October 9, 2024 • 26 mins
Kamala Harris goes on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and drinks a Miller High Life beer. Meanwhile, a judge rules that the 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan’s family can sue Deadspin for defamation for claiming he was wearing Blackface.
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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 man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, So uh this I say, there's one Florida man.
I was reading this. This is in the mirror in
Tampa Bay where the guy would not he didn't evacuate
his boat despite warnings of the savage storm in Hurricane Milton.
There's one guy. It's Florida's all all on Florida's west coast.
They they're literally nicknaming him Lieutenant Dan. But they said
(00:37):
that his name's Jay. He said that he was going
to ride out. Oh my gosh, why why in a boat?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Do you hear his response? It was boat's float.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, but dude, he just he's he So he wrote
out Hurricane Helene. Jay an amputee, said that he's confident
he can weather Milton in his boat despite you know,
the fifteen foot storm surge. Please please, please, dear heavens,
be safe. That's terror. Would you? I couldn't know. There's
no way. There's no way because because you got the
(01:11):
winds in addition to the surgery of the winds too,
and the winds are you know, good heavens. Uh, let's
see here this I don't do. I really want to
do this. Here's another one. I don't want a bunch
of these stories. I really don't. Another Florida man said
he's going to defy Milton and he told a British
(01:31):
publication that he loves the adrenaline. He's going to defy
the evil die warning as the hurricane approaches. Aaron Pilkington.
He told a British publication that he plans to divie evacuations. Okay,
I don't even want to read these anymore. Stop it.
You guys are playing with fire or water and wind.
Rather stop, don't be doing that. It's yeah, he said
he's going to write it out. I mean again. And
(01:53):
he's in an area where you get twelve foot storm surges.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could be playing with fire actually, because we've just
seen that saltwater and electric vehicles will cause the cars
to catch fire.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, I do agree with that, but still, I mean,
I saw I want to share this photo with you.
I'm putting this in slack because I've been seeing this
on Twitter and apparently it's a real photo. I don't know.
I was like, this is this ai as guy's got
his This Florida man has his house strapped to the ground. Right,
(02:29):
It's like it's I'm trying to figure are those like
pul Like, what are those? It's anchored to the ground.
He's got giant straps going over his house and it's
anchored to the ground. I don't. I mean, it is Florida,
And if anybody has like some of the tools to
(02:50):
make that happen, it would be you know, some Floridians.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Plus Aswanas showing the photo. Wouldn't those anchors have to
be more anchored than actually tree roots?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, you would think so, or at.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Least as strong. It appears that that's AI or photoshop.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Or something something, but yeah, you would think.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's an interesting idea though.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, a Florida man busted in a seven million dollar
publisher's clearinghouse scamp. Wait they're still publisher's clearinghouse. No, the
Ed McMahon guy. He said he was just helping friends.
According to Lotterer Hill police Leroy Alfred Vassel was arrested
in charge with four counts of felony grand theft for
(03:32):
crimes committed between October twenty three February twenty four. According
to records, he engaged in a fraudulent publisher's clearinghouse scheme
aimed at defrauding older residents. Yeah, and the Lotter Hill
Police Department. They indicated he was a crucial player in
the scheme. Victims were deceived into believing they had won.
I can't even believe that the publisher's clearinghouse is still
(03:53):
a thing. That's crazy. I thought, I haven't heard of
that in forever. Wow, make you feel like you're like ancient,
I'm telling you. And a Florida woman claiming to be
a financial Mother Theresa is going to jail because of
a one hundred and ninety million dollars ponzi scheme Pompano
Beach MJ capital funding. That sounds suspicious. They said. Their
(04:14):
president was often referred to as Mother Teresa because she
helped hardworking people. Now she's going to be federal inmate
whatever number, because she led a rip off of one
hundred ninety million dollars from people and it very like
hardly any of it actually went into businesses that needed
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(04:35):
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sent you. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here
(05:38):
with you at the bottom of this first hour. Did
you guys stay up late and watch Colbert? Did you
guys wait a minute? Wait a minute? Audio someday three.
Kamala Harris, she's just like you. She drinks bear with
seting Colbert.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What I wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The vibe election, everybodll The vibes are all good, but elections,
I think are one on vibes because one of the
old saws is they just want somebody they can have
a beer with.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So would you like to have a beer with me?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I can tell people what that's like? Okay, this
was now we asked ahead of time because I can't
just be giving a drink to the vice president. I say,
is not asking you asked for Miller. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The last time I had beer was at a baseball
game with Dougs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Cheers.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
There you go, ooh, it's like the beautiful city of Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
First off, I don't believe that Stephen Colbert drinks beer.
Did you watch him? I swear? Was he Pinky's out
with up? I swear, I swear he was. He's Pinky's
out with it. Nobody believes that he drinks beer. That's
always what democrats default to. Look, we're drinking beer because
that's what we think that regular people do. They just
sit around and drink beer. Look at them, like Elizabeth Warren,
(06:54):
here's sweety, would you like a beer? Nobody believes that.
