In short
Dan Bongino argues that political and media figures use “faith” and “suspension of disbelief” to sell implausible narratives, leading to ideological “revenge” against the public. He focuses on the Cambridge professor Jason Arday and claims that his extraordinary life story was accepted without rigorous verification, then compares the backlash to fictional “based on a true story” marketing (e.g., Texas Chainsaw Massacre). He also discusses broader “deception” tactics, including alleged cooperation between Islamists and leftists, and urges listeners not to be demoralized or manipulated.
Guest backgrounds
No guests appear in this episode transcript; it’s primarily Bongino speaking with occasional chat references.
Key claims
Doomers/grifters demoralize people to make them believe they’re “vanquished.” Left-leaning institutions allegedly reward inspiring but unverified stories. Cambridge allegedly appointed Arday despite questionable claims; journalists were allegedly deterred via legal threats. Bongino claims Islamists and communists share a plan to replace freedom gradually (“boiling frog” approach).
Notable examples
Jason Arday’s alleged locked-in syndrome miracle; cancer story inconsistencies; being attacked by kids and later becoming their godfather/teacher; suicide attempt stopped after an Eagles song; shaman prediction from Brazil; Cambridge appointment praise; BBC/Times Higher Education reporter Jack Grove harassment investigation; Carter Ruck letter; “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” “based on a true story” comparison; Amy Klobuchar and “order at the border” audience laughter clip; Abdul El-Sayed polling among college towns vs working-class voters; Hassan Piker campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOThe Power of Belief Against Adversity
0:45 to 3:43
Discussing the importance of belief and resilience in the face of negativity and challenges.
“I get it with like the doomers and the grifters and everything sucks all the time.”
The Negative Information Cycle
3:43 to 5:17
Explaining how constant negative information can lead to a sense of defeat.
“I don't know, this guy, Donald Trump, you ever heard of him?”
The Negative Information Cycle
5:26 to 6:35
Explaining how constant negative information can lead to a sense of defeat.
“Also, ammo squared to all those Second Amendment supporters out there who believe in the God-given right to self-protection.”
The Negative Information Cycle
6:40 to 6:51
Explaining how constant negative information can lead to a sense of defeat.
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Frank Fugazi and August 8th Significance
6:51 to 8:06
A humorous take on Frank Fugazi and the significance of August 8th.
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Addressing Misconceptions and Ignorance
8:06 to 10:24
Critiquing former FBI leadership and addressing misconceptions about political events.
“But in honor of Frank Fugazi's ridiculous comment that Donald Trump wanted to celebrate Hitler on August 8th by lowering a flag to half-mast when he meant half-staffed because he's too stupid to know the difference.”
The Golden Era of American Politics
10:24 to 14:00
Discussing the positive changes in American politics and the need for belief in progress.
“Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.”
The Emotional Impact of Fiction
14:00 to 16:06
Discover why we emotionally connect with fictional stories despite knowing they're not real.
“Because we voluntarily suspend our disbelief.”
The Astonishing Story of Jason Arday
16:10 to 18:56
Explore the unbelievable claims surrounding Jason Arday's rise at Cambridge University.
“This is a stunning story out of the United Kingdom, Cambridge University, who hired the youngest PhD black professor in their history.”
The Role of Suspended Disbelief in Believing Stories
18:58 to 23:14
Understand how the left's suspension of disbelief affects acceptance of incredible narratives.
“But because the left suspends disbelief in their right, they know this sounds like a movie, but they've got to suspend disbelief because the story was amazing.”
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The Investigation into Jason Arday's Claims
23:15 to 27:18
Learn about the calls for an investigation into the validity of Arday's story and its implications.
“immersed having this emotional experience, you know, it's fake, but you want to believe it's real because you want to be inspired, right?”
The Danger of Accepting Unverified Narratives
27:19 to 28:00
Examine how easily misinformation can spread through unverified narratives in media.
“They throw out a bunch of information and then you go, oh, that's interesting.”
Introduction to AI and Social Commentary
28:00 to 29:51
Explore Dan's humorous commentary on AI and societal issues, likening them to horror films.
“No, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not a real story.”
The Art of Deception and Political Commentary
29:51 to 31:28
Discusses the theme of deception in politics, particularly focusing on radical ideologies.
“I want to talk next about the art of deception, Takiyah.”
The Art of Deception and Political Commentary
31:33 to 33:04
Discusses the theme of deception in politics, particularly focusing on radical ideologies.
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Analyzing Political Deception in Society
33:22 to 38:32
Continues the discussion on deception in politics, using real-world examples and reactions.
“That's why I titled today's show Revenge.”
The Implications of Radical Ideologies
38:32 to 42:00
Explores the dangers of radical ideologies and their long-term effects on society.
“The enemies only vanquished when they believe themselves so.”
The Script to Our Destruction
42:00 to 44:24
Dan discusses the alarming political script being presented to society.
“it's not astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah to substitute the sharia.”
The Youth and Political Propaganda
44:24 to 46:58
Dan reflects on youth susceptibility to political propaganda and ideology.
“Because I'm not interested in intraparty.”
The Truth about Wealth and Politics
46:58 to 49:37
Exploration of misconceptions regarding wealth and political narratives.
“Abdul Asayyad did very poorly amongst these groups in the primary.”
The Unholy Alliance
49:37 to 56:05
Dan discusses the dangerous alliance between extremist ideologies and its implications.
“I don't even want to stain the name of Joey Bag of Donuts with this.”
The Nature of Political Lies
56:19 to 1:00:18
Discussion about the extent and impact of lies in politics, particularly from Democrats.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the degree of the lie matters, okay?”
The Chaos Agenda of the Left
1:00:18 to 1:04:28
Analysis of how the left uses chaos to undermine societal stability and promote their agenda.
“If you're young, you don't have to fall for this.”
Generational Warfare and Manipulation
1:04:28 to 1:10:02
Exploration of how younger generations are being manipulated to hate their predecessors.
“There's nothing they want more than for your streets to be full of chaos.”
Reflection on Historical Hardships
1:10:02 to 1:11:17
Discusses the misconceptions about the struggles faced during the Great Depression.
“But pretending your grandparents, my grandparents who have since passed, who lived through the Great Depression, had it easy, is laughable.”
Democrat Zen Moment Introduction
1:11:17 to 1:11:59
Introduction to a lighthearted segment featuring a Democrat Zen moment curated by producer Jim.
“So to leave you in a good mood because it's Friday, producer Jim always gives us on Friday our Democrat Zen moment of the day and therefore of the week to put you in a good mood.”
Unbelievable Democrat Zen Clip
1:11:59 to 1:13:00
Reaction to a bizarre comment from a Democrat, questioning its authenticity.
“Nobody wants to live in a country full of hate.”
Audience Poll and Reactions
1:13:00 to 1:14:25
Engaging with the audience about the authenticity of the clip, leading to a lively debate.
“By the way, if you're listening to Apple and Spotify, just go to the end of the show and watch that clip.”
Comment of the Day Contest
1:14:25 to 1:15:09
Explains the rules for winning the comment of the day and features a humorous listener submission.
“Join the chat every day The live chat 10 a.m.”
Family Atmosphere and Listener Engagement
1:15:09 to 1:16:15
Highlights the show’s aim to create a family-friendly environment and the loyalty of its listeners.
“By the way, how did you, when you, when you do the potty training, you do it like with, you have to give them like a reward.”
