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All right, so pi I I Just saw Kane tell a dude that he needs Midol on social media. Just saw that one. It's nice nice comeback. All right, so uh a Florida vit a Florida attorney was convicted of Bringing cocaine into a Florida jail, it's almost like he should have known that that was illegal. If only he had the education to know.
that that was illegal. Sixty year old David Castles was convicted of one count possession of cocaine, count of felony, introduction of contraband into a county detention facility. Why are his glasses crooked? On his mug shot. Oh yeah.
It's bothering me really badly. It's very asymmetric. In the verdict, the judge sentenced him to a year in jail, three years of probation, 300 hours of community service. Uh he has to go through substance abuse things, stuff like that. But that's just one of the dumbest cell phones.
So much of this is like self-owning, people self-owning. This one guy got 17 and a half years because he led a cocaine trafficking network from Puerto Rico to New York. That's also a big bad no-no.
So I'm surprised New York did anything about it. Right? Right. But it was a cocaine distribution network that spanned from Puerto Rico to upstate New York. U.S.
Attorney's Office. They handed this dude, a 49-year-old dude from Lady Lake, Florida, 17 and a half years in prison. He was also involved in money laundering, distribution, all kinds of bad stuff. Uh, that's not something that, you know. There's a lot of the cocaine distribution happening here.
This Gulf Coast news that a Florida man was accused of street racing. at one hundred and twenty four miles per hour. And when the police Got him. His excuse was that I have to use the bathroom. That's why he went 124 miles per hour at 3 a.m.
on a Sunday, you see, in Lee County, Florida. It was a late night street race. And they're still searching for the motorcyclist. He was racing a motorcycle. This is how people get killed.
The Toyota Camry this guy was racing. If you were wondering if it was a Camry, you are correct. A Toyota Camry motorcycle stops side by side at a traffic light. They were able to get it on some CCT stuff from other, you know, like businesses and that, but. Yeah, they clocked him at going 124.
The motorcycle hit more than 140. When they stopped him, he said, I had to use the bathroom really badly. I had to use the bathroom bed, is what he said. The Camry driver did not have a license. And the police were like, well, that's a red flag, number one.
And number two, that it was happening at three in the morning. That's also another red flag. And then Sheriff J.D. Grudd, he, well, no, Sheriff Brady Judd said, a Florida man who's a retired deputy, insulted workers at McDonald's drive-thru with a child in the front seat.
So he drove through, he was combative towards McDonald's workers, and he had like an unstrained kid, 18-month-old. in the front seat. We'll have more on that tomorrow.
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Visit oneblood.org slash holiday to find a location and share your power to save lives. As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. She's calling the police and saying they're trying to steal her car, and they're 11 years old. They don't know how to drive. And so for me, what was interesting was I have had to be in the position where I have gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics running around the neighborhood in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said, He belongs to me.
This is my son. Do not harass him. Do not stop him. I feel like this is ridiculous. First off, and by the way, if you want to know, I mean, because she lives in Manhattan, who is the party that's been in control this entire time that's fomented these policies?
Oh, that would be Democrats. It'd be the exact people that she votes for. That's Sonny Hostin on the View, who was descended from slave owners, by the way. Oh, you didn't know that? Yeah.
Take that as an intersectional box to check. That'll leave a mark. It well was. She literally came. She did the whole, what show was that where they looked?
Yeah, she literally came from slave. She her family owned slaves. I remember seeing that.
So she's More like the clan than uh you or I came. Look at that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour.
Our friend Seth Dylan from the Babylon Bee will be joining us at the bottom of this hour, and we got a lot of stuff to discuss. But that's the identity politics stuff that she's getting into. I got to tell you, I can't stand identity politics. We've been talking about this for a little bit. The identity politics being a Marxist creation.
