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You know, I noticed something at the Biden press conference yesterday.
I noticed something I think a few people missed.
About the way the press conference was set up that should set off some kind of alarm bells with everyone.
I'm going to get to that and I also just want to make the quick point in the beginning that, you know, Trump did it better.
He just did it better.
He just did it better.
This was, I mean, Trump answered questions from everyone all the time.
Even that fake news dude, Jim Acosta at CNN, right?
What did we see yesterday?
That wasn't a press conference.
That was like a scripted high school play.
He even had little notes.
Even have little notes and a binder.
I thought binders full of stuff were bad.
Some of you will get the joke.
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I forgot, Joe, it is Friday.
I got a little distracted in the beginning of the show, given my excitement about it.
So if you would, again, in your worst 1960s game show voice, let us know it's Friday, please.
It's Friday!
We only skipped that once in the last few years on a very dreadful Friday that was, but today's a pretty darn good one.
Uh, listen, Trump just did it better folks.
Okay.
He just did it better.
Uh, he did press conferences better.
He was just a more exciting guy.
Uh, but Biden's not only absolutely boring.
I mean, like on a 100 scale on the excitement scale, he's like a 1.6.
He's just a disaster for the country too.
So I want to go through this three big takeaways from the press conference yesterday.
And we have our interview with Kristi Noem.
She made it to the interview yesterday.
So don't go anywhere.
Let's go to takeaway number one.
Something I noticed that I didn't see anyone else cover.
Joe Biden's cognitive condition is clearly worsening.
Nothing funny about it.
It's not a joke.
He is clearly deteriorating mentally rapidly at this point.
I've told you repeatedly that sources have told me, multiple sources, That his condition is bad.
Very bad.
That people know it's bad and that they're hiding it.
That's why they hide.
That's why he's called Hidin' Biden.
I want you to look at this video first of how Donald Trump Did an East room press conference.
So if you're, if you're listening on audio, I'll describe it to you.
Uh, but if you're watching on video rumble.com slash Bongino, if you'd like to watch the video, I want to play this video of Donald Trump walking out to the East room of the white house.
This was an East room press conference.
So if you're looking at the front of the white house from Pennsylvania Avenue, this is to the left.
This is the farthest room to the left of the White House on the residential side, okay?
It's the East Room.
I want you to play this.
This is Donald Trump walking out to a press conference in the East Room.
And given that this was Biden's first one, you'd probably see the majesty of it.
You got that?
There you go.
So you'll see, there he goes, walking out of the door.
You see him walking.
There you go.
This is the same room, folks.
He's walking into the room.
Now, what did you notice about that?
Well, if you're watching, you'll notice that when I play the Biden clip of him during his press conference, it looks awfully different.
Some of you have seen this.
If you're listening on audio, you see that long, majestic hallway.
Remember when Trump and Kavanaugh walked out and they wanted to celebrate Kavanaugh, his nomination.
They walked down the long hallway in the White House.
You've seen it, right?
They do that because it looks majestic and presidential.
You see Trump doing it there.
Now, here's another press conference in the East Room.
Again, I haven't heard anyone talk about this.
Sometimes, in pressers in the East Room that are done with foreign dignitaries, they'll set it up like this.
Watch Trump walk out to this one with the Finnish president that Joe was kind enough to cut for us.
Play that one if you don't mind.
So here you'll notice, there we go, you see him walking out again.
And he walks to a different side of the East Room over there.
But now, if you noticed this clip yesterday, you'll notice this looks totally different.
So you have the room on the east side of the White House that has an east wall, that has a south wall, and a north wall.
And you wonder, gosh, what's going on here?
Why does this look different?
Play this cut of Joe Biden, and I get what you're thinking.
I know, I can read Guy's mind too.
Joe, I already told what's going on, so he knows.
You're probably thinking, I don't get what this has to do with Joe Biden's cognitive condition.
Halt!
Stand easy, as they used to tell us in the Police Academy muster deck.
Stand easy!
Watch the video, listen to Joe Biden lose himself mid-sentence, so you'll see his cognitive condition.
He can't even remember what he was talking about.
But I want you just to pay attention to the view and how this looks totally different than pressers we traditionally see in the East Room of the White House.
Play that cut.
The best way to get something done, if you hold near and dear to you, that you like to be able to... Anyway.
We're going to get a lot done.
Looks a little different, no?
You notice that's along the South Wall.
We don't typically see that view.
What could be going on here?
Some of you may be catching on.
Folks, listen, it's not unheard of for the President, Trump, Obama, Bush, whoever it was, to do a press conference in the East Room with the South Wall of the East Room as a backdrop.
But for a first press conference, for this big majestic moment, you would think they would want the view you saw first.
President Trump walking down or President Biden walking down this big majestic hallway looking presidential.
That's typically how it's done.
The backup is typically doing it along the East Wall.
Why would they do it along the South Wall where the view is the worst?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, because that's the closest to the door.
It's just kind of weird.
Maybe they wanted to Keep Biden from... I don't want to say too much because people tell me things.
Maybe they were just a little nervous about having Biden having to walk too far to the podium.
Just looks a little strange, doesn't it?
You think I'm just like randomly making this up?
Hmm.
Let's see if they do it the other way next time.
Make him do the long majestic walk.
They're worried about this guy.
You can see it in his condition, deteriorating rapidly.
That's my first big takeaway from the press conference yesterday.
So I have three.
That's number one.
Just one, his condition, losing himself mid-sentence.
But secondly, again, I'm not suggesting it doesn't happen ever, that South Wall uses a backdrop, but for a press conference this big, it's very strange they would do it that way.
Let's go to number two.
Some more important takeaways.
It's kind of a minor thing I noticed, but, you know, we'll see.
This guy's gutless.
