VICTORY: TPUSA Humiliates Bad Bunny and NFL's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Sets RECORD | Ratings Are In
Turning Point USA’s Kid Rock-led Super Bowl halftime show drew 10M+ live viewers and 25M+ total views, crushing Bad Bunny’s 1.4M YouTube views while pushing back against "woke propaganda" like LGBT messaging and open borders rhetoric, which they claim the NFL promotes. The episode ties this cultural clash to political polling—Trump’s approval among under-40 voters fell to 34%—and election integrity failures, like the stalled SAVE Act, while spotlighting Ghislaine Maxwell’s Fifth Amendment refusal in Epstein hearings, exposing what they call systemic lies. Ultimately, they frame their victory as proof conservative alternatives can redirect public anger and restore "faith, family, and freedom" over divisive ideologies. [Automatically generated summary]
Yeah, Turning Point USA also had their all-American alternative halftime show that you could watch on their website or you could watch it streaming on social media platforms.
And it drew millions of viewers.
It was headlined by Kid Rock.
We had him on the show on Friday.
10 million watched across live channels and more than 25 million views on social platforms.
You know, I always say that whenever you decide to do a performance or anything, even if you're just doing morning show TV, you want to, you can take risk, but you're there to serve your audience.
I'm not here to serve CNN or MSNBC's morning show.
I'm here to serve our viewers.
And you got to look at the demographics that you're going after.
And it looks like Turning Point was able to get some of those people to switch the dial and turn over to their performance.
I was like, man, I didn't realize the tail of the tape was going to go.
But, you know, this really was a moment where Americans had a choice.
And Benny, you promoted the heck out of this.
And I know so many of us, you know, the friends of Charlie that, you know, that knew him, we knew that Charlie always talked about the Super Bowl show.
He always talked about culture.
That's why he always supported everything that the Benny show was doing in terms of taking back the culture, fighting for cultural wins.
And I know there are a lot of people saying, why are you doing a Super Bowl, a halftime thing?
Like, what does that have to do with anything?
And I think all those people are very, very quiet now because they realized that Americans didn't want politics.
They wanted something that just showed them that, you know what?
It's totally cool and actually good to just be an American, to have something that's good, clean, family fun.
And then, yes, at the very end, not only a tribute to our fallen friend, but also a proclamation of the gospel proclaiming the name of Jesus, a show and a moment that were absolutely ordained and bringing people to Christ.
And look, I got to say, you know, having been there and in a, in a small capacity, welcoming everybody in, and I, I was, I was brought to tears in that moment.
I was absolutely brought to tears.
I didn't know he was going to do that.
And when he went there, I just, it just, I just broke down, man.
Kid Rock, of all people, like, like, I'm sitting there like, is this the same Kid Rock from, you know, like ball with the, and he played ball with the ball, you know, but but I liked what they did because artistically, right, he was, that's why he did the two introductions.
He's, and people notice that it's like they introduced him as Kid Rock, then he went away.
Then Antonio and Allison came out, incredible, by the way, the violin, cello piece, just so beautiful.
And then they reintroduce him.
Hey, this is Robert Ritchie.
So it shows that path.
It shows that redemption arc, that salvation arc.
Like, here's a guy, you know, girls and rock and roll and drugs and drinking, whatever else.
And now it's like, no, now it's, now we're moving to Jesus.
Now we're moving to the real stuff.
Now we're moving to the deep stuff.
And honestly, that stuff that they were singing about, go fishing with your dad.
And the numbers speak for themselves that there is a massively underserved portion of this country that hasn't seen a halftime show like that, not just in years, in decades.
Because what it does is it ultimately shows that you've lost the culture war, that the NFL has decided to sabotage and betray their own fans to do a program that is not in English, that has third world aesthetics, that's open borders messaging, LGBT messaging, woke propaganda.
And I think the greatest sin of them all, you can't even listen to it.
It's like mumble rap, but Spanish and no songs that anybody knows.
All the videos coming out, all the videos coming out from the stands, Jack, like shows people standing like statues.
Nobody was into it.
Nobody liked this.
And so, like, I know we're up against a hard out, but can you tell me, like, what does this mean culturally for the zeitgeist of the NFL?
I mean, I think that this, you know, like this told Jay-Z partnership has been a massive failure.
I think this has exposed woke corporations, even worse than the Bud Light boycott.
I think that this is like so much worse than even Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light.
Look, there's been a lot of rumors going around that there might even be advertisers now because of the, remember, $10 million just for 30 seconds up on the Super Bowl, but you are guaranteed a certain number of ratings.
