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So you ever see that crazy movie, World War Z?
World War Z, the zombie movie.
Yeah, yeah, zombies.
I get it, the whole thing.
Obviously a movie, goofy, kind of silly, but I like zombie movies, whatever.
At one point in the movie, the guy's like, yeah, nobody thinks anything's going to happen until it does.
I gotta tell you, I'm getting that sinking feeling that that guy in the Goofy movie may have been onto something, especially with China and World War III.
Ah, come on, Dan, that's crazy.
Is it?
You sure?
Because we did that show last week about what an invasion by China would look like that blew up.
I think we kind of laid it out with facts.
And the facts are in front of us right now that somebody's preparing for something.
You can pay attention or you can ignore it at your own peril.
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So is China preparing for World War III?
The answer is, I hope to the hell not they're not.
Because I don't like the idea of World War III.
Joe?
Guy?
Anyone?
War.
Bad.
No, not a fan either.
I'd rather sit here, do my podcast, watch my daughter play flag football.
Watch my eldest daughter in college.
Enjoy her time in college.
I'd rather not be looking at starvation, nuclear annihilation, war, killing people, people killing us, the threat of people killing us and us having to threaten to kill other people.
I really don't like that idea.
And you probably wouldn't either.
Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party, I don't believe, feels the same way.
Are they preparing for World War III?
What would an invasion look like?
Ladies and gentlemen, I covered that last week and folks, the threat of an EMP attack, an electromagnetic pulse attack, detonated by a balloon in our atmosphere and a nuclear weapon attached to it is very real.
I had State Senator from Texas, Bob Hall on my radio show yesterday.
He'll be on my Fox show again this weekend, Saturday at nine o'clock.
Don't miss it.
He talked extensively about how easy this is to do.
China just, did they not just show us how easy it is to infiltrate our airspace with a balloon and nothing happened?
Did anybody miss that?
How difficult for them would it be for them to attach a nuclear payload, to detonate it, and to basically wipe out every electronic device you have.
Everything.
Nothing would work.
Water filtration plants, nuclear plants, nothing would work.
Energy plants, nothing.
God forbid your parents or something need supplemental oxygen that has to be plugged in.
Nothing works.
State Senator Hall brought up a fascinating, for all the wrong reasons, point.
He's like, you detonate an EMP in the atmosphere or a couple of them over the United States, you wipe out 90% of the population probably within six weeks.
You got about 10% of us left.
Chinese wouldn't even need to invade.
Military facilities would probably be broken.
Chaos would break out.
There's a possibility of desertions.
Invade?
They just walk in and take everything.
He brought up the point that they're not gonna nuke the United States because they need the food, they need the farmland, they can't feed themselves.
They just walk in and take it.
Folks, the time to prepare for this is now.
Now, why am I bringing this up?
Again, conspiracy theory?
Whatever, man.
I don't even care anymore.
I spent my entire life in the preparedness field trying to prevent both Republican and Democrat presidents from being attacked or anything happened to them.
I got paid to think about crazy things that might never happen.
You know why?
So they would never happen in real life.
And you know what I get paid to do now to tell you the truth?
That the signs are everywhere that something's going on.
A friend over at Fox, Tucker Carlson, addressed this new Russia-China symbiote, how China and Russia, who've been historical enemies, by the way, look at history, you'll see that yourself, have been historical enemies in many cases, all of a sudden seem to be teaming up like the perverse Wonder Twins, and they're up to something.
Tucker addressed this the other night.
Check this out.
Interview with a German newspaper today, the Ukrainian President Zelensky casually mentioned that, oh by the way, the entire world may soon go up in flames.
Quote, if China aligns itself with Russia, there will be a world war.
There will be a world war?
If China aligns with Russia?
Who could say something like that calmly?
Since, as we just told you, China is aligned with Russia.
It's already happened.
That's not speculation.
It's a fact.
And as a result of that fact, according to Zelensky himself, hundreds of millions of people will die.
No big deal.
As long as we take Crimea.
I mean, you have Zelensky in Ukraine already talking about this China-Russia alliance.
Folks, again, I'm just going to ask you a simple question.
Are you really confident in that ridiculous expression, your heart of hearts?
But are you really confident that a US-EU alliance with the Germans, who don't even want to fight now, like the Russians, right?
An EU alliance that hasn't spent money on their military, the European Union, significant amounts of money in decades.
Are you really confident a US-EU alliance Would win in a fight with Iran, Russia, and China?
I think the odds are in our favor.
But are you really confident?
Because if we lose, it's over.
And are you really confident knowing they could fly a balloon over our territory with an EMP, wipe out about 90% of our population, wipe out our entire electrical grid, and basically have us helpless to respond?
Folks, the signs are everywhere.
Remember this article from a couple of weeks ago?
February 2nd, 2023.
It's in the newsletter today.
