The Dan Bongino Show - Ep 474 Terrorists Continue to Hit us as Hapless Politicians Fumble

Episode Date: June 5, 2017

In this episode I discuss the London terror attacks and how one politician's response is completely wrong.   I also address how liberalism is devoid of principles.  https://m.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2017/06/04/walters-bernie-sanders-made-more-than-1-million-in-2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Hi, welcome to the Renegade Republic. I'm Dan Bongino. Producer Joe, how are you today? Ready, set, go, babe. Here we go. Yeah, back from Los Angeles. You know, folks, before we jump in today, I got to tell you, California is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is really a shame what the scourge of liberalism is doing to that place. If you have not visited California, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. It is a just a wonderful, beautiful place. And there's some really, really good people there. It's a shame

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savage animals have learned to move progressively down the logistics and planning scale while staying high on the savagery scale. Yep. Here's what I mean by that. 9-11 was a intricately detailed attack that required extensive logistics and planning. It required flight training. It required a command and control structure.

It was basically a top-down Al-Qaeda run operation where the instructions were sent down from the top and all of this stuff was coordinated. Now, with that coordination and extensive operation like that, that requires extensive planning, flight training, and all of the financial transactions that went on, most of the estimates about 9-11 that you'll see from counterterrorists and terrorism analysts, strategic analysts, most of the financial analysis say it would cost between $500,000 and a million dollars, which might not seem like a lot of money, folks. But when you're trying to transfer $500,000 and a million dollars in order to pay for things like flight training and the logistics

and things like that, every transfer, every dollar transferred creates a financial trail, which also creates the opportunity to be exposed. So it creates an opportunity for law enforcement and a disadvantage for the terrorists. Make sense, Joe? Sure does. If I have to send up a dollar to you to go buy a pen dart to commit an assassination, that dollar, if I send it by Western Union, creates a financial trail back to me. Got it. And terrorists don't want to be discovered. So whenever I do cable

news hits, I refer to these as the investigative footprints. Now, having been a federal agent involved in a rather large case that had a significant nexus to terrorism that involved counterfeit credit cards, these financial footprints are very discoverable. Now, they hide them through a number of illicit transactions where they shuttle money. They're involved in everything from the sale of untaxed cigarettes to the sale of weapons and opium in Afghanistan. The point I'm trying to make is that is very high on the planning scale, a 9-11 style attack.

Now, given the spectacular fashion, I'm obviously not saying that qualitatively. I mean spectacular in the fact that it was so dramatic in a tragic way. They thought that that was the better way to approach terrorism. Like, look, we're going to knock down a few buildings with airplanes and look what we're going to. And there was no question that it was a horrific incident. But the problem is, again, that it created a paper trail and it created a way to break down the entire organization. Now, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, AQAP, they've moved down the planning scale significantly. They went from 9-11 style attacks to mass shooting style attacks to where we are now, Joe, which

is running people over with cars, jumping out, and in case you haven't heard the latest update on the London attacks, these three animal savage pigs that got out of the car, these terrorists with the knives and killed people, apparently walked up behind them and slit their throats like

animals. Jeez. Yeah, I know, Joe. I mean, I was taking an Uber back to the airport to LAX. I was talking to the driver, really nice lady. And I said to her, I mean, can you imagine that? Slitting a man's throat. I mean, I know it's a family-friendly show. There's no need for gore or details, but I couldn't do that to an animal.

