The Dan Bongino Show
The Liberal Meltdown Means They're Guilty In This Scandal (Ep. 2420)
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: How does Trump create dilemmas for his political opponents?
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Folks, this is the genius of Trump, right? He puts his political opponents in these classic dilemmas. where it's essentially, if you want to look this up, most of you kind of know what it means anyway. I don't mean to sound like an arrogant ass, but you know what Hobson's choice is?
It's a choice that's really no choice at all. In other words, like, you can take this horse or no horse at all. Well, that's not really a choice. You have to take the horse, right? Donald Trump, the genius of Trump, Again, I'm not saying everything's 4-D chess, but I'm saying a lot of it is that the media misses, is he puts his political opponents into classic dilemmas where either choice is bad.
Someone said it the other day. Was it Gutfeld on The Five? I'm not really sure. Someone on The Five brought it up. Another genius component, tactical political component of Trump is that he gets his opponents to vigorously support an issue that only 15% of America, i.e. the communist crazy, support. And he gets them to do it vigorously just as a reflexive anti-Trump response.
Chapter 2: What is the 'show your ass theory' in politics?
I have a name for that. I've been calling it the show your ass theory. How it just becomes all about fighting Trump at the expense of rationality? I'm going to show you what I mean at the beginning of the show. About, again, this government spending issue. How he has the Democrats, unbelievably, they're usually smarter than this, tactically speaking, defending the indefensible.
And I'll explain for new Lanue, thanks to my man Cat Turd. It meant to be a joke, but it blew up yesterday. I think it was like two or three trending on Twitter. Today's sponsored by Beam. Get a good night's sleep. Go to shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 47% off your first order. Today's show also sponsored by, these guys always tell me, American Financing.
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Again, it's a .net address. Americanfinancing.net. Americanfinancing.net. NMLS 182334. NMLSConsumeraccess.org. All right, fellas, ring that bell. There you go. So just quickly, I love my friend Cat Turd on Twitter. He's the best. Probably one of the top five, maybe the top most influential up there with Libs at TikTok, accounts on X, can move the needle instantly.
So I was joking yesterday about this gentleman who has become a national hero, standing up to the raving banshees at this government building, Max Seedwaters. I need you to identify yourself. Immediately, this guy, what did you call him, Justin? The most unbothered man in America. So because he's, you know, this guy's probably a low-key guy and doesn't want his name out there, I understand.
Chapter 4: What is the impact of social media on political narratives?
So I said, listen, we need to give this guy a medal under the moniker Fanu Lanu. Finula new cat turd. I asked him to make it go viral. I was kind of kidding, but he did. It was trending on Twitter all night. You can go look it up. Finula new is a law enforcement term. When you don't know the name of the person you're targeting, it stands for first name, unknown, last name, unknown.
So out of respect for this gentleman, we're going to call him for new Lenu. Fanula new, you are a national hero. We all love you. Thank you for standing up for sanity against the raving Democrat lunatics. So for those of you tuned in to decipher what Fanula new man, that is it. And a big hat tip to cat turd for making that go viral. The guy's got crazy juice on X man. All right.
Getting back to what I opened the show with. Listen, Donald Trump has a lot of political superpowers. He does. The ability to make his enemies so angry that they engage in irrational behavior just to look like they're targeting him. It's an incredible thing to watch. You know, someone put this thing out on X this morning and said, if you're a P1 listener in the Bongino Army, you'll get this.
You can check it out. Just put my name in X. You'll see it. It's in there somewhere. It's a guy putting a dollar or whatever in a Coke machine. It doesn't come out. He's kicking the Coke machine. Now, I got it. So whoever put that up there, you're clearly a P1. I got you, bro. I see. I know exactly what you're doing. I've talked about this extinction burst phenomenon over and over. Bear with me.
I promise I'm not going to bore you to death with psychology terms, but this matters. An extinction burst, you can look it up on your favorite search engine right now. It's a very real thing. It's when you engage in a behavior, dollar in the Coke machine, you get a reward, the Coke, and then all of a sudden you put a dollar in and one day it doesn't come out. Behavior, no reward. What happens?
People do irrational things. Like what? They kick the Coke machine like that's going to fix the problem. You break it, that's a crime. It's not rational, but they do it anyway. Animals do it all the time, human beings. That is what's going on right now with the Democrats. In the past, they have engaged in this behavior to dollar in the Coke machine.
Just call them a racist, go to the media and say, grandma's going to starve to death and have to eat cat food. Show a video of grandma getting thrown over the cliff and governments and government will be continued. Government will continue to waste fraud and abuse away our money and no one will pay attention. And Republicans back down because they were afraid.
Not only is Donald Trump and Elon Musk through Doge not back down when they get, they double down and they say, hey, we're going to the military Pentagon next. We're going to the Department of Education. So what happens? The Democrats are so used to the reward dollar in the Coke machine Coke. When the Coke doesn't come out, they're kicking and screaming at the machine totally irrationally.
And now Trump has them in this corner. I really hope you enjoyed this explanation because I'd like this to go nuclear if you can make it. Up to you. But it absolutely explains human psychology and the irrationality of politics and what the Democrats are doing right now. They were in a corner. They are defending the indefensible. They are defending clear government waste.
