The Most Irresponsible Headline of the Year (Ep. 2484)

31 Mar 2026 · 1 h 22 min · 34 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino criticizes sensational media coverage of the Charlie Kirk murder trial, arguing it violates due process by implying the defendant’s guilt before court findings. He also broadens into a critique of left-wing policies (wealth taxes, socialism, open borders) as “third-world” style economics that create chaos and fraud.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are interviewed in this transcript. Bongino references clips and commenters, including Melissa Koenig (Daily Mail) and Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank) from another podcast.

Key claims

The Daily Mail headline (“did not match” the rifle) is misleading or inconsistent with the underlying court filing, which Bongino says states the ATF couldn’t identify/match the bullet to the alleged rifle (ballistics inconclusive). He argues TMZ and social-media accounts amplify “headline trials” and “correlation vs causation” conspiracies. He claims wealth taxes cause wealthy people to leave (citing “natural experiments” like Washington State, Maryland, France) and that big-government welfare/open-borders policies incentivize dependence and fraud.

Notable examples

Daily Mail headline by Melissa Koenig; X “community note” clarifying the filing; TMZ headline; viral Manhattan/Canal Street “third-world” footage; Kevin O’Leary wealth-tax debate clip; references to hospice/homeless spending figures and non-profit “welfare fraud industrial complex.”

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Chapters

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The Disturbing Headline

0:46 to 2:18

Dan critiques a headline about a trial involving Charlie Kirk, expressing disbelief at the media's handling of the case.

“is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.”

Data Processing and Information Overload

3:51 to 5:48

Dan discusses the importance of processing relevant information to solve problems, distinguishing useful facts from distractions.

“Everybody who's shown in, man, let's get in the funnel here.”

Analyzing the Daily Mail's Claims

5:59 to 9:57

Dan breaks down the inaccuracies and implications of the Daily Mail headline regarding the Charlie Kirk trial.

“Here's the Daily Mail headline from last night I mean, again, one of the most disgusting things I've seen in a long time.”

The Importance of Due Process

10:02 to 14:01

Dan reaffirms the principle of due process and critiques the media's influence on public perception in legal cases.

“There is no more vigorous opponent of censorship than me at all.”

Understanding Correlation vs. Causation

14:01 to 18:08

Learn why correlation does not imply causation using relatable examples.

“Of course, there are others out there making other dramatic connections.”

The Political Implications of Misinformation

18:09 to 21:41

Explore the dangers of believing in false narratives and misinformation.

“You see how I put out both sides of this because we're interested in a process?”

The Fight for Truth

21:42 to 22:01

Discover the importance of staying grounded in truth amid political chaos.

“have had far more difficult struggles than we have.”

Reflections on Historical Struggles

22:02 to 23:10

Reflect on past struggles and their relevance to current societal issues.

“my grandfather who's long since passed, Frank Bongino fought and the Battle of the Bulge and...”

Natural Experiments and Political Outcomes

24:40 to 28:00

Analyze how natural experiments can help assess the impact of policies.

“Folks, we already know what happens, by the way.”

Observations from New York Streets

28:00 to 29:29

Explore the deteriorating condition of affluent neighborhoods in New York City.

“in new york was a police officer there started my career in midtown south the precinct there this guy's walking down the streets of new york folks if you took the background scenery out of this with AI.”
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The Third World Experience

29:30 to 30:19

Discuss the alarming similarities between urban New York and third-world conditions.

“Folks, this looks like the freaking third world.”

The Venezuelan Perspective

30:20 to 31:25

Analyze a viral video showcasing a Cuban's reaction to free-market abundance.

“Even the moderate position, air quotes, the Democrats are running on, is still crazy.”

Historical Context of Human Deprivation

31:26 to 33:39

Understand the historical prevalence of starvation and the importance of free markets.

“I want you to look at the videos in Spanish, so we'll just play a little bit in LVO.”

Welfare System Failures

33:40 to 34:48

Investigate the inefficiencies of welfare spending and its impact on homelessness.

“They're transfers from hardworking taxpayers to criminals who are stealing the money.”

Government Mismanagement of Resources

34:49 to 36:34

Examine how government spending fails to aid the homeless effectively.

“Ladies and gentlemen, if the government is paying for something in a big government model, whether it's socialism or just big government democracy, right?”

Demographics and Electoral Strategies

36:35 to 37:54

Explore how demographic shifts influence electoral strategies and government policies.

“Why does the government waste and piss away so much money?”

Critique of Wealth Tax

37:55 to 39:54

Critically assess the implications and historical outcomes of implementing a wealth tax.

“I'm not doing that, man I don't want to live in the third world, folks And you shouldn't either Here's Kevin O 'Leary You may know him from Shark Tank Mr.”

Debate on Wealth Tax with Kevin O'Leary

39:55 to 42:01

Engage in a lively discussion about the merits and downsides of wealth taxation.

“Here's Kevin O 'Leary arguing with these two young men about a wealth tax?”

The Wealth Tax Debate

42:01 to 45:31

Exploring the arguments and implications of a wealth tax.

“Like, like both of you are going to hell.”

Encouraging Work Ethic

45:32 to 49:24

A passionate call for individuals to seek employment rather than relying on government aid.

“How many more trials do you need before you're going to show us that this correlation between communism and collectivism and success works?”

The Victim Mentality

49:25 to 55:06

Discussing how perpetuating a victim mentality harms society and individuals.

“others and give it to people who can work not only are you making them lazy you are stealing away their opportunity to add value to this world every single person has some god-given talent i I don't know what it is.”

Controversies in Sports

55:07 to 56:00

Debating the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.

“Marie Harf, obviously a diehard liberal.”

The Debate on Trans Athletes in Sports

56:00 to 56:44

Exploring the ongoing debate around transgender athletes competing in women's sports.

“Men should be able to play in women's sports as long as they call themselves women They've been fighting for this for 10 years Why?”

Political Manipulation and Control

56:44 to 57:55

Discussion on how political agendas can manipulate vulnerable groups for power.

“I don't think that all the questions are necessarily coming from a bad play.”

The Struggle Against Leftist Ideologies

57:55 to 59:23

Highlighting the challenges faced by individuals opposing leftist movements in society.

“They only cared about the issue because you've got to put victim classes in silos to use them as political weapons for your personal power-seeking endeavors.”

Censorship and Free Speech

59:23 to 1:00:03

Examining the rise of censorship and the importance of platforms that support free speech.

Leftist Comedy and Cultural Commentary

1:01:41 to 1:02:48

Analyzing a comedic video as a commentary on leftist views towards relationships.

“Okay, folks, this is not meant to be the comedy break.”

The Absurdity of Leftist Actions

1:02:48 to 1:04:00

Discussing the absurdity of some leftist rhetoric and movements in modern culture.

“But folks, it's hard to say on a serious note after watching that kind of stupid.”

Military Technology and Warfare

1:04:00 to 1:08:20

Exploring advancements in military technology and their implications for modern warfare.

“Have you ever seen this comedian, Shane Gillis?”

Assessment of Military Success and Strategy

1:08:20 to 1:10:01

Analyzing the effectiveness of military actions and the perceptions surrounding them.

“I was reading the Wall Street Journal about the ongoing military action, the war over in Iran right now, and how we are now so technologically advanced in warfare that whereas, hear me out here.”

Military Strength and Diplomatic Strategies

1:10:01 to 1:12:43

Discusses the American military's capabilities and the importance of diplomacy in international relations.

“But there are people on the other side who want you to believe like this is some catastrophic failure.”

Criticism of Political Opponents

1:12:44 to 1:14:46

Analyzes criticisms of Trump's policies and the left's approach to governance.

“Folks, there's you know, this you know, we got him this time attitude with Trump.”

