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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
So, the chat's on fire here.
Welcome to the live chat.
Love to have you all here.
McGroin family, of course.
K-Rock and Roll.
We got some new people here.
Tyson, T1980, B-Canceled 0608, Rita 1103. Welcome to the chat.
Love to have you all here.
The chat's apparently going a little nuclear over the Don't Get Dead shirt.
If you missed it, you'll see what I mean coming up in a second.
Got an update on that.
Big show today.
Where to Renegades Now?
Big speech this weekend.
Cool weekend update.
Another thing happened with the FBI that apparently got played by the Ukrainians yet again.
I feel like we're all getting played all the time by the FBI, don't you?
And then another, another update.
This is a question I'm being asked by almost everyone when I go out now, especially I was at Turning Point this weekend.
What is up with the cocaine at the White House?
50% of you are sick of the story, 50% of you aren't.
But there's an interesting update on this.
And I think I know what happened now, how they're going to wiggle their way out of this.
I'll show you what I mean.
Big show today.
Welcome on a Monday.
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I don't know if you just heard that thunder.
It's Florida in the summer.
We get a lot of that.
So if you did, forgive me, you may hear some more of it on the show.
But Joe, it's a Monday, my friend.
I haven't spoken to you in a while.
The audience misses you.
So how are you, buddy?
Happy Monday, and it sure is good to be back.
Yeah, it's good to have you.
The show's not the same without you.
You know, I was actually experiencing that rainy season myself for the last few years.
Joe was in the great state of Florida, melting.
Yeah, Joe's used to the Maryland 90-degree summers, not the Florida 700-degree summers.
So Joe aged another 30 years.
Coming down here, his DNA is effectively broken off from the heat, but it's okay.
It's okay.
We'll give him some growth hormone or something and perk him right up.
Good to have you back, though, buddy.
He's not the same without you.
All right.
So let's get to it.
So I gave a speech this weekend at Turning Point.
The place was packed.
It's Charlie Kirk's group.
I heard they had 7,000 people there on Friday.
I got to tell you, on Saturday, there were only a few empty seats and they weren't even empty.
The only reason they were empty is because they were on the far left side of a massive auditorium where you couldn't see anything.
So people left the seats to stand in the back.
So there effectively were no empty seats.
They were just standing.
The place was packed.
Now, keep in mind, it's the summer.
It's Florida.
It's hot.
And the Turning Point event was packed, wall to wall.
And I've done a lot of events.
It's been 10 years, not to belabor this point.
The energy right now before this political presidential campaign, it's as hot as I've seen as back in 2016. It's hot, folks.
Vivek had a big turnout for his group.
Trump's speech was packed.
My speech was packed.
Don Jr. spoke before me.
I wore a shirt.
Let me get this out of the way.
Some of you may like this shirt.
Justin, you said the chat was feisty about it.
Okay, alright.
Justin said there were a lot of people excited about it.
So, first-timer Dan J.M. Mustard, good to have you in the chat.
A Y for yes, you want this shirt.
An N for no, you don't.
Do you want this shirt in the store today after the show?
Okay?
Okay, show us the shirt.
Well, here it is.
I wore it.
I premiered it at the Turning Point speech.
It's...
Don't get dead, the Dan Bongino show.
This is one of two.
I wore the other.
This is a shmedium.
I actually wore a large this weekend, which I rarely, if ever, do.
Do you want this?
It's unanimous.
It is unanimous.
Wow!
The rumble is melting down right now with yeses.
I figured that in advance, so I cheated.
The lovely Miss Paula came up before the show and said, you want to launch it today or what?
We were going to do a special one.
So we're going to launch it today at store.bongino.com.
So let's spread this around the country to don't get dead rule.
I'll show you a portion of the speech where this kind of whole thing came up in a second.
But yes, wow, I love you all.
By the way, again, for the thousandth time, it is not a money-making endeavor for me.
All of our proceeds, all of our proceeds go to charity.
We have some shipping costs and other things, but it is not a money.
It's for you guys.
So here it is again.
Don't get dead.
The number one rule of the Dan Bongino show.
And I gave my speech this weekend about how liberals help you get dead, but also how we're the renegades now.
We're the misfits now.
It's us.
Here's about a minute of the speech.
Got a standing ovation.
Felt really good.
I don't get out a lot.
Check this out.
We are the misfits now.
We're the renegades.
We are the counterculture that some of you older than the 25-year-olds remember from the 60s.
That's us now.
And you know what?
For as much as you didn't like them, it took a little guts back then to say, I don't know about this Vietnam War thing.
Like them or hate them, they decided they were going to throw it out there, maybe smoke a doobie and do their thing.
They were the misfits, right?
Now, I don't smoke doobies.
It's bad for you.
Don't do drugs.
Remember the Nancy Reagan egg thing?
Don't do drugs thing, right?
Having said that, I am begging you to please stick with us, man, because there is no courage without fear, and there is a second creation out there.
There is a God out there and you are one day gonna have to go there with your CV resume for life.
And that better have some suffering in it because it's only through that suffering that you are gonna understand real joy and real pleasure.
That look on your kids face as they hit that single to win the game.
You are only gonna understand that.
And it is only going to matter if you intentionally put yourself through suffering and pain.
God put you here to enjoy your life, but make no mistake.
He put you here to suffer too.
You would never understand happiness if you can't contrast it with the unbelievable sweat equity you have to put into getting through your everyday life fighting for freedom.
There is no courage without fear.
So go forward.
Embrace it.
Be afraid.
Be a little scared.
That fear is natural.
