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Feb. 27, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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America's A-Team Hits The Ground Running (Ep. 2432) - 02/27/2025
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Thank you.
Yo, what's up?
Yeah, I was just asking the guys.
We are really, when you were talking about the end stages, we were training again today in the new studio.
You're going to love it.
Guy and Michael, are we sure we're at least going to get a few shows in from the new studio, right, as we wrap up the program?
Guy says he's not sure.
Folks, get on him in the chat.
Say, Guy, manifest it.
Be an optimist.
Wake up in the morning and say, I am Guy, and I am going to get this show going in the new studio.
Michael, are we going to do it?
Michael's blaming everyone.
Everyone's passing the Nerf football to someone else.
100%.
Thank you.
Guy manifested it.
See?
Tell him to be positive.
Who said it in the chat?
Let's go, Guy.
BT man.
There you go.
Do it.
Get it done.
Guy, you can do it.
Sam H, you see?
Everybody's sending positive vibes.
We are going to make it happen.
But I thought for a second everything crapped out.
Everything's like, I don't know if it's the tech gremlin small g gods, but they were laughing at us.
Yesterday between Wirecast, the TV, and we're like, okay, at this point.
Everything's like fried, but we are going to get this done.
I appreciate you all being here.
I'm so excited as we kind of wind down the show and get ready for another phase in the life of Dan Bongino.
Yeah, we're soon to be transitioning over to Silver Lock.
It's a lot of fun.
You guys have been great.
Thank you for all.
We're trying to get back to everyone on email and messages, by the way, because you guys mean the world to us.
But it's been pretty voluminous, so we appreciate it.
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All right, fellas, big show today.
There's the bell.
Of course, the media hysteria continues over my transition from the business world back into the United States government.
Don't worry, we will not be doing a segment on that today.
I'm kind of worn out about it.
You are too, and there's so much going on.
That in the last, now, two weeks remaining with you, I want to make sure we get to the news and we do our jobs.
Because my job was, like I always said, edutainment.
I want the show to boogie down productions, right?
If the show is not entertaining, you're not going to stay here.
But I want it to be educational, too.
We're all going to learn something.
And one guy who is becoming a PhD-level talking head edutainment mastermind.
Because he's not only very educational and smart where you feel like you learned something, but he's freaking entertaining, folks!
It's really hard to watch people on TV who are boring, correct?
Of course, Dan.
You'd be stunned how many people don't get that.
There is obviously an enjoyment, entertainment component to doing content creation.
Just because it's a serious topic like politics doesn't mean people need to come here and be bored.
You'd be shocked how many people in this space do not understand that.
A guy who gets it, and is, I mean, he's not even a rising star, he's just become a star, is Scott Jennings over at CNN. I say this as a compliment.
I don't know how this guy hasn't been fired yet.
He really makes the CNN liberal host look quite silly all the time.
But I gotta tell you, if you missed this gem last night, this may be one of his finer performances.
Keep in mind with Scott Jennings.
He's typically on a panel with three to five liberals.
I mean, pretty devout, hardcore liberals.
And a host who's usually tilted in the liberal direction, almost always.
And he manages to constantly make everyone faceplant.
But last night was the best.
And this is about a minute and 30, but it's worth your time.
He's on with four or five liberals.
And they're trying to give him a, quote, civics lesson.
And they seem entirely unaware that the president's the commander-in-chief of the military?
Just to be clear, you're on a national cable news network and you're hearing about this for the first time on CNN? I'm not kidding.
And watch the use of the term civics lesson and see who really gets one.
Check this out.
It seems to me that you all both believe that the unelected part of our government, the bureaucracy, Has a responsibility to resist the political leadership.
Is that your view?
That's not actually what we said.
We said they are upholding the Constitution, the principles of the Constitution.
How is Trump shredding the Constitution?
My God, he's like...
I mean, seriously, do we have to give you a civics lesson that we have put all power in the executive branch?
The legislative branch, the FBI, now we're in control of the military, we're silencing media.
This is what you do in a dictatorship.
Are you suggesting that the president is not the commander-in-chief of the military?
I'm suggesting that the president is going to put in charge somebody who is going to contravene the Constitution.
And at some near point, this conversation will look very silly for you because it would be obvious.
And right now, you're gaslighting.
But when we get to the actual rubber of the road of this, it will be clear.
I'm interested in this conversation.
He's going to put someone in charge who will contravene the Constitution.
Like, who?
What do you mean by that?
The president is in charge of the military, is he not?
You said he's going to put someone in charge of the military?
The president is in charge of the military.
That is how it works.