And really started, it was introduced, started being introduced back in, like the really began in the 60s to college campuses all across the United States. If you listen to the show last week, we were talking a little bit about the history of critical race theory, which came from that same, you know, Frankfurt School of Marxism, came from the same spot. You have the competing variables of economic status as well as. Uh, race, and that's where intersectionality, that is where DEI, all of that came out of critical race theory, which was really promoted heavily by Marxist academics in the United States at American universities. And one of the leaders of that was Derek Bell.
I was first talking about this. In fact, I had to talk about the video of him hugging Barack Obama before Andrew Breitbart, right when he had passed away on CNN. And point out to everyone that this is look, what's coming is very bad. This is critical race theory, it's being mainstreamed, et cetera. And this is what you see with the left when they talk about.
Intersectionality, for instance. If you have two candidates, two candidates who are going for the same position, say that they're both black female candidates. You have a black female candidate who's married and has kids, and she's going for this, you know, very high-paying position. And you have another black female candidate who's going for the high-paying position, but she's also maybe she's trans or alphabet something and XYZ. She has one more intersectional box than the just plano other candidate.
So that means that in the DEI world, she's advanced to that position, not because of merit, but because of these, you know, self-created intersectional Uh checklist variables. That's what all of that is. And it all comes from critical race theory. And that's where you get the substitute of equity for equality. And as you know, equity, in order for things to be equitable, you actually have to incorporate discrimination for equitable outcomes.
Whereas equality is about equal access. To opportunity, equity is the guarantee of equal result. That means that you have to enforce discrimination at the opportunity level.
So that's all from CRT, critical race theory, and the left has been using this to browbeat the right for forever. I mean, we've seen this. When I first got heavily involved in politics. I think it was in college. And all my family, I told everybody, I never met a Republican, I didn't meet a Republican until the day I went to college.
I'm not kidding. I literally grew up in a bubble of Democrats. And when I went to college and got educated, And started learning more about the world and wasn't as narrow-minded and didn't live in a leftist bubble, then I started actually like, you know what? I never believed in this. I was never against guns and I was never, you know, pro-abortion and I was never all of this stuff.
So, why in the hell am I identifying as this? This is like some sort of heritage political ideology that's foisted upon me. And so. Started learning about more things. And I noticed that the DEI stuff came into play.
when it seemed like Democrats were losing the plot. And then all of a sudden they introduced all of these other things that their leftist street team could get behind. And that's when you started seeing, well, someone's more special than you because of these race based things, which actually is racism. being used, but the left is too dumb to realize it.
So long story short, we've been seeing it in politics. We saw it, you know, this is how crazy it gets. Back in 2016, if you remember, when Hillary Clinton was running against Donald Trump, people were literally saying that Trump voters were racist because they didn't vote for the old white woman. I mean you guys remember this, that's how crazy the CRT stuff got. It it's wild.
And now here we are you know, 2025 and the left is still clinging to it. they're still clinging to it, especially when you talk about Redistricting. For voting, redistricting for voting. In Texas, for instance. This is redistricting is something that happens, you know, every I mean, they look at this stuff every three years anyway, and they base things off the census.
And we're simply going by the numbers and by like the actual counties and et cetera, et cetera. And they're trying to say that all of that is racist. It's DEICRT. That's all this is. My fear is that the right is going to start.
I don't want the right to start incorporating this stuff. And I've had, I'm going to put it like this. I'm not old school. I'm just not over-emotional. I I don't like this idea on the right that you've got to become like the left in order to beat the left.
That's very anti-Sun Tzu. That means that you're surrendering. You're who you are. And you become the thing that you want to be. That is the ultimate win.
That's why when I. Am engaging with people unless they're super nasty, you know, what is the point of engaging with them if it's not to persuade them to join you in your side of reason and logic? That's one less person you have to fight, and it's also one person that you have, another person to fight against the things that you're standing against. And so This idea that you have to become like the left to beat the left, that's something a leftist would say. That's like Satan going, well, you got to become satanic to beat me.