Fail.
Fall down.
Get back up.
But understand, you are on the right side of freedom and liberty.
You are the tip of the spear.
And this country won't get dead if you keep it up.
Yeah, you're damn right it won't.
We're the misfits now.
We're the renegades now.
We're the counterculture now.
That's us.
That's not them.
Want to be a damn lemming?
You want to be some shit-faced loser lemming following the current zeitgeist of the time right off the cultural cliff into the abyss of stupid?
Be a liberal.
It's easy.
You'll get a pass.
I told everybody at the event, the young kids there included, you want the easy path?
Don't join our movement.
Don't.
As a matter of fact, we don't want you.
You're just going to bail out later when the time gets tough and we don't need shitbirds.
You want to take on a real challenge, man?
You want to be a cultural shit grenade thrown into the tent of the current loser, you know, zeitgeist of the time?
Then yeah, man, we're ready for you.
Because this little ragtag army of culture warriors that's taken on trillion dollars in corporations between Disney and Target and Bud and others and is winning, we're doing a damn good job in the guerrilla warfare for the ideological future of our country.
We're winning.
We're winning.
We're the ones that are doing all this damage to this army of anti-American, anti-liberty, sexualizing kids that they think is our future.
They thought they were going to have an easy fight and they don't know what to do.
We're the renegades now.
You guys are the new hippies of the next generation.
You know, it's funny, man.
I brought that up.
You look back.
These hippies ruined the country.
They went later on to infiltrate our institutions, and they knew exactly what they were doing.
And at the time, American culture looked down on a lot of them, but you've got to give them credit.
They stuck together, man, and they understood that there was some...
There was some reflection of cool, of some of the being like against the mainstream, you know, raging against the man, bro, raging against the machine, man, whatever.
Nobody's raging against the machine anymore on the left.
Matter of fact, the band Rage Against the Machine that I love are the machine now.
There are nothing but a group of doctrinaire, fake, phony liberals subscribing to this culture war against freedom.
You, be proud, man.
Stand up, right?
Dust off.
Chest out.
Chin up.
Well, you probably just saw my unit rather than my chin.
Nice.
Yeah.
You like that?
I don't like it too much.
No.
You.
You are the culture warriors of this time.
You.
You.
And I love you for it.
And I'm going to be there with you, man.
This show is dedicated to you and only you.
I don't give a shit about swampies, elected Republicans.
I don't want no job.
I don't need nobody's money.
It's not proper English.
Yeah, it's for a reason.
It's how I used to talk before I became civilized from my former savage self.
But there's that savage side of me.
It's not going to go away.
Maybe we need more savages.
We're the renegades now, man.
Don't you ever forget it.
And if you're looking for a soft landing, then get the hell out of this moving, because this ain't the place for you.
This thing here, this means something.
Not a little piece of fabric or cloth, less than a penny of some cheap filament-type material.
That's not why this is worth something.
A plastic stick here you could bend.
This is worth something to me and all of you because it's an idea.
An idea the left gave up on a long time ago.
But this little ragtag army of freedom-loving misfits fighting for civil liberties out there, they understand that it's not about this cheap piece of filament-type paper, whatever the hell it is.
It's the idea behind it that matters.
That's you.
You're the warriors there.
Just let that stew a minute.
And while you're at it, don't get that either.
Because liberalism is going to help you get dead fast.
I wish you could have seen that speech, folks.
As the Lord Almighty is my job, I only thought about it for a little bit before I went in there because I just like to be inspired.
Call me crazy.
I'm not saying I don't think these speeches through, but I don't think them through and I don't write them down.
I mean, you'll notice there was no teleprompter at the event.
I'm not reading from a cheat sheet.
I just like to be inspired.
And gosh, when I was there, man, I spoke for 21 and a half minutes.
And let me tell you something.
I've never felt so much energy in a room.
It was just a burst, man, like right into my veins like an IV. And I haven't been out of the house, at least in a group like that, for a long time.
So thank you to everybody I met.
All right, let me get back to the show because I got a lot to talk about here.
So Listen, man, I've never seen a piece that better sums up this kind of Manichaean fight we're in right now.
You and I, the rebels, the renegades, and the misfits for the future of this country.
I've never seen a piece that sums it up better than this tweet I'm going to put up on the screen.
This is by a writer at the Washington Post.
It's a hapless buffoon, a woman by the name of Emily Yar.
And just to be clear what these misfits and renegades, we are.
We are the misfits and the renegades right now building and working in this parallel economy, right?
We're fighting for a future that is blind to the melanin content of people's skin, blind to their religion, that judges people on what they do, not what they look like.
That's what we are supporting.
We want a race-blind culture.
We want a culture regardless of whatever you call your sex.
We just don't want anything else to take over and create obligations.
Everyone should have the right to exist and the right to do and the right to exist as an American citizen with all God-given rights with them.
But we don't want obligations put on other people to have to accept anything that they don't agree with, especially because of their religion.
That's the fight coming up.
I have never seen a piece cover it better than this.
You may laugh.
You'd be like, this piece?
Yes, this piece.
So this Emily Yar, this hapless buffoon at the Washington Post, writes this piece.
I'm a big country music guy.
But I gotta tell you, I like Morgan Wallen.
I love Luke Combs, but I haven't heard the whole album or anything like this.
So Luke Combs has a new song out, and it's a cover of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car.
If you don't remember this song, and you're...
Joe, you gotta remember this.
I mean, for anyone under the age of four...
Yeah, exactly.
This song was epic.
Tracy Chapman had this song, Fast Car.
