A Powerful Response (Ep. 2506)

29:47Don't be a sucker. There's a reason they use this race argument. It's worked for them in the past. I'll show you another great Scott Jennings clip coming up in a second on CNN where you see this 30 second debate. This guy on CNN then the panel gets completely wrecked trying to make a race argument that's totally not there and then just moves on. Folks, I use my car for so much. Getting to work, running errands, family trips, I'm in it all the time. When your car goes down, it's not just inconvenient. It throws off everything. I've had that moment you had too where a strange sound turns into a, you know, thousand dollar bill or more.

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32:04They're like, well, you know, we don't have any black governors in the Republican Party. Really? Did you miss what just happened in Virginia where we actually nominated one and you guys voted against her? It's kind of weird. I thought it was a racial argument. Check this out. He's not an African-American Republican governor since Reconstruction. I mean, you know, there's a, unfortunately, imbalance between the two parties. Republicans tried to elect one in Virginia. Okay.

32:33I thought it was a racial argument. The Republican nominee was Winsome Sears, who happens to be black. Last time I checked, and she's female. Last time I checked, too, she actually knows what a male and a female are. And Democrats voted for a white woman who then gerrymandered the state. and spread out what they would call black voting power because they needed the black vote, which they hope and pray will vote Democrat in lockstep. The second black voters vote in the other direction, they'll gerrymandered the state completely different. They're only using you for Democrat power. They're not using you for your own power.

33:14If you are black and you are a conservative Republican, I hope you understand, they are doing everything they can to silence, Violence shuts you up and diminishes you. This isn't about race to them. It's about power. They don't care that you're black. They care that you're black and vote Democrat. That is not the same thing. These people don't even know what they're talking about. They're so freaking embarrassing. You have that No Kings rally? What's her name? Christy Lee. This is really good. I love these men on the street interviews. I think my role in the space, haven't been here a little bit, is to promote other creators out there and give them a shot because it's not about me.

33:51It's about keeping this going for a while. This is Christy Lee, the man on the street interview. I like Caitlyn, what's her name? Caitlyn Bennett too? Yeah, she's really great too. Here she is at one of these No Kings rallies. They're so stupid. These people don't even know what they're protesting against. Check this one out. What do you make of the fact that he was democratically elected, even won the popular vote? How does that make him a king? It doesn't make him a king. It makes him a president, not a king. Well, this is called No King. So what does that mean to you? It means we've got to get rid of him.

34:22He's not a king. It's a democratic process, and we've gone that route with him. Now he's acted like a king. Can you give me a specific example? Specific example? Well, there's a million of them all put together. There's no one example. Just one or two? There's more than one or two. No, can you give me one or two examples? I'm not off the top of my head. Folks, this is an epidemic on the left. Hat tip at Christy Lee TV. The epidemic is of ignorance and stupidity. Listen to me, please. I can't emphasize this enough because I'm going to show you a political ad too and how to win and how to tactically take back the message.

35:07One of the things I've been telling you for a long time, you want to take back a political movement, you want to take back and rescue your country from the ideologues of the left, you have to paint contrast. You have to show people imagery. You have to paint, you have to put a diamond on a black background, makes it look shinier. You have to paint a contrast. These people will do this. We will do that. I want to show you the evidence that these Democrats, whenever you do these man on the street interviews, they never know what they're talking about. Black voters, you are being used. The second you were to vote in any substantial number and for the Republican Party, they will gerrymander districts to shut you out.

35:43They will start talking about, we can't have black majority districts. Now they'll make the exact opposite argument. Political tactical weaponry class 101 lesson 476. I think that's right. I've repeatedly said to you, one of the best things you can do in politics is create a contrast, a foil effect. the human mind gets tons of stimuli through the eyes through the ears through your nose it processes it into a story it needs a story ladies and gentlemen every story needs a good guy and a bad guy please remember this you ever see um a few good men most of you have amazing movie although i think colonel jessup gets a bad rep in that movie don't you Harold's a few good men.