Leftist Narratives on Evil and Victimhood

1:14:47 to 1:18:11

Explores how leftist narratives obscure moral clarity and promote victimhood.

“Did you see this Michigan Senate candidate?”

Belief in Due Process

1:18:12 to 1:19:15

Emphasizes the importance of due process and individual rights in America.

“He's beating the shit out of that guy with a club.”
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0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Hey guys, sorry about the delay. I had to add some stuff last minute. When I say last minute, I mean like actually in the last minute as in 60 seconds. Things were coming in involving the most disgusting headline I've seen in a long time. And that's a lot coming from the BS garbage trash can media we have to deal with. If you don't know what I'm talking about and you haven't seen it, what the Daily Mail, a trash garbage beyond tabloid like BS flaming dumpster fire of an outlet did last night is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.

0:50The headline about the Charlie Kirk trial. I'll get to it. One of the most disturbing headlines I've ever seen from an outlet at even like trying to pretend they have this little like patina, like this crust of seriousness. The Daily Mail has never been a serious outlet, but what they did yesterday is an abomination. I'm going to ask you a simple question, everyone out there in the audience. And I'm serious. It's not meant to be some kind of bullshit rhetorical question. I mean it. Do we believe in this republic due process In a system of justice or not Or do we believe in media headline trials I know the answer in the Bongino army out there I don't mean to be patronizing But there's some other folks who come in here to troll And be generally just assholes Do you believe A lot of these folks by the way claim to believe in liberty and freedom But they want a subject in a massively publicized U.S.

1:49trial Involving the murder of Charlie Kirk tried in the media. I thought you believed in liberty and freedom. Just not when it gets you clicks and rage bait, right? Unbelievable what happened last, and I mean unbelievable. It really was hard to believe. I had a hard time going to sleep last night processing how people who pretend to be journalists, even like slightly, could do what they did yesterday. All right, I got a lot of show. I only say that again because we had to add a lot in at the last minute. It was my fault, not theirs. I'm like, throw this in, throw that in. Folks, we prepare financially, protect our homes.

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3:43Do it today. Don't wait for an emergency. This is not medical advice. Consult a licensed healthcare professional before taking any prescription medication. All right, fellas, let's go. Listen to me, please. Everybody who's shown in, man, let's get in the funnel here. Speaking of funnels, the mark of the imbecile is the inability, I can't say this enough, to process a data set of information and come down to the information like a funnel that you find useful to deal with this scenario. I mean, for instance, you know, we were sitting here before, car pulled into the parking lot, accidentally pulled sideways, guy was lost, was blocking access to the parking lot.

4:21Now, there's light shining in my face, there's people talking in my ear, I spilled a little bit of coffee inside. All of those things are facts. However, they're not facts relevant to me dealing with the problem right now, which is a car pulled into the driveway and pulled sideways, and no one can get into the studio. The mark of the imbecile is the inability to segregate out facts and data that are useless towards solving a problem from facts and data that are useful to solving a problem. That is the mark of the imbecile. It has always been the mark of the imbecile. Easily distracted, correlation over causation, the Lego theory.

4:59Put a Lego here, put a Lego there, never connect the Legos, but just tell people there's two Legos and they'll make the connection themselves because they can't process information. overloading people with facts and underwhelming people with actual evidence is the mark of the imbecile. It has been since the beginning of time.

5:22It's how we wound up with all kinds of bizarre, freaky-deaky rituals before people started to bedrock themselves in science.

5:37Folks, the funnel for facts works this way To get to a solution for a problem The mark of the imbecile is the inversion of that Take a solution for a problem And confuse people with a bunch of unrelated facts That intelligent people had segregated out a long time ago As facts, but not evidence

5:59Here's the Daily Mail headline from last night I mean, again, one of the most disgusting things I've seen in a long time. There is a trial going on. Bullitt used to kill Charlie Kirk, quote, did not, not in all caps, appealing again to the lowest common denominator, did not match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims. Really? Because when you actually read Melissa Koenig, who is a disgrace to humankind, I cannot believe this person is actually employed by an outlet even pretending to be a journalistic endeavor. That this was not only allowed to pass by a headline editor, but put out there.

6:43Keep this up, guys. This is going to be important. Is an absolute abomination. Number one, the headline of the piece, which is clearly rage bait and clickbait, is completely inaccurate and is debunked by Melissa Koenig, this absolute imbecile. her own piece. So the bullet used did not match the rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson. Here they write in a piece, the bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk may not match the rifle. Oh, used by Tyler Robinson. Well, that's interesting. Well, now it's may not. I thought it said did not. Guys, are you reading the same thing I'm reading, Justin?

7:21The title says did not, right? But then the first line says it may not. Am you reading it? I mean, fellas, ladies in the audience, you're reading the same thing? Because I'm sure the Candace fans are in here now. It didn't matter. But that's just me. It gets even worse, of course, in the piece. So now they changed the headline for the moron class. But his defense attorneys talking about Mr. Robinson, who's, by the way, entitled to a vigorous defense, not faulting the defense attorneys at all. Everyone's entitled to a vigorous defense. And everyone in our court of law has to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt period thank the lord for that his defense attorneys now argue that the atf was quote unable to identify the bullet recovered at the autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to mr robinson so now it gets even worse now they're not only saying may not now they're saying it they couldn't match at all because the bullet basically was fragmented Correct.

8:24So that's like saying I was talking to Jasmine about this this morning. If you're going to put a headline like this up, by the way, because Mr. Robinson is entitled to a fair trial in a court of law to be judged by a jury of his peers. The state is also entitled to a case free of intimidation of jurors, attempts to tamper with the jury pool. the fair trial works both ways folks but i said to jasmine this morning this is the most disingenuous disgusting headline i've ever seen it's like you're at a baseball game whatever you're at a new york yankees game jasmine i was telling her this morning and you get mugged god forbid outside the stadium with 30 000 people piling up and the cop asks you hey do you see the guy can you identify him and because there's so many people out there the crowd's fragmented You can't see the guy.

9:15You go, no. Jasmine did not identify the person. That's different than what they're implying in the headline that they catch the suspect, bring the suspect up to Jasmine because they had him on video. Jasmine, is this the guy? And Jasmine says, no, that's not the guy. That's not match. They're two completely separate things. They're not even close. The Daily Mail must know this. This Melissa Koenig may not be intelligent. I don't know her, but she can't be that dumb.

9:47She got your clicks. That's all that matters, man. Young man murdered on camera. He's got kids and a wife. Ah, whatever. You got your clicks. I hope you're happy. Daily Mail, Melissa Koenig. Folks, I'm going to tell you something, okay? And I've said many times. There is no more vigorous opponent of censorship than me at all. And I would never, ever, ever go down that path because the dangers of that are far worse than idiots using garbage on the media to get clicks. But really, do you have any sense of shame at all?

10:27Folks, do we believe in due process? Do we believe in liberty and freedom? Do we believe that even the worst kind of criminal in the United States of America, subject to our Constitution, has the right to a fair trial? Do we believe that? Listen to me. Tyler Robinson is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt. We have a court proceeding coming up. The United States of America and the Utah state system will present evidence under oath in a court of law in front of a judge and jurors. That's how the system works. The people out there trying to contaminate this are doing it clearly with intent here.

11:20Of course, TMZ had a pile on with their headline too I mean, do you have any sense of shame at all? Any of you guys The TMZ staff, there's not even like a byline on this with a name Bullet used in Charlie Kirk killing doesn't match alleged weapon defense claims That's not what, it's not even in, I don't even know what you're talking about

11:51you know, I was going to use it. You know what? Just play it. By the way, this information, I thought, you know, people were confused about how a round wouldn't have an exit wound. Well, rounds do very different things because the physics of these things are very complicated. Bullets, rounds. He was Candace Owens a little while ago, but I thought they were confused about how the bullet could fragment and not exit. Regarding the bullets, the source says that it was too fragmented to match Tyler's rifle. Hat tip again, Milk Bar TV. Hat tips are appropriate. You can follow that account for rather fascinating information on that.

