Maximum Political Warfare (Ep. 2513)

12 May 2026 · 1 h 15 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino argues that “maximum political warfare” is being waged by the left through revisionist history, attacks on institutions, and normalization of political violence. He claims Democrats and progressives falsely portray the American Revolution as anti-wealth, undermine trust in elections and government, and shift blame for crime and fraud onto Republicans while running high-crime cities themselves.

Guest backgrounds

No podcast guests are interviewed in the transcript. Bongino references clips from Michael Knowles (commentator) and discusses public figures including AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Raphael Warnock, Pramila Jayapal, and Donald Trump. He also cites “James Lindsay” (DARVO concept) and “Erica Kirk” (as an example of conspiracy content).

Key claims

The Revolution was led by wealthy founders, not against “billionaires.” Faith in institutions collapsed due to repeated election-denial narratives and “weaponizing” DOJ/FBI/Pentagon. Polls show many Democrats believe Trump assassination attempts were staged and that political violence is justified. Crime is geographically concentrated in Democratic-run areas, not nationwide.

Notable examples

Jefferson/Madison and wealthy founders (George Washington, Robert Morris, Francis Lewis); Supreme Court vacating an Alabama map order; Pelosi warning about voting machines while questioning them is “forbidden”; Warnock claiming “the system is rigged” while Bongino asserts top violent-crime cities have Democratic leadership; J.D. Vance fraud task force coordination and lowering federal prosecution thresholds.

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The State of America: Discontent in Prosperity

0:45 to 3:20

Dan discusses the perplexing discontent of some Americans despite the country's prosperity.

“God-fearing, incredible country ever created with sentient beings living on this rock we call Earth.”

Debate on AOC's Claims

5:15 to 11:05

Dan critiques AOC's statements on America's founding and the role of billionaires.

“I was going to put this at the end of the show, right, guys?”

The Historical Context of the Revolution

11:05 to 14:01

Exploration of the wealth and motivations of America's founding fathers during the revolution.

“She's also one of the dumbest human beings you have ever met.”

Understanding National Pride

14:01 to 15:01

Explore why some citizens abroad are proud of their countries despite challenges.

“independence were you know embodied that big r god-given right i get that but not all countries are created equal.”

The Decline of American Pride

15:02 to 15:58

Discussing the diminishing pride and responsibility among American youth.

“They don't want they're not proud of their country.”

Political Landscape and Voting

15:59 to 18:00

Analyzing the importance of voting and the current political climate.

“The Elon tweet yesterday about the Nazi Party being national socialists.”

Institutional Trust Erosion

18:01 to 20:58

Examining the collapse of trust in institutions and its implications.

“You're like, yeah, take a freaking nuclear war to stop me from voting in the midterms.”

Conspiracy Theories and Public Perception

20:59 to 22:44

Understanding how conspiracy theories affect public perception of events.

“I got to tell you, even for the left, you may not find this shocking, but I did.”

The Impact of Political Rhetoric

22:45 to 28:03

Exploring how political rhetoric influences beliefs about elections and governance.

“Unacceptably large numbers of people right now, very liberal Americans, say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3 % of very conservative Americans.”

The Illegitimacy of the Current Administration

28:03 to 31:30

Discussion on the perceived illegitimacy around the election of Donald Trump and its implications on trust in institutions.

“illegitimacy around the election of donald trump russia interfered with our election attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 pennsylvania avenue they were successful.”
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The Long Road to Restoring Trust

34:13 to 42:00

Analyzing the lengthy process required to restore faith in institutions and the impact of long-term Democratic leadership.

“Here's Donald Trump yesterday in the Oval Office.”

The Leadership Crisis in Seattle

42:00 to 43:20

Explore the failures of leadership in Seattle and the impact of Democrat policies.

“So why are you doing it in these towns, cities and municipalities where your kids are being gunned down?”

Crime Misconceptions and Urban Reality

43:20 to 45:36

Discuss the concentration of crime in specific areas and its relation to governance.

“as if the Democrats have not run Seattle into the ground.”

Understanding Crime Statistics

45:36 to 47:55

Delve into the statistics that reveal the geographical concentration of violent crime.

“Canadian I was 100 % led to believe that America was just dangerous all over the place and you were just gonna dodge bullet the second that you walked outside of the house.”

Addressing White Collar Crime

47:55 to 50:06

Examine the government's response to white collar crime and fraud.

“because you've had Democrats in charge for 60 years.”

The Importance of Legal Reforms

50:06 to 52:44

Understand the critical legal reforms needed to address crime and fraud effectively.

“Florida and elsewhere, we have that problem too Is to the President, he put J.D.”

Democratic Tactics and Future Threats

52:44 to 56:00

Analyze the radical tactics employed by Democrats and their implications for the future.

“Get your kids to hate this clubhouse America we belong to.”

Understanding the Filibuster and Its Implications

56:00 to 56:59

Learn how the filibuster impacts legislative decisions in the Senate.

“That's what they're trying to do in Virginia.”

Radical Measures and Judicial Reform

57:00 to 58:29

Explore discussions around radical measures proposed by Democrats for judicial reform.

“so we can end the era of voter suppression in the United States of America once and for all.”

Controversial Candidates and Institutional Integrity

58:30 to 1:00:01

Examine the integrity of political candidates and their implications for institutions.

“You think this is going to be the guy who's going to protect the institution?”

Revolutionary Ideas in Education Spending

1:02:19 to 1:05:01

Discuss an innovative proposal for education funding that empowers parents.

“And how there aren't Spencer Pratt's running in every blue city in America.”

Analyzing Job Numbers and Economic Impact

1:05:02 to 1:07:31

Analyze recent job numbers and their implications for the economy.

“Or you could trust in good conservative leadership, like this new MAGA movement, where we got an unbelievably good job number.”

China's Economic Challenges and Opportunities

1:07:32 to 1:10:05

Explore China's current economic challenges and potential vulnerabilities.

“Now, because the show does facts and not bullshit, there was some not so great news.”

China's Economic Challenges and U.S. Advantages

1:10:05 to 1:10:44

Explore the economic challenges China faces and the advantages the U.S. holds.

“You may say, Dan, them stealing is a big problem.”

The Importance of Leg Day in Fitness

1:10:44 to 1:13:08

Learn why training your legs is crucial for overall health and fitness.

“There's also a lot of good things and a lot of power levers President Trump has.”
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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 don't want to start the show on a bad note, and it's not really a bad note. It's more of me kind of a calling out a bad shit note, but I don't understand. I really don't understand. I'm glad I don't understand it. It's like not understanding serial killers. Like, yeah, I get it. Whacking people, like, that's not how that works. Like, I don't understand that. That's a good thing. I can explain it, but I don't understand this endless magnet, far leftist progressives, commies, and all of them who live here in the unbelievable wealth of the greatest, most prosperous, God-fearing, incredible country ever created with sentient beings living on this rock we call Earth.

