The Dan Bongino Show - A Powerful Response (Ep. 2506) - 04/30/2026
Aired: 2026-04-30
Duration: 01:17:55


=== Scumbags and Truths in Commentary (05:39) ===

[00:01:01]  All America, all the time.
[00:01:03]  Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show.
[00:01:09]  Listen, my friends, I have been in this business for a good amount of time.
[00:01:15]  A good amount of time.
[00:01:16]  Around 2015, we started.
[00:01:18]  I started doing commentary earlier than that.
[00:01:21]  But the show, this Dan Bongino show, originally Renegade Republican, started, for those of you who remember back in the day, we were just an audio show.
[00:01:30]  I think we were on Al.
[00:01:31]  Apple and SoundCloud.
[00:01:32]  That may have been it.
[00:01:33]  You remember any P1s out there in the chat who remember the first episode?
[00:01:36]  The first episode isn't even out there.
[00:01:39]  I was explaining to Justin the other day, like, well, where's your first episode?
[00:01:42]  The first episode, me and Joe Armacos, God rest his soul, did, got pulled down because back in 2015, it was just me and him.
[00:01:49]  We didn't even know how to do this stuff.
[00:01:51]  And I forget what happened, but I think we included like a clip of a song in there and it was some like copyright thing.
[00:01:57]  So we had to take it down.
[00:01:59]  So there's not even a first episode.
[00:02:01]  That's how, when we first started, how little we knew about the business.
[00:02:04]  But The show has grown a little bit.
[00:02:07]  Got quite the audience now.
[00:02:10]  But let me tell you something.
[00:02:14]  There are two people you need to be really cautious of because I'm going to say something to you you really need to digest and tattoo on your brand.
[00:02:21]  I'm going to hit it in the beginning of the show with a powerful message you need to hear.
[00:02:27]  There are a lot of scumbags in this business, an unusual amount of scumbags.
[00:02:35]  Having been in the business arena, the investment arena, federal law enforcement, local law enforcement, FBI, Secret Service, NYPD, other positions I've been in, this business has an unusual amount of scumbags.
[00:02:55]  And one of the reasons is to get into this business without having any real world job experience first, which is a lot, but not all.
[00:03:06]  Notice, I said it has a lot of scumbags.
[00:03:07]  There's a lot of very good people in this.
[00:03:09]  But I find that the people who got into this commentary business, you guys feel free to chime in.
[00:03:16]  You know a lot of these people too.
[00:03:19]  If you got into this business after having an actual job first, like a real job, and I'm not talking about you had to be like Secretary of State or whatever it is.
[00:03:29]  Even if you were in a noble profession, like you were a construction worker, man, that's freaking hard work.
[00:03:35]  You got to get your ass up and build stuff so people can like live in homes and.
[00:03:40]  You know, work in office buildings.
[00:03:42]  If you've lived in the real world and answered to a foreman, you were the foreman, but you had a job, you are probably in the really good people bucket.
[00:03:55]  A lot of people who just got in this business to be famous or whatever, gain some degree in notoriety because they just want to be feted and loved, you're almost 99% guaranteed to be a scumbag.
[00:04:14]  Guaranteed.
[00:04:16]  Because you'll say anything to be loved.
[00:04:18]  You will never tell people the truth, no matter how painful.
[00:04:21]  Because sometimes telling people painful truths means you won't be loved.
[00:04:25]  It doesn't mean you're doing anything to advance the truth or adding any freaking value to society at all.
[00:04:30]  You are lying on purpose because you don't want to tell people hard truths.
[00:04:35]  And God forbid you lose even a sliver of the audience you're using to make yourself money.
[00:04:43]  They won't do it.
[00:04:46]  This business is populated by people.
[00:04:49]  I'll give you two buckets of them, too.
[00:04:50]  You've got the reply guy people and gals who offer nothing of substance at all, but always have a response, but never a solution.
[00:04:59]  They always have a reply, but never a solution.
[00:05:01]  And then you've got the hidden knowledge people.
[00:05:04]  They know something you don't know, they just never tell you what it is.
[00:05:11]  Be extremely careful who you allocate your time to.
[00:05:20]  I'll show you what I mean at the beginning of the show.
[00:05:22]  And I saw something this morning.
[00:05:24]  I do not, I think you know that, reply to every single armchair critic about what we did and didn't do, whether on the show or in my last position, whatever.
[00:05:34]  But there's one this morning, and no, I'm not mentioning the name because that's what they want.
[00:05:38]  It's Streisand effect stuff, and they do it to get my attention.
[00:05:41]  So I'll reply without giving you the attention you want.
[00:05:43]  There's one, this blog site, that just a total douche nozzle.
[00:05:49]  This guy is like, for years, he watches the Hannity interviews, like, here's what I would have done.
[00:05:55]  I would have fired everyone on day one.
[00:05:57]  Really?
[00:05:58]  You would have done that?
[00:05:59]  You know how the government works and how HR rules?
[00:06:01]  Because you know what happens?
[00:06:02]  And these people sue and get their jobs back.
[00:06:04]  Did you know that?
[00:06:06]  You knew who they were on day one?
[00:06:07]  Interesting.
[00:06:08]  Why didn't you tell us?
[00:06:09]  If you knew, you wrote a blog post about it.
[00:06:12]  Smart ass dickhead.
[00:06:14]  You seem to know so much.
[00:06:15]  Why didn't you tell us?
[00:06:16]  You could have just found us somehow and said, hey, here, but you didn't know, did you?
[00:06:21]  Those are the reply guys in their little tree houses.
[00:06:25]  They know who I'm talking about.
[00:06:27]  Nothing ever of substance at all.
[00:06:30]  Just stupid commentary back for clicks.
[00:06:33]  I'm telling you, be very careful who you allocate your time to.
[00:06:37]  Hiding behind anonymous accounts and stuff.

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[00:06:41]  I have no issue with you doing it.
[00:06:42]  You're under no obligation.
[00:06:43]  Certainly, I'm a free speech guy.
[00:06:45]  But let's not pretend like you're somehow being super brave about it.
[00:06:50]  You're not.
[00:06:51]  You're just not willing to do anything.
[00:06:52]  You just want to reply to everyone else.
[00:06:55]  I'll get into what I mean in the beginning of the show today.
[00:06:58]  The show starts some trouble today.
[00:07:00]  Good.
[00:07:02]  That's what I want.
[00:07:03]  Like I said, I'm not here to tell everybody what they want to hear.
[00:07:07]  I'm here to deliver hard truths.
[00:07:09]  And if that's for you, it's for you.
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[00:07:11]  That's okay.
[00:07:12]  I don't plan on doing this show forever.
[00:07:14]  I've already been through scares with expiration dates and the whole crisis with my health and everything.
[00:07:19]  I'm not interested in pleasing everyone.
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=== Natural Ingredients for Better Sleep (15:17) ===

