Absurd Truth: CNN Thunderdome Racist Olympics

Lowe's helps refresh your garden in time for Mother's Day. Right now, get five bags of one-and-a-half cubic foot Scott's Nature Scapes Mulch for just $10. Plus, select one-and-a-half gallon annuals hanging baskets make the perfect gift. Now two for only $15. The best garden starts with great deals.

Lowe's. We help. You save. Valid through 5.7. Selection varies by location. While supplies last.

Discount taking at time of purchase. Dana Lashes of Sir Truth Podcast. Sponsored by Kel-Tec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

It's time for Florida Man. Okay, I've got two questions for you about this story. First off, who steals a tricycle? And secondly, what is an adult tricycle? I'm thinking big wheels. Why don't they make those?

Basically, an unrelated third question. Those were amazing, right? And I didn't like it when the pedals got stripped.

But man alive. That was big wheels were where it's at. Man, if I could get some with engines, I would blow everybody away.

There's a big wheels race. Okay, where am I going? I don't know.

So this is in Arcadia, Florida. Here's why I asked this. Because there's a woman who stole an adult tricycle.

I don't know what that is. And she was in a tiger print onesie. They identified her, but they can't find her. Her voicemail is full and they can't find the tricycle.

It's petty theft. But they literally said if you see somebody in a tiger onesie on a tricycle, please call, you know, the sheriff's office. And I'm just trying to figure out what is an adult tricycle.

I've never heard of this. One that's big enough to hold an adult? Is it like motor powered?

I'm afraid to write adult into any kind of search engine. It might have an engine or a motor. I just think it's larger. I mean, I look at all it's showing me are bikes. I don't even know. It's just a three wheel bike. That's like, really?

That's I would imagine, like, I would think it would have some fatty fat tires and, you know, like an engine something like a Hemi. I don't know. Can you imagine? Oh, my gosh.

All right. Oh, this is crazy. A doorbell camera. There's the lady in the onesie. She's the one who stole the tricycle.

Here's something. If you see this chick, you see that broad and the tiger onesie on an adult trike, you know, you holler at the popo. Doorbell camera catches a Florida gator. Now they're progressing, guys. Now they're walking. A Florida gator standing on two legs and literally knocking on the door. It literally gets up on its two legs and knocks on the door.

Now they can climb. I'm sorry. I love Florida.

But one of the reasons, probably the biggest reason I could never maybe move there is they will climb up your fences, up your walls, knocking your doors. So it's on Reddit. It was on Reddit. And he said, Meanwhile, in Florida, and it shows two gators, one of them stands up on its back legs and literally knocks on the door and it's all on camera. They were able to call Florida Fish and Wildlife. But so far, by the time Florida Fish and Wildlife got there, because it was an emergency, it was not an emergency call. They had the gators kind of wandered away. But I wouldn't like you have animals.

Would you feel comfortable letting your animal? I mean, there's gators. If there's like a little pond, there's a pothole in the road. There's a gator in it. I mean, it's that one Shoney. That's what it did.

That's from his ring doorbell camera, the Sporta Man. The gators are evolving. So it's happening. Our partners over at all family pharmacies is one of my favorite, favorite people to work with. And not just because I'm actually a customer.

It's like that Hair Club for Men thing. Not only am I, I'm also the president. Well, I'm not the president. But I love what they do because medicines that you need, and especially those therapeutics that the government tried to prevent you from getting during lockdown. Well, they have all of it. They've got the ivermectin.

They got the hydroxychloroquine. They have all the antibiotics. They also have your everyday medications. And they're affordable.

It's simple and it's fast. If you don't have insurance, not an issue because they have very straightforward affordable pricing. Online ordering shipping is just two to four days. You can also do overnight in a pinch, which I have done before because oh my gosh, I was getting strep throat for Thanksgiving thought I was going to die. And I'm like, I couldn't get the urgent care. There was a line like I got to get something got it to me overnight. And I was immediately able to start getting better and still host Thanksgiving.

