The Dan Bongino Show - Finally, Some Good News! (Ep 1454)
Episode Date: February 10, 2021In this episode, I discuss the shocking comments by a GOP Senator which perfectly encapsulate the attitude of the Swamp. I also discuss the tactics the Democrats have used for decades to win messaging... battles, and how we can adopt them to fight back. News Picks: Few people are watching the ridiculous impeachment hoax. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy shows what cowardice looks like. Democrats are challenging two election results? How is this not “attacking democracy”? We need to change our strategy to fight back against creeping leftist totalitarianism. Even the Washington Post acknowledges that the 2020 election was closer than the media portrays. The Democrats are collapsing in Florida. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host
dan bongino folks you may have seen it um if if you have you're gonna see it again but uh quite
possibly this is not a comedy show i get it this isn't like the howard stern show or anything but
the funniest video i'm not kidding i think i've seen it a long time. If you haven't seen it, I'll get to that.
We'll do this little comedy segment,
intentional and unintentional in the middle of the show today.
And in that comedy segment also is a statement by Twitter.
Get a load of this.
The cat thing is funny.
The Twitter statement is even more hilarious unintentionally.
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All right, Producer Joe, let's go.
All right.
All right, video.
You're excited today, aren't you?
Yeah.
Video number one.
We got another sellout in the U.S. Senate
on the Republican side.
Louisiana alleged Republican Senator Bill Cassidy opening his big yapper after day one of this ridiculous impeachment farce that really nobody cares about at all.
You would think, by the way, this would be the number one story everywhere all over the news, right?
What have there been? Four impeachments in U.S. history. We've had two in the last calendar or calendar year, but chronological year, 365 days.
We had two of them.
Nobody cares about this impeachment.
It is the biggest farce ever.
It's hilarious in its stupidity, trying to impeach in a trial a president that's no longer president.
But Bill Cassidy, alleged Republican senator from Louisiana, Joe, after just, what, a couple hours of opening statements, granted, that weren't particularly great by one of Donald Trump's lawyers,
but I think David Schoen did another one of Trump's lawyers.
I thought he did an excellent job.
Bruce Castor did all right. It wasn't great.
So Bill Cassidy decides he's an impartial juror as a senator.
You know, the senators are going to obviously judge the Senate trial.
So, Joe, he's an impartial juror, Bill Cassidy, which is weird because impartial jurors usually wait till the trial is over before they open their big flapping mouths to the media and start bad mouthing people in their own party who are fighting the free speech fight of their lives.
That's what I would do.
But I'm not Bill Cassidy.
He's a senator.
He's smarter than this idiot Armacost and his dope
Bongino. He knows more than us do. So Bill Cassidy ran right out in front of the cameras to virtue
signal everyone and tell them what an impartial juror he is, despite the fact that he's opening
his mouth, showing his impartiality after just day one of hearings. Check out this spineless coward,
Bill Cassidy. I said I'd be an impartial juror.
Anyone listening to those arguments, the House managers were focused. They were organized.
They relied upon both precedent, the Constitution, and legal scholars. They made a compelling
argument. President Trump's team were disorganized. They did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand.
And when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it almost as if they were embarrassed of
their arguments. Now, I'm an impartial juror and one side is doing a great job and the other side
is doing a terrible job on the issue at hand. As an impartial juror, I'm going to vote for the side
that did the good job. What a sleazeball this guy is huh look at this cat that'll make sense in a few minutes everybody's laughing because they
know i'm going if you saw the cat video you know what i'm talking about what a sellout
joe you know that line we use often in the show sure remember that movie g.i. jane one of the
worst movies in the history of humankind but i can can't stop watching it. It's like that Sylvester Stallone arm wrestling movie over the top.
It's terrible. It's so terrible. It's great. So I've watched G.I. Jane. I've seen it probably
50 or 60 times. It's always on like TNT or whatever. And there's a line in the movie. So
Bill Cassidy, spineless Bill, jellyfish Bill wants to make a statement about how he's an
impartial juror and gives a statement about how he's not an impartial juror how he he's already out there criticism he hasn't
even seen the end of the trial and he's already talking about and it reminds me of that statement
in gi jane when she runs into the the seal base the co his office the commanding officer the navy
seal base she's trying out for the demii Moore character. And she's like,
you know, I'm not trying to make a statement here. And he's like, he gets up. Are you in here
barking at me? People who don't want to make statements don't make statements about not making
statements. So my recommendation to Bill, and I'm going to move on because I'm not, this impeachment
thing is stupid. There's nothing to cover. It's dumb. They're impeaching a president who's not
the president to try to remove him from office, despite the fact that he's not in office.
I'm going to waste maybe a minute of the show on this every day we're moving on.
But people who want to make statements about not being impartial, about being impartial,
don't make statements that are not impartial. Just shut up. That's my suggestion to spineless Bill.
Just shut up.
That's my suggestion to spineless Bill.
Your soup cooler?
Zip it.
Maybe hear it out first before you jump to conclusions.
Nice to know we got such strong GOP senators, right, Joe?
Such loyalists on our side.
So eager to throw the president on the bus.
All right, moving on to more substantial stuff rather than this ridiculous impeachment farce.
So this is one of those tough blocks
because I like to give you an overriding narrative and kind of dictate how we're going to go forward
here in this segment of the show. And the only thing I could really think of here, because this
is important given this already disastrous Biden presidency, is if you are still one of the suckers
out there on the left or even a weak-kneed Republican,
or, you know, kind of a middle-of-the-road Democrat,
and you still believe the hoax
that the Democrats are in it for the little guy
and they are not the party of the elite and connected.
