the Trump administration validating or at least how
are they claiming that it's valid that they're going to
(06:38):
do this. They said the campus is unsafe, and this
part I easily agree with. The Trump administration says that
Harvard has allowed for a very anti Semitic, very anti
Israel sentiment to exist on their campus, that certain students
who come from other countries enhance that problem. And this
is probably the most important caveat of ITV has been
(07:00):
absolutely unwilling to work with the Trump administration and some
of its requests, demands, whatever you want to call them,
to gain more information about that. The Trump administration, this government.
They want DHS information about what students are coming, what
countries they're coming from that go into Harvard, and more
background information about it. And Harvard is unwilling to give
(07:23):
that information until say it would be too late and
people are here in this country and the United States
wants to stop that.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Look, I get every objection to this as like this
is too far, this is trying to act like a dictator.
I understand those or saying that, you know, penalizing certain
students or whatever it might be. But here's the part
that I find good or uniquely interesting about stories like this.
Trump is absolutely willing to make someone the demonstration of
(07:54):
why you should follow the rules so that everyone else
behaves differently. And Harvard is trying to stay and up
against him for whatever political or you know, I guess
optic when they think they're getting. But Harvard doesn't get
as many federal dollars if it decides, if it decides
to fight the federal government.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's simply true.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It doesn't mean that the United States is shutting Harvard down,
of course, it's not doing that. And it doesn't mean
that Harvard can't recover the money and funds and all
the things that are being taken away from them by
the federal government some other way. And it's not even
a huge part of the money that exists in that
university anyway. But this is just showing them the extent
(08:36):
of power that the US government has. And essentially all
of this goes away if Harvard starts playing ball as
far as the DEI initiatives go, as far as any
of this stuff. But they want to stand firm. They
want to stand tall and say we can resist, we
can you know, say no to you. And this is
the byproduct of doing that within the rules that exists
in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's not going to go further.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No one's breaking any laws though, and deciding to change
things this way or that way and counching them. And
I'm sure that'll be challenged in court as to whether
or not what I just said is actually factually true,
and we'll find out if someone decides it somehow isn't.
But nonetheless, and this is the thing, I do support
the idea that if you want to mooch off of
our government in some way, shape or form, and you
(09:21):
wind up getting kicked in the teeth for it, especially
if you're bragging about doing it, that it kind of
sounds like it's a self inflicted won't even if the
way they're kicking you in the teeth is a way
I wouldn't personally do it. I don't like government taking
control of things that it shouldn't have control of, but again,
it's not really totally doing that. All right, let's play
some audio. This is a CNN interview. This is a
(09:42):
Harvard professor who melts down over the outrageous, awful, authoritarian
decision by the Trump administration. Will this same guy and
people just like him, people who work at that school,
would love to be invited onto television to brag about
the ways that they're fighting the trumpet. They'd love that.
They want the publicity of that. They want to be
(10:04):
the tallest person in the room of short people saying
look at me, look at me. I'm great because I'm
fighting back, and sometimes when you fight back, the bully
punch is harder. This decision that Harvard can no longer
enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students have to transfer
or lose their legal status.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What's your reaction to this.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I think it's awful and it's outrageous. It's another pattern
of the Trump administration taking authoritarian actions in the United States.
The president does not have the power to punish people,
target people for punishment because he doesn't like their politics,
and he's targeting Harvard because he thinks he politically disagrees
with them, and it's a political vendetta. And he's doing
(10:52):
this on the back of students who were admitted to
Harvard from around the world for their merit, for things
that they accomplished in life.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Here's what's amazing about this being a thing that people
are saying, because on its face, I agree again that
you shouldn't try to enforce your will by any means necessary. However,
they're literally talking about the guy who was almost sent
to jail in New York for a case that absolutely
wasn't a felony, has never been tried as a felony
(11:20):
before a business you know, accounting error, if that's what
the Trump companies would say it was, and if New
York says it's something else that got inflated from typically
you know, a misdemeanor charge to a felony without the
explanation of what it was, to try to throw the
political opponent of Biden into prison so that he couldn't
(11:40):
run and the only case that actually got that far.
