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Biden can't even remember if he took a cognitive test.
What?
You can't remember if you took a test if you can remember.
Can you remember things?
Let's take a test.
Did you take a test?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I got that.
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There's some back and forth on that as well.
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At least the bell worked.
We got so many moving parts in this big studio now, right?
Good job.
Positive sign.
Thank you, Paul and Joe, for feverishly working to get us up relatively on time.
All right, let's get right to it first.
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden has entirely lost it.
Again, I hate to keep bringing this up because I don't like to repeat content or stories, but literally the content just keeps coming every day.
Literally, there is a new video showing up every day.
Of Joe Biden who can't even remember now and is changing his story if he took a test, a cognitive test on his ability to remember things.
Can you imagine the irony?
Joe, we need you to take a test, Mr. Biden, um, to see if your cognitive abilities are there, what your, you know, your, uh, ability to, to, um, to get information, to remember information, to store information, to retrieve it.
And he can't even remember if he took the test.
Listen to this video.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is another Joe Biden word salad.
When asked by an interviewer if he took the cognitive test, he does what he always does.
He gets upset, he gets angry, which by the way is a sign of some serious cognitive decline.
Again, it gives me no joy in pointing this out.
I'm not kidding.
It would be immoral for me to poke fun at this.
I'm not pointing it out because I think it's not funny at all.
It's actually quite tragic.
I'm pointing it out to you because you're about to make a decision about who's going to carry the nuclear football, who is going to determine your economic livelihood with tax rates in the next four years.
You're going to give it to a guy who can't even remember if he took a memory test?
Here's a video, I want you to pay attention to two things.
Number one, how easily Biden gets angry at people when they ask him a question he doesn't like.
He just loses it.
Secondly, Biden has a number of tricks someone taught him when he forgets mid-sentence what he's doing.
I pointed out one yesterday.
Where he calls something, if he forgets it, like when he was talking about either the Bill of Rights or he's talking about the War Powers Act.
When he forgets what he's talking about, he calls it the thing.
There's another trick he does.
You'll see here, Joe.
Watch, pay close attention to this video.
Well, you've seen it already, but you audience, you'll get the hint.
When he feels like he's going to forget where he's going, he says, he either uses his trick, he goes, I'm going to stop here, or I'm not going to say it because he makes up some reason.
He's only saying that because he forgot what he was going to say.
Watch him do it in this interview and pay attention to how easily he gets angered.
Check this out.
Have you taken a cognitive test?
No, I haven't taken a test.
Why the hell would I take a test?
Come on, man.
That's like saying you, before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.
What do you think, huh?
Are you a junkie?
What do you say to President Trump who brags about his tests and makes your member state an issue for voters?
If he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don't know what the hell he's talking about.
Did you watch that?
Look, come on, man.
I know you're trying to goad me, but I mean, I'm so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates.
There's gonna be plenty of time.
And by the way, as I joke with him, you know, I shouldn't say it.
I'm going to say something I probably shouldn't say.
Anyway, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical as well as my mental fitness.
Folks, I'm not kidding.
It's not funny.
This is not a laughing matter.
This is what we would call an Psychology and psychiatry.
You'd call basically like word salads.
Disjointed words thrown together to resemble a sentence when he loses himself.
Did you catch him do it, Joe, by the way?
Halfway through where he's trying to talk about him versus Trump and their mental capacities.
He gives this elephant-lion analogy, which is I didn't even know what he was talking about.
And then as he's giving this analogy and trying to make sense of it, he forgets what he's talking about.
And he goes, Oh, I was going to say something, but I'm not going to say it.
And he just totally just loses it.
He just drops off.
It's a word.
It's just made up.
It's a bunch of sentences thrown together that make no sense because he has no coherent thought train going down a track.
It goes in all these different directions because he can't focus.
He can't focus.
You're expecting him to make decisions about the economy, healthcare, potential nuclear war.
You're expecting him to do it.
You know what a word salad is?
You know, I like toast.
Lemonade's great on Sundays.
That chair's got rust on it.
I don't like rust.
That sky's awfully green.
Green's a cool color.
When I was younger, I used to hit baseballs.
You're like, what?
This is what people do when they can't keep a coherent thought train.
Folks, this is not funny.
This guy's running to be president of the United States.
He can't even remember if he took a cognitive test.
Now, of course, we always produce evidence on the show.
We do actual reporting here, unlike the media.
You say, Dan, he got offended when he was asked about taking a cognitive test.
Let's go to the Washington times article themselves.
Here's the receipts that he can't even remember if he took a cognitive test.
Remember he's mad at the reporter for asking him if he's taken a cognitive test.
Dave Boyer, Washington times, June 30th, 2020 Biden says, quote, he's constantly tested for mental decline and is eager to debate Trump.
Okay, Washington Times directly citing and quoting, I've already put the video, but you have so many videos today, I don't want to lose you in like a video salad, like a word salad.
Biden, I'm constantly tested.
His words, Joe, not mine.
Quote, constantly tested for a cognitive decline.
Now we just get mad at a reporter for asking him if what he said is actually true.
Well, you said you were tested.
Are you tested?
Here's another report.
Joe Biden.
I haven't been tested for a cognitive decline.
W-E-N-Y news.
Biden clarifies he has not taken a cognitive test.
Ladies and gentlemen, listen, politicians lie.
That's what they do.
I get it.
My argument to you here is not that Biden's a liar.
Listen, all politicians are liars.
