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Folks, what happened last night in the primary election, California, New Jersey and elsewhere, was a huge deal.
They are not regional stories, they are global stories.
There was a total repudiation and rebuke of far leftism which I have told you is cannibalistic by nature.
Liberalism eats itself eventually because everywhere you go this metastasizing cancer kills the host.
I have told you that.
We've got that.
I've got my fight with Geraldo last night, which is very frustrating.
I'll get into that in a second, too.
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Release the hounds!
So, before I get to the election earthquake that happened last night and the economic tsunami coming, it's going to be a loaded show for you today.
I want to talk about what happened yesterday with Matthew McConaughey, a very famous, very talented actor, by the way, at the White House yesterday.
Matthew McConaughey, you probably heard was all over the news.
He showed up in the Brady Press room at the White House, which is, you know, a taxpayer funded facility, by the way.
And he gave a really passionate speech.
And I appreciated that part about the victims of this Uvalde murderer, the massacre there, which those stories should be told often because a civil society can't have these kind of things happening.
We just can't.
I mean, is it that, does that even need to be said?
A massacre of children?
I mean, this is the kind of thing, if that's a political issue, then you really need to get out of politics.
It's not, it's a societal, moral, ethical issue.
We can't continue like this.
So I appreciated that part of the speech, but I appeared on Hannity last night to address his speech in the white house because he didn't just focus on the victims.
Matthew McConaughey is a very talented actor.
And let me just say, because I had an argument with Geraldo last night, which I'll address today on the show.
And he mischaracterized again, which is what he does all the time.
What I said, I was clear in the beginning, if you watched, I'm not going to play the whole thing over again.
A lot of you saw it last night, but I was clear in the beginning that I have zero doubt, zero.
And I want to be absolutely clear on this.
That Matthew McConaughey sincerely is, I mean, he's a Uvalde.
He was born there.
That he's sincerely hurt by this and probably believes that he can contribute to trying to, you know, fix the problem.
I don't doubt that.
But folks, it's not.
All that he did yesterday.
He proposed a bunch of policy-based what they would call solutions that involve infringements on your rights and which I'm absolutely sure, sure, he doesn't understand the ramifications of because he either left them out yesterday intentionally or didn't know them, which I think the latter is.
Now, I was a little critical of that portion of McConaughey's speech, not the authenticity of it.
I believe his, he was, I do not believe at all he was acting yesterday, his emotion about it.
I want to be clear on that.
And I said that yesterday, of course, Geraldo mischaracterizes it again, because he does that all the time.
You saying he was acting?
Did you just listen to what I said?
But if you're going to go up there and propose policy prescriptions that I think are going to hurt Americans, possibly get more Americans killed because it's going to backfire as we disarm Americans, then I'm going to speak out.
And I have to tell you, I was a little bit surprised.
It's okay.
But I was a little bit surprised.
And you guys haven't really spoken too much about this with the production crew this morning.
But when I got off the air last night, I was very frustrated.
Just to be honest with you, I'm getting really tired of the debates with Geraldo.
If I can just be candid, I'm He's getting exhausted with it.
He never lets me talk.
It's just, it becomes a shout fest cross talk.
I get a lot of you are frustrated.
I understand.
I totally understand.
But I was surprised.
Um, a lot of you go to my Facebook page after these things and we leave it open for messages.
And a lot of you commented, if I'm talking too long on this, just shut me down.
He's like the ultimate, like you're talking too much.
Um, but I was stunned.
For the first time ever, about 30% of the people, roughly, I mean, but I'm pretty much in the ballpark, about 30% of the people were like, ah, Dan, you know, I think you were wrong.
McConaughey was great or something like that.
All right.
Which is stunning because I never, I never get that.
And your feedback matters to me because you're the audience.
You're all that matters.
You matter to me.
I was kind of shocked by that.
Because number one, I wasn't attacking Matthew McConaughey personally at all.
I can't say enough.
I believe his feelings were absolutely genuine.
But folks, if Matthew McConaughey wants to prescribe a bunch of policy prescriptions that I believe, I sincerely believe, are going to get people hurt or killed, then Matthew McConaughey should run for office.
I did.
I lost.
That's how I met Joe.
And let me tell you something, it hurt.
I ran multiple times.
I put my name on a ballot.
I did the work.
I knocked on the doors.
I raised the money.
I left my job.
I almost went bankrupt.
I nearly missed a mortgage payment with my bank and couldn't even pay for my daughter's orthodontic appointment.
I was running out of money.
I wasn't rich.
If he's going to prescribe things like red flag, I wrote down the things he was talking about, red flag laws.
Universal background checks and raising the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, then he should run for office.
He's free to talk.
Let me get this.
Let me be clear again, because I want no mistake about what I'm saying.
He is a free American citizen.
He is free to address these things wherever he pleases.
