The Dan Bongino Show - A Warning About The Most Destructive Legislation I’ve Seen in Decades (Ep 1443)

Episode Date: January 26, 2021

In this episode, I discuss the most destructive piece of legislation I’ve seen in decades. If it passes, it’ll change the United States forever.  News Picks: HR 1 would be a catastrophe for the United States. The Patriot Party math doesn’t work out. Start voting your shares and send a message to the big tech tyrants. Joe Biden is the worst five-day President ever. Another significant information dump in the Spygate case. Big news. Kyrsten Sinema pledges to vote against eliminating the filibuster. More on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and his involvement in the 2020 election. 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 folks the democrats are not playing games um you need to be warned warned you need to spread the word you need to paul revere yourself everywhere they are not kidding around you know what hr1? Have you heard about this? It's not Human Resources 1. It's not a class you take in your first year of college. It's the House Bill 1. House Resolution 1.

They're looking to pass. HR1. Have you heard what's in this thing? Ha! Wait till we get into that. Today's show is going to be loaded. Ladies and gentlemen, get a VPN today. Thousands of my listeners have secured their online presence today with a VPN. How? By going to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. I got that today. I got a loaded show. I've also got now some data for you and some evidence to show you how this third party, patriot party thing would work and how it wouldn't work and why even President Trump is moving away from it.

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All right, let's go. No bell today because of something I'll tell you about in a couple of weeks. It's no big deal, by the way. I didn't mean to stir everybody up. I had an announcement a couple of weeks. Something's going on. I can't share right now for obvious reasons. But in a couple of weeks, I will be able to tell you why the show looks a little different today.

There's no fan in the background. So if I get a little like greasy and sweaty today, like I'm in an MMA match, it's because there's no fan. Hey, let me get to this HR1 thing. And then Paula, should I talk about that bagel story too? Maybe you have to.

Don't miss the bagel story coming up after this. This is one of the most important stories I can hammer into your cerebral cortex. It'll be up at the show notes. Go to Bongino.com slash newsletter to access the show notes. Please read this today. Phil Klein, Real Clear Politics. Democrats have released a roadmap to one party rule. If you don't know about H.R.1 and what the Democrats are trying to pass as this number, it's labeled number one for reason. It's their first priority. You better know because we will never win an election again ever. We will be relegated to living in versions of New York City under Comrade de Blasio throughout the entire country. What's in this H.R.1 disaster? The Democrats are going to try to ram through

Congress and the Senate. And given how many weak-kneed Republicans we have in the Senate right now, I'm not even sure this thing will be stopped like it was in the last session. What's in this disaster? Well, let's go to screenshot number one, but I encourage you again to read the entire piece in the show notes, word for word. Well, you know, Congress, they want to change and nationalize elections. I thought we had national elections now, Dan. We vote for president. No, no. States determine how elections are conducted in their states, according to our constitution. And Congress can't technically compel the states to change their voting laws.

This is from the piece. But seasoned politicians know that the states have become dependent on federal money. The cheese, the federal cheese. They become dependent on federal money to run their elections and can't afford to pick up the tab themselves. To make matters worse, HR1 declares that Congress possesses the ultimate supervisory power over federal elections, an extraordinary usurpation of governmental authority that the founders specifically assigned to the states. Let me walk you through how this works, okay?

So liberal totalitarian authoritarians who would love nothing more than to institutionalize voter fraud across the country and to decimate any voter security measure anywhere, you know, signature verification, voter ID. Liberals hate that stuff. They can't stand that stuff because it creates free and fair that stuff they can't stand that stuff because it creates free and fair elections and they can't stand that so what they want to do is they want to nationalize the election and they want liberals in the congress and the senate to write new election

laws that all 50 states or what 57 if you're barack obama all 57 of barack obama's states would have to follow and those new election laws would not be the ones you'd like. They wouldn't be ones that would lead to great elections, free and fair elections, elections we can all believe in. They would be elections like the ones we've had some in the past at the local level and some at the national level would be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sounds like there was something going on there. But what are some of the things they want to do? Wait, before I get to the second screenshot, what are some of the things they want to do wait before i get to the second screenshot what are some of the things they want to do and how are they going to do it i'll get to that but the way they want to do it is genius and by genius i mean genius on the sad spectrum not on the happy happy

joy joy ren and simpy sex spectrum did i just say sex room may have been a freud slip. It's been a while. Actually hasn't, right? She's like, the kid is back. Had a rough day yesterday. I got a lot of compliments on the show, but they want to compel the states the same way they did it with Obamacare because they can't constitutionally demand

that states run an election the way the liberals and the federal government want them to. No ballot security measures, no signature verification, no questions, no nothing. They'll be like, hey, be a real shame if your bagel store burned down. You know how the mob does it when they want tribute from the local stores? I know, I used to work in a location in a mob neighborhood. They come in and go, you know, listen, you owe us a couple of thousand dollars a month? No, I don't. Be a real shame if your place burned down. That's what the federal government's going to do. You're going to say, hey, you don't want to change your state election laws? Well, we can't compel you. Be a

real shame if the federal money we gave you dried up. So what do they want them to do? Screenshot number two. For example, HR1 would allow ballot harvesting on steroids that doesn't sound good people showing up at your house not representatives of the state or the election board collecting ballots that sounds like it could open to open up the system up to corruption voters would for the first time have the ability to print out their ballots at home, creating a gaping security hole that could be easily exploited by either domestic or foreign interests. The legislation also allows third parties to collect ballots from an unlimited number of absentee voters and submit them through ballot drop boxes, dramatically increasing the risk that vulnerable Americans could be bully bribed or blackmailed for their votes without the protection of election workers who are the double-digit iq geniuses who thought

of the idea that hey i've got an idea let's let people print out ballots at home gee nothing could go wrong there maybe you got the names of a thousand people you know haven't voted in six or seven election cycles. You're sitting at your home computer. You get some kind of login credentials. Boom. Print out a few ballots. Drop them in a ballot box where there's no one there to verify it's actually the voter. Dropping it off in the ballot box.

