The Dan Bongino Show - I Thought This Never Happened (Ep. 2558)

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Folks, I just put it in the chat. Syak, stupid is a freaking choice. I can't say this enough. Why would you choose to be stupid and publicly advertise the fact that you are an imbecile? Why would you do that? Well, the answer is, don't like asking a question I don't have an answer for,

because you've surrounded yourselves with other imbeciles who've made the same choice who don't want to look like imbeciles so they don't surround themselves with smart people. They surround themselves with other imbeciles because they don't want to be called an imbecile and another imbecile won't call you an imbecile because they'll call you an imbecile too. That was a lot to open the show.

Just as like, whoa. It's like that old, what is it? Milton Friedman said, you know, people love big government because they think they're spending their neighbor's money. But your neighbor thinks the same thing. Stupid people hang around other stupid people. And manipulators who aren't stupid,

but lie intentionally, love to hang around stupid people because they know stupid people won't call them out. You saw what happened yesterday with the bombshell revelation in New Jersey. And I get it. That term is incredibly over-breaking bombshell. You know, we don't do that. We rarely do teases without telling you what they are.

We don't like that. I think it's maybe good for audience retention. I think it's shitty for audience faith in your show. What happened yesterday in New Jersey with the communist governor having to admit that over 6,000 people were registered to vote who were completely ineligible to vote. I thought that never happened. We titled today's show. I thought that never happened. You told us Democrats it never happens.

So now it's not just that it happens, but now it's like, well, it's not happening that much. Really? These 6,600 people, that's not a lot. I'm going to get to that. But stupid is a choice as well amongst the Unholy Alliance. I heard Senator Tom Cotton bring this up this morning on Fox and Friends. He brought this up, Republican Senator Tom Cotton brought up this morning. The Unholy Alliance, hat tip David Horowitz, we have been talking about now for days.

They have the same goal. The Unholy Alliance are the commies, the libs, Libcomies, the same thing. That's one tranche of people. And the Islamo fanatic terrorists. They're allied? Yes, they are allied. They have the same goal, the destruction of the United States.

And they will use whatever entry point they can into your mind to get you to join them. They don't care. The Jews, you'll see, I'll show you. Epstein, climate change, global warming, it doesn't matter. Whatever they think your soft spot is, they will hit you with it. to get you to join the unholy alliance. The commies and the Islamo fanatics. Stupid is a choice.

Mamdami has been doing this forever, and he just exposed himself and admitted you were stupid if you believed them. I'll show you what I mean. Big show today. Don't go anywhere. Michael Alfonso coming on as a guest. You may have heard that name.

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it was Thursday. Today is not Thursday. And not only was I was, like, I was absolutely convinced it was Thursday. I had to, I'd have Justin, like, show me. And my geography was all over the map. Wyoming, Wisconsin. No, we should not put the bloopers back in the interview. We should not.

But maybe one day, I'll say what I. my brain was all over. But I promise you, I'm good now. So blackout coffee and solve that. But again, I don't want you to think like this is a business free of errors. We screw up stuff like anything else. So let me just get right to this one. A little bit of a mild language alert here, folks.

Your kids are listening. Scumbag Mom Dani just gave up the whole game yesterday. Scumbag. Mom Dani is a piece of human garbage. This guy. is an anti-American Islamo-Nazi and is a threat to everything America stands for. He is a lying sack of garbage.

He is a total, complete life loser who is just, he lies through his teeth to people because he's an Islamo fanatic. That's what he is. He had insisted on the campaign trail running for mayor of New York. He had insisted, we're going to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu because he appeals to weak-minded people

We'll hear Netanyahu in Israel, and logic goes out the window. You're going to arrest a foreign head of state at the U.N.? Really? We're going to arrest all of the tyrants that we allow into the country to talk to the U.N. Like, did you ever talk? And I'm not even suggesting Netanyahu's a tyrant. I'm just telling you, you know how many shitheads we led into the country to talk and negotiate at the U.N.?

I, you know how many U.Ns I worked? I should have brought my pins. I got pins in my office from every secret service U.N. I worked. I got a whole boatload of pins. sitting in my, this little case here. It was asinine. Why am I bringing this up now? Because ladies and gentlemen, stupid is a choice.

Only idiots believe this moron that he was going to arrest that Njahoo, when he popped into New York for the, only idiots believe that. They chose to believe it. The problem with imbeciles and idiots believing stupid stuff is when the stupid stuff becomes like a red line issue, a passion for your voters. Like now they want to see handcuffs on this guy. Now Mamdami's forced to admit he's a scumbag liar, which is all he is.

He's a piece of shit. And he always has been. He's a showman. He's a carnival barker. Here's a Mamdami video. And how many times I've been telling you about the unholy alliance? The commies, lives, same thing. And the Islamo nuts.

I told you they're all saying the same thing. We need the international criminal court. We need them to start arresting people like Donald Trump and Netanyahu and elsewhere. Here's Mom Dani admitting it. He says basically acknowledges he can't arrest Netanyahu. He was lying to you. He's basically saying I'm a lying scumbag because he is. But notice how he says, I really support this international criminal court.

Really? You don't support U.S. courts? You support Krapakistan arresting U.S. soldiers overseas in a star chamber ICC court. Notice how he says anyone else in this clip. You think this is an accident? He's reading a pre-prepared speech. It's not. Pay very close attention to this.

Check this out. There is a reason the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest. As human beings, we have spent generations building a shared understanding that there are crimes so grave, they offend all of humanity. Anyone, with their eyes, with their heart, with their conscience, should recognize the devastation he has wrought and understand that he belongs before a court of law. As I've said, I agree with the ICC

that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes, as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could exit. execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large.

Notice he mentions it twice, because I was a little foggy this morning, Justin, how to correct me. I, yes, I cut the video too early. And he's like, no, Dan. He doesn't only mention Netanyahu and anyone else. He's talking about Trump. Pete Hedgeset, Marco Rubio, me, Cash, Todd Blanche. He wants an extra territorial, phony fake Star Chamber Court, a bullshit court that the United States does not recognize on a part.

to start arresting U.S. citizens outside of U.S. law for political crimes. That's why he said anyone else. And you notice he repeats it at the end. Benjamin Nanyahu is not welcome in New York. You don't know who's welcome anywhere, you piece of shit. And then he's like, and anyone else who's a war criminal, who do you think he's talking about? Folks, my point here is there are two type of leftist scumbags

in the unholy alliance of communists and Islamophonatics. There are smart people. I don't mean that as a compliment. Smart people like Mamdami and Elizabeth Warren, who know what they're doing and are lying to you and know it. And then there are Syaks, these stupid people who have made the choice to be stupid and believe this bullshit that a Mamdani could have arrested then.

All you had to do was put it in AI. Can a foreign diplomat be arrested by the New York City Police Bar not an ICC warrant? It would have said no, it's all you had to do. But you chose stupid, you freaking moron. And this guy's laughing at you. Mamdami, this scumbag, is laughing in your face that you believed him. He's laughing at you. Gosh, I grew up in New York, and I love my, I got a little family in New York, a lot of them, like most of my family.

New York has a lot of good people. But folks, it's got a lot of bad people, too. How are you falling for this bullshit? This carnival barker, this freaking Times Square Folex salesman selling folkly glasses. Hey, look, opening up the jacket. How are you falling for this bullshit? He is a politician in the United States. New York City is in the United States.