He was elected president.
We, according to the Constitution, vest all executive authority in a president.
And the concept that the military should be an independent agency or that the bureaucracy should resist the political leadership of this government is extraordinarily dangerous.
That's literally not what we said.
I'm just repeating back to you your own words.
I did.
Guys, guys, this guy is an absolute gem, okay?
I'm a plus one, minus one guy.
Passionate, but not emotional.
If you watch my show, you get the distinction, okay?
And by the way, thank you to Barrett Media, Garrett Seawright, for writing a really, really nice article.
I deeply appreciate it.
It said, what radio hosts can learn from Bongino or something.
It talked about how...
Authentic, the show is.
That was really nice.
Being authentic is obviously authentic.
You don't really try.
You're authentic or you're not.
But I really appreciate that.
But this guy, Jennings, is a gem.
A couple things I want to point out.
How bad does it have to be on the panel when an obviously left-leaning host like Abby Phillips, who, you know, to her credit, she has Jennings on.
And, I mean, it gives her...
This is smart.
I mean, we used to have liberals on my show on Fox, unfiltered.
He used to call, remember the rebuttal?
He hated the rebuttal.
He hated it.
But I thought it was important on a show called Unfiltered to let liberals come on and say how they feel so that we could debate it.
So hat tip to her for having Jennings on.
But she's obviously left-leaning.
How bad does it have to be when she's even correcting the panel like, yeah, the president's in charge of the military.
Quote, that's how it works.
You're on, guys, listen, CNN. Still has an audience.
It's not a huge audience, but they have an audience.
It exists.
Imagine being on a national cable news network and saying something so ridiculous that we're in some kind of constitutional crisis because the president is managing the military and the FBI who fall underneath the management purview of the president.
Scott also has to read to them.
The Constitution.
The powers of the presidency delineated in the Constitution that the executive powers are vested in a president.
Not many presidents.
Not the president and an independent bureaucracy.
Not a president, independent agencies.
In a president.
That's in the actual Constitution.
Producer Jim has a copy on his desk.
There's an app for the Constitution, too.
I like the app.
It's easy to navigate through.
You can look up Article 1, Article 2 involving the presidency and Article 3 courts.
You can look it up, you know.
Oh, boy.
You know, the resistance this time, quote, quotes, has definitely been a little more muted compared to last time.
But I find the resistance this time to be so confused about the hills to die on, whether it's the Doge, Or the same fascist tyranny arguments they've been using forever which haven't worked and you lost an election on.
That it's almost turned into this like extinction burst of behavior we talk about all the time with the Coke machine.
You put a dollar in the Coke machine, you don't get a Coke and you just pound them.
They're just pounding the machine because they're not being rewarded by this.
But the change has been refreshing.
Folks, the W's, I tell you, I have always been proud of this amazing, unbelievable, incredible country full of patriots and entrepreneurs.
I mean, the United States is the beacon of freedom, man.
That flag, it's not a tablecloth.
You know, it's not a napkin.
The fabric part is irrelevant.
It's what it stands for that matters.
That's why I'm headed back.
But watching this change, I'd be lying to you if I said I didn't feel an elevated sense of pride.
In what this country did for itself in rescuing itself from all the horrors of the last administration.
The change has been incredible.
You want to see this?
You never see this in the last administration.
This is HUD Secretary Scott Turner, wonderful guy, at the president's first cabinet meeting yesterday, at the request of President Trump, starting off a cabinet meeting with a prayer.
What a refreshing change of direction.
Check this out.
Most importantly, where are you?
This is a gentleman who's going places, the head of HUD, and he's going to say, you all know him, and you're going to say grace, and then we'll have our meeting.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you for this awesome privilege, Father, to be in your presence.
God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day.
The Bible says that your mercies are new every morning.
And, Father God, we give you the glory and the honor.
Thank you, God, for President Trump, Father, for appointing us.
Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job.
Father, we pray you'll give the president, the vice president, wisdom.
Father God, as they lead.
Father, I pray for all of my colleagues that are here around the table and in this room.
Lord God, we pray that we would lead with a righteous clarity.
Father God, as we serve the people of this country in every prospective agency, every job that we have.
Father, we would humble ourselves before you.
I see all of you, man.
There were a lot of comments in the chat.
You guys are frying the chat.
God bless him.
Poving81, praise God for this moment.
You guys are great.
Dino Ray, amen.
Dems are whack jobs.
Awesome.
I love you guys, man.
I think you get what I get.
Folks, the Constitution is not freedom from religion.
It's freedom of religion.
Scott Turner and President Trump are free to pray as they wish.
