The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 591 Socialism Sucks and People Who Believe in it Suck Too

Episode Date: November 15, 2017

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Starting point is 00:00:00 get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe how are you today good to be here dano yeah man hey uh listen i got an email from a guy this this morning right before i got on the air and he uh just quickly here he wanted to know it's a good question he's like listen you talk about obviously be hurting a lot and let his injuries how do you train and do all the jujitsu and the lifting and i got out of the gym this morning before i came in today was a particularly painful day it was squat day and here's the answer folks and i'm i'm you know i know i'm sarcastic a lot but i'm being serious and i know a lot of you may have this question and wonder yourself uh you know what's
Starting point is 00:00:41 going on is this guy really training he's always talking about being hurt and the answer is i am yeah um i i don't listen i'm not trying to get like metaphysical with you here or getting having like a play-doh moment or something but i just believe that you're here to suffer a little bit um you are i've you know i read a book a little while ago it's a really great book some people ask me for a book list once in a while. We'll add this one if I ever do one. It's called How the Universe is the Way It Is, Why the Universe is the Way It Is, excuse me, by Hugh Ross. And it's a really great book about how there is no possible way this universe was created without the power of the Almighty. almighty and one of the lines in the book or the themes of the book is the value of suffering how you're you're here to suffer uh you're here to experience you know i'm not talking about physical pain i don't mean sit there with like a you know a compass and poke yourself with it all day but if you read the book you'll understand and i he asked me if i the guy in the email said do you take painkillers or something like how do you get through this stuff and the answer is you
Starting point is 00:01:42 just do like this morning i got up at 504 actually because i looked at my phone when i got up and it was in the gym by six and i was you know i see the same crowd there every morning some of them listen to shows so how you doing and uh you know i was today was zurcher squats 275 pounds three sets of five and then dead lifting after that and then kettlebell swings and every second of it is excruciating my shoulder i have a torn rotator cuff. I got to fly out there to Los Angeles to do the stem cells. And my knees, I have a torn lateral meniscus that I'm going to have done too. You just suck it the hell up, folks.
Starting point is 00:02:15 You're here to suffer a little bit. Life's not supposed to be fun. You know, yeah, you want joy? Look your kids in the eye. Really, that's the only joy I need. Sometimes I see that my daughter got her school pictures. I look at that. That's real joy. you know yeah you want joy look your kids in the eye really that's the only joy i need sometimes i see that my daughter got her school pictures i look at that that's real joy that gets me through all these other moments you know but last night as i was grappling again with a ripped out rotator
Starting point is 00:02:34 cuff and a torn meniscus and a and i i have a one of my erector muscles in my back is is uh not torn but it's been pulled bad you just just suck it the hell up, man. And that's why I have no tolerance. That's why yesterday I went off on this punk little piece of garbage from Media Matters, this guy Angelo Corazon. Because folks, I am not in any way a violent guy. Anyone who knows me understands that. I don't do mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu because I enjoy violence.
Starting point is 00:03:04 I don't at all. I do it as a means of being able to protect myself god forbid violence is brought on me but what i find amusing is how these little pajama boys who have no element of edginess and no element of toughness and have never suffered in their entire lives attack you on twitter and a keyboard warriors and as i say to them all the time and i called angela yesterday, I'll say again, this guy's a coward. Now, what are you going to do? I'm not, this isn't a tough guy challenge, not a schoolyard thing. I'm not asking you to meet me by the flagpole. I'm asking you a serious question for all you liberal pajama boy punks out there who attack me and other principal conservatives who are legitimate tough guys, the Tony Schaffers of the world and other people out
Starting point is 00:03:43 there on Twitter who attack, you know, Tony schafer was a a military man a decorated military man cia train officer does commentary on fox he's t spooky on uh twitter i like tony i just bring him up because he's a legitimate tough guy it's not a violent guy but he's a tough guy my simple question to you is not a challenge or anything but it's it's it's a reasonable what are you gonna do i don't mean it in donnie brasco way either like for those of you listen to show off what you can do i mean it legitimately what are you going to do you have nothing when you're not tapping a keyboard you are useless you're a coward you're the very dead because there's nothing you can do all you can do is say
Starting point is 00:04:23 i know you are but but what am I? You've got nothing. Why do I go to the gym with damaged muscles and in a lot of pain? Because I know there's nothing you can do and there's nothing you will ever do because you're not willing to put yourself through the pain I am.
