Dan Bongino
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
All right, today's going to be like drinking from a fire hose a little bit, so I need everybody to kind of zone in with me. There's a lot going on. We got the CR. We got Speaker Johnson, I think, unfortunately, folding on some stuff. Some updates on the Trump transition. Everything I told you was right. Everybody's panicking. Oh, my God. Not you guys, but the goofballs in the swamp.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It's hard to criticize my brothers. When they do something wrong, I've got to do it, but it's hard. Donald Trump gets this better than anyone. It is amazing to me. I mean, like, really stunning and astonishing. being privileged to be in this space. And I do mean that, not in a woke way. It is a privilege and a God-given honor to have an audience like you guys.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
We're not even 20 minutes in, we got 120,000 and I'm pre-holiday week. I freaking love you guys so much. It is a great honor. But I'm going to tell you something. It is really shocking to me in this position. I deal with a lot of politicians and a lot of people who cares, like I said, name droppings for dipshits. How many politicians do not get this?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They cannot figure out how to be even remotely likable. 90% of them, if not more, are total assholes with huge egos. There's one in particular. I'm not going to say it because it's not important. It's a spreadsheet thing, and it doesn't matter if you like him. I'm just telling you, I did a lot of work for this guy. And the guy could not be like, oh my, oh, it's so frustrating.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'll give you a quick story about Donald Trump to show you this is true. There's a, let's just say a good friend. And a friend calls me and is asking me about some advice about something that Donald Trump's got to make a decision on. And I said to the friend, I said, you need to call him. And the friend was like, no way. Call the president-elect? That's insane. Like, he'll never answer.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I said, some of you know this story. I said, trust me. Call him, and I promise you, he will pick up. And if he doesn't, he'll call you back either in an hour, two hours, or the next day. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Judge Bongino was right. Sure enough, this friend calls, picks up the phone. Friend calls me back 20 minutes later. I can't believe it. Picked up the phone and he was so nice. I told you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
You want to know how Donald Trump got this whole pocket of influencers? Because he was a really good guy with a good agenda and he understood personal politics, period. All right, I got to get to some bad news next. We talked about some good stuff, the transition, the art of personal politics, how this stuff works, makes it difficult to criticize people if they like you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He also sends you tweets signed, like he prints them out. Thank you for that. It's the kind of guy he is. This freaking CR, this budget they are proposing, is the biggest double-barreled middle finger the conservatives I've seen in a long time. I am not into Republican-on-Republican political violence. However, Speaker Johnson, we're back to the spreadsheet here. This is not even a minus one.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
This CR is a minus 100. This is really bad, and if you let this thing go through, there are going to be a lot of upset people. Your political bank account is going to be drained. Capital I'm talking about. Political capital bank. And please, this is a mess. I'll just give you a couple lowlights and a couple congressmen who've been speaking out about this thing because this thing is a horror show.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
On the spreadsheet front, where we think about politicians as spreadsheets, what the is this bill? It is an absolute train wreck. We've got Doge coming up. This would basically fund the government through March 14th into next year. Obviously, the bill is a complete abomination and a train wreck. There are no highlights. There are a ton of lowlights. I picked out two.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I mean, obviously, in addition to the massive amount of spending, there are no government cuts in this thing at all. Why we would pass this thing, I have absolutely no idea. Shut it down if you have to. There is no way we should fund this thing. Gabe Kaminsky points out in his tweet, at the funding bill, includes a one-year extension on the State Department's Global Engagement Center.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Global Engagement Center, you may be saying, what the hell is that? Well, what has two thumbs and going to explain it to you? This cat right here. The Global Engagement Center was basically the censorship branch of the State Department. Why would we fund that into next year? I don't know, because you didn't read the bill. I have no idea. Kaminsky's got the section of it right there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Title III, foreign affairs, global engagement center extension. This thing needs to be abolished immediately. You like being censored? You hearing all these stories now? Facebook and Google are all showing up at Mar-a-Lago. Let me just say to the Trump transition team, listen, man, I'm your friend.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I think you know that, but I'm also a realist, and I'm a pretty good guy for advice, and the Bongino Army was there for you. Now you got to be there for us. Unless you can get a commitment from these guys to cut the bullshit, they should not be welcome at Mar-a-Lago. Facebook is still censoring. Google is still censoring. It's all bullshit. They're just afraid of regulation.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I saw Cernovich put something out this morning with some names of people who he says were censored. I'm not sure if they were or weren't. I can tell you our Facebook page got crushed. I don't whine about it, but ladies and gentlemen, you can tell by the money. You can tell by the money. When your Facebook page reaches a lot of people, it makes a lot of money from ad revenue.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Ours has been sliced in half. I don't give a shit about the money. That's not the point. The point is the reach of my page has been crushed by Facebook. We were the number one conservative Facebook page in the world. They annihilated us. This is bullshit. Now we're funding the Global Engagement Center? What the hell are we doing? Whose dumbass idea was that?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I thought we were, President Trump just won a massive mandate. It's his party now. 90 plus percent of Republicans approve of what's happening in this transition. And we're funding this shit, Bill? Here's a guy I'm really starting to like, this Congressman Burleson. He was on Newsmax. He was pushing back against this absolute shit CR. Speaker Johnson, again, this is just a spreadsheet for me.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'm not your enemy, okay? But I am the enemy of bad shit. This is really, really stupid. There's also, by the way, a carve-out for Obamacare in there because Obamacare sucks so bad. Members of Congress don't want to be in it, so they get to pull themselves out of Obamacare. I thought Obamacare was great. Not for members of Congress. Here's Burleson saying, hey, we just won.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Don't we have a mandate? Why are we pushing through this shit bill? Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Producer Jim just noted, too, Congress gave themselves a raise in this. I'm not interested in giving these guys and women a raise. Why would we give them a raise? A raise for what? Like, well, we got to make the job more attractive. Really, you got to make the job more attractive? Thousands of people run for Congress every year so they can have people kiss their ass all day with lobbyists.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I think they'll be fine. Burleson's right. Why are we catering? I get what you're afraid of. They're afraid of after the Trump election, what they've been afraid of for the last 20 years. You guys in the chat know what it is. They're afraid of the media is going to say we shut the government down. The media is going to say we're starving grandma. Folks, the media is going to say that anyway.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
We're the ones typically with our fingers on the pulse because we do a lot of research as to what the left is saying. I got a clip of a MSNBC reporter coming up next. But they'll never, ever... pay attention to what we're doing without seeing us through some bizarre lens. Long and short of it is we're always ahead of the news cycle. I told you this Trump transition is going amazingly.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It doesn't matter. Nobody listens to these idiots. Only 30% of America, according to that Gallup poll or whatever it was, trust the media. It doesn't matter. We're the media now. We should not be, I get you're not going to get everything you want right now. I understand that. Trump has not been sworn in yet. The new Congress isn't there yet. We still don't have the Senate. I get it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
But my gosh, at least put up a fight against this. Are we serious about preventing this inevitable bankruptcy of the United States of America or not? Here's Chip Roy, one of the few consistent voices on cutting government spending, saying exactly right. Folks, we are going to have to be honest with the American people about our natural trajectory towards a bankruptcy cliff.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
There is a lot of stuff that's going to have to go. Government goodies are not government goodies. There's money stolen from you by the government and given to other people. Here's Chip Roy calling them out, saying, hey, man, this is all bullshit. They're all just pretending. These people don't want to cut spending. Listen to this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Listen to me. Bongino Army, friends, friends, colleagues, some of you watch my show. We just had a massive seismic shift election, a landslide by any objective measure considering the political political winds of the time. Donald Trump won because of two or three big issues. The border, inflation, probably public safety, and a couple of other things you can throw in there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
But there's zero question, based on exit polling, that inflation had a ton to do with it. People said, I don't want inflation. I want Donald Trump back when inflation was under 2%. What causes inflation? Anyone know in the chat? It's not hard. Government prints money to make up for the shortfall it doesn't have. When it prints money, it goes into the economy and drives up prices. This isn't hard.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
If you helicopter drop a bunch of money on an island that only has $100 and you drop $1,000, everything's going to cost more because there's now $1,100 chasing the products on the island. This isn't difficult.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
We have to start making the case in these like Ross Perot, like half an hour commercials on TV to America, how the government taking your money, spending it and then printing more when it doesn't have enough money to take from you is causing the inflation crisis. And it's going to have to stop. This isn't a hard argument to make. They just don't want to do it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They have learned a lot of lessons from last time. There are two big takeaways from this transition I want you to just really kind of tattoo on your brain that are different than 2016. Two. You ready? Number one, which I mentioned before, but I'll mention again because it's important on how to analyze this whole situation. and how to learn from politics.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
No more spending more than we take in. It's going to take time, but we've got to start somewhere. Every single freaking bill, omnibus, CRs, budget bills, every single department bill. Oh, you know what? We'll kick the can down the road. We'll get them next time. We won't get them next time. We're going to do it this time. Let me take a quick break. I've got a conspiracy theory update.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Our batting average, fellas, 1,000 is correct still. I told you. Media people, every single time they call something a conspiracy theory, go out and bet on one of those betting sites on it. You'll make yourself millions.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
New York Times. Remember when the New York Times told us the Colorado, Aurora, Colorado gang takeover story? That is a false story. They didn't say that. Put it up on the screen, kids. How the false story of a gang takeover in Colorado reached Donald Trump. Holy shit. Can you guys get a freaking story right ever? Jonathan Weissman at the New York Times, Stuart Thompson, anyone?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Stuart Thompson says we live in an alternate reality bubble. Dumbass Stuart, have you ever, ever put a reflective object in front of you and said, man, maybe we live in an alternate reality? How the false story of a gang takeover in Colorado reached Trump?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Fox News from yesterday about the gang takeover in Aurora, Colorado, which, by the way, a police supervisor came out today and is absolutely sure this is gang-related. Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Can someone send that story, please? Bongino Army members, I have a task for you, please. It's not an order. I don't give orders. A request. Can you please send this link over to Stuart Thompson to the show and ask him to explain the alternate reality the New York Times lives in? They can never, ever get a story right. I have never seen an outlet claiming to be full of journalists.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Donald Trump announces that Mike Flynn, General Mike Flynn, is going to be his national security advisor. The Obama deep staters and others were terrified because Mike Flynn knew about what was going on with the Iran deal. You can look all of this up. It's in some of my books. If you feel like you get them from the library, so I'm not trying to sell you a book. You get the point.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
That is so stupid. Everything they tell you is bullshit. Do you understand this? Everything they tell you is bullshit. Here's another one. Remember when we were told Joe Biden has nothing to do with these weaponized government prosecutions of Donald Trump? That's a conspiracy theory. You guys are making this up. Joe Biden's an innocent victim. He said he was hands-off on all of this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Batting average 1,000, conspiracy theory update, nothing. Now, breaking news, we find out that the Fannie Willis, Nathan Wade, Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump, that there were meetings at the White House. I thought we were told that was a conspiracy theory. Amazing how these conspiracy theories just keep piling up and turned out to be not conspiracy theories, but conspiracy facts. Take a look.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Folks, watch. Smooth. We make contact every time. Every time. Bunts, home runs, triples, doubles. We told you. Why did we tell you that was happening? Because a bunch of conservative sleuths on Twitter, X and True Social, putting out there there was a substantial body of evidence that there were visits between the White House and the Georgia prosecution.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
But of course, the Stuart Thompson New York Times told you probably that was a conspiracy theory, too, because that's the best they can do. And yet another conspiracy theory update. I don't know if you guys remember this story, but this is a story sensitive in my heart that got a lot of your attention when I initially reported it. You remember this goofball Cassidy Hutchinson?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
If you don't remember who she is, she used to work in the Trump White House. So the January 6th sham Hollywood produced movies going on with Benny Thompson crying Adam Kinzinger and these other losers, Liz Cheney and others. And this crazy story comes out from Cassidy Hutchinson claiming that
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
that Donald Trump tried to commandeer the presidential limo and did like some jujitsu move on the limo driver on January 6th because they wouldn't take him to the Capitol. Now, I should have done this, guys. I should have had you guys pull this. I don't know if you remember the segment I did on this, but she's saying she heard this story
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
from a Secret Service agent detailed to the White House who told her this story and that the time, the guy who was the agent in charge of Trump's detail, and the names are important here, the agent in charge of detail was Bob Engel. The agent in the White House that the allegations where the story flowed to was a guy by the name of Tony Ornato, okay?
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
However, scandalous what happened with Mike Flynn. The media and the deep state wanted nothing more than to get rid of Mike Flynn. Mike Flynn wrote this manifesto about how the intelligence community was failing and failing America. And the intelligence community shit themselves, folks, how to get the wipeys out. They were like, this guy's going to be the national security advisor.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Ladies and gentlemen, I know both of these guys for a long time. One was a White Plains guy when I was in New York. We worked together all the time. We worked together on the detail. The other guy was also up in that New York area, a New York-type agent, worked with him forever. I've known these guys forever. I also know people that know these guys. What are you looking at? What's wrong?
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He's, like, staring at me all weird. He's doing some, like, Jedi mind trick on me. The guy in the limo was Bobby Engel. If there was an attack on the driver by Donald Trump doing some jujitsu move and some kind of triangle choke or rear naked choke on the driver, Bobby Engel would have seen it. Numerous sources told me this story is bullshit. Donald Trump never attacked the driver.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
There was never an argument about going up to Capitol Hill on January 6th. This is totally made up. Again, Stuart Thompson's alternate reality. Reality was this show. The alternate reality were those assholes. You're at least two years ahead of this story. I told you it was bullshit.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Now we find out that Cassidy Hutchinson and Liz Cheney may have been engaged in a back and forth kind of collusion thing here. And that may be the genesis of this fake UFC fight limo story. Here's John Solomon on this exact thing. And let me tell you something. Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson could find themselves in a lot of trouble if the Department of Justice wants to look into this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
This could be witness tampering. Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Folks, if you're bored, only if you're bored, go back and listen to my interview with President Trump that I did, what, about a week before the election up in New York. I went up to Trump Tower. We cover this at the end. And Donald Trump laughed at this story. And do you remember what he said? You folks in the chat, you listen. You remember what he said?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They're going to start turning over rocks everywhere. We're screwed. So what happened was they squeezed the Trump team and someone gave Donald Trump bad advice and they got rid of him. That started the whole, I'm telling you the whole Russia thing started after that because it reminds me of the Jerry Maguire line. Jerry, do you know bees and dogs can smell fear?
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Trump said, I should have told you the story was true. Makes me look like a badass. I took out two highly trained Secret Service agents in the front seat with some jujitsu move and commandeered a limo. Like, damn, that's pretty badass for a guy who's not young. He's not in his 40s. He's not in his 30s anymore. The story was bullshit. I know all these guys. I know all the players. It didn't happen.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Post-millennial. The House report that came out about this yesterday, by the way, that's where all this is coming from, recommends the FBI investigate Liz Cheney over alleged witness tampering. Yes. More, more, Kylo freaking Ren style. More. Liz Cheney, ladies and gentlemen, I have zero doubt, knew this story was suspect at best.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Now do you see why this January 6th committee deleted, what is it, a terabyte of data? What was in that data? Was there some back and forth over the veracity of this story? Like, hey, man, I'm not sure this Cassidy Hutchinson story is the most reliable thing. And they ran with it anyway? You want to see why they're afraid of Kash Patel?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Listen to this, but I want you to pay very close attention to the end. This was recorded a while ago. Cash knows this January 6th committee knows about the pipe bomb. They probably know the identity of the person. They know about the feds in the crowd. And they know about all the lying that went on about the national security, the UFC fight in a limo, all of it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
And magically, a terabyte of data disappeared. Listen to the end of this. It's really important. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
All that stuff. Terabytes of information, ladies and gentlemen. classified, gone, disappeared. You see why they're so afraid of Kash Patel? You see why my golden rule of policy and appointments matters always gauge the effectiveness of a policy or an appointment or some judge selection or FBI director by the reaction of your political enemies? If they freak out, it's for a reason.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It's not an accident, man. That's why they don't want him in there. They don't want him looking into this. I'm not letting any of this go, folks. We are the media now. The identity of the pipe bomber on January 6th is going to shock your soul. Maybe not the name, but who the person was and was working with. The extent of federal involvement in the insurrection is going to shock you to your core.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I don't think bees and dogs can smell, maybe dogs can. But I'm telling you, once they smelled fear inside the Trump team, it never stopped. Lesson number one, they learn from that. They're giving the double-barreled middle finger. You've got Tulsi up there today, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK. Matt Gaetz pulled his own name out. You've got Pete Hegseth. They are plowing ahead.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It's the biggest scandal of our time. Stuart Thompson and the dumbass New York Times will continue to be five, six years behind these stories because they're only interested in covering them up. I'm not letting any of this go. On a bit of a lighter note, we're the media now. I want to play this clip of Van Jones. Van Jones, a devout leftist. Once in a while, he'll say something that
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
make some modicum of sense, but I don't, you know, whatever. I don't even care. But I do care about this. Because I'll bet, and I don't want to say this in a, I don't mean this in any kind of a nasty tone, but folks, the media environment is changing. You need to understand these terms. If you don't, you're going to be left behind. Live streaming, VOD, OTT, over-the-top, cable broadcast.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They're not all the same thing. This isn't a whole media lesson today, but these younger kids, anyone basically 25 years or younger, Justin, tell me if I'm crazy. You're the only one. Well, maybe not. But you're the one who fits that criteria best right now. They're not watching cable news anymore, folks. They're just not. Justin said correct if you didn't hear him. They're not watching it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They're watching YouTube. They're watching Twitch. They're watching Rumble. They're watching X. They're on Snapchat. They're watching TikTok and a lot of it. You can watch a whole movie on TikTok in three-minute clips. I'm serious. You can watch Moneyball, the whole movie. It's in clips, but you just keep scrolling. And it'll go to the next one and the next one and the next one.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It's the most amazing thing. Live streaming is what you are watching right now. Well, I shouldn't say that. You may be VOD too in an hour. If you are watching at 1149 and 19 seconds Eastern time right now, you are watching a live stream. It is a live broadcast over the internet. It's not on a cable channel. It's not on a broadcast channel, okay? That's what a live stream is.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
The football stadium? We have 141,600 people here at noon, right before noon, watching this show. You can't ignore this audience. Van Jones and the Democrats didn't know anything about it. They don't know the other names in this either. Here, watch this. We are sneaking up on these guys. They are still stuck in yesterday's technology. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Oh, Trump is appointing controversial picks. Really? We were right again. I got that. An update on the CR. And a piece of video by a liberal MSNBC fake news journalist. But it really kind of nails Donald Trump. I know that sounds crazy. Stay tuned. You'll see what I mean. It's an important piece of video. Try Beam's Dream Powder. Get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bongino.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'm going to show you the receipts, too, coming up. Donald Trump's like, we're not pulling our guys out. You want to toy with us on the swampy Republican side? We'll primary your ass. The second lesson. is they let the media now discredit themselves. Instead of responding to every single thing the media does, Trump is letting the media discredit themselves.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Yes, sir, he did. You caught that, right? Van Jones and the Democrats know so little about how to get a message out on the left, and I applaud him for at least acknowledging it. He's not hiding it. That they called Kai Sinat Kai-sent. If you don't know Kai Sanat, you know nothing about live streaming. Now, you may say, well, Kai Sanat is basically an influencer out there. He has a show.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
It's ridiculously popular. He's one of the few guys... who will beat us on a live stream. We were number one last night and the night before. We had beat Kai. Kai will beat us a lot, though. Who's Kai Sanat? He is a really funny kid who has a show, young man, and he gets millions of people watching that thing and hundreds of thousands on live stream.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
If you don't know that, get the hell out of politics. I'm sorry. He has an audience and you don't. And it's not Kai Senth. It's Kai Sanat. Who's Aiden Ross? Same thing. A massive young influencer with a huge audience. If you don't know who he is, get out of politics. There's something significant about Aiden Ross. What's significant? Donald Trump did his show, what, a month before the election?
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
And 500,000 streamers tuned in. I think it was like the third or fourth biggest live stream of the entire year. That's who Aiden Ross is. They don't even know who he is. Jinxy, these are all gamers. Then I love the, he doesn't even know the platforms. Kick, you don't know what Kick is? Twitch, Rumble, you've never heard of Rumble.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
The biggest live streamer in the world and three of the top 10 are on Rumble. Bannon, Crowder, and me. If you don't know anything about Rumble, get the hell out of politics. We have blindsided these people on technology and Donald Trump gets it. The left is totally behind.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They really believe people like Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and Stuart Thompson at the New York Times are controlling the dialogue. Why would you believe that? You keep getting your ass kicked on messages, on political national elections. The entire political climate of the country is changing because you don't understand how to get a message out. They still believe in stuff like this.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
You got that Rachel Maddow clip. Hot tip, the great Maze Moore. A great follow on X. M-A-Z-E-M-O-R-E. A really great account. Here's Maze Moore. Here's Rachel Maddow. They believe this shit. Here she is. You're going to hear her in 2016 touting a fake news poll out of South Carolina before they got their ass kicked in that election.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Then you're going to hear her in 2024 touting another fake news poll out of Iowa. You want to know why the left believes shit like this? Because they don't know who Kai Sanat, Aiden Ross, and Jinxie are. That's why. They have no idea what's coming in this new era of media consumption. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He figured out that, yes, it is worth taking him on. But it's not worth taking him on on every issue. Why? Because the Bongino Army's here for that. Everyone in the chat, raise your hand, put a big hand waver in the chat. That's what we're here for. He doesn't need to take on every fight. Let them discredit themselves. He does not need to be knee deep in every single thing.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Why would you believe stupid shit like that? Because you're consuming yesterday's media that only has a small sliver of America as a dedicated eyeball audience. The rest of America are elsewhere. They're on Rumble. They're on Twitch. They're on YouTube. They're on Truth. I don't know what to tell you guys.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'm not trying to coach you on how to be better, but you can continue to shit on Rumble all you want. The bottom line is we're winning and you're losing. Even Van Jones' kid is watching. You think it's an accident that now close to 142,000 people are here? Ladies and gentlemen, it's freaking lunchtime. We're not even on in primetime. You may say, oh, 142,000 people.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Dan, CNN will get 800,000 a night. You ever see our VOD numbers, video on demand? In other words, people who watch a show after it's live, they're over a million every single night. That doesn't even count Apple and Spotify. And it's not just us. We're the media now. Here's a great clip by Michael Schellenberger. People are catching on. That nobody believes these people anymore.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Talking about this drone story and why nobody trusts the government anymore or the Rachel Maddows of the world. Because they constantly lie about everything. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Folks, we're the media now. By the way, I haven't covered the drone thing that much in the last couple days because I don't want to saturate you. There's a lot going on. The CR, the transition, there's bigger stories. However, you may not trust Mike McFaul. He's a Republican congressman. You may or may not. But I'll play the clip for you tomorrow.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He does have some inside information and seems to indicate that these are in fact drones. Some of them, some, just like I told you that are from China, foreign adversary. You don't have to believe him. You don't have to believe me.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'm just saying the overwhelming amount of evidence points in that direction that at least some of these things that are still unexplained are being left unexplained for a reason because the government doesn't want to tell you how shitty of a job they're doing protecting our airspace. Hey, man, listen, I can't thank you enough for your support of Rumble.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Like I said, when even Van Jones' kid is watching Rumble, it's pretty crazy. Like, I'm pretty floored that this platform's exploded. Please help us out. Join Rumble. Download the Rumble app. It is free. Give us a follow while you're there. Look up the Dan Bongino Show. You can also just watch it on desktop at rumble.com slash bongino. And please help us out on Apple Podcasts and Spotify as well.
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Give us a follow on those platforms at danbonginoshow.com. See you here on the radio show in a few minutes and back here live tomorrow at 11 a.m. See you then.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They learned that lesson. And I'm telling you, this transition has just been different. They have effectively learned to manage political capital. Hey, I need you guys to bust up the chat for me right now, too. We had a little Safari issue yesterday with the chat. Everybody put something in the chat right now. Just have Chris from Rumbles watching. Everybody wave to Chris.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Fire it up! Fire it up! I'm sorry to keep asking this, but you guys, Rumble's for everyone. We want to make sure it works great, and the Rumble team cares so much, even if there's a little glitch. The Rumble team learns, too, so unintended segue. We learn from all our little mistakes here and there. Man, that chat is really firing now.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Gosh, if you guys are missing this every day at 11 a.m., join in. There's not a chat like this anywhere on the internet. Anywhere. Period. We're in charge. We can dissect the media stuff. They don't need to fight every fight. This transition has run so smoothly right now. Even Jerry Baker at the Wall Street Journal, who let me say in advance, I like his work. He's not a Trump guy. I will...
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Pursue a broad spectrum of opinions trying to put my show together. We don't have to agree on everything. Jerry Baker, the journal, is not a Trump guy. But this article is worth your time. Trump is back, this time without disdain. As his domestic critics have gotten in line, so the world has saluted his restoration, if reluctantly.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He's basically acknowledging in the piece that this is totally different this time. That Trump is coming into office with a massive amount of political power we haven't seen since 2004. We just haven't. And Trump knows how to use it this time. So I gave you my two takeaways. Flynn and they're letting the media discredit themselves without jumping in on every single thing.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
They're learning to be more tactical. And Republicans are responding positively. Ladies and gentlemen, it's why I titled the show this day. This is Trump's GOP now. You don't have to like it. Nobody gives a shit. It doesn't matter if you like it. It just is. It doesn't matter. It's like saying, I don't like the fact that 5 plus 5 equals 10. Nobody gives a shit if you like it.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
That's what it equals. Here's a Harry Enten segment. He's a pollster over at CNN, so he has no reason, obviously, to lie about Trump's popularity. He's at CNN. They don't want to put on positive stories. But here, I want you to watch this segment about poll numbers about the Trump transition. Folks, the GOP approval for the transition is near universal, despite the media's transitionist stereo.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Oh, my gosh, RFK, controversial nominees. Never listen to those losers. Always listen to us. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Folks, again, this is CNN. They have no reason to make Trump look good. They only have a reason to make Trump look bad. They're obviously ideologically opposed to every single thing he does. They hate the guy. They have no reason to do that. This is Trump's GOP now. Why do I put that out there? I'm never going to waste your time, man. I promise you.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Use code Bongino at checkout. As I said, really big show for you today, the week before Christmas. Tell your friends to tune in because the CR is an absolute disaster, and it ties into a story I discussed yesterday, too. The CR, by the way, is this big... bill full of junk and garbage you're trying to pass before Christmas. That's a big no-ski for me.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
The show is meant to be entertaining, but I want it to be somewhat educational, too. Because, folks, GOP voters approve of what he's doing, moving in a more populist direction. That doesn't mean, that does not mean we are going to agree on everything. We are going to have to reform Social Security. Obviously, Donald Trump disagrees.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I know that it's mathematically impossible to balance the budget without it. He has had to make some political calculations there. It doesn't mean I agree with him. I obviously didn't agree with him on his abortion stance or criminal justice reform.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
However, his stance on foreign policy, his stance on federal regulations, his stance on school choice, his stance on the economy and growth producing a growth producing agenda. I agree with all of that. His stance on the health care system, trying to things like right to try and other things he did. You're not going to agree with everything. The point is the numbers are the numbers.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
You can say all you want, you know, if you're the Wall Street Journal or these old school kind of center-right Republican outlets like National Review, that Donald Trump's a plague on the Republican Party, but just nobody agrees with you. Maybe you're the plague on the Republican Party. I'm sorry. You just don't get it.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
And the man understands during this transition that the political power is in his camp. It's different than 2016. And I don't mean this as an insult, folks. I was never the president. I don't know what it's like to be a businessman and then, boom, you're the most powerful man in the world walking in the Oval Office. I don't know what that's like. It must have been overwhelming.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
That's not the case this time. 2016, the transition was... I don't want to... It wasn't chaotic. It was just a little... not mission-focused and a bit disoriented in the beginning. That's not the case this time. It is totally different. Here he is, Trump, in the press the other day, warning people who don't get on board with this agenda.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He has the political capital, and he's freaking going to use it. that if you're not going to get behind his nominees and his vision for where we should take this country with his cabinet, that they may consider a primary. And I'm going to tell you something. If you're in a red state doing it, they should definitely consider a primary.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
As I've said before, Susan Collins in Maine, that's the best you're going to get. But Murkowski, Joni Ernst, and others, you want to screw around, then you're going to politically find out. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He understands his political capital this time. He's in charge. It is his party. He moved the needle in a direction that hadn't been moved in a long time with minority voters, Hispanic voters, the working class. Honestly, I think we're catering a little bit too much in some cases to especially organized labor. Listen, I want to cater to the working class American.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Organized labor's interest in specific spaces is not always in the best interest of working class Americans. And I know that sounds insane. Dan, organize it. It's the whole Mansour Olson concentrated interest in diffuse cost. Just because something may work for the steel industry in some small segment doesn't mean it works for workers across the country in the car industry that rely on steel.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
However, he gets it. He has moved the country in a more populist direction. He has moved the party in a more populist direction. Folks, this guy gets it. I'm telling you, he understands politics like no politician in our lifetime. I mean personal politics. I want you to listen to this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
When even insane leftists at MSNBC like Stephanie Ruhle are acknowledging what I've repeatedly told you about Trump, I'm not name dropping anything that's stupid and you sound lame. But I'm telling you, having known President Trump for a while now, there isn't a person that understands personal politics like this guy. That does not change my view of politicians.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Everything should be viewed as a spreadsheet. They're a plus one or a minus one. But I'm not going to bullshit you either. Listen to me. And I think you know this. Tell me in the chat. Please tell me you get this. Just because I view the world like a spreadsheet, politicians, I don't get emotional about anyone.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
You can be the biggest asshole in politics, and believe me, a lot of people have been assholes to me. They do stuff that works for the conservative movement, I'll champion it. That's fine. You can't ignore the fact that establishing personal relationships with shows like this and others that it does make it hard to just view it like a spreadsheet.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
This guy understands personal politics like no one else. This is Stephanie Ruhle from MSNBC. You want to talk about the art of political persuasion? What she's saying here is absolutely true. She doesn't like Donald Trump at all. But this is worth every second. She talks about just dialing his phone number, and he picks up. Guys, has this happened before?
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
I'm telling you, he will randomly call people for no reason, and it's like the craziest thing. Listen to this. I'll tell you another story, and then I'll set a break. Check this out.
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
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Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
Folks, these are lefties. Even the insane lefties are figuring it out right now. This guy has kicked your ass politically because he's relatable and likable. It does not change my imploring you to treat politicians like a spreadsheet at all. But I'm not a dumbass. If you like someone, it's just harder to criticize them. It just is. It's hard. I love my brothers.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
You know, here's where I get this Bongino rule from. So you don't think I just, like, pulled this thing out of my caboose somewhere and made it up. I will never forget being a street cop in New York, especially when you're on a footpost. Because when you're on a footpost, you're out there. You don't have the vehicle, the car insulating you from the environment. You hear and see everything.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Okay, what happened? School shooting. Fegazi and everyone else. We got to do something about the guns. Like what? Pass laws against kids having guns? Because we already have those. We already have those laws. Oh, no, no. More laws. Because I would have done better than the other laws.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Nobody seems to... Bad guys don't... See, the thing about bad guys is bad guys don't... They're outlaws for a reason. They don't give a shit about the laws. Folks... The Stuart Thompson guy from the New York Times who's going to become a constant theme in the show. This is what I'm talking about. By these people come in with a pre-existing...
