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So the Inequality Act has passed the House.
The Inequality Act?
What are you talking about?
You mean the Equality Act?
No, no, no.
You could call it the Equality Act, but it's actually the Inequality Act.
How long before it's going to be illegal for you to go to church?
I'm just, I'm just wondering.
Now that the House has passed the Inequality Act, which will make it basically illegal to practice your own religion in some respects, and will make it legal to discriminate against people of faith.
I'm just wondering, I'm just wondering how long you'll find yourself in bracelets.
And I don't mean like fancy bracelets, I mean like handcuff bracelets for going to church.
Is that next?
Oh, that'll never happen here, Dan.
I got that story.
Also, enough talk about fixing elections.
I saw a great article in the Daily Signal about what we need to do to actually fix elections, like things we can do on the ground right now to re-establish our faith in our constitutional republic.
Meat and potato stuff, really good piece.
We will end today with, uh, I like to do a hero of the day on Friday, but today sadly is the villain of the day.
You're not going to want to miss the villain of the day.
I promise you.
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I did not, not going to allow this to happen to me.
Again, in your worst 1960s game show voice show, our every day Friday thing, or every Friday thing that's a day that's named Friday.
Please start off the show the right way.
It's Friday!
We can't start a Friday show without that.
Taping a little early today because we're headed down to CPAC later, the Conservative Political Action Conference, to set the world on fire with a speech down there, hopefully.
What am I going to talk about?
I don't know.
We'll figure it out in a car on the way up there.
There's always something in my head.
Let's start out with this.
I don't want to... Being that we're going to kind of end the show with... What's up?
You know, Paul is like staring at me.
He's giving me a little death stare that I'm wondering what's going on.
I screw up like the end of yesterday's show.
If you missed the end of yesterday's show, watch that again.
I was almost canceled myself in the Bongino house yesterday.
But we're going to end the show with the villain of the day today.
So I just wanted to start off with kind of a, are these, are these videos even real anymore?
We played that video yesterday of that person singing her white privilege song.
There's another one that's made the rounds on social media.
Are these even real?
Is this a big joke on America?
There's only two options here.
Here's another one.
This is a different person, a different white person, clamoring and singing on about how racist they are.
Do you want that to be your claim to fame?
You go right ahead, I'm out of that one.
That's your bag of donuts, right?
But there's only two options.
I had to write this down, okay, so I don't forget.
Option one, these videos are real, and the world is in fact ending, so it's all over.
So don't worry, it's over.
The apocalypse, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming, and it's all over.
That's option one, Joe, that these videos are real, and it's all coming to an end.
Because if they are real, the world is clearly ending.
We have reached peak stupid, volcanic levels of stupid, and there's no turning back.
This is it.
The apocalypse is on us.
It's over.
Or option two, These people realize, like, this sounds really dumb.
They realize this stuff is for clowns, and it's all a joke on us.
There's no option three.
So check this out.
Here's another video of a white school teacher woman singing about, I guess, how racist people are or whatever.
Check this out.
If you don't believe that there's white privilege, please don't teach.
If you don't believe that black lives matter, please don't teach.
If you don't believe in systemic racism and how it negatively impacts our students of color and don't want to help dismantle those systems, please don't teach.
Yes, please, don't, don't, don't teach.
No, and I mean you, the person singing that song.
We're begging.
Please, please don't.
That's gotta be a joke.
That can't be real.
This can't be real.
If this is real, seriously, the survival food and all this stuff is not gonna help you.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse, Joe, they're on their horses right now, and they are riding at double time and headed right for us, because there's no saving us at that point.
All right.
I kind of teased this in the beginning of the show.
Folks, I want to get to a very important story.
The ridiculously named Equality Act has passed the House of Representatives.
It will be forever referred to on this show as the Inequality Act, because what the Inequality Act does is it legalizes discrimination against Christians, people of faith, you know.
All the evil Christians out there, you know all of us.
I love Jesus Christ.
I mean that.
He is my Lord and Savior.
Your religion, your thing, that's mine, whatever.
But how long before it is illegal to be a Christian?
That's never going to happen.
This is America.
Really?
Because we're going down that dangerous path really, really quick.
We all thought it was a-okay to be a conservative a few years ago, too, until we all got canceled from Twitter and Facebook at the same time, right?
We never thought that would happen either.
Here's a great article in The Federalist.
You have to read.
This is important stuff, folks.
There's policy happening right now.
There's still a chance to stop this disaster in the United States Senate.
The Federalist by Christopher Bedford.
Blessings of Liberty.
How the Equality Act viciously attacks Christians, freedom, society, sex, and you!
So, what is the Equality Act?
We know from this point forward it's the Inequality Act on this show.
What is it actually?
Let's go to this screenshot from the Federalist.
This is happening right now!
This is happening right now, right under your nose, while we're all distracted by people like Liz Cheney who's worried about Trump's tweets or whatever.
The Federalist.
The act, which the House is expected to pass—it did pass, by the way, this was written before it, for the second time in nine months, by the way, it's passed—before sending it out to the now-democratic Senate, opens up, swinging on Christians, as well as most religions, concepts of morality and marriage, sex, and identity.
It would strike biological sex from the 1964 Civil Rights Act, replacing it with, quote, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Paula, wasn't that racist sexual orientation?
Joe, I'm not, I don't want to get off track here, but didn't, remember the dictionary.com?
Didn't we discuss that a few weeks ago?
Was it Maisie Hirono who said that was like racist or homophobic or istophobic?
It was, right?
I'm not crazy.
This is crazy.
They got it in the act, Joe.
A belief in traditional marriage, the act would legislate is a specific example of illegal discrimination.
It's all happening right now while we're all distracted by Liz Cheney, who's worried about Trump's tweets and stuff.
