The Sickest Thing I've Seen In a Long Time (Ep. 2459)

18:13Dan Bongino:once you go down the road of violence there's no turning back there's always someone stronger than you man always there's a whole lot of people stronger than me

18:28Dan Bongino:and I'm sorry if the language distracts from you but I can think of no other New York way to say it than fuck you motherfuckers you deserve to feel the little licks of the flames of hell on every inch of your body fuck you

18:54Dan Bongino:if there's an afterlife oh and I believe there is I believe in the second creation I don't pretend to be the judge and jury but I know you're not in it

19:09Dan Bongino:I gotta tell you I've been doing this for a really long time now

19:18Dan Bongino:and as I said in the beginning of the show I walked into this into a dark forest I had I didn't know where it was going to go I did not have this all mapped out because I don't know what to say people have tried being nice people have tried screaming and yelling people have tried a middle of the road approach nothing nothing works

19:44Dan Bongino:ignore it it metastasizes address it it metastasizes i wish i had the answer i can only make decisions for me i can't make decisions for you as to what you want to watch or what you don't this isn't about views or who's popular or who's this i don't care i'm just telling you i'm making a decision for me now i don't want to be any part of that if you're part of that please leave if it is half my audience disappears tomorrow good riddance sayonara motherfuckers

20:23Dan Bongino:i don't want you nobody else wants you here the people who watch this show don't want you here sane people, and that is a majority of us, hate your guts. We don't want you. Nobody wants you. You were the spawn of Satan. I promise your parents, alive or dead, are looking at you now in horror that they spawned the demon. Your last name will live in infamy. Your kids will deny knowing you. I don't want anything to do with you. I see you out there I know exactly what you're doing you can just go it's not an airport you don't have to announce your fucking departure just go I'm the anti-clicks of you guys I don't want you your views, your clicks, nothing

21:24Dan Bongino:don't buy anything don't do anything Don't touch anything we do. Just go away. I know you can't because you have to spread your cancer everywhere. But we've got warriors in this audience too who don't want to listen to your fucking bullshit either.

21:51Dan Bongino:Are we clear with each other?

21:56Dan Bongino:you can just get the fuck out

22:02Dan Bongino:I want to tell you something too for those of you who've lost hope because there's an audience for this shit and it's not small do not delude yourselves this is not a small audience it's not folks I'm a business guy too I have other shows Bongino Inc. is not just me it's other people I live in this space all the time. There is an audience for this stuff. It's sad. I wish we didn't live in a world where there was, but it's very real. But I want you to hold out this little glimmer of hope. I've seen this before. People are, people do not want to be lied to. Folks, I'm sorry, but even morons don't want to be lied to.

22:50Dan Bongino:Because what winds up happening is the morons then go to some cocktail party and spout their moronic bullshit. And then everyone at the party starts laughing at them and the social isolation becomes too much. No. Yes. I'll give you an example. When I was a kid, I may age myself. Do you guys remember Morton Downey Jr.? Morton Downey Jr. had this like shock jock type TV show and it exploded. If you don't remember who he is, you're actually making my point. If you're my age. Even if you're not my age, you're still making my point. You know who Oprah Winfrey is, right? Yeah, I know Oprah. Exactly.

23:28Dan Bongino:Morton Downey Jr. at one point was doing ratings on this TV show. There'd be fights on the show. It was like pre-Jerry Springer stuff. He was doing this TV show, and the ratings at one point rivaled Oprah Winfrey. I never even heard of this guy. Well, the reason is an incident happened at an airport at the end. Some people said it was a hoax. He said it wasn't. He said he was attacked by some neo-Nazis. A lot of people called BS. He since died. That was the end of Morton Downey Jr. and his show because a lot of people felt like, I'm being bullshitted here. I'll bring it up with Sean Farish later, but you see the same thing with Rachel Maddow's show on MSNOW or NBC previously.

24:17Dan Bongino:Rachel Maddow built a career off the Russia hoax. Russia everything was Russia screaming about Russia and all the fiction that was made about the fables about Russia folks that show for four years was killing it I know I was in the business people couldn't believe the ratings that thing was doing I know she's left her nightly show I don't know if she does a night a week now whatever and she still has a relatively popular podcast but she's nowhere near the presence she was in the liberal content space because eventually people get tired of being bullshitted. I want you to keep in mind that glimmer of hope.

25:01Dan Bongino:Eventually over time, I'm not going to say good content wins, but truthful content wins. That's good.

25:13Dan Bongino:Folks, I say this because I'm given my prior experience in both of the spaces. I am extremely concerned about the security situation developing with both the president, Erica, and others. It's unfathomable how we live in a world where lunatics try to kill Donald Trump on a pretty sadly regular basis now and then you've got other lunatics now out there spurring other crazies who may be able to or may be looking at doing the same thing to others. It's just unfathomable that you would do that. This is no form of truth-seeking folks. Let's not play the euphemisms game. this is about one thing and one thing only making your ego the center of the entire universe

26:23Dan Bongino:how many of these incidents do we need to see a guy just showed up in mar-a-lago with a shotgun and a gas can was killed president trump was shot in the head in butler pennsylvania Ryan Routh was just convicted of an attempt to assassinate him on a golf course in Palm Beach Folks, the Secret Service through their protective intelligence doesn't even expose to the public The litany of threats this president gets every single day He's the most threatened man in the known cosmos And we're still doing this? Bride of Charlie?

27:04Dan Bongino:there's no movement I want to be a part of man I'd rather have 20 viewers out there

27:16Dan Bongino:Laura Trump was on Laura Trump was obviously her father-in-law President Trump married to Eric Laura Trump was on Fox discussing exactly this point How much can one man possibly take? Is there ever a point where some of these lunatics are going to say, OK, now I've crossed a red line? I thought I knew the answer to that. I can't say that anymore. Listen to Laura Trump.

27:47Shawn Farash:Yeah, well, first of all, I want to commend the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. They did an incredible job. Obviously, there were no innocent people who were harmed in this. But you're right, Ainsley. You know, I would like to say I'm surprised by this, but sadly, I'm not, because this is the third time in two years someone has tried to murder my father-in-law, our president of the United States. And, you know, you would think that something like this would encourage everyone, Republicans, independents, and yes, even Democrats, to stand up and say, you know what, we can't operate like this.

28:20Shawn Farash:This stuff isn't okay. It's been definitely silent from one side of the political aisle. And I will say I've heard a lot of Republicans come and speak out against this in the past 24 hours. Not a lot of folks from the left. And that is noted by almost everyone in this country.

28:40Dan Bongino:How much more of this are we going to accept?

28:46Dan Bongino:It's not infighting, man. it's they're not us they are not part of us they will never be part of us

28:59Dan Bongino:these people out there whether it anything from what's going on right now with this with candace and this bride of charlie to this unbelievably serious and tragic now you know decades-long case with epstein where it's devolve from this unspeakable tragedy about what happened to Donald Trump eats babies?

29:27Folks,

29:28Dan Bongino:a compass doesn't work, you know, if we don't have a measure of true north. A movement that devolves into chaos that has no barometer for what true north is is always going to get lost in the forest, man. There's no way around it. You see what's happening? Do you see what's happening to this movement?

29:53Dan Bongino:People who realize they can't defeat it from the outside are practicing Yuri Bezmenov's warnings about the old Soviet Union. Well, if we can't beat it from the outside, we might as well get some subversives from the inside to kill the host in an internal cancer.

30:12Dan Bongino:well I want to be the CRISPR immune technology that attacks that cancer and wipes it out and if it's at my expense

30:27fine

30:31Dan Bongino:but you've had people out there fighting this fight for a long time folks Seth Dillon Ben Shapiro Graham Allen

30:47Dan Bongino:I will never forget that day ever sitting there and I gotta tell you not in a thousand lifetimes did I ever think we'd be here having a conversation about a quote investigative series called Bride of Charlie this is fucking revolting

31:21Dan Bongino:boy i don't even know how to like like i said i i walked into the show into the the dark forest here i've usually got a better idea of paths and segues and all that stuff that's how you produce a show, but I don't know what else to say. I just don't.