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
rubric in their head about what a story's about before they know shit about the actual story. Stuart Thompson and others, school shooting. Wait, was it a white person? Was it a male? Was it a non-transgender person? The story's about the gun. That's it. It doesn't matter what happened in the event. All of that stuff is irrelevant to them. Healthcare CEO, evil, shot in the back.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Do we make the story about the gun? No, I think there's a better story for us. We hate free market healthcare. We want the government in control. Let's talk about that instead of the gun. Yeah, but the other story's about the gun. Hey, Joe Biden just pardoned his kid for a gun crime. That's okay, he's a Democrat. This isn't a gun control story now. Here, you doubt me? Here's Bernie Sanders.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Bernie Sanders would probably do anything to take your guns. Far left, communist radical. Commies love taking people's guns. Guns are what keep commies from taking over. So commies hate guns because the gun is in the way. Here's Bernie Sanders on one of the weekend shows talking about the UnitedHealthcare CEO shot in the back by a guy in a liberal gun control city.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
You think you'd have this great opportunity, right, for your silly, stupid gun control narrative? Nope. Here's Bernie seeming to put the little button there, like, guy was shot in the back and murdered, but, but? What do you mean, but? Guy was murdered in the street. Watch how they tell you a story, never the story. Check this out.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Also, don't believe anything coming from the government right now about this drone story either. Not going to spend a ton of time on that. You get the point. But there's an update from Trump yesterday at the presser. What you do online is not private. Data brokers are tracking and creating a profile of your online activities, your spending habits, even your values and beliefs.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Folks, there isn't a show out there that dissects the scumbags in the media better than this. It's the reason we're the number one live stream. It's just a fact. And the Bongino Army is growing by the day. When you learn to see, when you learn to dissect the entire media ecosystem and the fourth estate environment out there, you will never see the world the same way again.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
My goal with this show, so you know it's always been this way, was to give you an hour so you could listen to it in a car on a commute home, right? Was to, in that hour, make sure that you are, your eyes are open all the time, that you are awake but not woke, right?
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Because once you learn to see the media for what it is and to see through the bullshit, I promise you, you will never see the world the same way again. You will notice this everywhere. The media doesn't care about guns. They care about control. Now do you get the tie-in from the two stories? They need to control you. What's the best way to do it? To control your healthcare.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
The UnitedHealthcare CEO is in the way. So if he's murdered, we go, he's murdered, but... Don't make it about the gun, make it about that. Now, they see a school shooting in Madison. They know emotions are still hot. They can get people to hate firearms, even though there's millions upon millions of legal law-abiding gun owners in the country. Guns don't go off by themselves.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
They're like, hey, it's an opportunity to get the gun out of the way so people have to rely on the government. It is always about control. Once you learn to see that, you will never, ever unsee it. I want to show you a video coming up next. Of this guy when Obamacare was passed. Obamacare. That has screwed up the used to be free market healthcare system. They broke the system completely.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Guy gets murdered because of it. And yet they all walk away. They all walk away. Bernie Sanders and others. Pretending they had nothing to do with this. Oh, he deserved to die. Watch. Always, always bring receipts on this show. Hey, what's your best gift this holiday season? Years or even decades off your appearance? Paula looks really young. Everybody always tells me that.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
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Folks, I got to tell you, I don't mean to interrupt my own show, but I'm really enjoying the show today, even though it's a really hard, tragic topic to talk about. I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that. Maybe I really, I came into today's show. Some shows I'm more excited than others. because this is such an obvious example, these two contrasted stories of murder.
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They both involve murder, school shooting, healthcare CEO shooting. The end game is the same. An innocent person was killed, yet the scumbags in the media are telling you two completely different stories, both of which they have a role in by creating this left-wing cult, and yet they've divorced themselves from anything. In one case, it's the gun. The other thing, it's evil corporations.
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They never mention with this young woman, they'll never mention their role in the destruction of our culture, the church, family that serve as a bedrock. And in the healthcare case, they will never mention to you that the reason the healthcare system sucks, and folks, believe me, I'm in it too, the healthcare system in the United States is broken, is because the leftists broke it.
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Upwards of 40% of healthcare in the United States has government fingerprints all over it. That's why the process sucks. Now, let me give you a little primer here on why everybody hates healthcare right now. What Obamacare did, folks, everybody paying attention, write this down. It instituted two practices that will never work because they can't work, okay?
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And I'm going to play you this video of this guy Gruber. He was one of the economists that helped design Obamacare, talking about how they screwed you over because they think you're stupid. I don't know if you saw this video when it came out. You may have, but it's worth replaying. Obamacare instituted community rating and guaranteed issue.
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Community rating means very simply, everybody's basically going to get charged the same thing. Guaranteed issue means they have to guarantee you a healthcare policy. Oh, Dan, that sounds great. No, it doesn't.
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Folks, if there is a guy who rides a motorcycle every single day, smokes cigarettes, and drinks a gallon of tequila seven days a week, he should not be paying the same healthcare premium as you if you're eating your vegetables, working out, doing the sauna, doing your cardio, getting eight hours of sleep a night. I'm sorry. The world is a tough place. Liberals, get off your mother and...
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Live in the real world, you dumbasses. What's happening right now is a bunch of really young, not very wealthy 20-year-olds are paying premiums the same as a 50-year-old guy like me who had cancer with osteoarthritis who is making money. Why the hell is my 20-year-old daughter paying the same premium as me? That's what, go look it up if you think I'm lying to you.
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Community rating and guaranteed issue. And they use these complicated words to you at the drive-thru, Leo Getz style. So all you young kids out there who voted for Obamacare, celebrating this UnitedHealthcare CEO that got shot in the back, understand, Obamacare's making you pay for a bunch of rich middle-aged people like me. That's a freaking fact, Jack. Look it up. That's a fact.
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You want to know who effed you at the drive-thru? Obama and the Democrats. Look it up. So because these healthcare companies now and these health insurance companies have to charge everybody the same thing, no matter how healthy or whatever life decisions, what happens? They have to start buying other practices because they have to control the costs or they're going to go out of business.
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And that's why you are getting F'd. Period. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Do your homework. Community rating guaranteed issue. Go look it up. Here's one of the architects of Obamacare, this economist, real smart-ass. By the way, you want to see a stupid, smart person? This is the guy. You know my lecture about stupid, smart people and how dangerous they are.
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Here he is talking about how they passed off the mandate, which was a tax, forcing you to buy something. Here's how they passed it, and they confused you because you're all too stupid to do your homework. It ain't me saying it. This is the Obamacare, one of the architects saying it. Watch this.
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You know the stupid smart assholes? This guy's one of them. I will never stop playing this. That video's, by the way, 10 years old. You understand that this is one of the lefty lunatics that designed this, telling you how freaking stupid you are. You watching me? Here's the lefty's approach to you in the media. You're a freaking moron. How does that make you feel?
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They didn't tell you if you're 18 or 20 that you're subsidizing your rich parents' health care plan. They didn't tell you that. You didn't know that, did you? If you're 20 years old going, holy shit, health care is expensive. It shouldn't be. You're 20. You have cancer, hepatitis, AIDS. No, none of that. So what the fuck are you paying for? What are you going to go for? The flu one year?
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It costs $200 to see the doctor. Why are you paying $5,000 a year? The answer is because you're paying for your mom and dad who already have money. You're paying for their stuff. And then when the healthcare guy gets shot dead in the middle of the street because they have to comply with this bullshit, you got all these guys, oh, look at this. This is great. You did this, assholes on the left.
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It's like you broke up our society and you got all these kids shooting up schools. Oh, it's going to be the guns as if a gun's a new invention. You did the same thing with the healthcare system. So tired of you assholes, man. I really am. I'm in a good... I'm seriously in a good mood today. Like, is there a good dark Dan or a bad dark... I just... Do you see what they do?
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You see what the liberals do? They break society. They break health care. They break public education. And then they turn around, kill people, and blame us for it. And dumbasses fall for it. I've even seen some people on the right. Yeah, well, these health care companies are fucked up. Yeah, okay, great. Why? You ever ask yourself why? Why? Why are healthcare companies fucked up? Why?
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Why is it 30 years ago, people generally liked their health insurance? My father had Lawrence Healthcare. It was great. We had no problems. Why do people hate it now? Oh, look, the lefties got involved. That's what happens every time. To my conservative viewers out there who already know this, I'm sorry you have to go through all this shit.
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Why is one of the January 6th committee guys, the chairman, Benny Thompson, a communist Democrat, why does he sound so open and receptive to a pardon by Joe Biden? I'm going to tell you. Because something's going on. And I think it involves obstruction of justice. That's a perfect. You and Guy always use that line whenever you want to drop a hit. Are you having trouble sleeping or staying asleep?
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I got a little bit on the drone because we've covered that. We beat that story to death, and frankly, I'm sick of talking about it. You know my theory on it. You have your own. That's cool. Much respect. I'm telling you, foreign actors are probably a good percentage of what we're seeing. Some of it's probably mistaken identity. Fine. I'm going to get to that quick, but I want to get to this first.
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Folks, the IG report, Inspector General, it's like the government internal affairs came out last week on the FBI's involvement in January 6th. I've been talking about it for two days. We now know that FBI assets were embedded in the crowd in January 6th. Most of you are like, we've known that forever. We have. Liberals denied it. The media denied it. The FBI. I did not have assets on January 6th.
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They did. Matter of fact, there were agents there too. Someone asked me yesterday, how do you know that? I said, one of my friends showed me a selfie there who is a federal agent, said there were other federal agents there. Someone asked me, why did he take a selfie? My answer was, I don't know. Maybe he didn't, this was before the whole, you know, A riot broke out there. So I don't know.
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Maybe he was going to take a picture because he thought it was. I have no idea why he took it. I'm just telling you he took it and was there. It's not my business why he took it, but I've seen it. And I know there were federal agents there. So the full story of January 6th and the air quotes insurrection, I promise you, has not been told. Here is Eric Schmidt. A great senator from Missouri.
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identifying characteristics of the suspect in the case, which of course fosters a lot of people's, gets their minds going on, well, why would they hide that? This is the kind of stuff, this is the main reason behind the invocation of the Bongino rule, which is just wait before drawing any conclusions. Talk about a story all you want.
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This guy's doing an amazing job. He was on a short list for FBI director if Cash didn't get it. He's on Maria Bartiromo's show. There is a massive cover-up going on, folks, and I'm going to tell you what it is right now. The January 6th committee. Remember crying Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, Adam Schiff? Remember that clown show?
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Remember they put on the Hollywood producer show trying to get you to believe there was some massive insurrection? Remember that? Folks, that committee, I'm telling you right now, may have some severe criminal liability coming their way. I have zero doubt they interfered with witnesses, they obstructed justice, and they destroyed evidence. There may be real crimes there.
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Here's Eric Schmidt on Maria's show. I'm talking about the assets, the federal assets in the crowd, and the cover-up going on right now. I think the January 6th committee knew there were federal assets in that crowd and covered it up. Watch this.
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Folks, the January 6th committee was nothing more than a Hollywood movie production. It was telling you, where am I going with this, a story. It was not telling you the story. The story of January 6th is far, far more elaborate than you've been told by the scumbags in the media. Oh, yeah, it was an insurrection by some crazy MAGA hat-wearing, red hat-wearing lunatics.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that is bullshit. This is a far bigger story, and I'm telling you what they did. They selected... Do you ever see... Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. You ever see one of these stories... I'm trying to think of a story where... It resembles almost nothing like the real story.
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You ever see one of these Hollywood movies and it says this is based on true events? I'll give you a perfect example. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Remember at the end of that, they were like, this is based on true events. And it turned out that it was like the Ed Gein story. Ed Gein had nothing to do with a freaking chainsaw and a leather face. Ed Gein was a serial killer.
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Like that was the only thing they had in common. Had nothing to do with a Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That's what the January 6th committee was. They were committed to a story. MAGA hat-wearing insurrectionists and Chewbacca were going to take the country over. Any evidence that conflicted with that, hey, there may have been maybe some Antifa, maybe some FBI assets in the crowd.
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Was there some incitement involved? I'm not absolving everyone of blaming this. I want to be clear. I'm just simply telling you that I'm willing to tell you the truth, and these assholes on the left aren't. They eliminated that evidence. And all of a sudden, a lot of the evidence the January 6th committee had seemed to magically disappear. So that explains this.
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But I'm telling you, the first telling of events is almost always wrong, even from eyewitnesses. No less eyewitnesses talking to someone else that's talking to the media. I want you to listen to this, just quick 30 seconds from the police chief. And this was very suspicious from the start. Why would you not say the gender or sex of the suspect in the case? This was very bizarre. Check this out.
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Why is Benny Thompson, the chairman, all of a sudden very nervous, and Adam Schiff too, and Benny Thompson seems really interested in a pardon. They don't want to answer what the informant's instructions were on January 6th. Was it to incite a riot? I don't know. I'd love to find out. What did the January 6th committee, why are they playing dumb about the bomber, the pipe bomber at the DNC?
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Why are they playing dumb about FBI assets? And why destroy records? Why would you destroy records if you were interested in telling the story? I want you to watch this interview. This is the chair of the committee, Benny Thompson, with Reverend Al. Guy's another joke and a clown. Here, he's asked about a pardon.
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If he did nothing wrong, Benny Thompson, and this was all on the up and up, then why would you need a pardon? Folks, I don't need a pardon for a bank robbery. I never robbed a freaking bank. What the hell would I seek a pardon for? Watch this. This is very telling. Check this out.
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Of course he'll take it because he knows there may be obstruction of evidence, obstruction of justice. I mean, excuse me, destruction of evidence, obstructing justice, witness tampering. Folks, this story is huge. Now let's go back and dial this back a little bit about why Benny Thompson, the chair of the Hollywood produced January 6th committee, is so nervous and wants a pardon.
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Do you remember this line of questioning from Congressman Tom Massey, who has been all over this pipe bomber case? He asks Benny Thompson, it's about a minute and 20, but it's worth every second. He's like, hey, man, you were the January 6th guy. This pipe bomber planted this bomb on January 6th at the DNC. Almost killed Kamala Harris. Why are we the only ones asking questions?
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Why haven't you touched that? Watch Benny Thompson. Oh, I don't know, man. If you guys know someone, it's not our job. It's your job. You're the January 6th committee guy. Watch this, and you'll see why this guy, he wants to tell you a story, not the story. Check this out.
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Where are the texts, the Secret Service texts on January 6th? You think Benny Thompson, the chairman, wants to know? Benny Thompson doesn't give a shit! Folks, the biggest scandal of our time is who the hell planted the damn pipe bomb on January 6th at the DNC and what was Kamala Harris doing there? She still, to this day, does not want to talk about it. It was a setup.
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It was a fake assassination plot set up by an insider to stop Republicans from talking about election interference on certification day. Factoroo. And that's why neither Benny Thompson or anyone else wants to talk about it.
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Folks, whoever is the next secret service director and FBI director, if you're not going to get to this story on day one and reestablish trust in these two prized entities we need, I mean, we need these operations cleaned up. If not, disband them. If you're not going to clean them up and get the FBI focused on actual investigations again and counter terror, then disband it. It's useless.
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What's the freaking point? If the Secret Service is not going to protect the president and not engage in political cover-ups, then disband it. I'd rather have private security take over. What's the point? so tired of being lied to. So I titled this segment Scandal Watch because this is what we do because the media isn't even remote. Where's Stuart Thompson on this story?
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Is he even remotely curious? You know, that Bongino conspiracy theory, he's got a point. Why was Kamala Harris at the DNC? Why was there a pipe on there and the January 6th chairman doesn't even seem remotely interested? I don't know, Mr. Massey, if you got information. I thought you were the committee chair, dumbass. I don't believe anything coming from the government anymore.
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And let me tell you something. You shouldn't either. You are being bullshitted all the time. These people are full of crap. Everything they tell you is nonsense. I don't want to spend a ton of time on the drone thing. We've beaten it to death. But this is kind of important. Because President Trump made a comment yesterday at a press conference. He does.
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Joe Biden, of course, can't handle a press conference. Doesn't matter. Joe Biden is the – he's the Pino, the president name only right now. Donald Trump's the actual president right now, which is kind of funny to watch. Watch Joe Biden just be thrown to the scrap heap by both Democrats and Republicans. Donald Trump was asked a question about the drones yesterday. And he says the same thing –
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For all the people who think I'm crazy, I'm telling you the government knows who it is. It's going to leak out, because as I said yesterday on my radio show, the government can't keep a secret about anything. People have a bunch of loose lips.
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It's going to leak out, and most of these sightings, I shouldn't say most, a portion of them are going to be foreign drones surveilling our sensitive locations. You don't have to believe me. I'm willing to go to, I'll go to the wall on that one. It's not going to be every single one. There may be some, flag it, there we go.
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There may be some recreational stuff, some cases of mistaken identity, but I'm telling you the government knows and Trump knows they know too. Check this out.
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So there's a theme to today's show. I don't know if you've caught it, but the theme is the media obviously telling you a story, not the story. And because they have to tell you a story that's not true rather than the story it is, what they do is an intermediary to block people from ever searching for the story like the January 6th story. block people from looking up why their healthcare sucks.
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Oh, look, healthcare sucks because of Obamacare and the government. So what they do is they put, as a blocker, it's like a fax vaccine to the truth. They block you with Dr. Fauci, Jonathan Gruber, that economist you saw on tape calling you guys morons. They block you with the pseudo-expert. The media will say, well, what do you know, Dan Bongino, about masks?
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You're not an expert on mask epidemiology. I may not be dumbass Stuart Thompson from the New York Times, but I can tell you this. I'm not stupid. Every freaking person that wore a mask got COVID. Everyone. Everyone. So I always use the analogy of the condom. Say you have a lot of sex. May make you a little uncomfortable. Good. Maybe the analogy will hit home.
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All right. Again, I know they're dealing with a lot, but that just started to, again, get people questioning if the American media and other people have put so much pressure on police officials that right now even police investigations where information valuable to the public is being held back because they're afraid it's going to be perceived like another Nashville incident.
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You're there. You're right there. You would see stuff break out right in front of you, a robbery or something else. You'd be sitting there for a moment. They wouldn't see you, and they'd rob someone. And you'd be stunned because you'd see everything. It'd be a guy, say, 5'1", with a red jacket and blue jeans, or 5'2", some short guy, whatever it is. And the lady then come up to you.
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A condom is meant to be a prophylactic device. The whole idea is to prevent STDs or pregnancy. Correct? Imagine you have a lot of sex and every time you have sex, you get an STD and you get someone pregnant with a condom. Would you wear the condom anymore? You'd be like, no, Dan, that'd be stupid. That's the mask. Only dipshits believe in the mask.
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But because they don't want you to see the truth, they block you with this patina of experts, the crust of experts, so you never get to the inside of this shit cake they're selling you. Fauci said masks work, and liberals are like, yeah, man, Fauci said so, because they're too freaking stupid to do their own homework.
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So a lot of these younger folks got caught up in this woke ideology now, too, because the experts told them there's a difference between sex and gender. Really? What is it? Well, listen to them go on and on. Well, gender, you determine later on at life. No, no, no, you don't. Let me give you a quick test. When a baby's born, you guys paying attention to this? Everybody in the chat, you ready?
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Put down what you're doing. You got your coffee, maybe your blackout, take a sip. Put the coffee cup down. This is very, very advanced. You woke liberals ready? If when your kid is born, they've got a unit downstairs, they've got a penis downstairs, it's definitely a boy. That's the sex and the gender. Michael's stunned. Michael, like, the chair, you know, mine's like locked.
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He almost fell off the freaking chair back there. Justin had to make a ninja-like move away from the keyboard, grabbed him by the left hand. They almost dislocated his shoulder in the process, grabbing the freaking chair from falling over because Michael simply can't believe it. If your kid has a penis, the sex and gender are the exact same. But Guy's like this.
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Guy's like, I'm under the hood for review. Guy's throwing the red flag. He wants a review on them. But the experts. The stupid smart people, the Grubers, the Fagazis, the Benny Thompsons, the Fauci's, Yale School of the, Yale, this is an Ivy League school that actually believes sex and gender should be used to refer to a person's self-representation. It doesn't matter what you self-represent.
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If you've got a unit, you're a dude.
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This show is freaking crazy. Where's this all coming from? Did you see this clip on nuclear yesterday on social media? This is a dumbass left, again, trying to tell you a story. Sex and gender are different. Really? How come there are no women dominating men's sports if there's no difference? I'm curious.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
How come there's not a woman who thinks she's a guy who's competing at the UFC heavyweight level? I'm just curious. Why isn't there a single NFL quarterback that has chromosomes for a woman who thinks she's a guy? Why if there's no difference? I'm just curious. Why is that? Here's Ted Cruz questioning an expert. This is great. This is a big W for Senator Ted Cruz.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
The answer is the facts aren't a problem. Just get them out there. The first telling of a story is almost always wrong. Shock, stress, they distort reality. People see things and hear things that aren't there. It is the genesis of the Bongino rule. It's why I try not to get emotional about stories, tragic or not.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Hey, why do women's sports exist then if there's no difference between the two things? Check this out.
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how dumbasses in the media and their moron leftist acolytes only exist to tell you a story, not the story, and the fax vaccine wall in between, that they get the dumbass disciples, that keeps them segregated, a story from the story so they never see the truth, are experts like this moron up on Capitol Hill. Experts. Look at this story from the Daily Caller.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
The Biden administration, full of experts, by the way, dumped hundreds of thousands into ensuring military parents affirm their child's gender identity. Let me save you hundreds of thousands of dollars with this very simple test.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Consider it a firm. Send me the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm making charitable donations this year. I will send it off to Folds of Honor or someone else. Save the taxpayers the money, please. Folks. Man, today's show has been like a lot, a lot.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I've been in a mood all week with this stuff because I feel like I've hit this inflection point in my life where I'm not going to let anyone fall for stupid anymore. I'm going to tell you something. I'd see if you guys agree with me. I'd love to hear it in the chat.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I try to just get the story out there, put a little color to it, give you an opinion on it so you know this is the home for truth for you. I'm trying to get out some helpful information. So for those of you out there who have kids in schools, you're a school administrator, an SRO, school resource officer, or police officer.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Trump's lasting gift, I said to you, was going to be his remaking of the Republican Party about the working man, minority communities. And I still believe that. But I would say either tied or second, his biggest gift to the Republican Party is going to be finally a cracking of this woke culture where the facade of expertise was completely collapsed.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
the Dr. Fauci's of the world, the Obamacare Gruber guy, the Frank Fugazi, the FBI managers that were supposed to be experts in counterterrorism and investigation. The allure of expertise has been shattered by a brash New York City billionaire who came in like a wrecking ball and said, you know what? I'm not saying these people aren't smart. They may be smart in a very specific area,
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
But the fact that they've taken that expertise into politics and tried to control the lives of millions of people, these people are the problem. They're not the solution to the problem. I would argue that that's Donald Trump's either equal or second greatest gift to the Republican Party is fracturing this illusion that the left is the party of expertise. They're the party of morons. Wear a mask.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Get the vaccine. Men can be women. Women can be men. The government can control health care. The gun's the problem. All wrong. You were right the entire time. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed today's show. Please spread the word. Tell your friends where they can find us. We are the biggest live stream in the world. Number one yesterday, thanks to you. I so deeply appreciate it.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Thanks so much for tuning in. I will see you back here tomorrow.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Again, I'm not going to spend a ton of time on this because tragically these things do tend to happen. I wish they didn't. There are problems. Of course, the left's creating a story. It's all about the guns as if guns haven't existed for 200 years. No one ever goes, well, why didn't we do this when there were guns around in the 50s? Why? Oh, I don't know.
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I don't want to ask those questions because they're inconvenient. Maybe because we had families and churches and we didn't have the left assailing our culture every day. I don't know. Don't ask those questions. They're really inconvenient. I'm going to get to that part in a second.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
But this Secret Service analysis, I know they've been going through a rough time with some terrible tactics and really screwing up with Trump. But they've done some really good things. They did part of this when I was there. This is the National Threat Assessment Center. You'll see at the bottom, NTAC. This is a study they did with the Secret Service on school shootings and targeted violence.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Folks, the link to it is in the newsletter, bongino.com slash newsletter. It's free. You don't have to pay for anything. We don't spam your inbox. If you go there, you will see this link. I strongly encourage you to download it. There's about 10 bullet takeaways. I'll just go through some of them really quick.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
If you have a kid in school, these are the things they notice studying just a bevy of incidents just like this targeted violence at schools. Attackers usually had multiple motives. Wait, go back to the first one. You're already zipping past. Yeah. Attackers usually had multiple motives. The most common involving a grievance with classmates. Not surprising. There was usually some...
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Trauma in the classroom with these kids, bullying and things like that. I mean, everyone who's bullied is going to go up and shoot a school up. No, but this is an issue. Most attackers use firearms. They were often acquired from the home. This is something I talked about yesterday. I am a big believer in the Second Amendment.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I'm also a big believer in personal responsibility and securing your firearms. I'll go through a couple more here. Most attackers had experienced psychological, behavioral, developmental symptoms. Again, the kind of thing that if a child is going through some issues independently of being bullied and ends being bullied too, you got to be careful, okay?
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
You'd run over and try to help him out, right? And the lady who's getting mugged would say, oh, my gosh, did you see him? He was like seven feet tall with a blue jacket and red pants, inverting everything. And you'd be like, that's not what happened. That is why the first version of any event, even with the media, is almost always wrong.
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It can tip over the edge, especially if you don't have a good support group. Half the attackers had interest in violent topics. And you'll see this more if you just want to scroll through quickly the rest of them, social stressors and things like this. Folks, this report is out there for you to read. Can't recommend it enough. Is it some dispositive final analysis?
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Like, if you hit all 10 of these, you are definitely going to be a school shooter. It is not. However... Just like when the Secret Service goes out and investigates people who threaten the president, we have to designate them by a class. Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3. Really dangerous? We do it this same way. We look at bullet points.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I'm not going to say what they are because I don't want to give anybody any ideas. But if you meet 8 out of 10 of them, then yeah, you could be kind of an issue. So... Check it out. I hope it's helpful. I'm candidly, honestly, genuinely trying to help here and not tell you bullshit stories about it's the guns. There have been guns around forever.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
People going and parroting this stupid left-wing narrative. Guns have been around since the invention of this thing called gunpowder. Wow, look, it explodes. It's incredible that this has only been a problem since we've had this attack on boys, this culture war in America. I'm not sitting here telling you that access to firearms for people in trouble isn't an issue.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I just said to you five minutes ago, even less, that yes, if you have a firearm in the house with a child who's troubled, some 13-year-old boy or girl in trouble, and we know the shooter was a girl now since that's been cleared up, But then it's your job to secure the firearm. I'm not naive to that. You see what honesty looks like? Not the left.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Here we go already with the gun-did-it story, which is fascinating. Because when the UnitedHealthcare CEO was murdered with a firearm, with an actual firearm, did you notice the story wasn't about the gun? I thought they were against gun violence. What was the story, guys? You remember evil healthcare CEOs. Hey, a guy shot him in the back. You see left-wingers getting...
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tattoos of the guy with the gun shooting him. So left-wingers, go yourselves. Nobody buys your bullshit. You're telling people a story, not the story. If you thought it was about guns, you would have made it about freaking guns too when the UnitedHealthcare guy got shot in the back. But you love that shooting. You didn't give a shit about the gun. So you can take that and shove it up your ass.
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You're full of shit and you know it. You just want... A law abiding Americans. You want to disarm them. And you saw an opportunity for us story rather than the story. Just like you saw an opportunity for an attack on free market health care last week. You didn't care that a guy used the gun. But here, of course, is Frank Fugazi, the infamous 8-8 loser. Fugazi's in the chat.
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Guy's a complete D-bag. Here he is, of course, on MSNBC or whatever he does as commentary. Now, I want you to notice the hypocrisy in what he says here. He gives, in the beginning, what seems like some reasonable answer. Well, we should look at this, look at this. And then he goes right to the gun at the end and says one of the dumbest things you'll ever hear.
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You know, we've got to look at these laws with kids and criminals with guns. Folks in the chat, quickly, yes or no? Aren't there already laws that prevent young kids and criminals from getting guns? Guys, I'm not sure. Any of you guys firearms owners? Michael, Justin? I'm reasonably confident. I'm not too sure. I don't know a lot about a lot.
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That if you're a kid or you're a criminal, that there are already things called laws that will prevent you from getting a firearm. Check this out.
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It applies yesterday to what happened with this school shooting. I'm going to try to be helpful today, unlike the losers and morons in the media, rushing information out, turned out to be wrong, already telling you a story rather than the story. And I'm going to help you out with some actual research on these school shooting things if you're a parent. A little bit of time on that, not much.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Now, I just want this on the record here. Did you notice these left-wing media outlets avoided the gun conversation altogether when the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot in the back in the middle of a Manhattan street? Manhattan, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Did you notice suspiciously that nobody seemed to give a shit about guns and that thing? Why?
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Because the left only cares. I'm like a little too wired for today's show. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's blackout coffee or me being pissed off because I love the second amendment and the ability to protect myself. The left doesn't give a shit about guns. Do you understand that? It is a proxy argument. They don't care.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
If the left cared about guns, Joe Biden would not have pardoned his son for a freaking gun crime dipshits on the left. They don't care about guns. They don't? No, they don't. Anyone in the chat remember when I did this whole spiel on the Second Amendment because I love the ability to defend yourself. It's a God-given right, okay? Why do the left go after guns? Here's your answer.
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It has nothing to do with the gun. The left needs you dependent on the state. A firearm gives you the ability to stand your ground and hold your own and protect yourself and your family independent of the state. They don't want that. It's the same reason they go after healthcare. They don't hate healthcare CEOs.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
They hate the fact that they don't control healthcare and the healthcare CEO is in the way. That's it. The gun is in the way of having you totally dependent on the state. Folks, if there was a, you see the freaking gavel here, you know this. If there was ever a gavel drop. Judge Bongino has ruled, you need to trust me on this. They don't care about guns. How do I know that?
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Because a lot of these leftist celebrities and rich people have guns. If they cared about the gun, oh my gosh, the gun, we got to get rid of that. It's so evil. They wouldn't have the evil device in the house themselves. That's not what's going on here. The gun is a symbol of freedom. It's a symbol of a detachment from the government. You can protect yourself.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
The police are not there to protect you. They're there to enforce the law. They don't like that. They don't like that. Whenever they can tell you a story, they will. So does anyone find it even remotely curious that when the gun was used in Manhattan, the narrative was completely different?
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Here's a Washington Post article about the slaying of the UnitedHealthcare CEO with a firearm in one of the most liberal cities in America, which strict gun laws. Notice the headline. We've got to get to put up the headline. It says we got to get the guns out of the hands of criminals in Manhattan. No, no, not that one. The other one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Oh, that is. Justin's confused.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
And then I have to get to some huge updates later. On this January 6th IG report. Because Benny Thompson's looking for a pardon. The January 6th committee chair. There's a reason. The ultimate sleep refresh for the New Year's. Beam's Dream Powder. Get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino at checkout. Got that. A lot more for you today.
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He's like, that's it. That's it. Yeah. Justin's like going through the computer like I'm a master. Here's the headline in the Washington Post. It's nothing to do with guns. Guy shot with a gun in Manhattan. And what's the headline? Deny and delay the practices fueling anger at U.S. I thought it was the gun. I told him, now it's practices fueling anger?
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Oh, practices like the government doesn't run health care, the free market does and they don't like it, or outside of Obamacare? Anger, practices fueling anger, like murdering a dude in the middle of the street. Notice how the part, watch the post headline here. This headline has nothing to do with gun control. Nothing. Because they're looking for a story.
