A Gift? (Ep. 2578)

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27:33But tautologically, not everyone's 50. There's a large and growing population, thankfully, of younger folks out there. And they didn't see 9-11 like we did. The fact that 9-11 apologists for the Islamo-radicals that murdered thousands of Americans and altered the course of not just U.S. history but world history, the fact that they are welcome in the big tent Democrat Party is all you need to know about where the Democrat Party is. I was a young secret service agent when it happened And a lot of police officers from ESU is the New York City Police Department SWAT teams Emergency Services Unit right they don't go by SWAT they go by ESU When I was a young police officer before my time in the secret service ESU Truck 7 one of their units turned out out of our precinct in the 7-5 So I used to see them in the back there was a parking lot area in the back of the precinct and I remember only reason I remember it is I wanted to be an emergency services guy I just left for the secret service later everybody did the you know the old adage was when people need help they call the cops when the cops need help they call ESU I wanted to be an ESU guy so bad so I'd see these guys come out you know good shape they got all like the gear and I was like man that's pretty cool I want to you know I want to do that a lot of those guys died truck seven lost quite a few guys in the towers and i think to myself you know a lot how many of those guys that i saw coming out was like wow you know i'm proud of that guy i'd like to be one of those how many of those guys did i pass whose kids don't have a dad they sit there and thanksgiving and Christmas for 20 plus years now since 9-11.

29:26All the could have been, would have been stories. What would have been like to have my dad walk me down the aisle at my wedding? What would have been like to have my father watch me graduate from college? What would have been like for my dad to watch me get my badge? Maybe they became police officers themselves. Those are questions that'll never be answered. And I know it's decades later. I understand that. But to the younger folks out there who follow this Hassan Piker and these other guys, these apologists for this stuff, they've said it. Listen to their own words about deserving 9-11 and elsewhere.

30:05Just listen to their own words. folks there was no darker day in my lifetime if you lived through that you were scarred forever and there is zero chance there's a constituency among sane people in the united states young old or indifferent that 9-11 we in fact deserved it there is no constituency for that and i'm really sorry it took you this long to wake up to it now i said i'd show you this jk rowling tweet I did not forget. J.K. Rowling, of course, is a very famous author. She wrote the Harry Potter series. I think it's pretty clear she's not a MAGA person, does not associate with Republican or conservative politics.

30:45But she's been very vocal about the trans issue and other issues as well, which, of course, makes you an instant enemy on the left. so I've been I've been trying to push this into the conservative space and thankfully it's starting to catch on there are people out there on the doomer and grifter side and I'm not talking about the ones that are paid those are just ops there are a lot of people out there who just fell for it and are still going with it you see it now with all the nonsense, conspiracy crap and it's turned into just complete ideological chaos nobody knows what to believe anymore that's the goal the problem i have is some people are shown given on the cliched silver platter hey you believe in this but this is not true and here's the evidence like well i don't believe that either folks there are some people that are so far down the rabbit hole you can't rescue them jk rowling addressed this in a tweet you're seeing it now on both sides the more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is the more people who hold it or pretend to will resist recanting keep this up that sounds that sounds almost counterintuitive if an idea is clearly nonsensical socialism works space aliens kill charlie whatever it is you would think people would forfeit that that's not the way the crazier the idea the more people resist recanting she explains why that's because the potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed.

32:20They have no choice but to double down. The crazier the idea, once people look in the mirror and have to say to themselves, I can't believe I bought the space alien nonsense, it's that moment where you have to accept the fact that you fell for it. They will not do it. They will go to the grave drinking the Kool-Aid, for those of you who have heard the expression before. They will never let it go. This phenomenon is everywhere. Now, so you may say to yourself, rightly so, so Dan, what's the point then? Why do you continue to do the show to this group of people interested in the truth? If there's other people out there, despite no matter how many times you show them the results, what happened, they're not going to buy it.

