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Aug. 21, 2023 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Trump’s Surprising Announcement (Ep. 2071) - 08/21/2023
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Dan Bongino I'm like, I'm telling you, I'm like, how come I don't hear you?
Because I got you on the Westwood One radio feed.
That's why I don't hear you.
Man, what a weekend.
I hope you all enjoyed that concert with John Rich.
That was just the best time.
I had way, way too much fun this past weekend.
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine from Westwood One, the company I work with in radio.
She was like, how you doing?
I'm like, I am doing...
I'm ready to be back on the air.
I feel like even though I was only off a day, I feel like it's been a month.
But what a weekend.
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A big thank you to everyone who was a part of a revolution in music entertainment this past weekend.
We did something really special.
I've got that.
I've got Trump's big decision about the debates.
Notice I said plural.
And what that could really mean, I'll give you the good, the bad, and the indifferent, but there's something about it I think that has a lot of people freaked out because the tides have already turned.
I'll explain to you.
Don't accept a lot of simplistic explanations on this.
I've had an evolution on this one as well with Trump.
Big show, a lot to talk about.
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To learn more, Joe, is this the last day of the Kenny Bell?
Yes, it is.
All right.
Yes, sir.
To the Kenny Bell.
Yes, sir, it is showtime.
We're still working on our take.
Guy's going deaf over there.
I just want you to know, Guy's poor ear drums.
I got a bunch of thank yous.
First, to all of you all.
We're coming out.
40,000 people watched our concert live here with John Rich.
The album, as you can see, is number one.
And you want to talk about being part of a revolution in entertainment and the biggest double-barrel middle finger to the music industry ever?
Oliver Anthony's song with no...
No.
Old school, liberal country music.
That whole business has gone woke, except for quite a few people, right?
Oliver Anthony's song is number one.
You got that picture, Guy?
And John Rich's album is number one.
We did this all.
You.
Together.
Where it is right there.
Number one album, The Country Truth by John Rich.
Download it if you haven't.
Number one song, Rich Men of Richmond.
And here, you want another middle finger to them all?
Number two is Oliver Anthony.
Number three is Jason Aldean.
Try that in a small town.
And John has the number one album.
Is that not a kick in the balls towards old school woke-ism?
We don't need these people.
You're part of a revolution.
This is all happening.
I want to tell you just a couple funny stories about what happened.
So I had...
Partied way too hard this weekend in Nashville, man.
We were like...
Guy knows the story.
I barely made it to the Saturday night show.
We were out all night Friday.
And Saturday, I'm like, take it easy, gonna do the show.
Saturday morning, how I got out of the hotel room, I don't even know.
But we went on this little tour in Nashville with my friends.
So I go to this antique store to pick up an antique microphone and it's like noon, the sun's in my eyes.
I'm like, ah, like a Nosferatu vampire or something.
I see this cat in the street with this Don't Get Dead shirt on.
I'm like, what the hell?
This is crazy.
He sees me make eye contact.
I run over like, dude, that's a cool shirt, man.
He's like, I can't believe it.
So this guy, Jordan, I invited him to the show.
He wasn't even in town for the show.
He was just in town for a separate reason.
And we invited him to the show.
He made it.
We had a blast.
Hat tip to him.
This is the crew.
John and me, we were maybe partying way too much at John's John's bar.
It was John Rich, Devin Nunes, Cash Patel, a friend of theirs, and me.
We had a good time, man, on Friday, way into Saturday.
And then Saturday night, late at night, I decide maybe I should go home.
It's like 11 o'clock and get some sleep before I head back.
So I decide I'm going to pop in across the street to Kid Rock's bar.
And security guy's like, Dan, his name's Bobby Richie.
He's like, Bobby's upstairs.
Why don't you come say hello?
So we wound up hanging out with Kid Rock's bar.
2 o'clock in the morning.
So here's my friends.
Folks, it was a crazy weekend.
We had so much fun, and I promise you we're going to be doing more roadshows.
Listen, people in the chat, 25,000, we're only five minutes in.
You all are amazing.
Chatsters, Bongino Chatsters, yes, you want another roadshow, or no, you don't want another roadshow.
Let me know because I may come to a town near you.
I'm not so skinny.
Who said that in the chat?
Dan, you're so skinny.
Patriot girl.
I'm 210 pounds.
Do I look skinny?
I mean, look at this.
Skinny.
I got abs.
That's skinny.
Come on.
I'm skinny.
That's like the biggest insult ever.
We love you, Patriot Girl.
But I'm definitely not skinny.
Yes.
Yes to the road show.
Look at you all.
Check this out.
No.
Who said no?
There was a no in there.
What are you all?
There we go.
Oh, wow.
I like that shot right there.
I'm not skinny.
Joe, am I skinny?
No.
Thank you.
I'm not skinny.
Thank you.
But Patriot Girl, I get it.
I guess that's a compliment.
One more quick thank you.
Well, actually, a couple.
Stuart.
We ran into Stewart and his wife.
They gave us a backup Muttley in case the original Muttley can't perform and that the arm doesn't work out too well.
So this is the relief of what we call the bullpen Muttley.
So in order to discriminate between original Muttley and bullpen Muttley, thanks to Stewart, we put a B on him for bullpen Muttley in case the other one's arm is tired.
We got Muttleys in the chat.
Here we go.