I suggest you read it.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
It's free.
You can follow it.
Check this out.
U.S.
General's gut feeling of war with China sparks alarm over predictions.
Leaked memo forecasting a Taiwan Strait conflict in 2025 triggers a debate about undisciplined comments.
This guy was a four-star general, folks.
He said, quote, his gut told him that we'd be at war with China in 2025.
He was kind of like disciplined for this.
His name is General Mike Minahan.
He's only the head of U.S.
Air Mobility Command.
Predicted a war with China by 2025.
Why do you think he said that, Joe?
You think he was bored on the weekend playing Scrabble?
He was missing a word and the word came up.
Oh, war.
China.
There you go.
I think he knows something we don't.
Oh, you maybe, you think so?
You think, you think, you think he's been briefed in on things?
Joe and I, listen, Joe and I have got some pretty good sources, but I'm pretty confident general Mike Minahan knows a lot more than we do.
I'm pretty confident.
You agree, Joe?
Yeah, I'd say so, Dan.
A little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I haven't been, I haven't been sitting in on those briefings.
You think that was just a slip of the tongue?
Four star general.
Yeah.
I'm going to be at war by 2025.
Do you find it strange, too, the eagerness of the administration to squash that all of a sudden?
No, no, no.
Undisciplined comment.
Man's undisciplined.
What about this one?
Folks, again, I'm just reporting to you what's happening.
I'm not trying to scare you.
I'm not trying to frighten you.
There's a pretty good chance that hopefully this will not materialize into World War III.
Unfortunately, if there is a 5-10% chance that it will, which would result in potential nuclear annihilation and the death of me, my kids, my family, any future kids my kids would have, and your kids too, I think we should know about it.
Wall Street Journal.
February 2023.
China's Xi Jinping plans a Russia visit as Putin wages war in Ukraine.
Again, what do you think they're doing over there?
Campfires?
S'mores, maybe?
Chatting about the Yankees' Garrett Cole next season, see if he's up for it?
Maybe chatting about the Super Bowl?
Here, here's another one.
Folks, the list goes on and on.
Notice how I'm using a variety of different outlets from all sides of the political spectrum to show you that this isn't some right-wing conspiracy theory.
These things are actually happening.
U.S.
son, China is learning from Putin's Ukraine disaster, as the regime prepares for an all-out Taiwan blitz to cut off the island from the U.S.
Ladies and gentlemen, they are learning all the wrong lessons, China, from the Ukraine disaster.
There is a school of thought I believe is wrong.
I could be wrong.
It's my opinion, though.
I'm telling you it's my opinion.
I'm speculating.
But there's a school of thought out there that China is learned from the Ukraine disaster and China is saying, oh, you know what?
We better not invade Taiwan.
Look, Russia couldn't even do a land invasion into Ukraine, which it shares a border with.
We'd have to cross the strait.
To Taiwan, making it geometrically more difficult to get in there.
We better not do that.
No, I don't think that's what's happening at all.
I think China learned from the Vladimir Putin incident that if you're going to do it, you have to blitzkrieg immediately.
Missiles, land, air, everything.
I think he thought Vladimir Putin got too cocky.
Used only pieces of his army that he could have used, and I think Xi Jinping is figuring out that if he's gonna do it, he better do it all at once.
EMPs, balloons, taking out electrical grids, sea, air, land, all at one time.
If he's gonna do it, he better go for it all at once.
I think they're learning the exact opposite lesson some people want you to think they're learning from Ukraine.
It's not not to do it.
It's how to do it.
Air quotes, better meaning worse for us.
Signs are everywhere, ladies and gentlemen.
Washington Examiner.
Just read the signs.
Farewell to arms control.
Lawmakers decry Vladimir Putin's suspension of the last treaty standing.
Folks, this is a particularly sensitive topic because I was there No, literally there, when this treaty was signed, the New START Treaty.
I was in Prague, standing right there as the lead advance agent, when Barack Obama and Medvedev from Russia signed the New START Treaty, imposing limitations on certain types of nuclear weapons.
I was there, like right there, when it happened.
Vladimir Putin just decided to suspend it.
Putin wasn't abiding by it anyway.
But again, why do you think he suspended it?
Because he's just kidding around?
Listen, Vladimir Putin is a global terrorist and a thug.
Vladimir Putin is not a faker.
Putin said he was going to invade Ukraine, and he did it.
Now he's making sure that we don't inspect their nuclear stockpile, that he wasn't abiding by much anyway, and making a big public spectacle of suspending a nuclear arms treaty with the United States.
Again, Joe, in some limited circles, we'd call that something.
We'd call that a clue.
Clue!
Now, you may be saying, I don't know, Dan.
You think China and Russia are going to join forces?
EMP attacks over the United States, World War III, global apocalypse.
That sounds kind of crazy.
You're just another one of those right-wing nuts.
