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. So a guy's son was, gets caught trespassing, right? Why is it always at a Walmart?
I'm not kidding you. Like every time I've got like a trespass story, it's always at Walmart. So Florida Man gets arrested because his son was trespassing at a Walmart. And when the dad showed up, Flager County, he attacked the deputies who contacted him to get his kid. So Flager County Sheriff's Office responded to multiple reports of juveniles causing disturbances in a Walmart. They were all under 16.
They were on bikes at the store yelling, cursing, setting off car alarms. And deputies found the group, recognized the teen's contact with their parents. And one of the parents, this explains why the kid was doing what he was doing. 34-year-old Jonah Harrington from Palm Coast arrived and immediately confronted law enforcement. He gets out, runs up to the deputy and just shoves shoves him. It's all on body cam footage.
And dude, don't you know that he's, if you had to guess, like was he wearing his hat with a straight bell and did you have like a goofy shirt on and you know, look like he got a D bag starter kit? The answer is yes. Yes, he did. Two other deputies tried to detain him and Harrington punched one officer, resisted the efforts of another deputy to secure him in handcuffs. So he then he tried to flee.
He was apprehended after a struggle. And the sheriff said the apple doesn't fall from the tree. You know, we asked these parents to come pick up their kids because they were causing trouble.
But this parent chose to attack our deputies instead. So now you see, right? Doesn't it?
He's right. It does not fall far from the tree. Can you imagine? God help my child if the police called me and they were like, ma'am, you have to come get your child. I would turn into Granny Boots.
Granny Boots would get real quiet. And she'd point to a willow tree that she had in her front yard. You know, we killed this tree.
She had 23 grandkids. We killed this damn tree. We had to go cut a branch off it with a pair of utility scissors.
She would strip the leaves off with her hand and fold it and whoop us with it. I never got a whooping because I was an angel. And I was yep. And I was Granny Boots's favorite.
So but all my other cousins got beat. But that's like the scariest thing ever. I would show up with like a whole thatch of them things. Be like you tell me where my kid is officer I will handle this situation. I'm just saying golly runs up and he's on and you know these places like you can see their body cam their body cameras.
Why would you do that? Got to give that got to give that ribbon to Tim Walz who just started falling all over himself when he was asked, Well, why did you lie about China? I've never heard anyone take so long to say that they didn't lie. Listen to this. So so governor, just to follow up on that. The question was, can you explain the discrepancy? All I said on this was is I got there that summer and misspoke on this. So I will just, that's what I've said. So I was in China during the democracy protests went in.
And from that I learned a lot of what needed to be in in governance. Hmm. I mean, you could have just said that you lied. I mean, they asked him and he's like, Well, it was the best of times it was the worst. Just do just say that you lied. Well, I misspoke.
You lied. And then you know, he told on himself because he was like, you know, and I how did he put it? I quoted it at the time. He had said, at one point, he was like, Yeah, I, you know, I too, you know, sometimes get into I slip into the rhetoric. Well, you just admitted that you lied then at that point.
I mean, that's what in the world is your damage, dude? You just admitted that you lied. That's all I got to do all I got to say. But that was a really that was awkward. That was a very awkward moment for him.
And there were a lot of very awkward moments. Yeah, he's he didn't. He doesn't he didn't have a lot of room last night, except to play that yoke, yoke, yoke on my knucklehead shtick. But then he was like, Well, I get caught up in the rhetoric.
Okay, you just just you lied, you lied. And then he tried to cite scripture, which as you know, if you're familiar with the merchant of Venice, even the devil can quote scripture, but there you go. He's, um, I don't think that he he didn't get angry.
And I was actually kind of anticipating for I was waiting for him to do so. Because from what I know, he's got a short temper. And he just seems like a jack wagon. He's one of those dudes, right?
He just seems like that. But he didn't take the bait. And he was very disciplined in that regard.
So it was JD Vance and JD Vance, you know, stayed on stayed on point. Now I'm going to say something that's unpopular. His answer on guns was horrible. Yes, Waltz was Waltz's answer on guns was bad.
But I wasn't impressed with JD Vance's either. I don't think he's a gun control guy. He's not a gun guy, though. That's evident. And when I say that he's not a gun guy, I mean, he's not a hunter, he probably doesn't shoot regularly. I don't demand that you be a hunter or that you go out and shoot regularly in order for me to like you as a candidate. But I do demand that you agree with me on these issues relating to our enumerated rights.
And I do agree, I do demand that you don't use the language of the left. So here was the question that was asked. And we'll get into all the other stuff.