Democrats lie, I think, more often than Republicans, as I always say.
Republicans may not be the solution to all your problems, but Democrats are certainly the cause of it.
I am not making an argument to you now to be crystal clear.
Put your horse blinders on.
I am not making an argument to you that Biden's a liar, therefore he's unworthy of every politician's lies.
He's unworthy of your vote because he's a terrible politician with terrible policy prescriptions.
The case I'm making here is I think Biden genuinely doesn't remember if he's even taken a test based on his ability to remember things.
A cognitive exam.
I'm not kidding.
I don't even think he remembers it mid-interview.
It's just so incredibly destructive.
What the Democrats are doing to this man is a real disgrace.
Wouldn't you agree, Joe?
This is a real sin and a travesty.
You're putting a man in a position, a decision-making position, in an effort solely to get rid of Donald Trump, who you know has no cognitive capacity to fulfill the tasks necessary to be the President of the United States.
It's just a damn shame.
Alright, moving on folks.
Again, I just feel the need with this important election coming up to put out to you what's going on.
Whoever you decide to vote for, I want you to understand Joe Biden cannot handle, is not mentally capable at this point of handling this job and I'm very sorry to have to tell you that.
All right, so last night I was on Sean Hannity's show on Fox, which I do just about every night, so always check that out if you can.
I always enjoy the appearances at 9 p.m.
Eastern Time, of course, Fox News Channel.
And I was asked about Hillary Clinton, and I made a comment in the beginning, and man, did it get a lot of attention.
I had brought up the fact that you can't trust the media anyway.
They're flipping the script on everything.
And that years ago, the media, which now loves mail-in balloting, right, Joe?
They love mail-in balloting.
Why do they love it?
They love it because Donald Trump said, hey, there are problems with mail-in balloting.
So what Donald Trump said is factually correct, of course, but the media doesn't care because the media doesn't do facts.
It's not what they do.
Facts, not their thing.
Facts, media.
Facts, media.
They move in opposite directions.
It's an inverse relationship, okay?
So now the same media which reported years ago, which I'm going to show you in a minute, 2012, the New York Times left-leaning rag, left-leaning rag, the New York Times who themselves reported on the extensive problems with mail-in voting, they're now, these left-wing media rags, are now taking the opposite position because of course Trump said the same thing.
And these people are not concerned with their credibility at all.
They're concerned only with making Trump look foolish.
Even if it involves sacrificing their principles on the altar of liberal activism.
Do you understand?
I mean, do you understand the desperation?
What kind of a loser you have to be to know what you said is out there in print?
You wrote articles about the problem of mail-in voting and you don't care?
You now write the exact opposite articles just because a politician said something?
Do you understand what kind of a complete life loser and zero you have to be to do that?
There are politicians out there, as well, who have pointed out the problems with mail-in voting.
So when I was on Hannity last night, I said, you know, everyone should go check out this 2012 New York Times article by Adam Liptack, pointing out the extensive issues with mail-in voting.
Don't worry, because I got a ton of emails.
Dan, I can't find it.
I have it for you today, and it is in the show notes.
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The article is there.
I will show it to you in this segment.
But first, before I get to that, I want to show you what frauds the Democrats are, too.
How these are useless politicians who lie and change their position like that.
Again, all politicians lie.
Democrats lie and don't even care that they lie.
At least good Republicans, if they say something and they change their position, at least they try to explain it.
The Democrats don't even care because they know the media will cover for them.
Here's evidence here.
Here's Jerry Nadler of the impeachment hoax fame.
Here's Democrat Jerry Nadler arguing back in the good old days.
I believe this is in the, uh, with the Clinton, uh, the, uh, Bush v. Gore.
You know, that whole election mess that happened.
Here's Jerry Nadler arguing in his experience as a congressman in New York that mail-in voting has a lot of problems.
Keep in mind the same Jerry Nadler that's saying the exact opposite thing right now.
Check this out.
In my experience in New York, paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud.
And at least with the old clunky voting machines that we have in New York, the deliberate fraud is way down.
compared to paper. When the machines break down and they vote on paper, we've had real problems.
So that is, there's got to be a way.
There's got to be a way. I'm simply observing that as a problem.
There's got to be a way of getting the best of our methodologies.
But in fact, the MIT studies have shown that hand-counted paper ballots are among the most reliable.
And at least if there's a miscount, you can discover it.
You can't discover miscounts with these machines.
Maybe optical scan with paper.
I want a paper trail.
I want paper somewhere.
But pure paper with no machines.
I can show you experience which would make your head spin.
There you go.
Jerry Nadler, very concerned about paper ballots.
Paper, mailbox, mailbox, paper.
As I said to you before, I've discussed this clip before, for the liberals who will try to parse that.
Dan, he wasn't really talking about mail when he was talking about paper.
I'm just checking, are they mailing you a computer?
Paula, did you hear anything about that?
Joe, are they mailing you a tablet, an Apple tablet laptop thingy?
No!
No, they're not.
Okay, so they're not doing that.
There is no, they're mailing you an actual piece of paper.
I vote by mail.
I vote by mail.
I get a ballot by mail for a number of reasons.
It causes kind of chaos at the election.
I'd say that with not a pat on the back.
It's just true.
I vote by mail.
States who are ready for it and have substantial absentee ballot programs, Florida, which has a lot of seniors down here, active adults in Florida, they're used to mail-in balloting.