33:04Why would you continue to do it? The answer is I learned during campaigning for office myself that there's always a third party listening. Always. Always. I used to campaign at state fairs, county fairs. I can't tell you how many liberals. I ran in Maryland. Maryland. Maryland, one of the most blue states in the union. I would be out there with like whatever, Bongino for Congress sign. There was always some lunatic that would come up. You suck. Why do I say? School choice sucks. Why does it suck? And you'd let them scream and they would vent. They would blow up and lose their minds that you would convince them of nothing you'd be like well why not just give the parents a choice they pay for the schools screw the parent whatever there was always a third person who was listening they'd be like this or the pose not the not the pose like the other guy but they'd come up to you after the exchange and they would say hey man i heard your arguments there and you know i i didn't really know how important the school choice thing was but i get it would happen all the time i mean i'm not using exact language i don't want to be dramatic but There's always a third person listening.

34:09You see it now with all these ops out there everywhere. The current thing just pops up out of nowhere. You see it with this Lindsey Clancy case. People have an opinion based purely on emotion. This A.G. Hamilton put this up about data centers. Folks, we have no way out of the debt crisis we're in without winning the AI race. We'll be dead. He notes the anti-data center stuff's insane And clear evidence we have Entered a post It's clear evidence we've entered a post-truth era Where many people can be convinced Often by malicious actors To abandon reality And allow conspiracies and falsehoods To drive policy preferences Let me just be again Crystal clear I've invested in the tech economy For a long time I am not telling you in your community How to vote That's your business I don't live in your community.

35:05I live in mine. You don't like them? Fine. You don't like an issue? Fine. Just don't become emotion focused. Become problem focused. And the way to fix a problem is to gather the data, do a net present value, what works for you, and what doesn't. The excuse isn't like, let's scuttle the ships, burn the ships, and blow the whole country up. I'm going to give you some economic numbers We've got to get to this at the end of the show The debt thing and that Parker thing I'm going to show you what I mean All of the things people care about Republicans and Democrats Saving your retirement Democrats believe in social security A lot of Republicans believe retirement can be done Other ways, social security's got some issues Tax money, roads, schools All of this stuff is dependent on us solving problems If we get lost in every single op Just like what happened with the nuclear power industry and elsewhere, you're going to find yourself in a place where five years from now, maybe less, we're all under cyber attack.

36:10Put that Kelly Mayer thing up at the end. We're all under cyber attack because we lost the AI race. And you're going to be like, my gosh, I know it wasn't the current thing at the time, but maybe I should have spoken up. Here, Kelly Mayer news on X. The NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA are all warning Americans this afternoon of the threat of unidentified hackers trying to breach devices made by Siemens that are used to monitor and operate water facilities and other critical infrastructure systems. Sounds like something we've done. I've only mentioned ICS, Industrial Control System attacks, cyber attacks on water and elsewhere a thousand times.

36:45Folks, this threat is real. Just because some random account told you on Twitter like, you should not do this because I said so, paid for by so-and-so, doesn't mean we should commit national suicide. It's not easy to have to tell people the truth. Being a current thinger is easy in this business. It is. It's the easiest thing to do. Speaking of which, when you fall for the current thing, sometimes like lunatics will burst into your studio. sometimes this happened the other day some lunatic like bursting in here screaming this is what happens when you fall for the current thing and you're that emotion look at that a little static yeah okay you got the other camera oh the other you believe this this is crazy this happened in the studio the other day i'm glad you had the multiple camera view justin picked up on what i was with all right disclaimer this is not in fact someone who broke into the studio screaming and yelling we have very good security this is in fact the senate nominee in florida angie nixon screaming like a lunatic on the house floor in the state of florida folks this is what it looks like when everything is the current thing all the time she really thinks this sells andy you look at you have something to say there I was just thinking that Folks in the chat Andy just said something I was thinking too Did you catch it in the chat?

38:17The outfit, the pink outfit She's got the matching megaphone That must be part of the op Make sure it looks really cute The microphone's got to The megaphone, excuse me, has got to match the outfit Folks, it's all an op, man It's all BS This is what current thinkers look like This is what the doomers look like yesterday. I mean, I'm telling you, I haven't seen a meltdown like yesterday in a long time since I came back to the radio and they all freaked out.

38:48Before we go any further, I want to address another current thing. It's not a doomer current thing. This is a left-wing media current thing. Folks, there are so many people in the left-wing media who will fall for the dumbest of current things. And the latest current thing, some of you know where I'm going with this, is President Trump has a personal aide, Natalie Harp. She's very nice. She does great work for him. I mean, you're not going to meet someone more dedicated to the MAGA mission than Natalie Harp. You're just not. Whether you like her or not, I don't care. I'm not interested. Just like I really don't care.