I don't know if it was from the 80s or 90s.
It doesn't even matter.
I think it was the 90s.
But the song was amazing.
Luke Holmes covered it.
So of course the Washington Post has to make a racial incident because Luke Holmes, a white country singer, and Tracy Chapman was, I didn't know she was gay.
Apparently he's black and is gay.
Nobody knows because nobody cared because we just liked the song.
So she writes that this song, the cover, given that Luke Holmes' cover has been such a tremendous success, is bringing up some complicated emotions and fans and singers who know that Tracy Chapman, as a queer black woman, would have been almost zero chance at that achievement level.
What the...
What are you talking about?
Joe, was this song not a monster hit by Tracy Chapman?
Everybody was humming that song.
I think it was in some movies, too.
It was everywhere.
It was freaking everywhere.
It was everywhere.
This song, not a single person I know in Glendale, where I grew up, didn't know the song Fast Car.
The video on MTV, when MTV still played videos before they went crazy, was everywhere.
This song was everywhere.
So, of course, Community Notes got their revenge.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
She won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best New Artist.
She has seven other nominations for Grammys and two wins.
So, here's what I'm talking about, by how this sums up the cultural, pathetic zeitgeist of the time where we are now.
A couple of things about this piece.
The author at the Washington Post, takeaway number one, is an idiot.
Which speaks to the media ecosystem in general.
How people who are much dumber than you and I get to write pieces on massive platforms telling us how dumb we are.
Oh, look at you idiots listening to Luke Holmes' take on Tracy Chapman's song.
If you only knew what I knew.
Meanwhile, she's dumber than you.
Because she apparently doesn't even know that this song was a mega, mega hint.
Okay?
That's takeaway number one.
Takeaway number two, these people are clearly not capitalists.
This is an argument that a lot of people are, because people are piling on this third, but they're missing some obvious takeaways.
Tracy Chapman is probably going to make a fortune, because Joe, what happens when people cover your original song?
A lot of people go back and buy what?
The original song too!
Plus royalties, royalties!
Thank you!
You think Luke Holmes got this song for free?
Joe, do you get to just copy people's songs and re-record them?
I'm not familiar with the musicans.
Can you do that?
Not without giving them royalties.
No, thank you!
Joe is an actual musician guy.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
Oh, if you're a white man, then you can steal or else it's cultural appropriations.
Tracy Chapman is probably going to make a fortune about this.
As people go back and listen to the original, like, holy Moses, that was a really great song.
Now, point number three.
Folks, on my life, I would not mess with you.
Please trust me on this one.
I love country music, but I don't have a lot of time.
I really only listen to Morgan Weiland right now and a couple other artists.
I didn't even know Luke Holmes had this song out!
If you would have asked me about Fast Car, I'd be like, yeah, man, it was a great song by Tracy Chapman, who I never even knew was gay and didn't even care because I don't judge people by their gayness or straightness.
I just like the freaking song.
I didn't even know this song was out by Luke Combs.
So this idiot at the Washington Post writes about it.
I want to listen to Luke Combs' version.
What do you think I said?
Man, that's pretty good.
And I bought Luke Combs' song, which they're making Luke It becomes even richer.
And finally, the last obvious point about this entire thing.
This is never going to stop with the left.
Ladies and gentlemen, they will find a racial argument in anything.
Anything.
Hey, Dan, not only when it's not there, when it's not even plausible, Dan, what is that pink egg on your desk?
It's a Secret Service Easter egg I found back in 2007. I found they gave to us as agents at the time.
Pink!
What are you advocating?
White supremacy?
There was a dude once at a rally who had a pink tie on.
What are you talking about?
Don't laugh.
This is how stupid these arguments are, where they dig racial arguments out of anything.
To sum this up, And I'm sorry if I took a little long on this, but it's so important you understand this in relationship to my speech.
There is a future out there for this country.
I'm long on it.
And I think it's great.
I think there's prosperity.
And I think there's a genuine, genuine quest.
Out there to just not extinguish the light of liberty and freedom and people are tired of these racial politics.
This is the kind of stuff that's going to do them in.
I promise you, this is not the future.
But be the renegades and misfits and fight for a better future tomorrow because this shit's got to stop, man.
It's got to stop.
He brings up a great point, Joe.
And to the listeners out there in the chat.
Sorry, my phone timed out.
I won't believe what you're saying in the chat.
The demand for racism is not just outstrip the supply, as Guy said.
You're right.
You're missing a word there.
It's dramatically outstripped, thankfully, the supply of racists.
And when you have a party, the conservative movement, that fights so strongly...
So much so that we're like begging minority voters to take a look at our party.
You have nowhere else to go.
So you just have to manufacture your widgets for your racist widget thing.
Because there are no widgets left.
That's why.
All right.
And folks, distorting reality like this to make you believe there's racism around every corner, it requires one thing, and it's suppressing the truth.
Shockingly, Scary Poppins, who was going to be the minister of the new Department of Homeland Security Ministry of Truth, is back threatening lawsuits and all kind of stuff.
Remember, the best defense against a defamation lawsuit is what, folks?
The truth.
The truth.
They better be careful here, too, because these slap statutes, strategic lawsuits against public participation are very strong.
Believe me.
I know.
You got to be very careful with these things.
I appreciate your pay.
That was a crazy open, man.
We've got a lot of energy on Monday, as always.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Scary Poppins is back.
Now, I told you before, this explains the ruthless commitment of people on the left to censoring conservatives right now.
And by the way, I just tweeted something out.
I'm going to say it here on my show, too.