Family Atmosphere and Listener Engagement
1:16:20 to 1:16:33
Highlights the show’s aim to create a family-friendly environment and the loyalty of its listeners.
“You can always check out Vince every morning at 8 a.m.”
Villain Roster Discussion
1:16:33 to 1:17:47
Discusses the ongoing villain roster and invites audience nominations for new entries.
“If you guys tuned out, no, put that up again.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. You know, when I first started this show, I grew up in New York City, for those of you who don't know. I think it's fairly obvious, given the remnants of my still Queens, New York City accent. But when I grew up in New York City, there was a morning show. Z100, 100.3 on the dial, was the most popular station in New York. That's when people were still listening to radio as one of the only audio mediums. There were no podcasts or anything like that back in the 80s. I wouldn't even know what a podcast was. But they had this Z Morning Zoo.
0:45It was a morning show. and the thing about the Z Morning Zoo was it Elliot and the other guy in the morning everybody listened to it felt like one big family listening to the radio at the same time and even though you weren't around the kitchen table together millions of people lived in Queens you just kind of felt like it so my goal for this show was always to have that kind of family feel to it where we all kind of don't really know each other but we know each other like I look in the chat I know Lisa R I know the McGroin crew I all yeah Holden Anita all of you I feel like I have this personal relationship with Star Wars fan like I've seen you guys in there forever and ladies right so it's always refreshing to me that through all the ups and downs and the wars on me and the show and I've got this conglomerate of just total a-holes that hates my guts the left-wing media the doomers the grifters that never trumpers are they just hate my guts they always have that despite that we continue to plug along when i see things like i saw mlw 960 in the chat this morning hardcore kind of p1 uh citation in the chat he was talking about how an enemy isn't vanquished until he believes it to be so that was a the uh famous a Roman poet, Anais, before Christ, of course, who had written that down, that I always suggested that you need to apply that to you.
2:22I get it with like the doomers and the grifters and everything sucks all the time. Everything's horrible. It is really hard not to go along with the current thing. I understand. I get it. I see it on X. I'm there all day. But folks, nobody votes for a depression agenda. They just don't. I'm not telling you to ignore the problems in this country that still need to be fixed. Obviously, we got to get a lid on some of the inflation, the government spending, Iran still going on. We got to get a lid on that. But just this constant, constant abating of you with negative information, with no context of the positive information, is a demoralization up that wants you to believe you're vanquished.
3:11An enemy isn't vanquished until they believe themselves to be so. I mean, it's been the history of warfare in this century, where even a superpower like us, you've seen it. You're seeing it now. You have to break them, and they're trying to break you. They want you to believe you're vanquished. We've been through it all together, man. We've been through the Obama years. This show's been around a long time. It's not going anywhere until we decided so, okay? for whatever reason that may be the show not going anywhere we're not going to be pressured by lunatics to not do a show you can kiss my ass okay but we've been through it before we've been through the Obama years do you guys remember at all Josh do you remember when Obama won re-election folks I was running in that campaign the level of depression in the Republican party was like nothing I've ever seen everybody was telling you it was over it's over it's over But a lot of people like you didn't believe they were vanquished.
4:13And what happened? I don't know, this guy, Donald Trump, you ever heard of him? Trump? Justin's like, once or twice, big guy kind of does that dance. He's like, stop with the doom and gloom. It takes an act of faith to believe the country's in worse shape than when your grandparents were fighting in World War II. And I don't mean faith in a positive way. I'm going to show you what I mean today. Did you hear this story of this Cambridge professor? If you haven't heard this story, like why are we talking about this in the beginning of the show? If you want to see what it looks like to impart the language of religion on political ideology, which is what the left does.
4:51They have no examples of socialism success. All they ask you is have faith in it. Just believe the bumper sticker, coexist tolerance. Can you show me where any of this works? No, I can't. Just have faith. When you impart the language of religion on political ideology, the left is what happens. And this case to the Cambridge professor, where everybody just believed because the story was too good to be true. Unfortunately, most of it wasn't true. I got to add a lot more. Hey, healthcare shouldn't be this complicated. All Family Pharmacy makes it easy to find the medications you need. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Bongino.
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7:11We're all going to be family in the end, I promise. Another one is tomorrow is going to be August 8th. August 8th is a day of extreme significance with the Dan Bongino Inc. company, with Haley and Vince and me and everyone out there. It is, of course, the day we recognize in honor of the great Frank Fugazi. No one's thinking about this. Nobody. Nobody's thinking about it. The great, and by great, we mean the biggest tool in the history of sentient beings. Frank Fugazi, who ran the FBI into the ground. We had to clean up the leadership of him and his mess. 8-8, of course, is Frank Fugazi Day. There it is.
7:52Fugazi's in the chat. Fugazi's. Fugazi's everywhere. We all love Frank Fugazi. Love meaning we mock him endlessly. So tomorrow's the weekend. There is no show on the weekend. But in honor of Frank Fugazi's ridiculous comment that Donald Trump wanted to celebrate Hitler on August 8th by lowering a flag to half-mast when he meant half-staffed because he's too stupid to know the difference. A mast is on a ship. Tear it up! Keep it up. Come on, keep it up in the chat. Fugazi, this is for you. I saw what you did at the FBI. you and your cronies before you ran the place into the ground. The mess you left us to clean up was a disaster.
8:34The fact that people allow you on TV when you're a moron, you don't even know what a ship's mast is versus a staff on a flagstaff. You are an idiot. Fugazi, wow, we got a floating Fugazi head across the street. I want to really thank Andrea for taking custody of the Fugazi head. We had some logistics issues. We will transfer that back to the show at some point in coordination with the great Anita McGuire. We love her. She is the queen of the chat. So thank you. It's crazy. Like, I didn't even know you guys. I totally forgot you had a Fugazi emoji for the chat. I totally forgotten that until you were my children.
9:13If this family thing works two ways, you have to tell me. I'm not like the lieutenant general in this space. I'm just one of you. I had to be reminded. You know what? In honor of Fugazi Day tomorrow, Some of you who may be new to the show, for P1s, you've seen this, you can tune out now. I'd rather you not. But for those of you who missed this, this was this moron who was a senior supervisor in the FBI. I mean, a really super high-level guy. So dumb. He went on, what is this, MSNOW years ago, to suggest that Donald Trump lowered the flag at the White House to celebrate Hitler.
9:49Celebrate Hitler. What a D-bag. Check this out. I understand the adversary and the threat we're dealing with. And if we don't understand how they think, we'll never understand how to counter them. So it's a little things and language and messaging that matters. The president said that we will fly our flags at half mast until August 8th. That's a mass on the White House. Eight. Now, I'm not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that's being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers 8-8 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement.
10:25Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. And to them, the numbers 8-8 together stand for Heil Hitler. So we're going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8-8. No one's thinking about this. No one's thinking about it. No one's thinking about it because we're not tool bags like you. You bag of tools. This guy's a craftsman.
10:55Nobody's thinking, of course nobody's thinking, because we're not crazy. Folks, now you see the mess we were left with? Can you imagine having to crush violent crime, foreign terror organizations, drug operations, have to go out there and clean up VCAT cases, have to engage in what was an unprecedented transparency, all the stuff that came out having to you know fire and terminate people have a go to all this while you had leaders like this in charge can you imagine the mess they left you with holy moses so we'll get the frank fugazi head back soon folks here's a danger ahead though i hate that the switch in tone but i mean on a very serious note there is a very serious danger ahead and with regards to that famous timeless quote by anas that you know your opponent in this say in this case isn't vanquished until you believe it to be so.