39:22I'm like I say I don't care. But I'm just like, it's not going to alter my behavior at all if you like me or don't, not one bit. In other words, I don't care enough to change telling you the truth. Neither does she or President Trump. The left-wing media hates Natalie Harp. She is the new, like, that's it. On the dartboard, they're throwing the darts. This is what it looks like when you're screaming into a pink megaphone with the pink outfit on the house floor like a crazy lunatic. This is what it looks like on TV, absent the screaming, but the effect is the same. They're upset that Natalie Harp, who's a personal aide to the president, personal aide to the president, is so good at her job that even when they, this story requires a little bit of background, forgive me.

40:07I was a motorcade agent twice in the Secret Service. I went back as the whip. Sometimes in the motorcade, there are mistakes. Every vehicle is manifested. You do not just get in. If this is boring, I'm sorry. It's important you understand this story though because again, speaks to my point how the media doesn't know anything. Apparently they're like SUVs that we are, they have trunks now. Maybe some SUVs may have trunks, not the SUVs we use. In the trunk like an old car. Like, remember Goodfellas where they throw Billy Bats in the trunk? There's this crazy CNN story. She got in the trunk of the car.

40:41There's no trunk in the SUV. She got in the well that has a seat in the back. Sometimes when you're doing a motorcade, occasionally a manifest, one of the manifests will be wrong. And someone's missing. And it always looks like this. We just call it like ring around the vehicle. When they're running around the vehicle, where's my spot? Where's my spot? It happens. CNN, this was a huge story yesterday. They threw Natalie Harp in the trunk. Oh, my gosh. I watched this term like Vince brought this up on his show. I'm like, really? Let me listen to check this out. What more are you learning about Natalie Harp?

41:19Well, it just shows you how much she cares about President Trump and how she wants to be in proximity to him. This was back in 2023 when President Trump was in court in New York and he was going down to head to the courthouse. And the motorcade was waiting outside of Trump Tower when staffers realized that there weren't enough seats for Natalie Harp. They had an accountant that she would be going down to the courthouse. And she was told that. Now, a screaming match then ensued in the lobby of Trump Tower at that time, with essentially Harp saying that the president had personally asked her to go.

41:53And she was determined, so determined to not be left behind that she actually got in the trunk of one of the SUVs that was part of the motorcade and sat there. It's almost like a cargo hold. It's not a cargo hold, you imbecile. There's a well in the back. Have you ever seen a Chevy Suburban or a Tahoe or a Yukon? Have you an Escalade? They're all basically the same frame. They're modified. many times with the Cina bag. And even if they're not modified, sometimes people will just open the back gate if the manifest is wrong, and they'll just sit sideways. They were going to the courthouse. It was like a two-minute motorcade.

42:36This is only a scandal on CNN. Now, I want you to keep in mind, someone said in the chat, thank you, your experience is always, I appreciate it. I don't want to bore you, that's it. This happens a lot. It happens in elevators too. Sometimes the Secret Service will miss someone in an elevator You get in an elevator with your name on it If you don't, you don't belong in the elevator These mistakes happen, not often, but they happen This is not a nightly news story on cable TV I want to prove to you, too That Natalie Harp, as a personal aide, is just a Trump story It's not a story story They just want to attack President Trump The Doomers, too, by the way, will harp on this, too, some of them Have you ever heard negative stories about Reggie Love?

43:22Like, who's Reggie Love? Thank you, exactly. Justin, do you know? Folks in the chat, do you know who that is? First person who gets it. Put him up on the screen. Most of you don't even know who he is. That's the point. Reggie Love was Obama's personal aide. Traveled with him everywhere. Why weren't there big scandals? Like, oh my gosh, he jumped in a well with him. The answer is because it was Obama. And the media loves Obama. So they didn't care. What about George W. Bush? 43 What about his personal aide? The guy's name was Blake I remember we work with Blake I don't remember his name It doesn't really matter Why wasn't he a huge story?