12:39So I thought it didn't fragment. It did some other. I don't understand. Like, why can't you just settle on a story? It's almost like you guys are lying to people for clicks instead of letting this man have his trial and his day in court and letting the state have their day in court as well. Folks, I'm really glad. I've never been prouder of the audience or the show. I'm proud of my service in the government. I'm multiple times. I'm proud of the show. I'm proud of this audience and I'm proud to call many of you friends. I really am that this is an audience full of reasonable, logical thinking adults that see through this stuff.

13:17I get your emails. I get your tweets. I know there's a small fragment of bot army out there that wants all of this chaos and loves it. But it is really an honor to be friends with many of you and to hear and to read some of your communications back and forth. I'm not even going to put up that. Can you put up the community note? So there was a community note on, of course, X about this. Not long, maybe hours after the story went up, people were putting up all kinds of conspiracy theories. Here's a community note on X. The court filing states the ATF was unable to identify the bullet to the rifle, which means the ballistics analysis was inconclusive.

13:58It does not say the bullet does not match. Further FBI analysis is ongoing.

14:06Of course, there are others out there making other dramatic connections. Here's one Lego. Here's another Lego. The two Legos aren't connected, but man, I'm going to tell you they're connected. Correlation is not causation. Because there's a Lego here and a Lego there does not mean this Lego and that Lego are connected. Folks, I've used this example probably 100 times on my show. correlation is not causation. If you get a cold in the winter, when I was a kid, mom used to tell me, hey, she's the only one who called me, Daniel. Daniel, put a jacket on when you go outside. You're going to catch a cold.

14:46I didn't like jackets. I was always hot, even in the cold weather. I don't even like to wear jackets now, only when it's super cold. You're going to catch a cold. It's cold out there. Ladies and gentlemen, and the cold does not cause you to catch a cold. The cold causes your nose to run a little more. People touch their nose a little bit more. It's a moist environment. Bacteria grow. There's a third variable in there. It doesn't mean one caused the other. Correlation is not causation. The mark of the imbecile is presenting two separate facts. People catch more colds in the winter. That's a fact.

15:21And it's cold out. And it's cold. So one must cause the other. That's not what's happening. smart people understand that. And I'm really honored to have you guys as an audience. I cannot believe how many people are falling for this. I'm going to put up this tweet and I shouldn't because I don't even know where this tweet is from. Of course, there's not a real name on it and that's pretty much a hallmark for me of nonsense. However, this tweet is basically a bat signal in the sky. When you see stuff like this on Twitter, know you're being played. It's the correlation causation myth that they equal each other.

16:10They do not. You have to present a solid linkage to show causality. This is from an account. I just saw this. This is what we were pulling before we came on the air. This is a political scalpel account I don't even know who this dude is It doesn't matter This is the mark of the imbecile Oh wow, what a shocking coincidence The sheriff who choreographed Tyler Robinson's hand-holding surrender Retired He notes, decides to peace out After 30 years The exact second the defense files the bullet Which actually killed Charlie Kirk Doesn't match the kid's alleged rifle Okay, we just showed you that's not true That's not what the filing says And second, the sheriff retired.

16:52The announcement was on Friday. Of course, this account, which I don't know anything. It doesn't matter. It has a couple thousand followers. This account is how stupid people fall for this stuff. This isn't, just keep this up. We're going to scroll down. The first paragraph, what's alleged in there isn't even true. And yet this will get thousands of retweets and people will believe it. The retirement announcement for the sheriff, who had his own issues, by the way, independent of this was on Friday. Notes they had the etched bullets, the DNA towel, the convenient roommate text, but the one piece of evidence that actually matters, wrong gun.

17:31No, it's classic.

17:35That's not what it says at all. Did you even read it? Of course you didn't. It's an anonymous account spreading bullshit like one of those little like grass seed circulators You know, the grassy That's what this is, it's just this bullshit Scroll down This gets even worse Nothing to see here, folks Just another retirement right as the entire Fairy tale starts collapsing in open court That's not what happened I know your audience For this bullshit doesn't really care Please don't watch my show If you believe this, don't I really don't want you here I'm telling you This show, we are a capitalistic business enterprise I love the show, I consider it entertainment But I'm not interested in the bottom line income here I'm interested in the truth, I don't want you here I don't want you here I don't want anybody to use you for money I'm not interested The script is breaking, watch the rats scatter You see the good guy, bad guy inversion People interested in the truth and justice for both Mr.

18:47Robinson and the system. You see how I put out both sides of this because we're interested in a process? This young man is entitled to a trial. Don't assume anything on either side until people raise their right hand and go into a courtroom and swear by it. Stay frosty notes. Truth doesn't follow retirement papers. Got to put the catchy thing at the end, the sound like you got to give your little like Terminator or Arnold Schwarzenegger line at the end to sound like a real badass.

19:23Folks, it's just...

19:29I mean, I don't even know what to... I'm not going to lie to you, man. There are times I just like sit here and I just can't believe this is happening. I've been through these fights before, and I keep telling myself this is no different than, you know, the Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Rubio, Donald Trump, Rand Paul, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis. This is no different than 100 congressional primaries. People have come to me, support me, not the opponent. It's the same thing. It's like, but this is different, folks. I think everyone out there, you included in this movement, knows what I'm saying right now is true, that this is different.

20:12This is not intraparty political warfare for a spot on a ballot in a primary. This is evil. This is pure, unadulterated evil. there are people out there with motives that are so indescribable that you wonder how others follow doesn't it say something if like you're a moth attracted to this this light that's spewing nothing but bullshit and evil what does that say about you are you not interested in the truth

20:58I just want you to always remember, folks, the mark of the imbecile is someone who ignores the only bit of evidence that points you to a conclusion in favor to mounds of facts and data that have nothing to do with your final conclusion. It's the mark of an imbecile. It's the mark of an imbecile. Oh. I said we got to do this, but we do. I'm going to show you, of course, what additionally we have to fight as we walk and juggle flaming chainsaws at the same time. And again, man, when you talk about liberty, talk about it with a smile. Folks, this is the greatest country on earth. Do not get depressed.

21:41our grandfathers and our forefathers have had far more difficult struggles than we have. I mean, our biggest struggle with, you know, our generation is like obesity and stuff and too many video games and movies available. This prior generation, man, what they went through, I was just thinking last night about, you know, my grandfather who's long since passed, Frank Bongino fought and the Battle of the Bulge and... How it was like the tried to be the, you know, the Nazis last stand as they partitioned all these soldiers away from Eastern Front onto the Western Front and what that must have looked like to him.

22:21And he never talked about it ever. This is our fight now. This is a Twitter spat, but it is very serious ramifications for who we're going to be as a movement going forward. Are we going to be bedrocked in a lodestar of truth? or are we going to fall into leftist cannibalism theory where we start eating each other alive nonstop 24 hours a day for clicks and rage bait?

22:49I'm going to show you what we're up against and why we have to excise all this nonsense, this bullshit and get back to what matters. But we are going to have to excise this. There is no way around it. There's no amount of Twitter talking it down that's going to make this go away. we're going to have to do the hard work. All right, I'm going to take a quick break. It was a heavy open, folks, especially for a Tuesday. Now you see why it took me a little bit. Birch Gold, after a meteoric run hitting over$5 ,000, gold prices have softened. What's that mean for you? It means this is a buying opportunity.