I covered this last week
when I was in Houston doing the roadshows.
Then you are insane.
I'm very sorry.
I don't mean to insult you,
but if you're really buying the scam
that Democrats were in it for the little guy, we're a champion of people who cannot be heard. That is
such garbage. Be lied by the facts that I'm really sorry. You're immune to common sense.
So I've got three, four stories. I want to motor through and some video of Milton Friedman
entirely annihilating these stupid arguments at the end so story number one again keep this in
the context of how Democrats are not in this for the little guy it's all a marketing scheme it's
the pet rock all over again look at this you all need a pet rock why I can get a rock from my
garden you need our pet rock it's a special pet rock huh remember all the people fell for that scam joe yep the pet
rock people loved it to buy a pet rock here's story number one democrats we're in for the
little guy we're taking care of these struggling college students you are really because the data
doesn't support that assertion at all wall street journal article today
the great student loan scam democrats lobby biden to write off debt for affluent borrowers affluent
bars i thought the democrats were the party of the little guy you fell for that what a dope
screenshot from the piece so who is this student loan forgiveness proposal who is this really
going to benefit well let's go to the numbers joe they're the party of science the democrats
so let's go to the science of actual numbers and arithmetic and things like data and see who this
student loan forgiveness air quotes is actually going to benefit quote wall street journal
university of chicago study in december
estimated that the top 10 percent of household wait am i reading that right is that the top 10
that doesn't say the bottom no it says the top okay it estimated that the top 10 percent paul
is that can we get a double on that she's giving me a head nod the top 10 percent of households by
income would receive seven times as much of a benefit from a $50,000 student loan write-down
as the bottom 10%.
Doctors and lawyers with six-figure salaries should be able to repay their loans and don't
need the $50,000 write-off.
I thought they were in it for the little guy.
So then we do a study on who this student loan forgiveness proposal
would benefit. We find out it would benefit the way I'm not attacking the wealthy. I don't need
the write-off. Don't give it to me. I don't want it, but it would do it at the expense of the bottom
10% who are going to pay taxes to support a student loan write-off for people with the most
debt who are at the higher end of the income scale. And that makes sense to you because why? Because we're here to help the little guy.
The little guy. You're full of things that rhyme with hit. You're just making that up.
There is no data at all to support your assertion that your student loan forgiveness is fighting for
anything other than wealthy families please stop the nonsense stop telling us transferring our
money to the government and the government then taking the money i've worked for and others and
you have worked for to pay off wealthy families who took out a lot of student loan debt. How is that fair again?
And I'm going to get these Milton Friedman videos in a minute where he entirely annihilates
this stupid idea that somehow giving money to the government to redistribute to others
is ever fair.
They're classics.
All right.
Second article.
Democrats ran it for the little guy.
Really?
Here's another one.
Americans for tax reform.
Elizabeth Warren, this was in yesterday's show notes.
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Elizabeth Warren introduced a $2.75 trillion wealth tax in the Senate.
You may say, oh my gosh, that's a great idea.
We're really going to tax the snot out of those wealthy folks.
Really?
Because when you do actual economic studies of these wealth taxes, you find out that the
wealth tax accumulates year after year on assets you've already paid taxes on.
So if you happen to be wealthy, and the definition of that changes all the time, which is convenient,
and you've bought a house or assets
and you're taxed on your overall wealth,
even though you bought those assets on taxed income,
income you already paid taxes on.
And then every year you have to pay a taxes on those assets.
Well, what's going to happen, folks?
People are going to start selling assets quickly, right?
And moving their money into various other entities
and other countries,
maybe, and other places where they're not taxed. Now, you didn't really think of that, did you?
And what happens when that happens? The jobs these evil wealthy people support, the same ones,
by the way, you're giving a massive tax benefit to, to the student loan forgiveness. They don't
see the irony in that at all, though. The same ones you're taxing, you're then giving a benefit
to from the student loan thing, are going to take their jobs and their businesses and go elsewhere.
But don't worry. Don't worry. The Democrats are in it for the little guy. Don't you worry. Don't
ask any questions. Here's another one, Wall Street Journal today. The cost of killing the Keystone XL
pipeline. Even their Democrat allies are asking Biden to reconsider his executive order.
Remember, they're in it for the little guy.
Killing jobs, giving a student loan benefit to wealthy people who don't need it.
All about the little guy, folks.
Killing jobs to a wealth tax.
So this Keystone pipeline, I thought they were about the little guy and solid middle class union jobs.
Because that's really weird. Because when Biden signed an executive order canceling the Keystone pipeline, he in fact de facto fired union workers with solid middle class jobs.
But I thought they were in it for the little guy again.
What is wrong with me?
Why can't I get my story straight?
Well, here are the facts again.
14 Republican state attorney generals wrote to biden asking him to
reconsider his keystone diktat the ag said monday uh excuse me said that montana will lose 58 million
in tax revenue with the cancellation of keystone and quote five of the six impacted counties are
designated high poverty areas gosh that's Again, I thought they were in this
for the little, what am I missing here? Quote, so your decision to shut down the project means less
money for schools, less money for public services, and the elimination of business and job opportunities
in those areas where they are most needed. So again, I'm just having a tough time making sense
of this. So on one hand, the Democrats are fighting for a SALT tax exemption to be
reinstituted in high tax liberal states that gives a tax break to very wealthy folks who pay high
state taxes because they have high incomes. So the Democrats are fighting for that SALT tax.