[00:09:32]  So, again, I addressed the reply guys and others.
[00:09:35]  And one of the reasons you see this in this space, you guys and ladies out there, you work for a living, you add value.
[00:09:41]  Plumbers, electricians, police officers, military folks, you add value.
[00:09:45]  I've said often, I'm in this space, it's my business.
[00:09:49]  I'm proud.
[00:09:49]  I'm happy to be back.
[00:09:50]  I was happy to serve for the year and come back here.
[00:09:53]  I'm honored to be on the air.
[00:09:54]  However, you guys are where it's at.
[00:09:56]  You are.
[00:09:57]  It's not like, you know, a faux celebration of what you do.
[00:09:59]  It's a real celebration of what you do.
[00:10:01]  Everything we do, from farmers to our military folks, enables us to live in this prosperous society.
[00:10:06]  We're wealthy and prosperous because we have material things.
[00:10:10]  Material things make you wealthy.
[00:10:12]  You can talk about emotional well being and psychological well being.
[00:10:14]  That's all important, too.
[00:10:15]  But the hard reality is the United States is rich because we have stuff you all out there built and created if you work for a living.
[00:10:22]  The problem is, in this space, people like to talk and they talk a lot about other people.
[00:10:26]  And there's a lot of envy in this space.
[00:10:29]  And people just don't like when other people succeed.
[00:10:33]  But to allow that envy to overtake you and to imply at some point that someone like Erica Kirk, who lost her husband to an assassination caught on video with the world watched,
[00:10:54]  To imply that Erica was somehow involved in this with some hidden knowledge you never actually disclosed, I, I, folks, I can't, I can't imagine.
[00:11:06]  I don't, I honestly don't know what to say.
[00:11:08]  I, I don't.
[00:11:09]  It's like I went through a kind of a personal tragedy not that long ago.
[00:11:14]  And there are times I don't have the words, really means I just don't have the words.
[00:11:25]  I don't know why you would do something like this.
[00:11:31]  It can't just be envy.
[00:11:33]  It can't just be, I'm a bad person.
[00:11:37]  There's something there I just don't understand.
[00:11:41]  Hat tip Milk Bar TV for this.
[00:11:44]  This is just a compilation of the Candace Owens show and repeated implications that somehow this lovely, beautiful human being.
[00:11:57]  Erica, who's always been there for me and a number of people in the movement, just like Charlie was, is somehow involved in the murder of her husband.
[00:12:05]  Ladies and gentlemen, I got to tell you, I candidly, I don't have the words, man.
[00:12:09]  I just don't understand this.
[00:12:12]  But I just want to show to you before I get to the response that we're not making this up.
[00:12:17]  This is real.
[00:12:17]  Check this out.
[00:12:19]  But I'm starting to think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was something akin to a regicide, right?
[00:12:26]  The assassination of a king to install a new ruler.
[00:12:30]  Who the king would have never approved of.
[00:12:32]  Anyways, back at headquarters, I am told it's business as usual.
[00:12:35]  And it's kind of giving me, like, I don't know, LBJ when it gets sworn in in that famous picture.
[00:12:43]  Unfortunately, sworn in.
[00:12:44]  Unfortunately.
[00:12:44]  Unfortunately, of course, he's sad in this photo.
[00:12:47]  Gosh, he's obviously not wanting to be the president of the United States.
[00:12:52]  JFK was shot and killed.
[00:12:54]  And now LBJ has to step up, unfortunately.
[00:12:58]  But I got to be honest, I wasn't there.
[00:13:01]  I don't think LBJ was actually that upset.
[00:13:04]  I don't know why.
[00:13:06]  Vibes.
[00:13:06]  The vibes just aren't vibing for me in that picture, knowing as I do and as Charlie did believe that LBJ was involved, which then implicates the feds as having been involved, which then implicates the Dallas police station as being involved.
[00:13:18]  I believe Israel was obviously involved, that they were the ones that wanted him dead.
[00:13:22]  When Ben came out swinging, I was going, oh, something's very wrong here.
[00:13:26]  Basically, Erica here is pulling the LBJ.
[00:13:28]  And what I mean by that is, as soon as LBJ got into office after JFK's assassination, he reversed course on every single one of JFK's policies.
[00:13:38]  JFK's enemies seemingly became LBJ's friends.
[00:13:41]  Erica appears to be doing that to me.
[00:13:45]  I don't know.
[00:13:45]  I don't know, man.
[00:13:47]  I love doing my show, and it's a talk show.
[00:13:49]  You're supposed to talk.
[00:13:51]  I just.
[00:13:53]  I don't know, man.
[00:13:55]  I see you all have a lot of comments on the chat on this too.
[00:14:03]  I was glad to see Erica, who's a real warrior, come out yesterday and despite ongoing, not comprehendable, I can't comprehend the grief, I can't, what she's going through, come out yesterday with a very powerful response.
[00:14:22]  It's about a minute, but I want you to listen to every word of this.
[00:14:25]  I feel an obligation to put this out there to help her correct this sick, deranged, demonic record.
[00:14:33]  Listen to this.
[00:14:34]  In this culture, we're living in, it absorbs disagreement as a form of personal betrayal.
[00:14:41]  It turns having an opposing viewpoint into a moral crime worthy of punishment.
[00:14:47]  And here's what I've realized through all of this truly, having Lived through quite literal hell these past seven months.
[00:14:57]  If you strip someone of their humanity long enough, you will arrive at the chilling conclusion that they don't deserve to exist at all.
[00:15:07]  Every morning I wake up to a new headline lying about me.
[00:15:13]  I have comedians dressing up in whiteface, I have people saying I'm not fit to be CEO, and I have Candace Owens claiming I murdered my husband.
[00:15:26]  And the list goes on and on and on.
[00:15:35]  There is a serious epidemic of dehumanization plaguing this country.
[00:15:42]  Guys, ladies, we're in a really, really dark spot.
[00:15:51]  Because you have a thought in your head and a platform, and that platform for Candace and others is substantial.
[00:15:58]  Don't.
[00:15:59]  Don't fake the funk on this and be like, oh, well, she's irrelevant.
[00:16:03]  No, no, she's not.
[00:16:06]  I was listening to some commentary by Jeremy Boring the other day, formerly, I don't think he's with the Daily Wire anymore, but he was on a show and he gave an accurate assessment.
[00:16:15]  If you're telling yourself, like, oh, well, her audience is shrinking, her audience, folks, I'm in this space, I'm an investor in this space.
[00:16:24]  I watch these numbers because it's in both a personal interest of mine for free speech and a professional interest because this is where I've invested my life's assets.
[00:16:33]  In free speech and spreading ideas and platforms to do so.
[00:16:38]  Don't kid yourself, like, oh, she has a small audience.
[00:16:40]  She doesn't.
[00:16:42]  Our audience is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, on the political commentary side.
[00:16:46]  That is not true that there's no audience there.
[00:16:50]  It's shrinking from whatever, like sky high to high, which is still really high.
[00:16:58]  I know that because I see clowns and doomers.
[00:17:01]  Justin and I were laughing about it this morning.
[00:17:02]  They do that with our show.
[00:17:04]  The doomers and the Jew haters are like, oh my gosh, I can't believe Spotify's.
[00:17:09]  Our video's not on Spotify.
[00:17:11]  We're exclusive to Rumble, you dipshits.
[00:17:14]  So it doesn't matter.
[00:17:15]  Again, don't overexplain.
[00:17:16]  Every time we put out a podcast chart, hey, thanks for the support.
[00:17:19]  Here's what you got some moron like, well, go with another chart.
[00:17:22]  Then we go with another chart.
[00:17:23]  They do this to me.
[00:17:24]  Don't do that.
[00:17:25]  That's not true with them.
[00:17:26]  Some of these people do have big audiences, people I sincerely disagree with.
[00:17:31]  Hell, I've invested my money in giving people I disagree with an open platform to speak.
[00:17:38]  But don't kid yourself.
[00:17:41]  This is a significant sized tumor in the American body politic.
[00:17:47]  And the best thing you can do is go out there and take it on, like Erica bravely did yesterday.
[00:17:52]  You can't ignore it.
[00:17:54]  We have never run from it.
[00:17:55]  We have never run from difficult questions.
[00:17:57]  Some of these people were friends of mine.
[00:18:01]  Some couple of them are still friends, and I just don't agree.
[00:18:07]  Folks, speak out.
[00:18:09]  Let me tell you when I was in high school, we had Brother Leo since passed.
[00:18:13]  I went to a Catholic school, it was run by the Marist Brothers.
[00:18:19]  And Brother Leo was the guidance counselor, and everybody loved Brother Leo.
[00:18:21]  If you went to Archbishop Malloy, you remember Brother Leo.
[00:18:24]  He was just an amazing guy.
[00:18:26]  And he would have these groups, and it was an all boys school back then, but we'd go in there, and they had these groups, and you could just go and chat, and you'd talk, and he'd say, Hey, Dan, real men walk alone.
[00:18:37]  And that applies to you too.
[00:18:39]  Sometimes in a group of people, you're just going to have to walk alone, even if they're throwing rotten tomatoes at you and screaming, There's the cholera.
[00:18:47]  All right?
[00:18:50]  Please do what you can to speak out about this stuff.
[00:18:54]  It's not healthy, man.
[00:18:55]  It's going to destroy us.
[00:18:57]  All right.
[00:18:57]  I've got a lot to get to today as well.
[00:18:59]  Absolutely enormous ruling yesterday out of the Supreme Court, a bigger ruling than I think you know.
[00:19:06]  It's a complicated ruling.
[00:19:08]  I'm just going to kind of get to the high level stuff.
[00:19:10]  It was about gerrymandering, redistricting, race.
[00:19:14]  It was all kind of blended in.
[00:19:16]  However, you know what?
[00:19:17]  Can I start with the Demographic Destiny one instead?
[00:19:20]  I need to explain this to you in terms of the freak out.
[00:19:23]  Why did the Democrats freak out yesterday?
[00:19:26]  The Supreme Court ruled that a racially gerrymandered map in Louisiana was not going to work.
[00:19:32]  The left is freaking out on this because, number one, they don't have a message that resonates with people in mass.
[00:19:39]  They just don't.
[00:19:40]  They know the only way they can win elections is by illegal immigration, moving people into the country, legally or illegally, they don't really care.
[00:19:48]  Whatever's easier for them, it doesn't matter.
[00:19:50]  Getting those people on government benefits, paying them off, Promising them future benefits in exchange for their votes.
[00:19:57]  That's it.
[00:19:58]  Does everybody understand?
[00:19:58]  I can't move forward.
[00:20:00]  The freak out over yesterday will not make sense unless you understand this first.
[00:20:03]  When the Democrats talk about things like replacement theory and demographic destiny, because that's their thing, I'm going to show you in a minute with a clip of Democrats talking about this.
[00:20:13]  They understand their positions are grossly unpopular.
[00:20:17]  High taxes, government run health care, public school monopolies.
[00:20:23]  It's hated by the public.
[00:20:25]  So, they know if they don't bring people into the country illegally, gerrymander the districts for power in Congress, gerrymander the districts for power in the electoral college as well as they manipulate the census and get illegals counted.
[00:20:38]  They know they have no chance of winning.
[00:20:41]  I've played this a couple times, but you need a refresher every quarter.
[00:20:44]  Here is a quick minute or so on the Democrats talking about exactly this get illegals into the country, get them on government benefits, get them to vote Democrat.
[00:20:53]  It's the only way they can win.
[00:20:54]  They call it demographic destiny or replacement theory because it's their theory.
[00:20:59]  Listen to them in her own words.
[00:21:01]  Check this out.
[00:21:01]  It seems harder and harder to ignore that the echoes of replacement theory and other racially motivated views are increasingly coming out into the open.
[00:21:11]  African communities, Asian communities, Hispanic communities, and the wave still continues.
[00:21:18]  It's not going to stop, nor should we want it to stop.
[00:21:22]  In a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country.
[00:21:25]  White people will not be the majority in the country anymore.
[00:21:28]  In 2044, everyone is going to be a minority.
[00:21:31]  Folks like me who were.
[00:21:33]  Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017, will be in an absolute minority in the United States of America.
[00:21:42]  Absolute minority.
[00:21:43]  As the demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming.
[00:21:48]  Demographics is destiny.
[00:21:50]  Demographics is destiny.
[00:21:51]  Demographics is destiny, right?
[00:21:53]  The country is changing.
[00:21:55]  An unrelenting stream of immigration.
[00:21:58]  Nonstop.
[00:22:00]  Do you see?
[00:22:01]  There's the article Michelle Goldberg, New York Times.
[00:22:04]  We can replace them.
[00:22:06]  This is their thing.
[00:22:08]  Replacement theory, demographic destiny, which they're euphemisms for each other, that's what they're talking about.
[00:22:16]  Now, does it make sense why you saw this freak out on CNN yesterday over the Supreme Court ruling?
[00:22:23]  If they cannot flush people into the country and racially gerrymander them into oddly shaped districts to pull Democrat congressional seats out of Republican states that ordinarily wouldn't exist if you were to keep even contiguous neighborhood lines, they have no shot.
[00:22:41]  They know that.
[00:22:42]  They openly talk about it all the time.
[00:22:44]  You just watched the clip.
[00:22:46]  Now you're going to see the freak out on CNN yesterday when they realized that they can no longer racially gerrymander districts to use race as an excuse to enact and force upon us political power and representation, not representative of the state.
[00:23:01]  Check this out.
[00:23:04]  CNN clip.
[00:23:07]  What do you make of the fact that he was democratically elected, even won the popular election?
[00:23:12]  Could be at risk all throughout the South.
[00:23:14]  The question will be the timing.
[00:23:16]  Is this a 2028 play?
[00:23:18]  Is this a 2026 play?
[00:23:19]  There are some primaries here coming up, not until later in the cycle, August 6th.
[00:23:24]  There's one in Tennessee that's Steve Cohen's seat.
[00:23:26]  That's a majority minority district.
[00:23:28]  That's an August 6th.
[00:23:29]  It won the one Democratic seat there.
[00:23:31]  The Jim Clyburn seat in South Carolina that is the one Democratic seat in South Carolina.
[00:23:37]  That's a June 9th primary.
[00:23:39]  Jamie, this shows you the ramifications long term.
[00:23:43]  For this rule, absolutely.
[00:23:45]  Just think about that number 19 seats in play.
[00:23:49]  And let's look at this politically.
[00:23:51]  Laura, you talked about confusion going into this race.
[00:23:56]  We're worried about voter suppression.
[00:23:58]  Apart from the long term impact, we are going to see people take advantage of that confusion.
[00:24:07]  There is going to be, you know, these midterms are so high stakes that anybody who thinks they can take advantage.
[00:24:16]  You know, on the state level of this decision, there is going to be a scramble to see if they can, because each side thinks this is an existential midterm with the House, especially.
[00:24:30]  So here's what liberals were doing.
[00:24:31]  You ready?
[00:24:32]  Someone just put in this is the center of Raven, of Ragnar, some conservative studies.
[00:24:38]  That was Rush Limbaugh's thing.
[00:24:40]  However, I will consider that a compliment.
[00:24:43]  This is an advanced conservative course in how the Democrats plan to get, maintain, and hold power forever.

