The Dan Bongino Show - A Gift? (Ep. 2578)

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You know, it's rare that I see a video on CNN that shocks me in a good way. I mean, let me just clarify. Like, seeing a video on CNN that shocks me is not new. It's usually for head scratching reasons where you're thinking, did they just say that out loud? No one can possibly be that stupid.

It's typically an Abby Phillips segment or some Caitlin Collins nonsense. And you're like, I can't believe they just said that. But Justin, wouldn't you agree? Like you shared this video this morning and you're like, I can't believe this happened on CNN? It's, hey, man, I'm not going to credit. I'm not giving CNN any credit for telling the truth. But I promise you when you see this video, you're going to be stunned. This happened on CNN.

And I want you to watch the reaction of the guest. You know, I hate long unnecessary teas. It's about socialism in Cuba. And the guest must have come on thinking, well, this is CNN. You know, of course they're going to cover for Castro and socialism. We love socialism and communism on CNN. And that's not what happens. And I want you to watch the reaction of the guest physically,

who you see like the actual slinking into the chair. The guest doesn't know what to do and is at a loss for words. You may have seen it already. I don't know. it just started to get some traction on X this morning. I want to show you that. And then I want to show you another segment. Dan, this is way too much, too many Democrats early in the show.

No, folks, somehow we've got to penetrate the fog out there of just ops that are going on. And if it takes a couple of Democrats on Democrat networks like C-SPAN and CNN to wake people up, folks, I'm going to take it. I don't need to celebrate it. I'm not voting Democrat ever. But another thing happened on seeing it. It's funny, I didn't even tell Justin Morris going with the show. He goes, let me guess you want these two together.

I got that. And I also, I want to explain to you something at the beginning of the show. Folks, I'm not being sarcastic or funny either about this. I know sometimes we start with a little bit of humor. That's not today. This is going to be the entertainment portion of the edutainment portion of the show. Hat tip BDP, right? Some of you get that.

I'm going to put a warning out there for you for people who get in this business. I don't cover this stuff a lot, but I want to show you how what you see on X among the Dumers and the Gryfters, this cultivated image of what is almost never what's going on behind the scenes. I'll show you exactly what I mean, because you may be asking yourself,

man, yesterday was like Dumer and Gryfter meltdown day. Why? What happened? Well, Florida happened. The primary season is almost effectively over now. Everything they told you that was going to, happen about the doomers and grifters winning didn't happen they all got destroyed and now they're starting to realize as their audiences slowly fade off because they were lied to that they need to keep the grift going so yesterday was meltdown day meltdown day i'll show you what i mean in a second

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All right, fellas. Let's go. And all the pillars and the dooms, I know you're here. You don't have to pretend you're not. I know you love the show. We get it. Oh, I didn't watch. I just heard.

Sure. Sure you did. And by the way, I feel amazing today. Thank you for hanging in while my voice was destroyed the last few days as I battled after school. Fungus. All the kids go back to school. You know, my daughter included what they do.

They all bring home. Everyone in my neighborhood got the same thing. They got this cold. all the kids brought home from school. I feel amazing today. You ever have a cold and you feel like crap for like seven days? Finally you wake up in a morning, you feel normal, but you feel extra great because you don't feel like crap.

That's today. That's why I've got so much energy. I'm going to get to these CNN clips in a minute. I'm not going to spend a ton of time on this. But yesterday, folks, was meltdown day. So why the meltdown yesterday? Just explained it to you. They told you the Dumers, nothing is happening.

The Trump administration sucks. Don't vote for Donald Trump. Don't show up. our candidates have a better vision, the Dumers and the Grifter candidates, they all lost. They all got smoked. Matter of fact,

some of them lost from seats they already had. You know how hard it is to lose as an incumbent on the Republican side? It's almost impossible. Some of them managed to do that. So given that it's nearly the end of this primary season here, as votes are coming in, they're starting to realize now that everything they told their audience about this power base,

they have, please listen to me, this is critical. Because I got this question, like, damn, what happened yesterday? You're always trending on X. Yes, because we're the most popular MAGA show out there. So you get like ankle biters that come in and want to grift off your name. They're upset because everything we told you, things we told you were going to happen are now starting to happen. Reporting a Daily Mail about Swalwell today.

You're starting, like things are starting. So they told you nothing is happening. And now it's all happening. So that's a lie. They don't have anywhere to go with that. And then number two, they told you that the MAGA movement is going to be taken over by our guys now. These guys are so powerful. Look at all the tweets.

Look at all the bots we've got. Shame on you guys for supporting President Trump. And everyone got smoked. Everyone got smoked. So they don't know what to do. They don't know what to do. So yesterday was epic meltdown day. You saw like the, the, uh, the, uh, was epic guy screaming and yelling.

yesterday about everyone wants to fight people looking for like bare knuckle matches the meltdown was just epic there was another meltdown ronald some guy ian shroder or something had another meltdown gets on another guy's show who the other guys upset why is he upset this guy's been upset for years since i started having scott presler on my show that's the only reason this guy that's the only reason so what do they do ronald here ian schroeder and shroder and And the stroker dude, they get on the day, nothing's happening. Everything sucks conveniently right as the whole primary season is melting down for them. And the other guy's just upset because he doesn't like Scott Pressler.

I was warned about the other guy a while ago. I haven't mentioned it too much. So what do they do? They have to like ankle bite at the show because they can't make the show go away. They've tried everything for 10 years between. the Dumers and the lefties and the media, they've tried everything and nothing happens. It's like that scene in a cartoon where you're holding the head of the guy and he's trying to punch and he can't punch.

They don't know what else to do. So they freak out. Now you got Cody Projone on X. Like the FBI's Dan Bonchino organized January. Yes, 100%. We definitely did that. That makes a whole lot of sense. Here's my regret in this, though.

And I'm going to warn you if you get in the content space. Justin can vouch because he's been here, well, he's been here the longest, but Justin, too. Justin's been around forever. We were really accommodating with people earlier in our career. Well, why do you regret that? Because folks, I'm going to be candid with you. There were a lot of people, including the guy who's melting down now because he hates Pressler.

He just hates Scott. Whenever you have Scott on your show's guy loses his mind, right? Like what? I thought it was about the movement. No, to us it is. We give platforms to people like Vince and Haley and Sean Farrish. We have people on the show when they have books coming out. Because I've said to you often, it's not about me.

