The Dan Bongino Show - An Election Night Shakeup (Ep. 2572)

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You know, sometimes I tell you stories, they kind of burrow under my skin like a tick. You just can't get out. Like you try with the tweezers. The tick just won't come up. It's like holding on for dear life.

Folks. And it has very little to do with my actual time in the Secret Service at all. But this Secret Service, Iranian threat, evacuation, from Turkey, airplane catering truck, media story is, I can't stop that. I cannot believe the media cannot get over the fact that this story is not about you. The story's got me just fascinated. I don't, I can't get out of my head of these people don't realize like this story, it's not a story about you.

It's a story about the life of the president of the United States. I want to get to that hugely important election results for me personally. and for the Republican Party going forward because we got to know who we're fighting. Big, huge monster L for socialist candidate, Francesca. What was that, Francesca, I'm running in Wisconsin. But good friend of the show who used to work here, Michael Alfonso won his primary.

So big congrats. We'll give you a real Barney hug. And like Fat Barney, sharing is caring. Good job, Michael, won his primary for Congress. You know Michael Alfonso, husband to Avita, had a show on the network before Michael ran. and we're really proud of you. So remember, you know, big people do big things.

You did a big thing. Go rock and roll going forward. So make sure you get out and vote for him in November. Michael Alfonso, Wisconsin 7. You all know him. Big win for him last night. He worked really hard. So congratulations on that.

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All right, fellas. Let's go. So just a couple quick takeaways from last night. I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it. You want election coverage. You can watch cable news. It's great. I watch cable news, but I only have an hour with you,

so I don't have all day. Okay, it's not wall-to-wall coverage. First, and I'll bring this up with Vince later as well. He's my guest today, Vince Colonais. Will socialist voters, who now lost in Wisconsin and barely snuck out of victory in Michigan with Abdul Al-Sai-Syenne. That lady Francesco was running in Wisconsin as the socialist.

She was up 20 points in the polls, and she got just destroyed last night. Will socialist voters actually show up and vote for, they're not real moderates, but fake moderate candidates? The answer, folks, I'm not sure they will because they're freaking crazy. Unlike Republican voters that, you know, after the primary with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis realized like, all right, maybe I was a DeSantis or Cruz guy. however, I'm going to vote for President Trump because the alternative is crazy. The Democrats are actually crazy, a lot of these socialists.

So I'm not sure they're going to show up, so this could create a real problem. Also, the inverse of that. Will moderate Democrat voters, there are actually, you know, union workers and people who vote a Democratic for generations that aren't crazy, you know, are they going to show up for a socialist like Al-Sayed? You know, I'm not really sure. And one more point, the polls.

Folks, just disregard the polls. This lady in Wisconsin was up by like 20 points in almost every single poll. I'm not talking about outliers. And she lost. Al-Sayed was up by 10 plus points, barely snaked by. Ignore the polls.

Ignore the polls. You remember the midterms? Gee, Justin, you guys were here. You remember the midterms for Joe Biden? Inflation's out of control. Afghanistan blows up. You guys, it's not that long ago. You guys remember this?

Remember the red wave? What did we say on the? the show. Justin's like, yes. We were like, no, P-1s. You remember this? I said, I don't want to hear Jack Squat and Jack left down about a red wave. Do not trust the polls. Remember the polls? Remember them, Justin? Republicans are up by 75 points. I'm like, guys, please stop the nonsense. Stop talking like that because then people aren't going to show up. They're going to think, oh, we're going to win. And what happened? Biden way overperformed in his Democrats. He wasn't up, but he was a mid-term. He way over-performed. He way over-performed.

form. Forget the polls. Just do the simple, as they say in football, do the blocking and the tackling, and it'll open up holes in the line, and you'll get three to four yards in every run. Just show up and vote and bring 10 people with you. Email 10 people, call 10 people, make 10 social media posts on how to vote. Simple blocking and tackling. It's honestly what the socialists are very good at. They're crazy, but they're good at it. And we will do okay. If you don't show up, we'll lose. Forget the freaking polls. Please, I'm begging you, because there is a lot of anger out there on the Democrat side too. You see a lot of doomers and grifters on our side telling you, oh, there's all this anger. Folks, it's overstated. There's real anger on the left, though.

Just before I came on the air, I was sitting inside. I bounce inside quick. I come back. It's before that we had the whole quantum hyperdrive meltdown thing on the show just now, right? And I'm watching this interview on Fox. Of course, if you're watching on demand, you miss the whole thing. But I'm watching this interview on Fox. And how many times have I warned you about this? There is a union worker, an auto UAW worker on Fox, United Auto Workers. Working class guy goes to work.

I don't know if he's a Democrat or I don't really care. But a lot of union workers are Democrats, not all but a lot. He's on Fox telling you what I've told you forever. Wait, these socialist want government-run health care for all? If you're a union worker in the chat, chime in right here. The guy's like, let me get this straight. I busted my ass for this car company my entire life to negotiate a compensation package, and I took less money and salary for better health care benefits for insurance for my family.

And now you got Abdul Sayed saying, double barrel middle finger, I'm taking your insurance plan. I'm going to stick you on government insurance with everyone else. You think this is a winning message? The guy was on Fox telling Democrats, you better clam up about this right quick. They don't have a winning message. We have something to run on. Inflation came in a little cooler. We've got it's the exploding economy with manufacturing.

We've got a shutdown border. Crime rates, the safest America you've ever lived in. He's got the big, beautiful bill, tax cuts. And now President Trump's proposing a capital gains tax cut too. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know the liberal goofballs who listen to my show. You're out there thinking capital gains on investments. you rich folks.

Hey, can you guys throw something in chat GPD live? Just ask this question. In 1997, or you don't have to ask in 1990s. Did you say, did Bill Clinton cut the capital gains tax rate during his presidency?

I'm just going to check on that, right? Because Bill Clinton, Andy's a Democrat, correct? That's how my check? He's like, yeah, I don't know. Sometimes I get lost that. Bill Clinton's a Democrat. So President Trump is proposing

do the same thing. Bill Clinton did. Honestly, the economy was doing okay in the Clinton. administration the second term. He was doing okay. Why did Bill Clinton decide to cut the capital gains tax? Because he knew that that money would flow into pension funds that were invested in the stock market and elsewhere, that it would flow back into companies in the form of money that wasn't going to government, that now they could invest in salaries and equipment. Oh,

look at that. Dan Bongino is right. Crazy. I took that chance on a live show even after the hyperdrive broke. Yes, Bill Clinton. signed the capital gains tax cut we're not making i didn't plan this i swear to you did i not vouch for me yes thank you 1997 eight percentage point capital gains tax cut so for those who you're going to get out ahead of this would be like oh don't trump's in it for the rich was bill clinton too and the economy exploded because the money went back into the economy and not in some government bureaucrats wallet i just want to say too before i get to the secret service story these guys were witnesses morning. So was Jasmine. Listen, this is a republic. Vote for who you want. I have my opinions.

I hope you enjoy my opinions. That's why you're here. It's a political opinion show, which shocked the media when I told him. But President Trump's a really good guy. Something happened this morning. Something big. I promise you, it's really small, but something happened this morning. And it just reminded me that regardless of your opinion about his policies, his speaking style, whatever it is, I'm telling you, this guy is the real deal. Fellas, is he not? Okay, I have witnesses.

You want to talk about a guy. You're going to laugh. In media people, I don't care if you live, because you don't know. He just totally, absolutely gets it. Something happened this morning, and I'm just, it never ceases to amaze me that he just takes the time

when he really doesn't have to for any of this stuff. He could be like, eh, and he doesn't. Thank you. You know what I mean. All right. Now, get into this story. This Secret Service, Turkey, not like Boershead Turkey, but Turkey, the country.

I'm not calling it Turkey. Turkey, it's Turkey. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, okay? President Trump goes to Turkey. A very serious threat comes in through intel channels with the Israelis. The threat comes in that the Air Force One could possibly be taken out by whether it was a man-pad surface to air missile.

It's a very serious threat, serious enough that they move President Trump to another non-AF-1 fleet to get him out of there in secret, right? The media, as I addressed yesterday, cannot get past the fact that this story is not about them. Jake Tapper again did it yesterday. Here's this ex-post.