It was amazing. And not in fact, everybody was so nice. All the other thing that I love is everything is made in the US. You can't say that with other medications or the inputs from other medications. But you can say that with all family pharmacy. None of the stuff comes from either China nor India. It's all manufactured all from right here in the US of A. So they have very high standards of quality and safety. Visit all family pharmacy.com slash Dana get 10% off with promo code Dana. Be prepared protect yourself and your family today with all family pharmacy.com slash Dana coupon code Dana 10 to save 10%. So I know you're not country illegally. You are going home. Simple as that.

We do not have unlimited. I think a lot of Americans take care of all the black people who were brought here as slaves who came to this country illegally. There are not the same as black people who were brought here against I think you actually misheard what she I think you misheard what she said. She said that purpose. So now you're in my share. Michael, listen to me for that. Is that where we're going? We're going to go to break.

Thank you very much for joining us, everybody. First off, that was a colleague that was a hot mess. I mean, I expect to see, you know, a woman act like that. And you know, maybe $1 store Waffle House at 2am or Waffle House at 2am drunk and slapping people with her flip flop, but I don't expect to see her acting like that, you know, on a set. So that was Anna Navarro and Sher-Michael Singleton. And I'm highlighting it for the specific purpose of Identity Politic Olympics. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you.

So I this I thought was one of the craziest things. Anna Navarro was just mad in this segment, because she realizes that she loses authority by not being the only minority on set. That is where her soul, all of her influence and everything comes from. That's all she talks about every day. That's all she ever talks about every conversation that I've ever seen. And I know it's not like I follow her. I've never gone to her for insight sidebar.

When, when I was getting into, you know, politics at the policy level back in 08, 09, you know, everything else from the Tea Party. She was there on the right. She was always trying to get on Fox and she was always writing op-eds, but she never really had any traction.

She was just kind of basic, right? And it wasn't until she decided to get TDS and go on a rampage and pretend to be Republican while going on the view and then she got the slot on the view. I don't I honestly don't know how she considers herself a Republican because she's on the left side of Republicans on every single issue. And I tend to think Republicans by and large are pretty moderate. I'm that's why I'm not one because they're too moderate for me. I just don't subscribe to any particular party because they're all stupid. That said, I don't know why she calls herself a Republican because she's so far to the left of any Republican policy and she has a problem with all of it.

But that's like her and David Brock who started Media Matters. That's sort of their MO. They didn't get enough appreciation on the right. And so out of spite, they just decided to reject their ideology and go to the left because the left would use them. And they mistake being used with appreciation.

They mistake being played as influence. And it's kind of embarrassing to watch like an older woman get played like that by producers and the left. She's just mad because she sits on that panel and she's not the only minority. She doesn't have any authority derived from being the only minority on set. She does not want to share any intersectionality because that's all she brings to the table. It's her whole entire grift. And that's why she talks about it endlessly. Every response that she has, like all of these videos that we've played before, I think in honesty, it's only been like a couple. But she always taught, well, I'm a Latina, I'm this, I'm you know, blah, blah, blah. And she's constantly playing identity politics as a way to shut everyone up and sort of try to gain an alpha position at the table based upon that. And what Cain and I were talking about on Break is that plays still on television, at least with the old crowd. It plays on television because that's, I mean, clearly she thinks that there's a value in that.

And I think previously it used, maybe people were too, I don't think it was value. I think it was bullying. People did not want to be accused of a moral failing because they disagree with a minority. And so, and that's how it was.

I mean, ever, oh my gosh, my whole entire life in politics, that's all it's been. If you disagree with this, you're a racist. You didn't even have to have to disagree with someone who had a different skin color or background. You could not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, the old white woman who fell down in Manhattan and lost a Tory Burch slipper, and you're called a racist.

But that's a grift. It's identity politics. And so she's sitting there across from Sher-Michael Singleton, who's a conservative. And he was accurate in calling out her super dumb comparison.

And she did make a dumb comparison. And if she wanted to make it clearer, she should have spoken better instead of mush mouthing and running all of her words together. I mean, nobody knows what you're saying when you're talking like the micro machine man and you're like, I mean, you're not, you know, this is not one too many mimosas brunch.

