In Due Time (Ep. 2486)

28:22passport which is good for, you could, I mean, you could apply for the CIA, the military. You could be the son of two foreign agents here illegally. You're good to go. Don't forget that Will Cain segment. This is not a small number of people, folks. We're talking about hundreds of thousands, millions over time in a country of only 300 million people. Do you understand these? I didn't even, how did I not mention this? These people be able to vote. You want a bunch of foreign enemies of the United States secreting people in the country to get millions of people to vote? I didn't even mention that.

28:59I'm always thinking national security. Sign up for the military and elsewhere. This is insane. This is not the suicide pact. The Constitution is not this. It says it in the words. Be careful with this case. I will be pleasantly surprised if we get a dub on this. A W. All right, I'm going to take a quick break, and then I've got Ws of the day. Like I told you in the beginning of the show, you got to hit people with a little bit of bad news so they're prepared, but you got to hit them with the good news too because we live in the greatest country on earth. Look at the flag behind me. There's a reason it's there.

29:38I love that flag. It's not a tablecloth. It's not a curtain. The fabric doesn't matter. It's the idea. We got a flag on both sides. You live in the greatest country on earth at the greatest time to be alive. This is a smile, big smile. And there were some huge W's that happened as well. And I don't want to be pessimistic on the Supreme Court case. I just want to prepare you based on the arguments. I don't think they get it. Folks, let's be honest. The cost of living isn't just high. It's exhausting. If you've been leaning on credit cards lately to just cover the basics, you know, groceries, gas, and utility bills, you're essentially paying a survival tax of 20 % interest or more.

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31:33And I told you, like, oh, you elect him a second time. He's going to be a lame duck. I said, oh, you're reading this all wrong. You're reading this all wrong. He's going to clean up the mess now. And there's no pressure for political fallout in another election at all. Here's what I mean. Here's a tweet yesterday by Peter St. Ange. I play some videos from him often. He focuses largely on economics. This is probably what you're not going to hear about in the media. They want you to believe we're losing in Iran. There's, you know, the borders are not closed. Crime under Donald Trump is out of control.

32:03Inflation's out of control. They want you to believe all this bullshit so they don't tell you any of this. Jobs grew last month at a 750 ,000 annual pace. while wages pop 4.5%. That's twice the inflation rate. If the war is really ending, we're back to the boom. Now, folks, that's kind of important what he says in there about wages growing 4.5 % because it's not an economics class. However, there is a difference between nominal and real wages. Nominal wages are just the number. If your wages, for instance, went up 2 % or 2.5 % to be precise, right around there, if they went up 2.5%, you could go home and tell your wife, hey, I got a 2.5 % raise.

32:44It's nominal. That's the number. But it's not a real wage increase because inflation's running about 2.5%. So basically, you're just treading water. If wages go up 4.5 % and inflation's 2.5, then yes, you have now more buying power. That is a good thing. Of course, you're not going to hear about it in the mainstream media because they want you to believe you're living through the global apocalypse right now when in fact you're living through the golden age of being an American citizen. Here's another one you're probably not going to hear about outside of limited outlets. This is Rick Santelli, does a good job at CNBC.

33:21At CNBC, hey man, retail sales look pretty good. You know when people actually buy stuff in the retail market? Again, outside of limited exposure here, you're probably not going to hear a lot about this either. Check this out. February numbers for retail sales. Expecting a headline number up half a percent. Joe comes in better than expected. up six tenths of percent. That would be the strongest since June of last year when it was up one percent. If you look at July of last year, it was exactly the same up six tenths. Now let's strip out autos. It still remains strong. Lose the tenth up five tenths of percent.

33:56And that's better than expectations. Sequentially higher, as was the headline number, up half one percent. The best since August of last year.

34:08now combine the economy which is by the way why is this happening the growing economy why is this happening in this and i'm not saying hey this is all the administration it's it's it's you i mean it's obviously you're the economy ladies and gentlemen i don't want to go back to the you know It's not just AI. It's that the explosive growth in computing power in general, the ability to solve problems in the digital space, is growing so geometrically that problems we've had that would have taken a century to solve, superconductors, advanced material science, artificial intelligence, and the explosive growth in computing power is solving these problems like that, which is leading to massive productivity enhancements, which are filtering through the economy.