44:01The answer is because he wasn't Trump either They just hate Donald Trump Folks, these are just dumb, stupid stories Yes Pimp Daddy Payne Is that like Big Daddy Kane? Obama's personal assistant Yes, Pimp Daddy Payne Missed a couple letters You did get it up fast Ain't no half-stepping Some of you will get that You guys don't get that at all, do you? You're way too young Look it up Look it up right now Anyone in the chat get that? Okay Folks, ops are everywhere The current thing today is Natalie Harp the current thing this is what I was ever since I got back on the air I get this question a lot in our email I get it in uh DM messages people send my team Dan why the hate man towards you why the hate towards cash why the hate towards basically anyone in the Trump Natalie Harper why the hate.

45:07Folks, I told you the answer is to demoralize you and get you to hate the administration no matter what. But many of these people are afraid to take on the president directly because they know they'll get squashed. So they think they can pick off people around him one by one. I've warned people in the administration, it's only a matter of time before they come for you too. Their only agenda is demoralization. Ops are everywhere. Ari Fleischer pointed this out yesterday about the polling scandal like pointed out yesterday. How folks, you can take most of the polls you read and throw them right in the garbage.

45:43Most of them are completely, utterly worthless. Ari Fleischer put this post up on X. It was Qantas Insights had this thing. Great work here from Patrick Graffini. Across 3 ,300 Senate polls over four cycles, He finds the Democrats have a plus 3.7 average error, basically in their direction, with 73 % of polls overstating Democrats. Even more interesting is that the error peaks around Democrats plus close to six in late July before narrowing toward Election Day. Ari Fleischer says, everyone, pay attention to this. Stop thinking polls are accurate. They've long been biased towards these. This careful study shows by how much.

46:23Folks, it's a scam. These things are ops. They are not legitimate. Now, there are some polling outlets that do their homework. The point is, many of them don't. And until they can fix their statistical errors, what's the point of a poll? I hate to go over this again. But think about, do you understand the statistical difference between reliability and validity? I want you to think of an analogy here about polls. polls are reliable but not valid wait dan that's crazy there the problem is people don't understand the difference and they take the polls as if they're reliable and valid what do i mean imagine getting on a scale you know to measure your weight i have one in my little gym in the house right imagine you get on a scale and the scale is off every day by five pounds it adds five pounds.

47:18So I'm about 195. So what would the scale say? 200. Now, if you know the scale is reliable, it's reliably wrong, but it's reliable. It's reliably wrong by the same thing, but it's not valid. It's not measuring your weight. Your weight's not 200. It's 195. But you understand there's an error built in that's reliable. So it's reliable, just not valid. That's what people don't understand about polls. They think they're both. Oh, this is a valid measure. The Democrats are going to win. It's not a valid measure. They're wrong by about five to six points. If you don't know that, you don't show up at the polls.

47:54You're like, oh my gosh, we're going to lose. We're going to get smoked. I'm just trying to help you recognize these ops out there. They're everywhere. These polls, this is a fact. I just, it's not an opinion. The polls over the last four cycles said this and this happened. The elections are over. The data is not disputable. take the polls, roll them in a ball and they're not, they're garbage they are reliably wrong you can add between 3 and 6 points to every Republican's result in a lot of these races and then you'll have a better idea where they stand folks, some of these same people again, the Folex MAGA guys do this too they're reliably wrong every single time.

48:47Reliably wrong. Therefore, their opinions are not valid. The scale is not measuring your weight. You're not 200 pounds. No, people didn't come from Jupiter, the planet, not down in South Florida, and engage in some murderous conspiracy. You've been reliably wrong every single time. Your opinion is not valid. Everything you say has been proven wrong. and yet the doomers continue. Nothing is happening. Well, here's what happened. Nothing happened on the COVID case. Well, this happened yesterday. It doesn't matter. I'm just going to move on to my other reliably wrong opinion. Will Chamberlain put this post up the other day.

49:30I bet you've been told too, the Trump administration, they're just not deporting it. It's unbelievable. I don't know where this came from. Tom Homan's disputed it. The Trump administration's disputed it. Mullen, the DHS has disputed it. They've given you actual numbers. People are either deported or they're not. Nothing is happening. Andy, how would you know someone's deported? Andy's like, they're not here. Like we said, this isn't hard. The poly market just in U.S. refugee admissions are now on pace to hit their lowest, lowest, lowest. No, this isn't Superman. Lowest level on record. with nearly all refugees admitted this fiscal year coming from South Africa.

