The Dan Bongino Show - A Surprise Announcement (Ep 1507)

Episode Date: April 26, 2021

I have a special announcement on the show today. I also discuss the things liberals are doing that are actively destroying America, and I ask the question, “are they trying to burn the country down?”  News Picks: An excellent piece that describes the dangers of “critical race theory.” Bill Maher absolutely shreds the dopey ideas of the modern liberal.  Are NYPD officers rushing to retire amid the anti-cop climate?  Twitter and the “fact-checkers” are super busy cleaning up the Stacey Abrams’ mess in Georgia. The Wall Street Journal article regarding the proposed capital gains tax disaster, which I discussed in the show today. Crime is exploding in NY City and liberal leaders are ignoring it.  Florida and Texas continue to outperform the lockdown states on COVID.  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino so i have a special announcement for this week now i know it's pretty typical in the conservative content space to say i've got a special announcement wait till the end of the show but i'm going to eschew that theory because because if you like the show, you'll stay tuned. And if you don't like the show, you won't. So I'm just going to tell you what the special announcement is right now, rather than pull that stunt. We have Donald Trump coming on the show again this week, beyond the Wednesday show this week. Today's obviously Monday. You're not going to want to miss that. He's always great on the show. We always ask him questions he's probably not going to hear anywhere else.

And he gives really candid responses. Really looking forward to it again Wednesday this week. Thank you for that. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. My savvy listeners get a VPN and protect their online activity. Get a VPN. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino today. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.

Let me get right to it. One quick thing. I woke up this morning doing my morning routine, getting ready to hit the steel in my garage gym this morning. And I heard this sound in my house and it was like a whimper. And I was really horrified because it was like five o'clock in the morning. And you're like, is there, I thought it was like a scene from the Ring. Remember that horror movie, The Ring? You know, I heard a child, and it was my daughter. She was sick. She's got a cold. And I'll tell you, I feel terrible. She was sitting up in the bed, you know, said, you know, daddy, I feel really sick. She's only nine. And I thought, gosh, if you could only take the pain away from your kids, right? Does anything feel worse

than when your kids are sick? She's okay now. We gave her some Tylenol. She went back to sleep. So just thought I'd tell you that. All right, let's get to it. Today's show brought to you by, speaking of Mother's Day,

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So this weekend I was sitting in my house again, did our thing, gave a little speech at a police ball, a police charity event. And I came home and I thought, I want to ask liberals some questions. Cause you know, questions matter.

Everybody can avoid an assertion and liberals typically do. If you assert something like, hey, liberalism sucks, if you assert something like high taxes don't work, liberals typically ignore you. But as I've always said, it's very hard to avoid a question. So I thought, I have some questions for liberals. So I went to my Parler account this weekend, and I posted these items because I really wanted an answer. I got none, of course, on the actual responses. You can check it out. I'm at the Bongino on Parler. And I say questions for liberals. Number one, if masks work, then why are masks not working? Fair question. No. Number two, if socialism works, then why do people risk their lives to escape it?

No answer to that one either. I said, number three, if high taxes work, then why do liberals refuse to voluntarily pay more? And last one, if gun control works, then why do places with the strictest gun control have the worst problems with crime and gun violence? I thought those were pretty fair questions. I was genuinely looking for an answer. I got none. If you read the responses, it's all liberals with nonsense, like, yeah, racist or whatever, because they don't have anything else. But I was trying to prep a show this week, and I was on Fox and Friends this morning. It's like the producers at Fox and Friends read my mind. Because I was reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the capital gains tax hike Biden's proposing that's coming, and it got me thinking thinking do liberals just not know stuff or do they know stuff

and or are they intentionally trying to destroy the country so i asked four questions in the parlor post i'm going to pose a fifth right now it's not a joke i'm not kidding this is a serious question i'm not being sarcastic i'm not trying to be a jerk. Do liberals just not know stuff, or is it that they do know stuff and they want to destroy the country? It's a serious question, and I'm going to go through on the show today

things liberals pretend not to know, like punishing cops and coddling criminals will increase crime. They pretend to not know that, or they cops and coddling criminals will increase crime. They pretend to not know that. Well, they do know it and they want more crime. That and a lot more. Now, Bill Maher, who is a leftist, he's not a conservative, but he's had some pretty stinging monologues for liberals. Again, Bill Maher is not an ideological ally of the conservative movement. He is a leftist. But Bill Maher himself this weekend asked the same question I'm asking. He asked it in a different kind of way. He's like, do liberals just not know that their ideas are really stupid? Or do they

know the ideas are stupid and they want to implement stupid ideas because they're looking to destroy the country? It's a serious question. There's no third option to that. You're either dumb or you know what you're talking about. And there's a plan to destroy this place. Here is Bill Maher. This is about a minute and 30 of an excellent monologue. Again, a leftist asking these younger, ignorant liberals or not ignorant liberals that want to destroy the country. How is it that you believe in things that are just so stupid? Check this out. In India, young people touch old people's feet to show reverence.

