The Dan Bongino Show - Independence Day 2022 Special - The Dan Bongino Show

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

First, Dan rants about the SCOTUS 2A decision from last week, "the left doesn't understand us but we understand them". Then Dan breaking down the left, and their choice of subjectivity vs. objectivity. Finally, Dan breaks down the left's extinction burst, and discusses Stacey Abrams abortion interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino happy independence day folks july 4th and thanks for tuning into the podcast today really appreciate it hope everyone's having a good time i know i'll be having a pretty good time doing a little bit of traveling having some fun with the family celebrating this great glorious country we live in. Touched by the hand of God, folks. I mean that. We put together a special compilation of some of the best segments from my radio show.

Some pretty epic rants we've had that I think are worth your time. The radio is a little different than the podcast, so some of you podcast-only listeners may be hearing some of this for the first time. To find out where you can hear my radio show, go to Bongino.com, click on Station Finder, and check it out. So huge Second Amendment ruling coming down from the Supreme Court, protecting the Second Amendment, and basically throwing out a lot of New York states

ridiculously, overly unnecessary prescriptions they put forth before you can get a concealed carry permit. Now, I haven't seen a tweet this good in a long time. I was just during the break because it just happened. I'm going through material. It's a live show. Bang, bang. Want the latest stuff, right?

I'm going through Twitter here looking for some good takes on this from people who are learned in this space. And I came across this at political math. Follow this right now because this is great. At political math. He says this. He says, I don't know if it's a he or she. We need a name for the rhetorical phenomenon where someone understands his opponent so poorly

that he smugly suggests something he thinks they will hate but that they gleefully endorse. This is great. This is perfect. This goes back to my, I think it was Jonah Goldberg, who I'm not a huge fan of, but wrote actually a pretty good piece a while ago. I don't remember where it was, hot air, whatever. He was talking about how the reason the Democrats keep blowing it, this was years ago, he wrote this on the second amendment, is because they just don't understand gun owners and don't even try to understand us. In their eyes, we're all killers and murderers.

We want school shootings and death and destruction. They don't, of course, that's beyond absurd. I mean, it's offensive. But they make no effort to understand you at all. And he made a great parallel. It's a good piece, even though, again, not a huge fan of the guy. I'm sure the feeling's mutual. But he used the analogy with smoking.

One of the reasons it was bipartisan action on trying to stop the trend of American smoking was because everybody understood a smoker and knew how to talk to a smoker. My mom was a smoker. Hey, Mom, is that a good idea? Some tactics work, some tactics don't. But you knew the people. You tried to understand why they did what they were doing. Why are you smoking? Well, it feels good. Hey, Ma, is that a good idea? Some tactics work, some tactics don't. But you knew the people. You tried to understand

why they did what they were doing. Why are you smoking? Well, it feels good. Well, other things feel good, too, like exercise afterwards. You get what I'm saying? The left makes no effort whatsoever to understand us. We're smellies, Walmart people, deplorables, fascists,

thugs, murderers. You've heard it all. Homophobes, transaphobes, histophobic, phobophobic, phobophobes. All of it, they're absurdities. They're offensive nonsense. But the left makes no effort to understand this at all. And because that, we keep winning on a lot of these issues.

So Politimat says, he makes his point in this tweet so three decisions are expected to come down this week right we had the school choice decision in maine at a supreme court backing up school choice right we had the second amendment decision uh defending the second amendment comes down today and then the abortion decisions expected to come down tomorrow or sometime soon, right? So Politibat tweets this because these have all been, by the way, responses by the left that they've tweeted out. I'll just send my kid to a Muslim school with my taxpayer money.

That's been a leftist response. Jim said, yeah, okay, great. Sounds good to me. Why would, I don't understand. Who was it? Was it Waj don't understand. Who was it? Was it Wajahat Ali? Who was it who said that? It was, right?

Wajahat Ali. Who would have sent kids to Muslim schools with their own money? Yes. Great. Yeah, it's fine. I don't understand. That goes to show how little you idiots understand us. That is literally what we've been fighting for.