0:55They're just endless, like moss to a flame, need to shit on this place all the time. I don't understand it. I can explain it. You want to steal other people's money, so you have to collect it through government by force to get it. It's greed. But I just don't understand why you just can't shut them and just enjoy living in the greatest country on earth. Not that you shouldn't demand accountability from business titans, business leaders, small businesses, politicians, state government, the dog catcher. You should. However, you live in the greatest country on earth. That's not, that is a statement disguised as opinion that is based on fact.

1:43GDP growth, economic wealth, the power of our military. Legitimate freedom indices. Not the fake ones. You live in the greatest country on earth, and they do nothing but bitch and moan all the time. It's the most incredible thing. By the way, congratulations. I'll cover his name. I don't know if he went last name out there, but someone sent this to us. Committed. Well, Gennaro, he's going to the Merchant Marine Academy. We get a lot of stuff at the office. Someone sent us a prayer card, prayer to our lady, the untire of knots. My eyesight's so bad, I thought it said the uniter of knots Because I couldn't see anything It's really small But thank you very much You guys are all awesome You know I love the Bongino Army Best audience in the business I'm going to show you what I mean in a minute Because folks, this class This show is not a class It's not a history lesson But if you don't understand how we got here And you keep listening to this revisionist history Of the corrupt mercenary United States Then the country's not worth saving Correct?

2:49Tell me, folks in the chat, tell me I'm wrong. Who wants to be part of a treehouse, a club, anything else where all the members are shit? The answer is nobody. You want to hang around with good friends you like and enjoy who are loyal, friendly, good to be around, generous. How are you going to have a country to hand down to your kids when your kids think this place sucks? It's exhausting. I got a lot to get to. They have a two-pager today, a lot of content. So let's get right to it. Hey, many Americans try these weight loss shots, but quit due to the cost or side effects. A lot of friends of mine looked into it.

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5:47Again, like a high powered magnet are attracted to stupidity on the liberal left. The dumbest people typically win. It's how you get stuck with people like AOC. But she said this the other day about this country and its founding and the billionaires with the talking points. And it is so disgusting, grotesque, and an inverse of what an inverted sense of reality that if we don't correct it and your kids believe it, I'm sorry, this shows for nothing. Check this out. This is in the heritage of our country because America was founded. You look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison in revolt of British aristocracy.

6:33The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. That's actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. And it's actually patently un-American to try to aspire to transform our country into a place of king. holy moses ladies and gentlemen i get it this woman has the iq of like your pet rock i understand it that but please please do not ever tell me in the chat or elsewhere she's irrelevant she is not irrelevant i hate when people say that just like the black pillars and the doomers they are not irrelevant they are very relevant they are relevant for the wrong reasons.

7:26But us pretending they're not relevant is probably the same thing they said about the Bolsheviks, Lenin and Stalin too. Oh, they're irrelevant. Ignore them. They are not irrelevant. They have massive followings because dumb people believe this shit. Is she unaware of like the Boston Tea Party? She unaware of what the Declaration of Independence was? The whole concept of men being created equal, unalienable rights? Did she miss that whole thing? Folks, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of them were very wealthy people who lost their freaking money fighting the revolution. You freaking idiot.

8:13I'm going to play a little clip by Michael Knowles in a second, who did a great job with this. However, I'll give you one. I grew up in Queens, okay? I've lived all over Queens, New York. I lived right in Bayside, Whitestone As a matter of fact, it's where I met Paula Paula had an apartment in Bayside It was the first time we went out on a date I dropped her off at her apartment It was like a little place It was like, I don't know, 400 square feet This tiny little place Francis Lewis Boulevard is right there Francis Lewis Boulevard is named after who? Anyone know? That's great! Guy got it I was giving him a who's buried in Grant's tomb question Francis Lewis For those of you who are history majors, Francis Lewis was a wealthy businessman of the time during the revolution.

8:59The British imprisoned his wife under horrendous conditions. I mean, tortured this guy and his business and everything else. He's one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was a wealthy, basically in transatlantic shipping. Do you guys not know this on the left? Are you freaking stupid all the time? Lefties. How? Oh, gosh. I can't. The Queens and me needs to come out sometimes so bad, but I understand.

9:35Gennaro, help me. You go into the merch room. You got discipline. You play football, too. Gennaro didn't even know he was going to be on the show today. Why, liberals? Do you have to be dumb all the time? Is there ever a time you choose not to be stupid? Washington was wealthy John Hancock was wealthy Francis Lewis was wealthy They could have sat on their asses And done nothing And collected their money Under the protection Of the tyrannical British Empire at the time We are going to fight a revolution anyway Even if it costs me every dime AOC, are you always this stupid? Do you ever tell the truth about anything?

10:15Climate change, taxes Eat the rich while you're you know, swimming in money yourself, you phony fake.

10:25They could have sat on their asses, American revolutionaries, and done jack shit. And they didn't. They wanted to freely practice their religion. They wanted to be free of confiscatory taxation from a distant empire. They wanted to be able to vote for their own leaders and not swear allegiance to the king. Did you miss this shit? Did you go to one history class?

10:57Folks, do not ignore this stuff. I'm telling you as your friend, this woman is very relevant. She's also one of the dumbest human beings you have ever met. I'm not even sure this is misfeasance or malfeasance. There are a lot of very smart people out there. Liz Warren's very smart She's very devious but she's smart She's not stupid She knew exactly what she was doing with Pow Wow Chow AOC's just really stupid The problem is Dumb people are attracted Again like high powered magnets To other dumb people Because they don't want to feel dumb They don't want to be in a room of smart people So they look like idiots This stuff resonates The revolution was fought to protect the billionaires Shut up, you idiot.

11:50Here's my good friend, Michael Knowles, who's just unbelievable on these matters and affairs. Here's a short clip, about a minute, but really? The billionaires, they were fighting to protect their billions? Meanwhile, going where that cost them? Morons. Check out the great Michael Knowles in response to this. George Washington, the father of our country and the absolutely invaluable, irreplaceable man of the revolution, was one of the richest men on the continent in his age. At the time of his death in 1799, his estate was valued around$780 ,000. That's roughly$500 to$600 million today, inflation adjusted.

12:35That would have been worth a little under 0.2 % of the entire US GDP at the time. Washington was inflation adjusted, if not a billionaire. He probably would have been a billionaire had he not fought in the revolution. But he was pretty close. Other than Washington, we look at another founding father, Robert Morris. Robert Morris was one of two people to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the US Constitution. Robert Morris was the single richest man in the American colonies of his day. So not only is AOC a little bit imprecise in her analysis, she is exactly perfectly wrong.

