SHOCKING POLL has Dems Scrambling (Ep. 2469)

26:27Dan Bongino:called the Department of Homeland Security. Liberals may have heard of this for the first time today. It's called the Department of Homeland Security. What do you guys think the Department of Homeland Security is involved in? Justin's like, I don't know, maybe Homeland Security. Ding, ding, ding. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Maybe fried chicken, maybe spicy herb chicken. I don't know. Department of Homeland Security, the Democrats have it shut down right now. Fact. Fact. F-A-C-T, all caps, exclamation point. They have it shut down right now because they swear everyone on planet Earth hates ICE and CBP for assisting in getting illegals out of the country and shedding the border.

27:10Dan Bongino:That doesn't seem to be the case. You see the headline yourself. Ice, more popular than Dems. The Dems are like, I don't know what to do. They're clawing, they're face clawing, they're clawing, they're plucking hairs out. They're putting fingers in the ears.

27:28The guys are like, are you okay? Yes, I'm just in a mood. I got to tell you, it's not even the greatest news day, but I put together this show. What I say to you guys before I show you, this one's going to be a banger. Why? Because I'm just in a mood today. This is why we got to turn up the votes. This is why I popped in the chat this morning. Guys, I'm serious, okay? No messing around. If you're not going to do the 10, 10, and 10 thing, you're not serious about winning. I'm sorry. 10, 10, 10 is the minimum. You should do 100, 100, 100. But I want to be realistic. People got jobs and lives. 10 phone calls, 10 emails, 10 social media posts about where people can vote, how they can vote, who you support, why you support them.

28:10Mix it up, match them, put the link to, I live in Martin County, Florida, Martin County Board of Elections, where they can register, where their poll location is. It's really important you do this.

28:20Dan Bongino:If we get the now 60 ,000 people here in the chat, a half an hour in to do that, do you have any idea the force magnification that is? We're not gonna win by talking about winning. We're only gonna win about doing. I do the 10, 10, and 10. You know how I do it? I mentioned it a hundred times on the show. folks, please, please, please. We have a shot here. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The Democrats' gerrymandering has the potential to blow up in their face. What? They gerrymandered their district. You know what gerrymandering is when you carve up congressional districts in a way that makes them easier to win?

28:59Pretty simple stuff. Every party does it. It's not just a Democrat thing. Okay, let's just be clear on that. However, the Democrats carved up, let's just use California. in such a way, follow me. This is super important. Everybody paying attention, stop what you're doing. What's that line from aliens? Stop your grinning and drop your linen, whatever you're doing, stop. Just listen, this is super important, okay? You had districts in California, congressional districts, where there were a lot of throwaway, what's called wasted votes. What's a wasted vote? Anything over 50%. What do you mean, Dan?

29:36because you don't need more than 51 or 50.1 % of the vote to win. That's it. That's what you need in a binary.

29:48Dan Bongino:If you get 53 % of the vote, you didn't need two of those 3%. You can go and send them into another district to help them win where they may have lost by one, 51-49. Do you get what I'm talking about? You see this in New York and California. California they carved up the state So in order to make some Republican districts in California more Democrat They had to take Democrats away from safe districts And plug them into the Republican ones Which made the Democrats safe districts less safe What's the point? The point is a lot of these safe Democrat districts in the past If we show up are now up for grabs too This could be the biggest double barrel middle finger in American history

30:34Dan Bongino:numbers are numbers you can't make a district more democrat without making another district less democrat I'd say democratic because there's nothing democratic about the democratic party that's why I do it so don't correct the English, it's done on purpose they're trying to reduce their throwaway votes we show up, we have a shot to stick it to them and stick it to them hard you're going to get politics good and hard I want to show you too how the media right now, again, is trying to contour the narratives around the battlefield. Pun definitely intended. They're trying to contour this now. We're now what?

31:13Is it 11 days in to the military action in Iran? You got World War III predictions. Eh, it didn't work out.

31:22Dan Bongino:The media now, oil prices. Yesterday, did you see the panic? Did you see it, guys? Oil, gas going to be$100 a gallon. Everybody's reading it like, oh my gosh, holy Moses,$100 a gallon. This is insane. They wrote, oil prices spike. Except they didn't. They backed down overnight. What happened? Hysteria headlines happened. That's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. That's why the Democrats don't know anything. They actually believe that. Then they show up at the gas station like, well, it's not great, but it's nothing like the media said. It never is like the media said. I'm going to take a quick break and I'm going to show you what I mean, how information warfare, make no mistake, is happening right now.

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36:20The story. Yes, you P1s know what I'm talking about. Someone in the chat asked what was a P1 this morning. It's a radio term for diehard listeners. Here's Politico. Playbook. This is what I was talking about. A screenshot. Folks, they just can't stop themselves. Trump faces a crude reality. You get to play on words with oil. Very creative, Ali Bianco. The attacks in Iran have penetrated. I'm sorry. This is shit. I can't get over this stuff. I can't even read this stuff, have penetrated two of Trump's major agendas. It's dominating his vast foreign policy portfolio. Do you know that, folk? Dominating.

36:59Poor guy, can't do anything else. Dominating. And it risks drowning out other conflicts. And it's spiking prices on the home front, just as the GOP is meeting on how to tackle the midterm. Spiking prices.

