The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 546 The 2020 Election Has Already Started

Episode Date: September 13, 2017

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Dan Bongino. They've been tweeting to me, Bongino's a nut, Bongino's a blanker, blanker. The Dan Bongino Show. Everywhere big government gets bigger, corruption grows bigger, and these liberals just keep going on and on and on about how great big government is, and they can't prove to you any examples of how wonderful big government is almost anywhere. Get ready to hear the truth about America. Young kids, you are too stupid to figure out your health insurance needs, so we're going

to hammer your cabooses to death until you figure out that the government knows what's best and you're an idiot. On a show that's not immune to the facts, with your host, Dan Bongino. All right, welcome to the Renegade Republican with Dan Bongino. Producer Joe, how are you today? Hanging in there, Dan-o, hanging in. Hey, so my wife and kids made it back yesterday from Maryland all safe and sound. No problem. They didn't run out of gas.

But, you know, funny thing with my five-year-old. She is, gosh, I love her to death, Amelia. She's so cute. She was on the plane. They took Spirit Airlines on the way back, which is a no-frills airline. You know, you pay for a seat. That's it. You're not getting anything. No drinks, no nothing. So they were on the

way back and my five-year-old is like uh you know she's used to she's in uh in school and they do they do snack time and she's used to flying on a plane she goes uh and there was no snacks she was mommy she wakes up she was sleeping my five-year-old she's mommy did i miss snack time she was so she you know snack time time. That's how kids think. That's how kids snack time on a plane. I love it. They're almost like liberals. It's funny.

They just expect things to happen. I love her. I couldn't get out of it. Your kids are so cute. You just want to hug them. Mommy, did I miss snack time? All right. A lot to get to.

So much going on. So we have more eight-Minute Abs, Joe. No! 8-Minute Abs. Yes, it's happening again. Shout out to the Wall Street Journal for bringing it up. Is it James Freeman over there? How liberals, how their constant 8-Minute Abs sales pitches about free stuff are blowing up in their face.

We covered this a couple weeks ago in the 8-Minute Abs show, which I strongly encourage you to listen to. But, Joe, it's happening again. Now, the gist of that, for those of you who missed that show, is that the liberals for so long have been selling us on nonsensical things like 8-Minute Abs, which you're never – remember the video? You know, 8-Minute Abs, you can get abs in training 8 minutes. Something that is impossible and is never going to happen, that liberals have been doing it so long that other liberals can now

upend the eight minute abs people by saying look i'm gonna do seven minute abs and six minute abs and you know my my cop friend uh who called me recently and said you missed the point of that that eight minute abs thing from something about mary the funniest part is that the guys like when when ben stiller tells him well why not six minute abs he's, you can't do abs in six minutes. The whole point of the thing is that selling videos, which the liberals do in selling policies like eight minute abs, which are impossible, encourages people to one up you on more impossible stuff because you're never telling people the truth. So the truth doesn't matter. Right.

So interesting piece today in Politico, otherwise known as boltico uh because you know they rarely if ever tell the truth on anything but an interesting piece nonetheless i saw uh about what they're what they're calling now the teflon don talking about donald trump now that teflon don's been used for many people including uh john gaudy in new york when he kept getting away from criminal prosecution from the feds but one of the things that's confounding Dems, Joe, and this was a really, really fascinating piece, I got to tell you. It's something I think you and I kind of alluded to quite a bit, is that nothing the Democrats are doing right now is working.

Like Trump's approval, yeah, it isn't sky high right now. I get it. I mean, the Republican Party has been a total disaster, a sham. They can't get anything right. They can't repeal Obamacare. You know, the Republican Party has been a total disaster, a sham. They can't get anything right. Can't repeal Obamacare. You know, the floundering on the tax cuts. It's just kind of a disgrace right now. The swamp Republicans.

But nothing that's going on against Trump is working. And the Democrats are flummoxed. They're perplexed. They don't know what's going on. They've tried Russia. They've tried impeachment. They've tried the Maxine Waters approach. They've tried the Hillary Clinton approach. Nothing Maxine Waters approach. They've tried the

Hillary Clinton approach. Nothing's working, Joe. Trump's base is still there. And generally speaking, the Democrats' approval ratings aren't going anywhere either. And folks, I'm not redoing an old show here. I'm just telling you how much I love the eight-minute abs analogy. It's there. This is the reason why. There's a reason all of this is happening. And what the why matters here. So the why I'm trying to get to is why seemingly after everything that's gone on with Trump, all of the Democrats just disingenuous attacks, Trump, Russia. Yeah.