13:13She has described the inverse of the American Revolution, which was led not against the billionaire class, but actually by the very richest men in the entire colony. Hey, man, listen to this. Thank you, Michael. That's fantastic. Fantastic. I want you all to listen to me. Friends don't let friends shit on their country, okay?

13:36There are, let me tell you something, okay? I've traveled a lot. I've been to, I don't know, it doesn't matter, 40 plus countries easily and probably 50 plus cities. liberals are like what do you mean uh there are countries that have multiple cities liberal i have you'd be surprised how many dumb liberals would be like how is that possible they think there's like one anchor city in the country you go to places that all human beings are created equal that's what the declaration of independence were you know embodied that big r god-given right i get that but not all countries are created equal. That is axiomatically true.

14:19There are a lot of countries out there that have governing structures that are just shit. They're totalitarian, confiscatory, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist. I tell you that because, folks, I've traveled to countries that don't have one one-hundredth of our wealth, our heritage, our allegiance to freedom and liberty and God-given rights. And you know what? The citizens there are proud of their country, even though they couldn't hold a candle to the United States. Yet you come here to the greatest country on earth and you get this class of dipshits. All they do all day is find a way to drop a big dirty freaking diaper on the United States.

14:57And it's exhausting. You can see why these kids don't want to defend this place. We got kids that are now they don't want to take care of themselves. They don't want they're not proud of their country. They don't want to live here. Who the hell wants to be in a treehouse with a bunch of dipshits? They don't.

15:14You're in a freaking gold-plated treehouse full of wonderful, amazing people. Look at the revolution, Valley Forge, the Battle of New Orleans, the War of 1812, and Andrew Jackson and what they did down there. Do you have any idea what the unbelievable odds that have been overcome so you can sit in your room right now and play video games on the most advanced, you know, technological tools of our time? You have any idea what people suffered through?

15:54Folks, it is your job to teach your kids different. I've been bringing up these little historical tidbits every day. The Elon tweet yesterday about the Nazi Party being national socialists. They were national socialists who were concerned about basically collectivizing, collective power, the confiscation of the means of production, and overwhelming government force. That's not a conservative principle, bro. They were leftists. That's just a fact.

16:33Oh, yes. What is that? 415 L-M-N-E-T-T Limnets In the chat I listen every day Today's the first day live Vacation day from work Well welcome Brother or sister It's good to have you live The live show is the best Because I get to interact Flag this chat His Grace 67 Flag it Sibley says This is why your voice Is so important It's not just my voice It's Michael Knowles I promise you I appreciate that It means a lot I ain't the only voice out there And ain't is a word For the purpose of this Okay I'm not the only voice out there. There's a lot of them. But man, you should wake up every day, every single day.

17:17I'm not kidding. And manifest beautiful things in your life. And thank God, capital G God, for being born in this country at this time. While we're on roll with good news, more good news rolling out yesterday. in addition to the economy. I got that coming up in a little bit. Supreme Court vacated an Alabama ruling. Check this out in Politics and Poll Tracker. Breaking news, U.S. Supreme Court vacates Alabama district court order requiring the state to draw a congressional map with two majority black voting districts in a 6-2 decision. Alabama can now draw a more Republican-friendly map. We're probably going to get another GOP plus one.

17:57Point, point is this. Stop with the doom and gloom and just get out and vote. It's not you. You guys and ladies are great. You love this country. You'll fight for it. You're like, yeah, take a freaking nuclear war to stop me from voting in the midterms. It's the doomers and the fence sitters that are always finding something to complain about. There's good news every day. You see the jobs numbers yesterday? They just destroyed expectations. There's a ton of good things to vote for, man. A ton. You only focus on the bad stuff. That's all you're ever going to see. The placebo effect is real. The power of your mind is an incredible thing.

18:39Folks, the left, what we're fighting is we're fighting to get back to some compass with True North because we're not there anymore. You've seen it a little bit on people infiltrating on our side, too, that don't want you to trust anything. Anything. That's why I'm so happy Charlie's trial is going to be televised. I have no time for BS and nonsense. My compass points true north. And that's it. We are anchored in facts and reality. And that's all we're going to do. End the story. You want to get lost in the ecosystem of craziness? You know, with Erica Kirk conspiracy nonsense. Do your thing. But this is not the place for you.

19:18And that's okay. You do your own thing. You get a compass that one, open it once, it points north. The next time it points east. the next time. And it's always north. The east isn't north, okay? The left is seeing this right now. We do not want to become them. Every action is going to have a reaction, and you're seeing it in live time as faith in institutions absolutely collapses everywhere. And the left did this. They started it years ago. It wasn't even started with the Russia collusion hoax. It was started with the Bush v. Gore election, with the whole stolen election thing. George W. Bush stole the election from Al Gore.

19:56Some of you are old enough to remember that. That is not what happened, okay? Faith in institutions has been collapsing probably before then, but it's, I mean, definitely leveled up after the Bush v. Gore election. It hit peak redline bullshit with the Russia collusion hoax after the 2016 election of Donald Trump. And now, because the left has weaponized so many different institutions, from the DOJ to the FBI to the Pentagon to HHS to the EOP, Executive Office of the President. Everything has been weaponized for political reasons. People just don't trust anymore anything. Faith in institutions has been entirely eviscerated.

20:39We can't have that, folks, because again, if faith in institutions is eviscerated and you trust nothing, even the good guys who went and did their duty and are doing it now to clean the place up, then there's no point. You might as well just plead for anarchy and live by yourself in a tent somewhere. And believe me, you don't want that.

21:02We have to fix it. It is up to us to course correct. There's no other choice. What am I talking about? You may have seen this break yesterday. I got to tell you, even for the left, you may not find this shocking, but I did. This number was staggering in this Washington Post story. Many Americans think the Trump assassination attempts were fake. About one in four say the correspondence dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online. You're telling me 30 plus percent of Democrats think Donald Trump faked the White House correspondence dinner shooting?

21:43Do you have any idea the level of peak insanity we're talking about right now? That if you're in a group of 100 people, 30 to 33 of those people, if they're Democrats, believe the shooting was fake. Do you have any idea how freaking insane that is? Now you're seeing what action reaction looks like. The action went, the action by the left. Every election's been stolen. Every election, I take that back. Every election we lose has been stolen. By the Russians. By Jeb Bush in Florida. Do you remember Bush v. Gore? By the Florida Supreme Court.