11:46Don't believe you're vanquished. You're not vanquished. You are living in the golden era of American politics. We've never had better control of our border. We've never had a safer country. You're about to witness an explosion through AI of medical technology. Yes, there's going to be some impact on the job market. There's no disputing that. You're going to witness an explosion in compute and construction jobs. You're going to see electricians. You're already seeing it now making$200 ,000,$300 ,000 a year. You are going to be living through the golden age of American politics right now. But doomers and grifters want to demoralize you.
12:21And they demoralize you by asking you to believe in like religious references rather than facts. That's hard to do. Socialists speak in ideas while conservatives speak in results. That's hard, man. I get it. That's really hard. it's hard to be on the other side of that because human beings we're not we're not animals in the sense that we are sentient beings we want to be inspired we want the newt rockney speech you know we want the the herb brooks speech in the miracle on ice locker room we want to we want to believe so when socialists get out there and say everybody can have everything all the time and it's at no expense to anyone we're just going to tax the evil rich people i get it why human beings have this magnetic impulse to want to believe in that and they some of them just don't want to go and do the homework and go that sounds great but does it work so what we're fighting against is what they call in the entertainment business the suspension of disbelief p1s know this justin's like i've heard that before i haven't brought it up in a while but when you go into a movie or a play on broadway or wherever doesn't matter we have a down here we have that what's a lyric or something down here we have like a little stage down here when you go into a movie like spider-man i brought my daughter to see it she loved it folks in the chat everyone in the chat recognizes that what's happening on the screen is fake right i mean i know there are liberals out here were like what that's not real there's no hombre orania what is it that's best there are no spider outside of liberty everybody realizes it's fake so if we all know it's fake why do we get emotional why when i watched braveheart which is every guy's like one of their favorite movies if not their favorite movie i did why when mel gibson says freedom and they're like pulling his intestines out why when they're doing that why did every guy in a movie theater go uh there are onions around here i'm not crying he's crying why did that happen it's fake Mel Gibson's not getting his intestines cut out.
14:28Why do we do that? Because we voluntarily suspend our disbelief. We disbelieve. We don't believe it. We disbelieve it. We know it's not real, but we suspend it. We suspend disbelief. That's the problem right now with the modern socialists and liberals and a lot of, not all, but a lot of younger people in the movement who are being propagandized and misled by this. They quietly know in the background they're watching a movie. Mamdani's an actor in a movie. The guy's full of shit. You saw it yesterday with the voices of Democrats where he changes his voice. AOC changes her voice. Remember AOC last month?
15:12All of a sudden she had a southern accent like she went to University of Alabama or something. They're just actors. The people being propagandized quietly know this, but they suspend their disbelief because they want to believe And they don't want a counter alternative being presented to them that requires the work. They don't. They want to be inspired. This is the use of religious and faith-based language planted on top of a secular ideology, communism, and using it to get them to suspend their disbelief and play along with the movie, even though they know the movie's fake. Folks, there's no better way to explain it than that for me.
15:50I'm sure some Victor Davis Hanson, who's much smarter than me and others, will be more eloquent. I'm telling you, I like real world meat on the bone examples. If you've ever gone into a movie knowing it's fake and cried in a movie, you have suspended disbelief. You know it's fake, but you let it impact you anyway. That is the modern socialist. That's how we come up with a story like this. This is a stunning story out of the United Kingdom, Cambridge University, who hired the youngest PhD black professor in their history. The guy's story, ladies and gentlemen, you know, can you put up the tweet first about all the claims?
16:26The guy's story was amazing. It's, I mean, figuratively speaking, it's a movie. Well, I may say that literally, they may make a movie out of this in a few, but right now, figuratively speaking, this story is like a movie. This guy's good looking guy's got like the, you know, hair going and everything. Very eloquent. So here were some of his claims. The guy's name is Jason Arday, and he put this book out, and this guy Paul Embry on Twitter says, hey, this is really wild. This guy, in his book, The Atlantic, got a copy of it in advance. It says he experienced locked-in syndrome for several months after being hit by a car.
17:09Doctors advised his family to have the life support machine turned off, but he awakened miraculously. Oh my, wow. Justin's like, that's crazy. No, that's not it. That's just line one. I'm not going to go through all of it. He says he was struck down by testicular cancer, though it changes in the book to brain cancer. Brain, testicles, those are different, correct? For some. I'm just checking. Brain, they're like different ends, right? Brain, testicles, I mean. I don't think you'd miss that. Like if the doctor's going in to operate on brain surgery, ah, that's his balls. Like that's different, right?
17:42I'm not a doctor I just that he'd been beaten up by a group of kids and in court pleaded with the judge not to jail them that's really nice of him right coincidentally two of the kids later became his students and our day became the godfather to the child the one of whoa dude did that who runs Netflix right now can you guys call this is crazy make it literally like make a movie suspend disbelief right what's that how I met there you go that's the time how I met your godfather Very clever, Justin. He aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song. Which one? Was it Hotel California?
18:18I don't know. I'm not going to sing for you. I've tried that before. It's really bad. He was told by a shaman woman in Brazil he would suffer greatly, but would also do great things. Every event she described has come to Pat. This is...
18:38Folks, this is the Spider-Man movie. Like a guy shooting webs out of his wrists or out of web shooters, right? A guy doing that, I don't want to do any spoilers for you, but a guy like doing that in the movie, you'd say to yourself, hey, this is a really cool story and all, but that doesn't really sound real. You would read all this and be like, that all happened to the same guy? But because the left suspends disbelief in their right, they know this sounds like a movie, but they've got to suspend disbelief because the story was amazing. He's an oppressed minority. He looks the part, sounds the part.
19:16Don't do any, just suspend disbelief. Don't actually go in there and research. If there was a human being that bit by a radioactive spider, don't do, suspend disbelief and just go along with it. Here's what he looks and sounds like. And I want you to listen to one of these professors, like the chair of the department, like, hey, when you applied for the job, Jason, with this unbelievable resume, the Netflix how I met your godfather when you apply we read your story and rather than actually checking if any of this was real we just suspended this belief so much so that these brilliant people in Cambridge great university correct super smart ladies and gentlemen P1s is this not a stupid smart person this lady's one of the smartest people on earth on paper but she's the stupid smart person who doesn't know the limits of her own knowledge and thinks because she's super smart she doesn't have to do any vetting homework her spidey sense will go off some of you get that that she'll just figure it out it was unanimous we loved you right away you were amazing watch the ass kissing that goes on as they suspend disbelief and just have faith that this guy's story is real check this out what can we do to ensure that this isn't a marked appointment in five years time how can this become the norm?
20:36We've listened to the voices of our black scholars and our black students and some of it has not been easy to hear to be honest but we're able to face up to some of the structural issues that people that people face. There will be those I think this is a tokenistic appointment what are your thoughts on this? The board of electors on your interview day were absolutely unanimous. We are so lucky to have you. You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do. An extraordinary journey, but for Jason, this is not an end. It's a beginning. Oh, it's a beginning. All right. It's a beginning of a very painful now reconciliation moment for all the people and suckers who suspended disbelief, heard about this movie.