Am I?
Because you think if China was looking to dial down the pressure, Joe, then they would do what?
They would dial down the pressure.
But it's weird because they're not doing that.
Right?
That's really strange.
Like, there's a way to dial it down.
And the way to do it is to dial it down.
But they're not!
They're dialing it up!
Wall Street Journal.
China, Russia, and the U.S.
red line on Ukraine.
So after the balloon incident over the United States, which caused international chaos, to say the least, and showed how feckless the Biden administration is, you'd think China would say, ah, listen, sorry, blew off course.
My bad.
Threw a Nelson Mons.
Eh, eh.
That's not what happened.
Tony Blinken, our Secretary of State, said after a meeting with one of his counterparts in China that China offered no apology for sending the balloon into our airspace and over our military sites.
They didn't!
Joe, does that sound apologetic, to offer no apology?
No.
No, right?
It sounds like the opposite.
Okay, just checking.
Mr. Wang from China reinforced the point in his public remarks in Munich, chastising us!
They sent the spy balloon over our sensitive military sites and they're flipping us the middle finger?
Calling us absurd and hysterical?
Dang that Wang.
That Wang, man!
Dang him!
That Wang!
He also blamed the U.S.
for being an obstacle to peace in Ukraine.
Oh, this is interesting.
Mr. Wang was headed to Moscow after the Munich meeting as Biden was going to Kiev.
Man.
Another one of those head scratchers.
Ooh, itchy scalp today.
Again, don't worry, folks.
Nothing's gonna happen.
Don't sweat it at all.
Nothing to worry about here.
You know, Nassim Taleb, whether you like him or not, he's... I don't know, his tweets lately have been a little... But his book, The Black Swan, is a fascinating one.
It's one of my favorites.
I used to drive Joe crazy with it.
And the thing about these Black Swan events, rare events, I mean, how many Black Swans have you seen in your lifetime?
Probably none.
But the thing about these Black Swan events is you have to measure them based on probability and outcome, right?
If the probability of World War III with China is, say, 1%, 1 out of 100, that's pretty low, correct?
I don't like those chances, 1%.
If I'm like, hey, you get a million dollars, 1% chance.
I'd rather have a 90% chance.
However, if it's a 1% chance, and that 1% chance actually happens, and then it results in global annihilation, we should probably take the 1% a little more seriously than it was of a 1% chance of, say, a cockroach being caught in your kitchen cabinet.
I'm just going to throw that out there.
Right before we came on the air, by the way, I mean right before we came on, this happened.
Remember that warning from the general in the beginning, the four-star general, saying, hey, I think we could be going to war with China by 2025, which I don't know about you, again, I just take seriously, four-star general, and I mean, what the hell does that guy know?
This just popped.
U.S.
to expand its true presence in Taiwan for a training exercise against the China threat.
Bananas.
It's almost like they know something we don't.
Listen.
Ignore these warning signs at your own peril.
Nobody thinks any of this is going to happen until it does.
My conversation with the state senator from Texas yesterday, who's a real expert on the CMP stuff, I asked him, what should we do?
And he stated the obvious.
Unfortunately, it's not obvious to everyone.
Folks, get prepared now.
The best day of your life is the day your firearms, your ammunition, your emergency food, your water filtration, your emergency water supply, your emergency food cabinet, your medicines you prepared for in an emergency.
The best day of your life is the day you die in your 90s a glorious death with your kids around you.
All saying how much they love you and you saying how much you love them, living such a great life, and you tell them, hey, listen, there's a big preparedness closet in my house.
I didn't use any of it, so you guys can either keep it or chuck it.
That's the best day of your life.
The worst day of your life is in the 1% chance or less that this stuff and these warning signs are real.
That this actually happens.
An EMP goes off, you find yourself with no water, no food, no weapons to defend yourself.
And the Chinese Communist Party waltzes into the United States as nine out of 10 of us die.
And you're sitting there, a subjugant to the Chinese Communist Party and their new US gulags.
Ignore the warning signs at your own peril.
I'm not ignoring them.
I'm gonna tell you that.
All right, I got more.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world sees weakness in us, China too, and that's what has me really concerned.
I'm going to get to some of that later.
Biden and they know our media is going to do nothing to tell you the truth either.
The world knows that.
That's what makes the likelihood of World War III even more likely.
I got some video coming up of that next.
Biden and the media just kissing his ass relentlessly.
It's pathetic over his Ukraine trip.
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Again, folks, unfortunately, the rest of the world sees Joe Biden as nothing more than
a rotting bag of oatmeal.
They see him as weak.
Trump, we had the opposite problem.
They saw him as crazy, which is good.
Because if you're crazy, you're unpredictable.
And if you're unpredictable, Joe, you don't want to poke the bear.
Here's the bear.
Don't poke him.
Biden, they love poking him.