31:42Dan Bongino:I do have a lot to get to, though. Obviously, it's a huge news day. There's just a ton of stuff going on. We got the State of the Union tonight on a more positive note. President Trump now has tens of millions of viewers and a captive audience to tell the country and the doomers and the liberal media and others about how the world is not collapsing. Okay. I use the analogy of a report card. A report card is only a good barometer of where you stand academically. If it actually measures what you're doing, if a report card gave you all F's and you got a hundred on a test, you'd give up because there's no reason to study for a test.

32:19Dan Bongino:You're going to fail anyway. In the other direction, if a report card gave you all A's and you got sixties on every test, it's a reason for you to keep being lazy because you know you're going to get an A even if you don't study. The only way a report card, which the State of the Union works as a tool, is if we're honest and we don't fall prey to doomerism, but we don't fall prey to Pollyanna-ish nonsense either. I'm never going to do that.

32:51Dan Bongino:The State of the Union tonight is a good opportunity to reset a lot of the doomerism out there that has been crushing, crushing enthusiasm for the party in the great country you live in. All right. I'm going to take a break and get to some other things, too. Something that happened yesterday in the media. Folks, the overt efforts to attack masculinity and the overt efforts to push this DEI, overly feminized culture, are just, you're seeing it everywhere. And there's been a revolt against that too, the toxic masculinity argument. And you're seeing it, and it leaves me with a sense of pride that the America, you and I both know, built on pure, unadulterated masculinity is back.

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36:32Dan Bongino:That's patriotmobile.com slash Dan or call 972-PATRIOT and switch today. Thanks, Patriot Mobile. We appreciate it. So yesterday, of course, when I talk about this leftist war against toxic masculinity, folks, is all bullshit. It is, I want to explain to you because I don't think this is, sometimes you'll see people get caught on this question rarely. And it's not their fault. And I say people, I mean people who are on our side of the movement. They're asked, you know, define cancel culture. Define critical theory. And because the left keeps changing the meaning of it themselves, the answer they give sometimes may not be that fluid.

37:11Dan Bongino:And it's not their fault. It's just the left doesn't even know what it is. So it's hard for the right. You know, it's almost like what's that old line about porn? You know it when you see it. It's hard to describe. That's canceling. It's like porn for the left. You know it when you see it too. but the one way i heard it described and forgive me you know i always had to but i you know i'm 51 i don't remember everything i've read attribution wise over the course of the last 40 plus years the best way i've ever heard it described is that these people on the left view this faux war because they really don't mean it toxic masculinity they don't believe any of that crap it's just nonsense it's a proxy war for them because they believe that the white male patriarchy is the source of power that's where the power resides and that all knowledge derived from that is simply a construct of power now that's that's not exactly how i read it but that's how i've kind of tattooed it on my brain over the years and that's how you get these stupid ideas amongst the DEI progressive commie left, neo-commie left, where they say things like, well, math is racist.

38:33Dan Bongino:No, math is math, folks. Five plus five equals 10. It doesn't matter what your race is. Now, if you're listening to that, you go, Dan, you know, again, hello, Captain Obvious. No, it's not Captain Obvious to the left. The left knows five plus five is 10. But again, if it's taught to you by a member of the white male patriarchy, that is the nucleus of what they consider power, then every single bit of knowledge extracted from that power should be questioned. Does it make sense now? That's why they pumped this bullshit down your throat about toxic masculinity. It's to get you to question what they consider is the nucleus of all power, the white male patriarchy.

39:17Dan Bongino:Folks, it's all bullshit. I'm not going to try to explain what the white male patriarchy is because there's no such thing. I happen to be white. I happen to be male. I'm not part of any treehouse club while we're talking about infighting versus outfighting that says sign up here for your patriarchy card. Nobody knows what they're talking about. Trying to get the language under control after opening up with that tirade. Nobody knows what they're talking about. That's why it's hard to describe and people get crossed up all the time. Tell me about DEI, critical race theory. There's a thousand definitions because the left doesn't even know what it means.

39:55Dan Bongino:The white male patriarchy. What is a lefty? Dear lefty, what's the white male patriarchy? Who's the member? Who's not? Oh, you are. You have all the power in the world. Power in the world. I was born to a mother who worked in finest supermarket at 64th Place in Merle Avenue at the checkout counter for$3 an hour. What the hell source of power was that? Oh, you have power now. A microphone. No one gave me this shit. We started a podcast in my basement, me and producer Joe, God rest his soul. We got a hundred listens and we thought it was the greatest thing ever. That's why you see these constant attacks on America getting back to respecting and adoring what got us here.

40:41Dan Bongino:Masculinity. that doesn't diminish the role of great women in society but it doesn't it fairly acknowledges the role that great men have had I bring it up because you saw of course the fake and it was fake the fake outrage I was on Fox last night talking about it over cash drinking a beer in the locker room they invited him in He was like, folks, I don't, as I said last night on Fox, I don't give a damn. He loves the USA, he loves hockey, and as I said last night, I guess he loves beer. I thought he was a bourbon guy. They invite him in the locker room. We have a huge footprint in Olympic security.

41:30Dan Bongino:There's a lot of things that were going on that he can't even talk about, and that's why he's, I, you know, and I have to be careful, too, what I say. But there's a reason he was there. Whether you believe it or not Again I don't give a shit Get the fuck out I don't care You don't have to believe it You weren't there I'm not really interested The point is The outrage And you've By the way You have the right to an opinion on it Oh I don't like You shouldn't have done it Fine that's your opinion Great I don't care The outrage is fake I'll prove it to you Because it's not about him It's about attacking Every single member Of the Trump team that engages any of this type of behavior that celebrates manhood, testosterone, bravery, courage, strength, any of these attributes you would associate with traditional masculinity, they've got to bash all the time.

42:26Dan Bongino:Sometimes a guy just likes sports, wants to drink a beer. Here's what I'm talking about. So I saw this tweet pop up on my timeline yesterday. I wanted to vomit. This is Amora C. Sullivan. As a Marine, I learned to put mission first and focused on winning our nation's wars. Well, thank you for your service. I mean it. It doesn't mean your opinion is valid. If the Secretary of War, Pete Hegg says, wants to be a third-rate fitness influencer, he should go do that and let a qualified adult run the Pentagon. What's the big brouhaha about this time? first it was cash drinking a beer. So Pete, who's, by the way, 45 years old, did a motivational video working out with the guys where he benched, bench pressed, obviously, 315 pounds, which if you know Pete, I don't know what Pete weighs.

43:25Dan Bongino:He's pretty tall. He's taller than me. Maybe he's about 210. That's pretty darn impressive. Folks, listen to me. I've been lifting a long time. I benched 315 when I was like 21. I don't even think I could bench 225 anymore. And we're about the same weight. I'm just a few years older. That's pretty freaking impressive. It doesn't matter if it was impressive. Who's back? The Daily Yeast author. Remember from the other day? Annabella Roschiglione, who I'm pretty sure can't bench 3.1 pounds. Pentagon Pete can't stop posting cringe workout videos. Why does it bother you that the Secretary of War, to instill a culture of pride in physical conditioning and to lead from the front, is posting videos meant to motivate the others out there who maybe don't want to work out or are in their fighting force?

44:21Dan Bongino:Oh, I don't do it. Now he's saying, look, if I'm doing it, you have to do it, too. If I'm going to run the place, then you're going to do it, too. The point is it's all bullshit I promise you if that was Joe Biden Forget Joe If that was Joe Biden benching 100 pounds They would have been like oh my gosh look at this guy Look at the vitality He looks like a young Lou Ferrigno

44:46Dan Bongino:Remember Joe Biden when he fell off the bike They were sitting there they were like oh my god look at the athleticism As he couldn't get his If he would have been able to get his feet out of the clips he would have jumped up and done a complete backflip. Folks, they hate every single thing America stands for. And America has been built on this bedrock of hell to the, yeah, we are going to be aggressive, we are going to be entrepreneurial, we are going to take risks. Those are all attributes that have been associated with traditional versions of manhood. and when you're a leftist and you believe the white male patriarchy is the source of all power is the nucleus of all power and that knowledge comes from that every bit of knowledge that comes from the patriarchy needs to be questioned whether it's math or not this is the kind of stuff you engage in annabella rischiglione who didn't know a damn thing about the president's daily brief and humiliated herself in yet another stupid article this is what the u.s is really about did you see the u.s men's hockey team no i know the victory you saw that so the u.s men's hockey team which just won the gold against canada in an unbelievable performance and you know is it a comparison to miracle on ice probably not miracle on ice was a miracle there's no way a group of college kids should have beat the soviet team no way there's no there's no it's be like you hitting a home run off Roger Clemens.