There are going to be a lot of people picking up phones right now to their Fifth Avenue advertising firms, all the marketing directors of every company that put up an ad there saying, how many people were watching during that spot when my ad ran?
Because we might be talking rebates, we might be talking refunds, we might be talking the rest of it.
This is money.
This is economic warfare.
Hit them where it hurts.
That's why Bud Light, and you saw what Bud Light was doing last night, by the way, if you watch their ad, right?
Back to the Dalmatians, the Clydesdales, all the pro-Americana, because they're still hurting from the effects of Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light.
And they're trying to build back that market share, but they haven't been able to do it.
And so what the NFL and all the advertisers are going to do and put pressure on is say, hey, you guys have like, this is a conservative Christian organization, and they're putting up numbers that rival yours.
And I noticed, I'll just say this, Benny, this shows we've totally split where wokeness is left in the past.
Wokeness is left in the dust.
People don't want it.
They want one America.
They want one flag.
They want one national anthem.
We're sick of the nonsense.
And you saw a bad bunny around.
You know, I did actually go back and watch, I watched this thing at like 2X.
It was like, it was really weird, but with all the flags, and there's just rumble rep. There's no choruses, there's literally no choruses at all.
And don't tell me it's political.
Don't tell me, by the way, that it's not political when he's running around with all of these flags saying we have this one and this one and this one, and we're all America.
Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Reports will be joining us in just a moment to talk some polling on America and where we are as a country to keep our energy up as we talk about exactly what happened last night.
Because what happened last night was more culturally relevant than I think many people realize.
Our energy this morning coming from Cowboy Colostrum.
The turning point halftime show was a breaking point in culture.
An app an actual turning point.
It gives me chills to even talk about it and think about it.
The reason why this is so important, and even if you, yeah, pop that up, please.
Even if you don't like Kid Rock, or even if some of the bands weren't your favorite, which by the way, there was like, it was like banger after banger after banger playing.
No matter who you were, there was a song that made you tap your foot.
The turning point halftime show.
Hopefully all of them is incredible.
The reason why it is so culturally important is because this is a turning point.
This is a fork in the road.
There are two different visions of America that are on your screen right here.
One vision of America is what legacy Americans would know and love.
Flames, the American flag proudly displayed, bourbon, you know, like kind of like the smell of like cigarette and cigar smoke.
Now, you'd assume that the NFL, which probably 99% of its fan base are also fans of these artists, would align and lock in with that and say, you know, we're going to make sure that those fans are served by our halftime show performance.
It doesn't have to exactly be these artists, but how about throwing in a country artist here and there?
I mean, it is the most popular genre of music in the nation because it's our genre of music.
32 years since a Country Act played the Super Bowl.
How out of touch can you be with your fan base?
Sure, there are fan bases that like Latin music or hip-hop, but they've had plenty of that.
We've had plenty of that at every single halftime show.
I liken it to Bud Light.
It's so much deeper and so much more important, but the principles are the same.
Okay, the mechanisms are the same.
With Bud Light, you have a light frat beer.
It is a beer that old men, old Midwestern dudes with beer bellies sit in their lawn in creaky lawn chairs and they watch the Bug Zapper and the sunset from their back porch and they drink a Bud Light.
In what universe do you think that a transgender in a bathtub drinking Bud Light, like taking your beer and literally making it bathwater for a transgender Dylan Mulvaney, what like in what universe does that ever even remotely reflect your fan base, your customer base?
And it's a tale of all the time that has to be constantly relearned because wokeness is a mind virus and wokeness is a cancer and it is a cancer that affects not only Bud Light.
Can you believe that this is actually real?
It's like a fever dream that this actually happened.
They destroy their brands in this perpetual pursuit of something that is totally made up.
The modern audience, the modern customer, the hardcore, you know, super queer, super woke, you know, progressive, like aesthetic that doesn't exist.
The customer base isn't real.
It doesn't exist.
Your brand can't go and create bigger customer bases by betraying their core customers and trying to like grasp at the wind as some mythical woke progressive alphabet consumer that doesn't work.
I don't know how many times you got to learn that, whether it's light beer, whether it's Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, pretty much anything that Disney's created over the last 10 years, and the vast majority of Hollywood.
How many times must these lessons be learned?
Cracker Barrel.
Little company, at least like the Dylan Mulvaney thing happened when Democrats controlled virtually all culture, the DOJ, the House, the Senate, like there was sort of like this, you know, this massive effort to wokeify all of culture, right?