I'm just trying to point out to you, Nadler understands there's a problem and always has, and doesn't even care.
Now, what's the difference here?
I'm going to play for you some clips here too.
What's the difference between mail-in, what Trump is discussing now in absentee?
I am getting really, really super frustrated with media idiots pretending to be stupid, pretending to not understand the difference.
What Trump's objection is, is to not at mail-in balloting at all.
He's not objecting to mail-in ballot.
People have, you have military veterans overseas.
You have people who can't show up to the election booth, like Trump who lives, he's a registered voter in Florida now.
He lives obviously up in DC.
But his residence is Florida.
They have to mail in.
I mail in, and it's done very well in Martin County where I live.
You can track it, you can go online.
That's not what he's objecting to, and the media's playing dumb.
What he's objecting to is mass mail-in balloting.
What's happening right now in California, Washington D.C., Vermont, Nevada.
Do you understand the difference, folks?
They're not talking about an absentee process where Dan Bongino goes to, what is it, Martin County votes, you say request a vote by mail, they send it to you, you get it, it's in your name, you fill it out, you stamp it, you sign it, and you send it back.
What they're talking about doing in California and AFTA is mailing ballots indiscriminately to register voters, whether you wanted it or not.
Some of you don't even live at those places anymore.
Those are actual votes out there, sitting out there, for any Tom, Dick or Harry or Joey Bag of Donuts to sign the signature.
Just fake it.
Even if two or three out of ten make it through because it semi looks like the signature.
Folks, no one's sitting there with like an optical lens going...
They generally say, if it looks alike, it looks alike.
If even 3 out of 10 slip by, you're talking about 30% of these fake ballots making it through?
That's what he's objecting to.
Do you understand the difference?
One is an absentee ballot by request from a registered voter who has to put in some biographical data, typically in a website, request a ballot, wait for it, sign it, goes back, sends it, and can track it.
That's what we do in Florida.
That's not what Trump is complaining about.
He's complaining about mass ballots being sent out everywhere, whether you want it or not.
Can you imagine the fraud?
Jerry Nadler could apparently.
Now it gets worse.
The New York times.
Yes.
Left-leaning collusion, PP tape, conspiracy blog, New York times back in 2012 wrote a piece again.
It'll be in the show notes today.
Please check it out.
Wrote a piece about the problems with mail-in voting.
Error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises.
Adam Liptak, October 6, 2012.
Article is in the show notes.
Read it.
He's talking about problems with the absentee process I talked about, which in my county is pretty well done.
It's not in every other county in the United States.
There are some counties in the United States that have real problems with even absentee.
But you understand that makes our case not yours.
If absentee by request is a mess in some places, mail-in voting not by request, where you get a ballot no matter what, would be an apocalyptic disaster.
You can't even handle people voting by request, no less not by request.
The New York Times discussed, look at this screenshot from the New York Times.
Screenshot this, send it to your liberal friends and ask them why the New York Times has seemingly changed their mind.
Here's the New York Times on mail-in ballots.
Quote, Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised, and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show.
Election officials reject almost 2% of ballots cast by mail, double the rate for in-person voting.
The more people you force to vote by mail, Mr. Sancho said, the more invalid ballots you will generate.
That's the New York Times own reporting.
morning.
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And yet media morons, print writers, TV editorialists pretending to be journalists, still pretend, number one, they don't know the difference between mass mail-in voting not by request and absentee balloting by request.
And they ignore the data that even absentee balloting by mail, by request, has its own issues!
Paper absentee has its own problems before you even get to mass ballot mailing.
You think I'm making this up how the media is playing dumb?
Here is the Nicole Wallace of Katy Tours, Brianna Keillor over at CNN.
Seriously, one of the, one, incredibly boring.
Some leftists, you know, you kind of laugh at their conspiracy theory collusion stuff, but at least sometimes they're entertaining to watch as they melt down on television.
You know, sometimes I'll watch George Costanza on CNN and I'll watch him totally melt down.
And it's actually pretty hilarious to watch.
Brianna Keillor is boring and not smart, which is like a double whammy.
Brianna Keillor, again, the Nicole Wallace of Katy Tours.
Here's a video of her arm with the infinitely smarter Mercedes Schlapp, who actually knows something.
And here's Breonna Kehler of CNN, pretending she doesn't understand the difference, one, between mail-in balloting and mass, not by request, and absentee ballots by request.
And then number two, pretending that voter fraud doesn't exist, besides the fact that Mercedes Schlapp says, well, there's an actual website at the Heritage Foundation, don't worry, we'll show you that too, where you can see the voter fraud.
She's not interested.
She thinks it's all crap.
Here's Brianna Keillor, the Nicole Wallace of KD Tours, on CNN, humiliating herself yet again.
Check this out.
I'd like to ask my question.
I can go to the states with you.
Mercedes, do you?
Mercedes.
Mercedes.
Okay.
Why are you doing that?
Because it appears that it's just just so doubt in the minds of people about whether their votes are going to matter.
We, for both sides, for this nation, for the sake of America, we need to make sure that every vote matters.
And it's why, you know, it's important that we get this right.
So then why are you trying, so then why are you trying to ensure that some people won't be able to vote?
Three days after the election.
Let me ask you that question.
Why are you, okay, if everyone's, no, you just said, you just said, Mercedes, Mercedes.
Mercedes, you just said that everybody, you were just stating that a priority should be for people to practice their rights as Americans and vote, and look, if they're registered voters, that is their right.
