It Must Be Painful For Them To Write This (Ep. 2584)

28 Aug 2026 · 1 h 14 min · 27 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino argues that foreign influence operations and media “black pilling” misled Americans about multiple issues, especially AI/data centers, cyber risk, and the Strait of Hormuz. He also promotes military/law-enforcement praise, claims government is the main cause of many societal problems, and frames election integrity (mail ballots) as an “easy win” for Republicans.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are interviewed in the provided transcript. Bongino references “Justin” and “Guy” in the studio chat, but they are not described as external guests.

Key claims

X/Twitter safety found a Chinese bot farm of 200,000 fake accounts manipulating public opinion about AI data centers and electricity/grid strain. China benefits from weakening U.S. computing infrastructure to enable cyber attacks on critical infrastructure (water, hospitals). The Strait of Hormuz mine threat was exaggerated; CENTCOM effectively “owns” the strait after removing about 11 mines (described as garbage bags). Democrats oppose election-roll cleanup and mail-ballot security because they want cheating.

Notable examples

Fox & Friends segment praising military; CENTCOM video; Bloomberg/Goldman Sachs claims about oil flows recovering; Axios stories; Manhattan Institute “broken windows”/fare evasion stats; Giuliani/FBI broken-windows policing; Trump executive order on mail ballots; clips/montage of Hassan Piker and other Democrats calling for violence.

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Chapters

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Community Engagement and Leadership

0:45 to 2:15

Dan emphasizes the collective strength and leadership of his audience.

“And I'm going to start the beginning of the show today with establishing again bona fides.”

Military Appreciation

2:15 to 4:14

A heartfelt tribute to military service members and their sacrifices.

“i saw this segment on fox and friends this morning with our military ladies and gentlemen to all you serving in our military, a heartfelt in this 250 years, 1776 onwards, it's because of you.”

The Importance of Military Values

4:14 to 7:00

Discussion on the transformative power of military training and values.

“From a healthcare provider Thank you BrickHouse Nutrition All right, fellas, let's go.”

Current Events and Foreign Influence

7:00 to 10:00

Addressing foreign attempts to influence American policy and public opinion.

“I would always pick a military guy as the class president.”

Data Centers and Community Perspectives

10:00 to 14:00

Exploring opinions on data centers and the varying impacts on communities.

“Now, a lot of people tried to get you to turn on us and other people in the administration.”

Foreign Influence and AI Manipulation

14:00 to 22:21

Exploration of foreign influence operations and AI's role in public opinion.

“because they're begging for them to be there.”

The Bongino Rule and Political Narratives

22:21 to 24:35

Discussion on the Bongino rule and its application in understanding news narratives.

“but it's exactly like, yeah, man, we got him.”

The Bongino Rule and Political Narratives

24:39 to 24:55

Discussion on the Bongino rule and its application in understanding news narratives.

“one powerful platform, all your policies in one place.”

Human Nature and the Blame Game

24:57 to 28:00

Examining the tendency to blame others for societal problems and the role of government.

“Folks, you know, human beings, I'll get to this with regards to the Clancy case in a minute, but human beings, when confronted with problems, this is all of us.”

Government's Role in Healthcare and Education

28:00 to 29:40

Explore how government influence shapes healthcare and education costs.

“The person who's managing all this or the people, which is government.”
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Blame Game: The Costs of Obamacare

29:40 to 31:30

Discuss the blame placed on individuals versus the government for rising healthcare costs.

“To bring the cost of those premiums down Folks, this guy claims to be a Republican.”

Effective Law Enforcement: Lessons from History

31:30 to 34:10

Learn about the impact of broken windows policing and effective law enforcement strategies.

“You don't want a private army of mercenaries getting paid.”

Government Efficiency in Key Areas

34:10 to 36:40

Evaluate how government can succeed in law enforcement and military operations.

“Giuliani came in just like President Trump did and said, no.”

Election Integrity and Government Accountability

36:40 to 38:40

Discuss the importance of election integrity and the role of government in upholding it.

“Well, they do but all the content is mine.”

The Impact of Poor Governance

38:40 to 42:01

Understand the consequences of ineffective government on society.

“Notwithstanding the fact the Supreme Court has already issued its stay.”

Government Failures and Social Issues

42:01 to 45:38

A discussion on government failures depicted through a shocking video, highlighting societal issues.

“I want you to watch this back and forth about mail-in ballots and watch the gaslighting that goes on on liberal networks.”

The Democratic Party's Extremism

45:39 to 50:49

Exploring the extreme rhetoric of certain Democrats and their implications for America.

“we've had enough of this guy I haven't sorry go back and watch yesterday's show I love how, I've even seen some Republicans, they're like, stop playing clips.”

Health Care and Government Control

50:50 to 55:29

A critical look at proposals for Medicare for all and the potential loss of private insurance.

“We take them to the mud and choke them out.”

Government Monopoly on Healthcare

56:00 to 57:40

Discussion on the implications of government-run healthcare and its impact on insurance.

“thing they're proposing is a government monopoly on health care where everything you worked for to get your insurance plan where you want it now is done.”

The Value-Added Tax Explained

57:40 to 59:30

Explanation of VAT and its potential effects on consumers and small businesses.

“Listen, union folks out there, I know you've been coming over to the Republican Party in droves.”

Hauser's Law and Tax Revenue

59:30 to 1:02:50

Introduction to Hauser's Law and its implications for tax revenue in the U.S.

“long and short of it is it is a tax built into every single level of production for a product in other words you buy what do i have on cloud sneakers on right now or something i wear my bad knee, right?”

Critique of Canadian Broadcasting Policies

1:02:50 to 1:06:30

Criticism of CBC's approach to reporting on terrorism and its implications.

“Everything you buy, you are going to get rinsed, bro.”

Local Law Enforcement Collaboration

1:06:30 to 1:09:00

Discussion about the importance of collaborating with local law enforcement for effective governance.

“Because the way to do good government is to rely on government where it's most local.”

Democrat Zen Moment of the Day

1:09:32 to 1:10:04

Introduction of a humorous segment featuring a political clip.

“Listen, this is, I'm going to tell you something.”

Democrat Zen Moment

1:10:04 to 1:11:02

The host introduces a humorous segment featuring a clip that frustrates many viewers.

“I heard five minutes of meditation changes your brainwaves.”

Reactions to the Clip

1:11:02 to 1:12:02

The host discusses the overwhelming negative reaction to a specific clip and shares anecdotes from colleagues.

“This has been Democrat Zen Folks, Dana Perino said this on The Five the other day.”

Radio Show Launch and Updates

1:12:02 to 1:13:04

The host thanks listeners for their support and shares updates about the new radio show and content availability.

