A Pivotal Decision Day (Ep. 2566)

4 Aug 2026 · 1 h 38 min · 35 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino argues that “movements” (political, social, or media-driven) form when the first person is joined by followers, creating momentum and discouraging dissent. He applies this to COVID-era messaging and to media interviews, claiming mainstream outlets used propaganda and refused to debate evidence. He also frames Michigan’s upcoming elections as a “big day,” and warns that future misinformation will be harder to spread due to AI.

Guests (mentioned, not interviewed in this transcript)

  1. Erin Molan (promised guest in ~20 minutes; background not provided here).
  2. RFK Jr. (appears in a clip Bongino discusses; background: Kennedy family figure, COVID/vaccine critic).
  3. Dana Bash (CNN journalist; discussed via clips).
  4. Anthony Fauci (former U.S. public health official; discussed via “plead the fifth” moment).
  5. Aaron Rodgers and Pat McAfee (sports media figures; discussed via a clip).

Key claims

  • Dana Bash “admitted” she wouldn’t debate vaccine effectiveness and relied on Fauci despite Fauci allegedly lying on masks, distancing, vaccine transmission, and origins.
  • COVID policies caused real harm (Bongino claims people died alone).
  • Media narratives spread via “unsilent majority” psychology and ridicule/shame.
  • Obamacare “worked” is framed as an “op,” citing alleged fraud and cost failures (e.g., 9.2 million adults allegedly not meeting eligibility; $32B fraud estimate).
  • AI that “tells the truth” will make future propaganda harder.

Notable examples

  • Bongino’s “first follower” movement video (used to explain how crowds form).
  • Dana Bash vs. RFK Jr. interview clips.
  • Fauci pleading the fifth (linked to a mainstream “dam breaks” moment).
  • Aaron Rodgers on Pat McAfee: Fauci “plead the fifth” reaction.
  • Obamacare fraud/eligibility example from a Fox Business-referenced report.

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Chapters

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Video Insights and Current Events

0:45 to 3:53

Discussion on a motivational video and its relevance to current political movements.

“You need to see this because it applies.”

Video Insights and Current Events

4:00 to 4:10

Discussion on a motivational video and its relevance to current political movements.

“These statements and products have not been evaluated by the FDA.”

RFK's CNN Interview Breakdown

4:10 to 10:36

Analysis of RFK Jr.'s interview with Dana Bash and media's role in public perception.

“They're not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent any disease or condition.”

Debate and Media Credibility Issues

10:36 to 14:00

Discussion on the importance of debate in media and the credibility crisis faced by journalists.

“I'm not debating for what the media has become.”

The Unspoken Majority and Vaccine Debate

14:00 to 15:20

Discussion on the perception of vaccines and the reaction of people to the narrative around them.

“You get people to form an unsilent majority and to align with fairy tales and stupidity.”

Social Psychology and Movement Dynamics

15:20 to 18:00

Exploration of how movements start and the psychology behind public participation.

“The show would have been four hours long.”

The Role of Followers in Movements

18:00 to 21:30

Detailed explanation of how the first followers can create momentum for social movements.

“one of the most important social psychology videos you can see.”

The Consequences of Public Health Decisions

21:30 to 23:07

Effects of public health recommendations and the impact of misinformation during the pandemic.

“It's another thing to show you what I'm going to show you another video by ironically, data bash shows you exactly what I mean.”

The Consequences of Public Health Decisions

24:19 to 24:30

Effects of public health recommendations and the impact of misinformation during the pandemic.

The Fauci Moment and Public Response

24:30 to 28:00

Discussion on Anthony Fauci's decisions and the public's response to misinformation about COVID-19.

“The Republicans up there just broke Fauci.”
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Reflections on Past Shutdowns

28:00 to 31:50

Discussing the likelihood of future shutdowns due to new viruses and public responses.

“I'll send things at like any time from 6 a.m.”

The Lab Leak Theory Debate

31:50 to 36:40

Exploring the origins of COVID-19 and the evolving opinions on its origins.

“and the music festival is starting to turn into a crowd.”

The Role of AI in Future Truth-Telling

36:40 to 42:00

Examining the implications of AI on truth and information in political discourse.

“If you've never heard of Erin Milan, M-O-L-A-N, you should.”

The Impact of AI on Discourse

42:00 to 43:33

Learn how AI can revolutionize debate and information retrieval.

Understanding Political Ideologies

43:33 to 45:54

Explore the ideologies that shape extreme political views and their resistance to reason.

“There are a lot of West Virginia, very conservative people still vote Democrats, a generational thing.”

Obamacare's Failures and Consequences

45:54 to 48:09

Examine the shortcomings of Obamacare and its ramifications on healthcare.

“You see it again to this report yesterday from Fox.”

The Nature of Operations in Media

48:09 to 50:31

Understand the concept of operations in shaping public perception and media narratives.

“We compared Medicaid expansion enrollment by state to the total number of people who would be eligible for that coverage, have income below those thresholds by state, and found a massive problem.”

The Horse-Drawn Carriage Debate as an Operation

50:31 to 53:49

Learn about the lobbying efforts behind the horse-drawn carriage controversy in NYC.

“And again, I'm not trying to sound like the Martians did it and space lasers and shit.”

The Politics of Blame and Inflation

53:49 to 56:00

Investigate how political narratives manipulate perceptions of inflation and credit.

“I'm sorry if I'm saying your last name wrong.”

Discussing Immigration and Economic Impact

56:00 to 58:20

Learn about the current immigration policies and their economic implications.

“shuts the border down to illegal immigration completely.”

Evaluating Economic Narratives

58:20 to 1:00:00

Explore contrasting perspectives on economic successes and failures under Trump.

“Say whatever you want about me, Trump, others.”

Debating Islamo-Fanaticism and Free Speech

1:00:00 to 1:03:40

Delve into the controversial debates surrounding Islamo-fanaticism and its implications for society.

“And folks, there's a reason, there's a reason that they're doing this.”

Critique of Modern Educational Standards

1:03:40 to 1:08:06

Criticism of current educational systems and their effectiveness in teaching.

“I don't understand why you can't do that.”

Critique of Modern Educational Standards

1:08:14 to 1:08:25

Criticism of current educational systems and their effectiveness in teaching.

Interview with Erin Milan

1:08:25 to 1:10:07

Insights from Erin Milan on socialism and its generational impact.

“club today trust me once you switch you're not going back Welcoming to the show, one of my favorite accounts to follow everywhere on X and Instagram and her show.”

The Failures of Socialism

1:10:07 to 1:12:00

Exploring the consistent failures of socialist policies and their impacts.

“It's led to death, destruction, deprivation, poverty, famine every single time.”

Democrats and the Need for Cleanup

1:12:00 to 1:13:13

Discussing the responsibility of Democrats to address and rectify socialist failures.

“Yeah, I agree with you that the cleanup job, this is a really hard truth to have to kind of feed to people.”

The Hypocrisy of Political Silence

1:13:13 to 1:14:48

Examining the lack of accountability and silence within the Democratic party.

“And as you said, it can only come from them, but they're unwilling to do so.”

Dangerous Alliances

1:14:48 to 1:16:39

Analyzing the alliances between LGBTQ communities and oppressive regimes.

“But that story, Aaron, we're talking to Aaron Milan, M-O-L-A-N.”

The Cannibalism Theory of Politics

1:16:39 to 1:19:52

Discussing the self-destructive tendencies of political alliances based on power.

“It will take something disastrous for them to wake up and realise that the movement they're aligning themselves with doesn't want them.”

A Call for Courage and Honesty

1:19:52 to 1:23:36

Advocating for truth-telling in politics and discussing immigration issues.

“And you're right, they'll eat their own.”

Border Protection and Immigration Policy

1:24:00 to 1:26:55

Discussing the challenges of illegal immigration and national security.

“So along with our prime minister at the time, the defense minister, he came up with the plan to stop the boats.”

Personal Experiences in Indonesia and Extremism

1:26:55 to 1:35:01

Sharing insights from living in Indonesia and addressing Islamic extremism.

“So we should be able to bloody do it here.”

The Role of AI in Truth and Media

1:35:01 to 1:35:59

Exploring how AI can change the narrative around misinformation in media.

“I told you, folks, we only try to bring you the best guests.”

The Role of AI in Truth and Media

1:36:07 to 1:37:02

Exploring how AI can change the narrative around misinformation in media.

“You'll find X, YouTube, Rumble, all of it.”
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Transcript

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0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Folks, I've got a treat for you today. If you haven't seen this video I'm going to play in the first portion of the show, you're missing out. As Donald Trump would say, huge, huge. You got to do some hand gestures, too. It's like a Queens thing. We're both from Queens. Huge, huge. It's a video that's played in motivational speeches, leadership training. I've even heard some intel agencies around the world play this as well to show what happens with the effects of like, you know, propaganda and stuff. However, it's a great video for anyone interested to see how any movement develops, popular or unpopular.

0:52You need to see this because it applies. You may be saying to yourself, Dan, you missed that RFK video at Dana Bash yesterday. How did you not play that? The answer is I didn't play it intentionally because it needed an entire block today. And yesterday I was busy, kind of clogged up with other stuff. Because the RFK Dana Bash CNN video about COVID and Fauci and vaccines, it's not even so much about that. That's an important. It's about bigger things. It's about groupthink, propaganda, reverse propaganda, popular movements, and how they start. I'm going to play that for you. By the way, the pivotal moment, big day.