37:15Dan Bongino:Except by this morning, oil prices per barrel had pretty much stabilized. Now, if Ali Bianco and political playbook would have applied what rule? Yes, the Bongino rule where what do we do, folks? We wait 24 to 72 hours to let a story settle, not before commenting. You can comment on whatever you like But before drawing some kind of final conclusion We try not to speculate on the outcomes of ongoing things Until the outcomes have actually Outcomed Making up my own words I don't like to comment on how great or terrible a movie was Until I've seen the end Okay You can talk about the movie Lean over in your chair I told you, I saw that movie in D.C.

38:10Dan Bongino:with Paula That movie Weapons I looked over in my Quickie language, I love to say I looked over in my chair because this is just accurate At Paula, she was with me in D.C. Came down to visit me, went to Georgetown AMC Great movie theater, by the way They treated me in the security detail really nice over there So thank you I looked over, I go, what the fuck is this movie about? It was the craziest movie I ever seen However, I didn't judge the whole movie You gotta wait till the movie ends there could have been justin's correct they could have licensed the ewoks from return of the jedi and they could have popped in that movie was so crazy i actually wouldn't have been surprised if ewoks showed up in the basement i hated the ewoks by the way i'm really sorry if there are ewok fans in the show i may be cursing myself you i hope you don't leave permanently i love having you here the ewoks were just a horror show it was a total branding exercise to sell toys totally ruined star worse than Jar Jar.

39:05I actually prefer Jar Jar Binks that over over Ewoks. He's like, oh, Elizabeth can't take it. He still thinks the Ewoks were like a great kind of edgy little addition to return. You're wrong. You tell me the Imperial stormtroopers can't defeat a bunch of freaking

39:22Dan Bongino:Lucy like teddy bears throwing rocks. That's bullshit. But playbooks telling you about how oil prices have spiked and the day hadn't even ended yet. Now that oil prices have come down, all of a sudden, nobody knows what to do. Well, what do we do about yesterday's headline? I just move on. Pretend it didn't happen. You see how they contour the battlefield. You know what? Put up that tweet, that Mark Penn tweet. Mark Penn, I'm pretty sure it's like a Democrat pollster. I've seen him on Fox. He's not a Republican. Here's Mark Penn. He's like, look at this Iran coverage. He's mocking the media. Here are some of the headlines Iran regime doing well and in control They're fucking dead bro He's mocking them by the way Penn, he's not like Celebrating these stupid headlines They're doing well Yeah they're all taking dirt naps I guess if they wanted to rest permanently They're doing great Trump under pressure to end war From who?

40:21Dan Bongino:Trump will end this war He doesn't even call it a war by the way When he feels like it Khomeini's son, just as tough as father. The father's kind of dead, wasn't that tough? U.S. responsible for missile on school. We don't know that yet. We'll see where that goes. Unfortunately, tragic things happen in war sometimes. Unlike other countries, though, we don't target innocents. And we'd actually do an investigation and apologize for it and move on. Other countries are just going to celebrate it. Look, we killed a bunch of school kids. Animals in some of these terror-laden regimes. One headline he notes after another, essentially featuring Iranian propaganda as the news.

41:06Scroll down a bit. Here is the other headlines. Some of the headlines he's saying you should pay attention to that are actually real. 50 Iranian ships sunk. Iranian military assets destroyed. Leadership tries to put on a good showing despite internal chaos. Khomeini appointment creates hereditary theocracy. Were planned progress unprecedented? The press, he notes, is just a drumbeat of negativity Now, I've never seen this before But CENTCOM, you guys got that video? CENTCOM, Central Command, U.S. Central Command Theater operator in the activities in Iran right now Central Command put out a video I've never seen this before I just haven't seen it Put out a video yesterday on their ex-account warning that foreign adversaries and pro-Iranian accounts are using X and other platforms to propagandize, hey, I'm all about the free speech, don't get me wrong.

42:07I'm just telling you, like, it's my free speech too to expose free speech on other platforms, that I'm allowed to have an opinion too. Here's CENTCOM saying, hey, man, be really careful. Like, a lot of the stuff you're seeing out there are not people's opinions, it's foreign bullshit agitprop. Check this out. Iran is doing everything it can to peddle in lies, deception and inflation of numbers and reality, mostly to propagandize to their own people. They've shut down the internet. They're hoping they can convince their own population that they're having success. One thing, one of their leaders said recently is that 500 Americans have been killed, they claim.

42:44These are lies. The lies will continue. CENTCOM will continue to debunk those lies. So, and as often is the case in conflict, first reports are often wrong. here right now just on the screen right now breaking news oil prices drop below a hundred

43:00Dan Bongino:dollars a barrel uh can we and by the way i'm not taking a victory lap either i'm not going to be a hypocrite about my own bongino rule could they go back up of course they could go back up could they drop further they could i'm just gonna chill for a minute i'm just gonna chill nobody tunes in to this show to hear liberal media bullshit spin and no it's not endless propaganda exercises either. Of course there could be something that could spike it again. Maybe we should just wait and see what happens. It's a crazy idea, I know, before forming some final opinion. War's over. War's over. Oil's over$100 a barrel.