Don't mix him up with Original Motley.
And then thank you to Alex, the security guy over at TriStar.
You did a great job keeping us safe this weekend, man.
I appreciate it.
All right.
I had a big show, man.
We got a lot of stuff to talk about.
If I still sound intoxicated from Friday night, that's a possibility.
That's a possibility.
I probably consumed about two bottles of John Ridges whiskey on Saturday night, on Friday night alone, and I continued into Saturday.
So, on to the series.
I'm kidding.
I feel great today.
I feel pretty.
Got a good workout in this morning, too.
A squat deadlift day.
Hey, Donald Trump put out a big decision this week, and we all kind of knew he wasn't going to attend the Fox debate coming up this week.
I should say Fox Rumble debate, because if you want to see it, It'll be online with Rumble as well.
The debate will be live on Rumble.
I don't know.
Some of you might not want to watch Fox.
I don't know.
It's up to you.
I'm picking a side there.
I'm an investor in Rumble.
Watch it wherever you want.
But it'll be on Rumble as well, exclusively digitally.
But we all kind of knew Trump wasn't going to attend that.
But he put out a true social post at Real Donald Trump.
And he's like, hey, listen, I will therefore not be doing the debates, like plural, like any debates, which, okay, let's talk through this because there's a lot going on here.
Listen, I haven't changed my initial opinion on Trump in debates, okay?
I don't, like, lick my finger and see where the wind blows or anything like that, right?
I don't do that stuff.
I still think Trump is the best debater out there.
He is.
He's just like, I call him the Lion King in debates.
He just takes over.
You have to remember, a debate is a performance.
Is he the best on white paper stuff and facts and data?
Maybe not.
I think we can all agree, right?
Fair assessment guys sometimes are like, but it doesn't matter.
If white papers and data won you the presidency, you would have been talking to President Mitt Romney.
That's not the way this works.
Sometimes I wish it did work the other way, but it doesn't.
A debate is more of a performance.
There is no greater performer than Donald Trump.
So I think on the upside, one of the reasons that he should possibly at least attend a debate at some point is he's not just, forget about the Republicans on stage for a moment.
He's up by a lot.
He just is, folks.
Listen, you're not going to get me to crap on DeSantis or Ramaswamy.
I'm not doing that.
DeSantis is a great governor.
Vivek's a great candidate.
You know, I'm not a fan of Christie, Tim Scott, not so much either.
But I'm not going to crap on these guys.
I'm just telling you, he's just really far ahead in the polls.
So forget about the other Republicans for a minute.
The reason I think the debate would have been good for him, at least one of them, is it's not just Republicans watching.
There are a lot of independents who love Donald Trump, who would like to see him on stage talk about his record.
So it's kind of a positive and negative.
Now, here's the reason...
On the con side, I can't argue with the guy at all.
And let me know what you think in the chat.
I mean, you think he should, you know, give me a yes if you, you know, a big all caps yes if you think he should attend or an N if you don't.
I'd love to hear your opinion.
But who's calling me Skinny?
Oh, ban him immediately.
No, I'm kidding.
It's a free speech platform.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
By the way, just so you know, Joe, would you agree the greatest insult to a guy who lifts weights is to tell them they're skinny?
It was Lens to start.
Thank you.
Joe says it's a camera issue.
He's blaming it on Guy.
He's like, it's Guy's fault.
I do audio.
He's like, he did that.
He's like, Joe said to me, on audio, you're 225 pounds, Rick.
That's what he said.
That's what he said.
So a lot of no's he shouldn't attend the debate.
Here's why.
Here's one of the reasons I think he shouldn't attend.
Pro and con, you guys make the decision because you're all super smart, right?
One of the reasons he shouldn't attend is there's this...
Myth out there that everybody on stage is going to go for Donald Trump and try to take out Donald Trump and he's not going to be there to defend himself.
And while I have no doubt that's going to happen, there's going to be a lot of people on stage trying to crap on Donald Trump.
No diggity.
Folks, there's only three lanes in this debate right now.
I don't want to oversimplify this.
Guy, if you think I'm crazy here and I'm not explaining this right, you're always the hardest on me.
Tell me.
There's only three lanes.
There's the lane that's in front right now, the Trump lane.
It's just his own thing.
You got the Trump MAGA lane, okay?
He dominates that.
The second lane is going to be the runner-up.
Who is the runner-up?
Who's going to be the Rick Santorum to Romney?
Who's going to be to McCain to Bush?
There's the runner-up lane.
But then there's the third lane.
There's the who wants a show on Fox News lane.
They're not in this to win.
They're just in this to get a show on Fox News.
Come on, am I not right?
There's three lanes.
So, folks, I'm not oversimplifying it.
There are three lanes in this election.
When you adjust to and you understand the three-lane theory, you'll understand why people are not dropping out of the race.
Now, the reason in the debate Trump may be making a good decision is he doesn't care about the three lanes.
Because they're not going to, there are people who are going to get 5-6% of the vote, but they may very well get a Fox News show or a talk news show out of it.
Or a talk radio show, excuse me.
He doesn't care about the third lane.
He does care about the two lane though.
Because for as far as he is ahead, there's always a possibility something could happen.
Always.
And no smart politician should ever be like, oh, you know, it's wrapped up, I'm done, whatever.
We can say that.
They can't.
So Trump is worried about the number two lane.