So what would be the effect of changing the 1964 Civil Rights Act to gender identity, where you basically just say, hey, I'm a man.
I feel like a woman, or I feel like a man when I'm a woman, or I'm a woman who feels like a man.
What would be the effect of that?
What would be the effect of changing the civil rights out to legislate all this stuff instead of letting private citizens make their own informed adult opinions about how they feel about gender identity?
No!
We can't have that!
The left loves to talk about choice, as long as it's their choice, not yours.
You will comply with the left, of course.
So here's an interesting side effect of what may happen.
If this happens to pass the Senate, outside of the fact that practicing your faith could be potentially illegal.
Here's an interesting example from the Federalist piece, quote, Salons, too, will not be able to, quote, discriminate based on biology, opening the door in the United States for the Canadian nightmare where Jessica Yaniv, a man who identifies as a woman while still being attracted to woman, women, Sued to force a female nail salon employee to wax his private parts.
You don't have to be a woman to understand the level of sexual assault implicit in an adult man demanding a woman handle his private parts for money or risk the force of law.
That's a real story, by the way.
Yes, it is.
Paula's like, no, it is.
It's a real story.
All coming here.
All coming here to the United States.
All happening under our noses.
So, you know, I always have an ask in the show because this is a show directed towards action.
I'm an action guy.
I'm an action guy.
I talk, but if talk doesn't motivate action, then don't bother.
I ran for office.
I did it.
I threw my name on the ballot.
I've done all the stuff.
I'm there.
I need your help.
Get on the phone with your senators today.
Real simple phone call, real simple email.
You know who they are?
Everybody's got two of them, if you live in one of the 50 states.
Therefore, for the purposes of this, you're the only people that matter.
Get them on the blower, get them on the email, and just say, hey, daddy-o, where do we stand on the Inequality Act?
Because that doesn't sound so good to me.
You know, I go to church and I have traditional values, and that's great.
Whatever values you may have, it's a free country.
I respect that.
But I don't need the law, the law, the long arm of the law, telling me how I should feel about things.
We have this whole thing called freedom, liberty, choice, you know, all old antiquated ideas.
But I don't really feel like being told in a salon who I need to put my hands on and who not to.
Doesn't sound right.
Well, Chip Roy, who's That's some pretty good moments.
He's a congressman from Texas.
Chip Roy was talking on the House steps about this and him and the Freedom Caucus are some of the few principled Republicans left there.
Chip Roy kind of, I mean this in a good way, not a bad way, kind of lost it a little bit on the House steps about the Inequality Act and was like, nah, I'm not really digging that.
Like I work really hard to send my kids to a private Catholic school to, uh, You know, imbue upon them Christian, Catholic values.
I don't really need the government telling me how I can and can't practice my religion.
We have that whole obstacle, Joe, shocker, called the First Amendment.
Yeah.
I know liberals haven't read it or anything like that, and this will probably get thrown out in court, even if it passes.
But who knows?
The courts are so bad these days, you don't know.
Here's Chip Roy laying the smackdown.
We need more of this.
This is a government using its power to tell us to bow down to the will of a cultural elite in this town who want to tell us what we're supposed to believe.
We're not going to do that.
Let me be clear.
We are not going to do that.
My wife and I work very hard, products of the public school system, K through law school, both of us, to scrape and save to pay our kids to go to a private Christian school.
Why?
Because we're being pushed into the corner so that we can carry out our beliefs without penalty.
Ostracization that this body now wants to do, the Speaker Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrat leaders want to do.
We're not going to be painted in the corner because this is about tyranny over the mind of men.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It's exactly what it's about.
Tyranny over the minds of men.
Pretty famous quote.
He's right.
Listen, for the liberals on a serious note who listen to my show, I know you don't do it deliberately.
It's probably your college roommate who's a conservative, has it on awfully loud just to annoy you, but you may be listening right now.
I hope you're annoyed.
Just as for you, this is directed at you.
You don't have the right in a free society to not be offended.
Do you know that?
Do you understand that?
Listen to what I just told you.
Take the cotton out of your ears for a moment and jam it in your mouth and listen to what I'm telling you.
You do not have the right to not be offended.
Do you understand that?
That applies to me as well.
There are lifestyles and things you do as liberals in your life that deeply offend me.
Deeply.
But I don't have the right to legislate against you so you can't offend me.
I have constitutional rights you cannot infringe upon.
There are court systems and laws to prevent that.
Contract law.
Illegal activity.
You can't just come and beat me up because you don't like what I'm doing.
All strong components of a free society with institutions and structures to preserve freedom.
But in a free society, you don't have the right to not have your feelings hurt.
Do you understand that?
You've chosen a separate lifestyle?
Separate from people of faith you don't like and you don't like people of faith in their lifestyle?
Fine.
You do you.
We do we.
No problem.
The only problem here is when you you start coming for we we and start demanding we not offend you under penalty of law.
Maybe you offend us.
Has that ever occurred to you?
Maybe you offend us and you don't know you don't offend us because we don't care.
Because you do you and we actually believe in civil liberties and civil rights and your ability to do you.
And therefore, we don't try to infringe upon the you doing you sphere of you doing you-ness.
But you keep creeping over into our sphere.
You don't like our churches?
Stay out!
We don't care!
I don't care!
You don't like the church I go to?
Don't go!
Nobody misses you!
Do you understand?
No one misses you!
There is no one in a homily clamoring for you liberal snowflakes to show up en masse!
Don't go!
That's you!
That is your choice!
I don't go to your liberal snowflake conventions either.
What is it?
Palitta Roots or whatever it is, Net Roots Nation.
Why do I not go?
Because I don't care!
And they're liberals and they're vi- I don't want to get assaulted and beaten to death.
That's why the safest place on earth for a liberal is CPAC.
The most dangerous place on earth for a conservative is the Net Roots place or whatever.