43:37Dan Bongino:Actually, it's not. It just dropped below$100. Oh, shit. War's over. Oil's at$99 a barrel. You just said it was over when it went over$100. I changed my mind. That was quick. Folks, here's what I mean, too, about the agitprop. here's another headline about the iranians i told you they will do anything this was on drudge today that absolutely hates donald trump the video of epstein and trump it might be pro-iranian disinformation do you know what this must have taken for the washington post to print this i told you from the beginning of the show again the restart the relaunch six weeks ago that they were going to they were undoubtedly going to use the Epstein case file as the next you know a crossfire hurricane collusion the impeachment hoax that they were going to use it to try and attach this thing to Donald Trump despite him signing a bill to get this out there and here it is that's even drudge acknowledging it I think they thought they were taking a shot at Trump That's actually an article that proves the point.

44:46Dan Bongino:Of course, it's a critically important case. It involves so many different variables. But the attachment to Donald Trump is bullshit. It's all nonsense, and they knew it. You think Team Biden wouldn't have followed up on this if they thought they had a viable case against Donald Trump? Come on, man. Are you freaking serious? To all the people, that's all they want to think about. Are you telling me with a straight face that Team Garland, Team Monaco, Team Rice, Team Obama, Team Biden, Team Comey, Team Ray, would not have put Donald Trump in handcuffs if any of the stuff about Trump in there were true?

45:38Now the Iranians seize on it, pounce, whatever word the Democrats like, and people fall for it. I'm not telling you don't read it. I'm telling you know what you're reading. There's a difference. By the way, back to the oil market quickly.

45:54Dan Bongino:Folks, on the price of gas and energy prices, the Iranians control this sliver of a spot where roughly a fifth of the oil in the global market passes through. You've heard it a thousand times, straight of Hormuz, okay? The Iranians, being on one side of it, had the ability in the past to cause disruptions there. Insurance companies didn't want to insure oil tankers. Traffic would slow down. Prices would spike. This is one of the main reasons no one had the nutsack to do what Donald Trump did in the past and take out the Iranian debt to America mullahs. Donald Trump said, you know what? I'm going to risk a little bit of short-term volatility in energy prices, which we're seeing, to control that strait or exert more control over that strait long-term so they can't put an energy gun to the world's head from this point forward.

46:53Dan Bongino:And he did it. He did it. We have now de facto control over the strait. Think of it as a barn door. Behind the barn door is the world's energy supply. Or say a fifth of it, to give realistic numbers. The Iranians had the lock to that barn door. We have now hijacked the key. We have the key. We have the lock. We control the barn door now. There is the possibility, though, for ballistic missile targeting. And that's why there's still some issues. That's why they're taking out the ballistic missiles, too. Hello, McFly.

47:30Charles Payne's a good man I like Charles from Fox Here he is explaining how oil prices Here's what happens in the oil market There's a lot of speculation, hedging And panic buying that happens in the oil And energy market People hear a bad headline, it's called headline risk They go out, they buy They buy, when you buy something there's a lot of demand Prematurely And what happens? Prices spike Simple market clearing price You get the X and O if you've seen supply, demand, economics, pretty simple stuff. But there's also hedging and futures contracts. People who factored in a price of energy in the market for their planes and jet fuel and everything else start buying futures contracts and everything.

48:10Dan Bongino:Once the panic and the headlines settle down, those contracts have to be settled. And when they're settled, there's a counterparty. And prices come down sometimes dramatically. That's why you saw the drop yesterday. So to all the bed shitters out there, oh my gosh, the war is over. Prices are spiking. This is a thorough insanity. Listen to Charles Plain say, everybody hold, hold. You haven't done that in a while. Check this out. We don't have an oil problem. And I think Secretary Wright was trying to explain that. This is all speculation. This is all, you can almost argue, manipulation. This is what they call geopolitical risk.

48:52There's no formula for it. It could be an extra$10. It could be an extra$20. It could be an extra$30. So when you have a move like that that's not based on fundamentals per se, it could be parabolic, which it is, through the roof, but when parabolic moves like that die down, they usually come down just as fast.

49:12Just did my 10 air squats on the show. Did I not? Yes, I did.

49:17Dan Bongino:The prices can come down just as fast Because the contracts have to be settled Think about putting call options on a stock You buy a stock option, a futures contract And you go long on it You think the price is going to go up, okay? You want the right to buy that stock at a certain price A lower price, because you think it's going to go up Eventually the contract has to be settled My gosh, these Look at this chat Folks, the price came down so quickly The panic class Just drives me freaking nuts We opened up the show today With someone in the chat I forget who it was Someone said to me in the chat World War 3, this host is talking about World War 2 Everything the panic in class Is talking about Nearly every single thing Has not happened I'm dead serious when I say this At what point do you disregard their opinion and say everything they said was going to happen did not happen?

50:21Dan Bongino:At what point does that happen? How many people, how many times are they going to bullshit you before you're like, I've had enough? By the way, just put up that Wall Street Journal article quick with the screenshot by Kessler. Here's the long term and midterm possibilities, not midterm elections, but middle term timeline horizon about what could happen with energy prices. because Donald Trump had the moose balls to do what he did. Kessler notes in the Wall Street Journal, here's a real win scenario. He says there are two components. Component one, the U.S. gets Western-friendly regimes in Venezuela and Iran to pump oil like crazy, adding to the global supply, not subject to sanctions.

