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March 13, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Bitter Dems Move To Shutdown Government (Ep. 2441) - 03/13/2025
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Thank you.
Dan Bongino.
Yeah, you're damn right.
This is our second to last show every single day.
You know, I was talking to a couple of guys this morning and I had an analogy to what this feels like.
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Someone asked me this morning, he said, brother, how does it feel?
And I said, Michael, I need your take on this one, because Michael's like a very kind of sober analyst.
He's a math guy, so I want to make sure this doesn't sound goofy.
It feels like going to a funeral for someone who's 107. Like the people who are getting Social Security?
Like some of the people getting, that would be 157. But that's actually very funny.
Unfortunately, it's costing us a ton of money.
But it does.
It's like, you're sad you lost this amazing person.
But at the same time, you're like, 107?
Teresa, am I right?
You're like, you won.
The game of life.
You have successfully won.
If you made it 107 years, give us a thumbs up.
You see Teresa in the studio today?
The lovely Teresa from Westwood One.
The Grand Dame of Westwood One.
We call her the Bongino Levin Whisperer.
She's very good at that kind of stuff.
You wanted life.
So the funeral is kind of sad, but at the same time it isn't.
That's how I feel.
I feel like you and I built this thing together.
The P1s who've been here for 10 years.
Who listened to my first show.
There's no question we built this thing together.
So I feel so happy about and honored to have been part of this.
But, yeah, man, I'm still losing something.
So, I don't know.
Sometimes my analogies suck.
Sometimes they don't.
But that's real, man.
That's how I feel about it.
Man, we got a big show for you today.
Second to last show.
Tomorrow will be the finale.
I don't know.
I'm just going to let you guys know right now.
Producer Jim is here in the room.
Teresa's here.
Colin's coming from Westwood One, like the big boss.
I was like, what?
Am I getting fired or something like that?
What's going on?
I'm like, oh, you can't.
You're leaving on Monday.
What just happened?
So I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.
I'm not messing with you.
I do not know what is happening tomorrow.
There's a rumor there will be people in the studio.
I don't know.
You're going to have to tune in.
I'm not teasing it unnecessarily.
Okay?
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All right, let's get to the news.
I thought government shutdowns were terrible.
That's what we were told by the Democrats.
What did they tell us, folks?
If government, quote, shuts down, which it really doesn't shut down, if it shuts down for five minutes, anyone know what's going to happen?
Grandma's definitely dead.
Grandma's going to die, and she's not going to be 106 either.
She could be 60, but without government, they're definitely dead.
Puppies, kittens as well, maybe your goldfish.
They're all dead.
Everyone's going to die.
People are going to be pushed off cliffs into meat grinders, wood chippers, and everything else.
If government shuts down, which it doesn't really shut down, it is the apocalypse.
It is the instant apocalypse.
Nothing will happen and life will come to a halt, which is weird because government shut down before and none of that stuff has actually happened.
But the Democrats have told us, you shut down government, the time will stop.
So here is prominent Republican conservative senator.
He tells me this guy has now officially changed parties.
I didn't get the news flash, did you?
Prominent conservative Palestinian, too, which I was unaware of.
Reiki?
Chuck Schumer?
Yeah, Palestinian as well.
I did not know this.
They have the Senate.
But he was prominent.
This guy's a House Freedom Caucus guy, kind of guy.
He's just on the Senate side.
Chuck Schumer telling us how the government shutdowns are now a good thing again, how we should shut government down.
So I didn't know this guy converted.
This is incredible.
Like baptism by fire.
Check this out.
Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort.
But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats.
Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Notice how he...
Obviously, we're kidding.
This is one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate.
But you almost have to, you don't have to like it, which I certainly don't, but you almost have to respect the grift going on here.
How he says Republicans don't have the votes to stop cloture.
What he's saying in a backwards, did you guys catch that when you listen to it?
He doesn't want to state the obvious, which is the Democrats are withholding the votes.
To pass the bill.
So he's blaming it on Republicans.
Did you guys get that?
The Democrats have a magical, almost magical power, and I don't mean in a qualitatively good way, to use language in a way that makes you to believe the opposite of what's happening is actually happening.