Folks, you better be really careful.
There's been no bigger defender of Elon Musk than me.
No one.
No one.
But you've got a lot of people out there, even on the conservative movement, some of them a little grifty, but Who are like dialing all in on Elon.
And let me tell you something.
If you're actually looking at what's going on and not buying into all the hype, how sure are you that this guy's the big free speech savior, we think?
Because I live in a world based on evidence.
The thing they did with overseas commands to take down accounts and stuff and take down the information, the hiring of the, you know, Yaccarino lady who clearly is not one of us when it comes to conservatives.
Did this push to censor stuff on the platform?
I'm not so sure, man.
It's just interesting that fights this guy.
I'm telling you now, Joe, this is a big flagging.
But flagging 11-23 on whatever today's date is.
I think you're going to find in the...
Okay, you got to give me an announcement.
I'm not sure.
I think we're going to find out in the near future.
And believe me, I hope I'm wrong.
Prove me wrong.
I will celebrate it on the show because there's been no bigger fan of this guy than me.
But I live in a world of evidence.
And we're not fangirling here or fanboying whatever on the conservative movement.
This guy better start putting up.
Alright?
A lot of stuff going on that you guys aren't aware of that this guy's doing.
I'm not sure he's his free speech advocate.
Everybody thinks he is.
And we don't need that right now.
We need more heroes for free speech.
We don't need any more chumps.
Look who's back, Scary Poppins.
Remember she was going to run that DHS disinformation board, which is clearly unconstitutional.
The government has no role in monitoring free speech.
It is literally written out in the Constitution.
She's back.
These people have no shame.
This is a woman defending now the censorship of free speech.
Although they were wrong on the Russia hoax, the Spygate hoax, The laptop hoax, the COVID hoaxes, the multiple COVID hoaxes that were out there.
Here they are.
Scary Poppins is back discussing disinformation.
Check this out.
Clint said something interesting, that there's enough available information to sort of make your case no matter what your case is.
But now in 2023, we're dealing with not just available information, but invented information.
There was an incident the other day where Bill Browder, the author who spends a lot of time talking about Russia...
Bill Browder was deep-faked in an interview with Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine.
Like, it was an invented conversation that now gets put out there.
And guys like me, we don't know how to tell the difference between a faked video and a real video, particularly in this age of AI where it can mimic your actions and your voice.
So we're now not just dealing with available information, which my crazy uncle at Thanksgiving used to be able to do.
Now we're dealing with real stuff that becomes hard to disprove.
Yeah, that's absolutely right, Ali.
And I mean, I think we're headed toward a really scary situation in the 2024 election as the Republicans continue to make efforts to push back on any sort of counter disinformation initiatives.
We just saw last week you and I talked about that injunction against the Biden administration from talking to any social media companies.
There's been a temporary stay issued in that injunction.
But I think we're going to see probably that ruling up This is absolutely incredible.
This woman, this appointment, she pulls herself back from this disinformation board appointment, right?
Turns into an embarrassing episode because people around her and her got caught in disinformation themselves while pushing a disinformation board.
And yet they keep moving forward.
Again, I told you in the beginning of the show, we're the real misfits now and the real renegades.
Folks, they're not going to stop.
If you think exposing them as frauds and fakes is going to make them back down and back away, you're crazy.
Andy Weissman, Peter Stroke, Nina Jankiewicz, these are all people who've been humiliated by facts, pushing disinformation themselves, and yet these liberal, liberal mainstream media outlets, MSNBC and CNN, keep not only having them on, but keep celebrating them.
Keep celebrating them.
And this is the danger of this stuff happening.
This story by Kerry Pickett is such a kick in the nuts that it's like hard to believe this is happening.
Despite the FBI, screwing up every major crisis of our freaking time, they got burned again.
Why?
Because they want to get burned because they're starting the fire.
Washington Times is in the newsletter today on Gino.com slash newsletter if you want to check it out.
Russian spies in Ukraine suspected of duping the FBI to censor Americans on social media.
Why do you think censoring people on social media is a bad idea?
Keep that up a second.
Outside of the fact that it's totally unconstitutional, turns out the FBI was enlisted by the Security Service of Ukraine after the Russia invasion to demand social media platforms take down posts and block accounts, such as those belonging to American journalists, according to House Judiciary Committee investigators.
What's the problem?
It is now suspected Russian agents infiltrated the Ukrainian intelligence agency.
It's amazing how much Russia, how this foreign, you guys are foreign agents stuff, has now taken over America to the point where effectively the Russian government controls American citizens' communications on the media.
Folks, listen man, we are in a dangerous new place right now and you better damn well be aware of it because we are in serious trouble if we don't shut this down.
Here is another misinformation queen.
Look at this Fox article.
Jennifer Rubin, one of the dumbest people you have ever seen on the internet.
This is another pee-pee tape hoaxer, right?
Writes for the Washington Post.
Used to pretend to be a centrist.
This is why they gotta shut you down.
So they can lie to you without it being countered by the actual truth.
Did you hear this story this weekend?
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, an idiot by every metric, she posts this insane statistic that 670-something thousand people have left Florida.
Like, oh my gosh, Florida's so crazy these people have left.
That's not the number.
That's the number of people who entered Florida.
How stupid do you have to be?
Now, listen, to be fair, on my Fox show, a graphic went up one time where the graphic got screwed up.
I'm just being candid with you.
It's my show.
Ultimately, I'm responsible.
I didn't even know about the graphic.
The graphic went up.
I never mentioned it or referenced it.
But still, that stuff happens.
But I didn't see it.