And man, I'm going to tell you, I've always been proud of this place.
Always.
Even despite our ups and downs, poor leadership, terrible Democrats and Republicans in charge.
However, I'd be lying to you if I said over the last month or so, I think you guys feel the same.
That there's a...
We stepped it up, man.
We stepped it up.
And stuff is finally getting done.
Stuff we've only talked about for a really long time.
And again, I'd be remiss if we did not recognize the efforts of President Trump and Elon Musk to finally do what a lot of Republicans for decades were afraid to do, which is call out the real problem.
You know what?
I hate to go out of order, guys.
That Axios floater I had, can you throw that in there?
You know what I'm talking about, right?
I threw this in there this morning.
The Democrats, even Axios, which is a left-leaning outlet, let's be candid about it, okay?
Axios, even this morning, whether they meant to do it or not, kind of implicitly recognized what Donald Trump and Elon are telling you, that we don't have a tax problem, folks.
Our tax revenue every year to the government, Even if you're a believer in big, high, confiscatory tax rates.
I am not.
I am not.
But if you are, you're still winning.
Tax revenue keeps going up.
Here's Axios this morning.
Mike Allen.
What's that?
He hates it.
I love it.
This is a good...
Since Trump signed his 2017 tax, basically tax cut into law, deficits are up 248%.
So any growth they helped achieve has been swamped by spending.
Folks, you guys really need to, McGrane crew, P1s out there, Bongino Army folks, screenshot this and paste it to your door.
Is he not telling you what I've been telling you for the 10 years I've been doing this podcast?
The tax rates at this point will, within a certain band, will almost always follow Hauser's law.
You will get roughly the same amount as a percentage of GDP. Because as the taxes go higher, people just do more things to avoid paying taxes.
Tax evasion is a crime.
Clear as day.
Tax avoidance is an American pastime.
Folks, that's why people hire accountants.
How do I avoid this?
Legally.
How do I avoid that?
Legally.
That's what they do.
Keep that up for a second.
Screenshot this.
Get a back tattoo of this.
Fact checkers.
They've been swamped by spending.
They're basically admitting it doesn't matter what you tax people.
The government just keeps spending more money.
That's why this clip, Trump and Elon Musk, at the cabinet meeting yesterday, is so important.
Folks, the message has to get out there.
That even if you're a big government guy or gal out there, I'm not.
Even if you are, you have lost the initiative.
You have lost the story.
Even Axios is admitting this now.
We just spend too much money.
Watch this.
V2. We're cutting down government.
We're cutting down the size of government.
We have to.
We're bloated.
We're sloppy.
We have a lot of people that aren't doing their job.
We have a lot of people that don't exist.
When you have the megaphone like President Trump, it is so critical you get this message out there.
Folks, remember the third party thing.
I get it.
If you love big government, that argument that we're too bloated, we're too big, we're spending too much money.
Spending is taxation, by the way.
It's either taxation now or taxation in the future.
I get it.
It's falling on deaf ears with a lot of people who fall on the left side of the political spectrum.
I understand that.
But remember my third party theory.
It doesn't matter.
There's always a third party listening who's not a Democrat or Republican.
Maybe they're an independent.
They're just scrolling through Twitter one day and they see this.
And maybe they hear this by President Trump.
And maybe they start looking this up themselves.
And they say, you know what?
These crazy conservatives are right.
Tax revenue keeps going up and up and up and up.
And yet the deficits keep getting worse and worse and worse and worse.
Meaning we have a government spending problem.
Folks, we're in the danger zone.
There's a body of research out there, and it's been called into question about the specifics of it, but the results of it are pretty robust.
Once you hit a debt level where we're floating in government debt at about 100% of GDP, which we are way over when you factor in entitlements, way over.
Folks, growth just grinds to a halt.
We have got to fix this.
It is not an issue for tomorrow.
Stupid kick the can down the road.
It's an issue for now.
There's only power in now.
We've got to do it now.
And this is one of the reasons you're seeing some folks in the media try to draw divisions and cleave a big division between President Trump and Elon.
I'm telling you, I know this from friends of mine in the administration.
It is not going to happen.
These guys respect each other.
All of your articles out there, President Elon trying to get into President Trump's head, they are absolutely falling on deaf ears.
How many times is he going to have to re-litigate this, his support for what Elon's doing, before you realize it's a dead end?
We know what you're doing.
V3, Trump with the cabinet.
Check this out.
President Trump put out a truth social today saying that everybody in the Cabinet was happy with you.
I just wondered if you had heard otherwise and if you had heard anything about members of the Cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going.
