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Feb. 28, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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America Is Back In The World Stage, And We Love To See It (Ep. 2433) - 02/28/2025
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Thank you.
You know, you guys catch it?
Do you know what I forgot to do before the show?
I forgot my 10 air squats.
Hey, man, you want a quick life hack?
I'm serious.
I'm not even messing with you.
Before you're about to go into a meeting, I mean, you probably don't want to do it in front of people.
You get the point, but whatever.
Go to the bathroom and do whatever.
Do 10 air squats if you don't have bad knees or anything.
And it clears your head right away.
I forgot my head.
You know what it is?
Because my head's so clear I didn't think of it.
Usually I'm groggy in the morning.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm wearing jeans today.
You want to see?
Check it out.
I usually wear like...
I got the white shirt on again because I'm going out with Paula tonight.
And she likes the white shirt.
So, if you like the white shirt in the chat, let us know.
If you want to vote it down, we'll throw it in the dustbin for the next two weeks while we're with each other.
Ladies and gentlemen, before I even get started, I'm obviously not in the FBI yet.
I do not start for another two weeks.
Those are two completely distinct and different roles.
They are separate.
I am still a political opinion host on this podcast.
I've treated it as such.
I will treat my FBI position the exact opposite way.
I am not a partisan individual in that job.
There is going to be a...
It's not a fine line.
It is a bold line.
I am not there yet.
I appreciate the comments in the chat.
I've been watching them.
But Bongino rule, please.
I am not there.
I have not been...
Just...
The Bongino rule applies.
I'm not there.
I am still the humble host of the Dan Bongino show while we wind down the business.
I didn't want to leave you cold.
They're two separate enterprises.
Do you guys get where I'm going with this?
Bongino, I saw someone in the chat.
I thank you, Anita.
The best there.
Say, I'm not there yet till the 17th.
Cash has got it.
Attorney General Bondi have got it.
Bongino rule.
That's all I'm asking.
And I say that as a commentator.
Not as the soon-to-be FBI deputy director.
I want to be clear on that.
There's two separate roles.
All right?
Bongino role.
Applies to Bongino, too.
The Bongino.
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All right, fellas, let's go there.
There's that bell.
I'm obviously going to miss you guys the most and my crew, although I will see them as they run other shows.
I mean, they're down here in Florida.
It's not like I'm disappearing, going to Mars or something.
But I'm going to tell you, that bell in the morning, I know it's showtime, it's game time.
You know what?
I may put the Kenny bell.
Can I take the Kenny bell?
You guys know the story of the Kenny bell?
A guy named Kenny sent us this bell for when the bell would crap out.
It actually works.
I'm going to have to hit the Kenny bell myself to get everything going in the morning.
So thank you, Kenny, if you're still out there.
If you're in the chat, let us know.
Is that right?
I do.
I know.
I know.
I'm going to have someone come in and bang that thing.
Folks, listen.
One thing about Donald Trump.
I say it all the time.
This guy is so underestimated on the political front.
I'm not telling you everything's 4D chess.
I'm not telling you the guy's one of the Avengers.
I'm just telling you he has unbelievable political diplomacy negotiating skills that are so frequently overlooked.
That it's hilarious to watch people who've gotten it wrong for years on foreign policy.
For years!
They're in think tanks, they're PhDs, they're geopolitical international diplomacy experts with air quotes.
For years, they've told us, don't relocate the embassy to Jerusalem.
You're never going to get a deal without the Palestinians.
China's going to be fine if you let them in the WTO. The EU is going to support NATO with 2% of GDP. They have been wrong on just about everything.
You give me 10 big foreign policy prescriptions by so-called geopolitical diplomacy experts, 12 of them are wrong out of 10. But there's only 10. Exactly.
That's my point.
President Trump has this unique ability to just kind of like, Stephen King's not a big fan of mine, obviously.
You remember the mist?
He just like parts the mist and gets right to the point.
So this happened yesterday.
Keir Starmer, who is the new Prime Minister of the UK, was at the White House.
Because they need the United States, the United Kingdom.
We need them for trade, too.
We're not on an island here in the United States by ourselves.
And Donald Trump gets that.
And did you ever notice when he has a foreign leader in the White House, he always does this white-glove treatment?
Let me tell you something.
And Guy, shut me up if I'm going too long.
He stops me.
I'm going to tell you something about this guy personally, the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Listen close here.
I'm not telling you I'm his best friend.
I'm not name-dropping.
You sound like a jerk when you say that.
But I've been around him in private enough.
He has a near magical ability to make the person standing in front of him always feel like the most special person in the room.
You ask anyone who's been around him.
Nobody does it like him.
He took the honey out yesterday.
And made this relationship again work, and we need it.