At least they did it then.
Cracker Barrel did their shift when Republicans controlled the house, when Donald Trump won in a landslide.
Let me show you exactly how unifying the hatred of the wokeification and the humiliation ritual, which is what this was, a humiliation ritual on American culture.
That's what this was.
Ultimately, this was a large-scale humiliation ritual taking our biggest game, our biggest moment, the biggest stage that Hollywood and the entertainment industry, those Satanists, those demon worshipers, those occultists can offer you.
And they give it to somebody who hates America, who doesn't speak our language, who's a cross-dresser, who used his opportunity on that stage for divisive politics, open borders messaging, queer messaging, who used it as an opportunity to show a bunch of open degeneracy to your children.
This is how unifying it was.
Listen to this, grandmother.
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Like, who is this man?
Get out of me.
I mean, like, what is this?
This is ridiculous.
You got the American flag and all these other flags.
Ultimately, ultimately, it was a humiliation ritual of your culture.
If I had traveled back in time a decade ago and told you that the Super Bowl halftime show would be entirely in Spanish with foreign flags being waved above the American flag,
that the entire aesthetic of the Super Bowl halftime show would be third world filthy aesthetics, fruit stands, Hawking jewelry, uh, grunge or filth orgies, muddy orgies, uh, like flickering neon lights in dingy stores,
and that the final act of that halftime show at the Super Bowl was some filthy, untalented, mumble rapper, Marxist Latino parroting Marxist Latin talking points that have for a generation,
this is the same talking points that Castro used, for a generation said that Americans stole the name America, that all of Latin America is America, that they deserve open borders to our country because we're the true invaders.
And this was Bag Bunny's final commentary.
When Bad Bunny says God bless America, he doesn't mean America.
He doesn't mean our country.
He means the continent of which he wants open borders for Latin people and Spanish-speaking people to come and loot the treasure of our nation and steal our birthright.
That's what he means.
That's what's going on here.
This is what he said.
If we could play, if we could play with just with audio just a minute.
See how he listed every nation in the entire continent?
That's what this was.
And of course, with the cringe messaging in the background.
It was a repulsive display of left-wing Marxism and globalism that they are trying to foist upon you.
Of course, featuring Satan worshipper herself, Lady Gaga.
You understand that Jay-Z, you understand that the person who groomed Lady Gaga was Marina Abramovich.
If you want to go back to the Epscene stuff, we can.
Marina Abramovich groomed and tortured Lady Gaga.
This was how Lady Gaga became an artist.
She went through satanic ritual after satanic ritual.
One time she was like stripped naked and like left in the woods.
It was like physically tortured by Marina Abramovich.
She talked about this.
They talked about this openly.
Spirit cooking dinners, everything, all of it.
Marina Abramovich is also somebody that Jay-Z, who's in charge of the NFL halftime show, made out with on stage in one famous little skit that Jay-Z did, amplifying one of the world's foremost Satanists.
And then here we are, the protege, Satanist protege of Marina Abramovich dancing on stage.
So it's a practice in humiliation for our culture.
And we needed to punch back.
We need to hit back.
And that is why I'm so proud of the work that we did at Turning Point with this.
I'm so proud of it.
A lot of people doubted us, and a lot of people said it won't work.
Telling you, man.
I know my people.
I know you.
And there's a reason why if something bad happens to someone, something bad happens to someone, then we're going to set up a GoFundMe.
You know, like Jeannie, right?
She was attacked for a Charlie Kirk shirt.
Lady in Cincinnati gets hit.
Heidi, she gets hit.
Holly is her name.
She gets punched and knocked out in the street.
We raise money for her, raise money for the church in Minneapolis.
When people see something that makes them angry, they want to take an action.
And we, luckily, we live in like a very peaceful country and people want to act out peacefully and protest.
But conservatives, we don't often give ourselves the venue to go peacefully protest.
The left does this all the time to get the lat out for their people.
We never give ourselves alternatives because it's like too cocked.
Republicans are too weak.
So if there's something that bad happens, you know, we'll go to East Palestine.
We'll give out money.
We'll set up a GoFundMe.
We'll give people a pressure release valve.
That's what we do on this program.
I understand this about the human psyche.
You know, our biggest viral hits are because there's pressure that's been built up around COVID.
Where did the virus come from?
Jasmine Crockett, AOC, you know, Kim Klasich.
Like these things go viral because people are like desperate for an alternative to the poison of popular culture, what they're trying to feed you, bad bunny.