36:36That's for another day. There's a line in the movie, though, I cannot encourage you enough to tattoo on your brain. Courtrooms are not about the law. They're about placing blame. People need someone to blame. They tell themselves stories. They need a good guy and a bad guy. I don't know Spencer Pratt. Well, he's running for mayor of Los Angeles. I don't know him at all, actually. and I don't know what his internal politics are. I just know he's been through a lot with the fires in Los Angeles. He's running for mayor and he's running an insurgent campaign. And this, I'm going to tell you something, is one of the top five most effective political ads I think I've ever seen.

37:20Why? Because it gives you a good guy and a bad guy in 30 seconds and the imagery paints a contrast. Watch what I'm talking about. Take a lesson. This is an amazing political ad. Check this out. This is where Mayor Vass lives. You notice something? Or here, where Nithya Rahman's$3 million mansion sits. They don't have to live in the mess they've created. Where you live. This is where I live. They let my home burn down. I know what the consequences of failed leadership are. That's why I'm running for mayor. For my sons and the rest of us Angelenos that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city.

38:00we are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back. That's one of the best political ads I've ever seen. Folks, I don't know the guy. I remember him from the reality show. I'm happy he's right. It takes a lot of balls to put your name on a ballot. Good for you. That is one of the single most political effective political ads you'll ever see. Contrast the imagery of the million dollar mansion, the drone footage, giving the wide view of this guy and his house burned down. He's living in a trailer on his front lawn. I know what that's like. I lived on a trailer in the front lawn in Wonton. You lived in a trailer in Long Island?

38:36Yes. Why did you live in a trailer? Because the freaking house burned down. I was living with my Uncle Lou and Aunt Anna at the time. And the house burned down. Luckily, nobody died except for the poor dog who was caught in the house. The house burned to the ground. I lived there. I lost there. I don't have anything prior to my 18th birthday. Nothing. The only things I have, my brother had. He lived in a separate place. He had my old football helmet. I think that's on a pair of Doc Martens. That's all I have left. Everything I had, photos, pictures, books, sports stuff, burn. I lived on the front lawn in a trailer.

39:16Contrast. We got to learn how to win again. You need to tell people a story. They need to know who to blame. and who's to blame in liberal states? Liberals, and we don't do this enough. All you have to do is show people. Here is one of the best unintentional political ads. The guys are like, what's he telling you? There's no more ads in the show. No, there are. This is an ad for moving companies in Seattle. You guys know where I'm going with this? I don't want to confuse you too much. Okay, good. This is one of the best ads for U-Haul in Seattle, in the state of Washington, to move out of the state because of a millionaire tax they're going to enact.

39:59That is, I promise you, it's just going to bankrupt the state as millionaires who are already taxed start to leave and go take their investments and hard work elsewhere. I want you to watch the, I believe, 43-year-old mayor of Seattle, who I'm not sure has ever had a real job going back to the beginning of the show. These people have never had a real job and never had an answer to a foreman, clean a toilet bowl, unclog a pipe, install an electric panel. They think it's really funny that people who are successful and wealthy leave their state. She's actually laughing. This is the mayor of Seattle.

40:33Check this out. I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown. And if, you know, the ones that leave, like, bye. Bye. Bye. That's Mayor Katie Wilson. You're a moron. You are really one of the dumbest people in America. You think that's fine? By the way, you think they're overblown? Listen, I don't want these liberals moving to Florida either. I don't even care if you got your money. Please don't come down here. I'm just telling you, like, this is actually happening. Here's an article in The Hill, not some right-wing newspaper, okay? Starbucks tycoon Howard Schultz joins the billionaire Blue State Exist.

41:11Liz Peek, who's really good, wrote this piece. What state did he leave, fellas? You guys know? Yeah, Washington. Isn't the first Starbucks in Seattle on pikes over there? Now, the almost comical thing about these idiots like Katie Wilson and others, I'm not sure she's ever had a real job in her life, is that the thing about billionaires and millionaires, there are not a lot of them. So when they leave and that half of 1 % of people paying the overwhelming majority of your tax load and, by the way, financing a bunch of jobs and investment leave, it's gone. You lose a geometrically larger amount of your tax base.