It's about the movement. To others, it's about them. It's not about the movement. They may have done some things that, you know, you appreciate in the past. Doesn't make all their life's work a bad thing. But once you see these bizarre unhinged meltdowns, you should ask yourself why. And usually it's because their ego got in the way

and they think it's about them and not the movement. So my regret is early on in my career, wouldn't you agree, Justin, we were very accommodating to people we had on the show, even though there were a couple red flags, right? I mean, I'm being honest. My wife is a very good judge of character, and so is Guy, too. Like, he's really good at this, too, because he's so dry, he doesn't get emotional about anything. And a couple people we had in her show turned out later to be really bad folks. I'm really sorry. I am. I tried to be accommodating to give people a platform. Later on in my career, I realized, like,

sometimes you just have to take a chance on ice people out. You have to keep your circle small. So that's my regret. You'll see now, you know, over the last few years going forward, and after the experience in the FBI, when I got in there, the minute we got off the air, people who had just begged to come on the show and wanted to be friends of ours and all of the So all of a sudden, when they knew I couldn't say anything, because it's not about you when you're in the administration, turned on a dime. I'm just going to warn you if you get in this business.

Be really, really careful who you deal with because there are people in this business who it's all about them. It's not about the movement at all. They were exposed yesterday. They were exposed because everything they told you was real, completely fell apart when the last primary started to wrap up. and everything they told you was real just turned into complete astroturf. I promise you at the end of this four years of the Trump administration,

when the body of work, both me and cash and everyone else puts out, versus the body of work on the other side, defamation suits multiple, multiple. All of everything they told you falls apart and courts of law and elsewhere. It's going to be an embarrassing moment for all of them. Embarrassing. That's how confident I am in this. Let me get to this because this is important. Again, I don't think that was so.

Usually I'd say sorry for wasting your time, but that's really critical. You get that. Things go on behind the scenes. There's little jealousy matches. People don't like each other. If you have one guest on and they're in the same space, they'll email you.

That guy sucks. Don't have them on. This happens. Does it not happen, Justin, all the time? I can't believe you had that guy on. Trust your buddy, Dan. You think it's like all, oh, my gosh, what a good guy.

I can't believe you went after that. This guy's so, okay, we're always right every single time, every time. I saw this this morning on CNN and listen, there's a wow factor to this that we should all embrace. Like the wow factor on CNN is wow, that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Folks, we're in a moment right now and I'm going to put this tweet up by the author J.K. Rowling. You know the Harry Potter series. You know who she is. J.K. Rowling's not a MAGA person at all, but you put a tweet up, because I bet you're starting to say to yourself, too,

is you see all the stuff, and you're probably hearing this for the first time about these behind the scenes, little, like, petty little grievances where people make it about themselves, so they have to get, they become dooms and all that, they lose their minds. You're probably like, Dan, what can we believe anymore? The answer is, believe the truth. As I said, like, we have a record of what we did at the FBI involves numbers. People would be arrested or they weren't. Numbers went down or they didn't. like we have a record. You can believe the truth when they're based in numbers. We're getting to a post-truth era right now,

where you mention Lindsay Clancy, flock cameras, data centers, and people have an opinion, not you guys, based on almost pure emotion. It is nothing to do with, you can't reason. You can't run a society like that. I'll put the post up in a minute. But this is what happens when all of a sudden,

living on emotion and not reason, and focusing on emotion rather than problem solving. This is what it looks like when it kicks you in the teeth on CNN. You're a socialist going on a network, and the host himself is like, hey, man, I'm not buying the socialism stuff from Cuba. Watch the reaction of the guest. He does not know what to do.

This is what it looks like when finally reality kicks in. Check this out. Get your criticism of foreign policy. As I said, it's not an uncommon one. But lauding Fidel Castro is a different story. You talk about what things were like before, revolution in Cuba. I'll give you a personal example. My grandfather was a revolutionary in Cuba during that time. He was affected by a previous dictator, Fulhenso Batista, having his friends

disappeared in the street for speaking their minds. My grandfather found that revolution, hoping to bring democracy to Cuba. And then what happened? Phil Doug Hastro locked my grandfather up, sentenced to 20 years for doing what you're doing now on live TV, for speaking his mind, for expressing himself freely, for trying to organize politically. So I'm a lot of you're I wonder again how you think that lands with people who suffered under that dictatorship who now you were trying to court as voters when your organization comes out and lods a hundred years of Castro. I don't think it would land well with them, Aishik. We're seeing many people in the United States who are who are seeing there who are struggling

under massive inequality in the United States. That's co-chair Ashik Sadiq. I'm not saying her name wrong on purpose. I'm not saying, your name wrong on purpose. I forgive me. I'm not intentionally mispronouncing it. But Ashik, that's not at all what he asked you. Do you see, people, pop tarts? What?

I asked about Cuba. Banana flavored macha? What? I asked you about Cuba. Mahat. He's energy. Look at the face on this guy. He doesn't know what to do.

He's like, wait, I'm on CNN, right? You guys are pro-communism and socialism? Justin just pops out of studio. He's like, you need to tell the audience because you've been warning him about this, warning the socialist that is not you guys. You guys already know this. Folks, I live in Florida.

It's not a mystery. I don't hide where I live. I live in South Florida. South Florida, from basically, you know, Indian River down, the Treasure Coast in South Florida, has an extremely large population of Cuban and Venezuelan people

who have had to live under actual socialism. I've said, gosh, I even said it, I think on Laura Ingram's show last night. I dare you as a Democrat socialist of America, A Sheikh Sadiq, to go into any Cuban cafe in South Florida, I dare you with a sign saying, we love Castro and Cuba. Socialism is great.

I actually, like, I want to say I'm joking, but I'm not. But the only reason I want to say I'm joking is I'm really afraid you're not going to get out of there. And I don't want any, I'm not into violence at all. I'm genuinely afraid you won't make it out of there. Folks, this is what it looks like when reality crashes down on you. This is why I tied it into the Dumeers. the beginning who totally crashed out yesterday. It was, the meltdowns were everywhere.

Videos, tweets, it's like, it was like little big horn, like the last stand. They didn't know what to do. The left is having this moment now. They're having the exact same moment at the end of primary season that the Dumeers are. The primary season is wrapped up. They just had a Democrat socialist candidate beat Vindman in Florida. A socialist in Florida, full of Cubans and Venezuelans, and they don't know what to do.

So now all of a sudden, CNN and others, and good for the host, are having this moment where they're like, oh, my gosh, this is real now. Now we have to run these people in real races. Do you understand this lady, Angie Nixon in Florida, who just won the nomination for the United States Senate race, is going to be in every single TV ad talking about the wonders of socialism in Florida from this point till election day. She's going to the, she's, it's the top of the ticket.