You want to send your kid to a Muslim school? A Jewishish school catholic school a private school a school school a school that works a home school that's what school here let me give you a little that's what school choice means it goes to show you the left does not understand you but you fully understand them it's why they will continue to get their asses kicked in the courts here's's another one, Politimath notes. A leftist response to the Second Amendment decision today. This I've heard a ton of. From Joy Behar on down. What do you

think about black people owning arsenals of guns? Sounds great to me. I don't understand what the problem is. They're not committing any crimes and they want to defend themselves and buy some guns. What's the problem you guys and ladies on the left you it's hilarious this is the tweet of the year i'm going to retweet this right now this is so good at right jim brings up a good point is it jim thinks jim thinks it sounds a little bit racist why single out black people are they

inherently dangerous what is with you lefties why Why single out Muslim schools? Are we supposed to be afraid of them? Right? I don't understand. You're the most racist people. You conservatives send a kid to a Muslim school. Okay. Well, what's wrong? I don't understand. What's the problem with a Muslim school? What are you saying? What are you saying? Why not just come out and say it? Wait till black people start buying guns. Yeah, they are. What's the problem? Black people dangerous with guns, libs?

What are you, huh? Because that sounds kind of racist to me. Here's another one. Another lefty take showing you again how stupid the left is. If we can't get abortions, we'll make men take care of their pregnant partners. Yes, absolutely. Please do that.

I will sign on to that bill tomorrow. Yes, we have responsibilities, men. If you get pregnant with a, if you get a woman pregnant, you have the responsibility. That is correct. Why? I don't understand.

What? You guys, you're so hilariously stupid. You keep tweeting these things. Send your kid to a Muslim school, man. Go right ahead, daddy-o. Knock yourself out. That's a whole school choice thing. I hope more black men and women learn to defend themselves and grab a firearm to do so and don't become sheep.

And yes, I do hope we can pass legislation making sure that there's some responsibility on the male side for men and get women pregnant and try to run for the hills. Tweet of the year right there. I just followed this guy or woman because that just sums up so beautifully how lost they are on the left.

I don't want to play it a third time. We had Kathy Hochul we played before. We played the cut, the governor of New York, who just blew it again. She managed magically to blow it again. Talking about the Second Amendment, how every amendment has reasonable restrictions. Well, there are restrictions allowed on constitutional rights, folks.

That's just a fact. But there is a test there. The test is it has to be a compelling government interest, and it has to be through the least restrictive means. If you have a constitutional right to bear arms, which you do, a God-given right, I should say, protected by the Constitution, precision here matters, that if the government were to restrict that right

by saying something like, if you've been convicted of a violent domestic violence crime, you will not be allowed to own a firearm, that clearly passes the two-pronged test. It's a compelling government interest, obviously, to not have people who've been victims of domestic violence get murdered. That's pretty clear. And it's through the least restrictive means. It's tailored specifically to people who've been convicted and given due process of that specific crime.

Everybody get it? Kathy Hochul doesn't understand that. She keeps trotting out the ridiculous fire in a movie theater analogy. Well, you can restrict speech. You can't yell fire in a movie theater. Actually, you can. You shouldn't. It's stupid. You can get someone killed. But that's not true. The Brandenburg versus Ohio decision overturned any of the fire in a movie theater nonsense from Oliver Wendell Holmes. And it overturned it 40 years ago. Now I'll double down on this. Even if you're not allowed to yell fire in a movie theater was true. It isn't.

That is a hoax. That is not current law. Kathy Hochul knows that she's lying to you. She's just, the liberals are just bumper sticker people. That's why I'm going to do my monologue on my Fox show about this this weekend. The fire in a movie theater thing is just a convenient bumper sticker for them, even though they know it's a lie.

By the way, where's Tom Kircher and Bill D. McCarthy? Where are they fact-checking this? This is the easiest fact-check ever. Oliver Wendell Holmes used the stupid fire in a movie theater during a case that was thrown out and trashed 40 years ago. Where are the fact checkers? They're wasting their time. Biden

didn't look lost on the stage. He was looking for his dog who was in another room who was whelping for some water. This is what these two idiots are doing. There is no fire in a movie theater legal precedent, but I'll double down. Even if there were, there isn't. But even if there were,

telling New York State residents that they cannot get a concealed carry permit and exercise their constitutional right because they don't have some compelling need when the government defines what compelling is is not maybe a compelling government interest but it's certainly not the least restrictive means the government will argue well we have a compelling interest in keeping firearms off the street i'm sure some liberal judges would agree with that i don't they have a compelling government interest

in keeping illegal firearms off the street but you're never going to pass the two-pronged test of restricting a constitution, right? And the second half, which is a compelling government interest, do the least restrictive means. How is that the least restrictive? You're telling every single potential gun owner in New York State you can't have a gun unless we say so. That's the most restrictive means. There was no way this was going to pass constitutional muster.