And so what we did was leverage that knowledge, knowing that people hate, will hate this bad bunny performance.
They'll be insulted.
We didn't know who Bad Bunny was, but like the moment that we heard that he was going to do the Super Bowl halftime show, we're like, okay, let's give him an alternative.
Because what would have happened without the Turning Point halftime show would have just been a bunch of people complaining and bitching online.
You need to give them something else.
You need to give, it is our job as creators to create the alternative.
And more importantly, more importantly, when you take a bite out of the Goliath that is the NFL, when you can take a piece off, in the words of Leonidas, prove that a God can bleed.
In 300, he hits them with the spear.
Prove that you're just a mortal.
That the world, to paraphrase Steve Jobs, is built by idiots.
The world is created by people that are not smarter than you.
They're not better than you.
Just because they have the NFL and the Super Bowl doesn't mean you can't mog them, swaggerjack them, drink their milkshake.
And that's what we did.
The Steve Jobs paradigm.
The world is not made by smart people.
It's made by dumb people.
And you're smarter than them.
And you can just go, you can just go, you don't have to live inside their box.
And what did we do?
Well, created the alternative, not just for people watching at home, even for people watching inside of the Super Bowl.
And that's why the fight against this is important.
It's not just to rack up views.
You know, Turning Point didn't make money off this and spent money on this.
It's in order to fight back against the humiliation ritual that has been ongoing for your entire life and mine, trying to undermine American culture.
And they pushed it too far last night.
They pushed it too far with their repulsive third worldism, spitting in the face of our national identity and language, promoting and platforming this degenerate, this cross-dressing degenerate.
They don't precisely, Satanists know exactly what they're doing.
And the only thing that will make them stop is to punch them as hard as we possibly can, where it hurts the very, very most, which is their advertising dollars, which is the only thing that keeps all of it running.
Without the ad dollars flowing, without the cultural value, they'll go elsewhere.
I promise you this: there's going to be some massive ad spend on the Turning Point halftime show next year.
You can believe that.
Who wouldn't want to advertise on the number one YouTube live stream in history?
And by the way, if they had just done the live stream, if they had done the live stream correctly and not allowed it to be streamed on other platforms and just done it, done one single stream, it would be, without a doubt, the single most watched thing in the history of all of YouTube.
So lessons learned.
Victory at hand.
I don't, I, Bad Bunny has now deleted all of his social media.
Do you know this?
Bad Bunny's deleted everything.
He's gone from social media.
Does that sound like a victory for you?
Seem like a victory for you, NFL?
So your performer just went completely black out on all social media, has done zero promotion of this, has done zero defense of his despicable show, and is instead deleting.
Here's his 51 million Instagram followers, deleting entirely his account.
And I think that this is the most important point right here.
It's not a brand anymore.
It's not like Disney, for instance, the favorability numbers for Disney poll just like your random national political figure.
Isn't that weird?
Like something that's brought so much magic to people's lives.
It's not really movies anymore.
You know, and again, with all this LGBT stuff, it's not really woke anti-LGBT blowback.
Like people are actually okay with a lot of stuff in America, but it's like, okay, well, if you're going to have laws that allow transing the minors, then they dig in, right?
So it's the egregious stuff they don't like.
And what Americans, in my opinion, think is most egregious is in a system that is ridiculous, that has failed, that is wrong, clown world.
We know this.
The zeitgeist is people rebelling against clown world.
And I think that that's why Trump won.
I really do.
Because look at the Doge stuff, wildly popular, captured the zeal of the youth.
In his inauguration speech, you know, when we were literally banging down the doors of USAID, in his inauguration speech, he promised that this was the golden age of America.
And who believed that most was under 40 voters?
56% of them agreed with that statement.
And then they saw Doge and his job approval rating got up to 60%.
And the bad news here is that his numbers among the young people are just absolutely atrocious now.
And people have freaked out over Donald Trump just in the last week or two in a way that's dangerous.
Is it like the complete end of his political movement?
No, but it's flashing warning signs dangerous.
He hit a 41% approval rating on Friday.
That's the lowest in all of our numbers going back to December of 2017.
What did that look like?
That was Rachel Maddow talking about tax returns and Russian collusion hoaxes on MSNBC and everybody was watching.
Like, what's happened?
Our president is a Russian asset.
We're at those numbers right now when there is not an external exogenous shock like that.
This is, in my opinion, people telling Trump, remember why you got in.
The system doesn't work and we need that system attacked.
We need that R-word.
We need retribution.
And the under 40 voter now, I just did the numbers.
We're releasing them today.
