The Dan Bongino Show - A Glorious Day Of Liberal Meltdowns (Ep. 2366)

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host Dan Bongino. You know, I made a huge mistake yesterday, a critical mistake in yesterday's show. I was so excited on almost no sleep. I slept a lot last night, by the way, way too much. And not that my sleep thing, you know, it's funny beams the pre-roll Hey beam cyber sale is here bungee know listeners enjoy up to 50% at shop beam comm slash bungee No use code bungee. No, don't miss beams biggest sale of the year. Perfect timing. I
Starting point is 00:00:36 Got some sleep last night like you wouldn't believe I fell asleep at 8 30 p.m. Eastern time, which is probably still like An hour off because I'm still, you know, the daylight thing is still like messing me up, right? I get up at like 5.30, so I slept forever. But I got up yesterday, yesterday and I was tired but I was excited and energetic because of this history changing moment. And I wanted to come in so desperately and like,
Starting point is 00:01:02 if there was ever a time, fucking Karate Man, it was yesterday, and I missed the Karate Man moment, and I can't take it back. This isn't Michael J. Fox. I can't go back to the future. I can't do it, and I'm pissed. I'd love to go meet up with Biff or whatever. Karate Man in the chat. There was ever a time to go full freaking Mr. Miyagi. It was
Starting point is 00:01:33 yesterday. I forgot to put the fan on. What the hell? I totally missed it. Put it in the chat and let's just pretend it happened yesterday. Guy, can you splice that into yesterday's show? Man, folks, I am savoring every moment of this every single second.
Starting point is 00:01:53 I got a lot for you today. Liberal meltdowns are priceless to watch. I got to be honest with you, I'm only throwing this in for pure entertainment value. There are a couple that have some educational value, like they are going to try to censor social media now and that I'll throw out there, but I just want you to see it to laugh. I'll do a few of those in there, but right in the beginning of the show, I've got some really important stuff we do have to discuss, okay. Tactics wise, because now we won, we should still celebrate, take the week.
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Starting point is 00:03:39 Remember we auctioned off the Trump baseball? You're never going to believe it. It raised $50,000. John was John B. in the auction. He actually lost the auction in the last minute to another patriot, spent $50,000 for charity. John texted me last night, John Bruner's actually gonna match that donation to Samaritan's Purse without even the baseball.
Starting point is 00:03:57 So John Bruner, he was an awesome candidate for office in the state of Missouri. Great guy. Thank you for doing that. Super nice of you. You're a real patriot and a hero, man. We love you. Okay. We got to talk about something before we dig into the dirty of Missouri. Great guy. Thank you for doing that. Super nice of you. You're a real patriot and a hero, man. We love you. Okay. We gotta talk about something before we dig into the dirty details here. What the is going on with the vote counts?
Starting point is 00:04:13 Folks, listen to me, man. This thing, thankfully, was a blowout. I told you if we voted early, we would screw up their calculation. There was no way to cheat their way out of it. And I was right. The race is over. Everybody's conceded. There's no going to cheat their way out of it. And I was right. The race is over. Everybody's conceded. There's no going back and unconceding it. The race is over. States have
Starting point is 00:04:30 been called that it's done. Finished. It was over. We swamped the thing. They simply did not have the calculus written in to make up for the early voter turnout. And I think they knew they were screwed. So I think they figured, all right, screw it. We got stuck with four more years of this. Let's try to whatever, hold on to the Senate or the House. So late last night, we get these massive data dumps out of these liberal cities in the state of Wisconsin and in the state of Nevada. And of course they're like, oh, the Senate candidates,
Starting point is 00:05:01 Hovde and Brown, you know, lost. Folks, this is, this has got to stop. To Republicans in the state of Arizona and Wisconsin, I understand you're dealing in many cases, well, not in Nevada, but in Wisconsin with a liberal governor, but you are dealing with a lot of liberals in the state legislature. You have got to stop this shit. You guys, and I, excuse me, Arizona and Maricopa and Arizona as well. You got to stop this shit. There is absolutely no reason why in the richest, wealthiest country on earth, where 40 out of the 50 states, or relatively speaking, about 40 out of, who knows knows have no problem whatsoever going Republican. It's okay,
Starting point is 00:05:45 great counting votes that you can't count votes. Get your shit together. You guys are effing up the entire country. Nobody believes anything. Nobody believes anything. You think we forgot? What do you think we forgot what happened in 2020? What do you think right now we're like we're just going to move on because Donald Trump won? We're not. We're happy. We swamped it. But get your shit together, man. You understand if this wasn't a runaway election, the entire nation again would be watching Maricopa County in Arizona? Get your shit together. You're humiliating. You're embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Fix it. I live in Florida. 95% of the vote count was in, probably within a half an hour of the damn vote closing. We got 20 million people, bro. Fix your shit. I'm sorry, man, but it's just freaking frustrating. Are you with me in the chat or not with this?
Starting point is 00:06:52 Fix your shit man. Wisconsin Nevada Arizona California I forget they don't want to fix anything but these are states with a substantial Republican presence, either a branch of government, Nevada's got a Republican governor, Arizona's got the hapless Katie Hobbs, but they got Evers in Wisconsin. I mean, you got to fix your shit. Sorry, man, but you know, it's a day after I'm still happy about this thing. But this is how the whole nation gets thrown into turmoil.