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24:58One enacts minimum wage and one doesn't. You get these natural experiments that present themselves once in a while where you can go and see in this region we can segregate out a lot of confounding variables and we can at least through statistical analysis infer causation. That's just a fancy way of saying did minimum wage cause job losses or is it just a correlation where we can't point to that? What's the strength of the statistical analysis? That's what happens all the time. Natural experiments are hard to come by, though, in some of these spaces because you can't induce a negative condition in a natural environment.

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25:31Like, hey, we want to test the effects of massive amounts of radiation on a population, Justin. So I'll tell you what. Justin lives in Martin County. We're going to go to your neighborhood and we're going to set up a 24-hour X-ray at your house. And we're going to see what happens if you come down with some genetic mutation like some other people we know. that you can't what's that that is that he wants to know if it's a paid gig there's no amount of money you want to pay for that gig this is not the way it works i only bring up natural experiments because we've had a multi-century natural experiment that's been going on in near perpetuity now of leftist collectivism in other words take all the the sources of income take the means of production confiscated for the government versus capitalism where you can build your own means of production a farm a business whatever chrono flux in the chat i'm glowing if listen there have been crazy experiments like that in the past my gosh it's the tuskegee airman that is horrible stuff but we've had a natural experiment in other words we have enough instances of lego lego lego lego where any person who believes in statistics can start to say well those legos are now causal and connected because there's enough data to support it in the funnel.

26:52Like how I tied that together? We've seen what open borders, wealth taxes, chaos in the streets, defund the police, government run health care. We've seen where this goes. You just saw it with the last government shutdown. You mean this? No, no. The one before where the Democrats shut down the government on President Trump because they needed more money for Obamacare, despite them telling us to pass Obamacare because it was going to save money. We already have the natural experiment. You see one going on right now in New York again, where you've got this left-wing lunatic Mayor Mom Domini, like a devout communist, right?

27:36And the guy's not even in office that long. And I'm not telling you he caused all this, a lot of stuff was going on for a while. But do you want to live like this? this is his city this is a video in manhattan taken from i believe a tiktok guy and there was who's the guy in this but i'm thinking sweeney okay thank you sweeney i don't know who this guy is however i've been in new york quite a bit i grew up there very familiar with the five boroughs in new york was a police officer there started my career in midtown south the precinct there this guy's walking down the streets of new york folks if you took the background scenery out of this with AI.

28:13You would think you were living in the third world. Why would you want to live like this? Check this out. This is Canal Street. We'll walk in south. And just look how bad this is all metastasized and going insane. Block by block after this was completely clear before. This is the most expensive real estate in New York City, by the way. Like this isn't some area of Brooklyn. This is Tribeca, Soho. Multi-million dollar homes. Property taxes through the roof. And this is what we get. Tell me what we're thinking. We're going to be back. Look at this. Spreading block by block. I'm just saying, folks, you know, when I say we have to walk, juggle flaming chainsaws at the same time, it's not an option.

29:02I'm really sorry. I wish we didn't have this faction pretending to be in our tent, trying to burn our tent down while we're fighting this stuff. But that's the fight we've been given and it pales in comparison to our forefathers and grandfathers who fought far harsher struggles than we're doing. I'm telling you, I said in the beginning of the show, there are times you do this like self-pity routine. I do it too, so you gotta snap right out of it. There's no time for that shit. Folks, this looks like the freaking third world. And by By the way, cut your bullshit. It's not a race thing. So you can shove that thing right up your ass.

29:40It's got nothing to do with that. You ever been to the third world? This is what it looks like. Sidewalks. Can't even walk down the sidewalk. You got people in your face trying to sell you little gizmos and widgets. You ever been to places that this is how people survive. I'm basically like a subsistence economy of selling widgets and gizmos.

30:00You want to live in the third world? I don't. Folks, free markets have saved us from the grinding poverty that produced widget economies like that for eons. Free markets saved us from that. You want to go back to this collectivist BS? And the only reason I bring this up is I got a series of things coming up of soundbites and video right here showing you what I'm telling you about this third world model of economics is real. The Democrats are going to run on this. Even the moderate position, air quotes, the Democrats are running on, is still crazy. But they're advocating for all this stuff. I don't want the third world bringing third world POLs, patterns of life, here.

30:47I don't want it. And you don't want it either. Did you see this video that went viral? this is a a a cuban sees a supermarket an actual supermarket outside of cuba for the first time now this is from what you can see in the background this is not a supermarket in the united states it doesn't matter the point is it's just not in cuba it's i think it was either dominican republic or someone said maybe mexico it doesn't matter this is outside of communism where freedom and liberty have saved us from the deprivation, starvation communism causes. I want you to look at the videos in Spanish, so we'll just play a little bit in LVO.

31:30But watch the look on this guy's face. It doesn't matter if you speak Spanish or not. You do speak eyeballs. Watch the look as he sees what scarcity looked like in his country versus what relatively free markets can produce anywhere else. Check this out.

31:51You see this? Talking about the onions and the potatoes. They can't believe it. Look at the smile on this guy's face. They've never seen this before. Folks, I want you to understand something. For the young folks who listen to the show, I know you're out there. I get your emails. One, thank you for being here. I respect you guys too, of course. I love that you're here. Young, old, whatever. I want you to understand that throughout the course of human history, this has not been the rule. This has been the exception. The course of human history has been starvation, pillage, warfare, plunder. What saved us, not from warfare, unfortunately.

32:28We're always going to have violent people trying to kill us. But what saved us from generational deprivation and mass starvation and people freaking dying because they didn't have enough calories to support living. Forget about exercising, hitting like the machine bench press on the life fitness thing. Getting up and out of bed, they could not feed themselves and they starved to death. That is the, that is the, throughout the entire course of sentient human beings, homo sapiens, that is what happened. You're used to seeing that because you live in a free country. Mom Dami and these leftists who were fighting, the Bernie Sanders type, do you understand they want to instill the system that guy came from where he's stunned they have extra onions there?

33:14I think he says in Spanish, I asked Paula, at one point something to the effect of like, what are they going to do with all this stuff? He doesn't even know. There's so much abundance. He's not even sure what they're going to do with it. He's never seen that.

33:28I remember Paula telling me similar stories. And she came here from Colombia, which, you know, the portion of Colombia she was in, they were pretty poor. But they at least had food. She couldn't believe it either. The milk, the eggs, the meat Me in Colombia They get like a Paul used to tell me stories They get like a small pack of chicken That was like for a month I eat that small pack of chicken for breakfast We give that packet of chicken to Lucy The dog, that's how rich we are here I don't want to live in the third world And either do you You want to get there fast? keep stealing our tax dollars and giving it to people who are coming over here, not the right way, by the way, not like Paula did it, and stealing our money through rampant government welfare programs that are not welfare programs.

34:23They're transfers from hardworking taxpayers to criminals who are stealing the money. Here's Peter St. Ange. If you don't know who this guy is, I've seen him on Fox a lot lately, too. I'm glad to see he's getting around and starting to get out there more because his commentary is pretty darn good. I encourage you to follow him on X. Here he is talking about the massive fraud problem we've seen in Minnesota, California, even in my state of Florida with healthcare fraud, durable medical equipment. Ladies and gentlemen, if the government is paying for something in a big government model, whether it's socialism or just big government democracy, right?

35:00When the government's paying for something, I assure you the quality controls and cost controls are non-existent. Check this out.

35:3711 times more hospices, 2 ,279 versus Florida's 208. In fact, one in three hospices in America are in Los Angeles County. That apparently never raised an eyebrow. Of course, hospice is just the beginning. New York recently admitted they spend$82 ,000 per year for every homeless person, projected to rise to$97 ,000. San Francisco spent$141 ,000 per homeless person. That's worth noting the average American spends$60 ,000 a year, meaning New York homeless should be living better than the average American. They should be vacationing in Tuscany and buying tasteful art pieces for their vacation homes.