You're on a panel on a morning show. Act like it. You know, speak clearly. Articulate your words.

Have like ideas. And the defense can't always be, well, I'm Latino, so you can't disagree with me. No one gives a rat's ass. Spare us, you racist bitch. I'm so tired of this stuff. And that's exactly what it is.

Oh, quote me. I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of the grift that these people have day in and day out. They're racists. And she tries to shut up a guy for being conservative by acting like she's the white adjacent savior of the black race. That there was at one point in that she's like, Well, I've I've defended, you know, blah, blah, blah, my, you know, my whole life black. Who cares?

Are you supposed to get a special trophy for this? You're so I mean, that's like an actual racist remark. So you get to shut someone else down and you get to demonize and diminish their background by making this absolutely illogical and embarrassing comparison to criminal illegal entry. And you compare it really awkwardly to slavery. And then when he just makes a reasonable objection, you lose your mind and become a stereotype.

That's embarrassing. And I'm just tired of seeing this. That's all CNN has.

CNN's like, okay, we got to do we have the black commentator, the Hispanic commentator, the white Anglo Saxon Protestant. Let's make sure that we have people don't I don't think people care about it anymore. Because they were supposed they were forced to make it a priority.

Completely the opposite of how I was raised came when we were younger. No one cared about this. No one cared about what race you were.

I mean, some of you know how goofy this is. When I was younger. I had friends, some of my very good. My very, very close friends were Hispanic. And I just it never registered with me.

It never because no one obsessed over it. We just did our thing. Are you cool?

Do you want to hang out? Okay. Oh, we like the same music. That's awesome. Yay. Oh, we're both in the same sport. Yay.

That's great. We like some I mean, that's that's all it was. You just didn't. And it didn't matter if they were Hispanic or black or Asian or white. Or Asian or whatever or or Indian. One of my very good friends was Indian.

And we just didn't even care. It's not. No one sat around and focused on so you're Indian. Talk to me about that. Or you're black. Let's discuss.

We just didn't do that. That was not a phenomenon until I guess, when I started at college. And then it started becoming a thing. And I noticed that it was becoming a thing.

Because people were putting that as their identity, first and foremost, above everything else. And my first experience, when I was a freshman in college, one of the people that I met and became friends with, she was a black woman. And we got along really good. You know, we liked a lot of the same food, you know. And I mean, obviously, we had clearly we had differences.

But it wasn't just it wasn't something that we really focused on. And then I knew I saw kind of going in my sophomore year, that she started to be a little bit more identity forward. She had joined a couple of groups in college, and she started to be a little bit more identity forward. And then by the time, you know, I we were leaving and graduating, it was, we just didn't really talk anymore, because she had become very, very militant in that. And I started to see other people get very, very militant in terms of being I that's your that is your identity, first and foremost, above anything else above being a Christian, above being an American, even above being like a woman. Like that, that that became and it didn't matter if you were black or Muslim or Asian or Indian or whatever, that became like the thing immediately like, okay, here's this, we're never going to be very close because you and I don't share this identity politic.

And that's when I really started noticing it take root. And it was really sad because that was not anything that, you know, and and then there were all of these manufactured, you know, victimization stories, I don't know. But I just saw this and I'm like, that is so that was really bitchy to do to him to say that and and you can tell she got mad because he objected. She is not used to having her identity politic contested, particularly on a national stage. And I probably would say particularly by someone who, you know, if you really wanted to argue identity politics, probably has a bigger box to check than she does.

I don't think that he was participating in it. I think that he was highlighting her absurdity with absurdity. And she just wasn't quick enough to get it. She's not smart enough to see it. That was one of the most embarrassing exchanges I've ever seen.

If I was a producer, I'd be like, I can't have her back on the show because it turned into like kindergarten fighting. That was embarrassing. But that's what it is. I mean, and there and I've seen people like this. I've seen people like this on the right to this identity politic, you know, the phrase the woke, right?