35:05And there's been no bigger support of getting the government out of the way and letting that happen than Donald Trump. That's why you're seeing this stuff. It's not hard. I'll give you a quick example. Let's say there's a, right now you have a wire that conducts electricity between a tower and a factory. There's always gonna be a certain amount of impedance in that wire. when AIs, hey, find a better superconductor. If your electricity costs go down by 20 % because you've got a better way to get from the electrical generation plant to the factory, then that's 20 % less you have to pay for electricity.

35:39That does what? Goes into your business, wages and salaries and other things. That's what artificial intelligence and commuting power are doing right now. They're solving problems like this everywhere. Medicine, cancer research, material science, All of it And then when the quantum revolution hits Folks, you're going to have generational human problems Like how do we cure cancer? Is there a vaccine for HIV? These things are going to be figured out in seconds There's a danger there, of course You don't want to blow up the world A big one But that's why this is happening Now, combine that Productivity enhancements Getting more output from the same electricity just because the AI figured out a copper wire problem.

36:28Combine that with Donald Trump's deregulation, getting the government out of the way so people don't have to pay the government off to run a business. Combine that with Donald Trump's efforts at getting rid of government fraud. He's got now Vice President Vance working on it too. You have the government workforce down 10%. That's a big, big money suck out of the economy. I love our military and law enforcement, but there's way too many government employees at the state, local, territorial level, way too many government employees. I told you, government employment has become like a jobs program in the public education system.

37:03Donald Trump's team is focused like a laser on this. We had numerous arrests in Minnesota. There's a number of arrests going on and investigations in California. Now, another federal arrest. I go, nothing's happening. I know, doomers, I get it. And then again, we show you stuff that's happening and you move on to another thing you say isn't happening and that happens, wash, rinse, repeat. I get it. Go back to your mommy and your tentacle porn on the internet like that reporter that time. I remember that guy who got busted with that. That was so bad. That was all the bad stories. Here's a story out of New York yesterday about a federal investigation, I believe it's EDNY, Eastern District of New York, about a major government fraud ring.

37:47But I want you to pay very close attention to the end. This is the Trump law enforcement, federal law enforcement infrastructure working a knockout fraud. But I want you to listen to Communist Mayor Mamdani at the end. Because Mamdani knows what I told you too. That if you're a big government Democrat, independent journalists are now going to be exposing this stuff on X and TikTok and elsewhere. And you're going to be embarrassed. So you better get on the right side of this quick. Momdadi's all in on this one. He has no choice. Check this out. Roberto Samedi walked out of Brooklyn federal court in silence after his arraignment.

38:29He's one of four people now facing charges in a corruption investigation tied to the city-funded homeless shelter organization, Braggs. Federal prosecutors say Samedi and another defendant, Ronald Jean Torellis, stole more than a million dollars from the taxpayer-backed nonprofit. They now both face several charges, including wire fraud and embezzlement. The indictment unsealed Tuesday, drawing swift reaction from Mayor Zoran Mamdani. We'll definitely be looking into these because any allegation, especially if it's being substantiated, of improper action and behavior is one that has to be followed up on.

39:07This is killing this guy. He ran for mayor on this communist platform of my big government's going to steal all your money and we're going to spend it better than you can. Big government is the solution. It is the Messiah. Genuflect, get down on a knee. Bow your heads before big government. Now he has to admit, oh, man, listen, this big government thing may not be working out. A couple of people arrested here. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. This is the Dan Bongino theory popping up again of government fraud being exposed by independent journalists. Even the big government advocates, the Bernie Sanders, the Liz Warrens, the MomDommies, the AOCs are not going to be able to run from this.

39:49It's going to get embarrassing. Just like I said to you in the beginning of the show about the people popping off about ongoing trials right now, screwing up due process for everybody because they want Twitter clicks and money. In due time. In due time. You're going to be made fools of. because ultimately people have to swear to things in depositions and in court.