Right. I mean, really, if I had to eat and was starving, I would have a tough time. I'm not here to play Captain Tough Guy with you. I would have a really tough time. I mean, if I met my family living or dying, of course, I would do it and I'd eat that animal, but it wouldn't be easy is what I'm getting at. To do that to an innocent human being, do you realize what kind of a savage you have to be to do that? I mean, to compare you to animals is like unfair to animals. Animals don't slit each other's throats. I mean, it's ridiculous. For fun, that is. I mean, these guys think this is like, oh, yeah, for them, this is like a comedy act. This is how sick and deranged these people are. These types of attacks are significantly lower

down the planning scale. They don't require almost any financial transactions at all. I mean, to buy, what, a knife? I mean, you could get a knife from your kitchen cabinet. To acquire a vehicle? I mean, you can rent one. Most of them have vehicles anyway. Do you get what I'm saying, Joe? The problem, the larger argument

I'm trying to make here, and I was trying to make on some cable news hits this weekend, is what the London mayor told his citizens out there, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London,

when he said at the end, you know, oh, don't be alarmed. My humble opinion is awful advice. Now, I got into a fight with a Huffington Post Twitter guy this weekend,

another Twitter tough guy who completely misquoted me. And folks, you wonder why I can't stand the media. I do a hit on Fox and almost verbatim, here's what I had said on the weekend show, Joe. I said, talking about Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who had said in a speech to the citizens of London after the attack, you know, there's no need to be alarmed. And I said, folks, that's absolutely terrible advice. I said, don't panic. There's no need to overreact. Matter of fact, the chances of you being involved in a terror attack are thankfully

extremely low. But to say not don't be alarmed, which I mean, clearly, Joe, there's a continuum right between a low level of alarm, high level of alarm and like complete panic. Right. I mean, you get that like normal. Apparently, something the post guy didn't get that. He quotes me and says, Dan Bongino says, don't panic is good advice. When I literally said, folks, please don't panic, which is no, whatever.

I was going to waste some time on this today. And I'm like, you know what? My audience doesn't care about idiots from the Huffington Post. So I'm going to like move on. And then the New York Times guys, even dumber. Alex Burns or something retweets it and doesn't even realize I was entirely misquoted. But you can look at it on my Twitter and watch the whole Fox hit if you have any dispute about what I'm saying. But the point I'm trying to make is, folks, you have to be a bit alarmed here. Yeah. And you should be a bit alarmed and carry

that low level of alarm around with you because there's almost no way investigatively if you don't if we don't reform the way we're conducting counterterror investigations to stop these things because there's no financial footprints there's no phone calls there's no phone calls but not no but there are very few phone calls between the guy taking the flight training at 9-11 who was probably communicating regularly with al-qaeda with base al-qaeda now you get a guy with a car, all he has to do is watch a video, jump in a car and do the dirty deed.

There is almost no investigative footprints for you to follow. Does this make sense, Joe? Yeah. We're going to have to find a new way to stop this. And this is what's bothering me about the, we're handling this the old way and we're relying too much on what they call SIGINT

or signal intelligence. We're relying too much on metadata collection, the NSA collecting, as I said on the show this weekend, emails from Joey Bag of Donuts overseas. And listen, I have no problem with monitoring people who have no constitutional rights. You want to monitor the email traffic of people from terrorists from Yemen sending emails to the United States, great. But I have a real problem with wasting a lot of time collecting metadata on American citizens who have constitutional rights, while at the same time foregoing the opportunity to physically surveil people in the United States or the UK or someone else who may be involved in a terror attack. Joe, you know, last week we brought up the term opportunity cost in conjunction with the discussion we were having on economics.

There's an opportunity cost, though, when it comes to law enforcement as well. If you listen to last week's show, opportunity costs are basically the cost of a foregone opportunity. So I use the example of, let's say, my wife, who's a very talented web developer. She can make six figures easily if she wants to because she's very good at her job. She can make six figures easily if she wants to because she's very good at her job. If she gives up her job as a web developer and decides to go into McDonald's and flip burgers, listen, I'm not knocking the job. Please, I'm just trying to make an analogy. Don't take this the wrong way.