You see what he did there?
He could just state the obvious, we're not voting for this and the government's going to shut down.
He doesn't say that.
Republicans have not successfully acquired enough of the spreadsheet-type transactional vote numbers in order to invoke the...
Because he doesn't want to say the obvious.
We're shutting the government down.
I thought we weren't shutting...
I thought the government shut down was terrible.
People are all going to...
You went through the whole litany of horribles.
You ever hear the term parade of horribles?
Everyone's going to die if the government shuts down.
So now the Democrats who told us we need government.
You need government in every aspect of your life.
Every aspect of your life.
You can't hit a baseball without government.
Now all of a sudden the Democrats are the shut the government down party?
Once you learn to dissect political euphemisms, you can never go back.
How he handled that is why I played that clip.
Notice the language he uses.
He doesn't want to state the obvious.
So what's the solution to that?
Folks, the solution to that is for you all to get out the message out there that it's not the Republicans who shut this thing down.
Whether we agree with the spending levels or not, I don't.
I've been fairly candid about that.
But we didn't have the votes.
We will do reconciliation.
They, the Democrats, are the ones not voting to keep the government open, therefore voting to shut it down.
By simple logic.
Here's Chuck Schumer again.
Again, misdirection is how they do everything.
I want you to notice again how they use euphemisms and word games to try to play games with things that are actual facts.
Three plus three equals six.
There's no way to word game your way out of that, okay?
Here he is talking about Elon and Social Security fraud.
So Elon Musk and the Doge found out, before you hear this clip so you understand, that there's a lot of fraud in Social Security, but here's how it's working.
There are people calling Social Security offices.
And changing over the phone routing numbers.
So if Guy, say, gets Social Security, Michael calls and says, hey, flip it over to my account.
Without Guy's authorization.
Elon and his team found that this is a real problem and are fixing the phone system.
Listen to the way Schumer characterizes this and says, oh, you know, we don't have evidence of all this fraud.
Really?
I'll show you the receipts coming up after that.
Check this out.
Americans certainly support eliminating waste.
But they don't want to see their Social Security benefits taken away over a lie perpetuated in hopes of just slashing them to give tax breaks for billionaires paid for by the middle class.
As Musk lies shamelessly about Social Security, he conveniently ignores.
The federal government already conducts an audit of Social Security every single year.
He cherry-picks data to suggest that tens of millions of dead people are getting checks.
This is a lie, like so many of his other lies.
It's a lie, folks.
It's a lie.
He made it up.
It's a lie.
No fraud in Social Security.
Except if you go back to this Office of Inspector General report from August 19, 2024, which says what?
Yes, Justin, you're correct.
He's like, I didn't say anything.
I know.
Which says there is, shockingly, Fraud in Social Security.
They found nearly $72 improperly paid.
That doesn't say $72.
It says $72 billion.
That's a lot of money.
Do me a favor, Justin.
Look up the entire state budget of, say, North Dakota.
Tell me what it is.
So let me read this Inspector General report.
Inspector General reports.
This is, by the way, 2024. August of 2024. Nearly $72 billion is improperly paid.
Recommended improvements go unimplemented.
Through several audits, Social Security Administration and Inspector General made dozens of recommendations to prevent improper payments before they occur.
Also to correct existing improper payments.
However, to date, many of those recommendations remain unimplemented, leading to continued improper payments.
$72 billion.
Billion!
This is not an Austin Powers moment.
This says the North Dakota state budget for the 2025 biennium is approved by the 2023 Legislation Assembly.
Totals $19.6 billion.
Wow.
Gee says 19 points.
Round up.
$20 billion.
So you're talking about over 3x the budget of an entire state in this great United States of America.
That's the fraud in the system.
Three times the entire state budget.
Sounds to me like kind of a BFD, big deal.
You see, folks, there's a problem with this outside of the obvious.
Nobody likes fraud.
The problem with this is you have people who paid into the system.
What do you mean?
I mean, like, their entire adult lives accurately paid into the system.
I almost slipped and said literally, but I just said it.
I hate that word.
I only got two more days to tell you how much I hate that word.
