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June 12, 2024 27 mins
Dana reacts to Biden’s anti-gun speech to Everytown for Gun Safety and takes offense to a specific line Biden said about a tyrannical government. Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson spent $40,000 on makeup.

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Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsoredby Celtech. It's his laugh mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida man. Good Night, Fort Myers,
a Florida man was shot and killedby a police because he allegedly,

(00:22):
I feel like allegedly he's doing alot of heavy lifting here. Murdered and
dismembered his roommate. Yeah. Awoman told police that her husband, thirty
three year old Willie Lumaine, waskilling their roommate. According to the reports,
I don't mean to make light ofthis, but it's wild. Uh,
Lumayne was angry, Okay, thisis what it says. Lumayne became

(00:45):
angry on June eighth and remained angrythrough June ninth, saying that he was
going to leave the residence because itwas too hot. The woman said she
was fine with him leaving, andshe went to sleep before being woken up
by the victim screaming, help,he is killing me, he is killing
me. Help. Multiple times.She was able to gather her children,

(01:06):
take them to her neighbors and makethe nine to one one call, and
police when they arrived found the wholedoor open, trail blood coming from the
entrance and they found Willie in theback of the house approaching the window with
a big o' knife in his hand. Oh and holding a whole human torso.
Yeah. So then he began smashingout the back window with the knife
and then climbed out and approached theother officers. They tried to taze him

(01:29):
to bring him down, that itwas uneffective, so officers say they then
fired shots at him, striking him. They used medical a that he didn't
make it. And you know,I feel like, allegedly that's you know,
when you're seen holding the torso.Yeah, now that's a that's not
allegedly that's you holding the torso.So that's there. You go, let's

(01:52):
see, I uh, can wego to the guy who's gonna drive over
somebody at the Walgreens? Okay,Florida man accused of harassing a Walgreens worker,
trying to drive over the manager.His hair is interesting. It looks
like he had a blowout and itgot messed up. Winter Springs man was

(02:12):
arrested over the weekend on accusations thathe tried to run over the local Walgreens
store manager. According to the police, they learned that the man thirty one
year old Jan Mattos had entered thestore, created a disturbance, threatening the
cashier, made sexual advances towards her. Cashier called her dad to the store
and then then, I mean,it became a whole thing, and then
ultimately he tried to run her overin the parking lot. He was arrested.

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There's been a big movement to changehow we select the president of the
United States, how we vote onthat. And you know, the founders
instituted an electoral college for a reason. Well, the progressive left really wants
to get away from that and forobvious reasons. And so as a result,
you have eighteen states that have signedon to overhaul how presidents are elected.

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It's a very radical left wing movement. Hillsdale is taking a survey on
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Dana four Hillsdale dot com. Weneed you. We need you to overcome
the relenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturer's, so many politicians when
they oppose common sense gun legislation.I used to be a law when I

(04:08):
was no longer the vice president,I became a professor at the University of
Pennsylvania. Before that, I taughta constitutional law class. And so I'll
talked to the Second Amendment. There'snever been a time that says you can
own anything you want, and neveryou couldn't own a cannon during the Civil
War. Don't sure to think aboutit. How much do you hear this

(04:29):
phrase the blood of liberty, ofgive me a breakers. And by the
way, if they want to thinkthat is to take on government if we
get out of line, which they'retalking on again about. And guess what
they need at fifteens they don't need, is it? So? The quote

(04:55):
is occasionally the tree of liberty mustbe watered with the blood of patriots and
tyrants. That's the quote from ThomasJefferson. I just feel like, if
you're going to trot out a FoundingFathers quote in your big o' anti gun
speech, then maybe you should getit right. I don't know, just
a little thought, a little bitof a thought that was from yesterday,
and holy cow, guys. Firstoff, welcome to the program, Dana

(05:19):
lash with you. We are atthe top of this first hour, and
I mean, it's pretty wild tosee yesterday his speech. We've heard it
all before with this stuff. Imean, we've heard it all before with
Biden. And I noticed the botswere really mad by the way yesterday with

