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May 2, 2023 - The Dan Bongino Show
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An Interesting Turn in the Tucker Story (Ep. 2002) - 05/02/2023
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Thank you.
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Remember him?
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It's a Hollywood writer's strike and nobody knows what to do.
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All right, I got all to talk about.
Interesting turn in his Tucker story.
The Libs really covering up a disturbing incident by Biden.
I got to ask you a really troubling question.
I mean, a question liberals ask about conservatives all the time.
Is Biden a full-blown racist?
Fair question, right?
I mean, liberals ask that question all the time.
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So the Tucker Fox News story took an interesting turn yesterday.
Little bit of video leak.
Now...
Joe, you're actually good to comment on this because Joe has been in the media business a long time.
Joe, you spent, what, 30 years in front of a microphone?
What is the rule about a microphone?
How should you treat a microphone?
You always treat a mic like it's hot, dude.
Thank you, my friend.
I didn't even have to cue him.
We didn't rehearse that or anything like that.
Well, listen, we all know this.
We all know that.
Everyone knows it.
So that's what makes me ask a couple different questions about it.
Everybody knows it.
I'm not really sure how this video got out there, how it leaked.
I'm honestly not sure we even leaked it.
But it was an interesting thing.
When you're on Fox, doing a hit, an appearance, or anything else, when that mic or lavalier mic, the one on your lapel, whatever you have, you always have to treat it as on.
You know why?
Because it always is.
Always.
Whatever you're saying is absolutely being recorded somewhere.
I'm sure of it.
Trust me on this one, okay?
So I'm not sure who leaked this, but it adds an interesting layer to the Tucker Fox News story.
Someone's going to have to explain from Fox soon what's going on with the Tucker Carlson case.
It's getting weird now.
Does he have a job there?
Does he not have a job there?
Everybody thinks he was fired.
There's stories out there.
Megyn Kelly reported that he's not fired.
So if he's not fired, why is he off the air?
Was there a cause for Somebody's going to have to explain what's going on.
I know both of these people.
I know the entities of Fox used to work there.
Very friendly with a lot of folks.
No Tucker, very friendly with him.
Again, a unique kind of unparalleled talent in the business.
But somebody's going to have to explain what's going on because now it's getting weird.
So this video leaked yesterday and everybody assumed it was leaked by Fox.
I'm not sure that's the case.
I don't know who leaked this video.
But here it is.
It's about 30 seconds of a minute plus.
But he's talking to someone on the phone and talks about how Fox Nation is really a platform in trouble.
And this got out yesterday.
So check this out.
Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's going to be for Fox Nation.
But nobody's going to watch it on Fox Nation.
Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.
So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube.
Okay.
But anyway, that's just my view.
I'm just frustrated with...
It's hard to use that site.
I don't know why they're not fixing it.
It's driving me insane.
And they're making lifetime movies, but they don't work on the infrastructure of the site.
Like, what?
It's crazy.
And it drives me crazy because it's like we're doing all this extra work and no one can find it.
It's unbelievable, actually.
I don't know who runs that site.
We're going to play a sizable trunk on the show tomorrow night.
That's the I know, but we're doing our part.
We're working like animals to produce all this content.
And the people in charge of it, whoever that guy's, whatever his name is, they're ignoring the fact that the site doesn't work.
And I think it's like a betrayal of our efforts.
That's how I feel.
So, of course, I resent it.
Yeah, I think everybody jumped to assume like, oh, that was leaked by Fox.
The answer is, I don't know.
I've always been candid with you.
I'm covering this as a news event.
I'm in an interesting spot because I was kind of part of the story because I worked there, but I have a responsibility in my audience to cover it fairly.
I don't know who leaked that.
I wouldn't jump to that.
I don't understand why they would leak that.
And the reason I played it in the end portion of it is, what would be their motive to leak it?
Because Fox Nation did have issues, no doubt about it.
I mean, we were on Fox Nation.
Guino as well.
We had some issues there too.
So, they weren't catastrophic, but it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Now, someone, again, is going to have to explain what's going on.
It's clear he still is under contract there.
That part we know.
He definitely wasn't Fired as some of the original stories implied.
I don't know the inside baseball.
I know my story.
I don't know his story.
It's none of my business.
But again, he's a really unique talent who's very important in the movement.
So a lot of people have taken an active interest in this.
Megyn Kelly, another former Fox News talent.
I'll be on her show coming up, I think, in a couple weeks.
Guy, are you coordinating that for me?
Is it May 18th or something like that?
Yes, I'm right around that time.
Yeah.
So, Megyn Kelly brought this up yesterday.
This is why I think both parties are going to have to come to some kind of, you know, rapprochement here sometime soon, because it's not benefiting Tucker by the movement not having him on the air.