40:18You think Mom Dami doesn't understand that? That this explosion in independent journalism, the Nick Shirleys, Cam Higbys, and others out there, that you think he doesn't understand this is going to be a perpetual embarrassment? Folks, this isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. I'm under no illusions that, you know, 100 arrests in Minnesota and 10 arrests in New York are going to solve the trillion dollar government fraud problem. I'm just telling you it's going to become a perpetual political embarrassment for advocates of big government welfare state. Folks, tying it into why I put it after the AI segment.

41:00This is why I need you to be wary. They will never admit capitalism works in free markets. They won't. They're only going to change their story to, okay, there's probably a lot of government fraud, but that's only because the bureaucracy isn't working. I just think we should give the money right to the people now through a universal basic income. That's going to be their shift. Watch, mark the show, flags in the chat. Put them in because it's going to happen. You'll be like, wow, Dan was right again. They're not going to be able to run from this. I enjoy being like two, three years ahead of the curve on this.

41:33Watch them change the argument as a flood of independent journalists expose trillions of dollars in government fraud here and around the world. They're going to be like, well, we should just give money directly to people now. Because they don't want people to work. That's why. Flags in the chat. There you go. Erupting in the chat again. Mark this show. They're all going to start running on this in elections in the future. We need a universal basic income. People aren't going to have anything to do. Oh, yeah, sure. You're right. But lazy people won't have anything to do Because they don't want anything to do You think people like you And all the union workers out there in the chat And truckers are going to sit on their ass all day Because of AI I don't know what to do I don't know what to do Morons have been saying this forever about free markets Horse and buggy After they invented the gasoline powered engine Oh my gosh, what are they going to do?

42:35I don't know something like everyone always figures out who wants to do something had like a hundred different careers i'm always looking for something to do all right shifting gears a little bit last night i don't know if you saw it who saw it in the chat donald trump gave a primetime speech 9 p.m last night on the status of the iran war and he made a really great point i wish people would take the heart and i want to say again in advance please so you understand, because I know not everyone in the chat is a huge fan of this. I understand. I respect and value your opinion. Matter of fact, I got to tell you something.

43:12I would be bothered if there weren't alternate opinions on it and people out there who were concerned when it comes to putting boots on the ground. Guys, ladies, I told you, my family, we lost my uncle in Vietnam. I never met him. He died before he was shot in the back in Vietnam. Tom, you know, he got a bronze star with a V device on it. He was a great man, Greg Ambrose. I bring him up a lot. I only bring it up because my entire family was changed. You can never mention his name again. I'm telling you, like, my mom never got over it. My grandmother never got over it. They're both not around anymore.

43:48God rest their souls. But they never got over that. This is a gravely serious decision.

43:58however did you guys ever see that the movie on on netflix house of dynamite it's written by kind of a lefty but i strongly encourage you i think it's on netflix and one of these other platforms i saw in a movie theater down in dc it's a bit exaggerated and hyperbolic but if you haven't seen the movie without kind of spoiling it for you the gist of it is what would happen if a rogue state fired a nuclear missile at the United States, but there was no attribution, they were able to disguise where it came from? What would happen? I want to be clear now. This is an interesting premise. They're not saying, the movie isn't saying, hey, what would happen if Russia fired a nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear fire one back and the whole world would be destroyed.

44:41That's fairly obvious. Man, mutually assured destruction, correct? Get it? That's not what the movie's about. The movie's about a nuclear weapon fired at the United States that manages to disguise its origin, whether it's an off-sea barge or whatever it is. So nobody knows who to respond to. The nuclear weapon, there's about 18 minutes the entire United States government has to respond. I get it. I get it. There's been a lot of very valid criticism. It's a movie that, oh, this would work different than people. Fine, fine, fine the movie's interesting because i just want to get to one quick point that this is what a rogue state will do the iranian theocracy and the mullahs if they were to have a nuclear weapon how do you know they're not going to smuggle it out of the country how do you know they're just not going what are you going to do like nuke all of iran because this mullah is a crazy person i mean these are serious questions where you don't have those same questions with china or russia China and Russia, for as crazy as they are, understand it would be the annihilation of all of Russia and all of China if they were to launch a nuclear weapon.