He's weak, and he will use race as a weapon because he doesn't have anything else, Joe Biden.
He is.
He is a gutless wonder.
He will use race as a weapon to attack Republicans because that's what Joe Biden does, because he has no principles, no guts, and no backbone.
I want to play this video first where he talks about this new voter integrity law that was just signed into law by Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia.
Which made it more robust to verify voters are who they say they are, and really did some solid things to prevent voter fraud.
So this new bill passed yesterday, and Biden, of course, instead of talking about common sense, simple things like voter integrity, free and fair elections, has to go back to the race card because Joe Biden doesn't have anything else.
Listen to this cut of him He's talking about, just to be clear, this Georgia voter law and H.R.
1, these voter integrity measures Republicans won.
And he has to go back to the race card again.
Check this out.
I'm going to spend my time doing three things.
One, trying to figure out how to pass the legislation passed by the House.
Number one.
Number two, educating the American public.
The Republican voters I know find this despicable.
Republican voters, folks outside this White House.
I'm not talking about the elected officials.
I'm talking about voters.
Voters.
And so I'm convinced that we'll be able to stop this because it is the most pernicious thing.
This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.
I mean, this is gigantic, what they're trying to do.
And it cannot be sustained.
I'll do everything in my power, along with my friends in the House and the Senate, to keep that from becoming the law.
Who in Hades is Jim Eagle, by the way?
Jim Eagle?
Is that a comic book character from the 40s?
I have no idea where he got that from, Jim Eagle.
But moving on, because I don't want to waste any time here.
I've got a ton to get to and substantive stuff.
He makes two points there.
The first point is, hey listen, these voter ID laws and voter integrity measures like the one in Georgia, even Republicans don't support them.
Everyone's with me in trying to get these things thrown out.
Really?
That's really weird.
And point number two is he tries to make the point that these things are racist, indicative of Jim Crow.
Listen, nobody actually takes this stuff seriously.
Sane people, liberal lunatics do because they're lunatics.
But sane people don't actually take these charges seriously.
But that's really weird.
Let's address this second point.
That these voter integrity measures are somehow indicative of racist policies like Jim Crow.
That's really odd because as Karl Rove points out in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece today entitled, Blue State Voter Suppression, where's the outcry over Democrats earlier poll closing hours and ID rules, Karl Rove makes the point that the Items implemented in the Georgia voter integrity measure that Biden's swearing are racist and indicative of Jim Crow already exist in blue states.
Joe, that's really strange.
I'm reasonably confident Jim Crow laws don't exist in those blue states.
I'm just going to throw that out there.
Pretty confident on that one.
That's a hell I'll die on.
Here, from Karl Rove's piece.
Democrats are particularly upset with requiring Georgians voting by mail to provide the number from their driver's license, free state-provided ID, or other generally accepted identification.
Biden's like, oh my gosh, Jim Crow!
Really?
Rove says if this is racist, then New Jersey, Virginia, and California, you know those hotbeds of conservatism, Joking, of course.
Are suppression hotbeds.
New Jersey requires a driver's license number or the last four digits of a social for online voter registration.
While Virginia requires both a photo ID card and your social security number.
California, hardly a red stronghold, also requires ID to register.
Where are the bitter denunciations of these states' racist Democratic governors and legislatures?
Nowhere!
Because these people, like Biden, are gutless, character-free buffoons who are just lying to you.
Folks, again, I wake up every morning with the purpose of this show to correct the litany of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracies being mainlined into your veins by liberal media lunatics and their party propagandists who support them.
This is all made up.
Do you understand they make this stuff up?
Joe Biden.
Voters support me, not voter ID laws.
We're on the right.
This is all Jim Crow.
Really?
The same thing's being done in Democrat states.
As for his other ridiculous assertion that even Republicans are with him in trying to wipe out voter ID laws, this just took a simple internet search.
Washington Examiner piece.
I'll put in the newsletter today.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
Andrew Mark Miller.
Poll.
69% of black voters and 75% of overall voters support voter ID laws.
Folks, do these people ever tell you the truth?
Ever.
Do you ever ask yourself that?
Are you ever embarrassed to be a liberal?
I'm serious.
Do you wake up in the morning convinced you're on the right side of history despite a cornucopia of facts kicking you in the cojones every morning?
Nothing you're saying is true.
Voter ID in Georgia.
That's Jim Crow.
Really?
It's happening right now in California, Virginia, and New Jersey.
Is that Jim Crow?
No, no, not that.
Those are Democrat governors.
Oh, it's only Jim Crow if it happens in a Republican-leaning state?
Does that make any sense?
It does if you're a moron.
Voters are with me.
Really?
Based on what?
The polling?
That three quarters of voters aren't with you?
That means voters are with you.
25% of people support your position.
That means the voters are with you.
In Joe Biden's math world of Al Gore math, he's probably right.
However, in the same universe where the laws of arithmetic apply, he's absolutely wrong.
Again, point number one, this man's condition is worsening, and I think people get it.
They are limiting his exposure.
I think his walks, too.
They are limiting everything this guy does.
Point number two, he is gutless, weak, and will use race to lie to you.
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So, I want to play another video.
He's obviously gutless.
He's lying to you about voter ID.
He has no support.
A quarter or less of voters support his position that voter ID is no good.
Claiming, again, it's Jim Crow to ask for ID during voting, which is nonsense.
It's going on all over the country.
It's just stupid.
But he tried to make another point yesterday about the filibuster.
Joe Biden, who's a, you know, listen, honest Joe, lunchbucket Joe, folks, you know, he dignified American, but we're back to, we're back to normality, right?
The liberal media wants you to believe.
Here's the presser yesterday.
Caitlin Collins asks President Biden yesterday if he believes the filibuster.
If he believes the filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow.