We need his voice.
That's clear as day.
But it's not benefiting Fox either.
This is one of those really rare in the media business situations where really everybody, it's not just a lose-lose, Joe.
It's a lose, really, really lose scenario.
Like, Everybody's not only getting kneecapped, it's like their legs are getting sawed up.
Here's Megyn Kelly describing how, alright, it's not just that Tucker's getting hurt by being off the air, but Fox is getting hurt too.
The rating situation last week was an absolute bloodbath.
It was an apocalyptic massacre.
Here, take a listen.
Ratings that we now have for Thursday show the, I don't know if you want to call it a boycott of his 8 p.m.
hour continues.
They continue to have record low numbers in his spot where Thursday, previously, Tucker had pulled in 3 million the previous Thursday.
The 8 p.m.
hour got half that, 1.5 million.
The week before on Thursday, Tucker had gotten 334,000 this week.
This past Thursday, they got 136,000.
The only reason they didn't lose to CNN in the demo that night is because Anderson Cooper got a 108,000, which is just...
These numbers are basement...
Toilet numbers, however you want to look at it.
They did lose to MSNBC and they lost to MSNBC the previous nights in the demo as well.
So it's not going well for Fox News at 8pm at all, which is the understatement of the year.
By the way, I appreciate all the...
Positive emails, comments in the chat room, Facebook messages, everything you guys have sent to me since I've left.
It means the world to me.
I want you to understand that.
Obelisk in the chat room just said, you know, well, Tucker's okay.
He's under contract.
With all due respect, sir, thanks for joining the show.
Or ma'am, I'm not sure.
Obelisk seems, you know, could be, I don't know if it's a liberal pronoun day or what, but I'm not sure.
But I'm not sure that's correct.
I don't think he really cares so much about the money.
He's made a lot of money through the years, part of the Daily Caller.
I think he's fine financially, and he will be fine.
Someone will scoop him up next year for a ridiculous amount of money.
I think, like me, he cares about the movement.
I'm not going to be naive and stupid with the, oh, money, money, shmoney, I do this for free.
I can't do it for free.
I've got to send my kid to school.
I've got to feed my family.
I'm a capitalist at heart.
I have to make money.
The more money you can make, the better you can make, as long as you do it ethically, right?
But that's not my primary motivation for being here.
And you know what, ladies and gents, not to do these self-back rubs, hey, look how great I am, but Joe and I did this for free.
Legit for free.
Literally for free.
I was like, Joe, can you help me out with this podcast?
I don't have any sponsors and I have no way to pay you.
Joe was like, okay.
Like, let's do it, man.
Let's go change the world.
And we did.
And it only made money after about three years.
So, again, the proof is in the pudding.
And I think he kind of feels the same way.
He'd rather be on the air making 100 grand a year than not be on the air, you know, making 20 or whatever.
I don't know what his contract was.
So I'm not sure how this ends.
It's an important story.
Spent a lot of time in it last week.
I want to move on because I got a lot more to talk to.
Just quickly before I get to it, I don't know how this is going to end either.
Speaking of not knowing how things are going to end.
This deadline story about the Hollywood writers on strike I hinted at in the beginning of the show.
You know, I learned something interesting.
And maybe some of you in the chat room, if you know better, you can tell me about this.
That the genesis of reality TV... Was the writer's strike back in, what, late 90s, 2000s?
Where writers went on strike and they were like, okay, screw the writers.
We're just going to put a bunch of people in a room and we're basically going to do a reality TV show where it doesn't require any scripting.
So the question becomes, and the reason I ask that question now with all these writers on strike, talking about the business and Tucker and everything else, is, is this where AI comes in?
I mean, there's a Wall Street Journal story.
I was covering this yesterday about artificial intelligence.
It's a fascinating story.
The premise of it is, if you wanted a Nora Ephron film or whatever it is she does, love comedies, I guess, or whatever, that you can plug into AI, draw up a script, and make it like a Nora Ephron or whatever, I don't really know Hollywood, a comedy love story, that they can draw up a pretty darn good script.
So, you know, creative destruction, man.
Chump eaters.
The whole writer's business get destroyed with the advent of AI. And who takes the plunge first if this strike continues?
I don't know.
Just an interesting story I threw in to kind of break up the politics of the day every single day.
I got a lot more to get to, though.
Important stuff here.
Folks.
It's time to ask a really important question, a troubling question, one that I would never ask unless I sincerely meant it.
One of the things about charges of racism, a grotesque charge, I mean, outside of calling someone a pedophile, I'm not really sure what's worse.
I mean, not only are you saying someone is evil by calling them a racist because you're clearly demeaning their character by an immutable characteristic, the melanin content of their skin.
It's not just that.
It's that you've chosen to be ignorant by not choosing to even rectify it.