41:53It's not a simple arithmetic linear line. It's a geometric exponential one. But she thinks it's hilarious. Bye.

42:05She thinks it's really funny. Folks, let me take another break here And then I'm going to get back to the Nothing is happening file Because yesterday was a big day A lot happened I'm really happy to report on some of this news Things you should smile about Is it the end? Should we be popping the champagne bottles? No, that's not how any of this works No one's asking for a celebration I'm just telling you, things are happening A lot of things are happening And you should know about them And there's some really good stuff that happened yesterday There's one case, I'm going to tell you something.

42:38I've been dying to talk about for a while how I haven't, I've missed it until now. I'm really almost disappointed in myself. But I am going to chat about it because when we put it out there, I knew there was going to be a counter narrative that went out and I still haven't addressed it. You'll see what I mean in a second, I promise. Our last break today, Rumble Wallet, Rumble Wallet. All right, quick break to talk about something I've started using, Rumble Wallet. I love it. If you've ever been curious about buying and investing in crypto, Bitcoin, stable coins, or USAT but felt like it was too complicated, Rumble Wallet's an easy way to get you started.

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44:27so you know we do not accept politically motivated violence in this country i am very happy to report yesterday that uh a really wonderful person i know uh had her on the show on election night turning point usa reporter savannah hernandez i don't know if you remember but she was assaulted on camera while doing good, solid, independent journalism work. Fox reported yesterday some action on this. Again, there were some people tell you nothing was going to happen because that's all they do and it happens and then they move on. You get the point. Here's a report on that yesterday. Check this out.

45:01Two people have been indicted on federal charges in connection to the attack on a Turning Point USA reporter. Now, you know that happened earlier this month. We covered it when it happened. Savannah Hernandez. Here's that video. It's unbelievable. was covering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE protest in Minneapolis just this month. When protesters swarmed her, screamed obscenities, blew horns in front of her face, and at one point, Hernandez tried to escape and a protester, a grown man, big guy, had his family with him, pushed her to the ground. She said she was bruised on her back and, I mean, she was hurt, her glasses were broken.

45:40The names of the two suspects indicted have not yet been released, but we expect the indictment to be unsealed later today.

46:10Guys, this is the luckiest man on planet Earth. I don't have any gambling on the schedule in the coming months. However, when I do, I am placing a phone call to President Trump, and I'm just going to ask him to stand over my shoulder and just watch because he's the luckiest man on Earth. There he is. I don't play that. Wow, look at that. Is he playing the slots, you think? Check that out. He doesn't drink. I'm not sure he gambles either. He's actually a very work-oriented guy. I'll gamble once in a while, have a couple of drinks on the weekend maybe. However, I want this guy next to me. Before I get to that, I have been really itching to talk about this case for a long time.

46:46Did you guys see the press reports months ago when I was back in the prior job? There was a case about the allegations of gambling fraud, manipulation on the market involving professional sports players. There was an update yesterday on that case. I'm going to play a quick clip. And I just want to tell you why this is in the nothing is happening file. Why is that in the nothing is happening file? I'll get to it in a second. It'll make a world of sense. Because we were told, you know what, just play the clip, and I'll explain it on the other side. Check this out. Yesterday, Jones admitted in court that he exploited his fame and access to profit from sports betting and rigged poker games, saying in part this, I would like to sincerely apologize to the court, my family, my peers, and also the National Basketball Association.

47:31Jones, among several prominent players, making a lot of money too, that have been arrested. He's the first, however, again, to plead guilty. The others have not. His sentencing is set for January 6th of next year. We'll watch how that develops. So this is in the nothing is happening file because one of the things we were told by a small, this is really just not doomers. This was just like kind of liberal media people. They were like, well, the FBI's focus on violent crime and cleaning up the streets is taking away assets from mob cases. What does it have to do with this? Ladies and gentlemen, there was a really significant La Cosa Nostra mob connection to this case.