So she's she picks the Miller High Life. I'm made
of jokes on this. I might short circuit. But she
has the time to go on Stephen Colbert and hangs
out with him. Doesn't this media blitz at this point
look bad? It looks contrived in last minute, hastily put together.
(07:17):
Now she's on Colbert. I mean you, what do we
start the show? We were talking about the hurricane and
the people preparing for Milton and all this stuff, and
she's on Colbert. She's, you know, doing her thing and
not she's she was only so much interested in Florida
as she could try to stunt on it. Now she's
not interested in it anymore. Now she's not saying anything else.
(07:40):
Does that make her more like the everyman? Because she
can go and drink beer on Colbert? Do you think
that she's more the everyman does that? Is that actually
going to sway a voter? Like? Well, I don't know.
I mean, I wasn't sure about Kamala Harris until I
saw the way she cracked over that Miller High Life,
and I was like, yeah, she can handle she can
handle international instability and the economy, because the way she
(08:01):
drank that beer, she was choking it down to I'm
not making shop all. First off, all you people and
radio l and stopped sending me your thoughts because I
just about I just about died. I heard what you said,
stop it, Caine.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know everything was planned with this thing, right, So
they probably saw the polling on what which beer would
trend better if she had to choose, and certainly bud
Light wasn't going to be on that list.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh yeah, So that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Miller High Life, all of it is pre programmed, pre
thought out. Everything is planned, just like that little clip
we just saw.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, it just doesn't Yeah, she didn't do the butt light.
She picked the Yeah, they probably did try to focus
s grip. Let's see, how are we gonna how are
we going to deal with this? How is that going
to happen Milwaukee, say y, let's do with that. But
it just that's what they do. And I can't stand him.
He would when he's started on the Daily Show with
(09:02):
John Stewart, he was kind of funny, and then he
just got really self infatuated and he really thinks that
his opinions shake the earth, and that the stuff that
he does on the show that nobody watches really moves
the earth on its axis. Nobody cares. The only time
it ever comes up is when we're making fun of him,
when it's just cringe and he's just lacks the self
awareness to realize. I don't know, but no, I don't.
(09:24):
That doesn't. I don't think that that's going to move anything.
I just I don't think it is. It's not going
to move anything. That's I don't. I think it's too little,
too late for her. And she's still not quick on
her feet with this stuff. She really isn't. She's not
quick on her feet. Like for all audio someun bite
one she's talking about how she's a capitalist, but she's
not listen.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm not mad at anybody for creating wealth.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You work hard, you create wealth for you and your family.
Good for you. I am a capitalist, but look, I'm
also a devout public servant. I know the limitations of government,
but I also know that we need to make sure
that we that everyone is paying their fair share so
that we can do the work of extending, as I
intend to do, the child tax credit to six thousand
(10:10):
dollars for the first year of a child's life because
that young family.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Gosh, could you use that to buy a car? And
you sit here and go, I love capitalism, but the
rich should pay their fair share. We've gotten over this
ad nauseum. They pay everybody's fair share. They pay everyone's
fair share. The top one percent pay like three quarters
of the taxes. That's it's insane. So that's a stupid
talking point. You could confiscate the wealth of every single
(10:36):
person that makes over two hundred thousand dollars in this country,
and you still wouldn't be able to touch the touch
what we owe because it's government spending, it's not people
keeping more of their own money. But furthermore, her tax policies,
I mean, you're talking about a deficit of two percent
in the long run for the GDP. For her tax policies,
(10:59):
you're talking about complete stag stagnant. I mean nothing drops
in wages, drops in in job creation. They would increase
tax She wants to increase taxes by over four trillion dollars.
And what for what? Government spending? Entitlement entitlement spending. That's
(11:21):
that's what she wants. She thinks that the government should
be able to provide. If you think the government should
be able to provide, look at how Democrats had handled
the hurricane aftermath with Elena North Carolina. I mean, look
at how they handled Katrina, look at how they handled
COVID for crying out loud. I mean this, you would
(11:41):
raise the tax rate. We would have higher corporate taxes
than China than CCP, which is I mean, it's unbelievable,
but that's what that's what she's proposing. So when she
sits here and says, well, you know, we got to
make the rich pay their fair share, the rich, the rich,
do you pay for their fair share? They absolutely pay
(12:02):
their fair share. You have no right, there's no there's
no entitlement to someone else's the fruit of someone else's labor.
I I'm always mystified, why is it that all of
these rich Marxists, they never take it upon themselves to
write the check, an extra check to the treasury, right,
(12:25):
do you really like the bill gates people doing that, Like, Oh,
you know what, I'm just gonna write an extra extra
couple mill to the Treasury Department, just gonna give them
a little extra. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna have
them raise everybody's taxes. I'm just gonna of my own
free will. Just They never do that, though, do they interesting? Yeah,
(12:45):
because they know now they they have to. They try
to shame everyone else into thinking, well, the government needs
to raise taxes on everyone before I can contribute more.