Japan has a national holiday called Karo Nohi, respect for the aged day. You know the reason why advertisers in this country love the 18 to 34 demographic? Because it's the most gullible. Yeah. A third of people under 35 say they're in favor of abolishing the police, not defunding, but doing away with a police force altogether, which is less of a policy position and more of a leg tattoo. 36% of millennials think it might be a good idea to try communism, but much of the world did try it. I know millennials think that doesn't count because they weren't alive when it happened, but it did happen, and there are people around who remember it.

Pining for communism is like pining for Betamax or Myspace. communism? It's like pining for Betamax or Myspace. So when you say you're old, you don't get it. Get what? Abolish the police and the border patrol and capitalism and cancel Lincoln? No, I get it. The problem isn't that I don't get what you're saying or that I'm old. The problem ideas are stupid. If you say, let's eat in the bathroom and in the kitchen. Yeah, that's a new idea, but I wouldn't call it interior design. Listen, we're on terrestrial radio so i have to be careful i really wish that's one of those moments i wish joe didn't have to edit out the the cuss word there the the word that starts with s because that does that not sum up modern the modern liberal. Yes, ideas are ideas, but that doesn't mean they're good ideas. Like he says, yes, it's a new idea to eat in the bathroom and relieve yourself, let's say, in the kitchen. That's an idea. Yes, that is an idea. I'm not disputing that. But because it's an idea does not mean it's a good one.

So again, it got me thinking, I swear, the Fox producers and more read my mind this weekend as I asked liberals these questions. Do you either not know your ideas are stupid or do you know they're stupid and you want to implement stupid ideas? There's no other option. Either you're dumb or you know your ideas are dumb and you're doing something to destroy the country on purpose. So let's go through them one by one. Again, on my elliptical this morning, looking through the Wall Street Journal op-ed column, and I see this one. Joe Biden wants to double the capital gains tax. Now, again,

Joe Biden wants to double the capital gains tax. Now, again, this is similar to Maher's idea saying, hey, listen, you know, you can eat in the bathroom and relieve yourself in the kitchen. That's an idea, too, just like hiking the capital gains tax. But it doesn't mean it's a good one. So I saw this article fits right into the show today. Wall Street Journal opinion page, Lawrence Lindsay. Biden taxes for punishment's sake he wants to raise the rate on capital gains so high that it would leave everyone worse off so just to be clear biden wants to double the capital gains tax rate to 43.4%, meaning, ladies and gentlemen, you work. You pay income taxes on that revenue you make from working, right? On that income you earn.

You've already paid taxes. You then invest that money in a stock. That stock makes money for you. You then have to pay a 43.4% tax on the money you made for money you invested. You already paid taxes on. Yes, that's what Biden wants to do. So keep in mind the core question of the show today.

Does, is Biden either a moron or is he just want to implement this really stupid idea? Because the journal lays out that not only is this idea dumb, it does nothing the liberals are saying it's going to do. So do they not know that or are they just really stupid? Here you go. Screenshot one from the Wall Street Journal piece. What makes this capital gains hike unusual, right, is that 43.4% this new rate he wants is well above the rate that would generate the most

revenue for the government. Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, which does the official scoring, and by the way, folks, he has, is no den of supply-siders. In other words, it's not a big conservative place, puts the revenue-maximizing rate at 28%. The author's work several decades ago puts it about 10 points lower than that. several decades ago, puts it about 10 points lower than that. Here, listen, that means Biden is willing to accept lower government tax revenue as the price of higher tax rates. I didn't read that wrong. The implications for his administration's economic thinking are mind boggling. Again, going back to the question Mar asks, just because you have an idea to do that in the kitchen and eat in the bathroom, what he said in the segment,

doesn't mean it's a good one. Do you not, I can't hammer this into you. I'm going to annoy the hell out of you. I'm sorry today by asking this question twice because you need to understand this. Are you an idiot or do you just want to do really dumb things? And why do you want to do dumb things? Because you're looking to destroy the country? It's a very, very fair question. I think that's a fair one. Now, for those of you regular listeners to my show, you know I've discussed Pareto

optimization often. Well, what is Pareto optimization? It's named for Vilfredo Parado, the Italian economist who formally framed the concept. Parado optimization is simple. You want to do things in a society that make at least one person better off without making anyone else worse off, right? That's the point, right?

I thought. Well, here's screenshot two from the journal piece where Lawrence Lindsay makes a great point he says still economists can agree that the ideal is to make someone better off without making someone else worse off right the simplest case is a voluntary exchange of goods for money the buyer values the purchase at least as much as the price or you wouldn't buy it right while the seller values the money at least as much as the item being sold, or you wouldn't sell it. Economists call such an exchange Pareto optimal,

after Vilfredo Pareto, who I just mentioned. There's no choice, however, in paying taxes. And usually the government is better off and the taxpayers worse off. But listen to this. But above the revenue maximizing rate, which is where Biden's way over right now, even the government is worse off. This is called Pareto Pessimum.