Starting point is 00:04:39 And other people, I'm not the only one here. I don't have any kind of proprietary interest in pain or suffering. There are hundreds of millions of people around the world who put themselves through suffering every day. Boxers, military guys, CrossFitters, recreational workout people, people who suffer every day, willing to prepare their bodies. And God forbid the event that something happens to them, they need to use their physicality. But the pajama boy liberals don't have this, Joe. They don't have this. They rely on a set of broken ideas. So I asked the liberals out there and just,
Starting point is 00:05:11 you know, I didn't mean to go off. I'm sorry, folks, but I just mean this. What are you going to do? And the answer is nothing. You have nothing. You are a useless bunch of losers, you have nothing. You are a useless bunch of losers, allied and married and genuflecting before a set of principles and broken ideas. Never forget, it's the people you choose to call, you know, flyover country folks. You insult this down in the, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:37 people who live in the South. Yeah, I grew up in the North. I live down here now. You call us all kinds of names, what hayseeds, hillbillies, whatever, rednecks, stupid people. Yeah. I mean, there's a thousand names you refer to people who live in real America. Remember, those people you insult are the ones who suffer every single day. They suffer with
Starting point is 00:05:57 their hands. They suffer through their work. They suffer in the gym. They suffer running around all day with the stress of trying to raise kids without a million dollar salary. Those are the tough people. What do you do, Angelo from Media Matters? You sit behind a keyboard and insult people all day. You guys are losers. And I'll leave it with this. What are you going to do? And the answer is nothing. There's nothing you can do. Yeah, well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. We totally needed that. All right, folks, I'm sorry. I just I got the question this morning, and I really, yeah, I was a little pissed off at it still about this Angelo Corazon thing, attacking Hannity, because the guy's a total loser, by the way. I mean, a complete zero. All right. So yesterday, we had Jeff Sessions up on the hill, loser, by the way. I mean, a complete zero. All right.
Starting point is 00:06:45 So yesterday we had Jeff Sessions up on the Hill, folks. What a mess. I mean, really, what a disgrace. These guys up on the Hill are just a total disgrace. Let me just quickly sum this up as like I summed it up in a tweet here because this really matters. Did you see the hearing yesterday? I saw parts of it.
Starting point is 00:07:01 It was like wacko. It's just insane. So let me just be clear on where we stay, where the increasingly disgusting delusional Democrats are. So now it's Russian collusion because somebody named Carter Page
Starting point is 00:07:16 who was the lowest of low-level backbenchers on the Trump campaign asked at some point to go take a trip to Russia to give a speech at a college. This is a Trump campaign low-level associate, right, Joe? Right, right. He is told, no, unless it's for personal reasons only.
Starting point is 00:07:34 You will not represent the campaign. Democrats, listen up, you morons. This is not even in question. These are statements everybody agrees happen. Carter Page, low-level backbencher. Can I go to Russia? No, unless it's personal. You're not allowed to represent the campaign.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Okay, I'm going to give a speech at a college. He gives a speech at a college. Collusion! Collusion! Collusion! These freaking morons. They are so stupid. I am so disgusted today by these idiots on the left.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Secondly, George Papadopoulos again a low-level backbencher nobody even remembers from the campaign volunteers at a meeting to set up a meeting with uh some russians about the foreign policy with trump right the campaign says no and this stupid democrat Democrat, collusion, collusion. Folks, listen, man, it's done. It's done. Stop negotiating. The country is bifurcated.
Starting point is 00:08:33 We are in an ideological civil war. Thank God it's a cold war, and please, pray to God it remains that way. Really, I mean that. Yeah, agreed. Pray to God it stays that way. But, I mean that. Yeah, agreed. Pray to God it stays that way. But make no mistake, it is over. We are not one country anymore. We are two countries.
Starting point is 00:08:53 We are the imbeciles on the left and reasonable people on the right. There's nothing, there is no intersection of those ideas anymore. Carter Page, can we go give a speech? No, not representing a campaign. Well, it's a speech at a university university can I go there on a personal level yeah go ahead
Starting point is 00:09:09 collusion Papadopoulos can we set up a meeting with the Russians no collusion yet now there's still no special counsel by the way but that
Starting point is 00:09:22 we've already got it on the record, by the way, Joe. Yeah. That the Democrats actually paid a company to pay the Russians for fake intelligence on Donald Trump. But that's not collusion. Now you wonder why Jim Jordan, congressman from Ohio, who I have a lot of respect for, by the way, went off yesterday on Jeff Sessions in the meeting. He's a Republican, by the way. Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Starting point is 00:09:45 You saw that part, Joe? Man, yeah. He's like, brother, amigo, what the hell? What is it going to take to get a special counsel? We have a special counsel. Why is this coming? I was not even going to talk about this today, I promise you. But I read an article at Bloomberg, which, you know what?
Starting point is 00:10:00 I'll put it in the show notes. Because it's so stupid that it's worth you reading it covers in detail it's not very long but it breaks down how muller's focusing on the trump foreign policy team joe he's got them in a corner read the piece and it's set you're gonna you're gonna get to the end of the piece if you're a if you're a liberal don't read it please because it requires you to be a reasonable person of which you're not but if you're a normal person right not liberals if you're a normal person read the piece and tell me what in that piece is even remotely controversial yet bloomberg writes the piece like this is like some big breaking news to cover it's like joe it
Starting point is 00:10:40 breaks them down by name carter page no jo. Joe Carter Page gave a speech at a college. Oh, my God. He gave a speech at a college. Yeah, we got him. And what happened? He wanted to go give a speech. They told him no. And they said, Carter, is this a personal speech for a college?
Starting point is 00:11:00 Yes, it's personal. Oh, my God. We've got them. Joe. Watson. We've got them. We've got them. It's a speech.