“It's for radio, so you're not going to see a lot of visuals, obviously.”
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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. You know, I was watching the live chat at the beginning of the show, and was it Trigger Man? Or said something, you know, obviously this would be for you, Guy, and Justin, the little Star Wars thing there. He said, help us, Dan Bongino, you're our only hope. I appreciate that. thank you very much but someone responded back and i mean this with all the love in the world no we're the leaders we've been waiting for you both are p1s clearly i love you both but i i'm not anyone's only hope and i don't say this out of some faux sense of like you know you know fake humility let me tell you why i'm not the greatest and then they go and tell you why they're the greatest you ever see that what do they call it humble bragging that's not this I am not your only hope there are a ton of people out there doing absolutely incredible work on X, on podcasts radio, TV, and government elsewhere, people who stepped up, I am not the only hope, I really deeply appreciate you saying I'm not even close to it, you're the leaders we've been waiting for, so thank you in the chat for being so involved, showing up here every day at 10am live, I feel like you're my extended family I think that's why we stuck together through thick and thin.

1:29And I'm going to start the beginning of the show today with establishing again bona fides. Ladies and gentlemen, despite what you've been told by the massive black pilling, many cases foreign funded and otherwise funded op to take out figures in the Trump administration, me included, I'm sorry you swung and missed, but now everything I told you was going to happen is now being revealed. It seems like every day, something I told you over the last six months x is going to happen x happens and then it's strangely quiet from the people who told you that x wasn't going to happen or that y was going to happen and it didn't why did y not happen because they lied to you i'll show you what i mean coming up in a second where it only took a couple of days it's important because it relates to you i also want to discuss i saw this segment on fox and friends this morning with our military ladies and gentlemen to all you serving in our military, a heartfelt in this 250 years, 1776 onwards, it's because of you.

2:32There would be no, that's just a fact, there would be no United States and no country called the United States without you standing there bravely with your ass on the line defending it, period. End of story. I'll show you what I mean in a second. Hey, weight loss injections are everywhere, but here's the catch. About 15 % of users, they quit because of the cost. Another 15 % stop because of side effects they don't like. So a while back, I was going through chemotherapy with cancer, and I put on a lot of weight. I wasn't eating that great. You know, some food just drives you cream. I wound up eating just sugary crap.

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4:19First, hey, man, do me a solid in the chat. If you are active duty military or a veteran, or even if you have a family member, because that's service too in a different way, but service. You're the one at home taking care of the kids while your husband or wife is serving overseas. Put an American flag in the chat. I want people to see how many people are out there putting their butts on the line for you because there's a lot of them. And in this slide, we just started five minutes in, 23 ,000 people. Let's see out of 23 ,000 people Look at that, here we go Do you see these flags? These are all the people These are real people These are not bots These are not fake people These are not astroturf people These are living, bleeding, breathing human beings Putting their asses on the line Every single day so we can have a country That's a fact I don't care if you work anywhere from the White House mess To an infantry marine on the front lines that military keeps wow that's even more than i expect that's a lot of military folks i say that because i was going through some content pre-production for the show and i'm like guys we got to talk about the psyop that was the strait of harmuz that the iranians had everyone believing they'd mined the whole strait and the reality was you're starting to see now today that most of it was inflated garbage bags there were like 11 mines there the whole thing was a psyop and the media picked it up.

5:43Justin, you remember the media? Oh my gosh, the Iranians, they kicked Trump's ass. They own the strait. Everything's going to blow up. And all of a sudden, and I thought like our military, CENTCOM released a video last night. Our military is so amazing that within just a period of a few months, we now effectively own the strait. There's still danger, no doubt, but we effectively, due to our military, regardless of your feelings about the conflict in Iran, you're perfectly entitled to your opinion. our military executes orders from the commander-in-chief he said take that thing back it's it's back it's still a danger but we effectively own it so i'm sitting there putting this together and almost like serendipity heavenly intervention i turn up uh i turn up the had the tv on mute and fox was on and i'm watching steve docey who's going to our military academy and i'm watching him at West Point with these just, oh, you got a little VO there, a little voiceover.

6:40Just with our amazing men and women in the military, just with the sacrifices they make. And I want to tell you just from my experience, I will never forget in our Secret Service Training Academy, I was an instructor there for three years, right? I would always pick as a class, we had about 40 to 50 people, agents in a class. I would always pick a military guy as the class president. The class president is basically your liaison to the class. You're not going to talk to every student every single day. Sometimes you get a message, you just call the class president, right? Because they were just incredible.

7:14There's something our military does to people. In the chat, tell me if I'm right. If you know someone in the military, you're in the military. I've always said this. The military, just like any institution, they're not going to make a bad person good. Bad people are just bad. Listen, there's bad people in the military. There's bad people everywhere. There are bad people in law and bad people in aviation and carpentry. There's always bad people. You're not going to make a bad person good. But what the military does better than anyone else, in my experience dealing with them, is they make, I would even say, a mediocre or good person absolutely great.

7:55Nobody does it like the military. Not college. Not baseball. No one. They can take, and I don't mean mediocre like as a quality judgment. We're all blessed by God with inalienable rights. I mean, maybe you're just not the strongest, the fastest. Maybe you're not like the best looking or most athletic. The military turned you into a great man. They turned good people into diamonds. Nobody does it like the military. I say that because if you are a younger person listening to the show, thank you for being here. We love you. I'm not mad at you for the indoctrination that went on. You know what? The world's got problems it's presented you to.

8:32If you want to be a great person, the easiest way to get there, if you are a good person, is our military. Is our military. They're hands down. I pick the class president every time because I knew the class would be squared away. I knew it. Even if you had five or six ham sandwiches in there, it couldn't do a damn thing. I knew the class president would be like, no, no, that's not good enough. Don't tell me you can't do five pull-ups. Get up there. I knew it. And it worked every time. I coordinated like three or four classes Or helped with them in each one I mean there were probably 20 that went through when I was there But where I was directly involved Always always a military guy And I'm going to tell you one more thing Not making it damn bongino story hour My last year at the FBI If I needed something done And I needed some leadership on a project That maybe was interagency That wasn't solely our space You go to the military Because they'll send A colonel, captain lieutenant or even a general in there and be like what do you need there was this one guy i'm not going to say who he is but he was working on uh what should we call the project and we'll call it door's hammer dan you guys invented no we didn't invent door's hammer it's a marvel movie thing but i can't tell you what the project is it was very very classified like really classified but this guy was in charge i'm telling you man this guy at meetings bang bang bang bang bang bang I don't mean bang bang shooting Stuff just happened You want to get things done Join the military You want to be great Join the military You want to be venerated by your fellow citizens For your bravery Even if you don't I don't care you will be Because you deserve it Join our military I love you on this show Military and law enforcement on this show Have a really special place in my heart Alright just something I had to get out there and especially on a Friday where we all deserve a little bit of good news you still live in the greatest country on earth in the golden era of politics the safest country, the borders closed the economy's humming along yeah, some speed bumps but we're doing pretty damn good as a country right now and I get tired of hearing all the doom and gloom and whining folks when I I've been out six months now you know, I I told them I had a year.

11:00We did a lot of big things. It's promises made, were promises kept. Now, a lot of people tried to get you to turn on us and other people in the administration. And I told you that not all of it, some people just genuinely don't like me or others, which is okay. You know, it's a republic. You don't have to, you're by no means obligated to like me. But a large portion of this was a foreign funded operation to not only take out the Trump administration, but to get America to do things that were totally counterproductive to America. I want to show you what I mean. Everything I told you is now being revealed.