So politicizing and fighting and showing strength by using any
sort of you know, loophole you can find is absolutely
something that the left constantly does.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That Harvard I'm sure does all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They find a way to maximize every federal dollar they get,
even when they don't need all the federal dollars, even
when they'd be just fine without them. And a lot
of organizations do it, and a lot of organizations feel
they're smart for doing it. But when you depend on that,
when you use those sort of things, you can also
stand up in the middle of the room and say,
by the way, I hate you, now give me more money.
(12:16):
He usually winds up being a thing that causes conflict.
And so again, I know that Harvard's being made an
example of, and I know that Trump is trying to
tell the entire United States play by our rules, especially
our DEI rules, which I firmly believe in. I think
he's absolutely right in trying to get rid of DEI.
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Speaker 6 (13:30):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's right, it's time for the Quick five on the
Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in Dlash
Dana Lash Radio. Two great ways to stay connected to
her and everything going on with this show. First, this
is kind of ridiculous. ABC News, their news boss has
told the view to tone down the Trump bashing. Guess what,
It's not good for the ratings. Unsurprising this has continued
(13:58):
to happen. And actually what's also hilarious is that it's
May of twenty twenty five, and that's when news of
this story gets out.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know when Trump wins reelection.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
By also winning the popular vote, something people thought he
couldn't do. You feel like at some point the decision
makers would be like, you know what, we can just
at least skip some of these topics, just not talk
about them, instead of continuing to make most of our
audience or some of our audience mad, because I doubt
much of that audience that cares would even be left
at this point. But nonetheless they're continuing to try to
(14:29):
tell them to rein it in. That story is interesting
out there in the world. Also revolutionary new contacts that
are being created in China that would allow you to
basically have night vision without ridiculous goggles on your face.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's another thing out there in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It sounds kind of intense, to be honest, if everybody
had night vision. I don't know if it also would
ruin your day vision. If someone just popped a light on,
would you have to rip the contacts out of your
eyes to see again? I'm not sure, but this seems rough.
Seems to be something that's not going to be invented
for any sort of good reason. It sounds like it's
invented for ninjas or some other.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thing like that.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't mean to say that, but my brain couldn't
help me from saying that. That's where it went, and
darn and I'm okay with it. Another story out there
that I thought was amazing. A guy graduated from the
University of Buffalo in New York with a baby in
his hands. He asked before and I'll play some audio
of him talking about it, if he could bring his
infant son with him. And his infant son was dressed
(15:30):
up in his own graduation gown, so both people matching
outfits walk across the stage to accept a diploma. But
here's the ridiculous part. He was being slowly chased by
a police officer because the day of the event, the
venue tried to not let him carry his baby on
the stage, citing some sort of safety concern. Stupid rules
(15:52):
enforced by stupid people who seem angry is something I
hate in society, and it seems to have plagued this
whole situation here.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I've asked last semester if I could walk with my
baby and commencement prep session, and they were like, yeah,
it's okay, No one's gonna tell you no. But they
said it was a safety hazard. They don't want the
baby on stage. I won't walk then, and I run.
That's what I did, you know, I promised him, I'm
gonna walk with them on the stage. I run with
them on stage. I have nothing against to Be. I
(16:21):
love you Be. I graduated from you Be. I'm doing
my master's right now to Be. It's a great college.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He got a standing ovation from the audience when he
walked across the stage with his baby in a matching
gown graduation gown. So of course that made sense. And
some moron who's like, nah, the rules apply here. It's
too dangerous. This baby might not make it across the stage.
Is someone ruining things? And you know, these people in
your life, they're angry, they're upset, they're they're you know,
(16:49):
horrible to be around. And they spread that misery in
whatever way they can, mostly by if they have the
power enforcing stupid rules at stupid moments. They definitely exist.