That's stupid. Just contribute more if you want to. I
guess you just really don't care. They want to act
like what that what they're doing is charitable, but everybody
else is forced to do it, so it's a little
less charitable. And they also believe that only the government
(13:06):
has the best response and the best ways to spend money.
I mean talking about the child tax credit and all
this other stuff. How about you just stop taking families
money and stop government spending and let families spend there.
You know, we used to have a time where you
could have a two parent household that relied on one income.
You can't do that anymore because of the economic policies,
and this is just gonna make it worse. You're definitely
going to ensure that you would never be able if
(13:27):
a parent so choose is to have one stay home
with their kids, which is a valuable job. They're going
to make that something that's completely unattainable, just like home
ownership anymore. But this is what she's proposing. She's laughing
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's quick.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Five man Walgreens is out here. Calling out waffle House.
I'm kidding. A suspected thief was shot by a store
employee at Walgreens in South suburban Chicago. A store security
officer that had a license to conceal Carrie shot a
thief who pulled a gun on him. I mean, this
is the story. A guy pulls a gun on a
(15:31):
dude in a Walgreens. The dude happens to be a
store security officer. The store security officer opens fire because
he just had a gun pulled on him by a burglar,
a robber. Du That's how it happens. We don't need
all this word salad to try to get around that.
It was a bad guy who was in illegal possession
and illegal usage during a polonious activity. In the first place,
there was count at city police, they were called Walgreens
was like Gamway a plane. Good for him. I'm surprised
(15:53):
now in this environment Walgreens didn't go you're fired.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
There was a big no no funk. Thankfully they didn't
also vape detectors. What schools could get two million dollars
for vape detectors from account? Who cares? Who cares? They
can't even do math well it's a good thing they
can't add four plus four because then they'd be able
to do the math and figure out how much of
(16:16):
their text dollars going towards vape detectors. That is a
vape detector. I just this is what you tell kids.
If you want to look like a fruitcake blowing what
looks like a rape whistle all the time, then go
go by all means, go right ahead. When I see people,
you could get mad at me, because I know somebody
out there do it. I'm sure I do stuff that
you'd make fun of too. But when I see people
with vape like they wear them like whistles, I want
(16:38):
to just die laughing. It's the funniest thing. It's not
an accessory anyway. Why do you need a vape A
vape detector? You know what? You know how this is
the vape detector. No, no vape. That's it. They actually
have a vaping awareness public education society, and the dude
(17:02):
who's with it goes. The detectors are actually known to
not work. Yeah, but two million dollars, it's probably gonna
go off pay somebody's mistress. Let's be real, it's not
going to go towards the kids come on. A man
who dressed like a superhero was sentenced for sex crimes
like while he was wait, okay, I'm very like he
(17:23):
committed the actions while he would dress up like a
superhero and sexually assault homeless people. And then he was
caught on camera doing it. And they said that he
filmed himself and he's a freak and he needs he
needs to be thrown off a bridge. But anyway, he
got thirty days in jail in eighteen months of bench probation.
He pled, He's had burglaries, had all kinds of stuff.
(17:45):
But what was the They didn't even tell you what
superhero it was. K easy I, you're a horrible Channel
super Shame on you. That's not a hero. Shame on you,
Channel nine. K easy I, you horrible writing publication. Can
we talk give you a update about the dead Spin
thing with the kid. You guys remember the story and
(18:06):
everybody remembers the story. This first happened. This was this
kid who wore a he wore a jersey and he
had his face painted up. You know, his favorite team
is nine year old kid right nine years old. And
you know a lot of kids they go to some
of these sports events and they want to dress up,
you know, their favorite teams they want to represent. It's
(18:28):
not unusual. And so this kid, he was dressed up,
he had the headdress on, and he ended up and
I ended up just losing this piece because of course
I did, because of Safari. He ended up getting attacked
by the media and this one of them was dead Spin.
(18:51):
They lost. They were trying to get this suit tossed
because the family was saying that you defamed this nine
year old. The nine year old had half his face
painted half his face painted black, and he was accused
originally of being in blackface, and they were saying that
he was racist and all this stuff and this little boy.