What could possibly go wrong? Who knows? Print ballots at home. That sounds like just a wonderful idea. If this sounds asinine, you're probably a person who has again, an IQ that cracks the triple digit range.

Ballot harvesting? Then you want people after they've printed the ballots at home. You want other people who don't even work for the government or not election officials to go out to party operatives, to collect the ballots that were printed at home. I bet you, you wouldn't do that in a,

in a court case where the chain of custody for evidence will be broken, but you'll do it to determine national election. Sounds like a genius plan. Well, what else do they want to do under H.R. 1? By the way, hat tip to Tucker Carlson as well, who addressed this last night on his show. Well, under the rules, back to the real clear piece outlined in H.R. 1, election observers wouldn't even be able to challenge the legitimacy of ballots without written documentation,

making it virtually impossible to document or detect election irregularities. Again, ladies and gentlemen, what could possibly go wrong? Print them at home. Drop them in a box anonymously. Don't worry if they're not anonymously dropped in a box. A ballot harvester who works for the Democrat Party will come and pick it up. We don't even know it's you who printed

the ballot to even know what your voter registration form. This is where it's going. You've been warned. Again, we're not supposed to talk about this. Remember, liberals are demanding with their media, totalitarian Soviet Pravda friends are demanding we don't talk about election integrity anymore. Why is that?

I covered this in the opening of yesterday's show. Why is George Stephanopoulos, in the opening of yesterday's show, we played the clip of him and Rand Paul. Why are people like George Stephanopoulos, who pretends hilariously to be a journalist, he's not. I mean, he's obviously a partisan activist. That's obvious. And a bad one at that. Why are they so concerned and terrified any time Republicans like Rand Paul or others say, hey, listen, the election's over, but I think for future elections, it would be a good idea that we institute

further ballot security measures to make sure that people who've had doubt in elections in the past don't have doubts going forward. Let me, can I ask you a serious question, like to the same people in my audience, which is the majority of you, except for the lunatic liberals and the media don't matters lunatics that listen to my show. What's crazy about that?

Producer Joe, I know you're on mute here, but you can, he's not on mute purposely. It's a long story. Again, I'll get to in a couple of weeks, but do me a favor, even though I can't see you and I know you're on mute. Can you nod your head? Is that a crazy question, Producer Joe? I'm envisioning Producer Joe's nodding his head. No, that doesn't sound crazy. Wait, hold on. Joe, can you come off mute a second? I need you just to confirm it. Is that a crazy question? Like maybe going forward, we should institute solid ballot security measures just to make sure that the people who are listed on the voter registration forms are the ones actually voting? Because if even like a small percentage of America doubts the outcome of an election, it's probably a bad thing.

Joe, is that a good idea to institute ballot security measures? You think that's the same question? Yeah, that's very, it'd be a really good idea. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, Joe. You can go back. Again, you'll understand in a couple of weeks.

I miss Joe during the show. Think that'd be a good idea, folks? Again, please read the whole piece. Again, an ask, I'm sorry. You know, I hate asking stuff. And yes, people, oh, I don't apologize. You should know, I feel it. I don't like asking stuff.

Please go to my email list. I need direct communication with you, ladies and gentlemen. I have to be able to bypass all of these tech tyrants. Please go to my email list and sign up. And go to other email lists too. It's not just about me. Go to bongino.com slash newsletter today. Subscribe. It's obviously free. We will not spam your inbox. You have my word. bongino.com slash newsletter. The newsletter is the show notes. That's where you can read excellent articles like the one I just discussed. I give you like five or six of my best articles of the day. Bongino.com slash newsletter. How many we have, Paul? New ones, like 100,000 new ones. So thank you. Bongino.com slash newsletter.

Read that real clear piece, the entire one before I move on. It's really important. Joe, it's Joe on my phone, by the way, in case you wondered why he said it's not his audio. He's an audio producer. That's my phone on speaker. All right, moving on. Liberals are liberals are absolutely clawing at their faces today. They're good at that stuff. You know, liberals love to freak out. You know, I don't recall any of this from us. You know, when Barack Obama was elected and then tragically reelected the most corrupt president in U.S. history, I don't recall conservatives clawing at their faces, screaming at the skies, demanding the New York Times and the Washington Post be canceled. I don't recall that because, you know, absent like a fringe fringe element a mainstream conservatives and solid

patriots out there and people out there want to fight for liberty and freedom they actually have jobs and things to do so they don't spend their time clawing at their faces screaming about every single thing that barack obama did demanding everyone be canceled so what happened yesterday check this out president trump in the first message we've seen from him, a significant message since he has left office, Donald J. Trump, sent out a email press release to his followers. I got this yesterday from the office of the former president. I'm not laughing because it's funny. I know there's a too much, way too much sarcasm in today's show. I'm laughing because this is great. And liberals are losing their minds. So he sent out this statement from the office of the former president, basically acknowledging that, hey, we'll be managing President Trump's correspondences and you'll be hearing from us in the future. There's a couple of things I want to address here.

Number one, it proves my point about the tech tyrants, that no matter what you do, my point about the tech tyrants that no matter what you do, patriots in this country, real patriots who believe in Liberty and freedom and big R God given rights for everyone. They are going to find the message. You are not going to know. You can kick them off Twitter. You can kick president Trump off Facebook,

Instagram sprout or whatever platform, whatever healthy Snapchat. I don't, I had a side. or whatever platform, whatever healthy Snapchat. I had a side. I haven't used it in forever. You can do that, but we will always find a way to get the message out. Always. Number one. Number two.

Why were the liberals freaking out that President Trump established a new office of the former president? the new office of the former president because they want to shut him up and they realize there's nothing they can do to keep the beach ball underwater. If you're a leftist, put yourself in their shoes with it because you're a leftist, you're obviously a totalitarian and an authoritarian.