So if Trump drops out of the debate, everybody's assuming everyone's going to attack Trump.
I think you're assuming wrong.
I think they're going to go after each other to clean out the number two lane and make sure they get on TV too.
Look, in case you think I'm crazy, even the lefties are saying the same thing.
Here's Politico Playbook.
Playbook is like the Bible of the left.
They put out this email every morning.
Key, Politico Playbook.
Yeah.
What's that?
I know.
Guy's like the chat.
You're like distracting Guy.
We love you.
The show's about you.
Guy's so in love with the chat.
He's not even paying attention to the show.
Someone in the chat want to volunteer to do Guy's job?
We can swap so Guy can chat the whole time.
I know.
Justin was in the chat the other day.
I saw him.
Yeah, I saw him.
I saw Justin DBS. Here it is.
Politico.
The jockeying to be the non-Trump GOP contender could get some clarity.
Now, these are lefties, but what they're saying here is not crazy, right?
They're talking about the two-lane.
One-lane Trump, two-lane, not Trump, number two guy, three-lane, I want a Fox News show, I have no shot.
They're saying if Trump's not there, that there could be knives out for DeSantis and Ramaswamy as the people who want the Fox News show try to cut him out at a number two spot.
So it might be tactically a super smart thing for Trump to bail, say, I ain't doing this first one, let them take out DeSantis and Ramaswamy on stage, and then maybe I'll come in later, tear it up with a couple number three people, what, just to get my name out there and give you all a little taste of the Trumpster.
That's it.
I gotta tell you, not the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Pretty smart strategy at this point.
You know, but again, I'm balancing equities.
A lot of you seem to agree at this point that he shouldn't do the debate, but he really is.
He's like a great debater, and I think a lot of the independents out there would see what was going on with him and his campaign if he was on stage.
We'll see what happens with that.
With that.
Now, you gotta remember, we're looking at all of this also in terms of the Biden nightmare continuing.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a really, really perilous spot, man.
We are just, oh my gosh, we got 51,000 people already at 1115. Holy Moses.
You guys are awesome out there.
Hold on, need some more.
We ever had this many people this early?
This is so nuts.
You guys are so great.
I mean, I love this.
This is why I can't wait to get on the air with you guys, especially in the chat, ladies out there.
Remember all of this in terms of the Biden nightmare continuing.
This thing is going on on the Republican side, which is a good thing.
Primaries are good things.
I can't say that enough.
You're seeing it now.
The primary will decide.
And by the way, the primary voters will decide if Trump not showing up in the debates matters.
Since Trump said he wasn't going to show up for the debate, his poll numbers have gone up.
So I don't understand where this argument that if he doesn't do the debates, he's going to lose voters comes from.
I mean, look at Fetterman, who's cognitively not even there, the senator from Pennsylvania.
Remember the stunt heat pool, guys?
He waited all the way to the end until everybody had already voted by mail.
He did, what, one debate.
It was the worst performance I've ever seen.
He told people goodnight the minute he got in, and he won.
So, I mean, I'm sorry.
I'm just not buying the argument that the debate's going to be some massive game changer for anyone else.
I'm just not buying it.
You've got to show me some evidence there.
They do.
That's true.
There's an element of, like, the entertainment factor, Guy's right, that people just want to see Trump on stage because it's just so freaking entertaining.
And it's not like they're going to change their vote, right?
I think.
Wouldn't you agree, folks, I'm sorry I'm spending time on this, but there's so much in this debate thing outside of just a simple debate.
It's about bigger things here.
He's right.
Even anti-Trump people who hate him want to see him on stage because they can't stop watching.
It's that old Howard Stern thing.
Why do Howard Stern fans listen to this show?
Because they want to hear what he's going to say next.
Why do people who hate Howard Stern listen?
Because they want to hear what he's going to say next.
If you ever watch that movie, you'll see that.
But this is all happening while the Biden nightmare is going on right now.
Folks, it broke this week that now, actually, Miranda Devine broke this a long time ago.
It's kind of a shame you're only hearing about this now.
To be fair to her in her book, Laptop from Hell, which I published, just disclosure there.
You got to do that stuff.
It's the right thing to do.
Hunter Biden and Joe Biden were communicating under a fake name with Joe Biden.
Ladies and gentlemen, this changes everything.
Because you have to remember, whatever's been FOIA'd or subpoenaed at this point under the name of emails to Joe Biden, if now we have an entirely different data set, because we have this name Robert L. Peters, This is where it could get really ugly for Biden.
I want you to listen to this clip from Comer with Maria Bartiromo.
And there's an important, important component to this.
I don't want you to miss.
I always like to highlight this stuff because sometimes in these interviews, it flies over everybody's head.
Not just because there's so much going on, you know, like drinking from a fire hose.
The argument so far has been that Joe Biden had nothing to do with Hunter Biden's business and, and, and that Hunter Biden was not a government employee.
Well, if Hunter Biden wasn't a government employee, then what the hell was Hunter Biden being CC'd for on emails involving government business?
You see how this cuts them right off at the knees?
Listen to this clip.
It's really important.
Check this out.
Let's discuss these pseudonyms or alias names.
What exactly have you learned?
Well, we've learned that Joe Biden used at least three pseudonyms or fake names in emails that he was receiving from people within the federal government, people that worked for him.
And even more troubling than that, Maria, we've learned that...