But that is a taxpayer funded facility, the Brady press room in the White House, where the Biden administration invited him up to talk about policy.
I was really stunned that about, I got about 200, maybe, maybe more, uh, communications on Facebook messages about this.
And again, about 60 of them were, Hey man, we got to listen to McConaughey.
This guy's real.
Why?
Why do, why do I, Why?
I don't understand why I have to take my policy prescriptions from Matthew McConaughey.
The guy is a talented actor.
He said some great things yesterday, talking about family values and American values, no doubt.
But ladies and gentlemen, we are not the cult of personality here.
I'm really sorry, but I don't take my advice on my constitutionally protected God-given big R rights from a Hollywood actor.
I don't do that.
He has cultural capital.
What he says is important.
I am consistent on this.
I said the same damn thing when Kanye West walked in the White House with Donald Trump.
Remember the show, Joe?
Yeah, I do.
A lot of liberals were laughing.
Kanye West, what an idiot.
And I said, listen, I don't take policy advice from Kanye West.
I don't care if he's meeting with Donald Trump or not.
But what did we say at the time, Joe?
We said, but don't disregard it.
He has cultural capital.
Joe was there.
Yeah.
He has cultural capital.
Matthew McConaughey, what he says is important.
Just like what Kanye did at the White House was important.
Because people listen outside of the standard political bubble.
People who disregard Biden and Trump and don't care but watch TikTok all day listen to Kanye and Matthew McConaughey.
So if you're going to go up there and use that cultural capital to argue for a policy, I'm very sorry.
But to the 30% of people who were all in for Matthew McConaughey, I'm not here to capitulate on ideas to try to sell myself and be a phony.
Oh, he was all great.
Let's forget him.
A lot of things he said were great, but he talked about specific things.
Are those things not worth debating because he's a popular actor?
Folks, we're not in a cult here.
And my apologies to the 70%, maybe more, I didn't do the exact math, who were on our team last night, the team of civil liberties and God-given rights.
But I feel like I'm seeing a lot of this this morning.
Would you guys agree?
It's all over cable news, even conservative stations.
I mean, even conservative hosts I respect.
Oh my gosh, he was so great.
Oh, man.
Did you hear what he said?
I want you to keep in mind, with due respect to the man and his authentic, I have no doubt emotions about what happened.
I have no zero doubt about that.
This is Matthew McConaughey, not that long ago, Recommending that we surrender our AR-15s and that they get banned!
This is our new iconic hero on the right?
I'm sorry, folks.
As Steve Day said yesterday on Twitter, it's a no for me, dawg.
A big no.
Check this out.
Now again, as stated in the March for Our Lives mission statement, how do we do this?
We've got three hallmarks here.
One, let's ban the assault weapons for civilians.
Owners of these recreational assault weapons that they use for recreation,
please, man, let's take one for the team here and set it down.
Here it is, Chiron right now, moving message from Uvalde native McConaughey.
Yeah, it was moving, but did you focus on what he said afterwards?
There were a lot of people who gave passionate speeches.
I have no doubt his emotions are authentic.
But he said things that are going to impact you.
This is a guy who wanted to ban the most popular rifle in America right now.
We're supposed to ignore that?
He just said it.
We were watching it.
He's like, this is the danger.
These people with cultural capital, these cultural icons speaking out.
I'm not sure they're informed on the issues at all.
And everybody's like, Oh, I love this guy.
And what was he at a time to kill?
I don't even know.
He's in a lot of movies.
I'm sorry.
I'm not interstellar.
It was a good movie.
He's a great actor, but we're taking now policy prescriptions.
He's free to run for office.
I did it.
Let me tell you some, it sucks.
It is a lot of work.
A lot of work.
It is debates, it is door knocking, it's handshaking at train stations.
It is a ton of work.
You want to do the work?
Or do you want to just, you know, pop in and give a speech about a bunch of policy prescriptions and then pop out and everybody claps?
So let's focus on what he actually said.
Because that really does matter.
He addressed the support for red flag laws, and to be candid and fair and objective, he said, and we should have a policy against people who abuse them.
In other words, if I didn't like Guy and said, hey, Guy's got an AR-15, I told the Martin County Sheriff and he threatened to shoot up a school and I lied, and you get him red flagged or something like that.
So he gave kind of what he believes is a balanced perspective.
Folks, here's the problem I will always have with red flag laws and why I will never, ever support them.
Because number one, I don't think they will do a damn thing to save one life in this country.
If you are hellbent into walking into a school and shooting a bunch of kids in the face, There isn't a chance in Hades that someone's going to stop you from your murder spree by declaring you red flag.
You will find a gun, you will find a knife, you will find a vehicle, and you will kill and murder and run them down no matter what.
It will not save one life.