Starting point is 00:11:14 At a college. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Joe, we're going to introduce a new character for you today. Yes. Marvin. Joe, we're going to introduce a new character for you today. Yes? Marvin. The overly aggressive, nerdy detective who never had a real job in his life who is now investigating the Trump-Russia conspiracy cases.
Starting point is 00:11:36 You just used him. You just don't know it. We got him. We got him. Carter. He gave a speech. Marvin. We got him. Carter gave a speech. Marvin, we got him. Gave a speech in Russia with the Russians.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Oh, my God. Folks, you may say Bongino sounds delirious. I am because I seriously can't take it. We are in the we the country is being flushed down the toilet bowl by a group of people who i by calling them imbeciles it's an insult to actual imbeciles like i feel bad for real imbeciles because they got to be lopped in with democrats let's go papadopoulos We got him We got him Joe He was in the meeting
Starting point is 00:12:28 He was in the meeting In the meeting Yeah Yeah He's in the meeting We can be with the Russians With the Russians And the Trump team Joe said no
Starting point is 00:12:43 We got him Oh yeah We're right there Collusion and the Trump team Joe said no we got him oh yeah we're right there collusion oh I'm crying right now I'm seriously we need a ditto cam in here I'm crying because I can't believe that there is a large swath
Starting point is 00:12:58 of America a country I love I mean I deeply love that there is a large swath of America that are so dumb that they actually believe this. Then they're like, we got him, Don Trump Jr. We got him. He DM'd. Direct message for you liberals out there.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Don't use Twitter. That means like it's a private message on Twitter. WikiLeaks DM'd him. Oh, my God. And he answered them and he disclosed it on by the way don jr took actually sent out on twitter his dms with wiki leaks collusion that meanwhile even like hardcore democrats are like ah well it doesn't look good but there's really no collusion your whole story's collusion. Not that he DM'd WikiLeaks. Oh, Joe.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Oh, my gosh. I can't take it anymore. The sniffles are not my allergies. I'm legitimately crying right now because this stuff is like, it's so, if I don't laugh, I'm going to break down. I'm going to put the Bloomberg piece against my
Starting point is 00:14:05 better judgment in the show notes up on Gino.com and of course if you sign up for the email list I'll email it to you. But I want you to read it and seriously even to the dopey Dems out there. I want you to read it with an open mind. Read it with an open mind.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Even as Republicans or whatever. Read it with an open mind and I want you to get back to me and email me where you find anything other than maybe stupid decisions. I read the whole thing as a former criminal investigator. And tell me where you find collusion with the Russians to overturn an election. Cite me the line in there. you find collusion with the Russians to overturn an election. Cite me the line in there. Freaking frustrating, man. No, it is. It is.
Starting point is 00:14:57 I'm just, I mean, I hear, you see this paper? You hear that? Yeah. There's a piece right here. You can't hear, but it's a little, that's actually my tears. I'm not even kidding. Cause I was laughing so hard on the paper. It's like, you know, the yellow pad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:14 It's actually falling apart a little bit now because I've been tearing on it the whole time. It goes on. I got more. You know, socialism. Socialism's back. Apparently, there's a poll out there. This is not pause for effect. I'm just really, I want to make sure that I get my druthers before I go on with the show because I'm unusually pissed off today. And I don't want to scream at you for the next 45 minutes. I love my audience too much. So there's a poll out there saying that young millennials and young kids are increasingly finding socialism attractive. Oh, great, great. More morons. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, you're an idiot. No, you're just stupid. You have an iPhone? You have a computer? Are you a liberal socialist who found this show by mistake and are listening to
Starting point is 00:16:05 it right now on your android or iphone with your beats headphones and you're what are the kids wear now american apparel i don't even know what's the fancy clothes i don't even care i wear lucky stuff it's the only thing that fits my i have an unusually big butt my wife will laugh by me saying that because i squat all the time so i have to wear lucky clothes my wife's gonna be like did you just say that on the air i do it's enormous from squatting all the, so I have to wear lucky clothes. My wife's going to be like, did you just say that on the air? I do. It's enormous from squatting all the time. So I have to wear lucky clothes.