When he was receiving emails pertaining to Ukraine, his son Hunter was copied on him, which we've always heard that the White House has said that Hunter Biden wasn't an employee of the government.
He wasn't any part of the government.
They couldn't understand why House Republicans on the Oversight Committee were investigating Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden because Hunter wasn't a part of the government.
If that were true, then why was he receiving emails from the government?
Well, this also pertains to the firing of the special prosecutor in Ukraine, Viktor Shokin.
Was that what these emails were about?
Because you have told us in the past that that was one decision you were looking at as far as a decision that Joe Biden may have been paid for to get involved in getting that prosecutor off the back of Burisma.
I think the evidence is mounting every day to prove that Joe Biden went to Ukraine for the sole purpose of firing Shokin, who was the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating his son for corruption.
Okay, listen, this is key.
You've got to engage.
Remember we said the Devin Nunes translator?
Remember that thing, Joe?
The Nunes translator?
You've got to have like a Maria Bartiromo translator, too.
Bartiromo has great contacts on the inside here.
Trust me.
Bartiromo knows stuff.
Maria Bartiromo does not ask questions she doesn't already know the answer to.
She didn't just ask that question because she pulled it out of her ass, okay?
She asked that question for a reason.
She's like, number one, why is Hunter Biden cc'd in these emails?
Which knocks out the story that Hunter Biden had nothing to do with government business because he wasn't a government employee.
And second, she says, do any of those emails involve the firing of Viktor Chokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor, which we now know Was the reason he was paid that $83,000 or $53,000 a month to go work for Burisma to shut that investigation down?
There's a reason.
There's a reason she's asking that question.
You get what she's doing?
She's stripping narratives out one by one.
Well, Hunter didn't work for the government.
Joe didn't do business with him.
Well, actually, government business, he was CC'd on.
And second, Joe was emailing them under this pseudonym about the firing of a prosecutor, which is precisely the reason Hunter got the money.
Piece by piece by piece, she's dismantling this.
I want to get to something next.
Joe, I told you to flag it, so we're going to have to unflag it next.
I told you this was going to happen.
I also told you there's a reason Joe Biden is protecting his son.
Do you remember what I said, folks?
Anyone in the chat remember?
Everyone, all the Democrats are like, oh, because he loves his son.
That's why he's doing it.
And I said, that's not why.
I said, mark my words.
Joe Biden is not protecting his son.
He's afraid of his son.
Again, unflag it.
The receipts to back it up.
By the way, thanks for everyone leaving tips in the chat.
But you don't have to do that.
I mean it.
I appreciate it.
It's super generous of you.
But, you know, we're doing okay.
But thank you.
I just want to thank you.
It's very nice of you to do that.
I'm going to get to that in a second.
Unflag it always with the receipts.
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I gotta tell you, man, I haven't had as much fun doing a show in a while, man.
I was so itching to get back here after this weekend to thank you all.
And then the energy just piled into each story.
But unflag it right here.
I told you, Joe Biden is not protecting his son because he gives a damn about his son, okay?
His son was a revenue maker for him, and that's it.
He don't give a damn about any of that stuff.
He's protecting Hunter because he's scared Hunter Biden's gonna flip.
Ah, Bonchi, the great Bonchi at Red State, knew.
Hunter Biden's legal team used the threat of putting Joe Biden on the stand to pressure and coerce the DOJ. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Hey, I hate to say it, I told you, Joe.
But this story, by the way, is in the newsletter, Bongino.com slash newsletter.
I'm sorry to those of you who hate when we unflag stuff.
Some people are like, well, damn, Bongino always tells you he's right back.
I'm sorry, I just don't ever want you to think you're wasting your time here.
Told you this was going to happen.
Bonci writes, now we get to the jaw-dropping part of this.
According to Politico, which examined previously unknown communications between Hunter Biden's legal team and the DOJ, there was an actual threat to call Joe Biden as a witness if the U.S. Attorney Weiss dared to charge the gun crime in question.
They issued this warning.
President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial.
Dude!
How did you know that?
Not because I have any special skills at all.
It was so obvious when you got past the lefty claptrap and garbage about what a great daddy was, despite the fact that he put his crack-addicted son in front of the Chinese Communist Party and the Ukrainians in order to make himself $10 million in an alleged bribe.
That's loving your son?
That's not loving your son.
That's loving yourself and loving money.
This guy's disgusting.
And now he's afraid of his son.
He's afraid the son is going to call him as a witness.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is what's going on.
So please, spare us all the good dad bullshit.
Save it for another day.
You ain't getting away with it on this show.
This guy's not a good dad.
He's actually an awful human being.
And now we see the media with the assist out of the bullpen, bring in the righty, or in their case, the lefty.
The media realizes this guy is damaged goods.
You are going to see more and more stories.
I was talking with someone this morning over direct message about this.
Newsom is in the bullpen waiting to come out in California.
Listen, I don't know anything with certainty, okay?
I'm not the Stygian witches.
Give me the eye.
I can't predict the future.
I can't do that.
But I am sure Joe Biden is not going to be the nominee.
The media is already looking for an alternative before these caucuses and primaries start because they're in real trouble.
Real trouble.
However, they're still doing their best to hang on a little bit and ding up the Republicans, too, for this Hunter Biden story.
Here is the absolutely ridiculous, hapless Chuck Todd.