46:18Dan Bongino:And I mean you like the person in the, in the chat right now, who's never played baseball in your life. That's the equivalent of what happened with the miracle. But there's no taking away that this was an amazing moment for a great country. And the players could not have handled it in any more of a patriotic or dignified manner. God bless him. But showing you like, this is a hell yeah moment. It's sometimes it's okay to like crack a beer or do whatever you, you know, celebrate a little bit. We don't have to be a bunch of stiffs all the time. The U.S. team, because of the snowstorm in the Northeast, they were supposed to fly back to JFK.

46:52Dan Bongino:That got diverted to an airport I know all too well, Miami. Well, one thing about Miami, which you fellas might know, maybe not, Miami's quite a party town. I spent a lot of time in Miami. Paul and I, I love Miami. It is my second favorite place on earth next to my home. If you haven't visited and you're a conservative, please come down. If you're a liberal, place is closed. No more new admittance. Sorry. They decided to pop into a club, the USA Hockey League. And good for you guys. I know the stiffs out there, oh my gosh, I party in a club. Yes. And this is what happened when they popped in the club.

47:36Dan Bongino:Check this out.

47:51Dan Bongino:Now that's me some America. And that's what Annabella Resciglione, the Daily Yeast, and all these leftist lunatics are so, so eager to destroy. Folks, it's an imperfect country. That's fairly obvious. Look at that chat blowing up. You guys are going to melt the chat down. Look at that chat. American flags everywhere. God bless you all. I love being part of this. Amen, brother. I can't even stop it now. I was trying to stop. Hold on. Let me hear that.

48:27Dan Bongino:Chris Broyles. I said, K-R-I-S-B-R-O-Y-L-E-S. Look at that chat. Man, you're going to cause like a technical meltdown at Rumble. Oh, you guys are the best. That's why I love being here. That's why I never worry about all this stuff, man. I don't. I don't worry about it I am just always honored to live in this amazing country at this amazing time to haven't served multiple times and to just be surrounded by amazing people like you and just have you just let that thing roll man look at look at that chat we haven't had that chat fly like that in a long time man Chris gonna call me from rumble be like they melted the chat again people love this country I love this country and there's so many good things happening all we need is a report card not everybody needs an a but not everything's an f either we got the state of the union coming up tonight it's the opportunity for you all to stand up and clap and go my gosh we've got you know china building a nuclear arsenal the russians in a war in ukraine we've got all this stuff going on congo uh rwanda you've got uae versus saudi and all these places you've got drug wars and you know what the united states is still kicking ass and taking names it's incredible you are you have been blessed to be born in the think about this in the most incredible country at the most incredible time there isn't folks there has not been a person born before you had is that has ever been born into a world so wealthy thanks to the production power and military might of this amazing country we call the United States of America.

50:12Dan Bongino:And you damn well better be proud of it.

50:18Dan Bongino:I'm proud to egg set suspension 315. I'm actually quite jealous in the most manpanion kind of way. I'm damn happy that cash downed a brewski good. I'm damn proud that President Trump continues to rack up W's despite two fake impeachments 62 ,000 fake criminal investigations Massive weaponization against him And just about every single piece of the media telling you he's a fascist racist Nazi every day I'm proud of him giving the double barrel middle finger to all of these dipshits And still racking up a win-loss record like we've never seen

51:04Dan Bongino:Folks, elections are about choices, man Elections are about choices That's a stupid cliche Yeah, because it's true An election is a choice Sometimes binary, sometimes more than that But in a republic, elections are about choices Why am I saying the fairly obvious? Because those choices have to be made on results results not on talk they have to be made on results and he is going to have the opportunity tonight to lay out some of those results so hopefully you can make a choice in november about what direction you want the party to go in those are going to be imperfect choices some of you out there and i you know who you are have really shitty congressmen who are on the ballot i'm talking about democrats i don't vote for democrats ever period end the story some of you have bad congressmen you just do they're rhinos they're fake republicans I'm telling you the alternative in this level 10 choice you have where you have a shitty choice and a shittier one is a Democrat who's going to impeach your president and screw the whole country up for the next two years so I can't have anyone fall prey to a report card that's all F's and doomerism and here's what I mean the Democrats are more than happy to do this through their media outlets at the New York Times and elsewhere I saw this piece, I mentioned it yesterday but there was so much in this disgusting, horrifying piece out of the New York Times.

52:29Dan Bongino:So much gaslighting. Yeah, leave that on the screen for a minute. That I wanted to just do a segment on this just briefly before we get to Sean Farish. The piece, I rarely would send you the New York Times, but I encourage you to actually read this just to see the insanity we're dealing with. The piece is titled, Trump Claims a Historic Turnaround for the U.S. Here are the facts. Folks, this piece is nuts. Every single Trump W, and I'm not going to go through every single one they address. I'm going to go through about four of them. Every single huge, enormous Trump W, they have an explanation for that's absolute horseshit.

53:13Dan Bongino:If this was so easy to do to get inflation down from Biden's 9 % peak, then why didn't Biden do it? If it was so easy to get the crime rates and murder rates, not the same thing, murders are crime, but not all crimes are murder, to historic low levels we've never seen in American history, then why didn't Team Biden do it? Let's go through this piece one by one, because I want you to be able to dissect this bullshit piece by piece. Here's their explanation on inflation. This is freaking hilarious. they're talking about how Donald Trump inherited the worst inflation in the history of the country now we have almost no inflation they say that's false inflation is slowed under President Trump and they call him Mr.

54:01Dan Bongino:Trump I mean President Trump but not by drastic margins he's claiming and the prices are still increasing above the two percent set by the Federal Reserve so if you're a lunatic or a doomer and you read that you're like oh wow Like President Trump really didn't do anything about inflation. But I remember inflation hitting 9 % under Joe Biden, and it's leveled off at about 2.4 % now. So listen, I'm not a math major, but I'm reasonably confident 2.4 is less than 9. Anyone in the chat disagree? There's some charts up on this too. And you'll notice like a pattern if you can actually do data analysis or if your eyeballs even work.

54:39Dan Bongino:Wow, you'll notice that in June of 2022. Do you guys know who the president was, Justin, in 2022? I don't remember.

54:49Dan Bongino:June. In June of 2022, during the Biden presidency, Justin's confused. He's like, I wasn't ready for that question. He forgot him. He's got his hoodie on in there. Looks like he just got off a weekend bender. In June of 2022 This is the New York Times own chart To debunk that Trump has not been Like a warrior against inflation You see 9.1 % It's their own chart bro Just look at it And then you see the Trump years January 2026 who's president 2.4 9.1 2.4 This is their own chart

55:36Dan Bongino:How do you explain I don't understand how you explain it How are you looking at this chart if you're a liberal lunatic And not thinking wow Trump's got a point Is inflation zero? No it's not zero And the New York Times Because I'll give you the truth I'm not going to bullshit you like the New York Times The Fed does set a target Of 2 % inflation I think it should be 0 % That's not my call The Fed sets it at 2 So it is above at 2.4 At Biden, it was nine. Can you not do math? Believe it or not, this article gets even worse. This article shit, the president, if I were the president, I would whip this article out of my pocket at the State of the Union tonight and point to the New York Times own charts.

56:22Dan Bongino:Here was a Biden peak. Here's inflation now. Here's the job numbers. They're like, ah, you know, President Trump really isn't that great on jobs. And then in the actual graph, I am not bullshitting you. These are the graphs in the New York Times piece. That's why I'm encouraging you to read it. In the actual piece, it says more people are in the workforce, but the percent employed is flat under Trump. So, in other words, despite massive deportations of illegals who should not have been here, tens of millions of people, and President Trump, leave this chart up a second, shrinking the federal government workforce, which was a necessary downsizing by 10%, quote, more people are still in the workforce.