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Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
So school shooting in Madison, it doesn't matter what the motive is, what happened, if the child is in trouble, there's a mental disorder, some sociopathological disorder, it doesn't matter. The story, the scumbag media comes in with right away. Scumbag media comes in with right away. Before they even know the story, a story they have in their head is, we've got to get rid of guns.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Folks, we are the media now. Don't forget it. There is a downside to this, though. I want to be realistic with you guys. We are the media now. That's good. That's a good thing, right? We all get it. We are the media now. We are. It's just that the data backs it up. Livestream numbers. When I say we, I'm not just talking about me. I'm talking about this conservative ecosystem.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson, others, right? There's a real problem that nobody trusts our government anymore. Well, Dan, government sucks. No, I get it, folks, but... I'm really fascinated by the Roman Empire, like, of course, most conservatives are, but I really am. I can't get enough of the history of how the Republic fell.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
When you watch what happened with Caesar when he was chasing Pompey and they left Rome abandoned. The place turned to chaos within days and weeks. People were starving to death. They couldn't get the grain out to the people. Folks, government is not an inherently evil thing if you understand Federalist 51, if men were angels, which we're not.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Limits on government are a good thing because men will abuse power. Whatever, you know, long story short, what I'm getting at is We do need some form of a functioning government that can do basic things like assure the public in a national emergency. Those aren't little green men coming to invade. Nobody trusts anyone anymore.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
To the point where even when Mayorkas, our DHS secretary, says something even remotely sensible, even guys like me who've heard it from other people go, well, that can't be right. I'll show you what I mean in a second. Quick break. I'll show you how, again, nobody trusts government at all anymore. And folks, that's not a good thing. Believe me, it's not. That can only get bad really fast.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Folks, the Kylo Ren Moore theory of Donald Trump winning continues. In case you missed the news, it just broke recently, like in the last hour. Fonny Willis, you know Fonny Willis and lover boy Nathan Wade down there, has now been disqualified from the Trump case. Yeah. It's just the winning. The winning just continues. This keeps piling up. I'm a big believer in manifesting things.
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I trust my sources, though. Some of you may not like me for this segment, but that's okay. I read the truth. I have a separate bunch of sources who are good and decent people. They've never steered me wrong. Our batting average is 1,000. You can go back and watch the shows. We've been right on every conspiracy theory out there. I'm telling you that this China threat is very real.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
The threat of our own government spying on you is as bad, if not worse, and that's real too. But there are other people out there who are trying to tell you like every single thing that comes out is some PSYOP or whatever. Let me play this clip by Mayorkas, who I don't trust as far as I can throw. But I've heard this from other people.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
And you shouldn't dismiss this out of hand, that China is knee-deep embedded in our technology, our home routers, our critical infrastructure, that China is working on the ability to destroy us from the inside out. Take this with a grain of salt because it comes from Mayorkas, but I've heard this from other people too. Check this out.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Again, it's Mayorkas. Anything he says, I want to instantly flush down the toilet. But do you see why I opened the segment the way I did? It's a freaking shame that we trust the government so little that even though I've heard that nearly verbatim exact same thing from conservatives I trust, because Mayorkas said it, even I'm like, now is it bullshit? Folks, it's a real threat.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Yes, our government spying on us is a real profound threat too. Zero doubt. Get it, got it, good. But don't be distracted about this China threat. They have been working on this for a long time. And look this up today when you get off the show. Do you have any idea how many home routers, internet routers that were made in China have built-in security flaws? Built-in security flaws.
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Yeah, they're there for a reason. Just trust me on this. This is a very serious threat. Why am I bringing it up, too? Because I'm going to go Republican-Democrat, so you don't think I'm even making a partisan issue. He's a dope. He is a dope. The guy's a liar. He's corrupt. I can't stand him. But this Mike McFaul is a pretty establishment, you know, rhino-y type Republican, too.
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You may not trust this guy. That's fine. I'm just telling you I've heard this from other people too. And it's a shame we can't trust our freaking government anymore. There's a senior member of Congress on the Republican side. Here he is talking about the drones, telling you something I've heard from reliable sources. Not all of them. Not all of them. Not all of them.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
But many of these drones around our military installations are from China, spying on us and surveilling our domestic turf. Check this out.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Justin, I'll go to you because, well, actually, you know what? I would go to Michael, but Michael may be biased because it was his recommendation. Folks, I absolutely adore and love our military more than anything. There's not even a close second. It's just everything they do for almost no money out of a sense of loyalty to their fellow man.
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I just had a request from the chat. You guys don't have to tip. Someone put a $5 tip in there. Please keep your money. Donate it to charity or something. I appreciate it. Dan, will you do the bank? Do you feel like you're in charge? That's my favorite line from the Dark Knight series. They're not in charge. Nobody trusts these people anymore. But this is where it gets scary for me.
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I have an obligation to get you accurate information. And the problem I had cutting this segment, which is one of the reasons I did it, because I knew it was going to cause me a bit of a headache, but it's one of the things I need to get across, is I know what Mayorkas and McCall just said,
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But because they've been sources of shady information in the past, especially my orcas, I mean, magnitude times 10, I'm sitting here going, I can't believe nobody can believe what the DHS secretary is saying. That China thing is real, folks. I don't care what anybody tells you. It is real. I promise you. You don't think it's a little interesting? No.
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Again, that Obama, his first movie project was this movie, Leave the World Behind, about how this mysterious internet attack basically wipes out the internet. Everybody turns on each other, is ready to die. There's no reason to panic. Donald Trump's going to be in office in January. And I promise you, the same people who've warned me about this stuff are in his ear too. We can clean it up.
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But there's been a decades-long effort by China to not only surveil us, but implant really destructive technology in the United States, and we don't know when that switch is going to go off. Now, we have two years to fix this, but it's a four-year term. It's not a four-year term. Please stop telling yourself that. Yes, constitutionally, Donald Trump will be in charge for four years.
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It is two two-year terms. Why? Because what happens after the president's first two years, when every member of Congress is up for reelection, every member and a third of the Senate is they don't care about Donald Trump and his priorities anymore. Why? He's going to be a lame duck. He can't run again. It's just a fact. I wish it weren't, but it is.
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And second, they're worried about reelection themselves. So what happens in the last two years, if you're unfamiliar with post midterm politics is, is you get people in swingy purple districts, Republicans, who want to get reelected and look like they're standing up against a man. You can't count on them for anything. The first two years, you can get a lot of stuff done.
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You don't really have a lot of that in the first two years. You basically have about 18 months, because then you get some kind of midterm politics there, too. But you got about 18 months. After that, forget it. We have 18 months to fix this. Here's the good news. The Democrats are still in total disarray. We need to move quick. Just quickly, I want to put this up. Politico.
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There is no greater love than to die and sacrifice for your fellow man. So I wanted to do a special show for you tomorrow. And I had a couple people in mind from the military I thought would blow your mind. So Michael comes to me.
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Are Democrats coconut-pilled? Someone to see Kamala Harris run again. What the hell kind of headline is that? They want to see Kamala Harris run again? Are you crazy? Like, what are you, nuts? She was the single worst presidential candidate they've run since Walter Mondale. They don't know what to do. What happens, and please watch tomorrow's show.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
We get into leadership and leadership vacuums with this Navy SEAL. It's amazing. Was she worse than Hillary? Yes, she was worse than Hillary. Yes, she was unquestionably worse than Hillary. Folks, he wants to know if she's worse than Hillary. Yes. I don't know. Folks in the chat, do you think she was worse than Hillary? I think by far. I don't even think it's close.
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I think she was worse than Mondale. Thank you. She was a terrible candidate. She did not act the part. She didn't talk the part. She didn't look the part. She was always cackling. She had none of the characteristics of a leader. They are in disarray. They have this leadership vacuum that's so bad that they're looking to the woman who hit 100 as the number three hitter. Derek Kamala, 23.
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Justin's saying he wants to volunteer. Kamala Harris, reach out to Justin. I'm going to skip that Reginsky thing we had next. I'm going to jump right to Tom Holman after this on the next video. But let's take a quick break. I'm going to get back to that. Because, you know, I wish more people would pay attention to this. Tom Holman, who's coming in as the border czar,
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He did an interview with Tucker that's really, really good. But he hits on a point I wish, I hope, I pray more people start paying attention to it. It's the real purpose of illegal immigration. It's cheap labor. It is, yes. That's not the real purpose, however. That's the Chamber of Commerce purpose. The Democrats have a far more pernicious agenda, and Holman absolutely nails it. Stay tuned.
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Our last break, I'll get back to that. Hey, when it comes to protecting your family, it's not just about having a firearm. Lethal force isn't the answer for every situation. Imagine an imminent threat comes to you and your family.
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Minimum purchase may apply. That's 50% off, 5-0, at omahasteaks.com. An extra $30 off with promo code Bongino at checkout. Thanks, Omaha Steaks. This is what I'm talking about. The change is coming. And we've got basically 18 months to two years to do it. Tom Homan's coming in as the borders are. This guy's amazing. I know Tom very well for a long time. Good man. Solid patriot. Loves his country.
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He's talking to Tucker about the real purpose of illegal immigration on the left. You need to pay attention to this because we will never win another presidential election again or control of the House of Representatives if you don't pay attention to the census and the role of illegal immigration in the census. Listen to the end of this. It's really important. Check this out.
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Oh my gosh, folks, I can't talk about this enough. This is one of my top five issues that I wish conservative media would focus on. I heard Laura Ingraham talk about it recently. Good for her. Tom Homan, you're a friend, you're a patriot. I'm begging you to keep bringing this up. Folks, yes, cheap labor is a part of it. I totally understand that. Put aside that argument for a second.
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The Democrats put up the ABC article. Look at the date on this, back in 2020. The Democrats sued because the Trump administration, they wanted to exclude illegal immigrants. They call them undocumented, which is euphemistic bullshit. Illegal immigrants from the census. There is no way we should be including illegal immigrants in our census.
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I mean, this guy's take on everything from drones to leadership to the real, real issue with wokeism in the military, the division, not just the political stuff. Please check it out tomorrow at the regular time. It'll be a regular show at 11 a.m. Well, there's some stuff in there in the beginning too. It'll be a regular show, but please don't miss it.
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The reason the Democrats sued and made a huge stink over this to be able to include them is because people are moving out of liberal states like California, Illinois, Maryland, and New York. That's just a fact. They're moving to conservative states. So that has two effects. Number one, the House of Representatives, your congressman, You get a congressman for about every 700 residents of the state.
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If they can count illegals, liberal states get extra congressmen. It's simple math. Wow, that sucks, Dan. It sounds like we'll never ever get a congressional majority again on the Republican side if we keep pouring illegal folks into liberal states. Yes, that's the point. But it gets even worse. It affects another branch of government too.
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Folks in the chat, you already know where I'm going with this. Holman just told you this. The electoral college that elects the president is based on the number of congressmen and senators in your state, two for everyone. More congressmen gives these liberal states the ability, as people move out, to bring new illegals in so they don't lose electoral college votes either. This is a huge deal.
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It's why the Democrats do not want the next census, do not want illegal immigrants excluded. It's a huge deal. By the way, some breaking news just happened during the podcast. There's an article that just popped in the New York Post that 17 military bases have had unexplained encounters with drones. And again, hammering my point home from before.
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And right around where these drones were found or spotted was land owned by China around these bases. How the hell we're selling sensitive land near military facilities to a foreign enemy of the United States so they can surveil us is just disgusting. It really is. It's one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Was that, what was that? Was that, where was that?
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The government's drone denials. Was that later in the show? Can we bring that up now? Is that okay? Here, I was going to discuss this later in the show. But again, back to this topic. I'm sorry, but this just broke now. That's a huge story. I'm telling you, it's China. Not all of it. Not all of it. They are watching us. They are mapping us out. This is a serious thing.
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And nobody believes the government. Henninger is going to cover this later. But nobody trusts these people. The government's denials on drones are just complete bullshit. Nobody believes it. He notes the U.S. electorate's Trumpian turn isn't an outlier. A rising level of no confidence in government, what we've been talking about, has gone global. It's not just here.
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Germany, their government collapsed this week. Did you know that? Francis did earlier last month. The vote in the UK put Labour back in power. Was it just a withdrawal of confidence in Conservative governance? It's governance at all. The Trudeau government in Canada could be next. Everybody wants to get rid of people in power because these people just suck.
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They can't give us an honest answer on anything. You told us the border was secure. You told us inflation was transitory. You told us the drones weren't a threat. And then you told us they didn't know what they were. Why would people believe you? You don't even believe yourself. Back to this illegal immigration argument. This was one of the major seismic shifts in the election.
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I promise you, you're going to absolutely love this. Okay. Couple things. Obviously, the Fannie Willis thing just happened. That's the good news. The other piece of good news is Donald Trump, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, and others shut down this absolute shit sandwich of a CR last night, this continuing resolution. Folks, I'm sorry. We are not falling for this again. That's the title of today's show.
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Border security and inflation. Folks, the left doesn't get it. We have two years to move. They are still sitting there thinking about Kamala Harris, open borders, how to get more illegals in the country. They have not adjusted to this new reality. We have to take tactical advantage while they're sitting there in a circular firing squad.
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I want to play this clip for you out of New York to show you that the lunacy is not stopped. They have a position in New York. It's a very powerful position. It's largely ceremonial, but it's called the public advocate position. Everybody in New York City who gets it runs for mayor. So it's like a stepping stone position, right?
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So the New York City current public advocate, this is the craziest thing you're ever going to see. You think after the election they'd take stuff like this and throw it in the garbage? No. They want to give an exemption for illegal immigrants to be able to take like motorized bikes, you know, like scooters and stuff around the city. But they don't have to get a license plate. Just you do.
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And I want you to listen to the way the guy frames this. Like, it's really racist to ask people who are in the country illegally to have to get a license plate on your vehicle while you actually have to get one. This is how crazy these people are. We got two years. They're still not straight. Check this out. What's that? Yeah, this guy.
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I mean, I always think back to John Edwards, that infamous Democrat candidate for president, John Kerry's vice presidential pick, talking about two Americas. He was talking about it from a wealth inequality and power standpoint, like a liberal Democrat. There are two Americas. There are illegals that get things you don't get. And then there's American citizens who you be locked up.
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Folks, they haven't learned anything. It still hasn't kicked them in the balls yet that the world is changing. And I'm going to tell you something. I don't want to get presumptuous like the Democrats did after Obama. After Obama won reelection, the Democrats, they had this demographic destiny argument. The Colorado model. Many of you guys remember that?
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where the thing was young voters, minorities, and single women, the Republicans would never win another election. And then what happened? Donald Trump happened. The Democrats had to go and throw the book out because now it looks ridiculous. I don't want to fall into that trap either, that, oh, this is the new Republican majority moving forward.
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But if we can string together a series of victories in the next two years, Folks, I'm not sure a lot of those black and Hispanic and younger voters that fell in love with the Trump agenda, where we broke down that Republican wall we couldn't forever, I'm not sure they ever go back. We may be in a really unique spot. Here's an example of what I mean. This is Chicago.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson, the worst mayor in the country by far. A total disaster. I mean, the Democrats hate him, right? Here he is at one of these council meetings right there. And one of the citizens of Chicago, I always ask the question, is it bad enough yet? Well, it is for this guy. Check this out.
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I'm done with it. I'm tired of it. I'll address it today at the end of my radio show, so you leave with it. Folks, we... Folks in the chat, tell me if I'm crazy here. I need your feedback on this. This is important. I am a realpolitik guy. Don't mistake my passion for topics and my emotion. I don't want to sound ridiculous. a lack of pragmatism.
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You see my point? You think this guy's going back? You think this guy's going to go back in the next election and vote for Kamala Harris if they run her again? You know, there's this awakening that happens that only goes in one direction. When liberals realize they've been lied to by shit government and their money's been stolen, they almost never go back.
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You see a ton of liberals who became conservative. You see very little what David Brock types that pretended to be Republican and then go the other way. It's usually some money component. You know, like what's-her-name over at MSNBC who pretended to be a Republican. Take a paycheck. It doesn't matter. But you see very few people on principle who go back the other direction.
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It's like when your eyes are open and this awakening happens, you just simply can't go back to sleep. But, but, caveat emptor, buyer beware. We have got to string together a series of wins. Tying this back to the beginning of the show. That's why this CR was such a tactical misstep and Johnson and others, Speaker Johnson should have known better. We just won an election.
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People want to see results. They want to see you acting like it. We don't want more of what we just got rid of. Look at this segment, by the way. Another piece of news just broke in the last few hours. The Wall Street Journal has an amazing piece about Joe Biden. The extent the Biden White House went to cover up this guy's cognitive train wreck going on. Folks, it's bad. I warned you about it.
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I told you I had sources there. I never lied to you. I told you the guy, this condition was worse than you knew. We were right again. The batting average is... 1,000, correct? Look at this. Biden's been in office four years. He does this interview just the other day. He just realized inflation's a problem for the Biden White House.
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Folks, candidly, I'm not even sure if he even knows about inflation. Someone told him about it before the interview. Watch this.
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Is this guy taking a shot at comedy? Is he for real? Does he not understand? Like, did someone just wake him up this morning and shake him and say, hey, listen, inflation's been a problem? Here's the best part of this, though. Biden's like yesterday's news. The guy's the president name only at this point. He's the Pino. Everybody knows that, right? I want you to watch this.
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This is a short clip, too. But here's Biden hilariously lecturing American politicians about using your office to grift. To grift and make money. If this is not peak Joe Biden, I've never seen it. Joe Biden lecturing people about grifting. This is an instant classic. Check this out.
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm kind of at a real genuine loss for words. I'm having trouble stringing together syllables into words, into sentences. That Joe Biden... Not even the king, like the Star Wars-like emperor with Jedi-like powers of grifting is lecturing politicians about grifting. It's freaking hilarious. I told you, Joe Biden's the smartest guy in the room. Just ask him.
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This is a guy, he is a sociopath when it comes to his own personality. He has zero social IQ at all. And everything they told you, folks, was bullshit. And it's all coming around to haunt them. I saw this yesterday. I wanted to play this clip for you. Now that we know, I played it for you yesterday, the update. You remember the Aurora, Colorado apartment takeover by Trend de Aragua?
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I understand there is a math business up on Capitol Hill where you need certain votes. What I don't understand is we currently have a majority in the House of Representatives, meaning the Democrats have to come to us. That's what a majority is. Why would we shove a shit sandwich bill down America's throat that does nothing to cut spending and
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And we were told by the liberal media and the Biden team and everyone that that's a conspiracy theory. There are no Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes. Well, it's happened. We now know that only took it over. They tortured people. The torture was disgusting. Honestly, I'm not even going to talk about it. I heard about it on Fox and Friends. I had to turn the volume down.
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It was so grossed out. Now we know it's true. Our batting average is... 1,000 yet again. Remember this gem from Martha Raddatz questioning J.D. Vance about gang members making out like it wasn't a big deal? Go read if you're into really gross, crazy stuff, what these people did to these people in Aurora, Colorado. Check this out.
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Only Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs. And Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border.
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You know what, Key? I'm just thinking, move that CNN one ahead of Pierre, because this is perfect for this. How, liberals, I know you watch my show. I get your death threats and stuff, okay? It's part of the business. I don't like it. I am abjectly against violence. But, you know, I get your nasty death threats, especially, you seem to like Facebook a lot. I always get them on Facebook.
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At what point do you say to yourself, again, I can't bring this up enough. Like, I'm not going to change your voting behavior. I get that. You're obviously a communist and you like that stuff. But how often are you going to be lied to? Like, don't you want accurate information? I mean, when you go into a store, don't you want, remember they used to have the prices on the thing.
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Like, don't you want that to be the actual price? Like, you don't want to go to the register and be surprised. That said $4.99. No, it's $7.99. Yeah, but the price said $4.99. Yeah, we're surprising you at the register. Like, Do you ever say to yourself, I just want to say, I just want to believe what's advertised? You guys are lied to all the time by CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC.
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Vote for whoever you want. When is the bullshit enough? Is there ever like a bullshit red line? It happened again. Did you see this segment? I wasn't going to put this in the show, but Guy is obsessed with this segment. He's been asking me to play it for days. So CNN is another bullshit outlet. They're over in Syria. And because I hate this, by the way, I've been in the news business a while.
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A lot of these reporters want to be the story. They always want to look like heroes. You ever see in a hurricane, they go in and they sit in the water and they're like up to the knees like, oh my gosh. And the guy behind him is like running on the street, like doing a jog. This is one of those segments. They walk into this Syrian prison and they want to be heroes. So like, look at this.
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We rescued this prisoner. It turns out the prisoner in this case is a notorious Assad torturer who was the one actually torturing these people. And they're like, do you need water? Do you need water? This would have been one of our top 10 worst clips of the year if we hadn't already done the show. Check this out.
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I mean, unbelievably, finances a censorship operation out of the State Department, gives Congress a pay raise, deals with, like, the transfer of a football stadium. You're telling us this is such a pressing thing, and then you're freaking us all, oh, my gosh, the government's going to close that. It's not our freaking fault.
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Michael brought up a great point. He's like an accountant, so he thinks like an accountant. He's like a spreadsheet guy. He's like, no one noticed from CNN that this guy's got a perfectly coiffed haircut. He's actually like a little fat. Like, what is he eating? Did he get McDonald's in there or something? Michael, Michael is a Harris.
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Michael spends an inordinate amount of time and he's got like the best hair ever. I have none of that. I don't have to worry about it. You shave that sucker off. But no, that was a great point though, Michael. I didn't even think of that. Nobody from CNN, like you were an investigative reporter, right? Thought it was odd that number one, the guy doesn't want to come out, obviously, right?
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He's sitting there on the, you think a prisoner would be, Oh my gosh, thank you for opening the door. He doesn't want to come out. He's clearly hiding. And he looks like he's surrendering or something like that. And you're like, wow, this guy looks awfully clean, smells good, he's got a haircut. He's kind of fat for a guy who's supposedly been in prison for three to six months.
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You didn't notice this was the torturer himself? Okay, you may not have noticed, but you didn't sense something was up with that? He's like, hey, you want water? Look at you. What are you... I am so sick of these fake news losers. We are the media now. We are the media now. Someone wanted the Bain? Do you feel like you're in charge? And I love that he puts the back of his hand on his shoulder.
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Because you're not. We're in charge now. We're the news. This is where it's at. I got one more clip for you. It's pretty good. You guys see this Canadian race that's going on right now. Justin Trudeau is finished. He's done. Canada's had enough of his bullshit. The guy's a straight up commie. There were some rumors he may resign.
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His finance minister, who's a total disaster, was a COVID train wreck, resigned. But Pierre Polivier is running against him. He is going to be running Canada very shortly. And the media people trying to set him up, they're trying to set up a little fight between Canada and Donald Trump. Trump is not fighting Canadians. He's fighting Justin Trudeau. He's doing something very smart.
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He's trying to humiliate Trudeau, who's humiliated for liberty and freedom and Canadians for a long time to make sure he gets out of office. Of course, the media, which is always 10 steps behind, doesn't catch that. So they try to catch Olivier to make it like a Trump versus Canada thing. This guy is just so good at beating the media at their own bullshit game.
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You guys had a year to work on this thing and are now stuck in a shit sandwich at the end. We paid you to get, you know, conservative spending bills across, and you didn't do anything. I don't want my point to get lost here. The point is this.
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They ask him about the tariffs, trying to set up like a tariff war because he's going to be the incoming government, sir. Watch this answer. This is really good. Check this out.
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Man, this guy's good at that. That is a skill, man, and this guy's got it. They were trying to set him up. We don't need that. What he's doing is going after Trudeau. He's not going after Canada. Media tried to set him up, and it didn't work. Folks, tomorrow, please don't miss it. I've got a SEAL team operator on. You may have seen him on The Rogan Show. He's got his own podcast, Andy Stumpf.
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It is one of the most fascinating interviews. We don't do a lot of them, but I promise you, Bongino Army, it is absolutely worth your time. Air like a normal show. We got some other stuff there, so don't worry about it. 11 a.m. tomorrow. Please check it out. Don't miss it. Do us a big favor. Download the Rumble app. It is free. Rumble's had an amazing run over the last few months.
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If you had at least a little bit of success over the past 30 years, Republicans in Congress saying, hey, we're not going to fight this fight now, but we'll fight it next time. We would say, okay, maybe we agree to this bullshit. I wouldn't, but maybe we'll agree to it until March. Then when Trump gets in, we'll go back and we'll cut some spending.
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The problem everybody has is you guys just keep telling us this and you never actually do anything ever. The most unforgivable piece of this spending bill that should have never, ever been agreed to was this Global Engagement Center thing from the State Department.
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Do you understand if you've been screwed over by a bullshit fact check, you were kicked off Twitter before Elon, or any of this other stuff, do you understand that was largely due to operations like the Global Engagement Center at the State Department? Why the hell would Republicans in Congress agree to fund this thing? Oh, look, we have the answer. Gabe Kaminsky, he's a pretty good reporter.
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There's like a thousand different universes out there. Manifest the one you want. I have manifested an unbelievable transition period where the ass kicking continues and it just keeps going on. I just did something before this show, and I wasn't going to tell you about it, but I am going to tell you about it because it was so freaking amazing. Stand by.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
This is a really long tweet. I'm not going to go through the whole thing. But a lot of people are pissed off at the Speaker for this. This isn't the kind of thing that slips through the cracks. Get used to it, Mr. Speaker and others. Twitter, the second this bill goes public, there are algorithms designed to pick this stuff out. Everybody knows what's in it. There's no hiding anymore.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
According to a congressional source familiar with the matter, the Global Engagement Center provision was a private demand from Senate Democrats. in exchange for another provision Republicans want. So just to be clear, who thought this was a good idea? We're going to allow a State Department operation to be funded to censor conservatives because we wanted some tax cut? I love tax cuts.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
The Corporate Transparency Act is a disaster. I get it. But we're trading away people's civil liberties. We're not doing that. Two points here. Number one, we as conservatives do not negotiate away civil liberties like free speech. I'm sorry. I don't know what you were thinking. We're paying you guys an exorbitant amount of money.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
You're getting your ass kissed by lobbyists all day to go and battle for civil liberties in the Constitution, not give them up. And second, throw that up again at the end, please. They had a private demand for a deal. In other words, let us censor people through the State Department.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Let us censor people through the State Department and we'll give you this Corporate Transparency Act provision thing. The Democrats don't stick to deals anyway. Here, you need some evidence? Here are the receipts. The Democrats always give you the middle finger on deals. You read this Wall Street Journal article? So there was another deal, too, about judges retiring.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
I'm not going to go into the whole thing, but read this piece if you want to get pissed off. It's called Judges Unretire After Trump Wins. So it turns out Republicans cut a deal with Democrats that said these liberal judges are going to retire. We will give you these Biden judicial nominees, but those judges are going to retire. So it was basically a zero sum. Well, look what happened.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
The Senate Republicans got played. They said okay to the Biden nominees, and all of a sudden the judge is unretired. So to the Democrats and their bullshit deal for our First Amendment. And no, I'm not riling up the audience. I'm telling the audience the truth. And as I said to people, I earned this microphone and the Bongino Army earned their place out there too. And we're tired of this bullshit.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
You got to shut the government down until Trump gets in there, then shut it down. Even Newt Gingrich, who's not known as some big flamethrower, right? Even Newt Gingrich this morning, I retweeted it, said, listen, this is time for shock treatment. The government's got to shut down to make this point that we're going bankrupt. Then the government's got to shut down.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Here's a quick minute or less from Vivek, who's co-head of the DOJ, Department of Government Efficiency with Elon. They shut this thing down yesterday. Here's Vivek on this abomination of a CR and all the crap in there. Check this out.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
I'm just reading the chat. You guys all agree with me. LilyBit99, shut it down. Our government is broken. Shut it down. WXPrincess, shut it down. Yes, shut it down. Folks, it's time for shock and awe. I'm sorry. We are going bankrupt. We are spending a ridiculous, obscene amount of money on a bunch of bullshit programs that don't work. And again, I can't say this enough. If...
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Speaker Johnson and the leadership, this is not personal, by the way. Stop with the nonsense. I am a transactional spreadsheet guy. If you had any history of plus ones on this stuff and big victories on top line spending, we'd be like, okay, maybe we'll give you a pass. You just don't. There is a credibility factor here I'm going to get to in a second. Nobody believes the government anymore.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Nobody. About anything. About drones, about freaking UFOs, about the border, about inflation. Expertise is dead. Please don't do this to the party in this amazing transition period where I opened up the show with good news. All this good stuff is happening. Please don't ruin it. This is kind of funny. Heavy stuff at the beginning of the show. You know my cannibalism theory?
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
The lefties will always eat themselves alive. Folks, we have them up against the wall right now, the left, not the other way around. I was talking to a friend yesterday and I said, listen, we won. We need to start acting like it. We won. We may not win in the midterms. We may not win in the next presidential election, but we won now. I only live in the present. I don't live in the freaking future.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
I only live in the now. We won. Freaking act like it. This is hilarious. Watch CNN and liberal Senator Dick Durbin. I mean, one of the most liberal senators you're ever going to find. There is a congressional pay raise built into this, which there's no time for that right now. We can talk about that later. It should not have been put in there at all. It's a terrible messaging tool.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Watch CNN confront Durbin on the pay raise. And then the liberal Durbin firing back at CNN like, hey, you guys get a raise and you suck too. This is liberal on liberal political violence here. Folks, I told you, cannibalism theory. Just give it time. They'll eat themselves alive. Watch this.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
You love to see it, man. You love to see it. I told you the cannibalism theory is real. You think I just make these theories up because I'm bored on the weekend? Let me throw out some theories. I'm sitting around playing at the blackjack table. All you got to do is be an observer of this. Eventually, they start eating themselves alive because they're totally unprincipled.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Our fights are unprincipled. Their fights are all about bullshit. They don't know what to do anymore. They are lost. We are in charge. We are the media now, folks. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and a bunch of conservative members of Congress make no mistake. Shut this thing down. This is a warning to members of Congress, and it is done with a pure heart.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Not trying to be an asshole, not trying to abuse the privilege of this microphone. I'm trying to do you a favor. You can listen to me and get out of your bubble, or you can continue to get shit rolled. I don't know what to tell you. The Twitter ecosystem now on X, between X and true social, is the most powerful mechanism in politics.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
There are people out there who the second these things drop, what they do is they go out, they put algorithms on these things, word finders, and within seconds, all of the shit sandwiches in these bills are out there. You can adjust to that or you can get run over by the train. I don't know what to tell you. I'm trying to help you. You're not going to be able to squeeze this stuff through anymore.
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We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
You are the majority. I know we don't have the Senate. I know we don't have the presidency at this point. But we do in just a month. Listen, when me and Newt Gingrich, I wouldn't call him an establishment guy, but he's definitely not some MAGA flame-throwing guy, agree on the exact same thing, then it's time to move. It's time for some shock treatment, man. Everybody in the chat agrees.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Folks, we may blow the chat up again on this, but that's okay. It's like every time we blow it up, we learn new things, which is fantastic. Yes, shut it down, or no, sign this bill, eat the shit sandwich, and deal with it because we'll get them next time. Fire away. Fire away. Let me see it. Put it up on his room. Fire away.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Because I'm telling you, I'm of the opinion, if this is the best we're going to get, shut it down because we're never going to fix anything because nobody's serious. And if they're not willing to take the syrup of Ipecac now, they're never going to do it. Bot Gino, get on the case. I don't see a single no. Do you see one? Shut it down. Look at the chat. Burn it. Burn it to the ground.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Burn that chat to the ground. You still can't. Keep it going. Shut it down. Shut it down. Shut it down. No more bullshit. Bullshit time is over. I should have won my cutesy time is over shirt today. Because it's over. We won. Freaking act like it.
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Thank you, Jake. Can we get one more encore of that?
The Dan Bongino Show
We Are NOT Falling For This Again (Ep. 2391)
Thank you, Jake. See, even Jake thinks cutesy time is over. Cutesy time is over. 144 chats. Is that chats per second or something like that? Holy shit. Shit, man, you guys are crazy. This is awesome. Bongino Army repping the cause every single time. I know, Chris, you guys did a good job with the chat. We keep trying to break it. It's not even working. Chris from Rumble, good job.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Folks, he can speak to it. He chooses not to. He doesn't want you to know this. Do you understand why someone in the chat beat me to the punch on this one? Be quick. Do a little De La Hoya on me or something. Do you know why he won't admit this, even though everybody knows it to be true at this point? It's already been publicly reported. You want to know why?
