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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. Folks, I had to make an executive decision today. You know, I really love the weekend updates. Why? Because I like to bond with you guys. I like you to know a little bit about me. But the show's not about me. It's about politics. So I only do it on Monday.
I'm going to keep the weekend update short because in case you've been living under a rock somewhere, which the Bongino listeners definitely have not been, you know that... This was one of the craziest news weekends ever. And I'm going to tell you something.
For the first time in a really, really long time, and I think the production crew here can agree, we're having a hard time fitting in in four hours between the radio and podcast what to put in the show. I got a ton to get to Mexico. Update on the tariffs. Something happened in Somalia this weekend. The FAFO presidency. Let's get right to it. I count on Beam's dream powder.
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Folks, the health and fitness segment I did on the radio show on Friday in my last hour, I cannot believe the feedback we got. It was like nothing I've ever done before. So I'm going to leave it up to you guys on this. You can vote in the chat right now. Why for yes, good idea, and for no, terrible idea.
But I'm thinking of adding, because I don't want to take away from... The show is a political show, okay? I'm not going to take away every week. But I'm thinking of adding... On the podcast, maybe a bi-weekly or a monthly hour-long segment with fitness and health people where we can go into some of the life hacks I talked about because the feedback I got about it was crazy.
How does that factor in to the weekend update? Excuse me, still actually getting over that thing, but I feel great by the way. I did a 72-hour fast this weekend. So I did three straight days with no food. I worked. Listen, by the way, seriously, definitely, if you're planning on doing this, you better check with your doctor first.
If you have low blood sugar or prediabetes, this is probably not for you. However, I do it. I do it about twice a year. It was really difficult. This is the worst one I've ever done. I think it's because I didn't have a lot of caffeine. Usually I have black coffee or green tea, obviously no sugar in it or any like honey or anything like that.
So I did three days because I, I, I, you know, I'm terrified of getting cancer again, not to be a weirdo about it, but. And this autophagy kicks in after about 48 to 72 hours where your body starts to eat up old, misfolded proteins and damaged cells. And I'm going to tell you something. I ate this morning for the first time in three days. And man, I feel like a million dollars.
So just throwing that out there. If I sound a little wired today, it's probably because my brain is operating on glucose for the first time in three days rather than ketones. And I have been intensely focused all morning. All right, so enough of that. Nothing else happened this weekend because I was fasting, so I didn't want to go out. So no partying, no nothing. Folks, the Mexico thing is insane.
I'm going to get to that. Trump is, I don't know how many times I have to explain this to people. Please get it through your heads, left-wing lunatics. We don't understand Trump. He's a fascist. He's a Nazi. Shut up. You don't know what you're talking about. The guy is transactional. I don't know how many times I have to tell you this. He is not going to get into the emotions of this.
We're imposing tariffs, or you're going to fix this. That's the equation. He doesn't care about how people feel about it, what the media says. All of a sudden, a call from Mexico happens this morning. Oh, look, we're going to help you fix the border. Oh, okay. We'll get to that, but I got a couple other things to get through because the left-wing media is still in shell shock over what happened.
And I told you there was going to be this period here of... disarray and internal Democrat chaos. That obviously includes the media, Axios as well. They're all part of the same party, right? They still don't know what happened after this election. That is why it is an imperative right now that we get the right people in there and we move quickly and break stuff. Break stuff that's broken.
That way we can fix it. The broken stuff needs to be really broken. That way we can fix it. We've got to move fast. The Democrats still don't know what's going on. I read this this weekend in Axios by Mike Allen. And seriously, I was not sure... Initially, if this was sarcasm or not, this obviously a left wing outlet. They know reality check talking about how Trump they think is breaking norms.
Democrats have a religious devotion to norms and institutions that Republicans don't share. Bro, is this is this freaking real? Mike Allen, is this bro? Is this real? It's a unique feature of Trumpism to despise the deep state mainstream media and checks on executive power. Dude, what the are you talking about? Democrats have a religious devotion to norms and institutions.
Is this freaking real, dude? You're talking about the Mar-a-Lago raid? Wait, what? That's a norm? Michael, how many times have we raided an ex-president's home and his wife's underwear, George? Do you know? He's going to say as a math major, zero. He's like, I think it's the concept of absolute zero, the absence of value, like it never happened. Hey, Mike, bro, what the are you talking about, bro?
The Mar-a-Lago raid never happened. Multiple impeachments on fake made-up crimes like a fake insurrection and a fake quid pro quo deal in Ukraine, even though he released a transcript of the call. When does that happen? How many presidents, Michael, do you know that have been impeached twice over fake crimes? Just throw it out there.