=== Racial Gerrymandering and Power Plays (15:11) ===

[00:24:49]  What they were doing is they were playing both sides of this coin, the Democrats, with racial gerrymandering.
[00:24:54]  They were saying when they couldn't manipulate the numbers and spread out what they felt were black Democrat votes enough, because remember, if Democrats were, if black Republicans were in huge numbers, this would be a totally different argument.
[00:25:09]  Thank you, Raven of Ragnar.
[00:25:11]  What they were doing is they would pack black Democrats into one district to get a Democrat seat.
[00:25:18]  But then when they wanted to, and they felt like they had enough.
[00:25:22]  Of an overflow of votes, they would spread black Democrat voters around and minority voters in general around into other districts as well to use them as pawns to flip other seats as well.
[00:25:38]  And then they would sue from both sides.
[00:25:40]  So the Supreme Court just basically came out and said one simple thing you're going to have to show that if these states are gerrymandering, they're doing it explicitly to discriminate against black voters, which would be wrong.
[00:25:52]  If you can't show that, the map's no good.
[00:25:56]  That's what happened.
[00:25:57]  End of story.
[00:25:59]  Of course, the Democrats freaked out because now they know they're in a world of trouble.
[00:26:05]  Look at some of these open source zone tweets here.
[00:26:07]  Number one here's what the South, which looks largely Republican, because you see people who are interested in freedom and liberty and not mom dummy like communism down in the South.
[00:26:18]  You know, here's a potential map.
[00:26:19]  The current map is 65 Republicans, 24 Democrats.
[00:26:22]  The potential map is 77 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
[00:26:26]  This is what the map would look like without racially discriminatory districts set up by Democrats.
[00:26:33]  This is why they're freaking out.
[00:26:35]  They understand their ideas are shit.
[00:26:37]  Their ideas are such shit that the entire, you know, southeast of the United States has wholly rejected Mom Dami Democrat, Sanders Democrat, Biden Obama Democrat Party politics.
[00:26:49]  It's not our fault you guys suck.
[00:26:53]  Here's another tweet by Open Source Own.
[00:26:55]  What looks to happen to fly?
[00:26:56]  That's why I tell the doomers, like, Don't freak out about the maps and the midterms.
[00:27:00]  Just go out and vote and pull 10 people with you.
[00:27:03]  Florida lawmakers yesterday approved a Florida redistricting map.
[00:27:07]  Final vote 83 yes, 28 no.
[00:27:10]  Here's what the map's going to look like before and after in Florida.
[00:27:13]  There's the after.
[00:27:15]  And then you see prior, there was a before, which had other.
[00:27:18]  They're going to lose potentially four seats.
[00:27:21]  Stop with the doom and gloom.
[00:27:23]  It's exhausting.
[00:27:24]  Everybody, the sky's for it.
[00:27:25]  It's like this chicken little phenomenon.
[00:27:28]  Folks, so what are they doing here?
[00:27:30]  The Democrats understand that they were using, they were basically using minority voters for their own political gain.
[00:27:37]  If you are a minority voter listening to my show, they've basically implied it, if not explicitly said it, that as long as you vote Democrat, they will carve up the state, break up your neighborhoods.
[00:27:49]  They don't care.
[00:27:50]  The second you start voting Republican, they'll sue in the other direction.
[00:27:53]  They were just using you.
[00:27:56]  I'll prove it to you in a second because they want this.
[00:28:00]  They need people to flood into the country and to pack them into districts that'll vote Democrat.
[00:28:05]  I want to show you just quick another case at the Supreme Court now, totally related to this demographic destiny thing.
[00:28:10]  Biden, Obama, and others were using this TPS, temporary protected status.
[00:28:15]  Get illegals into the country and then give them TPS, temporary protected status, and they're here in perpetuity.
[00:28:21]  Here's the problem with TPS, as you can see in the Wall Street Journal article here.
[00:28:25]  The TPS law says, quote, there is no judicial review of any determination of the secretary with respect to TPS designation.
[00:28:35]  In other words, the courts have nothing to do with it, it's in the law.
[00:28:38]  Read it right there.
[00:28:40]  So, how is this case in the Supreme Court right now if there's, quote, no judicial review?
[00:28:44]  The answer the same trick the Democrats always pull the race card.
[00:28:49]  Here is Justice Sotomayor, not very bright again, making a case that should not even be in the court because there's no judicial review to TPS.
[00:28:57]  Making it what?
[00:28:59]  About racist Donald Trump again because they don't have anything else.
[00:29:02]  They're just using you.
[00:29:04]  To black voters out there, they're just using you.
[00:29:08]  Some of these TPS folks that they've brought in.
[00:29:11]  Maybe, in fact, taking some of your jobs and some of the services in your neighborhood.
[00:29:15]  They don't care.
[00:29:17]  Listen to this.
[00:29:17]  Check this out.
[00:29:18]  Now, we have a president saying at one point that Haiti is a, quote, filthy, dirty, and disgusting S-hole country.
[00:29:28]  I'm quoting him.
[00:29:30]  And where he complained that the United States takes people from such countries instead of people from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, where he declared illegal, where.
[00:29:44]  He declared illegal immigrants, which he associated with TPS, as poisoning the blood of America.
[00:29:52]  I don't see how that one statement is not a prime example of the Arlington example at work and showing that a discriminatory purpose may have played a part in this decision.
[00:30:09]  It's not even supposed to be in the courts.
[00:30:11]  Listen to me, black, Hispanic voters, any minority group out there.
[00:30:16]  The Democrats are using you the second you're not useful for them, they will toss you out of the ring like it's a Royal Rumble.
[00:30:24]  I mean, Asian voters, haven't you learned from this?
[00:30:28]  The discrimination against Asian college applicants is ridiculous.
[00:30:33]  And then when that happens, they insult Asian voters and Jewish voters who are successful and they call them white adjacent.
[00:30:41]  They just make this stuff up.
[00:30:43]  They are using race in multiple different directions to get you to believe open borders.
[00:30:49]  And giving them power to give people money who don't even belong in the country legally is somehow to your benefit.
[00:30:54]  Don't be a sucker.
[00:30:57]  There's a reason they use this race argument, it's worked for them in the past.
[00:31:01]  I'll show you another great Scott Jennings clip coming up in a second on CNN where you see this 30 second debate.
[00:31:08]  This guy on CNN, the panel, gets completely wrecked trying to make a race argument that's totally not there and then just moves on.
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[00:32:51]  Here's Scott Jennings on CNN, where, of course, they're trying to make a racial argument out of this.
[00:32:55]  There is a racial argument in this.
[00:32:56]  I just told you what it is.
[00:32:57]  Democrats are using minority voters to gain political power and will throw them right out of the ring if they were to start voting Republican.
[00:33:05]  Then they would make the exact opposite argument.
[00:33:07]  Here's Scott Jennings making one of the best arguments I've seen in a long time.
[00:33:11]  They're like, well, you know, we don't have any.
[00:33:13]  Black governors in the Republican Party.
[00:33:15]  Really, did you miss what just happened in Virginia where we actually nominated one and you guys voted against her?
[00:33:20]  Kind of weird.
[00:33:20]  I thought it was a racial argument.
[00:33:22]  Check this out.
[00:33:22]  I'm not an African American Republican governor since Reconstruction.
[00:33:26]  I mean, you know, there's an unfortunately imbalance between the two parties.
[00:33:29]  Republicans tried to elect one in Virginia.
[00:33:33]  Okay.
[00:33:34]  I'm just saying.
[00:33:36]  And then you got a white Democrat who gerrymandered the state.
[00:33:41]  It's all crumbling.
[00:33:42]  We're going to end this here.
[00:33:44]  Everything is crumbling, clearly, at this table.
[00:33:46]  I thought it was a racial argument.
[00:33:48]  The Republican nominee was Winsome Sears, who happens to be black last time I checked, and she's female last time I checked, too.
[00:33:54]  She actually knows what a male and a female are.
[00:33:56]  And Democrats voted for a white woman who then gerrymandered the state and spread out what they would call black voting power because they needed the black vote, which they hope and pray will vote Democrat in lockstep.
[00:34:10]  The second black voters vote in the other direction, they'll gerrymander the state completely different.
[00:34:15]  They're only using you for Democrat power, they're not using you for your own power.
[00:34:21]  If you are black and you are a conservative or Republican, I hope you understand.
[00:34:26]  They are doing everything they can to silence, shut you up, and diminish you.
[00:34:29]  This isn't about race to them, it's about power.
[00:34:32]  They don't care that you're black.
[00:34:34]  They care that you're black and vote Democrat.
[00:34:36]  That is not the same thing.
[00:34:40]  These people don't even know what they're talking about.
[00:34:42]  They're so freaking embarrassing.
[00:34:44]  You have that No Kings rally?
[00:34:45]  What's her name?
[00:34:45]  Christy Lee?
[00:34:46]  This is really good.
[00:34:47]  I love these man on the street interviews.
[00:34:50]  I think my role in the space.
[00:34:52]  Haven't been here a little bit is to promote other creators out there and give them a shot because it's not about me, it's about keeping this going for a while.
[00:34:59]  This is Christy Lee, Man on the Street interview.
[00:35:02]  I like Caitlin, what's her name?
[00:35:03]  Caitlin Bennett, too.
[00:35:04]  Yeah, she's really great, too.
[00:35:06]  Here she is at one of these No Kings rallies.
[00:35:08]  These are so stupid.
[00:35:10]  These people don't even know what they're protesting against.
[00:35:13]  Check this one out.
[00:35:14]  What do you make of the fact that he was democratically elected, even won the popular vote?
[00:35:19]  How does that make him a king?
[00:35:21]  It doesn't make him a king, it makes him a president.
[00:35:24]  Not a king.
[00:35:25]  Well, this is called no kings.
[00:35:27]  So, what does that mean to you?
[00:35:28]  It means we got to get rid of him.
[00:35:30]  He's not a king.
[00:35:32]  It's a democratic process, and we've gone that route with him.
[00:35:37]  Now, he's acted like a king.
[00:35:40]  Can you give me a specific example?
[00:35:44]  Specific example?
[00:35:45]  Well, there's a million of them all put together.
[00:35:49]  There's no one example.
[00:35:51]  It's one or two?
[00:35:53]  There's more than one or two.
[00:35:55]  No, can you give me one or two examples?
[00:35:57]  Not off the top of my head.
[00:35:59]  Folks, this is an epidemic on the left.
[00:36:02]  Hat tip at Christy Lee TV.
[00:36:04]  The epidemic is of ignorance and stupidity.
[00:36:07]  Listen to me, please.
[00:36:09]  I can't emphasize this enough because I'm going to show you a political ad too and how to win and how to tactically take back the message.
[00:36:14]  One of the things I've been telling you for a long time you want to take back a political movement, you want to take back and rescue your country from the ideologues of the left, you have to paint contrast.
[00:36:23]  You have to show people imagery.
[00:36:25]  You have to paint, you have to put a diamond on a black background, makes it look shinier.
[00:36:29]  You have to paint a contrast.
[00:36:30]  These people will do this, we will do that.
[00:36:33]  I want to show you the evidence that these Democrats, whenever you do these man on the street interviews, they never know what they're talking about.
[00:36:40]  Black voters, you are being used.
[00:36:42]  The second you were to vote in any substantial number for the Republican Party, they will gerrymander districts to shut you out.
[00:36:51]  They will start talking about, we can't have black majority districts now.
[00:36:55]  They'll make the exact opposite argument.
[00:36:59]  Political, tactical, weaponry class 101, lesson 476.
[00:37:05]  I think that's right.
[00:37:06]  I've repeatedly said to you one of the best things you can do in politics is create a contrast, a foil effect.
[00:37:15]  The human mind gets tons of stimuli through the eyes, through the ears, through your nose.
[00:37:22]  It processes it into a story.
[00:37:24]  It needs a story.
[00:37:25]  Ladies and gentlemen, every story needs a good guy and a bad guy.
[00:37:28]  Please remember this.
[00:37:32]  You ever see A Few Good Men?
[00:37:35]  Most of you have.
[00:37:35]  Amazing movie.
[00:37:36]  Although I think Colonel Jessup gets a bad rep in that movie, don't you?
[00:37:42]  Colonel Jessup?
[00:37:43]  That's for another day.
[00:37:45]  There's a line in the movie, though, I cannot encourage you enough to tattoo on your brain.
[00:37:50]  Courtrooms are not about the law, they're about placing blame.
[00:37:55]  People need someone to blame.
[00:37:57]  They tell themselves stories, they need a good guy and a bad guy.
[00:38:03]  I don't know Spencer Pratt well.
[00:38:05]  He's running for mayor of Los Angeles.
[00:38:08]  I don't know him at all, actually.
[00:38:11]  And I don't know what his internal politics are.
[00:38:14]  I just know he's been through a lot with the fires in Los Angeles.
[00:38:17]  He's running for mayor.
[00:38:18]  And he's running an insurgent campaign.
[00:38:21]  And this, I'm going to tell you something, is one of the top five most effective political ads I think I've ever seen.
[00:38:27]  Why?
[00:38:29]  Because it gives you a good guy and a bad guy in 30 seconds, and the imagery paints a contrast.
[00:38:35]  Watch what I'm talking about.
[00:38:36]  Take a lesson.
[00:38:37]  This is an amazing political ad.
[00:38:38]  Check this out.
[00:38:41]  This is where Mayor Vass lives.
[00:38:43]  You notice something?
[00:38:44]  Or here, where Nithya Rahman's $3 million mansion sits.
[00:38:47]  They don't have to live in the mess they've created.
[00:38:50]  Where you live.
[00:38:53]  This is where I live.
[00:38:54]  They let my home burn down.
[00:38:56]  I know what the consequences of failed leadership are.
[00:38:59]  That's why I'm running for mayor for my sons and the rest of us, Angelenos, that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city.
[00:39:08]  We are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back.
[00:39:12]  That's one of the best political ads I've ever seen.
[00:39:15]  Folks, I don't know the guy.
[00:39:17]  I remember him from the reality show.
[00:39:19]  I'm happy he's running.
[00:39:21]  It takes a lot of balls to put your name on a ballot.
[00:39:23]  Good for you.
[00:39:24]  That is one of the single most political effective political ads you'll ever see.
[00:39:28]  Contrast the imagery of the million dollar mansion, the drone footage giving the wide view of this guy and his house burned down.
[00:39:36]  He's living in a trailer on his front lawn.
[00:39:38]  I know what that's like.
[00:39:39]  I lived on a trailer in the front lawn in Wanto.
[00:39:42]  You lived in a trailer in Long Island?
[00:39:44]  Yes.
[00:39:44]  Why did you live in a trailer?
[00:39:46]  Because the freaking house burned down.
[00:39:47]  I was living with my Uncle Lou and Aunt Anna at the time.
[00:39:51]  And the house burned down.
[00:39:53]  Luckily, nobody died except for the poor dog.
[00:39:57]  Was caught in a house.
[00:39:58]  The house burned to the ground.
[00:39:59]  I lived there.