And if so, what are you doing to address any dissatisfaction?
Let the Cabinet speak just for a second.
Is anybody unhappy with Elon?
If you are, we'll throw him out of here.
Is anybody unhappy?
We have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this.
And some disagree a little bit, but I will tell you, for the most part, I think everyone's not only happy, they're thrilled.
So, I'm just taking a note here, Guy.
I think you should.
Guy says you need to talk about something like Star Wars.
He's been here the longest.
He's got seniority, so.
I feel like even I work for Guy at this point.
I better say that.
Do you get the point there?
You see what they're doing now?
What is my kind of golden rule of left-wing media analysis of things?
Be careful and learn the distinction between being told a story and the story.
A story you're being told is President Elon is taking over the cabinet.
Now we're moving on to the cabinet.
President Trump is in danger.
They're trying to play into everybody's ego.
The cabinet, you guys have no authority.
Elon's taking it from you.
You see what they're trying to do?
The story is quite different.
He has President Trump's back.
These cabinet officials understand Elon's not in charge.
President Trump is.
But Elon considers himself kind of like tech support.
And the president, as the executive, has the power to do this.
Biden and Obama have always appointed advisors.
There's nothing new here.
I want you to understand that.
You're being told a story.
Now they're moving on to the cabinet, try to get cabinet officials to leak behind.
It's not going to happen.
We don't like Elon.
It's a fake WWE fight.
It's not going to happen.
Guy asked me to kind of clear up what's going on with Silverlock.
Folks, Silverlock is going to be the new company.
There are a lot of ethics laws which we're obviously going to comply with, dotted I's, cross T's.
So I have to divorce myself from the company.
So we're going to move the company.
It's going to be relabeled Silverlock, but nothing is going to change on the tech side.
Don't worry about the Rumble Channel and things like that, but I can't be involved with it for ethics reasons.
I hope you understand.
So Silverlock, you'll see it right there.
And you see my face on there for now, although if you could cut my face out again, I'd really appreciate it.
That is not, is it definitely a face for radio?
You see Evita, Haley, Karania, her show starting.
I think she already moved.
I think she's down here.
I was kidding again, but you guys are fast.
So there's Evita, Haley, and we've got a number of surprises.
But this is going to be, thank you guys, but this will still be your home.
It'll just be a company run, as it always has been, by Paula, and I won't be having any input.
I hope to see you guys on the other side.
But silverlock.com if you want updates.
Silver, L-O-C-H, silverlock.com.
It'll give you all the updates and you'll see.
It's not going to change much for you guys.
It'll change a lot for me.
So thank you for asking that question.
Guy's been monitoring the chat.
All right, quick break and I'm going to get back to this showing you how we are on the path, ladies and gentlemen, to almost certain mathematical bankruptcy if we don't course correct quick.
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Folks, the country, I just told you before, the numbers don't lie.
When you hit this massive tidal wave of debt that equals 100% of your GDP, without talking an economic wonkery, you know, you guys get it, you're smart.
It's the equivalent of, say your salary is $80,000 a year.
Doing okay, you're not doing great, but you're doing okay.
You're supporting a couple of kids, you get to take a vacation.
If you owed $80,000 a year, and you cannot keep up with the interest payments at all, So that you're barely paying down the interest so the principal keeps building because the interest is getting piled in, right?
You are in a lot of fiscal trouble.
That is the tipping point.
That's where we are right now.
I'm not trying to scare you, provoke anxiety, because panic, you don't want to, the bed rhymes with hit, that's no good.
Never do that.
Don't panic.
But knowledge is power.
We are at the tipping point now.
We could be looking at a really dangerous scenario if we don't get this under control.
Elon's a smart guy.
Guy sends rockets into space, catches them with those chopsticks things on the way back.
He reinvented the car market.
He's not dumb.
He understands the simple math of this.
Here he is, V4. Elon's talking about his goal.
He wants to stop the country from going bankrupt.
This isn't hard.
Check this out.
The overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address the enormous deficit.
We simply cannot sustain, as a country, $2 trillion deficits.
The interest rates, just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department's spending.
We spend a lot on the Defense Department.
We're spending like over a trillion dollars on interest.
If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.
It's not an optional thing.
It is an essential thing.
That's the reason I'm here.
I do it every time because I've only got a couple weeks left with you guys before I engage in this new mission here.
Do you guys hate these economic segments?
No, let's make it easy.
Yes, you like them.
So why or yes?
Or no, I hate them.
Because I've got two weeks left and I'm really fascinated by this stuff.