They poke him, tickle him, play with his hair.
I think it's a little joke.
And they know our media will cover up for him.
They see what we see.
Him tripping up the stairs, can't even follow a red carpet, stumbling over his words.
They see his son doing corrupt deals with just about every major enemy of the United States on Earth.
They see this.
They know how weak he is.
And instead of our media exposing it and preparing the American people for the damage it could be done by taking advantage of a weak president, what does our media do?
Our media covers right up.
Listen to the ass-kissing, hat-tip Grabian, our good friend Tom Elliott over there.
The ass-kissing about Biden's trip over to Kiev.
The guy's like a war hero now.
He's like General Patton.
Here, take a listen.
Joe Biden has put solidarity ahead of his own personal safety.
Air raid sirens and no real guarantee of security.
Has air raid sirens blared?
This was incredibly dramatic, Andrea.
It was historic as well.
Historic, timely, and brave.
The first American president to go to a war zone with no U.S.
military presence for security on the ground.
American presidents have made dramatic trips before.
Nixon to China, Kennedy, Reagan to the Berlin Wall.
And presidents have visited U.S.
troops in war zones, but never like this.
To find a day of this kind of presidential bravery in a war zone, you've got to go all the way back to 1864.
With Biden's trip to Europe, he is welcomed as not only, frankly, the savior of Ukraine, but also the savior of Europe as a whole.
Folks, the international media are international geopolitical enemies.
They see this.
They know the media will do whatever it can to make this guy look like everything he isn't.
They have intelligence officials.
They have intelligence officials that have infiltrated global media.
Unfortunately, they see everything we're seeing.
The media is not telling you the truth about just how weak the Biden administration is, just how compromised him, Biden Inc.
and his family are, the enemies of the United States.
Our enemies know this.
Liberals in the United States don't.
Here's what really happened, and I mean this, unfortunately, because I do, you know, I'm not trying to Winning a political argument at the cost of World War III is kind of like the peak insanity, right?
Here's what the world really sees.
Here's Biden walking up the stairs to Air Force One.
The guy can't seem to walk up a set of stairs.
It's unbelievable.
Here, take a look at this.
You see he's going up the stairs.
Almost there.
Almost there.
Oh, there we go.
He can't make it up.
Oh, yeah.
Poor guy.
Can't seem to make it up the stairs.
It's like, what, the second, third, fourth, twentieth time?
Can you please just hold on to the rail?
Listen, I'm 48.
I'm a lot younger than Joe Biden.
I got a bad knee.
Hold on to the rail, please.
I'm serious.
I'm not being funny.
I don't want you to fall on your face.
I wish ill will on no human being.
And I really hope and pray you stop falling on yourself walking up the stairs because our enemies see this.
And it makes you look feeble.
Now of course the media is painting him as MacArthur, one of the great generals of our time.
He's the Norman Schwarzkopf of our time.
Here he is on the red carpet overseas on this last trip.
Now, Joe, the thing with the red carpet, you're kind of familiar with how it works, right?
It's very technical.
You're supposed to walk on it.
That's why they put it out.
You gotta be careful.
Joe Biden had a little bit of difficulty with the instructions.
Here's the red carpet.
Try to stay on it.
So they had to coach him through it.
The whole world saw this, too, from our new General Patton.
Here, check this out.
[MUSIC]
Listen, man, again, it gives me absolutely zero pleasure to have to
report to you that the President of the United States is not only,
not only probably has a blackmail file 72 feet deep by China and
other countries because of the dealings of his family and Biden Inc.
But that the man is so cognitively compromised, he doesn't even understand that the red carpet is out to
walk on, not to look at.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Our media covers for him.
They cover for everything.
They lie to you all the time.
Listen to me.
They lie to you all the time.
They lie to you about everything.
All the time.
It doesn't matter if it involves death, environmental disasters, World War III, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, nuclear war, EMPs.
They lie to you all the time.
Trust nothing coming from them.
I can prove to you that they lie to you all the time.
I want you to watch what I'm talking about here.
We're going to switch gears just a little bit.
The Ohio rail disaster, what looks like one of the most significant environmental disasters in recent years.
Train derailed, toxic chemicals burned, they burned them, got in the air, got in the water supply.
The extent of the damage, to be fair, we don't know.
Unlike liberals, I actually believe in science.
We'll see what testing shows in the future.
However, I want you to know, trust absolutely nothing coming out of the media.
I want you to see and witness here one of the most grotesque things you're ever going to see in the media, the disgusting CBS Evening News.
Try to blame Donald Trump for the disaster.
Now, nothing they say here is actually true, and I'm going to prove it to you in a minute.
It took me about 10 minutes to discredit the entire thing.
But proving to you again, they do nothing but lie to you all the time.
Listen, I'm trying to blame Trump for this.
Check this out.