Starting point is 00:07:28 And let's talk about some other things, too. Folks, the Trump team's getting ready now to transition. They're already rocking and rolling. There are a number of names out there and people. I know the Trump team is very, very interested at this point and not making some of the same mistakes they made last time. I'm going to be covering some people throughout the week and next week who I think should not be in the administration.
Starting point is 00:07:52 It's just my opinion. They don't need my advice. They can do what they want. But I'm an independent voice out here. And I'm in this for one person and one person only. Do you know who that person is? President Trump. I don't care about anybody else.
Starting point is 00:08:04 I care about him and his success. And there are some people out there who are not gonna be good for the administration and I'm hearing their names being thrown around. So that's gonna be coming in the next few days. And as for agenda items, day one, fire Chris Ray, the FBI, immediately. Immediately, the second we swear in,
Starting point is 00:08:21 here's how this should look. You guys wanna see how it should look? I, Donald J. Trump, the minute that Chris Ray you fire, that's it. The second we swear in here's how this should look you guys want to see how it should look I Donald J. Trump the minute Christopher right you're fired. That's it. The second the Bible gets pulled away I want the call go Christopher Ray pack your bags get this guy out of there fire this guy in day one also Fire the CIA director and the DNI they got to go to the IC has been involved in a deep state Weaponization effort for a long time.
Starting point is 00:08:46 These are just a couple of things that should happen right away. An executive order on the border, you can implement the Immigration and Nationality Act, what is it, Section 212 right away, reinstitute the migrant protection protocols, remain in Mexico, should happen right away. Couple other things, if we have the Republican Congress, it's still
Starting point is 00:09:05 likely we're gonna hold the House. I hope we do. If we don't, we're gonna be screwed. They'll impeach Donald Trump day one. However, we got to get some national voter ID. We've got to work on our election system, cleaning it up, and we have to reauthorize the tax cuts and get some money for that border wall. That should happen right away. Okay, just want to put that out there in the beginning of the show. Now let's get to some good stuff again, because we did do Karate Man. I only do Karate Man when I'm in a very good mood.
Starting point is 00:09:29 I'm savoring every delicious moment of this wonderful, glorious electoral college and popular vote political ass kicking I saw. We were looking around for some of the best liberal meltdowns to kind of make you feel good, make you laugh a little bit. On a Thursday morning, Thursday, Thursdays. Here is one of the best ones we found. Check this out. Savor every delicious second of it.
Starting point is 00:09:57 How does this not go without saying, but white people, white women especially, at this moment, do not go to your black, your indigenous, your immigrant, your queer, your trans. Do not go to that person in your life that you feel is a little bit more oppressed than you are, because obviously you're feeling fucking oppressed, and ask for like Help with it. I Don't care how you voted. I don't care how fucking hard you worked. I don't care. I don't care You're not an exception to this
Starting point is 00:10:36 Just so we're clear Like I Like, I thought it couldn't get too much more reasonably worse today in the spectrum of my emotions towards people who look like me. But then you go and do something and totally fucking blow it out of the water. What? What in the? Did I just?
Starting point is 00:11:22 So, I'd always have, just see? So, I'd always have, just to be clear for all the people out there, and this is only coming from the swampy Republican side, by the way. When I say this, I'll tell you in a second. It is not coming from the Democrats aren't interested in this at all. The swampy Republicans. I noticed a lot of people at the journal and elsewhere. They're all like, we need unity. It's time to move on. You just to be clear, you really believe that lady is interested in unity right now? Did you see what Justin just said? Right. Go to X
Starting point is 00:11:59 and tick tock. You have never seen liberals crazier than they are now crazy never so all the coexist tolerance bullshit folks I Would happily unify with a party that loved America and was ready to move on Hey, we lost let them do their thing and govern and then we'll get our shot in the midterms and in four years They are not even remotely interested in that. I don't want to hear any bullshit about unity until liberals put the sword down. They're gonna unity you drop your sword. They're gonna lop your head off. These people are crazy. Here's the Attorney General in New York, an absolute lunatic, a freaking commie like I've never
Starting point is 00:12:45 seen before, thirsty for power authoritarianism and the fascism she claims to want to be fighting like I've never seen. They get destroyed in this election. New York, Donald Trump slices what like five to seven points off of his margin he lost by in 2020 in New York made massive gains in the tri-state area, New Jersey as well. Donald Trump, we only lost by what was it five or six or something like that. Massive gains. Queens County where I grew up. I'm a Queens kid just like Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:13:22 Donald Trump won almost 40% of the vote that is in New York City It's one of the five boroughs Queens can you would think this life loser moron up in New York would say hey It's time to reevaluate our lawfare against Donald Trump. No You got none of that shit at all. Here's what you got yesterday. Her dumbling down on communism. Check this out. So here we are. We studied their platforms.