That's your thing. You don't respect free speech. You don't believe in big R God-given rights. You believe in states' rights. Excuse me, in the rights of the state, not the rights of the people. And those rights are oppressive. You can't have opposing voices. And the fact that they've done everything in their power to silence President Trump

and have had absolutely no luck is driving them wild. They claw at their faces in rage every day. They scream at the sky because they're immature little wuss bags who sit in their basement who can't stand to be argued with. That's why they're the worst debaters on planet Earth on cable news. Because they're losers with no

real ideas and when they can't suppress an opposing thought and they decide they have to confront it, confront it in debate because they can't suppress it anymore, they freak out and do the face claw. More news about President Trump. And I'd like to say I'm a little bit ahead of the curve on this, not as a back patting exercise, but just to warn you about strategy going forward. Folks, strategy matters. If you can tell me a space where strategy doesn't matter and emotions matter more, I'm open to it. From the Epoch Times today, what am I getting at?

More again, more news from the President Trump camp. I want to make sure I have my block set together in the show. We finished the A block about the election, H.R. 1. We're on to former President Trump, what he's up to. Epoch Times. block about the election hr1 we're on to former president trump what he's up to epic times trump team disavows the newly formed maga patriot party zachary steiber again the story will be up at my show notes bongino.com slash newsletter please check it out folks we're a little bit ahead of this again this isn't i told you so who cares who cares who told you what? But I'm never going to lie to you on this show.

I'm not going to do it. I know there are things I could say that make people feel good, but those things and some of those things that would make people feel good are in fact misrepresentations. And I refuse to get into that. I warned you that the idea of a patriot party is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard because it doesn't comport with simple math. I keep getting emails. They're very limited.

I think I've convinced roughly 90% of people how bad of an idea this is, but there's still about 10%, and that's okay. Who email me? We have our email out there for you. The show is for you, so I like to hear from you. And I don't mind contradictory emails. But I'm still getting emails back. People, I'm done with the Republican Party.

I'm not voting Republican anymore. Well, I can't respond back to all of you, but I ask a simple question back. Because, let me frame it better. The email I get back is more, I'm not voting Republican anymore. They're all losers. Well, I want to respond back and I'm sorry, I can't respond back to all of you. But imagine if you email me that my email back would read like this, then why do you

keep voting for losers? I'll let you stew on that for a second. We have a primary process where we can pick winners. How do you think we got donald trump oh that's right to a republican party primary well why didn't donald trump run third party like he had entertained decades ago with the reform part remember that the reform party i think he was considering running for governor in new york donald trump why didn't he do that again the answer is because he's not stupid. And the same reason Donald Trump is disavowing the Patriot Party now.

Why? Let's look at this poll. Hat tip, just the news. Source, RMG Research. Here's a recent poll about the Patriot Party. I'm not trying to offend you or be a jerk. Please don't take this the wrong way. The math doesn't work.

It is not a strategy. What arena do you know where strategy doesn't matter and emotion wins? I want to win the basketball game, coach. Just go out there and will it. It doesn't work that way. You need a strategy. The box in one, whatever. We're going to run a two, three. We're going to run the zone. We're going to get the ball to Jordan. Whatever.'re, you need a strategy. Emotion is great. I love it. It should motivate you to formulate a strategy, but a strategy for failure is not a strategy. Leave this up.

Look at this poll. This should be, this should permanently put to bed any notions that there is any strategy whatsoever involved in a Patriot party that would be successful. So they ask people, this is the question. involved in a patriot party that would be successful so they asked people this is the question suppose president trump left the republican party and formed the patriot party in the 2024 presidential election would you be likely to vote for the republican candidate the democratic candidate i'm changing that the democrat can they're not them and nothing democratic about him or the patriot party candidate or some other candidate. Here are the numbers, folks.

17% Republican would vote Republican in the 2024 presidential. 46% Democrat. 23% would vote Patriot Party. 14% other. You have any idea how many people on social media platforms, because I follow this stuff and elsewhere, an email sent this to me going, Dan, this is a great success. Look at this. The Patriot Party would get more votes than the Republicans. Yes. And you would lose by 23 points in an election.

The Democrats get 46 percent. The presidential election is a plurality vote. How is this a success? Again, I'm just I know I'm only speaking to 10 percent of the audience. So the other 90 percent probably fairly so are like, Dan, we don't need this segment again. No, we do. Because we need those 10 percent. those 10%. We will never win an election again nationally if even 10% of the Republican Party says, I'm out, I'm never voting again because Republicans suck. I'm with you. The overwhelming majority of Republicans do suck bad. Moose thingies. That drives my wife crazy when they I what do I tell you the golden rule is of politics most republicans are really democrats but no democrats are really republicans I get it they suck but you know what would suck worse losing every single election with a great candidate who ran under a patriot party banner when they could have won in the Republican Party platform in a primary. That would really suck. You can't argue to me, hey, I'm tired of voting for losers. Then why are you voting for losers? Get a quality Republican candidate in a primary,

a Jim Jordan for Congress, a Donald Trump for president, get a quality candidate and vote for them in the Republican primary. And we won't have losers. But I can tell you how to guarantee to vote for losers. Why are you scrolling that thing? You test this. Paul's like test the new equipment. No scrolling. No, no scroll. It's like that line in the American president. No jumping, Mr. President. You did stop voting for they get you are guaranteed to vote for a loser in the patriot party there is no math to win we do not have a parliamentary system ladies and gentlemen we have winner take all elections they take everything if we do not have proportional representation if If the Patriot Party gets 23%, 23% of Congress will not be the Patriot Party.