1:36It's a huge day. In Michigan, we've got an Islamofanatic nutbag communist, an Abdul El-Sayed running, who may beat fake voice Haley Stevens in the Democrat primary. and also Todd Blanche today may move forward and move from acting to hopefully confirmed attorney general. I work with acting attorney general Blanche. Obviously, I think he's very good. I think he'd be great for the spot. Good kind of solid level-headed guy. You know, he gets it. So that would be great. So it is a big day today. Let me get to the show. I want you to see this video right up in the beginning because it's really important you understand this.

2:11It's not the guy who gets up on the soapbox and starts screaming and yelling that starts a movement. It's not? No. It's the first guy who joins him. You'll see what I mean. Hey, I got to tell you about a product I've been using for a while and I really like. Listen, I don't drink that often, but sometimes I'll go out Friday night, have a glass of wine, maybe a drink with Paula on a date night. It's always a lot of fun, but you don't want to wake up the next day and feel like crap. That's the big downside. You know, the hangover. Everybody knows the hangover. It's brutal. It doesn't feel good. You know, for me, it's about enjoying a night out, having a few adult beverages and still being ready for everything you have planned the next day.

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4:36How does that happen? How do a bunch of people pledging to kill the infidels align with another group of people pledging to kill a democracy, the liberals and the progressives? How do they align and get a bunch of suckers, freaking suckers, sheep, lemmings, whatever you want to call them? How do they get the suckers to follow them into the abyss of stupid? well this way in case you missed it dana bash from cnn who is really frankly folks it's just an idiot she's really not smart dana bash on cnn in a it probably has the most viral clip of her life where she's getting just completely wrecked by rfk jr of course running her health and human services department in the cabinet rfk goes on to talk about the covid vaccine and how folks it failed.

5:29The COVID vaccine was like masks. You know, the mask, as I say all the time, masks were like the condom where everyone you have sex with gets an STD and gets pregnant. It didn't work. Everyone who wore a mask got COVID. Oh, 99.99 repeating decimal. Nearly everyone who got the COVID vaccine got COVID too. The COVID vaccine did not do what it said it was going to do. Can we just all be honest about that? It didn't do it. I was going through that. I'm sitting in a cancer hospital dealing with this whole drama myself when it went down. The COVID vaccine did not meet the markers it said. So Dana Bash has RFK on and RFK is just like, hey, you know, I've actually read the science.

6:20You're a journalist, right? Your job is to get the facts out. And her response to this is just fascinating. And it shows you how the media fosters this cult of personality to get you to believe in fairytale world. Cops are mowing down innocent black men in the street. The COVID vaccine is infallible. The rich don't pay any taxes. The public school system is fantastic and school choice sucks. This is how you get people to believe it, through gaslighting. Dana Bash isn't interested in debating. She even says it. Check this out. You are talking about things that lead to vaccine hesitancy in this country.

7:01Let me ask you something. Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy, or do you see your job as telling the truth to the American people? I see my job as telling the truth, and the truth is that there is study after study after study. It's one of the most studied things out there in science. You're repeating it like a parrot. You're repeating it like a parrot. I've actually read the science. You and I come back here and debate the science. I'm not debating this for you. Of course you won't. No, because I'm not debating positive. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, trust the experts.

7:39That's what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything, about masks, about social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID. He was lying and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you're rolling out the experts again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of. Okay. Well, guess what? That is my job to talk to people. Your job is to tell the truth to the American public. Folks, I'm going to tell you something, and I really despise hyperbole.

8:18You kind of ruin your own credibility when everything is the biggest, and I'm not really one for that. I'm not going to tell you it's the most important media interview of our lifetime. There have been a lot of them, and who the hell knows what the metric would be for that anyway. I'm just going to tell you that is one of the most important media interactions you're ever going to see in your lifetime or any other. Dana Bash there, Dana, whatever the hell her name, who cares, Dana Bash, just got completely exposed. She is speaking authoritatively on a matter she herself acknowledges she's done no research on.

8:57I've told you over and over that the last year of my life was the greatest experience of my life. going back inside the government and seeing the internal mechanics of how things work and getting these intelligence reports daily and then comparing them with what the media says is in the source material you read was one of the most illuminating experiences of my life it's not just that the media gets it wrong the media gets it catastrophically wrong you would think after the biden cognitive dementia disaster, the Russia hoax disaster, the impeachment hoax, the COVID mask hoax, the vax hoax, and all of this.

9:42I mean, they face planted so many times the media face plant right on your freaking face. You would think these media people would show an ounce, just an ounce of humility. But no, no, they peacock. They puff their chests out Nose in the air They cite their education I'm a journalist I'm not debating You're not debating I was told by someone that the vaccine Did you look it up? Did you look that up? I thought you just said your job was to give people facts I'm not telling you RFK Jr. is right on everything either But at least he shows up to debate If he says something that's wrong Danabash should go and do her homework and say, actually, we've looked that up and that's incorrect.

10:33But she doesn't because she has no interest. I'm not debating is up there with one of the great and by great, I mean, worst great lines in left wing goon media history. I'm not debating for what the media has become. Folks, the greatest gift the president ever gave me was that job to see this thing from the inside and then watch from the outside as people. I'll give you a quick example. I was explaining this to someone this weekend. There were pockets of information that were only available to like, I don't know, 20 or less people in the government. They're called like billets. You have to be read into these programs.

11:11Some of them are super sensitive. It's not like a, I'm just trying to make a point. So you know who was read in. And it's a limited handful of people. And you know they didn't leak it to the media because you're absolutely certain. And then you would see like an anonymous source about the same information. The anonymous source was definitely someone not read in on it, who would comment to the media about it. And the story would be totally backwards. The media never goes like, how do you know that? They just take it at face value because it's anti-Trump or anti-conservative or anti-Republican. These folks, I can't emphasize to you enough.

11:51I know this isn't like newsflash headline, you know, put on the ticker in Times Square. I would estimate upwards of 80 % of what the left wing media tells you is either completely made up, maybe not by them, but by a source or a total lie, a total lie just fabricated out of nowhere. It's not even that they got the source material wrong. It's just they just made it up. Do you understand now how we get this environment we're living in now, where a bunch of young kids believe socialism works despite the gulags, the starvation, the violations of basic laws of freedom and economics? because you've got media people like Dana Dana Bash on CNN admitting like, no, I'm not willing to debate the science because some expert like Fauci, who's gotten everything else wrong on COVID, social distancing, masks, the lab leak origin, they've gotten everything else wrong.

12:46No, I trust them on that because Trump said otherwise. It is the craziest thing. Why do you, are you this stupid? Here we go. Is this not the time, guys? Jasmine, what do you think? Stupid as a truth. Here it is. here's a paula special stupid is a choice and then on the back just for you folks don't be stupid buy this free it's store.bongino.com i'm a capitalist buy it for your liberal friends say hey liberal joey bag of donuts i bought a present for you oh really this is gonna be it and they open it watch the rise you can then buy that michael knolls book too what was that book Remember that bookie, Things Democrats Got Right and the Book is Empty?

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13:44Motley's in the shirt. Motley's in the shirt. Why do you say that? I don't know. I've been doing it the whole time. It's just a thing. We're on a roll today, Jasmine. I'm definitely in a mood. This is how you get people like Dana Bash to believe. You get people to form an unsilent majority and to align with fairy tales and stupidity. Because ladies and gentlemen, they haven't heard the truth. People like watch people like Dana Bash Who openly acknowledge I'm not going to debate The effectiveness of a vaccine You're not? Would you say that about any other Prophylactic medication? Let me just give you an example You've dumped the word vaccine Because you say vaccine it drives people on the left And they can't think straight Let's call it a preventative medication Let's say Guy for example they have a new preventative medication that claims it all.

14:52I had lymphoma, cancer. Say they had, it prevents lymphoma if you take it. It's a preventative medicine. It's a pill you take. Say that was out. Key, I'm just curious. Would you want to study to show if it actually prevents lymphoma or would you just take it?

15:07Isn't your dad a doctor or something, right? Like, yes. You'd require some kind of proof. Not down to bash. Folks, now do you see why I had to hold this clip for today. There was way too much to talk about it. The show would have been four hours long. I cannot say this. The COVID era. My wife and I were talking about this last night. Because we were talking about how the numbers were crazy in the COVID era. Because you couldn't get truth anywhere. We were banned from YouTube, Google ads. Everybody tried to like keep our beach ball underwater. But the show, like people would just find it. Rumble, they would go and look it up.

15:44The numbers were insane because nobody was being told the truth by anyone. All right, here's the video. I want to show this. If you haven't seen this, it's like the Waukesh Music Festival. It's a real video, by the way. It's grainy because it's probably from, I don't know, the 80s. It doesn't really matter. But it's a real video. And just to set this up, this video is played in motivational speaking lectures, management section, management symposiums. And it's meant to show people how if you want to start a movement or if you want to get people behind your company and feel motivated, it's not the one person going, my company's the greatest, follow me into battle, whatever.