Do you guys remember what position he is on the Dopey Media Talking Head Olympics?
Yeah.
Was he second?
Behind Joy Reid.
So he's the silver medal.
We got confirmation.
Silver, we need an updated list.
Can we get a chart together for that?
So he's number two.
Here's Chuck Todd with another one of these Republicans pounce moments.
It's not Biden's corruption.
It's that the Republicans are exposing it.
That's the real problem.
Take a look.
One thing I want to point out here is I want to show you his, this stuff has taken a huge toll on him.
You know, Biden, right before the 2020 election, he was right side up, which in our polarized politics is quite astonishing.
But look, Trump and Rudy Giuliani began this campaign to try to tarnish Biden, to try to turn him into the Clinton name, you know, with the obsession over the Ukraine businesses with Hunter.
And it's worked.
His numbers now look more like Hillary Clinton 16 than Biden 20. Oh my gosh, his numbers look more like Hillary Clinton, folks.
I'm going to play for you a clip tomorrow.
It was too late.
I was going to put it on the show today, but it was unfair to the team.
So I'll play it tomorrow.
I mean, it's nothing like groundbreaking or else I would have included it.
But I just saw it before I came upstairs.
CNN this morning is freaking out about the polling.
The polling is starting to look.
CNN, I didn't say that wrong.
The polling right now is starting to look exactly like it did in 2016. And CNN is freaked out.
Because the running narrative in the media is what, fellas?
Oh my gosh, Biden, Trump can't possibly win.
You know, Biden beat him before, he'll beat him again.
That narrative is starting to change.
They're starting to freak out.
You're still going to have holdouts like Chuck Todd, Joy Reid and others.
I mean, just the idiot class on the left.
They're going to try the Republicans' pound stuff, but it's just not working.
The polling is getting really ugly.
The more they indict, the more he goes up in the polls.
Because I think people who feel aggrieved by this government, no matter what, what's happened to you, you got a crappy experience with the IRS, the TSA, people who really dislike the government are taking their rage out on the government through support of Donald Trump, who's been a victim of government overreach.
There's a psychology and a sociological effect going on right now that these media people just don't want to see.
You're going to see the same tactic here by this Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a major league tool.
I mean, this guy's a craftsman, a toolbox like you've never seen before.
Here he is trying the same tactic that, no, you know, the people's malaise about the economy and the Biden presidency, it's really got nothing to do with Biden.
It's all Trump and they're breaking up faith in institutions.
So just to be clear, institutions attack Donald Trump.
They all destroy their own credibility.
When Donald Trump fights back, it's Donald Trump destroying the institutions, not the other way around.
Watch this dipsy-doo flip-a-roo by this dunce.
Check this out.
What do you make of that, that Joe Biden seems to not have this groundswell of support right now?
Do you think it's all age?
No, I think it's our system.
I think Donald Trump and the Republican Party have poisoned it to people.
No one trusts our institutions.
No one trusts Congress.
No one trusts any of us.
Because all they do is attack our families, do those types of things.
You see the flipperoo?
You see what these a-holes do?
This is hilarious.
They weaponize institutions to go after their political opponents.
When the political opponents like Trump fight back against said corrupted institutions, the same Democrats go on the air and blame the lack of faith in institutions on the people fighting back, not the weaponized institutions.
If there was ever an example of gaslighting, this is it.
What's gaslighting, right?
It's when you get people to believe something that's completely untrue, but they all believe it like a mass delusion, right?
It's like the Berenstain Bears effect.
Look it up.
You'll see what I mean.
It's lying about something, lying often, isolating people from the truth, and lying confidently.
That's what they do.
And that's how they get you to believe something that's completely untrue.
And all this is going on right now with another very serious story I've got to get to next.
The mayor of Maui.
Folks, what's going on in Maui, you're not being told the whole story.
You're not being told the whole story, and they know.
They know absolutely what's going on.
I'm going to get to that in a second.
I'm going to tell you how they know, and they're hiding it from you.
Because it is going to be one of the worst government failures you've seen, I kid you not, in modern U.S. history.
The story is even more horrendous than you can imagine.
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Folks, I want you to watch this first.
Well, put up the Axios article because I want to tell you what's going on in Maui and I want to tell you what they're not telling you about what's going on in Maui.
Ladies and gentlemen, they know the death toll.
How do they know?
Well, folks, it's fairly obvious if you're looking at this through even a 9th grade level federal investigator's lens.
You don't have to be some PhD guy.
If your kid is missing, you think you don't know?
I want you to think about that.
There are a lot of people missing, folks.
Could be well over 1,000 kids who burned to death.
Tragically.
While the government dilly-dallied around and was doing like a spirit water thing, didn't set the alarms off.
There's allegations out there that roads were blocked.
These power lines that these companies were investing in, they were investing in, many of them, according to multiple reports, were investing in green energy stuff instead of safety and brush removal.
Folks, what happened in Maui, and I gave this the Bongino rule, the time, so I made sure I had the story correct, is going to go down as one of the single most deadly government disasters we've had in modern U.S. history, and a lot of kids are going to be the victim.
Here's an Axios story.
Hawaii braces for crushing wildfire death toll with over 1,000 missing.
So why aren't they reporting this as a death toll at this point?
The answer, folks, is because a lot of them are kids.
I'm getting this from numerous people on the ground, not just one.