And let's say that job pays $15 an hour and my wife makes $30,000. From a pure accounting standpoint, my wife is $30,000 better off, right, Joe? She made $30,000 in income working at McDonald's. But from an economic perspective, she's not $30,000 better off. She's $70,000 worse off. There is a difference. You have to understand this. This is a critical tenet of modern economics, but it applies in all other fields as well. There is a difference between accounting benefits, she made $30,000, and economic benefits. She really lost 70

because she could have made 100 as a web developer and she just didn't want to do it because she, whatever, she likes McDonald's and she likes the free meals as she works there. Who knows? She lost 70K. The same thing applies in security, folks. There is an opportunity cost to the foregone opportunity.

If we are going to send billions of dollars in assets and manpower to monitor 300 million Americans and, well, maybe not monitor, I want to be fair, but collect the data and analyze the data on 300 million innocent Americans, rather than focusing on physically watching people like old gumshoe style detective work we used to do, what we would call, you know, human, gathering human intelligence rather than signals intelligence. Folks, then there's a real problem here. There's an opportunity cost.

And the opportunity cost for dedicating assets to signal intelligence rather than watching potential bad guys is some of those potential bad guys who are now not being watched are going to slit throats on London Bridge. Guys, I'm not trying to be a know-it-all here, and I'm not questioning the dedication of the people who work at the NSA or the intelligence community or anything like that. Please don't take this the wrong way. I've worked with these people often, the CIA specifically,

especially when I was over in Afghanistan doing that trip for Barack Obama, that super secret trip we did, which I'm laughing, but it's true. And these guys and women are unbelievably brave. But I'm telling you from a larger umbrella perspective, from a guy that's received numerous country briefs and has worked with a number. The nice part about the Secret Service is you work with everyone. You work with the FBI, local law enforcement, state police, intelligence agencies. You get a really good flavor about how all of them do what they do. And I'm telling you, we're making a huge mistake.

So that goes to point two, and I don't want to make a personal safety request of all of you. Keep yourself safe. I'm going to wrap with that until I move on to a separate story. We have to change what we're doing. We have to go back to the two S's I discussed last week and the week before. We have to go back to the old physical style. We don't have to abandon NSA metadata collection. I think we have to refocus it from collecting on US citizens to collecting around the world because we're developing a massive mistrust in our intelligence infrastructure. But we have to go back to getting on the ground and developing sources. I know we're doing it, but we're not doing it enough.

How do I know that? Because people are slipping through all over the world, Joe. Somebody knew about this guy's plans. You know, my third book I have coming out, I talk about school shootings and presidential assassinations, how somebody knew, somebody typically knows about a school shooting before it happens happens and they just didn't say anything because they didn't think the perpetrator was was you know was authentic they

thought he was just making it up this happens with presidential assassins and targeted assassinations as well where somebody knew and they're like oh he wasn't really going to try to take a shot at the president folks the same thing happens in these terror attacks somebody had to know and we just didn't have the sources to crack the plot before it was hatched. So sources, number one, we have to refocus on sources, sources, sources. But the other S here is surveillance, physical surveillance. We're focusing too much on electronic surveillance. And we're trying to be keyboard commandos out there when what we should have is our physical surveillance capabilities have to be up dramatically, geometrically, exponentially. Choose whatever adjective you want to use or adverb here to make

yourself sound more sophisticated, but we have to dramatically increase this. The UK, they said this weekend that they're monitoring enough people to fit in a football stadium. Well, Joe, obviously, you're never going to have enough MI5 or police assets to surveil 20,000, say, potential terrorists. Because you got to remember, you're talking about 24-hour shifts, three people per shift, technical support in the background. You'd be talking about an army of almost a million people. Okay, that's probably not possible. But can we at least start fixing? I mean, can we start bumping it up and and focusing on the worst of the worst i'm telling you folks you would be disturbed if you knew how limited our physical surveillance capabilities were in the united states yeah i don't want to give up numbers

because i don't want to put anyone in jeopardy but i have no problem whatever whatsoever telling you about this to increase public pressure to fix it. The FBI has a surveillance group. This is what they do. They focus solely on physical surveillance. These guys and women are extremely limited. They just don't have enough numbers. We're letting people out there, and we're focusing on what? Like listening to their emails while we're not watching them?