50:13I heard the Trump administration had given up. Will Chamberlain notes, yeah, but being sarcastic, obviously. Yeah, but Trump isn't doing anything on immigration or so I'm told. He's being sarcastic. Folks, these people are reliably wrong. Everything they tell you is wrong. It's the scale that doesn't measure your weight. so why are their opinions going forward valid on anything I don't know why you would fall for that there are other people out there I'm talking about Folex MAGA forget it folks it's over there's no energy in the midterms it's already lost look at the polls forget the liberals I'm talking about Folex MAGA people on our side then you see these numbers out of Florida put up that Daugherty tweet I thought nobody cared I thought everybody was demoralized.

51:08Nothing is happening. We've stopped deporting people. Massive amounts of refugees being admitted into the country. Crime out of control. There's nobody being investigated for anything. I thought that was all happening and everybody was pissed off. Eric Daugherty, breaking Florida Republicans, now lead Democrats by nearly 12 points in primary voting statewide. Which is weird because the GOP's total registration advantage is only 11 points. election day turnout 521 ,000 republicans 236 ,000 thems notes republicans are over performing above and beyond even their insane registration i thought everybody was miserable i thought everybody was miserable like ronald mcdonald i thought what again it's almost like you've been being told things by people where the those are just numbers folks you can prove people either turned out and Voted or they didn't.

52:03People were either deported or they weren't. Refugees were either admitted into the country, they weren't. People were either killed or they weren't. Like the homicide rate is either down or it's not. You don't invent dead people. There's no like, this isn't the sixth sense. I see dead people. That's not how this works. I just refuse to be miserable. And it drives people freaking crazy. It does. It drives them nuts. They cannot, they just can't get over the fact that they cannot make this show go away. They have tried forever. And it just pisses them off because their audiences shrink. As this thing expands, we're now moving back into radio.

52:44Oh, by the way, there was a little confusion about that. Sorry, I don't mean to get sidetracked. My podcast isn't going anywhere. Nothing is changing. 10 a.m., I'll see you here live every day. The radio show, again, is going to be starting on Monday. First hour, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern. I know the Doomers are upset. I'm sorry. You're going to have to seek some help on that. I can't help you, okay? There's also more news coming about radio. For those who think it's a one-off, it's not. Three to six nationally radio stations across the country. Sean Ferris is going to be live, live from three to four, first hour.

53:16My four to six show is going to be some of the content from the podcast along with some original content too. But it doesn't affect the podcast at all. I probably should have been a little more clear on that. But the show is expanding, and there's more news ahead. I know that's going to upset everyone.

53:33I don't want us to descend into chaos. We're going to be happy warriors in this movement because I choose not to be miserable. I wake up every morning and I told you, I say, I'm Dan Bongino. I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. Why? Because it's true, man. Manifest good things in your life. Smile a little bit. Got to walk around screaming and yelling all the time about nothing's happening. You want to turn into these guys? this is what a movement looks like when the math doesn't math and chaos completely sets in and you'll say anything to anyone at any time this is talafrico the democrat nominee for the united states senate in the state of texas he goes in is this the breakfast club i think it's a breakfast club right it is the breakfast club which is a very popular morning show nationwide i think it's charlemagne and his crew they have a huge audience but he goes on the show and he's asked about the Carmelo Anthony case, not the basketball player, the stabbing case.

54:35Many of you know Austin Metcalf. It's a horrible case, right? Horrible case. He says one of the craziest things I've ever heard because Carmelo Anthony happens to be black and the person who was murdered, Austin Metcalf, is white, that somehow the conviction in this case shouldn't matter because there was nobody black in the jury? what the does that argument work the other way do you realize how crazy would be and was it voir dire the selection process if an attorney for a white suspect in the case was like we only want white people it would sound crazy right it would not be a reliable or valid opinion this guy is a nutbag now you see why they call him talafrico he believes in multiple genders This guy's a nut.

55:25He's running in Texas. He's not running in Illinois. He's not running for Chicago mayor. Let's listen to this crap. In Texas, we see what happened with Carmelo Anthony, and you said it was a tragedy. Yeah. What did you mean by that? Well, I've done a lot of work in the statehouse on justice reform, and right now we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans equally, and we know that black Texans have not gotten the justice they deserve in many cases. And I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury. And to me, that's the only evidence you need to really prove that this system is not working for black Texans.