(05:42):
with some of this. I don'tknow if you saw that. I had
a ton of pots that were superall like brand new creative accounts that were
all like pushing Joe Biden's speech,which I thought was real weird. So
we're covering some of that today.And also he's on his way to embarrass
us at G seven, I'm positive, So Dana lash with you, listen
coach to You can stream the radioprogram as well the simulcast, which is

(06:03):
the visual component Channel three forty sevenDirect TV, and we have a chat
on Rumble, all kinds of goodstuff. So the speech that he gave
yesterday not to diminish any threats containedtherein, but it's it's stuff that we've
heard before. And his quote wasreal weird. I mean, I mean

(06:25):
it is incredibly weird. He completelygot it wrong the quote, and then
he also was saying that you can'town a tank, which you can.
I mean, you can own atank. We've been over this before too.
I also felt like, do wehave the I'm pulling this up here,
do we have the SoundBite where hewas saying that you, I mean
you don't have a jet either,which I thought was a really it was

(06:47):
another really weird audio SoundBite from himbecause he said this kind of before,
which almost sounds like he's the government'sthreatening to mark you. And he had
said that he's talking about jets,and he said that, well, you
know, audio is nobody too.He mentioned apparently that we F fifteen's are

(07:08):
constitutionally protected. Listen, by theway, if they want to think is
to take on government, if weget out of line, which they're talking
long again about. Well, guesswhat they need F fifteen's They don't need
a rifle now, see, soa couple of things here. We're gonna
get to the F fifteenth thing.In a moment, everybody kind of skipped
over the first part of his sentence. Can you play that one more time?

(07:29):
Just listen to the first part ofhis sentence. Listen, just the
first part. By the way,if they want to think is to take
on government if we get out ofline, which they're talking long again about.
See if they wanted to if theythink they want to take on government,
if we get out of line,which is what they're talking about.
So let's before we get to theF fifteen part. Let's stop there,
because everybody kind of ran right overthat first off. That part was incredibly

(07:55):
that concerning there's an unpopular well notunpopular. I don't even know why it's
controversial, considering the way this countrywas founded. We have a bunch of
pseudo badasses in the United States thatthink that they're so tough, but they
don't realize the purpose of the SecondAmendment. It doesn't have anything to do
with you defending yourself against a rapistcoming into your home. I mean,

(08:16):
yeah, you can defend yourself.It covers that. But do you realize
the real reason, the real reasonthat we have it, the real impetus
for creating that with the founders.Let's go back in time. Let's go
back to the Revolution which predates theWar of Independence. The Revolution was the

(08:39):
stamp Act, it was everything else. It was a bunch of ft up
colonists who had exorbitant taxation similar towhat we have now placed upon their shoulders,
and all their moneies were sent overto England and the king over there,
and we had no representation in mattersthat were designed to govern our everyday

(09:01):
lives. We had no representation atall. And when we entered into the
War of Independence and we fought abloody battle for our independence from the Crown,
we came from years of quartering soldiers. We came from years of redcoats
in the streets. We came fromyears of living under threat of penalty enforcements

(09:24):
carried out by military. That's whatwe lived in threat of. And our
founders were very, very purposeful interms of how they shaped our founding documents,
how they based it on a republic, not a direct democracy. They
didn't incorporate any We had parliamentary measuresand we had democratic processes that were used

(09:46):
in the republic. They were sosmart and how they created this government,
and they were such students of theRoman governments and of the Greeks and everything
else. And they were so smart, and they took the best things from
some of the best things and theyused it to make the best thing.
And so they were coming into thecreation of a new sovereign entity that was

(10:09):
to be by the people for thepeople. And you can't have an entity
that's by the people and for thepeople if it's an entity that has,
you know, a military ruling class. And they wanted to get away from
that. They didn't want to Theydidn't want a monarchy. They didn't want
a monarchist republic or monarchy and havinga having a monarchy and of parliament a
parliament. They didn't want any ofthat. They wanted a republic in which

(10:33):
the people represented themselves, and thatthey had to be virtuous and educated,
which we're losing both of those.They had to be virtuous and educated so
that the common man could represent himself, and that there was no aristocracy,
and there was no there, Therewasn't anything like that. Everyone was capable
of doing the job and then andeveryone and it was a service not just