You know what percent will be the Patriot Party? Zero. Because it's winner take all. And the winner will be the Democrat every time at 40 to 50% while we split the vote. I'm begging you as a friend of yours, as someone who is here with you in this fight,

who puts my money and my sweat behind my efforts, please, please dump this. I'm telling you and I'm warning you, this is a grifting exercise. People out there are trying to make money. They're going to start sending you emails, donate to the Patreon party. Even Trump is saying, don't do this. It's a disaster. The answer is simple. I don't want to vote for Republican losers. Yes, I'm with you. Then let's stop voting for losers in the primary because the guaranteed loser, and I don't mean loser character-wise, but loser will be the Patriot Party candidate every time.

will be the Patriot Party candidate every time. I'm sorry I was a little passionate about this topic, but strategy matters everywhere in life. Why you would abandon it now? In your job, have you ever gone to your job and said, hey, I've got this new product. It's a flux capacitor. There's going to be a huge market for it. We're going to be billionaires.

What's your strategy? We're just going to tell people how great it is and get them emotionally attached to it. That may be a good marketing plan, but you haven't addressed anything about how you're going to build it, market it, how you're going to get your employees trained. You haven't addressed anything. You have no strategy at all. That's what this is. It's an emotional play on disaffected Trump voters like me, and I don't want you to fall

for it. And by the way, it also explains why the Democrats are moving forward with this impeachment trial. What does that have to do with this Patriot Party? Gosh, this segment was supposed to be two minutes. I'm sorry. I haven't even gotten to my second spot yet.

But it's the most important segment I can do to stop us from walking off a cliff. This is why they want the impeachment to go forward, this ridiculous impeachment trial. They want to get some Republicans on the record to vote, to have Trump, to have Trump convicted in the Senate trial that's coming up February 9th through the second impeachment. So why? So grifters can go out there. The Democrats are playing the grifters.

Grifters will go out there and go, let's get rid of Mitt Romney. Yes, let's absolutely get rid of Mitt. The worst senator right now we have. The worst. But there's a way to get rid of Mitt Romney. There's a process for it. It's called the primary. It's not hard to do.

Mike Lee did it in Utah where he got rid of another old Republican establishmentarian. Whether you're a fan of Lee or not, that's how he did it. There's a process. They're doing this impeachment to get you to start this Patriot Party in response to where a few Republicans

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so the democrats want to scrap the filibuster in other words they want in the united states senate the ability with just 51 votes which they would technically have if Kamala Harris was the tiebreaker, which because we're split 50-50 now, they want to be able to pass anything with 51 votes, not the filibuster proof 60. Well, Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona, who's a Democrat, said yesterday, this is big news, that she will not support eliminating the filibuster and, quote, she is not open to changing her mind. Folks, this is big news. Listen, on this note, too, I hear a lot of people and I get a lot of communications and

I read a lot of social media traffic because I like to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. There's a few folks out there who are like, well, Sinema's great. You know, Republicans, that is. She's one of it. Listen, she's not one of you. She is in a red state trying to be a purple state, and she's voting her constituents' needs and desires. People in Arizona don't want the filibuster scrap, but let's not lionize her either. Good. Congratulations. Thanks for standing on your

principles. But again, just going back to the prior story, not to beat a dead horse, I don't see the logic ever in starting a third-party spinoff, which will guarantee Democrats win elections forever. And then simultaneously, some of the same folks on social media praising Kyrsten Sinema would be like, oh, I'd consider voting for her. We're not voting for any Democrats. Remember the golden rule. While most Republicans are really Democrats, uh no democrat none are really republic none of them they will always always when the chips are down always always support the democrats when they need them this was an easy vote for her but good she's not going to support the filibuster

so good news all right let's get into the buyer remorse buyers remorse section this is important we're seeing this already there There was an article I have in the show notes today from PJ Media that Joe Biden is the worst one week president in the history of the United States. I will have to ring the bell on that one. That is absolutely correct. There are a few people who've done more damage in a week's time and the buyer's remorse right now is everywhere. And please don't be suckered. Like I said, don't be suckered by cinema. I'm sure she's a wonderful person. I'm glad she did the right thing. We are not voting under any circumstances for Democrats. It is not going to happen. I can't tell you what to do. I'm just saying we in my,

I'm strongly suggesting you ignore that. Don't get suckered in either by the, you know, Joe Biden, he was at a press conference yesterday. He was so great. He was so nice. Look at him. You know, Joe Biden, he was at a press conference yesterday. He was so great. He was so nice. Look at him. I've seen very little of that, but there's some of it. Like, oh my gosh, look, he treated the Fox News reporter.

So the guy's destroying the country in just a week. Here's the evidence of the buyer's remorse happening already. So there's a Twitter account from this union group, LiUNA, L-I-U-N-A. So here's a tweet pre-election about joe biden this union group he said joe biden's one of us he knows firsthand the trials and tribulations faced by working men and women across the cut really i don't i'm not sure he does or what working men and women are cutting deals with the mayor of moscow and the chinese government they're big guys everywhere he says yeah they say oh he knows the trials and tribulation of us working men and women are cutting deals with the mayor of Moscow and the Chinese government. They're big guys everywhere. He says, yeah, they say, oh, he knows the trials and tribulations of us working men and women across the country.

We can count on Biden to stand with us on issues of critical importance to LiUNA members and their families. Hashtag LiUNA for Biden. LiUNA votes. Wow. Biden is, quote, dreaded air quotes, folks. Biden is one of us. He you sure about that so now they get biden elected and there seems to be a little bit of buyer's remorse here's a recent tweet from the liana folks quote pipeline construction has been a lifeline for many LiUNA members across the country. The anticipated decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline, it's been canceled,

will kill thousands of good paying union jobs. Hashtag pipelines are lifelines, energy. You understand, again, why yesterday and today yesterday i discussed the constrained versus unconstrained visions why the liberal and conservative spheres or spheres of of ideological spheres are completely divorced from one another and there's no overlap at all and why i discussed today the patriot party what's the common thread to both of those stories yesterday? And how does it tie into this? Well, yesterday I mentioned again how liberals have this unconstrained view of humankind. That if we just got extra smart people in government to rule over your lives.