I know there are Democrats listening to don't know this. She's not running for a state Senate race. It's a United States Senate seat. Meaning, sorry for the non-idiots in the crowd, which is the Bongino army, the idiots are the liberals who watch my show and the Dumeers. I know you're here too. She's on everyone's ballot.

Every single person that gets a ballot in Florida is going to, to see Angie Nixon, Democrat, isn't that the one who said socialism is great? My parents are in a prison in Cuba. That's the Democrats? They're having the same moment the Dumers are. Everything they told you was BS. And now they don't know what the, Florida, I was on Ingram last night and I said, this is why I titled today's show, conveniently thrown in there again. This is a gift to Republicans. I don't vote Democrat. I don't vote Democrat primaries. I'm a registered Republican. I encourage you to register in a party too or else you only get to vote once.

I get to vote twice. You get to vote twice. Yes. I get to vote in a primary in an election. I don't get to vote twice in the same election. You don't register for a party. You get to vote once. Why would you do that? Even if you're like, well, I hate both parties. I don't, fine. You may hate them. At least pick the lesser of two evils. You get to vote twice. You're muting your own voice. This woman, they don't know what to do with her now in Florida. The Republican Party is going to make her the face of the new Democrat socialist movement because she won. Then this happened yesterday too. Justin knew right away just like that. He's like, let me guess you want to group these together. Yes, I do. El Cayed in Michigan. El Cyan, the guy who wants Medicare for all, meaning your

private insurance gets canceled. You have an employer plan. You like done illegal. I showed you the text yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. No, Dan, that's not true. Free. Free. freaking read a book or in this case a bill. I'm just a bill. Just look at the bill. It is unlawful to have private insurance when the Medicare for all covers that service. It's in the bill you can look. El Cyanette supports this.

Imagine being a UAW, United Auto Workers Union member in Detroit. Big auto presence for GM. And you find out after years of busting your ass, forfeiting some salary increases for risk protection in your health insurance plan, that now your plan's illegal and you got to go in the government insurance pit. Imagine learning that. The Democrats are now having to digest all of this. You got a guy campaigning with a 9-11 apologist in Michigan. So this happens on C-SPAN. This Democrat operative, and again, I'm not telling you like, oh, look, these guys have finally seen the light. They saw the light a long time ago. I'm telling you now they've done.

a calculation that now the primary season is over, we didn't expect this mess to be this big, and now they've got to clean it up. Watch what happens. This is a C-SPAN panel. You're going to hear this guy, Michael DeLerosa. First, you're going to hear the caller. The caller's like, what kind of Democrat are you? Because he's asking legitimate questions. Like, hey, I'm a Democrat. We've got to deal with this craziness now. The caller's furious. He's a Democrat. But I want you to watch the response. You need to see it. It's been all over this morning. Check this out. democratic strategists, are you? Now that we're down to the general, and are you trying to get Democrats not to vote for him? Well, I've never, I've never supported a Republican in my life for the Senate,

for the White House, for Congress. And I don't live in Michigan, so, I mean, my opinion really doesn't matter that much, but I could never support El-Sayed for a couple of reasons. One, there's certain things that do transcend politics, do transcend parties. And that's okay, that's what I was saying. Vote blue no matter who. The problem with that is, who still matters. At least it matters to me. And I just come from a time when I watched people jumping out of windows on 9-11, 70 miles from when the towers were falling and burning for three months. We could smell it from where I was from in Pennsylvania because of how the wind blew. It's personal to me, 25 years later, somebody who can't stand up to his friends online, on streamers.

I don't even know who these people are. But if you're too cowardly and too weak to stand up to somebody who justifies terrorism, who justifies 9-11, who justifies the suffering of people, all those people did was show up for work that day or showed up on an airplane. And this guy doesn't have it in him to say it's wrong to say that or to stand up to his friends, the test of leadership is not standing up to the other side. That's easy to do. Standing up to your friends and he's too much of a coward to do it. Folks, I'm really just trying my best to make sure we don't need to have these moments on our

side. We've done a good job cleaning up our party, hence the Dumer meltdown yesterday as the season wrapped up. But it shouldn't have even gotten this far. Justin's video of the day. Justin, two videos of the day? Oh, Guy, Justin and Guy, sorry, I miss that. Folks, 9-11 is not You know, when people say, oh, it's not a partisan issue, but they, they'll be like health care is not a partisan issue. Yes, sure it is. Republicans have ideas and Democrats have ideas. 9-11 is not a partisan issue. People died in the most horrific way burning alive, jumping out of a hundred-story building.

There's no apology tour for that for the Islamo fanatics. I want to tell you just something quick at the end that happened. This is just, let me just take a quick break because I need to like get. gather my thoughts because this is the fact that the democrats waited this long and have to have these moments on C-SPAN now in spite of rationally and intelligently early on as a party saying, hey, guys, we can have thoughts on health care education, law enforcement, the military. There's no alternative thought to 9-11 that says we deserve it. You can have the thought, but it's not a credible political idea that should be aired under our

Democrat brand. This is just happening now. like they're just coming through this realization now. We can't let that happen ours. Quick break. And I'll let me write this down. I don't want to forget. Sorry.

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It doesn't seem like it to 50-year-olds because it was best. basically halfway through our lives. But tautologically, not everyone's 50. There's a large and growing, you know, population, thankfully, of younger folks out there. And they didn't see 9-11 like we did. The fact that 9-11 apologists for the Islamo-radicals that murdered thousands of Americans and altered the course of not just U.S. history, but world history, the fact that they are welcome in the big tent Democrat party is all you need to know about

where the Democrat Party is. I was a young Secret Service agent when it happened. And a lot of police officers from ESU is the New York City Police Department SWAT teams, emergency services unit, right? They don't go by SWAT. They go by ESU. When I was a young police officer before my time in the Secret Service, ESU Truck 7, one of their units, turned out out of our precinct in the 7-5.

So I used to see them in the back. there was a parking lot area in the back of the precinct. And I remember, only reason I remember it is I wanted to be an emergency services guy. I just left for the secret service later. Everybody did. You know, the old adage was when people need help, they call the cops. When the cops need help, they call ESU. I wanted to be an ESU guy so bad.