You know that Trump impeachment. Trump is stupid. Trump is this. Trump is a white supremacist. Trump's a member of the ku klux klan why is none of this working and why aren't the democrats approval ratings going up correspondingly and why aren't there chances and and you know in some areas isolated areas they are but overall they aren't why is none of this working and the reason is the eight minute abs thing it's a

fascinating piece because it describes joe some facts facts and data, which is rare for Politico, but things we like in the show. And they're doing some focus group data and some surveys. And what they're finding out, Joe, is that the eight minute abs approach is failing grotesquely. The Democrats major party platforms, things that they think they're going to run on to beat Donald Trump and the Republicans, Joe, are falling flat on their face. So they go through a number of things. Free college, free health care. And free is how I'm framing it, how they're asking in the survey. Obviously, nothing's free. But free college, free health care, minimum wage.

They're open borders, immigration stuff. And it's not polling well at all. It's not even polling well, Joe. Here's the kicker. It's not even polling well with Democrats.'s the kicker it's not even polling well with democrats like even democrats are starting to believe it and the reasons given often they don't think it's gonna happen people know it's a lie eight minute abs they know it's bs they try now folks the eight minute abs thing right if eight minute abs worked if you bought that video and everybody was walking around with the six minute abs thing, right? If eight minute abs worked, if you bought that video and everybody was walking around

with the six pack of abs, then why is an eight minute abs still a thing? The reason is because people bought it like liberals bought all this nonsense years ago about minimum wage was going to increase wages when it didn't. You know, Obamacare was going to save healthcare when it didn't.

You know, public schools were going to save education when it didn't. The government giving student loans was going to lower the cost to college people when it didn't. People bought the eight minute app just like it bought the policies and they found out that it didn't work. So they're not believing it anymore. So the polling data is fascinating. And, you know, for those of you who. I know this may sound like kind of a pessimistic story, but I don't think you should take it that way. I think this is a very optimistic story about how for as much as sometimes we look at liberal voters and Democrat voters and we say, oh my gosh, they're destroying the country. They're killing us here with all this crap

policies. It's good to know that at least on an individual level, policy-wise, Joe, free college, free healthcare, minimum wage, you're starting to get it that this stuff is all chimerical. It's all nonsense. It's fairy tales. It's Teddy Ruxpin stories it's made up and it was interesting that this appeared in in Politico because Politico is a left-wing rag it's you know it's a nonsense outfit but the fact that Politico wrote this piece you know folks this should be a this is kind of a good sign I I say this to the loyal conservatives and libertarians out there and even the good republicans not the swamp rats but this is a good sign that americans are generally we're we're more politically astute people than i think a lot of a lot of people in the media give

us credit for the eight minute abs thing is not working now why do i bring that up today i mean i've did this show before but when i saw saw the story, but secondly, folks, I'm worried, a little bit worried. So that was the optimistic note. The optimistic note is even Democrats are waking up that free stuff isn't free. And by the way, one of the common questions asked by the focus group people asked about free college was, well, who's going to pay for it? Well, if you're asking that about free college you've obviously not accepted the premise joe that it's free if you're asking who's gonna pay for when someone gives you something free air quotes yeah you assume that it is without cost to you when someone says who's

gonna pay for it that means even democrats are wising up to this nonsense i bring this up today because here's what i read i just kind of threw that into the last minute right as i was prepping for the show joe got caught in some traffic and I saw this political piece. I'm like, all right, I should throw that in quick to give people a little note of optimism. Here's the pessimistic note for the show. This is what I wanted to start off with. I'm a little worried. Single payer, single payer health care, in other words, government run health care is

going to turn into mark my words. The beautiful thing about podcasting is this will all be recorded and people will go back. And in 2020, when I'm still doing this in the presidential election cycle, someone's going to listen to this show and I guarantee you we're going to be right. The signature issue for the Democrats in 2020 is going to be single payer healthcare. Something that Democrats in the United States traditionally ran from, not liberals.

Liberals always love single payer, but Democrats overall always ran from government run healthcare because Americans are a very independent entrepreneurial people. Democrats included. They do not want the government controlling their healthcare. They just don't. They don't mind a safety net, Joe.

They certainly don't mind. Obviously Democrats mind a safety net, Joe. They certainly don't mind, obviously, Democrats I'm talking about, not Republicans. They certainly don't mind a government footprint in healthcare, but they definitely don't want government-controlled healthcare. It's never polled well. It's never done well. We're just different in America.

We're an entrepreneurial-minded, independent-minded people. We do not want the government controlling our healthcare. Nobody likes it. As I've always said, you don't like going to the DMmv for your driver's license but all of a sudden people have no problem with a government bureaucrat uh what dictating how your chest is going to get cracked open in the event of a heart attack no good eight minute abs don't think so don't want it so it's never pulled well that's changing now why is changing? Because there has been a dramatic shift in the Democrat Party base. The base of the party, Joe, which was largely composed in the past of Bill Clinton Democrats, more moderate types.