He's going to say same number, which is no number, which is zero. It is the absence of actual numerical value. Zero. Zero. Zero. I'll throw another one at it. Spygate, collusion hoax. How many fake international near World War III type scenarios were started over a fake collusion hoax with a nuclear-powered enemy by Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, the Democrat machine? The answer is freaking zero.
Mike, wake up, bro. I know your Axios outlet pretends to be kind of center-left. This is crazy shit, dude. Democrats have a religious devotion to Normandy. I sincerely, and I mean this, because I actually like reading Axios, even though it's turning more and more communist by the day. You should seriously revise this or get in a new line of work. Freaking embarrassing. Reality check.
Bro, talk about a reality check. Also, I saw this war clandestine tweet this morning about USAID. Folks, I put it after this because this is happening right now. He notes, we're two weeks into the Trump administration. USAID is already being purged. USAID, we have done extensive, leave this up for a second.
We have done extensive segments with Mike Benz, Deep State Mike Benz, who dissects the deep state all the time. He's the best guy at it. USAID is not an aid organization. It is a U.S. government entity that provides a slush fund for every single deep state censorship mission around the world you've probably ever heard of. You know, it's happening. USAID's being purged.
Elon's openly pointing out that USAID had a role producing bioweapons like COVID-19 and killed millions. He says, ladies and gentlemen, I think we did it. I think it's actually happening. If we continue on this trajectory, deep state oligarchs and NGOs will be directly implicated in crimes against humanity, and the world will demand justice.
The right people are in control of government, and they know where the bodies are buried. I don't know this person, but I've never heard anything more accurate. Folks, contrasts. Contrasts are powerful. Sound bites are powerful. Snapshots are powerful. The right people are in charge. Dissecting the deep state machine is happening right now.
And the contrast being created between deep state Biden and Obama and this Trump sandwich we had in between are now absolutely priceless. There is so much good stuff happening this weekend. Really, I had a hard time cramming it at the beginning of the show, so you didn't miss anything. In the volume of information drinking from an open fire hydrant, you may have missed this.
Donald Trump on True Social. This was this weekend. This morning, I ordered precision military airstrikes on senior ISIS attack planners in Somalia. These killers were hiding in caves, threatening the U.S. and our allies. He notes at the end, we will find you and we will kill you. Where is it? Folks. I can't take it. Michael can't take it either. I can't. It may be the people's help.
You got to adjust it. I can't take the winning anymore. I can't take it. My... We still have not broken the Rock'em Sock'em Robots. Amazingly. Although the Trump face on the Rock'em Sock'em Robots is green. I can't take the winning anymore. Folks, my blood pressure can't handle all this winning. I can't handle it. Michael can't handle it. Justin's walking out of the room.
He's like, I'm 10 minutes in. No more winning. No more winning today. We don't have enough time in the show to cover all this winning. Poor guys come in. We have these thing called floaters. I do a rundown the night before. And then between last night and this morning, I throw more elements in the show. They're called floaters because they're not in the rundown voicemail I leave.
None.
Now, I mentioned contrast. You think I just randomly threw that in there? Because obviously I'm kidding. I love the winning. Keep the winning coming. I don't care if my... Really? It is irrelevant if we cover all the winning in my show. It is. If there's so much winning we can't cover it, fine. We'll cover it on social media later. We'll make it. We'll do a special. A winning special.
But contrasts matter, folks. And I went, seriously, you got Trump whacking a bunch of ISIS terrorists saying, yeah, we'll kill you if you F with us again. You've got the Democrats who still think they're religiously devoted to norms and institutions. That was funny. You got a censorship organization in USAID. That's a front group for the deep state getting pretty much wiped out.
Mexico basically folds this morning. And what are the Democrats doing? Why Trump's kicking everybody's ass? Rock him, sock him, robot style. What are the Democrats doing? One of these days, these things are going to explode. Although they're pretty hard plastic. I'm not sure. They're pretty robust. The Democrats... Right. You're damn right.
The Democrats chose a new party leader at their convention this weekend. They picked Ken Martin from Minnesota. But they have to pick all the officers for the National Democratic Committee there. And a little fight broke out. This is real, by the way. I'm not kidding. Republicans winning. Here are the Democrats arguing over if they... It's real. I'm not kidding you, man.
If they met the quotas for enough non-binary candidates on the ballot, so they had to move everything around. This is classic. Here's the Democrats versus the Republicans. Check this out.
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Folks, I swear to you, I just said to the boys here, I was going to cut this thing off early, and I thought... No, let's enjoy and savor every second of that. So I let the thing play out. El Chumlee in the chat says, I hope the Dems keep this shit up. Please bring Kamala to run again. Yes, El Chumlee, comment of the day. And thank you. What is it? Red Pill Media for rating the stream.