Biden is looking to hike the capital gains tax to a rate that I said this on Fox and Friends this morning. If you watched ahead, I was very excited about it because I'm so pissed at how stupid of an idea this is. Biden wants to hike the capital gains rate to a rate every mainstream economist agrees will cost jobs, destroy businesses, destroy the economy, and raise less money for the government. In other words, he's going to engage in a policy where every single person involved loses. Everyone. Everyone loses. So again, if you're a liberal, this is the equivalent of your idea to drop a deuce in the kitchen and eat in the bathroom. It's an idea, but it's a really stupid one. So have you asked yourself, why do I believe this? Why do I believe this is a good idea?

Well, I believe it because joe biden said so well that's called circular reasoning andy kessler has an interesting piece about that in the journal this morning too that's not a reason well why does biden believe so because biden said so well why do you believe that the hiking the capital game tax again because Biden said so okay well why does Biden believe that because Biden said so sir circle circle reason reverse circle circle think about a circle as you know you keep going you always wind up at some point in the same same spot you started it's not linear reasoning where you start and there's an actual finish line that's not that's not the way circular reasoning works.

Why do you continue to do these things? Put force ideas like eating in the bathroom, in the kitchen. Why? Are you dopey? Or do you want to destroy the country? That's just one idea, the capital gains tax. Chris Christie was on ABC with George Stephanopoulos this weekend, and Chris Christie addressed this topic. And I tell you, folks, I think he framed it all wrong. Chris Christie, who I'm really not a fan of at all, by the way, but he was talking about this capital gains tax hike, and he hints that this is

socialism and economic redistribution. I want to play Christie first, address hike, and he hints that this is socialism and economic redistribution. I want to play Christie first, address that, and then play the absolutely ridiculous response from Angela Nye, who knows nothing about nothing. But first, let's play Christie, and let me address why Christie, an alleged Republican, is absolutely wrong about this capital gains tax hike being income redistribution. Check this out. George, they're not. Look, we could set up straw men and say, well, he overturned this executive order, that's not what we were talking about this morning. What Sarah just talked about, the capital gains issue is nothing more than income redistribution. It's socialism. Joe Biden's proposal to do that, let's remember that that investment income,

they've already paid taxes on it. You paid taxes on it before you invested it. And now you're gonna pay taxes on it again at the same rate that you pay. But a difference in the rate changes the capital gains tax into socialism? Sure, of course it does. It's redistribution of income, George. Listen, while Christie's right, Chris Christie, about it being double taxation, I'm not trying to be a jerk with him here unnecessarily, but he's wrong. It's not income redistribution because what winds up happening is you raise less revenue and you don't redistribute anything. Because what happens when you tell people, hey, listen, we're going to tax your stock, your pension fund

when you cash out. Folks, what do they do? Just ask yourself, what would I do if I knew Joe Biden in 60 days was going to tax my stock gains and my pension at double what he's taxing,

what the government's taxing it now? Hold on, folks. Think about this. What would you do? Do we need a few minutes, maybe a few seconds? I can't have dead air because we're on terrestrial radio, so we'll just pretend. Let's pretend seven to 10 seconds passed. Did you think about it? You sell your stocks now, so you pay less tax. You don't wait the 60 days, leading to what? A market sell-off,

leading to what? A lower stock market, leading to what? Lower pension returns, leading to what? A market sell-off. Leading to what? A lower stock market. Leading to what? Lower pension returns. Leading to what? A potential economic crash. Does anybody not know this? Apparently, liberals, or they do know it, and that's what they want. There's no third option.

You're either stupid, and you don't know it, or you do know it and this is exactly what you want. It's not income redistribution because you're going to lose money. Here's the response by the incredibly ignorant, always, Angela Nye, who knows very little about very little, where she brings up something about reparations and she just tries to take a pot shot, which she brings up something about reparations and she just tries

to take a pot shot which again brings up my point that if the joint committee on taxation not some conservative think tank has already said hiking the capital gains tax will lead to lower government revenue not more then how are you going to pay for stuff angela and i is proposing it's going to pay for if you're going to have less money she hasn't thought this through because she's a liberal. Check this out. It's so interesting to hear this allegation of socialism. I know these are buzzwords that work very well with the Republican Party. So congratulations for using them this morning. But I think what is so interesting is we have people in the middle of a pandemic that you said wouldn't matter by the time we get to the fall. And on the left, there's a conversation happening about student loan debt,