The Trump administration rolled back rail safety regulations, including an Obama-era proposal for technology that would have made all rail cars break at the same time.
His administration also blocked efforts to require minimum crew sizes on trains.
We're just going to require at least two people, at least two human beings on a train to make sure that we have that safety.
Oh, so Donald Trump canceled some brake rule and they didn't want people on a train?
And you're listening to that if you're a liberal moron and you're like, oh my gosh, Donald Trump definitely did it.
Those brakes would have changed everything and it would have had more people and would have stopped it, Joe.
Which is interesting because it took me again all of probably 10, 15, maybe less minutes to discredit and debunk all of that.
It's almost as if what I told you about Washington, D.C.
and the media, that everything, everything in Washington, D.C.
and the swamp and in the media is viewed through the lens of how does it hurt Donald Trump.
It's almost as if what I told you is true.
The Ohio disaster.
How do we hurt Donald Trump with this, right?
Did you just see it?
It's not, again, it's not me.
I told you, who cares?
Everybody, it's not something I made up.
But do you see how it just happened?
This has nothing to do with Donald Trump at all.
He's not the president.
He wasn't on the train.
He doesn't own the train.
He didn't derail the train.
He didn't plant an explosive on the track.
And yet the media is like, how do we, how do we connect this to Donald Trump and do maximum damage?
So they said there's some 2015 rule Donald Trump and his administration repealed about this braking system somehow connecting it to this disaster.
So I looked it up.
I found this interesting Wall Street Journal article.
Trump, Buttigieg, and the East Palestine train derailment.
So they're talking about the braking rule.
And it turns out that this braking rule had more to do with environmental nuts trying to block energy production in the United States than it had to do with braking trains at all.
They note the costly rule provided marginal safety benefits.
But it would have advanced the left's anti-fossil fuel agenda.
How's that?
Brakes on trains?
Well first, as you know, the left wants to block pipelines so you don't get any oil anywhere and we all starve to death.
I'm adding that part.
It says first they block pipelines.
Then they note the left wanted to make it prohibitively expensive to move that same oil by rail.
Industry groups sued.
Congress instructed the Transportation Department to reevaluate its analysis and the GAO to do an assessment.
You see how there's always an agenda and they lie to you?
That the braking systems, which may have had some marginal benefit, had more to do with the left trying to make transporting oil on trains super expensive using these ridiculously expensive braking systems than it had anything to do with actually braking trains and stopping them?
Oh, it gets better!
So the GAO did some analysis on this rule Trump repealed, and he did repeal the rule, And it turns out they identified a myriad of problems with the government's cost-benefit analysis, and Trump rescinded the rule in 2018.
Here's the kicker, folks.
Remember, CBS News, use air quotes there, just told you or implied that Trump's pulling this breaking rule, that this is connected.
This is it.
Here's the Wall Street Journal, by no means a far-right outlet, by the way.
There's no evidence ECP breaks would have prevented the derailment.
And the Obama-era rule wouldn't have applied to the Norfolk Southern train anyway, because it wasn't classified as a high-hazard, flammable unit train.
Oh, that's... interesting little... little tidbit they left out there.
Wouldn't have even applied to that train, even if it did apply as a rule.
It's almost as if the CBS Evening News is lying to you.
So...
Joe, he's in shock over there.
He was doing his yoga and he stopped in utter amazement that the CBS News would just blatantly lie to you.
That the breaking rule wouldn't have even applied to this train anyway.
Oh, it gets worse.
What about blaming Trump about not having more people on the train?
We needed three people instead of two on that train.
I'll get to that in a second.
It gets even better.
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Really, they make it so easy.
They're such freaking liars.
It's just so easy.
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So they blame Trump saying it was some breaking rule that had marginal benefits at best and wouldn't have even applied to this train.
But again, it is a CBS Evening News, so expecting honesty out of them is kind of hilarious.
And then Buttigieg in the CBS Evening News said, well, listen, if they would have had, you know, more people on the train and definitely if they would have had rail inspectors inspecting the rails, then that would have done it.
That's interesting, too.
Buttigieg said that.
He's like, gosh, we need these human inspectors, which is fascinating because there was a proposal out there for automated technology-based inspectors that are more accurate, actually, than human inspectors, and they didn't want that because a lot of the unions wanted to keep those jobs.
The Journal notes, Buttigieg criticized Norfolk Southern and other railroads for deploying technology to inspect the tracks, which labor unions oppose.
I don't know, Joe.
I thought that technology was a good thing.
Call me crazy.
Oh, Dan, you're defending Norfolk Southern?
Oh yeah, that's hilarious.
Oh yeah, you know me.
All in for the big corporations.
I'm not defending them at all.
I'm simply defending the truth.
They note automated inspections are more efficient and can detect safety problems better and more quickly than the human eye.
But Biden regulators limited the technology's use.