Starting point is 00:13:51 We've identified certain possibilities, fact patterns. We've created contingency plans. So no matter what the next administration throws at us, we're ready. We're ready to respond to their attacks. We're ready to respond to any attempts to cut or eliminate any funding to the great state of New York, as the Governor outlined. So despite what has happened on the national stage We will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice revenge
Starting point is 00:14:30 or retribution You ever see the Brady Bunch Giffey if you guys are on X-Line sure Jam sure Keep it up. Tish. You're doing great. You're doing great. You're doing Fantastic. Thank you, Tish. If it wasn't for people like Tish James, this absolute life loser, and by the way, extremely stupid person from a number of people I know who know her, believe it or not, dumber than Joe Biden. And that's saying a lot.
Starting point is 00:15:01 That is a bold statement that I wish PolitiFact would check. I want IQ scores. She is a moron. A moron. Keep it up, man. There is no, there was, I could argue she's one of the top five contributors to the Republican effort to take this country back, this absolute life loser. Keep it up. Keep it up. You're doing great. You'll have New York Red by the time these idiots Kathy Hokel, the governor and her are done with it. And that other slob Twinkies too. Keep it up morons. Folks, the deep state had a bad day yesterday. That was Tish with the copium. We have a backup plan. Sure you do Tish. Right, right. Sure. You see this report on Fox, you
Starting point is 00:15:45 know Jack Smith, the tyrant working as a special tyrant for the Merrick Garland Joe Biden weaponized Justice Department, making up fake charges on Donald Trump and trying to put him through a federal trial. That's all gone now. That's all gone. Jack's going to need to find a new job. I hear since Donald Trump got a promotion from McDonald's, there's an open spot. Maybe Jack Smith should apply. Not really sure. Donald Trump's done a lot of jobs. You see his resume going around online. It was pretty hilarious. They were like felon, McDonald's, sanitation worker, President of the United States. The greatest resume ever. I love this guy. You want to talk about a man of the people? I love this guy. Maybe Jack Smith should seek that open profession There may be a spot for him because Jackie bots
Starting point is 00:16:29 Jackie boom bots gonna be out of a job soon. Check this out We have some news about special counsel Jack Smith this man right here Donald Trump said recently that he would fire Jack Smith quote within two seconds of taking office Well, we found out that he may not have that opportunity. The reason is that the Department of Justice, where Jack Smith works, cannot prosecute a sitting president. Fox News is told that Jack Smith will be gone from his post as special counsel, meaning the cases will be gone before Trump takes the oath of office at noon on January 20th
Starting point is 00:17:07 This is the documents case though that was dropped already by judge Eileen Cannon back over the summer and it's on appeal But also this case for Trump's alleged efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election So given the fact DOJ policy says you cannot prosecute a sitting president, expect Jack Smith's cases to be done. The last case, and I'll end on this, is that Atlanta case that deals with the 2020 elections. That's a local Georgia case. We've seen over the last year how that has played out with Fonny Willis, Nathan Wade. That has many problems, many different delays.
Starting point is 00:17:41 So, the bottom line for my story to all of you right now, Donald Trump's legal problems have essentially all gone away since he won last night, Harris. Jack A, Jackie Smith. Justin is offering his services for a job search. He said contact him, you can reach out. Our email's on the website. Just ask for Justin B.
Starting point is 00:18:04 Justin is willing to go do some heads hunting for you if you're looking for a job. There's multiple spots here open in Stewart. Just please don't register to vote down here. Stay behind where you are, possibly in a DC. Walmart is definitely looking for some baggers up front. Hey man,
Starting point is 00:18:20 we gotta get these jobs done. We gotta fill them in. Every job is valuable. Jackie, Justin B. He's gonna to hook you up, buddy. So Jackie Botts is out of a gig. And Derek Farland, obviously, is going to be out of a gig pretty soon as well. Who knows? Maybe they'll try to nominate him for another Supreme Court position in the next, God forbid there is another Democrat White House. So I wanted you to have a little bit of fun. I have a couple, I'm not gonna play too many, but it's amazing to watch leftist. You know what, throw that tweet up first
Starting point is 00:18:51 the one you have on the, I just wanna show them, I'll get to the deets on in a second, but it's amazing to watch leftist with tweets like this. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, tweets like what? I'll get into this in detail in a second here, but now we've got leftists that are like by their own definition, correct you, they're election deniers.
Starting point is 00:19:08 I mean, if you question a 2020 election, the left said, you're an election denier, which is weird because I never denied there was an election. Matter of fact, I acknowledged there was an election with problems, which makes me an election acknowledge her like the opposite of a denier. I don't deny there was an election at all. But you said them's the rules, right? You acknowledge the election and you think it had problems, you're a denier. It's weird to see leftists and people on Twitter now go, man, this is kind of weird, those 2020 numbers. Right? Isn't it crazy? So strange how that happened. I'll get back to this in a second. I'm going gonna take a quick break. And I want to get to some media meltdowns, including Lawrence O'Donnell, again, who wants
Starting point is 00:19:48 to wipe out the Electoral College. I will give you a 20 second history lesson on the Electoral College. This is not for you, but it's for your dopey liberal friends who are too stupid to figure out that we wouldn't have the United States of America without the Electoral College. They still don't get that. They don't understand because they're stupid people and you're gonna make them on stupid people if they're capable.