I'm going to fit it in.
I lost the chat here.
I want to see you guys.
I got to turn off the Wi-Fi sometimes.
There we go.
Now you're back.
Folks, there's a problem with this.
I always use the example of, say, the parking spots where people have physical disabilities, right?
Someone pulls in there who's not disabled and has no problem, and someone who comes in who may, say, be in a wheelchair or has to move with a cane doesn't get that spot.
It is not cost-free.
When $72 billion is stolen from taxpayers who put their money into this system anticipating a government...
Annuity-based system, typically.
It's not.
It's a PAYGO system, but whatever.
And it's stolen.
That's no money for you.
You have to ask yourself a very serious question right now.
Why is Chuck Schumer ignoring this nonpartisan Office of Inspector General report?
Because of what I told you.
There are Democrats up on the Hill who just don't care about fraud because they feel like this.
You ready?
Tattoo this on your brain.
Once you find out how much government fraud and public corruption is going on within federal government enterprises like the Social Security Administration, they're afraid you'll never trust government again.
That's why they're hiding this.
You want to get paid and get your paid-into Social Security benefits?
You should be the first one screaming about this.
Folks, the Democrats used to pretend to care about waste, fraud, and abuse.
How do we know this?
Hat tip, the great Maze Moore.
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Here is Mays Moore with a great montage of how the Democrats, prominent Democrats, used to claim, at least, that they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse until we actually found it.
Check this out.
We cannot keep our promises on Medicare.
We simply must make the cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare so that the benefits and the premiums are untouched.
There is an enormous amount of waste and fraud and abuse in this government.
When there is waste and fraud, you have an administration who should also be on top of that situation.
If we're going to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, it does mean we're going to cut some of that out.
And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say, you cannot cut money out of Medicare, You can't just get up there and say, we don't want to cut anything out of Medicare.
We want to cut the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.
This is such a loser argument for them, the Democrats, I mean, Precision Matters, to go to the wall to shut the government down.
It's an absolute loser argument for them.
Donald Trump has them so discombobulated.
It's another word I hate, but I'll use it here.
That they're arguing against now bedrock Democrat collectivist principles.
Like, we need the government.
What do we do without the government?
That's why we're asking you to pay 40% of your money to the government.
We need it so much, we're willing to shut it down.
That argument just doesn't work.
As a conservative, you know, you don't want any of these things to kind of shut down.
You want it efficient and lean.
But it's not against your fundamental ethos that I don't need government in my life.
I need, you know, I need family, God, country, police department, a court system.
Just a train wreck argument.
By the way, before I take a break, where did I get the Chuck Schumer's Palestinian?
I didn't make that up.
Senator Schumer, Guy, if you would.
This is one of my favorites in the show today.
Producer Mike did some of this.
Is that correct?
This is a banger.
Producer Mike, nice job, man.
Producer Mike is a genius.
I was well aware of that, but now he really kind of hammered it.
You know, receipts matter.
Here's Donald Trump.
This is where we got that from in the beginning of the show.
Check this out.
And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned.
You know, he's become a Palestinian.
He used to be Jewish.
He's not Jewish anymore.
He's a Palestinian.
I just spread the news cycle.
There you go.
I was unaware of that.
I don't wear it.
Oh, man.
I told you, man.
We had a great show for you lined up.
Up next, it's the second to last show.
For 10 years, I've been saying the same thing.
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Because Howard Lutnick explained the Trump theory on tariffs so well yesterday.
Just while we're...
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Well, that is a wrap on our last poll of economics.
It is a resounding yes.
So here we go.
Here is Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick with one of the best explanations as to why Donald Trump...
Is attempting to reorganize our economy in a more efficient, tax-efficient, and productivity-efficient manner.
I want you to listen to this because I haven't heard anyone explain it like this.
And he just has this reporter basically speechless.
He says nothing as he just hammers her on the debt problem and the issues we're having.
Check this out.
Two trillion dollar deficits don't bother you at all.
How could you ask me while we're running a $2 trillion deficit and not care?
You're destroying.
The people who have run this country before are destroying the future for my children and my children's children.