Last time I checked. Calling for a court that we do not partaken that wants to arrest our president and other members of the Trump administration, to arrest another foreign dig and you're falling for this, you understand you could be next, right? Here, put up that Wall Street Journal article again for like the thousandth time. Why do you think Secretary of State Rubio is going balls to the wall now on taking on the international criminal court? Quote, the ICC's allies signal they intend to target President Trump once his term ends.

It's right there. They're not even hiding it. You think you couldn't be next? You want to subjugate U.S. citizens to a bullshit star chamber court so that any U.S. citizen, any politician doesn't like when they travel anywhere overseas, some bullshit court can issue an arrest warrant and just pick you off and throw you in jail on a philoneous mopery in the umpteenth degree? Is that a real charge there? No, that's the point.

I cannot believe so many morons are far. I really can't. Even the stupid left, I don't think they understand the hellscape they're creating when the Krapakistan court judges start indicting U.S. soldiers for every single, you know, in-theater kinetic action they take. Holy shit. And then all you got to do is remember, all you got to do is mention Israel or Netanyahu. And everybody's like, I'm on board.

I'm on board. Yeah, but this could mean your arrest too. I don't care. I just hate Israel. Are you that crazy? Can you not think straight? You're free to hate Israel all you want. You realize you're being suckered here. And that's the entry point to your stupid brain.

I have to show you this to kind of lighten this up just a little bit because it's such a serious topic. But if you think I'm kidding that there are two specific cabals of people who are manipulating you to do things that will destroy the United States. You've got really stupid people, the Syaks, who made the choice. And then you've got manipulators who are like Mamdani, who's not stupid. And is why he knew he couldn't arrest Netanyahu. He just knows if he says Israel Netanyahu, the Jews, a bunch of suckers will be like, this is great. Here's Jasmine Crockett, who is definitely a, this lady is a lieutenant in the Syac army.

She, you know, that's true. That's a good point. Jasmine Crockett may be so stupid. She didn't even make the choice. The choice was made for. Jasmine Crockett said one of the dumbest things. In case you don't know her, she is a communist congresswoman. She recently ran for Senate.

She got smoked. This is one of the dumbest people ever elected to Congress. And my gosh, that's saying a lot. I'm not sure in an IQ test. She cracks 85. She's up on Capitol Hill yesterday. Lieutenant of the Syacs right here says one of the dumbest things you've ever seen about the World Cup. Spain versus Argentina.

If this makes sense to you, please tune out of my show immediately. I don't want you dumb and down the collective IQ of my audience. Check this out. World Cup that captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was playing for all these teams. And ultimately, if you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain. And it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina, or actually against Argentina, right?

And why was that? Just give me an explanation if you could guess, if you'll just let them finish the answer. Spain are the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them. There's also a racist history that... I don't... Someone in the chat just said she's a two-star general

in the Syak Army. Folks, I can't... That's a level of stupid I can't explain. I don't even know where she was going with that. a largely Spanish-speaking country, Argentina versus Spain, another largely Spanish-speaking country, that there's, I don't even, stop trying to explain it.

You'll lose five or six IQ points. You need like that prevegen or something, that brain compound like fish oil and shit. Folks, I really love it when they say the quiet part out loud. Jasmine Crockett should have opened that up by just explaining that she's a very lie, low IQ individual who has process problems with inputs and in creating an output that makes logical and reasonable sense to any normal thinking human being. But some of these people are

more clever. I applaud Senator Cotton for bringing this up this morning. Folks, the biggest national security threat to America right now, the United States of America, is the unholy alliance of Lib Commies and Islamof fanatics. It's right in front of your face. I want you to watch this, right? This is video and hat tip, I think Canary Mission pull this out or DSA watch. They're both great, by the way, follows. I love it when they say the quiet part out loud.

Here's a video they put out there. You're going to see some pictures in the beginning of all the unholy alliance member, that Chevalier. And you're going to hear this guy, Kyle Kalinsky, a total deep. bag zero loser. He basically admits it that the Islamo fanatics and the commies are all on the same team. And notice what he does. He uses the entry point. He thinks he can get into your brain. He brings up the Epstein thing. All of the code words are there for him to get onto your TikTok stream to make sure you join the unholy alliance to destroy your neighborhood, your town,

and your country. I love when they say the quiet part out loud. Check this out. We're governed by dead-eyed psychopaths and sociopaths and bloodthirsty imperialists. The U.S. government and the Israeli government, they are the terrorists. They are the terrorists. They are doing terrorism. If Iran's off the table as a regional power, that means Hezbollah can't be funded, Hamas can't be funded, the Houthis can't be funded, like the Shia Crescent falls, and then you have nothing but regional domination for Israel. There's a reason why I call Israel and the U.S. the axis of Epstein, okay?

There's a reason why I've said repeatedly that they're in the midst of creating the Fourth Reich, because that sincerely is what they're doing. These are genuinely repulsive, disgusting, wretched, depraved human beings. And it is absolutely accurate to compare these people to the worst criminals in history, to Mussolini, to Adolf Hitler. Does that guy die his hair, blonde? I guarantee you that guy's mom tells her friends, she has no, I'm 100% sure of it. No, no, I don't know that guy. No, it's a hundred percent him and a pick no no i don't know him i don't know him do you see what he does there epstein class jews the u. and suckers fall for this he's cheering for iran man we can't have iran go down you mean

the death to america crowd we need to what is he saying we need to balance out the death equation like we got to make sure there are enough iranians killing americans to balance that god forbid hesmala and harmasa defunders those are terror groups This is not, what, it's not even the quiet part. They admit it. They hate you. They hate, this is a suckers game. The commies and the Islamo nuts, both which would kill you in a second, if you get in the way and an obstacle of them taking away your freedom and liberty, would kill you in a second.

They're laughing at you. Kapinski and his ice man blonde hair. Kapinski, Momdami. They're laughing in your face. Young people, Jasmine Crockett, dancing guy, AOC, they are laughing in your face, man. Democratic socialism. How many times do I got to tell you their motto of the Islam fanatics, which the communists are all on board with, first we get the Saturday people, then we get the Sunday people.

They don't even give a damn about the Jews. They give a damn about civilization and destroying it. You're just being played, man. you're just being played Democratic socialism my ass you think you you get a vote in this

you know who Nikita Beer is at Twitter I'm going to take a quick break I'm going to show you this is an important post because it's going to prove the point I've been making to you over and over don't fall for siops they are moving into low IQ

people like Jasmine Crockett with these propaganda the psychological operations to get you become part of the Unholy Alliance to destroy this place. They're telling you. You hear Kapinski, Israel, U.S., F, C., that's all they have. That's all they have. Join our movement. Join the Storm Troopers for Stupid.

Become a general like Jasmine Crockett. I told you this is going to become an increasingly growing cancerous problem if we don't cut it out now. I want to show you this tweet. Coming up next. Hey, Patreon Mobile isn't just different because of its mission. It's actually built to outperform the other carriers. It's a great service. I have it.

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Okay, back to the show. I want to show you this. In case you think all of this is organic and all this stuff you see, Jews, climate change, Israel, Nanyahu, FSI. It's not organic. You're being played for a sucker. And a lot of people you may have thought were your friends in the Magosphere, and I'm using the air quotes because they're not.

They're paid goons and losers are being paid to promote this similar bullshit. Nikita Beer is one of the ponchos over at X who guards against this type of stuff. Put this out yesterday. Political accounts have been the biggest offenders of undisclosed paid promotions. I, they're getting money for shit and not telling you. This guy knows. We've been investigating cases of foreign influencer campaigns recently. Often, this is important.