how much should be forgiven, 50,000 versus 10,000. And we're talking about a capital gains increase when you all just had basically the reparations that my community has been asking for in your last tax proposal. So I don't even understand what we're talking about here. Well, nobody understands what you're talking about here. Well, nobody understands what you're talking about, even you, apparently. You're talking about

paying off student loans with government tax revenue that's not there, with less money than you had before. Of course, again, Angela Nye doesn't actually know that because she doesn't know anything. She's just here to tell you

that they want to punish the rich by taking more of their money, even if it leads rich people to sell most of their stocks before the capital gains tax hike and raise less money afterwards. She just doesn't know anything. I'm going to get to my second sponsor, but on the other side of this, I'm going to ask again, what else do you think liberals pretend to not know? Hey, I just didn't know. I didn't know paying people not to work was going to cause people not to work. You didn't? Did you miss the New York Times article I'm going to put up next?

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So again, what else are liberals either pretending not to know or they know when they just don't care because they're trying to destroy the country? It's a fair question. Is it not a fair question? Notice how I did that there, asking a question about a question? Can't avoid a question. You can't avoid a question about a question either. This is the New York Times themselves, Brett Anderson. As diners return, restaurants face a new hurdle, finding workers. They're reporting massive shortages in help. Gee, why would that be? Let me think about this. Well, we did a few shows on this where we discussed the negative externalities and negative problems caused by an unemployment system they set up, the Democrats and some Republicans who played along,

set up, the Democrats and some Republicans who played along, where we were going to pay people a $600 plus supplement in addition to state employment benefits to not work, which during a pandemic crisis where there were ridiculous lockdowns may have been an idea to stave off a mass starvation and poverty in the country. But there's no problem with employment now. Generally, people are going back to work. Restaurants are trying to fill up again. And what's the problem? Restaurants can't fill up again because they can't get people to work because people are being paid more right now to not work.

And shockingly to the left, when you pay people to not work more money than they would get if they do work, they don't work. This is from the New Yorkork times here's a screenshot again did liberals not know this this is their own liberal propaganda paper where they were warned this was from a few weeks ago this piece quote restaurants say many former employees are choosing not to re-enter the workforce at a time when they can make nearly as much or more by collecting unemployment benefits. This is a stunner to the left. You have some cases where it's more profitable to not work than to work.

And you really can't fault people for wanting to hold on to that for as long as possible. No, you can. You should go to work if you can and should, because work is a good thing. can you should go to work if you can and should because work is a good thing um and if you're expecting me to virtue signal to you no listen i can't blame people for saying no no i do blame you for collecting for for collecting government unemployment if if you can work if you can work if you are an able-bodied adult who can work and chooses not to, to live off other people's tax dollars, I do blame you. Remove your rump from the seat and go to work.

What's your excuse? I just don't want to. Nobody wants to, okay? Nobody wants to. There are things we have to do. There's nothing I would like more than to take a 52 week vacation all the time too. But that's not the way the world is. That's just a stupid idea. People have to work because we have to produce products and services that all of us people can use to live. Food,

water, medicine, that kind of stuff. That requires work. medicine that kind of stuff that requires work and that's harsh i don't care i don't care if you can work and you're choosing not to to live off other people's work yes that's the wrong thing that's the wrong thing do we not know that again did liberals air quotes not know that paying people more to not work was going to cause people to not work did they not know that the piece was out there you could have read it of course you didn't read it or you did read it and you're intentionally trying to destroy our economy what's option three i can't ask this question enough either you're dopey and you didn't know that that paying people more to sit home was going to cause people not to work or you're not dopey you did know it and you don't want people to work just like you don't want the

government to actually raise revenue for the capital gains hike you just want to punish rich people i don't want to punish rich people i don't want to punish rich people yeah but you're going to raise less revenue by taking money from rich people it's going to cause them to give you less money later i don't care we just want to punish them oh there's more here in the what else do you think liberals don't know file with the dreaded air quotes? Folks, they know this stuff. There are people out there who want to destroy this country. That's why every time I'm on cable news on Fox or on my show, I try to hammer home to you that this is deliberate.

It's not an act. Their only defense to their stupid policies, liberals, of crapping in the kitchen and eating in the bathroom, their only defense to that is they're really stupid and we didn't know that was a bad idea. Here's another thing they pretend to not know, that attacking police officers while coddling criminals would result in an exodus and a crime problem in big cities. Again, how did you not know this? How did you not know this? You didn't, you never processed the information that attacking the cops,

letting prisoners out on bail reform, and then not locking people up for BLM terrorists and Antifa terrorists are burning the city down. You didn't realize that was going to cause a crime problem. You didn't realize that attacking the police was going to destroy police morale and lead police to leave. Did you miss that? Of course you didn't.