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Chapter 5: How are U.S. tax dollars allegedly being misused?
He appears to be relatively unbiased when it comes to at least left-wing media. Here he is with a poll showing Donald Trump's approval rating is basically through the roof right now, and the Democrats are getting their asses kicked, but they're continuing to kick the Coke machine because they just can't stop the extinction burst. Watch this.
You know, I think one of the things that's so important for politicians is for folks to believe what they're saying and that they're keeping their campaign promises. So I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on. Trump's doing what he promised to do. You go back to April of 2017. It was just 46 percent.
of all Americans who said that Trump was doing what he promised to do. Compare that now to February of 2025. You know, there was a good show that was on during the 1990s called A Different World. That is what's going on right now. We're living in a different world. 70% of Americans say Trump is doing what he promised to do. Again, compare that to April of 2017, when it was just 46%.
When Americans are 24 points more likely to say that You're doing what you promised to do. It's no wonder that your net approval rating is much more likely to be on the positive side of the ledger than on the negative side.
Brothers and sisters in the Bongino army, receipts matter, man. It's a CNN guy talking about a poll. It's not Fox News or Bongino.com. This is the I'm telling you that of all of the superpowers Donald Trump has politically, he has many. He has weaknesses, too, like anyone else.
His greatest superpower is forcing Democrats into into extinction burst behavior where either choice they make is a Hobson's choice is no choice at all because they're both bad. Defend sex changes in Guatemala or don't do it and lose your ability to engage in identity politics and profit from it around the world. Either way, brother, you lose. Either way.
You think I'm kidding how this is just the beginning? We are the media now. I don't say that. I know some people complain. It sounds arrogant. Number one, I don't care because it's not intended that way at all. You notice when I mentioned the Magosphere, I never mentioned just myself. I mentioned other creators, too, because it's not about me. It's about us. I mean that. You got Charlie.
You got Benny. You got Bannon. You got Megyn Kelly. You got Tucker. You've got a bunch of great shows out there to pick from. I'm not the only one. I'm honored you're here, but you don't have to be here. There's other choices as well who are just as talented. But we are the media now.
The collective audience between those people, Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN is more than enough to compete and override the traditional mainstream media. They are powerless to hurt us anymore. They can't avoid hiding stuff like this. I want you to watch this. So last night... I'm upstairs in the little office room I have. I watch some TV at night because it's dark. Who cares?
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Chapter 6: Why can't the Pentagon pass an audit?
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We weren't going to do Super Bowl stuff. So, you know, in case you're new to the show, I welcome you here. I love that you're here. Thank you very much. But I have to be candid with you. If you're here expecting a, you know, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, we're going to leave swampy Republicans alone show, this isn't the show. You know my adage on the show.
Democrats are the cause of all your problems, even though Republicans may not always be the solution. And when they're not the solution, I'm going to point it out. Defense spending is going to cause an absolute riot in D.C. Do you have any idea how many congressmen are making a fortune
off of donors, future lobbying careers, off major military industrial complex weapons programs that don't work in their district. I'm not knocking the defense industry. Thank you for producing the AR-15 I own. Thank you for producing the world's best tanks. I'm not knocking you. I do want an efficient military, however. And we have been wasting a lot of money. Here's Secretary Hegseth.
He's absolutely done with this, folks. He's kind of wondering, why is it the Pentagon can't pass an audit? Seems pretty strange, right? Time to get on board. Check this out.
So tell us about this upcoming look at the spending at the Defense Department. Should we expect hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending there?
Unfortunately, I think so. And we very much the president is right. He's setting the pace. And he is also correct that American taxpayers deserve to know exactly how and where their money is spent. The fact that I have to commit, Maria, to an audit being done in four years is bad enough. The Pentagon should be able to pass a budget right now.
Thankfully, the Marine Corps has passed a clean audit for two years in a row, and I applaud them. But that needs to go across the entire department. So that will be a focus. Where we spend dollars, we need to know – when we spend dollars, we need to know where they're going and why. That's simple accounting, and that has not existed at the Defense Department. We're going to fix that.
But that's not even Doge. I mean, we welcome Elon Musk and Doge coming into our department to help us identify – additional ways in which we can streamline processes, fast-track acquisitions, cut waste, cut tail to put it to tooth.
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Chapter 7: What consequences could arise from investigating defense spending?
Audits and waste, fraud, and abuse are not the same thing. So let's decompose these pieces for a moment.
Then please educate me on what the difference is.
Sure, so an audit is exactly what you just described, which is do I know what was delivered to which place?
Right.
The ability to pass an audit or the fact that the DOD has not passed an audit is not suggestive of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is completely false right there. So now it's a question of, it's suggestive that we can't, we don't have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have where. That is not the same as saying we can't do that because waste, fraud, and abuse has occurred.
So in my world, that's waste.
How is that waste?
If I give you a billion dollars and you can't tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful. That means you are not responsible. But if you can't tell me where it went, then what am I supposed to think?
This guy's a lefty. He's a liberal. He's asking this Biden Pentagon official, where the hell are these billions of dollars? He's like, I don't know. But an audit and waste fraud. You see how they play the euphemisms game? They dance around the word games like, you know, an illegal alien becomes an undocumented visitor to the United States or some ridiculous euphemism. They do this all the time.
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