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Starting point is 00:21:07 for up to 50% off. Thank you, Beam. I'm gonna go back to that tweet in a second, I promise, but I wanna play this first. Enjoy all of this, folks. Here's MSNBC that for two days has been sucking in, this is, here's my coffee, but they've been sucking in massive amounts of copium.
Starting point is 00:21:24 They're like Drink it up drink the copium because they just can't take it that they eff this thing up so bad And they are totally incapable of reading the America. They claim they live in Check this out from an issue an apology to all of those states that we have not mentioned Check this out from a shit apology to all of those states that we have not mentioned It's not our fault. It's the founding fathers They decided on this thing called the electoral college, which interestingly no other country in the world decided to copy And because of that in presidential terms in effect on nights like this It you have a right to think that it feels like no one cares about your vote. If you're in California, if you're in New York, and when you think about how
Starting point is 00:22:10 enormous a force that can be in voter suppression, there may be nothing quite like it. Holy shit, are these people stupid? Do they not understand why any of you guys history buffs Justin, Michael, Michael, he Michael's like Michael's got like a 5,000 IQ or something. He's like a Stephen Hawking over there. So this guy knows everything my we send them like math problems. He's like me smarty Guy knows everything right here like an Excel spreadsheet in his head or something the electoral cut you wouldn't have a United States without it Folks, it's called the United States. There's a second word in that. The original states were like, we're not joining this
Starting point is 00:22:56 union if you're going to pardon my, fuck us over. So the states, Michael, am I crazy? During when they were drawing up the constitution and the rules, they were like, hey man, I don't want to do what New York wants. We have our own interests. How are you going to protect our state? Because if all the population centers pick the president, then you're going to F us over. And it's the United States. It's not the folks.
Starting point is 00:23:22 It's notice what I said. It's not the United people of America. It's the United States. They all have their own thing going on. Florida's got interests. New York doesn't have. We have a big lake in the middle called Lake O. If you're in New York going, I don't give a shit about Lake O. Exactly. Why would you? I do! If it overflows, it's gonna fuck the whole state up. It's not your problem, it's mine. That's why we're the United States. So the founders said, we can't elect a president on a popular vote because then these Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, more in original, you get the point, over time, they're now
Starting point is 00:24:03 densely, not densely populated states, their interests wouldn't be protected. It's the United States, dumbass. You wouldn't have one without it. It's the only reason we have a United States and a constitution. One of the biggest issues holding up the drafting of our founding documents was how to pick the president. There was someone documents was how to pick the president There was someone wanted Congress to pick the president But you had separation of powers issues some wanted a monarch and they were like screw that we got away from that shit Others wanted the popular vote. So states were like we ain't doing that New York, California picked the president Man are you people stupid?
Starting point is 00:24:48 There would be no United States. You idiots. Gosh, you got to have this. Now watch this. This is a tweet I showed you before. This is classic. You want to talk about the biggest like self owned set of tweets of all time. This is all over Twitter yesterday. Even this woman Pam in Florida,
Starting point is 00:25:06 she ran for office was tweeting. So here are the numbers, turnouts for the last elections from 2004, presidentials, right to 2024. You have 1 to 1 million in 2004. Follow me here because I'll read them out to you if you listen on audio. 1 to 9 in 2008. In 2012, we had 126 million. 2016, 128 million. 2020, 155 million. We've never had more than 129 million. So in 2020, 155 million. Then in 2024, it's right back to 129 again. So lefties are like, Hey, nothing strange about this at all. And then some other guy writes, nothing strange about this at all. And then some other guy writes, damn y'all, maybe we really did steal the election in 2020. This is if there was ever a John McClain, you know where I'm going with this? Anyone know I'm going with this in the chat? If there was ever a John McClain, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, welcome to the party pal. This is it. You wonder why a lot of Republicans are like, you wonder why we're kind
Starting point is 00:26:13 of like, okay, so you got this pandemic thing, you do a mass mail in ballot election for the first time, not the first time you've seen mail in ballots, but a mass mail in ballot election. Because girls, you can't show up, everybody's gonna get sick and die from COVID, which turned out to be hysteria. Okay. So you get a mass mail in ballot election, you get states like Pennsylvania that randomly change the rules at the last minute.
Starting point is 00:26:35 You've got the emergence of these drop boxes all over the place. All of a sudden, something like, you know, 20 million, close to 20 million new votes show up, 18, 20 million new votes show up 1820 million new votes show up. They don't appear again. And liberals are like, man, where'd all those 18 million votes go? I don't know, man. I have no idea. This if there was ever a vindication day, this should be it. And the greatest irony of all is Sean Davis said this, he was a guest on my radio show yesterday. And I've thought about this often. If 2020 was a clean, fair election, like they said, I believe we would have won. The greatest irony of all
Starting point is 00:27:16 folks, they'd already be done with Donald Trump. They'd be done with him. Donald Trump would be leaving office in January, hopefully in a successful second term. And they'd be done with him never Never have to deal with him again. He would have been turned out. And because of this anomaly, and what I believe was a huge scam in 2020, now they got four more years. And if JD goes on and wins later, you could have 12 more years of the Trump dynasty.