They're also fighting for a student loan forgiveness program that benefits wealthy
households seven times more than poor households.
So they want to fight for tax breaks for the rich, the SALT exemption and a student loan plan
that helps them while simultaneously taxing the rich to pay for the rich's own tax benefits,
do a wealth tax and canceling middle class jobs, middle class jobs that pay into a tax pool in
Montana that benefit the poor.
But don't worry, the Democrats said they're in it for the little guy.
Here's my final gem of the day.
And the Democrats are now the party of the elites and the anti-science party.
The New York Stock Exchange isn't moving yet.
They want to revive a stock transfer tax.
You're like, oh, that sounds great.
We'll hammer those rich stock traders,
those bunch of idiots.
A revived stock transfer tax that is moving in Albany
could force us to find a new home,
the New York Stock Exchange.
Probably saying to yourself, that's a great idea.
We need one of those federally.
Sell a stock, you rich stock losers.
You should pay those, you wealthy thirst and howl
like zeros lovey lovey you should pay that transfer tax you deserve it yes lovey right well what's
that transfer tax actually gonna do remember science science joe science we're doing science
and facts so let's see what it is so there you go. Is that what the pop culture means?
I actually used to like that song.
Science.
Well, here's actual science and facts.
Of course, this is going to be immune to Democrat skulls where this information won't process.
They don't have to think past the talking point.
Stock transfer tax.
That'd be great.
Hammer those rich people.
Quote, Wall Street generally won't bear the burden of the stock transfer tax. The end investor will
ultimately pick up the tab. The levy would be explicitly passed back on customer orders.
Oh gosh, liberals, you didn't really think of that, did you? They're like, I don't care. Those
customers are wealthy losers. I hate them all. Uh, not really. Quote from the piece,
there's also an implicit cost as market participants forced to pay the tax incorporated into their prices, raising the prices paid by
individual investors. This is getting bad really fast. Vanguard estimates that a financial
transaction tax of 10 basis points would force retirement account investors, oh my gosh, that sounds
like me, to work roughly two and a half extra years before retiring to reach the same savings
goals they might have achieved without the tax.
Damn, that blew up in your face quick.
I thought they were all about fighting for the little guy, the Democrats.
But now you're telling me this stock transfer tax, which is going to eat those rich, is actually going to help hurt the retail investor and his pension fund.
And they may have to work two and a half years longer to reach the savings goals they had to survive.
That doesn't sound good.
But liberals, again, don't let facts and science.
Don't let that get in the way of your stupid talking points.
We're dealing with an imbecile class.
You understand that?
I'm not kidding.
Some of you, I know, I know,
you don't have to always read the audience feedback.
I do with your show.
I get emails once in a while,
Dan, I wish you'd be less harsh on the liberals.
I'm sorry, I can't.
I'm angry at their stupidity.
It is rank stupidity.
I was a conservative when I had no money.
I was a conservative when I was middle class. I was a conservative when I was middle class.
I'm a conservative now that we've been successful thanks to you.
Because I believe in facts and economics and data.
Liberals just don't.
And I'm just tired of the stupidity.
All right, let me get to my second sponsor.
On the other side of this, though, I want to play for you two cuts from a Milton Friedman
clip where he explains to you why this Democrat approach that the government is going to solve all your problems by taxing and giving your money to other people is just purely idiotic. Idiotic. Pay attention. These two are the best clips you'll ever see. Miss Brophy, she was my sixth grade teacher. Pay attention, Daniel. I think her and my mom are the only people who call me Daniel.
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All right, folks, here's these videos I was talking about.
Milton Friedman was just a master of the ability to relay an idea.
Some of the greatest players in sports and human history
became terrible coaches
because they weren't very good
at explaining why they were very good.
Maybe their genetics,
they never had to practice that much, right?
But Milton Friedman explained things
like no one else, God rest his soul.
And in this block,
I've been trying to explain to you
why Democrats' policies
of taking your tax money,
expanding their power,
redistributing and using their power to take your assets and give them to others will always fail.
It is never for the little guy.
It always winds up crushing the little guy.
But no one explains it better than Friedman.
Here's cut one.
I want you to pay very close attention to this key takeaway from this Friedman clip.
It's about a minute and 12 seconds.
He's answering a question from a liberal gentleman who asks it
nicely but he says hey if we just tax people and take away their money it's a really great idea
because we tax them and then we make them work really hard to get their money back and therefore
they're working extra hard and we get to give away their money to people who need it now if you're a
liberal listening you've stopped listening there because you don't think critically you're like
that makes a lot of sense that sounds great great. No, it doesn't. It's
really stupid. And listen to Friedman explain why. Check this out. Isn't there some benefit
to having the government steal our money, which is what they do effectively. They'll hold a gun
to our head and say, pay us 40 percent of your income or go to jail. They take this money and
they give it mostly to government employees.
Well, the government employees spend it. The marginal propensity to consume is pretty high.
So the people who were robbed have to do something creative to get the money back.
And isn't this creative activity the real wealth?
Oh, I take it that they would have to be still more creative if 98% were being spent by the government.
Now, the third part of your thing is just pure fallacy from beginning to end.
Because if those people who are now government employees were employed in creative activity and productive activity, they would also be spending their money.