11:37I'm going to throw that this is the hot button issue du jour, and I want to be clear up front, again, by telling you, I am not telling you how to think. If you don't like a flock camera or a data center, there are very real concerns with these things. That is your right. Are we clear on that? I'm not telling you how or what to think. I'm simply telling you that other people are trying to get you to think a certain way and a lot of what they're telling you about these things aren't true. He was President Trump, hat tip Nick Sewarder for this video in July, just a month ago, telling everybody, be very careful about this whole thing about data centers.

12:24Not that you shouldn't be concerned, not that you shouldn't vet projects, not that in some cases you shouldn't turn down. Maybe they're not turned down projects. Maybe they're not right for your community. But a lot of what you're being told is being funded by the Chinese Communist Party because they want to cyber attack the country with no technological infrastructure to fight back. It's a fact. He was President Trump a month ago saying what I already knew because I'd seen the intel, just like he did. What do you think I was doing there for a year? I tried to warn you about it. Now that he said it, I can double down and tell you all of this is in fact true.

12:59Check this out. Really spending a tremendous amount of money. In other words, the governors in the room, you have great governors in this room, and these companies are spending tremendous amounts of money on the communities, the local communities. So I think it's important that we tell the local communities that because other nations are trying to get us to slow down and they're spending a lot of money on propaganda on press pr trying to convince everybody that this isn't a positive thing and if we don't do this we're going to be left behind and even communities compared to other communities you have some communities that really want this this isn't all negative stuff this is You have the communities that really want the data centers.

13:44And frankly, those are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption. And the ones that don't want it, you know, the happiest people in the world are foreign countries, number one, and number two, other communities within our country because they're begging for them to be there. And some of them are great communities, very, very forward looking communities. Notice that unlike others in Podcastistan and elsewhere, many of whom are probably taking the foreign grift from China and elsewhere, I tell you straight, what did I just say at the beginning of this segment?

14:27I am not telling you what's right for your community. You guys have any idea in there why I'm not telling them what's right for their community? Where do I live? Justin's like, I don't know. I think you live in Martin County, Florida. I think so too. I think so because I do. If you're in Anchorage, Alaska, and none of my business what happens in your community, this isn't about that. I said, yes, it is. No, it's not. It is not. This is about what I've been warning you about since I came out. That there is a very well-funded foreign effort to get you to do counterproductive things, to get you to destroy the country from the inside.

15:03A.G. Hamilton threw this up on X. And I'm going to show you something else, and this will all make sense. x is now twitter x is now confirmed a chinese bot farm of 200 000 fake accounts was intentionally trying to manipulate public opinion against status here we go everything i told you will be revealed people might want to consider how common this has become and how it's manipulating multiple policy discussions on social media you don't believe me here's the x post this is from x Global Affairs. The X safety team conducted an investigation into Chinese inauthentic accounts involving influence operations.

15:41They identified these bot farms. These posts contain claims that AI data centers are driving up electricity prices, straining the grid. AI generated cartoons that depicted data center operations enriching themselves at the public expense. Why would China be doing this? Why would China And for the umpteenth time I'm not telling you what to do in your community I don't live there I'm just telling you That when you research these things Like any other business A coal powered plant You're going to need electricity in your community You want coal, you want nuclear, solar That's up to you You may have a community where the sun shines all day Great, great, do your thing Why would China want to rip out the technical backbone infrastructure of our ability to use not just AI, but even basic computing.

16:35I don't like tech center data sets. Well, then somehow, how are you going to use your phone? You want to route your information through one in China? You understand, like, we need this stuff. Put up this Axios article. Listen to me, brothers and sisters. Open AI, anthropic issue, dire cyber threat. morning. You don't have to like these companies or not. It's up to you. That hospital and water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking threats as artificial intelligence makes sophisticated cyber capabilities cheaper and more accessible to attackers. They write an open letter.

17:15It's counterproductive to them to say, hey, this business is dangerous. They don't they want to say, oh, it's great. They're not saying that. Whether you like these companies hate these companies i'm telling you i'm the same person i always was the pillars wanted you to think something different and they lost i'm telling you i've seen this intel and there is nothing they want more than for us to just lose this ai race so they can unleash a torrent of cyber attacks and i'm just listen man don't even flag this in the chat because i don't want this to even happen this isn't you know we say that and like sarcastically sometimes this is not funny.

17:57You are going to wake up one morning in your house somewhere in America and you're going to turn on your faucet and nothing's going to come out. Or you're going to turn on your faucet and the chlorine level is going to have been manipulated with and you're going to get violently ill or die.

18:20This is a real fight. And there are real concerns. And there are places these things aren't appropriate. You know, you want it next to your kid's school or something? Probably not. I'm just telling you, there is a very well-funded op getting you to believe a lot of things that are just not true. And that applies to everything. This segment's not about data centers. It's about influence operations. President Trump is not lying to you. Justin popped out of studio. He goes, you know, listen, a lot of the listeners hate these things. Fine, you're allowed to hate them. You're always welcome here, guys.

19:00President Trump clearly is telling you the truth despite political consequences. He's doing the right thing, not the easy thing. Folks, there's so much going on. And listen, the Bongino rule always applies. You know, I always, we kind of laugh about the Bongino rule, which is give like 24 to 72 hours to a story before you form a final opinion. Not, you know, not, don't talk about it. Like talk about it, talk about whatever you want. It's not me to tell you what to talk about. I'm just telling you before, now it's up to like, I think the Bongino rule should be like 24 months now because these psyops are just ongoing.

19:35Like talk all you want about these things, but maybe before forming some final opinion, just try to suss out like who's influencing you for the wrong reasons not on principle okay i say that because it must have killed like if you would have just applied the bongino rule on what's going on in the straight then again we would have a more realistic kind of idea about what's going on in the straits of hormuz we were told by the left-wing media that even filtered into the whole magus space where people like i can't believe this there was never a plan for the straight-of-harm move, he got totally screwed up.

20:09I told you there was a plan. The plan may not have gone according to plan at every step. Bloomberg, can we all agree Bloomberg business probably can't stand President Trump? Fair assessment, fellas? Justin's like, yeah, sounds good. Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered to around two-thirds of pre-war levels, limiting the Iran war's impact on global crude prices, according to Goldman Sachs. I'm not telling you it's not dangerous I'm not telling you things gone absolutely everyday according to wars are unpredictable but I thought there was the apocalypse in the Strait of Hormuz I thought the Iranians despite wiping out level 1 through 50 of their leadership that they had brought President Trump to his knees he's the commander in chief of the baddest ass military on earth and CENTCOM seems to be saying otherwise what do you think they're lying?

21:01you think Bloomberg's lying for the president? We own the strait. It's not without risk. It's that total de-escalation. We own the strait. Because our badass military and the most powerful navy in the history of the world says we own it. The thousands of mines in the strait were garbage bags filled with water. They were floating garbage bags. That's what they were. There were like 11 mines they found Which they got rid of And then, did you see this article? Axios too, no friend to President Trump I thought everything was doom and gloom The oil markets were completely collapsing The Iranians are grabbing us by the sack We're all in trouble, man Axios, Mark Caputo U.S.