48:10I encourage you to look it up. Everybody's innocent, still proving guilty. Case is still working its way through court. That's the way it's supposed to work. However, when this happened, I remember getting the briefing on this case. Folks, the mob angle was what really mattered to me. However, listen, media is the media. Obviously, people care about professional sports. They know a lot of these people. That took all the steam out of that. So it was just ironic. everybody's like oh man the FBI's not doing mob cases anymore then you do a mob case and then no one covers it they cover this professional sports angle instead which I remember telling Cash watch no one's even going to mention the mob angle guaranteed because even though we mentioned it repeatedly in the press conference to the chagrin of some people who were like why are you talking about the mob angle so much so that wasn't happening until it happened and they ignored that another thing I was told isn't happening is I was told that because we were focusing on violent crime.

49:06We weren't doing any white collar crime anymore. Well, that's amazing because we've had a number of significant busts, including one at FBI San Diego yesterday. An amazing bust here working with the Dubai Police Department and the Chinese MPS there. Hundreds of arrests and nine scam centers believed to be using crypto investment fraud schemes targeting Americans who suffered millions of dollars in losses. I was told that wasn't happening either, fellas. appears that's happening too another thing i was told wasn't happening is we got a lot of calls at the time from people who were being swatted and i had you know said on my fbi account at the time that we were working on it well now you see one of those cases working its way through the system through the excellent uh judge janine pirro in washington dc thomas zabo of romania was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for leading an online swatting ring that targeted more than 75 public officials, religious institutions, and multiple journalists in a nationwide threat spree.

50:04This was one of those things, again, where people were calling me for information I could not give up. I couldn't. I couldn't tell you what we were doing at the time. But again, I assured you it was happening. And now you see that the nothing is happening is happening too. They're running out of things to say aren't happening. Folks, lucky Trump is at it again. More kick-ass job numbers as the economy plows ahead despite Iran, despite global instability, despite the CCP constantly on edge with us, threats to jump the straight. The global economy is not doing nearly as well as the U.S. economy thanks to this president's leadership.

50:43Don't take my word for it. I'm going to play for you CNBC. CNBC's no big fan of President Trump. Going to play this first clip, Lucky Trump Strikes Again. Check out this clip first, and then I'll play one about the jobless numbers coming up next. Check this out. Personal income and spending numbers, income up six-tenths, double expectations, and that would be the best level since the summer of 25, July to be specific. If we look at the spending side, equal to expectations, up nine tenths. Pretty robust. Lucky Trump strikes again. Look at this guy. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Slot machine hits every freaking time.

51:24It's almost like it's not luck. It's almost like the system's been set for success. And the system is President Trump's. Wow, that sounds amazing. Amazing. Real income, GDP growth. Sounds really good. What about jobless claims? Wow. Look, we have a CNBC clip about that, too. It's about 20 seconds. Check this out. Lucky Trump strikes again. Jobless claims hitting the wires at one hundred and eighty nine thousand hundred and eighty nine thousand. Wow. That is truly incredible. We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s. This is very, very incredible. And continuing claims, one million seven hundred and eighty five thousand.

52:11That would be the least going back to August of the summer of twenty four. Actually, April of twenty four.

52:24Guys, I'm really. I'm really sensitive about overdoing segments. I am and I even said could I not say this to this just I give you some inside baseball because this isn't like a cable news show we can do whatever we want here you know we don't have a lot of those restrictions and things I a segment and a bit that's funny it's not funny if you do it five days a week it's just not Joe God rest his soul was very sensitive about the Muttley thing He was because it wasn't funny if we did it every day. I'm really hesitant to do lucky Trump every day. However, I don't know what else to do because every day is a new bit of good news.

53:09I'm not telling you every piece of information is fantastic, great news. I'm just telling you there's so much really amazing news. It's hard. I have to like control myself with the lucky Trump thing because I really don't want to overdo it because then it's just not funny anymore. So I'm going to have to put Lucky Trump maybe on hold for a day or two. I won't be here tomorrow. I have an event I can't get out of, and I'm sorry. I won't be. I'll be back on Monday. However, maybe tomorrow's the break. We may be back to Lucky Trump again on Monday. I just like it too much. There he is. I said, do me one favor.

53:41Have him pop out of different corners all the time so it looks delicious like that.