And as I said with Geraldo last night, again if you watched the clip, Geraldo's all in for this stuff, There is a red flag law right now, air quotes in this country.
They're called parents!
They're called parents!
You're telling me your kid is so dangerous, third parties should red flag them, but you can't control your kid?
And prevent them from going and murdering people?
And we're supposed to ignore that?
So the parents can't keep a kid from getting a rifle and murdering people, but a third-party red flag, that'll definitely do it.
We have, I said it last night on Fox, we have a red flag law.
Parenting.
Are we gonna focus on any of this, the cultural breakdown?
Parenting fails, single-family homes with no father, where the kid is totally disconnected and bullied all the time?
No, the law's gonna solve it, a red flag.
So part one of why I object to red flag laws, it's not going to prevent a single homicide in this country from a murderous thug, murdering killer looking to do.
It's not.
But I'll tell you what it is going to do.
It's going to allow government officials and others to put you on a list.
And ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, but I don't trust the government as far as I could throw a 600 pound football.
You trust the government with red flag laws?
On what basis?
Hell no.
No.
You're darn right, hell no.
You're darn right, hell no.
I found myself on a list.
Remember the social media monitoring list for Marie Yovanovitch and the Ukrainian embassy?
Yep.
They were monitoring my social media.
Publix, remember that one, Joe?
Yeah.
You can check that out, folks.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
It happened.
I found myself on a, hey, take a look at this guy list.
You want the government to have the power to take away your ability to defend your own life with a firearm and put you on a list with, at best, corrupted due process?
Who's gonna put you on the list?
Is it the same FBI who spied on Donald Trump?
What about the 50 intelligence officials or however many who wrote the letter that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian information?
Oh, those people?
Those people?
You want them to be able to red flag you?
As Steve Dace said yesterday, that's a big no for me, dawg.
I'm gonna take a hard pass on that one.
McConaughey's for it.
So because he's a great actor who, again, for the umpteenth time, gave an unquestionably authentic speech, and I'm not attacking the man personally.
I mean it.
He's perfectly free to speak on what he would love to speak about.
But if he's going to speak about policies like this, he has a duty to inform himself.
And you have a duty to fight back.
He spoke about some other things as well.
You know what?
Let me take a quick, cause I'm getting really emotional.
I don't want to start yelling and screaming.
I get crazy.
Let me take a quick break here.
I was going to go into, but he spoke about some other things I want to address too.
Let me get to this and I'll get back to it.
I just, um, very emotional topic for me because I'm not, I'm not, My show's for you.
And when three out of ten people either missed what I was saying or are falling into this like, hey, what, you know, we need to go for this stuff.
I did something wrong.
It's not your fault.
I did something wrong on the messaging side.
That's my fault.
This is my job.
Let me get to this first.
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So part two, again, Matthew McConaughey said things, policy things.
He's free to run for office.
He apparently doesn't plan on doing that, at least according to what I got from his interview with Brett Barrios.
He proposed universal background checks again.
Ladies and gentlemen, we already have background checks.
Again, I mentioned this last night with Geraldo.
Do they not know we already have background checks?
In order for you to buy a firearm at a gun show or in a gun store from an FFL, A licensed firearm dealer.
You have to go through a background check.
Now, when the left says universal background checks, what they're talking about are private sales.
When you buy a gun, Joe Armacost, from whatever, Donnie's Gun Shop on the corner, and Joe's son is a Marine, if he wants to give that firearm later, Joe's getting old, I don't know, he just doesn't want the firearm in the house anymore.
Joe says, hey, little Joe, here's my firearm.
As long as Joe, little Joe, is not a prohibited possessor, he's not, there's no reason the government needs to be, why does the government need to be involved in that?
Why?
Why would the government want to have to have a background check from Joe to little Joe?
Well, the reason is, as I've said a thousand times, and forgive me for if this is getting annoying, I'm sorry.
But again, I'm concerned that based on the feedback from the McConaughey critique last night, that people don't understand the damage of what he's proposing.
The government wants a check from Joe to little Joe.
It's not so little anymore, by the way, because they want to make sure they know where every gun is.
This has been a Democrat dream for decades.
Why would they want to know where every gun is?
So one day, if they ban them, they know where to go to get them.
Listen to me.
You can call this a conspiracy theory all you want, but it's really weird how everything I've told you was not a conspiracy theory, that the left said was a conspiracy theory, turned out to be true, and how I'm now running out of conspiracy theories because they're no longer theoretical.
The left knows full well that criminals don't go through background checks.
No matter what.
Not through private sales, not through gun shops.
Why would a criminal not go through a background check?
Because he knows he's a criminal.
Why?
Because he or she was there.
You know, jail?
Handcuffs?
They know they can't buy a gun.
They're not stupid.
That's why there's a black market, and a vibrant one, for guns.