You knew it was going to happen. It's deliberate. Here's an article. You can read these articles in the show notes, the Capital Gains article too. It's at bongino.com slash newsletter. these articles in the show notes the capital gains article too it's at bongino.com slash newsletter my newsletter is the show notes here's a real gem liberals must have missed by dean balsamini at the new york post are mypd officers rushing to retire amid city's anti-cop climate you know what's what's my what is the dan bongino show credo always ask a question don't make blanket assertions because liberals ignore assertions it's almost impossible for

them to ask a question dean balsamini gets that headline are cops leaving because new york city hates the cops new york city legislators that is not the residents well he answers his own question in paragraph number one old dino he says more than 5 300 mypd officers retire to put their papers to leave in 2020 don't worry folks that's only a 75 spike from the year before. The exodus amid the pandemic, anti-cop hostility, riots, and a skyrocketing number of New York City shootings saw 2,600 officers say goodbye and another 2,700 for a combined total of 5,346. In 2019, the NYPD had 1,509 officers leave and 1,544 file for retirement for a total of 3,053. So we've seen a 75% spike in trained, experienced police officers either filing for retirement or leaving the job. We have the numbers right there.

You know the numbers. And folks, I get it. Although the general tone of the show today is meant as a strike at liberals, I promise I'm not doing this to waste your time either. And you're making fun of liberals. Yeah, of course, it's easy to do that because they, again, don't know anything or they want to destroy the country, both of which require mockery and exposing. But I'm doing this and giving you the actual numbers so you actually know stuff, unlike liberals. Yes, this capital gains tax hike will result in less money. You know, Ronald Reagan hiked the capital gains tax once, raised it. You know that, right?

And what happened? Capital gains tax revenues went down. Reagan hiked it. I love Reagan, but he hiked the capital gains tax. You know, Bill Clinton cut the capital gains tax rate once and capital gains tax revenues went up. Again, you think liberals don't know any of this? You think liberals can't look at these articles right here and see what's happening? I give you the data about the capital gains tax, the Reagan and the Clinton statistics. I give you the data about retirements in New York City, up 75% of people leaving the department. So that you actually know stuff because you're smart and you want to know stuff. Liberals don't know anything or they do when they want to destroy the place.

Do you understand what 5,300 police officers leaving in one year means? Do you have any idea how bad that is? Ladies and gentlemen, I can guarantee you upwards of 75% of the police departments, if not more, around the country don't even have 5,300 members. The New York City Police Department lost that many to retirement and people leaving. Does that bother the left? Hell no. This is what they want. Here's another thing they pretend to not know. Gosh, maybe if we coddle criminals,

we'll get more crime. Huh? You didn't know that? Here's another New York Post article. Another subway murder and de Blasio and company are still denying crime realities. We don't know nothing about nothing about nothing, de Blasio says. Really? Nicole Galena's piece, New York Post, be in the show notes today. That's strange because, again, here are the actual numbers. So, so far in 2021, this year's three sub, they've had three subway murders, which brings the total tally since March of 2020 to now 10 murders on the subway in New York. That sounds really bad, folks. That's a tragedy. 10 people murdered on the subway

in one chronological year between March 2020 and now? Well, let's compare it to before it. Before the anti-cop attacks. Before the pandemic, the MTA saw one or two murders a year. As a matter of fact, folks, from 2014 to 2019,

it took six years to get to 10 murders. Yet in 13 months, we've racked up more than half a decade's worth of homicides on the subway. It's not a joke. There's nothing funny about this. There's nothing sarcastic.

There's no good side to this. There's no good side to this. There's no lipstick on this. People are literally dying because de Blasio and the liberals in New York are either pretending not to know that coddling criminals and attacking cops will lead to an explosion in crime, or they do know, and this is what they want. There is no option C. There is no option three. There is no all or none of the above. Because you can't be stupid and not know and then know and do it purposely on the same time.

At the same time. You can't. Folks, on the other side of this break, i just want to get to some more here again things they pretend to not know you'll know you're smart guy gets up at the academy awards last night which thankfully no one watched i saw this on social media this morning didn't watch one second of it never will will again. Guy gets up and says, eh, police are basically discriminating against black people, targeting them and saying, okay, well, there's data on that. Do you just not know that? Of course you don't.

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Stock up on your emergency food supply today. Again, better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. So again, do liberals just not know that their police are targeting black men? Do they just not know that that's BS because they don't know the data? Or do liberals just say things like this because they do know it's made up and they just want everyone to really hate the police because law and order isn't their thing?

There's no option C. Here's an actor by the name of Trayvon Freevon free ironically he's not free to tell you the truth apparently trayvon free decided at the oscars academy awards which no one watched thank the lord and he gets up there and uses his megaphone to again spout misinformation about the cops begging the question for the umpteenth time, does he not know or does he know and have an agenda? Check this out. Today, the police will kill three people and tomorrow the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average, the police in America every day kill three people,

people because on average, the police in America every day kill three people, which amounts to about a thousand people a year. And those people happen to disproportionately black people. So those people who are shot by police are disproportionately black. Does Trayvon Free not know the data? In this case, I'm not really sure. You know, Hollywood and all. I can tell you the academics and the policymakers in D.C. know the data on capital gains taxes, on attacking the cops.