Well, I expect that from the devil. I mean, Jesus even said you can't be lukewarm, did he not? I mean, if we're going to adhere to the gospels and say Christ is king and all this stuff, you know, just FYI.
So, I say this because I've had disagreements with some folks before over this sort of thing, and disagreements are good. I reject this theory that you cannot have civilized debate. on the right or the left.
Well, on the left they're incapable. I want to be like the left and not be able to have civilized debate and even disagree with some people that I might. Vote with on 90 or 99% of the things, right? or even agree with on most things. A healthy, intelligent, emotionally stable, mature.
movement should be able to tolerate and handle civilized dissent. That is a hallmark of this republic. Our founders did it. I mean, sure, you can get heated and all of that other stuff. But what I can't stand is when I see disagreement.
maliciously misrepresented as an attack. For Loss of being able to properly and unemotionally refute it. I can't stand that. I just feel like people are too damn sensitive. First and too emotionally triggered.
for civilized debate, if they think every dissent is an attack. An attack is having a terrorist throw a rocket at you while you're trying to eat an MRE in the desert. Right. An attack is what happened at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. An attack is Fallujah.
An attack is 9-11. An attack is what we saw at Pearl Harbor. That is an attack.
Someone civilly disagreeing with you is not an attack. And if you think otherwise, you are a female copulatory organ. You're too sensitive, too hyper-emotional. For reasoned debate. And you know who else shares that hallmark?
The left. The left does that. The left can't tolerate dissent. The left purports that every single disagreement is an attack. The left thinks that if you disagree with a woman, it's because you're sexist.
The left says that if you disagree with a black person, it's because you're racist. And I see elements of the right trying to incorporate that as well. when they're way smarter and way better. than to devolve to that level. I had a bit of a disagreement on social media this morning.
It's not enough to make anything out. I don't live my life online and arguing with Rando's all damn day. You know, I'd rather hang out with you guys and then, you know, do what I got to do. I'm getting ready for this debate coming up in November. I got a lot of stuff that going on, you know, family, all that.
So, I don't see everybody arguing. I just think if you're spending all your day online arguing with everybody, then stop. But people on our side, especially some people who are trying to be thought leaders and shepherds, need to get a grip. Calm down. I appreciate the dudes and the ladies.
Who don't do that? I feel like it's becoming rarer and rarer when I come across them. Almost think we should have metals minted to hand them at this point because it's becoming so rare. But I don't think, again, that you adopt The attitude and behavior. of the left in order to beat the left.
And I just think that if the conservative movement is so weak that it can't handle dissent, we deserve to be destroyed. as the sensitive, easy, manipulated losers that we are. I just feel like that's that's the way it is. Because that that's what that behavior makes us. It's crazy.
And I think some of this came from, I don't know, like, what do you think some of this came from, Kane? Like, the Nazi stuff, what did it come from? What do you mean the division tactics? I feel like the right is some people on the right are being baited into this psyop division completely, and they don't see it. You pointed to it earlier, and in all of our past discussions about how crazy we believe the left is, it's because their emotions are not in check, and because of that, they're easily manipulated.
And it doesn't matter if they're manipulated by lies or the truth. It does not matter. It's been lies, but they will react in the same way.
So all it does is create division. It's easy to fool someone. The hard thing is to convince them they've been fooled. I had someone that.
Someone that I know of, but I don't know them personally, and they were saying that. uh on social media that um You know, they feel like they got to adopt some of the left's tactics, and that's what it is. Just be honest about it. Because after Charlie Kirk was shot and they had to deal with threats, and I'll tell you, we, you know, Charlie was also a friend, and we all watched him nationwide. I mean, a lot of people felt also like he was a friend, and they saw him get shot in the throat.
I have had to move. I've had to move because I had somebody, I had a leftist that hated me fly halfway across the country and try to bust in the windows of my living room. I had people driving around my house, taking photos, and posting it online and threatening me. My gosh, we had people that tried to hack all my social accounts, my email. We had to have 24/7 security.