No way. This case was bound to pass constitutional muster. No way. This case was bound to get thrown out. But even using Kathy Hochul's own already debunked discredited argument, I want you to think this through. Say you weren't allowed to say fire in a movie theater. Did you notice how that's not a prohibition in advance? Follow me here. This is a very important point. You first tell your friends the fire in a movie theater is not true. But even if you were right, before you walk into a movie theater, do people put tape on your mouth?

Jim's laughing. It's a fair question, right? In other words, the fire in a movie theater, even though it's wrong, is a punishment after the fact for exercising a free speech right and doing so in a way that could potentially cause injury to others. In other words,

they're suggesting you could be arrested for that afterwards. It's not true. I gotta keep saying that, but you get the point? It's a prescription afterwards. It's not a prohibition in advance. A New York State law that prevents you from ever even acquiring a gun

is the equivalent of putting tape over your mouth because you might yell fire at a movie theater. And nobody does that. Come on, am I right or am I right? It's not even the same thing. Even the stupid example they use is wrong. Not even the same thing. Even the stupid example they use is wrong.

Finally, one more piece of that. You know what, Jim? Play it short. Play it one more time. Because there's another thing Jim brought up I even missed. So we had the stupid fire in the movie theater line. The even dumber, there are no restrictions on. Of course there are restrictions.

You ever fill out a form to buy a firearm? You got to go through a NICS check. You can't be a prohibited possessor. That's that's total bull. There are. She's making that up. And then she says this thing about our rights to here. Check this out. Shocking.

Absolutely shocking that they have taken away our right to have reasonable restrictions. We can have restrictions on speech. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater. But somehow there's no restrictions allowed on the Second Amendment. Okay, again, you notice she says in the middle, this woman, she's just making this up. Liberals do this all the time. They are just sociopathic liars. I mean, why do you think I do this every day?

You think it's fun waking up every single morning? It's not a hard job. I love my job. I don't want to sound like a snowflake. But it really isn't easy to get up every morning and just rip these people to shreds, but they just make it so easy because they're just so stupid.

They are sociopathic liars. You notice what she said halfway through? Jim picked up on it. Taking away our rights? She's talking about the government. The government doesn't have rights. The government has negative rights in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights says what the government can't do.

It clearly recognizes our Constitution, God-given rights. Andy McCarthy made this point, I think brilliantly, on Fox before, a legal analyst. He was talking about liberals constantly misinterpret the Second Amendment to mean that the government gives you this right and therefore can put a perimeter and a fence around where the right begins and ends. That's not what the Second Amendment says. The Second Amendment clearly lays out that these are God-given rights. They are yours.

And that the government has stopped from taking that right away. They get the whole thing wrong. They're not the government's rights. They're your rights. It puts a fence around what the government can do, not what you can do. One more note on this.

Do we have a minute, Jim? I don't want to take this too long. One more note on this. Clarence Thomas had, Jim? I don't want to take this too long. One more note on this. Clarence Thomas had a brilliant footnote. I'll include it in the podcast tomorrow, too. In the footnote, he writes, listen, public safety is obviously important. That's the compelling government interest in that two-pronged test.

Of course it's a compelling government interest, public safety. Everybody gets that. That's not controversial at that point. That's why you're always going to pass. The government always is going to win on the compelling government interest line. The question is, is the right being restricted by the least restrictive means? Clarence Thomas makes a brilliant point. You have the right against search and seizure.

The government cannot barge into your house. Now, there are exceptions, emergency exceptions, foot pursuit type exceptions, but the exceptions are rare. If the government thinks they have a case against you for mail fraud and you've been running it out of your house, they have to go and get a warrant. You have the right against illegal search and seizure, right? Clarence Thomas makes a brilliant point.