That these extra smart people can do all the nice things we talk about. Healthcare for all. Education for everyone. Equity everywhere. Unconstrained. Conservatives have a constrained view of humankind that we're all sinners. We're fallen. And that the only way to a more just and prosperous society is to allow individuals to have nearly limitless liberty

within the constraints of the law and to stop other people from empowering themselves over your lives because they don't know anything about your life. They're constrained. They're sinners. They'll do what's best for them, not for you. What does that have to do with this story?

Liberals thrive on emotion. They quietly know it's a stupid idea that giving your money to the government can be better spent on you than if you spent thrive on emotion. They quietly know it's a stupid idea that giving your money to the government can be better spent on you than if you spent it on yourself. Why? Because liberals do everything they can to avoid paying taxes. If they really thought paying taxes was a beneficial public good, they would volunteer extra money to pay taxes. But did you notice they never do it? Why? Because they know they're flushing their money down the toilet and they don't want to waste their time. So if they don't actually believe what they're flushing their money down the toilet and they don't want to waste their time so if they don't actually believe what they're saying why do they say it because it sounds good

the government's going to save you government unemployment checks it's your money it sounds good they thrive on emotion to take power from you and get control of your money and they leverage emotion this is what they're trying to do now with this Patriot Party. They're trying to get you to not think strategically and do what liberals do. They're trying to get you to vote on a motion by cleaving the Republican Party and being like, yeah, Patriot, let's do it. Patriot Party, this is great. Screw the Republicans. The best way to screw the Republicans is to take the party you started back.

Don't get involved. That's what these Leona people did. They stopped thinking strategically. Just like this Patriot Party movement and people who don't understand the difference between the constrained and unconstrained vision. Conservatives who believe in a constrained government understand strategy. Individual liberty matters. People know better what to do with their money than the government does. Once we start falling into

these emotional traps, you get kicked right in the teeth like the Leona people did. They believed Joe Biden. Joe Biden was, oh, he was so nice. He came up, he sniffed everybody's hair, he massaged their shoulders. He told everybody in the union, oh man, I'm in it for you. Union jobs, man. Union jobs, equity. I'm all about labor. Blue collar Joe, lunch bucket Joe, the Scranton kid.

And then the minute he got in office, week number one, he had them all fired basically. Cancels the Keystone Pipeline. Thousands of them are out of work. You don't believe me? Here's one of the workers right here. Listen to this video. I don't know how this guy voted. I'm not sure. I'm relatively confident most of his union supported Joe Biden. This is this guy talking about thousands of people now

being laid off because, again, they didn't think strategically. They thought emotionally. The kids sniffed my hair, rubbed my shoulders. He told me he's a union backer. He told me his dad stayed up at night thinking about jobs. So he was all about the unions. Yeah. Now he fired you. Check this out. The numbers of jobs are thousands of jobs. There's Michaels, there's precision pipeline that we've reflected that the pipeline was going to be constructed. The actions that were happening recently, we were doing station work. There's hundreds of guys that got laid off Tuesday. Do any live in Wisconsin? Yes, a lot of them live in Wisconsin.

It's the triumph of emotion over incentives. Not recognizing that we live in a constrained world where human beings respond to incentives. That they will manipulate your emotions to gain power. And when they gain power, they will do everything they can to keep it. Biden responded to very simple incentives that conservatives saw coming a mile away before the election.

The incentives are this. The Democrat Party has been hijacked by the far left. The far left hates petroleum resources, the the energy business the oil and gas business they hate them because they're communists the new left and being that the communists who hate the energy business took over the democrat party strategically it's in biden's interest because he thinks he'll gain more voters by appealing to the communists on the left by canceling a pipeline than he will by appeasing union voters and actually doing the same thing, which is letting the country build pipelines

instead of transporting oil and gas by train, which is far more dangerous. That's strategy, thinking strategy. Biden was thinking strategically because he responds to incentives, but the Liuna people responded to emotion. Donald Trump sends mean tweets. Oh my gosh,

what are we going to do? He tweeted at 2 o'clock in the morning about Joe Scarborough. I can't vote for Donald Trump. Now you're out of a job. It's not funny. Let's celebrate enough.

There's no shouting fraud here. Oh, good. You got what you... No, you didn't get what you deserve. You didn't deserve this. You work for you know. You didn't get what you deserve. You didn't deserve this. You work for a living. And I'm never going to fall into that trap either. These are fellow Americans. They made a bad decision. All I'm asking you to do is to learn from your decision. Start thinking strategically. Stop thinking emotionally. It's because a guy sniffs your

hair and rubs your shoulders and tells you he's in it for labor does not mean you understand the incentives. Think strategically. What are the incentives the guy you're going to vote for? What are his incentives to help you? His incentives to help the Keystone Pipeline workers who endorsed this guy, some of them, his incentives to help you were zero. It was more of a benefit to him to appeal to the lunatic fringe of the Democrat Party, which you empowered by in turn endorsing Biden, who was going to fold the minute he got in office. Start thinking strategy. Stop thinking emotionally.

Donald Trump was mean. Joe Biden was so nice yesterday to a reporter at the press conference. Yeah, he also got you fired from your job. to a reporter at the press conference. Yeah, he also got you fired from your job. This follows up nicely with my next story. Again, available in the show notes for you to read. I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing.

Town Hall Finance. Charles, is that Breyer? Close enough. Sorry, Charles. What is it? Teleprompt is smaller than my other one. Headline. Read this story.

Again, strategy, not emotion. Strategy wins. Strategy wins. Emotion helps, but strategy wins. Because emotion forces you to action. Action forces you to develop a strategy. Here's the piece. Town Hall Finance.