So I'd see these guys come out, you know, good shape. They got all like the gear. And I was like, man, that's pretty cool. I want to, you know, I want to do that. A lot of those guys died. Truck 7 lost quite a few guys. in the towers. And I think to myself, you know, a lot,

how many of those guys that I saw coming out and was like, wow, you know, I'm proud of that guy, I'd like to be one of those. How many of those guys that I pass whose kids don't have a dad? They sit there and Thanksgiving and Christmas for 20 plus years now since 9-11. All that could have been would have been stories.

What would have been like to have my dad? walk me down the aisle at my wedding. What would have been like to have my father watched me graduate from college? What would it have been like for my dad to watch me get my badge? Maybe they became police officers himself. Those are questions that will never be answered.

And I know it's decades later. I understand that. But to the younger folks out there who follow this Hassan Piker and these other guys, these apologists for this stuff, They've said it. Listen to their own words about deserving 9-11 and elsewhere.

Just listen to their own words. Folks, there was no darker day in my lifetime. If you lived through that, you were scarred forever. And there is zero chance. There's a constituency among sane people in the United States, young, old, or indifferent that 9-11, we in fact deserved it. There is no constituency for that. And I'm really sorry it took you this long to wake up to it.

Now, I said I'd show you this J.K. Rowling tweet. I did not forget. J.K. Rowling, of course, is a very famous author. She wrote the Harry Potter series. I think it's pretty clear. She's not a MAGA person. It does not associate, you know, with Republican or conservative politics. But she's been very vocal about the trans issue and other issues as well, which of course makes you an instant, excuse me, enemy on the left. So I've been trying to push this into the conservative space and thankfully it's starting to catch on. there are people out there on the doomer and grifter side and i'm not talking about the ones that are paid that those are just ops okay i'm thinking there are a lot of people out there who just fell for and they're still going with it you see it now with all the nonsense conspiracy crap and it's it's

just it's turned into just complete ideological chaos nobody knows what to believe anymore that's the goal the problem i have is some people are shown given on the cliched silver platter hey, you believe in this, but this is not true. And here's the evidence. Like, well, I don't believe that either. Folks, there are some people that are so far down the rabbit hole, you can't rescue them. J.K. Rowling addressed this in a tweet. You're seeing it now on both sides.

The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it or pretend to will resist recanting. Keep this up. That sounds almost counterintuitive. If an idea is clearly nonsensical, socialism works, space aliens, kill Charlie, whatever it is. You would think people would forfeit that. That's not the way of the crazy idea, the more people resist recanting.

She explains why. That's because the potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They have no choice but to double down. The crazier the idea, once people look in the mirror and have to say to themselves, I can't believe I bought the space alien nonsense. It's that moment where you have to accept the fact that you fell for it. They will not do it.

They will go to the grave drinking the Kool-Aid, for those of you who have heard the expression before. They will never let it go. This phenomenon is everywhere. Now, so you may say to yourself rightly so. So, Dan, what's the point then? Why do you continue to do the show to this group of people interested in the truth? if there's other people out there, despite no matter how many times

you show them the results, what happened, they're not going to buy it. Why would you continue to do it? The answer is I learned during campaigning for office myself, that there's always a third party listening. Always, always. I used to campaign at state fairs, county fairs. I can't tell you how many liberals.

I ran in Maryland, Maryland, one of the most blue states in the union. I would be out there with like, whatever, Bonino for Congress sign. There was always some. lunatic that would come up. You suck. Why do I say? School choice sucks. Why does it suck? And you'd let them scream and they would vent. They would blow up and lose their minds. You would convince them of nothing. You'd be like, well, why not just give the parents a choice? They pay for the schools. Screw the parent,

whatever. There was always a third person who was listening. They'd be like this, the pose. Not the pose like the other guy. But they'd come up to you after the exchange. and they would say, hey, man, I heard your arguments there. And, you know, I didn't really know how important a school choice thing was. But it would happen all the time. I mean, I'm not using exact language. I don't know. It would be dramatic.

But there's always a third person listening. You see it now with all this, these ops out there everywhere. This, the current thing just pops up out of nowhere. You see it with this Lindsay Clancy case. People have an opinion based purely on emotion. This AG Hamilton put this up about data centers. Folks, we have no way out of the debt crisis we're in without winning the AI race. We'll be dead.

You know, it's the anti-data center stuff's insane and clear evidence we have entered a post. It's clear evidence we've entered a post-truth era where many people can be convinced, often by malicious actors, to abandon reality and allow conspiracies and falsehoods to drive policy preferences. I'm not, let me just be, again, crystal clear. I've invested in the tech economy for a long time. I am not telling you in your community how to vote. That's your business.

I don't live in your community. I live in mine. You don't like them fine. You don't like an issue fine. Just don't become emotion focused, become problem focused. And the way to fix a problem is to gather the data, do a net present value, what works for you? And what doesn't?

The excuse isn't like let's scuttle the ships, burn the ships and blow the whole country up. I'm going to give you some economic numbers. We've got to get to this at the end of the show, the debt thing and that Parker thing. I'm going to show you what I mean. All of the things people care about, Republicans and Democrats, saving your retirement, Democrats, you know, believe in Social Security. A lot of Republicans believe retirement can be done, you know, other ways. Social Security's got some issues.

tax money, roads, schools, all of this stuff is dependent on us solving problems. If we get lost in every single op, just like what happened with the nuclear power industry and elsewhere, you're going to find yourself in a place where five years from now, maybe less, we're all under cyber attack. Put that Kelly Mayer thing up at the end. We're all under cyber attack because we lost the AI race and you're going to be like, my gosh, I know it wasn't the current thing at the time, but maybe I should have spoken up. Here, Kelly Mayer News on X, the NSA, SISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA,

are all warning Americans this afternoon of the threat of unidentified hackers trying to breach devices made by Siemens that are used to monitor and operate water facilities and other critical infrastructure systems. Sounds like something we've done. I've only mentioned ICS industrial control system attacks, cyber attacks on water and elsewhere a thousand times. Folks, this threat is real. Just because some random account told you,

on Twitter like, you should not do this because I said so paid for by so and so doesn't mean we should commit national suicide. It's not easy to have to tell people the truth. Being a current thing or is easy in this business. It is. It's the easiest thing to do. Speaking of which, when you fall for the current thing, sometimes like lunatics will burst into your studio. Sometimes this happened the other day, some lunatic like burst it in here, screaming and this is what happens when you fall for the current thing and you're and emotion here look at that little stank yeah okay you got the other camera oh the other camera that you believe this this is crazy happened in the studio the other day I'm glad you had the

multiple camera view just then picked up on what I was with all right disclaimer this is not in fact someone who broke into the studio screaming and yelling we have very good security this is in fact the Senate nominee in Florida Angie and screaming like a lunatic on the house floor in the state of Florida. Folks, this is what it looks like when everything is the current thing all the time. She really thinks the cells. Andy, you look like you have something to say there. I was just thinking that.