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And it's going to come out later today, too. Because if you find out that there may have been people working with the FBI. Now, don't assume they're all. I'm telling you there were federal agents in the crowd. That's a fact. Everybody got it. So I don't want my words to be misconstrued. There were definitely federal agents in the crowd and probably a lot of them.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
That's not so much, I think, what they're hiding, okay? There are always counter-surveillance people and stuff in crowds everywhere. That's not even news. Inauguration day, there's going to be feds all over the place in the crowd. They're sitting there working counter-surveillance, looking for stuff. I get it. That's not the scandal here, folks.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
This is what I think a lot of the reporters are missing. What I want to know is where there are FBI assets in the crowd. In other words, people pretending to be, say, the Proud Boys or something else, working for the FBI, who were there specifically to gin up and agitate and provoke violence. That's the question I want answered. And then with federal agents nearby watching the whole thing.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
That's what I want to know. And that's the question I know some people, Julie's asking and Darren, but a lot of others are missing. That's the reason he won't say it. And by the way, oh, I can't say it enough, right? Always measure the success of something.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
In other words, pushing Christopher Wray out, which Donald Trump did by saying Kash Patel was going to replace him, by the response of your political opponents. Folks, who is the worst deep stater ever on the media side? Deep state Ken Delanian, Fusion Ken, who The Intercept noted is the CIA's like mop-up guy. Ken Delanian at NBC is a mouthpiece for the deep state.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
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The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
You might as well consider this guy a de facto intelligence officer of the United States. This guy is the mouthpiece. When a deep state wants to say something, they say to him, They are very upset about Christopher Wray stepping aside because they know The Rock's going to get overturned. Listen to Fusion, Ken. And this is how you know replacing him with Kash Patel was a really damn good idea.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
That may be the single dumbest thing I've ever heard on television. Christopher Wray tried to keep the FBI out of partisan politics. Is that by investigating pro-lifers, Moms for Liberty, MAGA hat wearers, people who say the word based? Is that why inserting feds and fed assets in the crowd on January 6th? Is that hiding the identity of Piper? Bullshit, Ken. Bullshit.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
We have a lot of bullshit flags we throw off, and this is a big bullshit flag so heavy I can't even throw it. Now, you know, always measure the effectiveness by the response of your political opponents. When you hear stuff like that, you know the deep state is freaking out. I want to show you a couple more things about Christopher Wray because now that he's walking out the door, I want answers.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And Kash Patel is hopefully going to get them at the FBI. Because we cannot reestablish faith in our FBI if we don't get the answers to these questions. I got them coming up for you next quick break. Blackout Coffee. Folks, be awake, not woke. Blackout Coffee is the official coffee of the Bongino Army. Why? Because it's damn good. They use premium beans. They ship within 48 hours.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Phone companies dispute FBI testimony on the pipe bomb suspect, key lawmaker reveals. The lawmakers, Barry Loudermilk, a really good Republican, a Republican member of the House of Representatives. Long story short, if you're new to the Dan Bongino Show, pipe bomb gets placed at the DNC on January 6th. Kamala Harris is at the DNC. Why? Kamala Harris is at the Capitol. No, she wasn't. She was at.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
She was for a little bit. She was at the DNC. Nobody's explained to this day why. They find a pipe bomb outside. Everybody's buried the story. The FBI is claiming they have video of the pipe bomber talking on a cell phone last night prior. Really? Really? Well, whose cell phone was it? You can triangulate. They said, I don't know. The phone company told us the records were corrupted. Really?
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
That's why the mainstream media liberal hack goons are losing their audience and we're not. Because we're right and they're wrong, so we can make fun of them. You can't make fun of someone if you're always wrong and they're always right. Because then you just look like bitter that you're right. You get what I'm saying? We're on the right side of it. So...
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
After Donald Trump won the election, as if on cue, the phone company says, they weren't corrupted. We've got the records. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, you understand they know who this person is and they just don't want to tell you? You understand that, right? Let's hope we get an answer about that. Christopher Wray's not going to give it to you because the guy is a buffoon. That's why.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And he's a phony and a fake and a fraud. And I hope he lives the rest of his life outside of politics because this guy was just really, really bad at this. Here, I want you to watch this. This is Tom Massey, fantastic congressman from Kentucky. He's asking Christopher Wray about this specific thing in the phone records. I want an answer from this. And hopefully Kash Patel is going to get it.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Who the hell is this guy? The pipe bomber guy. You know who it is. We have the phone records and you're lying about them. Watch this exchange.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Folks, you understand how full of shit this guy is? He keeps falling back on this. We can't comment on ongoing investigation. You have what you're claiming is a major net. You, the FBI deep state, you're saying it. You're telling us this was a massive Chewbacca-led insurrection that almost led to the downfall of the United States. Have you not? You arrested 700 people over it.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
As we ignore these people and they try to cancel us, I told you we were going to tune them out, but because they can't give up canceling each other and making people look stupid, because that's what liberalism is, it's a hierarchy and trying to subjugate people, that they're eventually going to cannibalize and eat each other as they try to seek power and authority in beating up people, politically and otherwise.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
That's how serious you told us this was. You've got a ringleader, a guy who planted a bomb on January 6th. You know who it is. You don't want to tell the nation? Think about it, folks. You knew the identity of all of these people involved in all these other crimes instantly. Put them up. Be on the lookout for. They don't want it. There's no Bolo or anything. Have you thought about that?
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
They know the name. They know the name. They have the phone records of the guy on the phone. He's the only one there. It gets even worse. Right after Kamala Harris arrives, some guy walks up and finds the bomb. Finds the bomb and goes over and talks to the cops and Secret Service. There's a bomb there. You would think the FBI would be pretty open. Yeah, we interviewed this person.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
We interviewed the pipe bomber. Listen to Christopher Wray, who, again, cannot answer a simple question. This guy is garbage. He is a lying fraud. He is involved and is knee deep in one of the biggest scandals in American history involving January 6th. Listen to this.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
I can't believe people fall for this guy's bullshit. Lefties, I'm going to move on to Cash in a second because Cash is asking all the right questions. Cash Patel, who's going to be, who's very likely right now to be his successor at the FBI. Even if you're a lefty, right? And you're really stupid.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
You're one of the liberals listening to this show that has been vaccinated to facts and has a skull 72 inches thick. I'm just asking you a simple question. You told us, right? You told us. Folks in the chat, tell me I'm wrong. Did the left not tell us this is the worst insurrection in human history? Chewbacca was going to be the viceroy of the northeastern territories.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
You get what I'm talking about? Here you see an action. Tell me here, tell me here, this isn't famed neurosurgeon Dr. Jill Biden. one of the legendary medical doctors anywhere on earth, Dr. Jill Biden. Tell me she's not throwing shade at Kamala Harris here with this clip. This is the cannibalism theory in action. This just happened. Check this out.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
The whole country was going to fall. Worse than Pearl Harbor. Worse than the Civil War. You told us that. We were like, yeah, that seems like just a tad bit of hyperbole there for a riot. That seems like a tad bit hyperbolic. You now have a suspect. You could put a B on the lookout for the MAGA terrorist. Put his picture everywhere. Bolo, B on the lookout for this guy. You know who he is.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And strangely, they won't tell us. Liberals, I know you're dumb, but really, aren't even you with your general lack of aptitude and achievement in life, aren't you saying to yourself right now, you know what, that damn Bajito's not crazy. That is kind of weird.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
I mean, we did tell them MAGA terrorists were going to destroy the country, and now we've got an opportunity to put out a bolo for a MAGA terrorist, and we're not doing that. It's so weird. It's almost like they're hiding something, right? Because they are. Not everything's an inside job. This one is. 100%, not even 99.5%. Wait till cash gets in there.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
By the way, this guy's asking all the right questions about that and more and Ukraine money too. People have questions. We want answers. We pay for this stuff. The FBI and everything else. Quick break, we'll get back to that. Nothing delivers comfort and joy quite like the unrivaled quality and taste of Omaha Steaks. It's guaranteed perfection every single bite.
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So we appreciate it. This is his likely successor at the FBI. This is a no bullshit guy. I have personally vouched for the deep state lib accounts. One crazy. They got their asses kicked again online as they all got exposed. I love it. I am sitting at. We have conquered and vanquished so many losers. I tell you, you stick with me. We will always point out the losers and the zeros.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
I told you a bunch of deep state lib accounts were terrified of Kash Patel because they're deep state libs. They're running under anonymous names. They're liberals. They're trying to destroy Kash Patel because Kash Patel is not only going to look into the J6 stuff, the Spygate stuff. the collusion hoax stuff.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Kash Patel is also going to look into what has been going on with a lot of this money we're transferring overseas. Ladies and gentlemen, is some of this being used for corrupt activities? Folks, let me be clear. What's happened to the Ukrainians is an absolute stain on humankind. If Russia would stop fighting, there'd be peace. Ukraine stops fighting, there's no Ukraine, period. However...
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Ukrainians key Ukrainian lawmakers were knee deep in this Russia collusion hoax. There's zero doubt about that. And there's been almost no accountability. That has nothing to do with the war portion. But this does. We're sending a lot of money over there, folks. We're sending money for a war effort. OK, whether you agree with it or not, it's there.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And if it's going to go there, it better damn well fund weapons acquisition and not fund corrupt activities. Ukraine doesn't have the best record here, and it's our responsibility to look into it. Here's another reason the deep state Lib accounts are terrified of Kash Patel. Check this out.
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Hey, I was going to start something totally different yesterday because we had some breaking news on my radio show yesterday. We interviewed this New Jersey congressman who's been all over the news, this guy Jeff Andrew. And this drone UFO UAP story just getting crazy.
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Do you see why the deep state accounts and the lib accounts are terrified of this guy? I'm telling you, you're being played. That's why we always win. Because we know exactly who to warn you about. And then they freak out and they panic when we expose them because they continue to get their asses handed to them. They're afraid of this guy. That's why.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Because there's billions of dollars at stake to going like this. Looking the other way. So what do you do? You go anonymously attack him online. Kash Patel secretly got Martian genes in him. He's going to infiltrate the web. And idiots believe it. They're afraid of this guy. This guy's been openly talking about questions you've had forever. You may say to yourself, fairly or not, right?
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You may say, Failure, that's probably a poor way to say it. But you may say to yourself, I disagree with Ukrainian spending. But even if you do disagree on funding the war in Ukraine, even if you do, can we at least agree if we're going to send our money there, then it should at least be spent on what we say we should spend it on. Buy this weapons system. Not like buy off a politician. Right?
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Even if you disagree. Right? This is why they hate this guy. Please, trust me. I've told you. Our batting average is 1,000 here. We have vanquished many a foe on exactly this. Toy with the Bongino Army. You're going to always lose. There's a reason we're the number one live stream. Because we're always on the right side here, man.
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It's because we do our homework, and we obey the Bongino rule, and we don't fall for sucker stuff online. Folks, Pete Hegseth, the war on Pete Hegseth is continuing as well. Pete is another victim of this. Maybe not in a way Cash, but Cash Patel, there's a different attack going on on Cash Patel by deep staters and libs.
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The attack on Pete Hegseth has a lot to do with people who profit off an endless war machine. I'm not throwing out silly talk. Defense industry sucks. Really? Some of the defense industry makes some of the firearms. I have my own house. They don't suck. What does suck is when the defense industry gets an outside... kind of elaborated megaphone-like voice in our foreign policy.
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We didn't elect the defense industry to do anything. There is a lot of money in the war machine. Pete Exeth is going to ask about these foreign interventions we're engaged in. He's going to ask a critical question. Why are we there? Nobody wants people asking questions. They want the Mark Milley type and whatever who are just like, yeah, okay, whatever, let's do it.
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What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
So, of course, the media is trying to dismantle Pete Hegseth because they're in bed with a lot of these lobbyists and others. And ProPublica, which is basically a left-wing goon site, was trying to attack Pete Hegseth with a false report. Show the tweet if you could. That he was not accepted to West Point in 1999. Really? Really?
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Oh, no, no, they're not reading into it. They didn't need to read into it. It read all itself by itself. There was no reading into it necessarily. Someone in the chat just brought up Uncle Brosie. I had totally forgotten about Uncle Brosie and the cannibals eating Uncle Brosie. I forgot that. The Uncle Brosie clip. I just wanted to throw it out there because our batting average, Justin, is what?
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So Pete says, here is my letter of acceptance signed by the West Point superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman of the U.S. Army.
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So ProPublica, of course, which is going to do extra scrutiny on Pete Hegseth, unlike they would do on any left winger out there, because they seem to focus exclusively on conservative leaning Supreme Court justices and people like Pete Hegseth, got absolutely wrecked. Now, ProPublica is saying, hey, we were doing, I'll give you their side because unlike ProPublica, we try to do actual reporting.
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ProPublica is saying, hey, this is journalism. We heard that Pete Hegseth was lying about West Point. We reached out to West Point. West Point told us on the record he did not apply there. They're saying clearly we were wrong. Therefore, we didn't publish the story. Folks, this is about intent. You know what they were doing. And now the West Point was forced to issue a statement.
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A review of our records indicates Hegseth was offered admission to West Point in 1999, but did not attend. They say it was an incorrect statement from whatever their admissions department or whatever. Folks, I'm sorry, but I just don't believe any of it. I just don't. I'm so tired of the media attack jobs on these people. They fabricated a narrative in their head.
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In real life, it turned out to be false. They were emailing around about this thing. This isn't the kind of scrutiny left wingers get. You know, however much you hate the media, I promise you it is not enough. They will never call out left-wing BS. Here's a perfect example. I want to contrast these two stories. I put that first for a reason.
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Here we have a story that's making the news, and ProPublica was trying to advance before they got shut down, about a completely false, ridiculous story. Pete Hegseth did not get accepted to West Point. Absolutely fake and false, okay? Because they're subjecting Pete to scrutiny they never subject the left to. Here's an example of something pro-publica. I'd be very impressed if they did this story.
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Here's Bill Clinton on The View yesterday, the other day. Yesterday or the day before, it doesn't matter. Bill Clinton's a guest on The View. He says something on The View patently false, debunked by every serious journalist out there, including unserious journalists like The Washington Post. He's talking about Hillary Clinton and her emails.
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Do you see a concerted left-wing effort right now today to attack him like they attack Hegseth? No, you don't. They're going to let the whole thing go because the left wing has said it, because there's two different standards. Actually, there's one standard. We're in charge and you're not. Check this out.
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Do you see the hierarchy system where when you're the left, right, the media, and you're in charge, you don't give a shit about looking like hypocrites. You just protect your own because you're insulating the top from power so they can subjugate people beneath them. Washington Post, Glenn Kessler. I mean, you want to talk about left, even these left-wing lunatics.
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Clinton's claims about receiving or sending classified material on a private email system. They had to update the fact check. To a new four Pinocchio rating from two. That's how much bullshit he just said right there. Folks, she did receive classified information. They wiped the markings off some of the documents. Everybody knows that. But because he's a left winger, he's protected.
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1,000 kids, that is correct. I told you they were going to start eating themselves alive. And it's little things like this. Do you think she wasn't taking a shot at Kamala Harris's Ren and Stimpy happy, happy, joy, joy campaign? Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy. You know, we always give Stimson J. Cat a shout-out, but we leave Ren out of it. There's Ren Hork. There you go. Say hello, fellas.
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This is why they are so afraid of AI. You get where I'm going with this? They have a massive, multibillion-dollar international effort going on right now, the left, to stop people like Bill Clinton from getting actually fact-checked while attacking people like Pete Hague said for facts that don't exist.
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And what they do is when something comes out they don't like, they just label it misinformation or disinformation as a way to censor it. This is a multibillion-dollar business, censorship for them. Here's Molly Hemingway on Fox describing the hundreds of millions of dollars that went into this in the Biden administration trying to censor people. They never, ever, ever can have you see the truth.
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There's so many different theories. But what's kind of weird about it is it doesn't matter what theory you throw out there. Somebody jumps down your throat and it's like they're invested somehow in another one and they want to kill you for it. I'm going to plow ahead. I'm going to do what I want to do based on the facts, but I got something else in the beginning, and I'm going to get to that.
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They're afraid you'll never vote Democrat again. Check this out.
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Folks, this censorship business is a staple of current liberal left-wing politics. Why would you have to censor people if you felt like the information you were putting out there was factually accurate? Why? I don't understand. Why are you censoring people on the pipe bomber? Why are you censoring people on COVID and masks?
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Why are you censoring people on January 6th and how many feds are in the crowd? Why are you censoring people on Bill Clinton? Why are you censoring people on Pete Higgins? Why? They're doing it because they were afraid you were going to see the truth. This is what bothers them about AI. I promised you yesterday a follow-up to this segment. This is fascinating. This is fascinating.
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This is this guy, Mark Andreessen, big tech investor, played a clip from yesterday talking about how if you missed yesterday's clip, you can watch a podcast. But the gist of it was that He was investing in some AI companies, and the government came to him and said, don't put your money in there. We're going to control all the AI anyway. Don't even bother. And he was like, wait, what?
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What do you mean you guys are going to control AI? Here's a follow-up to this, where he's talking about why they need to control AI. Because it's going to be the front-facing filter by which you get your information about everything. The law, cops, healthcare, government, tax policy. And if you can filter information, i.e. prevent people from seeing the truth, you own the world.
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Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy. There you go. I'll leave them up until we put this video here. So we had some breaking news on the radio show yesterday. If you missed any of the show... Congressman Jeff Van Drew, this growing UFO, UAP drone scandal in New Jersey. And folks, listen, I get it. Everybody's got an opinion.
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This is a really troubling clip. Watch this.
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I ended it there for a reason. That's what you needed to hear. That's the takeaway. I hope you tattoo that on your brain. They need to train the AI to lie. And no private company is going to do that without government protection. You know why? Feed it to me in the chat. Come on, let's hear it. Because you'll be sued.
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If you are an AI company and you put out some information on your AI that you've knowingly trained to lie. I'll give you a quick example, an easy one. Some medical procedure. oh, you don't need to see a doctor about this specific condition because it's politically incorrect to do so.
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And then that person dies because you've trained it to lie because of some politically incorrect narrative, then you could be sued. However... Just like certain pharma industries get government protections for taking risks on things, this is exactly what they want to do with AI.
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They want to make sure it's under a government umbrella so that they're protected against the lying and the lawsuits later. You get where I'm going with this? There's got to be a filter, an algorithm-like filter that filters out you from accessing the truth about everything from what the rich pay in taxes to what school choice actually does in the states.
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Because if you start looking it up and you're an impressionable voter, you'll never vote Democrat again. They can't have that. That's the problem. They need to train it to lie. And it's not easy to do without government interference, without worrying about massive liability problems and everything else. Here's another reason. Just a really simple market reason.
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Say there's no government involvement at all. AI is going to tell you the truth. If one AI tells you the truth and another one's run by a bunch of liberals at some company called Scroogle or whatever, no one's going to use the AI that lies because people generally want accurate information.
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They're going to go to the AI from whatever, conservative AI dot whatever, and they're going to say, hey, man, I thought these were both intelligent. How come this one's given a different answer? And people are going to realize they're being lied to. Either way, it blows up the left-wing media symbiote that's engaged in propaganda forever.
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For the listeners out there who seem upset at me for having an opinion on the matter, you're entitled to yours too. I'm not upset at you. This is not symmetric. You're upset at me. I'm not upset at you. If you have a different opinion, it's this. That's fine. That's perfectly okay. However, it's the Dan Bongino show.
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Places like Wikipedia will no longer credibly exist with a functioning AI. And it breaks down one of the biggest propaganda operations on the left. Man, I've been warning you about this forever. Our batting average is 1,000. Control of AI is everything in the future. Everything. You will never win an election again without it.
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All right, I want to move on to an important story because I got to tell you, I'm torn on this one. That's why I left it for last. And, you know, listen, I need your help. Your opinions matter to me. I don't claim to have all the answers on everything. And sometimes my opinions, you know, may be wrong. So there's a couple of scandals going on in the Secret Service.
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One of them is a pretty big deal. I'll play it next. It's from the Jesse Waters show. They put it out last night. Jesse's been doing a great job about a lot of these Secret Service issues. I know he's very concerned about it. I've known Jesse a long time. He wants to make sure President Trump and all the protectees stay alive. But this broke the other day as well.
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Susan Crabtree is an excellent reporter. You should follow her on X. She's at Susan Crabtree, common spelling. She has a little scooplet here from the Secret Service. This is an email that went out. I assume it's from a Presidential Protection Division agent because she says so. Looks like a supervisor. It's basically a reply-all email. And you can see the email below.
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She got it, obviously, from a source. There's no disputing it's accurate because the agent who sent it out, the supervisor, has since apologized for the tone of it. And I'm not going to read the whole thing, but here's the gist of it. This sounds like it's what we would call a shift leader. So the president's detail, keep this up if you would, guys. The president's detail has a number of shifts.
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Day shift, afternoon shift, training shift, midnight shift, and then other stuff they do. I'm not going to get into all the details. But scheduling people to be on duty 24 hours a day because you never forfeit protection. You don't give the president downtime. He always has protection all the time. It's hard. It's a pain in the ass. I did it as the whip in TS.
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And I did the schedule when I was the number one whip on the shift myself. It's a real pain in the ass. So this is why I'm torn on this. I guess what happened is a lot of guys were requesting what they call RDOs. RDOs are short for regular days off. So this manager's pissed. And he says, as a reminder, with respect to the schedule, there's a lot going on.
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So requesting RDOs next week isn't going to cut it. Between all these things, including temps, trips, and all this stuff, he says unless it's a legit emergency, don't even request anything for the next week out. It's not just for this week. I mean going forward. And he goes into this big, long thing, and he talks about how the ADLs work way too hard. Who are the ADLs? I'll translate for you.
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That's assistant detail leaders, okay? Those are the guys, the ADLs and the whips, who do the schedule. So he's basically saying you're messing up this ADL's life by having to change the schedule all the time. And then he has to throw some dumbass comment in like, so wanting to have next Tuesday off so you can get your dog groomed. Like, you don't need to write that.
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I'm going to give you my opinion based on what I believe are a series of facts and data points. I believe it is some foreign adversary doing this. If it's not in New Jersey, it's elsewhere. We know about the China spy balloon, fact. We know about... Key sources telling us about China buying land around U.S. military facilities. Fact. What the hell do you think they're doing this for?
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And he's basically saying, don't even bother requesting this stuff. This caused a whole big shit show controversy in the Secret Service. Now, I'm kind of torn on this. And again, I don't pretend to know it all. Unpopular opinions, they're opinions too. But I owe you the truth because the show is always going to be authentic.
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When I was on the detail and we didn't have any of these security problems, airspace was secure, nothing happened to protect these on my watch or any time I was over on the detail at all, okay? We had a pretty good group of guys who knew what they were doing, weren't perfect, but, you know, we had a pretty good group of guys. I'm going to be honest with you.
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You don't need to write emails like this. I get that. The tone is definitely, you just don't talk to people like that. However, the gist of the email is pretty much accurate. If you're going to go in the Secret Service and you want to do the protection detail in the Secret Service, then folks, there's really, if you take a day off,
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If you're requesting a day off, the shift has – I'm just going to throw a number. It's not the real number, I promise you. But let's say the shift around the president has 15 guys on it. There's 15 guys protecting President Biden right now. If someone requests an RDO or an SDO, scheduled day off, that's unplanned, someone else who had a day off has to come in.
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You don't work short ever on the detail. So I get it. The tone is kind of like, eh, I'm just saying like someone gets effed over bad. Someone who had a day off to go to his kid's birthday party. Now it's the cancel to fill in for the other guy. So I get why some of the agents were pissed off. You shouldn't talk to the guys like this. They're busting their asses. And I love you guys.
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But when I was there, this is the way it pretty much went down. I mean, if you, you know, you got a day off and you get called in, it pretty much sucks. I want to play this too. This happened on Jesse Waters' show last night. This is some relatively new information. Apparently there was an engagement with the, remember the golf course incident with Donald Trump?
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They had the potential assassin right there waiting in the woods. And then there's an engagement with the Secret Service. This is some new stuff. Check this out. There's some commentary on the other side.
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They're doing it to surveil the United States in case there's some kind of a world war. So they have an idea of what our critical infrastructure looks like. This isn't hard. You can have whatever theory you want. I'm just telling you Occam's razor. This is something foreign, not something necessarily exotic. And they know there's nothing we're going to do about it. So is it Iran?
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Okay, there's a number of takeaways there. I want to focus on a couple. Obviously, we've got to get the marksmanship issue down. Folks, the Secret Service credo, motto about firearms when I was there, and I'm pretty sure still today, is you are responsible for every round.
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The core of that being, if you're going to unleash a round anywhere near the president, then you damn well better hit something, and it better not be one of the good guys. It's easy for me to Monday morning quarterback anything. I'm just saying this is what we do.
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And if we've got to up the firearms requiles to weekly instead of monthly, if it's got to be more tactical rather than paper shooting, fine. But we need a director in there. That's why I keep talking about this, who understands this stuff, and we need a premium on shooting. Because I'm telling you, when I was there, a lot of guys skipped their training requirements, and it happened a lot.
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So that may have something to do with this, may not. But second... Folks, how the hell was there no pre-operation surveillance done to detect this guy that he was sitting there all this time? I cannot believe that they went to a golf course. They knew he was going to hours in advance. And nobody went out there and did any pre-op surveillance.
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It's such an act of misfeasance, borderline malfeasance that people should have been fired over it. It's disgraceful. We need a director in there to clean this thing up, man. This is way past the point of like, oh, my bad, someone's going to die if we don't get this done soon. They need to get going on this quick because the people in charge now are folks, they're calcified in their thinking.
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They're never going to change anything because they can't. They need fresh blood in there. It is a train wreck over there. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. 151,000, another kick-ass live stream. Thanks for making us the number one live stream in the United States yesterday. We appreciate it. And Triton just came out with their podcast, Rankers. Thank you again.
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You know I love you guys so much. Number three podcast in the U.S. last month. That's really awesome. I really appreciate it, guys. Who? Oh, oh my gosh. Shame on me. I put it out on my Twitter this morning. Huge congratulations. PodTrack has their top 20 new podcasts of the year. Who was number 11? Yes, Evita Duffy.
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Is there a ship offshore? I don't know. I tend to think more, lean more towards China. Iran's got its own issues right now. But here was Congressman Van Drew from New Jersey on my show yesterday. And he's sticking by this story. So, you know, check this out and you can make your own decision. Take a listen. So where do we stand with this? Are you getting any answers?
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I mean, you're a sitting congressman. Are they giving you the runaround, too?
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I got a lot more. It was a crazy, also secret service story that broke last night. Today's show sponsored by Blackout Coffee. You know, every single day, the official coffee of the Bongino Army. Go to blackoutcoffee.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 20% off your first order. Thanks, Blackout Coffee. I got that. Also, a big update on Christopher Wray.
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Now, MarleyB1947 says in the chat... It's their job to know. Marley B, 1947. Thank you. That's the point. Is it Iran? I don't know. Is it a mothership offshore? I have no idea. My sources haven't told me that at all. I'm basing it on simple evidence that I think it's a foreign actor. Because a foreign actor's done this before. This spy balloon. China. We know the story.
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Who's buying land around military facilities? China. What do you think they're buying land for? Because they want to be sharecroppers? They're buying land because they're surveilling the United States in case they got to go to war with us. When in doubt, always pick the explanation that requires you to assume the least, not the most. You're free to have your own opinion on it. Now,
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You know my rule with the left, right? When the left comes out and has a visceral, immediate reaction, along with their deep state media allies to something, immediate, an immediate reaction to something, what does it tell you? Always, how many times I got to say this? Bongino Army, represent. Fire it up in the chat.
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Always measure the effectiveness of an appointee, a bill, a message by the ferocity of the response on the other side. Immediately after this, a press conference gets called at the Pentagon. Not after my show. He had said that before. Congressman Van Drew. The Pentagon calls a press conference and there's this question from Catherine Herridge who we know is kind of Not Catherine Herridge.
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I'm sorry. Catherine Herridge, a great reporter. Whatever it is. Griffin. Oh, she's totally in there with the Pentagon people. It's like, this is, to me, just seems like an obvious setup, this whole thing. I want you to listen to them. I mean, feverishly deny this. But they just told us from the White House hours before this, they don't know what they are.
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So they don't know what they are, but they know it's not that. Can someone explain? Now I'm sure it's a foreign adversary. Check this out.
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You've got the IG report coming out today, I believe, around somewhere during my radio show on January 6th. So stay tuned to my radio show. Hopefully, we'll get our hands on that one. Let me tell you, I had my Helix mattress for several years now. I noticed how great I'm sleeping throughout the night, how energized I feel in the morning. Energy gives me enough strength. to get through long days.
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Folks, I don't understand something. Someone in the chat, please explain this to me. Explain it to me like I'm still wearing diapers. Pretend I'm really stupid for a second, please. The White House. State police in New Jersey, the governor, local mayors, local cops. Nobody has an answer about what this is. No one. All they can tell you is we don't know.
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So if you don't know, how can you draw a conclusion that it's not Iran? How do you draw a conclusion that it's not a danger? How? I don't understand if you don't know. Now, you may say, well, they can prove it because we have no evidence that there's an Iranian ship offshore. You don't? Okay, is it coming out of a cargo container shipped from somewhere? I mean, they're drones.
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Folks, they're bullshitting us. I'm telling you. The batting average on this show is a freaking thousand. If you watch, you know. This is probably a foreign actor. These deep state people in the Pentagon and elsewhere don't want to acknowledge our failure to do anything about basic aerial surveillance to technology because they don't want to look weak.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Someone sending us a message before Trump gets into office. This is what we can do to you guys because they're afraid of what happens when Trump gets in there. So they were embarrassing Biden right now. Right. And it's clear that the swamp, the deep state swamp, is desperately trying to explain this away, not by telling you what it is, but by telling you what it isn't.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
All right, I spent a lot of time on this yesterday, but this story just seems to be growing legs by the minute. And if we get any updates, you'll hear them on the radio show. But I'm telling you, folks, this is a serious story because if they're lying because their security is inadequate over the airspace, it's a freaking scandal.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
And if they're not lying and they don't know what's flying in the skies, despite multi trillions of dollars of government security assets around the country. then we've got an even bigger problem. Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday was a good day though. The winning continues. More, more, more, more. Just keep it coming. Keep it rolling.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Let that more roller coaster keep going up and down and up and down because I am having a grand old time post-election waiting eagerly for Donald Trump to raise his right hand as the victories pile up. What happened yesterday?
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Well, what happened yesterday is our disgraced FBI director, Christopher Wray, which, by the way, if this January 6th Inspector General report comes out later on the show, and I'll get to cover it on radio if it comes out today, I don't think it's a coinkydink that this guy announces his resignation yesterday because there may be a lot of dirty little details on him.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Here is Fox reporting on Christopher Wray, disgraced FBI director, now, thankfully, for the sake of the country, resigning. Good, great, good riddance. See you later. Don't let the door hit you in the ass. Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
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The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
No, now isn't the time to go. Time for you to go was seconds after you got hired. I mean, this guy's practically worse than Jim Comey. The level of malfeasance and misfeasance we've seen in the FBI since this guy's been in charge. Folks, it's important now that we don't let sleeping dogs lie, okay?
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Christopher Wray's FBI was responsible for a lot of malicious, I believe, illegal behavior and certainly unconstitutional behavior. And if we let it go, what's the problem? Well, the problem is it's going to happen again because there's no penalty for it.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
If you let people in the FBI steal elections and interfere in elections and there's no penalty, then what's going to stop them from doing it again? The answer is nothing. Here's just a little bit of Christopher Wray's greatest misses because he has no greatest hits. This guy's been a disgrace during his time at the FBI, but these are things I am not going to let go.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
He still will not admit that on January 6th, The only thing the Democrats ever want to talk about, January 6th, January 6th, January 6th. They act like the country's stuck in this January 6th like Tesseract and can't leave it. He will not admit that there were FBI sources in the crowd, despite the fact I am telling you, look at me, please.