And we'd have a greater total around.
All you're doing, let's suppose for a moment, take the extreme case,
that that 40% is being used just to have people sit around.
The fact that they spend their money doesn't alter the situation.
The only product there is is what the 60% produce.
And that 60% is divided among the 100%. Poor guy.
Don't ever ask Milton Friedman a question you don't know the answer to,
because these videos are everywhere on video formats out there,
and you can see them.
And Friedman never, ever loses a debate.
And the reason he never loses a debate is because, again,
liberals never process facts and data.
They don't,
they believe in talking points. This guy, very gentlemanly question asked in a respectful way,
but he gets owned by Friedman because he doesn't know anything. That made actual sense to him, Joe,
that if we tax people and take 40% of their income, it incentivizes them to work more
because they have to work extra hard to get the 40% back.
Meanwhile, sane people like me and Joe actually work for a living, unlike that guy.
He may have.
I don't even know if he's still alive, whatever.
I don't know his name.
Say to ourselves, well, that doesn't exactly make sense.
If the harder we work, the less money we make because the government takes more.
The incentive is to do the opposite, is to work less to make less money so we don't
have to pay as much taxes and can actually keep relatively the same amount of money because if
we worked less, we'd move into a lesser tax bracket. That's the sane person approach.
Friedman makes another point as well, that taxing a group of productive citizens to pay others not to work means less production of the stuff that
makes us wealthy. So taxing people excessive confiscatory amounts tautologically doesn't
make us better off because we produce less stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, what makes us wealthy
is not talking points. What makes us wealthy as a country is stuff.
As terrible as it sounds to say, it is true.
We are wealthy because we produce cars and homes and medical services,
legal services, digital services.
We produce tech products.
We produce stuff.
That's why we're wealthy. The difference between us and third world countries is they don't have stuff we have. So taxing people who make stuff to get them to make less stuff, to give the money to people who don't make stuff is a recipe for poverty. Think it through, man. Taxing middle class and poor people, taking their money to give to the sons and daughters of doctors and lawyers to pay off their kids' student loan bills when they can pay it off themselves is insane.
here's the second part of this clip.
It's about another minute or so.
There's a line I use in the show often about the great fallacy of government spending,
where people think, oh, it's not that bad.
You know, government spending is great
because they think, don't worry,
they're just spending my neighbor's money.
Well, it's interesting because the neighbor
thinks the same thing about you.
This is where that came from.
You've heard it on my show often.
Check this out.
If those 40% are also producing goods, then there are more goods to go around among
everybody.
You are just involved in a fallacy of looking at dollars, which is important sometimes,
instead of looking at the real product, the goods and services that people produce and
people consume.
Spending isn't good. What's good is producing. What we want to have is more goods and services.
And as I say, the obvious indication that that's clear is that if your logic were right,
it would apply it for 50%, 60%, 70%, 90%, 98%, 100%. And obviously you would see that that would be a bunch of nonsense at that stage.
It is desirable to have some money spent by government for those things, those services,
that we believe we can get more usefully and more effectively through government.
If people are getting their money's worth, fine.
That's why it's very desirable to have governmental expenditures take place at
as local a level as possible. Because you as a citizen of a small community can judge whether
you're getting your money's worth. You can decide that you want to spend it. But when it comes to
the federal government, you tend to think that you're spending somebody else's money. And you
are in a way, but he's spending yours. The man's a genius. What else?
The man is a genius.
A real life lived in our time, well, some of our time lived in my, genius, genius.
There is simply, maybe outside of Thomas Sowell, who was probably either, I don't know, tied or a close second.
There's probably no one in our time in this generation who did a better job explaining common sense economics
than Milton Friedman.
Of course, that's the attitude of liberals.
Don't worry.
Student loan stuff, payoff.
Yeah, that sounds great.
Let's fight for the students.
Don't worry.
It's not my money.
It's the neighbor's money.
The neighbor's saying the same thing about you.
Genius. Genius.
Genius.
All right, moving on.
This is the comedy block of the show, Block C in TV lingo.
Now, let's first start with the, well, they're both kind of unintentional comedy.
This video I'm going to show you is classy.
If you've seen it already, forgive me.
I really wanted to be the first to put this,
because my podcast usually launches first
before the big guys, Ben, and the other ones.
I really want to be the first to put this video.
We're going to play it a minute up.
But Tucker beat me last night.
I was really miffed about it.
But first, from the unintentional comedy portion,
here's Twitter.
Twitter, apparently the government of India
has demanded they block certain Twitter accounts. Twitter's saying, ah, you know,
we're really pissed about that. And here's what they tweeted out. This is not a joke.
This is an actual tweet by their at Twitter safety account. This is not an attempted humor.
This is a real tweet by Twitter. However, we've not taken any action, talking about the demand
to block Indian accounts, on accounts that consist of news media entities,
journalists,
activists,
and politicians.
We will continue to advocate for the right of free express.
Oh my gosh.
This is,
this is really hard to believe.
We will continue to advocate for the right of free expression on behalf of
people we serve and are exploring options under Indian law folks.
I mean this really,
how do you describe this other than shameless?
Is there a show on HBO?
Is that an HBO show or shameless?
Or is that Showtime or whatever?
How do you describe this?
Are they even reading their own tweets?
So on the same day, literally this morning,
they announced that they are banning Trump forever.
Trump is banned forever from Twitter. He will never be allowed back on, even if he runs for office.