And I get so fed up with these people and
even trying to deal with them a little bit or
have any sort of conversation with them, because it's an
absolute nightmare. All right, one last thing you can tell them,
(17:09):
uniquely mad about that, one last thing that I thought
was interesting out there. Jennifer Lopez is suing for the
cop is being sued excuse me for copyright cases involving
photos of her. So essentially, she put up photos of
herself in social media that she didn't take. It is
her and she is like wandering around and someone else
who took them is like, how dare you use my
(17:31):
photo of you? This would be the weirdest thing to
deal with in the world of being a celebrity, because
no matter how much I understand the law would allow someone.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
To sue for this, it would feel real stupid.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
If I was the person that was putting up photos
of me and someone was like, how dare you use
that photo of you that I took? I would be like,
come on, man, it's me. If I don't exist, there
is no photo. So again, I'm not saying she's right
to be mad, but I'd be mad too, all right,
quick break a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling
in on the Day show. The mayor in Chicago. His
name is Brandon Johnson has been viral multiple times over
(18:06):
the last few days for crazy stuff he is saying,
mostly because he seems proud that he hired a bunch
of people based on their race. He hired a bunch
of people into this this administration, the one currently running Chicago,
because they're black and he's a black man too. And
so now that he's getting in trouble for that, even
though he bragged about it as he was doing it,
(18:28):
he's upset.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He's like, how dare.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The Trump administration comes after me because they also disagree
with me. They also, you know, politically, don't like me
and find something that I actually did wrong and try
to hold me accountable for the thing I did wrong.
Let me play a little bit of Brandon Johnson's audio.
But this is amazing so well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
As far as you know the president's animus towards women,
people of colored working people, we have always known who
he has been.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I mean, this is not a surprise. He's a monster, period.
End of statement. We have the most diverse administration in
the history of Chicago, and he is threatened by that.
You can tell when someone is fearful is because they
act out. We have a president that is screaming and
(19:23):
having tantrums right now because we have an administration that
reflects the city of Chicago. But he would much rather
have administrations that reflect the country globe.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It is ridiculous. Every part of this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
My favorite part is when he says that someone who
behaves at all is you know, someone acting out because
they're afraid. So that means anyone who takes any action
for anything is afraid, and that's why they're behaving the
way they're behaving. Even say, like a cop who's stopping
someone from killing someone else, that cop was terrified. That's
why he did what he did, and that cop might
actually be scared, but nonetheless, that's not why you take
(19:55):
the action. Sometimes you take action because people are doing
things that are bad and you want not to do
the bad things anymore. And by the way, when he
says that his current administration reflects the population of Chicago,
oftentimes an excuse used by people to say they do
things the way they do them.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
The truth is that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The majority of people that live in Chicago are actually white.
About thirty six percent of Chicago is white people, twenty
nine percent is Black, seven percent is Asian, zero point
one percent is Native American, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
There's other races.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A lot of people who describe themselves as Hispanic might
also describe themselves as white by the way, so significant
population and diversity there not exactly reflected in the Brandon
Johnson administration. And so here's what's so funny about all
the virtue signaling and all the ridiculousness of these sort
of conversations. They don't have to exist. And what I
(20:49):
mean by this, and I am not trying to help
the bad guys do their bad stuff better. Politicians need
the political win of hiring people that don't look like me,
a white guy. They desperately want it because if they
didn't tout it, if they didn't brag about it, if
they didn't celebrate it, they could do it and no
one could object to it. If they told us everyone
(21:12):
they hired got their job solely based on merit, I'd
have nothing to be upset about. Now, I could be
suspicious that that's not true, and I could talk about
it in a different way. But the fact that they
admit it, and they admit it because they know that
it's politically advantageous to them with their voters that they
want voting for them, is the thing that causes the problem.
(21:32):
Because when you use simple logic, you understand easily it's
not a good policy. You shouldn't hire anyone based on
their race or their sex. That's not why they should
get a job. They should get a job because they're
good at something. And anyone who wants to yell at
a radio or me or anyone else saying that, how
dare you? If that's true, then the people that have
(21:53):
these jobs won't get them, well, then they don't deserve them.
If they can't get a job based on merit, they
shouldn't get a job based on something else. And if
you think they're not getting evaluated fairly, we can have
that discussion by proving it, not just saying that you
think it exists. You have to prove that it's true,
which means that whoever gets the job, you have to
demonstrate how they're not as qualified as someone who didn't
(22:16):
get the job. And then we can do this on
a case by case basis and we can figure it
all out. But anyway, I'll stop ranting about this. I
just think it's ridiculous that this is the kind of
conversation we have in society so much, and it emboldens
so many people on a certain side of the political
aisle to say things that are like evidently racist. I
know people that will look at me and say they
(22:36):
hate white dudes to my face, and like, I can't
fathom saying that to someone else, to look at them
and who they are and whatever their race, sex, anything is,
and be like, hey, I hate everybody that looks like you,
And yet people can do it to me to my
face and not worry about any ramifications from it. Thanks
for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Tuoth podcast.
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