If public safety is just the reason to throw out all the constitutional rights, he's making a point in the case. What if you have a gang member or something in there? It's got some kids. Can you just go into the house randomly and grab the kid? Hey, it's public safety. The kid's going to be indoctrinated into a gang. It's a brilliant point.

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It's no more complicated than the emperor's new clothes phenomenon. Oh, look, what a beautiful robe. He's naked. What's what he means in a beautiful robe. And everybody's like, it's so beautiful. So finally the kid, hey, look at that. The guy's naked. Oh man, he is naked. There's no different than that. What is behind this? These two stories together, the continuing lack of any hard, strong scientific data that the surgical and cloth masks are doing anything at all to stem the tide of COVID transmission. And yet people are still on the left in love with the mask. They get violent over the mask, despite the fact they can't prove to you with a single shred of strong scientific data, there's any causal link between mask usage and a decrease in virus transmission. They can't do it.

It is the definition of a delusion. The other delusion is the left collectively pretending that they don't know what a woman is. Folks, come on. Come on. Can we please stop the bull? Can we stop? Can we please all grow up on the left? You all know what a woman is.

Please take the diapers off. Take your depends off whatever you're doing, and go out in the real world like real people with big boy underpants on, and you have to know you're full of crap, pun intended. You got to know that. I don't think many of you are dumb, but I don't think all of you are. A good percentage of you are not stupid. You know you're living in a delusion, and yet you do it anyway.

So why does the left push this? Gosh, I hope I don't fail you with this segment, because it's the most important eye-opening experience I ever had when I figured this all out dealing with them. You know, I'd read a lot of books from Friedman and Chumpeter and Friedrich Hayek and a ton of books. God and Man at Yale. I mean, I really wanted a,

I wanted a good, I don't know how to say this right. I wanted a good literary background in what was behind modern day conservatism. And you know what's interesting? After reading all those books, they were great. And Hayek specifically and even Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed I talk about it all the time but you read those books but eventually you start to as you put it all together and you recombine those

you know the the separate ideas into new bigger ideas for you well not bigger I don't want to make it sound like I'm trying to be smarter than them but other ideas that creativity flows and you start to figure things out. One of the greatest revelations I ever had is the left hates anything that is in any way objective. Objective, not open to their interpretation. And the reason is quite simple. The whole idea of a totalitarian government, which the left wants, where you shut your mouth and the government tells you what to do requires subjectivity. It requires the government to not be restricted by objective rules. So think about it. Why does the left hate the constitution and faith so much? God, not all Democrats, but the left, they unquestionably hate God and the constitution.

There's no doubt about that. They openly talk about it. They mock God. They hate the constitution. They talk about it all the time. It's not me mischaracterizing them. It's them characterizing themselves. Think about it, because it is an objective standard which restricts what big government can do to you. If you have a God-given right to protect yourself and the Second Amendment enshrines that, your right to bear arms, which shall not be infringed. That is objective. It doesn't matter what the left thinks about it. All that matters is there's nothing they can do about it.

You have the right to defend yourself. And the left hates that because then they're not in charge. It's one big nanny state. That's what they are. They're a bunch of Karens. Big about it, right? Why are they so in love with big tech censoring? Because they hate free speech.

Because if you have an objective right, not a subjective right, to speak freely and openly, that is a right granted to you by God, that the Constitution only enshrines in federal law, but doesn't give you, you get it from God, then there's nothing the left can do about it. It's why they hate God, and it's why the left, again, not all Democrats, but the left,

it's why they hate objective values like God and our Constitution because it prevents them from taking over and shrinking your individual sphere of choices and making their choices with government over your life maximum. and making their choices with government over your life maximum. That's why they hate things like categorizing people as a man and a woman. The trans lobby, which has power in victimization, convincing people they're victims,

and the lobby is going to protect you against those evil, terrible Republicans, that lobby needs that division, and it needs to be subjective in order to expand the category big enough so it's politically powerful folks the category of people in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s who considered themselves a woman when they were a man was very small but if you look at the numbers now you see there's this lobby and all of a sudden the numbers expand and expand and expand you think that's some just mass mass biological shift that happened in a few years that all these people just woke up one day convinced that they're women when they're men or vice versa? Folks, the answer is of course not. It's nothing to do with biology and everything to do with a cultural

shift and the power of a left that wants to wipe out any objective standard. Here is what a woman is. If you're defined by that and your biology, there's nothing they can do to expand the category where their lobbying power is and expand the division. And if they can't expand the division, they can't create victims. And if they can't create victims, they don't have power because then they can't tell victims we're here to protect you against these people who are victimizing you. You get it? It is one of the most powerful revelations I ever had. And you see it everywhere. You're going to see it over and over and over again.