Stop griping about big tech and start voting your shares. Folks, I put my money where my mouth is. I've been involved in multiple alternatives to big tech companies. I put a lot of money into it, a lot, because action matters and strategy matters. You need to think strategically too. What's the gist of this piece of town hall? I want you to read the whole thing. what's the gist of this piece of town hall i want you to read the whole thing that leftists for decades now have been using their money buying stock in these publicly traded companies twitter and facebook they're publicly traded they're not private companies anymore they're private in the sense of non-government that they're non-government actors but not private in the sense you would think in sec terms. They're publicly traded companies. Liberals for years are smart. I'm not talking

about liberal voters like Liuna. Sorry, you guys fell for the emotion trap. I'm talking about liberal politicians aiming to take power. They're strategically smart. They don't cleave off into the leftist patriot party. They stay aligned and no Democrats are really Republicans. And this is how they take power and do what they want to do seemingly all the time. It's time to stop complaining and it's time to replicate genius and not invent mediocrity. How do we replicate genius? The left has been buying up via pension funds through liberal donor a liberal uh liberal billionaires for years buying influence on corporate boards which simultaneously turn into woke topians like matt gates calls them and these corporate boards on

these big tech companies and suppress conservatives and as i discussed on yesterday's show in the most important segment we did during yesterday's show they then like mark zuckerberg take the millions that there could they make and they give it to these private organizations that do voter turnout for democrats why are we inventing mediocrity replicate genius why can't we do the same thing we work for a living some of you despite your protestations towards these big tech companies

some of you in your stock portfolio own some of it listen that's up to you I can't tell you what to do some of you have stock in Twitter in Facebook in Alphabet which is Google's company some of you are very wealthy. Some of you out there listening have millions of dollars in stock in this.

You get those shareholder initiatives in the mail? Better look at those. I don't want to do that, Dan. Okay. The left's been doing it for years. How do you think they get all these people on corporate boards that then vote to turn their companies, private companies and publicly traded companies

into woke-topian machines, attacking conservatives at every turn and donating to leftist causes? Why? Because strategy. Talk is cheap. Emotion's a wonderful thing. I have a lot of it if you're a regular listener of my show.

But emotion's not going to win this game. Strategy's going to win this game. All the emotion in the world never won any strategic battle on a battlefield. Tacticians won. People with strategy won. It's not a coincidence that the strongest, fastest people in the world can all be placed on the same football team,

and with a terrible coach, they'll be 0-16. Strategy. It's time to start voting your shares. Or, as I intend to do shortly, sell them. Sell all of them. I don't want to lose money, Dan. You want to lose your country?

It's happening. Showing you again the triumph of emotion over reason. People who are suckered by joe biden the most corrupt president to ever enter office not the most corrupt president in office that was barack obama the most corrupt president to ever enter office unquestionably the big guy oh but he's a nice guy he's not a nice guy stop don't be a sucker that's emotional that's not strategic this guy is in hokka china he's the big guy joe biden he was paid off by a communist government and the largest uh enemy most

dangerous enemy is a country we've had in decades since the early soviet union but again people fell for the emotion of joe by no he's a calming influence calming how he's going to sell this out to the Russians and the Chinese. Hey, it'll stop the Cold War. He already sold this out. Here's a video of Joe Biden, people who bought the emotion rather than the strategy. Joe Biden talking about executive orders. How terrible executive. Oh, my gosh. Executive orders. This isn't a monarchy. This is him. It was even Stephanopoulos or something. This is right before the election. Check this out.

So there's not going to be any delay on the tax increases. No. Well, I got to get the votes. I got to get the votes. That's why, you know, the one thing that I have, I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even occasionally say, well, if you can't get the votes by executive order, you're going to do something. Things you can't do by executive order unless you're a dictator. We're a democracy. We need consensus. So let's go to the dictator scorecard. Joe Biden's words, not mine. Executive orders, things you can't do by legislation, you do by executive orders are the hallmark of a dictator. He just said that. He just he just he just said that. I'm not a dictator. You know, things we have to get done through the legislative process, clearly indicating he prefers not to

do executive orders. Here's a screenshot from Fox News after the first three days in office. How many executive orders did Joe Biden sign? Again, this was supposedly the sign of a dictator. Oh, 19. 19 dictatorial executive orders. Wow. I guess you fell for that emotion. A lot of Democrats who voted for this, like the Liuna guys and ladies out there, lost your jobs. Sorry. It's not funny. It's a fact. 19.

How many Trump signed his first three days? One. Wait, I thought Trump was the fascist. I thought we were told that by the left. Biden, 19. Trump, one. Obama, five. Bush, zero. Clinton Bush 0, Clinton 1.

Fascinating. Fascinating how that whole thing worked out. Again, people who fell for the emotion, not the strategy. I didn't forget the bagel story, by the way. Oh my gosh, I didn't even get to my, thank you, thank you for the reminder, Paula. I didn't even get to my third sponsor.

Whew. If it wasn't for my wife, I didn't even get to my, thank you. Thank you for the reminder, Paula. I didn't even get to my third sponsor. Whew. If it wasn't for my wife, I'd be lost. I'll get to the bagel story next. And then another appeal to emotion, to identity politics. For a guy, maybe the better question with this guy, wait till I get to this one, is what isn't white supremacy to this guy? Would that be a fair question based on this guy's tweets? You'll see, you don't want to miss that. Unbelievable. Everything apparently is white supremacy to this guy would that be a fair question based on this guy's tweets you'll see you don't want to miss that it unbelievable because everything apparently is white supremacy this new congressman bizarre and i will tell you the bagel story my patriot supplies america's

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Get that four-week kit today. Save $70 per kit. Thanks, my Patriot supply. All right. So before I get to the bagel story, because it's important. So this was a tweet, again, showing you how Democrats only appeal to emotion and lose the strategy and leave it behind. There is a new congressman from New York, a man by the name of Jamal Bowman. And here's a series of tweets he put out.