And there's no evidence it contributed to the derailment.
Listen, folks, I just do evidence and the truth and stuff.
You have technology that can detect problems in the track and you choose not to use it because unions want human beings looking at it instead.
And then, interestingly enough, you then go and blame Trump and others for not using technology that may have had something to do with it or may not.
Kind of strange, right?
Here's the best one of all.
They blame Trump saying, listen, Trump, he should have gone along with the unions.
They need more people on these trains.
Three people, not just two.
Oh, this is just glorious.
Buttigieg threw the... Because Buttigieg is just a loser and a moron and a man with no human dignity whatsoever.
The Journal notes, Buttigieg claimed the accident supports the need for union-backed regulations requiring, Joe, a minimum of two crew members on the trains.
If they just would've had two, Joe.
The union's right.
If they just would've had two members, none of this would've ever happened.
If Woody would've went right to the police.
Here's the problem, folks.
Technology's making it safer and more efficient to operate freight trains with one worker in the cab as many passenger trains do.
Regardless, here's the kicker.
The East Palestine train had three crew members.
So the unions want to, due to technology, they can probably deal with one.
Buttigieg is blaming Trump and everyone else for not having two when they actually had, oh, three.
Again, itchy scalp today.
Trump definitely did it.
By the way, here's why they're really mad.
President Trump showed up in East Palestine while Pete Buttigieg was there.
He was on personal time, fellas.
Personal time.
He was taking some time to do his thing, as he told the reporter.
A man so utterly unqualified for his job, he makes Kamala Harris look like Napoleon.
Pete Buttigieg, it was on his personal time, finally made it this morning over to East Palestine, conveniently after Trump humiliated him and showed up there himself.
And this was one of the reactions in a McDonald's where he calls out Buttigieg directly.
Check this out.
They're systematically destroying our country and it's a shame.
And Buttigieg should have been here already.
Good for him.
Trump's not the Department of Transportation Secretary, but he managed to beat the Department of Transportation Secretary there, who's trying to blame Trump.
Which is absolutely hilarious when you think about that.
Why are they all so furious?
Well, they're furious at the reception Trump received yesterday.
I want you to watch this.
If you're listening on audio only, you can hear it.
And I want you to listen to the reaction of the people.
When President Trump showed up in East Palestine with water and some supplies for them, while the Biden administration, outside of the EPA Administrator Reagan, almost no one showed up to do a damn thing.
And Biden's over in Ukraine, walking off and not on the red carpet, tripping over himself, getting up the stairs.
Here's the reception President Trump received.
They are so mad at this.
They are like foaming at the mouth.
Take a listen.
Thank you, sir.
Honored to meet you, sir.
Mr. Trump, what do you make of Biden not showing up, you showing up before he did?
Thank you so much for coming.
Get him out of here.
Thank you so much.
Trump!
[INAUDIBLE]
Trump!
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for not forgetting us.
They are absolutely furious, furious about that.
You think Biden and Buttigieg, you think they're gonna get the same reception?
Buttigieg showed up with a hard hat and some glasses with some D.O.T.
people who were probably pre-vetted in advance or some locals pre-vetted in advance.
You think Buttigieg is gonna plunge himself into a crowd shaking hands?
No, because they're gonna give him an earful.
They'll do it respectfully.
These are American citizens.
These are good and decent people.
They deserve answers.
But don't worry, Buttigieg's got some personal time.
Listen, I told you, every single thing in D.C.
is about how to get Trump.
I don't know any other way to tell you.
You think I'm crazy?
It's fair.
I mean, you're entitled to your opinion.
I'm telling you, I haven't studied this business for over a decade of my life.
These people are obsessed with Donald Trump.
I'm going to show you something coming up next that, again, proves my point.
That everything done, politics right now, anything of significance is done with the idea of how to take out Donald Trump.
That's how afraid of him they are.
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So again, everything's about getting Donald Trump.
Why else would the media put this person on television, who I don't even know what to say about this, having been a law enforcement officer most of my adult life before I was in the conservative content production space.
This is the foreperson of a grand jury in Georgia Looking in our hilariously titled justice system, because it's not a justice system, it's a get Trump system now.
It's a joke.
Our justice system is a complete joke.
Our FBI, our local justice systems.
Seriously, there were some good ones left.
We have a good one down here in South Florida.
But outside of that, what's happening in Georgia and the potential indictment of Donald Trump and his team is an absolute embarrassment, right?
An embarrassment.
This is the foreperson of a grand jury giving media interviews about how they want to look Trump in the eye to get him?
This is insanity.
Take a look.
Did you personally want to hear from the former president?
I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in.
And so I thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, do you solemnly swear?
And me getting to swear him in?
I just, I kind of just thought that would be an awesome moment.
You would think the media would be embarrassed to air something so crazy.