They know all that. I'm not sure about Trayvon Free. You know, Hollywood people and all, they don't exactly sit down and read the Wall Street Journal and things like that. So let's look at the data. Guy, how many times have we put this out there is this like the 10th time yeah he's nodding his head this is about the 10th time i've had to put this department of justice study about police

interactions with the minority community because again liberals just don't know this stuff and you do but they keep lying anyway so the bureau Bureau of Justice Statistics had a report, and this report took victims' responses on a 2018 NCVS, and it compared them with arrest rates by police supplied by the FBI. Let me just tell you what this is about. They studied this, the Department of Justice. They went to victims and said, hey, what happened to you, and what was basically the race of the person who committed this crime against you?

So they didn't ask the police. They asked the actual victims. The study found that for non-fatal violent crimes, obviously, because if they're fatal, you can't ask the victim. He's dead. For non-fatal violent crimes, the victim said they reported to police. Whites accounted for 48% of offenders and and 46 of arrestees that sounds kind of like the same well what about blacks blacks accounted for 35 of offenders and 33 of arrestees

i i i thought the cops were disproportionately targeting minorities well it gets it gets more interesting asians accounted for two percent of offenders and one percent of arrestees none of these differences between the percentage of offenders and the percentage of arrestees of a given race were statistically significant so when trayvon free at the oscars talks about police disproportionately targeting black men in the community he either doesn't know what proportionality means or he doesn't understand the data because when you look at the proportion of non-fatal crimes and victim reports, they marry up with the arrest reports, meaning the police aren't arresting and shooting

and interacting with black men at a proportion greater than they're being reported for crimes in these specific communities by victims. I know information is really hard for you guys out there on the left. I know it. But maybe try once in a while to know something. Maybe once in a blue moon, make a really concerted effort to say, I want to know something today that would be really great. Here's another thing the left pretends to not know liberals pretend to not know that they're hardcore racists oh my gosh dan you crossed the line here liberals are hardcore racists not all of them course, I don't stereotype like the left

does to us, but there are large swaths of the left, especially the radical ones who really are hardcore racists. You doubt me? Here is a great Heritage Foundation report. It will be in the newsletter today. It is worth your time. By Christopher Ruffo, who has been all over this critical race theory garbage. It's called, critical race theory would not solve racial inequality,

it would deepen it. That sounds to me from the headline like critical race theory, if it's going to drive an inequality wedge, is pretty racist. Well, I read through the piece, read it a couple of times now. I think we've used it in the show before. He thinks we have, I honestly can't remember. But this one part jumped out to me most of all, because let me just, you know, usually I read it and then

translate afterwards. Let me translate in advance. One of the people supporting critical race theory, wanting it pushed in your schools, the white privilege, you're all racist because you're white, whether you're actually racist or not. One of them wants to steal from you based on your race. Yes, that's real. So again, liberals pretend to not know that critical race theory is racist while simultaneously suggesting we should steal from people based on their race. theory is racist while simultaneously suggesting we should steal from people based on their race let me read now the formal version of this from one of these people pushing critical race theory rufo writes to achieve this goal she advocates a large-scale wealth and property redistribution based on the african decolonial model har Harris envisions a suspension of existing property rights,

followed by a governmental campaign, get a load of this folks, to address directly the distribution of property and power through wealth confiscation and race-based redistribution. Wait, wait, what? Property rights will then be respected, but they will not be absolute and will be considered against a societal requirement of affirmative action. In Harris's formulation, if rights are a mechanism of white supremacy, they must be curtailed. The imperative of addressing race-based disparities must be given priority over the constitutional guarantees of equality, property, and neutrality. Leftists, let me translate that for you again.

It's a translation sandwich. That means if you believe this, you're a hardcore racist. You're not a soft racist. This isn't the soft bigotry of low expectations, to quote George W. Bush. This is hardcore racism. You want to steal people's property because they're white and give it to other people because of their skin color despite no wrong being proven no judicial active no judicial

proceeding no nothing you just want to give someone's property to someone of another race by taking it from someone who's white just because they're white, which sounds to me like the definition of racism. Just checking. Again, either they don't know they're racists, which I doubt, or they do know and racism is their thing. Well, Dan, you know, maybe lawmakers up on Capitol Hill, maybe option A, maybe they just don't know they're acting like hardcore racists. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't worry, I always produce the evidence here.