And you take credit for it.
But here's the thing.
So, Dan, how's this different?
They got the story ass-backwards.
670,000 people entered Florida, didn't leave, and the story had been debunked three days before Ruben wrote the piece in the freaking Washington Post.
That's a Maragay moment if I've ever seen it.
Folks, this story had already been debunked three days before Rubin put it up.
How stupid do you have to be?
Read this epic correction in the Washington Post.
This is some heavy-duty correctionism here.
A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridian state-to-state migration.
According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year.
This version has been corrected.
Wow, man, that's heavy.
Bro, the whole premise of the piece was that Florida's going to pay for being MAGA. People are moving out.
The whole premise of the piece was written on a completely, completely debunked, discredited statistic.
And this lady writes for the Washington Post.
Folks, when you screw up, you screw up.
But I got to tell you, they screw up all the time.
And my bullshit meter with them is pretty much pegged.
I'm done with it.
Nothing of substance they tell you is true.
Everything is BS all the time.
I got more of it coming up in a second.
Again, our last break.
We appreciate your patience.
One quick note, too.
Paula just texted me during the show.
Here we go.
The Don't Get Dead shirts here, they're going to go up at store.bongino.com.
But they'll be available for pre-sale.
And she's, I don't know, give us a couple weeks to get them out.
We didn't expect to get so much demand for this shirt.
We're actually going to put them up as a surprise.
So go after the show, store.bongino.com.
It'll be a pre-sale.
Just, you know, we'll get them to you.
And we're working on it right now.
But we really didn't...
We didn't expect that much interest, so we're kind of flattered, actually.
Glad you like it.
All right, thanks for your patience again.
Here on the other side of this, I got, again, the White House just coming out with such heavy, hardcore disinformation.
You need to have this stuff at your fingertips right away because we got an election season coming up.
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As I told you before, we are in a fight for the future of this country.
We are on the side of truth and honesty.
We're the misfits, man.
Nothing this administration of substance tells you is true.
Everything is a lie.
The debunked portion of this show is important because there's an election coming up.
You're going to be getting into debates.
You're going to be getting into verbal kind of back and forth with people.
And they're going to spout to you nonsense they heard on TV. Here's a perfect example right here.
Here's a guy, you want to talk about the tragedy of expertise.
A guy who claims economic expertise.
He's one of Biden's primary economic advisors, Jared Bernstein.
Telling you on how your buying power has somehow gone up and worker wages are better off.
And you're scratching your head.
You're like, really, bro?
Because every time I go shopping, I feel like I'm coming out of there with less food and spending more money.
So weird.
Here, take a listen.
If you look at the 80% of the workforce that's blue-collar, that's non-manager, middle-paid workers, their pay is up 1.6% over the past year.
It's up almost 3% since pre-pandemic.
And that kind of buying power, again, feeds back into the economy, helping to push the kind of momentum we've seen.
That kind of buying power?
You have buying power?
Folks, listen, I just went to Google.
Why did I go to Google?
It's a left-wing hack site.
Because it's a left-wing hack site.
I literally went to Google and put, are real wages going down?
Here's the question.
Here's the answer that came up.
This is from a left-wing site.
Google's an activist leftist site.
Real wages are falling as well.
Since President Biden took office, the increase in prices due to inflation is over 14%, resulting in a loss in real wages of nearly 4% because average hourly wages have only risen 10% as of January of 2023. What is this guy talking about?
This is screw gold.
This is left-wing screwball.
Dan, it sounds like he's just making it up.
That we're actually making less real money.
It doesn't feel like that.
It is that.
That's why it feels like that.
Because you are making less money.
That's why it feels like that, man.
Because you are making less money.
These people are freaking liars, man.
Folks, the most dangerous part of this whole thing, however...
Is whenever you catch these dipwads in a lie, every single time when it's something of real substance, they go back to the same playbook.
You've seen it before.
It's Russian disinformation, foreign agents are infiltrating this conservative movement.
Here is this clown show, Jen Psaki, with I think Jamie Raskin, another goofball from Joe's State of Maryland there.
Here's Jamie Raskin and Psaki talking again about how, oh my gosh, there's a lot of foreign agents, man, infiltrating this conservative movement that every single time, man, like your morning oatmeal, they go back to the same playbook.
Take a look.
So how concerned are you that James Comer, the chairman of the committee, was knowingly, unknowingly working with, co-opted by a foreign agent?
I'm just concerned that the House Oversight Committee, which has a very proud history with Congressman Waxman as chair, the great Elijah Cummings of Maryland as chair, is suddenly being compromised.
in a really serious way our legitimacy is being eroded by the tactics adopted by chairman coma so just to be clear guys jim coma republican congressman is now closing in on the biggest political scandal of our time with bank records to match it that hunter and joe biden may have taken tens of millions of dollars in bribes to influence decisions influence serious political
And what does Jen Psaki and clown show Jamie Raskin go right back to?
I don't know, man.
It could be Russian agents.
It could be foreign agents.
These people are full...
Every single time.
Everything they tell you, ladies and gentlemen, is garbage.
It is crap.
Throw it out the window.
Ask your friends when they start, oh, Hunter Biden's really such a great guy.
You know, listen, we got to defend.
He's a drug user.
He's got problems.
Listen.
I feel bad for any drug user with a problem, okay?
It was in my family, too.
Here's the problem.
I don't stick drug-using family members on international deals with the Chinese Communist Party where they pay money through a proxy so that I can make decisions that benefit them.
You made Hunter Biden a story, not us.
And right back to the foreign agent thing.