You will probably be verbally assaulted by multiple people when you walk in.
Just do you!
You don't have the right to not be offended!
Who told you that?
Now, to the liberal kid in the dorm room listening, because the college conservative kid, and thank you, college conservative, for playing this extra loud, do your liberal friends really annoyed right now?
Because that's the first time he's ever heard that.
Or she.
What do you mean?
I have the right not to be triggered!
You do?
Who told you that?
I don't know, who told you that?
Your snowflake mom and dad?
News for you, they're idiots too.
Tell them to read the Constitution.
There's not First Amendment 1 sub 123 subsection B62.5 that says, and by the way, you have the right to not be offended.
That doesn't exist!
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So enough chatter here.
How do we really fix elections going forward?
It's something a lot of you are concerned about.
It consistently rates as one of the top issues for Republicans and I've been trying to get, I've been doing a lot of homework and I've been trying to gather information and give you one article where it's all kind of nailed down.
A template on how to fix elections so we can all have faith in them again.
You know, a crazy idea out there, like faith and fidelity in our election process.
Crazy idea.
I'm being sarcastic, of course, because the left doesn't care about any of this stuff anymore.
Here's a great piece in the Daily Signal.
It'll be up at the show notes, by the way, with that Federalist article.
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Hans von Spakovsky is a brilliant man, a friend of mine.
I go way back with Hans.
Super smart guy.
I'm telling you, there isn't a person on the planet who knows more about elections and election fraud than Hans von Spakovsky.
And he's got a really cool name.
He's really super smart, but that name makes him sound super, super smart.
He is.
He's a genius.
Here's his article of the Daily Signal.
Worth your time.
Nine election reforms states can implement to prevent mistakes and voter fraud.
I'm not going to get to every one of them, but I'm going to touch on a few gems in here that have fixed this broken election process stat today.
If we just had people with the cojones to do it and to push for this.
Here's number one, simple stuff.
Verify the accuracy of the voter registration list.
What a crazy idea.
Well, how?
He says, "Computerized statewide voter registration lists should be designed to be interoperable,
so they can communicate seamlessly with other state record databases to allow frequent exchanges
and comparisons of information." For example, here's a simple one. When an individual changes
the resident's address on his or her driver's license, that information should be sent to state
election officials so that the voter registration address of the individual is also changed to his
These are her new DMV residence address.
Why is this hard?
I don't understand why that's hard.
Why is that hard?
Why can't we... We have a $4 trillion government.
Trillion!
$4 trillion government.
It is the biggest business in the world, the business of government, even though it's not run like a business.
It's the biggest business in the history of the world.
And you can't figure out a way in the States to make sure that when someone changes their address, it gets changed in a voter reg database too.
Why is that hard again?
Can someone please explain?
I don't want to dwell too much on any one of them, but here's another one.
Again, Joe, not complicated.
How about we do this crazy one?
Verify the citizenship of voters.
Wow.
Who would have thought of that?
I mean, only lawful citizens can vote in federal elections.
States should, quote, therefore require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Is this... What about... I don't know.
What about this is hard?
Is there something I'm missing?
Maybe it's me just...
Just a small town.
I'd actually live in a small town, but I like saying that.
Just a small town guy.
Is Glendale a small town?
Not really.
Glendale's actually, Paula's like shaking her head, no.
Just a small town cat.
Maybe I should sing a country song about something like that.
You know, everybody from a country song is from a small town.
Doesn't really work for me.
I'm not a good singer either, especially in country, but I'm just kind of confused as a fake small town guy.
Like why verifying the citizenship of voters is really a difficult, difficult task.
So if we had interoperable databases, if we verified the citizenship of our voters, and then we did number three, we required voter ID.
Here's another one.
Very complicated for the liberals listening.
They'll throw out some ridiculously racist thing, guaranteed.
Your liberal friend listening in the dorm room right now is like, voter ID?
My black friends won't be able to figure that out, and you as a conservative, you should probably be like, that's kind of racist, dude.
That's actually pretty, Joe, pretty racist, no?
Yeah.
Just throwing that out there.
Yeah.
Joe, so on the racist scale of 1 to 10, what would you give that, like a 9.72?
Yeah, something between there somewhere, yeah.
Around there?
Yeah.
Maybe 9.8?
That stinks.
Voter ID, not hard.
I assure you, your friends who are black and Hispanic, I promise you, my wife's Hispanic, she figures it out no problem.
It's not hard.
I know you believe because you're a racist white liberal that blacks and Hispanics can't figure things out because you're a racist white liberal, but I promise you voter ID is not complicated.
Go to your wallet, extract wallet from pocket, open said wallet, take out license device, show to person.
This is not hard.
I know your liberal dorm room guy is sitting there going, that's discriminatory.
The first question to him, why is that discriminatory?
Because black people can't figure it out.
Dude, that sounds super racist.
Should be the first line coming out of your mouth.
Here's another couple gems, and we'll have to move on.
If you want to read all of them, check out this great article in my show notes today.
Again, Hans von Spakovsky.
Not only a smart guy, but a smart-sounding guy, too.
Here's another couple gems.
Limit absentee ballots.
Absentee ballots should be reserved for those individuals who are too disabled to vote in person, or who will be out of town on election day and all early voting days.
Pretty straightforward, no?
I mean, I showed you no less than four, five, six times how the New York Times in 2012 did a big expose on how mail-in ballots are twice as likely to be rejected for all kinds of reasons than people who show up on voting day and vote in person.
So why would we incentivize using a system of mail-in ballots where even the New York Times themselves has repeatedly acknowledged are more prone to fraud, error, and being rejected?
Why would we do that?
Maybe because you benefit from rejections and frauds and confusion.
I don't know.
Why else would you not want to fix that?
It's a problem.
Let's fix it.
Here's an important one, though.
A very important one.
