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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
All right, I'm going to do this crazy thing today at the start of the show. And by crazy, I mean uncrazy, okay? I am going to give you both sides of an argument. I say crazy because, unfortunately, some on the other side of the partisan aisle and some on our side, too, don't ever want to do this. I'm going to give you both sides of an argument. The one exploding right now on X.
between Republican Congressman Tom Massey President Trump and the MAGA audience. I'm going to give you both sides of the argument. I'm going to let you formulate your own opinion. But I'm going to give you an honest take also on what I believe, because I owe you an opinion too, because at least for the next four days, this is an opinion show. Today's show brought to you by Beam.
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Because everybody's throwing around the term, that guy's a hypocrite, that guy's a fraud, that guy's a... We'll see. You guys can form your own opinions. By the way, thank you for your patience this week as we... This is four more shows left, and every one matters to me, so I really, really appreciate your patience dealing with me and the transition, the new studio and everything.
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Chapter 2: What are Dan Bongino's thoughts on Tom Massey's stance?
They have this thing called the Continuing Resolution. Basically, the reconciliation bill that Donald Trump is gonna, President Trump and the Republican Congress plans on using to do all kinds of wonderful things. Secure the border, reinforce our military, cut taxes, all of that stuff. That is not what this is. That reconciliation bill, the process has just begun. It's not even close to done.
I'll get to that in a second because it's going to matter. This continuing resolution, which would continue government spending effectively at its current levels, maybe a little more, is, yes, everybody agrees, is not what we want. Folks, it does very little to cut government spending. Everybody understands that. Nobody's lied about it. Everybody's saying this is not great.
So you may be saying to yourself, okay, well, Massey's right. Massey's saying we have to stop this right now. We are not spending this amount of money on voting against it. The problem is, while that is a nice theory and a correct one that we should slow down government spending dramatically before we go bankrupt, eventually you need a plan to enact it.
It's like saying, you know what, listen, I want to rush for 200 yards in this football game on Sunday, and you're the running back. That's a great plan and a laudable goal, and everybody thinks that's fantastic and they agree with it. The problem is you've got a broken ankle and you can't play. You can think that all you want, but it's not a realistic plan.
So the problem I have with Massey's – not his – I don't have a problem with his end goal, let's cut government spending at all. He's correct. The problem is the mechanics of what he's trying to do requires actual oil and gears, and he doesn't have them. He doesn't have the votes. You need a majority of the House of Representatives. He's by himself on the Republican side.
He doesn't have the votes. In other words, there are Republicans out there who unfortunately have said, we're kicking this can down the road until we get to reconciliation. There's no votes. So you may say, well, Dan, at least we should take a stand. Okay, let me walk you through what happens then. We, quote, take a stand on this on the CR, which is a bad bill. I get it.
You don't need to tell me anywhere, comment. I agree. There's no need to remind me that the levels of government spending are catastrophic. I did... About, I don't know, a 20-minute segment yesterday on my radio show, how we are going de facto bankrupt. You are correct. The problem is I live in the world as it is, not in the world as it should be. I said the same thing with the ouster of McCarthy.
We need a plan. We need a plan. For you to oust him without a plan made no sense. And then people beat me up and then realized later on I was right. You need a plan. The problem with this plan is let's say every Republican right now every Republican were to say, we are against this thing. There's too much government spending. Yes, unity. That's great. Awesome.
They're against it, and they get a different bill. We have the numbers to get a different bill that dramatically cuts spending. Great. Move it to the Senate. Then what happens? Why is the bill going to go down in the Senate? Because we don't have enough votes to overcome a filibuster. So, Dan, what you're saying is the Democrats still have power to scuttle this thing? Yes.
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Chapter 3: How does the reconciliation bill factor into government spending?
Things about the world and politics suck. You've got to deal with the suck and find a way to overcome the suck. So Dan, how do we overcome the suck? I'm glad you asked. Guy, am I driving people crazy with this? No, I'm not. That is the wrong answer, Producer Guy. Folks in the chat, do you want me to leave this here? Is this boring? Yes or no? Bob Gino. There is a plan.
The way to get around Democrat obstacles is the reconciliation bill. Because if they use the reconciliation bill, which is not this bill, okay, thank you. Guy is wrong again. Guy is wrong again. Yes! Wrong, he is totally wrong. I just want that on the record. Sorry, I just wanted it on the record in the studio. for the last time that Producer Guy is wrong. It's a long walk into the studio.
I just burned calories. Because there is a path to fixing this thing. The reconciliation bill uses a process called reconciliation. So if we can just get there and be patient and deal with a few more months of this crap bill with government spending, we don't need to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. All we need is a majority using reconciliation, where we can actually implement the doge cuts.
Guys, although Guy is wrong again, it's on the record. The studio is great. In the old studio, we couldn't have done that because it's so tight in there, we couldn't move around. Yes, I did. I know. I do have to say on the record, I blame Guy for the fungus last week. I had a head cold and I blamed him. It was not him. It turned out to be allergies like bad.
I know because I got my blood work back. So apologies to producer Guy on a good note. It was not him who passed me whatever deadly virus I thought I had. I did not. But he's definitely wrong on this one. And that's why I don't agree. And I have defended Congressman Massey in the past. Just go back and watch the shows. I don't get emotional about these things.
He has been amazing on the January 6th pipe bomber case. Incredible. He is wrong here. He's just, I'm sorry, he's wrong. He doesn't have a tactical plan to cut spending, I just gave it to you. Get rid of this CR, deal with it for three more months, move on to reconciliation, and fight the fight there where you actually have the numbers. Does that make sense? Anybody disagree with me?