Here he is, though, also dropping the hammer here a little bit, talking about tariffs and how it's going to work right in front of the UK Prime Minister.
Check this out.
To persuade you not to put tariffs on the UK. He tried.
He was working hard, I'll tell you that.
He yearned whatever the hell they pay him over there.
But he tried.
I think there's a very good chance that in the case of these two great, friendly countries, I think we could very well end up with a real trade deal where the tariffs wouldn't be necessary.
We'll see.
But he earned whatever they pay him here and today.
He was working hard at lunch.
Thank you, Sean Cash.
Love the white shirt.
Someone asked, is it date night?
Of course, it's one of our last ones.
So, of course it is.
That's why.
Do you get why this clip is so important to open up the show?
Folks, we don't cover a ton of foreign policy on the show.
Why?
Because there's so much going on domestically.
I'd like to take care of issues in the United States first.
However, listen to me.
Beam in.
This segment is not about foreign policy.
It's about Donald Trump, the negotiator.
The left wants you to believe and tell you a story that Donald Trump is some unhinged negotiating lunatic.
Who fires off ridiculous things and doesn't mean anything.
No, I promise you, he means a lot of it.
He is very seriously considering a bold tariff agenda as a negotiating tool.
I'm not a huge fan of tariffs.
I've said that over and over.
But if we can use it to reduce tariffs as a negotiating tool, which I believe in the end we're going to get to, they can be effective.
But did you notice when he's got Keir Starmer in front of him?
Who is, by the way, a...
Pretty devout, left-leaning guy.
He's not one of us in the MAGA movement.
He's certainly not a conservative populist by any respect.
But do you see how the guy who's supposedly an unhinged lunatic is out there and right in front of the media and the United Kingdom press that's watching this, he manages to kind of dial down the temperature just enough that they know he's serious about tariffs, but that he's a negotiator too?
Does that make sense?
I'm telling you the truth.
I'm telling you, the tariffs may not happen.
It's up to him, it's not up to us, and he's going to work that out with the U.S. trade rep and everyone else, Howard Letnick over at Commerce, Besant over at Treasury.
But don't fall in this leftist trap where you get caught every single time falling for every true social post as if he isn't using it as a tactical negotiating tactic.
I'm going to leave that part there.
Here's Donald Trump again yesterday at the meeting, echoing words of Ronald Reagan, one of my favorite presidents, the trust but verify front.
Again, I thought Donald Trump is an unhinged lunatic.
This is what the left wants you to believe.
He sounds very Reagan-esque here, talking about, hey, listen, I'm willing to negotiate with Russia.
Hey guys, who in the chat, you guys 50 or above or 40 or above, do you remember this president called Ronald Reagan, double R? You do?
Pretty popular guy.
Won two massive elections.
You think he negotiated with the Soviet Union at the time?
No, no.
Did you read a history book?
Him negotiating with Gorbachev?
How are you going to get anything done if you're not talking to these people?
If you can explain that to me, like I'm a 12-year-old, I'd appreciate it.
Hey, we're going to get, here's what we need.
We're going to get to the end of the highway.
Here's what we want from them.
But we're not going to drive there?
Here's Trump echoing the words of Ronald Reagan that, hey, I'm willing to negotiate with Putin, but we're going to trust but verify.
Listen to this.
This is very important.
Check this out.
You know, it's trust and verify.
Let's call it that.
And I think we both can be that way.
You have to verify because you never know what's going to happen.
I know a lot of people that you would say no chance that they would ever deceive you.
And they're the worst people in the world.
I know others that you would guarantee they would deceive you.
And you know what?
They're 100 percent honorable.
So you never know what you're getting.
No, I have confidence that if we make a deal, it's going to hold.
Listen, there's two points and takeaways from this.
Number one, Donald Trump understands that we need certain things from people.
One of them are rare earth minerals.
This deal in Ukraine over rare earths is a huge W for us.
We need those rare earths, folks.
We cannot function as an advanced economy without them.
You want them from China or you want them from Ukraine?
He also knows Vladimir Putin does not want this deal.
Why does Vladimir Putin, folks in the chat, not want us to do a business deal with Ukraine?
I told you this yesterday, because some of these mines are in areas that Russia would like to get their hands on.
They're going to have a really hard time taking these areas if we have an interest in the economic production of rare earths, because I can guarantee you Donald Trump is going to defend that.
Do you get where I'm going with this?
I have never seen a human being more underestimated in my life for his political skills than President Trump, ever.
And I get it.
You had lefties out there, folks in the swampy right that don't like Donald Trump.
No, President Trump and I have disagreed on a lot of issues.
Some on the show.
He's not the type of guy who you disagree with him, you're out of his inner circle.
Obviously, he's the one who selected me as the deputy director of the FBI. You don't have to agree with the guy and everything.
I just ask that you go into it with a clear head.