Like, there's an easy...
Let's just say for a second, you're a loser, right?
You're a racist and you're a loser.
And you judge people the minute you see them.
That person's got brown skin.
I don't like that person.
You can fix that real easy, Joe, by just asking them some questions, right?
Like, hey, how are you?
Oh, good.
You have kids.
You're a dad.
You do this.
You go to church.
You can fix that quick and not be an idiot.
But you choose to be an idiot.
So I don't throw around that charge lightly because I kid you not.
I'm not into the virtue signaling space.
I don't care.
I'm really not interested.
I think outside of being called a pedophile, being called a racist is probably the worst thing out there because you're evil and you're dumb.
You're just dumb.
You could ask someone about themselves and figure out, wow, that's not a bad person, but you choose not to.
Liberals are eager, however, to throw that charge out to anyone.
It's like Oprah giving away cars.
You're a racist!
Everybody's a freaking racist to the left, right?
But I gotta ask you a question, man.
What about Joe Biden?
I mean, Joe Biden says a lot of things in these moments where he lets his guard down, which are often these days, because he doesn't seem to be able to get his arms around, I think because of his cognitive deficit, control of his emotions.
He's got a troubling history with race.
Remember when he's talking about Obama?
He's the first clean black guy.
We say, really?
What does that mean?
He takes a shower or something?
What the hell does that even mean?
But I guess people were like, ah, we'll give him a pass, lunch bucket show.
Here he is at the White House yesterday.
He's talking to, I believe it's a Muslim judge.
And he tells him, and this is a quote.
It's even hard to repeat.
Hush up, boy!
I think you'll listen yourself.
I appoint all those federal judges, but you know, thank you for serving.
I'm not kidding.
You want to come and make a speech?
Hush up, boy.
As my mother would say.
I think he threw that as my mother would say in the end.
Because he realized, oh my gosh, I just said, I just told this minority gentleman to hush up, boy.
That's what I thought.
I know that's what you thought.
He threw that in at the end.
Maybe if I save myself and say, mom said this to me when I was a kid.
Mom didn't say that to you when you were a kid.
Folks, he does this all the time.
You know, if the left is going to throw around haphazardly charges of everybody and their mother being racist, then it's only fair that we ask the question to them as well.
And again, I don't throw these charges around haphazardly like they do.
Here's a little bit of a supercut.
This goes on forever, by the way.
In about a minute or so.
This is a supercut of Biden's extremely questionable comments about minorities and black Americans that would make a sane person think, eh, this guy sounds like he's got a problem with minorities.
Like I said, a sane person.
Liberals will gaffe all this off.
Check this out.
And the cheer for Muslim athletes like Kareem Al-Jub...
Abdul-Jabbar.
I know him and I did mispronounce his name.
That's not it.
That's the other one.
That was him yesterday at the White House.
He doesn't even know who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is.
The multi-time NBA championship winner.
Probably one of the top five basketball players of all time.
That's a symptom of his cognitive deficit.
His name is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Get the guy's name right.
Here's the other one.
This is the video.
I want you to listen to this clearly.
Each one of these pieces.
And tell me at the end, does this sound like a guy who's got a bit of a troubling history with race?
And one more thing in there.
You'll see Robert.
He talks about Robert Byrd.
The guy he's talking about there was a Ku Klux Klan exalted Cyclops.
Take a listen.
I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
You got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright.
I'm a clean, nice-looking guy.
Biden recalling his early Senate career, bringing up two segregationist senators, Herman Talmadge and James Eastland, who called African Americans an inferior race.
I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland, Biden said.
He never called me boy.
He always called me son.
At least there was some civility.
We got things done.
The senators that he is speaking of with such adoration are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.
The Ku Klux Klan celebrated the election of one of them.
Using the word boy in the way he did can cause hurt and pain, and we need a presidential nominee and leader of our party to be sensitive to that.
My Democratic colleagues won't like me saying this.
I think the two-party system is good for the South and good for the Negro, good for the black.
Other than the fact that they still call me boy, I don't think they've...
I think they've changed their mind a lot.
As also known to Robert C. Byrd, was a parliamentary library, a keeper of the institution of the Senate, and he was the institution itself.
For a lot of us, he was a friend.
You know, again, folks, I'm just asking you to look at it candidly.
You know, for liberals out there, take your freaking stupid glasses off.
You got the glasses on.
They're not rose-colored glasses.
They're stupid-colored glasses.
Take them off for a minute and listen to the transcript of that.
Just write it out and then just show it to your kids and don't tell them Joe Biden said it.
And say, hey, you know, we got a racist neighbor moving in a few blocks away.
He said all this.
Your kids will be like, oh my gosh, what a horrible person.