Starting point is 00:16:29 I don't even know what's... But whatever you're wearing, lucky or American apparel, whatever it may be, I don't even know what's cool anymore, right? Because I frankly don't care. You realize socialist entities, socialist governments
Starting point is 00:16:41 where they control the means of production, none of that exists in socialist governments. You understand that, right? Because they control the means of production. None of that exists in socialist governments. You understand that, right? Because they control the means of production and increasingly destroy the means of production and the people. But don't let that get in the way of your stupid arguments, you numb nuts out there. Now, why am I bringing this up? It's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today about Venezuela.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Venezuela turned socialist now for those of you who are wondering what happens when venezuela turned legitimately socialist because i know a lot of the uh you know what do they call them the young and impressionables in in uh when it comes to politics and the young invincibles when it comes to health care um i'm going to call the young socialist uh the young imbeciles so the young imbeciles out there who believe in socialism they'll say well socialism we're really talking about there's denmark yeah okay you're just an idiot okay denmark is a big government natty state the government does not own the means of production in denmark you're just really dumb uh but let's leave that aside for a moment let's talk to people actually know what they're talking about there's a country that did turn socialist, Joe, Venezuela.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Yes. Now, there's a fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal today about Venezuela and what's happening in Venezuela. Venezuela, this is big news, folks. This is not small news that you're not going to hear reported in the mainstream media because they'll cover for Venezuela because they are all socialists, just defaulted on three bonds after giving a 30-day grace period.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Well, what the hell does that mean, and why should you care? Folks, they're bankrupt. They were given a 30-day grace period to pay $280 million in bonds, and they defaulted. They don't have the money. They ran out of money. As Margaret Thatcher once said about socialism, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money. Venezuela's run out. So now, for all you socialist young imbeciles out there,
Starting point is 00:18:29 we have the young invincibles, you know, the young impressionables. Now we have the young imbeciles. The kids out there who believe in socialism, do you understand that every single place on earth this has been tried, death and destruction and bankruptcy has followed, and you have an actual example, an actual time, going actually on right now where people are eating pigeons dying and the government just officially went bankrupt
Starting point is 00:18:51 does any of that matter to you when you're polled about socialism does any of that matter or do you just conveniently silo facts and data in your head in a blind allegiance to being young and imbecilic does any of this matter to you there's right now a socialist country an actual socialist not a fake one like you talk about in denmark where the government does not own the means of production denmark's own what is is it, Rasmussen? Its own leaders have said, we are not a socialist country, you idiots.
Starting point is 00:19:31 In a response to Bernie Sanders claiming Denmark's a socialist country. He should ask the Danes first. Folks, there's a socialist country right now you have an example of that is bankrupt.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Now, Joe, I know the liberal response because I can predict these people because they're so dumb and predictable. It is easy to read their minds like it's almost like Minority Report with Tom Cruise. You can tell their crimes before they're going to happen. They'll say, well, it wasn't socialism. It was oil revenue. The oil revenue. well, it wasn't socialism. It was oil revenue. The oil revenue. Yeah, yeah, oil revenue, right? It was oil revenue, Joe.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Because, Joe, did you know oil prices only went down in Venezuela? Did you know that? They didn't go down anywhere else, Joe. Wow. It's amazing how that happened, that global oil prices collapsed. Global oil prices collapsed. But it only affected Venezuela, the socialist country. That's incredible, Joe, isn't it? No, it's bad timing.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Bad, just bad timing. You nailed it, Joe. Joe nails it again. Joe, you should get your PhD in economics, in global economic. Joe nailed it. It was just bad timing. That's it. So the socialist country goes bankrupt,
Starting point is 00:20:50 yet the United States, which relies heavily on oil, a lot of European countries, even a lot of Middle Eastern tyrannies that rely on oil, have not yet gone bankrupt. But keep in mind, I'm not suggesting tyranny. I'm just telling you socialism sucks so bad that even when you're a tyrannical monarchy, you have a better chance of surviving than being a socialist country when you rely on oil. So global oil prices climb, but only Venezuela goes bankrupt.
Starting point is 00:21:15 That's great. That's great, fellas. That's a great. You libs are genius. I mean, really, this is the you just have the remember Minority Report with Tom Cruise. He's got the gloves on. He's moving stuff. I'm just moving stuff around right now in the future.
Starting point is 00:21:28 And I'm just, Venezuela, socialism sucks. They're going bankrupt. I'm moving stuff around. Here's the liberal response. It's the oil revenue. Really? What happened with the United States? Why didn't we go bankrupt?
Starting point is 00:21:37 It's the oil revenue. Joe, please play the dude. Lock him up. Yeah. Well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. That's next. That's next. That is after oil revenue.
Starting point is 00:21:52 That's the next response. Because you go, oil revenue? How come the Saudis aren't bankrupt? They're literally a monarchy. That doesn't even respect human rights in many respects, especially for women. How come we're not bankrupt? It's a large portion of our economy.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Yeah, well, that's just your opinion, man. I mean, I could use that drop, as Joe calls it in radio lingo. I could use that endlessly because this is what I'm talking about with liberals. They're so dumb that nothing they say ever makes sense and yet these young imbeciles fall right in line. It's the revenue. It's the revenue.
Starting point is 00:22:38 That did it. Oh my gosh. Sniffling like can't you are pissed off today i gotta i gotta tell you and i'm not the funny thing i'm in a good mood i mean i'm really i had a good workout you know this morning i just mauled it in the gym i'm you know i especially even even with the being banged up i got like 221 swings in with the 82 pound kettle in 10 minutes. Dude. I 275 in the Zurcher.
Starting point is 00:23:09 I did six, five, and five. And then I did a set of 20 with 225. And then deadlift, and I put 245 on. I got a set of 15 and a set of seven. And I did it super quick. Then I went into sawn and stretch, and I feel great.