The Dan Bongino Show
What Is The Government Hiding From Us? (Ep. 2387)
Look, I have a federal agent source who has shown me pictures of There were feds in the crowd on January 6th. That's an absolute fact. There's no disputing it. Just come clean. He won't. Remember this? Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Welcome to Sunday Podcast. This is our chance to play for you some of the best moments from the radio show and some great interviews during the week that you may have missed. If you ever want to check out our show, go to Bongino.com. Go to Station Finder and see what radio station we're on near you. You'll love it. I promise you. We put a lot of work into the radio show. Check it out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I want to welcome to the show a congressman from New Jersey, one of the areas impacted by this UAP UFO ongoing scandal right now. He's been very public about it, and his constituents are concerned. Congressman Jeff Van Drew, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Wanted to have him on to talk about this assassination of the healthcare CEO in New York. I think you're going to like this interview. Check this interview out with Michael Francese. So I've had this guest on both my radio show and my show that used to be on Fox. And he's always been great. He is a reformed member of the mob in New York City.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Congressman, this is obviously a huge scandal. And the reason I say that is you're obviously a member of Congress. If the government does not know what's going on, despite the obvious concerns of your constituents, then that's a huge scandal. The alternate scenario that they do know what's going on and they're lying to both you and your constituents, it's still a scandal.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So where do we stand with this? Are you getting any answers? I mean, you're a sitting congressman. Are they giving you the runaround, too?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Well, we're talking to Congressman Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey about this UFO growing scandal now. There's a lot of people concerned.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
congressman i'm an occam's razor guy like you like just give me the simplest answer um it's it's not that there isn't a history of the government lying to us about foreign infiltration of our airspace i mean it was only a year ago i was in surgery in a hospital i get out i turn on the tv and there's video of a freaking chinese spy balloon flying over the country and the biden administration playing stupid i mean it's it's not that this hasn't happened
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And I saw him this weekend on a documentary I was watching. I'm obsessed with mob stories called Fear City. And he was so great. And he's been a good friend to the show. I wanted to have him back. Michael Frances. Michael, welcome back to the show. So good to have you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So anybody attacking you, oh my gosh, the idea of Iranian drones coming from offshore onto New Jersey is simply crazy. How crazy is it? We've had like 14th century balloon technology violate our airspace for a week at a time. This has happened before.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of people agree with you. Talking to Congressman Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey. Congressman, first, I agree with you 100 percent about, you know, tell me I'm wrong. I have no problem. I'd rather I prefer I am wrong. I believe it's a foreign adversary as well, based on the Occam's razor conclusion.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
If it isn't and it's a couple of guys, you know, having a couple of beers and messing around with some drones. Great. I'm more than happy to put that out on the air. I have no desire to be right while sacrificing our national security. However, Holman Jenkins is a really good reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He's been reporting on this for a long time.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
He has an op-ed out in October, and he addresses this question. This is October, so this is before this whole thing happened, obviously. And he says, listen, a lot of these UFO, UAP phenomenon, the military knows what they are. They're likely foreign actors doing what you and I think they're doing, surveilling sensitive locations.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know, I saw you this weekend on Fierce City. Obviously, you know the documentary, you're in it. You're in for a long time, by the way. And just before we get to this assassination on the CEO and the suspect in custody, you know, you were really great in there. And I think people forget
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And because the military is so afraid of looking inadequate and incompetent that they're using this UFO kind of extraterrestrial, you know, ET wink and nod as a distraction to keep you from looking into them going, hey, man, you guys have an answer for this or what? What do you make of that? And military leaders address this with you at all?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Congressman, actually talking about you on the news right now. You made some news with this story today, so I'm glad to have you. Last question. I know you're busy. I'll let you go. Talking to Congressman Jeff Drew from the New Jersey area where this UAP UFO story is made national news. Congressman, I've gotten a ton of questions from listeners about, well, Dan, why do you think New Jersey?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Why is New Jersey not the only place, but it seems to be the epicenter of this activity? I've thrown out, I'm speculating, I've been honest about that. If I knew, I'd tell you conclusively, but New Jersey is a media center, no question about it. It'd be a lot more difficult to fly one over New York City with LaGuardia, JFK, restricted airspace.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
How powerful those families were, those mob families in New York prior to that commission case where Rudy Giuliani took them down. I mean, everything from the buildings industry to concrete to drug running. I mean, they were really involved in just about everything.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Most of the people who do media in New York live in Northern New Jersey. A lot of the finance people, a lot of influential people live there as well. You've got critical infrastructure there, military bases, you've got Bedminster. If you were gonna try to cause a stir and say, hey, look, this is what we can do to you, I'd want to do it in Northern New Jersey.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
It's probably the best place to do it and get it on the news.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah. I got this huge lump in my neck. It's been, it looks like Quatto from total recall. Uh, it hurts a little bit. Do you know what it is, doc? I have no idea, but don't sweat it. Take a St. Joseph's baby aspirin, everything will be okay. I'm not, I'm not as, Congressman, I'm glad you don't have the faith in some of these people either that my listeners don't.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Listen, as you said before, just prove us wrong. Come to the table, give you a classified brief. Yeah, at least you could go to your constituents and say, hey, listen, there's things I can't share. However, I've been assured this is what it is. It's at least not a threat when we're free to talk about more. Well, they won't even tell you that, which has me really worried.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
That's the worst answer. If what you just said is correct, that's the worst answer. If that they don't know, scares me even worse. Congressman, thanks a lot for coming on. If you get any updates, you're welcome back anytime. Really appreciate it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Jim, if you ever do a sequel to your Dan Bongino Show survival guide book, if you don't put the story in about how they should have listened and we could have saved them $100 million, and really, me and you, we can't be friends anymore. They should have listened, right? Nobody knows. If you're really smart, you know what it is. If you're like...
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
If you're like a PhD in P1s, we warned them against drafting a guy. Two interceptions. I told you. I watched every week. Jim, we tried desperately to save you 100 milli. And you didn't listen. And now you know. We need Roger Scarron to talk about that. They're around and now they're finding out. Did we not call it? Jim, can you find that segment at some point so we can play that again?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You've got to. Like one day. You'll see what I mean. All right. I got a great guest for you here. Welcoming back to the show, a good friend and a guy who calls balls and strikes. Ned Ryan. Ned, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Jim and I have a bunch of these like deep dark, if you know, you know, secrets. And I just warned him not to draft this guy. And they did. And Ned, I could have saved them 100 milli and they didn't listen. They didn't. They should have trusted me.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
needs to make better choices in life that's it right make better choices exactly thank you my brother so ned the drone story i'm going to get into it after you get off the air i'm not going to get into what they are what they aren't right now i have a theory on it based on some evidence but it's a theory i'm not i'm you know i'm being clear it's speculation at this point however that's not what i want to talk to you about what i want to talk to you about is a piece in the wall street journal it was interesting even though he took a shot at podcast
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Nobody trusts the government anymore. Nobody trusts the government about anything. I see this story one of two ways at this point. Either the government knows what it is and the story's so devastating they're lying and nobody believes them, or the government doesn't know what it is, which is an even bigger scandal that the government doesn't know what it is. Either way, the government sucks.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
We're talking to Ned Ryan. Ned, yes, this is why I like having you on the show. We think alike. We are so simpatico. You said two things that are correct. I do believe they know what it is because yes, but I also believe they're incompetent.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal, I've been citing a lot because he's been talking about this story forever and that his operating thesis has been that this is, foreign surveillance that just like the spy balloon and that they know, just someone said to me, oh, but they've got lights on on the drones. That's the point.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
They don't even care that China knew that we knew it was their spy balloon and they just have no respect for this Biden team at all. So I believe two things you said are accurate. They do know what it is. It's probably foreign, not 100%, but probably foreign.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
and they just don't know what to do because if they tell people it's foreign, everybody's going to go, wait, you guys don't have a plan for this? These guys are idiots. They don't have a plan because they work for the government.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know, Michael, I was talking to Michael Francis. Michael, forgive me for saying, what crime family were you, which mob family were you a member of? I'm sorry, was it the Columbos?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Ned Ryan, he has a book out. It's amazing. I got an early copy of it. It's called American Leviathan. Yes. I blurbed it because it was fantastic. Ned and Sean Davis kind of see the way they see balls and strikes. They don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat, which those are the only type of guests I have in the show.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
If you're a Republican party ass kisser, then don't come on my show ever. So American Leviathan is a book. Pick it up. Ned, I wanted to kind of double down on something you just brought up, which is the inefficiency component of the government. We're spending $7 trillion on government. And again, the drone story, forgetting about what it is or isn't, but just the government's approach to it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You're telling me, you know, Facebook's what, trillion or close to trillion dollar company. You mentioned, I'm not telling you I like this. I'm just telling you it happens. You're in a room and you mentioned that, you know, you want to learn how to throw a curveball. It's amazing. You get a Facebook ad. Here's this special baseball that'll teach you how to grip the curveball.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And you're like, oh, my gosh, they're spying on us. How do I know this? Yet you've got these things in the sky that look like dump trucks with lights on them that, you know, thousands of people can see. And the $7 trillion government's like, I don't know, man. What is it? I don't know. I'm not really sure. And it brings up the question you brought up. I don't need it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I love the Department of Government Efficiency, but you're right. I don't want little scalpel stuff. I want machetes going on. I want whole departments wiped out. We got to start over.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Columbus, you, you know, I didn't realize, but you actually spent a good amount of time in federal prison over this. I mean, this isn't something you're just talking about as if like, you know, you are, you were deep in this and I saw it in the fear city thing. And you mentioned this moment where you had this in the documentary where you had this moment where you said, you know what?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah, so Jerry Baker at the Wall Street Journal, obviously not a Trump guy at all, but he has a piece that just popped 20 minutes ago in the editorial column. And it's a pretty good piece. And the gist of the piece is we have not had a political bank account. I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about power, a political bank account
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
as full as we have now since 2004, George Bush, when he won reelection pretty handily. We haven't had that. 2016, they were, you know, stupid allegations of collusion. You had the Mueller thing. A lot of Trump's political capital was taken away by ridiculous conspiracy theories. Ned, we know they haven't given up the left or commies. You and I both know that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
But there's simply no question that the resistance air quotes has been muted. It just has. I think they're so shocked by him winning the popular vote that we have. And you were just kind of hinting at it probably about 18 months where we can do some really special things. And you're seeing it now during the transition. Trump has a lot of political capital right now.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
This isn't the life. I've had enough of this and I'm going to go in a different direction. And was it the commission case? Was that it when they took down the heads of all these crime families where you said, this ain't for me. I'm going the straight and narrow.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Can I stop you there? Because I don't want to miss that point. I think, and I'd love to get your take on it, I think Pete Hegseth was the turning point. I think they got their scalp in Matt Gaetz. I think they feel like, okay, we had that measuring contest, if you know what I mean. But I think the Hegseth thing, I think they were trying to do it again. I don't think that was an act.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
They were like, oh, no, we just want our guy because we want to fight every foreign war possible. And I think they were genuinely stunned by guys like you, me, Sean Davis, Cat Turd, everyone. You'd laugh at him. He's probably the second most powerful guy on Twitter. They couldn't believe it. And I think now they're like, oh, my gosh, this MAGA movement's real. They're not kidding around.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You're so right with the domino thing. That's what terrified me. They always get one scalp. I don't agree with what they did, but they always get one. But I totally agree with you. Pete had to be the red line. He's more than qualified. He's a man of integrity. These were anonymous things that had already been handled. There's nobody in D.C. that doesn't have some story.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So please spare me the nonsense of the morality lectures. Nate, I want to get a plug in for your book. Unfortunately, I'm out of time. Ned Ryan, the book is American Leviathan. I wrote a blurb for it. I don't do a lot of blurbs. This book is fantastic. You want to learn about what the government is doing to you and how this metastasizing cancer on your life has taken over.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
American Leviathan, wherever you get your books. Ned, thanks for coming on. We really appreciate it. Always such great insights. Thanks a lot.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You got it. I try to only have guests on who see the rot on both sides, folks. Where else are you going to get what you get at the New York Times? A bias view of the world where the Democrats can do no wrong and the Republicans are the evil Nazis all the time. Here's the bottom line. Whereas the Democrats are the cause of your problems, Republicans sometimes aren't the solution either.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Finally, this was a real surprise interview. I wasn't sure how this was gonna go over. We talked with Chef Andrew Gruhl, who is just a great Make America Great Again guy. But the prime rib segment, I don't think I've ever gotten more emails about, I'm not even kidding, about an interview segment than this one. Listen to the interview, you'll see what I mean. Check this out.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So President Trump's nominees, the left-wing media has told you, of course, that they're controversial. That's obviously their line for everything Donald Trump does.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
But if you watch the beginning of the show or the beginning of the podcast, how controversial can they all be if the Trump transition is near universal GOP approval and the approval of the transition has been going pretty well with the general population as well? Folks, there's nothing wrong with having people with different viewpoints in your cabinet.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Now, I am a fan of the team of rivals approach as long as there's some loyalty involved, not a team of like Mitt Romney, Adam Kinzinger type rivals. But the selections for the cabinet have been a really diverse group. And I'm not talking about diverse in the woke way. I mean, ideologically. Some of them I agree with, some of them I don't. But I'm willing to hear them out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
One of them has been RFK Jr., who has had a really, really bold voice over the years when it comes to things like our food supply and elsewhere. So our next guest, you've probably seen him on social media if you follow him. He has a really big following. He was very active during COVID defending the restaurants out there that were being closed down. His name is Andrew Gruhl.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Chef Andrew Gruhl, welcome to the show. Good to have you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Always good to have you, especially around one of these eating holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know I'm kind of wondering, wait, before we get to the serious stuff. So, I mean, turkey's obviously the go-to on Thanksgiving. But, I mean, you're a chef and a pretty famous one at that. Like, what's the go-to on Christmas? Is it that? the ham thing?
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Or do you go with like a rib roast or something? I don't know. Like I'm just the steak guy. I just want a ribeye with some fat and marbling in it. But what's the go-to Christmas dish for the audience that in the chef Andrew gruel household, we're like, this is happening.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Prime rib now. Wait, how do you cook it? Because producer Jim, I don't know if you know this, is like a big lover of smoked meats and everything like that. He goes to these barbecue festivals and everything and tears it up. How do you cook the prime rib so it's juicy and tender and it like melts in your mouth so you can have like no teeth, just gums and it still works?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Folks, you see, only on this show that you've got Christmas coming up next week, and now you know about the CR, the Trump transition, you know about Trump answering the phone, personal politics, and you also know how to put the best prime rib on the kitchen table next week for your Christmas holiday, your Christmas meal. Where else are you going to get that? Talking to Chef Andrew Gruhl.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Chef, another thing I wanted to address with you is Bobby Kennedy has brought to light a lot of issues that guys like you spend their lives around food. Obviously, you're a chef, but, you know, me as well. I mean, I'm a radio host, but I am obsessed with life hacks and being healthy. I went through a pretty nasty health situation. Luckily, got through it. But I realized the power of food.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know, everybody's looking for a pill, you know? What is it? Is it the collagen, the vitamin C? It's all good stuff, I get it, but they're called supplements, Chef, for a reason. They're meant to supplement a healthy diet. Bobby Kennedy, with his focus on health and fitness and food and the food supply chain, has brought this into the public light, this Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
but our food has become so processed and there's such garbage and it comes from a bag. You look on the back, there's like 10,000 ingredients, all these food dyes and all this stuff that I wish I could get across to America, that you can make healthy stuff Tastes amazing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You can go and put some olive oil and a nice vinegar on a spinach salad and throw in some asparagus tips and some avocado and some really nice grilled chicken, and you've got this amazing, God-given food right in front of you, and it has none of this poison in it at all. This is what this Make America Healthy Again movement has really got to be about.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So many of our problems would be cured if people would just eat like that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Talking to Chef Andrew Gruhl. Chef, one other thing I wanted to ask you about this too is with this, I had this change in my diet after I had this whole episode with cancer. And I realized that these processed sugars and processed foods were probably, were at a minimum not helping. We'll just say that. I don't want to be hyperbolic about it, but were definitely not helping my health.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And when I changed my diet, to uh fruits vegetables the things you heard you've heard since your kindergarten teacher taught it's not complicated you know grilled chicken salmon you know leaner meats when i changed my diet it was just it's three to six month period where you still crave you know an oreo or uh And I still like a Five Guys burger. They still taste good, but you crave it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know what I'm saying? Like the first few months of transitioning to that Make America Healthy Again type of eating program, you really do miss kind of the sweet stuff. But then you reach this kind of transitional, almost breaking point, where you lose the craving for it at all and your life is totally changed.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
My kid loves sweets still, so she'll go out and eat an Oreo or whatever once in a while, some cookie. And I'm not sitting there going, gosh, I wish I had one of those. Your taste buds change, your whole body changes. You get lean, the bloating stops, all this other stuff.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
There is that, have you noticed that when, obviously you're being around food all the time, that it does kind of take a while to break that. Sugar is an addictive compound. It's almost like a drug.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Talking to Chef Andrew Gould. Chef, last question for you. You were really, really active on social media defending individual liberty during the COVID shutdowns because restaurants got destroyed. Some of them never came back. Just the effect was just so profound all across the country.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I'm of the belief that a lot of the shift that happened in this Donald Trump victory in the election, not all of it, but a lot of it was due to the far left and the swampy right, to be candid about it, their response to COVID. There were people, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, it didn't matter.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
They were all impacted by an overreaction to this tragic virus, but one that the effects of it were obviously exaggerated. You spoke out about that and you were knee deep in that whole thing. You agree with that assessment that this had a lot to do with it when you see a lot of these liberal areas that shifted dramatically towards Trump and away from the Democrats?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
coming off of something that wasn't so great but you gotta you gotta you know make lemonade with the lemons as they say and we covered a lot of turf in that interview rfk make america health make america health again prime rib how to cook it covid lockdowns politicians and trump effect that may be the most substantive 14 minutes ever chef andrew gruel thanks a lot for coming on we really appreciate it welcome back anytime thank you dan i really appreciate it thank you
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You got it. Man, that was a lot of material for 14, 15 minutes. I told Jim tonight, I'm like, man, what are we really talking about? Because I like lighter stuff, but not too much light stuff. Like that's not kind of my, we just covered a lot of material there. Good job, Shifter. Jim, I know. Jim, now the whole break, I'm going to hear about the prime rib segment.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
This guy, all he wants to talk about is smoked meats and meats and cooking meats. This guy's like obsessed with it. Jim could quit tomorrow and be a full-time meat guy, cooking meats, smoking meats, grilling meats. That's all he'd do. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Not just today, but this year. Looking forward to many more in 2025. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I was thinking about this United Healthcare, the CEO being shot dead in the streets of Manhattan. Now, you haven't been a member of the mob. Obviously, you're around people who've done really bad stuff, including targeted killings. That's how the mob enforces. But, you know, everybody's saying, oh, this guy's a professional type assassin, some kind of Jason Bourne.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
There was a lot of it going on online. The first thing I thought, being on the law enforcement side, I've been studying this stuff, and you haven't been on the mob side back in the day,
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
i didn't see that at all michael the real assassins who kill people for a living and do this stuff as you sadly know from being around they don't want to get caught they don't write messages on the bullets they just kill you i thought of that scene in goodfellas remember where ray leota beau deedle comes out and he starts cursing hands on the steering wheel starts dropping f-bombs and ray leota says i knew it was a cop because only cops talk like that he goes bad guys just shoot you
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this guy get whacked in the streets. This is no professional. They don't leave messages like that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
To get your free copy, along with Birch Gold's free information kit on gold, text my name, Dan, to the number 989898. Here's the facts. The national debt continues to increase. Our interest payments on the national debt continue to increase. Gold is still one of your best hedges against the weakened dollar.
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah, we're talking to Michael Francese, a former member of the Colombo crime family, now speaks out on all of these issues. And he's been a guest in the show, really fascinating guy. You know, it's funny, Michael, I had you on my Fox show a while ago, and you know, you get these little minute by minute, I don't know, Q kind of ratings, Q scores or whatever, you were through the roof.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
People couldn't get enough of that interview. They kept replaying it. I was thinking about you in relationship to another story too, and that's the Daniel Penny case today. The subway case, the verdict comes back not guilty. You know, nobody knew you and I are roughly in the same cohort, but you remember the 1980 subway in New York. It was a disaster.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Michael, if you got on the train, it was a 50 50 shot that you were going on there and something bad was going to happen. You're going to have be stolen, robbed, raped or even worse. Right. It was going to be really terrible. 80s New York subways. So, Jim, my producer had said to me, are you surprised by this not guilty verdict? I'd love to get your take on this. I said, no, I'm not.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Because guys like you and me who grew up in New York, everybody, sadly, in that era, who's probably a jurist now, 40, 50 and older, remembers what it was like to be terrorized on the subway. It was a really awful place pre-Giuliani New York in the 80s. I'm sure you remember it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
talking to michael francese a former member of the colombo crime family again now reform speaks out about this stuff and just a fascinating guest michael i never asked you this before i know we talked about you know what was the most accurate mob movie you've had that conversation before on my show but when you're watching these mob movies you know goodfellas he's based on real people donnie brasco and others i've never asked you this
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Do you know some of the people in those movies? Did you ever have any interaction with Lefty or Henry Hill or Jimmy from Goodfellas or any of those people? Did you ever know those people in real life?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I actually know what Henry Hill looks like in real life. When I was an agent in Long Island, a case came up when he was – when he was, it was a long story, but the postal inspectors brought it to me. So I was very familiar and you are accurate. Wait, one more question. I want to get back on the movie. Was Tommy the Joe Pesci character as crazy as Joe Pesci played him in the movie?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Was he really that nuts?
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Man, Jim, we got to put Michael on like the halfback regularly list. Michael, last question for you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
with the daniel penny case and the united healthcare ceo case we've seen the pervasiveness obviously of cell phone cameras ring doorbells commercial cameras nypd cameras if you're the mob today you were in the mob decades ago if you're in the mob today and you're trying to shake down concrete businesses and other things like that
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Isn't it almost impossible to operate as this racketeering organization, understanding how powerful surveillance tools are now? Is that why the mob really never recovered from the commission case in the Giuliani era?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Text Dan to the number 989898 today. Message and data rates apply. Hey, welcome to our Sunday podcast special. I got a special show for you today. If you've never heard this guy, he is a reformed former member of a mob family, but he has learned a lot of life lessons from it. He spent a lot of time in jail. He paid his debt to society, but he's a fascinating guy.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Michael, I had to tell you, man, I've been on the air and the radio show for years. We don't do too many interviews on the podcast. Jim, is this not one of the, this may be my favorite interview. You are really a genuinely fascinating guy. He's in this, you are incredible. You're in this, check it out, folks. It's called Fear City. It's a documentary about the New York City mob.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Michael has a really prominent role in it. Michael, we'd love to have you back. Thanks for coming on last minute today. I knew you'd be great commenting on this stuff and you did not disappoint. So thanks a lot.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
My favorite. Michael, my absolute. Armand Asante crushed it. That movie is incredible. Folks, if you haven't seen it, the Armand Asante HBO movie Gotti. Michael is so right. Michael knows the accuracy part, but the entertainment value is...
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
a chef's kiss 10 out of 10. michael thanks so much man we're definitely going to have you back we appreciate it thanks a lot anytime my friend thanks dan you got it i told you the best guest was that am i crazy folks i'm serious maybe it's because i love crime stories and he may be my favorite guest i've ever interviewed maybe donald trump then michael i mean that's how much i love that interview we'll be right back i gotta digest coming up another great interview but let's hear from our next sponsor first
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Increased tariffs on our trade partners, tax cuts and regulation changes. A lot of changes coming. Learn why gold is a viable diversification tactic now more than ever. Birch Gold is releasing its ultimate guide for gold in the Trump era with a forward by Donald Trump Jr. Text my name, Dan, to the number 989898 for your free copy of the ultimate guide for gold in the Trump era.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
You are never going to understand why they're yelling at you to stay out of the backyard because it's smarter than us. The problem with AI is is that liberals have a full court press going on right now to make sure they control AI. Folks in the chat, what are they afraid AI is going to do? Come on, you got to know. They are afraid AI is going to finally tell you the truth.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
I always go the wrong way. Everything's backwards. Flag it. They are terrified. I'll just put it, I didn't even intend to go, this UAP UFO story. Quality, good AI, two, three years from now, probably tell you in about a quarter of a millisecond what the hell's going on in New Jersey. They don't want you to know this. The government is terrified. Look at the chat, boy.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
The government is terrified that you're going to ask AI, hey, do the rich pay their fair share of taxes? And it's going to come back and go, not only they pay their fair share, the richest 1% pay 40% of the taxes. They're afraid you're going to ask AI. Are police officers killing thousands of unarmed black men in the street? No, that is false.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
The entire liberal media bullshit, Russian propaganda, pee-pee hoax, Hunter Biden laptop falls apart tomorrow if AI fully develops itself and starts telling people the truth. Listen to me, man. If there is one takeaway from this show, over the last five years, this is it. This is the battle going forward. The entity that controls AI, government, liberals, commies, is going to rule the world.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
There's no obligation, only information. Text Dan to the number 989898. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. The development of artificial intelligence is going to change everything. Everything. I don't know if you've seen ex-Twitter today, but there's all these stories out there now about...
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Period. What's that old expression, you know, science is indistinguishable from magic, for those basically who aren't in the know? Can you imagine what it looked like to primitive societies when the Spanish and others came on these majestic boats over to the Americas? It must have looked like a floating castle. They had no idea. They must have looked like gods. This is what the problem with AI is.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
To get your free copy, along with Birch Gold's free information kit on gold, text my name, Dan, to the number 989898. Here's the facts. The national debt continues to increase. Our interest payments on the national debt continue to increase. Gold is still one of your best hedges against the weakened dollar.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Text Dan to the number 989898 today. Message and data rates apply. They're afraid AI is going to tell you the truth. There is a spectacular podcast with Barry Weiss and Mark Andreessen. Mark Andreessen is a decades-long investor in technology. I believe he's got experience with Facebook, internet technology. He goes way back. He did a viral clip on Joe Rogan's show.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
But he went on Barry Weiss's show and he was talking about exactly this, that liberals are freaking out over losing control over AI because the propaganda machine will be dead overnight. I'm going to cover this again tomorrow because this is a really, really, really important story. Check this out.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Do you hear that segment? Andreessen's been in on these meetings where government officials are saying, don't even bother investing in AI, we're basically gonna take it over. You understand why? Your boy doesn't lie to you. What has two thumbs and is always on the right side of the truth? This freaking guy. I told you, you know how many sources have been telling me this inside government?
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
as Google program or Google computer that figured out in what seconds or minutes, what would have taken a quintillion years or whatever. And talking about parallel universes, it's a long story. The point is between quantum computing, which we're on the cusp of something really special with an AI. I'm telling you that we're looking at a revolution in,
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
They are totally freaked out about AI for every reason you can imagine. It is going to be the front layer, which I'll go into again tomorrow, of everything from medicine to science. You're not going to be able to post online anywhere if another COVID-like pandemic breaks out.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
You're not going to be able to post anywhere that masks are bullshit because the AI filter in the front in a microsecond is going to be able to detect who you are, where you are, what you wrote, censor you, and possibly wipe out your account. They won't even need human intervention.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
The reason the government wants to take over AI is they want to make sure it is properly filtered to make sure the propaganda machine works. They want to make sure, in short, AI lies to you. You won't be able to research a scientific report without it being filtered through an AI filter. Nothing.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
The whole idea of knowledge is going to completely fall apart because there's not going to be any independent research. Everything is going to go through the filter of a liberal government run deep state AI. That's why they want to control it. Here, I'll give you a quick example. Here, just play this for me quick.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
This is Biden yesterday talking about he's leaving office, how wonderful the economy is, all this stuff. The only reason I play this clip is this is the kind of thing where if AI is honest and tells you the truth and is genuinely intelligent... A clip like this will have some kind of AI community note below it telling people how much bullshit this is about how wonderful the economy is.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Biden and the left can't have that. Bullshit is their agenda.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
You understand this is all gaslighting bullshit. Real wages are down. A lot of these jobs are in government business, government business funded by an inflationary death cycle. Many of these jobs went to foreign-born workers. Those are actual facts. I'm not telling you the entire economy in the Biden years has been a disaster. We've had some okay GDP growth.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
I'm never going to lie to you about that. But the Biden economy, relative to other successful economies in the past, is a joke, is a nightmare. OK, this is the kind of stuff that if a proper AI filters applied to it, they're just going to attach to it a bunch of facts and data. And you're going to know this guy's bullshitting you. They want to make sure this thing lies and keeps the lie going.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Here's one more I'm going to play for. Here's another one that would instantly fall apart. Who's the dumbest male member of Congress? Quick in the chat. Who knows? Yes. Dan Goldman, not the dumbest member. That's AOC. You all know the chart. We've been watching drone footage forever of an invasion at our southern border. We know the numbers.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
We have said the border's not secure, that the border is under the control of cartels and others. People like lefties like Dan Goldman and Joe Biden and Mayorkas and others have been telling, no, no, no, the border's secure. We run the border. That's a conspiracy theory. AI would shut this stuff out instantly.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Here's Dan Goldman just the other day admitting what AI would have pointed out right away, that yes, in fact, the border is under control of the cartels. Check this out.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
similar to what happened with the industrial revolution and electricity. I'm not telling you, however, it is all going to be good, a technology smarter than us. I've been very concerned about this for a long time, because if it's smarter than us, we don't understand what it's doing. I gave you the example all the time about my dog in the backyard. A bird died in the backyard one time, right?
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
No, I thought we didn't know. I thought the border was secure. You told us that, right? You said the border was secure. You see? They lie about everything. This is their paranoia about AI. So that was a clip from the Dan Bongino Show. You can watch the full show on Rumble. All you have to do is go to rumble.com slash bongino where we go live every weekday at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
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The Bongino Brief: Watch Out! Here Is The Left’s Plan For AI
Hope to see you there.
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The dog's been in the backyard a thousand times. One day, the dog goes into this area. She always goes. I see the dead bird. I start screaming at her because she wants to go sniff or chew on the dead bird. Lucy, the dog doesn't understand. She's been in that spot a thousand times. She's just like, wow, my owner's really mean. He's yelling at me. That's us with AI.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
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Ah... He just doesn't know if the public's at risk, and that's the concerning part? Yeah. Yeah, that is the concerning part. Folks, you know I don't cover these kind of click-baity stories. This is not one of those things. You have a bunch of people in a constitutional public we've entrusted with power who don't like to look stupid. They don't want to look stupid, okay? They'll lie to you.
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They'll give you a fake answer. They'll obfuscate, but they don't want to look stupid. Come on. Let's be honest. They'll be commies, scumbags, everything else. They'll lie, but saying in public you don't know is generally not a good thing. They don't like to do that. You've now got Jeff Van Drew, congressman. I don't know. From New Jersey. Malia Takis. Congresswoman. New York. New Jersey area.