51:02Two, the U.S. achieves post-war control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the global oil flows. Could prices then head towards$40 a barrel?

51:12Dan Bongino:He knows that's likely It would cripple the Russian war machine Check

51:20You had to see yesterday's show for that By the way, I love Andy Kessler's columns a lot

51:27Dan Bongino:He's no big huge Trump guy Do you hear what he's saying? You get long term control in the lock and the barn door To a fifth of the world's global supply The price could crash to$40 a barrel. Then you got a different set of issues out in the Permian Basin and elsewhere.

51:47Dan Bongino:And then it cripples the Russian war machine. Why? How is Russia financing their war machine? A war machine needs power. Power needs money. Russia gets money from selling oil and selling power.

52:03Dan Bongino:All I'm asking you is, you see why I the man I just like I told you I'm in a freaking mood today you see why I get so pissed off at the Doomer panicking class because the left put up that on the Wall Street Journal article totally out of order the left there are people on the left starting to realize right now that their party has gone crazy not a lot don't get don't put a big smile on your face James Freeman wrote about this in the journal yesterday Most Democrats want normal. They put a survey out where a lot of these AOC, Bernie Sanders types, again, we're not going to be popping any champagne.

52:45A lot of Democrats are starting to realize, like even with this Tallarico candidate in Texas for Senate, that they're in deep shit with this. You know, men's penises in the women's room. Like this is like they're not the kind of stuff which resonates. There are a lot of Democrats starting to get away from this stuff.

53:02Dan Bongino:How does that have to do, what does that have to do with doomers? The doomer class, like this is the Democrats' last chance, is to fracture us from the inside with agitprop and bullshit and to start this, you know, so-called, you know, MAGA civil war.

53:20Folks, if this operation in Iran wraps up in the next couple weeks And we've decapitated the regime, decapitated their ballistic missile sites Destroyed their nuclear program And have de facto control of the Straits of Hormuz

53:38Dan Bongino:We are in amazing shape and we are a thousand times better And that might be an understatement than where we were even after Midnight Hammer when we took out some of those nuclear facilities. We will be in incredible shape. Incredible shape.

53:58Now, folks, this poll I showed you in the beginning of the show, Trump more popular than Newsom, ICE more popular than Democrats, it's not a shock to any of you, but I promise you it was a shock to Democrats. The liberal ones I just showed you in that Freeman article who were trying to drag the party to put men in the women's room. They really believe like they had the place, you know, completely mined, like the men in black, like, you know, they wiped their brains of the old Democrat Party and instilled the new one like a new software program.

54:30Dan Bongino:Folks, nothing they tell you is true. These Democrats, the ones in charge now, are complete lunatics. They have one goal and one goal only. And that is power and the abuse of power. That's it. I'm not kidding. They would tomorrow morning, they would support voter ID if they thought voter ID would lead to more Democratic votes. I am not kidding. Why do they hate voter ID and the SAVE Act? They hate it because they need illegals voting, voter fraud. They need them to win for the electoral college, midterm elections. They don't feel like they can win without mass ballot harvesting in front. If they did feel like they can win, they wouldn't fight this stuff.

55:10hat tip what is this hunter biden laptop something on tiktok here's a gem from chuck schumer yesterday no like a very long time ago when he had more hair he was probably a congressman when this one went down here's chuck schumer ironically advocating for id social security cards and against fraud before he realized he was for fraud and against id check this out gentlemen salute him for his work on this rise in support of the amendment. First of all, Social Security card is used from one end of America to the other as an identification card right now. Who are we kidding? If you want to pass a law and says it shouldn't be, I would ask the chairman and the distinguished minority member of the Social Security Committee to pass that law, but let's admit the truth.

55:56Everywhere people go, they're asked for a Social Security card. In fact, one way to prove you're a bona fide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver's license and a social security card. This is an anti-fraud amendment. All over where we go, people say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here? And the number one answer we give our constituents is, when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud. 1996, I was a police cadet.

56:31Dan Bongino:That's how long ago that was. I've been through about 47 different jobs since then. Folks, these people are full of shit. I'm telling you they are creating a very serious national security situation right now. This is a far different world than 1996. You have everything from agricultural bioweapons. You've seen some of the arrests we made when I was there in the bureau about these Chinese researchers, CCP-connected researchers, trying to smuggle all these agricultural parasites and pathogens into the country. We had about three or four cases like that. I think one was out of Michigan. There were a ton of them.

57:14We get briefed on them like once a week. You've got cyber weapons right now. Cyber weapons right now that could probably do significant damage to the grid where you come in and hit power on your computer and you get nothing but the blue screen of doom. This is a no bullshit world we live in right now. You see this ABC article yesterday? Now, I would not jump the gun on any of this again. The media wants you to get all like excited and oh my gosh, about sleeper cells in the United States. I've already told you that the sleeper cell, Iranian terrorist sleeper cell issues, Could there be? Of course, there could be sleeper cells.

57:57You don't know what you don't know. The U.S. is intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran. It may serve as an operational trigger for sleeper assets outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies. Folks. Of course, this is a potential situation. However, as I've indicated to you many times, having seen this from the other side, the presence of a network of people known as a cell rather than a lone actor creates the need for communications, money to change hands, typically weapons, training, chat room conversations. And we do a pretty darn good job of intercepting this stuff in advance.

