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Alright, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
It is Friday!
I'm doing good, Dan.
Doing good, buddy.
Everybody loves Friday.
I finally, finally have somewhat of a weekend off.
I'll be on Judge Jeanine Saturday night, Fox & Friends tomorrow morning.
For those of you who want to check that out.
But Sunday, I think, finally, I have nothing to do, which is amazing.
Paul and I have been traveling, it seems like forever.
We were just laughing with each other last night.
Feels like we haven't had a day.
It's been months, which is great.
It's good to be busy.
Keeps you frosty.
But today is one of the more stacked News Fridays we've had in a long time.
A tremendous amount of breaking news yesterday, man.
So let's not waste any time.
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I think I got that right that time.
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You remember that movie?
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We'll just have one.
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One of the best movies ever, old school.
That poor guy when they're doing the test and they wrap the rope around, and the brick falls through the manhole cover.
One of the greatest scenes ever in movie history.
I almost vomited on myself, it was so funny.
Okay, on a serious note, I was sitting in the gym yesterday, breaking news.
We had, you know, the ABC and everyone broke in, but Trump was making statements about what happened with Iran.
For those of you who missed the story, it was an important story.
The Iranians decided, bizarrely, or someone in the Iranian chain of command, someone that's still kind of open for interpretations, according to some of the comments we heard from Trump yesterday, decided, bizarrely, it would be a good idea to attack one of our Global Hawk drones.
Now, the Iranians, of course, have a different story than everyone else.
They're known for lying.
But this is a big drone.
It had the wingspan of a 737.
The Wall Street Journal has covered this story and everyone else pretty extensively.
Folks, I want you to be wary of the news coverage of this up to this point.
There was a leak that came out, and I'm using the dreaded air quotes for leaks, that there was going to be a response to this drone.
The drone was unmanned.
Um, it was, uh, obviously an attack on our, our military equipment.
It was a hundred plus million dollar drone.
This wasn't one of these quadcopter things.
People go flying around, you know, neighborhoods to try to like, uh, you know, deliver Amazon products.
This was a 130, I think, plus million dollar drone with the wingspan of a 737.
So there was a leak that came out that said that Donald Trump had basically ordered an attack and 10 minutes prior, according to a leak, the people who were at the meeting had called off the attack.
Folks, a couple of things on this.
We're going to move on because I have a really stacked news day.
Number one, I would be very cautious about the Joe leak.
I think this is President Trump sending a signal.
I think this was an intentional leak, which means it's not a leak at all.
You get what I'm saying?
Like, hey, someone leaked we were going to knock the snot out of the Iranians, and you're lucky I called it off with 10 minutes to go.
You see where I'm going with this, right?
I think, Trump, I am not an interventionist.
I'm also a realist when it comes to our national defense.
The Iranians are mortal enemies of ours, but are the Iranians right now at this point an existential threat to the United States worthy of an all-scale, full-scale war?
The answer, I believe, to that is no.
I believe a measured response.
Which President Trump clearly engaged in yesterday is appropriate.
I believe the calling off of the attack, Joe, was a clear signal to the Iranians that if this starts to escalate and cost human lives, remember the drone was unmanned.
Again, not that that makes this any kind of a, you know, permissible act.
Right.
But clearly the loss of human life is unworkable.
There will be no rapprochement of that.
But I believe this was Trump sending a signal.
So takeaway number one, I don't believe this was a leak.
This was one of those leaks.
Iranians, you're lucky we called this thing off.
Secondly, you know, I find it ironic, Joe, that Trump continues to be painted by this TDS level six, in fact, level six, the highest level of Trump derangement syndrome infection, as we well know, listeners of the show.
I find it interesting that they keep attacking Trump as this deranged, out-of-control lunatic in the White House, and yet his response on foreign policy seems, Joe, to be clearly measured and proportional to what went on.
Agreed.
Certainly, Joe, measured and pro- Right?
Don't you?
Yeah, I do.
I agree.
Measured and pro- We didn't coordinate this before and say, Joe, you know, agree with me to make me sound smart.
Measured and proportional are certainly not the intellectual hallmarks of a madman.
If Donald Trump was the madman the media pretended him to be, you know, a tactical nuke would have been dropped on Tehran today.
That's not what happened.
According to the leaks, President Trump was given word that the strike they were considering engaging in On radar facilities and others in Iran, in response to the taking down of our global hawk drone, was going to cost 150 lives.
Now this supposed madman, President Trump, Joe, was not okay with that.
And said, no, we're not going to do that.
I think that's disproportionate to what happened.
I mean, is the media going to acknowledge maybe their, you know, analysis of his mental state is completely wrong?
Does he sound like a madman?
Remember with the North Korean diplomacy when he threatened over Twitter Kim Jong-un and we finally got him to the table?
I'm not suggesting that problem is even remotely solved.
I'm just saying, oh, President Trump's crazy tweeting Kim Jong-un.
Then a couple months later, he's at the table negotiating with him.
These are not the hallmarks of a madman.
These are hallmarks of a guy that clearly understands deal-making and is not eager to plunge the United States into another war because of the downing of a drone.
Iran is very dangerous.