And I saw 1776 earlier. You guys are great. Appreciate the stream raids on Rumble. I'm going to have to rate a stream one day. That'd be crazy, right? Blow up your whole thing. Imagine that. We raid someone's stream with like 180,000 people or something. I'm going to... Folks, I want to play. That is the Democrat Party. You understand they learn nothing.
There's a reason I put the show in the order I did. It tells a consistent narrative in the beginning opening chapter of the show. Mike Allen from Axios actually believes that the Democrats are loyal to norms and institutions, despite no evidence. That's absolutely true. They've learned nothing from the election.
Then the Democrat leadership is now obsessed with G, J, Zhao, Zhou, LGBTQIA, BIO, PC, 2 plus 9, binary, spiritual. This is all they care about. Nothing Trump is actually doing they care about or have contributed to. This is their entire agenda is identity politics and media people lying to America. That's it. They've learned nothing. They'll... Listen to me. They will unscrew themselves.
I promise you. But it's not going to be anytime soon. We've got two years. We've got four years. No, we don't. Two. Two. We've got two. The midterms are in two years. You start thinking we've got four years, you're going to get screwed. I'm sitting on my earpiece here. Okay. I want the contrast matter. There's a lot of F-A-F-O-ing going on, too. The F-A-ing has already happened. The F-ing around.
The finding out part is happening now. Folks, Donald Trump is not kidding. I hate to keep saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway because it sounds self-celebratory. But I promise you, I do not. You have my word. I don't mean it that way. I said during the election, when people during the primary were telling me, you know, pick Nikki Haley. You like Nikki Haley? Fine. Great. Do your own thing.
I didn't. I endorsed Donald Trump early. Proud of my decision to do that. I've been with him from the beginning. But I did it for a reason. Everybody's telling me he's going to be a lame duck. I said, you guys don't understand, number one, what a lame duck means. A lame duck implies he has no power.
Donald Trump's greatest power is that he can't run again and already knows what to do because he understands the F-ing and everyone else is going to F-O. Now you're seeing it right now. The Washington Post is so flipped out about what Donald Trump is doing that now they're calling for mercy? He's laughing. This is an actual headline. Washington Post, Colbert I. King.
The mercy that's missing from the White House. You want mercy now? There's no mercy. We're not the mercy. Folks, this is people's elbow. There's no mercy time. Now, I want to be clear. I would never, ever, ever recommend to anyone because I'm an actual constitutionalist, that anyone violate the Constitution or their own morality while they're in office to do things. You don't do that.
That is a dispositive period full stop statement, okay? However, using the levers of government to right a wrong that happened to America under the Donald Trump four year out of office period where he was ruthlessly targeted by a corrupt government, that is the government's job. Mercy? This is a tactical matter. Tactical, what do you mean?
If the left that weaponized government in violation of what I believe the law and the Constitution is not taught a lesson by a judicial system that is designed to teach lessons. You rob someone, the lessons, you go to jail. If you guys broke the law, which I believe you did, if we investigate and find nothing, we find nothing. But I believe there's a lot there.
And if we don't do anything about it, you will have learned nothing. Mercy? Mercy my ass. Absolutely nobody showed mercy for the hard left targeting Donald Trump. You guys loved every, you salivated over it. Now you're going to see what that's like. I'm not about retribution. I'm about justice. Those are two different things. Those are not the same thing.
Now, I want to get to the important matter that just happened this morning. I'm going to take a quick break, but folks, how many freaking times have we got to go over this with the tariffs thing and elsewhere? Not you guys, but to the media dipshits who do not understand Donald Trump. I am trying to help you. This is the most popular MAGA show anywhere.
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Drugs crossing our border, tariffs on our products, taking advantage of our military support as a member of NATO and not doing your own job. That's what's freaking mean. He's a spreadsheet guy. How many times I got to tell you this? You appeal to his emotion, you will lose. He is not emotional about it. He sees problems as a spreadsheet. Wake up. Show you what I mean in a second.
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Folks, I've been candid about you about tariffs for a long time, and unlike leftists in the media who will lie to you and say, Democrats love norms and institutions. Yeah, sure, bro. Okay. I don't change my mind on that. Tariffs are taxes. They are basically taxes on, very simply, taxes on goods that are imported into the United States.
Canada imports, say, wheat into the United States, and there's a 10% tariff. That tax is added on to that import value, which will make Canadian wheat more expensive. Now, obviously, Canadians say wheat producers or milk producers, I bring up dairy for a reason. Canada tariffs our dairy heavily, right? Obviously, the producers don't want this. They want to sell into the United States.