(19:11):
And when this writer, Karen Phillips, he published this piece
on the little boy, and it only showed one side
of his face. It wouldn't show that half his faces
and red. Half his face was in black. And if
you're watching the simulcast, those two images were taken on
the same day, and so the writer only included the
(19:35):
screenshot of the kid with half his face painted black,
and he accused the nine year old of being in
blackface and said that it was racist. Et cetera, and
it just went everywhere. The story just it exploded after that, well, clearly,
you know you're nine years old. The lawsuit their son,
Raoul Armenta and his wife Shannon, they filed a lawsuit
(19:57):
on behalf of their on behalf of their because they're like,
you're I mean, which is true, You're defaming their kid,
and I mean it's wild and the dad himself and
I'm looking at this, the dad himself is is like
a member of an indigenous nation. And they showed the
first images came on CBS and they showed the little
(20:18):
kid for like three seconds and they could see the audience,
everybody could see his red and black face paint. And
then CBS, you know, was showing others and then for
some reason, dead Spin only showed one side of his face,
and they said, the NFL needs to speak out against
the Kansas City Chiefs fan in blackface native headdress. So
this guy at Deadspin, you guys, remember this piece made
(20:40):
a whole article. He literally said, he literally accused this
kid of representing racism and then demanded that the NFL
speak out about this nine year old dressing up as
you know, his favorite football team for his favorite football
team to honor them at a game, and it went gangbusters.
(21:01):
He the guy wrote Phillips, it takes a lot to
disrespect two groups of people at once, but this Kansas
City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people
and Native Americans at the same time. That's literally what
the guy wrote about this nine year old. He alleged
that the parents, Shannon Morale, taught the nine year old
racism and hated home like he never even meant the
he never even met the Armenta family, but he wrote
(21:23):
about them as though they were a bunch of like
clans people who hated everybody and were raising, you know,
a future terrorist or something. It was one of the
wildest I mean, this guy's a grown man who went
after a nine year old. He demanded the entire NFL
wiy in on this kid. Well understandably, you know that's
not what happened. That's not what the nine year old
(21:44):
was doing. And he's nine and it never occurred to
him that, you know, he wasn't thinking about race. He'sn't
thinking about anything. He's nine years old, and he his
parents literally are His dad is the Santa Yen in
the Santa ynos band of he works in a tribal reservation.
He's literally a member of an indigenous nation, like a
(22:07):
literally an actual participating, voting member of an indigenous nation.
And his grandfather was a tribal elder. But Karen Phillips
only just saw what he wanted to see, and he
you know, this kid was not parroting anything. This kid is,
you know, he's he's kids don't dress up as things
that they make fun of. And so anyway, they went
(22:32):
to court because this nine year old, I mean, his
whole name is drug through the mud. His image is
drug through the mud. I mean, can you imagine if
the parents had not pushed back on this, what would
have happened? Say this kid decided to go for Supreme
Court one day, Well we found a picture of you
little nine year old Holden in blackface. Look. Dead Spin says,
if you don't think that that could couldn't happen, Look
(22:52):
what they did at Kavanaugh. Look what they did a
Kavanaugh he was in high school. Look that they did. Well,
you know, let's look at what Holden when he was
nine years old. If the parents had not pushed back
on that, that absolutely would have happened. They had to.
They had to litigate it to save their child. They
had to litigate it to correct the court of public
(23:12):
opinion and the family. Because of that dead Spin article,
the family got so much hate, They got so many threats.
People were threatening to kill him, the father. People started
showing up at the dad's work. The family was actually
considering moving out of state. His test scores, the kids'
(23:34):
test scores and grades dropped. They according to court filings,
he had to go and they had to get a
therapist for him because he was just destroyed by what
this Karen Phillips was writing about him and what he did.
That dude never apologized, he never did anything. He willfully
decided to lie about this nine year old kid. And
(23:55):
so now dead Spin they were trying to They fired,
the parents, filed suit. They said that you know, they
were making the case for the nine year old and saying,
this is what happened to him, this is how he
was treated by this dead Spin writer. And how you know,
the dead'spin tried to inside a well, they did inside
a mob against him, and so dead Spin was trying
(24:19):
to At first they republished an edited version that maintained
all the accusations of racism and kept the nine year
old's picture and made him like this giant bigot, and
then they updated the article for the second time. They
removed the nine year old's picture and they changed the
headline to read the NFL must band native headdress, and
(24:39):
the family wasn't happy. All of the original accusations were
still out there, so they sued for defamation. So Deadspin
tried to dismiss it. They said, the article's opinion and
it's protected from liability for defamation, but the judge said, no,
you literally targeted this kid. You absolutely targeted this kid.
You targeted this kid, you used his image, you invoked
(25:01):
his family, you did all of this. So that was
tossed out and they were absolutely They've been remorseless this
entire time. They have been entirely remorseless. So now it's
gonna go forward. And the Delaware Trial Court judge Sean
Lug and ourmenta versus Geomedia. Sean Lugg wrote that they
(25:24):
wrote to this effect, and so they're allowing that defamation
claim to go forward. I hope this kid owns dead Spin,
but when it's said and done, I hope he owns
everything that Karen Phillips has ever made in his life.
I hope he takes his home. I hope he takes
his bank account. I hope he takes everything that he
has ever worked to accrue. And I hope that Karen
(25:45):
Phillips has to beg for mercy from this nine year old.
And I hope this nine year old shows Karen Phillips
the mercy of maturity that Karen Phillips, a grown ass man,
didn't show him. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition
of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast.