And don't take the other approach, you know, this guy's crazy.
How crazy is he?
How crazy is the deal where we say, Ukraine, you got something we need, rare earths.
We have something you need, weapons.
Russia does not like this deal.
We don't like that Russia's keeping this war ongoing.
I've got a bargaining chip against Putin, this rare earth deal in Ukraine, and I'm going to use it.
And then I'm going to go to Putin, and Putin may say, well, you got to deal with Ukraine?
Well, we have rare earths too.
Maybe we can do a deal with you.
Good trade, ladies and gentlemen, makes good partners.
It's really hard to enter into World War III with a country you have a significant economic interest in.
It's one of the reasons China, by the way, I'm not telling you we're not going to, I hope we don't, but it's one of the reasons China's going to have to think twice about starting a conflict with us.
They have trillions of dollars of U.S. assets that would collapse if they start World War III. I'm not telling you it's going to stop him.
I'm telling you it's going to make him think twice.
Trump is smarter than most of his critics.
That's the irony of this whole thing.
But they're not going to get stepped on either.
So I gave you a little bit of the honey up front where he does this thing where he dials the temperature down in front of people.
He lets the United Kingdom press see we're not the enemy, but we're serious about our negotiations.
Brilliant.
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
You remember the old tune from the name?
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
That's what he does, and he does better than anyone.
Here's J.D. Vance, our vice president, who's letting Keir Starmer from the United Kingdom know that their ongoing attacks on free speech, which are serious, folks, people showing up about online posts, that that's not going to be accepted either.
And Vice President Vance, and I'm sure all these President Trump knew exactly where Vice President Vance was going to go with this.
They made sure to get this in front of an international audience.
That's not acceptable either.
They are not going to be stepped on either.
Check this out.
We do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies.
But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.
So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
That was not an accident.
You see how Vice President Vance does it, too?
He starts with the honey.
Hey, I know we have a special relationship.
I get that.
But we need to talk about this free speech item, which is a really, really big deal.
Producer Jim, where was free speech in the Bill of Rights?
Was it like the sixth or seventh?
I'm confused.
I always forget.
Producer Jim says the first one!
It's the first one.
It's almost like...
The founding fathers, it's almost like they thought about that first.
Good job, Producer Jim.
I'm glad you had the copy of the Constitution on your desk.
The first one.
You don't have that, ladies and gentlemen.
You don't have anything.
And while I'm still in the last few weeks of the show, we have a couple weeks left with you here, while I'm still in my political opinion business role, I would be remiss if I did not cover the endless litany of winning that keeps coming out out of this White House.
And my gosh, I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying every minute of it.
Breaking yesterday from Nick Sorter on Twitter, President Trump and Secretary Rubio secured the extradition of 29 top cartel leaders from Mexico to the United States for prosecution.
Now, this means a lot to me.
Rafael Caro Quintero, who murdered a DEA agent, was just flown into New York and handed over.
Producer Jim told me that was the Kiki Camarena case, which I encourage you to look up.
It's a very disturbing story, a horrifying story, what happened.
But if you toy with our agents or our military, you're going to find out the hard way that we will never stop until we get you.
President Trump is as serious as a heart attack over this.
And this goes to show you again.
That all of the people out there, play that on VO so we can all kind of celebrate this wonderful moment together.
Here are some of the worst people in the world.
Video of them being brought to the United States where we know, now regardless of a change in power or anything, that these people are likely not going to make it out of prison.
I don't mean make it out of prison like they're going to be dead.
I mean, they will be locked up and not free to commit to their criminal enterprises again.
Folks, the guy's only been in office.
Are we at six weeks now?
It almost feels like dog years.
And I mean that as a compliment.
Does it not?
Guys, it feels like he's been in office five, six years at this point.
By the way, one quick thing before I take a break.
Have you ever seen a former president fall off the map as quickly as Joe Biden?
Have you heard a word from this guy?
I mean, I get they do the former president thing, but it's almost like that.
the presidency never happened folks Trump is about results This is what he wants.
He doesn't want talk.
He wants to do.
He's telling Mexico this is what has to get done.
Do it or this is going to happen.
He's not kidding.
Don't mistake maximalist rhetoric.
I hate the line and you should too.
Take Trump seriously but not literally.
No!
I promise, take him literally sometimes or you are going to get your negotiating caboose kicked.
There are times he is literally serious.
When he says tariffs, he means it.
It's not an effective negotiating tool if you don't mean it.
Quick break and we're going to get back to, gosh, the Alinsky principle here that they're using to just go after Elon Musk because they are so afraid.
Of just turning over this rock and looking at what government's been doing with your money?
The Alinsky principle.
I'm going to show it to you because once you see it, you can never unsee it.
You'll see how it's in effect now.