So again, showing you this guy's character free, I'm going to give you his answer and then I'm going to go and show some video.
So the filibuster is racist of a black Senator supporting the filibuster.
It'd be really weird if it was racist.
And a former Senator who had a lot of juice at one time defending the filibuster too.
First, here's his answer yesterday to Caitlin Collins question.
Check this out.
Regarding the filibuster, at John Lewis's funeral, President Barack Obama said he believed the filibuster was a relic of the Jim Crow era.
Do you agree?
Yes.
If not, why not abolish it if it's a relic of the Jim Crow era?
Successful electoral politics is the art of the possible.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Let's figure out how we can get this done.
and move in the direction of significantly changing the abuse of even the filibuster rule first.
It's been abused from the time it came into being by an extreme way in the last 20 years.
Let's deal with the abuse first.
It sounds like you're moving closer to eliminating the filibuster.
Is that correct?
I answered your question.
There you go.
So it's racist.
It's a relic of Jim Crow and he is working towards getting rid of the filibuster.
Okay.
So if it's racist, you would think a prominent black United States Senator would be very hesitant to support this relic from Jim Crow.
This obviously racist act of political action.
Totally racist, Joe.
Let's play this video of a prominent United States senator, happens to be black, defending this racist Jim Crow awful tool being used by the Senate to stop legislation the minority party doesn't like.
Let's check this out.
But the American people sent us here to be their voice.
They understand that those voices can at times become loud and argumentative, but they also hope that we can disagree without being disagreeable.
And at the end of the day, they expect both parties to work together to get the people's business done.
What they don't expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, To change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.
The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, If they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.
I forgot to mention that prominent United States Senator was a Democrat.
And he went on to do something big.
What was it?
Let me think this one through for a moment.
Joe, do you remember that guy?
Yeah, he looks pretty familiar.
He looks familiar.
Oh, it was Barack Obama!
No!
No way!
Barack Obama's defending this racist relic?
Just ask Barack Obama!
That's a video of him!
We didn't edit it!
There he is!
Barack Obama!
Oh, and you know what?
This is even more bizarre.
I believe Joe Biden was his vice president.
I'm gonna have to check that.
Maybe Wikipedia or something like that.
But I'm pretty sure Joe Biden was his vice president.
So Biden says he agrees with Obama that the filibuster's racist, despite the fact that Obama's on the record saying he supports the filibuster, not only gives vigorous support of the filibuster, and what's even more strange about it is Biden was his vice president.
I just, really again, odd how this continues to happen, how we continue to expose Joe Biden as the complete fraud and phony that he is.
But here's another very powerful, prominent United States Senator.
This is from a while ago, so the video audio are a little grainy, but this prominent US Senator, who happens to be a Democrat too, here is him, he's so upset that the Republicans May have considered dumping the filibuster.
He is vigorously defending it on video audio.
Check this out.
The nuclear option abandons America's sense of fair play.
It's the one thing this country stands for.
Not killing the player in the field and the side of those who control and own the field.
I say to my friends on the Republican side, you may own the field right now.
But you won't own it forever.
And I pray God, when the Democrats take back control, we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.
But I'm afraid you will teach my new colleagues the wrong lesson.
By the way, folks, again, I'm very sorry I neglected to mention that's Joe Biden.
Huh.
Now the president was Barack Obama.
Yeah, I know.
I surprised Joe on that one.
Joe actually saw the video before.
But he feigns surprise as good as anyone.
I'm stunned that that's actually Joe Biden, who is acknowledging that yesterday, he says, acknowledges and affirms that he believes the filibuster is a racist relic because Barack Obama said it.
He agrees with Barack Obama, despite both him and Barack Obama both being on tape defending the filibuster.
He prayed to God about it.
His words, not mine.
Not using the Lord's name in vain.
Joe Biden, I pray to God that we don't do that.
Well, you must not have been praying that hard.
He's gutless.
This is a gutless, weak man.
Oh, but he's so nice.
Lunchbucket jaw.
Yeah, okay.
What a sucker.
You believe that?
He's an unrepentant liar, is what he is.
Unrepentant.
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So takeaway number three, Joe Biden just can't stop lying.
He seems to have a real problem with this thing we call the truth, something unfamiliar to Biden and many members, sadly, of the Biden family.
Well, what do I mean?
You're going to back that up with facts, Dan?
Don't we always?
We don't waste your time here.
Let's play this video of Joe Biden claiming yesterday... Joe, don't worry.
There's no surge at the border.
You're lying eyes, you know, Joe?
You're watching Fox News too much and you're seeing videos.
It's clearly your eyes deceiving you.
Got to change out those contacts or whatever.
So here's Joe Biden during the presser yesterday claiming, don't worry, folks, there is no surge at the border.
Numbers and data, they're all lying to you.
And he's the one you should believe.
Check this out.
It happens every single solitary year.
There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March.
It happens every year.
In addition to that, there is a — and nobody — and by the way, does anybody suggest that there was a 31 percent increase under Trump because he was a nice guy and he was doing good things at the border?
That's not the reason they're coming.
The reason they're coming is that it's the time they can travel with the least likelihood of dying on the way because of the heat in the desert.
So I looked it up because numbers matter and Joe Biden is clearly immune to facts and the truth.
He's not really, he's just a liar.
He knows what he said is stupid.
So here are the actual numbers, folks.
Let's see, and for the liberals listening, these are the actual, this is government data, okay?
So we have data from, so you love the big daddy government, they're your peeps, right?
So we can trust this, right?
According to you, because it's from the government.
So try to process this information.
I know, you know, you can be a little slow with this stuff.
So tell me again, after this data, that there's no, quote, surge at the border, that this is just normal and seasonal.
2015, 24,000 people during this same time period.
This February-March time period.
2016, 26,000 people apprehended.