57:05Dan Bongino:It's right there in their own chart. Oh, you're right. He's been terrible about jobs. Shrinking the government workforce, deportations of illegals, and yet more people are in the workforce now. It's their own chart, bro. I swear to you, if I was the president, I would whip this thing out. I'd be like, look, fellas, This is your own chart. This is your own chart. It gets better. Something I was involved in with many other partners under the president's leadership. It's not about you. The murder rate and the crime rate, why would that be important? Well, the number one rule of the Dan Bongino show is don't get freaking dead because if you're dead, you're dead.

57:56Dan Bongino:When you're dead, there's no coming back. You know why it's all coming back? Because you're dead. So they give this quote about Donald Trump in an NBC interview about crime being a mess in the past. It's the lowest crime we've had in 100 years since 1900. This is exaggerated. President Trump has a point.

58:18Dan Bongino:Andrew, are you laughing at this?

58:23Dan Bongino:They note. So President Trump's taking a victory lap on crime. Then they state, this is their words, not mine. President Trump has a point that homicides are projected to reach a 125-year low in 2025. And broader categories of crime, too, are projected to decline. They don't, here's the caveat, but that did not represent a stark reversal from 2024.

58:51Dan Bongino:Wait, wait, it gets better. Put up the next one about the property crime, the charts. minute it's just the new york times own piece here's the headline in the graph in the piece i'm sorry man this is freaking hilarious homicides expected to hit a historic low but we're declining before trump took office look at the numbers you see this dramatic dip at the end that's the trump president for the president presidency for the liberal dipshits I can't read a chart. That at the end, all the way over there at the end of the screen, those are the Trump years. 25 into 26. And not only do you see a drop, but you see a percentage drop that's never been seen in American history.

59:36Dan Bongino:So in other words, Trump comes into office and historical crime trends due to police technology were going down, no doubt. You see it in the chart yourself. However, he comes into office. I want you to think about something. Did you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns? I don't want to try to sound like Captain Smarty Pants, but you know what I mean. When you go into a neighborhood, I'll give you an example. I'm not going to say what place, but when we were doing an FBI op, I don't know, I'll call it Operation Bluetooth. That wasn't the name of it, but we went in early and we basically cleaned this place out.

1:00:14Dan Bongino:We did a felony warrants operation with the locals and probably locked up a couple hundred people in a relatively small place. And folks, the crime rate collapsed dramatically almost overnight because not a lot of people commit crime. It's not a big mystery. The point is we went back in later and I'll never forget, was it the police chief or the mayor who called? We did a lot of these ops. And he's like, hey guys, we appreciate the help and we welcome it, but we're running out of bad guys to catch. That's the whole point. Donald Trump came into office with crime trending down over decades And still managed not only to make it the lowest it's ever been But the percentage drop is also the biggest percentage drop we've ever seen And they still can't give him credit for it You may say, well what about like property crime and all that other stuff Okay, you'll go to the New York Times on peace I'm telling you, the president should keep this in his pocket and whip this sucker out tonight and use this piece.

1:01:19Dan Bongino:Put up that piece there about property crime. It says not only are like homicides gone down, but these are general crimes too that have gone down. There's another piece on that. Property crimes, it says, while the Council on Criminal Justice did not release estimates for violent or property crimes for 2025, this guy that they're citing here believes preliminary data shows declines in those broader categories too.

1:01:44Dan Bongino:This is the times. Trump sucks Here's all the things he did really well though That we're telling you he sucks about One last one and I'll move on Here he is on the border They're trying to attack him on his border successes Saying this is as big a deal as you think That ladies and gentlemen Is called a chart A bar graph Look at the chart If you listen on Apple and Spotify I'll give you the headline of the chart You don't even need to look at it This is in the New York Times own piece. Trump sucks on the border. Headline, illegal border crossings are sharply down under Trump. This is their own piece, man.

1:02:26Dan Bongino:It's their own piece. If I were a conservative, a MAGA movement person, a libertarian, I would print this New York Times piece or bookmark it and keep a copy with me and hand it out to your liberal friends. And say, can you guys explain all this to me? If Trump's report card is all F's How come the New York Times giving them all A's And telling you they're all F's How come that's happening How come that's happening

1:02:55Dan Bongino:You see why I get so pissed off at the doomers out there? I'm all about accountability and transparency. There are a lot of things that still have to happen. We got three more years. But you're never going to gauge your academic or professional workforce success by giving everybody F's all the time because someone pissed in your freaking Cheerios. And you didn't get a job or whatever.

1:03:24it's freaking frustrating man and what's the alternative what are you going to vote for in in uh in november are you going to vote for the democrats what are the democrats offering

1:03:37Dan Bongino:you you want to see how bad it is for the democrats right now in case you think there's some blue dog viable alternative that better represents my worldview unless you believe in weaponized government, high taxes, government-run health care, and sitting in an emergency room all day because you can't find a freaking doctor dying of an infection, that party ain't for you, man. Do you guys know this clip? It's a little over a minute, but it's worth your time. Sorry for the sniffles there. I'm not sick. It's very cold in here. It's like 45 degrees intentionally. You guys know Fareed Zachariah from CNN?

1:04:18Dan Bongino:This guy is a CNN guy. He's obviously like a lefty. I saw this segment yesterday. I debated putting it up. This is Fareed Zachariah talking about Democrat big city policies and how all the promises they've made are just falling apart. This was on CNN. This is your alternative. They're turning on their own people. They're like, hey, man, this Mamdani's been in office just a little bit. You're asking for all this money for all these people and you're producing shit and garbage. This is not the Dan Bongino show. Well, it is. This is Fareed Zachariah. Check this out. Zoran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.

1:05:02Shawn Farash:A mandate for a city we can afford. Last week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York City's budget has ballooned in recent years, and much of it has happened as the city has been losing the one thing that makes big government easier to finance, people.

1:05:23Dan Bongino:New York City's population fell sharply amid the pandemic with a 5 % decline from April 2020 to July 2022. The arithmetic is brutal. A larger bill is divided among fewer payers.

1:05:37Shawn Farash:New York already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum. For high earners, the combined state plus city income tax reaches 14.776%. Add federal taxes and the combined marginal rate can exceed 50%, reaching roughly 55 % on certain investment income. Zoran Mamdani's basic instinct is correct. Focus on affordability, especially housing, but not by providing government subsidies. These only seem to have driven up the cost of rent as subsidies naturally do. The city's rental assistance spending rose from$263 million in fiscal year 2020 to$1.34 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year.

1:06:25Shawn Farash:That is a five times increase in a handful of years, and housing costs only got worse. Matt Iglesias persuasively argues that the city should make it easy and routine to just build abundant market rate housing. That will bring in more people, expand the tax base, fill the schools, and increase local GDP.

1:06:47Dan Bongino:Why am I playing this now? I'm playing this now because I always like to have tendons and ligaments tie the show together. Because people think in narratives. They do. They think in stories. and the story should make sense. It should have chapters, but it should make sense. You know, I talked about in the beginning of the show how what's perceived to be infighting on the right has to be outfighting. These people cannot be a part of this movement. If they are, I have to become, I don't become my own movement. I don't care. I just don't want to be a part of that. But I don't want you to think that any of this is anyhow, there's nothing new under the sun, folks.

1:07:27Dan Bongino:political fighting, intraparty, extra party is as old as time itself you're allowed to have different ideas I don't believe in any way in censorship but I played this clip because I don't want you to think like this is an exclusive problem on the right and I say that with air quotes because some of these people like I said aren't on the right they're just pretending to be the left is having this very same problem you know when you You know, what is it? Friedman told Walter Williams, when you talk about liberty, you talk about it with a smile. You live in the greatest country on earth. There are problems to fix.