Here is the pathetic.
I mean, this guy should have resigned a week ago.
What he's still doing there is just an insult and a slap in the face to American citizens living in Hawaii right now.
Here's Governor Josh Green, who just astonishingly, astonishingly, Tries to blame this thing on climate change.
What an epic disaster.
What a chump and a coward.
Take a look at this.
Just to be clear, when you're talking about global warming, are you saying that climate change amplified the cost of human error?
Yes, it did.
There's always going to be incredible things that people do to save lives from the firefighters, from citizens, and there's always going to be decisions that are made that I'm sure aren't perfect.
Again, is it time for Dan Bongino's Public Relations 101?
I mean, do we really need to do this in the face of such an unimaginable tragedy?
We're talking about kids here.
Bro, Josh Green, governor, that's not the way it's done.
You don't do that, man.
You are just a week removed from this thing.
You have kids whose parents, the parents know they burned to death.
Do you really believe they want to hear from a liberal media goofball about the effects of climate change?
When those power companies were pressured by government to invest in green energy stuff at the expense of clearing flammable brush away from a lot of power lines that may have in fact set off some of these fires.
Are you crazy?
These people always have an excuse on the left, folks.
This is going to be an unimaginable tragedy.
And here's your governor.
Talking about the freaking Green New Deal, which I've got news for you, Hawaii.
Take it or leave it.
A lot of what happened there.
And you can look at the story documented out cleanly in the Wall Street Journal.
How the funds for safety were being siphoned off to go fund Green New Deal bullshit.
That that had a lot to do with it.
And then you go and blame climate change on it?
Here's the mayor of Maui, Bisson.
I mean, you want to talk about another human disgrace.
This guy, they won't come clean and they won't tell you the number of how many are missing because it's probably over a thousand dead kids that died because of government incompetence on every single level.
That's correct.
And here's the mayor pissed off that someone dared to ask a question.
Check this out.
I don't know.
Yes you do.
How many children are missing?
I'll send you the answer to that.
I'd be happy to answer that.
You have no estimate as to how many children are missing?
Nothing?
I guess we can end this right now, if you guys want.
This is one of the biggest questions that the people of Lahaina have, but you don't want to answer them.
It always takes one or two to ruin it for everybody.
Please, this is our first one.
This is our only opportunity.
Well, we can say that about you.
You ruined it for everybody.
You're welcome to say it.
You're the media.
You can say whatever you want.
You're a disaster.
Alright, okay.
You've been the worst mayor we could possibly imagine.
Respect?
Respect what?
This is the most dismal response we've ever had.
You won't wait for your turn.
Why don't you give them the real answers then?
Give them the real answers.
Answer the question!
Answer the freaking question!
He knows exactly how many kids are missing.
You think the parents haven't reported the kids missing yet?
You think these parents who are struggling, who lost everything, their cars, their homes, their property, some of their businesses, they don't realize they're not with their kids?
That's why the reporter's saying, what's the number?
And this jerkwad won't tell him, oh, you know, you got to show some respect.
Respect!
You have human beings burned to a crisp, man.
Kids!
You think he doesn't know the number?
He's more worried about respect and how he's got to wait his turn?
Holy shit, man.
And you wonder why nobody trusts these people anymore.
Just say the number.
You think it's not going to come out?
Like, there's not gonna be a bunch of funerals?
You think the parents are just gonna forget?
Oh, gosh, where's my kid?
Oh, I don't know, and a week later, they're gonna be out eating hot dogs somewhere?
Folks, Again, reason number 22 million, why you can never ever trust people in government.
The reason our founding fathers put limits on government and not on you was because you can't trust these people.
The Constitution is a document of negative liberties.
What the government can't do to you.
Federalist 51, if men were angels, they are not.
These people in power will always be corrupted.
Lord Acton was correct.
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts.
Absolutely.
All of these great men are at heart are going to be bad men.
You see this jerkwad?
Oh my God.
Just to be clear, good point.
If Hawaii was a red state, the governor would be in jail right now.
I'm dead serious.
He'd be under investigation for some violation of some law.
No question about it.
Remember when...
Listen, I'm not even a George Bush fan at all.
Like, not even a little bit.
The Patriot Act, Medicare Part D, whatever.
Remember when Bush flew over New Orleans?
Remember that?
Oh my gosh, he flew over.
He needs to be on the ground.
This Biden hasn't even been there.
He's going today.
It's a week later.
And nobody even wants him there.
Remember, here's another one.
You guys remember when they had the power situation in Texas and Ted Cruz was on vacation?
Remember that?
Oh my gosh.
It's not that he flew back.
It's that he didn't fly back quick enough.
Biden still hasn't been there.
The mayor won't answer any questions.
The governor's blaming it on climate change.
Are you shitting me, man?
If they were Republicans, these people would be in prison.
There would be...
And I'm telling you in the chat, I'm not messing with you.
I am as serious as a freaking heart attack right now.
This guy would be under criminal investigation right now.
And because they're Democrats, nobody gives a shit.
Dead kids, burnt all over the place.
Nobody cares.
They don't care about anything.
These liberals have zero principles at all.
Not a freaking shred of human dignity.
Everything they do is bullshit.
It's all about power.
They have no principles.
I saw this.
This reminded me of that this weekend too.
How fake and phony these leftists are.
You know the squad, AOC, Cori Bush, the losers?