58:40Not that I'm not worried about it. It's not what I'm saying. What I'm telling you is ABC wants you to panic right now. Here's Donald Trump himself yesterday discussing. He gets a question about sleep ourselves. I want you to pay. It answers about 50 seconds, not that long. But I want you to pay very close attention to the last few seconds of this because he gets briefed.

59:05Dan Bongino:Folks, he gets briefed on this every day. We would get the same brief he does. He gets this every day. He knows exactly what's happening. Check this out. Iran activated any sleeper cells inside the U.S. There's reports that they have pressed that trigger button to activate those cells, at least abroad. Well, we've been trying for a long time. We've been very much on top of it. One of the things we have to do is get the Democrats to stop the Democrats' shutdown. Because, as you know, the apparatus that looks into that, Schumer and the Democrats have shut it down, which tells you they probably hate our country a lot but the democrats have to open that up but we've got very very good intelligence into that we know a lot of different things that have happened that have been very bad a lot of them came in during the biden open border period but we have them under uh we we've got them we've we're watching every single one of them Yeah, we know a lot about him.

1:00:08Voodoo zombie in the chat. Oh, Dan, I've missed super caffeinated Dan. Yes, there it is right in there. A little cold brew. Blackout.

1:00:19Dan Bongino:He is telling you, President Trump, exactly what's happening. I'm not telling you it's not a threat. Do not misconstrue my words. Especially liberal media scum who watch the show And like to, you know, obsess They can't get away I'm just telling you that once you create a circuit or a cell of people There are interception points that don't exist with just lone actors

1:00:50Dan Bongino:Now the Democrats don't seem to give a shit at all As President Trump just indicated Because they don't even want to fund the Department of Homeland Security during a really perilous time in American history. No one's downplaying what's going on in Iran right now. There is clearly an elevated threat situation. No Republican or Democrat is going to tell you otherwise. The degree of the elevation is open for debate. I think ABC is looking for you to panic. Don't panic. Panic doesn't do anything. However, if the Democrats were really serious about wrapping this up quickly and stopping World War III and stopping a terror attack on U.S.

1:01:31Dan Bongino:soil, you think they would help and fund the freaking Department of Homeland Security? That's the actual name, bro. They can't even do that. Watch this Fox video from yesterday. TSA, you think TSA is important? Maybe, you know, it's not like terrorists. You guys ever heard of an incident where terrorists target the aviation industry? Josh is like, no, no, I never heard of that. Never happened. It happens all the time. You think you may want to fund TSA just a thought. Check this out. This is out of the New Orleans airport here. Security lines wrapped around for hours. It was so crowded there that you could barely see the floor.

1:02:08An airport spokesperson said TSA is short-staffed at security checkpoints because of the federal government partial shutdown leading to those longer than usual lines. And it was the same story at Houston's Hobby Airport here on Sunday afternoon, lines reaching the parking lot. And it comes as millions of spring breakers are expected to travel over the next two months.

1:02:35Why would you continue to vote for this? I'm sorry, guys, listen, I understand hardball partisan politics as good as well as anyone. I've run, I've been an activist, been on the inside, been on the outside, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Who cares? Who gives a shit? I'm just telling you, this is beyond the pale. The Democrats, you lose nothing right now politically by coming out and saying, hey, whatever, just make it up. We got Kristi Noem and we got body cameras. We won. And this is a really perilous time.

1:03:04Dan Bongino:And we think it's a good idea to open up the government right now. I mean, we're the big government people. And we don't think it's a good idea to shut government while we're taking out the Ayatollah class. You lose nothing. They are so deranged. They can't even do that. And you want to vote for these crazy people. Here, you want to vote for this? Guy picked out this gem. Here's another one of these Democrat-Liberal rallies. It was this International Women's Day rally. Check this out. This is what you want to vote for? Now you see why even some Democrats, quote, want normal? Check this out. You want women's votes.

1:03:43And now I invite you to scream.

1:03:47Dan Bongino:What is with the screaming, bro? What is? What the?

1:04:00I was going to voice over this, but I can't.

1:04:14So when I was up in D.C., I lived in city center and I lived in this building. So the security detail, I lived on one of the upper floors. The security detail, people would go in looty tunes in the chat. This is what the left is. If you're ever at a Republican rally where they do this, leave immediately. So the security detail, sometimes my knee would hurt, so I'd walk a little slow, and I lived all the way at the end of the hallway. The elevator was super loud when you would hold the elevator for too long, and the security detail would hold it. And it would be like, eh. And I would say to them, hey, guys, what's the most annoying sound in the world?

1:04:50And they'd be like, that one? I'd be like, yes, that one. I take that back. That lady is the most annoying sound in the world. That's your options.

1:05:02Folks, I got a couple other things I want to get after, including the Alinsky rule you're going to see in the media right now. A Guardian hit piece on Secretary of War Hague said that is just freaking disgusting. They love the media, the Alinsky rule. I saw this with us over at the Bureau. I see, obviously, with Trump. they when they cannot argue the results when they can't argue the results hegseth has maduro under his belt now midnight hammer and this operation which at least thus far movie's not over yet has been going quite well what do they do single out the target personalize it and make it about pete don't make it about the results they did this with us too i don't like Dan's haircut.