1:08:05Dan Bongino:There's no need to live with this black cloud like, oh, this is the worst thing ever. Everything's falling apart. Nothing's falling apart. We're going to be fine in the end. People always seek truth in the end. But the left is having the same issue. They keep promising people things are going to get better as things get worse. And just like Morton Downey Jr. or Rachel Maddow's ratings, eventually over time, people get tired of being lied to. No, they don't. Yes, they do. It takes time, a long time. But it happens. New York City's not there yet. They're not. Dan, they won't get there. They will.

1:08:42Dan Bongino:It may not be in the next 10 years, but I promise, when things get bad enough, they will. Remember that shirt we used to have? Are things bad enough yet? They're not bad enough for people in New York yet. Don't tell me it's not going to happen. I lived it. I lived in New York. I worked there as a police officer in the Giuliani years. Giuliani ran for mayor in New York. Yeah, he won. No, he didn't. He lost. He did? Yes. Go look it up. He ran against Stinkins, David Dinkins. They called him Stinkins. Worst mayor ever He lost the first time People were like How did he just lose The city folks Was ten times worse Than it is now And then after he lost Things got bad enough He comes back He wins And then he wins Re-election against Ruth Messenger I think by like Eighteen points In New York A city that was like Ten to one Democrat to Republican Everything I told you whether it's podcasts, political life goes in that scallop pattern.

1:09:53Dan Bongino:You have your ups, you have your downs, but conservatism is the idea that you have this regression line that constantly goes up as you conserve the benefits and the power of good ideas resistant to time. You stick with that. Good ideas resistant to time and keep it as your true north and your compass. You're going to be fine. You're going to deal with a lot of bullshit. You're going to deal with a lot of haters, a lot of Twitter superheroes, a lot of scumbags. But in the end, your compass works and theirs doesn't. Things will change. They always do. Just not now. New York City wasn't ready. But they will be.

1:10:42Dan Bongino:It may take two terms in Mamdami for them to realize it. But you're going to get it. exactly what you vote for, and you're going to get it good and hard.

1:10:57Dan Bongino:I want to play this one last piece of video because speaking about getting the message out there, one of the things the Republican Party has not been particularly good about over the decades I've been involved is we've not been particularly good at messaging. I know that it's overused, that term messaging, but it's overused because it's a constant problem. The Republican Party's had this problem over the years Of like walking into a methadone clinic And talking about the Laffer curve I've said this often A friend of mine gave me this example once It's not mine The Laffer curve is true About marginal tax rates Laffer, not like laughing Like Laffer, L-A-F-F-E-R You can look it up But people in a methadone clinic In a drug crisis don't want to hear about the freaking Laffer curve We've been really terrible at this We don't make issues bleed People have to feel them It has to have like almost a tactile kind of touch to it The Democrats are just really good at this Playing on people's intentions and their lack of results That's why they win a lot They never win on results, they don't have any Every place they're in charge Basically sucks The master of this however is Donald Trump Nobody knows How to Use messaging to get a point across And messaging is a real thing Folks people have to feel an issue to be motivated to vote on it and i applaud him for making this illegal immigration issue that has plagued our country for decades very real and him finally fixing it it was a very emotional event yesterday it was on the same time as our show i know a lot of people are watching it and watch later on demand but he had a uh a bill signing at the White House involving illegal immigration.

1:12:44Dan Bongino:And he had a Palm Beach County police officer up in the, on the, on the state floor of the White House who gave just an unbelievable, just quick brief speech. This is just a snippet of it, but you should listen to this. Check this out.

1:13:00Shawn Farash:My name is Ethan Carreri. I'm a police officer in Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former New York City police officer. While serving the New York City Police Department, I personally arrested Jose Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child. A few months later, I saw his face again in the news after he viciously murdered Lakeham Riley. I did my job. I put him in custody. The system failed. No detainer, no accountability, no deportation, and an innocent American life was taken. If you enter our country illegally, there will be consequences under this administration. The American citizens must always come first.

1:13:41Shawn Farash:To Lakeham Riley's family, your loss should have never happened. We owe it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, secure our border, and protect innocent lives.

1:13:53Dan Bongino:God bless you, sir. You're darn right. And thank you for your service. And thank you, President Trump, for allowing us to hear from this fine gentleman.

1:14:11Dan Bongino:That's how it's done. We're human beings, folks. We're not Tesla robots, okay? God blessed you with a set of emotions and feels or whatever you want to call them. It's a gift. Only you're like that. You can have all the AI you want. It feels nothing, and it never will. It can fake it. It can simulate it. but I promise you what you felt when you listened to that was very real. There's no faking anything. I hope to hear more of that at the State of the Union tonight, which we'll obviously cover in detail tomorrow. I have coming up next for you a guy, I know a lot of you in the chat really love Sean Farish.

1:14:55Dan Bongino:I want you to look him up on X and Rumble. He has his own show on Rumble called Ungoverned. It's Sean with a W-N-S-H-A-W-N, Farish, F-A-R-A-S-H. I promise you're going to love this guy. You may have seen him in some of the Trump impersonation videos, but he's far deeper than Trump impersonations. That's just a small fraction of what he does. So I've got him coming up, standing by. So stay tuned. Get ready for one of the best interviews you're going to see in a long time. The guy's fantastic. Folks, I've been on the inside, seen how a lot of these government programs work. There's a lot more broken than you can even imagine.

1:15:31Dan Bongino:One of the most broken systems I've addressed often on the show is Medicare. Most people think they're getting accurate information. Some Medicare agents might push Medicare Advantage plans because that's where the commissions are, not because they're actually best for you. That's why I'm telling you about Chapter. Chapter. C-H-A-P-T-E-R. Chapter doesn't work for big insurance and they don't take marching orders from Washington. They're independent. They can help walk you through every option. Original Medicare, supplement, advantage, Part D. And they tell you exactly what you gain, what you give up, and what it really costs.

1:16:06Dan Bongino:One woman, Jill, said her chapter advisor showed her options she didn't even see on Medicare's own website. Does that sound like a system that's working to you? It's not. It's broken. If you want more clarity, here's what to do. Dial pound 250 on your phone and say Medicare help. The average senior who connects with Chapter saves about$1 ,100 a year just by getting honest advice. Can't beat that. So if you're on Medicare or getting close, don't guess. Dial pound 250 and say Medicare help. That's pound 250 and say Medicare help.

1:16:49Dan Bongino:What a pleasure today and welcome to the show. not a good friend, a great friend, a patriot. He's funny. He's insightful. He is an up and coming rock star in this conservative content space. My good friend, Sean Faris. Sean, welcome to the show.

1:17:08Shawn Farash:Thank you, Dan. So excited and really appreciate you having me today. I'm excited.

1:17:12Dan Bongino:Well, I hope to make this a more regular segment because, you know, when I first met you, and I want you to talk about this a little bit, just how you kind of jumped into the podcast and content creation space. You know, everybody said, oh, he came out of nowhere. You know, I used to tell people, yeah, I'm an overnight success that took 12 years or whatever it is. It's not the way any of this works. You plugged away. You do a very, very, I mean, a scary good Trump impression to the point where every time Donald Trump would actually call my radio show, I would ask producer Jim, is that real or is that Sean Farish?

1:17:43Dan Bongino:I swear to you, you're laughing, you know, it's true. I can't even tell the difference, but you have a show at Rumble, rumble.com slash LFA TV. Look up Sean Farris, Sean with a WN, and you can find his amazing podcast. And you've been kind of branching out into content creation and you do an amazing show. You fill in for Vince. How did it all start? How'd you get into the space? Tell us.

1:18:06Shawn Farash:Well, I'll tell you what. So the, I've told this story before and everyone loves it. The Dan Bongino origin story for me was I was stuck in traffic on the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, and I was so mad I needed something to listen to. And that was the first time I listened to your show and you were flipping out going nuts. Spy, he's a spy, SPY. I'm sitting there going, this guy's great. And then I'm also sitting there saying, but this is, this is almost sounds a little unbelievable, but you know what you do, you bring the receipts, right? So I'm sitting there going, well, he's got the receipts.