Just like there's one for drugs.
But those are illegal too, Dan.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Criminals don't buy guns through background checks.
The left knows that.
This has, McConaughey, I'm not sure if, I don't want to get in his head, I don't know, and I don't want to make it personal.
But I'm not sure he understands that.
This universal background check thing won't do a single thing to keep a single gun out of the hands of criminals.
It will only give the government a list for when they ban these things to make sure they know where they all are and how to target their enemies.
Oh, Dan, they're not going to come for all the guns.
There are hundreds of millions of them.
You're right.
They don't have the personnel.
But just like red flag laws, they don't need to come for everyone's guns.
They just need to come for the guns of their political enemies.
You know, like the Peter Navarro's and stuff.
Oh, that didn't... Oh, it's right.
Roger Stone, maybe?
Showed up with guns in his hand.
Gives you a reason, right?
Roger, you bought an AR-15 pistol a few years ago.
We noticed when we were looking through our federal registry that when we banned it, you never turned it in.
Roger, what happened to that gun?
Well, I gave it to my son.
Did you do a background check?
Because we don't see that transaction.
You're under arrest, sir.
That's a conspiracy there.
You sure?
You sure about that?
You sure?
You want the government with a list and then the ability to red flag you and then the ability to arrest you because you didn't turn in your firearm?
You keep up with that.
Tell me how he's such a great actor again.
Agreed.
Point stipulated.
He wants to run for office.
He's free to do so.
Let me play some video last night finally from the Geraldo thing on the final thing that he proposed quite a few things, but the final one I want to address.
Raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21.
Now my position on this I made clear last night.
Again, Geraldo didn't listen.
He's too busy trying to talk over me.
Um, if states want to do that, then that's the state's purview.
I mean, there may be liberal states with city populations, with heavy urban areas, um, that are just convinced that 18 to 21, I mean, I don't live in California, but there may be other states, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, where, you know, 18 year olds who are responsible go out and hunt.
Why can't they buy a rifle?
What did they do wrong?
So I do not support raising the national age from 18 to 21 for a number of reasons.
I made this point last night with Geraldo and I made a legal point too.
It is a constitutional right to bear arms which shall not be infringed.
It's literally the Second Amendment.
Now the left, Geraldo included, keeps bringing up, well you can't buy a beard at 21.
Last time I checked guys, is it right to buy a Budweiser in the Constitution?
Did you see that, Justin?
Yes, Justin saw it.
It's the 39th Amendment to the Constitution.
Justin saw it.
He's looking at the wrong Constitution.
It's the Geraldo Constitution.
Because I haven't seen that.
The right to drink a shot of Don Julio.
I haven't seen that.
Because you don't have a constitutional right to drink beer, but there is a constitutional right to bear arms.
And when you are a legal adult, that is your right at 18.
So if we're going to infringe on a constitutional right, legally it has to be done Pursuant to a compelling government interest.
This is what the court stated.
You can infringe on a constitutional right, folks.
You have the freedom to practice your religion, but if your religion involves the murder of innocent people, you're probably not going to... What do you mean?
That doesn't work that way.
The courts have decided that if you're going to infringe on a constitutional right, it has to be a compelling government interest, and it has to be done via the least restrictive means.
No question preventing homicides with guns is a compelling government interest.
Point stipulated.
As I said in a Roald Dahl play in a second.
But is this really the least restrictive means?
Here, more on that from my appearance last night with Hannity.
You keep using the beer analogy.
Geraldo, you're a lawyer.
I have not seen Amendment 2.5, the right to buy a court's light, shall not be infringed.
These are legal adults in the country.
Now, having said that, if you're going to infringe on a constitutional right, according to the court system, you have to do it.
It has to be a compelling government interest.
We all agree preventing mass murder is a compelling government interest.
Point taken.
Thank God that we agree on that, Dan.
Thank God.
Wait, I'm not done.
There's a second part to that.
You're a lawyer.
I think you know this.
It's through the least restrictive means.
The least restrictive means is not to tell every single 18-year-old in the entire country who's done nothing wrong, you can no longer purchase a rifle because of some nut!
Why do you tell them they can't drink beer?
Why do you tell them they can't drive a semi?
That's baloney, Dan!
Did you just hear what I said?
All right.
This is why I get so frustrated.
The cross talk and then it doesn't turn into it.
It's just frustrating.
It's why I don't do the rebuttal all the time on my show.
We do it, uh, as often as we can, but I understand your frustration, but it's kind of odd how they keep bringing up things totally unrelated.
Well, you can't have a, an 18 year old, uh, drive a semi.
Where is that in the Constitution?
What does driving have to do with the right to defend your own life?
I mean, you want to talk about apples and oranges?
This is like apples and orangutans!
It's not even the same thing!