But this is where I'm going to be I I'm going to call balls and strikes on this stuff. 100 million 83 audio soundbite the one where not where is it Nora is asking the question, Nora O'Donnell. And first off the questions wrong audio soundbite 19 Go ahead and kick this one.
19,000 million 11 deep 40,000 that one. And then when I click on the gate, when that question came in, that should have immediately been established. And it wasn't. Why is that wrong? Here's why.
Here's why that question is a presupposition based on fraudulent, not even evidence just based on lies. First off, it is not the leading cause of death. The only reason the only way that they can make it the leading cause of death is, and this is what the CDC did, they redefined the age of a quote unquote, child to go all the way up till 20. 18 to 20 year olds are now factored into that average. When you remove that age demographic, the 18 to 20 year olds, guess what? That falls down behind car accidents and drownings. Now let's go back to that subset. I've written about this.
It's in one of my books. There's a lot of evidence on this, so I'm not making anything up that's not publicly available on the internet, according to the CDC and the DOJ and the FBI's own criminal statistics. This subset, this age subset, the 18 to 20 year olds, why does it inflate that number so much?
Because it's gang and drug violence, and it completely correlates. When you look at the numbers given by the CDC for 18 and younger, and then you add in the FBI criminal statistics, FBI, the Uniform Crime Reports, when you add in the publicly available crime data it tracks, the CDC inflates that number by including 18 to 20 year olds and defining them as children. That is why they then can say, oh, well, look, it's the leading cause of death for children.
Because they redefined it. Again, when you remove that subset, then 18 and under, it falls behind the child, the leading cause of death falls behind automobiles and drownings. Now, suicides are also factored in there. That is a mental health issue. In fact, suicides comprise one third of that statistic for that subset.
Now, that's a whole other conversation. But the reason it is inflated is to fear monger and scare people into thinking that their children could be statistics. When these incidents, although one is too many, are incredibly rare, and they're always preventable. But we don't talk about the preventable aspects of it, which is one of the things that Vance did touch on. What I didn't like that Vance did, and I was not a fan of his language on this, is he borrowed the language of the left. He used the language of the left in his response on firearms. He said the phrase gun violence epidemic.
And he and Waltz were very nice to each other on this. And he also used the phrase illegal guns. Here's why I have a major problem with this. Again, I don't demand that you be as hardcore about 2A as I am for my support, but you do need to believe that my enumerated right should not be infringed upon. Language like gun violence epidemic, language like illegal guns, those are words of the left. You cannot win a debate on this issue when you are already validating your opponent's points because you're incorporating their rhetoric into your argument.
This is rhetoric 101. For instance, there's no such thing as quote unquote illegal guns. A gun isn't an inanimate object. There is criminal possession, but there isn't an illegal gun. By saying the phrase illegal gun instead of criminal possession, you are ascribing a moral aesthetic to an inanimate object, which is exactly what gun controllers want to do because that continues to validate the anti-gun language, which dictates that inanimate objects somehow possess the ability to influence the carrier of said object towards criminal behavior. A gun itself is not illegal. It cannot be so.
The legality or illegality is determined by the willful way in which a person chooses to use or acquire it per law. And there's no gun violence epidemic. There is, and this is where Vance left a ton of meat on the bone. I don't know how you don't get into Tim Walz's behavior during Minnesota, the riots.
Vance left that meat on the bone. There is, and this is where he could have done it. There isn't a gun violence epidemic. There is an epidemic of lawlessness that is brought on by the sort of restorative justice that's supported by Tim Walz and Kamala Harris. Look at the riots in Minnesota. How many of those people were not even arrested, not even detained? Kamala Harris was promoting their bail fund, the bail fund of people who burned down entire communities, historically black communities, I might add.
You know, the communities that Gwen Walz says she enjoyed smelling burning, and that's why she left her windows open. He left a lot of meat on the bone there. And that was very disappointing. I expect Walz to be anti-gun, but I don't expect my Republican candidate to validate their language by speaking recklessly on it. Because we are in where, I mean, it's a match where you cannot give any kind of ground. And words do matter, folks. Because when it comes to this sort of thing, when it comes to gun law, the words you use invoke different aspects of the law, and with it, different penalties and consequences. And with that, different abridgments of your rights. So you're damn right language is important.
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Gen X, people who are born between 65 and 79. I'm there. I'm there. So stop gatekeeping.
I barely got in, but I'm there. Stop it. It's official.