This is important. Often the influencer accepting payment assumes it's just some American advocacy group. What did I tell you on yesterday's show, Justin? Folks, listen to your boy here. I'm telling you, listen to your boy, Dan. I've seen this on both sides where people have come in and shady groups, they contact Paula, she runs the business, and they'll be like, hey, Paula's like, we're good.

We're okay. Thank you. We're good. Hard pass. And then all of a sudden, later on, you'll see like, oh, wow, Paula, check out, that group that reached out. Look, they were in the news. They were never surprised.

We're never surprised. the names they use we love America the pack or whatever it folks it's bullshit that's why this show did you notice when we came back

just that how many people were like who tried to trash us when we were busting our ass to fix this you know massive problem that was going on within the DOJ and FB did you notice how many people who seemingly out of the blue that nothing is happening people

Do you notice how they were? They went crazy like the first month to try to crush this. And then we exploded back onto the scene. And now all of a sudden, most of them shut the, why is that? Because a lot of this was a money up. And when the money dried up, all of a sudden they had no interest anymore. We crushed you. We crushed you.

And I'll continue to crush you. Our audience kicks ass. Nobody was listening to your bullshit. Do you notice how all the bullshit responses you'd get to, a tweet, anything with my name in it? Do you notice how that's down like 90% the minute they started crushing bots in these organized campaign? Weird, right?

Folks, it wasn't about me. It's about the Trump administration. Anyone, anyone who doesn't align with their unholy alliance agenda. Anyone. You ever take a job in politics and you

have a name out there, you'll see exactly what I mean. Here's another one. I want to show you. This unholy alliance. Commis Islamof-Fanatics. Hat-Tip Reagan Battalion who put this out yesterday. It's an account on Twitter.

They've been exposing a lot of this commie shit for a long time. You know what? Can you put up the tweet first? I want to set this up for you. This is how dangerous these people are. The commies and the Islamophonatics. Bernie Sanders, who for some strange reason,

the biggest fake, phony front, climate change flying around in private shows. Millionaires and billionaires. He's a freaking millionaire. This guy is full of shit. shit. He's a lying manipulator just like that scumbag, mom dani. But he's not stupid. He's hoping

you're stupid. Bernie Sanders was a big supporter of Daniel Ortega. Who the him is Daniel Ortega? No, that's from the DSA one, the one about the Daniel O'Degah is a commie scumbag who has just canceled

elections. No more democracy in Nicaragua. I thought it was Democratic Socialism. That's what they told us, right, Justin? Democratic Socialism. Everybody gets to vote, sharing is caring, Barney the big fat dinosaur, roasting s'mores. Reagan battalion, breaking. Nicaragua's dictator, Daniel Ortega, Democratic Socialists, folks. Announced today, country will no longer hold the election.

How would, what? What? I thought it was Democratic. So say, no more more elections. Here's Bernie Sanders celebrating his role, Bernie's role, in advising Ortega. After commie scumbag, Tyrant Ortega took power. praising the socialist dictator who is now abolished elections. Here's Bernie in his own words, democratic socialism, right?

Check this out. Socialists, the word socialism does not frighten me. And I think it's probably fair to say that the Nicaraguan government is primarily a socialist government. You may recall way back in, what was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba. And everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world, all the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed, the society, but just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the

people in their own nations feel the same way. How do you find the sincerity of Sandinista leaders? I was impressed. I was impressed by father Descoto because he is a very gentle, very loving man. Watega is an impressive guy. Ernesto Cardinell is a funny looking guy, he's gray hair. And he really does remind you of a hippie. Ladies and gentlemen, please God, please God, capital G, God, I swear to you in my audience,

I am not using my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's name in vain. Please God, wake these people up. Please, God, I'm begging you pray for their souls, the stupid people who have fallen prey to this stuff. There is nothing democratic about democratic socialism. It is simply the taking of your property, your political freedom, your economic freedom, your education freedom, your health care freedom. This is not complicated. The evidence is present throughout human history.

Put up that Wall Street journal piece about the horrors of Mao Seedong. You saw that scumbag, Hassan Piker. Oh, Mao Se dung. He isn't that bad of a guy. Mao Se dung. Really? We're going to read this. Folks, get ready.

Put your food down because this is some gross shit. You like Mao say dung? Daniel Ortega canceling elections. I thought he was a Democratic socialist. scumbag Bernie Sanders, who's a millionaire flying private jets himself, scumbag momdani. Oh, we're going to arrest anyone else on ICC warrants too. Yeah, here's who Mao Se dung is.

Read this. Read all of it. 45 million dead, Freeman notes in the Wall Street Journal. Under Mao Say Dung and the commies. According to Frank Dicketer, who described the results of his research into previously classified archives of local and national offices of the CCP. By the way, he wrote this in the New York Times. Freeman's quoting it.

Between two and three million of Mao's victims in China were tortured to death or summarily executed for the slightest infraction. People accused of not working hard enough were hung and beaten. Sometimes they were bound and thrown into ponds. Punishment for the least violations, including mutilation and forcing people to eat excrement. Hassan Piker, dickhead, scumbag. You want to answer for that, you piece of shit? Mamdani, Bernie? Justice right, he said a little excess.

Is this an excess, too? One report dated November 30th, 1960, and circulated at top leadership, most likely including Mao, tells how a man named Wing Zhao had one of his ears chopped off, his legs tied up with iron wire, and a 10-kilogram stone dropped on his back

before he was branded with a sizzling tool. His crime digging up a potato. Oh, it gets worse. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, the local boss forced his father to bury his son alive on the spot. This freaking democratic socialism sounds awesome if you're a dickhead. Folks, that was in the New York Times, the big right-wing rag, right? New York, New York Times. Hassan Piker, scumbag, Kyle Kapinski, dye in his hair. You're going to listen to these dipshits?

By the way, what's Piker worth, by the way? Piece of shit. What's your way? You hate capitalists and freedom. You want to drop 10 kilogram stones on people's back and have them bury their kids alive. Just a little bit of excess. Scumbag. What are you worth? Maybe we should make you do. dig up a fucking potato. Piece of shit. I'm so sick of these scumbags, folks.

Every single one of them freaking redlined out with these assholes. And I'm tired of the fucking stupid smart people who support them. Did you see this Nate Silver tweet that went nuclear yesterday? He's an election analyst.

Some people like him. Some people don't. Some people like me. Some people, none matter. This tweet went crazy yesterday. He did a little analysis. of stupid smart people. Do you know the Dan Bongino stupid smart people rule? The most dangerous people on planet Earth are not stupid, stupid people. They generally know their limits.

They can provide a lot of value. They know where to... Smart, smart people are really good because they're smart, but they know they're bad. It's the neurosurgeon who doesn't try to change the oil in your car because he knows he doesn't... But he's smart. Stupid smart people think there's no bounds to their knowledge

because they've got a PhD. in basket weaving. Nate Silver. In today's newsletter, I argue that the sweet spot, basically for the Democratic Socialists, are very college-educated, 80% plus it would be a, but not particularly well off. Household incomes are relatively low. Their class status is ambiguous, but they tend to be very liberal on culture as well as economics. Who is this? This is the Women's Studies PhD, who because they add no value and are generally morons, Peter St. Ange has a great tweet up about this, how the lowest SAT scores for BAs are in government

in the education space. I'm just telling you the facts, okay? I'm just giving you the facts. These are the stupid smart people. I've got a PhD in 14th century urban studies. You got a what? Is that even a thing? What the effort are you talking about?