Folks in the chat. Andy just said something I was thinking, too. Did you catch it in the chat? The outfit, the pink outfit, she's got the matching megaphone. That must be part of the op. Make sure it looks really cute. The microphone's got a, the megaphone, excuse me, has got a match the outfit.

Folks, it's all an op, man. It's all BS. This is what current thingers look. It's what the Dumers look like yesterday. I mean, I'm telling you, I haven't seen a meltdown like yesterday in a long time since I came back to the radio. And they all freaked out.

Before we go any further, I want to address another current thing. It's not a Dumer current thing. This is a left-wing media current thing. Folks, there are so many people in the left-wing media who will fall for the dumbest of current things. And the latest current thing, some of you know where I'm going with this, is President Trump has a personal aide, Natalie Harp. She's very nice.

She does great work for him. I mean, you're not going to meet someone more dedicated to the MAGA mission than Natalie Harp. You're just not. Whether you like her or not, I don't care. I'm not interested. Just like I really don't care. I'm like I say I don't care, but I'm just like, it's not going to alter my behavior at all if you like me or don't, not one bit.

In other words, I don't care enough to change telling you the truth. Neither does she or President Trump. The left wing media hates Natalie Hart because she is the new, like, that's it. On the dartboard, they're throwing the darts. This is what it looks like when you're screaming into a pink megaphone with a pink outfit on the house floor, like a crazy lunatic. This is what it looks like on TV, absent the screaming, but the effect is the same. they're upset that Natalie Harp, who's a personal aid to the president, personal aid to the president,

is so good at her job that even when they, this story requires a little bit of background, forgive me. I was a motorcade agent twice in the Secret Service. I went back as the whip. Sometimes in the motorcade, there are mistakes. Every vehicle is manifested. You do not just get in. If this is boring, I'm sorry.

It's important you understand this story, though, because again, speaks to my point. and how the media doesn't know anything. Apparently the SUVs that we're at, they have trunks now. Maybe some SUVs may have trunks. Not the SUVs we use in the trunk like an old car. Like, remember Goodfellas where they throw Billy Bats in the trunk?

There's this crazy CNN story. She got in the trunk of the car. There's no trunk in the SUV. She got in a well that has a seat in the back. Sometimes when you're doing a motorcade, occasionally a manifest, one of the manifest will be wrong. And someone's missing.

And it always looks like this. We call it like ring around the vehicle. When it running around a vehicle, where's my spot? Where's my spot? It happens. CNN, this was a huge story yesterday. They threw Natalie Harp in the trunk. Oh my gosh.

I watched this story. I'm like, Vince brought this up on his show. I'm like, really? Let me listen to check this out. What more are you learning about Natalie Harp? Well, it just shows you how much she cares. about President Trump and how she wants to be in proximity to him. This was back in 23, when President Trump was in court in New York, and he was going down to head to the courthouse, and the

motorcade was waiting outside of Trump Tower when staffers realized that there weren't enough seats for Natalie Harp. They had an accounted that she would be going down to the courthouse, and she was told that. Now, a screaming match then ensued in the lobby of Trump Tower at that time, with essentially Harp saying that the president had personally asked her to go. And she was determined so determined to not be left behind that she actually got in the trunk of one of the SUVs that was part of the motorcade and sat there. It's almost like a cargo hold. It's not a cargo hold, you imbecile. There's a well in the back.

Have you ever seen a Chevy Suburban or a Tahoe or a Yukon? Have you an escalade? They're all basically the same frame. They're modified many times with the seat of back. And even if they're not modified, sometimes people will just open the back key if the manifest is wrong and they'll just sit sideways. They were going to the courthouse. It was like a two-minute motorcade. This is only a scandal on CNN.

Now, I want you to keep in mind. Someone said in the chat, thank you. Your experience is always. I appreciate it. I don't want to bore you. That's it. This happens a lot. It happens in elevators, too.

Sometimes the Secret Service will miss someone in an elevator. You get in an elevator with your name on it. If you don't, you don't belong in the elevator. These mistakes happen not often, but they happen. This is not a nightly news story on cable TV. I want to prove to you, too, that Natalie Harp as a personal aid is just a Trump story. It's not a story story story. They just want to attack President Trump.

The Dumers, too, by the way, will harp on this, too, some of them. Have you ever heard negative stories about Reggie Love? Like, who's Reggie Love? Thank you, exactly. Justin, though you know? Folks in the chat, do you know who that is? First person who gets it, put him up on the screen. Most of you don't even know who he is.

That's the point. Reggie Love was Obama's personal aid. Traveled with him everywhere. Why weren't their big scandals? Like, oh my gosh, he jumped in a well with him. The answer is because it was Obama, and the media loves Obama. So they didn't care. What about George W. Bush?

43. What about his personal aid? The guy's name was, was it Blake? I remember we work with Blake. I don't remember. It doesn't really matter. Why wasn't he a huge story? The answer is because he wasn't Trump either.

They just hate Donald Trump. Folks, these are just dumb, stupid stories. Yes. Pimp Daddy Pain. Is that like Big Daddy King? Kaine? Obama's personal assistance. Yes, Pimp Daddy Paine. Missed a couple letters. You did get it up fast.

Ain't no half step. And some of you will get that. You guys don't get that at all, do you? You're way too young. Look it up. Look it up right now. Anyone in the chat get that? Okay.

Folks, ops are everywhere. The current thing today is Natalie Harp. The current thing, this is what I was, ever since I got back on the air. I get this question a lot. in our email. I get it in DM messages. People send my team. Dan, why the hate, man, towards you? Why the hate towards cash? Why the hate towards basically anyone in the Trump, Natalie Harper? Why the hate? Folks, I told you, the answer is to demoralize you and get you to hate the administration

no matter what. But many of these people are afraid to take on the president directly because they know they'll get squashed so they think they can pick off people around him one by one. I've warned people in the administration. It's only a matter of time before they come for you too. Their only agenda is demoralization. Ops are everywhere. Ari Fleischer pointed this out yesterday about the polling scandal like pointed out yesterday. How folks, you can take most of the polls you read and throw them right in a garbage.

