The Problem With The Republican Party (w/ Shawn Farash) | Episode 100

0:00Dan Bongino:Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Monday edition of Vince. It is so good to have you here with me. I've got a great show for you today. We're going to be talking to the inimitable Sean Farash, who himself is kind of inimitable of President Trump. He's very good at that. We'll definitely talk about that and everything else that's going on in the news. The great Sean Farash from LFA TV joins us in just moments. You're going to hear from him. But first, got to thank the great sponsors of this program. That includes Patriot Mobile. You've got a lot of choices for cell phone service with new ones popping up all the time.

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1:42Dan Bongino:All right, we got an exciting show for you today. I'm excited because I love everything that my guest produces on social media and across the internet. He's always creating great stuff. And that's why I'm always so pleased to have a conversation with him face to face. Well, practically face to face. It's over the Internet. But still, in person, we've got Sean Farish, LFA TV's owns Sean Farish. Great to see you, Sean. Thank you for doing this today.

2:09Shawn Farash:Thanks for having me, Vince. It's a pleasure to be here. And I've been looking forward to this since we got it on the calendar. I'm excited.

2:15Dan Bongino:It's very good to have you here. So I know a lot of people know you as a Trump impersonator. That's definitely probably the way that I think most people are introduced to you. But what I've always loved, what I've loved about your career is that you parlayed that into becoming a pretty sophisticated and insightful political commentator. Did you always have that in mind, that you were going to do political commentary?

2:37Shawn Farash:Yeah, ever since sitting on the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2018 in the state of New York in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Memorial Day weekend, frustrated to all hell that, you know, I was never going to get to where I wanted to go. And then I looked down at my phone and I said, I got to put a podcast on. And I chose for the very first time in my life, the Dan Bongino show. And he was flipping out about Spygate, which obviously seven years later, like now as all this stuff is coming to light, I'm sitting there going, finally, I've got the Epic Times infographic up on my wall. I mean, it's a whole thing.

3:08Shawn Farash:It became like my whole why it was the reason why I wanted to, instead of doing sports, right, instead of doing all that to get into news, It was that story and the way Dan broke it down and the way so many other people, you know, very talented people covered it and exposed everything from Devin Nunes to Cash Patel to Mark Levin and John Solomon and Paul Sperry, all of them, the whole roster of people who were going down the list when it came to Spygate. At that point in time, I said, I want to do something. I have to do something that really motivated me to make a difference. I didn't know things like that were going on in our country until that story really came to light.

3:46Shawn Farash:But when COVID struck New York and everybody, when I was living there, everybody had to live by the just insane rules of then Governor Andrew Cuomo. I was on Long Island and decided once again, it's time to get people together. And after watching the Summer of Love and everything that took place in Seattle and Portland and Philadelphia and New York City and you name blue jurisdiction, something happened, something crazy happened. I said, it's time, you know, we put together some of these reopen the state rallies, but let's parlay that. Let's put that in tandem with let's get out and support Trump.

4:20Shawn Farash:And so we put tens of thousands of people on the road in these massive caravans with the flags hanging off people's tailgates and coming out people's sunroofs. And we got people together doing that. Obviously, 2020 didn't go the way we wanted for various reasons, right? Reasons that still haven't been answered. But we use that and we parlayed that and we transition that into a local and then statewide movement to get conservatives, Republicans involved. So I've taken the Bongino method of being an activist first and use that. And it was actually through that movement. A friend of mine, while we were door knocking for a city council candidate, she's in office now, Vicky Palladino.

5:03Shawn Farash:He said to me, you know, you've got to take that Trump thing that you do and you've got to put it on TikTok. And I said, well, I don't want to Jimmy. I don't want to do that. That's China. We don't want to do China. He said, no, you have to do that on the TikTok app. It'll go viral. You'll get a lot of people who are paying attention to what you're doing on Long Island and all this. So I did it. And it took off. It's where I met my wife. It's like the best decision I made. So thank you, China. But yeah, I never.