So if their weed is 10% more expensive, people aren't going to buy weed from Canada. They'll buy it from the United States. Now, what winds up happening there? There are some countries who produce things cheaper. There are things we don't want to produce cheaper. I'm giving you the straight skinny. Rubber dog toys are not a thing we're really prioritized in making in the United States.
Our people are the smartest workforce in the world. We want to build cars. We want to build AI. We want to build software. We want to build jet engines. We want to build high value added stuff because rubber dog toys, there are small margins. People who work in a rubber dog toy business don't make a lot. People make jet engines do. So we want to make good stuff.
However, a lot of stuff has been outsourced out of the United States over the years because other countries tariff our stuff, making it more expensive to import into their country. So people move production out of our country. Donald Trump, as you can see from his true social posts, said this weekend, I'm not kidding about these tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
He said, you basically have to this week. I'm going to impose a 25 percent tariff almost across the board outside of energy on Canada. Now, folks. I've told you many times if Donald Trump is doing this tactically. to combat Canadian tariffs and drug running from both the northern and southern border into the United States and can get Canada to move, this is transactional Trump winning.
Cue up the Schumer one. All the Democrats right now, by the way, attacking Donald Trump on this tariff plan seem to have a different perspective a long time ago. Hat tip, the great Mazemore, M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R on X. Here's Chuck Schumer, Democrat leader in the Senate back in 2018 on tariffs, which sounds exactly like the Donald Trump position today.
And now all of a sudden they're taking the opposite position. Why? Because unlike me, they're phonies and fakes and they'll lick their finger and see which way the wind is blowing. Check this out.
Look, I think the president's doing the right thing. China has been taking advantage of us for two decades. They're stealing our intellectual property, which means stealing our good-paying jobs. And I, frankly, am closer on this issue, not on many, but on this issue with President Trump than I was with Presidents Bush or Obama because they did nothing to tell China off.
Now, China, of course, will respond. But if they know we're strong and we're not going to back off, they will back off. They have far more to lose than we do. They have a $300 billion trade surplus with us. I'm looking out, number one, for jobs. You know, if General Electric moves jobs to China, they're not unhappy. But my New York workers in Schenectady are unhappy.
And so you can't let the international business companies who don't give a hoot about where their factories are govern this. You have to do what's good for the American worker.
All I'm asking folks is for some intellectual consistency on this. Schumer and the Democrats are taking the exact opposite position now. Tariffs can be a valuable negotiating tool, but they are a tax. It's OK to be candid about what you're doing.
You are taxing a foreign product imported into the United States in order to either incentivize production of said value added product in the United States, or you are doing it as a negotiating tool to say we are going to tariff you until you stop tariffing us. Look up Canada's tariffs on the United States, folks. On some products, they're significant.
So for all the people out there pretending that, oh, this is retribution. Retribution for what? It's retribution, if anything. And by the way, to citizens of Canada, this has nothing to do with you. The Canadian economy is struggling because you've got terrible leadership in Trudeau and other people. But here's going to be the next prime minister, who, by the way, is all in on re-tariffing back.
So Polivier, who I like, but I think he has to be a little bit candid here about what's going on. Here's Polivier, who's going to be the next leader of Canada. These guys way ahead of the polls. Here he is a little while ago talking about Canada. By the way, that Schumer segment was about China, I understand. But the same exact argument applies.
Here's Polivier talking about the fentanyl problem, tariffs and other things. Again, appeared to agree with Trump before he disagreed with Trump. Check this out.
Results are in on the prime minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs. He teamed up with the BCNDP to decriminalize fentanyl crack and heroin. He lowered jail sentences for mass producers of deadly fentanyl. And 80% of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using ingredients that are not even regulated, but come right into our country where they're cooked into that poison.
Now threatening our trade relationship with the U.S., will he reverse his radical liberal drug agenda to save lives and jobs?
So when Donald Trump talks about, hey, we got a fentanyl problem from the northern border too, he's not making it up. It's the next leader of counter is going to take Trudeau's place. Saying the exact same thing, next PM. He's saying the same thing. He can say whatever he wants. Now, this stuff lives forever. This is a real issue.
Showing you again that this guy, Donald Trump, President Trump, is about results. This just happened before we came on the air. Donald Trump, true social. I just spoke with Mexican President Scheinbaum. It was a friendly conversation. She agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican troops on the border, separating Mexico and the United States to stop the flow of drugs and illegal migrants.