=== Millionaires Leaving Seattle? No Way (03:17) ===

[00:40:00]  I lost there.
[00:40:00]  I don't have anything prior to my 18th birthday.
[00:40:03]  Nothing.
[00:40:05]  The only things I have, my brother had.
[00:40:07]  He lived in a separate place.
[00:40:08]  He had my old football helmet.
[00:40:10]  I think that's on a pair of Doc Martens.
[00:40:12]  That's all I have left.
[00:40:13]  Everything I had photos, pictures, books, sports stuff burned.
[00:40:19]  I lived on the front lawn in a trailer.
[00:40:23]  Contrast.
[00:40:26]  We got to learn how to win again.
[00:40:28]  You need to tell people a story, they need to know who to blame.
[00:40:35]  And who's to blame in liberal states?
[00:40:38]  Liberals.
[00:40:38]  And we don't do this enough.
[00:40:40]  All you have to do is show people.
[00:40:43]  Here is one of the best unintentional political ads.
[00:40:45]  The guys are like, what's he talking about?
[00:40:46]  There's no more ads in the show.
[00:40:47]  No, there are.
[00:40:49]  This is an ad for moving companies in Seattle.
[00:40:51]  You know, you guys know where I'm going with this?
[00:40:53]  I don't want to confuse you too much.
[00:40:55]  Okay, good.
[00:40:57]  This is one of the best ads for U Haul in Seattle, in the state of Washington, to move out of the state because of a millionaire tax they're going to enact.
[00:41:07]  That is, I promise you, is just going to bankrupt the state as millionaires who are already taxed start to leave and go take their investments and hard work elsewhere.
[00:41:17]  I want you to watch the, I believe, 43 year old mayor of Seattle, who I'm not sure has ever had a real job, going back to the beginning of the show.
[00:41:24]  These people who've never had a real job and never had to answer to a foreman, clean a toilet bowl, unclog a pipe, install an electric panel, they think it's really funny that people who are successful and wealthy leave their state.
[00:41:38]  She's actually laughing.
[00:41:39]  This is the mayor of Seattle.
[00:41:41]  Check this out.
[00:41:41]  I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown.
[00:41:46]  And if, you know, the ones that leave, like, bye.
[00:41:49]  So.
[00:41:54]  Bye.
[00:41:56]  That's Mayor Katie Wilson.
[00:41:57]  You're a moron.
[00:41:58]  You are really one of the dumbest people in America.
[00:42:00]  You think that's.
[00:42:01]  And by the way, you think they're overblown?
[00:42:04]  Listen, I don't want these liberals moving to Florida either.
[00:42:06]  I don't even care if you got your money.
[00:42:07]  Please don't come down here.
[00:42:09]  I'm just telling you, like, This is actually happening.
[00:42:11]  Here's an article in The Hill, not some right wing newspaper, okay?
[00:42:14]  Starbucks tycoon Howard Schultz joins the billionaire Blue State Exodus.
[00:42:19]  Liz Peake, who's really good, wrote this piece.
[00:42:21]  What state did he leave, fellas?
[00:42:23]  You guys know?
[00:42:24]  Yeah, Washington.
[00:42:26]  Isn't the first Starbucks in Seattle on Pike's over there?
[00:42:31]  Now, the almost comical thing about these idiots like Katie Wilson and others, you know, I'm not sure she's ever had a real job in her life.
[00:42:41]  Is that the thing about billionaires and millionaires?
[00:42:43]  There are not a lot of them.
[00:42:45]  So when they leave, and that half of 1% of people paying the overwhelming majority of your tax load, and by the way, financing a bunch of jobs and investment leave, it's gone.
[00:42:56]  You lose a geometrically larger amount of your tax base.
[00:43:01]  It's not a simple arithmetic linear line, it's a geometric exponential one.
[00:43:08]  But she thinks it's hilarious.
[00:43:09]  Bye.
[00:43:13]  She thinks it's really funny.