36:20San Francisco homeless should be living like kings. Of course, they are not for the simple reason the money does not go to the homeless. It goes to the non-profits that make up the welfare fraud industrial complex. Folks, that video goes on. It gets even better. I encourage you to check it out. Why does the government waste and piss away so much money? Well, I told you for a couple of reasons. Number one, combined with the Democrats, focus on open borders where they can bring people into the country illegally. The way to get them to vote Democrat against their best interests, because they've come from places like Cuba, where they're looking at the Cebollos, the onions, like, holy shit, where'd all these onions come from?

37:03How do you get a guy like that who's seen the progressive, liberal, socialist, communist model of government nearly starved to death? How do you get a guy like that to vote Democrat? The answer is you pay him. Pay him with what? They can't work legally. The answer is you get them on government benefits programs. This is not complicated. Get people in. Use them to get people into the House of Representatives because it's dependent on population. your population's leaving blue states, replace those people in what you call demographic destiny. You talk about it all the time. Use them to enhance your electoral college votes in the presidential election.

37:38Get them on government benefits so you're paying them off and get them to vote. If they can't vote because something stopped them, which typically does in many cases, and they're illegal, it doesn't matter. Just keep them there and count them in the census and at least we can use them for the presidential election. That's the model.

37:58I'm not doing that, man I don't want to live in the third world, folks And you shouldn't either

38:08Here's Kevin O 'Leary You may know him from Shark Tank Mr. Wonderful, he goes by Kevin O 'Leary was on a podcast What's the name of this? Ice Coffee Hour podcast So, hat tip to them They appear to be leftists Given the question here They asked Kevin O 'Leary about a wealth tax You want to live in the third world Don't take Peter St. Andrew's warning Just keep distributing government money To immigrants who come into the country For a thousand different social programs And bankrupt the government and you'll get there The second way to get there Is institute a wealth tax Which sounds really good to the stupid people It sounds good to the same people I was discussing in the beginning of the show Who connect a Lego to a Lego two Legos that are in no way connected just because you saw two Legos.

38:56I like big government. Wealthy people have money. Therefore, we should connect those and take people's money and everyone will be wealthier. That's not what happens. When you look at the natural experiment where wealth taxes were instituted, France, the state of Maryland, when you look at where this happened, what do you think happened to the rich people? Justin, trick question. when they taxed really rich people in Maryland and in France using a wealth tax what do you think happened to the rich people? They leave. They leave! You have the natural experiment dipshits! It just happened in the state of Washington Didn't Hochul just cry about all the rich people leaving?

39:37Hochul was just crying Kathy Hochul, good point the communist governor of New York was just bitching and moaning about I have to go down to Palm Beach and Florida and get all the rich people that left so why are you still doing it that folks you just said in an interview this ridiculous clown governor in New York this communist Kathy Hochul hey man did this wealth tax you know all these people left for Florida now I gotta go get them I got an idea let's do more wealth taxes these people are

40:22I'm trying there's this lady I really like on Twitter or commentary she's like I love Dan's show but he curses too much I'm trying I'm trying add hard on the chat oh please come back I was almost going to wrap the show up I was poor rumble wallet sorry I can't People are leaving because we tried to steal 50 % of their money. We got to go get them in Palm Beach. What's your idea? Another wealth tax.

41:01Someone in the chat, right? Get to the clip already.

41:07Here's Kevin O 'Leary arguing with these two young men about a wealth tax? Really? So you already taxed the hell out of people. Now you want to steal more of their money and you assume they're just going to hang around for this. Check this out. What do you think of the wealth tax? Because Jack, we were having a discussion earlier, believes that it might be a good thing. No, no, Jack, you're going to hell for saying that. But there is an argument to be made. No, there isn't. It's un-American. It will destroy the fabric of the economy, punishing wealth and success. Well, it's not punishing because they already have billions of dollars.

41:42Right. The difference between having$5 billion and then let's just say a 10 % wealth tax, you know,$4.5 billion is not quite significant. it's just the idea that you're made a promise to come to america as an entrepreneur to achieve the american dream and then some arbitrary politician randomly decides we're going to appropriate that from you we're going to steal your wealth just because we feel that a 10 wealth tax is appropriate it's not really stealing it's redistributing. You're going to go to hell too. Like, like both of you are going to hell. I feel sorry. I mean, well, we've never made any real money.

42:31I've heard that word before in Cuba, in North Korea, in Russia. It just hasn't been done right. They're all sh**holes now. A good point, Justin. That's, I'm sorry to these hosts. They may not be left. They sound like actually laughing about, I don't know. I don't know these guys. I just find the clip fascinating for the back and forth, sarcasm or not. There's an argument to be made, they say, for the wealth tax. I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. What's the argument? An argument is made by data, correct? Fellas, is that not how we make an argument? No, just as like, not in this day and age.

43:09I get it. However, we're going to go back to an old day and age that was not full of stupid people. The way you make an argument If you want to draw a conclusion From a series of And potentially a hypothesis out there you had You want to test against other hypotheses Out there Is you draw a conclusion using data What is your argument to be made? That everywhere they institute a wealth tax Washington State, New York, Maryland People leave What's your argument? The argument to be made is the opposite I hear this all the time. They'll say something like, well, it's a data point. Or there's an argument to be made.

43:50Well, show us the data point. It's a data point. Joe Kent with the data point. All he keeps bringing up is data points. He never tells you what the data point is. It's an argument to be made about the data point. What the fuck is it? Which one? Make the argument then. And I love the other line. Well, it's not punishment. No, no, definitely not. It's a reward to steal people's money. It's definitely a reward. Do you understand how punishment versus rewards work? If you've studied even basic psychology, punishment can work basically, an aversive stimuli, punishment, can work one of two ways. You can have negative punishment or positive punishment.

44:33Negative punishment is when you take away an appetitive stimuli, something really pleasant, i.e. when you put your kids in timeout. They're playing a video game. They like that. and they do something wrong, you say, go sit and time out. That's negative punishment. It's punishment because you've taken away a good thing. Positive punishment is when you deliver an aversive stimuli. The belt when we were growing up. The strap or something. Or my mom with the hanger once in a while. They delivered something. The positive doesn't mean qualitatively good. It means something was delivered to you that was negative, aversive.

45:07They are taking away your money. taking away something you use for entertainment, education, for food. It is a form of negative punishment. It's a form of government putting you in timeout.

45:23I love this too, where the guy says at the end to Kevin O 'Leary, well, it just hasn't been done right. How many freaking trials you need for two centuries? We've watched this natural experiment of communism and socialism evolve around us through hundreds of examples from Chile to Venezuela to Cuba to the Soviet Union to Bulgaria to the Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. We've seen it over and over. How many more trials do you need before you're going to show us that this correlation between communism and collectivism and success works? Communism. Because it doesn't work. You don't have an example.

46:05Let's try it one last time You understand how this is the mark of the dipshit?

46:13Think about this Every time I grab the hair I don't have And smash my head on this wooden table here It hurts I've done it ten times Do you try it in 11th? And go, you know what, this time I'm pretty convinced Smashing my head on the table is good I'm gonna give it one last shot

46:36It's a data point It's a data point Again, never tells you what the data point is We just need to try it one more time Socialism, wealth taxes, communism It'll definitely work I know it's easy, by the way To vilify people who are wealthy I get it Envy though At the expense of your own lifestyle Is another mark of the imbecile Worrying every day About what some rich guy Down the block is doing Who may be an asshole He may not be Why do you care? Get a job Go get a job No one wants to tell you lazy people I'm not talking about older folks, people who are infirm, kids whose parents have died. We have a responsibility as a generous, great, God-fearing society to take care of people who genuinely can't take care of themselves.