1:05:46Really? I cut my own hair. What does that have to do with the results? Quick break. I'll show you what I mean. I just want to give you a quick update too on what Secretary Hegseth and the president, what they're actually doing. Hey, when spring rolls around, I always get that urge to reset everything, just get life running a little smoother. And the one upgrade that's made a huge difference in my life is the mattress. Folks, you got to have a good mattress. If you're not sleeping good, you're going to feel it the next day. You're going to feel it in your joints. You're going to feel sluggish. You're going to feel mentally not there.

1:06:18Mentally, physically, all of it. You got to get a good night's sleep. Let all that stuff clean out of the brain and the body to recover. I have a Helix mattress. I've had one for a long time. This is my second or third. Had one when I moved up north too. I've had it for quite a while. All my kids have them. I have one in the guest house. The guest loves it all the time. They go over there like, when did you get that mattress? Helix, H-E-L-X. Here's the only downside. You don't want to sleep at a hotel anymore because you love your helix mattress before helix nights were rough wake up with a tight back knees would be killing me no more super comfortable mattress and here's the thing i take they have this sleep quiz over there you go and take it and it gets paired with the perfect mattress for how you sleep not someone else and within the first week you're going to feel your body feeling actually different and relaxing at night get rid of the mattress you have now pick up a helix h-e-l-i-x Now I'm waking up refreshed Helix has an exclusive offer now For my audience Best mattress in the business Just go to helixsleep.com Slash Dan Take the sleep quiz Get a mattress tailored to you And get 27 % off site wide And one of the best Most competitive prices in the business That's helixsleep.com Slash Dan For 27 % off site wide Make sure you enter our show name At checkout So they know we sent you That's helixsleep.com slash dan helix sleep.com slash dan check it out let me go to the pete article first in the guardian so we make every effort to never stay on track today at all we have done nothing according to plan today during the show because yes as that chatster said out there i am in one of these super caffeinated moves today guardian a very dangerous person alarm is pete hegseth by the way you can call him secretary hanks if he has a title you know revels in the carnage of iran war revels leave that up revels i don't know you guys see him reveling he's sitting there feet up drink wine pouring all over you know like those old medieval parties turkey legging his mouth i am reveling in the carnage of the era i don't i don't see reveling i don't know what you're talking about reveling they note that pete is quote brash and bellicose and he sounded more like a cartoon bully rather than a somber statesman.

1:08:33And they put some of his quotes out there. This is, by the way, him reveling. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. Josh, that sound like reveling. Josh, that sounds like reveling to me. Josh, wouldn't you think that's how war works, right? Like when you defeat the enemy, like you don't let them get back up, correct? That's the whole idea of war, right? You're going, hey, guys,

1:08:58Dan Bongino:I'm going to give you time to recover, and then we're going to hit you again. That's not a—I was not in combat. I don't pretend to be. I'm just not stupid. Okay? You're in combat. Your goal is to do what? Kill the bad guy. You don't, like, shoot the bad guy. You nick him in the toe and go, hey, you okay? Hold on. I'm going to give you a few minutes. Why don't you reload, and then we'll do it again. That's not the way this works, bro. That's him, quote, reveling? That sounds to me like a rather benign statement of fact on how combat actually works. This is the left-wing media and their Alinsky tactics.

1:09:35Put it up. They love this one. You see them doing it with everyone in the administration. Rules for radicals. Saul Alinsky, left-wing organizer. Pick the target. In this case, Pete Egzeth. Secretary of War. Freeze it. Personalize it And polarize it Cut off the support network Isolate the target from sympathy Go after people and not institutions People hurt faster than institutions It's a cruel but very effective tactic

1:10:10Folks I was on the other side of this I've been talking about the Alinsky rules forever When they cannot argue the results The PC cases You know, lowest crime rate in American history. The homicide rate collapsing. 67 ,000 arrests.

1:10:32It's counter-espionage and CT interdictions, counter-terror interdictions. When they can't do it, they go after you. They're doing the same thing now with Secretary of War Pete Heggson.

1:10:44Dan Bongino:They don't have anything else. When you, what they say in the legal space, when you can't pound the facts, pound the table, This is them pounding the table. Pete's brash and bellicose. What the hell does that even mean? Is he getting results or not? Here's a Trey Yinks clip from Fox from yesterday. With the entire leadership Mueller regime of death to America, radical freaking lunatics, the whole class of these idiots have been completely wiped out. You want to argue those results? You want to argue about Pete, brash, bellicose, cartoon character. These people are totally full of shit. This is Alinsky tactics.

1:11:19Dan Bongino:Once you learn to recognize them, you can then move past it. But then you get bogged down. This is where they pull in kind of the Doomer class. They get into personalities. By the way, you know how many of these bullshitters thought I was never coming back and just did all this bullshit because they felt like, oh gosh, you know, he's gone. Maybe we can steal this. That's stealing shit.