This country hates us.
They are unquestionably global sponsors of terror.
But let's be realistic right now.
War matters!
And you know, I always appreciate the books of Nassim Taleb, who wrote the book, The Black Swan, that I love, and I know Joe's come to grow on Joe too.
It's growing.
But he has a book also called, yeah, it's a great book.
He has a book recently put out called Skin in the Game, where it's very easy for people in the national security infrastructure to make decisions about the lives of other human beings when their skin is not in the game.
Send them to war!
Really?
You want to go to war over a downed drone?
It's a big deal.
No question.
We have sanctions going on.
We have other things to do, and I'll get to that in a second.
But it's not your skin in the game.
It's an 18, 19-year-old, 20-year-old American patriot who raised his right hand to defend this country that could come home in a body bag.
You ready for that?
You want to send your kid?
I appreciate a measured, proportionate, rational response.
And you should, too.
Thank God Trump handled it the way he did.
And I don't believe that was a leak.
Now, you may say, okay, great to talk about it.
Well, what would you do?
Well, as you know, Eli Lake points out in Bloomberg today, and there are other options here, folks.
Right now, we are limited in cyber attacks on the Iranians, Joe.
We are limited to striking their nuclear and ballistic missile facilities.
Cyber attacks, meaning sending corrupt virus-type cyber intrusions into their system to shut them down.
Things that have been done before, notably with the centrifuge problem the Iranians had to try to work into their nuclear program.
Now, we could expand that to include cyber attacks, doubling down on sanctions, but cyber attacks on their military computer infrastructure as well.
They're not equipped to handle the awesome power the United States Cyber Command basically dismantled.
We could take their military offline probably in a few weeks.
We have other options.
I appreciate that President Trump has taken a measured approach to this.
You know, Joe, one last thing and I want to move on.
We've discussed this before on the show and I think it's critical that we discuss it again because it's interesting how people paint me and others because I'm a conservative and a libertarian.
Screw them, who cares about the label?
You know, you guys, you conservatives, you're all, you know, fake tough guys.
Fake?
What are you talking about?
Fake tough guys?
I think having been exposed to violence in the street as a cop and, you know, growing up and training in things myself and experiencing violence on myself and having lost an uncle in Vietnam, I'd changed my entire family's entire trajectory.
I have a tragic appreciation, and I mean that, for what the effects of real world violence are.
If you come into this show to expect some guy to go, you know, kill them all, nuke them, you got the wrong show.
That's not this show.
And I don't know where you got that from.
But I just find it funny that liberal media types who love to attack me and the show constantly paint us that way because they've never actually listened.
I appreciate the fact that Trump finally, we have a guy in the White House who understands proportionality and a measured response, but a response that needs to happen.
They will figure something out.
Cyber, sanctions, and if it does start to cost American lives and they attack, which they have, they have engaged in and sponsored terror attacks before.
Let's not be, you know, let's not be blind to that either.
These are not our friends and never will be.
But how many more American lives are we gonna put on?
You know, what is that line that Talib talks about in his book all the time?
With the Spartans.
You know, you come back, you know, with your shield or on it.
Yeah, with your shield or on it, yeah.
You know, because the cowards used to drop their shield and run, and then the heroes would be brought, their bodies would be back on their shields.
But that time, I don't believe, is now.
And I'm glad for a proportionate response.
I'm glad we have President Trump being very reasonable about this.
Okay, let's move on.
Ladies and gentlemen, by the way, stay tuned please for the end of the show because there's a very important story I want to discuss at the end.
The Wall Street Journal has a piece, I'll get to this later, but the Journal has a piece about why China.
I know I don't do a lot of foreign policy in the show, but these are two big stories.
Obviously Iran and this China story I found fascinating.
China stole upwards of 80 million medical records and it's been a big mystery as to why up till now.
Stay tuned to the end of the show because this is a fascinating story.
It's really going to open your eyes about what they may be doing in the United States.
Why steal medical records?
Stay tuned.
Okay.
Big, big win in the Supreme Court yesterday for religious freedom.
Joe, not too far from you down in Blainsburg, Maryland.
Yes.
Joe knows this story well.
This has been all when he was at the radio station.
This has been a big story in Maryland where I lived for many years, where Joe lives now and has been in radio forever.
There is a World War I memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland.
It's a big cross.
It's been up forever.
Forever.
Of course, Joe.
It's been there since Joe's been alive.
It was there the whole time I was there.
Of course, the liberal media snowflake crowd, the liberal SJW social justice warriors, always looking for a reason to be offended, saw this on public land, and of course they had to sue.
Yes.
I don't get this endless search for victim.
I don't get it.
It's not my life.
I happen to be Christian.
I am not remotely offended by symbols of Judaism or symbols of Islam or Buddhism.
I don't know.
I honestly just don't care.
I just don't care.
It's not that I don't care about it.
I just don't care!
I have my own life, my own kids, my own issues, my own religion, my own faith.
I am not offended by the fact that the country's represented by various factions and people who believe in different spiritual ways of life and different religions.
Great!
Why do these people care?
So bottom line is, because they're snowflakes and they're seeking endless victimhood status, somebody sued and said, we cannot have that cross on public lands.