2017, 18,000 people.
2018, 26,000.
2019, 66,000.
Had a little bump there.
2020, last year under Trump, 30,000.
2021, wait for it, clearly this'll be in line with numbers we've seen in the past.
Seasonal, right, Joe?
That's what he said.
30, 26K, 66K is a high.
He said that.
Joe Biden said you heard, you all heard that, right?
The number of 2021, 100,000.
About three times what we've seen during every other season during the Trump administration, despite 2019 after they had a bump there.
But even the 2019 bump is nowhere close to the surge we've seen under Joe Biden.
But again, Libs, I know none of this is gonna- I get it.
None of this will get through.
I totally understand.
I know you're immune to facts.
I get it.
I'm just putting this out there for the sane people who watch my show, who will process this and say, okay, Joe Biden's not lying.
It's clearly not seasonal.
Even the worst year we've had in the last six years was nowhere close to what we have now under Joe Biden.
But again, don't let that get in the way of your argument.
I understand you'll continue to lie.
Okay, here's another one.
This is under bullet point three of the three big takeaways, right?
Here's another video of Biden lying about the Trump tax cuts.
Yet again, check this out.
Don't you find it kind of interesting that my Republican friends were worried about that the cost and the taxes that had to be had, if there is any tax to be had as they talk about it, in dealing with the act that we just passed, which puts money in people's pockets, ordinary people.
Do you hear them complain when they passed a close to $2 trillion Trump tax cut?
83% going to the top 1%?
Do you hear them talk about that at all?
It's so easy, it's so easy.
It's so easy, it's so- Remember that song, Joe?
I know you're more of a pop culture guy than I am.
Yeah, I was a real doozy.
So, 83% of the Trump tax cuts went to the top 1%.
Is that a fact?
Of course not, Joe Biden said it.
Here's an article of Breitbart.
I will have in my newsletter today.
Again, Bongino.com slash newsletter to get my newsletter every day.
Fact check.
Joe Biden claims nearly all the Trump tax cuts went to the wealthy John Carney.
Is that true or false?
Of course it's false.
Joe Biden said it.
Let's look at the actual data from the Breitbart article.
And then I'll actually show you the tax cuts showing you again, Joe Biden's just making this up.
Quote Breitbart, the nonpartisan tax policy center estimated in 2018 that the top 1% would get 20.5% of the tax cuts.
That can't be, Joe!
Biden said they got 83%!
Yeah!
Of course, what does that mean?
That means either the nonpartisan tax policy center is lying or Joe Biden's lying.
I'm going to venture to say it's Joe Biden that's lying.
Just throwing that out there.
Goes on.
The top 20% would get 65.3% of the tax cuts.
Not surprising because higher income people pay most of the income tax.
So cuts to income taxes tend to benefit them.
Liberals are scratching their heads right now.
Oh my gosh, that's too much information.
I can't really process that.
Let me show you the actual Trump tax cuts, by the way, again, from not a partisan site, from Investopedia.
Investopedia.
It's not some, again, bastion of right-wing values.
Investopedia, quote, explaining the Trump tax reform plan.
So let's look at who actually got an income tax cut.
Again, to thoroughly refute Biden's nonsense that it went to the wealthy.
Again, already refuted by the Tax Policy Center.
Let's look at the rates.
So if you were really rich and you were in the top bracket, folks, your rate fell from 39.6 to 37.
That's a 2.6 percentage point tax cut.
All right, so wealthy folks did get a tax cut.
The next level down, so you're doing pretty well, the 33% bracket, you dropped to 32, so you got a one percentage point cut.
So that's really your rich people.
Now we start getting to the middle class tax cuts.
28% bracket fell to 24%.
That's 4%.
Joe, keep these, these are very complicated numbers.
Keep these in your head if you would.
I'm going to need a favor from you in a moment.
Okay.
So the middle class, upper middle class got a 4% point tax cut.
Then you're talking about the middle class below them, their bracket went from 25% to 22%.
So they got a 3% tax cut.
Hmm.
And then kind of lower middle class went from 15% to 12%, a three percentage point tax cut.
So Joe, I'm going to do some very complicated math.
I want you to tell me now what number is greater.
The rich who got a tax cut of 2.6 percentage points or the middle class, which got a three or 4% percentage point tax cut.
Take a moment to think this through.
What number is larger?
Three or four?
Or 2.6.
If you need a pen, I will give you a moment.
Please.
What number is larger?
3 or 4 or 2.6?
You always do this.
4.
Um, you always do this.
A four.
Four is larger.
Am I?
All right!
Einsteinian intellect right here.
My man.
Armacost comes through in the clutch again, even though, as he said, I do this to him often.
I stress him out by putting him on the spot with complicated math equations.
He comes through in the clutch, does the quadratic equation combined with the Pythagorean formula, and he figures out amazingly that a 3 or 4 percentage point cut is larger than a 2.6 percentage point cut.
What would I do without Joe?
But again, Libs, don't let this get in the way of your silly, stupid arguments that, yes, only the wealthy got a tax cut under Trump.
You'll keep saying it.
I know you will.
Because you just can't stop yourself.
I get it.
I get it.
This show is only for sane people.
Alright, moving on from this.
The presser, because it was a total disaster.
Again, if you believe in facts, it was a train wreck.
If not, you think it was awesome.
Here, just a quick story, because I got to get to my Christy Noem interview.
I got to get to another spot, the Christy Noem interview, and I want to tease it a little bit with some material I got yesterday.
So the Woketarians are eating themselves alive.
I love stories like this.
I'm sorry if they drive you nuts.
My sincere apologies.
But what do I keep telling you?
Woke Tyrant culture known as cancel culture.
I call it tyrant totalitarian culture because that's what it's really what it really is.