We have got to stop this disaster known as ballot harvesting.
Now, Hans von Spakovsky has a better name for it.
He calls it vote trafficking.
I like that.
Prevent vote trafficking.
Vote trafficking, also called vote harvesting or ballot harvesting by third parties, should be banned.
Yes!
Amen, Brother Hans!
That would ensure that candidates, campaign staffers, party activists, and political consultants are prohibited from picking up and potentially mishandling or changing absentee ballots and pressuring or coercing vulnerable voters in their homes.
How ballot harvesting, in other words, a third party going out and collecting votes that's not an election official, how that's even a thing is stunning.
How is that allowed?
Listen, point of personal privilege.
I hate the personal stories, but it's important.
I spent a lot of my life in law enforcement.
If you are going to prosecute someone in a trial and you're going to use evidence, say you're going to use this TV remote control.
This is for this monitor we have over there.
We always have on during the show in case you see crazy lights on my face.
That's what that is, right?
So this remote, whatever, was used to beat someone to death.
Be hard, but who knows?
Let's just play the game for a minute.
This was used to beat someone to death, this dreaded remote, maybe the pointy thing or whatever.
If this was evidence and you show up as a law enforcement officer at the scene and you see the evidence, the dreaded bloody remote, right?
Get an evidence bag.
You put gloves on so you don't taint the evidence or you pick it up with some kind of thing where you're not touching the whole thingy.
You go put it in the bag and you sign the chain of custody and you get it right to the lab.
Joe, do you think it's appropriate to give it to the guy outside at the hot dog stand who gives it to the guy in the bagel store who hands it to the UPS guy to mail it to the evidence lab?
Would you do that?
Nah, that's a big no, Dan.
Okay, thank you.
Now, Joe, you were not a police officer, correct?
No, I'm not.
So you have no law enforcement training we know of.
No.
Okay, thank you.
But Joe's a smart guy and figures out that that's probably not a good idea to introduce additional variables into the process.
The variables being bagel store guy, hot dog stand guy, and UPS guy.
So why would we introduce another variable into the most sacred process we have, voting, by allowing people who aren't voters and not voting officials and election officials to handle ballots?
Why would we do that again?
Maybe someone's interested in a middleman.
A middleman who creates a variable.
Why else would you defend it if you weren't interested in it?
Makes you think, huh?
Read that article, the whole article.
It's really, really good and it is worth your time.
I promise you.
You know what?
Let me get to my, let me just get to my third sponsor first.
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I want to get to that.
And the other side of this, I want to get to this FBI note that's emerged.
Just a quick Spygate update again, because more stuff's coming out.
And no, I'm not letting it go because that's what the left wants.
Move on.
Been talking about this forever.
Nothing's going to happen.
I don't care.
The truth is going to happen.
That's what's going to happen.
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All right, getting back to my, Update on Spygate, because it's important.
It'll be quick, but it's worth your time.
You know, if you bought my last book, Follow the Money, you read it or you borrowed it from a library, whatever it may be.
We appreciate it.
But in my last book, I had a chapter on the setup of Mike Flynn, Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, in one of the most disgusting episodes in American history, the abuse of law enforcement to frame and set up a decorated Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
Now, here it is.
It all comes out again.
Talked about it in my book.
Called it.
I've actually spoke to Svetlana Likova about this.
Here's a little FBI note that emerged the other day in this new declassification of documents.
This is just really weird.
So, it talks about how the FBI spy, everybody on the left says, doesn't exist.
Spygate is a conspiracy theory.
There was no spy.
No, no.
This guy was paid by the FBI to go and engage in spy behavior on the Trump campaign.
But the setup of Mike Flynn and how it went down, ladies and gentlemen, is a spy tale for idiots and for the ages that you need to be aware of.
Barack Obama hated Mike Flynn.
We all cool on that?
He hasn't heard this story yet, so maybe it's new to him.
Joe, you've heard it a thousand times, maybe in the US, but it's important.
Obama hated Mike Flynn.
Mike Flynn was his, President Obama's, DIA director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Mike Flynn was one of the highest-ranking intelligence officials in the country under the Obama administration.
Why did Obama hate Flynn?
Because Flynn... What am I doing?
Flynn sniffs something with the Arandio.
She's looking at me like, is something wrong?
Is he okay?
I'm fine.
It was a joke.
Flynn was like, he wasn't really sniffing anything, but he smelled something wrong with the Iran deal, Joe.
Flynn was like, this Iran deal is not a good idea.
You know, I hear them chanting death to America, the whole nuclear thing.
Why exactly are we giving their pallets of cash?
Flynn was all over the Iran deal.
He understood the disaster would be.
Therefore, Obama hated him and they had to take Flynn out.
So what happened?
Back in August of 2016, We find out that the FBI opens up cases on these Trump campaign members, Manafort, Carter Page, and George Papadopoulos, but they don't open up a case on Mike Flynn.
Somebody got really upset at the FBI!
And this FBI spy, CHS, you'll see in this FBI note, confidential human source, all of a sudden shows up the day after they don't open up a case in August of 2016 on Flynn and starts giving up all this information about Mike Flynn.
That CHS is believed by many, confidential human source, otherwise known as a spy, is believed by many to be Stefan Halper.
Now, you know what's weird?
He talks about this dinner Mike Flynn was at.
Back in, I believe, 2015.
And he says, Mike Flynn was at this dinner with this Russian woman, Svetlana Likova, who I know personally, I've spoken to her many times about this exact same event.
And it says the CHS, otherwise the spy, stated that a woman, Svetlana Likova, surprised everyone and got into CR.
CR's Mike Flynn.
That's Crossfire Razor.
That was his codename in the FBI.
Got into CR's cab and joined CR on the train ride to London.
The CHS, in other words, the spy, recalled that Lakova latched onto Flynn when he was at the Redacted.