Again, this has been ongoing in Maryland forever, but now it's become a national story because the case went to the Supreme Court.
And let me just tell you, the Snowflakes dropped a huge L. Big loss for the social justice warrior crowd who find a reason to be offended by everything.
Daily Signal, yes.
The Daily Signal has the best piece.
Thomas Chipping.
Seven justices split five ways in deciding Peace Cross doesn't have to go.
This will be up in the show notes today up on Gino.com.
I'd appreciate if you read it.
It's a very good piece.
But from the inside of the piece, I want to applaud Again, another huge victory by President Trump on the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, who has been incredible, because Gorsuch sees it as it should be every single time.
In the Gorsuch opinion, from the Daily Signal piece, and I quote, Gorsuch argued that being an, quote, offended observer, Joe, you know, in other words, a victim, should not be enough to challenge something like a memorial or a display as an establishment of religion.
In a large and diverse country, he wrote, this is the great, I love Gorsuch.
I love this guy.
This is a quote from Gorsuch's response.
In a large and diverse country, quote, offense can be easily found, but recourse for disagreement and offense does lie in federal litigation.
In other words, you can find offense anywhere.
It's got to be some kind of concrete offense.
The fact that you look at a Jewish star or a Christian cross on public land, Or whatever, a Quran in a public prison or whatever it may be.
Just because you're offended doesn't mean the whole world has to stop.
There are avenues for it.
We're not pulling everything down.
And the whole country does not have to be entirely secular because you seek victimhood status and manage to be offended by everything.
I love Gorsuch.
Show us a...
Show us a concrete offense, Joe.
In other words, that you're not a social justice warrior and that you've lost money, you were physically harmed.
Well, I can't prove any of that.
Okay, then beat it.
You lose.
Sorry.
We don't have to rip down every single sign Of spirituality and religion in our country because every single social justice warrior out there wants to wipe any kind of remnant of religion free from the country.
Show us a concrete offense or move along!
Now there were a number of other different interpretations and different legal readings of the reasons they voted the way they did.
Hence the Daily Signal piece which is short and sweet.
It's worth your time because there were other readings of it.
My humble opinion And ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate a lot of feedback, but you don't have to be a lawyer to read them.
You know, I appreciate a lot of the lawyers who respond to me provide really key insights.
Their expertise is invaluable, but you don't have to be a lawyer to read the clear intent of the constitution.
A cross on public land that's been standing there forever and caused no material harm to anyone is clearly not the government establishing a religion.
That's just common sense.
I'm sorry.
You don't need to be, you know, a lawyer with a JD to figure that out.
Gosh, it's just common sense.
Way to know.
Exactly!
Exactly!
Alright, I gotta get to this next story.
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I think she's more of the moderate Republican class.
That's not my bag of donuts.
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All right, moving on.
So, this NBC reporter tries to bait Condi Rice into attacking Donald Trump on race, and it does really, really doesn't end well at all for the NBC reporter.
Play that cut.
There are people who will say it feels worse now when we're talking about race or it just feels like a divisive environment.
It sure doesn't feel worse than when I grew up in Jim Crow, Alabama.
Okay, so let's drop this notion that we're worse at race relations today than we were in the past.
Really?
That means we've made no progress?
Really?
And so, I think the hyperbole about how much worse it is isn't doing us any good.
We still, this country is never going to be colorblind.
We had the initial, original sin of slavery.
It's still with us.
So for people who say, you know what, it's top down.
It starts with the president.
It starts with the words that he speaks.
Oh, come on.
All right.
I would be the first to say we need to watch our language about race.
We need to watch that we don't use dog whistles to people who... But when we start saying, oh, you know, it's worse today.
No, they're not.
No, no I didn't.
It's worse today.
You know how, one, do you know how, and listen, I'm not a snowflake, but do you know how insensitive that is to say that race relations are worse today?
Condi Rice, who of course is black, that's not a mystery to anybody, Condi Rice grew up in the Jim Crow South and you're suggesting to her that in the year 2019 race relations are worse than She's gotta be looking at you like, come again?
Is this a serious interview?
Are you trying to do a misguided, insensitive comedy set?
Is this a joke?
Folks, again, it's just more nonsense.
I don't need to banter on this.
I just wanted to play it to show you that There is this effort by supposed journalists and media types, I say supposed with the air quotes because they're not, by people at NBC and elsewhere, to create a gaslighting effect in this false narrative, this false narrative that race relations are worse, that Donald Trump, you notice she says, Joe, here's the poke in the prod for Condi Rice, but doesn't it start top down?
In other words, isn't Donald Trump making everybody racist?
It's gaslighting, remember gaslighting.
Invent a narrative.
A false one.
So the false narrative is Donald Trump is a racist and the country's becoming racist because of him, right?
It's completely made up, fabricated nonsense, right?
Yeah.
Repeat it over and over, which we know the media does, Joe.
We report on it probably once a week, a new media attempt to get this false, gaslit narrative out there.
So this is gaslighting.
Invent a narrative, repeat it confidently over and over.
Alright, Donald Trump topped out.
And then prevent the truth from getting out there.