Again, sitting on the elliptical this morning, getting that heart rate up. Good to do that in the mornings here's a wall street journal piece from this weekend their editorial board actually from this morning excuse me a revealing vote on anti-asian bias democrats vote to condone discrimination in higher education wait what because i know you're a liberal listening and you're saying i'm not a hardcore racist because I believe we should steal from people who are white because of their race. I'm not. I support. I just don't support white folks. But I'm for all other minorities. You are. the people you elected to Congress and the U.S. Senate just voted down an amendment,

the Democrats, that would prevent Asian American discrimination on college campuses. Yes. You don't believe me? Let me read verbatim from the piece. The Republican amendment was a single sentence. Here's what it said, folks, an amendment to a bill about anti-Asian discrimination. This is the, keep in mind as I read this, your liberal gods to the libs out there voted this down.

The amendment said, no college may receive any federal funding if the institution has a policy in place or engages in a practice that discriminates against Asian Americans in recruitment, applicant, reviewer admissions. All Republicans voted for the amendment, sponsored by Ted Cruz. Democrats voted it down, 49 to 48. Yeah, I hate to ask you, wait, wait, before you take that down, can you just put that up one more time? I want to read the amendment just to be sure,

because I know there are liberals listening who, again, insist, I'm not racist you're really democrats voted down an amendment that said no college may receive federal funding if it has a policy in place that discriminates against asian americans that's that's the actual language folks democrats said no no no no no we don't we't want that. We don't want a bill. We don't want to pass an amendment that prevents discrimination. Well, simple logic, folks. Occam's razor, right?

Given all possible explanations, expect the, keep it simple, stupid. Use the one that requires the least amount of assumptions, right? Occam's razor, keep it simple. If you're voting against an amendment that prevents discrimination against Asian Americans, it's because you want discrimination against Asian Americans.

What am I missing here? I'm not a racist. I'm a liberal. You're not only a racist, you're a hardcore racist. You want to steal from people based on their skin color and you want to discriminate against asian americans on college campuses how is that not racist how i know i listen i i know it's hard for you to accept the fact if you're a radical leftist voting for this garbage and supporting critical race theory i know it's hard for you to accept that you're the racist i know it's hard i have to imagine you maybe have

some sliver of morality left maybe i doubt it but you may have some in that small sliver of morality it must be hard for you to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and think that you claim to be an anti-racist while actively supporting racism. Actively. In a hardcore, disgusting, grotesque way. I know that's hard for you. I know it's hard. I know you're trying to logic your way out of it. No, no.

Whiteness is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whiteness, we're talking about skin color. Judging people on skin color is the definition of racism. Look it up. Yeah, but I'm a good racist. I'm a good, I'm a liberal. I'm a good, I'm a good racist. No, there are no good races.

There are no good races. No, we discriminate against Asians because it's good. We're helping others. You're helping others by discriminating against Asians. So you're doing something racist. Again, what am I missing here? Again, liberals pretend to not know they're racist. i'm telling you what you're doing is hard core racism deal with it well we will republicans will have to fix this country because you disasters are burning this place to the ground. All right, let me get to my last sponsor. We do have a page two here.

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don't know things, liberals pretend not to know, but they actually do know. And they don't care because many of them are just looking to destroy the country. So here's an article you'll find in a newsletter today from Breitbart, Hannah blue, Texas and Florida report fewer new cases of the coronavirus per capita than pro mask states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York. Again, to our liberal friends, option A, do you just not know that? Or number two, you do know that and you lock down your states anyway and require mask mandates because you just don't care or you do care and you're trying to destroy the economy. It's a serious question because both of the things can't be true.

You either know, number one, that Florida is beating you in per capita, lower per capita infections and hasn't locked down, has no mask mandate. You either know that and you're ignoring it because you have an agenda or you don't know that and you legislate anyway because you're just dopey.

You know, I said this morning on Fox and Friends, suggest you all watch my Monday morning appearances. I appear in the 8 o'clock hour, usually about 8.30 or so. I said at the end and I was not kidding.

By the way, someone misinterpreted what I, which happens all the time. And I got to be honest with you, it's very frustrating. Frustrating. Everybody says frustrating. Frustrating.

I just slipped there too. I said this morning on Fox and Friends, please, to liberals, let me say this again, to liberals, let me say it a third time, to liberals up in Northeast states, not to conservatives, Republicans, even sane Democrats.

I was begging you on Fox and Friends, please don't come to Florida. I can't force you to do that. I'm not a totalitarian like liberals are. I'm a free market guy. It's the United States. You're free to move wherever you want, obviously. But I'm asking you for a personal favor.

You don't like me, liberals. I don't like many of you. Why would you want to be around people like me? And there's a lot of me in Floridaida a lot of conservatives and libertarians why would you want to come down here again to liberals some guy sent me a nasty gram on facebook i'm a new yorker and i'm a concern don't tell me not to come down did you watch the clip that's not what i said the whole segment was about liberals. Conservatives, come on down.