1:18:36Shawn Farash:I'm going to listen to like everything that Dan Bongino says. I'm going to, I'm a new listener to the show. And so that's where it started for me in terms of how I was introduced to your content and why I bring that up is because when COVID hit New York, you had the phrase, talk is cheap, the do matters. And everybody in New York was very, very upset with how Andrew Cuomo was treating us. Boot was on the neck. We had curfews, essential versus non-essential workers. He's doing these long drawn out press conferences. I was sitting at work. I worked in a paint store at the time. I took my Bluetooth speaker and broke it.

1:19:11Shawn Farash:I threw it across the store when I heard him use the term new normal. I said, I want absolutely no part of that. You know, it scared the crap out of me thinking, oh, what the new normal is going to be. We can't go out. We can't be with our friends. Ten people or less. What are we doing? And so I decided to start posting on Facebook, you know, hey, everybody meet me at this parking lot. Let's let's just, you know, put flags in our cars and we'll do like, you know, these birthday parades. Right. Because you couldn't have birthday parties. And instead we did these, you know, these Trump caravans.

1:19:41Shawn Farash:They were doing them with the boats on Long Island. And so I said, let's just do them with cars. You know, I'd seen some of these boat ones and I said, oh, why don't we all just, why don't we just go for a drive? And we did it. I thought, you know, 15, 20 people were going to show up. It was going to be a cool little thing. 300 vehicles showed up and it turned into this massive movement. The next week, two weeks after that, our second one, we had 5 ,000 vehicles showed up. We did it. We did one down Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. We put 10 ,000 on the road going from, you know, you know, Long Island Valley Stream or basically not Valley Stream.

1:20:11Shawn Farash:It was about, I don't know, Seaford, Seaford train station, all the way down to Montauk. We had a plane flying around the lighthouse. It was so cool. And it was because of that movement that we started, kind of push back against Cuomo and support Trump in 2020, that I got really involved in hands-on grassroots activism. We were knocking on doors to get a New York City councilwoman. She's a councilwoman now, Vicky Palladino, on the ballot in March. I know, Vicky. She's a rock star. She's amazing. So we were knocking on doors to get signatures to get her on the ballot. And a friend of mine says, Sean, you got to go on TikTok and do that Trump thing you do.

1:20:50Shawn Farash:And I said to him, I said, Jimmy, that's China. We don't do. I don't get along well with China, but I don't want to deal with China. He goes, no, you got to deal with China. Go on there now. And so I started making these videos and it was all because of that. Right. So, you know, for me, it started because I decided, you know, like you said, talk is cheap. keep the do matters. So get in and start doing. And, and it created this great thing. And by the way, you know, that, that movement, we called it the loud majority, because why be silent if there's more of us than there are of them. And, you know, we flipped school board seats, county executive seats.

1:21:23Shawn Farash:So there was a lot of stuff that went on there. It's still rolling today on Long Island, friend of mine, Kevin Smith is running it. You know, he was a co-founder of mine. And it's a great story there too. But that's really how it all got started. And we decided because we were getting banned all over the place, YouTube, Facebook, that we would do three days a week, Kevin and I, and keep our group, the folks who are following us informed. And I modeled it essentially after, you know, what you were doing, right? You know, we did show notes, email, and we did it on rumble and made sure nobody was there.

1:21:54Shawn Farash:So there's a lot of, um, there's a lot of kind of watching what you did and how you built this extremely successful operation and saying, look, you know, let's just copy and paste it and let's make it work. And I'll tell you what it worked. And, you know, six years later now, it's amazing to see, you know, how far your show has gotten. I mean, number one live stream in the world. It's awesome. And the opportunities that are coming my way, I'm just so grateful, so blessed to be given every opportunity. It's awesome.

1:22:22Dan Bongino:Well, Sean, you know, the best way for you to pay that back is not to pay it back to me because I don't deserve it because someone gave it to me too. It's to find another great, strong, conservative personality and lift them up. You know, I always appreciate it when people say, hey, thanks for the advice. Thanks for taking my call on this. Take the whole model. Run with it. You deserve it. I'm not entitled to this entire audience. I'm just grateful they're here. But you're going to find someone yourself one day who's really talented, who maybe has a couple hundred viewers, and you think this person deserves 10 ,000 or 100 ,000, and lift them up too.

1:22:58Dan Bongino:You know, really, that's the way to build a movement and not just make it about yourself. If it weren't for Levin and Hannity and others who gave me a shot early on when I was a big nobody, I wouldn't be in the position to help you. So the greatest thanks in the world is to lift up others. As you know, it's not about us. I want to get into some serious stuff because you have some, like I said, you're an activist. I know a lot of people may know you from your Twitter, at Sean, again with a W-N, at Sean underscore Farish. F-A-R-A-S-H. How did the Trump impersonation thing even start? I mean, did you just like do impersonations or did you just one day do it at a party and someone was like, dude, that's creepy good?

1:23:41Dan Bongino:Because it is, it's really, really like, I can't tell the difference side by side.

1:23:47Shawn Farash:So it's funny you mentioned like doing it at a party, right? So I was actually selling DirecTV, You know, the satellite way back in the 2016 election cycle and face to face, you know, contrary to what many people may think. I was definitely a class clown in college and high school. And I went to school for radio. I did a lot of people's voices and their projects and all that. But I'm selling direct TV and I would get customers. I'm on Long Island and they'd be talking to me and saying, if I switch, you know, am I going to be able to keep Fox News? And I knew at that point this is probably a conservative.

1:24:21Shawn Farash:So I would just look them dead in the eye face to face. What are the, what's the worst they're going to do? They're going to tell me no. Okay. They're probably going to tell me no anyway. You know, you got to go through a bunch of rejection to get the sale. So I looked them, I look them in the eye and I would just go, do I look like somebody who would make you watch the fake news? We're going to make sure you have Fox news. It's going to be great. You're going to love it. And they're like, Whoa, what was that? I said, I don't know. You want it or not? I'm saving your money. It's a great deal, you know?

1:24:45Shawn Farash:And so, and it was, I did it in there. I got out of selling cable because that kind of went by the wayside with streaming and all of those things and started doing that with paint. You know, I was working for a paint company and selling selling paint. I said, you know, it puts itself on the wall. It's the greatest. You look at it. It puts itself. You're not even going to have to try. It's beautiful. You look like Michelangelo. I got along well with Michelangelo. I don't even need paint.

1:25:06Dan Bongino:I buy paint from it. I just painted my house. I painted again.

1:25:11Shawn Farash:My contractors were all like blue collar guys, you know, they were so they were like, this is great. Trump's great. I would bump into some of these guys at rallies and stuff. It was just awesome. So that's kind of how it became a thing. And then, as I said, we were door knocking, get a candidate on the ballot, Vicky, who's amazing. I mean, who has been just an absolute firecracker every single day. And a friend of mine told me, go on TikTok and do it. And I did it. And that's where it exploded. And then people came to my Twitter. And it's been like that for six years. But that's how it all got started.

1:25:41Shawn Farash:I was doing it selling. I did it at a work event. We were bowling. somebody threw a strike i told him you knocked the pins down like rosie o'donnell at all you could eat buffet you know by the end of the night they were like all right that's enough because some of them weren't you know trump fans but it was that's how we did it it was it was just kind of a fluky thing and now it's a thing it's awesome you made it you know you made it work for

1:26:02Dan Bongino:you as an entree as an excuse me as as an entrance into the space um and that's kind of what happened with me early on. And, you know, people would call me from Fox or whatever and ask for commentary on Secret Service stories. And eventually I said, you know, that's great. I'm happy to do that. But, you know, like you, I have other interests. And if you guys want me to comment on it, fine. And then that's how the whole thing just exploded. And you had Mark and Sean and others give me a shot. And it just blew up from there. Let me get to a serious topic I really wish we didn't have to get to. But I've seen you taking multiple very brave stands against what's going on with this.

1:26:41Dan Bongino:And I'm using air quotes here if you're listening on Apple or Spotify against what's called infighting. Sean, a lot of what's happening right now, and I addressed it earlier in the show, whether it's just the ruthless attacks against Erica Kirk. I mean, I don't even know if ruthless is an adequate term for the almost satanic nature of what's going on right now, the demonic nature. But Sean, this isn't infighting, okay? We have to think of a party, okay? You're free to have any idea you'd like as long as you don't break the law in a republic. But we have to think of our party like a clubhouse almost.