(10:56):
to one's own family, but toone's neighbor. And when they created this
and they incorporated the Second Amendment.Going through the history, and they've written
some books on this, so I'mpretty well versed in the history. Again,
they did not want to fear thepeople that had the guns. They
wanted to have guns. They wantedto be able to protect themselves from anyone

(11:20):
who tried to force tyranny upon them. Again, that's why George Mason said
when they were debating this, andwhen he was writing letters back and forth,
he had remarked that the militia isthe whole of the people. Every
American man and woman, there isno separate in. Everybody is part of

(11:43):
that. Everyone has as a responsibilitythe cause of freedom. It's not just
for some. It's not to beoutsourced, it is all. It is
a shared responsibility and privilege. That'show it was. They did not ever
want to live under the tyranny ofredcoats and a crown that didn't represent them

(12:05):
but was happy to take their money. So when you look at the history
of this and for the people whosay, well, they said well regulated
militia, look back at the parlanceof the time. You absolute illiterates.
I get really upset at the illiteracyrate of this country. Well regulated meant
you could keep yourself well actually wasa phrase, and a friend of mine

(12:28):
pointed this out. I mean Iwas a fan of Jane Austen. Of
course every girl was back in college. There's a phrase she used like repeatedly.
That was a popular phrase to use, almost cliche. Oh, well
regulated meaning they were able to takecare of themselves. Talking about a well
regulated militia, you're talking about everyman and woman who is capable not only
of shooting, not only of carryingtheir firearm, but servicing it, cleaning
it as well. That's what wasmeant at the time. And of course,

(12:50):
anyone who ever paid attention to anythingthat the found, that the founders
ever wrote to themselves or to eachother the debates, or paid attention to
the Federalist papers at all, whatsoever. This doesn't need to explain into you
because you're educated. So when hesays, if they want to think,
they if they want to think totake on the government if we get it

(13:11):
out of line. That's the entirepurpose of the Second Amendment is to take
on the government. If you getout of line, self defense is covered.
But the government is never to thinkthat they have more power than the
people, because the government's power isderived from the consent of the people and
that is manifested by way of avote. And people who ignore this are
often tyrants. So he has noconcept of how America works. I've met

(13:37):
people who have immigrated into this countrywho have more of a knowledge and an
appreciation for America than people like JoeBiden who were born here. That tells
you. So that's what the purposeof the Second Amendment is. It scares

(14:00):
the hell out of the left whenyou mentioned this, because they don't like
to be reminded that there are limitationsto their tyrannical goals. Can only go
so far that people have rights,the people are required. That's why Thomas
Jefferson said what he said. Buthe said it wasn't just the blood of
tyrants, it's the blood of patriotsbecause there's a cost to it, and

(14:22):
it's a cost that should only bepaid when there is no other option.
And the people who've never felt suchheat and have never been around anyone who's
even paid such a cost. They'realways the most eager to Leroy Jenkins,
write the hell into it. Butthen Biden, in that same sentence and
this SoundBite, go ahead and playit again, because this SoundBite was just

(14:43):
amazing to me. Go ahead,so we can hear the full sentence.
Now. By the way, ifthey want to think is to take on
government if we get out of line, which they're talking on again about,
well guess what they need at fifteen'sThey don't need a rifle. So maybe
it's just me, but I immediatelyinterpreted that as oh, so F fifteenth
are also constitutionally protected. Great,I am going to go and build a

(15:05):
garage now to house my giant Ffifteen. I mean, you know,
I'll now just but if anyone givesme problems Candid identifies as a drone,
that's right. I was going togo to the F thirty five. I
don't know if that program is sogreat for the United States, but I
think that's a vertical takeoff. Ohthat's actually a really good point, you
know what I mean. Yeah,you don't need all the Yeah, you

(15:26):
don't need all the the Uh yeah, that's a very good point making a
note. It's just a drun verticalthat's making a note. So when I
my second thought after I saw thatwas laughs in Vietcong or laughs in mujhadahen

(15:46):
I I I mean, you goback to this is in the eighties,
so I wasn't you know historically Ican go back and read about what ultimately
became the Taliban. Members of someof the Northern Afghanistan fighters that ended up
becoming in the Taliban. Uh,they what did they just have? Kane?
Well, they had some they hadsome rockets and some other incendiary devices.