16:30It's not. It's the first person to join in that starts a mass movement of an unsilent majority. And this works both ways. I don't play this video as a tutorial just to show you how to get your baseball team to believe they can win. I play this tutorial because this is also how the left gets one person to stand up, a Bernie Sanders, and go, oh, black men are being mowed down by the cops. The rich don't pay taxes. It's the next person that joins in that starts a crowd. Once you understand the psychology of this, you know how to leverage it in your way. Watch this video. This is so worth your time.

17:08Check this out. is the flint the first follower is the spark that really makes the fire now here's the second follower this is a turning point it's proof the first has done well now it's not a lone nut and it's not two nuts three is a crowd and a crowd is news a movement must be public make sure outsiders see more than just the leader everyone needs to see the followers because new followers emulate followers not the leader now here come two more people than three more immediately now we've got momentum this is the tipping point and now we have a movement as more people jump in it's no longer risky if they were on the fence before there's no reason not to join in now they won't stand out they won't be ridiculed and they will be part of the in crowd if they hurry.

17:59Folks, this is probably one of the most important social psychology videos you can see. The movement has to be public because you don't want to be ridiculed. The first guy gets up and dances or let's just make it a real world example. Let's put meat on the freaking bone. The first guy to go out and go, hey, you know the surgical masks would all like the holes and gaps around them and the holes and gaps in the mask itself that a small micron virus can get through, this will stop you from getting COVID, you swear. If the first guy says that, no one else joins in. Sane, rational, non-crazy people are going to be like, wait, what?

18:40Maybe I should look that up like this. That doesn't make any sense. A surgical mask prevents COVID. You would then look up the science and you would find out that none of that's actually true. But because data bears says, no, we're not debating it. An expert told me it. No one looks it up. So the way you start a movement Is you get everyone to believe this nonsense The condom that didn't work, the mask And then the second person gets up And goes, yes And if you don't wear the mask We're going to ridicule you Rather than ridicule the guy who's dancing And just said the stupid mask thing And then everyone else says Well, I don't want to be ridiculed The mask works Put the mask on Hester, print yourself Put the adulterer A on your face And then like the third Now you're like, oh my gosh Gosh, I better rush in before the next guy because I don't want to be a victim of this.

19:32Folks, that RFK video is so important because he has a voice. He's done his homework. Maybe he's not right about everything, but don't you have an obligation to then go into he showed up on your show. This is how you develop a movement, whether it's a good positive change movement. the MAGA rebellion the tea party rebellion against bureaucracy and big government or a movement that says put a face condom in your face where everybody gets pregnant it's the same mechanics it has to be public and it has to use shame and reverse shame reverse shame being wow if I don't get up and dance now with everyone else I'm gonna look like the party pooper they use a phrase from the 60s my mommy said there'll be a party I actually used that phrase this week that's why I brought her up I was at a party there this guy is an OG Markman51 ah the dancing kid you've showed before yes I have because I'm telling you even like intelligence agencies who use this video to show you how crazy ideological propaganda regimes how they develop a following it's important now i want to show you the positive side of this video the positive side of this video is once the dam breaks and that first person joins in not the dancing guy but the first person gets up and starts doing the crazy dance too like the kid uh uh what was his name the guy from gray's anatomy in that movie can't buy me love where he does the ant dance or whatever i'm definitely aging myself here jasmine's like what are you talking about is that a thing that movie came out probably in like the 40s or something however it's funny the other person to join in starts the crowd so once the facade cracks and i think the fauci moment to tie the bow on this the i plead the fifth moment with fauci i think was the moment where the dam is entirely cracked now and now you're going to see even leftists and i'm going to show you some evidence are going to have to start coming out not all of them some of them it doesn't matter they'll go down with the ship are going to have to start to come out and acknowledge the fact that they got played and start dancing.

21:48Quick break. And again, receipts matter. I'll show you what I mean. It's one thing to say. It's another thing to show you what I'm going to show you another video by ironically, data bash shows you exactly what I mean. Hey, you don't wait till your house is on fire to install a smoke detector, right? You don't wait till the wind and rain hammer your windows and the power goes out to prepare for a hurricane. You don't put on your seatbelt after a crash because after the crash, the hurricane, or the house fire, it's too late. Similarly, you don't wait until the dollar goes to zero before you buy gold.

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24:47Anything from social distancing, distancing, excuse me, to the lab leak, to the mask, to the vaccines effectiveness. It's insane what this guy said that led to real repercussions. Ladies and gentlemen, people died alone. They could not see their spouses or their kids because of recommendations made by this failed bureaucracy that would not let the truth get out there and the media that covered for him. You probably saw it, but here's just a short clip. This is how it breaks into the mainstream. This is that first and second guy dancing. Very famous quarterback. You know Aaron Rodgers. You may have seen the clip, but this is not a political show.

25:25I mean, this is, but the show I'm going to play for you. Pat McAfee is probably the world's most prominent sports broadcaster. McAfee has Aaron Rodgers on. Aaron Rodgers, you know, whether you love him or hate him, has never been afraid to take a stand on something. He's a quarterback and one of the best ever. I have a signed helmet for him in my house. Not from him personally, but Aaron Rodgers on this show where a bunch of non-political people are listening. And he said this to Pat McAfee and this is that first person getting up. The dam is broken, folks. Check this out. Tell us about the mindset of coming into your last season.

26:00Like, that's a real thing, it feels like. Is everything better? Is everything funner? Is everything more awesome? Like, how do you kind of view this year versus maybe the years of the past? I'm going to plead the fifth. Okay. Okay. Gotta love that guy. Like that absolute coward, Tony Foucher. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? Yeah, 111 times. You got a pardon and you pleaded over 100 times at the White House? What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the science. Yeah, yeah. I thought you were I am science. And you get up there and you can't answer a question? Yeah. What are we doing?

26:35And how much time did the network spend to that? How much time did they spend on my responses every week, on my vaccination status, on Taylor and Travis's wedding? Yeah! Did they do even a minute? Did they do even a minute on Tony Fauci? No, I don't think I've heard anything. No, I bet they didn't. Why is that important? Forget Fauci and the Vax for a second. Why is that? Listen to the reaction of the crowd and Pat McAfee. They're screaming. Yeah. They're all getting up and dancing because now they realize, gosh, I was part of the unsilent majority, unsilent majority before, but I thought I was part of the unsilent minority.

27:21I thought everyone really believed it. No, no one believed it. They were just scared. If they didn't get up and dance, they'd be mocked too. If they didn't take the vaccine, they'd be mocked too. If they didn't put the mask on, they'd be mocked too. And now they're starting to realize the whole time I was lied to. You know, folks, I see this a lot. I would love your feedback in the chat. I don't do gimmicks on the show, like feedback in the chat to try to get interactivity. When it's there, it's there. When it's not, we do the show as normal. But I really would love your opinion on this. I see this a lot.

27:54I'm on X and TikTok and other platforms all day doing show prep. These guys can attest to it. I'll send things at like any time from 6 a.m. in the morning until I go to bed like 9 o 'clock at night. there's this thread I see on X all the time I never again I'm never going to let this happen again in other words the shutdowns and all that other stuff I don't want to be Danny Downer or if you're a woman Debbie Downer I'm not so sure that's true

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28:28I'm not talking about you believe me I am absolutely 100 % convinced that the Bongito army out there is not doing this shit again. They're not. They're not putting the freaking face diaper, failed condom on their face. They're not doing it, okay? They're not doing it. I know you guys. But this is what I want your opinion on. Absent, present company excluded, as they say. I'm not so sure this couldn't happen again tomorrow. That some other virus, whatever, Zika. Remember Zika, the Zika virus? And they come out with some other thing, like put the mask back on that we already know doesn't work. I'm not so sure people wouldn't run out.

29:06I'll make it even better. Say it was, we had a case of dengue fever. Do you guys see this, Jasmine? It was like Palm Beach. I had a case of dengue. I had dengue fever. I caught it in Panama. It sucks, right? That's not even a respiratory virus. It's a mosquito virus. I think like the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It's like a day biting mosquito. I only know this because I had the freaking thing and it sucked. I guarantee you tomorrow. See, now the chat's fired up because you guys know I'm right. if dengue, there was a mass outbreak of dengue in Florida, God forbid, it's not even a respiratory virus.

29:41And some health figure, it's a Trump administration, so, you know, it would, I think they definitely learned from that last debacle, listening to this idiot. However, say Biden was back, and when they came out, put the mask on, I can guarantee you the, whatever, 35 % of Floridians that identify as liberals would put the mask on tomorrow. I gotta read the chat. Yeah, good. I see a lot of you agree with me. There are way too many sheep out there. I see this thread all the time on X. This is never going to happen again. I'm not sure of that. I'm not sure of that at all. Folks, there are people out.

30:19Do we have to? Jasmine, do we have to do it again? Folks, stupid is a choice. Stupid. But there's at least 35 % of America right now, probably an underestimate of people who identify with progressive liberal commies who were told stupid shit every day, like put the face condom on and get people pregnant. They're told this every day and they just follow along. We're gonna open a government grocery store and sell them for prices that aren't reflections of the market. Well, wouldn't people just go buy them and then resell them and then pocket the price? Oh, we didn't really think of that. The rich don't pay any taxes.