22:20Donald Trump belongs in prison. Impeach him on a made-up BS line about a phone call. This is when faith in institutions collapses. Faith in institutions, excuse me. And this is what you get. Faith in institutions collapse, and this is what you get. You get no compass with a North Star. Here's another one. Look at his tweet. Unacceptably large numbers of people right now, very liberal Americans, say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3 % of very conservative Americans. This is bad but good. The bad news is you go in a room of 100 very liberal nutbags and 25 of them think it's okay to kick you in the freaking balls.

23:08That is not good. That is no bueno, man. The good news is you're only going to find three on the conservative side, and it shouldn't even be that. Folks, if we don't have a true north, you know, I know to all the lunatics on the left, the quarter of the very liberal population that thinks punching someone in the nuts or something, or God forbid, worse, which they've engaged in shooting and killing and murdering people is acceptable. You think that this society will take the thread and just pull it up, put a hole in the bottom of the boat.

23:49Folks, they did this through their persistent, persistent attacks on institutions. You look back at polls, you think I'm bullshitting you? Go back and look at old polls that, you know, faith in our military, faith in law enforcement, faith in the FBI. I knew what we were dealing with when we got there. I knew it. Make no mistake. Make no mistake. You look at old polls. People were like 80, 90 percent. FBI, military, law enforcement. And then the left started with their election denier bullshit. Don't trust anyone. Everyone in government's always stealing elections. This is a leftist thing. And you see.

24:32And then get the FBI and DOJ involved. then get the impeachment process going, then start weaponizing the Pentagon with all the COVID stuff, and everything collapses. They are the ones who did this. They are the ones who did this. You did not do this. I've been accused in all kinds of outlets of being like an election. I never denied an election happened. I just questioned the mass mail-in balloting in the 2020 election, given the propensity for fraud in mail-in balloting that the New York Times themselves has acknowledged in an article they wrote. I'm an election denier. I don't deny an election.

25:13The left are the ones who have fostered uncertainty. Here was Nancy Pelosi in an interview that was making the rounds again yesterday on social media. I want you to listen to this very clearly. You want to see why there's no compass with True North and why 25 % of the liberals out there Think political violence is OK, 33 percent. Think that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was staged. It's stuff like this. Check this out. So many things that you can do to protect the election. And they are being done, whether it's litigation or legislation or just mobilization, communication, all of that.

25:54But in addition to that, we have to be on guard as to what they may try to do to the technology. they may try to creep into the technology and create a false count. I don't, I don't, I don't, Justin, you were with us when, if you were mentioned the voting machines, you were banned from, remember that? You were banned from YouTube. There were like technology executions going on, summary technology executions before Elon bought Twitter. If you even mentioned that on Twitter, you were like sent to the Phantom Zone. Remember Superman 2 or something with Zod when they put them in the glass? That's where you were banished to, the glass phantom zone.

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26:39But there's Nancy Pelosi. Did she just not say that? You guys played the clip. Oh, you got to be careful. They're going to break into the vote. Are voting machines a problem or not? If they are, I don't care if Nancy Pelosi said so or not. We should check that out, all right? Looking at it in 2020 in Georgia going on right now. Mm-hmm. However, it's just kind of weird when Nancy Pelosi says it Say okay But God forbid you question it You definitely need to be banished To the glass screen phantom zone With Zod and the big tall guy And I forget the lady's name I only remember Zod for some reason She's not the only one She's not the only one The left did this You want to see why people don't trust elections Don't trust institutions Blame your local communist slash democrat because it's the same freaking thing.

27:31They hate this place. Anything they can do to diminish faith in people who are proud of this country, which is typically conservatives and Republicans, they will do. Anytime we win, they will try to destroy it. Here's Hakeem Jeffries, just a rotting, metastasizing cancer on the left. Here he is in a little montage here talking about, again, illegitimate presidents. Now you want to see why there's no compass true north and why nobody trusts institutions blame them not us check this out cloud of illegitimacy around the election of donald trump russia interfered with our election attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 pennsylvania avenue they were successful.

28:26There was clearly a cloud of illegitimacy hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that's growing bigger by the day.

28:40There's a cloud of illegitimacy that continues to hang over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

28:55So-called president of the United States. So-called president. So-called president. So-called president. Hat tip on XD Slopes is back. Got to give the creators their due. Thank you for that. That's Hakeem Jeffries. Again, why does nobody trust institutions? Thank your local Democrat.

29:19Here's one more gem, just to remind you Democrat jokers out there who've completely inverted history like AOC. Yeah, the revolution was fought to protect billionaires. You're an idiot.

29:33Republicans have destroyed faith in institutions. We've done no such thing. We've cleaned them up after you destroyed them. Here's Hillary Clinton saying the same and parroting the same BS line. You want to see why we have no compass true north anymore and nobody agrees on anything? Again, walk into your local Democrat office peacefully and patriotically and thank them for destroying faith in institutions. Check this out. He knows he's an illegitimate president. I think it's also critical to understand that, as I've been telling candidates who have come to see me, you can run the best campaign.

30:09You can even become the nominee. And you can have the election stolen from you. Folks, breaking this fever is going to take time. That's the only piece of not great news I have for you on the Republican side. There is no one better to break this fever than Donald Trump. and he knows it. Yes, Desert Rat 4865 in the chat. Projection accusing us of what they are doing. Correct, correct. Go to James Lindsay's work. Look up DARVO, D-A-R-V-O, and you'll see what they do. It's an inversion of all of it. It's a distraction from what they're doing while they try to steal your country away from you by evaporating faith in institutions.

30:51Ladies and gentlemen, without fidelity to our founding documents and our law, you have nothing but anarchy. The Constitution's not going to stop someone from robbing someone in the street. You don't just put up the Constitution like Captain America's shield. You have to believe in it. And the principle that the person you'd be robbing has an inalienable right to not be mugged and have the shit kicked out of them. Donald Trump was joking about this yesterday at TDS. This guy, I'm telling you, a guy could have a secondary career as a comedian when he's done. I know. The beginning of the show was heavy, but listen, when I'm in a mood, I just got to roll with it.

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34:41I never said it before. Here's Donald Trump yesterday in the Oval Office. He's doing a great job. I got to tell you, the idea, he's obviously being kind of a bit silly and funny. He's like, I got an idea to get things passed, this revolutionary idea that they can help people on the Democrat side get over their TDS. It's actually a pretty great idea, impractical, but an amazing idea. Check this out. Well, they suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, up, to be honest. They don't even know what they're looking at. They can't even see straight. But I have a new way out. I'm going to propose something the opposite of what I want, and we will have massive amounts of legislation.