53:49Oh, man. If you're in the podcast space and you're new, don't ever overdo bits. I'm telling you. People are at enough rates. That was being funny. Like that. Now they're messing with me and you. All right. Back to serious time. So I said to you at the beginning of the show, you know, be very careful who you trust with your time. Where you choose to allocate your time. Allocate your time. Excuse me. You have a limited amount of time on planet Earth. Be very sensitive with it. I am so deeply honored. We have, what, 63 ,500 people here now. I am so honored you guys choose to spend time with us every day.

54:24I will never take you for granted. I mean it. I'm just telling you, like, if you're spending your time being lied to every day by nonsense and by, like, data point people with hidden knowledge who never actually tell you what that knowledge is, be very careful. There is a brewing new conspiracy theory. I don't know what else to call it. I actually hate that term because the left used to use it against us. But I don't know any other way to it's a theoretical conspiracy that doesn't exist. That's not backed up by any data. And there's hidden knowledge claim to prove the theory that never gets proven.

54:57So I don't know any other way to describe it. Any good euphemism for it. There's a new conspiracy theory out there that the president unbelievably staged another assassination attempt on his life. Of course, the theories out there that Butler was staged as well. I mean we had people shot Corey Comparator is dead President Trump was shot in the ear I mean it's just the stupidity level is really stunning and I just caution you like if you're giving your time to people promoting this stuff my question to you is why? why? I'm serious do you like being lied to? I mean you are being lied to you like it?

55:38you must like it because you're there voluntarily no one's forcing you to watch it Well, the staged conspiracy theory about the weekend assassination attempt on President Trump and others, by the way, because this manifesto with the suspect mentions, you know, mentions Trump like officials as well. Some new imagery emerged yesterday. It's quite the setup. I don't know. He's like President Trump in the background, like dressing this guy up as he was getting ready to do what he claimed he was going to do in the manifesto. Here's some new images out of the Justice Department. Check this video out.

56:12News has now obtained the 20-page memo, which is a motion from the DOJ of what they will argue in tomorrow's detention hearing, why Cole Allen should remain behind bars until trial. In this photo here, you see, Dana, the memo says that in the moments before Cole Allen departed his hotel room, he's there in the hotel room about to go down and storm the magnetometers at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. You can see the number of items that they lay out. Of course, there is a sheath, a shoulder holster, the sheath knife you see in there. And in the shot over there on the right side of your screen, number four appears to be wire cutters and pliers planning perhaps for some sort of escape.

56:57Now, in this memo, the reasons for the detention, they say that the defendant's actions were premeditated, violent, and, quote, calculated to cause death. and they lay out a timeline, this photo taken shortly after 8 p.m. Then they say shortly after 8.30 p.m., the assailant charged with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, a.38 caliber pistol, multiple knives and daggers, and a significant amount of ammunition for reloading all of those items, also detailed in photographs as matters of evidence. Guys, ladies, I'm going to ask you a simple question. If you, for some reason, are here on my show and you really believe this stuff, that the president's been staging multiple assassination attempts against himself, the base level of stupidity there is kind of hard for me to digest.

57:51However, putting that aside for a second, can I just ask you a simple question? So I haven't addressed this with you guys. You guys can be my audience, too, for this one. if the president of the united states was going to engage in a very sophisticated effort to stage an assassination attempt on his own life for i don't know for votes in an election he's not running in he's termed out i don't really know what he's doing that for but assuming like you've met base level of stupid and you're there they weren't smart enough to not tell the suspect in the case not to take pictures of himself with some of the weaponry used in the it's a data point it's a it's a data point i'm i'm i'm just curious does that that make that doesn't make any sense so this high level conspiracy they were like hey by the way just don't take pictures of yourself while, you know, wearing some of the weaponry as a suspect in the case?

58:55Don't do it. I can't, folks. I can't. Like, what? How do you explain this to yourself? And of course, the Democrats, who I told you will never rescue themselves from the abyss of stupid and their ultra-violent rhetoric that is causing a lot of this stuff, period. There's no both sides. Cut the bullshit. There's one side to this. We don't welcome this on the right. They love this on the left. How do I know? Here, play that Fox clip. There's about 20 seconds of Democrats blaming Trump for another assassination attempt. Check this out. A lot of it at the feet of the Trump administration for a lot of the things that they've done.