I can't have a 50, 75. We have a $36 trillion deficit.
And we used to run deficits of $400 billion.
Now $2 trillion.
Everybody's like, who cares?
I tell you what, who cares?
Donald Trump cares.
And when we balance the budget, you know what that means?
That means our deficits stop.
Interest rates come smashing down.
His goal is to have external revenue.
You know, the way I think about it, we all are so used to paying taxes.
We're so used to it, we have like Stockholm Syndrome.
I have not heard, I got another clip of him coming up in a minute.
I haven't heard a better and simpler explanation about why Donald Trump Has Elon Musk in the Doge looking for efficiencies in government and ways to cut the tidal wave of red ink?
Folks, this is very simple.
I may not do it as eloquently as Secretary Lutnik just did, but I'm going to try.
When the government spends more money than it takes in from taxes, which we've been doing every year for decades, Republicans and Democrats, to be clear.
Both parties have been responsible.
Where does the money come from?
No one ever thinks about this.
The money's got to come from somewhere because all the checks cash, right?
Have you ever gotten a Social Security check that bounced?
No, seriously.
Outside of some anomaly?
Someone claimed fraud or something?
No.
Well, how is that happening?
Clearly some of you out there are getting money that the government never took in from tax dollars, correct?
Because it didn't.
Well, the answer is it borrowed it.
From who?
Well, from you.
Or it printed it.
And digitally created it through the Fed.
We had quantitative easing and all this type of stuff.
What's the problem with that, folks?
The problem is this tidal wave of debt creates more money because the money has to come from somewhere.
And when you have more money in an economy, interest rates go up.
Do you know why that is?
It's very simple.
This is why Commerce Secretary Lutnik was given the example of interest rates.
You've got to buy a house.
You've got to buy a car.
You want to pay 20% interest rates on these items?
Keep spending money we don't have.
Because why?
Because for the United States to keep borrowing money at the levels we are, the number he mentioned, $30 trillion, $2 trillion this year alone, you have to pay people higher and higher interest rates to take a risk of lending the government money.
It's not hard.
There is no such thing as a what?
Free lunch!
Yes, Producer Jim.
He's like, I didn't say anything.
I know.
I'm in your head.
I know what you're thinking.
He's a Milton Friedman guy, too.
There's no such thing, folks.
Any Democrat or any Republican saying, oh, don't worry.
Just keep loading up on the red ink and the debt.
Who's going to make us pay?
The answer is, you know who's going to make you pay?
This guy.
His name is Mr. Jim, do you know?
He's like, I have no idea.
His name is Mr. Math.
Mr. Math.
He also goes by Mr. Arithmetic, sometimes Mr. Numbers.
The money has to come from somewhere.
And once you create it, it's very difficult to uncreate.
Now, it's incredible that under the Biden, Obama, and listen, we've had a lot of spending in the Trump era too.
We had the COVID stuff.
What's incredible...
Is that Donald Trump in just, we have what, 53 days, 54, plus or minus a day or two, into the Trump term, the second Trump presidential term, that now inflation, which candidly could be 5%, 6%, 7%, is actually coming down and is 2.8.
It's amazing that only 50 days, President Trump and his team, Secretary Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Besson, Energy Secretary Wright and others, that they've already managed to at least get a little bit of a lid on the inflation crisis despite the tidal wave of red ink.
It's incredible.
It's so incredible.
Even CNN is like, well, you know, this inflation reduction stuff.
Can't really deny it's happening because it's, yes, happening.
Check this out.
Finally, we have some good news on the economy, and really the number one issue for many Americans, the cost of living.
So we just learned that consumer prices in February increased by 2.8% year over year, 0.2% month over month.
Both of these figures were a step in the right direction, and both were better than expected.
So this is...
Definitely very encouraging to see because it's going to, I think, relieve some fears that inflation was perhaps re-accelerating because this actually breaks a streak of four straight months where I think you could see it on the chart all the way to the right where the inflation rate was going in the wrong direction, right?
It was going higher and higher.
Finally, we're seeing it dip.
Listen, I get I have a lot of critics out there.
Jim, they just discovered this thing I have now called what?
Yes, a job.