35:19No, just all that to do is say, we will not build the wall. I'm going to go the opposite. Whatever is bad, I'm going to go for it, They'll approve what's good, finally. No, they've got serious Trump derangement syndrome, which actually is a disease. I'm hearing it is actually a disease. Whether it's a functional virus or not, I am unsure. I am not a virologist. I don't know what the R-naught or lethality would be of the TDS virus or even if it's real. I will tell you this, though. He's joking, obviously, but you and I know damn well what he's saying is true. If Donald Trump were to come out tomorrow and say, you know what, we're never building the wall under any circumstances.

36:06I will not allocate another dollar of public funds to this wall. The Democrats would come out and accuse him of being against public safety. It's just true. It's just true. They don't there's no guiding principle compass true north on the left at all. None. Everything they do, ladies and gentlemen, is a dance like that Tennessee guy. everything they do is a performance by they i mean the left i'm really sorry but that's just a fact again shrouded his opinion but it's a fact it's based in fact everything they do is a performance they will lick their finger see where the winds go oh i saw this this was great tds the treatment trusting in trump listen to national anthem limit fake news don't be a panic and i saw Is that from the White House?

36:56There's your car. Maybe Dr. Oz wrote that script. Folks, everything the left does is a freaking dance. It's all performative. It's all bullshit. All the time. Here, I want to show you this clip of Raphael Warnock, a really awful senator in Georgia. I don't get it. I don't understand. I don't get how Georgia is stuck with these two absolute zeros in the Senate. To my Georgia friends, please. They got to go, man. We got to do better in the next election with him. Ossoff's up now. He's got a whole bunch of problems with the SPLC and elsewhere. Vote him out. Here's Raphael Warnock. I want you to pay very close attention to this.

37:49This is what I'm talking about. by leftists and progressives being all about performance and the dance and never about actual spreadsheets and results, ever. Listen to him call out how, just like AOC, the system, the system is rigged. What system? You're in charge, bro. You're in charge. What are you talking about? Check this out. Everyday people know that the system is stacked against them. They know it in their bones, and they don't always have the words, you know, that we want to use. They know it. Do they feel like they can change it? They feel it. Yeah, I think that's the thing. Do people feel empowered to change it?

38:32And I do think that there are a lot of people who feel powerless, which is why they signed up for Donald Trump. You asked me that question earlier. Let me ask it, answer it more directly. I think that there are people, and I do think it's overstated, that Donald Trump didn't have this huge slew of black men voting for them. I think part of that was a game they played during the election in 24. I think they were trying to create a permission structure, a bandwagon, so people would jump on it. But there were no overwhelming. One is too many, but there weren't any overwhelming numbers of black men voting for Donald Trump.

39:07Okay. It's the part of the show where, I don't know, maybe it'd be controversial. I don't know. The only reason it'd be controversial is because it's true. Liberals never want to hear this. Can I just talk for a second? I'm not talking to everyone, but specifically to viewers of my show who are black and Hispanic. Do you understand how effed you guys and ladies are getting right now by guys like this? The system's keeping you down. The system. If you're doing a probability equation and you live in a majority or even where there's a decent size plurality of black or Hispanic voters, there is a very good chance, an overwhelming chance, that the mayor of the town or city you live in is a Democrat.

40:00Baltimore, all kinds of other places, there is a damn good chance you're being led by Democrats. So that's the system. That's the system, correct? You live in a governing system he's talking about. So I pulled some numbers. I went to Grok because I figured, you know, we should use a non-insane AI once in a while. I went to Grok and I asked it a simple question. This is a screenshot of my phone, my actual phone. Of the top 20 highest crime rate cities in the U.S., how many are led by Republican mayors or executives? Figured I'd broaden out, you know county executive or whatever it is so it had to think a minute key what number did it come up with he's like it came up with something that looks like a donut it's a zero a freaking zero dear senator warnock leave this up key that's the system you are the system zero of the top 20 highest crime rate cities by violent crime per 100 000 residents are led by Republican mayors.

41:06I'm sorry. It's not funny at all. The tragically comical part is that people fall for this on Pod Save America, the left leaning podcast show that, by the way, has a huge audience, too. These guys are they're not irrelevant. They have a massive audience. Top five everywhere. People listen to this stuff. There are people out there listening to Raphael Warnock. Not just black and Hispanic voters, young, white, impressionable voters too. Yeah, bro, the system really effed me over. They're the system, the Democrats. You are dying in these high crime areas, not because of Republicans. We're not in charge down there.

41:47You did not vote us in. You voted in Democrats for generations that have given you this. They've given you shit. At what point do you say, I demand accountability? What company, what baseball team, what football team would you allow to lose every single game for every year or company to never turn a profit without turning over the leadership? No one. So why are you doing it in these towns, cities and municipalities where your kids are being gunned down? The economy is shit. The GDP growth is terrible. The jobs are terrible. And your supermarket is like a bodega or a corner store. Why are you allowing this to happen without a leadership turnover?

42:30Anyone? Josh, why? You're here. You shouldn't have walked out. Tell me why. He doesn't know why. Nobody knows why. He's like, I don't know, Dan. By the way, someone should tell Communist Representative Premier Jayapal that Seattle is one of these places that's been led by far-left Democrats for a very long time. has a crazy lunatic, Katie Wilson, whatever her name, in charge now. Premier Jayapal put this out the other day. Seattle's got one of the worst housing crises in the country. I see it every time I'm in my home district. People can't afford rent. This is a policy failure, not an inevitability.

43:13We built this crisis by choosing developers over people. We can choose differently. This is hilarious. as if the Democrats have not run Seattle into the ground. Is she unaware of that? Pramila Jayapal, did you miss this? Oh, thank you, guys. As of May 2026, Seattle has not elected a Republican mayor in over five decades. You're the system, Pramila Jayapal! Guys, I can't take the inversion in rewriting a history, man. Teach, remember that song, teach your children? You have to go out and teach your kids this. These places that have descended into crime-infested economic hellholes are run by Democrats and have been for generations.

44:03They are the system. You want to go fight the man? They're the man. You want to go fight the system? They're the system. They're the system. That's why I say, oh, this may sound like it. It's not an opinion. It's based in fact. Seattle is not led by Republicans. The top 20 cities for crime are not led by Republicans. That's not Dan's opinion. That is a freaking fact, objectively. That is an objective fact. You want to see what it looks like, by the way, when younger folks get the truth just slams them right in the face? I saw this video making the rounds on social yesterday. It's a Canadian woman.

44:51And she hears this statistic that the overwhelming majority of crime, which I've told you over and over, this is not a crime-infested country, the United States. The Democrats want you to believe that so that they don't have to take responsibility for the pockets of the country they run that are crime-infested. So they want you to believe crime is everywhere. It is not. Jasmine, on the way to work, how many carjackings have you witnessed? Zero. She's giving us the zero sign. She's like, big donut, Dan. It is not everywhere. The Democrats and their blue cities own the crime problem. This is what it looks like when a Canadian young lady gets red-pilled, figuring out that this statistic she saw is pretty close to accurate.