The left is, this is the hill they're going to die on.
They know this Elon effort to clean up government can't continue.
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Man, I'm telling you, sorry guys, but every show, I keep saying this bittersweet thing, and if I'm overusing it, just say shut up and get back to the content, but I'm really going to miss you guys a lot.
I so enjoy doing this, and every single day, every second now, I watch that clock tick down.
Every second, it's a pleasure to be here with you.
You guys and ladies have been so supportive of us, so I'm sorry.
I'm just going to say it as often as I can, because I really do love you guys.
So, the Saul Alinsky rule, number 13. Listen, this was a leftist organizer, Saul Alinsky, but that doesn't make the rules he propagated wrong.
Just because we disagreed with this politics.
This is an effective target to really propagate a story rather than a story.
I hate to say it, but to hurt someone.
I don't mean physically, but narrative-wise, to damage and destroy someone, rule 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Cut off the support network.
Isolate the target from sympathy.
Go after people and not institutions.
People hurt faster than institutions.
I'm going to play an interesting game here with you.
It's not meant to mess around with your brain, but about 80% of the Democrat Party is still scattershot and hasn't focused on a message.
There's about 20% of them, lawmakers, lobbyists, opinion makers, hosts, who have decided to focus on Elon Musk and the doge because they realize that the left-wing governing model, a big government, will fall apart if people realize what's actually happening with their taxpayer dollars.
So here's...
I had to write this down at the end.
I took a bunch of notes on today's sheet.
So I always tell you that media people and our ideological opponents out there, they're playing this narrative game where they want to tell you a story rather than the story.
But here's the kicker.
You can always tell it's a story rather than the story when a story is different from a story they told you just before Donald Trump got in office.
So before Donald Trump got in office, we were told...
By the left, that immigrants are fantastic.
Illegal, legal, open borders are great.
They may not have said it directly, but you know that's what they were thinking.
Anyone in the chat disagree?
Immigration is a wonderful thing.
Legal, illegal, doesn't matter.
Sanctuary cities even protect criminal illegals, which is insane.
So this is a strange line of attack from Democrat Rep.
Marcy Kaptur.
So now Elon Musk, because he's an immigrant, is a bad guy?
I'm a little confused.
So now immigrants are bad?
My wife Paula's an immigrant because she's confused too.
We're trying to figure this out.
This is how you know a story from this story.
You doubt me?
Here, check this out yourself.
Mr. Musk has just been here 22 years.
And he's a citizen of three countries.
I always ask myself the question, with the damage he's doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyalty to?
South Africa?
Canada?
Or the United States?
And he's only been a citizen, I'll say again, 22 years.
I'm not messing around with you folks when I say this.
I don't understand what you're saying here.
I thought your line of attack a few weeks ago was that immigrants were fantastic, legal, illegal, Venezuelan gang members you were protecting.
Now, Justin just said it.
He's like, Dan, you missed it.
It's successful immigrants with multi-billion dollar, almost trillion dollar enterprises.
Those are the best.
What?
Do I have this right?
We got a few more for you.
You're going to see throughout the show, okay?
So new stories for today.
New narratives.
I guess immigrants are bad.
Fascinating.
I never knew that.
Government shutdowns are good again.
Really?
Oh.
And then the last one is Elon supports apartheid.
He does!
I'm going to tell you something.
Well, you know what?
Let me play it first.
It's Joy Behar on The View, so.
You know, everybody kind of just, like, take it all with a grain of salt.
I'm serious when I say this, though.
I'm not kidding around.
She better be really careful with this.
I mean, he's a public figure and all.
You have an actual malice standard?
But this could result in litigation and a lawsuit.
You better be damn sure.
I think she came back later and tried to dial it back.
But this is a really, really out there claim about Elon.
But remember, Olinsky's Rule 13. Isolate the target.
Elon Musk's our guy.
Train your fire on Elon Musk.
Watch this.
And Elon Musk kisses his butt and strokes his tiny ego or big ego, whatever it is.
And he doesn't get to do...
He can take a nap while the guy was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on.
He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.
He was a naturalized citizen.
Right.
He's a naturalized citizen.
Now he's a naturalized citizen.
Oh, really?
How did he do that?
Did he come over the border legally?
He flew in.
Yeah, he allegedly overstayed that visa.
Yeah, but I think this is just perfectly wonderful for Trump.
He's going to take a nap and let this foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the United States, do his job.
You know, once in a while, Guy just...
Don't be suing me.
Okay, look.
See, she's already worried about it.
Guy just nailed it.
Guy said, Dan, if you are in the legal profession and you really want to make money, like you are a hustler and an entrepreneur.
Guy said, what do you think the best job is?
And I was confused.
I'm like, where's he going with this?
He's like, the view.
He goes, can you imagine the billable hours over there?