They just discovered it.
And Jim, we're going to take a break in a second for this thing called what?
Yes, and they just discovered this.
I can't say this enough.
Don't ever accuse me of partisan bias on the economy.
I told you Republicans and Democrats have added to the debt and deficit.
Did I not?
Period.
I have been very clear on this.
The reason I play CNN polling a lot is I don't want you to accuse me of making the numbers up.
CNN clearly has an ideological agenda, which isn't mine.
And they're even telling you, here are the numbers of inflation.
They're coming down since President Trump got in office.
I'm going to explain to you why in a second.
And it has a lot to do with what Secretary Lutnik just said about the printing of money and the chasing of goods.
There's something Donald Trump and his team have done that is causing it to kind of level out.
It could spike again.
But causing it to level out.
Receipts matter.
I'll explain in a minute.
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So why is this happening?
Why is inflation still elevated, okay?
We do receipts here.
We don't do hide inconvenient truths.
But why is it coming down?
In just 50-plus days of the Trump administration.
There are a lot of reasons, but I'm going to give you two that I think are the most important.
Our energy secretary, who's excellent, Secretary Wright, has committed, in conjunction with Donald Trump and his team, President Trump, to a full, I don't know any other way to say it, drill baby, drill agenda.
If we have gas and petrol products underneath the ground somewhere, it is our goal to get them cheaply into your gas tank, into your factory, so that you can run your business.
Now, why does that matter?
Because, folks, there's a futures market for these products.
In other words, people will bid on the future price of oil and gas.
There's a huge speculative market.
I know that has a negative connotation, speculation, but that's what people do.
It's a free country.
You can invest in futures contracts all you want.
Futures contracts are going to start to come down dramatically as Energy Secretary Wright and President Trump start opening up land for more development.
That is why, and why does that have to do with inflation?
Well, it's fairly obvious.
A huge chunk of your expenses are home heating bills, gasoline prices, Oil and gas for your heater in your house.
But think about for the business world.
Folks, these factories don't run on good intentions.
They run on oil and gas and petro products.
It's energy that goes into this.
You want to build a manufacturing base?
We need energy.
It's a huge input cost.
So if you can control an input cost, your output cost, in other words, the forward-facing price of the product you deal with is going to be less.
That's why the inflation number is starting to ebb, even though we are dealing with a massive hangover of a $30 trillion debt and $2 trillion from last year.
Second thing, Donald Trump's tax cuts through the extension of his 2017 tax cuts, which have now, the process has at least started through reconciliation.
Republicans collectively said, we want this and started the process.
There's a futures market as well.
Not technically, but it's called the stock market.
The stock market is the net present value today of the future profits of a company.
I don't want to bore anyone to death.
When you invest in a stock that, say, 10x the money the company makes, why would you invest in a stock that the company says it's more than they actually make?
The answer is because you're not investing in what they make today.
You're investing in the net present value of their future profit stream.
So if you think tax cuts are coming and production is going to be juiced, then people are investing in the stock market, anticipating more products out there are going to suck up a lot more of this money and therefore inflation.
That was a lot.
Here's the second part of that interview.
Secretary Howard Ludnick talking about how Donald Trump doesn't want personal income taxes.
He's not talking about consumption taxes because that's basically what tariffs would be.
But income taxes, I don't know if he's talking about capital gains too, but Donald Trump's goal is no taxes for people to make less than $150,000 a year.
Do you have any idea the impact on the economy if you basically took home outside of state and local taxes, property taxes, your entire paycheck?
Do you have any idea how much juice to the economy that would be?
Listen to this.
How about no tax on tips?
How about no tax on overtime?
How about no Social Security?
How about all those things?
These are the kind of thoughts that will change America.
I know what his goal is.
No tax for anybody who makes less than $150,000 a year.
That's his goal.
And that's what I'm working for.
Put aside all the nonsense partisan talking points because we do only receipts here.
That's all I care about.
I'm not interested in talking points.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you make $150,000, say $100,000, we'll just use a rounder number there.
You make $100,000 a year.
That's state and local taxes.
Obviously, Donald, President Trump, he can influence that, but he can't legislate on that, okay?