But nobody will hire me. So what happens? I'll talk to Michael Alfonso about this in a little bit too. People become bitter. This 28-year-old Karen with a Ph.D. and 14th century urban studies for, you know, women. They don't know what to do with that because there's nothing to do with it. So they get bitter.

And as I brought up with the guest yesterday, they feel like they should be part of a European benighted costumed aristocracy where because they went to school, they were entitled to a seven-figure. income. Now, the irony is, when you look at the same data for the MAGA movement and conservatives, it's populated by a lot of working class individuals who may or may not have a college degree, but make a decent amount of money relative to their education. The HVAC guy who starts his own business, making $150K a year. Why is he a Republican or a conservative or a

mega guy? Because he busted his own ass, and he didn't feel the need to spend 400 years in school for 14th century urban studies. Stupid, smart people are the most dangerous people in the world. Read the first circle by Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag archipelago, capitalism and freedom. Read the theory of creative destruction by Shumpeter. The most dangerous people in the world are stupid, smart people. And they appeal to overeducated, under-earners,

provide no value to society, but they also appeal to people who generally choose stupid. Justin's correct. I'm not sure Jasmine Crockett chose stupid. It may have chosen her. But a lot of these people pick. They don't want to know. Because you tell them, hey, guys, just look this up. Socialism, Mao Zedong, 45 million dead.

They don't want to know. And when you expose their heroes, yeah, my Fox, Mamdami admits New York City can't arresting that in Yahoo. You could have looked this up. bro, you chose to be stupid and fall for this golden calf. It's on Fox right now. I told you it's a live show. You're falling for this Bernie Sanders bullshit, too.

The guy is a millionaire, railing against millionaires. Folks, I'm a capitalist. I love making some money. I love giving away money, too. I love business. I love it all. I love the risk of it. I love the challenge of it.

Bernie Sanders is saying, no, no, no, government should take over all of that, just not my money. Bernie Sanders also, you have to pay attention to the entry points. Again, I'm not telling you, I want to be very clear about what I'm saying, because I don't want any confusion about entry points into your brain to get you into the Unholy Alliance. Epstein is a very serious issue. Israel is a serious issue. We should openly analyze our relationship with every foreign country, Israel included, to see what works for America. Notice, no logical, reasonable person saying otherwise.

You know, our climate is a very serious issue. I, you know, I hate the idea that there's tons and tons of plastic in the ocean. I mean, these are things we live here. They don't care about any of that. That's not my point isn't that it's serious. I'm not serious. It's serious. Point stipulated, that's over.

All of those things are serious. My point is that they don't care about any of what I just said. They don't care about Epstein, Israel, climate change, none of it. Because they don't act that way. They care about using it as an entry point to get into your brain to join them in the Unholy Alliance to Destroy America. Hat-tip Western Lensman for this video. Here's Bernie Sanders in a campaign speech railing about climate change.

And then just seconds later, you'll see Bernie Sanders on Fox News talking about, yeah, I take private jets. You think I'm going to wait with the smelly people? I thought you cared about climate change and carbon emissions. Clearly not enough to impact your own behavior, you phony scumbag. Check this out. Change is not a hoax, but an existential threat to our planet. We transform our energy system away from fossil fuel.

You and you run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. The only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United, waiting, waiting, you know, 30,000 people are waiting. That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're going to do it in the future. Folks, he doesn't even apologize. He just said no apologies. If this scumbag had any human dignity, like Mamdami, he would just say, I lied to you about Netanyahu and I lied to you about climate change. He would just say it. He doesn't have any human dignity. Do you think there are a businessman out

there flying around the country working you know multi-million dollar deals for cancer drugs and building materials that can make housing cheaper that their lives aren't important they would love to be out there on private jets you think they're not important too they would love what about firemen going out to do like some smoke jumping job for a wildfire maybe give them the private jet but you don't because you're full of shit he doesn't even even apologize. He gave you this, bro, the New York double barrel. He doesn't care about you. You're being suckered. All they're doing is finding your soft spot in your armor and they poke right in whatever they think will appeal to you. They don't care about any of this stuff.

And that's why you get things like what happened yesterday. You get this massive rally on the left to try to appeal to stupid people against the SAVE Act. You're seeing it now. Here's the pitch, the entry point to the stupid people. It's racist and Republicans hate women. How? Black people are too dumb to get a driver's license and women are too dumb after they get married

to figure out how to change her name. That's really? Took Paula just a few minutes. She's pretty smart. They're pretty smart. If Jasmine was here, I'd ask, I think it really not hard. That's their pitch to you.

And stupid people fall for it. Stupid people fall for it. Senator Mike Lee from Utah has been doing just incredible work on trying to drag this Save America Act across the finish line. We need this. Folks, we need it. And I'm tired of like the rhino class too playing this down.

I mean, I really appreciate a lot of these older right-leaning papers like the journal. But I don't think they understand the gravity of this situation. Faith in the system is falling apart. It's a big deal. And it's not fake. It's not a conspiracy.

It's not made up of anything. My time in government, harden me on this. Here's Mike Lee talking about the SAVEX. And the only reason you'd oppose this is because you want to cheat. It's not hard. I agree with them 100%.

Check this out. That there's only one legitimate reason to oppose this. I have yet to hear a legitimate argument against the bill. which begs the question, do they really just want to make it easy to vote so badly that they're willing or even enthusiastic to just make it easier to cheat? Folks, we had a, again, I'm not overselling it.

If you think I'm overselling it, put it Y in the chat. Yes, you're overselling using the word bombshell. Of course, I'm talking about the New Jersey report. If you missed the New Jersey bombshell that came out yesterday, man, you missed a doozy. Democrat communist governor

gets up and gives his speech about how over 6,000 people Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, what? There's a McRoyne that said yes or there. Did you get that thing backwards? McGreg, it may have to ban this person. I'm kidding, your opinion is valid. Six thousand, six hundred people were registered to vote

who were totally prohibited from voting, illegals and others? I thought that this wasn't an issue. I thought it wasn't a problem. Let's go to Scott Jennings. I know this is two parts, Justin. I'm a little bit out of order, but Scott Jennings was on CNN last night. Again, I'm not sure stupid is a choice for Abby Phillips.

She is the left-wing host of the CNN show. Thank God Scott Jennings is there to impart upon her, like a minimal amount of knowledge her small brain can process. But here's Abby Phillips. Phillips last night about this report. I love how the argument changes. Do you notice the goalposts moving voter fraud is non-existent? Okay, it's existent, but it doesn't change any elections. Okay, it's existent and it may change elections, but not that many. They just keep changing the goalpost every single time because they appeal to stupid people. Here's this exchange last night.

I want you to listen to this, how these people have to just beg, borrow, steal to make you believe that it's a burden on you to show a piece of ID to vote. Check this out. What's your tolerance for this? My, hold on. It's not about tolerance. This is about, is it widespread or is it something that is relatively rare? You're pounding him over the word widespread.

I just would ask you, Scott, what is your tolerance for any fraud at all? Is it widespread? Absolutely. Over 6,000 people. What is your bar for wide spread? And she said, my bar is I want no tolerance. I have zero tolerance. So what is your tolerance?

tolerance for American citizens. By the way, this isn't the only place this is happening. What is your tolerance for American citizens whose valid voter registrations are invalidated by incorrect databases? What's your tolerance for that? I don't have tolerance for any mistakes in the electoral system, including putting non-citizens on the rolls. So then why are we not keeping the same energy for that as we are for this? I do have energy. As you know, I've come out here and long argued that every time we don't clean up the voter rolls, that every time a non-citizen makes it onto the voter rolls, it invalidates some least. What about what about when an American is not allowed to vote when they are eligible to vote? I don't have any tolerance for that either.