And I also find it bizarre that lefties like Geraldo and others, although I shouldn't say him because I don't know where he stands on a lot of these things, but lefties in general, They want 16-year-olds to vote in Joe's state.
There was a city in Maryland wanted 16-year-olds to vote.
They want 16-year-olds to vote.
They're smart enough to determine where the country and the city's national policy should go.
They want 5-year-olds to determine they're boys when they're girls or girls when they're boys.
But an 18-year-old, a legal adult in this country, who's graduated high school and is ready to enter the world, Who can vote and go into the military should definitely not be able to purchase a rifle, although they did nothing wrong.
Folks, listen, I grew up in the city, and let me tell you something.
I know them all.
That's a city folk idea.
Because when you come down here to Florida, and I live in Martin County, which is not the sticks by any means, but it's not an urban area either.
It's kind of like a big, small town.
Would you agree, Justin?
That makes sense?
Like a big, small town?
Yeah.
It's a small town, but it's a big, small town.
It's not where I live is.
And I went to a party for a friend of my daughter's not that long ago, graduation party, not far from my house.
And, you know, I was talking to one of the kids here.
I'm not going to say his name cause the left, they'll probably figure out who he is and come and burn his house down.
But he was inviting my daughter out for a hunting trip.
They were going on the kids, 18.
The kid's not a mass murderer, he's a nice kid.
His dad and him have been hunting his entire life.
So, that kid who's a legal adult should be prevented from purchasing a rifle for what?
For what?
I get it, it's Florida and they moved that legislation down here.
But my gosh, I mean, if you guys want to do your thing, I just don't agree with it.
And this is certainly not a national policy.
I don't agree with that.
That kid is a perfectly good, nice kid with a decent character and a great family.
And they come from a different culture.
I was walking out of the party.
I saw four young kids.
One of them was the kid, I was at the party, his brother.
They came in with fishing poles.
They were out fishing all day.
The kids were like 11.
I didn't do that growing up.
It's a different culture.
We don't need a national policy.
Your state wants to bump the purchasing age up?
You know, you do your thing.
I don't even agree what they did down here.
It's not a national policy.
All right, let me take a quick break here.
I wanna, there's another actor, by the way, who tweeted something stupid out as usual.
This guy's really good at this.
I'm gonna get to that, and then it's just some debunking some myths about this stuff, because someone commented, I do read your comments, by the way, when you send them on Facebook, and someone made a comment about Australia that was so hilariously misguided and totally objected when I corrected it.
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Okay.
So, uh, speaking of actors again, uh, who, who want to propose a bunch of policy prescriptions and things like that.
Um, I don't know if you're a Star Trek fans or not.
I don't know if Joe, if you were, but George Takai was in Star Trek.
I think I'm not as he was, right.
He was a Star Trek guy.
I think he's at George Takai.
Here's his verified Twitter account.
He's, he's a big, huge lefty.
He goes crazy thought, but those 20 million AR fifteens now in this country could sure arm a lot of Ukrainians.
Holy Moses.
Tell us you make our point about big R God-given rights without telling us you made our point.
This is a lefty.
Yeah, maybe if they were armed beforehand, there may not have been an invasion, as George thought.
George shall not be infused.
He figured that one out.
Probably not, George.
Right over the head, George.
That was definitely a current thing.
Thank you for reminding me.
Also, some of the feedback I got last night.
You know, people purport to be conservatives.
I don't think they are.
They put little emails in the Facebook message feature when they did.
I used to be a supporter, but you're wrong.
McConaughey's great and we should follow the model of Australia where they took all the guns and there've been no mass shootings.
I sent her back this article from the Australia Institute.
Australia, more guns now than before Port Arthur.
Please.
I read your stuff.
You send whatever you got.
Just, I really would appreciate at least to the lefties who pretend to be conservatives that you'd at least do your homework first so you don't embarrass yourselves.
So if your point is that the gun ban led to less guns and less guns leads to less mass shooting, you understand you're making the opposite point, right?
That there have been less mass shootings because there's more guns, right?
Am I, Is that a heart?
Forget it.
Okay, moving on.
Unbelievable.
One more last thing, not on that, but on a different topic.
You know, I find fascinating too with celebrities, that when a celebrity comes out and supports a Biden proposal, which is what he was doing last night, McConaughey, you know, everybody's all over and loves him.
And, and even some people who, you know, conservatives, oh, this is so great.
Yet again, when someone comes out and doesn't even necessarily support a Trump idea, but just like goes to the white house, like Kanye West, the left is like, cancel that person immediately.
So you see the asymmetry here, folks?
This is why I always tell you, cutesy time's over.
And cutesy time being over is not fun.
It's not fun to listen to that powerful, authentic speech from Matthew McConaughey and have to object to things in it.
We like the guy.
We see him in the movies.
He is a likable guy.