Interesting.
Interesting why?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, none of that ever happened.
There were multiple witnesses that Mike Flynn left the event in 2015 separately from Svetlana Lakova, who got in a car with her boyfriend.
Who is already attested to that.
So as another DIA official who was at the actual dinner and said, the story is entirely fake.
Do you understand?
By the way, a lot of these details are in my last book, follow the money, but now it's out and official.
We were right again.
Unfortunately, I wish we'd be wrong because we mean we weren't living in under tyranny right now and a weaponized FBI and intelligence community.
What does that mean?
What do they call that?
Joe, what do they call that?
When you didn't do anything wrong and then someone comes in and sets you up.
We call that, I believe that's called being framed.
Yes.
Fair assessment?
We don't need dictionary.com.
Fair assessment.
So just to be clear, I decorated Lieutenant General, a patriot, and the head of our DIA under Barack Obama was framed because Barack Obama had some political beefs with him?
Sounds like what happened Don't worry, folks.
We should all move on, right?
I get these emails sometimes from liberals.
Move on!
Nothing's gonna happen.
No, no.
No, no.
I'm not moving on.
I'm not interested in moving on.
I'm interested in the truth.
And you should be, too.
The truth matters.
If there's no penalty for it, I'm not a DOJ person.
I can't go lock people up.
I'm not an assistant United States attorney.
But dammit, I'm going to expose these people over and over and over again until it's drilled into their heads that, no, I'm not going to let any of this go away.
Sorry.
Too bad.
So sad.
Mike Flynn was framed.
It's now clear as day.
And the story should be everywhere.
It's only the biggest scandal in American history.
All right, moving on.
This is our Economics for Liberals section.
You know, you gotta go slow with them.
So get ready, folks.
I wake up every morning.
Economics is my passion.
Paula loves the economics part of the show.
I try not to do too much of it on the show, because I don't want to beat you over the head with it, because if it was up to me, I would do it, not figuratively, but literally every day.
But I've got a few pieces here of information you need to know, because as the government is getting ready under Joe Biden and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate, effectively, and get ready to pass another monstrous spending measure, the ignorance of economics out there in the public is so profound by liberals, they just believe things that aren't true.
So we're going to go through a few pieces of information one by one.
First, we're going to talk about the Trump tax cuts, a thing lied about so often by the liberals that they've actually convinced themselves their lies are true.
So the great Andy Puzder, who I adore, he does some really great work at the Wall Street Journal, and his social media accounts are really terrific.
He's responding to this liberal, I guess, who says, you know, talking about the Trump tax cuts, giving massive tax cuts to corporations Joe and the wealthy did exactly as expected.
Made them richer at the expense of the American economy.
Republicans' platform is to steal from the middle class to enrich themselves.
So, you know, this is a liberal.
They don't know anything.
Do you understand that?
I need you to get this through your heads to all my listeners, my friends, everyone in my family who listens to this show.
Liberals don't know anything.
They don't.
Their whole world is fake.
I don't want to call them all stupid, but many of them just are.
Because you're either dumb because you don't know anything, or you're dumb because you could know something and you refuse to look into it, or you're dumb because you've heard the truth and you still tell yourselves lies.
So the big lie about the Trump taxes is, oh my gosh, it screwed over the middle class and who benefited the rich?
So Puzder's like, ah, dude, not so much.
Here are just the numbers, you know, numbers, facts, liberals, you know, try just for once, please, to digest a fact and a data point.
Puzder responds, in 2018, the first year under the Trump tax cuts, the top 1% of taxpayers paid $16 billion more in income taxes.
Joey, got that?
You tracking?
Top 1%, Joe, those evil wealthy people, paid $16 billion more the first year under the Trump tax cuts.
Liberals, I know this is hard, we'll go slow.
The bottom 99% paid $80 billion less Puzder says comically, this is the worst tax cut for the rich in history.
By the way, income inequality declined two years in a row, 2018 to 2019, before the play.
It doesn't matter.
I know this isn't going to make a difference to the liberals, especially liberal college kid in the dorm room.
You're listening because your roommate has it up really loud.
There's like a full-blown fight in that dorm room right now.
Looks like that OU kid and the other guy have gotten in a fight.
Have you seen that video, by the way?
Fellas, listen.
Don't ever get into a fight in a bathroom.
Not good.
You know, Guys, miss, if you know what I mean, the floor is not the place to be grappling in a bathroom in a crowded bar.
I'm just throwing that out there.
If you've seen the video, you know what I'm talking about.
But, liberal college kid in the dorm room, even though I just gave you the facts that the top 1% of earners paid more in taxes while the bottom 99% paid less, I know that doesn't matter to you.
Because you'll just lie to yourself anyway.
The top 1%, they got over on me.
They paid more, you guys paid less.
How did they get over on you again?
Can you please explain that to me?
I mean, rationally?
Step outside the insanity box for a moment.
So in our Economics for Liberals segment here today, just gave you some hard data on the Trump tax cuts, because that's going to come up again as Joe Biden tries to institute a tax hike.
Second, here's a video from Katie Porter, a just, dreadfully ignorant House of Representatives member on the Democrat side.
Thinks she's smart, she gets talking points from her staff, really knows very little about anything.
Here's Katie Porter.
Here's a video of her on MSNBC.
Katie Porter, the staff wasn't here to rescue her on this segment, apparently needs a math lesson as she tries, Joe, to make the point that if you dare fight against a $15 an hour minimum wage, you want people to starve to death and you are pulling food right out of their mouths.
Because she hasn't had a math lesson.
Yeah, I know.
What horrible people we are.
Check this out.
Here's the dreadfully ignorant Katie Porter making a fool of herself again on MSNBC, showing how she desperately needs a math lesson.
Check it out.