5:29Dan Bongino:Did your wife, the expression is they slide into your DMs. Is that actually the way things started?

5:35Shawn Farash:She slid into my comments. One of my videos I made. I used a line that is funny. I'll roll this line out in front of many people and it gets a very mixed reaction, but she thought it was the funniest line. Let's talk about William Shakespeare, Trump taking credit for William Shakespeare. Right. And I said, you know, I got along well with him. I called him Bill. Great guy. We call him Bill. And she thought that was the funniest line in creation. So she laughed at it. I saw her profile picture and I said, okay, you know, we've outkicked the coverage. If we can make this work, let's try it. So I slid into the DMS on Instagram, like a good millennial would.

6:09Shawn Farash:and I take no pride in saying that, but it is how it worked out. She was in Florida at the time, I was in New York, and now we're both in Tennessee very happy. But yeah, it was that little act online, if you want to say that, right? That bit that I would do, and it's worked in many different places, radio stations and podcasts and all that, and now we're here. And it's been great. I always wanted to, you know, like you said, that's how a lot of people will get introduced to me, and that's great, that's wonderful, because it's a humorous way, and I guess an engaging way to talk about the current events without being too blunt and hitting people over the head with a two-by-four.

6:46Shawn Farash:But then, yeah, then there is time to get serious. It is time to break down different outcomes and the way different processes work. And I think that's important too. So it's about striking that balance, and I'm still trying to figure it out, but it has been fun up until this point, that's for sure.

7:00Dan Bongino:Yeah, and look, you're a positive and joyful person. So you bring a lot of energy and happiness to this process, which can be tough sometimes. It can be soul sucking, depressing to talk about politics, especially if you feel like there's no forward movement. You know, it's like, is anything ever going to get better? So are you, Sean Farish, are you optimistic right now? Are you feeling hopeful about where things are headed?

7:22Shawn Farash:Yeah, I'm feeling hopeful about it. Cautiously optimistic, obviously. You know, Donald Trump is one man, right? And there's only so much one man can do. so when it goes down to the halls of congress whether it's the house whether it's the senate whether you're talking about rescissions packages now at the state level and multiple states redistricting and having to bring representatives back into the chamber because they left these are things that you know donald trump necessarily can't directly influence and so i think it's important for people to realize that one of the best ways and i actually got a question on my show today about it one of the best ways um to to make those differences is to start at the local level.

7:58Shawn Farash:Like your HOA president, if you live in one of those, I don't, thankfully, because I wish wouldn't get along with the policies, right? But your HOA president, in many ways, has more of a direct impact on your life than the president of the United States, right? Donald Trump's not the one finding you because a weed has leaned over onto your driveway, right? If you live in an HOA that's that strict, your HOA president is. So, you know, your school board presidents, your county commissioners, your mayors, folks like that, I always say, if you want change to be made, start local because when you make those changes in a local jurisdiction makes its way up the up the food chain to the state level multiple states then start copying each other just here in the state of Tennessee they passed a gender affirming care for minors ban it was upheld by the Supreme Court other states are now taking that bill copying it pasting it but these are things that started locally these are things that started by men and women in our state legislature that you could bump into, you know, at a restaurant here, getting hot chicken, right?

8:54Shawn Farash:So everything good comes from being involved locally at the individual level. And it's how you grow that, how you water that flower and let it blossom that really ultimately makes a difference. So for that reason, because I know people are capable of doing that, I'm incredibly optimistic, cautiously optimistic. Yes. I get that from, you know, being a Jets fan. You mentioned I'm a joyous person, not during football season because those guys take the joy they suck my soul out every single year but we throw them off to the wayside we know that we're in control politically right now we have

9:26Dan Bongino:the opportunity to win yeah if everyone just takes a little bit of initiative we'll get it done well that you're good so you're a Jets fan if you keep your expectations low you're always pleasantly surprised and here you have uh here you have like look think about the last few years though I see people out there who are still blackpilling oh nothing's ever gonna get better everything's going to be destroyed. Well, hold on a second. Roe v. Wade was overturned completely. That's a massive win. People in the United States desperately want borders, and the president is now reinforcing our sovereignty at our border.