Can you imagine if the situation were reversed and a conservative, I assume, jury foreperson in a Hunter Biden case was on TV talking about, I need to get him, we need to look him in the eye, Biden.
I mean, this is insanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, are we in some kind of like third world republic?
I mean, are we all going to have to stand in line as Biden walks down a modern day Red Square in Broadway and like salute him and pop to attention and clap like North Korea soon?
What the hell is going on here?
This case should be immediately thrown out.
All these people should be sanctioned.
This is an absolute embarrassment.
We got an out-of-control crazed FBI we talked about yesterday.
We've got grand juries all over the United States prosecuting Trump and his team for free parking.
We got a four-person talking about, oh, I need to look him in the eye, and you do?
Justice is blind.
Freaking joke.
Not to her.
She wants to look him in the eye.
She's not blind.
Folks, trust nothing from this hack media.
Absolutely nothing.
I want to cover one last topic before we go today because it's important to get to a 2024 update.
It's going to be quick.
Listen, I'm going to put this out there in advance.
I understand.
I fully understand that this topic bothers a lot of you.
I get a lot of feedback on it and a lot of people are very upset.
I think they wish I just wouldn't cover it as if the problem is going to go away, but I refuse to do that.
One of the most important government programs we have right now is social security for a number of reasons.
The men and women that rely on it are past their working years.
They can't just go back to work tomorrow and start laying bricks, okay?
They've already done that.
They were the greatest generation.
Many of them fought in World Wars.
Many of them fought in Vietnam.
Many of them gave pieces of themselves.
And let me tell you something.
Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s worked a lot harder than you and I did.
I think, Joe, you'd agree with that.
Yeah, I would.
They didn't have the benefits of computer technology, all the fancy robotics and AI.
When you were on an assembly line, that was you putting that stuff together, not some robot helping you.
They busted their ass.
And they were made a promise by the government.
You bust your ass and give us some money, we'll do something to take care of you via this program called Social Security when you get older.
I'm sorry to inform you again for the thousandth time that the program is broke.
In ten years, maybe less, the program will be insolvent.
Meaning there's not going to be enough money in the trust fund to pay you.
Meaning there's going to be an automatic cut in Social Security.
So the Do Nothing plan is a cut.
Everybody needs to understand that.
The Let's Do Nothing About Social Security plan is a 20% cut.
That is indisputable math.
Whether you agree with it or not is candidly irrelevant.
Now, if we do something now, we could potentially fix this.
For people, say, 55 and younger.
I've said it over and over.
Nobody wants to do anything.
And the President, Biden, Seeming to imply that if we just tax people who make $400,000 a year or more we can save Social Security is an absolute mathematical fairytale.
Brian Rydell, James Freeman covers it in his column, but Brian Rydell is a really smart guy.
He's a great math guy when it comes to budgets.
He notes that this is a fairytale.
That the President's implication that full Social Security benefits can be paid without raising taxes for 98% of families has no basis in mathematical reality.
He notes this, right?
Imagine Congress lets the Trump tax cuts expire.
In other words, they hike taxes.
Applied Social Security taxes to all wages, not just at the limit, everything.
Doubled the top two tax brackets to 70 and 74 percent.
Imagine that.
Hiked investment taxes.
Wow, this sounds bad.
Imposed Bernie Sanders' 8% wealth tax on assets over 10 billion.
And a 77% estate tax on estates valued more than a billion.
And raised the corporate tax back to 35%.
Combined federal, income state, payroll tax, marginal tax rates.
They'd approach 100%, by the way, if they did all that.
Meaning, basically, the economy would collapse.
And here's the kicker.
Well, at least it would solve the social security problem.
Uh, no, it wouldn't.
America would face among the highest wealth estate corporate tax rates in the developed world.
And it's still, here's the kicker, still wouldn't solve, still wouldn't solve the entitlement crisis.
We still wouldn't have enough money to make social security and Medicare solvent.
We still wouldn't have enough.
That's if we do nothing.
Now, I bring that up because socialists like Bernie Sanders are always talking about Sweden.
Right, Joe?
He loves Sweden.
Sweden's a model.
Socialist Sweden.
They're not socialists, by the way.
They love themselves some Sweden, which is interesting because Sweden had the same problem with their public retirement system a long time ago.
You know what they did?
This is crazy.
It seems like all the socialists love Sweden until Sweden does something that actually works.
And then they hate Sweden.
Here, How Sweden Saved Social Security, Wall Street Journal.
Sweden introduced partial privatization of the kind the American left the rides, as a Republican plot to gamble our money away in the stock market.
The Swedish government withholds about 2.3% of wages and puts it into individual pension accounts.
Workers then choose up to five different funds where they can invest the money according to their own risk preferences and can change them at any time for free.
So what happened?
Was the Swedish system wiped out, Joe?
Privatized?
Gambling money in the stock market?