Talking about, remember they were all the big defund the police crowd?
Oh, you know, police, security, we don't need any of that stuff.
Defund the police.
Oh, look at this, New York Post, another article in the newsletter today.
AOC and the squad spent $1.2 million in campaign cash on private security despite calls to defund the police.
Yeah, they're all legit, folks.
They are pissing you over like you have no idea.
Listen, man, and for those of you out there who watch my show, I met a lot of you this weekend in Nashville, and I'm glad a lot of you were vibing with me.
If you think this is a Republican show, you're out of your mind.
It isn't.
This is a conservative show.
Because there are Republicans who would screw you over in a heartbeat, too.
That's the reason all of this stuff is flourishing right now.
The Oliver Anthony music.
His name is Chris, by the way.
Chris.
John Rich's album, Blowing Up.
You're seeing this rebellion and grassroots support, independence, supporting people like Donald Trump while he's running as a Republican.
He's not an old-school Republican.
You're seeing it now.
People are so fed up with the phoniness, the fakeness, the act, the routine, being censored, being canceled, being bankrupt, being debanked.
Having a central bank currency shoved down your throat.
Their gun stores being shut down.
Their inflation eating up their job security.
Eating up their ability to spend money.
Jobs being outsourced overseas.
People are sick of it.
That's not a Republican movement.
That's a conservative movement.
Because you know what we want to do?
We want to conserve what was great about America and discard what's not working.
That's our movement.
And everybody's welcome in that.
The censorship's not stopping either.
This Breitbart piece kind of scared me this weekend too.
You would think YouTube would have learned something after the COVID disaster with the medical misinformation where everything they censored off of YouTube about ivermectin and vaccines and they kicked you up.
They booted me off YouTube, suspended our account over telling you masks don't work, which is scientific fact.
You think they would have learned from that?
Hell to the...
No, they haven't.
Now YouTube's announcing a new, quote, long-term vision for medical misinformation.
The platform will now censor content it considers to be misinformation related to the prevention, treatment, or denial of specific health conditions.
What do you think you're talking about?
Any guesses?
Gender...
What do they call it, the lefties?
Gender-affirming care?
We call it castration.
You mention anything about that, you're going to be banned.
Folks, I am an equity holder in Rumble.
I've never hid that from you.
I'm proud of that.
I'm a capitalist.
I don't care one bit about what people think about me investing in a new and better future.
I don't.
Not even a little bit.
Put your money where your mouth is or shut the fuck up, okay?
I'm an investor there.
But I'm begging you to please get the hell off YouTube.
You want to come to Rumble?
We'd love to have you.
There are other platforms too.
We'd love to have you there.
Please get the hell off YouTube.
I would tell you that if I was with Rumble or with anyone else.
Get the hell off YouTube now.
I talk to way too many.
Guy, you've been in this business a long time.
We're not naming names.
Don't worry about it.
But wouldn't you agree that...
There are a lot of people in this movement who have just gotten too used to the YouTube gravy train.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you only knew how many calls I got on this.
But I can't get off YouTube.
The money's too good.
We quit.
Our last video on YouTube was literally titled, Why We're Quitting YouTube.
Why don't we make it on YouTube?
I'll tell you.
My wife tells me I talk about this money stuff, but I think it's important here.
I should be honest with you.
It's true.
There aren't many people pulling $82,000.
We got $82,000.
The show's not even over yet.
It's so crazy.
We were making about, sometimes upwards, $30,000 to $50,000 a month on YouTube.
Cut them off.
YouTube can tell the story all they want, that they banned us or whatever.
We quit.
They banned us after we quit.
The last video was called Why We're Leaving YouTube.
If YouTube would just subpoena it and you'll see it yourself because you can't get the account because it's shut down.
They banned us after we quit.
Get the hell away from these people.
They are freaking crazy.
They are descending into madness.
John Rich was the number one album live streaming only on Rumble.
No YouTube at all.
40,000 people watched us.
He is the number one album in the country, the country truth.
We have right now...
We have 83,000 people watching us at 1147 Eastern Time.
You don't need these people.
They don't want you.
They hate you.
They hate you.
This is the kind of crazy you're going to have to deal with.
I want you to watch this clip.
If you think the left is ever going to return to normal, oh, the squad, eventually they're all going to be laughed out of the party, not anytime soon.
Tyranny just feeds off itself, folks.
It never voluntarily relinquishes power.
You're going to get more crazy like this.
Found this this morning going through some show prep.
This is the cannibalism on the left I was talking about.
Where they're eventually going to start eating themselves alive as we divest from them and invest ourselves in the parallel economy.
Rumble, True Social and elsewhere.
John Rich going independent.
Oliver Anthony staying away from music labels doing his own thing.
We don't need them anymore.
They're eventually going to need victims and they're not going to be us because we don't care.
We're not attached to you idiots at all.
They're going to start eating themselves a lot.
Here's a clip from this UK news show where they're commenting on the women's soccer team, and they're all upset that the females on the soccer team, by the way, are probably all liberals anyway, that there's not enough diversity.
No one makes any comment at all about winning or how good the team is.
It's just what they look like and representation.
This is the freaking crazy you need to get away from.
Check this out.
The only thing I would say about this picture here, what jumps out of you is that this doesn't sort of represent diverse Britain.
It's all these blonde, blue-eyed girls.