That is a real thing. There are people on the right that use identity politics as kind of like a shield simultaneously a shield and a cudgel the same way that they do on the left identity politics is identity politics, and it doesn't matter what the rest of your politics are. If you subscribe to that, that is a communist left tactic. And you're you're practicing it when you subscribe to that. But that was insane. Can you imagine, you know, acting like well, yeah, but I've defended black people came like, Oh, oh, yes, Massa.

That means that you can be the ultimate authority over me. Oh, you've different that's like saying yes, I have black friends is the same thing as saying it. That's like, that's the exact same thing. Good heavens, that was just so embarrassing. It was a very embarrassing discussion.

It did not go well with him. Keltech they make some very amazing things I was telling you about their new five seven. It's the PR 57 chambered in five seven rotary barrel pistol course difference they've got the instead of the magazine they got a stripper clip so you got slimmer profile 20 plus one capacity as well but they also have a new 10 millimeter that they are out with. And this is brand new.

I found this out weeks ago and I wasn't able to talk about it until now they're raising the bar again. It's the third generation sub 2k folds fast optics stay in place and it deploys super fast zeroed and ready. It's innovation with a twist now available in 10 millimeter. And it folds down to 16 and a half inches easy to transport easy to store standard 15 round Glock 20 mag Yes, it does take lock mags you got ample capacity for whatever you're shooting needs are optional extended mag and you got a 50 round drum even that you can have for extended sessions at the range with fewer reloads.

This is all from the great minds at Keltech they make everything right here in the USA us labor us materials us workers everything and they stand behind every product they make we need more companies like Caltech learn more Caltech weapons.com innovation performance Keltech ke lt EC weapons.com tell them Dana sent you. And now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for Dana's quick five. So apparently there's a new social revolution sweeping America it's the hot new club called staying in. It's your house and your music and all your food in your fridge what literally apparently like that's that's the thing it means avoiding nightlife. What I think a lot of that might be driven by the economy to if I'm being honest, 72% of adults prefer their living room to nightlife Can I be real though, I've always been like this my whole life. When I am out somewhere it is always reluctantly came all the tests to it, I am a hobbit. I am, I actually could be happy being the only person on earth forever. I think I'm one of the only people that could live like that I am completely fine. I'll entertain myself, do my hobbies, you know, whatever.

I'm totally fine with it as long as I have dogs now that's different, but they said that three quarters of Americans would rather stay home than go out and that includes with friends with or without friends, they would even rather stay in their homes and have friends over then even go out with people. So it's kind of interesting. I don't know.

I think some of it a lot of this is Gen Z driven Gen Z are also hobbits because they were raised by us Gen X, who are the original hobbits. What are you now? What is this? Oh, Barbra Streisand is debut. I don't care. I literally don't care.

They're doing an album with a whole bunch of older people. I don't care. Oh, Robert. Can I just say I think she's overrated.

Barbra Streisand is one of the most overrated performers on God's green earth. I don't get it. Like, yeah, that's news. I mean, you know, don't try to convince me you're not gonna. I don't get it. I just don't get her. I have a couple of friends that think she's so great. And I'm like, you're young. What does it matter with you?

Like she's not she has like one range. It's the same. I'm gonna get hate mail. I will not get as much hate mail for saying that I hated Abba, though. People wanted to light me on fire for that. Don't get me. I mean, it's just not my bag. They're talented.

I think they have more talent than her, so it's okay. What's happening on planes? There's a flight attendant had to wrestle a crazy chick to the ground because she tried to storm the cockpit on a plane to New York. Was she a New Yorker? That might make sense.

And she's an older Karen, too. And she tried to like get did she think it was the bathroom? She it was called a strange coup attempt. She was mad. It was an American Airlines flight. And she was upset that it was delayed. And of course, you know, she's gonna be facing charges because you can't be doing that kind of you can't be like acting like a fool on the plane like that. That's crazy. I this is honestly we've had one of these headlines every single day.

But it was a New York bound American Airlines flight. And for the first part of the video, everyone just stands around very visibly confused. Like are we being punked?

Because she was so over the top. A homebuyer mortgage demands drop further as economic uncertainty roils the housing market that's to be expected the average rate for 30 year decrease 6.8 from 6.9. But buyers are hitting pause all still stick with us more to come. You know, first, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depot's trying to get work so that they could feed their families. And I didn't say anything about it.