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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 (00:15):
All right, So uh this I say, there's one Florida man.
I was reading this. This is in the mirror in
Tampa Bay where the guy would not he didn't evacuate
his boat despite warnings of the savage storm in Hurricane Milton.
There's one guy. It's Florida's all all on Florida's west coast.
They they're literally nicknaming him Lieutenant Dan. But they said
(00:37):
that his name's Jay. He said that he was going
to ride out. Oh my gosh, why why in a boat?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Do you hear his response? It was boat's float.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, but dude, he just he's he So he wrote
out Hurricane Helene. Jay an amputee, said that he's confident
he can weather Milton in his boat despite you know,
the fifteen foot storm surge. Please please, please, dear heavens,
be safe. That's terror. Would you? I couldn't know. There's
no way. There's no way because because you got the
(01:11):
winds in addition to the surgery of the winds too,
and the winds are you know, good heavens. Uh, let's
see here this I don't do. I really want to
do this. Here's another one. I don't want a bunch
of these stories. I really don't. Another Florida man said
he's going to defy Milton and he told a British
(01:31):
publication that he loves the adrenaline. He's going to defy
the evil die warning as the hurricane approaches. Aaron Pilkington.
He told a British publication that he plans to divie evacuations. Okay,
I don't even want to read these anymore. Stop it.
You guys are playing with fire or water and wind.
Rather stop, don't be doing that. It's yeah, he said
he's going to write it out. I mean again. And
(01:53):
he's in an area where you get twelve foot storm surges.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could be playing with fire actually, because we've just
seen that saltwater and electric vehicles will cause the cars
to catch fire.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, I do agree with that, but still, I mean,
I saw I want to share this photo with you.
I'm putting this in slack because I've been seeing this
on Twitter and apparently it's a real photo. I don't know.
I was like, this is this ai as guy's got
his This Florida man has his house strapped to the ground. Right,
(02:29):
It's like it's I'm trying to figure are those like
pul Like, what are those? It's anchored to the ground.
He's got giant straps going over his house and it's
anchored to the ground. I don't. I mean, it is Florida,
And if anybody has like some of the tools to
(02:50):
make that happen, it would be you know, some Floridians.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Plus Aswanas showing the photo. Wouldn't those anchors have to
be more anchored than actually tree roots?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, you would think so, or at.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Least as strong. It appears that that's AI or photoshop.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Or something something, but yeah, you would think.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's an interesting idea though.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, a Florida man busted in a seven million dollar
publisher's clearinghouse scamp. Wait they're still publisher's clearinghouse. No, the
Ed McMahon guy. He said he was just helping friends.
According to Lotterer Hill police Leroy Alfred Vassel was arrested
in charge with four counts of felony grand theft for
(03:32):
crimes committed between October twenty three February twenty four. According
to records, he engaged in a fraudulent publisher's clearinghouse scheme
aimed at defrauding older residents. Yeah, and the Lotter Hill
Police Department. They indicated he was a crucial player in
the scheme. Victims were deceived into believing they had won.
I can't even believe that the publisher's clearinghouse is still
(03:53):
a thing. That's crazy. I thought, I haven't heard of
that in forever. Wow, make you feel like you're like ancient,
I'm telling you. And a Florida woman claiming to be
a financial Mother Theresa is going to jail because of
a one hundred and ninety million dollars ponzi scheme Pompano
Beach MJ capital funding. That sounds suspicious. They said. Their
(04:14):
president was often referred to as Mother Teresa because she
helped hardworking people. Now she's going to be federal inmate
whatever number, because she led a rip off of one
hundred ninety million dollars from people and it very like
hardly any of it actually went into businesses that needed
operating capital. So she's going to jaly jail. Celtech is right, Okay,
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with you at the bottom of this first hour. Did
you guys stay up late and watch Colbert? Did you
guys wait a minute? Wait a minute? Audio someday three.
Kamala Harris, she's just like you. She drinks bear with
seting Colbert.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What I wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The vibe election, everybodll The vibes are all good, but elections,
I think are one on vibes because one of the
old saws is they just want somebody they can have
a beer with.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So would you like to have a beer with me?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I can tell people what that's like? Okay, this
was now we asked ahead of time because I can't
just be giving a drink to the vice president. I say,
is not asking you asked for Miller. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The last time I had beer was at a baseball
game with Dougs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Cheers.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
There you go, ooh, it's like the beautiful city of Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
First off, I don't believe that Stephen Colbert drinks beer.
Did you watch him? I swear? Was he Pinky's out
with up? I swear, I swear he was. He's Pinky's
out with it. Nobody believes that he drinks beer. That's
always what democrats default to. Look, we're drinking beer because
that's what we think that regular people do. They just
sit around and drink beer. Look at them, like Elizabeth Warren,
(06:54):
here's sweety, would you like a beer? Nobody believes that.