Isolate people from the truth.
The reason this worked with Condi Rice is because Condi Rice stopped it right away.
Right away.
She basically dismisses the nonsense of the premise of the question out of hand and makes the interviewer look really silly, which she did.
That was just really dumb.
Yeah, it's such a stupid question.
How about the famous some people device?
Remember that at the head of the question?
Oh, I love that!
Some people are saying.
Some people are saying.
Now, a lot of people do that.
Trump does that sometimes too.
But Trump will do it about issues and current issues.
Who knows if some people say that.
But that is a clearly, clearly invented.
Some people, like who?
People in your newsroom?
No one else is saying that.
Nobody.
No one at a Trump rally is saying racist stuff.
It's you people in the new room.
Knuckleheads.
So dopey.
All right, like I said, yesterday was a monster news day, so I'm moving fast through these stories because it's Friday.
I don't want to leave you dangling in the wind here.
PJ Media.
Covering ABC of all people.
You know, I was just knocking NBC, but I couldn't believe it, Joe.
ABC finally, finally reporting on Joe Biden and his ethical issues in Ukraine.
Now, look at this.
PJ Media will be up in the show notes by Debra Hine.
Hey now!
Media knives come out.
ABC, yes, I'm reading this right.
ABC hits Joe Biden and son's suspect dealings in Ukraine and China.
Now, ABC here.
You're only, what Joe, two years too late on the story?
A little behind.
My second book, by the way, Exonerated, we're just wrapping it up.
It's, you know, hoping to get this thing out maybe a little early here.
We cover this at length, but we have been on the Joe Biden Ukraine story seemingly in perpetuity.
But listen, better late than never.
You may ask yourself, what happened?
I'll explain it to you.
But why is ABC reporting on this now?
Well, listen, I can't get in their heads, so granted, this is a fair amount of speculation, and forgive me for doing it, but I... I mean, I have to.
This story's been out there forever.
I mean, the Joe Biden visit to Ukraine...
When his son, after the visit, so Joe Biden as the vice president in 2014, a lot of you have heard this story so I'll just repeat it quickly.
Okay.
Joe Biden as the vice president is designated the point man by President Obama on the Ukrainian crisis.
In 2014, April of 2014, he takes a trip to Ukraine as the point man for the U.S.
government to defuse the power struggle that was going on there.
Okay?
Tracking?
Just days after that trip to Ukraine, Biden's son Hunter gets an appointment, a very lucrative appointment, to a Ukrainian natural gas company connected to some of the same Ukrainian-Russian insiders.
The company's called Burisma.
That company was later under investigation.
Folks, this is odd.
Biden's son, Hunter, again accompanies Biden over to China.
He was on Air Force Two with Biden, Vice President Biden.
All of a sudden, this company, he starts up.
Hunter Biden gets this lucrative deal with this Bank of China.
Folks, I thought foreign interference was a big deal.
Remember the Ukrainians, the same Ukrainians I cover in my first book, who are shuttling information through DNC operatives to attack Donald Trump?
Do you understand the hypocrisy of the mainstream media?
Again, I don't want to get overtly celebratory about ABC.
You're five years late to the story.
You know, two years late to some of the other stories that Spygate and you created.
But I thought ABC and others cared about foreign interference.
I'll expect you guys and ladies at ABC to hammer this thing until you get answers.
How did Joe Biden's kid Get a lucrative appointment to a Ukrainian natural gas company with zero, zero experience in natural gas, Hunter Biden, right after Biden goes to Ukraine to deal with the Ukrainians and their political crisis.
And just a couple of years later, some of the same Ukrainian people involved are shuttling information to the DNC to attack the Donald Trump campaign when he's running for office.
I thought foreign interference was worthy of a big special counsel.
Finally, ABC, you know, a little late to the story, but Tom Yamas from ABC tried to confront Biden and ask him questions about it, and of course Biden wouldn't answer the question.
Huh, man.
He ran.
You know, once again Biden got his hands all over this.
You know?
I just got that.
I just got that.
Well, I had to jump in.
You know, when you're around Biden, you gotta be—remember I did the jiu-jitsu segment on Fox & Friends show?
You need that wax on, wax off thing from the karate kid, remember?
Wax on, wax off.
Everybody forgets paint the fence, too.
Remember paint the fence?
Paint the fence.
Wax on, wax off.
Side to side.
Side to side.
Remember that one?
That's how you gotta be around Biden.
Mr. Miyagi, yeah, man.
The crane!
Remember the crane at the end?
That's how you gotta be around.
The guy is handsy.
He's a little handsy.
Right?
It's a little creepy, I gotta tell you.
Although, I prefer the nickname Floppy Joe.
Not so much creepy.
I like Floppy Joe.
Floppy Joe, he's a flip-flopper.
That's his thing, man.
Okay.
Again, a lot to get through today.
So, if we had a bunch of cabinets and open files on the show and things we needed to talk about that are important.
One of them, which we talk about a lot of the new rules, folks.
New rules.
The new rules are we as conservatives are going to fight back.
We are going to live morally and ethically in our private lives.
We are going to continue to take care of our families, go to church, synagogue, mosque, whatever you may do.