And the only reason I'm fascinated by it is the answers are so easy.
The implementation is hard.
I understand getting the media and Congress to act.
And bureaucrats and lobbyists to act because they're all feeding from the government trough.
I understand that that's hard.
Wow, man, this chat is like...
Chris at Rumble tells me we melt the chat like no one else.
Okay, wow, good.
Thank you.
The answer is so simple.
It is actually this simple.
Notice I hate literal.
It is actually this simple.
Just stop spending a lot of money.
That's it.
Because if we grow at 2% or 3% and our debt only grows at 1%, then we will eventually at some point mathematically get ahead of the debt.
But we're not doing it.
It's really stunning.
I played the bankruptcy win.
So when we talk about this bloated federal bureaucracy, queue up for me if you would, V5, there is a reason Elon, OPM, the Doge, and President Trump, who's in charge of all of this, he's the country's chief executive.
You saw the constitutional lesson by the great Scott Jennings in the beginning, okay?
When they sent out an email to federal employees saying, hey man, can you just list five things you did?
Basically, all you had to do was hit reply.
You could have put a character in there.
They would have at least known you were watching your email.
This is not a winner to the Democrats out there attacking Elon and Doge and the team and OPM for doing this.
Trust me when I tell you.
I'm not here for political advice, especially moving forward.
I'm just telling you, this is a loser of an argument because every American that works for a living at some point has had to tell their boss or show their boss, here's what I did today.
Everyone.
Check this out.
About half of the government employees so far appear to have responded to your request for what they've been doing over the past week.
Is there a timeline in place for next moves for people being fired?
And when can the American people expect to see results of that?
Yes.
Well, to be clear, I think that email perhaps was best interpreted as a performance review.
But actually, it was a pulse check review.
Do you have a pulse?
Do you have a pulse and two neurons?
So if you have a pulse and two neurons, you can reply to an email.
This is, you know, I think not a high bar, is what I'm saying.
This is, should be, anyone could accomplish this?
But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll It's all you had to do, man.
All you had to do.
You realize your five things, you probably could have responded back.
Barney, Power Rangers, the Flintstones.
It doesn't matter.
No one was reading it.
I sincerely doubt someone at OPM was going to go through every email and wrote, hey, Guy wrote back that he fixed Wirecast yesterday, did training at the news studio, moved some of the objects and cameras over, debugged the system.
No one was reading that.
They just wanted you to reply to make sure you weren't dead because...
One of the golden rules of the Dan Bongino show is don't get dead.
Wait, I know we got to take a break.
Yes, we got to.
Where's that Kim Strassel thing?
Can we put that up there now?
I know I'm going all out of order, but this is so important.
I'm on the air yesterday on radio.
You want to see how inefficient your government is, however bad you think it is.
I promise you it's worse, okay?
Kim Strassel has this piece up, 12 Things.
She writes on Wednesday and Thursday.
I like Kim's work.
Again, it's not a big MAGA person, but that's okay.
You've got to get a wide variety of ideas in there.
She has this piece up called We Pay Dead People.
Yes.
And in the piece, there is apparently, folks, I don't know if you knew this, there's a death file.
And a master death file in the government.
In other words, who's dead?
And she writes, while Social Security does mistakenly pay out beneficiaries, the IG reports that many of the $72 billion in improper payments was overpayments to living people.
Okay, fair enough.
Good to know.
I like facts.
So she goes on.
I was totally unaware of this.
Part two of that one.
That there's a master death file, apparently.
And look at this.
Read this.
You want to like pull your hair out?
With me, it's hard and so sure.
You wouldn't want to do it anyway.
What is that called?
Is that trichotillomania for you psychology majors in there?
I forget it, but they come back to my psych days.
The far bigger problem is that the Treasury Department until recently did not have access to Social Security's master basically death list.
So was unable to add the names to a do not pay system which other agencies use.
She writes checks to pay heating costs, housing subsidies, disability insurance, pensions, farming, Medicaid, Medicare, disaster aid.
She goes on and on.
The Treasury Department, up until recently, had no access to this death list at all.
Folks, how many of you out there run a small, medium, or large business?
Can you imagine having an employee who quits and is dead and they're still getting an employment check and nobody picks it up?
I mean, it's tough.
Yeah, play it, play it.
Play it.
Play this video.
Check this out.
I did see this one.
Play it.
3.9 million people are on the age of Social Security from 130 years old to 139 years old.
Now, the all-time record I heard is a woman.
She was 127 years old.
That's the record.
A woman from a certain country where they have actually people that live pretty long, actually.
And she was 127 years old.