I cannot get over this fact that the media really believes this story is about them. He put this post up on X. They're simply astonished that in, you know, countries in the region, the Middle East and outside the Middle East, in Europe and elsewhere, that have security issues like Turkey. A lot of them do. It's not just a reflection on Turkey alone. That there's a security threat and that the Secret Service, thankfully, lifted and shifted and did something about it. He put in an annex on his account.

So the Secret Service thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from AF1. He then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off. and fly back to the United States. Oh, my. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, good Justin, not dancing, Justin. Jake, with due respect at this point, okay?

Because I'm really like trying to like the villains list, I'm trying to keep small. Have you thought through what you said? So there's a threat so severe against the president of the United States. the threat so severe that you would like to stay on the ground instead, or you would like to be what, bust over in non-armored vehicles to a commercial flight somewhere, extending your time in country.

And by the way, I promise you, and I'm very careful in what I say here, but I feel like we can put this out comfortably without giving up any security procedures whatsoever. Just because you were on Air Force, or what was designated Air Force, even though the president wasn't on it. Air Force won's with the president, but just you know the plane. You get the point. Does not mean security measures still weren't taken. Fellas, you know what makes me laugh about this?

Jake and these media people are acting like, they were like, oh, the president's not here. Shut off the security. Shut it off, guys. You know that countermeasure and stuff for like missiles and things? We don't need that. Andy, like this. Save the battery life. Save the battery life.

there was still security. You know who secures Air Force One? Pop Quiz. Anyone in the chat? Secret Service? No, we don't. Yes, you do. No, we don't.

We secure the President. We do not secure Air Force One. When the President's on Air Force One, we secure the President on Air Force One. The Air Force people secure, the military. It's called Whammo, the White House military office, secures Air Force One. You really believe the U.S. military. And Secretary of War Pete Hague said, well, like, hey man, there's impress people and staffers on the plane.

So, like, guys, they were like, F it. They're like, turn it off, turn it off. By the way, let's leave them in country and let's send them out on a commercial flight so the whole country knows with no countermeasures whatsoever with a number of civilians who did not sign up for this.

Have you thought any of this through? Do you realize how stupid you sound? If they sent them home to an airport on an unarmored vehicle, And put them on a plane, they'd be like, oh, my gosh, you put us on a plane with civilians. You put the whole plane at risk, and they had no countermeasures. What did you want them to do, leave Air Force One behind? Oh, my gosh, this story's got me so animated this morning, even with Hyperdrive Meltdown.

You know, Tommy Boy, what's your theory? Jake, again, what's your theory? What were you going to do? What do you want us to do? Leave you there? Guys, in the chat, ladies, there's a security threat. We're going to leave Air Force One behind. We'll figure it out later.

By the way, when Air Force One is on the ground, I just told you, who secures it? Pop quiz in the chat. Yes, the U.S. military. You want to leave the plane there for a week with our military people where it's a sitting duck? Have any of you in the media thought this through? It's funny, Guy, at the beginning of the show's like,

shows a little light today. I'm like, no, it's not. This story's driving me crazy. I'm going to go off on this thing. Here's some video for you. And by the way, there were cabinet members on the plane with the press. You think the president and Hegcept were like,

ah, screw them too, we don't really care? Come on, man. Right, right. We think the designated survivor. Hey, stick them on the planet. We're all going to die. This is so stupid. Here's Caitlin Collins, again,

still making this secret service story about the media and not about the fact that the Iranians likely were trying to kill the president of the United States, which we were told by podcastistan was worthy of a nuclear war, correct? Look it up. You think I'm making it up? Check this out.

It makes what the president told reporters in that gaggle afterward all the more noteworthy. Do you know why they had us close our window blinds? That was not usually. Well, yeah, because you're, you know, probably on a dangerous strike because of the sleaze bags that we have to do. Is anything that Iran was possibly thinking you tried? I mean, if they ask you to close your windows, probably they feel that way. They didn't ask me to close my, but if they did, I would have done it. Were you aware of any credible by Iran against your move on?

I've gone to dread all the time. I'm number one on their list before you. But if I go, you go. Right? But was there a specific threat today? Perhaps. Perhaps someday want to change professions. If I go, you go. Though the president wasn't actually on the same plane as the reporters who were asking him that question.

and when they asked him about why they had to lower their own shades, and the president said, well, he wasn't told to lower his. He was on a secret plane. He was not on the same plane that those reporters and some White House staffers were flying on. Folks, I'm telling you right now, there is nothing working class America hates more than a bunch of like 25-year-old elitist snobs.

You've never had a real job. Like Caitlin Collins, it was like an entertainment reporter just a few years ago. Listen, man, you don't have to love. like me, you're not obligated. You don't want to listen to the show. Don't listen. Whatever. Show is not for you. Fine. I actually worked for a living and had a number of actual jobs with the police department, the Secret Service, the FBI, businesses, investing, consulting. I've actually like done stuff. You don't have to like it, but it's true. These people don't

know shit. You think a working class electrician in New York City wants a lecture from K. Like, oh my gosh, I was on a presidential trip and there was danger. No shit, Sherlock. Don't go then. Nobody's forcing you to go. Just stay home. Curl up in a little ball and whine about it. The only person in that thing who's actually been shot on that plane and that specific trip in Turkey was the president. How do you think this sounds to working class people? Some probably, some who may not even like the president. Oh my gosh, the media's whining that there was a dangerous situation in a high threat country and they had to go on the trip and report it. So don't go, you entitled snobs. Just stay home. Folks, everything is about them. Everything. Their egos are out of control.

I promise you, I've been in a lot of different spaces and arenas, everything from investment, the finance, if you were talking about a pool of people in any space, law enforcement, military, media, Hollywood, whatever, I don't know everyone, everyone. where obviously you will never see a bigger group of egomaniacs than people in the media anywhere anywhere it is always about them this story i'm trying to help you which is rare you look like total zeros with this story thank the secret service for getting the president home safely under a high threat scenario and shut up and move on you look like totally Total tools, okay?

It also explains this next to folks. Don't miss this next segment. Remember the unintended but viral post I put out in my FBI account about how we can't run a republic like this and what I had seen? I've explained this story many times. Some people still haven't heard because I still get questions about it. But I'm going to show you what I'm, how does this tie into this media story?

Folks, it is all about ego. to them. And even when they are laughed at, like people are laughing at them over this story with the Secret Service threat, even when they're laughed out, like the pee-p-hoax thing, the Russia hoax story, Trump colluded with the Russians, they still can't let it go. I'm going to show you what I mean, this ridiculous post by this clown at the New York Times who's getting laughed at on X today. I'm going to show you how it ties into my post and what I saw. And I promise you, all these people who are still pumping the peep tape hoax are going to be made absolute fools of when this whole thing that they tell you isn't happening happens quick break hey i used to think waking up tired was just part of

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Okay, back to the show. Here's what I'm talking about. You know, normal people like you and I who've had real jobs and, you know, you learn through a process of trial and error, obviously, throughout your life. You say something dumb growing up when you're 16 and it's your first job. and the managers like, that's stupid, shut up and get back to work, right? You learn most people in the media, not all.

There's a lot of good people out there that I know, especially some of my colleagues at Fox and others, but most people in the media, they've never had a real job. Their entire job is being in front of a camera and telling you how stupid you are and how smart there. That's their job. That's how they see because they've never had a real job, unlike me and others out there,

who have to, like, have a finger on the pulse of how actual people feel. They think they are the story every time. That is what is now happening with the Russian collusion hoax. Why are we going back to that? We're not. The media is doing it. They cannot let this go. Let me show you what I mean.

Put up this tweet by this absolute toolbag at the New York Times, who I promise you, his name is Michael Schmidt. Michael Schmidt, he's at New York Times, Mike. Everyone should laugh at this guy because he deserves it. He says, new, the trove of documents released by the White House last week about the Russian investigation said, shed new light on a longstanding question. Whatever happened to the counterintelligence investigation,

the FBI wanted done into Trump's ties to Russia? Here, you're here. No, he says short answer as if he hasn't. He does not have the answer, but he said, he goes, short answer. It was sidetracked before it ever had a chance to get going. Michael, can I just be straight with you right now? Stop the presses.