47:42I'm not talking about you. To the lazy bums out there, I know you're probably not listening to my show, but someone in my audience who is definitely not lazy, send this to a lazy bum you may know. Get off your ass. Get a freaking job. Go get a freaking job. Stop worrying about what rich Johnny bag of donuts down the block is doing with his money. He just bought a new Ferrari. Who gives a shit? Here, we'll do it again. Thank you, Justin. Here it is. This is the loan repayment plan. It's also Dan Bongino Economics. Here is your ass known as a rump in the picture. Take it and get a freaking job.

48:24Go get a job.

48:29the hell is wrong with you? No one wants to tell you to get off your ass. They give you easy answers. Hey, it's a government COVID program. They'll give you money. What do I have to do? Well, technically it's supposed to be for PPP or paying people. I don't have a business. That's all right. We'll just make one up and give you money. Okay. I got another one. Here's another solution. If that doesn't work out, We're going to touch those evil rich people who create a bunch of jobs. And we're going to give you some of their money so you can sit on your ass. Oh, okay. Get off your ass. Go get a freaking job.

49:08I'm sorry. No one wants to tell you this. Maybe your parents are coddling you. I get it. Oh, Johnny, it's going to be okay. It's not. You're a lazy bum. Get off your ass and go get a job.

49:23you are a lazy bum get a job there is value in work you understand when people take money from others and give it to people who can work not only are you making them lazy you are stealing away their opportunity to add value to this world every single person has some god-given talent i I don't know what it is. It may be making wood tables. You may be a carpenter and you just don't know it. You know why you don't know it? Because you wanted to steal money from some rich guy who has no impact on your life whatsoever to sit on your ass and never have to learn to do that skill because it's easier to sit on your ass.

50:03You stole this person's ability to contribute to this world away.

50:13I'm going to go a little out of order. I'm looking at some of these and I want to go a little bit out of order. You want to live in the third world, by the way? Teach people to be victims. Rich guys did it. The white man did it. That's a favorite of mine. The white man does everything. Unbelievable. The white man and the Jews, they do everything. The white man and the Jews. The Jews, white man. I get it. I've heard it a thousand times. When you point to like, but it's so interesting. When you see actual pockets of poverty and the leftists talk about, you know, systemic discrimination against us that's keeping Baltimore City, for example, poor.

50:49You go, well, what's the system in Baltimore? Well, the system's been run by Democrats since like forever. OK, where's the white man there or the Jews or whatever? Do you see how keeping people in these boxes and convincing them to sit on their asses and do nothing while the rich guys are going to pay your way? Do you see how this adds to demographic power for the Democrats who keep people on the government teat the entire time? Stay quiet over there. We'll pay you. But the only way to do it, I want you to watch this video. Cue up the, they're like, where are you going with this? The Canada video.

51:25They have one of these liberal parties in Canada, NDP, they had a leadership convention. This is not satire, this video. Now, you're going to laugh when you see the video. I need to set it up a little bit, so forgive me, especially for those listening on Apple and Spotify. At this party leadership convention full of crazies, they give out these color-coded cards that give you, like, privilege. If you're an indigenous group or some aggrieved minority, they've determined. And this card's supposed to let you speak first. The problem is when you tell different groups of people they're victims of the rich people and the man and the white man and the Jews, when you tell, eventually you have to segregate people out into groups that are small enough that they're easier to control.

52:10Because not every group, follow this point here, not every group has the same interest. In other words, the label minorities doesn't mean anything anymore. There are Asian groups that have nothing in common with black groups when it comes to interest. There are Asian groups within Asian groups. Vietnamese, the diaspora may have, share completely different interests than the Japanese Americans. You see how the minority label, you have to like partition it into small groups so they're easier to control and you can appeal to people. But when you partition people into smaller and smaller groups at that granular level, what winds up happening is each one starts snipping at each other for the scraps from the table because Democrats can't produce any wealth.

52:53They've got to steal it. And then you get arguments like this that break out where aggrieved groups like, well, I had my card. Well, I had my card. Well, I got to speak first. This is not satire. Check this out. If there's a point of privilege on microphone one, then we'll go to microphone three. Go ahead, delegate. Yes. Hello. I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker. That's my point of privilege that I would like to raise. I will explain the speaking order, which is fixed, that I cannot amend, which is the pro-con rotation. You can move yourself up a line that you're standing in.

53:23I am pro, and I was... We went... You went pro, con, pro. We went pro-con, pro, and my plan was to go con. The speaker at con mic three also has a speaking card. Yesterday, this card was used in an inappropriate matter. And while I understand in Ontario we know this is equity, even if that, this was also used inappropriate in terms of gender. I want everyone to be mindful that these cards for individuals like myself who identify as a black woman have no value outside of this space.

54:03It's not funny. I don't know what to say about that. That is what happens when the Tower of Babel chaos breaks out and nobody's even speaking in the same language anymore. In a world full of merit, that's not a problem. You have a line, the queues up, people who get up first to get on the line are first. That's Guy's video of the day, by the way. When you have a system based on perceived grievances from a section of groups, you have to granularly silo out. Because just to be clear, you cannot have a group like minorities. The group is too big and too hard to control because not all of these minority groups share things in common.

54:43So to control them, you have to make them smaller and smaller groups. Carpenters Union folks, Sikhs, Muslims from Saudi Arabia and as the groups get smaller the problem is they have fights with each other this is what happens when you create a society of victims this is what happens in the third world this is why you see an explosion of terrorism in the third world where you have the presence of jungle environments and linguistic fractionalization the jungle environment keeping people segregated the linguistic fractionalization people speaking different languages what happens when they don't understand each other can't talk and engage in free market commerce.

55:23They kill each other. You want that here? I don't. Here, watch this clip from Fox. This is Marie Harf. She was outnumbered yesterday. Marie Harf, obviously a diehard liberal. She's on the couch yesterday arguing for, again, men and women's sports. Now, the left has made a, what, guys, 10-year fight over this, a decade long We've been covering this since I got on the air They have made this a staple, again, a tentpole of their policy prescriptions going forward Men should be able to play in women's sports as long as they call themselves women They've been fighting for this for 10 years Why? Because the trans group is a small group of people in the LGBTQIA, 2-plus spirit, whatever it is that is a group they think they can control and use for political part they don't care about trans people here's marie harv actually saying the same thing this is apparently like an issue that was such a big deal to them they really cared about trans people until they realized the politics and the control component wasn't going well now she's like well i really don't care don't listen to me listen to her i do think that donald trump used this to great effect by preying on people's fears of trans people.

56:43And look, I think sometimes people do have questions. Who should play what sports? Who should get married? I don't think that all the questions are necessarily coming from a bad play. This is an 80-20 issue, but remain on the 20 % side and see how it works out. Wait, why are we so scared of trans people? It's about providing clarity. Why are we scared of young boys and young girls? Wait, wait. I don't want to get this lost. Do you want a biological man wrestling a woman? Do you want a biological man spiking a volleyball at a woman? Honestly? I don't care. Wow. I genuinely don't care. There are co-ed sports being played at the elementary school level across this country.

57:21Notice the various debating strategies Marie Harf employs in that segment. Changing the argument. What, you don't like trans people? No one on the couch said that, not a single person. She's arguing against a straw man. And then when she realizes the argument's not going her way, as Kayleigh McEnany accurately points out, this is an 80-20 issue. 80 % of people are against men in women's sports. It's probably higher, to be honest. Notice how the argument changes to now I don't care. They never cared. They only cared about the issue because you've got to put victim classes in silos to use them as political weapons for your personal power-seeking endeavors.