Because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot. Now, that was the only like mildly entertaining part of what's his face Hank Johnson Guam tip over his remarks because it all fell apart. He couldn't rhyme anything else after that. And I what is that even from this is like some cat in the hat, green eggs in ham. Welcome back to the program.

Dana lash with you. We are at the top of this third hour coming up. Again, we're gonna have two guests simultaneously General Randy George, who is chief of staff of the Army, and Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, who I've met before I told you this, you know, a few months ago, sat down with him and was talking to him about a number of things, including recruitment, and then of course, tech and drones, drone warfare. There's not there's several things that make me nervous.

Hunting wild hogs, because they're terrifying, and drones, and also crickets, but that's a whole other story. Maybe very nervous. They fight your face.

It's crazy. Anyway, so he's gonna sit down and talk with us because there's a lot of changes coming through DoD, and they're going to discuss and that's coming up at the bottom of this hour. So welcome Dana lash listen coast to coast the chats at rumble.

If you're not listening terrestrially and one of our hundreds of stations, you're probably watching the stream on channel 347 or on Facebook or on x or like I said over at rumble. So I came that was downright poetic from Hank Johnson. Don't you agree?

I feel like that man's going to receive a Pulitzer. Yeah, so, so artful. Latinos at Home Depot, just ever hung out at a Home Depot, just, you know, as an observation. racist as hell. Oh, yeah. Oh, so bad.

racist is so bad. But did you see the look on his face? Like right before the clip ends the way he's like wistfully looking at the people watching him. I honestly he's got this look on his face of smug cleverness. Yeah, he thinks that what he's doing is really smart. Yeah, he thought what he said was a new beat poet.

He thought what he said was clever. Latino at Home Depot. Whoa, man.

So I'm really underappreciated. That the that is racist as all get out. Latino at Home Depot. You know, there are a lot of other people at the Home Depot.

I like it. I like going my husband doesn't like it. Because I think you know how sometimes men will go and they want a man trip like a man errand a quest. They want to go on their own man quest and they don't want their wives to go along with them because I will completely distract them.

I will completely distract you from everything. Guys do get new ideas on how to build stuff when they walk through. So do women.

Yeah. When we walk through, don't let me near the garden center because I'll be creating chores right and left, right and left. But um, you know, other people besides Latinos like to hang out at Home Depot, you old racist. This is I mean, I when I kind of I want to like because he thought it was real clever when it goes on forever, but it falls apart after that. Because then he can't rhyme anything else. And it looks so dumb.

But he thought that that was a great Oh, this is my soundbite. Remember, this is from the party that says they don't like stereotypes. Yeah, they don't like stereotypes. But the Latinos at the Home Depot, you know, everybody likes to go to, you know, a home improvement store, whether it's Lowe's or Home Depot, they all like going right. I mean, like I said, I like going I like going and going down the aisles that have all the doodads in them.

Like, I just want to go look for the all the men are dying. I just like looking at the sign. I'm like, where is the doodad aisle? Because I'm sure there's something that I don't have every aisle is the doodad. Yeah, but there's like things and stuff. It's crazy. And then when you go to like the science experiment aisle where they have their tinctures and what they're I don't know, like their cock and the glue and glue guns. Are we still talking about Home Depot?

Tinctures? I don't know. I just like going and I'm like, there are so many things here. I am. It's amazing. I like going to the Home Depot and my Chris goes with me. He goes and he's like, there's a couple things I want to go. Maybe I'll look around, you know. And I'm like, let's look at all the things and and then I tell him, did you know that they have the tinctures? And he's like, yes, I know.

I'm a man. I know these things. For several years now, when I walk by the plywood and the lumber and all that, I'm like, man, that price of wood. Right. I didn't even know what the price of wood was before because I don't build stuff regularly. But I look at it now.

I'm like, whoa, that's crazy. But there's just all kinds of things, fun things to look at. Right. And like great inventions that you think, why didn't I think of this? This is a great idea.