Folks, this is really critical stuff. All right. It worries stuff. All right. It just worries me. All right. One final tidbit here on this. You know, I was given some personal security advice because this is really damaging stuff. This idea that these guys are going to start running over people with cars, getting out of the cars with knives, you know, slitting people's throats. Again, I don't want to be dramatic.

lives slitting people's throats. Again, I don't want to be dramatic. The chances of this happening to you, thankfully, in a country as large as the United States are extremely slim. But folks, because the chances of something are extremely slim, again, do not follow the advice of the London mayor who gave the worst advice I've ever heard and don't be alarmed. Listen, the chances of me being in a plane crash, Joe, are minute, are so small that the fact they're into your daily life is almost insane. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be concerned about it. When I get on a plane, you know what I do? I always look. Is the exit closest to me in front of me or is it behind me?

Is that panic? According to the Huffington Post reporter, oh my God, Bungie knows panicking. He's looking for the exit. No, I'm just being smart. Because I have a low level of alarm that there's a one in a million chance this plane could be in some kind of an accident. Well, folks, the Huffington Post

writer, see, I said I wouldn't go into that. I hate wasting a lot of time on idiots, but because I know, I don't want to upset my audience. You don't need to get involved in my personal Twitter fights. But I think the larger point I'm trying to make here is to be fair and to give this a point you can take away rather than like, well, Dan's just upset at the Huffington Post, which I am, to be fair. I thought he sounded like a jerk. He's like, failed congressional candidate. Dan Bongino says,

don't panic is bad advice. When I literally said, don't panic. I mean, it's like, are you that dumb? But what's bothering me is when left-leaning kookadoodles like this guy and other politicians go out there and say, don't be alarmed, don't be alarmed. And to be fair, Republicans have done this too. You know, I never really liked George W. Bush's advice after 9-11 when he said, well, you don't need to go shopping. Like, what? Dude, the world just changed.

Can we recognize that? I'm telling you it's bad advice because that's not what they do on a plane, even though the chance of being in a plane crash are minute. They give you the safety briefing, Joe, right? You've seen it. Your flotation device is under the seat. By the way, Virgin Atlantic has a really great safety video. They're, like, dancing around. It's pretty cool.

So, hat tip, Virgin Atlantic. But the oxygen mask, put on your mask before you help anyone else. Why are they doing that? Why are they doing that? They know the chip. They're doing it because it's smart to be prepared. Just in case, yeah. Just J-I-C, man, just in case.

Now, the reason lefty kookadoodles don't want you to be prepared is because they think you are a bunch of white hayseed racists and the minute someone says hey don't panic don't overreact but a little bit of alarm isn't you know isn't necessarily the dumbest thing in the world right now given that we have a bit of a heightened terror these kooky leftists the first thing they think joe is islamophobia oh my god they're gonna start targeting muslims yeah Oh, my God. They're going to start targeting Muslims. You're just an idiot. You're just an imbecile. I'm not going to give this speech again that I've given a thousand times about how, of course, the billion Muslims in the world are not involved in terrorism.

We don't be dead. Of course not. But the fact of the matter is there's a subset of people who practice a very radical form of this religion who've decided to use this religion as a motivation to kill people. That is a factor. That's a variable, folks. It's called evidence. For you to ignore that makes you an idiot. So the reason, because the why matters, that lefty kookadoodles and lefty media outlets continue to insist that anytime someone says, hey, be a little bit alarmed. The reason they don't want you to do that, they attack people like me who have experience in this. By the way, this clown, I don't know if he's 20 years old and he sits in footsie pajamas and drinks hot cocoa all day.

I don't know what experience he has in security at all. There's this clown. But he attacks me because he's a lefty nut, not because he lives in reality. And he assumes that we're all a bunch of dopey rednecks and that we're going to go attack the local Muslim resident in our neighborhood if we say, hey, be a little bit of alarm because he's an idiot. He's an idiot. And what this idiot doesn't understand is this is precisely why 11 percent of Republicans think the media is credible. Eleven percent. That means nine out of 10 Republicans think you're a joke. Like, I mean, seriously, almost half the country thinks you guys are morons.