31% right direction, 34% Trump approval with the under 40s.
60 to 34.
And I think he could recapture this.
This was like the chainsaw to the federal government is what got us there.
And I really do.
If you look at the graph of comparing all the presidential approval ratings, like very visibly, this is a plunge that kind of mirrors Biden's Afghanistan.
And Biden's turned that around to some extent.
Like we have to be realistic that there's things in polling called response bias.
Donald Trump was beating Joe Biden during the Afghanistan crisis by like 12 points.
And at the end of 2024, had Biden stayed in, it would have been probably about a plus four race.
So obviously people rebel.
They don't want to answer the polls.
They get upset.
People are upset right now, but the weird thing is, is because they want Trump to do more of what he promised and remember what he ran on.
And that was the cultural zeitgeist of reforming a broken system.
And look at the energy.
Look at the this is what your halftime show showed people is that there are a lot of people who will show that rebellion, rebel against the system.
It's like, yep, you know what?
Everybody in my house is watching the Super Bowl, but I'm going to make us turn this on because it's important to me.
And, you know, we have that.
Like we've done so much polling that shows us this.
Has Trump done too much or not enough of what he's promised?
People say not enough two to one, especially the younger people.
Half of under 40 voters, half of them say Trump has not done enough of what he promised.
It was only like less than 20% who said he's done too much of what he's promised.
And I think there's a big question about how.
Like there's people are saying, and this is why I think this movement needs these truths and they need to be objective about how he's performing so that we can pivot and do this the right way.
The ICE stuff, no bueno.
It is not good.
Bad optics has to get out of the headlines.
And I've been saying for weeks, like the way we went about this was wrong and it created political friction.
America is not a monoculture that wants to see everybody brutally deported.
Most Americans want all legal aliens gone, but shooting protesters in the face with tear gas, like not good.
And so when we look at Minnesota and we see all this systematic federal fraud, that's what people want attacked.
And we made it about ICE.
And all of a sudden, even though fundamentally Americans still want illegal aliens gone by a strong majority, they say that ICE tactics are too harsh and they're increasingly siding with the ICE pro anti-ICE protesters and not ICE themselves.
And so if there's pushback, do you do more of that or you pivot?
Well, no, you go after the businesses because that's what overwhelmingly people say has to happen.
Of course we should use E-Verify.
It's almost a 70% position.
Of course we should hold people that hire legal aliens accountable.
That's a plus 20 position.
So when Donald Trump is underwater, 15 points, but holding businesses who hire legal aliens accountable is plus 20.
That's a big difference.
And then when 76% of America is angry at waste, fraud, and abuse, this is the zeitgeist.
Americans, we've tracked, we've talked about this, the level of fear of political violence, the mistrust of the federal government, and the anger at waste, fraud, and abuse.
The biggest signal going into the election for Donald Trump was, do we need business as usual in Washington, D.C., or massive change and massive change won by like 60 points, right?
So change a broken system.
And if Donald Trump could just focus on that over and over again, people will change the channel from the Super Bowl to watch that happen.
They're begging for it.
And, you know, people, again, I don't know if you want to go down the rabbit hole, but this Epstein thing is big because the system is broken.
This is a signal.
People, this is, if you look at the search trend volume, I know you trust the search trend volume like I do.
Epstein's been in the news a lot over the last 10, 20 years.
He was arrested.
He was suicided.
He was, you know, the case closed thing with Pam Bondi.
Search trend volume for Epstein right now is multiples higher than it's ever been, ever.
And if you just compare Olympics to Epstein, yes, Olympics search trend volume is higher, but it's a global sports spectacle.
It's a cultural touchstone.
And Epstein is getting there.
It's getting close.
So again, it's like we could say, no, there was nothing there.
We could say, no, look at these other things I'm doing, which could be good or could be bad, but they're not systematic reform because people are discovering very dark things about the system right now.
So this is building on the zeitgeist that things need to change.
And I think that if Donald Trump were to continue to lean into this idea that we are changing things, because we just had, you know, the Bongino stuff, we had a very good example there about how that tactic didn't work.
You know, trust in the FBI was destroyed.
53% of America said the FBI was Joe Biden's personal Gestapo.
FBI lost its favorability rating, positive favorability rating for the first time in the history of our polling.
People like law enforcement.
It's obviously a popular thing.
And if you're the FBI, the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency, and you lose your positive favorability rating, that's bad.
That's really bad.
And so Americans wanted a restoration of trust.
Only 30% trust the federal government.