This is a great product. And then what I do is I take like a photo of it, like a psycho. And I'm like, that's a great idea. Just because I want to remember how good of an idea it is.

I'll take a picture of it. Does anybody else do that? Me?

No, I don't know. But and I like the way it smells in there because it smells like wood shavings and paint. And I love that.

I love the smell of gas. Yes. Can we run that club again? I have something for that. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. The home, the Latinos at Home Depot? Please.

The Hank Johnson. Okay. All right. Here we go.

Let's do it. You know, first they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depot. I don't think the TV trying to get work audiences hearing this so that they could feed their families. We're playing the Home Depot game. And I didn't say anything about it. Because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot.

There it is. That's like an ad. I mean, that is an ad.

I mean, I like where can you go to find Latinos at the Home Depot? And it's just Hank Johnson for Home Depot. Man, that is like such an identifying riff. Isn't it though? It is. Yeah.

It's iconic. By the way, I asked Grok. I said, can you write a story about Latinos at Home Depot? Good Lord. I did.

You didn't. Yep. Are you ready? Hold on. Do we need this again?

Yeah, we're going to need it. The Home Depot on Cesar Chavez Boulevard buzzed under the Texas sun, its parking lot, a mosaic of pickup trucks, lowriders and minivans blasting everything from Bad Bunny to classic Tejano. It was Saturday morning and the store was a second home for half the neighborhood. Among the aisles of lumber and paint cans, three Latinos, Javier, Marisol and Diego crossed paths, each on their own mission, but bound by the unspoken rhythm of community. Javier, a wiry contractor in his 40s with a faded astro cap, pushed a flatbed cart piled high with two by fours and drywall.

He'd been up since five a.m. bidding on a remodeled job in East Austin. Mira, I'm telling you, this gentrification's got everyone wanting shiplap. He grumbled to his cousin Diego, who trailed behind with a bag of concrete mix slung over his shoulder. Diego, 25 and fresh off a landscaping gig, laughed. Shiplap, man.

Get us outside that in the 70s, call it vintage charge double. Javier dropped the tool corral eyeing a new DeWalt drill. If I win this bid, I'm upgrading.

These clients want artisan by my wallet screaming bargain. Diego smirked, tossing a roll of painter's tape under the cart. Oh, it goes on.

Marisol navigated the garden center, her toddler, Sophia, giggling in the cart. I mean, it goes on. It's amazing. At Home Depot, an employee named Carlos spotted her puzzled look and strolled over orange aprons swinging. And there it is. More mentions of Latinos at Home Depot.

Latinos at Home Depot, courtesy of Hank Johnson. By the way, this song on the internet is called Let's Do It. There's a word for the name of this song and someone uploaded an hour continuous mix of this. Are you serious? That's actually amazing.

A continuous one hour. I think my kids made this the ringtone for Pawpaw because he worked at Home Depot for a while. My stepdaddy, when he retired, he got bored to death on day two of retirement. And he's like, I'm gonna go work at Home Depot because he's forklift certified, which why is that? Is that a big thing with you dudes? Is that a big thing, Steve? Forklift certification? I don't think so. Not with me.

Okay, maybe DJ Fun Uncle is like an outlier here. Yeah, I mean, you have to be able to operate large equipment, right? So you need some sort of certification.

Apparently, Gen Z thinks that's a measure of a man is whether or not you can drive a forklift. Yeah. And he, you know, yeah, so he liked Home Depot. He liked working there. And then he got bored and he wanted to change it up because, you know, he had all the seniority going in there. But I think that was his ringtone for a while.

Pawpaw's ringtone was Home Depot. Yeah, I've looked up the guy that actually wrote that. Can you imagine being the dude that wrote that little riff? It's very simple.

It's almost like Peter Gunn. It's this very simple little guitar line. That's all it is. How did we get on that subject?

I have no idea. Anyway, okay, so. Hank Johnson. Hank Johnson. Damn you, Hank Johnson.

At least we're not talking about Guam tipping over, rolling over in the ocean like an iceberg or something. Good heavens. This is Democrats for you. It's Democrats. That's, you know, that's what it is. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.