It translates very directly, and we have research showing this, that when you raise the wage, when you give a low-income family more money, the first thing that they do is they buy more nutritious food, and they buy food.
They stop going hungry at the end of the month or between paychecks.
So this is going to directly translate into improved living conditions, the ability to pay rent, to keep a roof over your head, to reduce homelessness, to be able to put food on the table.
That's what low-income families, minimum wage workers do when they get a hike in the rates.
And when we hear people opposing the minimum wage, I think we have to call them out.
They're literally opposing people being able to feed themselves after a hard day's work.
Joe.
Yes.
Joe, notice the misuse again, which you know is my pet peeve of the word literally.
If you oppose this, you literally want people to starve and die to die right there on the spot.
No eating ever.
No eating for you!
Like the soup cat from the Seinfeld.
No, no food for you!
No food for you!
Paula, you used to eat at that place, right?
You know the soup guy?
Yeah.
You're ruining my thing.
Yeah, she ate there.
She's just lying.
Thank you, she ate there.
I thought she did, seriously.
She worked downtown.
That guy was in Midtown.
Shame on me, but she definitely ate there.
So Katie Porter says, Joe, there is research, Armacost, there's research on this.
There's research indicating, yeah, you didn't know this?
Come on, what do you mean?
You didn't know that if you oppose the $15 an hour minimum wage, one, you definitely want people to die of starvation, literally.
Today, but there's research that it increases their quality of life.
They get more nutritious food.
They can put roofs over their heads.
There, there is, there's research about that.
I must've missed that because I just want and put in a search engine, very simple, Joe, Katie Porter is a member of Congress, correct?
So I went to the congressional budget office.
Is that right?
Guy, is that right?
You're messing with a congressor.
That is the Congressional Budget, correct?
Okay.
For those of you who think I'm messing with you, I will actually, because the liberal, especially liberal college kid in the dorm room, I will put the link to the Congressional Budget website report on my show notes today for the liberal college kid to read in case you think I'm making this up.
So Katie Porter, Grotesquely ignorant Congresswoman says there's definitely research about how much minimum wage improves the lot of people, prevents them from starving.
Those Republicans want to rip food from their mouths.
So I looked it up and that's actually not what the research says from the Congressional Budget Office.
She's a member of Congress.
Member of Congress.
It's not the Dan Bongino Budget Office.
This is from February 8th, 2021.
I'm not really good about dates, but what's today's date?
26th.
So, okay, not that long ago.
The budgetary effects of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021.
Says if the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 was enacted March of 2021, the cumulative budget deficit over the 2021-2031 period would increase by $54 billion.
Okay, so you got that.
What else we got there?
We got a little screen cap from this piece.
Let's see all this research they have here.
Employment would be reduced, this can't be, reduced.
Am I reading, Joe, you're on this, I know your eyes are not as sharp as they were when you were, you know, a young like Archer, you know, from the Hunger Games and all, but that does say employment would be reduced, correct?
By 1.4 million workers.
It can't be because she told us research said that not only would employment go up, but people would be much better off.
So employment would be reduced by 1.4 million workers or 0.9% according to CBO's average estimate.
But the number of, don't worry though, the number of people in poverty would be reduced by 0.9 million.
So this is really crazy because again, simple math here.
1.4 million people have no job, employment would be reduced, while 900,000 people get a little bit of a raise.
Katie's a math genius, right?
Like, what am I getting wrong?
Is there something I'm screwing up here?
So you're talking about 500,000 more people who have no job.
What are you laughing at?
You can't let her see the villain of the day.
This is the greatest tease ever happening in live time.
I have this story that is so funny.
My only regret is I've seen it so many times that it's losing its funniness.
Paula just saw it for the first time.
She is dying laughing at it, but that's how funny the villain of the day is.
Not a joke.
All right, back to this because it's serious.
500,000 more people, according to Katie Porter's own CBO, will lose their job.
Then we'll benefit at all from the minimum wage.
But she's telling us, if you support... Joe, if you dare fight this... Wow, now you're all loud.
Ooh, boy.
Man, eardrum buster right there.
Now all of a sudden I can hear Armacost.
If you dare fight this, these 500,000... Now you're perfect.
500,000 people who are going to be fired.
You are literally pulling food from the mouths of people you want to starve to death.
Right there.
Star...
You still, that's a funny story.
It's funny, right?
Did you, you didn't see the story either, Joe?
Did you see that on the screen?
He doesn't see that, right?
Okay.
No.
All right.
All right.
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All right.
Let's do Forbes quick.
Skip to Bongino.com.
I'll have that in the show notes.
Let's do red state.
What happened to the flu is coming up.
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The flu is like disappeared.
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All right, on our Economics for Liberals segment, returning for that because they really need facts and data and stuff, you know, these people who think we can just run up government debt forever.
And to be fair, that's a lot of spendthrift Republicans, too.
I called out the debt in the Trump presidency, too, so no one's going to claim I'm a hypocrite on this.
We are running up debt levels never seen, I mean, literally never seen in human history.
Forbes has a really fascinating article I've been trying to get to all week.
It is up in the show notes today, and I encourage you to read it.
Go to bongito.com.
It's about five consequences of the massive government debt we are running up, unprecedented in human history.
Literally, the article is called, Five Consequences of U.S.
Debt at Near 50 Trillion.
This was from 2020, October.
We haven't even spent the $1.9 trillion.
We haven't even passed it yet.
John Malden, senior contributor.
Here's just a couple.
You may be saying to yourself, ah, don't worry.
I'm a liberal.
I'm the liberal college kid in the dorm room.
We can just tax our way out of this.
Really?
Because here's a quote from the Forbes piece.
Even if we double taxes on the top 25%, you know, those evil rich people you keep talking about?
It would only bring in another 1.3 trillion, and that's assuming people don't change their behavior.