21:32The shaman, he's a godfather to these kids who beat him up or whatever. Amazing. Start the research. There was another claim about athletic feats. It was the most amazing story ever. It was incredible. The problem is that was suspect from the start, just like the web shooters. You see web shooters on screen. I don't think that's right. I don't think we have that yet. AI, quantum, maybe we'll figure it out. Shh, we'll do it like this. But we're not there yet. I've never seen web shooters that actually shoot actual webs like that. I've never seen it. Call me crazy. I would have heard this guy's story from the start, of course.
22:16And for all you lefty goons out there, You can shove all that racism shit up your ass. Nobody's defended the rights of minorities more than this show. So again, you can take it, roll it in a ball, and shove it right up your ass. This show gives zero shits about your stupid opinions, okay? Nobody has defended minority rights, religious, cultural, race-based minority rights than this show. So again, roll it in a ball, stick it right up in the opposite end. Closer to the testicles, not the brain, where this guy apparently got confused. I would have heard this story, and so would have you. Tell me in the chat.
22:52I don't care if this guy was freaking blue or green. Forget about being black. You would have been like, hey, bro, I got to tell you, this story sounds kind of crazy. You're going to have to back some of that up. That's not even a final list of all the claims that were made. Here's where the story gets even crazier. because I told you when you in the movie and you're suspending disbelief and you're fully immersed having this emotional experience, you know, it's fake, but you want to believe it's real because you want to be inspired, right? You want to be. That's why a movie and executive producers, they'll put up inspired by a true story, even when it's not really.
23:32I mean, think about like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Remember in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original version, man I'm aging myself now you guys are like was that even a thing it was in the beginning they said inspired by a true story that was not inspired it was like the Ed Geinz wasn't even close but people wanted to be scared so oh my gosh I'm watching something that could be real this guy they said the same thing I'm watching something that could be real well there's a way to find out you could check so they tried to check someone apparently had some suspicions about the rigor of his academic work.
24:08This is the BBC by the Biebs, so this is not some conservative outlet, by the way. Academics call for an independent inquiry into Jason Arday's Cambridge appointment. Apparently, early on, someone had some suspicion that they were watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it really wasn't based on a true story. So they want to investigate a view, and this guy calling for a Gopal says the investigation should review whether the university was involved in any way or any level with efforts to deter journalists from reporting on the allegations, allegations that this guy's story required some inquiries, let's say.
24:42This came after it emerged that the Metropolitan Police investigated Times Higher Education reporter Jack Grove over a complaint of harassment after this reporter, who actually looked at this and said, this doesn't sound real, contacted Jason Arday concerning allegations of plagiarism last year. So this reporter who's actually for the first time, guys, in a while, is doing actual journalism, correct? He's actually reporting. He contacts this guy and he's like, hey, man, I can't suspend disbelief some more. I don't really believe this Texas Chainsaw Massacre happened like you say it did. So what happens to the reporter?
25:20This is not funny. This is crazy. The guy hired a law firm, Carter Ruck, to send a letter to basically this reporter and his organization, which implied that the apparent attack on our day might be racially motivated. Oh my gosh. Folks,
25:42this is why I've almost dedicated this entire show since I've been back and have seen now both sides of this. I've known about the ops for 10 years doing this show. I've seen them, I've followed them, I've tried to discredit them, but when you really see it, I've dedicated this show to beg, plead, borrow, whatever I need to do, whatever I need to do to implore you not to fall prey to this on our side of the ideological divide. The left will fall for anything. Folks, everything you're seeing right now is by someone with an agenda. everyone's gonna and i'm not telling you that in that every every every negative agenda not every piece of a agenda that motivates people to do what they do podcast radio tv commentary editorials is negative some people have a really good some people really love the second amendment and they write op-eds you may say well they have an agenda yeah their their agenda is the god-given right to self-protection but you need to recognize that because some of these things you see people portray themselves as like non-ideological non-partisan actors oh i'm just out there is bullshit i'm above all you're not above anything that is what happens the jason r day case when facts don't matter it all that matters is information what was he right oh the guy was a shaman he was at a suicide attempt and the hotel california started but that's information correct Are they facts?
27:17Kind of like people in podcasts to stand. They throw out a bunch of information and then you go, oh, that's interesting. Is that actually a fact? No, it's a, but I want to suspend disbelief. I wanted the story sounded great. Yeah, the story sounded great like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The problem is it's not a real story. Look up that example if you think I'm messing with you. People really believe some guy in a leather face was sawing people up with a chainsaw
27:47Don't do what they do. Justin's like, man, this is like a record for your... We have to... The nice part about a podcast, you can do... You can do the show in whatever format you want. You can take a break whenever you want. And sometimes I go really long. Oh, there you go. AI overview. Thank you. I didn't even ask him to do this. No, this is great. Perfect timing. I did not ask him to do this, folks. Google Gemini. That's an AI system. No, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not a real story. 1974, when I was born, the horror movie was entirely fictional, featuring made-up characters. However, the film was marketed.
28:28You see? Thank you. Josh is like, this guy's for real. The film was marketed as based on a true story as a clever marketing trick to attract audiences. That's socialism. Mamdani, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, They like, hey, this is based on a true story. This could work. If we just tax the evil billionaires, everybody gets everything free. What's the true story it's based on? Nothing. It's bullshit. It's never worked ever. Stop it. Stop it. Get some help. We don't use that giphy, you know. I love that. That's my favorite one. Stop it. Can you play that again? Stop it. Get some help. Stop it.
29:06Please. Get some help. It's time. Gosh, that may be the best 30-minute intro I think I've done a lot. For me, for me, I don't know how you feel about it. I'm in a good mood. It's a Friday-l party for Paula tonight. I'm in a really great mood. I just, I had to tell you, don't suspend disbelief. Go in the movie, enjoy it, realize it's fake, go out, do your own homework. Don't be a Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy, Leatherface. Don't be Leatherface. Just don't be Leatherface. Because, I can't, we made this for you. Stupid is a choice. don't be stupid. It's a choice. Don't be a Sayac, okay? Leatherface Sayac.
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33:56That's why I titled today's show Revenge. A little dramatic, right? I gotta tell you, I was struggling for a title this morning. Really, sometimes in the morning, because I don't like those click-baity titles. The greatest thing we've done about it, I hate it. But then it just popped in my head. This is what revenge looks like. It's a sequel to Awareness, one-word titles. Very dramatic. Awareness, revenge. This is what it looks like. ideological revenge. When you're a Mamdani figure or a liberal Democrat like Amy Kolobichar and you lie to people over and over about the movie being real based on a true story when it's not, people get really kind of pissed off.
34:38Now, granted, the movie example in this case, but in the real world, when you're told the evil billionaires we're going to steal their stuff, give it to you, and you're going to have everything you need and it doesn't work out, people get really mad. That's what happened to communist Mamdami, the mayor of New York City. He goes up to this. This guy, again, is living in a fantasy land where he thinks he's a heroic figure in like a Robin Hood movie. He gets on stage in front of working class New Yorkers getting ready to give a speech. Did you guys see this? It didn't work out too well. Check this out.
35:10Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for some more dancing? Oh, no, we're not. No, we're not. No, we're not. We're getting an award. Somebody's getting an award. You want to see who's getting an award?