When you look at the polling data, that's switched. It used to be liberals were roughly about 20 to 30 percent of the base of the Democrat Party. That is now switched. Liberals, far left liberals, are now between, depending on the polling data, you look at 35 and 45 percent and they're starting to outnumber moderates. Now, what does that mean and what does this have to do with government controlled health care in the 2020 election and why this has become a big issue? Well, when you're the base of the party, Joe, who turns out in primaries? The base. The most active people in the party. The base. So what?

Yeah, the base, the base of the party turns out in the party the base so what yeah the base the base of the party turns out when you're running a presidential primary that presidential primary for the democrats and the republicans but let's stick with the democrats for now the only people in the majority of states who can vote in a democrat primary are democrats right and in primaries which are not clearly general elections where you just get to pick the candidate who runs in the general, the people who turn out, this is all fact-based, database stuff, the people who turn out in large proportions, Joe, are the most active Democrats. The most active Democrats, follow me for a second here, are usually people in the base. The base, the active four by four voters. In other words, having run for office, you know, you deal with these kind of numbers all the time.

In other words, people who voted in the last four primaries and last four generals. Super active voters. Those also happen to be now, Joe, liberals. Whereas in the past, they were moderates. So now the calculation in 2020 by these major party presidential candidates, the Democrats, and by the Democrats, not the major parties, I should say, by the Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris,

the senator from California, they are going to be candidates most likely for president 2020 again. Elizabeth Warren, they are going to be running on a single player government run platform because they are going to need those voters that are now showing up in greater proportions

in Democrat primaries to win the presidential nomination. Folks, this is a big deal. Single-payer would be a disaster for the United States. So, in an effort to, and just so you know, because I always relate the show to current events, this is not,

although it seems at times, and some of our older shows were, this is not an evergreen show, which is a media term for shows that you can do now that are good five years from now. So if we did a show on gun control, you could listen to it five years from now. But that's not what this show is designed to be today. I'm bringing this up today because Bernie Sanders is getting ready to introduce a single-payer health care bill in the United States Senate. This is a big deal. payer healthcare bill in the United States Senate.

This is a big deal. I know it's not getting major coverage, but it's going to, and it is going to become a litmus test for Democrats to get the 2020 nomination. Where do you stand? Miss Harris on single payer. I think it's great. This is going to be it.

And as one journalist said, forgive me, I can't remember who it was. It's going to become the repeal and replace for the Democrats. In other words, if you ran for office in the last three or four election cycles, Joe, and you didn't want to repeal Obamacare, you were not getting the Republican nomination. On the other side, this is what's going to happen with the Dems. Are you for Bernie Sanders' single-payer bill? You better say yes if you want those liberals to show up. But folks, this is a disaster. You're going to hear your college professors talking about it. You're going to hear the media talk about it. And you have to go into this debate

armed with the facts because what they are going to come back with, Joe, is what they hit you with every single time. Well, you don't care about poor people. You don't care. You want to die. You want people to die. You throw granny off a cliff. They don't. But liberals don't have anything. They don't. I'm. But liberals don't have anything. They don't. I'm sorry. They don't have anything. I'm sure some care about people.

Most of them just care about control and power. But they never, ever come to a debate on my facts. And I heard Ben Shapiro on Fox this morning, and he made a great point, which I've heard him make before, that the reasons liberals are such poor debaters, and folks, they are. I'm telling you, I do talk radio all the time, fill in for Levin and Hannity, and I always leave a line open for liberals because it's just so easy. I mean, Joe, you've been in talk radio

like your entire adult life, right? Seriously, I mean, a serious question for you. Do you remember a liberal ever calling in and winning a debate with Tom Maher or Sean or anyone? I mean, Joe's been in, how long you been in radio? 20 years? Easily, yeah. Do you remember a liberal ever calling in and winning a debate with Tom Marr or Sean or anyone? I mean, Joe's been in. How long have you been in radio? 20 years?

Easily. Yeah. So he's probably listened to 10,000 liberal phone calls over the years. And Tom Marr, God rest his soul, was a conservative host at CBM. And Sean and Frank do the morning show. I listen to it when I live up. I still listen to it now on the app sometimes. And it's interesting because liberals call in all the time

and they never win an argument. When you hit them with the facts, where do they go? Because Joe, and one of Shapiro's other lines is facts don't care about your feelings and they just don't.