That's pretty old.
But we're topping her by millions.
3.5 million people from the age 140 to 149 years old.
1.3 30 million people are on Social Security from the age 150 to 159. And over 130,000 people are on Social Security over the age of 160 years old.
Okay?
Including 1,039 people.
Think of it.
Over 1,000 people between the ages of 220 to 229. And one person...
Between the age of 240 years old to 249. And the record topper, there is one person on Social Security who's 360 years old, which is approximately 110 years older than our country.
That's impressive, man.
I mean, 360 years old.
Now, the Democrats' defense to this has been, oh, they're not payments going out to those people.
The database is just so antiquated, old, and inefficient that it doesn't remove those people from the list.
That's your defense?
That a 360-year-old is still in a database you're trying to manage to pay living people Social Security?
What is that person?
Lestat?
Tom Cruise from Interview from a Vampire?
What are they doing to live that long?
Sauna?
Cold plunge?
Collagen?
NAD injections?
Botox?
What is happening?
Gene therapy?
I'd love to know.
I just watched that Nosferatu.
Are they Nosferatu?
Your defense is that the government just doesn't have a database efficient enough to get dead people off of a payments list from a program going bankrupt that people live on and need?
That's your defense.
It's sad, man.
I mean, sad.
We gotta clean this mess up.
We got two years to do it before the midterms.
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Folks, Jasmine Crockett has been the gift that keeps on giving up in Congress.
Some of the stuff she says is borderline ridiculous.
I mean, sometimes you have to wonder if this is a comedy act or not.
Here's Jasmine Crockett, Democrat member of Congress.
Amazingly correlating the Donald Trump peace talks with the launch of World War III. I don't know how this connection was made, but magically she manages to do it.
Check this out.
Instead, we're pushing conspiracy theories and some of them are killing people.
It's the same thing that we have coming out of Doge.
It's the reason that people are dying.
It's the reason that farmers are losing their farms because we continue to peddle conspiracy theories.
It is time for us to say, Mr. President.
Guess what?
Russia invaded Ukraine.
Can we at least agree on that one?
Facts matter.
Y'all, this is literally potentially putting us into an international crisis.
We may be heading towards the next world war because we have a president that wants to pal around with Putin and wants to do everything to make him feel good, including lying about who invaded who.
Now, J.D. Vance, who is a remarkable vice presidential candidate with political messaging talents, we haven't seen since a guy named Donald Trump, and they make for the perfect kind of foil to each other, given their presentation styles, although getting the same message across.
J.D. Vance addressed this very same topic, too.
It's really shocking how the formerly...
Dove kind of peacenik left and media people who painted George W. Bush as a warmonger for Iraq and elsewhere.
Whether you agreed with it or not, you can go back and look that stuff up.
There were leftist operations like Code Pink.
I remember, I was an agent when it was happening.
They would show up at every site on the corner with the signs, you know, free to protest all you want.
But it's remarkable how the media back then...
And the Iraq War seemed to be interested in a more dovish approach to foreign policy.
And now you've got Donald Trump saying something very simple.
Hey, listen, Russia's basically a nuclear-powered opponent with the United States, but there are common interests, whether you like them or not.
Something that came up recently.
This is important.
Pay attention to this.
This is really important.
The development in the Arctic.
In disputed areas, disputed because some people are claiming it in some countries that probably don't have a solid legal claim.
However, there are a lot of resources up there.
And with technology, the ability to get at those resources is going to require, at some point, diplomacy.
This is just a fact.
So Donald Trump is saying, hey, given that we were in a complicated world where there's a lot of gray and not everything is black and white, It's probably best to talk to this nuclear-powered opponent of ours in many ways, rather than engage in nuclear war.
Which is really shocking, because as you heard with Jasmine Crockett, she's making the opposite claim.
That somehow talking to Putin and trying to get some resolution on these complicated problems is somehow an off-ramp to war?
It doesn't make any sense.
Vice President Vance handled this perfectly in the cabinet meeting yesterday, addressing this exact same point with the media.
Please show us how what we're doing.
Traditional diplomacy.
I mean, remember, it was Hillary Clinton with the reset button, with Sergey Lavrov and the Russians.
They tried to...
Why now, all of a sudden, is it so different?
Check this out.
As the president said, we're not going to do the negotiation in public with the American media.
He's going to do it in private with the president of Russia, with the president of Ukraine, and with other leaders.
And I think that's how this has to go.
I think the...
I just want to push back against some of the criticism I've seen in the administration on this because every single time the president engages in diplomacy, you guys preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia.
He hasn't conceded anything to anyone.