35:25Folks, you know, the laws of physics, actions equal and opposite reactions. When the action is a Mamdami-like action, he talks, that's an action, right? He moves his tongue muscles and jaw muscles and expels carbon dioxide and talks. he's telling you and promising you things that are not based on a true story it's never worked that i am going to redistribute the benefits of successful people to people who don't have a lot and everyone's going to have everything at the same time has never worked so the guy's only months in office at this point and people in new york who i told you there's a lot of working class folks in here my brother lives up there now he's a working class electrician he's not like some liberal lunatic, okay?
36:14So do other family members of mine. People in New York, New York's not like portions of California. New York is a very working class town outside of Manhattan. Brooklyn, Queens, it is. And why do they, I don't know, folks. It's people, institutional Democrats have run the place forever. Now they're starting to realize everything this guy said is bullshit. People get annoyed. this happened to Amy Klobuchar too she's a Democrat uh uh U.S. Senator not state senator a Democrat U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota here she is at a meeting talking about how she's been some big like pro uh you know immigration enforcement build the wall country she's a Democrat I want you to listen to the responses people are like are you see they start laughing at her this is what happens when you find out you're suspending disbelief didn't work and it really isn't a true story.
37:10Check this out. I've long believed and supported funding for order at the border and I have worked well with law enforcement in Minnesota for years. But what I. Quiet, quiet. Look at her face. Wow. She's stunned that people are laughing at her as if she thought they were going to believe this movie just like this Jason Arde guy thought they were going to believe about the shaman. Look at her face. She doesn't. Wow. Oh my gosh. I can't believe you don't believe I'm not a big immigration. What did all we did was read the book. All we did was actually do so. Look at him. Wow. Wow. Look at the eyes.
37:53So pissed off. Folks, this is the art of deception. The takia. I've told you about the unholy alliance. Hat tip David Horowitz. Again, and check out the book. The unholy alliance between Islamo fanatics and liberal communists, they're allies in the same movement, which is to remove liberty and freedom and destroy the constitutional republic. And their obstacle to doing it is you. I promise they will turn on each other the second you're out of the way. But just like Anais, though, you're not going to be vanquished because you're not giving up because I'm not going to let anyone. I know you don't want to anyway.
38:32The enemies only vanquished when they believe themselves so. We never believe so. We will never, ever, ever put down our political ideological weapons. We'll never do it. We'll never do it. We're not surrendering them ever. So we will never be vanquished because it will be no considering ourselves so. So how do they keep so many people in this loop knowing that the request being made to them is you need to give up your money, your kids, your right to your money, your job, your education, everything to us. You will be our subjects in this Islamofanatic regime or communist regime because they will turn on each other too.
39:13The way to do it is to engage in the art of deception or the lie. They just lie when they're caught. Dan, you got to have something No, I don't. It's that simple. They just lie to you. They're so proud, however. They're so proud of the fact that they know you'll be sheep for them. Not you and my audience, but the putzes out there on the left who fall for this shit. They are so convinced you're too dumb to wake up from your sheepdom that they actually talk about it openly. I saw this clip online yesterday. Islamic scholars. By the way, remember the LGBTQ plus activists we played the other day on the show from Gays Against Groomers put out talking about, hey, we got to catch these kids early while in the puberty while they're still impressionable because they know when kids turn into adults with life experience, they'll know it wasn't a true story.
40:07Here's the Islamic scholar guy talking about the exact same thing. Pay close attention to this. There's a couple of parts. That they want to present basically an alternative model for society. Alternative. Yeah, you as subjects. They want to insert themselves into key positions. Key positions? You mean like the mayor of New York City? No. Can't say that. Yeah, we can. We just did. And then that they want to do it slowly. The whole boiling frog thing. So you don't really feel the heat. It doesn't hit you like a super hot shower. They don't want you to jump out of the shower. Just turn it up slow.
40:39Check it out. Present solutions based on Islamic values, but in the second level degree, not to tell them replace secularism with Islam. It won't work. Yeah. Presenting Islam as a civilizational alternative, this needs from us a different way of addressing this generation, addressing in fact the whole world, trying to get into key positions where you are influencing the decisions, any decision making. If we are, whatever we do, and we are not influential, we cannot influence how politics is running. We are not influencing the decision-making processes. We know that if we were to do this from zero to 100, the people are going to say, we're not going to have this time.
41:43Look Afghanistan, look other places. And people understand they're not going to go from zero to 100 overnight. Suppose a Muslim party, an Islamic party comes in and they start changing. You know what? We want to make sure there's no alcohol being sold. So can we, for the time being, because here's the point, any type of stuff we do, it's not astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah to substitute the sharia. No, it's a program to eventually apply the sharia, right?
42:12Dan, how dare you say it? I didn't, they did. Folks, I just play their own words. You're being given the script to your own destruction and you're like, Hold on, where do I sign? Is that by the X? No, it's by the bloody X. I mean, they're telling you. Here is the script to this movie. How does the movie end? I end as a subject. I end up in a gulag, poor, impoverished, stupid from a bad education system with shitty health care. Sounds great. Sign me up. Folks, I'm sorry. I'm not the most humble cat sometimes. I gotta admit it, but nobody does this better than this show, finding these clips out there.
42:58All you gotta do is go and find certain accounts on X to follow. This show, you can put it together. What did I say to you guys this morning? The hardest thing in the world is to deliver content and make it unique, because everybody's talking about the same thing, right? The issues the world's undergoing, right? The hardest thing in the world is to deliver content. The easiest thing in the world, I kid you not, if you ever want to get into the podcast space, is putting together a conservative podcast. Guys, am I right? The show takes me like two hours, that's it Delivering it is hard You have to find creative ways or else people tune out It's the easiest thing in the world Because the libs The lib progressive commies And the Islamofanatics Just tell you what they want to do The LGBTQIA We want to catch your kids early in puberty When they don't really have a lot of life experience We can propagate this Did you just say that?
43:49Did you just say, well, we want to impose the Sharia law, but we got to do it slowly? Oh, okay. I've told you about the unholy alliance. Now they tell you what they're going to do. You want to be a subject? You want to be a subject? Just play along. Just play along. Just sit in a movie and pretend the script being read to you. In this case, it is real. Here's the script. We're about to F you over. You're like, bring it on, kids.
44:19Folks, I am not mad, and this is not going to be one of those shows. I've seen the internet thing going on right now with burritos. Why haven't you checked? Because I'm not interested in intraparty. I'm just not. There's enough of that going on right now. I'm not. When we need to address it, we do. There is a bigger fight going on right now against the Islamofanatics and their commie friends. It is an enormous fight where civilization's future hinges on it. And I don't mean that with any degree of hyperbole at all. So I'm sorry, but I'm not going to spend all day talking about a burrito. I'm not.
44:55You guys do what you're on. I'm not mad at anyone for doing it. But I'm also not mad at a lot of these younger people who are being propagandized. Folks, tautologically, axiomatically, I was young once too. We all were. I wasn't born 51. None of you were either. I believed a lot of dumb shit too a lot of dumb shit because you're young you just you learn the hard way you're like well I read this in a book and then you do it live and someone kicks you in the balls you're like well maybe I shouldn't have done that but it said in a book yeah the book isn't really how real life goes down this is why they want the kids pull up that CNN poll if you can.