45:48They get that. The mullahs don't care. You understand they don't give a damn at all. They're like, we don't, they kill their own people. The Iranians kill their own people, the mullahs. You think they'd give a shit if we were to launch a nuke back? They don't care. This is not China or Russia. This is a bunch of apocalyptically minded, theocratic, insane thugs. Donald Trump was trying to make this point last night that, yes, this is a gravely serious decision to send troops into harm's way. But the even more serious decision is me kicking the can down the road and letting them blackmail us in the future with a nuclear weapon pointed at us, by the way, in Europe, too.

46:40this is a rogue state the threat is different even the north koreans understand what would happen if they were to launch the iranian mullahs don't care

46:55i want to play this uh go out with the rubio about the shield not the nato one everyone should listen to this rubio marco rubio has done an amazing job as secretary of state I need everyone to just take a moment and listen to this. This should have been broadcast everywhere yesterday. I saw it on Twitter, but not enough people saw this. There's about a minute and 15 seconds of Rubio making the case. By the way, everything he's saying here is factually accurate. I'm sure of it. The Iranians were trying to build essentially a conventional missile shield around their program to make taking the program out so costly because they would launch conventional missiles everywhere, Europe, Diego Garcia, elsewhere, which they've already done, by the way, Diego Garcia.

47:45And if we let them proceed any further, it would have been almost impossible without massive casualties to get this nuclear program stopped. Here it is. You all need to hear this. Check this out. Many Americans are asking, why did the United States have to attack Iran now? Well, let me explain. Iran wants to have nuclear weapons. Of that, there is zero doubt. If what they truly wanted, which is what they claim, is nuclear energy, well, they could have nuclear energy like all the other countries in the world have it. And that is you import the fuel and you build reactors above ground. That's not what Iran has done.

48:20They build their reactors and their facilities deep in mountains, away from the public glare. And they want to enrich that material. The same equipment that they could use to enrich material for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to weapons grade. So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down. But why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them, and they were well on their way.

48:56We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was an intolerable risk. Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons. And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about. This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.

49:31And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.

49:44Yes. You don't think Donald Trump knows this? Everyone should see that because it's true. the Iranians learned from the North Koreans back in the mid-90s. The North Koreans took a bunch of conventional missiles, conventional missiles, basically directed them, when it launched them, but pointed them at South Korea and said, go yourself, double barrel middle finger, we're building a nuclear weapon. And if you test us, we're going to launch all of this at South Korea. It's going to be another Korean war. and between the Clinton administration and others, they let them build a nuclear weapon. Now we've got to deal with it.

50:26Donald Trump, a student of history on the matter, you can bash him all you want. He's clearly made better decisions than a lot of these so-called white paper intellects. Yeah, good point. Vince, you know, is on it. He just texted me, hey, Dan, Iran is the third largest proven oil reserves on earth. Why the hell would they even need a nuclear energy program? Because they want to blow us up with a nuke. Thank you Vince, that's a good point But they learned the lesson from North Korea That if you can build a large enough Conventional ballistic missile payload It's like having body armor on for your program You become resisted to bullets your way Because no one wants to start a regional war In Korea or in the Middle East He understood we were at the tipping point

51:16Folks, two more things to highlight about what's going on in Iran right now too. China is watching, so is Russia. You don't think that our ability to destroy Iran from the inside out, wars happen from the outside in. I've been telling you about the Wall Street Journal piece. Traditionally, wars, you want to siege the castle, the outside in. We are so powerful now with our stealth technology, our military, we can stealthily secrete our ninjas inside the castle and fight from the inside out. That's our aerial stealth technology and seaborne stealth technology. They can't even see us coming anymore.

51:51Why is this related to China? Because the systems Iran was using to detect the stealth technology that failed, many of them were from China and Russia. So you don't think China and Russia right now, it's a point that's not discussed often, folks, are saying, wait, wait, wait. We sold those airborne detection systems to the Iranians and they totally shit the bed? Wait, do we have that here? Yeah, we do. Wow, that sounds like trouble. You don't think they're watching this too?