Most of them are completely utterly worthless. Ari Fleischer put this post up on X. It was Qantas Insights, had this thing. Great work here from Patrick Grafini. Across 3,300 Senate polls over four cycles, he finds the Democrats have a plus 3.7 average error, basically in their direction, with 73% of polls overstating Democrats.

Even more interesting is that the error peaks around Democrats plus close to six in late July before narrowing toward election day. Ari Fleischer says, everyone, pay attention to this. Stop thinking polls are accurate. They've long been biased towards these, this careful study shows by how much. Folks, it's a scam.

These things are ops. They are not legitimate. Not there are some polling outlets that do their homework. The point is many of them don't. And until they can fix their statistical errors, what's the point of a poll? I hate to go over this again. But think about, do you understand the statistical difference

between reliability and validity? I'm willing to think of an analogy. hear about polls. Polls are reliable, but not valid. Wait, Dan, that's crazy. The problem is people don't understand the difference and they take the polls as if they're reliable and valid. What do I mean? Imagine getting on a scale, you know, to measure your weight, I have one in my little gym in the house, right? Imagine you get on a scale and the scale is off every day by five pounds. It adds five pounds. So I'm about 195. So what would the scale say?

200. Now, if you know the scale is reliable, it's reliably wrong, but it's reliable. It's reliably wrong by the same thing. But it's not valid. It's not measuring your weight. Your weight's not 200. It's 195. But you understand there's an error built in that's reliable.

So it's reliable just not valid. That's what people don't understand about polls. They think they're both. Oh, this is a valid measure. The Democrats are going to win. It's not a valid measure. They're wrong by about five to six points. If you don't know that, you don't show up at the polls.

You're like, oh, my gosh, we're going to lose. We're going to get smoked. I'm just trying to help you recognize these ops out there. They're everywhere. These polls, this is a fact. It's an opinion. The polls over the last four cycles said this and this happened. The elections are over.

The data is not disputable. Take the polls, roll them. in a ball and they're not they're garbage they are reliably wrong you can add between three and six points to every republicans result in a lot of these races and then you'll have a better idea where they stand folks some of these same people again the pholex maga guys do this too they're reliably wrong every single time reliably wrong therefore their opinions are not valid the scale is not measuring your weight. You're not 200 pounds. No, people didn't come from Jupiter, the planet, not down in South Florida, and engage in some murderous conspiracy. You've been

reliably wrong every single time. Your opinion is not valid. Everything you say has been proven wrong. And yet the Dumers continue. Nothing is happening. Well, here's what happened. Nothing happened on the COVID case? Well, this happened yesterday. That doesn't matter. I'm just going to move on to my other reliably wrong opinion. Will Chamberlain put this post up the other day? I bet you've been told, too, the Trump administration, they're just not deporting

it. It's unbelievable. I don't know where this came from. Tom Homan's disputed it. The Trump administration's disputed it. Mullen, the DHS is disputed. They've given you actual numbers. People are either deported or they're not. Nothing is happening from it. Andy, how would you

you know someone's deported? And he's like, they're not here? Like we said, this isn't hard. The polymarket, just in U.S. refugee admissions are now on pace at their lowest, lowest, lowest? No, this isn't Superman and low. Lowest level on record with nearly all refugees admitted this fiscal year coming from South Africa. I heard the Trump administration had given up. Will Chamberlain notes, yeah, but being sarcastic, obviously. Yeah, but Trump isn't doing anything or on immigration or so I'm told. He's being sarcastic. Folks, these people are reliably wrong. Everything they tell you is wrong. It's the scale that doesn't measure your weight. So why are their opinions going forward valid on anything? I don't know why you would fall for that.

There are other people out there. I'm talking about Folex MAGA. Forget it, folks. It's over. There's energy in the midterms. It's already lost. Look at the polls. Forget the liberals. I'm talking about Folex Maga, people on our side. Then you see these numbers out of Florida. Put up that Daughtry tweet. I thought nobody cared. I thought everybody was demoralized. Nothing is happening. We've stopped deporting people. Massive amounts of refugees being emitted into the country. Crime out of control. There's nobody being investigated for anything. I thought that was all happening and everybody was pissed off. Eric Daughtry, breaking Florida Republicans. Now, lead Democrats by nearly 12 points in primary voting statewide, which is weird because the GOP's

total registration advantage is only 11 points. Election Day turnout, 521,000 Republicans, 236,000 Dems. Notes, Republicans are overperforming above and beyond even their insane registration. I thought everybody was miserable. I thought everybody was miserable, like Ronald McDonald. I thought what? Again, it's almost. like you've been being told things by people with the numbers. Those are just numbers, folks, you can prove. People either turned out and voted or they didn't. People were either deported or they weren't. Refugees were either admitted into the country. They weren't. People were either killed or they weren't. Like the homicide rate is either down or it's not. You don't invent dead

people. There's no like this. This isn't the six cents. I see dead people. That's not how this works. I just refuse to be miserable. And it drives people freaking crazy. It does. It drives. It drives them nuts. They cannot, they just can't get over the fact that they cannot make this show go away. They have tried forever. And it just pisses them off because their audiences shrink as this thing expands. We're now moving back into radio. Oh, by the way, there was a little confusion about that. Sorry, I don't mean to get sidetracked. My podcast isn't going anywhere. Nothing is changing. 10 a.m. I'll see you here live every day. The radio show again is going to be starting on Monday. First hour at 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern. I know the Dumers are upset. I'm sorry. You're going to have to seek some help on that. I can't help you, okay?

There's also more news coming about radio. For those who think it's a one-off, it's not. Three to six nationally radio stations across the country. Sean Ferris is going to be live, live from three to four, first hour. My four-to-six show is going to be some of the content from the podcast, along with some original content too. But it doesn't affect the podcast at all. I probably should have been a little more clear on that. But the show is expanding, and there's more news ahead. I know that's going to upset everyone. I don't want us to descend into chaos. We're going to be happy warriors in this movement

because I choose not to be miserable. I wake up every morning, and I told you, I say, I'm Dan Bongino. I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. Why? Because it's true, man. Man, manifest good things in your life. Smile a little bit. You got to walk around screaming and yelling all the time about it.

Nothing's happening. You want to turn into these guys? This is what a movement looks like when the math doesn't math and chaos completely sets in and you'll say anything to anyone at any time. This is Talafrico, the Democrat nominee for the United States Senate in the state of Texas. He goes in, is this the breakfast club?

I think it's a breakfast club, right? It is, the breakfast club, which is a very popular morning show nationwide. I think it's Charlemagne and his crew. They have a huge audience. But he goes on the show and he's, asked about the Carmelo Anthony case, not the basketball player, the stabbing case.