=== Lucky Trump Wallet Conspiracy Theories (17:21) ===

[00:43:18]  Folks, let me take another break here and then I'm going to get back to the nothing is happening file because yesterday was a big day.
[00:43:24]  A lot happened.
[00:43:26]  I'm really happy to report on some of this news.
[00:43:29]  Things you should smile about.
[00:43:30]  Is it the end?
[00:43:31]  Should we be popping the champagne bottles?
[00:43:34]  No, that's not how any of this works.
[00:43:36]  No one's asking for a celebration.
[00:43:38]  I'm just telling you, things are happening.
[00:43:40]  A lot of things are happening and you should know about them.
[00:43:42]  And there's some really good stuff that happened yesterday.
[00:43:44]  There's one case.
[00:43:44]  I'm going to tell you something.
[00:43:46]  I've been dying to talk about it for a while.
[00:43:49]  How I haven't, I've missed it until now.
[00:43:51]  I'm really almost disappointed in myself, but I am going to chat about it because when we put it out there, I knew there was going to be a counter narrative that went out and I still haven't addressed it.
[00:43:59]  You'll see what I mean in a second, I promise.
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[00:45:19]  So, ladies and gentlemen, we have another in a long line of files from the Nothing Is Happening file for you today, Justin.
[00:45:35]  So, you know, we do not accept politically motivated violence in this country.
[00:45:39]  I am very happy to report yesterday that a really wonderful person I know had her on the show on election night.
[00:45:48]  Turning Point USA reporter Savannah Hernandez.
[00:45:51]  I don't know if you remember, but she was assaulted on camera while doing good, solid independent journalism work.
[00:45:58]  Fox reported yesterday some action on this.
[00:46:00]  Again, there were some people tell you nothing was going to happen because that's all they do and then it happens and then they move on.
[00:46:05]  You get the point.
[00:46:06]  Here's a report on that yesterday.
[00:46:07]  Check this out.
[00:46:08]  Two people have been indicted on federal charges in connection to the attack on a Turning Point USA reporter.
[00:46:14]  Now, you know that happened earlier this month.
[00:46:16]  We covered it when it happened.
[00:46:18]  Savannah Hernandez, here's that video.
[00:46:20]  It's unbelievable, was covering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE protest in Minneapolis just this month when protesters swarmed her, screamed obscenities, blew horns in front of her face.
[00:46:35]  And at one point, Hernandez tried to escape, and a protester, a grown man, big guy.
[00:46:40]  Had his family with him, pushed her to the ground.
[00:46:43]  She said she was bruised on her back.
[00:46:45]  And I mean, she was hurt.
[00:46:47]  Her glasses were broken.
[00:46:48]  The names of the two suspects indicted have not yet been released, but we expect the indictment to be unsealed later today.
[00:46:57]  I'm just telling you, folks, this is not going to go down this way with this DOJ and FBI.
[00:47:01]  You're just not going to go to rallies and like push people and beat the shit out of them and think like everyone's just going to look the other way.
[00:47:09]  That's just not the way any of this is going to go down.
[00:47:13]  Here's another case.
[00:47:14]  I got to make this quick because I got to get to Lucky Trump again.
[00:47:16]  Lucky Trump does it again.
[00:47:17]  Guys, this is the luckiest man on planet Earth.
[00:47:20]  I don't have any gambling on the schedule in the coming months.
[00:47:23]  However, when I do, I am placing a phone call to President Trump and I'm just going to ask him to stand over my shoulder and just watch because he's the luckiest man on Earth.
[00:47:31]  I don't play bad.
[00:47:33]  Wow, look at that.
[00:47:35]  Is he playing the slots?
[00:47:36]  You think?
[00:47:37]  Check that out.
[00:47:38]  He doesn't drink.
[00:47:38]  I'm not sure he gambles either.
[00:47:40]  He's actually a very work oriented guy.
[00:47:42]  I'll gamble once in a while.
[00:47:43]  Have a couple of drinks on the weekend, maybe.
[00:47:45]  However, I want this guy next to me.
[00:47:47]  Before I get to that, I have been really itching to talk about this case for a long time.
[00:47:53]  Did you guys see the press reports months ago when I was back in the prior job?
[00:48:00]  There was a case about the allegations of gambling fraud and manipulation on the market involving professional sports players.
[00:48:08]  There was an update yesterday on that case.
[00:48:10]  I'm going to play a quick clip, and I just want to tell you why this is into nothing is happening, Filewell.
[00:48:15]  Why is that into nothing is happening?
[00:48:17]  File.
[00:48:17]  I'll get to it in a second.
[00:48:18]  It'll make a world of sense.
[00:48:19]  Because we were told, you know what, just play the clip and I'll explain on the other side.
[00:48:23]  Check this out.
[00:48:24]  Yesterday, Jones admitted in court that he exploited his fame and access to profit from sports betting and rigged poker games, saying in part this I would like to sincerely apologize to the court, my family, my peers, and also the National Basketball Association.
[00:48:38]  Jones, among several prominent players, making a lot of money too, that have been arrested.
[00:48:43]  He's the first, however, again, to plead guilty.
[00:48:46]  The others have not.
[00:48:47]  His sentencing set for January 6th.
[00:48:50]  Of next year.
[00:48:50]  We'll watch how that develops.
[00:48:52]  So, this is in the Nothing Is Happening file because one of the things we were told by a small, this is really just not doomers.
[00:49:01]  This was just like kind of liberal media people.
[00:49:03]  They were like, well, the FBI's focus on violent crime and cleaning up the streets is taking away assets from mob cases.
[00:49:10]  What does it have to do with this?
[00:49:11]  Ladies and gentlemen, there was a really significant Lacosa Nostra mob connection to this case.
[00:49:17]  I encourage you to look it up.
[00:49:18]  Everybody's innocent, still proven guilty.
[00:49:20]  Case is still working its way through court.
[00:49:23]  That's the way it's supposed to work.
[00:49:24]  However, when this happened, I remember getting the briefing on this case.
[00:49:28]  Folks, the mob angle was what really mattered to me.
[00:49:32]  However, listen, media is the media.
[00:49:36]  Obviously, people care about professional sports.
[00:49:38]  They know a lot of these people.
[00:49:39]  That took all the steam out of that.
[00:49:42]  So it was just ironic.
[00:49:43]  Everybody's like, oh, man, the FBI's not doing mob cases anymore.
[00:49:46]  Then you do a mob case, and then no one covers it.
[00:49:48]  They cover this professional sports angle instead, which I remember telling Cash, watch, no one's even going to mention the mob angle.
[00:49:55]  Guaranteed.
[00:49:56]  Because even though we mentioned it repeatedly in the press conference, to the chagrin of some people who were like, why are you talking about the mob angle so much?
[00:50:05]  So that wasn't happening until it happened, and they ignored that.
[00:50:08]  Another thing I was told isn't happening is I was told that because we were focusing on violent crime, we weren't doing any white collar crime anymore.
[00:50:15]  Well, that's amazing because we've had a number of significant busts, including one out of FBI San Diego yesterday.
[00:50:20]  An amazing bust here, working with the Dubai Police Department and the Chinese MPS there.
[00:50:26]  Hundreds of arrests and nine scam centers believed to be using crypto investment fraud schemes targeting Americans who suffered millions of dollars in losses.
[00:50:33]  I was told that wasn't happening either, fellas.
[00:50:38]  Appears that's happening too.
[00:50:40]  Another thing I was told wasn't happening is we got a lot of calls at the time from people who were being swatted.
[00:50:47]  And I had, you know, said on my FBI account at the time that we were working on it.
[00:50:53]  Well, now you see one of those cases working its way through the system to the excellent Judge Jeanine Pirro in Washington, D.C. Thomas Zabo of Romania was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for leading an online swatting ring that targeted more than 75 public officials, religious institutions, and multiple journalists in a nationwide threat spree.
[00:51:11]  This was one of those things, again, where people were calling me for information I could not give up.
[00:51:16]  I couldn't.
[00:51:17]  I couldn't tell you what we were doing at the time.
[00:51:19]  But again, I assured you it was happening.
[00:51:21]  And now you see that the nothing is happening is happening too.
[00:51:25]  They're running out of things to say aren't happening.
[00:51:28]  Folks, lucky Trump is at it again.
[00:51:31]  More kick ass job numbers as the economy plows ahead, despite Iran, despite global instability, despite the CCP constantly on edge with us, threats to jump the straight.
[00:51:44]  The global economy is not doing nearly as well as the U.S. economy thanks to this president's leadership.
[00:51:51]  Don't take my word for it.
[00:51:52]  I'm going to play for you CNBC.
[00:51:54]  CNBC's no big fan of President Trump.
[00:51:56]  I'm going to play this first clip.
[00:51:58]  Lucky Trump strikes again.
