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So, what are some of the big podcasters talking about? I'm sure they're all over this story, aren't they? Let's play it. Aren't they all over this story? Let's play cut 23.
Let's just see if they're focusing on these very important stories as well. This is cut 23, please. He's very interesting and he's very smart. And on a lot of things, there is value to be derived from that guy's messaging. I'm sorry, but he actually has a lot of.
Things he talks about that you're like, this is not a bad point about our country.
So that is, and I'm friends with both of them, friendly with both of them, Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson. And they're discussing Nick Fuentez. Oh. And that was just yesterday, wasn't it? I mean, that seems like there's a lot of stuff happening that apparently they're not talking about.
That's kind of interesting. What is I'm curious as to what is the value to be derived from Nick Fuentes? What specifically are the points that he's making that are any good. Is it when he talks about How he effed TPUSA and then he gyrated on the camera like he was physically sodomizing it. Is that what he's talking about?
Is that the fair point that he's making? Or is it when he's talking about how much he loves Stalin? and admire Stalin. Is that a fair point? Is that one that people find community with or when he praises Hitler.
And says Hitler was a cool guy. Hitler actually was a weak fag. That's what Hitler was. And he was horrible at strategy, which is why he got his backside handed to him multiple times. And he got fooled by inflatable tanks because of the ghost army.
But whatever.
So Really? We're supposed to find great insight from a gay Nazi twink. Who talks about how much he loves Stalin and only understands just like the top layer? the top foam of history.
Okay, I mean, I guess anybody will do anything for clicks now. Good night. Or, What about, maybe, I don't know, maybe it's later on. Let's be fair. Maybe it's later on in that discussion.
Let's go ahead and play cut 21. Go ahead. And then came Candace Owens. And that she really drives people crazy. She drives them crazy.
They were very angry that I didn't call her out for what she said about Israel possibly being involved with Charlie Kirk.
Well, I didn't call her out because I was totally fine with those questions being raised, and still am. Like, I'm sorry, but I am. I'm sick of this bullshit. I am allowed to have questions about what if anyone aligned with Israel or from Israel. might have had to do with Charlie's death.
That's a fake out. No one's questioning anybody's speech. They're questioning the logic behind it. And A failure to be able to logically defend the motive. That's not anyone calling anybody out for using their free speech.
They're just pointing out that it seems silly and anti-Semitic for the sake of anti-Semitism. She wasn't questioning either. She was just making declarations that were crazy, kooky, and were completely and utterly debunked. Like, I mean, do we want to talk about all the plane stuff because she apparently couldn't even read flight paths? I mean, it's kind of embarrassing.
And that's probably why nobody's listening to her podcast anymore. People listen to it a lot in the beginning, Candace Owens' stuff, because it's like, you know, you drive slowly past a car wreck, or for the same reason, people watch the wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia. You were just wondering how far this nuttiness is going to go. But then, you know, after a while, especially when you fail to deliver receipts, that interest wanes. And criticizing that is not the same thing as criticizing someone's speech on it.
And pointing out that someone doesn't. doesn't I mean regularly Call out and isn't consistent in this. And I think that's the big thing. I don't understand why people go after, for instance, Ted Cruz if they don't like something that he says while proclaiming no enemies on the right, and that's okay, but criticizing someone like Owens or Fruentez is apparently that's not allowed to happen. Because that's the gatekeeping that's happening.
You're being told that you're not allowed to criticize the backwood single-cell, almost incestual product of thinking that is demonstrated by Owens and Fuentes on their podcast. You're not allowed to criticize that. And if you criticize the people that platform it or that Air it, and they don't even do their due diligence of asking tough questions about it. You're accused of trying to cancel that individual or control their speech. People are just simply, we're just simply pointing out the inconsistency.
And the hypocrisy of criticizing some and not criticizing everyone, or pretending that you're a hardass and that you ask tough questions. But then when you have someone that called your friend's wife a jeet and you don't even ask them about that, That seems like that's cowardice. That's not journalism. That's being a female copulatory organ. That is being afraid that you're going to lose clicks from that audience, and you're being too, you're being a digital prostitute, and you're too afraid of losing that digital share, that slice of the pie for audience.
People are talking about the inconsistency, and it is. Uh I find it to be an obscenely intellectual dodge. To complain that somehow asking for consistency is the same thing as trying to cancel someone. I mean, people need to stop flattering themselves. No one is calling to cancel anyone.