I had to have security at my kids' school. I watched leftists shoot cops in front of a building downtown at a BLM rally the night I was supposed to go down there for a fox hit. I watched parts of my hometown burn. The point is this: everybody has seen some stuff. Never allow your opposition to manipulate you into becoming like them.
I've not changed. who I am or what I believe. In the hard stuff. I mean, things like, oh, well, is this policy? Is this energy policy?
Do you change your mind on that? I mean, those are variables, and things can shift, and that's, you know, whatever. But you can't give up, you can't allow your soul to be molded. by the people you're fighting against. And You should be able to gently correct someone on your side.
with that fact. without them devolving into a hyperbolic emotional mess. And if that is unavoidable for their character, then maybe they're not the right kind of warrior for this job. And I don't give a rat's ass if that hurts anybody's feelings because at this point, I like you all, but I don't care about making friends and I don't care about being invited to the parties and I don't care about being on the stage and making the speech. I don't care.
I got a lot of other stuff we got going on. But I do care about the health of the movement. and I care about the soul of the nation. And I do care about a lot of the people that are trying to do really good things in this.
So when someone says, do not allow yourself to be manipulated, the correct and strong response isn't to devolve into the behavior of an overemotional leftist woman. It's to maybe say, okay, this person isn't coming from an origin of malice. Maybe there's something to this. And again, if you can't... Then maybe this debate isn't for you.
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So, Amakin Woman admits to using her employers' money to play business as slot machines. That's the average worker in today's workforce. I'm bored already by this story. Let's see. Oh, here's this.
Let's do this. This is an Iowa town.
So In Iowa, the Jessup Police Department issued a statement regarding harassment from toilet papering. people's houses and that.
Now, their police department says TPing is banned. Anyone caught doing it will face legal charges, etc. And that they said that it's effective immediately. There's zero pol. I just think it's a perfectly good waste of toilet paper.
It is kind of a pain to clean up. I've never had, you know, I've only, I've never actually done it to anyone or had it done. I did help spork someone's yard, though. Um. I never realized how well off we were back in the day.
We're just throwing toilet paper and eggs everywhere. Right? Did we joke about this during COVID? Oh my gosh. I just don't let your kids do that.
It's a waste of resources and it's annoying, okay? Just don't. A traveler was caught with human remains at the Tampa airport, and when they asked him what he was going to do with it, he said it's for rituals. Halloween. U.S.
Customs and Border Protection at Tampa, it was a skull. Uh And what's gross is it was all wrapped in foil. Ooh, Kane, it's so gross. Bit once. It was all wrapped in foil, and he told officers that the items were for rituals.
And due to it being gross and nasty, they, I mean, yes, health risks and all that, but just totally grody, they seize them and destroy them. Wow. Who thinks they're gonna walk through TSA? Oh, here's my skulls and bones. And go, what is the matter with you?
Welcome back. The chats at Rumble. You can find the newsletter over at Substack, all that good stuff.
So, let's talk about drivers and people who are driving giant trucks who are not in the country who are not in the country legally, because that's what we're dealing with here.
So, again, why that alien spacecraft doesn't want to visit us because they're like, Do you see their drivers?
So a number of truck drivers are sounding the alarm. About The Insane amount of non-English speaking commercial drivers. that are on the road. And they said it's, you know, it's when you think of the staggering number, it seems pretty terrifying. One of them described it as Mad Max on the highways.
And we know that You know, we've had a handful of accidents so far.
some which have been fatal, in which you have people who Are not residents, they're not citizens of the United States, and yet they're able to get CDLs, which is completely against what they're supposed to be able to get. For federal law, but you know, California, Gavin Newsom, they're just handing them out like Halloween candy. I mean apparently it's Pretty easy to get your CDL in California.