21:52close to striking massive deal For Venezuelan oil fields Wow, that's crazy, dude It's almost like President Trump Had a plan the whole time. I thought he didn't have a plan. I thought he just made this up. What was that? Venezuela was in the news for something. It was my last day on the job. I'll never forget waking up to that. It was one of those moments. You get the call. I don't want to be hyperbolic or dramatic, but it's exactly like, yeah, man, we got him. I'm like, Maduro? Like, yes. There were like weather issues. We didn't know when we were going to do it. I was like, nice. Nice. I thought he didn't have a plan I thought he didn't have a plan Folks it's just again man Just see through the mist You know me and Stephen King Can't stand each other But man that movie The Mist Just see through the mist On the other side of the mist Is the military Coming to save you from like The dinosaurs and big hairy spiders And stuff Ask questions Be skeptical Whether it's a data center The Strait of Hormuz Flock cameras That's your job as a citizen.

23:01FISA warrants all of it. But process inputs that are real to get a better output. You process fake inputs, you're going to come up with a fake output. I got a lot more. You got this. I got a quick thought. I don't want to get too into this Lindsay Clancy case. There's still no verdict on it. I don't want to get too into it. But I do want to, there's something I want to bring up about it because it's, I think, really important for any of us out there in the legal space. I got that. Also, So you think we're not fighting lunatics out there? Some video has now surfaced confirming again that everything I told you about the left is true too.

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24:46Consult with a licensed insurance producer to discuss coverage options for your specific business needs. Paid for by Supersure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Thanks, SuperSure. We appreciate it. Folks, you know, human beings, I'll get to this with regards to the Clancy case in a minute, but human beings, when confronted with problems, this is all of us. It's an indictment on me and everyone else. Because we're fallible. We're not, there's only one perfect human being, Jesus Christ, and I certainly ain't him. I love him, but I ain't him, okay? One of our natural human foibles that's hard to kind of get past is human beings, unlike the animal kingdom, we have this instinct when a problem surfaces to seek blame.

25:36We just do. We want to. There's like we almost think in a narrative like this bad thing happened. So because I need an outlet to vent, you have to blame someone. You see this in criminal trials all the time, where the famous line in the movie A Few Good Men, like, trials many times aren't about guilt or innocence. The facts aren't in dispute. They're about who to blame. I encourage you to keep that in mind in politics, too. This is where socialists excel, is the tie-in. They excel at the blame game. There are human problems that have existed since we've been sentient human beings. Homo sapiens from our Neanderthal days, right?

26:19These problems aren't going anywhere. How to find food, how to stay entertained. People have always said entertainment, whether it's cave writing or watching the first human TV, which was a campfire, right? These are problems, how to find water. They're not going anywhere. The socialists excel at the blame game. The rich did it. The white man did it. it was systemic discrimination. You're like, systemic? There was a system that did it? Because everywhere you claim systemic discrimination, there's a bunch of Democrats in charge. It's a Democrat system. Folks, we've got to learn to leverage that game too.

27:00I'm sorry, it sounds mercenary, but it's true. Human beings will always be confronted with everlasting, evergreen problems that will never go away. How do I feed my kids? You know, how do I, you know, how do I find a job? These are not going anywhere. We have got to find a way to say a lot of these problems are caused by something. Well, we shouldn't be blamed. No, we should because there is someone to blame here and the person to blame is government. it's true nearly every single society-wide problem we have in the united states has a huge nexus to a government footprint i'll prove it to you right now think about things liberals complain about the most when it comes to the economy tell me i'm wrong like the cost of health care is out of control right heard that a thousand times liberals run it all the time Cost of college education is out of control We're failing our kids This is really weird Because the biggest footprint On those two services Education and healthcare By far the biggest footprint or influence Is government Government pays for about 50 plus percent of healthcare And government pays for a much larger portion Of education And yet Conservatives are afraid they get lost in the guilt or innocence without realizing that the off ramp is people are looking for someone to blame.

28:29They are. Well, I'm telling you who to blame. The person who's managing all this or the people, which is government. Folks, it happens all the time. You know, can you pull up that John Kasich clip? I know where I told you we'd be totally out of order. John Kasich is one of the fakest Republicans out there. John Kasich, remember he ran for president This guy hates President Trump This goes to show you I'll call out in a bipartisan manner Republicans or Democrats Who act like buffoons This is a very short clip But here he is on a news network Amazingly Claiming that the way to get Healthcare costs under control In conjunction with the Democrats Is for the government to spend more money On healthcare through subsidies Where has this worked?

29:19We were told Obamacare was going to solve the cost crisis And the subsidies are what caused the problem This is what I'm talking about By this guy doesn't get people are looking to blame someone He's blaming you when in fact the government is causing the healthcare crisis Check this out The number one issue of affordability everybody's worried about is healthcare And I would expect that they're going to pass Renew those subsidies for healthcare To bring the cost of those premiums down Folks, this guy claims to be a Republican. Can he not do the math? The whole Obamacare agenda was if you like your plan, you could keep it.

29:56Not true. That was like the PolitiFact lie of the year or something. Imagine that, a liberal outlet calling out lie of the year, a Washington Post, whatever it was. And that they were going to bring down costs. Now the Democrats are like, costs are out of control. You told us the opposite. You injected more government in the healthcare system through Obamacare. All these subsidized government taxpayer markets that totally failed. Costs are now out of control. And now you're blaming us like we did something wrong? No. You want to play the game with them. They want to blame someone. You got to play the blame game too.

30:32I know it doesn't sound cutesy time. Sorry. It's true. People want to blame someone for their issues. It's a natural human instinct. It's a gravitational pull. You're never going to stop. It's like a freaking magnet. It's a force of nature. Give it to them. Don't lie to them, though. Tell them the truth. Subsidies, John Kasich. Obamacare subsidies lowered costs. And why did the Democrats try to shut down the government last year, claiming that costs were out of control? They needed more subsidies. I thought the original subsidies were supposed to bring down. I'm just asking questions. Folks, government is nearly every single issue, every single issue we have as a society.

31:17Government has a huge role in exacerbating the problem. I will say outside of two entities. Now you're going to see how the show ties in. Our military and law enforcement. You can't privatize those. You can't. You don't want a private army of mercenaries getting paid. The opportunity for death, destruction, and corruption is too great. And our law enforcement. People would have a real problem if law enforcement was funded by, you know, a group of wealthy folks who went. They would. They'd be like, well, why don't I get police too? So we accept public funding comes with efficiency issues. But law enforcement and our military, it's one of the few things government, when it does it right, does it right.

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32:02President Trump did law enforcement right. He took the handcuffs off us at the FBI and we crushed the national crime rate. You don't have to believe it. It's true. That was his leadership executed down the chain of command. Our military, who was told there's no way you guys have a plan for the straight. The Iranians brought us to our knees. America, we should bow down to our new Iranian masters. Really? We just found out that all of this was BS the whole time. They had a bunch of garbage bags in the straight. They've been eviscerated. we do military and our law enforcement right. And it just requires a little bit of legwork.