So she's she picks the Miller High Life. I'm made
of jokes on this. I might short circuit. But she
has the time to go on Stephen Colbert and hangs
out with him. Doesn't this media blitz at this point
look bad? It looks contrived in last minute, hastily put together.
(07:17):
Now she's on Colbert. I mean you, what do we
start the show? We were talking about the hurricane and
the people preparing for Milton and all this stuff, and
she's on Colbert. She's, you know, doing her thing and
not she's she was only so much interested in Florida
as she could try to stunt on it. Now she's
not interested in it anymore. Now she's not saying anything else.
(07:40):
Does that make her more like the everyman? Because she
can go and drink beer on Colbert? Do you think
that she's more the everyman does that? Is that actually
going to sway a voter? Like? Well, I don't know.
I mean, I wasn't sure about Kamala Harris until I
saw the way she cracked over that Miller High Life,
and I was like, yeah, she can handle she can
handle international instability and the economy, because the way she
(08:01):
drank that beer, she was choking it down to I'm
not making shop all. First off, all you people and
radio l and stopped sending me your thoughts because I
just about I just about died. I heard what you said,
stop it, Caine.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know everything was planned with this thing, right, So
they probably saw the polling on what which beer would
trend better if she had to choose, and certainly bud
Light wasn't going to be on that list.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh yeah, So that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Miller High Life, all of it is pre programmed, pre
thought out. Everything is planned, just like that little clip
we just saw.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, it just doesn't Yeah, she didn't do the butt light.
She picked the Yeah, they probably did try to focus
s grip. Let's see, how are we gonna how are
we going to deal with this? How is that going
to happen Milwaukee, say y, let's do with that. But
it just that's what they do. And I can't stand him.
He would when he's started on the Daily Show with
(09:02):
John Stewart, he was kind of funny, and then he
just got really self infatuated and he really thinks that
his opinions shake the earth, and that the stuff that
he does on the show that nobody watches really moves
the earth on its axis. Nobody cares. The only time
it ever comes up is when we're making fun of him,
when it's just cringe and he's just lacks the self
awareness to realize. I don't know, but no, I don't.
(09:24):
That doesn't. I don't think that that's going to move anything.
I just I don't think it is. It's not going
to move anything. That's I don't. I think it's too little,
too late for her. And she's still not quick on
her feet with this stuff. She really isn't. She's not
quick on her feet. Like for all audio someun bite
one she's talking about how she's a capitalist, but she's
not listen.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm not mad at anybody for creating wealth.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You work hard, you create wealth for you and your family.
Good for you. I am a capitalist, but look, I'm
also a devout public servant. I know the limitations of government,
but I also know that we need to make sure
that we that everyone is paying their fair share so
that we can do the work of extending, as I
intend to do, the child tax credit to six thousand
(10:10):
dollars for the first year of a child's life because
that young family.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Gosh, could you use that to buy a car? And
you sit here and go, I love capitalism, but the
rich should pay their fair share. We've gotten over this
ad nauseum. They pay everybody's fair share. They pay everyone's
fair share. The top one percent pay like three quarters
of the taxes. That's it's insane. So that's a stupid
talking point. You could confiscate the wealth of every single
(10:36):
person that makes over two hundred thousand dollars in this country,
and you still wouldn't be able to touch the touch
what we owe because it's government spending, it's not people
keeping more of their own money. But furthermore, her tax policies,
I mean, you're talking about a deficit of two percent
in the long run for the GDP. For her tax policies,
(10:59):
you're talking about complete stag stagnant. I mean nothing drops
in wages, drops in in job creation. They would increase
tax She wants to increase taxes by over four trillion dollars.
And what for what? Government spending? Entitlement entitlement spending. That's
(11:21):
that's what she wants. She thinks that the government should
be able to provide. If you think the government should
be able to provide, look at how Democrats had handled
the hurricane aftermath with Elena North Carolina. I mean, look
at how they handled Katrina, look at how they handled
COVID for crying out loud. I mean this, you would
(11:41):
raise the tax rate. We would have higher corporate taxes
than China than CCP, which is I mean, it's unbelievable,
but that's what that's what she's proposing. So when she
sits here and says, well, you know, we got to
make the rich pay their fair share, the rich, the rich,
do you pay for their fair share? They absolutely pay
(12:02):
their fair share. You have no right, there's no there's
no entitlement to someone else's the fruit of someone else's labor.
I I'm always mystified, why is it that all of
these rich Marxists, they never take it upon themselves to
write the check, an extra check to the treasury, right,
(12:25):
do you really like the bill gates people doing that, Like, Oh,
you know what, I'm just gonna write an extra extra
couple mill to the Treasury Department, just gonna give them
a little extra. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna have
them raise everybody's taxes. I'm just gonna of my own
free will. Just They never do that, though, do they interesting? Yeah,
(12:45):
because they know now they they have to. They try
to shame everyone else into thinking, well, the government needs
to raise taxes on everyone before I can contribute more.