There's like...
There's probably a 24-hour shift of people.
There's like an 8-4, 4-12, midnight shift, 12-8.
Then you've got a training shift on the back end, like training to reinforce the guy so if anyone goes down sick.
Can you imagine the billable hours out of The View?
How many corrections did Sonny Hauston have to issue on that show?
Was it like five or six?
And it's just endless.
Here's what's going on over there.
In my opinion, having done a TV show and doing content creation here like they do, they just don't do their homework.
They just don't do their homework.
So they go in and they spout off and then the lawyer goes, where did you get that?
I don't know.
I saw it from a Twitter account.
I hate Elon.x or whatever.
And I just repeated it.
Why?
Why did you do that?
You got to be careful, man.
You better bring receipts on your show.
It's another reason I highly recommend the Dan Bongino rule, which is just wait a couple days before you draw a conclusion.
Talk about whatever you want.
I'm not here to tell you what to talk about.
But if you just let the facts come out, you're seeing it with this Gene Hackman case.
Him and his wife and the dog died.
Initially, all was carbon monoxide.
Why did we not report that yesterday as a fact?
And I tell you, that was just out there.
Because right now, the gas company's saying, we don't have any problems.
And all of a sudden, the local police department's like, well, there may be some signs here that are causing us to investigate.
Just wait.
You want to be effective in this business?
Just report what you know.
Hey, a famous Hollywood actor, Gene Hackman, Crimson Tide, great movie, Unforgiven.
Best movie ever.
Played Little Bill.
Guy died with his wife.
They were found by some guy working around the house with the dog.
You don't have to get into all kinds of theories.
I know it's crazy because everybody wants to be first, but this is what happens when Elon is pro-apartheid.
Do you have any evidence of that at all?
Here was The Five yesterday.
You know, one of my favorite things to watch is Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld fighting back against Jessica Tarlov.
I love The Five.
I'm, like, obsessed with the show.
It's one of the rare shows I will make appointment viewing.
This happened yesterday, too.
Check this out.
What I think is a positive sign for Democrats, though, is there seems to be a bit of coalescing around a message that is resonating.
So Hakeem Jeffries gave a press conference today.
He had up two signs.
And one of them says, Elon Musk is making $8 million a day in government contracts.
The average Medicaid recipient gets $65 a day.
And we know in the new spending bill that Speaker Johnson has put forward and that narrowly passed the House that you're going to...
Why are you...
This actually matters to me.
You said this was this great new message and I got forwarded.
You got bored the second I opened my eyes.
No, but it does matter to say that somebody who is running the government in a serious capacity is supposed to be rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse is making $8 million a day, and they want to cut your Medicaid.
Yes, Jessica, 100%.
Elon is definitely doing this for the money.
You guys know that?
Elon's struggling a little bit.
Hey, uh...
Folks, if he has a Rumble channel, can you give him a tip in the tip chair?
Elon is definitely hurting for money.
Last I checked, he's worth, what, $400,000?
No, he's saying no.
Million.
No, not me.
Oh, billion.
Like with a B. And not an Austin Power.
Million?
No, billion dollars.
I'm reasonably confident Elon Musk, he's going to be okay.
Jess, he's going to be okay.
Good to see.
The Gutfeld smirk I can't get enough of, by the way.
You see him at the end, the smirk?
He's like, it's a narrative.
It's just not working.
But did you see how she gave away the whole thing?
And it's fine.
It's what they do.
I guess it's not personal for me.
But she says the Democrats are coalescing around a story.
Ah, Saul Alinsky, Rule 13. It's not working because, guys, you are the media now.
You are the media.
And you're going to have to be the media.
While I'm away from you, too.
That's hard to say.
Guys are going to have to take that football.
You're more than capable.
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Still laughing over, Guy.
That's a great point, Guy.
I should go to law school and just apply to be men, right?
And be the view guy.
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Forget it.
The billable OT hours on that network must be amazing.
I wonder sometimes if they have, if the legal team has, like, a little, like, bat signal.
Like, uh, Joy sent something, and then they just rush in, like, with the little, like, bat legal car, and they come in there.
Joy, we're going to talk after the show.
Again?
Again.
Guy said that they have permanent finger marks on their face from the face palms every single time.
Oh, man.
That was good, Guy.
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I'm going to miss that, too.
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Folks, here's the hysteria again.
They cannot have this Doge looking at inefficiencies throughout the government.
This is going to be one of the things that's on my mind, has been on my mind for a long time.
There is absolutely no reason for the government to be operating on systems that were a big thing with the Commodore 64 in the 70s and 80s, okay?
Politico, Doge is now dramatically raising the potential for a government shutdown.
This is fascinating.
Now the Democrats are using shutdowns as a leverage tool.