They announced that this morning. They dramatically missed some of their estimates, Twitter, for DAUs, daily active users, which I've been telling you is the key metric.
Forget about accounts. It's daily active users. They get none of it.
Without an ounce of irony,
after banning President Trump,
conservatives, libertarians,
and liberty lovers all over the world,
Twitter actually sends out a tweet suggesting they are, quote,
advocates for free expression.
That's hilarious.
And candidly, folks,
I don't know why to this day
you still tweet there.
I don't.
I'm sorry.
I mean, you should just, you should go on a, everybody should go on a one month Twitter
hiatus.
Don't have to close your account.
You may want to go there.
I go there sometimes.
That's how I got that.
And I read some news.
But why you're providing to them your valuable thoughts and free content, a site that really,
really hates your guts.
I don't understand.
I don't get it.
Here's some more unintentional comedy up with Twitter who, I mean, really, really hates your guts. I don't understand. I don't get it. Here's some more unintentional comedy up with Twitter,
who, I mean, really, you talk about a face plant
sending out a tweet saying they're advocates
for free expression.
You're probably all laughing at that one.
Have you seen this?
This video will go down in history.
I'm sorry, I don't usually do a lot
of these lighthearted cat stuff segments,
but this is one cat video you all have to see.
This is a video from a Georgia courthouse.
I believe it was maybe federal.
I'm not sure.
But you're going to hear a judge
talking about the beginning
and they're doing a Zoom hearing,
a hearing over Zoom,
the electronic teleconferencing platform.
And there's two lawyers there.
And you'll see if you're watching on Rumble,
if you're not watching this on Rumble,
please, the video is a thousand times better
than the audio.
You're missing everything.
Go to rumble.com slash Bongino.
One of the lawyers in the hearing,
it opens up with the judge.
He goes on to the Zoom,
and I guess he was using his assistant's computer,
who must have been Zoom chatting with someone else
and had a cat filter up.
This is real.
Watch the hilarity that ensues here.
This is just as funny as Twitter's tweet
about being
advocates for free expression. Check this out. I believe you have a filter turned on in the
video settings. You might want to. Can you hear me, Judge? I can hear you. I think it's a filter.
It is. And I don't know how to remove it.
I've got my assistant here.
She's trying to, but I'm prepared to go forward with it.
I'm here live.
I'm not a cat.
I can see that.
The greatest line ever in the history of America's funniest home videos.
Although I'm dating myself and we used to use camcorders, right? Uh, I'm here live jet. The
guy's voice is, and the guy's been a real saint about it. The guy with the cat filter on, he's
like, listen, if you all need a good laugh, have it. So God bless him. I think his name is Ron
Banton or something like that. The lawyer, but the best line of the whole thing, I'm really here.
Banton or something like that, the lawyer. But in the best light of the whole thing,
I'm really here, judge. I'm not a cat. And the judge goes, yeah, yeah, I can see that. I can see that. I saw that last night and I rarely do this. I saw it online and Paul and I, yesterday
was a very busy day. Tons of stuff happened. I got some really big news yesterday, by the way.
Some good stuff is happening.
I'll be able to relate to you over the coming months.
Everything's about to explode for us, which is really good.
But it was a busy day, nonetheless.
And rarely do I keep a website up for an hour or so
just to make sure I don't forget to show Paula
when she came in.
That, you all needed a laugh.
Now you got it.
I mean, that's a real video. Poor guy had the cat filter laugh. Now you got it. I mean, that is, that's a real video.
Poor guy had the cat filter up.
And you got to see the cat's eyes.
And he's like,
Judge, I'm sure you,
I'm really here.
I'm not a cat.
But then he says,
dude, I don't mean to belabor this,
but this is hilarious.
Paula, did you hear the part
where he goes,
I can't figure out a way
to turn it off,
but I'm willing to just proceed
with the cat filter.
Can you imagine
if that hearing went off?
Your Honor, Mike, I object.
I, a few good men, I strenuously object with the cat filter on. Can you imagine that? Or even
better, if it was like a code red situation, like a few good men, I want the truth. You can't handle
the truth. With the cat filter on, would have been the greatest trial in the history of legal action deserving of its
own matlock episode with the cat filter you can't handle the truth did you order the code you're
damn right i ordered the code right and the cat's arguing back
listen it's copyright dmca stuff so i can't do it nor would i try but if someone goes out there
and redoes a few good men with tom cruise and the cat filter i'm just saying i can't do it
it's copyright stuff i'm just saying that might be really funny here's an even better suggestion
there's an account on twitter cat tur Turd. We love Cat Turd.
He's the best.
I don't know who it is, but there's a Twitter account, literally Cat Turd.
I think it's Cat Turd too.
Cat Turd has made a career out of cat memes.
Maybe Cat Turd should get involved in that. I'm just throwing it out there, just a suggestion.
Let's get back to the center here.
I'm not a cat judge.
Yeah, we can see that.
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So Town Hall is a terrific piece. Again,
you can access it through the show notes. I encourage you strongly to read it. Bongino.com
slash newsletter is how you subscribe to the notes, the newsletter. It is the same thing.