I just cited this very official news article, Kane. It's America's goofy middle children sandwiched between the boomers and millennials. And Gen X is all individualistic, nonconformist. I mean, you know, we did punk scenes in tech startups so everybody can step off.
It's aloof cool, right? But they're also really self...we're the latchkey kids. According to one marketing study, Gen X went through its all important formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in US history. It was the first generation that experienced both parents working outside the home. So we had to be self-sufficient for survival. That's why we can handle stress.
And in Gen X fashion, we don't like to let people see that we are stressed. That's a huge study and they're totally correct. This is weird. A long lost seafloor discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean could rewrite Earth's history. Are there aliens? Fans have mapped it. They found that it was unusually thicker and cooler than the surrounding areas, which would signal aliens. The ancient seafloor challenges existing theories about Earth's interior structures. Is that where King Kong lives down there? And anyway, it's the Nazca Plate and the East Pacific Rise.
So if that's, you know, your jam, it's kind of interesting. Let's see. Oh, I don't care about this chick who left the Washington Post.
She's literally nobody. Green Day was banned from Las Vegas radio stations because Billy Joe Armstrong is a D-bag. He called the city a poohole. He didn't say it like that, but he did. And he got mad. And I just I just don't know why. I feel like he's got an arrested development because he's like 70,000 years old and he dresses like a 20 year old in 2003. And it's just the height of cringe.
It's the height of cringe. I want to switch gears here. And I want to touch on this very interesting thing that I've been seeing with regard to the the helicopters and the way that they have been like the privately owned choppers and how they've been responding to a lot of this. There was a very interesting piece that I was reading about the U.S. helicopter. I love that we have a helicopter community.
God bless America. I've never I've flown in a chopper. I've never flown a chopper per se.
Kind of now I'm interested in it. But it talks about like, for instance, in North Carolina, they have all of these privately owned choppers that are out there doing these rescue efforts. And it's amazing to see some of this stuff. And they've I mean, the photos and the video air, their airlifting supplies there. It's like the Cajun Navy, but like in the air, Cajun air, right? Cajun air.
That's an air. Wouldn't you fly that airline? I would totally fly that airline instead of peanuts. They give out gumbo or something, dude. Here's your cup of gumbo. Now we ain't giving you no peanuts up in here.
You get a cup of gumbo. Oh, my gosh. Cajun Navy. Come on.
You got it. Y'all gotta make that happen. Cajun air. I would demand to fly Cajun air everywhere.
Oh, there's your slogan, Cajun air air where there it is right there. So they have been going in and around trying to help all these people. And I know that there's also this people were asking about Fort Brat because there's a lot of helicopters at Fort Brat. And these people were asking, well, why are they not getting why are they not getting involved? Are they not getting, you know, power and get out there, get supplies in?
Because a lot of the people have been saying, well, the government aid is nowhere to be found. And they've got video of all of these helicopters that are privately owned, volunteering their time and their fuel. And they're running supplies because the roads are impassable. They're running supplies. They're rescuing people. They're dropping stuff up in the hills. I mean, it is it's just wild. And there was one guy who told who was told by the fire chief, that if he went back and he's a guy who owns a chopper, if he went back, they would arrest him.
He had to leave this dude on the mountain. Why? Okay, I'm real confused about this. Why are people? Why are some of these it seems like some of these private choppers?
Why are some of them being deterred from doing this? Is there I mean, you're in a it's a natural disaster. It's an emergency zone. And people have been you can see how people have been following like flight tracker and all this other stuff. And they can see how many government assets like helicopters, government helicopters are operating with rescues, and they they're able to filter out civilian and passenger aircraft.
And people are wondering, it seems like there's more privately owned than there is government owned. Here's an interview with this guy who was saying that he was told he basically had to stop making these rescue efforts and dropping supplies. Listen to this.
This is wild. How why started helping with coordination, he gave me radio frequencies to coordinate with them on set up a landing area for me to come back with the other victim. And in the middle of the whole conversation, and then blocking the road off, I was greeted by the, at that time, I didn't know but Lake Lure, fire chief or assistant chief, maybe, and he shut down the whole operation. So at that point, there was, I felt like the conversation wasn't going any further. And again, he asked me to leave. And I said, Hey, I have no problem getting out of your area.
If that's what you want us to do, we'll leave no issue. At that point, I asked him, you know, what was the reason I had to leave them there? And he said, again, you're interfering with my operation, I just need you to get out of the area. I said, sir, I don't know where you were trained at, but I know how my training is. And I'm not going to leave personnel behind, I'm going back to get my co pilot.