We will live by a moral code in our own lives.
We will live by the Budo code if we're, you know, if we're warriors out there, the samurai code.
But when it comes to politics, if you think we're going to try to take some kind of moral high road that doesn't exist while you all continue to attack us on the left, attack us, try to silence us, in many cases physically attack people, pro-lifers and others, people at Trump rallies, if you think we are going to allow that to happen without fighting back in our own ways, We're using political tactics.
You are nuts.
So if I had a cabinet file of Bongino stories entitled New Rules, I'd like to see some of our activists and politicians out there finally incorporating some of the strategies of the left into fighting back.
Now, there's two particular stories.
One's a little, um...
About you, more about you, and ones about political tactics being co-opted by the left and now used by the right.
First story is from Oregon.
Now I have been getting tons of emails, forgive me, I've just been stacked with other content.
Dan, we need your help in Oregon.
There's this Climate change legislation being rammed through by the liberals in their Congress, in their statehouse, and the governor, the liberal governor, that is going to basically decimate a lot of Oregon energy production businesses.
I've been trying to get to it, but I've been looking for an angle.
So Joe, Oregon Republican lawmakers, who are overwhelmed in their statehouse there, have decided that rather than voting on this bill, which is a climate change type bill, Joe, that's going to decimate Oregon business.
Okay, we clear on that?
Yeah, with you.
Do you remember in Wisconsin, When Scott Walker passed through the public sector union reforms, do you remember what the Democrats did?
This was a long time ago.
I think we may have covered it, I'm not even sure.
No, I was a Secret Service agent when that happened, I hadn't even left the job yet.
It's all the stuff blends in.
When Scott Walker pushed through state-level reforms, the governor of Wisconsin, the Democrat lawmakers, in an act at the time of a little bit of deviousness, what did they do?
In order to avoid a quorum, so they couldn't vote at all, Joe, the Democrat lawmakers jumped in their cars and fled the state.
Do you remember that story?
Yes, I do remember that.
Nobody could find them.
They were in the wind!
Yeah.
Casper, the not-so-friendly ghost, gone.
See you later.
You may say, well, what does that have to do with the Oregon story?
Well, somebody apparently learned a lesson, as we can see in this article in Oregon Live.
Nice job, Oregon lawmakers.
Oregon governor, who's a Democrat, by the way, sends the police to find missing Republicans and bring them back to the Capitol.
They were not good for you!
This crap piece of climate change legislation, which is going to bankrupt Oregon's economy, destroy their economy, destroy their energy production business, and basically is being run by a couple of liberals in Portland, foregoing the rest of the state.
The Republican lawmakers are like, hey, see you later, fellas.
We're out of here.
And one of the lawmakers is like, good luck finding me.
Stay gone.
I don't care.
I don't care one bit.
New rules.
We win, you lose.
Well that's not morally right.
It wasn't morally right when you did it either.
Right.
In Wisconsin.
So what?
Now you have an objection to it?
Now that the other side employs the same?
You don't want to use those tactics?
You think they're morally and ethically wrong?
You think they're devious as I said before?
Good, I do too.
Then stop doing them and we won't do them either.
But until then you can plant a big fat sloppy one you know where.
You wanna do it?
We're gonna do it too.
Well, it's not the right thing to do.
We should set an example.
Example for what?
We're living with a bunch of liberal tyrants up on the hill who think spying on American citizens and making concentration camp analogies, they think this is rational.
But let's take the high road.
There is no more high road, okay?
The high road.
You know where the high road goes?
Right off a cliff.
High road, my...
Try to keep the show family-friendly.
Well, maybe they need some other high road.
Maybe.
That's the highway they're talking about.
I'm slowly starting to catch on.
You know, I miss 90% of what you say.
The audience has to remind me later.
I'm starting to catch on a little bit.
So good for you, lawmakers in the state of Oregon.
Nice work.
Okay, story number two is not as hard-hitting, but again, makes a point.
I saw this tweet this morning, and you'd never think this would in any way be related to the Oregon story, but it's about Chick-fil-A.
It's a fascinating story.
Uh, not that one.
But nice job.
There's this tweet about Chick-fil-A.
Sorry, you get it.
We'll keep that.
Chick-fil-a, which has been boycotted by the left endlessly.
They have become, uh, what is it?
You know, the left can't meme and they're really terrible at jokes too.
The left, I think they call them hate chicken or something.
Every time I see a dopey tweet about hate chicken, I go to Chick-fil-A and order one of their chicken clubs
because it's just so dumb.
Chick-fil-A has managed to become, despite being closed on Sunday, the third biggest
fast food food chain in the entire country. Ladies and gentlemen, nice work by you all.
There we go. McDonald's number one, 38.5 billion. Starbucks number two, Chick-fil-A, 10.5 billion.
Thank you. Nice work for supporting a great company and showing the left that their boycotts
are absolutely terrific for business.
Nice work on the boycott.
Pretty soon, Chick-fil-A will be number one.
Showing you, listen, to all the advertisers and people out there too who believe the leftists.
It's all social media BS.
They have no real power.
The best thing for business is a leftist boycott.