A 75% marginal rate plus 4% Medicare for a 79% top tax rate certainly will change behavior.
A less shocking 20 to 25% increase would only bring in about $3 billion to $400 billion.
I would have to raise rates on incomes over 83,000.
So think about this.
If those evil rich people you keep talking about in the top 25%, I'm not just talking about the 1%, I'm talking about raising taxes on the top 25%, because the 1%, you'd only get a fraction of this.
Even if people did nothing, like avoided paying the taxes, which they do when they move out of the country or do municipal bonds or tax shelters or whatever it may be, even if they did that, Joe, they would raise 1.3 trillion.
The deficit next year alone, Alone next year is going to be probably over two trillion.
You don't even meet, forget about the budget, you don't even meet the deficit for next year.
And that's one year and then the money's gone.
So there's nothing to get the year after that when you try to spend even more.
So there's no possible, and that's assuming they don't change their behavior, which is literally, Katie Porter, never happened.
You tax people a lot, they engage in the American pastime.
What is it, Joe?
It's tax avoidance.
Tax evasion is a crime.
Tax avoidance is an American pastime.
Just ask Al Sharpton and John Kerry.
Here's another tidbit from the Forbes article for all you big spendthrift liberals going, ah, there's no consequence.
It's denominated in U.S.
government assets.
We can print all we want and spend it.
Really?
Quote, death's future income brought forward.
There is a point at which the debt becomes a drag on U.S.
economic growth, and we've probably reached it.
GDP growth in the U.S.
is going to increasingly look like Japan and or Europe, i.e.
almost nil.
So the CBO's continued 2% average growth forecast will simply get thrown out the window, and the deficits will, will get worse.
I've done my homework here, folks.
I can't warn you anymore.
I'm sorry.
Not to the conservatives.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk.
To the liberals listening and to the moderate Democrats listening who are convinced you can spend your money into an abyss.
I've warned you for years.
I have warned you we are spending ourselves into the most predictable financial crisis in American history.
And you just continue to move and just bow, whistling past the graveyard.
I am a terrible whistler.
I've never figured out how to do that.
Joe is a great whistler.
Joe can whistle anything.
Whistling past the graveyard.
Plays the harmonica too.
He's very talented.
It's gonna happen.
It is a mathematical certainty we as a country will go bankrupt.
Now we can print our way out of it.
I'm talking about a de facto bankruptcy, not a de jure one.
De facto bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy meaning you have all the money in the world, it just doesn't buy you anything.
You know, I thought of an analogy.
I'm sorry, I want to get this red state story.
What happened to the fluids in porn?
But just quickly, here's what I mean by that.
I was thinking about this.
I was sitting there, shaving after the show, thinking about stuff.
There's always some stuff moving around, a mush in my melon, right?
Imagine a world where the zombie apocalypse is broken out.
I'm serious, for a moment.
I promise you, this has a point.
And there's you and 5,000, 6,000 people left, and that's it.
Everyone else has been eaten by the zombies or whatever.
So you scavenge, you go in their house, you find open safes.
There's 20, 30,000 in cash, 50,000 in cash.
You get it all.
Joe, you got millions.
30, 40 million in cash.
Why not, right?
You've got the paper.
People left it out.
They're all dead.
They don't need it.
You're not really stealing from them.
It's great, right?
Joe, you're in great shape.
You got your 20 million, right?
Fantastic, right?
What's the problem?
You're rich, right?
You're rich.
You're nominally rich.
You're not bankrupt.
You have actual money.
The problem is it's not actually an exchange of value because it's not actually worth anything anymore.
You ever think of that?
Actually, it is worse Sunday, Joe.
It's really good in your fireplace to keep that fire going as a little bit of Kindle.
That's what we're doing to our money.
You may have a whole bunch of it, but it's not gonna buy you anything.
All right, so onto our flu story.
What the heck happened to the flu?
Great story in red state.
Again, the show notes are, there's a ringer show notes today.
You gotta check them out.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
Sorry to beat you over the head with that today, but it's important.
The stories are really good.
This is one of the great medical mysteries of our time right now.
Red state.
This is not meant to be in any way humorous.
It's not.
Everybody seriously wants to know what the hell happened to the flu.
Michael Tao.
About that mysterious decline in flu cases.
Look at these numbers on the flu.
I mean, they're almost hard to believe.
Check this out.
So in 2019, about 40,000 flu tests were reported by week six.
This is 2019 with roughly 26% positive.
For 2016 through 2020, an average of around 44,000 flu tests had been reported by week six of flu season, roughly 25% of which were positive.
Yet by the six-week Joe of 2021, CDC figures show that only 17 Not 70%.
Only 17 of the over 40,800 reported flu tests reported to the CDC were positive, which comes to a minuscule 0.04%.
What the hell?
Like, seriously, what happened to the flu?
It says, if these numbers are to be believed, flu cases have declined by a factor of over 600 this year compared to the previous five-year average.
Pretty cool piece.
Even Guy's like, huh?
Did you not read that?
He gets to cheat before.
Pretty cool stuff.
What happened?
This is good.
No flu, but where'd the flu go?
The piece goes into a few different theories.
One of them you're probably thinking right now is like, oh, well, you know, especially if, you know, you're someone who believes in a lot of the Fauci-isms.
A lot of you are probably saying, well, people are wearing masks, there's social distancing.
It's actually, well, it may have something to do with it.
I'm certainly not a medical doctor.
It may, maybe it does.
But they dispute that in the piece because it's interesting, Joe, these flu cases are down regardless of places that locked down versus that didn't, places where masks were mandatory, places where they weren't.
The flu is still almost nowhere to be found, no matter what happened with masks and social distancing and lockdowns or not.
So it's probably unlikely, that's the whole reason.
So what could it be?
Here's what I think is the most plausible one from the piece.
There's this researcher, Dunn.