So we took a very trusted figure, Kash Patel.
We took a very trusted person, Dan Mongino, and said, okay, we're putting them in these roles.
And so old politics would tell you that, okay, well, the Republicans will now trust the FBI because their trusted people are at the head of the FBI.
But this isn't new politics anymore.
This is the politics where people need the system burned down.
And so we just asked a month ago, do you agree or disagree?
Federal agencies like the CIA and FBI need major reform.
And 83% of Trump voters said yes to that.
And so Kash Patel and Dan Mongino, I don't know, I don't know what they did.
Like objectively, they could have done a lot of stuff.
But based on what Americans saw coming out of that and how they processed it, and they voted, they gave a report card and the report card from Trump voters from Republicans was these agencies still need reform.
And so that's the crazy thing you're seeing.
And it's like, you can't brute force this anymore.
Like Dan Bongino can't brute force this into a successful story.
And yet Americans want success.
They will turn the channel from the Super Bowl to watch the system be torn down, to watch this rebellion against the parts of it that don't work that are wrong.
The bad bunny thing was wrong.
And America like basically cuckholded him is what they did last night, right?
And it's like, let's do that to the federal government.
Let's do that to the big business special interests that continue to rule our lives and supplant the will of the voter.
The second those words left her mouth, case closed.
We were like, nope, like I literally spurged out, went into the field, asked America, and America overwhelmingly agreed, no, the case is not closed.
It was 16%, and yet 68% said there are wealthy and powerful predators that still need to go to jail.
And it's like, if I wanted to be even a cynical, like just political strategy guy, I would have said, you know what?
We have an FBI.
We could just make this go away by telling everybody the FBI is investigating these folks.
And my advice was get out in front of this because if you don't, you're handing the Democrats something that's going to hand over, hang over you and haunt you for the rest of your political term.
And now here we are.
And so the messaging needs to change, but it's like, okay, Trump, you're the retribution and change guy.
We're draining the swamp.
This is America about to realize which side of the fence you're on.
You got to pick a side.
And it's got to be the side that attacks the system or it's multiples higher.
Everybody saw the optics coming out of that jail.
And a majority of America within a month was like, no, no, no.
Of course, of course, he didn't kill himself.
So America, even back then, was smart enough.
Everybody was watching.
And now five times more people are watching.
They're watching this instead of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
And it's telling us things about our religious leaders.
It's telling us things about our heads of state.
It's telling us things about our business leaders.
And the way the people at the top have absolutely no, absolutely no moral compunction about stepping on a little guy.
And so this is only going to either make America, I've been using this analogy, and I think it's very helpful.
America is a frog in a pot of water on a stove.
And for decades, the water was increasing in temperature.
And nobody knew why.
Why is it getting hotter in here?
I don't understand.
Why do we keep spending more?
Why does China keep getting more powerful?
Why is the American middle class keep getting hollowed out?
And then Trump came along and said, well, obviously it's because you're in a pot of water on a stove, stupid.
There's the dial.
I can see it right there.
That's what happened in 2016.
And then in 2020, you know, people were like, hey, I don't like being in a pot of water.
Trump keeps messing with the dial.
This is weird here.
We need somebody else to turn down the dial.
And they voted for Biden and Biden cranked it to high.
He literally just cranked that friggin dial to high.
And we all saw it, the people who hit eyes, right?
And America said, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Well, we need the tile turned down.
We only trust one person to do this.
And again, 2024, a lot of people love Trump.
He expanded his base 100%.
But Trump didn't win because of a cult of personality.
He won because of blowback for Biden overreach and a referendum on the lack of trust in federal government.
That's why Trump won, to turn the dial down.
And if Trump says, wait, what dial?
I don't understand.
That is not the right answer.
The right answer needs to be turning the dial down.
And so, on every one of these major things, you can either increase the temperature or decrease the temperature.
And if you look at like, okay, maybe we're ruled by a bunch of sick, demented, satanic pedophiles, and the system is either going to protect them or not.
The dial-up temperature, maybe it's just not touching the dial is, well, we did a great job and the Dow's at 50,000 and we're going to have the best GDP ever.
That's not a dial-down answer.
A dial down is, well, it's great that the stock market's up, but there's so much more to do.
Here are the things we're doing to try and make housing more affordable.
And look at what we're doing in the meat industry and blah, Right.
That's a dial down temperature.
That's, hey, we see a vision of the future and we are currently taking action on all of these things.
And we might not see success because I think America is past the point where we can all agree that everything's going to be fixed between now and November 2026, right?