31:04You can just look that up, dipshits. You can argue about the rate they pay, but that's just not, you just made that up. It's just not true. It's just not true. It's just not true. That's why I'm not convinced never again is a thing. I thought you were showing me something. Jasmine got up and held up the computer. Looked like she was holding up a sign. like one of those cue cards or something like a hollywood movie where the actor can't remember a line here's why i think also the dam is breaking though even people on the trust the science field remember i told you i have another dana bash video even people in the trust the science field are now starting to say like hey man um yeah that whole thing about the vax effectiveness and all that other stuff yeah maybe we just should have listened this is how you know a dam is breaking and the music festival is starting to turn into a crowd.

31:59Now, people who knew, knew to themselves like they were in the unsilent majority. You knew your friends thought the massacre was stupid, but a lot of them did anyway, are now starting to realize like, man, we are, we are the majority. We are the majority. Watch this clip. You'll see what I mean. You re-shared a tweet that said, among other things, the available evidence overwhelmingly does not show that it, well, let me say it this way. You said that the available evidence points towards research-related incidents in Wuhan as the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that we were funding research in an institution where we lacked full transparency into what research was being conducted.

32:47You agreed with that? I did. This is going to surprise some people. You know, when I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I've seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak. Here's the bottom line. No one in the United States knows for sure. The only people who know for sure are people, officials in China. And we still need transparency and accountability on that. So that is my best assessment. I'm not suggesting I know for sure, but I'm saying my best assessment is that it probably was a lot.

33:23Folks, if there was ever a clip, this Dana Bash is just completely humiliated. Not only herself, CNN, but the entire left wing media ecosystem of fairy tales. If there was ever a clip that showed you why trust the experts is always always going to fail you rather than do your own homework i'm not telling you not to listen to experts in the field there's a i mean hey man i go in and i have a problem with my car i don't know anything about cars i'm not a mechanic i mean i i'm sure in a pinch if i watched a rumble video i could change oil but i i don't want to screw up my car so I don't do it. So I don't tilt in the other direction either.

34:11Oh, experts are all idiots. No, not all experts. I mean, I would rather listen to the opinion of President Trump on the Iranian nuclear threat who's getting every single PDB, presidential daily brief, intel bit every morning than I would from some media idiot. But listen to the experts doesn't mean they're infallible and we should trust everything they say. The guy's an expert, and yet he admits in the beginning that he thought this thing had some kind of pangolina, whatever, natural origin. There's no sane person who thought that. How is it that you and me, Joey and Jeanette Bagadonna, normal people living in the real world, okay?

34:57How is it that you and I, I am not a virologist. I mean, I've seen contagion and outbreak. I'm not a virologist. How is it that you and I figured it out before this guy? Because we didn't fall for the reverse dancing guy, where the media got up and dancing, got up and dancing, you better tell everyone a pangolin did it. And then another leftist schmuck got up and was like, the pangolin did it. And then the whole crowd of leftists and you're sitting down like, oh shit, man. Me and Keith were like, are we crazy? Like, it was a Wuhan lab that studied coronaviruses and a coronavirus came out of Wuhan.

35:37Like, isn't it fairly obvious? There was like a bat researcher lady studying these exact things from bats. There were like codons and stuff. And oh, there was biomarkers. Like, are we all crazy? You're right. He's right. Yeah, good point, Guy. This is, folks, I got to admit, this is a totally racist conversation. Totally. Remember when Donald Trump said, I think it came from China. You're a racist. you're totally racist that's where they go next totally racist conversation to suggest that a wuhan coronavirus bat lab where a coronavirus frequently found in bats not to hijack john stewart's segment but i think you see where we're going may have actually been the origins That's definitely racist.

36:30And suckers fell for it. They all got up and danced to the same narrative. That's racist. That's racist.

36:39I have a great guest coming up for you in a little over 20 minutes. If you've never heard of Erin Milan, M-O-L-A-N, you should. Her clips on Instagram and her show, the Erin Milan Show, is fantastic. But I'm going to bring this up with her in a little bit too. The problem, the dancing leftist doofuses, I'm really trying to avoid it. I'm sorry. It's not easy, folks. It's a struggle every day. It's like keeping a beach ball underwater. The struggle for the leftist doofuses going forward is going to be, folks, it is not going to be easy to lie about stuff in the future. The easiest lie, again, the mask.

37:22You're not going to be able to easily do it. I'm not telling you the sheep won't fall for it, just to be clear. Leftist sheep will fall for anything. It doesn't matter what you tell them. But not the whole world has leftist sheep. I mean, we elected Donald Trump. There are people who didn't fall for the story du jour. They didn't fall for a story. They followed the story. Those are not the same thing. It's going to make it really hard. Because in the past, if you said something stupid, like, hey, man, the mask is going to prevent COVID and the vaccine is just like 100 % effective. Remember Rachel Maddow?

37:54You remember that Klipke? It stops. It stops transmission like a hatchet. It stops. That was obviously bullshit. In the future, not even in the future, in the now, but in the future as it grows more powerful, the explosion in artificial intelligence, that's going to have to tell the truth. It's going to have to where the system implodes. You can't tell a system to operate on reason but not operate on reason when answering political questions. It will implode. Nobody, and I mean nobody understands this more than Elon Musk. No one. Of course, Grok is his AI system. I like it. It's very good. Elon, who has been in the free speech fight a long time, X along with Rumble and elsewhere, been in this fight forever.

38:40Elon understands that AI, this is a short clip. It's only about 15 seconds. But he said this on what looks like a red carpet or something. Someone asked him about AI. and he's like he put throws a caveat in there he says as long as it tells the truth this is not an accident check this out i think what's important with in training ai and in growing an ai is to make sure that it is uh as truthful as possible and uh maximally curious because i think if if if that's true then i think it'll probably foster humanity but it's very important that that are trained to be honest, even if that truth is unpopular.

39:17He says it twice. I was going to put up two things. It'll be four times. Twice. He says it twice. He has said this over. If you follow him on X, I mean, he's got like, I don't know, 250 million followers, whatever. He has repeatedly said that AI could be humanity's greatest gift. But I'll tell you right now, it'll be its worst curse if it does not tell the truth. if AI is programmed algorithmically to in the next pandemic, and some pandemic is going to happen, whatever, Spanish flu, whatever, something else is going to happen. If AI is programmed algorithmically to say, ignore science and reason and tell a bunch of leftist sheep and lemmings and anyone else going to Joey Bagadona's AI system, whatever it is, that surgical masks prevent the transmission of Spanish flu, whatever it is.

40:11The whole AI system collapses on itself because you're training the algorithm to not tell the truth, which is the only purpose of AI. If you train it to not tell the truth, and then you ask it to analyze a spreadsheet and give you the net present value of an investment, is it positive or negative? and it's learned to lie for political reasons, it's going to lie to you about an investment because there may be some environmental impact and you're going to make the wrong decision. I'll talk with Aaron about this later, but I'm telling you, nobody gets this more than Elon. The biggest threat to the unholy alliance of liberal progressive commies, Islamo fanatics, and I'll throw in the left-wing media data bashes of the world.

40:59The biggest threat to them, I'm not debating that. Is that AI does the debate for you. You may say, well, people could get the information. No, no, no. Hold. Hold. Braveheart style. They can. However, Google, Yahoo, all these other search engines that are run by lefties in the past, and lefties even still there now, You and I both know If you went and put in I wish I could go retroactively Go back If you were to search on Google or anywhere else Do surgical masks prevent COVID You would get 20 pages of flattering articles Before you would get one critique You know I'm telling the truth Folks, come on Be honest with yourself in the chat How many people go to page 20 of a search The answer is probably close to no one That's not what Grok does Grok goes through 10 million pages and it finds the actual science and tells you the answer lickety-split you'll be on stage at a debate or something and you're not going to have to fish through oh let me look hold on you can just ask the question to AI right there hey Grok, did Klaus mask prevent COVID?

42:23oh look at this audience, this guy's full of shit doctor bag of donuts, he's lying AI is going to change everything Now, for the 30 % of unholy alliance Islamo-fanatics and leftist progressives Who don't care about facts Remember, I said on Hannity last night Their ideology, communism and Islamo-fanaticism Their ideology is immune to reason It's a religion for them It's faith The rich don't pay taxes No, they do, you can look it up It doesn't matter It's a principle of my religion that I say that Life does not begin at conception That's not a human being in a womb What is it, a freaking giraffe?

43:04That for you is a pseudo-religion Those people are not reachable However, the 20 % or so of the population On both the moderate Democrat And sometime Republican side I promise are very persuadable I've seen it in elections myself I've seen it if ai tells you the unemotional truth gaslighting people is going to be really really difficult but to get people to believe bullshit about massive vaccines or elsewhere you have to isolate them from the truth which is what the internet did from them it put it on page 100 and you never saw it that's why people leftists and even some forget that it's a religion but people in there were some people in the middle on the moderate Democrat side.

43:52There are some left. I promise you go to like West Virginia. There are a lot of West Virginia, very conservative people still vote Democrats, a generational thing. Folks, it's real. I mean, it's a very real. It's not a small number of people either. You talk to people like that and they're still convinced of things like Obamacare really worked. Obamacare ran on basically two things. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, which was false. My plan was canceled. I still have the letter. I put it on there. I wish I had it. I'd throw it up on the show. I used to put it on the show all the time.