So then why are you talking down, why are you villainizing mail-in voting, which would give people the ability to practice their right as an American and vote?
I'm going to ask you again.
Do you think it's okay after November 3rd to be able to cast a ballot three days after or seven days after the election?
You're saying that voter fraud is a thing and I'm telling you that it's not.
And you're muddying the waters.
And I also wonder, don't you worry that that's going to actually hurt you?
I mean, isn't that to the point why the president has said when it comes...
Mercedes, this is just pointless.
Okay?
This is pointless.
I get it.
You're just saying a bunch of crap.
Okay?
You're saying a bunch of crap.
Can I tell you what?
No.
We're talking about voting in a pandemic.
You don't let them have a conversation with them.
We're talking about voting in a pandemic, okay?
We're talking about people trying to... Listen, Mercedes.
Mercedes, I need you to listen to me, okay?
Let's focus and have a serious conversation here.
Voter fraud, Breonna Keillor, is quote, not a thing.
That's a very deep analysis.
Again, this is one of the least bright people on television who is boring.
I mean, It explains why CNN rarely, if ever, cracks the top 10 in shows because they hire people like the not bright, incredibly boring, supremely untalented Breonna Keillor, who again is a less smart Nicole Wallace from MSNBC.
So Breonna Keillor saying voter fraud isn't a thing.
I'm going to include again in today's show notes, which I encourage you to subscribe to and open up.
For that New York Times article.
And for this link too, Paula was kind enough to put up, which Mercedes Schlapp was trying to tell Brianna Keeler about, but she's not smart enough to listen.
The Heritage Foundation.
Here is their website, which will be linked in the show notes today.
Again, check it out.
A sampling of election fraud cases from around the country.
Keep in mind, these are only the thousand we know about of voter fraud cases.
But don't worry, Joe!
Don't worry, calm down.
Breonna Keillor, the Albert Einstein of CNN midday hosts, the Stephen Hawking of fake news specialists said, quote, It's not a thing.
So it's not a thing because CNN told you so.
So don't worry, Joe, don't worry.
And I know you were very concerned about, I don't want you to be.
Now, of course, Brianna Keillor probably doesn't even, you know, read the newspaper.
Um, but if she did, she'd see this article in the New York post about a natural experiment going on right now in live time with mass mail-in voting that Brianna Keillor says, don't worry, vote for it.
Not a thing, not a problem.
Don't worry about New York post.
25% of ballots in a Brooklyn June primary declared invalid!
August 4th, 2020.
Does that say 2020, Paul?
Does that say 2016?
This is an old story.
No, no.
This is actually from just the other day.
What's today's date?
Today's the 5th.
So that was yesterday.
I had to check that.
I'm anchored in Paula's birthday, which is August 2nd.
I can't get past it.
It is a month long extravaganza in the Bongino household.
I didn't even, this is just yesterday.
25% for the liberals.
That's one fourth, one out of four, one fourth a quarter.
In other words, That is a quarter of ballots submitted by mail declared invalid.
Don't worry, Brianna Keillor, she doesn't actually read the newspaper.
She probably didn't see that.
She was too busy trying to correct Mercedes Schlapp for giving her actual information.
Voter fraud, it's not a thing.
Brianna's IQ is not a thing.
I'm not sure voter fraud isn't a thing.
Check out that heritage database.
It's right there.
Again, Bongino.com slash newsletter for the show notes, which we put a lot of work into.
Check it out.
You can show that to your friends and they'll say, but that's a right-leaning think tank.
What you're suggesting to me, what they're claiming here that these actual court cases of convictions are fake.
No, no, they're not fake.
You're just making that up.
They're very real.
You just don't want to acknowledge that voter fraud is in fact a thing.
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I'm a little out of order today because of my numbering system broke down.
That Biden thing creeped in late.
So I had to name it A rather than one.
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It happens all the time.
We don't care.
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You know, they're out there in Portland.
They were calling black law enforcement officers the N-word.
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They're racist.
That's what they are.
They are fascists.
That's why they use the term anti-fascist to confuse you.
They are fascists.
They're pro-TIFA.
I know, pro-TIFA.
I prefer pro-TIFA.
The Democrats are covering for Antifa.
You may say, why?
How is this a winning political argument?
I can't make this case to you enough that the Democrats are going to do two things.
They need Antifa because Democrats, radical leftists like the Democrats up on Capitol Hill have all become, they've always needed shock troops on the front line.
People to out there in their, you know, ninja suits and whatever, scaring people.
Because the Democrats then propose a big government solution as an example.
And remember what I told you the other day in that long segment we did on how the Democrats need to disconnect you from the reality of the greatest country in the world you live in?
They want you to think this country sucks.
Why?
Because they want to change it, right?
You get it?
This all makes sense, right?
The Democrats know this is the greatest country on earth.
It's visible to anyone who lives in it.
Seriously, just walk out of your house.
We live in the safest, most modern, economically advanced country in the history of humankind.
Generally speaking, safest.
They don't want you to believe that because they want to change it.
They want to take away your money, take away your healthcare, take away... To get that, they have to make you believe you believe in a hellhole.
The shock troops are the one that cause the chaos on the front lines, that make you believe the hellhole is real and they're going to be the ones to save it when they come in and change the whole thing.
They need Antifa.
They've always needed Antifa.
They are the shock troops on the front line.
That's number one.
They need the shock troops to scare you to make you believe America is a country full of chaos and it's irredeemable and you need to change it.