You're just a dick. You're just really a dick. sorry, why was the counterintelligent? Now, first, you guys in the audience think Michael Schmidt knows more about this case or me as the former deputy director of the FBI? Who do you think knows me? I'm not asking the question as like who you like more. You may hate the show.

You may tune in to troll the chat. Whatever do you think. Who do you think knows more about the case? I'm just going to throw that out there. Probably me, right? Maybe I've seen things and have been read in on things. that Michael hasn't. So Michael's implying here

that the prior leadership of the FBI, which was a disgusting, disgrace to humankind, and an embarrassment to every sentient being in the cosmos. The leadership team of the FBI was a total humiliating embarrassment. What happened? They're all gone.

Fired or gone. There is nobody there who had anything to do with this stuff that we didn't get rid of. And if we find more later, they'll probably be gone too. folks the reason this fake investigation into trump being a russian spy was shut down is because there was nothing there this idiot cannot let this go imagine being like again this guy's like parents having to tell people who are saying like my son is a reporter still holding on to the pee-tap hoax

dude it's been years later this thing is done it is finished nobody believes you you. Let me help Michael out. I'm going to help you. And I'm going to just help you stop being a dick because you really don't need to be. Being a dick is a choice. You don't have to be one. Well, it's true. It's a choice. It's a diac. It's a name. Dick, you know, diag. Being a dick is a choice. So he's a diac. Michael, a couple points on this. Put up my post first. This is when I was at the, you've read this post before. I only put it up because I did, I did not intend this to be some viral news story, but I was at the FBI office on a Friday night. If you've heard this story, I don't want to bore you again. I'll make it quick. I was the in-town guy. Cash had

traveled that week on a specific trip he had to go to for work. So I had to stay in town. One of us had to be in town when we could. So I'm in town. I'm there late on a Friday night. Paula wasn't coming in. So I just stayed late. It was like 7 o'clock on a Friday. My security detail was getting antsy. What the hell is he stood doing the office? The reason I was in the office late until 7 o'clock is someone put a document in front of me. I'm not at liberty to say what it is.

It's not public yet. There's a whole investigation going on. I get it. The nothing is happening, doomers and dips shits. You can shove it up your ass. You don't know what you're talking about. So I'm just discarding you losers right now. Okay?

It's happening. You can just, again, roll it up in a ball. But I read this document. And I, next morning I woke up, and I was so stunned. by the media, their role in promoting this massive hoax that I just put this out the next day. And I knew it was going to be an issue.

And five minutes after I posted, I think Fox News broke in and was like, well, and I was like, oh, boy, maybe. I said, we're going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book, in accordance with the law. We're going to get the answers we all deserve. As with any investigation, I can't predict we're to land,

but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort of the truth, not my truth or your truth, but the truth. The sentence before that's the one that got everyone's attention. I said, we can't run a republic like this. I'll never be the same after learning what I've learned. I meant it. That was not an effort at hyperbole. I'll give you a little bit of insight without giving you any, given away any unnecessary information. There are three points I want to make to Michael Schmidt. So he doesn't have to be a dick, okay? Because being a dick is a choice and you don't have to be a diac. Stupid's a choice too.

You don't have to take the pet. You don't know anything, Michael. You have no idea. You've never been read it on this. You haven't seen what I've seen. If I'm making this up and I'm all lying about it, I'm doing it, this is recorded, right? Guys, this goes on demand, let him just check it.

Chasmithmsman's like, yeah, I think so. We haven't. So why would I say this if it wasn't true? I've seen things you haven't seen. Point number one about you media idiots, It's still promoting a pee-p-hoax. The people involved here in promoting this hoax that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians

to steal the election, there's a trove of evidence indicating that the people promoting this, political operatives, absolutely knew that the media and the FBI were going to be useful idiots, the old FBI leadership team. I'm just telling you you're going to look like idiots

in the long run. When this all comes out, you're going to look like fools. They knew you guys were too stupid to let this go because of your egos, and they played you like a really bad violin. It's obvious. That's point number one. If I've never said any of this before, I'm saying it now, because I can't take these idiots anymore.

Why was the counterintelligent investigation shut that? Because it was totally not predicated and made up. What do you want to start an investigation against you because they don't like you? That's not the way this works. Point number two, folks, there was never any evidence at all that Vladimir Putin even wanted Trump

to win the general election, ever. You're going to see that too. No, of course Putin wanted Trump to win. Who told you that? Michael Schmidt in the New York Times. They're lying. It's all here. Folks, I'm telling you, you're going to look

stupid. You could continue promoting this all you want. I didn't bring it up again. Michael Schmidt did because he wanted to be a dick. There was never any evidence Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win the general election against Hillary. Matter of fact, I can make a strong case to you that the evidence was the opposite. Thought Hillary would be more compliant. Whatever you told the public, it's a 180. Third and last point. There were no heroes in this story, but there are some people who had a lot of problems with this. Not a lot, unfortunately. I'm not going to over.

He said, oh, the whole FBI revolted and said, don't do them. No, no. Many went along. A lot of those people are not there anymore. But a lot of people didn't. When analysts in the USIC, the United States intelligence community, not just the FBI, but other intelligence agencies as well, pointed out that this whole Russia collusion story was,

sorry to say, but bullshit. Like, hey, this isn't real. Nothing you're saying is true. Like, you should probably stop saying it. there were leaders in these entities who totally ignored it and basically said like shut up what do you think joe de jeneva todd blanche and patel and me when i was what do you think we were doing you think i wrote what three books on this you think we weren't interested in this case we're just going to let the republic fall oh nothing's happy you don't know anything

you're just doing what these media people are doing you're giving them fodder Michael, you're about to be humiliated. You know nothing about the case. And I just want you all to please, respectfully, though, because I don't want to be like these crazed deranged, leftist. I know we're not like that. I want you to tell you to screenshot that tweet he has out there.

And I want you when all of this stuff, it may take a while. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't know the timeline. I'm not anymore. I'm not giving updates. I want you to screenshot this. And when all of it does come out and you see what I told, you, you're going to see, remember this segment, flags in the chat, that I was right,

and this guy's just lying to you. I'm getting tired of them, folks. There's nothing is happening, domer, grifter crowd in conjunction with their media losers. All they want you to do is not show up in November so they can take political power and destroy your lives. Take your health care package if you're a UAW worker, you know, steal your social security, bankrupt you, cause more massive inflation. What do you think causes inflation? Printing more money. Yes, Republicans and Democrats and printed a lot of money and spent a lot throughout the years, no doubt. They want to print even more, like 10x, 100x more over time. Your life is being destroyed by Democrats.

And the nothing is happening, Dumers, that are constantly attacking this president, constantly every single day you see them on X. It's nothing but whining. And I'm not talking about policy objections. There are even allies that don't like specific. That's fine. I'm talking about the every day, just tidal wave of this. That sucks.

That's great to something. Is this really genuine or is this person trying to demoralize people? The answer is probably the latter. You see it all the time. This guy, you notice Nick Firtas, he's great. I really enjoy his Twitter. He should follow him. He's had some really great thoughts on this about the Dumers and Gryfters.

I saw this the other day and I'm like, this guy nailed it. He's at at Nick, N-I-C-J-F-R-E-I-T-A-S for those listening on audio. Please give him a follow. He said, I've noticed that the most demoralized, quote, right-wing influencers are the ones that have done the least amount of actual work fighting for the things they claim to love. I guess it's easier to give up on that which you've given so little to defend. Yes, sir. These people didn't do anything. They didn't give up their jobs to go in the administration. They didn't have none. Most of them didn't knock on any doors. They didn't

run for them. They've done nothing. All they do is sit and throw popcorn. Sideline Stanley. That's all they do. So then when we put out actual things that are happening, just like I told you, as I said in the post when I was in the FBI, the one viral, this thing is a properly predicated investigation that's going on. I'm sorry it's not on everyone's timeline. That's not the way this works. It's not a convenient or acute answer, but it's the right one. You want things done the right way. You want things done the fast way because many times those are not the same thing. Sometimes they can be the same thing.

Sometimes they're not. When you see results like this and then you see the nothing is happening crowd, I'm why you're you understand, it is all in op to get you to be demoralized, to not show up, to hand power to people like Abdul al-Said in Michigan. Put up Cash's tweet, if you would. Again, how does this not matter to you? I don't understand like how these, this is, President Trump is this guy, when I'm telling you we got into office, I was there, I saw it.