But we are not the cult of personality, and it's not cutesy time.
The left gives you no such deference.
Kanye West shows up, and all of a sudden a guy had to cancel Kanye West!
They see the world different than we do.
They understand asymmetric tactical political warfare.
We need to as well.
Okay.
Um, spent a lot of time on that, but it's a passionate topic for me.
I believe you have the God-given right to defend yourself and I'm not going to let anyone take it away without voicing my concerns.
There was an election earthquake last night, ladies and gentlemen, and don't, please don't sell this short.
Say, Oh Dan, it was California, New Jersey, South Dakota, Iowa, you know, New Jersey, California with a big ones, a big States.
We don't have any in Montana.
You know, we don't have anything to do with that stuff.
No, no, you, you do.
You do.
Folks, as I've stated for years, having run for office in a deeply blue state, Maryland, twice, almost pulled off a congressional seat there too.
I've warned you repeatedly, even wrote pieces about it, that these blue states become incubators for policies that metastasize and spread around the country.
Where do you think defund the police that I'm telling you got people killed?
Where do you think that started?
You think that started in Dallas?
You think that started in Martin County, Florida?
That started in deep blue states with deep blue cities and the idea spread around the country.
These are incubators for things and ideas that metastasize like cancers and spread around the globe.
What happens there does matter to you in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
So what happened?
Washington Examiner.
Last night, the far-left, radical, radical, son of terrorists, Chesa Bowden, was recalled with an overwhelming 60% of the vote in San Francisco.
Woo!
Washington Examiner.
Yeah!
San Fran voters oust far-left DA Chesa Bowden after just two years.
Now I don't just repeat the news on the show.
Okay, great.
Dan, we heard about that on Fox.
Did you read the numbers?
There was something interesting in the numbers about Jason Bowden.
You guys catch it?
When you look at San Francisco around the city and the neighborhoods in San Francisco, Joe, you'll notice something really interesting that the yes to recall, in other words, get rid of this guy vote was the highest in minority communities.
He only did well in the white liberal areas where the money is.
Strange, right?
I thought the left was in it for the little guy.
Protect the minorities.
We protect the minority.
We vote for us.
The white liberals get their own security.
They don't really care.
They have fancy alarm systems and everything.
It's not their problem.
It's your problem.
It's only a matter of time before the minority community en masse, like they're doing now, especially the Hispanic and black community, start to wake up and say, I think we've been bullshitted for too long.
The numbers, not just the headline, matter.
White liberals, rich white liberals, destroying this country.
And the minority voters awaken up.
Now, are Democrats going to get the message?
I don't know.
Axios is asking the same question.
This is a newsletter they put out every morning.
It's not as left as Politico, but it's pretty far left.
Politico is to the left of Lenin.
But Axios is pretty far left, too.
But sometimes I read their stuff.
Because Axios is saying this morning, hey, you think Democrats are going to get the message?
You know, this lefty lunatic, and so he was even too left for us in San Francisco, maybe the incubator of stupid policies here.
Does San Francisco really have to be the home of crime, homelessness, drug use, retail theft?
I'm kind of done with that.
So Axios' morning email had one big thing, California earthquake.
That's why I titled the podcast that today.
And the left is on the run.
This is Axios acknowledging this.
Keep in mind, a pretty left-leaning outlet.
They say even in top Democrat power centers, midterm year liberal voters are fed up.
It's a bleak sign for Biden as Dems try to hold on to the House and Senate in November.
Here's a political analyst, this guy Ron Brownstein, said the result will, quote, rattle the political landscape from coast to coast.
Notice he didn't say in just California.
Here, another centrist Democrat think tank guy said, if national Democrats don't wake up to what happened to progressives in New York, Minnesota, and San Francisco this cycle, prepare yourselves for permanent minority status.
Folks, it was another story out of California last night.
A lot of people aren't covering because they're so obsessed with the Chase Abaddon race.
There was a race for controller last night in California too.
One of the most important fiscal positions in California, California.
You know who finished at the top in the jungle primary?
The Republican, Lan Hechen.
Dan, you clearly said that wrong.
No, nope, I didn't.
Look him up, Lan Hechen.
Gosh, you know, can I take a simple victory lap here?
I have repeatedly said to you for eight years that liberalism, cancel culture, and identity politics is undoubtedly A cancerous, cannibalistic endeavor.
Eventually, the village eats itself.
Because liberalism can't work.
And when it can't work, the only people who vote for it and suffer the effects and ramifications of it not working are the liberals because nobody else votes for it.
Eventually, you run out of victims.
They're running out.
Because people are realizing they're not the victims of the horrible, awful Republicans.
They're victims of the people they voted for, the very liberals they voted in office.
It always turns around, folks.
I saw it in New York.
I lived through it.