Please subscribe. Allows us to bypass the tech tyrants and speak directly to you until they
shut down email, which will probably be next. So here's article number one from Town Hall, and it is very, very well done. And it talks about how we need to rethink our tactics. I've
been talking about this over the past two weeks, Joe, you can attest to this, how the left has
adopted Saul Alinsky's rules of organizing and winning. And conservatives are always hesitant
to do it because they feel like, oh my gosh, if we just talk about bigger, higher order principles
and ideology and facts and data, all the time we'll win. That's important. I just did it with
the Milton Friedman segment on how government taxation doesn't work and actually hurts the
little guy. We just did that. And it is important for us to know more than the left because it
allows them, and I'll cover this in the second town, Hopi, is to get them out of their comfort zone.
I'll explain what that means in a minute.
It is important to be smarter than them.
Ignorance is not bliss.
But it's also important to realize that talking constantly about marginal tax rates, student
loan tax redistribution schemes and other stuff, knowing about that is not enough.
schemes and other stuff. Knowing about that is not enough. We have to understand strategy too,
and strategy and ideology and two plus two equals four mechanical thinking is not going to win elections. I'm sorry. Town Hall piece number one. No, that's Town Hall piece number two.
We have to rethink our strategy right here. Headline, Rachel Alexander, the right needs to start thinking in terms of chess moves and less going in defense mode. Bingo.
You're darn right, Rachel Alexander. Read this whole piece, but here's a screenshot from it.
Again, how we need strategy and not just mechanical. Well, our ideology is better. Yeah,
we know that. We have to start thinking messaging and strategy too and those aren't always the same things from the piece quote the left comes up with hair brain
schemes all the time it's overdue to start labeling them as conspiracy theory yeah that's right
put them on the defensive wasting time trying to refute the label that's what they do to us
it won't be easy for us you can't just come up with this kind of thing off the top
of your head. The left has well-paid politicos sitting around in think tanks pouring hours of
time into this type of opposition research. Our side tends to rely on volunteer bloggers.
Once we decide one of their criticisms is a conspiracy, a spy gate, a collusion hoax,
we have to be ready to defend our argument with a list of evidence,
including analogies to real conspiracies.
Otherwise they will defeat us with Saul Alinsky's rule.
Number three,
whenever possible,
go outside the expertise of the enemy.
I was going to say bingo,
but I already said that.
And it's a very overused word on television.
Eureka!
There you go.
Ronald Reagan went to Eureka College, didn't he?
What does that mean?
Folks, how did we beat down the left over time, messaging-wise?
I'm not saying it was a tactical victory, but messaging-wise,
how did we beat down the left on the collusion
hoax? Well, we never stopped calling it the collusion hoax. Despite every new shred of
fake evidence they produced, remember the fake evidence that Mike Flynn contacted
the Russian ambassador when he was the appointed national security advisor? That was fake.
Remember the fake evidence that WikiLeaks leaked some secret information to Don Jr.? Fake.
Remember the evidence that, was it Michael Cohen went to Prague to take money from the Russians for the Russian collusion scam to go on?
That was fake.
No matter what fake evidence they produced, we beat them back.
You may say, all right, was it a total messaging victory?
No, probably 40% of America, maybe 50% still believes in the collusion hoax.
But in the past, it would have been 90%.
How did we do it?
Two ways.
By doing suggestion number one, Rachel recommends, by calling it what it is.
It's a conspiracy theory.
And make them waste their time fighting back on that.
But secondly, we have to know the case better than they do.
It's our obligation as twofold to understand messaging.
It's a conspiracy theory.
It's a hoax.
And never, ever deviate because it was.
They do it to us and they force us to defend ourselves.
Let's let them do the same.
But secondly, we have to know the case better than them.
Why?
Saul Alinsky's rule number three, whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
Here's what I've found in my now 10 years in politics.
And I'm not kidding.
Ladies and gentlemen, the left knows nothing.
Whether it's been my debates with liberals on Fox News, my debates with liberals running for office, I can tell you with a straight face, I can't think of a time,
oh, egomania. I'm not being an egomaniac. I'm trying to honestly, I cannot think of a time
I've lost the debate where I've walked off a stage and been like, gosh, that hurt. I can't.
And it's not because I've been gifted with intellectual powers far superior to anyone else.
That's not it. It's just leftists don't
know anything. It's like debating a kindergartner. Everything is out of their comfort zone.
Saul Alinsky's rule number three, get the left outside of the expertise of the enemy.
He would say the enemy's the right. I'm switching it around.
Let me give you a quick example. Remember the Spygate panel, Paula, at the
Politicon in Los Angeles? I'm on a Spygate panel at Politicon, this liberal event, but they asked
me to go out and debate the whole Spygate scandal, which was real. The collusion hoax was fake.
So I'm on the panel with two total zeros, David Frum and this guy, Jason Johnson. Folks,
zeros david from and this guy jason johnson folks they had no expertise on the spygate scandal none they had no answers at all so within five minutes of the debate when i start spouting facts about
the trump tower meeting and who was actually there people who are working with people working with
the clintons they lost their minds the moderators dropping F-bombs on me, cursing at me.
The panelist, David Frum, is like scratching his head in fear.
He doesn't know anything.
Jason Johnson's going off like a lunatic.
They couldn't handle it.
They had no expertise on the topic whatsoever.
And I'm telling you, 90% of the people there, if they were liberals or conservatives, after
five minutes of this debate, realized what a clown show these collusion hoaxers were.
Call them conspiracy theorists, which I did.
Hit them with facts they don't have.
They have no response.
When we walked off the stage, by the way, because the moderator decided to drop an F
bomb on me, that was never going to go over well.