He is absolutely adamant in crushing crime in this country. Folks, he doesn't care about the polls. A lot of these high crime cities you see in this tweet by cash, I hope you're reading along, I'll get to it in a second. A lot of these high crime cities, there's almost no Republicans to speak of at all. Newark, Baltimore, County, Boston, Washington, D.C. The proportion of Republicans in these cities and these localities are Zippo, nothing. Yet look at this tweet by cash. Homicides are down 17.2% across many of America's largest cities.

in the first half of 2026. Thanks to President Trump, letting us do our jobs. Look at these drops, folks. 64% newer. 60% Baltimore County. We installed the new SAC up there, is cleaning up up there too.

And the other guys doing a good job, too. Now, rapid response 47 put this up, too, on their account. Folks, the president doesn't care if this polls well. He cares about you not dying. crime data analyst Jeff Asher. The 2026 U.S. murder rate by far the lowest ever recorded.

What do you mean nothing is that? What are you talking about? The president deserves no credit for this ever recorded, ever. I want to show, I'm going to tell you what we did in a second. Look at these. There's actual charts. Look, you can look. There's pictures for the liberals.

This kind of stuff, it makes me like really laugh, right? Because it's president. Trump and his leadership. And I'm going to tell you exactly what happened. Because I want to be clear, if I'm going to ask people to produce spreadsheets and results, I should do it too, correct? Everyone in the chat agree? I get no pass.

Well, Dan, what if it was just luck? You and Cash and the president were sitting in there and a lot of people just woke up. Maybe Jasmine had just decided not to kill people one day, right? Maybe it was just luck. I'm going to tell you exactly what we did to put meat on the bone because the president let us do it. Now, you would think the Washington Post, the Washington Post, Justin, where's the Washington Post?

He's scratching and said, he said, I think Washington. So there's a place, state of D.C., good. So there's a district of Columbia. The Washington Post has a big presence in Washington, D.C. I mean, it's actually called the Washington Post. If you had the most significant crime reduction in U.S. history, happening like that under the leadership of President Trump, you would think if you were a reporter like Michael Schmidt

who thinks there's a pee-hooks or whatever, you would think you would call the people in charge, maybe Todd, Cash, me, the president, Susie, and say, hey, guys, can you explain this? No. It's not that simple. No, it's not that simple. What do we mean by it's not that simple?

That's a good one. Here is an actual headline by, what is that, four morons at the Washington Post. I know they got an army on the byline. Ben Carnack, Carnack like the Johnny Carson. John D. Hardin uses his middle initial. Juan Ben Jr. and Jasmine Golden.

Not our Jasmine. Apparently a very dumb Jasmine. They're really confused about this. They could have called an ass. They said a year after the Washington, D.C. takeover, Trump says crime is plummeted. It's not that simple. No, it is that simple.

It is that simple. Justin, how do we know if there's a homicide or not? Justin's like, hey, it's not that simple. You go like this, here. My elbows don't bend, but imagine I'm like feeling my pulse. There's no pulse. He's dead. How is he dead?

Justin's like, he's got a hole in his chest and looks like he was shot. And that guy said someone shot him. It's not, Justin's like, Dan, it's not that simple, bro. Stop being an asshole. It's not that bullet hole, chest, cameras so is shooting, show you. The guy's dead. The medical examiner confirms it. They put a mirror under his nose.

looks like he's not breathing, we're pretty sure he's dead. How do you know he's not dead? Because you show up at the same corner and there's not a fucking dead guy sitting there. There's nobody dead. It's just the bodega or the deli. There's no dead guy. You think people would know, hey, there's a fucking dead guy on the corner. Watch the boat.

It's not that simple. It is that simple. Dipschits, you could have called the Trump administration and, asked, hey, how is it that homicide rates have plunged so dramatically in crime rates? Well, I'm going to help you out. Jasmine Golden and the other Carnact, a musician or magician, whatever. I'm going to laserize it. I know.

I'm sorry, I'm in a mood today. Even with hyperdrive meltdown. You know, I can never let stuff go. Even though they tell you to business stop that? No, I can't. I'm sorry. That's why it shows. He, I know.

You almost should. I know. You should leave like a little chunk of it in there or something right now. So for those you listening, I don't know, we had a meltdown, so we do have to cut it out, but whatever. So that, for live people, you get it. First, we took a thousand agents out of FBI headquarters, not two, not 10, a thousand. Many of them were doing administrative paper pushing jobs and we said, hey man, we took analysts too. I think it'd be a better idea if you went out in the field and started to arrest bad guys.

Dude, is that a... Justin's like, that's a crazy idea. It's so crazy. No one else did it before we got in there. You know who signed off on it? Yes, President Trump. Because he was like, that sounds pretty common sense to me. If it was so common sense,

why didn't the Washington Post bother to ask? A thousand agents sent out into the field to go and actually arrest bad guys, not like Donald Trump family members. That's it, Dan? No, that's not even close to it. The FBI was really restricted on how they could assist local law enforcement on state crimes, where there was maybe not an immediate federal nexus, but there could be.

It's a fancy way of saying the FBI, they couldn't really help in a lot of cases. We rewrote the manual within guidelines because I thought it was overly restrictive and allowed FBI agents to go and use agents and our technology tools for, for tracking and surveillance tools, these local police departments, many didn't have, they were now for the first time allowed to go out and do it. And you know what we did? We put together a list, a list of high priority areas and flooded people out of headquarters, plused up offices like in Memphis and elsewhere,

and basically went to the locals and said, I kid you not, folks, I was in these meetings, and a lot of congressmen and senators were there too, so don't tell me it didn't happen, especially in Tennessee. The senators won't say anything. Heck, because they were Republicans and they were in on it.

They were in a, we sat in a room and said, give us a list of your 200 worst bad guys. Why? Because when I worked in the NYPD under Rudy Giuliani, we figured out that a very small number of bad guys does the overwhelming proportion

of violent crime engages in it. If you take 500 violent dirtbags off the street, the crime rate doesn't plunge by one, or 2%. In many cases, it plunges by 50 and 60% like you're seeing. Because how many criminals do you know? The answer is a lot of you don't know any. Some of you grew up with a kid that broke bad, but I can guarantee you in the chat, less than 5% of the chat knows anyone convicted of a murder, probably less.

Because it doesn't happen often. That sounds like common sense, Dan. It wasn't. The FBI was busy investigating Donald Trump. So we reform the whole use of what they call EUFAP warrant. This is really important. It's a story no one in the Washington Post will tell you because they don't care. It's not that simple.

Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Enabled us to go and interact with locals. I'll tell you another thing we did. We stopped obsessing over who got the credit. Is it a federal arrest local? You know what I told them the SACs in my calls with them? I don't give a shit as long as the bad guys in a prison. I don't care who gets the credit.

Isn't that what matters? media is like you guys are taking credit for state arrest. That's the point. We're helping the state go lock people up who are big. Do you idiots miss this? Finally, President Trump's decision to use Title VIII to get illegals out of the country in mass, in massive deportations that, yes, are still happening. Look at the numbers.

Don't buy the rhetoric. Got so many criminals out of the country in an unprecedented move. It changed the entire crime landscape in some sense. cities. Don't tell me what didn't happen. I was there. These people are just full of shit. And the Washington Post, I don't know, it's not that simple. It really is jerk wads. Then you got this other piece he just put up on the screen, financial lines, nothing is happening, Dumer's. There's no reforms, nothing's happening. The deep state still, really, it is? Then how come the financial times is complaining about us draining the deep state?

that both stories can't be true, correct? Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. guardrails, warns former security officials. They're upset that people who had politicized and acted unethically in their jobs have been removed at the FBI and the CIA and elsewhere. They're pissed over about it. I don't understand like which story's true. Nothing is happening. There's been no reforms or the financial times in the left wing media complaining about all the reforms.

You think Donald Trump got in office a second thing? time to start dicking around. This is why the exhausting, I can't encourage you enough on your social media. Just mute it in your brain, man. When you're seeing all the dooming and grifting, just mute it, man. It is only an operation to get you to not vote. I'm telling you, it's the sideline Stan Lee's out there. They'll never run, they'll never put their name on a ballot. they'll never ask for a position where they can go, they won't do any of that stuff. They just want to complain.