(16:07):
But what do they have? Justguns? Rifles? Yeah, that's
how they do it. Via Konghad what Oh yeah, that's all they
had too. Guns. Yeah,that's all you need. You need,
that's really all you need. Andthen my third thought was, wait,
so you're saying that rifles aren't enoughto take over the government. So what

(16:27):
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of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five.
Do you guys remember Leah Thomas,the dude who wanted to swim as a

(18:12):
woman and he was trying to competein the Olympics as a chick. Well,
he lost that battle. Leah Thomas. He is not going to compete
in next month's Paris Olympics as awoman because he has a penis. So
that's why he's barred from swimming inthe female category. He failed to overturn

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the rules introducing introduced by swimming's governingbody in twenty twenty two. They said,
no, even if you had anyeven if you've undergone any part of
meal puberty, you absolutely cannot competeas a woman. So he's out.
I don't know if you can appealor what a two. Okay, this
is how Polkergeist happened. Polpergeist,this was what happened. Spoiler alert,

(18:56):
it's a A Tuson home owner didnot know his house was built on cemetery
until he found bones. How inthe world. Moses Thompson bought his home
in two thousand and six, andhe said that we'd only been in the
house for a month and a sinkholeopened up in front of the house.
He thought it was a sewer linebreak. And when he was digging,

(19:18):
he found the soil was dry,and then he found brass decorations, and
then he hit some boards, andthen he reached in and pulled out a
handful of bones. And the localarchaeologist said, quote, you one hundred
percent hit a human grave. Yourhouse was built over the Court Street cemetery.

(19:41):
Oh my gosh. I you cansue over that, right and like
get your money back. Who wouldwant to? Oh my gosh if it
wasn't disclosed in the contract yet,because like if people kicked the bucket in
your house, then you have totell him. Yeah, I think you
got to disclose that. A bbBBC news presenter suffered in a cute auto
meltdown before he signed off. Beforesigning off is Ron Burgundy, Oh man,

(20:03):
this was it was in Britain,the new The BBC News host Miriam
Mushery struggled liveonette to present the newsaltoqu went into meltdown. She had to
sign off a la Ron Burgundy.They were struggling. She said, I
mean at some of the point shegoes, we're going to be dipping in
and out to the conference today,and then she said that she goes,

(20:26):
am I talking about myself here?No over the what she said, doel
mice, hazel dor mice, andthey had a story that messed up about
the decline of a mouse population.I don't know, she just lost it.
It was kind of funny. Let'ssee, uh trank. Really it's
turning elicit drug users into amputees.So people are doing so much dope that

(20:51):
they lose their arms and legs.Injected it brought the flesh and bone.
Oh my gosh, say note ofrotting flesh and bone. Oh my gosh.
All right, coming up, Biden'son he's in Italy for the G
seven. Who here was super excitedabout his performance. Nobody, we're gonna

(21:12):
talk about that. Coming up?Stick with us. Uh, you guys,
I need to share this story withyou. You're not gonna believe this
headline? You ready for it?What's up with Chicago's mayors? First off,
let me ask that because remember thelast lady? Why are you laughing?

(21:33):
We're not going to get through thesegment, are we? We do?
Remember that last lady? Yeah,but you remember she went to a
salon when everything was locked down,and she came back out looking the same.