Starting point is 00:23:23 No wonder you're falling apart, dude. Yeah, I know. And I grappled last night. I i went for a good hour an hour and a half last night um you know when i it's funny but there was i was rolling i was grappling with this white belt who's brand new a nice guy came in it's only his third class and it just goes to show you folks three classes meaning the guys trained an entire three hours in grappling. That's it. I'm not going to say his name or anything, but he's a super nice guy. He had no experience in grappling. He wasn't a wrestler, judo guy, sambo, nothing.
Starting point is 00:23:53 He has never fought a day in his life. Not boxing, Zippo. He's not a gymnast. And even in three hours, I was kind of helping him out a little bit last night. They put the higher ranking belts with the white belts in these classes to, you know, you don't want the white belts teaching. They don't know anything. But even when we were doing the mount where the guy's on top of you, like literally mounting you and he was on top. And in the beginning, I'm on the bottom and I'm like, dude, what do you weigh?
Starting point is 00:24:19 And he's like, I weigh 200 pounds. I'm like, you feel like you weigh 10 pounds. Like you have to learn to get heavy, man. Hip to hip, chest to chest. Get your weight on me, man. You're 200 pounds. You're in a you feel like you weigh 10 pounds. Like, you have to learn to get heavy, man. Hip to hip, chest to chest. Get your weight on me, man. You're 200 pounds. You're in a fight. This guy's going to get up.
Starting point is 00:24:29 He's going to be super strong when the adrenaline kicks in. You better feel like 200 pounds. Joe, for the first half hour, this guy could not put his weight on me at all. I don't know if he was afraid or if he just didn't get how to do it. By the end of the class, just this is his third hour only, the guy felt like he weighed 500 pounds i'm like dude nice work brother like you just even in a locker room he's like thanks for the help like you kicked ass in there i'm like that your third class you already learned how to get on top of a dude and use your body weight to make him eat the pavement make him eat the pavement i weigh 225 i'm on top of you're every night. You're going to be like, get off me.
Starting point is 00:25:08 That's what it's going to feel like. I promise you. And this guy at the end of the class was really, really good. I don't know why the hell I brought that up, but still. Me either, man. I don't know. Yeah. Usually there's some kind of loose, secondary relationship to the show.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Not today. Today's show is a completely unhinged cornucopia of word salads everywhere. But I need these once in a while. It's very therapeutic. All right. Today's show brought to you by buddies at iTarget. Speaking of preparedness, you know, they saw a report in Paul Bedard's Washington Examiner today,
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Starting point is 00:27:55 That's itargetpro.com. Put in promo code Dan, D-A-N, my first name. You'll get 10% off. That's a big rebate, folks. Remember, competitive shooters do this for a living. Try fire like this 10 times more than they live fire at a range because they want to be proficient. Go pick it up today, itargetpro.com. Okay. Sorry, man. I'm just like, so Joe just usually get the sniffles out. You might as well just leave him in today because the show will come out at like two o'clock in the afternoon. You know what? I'm going to leave him in. Yeah, he usually does take them all out, i i've been laughing so hard at myself which is a horrible thing to say that i just can't stop and i want to like blow my nose in the middle of the show it'd be really disgusting one other thing i wanted to bring up about socialism and this venice why venezuela's
Starting point is 00:28:39 bankrupt and why that should matter to the the young imbeciles and i'm sorry i'm really i just i can't take it i love my I just, I can't take it. I love my young audience. I just can't take it that young people don't do any homework, yet they so proudly profess an allegiance to socialism. What is socialism? I don't know, but I think it's great.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Okay, that sounds great. There are two problems here. By the way, in 2001, which is in this Wall Street Journal piece, which is interesting, Venezuela, in case you're other, if you're not saying, oh, I haven't heard from you, if your second answer isn't the way, in 2001, which is in this Wall Street Journal piece, which is interesting, Venezuela, in case you're not saying, oh, I haven't heard from you, if your second answer isn't the dude, your third answer is going to be, well, in 2001, well, no, you may say to yourself, well, Venezuela was a poor country to begin with. You'd be wrong because in 2001, they were the richest country in South America. So, wrong again.
Starting point is 00:29:20 But again, don't let facts and data get in the way of your unending allegiance to imbecility. Okay, here's the problem here. There's two problems. Number one, in a socialist country, the incentives are all wrong. And number two, there's a knowledge problem. The incentive in a socialist country when the government owns the means of production, in other words, when the Venezuelan government takes over the oil industry, is not to make money. The incentive is to hold on to power. So what do they do with the money the oil company makes in Venezuela when the government owns it, Joe? They buy votes and they buy allegiance. Remember, when you have a privately owned company
Starting point is 00:29:52 in a free market, the privately owned company, their allegiance is to their customers, which is their revenue base. Their goal is to make money for shareholders in the company to stay in business. Their goal is not political power.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Now, political power may be nice through lobbying, but political power is not their goal. If they can make money without political power and wasting money on lobbying, they will do it. If lobbying can help them make more money, they'll do that too. But their goal isn't political power, it's lobbying to make money.
Starting point is 00:30:20 When a government owns the means of production, the incentive is all wrong. The incentive is a continuance of power. How do you stay in power? By support from people or suppressing the people. So you either pay for a military and buy them off like they do in Iran, or you pay the people off through goodies, which is what happened in Venezuela, which is why they're now out of money.