Folks, the truth matters here, right? We are fighting a really, almost in at least this modern era, unprecedented effort by socialist and commies to hijack a party in record time. The socialists have been around forever. Let's be clear. But the establishment Democrats have usually had a better lid on them. I'm going to talk with Vince about this in a few minutes.

You know, we have Joe Biden as, president because Bernie Sanders would have been the Democrat nominee if Jim Clyburn and other establishment Democrats hadn't stopped Bernie by shutting him down in South Carolina where they thought black voters in South Carolina would vote for Biden more than they would for Bernie. They shut them down. The establishment Democrats, I'm telling you, have lost all control now. Ben Shapiro's got a really good post up today. Don't take from Wisconsin last night like the establishment Democrats have won.

They're back in control. They are not. They are not in control at all. Socialists have completely hijacked and taken over the party. It's where the money is. It's where the energy is. We are against fighting right now against an unprecedented political opponent. And people on Folex MAGA are faking it on our side are trying to destroy our movement so we lose to these idiots because they have the same goal to destroy the country. They do. They have the exact same goal. Truth matters, folks. You cannot build a movement built on lies. And one of the, I said to Jasmine this morning, this clip is so important. How I missed this, I don't know.

I was scrolling around next yesterday, and I came across Jesse Arm, who was on CNN, who did an amazing job. He's debating this liberal, this Keith Boykin. And this is really a super important clip here. Jesse Arm asked the critical question you should ask of any liberal. And I'll tell you why it matters in a second. Don't gaff this off. is objectivity, in other words, just truth, inviolable truth, right? Objective truth.

Is objectivity white privilege? Watch the answer. If you understand this, you'll understand what we're up against. Check this out. Sonian was promoting document to be upheld around that time period, 2020, 2021, whatever it may have been, suggested that objectivity was a tool of white supremacy. I think we can all agree that that is facially ridiculous. us and you think objectivity is a tool of white supremacy? I'm not going to interrupt you. Just want to say, you presume things that we're not true. Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?

You said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't all. Can we all agree that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy? It requires a longer discussion we're going to have in the six minutes we have last. So I pose the question to you. I don't want to talk about that. I just don't want you to make a assumption. Because you made an assumption about me that's not true.

So is my, no, I'd like to know. I don't want to talk about it. I want you to continue. Well, look. You interrupt me, so I'm giving you the opportunity away in. I've never met. I don't think Jesse Arm, but Jesse, amazing, amazing job.

Enormous capital H-slash-T for hat tip. He understands something you need to understand too. We're not, we don't even need to get into like a big, long, eloquent explanation. Democrats do not believe in rules. Rules would be what would be called an objective truth. Like, you know, thou shall not kill, whatever it may be. because Democrats don't believe that because Democrats need to kill. Come on, Dan.

No, the modern socialist wing of the Democrat Party, believe me, subscribes to the same ideology Stalin did Mao that wiped out hundreds of millions of people. That's not a debatable. That's just a fact. You're either dead or you're not. They wiped out hundreds of millions of people. You can't have an objective truth.

That's why the Democrats hate faith and they hate family, because they're a source of objective truth, family values, inviolable rules over time which dads have handed down to daughters and sons. Church teachings like don't steal from your neighbor. The Democrats want you to steal if stealing works. That's not true. Remember the George Floyd riots? You guys remember the theft?

They're like, they're just stealing necessities. Some 300-pound lady walks out of a store with like a Rolex. That's on a necessity list. you had a 55 inch flat screen exactly objective rules pen them in democrat socialists don't care about any rules so therefore any rule is going to be classified as white supremacy that clip is super important hat tip jesse for doing it i'm going to show you what i mean it's why they constantly run away from their own records too they don't believe in anything but power and if you have to be exterminated or wiped out or jailed to get there, they'll get there.

Put up that KZinsky thing. This guy, Andrew KZinsky, does plagiarism-like research and stuff, a K-File. I think he works for CNN, but I'm not really sure. But he says, new. Before launching his campaign, El-Sayed removed 100-plus YouTube videos from his 2024 through a 2022-2020 account. Transcripts show him floating replacing the Second Amendment, urging an end to July 4th fireworks, blasting GOPs focus on the border. His campaign says they don't reflect his beliefs

today. That's so weird. Anyone in the chat change your beliefs before President Trump got elected again? Anyone? I guarantee anyone in the chat? You believe in the Second Amendment, prosperity-inducing tax cuts, right? You believe nothing's changed, right? Why do they change their minds on everything the minute they win an election? The answer is because they don't believe in anything but power. They will flip you the double battle mill finger and lie to you. Objective truths, values, rules, and principles are all white supremacy to them. Folks, they're like freaking camellions.

They're just bullshitting you. And I'm glad that UAW worker who's just figuring out that Medicare for all, i.e. shitty government health care, is going to steal your Cadillac plan you bargained for. What did you think this was coming from? It's coming from your pocket. And you're going to pay for it, too. the beatings will continue until morale improves. That's also why you get these shapeshifters and chameleons on the Democrat side

who will never stick to any rule because they need to break them to put you in prison. That's why you get people like Jasmine Crockett in one of my favorite segments. If I'm overdoing this, let me know, but I can't get enough of it. I asked the guys yesterday, I said, you've got to put together another voices of them. I can't. Listen to this one. First of all, it's good to see you in the new year. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin,

now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress. Meeting kids, allegedly, let me put the allegedly on there, y'all. I mean, like, there's a lot going on, like, putting water on. He was doing a lot. I'm just saying, like, there's a lot of nonsense that's popping off in the numbers. Okay. Voices of death. Why do they do that? The answer is because they will never stick to any rule or principle or character projection or speaking stuff.

They will change on a dime to get you to believe stupid shit so they can take away your health care, put you in jail or do whatever they need to do to you to enhance their power position. Am I doing enough? Folks, is this too much? Yes or no? I can't get enough. voices at Dems because it's everywhere. Once you notice it, you can't like unnotice it, you know? I guess I know, that is, that's a good one. I saw it yesterday.

The Bob Donnie won too. Exactly. Thank you. Everyone in the chat seems to agree. Montleys in the chat. Justin Pearson won's pretty good too. I'm going to tell you. The AOC when she's doing the Southern accent, that's, I don't know. That's up there too. The AOC one, that was hilarious. Like all of a, all of a sudden she's going to be, she's going to, AOC is going to be singing Dixieland Delight at the Iron Ball. Freaking hilarious. Get lost.

Here, I want to make my point, too. These guys spent a lot of time and this is really funny coming up. I'm a place for us. There's an interview with Hannity the other night. From this guy down, I think he's in the Boka, Bocca Raton area of Florida where I live. This guy, Oliver Larkin, who's like a socialist. The guy's a clown, but I love Fox for putting these people on. Because every time they go on the air, they always expose how stupid they are.

So I have this segment coming up, and we're calling it Dem's pretending not to know shit. We blank like shit out, but I just said it. Watch this guy. He's asked a very simple question by Hannity. And it goes back to my point Jesse Arm made. the Democrats will never give you a rule, a principle, a number, some law, because they can't have any restrictions on them obtaining power. This dude has asked a simple question by Hannity. You want to hike taxes on these people.

Just give us a number. I mean, you're running for office. You should have a number in your head. He deliberately pretends like not to have the number because his number is everything. And he just doesn't want to say it because the rule would pen him in. Check this out. Somebody making $100 grand a year. How much of every dollar should they be able to keep?

I think that the tax rate on most middle-class Americans. Oliver, give me a number. How much out of every dollar should they be able to keep? 100-grands, no, 100-gram. How much of every dollar should they be able to keep? It's a simple question. How much are you willing to let the government take? How much? Give us a number.

I want to see a return on our taxpayer investment. Give us a number. number somebody works hard makes a hundred grand a year how much of every dollar should they keep the i'm not interested in changing the tax rate on middle class americans on people making a hundred grand i want to give me a number how much out of every dollar should they keep that simple it's not that simple you're the one that wants you know cradle to gray wolf to the tomb they should be getting out what they put into the system folks this is deliberate this guy i'll Larkin, whatever his name is, he knows exactly what he's doing.