Trust me on this.
There is nothing that turns out conservatives more to purchase your products than hearing that snowflake liberals are protesting it.
Nothing.
Can I quickly tell my Chick-fil-A story?
I've told this before.
You've heard this before, Joe, but when I was an instructor in the Secret Service Academy, we were teaching a surveillance class, and at Chick-fil-A at the time, this was back in, I don't know, 2003?
Chick-fil-A was only down South.
It wasn't up North.
So a lot of the Northerners who would come down and come to the Secret Service Academy in Maryland had never seen a Chick-fil-A.
It sounds crazy now because everybody knows Chick-fil-A, but back then it was the Southern thing.
So I'll never forget, I'm being in the car and I'm watching this surveillance exercise with these Secret Service agent trainees.
We just taught them how to do surveillance.
It's complicated.
You just follow someone around.
And this kid who's from up north, uh, man, he said, I hear him on the radio because we give them radios to communicate.
Now watching this, this actor, we play to be a bad guy.
And the actor walks into Chick-fil-A.
I think it was in Prince George's County somewhere.
He'd never seen a Chick-fil-A before.
He goes, the target's walking in the Chick-fil-A.
I had to stop.
I'm like, time out.
Stop the exercise.
I'm like, did you just call it the Chickafilla?
It was the funniest thing.
It was a smart kid too.
He just never seen it before.
Target's walking in the Chick-Fil-A.
Everybody was cracking up.
You know, you have to say actual stop, not stop.
You have to say actual stop in these exercises because it's anybody, someone could say stop as part of a regular conversation.
So I'm like, actual stop, actual stop.
I'm like, did you just call it the Chick-Fil-A?
It was the funniest thing I'd ever, you'd never seen a Chick-Fil-A before.
All right.
I'm going to get to this China thing.
I also want to get to a Michael Moore tweet too.
Uh, Michael Moore, this China story is going to blow your mind.
If this is true, what they're doing, everybody should perk up and get their, uh, get those antenna up a little bit.
You get it.
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You got me.
Yeah, I did.
I know I snuck up on you.
Okay.
This China story is interesting and it really piqued my interest.
I saw it in the Wall Street Journal and, you know, candidly folks, this should frighten everybody.
So back in 2015, there was a mass theft of medical records from Anthem, that company Anthem.
Most of you heard the story.
You may not remember the details, but it, when it was, remember that when it was attributed to China, Yeah, the intel community and a lot of insiders that I deal with, we're very curious as to why China may have been engaged in the mass theft of Americans' medical records.
Why do that?
Well, this piece in the journal, the title of it is, What Does Beijing Want With Your Medical Records?
By Christopher Porter and Brian Finch.
The 2015 anthem hack raises chilling questions about surveillance within America's borders.
Now, let's establish the premise first.
We know China, at home, Their home, not ours.
Within China, the Chinese government is, right now, involved in the creation of the biggest surveillance state in human history.
They have social scores, they're monitoring, within the piece it talks about the things they're doing at home in China, Joe.
Monitoring people's electricity usage, things like jaywalking, facial recognition technology in public, dating behavior, and you get this social credit score in China, which is, I mean, you wanna talk about Orwellian, So how they're measuring this social credit score?
Who knows?
I mean, are they are they levying fines against people who on a dating app or are gay?
Or who are engaged in multiple relationships at the same time?
I mean, these are serious questions.
Troubling questions, are they not?
Facial recognition cameras in public.
If you're going in a bar three nights a week and a camera catches you, is the Chinese surveillance state taking, you know, let's say a hundred, you're the perfect citizen.
Are you now being deducted ten points because you walked in a bar three nights a week?
Um, are you being deducted points because you walked in a fast food joint five nights a week and therefore you there's a what an obesity score?
Again, the dating stuff is incredibly troubling.
I mean, listen, I'm not suggesting any of this stuff is right or wrong.
I'm suggesting that the state monitoring it is completely wrong.
What if you're on a dating app and you're married?
Are you losing points for that?
Again, I'm not sanctioning that behavior, but the fact that the government could be monitoring this in China is really, really disturbing stuff.
We already know they're surveilling their own citizens' medical records as well.
Is the Chinese government, if you, you know, what if you're, uh, if you have hepatitis, is that, does that mean you're some, uh, you're going to, you're going to lose 15 points in your score because you're not a more valuable citizen?
What if you have HIV or some other, uh, they, are they going to use that against you as some kind of a, a political blackmail weapon, your medical records, exposing them to the public?
What if you have cancer and you're applying for a job?
What if the cancer is curable, but they don't think it's curable?
No, no, no, forget about that guy.
Don't give him a job.
He could die in a few years.
Folks, these are serious questions.
This is also the reason where I have been, I hope to you, I hope it comes across that way because it's authentic, a consistent voice for the libertarian side of the Republican Party against government surveillance.
The Spygate story bothers me, candidly, not because it's about Donald Trump.
Yeah, that's awful, I agree, but I've always said to you, it's not Trumpgate, it's Spygate.
It bothers me because it speaks to the concentrated power of the United States government being levied against a free American citizen to spy on them.
The fact that it was Trump is incidental.