Starting point is 00:30:38 Secondly, there's a knowledge problem. Folks, the government doesn't have the knowledge to price a baseball card, no less to run the oil industry. There are people in the oil industry who fail at predicting the knowledge to price a baseball card, no less to run the oil industry. There are people in the oil industry who fail at predicting the oil industry. Am I right, Joe? There are people who've been engaged in fracking and hydrofracking who didn't anticipate the dump in oil prices out in North Dakota and other places who had to shut their own companies down. Joe, these people are in the oil industry and they couldn't hack it in the oil industry. You think a government bureaucrat now,
Starting point is 00:31:05 a government bureaucrat with no expertise in oil, petrochemicals, petroresources at all is going to come into an oil and run an entire national oil company? You are an idiot if you believe that. Socialism will never work because socialism can't work. And if you don't want to pay any attention whatsoever to what happened in Venezuela today,
Starting point is 00:31:22 then shame on you. You live in an intellectual vacuum and a bubble and you should be embarrassed and horrified. All right. What else we got here? Pay more than you get back. Oh, you know what? I want to get at this Kansas thing a second, but I heard this this morning. There was a lawmaker on Fox, and this topic, the state and local tax deduction keeps coming up again, Joe. In short, the tax bills being voted on. Yeah, you can right now deduct your state and local taxes from your federal taxes. So if you live in a high tax state like New York or Taxachusetts or one of those other places where there's a high state income tax and other things,
Starting point is 00:32:02 you can deduct that from your federal tax bill. And I saw a lawmaker this morning trying to defend that. I don't know why they're defending this. I don't understand why the rest of the country pays the price for the fact that New York wants to tax the snot out of its people. But at one point, the lawmaker said, which was interesting,
Starting point is 00:32:19 he said, well, we pay more to the federal government than we get back. And I thought, this is going to be like the, and keep in mind, this guy was a republican who said this but this is turning into a liberal talking point too and i kind of find this funny joe um i think this is a little bit hypocritical is it not so the gist of it is well we should get this state and local tax deduction because we pay billions more to the federal government we get back but if you're a liberal and you're you're embracing this talking point joe the entire
Starting point is 00:32:46 premise of liberalism am i wrong is that taxes are a good thing and are a public good oh yeah that's what i thought i mean isn't that the whole liberal ethos like taxes taxes are great taxes are good roads and roads and bridges roads and bridges uh public schools yeah social programs social security so i don't understand like how so what's your what's your beef if you're paying more for a public good you're alleging is a public good in taxes why are you using it as a talking point saying it's a bad thing you see where i'm going with this joe sure man yeah your premise your entire worldview as a liberal is colored by the fact that you think paying higher taxes is a good thing.
Starting point is 00:33:26 That giving money to the government is a public good, that the government can do better with that money than you can do with, you can do with it for yourself. That's the whole premise of liberalism. Give the government your money because you're too stupid to spend it yourself. What else is the, I mean, I don't understand, like, where else, where have liberals argued otherwise? else is the i mean i don't understand like where else where have liberals argued otherwise so now to preserve a tax deduction to pay less taxes the state and local that that's what that
Starting point is 00:33:53 is you want to pay less taxes now although you just said paying more taxes is a good thing so now you want to pay less taxes and to make an argument for paying less taxes your argument is that paying more taxes to the government is a bad thing? Folks, you wonder why again this morning I'm like extra salty on steroids? Because liberalism requires you to be so stupid that you have to argue against your own interests
Starting point is 00:34:17 in the very same sentence. The whole premise of liberalism is that taxes and high taxes are an economic good. But now you want the state and local deduction to stay in high tax states to preserve you paying less taxes. And the argument you're using is that because we pay more taxes than we get back, I thought paying taxes was a good thing. No, it's not a good thing. We want to pay less. We want a deduction. And by the way, we pay a lot in taxes and that's a good thing. No, it's not a good thing. We want to pay less. We want a deduction.
Starting point is 00:34:45 And by the way, we pay a lot in taxes and that's a bad thing. Guys, ladies, are we on the same planet? What is it? Is paying higher taxes a good thing or a bad thing? So if paying higher taxes
Starting point is 00:35:01 is a good thing, why are you arguing for the state and local tax deduction to stay? Why not just pay more? It is a good thing, why are you arguing for the state and local tax deduction to stay? Why not just pay more? It's a good thing. And then you acknowledge in the next sentence, by the way, we pay more in taxes and we get back,
Starting point is 00:35:12 and that's a bad thing. Holy freaking crikeys. Joe. Oh, my God. Oh, gosh. I can't take it. I swear'm gonna lose my mind i know there's this mental breakdown things i'm like gonna lose my mind i can't these people are so stupid and it's like we have so many dumb republicans who just don't call them out on basic stuff like that? Like, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. So the Republican tax reform gets rid of the state and local deduction,
Starting point is 00:35:49 which enables you to pay lower taxes. As you're simultaneously arguing that paying higher taxes is a good thing. So do you want lower taxes or higher taxes? No, we want higher taxes, but just not for us. Oh, oh, okay. Now it makes sense just not for us. Oh, oh, okay. Now it makes sense.