59:32President has had a part of that. OK, I mean, he's had responsibility in the rhetoric. And he should own that. Right. Like his his tweets exist. OK, like there's a reality of that. This president is guilty of inciting violence. At what point do people simply say, hey, Trump, it's clear that you're the drama? Folks, how, I mean, we're at like, again, levels of base stupid where to hurdle that stupid hurdle. I can't understand how you wind up in this stupid tent. Lovely. Paula just walked in the studio. She hasn't been here in a while. Want to say hello?

1:00:12Switching gears a little bit. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a lot happening on DOW2. Dude, as you catch the fireworks up on Capitol Hill with our excellent Secretary of War, Pete Heg said, I love Pete. I do my best to be objective in coverage. I promise. However, I'm not going to lie to you like others do. It is difficult for me because Pete's just really a great guy. And I think he's been an amazing leader. And having seen from the inside some of the changes he's implemented at the Pentagon, some of the things are public. Some of them are not. I'm not trying to pretend like, you know, hidden knowledge.

1:00:45It's just things I can't. It's not that it's hidden. I just legally and for national security reasons wouldn't disclose it. But some of the changes Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has implemented at the Pentagon are so profound, they're going to impact our military for the better for years to come. I promise you I would not make that up, despite my friendship with him. If he was doing a really terrible job, I, you know, I would have to I'd have to say something. He's doing an amazing job. Amazing job. I want to show you this back and forth about quagmire. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me on this.

1:01:20I get it. I understand. To my conservatarian friends out there, I share your concerns about using our military, getting them bogged down and not having a clear plan. And in any, like I said, I ran for office against what I thought was an unclear mission in Iraq. I didn't go look it up. The bona fides are there. However, we've been there a couple of months. We've thankfully, although tragically had some casualties, but limited them. We have wiped out the mullahocracy. We are now controlling the strait ourselves. The Iranian economy is in collapse. And the Democrats want us to lose so bad. they're calling this a quagmire again because they know that word is going to resonate with a generation of people who felt like the mission was unclear in Vietnam and elsewhere.

1:02:04We don't lose wars. What happens is the politics of the United States cost us wars. I want you to watch Secretary of War Hankseth just clapping back hard on that bullshit yesterday. This was great. Check this out. I hope you appreciate how reckless it is. When I said reckless, feckless, and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning. That came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning, a quagmire. My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing. What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better, shame on you, calling this a quagmire two months in.

1:02:55The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that creates strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies? Shame on you for that statement. And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don't say I support the troops on one hand, and then a two-month mission is a quagmire. That's a false equivocation. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for? Our troops are doing incredible work. They've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved incredible battlefield successes.

1:03:27And you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires. It undermines the mission. Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support. I'm going to throw something out there. fellas inside are like oh where's he going with this it doesn't say it the republican bench political bench is deep the democrat bench is total shit it's absolute garbage i'm not telling you there's not going to be some dark horse that's going to emerge um i'm talking about the democrat side not people i would vote for but like you had obama come out of nowhere democrats love him You know, Bill Clinton came out of nowhere.

1:04:18Bill Clinton was like a. Was a governor with a light reputation at best reputation wasn't even great and wound up being a two term president. Someone could emerge out of nowhere on the Democrat side. I'm just telling you right now, I live in the now. Like the Eckhart Tolle book, right? Their leaderboard is Kamala Harris, Buttigieg and Newsom. All I'm not telling you they can't win. I'm just telling you they're all deeply flawed candidates. Kamala Harris just got smoked. Buttigieg just sucks and just destroys everything he touches. And Newsom's got to run as being the governor of California where people are moving out.

1:04:55They're all deeply flawed. The Republican bench is deep. That's why I'm not throwing in the towel. We're going to lose the midterms, lose the presidential. No, I'm not saying that. You see where I'm going with this? Where do you guys think I'm going with this in the chat? I think Pete could make a significant run for national office. I think Rubio could make a significant run for national office. I think JD could make a significant run for national office. We have a bench of freaking ringers out there. Just absolute ringers. And by the way, there's three names. there's probably 10, 20 more I think Don Jr.