Once you get it, you will not unsee it ever. The war on language. Things you were, you know, air quotes, allowed to say a few years ago, you're no longer allowed to say. Why? Because it was an objective term. Years ago, the gay community,

and I forget the order. I remember sitting there at a radio station I was guest hosting, and it was a story. You're not allowed to say gay, or you're not allowed to say homosexual anymore. It was one or the other, that they consider one offensive. And they just declared it like that.

Why? Because it's an objective standard it's language pronouns the war on pronouns come on folks this is the kind of thing 30 years ago you would have openly mocked the war on pronouns what kind of an idiot is a war on pronouns now it's accepted on the left in this mass delusion they live in as common yeah yeah some people can call themselves they there is no they they is multiple people. No, no, that's the person. They. There's no they. It's a he. No, it's a they. It's just like Abbott and Costello. Who's on first? Language is objective, right? He is a single male. He. Look, he's over there. Not they's over there. You see how it pops up everywhere?

Faith. Why do they hate faith? They hate faith because it's an objective standard. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. There were objective standards in religion. They hate it because there were objective standards and there's no subjectivity and they just can't take your rights away randomly because you don't get them from government. That is where all of this fits in. All of it. Division and subjectivity. You'll see it over and over again. We even see it in the mask debate where it wasn't good enough that they if they really believe the mask worked and why are you worried about what the other guy does? Why do you care if the mask protects you? Why why do you care what i do just stay away from me because you bizarrely believe in social distancing even though the evidence for that is not strong either stay away from me and

put your own mask on right no it wasn't good enough they had to attack you why because the left is obsessed with subjectivity there was no objective standard for the mask there was never any science backing the mass use of masks. Never, ever, folks. Never. Anyone who tells you that is lying. Period. Public health professionals, please, please sit in the corner and shut your mouth. You don't know what you're talking about.

The data was never there. But did you notice it wasn't good enough? They had to divide us. If you don't wear a mask, you want people dead. Therefore, you are a murderer. And by the way, you're definitely a racist, too. What does that have to do anything? I don't wear a mask, you want people dead. Therefore, you are a murderer. And by the way, you're definitely a racist too. What does that have to do with anything? I don't know.

We just call everyone a racist, so we figured we'd throw that in. But you're definitely a murderer first and a racist second. Depends on the day. Maybe we'll flip those. Do you notice it? There's no objective standard for this at all. It was totally subjective.

They figured out that Republicans and conservatives read the science on the mask and didn't like them so their take was okay what do we do do we point to science because then the conservatives will be right no no let's just tell them they're all murderers and they want to kill people if they don't wear masks that way we can divide them and tell the mask people yes we're going to protect you against those republicans who want to kill you listen if i explain that wrong my sincere apologies because i kid you not it is the single most powerful revelation I ever had after putting together all of those books. I had read and studied and run for office and gone to all these symposiums and lectures.

I was so fascinated by economics, conservatism, and the power of liberty that I thought to myself, this is it. The left is in love with the subjective. And anytime you see any category that doesn't work for them, like you're a woman, you can't of liberty that I thought to myself, this is it. The left is in love with the subjective. And any time you see any category that doesn't work for them, like you're a woman, you can't be a man. You were born a woman that doesn't work for them. Their trans lobby needed that idea to get flushed down the drain to create a new class of victims. And that's exactly what they they did and they made the term entirely subjective they hate objective categories what is a woman's whatever you say it is the language changes

i mean they called the washington redskins the redskins for years now it's the what are they now the washington commanders the commander the redskins okay folks are the risk that because all of a sudden they declared mass numbers of people were offended, which was really weird. Because when you actually went and polled the American Indian community, they were like, yeah, we're not offended at all. I don't know what you're talking about. Weird, right?