32:42I wanted to put up this post by the Manhattan Institute because you may say, what does this do with it? This goes to show you that law enforcement is dangerous. Law enforcement is dangerous. Strategy, however, is not. They know the numbers here are insane. The LA metro system, 97 % of people who committed a violent crime in their transit system evaded the fare. They turnstile jumped. In D.C., 99 % dodged the fare. Now, why am I bringing this up? This is a hardcore P1 moment. Even Justin may not know this one. Folks, when me and Cash got over to the FBI, we were both New York. He's a Long Island guy.

33:24I was a city kid and a bit of a Long Island guy. Cash and I remember Rudy Giuliani as the mayor of New York. he enacted what was called broken windows policing it crushed the crime rate in new york to levels no one had ever seen where even the left-wing media at the time was like wow this republican mayor isn't messing around we've never seen crime levels this low in our history what was broken windows it was very very simple yeah look at you in the chat yes the chat knows i love you guys man you've been with me forever i told you it's like my family you guys like extended family me this was considered revolutionary at the time if you jump the turnstile in the transit system in new york to get on the subway i promise you pre-ruti giuliani the cops most of the time they're not because they would turn a blind eye and it wasn't their fault it was just because if you brought a fair jumper a turnstile jumper into the precinct the desk sergeant now desk lieutenants but desk sergeant would be like get that out of here get back in the trains don't waste your time in these fair jumpers.

34:27Giuliani came in just like President Trump did and said, no. The guy who jumps, put up that tweet again. The guy who jumps the fair is the guy who rapes the woman on the train. If you get them when they jump the fair, they don't rape the woman. Look at the numbers. This is what we did at the FBI. I know the media doesn't want to cover it because they don't want to give President Trump any credit. Folks, it's not about me. I don't care. Write in your article, I suck. I hate that guy. He said, fine. Give the president credit. He fully understood broken windows and said, hey, guys, you think you could send your FBI teams down to Memphis and clear violent crime warrants in Memphis?

35:06Is there a way we can do that? You had even people in the FBI like, ah, we don't do that. Well, we're doing it now. We're doing it now. And look what happened.

35:19Government doesn't have to suck, folks. government can do things right when they know what was it the rock know your role when you know your role government doesn't have to suck suck we can re-establish faith in good government again as long as it doesn't get out of its lane and do things it's incapable of doing providing education the government doesn't do any of this well it does there's no incentive to providing you health care the government can't provide you they don't know anything about you enforcing the law sealing our border, kicking foreign death to America, enemies' asses all over the place.

35:56We do that better than anyone. We can also fix elections. This is the government's role. President Joey Bagadonis was elected. Was he really elected or did they cheat? If the American people are saying, I don't know, you failed. You would think even Democrats would be on board who love big government saying, and a law enforcement military border contract law court system like elections like these are basics i wrote this note here by the way you want to see the show that you want to talk about a total mess and i don't mean mess i had so much stuff to pack in i wrote in later here i'll show you this you see all these crazy arrows all over the way here that's me i had so many thoughts in my head today.

36:44You think like I do the show myself. Well, they do but all the content is mine. They just put it into action. I thought even if you're a Democrat if you're a Democrat these are easy wins for you to make the point that government can do good things. Easy wins. Clean up the streets. Close the border. Have a badass military. Don't let people kill us with a nuclear weapon. Just an easy win. Easy win. Andy, easy. Key. Easy. Easy wins, right? Why would Democrats want elections where nobody believes the winner's the winner? Because they want it cheap, because they don't care about good government, period.

37:26Here's what I mean. Here's our new Attorney General, Todd Blanche, talking about a pretty simple measure President Trump put out in executive order. Hey, if we mail a ballot to someone, folks in the chat, maybe it's a good idea that that person's an eligible voter who requested a ballot, or just crazy idea, I know. The Democrats don't want it because they tell you they believe in government as this savior, this messiah, this small G God. But they really don't believe that. They hate government, too. They've got easy wins they don't want because they know government sucks and they want it to suck as long as they're in power.

38:00Check this out. There's already a lot of blowback from Democrats on this. California Governor Gavin Newsom's office calling this Orwellian. And they're saying they're going to sue. They're going to sue over this once again. Is DOJ ready to defend again? Yes, just like we've been ready. And this is what President Trump, this is what the American people expect President Trump and expect this country to be doing when it comes to election integrity and making sure that we are extraordinarily vigilant about who is voting and that they're eligible to vote. It is surprising and disappointing that instead of working with us, instead of working to make sure that we have free and fair elections, you have governors like the governor in California, you have these advocacy groups that are really just left-wing liberal groups that are immediately saying, oh, no, we're going to sue again.

38:44Notwithstanding the fact the Supreme Court has already issued its stay. And yes, we will keep on fighting that. We want to make sure that every vote in this country is counted appropriately. And that's what President Trump has told the American people he's going to do. And we're certainly going to back him up with that from the Department of Justice. Okay, to liberals in the chat, we know you're there. Bongino Army folks in the chat, you see them every day. They're usually in there with some dumb stuff. Talk to rich, coexist, tolerate some BS. We get it. We get it. We see you in there. I'm just asking a simple question.

39:18Why would the deep blue state of California, led by hair gel, sue to keep government from doing an easy win basic function, like making sure both Democrats and Republicans trust that the outcome of an election is the actual outcome? That's all this is. there is nothing complicated about this executive order. The answer is, tell me in the chat, you know what I said. Because they want to do what? I'll wait. Put it in all caps. What do Democrats want to do in elections?

39:54Cheaters, yes. Cheating. Baggy goose. Cheating. Cheating. Cheating. Stella. Cheating. It's now a cheat, cheat, Cheat, cheat, cheat, cheat, cheat. I can't even see it. Joe, I'm just making names up because it's moving so fast right now. They want to cheat. Cheat. C-H-E-A-T. Cheat. Or if you're Brian Williams and Maragay, C-H-H-E-R-A. Cheat. I thought they believed in good government. This is an easy win, bro. Do you know? listen to me we don't like democrats we get it it's not personal their politics clear right i'm a republican we get it can we all agree that you probably have a couple democrat friends right some of you probably know what i mean no i i know people democrats do like i get it i get it i don't like instantly judge people by their politics right can we all agree that if the government were to chalk up easy wins.

41:03And I don't mean easy and hard to get to. I mean easy political wins. I don't mean like any stuff. It's obviously difficult to get it there. The Strait of Hormuz was not, people put their lives on the line. But I mean like easy win that, even like crazy anti-American morons don't want gas at$6 a gallon and don't want the Iranians controlling the strait. Outside of the crazy lunatics. I'm talking about political messaging wins. Easy wins. Military's badass. Streets are clean. streets are secure, elections work, borders are closed. These are easy wins. Can we all agree that even some Democrats who are sane and work for a living would be like, hey, man, that's just pretty good stuff.