There you go. So when liberals call in and they say things like, well, you don't care about old people and you hit them with facts about how single payer actually hurts older people,

their only response is, well, you're a racist. and then they hang up the phone that was yeah and and some i've challenged some very smart people on talk radio so i am going to arm you with some facts now peace in the wall street journal i'll put in the show notes thank you for all the people by the way subscribing to my show notes and my email list at Bongino.com. It's growing dramatically now. So thank you. I will email you every day with the show notes and the podcast. So these are articles I find, which I think are terrific. That'll have these facts in it. So don't worry about taking notes during the show. If you want to remember this stuff, I'll send it right to you. So this is how these are facts from William Galston at the Wall Street Journal today and a bit of an older piece in April of 2017 from Candace Malcolm at National Review,

but really good pieces on both single-payer and Canada. And the reason I'm using Canada, although, to be fair, single-payer exists in a lot of wealthy countries all around the world. You have the United Kingdom, obviously. You have most of Europe where single-payer dominates. I'm using Canada specifically as an example of the single-payer government-run healthcare failure for one reason. When you want to generate a sample size, Joe, that replicates the real world.

So if I want to see if a drug works, say a drug for cholesterol, I want to generate an experimental group of, say, 500 people i'm going to give the drug to but i want that group to be representative of what the united states would look like or the world in general so that i can generalize those results so i don't pick a pocket of people who are whatever um you know asian american or black or hispanic or or white from it that you don't want to do that You want to pick people with various genetic makeups so that you can generalize the applicability of the results, right? Sure. The reason I'm picking Canada is the same reason. Although it's not a direct correlate, obviously, the United States.

The only thing that represent the United States is the United States, and we don't have single payer, so it's impossible to run an experiment. Canada is obviously in North America, and it's the closest experiment we got, and it shares a border with us, obviously, up north. I mean, these aren't, you know, this is nothing dramatic here,

but it's the best we have of what single-payer would look like in the United States. That's the reason I'm using Canada. So, first, from the Galston piece, some facts about single-payer, in case you're perplexed and you believe the liberal narrative

that this is somehow panacea and we're going to save old people and puppies and dogs and kids and everybody's going to go to the doctor whenever they want. And it's going to be great and it's going to be free and everybody's going to be healthy and nobody's going to get cancer or Alzheimer's. And the doctor and you are going to sing down and sit down and rub each other's backs and roast marshmallows and tell each other medical stories. If you believe that, I've got a bridge over the lagoon here in Palm City. I'll sell to you super cheap right now. So here's some facts from the Galston piece. This was tried in Vermont. Vermont, which is a state in the United States for you liberals out there. Vermont is a state. Vermont tried this. Vermont is a deep blue state, by the way, run by Democrats. So you would think if single-payer health care was ever going to work and be supported by a large group of people, it would happen in a deep blue state where a large group of people are liberal.

And liberals tend to support single-payer. They're not Democrats, not overall Democrats, but liberals do. So, Joe, this should work seamlessly in Vermont. Well, Vermont tried this or found out that they would need a payroll tax. A payroll tax, meaning like a Social Security, Medicare tax, like a FICA tax you get on your pay stub now. You would need additional payroll tax of 11.5%. So if you make $100,000 a year, you're upwards of between $6,000 and $10,000 a year in additional taxes in Vermont, depending on how they institute it.

That's really nice. It's supposed to be free. No, it is. It's free, Joe. It's just free. It's only going to cost you thousands of dollars, of course. But that's the definition of free. When you're a liberal, you don't want to do any additional homework.

They found out that the income tax hike, they'd have to hike the income tax by 9.5 percentage points just to make this thing work. And Joe, this one's a killer. This is free. This is how expensive free stuff is. It gets better. They found out that it would increase the Vermont state budget by 45%. Wow, that's really cheap and free. That's really cheap for free stuff.

It increased the state budget by 45%. The thing flopped immediately it flopped immediately now from the galston piece another data point and the liberals again don't let any of these facts and data get in the way of your argument that this is not going to cost anybody anything that it's free joe is that not the definition of free without cost free i mean folks, that's free. I mean, folks, do me a favor. Someone out there, I never want free stuff or anything, but if someone has a spare dictionary running around, can you send it to Armacost, like an older dictionary?

And we'll label, like we have Jay's abacus, Jay who sent us the abacus to do math for liberals. We're going to need a dictionary for liberals as well. We'll name it after you. Go ship it to Joe's. We'll give you like the station address or something. And you can just put your name on the front, whatever your name is, Donnie or, or Joey bag of donuts. And we'll go to Joey bag of donuts dictionary. And I'll say, Joe, can you please, you're going to have to earmark the page joke is we're going to go back to it often. We're going to go back to the

F's and we're going to put it free. And I'm going to Joe, go back and please read the definition of free. I guarantee you it says something meaning without cost now for something without cost this is pretty damn expensive for something designed to cost you nothing that's just incredible it's like walking in a furniture store I go man look at that uh an ottoman is that a word I'm not even like I'm not a furniture guy like I've never seen anything what is an ottoman is that well it was an empire yeah yeah I know the Turks I mean but I'm not like a furniture furniture Like, I've seen that thing. What is an Ottoman? Well, it was an empire. Yeah, I know the Turks. I mean, I'm not like a furniture dude.