I told you it was eventually going to cannibalize the left because conservatives are starting to say double barrel middle finger.
I'm not canceling people because you idiot said so.
So they love it leftist.
So they're turning on each other and eating themselves alive.
Look at this story first.
This is from 2016.
CNN business.
Goldman Sachs top 1% employees can't donate to Trump by Patrick Gillespie.
What does this have to do with Wokitarians eating themselves alive?
Well, Goldman, I guess, at the time, had some rule in place preventing people from donating to the Trump campaign there.
That's fascinating.
Because then I saw this Fox Business story while working out on my teeter thing, crushing it this morning at 5 a.m.
in my garage, sweating my... off.
I saw this article in Fox Business.
Oh, is this a good one?
Lydia Moynihan, Goldman Sachs CEO, hit with a cultural revolution as overworked millennials and Chick-fil-A debates rage.
Now listen, to be fair, Goldman Sachs has some Republicans too.
I'm no supporter of Goldman Sachs or Wokitarians.
I have no allegiance to either one of them.
But I find it odd that, you know, they can tend to lean a little left, Goldman, with some of their internal policies there.
And now Goldman Sachs is being eaten alive by Wokitarians inside their company who, the story's hilarious, read it in the newsletter.
I can't go through the whole thing, but the gist of it is this.
The Wokatarians in Goldman Sachs were horrified.
Wait for it.
This is really terrible.
That they served Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Get your nitro pills out, Armacost.
I know that's bad.
Oh my gosh, Chick-fil-A for lunch.
The Wokatarians had a meltdown.
They couldn't believe it.
And they're also upset.
Joe, it gets better.
They're also upset about their long work days.
Oh, oh, I gotta, this is like one of those, this has the potential to get very bad.
So I have to dial the temp down a little bit and get a hold of myself.
Listen, Woketarians, I give exactly zero hits with an S in front of it about your long work days.
Get to work.
Go to work.
Shut your pie holes.
Pie holes shut.
Soup coolers shut.
And go to work.
Everybody does it.
You don't like your job?
Quit.
I can't help thinking of when I was doing an advance in Trinidad and Tobago for Barack Obama as an agent, with the worst food poisoning you've ever had.
Emanations from eyes, ears, mouth, caboose, everywhere.
Sick as a dog for two straight weeks.
I think I took Zofran until it didn't even work anymore.
Wish I had the relief.
Didn't have it then.
Didn't have it then.
I remember the last day of that advance.
It was about 140 degrees.
Getting in an elevator with Obama where he was going to give a speech on top of the hotel, the Upside Down Hotel.
You know, if you've been to the area.
You come in at the top floor.
Don't ask.
Long story.
I remember being in the elevator on the last day after like a 20-hour workday, emanations everywhere, I'd probably sweated and excreted 20 pounds of body mass after working two weeks with the worst stomach virus ever and sweating my Off on the roof, after no sleep, thinking, can life get any worse right now?
in a bulletproof vest, sealed in heat with the sweat and emanations.
And the Wokitarians are complaining, "My gosh, I gotta work 12 hours?"
This arm of Klaus getting up at 2 in the morning to go do a radio show for 75 years,
however long he did it. You're like, You're driving to work like, I can't.
We're supposed to care that they don't like Chick-fil-A and they got to work 12 hours?
Oh, dude.
Oh my gosh, it's this generation!
You're killing me!
You're killing me!
Go to work!
Go to work!
Remove the caboose from the seat!
Get up and just go to work and shut up!
Holy Moses, you don't like the job?
Just quit!
He's like, come on, we got to get that.
I got the Kristi Noem interview.
All right.
Let me get to my last spot.
We're going to play the interview.
I want to play, just put a quick Federalist article up first and then we'll come back and you're going to love it.
I just got a quick note about the radio show too, getting a lot of questions.
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All right, just a quick note on radio.
Folks, we get a lot of questions about the radio show.
We start May 24th in the 12 noon to 3 o'clock Eastern time spot.
We will not be on every one of Rush's stations.
I work for a different syndicator than Rush worked for.
That syndicator did carry the Rush Limbaugh show.
There's a lot of confusion about it.
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We don't have all of them.
We have a good amount in big cities and elsewhere, but you have to call and ask.
All right, so we got Kristi Noem coming up in a minute.
I want you to check this piece out by Rachel Bovard first.
Dear Kristi Noem, GOP voters are done supporting politicians who turn in their interests.
It's a Federalist piece.
Be in my newsletter today.
They summarize some of the concerns about Kristi Noem I interview about here, and I want to say at the end of the interview, she was very respectful.
I'm honored she came on.
She's done some great work as a governor of South Dakota.
None of that should be thrown out, but we had to agree to disagree on this.
And my problem with it were this, and you'll see me ask her about this in a second.
She declared at one point she was excited to sign the legislation, but reversed herself.
That was a problem for me.
The reversal came as a surprise.
This is Beauvoir's article, but was less shocking as it became apparent that Noam had been subjected to some intense lobbying from the NCAA, Amazon, and the Chamber of Commerce.
I asked her about this in this interview.
So without further ado, my interview with the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noam.
All right, I'm honored to welcome to the show one of America's very popular governors right now, Governor Christy Noem from South Dakota.
Governor, thank you so much for joining us.
I really appreciate it.
Oh, absolutely, Dan.
So listen, there's that 800-pound gorilla in the room.
Let's get it out of the way right away.
So I'll be candid with you.
I was a little harsh on you about this House Bill 1217, this bill designed to keep women in women's sports, and you didn't sign the bill.
You didn't veto.
That's not accurate.
It's just you refused to sign it.
You wanted to make some changes.
I was a little harsh on my show, and I got some feedback from my audience.
A lot of them love you.
Some of them agreed with me.
But I wanted to give you a chance, because I think it's fair, to defend your position on it.