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New York, New Jersey area. I don't know. Corrine Jean-Pierre. She doesn't know anything. She's like, I don't know. That's not unusual for her. You got an FBI agent. Hey, man. I don't know. Does anybody know? Justin says, I don't know if anybody knows. I don't know either. I'm telling you, this is some foreign adversary who is scoping out something sensitive.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
The reason, by the way, it's a hot spot in New Jersey is because it's a very population-dense area and a lot of people are seeing it. I'm not so sure this isn't happening all over the country. Matter of fact, there have been reports elsewhere as well.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
So hang out. I got a few questions about that from listeners. Here's a tweet from Congressman Van Drew. Folks, I have no reason to believe this guy's lying about any of this. He says, first, the Chinese spy balloon drifted across U.S. airspace for a week. Yeah, that's right. Now unidentified drones are flying over New Jersey, avoiding radar detection. Gaps, listen to the last line.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
Gaps in our airspace are being exploited. And because of it, the safety of Americans is at risk. Dan, you're throwing this out there. You think it may be China or some foreign adversary. Why? Because I'm listening to people who are in the know in the area who are probably being told things but can't say it.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
Gaps in our airspace are being exploited, and because of it, the safety of Americans is at risk. This is the congressman in that area. Watch this interview with him on Fox, talking about these drone orb UAP sightings in the area. I want you to listen carefully to the language. Sometimes they know things, but they don't want to say things. Check this out.
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Folks, the congressman in and around the area is, quote, hoping that the U.S. is not behind this China thing. He's hoping it's not a foreign adversary. Listen, hope is not a solution. Now, I'm reading a Rumble chat while the clip is playing, and I get it. No matter what you say in this— I love everyone in the chat. Obviously, everybody's here. We open up the chat so you can have your opinion.
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No matter what you say, you piss people off. You tell people it's aliens. They're like, you're a conspiracy theorist. You tell people it's nothing to worry about. It's just Amazon or whatever. They're like, oh, my gosh, Dan, this could be a real threat. You tell people, hey, man, I think this is China or a foreign adversary. Like you're trying to induce panic. I'm not inducing shit. Panic kills.
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Now, you may be thinking, why do you need to diversify into gold? My guy's headed to D.C. Things are good. Well, here's the facts. An administration trying to reverse a $35 trillion national debt in just four years, like a field mouse trying to stop a freight train. It's tough. Can't even afford to pay the interest on the debt, let alone the principal. So take action now.
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Congress gets briefings on this stuff because they got to fund a lot of this stuff. Now, not to be clear, not every member of Congress, depending on your committee, is going to get a briefing on every little detail of what's going on.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
And with this deep state we have that is terrified of their shortcomings and inadequacies, knowing there's a new administration coming in, I believe we're being tested right now. Someone's sending a message. Look what they've been hiding from you. Watch. Just pay attention to the story. The footprints are all there. Here's another congresswoman I know pretty well, Nicole Malliotakis.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
She represents the area, northern New Jersey, New York, the Verrazano Bridge, which if you know New York, you know the Verrazano Bridge very well. It's in the New York, New Jersey area with that connection point, right? She is right in that area right there.
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Nicole Malliotakis, you would think, would be one of the people like Van Drew who is getting some kind of a briefing on what is going on over here. Here's Nicole Malliotakis talking about the Verrazano Bridge seeing a lot of this activity right now. This is a critical, critical junction point in that northeast area of the United States. Check this out.
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But they don't want to tell you for a reason. The reason is the United States government and the deep staters involved in it They don't want to scare you with their own inadequacy. Folks, I'm telling you right now, they know who these drones belong to. We are at real risk here. Our airspace is not secure. They don't know what to do with these drones.
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Folks, I'm telling you they have the answer. I know they have the answer. So why won't they tell anyone the answer? Because the answer is we don't know. That's the answer. And they don't want Congress people like Malia Takis, Van Drew, and others out there, Chris Smith and others asking questions, they don't want them saying the obvious follow-up, which is what? How the hell do you not know?
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
You have a trillion-dollar military budget. You're busy with woke DEI bullshit in the Pentagon. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And you can't tell us who this is? Folks, they don't know. Oh, they know when they're hiding it. They either don't know or they know and are hiding it and the answer's not good.
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Here's Kareem Jean-Pierre at the White House podium yesterday, totally, completely incompetent, looking annoyed at the question because I'm telling you, Biden does not want to admit while they were busy reorienting the Pentagon to be a social justice organization around the world that our airspace is completely at risk from technologies we both do and don't understand and don't know what to do with.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
The military does not know what to do with these things because they don't have any kind of force plan against them, use of force plan. What are they going to do? Shoot them out of the sky? They don't know what to do. Folks, I got to, let's just say, trust me on this show. Please. There's more here. They don't know what to do.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
You all thought the Secret Service had an elaborate airspace security plan too. Until you found out they had a dude trying to operate a drone that didn't even think to get a cell signal up in time. They were out in the middle of nowhere and the drone didn't work. That 20-year-old with an Amazon drone would ever beat them. You think our military's got this thing figured out at the leadership level?
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You sure? Because it's your national security at risk. Here's Kareem Jean-Pierre, again, looking totally annoyed at the question. Folks, they're not giving you an answer because I'm telling you they don't know or they know and they just don't want to tell you. Check this out.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
And, you know, I said bottom line up front, so let me, I hate teases because they're for morons. Oh, stay tuned later in the show. If you like the show, you'll stay no matter what. I'm 95% sure, if not more. It's China or some foreign adversary. Has some role in it. Could be wrong. I'm throwing it out there, and I'm basing it on a few different things. Let's dig in. Receipts matter, okay?
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You don't have a timeline, but he's been made aware of it. You just don't remember when? It sounds like kind of a BFD, a big freaking deal. Airspace in the sensitive area of the United States seems to be infiltrated by objects you're claiming in a public podium. You have no freaking idea what they are. Folks, listen, man. Nobody panic. We're panicking. We have a powerful military.
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We're not going to be invaded tomorrow by aliens or China, okay? Forget the panic line, okay? You don't shit the bed no matter what. Concern? You have to be freaking crazy to not be concerned about this story. Because there's only two scenarios. I can't say this enough.
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Either they have no idea who has violated our domestic airspace in sensitive areas, which is a 10 out of 10 on the what the hell is going on meter, Or a 9 out of 10, which is they do know, they can't do anything about it, and they're lying to you about it. That's maybe a 9.5. It gets even worse. By the way, Kareem Jean-Pierre, here's the key line.
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DHS, Department of Homeland Security, for the liberals listening, and the FBI are closely tracking it. How closely? They can't figure it out? Did you follow one of these things? Did you see where it landed? Are you tracking it on airspace? Folks, I'm going to put a little cap on this thing in a minute. And you're going to see what I mean.
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Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on this forever. Forever. He's a great reporter. This is not new, this story about airspace violations. And he's going to explain to you in this piece exactly what I've been telling you.
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That there's a whole lot going on here and they're afraid of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth coming into the Pentagon as Commander-in-Chief and Defense Secretary going, what the hell's been on our airspace for the last five years? And them going, I don't know, man. What do you mean you don't know? This is a bigger story. Here's an FBI agent up on Capitol Hill yesterday.
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being questioned about this UAP UFO phenomenon. I think the most disturbing answer is the last 10 seconds, where again, this guy's on the record here, and he says, hey man, I wish we knew, but we just don't know. How do you not know? You seem to know everything about a pee-pee hoax and a fake tape and spying on Donald Trump.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
You don't know what's flying over the skies in the northeast of the United States? Come on, bro, do better. Watch this.
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The Bongino Brief: What The F*** Is Going On In New Jersey?!
Congressman Jeff Van Drew will be on my radio show later. He represents an area in New Jersey where they've had this issue, right? He was a former Democrat, now Republican. He'll be on the radio show later today if you want to tune in. You can check it out on Rumble and Locals. The last hour, of course, is for local subscribers. We're doing a conversion, by the way, soon over to Rumble Premium.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
This is where I did an interview with Julie Kelly on Thursday. On the radio show. And I want to be clear, don't get caught up in the euphemisms game, okay? FBI assets and agents are not the same thing. Michael could be working for the FBI as a paid source, a confidential human source. Doesn't mean he's an FBI agent.
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Agents are actual GS 1811 gun carrying agents who are working in an undercover past capacity, like a Donnie Brasco, the Joe Pistone guy. Okay. That was an agent. So the FBI is trying to lose people in the, but I'm telling you both were in the crowd agents and assets. The report now misses agents. admits forever, however, that there were FBI sources in the crowd.
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Town Hall put up a great tweet, and they wonder why legacy media is dying. This is why people like Stuart Thompson, nobody's going to pay attention to them anymore. Here's what the FBI told you. The FBI did not send undercover operatives to join the June 6th attack, Watchdog says. That is not what the report says. The report says there were FBI assets in the crowd. Reuters here. Politico too.
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FBI didn't deploy undercover agents on January 6th. Watchdog finds undercutting conspiracy. It did no such thing. It did no such thing. I'm telling you they were there in the crowd. Here, here they were. Probe finds no evidence. Feds were involved in inciting January 6th. They found a ton of evidence. There were three FBI assets in the crowd. There were actually, what is it, 26?
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Three of them that went into the Capitol. Here's how CNN reports on it. No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot. I'm telling you, this story is bullshit. You are ahead of it. It's absolute bullshit, folks. I'm telling you right now, they are lying to you. Now, I want you to watch this. This video from Kash Patel is really important.
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Kash is going to be the incoming FBI director if the confirmation process continues to go smoothly, which knock on wood, so far has. I'm going to get presumptuous, but... Here's the interesting part about this. This is what people like Stuart Thompson and New York Times will never cover.
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Now that we know there were 20 plus FBI assets in the crowd, some there with the permission of the FBI, that's in the report. I'm telling you there were agents in the crowd, period. Don't put the reports bullshit. I'm telling you for a fact. These assets take a while to cultivate. They had to be working on this for a long time. Again, I'm giving you an honest take on January 6th. No one else's.
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What the hell were they doing? These assets that the FBI knew were in the crowd on January 6th. What was their role there? They had to have a job. The FBI positioned them there for a reason. But the report is oddly kind of opaque on that. Were they there to incite a riot?
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Listen to Kash Patel here on Tim Pool saying exactly this, that this takes a while to cultivate because this story isn't adding up. Check this out.
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Yes, the FBI's got documents, folks. When you develop and cultivate an informant, you typically have to pay them. I did this federal agent work for a decade plus. There's paperwork generated. There's debriefing paperwork generated. What exactly were the informant's mission on January 6th? Why doesn't Stuart Thompson or anyone else seem even a little bit interested in this story?
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I promise you, if it was a left-wing BLM riot or some COINTELPRO thing, these people would be all over the story. I got more on this, folks, because the legacy media, I'm telling you, man, these guys just don't get it. That's why they're so afraid of cash going in there. Always measure the response. Measure the effectiveness of a policy or anything else by what? The show is about tactics.
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AmericanFinancing.net. AmericanFinancing.net. NMLS12334. NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Thank you, American Financing. Folks. They are terrified about Kash Patel. Politico is telling you right now, please don't put this guy in there because of what you just heard from Kash Patel in the Tim Pool interview, which is a great interview. I suggest you watch it. It's a little old, but it's not dated at all.
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The difference between old and dated. He understands how this entire process, having been an attorney for the government on the law enforcement and defense side, how cultivating informants works. What the hell? Here's the question. Everybody write it down. Folks in the chat, spread the word on this. This is the only question you should have right now after the IG report on Friday.
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What was the mission of the FBI informants in that crowd? What? What was the mission? Intelligence gathering? On who? It was a perfectly legal assembly. By the way, it's a constitutional right to assemble. What was their purpose in the crowd? You should worry about Kash Patel running the FBI. You should worry. No, you shouldn't worry. Politico's worried. This is their headline.
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The days of J. Edgar Hoover may be over, but Kash Patel's nomination is deeply worrisome all the same. Folks, rocks are going to get turned over. And there's a couple of things you need to know right now. You need to know what the hell the mission was of the informants in the crowd that day. And you also need to know the identity of who the January 6th bomber was.
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We spent a lot of time in that story. I've got a lot to get to today. So I'm going to pass on that today. But you know I'm staying on top of that too. That story is going to blow your mind.
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I saw this tweet this weekend, too, and I thought it was interesting because it applies to that other, you know, the New York Times hit piece, which is just a regurgitation of the same hit piece written over and over again. You ever notice they never write these hit pieces about any other platforms? If you have conservatives on your platform, they will write a hit piece.
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If you have a bunch of liberals on your platform, they absolutely love you. There's nothing you can say wrong. This John LaFever guy writes, hey, look at your circle of family and friends and compare people who use X as a news source versus those who don't. The contrast is stark.
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My friends and family who don't use X are significantly less informed and prone to parodying media, propaganda, misinformation. Amen. Preach it. John Lefevre. This guy is so right.
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Folks in the chat, if you notice this too, you ever go to a party or Christmas party or a birthday party, some cocktail party, a work party, whatever, and you get into a conversation with some crazy liberal or even a not so crazy liberal, but a definitely not MAGA person. And some of the stuff they say, I'll give you an example. I was at an event not that long ago, guys.
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Remember when Trump said that thing about injecting bleach? And ordinarily I'd be like, oh my gosh, I'm just out of here because I can't take it. And I want to talk politics sometimes during the weekend because I just like I know I'm going to lose it. I had to say, who told you that? No, I heard it. They actually believe they heard this shit. They actually believe it.
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The thing about the house is most of the party, because we couldn't fit everyone inside the house. We didn't expect 250 people to show up, but they did. We had like two cancellations. That was it. At the end, we couldn't fit everybody in my house if it rained. And as Justin and Michael's now figuring out, Justin's been here his whole life.
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It's what happens when you're embedded and immersed in a bath of bullshit, misinformation, and disinformation all day. It becomes like osmosis. It seeps into your body, becomes like part of your DNA, and you believe it actually happened. Yeah, that's another one. They think Trump's never going to leave office. He's going to run for seven more terms.
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Trump's going to declare martial law and the military's going to start taking over. They believe this stuff. If you read X and you're on X every day where you're getting a healthy diet of kind of both sides, you start to fish through because, you know, listen, I'm not telling you every single thing that comes out of our sides. We get people on our side who spread stuff too. That's bullshit.
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But you eventually learn after reading a lot of this material what's correct, what's crazy. Transitioning here, you get that? You see where I'm going with this? Because the transition, by the way, is like nothing I've ever seen before. Folks, this Trump transition is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Do you guys know what I mean? Have you guys ever seen anything like this?
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It's almost like there is no transition. You get where I'm going with this? All the executive power is still obviously embedded in the White House with oatmeal brains. I mean, he's still the president, can sign executive orders, controls the DOJ, executive branch of government, can veto bills. He still has all the powers of the presidency. It's the way it works.
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But have you ever seen a transition like this where the president right now has no political oomph at all? His political bank account, I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about his political capital, is absolutely zero. Folks, I saw a similar but not equal situation with the Bush-Obama transition. When McCain got smoked, I was working in the White House at the time.
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and the staffers the last month or so, I mean, it was like a funeral every day. No one wanted to hire them. Bush had very little political power. But I think he was still doing fundraisers and stuff up until the end, I mean, for Republican cause, if I remember correctly. I mean, he didn't have zero political oomph at all. I've never seen a situation where,
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where the incoming president-elect has all the political power. All of these leaders around the world visiting. We had this pledge for a $100 billion investment into the United States by this bank. It's just crazy. All the political power seems to lie with Trump. Here's what I mean. Here's more proof. Trump has no executive power at all. He's not the president for another 30 days or so, right?
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With Florida, if it says 0% chance of rain, that means 50-50. Does it not? Florida, folks, it's the sunshine state, but it can rain any time for any reason. It'll typically stop. So we had to make a decision about the tent on Wednesday because we had to tent the whole property. And we said no.
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Hostage deals already getting negotiated? I mean, this is a good thing. I love it. But I'm a little worried if some national security incident happens over the holidays that we don't have a guy in charge that's going to be able to make any executive decisions right now. Look, all the political powers with Donald Trump. Watch this.
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You know, it reminds me of that movie Seven. Remember I say it all the time. Movie Seven. I love that movie with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt with the serial killer. And the guy looks out of it. Have you ever seen it? Have you ever seen anything like this? The sitting president right now has no political power at all. Business deals, hostage deals, trade deals, national security deals.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Trump has stolen all of his political capital. It's a beautiful thing to watch because he's so patently ineffective. However, having said that, Biden still has all of the trappings of the office. This story I'm going to read for you next out of the New York Post is really pretty devastating. Because it shows you how much damage this guy can do, even with basically a month or so left.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I'm talking about Joe Biden, obviously. What's going on with the—I hate teasers. What's going on with the border wall? We have a bunch of equipment and metal over there and steel. to establish this border wall. What's happening with it with Biden is such a double barrel to America.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
It's kind of hard to believe that even the left-wing media isn't like, hey man, you just lost on this immigration issue. Maybe stand down. But because they're commies, they can't do it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
last break and i'll tell you that i got a lot more ahead too and i still haven't spoken even i didn't open up with the drone thing because it's all over the news the drone uap story but i think my theory i have about foreign governments you'll see what i mean and use of force stuff coming up next with this clip from my orcas who's always i think he basically admits what i told you is true hey you having trouble sleeping or staying asleep listen i've been there it's not just about feeling tired the next day it's about the toll poor sleep can take on every aspect of your life
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And we took a chance because we had like a little like thing going on that involved like heavy electronics and stuff. And we said, oh, so I was freaking out the whole week. There was going to rain on the guests because I had nowhere for them to go. I should better plan. But I was like, I ain't going to ruin the party. I'm trusting. I said, God's blessed us, man. We're going to have a good party.
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The courses are amazing. Highly recommend it. All right, back to the show. Folks, it's New York Post story. If this isn't a kick in the Johnson, I don't know what is here. So here's the damage. Because Biden has no political power and he has no political capital, he's leaving office bitter and angry when he can remember who he is, which is rare. So he's eager to give you the double barrel.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
New York Post, Biden administration quietly clears away border wall parts for an auction ahead of Trump's second term. Folks, this is not an auction in name only. The goal, quote, is to move all of it off the border before Christmas.
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The materials are being transported to an air park in Arizona where it's being sold to GovPlanet, an online auction house specializing in military surplus with bidding started just $5. I've got a recommendation. Some rich billionaire out there should go out and buy this stuff for the $5 and then donate it back to the government so Donald Trump can get his border wall built without the taxpayers.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
the monarch of weekend updates, the emperor of weekend updates, the Darth Vader of weekend updates. These guys actually are part of the weekend update, the production crew, because they were there. I got a lot to get through today. I got a big show. I got that. Of course, that New York Times piece from Stuart Thompson, who has been watching our show, he says, for 47 hours or so.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
having to buy back the stuff that this loser sold off. You see what he's doing? He's giving you the middle finger. He's trying to make building a border wall and keeping the United States really, really hard. He wants to make sure, unlike Stuart Thompson, doesn't want to acknowledge it's having sex traffickers. Biden wants to make sure sex traffickers have an easy time and no border wall.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Drug dealers, terrorists, human smugglers. This is what Joe Biden's doing. Joe Biden will go down, I promise you, when this is all done, as the worst president in modern U.S. history. There will be no parallel. I don't even think you can possibly be as bad as this guy. This guy makes Obama look like the Ronald Reagan of the right. This guy is a total train wreck. He wants to hurt you.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
He wants to make sure the country is in a world of hurt. I know Stuart's like, oh my gosh, they're stoking outrage. Stuart's not outraged. about Joe Biden selling off the border while you bought because Stuart Thompson, these guys at the New York times, this is the kind of stuff they're ideologically behind. They love the idea of open borders and all this other stuff. It's disgusting.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And it held out. I want to thank, first off, my awesome, incredible life partner, my buddy, my show somewhere about Paula. That's for sure. But man, she totally, folks, blew it out. I have never felt so important to anyone in my entire life. I can't even tell you like all the stuff she did for this part. She had like a rumble video running in the background. She got people to send in videos.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
This guy can do a lot of damage. Keep your eye on the prize folks. Don't, you know, don't look past what's happening for the next 30 days. We've got the holidays coming up. And my suspicion is with the, Christmas, holiday, and you're going to see, like, the numbers go down for everyone. People, understandably, they're celebrating with their families. They're traveling.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
People get generally, what, like a 10% drop, guys, around the holidays or something? It's all across the board. There's nothing you can do about it. Unless there's some major breaking news story. And, you know, that's fine, right? Joe Biden's White House knows that. They know people's eyeballs are distracted. Just watch. I guarantee you this guy's not done with all the damage he's going to cause.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
So I want to throw this out there. I want to just talk about this drone story because, again, because nobody trusts Stuart Thompson or the Biden administration, this drone UAP story has morphed into something crazy at this point. Nobody knows what to believe anymore. I'm an Occam's razor guy.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I would love to believe it is just a couple of recreational drone club guys playing with a drone hovering above. I would love to believe that. The problem I'm having with this, folks, is because the government is such shit and the New York Times and Washington Post are such purveyors of misinformation. that they won't just tell us or state the obvious, says to me something's going on.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
There are a bunch of theories out there. I'm not going to call them conspiracy theories because that's always used as a pejorative. And I'm not willing to discount anything. But Walter Kern, I follow on Twitter, he said, the drones in New Jersey may be looking for a very serious weapon. Good source. I don't know that to be true at all. I just want to put that out in advance. I've not heard that.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
It doesn't mean it's true or untrue. It just means I haven't heard it. I'm just telling you it's out there. I don't know, folks. I have a theory on this, too. I think it aligns with.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Homan Jenkins at The Wall Street Journal has been writing about this often, that this may in fact be foreign governments doing what foreign governments do, like China did with the spy balloon, which is they're just trying to surveil sensitive locations in the United States. It seems to be the Occam's razor solution. It requires you to assume the least.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
if the drones were looking for, say, a nuclear weapon that was smuggled into the United States, it requires you to assume that a nuclear weapon was smuggled into the United States. Not impossible. I'm not telling you it didn't happen. I want to be careful. I'm not telling you it didn't happen. I'm just telling you when I don't know something, I always go with the simplest explanation.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And Jenkins seems pretty legit. The theory is that These foreign governments are surveilling sensitive locations with drone technology, and we don't know what to do with it. The military doesn't want to shoot it down because it's going to land somewhere, and nobody knows how to tell the public we can't secure the airspace.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, tell me in the chat, because I'm really... Guys, watch the chat, because I want to see... What do you think happened? You think that that theory is crazy? Because to me, that seems like the Occam's razor one. Here's why I say it too. I want you to watch this. I interviewed my orcas this weekend. They are DHS secretary in name only. Who's a total joke of a human being.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
This guy's a gross corrupt the crap. I can't stand them, but I've got, they're not long clips. They're about a minute each, but first let's, He tries to tell Wolf Blitzer on CNN how these things, they're sure they're not a threat, but then isn't sure what they, this is what I understand. How do you know they're not a threat if you don't know what they are?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
It's like looking at some fancy weapon you've never seen before. Oh, that's not a threat. What is it? Yeah, I don't know. Well, how the hell do you know it's not a threat? Listen to part one. And in the second part, I think you're going to see my theory about them not knowing how to get these things out of the sky and that they're foreign is right. But listen to part one first. No threat, folks.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Okay, so I'm reading. Hold on. I'm going to get on the microphone. I have the worst microphone habits at all. I'm really sorry about that. A lot of people are saying this is like some government psyop that they're looking for extra drone authority, which, you know, ordinarily I'd say I'm not so sure. You may be right.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
There was like a full concert. So here's a picture at the end of the night. Yes, I may have had some. Thank you, Casa Dragones. You know, my favorite tequila. They put a little tasting station there. I tasted a lot of it. So this is the end of the night. That is not my leather Fonzarelli jacket. Nate Smith, country singer, gave me his jacket. So what? I don't have a leather jacket like that.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
That could very well be the government putting these up there to get a media story out there so everybody panics and they go, oh, look, we need authority over the sky. Shut it down. Possible. Possible. However, here's the only reason, and listen, hit me hard all you want. It's fine, whatever. I'm just putting a theory out there. The only reason... I'm not telling you that's not true.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I'm just saying the only reason I would doubt that story a little bit is because it's reflecting now really poorly on Joe Biden and Mayorkas. The media coverage, folks, has not been friendly, even from the left. I mean, what was it?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Even the Wall Street Journal, which is kind of center-right but can lean left at times, was like, hey, listen, man, nobody believes you guys anymore about anything, and this drone thing is just another example of the government lying to us. So even kind of like center-right and left-wing outlets have been beating them up
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
So you would think at some point they would come out and just say like, hey, this was one of ours and just basically make up a reason. The only reason I doubt it a little bit, I'm not telling you wrong, so jump down my throat all you want, but I'm just saying. I think it's foreign. And I think it's very simple. It's surveillance. And the reason I say that is... They've already done it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
The China spy balloon thing was real. It happened. The Chinese drones around military bases right now is a very real threat. We're pretty sure it's happening right now. I want you to listen to the second part of this, a little shorter. Here's Mayorkas, and he says something at the end. I told you this last week. I'm not wasting your time here. Think of it as a use of force policy against drones.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, nobody knows what to do. Do you fry it? Some of these things are big. If you fry it with some of the technology, where does it land? They don't know what to do with these things because they're not easy to intercept because human beings can't fly. What do you do? Escort it to the ground? Watch this. You'll see what I mean. Check this out.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Yes! Yes! Did you hear it? Folks, I'm telling you, I am almost certain I'm right on this. You're giving the government way too much credit. Just like everybody gave the Secret Service all this credit, and they were like, how'd a guy get on the roof and shoot the president in the head? Don't they have like a special infrared camera? They could have, they just didn't use it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
No, Justin said it right. It was definitely the slope of the roof was too much. It was hot. It was a You're giving the government too much credit. Somebody is sitting around that room. Yes, I get it. I've received a thousand emails. I know there's technology to take it down. They can't figure out how to use it without taking a damn thing down and having it land on a house. And then what happens?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
But now I do. And that was me and Paula in the backyard. singing Chasing You by Morgan Wallen to each other at the end of the night with my cousin Chrissy looking on. So we were both having way too good of a time at that point in the night. It was such an amazing party. President Trump sent over a nice video, which was really cool. This is the boss.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
The locals show up. They may take custody of the drone. And then you're going to find out what? Holy shit, this is an Iranian or Chinese drone? You get it? He's admitting it. Did you guys hear that at the end? I'm not crazy, right? He's like, well, you know, it's very dangerous to take these things down. And then he's asked about, hey, do you have the authority to do it?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Well, he doesn't even seem to know. Don't assume the government has any competence at all. Here is the best lesson out of this entire thing. Treat the government like you would your 7- or 8-year-old. Not your 6-year-old, not your 13-year-old. The 6-year-old, maybe there's a little bit of self-awareness. 13, they start to get it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
7 or 8, where they know a little bit, but not enough to know much, that's the government. They just don't know what to do. This is the, I just want to throw this in there because Wolf Blitzer references a New Jersey state senator. Here is that senator. This kind of went viral this weekend. He says he's suspicious that there may be a larger threat here at work.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, I don't know that, you know, unlike jerkwad Stuart Tubbs, like, okay, Gary, I don't talk about stuff I don't know, so I'm not going to get everybody all panicked about something, about a nuclear weapon, because I have no evidence of that at all. But, you know, these people may. This guy says he was at a briefing or whatever, and they look like they really want to hide something.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
So if it's us doing a PSYOP and it's reflecting really poorly on the government, why wouldn't they just tell us, here, watch this, check this out?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, nobody trusts these people anymore. Nobody, not the media, not the government. And they've done so poorly on this story that really Joe Biden, who couldn't have any less political capital, I just got done telling you, like I said, I structured the show this way for a reason, that this is the oddest transition I've ever seen because you effectively have a de facto and a de jure president.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Biden's the de jure president, but Trump is the de facto president. And I've never seen a transition like this, even with the Obama-Bush thing, where Bush never gave up his political capital, even to the end. Even when other people told me he didn't have any, he was like, I'm the president. I'll do what the hell I want. I've never seen anything like this. Nobody trusts these people on anything.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Their credibility, whether it's the media, left-wingers, government bureaucrats, swampies, Joe Biden, nobody trusts them. That's why this drone story is so damaging and has the nation's attention. Because if it's a simple explanation, then just say it. And if it's not a simple explanation, then you damn well better come clean because we got a new president coming in who...
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
is not going to be eager to cover up your bullshit. It's going to come out in about a month. Folks, there is a reckoning coming for the communist media, though. And this is an important segment. I'm going to shift gears a little bit. Something happened with a criminal case, a really, really infamous kind of faux criminal case, because it wasn't real, but it was made up.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
It was kind of the pre-Juicy Smollett thing. Do you remember the Duke rape case where there were allegations that the Duke lacrosse team had raped this woman? And a lot of people early on were very skeptical because the story sounded like it was constantly changing. You know, when I'm on this show, this annoys some people. Matter of fact, I had a couple Facebook messages about it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
When it comes to Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO case, as a former agent of the government myself, I am very cautious, extremely cautious about believing anything. Folks, until I see hard evidence produced at trial under oath, I'm really sorry. I presume everyone's innocence. It's not virtue signaling. It's not me trying to pretend I'm higher on the moral totem pole.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I don't believe shit until you go under oath. I don't. I'm sorry. I've seen too many Olympic Park bomber scams, Duke lacrosse scams. Could this Mangione guy be the guy? He could. I want to see it in court. Go under oath, show me the case, and swear to it. Period. Call me whatever you want. It's not a virtue signal. And it's because of cases like this Duke lacrosse case.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Why am I bringing this up now? You know what? Doing that epic Times headline. Because now the accuser in this case was a woman's name, Crystal Magnum. Now admits, I mean, we kind of all know, right? Admits to making up claims she was raped by the Duke lacrosse players. Folks, this Duke lacrosse team, these guys, there was going to be like a public burning at the stake of these guys.
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And the story never happened. It was completely made up. This is why on this show I always say, suspect, these are allegations, because it's important. Where do these kids go and all these other people go to get their reputations back? I want to show you this. I saw this running around Twitter this weekend.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
That is actually President Trump, not Sean Farris. Sean is pretty good. He did? Did Sean send one too? I didn't even catch that because they're indistinguishable. So if you're listening on Apple or Spotify, they're pretty much indistinguishable, Sean and Trump. But we had a whole bunch of people show up I totally didn't expect to.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
You know Stephen Miller, who's going to be a senior advisor to President Trump in the White House? You've seen him on the news about immigration and other issues. He goes to show you he hires the right people.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Stephen Miller, who people like Stuart Thompson and others probably call a conspiracy theorist, he was Stephen Miller years ago about the Duke lacrosse case when it was fashionable to throw these guys under the bus, saying, hey, man, time out. This story's not adding up right. These are the kind of guys who have discretion. This stuff matters. Watch this.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Ms. MZ Jaku in the chat, trust but verify before vilifying people. You're damn right. Remember the Olympic Park bomber case, the Richard Jewell case? Everybody swore, oh my gosh, they said, it wasn't a guy. Poor guy's whole life was destroyed. All he did was find a bomb. Don't, I'm saving you a lot of drama.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, these media people at the Times and the Post and CNN and MSNBC, they're interested in telling you a story, not the story. And they're almost always right. I mean, they're always wrong about the story.
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But when they're telling you a story, they are so 100% confident that they're on to something that when it kicks them in the teeth later, they still can't admit it's wrong until something like a big electoral shift, seismic punctuated equilibrium event happens, and then they got to go and reevaluate it. Here's what I mean. I want you to watch this clip of Jessica Tarloff here.
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I thought that was like, I thought you guys had, I'm like, guys, is this the wrong show? I'm hearing something in my ear. Queen of the Caribbean. Here's Tarlow. Remember when the illegal migrants were being shipped from Texas and elsewhere into Martha's Vineyard and other places and the media was, this is a stunt. This is going to bury the Republican Party. Greg Abbott's terrible.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I thought they would send the nice, hey, I'm sorry, I got to travel, can't do it. Vince Colanese from WMAL. Jesse Kelly, amazing radio host himself. Jesse's like seven feet tall. He showed up with a really expensive bottle of wine. If you were there, you'll get the joke. My dog loved it, Jesse. Steve Kuklo, the bodybuilder, showed up. Rachel and Sean Duffy, my production crew. We had a special.