He's pretending not to know something. The number is everything. They want to take it, but they can't tell you that. So they can't put a rule or a number in place that would pen them in. He could have said anything. He could have said, I want 75%. But he didn't say that by choice, because it's not 75% of your wealth. It's all of it.

they don't want an objective truth out there. They want to subjectively treat everybody different depending on if you help them or get in their way. That's why they do this. Now, I have not seen this, but I came in yesterday. Haley's show was still live. I didn't even know.

I thought they were recording something. I walk in. I'm like, valagging around. I'm like, this is live. So you didn't see me on a camera because I did like a little ninja move. But I come into the thing, like an old decrepit ninja more like it.

I don't exactly move smooth. But I'm like, guys, we got to put this together for me because I just watched this clip. I'm like, I'm really tired of Democrats and socialists and others pretending not to know shit when they in fact know exactly what they want to say and they just lie about it.

I say, can you put together a segment? So I've not seen this yet on Dems pretending not to know shit. Check this out. Wow. A big, rural thing. And my daughter is assaulted and raped. Is there any agency that would seek

to find her assailant? What would it be if not police and where would he be if not a jail? So I guess I really want to avoid getting kind of caught into these hypotheticals. Do you believe Americans are better off that they were four years ago? So I was raised as a middle class kid. Another co-founder that you guys have admitted that you're using the infrastructure of the party has set up for ballot access. You're not actually Democrats. You're using the process that's already in place to gain power.

Well, we would ask everybody, including voters of the Democratic, Democratic Party of what what are Democrats? Any questions on the subject for our colleagues? Anybody? Okay. Well, that's it. Hearing no other questions. Thank you all so much for coming.

They're already paying 34%. No, I think that if you deal with the quality of their life. My question was, how do you plan to work with these folks if they win their seats, which they're expected to do, they're in deep blue districts, but they've opposed the people that you support it. So how do you plan to work with them? Well, I plan to work with them. to continue to support every single House Democratic incumbent.

Do you think that socialism is a winning brand for Democrats across the country? I think first and foremost, I go back to the days of Tip O'Neill. All politics are local. Hassan Piper, who obviously endorsed Abdul-Said. He's somebody who said, you know, that America deserve 9-11. Is he somebody that should have a role in the progressive movement going forward? You know, I think when we live, look at our elections that have happened. Well, that's it. Hearing no other questions.

applause in the chat for the excellent Dan Bongino, Inc. Bonino report, whatever we're calling this company these days. Congrats. Well, that's the first time I've seen it. Not a gimmick. Good job. That is excellent. Better than I thought, guys. I didn't even see that, Nancy. Anyone have any questions? Uh, yes, we all with no further questions. Thank you. Mottlies in the chat. round of applause for my team. Really good job, guys. I really appreciate that. Hey, I just want to throw this last story out there, too, because do you guys, you guys watch a lot of these streaming series and stuff like that. So, you know, sometimes my wife and I'll be sitting around and we'll watch these, she loves these crime shows. So one of these shows we watched that I thought was interesting for a while

was our friends and neighbors. Have you ever seen this show? It's about this dude that, like, robs his friends and neighbors and John Ham. Yeah, it's a kind of funny show for all the wrong reasons. But when you're watching the show, this kind of ties into my earlier thing about things we did at the FBI. What the hell? No, seriously. The technology enhancements in crime fighting and law enforcement folks, some we can talk about, obviously like camera technology has gotten better and things like that. Some we can't. But the tools are incredible. I'm going to tell you, I think it's going to get really hard to commit crime in the future. My big concern is civil liberties.

We worked on that a lot. We did a number of things, you know, Pfizer reforms, guardrails at the bureau. I mean, someone else could shake them up. But, you know, we fired a bunch of people who didn't have the same thought process, you know, on following the Constitution that we did. But technology to find you, if you're a bad guy, DNA technology, you know, is getting so advanced with AI. I'm going to tell you, in the future,

it's going to be really, really hard to commit a serious crime and get away with it. Like, why are you bringing this up? Because I saw this fascinating piece in this outlet, what is it, Mercury, that crime writers, like fiction novelists who are writing these crime stories, they can't, they don't know how to write these books anymore and tell these stories because it's impossible to get away with a murder when cameras are everywhere. The reason I bring up our friends and neighbors, you ever seen it, Justin? And they have to incorporate into the story, this little tool that shuts down the Wi-Fi and the cameras,

because nobody's going to believe in. And then I, there's this one scene. I want to, boy, he guy breaks in the house, whatever. He's running down the street because an alarm made it an account for one off. And I'm thinking like, dude, really? You know there's a thousand ring cameras catching him here too. It's impossible to believe. No one's going to be able to write crime dramas.

Here's what's going to happen. Everything is going to be set in the 80s. The 80s and the 90s are going to become. iconic. It's going to be the Halcyon days because everyone is going to have, that's before ubiquitous technical surveillance, UTS, we call on the FBI. You're not going to be able to write a freaking story set in 2025, 2026 or later anymore. I think about that all the time. Every time I watch a movie, I'm like, that's BS. A thousand ring cameras would have caught

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Certainly at that time, Vince Colon-Aids. Vince, welcome back to the show. Good to talk here. Thank you, brother. Good to see you, man. Always good to chat with you, man. You know, I think you being in the D.C. ecosystem, and you're on one of the most prominent radio stations in the country in WMAL. For those who don't know, WMAL is the big talk radio station in Washington, D.C. They dominate the market.

There really aren't a lot of natural competitors there, which isn't the case all over the country. Why am I telling you that? Because when you're on that station, you're really like talking. to lawmakers. So it punches way above its weight. But I think that gives you also, Vince, because a lot of these lawmakers, I know contact you and want to be on the show because it's in a D.C. market. You have a pretty good feel for kind of like when you're sniffing out some media bullshit. And I noticed yesterday you put up a post on X about the Secret Service story and President Trump and the catering truck in Turkey that I had addressed yesterday and on today's show. And I think

you kind of nailed it. Like media people, this story's not. about you, man. You don't have to be there to cover the president. It's optional. You don't like the danger. Go home. That's right. No, I, you know, as I was looking at the story, I was thinking, you know, if I had the opportunity to go on a trip like this, and I know you've been on many trips like this with presidents of the United States. And no doubt in the process, you know, you got Paula, one hoping that you're safe and that you're okay, these types of things. You know, if I told my wife like, hey, I'm going on a reporting trip, the White House said that I'd be able to go to Turkey, I guarantee you the first thing my wife would say is like,

do you have to go? Could you stay here? I want you to be safe. In other words, like everyone who's involved in this would know the risk. Everybody. Like, it's not like some mystery. Like the idea that there's an assassination attempt on President Trump is also not a mystery. The media just survived one. There was an attempt at the White House correspondence dinner. It's not like it's brand new information. And so when you get a story that says, oh, people are trying to kill President Trump, duh, we've all been watching it over and over and over again. But this idea that the media is presenting that, oh, like we had no idea. Oh, President Trump almost got us killed.

We were sitting ducks. Sitting ducks. You're sitting on an Air Force jet protected by the United States military and the Secret Service. You are inside of a very heavily fortified protected area to the extent that they can protect anybody. the fact that they established an even more intensive mode of protection for the president of the United States is a sign of the Secret Service doing the right thing.

It's not a story about you being the victim, you morons. And it's just the egos, Vince, it's just, I mean, it's so repulsive to listen to them again, make a story about themselves. And just one more angle on this, I was going to move on. But the story just fascinates me so much, not just given my background, but given my time dealing with the media. You and I deal with media people a lot, a lot of really good folks, a lot.

However, would you agree with me? Like you've had other jobs too. There's probably not as a percentage of egomaniacs in a space, a field with bigger egomaniacs than media. I would even say larger than like Hollywood and musicians, I swear to you. Like the media people out there, when their egos are so out of control that their argument in now is like, well, we should have been read in on the security procedures and how dare you keep this secret from us when the same media leaked the story about potential security issues on

the trip. Are you guys for real? You want to pull whatever hair you have left out of your head. Well, this is why trust in media has reached rock bottom because the point of the media enterprise as enshrined in the First Amendment is to speak truth to power, is to provide a check on the government's abuse of power. And unfortunately, a lot of modern day journalists have turned this into a gigantic narcissistic exercise. They get access to a camera and a microphone in Twitter. And then they decide that this is a story about me and how do I become rich and famous? And, you know, the truth is, you can become rich and famous if you do it the good old-fashioned way. Like, just deliver news and information to people. Actually deliver what they're seeking.