45:40Just watch this video. Check this out. Canadian I was 100 % led to believe that America was just dangerous all over the place and you were just gonna dodge bullet the second that you walked outside of the house. So fun fact, this statistic right here just changed how I view everything. It's true. One study found that over half of all murders in the United States happen in just 2 % of the counties. Now let's think about that for a second. The United States of America has over 3 ,000 counties and a majority of murders are concentrated in a tiny fraction of them. Meanwhile, over half of the U.S. counties had zero murders and around 68 % of counties had either zero or one murder for the entire year.

46:24So what does that mean? That means that the violence people see on TV and in the media is incredibly geographically concentrated. It's not evenly spread all over the United States like you're told and people imagine. And as a matter of fact, a huge percentage of violent crime is tied to very specific areas. Gang activity, drug activity, repeat offenders, trafficking, and poverty-heavy urban pockets. That's the only Canadian bacon on TikTok. She's correct about the general premise of the video. Crime is not pervasive in the United States. Crime is pervasive in cities and towns run by Democrats like Dancing Guy in Tennessee, who's supposed to be looking after Tennessee and Memphis and is busy dancing.

47:12I never heard a word from this guy in the FBI. Not a word, Justin Pearson. Not a peep. While we were doing Operation Viper, cleaning up Memphis. This is this broken windows policing. This is why it worked. This is what they're dancing. This is everything they do is a performance. Everything. Guys, listen. I'm not an evangelist, okay? I'm just a guy who gets pissed off at stupid stuff. I'm not telling you, again, that the Republican Party has all the answers all the time. We've got our own knuckleheads in our party. Believe me, I get it. I'm just telling you that you haven't even given the worst Republican a shot because you've had Democrats in charge for 60 years.

48:02You can't even blame the worst Republican out there because you've never elected one. no less a good one like a Rudy Giuliani went and cleaned up New York. You know how many people are alive today because of Rudy Giuliani and what he did in New York City? I say this all the time to people when they ask me about how he crushed violent crime in 2025. Best year the FBI ever had. Ever. By far. Murder rate down double digits. And the answer is really simple. How many murderers do you know? The answer is probably none. Why? Because it's very rare. Once you find people who are in gangs who will kill people, assassinate people and do other things, gang murders and you pull them off the street, they don't kill people.

48:53There's not a lot of them. This is not a country plagued by violence. That's a left-wing talking point. And it's an attempt to remove responsibility from the AOCs, the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, the Justin Pearsons of the world, and others who are in charge of areas where pockets of crime are out of control, and they want you to believe the problem's everywhere when it's not. This administration, President Trump, J.D., Marco Rubio, Cash, Todd, they are absolutely tip of the spear problem is public safety for them, and they're going to clean it up. Broken windows policing, however, is not just limited to violent crime.

49:36Ladies and gentlemen, white collar crime is a big deal in this country, too. Crypto scams, everything. People lose their livelihoods. Vice President Vance is now in charge of this task force That's a big deal When you put the Vice President in charge of something Believe me, he is a results-oriented guy You do not want to be at the FBI, DEA, or elsewhere He's in charge And then they ask, what'd you do this week? Ah, nothing, I was sitting on my ass That's not the way that's going to roll That's how important this fraud scheme in Minnesota, California And other states, it's all over the country Florida and elsewhere, we have that problem too Is to the President, he put J.D.

50:10Vance in charge He did an interview essay with Nick Shirley. Here's a quick cut from the interview. This is important because there's a couple of things I want to point out about this interview that should ring your bell. Check this out. Now that we have the fraud task force here inside the United States, what will you guys be doing different than something that we haven't done before to tackle fraud here? Well, two really big things, Nick. So the first of all is we're going to be coordinating across the government in a way that's really never been done before to focus on anti-fraud. So let's say, for example, that Scott Besson or somebody at the Secretary of Treasury's office sees a fraudulent payment made, but it's not, you know, it's not at the Treasury Department.

50:43It's at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid. There's going to be coordination now so that when one person in the government sees fraud happening, they're actually telling everybody else so that we can get to the root of it and hopefully prosecute it. And that leads me to my second point, and maybe the most important is we've never before within the Department of Justice had a committed anti-fraud task force, a committed assistant attorney general who's focused on the fraud issue. What our new AAG focus on fraud has told me that right now we don't even prosecute fraud that's under$1.5 million, which means there's a lot of fraudsters who never get caught, who never get punished.

51:19We're changing that too. I don't want to read another bullshit article from the left wing media that, oh, they're pushing violent crime. They're letting property crime go. They are not. They are not. Three points about this. J.D. Vance is the vice president. He's in charge. I'm telling you, I haven't worked in the government. When you're answering to the vice president's office, you better have a damn answer like every freaking day about what you did. Number one. Number two, he's not wrong about the coordination. They have meetings in the White House Situation Room, in the skiffs down there all the time.

51:49You get the deputies and the principals in a room, everybody's and you'll have like a Miller or Tony Salisbury. They'll be sitting at the front of the table and you better you better produce something. You better not come in there with like, oh, you know, I don't know nothing about nothing about that. That's not the way this works. And in third, he brought up a great point. There are these things in the in the executive branch under DOJ called blanket declinations. If a property crime doesn't reach a certain amount of money, it's really hard to prosecute it federally because they just don't have a lot of United States attorneys.

52:25That was probably too high. And you mentioned like one million. So when you bump that down, that's going to be more people who can get flushed into the federal system, which is a lot harder on property crime. These are big things are big things that are happening. But again, it's going to take time, folks, to reestablish faith in government because the Democrats are doing everything they can to invert history. Get your kids to hate this clubhouse America we belong to. They're doing everything they can to lie to them about eat the rich. The rich don't pay their fair share. Government health care is the solution.

52:54Go government health care. People don't even like to go to the government for the freaking DMV to get their driver's license. You want some government official telling you when you can crack your chest open because you just had a heart attack? Yeah, good luck with that shit. The Democrats just got smoked in this Virginia redistricting effort where they tried to gerrymander the state and basically destroy any Republican representation for the state of Virginia. John Turley is a pretty great lawyer. He does some commentary for Fox. He was talking about this on Fox the other day, how the Democrats, you would think they would, if they were sane, which they're not, you would think they would now back down and realize that their own Supreme Court smoked them.