Vote for them.
They're going to change it for you.
Number two, they will do the opposite of number one every time and try to pretend they are not connected to Antifa.
Yet, you know, they don't want any direct connection because people see the violence, Antifa, you know, the attacking innocent men, women, and children, calling black law enforcement officers the N-word.
So they can't have a direct attachment.
You know what I'm saying, Joe?
They won't show up typically with them unless you're Ted Wheeler in Portland.
Yeah.
A lot of the semi-mainstreamers will kind of coddle Antifa, never say a bad word about them.
While simultaneously using them as shock troops.
It's a weird dance they do.
But in the dance, they'll never criticize Antifa because of, number one, they need Antifa as the shock troops.
You don't believe me?
Here is a brilliant exchange with the great Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas, up on Capitol Hill, with the absolutely hapless mental midget, Maisie Hirono.
Remember that one?
Step up!
Step up!
With the Kavanaugh thing.
And then when you had sexual harassment claims about Democrats, she steps down.
Remember Maisie Hirono?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a real genius either in the Breonna Keillor crew there.
So here's Ted Cruz and Maisie Hirono going at it.
And Cruz totally calls her out, puts her on the spot, says, you're welcome.
You criticize Antifa right now.
You know, the fascist, racist group.
You're ready to do it right now.
And she won't do it.
And she walks off, storms off in a huff.
This is great.
Check this out.
You aren't listening.
So I hope this is the end of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, and that we don't have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches.
Thank you very much.
I'm leaving.
Well, I appreciate the, as always, kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono.
And I would also note that throughout her remarks, she still did not say a negative word about Antifa, nor has any Democrat here.
They instead engage in a political game where they depend.
You're welcome to say something negative about Antifa right now.
I think that I've covered the subject.
Okay, she declined to speak.
So that is the position of the Democratic Party.
I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not a one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis, stormtroopers and Gestapo.
To be fair, I don't have not heard the word Nazi, but stormtrooper was Nancy Pelosi and Gestapo was another Democratic leader.
That is less than helpful.
She won't call them out.
She will not call out a fascist, racist terror group like Antifa.
She won't do it.
Why?
Remember rule number one.
Rule number one, the Democrats need the shock troops to scare people, to make you believe America's in chaos and falling apart so you'll vote for them.
That's why.
Rule number two, keep your distance, but don't get too far and don't get too close.
Now, some members don't care about that too-close rule.
Some members will just celebrate Antifa and make apologies for him, despite what they're saying being factually incorrect.
They will claim Antifa and BLM are things Antifa and BLM won't- they'll lie for them!
One of them is squad member Ayanna Pressley, a devout liar.
I mean, rarely, if ever, tells the truth up on Capitol Hill.
But she says the non-truth with such passion people believe her.
Here's Ayanna Pressley, squad member.
Dan, defending Antifa, which is ironic.
Ayanna Pressley happens to be black.
Antifa's a racist group.
Some of their members have called cops the N-word.
I can't say this enough.
This is a racist group of fascists.
This is Ayanna Pressley defending the fascists.
It's a short clip.
And then at the end, Claiming and then, you know, you're going to lie about these groups and you're going to call them communists.
I'm not going to call them communists.
I'm going to play video of themselves calling themselves communists.
Here's Ayanna Pressley, doesn't even care, surgically attaching herself to Antifa, a racist, fascist terror group.
Check this out.
We have seen with movements, they will try to co-opt it and undermine it and sanitize it and whitewash it.
But the Black Lives Matter activists that are today called Antifa were in the 1960s being called communists, okay?
They were just as disruptive and agitating the status quo and just as impatient.
So Ayanna Pressley's point is just to maybe she even is making one, you know, usually
she just spouts off word salads too and expects everybody to follow along.
And if you disagree, you're definitely a racist by the hundred percent.
You're not allowed to say anything to Ayanna Pressley.
Everything, you will be called a racist, guaranteed.
Just assume and just bake it into the cake.
Okay.
So she's like, you know, and back in the sixties, BLM and these other groups, they were called communists and Marxists.
She's saying, in other words, like, this is a slur.
In other words, they're not communists and Marxists, right?
Here's a video of one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, telling an interviewer that she is, in fact, a Marxist.
It's not me saying it.
It's her saying it.
You won't hear any of this from Ayanna Pressley.
You wouldn't dare, because that would be the actual truth.
She has a problem with that.
Check this out.
I think that the criticism is helpful.
I also think that it might I think of a lot of things.
The first thing I think is that we actually do have an ideological frame.
Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers.
We are trained Marxists.
We are super versed on sort of ideological theories.
Just listen to Black Lives Matter's founder, Patrisse Cullors.
Do you have to rewind that?
We are Marxists, trained Marxists, not just like Marxists who picked up the Marx Engels reader in a library one day and skimmed through chapter one.
We're actually trained Marxists.
Black Lives Matter, you know, with the NBA and all these other organizations, sports organizations, they're all supported.
It's a Marxist group.
You know Marxism?
Marxism, which has led to the extermination of hundreds of millions of human lives, death camps, concentration camps.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
Kind of bad, no?
Gulags.
You know gulags, right?
Uyghur death camps in China right now.
Okay, you're a moron.
Please stop the euphemistic nonsense.
You know there is no significant difference.
Please stop playing games and stop being an idiot.
No one actually buys your stupidity if you're saying that right now.