45:42I wanted to share you. So Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat, communist, Islamofanatic nut who is now the Democrat nominee for the United States Senate, shockingly in the state of Michigan. This should be one of those break glass moments. This guy is openly campaigning with an absolute lunatic who makes excuses for 9-11 and And excuses certain forms of rape. What? Yeah, I'll play that for you in a second. But I want you to notice. Here's CNN. Now they have all the polling data on how Syed won. I want you to notice where he did really well. And it confirms my operating thesis here. And I'm not mad at younger folks.
46:26I'm just trying to open eyes. Remember, you were young once too. That he did really well amongst young people. But older folks, working folks, whether minorities, black, he didn't do too well. People saw through the bullshit. They knew they were watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it wasn't real. Check this out. In your Columbia blue, you've got Abdul Asayyad. And what you see here is you see that Haley Stevens did particularly well in this corridor. And what's in this corridor? Well, there are a lot of working class voters and a lot of African-American voters. Abdul Asayyad did very poorly amongst these groups in the primary.
47:05It's going to be very interesting to see whether or not he can bring them into the tent come the general election bring those swing voters with them because where abdul asayyad did well to be honest with you we're really just college towns that's where he really ran up the score this is ann arbor ann arbor's in this county and ann arbor of course is the university of michigan we zone out a little bit another place he did particularly well was lansing again we're talking 20 plus point margins you see folks we don't bullshit you on this show. We don't tell you that Chainsaw Massacre is real. We give you the hard truth.
47:39And I say the hard truth because sometimes the hard truth is hard to take. And I know it sucks, but it requires me to treat you like adults and vice versa. I went and did my public service. I brought back a portfolio of results. I've shown you many times. We put it up the other. You don't have to like them. You say, you suck. We don't like it. Okay, fine. That's your opinion. You're allowed to have one. But I have to give you results. And I have to tell you things like, guys, we could tax billionaires all we want. You could make it 100 % tax on billionaires. It is not going to benefit your life one bit.
48:11In fact, it's going to make it worse. Because a lot of these people are worth a billion dollars. However odious you find that to be, that accumulation of wealth, did not get that by theft. Unless you are like Pablo Escobar, I'm talking about people who engaged in legal commerce, who followed the law, not thieves or criminals, just to be clear. There are scumbags who probably have accumulated that money, ironically, through socialist systems and tyrannies over time. Talking about people who've done it legally. I know you may find that odious. Oh my gosh, I can't believe they have that much money.
48:43The hard reality is it's hard to tell you this, that you need to focus on you, not them. They got that money by producing something that people wanted and bought a lot of. If they did it legally, which the majority of them in the United States did. That's not a comfortable thing to tell people. Well, nobody needs it. It doesn't matter what they need. It matters what works. It's hard to tell people that. There were a lot of Democrat voters in Michigan who caught on to this bullshit with this guy. Folks, they lie. They strategically deceive you in this Takiyah-like art of deception. They lie to you all the time.
49:28And the people they campaign with, If this was a figure, I want you to imagine for a second, please. And this is not going to be a pleasant thought, so be prepared. Not for kids. Imagine a conservative commentator. I don't even want to throw in him. John Smith, doesn't matter. I don't even want to stain the name of Joey Bag of Donuts with this. Imagine conservative commentator John Smith on the John Smith podcast. If there is a John Smith, I'm not referring to the real one. imagine him saying you know listen man there are certain type of rapes where you know if we see it from a utilitarian perspective some rapes are bad you're damn what somebody said that oh yeah somebody said but not a conservative commentator you guys have the video who said that i'm a little confused i don't really remember Like you have it written down in a paper.
50:23I know, I know. I get it. This is an actual, I just, listen to this. This guy's out there campaigning, campaigning with the commie unholy alliance, Islamo fanatics. And nobody thinks comments like this are just a little off. Check this out. It's like doing one good thing, which is that like, if you have these millionaire, billionaire wasp fail sons, at least taking them out of other colleges so they can only do date rape to other billionaire, millionaire failed daughters is like in some respects, you know, from a utilitarian perspective, of course, a little bit better. You know what I mean? Like taking these guys and putting them in a pen with one another.
51:14Josh is giving me the emoji guy on...
51:21do we guys should we just clarify in case there's some liberal lunatics i i feel like we should do this for a regular bongino army folks again you can tune out now you don't need to hear this although i'd rather you not to the insane leftists at media matters and elsewhere listen to my show and support this hassan piker for those of you who are listening on apple or spotify or youtube where there isn't video that was hassan piker who's campaigning openly with them because they love him. I think he's great. With his little Mao costume and everything. Let's just clarify. There are no rapes that are better than other rapes.
51:53They're all bad. Everybody agree? Can we get a unanimous? Everybody's unanimous. Only took them a second. No, no. They're all bad. Okay, there are no better rapes. Do it.
52:09This is insane. We're actually having this conversation. we should put some rich people in a pen together if they rape each other no no no no we shouldn't do that no we shouldn't be encouraging categorizations of rape oh this one's better no it's no it's not by the way you have my mouth sorry to go out of order that snap is kind of rude i didn't mean it that way they can't even hear me anyways it doesn't even matter they see me they'll hear me through the microphone you have that mal post on x he's like i'm not offended i've seen worse. Arthur McWatters on X. You know, Hasan Piker dresses in his Mao costume.
52:48He cosplays as Mao. And if you don't know Mao is in your lefty, he was a Chinese communist. I'm sorry, I'm going to say to you who only wiped out hundreds of millions of people. Mao killed so many people that it literally dipped the global life expectancy. This is actually an appropriate use of literally. He even has a chart. That's how many people Mao killed that the human life expectancy chart was forever altered. And he dresses as him. This is his guy. Folks, this is your modern Democrat party. You may say, Dan, no, it's not. Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed's opponent, almost won the race. Yeah, she went out the next day at a unity breakfast.
53:31Did you guys see the video? And hugged him. Hugged this guy, Abdul El-Sayed. This guy should be completely exiled from any serious political debate for not win the nomination for a major party U.S. Senate seat in a swing state. Folks, we're living in like crazy pills time, man. This is the break glass moment. That's why I don't spend a lot. Why aren't you talking about this more and that more? Because, folks, I like to talk about the big thing right now. It's going to get us all killed. And the unholy alliance between the Islamo fanatics and the commies is going to get you killed. Or raped or any litany of horribles.
54:16How do I know that? Because I read a book once in a while. My God. What is your example of this? I don't want to dip in life expectancy Because communism comes here And wipes out another 100 million people Alright, listen Quick break, I got a few more I want to get to you I'm going to show you the takia too Because if you think the takia is only an Islamofanatic thing Oh, only they lie No, the commies do the same thing The commies say all the time Hey, I know what we're saying is really dumb And there are other commies like Bernie Like, dad, I just lie to him People are stupid, they'll be sheep I'm not kidding.
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56:23All politicians lie. Ladies and gentlemen, the degree of the lie matters, okay? A guy like this Jason Arday who apparently has some background problems, it's one thing to lie and, you know, say, you know, listen, whatever. You know, I went to college and excelled in my class, okay? Say someone says that and you find that he got C's. well you know maybe for him that was excelling he was fabricating a bit it was a little bit of bluster i'm not telling you it's right but that's different than saying uh whatever i have a phd if that was and you don't correct like there's everything's life on the margin it's not how much heat you put in your thermostat in the winter it's not heat or no heat it's how much heat on the margin it's the degree the problem with the democrats is yes republican congressmen senators and politicians lie too the degree of the lie on the left is about everything they're telling you nothing they tell you is true here's Bernie Sanders he's asked a question about Hassan Piker and some of his comments like you know the rape thing and the better and the 9-11 and then do you see the dog video with upon Hassan Piker folks I'm sorry like you know the dog video alone is a total game changer for me how you treat the elderly and people who are you know weaker than you and others in a bad place like that's I always said growing up to my kids.