So there we have horrible accidents. We have you know, multiple fatalities, innocent people. All because you have illegal aliens who are driving giant trucks, who have really no idea how to drive giant trucks, and they cannot understand our road signs. Case in point. This cut 29 is a trucker who not only can he not speak English, but he also cannot read the traffic signs.
This is insane. Look at this. And that's on me. What I mean? Take beef.
Uh What does this sign mean? Master enter. Master With the testing.
Okay, so if you see this sign, what do you do? Hey, sir. Yeah, Trevor Cooley. Yeah, Trevor Gooey. What?
Number 35, what is this sign? Oh, two people. Nippy Curve. Maybe one day. Yeah.
What does it mean? But the meat. Yeah, what does that sign mean? Yeah, two people. Two people doing white.
You're walking? Yeah. Two people are watching. Could it be pedestrians? No, Kane, don't tell him.
He has no idea even what it is. He has no clue what it is. Could it be pedestrians here? Could it be? I don't know.
He doesn't know because he doesn't. He has no idea what this means. How in the world are you driving a giant truck? Right? I mean, my husband won't even let me get a Dodge Demon because he says I'll wrap it around the tree, but these.
Blinkers can go and they can just get a CDL out in California and drive a big old truck around and not even read the road signs. Who do you think is more dangerous out there? Illegal alien who can't read the road signs or speak English or Dana and a dodge demon. Shut up, Kane. I was going to answer the obvious one, clearly.
The illegal aliens. Oh, yes. That's exactly correct. That's the right way to answer it. You don't know what these are.
Those vehicles are so heavy. I mean, you can't even brake in time for anything. Wouldn't you be terrified?
Okay, just imagine this. Imagine you're going over to like Germany. The Autobahn and you gotta drive a giant rig. And Germany, and you can't speak Germany, you'd have no idea what the heck anything means besides ash tongue. You don't know.
Do you feel comfortable driving? I mean, where do people get the audacity to be like, oh, yeah, I can handle this. This is okay. Right. Can I do it?
I think they drive on the right side of the road or the left side of the road there. I don't know. I have no idea. Yeah, not everyone. That alone.
Even if I knew the signs, I'd still be like, eh, a little sketchy. I want some more practice before I get out. I want to be able to read the road signs before I drive this giant multi-ton truck. But this is what California's doing.
So I got an idea. If California could just go and get CDLs, why can't we all just go and get give out CHLs? Saying. There we go. Right?
Or C C L's. You got to get a CHL anyway there. Just Steve is Steve is my favorite comment of the day. He says in Slack, Steve said he's scared of normal, talented truck drivers. The normal talented ones scare you?
Just have you ever been on the way when you're in the right lane and then they're in the left lane and you get in the blind spot, and you're like, I don't know if I should speed up, slow down, freak out. I just panic. I feel it. I mean, one of my worst car accidents ever was because of a careless, gigantic semi. And one of the scariest accident I've ever been in was on Interstate 55 going near South County in St.
Louis, Missouri. And we got hit by a semi. And we spun across three lanes of highway. Thankfully, we went towards the median and not off the ravine. But that was pretty scary.
And I was in the front seat. Seatball saved my life. I would have been launched through the windshield. Yeah, and that dude was an American, could speak English and read signs the whole nine. Yeah.
So I don't know. I still think, you know. I i if California's just gonna be handing out licenses to people, then I think we should just be able to give CCLs out to everybody. Give them a concealed handgun license. If that's what California wants to do, then it affects all of us.
They can give out licenses. They don't have any reciprocity with firearm licenses, but they can give out commercial driver's license like the Halloween candy.
So, okay, well, let's just go ahead and give out everybody in California CCL. Two can play that game. Screw the laws. It's just going to be total chaos. Let's do it.
I'm all for it. I'm done. I'm at that point. I mean, for crying out loud, I'm sincerely praying for a space rock to obliterate us.