1:11:45I'm always coming back at some point. how to flip the calendar and get some stuff done. Here's Trey Yinkst on Fox about exactly how successful this has been so far. They built their military around this, planning for this mosaic defense. But the reality is, as these strikes continue, we can expect more of Iran's leadership to be taken out. And it makes it very challenging for Iran to fight for long periods of time. They say that they are prepared for a month's long war. The reality will be quite different, Despite the fact that there is still incoming fire from Iran itself, the ballistic missiles that soar through the skies of this country earlier today, one person was killed in central Israel and the fire that we just saw now from Hezbollah.

1:12:27It is a military that will continue to be depleted in the days ahead. Folks, do you have any idea when you get past the Guardian personalized Alinsky bullshit and the personal attacks on Secretary Hegseth, how much he has done at the Pentagon when you want to get into just results and get past the bullshit supply chain? Do you know what a mess the military supply chain was? I had some experience with meetings with him on drones, which I bring up a lot. The supply chain, there are so many people in the Pentagon Who've got their kind of like fingers in the pot on things It's almost impossible to find a decision maker He's been spending the last year while Maduro was happening While Midnight Hammer was happening While all these global activities were happening He's also been cleaning up the supply chain with his deputy over there

1:13:20Dan Bongino:It is really, really difficult The bureaucracy of the Pentagon is unbelievable He's cleaned up a lot of that While he's also dealing with The explosive growth of AI And some of these woke AI companies That, hey, hold on, time out again I need you to listen to this, this is really important Some of these woke AI And computing companies Don't want to do business With the US government and the Department of War Because they live in some fairytale world Where they think, oh, we don't want our technology used to kill people These mother, are trying to kill us too, you dipshits You ever see the All In podcast?

1:13:59Dan Bongino:Really good show. They had an acquisitions official from the Pentagon on the show yesterday talking about this brewing war between this AI company and the Pentagon where this AI company wants to sell their products to the U.S. government. But, you know, we're not so sure we want our products used to, like, kill people. You know what? Sometimes bad people have to die. Do you not know that? So you want to, just to be clear, Let's withhold our products from the U.S. government Defending liberty and freedom Basically around the world While you do what? Sell it to like death to America crowd Assholes and others?

1:14:37Dan Bongino:Are you for real? Listen I am a Economic libertarian at heart But we live in a dangerous freaking world And if you've got advanced level products That can help kill Americans Then you better be helping Americans fight back and defend themselves if your product's hijacked too. This is a fascinating minute where this Pentagon official's like, hey man, we're done with this bullshit. You're going to sell this stuff to the US government, then you're not going to tell us how to use it too. Check this out. Why then designate them a supply chain risk? Why not just abandon them, move on, use the other vendors?

1:15:18Why take this kind of punitive action? Yeah, so I don't view it as punitive, and I'll tell you why. It's if their model has this policy bias, let's call it, based on their constitution, their culture, their people, and so on. I don't want Lockheed Martin using their model to design weapons for me. I don't want the people who are designing the things that go into the componentry to come to me. Because if that poison, if you believe the risk of poisoning, you're compounding that risk. Yes, it can enter into any part of the defense enterprise. But it's just the defense enterprise. So Boeing wants to use Anthropic to build commercial jets, have at it.

1:16:02Boeing wants to use it to build fighter jets. I can't have that because I don't trust what the outputs may be because they're so wedded to their own policy preferences. I worry about them shutting off our system at a moment of need or them messing with our system at a moment of need. If you don't want your stuff to be used for department of war stuff you shouldn't be selling to the department of war. Pretty shameful. It's in the name. It's in the name. Folks, this is serious, okay? That's Emil Michael. He's an undersecretary at the Pentagon on the acquisition side. This is really important. So I should have put this at the beginning of the show.

1:16:37Shame on me. I was just in a mood today and I just had so much stuff to get to. That's probably one of the most important things I could have discussed today. I've been warning you that technology is advancing, surveillance technology, weapons technology, targeting technology, AI technology, quantum technology, at a pace that's hard for the guardrails to catch up. Trying to like say stuff without saying, you get on going with this? it's hard for the guardrails to catch up. If these companies are going to sell in the U.S. market and it is a dual-use technology, dual-use, I know a lot of you know what that means.

1:17:29There may be some liberals in the chat, though. It can be used for free market business, capitalist enterprise, and military technology, too. A lot of, like, a GPS started that way. I mean, obviously the internet and DARPA and all this. Dual-use technology.

1:17:43Dan Bongino:These dual-use technologies, AI, advanced computing, this is a whole different level, folks. If China, Iran, North Korea, and others, and enemies of the United States, even in our own hemisphere, get access to this technology before us, we're finished. These companies live in some like Bullshit world utopia We don't want our products used to kill people Really? Folks I've got news for you Like remember the old Ginsu knives From back in the day You remember I may be aging myself You know knives are used For good all the time People carve things People cut things They cut meat They cut food People also kill people with knives Imagine a knife We're not selling knives anymore or a knife was used to kill someone.

1:18:40Are you people for real?