(21:56):
She's like, I got it,I got standards. I gotta maintain
on the face of the city.So you have Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Guys, he spent thirty thousand dollarson personal grooming in one year. On
makeup, he spent thirty thousand dollarson makeup. I as a girl who

(22:18):
is on television five days a week, and I do my own hair and
makeup. I don't even spend thirtythousand dollars a year. I don't spend
anywhere near thirty thousand dollars a yearon hair and makeup. What is doing
He's a man, have you seenhim? How is he spending thirty thousand

(22:40):
dollars on hair and makeup a year? So he My first thought was he
had to hire a makeup artist,like a full time makeup artist. So
he spent oh my gosh, hespent four thousand dollars on hair appointments at
a beauty salon. A can Isay something, I don't really know if

(23:03):
I feel like dude should be goinganything but a barber shop. You know
what I'm saying. I'm a littleold school, like I don't want to
be at my lady's salon and lookover and see you a man. I
just don't. I'm not being ignorant. I'm really sexist about this stuff.
I am admittedly sexist. I justlike I think men control the yard and

(23:25):
the thermostat and the car stuff,and women control like the food stuffs and
the interior right and the family schedule. That's how this works, right,
That's how this all works. That'swhat I'm saying. Like I don't even
put gas in my own car.I have not put gas in my own
car. I don't even know.I mean, I know how to do

(23:48):
it, I just choose to not. I just don't do it. Like
I will not even if I andmy kids will die if I'm out,
because I'm the only girl in myfamily. I won't even open my own
door. I will stand in frontof it and stare at it like a
helpless Jedi trying to use a mindtrick. And I will wait for a
mail in my party to open thedoor, not because I'm helpless, because

(24:10):
I'm not touching the door. Idon't. I am sexist. I freely
admit it. I freely admit it. Right, just like if I walk
past the thermostat and I feel likeit's cold, I'll turn and look at
my husband. I'll go, what'sthe temperature? I ask him what the
temperature is instead of just GIRNK.See that's a give and take, right.
I don't have to put gas inmy car, that's the give and

(24:34):
take anyway. I don't want tobe in a salon and looking over and
seeing you a man in the salon, right? Is it weird? Like
you wouldn't want to be at thebarber shop and look over and see a
woman. Right? I feel likethe barbershops where the men go, is
that sexist? I don't care anyway, he spent for that, oh my

(24:56):
gosh, four thousand dollars going tothe salon. He hardly has hair.
We're in a world where we wouldn'texpect to see men and women's bathrooms,
let alone. Well, true,lady salons, lady salons. I don't
think you got to say lady salon. I think that's redundant. It's salon

(25:17):
a barbershaw, that's it. Sohe hired this lady. Her name's Denise
malloy. Uh, and she runslike a makeup I guess she does makeup.
She does a makeup company. Uhsee, oh Malloy's makeup magic.
It made j I see all right, sounds right. Yeah. And the

(25:41):
payments are listed under candidate makeup forTV, makeup retainer, candidate makeup,
candidate makeup for debate. And thenapparently he after he was elected, he
has tons of payments to make upmagic that fall under like a very general
catch all camp hain't expense description right, And he apparently used financial contributions from

(26:04):
his supporters to foot the bill.Can you think about this from me?
Imagine that you donated to this man'scampaign and you found out that your donation
went to a foundation for a man. I'm just saying he spent that much
money. I just can't. Ithought I was donating to a foundation.
You mean I was buying foundation?Yeah. And then so some of his

(26:26):
some of his supporters are going,well, his expenditures are supporting black and
woman owned businesses. Forty thousand dollars, y'all. That's insane for a man
to spend on makeup. It's insaneto say that a man has spent money
on makeup. I mean I getfor TV. They they touch up and
they do that stuff. Although canI just say sidebar real quick? This

(26:49):
is that when I was a CNNI was the token conservative back in the
day, when I was like theonly conservative there besides Ari Fleischer, and
we did it was in uh,it was debate, something debate. It
was like a Republican primary or somethingthat CNN was hosting, and Herman Kane
was there and they were gonna puta bunch of makeup on Herman Kane because

(27:10):
apparently like he was super shiny orsomething, and he just stopped and looked
at them and as they reached overto him, his head leaned away as
they were and I was in themakeup room when this was happening. He
was like nope. And then theyfinally were like, oh, mister Kane,
you know, can we And hedid relent, but it was hysterical.
He walked in there and was like, yeah, I don't think you're
gonna be doing that. He's like, I'm not doing a commercial now,

(27:30):
Like, well, you are ontelevision and you know it just it was
a riot. But this guy themayor of Chicago forty thousand dollars, I'll
tell you what. Thanks for tuninginto today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Tooth
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