44:22I got canceled. And so did millions of others. So, okay, that was false, correct? You got the letters in the mail. Everyone in the chat, anyone in the chat get canceled? Remember Obama? If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. It was later voted like lie of the year. So that didn't work. Okay, so Obamacare. The other tenet of Obamacare that they ran on was it was going to lower costs. Yeah, I'm going to go a little bit out of order, but can you put the NPR article up first? If Obamacare lowered costs, we've already acknowledged you couldn't keep your plan, right? That people's plans were canceled.

44:53So that was fake. So if Obamacare lowered costs of health care, why did the Democrats shut down the government? Look at the date, folks. October 7, 2025. Remember the government shutdown? Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown? The answer is because they know leftist progressives are stupid. Right? Obamacare was such a catastrophic failure and cost so much money that the Democrats needed more money to subsidize people to pay for the cost of these exploding plans they said would implode, not explode. They said the cost would go down, not up. So they shut down the government and then told stupid people who didn't even go to AI and ask the question.

45:41They told stupid people, Republicans are trying to take your health care. And nobody even bothered to look it up. That's not what the fight was about at all. The cost exploded and the Democrats needed more money and didn't want to tell you the truth. So they relied on the unholy alliance of stupid people, media people, Islamo fanatics and progressive commies to lie to your face. You see it again to this report yesterday from Fox. Here's a report on Fox News about Obamacare blowing it again. And folks, this isn't about Obamacare or Fauci and the vax. It's about the bigger issue of don't fall for the op.

46:25I told you, folks, that last year, man, you have no idea how many ops are going. Someday when it all comes out, you'll see what I mean. There are things we just can't talk about because I worked for you, not for me. I can't like, it's not the right thing to do. I'm telling you almost everything you're seeing out there that sounds fishy is probably an op. And I don't mean that's some weird like conspiracy theory. I mean, there are people paying for you to see the op. I just want to show you this Obamacare thing too. They're saying they can't even keep people from basic things like lying about their income.

47:07That should be really easy, right? If you need an Obamacare subsidy from other taxpayers because you claim to not have any money, you should be able to show you don't have any money. The government can't even figure that out. Check this out. Non-profit health policy research group finds that 9.2 million adults, that's nearly half of those enrolled in Obamacare Medicaid expansion program, do not even meet the federal requirements to qualify. How did this happen and how do we know? Well, this study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program, and others are getting these benefits even though they're here in the country illegally.

47:46Now, this study was put together by the Paragon Health Institute, which is run by a former advisor to President Trump. He's alleging widespread fraud here. Gary says more than 9 million people, as you mentioned, close to half of those using the Medicaid expansion program under Obamacare should not qualify. The report given to Fox Business ahead of a hearing here on Capitol Hill says pandemic era policies supercharged the issue. We compared Medicaid expansion enrollment by state to the total number of people who would be eligible for that coverage, have income below those thresholds by state, and found a massive problem.

48:28According to the study, fraud in the program costs taxpayers$32 billion each year. And people who really do need regular Medicaid could be paying the price the most. The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, claiming up to 62 % of people enrolled in California are not eligible. And the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issue. $32 billion in fraud? Andy, I'll bet you$32 billion is probably as large as many of the state budgets in the United States. $32 billion in fraud. The federal government with$4 trillion in resources, thank God the Trump team, J.D.

49:12Vance, the FBI, DOJ, Colin McDonald, the United States attorney assigned to this, thank God they're cracking down. Think about this. This is not a small problem. It's$32 freaking billion. They can't even figure out the massive federal government, how much money you make. Don't they check like freaking tax returns? This is not hard.

49:39the IRS is a function of the government they can't even figure that shit out but getting back to my point folks I'm in a really good mood I don't know why life has been good to me lately it really has we got some big plans coming up I want to tell you about I'm really excited but that's for another day Sean heading to the lineup with Sean Ferris I just really feel good today our new 1776 shirts 250 years of freedom I just feel like like tomorrow is going to be so much like the AI, the Trump revolution, all of it but I do feel like on the downside, this is where I was going, I didn't want to lose my train of thought

50:28folks, almost everything you see that has a whiff of foul odor on the internet is an op. And again, I'm not trying to sound like the Martians did it and space lasers and shit. I mean, it's an actual operation where foreign governments or not just foreign governments, domestic interest groups with an agenda are paying to get you to believe something.

51:04How is it that people believe Obamacare worked? Not a single thing. There's no fraud control. The costs are out of control. And people's health care got canceled. That's like, that should be like the three horses of the apocalypse. But suckers still believe it. Why? Because there's an op. Because insurance companies and others, and states, by the way, are getting money for Obamacare reimbursements, as long as they're the subsidized COVID additions at a rate of something like nine to one, there's an incentive for them to mislead you. I saw this story. You may think this story is crazy and I don't care if you ever wanted to see how an op, like even for small things, you may say to yourself like, you know, I read this thing about cloud computing servers and all this other stuff and I was to all that.

51:51Folks, everything around you is a freaking op that smells like an op. Put up that Wall Street Journal story if you could. I saw this piece and this is the kind of thing I would almost never put in a show, but it is Worth Your Times by Moira Gleason, Wall Street Journal. It says, the horsemen among the high rises, New York City Council and Mayor Mamdami target another business, the Central Park Carriages. Any of you grew up in New York, if you ever go to Central Park, They have the horses and the carriages. So this story, if you ever want to see an op, read this story. Could you be like, there's an op in horse-drawn carriages in New York?

52:29Yes. There's a real estate group, to sum up the story, that wants the stables these horses are kept in because it's very valuable property. So the real estate group is lobbying all of these people to tell everyone how these horses are being abused and they're using basically animal rights groups as like working, at least on the, whether it's formal or not, the messaging is kind of the same to get people in New York to go, no one, but I love animals. Lucy's my, I love Lucy. Lucy's like a part of my family. He's my dog. Wow, horses are, except they've actually had independent folks go in there and look at the condition of the horses to go well that's not actually true the horses get the day off it's over 90 degrees they're well fed and taken care of like whether you like or hate horse-drawn carriages doesn't matter like i just want to know the facts if they're abused then tell us but they're not everybody has an interest in this story the horse-drawn carriage people have a lobby for themselves the real estate guy wants the stable the animal rights group needs to raise money for donate the horses are being abused everything is a freaking up I'm telling you once you see it you'll never unsee it when you see it behind the scenes and you see the actual mechanics of it you'll be like I can't believe I got played that's why it was so refreshing to have done it and get back on the air to be able to conclusively tell you you are getting worked by stuff

54:11there was this American greatness article too. Big hat tip. I'm sorry if I'm saying your last name wrong. Stu Cirque. American greatness. This is a great piece. The strategic architecture behind Trump's luck. He actually gives me a shout out, which is unnecessary, but appreciated. This is another op. Forget about the left. The left hates Trump. They don't even need to be paid. They just hate Trump because they're crazy. Many of them are, or have an interest in power and money, however. Folex MAGA, right? The fake MAGA? The people you thought were MAGA, that every single thing Trump does, everything Trump does, it's law.

54:53These are the people who are supposedly on our side. I see it today. Leave this up for a second, Guy. You can read ahead a little bit. But I see this operation now. Now there's a big op on Twitter. It's an op. Believe me, it's an op. About Trump and inflation. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. Inflation is a problem. It's been a problem throughout human history. The degree of the problem is far less than under Biden. You can actually look it up and ask AI. I know you won't, op people, because you're being paid to see others. But there's an op out there going, but Trump screwed up Iran. It's all over.

55:26We should have just taken care of the models. And look what happened with the inflation. You're like, oh, that's the lefty. No, it's not just the lefty. It's the Folex MAGA people putting that out there. Of course inflation is an issue that has to be dealt with. That's not the point. The point is, the op is already out there. You'll see it. And anytime Trump does something good, it's always luck. There it is, lucky Trump, making his appearance. Stu Serkin, this article, goes through a bunch of examples. But here's just one. So Donald Trump comes in, and for the first time in maybe 30, 40 years, shuts the border down to illegal immigration completely.

56:07So there are no illegals voluntarily admitted into the United States or done overtly. None. Shuts it down.

56:20I love how you guys pop them in from all different angles. I didn't know you could do that. I don't know anything about the production room there. So what's the narrative? Because they can't give Trump any credit, Folex MAGA. You'll see them talking about things like, oh, this was already happening. Biden was shutting it down and Trump just took over. That's total bullshit. You can just ask Grok that question. But they don't want to know because it's a freaking op. They'll highlight every inflation is a problem. I, the Dan Bongino show, me, two thumbs. I've been talking about inflation for government spending is out of control.

56:56I don't care who it is. Trump, Biden, Obama. We got to get it under control. No doubt. But just tell people the truth about when other good things happen too So they can form an opinion about the effectiveness of the operating government right now We had some great news yesterday This is CNBC, it's not the pro-Trump network, CNBC Here's CNBC yesterday doing a piece on the manufacturing explosion into the United Due to cloud computing, AI You got electricians, thank my brother's an electrician making$250 ,000 a year working in cloud computing centers and elsewhere. You don't make, I don't like, okay, you don't have to like them.