They go, sorry kids, that's your president, Joe Biden.
I'll take a quick break, but on the other side of this break, I'm going to tease something for tomorrow's show, which I almost never do, because why not just put in today's show?
But it came up right before I came on the air.
It's a speech by James Lindsay, and it's got a lot to do with these false charges of racism and why the left uses it.
Stay tuned.
I've got a loaded show, a lot more, including the return of Ryan Webb.
Delaware County Councilman, who is a Republican, who says he identifies as an Indian female now, although he's a straight white male.
And the left one, absolutely great.
We got an update on that.
This is incredible.
That's coming up.
Saul Alinsky's rules.
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So, again, not to get ahead of tomorrow's show, but James Lindsay, you may have heard of him.
You've probably seen him on Fox and Newsmax.
He's at ConceptualJames on Twitter.
Gave a...
Phenomenal!
And when I say phenomenal, I'm not overselling this.
About 25 minute speech on the origins of the word woke in Marxist ideology...
It is so incredible and it aligns with something I've been telling you for a long time that you have to understand the why.
Joe, how long have we been saying it?
If you don't understand the why about the left, what they do doesn't matter because you'll never know how to fight it.
Once you understand the why, you can never unsee liberalism.
I'll be including multiple cuts of the speech in tomorrow's show.
But he explains perfectly why people like Joe Biden get a pass on what are questionably racist comments.
Any sane person would question.
But why you, the enemies of Marxism, will never get a pass.
And racism will be used as a tool, just like class warfare was used as a tool by original Marxists.
Because they believe capitalism is deterministic, that anybody who subscribes to the capitalist system is taking to the poor to give to the rich.
And whatever they need to do to break down that system, including calling you a racist while giving Joe Biden a pass, is a tool in that war.
Because unless they control it, they'll destroy it.
I'll explain more tomorrow.
Don't miss tomorrow's show.
I hate to do that to you, but I was transfixed by this thing before the show, and I didn't have enough time to cut it up in the minute before.
I got a lot to get to today anyway, including Marxist tactics, which leads me right to my next topic.
Perfectly unintended segue, Saul Alinsky's rule number four.
Marxists love leftist tactics.
Liberals love Marxist tactics and vice versa because it's the same thing.
What's Alinsky's rule number four?
Saul Alinsky, as you all know, wrote Rules for Radicals.
He was a leftist organizer who was very successful at taking small what he considered marginalized groups of people and using them to take on corporations and the state when they were vastly outnumbered.
Regardless of how awful this guy was, his tactics were tactical genius, and they worked.
One of his rules was make your opponent live up to their own book of rules.
He said, Wow.
Yeah, powerful rule, man.
Well, he used it and the left uses it to this day.
Yes.
The fact that we acknowledge that human beings are sinful, even us, gives the left the tool.
You think it gives you an out, which we should be able to redeem ourselves for our sins.
The law on the left cares about is if you sin, you're not going to be a Christian.
We're going to use your own Christian rules against you.
Well, I got news for you.
That works against the left too, folks.
So the left is now claimed that regardless of who you are, you can claim to be a woman or a man and you can recreate yourself.
And these are artificial white male patriarchy deterministic categories built in by the white male patriarchy to enforce this deterministic system.
And if we don't own it, then we're going to destroy it, the left says.
So anything considered normal, in other words, I'm a man, you're a woman, is to be destroyed.
So this lawmaker, whether he was doing it in jest or not, is irrelevant.
This lawmaker, he's a Republican.
He's being sarcastic, of course.
But he says, you know, I'm a white male, but I now identify as an Indian female.
Oh boy, did that piss off the left?
Did they get fired up?
We found this video on Twitter this morning.
A bunch of people came up to protest Webb, Ryan Webb, and say, hey, this is all fake and phony.
And Webb's like, hey, you don't get to question me.
Your rules, baby!
Saul Alinsky, number four, quattro.
Check this out.
The person Ryan Webb announced publicly on social media that he now identifies as a lesbian woman of color.
If he were serious, I'd sing his praises.
But instead, I know better.
In none of my jobs in the last 21 years, and that is many, many jobs, would I have been permitted to mock and disrespect my customers.
And if that were true, we would all be proud of you.
And no one would be denying your right to do such things and to identify by your heritage.
But your open mockery of these communities is insane.
In order to demand for the resignation of Ryan Webb, the post Mr. Webb made on April 12th were offensive on many levels.
After hearing these complaints, Ryan Webb responded.
I'm being dead serious.
You don't get to question me.
You do not get to require proof from me.
You were probably going to help establish these rules and set the bar.
Touche, Councilman.
Touche is right.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Good job, Ryan Webb.
Hey, their rules, buddy.
Take their rules.
Dipsy-doo, flip-a-roo, and shove them around.