We were told forever that a government shutdown was a disaster.
People were going to die.
Planes were going to fall out of the sky.
Puppies were going to die.
Grandma was going to be thrown off the cliff.
People were going to be passing out.
Social Security checks weren't going to arrive.
China was going to evade because the military wouldn't give it.
None of this, of course, is actually true, but we were told government shutdowns were to be avoided at all costs.
We were even told falsely...
That government shutdowns were the cause of a bond rating disaster, when if you actually read the report, that is not what they said.
So it's kind of bizarre to see the Democrats now take this different turn, where now government shutdowns are good again.
Again, this is the difference between a story and the story, and the hallmark of a story is when a story changes repeatedly.
The story never changes.
A story always does.
Here's a federal employee.
We played this before the show going through the rundown.
And we listened to it, and all of us were like, really?
So you're working, you get an email.
Just to be clear, it's not personal, folks.
You're working at a job in the federal government.
You're working.
This is what the lady says.
Gets this email from OPM and says, hey, listen, list five things you're doing.
While you're working, why am I bringing that up?
Because it should be really easy while you're doing things to just send an email.
Hey, matter of fact, I'm doing it right now.
But that's not how it's framed by this individual.
Check this out.
The email that came out wanting us to justify our jobs with five things we did last week was on Saturday night.
And I was literally working on Saturday night to make up for all the distractions I had had the previous week, which came from the executive branch.
And so I'm working, trying to catch up on things, and then I get that email on top of it.
It's very hard to keep your train of thought when you're getting threatened and harassed like that.
Threatened and harassed.
It's an email requesting you just list what you're doing.
How difficult was this?
Do you see the disparity in how the free market, private sector, small, medium, big businesses operate and the government?
This is not unusual.
Do you have any idea how many people get a quarterly, weekly review email or a meeting like that every week going, what did you do?
This is a loser of an argument.
I don't know how many times you're going to have to hear that.
And the AstroTurf effort to destroy Doge and a more efficient government paid for by our taxes.
The AstroTurf effort is getting exposed.
Speaker Mike Johnson was on with Caitlin Collins last night talking about these town hall protests.
Folks, I'm not telling you everybody that shows up to protest against the Doge.
Everyone who shows up is a paid protester.
I'm just telling you the left has a history of this, and there's some evidence that a lot of this is being ginned up by left-wing groups that have an agenda, and the constituents are actually being drowned out who support this effort.
Check this out.
Do you have concerns that that's anything that Democrats will be able to use to run against those Republicans?
No, I don't.
Because the videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places.
These are Democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.
If the videos had panned outside the building...
You can't argue they were all paid protesters, though, Mr. Speaker.
Many of them were.
A Republican acknowledged they were his constituents.
One Republican acknowledged their constituents.
That's fantastic.
Okay, but they had Democrats come and fill the seats early, all right?
This is an old playbook that they pulled out and ran, and it made it look like that what is happening in Washington is unpopular.
But I'm going to tell you, Caitlin, the American people are behind what's happening.
The doge efforts is polling over 80 percent right now.
They want us to find efficiencies in the federal government.
They want the government to be smaller and leaner and more accountable to the taxpayers.
And that's what these efforts are all about.
That's what the Republican Party is about.
That's what our commitment is to do, to make government work better for the people.
This is a restoration of common sense about everything else.
And I think the American people are going to remain in favor of what's happening here.
Okay, I was just, those lawmakers do also represent Democrats.
That doesn't mean they were paid to show up if they're upset about this.
Okay, receipts incoming in a second, but stand by.
You notice what she does there, Caitlin Collins.
Speaker Johnson says there are paid protesters.
She then changes the argument to what?
Did you catch it?
Let me get into the chat.
She says, well, they're not all paid protesters.
That's not what he said.
He did not say every person there is a paid protester.
You're switching the argument.
Are you going to be a journalist or an opinion host?
Because that's an opinion.
He did not say that.
Mostly unpaid.
Right, mostly people.
Now, if you ever want to read an interesting take on this, how the Democrats and liberal groups advance a narrative, read the book Revolt Against the Masses by Fred Siegel.
It's a fascinating book.
I didn't publish it or anything.
It's a great book.
It's an older book.
He talks about how the combination of media folks, there you saw that, interest groups that pay people to do this stuff, and congressional committees.
Can advance an agenda and make it appear real, like this is some kind of national groundswell for government waste and abuse?
Well, that's not the case.
Put up the stuff.
Here are the headlines first.
You see how they settle on a message?
Speaker of MSNBC, Speaker Mike Johnson, without evidence.
Of course, you've got to throw that in there.
Whenever they say without evidence, by the way, it means what, Justin?
There's a significant amount of evidence, right?
Pan's town hall critics has paid protesters.
Here's the hill.
