Ned Ryun
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Absolutely, Dan. Good to be with you again.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah, no, 100 percent. I think we've gotten to such a level of distrust, especially in the last couple of years after the covid debacle. That's I think the first reaction should be, no, we don't trust you. But then can you prove it? And again, I think we should be highly skeptical of any statements coming out of the government. and say, no, I don't believe you, then can you prove it?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
But you're right. I think we're left with two conclusions. Like you just said, either they do know and are lying to us, which I think is a perfectly acceptable explanation, or it could be, Dan, and I think there's some merit to it, maybe they are so incompetent
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
that they really don't know what's going on because they've been focused on all kinds of weird DEI crap and have incompetent people running our government that we are left with complete and wild incompetence. So I think either one of those two are plausible. I will say I lean towards they probably do know what's going on.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
They're lying through their teeth to us and don't want to tell us the truth of what's actually taking place with these drones.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Well, so there's two things at issue here. One, it does show you how things can go very badly, very quickly with the wrong leadership. Think about how bad the last four years have gone with wildly incompetent leadership. But also at the same time, I think our government, I mean, this is a longer conversation.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
It's one of the reasons I wrote my new book, American Leviathan, but it is filled with not so-called experts, but a credentialed idiocracy. And when it really does come time to actually serve the American people, They do not have the skill sets, nor, by the way, are the American people a priority. And then you get into these situations, and you're like, what are we even doing here?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I mean, we are literally spending ungodly sums of money on this form of government that we have today. And I don't think it even wants to prioritize the American people. But even if it did, it's incapable of doing so because of – who it's filled with, what its focus is.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
But I'm telling you right now, Dan, you and I both know, having been around DC for a long time and having witnessed some stuff up close. This form of government is so wildly incompetent. It doesn't serve the American people. We need to have a conversation about what it looks like moving forward.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And that's why I'm thrilled that Trump is actually talking about Department of Government Efficiency and Elon and the vague, you know, taking a hard look at what's going on in D.C. But I have to tell you. I don't want them to trim it or make it more efficient.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I want them to shatter it into a million pieces and go, let's have a conversation about what form of government we have moving forward that actually serves the American people, that protects our interests both on the foreign and domestic front.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Yeah, no, I mean, this has been built. So we've got to be realistic, Dan. This is the one thing that I'm a little concerned about. And again, I don't know as much about what they're planning, but this has been 100 years in the making. We're not going to get out of it in 18 months. So I want to have a conversation about not dealing with the effects, but the cause. I mean, this is a poisonous tree.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
I would argue that what we have in D.C. today, the administrative state, has nothing to do with how we are founded, has nothing to do with representing the American people. We need to annihilate it. We don't need to trim it. We need to crush it. And so you're right.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
And the other thing you mentioned too, Facebook, this to me is one of my biggest – one of the biggest problems I have today with a lot of people that are on the so-called right where they don't want to go after private corporations, but the left has figured out something that I think –
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
They've been using these corporations to their benefit in which they don't want to make a full-on assault against our Bill of Rights, against our natural inherent rights. So they backdoor this annihilation of the freedom of speech, the free flow of information by using these private corporations like Facebook and, again, before Elon bought X, Twitter, all these things to censor us.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
to crush freedom of speech, to annihilate our natural rights. I mean, we have a whole host of fundamental problems, you know, the very root of which, do we want a government of, by and for the people, or are we going to go ahead and continue to put up with this massive sprawling bureaucracy?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
That's first of all, crushing the life out of us, not only our rights, but just soaking us for cash and then figure out what does this look like moving forward? I think we're in a singular moment.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Dan, where I think if you have a person with the right political courage, that's Donald Trump, with the right team around him, I think we could have a very interesting next four years about having that conversation about what should our government look like? What should it be doing? What should it not be doing? What should it be prioritizing?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
So I think we're in for a very interesting next four years.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
But more importantly, Dan, I think you've got somebody for the first time in a long time who – one of my biggest pet peeves with Republicans is when the people give them political power, they don't know what to do with the political power. They don't want to use the political power to actually enforce their will and say we're going to have massive structural change.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
We're not going to trim – we're not going to shave the elephant. We're going to actually kill the elephant. Donald Trump has political power, and I think this time around he knows exactly what to do with it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
He's a change agent, and the thing that I'm hoping, and I'm seeing positive trends on these nominees, that he'll get his change agents in the various departments and agencies, because I think the Republican senators are kind of realizing, yeah, we better play along here and give him his nominees, or else some of these red state senators who are up in 26 might find themselves with very legitimate primary challenges, which I would totally applaud.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
Ned?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
This was a line in the sand. I mean, to me, it was about Pete. You know him. I know him. He's going to bring the change necessary, Department of Defense. But it was about more than Pete. This was, you are not going to do this again, because I was afraid it would be a domino effect, right? Take out Gates, take out Hegseth, and then we'll take out the next one. Right.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
then you've got this this total quagmire that's why i was you know first of all because i know pete but the second one was you're not going to do this you're going to get the memo he won quite frankly you have a majority in the senate because trump won uh we have a majority in the house because of trump um why don't you actually fall in line the american people want change he has appointed he has nominated these people
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know, hopefully you'll get the memo. I think they have. I mean, I've been talking with some people that are very much involved in the process, you know, very close to the nominees, some of the nominees. They really have sensed the tide turning in the last few days. to the point where I feel really good about Pete. I feel really good about Cash.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
You know, I think there's probably going to be some fighting still that's going to take place, you know, down the road with other nominees. But I really do think we have seen a really positive trend in the last few days because you're right. A lot of us, you, me, others decided, nope, you're not going to do this. We know what you want. We know what you're trying to do. You don't get status quo.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
We're not going to do this anymore. Donald Trump won. Donald Trump should get his nominees.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Michael Franzese, Jeff Van Drew, Ned Ryun, Andrew Gruel 12/22/24
All right. Thanks, Dan. I appreciate it.