Or he's not the executive over that.
The governors are.
Take out 10% on average.
So you figure you take home 90% of your paycheck.
No federal income taxes, nothing else.
Do you have any idea how much money would flow into the economy?
So now, say, throw out round numbers, you're making three, four hundred extra dollars a paycheck, weekly or bi-weekly, right?
Three, four hundred extra dollars a paycheck.
What are you going to do with it?
The answer is, it doesn't matter.
Whatever you do with it, the economy gets juiced.
Well, Dan, if I don't spend it, the economy doesn't get juiced.
I didn't buy anything.
That is incorrect, sir.
I know you're not saying that, my P1s, because you're smart.
What do you do with the money?
Well, I would put it in the bank and it's not doing anything.
No!
The bank is taking that money and lending it to a business.
And the more money that flushes around in the economy, interest rates then come down.
The money becomes cheaper because there's more money.
It's like anything else.
You run out of bagels, they become expensive.
You have a lot of bagels, they become really cheap.
Supply, demand.
It's not hard.
Market clearing price is the intersection of those two points on a graph.
You get a ton of money flushing into banks now, and the financial system, loans get cheaper.
People can buy more cars cheaper.
People can buy more homes.
Businesses can buy more factory equipment.
There is no scenario here by which the economy loses.
None.
But Dan, what if they spend the money?
Great!
And maybe they buy another car.
So then the car dealer has to replace the car you just bought.
Suddenly they have to get more steel and glass and rubber for the tires and brake pads.
Then they've got to hire another salesman.
And everybody gets a job.
But then the government would be starved of money.
Okay, show me evidence.
Anyone in the chat?
Show me evidence of that?
No, show me evidence.
Show me a Republican tax cut of the last 40 years that has, quote, cost the government money.
I'll wait.
Okay, you can't.
Now, for the liberals in the chat who say, clearly you're lying.
I heard in school from my liberal professor, Samuel, he had the same liberal professor on the quad, smoking a bowl.
And Samuel told him, the Reagan tax cuts eviscerated the benevolent government and stole money from the government.
It's actually the government's money, it's not yours.
I say, really?
Do me a favor.
Go to Statista, that website, the statistics website, and pull up U.S. federal government revenue by year and show me the Republican tax cut that, quote, cost the government money.
Oh, look at that!
Look at that!
The Reagan tax cuts, government actually brought in more money.
Let's go back even farther.
Let's go back to Calvin Coolidge.
There are people out there on the other side of the fence.
Who was that?
He was a president.
Look at his tax cuts.
Oh, look, the government made more money.
Look at the George W. Oh, my gosh.
Look at these guys.
They're so fast.
I didn't even tell them to do that.
Here it is on the screen.
I saw it pop up.
We got fancy monitors.
Total receipts of the U.S. government, 2000 to 2029. Guys, I'm not a math.
Michael, you're a math major, correct?
That line looks like it's going what direction?
Up?
You guys have that upside down?
Michael says, I am a math major.
I can confirm that is, in fact, up.
That's the chart.
But I thought liberals told us that the Trump tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts, and the Reagan tax cuts cost us a whole boatload of money.
Now, to be clear, that only covers Bush and Donald Trump.
But that's not what I see in that handy-dandy chart there.
So, Dan, what you're telling me is if the Trump vision for the economy is implemented, people will have more money.
People will sell more cars.
Barbers will get more haircuts.
People will get more jobs.
It'll be fewer people on unemployment and social services so we won't have to spend more tax dollars taking care of people.
And that the government may actually raise more revenue because they're taking a slice from an enormous pie.
That's exactly what I'm telling you.
Now, if you're going to counter that and say, well, that plan sucks, I'm going to say to you, okay, show me your receipts.
Look at that.
You don't have them.
You don't have them.
No, no, we have an example of a great economy.
We have the Barack Obama eight years.
Really, you do.
Maybe you're unaware of this, but you should check this yourself, fact check it, so you don't think I'm making it up.
Do you know Barack Obama is the only president in modern U.S. history in eight years?
In eight years.
He had two terms, in case you forgot.