The fact that it happened is the story.
If it happened to Obama, it'd be equally troubling.
Right.
That's why this story's fascinated me and written two books about it for the last two years.
The fact that supposed liberal Democrats are in trouble by this, do you see how the slippery slope could lead to scenarios like we have in China now with the world's biggest surveillance state?
So getting back to the medical records angle, because this is really disturbing, troubling stuff.
We didn't know why they did that.
But the authors of the piece think that it's possible that the Chinese government show may be engaging in a mass-coordinated effort to develop a similar type surveillance system on us.
They talk about how some of this Chinese technology, some of their cameras, some of their Wireless transmission devices.
Let me read this from the piece.
This is fascinating.
Thanks for pulling it up.
Chinese citizens have long been carefully monitored in all aspects of their lives.
This is from the WSJ piece.
In recent years, Beijing has supplemented its internal spying with high-tech methods, such as culling data from digitized personal records, medical records, and surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition software.
Beijing examines all data, all data, passing through popular phone apps and even looks for, quote Joe, abnormal electricity consumption among citizens.
There's evidence that China, listen to this, folks, this should ring your bell.
There's evidence that China is quietly deploying these same surveillance tools and analytics in America.
Consider the presence of millions of surveillance cameras made by state-backed Chinese manufacturers like Hikvision.
Let me propose to you a scenario to make this real.
Analogies always work.
People think in narratives.
They think in stories.
People don't always think in discriminated data points and facts.
They think in stories.
Stories make more sense.
Imagine you're an intelligence officer in the United States.
CIA, DIA, NSA, it doesn't matter.
You have access to classified data the Chinese need.
The Chinese have hacked 80 million medical records from Anthem and have some kind of a vision, a listening device in one of the computers or something, or an app.
They may have some kind of a Trojan or something planted in an app.
They find out, you're an intelligence officer, you haven't committed any crimes, but some of your behavior, like every human being, you're a sinner like everyone else, you know, maybe you're involved in a relationship you shouldn't be involved in online, not criminal, I'm not suggesting it's morally inappropriate, but not criminal.
Let's say in your social media you've made some comments in the past, you know, maybe an insensitive, again nothing illegal, you didn't threaten anybody, but maybe some political comments you think that you shouldn't have made, So, let's say the Chinese surveillance state gets a hold of your medical records, also, and in your medical records, again, they find out you have some medical condition that may be curable, but may impact your job later on, you don't want anybody in the public to know about.
Obviously, no one wants their medical history out there.
Do you think it's just possible, just possible, that the Chinese are aggregating this data to be used later for purposes like that, for blackmail?
Oh no, a communist surveillance state would never do that.
Are you sure?
Really deeply disturbing stuff, folks.
We're involved right now in the next industrial revolution.
The tech revolution is the industrial revolution of our time.
Clearly, we all have to, with the industrial revolution, there were problems.
It was child labor, black lung, you know, people were killed in industrial accidents at rates we've now, forget it, be a front page story every day.
But this is all stuff with the evolution of technology that's going to become a growing problem in the future for big, empowered, concentrated state interests.
Now do you understand, hearing the China story, why the Spygate story is not about Trump?
He is a victim of it.
It is a bigger story we should all care about.
But leftist liberal hacks and their media sycophants don't care because the story damages the Democrats' brand because they were the key players in the spying operation.
I don't care you vote, vote for who you want.
Media people, you will continue to cover for the Democrats anyway.
But it is time you called BS on this because this is what happens in this new big tech atmosphere.
We constantly have our constitutional republic and our privacy rights eroded away because people in China, they have the ability to do it and if nobody speaks out, they just keep going and going and going.
You know, you want to see what can happen?
I've been reading, I love this book.
It's one of the greatest books ever.
Did you ever read the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn?
It's big, as you can tell.
This is actually one of the abridged versions of it.
It's the most amazing book you'll ever read about what happens with concentrated state power when it's completely unchecked.
It's Solzhenitsyn's story of the gulags in Russia.
How hundreds of thousands, millions of people were round up for no reason at all.
They had quotas on rounding people up.
Quotas.
That guy.
Why?
Because he's a librarian.
So what?
He checked out a book once and the book was about capitalism.
Go get him!
Throw him in the gulag!
He tells these stories about the gulags that are so disturbing.
This is real, it's not fiction.
About how, Joe, there would be snow on the ground in the gulag and they'd take the prisoners out to do their business, if you know what I mean?
Uh-huh.
And it would be so- the white snow was so polluted with human waste that there was nowhere to even stand to do your thing again!
They couldn't even walk around!
Right.
How they- they were stuffed five and six in a prison cell for one or two, so when they slept on the cold concrete floors, they would all have to turn at one time at night because there was no room.
Oh, don't worry.
This has never happened.
This didn't happen that long ago.
Look at the date on the cover of the book.
1918 to 1956.
This wasn't 72,000 years ago.
Gosh, I'm not worried about state power.
The government's a positive force for good.
Really?
Is it?
You sure?
That's not what human history seems to indicate, folks.
All right, moving on.
He's very passionate about this story, as you can probably tell.
Two more quick things I want to get to.