Many of you know Austin Metcalf, it's a horrible case, right? Horrible case. He says one of the craziest things I've ever heard. Because Carmelo Anthony happens to be black and the person who was murdered, Austin McCabe, is white, that somehow the conviction in this case shouldn't matter because there was nobody black on the jury. But what the, does that argument work the other way? Do you realize how crazy would be?

And was it void year, the selection process? If an attorney for a white suspect in the case was like, we only want white people, it would sound crazy, right? It would not be a reliable or valid opinion. This guy is a nutbag. Now you see why they call him Talafriko. He believes in multiple genders. This guy's a nut.

He's running in Texas. he's not running in Illinois. He's not running for Chicago mayor. Listen to this crap. In Texas, we see what happened with Carmelo Anthony, and you said it was a tragedy. Yeah. What did you mean about that?

Well, I've done a lot of work in the state house on justice reform. And right now we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans equally. And we know that black Texans have been, have not gotten the justice they deserve in many cases. And, you know, I'm not an expert on. this particular case, but I know that there were no black members of the jury. And to me, that's the only evidence you need to really prove that this system is not working for black Texans. Um, you guys ever get picked for jury duty? You did? I didn't know this was a way out.

You did. You got, you got called. Did you actually get picked? Is an answer now? So just to be clear, like if I were to get picked for jury duty, right? This is how insane this Talafriko guy is. All he had to do was say, listen, I trust the American citizen enough, white, black, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, it doesn't matter. If you're on a jury, you're not going to sentence, excuse me, you're not going to convict someone and vote for their guilt just because of their skin color. That's the answer.

It's not hard. Josh, you ever get picked for jury duty? He was juror number one. I didn't know. a way out of it was to say, hey, man, that guy's Asian, I'm white, I'm no good for this. Wouldn't you be admitting you're a racist? This is what it looks like when a movement becomes not reliable or reliably wrong, I should say, therefore not valid.

You want to vote for this guy in Texas, racially segregated juries? What are we back to Jim Crow juries now? I thought they were, they always claimed they were the party against Jim Crow, which is ridiculous if you read the history. Right, exactly. Why isn't it the lawyers? Like the lawyer, like, oh my gosh, we got all white people here. Like, what, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard? Folks, this is what it looks like when the math doesn't math and your opinions are reliably wrong. Put up the Wall Street Journal article. You've got this lady now running in Florida, Angie Nixon, the screamer, pink megaphone, pink outfit, screaming like a lunatic. She's a Medicare

for all supporter. So is Al-Sayed. He's trying to run away from it now, and so is she. El-Sayed in Michigan, two Democrats. Medicare for All, meaning your insurance gets canceled. Period. It's in the Bernie Sanders bill. I showed it yesterday.

Watch the show. Look at the section if you think I'm making it up. Unlike your show, our show is reliable and valid. We were right. So they have a piece up James Freeman in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. And he's citing an article about what government-run health care for all looks like.

He notes in Canada, the closest country to the U.S., that is universal health care, health care spending is responsible for 12.7% of GDP. Several points higher, does that say higher? I thought this was going to save money. Then the average spend of OECD countries. They note, despite this higher spending, the median waiting time between referral from a GP

and receiving the treatment from some specialists has hit 28.6 weeks, which is 208% longer than the way Canadian patients would have experienced in 1993. They note from April 2023 to March 2024, almost 15,000 people died waiting for health care in Canada, according to a freedom of information request. So just to be clear, keep this up for a second, fellas, you're going to pay vastly more on average through your taxes for government. bureaucrats to tell you when and where you can have your chest cracked open if you have a heart attack, you're going to have waiting times that exceed by far sane reasonable averages around the world where you have free market health care and you pick yourself. And you're also going to have

it ration to the point where tens of thousands of people die on a waiting list. Those are just numbers. Those are just numbers, man. This is what it looks like when the math doesn't math. Why would you believe that a government bureaucrat gives a damn about your health care? Because they care but most of them can't even figure out how to get you a driver's license and the DMV. Here's also what it looks like when the math does a math. Remember the New York City grocery stores with Comdami? They want New York City government-run grocery stores. Ladies and gentlemen, the government can't get you a driver's license. They want to run a grocery store. The way they're going to make the grocery store cheaper is by using your tax, your money to buy food

for not you. Very few people are going to get into this grocery store because they're going to run out of products. But your tax dollars in Queens, I lived in Queens, are going to be used to pay for a grocery store Manhattan. That's the way they're cheap. This isn't hard. That's reliable and valid. And Apple here's 10 cents. Well, that's not what an apple cost. No, it does when taxpayers pay for it. It's whatever you want. You just take taxpayer money. But there's a problem.

The problem is the math don't math and the scale don't work. Because now other grocery stores in the area that have been serving their community forever are like, hey, man, whatever. I have to charge a dollar for an apple. I can't afford to charge 10 cents because that's not what I paid for it. So you're going to put me out of business with taxpayer money. I've been serving a community forever. So how do you make the math, not math, and try to make the math math, math?

Here is a Mondani administration official saying, don't worry. This is real. This is not crazy. But it is crazy. But I'm telling you, this is real. She's like, don't worry, we're going to take more of your taxpayer dollars. And then give money to the other grocery stores to make up for the money they're going to lose to the taxpayer-funded grocery store. This actually happened.

That Justin's like, now I get it. Now the math is mathing. I'm not joking with you, man. Check this out. Ultimately, the goals of these locations, not just here in East Harlem, but, you know, any borough location is to be complementary to the neighborhood and really, you know, rising tides, right? We can all cooperate and work together in a meaningful way. Do you mind what is the, I've heard that that term from EDC officials, that these are meant to be complementary. What does that mean? What does that complementary mean in terms of policy, operations,

and things like that? Yeah, I think we're, you know, as an agency looking at a number of different complementary, you know, policies and programs, grants, incentives that can come alongside these grocery stores to support other, you know, local independent businesses that are in the neighborhoods. We're going to continue to listen and we're going to continue to engage. And it'll be, you know, alongside the operator as our partner. Like I said, making sure that we are complementary to the other businesses that are here in the neighborhood. So other locations, other grocery stores can get grants from the city under this? Something on the table. We're exploring a lot of different options and opportunities.

I think, you know, there's a whole host of levers that the EDC is able to work within to make sure that, you know, everyone has equitable and equal access to opportunities here. Thank you. These guys are laughing their asses off. What are you guys laughing about? Open the door. Like, I feel like I'm not in on the joke. They're like, you see the movie Dune?