1:18:43Dan Bongino:You should be lining up at the Secretary of War in the Pentagon's office to be assisting the United States government to make the military so powerful that nobody does mess with us and we can head off a world war. I'm just telling you, there were a lot of projects I was knee deep in. Thankfully A lot of the companies That provided this tech Were very good Even companies I don't like But they were very helpful But that is some serious bullshit I don't know what kind of world They think we live in That's why I saw this tweet this morning From Cash Obviously I don't discuss these tweets With him anymore But I saw this from the FBI Director Patel He's like, hey, we're working, the FBI that is obviously Working 24-7 to stay ahead of the threat And implement a sweeping cyber strategy Pursuant to President Trump's cyber strategy for America President Trump understands the cyber threat I'm telling you, he sees it like mad The mutually assured destruction nuclear policies Of the Reagan era and earlier Where, folks, we can't stop The proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world We're trying, we did in Iran But I'm saying like, I shouldn't say we can't stop it.

1:20:05We can. I'm saying like the people who have nuclear weapons have them. North Korea, you know, Russia. Russia's got a huge portfolio of them. China and other countries as well. You're not going to stop that now We're there, that's the world we live in That's the deck of cards we got to play So now we build our own nuclear portfolio To say well if you decide to launch a nuclear weapon at us Like House of Dynamites style That was that movie on Netflix that freaked everybody out Then we're going to mutually assure your destruction By launching at U2 and then everybody dies So your choice is suicide or not this administration sees some of these advanced cyber weapons the same way and that was a total sea change that's why i get so pissed off at these ai companies who don't understand the threat picture to this country i wish you could just read them in on an intelligence briefing once or twice a week and then wipe their minds and then say hey here's what we're dealing with every day you want to help now i guarantee you they'd be like oh okay we changed our mind now we understand.

1:21:10On a lighter note, I don't like to leave you guys, show not over yet, but I don't like to leave you guys with, you know, kind of bad feelings. And as my grandmother would say, agita for the day. Technologies obviously provided us with incredible, incredible medicines, transportation technology, materials science, CRISPR, genes, gene editing. I mean, all this stuff is exploding. Quantum AI. I use this specific AI program for my health. I probably put too much information in there. I just don't want to die. I had that whole cancer scare thing. Well, not scare, I can't, but it's always scary to me.

1:21:51Hopefully everything's good in the future. I put a lot of information. It's amazing what it'll spit out. I learned something about eosonophils last night. I'd never known before. What are eosonophils? Check it all out. I had an elevated the Asana Phil thing. I found the link on AI last night or it found it. I couldn't even believe. I can all believe. Technology, if we can get a hold of this and get the guardrails up and make sure everything is balanced going forward, because this stuff does have potential to cause us real harm. I don't have a Tesla. I've been thinking about buying one for a while.

1:22:28I have to have special cars, if you know what I mean, for security purposes. However, I've been thinking about it for a while. I got to tell you, obviously, I know about the self-driving feature. You see freaking Waymos and all kinds of cars. Most cars have them now. The car I have, because there's some stuff on it, doesn't have that option, the self-driving option. However, I may be the last person on earth who is like, Florida, but this, I've never even, I don't think I've even driven in a Tesla. But you hear all Tesla owners bragging about their cars and the self-driving technology. Sometimes you see them on the road.

1:23:04They're like shaving. And I'm always like, damn, that's pretty cool. Because I hate driving. We don't have the team with us. I saw this video and a guy posted this. If you don't own a Tesla, it's about a minute, but this is pretty cool stuff. Check this out. Owning a Tesla in 2026 is wild because every day I wake up with a fully charged battery and all I need to do is unplug my Tesla, get inside, buckle my seatbelt, enter a destination, and then I just tap start self-driving and it will literally drive me out of my garage to my destination without me having to do a single thing.

1:23:46Then once my Tesla arrives at its destination, it will look for its own parking spot and park itself for me.

1:23:57Totally understand this actual self-driving technology is actually quite old. I mean, it's not new. Everybody knows about self-driving. All I'm telling you is I watch this video and I hang out and I spend a lot of time in Miami. I love Miami. Liberals stay out of there. City's closed. City's closed. We're not taking new applicants. I love Miami. I'm a city kid at heart. So is my wife. I spend a ton of time down there. You what? Folks in the chat, anyone from Miami? down in the Brickle area down there. You walk around the streets of Brickle,

1:24:30Dan Bongino:it's like freaking Blade Runner. Like the new Blade Runner. There's like the little robot door dash things all over the street. I love how they like always find a crosswalk. There's Waymos everywhere. I'm waiting for like stormtroopers and stuff from Star Wars to come over there. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. It's like you never thought you'd be like, we're only like 10 minutes away from like those drone taxis with the propellers and the parachutes it is insane you walked out of Brickle anybody that you know exactly what I'm talking about Waymos and robots everywhere so I don't want you to be down on it the technology is good there's going to be a massive productivity boom as artificial intelligence implanted into robotics basically takes over the production eliminates the need for a lot of hard human capital inputs and everything you buy is now going to be dramatically cheaper.

1:25:29No, it isn't.

1:25:30Dan Bongino:Yes, it is. Only liberals who don't understand economics don't understand this. This has only happened like 100 ,000 times over the last two decades. Remember flat screen TVs when they came out? $4 ,000 or$5 ,000. They weighed like 700 pounds. I had one. It was like this thick. Now you buy one in Walmart. It's a better technology. It's like 150 bucks on sale on Black Friday. And it weighs like five pounds. This is going to happen with everything, folks. Because the expensive inputs to build these things are going to get really cheap. Even the inputs like the rare earth minerals and the silicon and all of it, the processing is going to be done by robots too.

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