56:12You guys ever get picked for jury duty? You did? I didn't know this was a way out. You did? you got you got called did you actually get picked is an answer now so just to be clear like if i were to get picked for jury duty right this is how insane this talafrico guy is all he had to do was say listen i trust the american citizen enough white black asian muslim jewish christian it doesn't matter if you're in a jury you're not going to sentence excuse me you're not going to convict someone and vote for their guilt just because of their skin color that's the answer. It's not hard. Josh, you ever get picked for jury duty?

56:52He was juror number one. I didn't know a way out of it was to say, hey man, that guy's Asian. I'm white. I'm no good for this. Wouldn't you be admitting you're a racist? This is what it looks like when a movement becomes not reliable or reliably wrong, I should say, therefore not valid. You want to vote for this guy in Texas, racially segregated juries. What are we back to Jim Crow juries now? I thought they were, they always claimed they were the party against Jim Crow, which is ridiculous if you read the history. Right, exactly. Why isn't it the lawyers? Like the lawyer, like, oh my gosh, we got all white people here.

57:36Like what? This is the craziest thing I've ever heard. Folks, this is what it looks like when the math doesn't math and your opinions are reliably wrong. Put up the Wall Street Journal article. You've got this lady now running in Florida, Angie Nixon, the screamer, pink megaphone, pink outfit, screaming like a lunatic. She's a Medicare for All supporter. So is El Syed. He's trying to run away from it now. And so is she. El Syed in Michigan, two Democrats. Medicare for All, meaning your insurance gets canceled, period. It's in the Bernie Sanders bill. I showed it yesterday. Watch the show. look at this section if you think I'm making it up.

58:16Unlike your show, our show is reliable and valid. We were right. So they have a piece up James Freeman in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, and he's citing an article about what government-run healthcare for all looks like. He notes in Canada, the closest country to the US that has universal healthcare, healthcare spending is responsible for 12.7 % of GDP. Several points higher, does that say higher? I thought this was gonna save money. than the average spend of OECD countries. They note, despite this higher spending, the median waiting time between referral from a GP and receiving the treatment from some specialists has hit 28.6 weeks, which is 208 % longer than the weight Canadian patients would have experienced in 1993.

59:05They note from April 2023 to March 2024, almost 15 ,000 people died? waiting for health care in Canada according to a freedom of information request. So just to be clear, keep this up for a second, fellas. You're going to pay vastly more on average through your taxes for government bureaucrats to tell you when and where you can have your chest cracked open if you have a heart attack. You're going to have waiting times that exceed by far sane, reasonable averages around the world where you have free market health care and you pick yourself. And you're also going to have it rationed to the point where tens of thousands of people die on a waiting list.

59:49Those are just numbers. Those are just numbers, man. This is what it looks like when the math doesn't math.

59:59Why would you believe that a government bureaucrat gives a damn about your health care because they care about it? Most of them can't even figure out I didn't get you a driver's license and a DMV.

1:00:15Here's also what it looks like when the math doesn't math. Remember the New York City grocery stores with Komdami? They want New York City government-run grocery stores. Ladies and gentlemen, the government can't get you a driver's license. They want to run a grocery store? The way they're going to make the grocery store cheaper is by using your tax, your money, to buy food for not you. Very few people are going to get into this grocery store because they're going to run out of products. But your tax dollars in Queens, I lived in Queens, are going to be used to pay for a grocery store in Manhattan.

1:00:57That's the way they're cheap. This isn't hard. That's reliable and valid. An apple here is 10 cents. That's not what an apple costs. No, it does when taxpayers pay for it. It's whatever you want. You just take taxpayer money. but there's a problem. The problem is the math don't math and the scale don't work because now other grocery stores in the area that have been serving their community forever are like, hey man, whatever. I have to charge a dollar for an apple. I can't afford to charge 10 cents because that's not what I paid for it. So you're going to put me out of business with taxpayer money.