He notes that given the massive influx of COVID tests to labs that they're doing this year, there's a likelihood that those COVID tests in labs are being prioritized.
And the fact that it will take at least several days before someone can see a doctor and then go get tested for the flu, It's entirely possible that the alleged vanishing flu is not real, that it's nothing more than an artifact of the small window to test someone who has the flu and gets a positive result.
Let me translate for you quickly, because I read the whole piece.
I'll give you the CliffsNotes cheat sheet here.
Unlike COVID, your window while you're infected with the flu to test positive is very, very small.
COVID, you probably have a few days.
It's very small with the flu.
What they're saying is, with everybody rushing in for COVID tests, bottling up the labs and the doctor's appointments, let's say, Joe, you have flu symptoms.
You call the doc.
He's like, hey, brother, I can't get you in until next week.
By the time you get in and get the flu test, the test is already, it's not going to work.
You're already going to test negative.
I read all the explanations in the piece.
They're all good.
All have merit, I think.
But I think that's the most viable one that the flu probably didn't vanish.
There's another theory in there about competing viruses, like a UFC match or something.
I don't know.
That one sounds kind of farfetched, but check it out.
I think that one with the lab test sounds like the most viable.
That's why I put it in there.
I'm not laughing, but this story, I can't, Paula, this is the thing Paula was laughing about.
You know, we usually do a hero of the day, but this is the anti-hero villain of the day.
So I'm in the doctor's office.
I had to get some blood taken.
You know, I'm always, I'm always, I'm in a doctor's office like twice a week now.
I swear, like I know every single, A person in the doctor's office, by first, the administrative staff, the nurses, or whatever.
I'm reading this story.
I am cracking up.
The guy next to me, he recognizes me from Fox, even with the mask on.
He's looking at me like, dude, are you, like, what are you, like, what's going on?
Like, are you okay?
Do you need medication or something?
I am dying, like, knee slapping laughter.
Why?
I see this story.
(laughing)
What the?
So.
(laughing)
I have this up in the show notes too in case you want to show your liberal friends
So apparently some U.S.
diplomats who work in China were returning to China and upon returning, headline, China gave U.S.
diplomats anal COVID tests.
In error, American officials say.
[LAUGHTER]
This is not a joke.
Listen to the Hazzan bed line by Viola Zhao.
I love you, Viola.
I don't know you.
Vice, I think, is a left wing.
But Viola Zhao, you've done America a favor.
This is the story we all needed today.
The U.S.
State Department is saying, object to this show.
Gee, you think?
That wasn't it.
Gee, who made that call?
What a real hero.
The U.S.
My State Department says it's committed to preserving the quote, dignity of American
diplomats.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine?
You walk in him.
I have traveled under a dip passport, diplomatic passport before, and you're supposed to be
given diplomatic privileges.
When you come in through customs in foreign countries, a lot of them have a dip line.
Diplomats here, I'm not kidding.
And you get to skip the line for the general population.
Gen pop.
You do, you get to skip.
Imagine being in that dip line and thinking like, I really scored.
I skipped this line going back into China.
And they're like, sir, drop them, drop them here.
We're going to do the, we're going to do the swab.
Why am I dropping?
No, it's the anal swab instead.
And the dude, I'm not doing the anal swab.
The villain of the day is definitely the dude at the Chinese border crossing in the airport who thought it was a good idea to do the anal swab rather than maybe just asking people, you know, when I was going into him, To hospital in Houston for treatment every day.
You go in, they give you this little green band and they ask you a few questions.
Have you been around anyone with COVID?
Are you feeling any symptoms?
Whatever.
You running a temperature?
I think that's okay.
I think that's okay for China too.
I'm pretty sure we don't need the anal swab for the diplomats.
Let's preserve our national dignity.
And thank you to the hero who took a stand on that one and said, no more anal swabs upon entry back into China for our diplomats.
And if you are that Chinese individual, the anal swabber, you are our villain of the day on Friday.
Let me end on a good note.
Thank you to everyone.
Um, this was a press release.
My partners at Westwood have one put out.
Paul is still laughing about this story.
Moving on.
Uh, we just hit and congratulations to my whole crew, uh, Drew, Paula, Gi, Joe, who's been with me from the beginning.
I mean, literally from the first show in 2015.
Radio Online, The Dan Bongino Show, hits its 100th affiliate milestone.
Proud of that.
I, uh, we are now on 100 radio stations across the country.
We're in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston.
Yeah, man.
I mean, I know it's a big deal to Joe too.
Joe grew up in radio.
He'd been on the radio a long time and we're now becoming a really big force in terrestrial radio.
And, um, I really appreciate it.
I gave a simple quote.
I meant it.
I wrote it myself.
It's not something like a PR firm wrote up, but I wrote, you know, growing up a fan of conservative talk radio makes the moment extra special for me.
To be able to reach people across the country with a strong pro-liberty, pro-freedom message, you just took that down.
You absolutely killed my momentum, Paula!
Killed it!
I was motoring right there!
Is the honor of a lifetime, said Panchito, before Paula cut him off.
But I still love her.
I'll at least get my last line in there.
She literally cut me off.
She decided she was gonna change the thing for some reason.
I said, also, special thanks as well to the affiliates partnering up with us in this venture.
It means a lot to me.
I did grow up on conservative talk radio.
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the great one.
So being in 100 stations across the country, thanks to you, means a lot.
You know, you're not supposed to say, um, and on the radio, but I get uncomfortable.
Self-praise stinks.
But this is all your success.
I can only listen to the show once.
You all have made it the success it is.
So thank you very much.
It's been a great week.
I really appreciate your patience with the slow, dreaded news cycles lately, but I promise you, we will always find interesting things to talk about to make you more informed after the show than you were before you two did.
I will see you all at CPAC a little later, and I will see you all on Monday.