That's not exactly what happened, folks.
Dopey commenters, I added the dopey part, claim that this privatization would mean pensions would be lost in a financial crash.
Well, that ignores the fact that money isn't invested or withdrawn at the same time, meaning the performance in a single year isn't crucial.
The returns from a normal income pension are around 2% per year.
But from the private accounts, the average Swede is made an impressive average return of roughly 10% a year since its inception in 1995, even despite the dot-com crash, the financial crisis.
And the pandemic.
Joe, I'm going to throw some hard math at you.
Would you prefer if you had a retirement account, a 10% return or a 2% return?
You can take your time if you need, if you need to do some math.
I'll go with the 10.
I'll go with the 10.
You'll go with the 10?
Yeah.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
It's funny how they love Sweden until Sweden does something that actually works.
Remember this gem by Joy Reid, by the way?
Joy Reid, who's too stupid to realize that the social security actuaries have already admitted that we have a decade left until it goes insolvent.
And then she called privatization, stock market gambling, not realizing that the Swedes are getting 10% while you're getting nothing because it's going bankrupt.
Here's Joy Reid openly lying in a debate with Congressman Byron Donalds, a good congressman from Florida, where he absolutely destroys her silly stupidity.
Check this out.
My friend Jody Arrington, who's going to chair budget, he wants to look into the budget and also look into entitlements.
Do you know that Social Security is going to be insolvent in 2035?
It is not going to be.
That is not true.
Yes, it will.
That is actually what the numbers say.
No, it's actually not true.
Now, Joy, I'm a finance professional.
I do more than just Congress.
I work in the financial community.
I am telling you, Social Security will go insolvent.
That's actually not true.
Those are the facts.
That's not true.
Should we not prepare for that?
What the Republican Party and what the Tea Party have proposed is privatizing Social Security, which would actually subject Social Security to the whims of the market, which I don't think that people- If you actually look at the returns- That's not what they paid into, no.
If you look at the returns of the S&P 500- They're not, they're not.
That's not true.
Girls are the devil!
Don't make me laugh, my stomach still hurts.
My abdominal wall is still torn open.
Sorry, bro.
I'm like trying to hold it in.
The whims of the market?
You'd rather subject it to the whims of the government, where it's already insolvent in 10 years and you're going to take a 20% cut.
Okay.
Just keep doing stupid.
You guys do it really well on the left.
All right, let me just do a quick 2024 update.
Let me skip ahead.
Is Tim Scott in?
Is Tim Scott jumping in the race?
Republican Senator from South Carolina.
We know Vivek Ramaswamy, tech entrepreneur.
He's a friend.
Disclosure, I'm invested in his fund.
You should know that.
Vivek jumped in yesterday, too.
Disclosures are important.
I invest and strive.
I believe in anti-ESG investing all the way.
I put my money where my mouth is.
He's in as well.
He's announced.
Tim Scott was in Iowa, apparently.
Which is kind of strange, given that he's from South Carolina.
If you're not running for president, you probably don't show up in Iowa giving speeches about creating converts to conservatism.
Folks, I'll say it again.
I'm not going to beat it to death.
I spoke about it on the Fox show.
I spoke about it last week.
Do not sweat primaries.
They are really, really good things.
The evidence is everywhere.
We won the presidency in 2016 with Donald Trump.
After what?
A bruising primary.
Don't sweat primaries.
The more, the merrier.
And I'll say last, this Politico article is in the newsletter today.
You should read it.
The Senate map in 2024 is ugly for the Democrats.
But for voters in these three states, you're going to be the keys for us.
West Virginia, Ohio, and Montana.
These fake moderates, Manchin, Sherrod Brown, and Jon Tester, from West Virginia, Ohio, and Montana, respectively, have got to go.
These are red-leaning states.
There is not one single reason you should be voting, if you're a Republican, an Independent, or even a Conservative Democrat, for these crazed lunatics.
They are all radical leftists.
They have voted as such.
They're up in 2024.
They all need to go.
These are three Senate seats that should be pick-ups for us.
You know what?
I gotta throw this one last one in there.
One of the reasons, by the way, I always apply the Bongino rule, especially to stories like this, you know, wait 24 to 72 hours before reporting on something, is because it typically turns out to be nothing.
I saw this story the other day, like, Joel, Mystery Sphere floats onto a beach in Japan.
Oh my gosh, the alien invasion.
I'm like, oh boy, here we go again with this story.
Did you hear the story?
Folks, it was...
Like just a round thing.
And it was like this big panic.
Oh my gosh, what could this be?
Is it a bomb?
Is it an alien?
Is it a big microbe from another planet?
It was a buoy.
How the mystery of Japan's bizarre giant sphere has been solved.
The vice that caused panic and forced the beach to be evacuated could be common marine equipment.
I gotta stop.
I gotta wrap it up.
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