They're simply remarking accurately on the inconsistency and not asking hard questions of everybody. I feel like that, that's pretty safe. I mean, I don't have to depend on anybody. I don't have to depend on Qatari investors. I don't have to depend on, you know, business partners or anybody else in order to make my bottom line.
And I would never debase myself by trying to pander to the audience of a Nazi twink in order to make my daily bread so I don't have to play those reindeer games, so to speak.
So I just think it's just completely unfair to present. A refusal Of consistent practice as it pertains to hard questioning as being canceling. It's not. It's not that at all. People should know better.
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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right, so we're still talking about 3i Atlas. It's uh close, it's uh approaching the sun. A new image now shows that it's glowing green. It's glowing?
Green. Oh, God. Uh It's uh glowing green. I'm just saying I You know what? Maybe it was, maybe it is like an alien space turd, and they got close to us and then they saw how, you know, we were so idiotic.
And they're like, nope, this, no, they're doomed. I wouldn't stop by either, let me be honest with you. Let's see here. I think I did the wrong headlines that segment. Did I do the wrong headlines that segment?
I think I did. Hold up. Let me go back to my correct ones. Apologies.
So. Apparently, US population growth is projected to slow further than it has already slowed. They said the population is forecast to start shrinking after 2056.
So I want all the people that I like to have more kids and all the people who think things like driving into ice agents is okay to not have kids. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm totally fine with that. I'm totally fine with those with that kind of a setup. But yeah, we need to not, and you know what?
The answer to this isn't to pay people to have kids because that's welfare. And we already have that for these quote-unquote bush league compassionate conservatives that we have in the Republican Party already. It's actually to make it economically better in the United States so that you don't desperately have to have two full-time incomes in order to support just a normal-sized American family so that people can afford everyday basic things and go on vacation every summer, things like that, right? You don't pay people to have kids. You make the economy better for everybody.
That's how you do it. That's the way to approach this. Also, let's see here. The I got a couple of other things. Uh, a woman received a letter in the mail 72 years after it was sent.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, 72 years after it was sent, she finally got it. That sounds like how mail works here in Texas because I just got a Christmas card that a member of my family sent like weeks ago. Not kidding. Listen to this.
This doesn't help. This is cut seven. Governor Tim Walls, who, by the way, is trying to save his fat ass. Because he's implicated in this fraud. You know how many people are implicated in this fraud?
Before I play this real quickly, I want you to realize this is what this is a distraction for. It is a distraction for the insane amount of fraud. Do you know that the Attorney General Keith Ellison, this is from the Wall Street Journal, I said this yesterday, A.G. Keith Ellison. his councilman's son, his Nepo baby, the Mayor, Jacob Frye, Illino Mar, and others, directly received cash from the Somali fraudsters.
Their cut came out of the $250 million scheme. of quote unquote feeding our future. Each one of these lawmakers personally met with the fraudsters. They did events with them, they dined with them. They knew them personally.
So, this is one of the reasons why they're clinging to this so hard as a tool of distraction.
Now cut to Tim Walls. This is cut seven. This kind of language doesn't help. Listen.
Well, I said this yesterday. We've never been at war with our federal government. I think in this case, the National Guard is their main mission. They have a dual mission. Yeah.
You're not at war with your federal government. Although you're not at war with the federal government, they want to be. They desperately want to be. They need this. No one loves violence more than the left.
No one loves it more than the left.
So I don't know. I just, someone said, well, you know what, this woman, give her the Ashley Babbitt treatment. Fuck. Just saying. Ashley Babbitt, though, wasn't armed.
I mean, it's horrible. This is, you know, that's what Tim Wall says. I'm going to counter contrast him. with Tom Homan. This is cut 33.
You want to hear a voice of reason? Listen to this. This is cut 33. I think the city of Minneapolis is on edge. I think the country is on edge right now.
You say the investigation is ongoing. Investigation just started. Just started. You say you can't comment on the video, which many Americans are seeing and reacting to. I'm not going to make a judgment call on one video when there's 100 videos out there.
I wasn't on the scene. I'm not an officer that may have body cam video. I'd I'd I'd be It'd be unprofessional to comment on what I think happened in that situation. Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation. There you go, right there.