Starting point is 00:27:42 It's amazing how liberals, they, they only, I told you all the time, liberals are full of shit. Nothing they tell you is real. Everything is bullshit all the time. If you question elections, you're an election denier. They're questioning the election now. Oh, but we're not election deniers. Only you guys are. Here, I want to show you this one too.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Here's the view yesterday. This is how pathetic and disgusting the left is. I said to you yesterday, do you think there's going to be a minute of unity or self-reflection? There will be a few. There'll be like the Harold Ford juniors and the not crazy Democrats. Have you seen Harold on the five? I've met Harold personally many times. I'm telling you right now, they're not gonna convince me otherwise because I know this guy personally. Unbelievably genuine, nice guy.
Starting point is 00:28:31 My father is a Republican, but really likes the five. He met him at the Patriot Awards and Harold could not have been nicer to my dad. He's a genuinely good guy in the green room. Harold's just a Democrat, an old school Democrat with different ideas. You're not gonna get me to change my mind. I would never vote for Harold. Harold would never vote for me. But that is an infinitesimally small part of the Democrat party. I promise you that
Starting point is 00:28:54 it's going to look back and go, what the f*** did we do wrong? And there are some do very few, but some. Most of the Democrats, I promise, are going to actually get crazier because they cannot blame themselves for their failings. They cannot possibly look in the mirror and go, we really suck. Here are the ladies in the view like, it wasn't us. It was definitely social media. We got to look into banning this stuff, man. They can't do it.
Starting point is 00:29:19 They cannot acknowledge they are the bad guys. They can't do it. Watch this. Think critically. Well, it would help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest defenders is DC and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations. We're not going to get any better with Elon Musk in the administration. Folks these are all over the place. I'm hoping to end the show with one of these today too from MSNBC and similar clip This is all they can talk about
Starting point is 00:29:48 Censoring people booting Elon out of the country pulling his government contracts putting people in jail weaponizing government They cannot look in the mirror There are some I'm not gonna bullshit you there are very small number of Democrats that are starting to realize they've got a problem not even close to it and are afraid to speak out. They are afraid to speak out because they know the crazies like these losers will come after them. Quick break and on the other side of this, I want to show you one of the biggest grifters in the Never Trump swamp and then the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Starting point is 00:33:23 That's worked so well. You guys are really kicking ass, Bill. Use what levers of power there are outside of Trump's control to block his White House's bullying and intimidation to defend individuals or to counter attack politically. I have zero doubt that this guy, he's lost all clout. He, him and his cronies are going to put together some group. Soon they'll be soliciting people for all kinds of, it's all bullshit folks. Their entire identity is that we are not this guy. They stand for nothing anymore, zero.
Starting point is 00:33:52 Again, you think the Democrats and the never Trump swamp like Bill Kristolern, they've learned nothing. I'm telling you they've learned nothing. You nominated a California liberal through the most undemocratic process possible. You anointed as a queen this woman with zero votes for president ever and she got destroyed and gave one,
Starting point is 00:34:14 why aren't you playing any speeches? Why would I play her speech? It was one of the worst concession speeches I've ever heard. It was humiliatingly bad, not even bothering with it. Here's a San Francisco Chronicle. With Donald Trump as president, Gavin Newsom poised to become leader of the resistance. Great, great. You guys keep it up.
Starting point is 00:34:34 Keep throwing down America's throat groups and bunches of California liberals. They just, listen, I love California. We have a big audience there. I'm not talking about the good guys, you know, though There however is about 50 55 percent of the population over there based on votes who are just gonna vote for crazy people the rest of the country doesn't want that and This is how many more receipts do you need? They are not gonna learn a single freaking thing from this Along with Bill Kristol and the other grifter class, the media melting down and all of them. You've also got people
Starting point is 00:35:07 like the Lenin project, sometimes called the Lincoln project. You remember them with the whole like, the guy we have with the Russia connections and all that stuff. You would think the Lincoln project with Rick Wilson, who I'm telling you I ran into in an airport. Have I ever told the story? I have Rick Wilson from the Lenin project. You know the guy he's like a little troll He looks like a lawn gnome this mother stinks so bad. I'm serious. I ran into him in an airport Someone tweeted this guy today a link to like Walmart, you know, like the anti perspirants and the orders the guy has a serious sulfur problem
Starting point is 00:35:42 I never smelled the guy so I ran into an airport. It was like a cloud of stink that seared my nose. My nose hairs never recover, which is good because you don't want a lot of nose hair. I seared them all off. I don't have any. You know, look at that. Seared them off years ago. Skin has never recovered. Rick Wilson and the Lincoln Project. This guy has been grifting for now what, eight years off Donald Trump? Everything they do, they lose. Everything. And this guy somehow still has a home in the media. Listen to Scott Jennings on CNN calling these idiots out.
Starting point is 00:36:13 Check this out. I mean, I, this NeverTrump whole complex that grew over the last several years, nothing has ever failed as hard in politics as this. The Lincoln Project, all these people that built millions upon millions upon millions of dollars from Democratic donors, and all the eggs that was put in this basket. The split was amazing.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Trump got like 94% of Republicans. I don't think they accomplished anything except probably build a bunch of beach houses. That's about what they did. Republicans being lectured to, condescended to, brow-beaten by all these folks over the last... I mean, look, at some juncture, it's okay if we have different opinions about the election. You don't have to beat people to death over it. And the more you do that, the more it drives people away. Total failure.