41:41I don't care if Trump did it or not. Government finally does something. Ring the bells, man. It's because they want to cheat. They don't care about good government. They don't care at all. Not even a little bit We had that video the other day We played The team inside Of the lady walking down the street of New York Like I've got this brown stuff It was human Waste The government can't even clean human turds Off the street

42:21They don't want good government They're gaslighting you What do they want? What do they want?

42:31power power and we're yeah there's the lady she's like if you're eating something put it down because you want to throw up this is your version of good government turds in the street criminals running wild an open border a defenestrated military Strait of Hormuz dominated by death oh look at that that looks like

43:00Here's the great Scott Jennings on CNN. I want you to watch this back and forth about mail-in ballots and watch the gaslighting that goes on on liberal networks. Again, CNN and others who are big government socialists, that's all they are. These are not journalists, trying to pretend they just want good government. They just want good government, and the rich people should pay for it because they don't pay any taxes. You're like, well, that's not true. It doesn't matter. all they want man is power hughes jennings in a great back and forth about mail-in ballots and check this out the problem with the mail-in ballots which are inherently less secure than voting in person is that in a lot of states they don't clean up their voting rolls and they send out millions of mail-in ballots to people whether they ask for them or not and many addresses get multiple ballots and there's a lot of live ballots out on the street these states refuse to clean up their voter rolls.

43:50That's absolutely true. And you have to ask yourself, why would you want fraudulent registrations on your voter rolls? No one wants fraudulent. No one wants that. Folks,

44:05everything he's saying is true. Why would you be so obsessed with basic security mechanisms for a mail-in ballot process that takes away the election voting location as a security mechanism? You put something in a mailbox, anybody could put it in the mailbox, correct? Democrats in the chat, am I wrong? Is the postman watching who puts the ballot and puts the little flag up on the mailbox? No, it could be anybody. When you show up to vote with voter ID, it's not 100%, but it's about 99%, 99 % that you are the said person. Why would you not want that? because you want to cheat and you want power.

44:50Folks, these are easy wins. Easy wins. Safe streets, strong military, closed borders. These are easy wins. I promise you even sane Democrats would align with, but they don't want sane Democrats. They have no home in their own party. I got a series of videos coming up. You want to see lunatics? They're all short. You want to see outright lunatics? You know what? Play one now. because I want to get this sorry I had a little itch today by the way for those of you new to the show you wonder why my elbows don't work so I have to like contort myself to even like itch my face my elbows just don't work anymore it's a long story but I've got that well why does he move so well because I can't move that's why I'm like falling apart I told you I'm like a rotting bag of a meat carcass put that Hassan Piker we've had enough of this guy I haven't sorry go back and watch yesterday's show I love how, I've even seen some Republicans, they're like, stop playing clips.

45:48No, no, no, not doing it, sorry. The Democrats wanted this guy because he ginned up, you know, the youth vote. They wanted this guy because, what are they saying? Jared Polis yesterday, Democrat governor of Colorado. Hey, it's a big tent. Jamie Raskin, Democrat lunatic. Oh, it's a big tent. Yeah, you want this guy in your tent? Yeah, maybe a big tent. But if you've got a serial killer in there, it's probably a problem, right? it's who you have in your tent not suggesting he is a serial killer you get my point though who's in the tent matters you want this guy in your tent listen to this about how he hates america he didn't say that okay check it out what i don't understand is why you claim you're brave i say i hate america all the time a lot of motherfuckers want to kill me over that take but at least i say it with my fucking chest people will be like hassan you hate america i'm like yeah I do.

46:40I do hate America. People be like, Hassan, you hate cops. I say, yeah, I do. Why? I'm not a pussy.

46:48He's not a, really? I guarantee you, most of the cops out there,

46:56I'll just leave that there. I think you know exactly where I'm going with that. I have some Republicans, not a lot, a lot, but some Republicans have said, yeah, maybe we should stop playing at it. No, no. Yesterday's show is titled glue it to them no you're glued to this guy now you wanted him you told us you want him it's a big tent it's a big tent here says right right says like uh a guy who's loaded and made a whole fortune off people who now hates rich people thinks cops are and okay he hates america glue it to them why because they're telling you to glue it to them pull jamie raskin here's Democrat lunatic congressman from Maryland I had the unfortunate experience of being around this guy when I ran in Maryland politics of all the canoes in Congress this guy this guy's like you ever did like this guy's he's the one like row row this is him this guy is the lead canoe dude this is it here's jamie raskin it's a big tent big a thanksgiving table it's a big tent okay then you can answer for that do you hate america how do you feel about cops jamie i thought you said it was a big tent check this out democratic party is a very big tent it's a very big tent because there are a lot of people in it and they're just like you know any big family uh Thanksgiving dinner, there can be arguments and people jostling and there's unruliness.

48:29But fundamentally, we all believe in democracy and freedom and the progress and prosperity of our people. And I've been very impressed by Abdul's extraordinary career as a public health servant. Great. Abdul campaigns with the guy who says he hates America. And thinks cops are. Hmm. Glue it to them. No, folks, there's no getting away from it. None. Zero. Glue it to them like a sticky note. This guy campaigns with people who hate America, hate our military, and hate police officers. That's it. It's not going anywhere. I know what you're thinking, too, some of you. Some of you who are lefties in the chat may be saying, well, why are we making it about one guy?

49:21So Justin said, I'll do you a favor. We'll make it about other guys too. I said, really? He said in pre-production, the RNC research team put out this montage of other lunatic Democrats saying even crazier. I thought it was about just one guy. I thought it was just one guy. I saw him piker. It was one guy. Justin's like, I'm going to do you a favor. I'm going to show you other guys. Are they in the Big Ten too? Here is a montage. Hat tip RNC research. We put it all into one big super cut. It's just like a minute or so. But here is a montage of other lunatic Democrats That's calling for violence, death, destruction.

49:54Are they in your tent too? Is that the big test at the Thanksgiving dinner? Is that all fat Barney? Shearing is scary. You like hugging each other? Who's in the tent? Fair question, right? I thought it was just one guy. Play the montage. I am going to kill Donald Trump.

50:12I mean, I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. resulting in a sentence duly executed of capital punishment. That man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated. He has to be eliminated. They expect us to take the punch and say, thank you. Well, I am here to tell you, not only are we going to punch back, but we about to beat you down. Fighting fire with fire. I'm going to punch these sons of bitches in the mouth. Oh, amen to that. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

50:55If they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out. When they go low, we're going to bury them below the Capitol. That's what we're going to do. He needs to be shot. Pets do need to roll, certainly within the administration. It's about fucking time we 86 Trump. We are at war!

51:15Dude, where'd you find that? It's so crazy. It's just one guy. It's just Hassan Piper. It's just one guy. And St. Michael's not even elected. These are elected officials working for a government. They put their right hand on a Bible or whatever, or our left hand on the Bible, raised their right hand and swore an oath to office. These are people in your government calling for violence, President Trump's death. I thought it was just one guy. They're part of the tent, Fat Barney. Sharing is caring. Is that Fat Barney? You all with sharing is caring? You all in the tent? We singing? We singing together?