And so this is what I'm, this is about vision, leadership and vision.
And this is, again, people will say I'm a black pillar or doomer.
I'm trying to offer a carrot because I think the, I think the bar is really super low right now.
Is that if you look at your average Democrat voter and most of these people, again, will look at somebody like Mamdani under 40 and be like, yeah, okay, sure.
The guy really believes in me.
And I don't, you know, they say he's a socialist, but we need to change and blah, But then your average Democrat, like core Democrat voter, doesn't need their elected representatives to have a vision for the future.
And part of that is because they're less objective people.
They're voting for the feels, like all these things that we know about the left.
But part of that is because they're fundamentally winning.
They're getting an increased, increasingly powerful administrative state.
They're getting a corporatist system that can continue to redistribute wealth from the American taxpayer.
They're getting their big government.
They're getting their global homo.
You know, they're winning.
The left is winning and they're going to win by default unless the system's fixed.
Now, the way the right approaches these problems is it says, well, we have these values that have always worked and they're going to continue to work.
And people will someday see eventually that things have gotten bad enough that we can get back to conservatism of decades ago.
And that somehow the ghost of Ronald Reagan is going to come in and save us.
And that's backward looking and it's not vision.
A vision is based on where we're at now, based on the stimuli, based on the temperature of the water that the frog is in on the stove.
What does the future of America look like when Republicans and conservatism wins?
And if that isn't believable enough to make people think that the temperature of the pot is going to go down, then the Democrats are going to win because they vote by default.
They win by default.
And the Republicans need to believe in their elected leaders in order to get that inertia, that momentum.
And that's just how it is.
They're the low propensity voter now.
Trump built a big tent of a lot of first-time voters, a lot of people that were showing up for the first time because of a referendum on institutional trust.
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Mark, we just talked about, we just talked about this.
It's not enough to just sit there and bitch on Twitter about that you don't like bad buddy.
You have to give people an alternative.
You have to give them something else to do.
Like you, you need that.
This is this is why it was so successful.
And we've been doing that, by the way.
Like that's the core of my business.
It's like every time that there's a news story, you know, if it's like the BLM story, I'll make the Kim Klasik ad, right?
And if there's like a bunch of left-wing Marxists on campus, you know, we can build turning point.
And if it's East Palestine, you know, you can go there and you can just hand people cash and like make them feel good.
And if there's nothing else to do, then you can just go take it and do an alternative.
It's give send, go.
You know, every time we do a give send, go, it's, it's about that.
Like, that's the point.
The point is like to give people who are frustrated and angry an alternate vision so they can feel good and like take that uh pressure to use that pressure release valve, turn the dial down, as you say.
And so, yeah, I mean, you're exactly right.
Like, and you, you're your toast, if you can't do that, if you can't present, like, how much more, how much more, how much lamer would this current zeitgeist be right now today if we hadn't done that halftime show?
If it had just been a bunch of like people saying, wow, like, you know, they can just do this to us and there's nothing else for us to do.
We're going to boycott the NFL, please, you know, like that.
Yeah, I wish, I wish NFL fans were strong enough to like to stand up and like say, we won't, we, we will burn our gear.
We'll be, we're done with our teams, you know, we, we, like, we're finished here, but until we crack into that, like, the best we can possibly do is show the alternative.
I mean, use this opportunity, use this opportunity to call on the NFL fans.
Like, how much more of this humiliation ritual can you take?
You know, I'm not, I'm not behind the doors in Congress, and I don't know what the political calculus is, but I know that obviously, fundamentally, any like core principle that increases accountability and rule of law and fairness in America is going to be overwhelmingly supported by the mass majority of people, as is every election integrity measure.
You know, we've covered this with you in the past.
Everybody thinks the elections are stolen.
Most people think the machines are connected to the internet.
Everybody wants voter ID.
And it's like this was the this was the Trump that had the elections stolen from him such that it even changed his movement's news consumption patterns, right?
Like everybody dumped cable on November 3rd, 2020.
And it's like politically, anything around election integrity is the lowest hanging fruit that Republicans could ever be offered.
Vastly bipartisan, you know, the zeitgeist of reforming a broken system.
And it's like, if we can't even do this, like I don't want to be too cynical and black pilled and stuff about this.
Like there's an aspect of Donald Trump has not been handling the Republican Party correctly and has diluted his endorsement and hasn't been building a pro-MAGA Republican Party like it he could have potentially.
And that I look at your elected Republican leaders and I say, well, most of them will just ditch MAGA as soon as they can because they're just looking for whatever like sort of cynical short-term trend that they can hitch their wagon to in order to increase fundraising.