52:27Oh, look at this breaking news. Flip to the back camera. This just happened now. FBI raids. Target. Alleged healthcare fraudsters in California. I thought that wasn't... Guys, this isn't... This is just breaking now. I'm not kidding. It's on Fox as we speak. It's now 1054 if you're watching live, if you're on VOD. Sorry. Here, look. Breaking news. Raids target alleged health care for officers in California. You get the IRS, you get the FBI there, federal task force. I thought nothing was, I don't understand. I thought nothing was, you see the doomers? And I promise you, the doomers will ignore this story.

53:05The New York arrests for fraud. And they'll move on to the next thing they tell you Donald Trump's administration isn't doing. Because that's all they want to talk about is doom. Iran war is lost. There's nothing being done about fraud. Nobody in the deep state's been arrested. Okay. Sure, you ignored all that stuff. Here's Donald Trump last night. It's the end. I want you to listen to the end of his comments last night because this was the most important part. Again, for the doomers out there, this is a forever war where Trump made the point we've been there four weeks. What are you talking about a forever war?

53:43He went into all of these wars from Vietnam back Some of them lasted decades We've been there four weeks He's already given a timeline Until mid-April Where he's going to reevaluate where we are Which will be about a month and a half Which seems kind of important Because that doesn't sound like a forever war to me But he's crystal clear with the Iranians too You want to keep effing around? We're going to continue building nukes There's nothing you guys can do about it As you kill every single one of us Trump's like, okay, these next two or three weeks aren't going to be pretty either. So he's giving them the warning.

54:16Check this out. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. They're all dead. That's kind of a problem for a regime.

55:02The instability at the top. Did you see the story yesterday? The instability at the top in the IRGC, Bazi, Melissa and elsewhere Is so bad that they're recruiting like 12 year olds To patrol the street for them, 12 year olds But yet you listen to the Doomers, and this war's already lost Man, it's over, I can't believe it Trump coalitions collapsing entirely All around, God forbid like Trump does the right Thing and protects your kid from nuclear annihilation When every other bullshit Politician didn't do jack Shit for decades, while this Freaking thugocracy over there Threatened death to America and we're gonna build a nuclear weapon to ensure it happens.

55:38Everyone else had their crank in their hands doing nothing. The first guy who had the balls to do it when he knew, in fact, it may not be politically popular. What happens? You get a bunch of fair weather friends to the administration shitting on them at the first opportunity. It's a freaking disgrace, man. I can't stand these people. We got them now, Trump. You've been saying that for 10 years. is certainly the end this time. You think the loyal people out there who at least want to give the guy a chance, I'm not telling you not to have an opinion on it at all. Don't even go there. It's not true.

56:17Yeah, who just said that? Lynn and Jeff. Only President Trump had the stones. Yes. To do it. And he knew it wasn't going to be the most politically popular thing. But you know what's really politically unpopular? an unattributed nuclear missile headed to the United States to take out the city of Chicago and kill, you know, millions of people. That's kind of politically unpopular too.

56:46And by the way, what is with our so-called friends and European allies? Folks, I had strong dealings with international partners during my time in government on the counter-terror front because we have to. But I'm going to tell you something and I don't want you to ever forget this. So write this down. Now I haven't seen the other side of it. I don't know if this is an exact number, but it's pretty damn close. In the counterterrorist space, the global international security space, and the global law enforcement space, in other words, international crime, international terror, international defense, the United States is carrying, I'll even lowball it a little bit to be unbelievably fair.

57:29We're carrying at least 75 % of the payload. I can tell you my experience on the counterterror front, we have valuable partners, but they give us about 25 % of what we give them. We are the indispensable ally. And the fact that some so-called NATO allies, when we've been carrying NATO for decades, are now telling us we can't use our own bases is a freaking disgrace. And I'm frankly happy that the president is calling this bullshit out Europe wants to defend itself, go right ahead You're in the ballistic missile range of the Iranians And we took care of the freaking problem Where the fuck are you guys?