Nobody reads your stuff. You're a joke. You're a clown. And this is why Trump won the election in an electoral college landslide. You won in the coast. You get rid of California and New York. The guy won one of the biggest landslides

in American history. But they don't get that. They make no effort to change. Instead of listening to what I said, folks, I'm telling you, there's a political motivation behind everything. And I've told the story when I was a Secret Service agent after 9-11. I've told the story a number of times in the show, but I'll just tell you quickly again. Not that we need to do this, because, of course, if you're Muslim, you have nothing to apologize for for this, that you didn't do

anything, right? If you're a patriotic American Muslim who's a law-abiding citizen, you have nothing to apologize for. Nothing. You didn't do anything wrong. Just like if you're Russian and a Russian mobster, he goes and kills someone. But we do have a responsibility, if you know something, to say something. And one of the things after 9-11, when I was a federal agent, Joe, that really changed the way I... I'll be candid with you. I looked at all of this. Most of the tips we got, because people would call the Secret Service Office. They thought we were like the CIA. They did. They hear Secret Service. People get confused. They think you're the FBI, the CIA. They would call the Secret People get confused. They think you're the FBI, the CIA.

They would call the secret service with tips. And a lot of those tips came in from really, folks, I'm telling you the truth, patriotic Muslim Americans who said, hey, I think there's something up in my neighborhood. So I tell you that, but you already know my audience is really smart. So on our side, Joee we're very reasonable conservatives and liberal excuse me conservatives and um good republicans and libertarians we're reasonable of course all muslims aren't involved in this of course if you're a muslim you have nothing to apologize for you didn't do anything but all we ask is that if you see something say something literally not to use the over but sources matter right there's nothing irrational about that if i'm

italian if i knew something about the italian mob where i live in palm city florida i'd be the first one to call the local police it doesn't mean i'm biased against italians but liberal idiots like this huffington post joker who i've spent way too much time on already doesn't see the opposite you say something common sense like you know what what? Have a low level of alarm, but don't panic. Don't overreact, but know your surroundings. And what does he do? Automatically, failed congressional candidate says, don't panic is a bad idea. You're a jerk. You're a jerk with a capital J. Now, I said I'd get to a little piece of personal security advice and I want to skip it. Here it is. Folks, when you go into any location, now to be clear, this wouldn't have helped you on London Bridge, the attack. I just want to be clear on that because there's really

the whole point of a bridge is just one way in, one way out. That's one side or the other and you're outdoors. But when you go into a location, because there were some stabbings in this, like a restaurant or a movie theater or a bar, and there's a little bit of a crowd, even if there's not a crowd, human beings have a natural tendency to want to exit in a panic, there's that word again, the same way they came in, even if there's a more convenient exit right near them. It's a natural human printing on the brain, nobody knows. Maybe it's that you walked in that way. You're more comfortable walking out. In order to override that, folks, when you go into a place, again, for the Huffington Post guys, don't panic every time you go in a restaurant, you idiot.

That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is when you go in a restaurant, take two seconds of your life to look at where the nearest exit is. I'm not going to give you a whole big elaborate security plan. This isn't the show for that. We'll creep them in slowly over time. Know where the exit is. When you look at it and you consciously register in your brain, there's an exit in the local bonefish I eat at that's right behind where I'm sitting. You will consciously take that exit if God forbid something were to happen in that restaurant in the minuscule chance something does. If you don't do that, mark my words, wherever you walked in, even if it's 100 yards away from where you are, you will bypass four or five exits in order to go to that front door. You don't believe me?

Look at the Rhode Island fire. Remember that tragic Rhode Island fire? Where did everybody get stuck? At the front entrance, even though multiple exits were unused. That's pretty simple. Pretty simple step. Pretty simple advice. Really.