He agrees to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs. Thank you. Do I have to read that again? Trump agrees to immediately pause the tariffs for a month during which they will have negotiations with Rubio, Secretary of State, Besson from Treasury and Howard Lutnick from Commerce and high level representatives in Mexico.
He looks forward to participating in those negotiations with President Scheinbaum as we attempt to achieve a deal between our two countries. Mike Allen, Axios, and everyone out there trying to understand us red hat wearing lunatics. They're all fascist Nazis. 10,000 Mexican troops on the border to stop fentanyl traffic.
That's been going on under the Biden administration for four years and before, but not to the degree it was under the Democrat administration we just got rid of. Where are your results on how come Biden couldn't do that? Trump's been in office how long, fellas? That's right, two weeks. Like a deuce, four or three years. The deuce. Two weeks. How come Biden couldn't do that?
I understand a bunch of our kids are dying. You know, Fennel kills you. You know, a little bit of Fennel kills you. You know that, right? You get dead. I was going to wear the don't get dead shirt. Fennel gets you dead quick. And a lot of people around you. Why? Why do you get that done? Why? Tariffs are so bad. I told you what tariffs are. I told you exactly what they are. They are taxes.
They can induce some economic dislocation. When you use them as a negotiating tool, he already paused the damn tariffs because he got what he wanted. Because he's a spreadsheet guy. If Trudeau, Olivier, or anyone else in Canada does not give him what he wants and open up trade and do something about the Canadian border, then he's going to put on the tariffs. I don't know what to tell you.
I love Canada. I've been there. It's a beautiful place. I'm just telling you, fix it or he sees it as he's not mad at you. No, he is. No, he's not. I just spoke with President Scheinbaum. He knows. Put it up again. What's the next line? Read it. What's the next line, Justin, after I just spoke with President Scheinbaum? What does it say? No, it doesn't say that.
Justin says it says it was a friendly conversation. Trump doesn't like us. Really? He just said it was friendly. He doesn't care. Do what he wants because it's best for both parties, and you know it. To Canada, I love our Canadian friends that listen to the show. We have a huge audience. I get your emails. You guys are wonderful. Wonderful. Your leaders are horrible.
the taxing and tariffing of American dairy products and other things, the fentanyl trapping. We need help. Let's not pretend that Canada and Mexico, we benefit from trade with Canada and Mexico. Period. Full stop. We do.
But it's up to Canada and Mexico both to acknowledge you benefit significantly from the biggest superpower in the history of the universe being to the north and south of you, respectively. You don't have to spend... 50% of your income defending from constant invasions because you have the benefit of the U.S. military just south and north. We're in NATO with Canada.
They were one of the original 12 members. NATO, they don't have to, they've contributed greatly, but who's carrying most of the load? We are. Fair enough. Sorry about all the sound effects. I know it's horrible. I'm like 100%, but my lungs are still recovering. Perfect timing. Was that a hint? I got more on this coming up, by the way.
Some moron left this absolute tool bag on Twitter, put up a video of me not realizing I was going to make an ass out of this dope. He's like, I can't believe this guy. I don't know what he's talking about. The rich people don't pay any tax. They don't. Really? You have any actual data to back that up? What's that? No, never, ever. We've never actually mentioned who pays taxes on the show.
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Just a couple quick data points to this stock talk meme. Stock talk weekly, Mexico's exports to the U.S. as a percentage of GDP, 35% of their GDP are exports. Canada, 22%. U.S. exports to Canada, 1.5%. U.S. exports to Mexico, 1.2%. This tweet, this stock talk here weekly notes America's in charge. Ladies and gentlemen, they are. They are. I don't want these tariffs. I'm clear.
OK, I've been clear. I'm never going to change my mind. But if we need these tariffs as a negotiating tool to get to freer, fairer trade with our North and South American partners, which benefit greatly from our support and being geolocated and the exact same side of the globe and hemisphere as us, then we got to get it done. OK, we got to get it done. Now there are morons out there.
I rarely highlight these idiots, but these guys knew this morning right away because they speak Bongino and Paula, which is like, you have to learn both. Believe me, you had to learn both languages, not just Dan Bongino. You better learn the other language too. That could break bad fast. Okay. Justin's getting it down. So I said to him this morning, I go, Hey, you have that imbecile.
And he's like, I do. I didn't even have to say who it was. I said, make sure you put that here. So here is some dipshit on like TikTok or Twitter or whatever. I don't even know this guy's name, but apparently this guy believes that my take that tariffs, although can be economically dislocating, can be a valuable negotiating tool to get to a better, more fair trade system.
This guy seems to think that my take on it is crazy because rich people who don't pay income taxes will now have to pay tariffs. Rich people don't pay income taxes? How do you say on Twitter, I am a dumb mother, without saying it, you do a video like this. Check this out.