What can be said? I'm fine with it being investigated. I have no problem with that. Yeah, that's common sense. Me looking at it right now, unless there is something else to be seen, I mean, this is entirely justified.
This is self-defense. There's no other way that it plays out.
Well, he shouldn't have been standing in front of a car. She shouldn't have been blocking in ICE agents, you dumbasses. What are you talking about? Shouldn't have been. She was the one blocking in ICE agents.
Do people not understand this? What is there that what I don't get it? What is there that you don't understand about this? She was blocking in ICE agents with her car. This is not hard.
And then you have people like AOC doing everything that they can to incite this. This is cut 10. What we saw today was a criminal attack. a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life. And I think what we saw today was a manifestation of every American force now, which is their government turning into a terrorist.
Do you believe you should be arrested, the officer involved? I think what we saw was murder today and I think that we of course. You said that she was fleeing for her life. Do you know, like, do you know that, that she was fleeing? I think we saw this vehicle.
And listen. She wasn't fleeing. She blocked them in. No, she doesn't. They say this.
They pay lip service. Oh, we should have an investigation. They don't mean that the way Tom Homan means it. They don't really care. They don't care.
She wasn't murdered. She was trying to flee and escape for her life. She blocked them in. She was the one who, according to witnesses, was stalking them all day. All day.
If you would like the receipts on that, this is why you need to sign up for my newsletter at Substack because those people got that this morning. All day. So The lead car. Blocking them in, and then the moment they're going to arrest her, she decides to run them over. Entirely justifiable.
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So, as you know, yesterday members of Congress began the hearings questioning Minnesota lawmakers about the massive fraud, billions and billions of dollars. And even though I think he's a millennial, I think we need to claim him for Gen X. Congressman Brandon Gill. from Texas. simply because of the way he questions people.
It's just so. reality bites. I don't know how, right? It has that whole aesthetic to it, which makes it comical.
So this is Representative Gill grilling these lawmakers and they're trying to con they're trying to push back with a lame semantics argument that he's not having. Watch this. Yes, you does. Large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker. Certainly stronger.
Certainly stronger. Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps? Yeah. 54%. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
Well, to be clear, a majority of those. It's 7%. There's a big difference between 54% and 7%, is there not? Excuse me, sir. Could I answer the question?
Let me move on. We've got a lot of questions here. What percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid? I don't know. It's 73%.
Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households? Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households, but the majority of the people. The number is 18%. That's quite an astounding difference. I think we would.
Can I answer the question, please? Let me ask you one more and then we can go onto that. What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general? I don't know. It's 81%.
What about? Let me just ask you: after 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare? I don't know. Mm-hmm. The number is 78%.
So even after 10 years, 78% of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare. Do you know what that number is for? Native Minnesota-headed households. Again, you're using phrases. Non-Somali immigrant-headed households.
If I can just answer the question, you're using the phrase native Minnesotans. The majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us. They were born in the United States. It's only 8,000. of the 108,000 in the mall.
Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different. Let me ask you again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker? Again, I'd like the opportunity to answer the question here.
So again, the majority of Somali Minnesotans are born in the United States. As I understand it, what percentage of working-age Somalians who have been in the U.S. for 10 years or more 10 years or more. How many of them speak English very well? I don't know.
About half. Oh my gosh. The answer is about half. That seems pretty low, doesn't it? Again, I keep trying to do that.
It doesn't sound like something that makes our country stronger to me, and I think most Americans would agree with me on that. The guy keeps trying to do the semantic.
Well, when you say native-born, I mean some of them were born here.
Okay, but why can't they speak English then? Why is it that the majority are on welfare? I mean, that's the point that the guy, and Congressman Gill is not allowing this guy. And this guy, by the way, was a former DOJ prosecutor under Biden Harris, and he also worked with DOJ under Obama Biden, and he's in Minnesota. He was trying every which way that he could, and he actually ended up making it worse for himself.
Because he's like, well, we're talking about people born here.
Well, that makes it even worse that if they've been born here, if they were born here, or if they've been here for over a decade and they're still on welfare. to that extent, or they still can't speak English. to that extent i can't imagine i cannot imagine going to another country And demanding to be taken care of, refusing the language, rejecting the culture, and demanding to be on government assistance. I I can't even imagine that. That is just.
Heinous, that's so awful.
So that was excellent line of questioning. I don't even know why the guy should have just sat there and said, hit me. That's what he should have done. 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 podcast.
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