57:43I don't care how you treat the owner of a restaurant. I care how you treat the bouncers and the busboys and the bartenders. That's what I care. My family owned a bar. It was a middle-class bar. That's what I care about. I want you to watch Bernie completely flip-flop on this. Now he's calling it cancel culture? So let me get this straight. You're equating a guy discussing degrees of rape betterment with conservatives who were canceled like me? I was booted off YouTube for telling you cloth masks are not going to protect you in COVID. Those two things on the margin are the same only if you're a crazy person.
58:17Check this out. I said America deserved 9-11. Are you comfortable with that association? No, I am not. I think that's a dumb statement. On the other hand, he has a whole lot of followers and a lot of things that he's saying that are making sense to a lot of people. I think, you know, we have to get above cancel culture. You know, when you're doing radio, whatever they do, podcasts three hours a day, you say dumb things. I suspect if you go back over your career, there may be one or two things that you've said that you may have regretted. But I think what we have got to do is look at the totality of where people are coming from and go forward.
58:53Okay, there's one thing I got to give Bernie a pass on, which he's right about. You guys see it? You hear it at the end? He's like the Abby Phillips on CNN. You probably said a lot of dumb things. Yes, Bernie, that is the first truth. No truer words have ever been spoken. Abby Phillips, we could do a montage of dumb stuff she said. You are correct. However, notice the lie. The art of deception. The Islamo fanatics and the commies do the exact same thing. Ridiculous comparisons connecting item one with item two when there's no connection whatsoever. Conservatives who warned you about, hey, man, let's be careful with the mask thing during COVID.
59:29Hey, let's look into some of the stuff that happened in the election. have actually been proven correct. Those were fact-based statements. This isn't cancel code. Now, did you hear me say, fellas, did you hear me say one time during the show, people get annoyed when I talk to the staff. I don't care, my crew, you know, it's the thing. Like, they're part of the show too. Have you ever heard me call for a boycott on Hassan Piker? Have you heard that? No, okay. You want to listen to Hassan Piker? Folks, I'm an investor in free speech platforms. Piker, put your show on the platform. When you don't commit a crime by threatening someone, that's just bullshit.
1:00:09There's no cancel culture on the right. We have opinions we don't like. We're allowed to call them out. Last time I checked, this is still a republic. The difference is we don't lie to people. Bernie's full of shit. Here, I'll prove it to you. Here's the takia, the art of deception. If you're young, you don't have to fall for this. I'm telling you the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is not real. That didn't really happen. Why would you choose to believe it? Here's Bernie Sanders, hat tip to my team for putting this together, claiming, don't laugh, folks, this actually happened. Bernie Sanders claiming that the left, no serious person has ever claimed that we should defund the police.
1:00:50No. Yes. Yes. He actually stated that. But stay tuned for the follow of serious people talking about defunding the police. Check this out. Some DSA candidates today, you know, including some who've won their primaries this cycle, who've also talked about abolishing prisons, defunding or even abolishing the police, abolishing borders. You've never been for any of that. Are you worried that taking those positions, which are unpopular with most voters and even most Democrats, sort of hurt the movement that you've worked really hard to build? Well, you know, look, people have different views and what you know, as well as I do, that the right wing, that's their job, right?
1:01:32They will take what one person said and put, you know,$80 billion of TV ads on it and make it claim every Democrat supports that. No serious person that I know who is running for office believes in, quote unquote, defunding the police. Oh, here it is. Here's the takia, the art of deception. And Bernie claims, younger folks, I'm trying to help you. Not trying to be a tool, okay? He just made a claim, correct? That you can go and verify? Is Texas Chasaw Mazda real? So I asked the guys, what did it take you, five minutes to put this together? Has anyone on the Democrat side elected to a serious position, Congress, Senate, elsewhere?
1:02:15Has anyone on the left ever claimed that they wanted to defund the police? The guys were like, here's your montage. I said, it's only been five minutes. Didn't even take long. Check this out. So we've been talking about defunding the police. Suck it up. Defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police. Not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Yes, I support the defund movement. I think you do all those other things. You don't need all the money that's going to the police department. So yeah, I mean, the spirit of it, I do support that.
1:02:48Rashida Tlaib tweeting, no more policing, incarceration and militarization. It can't be reformed. Police departments are taking a sizable amount of the budget of a lot of municipalities and other entities. We need to look at those budgets, pull some of the money back, and invest it in other things. We obviously took money out of the NYPD budget, put it into youth programs, put it into social services, put it into recreation centers for young people. that's really the right direction. I'm glad we did that. Not only do we need to defund, but we need to dismantle and start anew. Folks, this has been a generational op against law enforcement by the socialist communist left in conjunction with their Islamofanatic buddies.
1:03:40A sense of safety and security in flourishing communities makes people focus on basically subsidiarity. Makes them focus on their lives, their faith, their church. What the Democrats want is they want to break that apart and a relentless focus on a national safety blanket from a federal government all-powerful that'll make you subjects. And they can't get you to do that if you enjoy your white picket fence, your two kids and your dog. They can't. They need chaos. Chaos is the spark that's going to light the dynamite, that's going to blow society up so that you call again for some sense of safety and security and they want to fill in that vacuum in your life with an all-powerful federal government.
1:04:29That's why they hate law enforcement. They can't stand it. This is all in up. There's nothing they want more than for your streets to be full of chaos. Remember the George Floyd rights? They loved that. They were like, oh, it's mostly peaceful. Hey, that dude's getting his ass kicked right in the back. Ah, no, that's a fight over his golf score. You're like, what? That looked like it to me. Remember the building burning in the background? Nothing to see here, folks, like the naked gun giphy. Nothing to see here. Or the giphy with the little girl on the swing where the house is burning in the background.
1:05:07She's got that, like, shit-eating grin on. That's the left. They need the chaos. You know, I had an AP history teacher in high school, a super smart guy. He's a Democrat, but he's a good dude. And he used to say all the time, the biggest enemy to chaos agents in politics are a flourishing middle class. Because they start to worry about their own lives like they should. Their kids, the dog, the car needs an oil change. The left doesn't want that. They need you focused on Elon Musk. The new thing is like cloud compute. They need you. And you're like, how does this stuff impact my life again? They need you focused on this all the time.
1:05:51You know, Medicaid for all. Like, I like my health care. But no, no, no, no, you can't do that. Folks, everything is an op. And let me tell you something. One of the most dangerous ops out there now. Hey, man, I'm telling you. Like, I'm even seeing some on the right who are falling for this a lot. You are my enemy. if you fall in this trap. The oldest fight in the book, the oldest op in the book for the left and the Islamofanatics is the effort to divide children from their parents and grandparents. Forget life experience. Forget that grandpa told you the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is fake. Momdani's telling you it's real.
1:06:36Don't listen to your stupid grandparents. They're really dumb. Boomers, mega boomers, ultra boomers. Have you seen this? Folks, if you're on X Even people on the right are falling for this shit Don't listen to your boomer parents Really? Some of the best life advice I've ever received Is from my father Busted his ass his whole life William Jacobson had a great X post up about this now Here's how the op starts Oh man, your parents and grandparents They had it so easy You're struggling Listen, a lot of kids are struggling I told you, I'm not mad at folks and younger folks who are struggling. Inflation is real.