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Ron DeSantis is terrible. What did this show say? I said, folks, this is the greatest thing that ever happened because all of these people who thought the illegal immigration problem was a problem distanced from their home. We got nothing to do with that. That's happened at the Texas border.
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real and nobody changes their voting behavior until one question is answered what is it is it bad enough yet and it's only bad enough when it kicks you in the teeth and they didn't like it here's tarloff admitting it we told you we told you on this show now again we're way ahead of the media that that was a genius political move because it made the problem real for people who thought oh that's just a thing i'm reading about in a newspaper check this out on the immigration front
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Thank you, Katie Couric and Jessica Tarloff. Why am I thanking these two? I'm not thanking them because I really mean it. I'm thanking them for finally having this revelation. I'm not going to change anything. Katie Couric and Jessica Tarloff are two diehard liberals, okay?
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But there's this little bit of a mild awakening happening, and it's not because they feel bad about what happened or anything like that. It's because they feel bad about losing power. That's why. I will say this, though. Tarloff did have a moment on The Five. I don't know if you guys saw it last week. It was kind of surprising. The Daniel Penny case came up.
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And Tarloff, of all people, gave one of the most passionate defenses of Daniel Penny I've heard yet. I was kind of actually floored by the whole thing. She's not our buddy. She's not on our side. It's not personal or anything like that. However, it was kind of strange to hear that. But you see what happens when this is when you guys never get kicked in the nuts by anything.
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You're aware of what liberals think. You know they want to take your guns. They know they want to steal your school choice, steal your health care. You're aware of it.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
They are never aware of us until we beat them, and then they're shocked, and then they go, oh, my gosh, maybe we should have listened to them and not listened to Stuart Thompson when Dan Bongino and his team were talking about what a genius move this was because it was making the problem real. Is it bad enough yet? Folks, it is getting bad enough for certain people.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
You're even seeing it in New York, where Eric Adams, who I'm telling you, is like the biggest political actor you've ever seen. The liberal mayor of New York is now starting to realize the emperor has no clothes. He's up there in New York. He's meeting with Tom Holman. He's realizing this immigration thing blew up in their face. We warned you. We warned you. You didn't listen.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And now he's also starting to realize not only is the illegal immigration problem devastating, but the media bias problem is devastating because even if you're a Democrat, you're not safe as they turn on him for doing something about immigration. Now he realizes the media is full of crap. We warned you about this years ago.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Look, watch the light bulb go off during this press conference at the end and Eric Adams' brain. Check this out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Someone asked me if Jessica Tarloff was at the party. She was not at the party. Many of my friends from Fox were the production team from Unfiltered and a lot of the people at Fox I work with over there. So it was very nice of them to show up. But Jessica was not there. It's not personal. Jessica was never mean to me or anything like that. We just, folks, we have a political disagreement.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
See, United States, we're still a republic, right? You're allowed to have political disagreements with people. You see it? You see the light bulb going off? That's why when I say to you things like, is it bad enough yet? I know they're quips and no, let's stop it. This show is meant to be a political tactics lesson too.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Oh, look at them. There's with the lovely Evita and Michael. There's Rachel and Sean and me in Nate's jacket there looking like the Fonz is not as good looking or nearly as cool. Kim Klesik showed up. There's Michael Evita, producer Jim, and some weird guy all the way over. Oh, it looks like Justin. Oh, that is Justin. You know what's crazy?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
If you listen to this show a year, two years, three years ago when migrants were being shipped, illegal ones, into big cities, the left-wing media was telling you, oh my gosh, it's going to be devastating. The Republican Party is going to suffer for this. People hate them for it. I told you that's bullshit. You are now making it real. You are now making the is it bad enough question real.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And sure enough, we were right. Stewart was wrong, yet again. Folks, thanks again for everything. Thank you for tolerating my long weekend update today. I hope folks in the chat, did you, Pacino, quick poll at the end. Was it annoying or not? Yes, it was annoying. No, it wasn't. I liked it because the show's for you, but it was a crazy weekend, man.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And I know Justin and Michael and all of us, we had a really good time. Thank you again to my wife, Paula, for doing the most special thing anyone's ever done for me. uh, ever in my life. I was, uh, that was really amazing. And we did it on Friday the 13th, which should have been a bad omen. It should have rained on us and it didn't. So, oh, cool. Glad you guys. All right, cool.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I, you know, I don't waste your time with too many personal stories and I listen, wait, I know I gotta go, but one quick thing, folks, someone sent me this thing. Like, cause I put some pictures up. They're like, dad, you look like wasted man. Folks. I had a good time. It was fun. be responsible. I work hard during the week. I have a good time on Friday night at a party.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Like that's, yeah, it's my house. Like, you know, I'm sort of a couple of people who sent me that, you know, listen, even Jesus turned water into wine. Okay. And I certainly ate Jesus, you know? So we had a good time. Everybody was responsible. Nobody got hurt. We had shuttles for everyone. It was fun. So, Please download the Rumble app. We had a great week at Rumble.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Michael's like seven feet tall and Justin's taller than him. That's like so weird. You know, when I look at you guys together, how tall are you, dude? Are you 6'3"? You look taller than that. And then we had a really super surprise guest. Leo Terrell showed up from Los Angeles, which this is like my office inside. I had to get him away from everybody.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I go, dude, we got to take a selfie, put this online. So that was really nice of him. These are real friends of mine. Brendan Dilley, the meme master, showed up. My friend Brian Chisholm. Laia Halpern, the Bitcoin queen. It was so nice. The Fox crew. So thank you to everyone who made it to the party. It meant a lot to us. I really appreciate it. everything, man. We had a real blast.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And I came in this morning. I said to Justin and Michael, I said, objectively speaking, did Paula not throw the greatest party like ever? And she's like, they're like, dude, that was bananas. So Paula, man, I wouldn't, I don't know why I'm so blown away. The only thing folks now is Paula's 50th birthday is coming up. And what the hell do I do? I don't even know, how do I top that?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I'm not that smart like she is. What am I going to, I can't party plan anything. Was Geraldo there, DJF750? Geraldo did not show up, did not show up. And a couple of friends I invited who, you know, I told you, there are people in the business who pretend to be a friend. I'm glad with a day like that, you know who your real friends are. You know what I'm saying, folks?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Don't think like, oh, you know, I'm not above that stuff. Like I do a lot of stuff for people. So it was really great. Like a lot of cool people who I really love showed up. And to my wife, I can't thank you enough, man. It was such a special day. And I woke up the next day and said to myself, I really can't believe that just happened. I can't.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Was that like straight? Did he take, what did he take, a Zin patch or something like that? Was he dropping like some nicotine or maybe some Adderall or something like that? I got UFOs, drones, media bullshit. Stuart, the New York Times Weekend Update Big Show. Try Beamstream Powder. Get up to 45% off. For a limited time, it's shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino at checkout.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Then we had another party the next day for my family, which was just as good. It's your family matters. So sorry for the long weekend update, but a lot of you were asking questions about it. The party went till 2.22, the triple deuce. My last friend to leave is at 2.22 in the morning, and we were just chatting it up in my living room. The house took a beating.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I may have to demo my house between people spilling wine and stuff all over. We had a guy power wash this morning. Some of it comes out, some of it doesn't. We had to cover up the pool. I'm not sure the pool will recover, but... That was pretty cool, right? Everybody got to dance. So it was a lot of fun, but I'm not sure it'll cover.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And thank you to Joe Bastardi, the weather guy, for accurately predicting on Wednesday there'd be zero rain. That guy's amazing. Thank you, Joe Bastardi. Okay, back to the show, folks. Now it is over. Hopefully I'll be talking about my 60th birthday in 10 years. We won't have to deal with Dan Bongino birthday stories anymore.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
So this week, I told you, we were going to be the subject of yet the 10,000th New York Times, Washington Post, Mother Jones, conspiracy theory story, rumble, right-wing website. We've heard it a thousand times. Who's the latest asshole? The latest asshole is Stuart Thompson, who's whining in the article. Did you read the article, Justin? He's like...
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Oh my gosh, I emailed them for comment and they were so mad because you're a D-bag, bro. Nobody cares about you. Nobody reads your shitty paper. I know 50 years ago, you guys were the gray lady and the big deal and everybody was afraid of you. Nobody's afraid of you now. We laugh at you. We flip you the double barrel because you guys are losers.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
So Stuart Thompson, who let me tell you, he came into this piece. He came out this weekend, the day at a party, December 13th. He says, I traded my news apps for Rumble, the right-wing YouTube. It's not the right-wing YouTube, dude. It's a free speech site. We have left-wingers on there too, unlike YouTube, which bans and demonetizes right-wingers. Here's what I saw.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And they note, Justin kept this in. He has monitored right-wing media since 2020. He watched 47 hours of video on Rumble for this article. Gee, that's a lot. There's only like 22 million hours or so. I'm sure he got a great sample of everything. If this doesn't show you how the media works, he picked his 47 hours. for this article.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
He doesn't pick, like, Glenn Greenwald's show, who happens to be an actual journalist. He only picks the right-wing guys, and then he's, like, stunned that there's right-wing content on Rumble. Do you see how dumb of a journalist this asshole is, okay? He goes to Rumble, watches a bunch of right-wing channels, and Justin, shocker, he comes to the conclusion that Rumble's right-wing.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
That's freaking great journalism, Stuart. You are a genius. That's like going into a chemistry lab at a high school and know what they're building. This freaking place doesn't teach biology and physics? What kind of dumb place is this? This is the kind of stuff you have to deal with in the New York Times. He should. He should be a statistician.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Clearly, Stewart's such a dumbass, he doesn't understand how sample bias works because he's a freaking moron. If he would go watch Glenn Greenwald or Jimmy Dore or others on there who aren't conservative but are truth-tellers, maybe he would have come with a different conclusion. So here's what he puts up there. This is how dumb the left-wing media people are.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
And then they laugh that we make fun of them. He notes, just a few hours into the experiment, it was clear that I was falling into an alternate reality, fueled almost entirely by outrage. Stewart, you were such a piece of shit and so stupid. An alternate reality? Keep this up.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Do you realize you work at the New York Times, where nearly everything you told America, significant stories about the Trump team, turned out to be a, quote, alternate reality? The 51 intelligence people, the Russia collusion hoax, that Spygate was a hoax, all the COVID bullshit about masks. These people are freaking crazy. They are nuts. And then they're worried we call them nuts.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
He then hilariously goes on to talk about a conspiracy theory about a sex trafficking operation and then basically goes on and proves that there was a sex trafficking operation. His only dispute is the numbers. Folks, these people have zero interest in reporting going forward. Why am I bringing this up first in the show?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Because what they don't understand is they have actually laid the groundwork for this, quote, alternate reality that is the media now. But the alternate reality has a name. It's called the truth. They're just angry that we beat them on every single story and that they have to rely on kissing people's asses for subscriptions now by promoting increasingly crazy left-wing stuff.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Folks, Rumble is the future. X is the future. Truth is the future. These papers are done. They are on life support. They are going to be catering to a smaller and smaller group of people to the point where they're going to be in effect what the old school tabloids were in the checkout counter of the show. We are always their story.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Stuart, I'm going to ask you a serious question because you're an asshole and I can't stand you. But let me put aside my personal animosity because you're such a moron. For a second, I want to ask you a serious question. Did you ever for a second look in the mirror and say to yourself, you know what?
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
We've been part of this alternate reality too by creating a bunch of bullshit conspiracy theories about Donald Trump. And because people don't trust us now... They have to seek truth on Rumble X and elsewhere. Does that bother you at all? I'm so sick of these people, folks. They make me sick. The real reporting was always on Rumble.
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Here's another example of what I'm talking about, where the Stuart Thompsons of the world at the New York Times and the Washington Post, again, why I'm bringing it up now, boy, nobody believes them, and they go to Rumble, X, Truth, and elsewhere and podcasts because we're right and they're wrong. Remember when we told you on January 6th, I know what happened. I saw the riot.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
I saw people got out of control. I've been very honest about what happened on January 6th, okay? I also told you on January 6th that whereas our people can be honest about it, said that shouldn't happen, that shouldn't happen, but here's what else shouldn't happen. The FBI shouldn't have lied to us about how many feds were in the crowd or federal assets. And second...
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
The government shouldn't have lied to us about Kash Patel and Donald Trump, their story that they requested security and that everybody basically told them to stand down on it. We tell the truth. They don't. Even when it reflects poorly on us. It's my interest in getting the story out. We told you there were federal assets in the crowd. How did I know that?
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
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Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
You think some asshole like Stuart Thompson is going to reach out to me? How did I know? Because a federal agent sent me freaking pictures on an encrypted app at the event with him and feds. What else could you possibly need? It's not a secondhand source. It's a firsthand source who was there, who said, Dan, there are federal agents in the crowd. Now, the IG report comes out on Friday.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
That's like the internal affairs thing. I'm sorry I missed it Friday. We did the reaction show because we were getting ready for the event, right? But I promise I get to it today. It's a huge story. The IG report still ridiculously claims that the FBI story is true, that there were no federal agents, basically, or FBI agents in the crowd. I'm telling you that's bullshit.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Stewart, again, will pick up the story in three, four years when it comes out. I'm telling you now, flags in the chat. Folks, get them in there. Get them in there. Get them in the chat. Get them in the chat right now. I want to see who got it first. Who got it first? AlwaysSkeptic22 or something. There we go. Flags in the chat immediately. Thank you. On the screen. I'm telling you that's bullshit.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
There were absolutely federal agents and FBI agents in the crowd. But, man, fire it up. Break that chat. Smoke that thing. Get the Rumble servers on fire. Chris from Rumble. By the way, thank you to Chris, Dan Scavino, and Devin for coming too. Devin Nunes, you guys are awesome. It was really an honor to see you guys there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
Chris right now has got the fire extinguisher on the Rumble servers because we're melting it. Look at that. I think we just crashed this thing again. Oh, my gosh. You guys are so good. There were FBI agents in the crowd. Stewart, pay attention, dumbass. I have pictures. There were people in the crowd. So the IG report admits, however, that there were at least FBI assets.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
He was a real leader, you could tell, but really a man of genuinely few words. He sent me an email years later. And his name's Jason. He's fine with me saying his first name. And I read the email on my Fox show, Andy, and people had sent me feedback for days saying they were crying when I read the email.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And he said kind of what you said, that he loves his daughter so much more because when you see things like what he called the pink mist, when a guy just blows up in front of you, steps on a device or an IED hits him or whatever, and he just blows up, he's like that pink mist, like never gets out of your head.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And like you said, there's no question there's damage there, but people are all damaged and some use it for negative things. And he made the point that his relationship with his daughter was so much stronger precisely because he understood the horror that thankfully most people don't have to see, but you guys do.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
A perfect segue because I want to get into training and what you guys do and how important that is next and getting over that fog of war. Quick break. We'll be right back with Andy Stump. The podcast is called Cleared Hot. Member of SEAL Team 6. Check out the podcast. Good man. Patriot hero. Hey, let me tell you, I've had my Helix mattress for several years now. It's actually my second one.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But one of the things, at least, and again, I don't pretend to know half the things you know about tactics or anything like that. But when you're in the Secret Service, you have to function as this cohesive unit too. We have a shift that has a specific defined number of members. Every member has a role. If you're the number one, you do this and you do only this.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Because if you do that, the other guy's doing that and you're in his line of fire. Your field of vision is here. That's what you cover. You don't cover this, guys. You don't go out on an adventure because you wind up shooting a good guy. So we are the importance of training.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But one of the things I think that the public doesn't understand is you guys have to train so much because there's always a fog of war. Even the baddest-ass guys in the world, Green Berets, SEAL Team 6, Delta, if you're there, that first contact, there's always that it takes a few seconds to kind of get your, you know, to not kind of redline. I don't know the best way to say it.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But I think the difference between you guys with all the training and everyone else is everyone has the fog of war. Just the amount of time before you guys get back into action due to all that training is so much shorter than anyone else. But it never goes away, right? Like, there's always that first contact.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Yeah, did you guys, I assume you guys use Sims, but when we used to use the Sims, did you ever use them in the winter when they feel like actual bullets in the fucking winter? And then everybody shoots your hand because that's what they see, the gun. So they shoot you in the fucking hands and your fingers are like green and purple. Those sons of bitches hurt.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Now, granted, yes, it's not like getting hit with a 5.56 round at supersonic speed.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Really? Dude, the freaking fingers. You know, everybody sees the gun. So that's what they shoot at. And they magically, it's like the most amazing act of marksmanship ever. How did you hit my hand six times out of seven rounds? It's crazy. Your fingers the next day, you'd be like, you can't even do push-ups in the academy because your fingers don't even bend. It's horrible.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But when I was teaching over there, Andy, we had... Matt Eversman, he was the sergeant in the Black Hawk Down operation. And he was doing kind of an autopsy of what happened with a lot of our trainees to give you a kind of lessons learned. He'd come back every other year or so. And it was really a fascinating, fascinating lecture. And he was talking about the Delta guys. You know, he was a ranger.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And he was talking about the Delta guys and just how impressive they were and just how they had almost no emotion about combat at all. And, you know, SEAL Team 6 and Delta is always like, who's better? They're both badasses. Better word means nothing to me with that. Because I couldn't do either, so it makes no difference.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But one of the things he emphasized in that kind of autopsy in front of our students was the difference between our military and everyone else. outside of the bravery and the courage and the things we do, is just pure marksmanship. He said these Somalis would come out, empty an entire AK mag, and not hit one freaking person.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
He said you'd see these Delta guys behind cover, you know, on a three-round burst or whatever, bang, bang, bang, bang, not wasting a single round, knocking off nine, ten guys at a time. Like these guys, the marksmanship component is, at least according to him, was one of the prime differentiators between us and everyone else.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
So what I'm getting from you is a line I've heard often from friends of mine and former colleagues who were military special operations. Obviously, in my prior line of work, we sucked a lot of special operations people out just because of their massive body of experience. I used to hear this all the time. They say, fast isn't fast, brother. Smooth is fast.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
So we're looking for an amazing guest to discuss the military. Producer Michael said, you got to check this guy out. Andy Stump, member of SEAL Team 6, the host of Cleared Hot. Andy, welcome to the show. What an honor to have you on board. And most importantly, thank you for your service to this country. You're a patriot. We appreciate it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Matter of fact, fast is almost slow because you're going to have to do it multiple times to get to the end game. That smooth is fast. I'm going to take my last break. Andy, on the other side of the break, I want to ask you about leadership. I've had quite a few special operators on, and the whole idea in society about leadership that's just collapsed.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
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The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Back to Andy Sump, the host of Cleared Hot, the podcast, member of SEAL Team 6. American Patriot. Andy, your thoughts on leadership. Now, the reason I always ask guys in the military about this is because unlike most professions, maybe outside of policing, maybe the only kind of similar, not the same, but similar one, when you guys screw up the leadership component,
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
People die, like literally die, not figuratively die. And they're people close to you. They're not people you don't know. They don't die at a distance. You got a guy next to you because you screwed up a breaching decision or whatever it may be, or you go down some fatal funnel. That's the end. So I've asked a ton of people this about leadership.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And I mean, the best thing I can say to people is, the biggest component I think, and your thoughts on this are, you have to know when the... you know, kind of be like a shoulder for, for a guy. I mean like getting all wussy and, you know, but sometimes dudes are really like broken down, but you also got to know when not to be a shoulder and be like, Hey man, shut the fuck up.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Brother, you are a humble man, but you already have. I did some homework on you. I was beyond impressed. Michael has got a really good judge of talent here. So first, you served in the military. I didn't. We were kind of chatting pre-show here. And I don't do a ton of interviews on the podcast. You're the first one in a while. I do some on the radio show. But what I don't know, I don't know.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Like you're whining about bullshit. We got a mission to accomplish. And I think that's where poor leaders, they don't understand the fine line between the two. They're too much of a shoulder to cry on when they shouldn't be. Or once in a blue moon, you know, they don't know when to tell someone to shut the fuck up, you know?
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Folks, I have a special show for you today on this Friday before Christmas. You know in my hierarchy of people I adore and respect, our military men and women are at the top. Honestly, it's not even a close second. It's not even worth a second or third place because in my heart, I...
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Yeah. Andy, one of the things about leadership I found is amazing leaders. And you just said you see them. They have the Genesee quality. You know it, but you can't describe it. I mean, if we could, we wouldn't be doing this segment. I'm asking you what it is. You and I said two similar things, but in completely different words. But one of the things is you know it when you see it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And I don't know, you may disagree on this one, but I found that I spent two years as an instructor in our academy, and I guess we flushed about 200, 250 agents through. And I noticed good leaders can't make a bad guy a good guy. They just can't. I mean, we've tried and we've tried, but they can make a good guy a great guy.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Like if you get a guy in there with a good, decent set of principles who maybe isn't familiar with any military or paramilitary organization, they find a good leader. You can make that guy a superb agent. But we had a couple of guys, they would, you know, they were just, you know, I don't know if you guys call them like what blue Falcons and shit birds.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
That's what we, you know, we used to call them. Yeah. They were just shitheads and they were just like, we would have to hide them. Like they meet the minimum requirements, met the minimum requirements for training. But when they got out, you'd have to stick them in a unit where they just can't hurt anyone because you just can't make a bad guy, a good guy, but you can make a good guy, a great guy.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
I think that's kind of one of the elements of being not just smart, but intelligent, knowing the perimeter of your own knowledge. I wasn't in the military. One of the problems, though, I could imagine being in the military, especially an elite unit like SEAL Team 6, is you need absolute unit cohesion.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Andy, having gone through SEAL training, there is a local young man, my daughter's friends with his sister. He's a SEAL team member, not six. Obviously, leave his name out of it. He just got on a little bit ago. But I always ask him for advice about firearms and things like that. He's just a really wonderful young man, really talented, super smart, loyal.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
So I asked him about buds and seal training. And he said, Dan, I, everybody there's in shape. Obviously no one goes to seal training, not in shape. He's like the physical stuff sucks, but it's totally bearable. If you're in good shape, like these guys are, he said, it's a mind fuck. He said, you know what the worst part about SEAL training was? I'm waiting for him to say the rocks, the push-ups.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
He's like, the fucking sand. He's like, you have sand everywhere, all the time. Your skin isn't even red. It's non-existent. He's like, you have it in your balls, in your crack, in your toes, behind your ears. He's like, I couldn't take it anymore. He said, it'll drive you crazy. I couldn't believe that is what he remembered because that's one thing that drives guys bananas.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
You can't have people going off half-cocked, independent, doing their own thing, or the entire thing, whether it's breaching a door, everything breaks apart, everybody has a role. So when you get this wokeness component, forget the politics of it for a second, just look at it from a pure tactical perspective.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Andy, one other thing. I want to get to drones next and the drone threat, whether in combat, domestically, protection, all of that. However, one other thing he did mention, and I only laugh about this because I have a running kind of segment on my radio show. It's a joke. I got a cold plunge about a year ago, and it's like torture. I mean, sitting in this thing for four minutes at 45 degrees –
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And I just think back to when I first started, he mentioned the sand thing, but he said, Dan, you have no idea what it's like to sit in like 50 degree water for like a half an hour at a clip. He's like, you don't even, he's like the pain. There's no going numb. Like it never feel, Oh look, I'm numb. That like, that's not a thing. Like you're just freaking freezing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And he's like, that is one of the other big mind fucks in training is that you're freezing cold all the time. And in your brain, you know, you're not going to be warm. anytime soon. Like there's no like, oh good, we get to go over to the heaters and roast marshmallows. Like that's not happening.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
We're emphasizing division, skin color, race, things that have nothing to do with Andy Stump, SEAL Team 6's ability to breach a door and take out a bad guy. This is really dangerous. It has the potential to break up our military.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
you're right. It's like a, you know, it's like a run. They used to have these things like the, the Indian run. Like if you're running at someone else's pace, it's always harder. You know what I'm saying? Even if it's a pace you could totally handle because in your brain, you're like, is he going to speed up? Is he going to slow down? I totally get that. Let me ask you about drones. Uh,
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Now, in the protection space I was in, I wrote a book a long time ago about this. And one of the chapters was about the drone threat. And the reason the drone threat right now is, I think, unique, and I hate that word, is for two reasons. Number one, it's low tech. I mean, we have a JSF and an F-22 that other countries don't have.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
But if it can be taken down by a swarm of $100 Amazon drones, it's kind of freaking worthless. That's number one. It doesn't require a lot of money and almost no skill. I mean, a trained F-22 pilot takes forever. But second, Andy, it's obvious, you know, from a tactical perspective, humans can't fly.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
So if they tell SEAL Team 6, hey, there's a guy in the ghillie suit, there's a way to mitigate that. You can hit that target, flank it. You can take out it with a countersniper. But you can actually walk over there if you needed to and inspect the target, not that you'd walk in front of a gun. You can't do that with a drone. So if you're on the White House lawn, there's a drone threat.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
You can't just go, oh, hold on, let me go check it out. We can't fly. This freaks me out, this drone threat, not only for combat operations with guys like yourself overseas who've done it, but also for domestic, too. I mean, Times Square, you get a swarm of drones dropping grenades on New Year's Eve. You got hundreds of casualties.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Yeah, you know, I say a lot of my show, government is a really tough time keeping secrets, and they do. But I will say this. When I was on the job for about 10 years or so, I was briefed into a program, and I was pretty stunned myself. They put us on a helo and on a kind of an op around D.C., and pointed out some stuff. And I was like, wow, I didn't know that's what that was.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Like, it was really kind of shocking to me too. So you're right. I mean, we don't know everything and we don't know what that is. And you're also right about the green men. Like if they have the technology to get here and they wanted to kill us, they probably would have done it already. So yeah, sit down, have a Heineken, enjoy yourself. Andy, last question for you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
I want to make sure I get a plugin for your podcast at the end to clear it hot. You know, having gone through buds, which is, you know, inarguably one of the toughest things any human being on planet earth can do physically, the cold, the sand, the grind, the lack of sleep, the hunger, just all the horrors of being human in your hierarchy of needs in one training session.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
You know, I just want to get across to the audience and kind of a motivational closing here that you're capable of so much more than you think. I mean, I have not done anything close to Bud's, but you know, you are, you, you, you think you have this ceiling. Like I can only do 10 reps. I promise you, you can do 12. You just haven't experienced that pain yet. And you'll get used to it eventually.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And you'll recondition your nervous system. Like your ceiling, I promise you. Isn't your ceiling. You can do better. And it's something like buds where a guy like you is the perfect guy to talk about that. Cause you've done what 99.99 repeating decimal of society just can't get through the, but your ceiling is higher than you think.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Yeah, it is. I've told people that over and over again. Again, not even close to comparable, but they say, gosh, why did you, like, you left the Secret Service to go run for office? Like, that's crazy. I'm like, I like doing crazy things. I just like taking chances because, you know, I don't believe in luck. I believe in taking a thousand chances.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And if two of those chances work out and you only took two, you're zero for zero. If I took a thousand and two of them work out, it was just a law of probability, brother. Like eventually something was going to hit, you know? It's simple probability. Andy, what an amazing interview. We don't do this often, but I may have to now that you set the bar so high. We got a new studio opening up soon.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
They just mean so much to me. I lost my uncle before I was born. He was shot in the back in Vietnam. He was given the Bronze Star with a V device. And his story about how he was shot saving his friends has just destroyed my family. I mean, he was scheduled to come home and never made it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
I hope you'll join us for a follow-up to this. This was really amazing. Your podcast is called Cleared Hot. Andy Stump, look him up. Bongino Army, do me a favor. Go out and support this man. Download his podcast. Give him a follow on these platforms. We need more patriots like this to hear from him. Andy, God bless you, brother. Thanks so much for your time. We appreciate it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Man, folks, I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. I'm serious. You know we don't do interviews on the podcast often. It's the first one since Tucker last year. It's been a year or so. But my gosh, I learned more from that than I think many of you did out there. I really, really learned. I didn't even get to half my questions. We're going to do a follow-up with him when the new studio opens up.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Really appreciate you tuning in, folks. I will see you back here Monday live. Spread this show around. You need to hear his message here. We'll be back here Monday at 11 a.m. Rumble.com slash Bongino. Please download the Rumble app. Give us a follow. Also give us a follow on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. We really appreciate it. See you then. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Andy, one of the things, too, that differentiates special operators, and you just emphasized it, is this is not your first rodeo. And, I mean, that's underplaying the situation. You've already been through boot camp, which for all the branches isn't easy. I don't care what you're in. You can be a cook in the Navy at the White House mess. You've still been through boot camp. It's a pain in the ass.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
It's not easy. It's not like, you know, your high school gym class. You get a guy, say, in Delta, another special operations team, who's been a Ranger. He's been through boot camp. He's been through Ranger school. You know, you get guys who've had specific MOS schools before they're in SEAL Team 6. They may have been through, I don't know, some EOD training or something like that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
These are all really complicated schools. You've got Green Berets who've been through two or three schools beforehand. I mean, this is the kind of thing where... You've now broken down all these barriers and you've got, as you called it, the tip of the spear. Guys operating as one, almost operating as a symbiote. They can read each other. They can see each other.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
They just got to tap you on the shoulder. And one guy knows to go left and right, breaching that door. He goes the wrong way, he's dead. People are freaking dead. It's not like you go the wrong way. Oh, sorry, do over. It's not Wayne's World, you know, where they're playing a hockey game and they go, oh, come on, start over. That's not the way this shit works. People die.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And that's my problem with this wokeness crap. Obviously the politics of it, I hate, but the division component, like so much effort's gone into teaching you guys cohesion. It's just such a shame to see it all attacked with this silly nonsense stuff.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
On the day he was scheduled to come back, two soldiers showed up instead to notify my grandmother that he had died. And the greatest regret of my life is not going in the military. It really is. So I've got an amazing guest for you today, Andy Stumpf. If you haven't heard of him, he has a show. It's called Cleared Hot. He's a member of SEAL Team 6, an American patriot and a hero.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Yeah. Andy hosts the Cleared Hot podcast. Be sure to check it out. You'll love it. Andy, on the nomination of Pete Hegseth for the critical position of defense secretary, one of the top two or three most important positions in the world. Forget about our government. I mean, we are the most powerful military in the known universe. That's not even in dispute.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
One of the things I found so objectionable about the attacks on Pete, again, I was not in the military. I spent a career in law enforcement, you know, NYPD and on the federal side. It's a hard job. It's nothing like the military. It's not even in the ballpark. But I just remember going over to Afghanistan and doing the site advance for Obama at Bagram.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And, you know, watching these guys living in these hoochies, which is like sand on every... And the guys were like, you can't get this sand out of anything. And it's like... You know, these guys, they're going out and doing their runs and they got sand in their lungs. They're spitting out like brown mucus all the time. I was out of there after two weeks, Andy.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
These guys are living there on 10-month year deployments. And, you know, they come back and they're attacking Pete, you know, suggesting sometimes he has an alcohol problem. No one I know has ever seen that. It's a fabricated issue completely. But Pete Hegsett's a guy who enjoys spending some time with people who understand what it's like to be in combat. I don't understand that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Andy, I have no idea what it's like to breach a door in Afghanistan with some mutt behind you pointing an AK-47. I have no freaking idea. I got to imagine when you come back, you know, maybe headed to a bar responsibly with a few of your boys talking about that experience is really the only thing you have. I mean, what are you going to do? Talk to some shrink about what the hell do they know?