9:55Dan Bongino:That's an 80-20, 90-10 issue. We've won on that issue. People want to fund the police. They don't want to defund the police. They want law enforcement in their community. We've easily won on that issue. And the issue you just mentioned out of Tennessee, but certainly all across the country, mutilating children, nobody's on board with that. Letting men play in women's sports. Now, nobody's on board with that. There used to be a lot of cowardice around those issues. But it was thanks to activists like you, Sean, people who have fought for decency to be restored, that we've made a lot of headway.

10:26Dan Bongino:I mean, there's a lot of reason for celebration.

10:29Shawn Farash:You know, I'm glad you mentioned that there used to be cowardice surrounding those issues and there isn't anymore because for the folks who are saying nothing's happening nothing ever happens therefore nothing will happen well it's not raining today but that doesn't mean it can't rain tomorrow right i mean it's very simple right and the other thing is for years i mean donald trump first came to a couple days ago was the 10-year anniversary of the first republican presidential debate where donald trump iconically answered megan kelly's question with only rosie the greatest response i've ever seen it was the best right but uh oh my god that was 10 years ago that was 10 years ago 10 years ago making a statement about building a wall on the border and deporting illegal aliens was considered racist it has taken 10 years to shift the overton window enough where what was once considered racist is now considered common sense and is the other side of 80 20 it used to be 20 no now it's now it's 20 uh now it's 80 yes bring these people uh get these people out of our country so it took a decade just to get the concept the common sense concept of if you came into the country illegally you shouldn't be here it took a decade to become acceptable so for the folks who want every aspect of life to get better in six months or a year or two years, these are probably people that if you sat them down and had a face-to-face conversation, slipped them a little truth serum, they would admit that they cooked their steaks in the microwave because they can't wait if it's on the grill.

12:04Shawn Farash:They don't care. They don't want to do it low and slow. They want it now. And what you're sacrificing is you're sacrificing quality for time. You're going for that instant gratification. I always compare it like you want to eat a donut because it tastes good today. but if you keep eating donuts you're gonna you're gonna look like chris christy right he's a sloppy guy you don't want to look like chris christy of the future because you ate too many donuts so how about you make the sacrifices now and you be a little patient yeah and you let these processes play out and and i'm fine with being skeptical again jets fan cautiously optimistic skeptical of people and and and things that they tell me good things are happening right yeah but i'm okay with skepticism but not negativity and toxicity okay the right people are in place now i think we're going to see good things happen.

12:50Dan Bongino:I love it. All right. In a moment, I want to continue with Sean Farish. I'm going to ask you, Sean, about whether or not people don't realize this. Maybe it's a good thing that the left is so crazy. More in just a moment. Yeah, you already know the name Blackout Coffee, probably the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. And there's a reason for that. This is bold, unapologetic. America first roasted fresh right here in the United States. It's not grocery store junk. Blackout Coffee delivers rich, high quality roasts that actually tastes like freedom. And now you can set it and you can forget it with auto refill and recurring delivery.

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14:40Dan Bongino:They've gone absolutely crazy. But I do think that the effect of the left's craziness is it's only made stronger his resolve to help our country. Do you think maybe there's some sort of weird benefit from the left's craziness?

14:55Shawn Farash:I think there is because when you look at how crazy they are, and it's not just about having crazy ideas now like Bernie Sanders had$15 an hour minimum wage or Medicare for all or some of these ideas that they would come out. there are now crazy actions. You've got adults, and I don't think many of these people are Republicans or Trump supporters that are now relying on binkies to de-stress from the day. I mean, this is a story that's everywhere. They're sucking on pacifiers. I can't believe that these people walk among us, that I may be in the supermarket one day and go, that person right there with the blue hair and like the crazy look on it, they may be using a binky later to settle down before going to bed.