American citizens should be allowed to vote. But American citizens are invalidated. Why are you okay then with the administration using a system that a federal judge recently found was actively removing U.S. citizens from the voter rolls based on inaccurate information? Why are you comfortable with that system being used to check the voter rules? This is a convenient deflection for you. this is the worst possible story that could happen for Democrats right now regarding the debate over the say back.

Folks, I have so much to say about this. And I just, I want to just, if you do the prolonged sigh, it calms you down a little bit. Abby Phillips, I generally don't think like stupid as a try. I think she's just incompetent and has a very low IQ. She makes an argument that defeats her own argument and doesn't even know. it. She says, one, she uses the tactic of deflection, which Jennings points out. She addresses nothing about the 6,600 people ineligible to vote who made it on the voter rolls, admitted by communist governor in New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill. She completely avoids that all together

and goes, well, whatever you hear well, what about, you need to do what Jennings does, which is say, no, no, no, no, we're not doing the deflection. We're addressing this. I'll address what you say if, but we need to stick to the point. She can't. And she then goes, well, what about people who were inadvertently kicked off voter rolls due to some administrative mistake? Yeah, and Jennings is like, good, we should fix that if that happened, no matter what, if it was one person or 6,000 people. Fine, we should fix that. And I'm sure that problem is going to be remedied. And we are all for open access, just secure access to the ballots.

So just to be clear, I'm suggesting you, we should fix what you brought up, even though it was a deflection. but I bring up 6,600 illegals registered to vote and you're not interested in a fix like the Save Act? Oh, Abby Bill is not smart. She makes an argument that defeats her own argument. Folks, these people just want to cheat. That is it.

Mike Lee is 100% correct. Now, I want to show you something. In case you may be some moderate Democrat who, I don't know, you see the stupid ramp coming off the highway and you're thinking about, don't take it. You're thinking about it. You're like exit 62, here we come, whatever. Don't do it. Let me show you something interesting. Put up that GROC thing.

This is a screenshot of my phone. You can look it up yourself. Use the same words, whatever. I put this in GROC earlier. 6,600 people could have voted that were ineligible and were illegal. and were illegal to vote. Again, I thought that didn't happen. Abby Fields, oh, no big deal, whatever.

How many New Jersey state elections, including the following races, were decided by 100 votes or less? State races, county offices, municipal offices, school board elections, local ballot questions. That's the exact question I put in GROC. I want you to read the answer

because I thought this didn't impact, oh, no big deal, 6,600 people. The short answer is no one knows the exact number because they don't maintain a statewide database that indexes contest by winning margin. That said, based on the volume of elections held in New Jersey, a reasonable estimate. Reasonable. State legislative races?

About 5 to 15 races were decided by 100 votes or fewer over the past 10 years. County offices, roughly 10 to 30. Municipal offices, 200 to 500 races. School board elections, 150 to 400 races. Local ballot questions, 50 to 400 races. to 100 measures. That's just in 10 years. 6,600 ineligible voters on the rolls.

Now does a lot of this stuff that's happening in Georgia and Arizona and elsewhere starting to make sense? Again, tell me, a fat comedian guy, tell us how nothing's happening because you know, tell me again. Now do you understand why President Trump decided, you know, last Thursday, night to give the speech about this. I thought nothing was happening. I thought that's the Democrat

talking about. No voter fraud. Well, there's voter fraud, but it's no big deal. All right, but it's a big deal, but it's just a few races. All right, it's actually a lot of races, but people are prevented from voting because they're black and can't get a license. What? And you fell for this? If you're missing the live stream, one,

you're missing out and comment in the day, but two, you're missing just as like live action just foray. into adventureism on his own show. He's taking it over. He's like the Justin show right now. So Scott Jennings had asked the great Mays Moore on X, one of my favorites, if not my favorite follow. At Mays, M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E on X.

Scott Jennings knows about Maze Moore, too. Scott said, hey, Mays, can you do a little super cut? You got that tweet of basically people saying that this was no big deal, voter fraud doesn't exist, and no illegals on the ballot. Here's Scott. he's a quote tweeting jake sherman about the mikey-sharrell announcement need a maizemore supercut of every dem on cable claiming this never happens is voter for stuff right maizemore of course complied

wonderful account here is the supercut of the emotionally and intellectually challenged abby phillips who couldn't even answer the question and tried to deflect and defeated her own argument arguing with herself about this exact thing here's the supercut check this out has been in office for a full year now they have not come up with any of this purported evidence of voter fraud. You guys are in search of something that there's been no evidence exists. New Jersey is double checking its voter rolls tonight after a software error added 6,600 non-citizens to the voter rolls. The suggestion that this is fraud suggests that these people were trying to vote.

Sometimes what happens is that when this, when state systems are incorrect, people receive information And they are confused. But for some people who are ineligible to vote are not aware that they're ineligible to vote. I do think it's whether it is widespread or not. So clearly. I do think that the numbers actually matter. Folks, do you see what happens?

Can we just like circle back to the beginning of the show? The unholy alliance, the commies and the Islamo Nazis take advantage of two groups of people. The two take advantage of two. The two groups of people they take advantage of are stupid people who have made the choice to be stupid or have had it imposed. upon them like Jasmine Crock because they know they'll fall for anything they know they know they fall for anything they also take advantage of charismatic messengers who are liars and manipulators

scumbag mom dony total scumbag he may try to arrest me up in new york city too that's how crazy these people are you don't have to be stupid though it's a choice i just told you even if you're a low IQ idiot like Jasmine Crockett you can just go to grok or Gemmonaut or chat GPT or Claude or whatever, and ask to question yourself. It's not hard. There's a surrogate brain ready to do the thinking for you. You just choose not to use it.

One of the things that drives me crazy is we've got the unholy alliance, the commies and the Islamofanatics, trying to destroy the United States. Destroy it. They are a national security threat to the United States. Their protection racket is the left-wing media. And their propaganda racket is the education system.

It's actually four legs to this stool. Folks, which driven me nuts since I've been back on the air is watching from the other side, the left-wing media. The right-wing media is pretty good. Sometimes we get stuff wrong too, but the left-wing media, I would see something in the morning that we were privy to. And I would read about the New York Times-Washington Post version of what we saw. And, folks, it was night and day.

It was not the same thing. This drives me bananas when I see stuff like this. Because what am I going to do? I can't just give up classified information to show you reporter Joey Bagadonis at New York Times an idiot. But I'm telling you, 90% of what you read is either fabricated, bullshit, or some propaganda version of the truth. President Trump was in the Oval yesterday. He was talking with the reporters out there.

And it's almost comical listening to this reporter cites some supposed information she has about Iran. And President Trump's like, well, how do you know that? Like I've gotten briefings you know, do you know something I don't know? And she has no answer at all. I'm sorry, are you going to tell us? This drives me. I'm not telling you don't ask questions.

I'm not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying most of what you read, unsurprisingly, is total complete horseshit. And it's just made up. They have no idea. Check this out. Well, they continue to attack our allies. You don't know what the dialogue is behind the scenes that they want to meet desperately to try and end it because they're getting decimated.