53:36But that's not what they're doing because we're not dealing with sane people. We're dealing with irrational actors. And if you don't understand that, you're fighting the wrong fight. Check this out. SAC and PAC proposal really captures this age of rage. It captures the fact that now many on the left are saying that we will win by any means necessary. And this is a very important issue for Hakeem Jeffries. He's very unpopular with most people in the country, but he hopes to be the next speaker of the United States. But in order to do that, he's got to engineer a majority. He's got to get Democrats there in the House to vote for him.

54:14HE'S WATCHING THAT EVAPORATE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO THESE RADICAL IDEAS ARE NOTHING NEW, BUT I THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY OF THESE SAME VOICES HAVE BEEN SAYING PUBLICLY THAT THEY WILL PACK THE SUPREME COURT AS WELL. AS SOON AS THEY TAKE POWER, MANY DEMOCRATIC PUNDITS AND POLITICIANS HAVE SAID THAT THEY WANT TO PACK THE SUPREME COURT TO CREATE AN INSTANT LIBERAL MAJORITY. IT'S THE SAME MINDSET OF BY ANY means necessary. No institution, no value is truly sacred. Folks, they are not messing around. They are not messing around the left. They are not kidding. Why is this important right now, right now, this second?

54:58Because the SAVE Act and the filibuster are being held on to, excuse me, like clung to like a koala bear, like clings to the mama bear, by institutional Republicans who are somehow convinced that they're dealing with the old Democrat Party, like the old Tip O 'Neill, Reagan, you know, halcyon days, which weren't really true, but they talk about all the time. You know my five-point plan. Dump the filibuster, pass the SAVE Act, reform the census, get the redistricting under control, and control the border. The country will change forever. However, notice the two of those. We have got to dump the filibuster.

55:37I can't understand. Maybe the Democrats in the Senate are telling Republicans in the Senate, trust me, bro. I don't know. I have no reason to believe any of that's actually true. These institutionalists are holding on. Maybe it's lobbyists. I don't know. To a filibuster relic. Remember, the House, you just need a majority. It's very simple. You don't need a majority in the Senate You need a filibuster-proof majority If we had a majority in the Senate The Republicans, which we do now We have the numbers Over 50, we have enough We could pass the SAVE Act If we didn't have to get past the filibuster hurdle But they're holding on to it Because they're under this ridiculous belief That the Democrats are not going to scrap the filibuster When they're saying the exact opposite Remember what Turley just said Sack and pack Sack.

56:29Sack the justices, pack the court. Sack the justices, pack the court. That's what they're trying to do in Virginia. That's what they're going to do the second they take power. They've already said it. No, they haven't. You got Hakeem Jeffries number two? Don't listen to me. Dan, you're crazy. Am I? Okay. Maybe you think I'm crazy. Is Hakeem Jeffries crazy too? Here's Hakeem Jeffries talking about radical measures when they get in charge to do exactly what I just said, and basically hijack power, take power of all three levers of government back. Check this out. We've got to, for instance, make sure we pass the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act so we can end the era of voter suppression in the United States of America once and for all.

57:11We have to end Citizens United, dramatically reform our campaign finance laws to stop the ability of these deep-pocketed special interests to intervene. And we are going to have to explore massive judicial reform state by state and at the federal level. And everything should be on the table as far as I'm concerned. You just listen to a man. I don't do the guys in the Senate, the Republicans in the Senate and the ladies on the Republican side. Do you know something we don't? They are openly talking about stealing back institutions by engaging in malfeasance. It's the second they were charged. They're going to do everything they can.

57:54Everything. They're going to try to add new states. They're going to pack the Supreme Court. Dumping the filibuster isn't malfeasance. It's just a rule change. But they're going to do it. They're already talking about it. How much more do you need? What else do you need to hear? Things should be on the table as far as I'm concerned. You think this is going to stop them? Here's a guy running in Maine. This guy, Graham Plattner. This is the Nazi tattoo guy running on the Democrat ticket. You really believe this guy who made some really inappropriate comments about the sexual assault, women and all this stuff.

58:28This is their guy now in Maine. You think this is going to be the guy who's going to protect the institution? Oh, we got to protect the institution, not dump the filibuster. Listen to this audio interview he did where he's asked about the Nazi tattoo. Nazi tattoo. If a Republican was running with a Nazi tattoo, they would tar and feather his ass. They love this guy, however, because why? because they'll invert everything they have no principles they don't care about any of this stuff they care about the raw exercise of weaponized power that is it check this out what's been the worst part or some of the worst parts people insisting that i was a nazi yeah that was fun that was that was a real a real special fucking moment in my life yeah and and then also this kind of this sort of conflation with like saying stupid shit on the internet as being like somehow like this irreparable thing that is going to so obviously must mean exactly who you are.

59:28I'm like, what the fuck, man? And the thing is, I don't know any normal people that actually think like that. You know, like it's because it's kind of nuts. You think this guy is going to protect the institution? Him, Raphael Warnock, Liz Warren? Are you serious? Bernie Sanders? I don't understand, guys. I get it. I'm trying to focus our political fire in the right direction here to make sure that we can marshal our resources and not spread ourselves too thin. But you really believe that this crop of Democrat senators they have in there now, outside of Fetterman, they're all lunatics. Let me take a quick break and I want to show you something else here.

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1:02:34The man, Rage Against the Machine, whatever. The machine is run by liberals, okay? Blue City mayors, the momdamis, Karen Bass. They're running these places into the ground. So I'm reading this op-ed about education spending in New York yesterday. And listen, I'm a big school choice advocate. So I follow the data pretty well. But this blew me away. So was it Jeff Yasu wrote this? A Wall Street Journal. It's about school spending. They are spending in New York$42 ,000 per student. Yeah, Jeff Yass. The article is called Momdami Can Make Moms into Millionaires. $42 ,000 per student. Jeff Yass says, I got an idea.

1:03:20How about we take that$21 ,000 and we give it to the parents to just pick a school? You're like, well, that's not$42 ,000. That's him. So he says we're going to take the$21 ,000 Put in a real account The other half For which the child is the sole beneficiary If it returns only 2 % A 2 % return That's not hard folks 2 % Invest in a T-bill You'll get more than that If it returns 2 % over the next 13 years The child will graduate high school With$300 ,000 Enough for college Trade school Or a down payment on home Given$300 ,000 to a graduate who can read, write, do math, and adios to the affordability crisis.

1:04:03No more need for$30 million government grocery stores, free buses, or rent control. He notes, this is what hit me. This solution is such an obvious win. I'm confident Mr. Mamdami, once he hears it, will agree and change the policy. He's being sarcastic. Obviously, he will not. Why will Mamdami not change the policy? Because it's not about the money. It's not about the education. It is about power. And when the locus of control changes from government controlling the money and sending your kid to a shit school back to a parent who gets their tax money back, and now the parent is the locus of control, the whole essence of collectivism, government control, centralized government power, leftist socialism, progressive liberal communist bullshit falls apart because it doesn't work if they can't control the resources.