I think the whole, how many people were left, Paul?
Like 10 people?
The whole room left with us.
It was great.
Know the case.
Know it well.
Understand your ideology.
Understand Friedman's talking points.
Understand Friedman's logic.
Understand why this stuff doesn't work.
And then secondly,
on the messaging,
whenever they bring this stuff up,
attack them fiercely
with this conspiracy theory line because it's true. Most of what they say is a theory of a conspiracy that's fake.
Here's Alinsky rule number two in action, town hall piece number two, Brad Slager. Democrats
are challenging two election results while somehow not attacking our democracy. Wait,
are challenging two election results while somehow not attacking our democracy. Wait,
wait, wait. How exactly is that? What's another one of Alinsky's rules?
Make your political enemy abide by their own rules. So what was the rule we all heard, folks?
What was it? Facebook, Twitter, liberal media titans. They said you are not allowed to question elections. It's anti-democratic. Okay, well, let's let the left now abide by that same rule. Look at what's
happening now in these congressional races. Strangely enough, the left is challenging
elections, and yet there's no call by Facebook to shut down the left. I thought that was
anti-democratic. Hold them to their own rules. From the town hall piece. A motion was filed last week
to stall the confirmation of Republican Claudia Tenney in New York, she's a congresswoman now,
for reasons we've been told are troubling and offensive. This is the Democrats' case against
this Republican congresswoman who won in New York. In this case, there's a reason to believe that
voting tabulations machines hundreds, if not thousands of valid votes and undervotes, and that these tabulation machine errors disproportionately affected Brandeis, the Democrat.
What in a filing made by Mark Elias, Democrat lawyer guy?
Amazingly, the town hall piece goes on.
There were no blaring headlines and columns
and inches of it dedicated to this treasonous behavior.
On Friday, after three months of counting,
recounting and suits being filed,
the courts ruled in favor of the Republican tenny.
Brindisi has since, I believe, conceded.
But I don't get it.
I thought we were told by Facebook, Twitter
and the intellectual scions in the media
that questioning elections
and blaming vote tabulations and machines
was anti-democratic.
We were told that, right, Joe?
Did you?
We were told that, right?
We were, Joe.
This is funny.
Me and Joe were allegedly going to be fired
from a company we don't even work for.
We only work with.
If we dared mention the election,
remember that hilarious story that we just love bringing up because it's so humorous. If we dared mention the election, remember that hilarious story
that we just love bringing up because it's so humorous.
Joe and I laugh about it all the time.
It's really weird.
Now you have a Democrat lawyer, Mark Elias,
blaming voting machines
for the loss of a Democrat congressman,
and yet Facebook isn't banning it.
And Twitter, gosh, that's just so strange.
It's just so strange how that happens.
Make them abide by their own rules. I would expect everyone today would be sending out social media messages on various platforms, calling out the Democrats
in this New York congressional race for being conspiracy theorists. They're blaming voting.
That's a conspiracy theory.
We've all been told that I would expect you to do that.
It's fair.
It's fair,
right?
All right.
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I'm going to throw a little wrinkle into the show today.
We're going to do,
can we do that?
Florida and Washington post block,
the Washington post block.
What's coming up next?
Oh, even the Washington post is starting to acknowledge that the 2020 election may not have been as bad for the Republicans as everybody heard.
Everybody's making out like, I'm not doing the catastrophe stuff.
We're all going to lose.
Forget it.
I'm not voting ever again.
I'm not doing it.
I'm sorry.
An enemy is only vanquished when he considers himself so.
I cannot give you that quote enough. Who is an as who said that i don't consider myself vanquished
if you do that's up to you i will fight and until i got nothing left to fight for
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we eat it right away. I mean, we literally just got this. So I go and I go, no, there's a box,
which is good. Cause I was going to have some of this. So I grabbed this, this, this is our
peaches and cream. I love my daughters, but they love putting empty boxes.
Not a joke.
I did not, but the box is empty, but it's sitting in my closet because my daughter,
Isabel, who I love to death, always puts empty boxes back.
So it's a trick.
You're hungry.
You're like, yes, peaches and cream magic spoon.
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You may say, all right, Dan, no big deal.
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No, no, no.
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This is not a joke.
I didn't tell Paul about it. Here's strawberry. This is not a joke. Here's,
I didn't tell Paul about it. Here's strawberry. That's empty too. Two. No, no, there's another one. Not a joke. Here's another box of strawberry. Look at this box. Empty too. I mean, there is,
there's like four O's in here. There's, thank you. Magic spoon. can you send us some more please because now i'm hungry not a joke
that really happened so what paula said was accurate there is no more magic spoon left
but what she was inaccurate about is there were definitely boxes there's just none in there
throwing me a curveball as i open my closet to eat all right let's go to this florida story from
the hill because i want to leave you with some good news there is good news folks i know it's
really dour down times really i get it you know uh between the disastrous joe biden presidency
and some of the abominations legislatively coming out
of this White House and the Democrat-run House and Senate now, you're like, I'm giving up for
a while. Some of you, please don't. Let me give you two good stories. First, the hills. It'll be
up in the show notes again. I encourage you to read it. Florida Democrats mired in division and
dead ahead of 2022. Ladies and gentlemen, this story is important because it's not just about Democrats in Florida.
It's about a national strategy
to move back, dust off.
We lost in 2020.
We lost.
Joe Biden is now sadly
sitting in the White House.
It stinks.