Starting point is 00:36:06 There you go. Oh, dad, thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you for clearing that up. All right, we're good. Yeah. You wonder why I have produced, the original intention of the show,
Starting point is 00:36:16 by the way, was not to have producer Joe so involved. I'll be honest with you. He was going to be my producer. But I have grown so attached to Joe and the show as a sounding board for my psychopathology
Starting point is 00:36:27 which is growing by the day i'm seriously losing my mind that the show could not occur without joe dies the show's over it is it's not going to be a monologue it's just not i need joe to clap once in a while to let me know that my mind is still grounded in planet earth because i feel like every day i wake up, it's like, what liberal stupidity is Dan Bongino going to have to deal with today? Every day. Every freaking day of my life, I'm dealing with dumb liberals.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Collusion! Taxes! High taxes, good. Oh, good? Okay, so how about we get rid of the state and local deduction, you guys can pay more. No, no, we don't want to pay more.
Starting point is 00:37:03 No, no, we want you to pay more. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, makes sense. Thanks, no, we don't want to pay more. No, no, we want you to pay more. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, makes sense. Thanks, Joe, for clearing that up. It does make sense. There you go. A little round of applause for Joe. Nice work.
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Starting point is 00:38:50 On this tax thing, too. So, you know, even in my debunk this section on my website, I have an article about myths about Kansas. Now, again, this is one of those topics. I get it. You know, you're not going to hear this on other talk radio shows. You know, you may hear it on some of the more wonky ones. But just like I brought up the Venezuela thing today, the Kansas argument's coming up again.
Starting point is 00:39:12 What are you talking about? What does this mean and why does it matter to me? Well, again, when liberals are done with their first dopey talking point, which is usually totally irrelevant to the topic in an attempt at distraction, they'll move on to the dude. And then when the dude doesn't work, they'll typically drop another line, right? So their line about the tax cuts is Kansas, Kansas, as I've said on this show, 25,622 times. They will always say, well, look what happened in Kansas. They cut taxes and had major league budget shortfalls. Again,
Starting point is 00:39:39 short of any of the facts and data about what actually happened in Kansas, but don't let that get in the way of more of your stupidity. So it's another piece in the journal today about Kansas because, you know, listen, the journal, I like them. They're off on certain topics, I think. I think they can be particularly vitriolic towards some talk radio people I respect, but some of their articles are really good. This one today about Kansas is great. Here are some of the takeaways because this is a subscription only piece. But the liberals keep saying, look, we can't cut taxes because taxes were cut in Kansas and there was a budget shortfall. Clear on that, Joe?
Starting point is 00:40:11 That's their premise. Yeah. Now, keep in mind, Joe, conveniently, like liberals always do, because they're constant liars. They're addicted to lying. They even lie about lying. They ignore Florida. They ignore Texas and other states that are booming precisely because they have low taxes.
Starting point is 00:40:25 North Dakota and other places like that, where the economies are doing quite well. So they pick out and they cherry pick Kansas all the time because that's all they have. Now, if you listen to yesterday's show, you'll know that people are fleeing high-tax states for low-tax states. And I'll give you a hint. That's not because they're crappy places to live. Not because they're crappy places to live. $39 billion poured into Florida in the last few years, over the last few years, 2012 to 2015, while billions of dollars left New York, Connecticut, New Jersey. Now, I covered that in yesterday's show.
Starting point is 00:40:56 So money's fleeing. But liberals, again, people vote with their feet. Ignore that because they're just by nature liars. So here's what really happened in Kansas, folks. You can debate your liberal friends. Right before the tax cuts in 2011, federal stimulus money, $527 million of federal stimulus money flowed into Kansas. That's a bad idea. I'm not defending the idea. But the liberals and some phony Republicans in the state of Kansas chose to consider that money in their long-term projections, even though the money was not coming back in 2012.
Starting point is 00:41:32 So, Joe, that would be like you giving me a gift. Say I make $100,000 a year. You give me $10,000 and doing my spending, a one-time gift, okay? And next year, doing my spending projections for my household based on $110,000, even though it was a one-time gift. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, not real bright. Not real bright, but you think I'm going to have a spend,
Starting point is 00:41:52 I think I'm going to go into debt if I spend 110 and only make 100? Yeah. Okay, there you go. Joe, this guy's like a mathematician today. You're amazing. Of course. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:42:01 So they took into account federal stimulus money, knowing to inflate the budget numbers, knowing that the money wasn't coming back. And now they're like, the tax cuts are to blame for the shortfalls. Oh, really? Really? That's pretty incredible, considering the mathematical geniuses you idiots proclaim to be. Secondly, they didn't get rid of a lot of loopholes, which aren't present in the federal tax reform now. Now, in a nutshell, they made it
Starting point is 00:42:25 easier to declare at a lower tax rate in Kansas pass-through money rather than corporate money. So people just basically reincorporated or reorganized their businesses as pass-throughs. Now, it didn't cost Kansas a fortune. The estimates are overestimated of what they lost due to this reclassification of income as pass-through because you could pay a lower rate as a pass-through in Kansas. But that's not what's in this reform. There's a corporate tax cut, Joe, and a pass-through tax cut. So comparing the two is just, I mean, you're just making it up.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Be like, oh, Kansas had a shortfall because of a reclassification of income as pass-throughs. Oh, what happens in the Trump? Well, it doesn't happen in the Trump thing. So what are you comparing? Oh, nothing. I'm just trying to be an idiot because I'm a liberal. Oh, what happens in a Trump? Well, it doesn't happen in a Trump thing. So what are you comparing? Oh, nothing. I'm just trying to be an idiot because I'm a liberal. Oh, okay. Well, thank you.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Thank you very much. Third, spending. Again, because someone sent me a piece about the value-added tax, a good piece in Bloomberg. It's written by a liberal, though. And in the piece, it's funny. The guy, again, talks about Reagan tax cuts and the deficits. Folks, the Reagan deficits were driven by spending. Reagan cut taxes and revenue went up.