1:04:51The resources Yases are the power. Yases being sarcastic for a reason. $42 ,000 a student? What the are you doing with that money, bro?

1:05:08Or you could trust in good conservative leadership, like this new MAGA movement, where we got an unbelievably good job number. Now, I'm going to play this Peter St. Ange Club about the job numbers, but I want you to listen to this part of it. This part's important because the AOCs and the others in the imbecile class want you to believe that the Trump economic revolution here is only benefited the billionaires. That's not what the job numbers that just popped huge showed at all. This has been more of a blue collar revolution, construction and other areas. Ladies and gentlemen, those are just the numbers.

1:05:48I know on the left that makes you uncomfortable that the Republican Party and the MAGA movement is now the party of the middle class, while you're the party of the rich, you know, white Karens who are sitting there bitching and moaning all the time, watching AOC videos about the billionaires and all this other dumb shit. Listen to Peter St. Ange. That's fantastic work on economics, job numbers, financial, just amazing stuff on the jobs numbers. Check this out. The American economy added 115 ,000 jobs last month, crushing expectations of just 65. Considering our labor force is actually shrinking, deport baby, deport that is pure profit.

1:06:30Mainstream media was hardest hit, partly because AP journalists are losing their jobs to chat GPT, so for them it is a jobs Armageddon. But also because legacy media has been praying to the Ouija board for a Trump crash, hoping Saturn will finally punish the peasants. Not today, Saturn. In raw numbers, the VLS said we gained 115 ,000 jobs in April, taking average payrolls this year to 76 ,000 a month in gains, which is about double last year's pace. That left the unemployment rate unchanged at a tame 4.3%, where it's been for roughly a year. The biggest jump was 84 ,000 blue-collar jobs with growth in construction, manufacturing, retail, transport, warehousing, mining, and utilities.

1:07:17Sounds like a blue-collar revolution to me, only if you believe in facts and data and not AOC, like, oh, the billionaires did it. Maybe stop thinking about the billionaires and start worrying about your own constituents in your own life. You ever try that once in a while? Now, because the show does facts and not bullshit, there was some not so great news. The inflation number came in a little bit hot. We're not near Biden levels, thankfully, the peak at 9 % he hit. But it did come in a little bit hot, which the president's acknowledged a lot of its fuel prices from what's going on in Iran. But that's expected to wrap up hopefully relatively soon, just going by his words.

1:08:02and we'll get a hold of that. But notice how the left can't do any of that. All they want to feed you is their horse shit all the time. A couple more things I want to get to. President Trump is headed to China for what is going to be an extremely important meeting with our most significant world rival. There's a really, really great piece, if you're interested, by Thomas Dusterberg in Wall Street Journal, Trump heads to Beijing with a strong hand. Just a couple of points on this, folks. to the fatalistic doomers out there who are constantly telling us, these are the same people who told us the Soviet Union was going to bury us.

1:08:39China's a big concern. I've told you that over and over. Zero doubt about it. Some of their ability through technology to surveil us, to infiltrate a lot of our infrastructure is very concerning. They have an enormous population, a rather large military. The weaponry is sophisticated enough to cause significant problems. There's no doubt. However, this article is great because, again, just like I did, I gave you the good news and the bad news. The good news, there is, I just gave you the bad news. The good news is this. A couple of points in that piece. China's in the midst of an enormous demographic decline due to their one-child policy, which was a disaster.

1:09:20Their unemployment rate is actually quite high. Their local governments are bankrupt in garbage money and loans they've lent out to just to juice up the economy with shitty garbage, you know, non, you know, hurdle rate producing projects. They have a massive amount of debt and keep endlessly printing new money. The only reason they don't have runaway inflation is because it's an isolated, walled off economy, which is a whole different set of problems. No investor wants to invest there. You can never pull your money out. They're theft economy, stealing our technology. You can't build an economy because to steal technology, it has to be invented first.

1:10:04You ever go to business school, Porter's Five Forces, there's a first mover advantage? You may say, Dan, them stealing is a big problem. It's a huge problem. But it also means they have to steal something that has to be invented first. And when you're the first mover, we have the advantage. And the biggest problem China has, which President Trump knows, is they can't feed themselves. And they're not sitting on pools of oil and liquid natural gas like we are. They can't do any of that, feed or power themselves. So don't listen to the doom and gloom class that always wants you to believe or, you know, all going to be speaking Mandarin in 10 years.

1:10:40I can't stand that stuff. Yes, there's a lot to be concerned about. There's also a lot of good things and a lot of power levers President Trump has. And he's not going to be bullied by Xi Jinping, I promise you. That's not his bag of donuts. You know, I love my health hacks. So here's today's Maha moment of the day. I am absolutely committed to making America healthy again. I just got one of my scans I do every couple of years just to make sure everything is OK. So I'm kind of anxiously awaiting the results of that. But I saw this post yesterday on Twitter, and this is kind of an easy one for you.

1:11:17Vivek Gupta put this out there. Ladies and gentlemen, never, ever skip leg day. I see this all too often with people who start working out. Listen, guys are doing their 10 squats an hour. Guy's doing them right now. Obviously, make sure you can work out first. See your doctor. Get your blood pressure checked. Do all that stuff. However, if you are capable and you can resistance train, weight train, whatever you want to call it, Do not skip leg day. I get it when you're hanging out at the sandbar down in Jupiter or something like that. You're in the waist deep water, which is higher sometimes than a Jupiter sandbar.

1:11:53You got to take like a paddleboard. Nobody sees your leg. It doesn't matter. Your legs are almost 50 % of your muscle mass. I have a really, really horrendous left knee. It is like the arthritis in there is bad. And I still train legs twice a week. You gotta do it, man Those muscles are like repositories Of amino acids, glucose dumping systems You have a bunch of excess sugar floating around your system You gotta train legs I would argue to you if If you had an exercise gun to your head And they said you have to train one thing or the other Legs or upper body I would actually prefer legs Of course you should do both Do not skip leg day They are huge, enormous muscles You gotta train them Go check out, there are a thousand videos out there On Rumble and ScrewTube and elsewhere You can pick out Instagram Go to any fitness coach They'll tell you how to, you know, squats, leg presses Leg extensions, leg curls Gotta train legs, super important Big, huge muscles And you don't want to lose your balance as you get older You know what the leading cause of death is For people over 70 and 80 Falls, because they have weak legs And they can't balance themselves, don't do that There's your Maha moment for the day.

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