1:27:18Dan Bongino:And the clubhouse has rules. You don't want the rules too strict or no one's gonna join. And you don't want them too loose because then you're gonna get people who will join who are a cancer to the clubhouse. don't pay the dues, don't want to do any of the work, don't want to clean the clubhouse or whatever it is. So you have to find that balance. The balance is clearly tipped in the other direction with a lot of people who at this point, it's clear only here to kill the host. This is not infighting. These people should be treated no different than the New York Times, the Washington Post or anyone else.

1:27:46Dan Bongino:They're not allies. These are enemies.

1:27:49Shawn Farash:No, 100 percent. You know, a lot of these folks are whether it was in June, you know, and making these these declarations that we were going to war with Iran. Some folks even told members of our military to take a dishonorable discharge because she didn't like the way certain people were talking about Israel and Iran. I could not believe, that's like a felony. If you're in the military and you get dishonorably discharged, that basically is like a felony. It affects your rights to own weapons. And why? Because some podcaster told you to do it and you thought it was this righteous battle to undertake?

1:28:20Shawn Farash:It's not. You're going to throw your life away doing that. And a lot of people have, you know, been served this, I call them outrage addicts, right? Because they are literally addicted to being upset about something. They couldn't even go 24 hours after our hockey team won without complaining that Cash Patel drank a beer. They don't know that Cash Patel is a hockey player, that he grew up on Long Island, that yes, he is a New York Islanders fan, which makes me very happy because I'm a New York Islanders fan too, hence why I'm wearing a hat. But, you know, I'm looking at this and I'm watching these people.

1:28:49Shawn Farash:And you mentioned like the locker room and I love sports, big sports guy. You know, sometimes you get what's called a locker room cancer, right? It's some guy who is not in it because of the team. He's in it because he wants the ball. He wants to take every shot. He wants every at bat. You know, he wants the story to be about him, him, him, him, him. And you have to get rid of somebody like that because they're not helping the team win. And unfortunately, you know, the term cancer, it's a very serious disease. But you know this better than anybody when you're fighting cancer. you know sometimes some healthy tissue has to be you know impacted negatively at the when you're fighting it because if you don't it's going to kill you right so there is some push and pull there is some give and take and i'm not saying that everybody who has an opinion different of mine is a cancer we know exactly who we're talking about here it's folks that no matter what happens they stub their toe in the morning it's israel's fault you disagree with them you're paid by a pack right i mean how many times have i been told and i'm i'm at the point where like hey i wish it was true.

1:29:46Shawn Farash:I mean, folks, let me tell you, if I was taking money from some foreign country, there would be signs. Okay. There would be a lot of signs, but I'm talking about it. It's in this way where there are folks who are just like you mentioned, you know, living off of the host. So they put themselves out there as some sort of truth seeker, and then they cherry pick details. They construct a narrative. They're proven wrong. We did not go to war with Iran. We did not go to war with Venezuela. And yet there were people, World War III, World War IV, we're up to like World War VIII at this point where they're hyperventilating over all these things.

1:30:20Shawn Farash:When you say treat them no differently than the New York Times, the New York Times, we laugh at them, we mock them, we shame them, we criticize them because they have no credibility. They said Trump was colluding with Russia. That wasn't the case when all the facts came out, right? So why are we not treating these people the same way who are telling you that X, Y, and Z is going to happen And then X, Y, and Z doesn't happen. And then when you ask them, Hey, why, why didn't you address the fact that you were wrong that X, Y, and Z didn't happen? They're like, Oh, you're clearly paid by insert country here.

1:30:49Shawn Farash:And it's ridiculous. And unfortunately it is, it is radicalizing a bunch of people. I mean, the story now, the details now about this guy outside of Mar-a-Lago is that he was very upset about the Epstein files, which was a very serious case. I'm upset about some of the details in there too But there are folks that are literally commenting in my feed Saying that Donald Trump ate children And I'm like, how did we get here? It's not even 0-60 It's like 0-120 like this And I said, show me the proof And I get memes and I get yelled at And I'm like, okay, so you don't have it So don't say it Because you're killing what we tried to build for 10 years I mean, a lot of these people weren't out there on the streets knocking on doors, doing the stuff that you did, doing the stuff that I did.

1:31:35Shawn Farash:A lot of us, though, that are sitting here trying to defend it and keep these people from sinking it and running it into the ground have put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. We got the death threats. You know I got swatted last year here in Tennessee. My wife is still shaking up from something like that over a year ago, something that should never happen to anybody. And we've been through it. We've been put through the ringer, and we're certainly not going to sit there and watch these people who have never done a thing like that in their lives construct these nonsense narratives off of, you know, maybe a nugget of truth here or there, but they twist these facts and they twist these talking points.

1:32:11Shawn Farash:And they are, as you said, no different than the fake news in the New York Times. So people say, oh, stop the infighting. It's not infighting because who I'm confronting is not on my side. And I shouldn't have to say that over and over again. Just look at the way these people are behaving. They're behaving no differently than the New York Times. They're even taking some of these left-wing fake news narratives and acting as if they're the truth. It's insane. You see the New York Times flipping out that you and Cash had all these personnel changes at the FBI, and then they come back and they're saying, well, nothing's happening.

1:32:45Shawn Farash:Well, the New York Times is upset about it. Something clearly is happening. So these people that have hijacked or attempted to hijack, and they're getting shut down now are a cancer. And in order to treat the cancer, you have to remove the cancer from the healthy body and we'll regrow that healthy tissue. And if we lose some good people on, you know, in this fight, I hope they come back, but we are not going to sit here and handle it with kid gloves and do nothing and let this thing just grow into some movement and around ideas that I don't recognize. So, you know, to these, to these folks who are like, Oh, stop talking about this person or that person or this one or that.

1:33:22Shawn Farash:No, I'm going to keep talking about it until people realize that they're full of crap and stop trusting them because they have no credibility for the sake of pushing this movement into 2028 and beyond. That's my mission. And I know that's the mission of a lot of other people.

1:33:36Dan Bongino:Yeah, that's really, really well said, Sean. And they will come back. You know, it takes a lot of, you know, as I said, when I finished up my year there at the at the bureau and came back into the content creation space here back to the business world you know it was tough to sit back and watch all this and stay quiet but you have to when you agree to take a position in an administration democrat republican or anything else it's not about you you don't you put that all aside but i'm a pretty vocal you know new york italian guy and i can't you know i didn't have i was not a monarch i have the power to change the world by myself, but I'm damn proud of the work we produced inside there.

1:34:18Dan Bongino:But to sit back and watch this just amazing movement that I got involved with just before the tea party and through that whole thing, I've been through a lot of these fights before. What I have found over time is there's always going to be, and Guy, you know, we've had this conversation. Guy's been with me a long time. Guy and Justin, the longest. You're always going to get this kind of scalloped pattern with your show your content and i tell content creators even yourself i think we may have had this conversation all the time do not get obsessed with the short or even the medium term keep a load star of truth real truth i don't mean truth than like plato or socrates but i mean truth like do not bullshit your audience for a short-term sugar high because i promise you over time you're going to reach an asymptote and then the audience is going to collapse when they accept i've been bullshitted to.

1:35:08Dan Bongino:I'll give you an example on the left about what I'm talking about. Maybe it'll make more sense because everybody can relate. You don't get conservative quote infighting that. Rachel Maddow is a perfect example on MSNBC. Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, I think gets her hired or whatever it is. She starts out with this small audience at MSNBC, explodes. At one point, she's rivaling Hannity's audience at nine o 'clock. I remember being over Vietnam with Fox. You're like, I can't believe this woman's doing all these ratings. And what was her core thing, sean russia russia it was all a hoax and the audience ate it up they ate it up sean for four or five years until they didn't and then her ratings didn't totally collapse she's not non-existent but she's nowhere near the perch i get it she's not doing every night i understand i factor that in i want to be realistic but eventually even dumb people get tired of being lied to they want to go to a show to learn something not to be bullshitting all the time that's right you know

1:36:03Shawn Farash:she's waving the tax returns. We got them. We got them. She reads them. Nothing. You know, my, my simple analogy is like, you know, we get mad, right? And people get really like, they take it personally when like the TV weatherman gets the forecast wrong. You know, he says, you're getting 15 inches of snow and you get like 20 and you're like, this guy should be fired. Well, we should really treat the media the same way. If you're telling me it's raining outside, I better, when I open up my, my window and I look outside, I better see rain falling or I'm not going to trust you. And that's what Matt did.