And that's negative, but I try to give Trump like a positive path forward, which is like, hey, like back in November, again, very like the what, the what do we do should not be hard.
Brutal, visible government reform and restore the American middle class through economic populism.
Like those are the two targets.
Very big, very easy to hit at, right?
But it's like when you're fighting with your own party, people don't think you're aiming at the target.
They think you're shooting somewhere else, right?
And so the goal is like, how can Trump partner with the Republican Party in order to like get big wins that don't fix things everything, right?
But that show that there's two hands on that dial turning the temperature down.
That's what America wants to see.
Trump and Republicans with both hands turning that dial in the correct direction.
And this is the biggest and best opportunity.
And there has to be a case made.
And again, like fighting with the Republicans visibly outside where everybody can see it is not like this stuff with fighting with, like, I want the filibuster nuke just as much as anybody else, if not more.
I've been calling for it forever and I don't care what the Democrats are going to do with it.
When you nuke the filibuster and pass the laws Americans want, the point is that then they vote for you again.
And so the idea of Democrats using the nuked filibuster against America shouldn't even be part of the discussion.
And by bringing it up, you're telling us all like that you're not going to do what we all want you to do, right?
But it's like we can't have these fights out in the public.
And it's like, if there, if there's a conservative at all, if there's a person at all within Jon Thune and Mike Johnson who care about the future of this country and winning, then they need to get at least one win like this.
Just show us you can do it.
America's, it's literally like the Sheila Bouffe meme, like just do it.
Like, and they will be punished 100%.
They will be punished.
And I'm telling you right now, America is rebelling on Donald Trump, not because they don't like what he's doing.
They want him to do more.
And we just saw it, like the numbers out today.
When you come up, we just asked, is America going to remember Joe Biden as a good president or as a bad president?
And people say bad president, 47 to 38.
But then we say, is Donald Trump better than or worse than Joe Biden?
And 56% of America says the same or worse than Joe Biden.
And so, again, this is the guy that won with maybe not potentially a mandate, but a mandate for his platform.
And every single thing that he's promised is significantly more popular than Donald Trump is.
We just have to do that.
And I mean, a vision of the future.
Fighting with the Republican Party viscerally, visibly in the near term to get long-term wins doesn't paint a compelling vision of the future of Republican conservative governance.
That's the catch-22.
That's the situation we're in.
And that's how Trump's got to figure out how to figure out how to do that with leadership.
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Jelaine Maxwell expected to invoke her Fifth Amendment in congressional deposition.
She will be deposing.
She won't be a bowl of empty chips.
Or maybe she will.
Maybe that is what taking the Fifth Amendment looks like.
Also, Bill Clinton trying to reneg on going and testifying before Congress.
Very unique and interesting.
Very unique and interesting story here.
Let me just grab that.
Jelene Maxwell pleads the fifth House Oversight Epstein investigation.
This is supposed to happen today.
Let's go ahead and read this breaking article from seconds ago.
The congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hits the latest snag on Monday morning.
Epstein's longtime associate, Jelaine, Ghislaine, declined to comment or answer any questions and sworn deposition.
That's strange because she sat for days with Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general.
Maxwell now serving a 20-year sentence for her part in Epstein's trafficking scheme, invoked her Fifth Amendment right over video from a prison camp in Texas.
This is, by the way, a camp that she was moved to.
It's like a luxury camp in Texas.
No explanation as to why she was moved there.
Months after she'd been subpoenaed by the House Oversight, a copy of Maxwell's lawyer's opening statements obtained by Politico, David Oscar Marcus, reiterated the grant of clemency would facilitate her testimony, a power only Donald Trump can bestow.
He's not ruled out issuing a pardon.
Only she can provide the complete account.
Some may not like what she has to hear, but the truth matters, according to Marcus in prepared remarks.
For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing.
Mrs. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.
He also noticed some of Maxwell's legal proceedings were still ongoing.
Democrats accused Maxwell of using the deposition as part of a campaign for clemency from Trump.
House Oversight Comer told reporters he did not believe Maxwell should be granted clemency.
Unfortunately, she had an opportunity today to answer questions that every American has, questions about what would be important, and she chose to invoke her fifth.
A lot of people thought that it wouldn't be a success.
But ladies and gentlemen, it was.
And it was a success because of you.
And now the chances of Bad Bunny having the most viewed Super Bowl halftime in YouTube has cratered and collapsed beyond repair.
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