That's for a different show.
Can we do that?
You think we could do a show once a week, not for kids?
Can we do that?
What do you guys think of the chat room?
Let me know.
Should we do a not-for-kids show?
Maybe on Friday?
Where we just go all out?
We label with the E on it?
I know.
I shouldn't do that.
I can't.
Sometimes I just want to like...
I don't know, man.
Hey, but we're winning!
We're winning!
This Bud Light thing is absolutely blown up in their face because people are getting tired of LGBTQIA, BIOPC, spiritual 1 plus 2, 3, whatever it is.
People are getting tired of the changing rules designed to break down what's normal because what's normal is seen as the Marxist as a control mechanism to keep people down and oppressed.
You get it?
So they want to break down anything that's normal, including men and women.
So Bud Light played into that, and as the St. Louis dispatch is reporting, it's not going well.
It's really not going well.
It's turned into a really bad business move as sales, according to this report, collapsed 26%.
Do you have any idea what a catastrophic collapse in audience, in your customer base, 26% is?
And by the way, I assure you, a lot of those people are never coming back.
See, the thing with a tech product, oh yeah, that's bad.
The thing with a tech product, like an iPhone or something like that, Joe, is yeah, there are other options.
Samsung, there are other Freedom phones, there's other things out there.
The problem is a lot of people are married to the tech platform.
They have their iMusic in there, whatever, their podcast, they're not used to it.
It's hard.
There's what you'd call a transaction cost to that, right?
With Bud Light, there's very little.
The beer's honestly not particularly great.
It's not horrible, but it's not great.
And people will be like, you know what?
I'll just take a Corona.
I'm not suggesting these companies aren't woke either, but I'm just telling you there's options.
Bud Light basically destroyed their entire brand.
Maybe it'll be a lesson for others.
Maybe it won't.
But Saul Alinsky's rule number four works.
Make no mistake.
So Philip Bump is back, by the way, in the Washington Post.
They got that.
The Blue State exit continues.
Bernie Sanders continues to humiliate himself.
Loaded show.
A lot more to talk about.
Kareem Jean-Pierre, too.
Anyone changing their vote before we continue the show?
No.
You're sticking with it?
He's not even feeling that great.
He's still sticking with it.
You know, when you're not feeling it, sometimes you have a little sympathy, but you say, no, not today.
I don't care.
What?
What did they say in the chat?
Oh, they want to do a Dan Bongino unfiltered?
Oh boy, that could be a lot of fun, folks.
That's the real Dan.
I'm sorry to tell you that, but I gotta be honest with you.
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Reiki?
Joe?
Hell yeah!
Joe's been with me in multiple states.
He's heard many conversations.
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Make no mistake.
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That is...
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All right.
So, just quickly, a couple news stories.
News block of the day.
Philip Bump, clown from the Washington Post, is back again.
So, there was an illegal immigrant deported five times.
He was alleged to have murdered five people in the state of Texas.
So, Philip Bump, of course, who is a tier one level dip...
It feels like there was no reason at all for Greg Abbott to mention the immigration status of five people murdered in a state, even if he'd been right.
The vibe was, what about black-on-black crime?
An attempt to depict an entire community is unsafe.
Here's Philip Bump, again, engaged in the same thing James Lindsay's talking about in a speech I'll cover tomorrow.
Diversionary racist-type tactics to introduce race into an argument that has nothing to do with it.
The fact of the matter is, the man who was here was deported five times.
That's his thing, fellas.
It's got a name.
You know what this thing is called?
It's called a fact.
See, Philip Bump, who pretends to be, again, a journalist who's really in a climb, maybe for the unfiltered show, is a joker in real life, doesn't want you to know the facts.
Because Philip Bump wants you to focus on the gun instead as if the gun magically shot itself, not a guy who was deported five times.
Which may say something about open borders and the dangerous public safety situation, it says.
But here's where the story gets even more ridiculous.
It's funny how the left is eager to avoid...
Race, ethnicity, and any intersectional issue when it doesn't contribute to their political narrative.
Yet it's really weird.
When race does contribute to your political narrative, they're the first ones to use it.
So we were just told, correct, fellas?
I just read for you the headline, Phillipum.
We shouldn't be talking about legal status or ethnicity or where people are from when it comes to this kind of stuff involving immigration.
Which is really weird because Eric Adams, who I told you is a big phony and a fake and a fraud, the clown mayor in New York, an absolute joker.
I knew this guy when he was a police officer in New York, not personally, but he was back then.
The joke was never get in front of Eric Adams and a camera.
Everything was racist to this guy ever.
Now he's saying sending illegals up to New York is racist.
And he's blaming the Texas governor.
So I don't get it.
Are we allowed to talk about race when it comes to immigration and crime and all this other stuff?