I'm like, yeah, everybody saw the movie Dune. They're like, that's Paul Atreides. And I look twice. I'm like, oh my gosh. The Dune 3 is coming out. It's going to be a grocery store. You know, the sandworms? Yeah, they need a lot of food.

They're really big. They're going to go to the Mabami groceries to Paul Atreides. Dude, that is so weird. I hate that, bro. Bro. That is, put that up again. Holy Moses. You did it.

You actually made me like laugh about it. about something that I didn't put in the show. Mylase in the chat. Paul Atreides running a grocery store. What do they call him again? What's his thing? Lisa and Al-Qaedaeem. You got the guy from no country for old men in Cape Fear.

I forget his name. The liberal dude with the, where's the pals? He's screwed. That's al-Qaeda. That is so crazy, man. Paul Atreides is running a grocery store. Paul Atreed, that is, that is so weird, man. It's Paul Atreides, not Paul Atreides.

You got to get there. It's like Jay's Abacus. Some of you'll get that. I want to show you another video, what I mean, a second minute, Gavin Newsom trying to make the math math. So Gavin Newsom's obviously running for president, hair jail out in California. The problem Gavin Newsom has is Gavin Newsom's the governor of California.

That's the, what do you mean, Dan? how you run on California and the exit is from it. Like my policies are so popular in the most, one of the most beautiful states in the union. They have amazing weather, coastline, everything, that people can't get out fast enough. The problem Gavin Newsom has is Gavin Newsom is the governor of California. That's the problem.

I want you to, after this, I'm going to show you a video where he's trying to make the health care numbers look good. So he basically says the quiet part out loud, and he's proud of it, How we made the numbers look good. We and our percentage of insured people. Wait, do they hear legally? No, so we're paying people who aren't even citizens for health care?

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He's talking about how the percentage of uninsured people in his state beats Texas. What he doesn't tell you is the same fake Paula Trades trick this lady just tried to pull. Hey, we're going to lower prices. Yeah, of course you are. By other taxpayers paying for other people to get basically free food. That's how this works. You can lower the percentage of uninsured people all you want. If the taxpayers in your state are forced to finance health care for illegals, check this out.

Right to assess what we've done on expansion. And we've done about as much or more than any other state in the nation. We're about 5.9% uninsured rate. Put that just for perspective in contrast to a state like Texas gets a lot of attention, a large state. They're close to 16.7%. They're in 16 to 17%. California is below 6%. That's a choice. They've made that choice. We've made a different choice.

Now that we've expanded health care in a controversial way, I'm not naive, and I'll take the grief. I said I'm committed to universal health care. And I meant it. The voters supported me on multiple occasions. And we delivered it regardless of preexisting conditions ability to pay and immigration status. Oh, and immigration status. Thanks for cutting that right there where you can see exactly what he means. Folks, life is a trade-off. Everything is a trade-off. You've heard the cliche, there's no free lunch. There is no free lunch.

All you have to do is ask yourself, is this scale reliable and valid? Is his number reliable? Is his number valid? How did he get there? Well, he got there by taking your taxpayer dollars and giving him away to illegals. That's how he did it.

That's how they make the math Math. Sometimes we need a cerebral cortex, cerebellum, medulla oblongata. We need a cleanse. This is a clip from Phil Donahue show years ago. Milton Friedman, who if you haven't seen clips of Milton Friedman, however old they may be, they're all epic. There's not a non-epic Milton Friedman video segment about how stupid the politics of NVR, whether it's Dumers and others who just don't like the Trump. administration. Like, this is just a spiral of hatred. Milton Friedman gets into it with this lady. You know, for Milton Friedman, I shouldn't say, gets into it. That can be taken on the way. But they're on the Phil Donahue show. And the lady's like, I can't believe they're all these rich people. They don't need the money. That's not the point. What they do with the money is what matters.

And watch the lady just puzzled when Friedman just gives her economic common sense that's both reliable and valid. Check this out. Why is it we have so many a million years in everything in the United States and we still have so many impoverished people who try to get up into the world? They can only eat that much, eats, you know, sleep in the bed. And what do you suppose they do? They do, what do they do? They hoard it. And what do you mean they put it under their pillows? That's right. No, they keep investing it. Investing it in. That's right. What are they invested in? Well, in oil and everything where, I mean, all these other people who are trying to invest it? and don't get off the subject. What do they invest in?

Well, I invested in a lot of different things that the little people need. Well, do they invest in factories? Yes. Do some of that money end up in machines? Do those factories and machines provide ordinary working people with jobs or not? What do you suppose the productivity of this country would be and of the wage rate would be if the total amount of capital in this country today was what it was 100 years ago? Where do you suppose the improvements and productivity come from except from the investment by people of their savings.

But let me go to your fundamental question. First place, Nirvana is not for this world. There is no paradise. Of course we've got a lot of people who are poorly off. But if you look at it over time, if you get a sense of proportion, the well-being of ordinary people has been the main thing that has been improved by economic progress and economic growth and development. And residual, most residual, hard cases of poverty today are the result, again, of a failure of government.

Why do we have a teenage, black teenage unemployment rate in 30 to 40%? Because of two failures of government. One, a failure to provide decent schooling, which is a governmental responsibility, has been, whether it should be or not, it has been. And second, because of a minimum wage rate. which prevents those kids who haven't had decent schooling from getting jobs at low pay at which they can earn the skills on the jobs that would enable them to rise to higher pay. If you look at the sources of poverty,

you will find most of them are derived from what I regard as wrong-headed government policies. Somebody said in the chat, that's the original Karen. And someone said, is that a dog on her head? Listen, that lady, she just doesn't. No. She's giving you the simple. I can't believe they're rich people. They don't need the money. Well, what do you think they did with the money? How do you think the country got so rich that we're the richest country on earth by far, by far? How do you think we got here? By handing over all

of your profits to the government to redistribute them out to people rather than investing them in factories and products, in research, in R&D. How do you think we got here, man? And then she's like, well, why are people still poor? It's a very simple answer. The government has a monopoly, a near monopoly over the public education system. I say near monopoly because some kids can escape where there's school choice. Some just can't. They don't have the money.

And they can't even teach a kid. And then when they can't teach them anything, Friedman's right. They go out into the market and their skills may be worth, I don't know, $15 an hour in today's inflated economy. and the minimum wage in a state is 17 or whatever, and they're not going to hire them. So then they can't even get a job. The government is the cause of all of your problems. It is not the solution.

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