1:01:32I've been serving the community forever. So how do you make the math not math and try to make the math math? Here is a Mamdani administration official saying, don't worry. This is real. This is not crazy. It is crazy, but I'm telling you this is real. She's like, don't worry. We're going to take more of your taxpayer dollars and then give money to the other grocery stores to make up for the money they're going to lose to the taxpayer funded grocery store. This is this actually happened. That Justin's like, now I get it. Now the math is mathing. I'm not joking with you, man. Check this out. Ultimately, the goals of these locations, not just here in East Harlem, but, you know, any borough location is to be complementary to the neighborhood and really, you know, rising tides.

1:02:17Right. We can we can all cooperate and work together in a meaningful way. Do you mind what is the I've heard that that term from EDC officials that these are meant to be complementary. What does that mean? What does that complementary mean in terms of policy operations and things like that? Yeah, I think we're, you know, as an agency looking at a number of different complementary, you know, policies and programs, grants, incentives that can come alongside these grocery stores to support other, you know, local independent businesses that are in the neighborhoods. We're going to continue to listen and we're going to continue to engage and be, you know, alongside the operator as our partner.

1:02:55And like I said, making sure that we are complementary to the other businesses that are here in the neighborhood. So other locations, other grocery stores can get grants from the city under this? Something on the table. We're exploring a lot of different options and opportunities. I think, you know, there's a whole host of levers that the EDC is able to work within to make sure that, you know, everyone has equitable and equal access to opportunities here. Thank you. These guys are laughing their asses off. What are you guys laughing about? Open the door. Like, I feel like I'm not in on the joke.

1:03:27They're like, you see the movie Dune? I'm like, yeah, everybody saw the movie Dune. They're like, that's Paul Atreides. And I looked twice. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Dune 3 is coming out. It's going to be a grocery store. You know the sandworms? Yeah, they need a lot of food. They're really big. They're going to go to the Momdami Groceries to Paul Atreides. Oh, my gosh. Dude, that is so weird.

1:03:54I hate that, bro, bro. that is, put that up again holy Moses you did it, you actually made me like laugh about something that I didn't put in the show myself in the chat Paul Atreides running a grocery store what do they call him again, what's his thing Lison El-Kaib you got the guy from No Country for All Men in Cape Fear I forget his name the liberal dude with the where's the pal is he's screwed, El-Kaib whatever that is so crazy man paul atreides running the grocery store paul atreides that is that is so weird man it's paul atreides not paula paul atreides you gotta get there's like jay's abacus some of you'll get that i want to show you another video what i mean a second one gavin newsom trying to make the math math so nothing gavin newsom's obviously running for president in hair gel out in California.

1:04:55The problem Gavin Newsom has is Gavin Newsom's the governor of California. That's the, what do you mean, Dan? How you run on California and the exit is from it. Like my policies are so popular in one of the most beautiful states in the union. They have amazing weather, coastline, everything, that people can't get out fast enough. The problem Gavin Newsom has is Gavin Newsom is the governor of California. That's the problem. I want you to, after this, I'm going to show you a video where he's trying to make the healthcare numbers look good. So he basically says the quiet part out loud and he's proud of it.

1:05:29How he made the numbers look good. We and our percentage of insured people, wait, are they here legally? No, so we're paying people who aren't even citizens for healthcare? Yes. Quick break. Folks, I got to tell you about something that I've started using before Paul and I head out on a Friday night. It's called Z-Biotics, pre-alcohol. What does it do? Well, for me, here's what it's about. It's about enjoying a night out, having a few adult beverages, and being ready for everything I have planned the next day. Pre-alcohol is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic drink created by PhD scientists.

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1:06:33Go to zbiotics.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 15 % off. That's zbiotics.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 15 % off. These statements and products have not been evaluated by the FDA. They're not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent any disease or condition. Thanks, Zbiotics. Give him a shot. Here again is what it looks like. Gavin Newsom, who's reliably wrong. Therefore, his opinions on anything going forward should not be valid. He's talking about how the percentage of uninsured people in his state beats Texas. What he doesn't tell you is the same fake Paul Atreides trick this lady just tried to pull.

1:07:13Hey, we're going to lower prices. Yeah, of course you are. By other taxpayers paying for other people to get basically free food. That's how this works. You can lower the percentage of uninsured people all you want if the taxpayers in your state are forced to finance health care for illegals. Check this out. Right to assess what we've done on expansion. And we've done about as much or more than any other state in the nation. We're about 5.9 % uninsured rate. Put that just for perspective in contrast to a state like Texas gets a lot of attention, a large state. They're close to 16.7 percent. They're in 16 to 17 percent.