Or are we not?
Because if immigrants are an awesome, good thing, even if they're here illegally all the time, then Eric Adams should be saying, this is awesome.
I'm so glad we're a sanctuary city.
But it's really strange he's not saying that.
It's almost like he's full of stuff.
And this is why the blue state exodus continues, by the way.
This is why people are pouring out of blue states, because they've created hell holes.
Now listen, nobody has more moral authority to talk about this than I do.
I was born in a blue state.
I lived in two of them.
I grew up in New York into my 20s, moved to Maryland, spent over a decade in Maryland, two deep blue states, and then moved to the free state of Florida here.
Folks, the numbers speak for themselves.
People want out of these crazy places run by lunatics who believe in wokeism and intersectionality.
Read this article.
It's in yesterday's newsletter.
Blue states suffer the largest population in tax revenue losses as red states see the largest gains.
By the way, in case you think this is a conspiracy theory because you're a moron, leftist, imbecile loser, it's IRS data.
So the government you claim to love, this is their data.
Are they lying too?
You don't think it's a coincidence that there's been a mass exodus out of two states dominated by liberals, California and New York?
And where are they leaving to go to?
Illinois and Michigan?
No.
Try Texas and Florida, which just happen to be the two biggest red states.
You think that's a coincidence?
No.
You know, the liberals out there, are you this stupid all the time?
Or is it a special, like, Tuesday special thing you do?
Like a Denny's Grand Slam stupid breakfast?
Are you always this freaking dumb?
People are evacuating the states you run.
Why is that?
It's the weather.
It's the weather.
Really, that's interesting.
Because you know what's fascinating?
The same people who come down here, in order to not be residents from New York, so they don't have to pay the taxes and their businesses don't have to be subjected to the regulations, they go back to get away from the summer heat down here in Florida.
It's got a name, Joe.
They call them snowbirds.
Yeah.
So weird.
They're weird.
They're down for the weather, and yet they don't like the weather because it's hot, so they go back.
But as long as they're not residents.
So strange.
It's almost like you're stupid all the time and can't process information.
Why do we have to live with these idiots?
I'm sorry I'm extra salty today, but why do we have to live with dipwads?
Why?
I get it.
Like, I understand I'm a freedom guy.
You do what you do.
You, I'll do me.
But why do we have to live with idiots?
They're leaving for the weather.
Really?
And then they leave to get away from the weather?
To go back as long as you don't declare them residence?
They don't have to live by your rules?
Seems kind of strange.
It's almost like you're a moron.
And then you get idiots like this.
I wanted to play this yesterday, but I ran out of time.
Here's Bernie Sanders.
You want to see why people are trying to escape?
Biggest fraud out there.
A millionaire himself, by the way.
A total fake and a phony.
This is one of the monarchs of the woke movement.
This dunce, who has zero principles at all.
Here he is suggesting the single dumbest thing I've ever heard.
A tax on billionaires where they confiscate every dollar above $999,999.
You get it.
Because he thinks that's enough money.
Has he even considered the fact that these people who are worth this money, who created major corporations, creating products, medicines, and stuff we want, that they would then not produce anything over that amount because nothing they produced they would gain the benefit of?
Has he even considered?
The answer is no, he hasn't, because he's like one of these idiots claiming people moved to Florida for the weather and not to get the hell away from New York.
Check this out.
You're saying that billionaires should not exist.
So are you basically saying that once you get $999 million that the government should confiscate all the rest?
I'm saying that we should go back to a very progressive tax policy like what we had under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Which would mean that over a billion dollars, basically it all goes to the government.
You may disagree with me, but I'm just asking.
Fine.
Yeah, I think people can make it on $999 million.
Folks, nobody paid those tax rates in 1950 under Eisenhower.
Bernie knows this.
He's a fake.
He's a phony.
He's a fraud.
He's a hypocrite.
He's a clown.
There were about 450 people in the entire country that paid those tax rates.
Nobody paid them.
Bernie wants a tax rate nobody actually paid.
Idiot.
Here's the dirty little secret.
They all invested in muni bonds and other things from cities who were desperate for cash that were tax-free so they didn't have to pay the taxes.
Guy is such an idiot.
People fall for this crap all the time.
All right, I got a piece of good news.
Small Republican victory yesterday.
And listen, Republican victories, you got to kind of, you know, got to keep people excited once in a while.
I know the party lets us down a lot, and we cover that.
You know that.
We are more than fair in criticizing the swamp kind of realm and space.
There are other people who do it too, not just us.
What?
What?
Why does he have three homes?
Who said that?
Hula lady?
Three homes?
Because he's a fake!
Because he's a phony!
That's why!
Hula lady?
He's a big freaking fake!
Fake!