Johnson claims town hall protesters are paid by Democrats.
It goes on.
Daily Beast.
Johnson tries to shrug off anti-Doge town halls as a work of paid protesters.
One more.
Mike Johnson, independent, claims paid protesters are GOP town halls.
Then backtracks when asked for proof.
He did no such thing.
And then we have this article in the Washington Beacon.
Red District Doge protests cited as proof of broad Musk backlash.
We're organized by left-wing groups.
They note that George Soros-funded groups, Indivisible and Move On, were at the center of the demonstrations.
Both groups launched national, quote, mobilization efforts targeting the, quote, Trump-Musk agenda and Trump-Musk coup during the recess period.
Again, this is called evidence.
It's called receipts.
This is what we do.
I am not telling you.
I'm not telling you everyone there is funded by a George Soros group.
I'm not telling you that.
I, however, am telling you that their story, that, oh, this is all pure as the driven snow, no one's there, paid to be there, is likely BS. Here's the good news.
Folks, a lot of this is funded by a wing of the party obsessed with basically DEI funding, funding for all kinds of initiatives overseas that are censorship-driven.
And the stuff driving all this, a lot of it is DEI. And it is really, really taking it on the chin right now.
I bring this topic up a lot.
You know we cover a lot of economics, some cultural stuff, some foreign policy stuff.
I bring this up a lot because what irks me most about DEI, and I think you guys understand this, I know you do, is it is racist on its face.
When you're hiring and firing and admitting people into colleges for a bunch of limited resource things, like a college admission spot, and you say to someone, well, we're going to emphasize these traits, whatever it may be.
LGBTQIA, BIOPC, skin color, religion, whatever it may be.
You are, it's zero sum.
You are discriminating actively against someone else.
This is not hard to figure out.
And a lot of these companies are starting to figure out, as cases start to percolate up to the Supreme Court, one there right now, by the way, that they can face severe liability for this.
Politico.
Court allows CIA to fire employees who worked on DEI. You're telling me again, Donald Trump can't manage the branch?
The View makes a comeback here as well.
See how the show all kind of ties in together?
Sonny Hostin, Queen of the Corrections, which is on our fifth or sixth on that thing we played on the show weeks back.
Here's Sonny Hostin again making the case to kind of save DEI, but I want you to listen to the language.
And I'd like you to tell me...
How DEI isn't racist on its face.
Tell me.
Again, tell us like we're teenagers.
Explain slowly.
Use small words.
Check this out.
I don't want to rely upon the benevolence of an Elon Musk who grew up in apartheid South Africa.
I don't want to rely on that.
I want the opportunity, simply the opportunity to compete.
Just the opportunity to compete.
And that's what diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are.
And by the way, studies show that those companies that embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion do better.
They make more money.
People are happier there.
They're reflective of the country.
And so anyone that isn't, in my opinion, supportive of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, I think they either don't lack the facts or they don't care.
Okay, I strongly encourage you to actually read up on that.
The evidence she cites is nonsense.
There is a whole body of research on this that does not indicate that as well.
Folks, I'm not sure how you're going to get a company to engage in widespread cohesion and esprit de corps when people who don't meet certain criteria have to fight extra hard to get a promotion.
Yeah, that's not team building right there.
That's team annihilating.
Now we gave you kind of in the beginning the Saul Alinsky tactic where a limited portion of them parties focused on...
They are.
They're focused on Elon and the Doge.
But I'm going to tell you something.
The rest of the party has a real lack of a message.
James Carville said the other day that when it comes to Donald Trump right now, some of the stuff he's doing...
Carville's obviously a left-wing...
Kind of tactical messaging guru on the left for the Democrats.
He's been around forever.
He has this theory of, don't just stand there, do nothing.
The Democrats can't figure this out.
And they're scattershot all over the place right now.
Here's what I'm talking about.
USA Today, consumers are boycotting major retailers.
A blackout, February 28th, which last time I checked was today.
Folks, is this going to be as effective as the Chick-fil-A boycott?
Do you remember that?
Do anyone in the chat remember the infamous left-wing Chick-fil-A boycott?
What is it, about 10, 15 years ago?
The reason I remember it is, I don't know if I was running for office or what, but I was up in Frederick, Maryland on the day the Chick-fil-A boycott was supposed to happen, and the line to get a chicken sandwich was about four hours long.
This is going to completely backfire again.
I highly recommend you go out and boycott things today.
Go out and buy them.
But I'll prove it to you again.
When I used to work at Fox, there's a Chick-fil-A right across the street from Fox in the middle of liberal Manhattan, right?
The line is around the corner every single day.
On boycott day, on non-boycott day, it doesn't matter.
It's up to us to show our economic power too.
I highly recommend you go out and buy some stuff today.