51:50What's going on here? We're watching Caveman's television, The Fire, singing camp songs about killing Donald Trump. What are we doing? What are we doing? I thought it was one guy. I thought they care about good government. That's all. It's all about tolerance. It's all about coexistence. It's all about coexistence with people we like, everyone else we kill. That should be an... I'll tell you what. If I don't sell bumper stickers, we should sell a Republican bumper sticker. Coexist, right? And be thinking, isn't that a liberal thing? And then put the asterisk at the bottom and go, according to Democrats, that means murdering everyone else you don't want to coexist with.

52:27That's what we should put at the bottom. We should sell those. Someone out there has a bumper sticker company. Do that. There you go. Remember that? Tolerance. Bumper sticker. Asterisk. But kill everyone else we don't tolerate. There you go. There you go. Just an idea. Stop it. Get some help. Please. Get some help. Please get some help. Folks, we can't have a country like this We really can't We can't have a country like this Where you have one party This Republican MAGA-led coalition Then you have the Democrats Where 60 % Are like have lost their minds And 20 % want to murder us Like that's not a thing That's not a thing Unfortunately, it's a thing We can't let be a thing Folks, the lunacy gets even crazier Sometimes these people say the quiet part out loud.

53:20Quick break. I'm going to show you another short video. You think I'm kidding about what these people want to do? They tell you what they want to do. I'm here warning you. The guy in the beginning of the show, you're our only, I'm not your only hope. You're it. You're it, guys and ladies. You're it. Take the message and go evangelize the cause. It's not about, I'm just the microphone guy. Quick break. I'm going to show you what I mean in this other video. If you're in a union or a working class Democrat, you better listen to what this guy's talking about because you'll thank me later if you change your mind and vote for people who are gonna save your butt from lunatics like this.

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55:03Prescription required. Always consult a medical professional before taking any medication. This is not medical advice. Here's what I'm talking about. You have a choice, folks. There is a choice. That's what an election is. elections are choices you're in control this country operates by consent of the governed the governed are you and they require your consent your consent is your vote i'm warning you about these lunatics it's not just hassan piker and no they're not letting it go and i'm not letting it go we're going to glue it to them i just showed you this super cut of all of these lunatics talking about beatings and punching people and kicking the crap out of people

55:41you want to die you want to die the easiest way to die is to go live in a city with a high crime rate run by democrats who want to defund the police the second easiest way is to turn your health care over to the government so a bureaucrat on the phone when you're having a heart attack can tell you to go pound sand and hang up on you i can't tell you enough that this medicare for all thing they're proposing is a government monopoly on health care where everything you worked for to get your insurance plan where you want it now is done. It will be illegal. Sometimes they actually tell you that. Here's Democrat Senate candidate up in Maine, Troy Jackson, who was supposed to be like the more moderate alternative to the Nazi tattoo guy.

56:25Here he is telling you he's about to cancel your insurance plan. Check it out. Let's say, for example, let's say we have of democratic control of the House, the Senate, and ultimately the White House. What would you like to see done in the first 100 days of full democratic control? Medicare for all. You know what I mean? That's been always my guiding thing. I'm known as a labor person in Maine and I am, but healthcare is like the number one problem for people that I care about. He's the labor person, he's saying. Folks, can we all take a second? in through the nose, out through the mouth. It's good to breathe through the nose.

57:07You get nitric oxide and everything. Check it out. Don't be a mouth breather. This guy is looking you in the face. If he wins, he will have a vote in the United States Senate, the world's most powerful deliberative body, over your health care. He's claiming to be for labor, union folks, hardworking Americans, busting their ass, carpenters, HVAC guys, rail workers, grave diggers. He's claiming I'm your guy while simultaneously claiming, yeah, man, government-run healthcare for you. Why didn't bargain for that? Listen, union folks out there, I know you've been coming over to the Republican Party in droves.

57:48That's how I knew Donald Trump was going to win in 2016. You doubt me? Go listen to my podcast from the night before when everybody said he was going to lose. Go listen. It's still there. I think it's on SoundCloud. I knew it because my brother's in a union and he told me my brother was in a union dominated by Democrats. My brother called me about three weeks before the election. I can't believe it. I was at the union hall and everyone's voting for Trump. I was like, this thing's over. People were laughing. Washington Post wrote an article by Aaron Blake and Chris Saliza. Donald Trump's chances of winning are approaching zero.

58:23I said, okay, good luck with that. I knew he was going to win. To the union folks still sticking with the Democrat party. They're not Democratic at all. Stop. Get some help. They're about to steal your health care. Does that bother you or not? If the answer is yes, you voted for the wrong guy. Folks, here's another thing I'm going to warn you about. Do you want to talk about a kick in the gonads? the Democrats next big push this is a flags in the chat flags in the chat I don't know flags well flags for those of you there for that those are one of the finer moments in the show you had to have been there it's like the goofy glue incident you had to have been there here is flags in the chat here's going to be the next big thing if the Democrats get power you may say I never really heard of that before if you listen to the show you've heard of it do you know what a VAT is no not like a vat of like oil or anything a vat short for value-added tax never heard of it you're gonna right now this is gonna be the liberal lunatics next big push what is a value-added tax long and short of it is it is a tax built into every single level of production for a product in other words you buy what do i have on cloud sneakers on right now or something i wear my bad knee, right?

59:48Every level of production, the shoelace maker, the plastic tips at the end of the shoelace maker, the rubber sole maker, the rubber maker who gets him the sole, the fabric, the little like grommets or whatever go into the holes, if that's what they're called. Every single one of those people is going to pay a tax to each other and they do this complicated math and at the end it winds up on your receipt as the end user as a big enormous consumption tax why do democrats want evaluate what is it like a sales tax no it is but it isn't there's complicated processes where you deduct what you paid from what you pay from another guy from what they pay you why are they going to all this for a value-added tax to complicate your life and run small businesses out of town.

1:00:35Here's why. There is a thing called Hauser's Law. It's not Hauser's idea. It's Hauser's Law. You can look it up if you like. I think it's H-A-U-S-E-R, Hauser's Law. It's the principle that in the United States, because our taxes are visible, you get a pay stub. You see what you paid in taxes. That the people in the United States are generally not going to pay more than 20 % of their income collectively to the government. And when you look at a graph over time, no matter what the tax rates were. 90%, 28%. 70%, 21%. No matter what they are, the amount of money that comes into the government as a percentage of GDP is roughly around 20%.

1:01:13Ah, there it is. Thank you. Hauser's Law is the economic observation that U.S. federal tax revenue has stayed close to 19.5 of GDP regardless of changes in marginal tax rates. How could that be? How could the tax revenue as a percentage of the economy stay the same if the tax rates were 90 % versus 20? It's simple. Because when they're 90%, nobody pays it. Rich people just hide their money and pay nothing. Well, what happens when they're 20 %? When they're 20%, rich people put their money back in the economy, taking advantage of low tax rates, and tax revenue starts to flood in. It always works.