1:05:49could make a run I'm not sure he's interested in politics I think Eric could make a run I think Lara Trump could make a run the bench is deep Pete has done an amazing job despite multiple, multiple attacks and he's a real guy he's a real guy who's had issues like you and I've had he's got over him and he's reached the I mean, the most important job in the United States presidency cabinet, the secretary of war, former secretary of defense. There is no more important job. And how do we know? Because, hey, listen, Dan, you're a receipts guy. We got our little receipts thing. We bring receipts, right?

1:06:32Ladies and gentlemen, if Pete was doing such a terrible job, how come we've minimized, although had some casualties, but minimized casualties? We've basically met our metrics For what we said we were going to do in Venezuela In Iran There are other things going on Obviously he can't talk about And how come recruiting is through the roof If he's doing such a terrible job How come so many people want to sign up It's like saying that guy's a terrible leader of a company We got 42 ,000 applications for 10 spots It doesn't make sense Here's Secretary of War Hegseb On some of the recruiting numbers Again, receipts matter This isn't hidden knowledge or a data point you never produced.

1:07:11This is a data point that's real. Check this out. I think something that obviously the media doesn't want to cover and doesn't want to talk about is the historic record-breaking surge in recruiting in our ranks. 30-year record in recruiting of Americans wanting to join our joint force, wanting to put the uniform on. We're meeting recruiting goals halfway through the year. We couldn't meet our recruiting goals under the previous administration. Under Joe Biden, Americans didn't want to join the military. We couldn't get it. Now we have to turn people away and push them to the next fiscal year. That's why this budget grows our force by almost 50 ,000, ultimately.

1:07:49Additional troops into the force that we believe we can recruit. That's the best vote of confidence I can imagine. And here's the kicker. And I don't mean kicker like kicking the nuts like the Democrats do to their voters. I mean kicker like in a good way. the Republican bench is really young Don Jr. Eric, Laura Trump, J.D., Rubio, Pete forgive me for not using titles it just will go on forever I don't mean it disrespectfully they're really young we keep this going the MAGA legacy of a strong economy a strong military solid borders lowest crime rates in American history a safe prosperous America Man, we could be sitting in the White House for 30 years.

1:08:35And then we cut off their gerrymandering, their racial gerrymandering efforts. We cut off their ability to count illegals in the census. Folks, I'm not kidding, man. We could be in charge for 30 years. All you got to do is show up and vote and continue to demand results.

1:08:57You know, I like to put out these kind of PSAs. Jasmine loves these too. I try to help out with health hacks and things like that. This is a political show, but I think there are some things out there that are beyond politics that are really important. This is not a health hack segment here. But just quickly, the lovely Paula giving me that.

1:09:16This is for parents out there, soon to be parents. If you want to be parents and if you're ever thinking about being a parent, I want you to watch this. It's about a minute or so, but this is the Dan Bongino Show PSA. It is a news segment about screens. Folks, keep your kids away from screens as they're younger. This thing is poison. You want to make your kids dumber like that, you know, those guys at the No Kings rally and others who don't have answers to anything? Put them in front of a screen at an early age. That thing is poison. I see this all the time. Listen, my daughter, my youngest one has a phone.

1:09:51We didn't give her a phone until she was in her early teens. We probably could have waited a little more. I'm not telling you I'm the perfect parent by far. Forget that. I made my own mistakes. One of the things we never did though, keep your kids away from these screens. After you watch this, you will never put a screen in front of your young child's face again. This is unbelievable how bad the damage being done to a generation of kids is. Check this out. This is five-year-old Rose. She was one of 60 kids to undergo an exhaustive study in the U.S. Using an MRI machine to scan the brains of kids aged three to five years old.