[00:52:01]  Check out this clip first, and then I'll play one about the jobless numbers coming up next.
[00:52:05]  Check this out personal income and spending numbers.
[00:52:08]  Income up six tenths, double expectations, and that would be the best level since the summer of 25.
[00:52:15]  July, to be specific, if we look at the spending side, equal to expectations, up nine tenths.
[00:52:23]  Pretty robust.
[00:52:26]  Lucky Trump strikes again.
[00:52:27]  Look at this guy.
[00:52:28]  Ding, Slot machine hits every freaking time.
[00:52:31]  It's almost like it's not luck.
[00:52:35]  It's almost like the system's been set for success.
[00:52:38]  And the system is President Trump's.
[00:52:43]  Wow, that sounds amazing.
[00:52:44]  Real income, GDP growth.
[00:52:47]  Sounds really good.
[00:52:48]  What about jobless claims?
[00:52:50]  Wow, look, we have a CNBC clip about that too.
[00:52:53]  It's about 20 seconds.
[00:52:54]  Check this out.
[00:52:54]  Lucky Trump strikes again.
[00:52:56]  Jobless claims hitting the wires at 189,000.
[00:53:03]  189,000.
[00:53:04]  Wow, that is truly incredible.
[00:53:07]  We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s.
[00:53:11]  This is very, very incredible.
[00:53:14]  And continuing claims, 1,785,000.
[00:53:18]  That would be the least going back to.
[00:53:21]  August of the summer of 24, actually, April of 24.
[00:53:32]  Guys, I'm really sensitive about overdoing segments.
[00:53:39]  I am.
[00:53:39]  And I even said, could I not say this to this?
[00:53:41]  I'll give you some inside baseball.
[00:53:43]  Because this isn't like a cable news show, we can do whatever we want here.
[00:53:46]  We don't have a lot of those restrictions and things.
[00:53:53]  I.
[00:53:53]  A segment and a bit that's funny is not funny if you do it five days a week.
[00:53:57]  It's just not.
[00:53:58]  Joe, God rest his soul, was very sensitive about the Muttley thing.
[00:54:02]  He was, because it wasn't funny if we did it every day.
[00:54:05]  I'm really hesitant to do Lucky Trump every day.
[00:54:08]  However, I don't know what else to do because every day is a new bit of good news.
[00:54:14]  I'm not telling you every piece of information is fantastic, great news.
[00:54:20]  I'm just telling you there's so much really amazing news.
[00:54:22]  It's hard.
[00:54:23]  I have to control myself with the Lucky Trump thing.
[00:54:26]  Because I really don't want to overdo it because then it's just not funny anymore.
[00:54:29]  So I'm going to have to put Lucky Trump maybe on hold for a day or two.
[00:54:33]  I won't be here tomorrow.
[00:54:34]  I have an event I can't get out of, and I'm sorry.
[00:54:38]  I'll be back on Monday.
[00:54:40]  However, maybe tomorrow's the break.
[00:54:42]  We may be back to Lucky Trump again on Monday.
[00:54:45]  I just like it too much.
[00:54:46]  There he is.
[00:54:47]  I said, do me one favor have him pop out of different corners all the time.
[00:54:50]  So it looks just like that.
[00:54:57]  Oh, man.
[00:54:57]  If you're in the podcast space and you're new, Don't ever overdo bits.
[00:55:02]  I'm telling you, people like, I had enough raids.
[00:55:04]  That was being funny.
[00:55:05]  Like that.
[00:55:07]  Now they're messing with me and you.
[00:55:10]  All right, back to serious time.
[00:55:12]  So I said to you in the beginning of the show, you know, be very careful who you trust with your time, where you choose to allocate your time.
[00:55:19]  Allocate your time, excuse me.
[00:55:20]  You have a limited amount of time on planet Earth.
[00:55:23]  Be very sensitive with it.
[00:55:24]  I am so deeply honored.
[00:55:26]  We have, what, 63,500 people here now?
[00:55:29]  I am so honored you guys choose to spend time with us every day.
[00:55:32]  I will never take you for granted.
[00:55:33]  I mean it.
[00:55:34]  I'm just telling you, like, if you're spending your time being lied to every day by nonsense and by like data point people with hidden knowledge who never actually tell you what that knowledge is, be very careful.
[00:55:46]  There is a brewing new conspiracy theory.
[00:55:49]  I don't know what else to call it.
[00:55:50]  I actually hate that term because the left used to use it against us.
[00:55:54]  But I don't know any other way to describe it.
[00:55:56]  It's a theoretical conspiracy that doesn't exist, that's not backed up by any data, and there's hidden knowledge claimed to prove the theory that never gets proven.
[00:56:05]  So I don't know any other way to describe it.
[00:56:08]  Any good euphemism for it?
[00:56:10]  There's a new conspiracy theory out there that the president unbelievably staged another assassination attempt on his life.
[00:56:17]  Of course, the theories out there that Butler was staged as well.
[00:56:21]  I mean, we had people shot.
[00:56:22]  Corey, compared to, was dead.
[00:56:24]  President Trump was shot in the ear.
[00:56:25]  I mean, it's just the stupidity level is really stunning.
[00:56:28]  And I just caution you like, if you're giving your time to people promoting this stuff, my question to you is why?
[00:56:37]  Why?
[00:56:39]  I'm serious.
[00:56:40]  Do you like being lied to?
[00:56:43]  I mean, you are being lied to.
[00:56:44]  You like it?
[00:56:45]  You must like it because you're there voluntarily.
[00:56:47]  No one's forcing you to watch it.
[00:56:51]  Well, the staged conspiracy theory about the weekend assassination attempt on President Trump and others, by the way, because this manifesto with the suspect mentions, you know, Trump like officials as well.
[00:57:05]  Some new imagery emerged yesterday.
[00:57:07]  This is quite the setup.
[00:57:09]  I don't know.
[00:57:09]  He's like, President Trump in the background, like, Dressing this guy up as he was getting ready to do what he claimed he was going to do in the manifesto.
[00:57:17]  Here's some new images out of the Justice Department.
[00:57:19]  Check this video out.
[00:57:20]  News has now obtained the 20 page memo, which is a motion from the DOJ of what they will argue in tomorrow's detention hearing why Cole Allen should remain behind bars until trial.
[00:57:32]  In this photo here, you see Dana.
[00:57:35]  The memo says that in the moments before Cole Allen departed his hotel room, he's there in the hotel room about to go down and storm the magnetometers at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
[00:57:46]  You can see the number of items that they lay out.
[00:57:49]  Of course, there is a sheath, a shoulder holster.
[00:57:52]  The sheathed knife you see in there.
[00:57:54]  And in the shot over there on the right side of your screen, number four appears to be wire cutters and pliers planning perhaps for some sort of escape.
[00:58:04]  Now, in this memo, the reasons for the detention, they say that the defendant's actions were premeditated, violent, and, quote, calculated to cause death.
[00:58:15]  And they lay out a timeline.
[00:58:17]  This photo taken shortly after 8 p.m., then they say shortly after 8 30 p.m., the assailant charged with a 12 gauge.
[00:58:26]  Pump action shotgun, a.38 caliber pistol, multiple knives and daggers, and a significant amount of ammunition for reloading all of those items, also detailed in photographs as matters of evidence.
[00:58:42]  Guys, ladies, I'm going to ask you a simple question.
[00:58:44]  If you, for some reason, are here on my show and you really believe this stuff, that the president's been staging multiple assassination attempts against himself, the base level of stupidity there is kind of hard for me to digest.
[00:58:58]  However, Putting that aside for a second, can I just ask you a simple question?
[00:59:03]  So, I haven't addressed this with you guys.
[00:59:06]  You guys can be my audience too for this one.
[00:59:09]  If the president of the United States was going to engage in a very sophisticated effort to stage an assassination attempt on his own life for, I don't know, for votes in an election he's not running in, he's termed out, I don't really know what he's doing that for.
[00:59:25]  But assuming you've met base level of stupid and you're there, they weren't smart enough to not tell the suspect in the case, not to take pictures of himself.
[00:59:34]  With some of the weaponry used in the attack.
[00:59:40]  It's a data point.
[00:59:41]  It's a data point.
[00:59:46]  I'm just curious.
[00:59:49]  Does that make sense?
[00:59:50]  That doesn't make any sense.
[00:59:51]  So, this high level conspiracy, they were like, hey, by the way, just don't take pictures of yourself while wearing some of the weaponry as the suspect in the case.
[01:00:02]  Don't do it.
[01:00:05]  I can't, folks.
[01:00:07]  I can't.
[01:00:10]  How do you explain this to yourself?
[01:00:12]  And of course, the Democrats, who I told you will never rescue themselves from the abyss of stupid and their ultra violent rhetoric that is causing a lot of this stuff.
[01:00:20]  Period.
[01:00:21]  There's no both sides.
[01:00:22]  Cut the bullshit.
[01:00:23]  There's one side to this.
[01:00:25]  We don't welcome this on the right.
[01:00:26]  They love this on the left.
[01:00:27]  How do I know?
[01:00:28]  Here, play that Fox clip.
[01:00:29]  Here's about 20 seconds of Democrats blaming Trump for another assassination attempt.
[01:00:33]  Check this out.
[01:00:34]  Put a lot of it at the feet of the Trump administration for a lot of the things that they've done.