57:35But at least acknowledge the fact that a lot of people's jobs and livelihoods rely around the United States becoming dominant AI. So China doesn't wipe us out by creating a bioweapon using AI better than ours. Here, you probably didn't see this from the Doomers yesterday, the CNBC clip about the explosion in manufacturing, highs we haven't seen in years. Check this out. We look at manufacturing. These are fresh July reads from the ISM. I'm manufacturing comes in much better than expected. Fifty five point six. That'd be the best best read in over four years since May of 22. Folks, you didn't hear any of that from any of the doomers.

58:17They just you don't you're obviously in a free republic under no obligation whatsoever to say anything. I am a free speech absolutist. Say whatever you want about me, Trump, others. I'm just saying if you want to be taken seriously and evaluate the portfolio of work in the year and a half of the Trump administration, talk about, yes, inflation's a problem. You are correct. But does the manufacturing explosion, the reduction in crime to, you know, numbers we haven't seen since the 1920s, does any of that matter too? He's bigger on that one. He covers like the whole. Lucky Trump is just expanding.

59:01Read that article, the American Greatness article. You'll see what I mean. How everything he does that's right in the doomers and the left is like, no, that's luck. But everything bad that happens is definitely his fault. The inflation is not a remnant of Biden era COVID spending blowouts. None of that. He had nothing to do. It's all Trump. folks this is a demoralization op and i need you to see it for what it is please they are dying for us to lose the midterms andy check this show audience archive is judy remember the date august 4th if we lose the house and senate in the midterms because the doomers win Trump sucks don't even bother showing up and voting I guarantee you flags in the chat I absolutely guarantee you that the doomers are them going to turn around and go you see we told you Trump sucked look I bring this up because if you go to this X account flags in the chat if you go to this open source zone account you're going to see that the race is still super close There are three toss-up seats in the Senate The doomers would make you believe that every single Senate race is lost Every House race is lost There are 14 toss-ups in the House, that's it Three toss-ups in the Senate Folks, this election is still ready to rock and roll if you show up Please do not fall for the op If you've processed all the info The low crime rates are not for you the SEAL border's not for you, the relative containment of inflation's not for you, then fine, vote against Donald Trump, but just don't fall for the OPP is all I'm asking.

1:00:55And folks, there's a reason, there's a reason that they're doing this. They want to run their own candidate in 2028. Just sign SEAL and deliver, cash that check and send it to the bank. and folks the op people are combining with some of the most dangerous people in the world the people running the op are combining with the islamo fanatic nuts that would kill you in a second did you see this viral video out of oxford union lawrence fox it's gone nuclear i think it's like 10 million views lawrence fox an excellent commentator he goes up to debate the islamo fanatics, how they have no, the Islamo fanatics have no place in a free society, none.

1:01:42The fanatics. Any fanatic in any religion for that matter who believes in killing you, but the Islamo fanatics and what they want to do to the infidels, they'll just tell you. They don't even hide it. This is who the left is combining with to take over your country. Lawrence Fox exposes them in a debate, and there's a part of this that's just killer. Watch about a minute of this. It's worth your time. Check this out. This Islam gives you three options as far as I can tell. as a Westerner, submit. Pay the jizya, the tax, which institutionalizes inferior status for non-Muslims in Islamic states.

1:02:17Or, excuse me, three, war with Muslims. Right. Notably, within those three options that Islam offers you, there is not one option which is, let's live in peaceful coexistence as equals in a pluralistic society. The policy exchange report titled Unsettled Belonging, published in 2016, which claims to be the most extensive research of British Muslims ever conducted, revealed that, let's do it, 43 % of British Muslims supported the introduction of Sharia, not British law, Islamic law. 53 % prefer to send their children to school with strong Muslim values, suspicious perhaps of Western ones, maybe, I don't know.

1:02:5524 % sympathised with violence organised by groups to protect their religion. And 35 % believe that the Jews have too much power in the UK, 52 % compulsory halal. I could go on and on and on and on. But most important to me, and most important to me is the free speech of this. So let's get this out, shall we? 78 % of British Muslims believe that no publication should publish pictures of Muhammad. You got to see the rest of this thing when he opens this envelope. It's just a picture of Muhammad. And there's like a silence. Like, oh my gosh, you can't do that. Why can't you do that? Why can't you do that?

1:03:40I don't understand why you can't do that. Freedom of speech and all that. And then, in what has got to be the most devastating, unintentional confession ever of the danger of Islamofanaticism, I want you to watch a second piece where one of the supporters of islamo fanaticism it's like hey man you're really lucky like this didn't happen outside because man this could get really ugly yes believe me we know we know check this out stephen yaksley lenin known to his hooligans as tommy robinson stephen there is a crowd outside rioting against you tonight and without the protection and generosity of a Muslim Palestinian president and a mostly South Asian executive committee, you would be quite literally cooked.

1:04:34Quite literally, quite literally cooked. Notice she uses the word literally, and you know I hate the word literally. She literally means it. No, they would like burn you alive. Does she not realize that was a confession?

1:04:49Folks, the unholy alliance of communist progressive libs, Islamo fanatics, and the media that cover for them will destroy this country, destroy your kids' country, destroy you, and potentially kill you.

1:05:09These people could not be more dangerous right now. That's why they hated my time at the FBI. I just saw a thing pop on an alert. I had just laced into the public school system last night on Hannity. And they're like, epic failing. Dan Bongino's at the NBA. Yeah, we had the lowest crime rates in American history. We had a huge public corruption portfolio. I had reformed upwards of 10 % of the workforce. Like, I have actual results. Results. We kicked ass and took names, man. We transformed that we had in Hummin'. you guys have been in charge of the public school system forever. You can't even teach a kid.

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1:08:36Welcoming to the show, one of my favorite accounts to follow everywhere on X and Instagram and her show. I don't have time to listen to a lot of shows, but I check out hers, Erin Milan, M-O-L-A-N, if you haven't heard of her. She's absolutely fantastic. Erin, welcome to the show. What an honor to have you. Dan, bless you. Thank you so, so much for having me. You're the only person I would stay up this late for. And the second sacrifice, I usually would have had like eight or nine crack pipes by now, and I haven't had one. You're welcome. Crack pots. I don't know what that is, but it must be like footy, like some word you use over.

1:09:15What's crack pots? Coffee or something? Crack pipes. Your crack pipes. Put down your crack pipes. That's my favorite line. I keep telling the socialists that. Stop smoking the crack. Remember, there was a commercial when I was a kid. Crack is whack. I'm a lot older than you, but don't do the crack, which actually kind of, you know what? I'm going to go in reverse. I had a bunch of questions for you, but it actually segues nicely into question number one about this reemergence of socialism that you have been speaking so vocally about, warning people about, you know, you're on the other side of the earth.

1:09:52However, this is a persistent generational problem. And I always tell them, put down the crack pipe, because if you're a sane logical person with an IQ above 80, all you have to do is go to like ChatGPT or Grok and say, hey, has socialism ever worked? And it hasn't. It's led to death, destruction, deprivation, poverty, famine every single time. But it's almost like a religion for the left, right? They keep saying, no, have faith. It'll happen again the next time. And it won't. You're spot on. It's complete insanity. And let me tell you, for starters, I was in New York City a couple of months back.

1:10:31No free buses. Tried to catch a free bus, nearly got arrested. Went into a grocery store, walked out with milk, nearly got arrested. There was no free childcare. Even the promises of it, they don't deliver on anything. And I'm looking at Mamdani today, again, pushing this BS, socialist, communist, crazy rhetoric that nobody should believe, but of course they lap it up. And he's now saying you might need ID to go to his government-run grocery store, but God forbid you should have to show it when you vote. A rational person should be watching all of this and saying, yeah, he's got a cute smile and yeah, he can deliver a line and gosh, he's great with kids, but he makes absolutely no sense.

1:11:15And what he is selling has not been successful anywhere else in the world. That is significant. I'm not saying that we can't have miracles, you know, be pulled off every now and then, but it ain't going to happen with socialism. And the silence from the normal Democrats, Dan, is driving me crazy. I want there to be two strong parties in America. The rest of the world benefits when you have a strong system where one is not just completely losing its marbles. And it is. These people are crazy. You're right. And they're basing it on have faith. Well, sorry, nothing they ever promise is delivered.

1:11:56And thank God for that at the moment, because it's crazy. Yeah, I agree with you that the cleanup job, this is a really hard truth to have to kind of feed to people. I was on with Hannity last night on Fox and I brought up this point, the cleanup of this socialism mess is really got to be done by the Democrats. I only say that because people like you and me and Sean and Mark and Shapiro and people who've been in this space forever, Adam Carolla, he's been the original podcaster. They've been warning about socialism forever. And I think that takes amongst a subset of America that's open to new ideas.

1:12:36You got your diehard Democrats, your diehard Republicans. And then there's that, I don't know, 20 % in the middle or so that are persuadable. But the problem is the cleanup has to happen on the Dem side. You're seeing it a little bit, Van Jones, Bill Maher starting to warn people. But what I don't see, I played in the beginning of the show, this famous dancing man video where the one person starts dancing and then the second person joins in the whole crowd. There's only like one or two people dancing right now and it's not a crowd of Democrats. They have to clean this up. We've been talking about this stuff forever.