But it's time to dust off
and get up and think about
2022 and 2024.
I know a lot of you
don't want to hear it,
but I got to talk about it anyway
because it's the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.
What's happening in Florida right now is exactly what we did in the Obama years after two disastrous
losses to Barack Obama to not only build back the party, but to get us to Donald Trump in 2016.
We did it at the state level,
and that's happening right now in Florida where the GOP is wrecking the Democrats on the ground.
Two things here about this story,
and you can read them for yourselves,
but there's two takeaways.
This story about the Democrat Party collapsing in Florida
is a roadmap.
Any rebuilding efforts of our party
that you think are national have to start local and in the state.
They have to.
Because you can only vote in your state.
There's very little you can do nationally outside of sending money to politicians you like on the national level running for the presidency.
You have to start locally.
The state rebuilding efforts, there are two takeaways.
The GOP is doing a very good
job here in Florida. Number one, rebuilding in the state. It allows us to elect majorities of
Republicans in those states who then can go do things like change election laws so we have free
and fair elections, like forcing actual voters to show an ID to vote, a common sense thing. You have to show ID to buy Allegra in a drugstore.
We can change election laws for the better,
change tax laws in the state to grow economies locally,
change immigration laws within the state.
We can change the composition of state courts
in some of those elections to get conservatives on the court
who actually believe in the Constitution. This all starts locally where your vote matters more
remember what friedman said in the beginning of the show in that segment the reason local taxation
and local rule matters is because if you're taxed locally you can see if the money's being spent
efficiently you don't know what happens to it when it goes to dc act locally right now.
My elbows don't bend, dust off.
We need to get back up and start thinking,
what do we do with our county councilmen,
our local mayor,
our state representatives,
our state senators,
our congressmen, congresswomen,
senators at the state level, governors.
How do we start that now?
So takeaway number one, any national change is going to happen at the state level. governors. How do we start that now? So takeaway number one,
any national change is going to happen at the state level.
How do I know that?
Because we did it in the Obama years.
We built intrastate momentum in the Obama years. The only thing Obama was ever good for was Obama.
He got reelected twice,
and at the state level,
there was a near wipeout of the Democrats' base.
We took over mayorships, county council seats, city council seats, governors.
We had three Republican governors in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland in the Obama years.
We wiped them out.
It starts local where your vote matters more.
Your city council race,
your vote is far more effective by simple math
than your race for the presidency.
It's time to start there.
We already did it during the Obama years
and it gave us a strong base
to get to the Trump 2016 election.
The Florida story about the Democrats is not just about Florida.
It needs to happen in Texas.
We need to start rebuilding the GOP in Colorado,
get New Mexico back to a swing state.
That's where it happens.
So some good news.
Here's some more good news.
Rarely do I put a piece by the Washington Post up in the show notes,
but this is worth your time.
Aaron Blake, Washington Post.
Republicans came within 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington.
Republicans.
Did he get that title wrong?
No, no, he didn't.
Democrats are finally starting to acknowledge after licking their
chops and celebrating their defeat of donald trump i say that with uh air quotes look at us
licking our chops you dopey republicans we kicked your cabooses all over the place
now some democrats in the media are starting to realize that this victory may have been pyrrhic
it may not have been the victory you thought it was. Well, let's go into some numbers, right? This is from the
Washington Post, not Bongino.com, by the way. Quote, Aaron Blake, while Biden won the popular
vote by more than four points in the Electoral College 306 to 232, the result was much closer
to flipping than most would suggest. Biden won the three decisive states, Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin,
by 0.6 percentage points or less, which was similar to Trump's 2016 victory.
Meaning, folks, if you flip fewer than 43,000 votes across those three states,
the Electoral College would have been tied 269 to 269.
In that case, Trump would have been tied 269 to 269.
In that case, Trump would have probably won the presidency, given that the race would have been decided by one vote for each House delegation, which is run by Republicans.
Interesting.
43,000 votes.
43,000 votes.
Democrats are licking their chops about how wonderful their decisive national mandate.
National mandate?
Certainly wasn't for the presidency.
You got by with a sliver.
Barely.
Well, what about the House races?
Surely they did a lot better in the House.
It was a real wipeout there. Eh, not so much publicans picked up a whole uh pocket full of seats here's from the washington post
piece where they start to acknowledge even that race wasn't that great for them the race for the
house of representatives the number of votes to flip the result in other words if it would have
been a gop house was similar in the house of representatives cook political report notes that in light of
claudia tenney's win that congressman we were just talking about in new york in the town hall piece
fewer than 32 000 votes could have flipped the five seats the republicans would have needed to
win the house majority to illinois 17th district iowa's third new jersey 7 texas is 15th of virginia's seventh so just to be clear we were 43 000 votes in a country of
330 million people from winning the presidency according to the washington post only 32 000
votes from taking back the house of representatives now you see why i'm not ready to quit anything
and i'll give you one more we were only,000 votes away from taking control of the Senate.
Certainly doesn't sound like some national mandate and a wipeout to me, does it?
I'm not giving up anything.
Not even close.
Liberals are obsessed with me and my show, and we get hit every day with all kinds of new nonsense
and you know what we keep coming back every single time it only feeds me further man
but not with magic spoon because we're out so please send us some more and replace those empty
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It's important.
They have totally overplayed their hands
and they are just right now licking their wounds.
It is really bad.
I want to get to that story tomorrow and a lot more.
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I was a little hyper today.
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