But instead, a lot of these guys are just delivering sort of this like drooling sort of naval gazing garbage and that's why people don't trust the media anymore. Are there good people out there? Yeah, I just, I just had Matt Miller on my podcast this morning. A guy is reporting on the inner workings of communism and the DSA. He's doing great stuff, but he's doing it the old fashioned way, which is he's going in there. He's doing the hard work and he's exposing the truth. That's what these people should be doing. Yeah, I mean, the formula is not hard. And you're correct. You know, when 80% of the public just doesn't trust you to get out the facts and your actual job is just to relay facts so people can form an opinion. I'd say that's a definition of you failed and like the

hashtag you only had one job and you kind of blew it. So moving on last night, big electoral shakeup. I mean, I think there's two big stories here about the Wisconsin primary. Francesca Hong, obviously a socialist, self-described in many cases, socialist. She loses in a huge upset, if you believe the polls. She was up by double digits in many polls, loses to Crowley. But I, I don't want people to forget that Abdul al-Sayyad in Michigan was also up huge in the polls and barely got through his primary for the Senate race in Michigan, him being a devout kind of socialist, although he hides it maybe a little better, more of his Islam, not based on his rhetoric. But the polls, I mean, they've been a problem for years.

Now you're starting to see like on the Democrat polls for Donald Trump, everybody always threw him in the garbage, no one ever believed him. But now you're even seeing a problem on the Dem side with this. Is it a cell phone issue? Is it they're just not knocking on enough doors? Are people not answering landlines? Is it a skewed sample set? I mean, is it all of it?

What are your thoughts? I think it's a combination of all of these factors. On the polling thing, if you talk to pollsters who do this job for real, who are sincere people trying to gather data, it's become more and more difficult through the years to actually poll people. And the reason for that is, I don't know, you ever get a call on your cell phone number, don't recognize the number.

you're like, there's no way I'm answering that. There's no way I'm answering that. And nobody answers it. In fact, your phone probably flags it is spam these days. So people just don't answer these calls. And so the ability to get somebody on the phone to assess their actual views, it's difficult. And the most enthusiastic lunatics tend to be the socialists who will get on the phone and start screaming about how much they love the socialist candidate.

So you're right. There is some of that is going to be just, it's very hard to pull this. And in fact, in Wisconsin, this Francesca Hong, she was up by over. 20 points in every survey. It wasn't just one survey. This is not like some sort of like, you know, this is a weird one. All of them. She was up 20, 25 points. It was crazy. That's why last night's result comes as such a staggering sort of like reversal of what everybody expected based on that survey data. But here's the thing I'm taken away from this, Dan. I think one of two things is going on here. Either one, the polls were catastrophically wrong, which could be the explanation,

or two, that the establishment Democrats employed their usual election shenanigans to try and stop a candidate that they didn't have control over. I think that it is a massive problem, and it should be a massive problem to everybody, is that in Milwaukee County last night, where, by the way, the county executive of that county just won the race, he's the guy, they were, they had all sorts of problems with over with five USB drives in the middle of the night. They couldn't count the votes. They couldn't download them. Steve Karnacki was on NBC News looking like a complete idiot, just staring at the screen being like, I have no idea what's going on.

And I keep saying, we need election integrity. There should be no circumstance where people are suspicious of elections like this. And the thing I'm looking forward to right now, Dan, is what happens over the next 24 hours? Does AOC and company, did they finally start coming out going, I kind of think we need the Save America Act? Something weird's going on in Wisconsin. Yeah, something very weird's going on. in Wisconsin. Either the polls suck or elections just rigged in another election, Democrats rigged another election and neither scenario is good. I'm pretty sure you and I have actually discussed

this before how that whole like Michael Anton theory that, you know, until you are personally invested and you experience pay, I'm not talking physical pain, but the pain of loss in an election, emotional, mental pain until you're personally invested, nothing is going to change. And I'm pretty show we chatted about this, how this SAVE Act eventually voter fraud, potential voter fraud, or suspicion of voter fraud, which I would argue does the same damage. People just don't trust it. The suspicion alone is enough. Oh, missing hard drives, whatever. It could be totally innocent. That's not the point. The point is people don't trust the result. We've said, like, this is going to eventually affect you. And I think that's a brilliant point. At what point did Bernie Sanders and

AOC go, hey, we demand a recount. We think it was stolen. Then all of a sudden, you'll see stuff change. Well, Bernie's weak. Bernie's pathetic. That guy, that guy, he comes out, he talks a big game about socialism and now he loves it and all this stuff. But in the end, really, the guy's a freaking pushover because in 16 and 20, the Democrats did rig the race against him in both cases.

And he still sucks up to them. And he will, he'll adopt their talking points. He used to be for borders. Now he's against them. Now he's for amnesty for illegal aliens. That guy sucks. He doesn't, even on his own, even judging him based on his own principles. principles. He's, he's just garbage. He's a coward. And so, remember when they locked him out,

South Carolina, Clyburn, and they tried to get Biden in it. I mean, they screwed him. That's what I always laugh with these socialists. They're like, yeah, we're going to run with the Democrats. They'll eventually become our buddies. They screwed you over too, man. The Republicans didn't screw you over with Bernie. The Democrats did. They locked him out. And like, look, I think part of this is that the Democrat Socialists of America people, the DSA people, I think they're trying to play a bit of a long game here. They really, since they're founding, their whole mission was to take over the Democrat Party. So this has been a decades long process. We are seeing some of the fruits of it right now.

They've made a tremendous amount of ground in terms of capturing that party and its power. But man, I'll tell you, the reality, of course, is like that party is just eating itself. That revolution is very much inside of that party right now. Well, that, again, teed me up perfectly. My next question was going to be about, you know, voter turnout. This is always an argument on the Republican side. It's an argument for any major political party. There's always going to be intra-party schisms.

Not everybody's an automaton NPC. But the Democrats have always said, oh, look, you Tea Party guys, you're always fighting with old-school Republicans and MAGA people versus libertarian, as if we're all a bunch of, again, robots or something like that, and we're not. We just have different opinions.

But generally, Republicans will show up and come home around elections. I'm not always, but they will. I mean, Donald Trump, you know, winning multiple times is pretty much, I think, evidence of that in the national level. We've done pretty well in the Senate. We have the House, despite having the media, academia, and all them against us. We still win. We don't win all the time.

But now I think we can turn that same question around to the Democrats. The Socialists, Vince, are crazy. The Tea Party folks were not. They were very rational. We're going bankrupt. Stop spending money. Nothing they said was crazy. The stuff these people are talking about abolish the Senate, abolish the presidency, abolish ICE.

defund the military is suicidal by definition. Do those crazy illogical people actually show up for the Dems with Crowley now in Wisconsin and with other candidates that have beaten in rare cases, socialists? The answer is I don't think so. Well, we'll see. Here's the thing that stands out to me, Dan. You're right about the reinvention of the parties. You know, there's oftentimes some sort of equivalency made about like, oh, well, the DSA is taking over the Democrats, the way the Tea Party took over the Republican Party, the way Trump has taken over the Republican Party. It's kind of, there's a mixed bag, actually, with that assessment. One, it's kind of true that basically somebody with a different ideology is beginning to dominate

within a party that didn't have that ideology. That's true. But it is possible for somebody like President Trump to come in and make the party better. And it is also possible for the socialist to come in and make the Democrats worse. And both of those things are definitely happening. And as Trump, in particular, and Trump voters have reinvented American politics, one of the realities now is that the low propensity voters are on our side, Dan. The working guy, the guy whose life is consumed with trying to figure out how to feed his family and less consumed with the day to day of American politics, he's on our side. You know, President Trump has non-college educated voters on his side.