And in those tweets, I guess a better question to ask is not, you know, what is white supremacy according to Jamal Bowman, but what isn't. So Jamal Bowman, the filibuster is a pillar upholding white supremacy. It's time to end it. Jamal Bowman, the Electoral College is a pillar upholding white supremacy. It's time to abolish it. This is not a joke, folks. Jamal Bowman, student loan debt is a pillar of upholding white supremacy. He had an upholding in there. He threw that in there, had to change it up a little bit.

It's time to cancel all of it. This is an actual congressman from New York. Showing you again how all of these Democrat radical liberal communists rely on emotion, rely on manipulating your emotion to get you to do things that are strategically not in your interest, like voting Democrat so they can raise your taxes, fire you from your job, send your kid to a crappy school, take over your health care system and regulate you to death. They get you to vote against your strategic interests by appealing to your emotion. If you happen to be a minority voter or a Hispanic voter and you voted for this man, Jamal Bowman, you're reading that like, oh my gosh, Jamal Bowman, he's so smart. All of this

stuff is white supremacy, student loans are white supremacy. He's going to save us against that. And it forces you to think with emotion rather than strategy. So you vote for people like Jamal Bowman that then push for you to get fired from your pipeline job somewhere in Nebraska, Wisconsin, or elsewhere because you fell for it. It's a scam. It's always been a scam alright I have this a couple things first quick notes Joe be like sticky notes again remember sticky notes

man you gotta be an old school listener for that one yeah you sound like the guy in trading places when Eddie Murphy walks in the cell. Because karate, man. Yeah. Yeah. Sticky Notes was back in the day. You got to be like one of our original 100 listeners to remember Sticky Notes. But this is quick, some quick Sticky Notes.

First, herd immunity is back. Paul, it's back. You weren't allowed to talk about herd immunity before the election. You were like a racist or a white supremacist or something like that. Remember that? Herd immunity. Dr. Scott Atlas, genius, Hoover Institution, was advising President Trump on the coronavirus. Great man. Brought up herd immunity and media went wild. Herd immunity is back.

It's all over social media now. People talking about how it's herd. We're going to reach herd immunity. So now you can do because Biden's president and they don't need to call anybody a racist or a white supremacist anymore that's back so on his bagel story paulo wanted me to tell you so yesterday i read this story this is where i go into like the dan bongino segment of the show where i relay personal stories that i think are amusing so we finally got media coverage of hunter biden you know hunter biden the the naked guy in the videos with the uh the crack pipe and stuff like that.

You know, that guy, the one who was involved in those shady deals with overseas enemies in the United States. The media is finally covering Hunter Biden. They're like, really, Dan? The media is waking up and they're doing a hot wash of the Hunter Biden situation. No, not that one. They don't really care about Hunter Biden and the family corruption of the Biden crime family. Apparently, Joe Biden went to church on Sunday as president. And, you know, me being a former agent, I remember those, those visits. They were usually across the street, but Biden goes to a different

church, not the one across the street from the White House. So there's a motorcade. So on the way back, the big story was Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. They stopped at a bagel store, a bigger store. I think it's called, excuse me, call your mother or something like that. The bagels I hear are excellent, which is great. I grew up around a bagel store. They stopped there and the media went wild. Hunter Biden needed to stop after church told him, you go stop at that bagel store so we can pick up food.

This was the story. Not that Hunter Biden basically sold the United States out selling access to his dad for two foreign enemies of the United States. The story, the New York Post had dropped off a Twitter, not that story. They're like, what? Like, what a townie, like what a local guy. Joe Biden's so cool. Donald Trump never ate in the local spots. Hunter Biden stopping for bagels.

This is so cool. And then we find out later that one of the owners of the bagel store is actually an advisor to the Biden administration. So stopping at the bagel store would ensure they got really cool press coverage all the time. That's kind of weird, but that's not what I want to tell you about. I told Paula this last night. She's like, you should tell your audience that. Do you have any idea the security nightmare this guy probably created hunter biden this silly broken man for telling the motorcade coming back from church to go stop at a bagel store and what we would call an otr and off the record movement you have any idea now that would be the story if it was the trumpets trump caused a security nightmare by diverting motorcade to bagel Store because he wanted to eat a bagel.

And by the way, he's got a terrible diet too. But no, the story about it is how Biden, he's such an in-town kind of classy guy. Look at him supporting local businesses. Just goes to show you what hacks the media are. Well, why would it cause a security nightmare? Well, let me let you in on a little secret. Not really a secret, but

those in-town movements, we call them in-towns when you're in Washington, D.C., are always a nightmare. Why? Because a lot of the guys who get transferred in to the detail, the protective detail to work the president, are not from Washington, D.C. Matter of fact, probably 99% of them are from out of town. So they don't really know Washington, D.C. that well. so they don't really know washington dc that well they drive around the streets but what they'll do typically is you know they'll run the route they'll run alternate routes to a spot with the church where biden went they'll know routes to the hospital secure zones and all that stuff

but they don't know the layout of the city like a native of washington dc would most of you in your hometown just instinctively know where to go. You've taken every street a thousand times. So when you tell a new agent to the detail, like, hey, I think we want to divert the motorcade off to a bagel store before we go back to the White House. Do you have any idea the panic this guy probably induced? We're going to a bagel store. Do you have any idea how many people were probably Google mapping that bagel store because it most likely was not in the plan? All because Joe Biden's buddy who owns a bagel store wanted to have Hunter, Hunter, the sellout who sold this out to foreign interests, wanted to have Hunter go in and grab

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gate, that the left's again, strategy, strategy. They always out Fox us with strategy because they rely on suckering people with emotion and we can't fall prey to this i can't say there's one theme to today's show we have to stop the emotion and think strategically in the future the left strategy about spygate was clear i joe me paula drew everyone involved with the show we've been talking about this forever they dripped dripped and dripped the fact out that they spied on the trump team and now that we're getting all these documents that have finally come out and been exposed, what's everybody saying?

Move on.org is Joey's, move on. But it's time to move on, folks. We already knew all this stuff. No, we didn't. And I'm not going to stop talking about it because we are living in a de facto right now police state where folks in the FBI and our intelligence community got away with one of the most brutal civil rights violation and most impactful we've seen in modern American history based on its scale.