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
They haven't been there. And for them to attack him about this, that really pisses me off because guys like you who need that outlet now are probably going to be like, oh my gosh, is someone going to put me on Twitter at a bar? Like, am I going to be able to get a job later? That's kind of bullshit.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
We're going to get into everything military, lethality, training. What's the problems with the military? We can talk Pete Hegseth and everything else. You're going to love this show. So stay tuned. Hey, the ultimate sleep refresh for the new year. Try Beam's Dream Powder. Get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino at checkout.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
Andy, you definitely can't curse on this podcast, right, guys? We have a policy. I'm kidding, obviously. That's bullshit. Yeah, fuck that. Andy, this show definitely took a different turn a few years ago. We're way too pissed off and stuff. I have to calm down, especially interviewing like door kickers like you, because I'll get crazy. I get into it. Lethality. The military.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
One of the things I really kind of object to with the wussification of America and this toxic masculinity bullshit out there is that there's no realpolitik in it. This isn't the real world. It's a utopia that doesn't exist. Our military and guys like you exist to go kill bad guys. That is not cute. It's not a movie. It's not pretty. Nobody dies in a movie like, ah!
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
That's not the way this shit goes down. It's ugly. It's gross. There's guts. There's blood. And I just want to get your take on this. So I have two friends who were... in combat zones. They were both very, very quiet about it. But one guy opened up to me one time and he was a tow missile operator in Gulf War I Marine. And he said, you know, the Iraqis tanks were too slow for us.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
So they would sometimes jump in like pickup trucks to try to get away. So he mentioned the story about hitting a pickup truck with a tow missile, which you know didn't end well. And he said, you know, all I could think about afterwards, you know, for these people to think like, oh yeah, you go off and kill and you don't come back with scars. Like that's bullshit.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
He said, all I could think about from that point on was, you know, that guy had kids and his kids are never going to know what happened to him. He's just going to burn in the desert. And it was weird because this was obviously over a decade later and he's sitting there with me in the training center and I could see he was like, He was a tough son of a bitch, Andy, too.
The Dan Bongino Show
Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
This guy, he wasn't a recon Marine, but he was attached to a recon unit at one point. He was a badass guy. And just to watch him kind of, you know, in front of me open up, you know, this is what our military is, man. We've got to take care of these guys.
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Saving The U.S. Military w/ SEAL Andy Stumpf (Ep. 2392)
And this wussification of America, we're not doing our military any favors by playing this shit down with a lot of like, you know, cutesy DEI videos and bullshit like that. These guys are going to bring home a lot of scars mentally, too.
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Yeah, it's interesting you say that because I mentioned I had more than two friends that have served, but the two that I was the closest with, the second guy had a similar perspective as you. He sent me an email. I was his instructor. He was a Marine as well and served overseas and never said a word in the training academy, one of the quietest guys I've ever seen.
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But you go into, like, fog of war mode instantly. And it takes a few seconds to clear your brain. This guy's first impulse was to get up and to scream, fight, fight, fight. I mean, that takes a set of freaking coconuts like I've never seen. If there was a game-changing moment in modern political history, forget about this election, then that was probably it. That was a good one.
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I'm glad you guys put that in there, even though we've seen it, folks. Don't you agree? You can't see that one enough. All right, let's see what we got next.
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We got to hit that timer, bring that one up. I'm going to take care of this.
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Now, on the political tactics front. This, again, genius. Look at this guy. You believe this guy flipping the fries?
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In a suit. In a suit. This is Trump, of course, if you listen on Spotify or Apple. And the Mickey D's. He's like, this is the best fry flipping I've ever seen.
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I only laugh because... I'm going to tell you something. There are a few politicians who, this actually, I promise I did not know the clips. Again, I'm not making this up. This segues so beautifully from the Tim Walls segment where don't make yourself look stupid in public. Being able to avoid looking stupid in public and having the je ne sais quoi, right? Charisma.
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Nobody knows what it is, but you know what I'm saying? Do you know when you, if I'm going out the next time you, You ever see like a guy or woman walks in the room? You've never met this person at all. It's a crowded room and everybody turns their attention. And I'm not talking about the beauty alone. I'm just talking about the shoulders are back. The chest is out.
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Everybody seems to be staring at this person. You get an air of power from this person. That's Trump. So whereas Tim Walz can't even shoot his own gun, Donald Trump can walk into a McDonald's in a suit, put an apron on, flip in fries, and look more manly than Tim Walz in his hunting garb out there trying to fake hunt with a gun he doesn't know how to use. He claims it's his own.
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You see the difference? If you flip that around, Tim Walz looks like an idiot at McDonald's, and you put Donald Trump out there hunting, Donald Trump doesn't know how to work the gun. He'll be like, what kind of bullshit gun is this? You get what I'm saying? Okay, okay, I know you guys get some other good stuff. Does that make sense? That's the je ne sais quoi.
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Hey, we're all feeling pretty good about where the country's headed now, but I'm concerned. You don't want to let your guard down. That is when emergencies happen or emergencies because you didn't see him coming. Okay. Don't get caught. Have these emergency products you need because you better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them, right?
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It's called the je ne sais quoi because nobody knows why they have it. The people who have it just have it. I wish I could bottle it. I'd be stupid rich.
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And I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage.
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Perfect. This is Trump in a garbage truck after Joe Biden called MAGA supporters, of course, garbage. Many of you remember that. This is how Trump decides to go out there. And we recommend it. I'm not saying they heard it from us. A thousand people were saying, but what did we say?
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Like, if Donald Trump doesn't get out there in a sanitation truck tomorrow, I didn't even think of the vest, by the way, and go out there in a truck, is this a missed political opportunity like you've never seen? The sanitation vest is the perfect example. What does he say coming out? Do you remember that part? Again, we didn't plan this.
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He's like, hey, before I was coming out, they told me to put on the sanitation vest, and I didn't really think it was a good idea. I thought I'd look silly, but you know what? And here's what he's saying in his head. Language alert. He's saying... Fuck that, motherfucker. I'm Donald Trump. I'll put on whatever the hell I want. I'll make it happen. That's how he is. That's how he is.
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He just has freaking basketballs down there. He just does. And that's why he can make that work. Whereas if Kamala Harris or someone else came out in a sanitation vest, they would look like idiots every single time. Perfect segue there. Totally, completely unintentional. A Biden blunder bonanza. Hard to pick a few, but these were our favorites. All right, let's see what your favorites were.
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is this i don't know what he just said if we finally beat medicare this is it president trump was right he did beat medicare he beat it to death and he's destroying medicare
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I remember guys, we were doing that live and that was one of the moments we all looked at each other on the debates when we were doing the live debate coverage because we were trying to shut up and not say too much. We were just trying to let the debate play out so we'd interrupt. But that was one of the moments we all looked at each other and we were like, this guy's campaign is over.
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We had we called it. Go back and listen to the sense, you know, proven bona fides. You can listen to yourself. We called it. We told you this guy was not going to be the nominee. I think it was that moment. And when Trump said to him, when he said, listen, man, I don't even know what this guy just said. That was it.
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That was the official end of Joe Biden's campaign, because probably 30 plus million people were watching that, probably another 50 million on clips who realized that. Everything we had said about this guy's cognitive function and brain not working was absolutely correct. He just couldn't put together a string together a series of sentences. You saw it yourself. Yeah, that was a good one.
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I actually forgot about that moment in the debate. Let's see what else you got. Confused on stage. Confused one direction, the other direction, looks back. So again, if you listen on Spotify or Apple, Biden's on stage. He goes one way, goes the other way, salutes someone who's there or may not be there. We don't even know what he's, maybe he sees phantasms.
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Maybe it's like the Amityville horror thing. Nobody knows. He walks off. Now, why is this clip important? This is something I don't have a lot of experience in a lot of things, but I definitely know how logistics of a presidential visit work. I've told you guys well over 500 times that in events like this, the president is given a tick tock and basically footsteps.
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In other words, here is exactly what you're going to do. When I say exactly, I mean exactly. You, it'll say POTUS, walks on stage from stage right, stage left, doesn't matter. You follow footsteps on stage. You exit stage left, work rope line. You, and not only that, there's someone guiding him.
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If you're the president of the United States and you don't know where to go after your speech is over and you were told this 15 minutes prior with notes in front of you, then, folks, this guy's cognitive disorder is probably so farther along advanced than we can possibly imagine. This guy's in real trouble. I've been there. You never see stuff like this.
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I challenge you, go look at Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, make it a bipartisan thing. Go back and sit there and scroll on a video platform all day and see how many times they were confused getting off stage. I guarantee you, you're barely going to find one. Barely. Because it's impossible. You have to be mentally not there. I love those clips.
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I mean, I don't love them, but I love them because I haven't been there. I know how bad that really is. The staff and the Secret Service are probably like, shit, we just told them five minutes ago. Like, what the hell is it like this? They got like the airplane things in there this way.
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they do that's a great yeah that's funny he's never funny that's funny they do they have like a a behavioral learning negative like ptsd response whenever hail to the chief comes on because they know they're gonna have to this way bro this way every dead stress level goes up automatically now whenever they hear the music they're gonna be sitting at home after the detail and the wife will have fox news on it's after say a midnight they're sleeping at one o'clock in the evening
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And the guy's going to jump up and, oh, my God, where's Biden? Biden, Biden's been out of office four years. Let's see what else.
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This is great. Yes, he is going that far. You know, I got to tell you, I'm a. I'm a little torn on this one. Can I let you guys in on a little secret? I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to. No, I shouldn't, but I will. When this happened, Biden's so out of it, folks, I really don't think there was any agenda here at all. I don't. He's so out of it. I'm not even sure he knew what he was doing.
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Maybe he knew it was a Trump hat. Maybe he didn't. I don't know. But Biden's... I'll tell you why I'm torn on this. I'm going to get into it. I'm going to get in a rabbit hole. I dislike this guy so much because he's so corrupt in what he did with his family and all this other stuff makes me so sick to my stomach and all the endless lying and comparing us to Nazis.
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I mean, I have a visceral emotional reaction to Joe Biden. But again, I can't be a hypocrite and say, don't get emotional about politics, stay transactional and then get emotional about it, even if it's Joe Biden. I didn't want to say anything at the time because I really can't stand this guy. But I didn't find that clip to be...
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I really think he just didn't know what he was doing, and he was trying to be like a funny, friendly guy. And I don't know. I shouldn't have said it. I don't want you to think I'm ever being fake with you. I'm not. I dislike this guy so much. I may have attributed to him is what I'm getting at. Really malicious motives because he's a genuinely awful guy that in that moment may not have existed.
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Let's see what we got here. Let's start breaking it down. Listen, I practice what I preach. Snapshots and sound bites. That's what politics is. It's a political show. It is pictures and sound bites if you think it's anything different. You have tuned into the wrong show.
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We don't have a lib highlight section because there are none. Let's be real. They're all lowlights. But these guys say they're funny, though. I'll be the judge of that. It is called the Dan Bongino Show. Let's see what you got.
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Okay, I have a deal for you. If we get a seat in the new Trump White House press room, you know, they're talking about breaking up the press room and giving seats to media channels that actually people listen to, like us and Charlie Kirk and others.
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If we get that and I hire a correspondent, one of my first requests when they're not in the press room, say maybe for a weekend gig one day, is going to be to go to the Bronx and ask young kids who are black what a computer is. I can guarantee you, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul, Guys, what do you say in the percentage? Let me throw this out there. I'm going to say a sample size.
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Maybe we ask 50 young black men. Let's say 13 or under. Let's say 10 or under, just to be fair to Kathy Hochul, who thinks young black kids are idiots. Let's say 10 or under. I'm going to say 100%. For the liberals who are bad at math, that's 50 out of 50. I'm going to say 50 out of 50 not only know what a computer is, but can operate a computer and can describe a computer.
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Guys, are you going with 100% or maybe a little less? Justin wants to go to Cal State or one of those betting sites, and he wants to put $100,000 he doesn't have on 100% of black kids, 10 and younger, know exactly what a computer is, and honestly are probably better at using it than Kathy Hochul. But of course, Kathy Hochul's a liberal, so will anybody call her a racist?
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Nah, they'll celebrate it and make apologies for her because that's what they do, because liberalism and racism, they go hand in glove. That was a good one. I've forgotten about that one, too. That was one of the gems of the year. You guys put this together yourself very good. Let me see what else you got.
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You may want to watch a show like Rachel Maddow where they get everything wrong all the time because they think it's more than snapshots and soundbites. So let's see what we got for clip one, year in review. Check this out.
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And then she goes to shit on the country again, right?
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I see what you guys did here. Tell me if I'm right. Tell me if I'm right. Well, you guys, the theme of what you're doing here is liberals pretending to acknowledge that they were wrong about who America really is and then turning around and shitting on America and admitting they have no idea who America is. Am I right? I have no idea who America really is. Am I correct or am I correct?
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Tim Walls and Claire McCaskill, Air Claire, former senator from Missouri before she got defeated soundly by Josh Hawley, claiming, oh, my gosh, you know, maybe we have to reevaluate. We have to look in the mirror. Maybe all the stuff we've been doing is crazy. We got to stop. We got to stop.
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Oh, and by the way, you racist, bigoted, fascist Nazis who don't want to be inclusive, you can plant a big wet one on my ass. Keep it up. Keep it up, kids. We got midterms coming up. I cannot wait to see what you've got in your pockets next if that's going to be your attitude. I absolutely love it. That was good. I like how you put them back to back.
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I didn't know this was going to be like mashups within a mashup show. Very nicely done. Let's see what you got next.
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Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today. Oh, Van Der Heide. Saying like, we are the media. You are the media. My message to Elon Musk is bulls**t. You're not the media.
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You having... You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. You don't do that by popping off on Twitter. You don't do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.
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Oh my gosh, that was a personal request. Thank you guys, seriously, for including it. Folks, that may not be the funniest or the silliest or the most sarcastic or the one worthy of me throwing a rotten eggs at. But it is telling. That's Jim Vander Hei, who's one of the bosses over at Axios, which is a left-wing news outlet.
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I want you to keep in mind there, this is just an extinction burst by him. An extinction burst in psychology is when you engage in a behavior you're used to a response from. You put a dollar, you get a Coke, and then you put a dollar in the machine, the Coke doesn't come out, so you beat up the machine. That's what Vander Hei's doing. He's engaging in an extinction burst.
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He's beating up the machine, okay? He's kicking the machine because he doesn't understand or he's incapable of understanding how the propaganda they've been using for 50 years is no longer working. And he's upset that people like us beat them at their own game. That's all this is. This is an emotional outburst that really became... A rallying cry to the left.
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They thought this was great, make no mistake. Them celebrating them being wrong in just about every media story of the decade and yelling about it. But on the right, it was a laughingstock. And all of us know exactly what's going on. And I know who's right because we have an audience and they don't, at least relatively speaking. Let's see what else you got. Everyone's favorite patio host?
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Oh, oh, is that a thing? Did you like make a word up? Is that in the dictionary? I think you should. I think everyone should go put an urban dictionary. Can we make submissions? Because I actually like that patio. If you're a radio and a radio podcast host, a patio, some of memorable moments from Mr. That's me. OK, well, let's see what you got.
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Oh, no. But the Democrats were very tactical folks. They're not stupid. They understand that it doesn't matter if these illegals vote or not. It does. I mean, it's terrible. Obviously, if they do, they broke the law.
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Okay, so let me say again. Fuck you, Bill O'Reilly, you lying sack of shit. You're a chump, and you're obviously a pussy, too. I hate Bill O'Reilly. I always have. He's a douchebag. I used to do his show once in a while at Fox, and you would sit there at this little desk, and because he was such a dick and everybody hated him, no, everybody hated him. Well, just about.
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Maybe there were a few people like... Did you notice when Bill O'Reilly got into that shit? I'm not going to even talk about it because it's pretty gross. Did you notice nobody defended him? You got something to say to me, you six-foot-tall-plus piece of shit? Say it to my face. Oh, my gosh. Fucking chump. Wow. Piece of shit. You're listening to this guy. You're being played. Wow. Man.
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Okay, number one. Everything I said in there is accurate. He did. He started a fight. And what bothered me most about that clip, so you understand the background. You know, people talk smack about me all the time, whatever, right? The reason that got under my skin is this guy was always reaching out about coming on my show and selling his book. And I've tried to make my radio show.
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I do people's books once in a while. Obviously, you know, friends come on. They have good material. But I'm trying not to make it a book show because then his show gets annoying. People want to hear about other things. So I always made room for this guy. And I'm telling you, he would reach out all the time at his books, and we always had him on. I was never.
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Matter of fact, on Fox, when he asked me to come on, we never said no. We always did his show. And, man, for this guy to not even give me a heads up and say, hey, can you clarify what you meant by this, to just randomly try to invoke my name for a clickbait, oh, man, was I furious. And I'm going to tell you again. Everything I said in that clip is true. That guy was hated, hated.
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Okay, I'm... I'm just going to let you know in advance. I swear to you on my integrity. The guys did not, they don't like when I know the clips in advance because they think they're going to get an inauthentic response. And one of the things people say they love about the show is it's real. You're damn right it's real. I didn't know what they were going to play.
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Nobody liked that guy. Nobody. Maybe, well, I shouldn't say that. A few people were kind of milquetoast about him and I met, but not a good guy at all. And he deserved all of that. You know, sometimes people will be like, ah, you know, do you regret going after him like that? No, no. Folks, you're going to punch me, man. I'm sorry.
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This is a double-leg takedown coming, and we're jumping on top full mount. Sorry. It just doesn't work that way. Don't poke the – forget about the bear. Don't poke the tiger. I forgot him, man. I really filleted that dude. Oh, my gosh. You ain't kidding. Let's see what else he got.
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I actually, I'm not a dancer. I can't dance. I'm not a dancer. I liked it. It doesn't mean I don't like it. I do things I can't do all the time. But I actually, that's a great song. What's that guy's name? Charles Downs or something? That guy, that's actually a really good song. And by the way, one quick thing, because this is a political show.
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I remember when we were told that us highlighting the eating of the dogs and the cats was going to be the end of the campaign song. Oh, my gosh, Ohio, everybody's going to turn on you. You guys look horrible. Yeah, it worked out well for them. Don't ever listen to media bullshit. Whatever they say, spin it 180, spin it 180, and I can guarantee you the opposite is true, which it was.
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We won Ohio in a mega landslide, so don't believe any of their bullshit. That was a good one. All right, what else you got? Random screenshots. Okay, I didn't see this coming. Oh, is that Fugazi? You notice how I have him in like a karate position there? You see like I've got like the unbendable arm going, my left arm in the karate position. And I think it's because I... No, no, no, no.
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Yeah, yeah. Michael's like all into jujitsu. Now, wait, put the screenshot back up. So me and Michael talk jujitsu all the time. Guy and them are like, Mike and Justin are like, what the hell are you guys always talking about? The thing about the Fugazi thing is I'm so sensitive about the Fugazi because I only got one big Fugazi head. I got a lot of small Fugazi heads.
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I don't want the Fugazi head to ever, like, get dented because this is really an integral part of the show. And I think that's why I had, like, they teach in Secret Service the unbendable arm. That's why I had the unbendable arm going because I'm very defensive about the Fugazi head. They only got me one Fugazi head. I have a lot of small ones, but not big.
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My response to that is, what the did she just say? You want to know why Kamala Harris lost the campaign? She had the absolute inability to give any clear and concise answer on any topic whatsoever. Because, you know, sometimes with the clips, I've heard them like five or six times, right, guys, before I sent them over. So I already know. I don't really have to hear it. I've heard it. I cut it.
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And, you know, Fugazi's got a big head, so we don't want to mess up the big head Fugazi. You see that? Underhook. Michael's always thinking Jets. You got to get them underhooks all the time. What else you got? Oh, my gosh. Should I tell them the story behind this one, Paula? So, Guy. Oh, here we go. Here's Guy. Here's the story with this.
The Dan Bongino Show
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So because we're always talking about, you know, people having figuratively big balls, because, you know, I hate the word literal. I mean, you may, but that's a problem you may have to seek out if you have elephantitis issues like Johnny Dangerously. But I said, Guy, go out and get like some watermelons and some grapefruits and stuff like that. So Guy went out and got...
The Dan Bongino Show
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Some grapefruits, which just punched me right in the face with. And we put them on the show. And I love them. I think they're the greatest thing. But you see the little moray effect, by the way, here going on? You see that? This yellow, it must be doing something to the camera. This is not an electric watermelon, folks. I promise you, what you're seeing on camera is not real.
The Dan Bongino Show
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This is just a yellow stripe. It looks like it's glowing or something. Paula absolutely hated it. And usually I sometimes I overrule, which is most of the time. But in this case, she was like, I hate the grapefruits and the watermelon. So we're never going to do it again. But I'm glad you put the screenshot up because there's always a story. And you guys are entitled to know the deeds here.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Save those, though. Don't throw them out because we may need them in the new studio. I know it may cause a big I may be divorced after this. I know she did hide him. Paula wanted to pop them and throw them in the garbage. But I had I had a backup pair just in case. Yeah. He can take that a lot of different ways. All right, let's see what else you got. Oh, my gosh. Now, this was 8-8 day.
The Dan Bongino Show
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We got a repeat of Fugazi. This is me actually hugging Fugazi. The light in the studio is reflecting on the right cheek a little differently, though. He looks a little strange. He looks extra white on the right side of his face. But it was 8-8 day, which, of course, Fugazi thinks Donald Trump lowered the flags to half-mast when he meant half-staffed. to acknowledge Heil Hitler.
The Dan Bongino Show
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He actually said that, which was insane. So I guess kind of convenient that he's got an extra white face going on that day due to the lighting in the studio. But I am hugging Fugazi right there, showing our love for the great Frank Fugazi. I wonder if Kamala Harris would have won if he would have been like the FBI director or something. What do you think? The possibility.
The Dan Bongino Show
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All right, let's take one more. What else you got? Two more. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Rock'em Sock'em. Was my Rock'em Sock'em robots? Thank you to my accountant, Josh Goodman. He sent me, turns out, the Rock'em Sock'em robot set. Was I not right with the Rock'em Sock'em robot strategy that this is the way to overwhelm them? I told you they were going to take a scalp. They did. I wish they hadn't.
The Dan Bongino Show
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But now we're seeing, as Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK move along, now we're seeing Rock'em Sock'em Robots. There I was. I actually, on the record, beat Guy rather handily, despite not having played Rock'em Sock'em Robots in over 30 years. I still won the game because I've just got mad skills like that. So that was a good one. All right, let's see what you got for the last one here. Wow.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Do you remember what this was for? No. This was the sixth middle finger salute never before seen on the Dan Bongino show with the sneakers. Look at this. Man, you can't even, like, see the actual middle finger I was given with the toe. But that was the sixth middle finger salute that, gosh, does anybody remember? Anyone in the chat? Give us a – I'm going to look. I want to see what that was.
The Dan Bongino Show
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If you remember, that's got to be a P1 of P1 things. I don't remember, but that was the only time I think we ever did a sixth – July 10th. So someone go back and figure out what that was about. But I must have been really annoyed at that one. But either way, we were probably right because we predicted just about everything on this show this year. So we're pretty good.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I sent it over. I watched it. I watched it two or three times, sometimes more. I'm listening to this, and I still can't figure out what the hell she just said. If there was ever a clip that summed up the word salad problem and the lack of any kind of vision from Kamala Harris, that was it. I remember that one. All right, let's see what else you got.
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The sextuple barrel middle finger. That was good, guys. That was a good show. Hey, man, I hope you enjoyed the show on this Friday. We're going to party a little bit tonight. I'll have a weekend update for you on Monday. I appreciate everything. And I promise after Monday, for those of you who wanted me to turn in my man card, I'm only 50 once. I'm just a dude.
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It'll be the last time we ever address it. Maybe I can earn my man card back from you, but your opinion matters too. Thanks for tuning in, folks. See you back here on Monday.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Okay, okay, okay, okay. Joe Pesci style. Okay, okay, okay. Leo Getz. Some of you get that. One of the biggest problems in politics I find with people, and it's politics and the media. I've kind of discussed this before, but I'll bring it up here again because it's critical, especially with this new year coming around and, you know, midterms only two years away. I call this the SAT problem.
The Dan Bongino Show
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It's where a politician who's not that bright, very little aptitude, maybe some achievement, but it's faux achievement. They hear a word they think makes them sound somewhat educated and eloquent on a matter. Gravitas, holistically, whatever it is, right?
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They find this stupid word, and they fall in love with it, and they repeat it endlessly on loop, thinking they found something that makes them sound... What's the... Oh, man. Producer Jim, help me out. What's the Joe Biden word he says all the time whenever he wants to sound smart? Shit. One of you guys got to get this to me.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
The Dan Bongino Show
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He says this word all the time when he's trying to sound like he's really smart. It's the SAT word problem. Don't do this. It draws unnecessary attention to you as you repeat something and the brain tends to remember patterns. She does this shit all the time. It's one of the reasons she lost. Don't do it. It's the gravitas problem with Dick Cheney. Gravitas, gravitas.
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Once the word catches on, everybody repeats it because they think it sounds good. Kids do this. Kids do this. What's the word kids use all the time? It drives you crazy. You've heard it, right? You have teenagers? Literally. Everything's literally. That's why I hate that word. Everything's literally when they mean figuratively. Everything. If everything's literal, it's not literal. It's figurative.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Literally. Literally. What's this damn word with Joe Biden? Damn it. It's going to drive me crazy. I don't know. I may creep up in this thing. I don't know what you got. You may have inadvertently played.
The Dan Bongino Show
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So a couple people asked me to turn in my man card. A couple of listeners said, Dan, you've been talking way too much about this 50th birthday. What are you, some kind of prima donna? Well, today's the big day. I'm a little worried, though. A little bit windy. It was about a little bit of wind. You don't get too much of that down here in Florida. But it was a little bit windy last night.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I just remembered the Joe Biden word. Solicitous. Joe Biden says solicitous all the time. Solicitous, that's his SAT word. Don't fall for the SAT word problem. Folks, this is another critical problem, inauthenticity and not being genuine. Those are the many faces of Kamala Harris. You have rarely seen a political chameleon in your life like Kamala Harris.
The Dan Bongino Show
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She seemed to want to be everything to everyone to the point where she felt like she needed to talk to groups differently. But here's the thing. It's not only patronizing and condescending, but it's just wrong because people, whoever that group is, wherever they're from, whatever their race, color, creed, religion, it doesn't matter.
The Dan Bongino Show
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They don't want to be spoken to as if they're different than anyone else and they require some different accent to be. It's patronizing to them. They get pissed off. They don't. It doesn't work. You think you're down. You're doing the Jenny from the block routine. You're not. You sound like a moron.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Donald Trump talks the same way every single time and actually increased his voting percentage amongst some of these sensitive groups of the Republican Party. We've been getting crushed demographically for a long time because he never spoke differently to anyone ever. This is another don't do.
The Dan Bongino Show
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This turns into snapshots and particularly soundbites that reflect particularly poorly upon your campaign. Everybody remembers Al Gore trying to fake it in front of the black church. Hillary Clinton with the, you know, I carry hot sauce. Hillary Clinton's never seen hot sauce in her life. She's totally full of shit. This is all pandering. People see through it. They are not stupid. Don't. Do it.
The Dan Bongino Show
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It's a big no-no. Campaign managers, if your client's doing this, shut that down. Let's see what you got. All right. We can't afford. Oh, the tampon, Tim. We can't afford four more years of tampons. No, this was my favorite. And I'm a knucklehead at times. Yes, you are. Definitely a knucklehead at times. This is his own shot.
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But I think it'll be like mid-high 60s. So I think we're going to be okay. But it's a big day. So, you know, we talk about snapshots and soundbites. Snapshots, say it right, brother. snapshots and soundbites all the time. So I thought kind of what better way on a great day like today. To me, I'm really happy today.
The Dan Bongino Show
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You guys can't get enough of this with the guy, can you?
The Dan Bongino Show
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How many times you guys? It's supposed to be a video. And I'm a knucklehead at times. Oh, here we go. You guys can't get enough of this shit, can you? If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, please watch the rumble where they must have played the clip of Tim Walls not knowing how to loan his own shotgun at least five or six times.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Oh, I know, I know, it's him going on and on, not being able, but they can't get enough of that clip. Okay, can I give you some life advice here? This is an important show, okay? There is a king of the turban, the Mount Olympus of Greek gods, Tamponicus Timicus, using the lightning tampon as a weapon of mass destruction politically, unfortunately for his own campaign.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I'm going to give you a piece of life advice. You don't have to take it. You can say, what the hell you know about life? Your life's more screwed up than anyone. I got to say, you'd be right. What is two thumbs and screws up earth? This guy. However, I'm going to throw this at you because I know it's true. You may call me crazy.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I don't believe in self, you know, in self, destroying yourself like publicly and making yourself look silly. Some people like, oh, it's cute, you know, self-effacing humor and all that other stuff. No, no, no, I don't buy it. I'm sorry. Call me crazy. I've been married 20 years and all this other stuff. I'm not telling you that everything is like peaches and cream all the time.
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That's not what I'm saying at all. But I don't do embarrassing stuff, and I don't make myself look stupid in front of my wife or my kids. I just don't. It's my thing. I'm sorry. Someone asked me for Halloween once, can you dress up like this thing? And I thought it looked stupid. I said, no. Oh, have some fun with it. No, no, I don't want to have fun. You don't have to agree with me. That's cool.
The Dan Bongino Show
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It's my life. That's how I run it. Don't do anything that makes you look stupid. Don't ever say in public you're a knucklehead. Don't ever claim you're a moron in public because people will believe you, okay? You're either a liar or you're telling the truth. If you're a liar, you're a liar. If you're telling the truth, then you're a knucklehead. Nobody wants a knucklehead, right?
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Don't do things that make you look dumb. Don't go out in a bubble boy suit. Don't throw a tank helmet on, pretending to be a tank commander like Michael Dukakis. And don't go out pretending to go out on a hunt when you can't even load your own freaking rifle. You look like an idiot. Don't do it. This is not just a lesson for politics. It's one of Dan Bongino's lessons for life.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I'm in such an amazing mood to do a snapshots and soundbite show where we recap the entire year. I think you're going to really like this. I hope you enjoy it. A lot of these were picked by our production staff, but based on the feedback we got from you guys, and it kind of sums up this whole past year in politics. Hey, you know, I can't sleep without my Beams Dream Powder.
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You don't have to take it. It's fine. I'm just telling you, I don't do things that make me look stupid. Now, I'm not saying once in a while you're not going to be thrown into a situation where you look really stupid. Just don't do it on purpose. Just throwing that out there. You do what you want with it. Hey, you having trouble sleeping or staying asleep? Listen, I've been there.
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All right, now, you're giving away the art of sealing the deal, the critical moments. I didn't know you guys were putting little chyrons. These guys are all fancy now. What is going on? Hold on, a little blackout. This is actually blackout because you think I'm making it up. You see that? Can you see in there? You can see that.
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It's not like disgusting brown water from, you know, this is like actual blackout here. It's the cinnamon French toast. It's black too. Like there's no, which I'm still talking about.
The Dan Bongino Show
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You know, I didn't expect that clip to hit me that way. I've seen it like you probably, what, a thousand times? Folks, that was a special moment for all the wrong reasons. But I had known Donald Trump for a while. Again, I don't want to exaggerate my friendship with him, please. You sound like an asshole when you say that, trying to pretend you know people when you don't.
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But I have a relationship with him. We don't drink coffee together, but I've known him for a while, and I've seen him outside of the public eye, and he's a really special person. He's really obsessed with making you feel important. That's a unique skill very few people have. He's a good, decent guy. He's not a guy without flaws. None of us are. Some of them may be significant.
The Dan Bongino Show
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But he's a really good and decent guy. I got to tell you something. The Donald Trump I've known and a lot of people know. A lot of you have met him. I'm not the only one. A lot of you may know him like I have. You may have had a couple conversations with him. That clip that day changed everything.
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I think a lot of people, even like the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, the pretty devout leftist in charge of Facebook, was like, that was pretty badass. Yeah, it was. Folks, I'm going to tell you something. I haven't been on the other side of that, doing the protection side. You hear a gunshot ring out, like I did, at least when I was a cop, not as an agent.