That's stupid. Just contribute more if you want to. I
guess you just really don't care. They want to act
like what that what they're doing is charitable, but everybody
else is forced to do it, so it's a little
less charitable. And they also believe that only the government
(13:06):
has the best response and the best ways to spend money.
I mean talking about the child tax credit and all
this other stuff. How about you just stop taking families
money and stop government spending and let families spend there.
You know, we used to have a time where you
could have a two parent household that relied on one income.
You can't do that anymore because of the economic policies,
and this is just gonna make it worse. You're definitely
going to ensure that you would never be able if
(13:27):
a parent so choose is to have one stay home
with their kids, which is a valuable job. They're going
to make that something that's completely unattainable, just like home
ownership anymore. But this is what she's proposing. She's laughing
about it. Just the lack of reading the temperature. Thank
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's quick.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Five man Walgreens is out here. Calling out waffle House.
I'm kidding. A suspected thief was shot by a store
employee at Walgreens in South suburban Chicago. A store security
officer that had a license to conceal Carrie shot a
thief who pulled a gun on him. I mean, this
is the story. A guy pulls a gun on a
(15:31):
dude in a Walgreens. The dude happens to be a
store security officer. The store security officer opens fire because
he just had a gun pulled on him by a burglar,
a robber. Du That's how it happens. We don't need
all this word salad to try to get around that.
It was a bad guy who was in illegal possession
and illegal usage during a polonious activity. In the first place,
there was count at city police, they were called Walgreens
was like Gamway a plane. Good for him. I'm surprised
(15:53):
now in this environment Walgreens didn't go you're fired.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
There was a big no no funk. Thankfully they didn't
also vape detectors. What schools could get two million dollars
for vape detectors from account? Who cares? Who cares? They
can't even do math well it's a good thing they
can't add four plus four because then they'd be able
to do the math and figure out how much of
(16:16):
their text dollars going towards vape detectors. That is a
vape detector. I just this is what you tell kids.
If you want to look like a fruitcake blowing what
looks like a rape whistle all the time, then go
go by all means, go right ahead. When I see people,
you could get mad at me, because I know somebody
out there do it. I'm sure I do stuff that
you'd make fun of too. But when I see people
with vape like they wear them like whistles, I want
(16:38):
to just die laughing. It's the funniest thing. It's not
an accessory anyway. Why do you need a vape A
vape detector? You know what? You know how this is
the vape detector. No, no vape. That's it. They actually
have a vaping awareness public education society, and the dude
(17:02):
who's with it goes. The detectors are actually known to
not work. Yeah, but two million dollars, it's probably gonna
go off pay somebody's mistress. Let's be real, it's not
going to go towards the kids come on. A man
who dressed like a superhero was sentenced for sex crimes
like while he was wait, okay, I'm very like he
(17:23):
committed the actions while he would dress up like a
superhero and sexually assault homeless people. And then he was
caught on camera doing it. And they said that he
filmed himself and he's a freak and he needs he
needs to be thrown off a bridge. But anyway, he
got thirty days in jail in eighteen months of bench probation.
He pled, He's had burglaries, had all kinds of stuff.
(17:45):
But what was the They didn't even tell you what
superhero it was. K easy I, you're a horrible Channel
super Shame on you. That's not a hero. Shame on you,
Channel nine. K easy I, you horrible writing publication. Can
we talk give you a update about the dead Spin
thing with the kid. You guys remember the story and
(18:06):
everybody remembers the story. This first happened. This was this
kid who wore a he wore a jersey and he
had his face painted up. You know, his favorite team
is nine year old kid right nine years old. And
you know a lot of kids they go to some
of these sports events and they want to dress up,
you know, their favorite teams they want to represent. It's
(18:28):
not unusual. And so this kid, he was dressed up,
he had the headdress on, and he ended up and
I ended up just losing this piece because of course
I did, because of Safari. He ended up getting attacked
by the media and this one of them was dead Spin.
(18:51):
They lost. They were trying to get this suit tossed
because the family was saying that you defamed this nine
year old. The nine year old had half his face
painted half his face painted black, and he was accused
originally of being in blackface, and they were saying that
he was racist and all this stuff and this little boy.