If Donald Trump can convince the Republican Congress to get rid of the income tax for a system of tariffs instead, ladies and gentlemen, the economy will absolutely explode like you have not seen since the Reagan years may be bigger.
I have a question. Why would the rich people that don't pay any income taxes pass legislation to get rid of income taxes in order to replace that with a new set of taxes, tariffs and sales taxes, that would actually end up costing them more money? You see, they already don't pay income taxes. so there's no benefit to them for getting rid of income tax.
But they do pay taxes on all the things they buy, and rich people buy a lot of things. And if we tariff all those things, and if we increase sales taxes on all those things, that's going to negatively affect the rich people that you're asking to get rid of the income taxes that they don't even pay.
Why would they get rid of something they don't pay and replace it for something that will cost them more money? They did not get rich by making stupid decisions like that.
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Is that even real? No, don't. Come on, Justin. Stop putting actual facts. The reason I picked is a thousand websites that'll give you the actual IRS treasury data on who pays income taxes. I actually picked this site for a reason because it's called USA Facts. And if you notice the sourcing at the bottom, it's the IRS. Leave this up.
to the absolute life loser dipshit whose parents must be so dumb they passed him the stupid genes that not only did you say this, but you said it publicly and put it on the internet advertising how freaking stupid you are.
You could have looked this up in probably under 10 seconds by just putting in your favorite communist social media, whatchamacallit, internet search engine thing, bullshit Google thing, Who pays the most income tax? You could have actually figured this out yourself. I know you don't want to because facts and data aren't exactly your liberal wheelhouse.
I mean, to be a liberal, you have to be freaking stupid. But you'd find out that the top 1% of earners, what you would call the evil rich people, who you just said don't pay any taxes, pay 45.8% of income. 45.8%. That sounds like a lot. I thought he said we pay none. None, zero. So you're telling me one out of every hundred people pays almost 50 cents of every income tax dollar? Yeah, yeah.
That's what I'm telling you. That's what I'm telling you. I mean, he could have just, look at this dipshit. I mean, this guy even looks stupid. Thanks. Look at this one. Thanks. Thanks, bro. Can you imagine this dipshit actually filming that, putting it on video? Can someone ask him that? And by the way, his take is totally backwards. He doesn't even understand tariffs, consumption taxes.
He has no idea what he's talking about. Why would rich people, let me do a simple math equation for you. If you make $10 million a year, showing you he has the argument totally backwards, by the way, $10 million a year, and you are not paying a tax on that income, but you are paying taxes on, say, $500,000 to $1 million of consumption, Say you're paying a 20% tax via tariffs or 25% or 25%.
To this dipshit out there, basic math. What's a bigger number? 25% on a million or 25% on 10 million? Michael, you're a math major. Do you know what a bigger number would be? The bigger number would be the bigger the number. The abacus. Where's Jay's abacus? Folks, I can't take liberals. I can't. They are the dumbest people on planet Earth. Look at this guy. Thanks.
Wait, one more time because everything's backwards on the screen.
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What a moron. Here's a Yossi Gassetner. This guy's pretty funny. Yeah, look what happened to Canada's economic size per person under Trudeau. A few years before Trudeau, Canada's economy, or Canadia, as Kareem John Pierre, Canadia's economy was larger than the U.S. per person. It's been in the dumps ever since. And Trudeau's worried about Donald Trump.
Maybe you should free up your economy and dump a lot of these tariffs on U.S. products and clean up the border situation. And maybe you wouldn't have this issue. For those of you who can't color coordinate leftists, the USA is the one on top. Oh, man, has this been a show today? That guy got me fired up. I usually don't advertise these morons, but this guy's so stupid.
I just had to blow this guy up because I just can't take stupid people. What? Oh, I know. I can see it on your screen over there. Hold on. I need some blackout. I didn't even intend it to roll this way, folks. Right? Because this was a floater. Dipshit imbecile guy was a floater, folks. He was not in the original rundown. So to put two dipshits back to back, I promise you, was not intentional.
We actually have a dipshit quota because I don't want to make any of you really stupid. And I feel like by feeding you stupid stuff, you're going to need like Prevagen to present. You know that like brain cell? You're going to need fish oil because your brain will degenerate. So I promise. Dipshit alert right now. If you've already lost too many neurons, listen to that last moron.
I'm going to warn you who's coming up next. Throw them in the chat, folks. Here it is.
I'm warning you, dipshit alert early. Special appearance today by me, the grand dame of all dipshits, one Frank Fregese.