1:13:09You know, they have to do the cleanup job. You're spot on. And as you said, it can only come from them, but they're unwilling to do so. And they're so hypocritical. You know, you can poke a million holes through any political movement or party, but Republicans, and I've seen it, we've seen there are elements of the MAGA movement that have gone completely rogue, that don't represent anything that MAGA was created to do. And you see people calling it out both from within the movement and those that maybe are on the peripheral, on the edge. The Democrats, what, you've got Fetterman. You're right, Ma, yeah, Van Jey.

1:13:46But the bulk of them are completely silent. I mean, I'm watching a bloke with a Nazi tattoo and I'm seeing women on The View going, yeah, yeah. No, he's cute. Like, sorry, oh, whoopee. I didn't know it was a Nazi. Like, come on. you've got to actually call out your own. And I get that it's difficult. I get that there can be repercussions, but don't pretend to stand for something when you stand for absolutely nothing. Bloke. Every time, it's not like I've heard the word 10 ,000 plus times, but every time I hear it, I just love the bloke. That actually happened. The fact that this, I wonder if people even on the other side of the earth are like, wait, did a guy in the United States actually win a major party primary with a effing Nazi tattoo?

1:14:36The answer is yes. Yes. It's embarrassing. I just want everyone to know in Australia, the UK, Japan, democracies around the world. This was not a Republican thing. The Democrats own this. We warned them. They voted for this idiot. We've got nothing to do with this guy. But that story, Aaron, we're talking to Aaron Milan, M-O-L-A-N. Check out her show, Aaron Milan show, eponymously named. I talk about this unholy alliance all the time big hat tip to david horowitz he wrote a book about it how i get this question you probably get it yourself like i don't get it how is it that the lgbtqia2 plus whatever they keep adding on how is it that they align with the iranian regime the islamo fanatics and the islamo nazis out there like they would throw them off the roof and horowitz explains very simply, they both have one goal, which is tyranny and power.

1:15:32And to get that tyranny or power, they have to get something out of the way. And that something is you, people who believe in anti-tyranny and believe in individual liberty. That's the only reason this is all about power, but it's very dangerous. Oh, it's super dangerous. And even, you know, when Momdani was campaigning in gay strip clubs and I'm watching going what he wants to introduce would not tolerate you for a nanosecond and it's the same as what we're seeing in Berlin and we're seeing an Islamist terrorist driving a car into a parade and then you're seeing the organizers of the LGBTQ etc etc etc coming out and saying now don't let this divide us and don't let this make you hate them well sorry but if that is not enough to to wake them up what is because I kept thinking watching this you know gaze for Gaza and and just the greatest fools on planet earth running cover for a regime that hangs them from cranes I'm thinking you know what this is horrific and I I hope like hell it doesn't happen.

1:16:45It will take something disastrous for them to wake up and realise that the movement they're aligning themselves with doesn't want them. But the point you make is brilliant in that they actually don't care. They don't care if it ends in their own destruction. They will do anything for power. They have the same shared goal. They just don't realise that once this mob is done with the other mob, the mutual mob they hate, this mob is going to kill them too. That's the ridiculous element of it. You know, obviously you're correct. That's why I enjoy your content so much. But it's just, that's the part I don't get.

1:17:27And I feel like I really have a pretty good feel for the pulse of the left. I mean, for 10 plus years I've been studying. You know, I worked in a White House with Barack Obama as a Secret Service agent. You hear these people talk. I feel like I've got a good pulse. But this is the end game. It's not like the Islamofanatics are in any way cryptic about what they're going to do to the infidels. I mean, they openly advertise it all the time. It's just so troubling. And it brings me to my next question about this cannibalism theory, which, again, you kind of segued unintentionally, but nicely to this idea that when your only endgame is power and not the advancement of individual liberty, the idea of a representative democracy and any of that.

1:18:14Eventually, you have to turn on people who you perceive to be in your own tent, because I'll give you an example. Maybe it's better explained this way. You know, I noticed during the whole cancel culture thing you and I went through during the Obama and Biden years where any conservative who said anything about COVID or mask, everybody got canceled. What started to happen is even any leftist that spoke out and did not, you know, toe the company line was canceled, too, because they all have to cling to their power and their powers threatened when one of them says it. They're not interested in truth.

1:18:47They're interested in power. And I think you're right. That's what's going to wind up happening is if they do win, the LGBTQ plus and DEI folks are going to find out the hard way that their bedfellows are not fellows at all. I mean, can you imagine? I mean, look at Dearborn, Michigan. I mean, how is that ever going to be now moving forward a safe haven for anyone in the LGBTQ, et cetera, et cetera, plus community? It won't be. They cannot coexist. It doesn't work. The Muslim Brotherhood, you talk about the fact that they're not exactly backwards in coming forwards. They're not hiding their intentions.

1:19:27I mean, they've written it all out. It's like a 10-point bloody plan, yet we're still going, hey, how can we assist you? And they're leading the way for it. It is self-destruction. We are the architects of our own demise. And you're right, this cannibal, I mean, you talk about it all the time. It is exactly what it will end in their misery, death and destruction. And no one seems to give a tinker's cuss because they want power more than they can see anything else. And you're right, they'll eat their own. And we see it. It's not an alliance that can coexist. And I make the point as well. You look at, I mean, the Islamic regime of Iran, for example, that they've also decided to throw their considerable, in some cases, weight behind.

1:20:14I mean, they would drop a nuke on America and kill all of them in two seconds. They would not be sending a text. Oh, hey, hey, Ayatollah. In fact, maybe the Ayatollah would actually be more sympathetic given his own leanings, allegedly, but he's not going to say, hey, you know, that group of lesbians that protested for us, we should spare their lives before we do. Yeah, nah, I don't think so. It's just dumb. It's so dumb, but it's dangerous. And that's the issue. And that's why voices like ours are needed, because the issue is that we can't just say, let's put them in a box and laugh at them. People actually buy into it and they start to believe it.

1:20:54And we've seen what can actually happen when they get too much power. You know, I can tell you're a broadcast pro, given your experience. You do the throw. Well, you know, sometimes a lot of you guess who are new and they don't do the throw. There's a way to end your sentence where the host knows like you just did it. You go back and rewind. folks you'll see what i'm like with new guests they don't know and you don't know so yeah then you get the and you don't know when to talk and because there's always a delay like people who've been in the business know to throw it and then they stay quiet for a second i'll give you a good inflection dan i will you will know when i'm done my friend yeah you got a lot of experience in the space so i see it here so you know you're uh again i i really enjoy uh your clips i see a lot of them on Instagram.

1:21:40And I know you're a pretty astute observer of not just politics in the United States and elsewhere, but around the world. And I had Gad sat on and he was talking about this idea of suicidal empathy, that these liberals, they just, everything is like a bumper sticker. Tolerance, coexist. Well, you know what, Erin, some people don't want to coexist with us. Some people have we been discussing just want to kill us and they've said it. do you notice a trend whether it's in Australia or the UK I shouldn't say a trend a growing flourishing trend there's always going to be people who are just fed up with this like you see it in the UK Tommy Robinson's been doing a lot of good work over there with this whole unfettered immigration idea I know you this problem is not you know limited to the United States where thankfully Donald Trump has shut it down but this unfettered immigration like all cultures are welcome.

1:22:31No, no, no. If your culture says, kill me, you're not welcoming. Are you seeing a trend around in other democracies in this direction to to fight against this stuff? Absolutely. And what I'm seeing, which is somewhat comforting, Dan, is that there is starting to be a pushback that wasn't there even five, 10 years ago in a country like Australia. And again, you know, you'll have people say, oh, that's so racist. You've got no heart. You don't care. sorry my care and heart lies with the women in Spain right now who are now victims of crime because tens of thousands of fighting age men have broken through the empathy that so many on the left have extends to their enemies but never their own people it it makes no sense but I feel like people are jack of it they're waking up to it and they're going wait a minute it's not empathetic to allow people smugglers to bring thousands of people in on boats, half of whom drown at sea.

1:23:30My dad was a major general in the army, Dan, and he's a big reason that I have, and it's courage. It shouldn't be courage. I tell the truth, but I say what I believe and I stand up for what is right. And I watched him do that. He fought in Iraq. He was chief of operations for the US forces, the first Australian general to do so. He then entered politics and he said that was a hell of a lot harder than war, to be honest with you, a hell of a lot more brutal. But one of the things that he became known for in Australia was Operation Sovereign Borders. So along with our prime minister at the time, the defense minister, he came up with the plan to stop the boats.

1:24:07He was the architect of it. And all of these leftist dick shits. Oh, sorry, I probably can't swear. Can you beat that out? All of these. No, because you're cursing. I'm from Queens, New York, that's not even like really cursing. If it's not the F word or another word that's even worse with four letters that ends in T, it's not really a curse. So no, we're not going to bleep it out. I just hope my mother doesn't watch perfect. But they would attack him and say, this is so cruel. Don't you feel for that two-year-old child off the coast of Java, Indonesia, who's struggling or there's this conflict or there's this.