58:05because they're easily controllable that way. Once it becomes not politically beneficial, those people get thrown right overboard. Anti-anti-communism theory. Folks, these people are freaking lunatics. I'm telling you, walk, juggle chainsaws. There's no option. There's no walking away from this. There's no woe is me. By the way, I'm not being an asshole, but I have told you, I do that too. Sometimes you feel like, gosh, I wish this was easier. Why do we have all these people doing these crazy things? Because people throughout human history have done crazy things. And it's up to not crazy people and good folks like you who step up to fight that good fight despite the slings and arrows coming your way.

58:46That's why. Relish these fights, man. Relish these fights. Remember, strong men and women create good times. You know the old line. Unfortunately, good times create weak men who create hard times. that require strong men and women to come back and clean it up again. That's you. Sorry we got to walk and juggle chainsaws, fight these leftist lunatics while at the same time fighting this malfeasance and evil in our own tent, air quotes. But that's the obstacle that was thrown in front of us. And that's what we're going to deal with. And it's a good thing, even if it is painful. Remember the book, The Natural?

59:30you've probably seen the movie we all live two lives the one we learn from and the one we live after that I'm in the one after that I know a lot of you are too I've got another video coming up for you next one more and I want to get to a bit of a comic relief you ever see this comedian Shane Gillis this guy you know like I said man talk about liberty talk about it with smile this show we're going to have fun sometimes too even though it's as serious as a stroke we are going to have a good time I'm going to play that for you. But I'm going to play an unintentionally funny video of how crazy these people are.

1:00:04The new thing on the left, I guess, is leave your MAGA husband and pretend you're really hot when doing it. I didn't say it. Lady in the video is like claiming how hot all these people. Hey, you're so hot. Well, okay. Well, you better bring it then if you're going to talk like that. I'm just saying it's your video, not mine. Folks, censorship is back. I see it happening just about everywhere. Many platforms are controlling the narrative again. You're seeing it in the headlines, deciding what you see and hear. That's no good, man. We got to fight back. That's why I stand with Rumble. I've been an investor there for a long time.

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1:01:51This is the new leftist rallying cry, I guess. Leave your MAGA husband. there is a little bit of maybe sensitive language, but not too bad at the end, but check this out. Ladies, this is your reminder that you're way too hot to be with your MAGA husband. So leave your MAGA husband. Leave your MAGA husband, but cheat on him first. Cheat with his brother or his best friend, whichever's worse. He doesn't deserve your kidding, meow, meow. It's time for you to hit the road, but leave a lasting impression before you go. And cheat on your MAGA husband and take a picture while you're getting clout. Leave your MAGA husband

1:02:34You guys hear the end of that? I missed that when we initially played that I might have cut that out I totally missed the end of that I did this yesterday too I don't know I'm surprised here I'm glad I actually missed that Take a picture while you're getting plowed I thought these were like the women's lib people while you get plowed like that's kind of like an animal reference isn't it a guy i'm not crazy right guys like plowing i'm i thought you were like feminists and stuff and cheat on your husband by the way they say with with his brother or best friend that's that's the way that you go that's women's lip for me that's a great way to advance the cause of feminism go women like that's it now i know you know women watching this female patriots out there who love their family, their God, and their country are watching this horrified.

1:03:27I understand that. But folks, it's hard to say on a serious note after watching that kind of stupid. It's like an infection. This is the alternative. If you think the person in this video is, again, an isolated example of collectivism, progressivism, and left-wing crazy If we lose, I could told you, I got a bridge in Martin County. I'll sell you super cheap.

1:04:00Let's skip around. Here's some actual funny stuff. Have you ever seen this comedian, Shane Gillis? This guy is hilarious. And you know how that for you algorithm works on X and TikTok and elsewhere. The minute you click on a comedian, who's the other guy? Ben Banka, I think his name is. a prank that guy's hilarious too but this guy i see all his stuff now and i just want to you should follow this guy he's really funny he doesn't do like left-wing bullshit comedy if you don't know him shane gillis check this out for some actual comedy not like leave your maga husband lady take a look i love thinking about trump in the situation room watching a live military operation he's the only dude in the room that wasn't military he must have been the only watching it that was like, oh!

1:04:45Like, you could tell he's never seen it before by the fucking speech. The speech sounded like a guy just trying to tell you some shit he saw. A lot of guys would knock on the front door. Not these guys, not our guys. Not our guys. Our guys went through the wall. They blew up his wall. And they used dogs. Beautiful dogs. Dude, beautiful dogs is the funniest detail. So, it's true. They actually did use, it was the army rangers and they used dogs because they were afraid Al-Baghdadi was going to be wearing a suicide vest. So they killed him with dogs and a robot. And then made fun of him for crying.

1:05:28Like, dude, let that guy cry. That's the scariest death I've ever heard of. That dude was laying in his bed in the middle of the night. His wall exploded. Fucking ten dogs and a robot broke into his... Dude, ten dogs wearing helmets and goggles broke into his house. The Paw Patrol, the actual Paw Patrol.

1:05:48A lot of Muttleys in the chat. Who do we got there? Cronoflux, that's a lot of Muttleys. Cronoflux, you're breaking the rules. You got like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Muttleys. Cronoflux, we love you, brother or sister. But there's no 12 Muttleys. What was the most Muttleys? We ever had the five and that was like four, right? I think the four Muttleys. We ever do a five, you get out of 12 Muttleys, not allowed. There's other people. There's other people breaking the Muttley rule too. Here we go. Here's someone following the rules. M. Bird, five Muttleys. That guy's, and Justin's making fun of me, by the way.

1:06:23Justin pops out of studio. I know there's some smart-ass comment coming. And Justin's like, hey, Dan, what do you mean have you heard of Shane Gillis? He's only the most popular comedian in the planet. Obviously, I heard of him. He's on my For You page. I've been following this guy forever. However, not everyone, you know, watches comedy shows. I'm sure there's some people out there who it's the first time they heard him. Now you know. I've known him for a long time. Pop it. I've never seen that door open. I know some smart-ass comments coming from one of these guys. Every time. Even Andy's getting a bit.

1:06:50The guy's been here like three days. And he's already like, it's been like three months, I think. But whatever. It doesn't matter. The story's funnier with three days. Chime it in. They took it as a two-way street when I gave him the job interview. And told him, hey, I'm just warning you. Like, you're part of the show here, man. They took it as like, I'm going to be the show. I'm just going to introduce myself. Okay. okay you want to play that game I can do that too hey that guy's really hilarious but he hits on something there again flipping back because you know me it shows a lot of big emotional rollercoaster all the time that's why I enjoy it so much that's why we decided to do it live do it live I'm proud of our military said it often I'll say it again Man, the greatest regret of my life was not going in the Marine Corps.

1:07:43They're just different Marines. And believe me, I mean that as the highest compliment around. They're just different. I've been around so many Marines in my life, and they're just different. And the fact that I did not go in there and am too old and decayed is just, you know, the golden handcuff. I had no money. It's no excuse. I should have just done it. with the police department, get a paycheck, pay off all these bills. They call it the golden handcuff. But I'm proud of our military. And there was an article I read yesterday. I was reading the Wall Street Journal about the ongoing military action, the war over in Iran right now, and how we are now so technologically advanced in warfare that whereas, hear me out here.

1:08:32By the way, this is in the Wall Street Journal piece. It's not my original thoughts. I'm gonna take credit for it. but it's very good analysis. How warfare throughout human history, centuries upon centuries of human warfare have been from the outside inside. So if you wanted to take out the Third Reich, you know, you had to go through various entry points to get there. You weren't just going to be given access. If you wanted to take out, you know, Munich in the south, you would have to make your way through multiple different resistance lines. Outside, inside. Warfare has completely changed. Because of stealth technology and our planes' ability right now to evade radar and detection systems, we can now wage warfare right over Berlin right away if we were fighting the Reich.