You're going to see it every single time coming up in this election.
So, Moving on a bit.
So I was bouncing around Turning Point this weekend.
And I... You know, when you go to do these speeches a little behind the scenes, Turning Point or CPAC or whatever it may be, right?
Usually what they do is you'll go in and you'll use like a loading dock entrance.
You'll go backstage.
You go on stage and you leave.
You don't really...
You don't really walk around too much.
Now, I try and, you know, Joe and I used to do CPAC, not so much anymore, but we used to try to say hello to everyone and walk around because that's, you know, you all support the show and that's the least we could do.
But this time I made a commitment to kind of walk around a little bit and we met a lot of people.
We took a lot of pictures and stuff.
Did some interviews with the Daily Signal and Breitbart and some others just to kind of, you know, get out there and, you know, see real people in real time.
And the question I was asked, more than anything, is about this cocaine story at the White House.
So there's been a fascinating update here.
I'm going to get to it in a second.
But I did a couple interviews on my book.
My book is coming out.
You can buy it for pre-order right now.
I'm very proud of it.
I haven't mentioned it too much because I'm not really into shoving stuff down anybody's throat.
I think it's kind of goofy.
But I'm proud of the book.
It's called The Gift of Failure.
I did an interview with Charlie Kirk on his podcast.
It's going to air this week.
About a half an hour on this book.
The book's a little embarrassing, I'm going to be honest with you, because I write about a lot of stuff I screwed up.
But it's a reverse self-help book.
I got tired of self-help books where people tell you how great they are.
I'm writing in this book about all the stuff I've screwed up.
And believe me, some of it is epic.
From Secret Service stuff to business stuff.
And I want to show you how I dust it off.
And got up and fought back and did bigger and better things.
The book's called The Gift of Failure.
I only have a couple thousand signed copies and honestly, they're almost gone.
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It's up on the screen now.
There's only a few left.
But if you want a regular old copy, you can go anywhere you buy your books.
It's available today for pre-order and it's coming out soon, I think in September.
So we moved the date up.
That's a good picture, man.
You think so?
A woman by the name of Patty Marchese took that picture.
That picture was taken in my living room.
Is that right?
Yes, I was not feeling particularly good that day.
And so I'm shocked that picture is actually any good.
But thank you, Joe.
I appreciate that.
You're a kind man.
What did you say, Guy?
Did you have a comment to add to the show?
See, Guy thinks...
Thank you, Guy.
Guy thinks the book is pretty funny at parts.
I think it's funny, too, because I've screwed up so much stuff.
Some of it's so stupid, you're going to laugh like...
Like the gas station story from the Secret Service?
The gas station Secret Service story.
If you don't laugh, I'm telling you.
Speaking of the Secret Service, perfect transition.
Totally unintended.
I don't even know if you meant that.
John Kirby, dreadful White House spokesperson.
Not as awful as Kareem Jean-Pierre.
This guy's actually a more skilled liar.
Kirby was on this weekend talking about the cocaine thing.
He's asked a question about this.
Folks, there's been an interesting break in this.
I'll get to that.
I want to play this cut first.
Remember, this is a military man, John Kirby.
Nobody knows national defense better than this guy, okay?
He's got to understand, Kirby, that white powder made itself into the White House completely undetected.
And he seems incredibly unconcerned.
Serious, but...
Listen to this cut.
On the other side, I'll explain what I think really happened.
Check this out.
Certainly you can understand that Americans, many of them, first of all, are aghast that there was ever cocaine in the White House.
We heard that there were reports of marijuana a couple times found there last year as well.
But more importantly, that it's case closed.
In less than two weeks, we know nothing about who brought this in, inability to track people, no surveillance cameras.
What if it was something much more dangerous?
Well, again, I can't really speak to the investigation that was done by the Secret Service.
They did the best they could to track down how it got there and who it might have belonged to, and they just were not able to come up with any forensic evidence that proves it.
But, of course, look, we take this seriously.
That's not the kind of thing we want to see happen.
Now, it did happen in a visitor's lobby area just outside the main West Wing.
So it was a highly trafficked area.
We're going to take a look at how that happened.
And obviously, if there's things we can do to prevent that in the future, certainly we'll do that.
Nobody's happy about this.
No, nobody's happy.
There you go.
This is a military guy.
By the way, someone in the chat, he kind of, I'm sorry, someone annoyed me a little bit.
I forget who it was.
It was, please be honest, Dan, they're book plates.
Now, I get why you said that.
So they're not book plates.
I know it says that on the Premier site.
I'm going to have them change that.
I signed them.
They're not book plates.
They're signed book plates.
A lot of authors do this.
I don't.
They sign stickers and they smack them in the book.
They're not book plates.
I don't care what it says on the site.
I'll have them change it.
They're not book plates.
The person in the chat who said that, I am being honest.
I signed them.
They're not book plates.
Sorry.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I think I know.
You know how I know?
It's me.
No one's signature is as ugly as mine.
Right?
Can you guys attest to this?
I have the worst signature ever.
And trust me, by the thousandth book you signed, my signature is so bad, even I don't recognize my own signature.
It's that bad.
But it's me.
I signed them, if that's the kind of thing you like.
But getting back to the Secret Service story, I'm always all over the place on Monday.
Post-millennial has a piece up, and here's the kicker, okay?
Folks, one, I don't believe they didn't find a latent fingerprint on this plastic baggie.
The only way a fingerprint would not appear on a baggie, because think about it, you have a small baggie, say, you know, this big of white powder in it.
