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Chapter 1: How do politicians get so rich?
How the hell these politicians get so rich? How did they get so rich? I saw this clip of me last week with the long sleeve white shirt on. By the way, I didn't know everybody liked that shirt. I didn't even like the shirt. I said to Paula, I don't think the shirt looks good on me. Everybody seemed to like it in the chat.
But I see this clip of me rolling around on X. I think Maga Voice put it out there. Great account to follow on X. Asking this simple question. How the hell do these politicians get so rich? I'm serious. You all know some super talented people, correct? Yet, most of us don't know a lot of rich people unless you're running in that circle.
I mean, you got your doctors, your dentists, your lawyers, professional services, but we don't typically know a lot of one percenters. How the hell did such mediocre people all get rich? It is all tied to this Doge story.
Chapter 2: What is the Doge story and why is it significant?
Folks, they are getting rich off of their connections and their ability to use this base of four or five trillion dollars of your taxes to have it flush through people, family members and everyone else, the Hunter Bidens of the world that are making them rich. Follow the money. Follow the money. That is why they are freaking out about the Doge thing. This is a massive, massive story.
It's not a one day story. It's not a one month story. This is like a four year story. I got that and a huge, huge security threat. I cannot bring up enough to you. Please listen to me. I am laser focused on this thing. This is my biggest security concern. Haven't been in this space for a long time. And a lot of people are worried about it. I'm not the only one.
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Chapter 3: What are the security threats America is facing?
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It's just I've never been able to get that whole side of me away from NYPD and my later job with the federal government. I've got this, you got to cover security A to Z. Now, I understand that the big security threats, street crime, A, B, C, and the stuff that happens sadly every day across America are priorities. But we also have to think about what I'll call the Z threats.
When you get to the end of the alphabet, these are things that are extremely unlikely black swan type scenarios. The problem is, although they're black swan scenarios, meaning the likelihood of them happening is small, the downside of them, the... the both direct and externalities problem, negative externalities causing them, are so dramatic, it's like a plane crash, sadly.
You saw yesterday what happened. The likelihood is low, but the effect on everyone is so dramatic, not just the people who died and are in it, but everyone else freaks out about the air business too. That's the externality. These black swan, we'll call them Z events, are so devastating, they can change America and the world.
Folks, this drone threat, I hate to lose sleep at night stuff, but I'm telling you, if I ever lost sleep about anything, it's about this. This is a very real threat in population centers in America and around the world. I'm focused on America now.
Times Square, Beverly Hills, areas where they're a big, you know, Chicago, the Miracle Mile, all these places where you're going to get a ton of media attention. I bring it up because Axios, you know, which isn't my favorite outlet, obviously left-leaning, but they're not wrong with their, this is headline their morning email this morning. America's drone swarm crisis. Yes, 100%.
They note, ask U.S. intelligence experts their biggest fears about And you'll inevitably hear dire warnings of drone swarms. We've been talking about this how long? Domestic or foreign targeting American soil. Probe deeper and you'll learn the vast majority of these drones are made by China and therefore conceivably controllable by America's greatest adversary.
They know TikTok's accused of being a security threat, but at least they can't spy or drop bombs. I'm not a huge fan of Axios, but Mike Allen, who put this, is absolutely spot on. Folks, this is an enormous threat. Let me see. Folks in the chat, why? Why take a drink of water? Anyone know why I've said it a thousand times? Why are drones such a unique threat? Let's see who gets it first.
I love you guys in the chat, by the way. Drone Swarm. Axios, not wrong for one, says MCS. Who says it here? Come on. Yes. Matthias Powerbomb again. The guy, man, you got some quick thumbs there because people can't fly, folks. This is not a complicated security threat to figure out. You get a special ops team on the ground and you sense a target in the wood line. You can clear the target.
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Chapter 4: Why is government fraud a major concern?
And you love government waste, I should say. Not to use a negative there to describe it. If you're for government waste, at least waste it here. Right? If you're going to waste government money and piss it away in a toilet bowl, at least waste it on U.S. citizens. Nope. Nobody cares on the left. Watch this.
As we know, there's a massive amount of fraud in this country. You have, for example, foreign fraud rings. These are foreign nationals who come into the United States, they use fake social security numbers, they use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits. There's no way to know until Doge gains full access exactly how much money we're talking about.
But over a 10-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings. A very important point in all this is to understand that Doge are subordinate staffers of the federal government.
They are political appointees, just like me, just like everyone else in the White House, that serve and answer to the president. So we're not talking about an outside private entity. We're talking about the existing federal staff of the federal government performing their statutory and constitutional duty.
Can you imagine fighting this? Folks, again, if you're a delusional liberal watching my show and you're not interested in government fraud because you're afraid it's going to wrap up and dry up your gravy train. How is it that you're, wouldn't you at least agree like if we're going to waste the money, at least waste it here? At least if it's fraudulently spent, it's spent in the United States.