1:09:29or right over Munich or Dresden. We can fight from the capital outwards and how this is just an incredible testament to the ingenuity of the military industrial base and our military willing to take chances on technology. The problem we're having right now with not the war in Iran, but the messaging around it is by every stated metric, it has been an incredible success. Yes, we have to deal with the straight. There's no doubt. But there are people on the other side who want you to believe like this is some catastrophic failure. By the way, the guy writing the piece in the Wall Street Journal is not some big propagandist.

1:10:17He's just stating the facts like, my gosh, this is a testament to the power of the American military. And his hypothesis from it, by the way, is that if you're China right now, you should be really worried because it's pretty clear the Americans' ability to, if I'm not telling you it's going to happen, but if we ever needed, God forbid, China attacked us first to hit Beijing, we could do it. And I'm not talking about with nuclear weapons. I'm talking about with some of the technology we have now. Here's Rubio, Marco Rubio, our secretary of state, who's trying to make this case during one of these weekend interviews.

1:10:57we're a month in Donald Trump has given a four to six week timeline we are coming up to the end of that timeline can we just give the man the opportunity to let the strategy play out and then it's fair to criticize celebrate, criticize, do whatever you want to do check this out I think the first point the president makes is he prefers diplomacy as I said those efforts are nascent There is messages being relayed back and forth, some conversations going on, including through intermediaries. And he always prefers that. Look, if the Iranian regime had come forward at any point in the past and said, we're going to walk away from our nuclear ambitions, we're going to do nuclear energy the way every other country in the world primarily, almost every other country in the world does it, and that is through a peaceful means in which you bring in the fuel and it's supervised and so forth.

1:11:47We're going to stop supporting terrorist groups across the region. Look at this region. Every single terrorist group in this region has a link to the Iranian regime. Every single one, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Shia militias that are attacking everyone out of Iraq. Every single one of these groups and all the destabilization in this region tracks directly back to the Iranian regime. Those things have to be addressed. And if Iran had been willing to address those in the past, we wouldn't be having this interview on this topic right now. Their refusal to do so and their continuing move towards one day acquiring a nuclear capability.

1:12:19These people are lunatics. They are insane. They are religious zealots who can never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon because they have an apocalyptic vision of the future. And all of their neighbors know that, by the way, which is why all of their neighbors have been supportive of the efforts we're conducting. He's been absolutely crushing it. I want to thank him for his service in multiple roles, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Rubio. He's correct. Folks, there's you know, this you know, we got him this time attitude with Trump. like everything's going to fail all the time.

1:12:51Folks, there's policies you may say, oh, I see this a lot, by the way. Fair criticism if you don't know anything online. In other words, if you don't listen to my show every day, it would be a fair criticism. You should probably do some homework, but however, you want to criticize me about content, you should at least view the content. But I get it. People are like, Dan, you agree with Trump on everything. No, I don't at all. Guy and producer Jim have witnessed multiple segments where we've interviewed Donald Trump. We had some disagreements about abortion policy. I'm not a big fan of tariffs.

1:13:23What are you talking? Do you even do any homework? I am not a global interventionist. I ran for office against the Iraq war. He has stated a limited timeline of four to six weeks, given this mid-April deadline where he's going to reevaluate. I choose to give the man, given the tremendous amount of success he's had over the five years of his presidency, between 45 and 47, I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt here until proven otherwise.

1:13:57What's the alternative listening to these idiots on the other side? Folks, they will never ever call out good versus evil. I want you to understand that. The left is obsessed with the idea of victim classes of people. To create victim classes of people, they have to make you believe that the white male patriarchy, the Jews, whatever, it doesn't matter, that they're the ones holding you down. It's not the fact that you just don't want to get a job and do any work. So to create that, they blame things like systemic discrimination, things that don't mean anything. Because when you ask them what the system is that's discriminating, it's always run by Democrats.

1:14:31They will never point to a real enemy. And that's just some people are evil and lazy. They can't do it because then you can't be a victim. Please tell me you understand that. Thumbs up in the chat or thumbs down. You get what I'm saying? They will never ever call out good versus evil the left. They will always try to obfuscate the lines because if you do it and you say evil is real and some people just suck, then you understand why giving money to people who suck and don't want to do anything and be leeches off the rest of society is a bad thing. They will never call it out. They will blur the lines.

1:15:05Did you see this Michigan Senate candidate? This is really quick. Good. Everybody gets it. I know you do. This Michigan Senate candidate. What's his name? Abdul Al-Sayed. Here he is on this audio that broke Where he's like afraid to call out Khamenei Khamenei who was killed by thankfully By our great military He's like I don't think we should say anything Because a lot of my constituents like this You mean the death to American terrorists Check this out We have the moral high ground here I think the more we stay out of like They're going to try and bait us into saying Yeah but isn't it justified now that they took him out Right And I just think for us I think that's what we're crap for You see how the line between good and evil is never clearly stated amongst the leftists out there?

1:15:52They can't have that. Or else you would assume that there is a class of people engaged in malfeasance and there's no amount of money that's going to save them. They can either be incarcerated if they break the law or encouraged to work and contribute to society or else they're just not going to cut it. Here's another one. I think it's a Maze Moore clip. Bernie Sanders. This is an even better one. How they will never, ever draw a red line between good and evil. Even when the answers are easy. Here is Bernie Sanders, a devout communist, by the way. Asked about basically who's a dictator and who isn't.

1:16:35Hat tip, the great maze moron X. You'll see here how it doesn't matter to them. If they can't use the talking point for victimhood, it makes no difference. They don't even know what a dictator is because they don't want to. Check this out. I think the time is long overdue for the American people to tell this president he is not a dictator. He is not a king. Senator, why have you stopped short of calling Maduro of Venezuela a dictator?

1:17:10Well, I think it's fair to say that the last election was undemocratic, but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country. If this is an anti-anti-communist theory in action, I don't know what is. Bernie Sanders is the anti-anti-communist. You are the anti-communist. Bernie Sanders only cares about communism and power. That's what communism is, the aggregation of the means of production in the hands of the few. Okay, that's all he cares about is power and abusing it. You are in his way, Donald Trump, so you therefore are a dictator. However, when it comes to an actual dictator in Maduro, an actual dictator, Bernie Sanders, who sees Maduro as a useful means to implementing global communists because he's the anti-anti-communist wants you out of the way.

1:18:06He won't call Maduro a dictator because he's useful. They will never, ever call out evil. But you will. Right? It's like the mostly peaceful protests. Mostly peaceful. He's beating the shit out of that guy with a club. Mostly he could have hit him harder and he didn't. So it's kind of mostly peaceful shit beating. He didn't hit him that hard. He only cracked his skull. He could have killed him. Could have killed him He could have shot him and he didn't It's mostly peaceful

1:18:43Folks What you saw in the beginning of the show today That's some pretty evil stuff Just want to reiterate again We live in the greatest country on earth Because of process Due process For every American citizen you don't deserve it it's your God given right you were born with it saying deserve it means someone's got to give it to you you were born with it that is the whole essence of big R God given rights no one gives them to you they're granted by God maybe protected by a constitution but they're not the governments to give just let the process play out This young man is entitled to the presumption of innocence in a court of law until proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.

1:19:41And again, the state is entitled to a free and fair trial as well, without a polluted jury pool, without intimidating witnesses. we have a process. You either believe in it and believe in the process that gave us this abundant liberty and freedom, the wealthiest country in the history of humankind, or you don't. This is one of those rare circumstances in politics where it's a binary. You're either on Team America or you're not. And if you're looking to pollute this upcoming trial in either direction, then you don't believe in the process. And you're no different than Bernie Sanders. Folks, thanks again for tuning in.

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