1:01:49They're not paying more than 20%. Here's the kicker. What does that have to do with a VAT? well it's strange but if you read this wall street journal article the europeans have managed to milk out of their citizens 30 percent of gdp how did they violate hauser's law the answer is because a vat is largely hidden at levels of production you'll never see you just get a bill in the end and you don't realize you're paying everyone else's bill too folks flag it if they win all of those people out there in the middle class who are voting Democrat thinking the tolerance co-exist party. Here's Joseph Sternberg.

1:02:30This guy writes great pieces on economics in the journal. Very, very nonpartisan. Beware the coming consumption tax storm in America as the fiscal crisis becomes more acute. Expect new calls for a European style VAT. Resist. You're damn right, resist. The vat will soak, drench the middle class. Absolutely drench the middle class. Everything you buy, you are going to get rinsed, bro.

1:02:59Bank on it. Take that check to the bank and cash it because what I'm telling you is true. All right. I wanted to wrap up with this because I saw this on Fox this morning. Listen, I know there's a lot going on with the Canadians and terrorists and all this stuff, but I'm going to tell you something. When I was doing the last job there, my dealings with the RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they were always very on the level. No one ever got into politics because we were fighting things like terrorism and bad guys that could cross the border. We never had political conversations. We just didn't.

1:03:35And the RCMP guys I work with, you know who you are. We worked on really high profile stuff, huge stuff, really, really big stuff. It's a damn shame that the CBC, the broadcasting company up in Canada, has now decided to go full crazy and woke. I mean, you want to talk away, regardless of your feelings about America, President Trump, you want to talk about a major slap. And we're going to have economic fights, tariffs, other things like America. Fine. Terrorism and like don't getting, you know, don't get dead. That's not any of this. Like that should stay out of it. Here's the CBC, Fox and Friends covered this this morning.

1:04:15Now demanding that their outlets, if they refer to 9-11, putting like an asterisk next to it, like this is like FBI alleged terrorism. Like what? I'm pretty sure flying planes into a building, killing 3000 missing people, screening, Allahu Akbar, is pretty much the definition of terrorism. Just throwing that out there. No. Yeah. Check this out. The Canadian Broadcast Corporation, the CBC, they issued an internal memo to all of their journalists ahead of the 9-11 25th anniversary instructing their journalists to not describe 9-11 as a terrorist attack without attribution. So if you do say it's terrorist attack, you have to say, well, the FBI says.

1:04:56We don't want to be the ones to say it. We want to describe them as hijackings or the September 11th attacks. So they're complete idiots. And if they don't know what terrorism is, then they should go over to their special forces, J2F2, who has stood by us since 9-11 to fight terrorism. They know what it is because they're Canadians, they're special forces, and they fall next to our Delta Force, our Navy SEALs, Green Berets to fight terrorism when we were attacked. I think this is idiotic. I think they know what they're doing. I think they're trying to be woke. But I don't think that resonates with their military who stands side by side with ours.

1:05:36You're friends with a lot of the military men up there. Good man, Lawrence Jones. God bless Lawrence in his recovery. He's had some pretty devastating procedures on his eye. So you see him with glasses there. Lawrence, a good man. Good for you. I'm going to tell you another good man. Guy I was proud to work with. my friend FBI Director Kash Patel who was furious about this last night put out this ex post about this thing. Any agency in Canada any agency in Canada that doesn't publicly reject this bastardization of history and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terror attack in US history will no longer have a friend in this FBI not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath we'll never forget 9-11

1:06:32you're damn right folks again you know we can do big things collectively as a people and i don't mean collectivism in the socialist way we do have a government you know federalist 51 if men were angels they are not angels you do need some form of basic structure out there law enforcement borders our military a contract system we can do basic things government does better the democrats don't want it to do better i'm going to throw this other tweet out there by cash to show you just something simple we did we did that didn't involve big all-powerful government that actually involved your communities when i got in there i had been i think i'm the only person who's ever been an mypd guy secret service agent and an fbi agent i'm pretty sure so i understood local policing Cash did too So we went in there and we were like Hey guys we need to work with local police officers Why?

1:07:24Because they're the ones that know everything We've got a great sheriff down here in Martin County Who do you think, the guy's been a deputy or a sheriff For close to like 20 years Who are we to come in here, oh who the FBI We're not in charge, you're in charge So one of the things we did, throw up that expose with Cash Is Cash allocated a ton of resources Towards building new task forces with local police officers It's right there in his tweet. You can read about it yourself. Why? Because the way to do good government is to rely on government where it's most local. Subsidiarity. They know more than us.

1:07:58Listen, a lot of the FBI agents we had there did great, great work. But they'll tell you. Some of these guys got, you know, you got hired in the FBI economy, get through Quantico, and you're from Anchorage, Alaska, and they send you to Fort Pierce in Florida. You get there, you don't know anything about Fort Pierce. It's not your problem. I mean, excuse me, it's not your fault. So what do you do? You go and work with the locals. In the past, the relationship was, you know, locals, no, no, they're it. They're the backbone of law enforcement. You want to make government better? Shrink it. Go to the people that matter.

1:08:31Seek input from real SMEs, subject matter experts. That's not what government does under the Democrats. Not at all. They do the opposite. By the way, I see so many people asking, Some of you folks asking about the shirts. If you want them, store it up on Gino.com. We got 1776. The stupid is a choice. Don't be stupid. We got 250 years of kicking ass, liberty and freedom. Store it up on Gino.com. Up to you if you want to buy them. And, you know, Apollo loves doing that project. So for you guys, we don't put out shirts all the time, only when we think we have a good idea. You know, also we're doing our 1776 contest.

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1:10:25A peaceful moment to center your mind. Oh no, not this one. Oh my gosh, not this one. This clip is driving everyone crazy No Jim I'm glad you did it But I quietly Look at this lunatic This woman is the nominee for US Senate in Oklahoma Mark Wayne Mullen Mark Wayne Mullen's not running lady He's the DHS secretary Look at this lunatic The burn book This has been Democrat Zen Folks, Dana Perino said this on The Five the other day. If you work at a cable news network, Fox or OAN or Newsmax, this clip was playing over and over. I did a hit with Jesse Waters, and I wasn't paying attention for a second.

1:11:23I was taking a note about the hit. And all I heard was some lunatic screaming in my ear, I swear to you on my life, ask the van operator who was there with the studio van, he was like what the hell was that dana said it yesterday on the five she's like please stop playing this clip it's blowing everyone's eardrums out the lady's crazy the sooner socialist lunatic the burn bit she's a nut it is killing everyone in cable news if someone in cable news in the chat you don't have to say who you are some of you are now i know some of you watch the show it's okay just say yes you're correct everybody in cable news hates this clip but now you now you hate it too you're listening on radio you're like why did i have to suffer through that all right folks thanks again for tuning in thanks for all your support with the new radio show launching in the morning and the afternoon 5 a.m to 6 3 p to 6 some have it on delay i think we're on wmal now at uh at night which is great we love it love being back on radio thanks for supporting the show really appreciate it i do unique monologues for the radio we're going to try to get them on the rumble account at some point in the near future in case you got something to listen to during the weekend.

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