Michael Moore is finally recognized.
Michael Moore.
You know Michael Moore?
Liberal.
You know, liberal.
It's a lot of Michael Moore.
Michael Moore, as you did some of those movies about, you know, he's an anti-capitalist guy.
He doesn't like economic freedom.
Even Moore is starting to recognize that energy on campaigns matter.
This Orlando rally, ladies and gentlemen, has scared the H.E.
double hockey sticks out of liberals.
Moore himself, he's at M.M.
Flint on Twitter.
Again, this is the biggest lib out there.
This guy hates Donald Trump.
He tweeted this out.
He said, I watched the whole thing last night, talking about Trump's Orlando rally, which was packed.
I know no one wants to waste that kind of time even looking at him, but not wanting to see the enormity of the fight ahead doesn't just make it go away.
He's talking about Trump here, obviously.
He hasn't lost one inch of his fired-up, insane base.
More tweets, finally.
Are you ready?
Ladies and gentlemen, the liberals are starting to recognize that energy matters.
Again, I'm trying to stay out of the predictions game.
I am a supporter of the president's conservative policies.
You know that.
I think he's been excellent on foreign policy too.
I am obviously going to be voting for him.
That's no mystery on this show.
Energy matters, ladies and gentlemen.
Showing up matters.
Showing up at rallies matters.
Showing up at liberal activists, excuse me, to combat liberal activists, when they show up at the Supreme Court matters.
Showing up to protest in D.C.
matters.
Showing up to vote matters.
Showing up at rallies matters.
Showing up at your local Republican club matters.
Showing up matters.
Energy matters.
It's contagious.
I discussed it yesterday and the day before on the show.
But Michael Moore and the liberals are finally starting to recognize that the Trump base is to steal a line from Obama.
Fired up!
Ready to go!
Fired up!
Yes, they are ready to go.
Yeah.
And remember that?
That was Obama's thing.
But those 20,000 people that showed up and the 100,000 more who were on a waiting list, remember, they will go out, they will give their information over to the Trump team.
Again, I don't mean your private information, I mean your voter information.
Please do that, folks.
Sign up for their email lists.
Sign up on their Twitter.
It saves the Republican campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump's campaign, the money of having to find you and pay to find you.
Go there.
It is an act.
If you're uncomfortable surrendering your address and your phone number for text, I get it.
That's fine.
I'm just telling you the Trump team isn't going to have to pay to go out and get it.
Go to their website.
Do their thing.
Get on their email list.
Get on your local Republican candidate for senators list.
Not just limited to Trump.
Your congressman, your state delegates, your state reps.
Go give them the information.
Get on their email list.
You don't have to give them your credit card number, your mother's maiden name.
Let them find you.
I know it's annoying.
I get it.
I ran for office and I vote all the time.
I know it's annoying the robocalls and other stuff.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know what's more annoying?
Losing your country to a bunch of socialist lunatics.
That's more annoying.
And that energy you see that Michael Moore and the liberal left is starting to recognize, that energy you see is starting to scare them.
And I don't think that energy is going to be matched by floppy Joe, Elizabeth Warren, and crazy Bernie Sanders.
I don't.
I just don't see it.
These are not exciting candidates.
These violate every rule of identity politics the left has ever tried to instill in America.
You're gonna nominate the old white dude, Joe Biden?
I thought you said old white dudes were the problem.
No, not Joe Biden!
Okay, kind of hypocritical, no?
Energy matters.
Folks, please, commit to the 10-10-10 program.
10 emails, 10 phone calls, 10 social media posts a month until the election to your friends.
Commit to that and we will win this election again in 2020.
Action matters, folks.
Talk is cheap.
I've been there.
I gave up my job to run for office.
I do not speak with forked tongue.
Please.
Ten, ten, and ten.
Ten emails, ten phone calls, ten social media posts a month until this campaign ends.
And don't just limit it to President Trump, either.
As I said, senators, congressmen, we've gotta win.
All right, one last story.
Sorry to Paula, I always throw the show out of line.
But I do want to cover this quickly.
Fox Business has an interesting story up about the continued tax exodus.
I told you about this repeatedly.
It's been a constant theme on my show.
Fox Business has a great story.
I'll put it up in the show notes.
Ladies and gentlemen, people are fleeing en masse.
The moving trucks are They are getting very expensive to rent, getting out of liberal states, California and New York.
People are engaged in a massive tax exodus.
Joe, we've even seen it in Maryland, where I lived and Joe lives now.
Where are they going, ladies and gentlemen?
They're going to low-tax states like Florida and Texas.
Again, hammering home my point, and I'll leave it at this, that liberals are hypocrites completely.
When it comes to tax policy, they want you to be taxed, but when taxes hit them in their big government home states like California and New York, what do they do?
They fire up the U-Haul and they move to low-tax states like the great state of Florida, where I live and I love, and places like Texas.
They're frauds.
All I ask is please don't bring your liberal garbage policies down here to Florida.
Leave them up in NYC.
Don't bring them down here.
We don't need it.
This is a great state, and so is Texas.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
I really appreciate it.
It was another great week of shows.
You all really knocked it out of the park.
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