1:10:29The results? Truly shocking. Interactive screen time causes a loss of white matter in the brain. Well, in the simplest terms, we could actually refer to some measure of brain impairment or brain damage. Professor Mike Nagel from the University of the Sunshine Coast has spent a career studying child brain development. So white matter in the brain is a material called myelin. So what myelin does is it wraps around the axons of neurons and acts like an insulator or conductor, not too dissimilar to the plastic coating of a wire. So if we're seeing definites in myelin production early in life, we're probably seeing deficits in neural connectivity.

1:11:10The study shows the more screen time a child is exposed to, the greater the loss of white matter. Can you remember your first reaction to those results, not only as a professional in this field, but as a father? My gut reaction was, wow. I was not anticipating seeing anything like that. It hadn't occurred to me at the time that something as little as, and it said two hours a day, was having such a profound effect on the white matter associated with sort of language development. And by association, literacy. It was a shock, to be honest. Please, I'm begging you as a friend. We're trying to keep this show anchored in the political space, which is what we do in news, but branch out a little bit into other items.

1:11:52We're working on some guests next week that we're going to try to get back on different items, too. Just like we had Dr. Rhonda. Please, in the name of all that's holy, keep your kid away from these screens. Someone said in the chat, smartphones make you dumb. They do. The phone's smart. It makes you dumber. I feel bad, too. A couple of names I didn't even remember. Just to go back to kind of the prior segment, not to jump around, But here's another couple of names of really, really young, but incredibly talented people in the political space who could run for office or national office. Here's a couple you haven't heard.

1:12:26Steve Miller. I don't think he's into politics. Stephen Miller, I think he's into policy. But he's just a no bullshit guy. And Caroline Levitt's another one. She's actually got experience running for office. We had her on the show when she was running for Congress. Caroline Levin's future is, I mean, the sky's the limit. Some of these people are in their 30s and 40s, folks. I'm telling you, like, if we go out there and do the 10, 10, and 10, grab 10 people, bring them to the polls, send 10 emails, make 10 social media posts, make 10 phone calls before the election, we could be in charge for 30 years.

1:12:59Shut down the border, get rid of the racial gerrymandering crap, stop the identity politics. We could be in charge for 30, 40 freaking years, man. and no, that's not hyperbole, Pollyanna bullshit. That is real. If we wouldn't have screwed up the Reagan revolution, we, you know, George H.W. and, you know, read my lips tax moment, which was not great. I mean, George H.W. had quite the resume. However, we started getting away from what made us really popular. We would have been in charge for 30 years. Reagan won 49 out of 50 states. That's almost impossible. He only lost Minnesota, where Mondale was from, and he only lost that state by, what is that, 3 ,000 votes?

1:13:42Reagan could have swept all 50 states. You know how hard that is to do? Conservatism works. Conservatism works. Now, it is not Friday. It is Thursday. But producer Jim has been kind enough weekly on Fridays to leave you because I will not be here tomorrow. Again, I'll be back on Monday. Don't sweat it out. Everything's good, by the way. A couple people were asking me questions because I had mentioned something that happened to us, which was very unfortunate. They're not related. This is just a strict business thing, I promise you. However, Producer Jim has been kind enough to produce at the end of the week, which will be today for us, the Democrat Zen moment to leave you on the weekend with a sedating, calm, kind of meditating-like moment where you can drop the neuronal activity and just calm down a little bit.

1:14:25Thankfully, the Democrats have produced that every Friday, in today's case, Thursday. Check this out. Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. Ha ha! Watch this! Whackin' Orange! Oh, there he is, you son of a... Ha! Ha! On this... Ha! Ha! I got it! I got it! Ha! Ha! Got you! Whackin' Orange! This has been Democrat Zen.

1:15:01I don't see these. I don't. It's not some gimmick we do for the show. I just ask him if there's a lot of foul language. Give me a heads up. There's obviously not a lot. Thank you, TikTok lady, for that calming, again, meditating-like moment. It's like yoga. It's like hot yoga in the studio. Everybody just kind of calms down a little bit after that. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. I will be back here on Monday. You've got Haley coming up at noon. Rumble.com slash Haley. Vince had a huge audience this morning. Thank you for supporting Vince's show. Rumble.com slash Vince. 8 a.m. Eastern time live every day.

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