Here is a liberal on TikTok, very offended about that, saying that the normal people, quote, the normal people.
Should basically close up their wallets today and what, do damage to the economy and companies because we're not all supporting racist DEI policies?
This doesn't sound normal to me.
Check this out.
In case you haven't heard, this coming Friday is a total economic blackout.
The idea here is that we, as normal people, we do have power and the power is through our dollars.
So you spend zero dollars on Friday, February 28th.
You don't go grocery shopping.
You don't get gas.
You don't buy anything on Amazon.
You don't go to fast food.
You don't go to Starbucks.
You literally spend zero dollars this coming Friday for a Folks, we have power too.
We have wallets.
A lot of us work for a living too and have cash to spend.
This never, this backfires spectacularly nearly every single time they try this.
I'm not here to give them political lessons on how to isolate and follow Alinsky's Rule 13. Some of them are figuring it out, nor do I want to.
It's not my job.
I'm just telling you, this is not a message.
What exactly are we boycotting again?
Normal people, guys.
Normal people.
Democrats are in shambles.
Again, many of them cannot seem to focus on a single message here.
Therefore, they're all over the place.
Play Gavin Newsom.
Did you see this one yesterday?
Listen, Gav, the governor of California, I've had a podcast, very successful, with the number one live stream yesterday, yesterday, yesterday again.
Thank you very much for supporting the show in the final couple weeks here.
We really appreciate it.
You guys are the best.
But Gavin Newsom, the radically far-left governor of California, is hell-bent.
On launching a podcast right now.
Let's see how he does in the liberal space.
And he's saying he's going to invite his opponents on.
Hey, that would be a good thing.
If I was still wearing the public commentator hat and opinion, I'd go on the show.
I'd love to debate this guy.
California versus the Florida model?
I'll do it any time.
I've got a Ron DeSantis clip coming up next, too, to show you that.
But check this out.
We need to change the conversation.
And that's why I'm launching a new podcast.
And this is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast.
I'm going to be talking to people directly that I disagree with, as well as people I look up to.
But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly with you, the listener.
Real conversations.
What's going on with the cost of eggs?
What are the impacts, real impacts to you around tariffs?
What power does an executive order really have?
And what's really going on inside of Doge?
Look, there's an onslaught of information that we take in.
So let's take it to the sources without the typical political mumbo-jumbo.
In the first few weeks, we're going to be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and architects in the MAGA movement.
This is Gavin Newsom.
Harley Glam Girl in the chat.
Run your state, dude.
Right?
I mean, imagine you're a California resident right now.
You've got an illegal immigration crisis, a crime crisis, a government services crisis.
You've had massive fires wipe out significant portions of one of America's most powerful cities.
You've got residents who are taxed to death, businesses fleeing.
You've got your residents fleeing to Nevada and Texas.
You've got a state overwhelmed with budget problems, bloated government, identity politics.
Gavin Newsom's launching a podcast?
You have nothing else to do?
Contrast that with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
Here's Ron DeSantis talking about the border crisis, substantive stuff.
This is why these state models could not be any different.
I had Byron Donalds on my radio show yesterday.
He is now announced for governor.
See who else jumps in the race there.
But this, you want to talk about a state that's really well run?
Move to Florida and you'll see what I'm talking about.
The differences are profound.
Check this out.
When President Trump was running against Kamala Harris and they had a debate about the border, Harris said, because, you know, the border was what it was, there was a lot of legacy media that tried to act like it wasn't a big deal, but people saw what was happening.
So it wasn't credible to say that it wasn't happening.
So what Harris said was, well, we wanted an immigration bill and you guys helped tank it.
That would have helped us secure the border.
And then candidate Trump turned to her and said, you don't need a bill, just do it.
So he became president, and what happened?
Did he need a bill to secure our country?
No, he just did it.
And so you have a 94% drop in border crossings since January 20th and year over year, however you want to do it.
That's remarkable.
That shows what Biden and Harris were saying was not true.
They were selling you snake oil.
You didn't need legislation.
You just needed a determined president.
Why are we playing that clip?
Any idea?
Fire it up in the chat.
Any idea?
What did I tell you before the election with the Biden-Harris agenda on the border?
The Immigration Nationality Act gave President Biden all the powers he needed at the time.
To exclude any class of aliens for any reason for as much time as he needed.
All you had to do was look at it.
We put it on the screen a thousand times.
He was acting like it didn't exist.
So what happens?
Donald Trump swears in in January, becomes president, says, hey, I used the INA before, let's use it again.
And look what happens.
The border we were told can't be fixed is fixed like overnight.
Just like we told you.
I'm not going to steer you wrong.
Folks, thanks again for tuning in.
I really appreciate it.
We have about 10 shows left with you over the course of the next two weeks.
Hoping to get in the studio next week.
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