It's a piece of furniture you put your feet up on, I think. Yeah, the feet thing. All right, so you go in there. You go, the Ottoman. A guy goes. So you see a sign outside that says, free Ottoman, right? Now, this is called the bait and switch, which you would probably be arrested for if you actually did this. But free Ottoman.

So you walk in. You're like, you want to throw your dogs up on something. And you're like, um, I got my truck out back. Can I take that free ottoman? They're like, Oh, that'll be 10 grand. I thought you said it was free. It is. It's free. When you give me $10,000, like, dude, dude, that's not free. Like free means it's without cost. No, it is without cost. After you give me the 10 grand, like this is if you're a liberal listening, does this ever bother you? Like, does it ever bother you that what you say makes absolutely no sense at all? That people who say free healthcare, that it's a bait and switch of the worst kind? Because you're relying on one of two things.

You're assuming that, number one, it's either one of two things. You're not assuming anything one you know it's it's either one or two things you're not assuming anything number one you're just you're just a liar you're just a lie you're just lying to me you have to know it's not free or number two you're really not smart so you're either lying to people about it being free or you're really not smart enough to figure out that when people have to pay a large amount of money for something that it's not free so moving on because i just get frustrated and i start losing my marbles on liberals uh from the gulston piece as well uh bernie sanders proposed medicare for all or single payer system which you know sounds cute medicare for it's government-run health care folks that you know suckers believe in single payer because you're the payer and the government controls everything

like you're getting totally suckered instead of you paying and controlling your own health care, you're paying even more and you're giving your health care over to the government. A study by the Urban Institute, no bastion of far right values, by the way, this is a left leaning think tank, found out that it would cost $2.5 trillion in federal spending the first year this was implemented. Holy Moses, that expensive Ottoman. Eight minute abs. Eight minute abs, folks.

$2.5 trillion in the first year. The entire federal budget's $4 trillion. And we're still about, what, a half a trillion in debt every year? So we're spending $4 trillion. We're between $500 billion and $300 billion in debt every single year. We have 20 trillion in

accumulated liabilities and national debt. And in the first year alone, you're going to add 2.5 trillion more, plus the 500 billion, you're going to be short anyway. So you're talking about 3 trillion in debt in the first year to pay for a free program. Joe.

Joe. Yes. So we go into Joey Bag of Donuts Furniture for the free ottoman. And now we go in there. We pull up at my Ford Raptor in the back. We're like, hey, Joey, can you roll that in, baby? Roll that ottoman. I'm here for my free ottoman.

Yes, no problem. Cut me a check for 10,000 bucks. I thought you said it was free. It is. Give me my 10,000. Then you go home and you find out that, okay, you bought the ottoman. You borrowed the said it was free. It is. Give me my 10,000. Then you go home and you find out that, okay, you bought the Ottoman, you borrowed the $10,000 and you already owe $20,000. So the free Ottoman and on top of the 20,000, you already owed your credit card costs you $10,000

more, which you're going to pay interest on. So the free Ottoman ultimately is going to bankrupt you. It's amazing how free does that when you're a liberal. We don't even have the money now. And you want to spend almost the entire federal budget on a program that's supposed to be free. This is insane. Folks, this is the definition of insanity. You have to be a total sucker to believe this. All right. I want to move on. I didn't even got to Canada yet because Canada actually has a single payer healthcare system. And I want to give you some examples from this. And I got a couple of the things I want to move on. I didn't even get to Canada yet, because Canada actually has a single-payer healthcare system. And I want to give you some examples from this. And I got a couple other things I want to get through, so I'm going to move along quick. But today's show brought to you by BrickHouse Nutrition.

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Candace Malcolm. It's a good piece. I have bookmarked, actually. I read it a while ago, but I thought this is a good time to bring it up. I'll put it in the show notes today. A couple months old, but no less relevant now. Canada's a great example for us, again, because there are northern neighbors, and we share a lot in common, including a border.