He's doing the job of a diplomat.
And he is, of course, the diplomat in chief as the president of the United States.
That's what the president does as the chief executive.
Just like a CEO negotiates on behalf of the business.
Vice President Vance is 100% correct.
Folks, I am a realist on foreign policy.
We have a lot of foreign policy professionals on both sides when we negotiate that are looking out for their own countries near mercenary interest.
Donald Trump is starting to see through that.
And he's saying, well, we need to kind of be the same way.
We have to view this as a plus one, minus one.
Not everything is black or white here.
Perfect example was a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By the way, folks, an umbrella policy I supported.
I didn't think we should have been in Afghanistan as long as we were.
Just my humble opinion.
I spent some time in Afghanistan.
I'm not pretending to be chief negotiator for our Afghan policy or anything like that.
But I've been over there and I've seen both Kabul.
I saw Bagram before President Biden pulled out and abandoned Bagram.
And what happened is it resulted in the death and the collapse of a government right there and the death of American heroes in our military.
Secretary Hegg says had enough of that.
And he is going to engage in an investigation on this, if you watched the cabinet meeting yesterday.
And the answer I'd like, everybody paying attention, this is important, and Secretary Haig said, I know is on this, is why did we abandon Bagram Air Base?
Folks, if you've ever been there, it was a fortress military facility.
Fortress.
If you're talking about military facilities, this was the gold standard.
Why would you abandon your castle first to go and defend a basically indefensible city in the middle of Kabul?
It made no sense.
And everybody warned Biden against it.
That's the question I want answered.
Listen to Secretary Hanks talk about this.
Doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountabilities.
It's one of the first things we announced at the Defense Department for that reason, sir.
Certainly, General Raisin Cain, who's on his way in.
It was not a part of that.
Instead, it was a part of leading the effort against ISIS by untying the hands of warfighters and finishing the job properly and then bringing our troops home.
So we're taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration, and there will be full accountability.
I don't see big promotions in that group.
I think they're going to be largely gone.
I know the man on my left.
I think they're going to be largely gone.
That was a horrible display.
And, you know, I've dealt with the parents and the family.
The 13 that were killed.
But, you know, nobody ever talks about the 40 that were so badly hurt with the arms and the legs and the face and the whole thing, the missing arms and legs.
It was so terrible.
This is what I'm talking about.
Donald Trump, the pragmatist, the spreadsheets guy.
He can't figure out why you would do something so contradictory to the mission.
Hey, we need to get out of Afghanistan, which is something he was pretty much committed to.
But you don't just walk away and leave a military facility abandoned with your assets, allow the enemy to take it, and then try to defend an indefensible city.
I mean, that's pretty much common sense, isn't it?
By the way, I'm reading all your stuff in the chat.
And guys, yes, I promise you.
You know, I'm committed to this.
I'm seeing your questions.
And I'm totally picking up what you're putting down.
I got you.
Don't sweat it, man.
I read everything.
And I appreciate being...
I know I keep bringing it up.
I'm sorry.
But I've only got a few shows left with you guys.
And it is as bitter, sweet, as anything I've ever experienced.
I have this range of emotion.
By the way, I did get some sleep last night.
I said on the radio show, I was really having, for the first time in a while, I was having problems sleeping at night.
I was getting up and there's so much I want to change and do in this new position with Director Patel at the FBI that I'm getting up in the middle of the night and I have this notebook and I'm on like page 10 right now of notes and ideas I have.
You know, everything from recruitment to morale building to, you know, just dramatic change and I don't want to miss any of it.
Little red notebook like this.
And last night, I think my body just gave up.
I've been sleeping basically three hours a night.
And as you can tell by today's show, where I think I seem a little more bubbly, I came into today's show all ready to go.
I probably slept 10 hours last night.
I was out.
I woke up.
I keep the phone away from my head because I don't like going off in the middle of the night.
And that's going to change.
And I saw it said 5.17.
I was like, yes!
Finally.
I've been waking up, it was like 2 o'clock in the morning.
You see a 2 or a 3, no dice.
Folks, you know what a tautology is?
You're smart.
You know what it is.
Tautology is just basically a statement of truth on its face that shouldn't require repeating a tautological statement.
When you learn to see these tautologies, these tautological statements, you'll notice that the media does them all the time.
They're so ridiculous that it's the kind of thing when you see it, you can't unsee it.
Now, the only reason I'm saying it is it's meant to sound like a deep thought.
Let me give you an example.
Something like, young people are the future.
Yeah!
I get it.
That's an obvious chronological fact of time.