1:07:54California is below 6 percent. That's a choice. They've made that choice. We've made a different choice. Now that we've expanded health care in a controversial way, I'm not naive and I'll take the grief. I said I'm committed to universal health care and I meant it. The voters supported me on multiple occasions, and we delivered it regardless of pre-existing conditions, ability to pay, and immigration status. Oh, and immigration status. Thanks for cutting that right there where you can see exactly what he means. Folks, life is a trade-off. Everything is a trade-off. You've heard the cliche there's no free lunch.

1:08:32There is no free lunch. All you have to do is ask yourself, is this scale reliable and valid? Is his number reliable? Is his number valid? How did he get there? Well, he got there by taking your taxpayer dollars and giving them away to illegals. That's how he did it. That's how they make the math math. Sometimes we need a cerebral cortex, cerebellum medulla oblongata. We need a cleanse. This is a clip from Phil Donahue's show years ago. Milton Friedman, who if you haven't seen clips of Milton Friedman, however old they may be, they're all epic. There's not a non-epic Milton Friedman video segment about how stupid the politics of envy are, whether it's doomers and others who just don't like the Trump administration.

1:09:28Like, this is just a spiral of hatred. Milton Friedman gets into it with this lady, you know, for Milton Friedman, I shouldn't say gets into it with this. That can be taken on them. But they're on the Phil Donahue show. And the lady's like, I can't believe there are all these rich people. They don't need the money. That's not the point. What they do with the money is what matters. And watch the lady just puzzled when Friedman just gives her economic common sense that's both reliable and valid. Check this out. Why is it we have so many millionaires and everything in the United States, and we still have so many impoverished people who try to get up into the world?

1:10:09They can only eat that much, eat, sleep in the bed. And what do you suppose they do? If they don't eat it and don't use it, what do you suppose they do? They hoard it. And what do you mean they hoard it? You mean they put it under their pillows? That's right. No, they keep investing it. Investing it in what? That's right. What are they invested in? Well, in oil and everything. I mean, all these other people who are trying... What are they invested in? Don't get off the subject. What do they invest it in? Well, they invest it in a lot of different things that the little people need. Well, do they invest it in factories?

1:10:36Yes. Does some of that money end up in machines? Yes. Do those factories and machines provide ordinary working people with jobs or not? What do you suppose the productivity of this country would be and the wage rate would be if the total amount of capital in this country today was what it was 100 years ago? Where do you suppose the improvements in productivity come from, except from the investment by people of their savings. But let me go to your fundamental question. First place, nirvana is not for this world. There is no paradise. Of course we've got a lot of people who are poorly off. But if you look at it over time, if you get a sense of proportion, the well-being of ordinary people has been the main thing that has been improved by economic progress and economic growth and development.

1:11:27And most residual hard cases of poverty today are the result, again, of a failure of government. Why do we have a black teenage unemployment rate in 30 to 40 percent? Because of two failures of government. One, a failure to provide decent schooling, which is a governmental responsibility. Has been, whether it should be or not, it has been. And second, because of a minimum wage rate, which prevents those kids who haven't had decent schooling, from getting jobs at low pay at which they can earn the skills on the jobs that would enable them to rise to higher pay. If you look at the sources of poverty, you will find a very low, most of them are derived from what I regard as wrongheaded government policies.

1:12:14Somebody said in the chat, that's the original Karen. And someone said, is that a dog on her head? Listen, that lady, she just doesn't know. She's giving you the simple, I can't believe the rich people, they don't need the money. Well, what do you think they did with the money? How do you think the country got so rich that we're the richest country on earth by far, by far? How do you think we got here by handing over all of your profits to the government to redistribute them out to people rather than investing them in factories and products and research and R &D? How do you think we got here, man?

1:12:50And she's like, well, why are people still poor? It's a very simple answer. The government has a monopoly, a near monopoly over the public education system. I say near monopoly because some kids can escape where there's school choice. Some just can't. They don't have the money. And they can't even teach a kid. And then when they can't teach them anything, Friedman's right. They go out into the market and their skills may be worth, I don't know, $15 an hour in today's inflated economy and the minimum wage in a state is 17 or whatever. and they're not going to hire them. So then they can't even get a job.

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