And, you know, I wish them well.
But I do think we need to ask ourselves questions about why is it that we've got...
It's so...
It has a lack of diversity.
They're playing sport at an elite level.
Yeah.
And they are from Britain.
And they're women.
It doesn't make any difference.
I think if the whole idea behind this is going to encourage more women to go into the sport, you need some sort of representation there to say whatever background you come from, you could get to this sort of level.
Because it's important, isn't it?
Yeah, and it's so important when you speak to the little girls that they see someone that they can relate to.
Exactly.
It makes such a difference.
That little girl might then end up playing football because she's seen someone who looks like her.
It's fashionable to knock men, but if this was a man, it would It's a freaking soccer team.
And not at any point do they talk about actually soccer or winning soccer games.
All they care about, they would rather lose and you look diverse than play the game.
So, think about it, right?
Xie Zhao, we'll get to that next.
Xie says, you'll understand in a second.
Xie says, you know what?
We just need to look more diverse and it'll attract people to the game.
Not if you suck!
No one wants to watch Suck!
Ever!
Folks, I grew up obsessed with the New York Yankees, okay?
I don't ever remember watching Don Baylor and Dave Winfield and going, oh my gosh, they're black.
Like, did that ever occur to you?
Or Don Mattingly at first?
Oh, look, that's a white guy.
Mike Pagliarulo's white too.
What the hell's going on?
Bobby Meacham.
What race is he?
What?
Nobody says that.
You want to watch them win.
Zier doesn't think that.
This is how crazy it's getting.
Now...
We have an operating agreement for this company here.
He wants it amended.
He wants a new insertion appendix.
He wants to call it the Frontal Lobe Cerebral Cortex Protection Act.
He did not want, he wants on the record, he did not want me to show you this article.
Should I show it?
Joe, should I show it?
No, no, no.
Zier doesn't want to.
Zier doesn't want to.
Zier doesn't want to, but Zier wants to.
Guy is totally against this.
Joe's with me.
We're going to do it.
So he's overruled.
There's a CNN. Folks, this is not a joke.
This is not the Babylon Bee.
This is a real article I've been holding on to for a week.
I know.
In the chat, you're saying yes.
If you regret it afterwards, let Guy know in the chat so you'll make him feel better.
This is a real article by Scotty Andrew, who should just go into hiding after this.
It's so embarrassing.
A guide to neopronouns from A to Zhe.
And here are the new neopronouns.
This is how they want you to talk.
They even give you a little guide.
You're supposed to use Zhe Zhe Zhe.
Commonly pronounced Z-Z-E-R. I asked Z to come to the movies and Z-E-R said yes.
Z-Z-O-Z-E-R-Z-E-R. Commonly pronounced Z-Z-E-R-Z-E-R. The teacher graded Z-E-R-E-R and Z-E-R-E-R-Z-O got an A. Folks, this shit is real.
This is a real article.
Here's another one.
Now they're thinking he's right.
The chat instantly regrets it.
The chat's bailing.
85,000.
We're going to be down to three people in a second.
Here's another one.
She's your yourself.
That's your favorite neighbor.
Faye Fares, pronounced Faye.
Faye told me Faire, best friend, is in town this week.
Wait, one more.
A.M. Air.
I'm taking M.A. Air to the camera to capture Garden for himself.
If you're reading this going, what human being communicates like this?
The answer is the same people have a conversation about a soccer team.
Don't give a shit if the soccer team wins a game and they're just worried what their hair color is.
There's skin color in their eyes.
Folks, this stuff's not going to stop.
You understand the crazy's just beginning?
If you don't get away from these people soon, the crazy, I promise you, has just begun.
This stuff will not stop.
Tyrannies do not relinquish power willingly.
They need a destruction of any objective truth.
Pronouns, God, anything anchored in reality needs to be destroyed.
Why?
Because they want it replaced with government.
And the only way to do that is to dismantle any objective truth.
Family, God, and introduce insanity like Xi Zhao, Zhou Zhao, Fei, Fair, M-I-E-R. Nobody knows what this means ever.
This is the Tower of Babel all over again.
Everybody talking and nobody knowing what anybody's talking about at all.
Wait, who said that in the chat?
Oh, Scotty.
Oh, I was going to...
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, Scotty, the author.
In the chat.
I thought in the chat someone said these are common.
I'm like, bro, if they said that in the chat, you're in the wrong chat.
You may want to go on a Sam Harris podcast.
This is the wrong one.
Well, Zier may have been right.
I'm sorry we destroyed some of your neurons and axons and dendrites.
My apologies.
Hopefully the rest of the show is educational enough to ward off the effect like that.
Omega-3 fatty acids effect on the brain.
Man, what a show today.
How many we got?
85,200 people.
What the hell?
That is so crazy.
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By the way, I met one of the McGroins this weekend.
He showed up.
Was it shaking?
No.
Shaken McGroin, shout out.
Shaken, you in the chat today?
I ran into Shaken at the event this weekend.
Shaken, love you, bro.
It was nice to see you at the event.
Thank you to everyone else who came because it was so successful.
We're going to be doing more of these.
Hopefully, we'll be in a town near you.
We didn't expect the turnout to be as high as it was.
So next time, we'll pick a bigger venue.
But man, we had a blast.
Thank you so much to everyone.
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She was super nice, too.
Watches the show every day.
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