The only president in modern U.S. history to not hit the 3% GDP mark?
Ever?
It is eight years.
Three percent.
That's not even that hard to do in an economy as powerful as ours.
I strongly encourage you to just, if you're going to fight back, go right ahead.
I respect and love free speech and I love a good argument.
All I'm asking for is the receipts.
That's it.
Is what I'm saying wrong?
Is what I'm saying wrong?
It's not.
And you know it.
And by the way, if you're going to throw a curveball at me, someone sent me the nicest email yesterday.
It was a woman, and if you're out there listening, forgive me, I forget your name.
It's not intentional.
We're just getting so many nice emails.
And she said to me, Dan, what I'm going to miss most about your show is you always bring the hard receipts, and I use them to debate my liberal friends, and I never lose an argument.
I got to tell you, the tears almost started flowing.
That is the sole purpose of this show from the beginning.
That has been the purpose of the show.
Folks, opinions are like holes, right?
Everybody's got one.
Can you back it up or not?
And the purpose of this show for 10 years has been to produce data and receipts that you can go and say, I'm sorry, you're entitled to your opinion, which I respect, but your opinion is not a fact.
It's actually incorrect.
You doubt what I'm telling you, show me otherwise.
You can't.
I'm going to miss that.
But I hope you understand that as of Monday, I have a different responsibility to all of the citizens of this great United States.
And my partisan hat, like it had in the past during my time in my prior line of work, protecting both Republicans and Democrat presidents.
I hope you all understand that I have to...
I know!
You're killing my vibe!
Sheesh!
I'm going to miss that too.
He's the worst timing ever.
Do you know that?
Like having this emotional moment.
He's like, speak into the mic.
I'm eating the thing.
What else do you want me to do?
Oh, okay.
Well, that's a good point.
Well, regardless, what I was saying is that, you know, Monday, I hope you all understand I have to put that all aside.
That's what I swore to do.
And that oath matters to me.
And I know you guys respect that.
So, thank you.
Let me get to my next topic so I don't get too emotional about this stuff.
Again, tomorrow's show is going to be a total surprise.
It's not a joke.
I am not kidding.
I have no idea what these guys have planned on radio or podcast, and I think that's going to be the best part of it.
So, this happened yesterday.
Folks in the chat, one of my final...
Jimmy Dogg.
That's hilarious.
Why are you afraid to dress the UFC cover?
Jimmy.
That's an appropriate name for you.
Jimmy Dogg.
If you picked a pseudonym, that was perfect for you.
Yes, you're right.
Guy, we've never discussed that topic ever on the show, right?
Ever.
No, never.
Never.
Never.
Don't we actually have shows titled that?
I'm sure we do, yeah.
Yeah, you can actually look at the library, but of course, we always got some smartass in the chat who likes to say dumb stuff.
Not this guy, though.
Henry04U2.
Oh, I love Guy.
No, we don't get a bit...
Why does Guy, by the way, always capitalize?
That happens with me, with autocorrect.
Is there a reason?
Yeah, because it stands for graphic user interface.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yes, yes.
Graphic user interface.
Good point.
Yeah, it does that for me all the time, too.
That is not my legal name, though.
That is not.
I know it's not your legal name.
I found that out, interestingly enough, when some employment documents.
I was like, wow, look at this.
But we like it.
All right, back to the show.
You know how easily I get distracted sometimes?
The show's authentic, and I just got so much going on in my head, man.
So yesterday, one of the best Donald Trump appointments so far, as the borders are.
Can we all agree, if you disagree, let me know in the chat, has been the great Tom Homan.
I just wanted to show you this yesterday.
Leftist activists, I thought they hated insurrections and taking over government buildings.
I thought that was their thing.
You know, we're anti-insurrection.
We hate the Chewbacca guy.
Remember him?
Chewbacca almost took over the country.
We almost lost everything.
It was the worst event since the Civil War.
Remember them talking about that?
They don't seem to care much about insurrections in the New York State Capitol.
All Tom Homan was doing was showing up to talk about illegal immigration in New York.
They didn't like that.
There was a lot of screaming and yelling.
He had to have a police escort inside.
Check this out.
Yeah, I know.