1:07:14The education crisis is real. You know, the job market is going to be tough. It's very real. Acknowledge. Point stipulated. But that's not the point. Keep this up. That's not the point the libs, commies, and Islamo nuts are trying to make to get you psychologically to hate your parents and grandparents. The point they're trying to make is not that you have it tough. It's that your parents had it easy and you have it tougher than anyone else. So William Jacobson said, well, let me just put a dose of reality on this. He says, all we seem to hear from doom and gloomers in podcastistan and isolationist influencer class members is how easy boomers had it.
1:07:48I wish I had lived through these easy days, sarcastically stated, instead of graduating in 1981 when interest rates were through the roof and so was unemployment. Nobody had it easy. But this generational warfare is being stoked to create a class of angry young people who can then be manipulated. Thank you, sir. Read this. for the young folks out there being manipulated who think your dad and your mother and your grandfather had it really easy. Interest rates now, you know, what do we rage from for a mortgage from 5 % to 7 % based on the economy? They're not low compared to the threes and fours we had.
1:08:29But in 1980, the average 30-year fixed home mortgage interest rate was, does that say 13.74? You sure that's not 3.7? It's not a typo? No, Justin says that's 13.74. compared to 6s and 7s and 5s. Sounds like the boomer parents they want you to hate. That's a lot. The annual unemployment rate, what is it today, 4.1 %? The unemployment rate back then in 1980 was 7.2%. I'm not diminishing your problems, the younger generation, not even a little bit. I'm just telling you the boomer parents they want you to hate had it a lot worse, and they didn't have iPhones or fancy electric cars. In mid-2026, the 30-year mortgage rate hovers around 6.6 to 6.75.
1:09:16The national unemployment rate actually ticked down today. It was 4.2. It's actually 4.1. You're being played. You're being told that Leatherface is real. He's not. He's not. You should be concerned about inflation, the job market. It'll encourage you to react, do things to make your life more promising and flourishing. And I wish the best for you. I wish you a family, the dog, the picket fence, the car you want, the life you want, the job you want. I'm not one of these guys who comes here all angry all the time. They're starting to get into these arguments about the price of Chipotle. I'm sorry, man.
1:09:57I acknowledge that younger kids, like when I was young, every generation has this problem. But pretending your grandparents, my grandparents who have since passed, who lived through the Great Depression, had it easy, is laughable. That's just that you're not suspending just disbelief at this point. You're just going along with a hoax because it's, I don't know, you want to hate your grandma? I don't get it.
1:10:24I just want to mention quick yesterday, I didn't neglect it. However, there's going to be a lot of litigation. President Trump, who's a man of action, was not very happy about the birthright citizenship ruling at the Supreme Court, put out a couple executive orders, expanding the definition of basically like invading armies to FTOs and the ambassador diplomatic corps to make people who come here for birth tourism ineligible. We'll see how litigation plays out. Again, a guy does stuff. You don't have to like it. I do. I like men of action. I like results. He's transactional. He's trying to do something about a problem.
1:11:00Of course, the doomers and grifters will continue to complain. It's just going to be turned off. Okay, man, what are you doing besides, you know, watching tentacle porn and throwing popcorn at the boxing ring? What are you doing? At least he does stuff and tries stuff. So to leave you in a good mood because it's Friday, producer Jim always gives us on Friday our Democrat Zen moment of the day and therefore of the week to put you in a good mood. He picks out the best Democrats with a nice, calming, mediating influence on the American body politic. So you can all go into the weekend nice and mellow, have like a hookah, maybe an oxygen bar, have a glass of wine.
1:11:41I do not see these beforehand. So I'm going to give you a language alert. Why? You said you haven't seen it. Because every time these guys, I ask them, is there language in this? They go, no. Some crazy Democrat starts dropping F-bombs. So language alert if you have kids, even if there isn't any. I'm seeing this with you for the first time. Democrat Zen moment of the day. Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. What the hell? You cannot be serious. Nobody wants to live in a country full of hate. It's all hate, hate, hate, hate. Trump hates everybody that's not white.
1:12:21And I can't believe it. This has been Democrats Zen. That's not real. There's Jim, there's no way that's real. There's no way. I'm not suspending. I'm just disbelieving. That's not real. Even for the crazy left, that's not real. There's no way that's real. I'm not telling you it's AI. The dude is probably real. There's no way that's real. Folks in the chat, wait, quick poll before we go. Quick poll. Yes, it's real. No, it's not. Meaning like the guy's acting. He's got, I'm telling you, no. I am on the record. That cannot be real. Jim, I need you guys to do some homework. There is no way that's real.
1:12:55There's no way. Even by lefty standards, that's the craziest Democrat Zen moment yet. By the way, if you're listening to Apple and Spotify, just go to the end of the show and watch that clip. The guy's got like the rainbow flag. He's got some weird looking hat on. He's like wiping his nose, by the way, with the rainbow. I thought that was like sacrosite. Like the right guys, like the rainbow flag for them is like a religious article. He's like wiping his nose. He's got like snot coming out of his nose. Who says yes? Yes, yes, I think I'm losing this. For the first time in my show's history, I'm losing my own pole.
1:13:27Shameful, shameful. Bongino Army, back me up. Again, I'm not the general in this army. I'm just a member. Hey, sometimes even the host needs to be called out, I guess. You're saying it's real. Jasmine, is that real? No, Jasmine's with me. She knows. Justin, real? No, you can't give me the eyes. You got to give me a position. Justin's going to go yes okay this is a democracy in here Josh yes Josh is on the record backing up Andy's going yes too Jasmine we lost 3-2 it's just me and Jasmine Andy is that real come on help us out yes it's tied I can't tell you who Andy is it's another Andy it's tied it's now 3 yeses it's fake versus 3-2 thank you Saved by the bell One of these days I'll explain it to you I can't right now Can't forget our comment of the day also What's the rules to win the comment of the day Weekly contest It is the 1776 live club 1776 Because it was an amazing year For the United States Also because it's$1 ,776 In your pocket if you win weekly How do we do it?
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1:15:48They can't. It drives them crazy. Stuart Thompson. And who's the other guy? Who's the guy doing the Run DMC pose? Ben, whatever his face is. They hate us. They can't stand it. It drives them crazy. They have zero influence. They're like, how many people listen to this guy? It drives them nuts. Folks, don't miss the launch of the Sean Farris Show, August 17th, coming up. It's going to be at 1 p.m. Eastern time. If you want to follow the great Sean Farris before the show, and you should, you can do it today. Go to Bongino.com slash Sean, S-H-A-W-N. Follow them all over Spotify, Apple, Rumble, all of those platforms.
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1:17:02And we have one, two, three, four open spots. Also, I'll tell you what, we will be taking nominations in the chat. What do you think, guys? Next week for additions to the villain roster. I didn't realize you guys actually put that together. I was kind of just kidding, but good job. All right, folks. Rumble.com slash Bongino. If you want to watch on the web, give us a follow. Download the app on your smart TV. Download the app on your phone. We really appreciate it. Time for me to bolt. I will see you back here on Monday. Hey there, I'm Vince. I'm Haley Caradia. Host of Vince. Host of Scrolling with Haley.
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