Now, Miss Paula brought up a fascinating point this morning, too.
She's like, you know, Dan, you're in this block talking about the Democrats needing Antifa as the shock troops while simultaneously distancing themselves from Antifa, but never calling them out.
Ah, we don't know who they are.
Well, you should call them out for being racist.
Well, we're not going to call them out.
Am I going to do that?
And then you got the radical ones who just embrace them like Ayanna Pressley, you know, Antifa and stuff.
Ayanna Pressley was just talking about them, right?
Antifa.
Don't mischaracterize them as Marxist.
Well, they said they're Marxist.
Paula brought up a great point.
She says, didn't we play that video the other day of Jerry Nadler?
Jerry Nadler, another appearance on the show.
It's the deuce today.
It's a twofer.
It's a Nadler twofer.
Didn't Jerry Nadler say the other day Antifa doesn't even exist?
This is a myth.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Let's check with Jerry Nadler.
Big hat tip to Fleckus the best.
Always does great interviews.
Check out Jerry Nadler saying, don't worry about Antifa.
It doesn't even exist.
It is true.
There's violence across the whole country.
Do you disavow the violence from Antifa?
That's happening in Portland right now?
That's a myth that's being spread only in Washington, D.C.
About Antifa in Portland?
Yes.
Sir, there's videos everywhere online.
There's fires and riots.
They're throwing fireworks at federal officers.
DHS is there.
Look online.
It gets crazy, Mr. Nadler.
Wow, so...
[BLANK_AUDIO]
He thinks it's fake news.
Antifa's a myth.
Yeah, Antifa's a myth in Portland.
and meanwhile the whole city is on fire and they're trying to burn down the courthouse.
[sigh]
The great FLECAS effort.
F-L-E-C-C-A-S.
Follow him on social media.
He's terrific.
So just to be clear, as we conclude this block of Antifa Democrat insanity, they need their shock troops.
They'll disavow their shock troops.
Some of them will attach themselves to the shock troops.
They'll never criticize the shock troops.
And then when asked about the shock troops, they'll say, no, they don't even exist.
That's a myth.
The same ones Ayanna Pressley just defended, defended a group that doesn't exist.
And Mazie Hirono won't call out, but they don't exist.
I want to call out.
Apparently Jerry Nadler said Antifa doesn't exist.
He's missed apparently 65 plus nights of Antifa attacking innocent men, women, and children, and trying to burn down the courthouse and stuff.
Don't forget my two rules of Democrats with Antifa.
They need the shock troops and they will strategically distance and close the distance when they feel like they can use Antifa for political gain.
When Antifa gets violent, disavow any knowledge of them.
Say they're a myth.
When you can use Antifa and you're a radical in a radical congressional district like Ayanna Pressley's, surgically attach yourself to Antifa because they're your shock troops and nobody cares anyway.
It's all radicals in your district.
All right, don't go anywhere.
I still got some more video for you, and I do have this Wall Street Journal article, which is finally a strong piece of journalism on where the mass debate is based on science.
God forbid, we'll probably be banned from all social media for talking about science.
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All right, so getting back to my story about the mask debate in light of the coronavirus plague inflicted on our country by the Chinese Communist Party, I just want you to understand, and fair warning to liberals who watch my show, I know you're out there, you're always welcome here, but we're going to do science right now, you know, research, facts.
Data, testable hypotheses, that kind of thing.
So you might as well tune out now.
You're never supposed to tell anyone to tune out of your show.
This will be disturbing because it's actual data.
I know you don't like that kind of stuff because, Joe, as I put in the top line of my notes here preparing my show today, the idea of the mask and the wearing of the mask has now become an act of faith.
If you dare mention the science.
And again, I can't say this enough.
I am not anti-mask.
I'm not telling you not to wear a mask.
I'm not telling businesses not to recommend people to wear a mask.
I'm simply telling you there are arguments for the wearing of masks and arguments against.
The tech tyrants don't like that.
It has now become a religion.
Not science.
You understand that?
Religion requires faith.
I am a Christian.
My Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ.
It is an act of faith I profess daily.
I am a believer.
But religion and science are not the same thing.
It's hard for me to test my hypothesis there.
There's faith.
The mass debate has become a religion in and of itself.
They're not interested in testable hypotheses like, well, does it actually work?
When you say anything about it, you're pretty much banned from social media altogether.
The Wall Street Journal editorial column had some, you know, for them to write this, I'm surprised they weren't kicked off the internet altogether.
They had an interesting piece out today I want you to look at.
I rarely take more than a few screenshots from one piece, but when it's worth it, we're going to do it with this one.
It's about, what is the science behind this?
And is there a downside?
Oh my gosh, mention the downside.
Joe, in a religion, you're not allowed to mention the downsides.
Here's the article by Alicia Finley, right?
You can't do that, God forbid.
It's an act of faith, it's not an act of science.
The hidden danger of masks.
Dr. Birx noted in April that they can promote a false sense of security.
Protests bear that out.
Again, because we're doing actual reporting here, unlike our left-leaning friends in the media, I'll give you the pro first.
In other words, the reasons why masks may help.
Because I'm not here to indoctrinate you.
I'm here to, you're adults.
I'm here to give you information.
You can make your own decisions.
So from the piece, here's a pro.
The pro is that these droplets, that the CDC changed its recommendation in April based on some lab tests showing that cloth masks reduce the distance large respiratory droplets travel after a cough.
Like the flu, COVID-19 is believed to be transmitted mainly through these large droplets.