I'm just sorry.
SmartyPants3.
What a name.
I love using your receipts.
It's why I trust your opinions.
I try not to get as emotional.
Thank you, sir or ma'am.
Love you, too.
I thought they don't like insurrections.
I thought they were the anti-insurrection party.
I don't get it.
Looks to me very insurrection-y.
Here is Dark Mode Tom Homan.
You've got to love this guy.
I've met Tom.
I've known Tom a long time.
Amazing guy.
An absolute patriot.
By the way, another guy who has worked for Democrat and Republican presidents and has done his job the exact same way.
They just don't like him because he's working for a Republican president now.
Here is Dark Mode Tom Homan.
You guys lifted the Dark Mode on child separations.
Ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to be separated from your child.
Don't commit a crime.
You have to go to jail.
It's really not difficult to do.
Check this out.
Now, I always hear all the time, family separation, homens, godfathers, family separation.
Let me be clear.
Zero talents is about saving lives.
When we start prosecuting people who violate the law and put their children in harm's way, maybe they stopped coming.
And they did.
Numbers went down.
It's unfortunate families got separated.
But it happens to American families every day.
It's going to happen in Albany today that American families will be separated by law enforcement because the child can't go to jail with a parent.
But you want to talk about family separation?
A half a million children on Joe Biden were trafficked into this country.
They can't find 300,000 of them.
That's a separation.
But you know what President Trump's committed?
We're going to find them, and we're going to save them, because many children are in forced labor, many children are in forced sex slavery.
We're going to save them, this administration.
You're not going to find a more powerful voice for a strong border.
Folks, the border is not a suggestion.
It was never designed to be a suggestion, just like the Constitution is not a suggestion.
Do you understand?
Most of you, I assume, have traveled.
Have any of you traveled overseas?
Some have, some haven't.
You understand what, you know, Avita and I were having this conversation.
I got to tease that, by the way.
Don't let me forget.
Make sure.
Don't let me get off the air.
Avita and I, you know, Avita and I are friends outside of us working, at least for the next few days in the same company.
But Avita and I were talking about how...
One of the exceptions to the search and seizure rules of our Constitution are at the U.S. border.
When you come back in, say you cross into Mexico and drive back, at the border they can search your car.
They can search your car.
If we don't have rules at the border and restrictions on who can come in and come out, you don't even have a country.
You have a suggestion of a country.
You have what's called a landmass, and that's it.
Speaking of which, you know, I'd like to think, There's a lot of things I'm good at, a lot of things I'm not good at.
A lot.
Matter of fact, wrote a whole book about things I'm not good at.
But I'm a really good judge of talent.
And I knew we had a star in Evita early on.
I knew it.
The show has been just incredible for us.
Rumble.com slash Evita.
I hope you're watching every single day.
She said to me the other day, you know, Dan, can you do my show on Friday tomorrow?
I said, absolutely.
So we had a little conversation about it, and the conversation went on forever.
And it was just, there's so many interesting, everything from the vaccine, from how we got to where we are, to protests on campus, to the Khalil case, to free speech, to the book, The Natural.
Some of you know where I'm going with that.
You're not going to want to miss this conversation tomorrow.
If there was ever an early edition with Evita at 9 a.m.
every day show you wanted to watch, it's tomorrow.
It's a really candid conversation, a very emotional one with me and Evita Duffy.
Rumble.com slash Evita.
9 a.m.
Eastern Time tomorrow.
Always check out Haley.
Haley had 13,000 streamers last night at 6 p.m.
The Bongino Army.
You guys are amazing.
You are so incredibly loyal.
Thank you so much.
And then Vince, sitting right out there actually, starting next week at 10 a.m.
His first interview, Tucker Carlson.
And believe me, that's not it.
He is.
Emptied out his Rolodex to bring you the best first week you're going to see.
Folks, this is my last show like this.
Tomorrow, I don't really know what's ahead.
These guys have taken over the show for tomorrow, and I appreciate that.
This is going to be my last show with this format.
So thanks.
That's all I got to say.
I love you guys.
See you in the radio show in a little bit.
I'm back here tomorrow.
You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.
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