=== Beyond Politics: A Political Quagmire (09:56) ===

[01:00:40]  The president has had a part of that, okay?
[01:00:42]  I mean, he's had responsibility in the rhetoric.
[01:00:45]  And he should own that, right?
[01:00:46]  Like, his tweets exist, okay?
[01:00:49]  Like, there's a reality of that.
[01:00:50]  This president is guilty of inciting violence.
[01:00:54]  At what point do people simply say, hey, Trump, it's clear that you're the drama?
[01:01:00]  Folks, how, I mean, we're at like, again, Levels of bass, stupid, where to hurdle that stupid hurdle.
[01:01:08]  I can't understand how you wind up in this stupid tent.
[01:01:13]  Lovely.
[01:01:13]  Paula just walked in the studio.
[01:01:15]  She hasn't been here in a while.
[01:01:16]  Want to say hello?
[01:01:19]  Switching gears a little bit.
[01:01:20]  Ladies and gentlemen, there's a lot happening on DOW, too.
[01:01:23]  Did you catch the fireworks up on Capitol Hill with our excellent Secretary of War, Pete Hagsett?
[01:01:28]  I love Pete.
[01:01:29]  I do my best to be objective in coverage, I promise.
[01:01:33]  However, I'm not going to lie to you like others do.
[01:01:36]  It is difficult for me because Pete's just really a great guy, and I think he's been an amazing leader.
[01:01:42]  And having seen from the inside some of the changes he's implemented at the Pentagon, Some of the things are public, some of them are not.
[01:01:50]  I'm not trying to pretend like hidden knowledge.
[01:01:52]  It's just things I can't.
[01:01:53]  It's not that it's hidden.
[01:01:54]  I just legally and for national security reasons wouldn't disclose it.
[01:01:59]  But some of the changes Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has implemented at the Pentagon are so profound, they're going to impact our military for the better for years to come.
[01:02:08]  I promise you, I would not make that up, despite my friendship with him.
[01:02:12]  If he was doing a really terrible job, I would have to say something.
[01:02:17]  He's doing an amazing job.
[01:02:19]  Amazing job.
[01:02:21]  I want to show you this back and forth about a quagmire.
[01:02:25]  Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me on this.
[01:02:27]  I get it.
[01:02:28]  I understand.
[01:02:29]  To my conservatarian friends out there, I share your concerns about using our military, getting them bogged down, and not having a clear plan.
[01:02:37]  Like I said, I ran for office against what I thought was an unclear mission in Iraq.
[01:02:42]  You can go look it up.
[01:02:45]  The bona fides are there.
[01:02:47]  However, we've been there a couple of months.
[01:02:49]  We've thankfully, although tragically, had some casualties, but limited them.
[01:02:53]  We have wiped out the mullocracy.
[01:02:55]  We are now controlling the straight ourselves.
[01:02:58]  The Iranian economy is in collapse.
[01:03:00]  And the Democrats want us to lose so bad.
[01:03:02]  They're calling this a quagmire again because they know that word is going to resonate with a generation of people who felt like the mission was unclear in Vietnam and elsewhere.
[01:03:12]  We don't lose wars.
[01:03:13]  What happens is the politics of the United States cost us wars.
[01:03:19]  I want you to watch Secretary of War Hagseth just clapping back hard on that bullshit yesterday.
[01:03:24]  This was great.
[01:03:25]  Check this out.
[01:03:26]  You appreciate how reckless it is.
[01:03:29]  When I said reckless, feckless, and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning, that came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning a quagmire.
[01:03:39]  My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing.
[01:03:49]  What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better.
[01:03:58]  Shame on you.
[01:04:00]  Calling this a quagmire two months in.
[01:04:02]  The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that creates strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies, shame on you for that statement.
[01:04:16]  And statements like that are reckless to our troops.
[01:04:18]  Don't say I support the troops on one hand, and then a two month mission is a quagmire.
[01:04:22]  That's a false equivalent.
[01:04:24]  Who are you cheering for here?
[01:04:26]  Who are you pulling for?
[01:04:27]  Our troops are doing incredible work.
[01:04:28]  They've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved.
[01:04:33]  Incredible battlefield successes, and you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires.
[01:04:39]  It undermines the mission.
[01:04:41]  Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support.
[01:04:54]  I'm going to throw something out there.
[01:04:57]  Fellas inside are like, oh, where's he going with this?
[01:04:59]  It doesn't say anything.
[01:05:02]  The Republican bench.
[01:05:05]  Political bench is deep.
[01:05:09]  The Democrat bench is total shit.
[01:05:11]  It's absolute garbage.
[01:05:13]  I'm not telling you there's not going to be some dark horse that's going to emerge.
[01:05:18]  I'm talking about the Democrat side, not people I would vote for, but like you had Obama come out of nowhere.
[01:05:22]  Democrats love him.
[01:05:24]  You know, Bill Clinton came out of nowhere.
[01:05:26]  Bill Clinton was like a governor with a light reputation at best.
[01:05:31]  A reputation wasn't even great and wound up being a two term president.
[01:05:34]  Someone could emerge out of nowhere on the Democrat side.
[01:05:37]  I'm just telling you right now, I live in the now, like the Eckhart Tolle book, right?
[01:05:43]  They're.
[01:05:44]  Leader board is Kamala Harris, Buttigieg, and Newsom.
[01:05:48]  All, I'm not telling you they can't win.
[01:05:50]  I'm just telling you they're all deeply flawed candidates.
[01:05:53]  Kamala Harris just got smoked.
[01:05:55]  Buttigieg just sucks and just destroys everything he touches.
[01:05:59]  And Newsom's got to run as being the governor of California where people are moving out of.
[01:06:02]  They're all deeply flawed.
[01:06:04]  The Republican bench is deep.
[01:06:10]  That's why I'm not throwing in the towel.
[01:06:12]  We're going to lose the midterms, lose the presidential.
[01:06:16]  No, I'm not saying that.
[01:06:20]  You see where I'm going with this?
[01:06:21]  Where do you guys think I'm going with this in the chat?
[01:06:25]  I think Pete could make a significant run for national office.
[01:06:30]  I think Rubio could make a significant run for national office.
[01:06:35]  I think JD could make a significant run for national office.
[01:06:41]  We have a bench of freaking ringers out there, just absolute ringers.
[01:06:49]  And by the way, there's three names.
[01:06:51]  There's probably 10, 20 more.
[01:06:55]  I think Don Jr. could make a run.
[01:06:57]  I'm not sure he's interested in politics.
[01:06:59]  I think Eric could make a run.
[01:07:00]  I think Lara Trump could make a run.
[01:07:05]  The bench is deep.
[01:07:08]  Pete has done an amazing job despite multiple, multiple attacks.
[01:07:13]  And he's a real guy.
[01:07:15]  He's a real guy who's had issues like you and I've had.
[01:07:18]  He's got over them and he's reached the.
[01:07:20]  I mean, the most important job in the United States presidency cabinet, the Secretary of War, formerly Secretary of Defense.
[01:07:29]  There is no more important job.
[01:07:33]  And how do we know?
[01:07:34]  Because, hey, listen, Dan, you're a receipts guy.
[01:07:37]  We got our little receipts thing.
[01:07:38]  We bring receipts, right?
[01:07:40]  Ladies and gentlemen, if Pete was doing such a terrible job, how come we've minimized, although had some casualties, but minimized casualties?
[01:07:48]  We've basically met our metrics for what we said we were going to do in Venezuela, in Iran.
[01:07:54]  There are other things going on, obviously, he can't talk about.
[01:07:56]  And how come recruiting's through the roof?
[01:07:58]  If he's doing such a terrible job, how come so many people want to sign up?
[01:08:02]  It's like saying that guy's a terrible leader of a company.
[01:08:04]  We got 42,000 applications for 10 spots.
[01:08:06]  It doesn't make sense.
[01:08:09]  Here's Secretary of War Hegsev on some of the recruiting numbers.
[01:08:13]  Again, receipts matter.
[01:08:14]  This isn't hidden knowledge or a data point you never produced.
[01:08:18]  This is a data point that's real.
[01:08:20]  Check this out.
[01:08:20]  I think something that obviously the media doesn't want to cover and doesn't want to talk about is the Historic record breaking surge in recruiting in our ranks.
[01:08:30]  30 year record in recruiting of Americans wanting to join our joint force, wanting to put the uniform on.
[01:08:38]  We're meeting recruiting goals halfway through the year.
[01:08:41]  We couldn't meet our recruiting goals under the previous administration.
[01:08:45]  Under Joe Biden, Americans didn't want to join the military.
[01:08:47]  We couldn't get it.
[01:08:49]  Now we have to turn people away and push them to the next fiscal year.
[01:08:52]  That's why this budget grows our force by almost 50,000 ultimately.
[01:08:56]  Additional troops into the force that we believe we can recruit.
[01:08:59]  That's the best vote of confidence.
[01:09:02]  I can imagine.
[01:09:04]  And here's the kicker.
[01:09:06]  And I don't mean kicker like kicking the nuts like the Democrats do to their voters.
[01:09:08]  I mean kicker like in a good way.
[01:09:11]  The Republican bench is really young.
[01:09:15]  Don Jr., Eric, Laura Trump, JD, Rubio, Pete.
[01:09:22]  Forgive me for not using titles.
[01:09:23]  It just will go on forever.
[01:09:24]  I don't mean it disrespectfully.
[01:09:27]  They're really young.
[01:09:29]  We keep this going the MAGA legacy of a strong economy, a strong military, solid borders, lowest crime rates in American history, a safe, prosperous America.
[01:09:39]  Man, we could be sitting in the White House for 30 years.
[01:09:43]  And then we cut off their gerrymandering, their racial gerrymandering efforts.
[01:09:47]  We cut off their ability to count illegals in the census.
[01:09:50]  Folks, I'm not kidding, man.
[01:09:52]  We could be in charge for 30 years.
[01:09:55]  All you got to do is show up and vote and continue to demand results.
[01:10:04]  You know, I like to put out these kind of PSAs.
[01:10:07]  Jasmine loves these too.
[01:10:08]  I try to help out with health hacks and things like that.
[01:10:11]  This is a political show, but I think there are some things out there that are beyond politics that are really important.
[01:10:16]  This is not a health hack segment here, but just quickly, the lovely Paula giving me that.
[01:10:24]  This is for parents out there, soon to be parents, if you want to be parents and if you're ever thinking about being a parent.
[01:10:30]  I want you to watch this.
[01:10:32]  It's about a minute or so, but this is the Dan Bongino Show PSA.