We need more of you. We need reinforcements. But Florida, Florida is like utopia right now. The job market is booming. The restaurants are open. The statewide mask mandate has been lifted. It's almost like it never happened, the coronavirus pandemic down here. So if you continue to want to live in a lockdown state where your infection rate is worse,

again, I'm just asking you to ask the question, do they not know you're political leaders in these states and they're locked down anyway? Or they do know the lockdowns aren't doing anything and they're still trying to hurt you. There is no other option, folks. I'm very sorry to lay it out for you that way, but there is no other option. These people are either really dumb or they're trying to hurt you. And therefore, if you continue to vote for this, I will beg you again, liberals, not conservatives, please don't come here. Please don't come to Florida. Please. I asked my friends the same question. I said, Hey, are you coming to Florida? Yeah. You guys are, uh, publicans, right? Like, yes. I'm like, okay, good, good, good. Cause if they're not, I have to like, stop being friends or something.

I can't, I can't have that. Be like, no, no, don't come down here. Don't come down. It's really bad. It's horrible. Don't come down here. Please don't. All right, last story.

It's got a few minutes left. Be up in the newsletter, but worth your time again. This is a great expose by the great Stacey Matthews at the Legal Insurrection website, which is terrific, run by my friend Bill Jacobson, who is a wonderfully smart man,

talking about how the consortium of media, fact checkers, and the Twitter fascists basically all rush to Stacey Abrams' rescue after baseball boycotts backfire. So remember Stacey Abrams, the fake governor of Georgia, liberal Democrat who still thinks she won the gubernatorial race in Georgia? Well, Stacey Abrams has been fighting against this Georgia voter integrity bill because they don't want integrity in elections in Georgia. Democrats, why else would you fight against a voter integrity bill? Right. Because you don't want voter integrity. You want to cheat. That's why. So Stacey Abrams doesn't like free and fair elections, apparently. So Stacey Abrams, as the bill passed, apparently, according to sources,

Charles Gasparino from Fox had these sources. Charles Gasparino was told by an inside source that Major League Baseball decided to boycott Georgia after the Georgia voter integrity bill was passed because of Stacey Abrams at a meeting they had with her. Well, my gosh, Stacey Abrams panicked after that because Georgia is getting ready to lose a lot of money, including the largely black city of Atlanta, which is now being boycotted where black business owners are getting screwed because Stacey Abrams was pushing Major League Baseball to do something. Well, of course, now that it's backfired spectacularly, the bill passed and people are starting to realize that Stacey Abrams cost them millions of dollars in state revenue and income. All of a sudden, the Twitter fascists and their fake fact checkers at CNN and others had to

rush to her defense. Great, great piece at Legal Insurrection I just showed you. Read the whole thing in the newsletter. It's short and sweet. They all had a run cover and rewrite history. So Stacey Abrams wrote an op-ed kind of hinting that opting out or boycotting the state of Georgia was a good idea. But you'll notice that op-ed was stealth edited later and certain lines were taken out. And the fact checker from CNN seems oblivious to

this. He said, no, no, Stacey Abrams wrote an op-ed saying she wasn't for boycotts. Well, Daniel Dale, hilarious fact checker, he's like a comedian at CNN because he never gets his stuff right. Daniel Dale seems to have missed the edits in the op-ed. I'll just show them quickly. Here's the USA Today original op-ed. Here you go. Here's part one. I'll tell you what they took out in a minute. She writes this piece. Here's part two of it. She's talking about this Georgia election law. It's the original. You can read it on the Rumble.com screen if you'd like. You can also read it in the legal insurrection piece. Here's the edited, and you can read it on the Rumble.com screen if you'd like, and you could also read it in the legal insurrection piece. But here's the edited version, and you'll notice something is missing. Her original version of the op-ed,

she wrote, I can't argue with an individual's choice to opt out, i.e. to boycott Georgia. Here is the post-edit. Do you see that anywhere? I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking. Keep going, keep going. I don't see it. Guy, do you have part two to that? There is a part two, right? We're looking, post-edit.

No, no, I don't see any of it. That's really strange how USA Today, they edited the op-ed where she suggests opting out or boycotting from Georgia. She can't, quote, argue with it. After Charles Gasparino and his sources heard that Stacey Abrams met with Major League Baseball and were pressuring them to boycott the state. Strange how that happens, huh? And Twitter, by the way, has a trending story about how Stacey Abrams doesn't support boycotts, even though she implied a boycott. She, quote, couldn't argue with it.

Oh, look at me. I'm on TV again. This is hysterical. I love watching. No, no, seriously. I'm doing the show here and Fox is nine o'clock. What is it? 11 o'clock.

He's playing a clip of me. That's crazy. Sometimes my daughter's like my younger. She's daddy. How did that happen? She thinks I'm back in the office recording. Alright, folks. Thanks again for tuning in. Again, big interview this week.

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