He said, if you turn around and go back up the mountain, you're going to be arrested. So I'll say this, I get it. If you know, you are, you know, the firefighter EMT, and you've got a rescue plan and resources in place, and you don't want anyone interfering with that. But that's the question, isn't it? Because the assertion is that there wasn't a plan, nor were there resources in place.
Right? That's the whole thing, right? So and this is just one, apparently, one example, because emergency responders are are so overstretched in these areas, it's insane. And I think that you would take that into account and would welcome or try to incorporate as a part of your plan, people who are able to help out who have the ability to get to these areas that are impassable, due to landslides and busted up roads and all this stuff. And I get that, you know, you want to secure an area and you're trying to do it. But again, a lot of these people are a lot of these first responders are totally overstretched.
I understand you don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry coming up and getting involved in all that. But you need people with choppers, because apparently there are not enough. And I think it's, you know, important, especially if part of your plan is making sure that you're rescuing people off the mountain and you don't have the fully available resources to do so. Why would you have people wait up on mountains being stranded for days when you could have like privately owned choppers people and assist those people and organize them and use their resources, use them as assets and have them rescue people so that you're not stretched so thin?
I feel like there's a better way to do this. And the crazy thing is, is that if we had a better I think, I think some of these if we had a better response in some of these areas, I think that this conversation would be what it would be unnecessary. But that's, I mean, the devastation, I mean, I Oh, my gosh, they still don't even really have estimates as to how much and what all is going to be required.
I mean, it's just so they're still just trying to ascertain the level of damage and and save people. And I also think that the other issue with this is, there's not do you feel like there's not enough attention on this from national press? Like they, they talked about it, and now I just feel like it's sort of fallen by the wayside. Am I being too sensitive with that?
No, you're not. I believe that this media has been consistently running cover for the left. And I think this is another example. But do you think that they're not reporting on this as much because it's southeastern states that are mostly affected?
Again, I don't want to sound like I'm trying to cause a problem unnecessarily. But I do have to wonder why the coverage is so completely lopsided. Well, I remember and I put the story in your prep last night that back in Hurricane Katrina, they couldn't immediately get to the area, right. And so when there was a lag in FEMA help and all of that, people were going all over the media and saying how George Bush hated black people and all of this stuff and made it a race issue and the whole nine. So if those rules apply to what we do today and how we respond in the media on this, then yes, it would look like based on the lack of FEMA and obviously the lack of interest that both Kamala and Joe Biden had in this whole tragedy.
Apparently they hate white people and they hate people that vote mostly for Trump. I mean, apparently, Helene is already one of the deadliest, costliest storms to hit the United States. It dumped 40 trillion gallons of rain on the southeastern states, 40 trillion gallons. That's enough to fill Dallas Cowboy Stadium 51,000 times or Lake Tahoe just once.
That's how much. Now, the reason I bring this up is because, and Steve made a good point, Hurricane Cindy got so much coverage, not that it didn't deserve to get a lot of coverage. But you have Katrina, Harvey, Ian, Andrew, and Sandy was listed at number four.
But Helene is right now in the top 10. It's a bad hurricane, and the devastation seems like it's in multiple states and not just really concentrated on a couple. But there does seem to be like there's lopsided coverage because the media is mostly centralized in the northeast, and anything that happens to the media just takes over, you know, the whole day. My gosh, you get a snowstorm and it's just, you know, wall to wall coverage.
And you get major flooding like in Tennessee, and there's like barely a blip. And now the recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene are just starting to slip past and they're rolling off what they call above the fold. So when you get your newspaper and it's folded in half, all the most important stuff is above the fold so that you before you even fold it, unfold it to be the full broadsheet, half broadsheet, then all the most important stuff was there. So above the fold is what they refer to.
That's like the order of importance. It's already fallen below the fold. Now it's going on page 1A, 2A. So this is it's, I don't know, I'm not trying to be overly sensitive, but it feels like, you know, considering some of the devastation, like in North Carolina, I got hit so bad in the landslides are horrific. And they're still trying to find people. There's still tons of people unaccounted, 159 fatalities so far. With ABC had that 20 hours ago, it's probably more now. Florida peanut farmers say this is worse than Adalia. They say that they're dealing with devastating losses with the peanut crop. So it's and they think that the that Helene is going to join the five most damaging. It's technically in the top 10, but it's being estimated that's going to join the five most damaging hurricanes of all time. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lashes absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.