How they, 90% of them, 90% were like, I don't even know what you're talking about. Like, we're not offended. 90, that's not 51. And yet, billions of dollars in goodwill in that name, that name was worth billions of dollars in goodwill and that name that name was worth billions of dollars up there with the new york yankees the boston red socks the oilers like iconic names in sports switched because some liberal in his basement told you that his friend his friend's uncle's cousin who had a dog walker who knew a guy who sold him ice cream who met corn pop who

heard from another guy on the corner told him that a dude's uncle's neighbor was offended one time by the redskins and they were like we got to change it we definitely got to change you see how they do it subjective nothing objective about it the objective numbers are in the polling 90 of people polled who are actually ind said, no, we're not offended. But subjectively, the left told you, no, no, no. Everybody's offended. The Republicans are doing this. They hate you.

We're going to defend you against these awful evil people. Jim, cue up that voicemail. This is to show you, by the way, when I bring these things up, I get these all the time. These people do when they find my phone number and my address is um they they do a wink at an odd threat see they know i'm likely going to find them because we have a really good sheriff down here so they don't leave their names directly and they don't threaten you directly they hint and nod at it i you're going to hear a blank part in the middle of this it's my address obviously i don't want it out there in the middle of the show, but I want you to listen to this. This is

these people on the other side because I called them out for this and I've got these people totally diagnosed. We get these about once every 10 days or so and more often on Facebook. This one just came over today as a matter of fact. Here, listen to this. Hey, is this Dan Bongino Homewood's restaurant? There's a Facebook page summoning all patriots to meet at your home and to come armed. So just call and make sure review. Thanks. Bye. Yeah, there's no Facebook page, folks.

What he's doing is he's reading me my address and letting me know that a bunch of armed people know where we live. That's what he's doing. I get these all the time. Oh, you notice what they do? They send it like, Hey, we have your address. Wink it and I'd be a real shame if something happened. There's a group out there saying they should show up armed. I get these all the time. Not in those exact words. Trust me. That is not one of our guys calling to tell me about a Facebook group showing up my house arm. That's not what that is. We get them all the time. I'm not a victim. It's not, you know, this is one of,

don't cry for me, Argentina. I'll be fine. Don't even worry about that. I just put it out there. I rarely do that to show you the kind of people we're dealing with on the other side. Keep your head on a swivel around these people. I'm telling you, they are not kidding.

There's nothing they want more than to wipe away any element of truth, make us an entirely subjective society subject to their rules. And they want to make you a subject to them. And they'll do anything to do it. Make no mistake. When George W. Bush got reelected, I was so happy that he is.

Do you remember this, guys? His initial thing was going to be entitlement reform. He was like, I have the political capital and I'm going to spend it. Remember that? And it was a wrap. By the way, that is the single worst George W. Bush. I do a good Bernie Sanders, not a good George W. Bush. But George W. not so much.

I could never. Maybe it's because I work with. Yeah. Jim didn't know what that was either. Bernie. I'm OK. George W. not so much. Maybe it's because I work with him. Yeah, Jim didn't know what that was either. Bernie, I'm okay. George W., Bill Clinton, I'm okay, but not George W. But he wanted to spend this political capital. And the left, of course, lost their minds. You're going to throw seniors off the cliff. You know, we've heard all the nonsense. It's, you know, you're going to bankruptcy. You're so stupid. It was just dumb. And they gave up. The left knows how to turn the narrative heat up, and they did it. Trump wasn't like that.

On some issues, he backed down. But on most issues, if you went after him, he just went after you harder. And the left, because just like I opened the show in an explanation of the psychological behavior learning implications of extinction birth, when you're used to a reward over and over, put a dollar in the Coke machine, you get a Coke, and you don't get the reward. You shake the Coke machine in this violent burst of behavior. It's got a name in psychology called an extinction burst.

That's what happened to the left. It kind of ties the show together today. When Trump got in office, they flipped the narrative. They said, you know, they flipped the narrative game, the Trump Republican Party. They said, you know, build the wall. That's racist. And typically, you know, a flipped the narrative game, the Trump Republican Party. They said, build, you know, build the wall. That's racist. And typically, you know, a Bush-type Republican would back down.