When it comes to the abuse and weaponization of government spying powers. Here's another article in the show notes by justthenews.com, John Solomon's site. This is actually a piece by John. He has a number of writers over there. Declassified. The Russia informant transcript the FBI didn't want Americans to see. In a secretly recorded talk with informer Stefan Halper, Carter Page dispelled key Russia collusion allegations before the FISA warrant was even approved. Folks, we knew a lot of this before, but now we have the transcript. How devastating is this? Well, we know the FBI used the spy, Stefan Halper.

I'll show you a little screenshot from that for a minute in case you're one of these liberals who thinks like, oh, we didn't spy. That's a, that's a, that's a, I like a spazzy theory. Yeah. Okay. Go back to bed. Sleepy time now. Now we actually have the transcript that when an FBI spy, Stephen Halper, had a recording device on, he met up with Carter Page, who had worked for the Trump team at one

point, was recording for the FBI. And the key component of the allegation made against Carter Page was that Carter Page, when he worked for the Trump team, was involved in this bribe where the Russians were trying to bribe him via stakes in an oil company. They were going to give him stakes in an oil company, a whole bunch of money would have amounted to billions of dollars in exchange for getting influence in the Trump campaign. It's as simple as that. So what's weird is the FBI uses this spy, Stefan Halper. He goes in with a recording device to talk to Page about those exact allegations. And you would think being that the FBI got a F pfizer warrant that clearly clearly page must have said yes yes i was cutting this bribe this deal

with the russians to help them out but that's not exactly what he said let's go to the john solomon piece interesting this is on the recording in the transcript we have now of halper talking to page he says quote but perhaps most significant is Carter Page's flat denial that he never even met in July of 2016 in Russia with the two key sanctioned officials, the ones that were allegedly trying to bribe him, oil executive Igor Sechin and Russian Federation official Igor Devyakin.

Page's contact with the two men was alleged in both the Steele dossier and the FBI's FISA warrant application dated October 21st, 2016, just four days after Halper's interactions. Weird. Page acknowledged to Halper that he knew Sechenworth for Raznev, but insisted he never met the Russian executive. He added he didn't even recognize Dvyakin's name. He added he didn't even recognize Dvěkín's name.

So, just to be clear, four days after this interaction, four for the liberals watching, if Joe Biden's watching, four. Four days after this recorded conversation where an FBI spy is talking to Carter Page and Carter Page is saying, I never met these two Russians

that everybody's accusing me of, is accusing of bribing me to get influenced with the Trump campaign. When I was there, I've never even met them. He says it on a recording to an FBI spy. And four days later, the FBI swears he still did this deal with the Russians, with two Russians he's never even met

and said so on a tape. Nothing wrong, Libs. I know your police state hacks. You hate this country and everything it stands for. You far leftist. I get it. But I thought I thought the ACLU and the real liberals out there, not the leftist communists, real liberals who believed in things like, you know, free speech. And they believe in the ability to burn the flag.

Right. Free speech. It's free speech. But they don't believe in free speech and they believe in the ability to burn the flag right free speech it's free speech but they don't believe in free speech when it's the trump team matter of fact they actively promote and defend government spying on them now why was that allegation of carter page being bribed bribed by divyakin and such and two people he's acknowledged on a tape he's never even met in his life why was that allegation so important well Well, folks, you have to remember, in order to get a FISA warrant to spy on an American, you have to prove two things, not one. For the FBI to spy on you for being a spy, you have to prove, for a foreign government, they have to prove two things, not one. Number one, they have to provide probable cause in the warrant, to be precise, that you are, number one, an agent of a foreign power.

You may say, Dan, that's not enough. Carter Page, they could have alleged he was an agent of Russia. Ladies and gentlemen, there are agents of foreign powers all the time in the United States. Foreign diplomats, lobbyists. It's not illegal to be an agent. I know that sounds bad, an agent of a foreign power. That's not illegal. That's not even I know that sounds bad, an agent of a foreign power. That's not illegal. That's not even remotely grounds to get a FISA warrant.

Every diplomat for Russia and China in the United States would be under arrest. They're an agent of a foreign power, right? That's not enough. You need the second part too. To get a FISA warrant to spy on Americans, you need to prove both. They are an agent of a foreign power,

and they are doing so in that role in violation of some U.S. law. What does that have to do with the allegation that Carter Page was bribed by these Russian oil executives to gain influence with Russia in the Trump campaign? Because it's not that he was talking to Sechin or Dvyechin, which he wasn't. He never met them. But it's not that he was talking to Setshin or Dvyechin, which he wasn't, he never met them. But it's not that he was talking to them that's illegal. Tons of people talk to Russian oil executives. There's nothing illegal about that.

The illegality was the violation alleged of US law, which was the bribe. And they could never, ever prove the bribe because Carter Page never met the two Russians alleged of bribe. And they could never, ever prove the bribe because Carter Page never met the two Russians alleged to have bribed him, ever. And the FBI swore to it anyway. And yes, they did spy. Here's a document I got a hold of yesterday,

hat tips for Lana Lakova. The Crossfire Hurricane team had met with this source who will install audio and video recording devices in Redacted in order to record the meetings with Carter Page. They're talking about Halper. Redundant systems will be utilized, and the confidential human source will be wearing recording devices on his person. The Crossfire Hurricane team will be present on Redacted

in order to live monitor the conversation between the CHS and Crossfire Dragon. The CH team will minimize any conversation when the CHS is not present. There it is, ladies and gentlemen, right there in writing in official FBI documents that the FBI had wired up a source to go talk to a member of the Trump team, Carter Page, precisely because at one point he was a member of the Trump team. What we would call in common sense, everyday language, spying. But keep it up, folks. Keep calling it a conspiracy theory. Idiots. Not you, the radical communists who are protecting government spying now.

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