So, this is nothing to me. Let's just do it. I'm so tired of this. But this is what happens when state, this is why.
Somebody's governor affects you. This is why a gubernatorial race in a state that's not yours affects you. Because they're giving out licenses to illegal drivers who are killing people on highways in your state. An illegal alien driver was driving a giant rig with an illegally begot. See uh his commercial dr C D L that California gave him And a complete conflict with federal law and he killed people in Florida.
You know, you've others killed people in Canada. I mean, come on.
So, if this is why these races are important, even though you don't live in that state, because this type of stuff happens. He doesn't have any room to lecture anybody on this stuff. Not anybody. And it just it's it's pfft It's so frustrating.
So, yeah, why can't we just go and give them what other stuff can they not do out there that we can do? I mean, like, pretty much anything, really.
Okay. Just it it just it's infuriating. But there are these stories all these truckers are saying That You would be shocked. at the number of these drivers, Who? Come across other drivers, and they're like, they're not proficient in English, they can't read our road signs.
They can't, you know, nothing. In fact, One of the largest refrigerated trucking companies told The Washington Times that non-English speaking drivers regularly pull into their warehouses. And they said that they'll pull in, they'll pick something up. There'll be two, three truckers, two drivers in a truck, two or three of them speak no English, not even a word. Maybe one speaks very bad, broken English, and they still don't understand.
They said, so obviously. you can, you know, it's concerning because these they're sharing roads with people. That's, you know, now Lorraine noted too, the DMV was helping the people cheat on their CDL tests. This was a CBS story. This is terrifying.
Why can't they? If you're going to do something helpful in terms of people cheating and skirting the system, do it with taxes for crying out loud. New York prosecutors apparently arrested seven well, they arrested seven people this last time, their earlier sweep, nutted more, because of cheating to acquire these licenses. You have to pass a written test, but what they were doing was selling grades at Garden City DMV in Nassau County. I mean, you could pay up to $3,000 for a woman to take the written test.
and every time she went to take it she would dress as somebody else.
So she'd she even wore a fake mustache. according to the DA in Nassau County. a fake moustache even.
So they're selling it. It's like how they sell DoorDash accounts. You know, you can go online. And there's all kinds of places online where you can buy, like for instance, a DoorDash account.
Somebody's selling it. went and created their account, applied to work for DoorDash, did all this stuff. And Then they sell the account, someone takes the account, they start working for it, and they get the money for it. I stopped using DoorDash because one of the driver's names that I was supposed to have was named Amanda. And she just looked like, you know, regular white chick with brown hair.
And the person who showed up at my door was definitely not a chick. and definitely not little with brown hair. very large person. uh who did not speak in English that and I'm after that I was like I can't uh I don't know who's coming to my house at DoorDash. That's kind of a problem.
And they've been in a lot of trouble for it. They were getting blasted last week online for it. But they sell them. I mean, it's not difficult to find.
So they're selling they're selling people to take driver's licenses tests too.
Now they do that at a lot of these big factories. They have people that they hire that go in and they do an in person interview with a potential employer and then they leave, especially if it's if you're doing a factory job, then they send in a person who's here illegally and they perform that work. You can't do that with C D L's though. This is because you're driving a giant weapon, basically.
Now imagine, I mean what if heaven forbid it's something caustic? You know, what if it's something that you know is it's it's flammable, it's caustic, something? You get someone. That doesn't speak any English. can't read road signs or hell what's worse what if you just have a terrorist do it I mean, if it's that easy to just get anybody and sell results for CDLs.
and just get, you're giving everybody licenses. How is the national security on that front? That becomes a major national security issue. They're going to have to have the Department of Transportation get involved in this. I mean, I know that they're looking at it, but they need to be out front and center on it because this is apparently a growing problem.
Do you want to be on the road driving your little family on the highway with one of these people out there? And then what happens? They hit you, there's not, it's just insane. 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.
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