Fregese's up next. So I'm warning, we always are dumber after Fregese. But this is an important segment. Ladies and gentlemen, long overdue FBI reform is coming. We are going to make the FBI great again. Because if we don't have an FBI breaking up counterterror plots trying to kill us and they're worried about Moms for Liberty and pro-lifers, then we got a problem, folks.
FBI reform is coming, whether they like it or not. Here's Fugazi on MSNBC, infamous 8-8 guy, a total moron, whining on MSNBC and inadvertently, by the way, exposing how arbitrary DEI stuff is. Screws up the FBI. I want you to notice at the end, this is him whining about them ripping root and branch, DEI, out of the FBI.
And he brings an example up at the end about having white guys in the surveillance in a minority neighborhood inadvertently exposing how bad DEI is by just randomly putting quotas out there. But because Fugazi's a moron, he doesn't even know he's making the case against himself. Check this out.
Any semblance of diversity and inclusion is literally being wiped off the map. The New York Times put out a photo today of the walls of Quantico, the FBI Academy, where they're painting over the FBI's core values to include integrity, adherence to the Constitution, and diversity. A less diverse FBI is a less effective FBI.
Try doing surveillance on the street in the inner city with two white guys. Try working undercover in a Middle Eastern terror organization with a white guy. It doesn't work that way. So we're becoming less and less safe very quickly.
Understood. I mentioned that Kash Patel disclaims that he opposed.
Again, I'm sorry to put these two zeros back to back, but did you notice the example Fegazi gives that completely refutes his DEI argument? Ladies and gentlemen, if you are investigating, say, a West African crime ring specializing in fraud, Yes, it would be very helpful for people with experience in West African fraud. Sometimes it emanates out of Nigeria, sometimes elsewhere.
There's a lot of fraud cases that happen there. Yes, it would benefit you to have some expertise. That's an actual KSA, knowledge, skills, abilities. If you just say, hey, you know, someone from that region may have darker pigmentation in their skin and melanin, so we should randomly hire more black agents for this. You're actually the more, he's actually refuting his own case.
He's refuting his own case. He doesn't even understand that because he's too stupid. Always, always measure the effectiveness of what we're doing. Oh man, they're lighting this guy up in the chat. The chat is just on fire with this idiot. He is such a toolbox. Folks, do you get what I'm saying? Like the nuanced argument I'm trying to make that Fugazi doesn't understand because he's an idiot.
Yes, if you are surveilling the Italian mob in the fish market in New York in the 80s, it would probably benefit you to find FBI agents who are maybe police officers or residents of that area and can fit in. But that's an actual knowledge, skill, and ability to blend in. It's not based randomly on you being Italian. Holy shit, is this guy stupid. Here's another one.
Here's deep state Andrew Weissman, a key figure in the spying scandal on Donald Trump, a key figure in the Bob Mueller investigation hoax where they were investigating a hoax the entire time. Here he is freaking out about Donald Trump making a decision to get rid of a lot of FBI leaders who weaponized the entity and turned it into a really, really destructive force in American law enforcement.
Check this out.
are you hearing what are we missing about this story uh that people should understand um i'd say the main thing in talking to you as a lawyer and the former fbi general counsel i dealt with employment issues day in and day out at the fbi everything that you are hearing uh that from ken it's illegal It is against the rules and the law. It's against civil service rules.
You cannot fire career FBI personnel without cause. It is simply not possible. And the idea that you have the acting deputy attorney general of the United States doing something that is against the rules, it's against the law, is the story.
I love how this absolute tool bag, this is three dipshits in a row, by the way, so I'm very sorry the dipshit meter's pegged. I love how this guy says you can't fire these FBI people without cause as if there isn't a litany of actual causes. You know what? Hold the Washington Times headline. Let's go through this stuff, the House Judiciary.
Let's just go through some causes so I can learn some of you people out there, liberals in my audience. Get ready. I'm going to learn you right now, okay? Did you guys miss all of this, Andy Weissman? House Judiciary, whistleblowers. The FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. Andy Weissman may have been.
There's cause for you. That's it? No, that's not it. I'm not done. Let's whip off a few more here. Heritage Foundation. FBI and DOJ twist federal law to arrest and charge a pro-life activist? Oh. You missed that, Andy? All right, that's it. No, oh, no, it's not. Look. Where'd you guys come up with this? Like, you sent them. I did. Justin says, your inbox? Just the news? January 6th, shocker.
Phone companies dispute FBI testimony on pipe bomb suspect. Key lawmaker reveals. I thought there was no cause. All right, it's definitely it. He says there's one more in the inbox. How did that happen? How did that happen? Newsweek, exclusive. Donald Trump followers targeted by FBI as 2024 electioneers. Oh, man. That Andy Weissman.