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This one fired me up this morning, this story. So I'm looking at Drudge and on a completely changing direction here. And, you know, one of my ongoing themes running throughout the show is how the left are frauds. I mean, one of the big problems I have with liberalism is that they're just not principled. You know, I have a grudging respect for people who are ideologically incorrect, but are principled. And one of the stories I use throughout the show is when I was a police cadet,

New York with the gray shirts and you have to go, the cops had the blue shirts. You had the gray shirt, which made everybody instantly in New York city. No, you were a rookie. Hey, we're okay.

Do you be like embarrassed, hanging into your head a little bit, but I used to go to work in the police Academy for training and I would see the actor, Matthew Modine. He was in, what was that movie he was the wrestler i forget i don't know he was a bit matthew you've probably seen the actor before he's a he used to be kind of an a-list guy but he's you know kind of dropped a bit but i haven't seen him anything recently i would see him on his bike cruising around manhattan and you know i i asked one of my

more politically uh motivated friends at the time is sergeant marty who's a sergeant now he wasn't back then i say what's the deal with that guy and he's like i think he's like a big green activist so he takes his bike around and believe me it was like 90 degrees when this guy now keep in mind this guy's probably worth a couple million dollars easy he was like an a-list guy for a while right and you know joe i disagree with his politics i think environmentalism has become a religion and it's not based in science anymore. Not that I disagree with taking care of the environment. I just disagree with the way the left is doing it.

They're actually destroying it. But I quietly respected this guy because, Joe, he had principles and principles have to matter. Yeah. Even if you're as long as your principles involve like killing people, you know, principles have to matter. Like he has the this guy had the dignity to live by his own creed. I believe in global warming or global cooling or whatever the left's model of the day is. I'm going to ride my bike to work even though I have the capability to pay for a car service. Okay. You know what? Hat tip, respect, disagree with you, but I get it. What I don't respect about 99.9% of the other liberals out there is they are totally,

completely unprincipled because they recommend a series of principles for you, Joe Armacost, to live by, but they don't live by those principles at all. Now, folks, maybe I'm old school, but I'm not a ninja, man. I'm a samurai, okay? I believe in the Budo code. I believe in it. I believe that once you stand by a set of principles, that you don't go assassinate people with their backs turned like the ninjas. You stand there and you fight face to face like the samurai did. You have to live by a code, even if your code is wrong. And if you figure out your code is wrong, you change your code, but you live by it. Liberals don't live by a code. They want you to pay higher taxes, but they don't pay higher taxes

voluntarily themselves. Just on principle alone, Joe, you would think the federal government would be raising billions of dollars a year in voluntary tax payments. If your principle as a liberal is that the government's a benevolent force in people's lives and that by paying higher taxes, we increase the power of the government to do good things, then why aren't you paying more? It's a simple question. I ask them all the time. Sorry to yell, but it's a simple question i ask them all the time sorry to yell but it's a simple question i've asked this to a thousand liberals if the government

is a force for good in life and financing the government to taxes is a force to bolster that good why don't you give more what's stopping you the answer is because your principal's bull. It's bull. You don't believe it. I believe in charity. Folks, I'm not going to spin your wheels. Do I give 20% of my money to charity? No, I should give more.

And I'm hoping after this book, Rock and Roll, this book's going to do really, it's a good book, that I'll be able to do that. But I give money to charity not because anyone asks me to. I shouldn't have to ask you as a liberal to give money to the government. Pay more in taxes because you think it's a good thing, not me. I think charity is a good thing. So I give money. I don't need government force to tell me to do that. Okay?

It's a principle I live by. Why am I bringing all this up? By the way, same thing applies to healthcare. They love the idea of government-run healthcare, just not for them. They exempted the Obamacare exemption, public schools. They love the idea of forcing poor kids into failing public schools, but not their kids. They go to Sidwell Friends in DC like the Obamas, and good for him. Again, I'd never want to attack Obama for looking for something better for his kids. I just wish he wouldn't attack other people's kids. Folks, there's an article about Bernie Sanders, one of my favorite topics.