And if it's okay with you, I had a few questions afterwards.
So, why did you refuse to sign the bill, and why did you make the changes?
How did you think it would make the bill better?
Well, I want to sign them.
It is something I'm very supportive of.
I think we all agree that girls should play girls sports and that that is something that we need to be protecting and solving that problem nationwide.
This bill I want to sign, I just need a few changes to it before the legislature can leave and go home and session is over.
So that's what I'm asking them for, is to make sure that we have this fight, that we protect our kids in the K-12 system and give me an opportunity To go after the NCAA and other leagues that would choose to, you know, really go after states and go after women and allow men to play in their sports.
Now, Governor, critics have said that you eliminating the NCAA from the enforcement mechanism and making it only a K through 12 bill, which again would keep women in women's sports and prevent biological men from participating in women's sports, a position I assume is strongly supported in South Dakota.
But by eliminating the NCAA from the bill, Some of them see that as a sign of weakness, that you gave the NCAA a pass.
And others, and there's another kind of countervailing position there, has been from people I respect and have read as well, it said that, you know, that the lawsuits here would probably get a little overwhelming and you might lose in some of these lawsuits.
So why take the NCAA out of the bill?
And why not just let them sue?
At some point we're going to have to have this fight.
Well, listen, Dan, we all agree on this issue.
The difference is strategy.
It's on tactics.
I want to win and actually problem solve this issue and protect kids and girls in the K-12 system.
And then I want to go and fight the NCAA.
And what my situation is here in South Dakota is I could sign the bill the way that it is.
And then I would get attacked and penalized by the NCAA.
They could move their tournaments out, move their games out, prevent my athletes in the state of South Dakota from even participating in their leagues.
And then I would have to go to court.
But most people haven't considered is that every one of my federal judges in the state of South Dakota in the Eighth Circuit is a Clinton or Obama appointee.
that it would get appealed, it could potentially end up back up at the Supreme Court, but that
would take years. And in the meantime, we're eliminating opportunities for our kids, we're
eliminating our opportunity to really problem solve this and to fight the NCAA. And so that's
why I'm asking them to do this bill with a few of these changes and allow me to go fight
and really win this issue, not just fight to fight and lose like North Carolina did
five years ago on the bathroom bills, but to fight smart and make sure we're building a compact of
states that can really be strong against the NCAA in these leagues for doing that.
That's why I encourage everybody to go to my website that I'm promoting this, defendtitleninenow.com.
That is where we've got governors on board, we've got attorney generals, professional athletes that are all helping me fight the NCAA and what they're doing by allowing boys into girls sports.
And that's really the strategic way that we're going after this.
And Dan, what's interesting to me as I've watched this debate play out on the national news and national conservative groups, they're praising the Tennessee bill that just passed.
Those changes that I'm asking for my bill here in South Dakota are exactly what that Tennessee bill is.
So they're criticizing me for asking for changes, yet upholding that Tennessee bill as a wonderful bill that we need to have and that Governor Bill Lee needs to sign.
So that's the little bit of the, I think, hypocrisy we're seeing out there in the discussion right now.
Maybe people just don't have the facts.
And that's why I wanted to come on your show is make sure people have the truth that I did not veto this bill.
I'm asking for a few changes.
If we do get enjoined right away, if I were to go after collegiate sports and put the NCAA in there, if it got enjoined, no girls would be protected.
No sports would be protected.
For years they'd be exposed to the punishments that these leagues can bring on small little states like South Dakota.
So it's strategy, but we all agree on the topic, only girls should play girls sports.
Well, Governor, I appreciate your candor and you coming on.
I wanted to present that opportunity to you.
Again, I was pretty harsh on you the other day, but one of the things I hope you understand is Republican voters, you know, I ran for office.
I lost.
It didn't work out for me.
God didn't have that in his plans and that's okay.
But I learned a lot having run a lot.
And one of the things I learned is people get really pissed off when they feel like they're being sold out.
And I understand their position here.
Their position, a lot of the people who are opposed to your actions on this feel like So we're doing this because we're afraid of a lawsuit by the NCAA?
A lot of those same people feel that this, what they perceive as weakness here, invites more aggressiveness by the lobbies on the left that want to attack us in the culture wars.
And Governor, I have to tell you, I love a lot of what you've done in South Dakota, and I don't mean this to be in any kind of an adversarial interview, because I really can't stand unnecessary Republican-on-Republican political violence.
It's terrible.
But I have to tell you, I agree with him a bit here.
I think this back down, like happened in Indiana with Mike Pence when he was governor and elsewhere, is only going to invite more aggression in the culture wars.
Do you not see their position?
They just they feel like they're being sold out here.
And they placed a lot of faith in you.
I mean, you were at the top of the list, rising stars nationally.
This isn't a back down at all.
This is smart strategy to win and to defeat the NCAA finally.
Once and for all.
So, you know, anybody who would say that Dan, I got to be candid with you too.
If we're having an honest conversation here, then all those people criticizing me, they don't know me at all.
Years ago.
I fought the federal government to make sure that girls only played in girls' events, that boys were only in boys' events.
It had to do with the sport of rodeo, and USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, which had jurisdiction, was telling them they had to open up all events to all genders and all sexes.
And I stood up with rodeo and I fought them, and I was the only one that did that.
There wasn't a congressional delegation or other governors behind me.
I fought alongside of rodeo and made sure That we kept girls events for girls and boys events for boys.
So I have a long history on this issue.
I've been doing this before anybody else was really talking about it.
And the last year, while every other governor in this country was making different decisions, I stood strong and was on my own making sure I didn't shut down my state.
I never even defined what an essential business was in the state of South Dakota.
Because I don't have the authority to tell businesses that they're not essential.
I never mandated masks anywhere.