Okay.
Interesting.
Again, I'm not anti-mask.
If it makes you comfortable, knock yourself out.
There's some good news for you.
If you cough, you sneeze, you expel these respiratory droplets, that the mask may in fact block some of those.
Now, not a con to the pro, but just a story from my own experience.
I'm not kidding.
Paul and I were in church about four weeks ago.
A guy sneezed and in order to sneeze, he took the mask down, which I'm not making that up.
It's not for effect.
I'm just telling you, I've seen it more than once, which is understandable.
Do you want to sneeze into a mask that then sits on your face?
Of course you don't!
It's gross!
But if you don't keep the mask for the sneeze or the cough, you've defeated the entire purpose of the mask.
Here's some additional data on the mask from this excellent piece.
It says, listen, some public health officials and media types have observed that countries where face mask use is more prevalent have lower infections.
Okay, hold on, interesting.
So you're suggesting to us that countries that use masks are correlated with a lower infection rate?
Fascinating.
It goes on.
In June, the New York Times ran a headline with, quote, is the secret to Japan's virus success right now?
It's masks in front of its face.
Talking about the mask.
Its answer?
Yes.
All right.
Interesting.
That seems like a big pro, right, Joe?
Countries that wear masks have lower infection rates.
It goes on.
But this New York Times piece drew conclusions based on mere correlations.
What do I always tell you about correlations?
They do not mean causation.
According to a YouGov survey, in late June, face mask use was higher in the United States, 59%, than in countries with fewer infections, including Taiwan, France, Canada, the Netherlands, and Denmark.
And Japan and Hong Kong have experienced recent infection spikes.
Again, folks, I'm sure we'll be banned from the internet altogether for bringing up actual data.
Data.
Data you can look at and read yourself.
That the original success story and claim that masks work because infections were relatively controlled in Japan is now gone out the window because in fact Japan is now seeing a spike in cases.
They also bring up the point that the United States has a higher percentage of people wearing masks than other countries and yet some of these other countries have lower infections.
In other words, they have lower mask use and lower infections for liberals who have a tough time with data and trend lines.
Again, folks, I'm just giving you the... I know we'll be banned in the new dark ages of the tech tyrants for showing you actual data.
I just gave you the pro.
It may stop these large droplets.
It may prevent you from breathing them in and expelling them out.
Now I'm giving you the con that the correlation's not working out like you think.
If it is an effective measure, you would think higher mask use would lead to less infections.
That's not happening in many countries.
And even their success story is now becoming the opposite.
Japan.
Now, you may say, Dan, clearly there's some science on this.
There is.
We're doing science.
Again, which will lead to Hester Prynne's scarlet letter treatment by everyone in the tech community who hates actual science.
Let's go to screenshot number three from the journal piece.
Pretty common sense, Joe, right?
The only way to ascertain the efficacy of face masks in the real world is to do randomized trials.
Oh my gosh, we can't say that.
God forbid.
You mean studies?
So far, there have been only a dozen examining the efficacy of masks in preventing respiratory illnesses, and conclusions have been difficult to draw because of poor compliance with study participants.
None of these six trials published over the past decade found that masks alone had a significant effect on the spread of the flu or similar illnesses in healthcare workers or the general population.
There's the data.
I have the most intelligent, smartest, brightest audience out there.
I read your emails.
You're all geniuses.
You give me stuff all the time like, that guy and that woman, they got it.
Six studies, results not that good.
Again, we will be relegated to the dustbin of the tech tyrant hole.
You'll never be able to find our show anywhere because we dare to tell you the truth.
Here's the worst one of all.
I had to consolidate into one screenshot here, because there was a lot, but right before this paragraph I'm about to show you, they talk about a study in Vietnam on cloth masks, where the study, Joe, led to the opposite conclusion, that the cloth masks were causing more infections.
Why?
Because people were touching them and were not washing them.
And they became moist and contaminated and basically became incubators for bacterial and viral storage.
Why do masks in some cases actually produce a negative effect?
Quote, this is an important caveat.
Fiddling with the masks, in other words, touching them with your fingers, can be more dangerous than not wearing one at all.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that, quote, elementary school students should wear face coverings if the risk of touching their mouth or nose is not greater than the benefit of reducing the spread of COVID-19.
But the point is lost amid simplistic moralizing about selfish libertarians.
In other words, folks, you have kids?
I do.
I have a 16-year-old.
Now, the 16-year-old is pretty good when she has the mask on about not touching it.
The eight-year-old will fiddle and touch the thing the entire time, touching her face probably 10 or 1,000 times more than if you would have had no mask at all, leading to an appropriate transmission vector via her fingers on her face for a virus introduced right into her nasal passage.
But again, data, facts, liberals, the mask is not, it's become a symbol of a religious movement at this point.
When we talk about actual data, people not only get, did you see, have you seen on social media?
Parlor, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and elsewhere, whatever.
Have you seen the videos of people screaming in people's faces about the mask?
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, it's so big secret.
I got a pretty hot temper.
But can you, I'm not kidding, I can't even, there's no scenario under which I could imagine myself in a Walmart, a Sam's Club, or whatever, confronting someone I've never met in my entire life, because they don't have a mask on, and screaming like a raving banshee, American werewolf in wonders, like a moron.
Yeah, put the mask on.
Calm down.
You understand your screaming and expelling of mass droplets is probably creating a dangerous infection scenario ten times worse than if you just would have walked away, you lunatics?