(19:11):
And when this writer, Karen Phillips, he published this piece
on the little boy, and it only showed one side
of his face. It wouldn't show that half his faces
and red. Half his face was in black. And if
you're watching the simulcast, those two images were taken on
the same day, and so the writer only included the
(19:35):
screenshot of the kid with half his face painted black,
and he accused the nine year old of being in
blackface and said that it was racist. Et cetera, and
it just went everywhere. The story just it exploded after that, well, clearly,
you know you're nine years old. The lawsuit their son,
Raoul Armenta and his wife Shannon, they filed a lawsuit
(19:57):
on behalf of their on behalf of their because they're like,
you're I mean, which is true, You're defaming their kid,
and I mean it's wild and the dad himself and
I'm looking at this, the dad himself is is like
a member of an indigenous nation. And they showed the
first images came on CBS and they showed the little
(20:18):
kid for like three seconds and they could see the audience,
everybody could see his red and black face paint. And
then CBS, you know, was showing others and then for
some reason, dead Spin only showed one side of his face,
and they said, the NFL needs to speak out against
the Kansas City Chiefs fan in blackface native headdress. So
this guy at Deadspin, you guys, remember this piece made
(20:40):
a whole article. He literally said, he literally accused this
kid of representing racism and then demanded that the NFL
speak out about this nine year old dressing up as
you know, his favorite football team for his favorite football
team to honor them at a game, and it went gangbusters.
(21:01):
He the guy wrote Phillips, it takes a lot to
disrespect two groups of people at once, but this Kansas
City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people
and Native Americans at the same time. That's literally what
the guy wrote about this nine year old. He alleged
that the parents, Shannon Morale, taught the nine year old
racism and hated home like he never even meant the
he never even met the Armenta family, but he wrote
(21:23):
about them as though they were a bunch of like
clans people who hated everybody and were raising, you know,
a future terrorist or something. It was one of the
wildest I mean, this guy's a grown man who went
after a nine year old. He demanded the entire NFL
wiy in on this kid. Well understandably, you know that's
not what happened. That's not what the nine year old
(21:44):
was doing. And he's nine and it never occurred to
him that, you know, he wasn't thinking about race. He'sn't
thinking about anything. He's nine years old, and he his
parents literally are His dad is the Santa Yen in
the Santa ynos band of he works in a tribal reservation.
He's literally a member of an indigenous nation, like a
(22:07):
literally an actual participating, voting member of an indigenous nation.
And his grandfather was a tribal elder. But Karen Phillips
only just saw what he wanted to see, and he
you know, this kid was not parroting anything. This kid is,
you know, he's he's kids don't dress up as things
that they make fun of. And so anyway, they went
(22:32):
to court because this nine year old, I mean, his
whole name is drug through the mud. His image is
drug through the mud. I mean, can you imagine if
the parents had not pushed back on this, what would
have happened? Say this kid decided to go for Supreme
Court one day, Well we found a picture of you
little nine year old Holden in blackface. Look. Dead Spin says,
if you don't think that that could couldn't happen, Look
(22:52):
what they did at Kavanaugh. Look what they did a
Kavanaugh he was in high school. Look that they did. Well,
you know, let's look at what Holden when he was
nine years old. If the parents had not pushed back
on that, that absolutely would have happened. They had to.
They had to litigate it to save their child. They
had to litigate it to correct the court of public
(23:12):
opinion and the family. Because of that dead Spin article,
the family got so much hate, They got so many threats.
People were threatening to kill him, the father. People started
showing up at the dad's work. The family was actually
considering moving out of state. His test scores, the kids'
(23:34):
test scores and grades dropped. They according to court filings,
he had to go and they had to get a
therapist for him because he was just destroyed by what
this Karen Phillips was writing about him and what he did.
That dude never apologized, he never did anything. He willfully
decided to lie about this nine year old kid. And
(23:55):
so now dead Spin they were trying to They fired,
the parents, filed suit. They said that you know, they
were making the case for the nine year old and saying,
this is what happened to him, this is how he
was treated by this dead Spin writer. And how you know,
the dead'spin tried to inside a well, they did inside
a mob against him, and so dead Spin was trying
(24:19):
to At first they republished an edited version that maintained
all the accusations of racism and kept the nine year
old's picture and made him like this giant bigot, and
then they updated the article for the second time. They
removed the nine year old's picture and they changed the
headline to read the NFL must band native headdress, and
(24:39):
the family wasn't happy. All of the original accusations were
still out there, so they sued for defamation. So Deadspin
tried to dismiss it. They said, the article's opinion and
it's protected from liability for defamation, but the judge said, no,
you literally targeted this kid. You absolutely targeted this kid.
You targeted this kid, you used his image, you invoked
(25:01):
his family, you did all of this. So that was
tossed out and they were absolutely They've been remorseless this
entire time. They have been entirely remorseless. So now it's
gonna go forward. And the Delaware Trial Court judge Sean
Lug and ourmenta versus Geomedia. Sean Lugg wrote that they
(25:24):
wrote to this effect, and so they're allowing that defamation
claim to go forward. I hope this kid owns dead Spin,
but when it's said and done, I hope he owns
everything that Karen Phillips has ever made in his life.
I hope he takes his home. I hope he takes
his bank account. I hope he takes everything that he
has ever worked to accrue. And I hope that Karen
(25:45):
Phillips has to beg for mercy from this nine year old.
And I hope this nine year old shows Karen Phillips
the mercy of maturity that Karen Phillips, a grown ass man,
didn't show him. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition
of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast.
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