If you think that I'm a toolbox and a jerk right now, and you're like, yeah, that's just crazy, tell me in a chat. All I'm asking you is if you believe that, tell me what your plan is. Tell me what your plan is to get over the Senate filibuster. If you have it, I'd love to hear it. Everybody, you know, everybody can talk a big game.
The problem is you have to have a plan to implement it on the field. All right, moving on because I got a lot more to get to. Guy's like, you haven't even got to the show yet. I know. President Trump does have a plan. He has laid out a 100-day agenda, which we're not finished with yet, that has been incredibly transformative.
And I could make a strong case to you that at least in my lifetime following politics, I'm 50, been following politics 35 years, maybe a little less than about 15, 16 years old. I've never seen anything like this, folks. He said what he was going to do. We are going to stop illegal immigration at the border. Oh, my gosh. Look, it stopped. I mean, we could show you the numbers.
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Chapter 4: What is Trump's plan for the deep state and intelligence community?
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Should former President Trump still receive intelligence briefings?
I think not.
Why not?
Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.
I mean, you've called him an existential threat. You've called him dangerous. You've called him reckless.
Yeah, I have. And I believe it.
What's your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings?
I'd rather not speculate out loud. I just think that there is no need for him to have that intelligence briefing. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something?
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Chapter 5: How is the Biden administration's stance on intelligence briefings a point of contention?
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And the problem with the Democrats, and I'm not here to give them any kind of political advice, obviously. I mean, this is a Republican conservative MAGA show. This is not a Democrat advice show. However, this is good for us because we still have 100 days to take advantage of this. The talking points clearly went out on the men and women's sports issue, and the talking points are ridiculous.
They're ridiculous because the Democrats have made the case. Follow me here. This is important. If I lose anyone in the chat, stop me. The Democrats have tried to make the case forever that the federal government should have a heavy footprint, a multibillion-dollar footprint in education, that it should be collectively controlled out of Washington, D.C.
Of course, the MAGA crowd, conservatives, and Republicans for decades have been saying education is a local issue. It is not the federal government's business if I want a homeschool, charter, school choice, whatever it may be. The talking points now went out. about the men and women's sports thing.
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Chapter 6: What are the recent criticisms of the Democrats' messaging strategy?
So you're saying if you have a media machine... that purposefully lies to its people to maintain a political fiction and get themselves power, that that is the hallmark of an authoritarian system, not a democratic system. Absolutely. Well, if we were ever to get something like that in the United States, we would be horrified, furious.
To know that there was an entire media organization designed to bend reality, to manipulate facts, to maintain power, it would, if I may, and I'm not trying to, Slam Hungary. It would never happen in the United States.
It'd be really incredible if we had a coordinated messaging machine in the United States lying to people. That'd be really terrible. Thank God we don't have that here. You just see what we just showed you? You see why the show flows the way it does?
How the Democrats have a coordinated messaging machine, and now you can expect the media on men and women's sports to pick up the exact same talking point, which is what? Folks in the chat. Oh, this is a local issue. I thought education wasn't a local issue. Oh, it is now. They just can't get their sea legs under them. Learn a lesson from this.
Take what you can take, like Play-Doh, and mold it into your own thing. Washington Free Beacon, here. You want to burn a lot of time on this, leftists? Go right ahead. Biden EPA officials spent time Degendering bathrooms and policing pronoun use internal documents show. Ladies and gentlemen, these were your tax dollars.
Can you imagine working for a trillion-dollar corporation that is taking billions of your dollars to police people's pronoun use? Oh, that didn't happen. No, it did. It did happen with your money that you worked for, that you busted your ass for. I'm going to take my last break, and then we want to get to Elon derangement syndrome. Folks, this is getting really serious, really serious.
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Chapter 7: Why is Jon Stewart's commentary on U.S. media considered off-message?
These are not the kind of thing, well, I mean, if you're really sophisticated with a lot of money, you could run out of a basement, but you're going to need assets. Someone has targeted Elon, and like I said, I know he's got top flight security, but this is getting serious. I mean, they have it listed on a thing as Elon derangement syndrome, and I can't disagree.
Here, Larry Kudlow on the show lists the attacks going on against Elon's businesses right now. It's not just X, but it's elsewhere. And I'm going to bring up something after this about this whole myth out there that every single person involved in government is there for money. Really? After this? Are you sure? Check this out.
They're setting fire to various Tesla charging stations near Boston. Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. Various nonviolent... Shots fired. Not a metaphor. Shots fired, yes. Downtown New York, marching against the Tesla showroom. Your stock is way down. You've been criticized left and right. But look on the right side. I mean, why are you doing this?
Always look on the bright side of life. Yes, I'm an optimist.
Listen, gents, ladies out there in the Bongino Army, you know I love you guys. I'm not going to spin your wheels. There are a lot of people in government, a lot. I don't know a percentage. I'm not even going to dare throw one out. who were there for one reason.
They are there, maybe they couldn't find something in the private sector, they figure out that they can use their position to gain influence, they'll use that influence later to make money. It is the least surprising story in human history that people leverage power to make money. Lord Acton was correct. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
However, there are people, and a lot, I'll just name a few right now, who I can tell you from personal experience, if you think they're working in government to make money, then I'm sorry, but I really can't help you. You're just making that up. You have zero evidence that's true. Elon Musk, last time I checked, do you guys know his net worth? Can you look that up?
I think it's something like $200 to $400 billion, depending on the stock price of Tesla on any given day. What's his net worth? What does it say? We're looking this up in live time here. I love that we can throw this stuff on the screen. This is really cool. What is it? About 200 billion? It's $342 billion? $342.4 billion. That's like a rounding error. Guys, $400 million rounding error.
I wish I could have that rounding error.
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