Big F! Fake!
Fake!
I wish phony began with an F. Fake and a phony!
Double F! All right, victory yesterday.
Again, small ones.
I start cracking the Dom Perignano.
But Biden had a cave yesterday because Biden's an idiot and a tactical moron who opens his mouth too much.
I'm not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling.
We could default and destroy the United States.
What?
So they're negotiating to avoid default.
You just said it was going to destroy the United States, but you're not going to negotiate?
You know those two things don't work at the same time.
I'll show you what I mean in a minute.
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All right.
This happened yesterday.
So Biden caved on the debt ceiling.
Biden had stated ridiculously, again, the clown he is because he's a tactical idiot who has the cognitive abilities of a five-year-old.
He said, I'm not going to negotiate on it.
You know, which is a fine position to take if you're not going to simultaneously claim at the same time that if the debt ceiling is at height, that the country is going to collapse and it's going to result in a default that will collapse our economy.
I mean, I don't know how to explain this any other way because, again, there are liberals listening and they are mega imbeciles.
So imagine it this way.
Imagine saying the Russians are claiming they're going to attack us in a week in a nuclear strike next Wednesday, okay?
They're going to give us an extra day, a week and a day, right?
And the Russians are saying, hey, we should negotiate this.
Can you imagine Biden coming out publicly going, no, no, we're not going to negotiate.
I'm sorry, we're just...
I know nothing.
I know nothing.
That's the Sergeant Salter.
He does the shows all the time.
You would say to yourself, well, that sounds kind of dumb considering it's an existential crisis, correct?
Biden's so dumb like he didn't get that.
What he did is he painted himself into a corner.
And I've done this before.
Listen, it happens.
But when you're the president with advisors surrounding you, everybody probably told him this was a stupid idea.
So yesterday he caved because Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, saying we could default on June 1st on some of our debts.
And not be able to pay interest if he doesn't do it.
So McCarthy was on Fox and explained this yesterday about the debt ceiling.
And he's right.
He should take a little bit of a victory lap.
They passed the bill.
Biden's sitting in the corner.
What do I do?
The answer is, now you're going to have to figure it out.
Check this out.
Let's be sensible about it.
Look what the White House has said.
They actually said we would melt children's bones.
We would bring asthma across this country.
You know how radical this bill is?
We simply go back to our spending levels of where it was four months ago.
At that time, at that spending level, the president praised it of what we were able to do.
We claw back unspent money from COVID.
He signed a bill that said the pandemic is over.
Why would you leave those billions of dollars sitting there and not save the taxpayer money? - Listen, I don't wanna spend a lot of time on this, The hard reality is whether you like McCarthy or not, he's absolutely correct.
The bill they passed in the House of Representatives, in my opinion, isn't even a good one.
It only pairs back spending to what we were spending four months ago when we were still running a trillion dollar debt.
But the point is, do you understand now how ridiculous Biden's claims are?
Everyone's gonna starve, Joe!
Programs cut everywhere!
Really?
You mean like we were spending just four months ago?
When we were running still trillion dollar deficits?
Just stupid.
He's counting on the press, however, to save him.
Just like Tony Blinken, another clown.
You know our Secretary of State, who now, according to one of those intel officials that signed the letter, now we know Tony Blinken was the impetus for this letter.
That letter about the Russian laptop, the Hunter Biden laptop.
The guy's the Secretary of State.
He's asked a simple question about this by Benjamin Hall from Fox.
And he couldn't even answer the question.
About the laptop.
Because he's counting on the press to save him.
Take a look.
Do you accept that the laptop is not Russian disinformation?
Again, from my perspective, I'm not engaging in politics.
I've got a lot on my agenda.
Things that we've just talked about.
Trying to help the Ukrainians and the Russian aggression against them.
Engaging with allies and partners around the world.
And dealing with some of the challenges posed by China.
We have a situation now in Sudan.
This has fully occupied my time.
So that's where my focus is.
So just to be clear, this guy who's the Secretary of State, charged as the lead diplomat for the United States with foreign countries overseas, made a false claim and was the alleged impetus behind that, you know, Hunter Biden laptop, his Russian disinformation letter, which caused a major rift between us and Russia.
And we're supposed to just let this go outside of Benjamin Hall.
No one's going to ask him this question.
It's just going to be wiped under the rug.
And he appears to be a big liar, too.
Article in the newsletter today.
Tony Blinken swore he never emailed Hunter Biden, despite laptop proof.
They've got the laptop, folks.
The email's right there.
Hey, Tony, Hunter says, you want to go get some coffee?
Absolutely, Blinken emailed back.
I'm about to land.
The email's right there.
These guys are freaking liars.
And then he's claiming like, oh yeah, you know, I wasn't the impetus for the letter.