But people say it, and lesser minds will be like, wow, that's deep.
I promise you, it's not.
Why am I bringing that up?
He's like, you got to throw this one in the show.
Politico.
Trump administration fires early career federal workers.
It could alter the future of government.
Can you just leave that up?
Can we savor this one for a second?
He did.
Guy fought for this hard.
Guy fought for this almost as almost.
As he fought for the Kathleen Kennedy leaving Star Wars thing, he was like, he even wrote on my rundown sheet, which is like a major no-no.
He's like, must cover.
Trump administration fires early career workers.
It could alter the future.
The headline.
It's an actual headline.
Careful there.
I almost turned it into an accident.
By the way, not everyone, I want you to...
It's critical we learn, and everybody, me included, and we'll get really good at this.
When you start learning how to read headlines like this, which happened for me over the course of 10 years, you just kind of laugh.
Like, this is what a ridiculous headline.
Of course, again, that's like young people are the future.
But learn the distinction also between being told a story and the story.
A story you're typically being told by a lot of people in the media is rarely the actual story.
So a story you're being told now...
Is that the American public is in revolt.
Town halls are going crazy.
They want this bloated government.
This is a great thing.
We shouldn't be looking into any of this.
Here is a relatively left-leaning show, but very, very popular.
It's called The Breakfast Club.
One of the hosts is Charlemagne.
You've probably heard about him.
I want you to listen to this caller that calls into this show, claims to be a federal employee.
And this did not go as people expected if you're from the left.
This is the story, not a story.
Check this out.
Hello?
Hey, good morning.
What's your name?
Yes, good morning.
I want to stay anonymous, but I do work for the federal government.
All right.
Can you tell us where?
Yes, in Florida.
Miami, Florida.
No, I mean, like, what branch?
Like, what are you doing?
Oh, Department of Human Services.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, what's up?
How are you feeling?
Did you get one of those emails?
Talk to us.
Yes, I got the email, and I honestly feel like this is a great opportunity to outline what you as an employee bring to the federal government.
And if it's really good what you outline, they could give you an opportunity to get a promotion or something.
Like, God forbid, they ask you what you've done.
Any other job, they'll ask you at the end of the week, at the end of the month.
Because I used to do bookkeeping.
Okay, so what do we do, you know, at the end of the month?
What are the clients that we have to, you know, gear towards to?
So at the end of the day, God forbid anybody make any, and it's a democratic thing.
It's like, I don't want to get the parties into it, but they don't want to go to work.
They want to work from home.
People are not working from home.
You know, this is what you signed up for.
If you don't like it, resign.
Can't say it much straighter than that.
If you don't like it, resign.
Folks, again, a story and the story are not the same thing.
I'm seeing it now.
You know, again, with my name being in the news cycle, the questions we're getting are so preposterous, you realize that they're not really trying to tell the story.
I had to send over my bio and everything today in regards to the new position.
And as I was typing it out, I'm like, you don't have to like it, but just tell the truth about it.
And they just refuse to do it because they have this kind of preconceived notion of any conservative that agrees to serve in government that the motives have to be malicious.
And once you have that preconceived notion in your head, it is hard to write a story with even a modicum of fairness to it, which is part of the game, but shouldn't be.
All right, folks, I appreciate you tuning in.
Expect these shows to get harder and harder as we close down.
As I transition the business over the course of the next two weeks over to a different company, Silverlock, which will be run by Paula, I really appreciate it.
Evita's show will not be changing.
Haley's show, which will be launching soon, Haley Karania.
By the way, she's up to, I think, 30,000 or something followers.
You can follow Evita's show, Rumble.com.
You see it on the screen right now, Rumble.com slash Evita.
And we will announce a URL at Rumble for Haley's show soon, but give her a follow on X. It's H-A-Y-L-E-Y-C-A-R-O-N-I-A. I think we, like, five X'd her followers, so she's great.
You're going to absolutely love her.
I can't wait.
And if you want to see what's ahead for this media company we built that I'll be divorcing myself from in the very near future, SilverLock.com.
SilverLock, L-O-C-H.com.
Oh, really?
Thank God.
Thank the Lord.
Thank you, God.
I don't use his name in vain.
We had like an internet meltdown in the studio this morning.
And Michael said it right.
There are problems and there are problems.
No internet, no show.
We can do a show with no camera.
Michael can pull out his cell phone and we can do a show.
No internet, no show.
So we fixed that, thankfully.
I'll see you guys on the radio show here in a little bit on Rumble and back here tomorrow at 11 a.m.
Love you guys.
You have no idea.
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