I never said anything to my people that overstepped my authority.
Because I understand that when you do that, when leaders do that, that's really when we break this country.
So leadership on this issue, Dan, is not turning The issue over to a liberal court system and letting them decide on the issue.
And that's what I would be doing here in the South Dakota.
If I signed the bill as it was presented to me, I would have to face punitive action.
And then I would sue.
And then I would lose.
If I look at the strategic approach to this, it's to win.
It's to win on this Defend Title IX Now coalition that we're building, get leaders on board and get enough states so that they can't punish one state and make an example out of them.
like they did in North Carolina. That's what we need to avoid. And Dan, we do this strategy
all the time and have for years on pro-life issues. Listen, we all want a ban on all abortions. We
just don't think it's right. But you don't see governors in every state bringing an all-out
abortion ban because we know we'd face challenges in the court system and set the whole movement back.
Yeah, but can I interrupt for a minute?
I don't mean to be rude, but that's my point is I think a lot of conservatives are tired of that approach.
We just don't want to be the managed decliners anymore.
You know, so I think you're making my point not yours that that that's what's bothering a lot of conservatives out there now is that they believe in things like life and protecting life and they're tired of You know, capitulating in these little small battles saying, well, win the war later.
And we never win the war.
The war never comes.
And I think that's why people are so upset about this.
And, you know, regarding examples in states, Idaho passed a similar bill and they stuck by their guns on that one.
It passed that bill.
It's caught up in legal action right now.
And not a single person in that state.
is being protected right now.
There's no women's sports is not protected in Idaho today.
But there's no examples of student athletes in Idaho that are presented
that are being prevented from playing in the NCAA unless I'm unless I'm missing something.
Because the tournaments weren't pulled and they can't prove that there's been punitive action yet.
This is what's driving me crazy.
Like, why are we, who cares if they pull their, who cares?
Like at some point, I get it, it's going to be some financial ramifications.
It's happening everywhere.
I lost a ton of money on Parlor.
I was canceled and you know, we fought back.
So my, My point is, why not just draw the line?
Draw the red line and say, no, we are going to fight the NCAA.
Other states have done it.
And if it goes to court and we lose, at least we stood on principle.
We are fighting the NCAA.
We absolutely are doing that.
My opportunity is to make the best decisions for this state and to lead that fight and to do it in a smart way that I actually can win.
South Dakota is not Texas.
It's not Florida.
It's not a big state like Arkansas or Alabama or Tennessee.
We're little.
And the NCAA would love to make an example out of our state and to send a message to every other state.
Don't do what South Dakota did because this will happen to you too.
And the harm that they can bring to my students and that they can bring to my families here is very, very far reaching.
That's why I'm building a coalition is because they can't bully 10 states or 12 states.
We can all link arms together, and that's why I tell everybody, join the war.
The war is on DefendTitleNineNow.com.
That's where you, Dan, you could get on there today and join this compact and help us fight.
We've got Hershel Walker, Nancy Lopez, Franklin Graham.
We've got all kinds of people that are getting on board now by the thousands.
To help say this is not acceptable what we see happening at the collegiate level and we need it to stop.
And there is no national movement out there.
There's no national movement that's coalesced around making sure that we actually go after them and do it in a way that we actually can win.
So this is all the same.
We're preaching the same sermon.
We all agree.
You're arguing with me over tactics and what is driving me a little bit crazy about the issue is that they constantly hold up the Tennessee bill As a wonderful bill.
And what I'm asking is for the South Dakota legislature to pass the exact same language.
That is the revisions and changes that I've asked them to make.
So if that's it, all these conservative groups should be helping me get the legislature to accept these changes so I can sign the bill.
I need to sign this bill.
I want to sign this bill.
I just need a few changes before they do that and I hope every single conservative organization that really does want to protect girls sports, really does want to protect girls from having boys play in their events, that they will help me get my legislature to go and make sure that they're signing on to this bill so I can sign it into law and then we can go to fight and win the war.
So Governor, one of the complaints from the conservative groups I want to give you the opportunity to address here is you had tweeted that you were excited about signing the bill and then you had changed your mind and there have been some articles out there about some conflicts of interest from people who may be advising you on the issue.
I want to give you the opportunity to address that.
You know, I am excited to sign the bill.
As soon as the legislature will accept these few changes, then absolutely, I will want, I will sign that bill.
You know, Dan, it's not leadership to attack my team.
I get advice from all over the place, but people who know me know I make my own decisions.
That I will ask everyone around me to give me my different options, to give me all the facts and the information on any type of an issue, and then I make the decision.
So, people can attack my people, you know, that's politics, I guess.
It's unfair, but I'll continue to make my own decisions.
All right, let's move on because there are other things going on.
And like I said, you have had a national rising star.
It rose so fast, it was tough to keep track of.
I remember when you were the congressional member from South Dakota and boom, popped on the national scene because of what I think to be some tremendous leadership during this disastrous COVID crisis.
I live in the state of Florida.
Another terrific governor down here, Ron DeSantis.
You know, when you were getting all the pressure from the lockdown brigade to shut your state down, bury your economy, You know, what was going on in your inner circle?
You know, when looking back on it now, I mean, we can all Monday morning quarterback and say, well, it's obvious lockdowns didn't work.
But remember, Governor, at the time, not everybody believed that.
People thought there was some sanity to this thing.
So what made you sit down with your team and say, now we're going to do things a little different here?
Well, I just, I looked at the science and the data and the facts around the virus, but then I also maybe took it a step further than a lot of other governors.
I talked To my legal experts.
I talked to those constitutional authorities and lawyers and wanted to really understand what my role was as governor and what my role wasn't.
I'd say that that is my biggest decision every single day in this office.
And even when I was serving in Congress or working for the people in this state, was that you have to have leaders that respect the people.