You don't get that when you listen to your fake station, but you don't know, you don't know anything. So talks aren't. You know something that I don't know? You know something I don't know? We'll tell us. I will tell you they want to desperately meet. And until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest in you. I don't want to belabor this point.

I'm just telling you, this drives me freaking Benaz. However little faith you have in the media, you should have less. I saw it over and over again. One of these days when this stuff is declassified, I'll be able to show you a side by side. Here's what you read in the New York Times. Here's what's now declassified. And I'll be able to show you how it's either completely made up

or they take one sentence totally out of context for the entire report. and they blow up a story and say, Trump's the loser. It is so bad. The experience, if anything, was just worth that alone to watch media people be clown themselves. Folks, I'm really happy. We were finally able to, you know,

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Those are real fireworks in the studio right now. You see that? The winner is R. Barrage, 69. The comment was, Dan, using an X-Files reference, like his crew uses Star Wars references. That's why I love this podcast cast. Thank you.

Congratulations. I hope you spend it well. $1,776. We'll get to week two when we go through the whole process. And we have a comment of the day today as well. This guy's like moving over there. Justin, what's our comment of the day for today? 1776 Club, you see it right there.

It is. Borg tank? It's not happening, but it's good that it is. Yes. We haven't said that. in so long. That was a Michael Anton thing. You gotta be, this Borg tank, you're a hardcore P1 there. And I think the Borg thing comes from there. Oh, Lucy's here. Folks, Lucy has arrived. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, it's not happening. The Democrats say this all the time. The voter fraud.

It's not happening, but it's good that it is, this is their thing. Voterfraud's not happening. By the way, I'll be on Will Kane later. Laura Ingraham's show tomorrow. I should probably announce that stuff. You want to check that out. Folks, you know, I'm not a big gambler, but I've been having a lot of fun looking at marketplace predictions for everything from politics to sports. And CalShe is where I get the best insight on predictions. From sports to politics to finance or any variety of markets people are monitoring, calshe.com is a bookmark you need. I featured them in my last election special. They were spot on. Our president was elected as predicted. Calshe.com, K-A-L-S-H-I, is one of the only

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The old Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena speech. Michael Alfonso running for Congress in Wisconsin 7. Michael, welcome to the show. Good to see you again. Thank you so much for having me. You know, Dan, I always credit you with my. my start in the political world. Everyone always asked me, what experience do you have? Well, I produced one of the biggest podcasts in the country. Well, we miss you. And listen, I'm really proud of you.

I know what it's like to run for Congress. I hope your result was different. I'm always proud of the fact, though, that I threw my name on a ballot. But one of the things I noticed right away, I was like, man, you really leaned out. And I said, let me guess because I'd been there before, I said the campaign trail. If you're really campaigning, I mean, you're not doing, but other candidates you know, maybe some in your race, they're lazy. They say they do a couple of TikTok ads and they're done. If you're really campaigning, gripping and grinning,

going to the parades, the barbecues, knocking on doors, you're out all day, all day. You're dehydrated. There's no bathrooms around. You're just like in a real pinch. I'm not surprised. You said, I lost like 10, 20 pounds. Like, man, you look really lean.

So tell everybody what it's like to get out there. and really do the groundwork and the gripping and grin and you need to do to win. Yeah, so when I was working for you, I was 200 pounds. I'm now 160. When you're out on the campaign trail, you do not have time for anything. You are either driving to something, you're talking to someone on the phone, you're knocking a door. And, you know, this district, the Wisconsin 7th is actually the biggest district east of the Mississippi. And I always like to put this in perspective, I've driven 50,000 miles and nine months.

So that's circumnavigating the globe twice. So Michael, yeah, I've been there. I know what it's like. I ran in Maryland Congressional District 6, which goes from the mountains all the way down to the urban areas of Montgomery County. And, you know, if you do it the right way, which I know you're doing now,

knocking on a bunch of doors, you really do learn a lot about people. It's inevitable. It's almost by osmosis. Even if you had zero interest, even if you were a terrible candidate and you didn't care, you can't talk to thousands of people

and not learn a lot about them and yourself. When you're hitting those doors and you're chatting with people, I would imagine cost of living comes up. I would imagine, you know, health care comes up, you know, crime. But what are you here specifically in Wisconsin most of all from the folks who are gripping your hand, you know, shaking your hand and saying,

hey, I need your help with this? The number one thing is what is Congress doing? They haven't done anything. What are they doing? Where's the Save Act? where are, I mean, it's ridiculous. Every door I knock on, they're saying, President Trump is amazing. We love him, but Congress is not backing him up. And when I, I listen to the media, all I hear is apparently Donald Trump has falling approval numbers and all of this. I don't know where that is because every single person I talk to, it's Congress with the falling approval.

They love President Trump. We're talking to Michael Alfonso running in Wisconsin District 7th. The website is alfonso for Wisconsin.com. Alfonso for Wisconsin.com. You know Michael from the show. Michael, speaking of the SAVE Act, huge issue. You know, again, you worked here on the show. You would see a lot of the emails. There were a lot of things we'd mention. You remember that you can tell right away, correct when they hit? You just see a bunch of emails, DMs. You're on Twitter. You're like, damn, whatever you said yesterday about whatever, the death penalty, boom, it exploded. I have never, ever seen public support amongst moderate Democrats, moderate Republicans, libertarians, MAGA people, old school conservatives, new school conservatives.

The far left wants to cheat, so get them out of it. But I have never seen grassroots support like I have for the SAVAC. Now, obviously, I know what you support. I get that. But the reason I bring it up is I was talking to a very prominent official up on Capitol Hill. He's definitely not a swampy. And he said, Dan, you'll never believe it. He was a lot of the guys up here, even on the Senate side, who've been around forever, they don't see it.

They think this is just like an internet issue, like a fringe issue. I said, are you, like, do you ever get out and talk to people? Please disabuse politicians of that notion that this is some fringe issue to say back. Yeah, I mean, we've been hearing there's almost 20 million illegals in this country. Now we're finding out that just from four states, Democrat states, that turned over their voter rolls, about 250,000 illegals were registered to vote. Now, they were very clear, the person that told me this, that we can't be sure that they're voting.

They're voting. We know that they're voting. Who registers to vote if you're not going to vote? 250,000 people in four states. Wisconsin went for Trump by 20,000 votes. When he lost in 2020, he lost, by 20,000 votes. This number is really concerning.

This is changing elections. And the Democrats' main argument is they're not voting. This won't make a difference. Okay, great. Let's pass the Save Act. Nothing will change. It'll be great. Michael, I noticed behind you over your left shoulder,

you have a picture of Washington, you know, crossing the Delaware, an iconic photo. I had a great guest yesterday on America, on America 250 and the greatness of America. But, you know, your in-laws, Rachel's got an amazing story. We all know Rachel from Fox and Friends, of course. But, you know, Rachel was a conservative before it was cool and hip to be a conservative on MTV. You have to be my age that you was way before you were at time, but I promise.

It's not before mine. You know, and to have a female Hispanic conservative at the time was like a one in a million shot. But with America 250 coming up now, you being a younger candidate, which I have no issue with. And I, you know, if you can articulate the issues, but you can, good for you. But this socialism appeal, which is the antithesis of America. It's the antithesis of freedom and liberty of free markets, of, of patient-directed health care, of school choice. The government controls all that in socialism. That's got to concern you right now amongst your generation that, hey, this thing is really moving and we can't ignore it, this cancer of socialism.