58:18This is where I part ways with a lot of old school GOP folks NATO has been the greatest alliance in human history It's provided value You're correct, I'm not disputing that But the greatest alliance In military history I think that's slightly hyperbolic Considering we now need them To prevent the world from Moving into nuclear annihilation By a rogue state launch of a nuclear weapon And what do you do When these NATO countries are sitting on their ass We got you guys, no you didn't get us You didn't get us Here's Rubio again calling bullshit on this NATO scam. I'm sorry, man, but it's time to reevaluate this relationship if they're going to be fair weather friends to check this out.

59:05Now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can't use those bases, that in fact, that we can no longer use those bases to defend America's interests. The NATO is a one way street. The NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe. But when we need their help, not their help, we're not asking them to conduct airstrikes. when we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no, then why are we in NATO? You have to ask that question. Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region?

59:39If we can only use, in our time of need, we're not going to be allowed to use those bases. So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we're going to have to reexamine that relationship. We're going to have to re-examine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country. Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make. Folks, listen, this is not what was never intended to be a history class on this show. But I'm going to ask you a serious question. How many times are we going to save Europe? World War I, World War II, the Marshall Plan. To European leaders, I know we have a big audience overseas, to the citizens of these countries, many of whom who are with us in the international fight for liberty and freedom, this is not directed at you.

1:00:27Thank you for being here. However, to your leaders who keep shitting on this country and NATO while asking us for money to protect you in the global security umbrella, how many times are we going to have to save you? Do you guys even understand, like over there, we had to save you, your countries, during what really was a European theater war up until Pearl Harbor? We had to save you.

1:00:59France, really? You really want to go there? It wasn't for us. You'd be speaking German. Do you understand, like, the threat of the Nazi regime built over a long time and the Europeans, whether it was the Sudetenland, Neville Chamberlain and others the threat of Nazi Germany and the rise of Hitler did not happen overnight the Europeans kept forfeiting and forfeiting and forfeiting until they were forced into war and then we had to come and save you I'm sorry that's difficult to say but it's true you now have a similar threat building but it's like Hitler with a nuclear weapon and you've got a guy by the way you got a group of thug freaking mullahs, insane Islamic radicals who don't just only care about killing the Jews, they want to kill everyone.

1:02:00It's like Hitler with a nuclear weapon. And Europe's like, we're going to sit this one out? You fought a valiant fight in World War II once the threat was acknowledged. Once Austria happened, everybody saw it was going to go down. And I applaud your grandfather's bravery for doing it. My grandfather fought over there, so I don't need any lectures on it. He never talked about it at all. Frank Bongino fought in the Battle of the Bulge, never mentioned a word about it. Matter of fact, if you even mentioned it, he'd walk out of the room. But we fought there too. We fought on your soil.

1:02:43thousands of our brothers, sisters, grandfathers baseball coaches, teachers went over there, fought and were buried on your soil and this is how you treat us forget about the money, the fact that we finance the greatest military on earth that's become the de facto cop for international sanity and security. Forget that first. It's not even about the money. It's a freaking principle, man. We got our people buried on your soil because we've come to save you so many times. You've got a ballistic missile threat that'll hit you way before it hits us. From a soon-to-be nuclear power, if nothing is done, led by a bunch of absolute lunatics screaming, death to America, death to the infidels.

1:03:37And you're just going to sit on your ass?

1:03:46unacceptable totally completely unacceptable

1:03:51that was a lot I think I need to leave you with some good rules sorry just really passionate about this guys and to those of you who served in our audience and continue to serve and to those of you family members out there who lost people who served We have people overseas right now. And our Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, our Coast Guard. Thank you. All America all the time. You're all America all the time. All right. This may be the second greatest self-owned. Not self-owned. Self-owned on today's show today. Kind of on a bit of a lighter note. However, if I let you go today. Actually, I got a couple more things I want to get to.