So a study by the Fraser Institute, which, again, these aren't like right-wing think tanks by any stretch, found out that free, free, again, there's that term. We're going to need that dictionary. Free health care up in Canada. care up in Canada, with that, 52,000 Canadians a year, based on a study that they know about, flee, with an L, not free, flee Canada to come to the United States for health care. So let me get this straight. The health care system is so free and so great in Canada when the government pays for it and runs it, that 52,000 Canadians a year, which is one of those we know about, by the way. I'm sure there are more paying in cash

who are not subjected to this. You know, don't fall in the studies, the studies customer survey base there, whatever it may be. 52,000 Canadians a year are fleeing Canada to get away from free healthcare to pay again in addition to the taxes they pay in Canada from the United States.

And to the liberal kooks, because I already know the response, I know it. I had a big argument with Twitter with a guy, on Twitter with a guy over this. He's actually a good guy. This guy's showing up in Maryland, but he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to healthcare.

His point was that, oh, that's only the rich people doing it. One, that's not actually right. If you read the piece in the show notes, the study points out conclusively, Joe, that it's actually a lot of middle-class people as well. But let's play the liberals game for a minute. Let's say for a second,

those 52,000 people fleeing free healthcare in Canada. Remember, they've already paid for it in their taxes and they're now paying again in the United States to get actual healthcare. Let's assume they are all rich. Joe, do you see the problem here? How does that make your point? Yeah. So let me get this straight. Healthcare sucks so bad in Canada, free healthcare, that only rich people can escape it, and that's the system. Let me get this straight. That's the system you want here. Even if your point was accurate, which it's not, and I'll send you the piece in the show notes, read it yourself.

It links to the study. Again, but Libs, I know that hurts. Like facts and data are like, it's like a virus to you. It's like you avoided it at all costs. Read it yourself. Even if your point was accurate, you're still making a fool of yourself. Ask your college professor to explain that. Why are 52,000 Canadians here that we know about

fleeing Canada's free healthcare system to pay for it again here? I guarantee you, oh, it's only the rich ones that can afford it. So what, only rich people want good health care? I mean, Joe, how is that an analysis that defends your liberal point of view? It makes no sense. I don't know.

Sometimes I have those clicker pens, and I click it so I don't write on my face, and I scratch my head with the pen because I'm like, it's like a nervous tick sometimes when I deal with this liberal stupidity because I don't know. You know, I really, sometimes I'm bothered because I don't know how to break through.

It's like this show is designed for persuadable people who are looking for the real world, facts and data and information you can use to defend your position in the real world but there are some people out there who are just not interested there is nothing you can say to them they get them to believe that three plus three equals six nothing they're insistent that it equals 7.5 you can do like the abacus you can take out six potatoes and break

them into groups in three and three nothing is is going to change their mind. Okay, now that's just one piece, the 52,000 Canadians a year. Here's another one. The largest province in Canada, a study was done, so it's a pretty good sample size. The largest province in Canada has figured out that 80% of its entire budget is going to be consumed by single-payer, quote, free healthcare, Joe, by 2030, up from 46% in 2010, the entire budget. Now, you may say to yourself, all right, so free healthcare costs a lot of money,

which obviously makes no sense. But if you're a liberal, you would say, well, free healthcare costs a lot. But these countries all around the world, they do so much better than the United States in healthcare metrics. Folks, one that is total, complete garbage. Those studies do not measure survivability rates from cancer. What they do is they skew the numbers by measuring live births differently. So making it out like the United States has a higher mortality rate.

In other words, we're not using the same measure for live births. One will measure viability after a certain amount of days while the United States does it at the time of birth. So what it does is it skews the statistics. Anytime you hear something from the liberal left that sounds crazy, it probably is. When they say things like, oh, well, all the studies of quality of health care around the world. So the United States is at the bottom. That's total garbage. You're telling me 50 plus thousand

Canadians a year are paying twice for healthcare because our system sucks so bad? Does that make any sense? Of course it doesn't make sense. It's a lie. When you look at actual studies of healthcare, though, this is interesting, Joe. This is from the Candace Malcolm piece. She writes, when it comes to the final metric, quality of care, because she goes over a few metrics in the piece, Canada lags behind most other developed Western nations. A 2014 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked Canada 10th out of 11 wealthy countries ahead of only the United States in health care quality. Remember, you got to be very careful with how they skew this stuff. But this is even using their own data. Okay.

And dead last in timeliness of care. The report showed that 29% of adult Canadians who fell ill and needed to see a specialist waited two months or longer, and 18% waited four months or longer compared with 6% and 7% of Americans, respectively. Interesting, because this lefty research report says we're worse than them,

but then proceeds to point out how the Canadians are far worse than us. In other words, you have a damn good chance of having your care rationed to the point where you're dead. I read a report once about how 5% of UK doctors report knowing someone who died on a waiting list. Those are the ones who admit to it. So five out of a hundred doctors in the United Kingdom admit to knowing someone who died on a waiting list compared with six or seven percent of Americans waiting two months or longer for a specialist. This is the irony of these studies. And here's another quote from the piece. She talks about the costs here. The costs of these systems are typically hidden, folks. People still believe this stuff is free. So she says, second, the systems costs are hidden. Many Canadians and many progressives abroad like to think that the health care is, quote, free in Canada.