The El-Sayed just won because he got the people who went to college and had their heads filled with all sorts of left-wing propaganda and it went into on average $43,000 in debt a person. They're now all completely bitter over the fact that they don't have any marketable skills. They're in massive amounts of debt and they're looking to use the government as a means to get their get back. That's what's happening. It's not a fight for the working class. It's a fight for over-educated, you know, propagandists who are or virtue-signal. on the backs of the working class, as these communists always do. Like, if you really were fighting for the working class,

you wouldn't kick the borders open. You would fight for American workers. But that's not what they're doing at all. They're kicking the borders open, screwing over American workers and pretending like it's a working class revolution. And so there's a lot. I'm sorry.

I mean, there's so much in what you said. I just don't want to miss one point you make because it's really important. I want the audience to get a brain tattoo over it. The shift, there's no question initiated by President Trump. from an old stodgy bow tie wearing Republican Party to a working class Republican Party of people who use their hands and their brains

who add value and change the world. Carpenters, electricians, you know, tin knockers, steam fitters, union workers. He did that. There's no question about it. There's no question about it. Like he definitely transferred, which is ironic.

A real estate billionaire was the one who finally got it and had his finger on the pulse of working class of America. because he's in the buildings with a hard hat dealing with electricians every day who were like, hey, Mr. Trump, that's why. He was dealing with in New York City, Vince, I saw it. Sorry to be long with this setup,

but this is really important. I saw it in New York City. I grew up in New York City when Donald Trump was the guy. He was dealing with unions with the city. He was dealing with mobsters trying to shake people down. Like, he had to learn to talk the language of the people. I bring that up because having the working class is your base, low propensity voters that can show up and swing an election.

They're not going to be the middle class anymore, Vince. You're seeing these cloud compute centers where electricians are making $250,000 a year, HVAC guys going forward who have a small business that now use AI to take a picture of a unit. Oh, look, that's this. We're going to fly a drone in. He's going to be able to charge like half as much

because he's out of there and to blow up his business just using AI. They're going to be millionaires. And a lot of these women's studies, basket weaving, you know, 19th century urban studies majors who have no freaking skills at all are going to have no place in this economy. They're going to be overeducated idiots.

They're going to be the ones beneath the income scale to the valuable dirt under the fingernails using your brain, manual labors, who are now our base, not theirs. Yes, and that's why, I mean, If you think about what is happening in America, Democrats have orchestrated all of this. I mean, in terms of the destruction of that class of person, like they told people, they said, just go to college, just go to college.

You'll be guaranteed a job. Nobody's guaranteed a job. You got to work your ass off. It doesn't matter if you have a degree or not. You got to work. You actually have to work in order to succeed. That's the way it works in America. It's one of the great promises of America.

You can do it under your own volition, under your own power. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. And yet, they basically told. told all these people, just go to college. You'll be fine. You'll get, you'll get guaranteed income. They go to college. They get their heads filled with nothing but nonsense. They end up with massive amounts of debt. They get out of school. And now they're bitter. They're full of all this resentment that they were sold a bill of goods. And they've been trained to hate capitalism in the process. That toxic stew results in a bunch of people who are now virtue signaling about how much they

love the average person, the working man. And yet they're just basically trying to steal from the rest of us in order to make up for their terrible decisions. And that's just what we're watching. I'm pretty convinced of it. I actually think that they do, I mean, people, a lot of these socialists people, they do have a problem. They're in massive debt. A lot of them are in massive debt. And they have nothing to show for it. And now they're angry about it. And like, I just think the big problem was government funded all of this in the first place. We were underwriting the cost of education. Education's been outpacing inflation for years. You've covered this, Dan. It's like, It's crazy. And it, for nothing, for no value whatsoever, except for the destruction of America.

Let's end that nonsense. And the thing that kind of burrows like a tick under my skin is, I'm not mad at you because the system, whatever you want to call it, promised you something. Hey, go to college, work art. Some of them did. Some of them chose, you know, 19th century urban studies or whatever. Maybe they were interested. I don't know. Not every one of them's liberal. A lot of them are in social sciences. But I'm not. Some kids are just idealists. They're like, oh, I'm going to go change the world and write a thesis about urban studies. And they came out, and now, like you said, they're 200,000 in debt. They were offered maybe a $50,000 a year job

as an assistant somewhere, which 20 years ago adjusted for inflation may have been okay, but now because the government spends all this money, they're hurting. What bothers me about it is not that. What bothers me about it is they don't lift and shift. Like you and I throughout our lives and our multiple careers,

Some things work out, Vince. Some things don't. I've tried experiments with things. I've had books that did really well. I've had books that didn't do really well. I wrote a whole book about flopping and things, decisions I made that didn't work out. Try to get into medical school. I couldn't get in.

I went to business school instead. What bothers me about it is the flexible, gritty people, the folks listening to the show, you, the listeners out there who get it, the working class folks, they've had to adjust. Maybe they had an HVAC business in New York. York and it didn't work out. So they moved to Florida and focused on air conditioning and now they're millionaires. That's not what the overeducated, you know, progressive lib, wearing a bow tie, lecturing all us about how stupid we are. That's not what they're. They're just sitting back whining and taking out their rage in the election booth. Well, yeah. And then they're teaching the youngest generation

that there's no such thing as earning success or doing what Dan did in this world. It's not possible that that all fortune is ill-gained fortune that, um, that all land is stolen that that look around you we have nothing to be grateful for uh it's it's basically it's a um it's a politics of despair and it's and it's meant to cultivate a power grab it's meant to get you to surrender all of your agency because no matter what you do you're never going to succeed so just give all your power to the government and we'll make sure your happiness comes from the government and we know what that experiment looks like we've seen to play out, especially over the last century, over 100 million people have died due to this

ideology, killed by their government. We don't want that here, which is why we're trying so hard to fight back against it. Vince, last question for you. So, you know, one of the things I think that's really going to damage the Democrat brand going forward is not forcefully distancing themselves from this socialist fiasco. It's clownish. I mean, it's buffoonish, but it's also obviously very dangerous, things like abolish ice, you know, defund their military, just, again, suicide. by nature. The problem they're going to have, and this ties into what we've been discussing, is as the working class American that makes this country move, you know, everyone from grave diggers to other, I mean, people who just work for a living and use their minds and their

hands to create, they see through this stuff. And this insulated academic bubble, a lot of these overeducated, you know, white Carins and, you know, brands and whatever. I have, my name's Dan, people hate that name too, so I get it. It's always the number one name, people. So I'm with you, I get it. You get the point. It's a joke. Laugh.

Okay. But a lot of these overeducated brands and stuff out there, they live in this bubble where they just talk to each other and really don't get it. The working class folks who used to be like union type Democrats, this is a toxic, toxic brand. I mean, if you can't win in Wisconsin when you're up 20 points in the polls, which is, you know, a purple state, obviously. But still, you should be able to. able to, you know, get the gusto going with all that money and support she had and all the free

media. If you get smoke like that, despite being up 20 points in the polls, this should be a harbinger like, hey, man, this is not your future. You better make a hard break now. Yeah. And this needs to be a reminder to Republicans that they have a great hand to play. You have a wonderful hand to play, which is like, look, we're not these lunatics. But in the meantime, that's not enough. You can't just say, look how crazy they are. Your obligation is to, you have. You're fulfill the Trump agenda, which is, hey, I'm going to secure your borders. I'm going to improve the state of this economy by getting the government out of it. I'm going to make it unfettered so you can actually succeed in this country. I'm going to fight for you. The Republicans should be

doing that. So this is one of the reasons that annoys me so much that the United States Senate's on vacation right now. Now, some of these senators would be like, well, I'm actually home campaigning. Okay, yeah, whatever. You know what the best campaign would be if you were actually succeeding. The best campaign is doing stuff. Yeah. Just deliver from me, baby. All I need you to do is deliver the bare minimum. The bare minimum here is the Save America Act.

It's so crazy. It's like pulling teeth to get them to secure elections. How many more reminders do you need? We just saw it in Wisconsin. They can't even get the USB drives counted. Can you give me some election integrity? Make the case against the Democrats who keep running this country down into the dirt.

Yeah, I'm stunned that they didn't do more with that. I really am. Very disappointed. A lot of good Republican centers that Mike Lee has been busting, his ass on it. So I don't like collective guilt because it's not true in this case, but a limited number of people out there, you know, Markowski and others just chronic disappointments have just ruined it for the whole brand that it's really sad because it was such a, just a no-brainer, almost by definition. I mean, the polls are overwhelming, even Democrats. Vince Colon-Ase,

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