1:04:38But if I let you go today without seeing this video, I'd be ashamed. So this representative, what was his name again? I'm sorry. I know Jasmine told me. Fines? Yeah, fines. This representative, this politician Democrat, Shamari Fiennes, he's given a speech, it looks like in a church. And he's obviously making the point that we don't have ID because, I don't know, it's the black community, which is a racist point in and of itself. A lot of people don't have ID. So these voter ID, Save America Act laws are discriminatory. No, it's discriminatory to suggest black people can't get IDs. So he's in the church and he's like, he's trying to prove his point.

1:05:19He says, hey, listen, do me a favor. Raise your hand in this audience if you don't have an ID. I guess he thought like there were going to be like 10, 15, 20 people or so raising their hand. Did you see this video? I put it out yesterday on X because I couldn't stop laughing. check this out. So regardless about how you feel about voter ID, right? This is about ease of registration, right? The most common form of ID that everybody has is a driver's license, right? Look, I'm of a different era. I'm of a different generation. I probably feel a little bit differently about it. Watch this. How many people in here do not have an ID?

1:06:01Right? Everybody has an ID, right? so I thought it sounded a little bit different Shamari figures figures that's the response he would get Guy's video of the day folks listen let's just be straight with these democrat zeros fighting against an 80-20 issue called voter ID everybody wants it everybody supports it the 20 % of people who don't support it probably don't even know what it is it's not even an 80-20 issue it's probably a 95-5 issue you are tilting against windmills You are swimming upstream. You look, you've got, there's no tailwinds behind you on this at all. They're only headwinds. You have nothing to go on.

1:06:44Black Americans are, I can't believe we even have that. This is embarrassing, guys. Black Americans are perfectly capable of getting an ID. I cannot believe that's a controversial sentence to Democrats.

1:07:02and by the way if your model of governance as 2028 comes around and a bunch of democrats like gavin newsom and others are going to declare their runs for the presidency if your model of big government liberalism was working so well then how come in the california's governor's race they're all having a problem in that race fixing the wait put hold on that i'll get that wall Street Journal thing ready to go. I got to set this up. I think this is probably the funniest non-video component of the show today. There's an issue in the California governor's race right now. There's a whole boatload of Democrats.

1:07:36They have this jungle primary. There's two Republicans. You got Hilton and Bianco that may turn out to be the top two in the race because it's top two finishers. However, which would, the Democrats would be embarrassed and humiliated, which they deserve. The problem is all the Democrats running in the race. Hilarious. People are going to these town halls who live in California, like homelessness, crime, the state's being run terribly. The taxes are too high. And none of the Democrats can actually say anything in response because they don't want to criticize Newsom, who's the crappy governor now, who's going to be running for president in 2028.

1:08:12None of them want to be on the record. So what do they do? People come up, hey, taxes are too high. Crime is out of control. Trump did it. Trump did it. Put up that Wall Street Journal piece. This is my favorite piece of the day. It's by Kim Strassel. She talks about how the Democrat mess is also a function of the usual progressive PDs. California is beset by high taxes, soaring costs, crime and homelessness, thanks to wildly progressive policies. Yet no Democrat candidate is willing to admit to those policy failings or criticize the record of Governor Governor Gavin Newsom. So they're vying with each other to be the most anti-Trump candidate.

1:08:53This is hilarious. Imagine being out on the campaign trail and you've got a bunch of potential constituents as you're running for governor going, man, the business around here, the business environment is shit. The homelessness problems out of control Street crime, drug use, fentanyl Gavin Newsom's great, Trump did it Now you see this morning The breaking news, it just happened on Fox Massive federal government operation On healthcare fraud Again, I don't know if it was happening People are so full of shit Watch as other stuff happens going forward And they continue to tell you this Maybe it's an op, you ever think of that?

1:09:30Here's a great tweet by Christopher Ruffo I want you to check out too Christopher Rufo, exclusive, multiple senior HHS officials Estimate that under Gavin Newsom California's state Medicaid program has lost 25 % of its budget to fraud That would mean it's currently losing$50 billion a year To scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings Notice this tweet was from April 1st And then that op happened this morning I don't know anything about it, I've been out of government I know some cases that were going on when I was there but interesting. What's Gavin Newsom going to say? What's he going to testify on the perps, on the suspect's behalf?

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