Look at the testimony of Mike Morrell, one of the intel guys.
When Tony Blinken, when he asked him about emails too, they said, hey, do you have any other means of correspondence with Hunter Biden emails, texts?
No.
He says, no.
He's lying.
The guy's a liar.
They're all frauds.
They're full of crap all the time.
We got to move.
It just pisses me off.
I don't know why I put this stuff in there.
It drives me crazy.
I feel like I'm exposing to you the fact that they're liars, but honestly, it's just freaking annoying.
Shouldn't have put that in there.
I hate stories like that.
Damn it.
They get away with everything, man.
Everything.
All the time.
Here's a more important story.
Folks, this artificial intelligence thing has really, really got me concerned.
I know there are a lot of you out there, maybe in the chat, a lot of you on Facebook, a lot of you seem to think, I'm on the wrong side of this, this could be a positive good.
Totally fair.
I'm always open to hearing a counterposition.
There's nothing I would like to be more than consoled on the idea that AI is going to be a massive productivity enhancer, we're all going to be rich one day.
However, I'm also an observer of facts and I know my limits because I'm not a stupid smart person.
I'm a smart, smart person.
And smart, smart people, other than stupid smart people, smart, smart people know the limits of their own knowledge.
I don't know a lot about how AI works.
So when I see stories like this in Fox Business, Google's godfather of AI, godfather of AI quits to spread the word about the dangers of AI and warns it'll lead to bad things.
I don't know about you, but I get nervous about this.
He says it's hard to see how you can prevent bad actors from using AI for bad things.
Now, Axios had an email out this morning.
They're a left-wing site.
But they asked a bunch of AI researchers, hey, what could go bad?
Folks, I'm going to go through them fast, these five things.
They're not going to take too long on this.
But these are all really bad.
They know cyber attacks could explode.
That prompts can generate working malicious code.
Meaning more bigger and increasingly diverse cyber attacks.
IEAI can just invent malicious code and just never stopping.
You want constant phishing attacks on your phone?
Your bank account's empty?
Fake nudes of you on the internet?
Fake texts of you on the internet?
I mean...
Scams proliferate, they know.
Forget clumsy emails.
Phishing and fraud schemes will take the form of real-sounding pleas for help.
What if they hack into your phone, get a voicemail of your daughter?
Next thing you know, you're getting a call for your daughter.
Dad, I've been kidnapped.
Send me $10,000.
Oh my gosh.
Meanwhile, it's all fake.
Oh, we would never do that.
How do we know?
How do we know?
How do you know we would never do that?
How do you know, as the Google AI guy said, bad actors won't take control of it and make it do that?
They note there could be a disinformation problem.
Here's a video of Donald Trump in a room with a pee-pee tape.
That's fake.
No, it's real.
AI made it up.
What about this one?
Do you even think about this?
One of their concerns, surveillance.
America has 70 million closed-circuit TV cameras.
Imagine this AI figures out a way to access all of these cameras on everybody's phones all over the place.
Folks, you would have a massive surveillance state.
They know everything you did all the time.
You want everything you did, doing, have done?
Videotaped all the time?
I don't.
Last one.
Strong men could use it to crack down.
You're darn right they could.
The only saving grace here is I did an interview with an AI in one of my last shows on Fox, an AI specialist, and he said that China is actually more afraid of AI than we are because they're afraid the AI is going to allow people to access information to see how bad the Chinese Communist Party is.
It's the only saving grace to this whole thing here.
Alright, one last story I wanted to get to, just to show you.
Nobody changed their vote.
We got the votes on the record earlier about Corrine Jean-Pierre.
Corrine Jean-Pierre says a lot of stupid things.
We know that.
She's actually made a cottage industry out of saying really dumb, ridiculous things.
This, however, may take the cake.
Here is Corrine Jean-Pierre on the massive border crisis.
We are the worst crisis we've been in two decades.
Numbers are exploding at the border.
And she just, like, I don't know how to describe it, made this up?
About how Biden's team is, like, Somehow these new border champions for border safety and security.
Listen to this absurdity.
When it comes to illegal migration, you've seen it come down by more than 90%.
And that's because of the actions that this president has taken.
90%, folks.
Who strikes again?
This is awesome.
Community Notes is back on Twitter.
We love Community Notes.
We are big fans of Community Notes.
This goes in the Community Notes Hall of Fame.
Attached to that ridiculous soundbite is a Community Note on Twitter.
The number of migrants crossing the U.S. border in the South has hit a 20-year record high.
U.S. border officials recorded a 25% jump in migrant crossings in March alone.
Thank you.
Community Notes.
Doing my job for me there.
Correcting the record.
Because this stuff really does get me angry.
These people lie with impunity all the time.
I love to see them get wrecked.
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