I don't want any fraud or criminality. I think that's fairly obvious. I think you sense my sarcasm, correct? However, foreign fraud, foreign fraud rates. So if you are a huge supporter of Social Security and Medicare, I believe these programs that bankrupt themselves need to be reformed. We do have to protect our seniors. I get all of that.
But still, how do you make the argument to America's seniors? You paid into a system. The system is going broke. Its own actuaries have told you that. It's going to be effectively out of IOUs in about 10 to 14, 15 years, right? You paid into it, and you're not going to get your money because people who didn't pay into it, fraudsters overseas have stolen it? How are you?
You really believe this is a political winner? The answer is it's a freaking gravy train for them. They don't care. This will be the end of the Democrat Party, as you know it, if they don't back off this. But they won't because they'll go broke. Carville's been around forever. Carville's been, he's warning them. This is a loser. I'm not even a fan of Carville. That's fine.
Put up the Kyle Becker tweet, too. Here's another one. How are you against this? Even if you're a liberal lunatic, how are you against this? Kyle Becker, shock. The U.S. Army's diverted over $151 million meant for soldiers' food, according to Military Times. What? There's apparently some food shortages on these bases. And there's some... I mean...
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the recent political polls?
Trump was already underwater at minus five points on the net approval rating. That's approval minus this approval. What a difference eight years makes. He's on the positive side of the ledger at plus four points.
I'm telling you, it doesn't matter. Dan, don't give him tactical advice. You think they're listening to me? They're not even listening to the pollster on CNN. You think they're not watching these segments? What do you think, they're watching Fox? They see it. They're never going to give up the gravy train.
We need to hammer this home to persuadable Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans who may have left the MAGA movement. Donald Trump is cleaning up a massive government fraud problem that Democrats and swampy Republicans have benefited from for years. I covered that yesterday. We have not given Republicans a pass. I covered that. Watch yesterday's show if you think I'm BSing you.
I covered Wall Street Journal segments and other segments where some Republican lawmakers are like, hey, that cutting's great, but don't cut anything in my district. I saw someone, I liked the tweet, say today they tweeted to their lawmaker, hey, Dan Bongino's right. Everybody is going to take a little bit of a kick in the stomach here. Everyone.
There's going to be a weapons program in your district. There's going to be some NGO a friend of a friend may work for. Ladies and gentlemen, you want the United, you want to be statesmen?
in the spirit of our revolutionary forefathers who gave up everything to fight the world's greatest empire at the time, the British Empire, we're just asking you to sacrifice for a little bit for the long-term prosperity of the United States. Now's the time. We are never going to be in a golden age of politics again like we are in the next year and 11 months now. We have two freaking years.
We're all going to take it on the chin a little bit. Rich guys, poor guys, middle class guys, someone's going to lose their tax cut. It is time to take it on the chin. We got to fix this thing now, not tomorrow. The other side is I'm going to play my other Stephen Miller clip because he's talking about, he was on Fox again, how this is simply a basic anti-fraud review.
We're not even into the real cuts yet. We're into fraud, wasteful spending, criminality. How are you on the other side of that? You're on the other side of it if you're getting rich off it. Remember, who loves crime? The criminals. Hey, the April 15 tax deadline's coming fast. You have unfiled tax returns, can't pay the IRS.
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Chapter 6: How did Bill Clinton achieve high approval ratings?
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Thank you, Birch Gold. Always good to have you on board. Okay, just quickly before I move on to my... Segment here about more disgraceful Democrat media lies and our efforts to dismantle them. So in the Dan Bongino show, you have the truth. This is one of the biggest but most persistent lies in politics. Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich did a decent job on spending. Period. Full stop.
That's not open for debate. There is a great article. I cannot recommend this article in strong enough terms. I used to put this in the show notes four or five times a week. You want it? Go to my newsletter, bongino.com slash newsletter. Sign up. It's free. It's going to be linked there. Just go today and do it and save this article. It's called The Myth of the Clinton Surplus.
The article's from almost 20 years ago. It's by this guy, Craig Steiner, but it is worth your time. There was no Clinton surplus. You can read the whole article, but you don't need to. All you need to do is look at this data from the government itself. You will notice every single year of the Clinton presidency from 93 to 2000 that the government ran a deficit.
$281 billion, $281 billion, $250 billion, $188 billion, $113 billion, $130 billion, $17.9 billion. So if that's every single year of the Bill Clinton presidency, excuse me. So if the government ran a deficit every year, a deficit means they didn't have enough money, which is the opposite of a surplus. Is anything I'm saying confusing to the libs?
They got close in 2000 where they only ran a basically $18 billion deficit. There was never a surplus. So, Dan, why do they keep talking about a surplus? Because of Social Security and Medicare funds that were basically stolen. Read the article. There was never a surplus. If there was a surplus, the freaking deficit would have gone down and would have been a surplus.
No year of the Clinton presidency was there a surplus. There was a deficit every single time. They were small. Good for them. It's not real. Don't fall for it. Don't be a sucker. Read this guy's article. However, they did do a decent job. 2000, they did almost balance the budget, which is insane. That's pretty good. We get back there. Donald Trump will leave office with 60% approval.
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