15:35Shawn Farash:Like these people are grown babies, right? So I think a lot of the times when you have that malleable middle, you have that group of people, the third party that's watching. You always hear Dan said this all the time. When you're debating people online or you're debating left versus right, it's not about changing the liberal's mind. It's about influencing the middle to say, okay, that person's crazy. I may not like everything that right-wing guy is saying, but I can't get behind the crazy unhinged person because how am I supposed to trust them? Right. So I think with these 80, 20 issues, the men can be women thing, the, you know, illegal aliens are are people, too.

16:12Shawn Farash:Nobody said they're they're not people. We're just saying that they don't belong in this country and shouldn't be taking advantage of the taxpayers. So I think and it's the actions burning the Teslas, you know, the the the Kathy Griffin head. Right. All of the Trump derangement. If Trump says it, it's bad. Well, I hereby endorse oxygen. So start holding your breath. You know, like this is the thing that I that I think is really working in the favor of Trump and the left is that they've gone so far. Everything is Hitler. Everything is racism that people look at that and go, OK, I may not agree with everything Donald Trump says, but that's nuts.

16:46Shawn Farash:And I can't get behind that. So I'm giving I'm giving Trump a shot.

16:50Dan Bongino:There's a reason the country was driven into Trump's arms. There's like 100 percent like under normal circumstances, if the country was like functioning appropriately, you're going to pick the next sort of handsome or beautiful, you know, sort of normal. Well, I'm a handsome guy too, though.

17:05Shawn Farash:So I take it. Look, I take offense to that because I'm a very handsome person. Yeah. OK, fair.

17:09Dan Bongino:But beyond that, the kind of person who is very conventional in their presentation, you wouldn't you'd pick a conventional person. Instead, the country went all in on an unconventional person, somebody who doesn't always say the most polite thing. He can be a little vulgar at times. He's a little too direct for most people's tastes. But, you know, as I'm reminded, I had a buddy in 2016 during the Republican primary who wrote an op-ed at the time that he was coming around to Trump. And the headline he chose for it was, I don't like Trump, but I hate you. And that's what made it. He was so furious at the left and the establishment that he's like, I'm going for Trump.

17:43Dan Bongino:I'm going for Trump in no small part because you hate Trump. I'm punishing you with Trump. and you know it's it's so weird to this very day they they still seem completely stunned by the fact that president trump can win via a democratic process in the united states well it's like one of

18:03Shawn Farash:trump's main pitches to the black community a lot of minority communities where it was basically what do you have to lose right like what are you afraid of losing have things gotten better with the alternative whether it's you know a uniparty republican a soft squishy rhino type or it's one of these moderate or not so moderate radical leftist Democrats? Has your life gotten better? The only people whose lives have gotten better from that are illegal aliens. And these are people who aren't supposed to be voting anyway. So you're asking these questions to people, whether they're leftists, whether they're people, again, in that malleable middle, the independents, the swayables, the fence sitters.

18:39Shawn Farash:And you're just basically saying, look, has life gotten better? Have they fulfilled their promises to you? And they're saying, no. OK, so what do you have to lose? What you only stand to gain by taking a shot on somebody, as you said, unconventional. That's a perfect way to describe him as Donald Trump, because he's unconventional. And this is the problem with the political system. He's unconventional when it comes to a politician, but he's very conventional people like you and me. He's just like somebody you'd bump into in a bar in New York. Obviously, Trump doesn't drink, but you get what I'm saying.

19:11Shawn Farash:He's a normal dude. You know, you bump into a guy in New York and you start having a conversation with a dude from Queens. You're basically having a conversation with a Donald Trump type person, an average Joe, a normal guy. And that's the problem with politics. Everybody's got to be so polished and proper.

19:28Dan Bongino:But also be like us. But also not only is he the normal dude at the bar, he's also everyone's favorite dude at the bar, actually, because he's got a unique ability to make you no matter who you are and no matter how many times. Maybe you've never met him before at all. He'll make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. You've met him, Sean. I mean, it's a very unusual experience. He has an exceptional ability at retail politics, actually. The ability to convince someone that he's on their side. Yeah.