Forget, you know, that part's bad enough that white powder get in the white, but we covered that ad nauseum.
I want to go back to that again.
Think about this, right?
I was watching an interesting segment last night on Human Touch and people who've lost arms and stuff like that.
It was on 60 Minutes of All Place.
Sir!
The Sir Network, right?
But how do you...
If you were going to place a plastic baggie in a cubby like the Secret Service and others are alleging happened, right?
How do you do it?
Let me see.
We got something the size of a plastic baggie here.
Oh, small bag.
This is for earpieces.
Plasticine bag.
So it's probably a little smaller than this.
But Joe, now, guys, let's do a demo, okay?
There's a cubby.
You've seen these cubbies.
They're small.
They're like, you know, yay big or so.
You'd fit maybe, you know, a wallet and a cell phone in there.
So you've got Coke.
You wind up getting the Coke past the checkpoint, which I still don't believe.
I think it was bypassed, but we'll leave that for another day.
Now you've got this baggie.
You pull it out of your pocket.
You're getting ready when you're like, holy shit, I've got coke.
I better put this in the cubby.
How do you do it now?
Now, you know people are watching you because you're in the West Wing and there's cameras.
So, of course, you're trying to be a little cryptic, right?
So, how do you get...
Now, here's the bag.
Can we do a demo?
Is this okay, Guy?
You think viewers want the demo?
So, there's no fingerprint.
It's a non-poor substance.
Yeah.
Okay.
This is Donald Trump's pen.
He signed the executive order for the wall.
True story.
He gave it to me.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, that'll work.
Oh, yeah, that's real.
Justin says this is...
I'm almost...
Hold on.
This is...
Justin, this is inconspicuous.
That ain't getting it, dude.
Okay, I did it!
Folks, I did it.
There's no fingerprints on the baggie.
Now, keep in mind...
Wait, wait, even better.
The baggie's in the pocket.
How do we get them?
Let's...
Hold on.
Oh.
Here.
Hold on, guys.
Let's do it.
Let's try to get it out.
No fingerprints.
That's assuming I haven't touched it yet.
Okay, I wiped it down.
Before I got in the White House.
A pen or a key, that'll do it.
Look at it.
Now we're fishing down in the pocket.
We got it!
We got it!
He's putting it out of the pocket.
Thank you for the narration.
And Justin's correct.
Totally, completely inconspicuous.
No one would know.
Folks, you want to see how stupid this story is?
You like my skills?
Now, there's cameras watching you.
Nobody's...
How else would you get a baggie from your pocket in a thing without touching it with these things called fingerprints?
Now, for those of you out there, by the way...
Let me let you in on another angle.
Who are like, Dan, maybe they used their palms to do it.
Okay, let's get even more ridiculous.
Here, they did their palms.
And they did this.
Okay, well, I can't read it because my elbows don't work.
But let's just say that happened, right?
Here's the crazy thing.
The Secret Service and the FBI, by the way, have a laboratory of palm prints, too.
Why would we have palm prints on file?
And a lot of them.
Because when people sign counterfeit checks, which the Secret Service investigates, how do they sign them, Joe?
With their palms down.
So we have palm prints, too.
So it's really weird.
Like, this story makes absolutely no sense.
So here's the post-millennial.
The Secret Service spokesman, who I had no reason to disbelieve before that, He has an interesting little caveat in here, talking about the baggie and the allegations that they do have a fingerprint, which they're saying they don't.
He says, but I can say definitely that we do have the reporting back from the FBI. And it did say there's no physical evidence on that thing.
That thing, I did not plan this, by the way, the earpiece thing.
That thing is the baggie.
So assuming for a second the ridiculous that there is no physical evidence on that thing, just assume that's right.
I doubt that.
I would bet my right arm on it.
How did that thing get in the cubby?
Oh, do we have to do the demo again?
Let's get the cubby.
There's a key to open the cubby.
So you magically get the key, turn it sideways.
How did that happen?
Nobody touched the cubby either?
Geese, I know.
Folks, this story's bullshit.
I'm sorry.
I know we got a lot of stuff.
The story is absolute bullshit.
Somebody from the White House is pressuring them to make this thing go away.
That is why, by the way, it's...
These guys, man.
It's like they think this is their show.
It's like the Guy Cohen show.
This is why it's more likely every single day that Biden will not be the nominee.
Listen, political predictions are stupid.
Why?
Because what's the sense of it?
You had a 50-50 shot of being wrong and looking like an idiot.
I'm just telling you, we talk about politics on this show with every passing day of another Biden scandal.
Cocaine gate, Hunter Biden gate, whatever the hell a gate may be, right?
And yes, some people don't use the gay term.
You're associating with Watergate and Richard Nixon.
No, no, no.
No, we should absolutely use it.
They wanted to make that a trade name for political scandals and attach it to Republicans.
We're going to steal it and attach it to Democrats.
I hate when people tell me that.
Don't use the gay thing.
No, no.
Use the damn gay thing.
Every day, it's more likely that he's not going to be the nominee.
Now, who's in their bullpen?
Bring in the lefty.
Kamala Harris.
Folks, this lady is even more disastrous than Biden.
She has, I've never seen someone with worse and cringy speaking abilities, and Biden's a better speaker than she is.
She has these verbal tics.
Here's one of them.
She uses this line all the time.
I want you to listen for it right here, and I got a super cut coming up next.
This is funny.
Check this out.
And it is with this understanding, this vision, to see what can be unburdened by what has been.
She has used this unburdened by what has been line a thousand times.
It is not, it's ridiculous.
She's got like a verbal tick with it.