When, in fact, Canadian taxpayers pay, on average, $10,500 per year for all their health care needs. Canadians simply have no concept of how much the services they consume cost since the CHA, that's the Health Care Act in Canada passed in the 80s, prohibits providers from ever showing patients the bill. Folks, this is not free. This is costing tens of thousands of dollars to every Canadian a year to sit on a waiting list when you could have paid for it yourself in the United States. The system, by the way, flawed in and of itself. You could have paid, and many of them choose to come here and pay for that again. It's a total disaster. Now, I could go on

for days about how bad single-payer is, but folks, I'm telling you, this is going to be an argument in the coming days. All right, I got a couple other things I want to get to here. Moving on. Hey, have you signed up yet for CRTV? I read a report today, Joe, on Drudge. 2017, 22 million people are expected to cut the cord on cable.

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to bring up quick and cover. It was a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Riley who does some good work over there. He's talking about one of these dear colleague letters these dear colleague letters was a phenomenon that happened in the obama administration where they didn't want to write anything into law because they knew it wouldn't pass it would be grossly unpopular so they would write these letters called dear colleague letters which would basically threaten people and institutions but they wouldn't make anything law so one of the things they did joe is they said hey listen we're looking at these

public school suspension policies and we're not really digging them. Like you guys are suspending people. And a lot of these people happen to be black. OK, a lot of these schools were run by principals who were black and teachers who were largely minority. And I mean, keep in mind, no one made any reference to what people were suspended for. So the dear colleague letter

from the Obama administration to the public schools around the country said, we're really not concerned about why you suspended them. We're concerned about disparate impact. In other words, we're concerned about how, what percentage of people suspended are black or Hispanic compared to white.

So nobody cares about the reasons, Joe. Right. And by the way, nobody cares about the victims either. Kind of similar to the looting argument liberals make. Like, let's not worry about people stealing from other people with looting, like a goofball Lisa Hymus over at whatever, Media Matters, that clown joker calls everybody a racist who talks about looting. Don't worry about the victims of looting.

Worry about the race of the people who loot. Cause you're a racist, Lisa Hymus. That's all you are. I mean, you're, you've always been a racist your whole life. That's all.

That's all you can do is work. Cause when you talk about looting, Lisa Hymus thinks black people, no one else thinks that, but her. So that's her thing. But don't worry about the victims. In other words.

So you get a kid in class who's disruptive, beats up another kid, won't let any other kids learn. Let's worry about the proportion of people in minority classes who are suspended rather than why people are suspended. Again, the very essence of racism. The Obama administration is saying when you talk about suspensions, obviously we're talking about black people. No, no, you're doing that, not us. We're talking about kids in school who want to learn. So they sent these letters saying, hey, you better be concerned about this.

If you're suspending more black or Hispanic kids than white kids, you better look at this policy. So what happened, Joe? Of course, suspensions went down. Now, amazing, because we do facts and data on the show. Jason Riley writes, now after that, what happened? Of course, a liberal policy, which is supposed to, quote, help quote free uh you know again another word completely

made up we'll have to go to the dictionary in the future for that is of course hurting people so reilly writes in the journal today after the la school district where more than 82 percent of students are latino or black ended suspensions for non-violent offenses the district reported that the number of students who said they felt safe in school dropped to 60% from 72%. Oh, that's great. Great policy, Obama. Really nice work there. Really nice work. So let's not suspend kids who are causing a disruption in class. And then it's a percentage of kids who feel safe in school goes down. Nice work there. When Chicago curbed suspensions, students and teachers felt the increased disorder. And following New York City's reforms, making it more difficult to keep disruptive kids

out of the classroom, the schools that showed increased fighting, gang activity, and drug use tended to be those with the highest percentage of minority students. Again, not getting rid of drug dealers in school and other things. I mean, how again is this helping the black community? Again, another example of liberal nonsense. Oh, it's affecting more kids who are black and Hispanic. Folks, conservatives don't care about the race of the people suspended. They care about why they were suspended and the other kids in the classroom.