I thought he said there's no cause for anything or something like that. What do I always tell you? Always measure the effectiveness of what you're doing by your opponent's response. If they're doing nothing in their list list, folks, probably what we're doing is probably meaningless. When they freak out, we're probably doing something right.
Washington Times, the acting director of the FBI, refuses order to list FBI employees involved in J6 cases amid ouster of agency leaders. Kerry Pickett notes in the piece, FBI agents are said to be in a panic and a protest by employees and former employees Monday at the Washington field office and headquarters are in the planning stages of a panic and a protest. What are you protesting?
What are you worried about? If you did nothing wrong and you were following your job, Your actual job, your responsibilities, as a government employee and investigator, what are you worried about? I don't understand. If you followed the rules and regulations, what are you worried about? That's right. Folks, I always told you, too, people are policy.
And I'm sorry to tell you this, but it is time for new people at the FBI. I say I'm sorry to tell you this because I wish we weren't in this position. I really do, folks. The FBI has done a lot of great things. However, the FBI has lost their way. It has been a long time now. It's not new. The FBI has lost their way and it has filtered down into many stages of their management.
The FBI has to get back to keeping America safe from its enemies, getting criminals and bad guys off the street and interstate crime. It is not a hard mission. Now, I told you at the beginning of the show and during the middle of the show and during the last few years of shows that lame duck Donald Trump is not an argument. It's a silly argument. They were always ridiculous arguments.
I told you the best thing about second term Donald Trump is that he'll never be a lame duck. Why? He has J.D. Vance, Don Jr., Eric, Laura. I mean, you could have this legacy go on forever with the Trump team. His political capital will never be zero. He's not a lame duck like Biden. What's he going to do, have Hunter Biden run?
What, are they going to get a drug dealing operation, run out of the White House or something like that? I mean, what was going to happen? What are you going to do, find cocaine at the White House? I mean, they're already dealing with all of this nonsense. Biden didn't have a legacy. His political capital was zero. This is what I'm talking about.
Here's Donald Trump on this aviation disaster this weekend that happened the past week in Reagan, which Secretary Duffy is dealing with and doing a great job. He is out there. He's been on the job less than a week. He's out there knocking it out of park. I got to tell you, for me, it's a little weird.
because I've known the secretary for a long time, and we've been personal friends with the family, and obviously Evita works here, but I've always known him to be a leader. I mean, a genuine leader. I don't mean like one of these bullshit leaders who pretends to be one and then flakes out on you. So to watch him take charge of this thing just a week in office has just been...
I'm trying to keep my emotions out of it because I got to be fair to you too. But I'm going to tell you, it's hard because I love this guy and he's just knocking it out of the park. But getting back to Donald Trump, this is plain talk. This is trans, no, believe me, no pun intended, but plain P-L-A-I-N, plain talk from Donald Trump. You better get used to it.
This is transactional Trump trying to just ask, but he's not getting them. I know it's hard because this is a horrible situation. Everybody wants to get emotional. You're not going to solve the problem. This guy's transactional. And this is just how he thinks. Again, you better get used to it. Check this out.
I think that we have to make sure that this never happens again. Very, very little risk. And we're taking actions that this can't happen again. The helicopter, as you know, was out of its own. Shouldn't have been out of its own. It was at the same height as the airplane. Now, the airplane was coming down on its track. It was perfect. It was in perfect shape coming down.
And something was in its way. You can't let that happen. And it won't be happening again. And this was all because of weak rules in the Biden administration. And we're just not going to let that kind of thing happen again. And, again, I could wait, and I could, you know, give a report in two years like they always do. And sometimes it's obvious. In this case, to me, it was very obvious.
And I think I've been proven to be very correct. Yeah.
again, I can't say it enough. You are constantly going to get your nuts kicked in by this guy. If you do not understand, he does not get emotional. It doesn't mean he doesn't care. It doesn't mean he's not passionate about things. He obviously is. He treats things as a spreadsheet. Why did this plane crash? The helicopter is at the same altitude. How the hell did that happen?
I don't want this to happen again. I don't have time to get all emotional. I want to know what's going on. I could wait two years and issue a report. I choose not to. I want it fixed now. Get used to it, brothers and sisters, and especially lefties in the media. Because this guy's going to continue to kick your ass if you don't understand he is passionate but not emotional.
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That's crazy. We've been tearing up. Thank you for making us last week for the first time in a while, by the way. Thank you, Bongino Army. I love you, man. I'd pound my chest, but my elbows don't work. So love you. And if I do, they'll accuse me of an Elon. So left-wing media people can kiss my ass anyway.
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