Yeah. And, you know, my grandparents actually came to this country from Cuba. So I know a lot about socialism. Let's call it what it really is. It's communism because that's what it becomes. And wherever these ideas start to pop up their heads, you see violence. I mean, what happened to Charlie Kirk is a direct correlation to what's happening now. The left paints us as Nazis, paints us as racist.

And then they shoot us. These ideals, they're not these peace-loving, oh, let's help somebody. No, they turn violent and they already have. And I think this is why it's so important to have younger representation. I know, you know in Florida, you guys got to have Maxwell Frost, another young lefty, was a total communist. And the right hasn't picked their next champions yet. And the problem is young people have always struggled starting out.

I don't blame the older generation for looking at us and saying, you guys need to work a little bit harder. But the thing is, these young people used to figure it out by age 30, age 40, they get their first job and it starts working out. They're not. We need to win younger people because in 20 years, you're going to be stuck with us. Michael, I'd love to get your thoughts on this talking to Michael Alfonso, candidate for Congress, Wisconsin 7. And I don't sense this from you at all, any kind of animosity. But we have to be careful with the messaging here. Messaging matters. It's does. This is a generation reared on TikTok and Snapchat's short form messaging. And if we don't adjust to that, we're going to get smoked. Being angry at them is not going to fix any of this. We have to understand, like, why there's a great piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday in the op-ed column. And it's a future view where they ask a bunch of students about socialism. And a couple of these young men and women say the same thing. Like, it's not that socialism is necessarily

appealing. It's that they feel like they got screwed over. And I think it's up to us and coming upon us and guys like you running for office to say, you know what? You did. But it's not that you got screwed over. It's who did it that we need to fix. It's the government. You got screwed over with a shitty education, pardon my French there, because the public school system is garbage. That's the government-run school system. Your health care is expensive. Why? I thought Obamacare was going to fix it. The Democrats just shut down the government because Obama care is too expensive and they needed more money. You know, they argue about like the bank bailouts.

Bank bailouts, like that's a big government thing. Yeah, some establishment Republicans too, but that is not a conservative principle. Like that was them, the financial crisis, the Community Reinvestment Act, this was all big government. So I always say to them, hey, younger voters, I'm not mad of you. I'm totally with you. You got screwed. The government screwed you and we're going to fix it, not the socialist that are going

going to introduce more of the broken leg. And young people just care about having a job where they can support a family and being able to buy a home. That's their only two issues that they care about. And the thing is, the left has a plan for them. How would you like free health care? How would you like a free house? Now, we know that that doesn't work. But we need the right to start talking about this.

President Trump won young people because he talked just about this. He said, hey, you guys can't get good jobs because we have horrible trade deals. with Mexico and Canada and China, you name it. We need to talk to the young people. They're not crazy. They're just uninformed. And I really, really think it's important to look at, you know, these young people and say, they are Americans.

They are going to be the next generation. And it's our job as Republicans to actually deliver results for them. We have no one to blame for this rise of communism besides the rhino Republicans who do nothing, when they're actually in power. Can you blame the young people who look at the right and say, eh, they didn't fix it either, so time to give the Democrats a shot. Yeah, and I really encourage everyone to read that piece, Future View,

where you hear these young men and women talk about it. I mean, if you've been indoctrinated, and you know, like, you, you know, you've been in colleges in the education system, you've seen it. Like, you're told from eighth grade kindergarten through 12 and then in college, if you decided to go, that, you know, socialism's the answer. It's about sharing and caring and barring. the fat dinosaur, like, that's not what it's about. I'm sure your parents from Cuba can explain to you what it's about.

It's about torture, death, destruction, government confiscation, stealing private property, stealing your wealth, shutting down your farms. I showed a clip earlier in the show. I showed a piece from the Wall Street Journal yesterday as well, documenting the horrors of Mao Zedong. You know, people being forced to bury their children alive for, like, eating a potato that was unauthorized. Like, this happened that the torture and deprivation

and the starvation of this. So I'm glad you're calling that out. I think young people need to hear it. But I want to ask you about this as well. So you got President Trump's endorsement. I mean, listen, when I ran for office, I've said this on my show repeatedly. Endorsements really didn't mean much.

I mean, back in the day, an early Sarah Palin endorsement moved the needle a little bit and got you on a, but really nobody cared. Nobody votes for Indus. They just don't, except Trump. President Trump's endorsement record is insane. I don't even know what it is.

to one, but that's just, you know, even eliminate races that were a fate of complete. It's still ridiculous. It's like 50 or 70 to zero at that point or whatever. What was that like had you find out and that must have moved the needle for you? Yeah. So, you know, I went ahead, a bunch of interviews with, you know, his lower level staff. And then finally, I did actually get to sit down with them in the Oval Office. And I've never been to the Oval Office. I'm a kid from northern Wisconsin. I've been out of the country one time going into the Oval Office talking to the president of the United States, but not just any president, President Donald Trump. I've never been more nervous in my entire life. He grilled me for an hour straight. I didn't know how it went. And then I was on

the flight home and didn't hear anything, didn't know anything. He didn't call me. He didn't say anything. And he just put it out on truth social. He's one of those guys that just shoots from the hips. and anyone that knows him knows. He doesn't give people warning. He does what he does, and you got to roll with the punches. That's what I love about him. I mean, listen, brother, we share this in common. The same thing happened with the FBI job.

I mean, we had just had some general conversation, not even with him. I had had him, you know, with cash, and it had just come up. And I really just kind of sat there. And I don't know what it was. A month later, I'm sitting there on a Sunday night. you know, I'm falling asleep. It's like past my bedtime at like 7.20 at night.

I'm hitting old. And I see my phone where he says, Trump. I'm like, what the hell is this about? And he is a, you know, what is that joke? Decider. He's a decider. When he wants to do it, he just does it. And he takes his inputs.

He forms an output. And he's just ready to rock and roll. So listen, I'm sure that's going to move the needle huge. Yeah. You know, I've seen a lot of this now. The more politicians you see, they have a laundry list. of consultants and everybody else who, well, maybe you should say it this way. Maybe just the advice world. And President Trump doesn't listen to any of that. He just does what he thinks is best.

And it's so refreshing to see a decision not take six weeks. It just happens. He makes the decision and now it's how do we implement it. Yeah. Yeah, he's, listen, man, if he's got something in his his head and he feels he's a very transactional guy. And some people when I say that, they say, well, what do you mean transactional? I mean, he looks at politics as a spreadsheet. If he sees the net present value of a decision long term is going to be positive, but may take some sacrifices over time, he's going to do it. He's not really interested in consoles. Like, well, your polls may move tomorrow, but well, is it better for the United States in the long run? And he does it. He'll take a chance. He's the biggest risk taker I've ever seen in politics. And I really admire that.

Speaking of politics, one of the things you may be asked to vote on if you win the congressional. We're talking to Michael Alfonso running in Wisconsin, congressional district seven, is a ban on stock trading for insiders. Now, you know, I'm torn on this for a, I like to get people both sides. I don't just about the talking points on it. I'm for that, almost, but I'm hesitant. And here's why. Let me just spit it out.

You have a lot of people in Congress. who are, you know, like yourself, they're not millionaires and billionaires. They're working class guys. They, you know, they don't have some pot of, you know, a million dollars sitting there. And if they're invested in a couple of stocks here and there, and you've got, as long as you're doing it ethically and there's no conflict of interest, you know, okay, great. The problem is you always get people who are going to take advantage of that.