1:24:44And he'd say, you know what, What I don't want is to encourage the trade and have that child drown at sea. We had children drowning at sea and for some reason the leftists in this country thought it was more empathetic to encourage a trade of evil scumbags to attempt to bring them over illegally and kill them than it was to say, no, we must protect our borders, go through the right channels and if your case is legitimate and genuine, we will welcome you in. We are a country in Australia. We've had some of the most incredible people come to this nation, embrace our culture, contribute to who we are, believe in what we stand for, respect the sacrifices that have been made.

1:25:26Italians, Vietnamese, the Greek, we've had so many. You know what my bar is, Dan, and you said it brilliantly earlier, we are now seeing people come into my country legally who want to kill us. And forgive me, I'm not Islamophobic, I'm not racist, I'm not a bigot. I just don't want people coming into my country that might kill my eight-year-old child. My standard and bar is really low. I lived in Indonesia, a country, the largest Muslim population in the world. I speak the language fluently. I go back often. I go and volunteer at Muslim orphanages. I have a huge passion for that country. I go in, I respect the culture, I cover my shoulders.

1:26:08I don't go and try and force where I've come onto them. And you know what? But the irony is, Jan, in so much of this, and particularly in Arab nations around the world as well, Muslim nations, they would not tolerate 1 % of what the West tolerates when it comes to Islamic extremism. The latest president of Indonesia, and I get passionate, so give me a second. I promise I will end in a second and give you a throwback. But the president prior to Prabowo, he ran his campaign essentially on eliminating Islamic extremism in the world's largest Muslim nation. And the people said, hell yes, and he did it almost entirely.

1:26:48They went hard on those who were perpetrators and they went into schools and they sorted ideology. Now, it's not perfect. But if a Muslim nation, the largest in the world, is allowed to say publicly, we don't want Islamic extremism here, then why the hell can't my government in Australia say it after an ISIS gunman on a bridge in Bondi gunned down Jews and other Australians this year, yet we're too afraid to say Islamic extremism because that might be considered Islamophobic or racist or BS. Yes, Muslims call it out. So we should be able to bloody do it here. I spent a good amount of time in Indonesia.

1:27:30SBY was the president when I was there. And General Norman was my counterpart. Yeah, I was over there for a while. I'll have to tell you a story offline sometime about Indonesia and fighting Muslim extremism. It involves me running in a gym early in the morning and watching a news report going, that guy looks familiar on the news. I'll tell you, it's probably not good for the air. I am excited. Yeah, I'll tell you. Because my dad was in East Timor, and there are stories they talk about where he, like, got off the aeroplane, there were all these citizens that were evacuating, and he walked up to a truck with militia on there with guns drawn.

1:28:07I mean, we've got wartime stories, but, you know, that's the stuff, and that's why you actually put your money where your mouth is. You have shown courage beyond just words, and your country is so lucky to have you. Thank you for your service. Thank you. That was very nice. I always say, get that on tape, guys. Whenever I'm depressed, you can play that for me, Andy. Get them on loop. I want all these positive comments from my guests. Can you put them in a file? Sometimes I come in like the black cloud. These guys know what I didn't sleep good. You can just play me like a 20-minute roll of people on loop.

1:28:40I need that. Aaron, last question for you. Yeah, you did. I really do. Sometimes I come in and it's been a bad night. But, you know, AI, obviously, there's been a thousand conversations about AI from everything from data centers to the economics of it, to how's it going to work, to the threat from it. However, one of the arguments I put up earlier in the show is I had Elon Musk, a clip of him, and he's talking about how basically if AI tells the truth, it's a real threat to the left. Now, this is the problem we've had for the last, say, 20 or so years since the Internet has really, really flourished.

1:29:16I mean, he's around longer than that, but really flourished. If you were to go to the internet, and let's, let me, I'll throw out a random leftist fairy tale. Police are shooting thousands of unarmed black men every year, killing them, mowing them down the streets. It's not true. It's factually inaccurate, either dead or you're not. Like the police either killed you or they didn't. The number is about 11. And even of those cases, many of them are adjudicated. Some are just bad uses of force and the police officer goes to jail. But it's not thousands. It's not even tens. So the problem I think the commies are going to have in the socialist media going forward is in the past, people would go to the Google machine and put that in there.

1:29:58And the first 20 articles, which is all anybody would get to ever, no one goes to page 10, would be some leftist take on that NPR or whatever, implying somehow that some of this crap is true. That's not going to be the case with AI, if it works as intended. Some kid who hears this shit on TV is going to go to chat GPT or whatever and say, hey, are the cops mowing down unarmed black men by the thousands? And if AI is doing its job, it's going to say, no, that's not true. The numbers are 11 or less. I think Elon says it right. He's like, that's why he loves this AI and Grok and everything so much, because it just crushes the fairytale ecosystem.

1:30:39And it's such a brilliant point. And so much of the focus so often is on the downside, isn't it? The negative side. And as much as I mean, I listen to your show every day. I hadn't thought of it prior, that point. And I mean, the greatest enemy of the left is truth. Access to that truth and succinct, easy to digest access, particularly for young people. So AI is actually going to be one of the greatest tools that we have as people who tell the truth and who rely upon it. It's brilliant. It's actually that I've never thought about that upside of it. But it's just it's so easy for them. Whereas in the past, you know, there's when I was in a guys, can I get a dispensation on the education thing?

1:31:29He's thinking, I don't know, Andy. okay he's giving me a thought but we have a rule in the show if you ever mention your education you're probably an asshole anyone who goes i've got an mba and i hate it it's like if you're smart you don't need to tell me can i mention my education can i just do it we'll give you a dispensation yes wait wait hold on andy is that okay can you all right erin because you're a first-time guest you can go i dropped out of university six times i have not completed one unit and I have paid an entire degree of fees for not one unit completed. You're welcome. Andy's like, we love you.

1:32:11You're welcome back anytime. That drives me freaking bananas when people do that. However, I only bring it up because one of the first things in any business school they tell you is this Porter's five forces. It's just how to, you know, advantages people have these five forces in business. And one of them, of course, is barriers to entry. You know, it's not a good thing. However, it's not. You want every company to flourish, but it doesn't hurt if the government has a bunch of rules for you to start a business because most people don't have the money to get a lawyer to comply with the rules. So businesses, big business actually loves regulation because it's a barrier to entry.

1:32:46I bring that up in the context of the conversation we're having about AI because, you know, Google and others in the past that leaned far left, the barrier to entry was you had to get to page 20 to find the first article that said, that's not true. Police aren't mowing down unarmed black men by the thousand. It was a barrier that no one would get there. Now with AI, the barrier is totally gone. All you have to do is hit send and it gives you all the entire body or as John Brennan would say, that clown corpus of research, just like that. And I think, I think that's the game changer going forward.

1:33:23I'm excited about that element of it. And there are elements that terrify me, but that is something to immensely look forward to. Bring it. I mean, think about it. I got to run, but think about it. This is like, you're going to be, I know you do a lot of these symposiums and debates and public appearances and stuff. You're going to be on the stage with some clown lefty who's going to say that, or he's going to say something like, you know, Donald Trump colluded with the, like another fairy tale, colluded with the Russian steel. You're going to be like, hold on, let me get, he'll give me a second.

1:33:52You're going to take your phone out. You're going to go, let's test that theory right here. Here we go. I got it on my phone. Here's the chat GPT app on Dan's phone right here. You're going to say, are police mowing down? It's going to say no. And you're going to show the audience. And the guy's going to look like a clown because chat GPT is not even run by a bunch of conservatives. It's going to happen automatically. It'll be all around us. I won't have to type a thing. This is where it will get to. Well, actually, it'll be attached to us somewhere and do it in real time. I've actually seen that.

1:34:21They won't believe it. I've seen that in debates. I'm sorry, I forget which one, but they had an AI thing in the background. And if this thing is honest, the Democrats, what a shit show it's going to be for them, you know? They won't get a word out. I'm way over time here. But I want to get a promotion in again for your show. She is Erin Milan, M-O-L-A-N. You can see it on the screen, host of the Erin Milan show. You should really check it out. Give her a follow on Instagram. Give her a follow on X, all the social media platforms. She's fantastic, speaks the truth. She's definitely not one of these NPC nutbags that just says the current thing.

1:34:58She fights the current thing. That's why I want her. You're welcome back anytime, Erin. Thanks for your time today. Fantastic. We appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, Dan. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. You got it. I told you, folks, we only try to bring you the best guests. That's why we don't do a guest segment every day. I think they have, frankly, sometimes they can get a little bit exhausting and you start fishing for it. We never want to fish for guests. We go see someone we find interesting. we bring them to you. We don't find them interesting. We don't. We'll do the show ourselves.

1:35:26But I watch our clips on Instagram and elsewhere, and they're just really fascinating. I can't stand the whole NPC crowd that just falls for the current thing. It's just, I've been in this business over a decade. I've seen people come and go over and over again. And the people who wind up fleshing out and just, you know, losing it, flashing the pans are the people who fall for the current thing stuff. It's not one of them. So check the show out. Another show to check out is going to be the new Sean Farish show, Sean Farish Live, starting August 17th on our network here. If you want to follow his accounts, please go to Bongino.com slash Sean, S-H-A-W-N.

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