Starting point is 00:37:04 It doesn't matter. I love this guy do that, the more it drives people away. Total failure. It doesn't matter. I love this guy, Scott Jennings. I love this guy. He's great on CNN. He's been terrific. It doesn't matter. You're not talking to rational actors.
Starting point is 00:37:16 I'm trying to make a point here that, again, this is like the education portion of detainment. This is the edutainment segment here. The left has no capability to self-reflect at all. Folks, for however much you may not like the primary process Donald Trump had to go through, I have told you a thousand times have I not go back and listen to show you know you're lying if you say otherwise not that you would do that but you get the point. Primaries are good
Starting point is 00:37:44 things. Our primary, I thought went on way too long. I thought Nikki Haley stayed in way, way too long. But I told you, everyone laughed at me. Not every, I don't want to be a dick about it. A lot of people that, oh, Dan, this is terrible. The DeSantis Haley thing, it's killing us. And I said, no, it's not.
Starting point is 00:38:02 It makes candidates sharper. What I'm getting at is the Republican Party won. We won. We won. That is evidence I'm correct. And your theory is wrong. primaries are good things. Everybody says the same thing after primary. Do you remember? Remember, we were in that cab in DC, and you're like, nothing beats you remember? Remember we were in that cab in DC and you're like nothing beats you. Remember we were in Texas or wherever? You know what I'm talking about? And everybody was like, I'm never voting for Trump ever. Or I'm never done. You know what?
Starting point is 00:38:33 I said the same thing. Santa's best governor in the country. Trump's going to be our best Republican president. You can have those two thoughts. It made us sharper. It makes our movement sharper. In the end, everybody's going to come together. I told everybody, calm down with the primaries.
Starting point is 00:38:48 The Democrats have no ability whatsoever to self-reflect. None. They send money to the Lenin Project. Bad shit happens. They send more money. It doesn't matter. They love getting screwed over. Here's ABC. absolutely melting down now that Trump is the commander in chief, or gonna be the commander in chief, I should say, is the president-elect.
Starting point is 00:39:10 Again, you would think these people would go, this fascist dictator talk is just not working. I'm gonna play these two clips back to back because they're hilarious. Here's ABC melting down about Trump being, you know, he's gonna be the commander in chief, like it's gonna be some nuclear war, he's gonna get in and blow the whole country up
Starting point is 00:39:27 as if he didn't have four years to judge him by. And in the next clip is gonna be them acknowledging that maybe all this talk muddled the message of him being a fascist. It's the same network. No ability to look in the mirror at all. Play the first cut first about him being the military commander-in-chief.
Starting point is 00:39:44 The thing you're gonna see this time's going to be different than last time, is the emphasis, the primary emphasis is going to be on loyalty to Donald Trump. Loyalty and the lessons he learned. Very interesting with the military, right? I mean, how do you do that with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is in a political position? I mean, he has said already he will get rid of all the woke generals, but I think in some ways you'll see a loyalty test there with the military as well. I mean,
Starting point is 00:40:12 the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he may look at and say, oh, this general is woke. I want him out of there. C.Q. Brown had a very emotional videotape that he released right after the George Floyd murder, talking about diversity, talking about racial injustice in this country. It'll be very curious to see what he does there. Okay, so here we go with this implication, this hint, this winky, winky nod nod. Oh my gosh, we put Donald Trump in charge of the military There's gonna be posse comment on his can thrown out the window. There's gonna be invasions everywhere It's gonna be it's gonna be Civil War. Remember that movie over the summer?
Starting point is 00:40:53 There was a huge hit the Civil War what kind of American are then this is what they're implying It's gonna be a third term. He's never gonna leave all of this stuff is bullshit. We actually have a term to judge him by No self-reflection at all receipts matter going to leave. All of this stuff is bullshit. We actually have a term to judge him by. No self-reflection at all. Receipts matter. Here's the same network where they internally wonder if all this fascist implications and threats to democracy, quote, muddled the message. You guys have any ability whatsoever to go, hey, look, we fucked this up. Here, check this out. There were a lot of questions at the time, especially around the time that Mark Kelly's
Starting point is 00:41:25 comments came out and she really was sort of hammering home that message increasingly focused on the threat that she argued that Donald Trump posed. Was there a danger in going too far in that direction? And the campaign, I remember having these conversations with campaign officials and they insisted that they could do both, right? In part, they were trying to take advantage of the news cycle. Mark Kelly had come out and made these- General Kelly. Sorry, General Kelly, excuse me. had come out and made these comments.
Starting point is 00:41:47 And they wanted to seize on those because they felt that it underscored their message. But at the same time, they felt she could go out there and balance the two. That in her campaign remarks, that she could hammer Donald Trump, but also put forward her positive vision. And it perhaps may have muddled the message a bit too much. Listen, I'm not trying to be a jerkwad here, okay? But am I right or am I right? I told you there was gonna be a small number of people
Starting point is 00:42:15 in the media and on the Democrat side, a small number, and it's true, that are going to say, hey, we wanna win, what we're doing is a loser, how do we reconnect and realign our message with the American people? Imagine again, like the Harold Ford Jr. types, people you wouldn't vote for. But you don't you know, you don't have to hate these people. And I wouldn't. And you shouldn't. I've always said it's not about all Democrats.