Who'd we get this from?
Tom Elliott over at Grabian.
Someone picked up on this this weekend.
I can't claim credit for it.
What is RNC research?
I've seen it before.
Here is about a minute.
This goes on, by the way, for like three minutes.
I had to cut it short for radio.
Here's about a minute of Kamala Harris.
The same line over and over.
Now, keep in mind, I give speeches.
No two speeches are the same.
Maybe a couple stories are the same.
Maybe themes.
But no two speeches are the same.
Kamala Harris, same thing every single time.
Take a listen.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
You know what can be unburdened by what has been what can be unburdened by what has been what can be unburdened by what has been.
What can be unburdened by what has been.
What we can see, what we believe can be, unburdened by what has been.
What can be, unburdened by what has been.
Who we can be, unburdened by who we have been.
What can be.
Unburdened by what has been.
Where we can be, unburdened by where we have been, and unburdened by where we are right now.
What can be?
Unburdened by what has been.
What can be?
Unburdened by what has been.
She does this all the time.
This is number two.
The lefty.
Bring her out of the bullpen.
This is the deuce.
This is their backup plan?
Let me tell you, man.
I'm feeling pretty good about election 2024. By the way, something I want to address about this.
There's an article I brought up last week.
This is important because this has kind of gone a little bit nuclear in certain circles.
Peggy Noonan wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Now, just to be clear about Peggy Noonan, she is about as anti-Trump as you're going to get.
She has her reasons.
I'm going to say in advance, there's a lot of people I don't like out there.
Peggy Noonan isn't one of them.
I've enjoyed her work at the Wall Street Journal for a long time.
Her writing is amazing.
She's got a gift for speech writing, but I think the gift is her curse.
I love her stuff, and we can disagree, and I still think she writes some really amazing stuff, and I will continue to read it.
I've referenced it many times, and just because we disagree about Trump doesn't mean I think she's a horrible person.
Having said, I do think a lot of other people are horrible.
I'm not afraid to say it, obviously.
But Peggy Noonan has what I refer to often as the speechwriter's curse.
Being a speechwriter and a writer in general, you know, there's always this Tendency to kind of look out for the halcyon days, to write things in eloquent terms, to seek the best in people all the time, which is great and fine.
But unfortunately, it's not the real world.
The world is mercenary.
The world is Manichaean at times.
It's full of a lot of beauty, but it's full of a lot of pain.
And I think Peggy Noonan, as a writer and a speechwriter, trying to see the glorious side of life all the time, tends to view things in black and white when the hard reality is the entire world is on the margins.
So she wrote this piece, and I've been avoiding it for a bit because I want to figure out what I want to say about it.
But it was written on July 6th, and she wants Trump to reach his water loop.
In other words, she wants this guy to go away.
And in it, she writes about this discussion she had with one of Donald Trump's New York supporters, and this is the line that went viral.
The supporter told Peggy Noonan, you know, Trump's got a great record, the Abraham Accords.
And Peggy Noonan, he says, she insults the guy, by the way.
He says, I spoke slowly.
I guess try and insult him.
She said to him, I'll tell you what he is.
He is a bad man.
I know it.
And if I were less a courteous person, I would say that you know it too.
Well, a lot of letters were written to the Wall Street Journal about this piece.
I want to say a couple things about it.
Number one, Peggy Noonan is a smart woman.
She's not stupid.
But this is a clear oversimplification of morality.
What does bad mean, Peggy?
He raised great kids.
Yeah, he's got his marital troubles.
Clearly was some kind of a playboy in his life.
Said some objectionable things.
But what does bad mean to you?
Is Joe Biden a good man?
How?
How do you measure that on net?
Don't tell me about bad things they did.
Tell me about good things they did versus bad things they did.
And on net and on the margin, what does bad or good mean?
What does bad mean?
We're all bad men.
I mean, you're clearly aware of what Lord Acton said.
Power corrupts absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
All powerful men are going to be bad men.
So what does that mean?
If they're all going to be bad men in the end, isn't it who's less bad?
So what does that mean?
Don't you owe the audience a description of exactly what that means?
Does he have a bad temper?
I'd agree.
Does he say some things that are objectionable?
I'd agree.
But you kind of leave out a lot of important stuff, right?
A flourishing economy, tax cuts, at least some effort to rein in this deep state, the firing of Jim Comey, the Abraham Accords, regulatory reform.
Would you rather be in that country or the country we're in now with Joe Biden?
Because who's the bad man now?
A bad man compared to what?
It's another question.
Compared to Biden?
Compared to Chris Christie?
Who she seems to really like?
Chris Christie involved in his own scandals.
Do those scandals make him a bad man?
That led to legal action too.
Serious legal action.
Is he a bad man?
What evidence do you have?
What about the kids he's helped?
People he's helped that he doesn't talk about?
What about the calls to people when other politicians just sit there and can't do personal politics?
The time he spends with people who really don't matter.
I think you're confusing his transactional nature.
With badness and goodness.
Without any comparison or evidence and no serious metric for telling us what bad man means.
You know, good people lie all the time.
Good people lie all the time and do bad things.
That doesn't make them on the margin bad men.
And Adam Smith said it once, you know, people want to be considered lovely too.
Trump has that...
Kind of transactional nature where he wants to be loved by people.
But does that make him a bad man?
I'd like to hear you explain that away.
I'll say it again.
I respect your work a lot.
It's not personal.
But he's a bad man.
It's not going to suffice when the country's future is at stake.
You owe the audience a little bit more than that.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
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Don't get dead.
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