Now, Jason Bowden and other DAs around the country are all part and parcel to a left-wing effort to do what I call the FBI model of corrupting our law enforcement.
I'm going to get to that in a second and the role George Soros plays in it, because it's important.
Let me get to my last sponsor first.
So, folks, George Soros and these left-leaning groups figured out a long time ago that pouring all their money into presidential elections was a waste.
That they could do far more damage to the United States, the Constitutional Republic, and a representative democracy, if they controlled the law enforcement entities in the country.
I call it the FBI model, because liberals figured out a long time ago, starting pre-Obama, but it really, really doubled down during Obama, that if they could clean out the upper levels of the military and the FBI, and put in partisans instead of law enforcement officers and military folks, That folks, they control everything.
I mean, candidly, Joe, does it matter who you work for if the people who can take your life, arrest you, and defend the nation are all lefties?
No.
No, I'm not talking about lefties at their personal policy.
I'm talking about they bring your politics into the job.
They figured this out a long time ago.
The Chase-A-Bowden thing is just the endgame.
That was what they were doing.
This has been going on a long time.
I want you to read this Daily Mail article today in my newsletter.
It's important.
It's from yesterday, June 7th.
George Soros' back groups have spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors over the last decade.
You know what that means, folks?
One in five Americans now live in areas covered by his criminal justice reformers.
They want this FBI model.
Where they had partisans at the top of the FBI, not making law enforcement or intelligence or national security decisions, but making political decisions to target enemies.
If you get prosecutors across the country, like in New York, where they can prosecute Donald Trump, you get prosecutors across the country who ignore street crime to create the fear chaos the left needs to create a dependency on government.
You have what's called selective enforcement.
Where Donald Trump and Peter Navarro get investigated and arrested, respectively.
And yet Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden get off with a pass.
What does it matter if you vote for, if you find yourself having walked through an open door on January 6th and you find yourself in solitary confinement while Antifa can burn down a city?
What does it matter?
You can vote for whoever you want.
A lot of this stuff happened under Trump.
We won the presidency.
And it was even worse because they controlled the selective enforcement mechanisms of law enforcement at the local and federal level.
That's been their plan for a long time.
And I will never, ever forget something that happened to me in a foreign country I was doing the lead advance for.
When I was in my prior line of work.
Obama was taking a trip overseas.
I'm sitting in a meeting, right?
With a bunch of general level people from their military about Obama's upcoming trip to this country.
I'm the lead Secret Service advance.
I'm in the meeting with the military guy, the military advance, and the staff advance from the White House staff.
And I noticed the guy's looking at me, the general guy, and he's not talking to the staff at all.
And the staff guy is getting annoyed.
And he keeps trying to butt in and the guy keeps waving him off and he keeps talking to me.
So afterwards, the staff guy, of course, gets on me.
You know, you monopolize the meeting.
I'm like, monopolize nothing.
I got to get answers.
He wasn't interested in talking to you.
I don't want to.
So I talked to the guy later, the general guy, and I'm like, Hey, listen, in the future, can you address your questions to the staff?
They ultimately make the decisions.
We just handle the security.
And he said, no, I won't do that.
And he said to me, you know, uh, When he said something like, he who has the guns has the power.
So we'll talk to you.
And I was, I never, I've told that story a lot.
I never forgot that.
So you think in the United States, because we've lived here in a sound functioning constitutional Republic for all of your lifetime, all of it, unless you're 200 plus years old, which I doubt you're not Lestat from interview with a vampire, right?
You've never known a place where those who have the guns have the power.
You thought you had the power and a consent of the governed Constitutional Republic.
George Soros funded groups don't think that way.
Those who have the guns and the ability to use them, DAs who can sick the gun squad on people and the FBI, they do have the power.
They figured that out a long time ago.
It's time for everyone else to wake up.
We're going down that road now.
It's also why the Soros groups are fighting this information war.
Washington Times covered this yesterday.
George Soros-funded group of Hispanic investors buy up dozens of radio stations.
Covered this yesterday.
Free market, folks.
I'm a capitalist.
George Soros-funded groups are free to buy whatever they want, just like Elon's free to buy Twitter.
Big difference though.
Elon buys Twitter because Elon is committed to free speech and said so in a tweet.
You want to attack me when I buy Twitter if it ever happens?
You go right ahead.
He actually said it in a tweet.
I don't mind conservatives owning these companies because I know them like me.
I have an equity stake and many of them are committed to free speech.
The problem is the left isn't.
They know it's about controlling information streams and silencing conservative voices.
I actually admitted it.
Here's Simone Sanders on our MSNBC show with this activist Democrat guy talking about exactly this, the purchase of Hispanic language radio to control folks for, Joe, what's the buzzword du jour?
Misinformation, which really, when they say, when the left says misinformation, what do they mean, Joe?
Conservative ideas.