I mean this. And I know it's saying this, but you may be a little puzzled. Because it's kind of a personal attack, but it's really not. It's more a principled attack. I'm telling you Bernie Sanders is one of the biggest frauds of this political generation and if you believe in this guy, my gosh, are you being hoodwinked. I have done more episodes

on this guy completely discrediting this guy because he's not principled. Why do you follow this guy? He recommends a course of action for others on taxes and healthcare, socialism and redistribution that he doesn't live by at all. What does he own? Three homes or he's purchased three homes.

I did that. I did that show already. So I'm not going to repeat that. But article in Drudge today, Bernie Sanders, 2016 salary, one million dollars like Austin Powers. Folks, do you have any idea how much one million dollars a year is wow now i know what i make a conservative view and i i'm pretty sure i'm not allowed to disclose it on a year but i'm telling you right now it ain't a million dollars a million bucks that's a lot of money for an idiot to make in a year you know no kidding right i mean for the idiot the average idiot salary is probably closer to $5,000. This guy's getting a million dollars to be a total fake and phony. Folks, I don't make a million.

Really. I mean, it's probably not a mystery to any of you. But I make a good salary. And I'm telling you right now, for my lifestyle, I'm very comfortable. I love my job at Conservative Review. I love this podcast. If I was off, I love my job at Conservative Review. I love this podcast. If I was offered a million dollars tomorrow to go back and do security, like Secret Service

type personal protection, I'm telling you right now, I wouldn't take it. I know you may say, oh, that's ridiculous. No, I'm telling you for a fact because Joe knows. I would not take it. Proof is in the pudding because I love what I do. A million dollars is a lot of money. Bernie Sanders has attacked

millionaires and billionaires repeatedly as being a cancer on society as they accumulate wealth at the expense of everybody else while he's a millionaire himself. How do you follow this idiot? I don't get it. He's a total fake. He's a millionaire himself. How do you follow this idiot? I don't get it. He's a total fake.

He's a fraud. The entire premise Bernie Sanders has based his political ideology on is that society is a series of haves and have-nots. But here's the caveat. I have no... Because conservatives don't dispute that. Correct, Joe? I don't dispute we have things that other people don't.

The difference is conservatives say, well, there's a way for you to get to the haves. And here's the pathway. Go to school, get an education. How many people do you know with master's degrees in engineering that are living on the streets? The answer is probably none. Oh, but there's obstacles to me getting into school. Yes, it's called studying. That's the option to get you into school, you dope.

Bernie Sanders believes there are has and have nots because the money was stolen and taken and income inequality, and they confiscated it from the poor. Really? If the poor don't have anything, how did the rich take it from them? How do you take nothing?

Keep in mind, if that's what he believes, and I'm going to wrap it on that. I wanted to get to this California story, and this is not with our update on universal basic income, which I found fascinating. I'll discuss that tomorrow. Great Cato piece by Tanner, Michael Tanner. But if Sanders, if his principal, folks,

the principal he lives by, and he professes to the Bernie Sanders acolytes who bow before him and wash his feet and kiss his toes, right? If the principal he lives by is that being a millionaire is a bad thing because the haves have taken or confiscated the wealth from the poor, but he then has the million dollars himself. How is he not the one who took your money and why do you follow him then? Either there's one of two things happen. Either Bernie Sanders is a complete fraud and doesn't believe what he says, or Bernie Sanders does believe what he said. It's true. And he confiscated your money, took your wealth from the poor middle class. And you, like an idiot, follow him anyway. There's really not. There's only two things there. Either you're an idiot. A number one for following a fraud or you're an idiot for letting a genuine guy steal your money.

There is no third option, folks. Have a nice day. You just heard the Dan Bongino show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservative review dot com. Have a nice day.