=== Keep Kids Away from Screens (02:13) ===

[01:10:36]  It is a news segment about screens.
[01:10:39]  Folks, keep your kids away from screens as they're younger.
[01:10:44]  This thing is poison.
[01:10:45]  You want to make your kids dumber like that?
[01:10:47]  You know, those guys at the No Kings rally and others who don't have answers to anything, put them in front of a screen at an early age.
[01:10:53]  That thing is poison.
[01:10:54]  I see this all the time.
[01:10:56]  Listen, my daughter, my youngest one, has a phone.
[01:10:58]  We didn't give her a phone until she was in her early teens.
[01:11:01]  We probably could have waited a little more.
[01:11:02]  I'm not telling you I'm the perfect parent by far.
[01:11:05]  Forget that.
[01:11:05]  I made my own mistakes.
[01:11:07]  One of the things we never did, though, keep your kids away from these screens.
[01:11:11]  After you watch this, you will never put a screen in front of your young child's face again.
[01:11:17]  This is unbelievable how bad the damage.
[01:11:19]  Being done to a generation of kids.
[01:11:21]  Check this out.
[01:11:22]  Can you see the screen already?
[01:11:24]  This is five year old Rose.
[01:11:26]  She was one of 60 kids to undergo an exhaustive study in the US using an MRI machine to scan the brains of kids aged three to five years old.
[01:11:37]  The results truly shocking.
[01:11:39]  Interactive screen time causes a loss of white matter in the brain.
[01:11:46]  Well, in the simplest terms, we could actually refer to some measure of.
[01:11:50]  Brain impairment or brain damage.
[01:11:52]  Professor Mike Nagel from the University of the Sunshine Coast has spent a career studying child brain development.
[01:12:00]  So, white matter in the brain is a material called myelin.
[01:12:03]  So, what myelin does is it wraps around the axons of neurons and acts like an insulator, a conductor, not too dissimilar to the plastic coating of a wire.
[01:12:12]  So, if we're seeing deficits in myelin production early in life, we're probably seeing deficits in neural connectivity.
[01:12:17]  The study shows the more screen time a child is exposed to, The greater the loss of white matter.
[01:12:24]  Can you remember your first reaction to those results, not only as a professional in this field, but as a father?
[01:12:32]  My gut reaction was wow.
[01:12:34]  I was not anticipating seeing anything like that.
[01:12:36]  It hadn't occurred to me at the time that something as little as, and it said two hours a day, was having such a profound effect on the white matter associated with sort of language development.
[01:12:45]  And by association, literacy, it was a shock, to be honest.

=== Democrat Zen Moment of the Day (02:47) ===

[01:12:49]  Please, I'm begging you as a friend, we're trying to keep this show.
[01:12:54]  Anchored in the political space, which is what we do in news, but branch out a little bit into other items.
[01:13:00]  We're working on some guests next week that we're going to try to get back on different items too, just like we had Dr. Rhonda.
[01:13:06]  Please, in the name of all that's holy, keep your kid away from these screens.
[01:13:11]  Someone said in the chat smartphones make you dumb.
[01:13:13]  They do.
[01:13:14]  The phone's smart, it makes you dumber.
[01:13:17]  I feel bad too.
[01:13:17]  A couple of names I didn't even remember.
[01:13:19]  Just to go back to kind of the prior segment, not to jump around, but here's another couple of names of really, really young, but incredibly talented people in the political space who could run for office or national office.
[01:13:31]  Here's a couple you haven't heard Steve Miller.
[01:13:34]  I don't think he's into politics.
[01:13:36]  Steven Miller, I think he's into policy.
[01:13:38]  But Steve's just a no bullshit guy.
[01:13:42]  And Caroline Levitt's another one.
[01:13:44]  She's actually got experience running for office.
[01:13:45]  We had her on the show when she was running for Congress.
[01:13:48]  Caroline Levitt's future is, I mean, the sky's the limit.
[01:13:52]  Some of these people are in their 30s and 40s, folks.
[01:13:55]  I'm telling you, like, if we go out there and do the 10, 10, and 10, grab 10 people, bring them to the polls, send 10 emails, make 10 social media posts, make 10 phone calls before the election, we could be in charge for 30 years.
[01:14:07]  Shut down the border, get rid of the racial gerrymandering crap, stop the identity politics.
[01:14:12]  We could be in charge.
[01:14:13]  For 30, 40 freaking years, man.
[01:14:16]  And no, that's not hyperbole, Pollyanna bullshit.
[01:14:19]  That is real.
[01:14:22]  If we wouldn't have screwed up the Reagan revolution, you know, George H.W. and the, you know, Read My Lips tax moment, which was not great.
[01:14:29]  I mean, George H.W. had quite the resume.
[01:14:32]  However, we started getting away from what made us really popular.
[01:14:36]  We would have been in charge for 30 years.
[01:14:39]  Reagan won 49 out of 50 states.
[01:14:41]  That's almost impossible.
[01:14:43]  He only lost Minnesota, where Mondale was from, and he only lost that state by, what is that, 3,000 votes?
[01:14:49]  Reagan could have swept all 50 states.
[01:14:51]  You know how hard that is to do?
[01:14:54]  Conservatism works.
[01:14:55]  Conservatism works.
[01:14:59]  Now, it is not Friday, it is Thursday, but producer Jim has been kind enough weekly on Fridays to leave you because I will not be here tomorrow.
[01:15:06]  Again, I'll be back on Monday.
[01:15:08]  Don't sweat it out.
[01:15:09]  Everything's good, by the way.
[01:15:10]  A couple of people were asking me questions because I had mentioned something that happened to us, which was.
[01:15:14]  Very unfortunate.
[01:15:15]  They're not related.
[01:15:16]  This is just a strict business thing, I promise you.
[01:15:19]  However, producer Jim has been kind enough to produce at the end of the week, which will be today for us, the Democrat Zen moment to leave you on the weekend with a sedating, calm, kind of meditating like moment where you can drop the neuronal activity and just calm down a little bit.
[01:15:33]  And thankfully, the Democrats have produced that every Friday.
[01:15:35]  In today's case, Thursday.

=== Conservatism Works: Reagan Sweep (02:17) ===

[01:15:37]  Check this out.
[01:15:37]  Your Democrat Zen moment of the day, a peaceful moment to center your mind.
[01:15:45]  Watch this.
[01:15:47]  Wackenorange!
[01:15:49]  There he is, you son of a.
[01:15:53]  Ha!
[01:15:57]  I got it!
[01:15:58]  I got it!
[01:16:01]  Ha!
[01:16:02]  Ha!
[01:16:02]  Got you!
[01:16:03]  Wackenorange!
[01:16:03]  This has been Democrat Zen.
[01:16:09]  I don't see these.
[01:16:10]  I don't.
[01:16:10]  It's not some gimmick we do for the show.
[01:16:13]  I just ask him if there's a lot of foul language.
[01:16:15]  Give me a heads up.
[01:16:16]  There's obviously not a lot of.
[01:16:18]  Thank you, TikTok lady, for that calming, again, meditating like moment.
[01:16:22]  It was like yoga.
[01:16:25]  It's like hot yoga in the studio.
[01:16:26]  Everybody just kind of calms down a little bit after that.
[01:16:29]  Folks, thanks again for tuning in.
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