So whenever you hear misinformation, they mean conservative ideas.
Here's them admitting controlling information is the end game.
Check this out.
This is consequential, what is happening.
We're going to see huge increases in factual information being delivered to Latino voters.
As Jess said, Spanish language radio is an extremely important outlet in our community.
And I think you're going to start seeing dividends.
It wasn't just enough to say, hey, Democrats need to do a better job because there was this huge media environment that no one had control over.
And Jess and Stephanie took control of that.
And I think it's going to be one of the most important things we see moving forward.
Jess, that is high praise from Matt, okay?
He does not say that lightly.
No, he doesn't say it lightly.
He totally understands that it's about controlling information flow, eliminating conservative voices, and falsely calling it misinformation.
Keep in mind, the fountain of misinformation is exclusively from the left.
The pee-pee hoax, the Hunter laptop hoax.
It's all lefty stuff.
Trump said drink bleach hoax.
It's all lefty stuff.
All of it.
It's always about being in control, and they're admitting it now.
Let me go through one last cut.
Karine Jean-Pierre.
Remember what I said yesterday about signs?
Watch yesterday's podcast.
It did great on audio, but for some reason the Rumble didn't do it.
I was very upset about that.
We put a lot of work into the visuals.
Rumble.com slash Bongino.
We'd appreciate it.
Numbers were down a little bit, but it was a really important show.
I talked about in the beginning, I think I'm going to address it on my Fox show again this weekend, how good leaders always are able to see signs and translate what those signs mean for the future.
Cause no one can obviously predict the future better than anyone else.
That's what good leaders are.
You wouldn't want a general on the battlefield who can never predict at all what the enemy will do.
What's the point, right?
Notice how even the Biden administration, which doesn't care about the economic signs, continues to lie to you.
They can't even see the economy getting bad.
And even when it gets bad, where it is now, they still won't admit it.
And now they're telling you, not only is it not bad, Joe, It's the best economy we've had historically.
Just take a look here.
Check this out.
What we're trying to say, what I'm trying to say to you, is that the economy is in a better place than it has been historically.
And so we feel here at this administration, and other experts as well, is that we feel that we are in a good position to take on inflation.
Come on, dude.
I know you don't like, I appreciate, I deeply appreciate your restraint with the Mutley because it loses its oomph if we use it too much.
And I know you don't like it twice in a week, especially with a two for Mutley, but come on, man.
That's freaking hilarious.
Thank you.
At least one.
Yeah.
Two.
I mean, I know we don't want to, yeah.
Okay.
It's two.
He doesn't like to do this.
I, which I appreciate it.
You gotta like, but that's better than what, Ah, okay.
We're going to have to wrap it for the day.
Cause I'm real.
I'm going to start.
It's better than any economy.
Inflation out of control, right?
We have people sweet.
We can't get, you got, my wife went to the store yesterday.
Best economy you've had in a long time.
Again, not, not a joke, not hyperbole.
I'll end with this.
My wife goes to the store yesterday and she texts me, what do you want from the store?
She went to the fresh market.
I call it the quickie mart from the Simpsons.
It's not a quickie, but I just think it's a stupid joke I make with my daughter.
She thinks it's hilarious.
I don't know why.
But I'm like, oh, you go to the quickie bar.
Okay.
I texted her back.
I'm like, can you get me, what did I tell her?
Milk, smoked almonds.
I love those.
I said, get me some cinnamon.
You should put cinnamon in everything.
It's great for getting your insulin, getting your insulin to work a little better.
I say, get me a little of this, get me a little of this salad dressing.
I like eat a lot of salad, right?
She comes back and so it knocks on the door.
It's too much personal information today, but she knocks on the door.
To get in the house, the one Guy's looking at.
She knocks on the door, and I go, oh, you need help with the bags?
She only had two bags.
She goes, no, that's it.
I go, what do you mean, that's it?
I sent you like 20 things.
She's like, I didn't have any of it.
You know what they had?
Cinnamon.
I got cinnamon.
So I pour cinnamon, I guess.
That's it.
That's what they had.
Cinnamon.
I go, what about milk?
I drink a lot of milk.
Nope.
I go, what do you mean?
No milk.
No, none.
None of the milk.
The milk I have to drink lactate.
No lactate type milk.
I like the Fairlife.
I think it's a little bad, but whatever.
Nope.
No milk, no milk, no almonds, salad dressing.
No, nothing.
There you go.
Kareem Jean-Pierre says it's the best it's been.
You're right, Kareem.
Let's go.
Oh, wait, wait.
Good point.
The Let's Go Brandon cowbell.
Thank you to the listeners.
We haven't used that in a while.
Gas, gas, gas in Florida where a gas tax is only $5 a gallon.
Guy can't even afford to drive over to the studio anymore.
I have to give him a raise just for gas.
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