More liberal crap. Now, one of the things, and Riley points this out in the piece, that they're saying has something to do with this, the Obama administration that is, well, it promotes this school to prison pipeline like once you suspend the student he's more likely to have that you know that stigma that hester prins scarlet letter over his entire career but there's no evidence of that at all joe uh riley says in fact a march paper posted by the university of arkansas found that students who had been suspended were actually doing better in math

and reading after one year suspensions were correlated with improved academic outcomes, the opposite of the chain of negative effects that liberals are reporting. Folks, again, for libs out there listening to the show, don't let any of this get in the way of your arguments, your disingenuous ones. Well, suspensions send people right to prison uh do you believe in the do you do any kind of homework at all the answer is no joe of course they just make this up because my narrative my narrative remember the narrative we need the narrative the narrative is conservatives are racist everything they do is racist we're gonna put out this dear colleague letter and we're gonna let conservatives fight it because when conservatives fight it what's the liberal

point gonna be for they're not to bring up any of the data? They're going to be like, you guys are racist. You want black kids to be suspended? Oh, just like when we talked about looting and this idiot, Lisa Hymus wrote the piece like, oh, they must be talking about black people. No, no, you are talking about black people. We're talking about looting. You imbecile.

Are you this dumb? This is what we're talking about. Suspensions. You're talking about black kids being being suspended we're not talking about any of that you're talking about that that's a liberal thing because they're racist it's unbelievable all right uh what else drone here's kind of a weird story and i'm gonna wrap it up i get one more thing at this point oh by the way, one more 8-Minute Abs thing. Headlining Drudge today. California, the most

liberal state in the country, the highest poverty rate in the country, 20.5% compared to the nationwide rate of 14.7%. 8-Minute Abs! 8-Minute Abs! Don't let that get in the way of your narrative. My narrative. My narrative. California. Very liberal. California. Very poor. Don't don't worry folks don't make

the correlation liberals just move along ignore that it's on drudge today i'm just gonna float that one out there you can chew on the cut on that one folks all right uh this is kind of a creepy story i saw a judge today just just uh quick there's some lady was in her apartment in chicago on a high rise like the 22nd floor and some drone was creeping in her window this thing has creeped me out for a long time. Yeah, and I've kind of wondered about this. If you live in one of those New York City or big city high rises, you have windows everywhere, which most of them do.

That's kind of creepy, folks. People get in their house, they're in their own private time, they do their own thing, whatever. I'm not getting into that. But you get out of the shower, you don't have a towel on, all of a sudden there's a drone outside your window. That's kind of creepy. So the dude got arrested when the drone made its way back You know, you get out of the shower, you don't have a towel on. All of a sudden, there's a drone outside your window. That's kind of creepy. So the dude got arrested when the drone made its way back to the third floor.

They must have some kind of landing. But it's kind of creepy. Like a story I saw. I figured I'd put that out there. Like, that's worried me for a long time. One last thing I wanted to get to. You know, my book is out again. I know a lot of people hate it when I mention my book.

I'm sorry. I'm very proud of it. I wrote it. It's not available on Amazon now. It'll be in bookstore September 19th. But I'm just bringing it up because obviously, I'd like you to buy it and read it. I put a lot of work into it. But Hillary's got this book out now, What Happened, which is a total piece of crap. Mitt Romney never wrote a book about their loss. McCain didn't write a book about the loss in the election. I mean, you just move on and

shut up after an election. It's, you just move on and shut up after an election. It's just kind of a jerk move. Or write it five, six years from now. I mean, just move on, Hillary. She can't do that. But, you know, Hillary, it's kind of funny because in the book I address that medical incident she had on 9-11. I mean, that's not funny. I mean, I don't wish anybody ill will on anyone. I'm talking about Hillary for that. But I mean, it should say ironic. I'm about her how she now is blaming everyone but it's interesting how in the book I cover what should have happened from the Secret Service side when she had that medical incident and it's kind of ironic like she's a blame person and yet she would have been to blame if that would

have broken bad and I explain why for all of the potential negative medical outcomes and thank God she was fine again I don't wish ill health on anyone, even my worst political enemy, God forbid. But I don't wish that. But if something would have broken bad during that medical incident, I explain how behind the scenes, this would have been a disaster.

And I guarantee you, she would have blamed the Secret Service. And it's really a shame because this woman has no sense of shame at all. And I discussed one more thing in the book that's come up recently, given a lot of the lawsuits and the focus on the DOJs looking at the discrimination against Asian Americans in colleges. I discussed the diversity initiatives within the Secret Service, and I'm using air

quotes, diversity, and folks, how this should really scare you. There are things going on, you know, affirmative action-wise and diversity-wise behind the scenes in the Secret Service, that one, are totally unnecessary. There's more than enough good quality female, black, Hispanic, Asian candidates, but that are actually putting the president in danger. I think it's a real eye-opener. So go pick up the book today. It's called Protecting the President. And thanks for making it a bestseller a couple of times already on Amazon. It's not even out in the bookstores yet, but it is available on Amazon now. It'll ship it to you in a couple of days. So thanks again for tuning in.

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