Starting point is 00:43:27 You don't believe me? I'm sorry. You really just don't have any idea what you're talking about. Just Google it. Go to the interweb. Spending, Joe, in Kansas went from 5.3 billion to 6.6 billion.
Starting point is 00:43:41 Do you think the increase of $1.3 billion, a double-digit increase in spending, do you think that may have had something, Joe, to do with the deficits in Kansas? I would think it would have some impact. Holy Moses, this guy is on fire today. Armacost and Fuego, PhD mathematics, economics, MBA, finance expertise, black shoals.
Starting point is 00:44:05 This guy's incredible. You are what you are. Really? You're an algorithmic genius. My head's hurting today. It is. I can tell from me yelling the whole time to 5.3 billion to 6.6 billion. Now, did Kansas have a revenue shortfall?
Starting point is 00:44:21 Yes, they did. I just told you because of the with the idiosyncrasy of creating a pass-through exemption that is not in the Trump tax plan or the GOP tax plan. But again, keep comparing the two even though they're not comparable at all because that's what you do, you liars. And spending had a lot to do with it.
Starting point is 00:44:37 And by the way, Kansas has recovered most of the money that so-called was lost through the tax cuts, which, by the way, were not designed that great. And also, Kansas has done pretty well since then in the job market, but don't let that get in the way.
Starting point is 00:44:49 To prove to you again that liberals will continue to insist, by the way, it's the last story of the day, folks. Bear with me on this, because this is important. Continuing to lie to you about the effects of tax cuts on deficits, I'll put an article in the show notes today from CNS News. I think this guy Terrence Jeffrey, right? He writes really good stuff. He covers the budget in detail
Starting point is 00:45:10 and the spending shortfalls. Joe, showing you again that tax rates and taxes have nothing to do with our deficits. This is a spending issue, not a tax issue. The federal government, Joe, in October raised an astonishing $235 billion in all-time record. All-time record. The most money we've ever raised in October, folks. $63 billion short still, deficit in October. Folks, it's a spending thing.
Starting point is 00:45:47 We just raised a record amount of money in October. Record amount of money, and they're still $63 billion short. The most money in October in human history, and we're still $63 billion short. You still telling me it's a tax problem? Don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument, folks. It's really just pathetic. Hey, can I just mention one thing quick? There was an article in the Wall Street Journal.
Starting point is 00:46:13 I'll make this quick. I'm done with the financial stuff for now. A guy named Michael Brough wrote it, B-R-O-U-G-H. And the gist of the article was that military folks don't... I don't want to mischaracterize what he said. He was a military man himself. And he's like, listen, we don't need any special thanks. There's a lot of people out there who sacrificed too.
Starting point is 00:46:34 The article's gotten a lot of negative feedback. The letters to the Wall Street Journal today were pretty horrifying. Attacking them. I have to agree with a lot of the letters folks i just want to say to our military folks out there you know thank you and i don't agree with mr bra or bro whatever his name is bro it is a special sacrifice i don't wake up in the morning as a content
Starting point is 00:46:58 producer in conservative media with the thought that i'm going to be shot in the face by an enemy combatant in front of me. Or that I'm going to get on a helicopter and a Chinook and drive out into the mountains outside a Bagram air base and be shot out of the sky by a man pad or RPG. I don't have that problem. You do. It is a special sacrifice. And I applaud this man for his service, but I disagree with his premise entirely. Our military people do deserve a special sacrifice. These men and women get paid crap. They live in pretty crappy living conditions, and they give up years of their lives, in some cases their entire lives, to go do a really tough job under high stress on the
Starting point is 00:47:40 front lines of freedom every day. So a really special thank you to do it at. And I really, really disagree with this guy. You deserve an extra special thank you, not the thank you everybody else gets. Thanks to our teachers and our doctors. We love you. But it's not the same.
Starting point is 00:47:54 Special thanks to our military folks. I'll see you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservativereview.com. You can also get Dan's anytime at conservativereview.com. You can also get Dan's podcasts on iTunes or SoundCloud and follow Dan on Twitter 24-7 at DBongino.

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