Starting point is 00:42:40 It's about a crazy portion of their party. It's liberal, anti-American, cut your kids nuts off movement. That's insane Most people will not they will not they are not capable of it. Here's a supercut half tip daily caller Put this together. This is amazing. This is a supercut It's about a minute of the media meltdowns again in case any of you out there in the swampy, right? Think there's this moment for unity.'m a realist man i'm a real politica you're gonna find unity with these crazies are you nuts they're doubling down on totalitarianism and censorship and all this other bullshit and you expect us to roast marshmallows
Starting point is 00:43:18 with them do s'mores are you crazy watch this the biggest red wave I've seen since Ronald Reagan's 49 state victory. There were appeals to racism in this campaign and there is racial bias in this country and there is sexism in this country. I can't help but wonder if the American people have given up on democracy. I hear what you're saying and I do see it differently because I'm thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody's elite who are hurting tonight. If she were a six foot four white man from Arkansas or from you know Florida, do you think she would be losing by that much? I think that we've got to be honest among Hispanic men and black men there's a lot of misogyny. There are African-American women
Starting point is 00:44:03 who know a little bit about being talked down to, and know a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple months. It's not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman. This will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarch. There's misogyny, but it's not just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men. Right. It's misogyny from black men. Now listen, Hat to Jelly Caller, that goes on for a little bit. It's on their X feed. If you want to watch it, I ended it there for a reason.
Starting point is 00:44:47 Anybody in the chat got a guess? Anyone? This is really an incredible strategy by Scarborough. Scarborough is a D bag like you've never seen. This guy is a freaking bag of the highest order. Okay. A man with no scruples or political instincts whatsoever. None, zero.
Starting point is 00:45:08 Scarborough's strategy with Al Sharpton moving forward is now let's not just focus on this phantom white privilege and the evil white people. Now let's claim, did you guys hear? I'm not crazy, right? Now let's claim that black men and Hispanic men are also closet bigots and misogynists and racists too. I mean, again, please show me a receipt
Starting point is 00:45:32 that there is going to be some mass media realignment and mass ideological realignment on the liberal left back to sanity. Produce receipts, I'll put you on the show. There will be none. I told you there will be a Harold Ford, there'll be a Mark Penn Democrat pollster, and no one will listen to them at all. It's honestly a terrible thing for the country. It's a great thing for the Republican Party that keeps making moves in liberal states. Look at the New Jersey,
Starting point is 00:46:03 New York numbers. But it's really a terrible thing for the country. Because you need two sane parties. You don't have them now. You don't have them. And it's like how they screw up these little things. Here's Bob Costa in another media. I used to know this guy when he was a little more kind of down the center.
Starting point is 00:46:22 He's kind of tilted way left. I don't know if appeal to people on the left. Who knows why they do this stuff. But I met this guy when I was running for office. Here's Bob Costa talking about how, again, the zero ability whatsoever to self-reflect. If you go out and talk to American voters, you will get the answer, what's your biggest problem,
Starting point is 00:46:42 the economy and immigration, from probably 60 to 80% of them depending on where you are. It's not hard. Well, what about the economy? Prices are too high. Okay, this is how reason works. The economy sucks. I don't like it.
Starting point is 00:46:57 I don't vote for change. Why don't you like the economy? Prices are too high. Why are prices too high? Well, we printed a lot of money to go chase a lot of products and raise prices. Maybe we should stop printing money. Here's cost is hit where the Biden team that spent a bunch of money on a bunch of bullshit projects that raise prices wants credit for spending your money and raising your prices
Starting point is 00:47:18 and they're wondering why you didn't thank them for real. For real. You think they're going to self reflect. We're going to have to deal with more of this shit. These people are crazy. Watch this. There's also a sense of disbelief inside the Biden White House. Think about this. People have forgotten in 2021 when he comes into office, President Biden pushes forward a trillion dollar American rescue plan, over a trillion dollars. Then he passes an infrastructure plan over a trillion dollars. And there was a belief inside the Biden administration across all the high
Starting point is 00:47:52 command that they would get credit politically in 2022 and 2024 for massive spending, spending they believed was at the same level as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But what is surprised all of them, or most of them at least, is that come 2024, most voters have seemingly forgotten. There's his words, man, not mine, not mine, Daddy-O. His words, the Biden team was surprised. They can never make a logical connection by a logic chain. People think the economy sucks.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Why do they think it sucks? Because prices are too high. Why are prices too high? We printed a lot of money. The money started chasing products that raised the prices of said products. People do not like when they have to chase products at higher prices.
Starting point is 00:48:36 Maybe we should stop spending money. No, no, their conclusion is we should have spent more money and put signs up. We spent this money. Great for the Republican party, terrible for America. They don't have the ability to do it. Now I told you yesterday, did I not called it flagged it. You can unflag it now.