1:36:30Shawn Farash:She was like, it's pouring, It's pouring outside Go look And you look And it's a beautiful day And you're like Why am I listening to this person? She's waiving the tax returns She's talking about Russia All these things And that's why You know Over time You said long term Her ratings collapse Again she's not nobody She'll always probably be somebody She will have fans Whatever Fine Good for her by the way I'm a capitalist too You know Hey You create an audience You demand attention You've got a microphone You've got a show You've got people who want you By all means Capitalize on it I'm not going to tell you not to.

1:37:01Shawn Farash:I may not agree with you, but I'll always defend your right to do it right to speak, even if I think you're full of crap. But, you know, it's one of these things, right, where it's like these these folks, they promised me that it was raining. They promised me that something was happening. They promised me that, you know, that that we were going to war. They promised me that, oh, soon enough, you'll see the truth. and every time we get to one of their either deadlines or these points of inflections, right? Where they're like, oh, here it comes. Here comes that pivotal moment. They're always wrong, right?

1:37:31Shawn Farash:Say what you want about how Erica Kirk is running Turning Point. You think you could run it better? Start your own Turning Point. But to attack her at the personal level and to attack her and to insinuate that she had something to do and just really, that's where you want to go. So if anyone wants to talk about stopping the infighting, point it at people who are doing that. That's doing nobody any good. You want to be critical of how she's running the company? Whatever. You could do that. But don't levy these nonsense personal attacks. You know, she's been through something that I hope I never have to go through, right?

1:38:10Shawn Farash:I hope nobody has to go through what Erica Kirk has been through over the course of the last few months. and all of this on top is just adding insult to injury for lack of a better term so you know whether it's that whether it's constantly coming at trump everything you know you can't be happy no matter what you wake up you need your fix of outrage in the morning you drop it in your coffee and you make sure that make sure not a moment goes by that you're letting everyone know that you're mad about something i couldn't imagine living like that like i'm a new york jets fan dan i have every reason to be mad every single day and even i walk around smiling okay so

1:38:44Dan Bongino:So how, brother, I got one more question for you, but how do you do it? You know, when I knew this team was actually, I don't believe, you know, jinx, jinx, I don't believe in that except for the jets. I mean, they pick up Aaron Rogers. What was it? Three years ago. And I'm watching this. Was it Sunday night football? I'm not a jets fan or anything. I just pop it on. I want to see Aaron Rogers comes out with the flag. I'm like, this is so great. And what was it? The second play of the game blows his Achilles. I'm like, this team, this poor team. Give him credit, Dan. Give him credit. It was four plays, okay?

1:39:17Shawn Farash:I'm sorry.

1:39:18Dan Bongino:I mean, did you not think the same thing? And I'm thinking of, what is it, Fireman Vinny, that guy, Jay. Fireman Ed. Fireman Ed. My gosh. I'm from New York. Everybody's Vinny or Jimmy. And I'm like, this poor team is jinxed. I really do feel terrible. You know who's not jinxed? Matter of fact, he's the opposite of jinxed. He's un-jinxed. This president. Last question. We've got State of the Union coming up tonight. Sean, again, what bothers me about, again, the air quotes infighting is there's clearly subversive folks here who are not here for accountability. Let me be on the record for the umpteenth thousandth time.

1:39:56Dan Bongino:I love and adore accountability. You can't have a republic without it. Nobody gets a set of straight A's for everything all the time. However, you also have to have a report card that adequately measures progress, or else you're not going to know what to work on or not. If everybody gets an A, I don't need to work on anything. However, if everybody gets an F, and meanwhile you scored 100 on a test, you give up because there's nothing. What else do you want me to do? We have this doomer crowd out there after the golden year. The border, violent crime down, murders, the safest America ever. Inflation finally being tamed.

1:40:31Dan Bongino:Gas prices low. Mortgage prices just dipped below six back down to 2022 levels. GDP numbers. So we had a little bit of a setback with the shutdown. Finally getting back on track, three and four, even 5 % projections coming up. I mean, this has been, you know, government workforce down 10%. It goes on and on and on. I put it out in a tweet. You know the deal. But just to sit there and shit on this all the time, that's not an accurate assessment of where we are either.

1:40:58Shawn Farash:No. And like I said, it's an addiction for some of these people because it feels good to be mad. It's insane. I look at this and I'm like, all you're doing is complaining. Criticism is not complaining, right? You want to criticize the way, let's, for example, some people didn't like the way Minneapolis was handled after all of the stuff with Bovino coming out and Holman going in. And you want to say you would have done it differently? Fine. But don't call this administration a failure because you disagree with one of their moves. The drug campaign, the actual war on drugs, taking out these boats.

1:41:31Shawn Farash:We say, row, row, row your boat. And right down to Davy Jones' locker, by the way. I got along well with Davy. He's a tremendous guy. But you look at that campaign. You look at Maduro. You look at Iran. You look at the border. It's a perfect border. It's literally perfect. People are coming, but they're not getting released in. It's more secure than Conor Hellebuck in goal for the United States in the Olympics. Nothing's getting through. $21 trillion of foreign investments in our country because of the tariffs, you know, to have these businesses and companies set up plants here, put Americans to work, a real living wage instead of these, you know, crumbs going to illegal aliens, right?

1:42:11Shawn Farash:Which is weird. The left is like 1860s left, right? Democrats, if we free the slaves, who's going to pick the food? And then it's like, you know, 2026 left. If we deport the illegals, who's going to pick the food? Same people, by the way. Same people. Right. But these folks that are just people, right? It's awful. These folks that are just every day, not a minute goes by without them having a broadcast to the world, but they're not happy. And it's like, it's like a habit. Now it's like a bad habit. You know, it's like any other bad habit you have. You drink too much. You smoke too much. You do this.

1:42:42Shawn Farash:These people are outraged too much and it feels good. They whip people up. I call it enragement farming. They whip people up on social media because it gets them views and likes and clicks. And oh my gosh, you might be onto something. It's all about the money for these people. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. So I hope a lot more people see it. Call it out. Don't be afraid of the backlash. There's going to be backlash, but you're fighting the good fight.

1:43:02Dan Bongino:Yeah, man, I agree. I think we just I don't need rose colored glasses. However, I don't need, you know, total blackouts either. I just want clear lenses so I can analyze what's going on, what we can fix, where we can stick some more, you know, mortar for the brick where there's too much mortar. I mean, that's what we need to do. It's not a report card if everything's an F, but it's not a report card if everything's an A either. Sean, you're amazing. Such a great guy, folks. Please give him a follow. You can find him on Twitter, at Sean, Sean with a W-N, underscore Farish, F-A-R-A-S-H. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, if you're watching, you can see his name on the screen.

1:43:37Dan Bongino:Also, you can find his show on Rumble. It's called Ungoverned. It is at rumble.com slash L-F-A-T-V. He is a good man. He's been a great friend. And Sean, like I told you, I'd love for you to come and guest host the show sometime. I just want the audience to see you and just, you know, become familiar with you, because you're such a great guy. You deserve a huge, huge megaphone. So I appreciate you coming on today. This won't be the last time.

1:44:02Shawn Farash:Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. That was a lot of fun. You got it, Sean.

1:44:05Dan Bongino:There you go, folks. One of my favorite guys in the movement and just an absolute rock star. Sean Farris. Check him out. Also, if you wouldn't mind doing us a favor. You know, we hate to ask, but it's really important. Rumble.com slash Bongino. It's been a year since we've been able to build our following back up. We're up to 3.62 million followers on Rumble. It's free. You don't have to pay anything. Just go to Rumble.com slash Bongino. Rumble.com slash Bongino. Click that subscribe button. You can join us every day in the chat. We like to interact with people. Sometimes they get in the chat early.

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