And I think that's the greater concern. How do you feel about trading as stocks by people in Congress, given all the ethical I'm not suggesting they have to sell them all. I mean, but there should be at least some completely detached blind trust while you're in there. Yeah, I'm completely against any new purchasing of stocks. That's it. Pause. No more.

You are a public servant. Your job is not to enrich yourself. It's to serve the public. And something I've said a lot, you know, I don't know if this will actually get past. A lot of people want to vote against it. I will never trade a stock in my personal capacity, nor will my wife. which is a reference to Nancy Pelosi, who she doesn't trade the stocks, her husband does. But I actually think it's a great way to implement term limits, so to speak.

You know, people are going to be in office long enough and they're going to say, ah, I'm going to get out of here because, you know, I want to start doing something. Great. We don't want you there for 50 years. Congress was always supposed to be get in, get out. And I actually think it's a good way to get term limits almost sort of attached to it by default. Yeah, term limits is another issue I brought up before, and there's a lot of ups and downs that. My concern, and you may experience this as a new congressman, is it's like, you know, going to college for the first time. You're like, well, I've been to school K through 12,

but you've never been to that school. You've got to learn where, you know, the buildings are, like who I have to go to for academic support, where these after hours things are, where I may need some extra tutoring or whatever. It takes a little bit in Congress, the mechanics of how the operation works. I've only heard this from others. I don't pretend that I know what, but they've said it's complicated. It may take a term or two. So that's the only thing that makes me a little hesitant. I am. I have changed my mind significantly on term limits based on what's going on now. I mean, we have AI. We can figure it out pretty quickly. But I just, I worry that congressional staffers become empowered then because they understand the mechanics

better than a constantly evolving group of congressmen. You're just general thoughts on that. You're totally right. And I think you actually need term limits for the bureaucrats as well, making sure that there's not this secret side of things that's just there all the time. But the way I look at it is I say, if the president of the United States, the most important role in our entire government has term limits, I think Congress can have it too. 435 members. Most of them don't know what to do even 10 years afterwards. So we're not really losing much. And Michael, another thing about term limits that always gets me is if it was a federal law, you know, it would likely apply to, you know, federal unless the state and of individual states comply. And like I mentioned blind trust.

But there are rules about that too that still exists. But, you know, tighten it up and everything like that. However, you can still, even if you say you really love politics, you may be a really great public servant. You may be a, you know, I love what Donald Trump's done. You know, I don't agree with every decision, but most than more than I have on any other. the president we've had in a while. You know, what if he wants to go back and, you know, someone wants to go back and serve as a state legislator

after being a U.S. senator or a congressman to Wisconsin? Nobody's stopping you. Like the people of Wisconsin, it would probably, you know, they would probably restrict it to federal if it was a federal law unless, you know, states did it on their own too. There's nothing stopping you. So I see really no downside to this. Don't give me the whole like, well, what if they're a good public servant?

Good. Go back and be a state senator. Go run for a governor. No one's stopping you from doing that. Yeah, and, you know, our government was written to have the states be far more powerful than the federal government. So one of the things I want to do if I get into office is make most of the decisions the federal government does, give it back to the states. And then you can go serve at the state level. I mean, the state senators, the state assemblymen, they're your neighbors.

I'm running in a district where there's 750,000 people. I've met, I think almost every single person in the district, but really, I probably, haven't even made a dent. The further away your government gets from you, the more tyrannical it gets. You know, you look at county board members. Even the Democrats aren't that bad. But then you look at the Maxine Waters, the Nancy Pelosi's. They don't feel any duty to serve you. They don't care about you at all. That's, and I encourage everyone to look this up, that's the principle of subsidiarity. The best government you're going to have is the most responsive and the way to make it the most responsive is to reduce it to the closest most granular level possible.

I mean, think about it. If you had a, it's obviously a hyperbolic example, but if you had a state representative or a city council member, whatever it may be, and he only had 20 constituents in his district and only 12 of them vote. Michael, you're damn well paying attention to every one of their concerns because one vote flipped the whole election. You're right. You get a congressional district, which is by federal standards still small, $750,000.

But let's be honest. I mean, if you're an out-of-touch guy really doesn't give a damn, like, someone calls you and goes, hey, I got a problem with this zoning thing. You're probably like, yeah, whatever, call Joey Begatonis. I don't got time for this today. You're going to find time if government's smaller and closer. Michael, while we're close, sorry, go ahead. You got a comment on that.

I was just going to say, I was talking to a sheriff just the other day, and I won't mention which one it was. But he's a little bit of a lefty. Do you think he's not going to come to your door if you call 911? You better believe he'll be the first one. Yeah. You're damn right. Accountable government is the closest and the smallest, most granular level possible. Michael, when's the primary?

How can people find you, support you? Well, first, how are you feeling about the race and then give us the mechanics of it? You know, the race is going well. You know, with President Trump's endorsement, that helps a lot. But I am always 10 points down in my own head because you never want to get cocky. You can't let anything be taken for granted. you can find all about the campaign and issues page at alfonso for wisconsin.com. The primary is August 11th and actually early voting starts next week.

Yeah, early voting. I mean, I wish we had, you know, voting was tightened up across the country, but early voting's a thing. It's here and it's totally counterproductive to not take advantage of it. I say to people all the time, folks, I get it. I'm not a huge fan of, you know, three week, two week, one week. I don't mind a couple days. I get it.

However, God forbid, something could happen. Your kid gets sick. Your dog gets sick. You get sick. A thunderstorm keeps you in your house. The Democrats banked their votes early. We are stuck with this system. Unfortunately, we have to play ball with rules we're not, you know, really fond of.

But it's really important. You bank your vote early. I get it. I understand it. But we're never going to change the system if we don't elect guys like Michael, correct? So it's counterproductive to wait. If you can bank your votes, bank your votes. It's Michael, oh, excuse me, Alfonso for Wisconsin.com.

Michael, congratulations on running a great race. Listen, I told you we had sent the text exchange. I said, listen, man, you know, I'm proud of you. Throw your name on a ballot. It takes a lot of balls. It does. Because it's totally public. It's the greatest meritocracy out there.

It takes a lot of guts to do it. A lot of people will talk about it. And they're not because they're afraid, you know, I win, lose, whatever. Hey, man, listen, life is about meritocracy. I'm proud of you. You ran a great race, and I hope everything works out for you. Yeah, and, you know, I just want to take one last second to thank the Dan Bonino show. I mean, nothing has changed more in my life than when I started working for you guys.

You're the best bosses in the world. I missed you every day. You were at the FBI. I miss you still. And I miss the McGroin so much. Oh, they're the best. Anita was the best. Jim, the producer over in Dallas.

Gee, Justin. I know you got some new producers now. I haven't met them. But really, it is a family over there. Haley as well. Vince. So thank you guys so much. You guys are amazing patriots.

You're saving the country. You really are. Thanks, brother. And they miss Evita too. I obviously want to keep this about you. But please send our love, our support. Big hugs. Rachel and Sean as well.

good friends of us. I obviously want to make this segment, though, about you, but you do have a great, a great kind of almost unprecedented support network. And I'm sure, by the way, hopefully when you win the race that you'll have that support network, you're going to have like the greatest advisors ever. So Michael, good luck in the race and don't be a stranger. Hopefully we'll see you on the other side of this, all right? Good to see you. Thank you so much. You got it. It was Michael Alfonso. You know him, folks. Make sure to check out. He's talking about Haley. Make sure you check out Haley's show at noon at rumble.com slash Haley, H-A-L-E-Y. He's been tearing it up there.

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