Starting point is 00:48:57 I told you recriminations would begin the minute Kamala Harris got crushed. We knew she was going to get crushed. Trying to caution against the red wave. I think you knew we felt very good about the election. The sweep of the swing states are going to be as I didn't expect the sweep of all of them. I thought Nevada would be a little bit more competitive. The results are just incredible. I told you recriminations would begin immediately.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Here's Jackie Heinrich from Fox reporting on this. Obama staffers are now pinning the blame on Biden for Harris' loss. Harris staffers are blaming some of the Obama staffers. Biden's people are leaking stories to the media about how shitty of a candidate they were. And David Plouffe, who's a notorious Democrat, Biden Obama insider, he notes, it was a privilege to spend the last 100 days
Starting point is 00:49:44 with Kamala Harris. Notice he says in his tweet, this guy was a huge like Harris guy, right? Working on behalf of Obama. We dug out of a deep hole, but not enough. That was a shot, a big time shot at Biden. So Heinrich notes that man, these Biden sources are really pissed off. They called Plouffe a sanctimonious ass saying, I find this so unproductive revel in every second of that. Pluff actually deleted his Twitter account after this. They are going to destroy each other over the next few months.
Starting point is 00:50:16 Guy, do you remember my cannibalism theory? We have mentioned this probably 500 times on the show folks. The left is run out of targets when they get, they have the righteous ignores them. We ignore them. We run against them and we defeat them. When they run out of targets, their power base is canceling and destroying other people.
Starting point is 00:50:35 My cannibalism theory is if you give the left enough time, they will eventually turn on each other. Did we call it or did we call it? You watch these stories are going to get worse over the next few weeks. I promise you. There's also a lot of recrimination. This is it's like the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross stages of grief when someone dies. They're not at acceptance yet. They're not even close. They're still in denial. They're not there yet. They're not there yet. But they're starting to question everything. Here's another one. This is a good one from CBS is Ed O'Keefe.
Starting point is 00:51:04 The Liz Cheney fiasco. The most again, if you're a reasonable person, just like I did on inflation, economy sucks, prices are up, stop spending money. No, we can't let's spend more money, right? The Liz Cheney fiasco, any, any political consultant, worth their salt, any political consultant, I mean, a guy running for school board here in Martin County would tell you if you were a Democrat, maybe you should distance yourself from the Cheneys. They are a troubled political dynasty. Republicans don't like them. Democrats don't like them.
Starting point is 00:51:36 Why would you attach yourself to Liz Cheney? Because Kamala Harris and her campaign are morons. Now they're starting to ask questions like, whose dumb idea was that? Check this out. One of the biggest miscalculations she could have been spending time on this. Somebody pointed out today, there are nine HBCUs in North Carolina. Do you know how many of them she visited? One. Imagine if she'd been spending time doing that instead of hanging out with Liz Cheney in the Midwest. Could have been a different story tonight. And there are going
Starting point is 00:52:00 to be all sorts of conversations about that. Should she have doubled down on the base and not worried about fighting Republican women Who stupid idea was that? Who's that like Justin couldn't even vote for the Bush Cheney thing he was like how old were you in? 2004 and how old were you? He was you were two my gosh guys. How freaking old am I? Holy Moses am I old man? He was too like were two? My gosh, these guys, how freaking old am I? Holy Moses am I old.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Man, he was two, like two, like the dose. That is insane. Justin is younger than Attack of the Clones, one of the worst sci-fi films in the history of not just any movie ever. Horrible, horrendous. Nobody likes the Cheneys. Whose stupid idea was that? By the way, did we get to come on, we got to get to 200. We were at 199. Get to 200. This will be three days
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Starting point is 00:53:28 Again, the left, no capacity to look in the mirror at all. This whole thing being the Trump maggot era. I debated playing a minute and 10 of this, but folks, if you haven't seen this, bookmark this, save this video, and send it to all your friends. If, yeah, yeah, get that cute. If it wasn't for
Starting point is 00:53:46 the smug smug unable to self-reflect left donald trump would likely have never run for president you know who got donald trump to run for president come on you folks in the chat you know tell me yeah you're damn right obama do you you remember Obama attacking Trump viciously from the podium when he was up there at that dinner in Washington, DC? That was the moment Donald Trump was like, I'm going to get these guys back. This is the smug left, no ability to self-reflect at all. And how funny is it that Trump winds up dispatching the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, the Bidens, all of them.
Starting point is 00:54:27 Watch this. Donald Trump is here tonight. Now I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. Like did we fake the moon landing?
Starting point is 00:55:02 What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? All kidding aside, obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example, seriously, just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognize that the real did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack
Starting point is 00:55:50 of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Little John or Meat Loaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Thank you, Barack Obama. Thank you. So if it wasn't, think about this.
Starting point is 00:56:15 If it wasn't for Barack Obama, think about this, just ponder this for a second. If it wasn't for Barack Obama, we would not have Joe Biden. He rescued this guy's horrendous, grotesque political career from the scrap heap after getting laughed at a presidential races before Barack Obama. Worst political judgment ever. And I'm telling you, what do you have won? I don't know. But there's a good chance he wouldn't have if Obama
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