Our state motto is under God, the people rule.
I never lose sight of that.
And so I had decisions to make.
I knew what authority that I had and I told my people, I'm going to trust you.
I'm going to let you use personal responsibility, give you all the information that I have, but we never issued a shelter in place.
We never once went forward and mandated anything like masks.
I did not define what an essential business was or close a business.
We just said, I'm going to let you have the opportunity to protect your family's health, but I'm also going to let you keep your business open and have some flexibility to take care of your employees and your customers.
And for South Dakota, overwhelmingly, it worked.
And it allowed us to make the best decisions going forward.
So, you know, this last legislative session, we had a huge opportunity in South Dakota because our economy is doing so well from those decisions that were made.
And we passed The most conservative pieces of legislation that South Dakota has ever seen in its history this year.
We did more pro-life bills than we've ever done before.
A born alive bill, a down syndrome protection bill.
We protected private property, religious freedom bills.
So a lot of the conservative organizations got every single thing that they wanted in partnership with me this year because we worked on all those important issues and that's why it's Important to know history, to know who I am, to understand how I make my decisions, and to know that I respect people.
Yeah, and Governor, again, having run, not succeeded like you, that you've done spectacularly in your political career, you know, I understand.
I mean, you know, politics isn't always black and white, and I get that.
But you have your star.
I've run 10 times.
I've run 10 campaigns.
Is that right?
I've won all of them.
That's a lot.
And I ran 7 statewide races in 8 years.
That's impressive.
I've run 3.
I'm one of none of them.
That's probably been a little bit of a discussion that I hear on these national pundits and everybody saying, oh she's not a fighter.
Then they don't know me at all.
Every one of these campaigns, you know it if you've run.
It's like a knife fight in a ditch.
Yeah, it's ugly.
You do what you believe, you tell people who you are, you ask them to support you, and then you go out and you work for them and you problem solve.
That's always been me, anybody who's ever known me, and I would hope that all these organizations that are saying I'm making the wrong decision would read what I'm doing, would understand it, and really look at the strategy behind it, because I'm here to win this war and I'm not backing down.
Well, listen, I'm going to have to disagree with you on that, Bill, but that's OK.
We addressed it.
I allowed you your time to defend yourself.
I put out my concerns about it.
But again, just on some other things quickly, I know you're short on time here, but South Dakota, you've had such tremendous success.
You have a relatively constrained state budget, an incredible business environment.
You know, I live in Florida.
We're having a lot of transplants from other states that, you know, say they're liberal, But then immediately move away from liberal states to try and live in Florida and try to vote for the same nonsense down here.
Are you seeing any of that in South Dakota?
Because I have to be candid with you ever since you've taken over there and I've seen what you've done.
My wife and I are always looking for property and South Dakota has been on our internet search list quite a bit.
So are you seeing a lot of transplants from out of state which are changing kind of the culture of South Dakota?
Well, they haven't been changing our culture.
It's been interesting because our real estate market is going crazy.
People are moving here by the thousands.
We're moving businesses here.
I could triple the size of my economic development department right now and we couldn't answer the phone fast enough for all the businesses that want to come here where our government respects them and doesn't take away their ability to keep their doors open.
So, but it's interesting to me.
I think this pandemic really created an opportunity for us to recruit the right kind of people to our state that preserves our culture.
Overwhelmingly, people that move here are telling us they came here because they want their kids in school.
They want them in the classroom.
They came here because they wanted a government that respected them, that didn't mandate what they do or what their actions are.
So that's been probably the perfect scenario maybe for us to tell our story about what our way of life is like here in South Dakota.
And if you want to come be a part of that way of life, then we'd love to have you.
I spent one week advertising just for law enforcement officers.
Telling them if you feel persecuted in your state, we would love to have you here and be a part of South Dakota and our families.
We got hundreds and hundreds of applications from law enforcement officers from 41 different states, and they are finding their home here in South Dakota.
So I'm proud of what we've done, the decisions we've made, our people, and I think that it is an example that the rest of the country could look at.
Yeah, you've really done an incredible job.
I mean, you see states like Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, population explosions as people try to escape to freedom.
And when I say the culture of South Dakota, I mean hard work, the right to protect yourself, protecting life.
I mean, these are the kind of things, this is the American culture.
And sadly, you know, a lot of it's dissipating in these culture wars.
Hence the topic for today's interview.
One last exit question.
And I really, I sincerely appreciate you coming on.
You know, a lot of people get in these fights and then run away and hide behind press flax and everything like that.
So, you know, it takes some guts to answer questions.
And I do appreciate it.
I mean that.
But last question.
Listen, I know I'll answer for you.
You're going to, well, I haven't really thought about it.
Please don't give me that answer.
Any idea about kind of running nationally, national ambitions?
Your name has been bandied about for national office.
Any Any idea about that?
Nope, I'm not running for national office.
I'm happy here, and I'm going to stay in South Dakota, and I'm hoping the people here will give me another opportunity to serve them again.
Well, if South Dakota continues to grow, I will bet you, you change your mind.
Just saying, don't answer that question.
I'm just saying.
Governor Kristi Noem, thank you for coming on.
I deeply appreciate your time.
Again, you got a lot of guts answering questions, so thanks a lot, and I hope you'll come on again.
Absolutely.
You bet, Dan.
Take care.
Thanks.
Again, as you can see from the interview, we just disagree on that.
I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Kristi Noem's body of work should be judged fairly by everything good.
And I think not so good that she's done.
And I respect her for coming on.
Most politicians would run from it.
But as you saw from the interview, I just, I disagree and it didn't change my mind.
But she's doing a great job in South Dakota otherwise.
So I hope you enjoyed that.
We gave her a fair shot and other politicians will be welcoming on to do the same thing.
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