Calm down!
Calm down!
I told you, when I was an agent in the Secret Service, we had a name for people like that.
We called them... Bed...
Quitters, the word rhymes with.
You know what I mean?
The word's not quitter.
You know what I'm getting?
Because they would quit the bed every time something happened.
Screaming with their hair on fire.
Calm down.
Center yourself, lunatics.
It's not the end of the world.
Distance yourself from that person.
If you're uncomfortable and walk away, getting in their space and screaming.
So they scream back and expel their droplets onto you is not helping your infection scenario.
I can't believe we have to talk like this.
I re I really, all right.
A little, uh, comic relief.
At the expense of the Iranians who are really... Could you... I'm not talking about the Iranian people.
There's a good portion of folks over there in the Green Revolution and elsewhere who really want freedom like everyone else.
But gosh, are you led by morons.
I mean, you think the North Koreans... The Iranians don't usually take the cake for being the biggest dunces out there.
Did you see this story?
Again, I'll put it up in the show notes for you to check out.
It's just not, it's not a joke.
It's not the Babylon.
B is a real story.
Check out the sun.
So the Iranians, he's a brilliant military technician tacticians decided to be a good idea to build a mock us aircraft carry and pretend to sink it, you know, to scare us.
Joe put up like a tick tock video.
Look, you ask him, we're coming for you.
We were going to sink your aircraft carrier.
Watch us do this.
The sun, I ran humiliated as they completely bungle the symbolic sinking of a fake U.S.
warship and then they block an entry to their own naval port.
This is from the Peace of the Sun.
It's in the show notes.
And for those of you who want to watch on YouTube, youtube.com slash Bungino.
So they have this harbor, Bandar Abbas, forgive me for saying it wrong.
They accidentally sunk the fake U.S.
warship.
They sunk it in a shallow portion of an entrance to their port.
So now the ships can't access the port because they're afraid of crashing into the sunken U.S.
aircraft carrier.
Look at these morons.
They can't even get it to their own port!
You know, it just reminds me of a quick story, if I may.
The first time I traveled when I was a young agent, I went over, my first country I visited was Russia, of all places.
I was young, I was in my early 20s.
I was a new agent and this agent, this guy, Mike, I won't say his last name, but he got sick and they called me.
I had been out of training for like a month.
I don't even know.
This is 2000.
Guy comes in and goes, Dan, I need you to go to Russia.
Mikey B got sick.
He can't go.
I said, when they said like tomorrow, you got to go, got to go down, fly down to Andrews, uh, joint base.
Andrews was Andrews air force base back then.
And I need you to fly out.
And I went to Russia.
I was, you know, young in my twenties and, you know, I heard nothing but from the media, of course, but the great profound, deeply strong, uh, Russian empire was going to destroy the United States.
And I went over there.
And Joe, you've been there, so you know what I'm talking about.
I will never again in my life ever, ever forget what I saw.
I mean, police officers with uniforms that looked like they hadn't been washed in 15 years that were seven sizes too big.
Firearms that looked like they had no ammunition at all in them.
I mean, poverty everywhere.
I mean, outside of Moscow, rank poverty everywhere.
And I thought this is the great Soviet empire that was going to crush the United States.
I only bring that up in light of this Iran story.
They're all a danger.
The Russians and the former Soviet Union have nuclear weapons.
They do have a substantial military.
It's not a joke.
But be proud you live in the United States where, believe me, if it ever, God forbid, came down to it, especially with these hapless Iranians, we would win.
There'd be a lot of death and a lot of destruction.
And you know my stance on unnecessary wars, I hope, if you listen to my show.
But if these people ever attacked us, it would be over and over fast.
Maybe not with the Russians, but the Iranians.
What a bunch of dunces.
All right, I don't usually do foreign policy stories, but that one was worth talking about.
All right, speaking of foreign policy stories, we'll end the show with this.
You may have saw this incredible tragedy yesterday.
There are always rough segues between segments like that and segments like this, but did you see what happened in Beirut yesterday?
If you didn't, I want you to listen to this.
Watch this on the YouTube.
It's a short video montage of a minute.
There was a massive, massive explosion in Beirut yesterday.
A lot of speculation about what it was.
Here is a short video of multiple different angles.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just a human horror like we haven't seen on video in a while.
Check this out.
[explosion]
Whoa!
[explosion]
[explosion]
What the [bleep]?!
What?!
What?!
Oh boy!
[explosion]
[sirens]
See it?
Bad.
Mushroom clouds.
Now, I'm gonna end the show on this.
There's a lot of speculation about what that was.
The two theories, and I have an interesting article up in the show notes by Tom Rogan, you can check it out.
But the two theories that seem most prevalent about what that massive, destructive explosion was are, number one, it was possibly a Hezbollah munitions factory, which seems likely.
Bombs, munitions, rounds, whatever.
The other is that there was some ammonium nitrate, which is, of course, you know, ANFO bombs, ammonium nitrate fuel oil, is a component of explosives.
I'm not sure which one to lean to.
I sincerely doubt it was just the fireworks factory, like some of the Lebanese were saying before.
Really, a lot of people died, folks.
Unbelievably damaging incident.
When we find out more about it, of course, we'll report it on the show.
All right, thanks again for tuning in, ladies and gentlemen.
I really, really appreciate it.
Don't miss my interview again this week with Sean Hannity about his great new book.
I'm really looking forward to that.
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