Well, Trump didn't. He kept trying to fight for the wall. At one point, even pulling funds, military funds to do it. He didn't back down. And the left engaged in this massive extinction burst because they were so used to getting what they wanted. Respond, get reinforced. They didn't know what to do.

So what they did in response is they engaged in this irrational double down type behavior. I'm going to play for you some audio of what I mean coming up in a second of Stacey Abrams and others who now have a practical path moving forward now that the battle over abortion has been turned been turned over to the appropriate place back to the states the left has a path even in liberal states to

sound reasonable you would think they would take it i do not believe in abortion let me be clear i believe in life from conception to natural death i just want to be clear on that but there are states full of liberals that don't believe that. But they don't believe either. Many of them, I would argue large swaths of the population in California, that partial birth abortion and abortion at nine months is even sane. Forget about legal. So why does the left do it? Because it's the Dan Bongino show your ass theory that the left was used to the narrative.

Trump broke them them switching the narrative republicans apologizing and winning now that they're not winning they don't know what to do they're shaking the coke machine because they put in a dollar in the past and got a coke they don't they look at they don't get the coke so they beat the hell out of the machine this is what they're doing this is not rational it's not not being able to answer a question about where you stand on limits on abortion, where I would argue 80 to 90% of America is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm probably underselling it. Abortion minutes before birth?

That's called infanticide. Why wouldn't a politician looking to get votes just come out and say, hey, listen, yeah, that's not a good idea, but I still don't support abortion. Why wouldn't they do that? Because of the show your ass theory. They lost their mind. They're shaking

the coke machine because they don't know what to do because for years they've been used to pushing the courts and getting their way. Now they're losing and they shake in the machine, hoping the coke comes out. Here's what I mean. Cue up Abrams. Here's cut five. Stacey Abrams, who I don't know how you feel about this, Jim, but I would say absent Pete Buttigieg, who is the king of BSers. There isn't a better BSer, again, absent Buttigieg in the Democrat party than Stacey Abrams. I was a law enforcement guy for years. One of the best assets you have, I put this

on Truth this weekend and on Twitter as well. One of the best assets you can develop in law enforcement is learning how to detect BS. There's a lot of different cues looking up and to the right, fidgeting. There's a million different ways to be kind of a human lie detector.

Stacey Abrams is the queen of BS. She never, ever answers a question. She's given a ground ball, a bunt. You know, big fat Greek wedding. It's a bunt. It's a bunt. A bunt like a baseball bun, not the cake. She's given a bunt of a question by Martha McCallum.

Do you support any restrictions on abortion at all? The answer, of course, if you weren't a crazy person and you're trying to win votes would be, well, you know, I'm pro choice or whatever language they use. But there are some things we really should consider limiting. Nope, she couldn't do it here. Watch her try to dance her way out of the queen of B.S. right here. Check this out. The queen of BS right here. Check this out. Do you support any limitation on abortion or does it do you think that women should have the right to have an abortion all the way up to nine months?

I believe an abortion is a medical decision. And I believe that that should be a choice made between a doctor and a woman and in consultation with her family. This is crazy. this is crazy. Jim, this is Stacey Abins and the Democrats who are calling for federal laws now to pull the decision out of the medical space, into the political space, to codify abortion in national law,

simultaneously claiming, no, no, no, no, you're not a doctor. You're not a doctor. You have no right to comment on this. She's not, trust me, she is not a doctor. You see how they speak with forked tongue right in front of you? They just lie to you. Okay, you want it to be a medical decision, so why are you pushing for new political decisions involving abortion if it's only a medical decision?

Well, yeah, I didn't quite think of that. Nine months. You can't just answer to Martha McCallum. And good for Martha for asking that question. You can't answer that question, no. You're talking about a fully formed human being. Nine months of development. Could be minutes or even hours from birth. And you're talking about killing it? And you think this is sane?

This is what an extinction burst looks like. When Democrats for years were used to winning in the courts and having the courts justify the termination of life in the womb, so they didn't have to answer these questions. Put the dollar in the court Coke machine, get the Coke. Now the Coke doesn't come out. They don't know what to do. So they respond with rage and anger.

They can't control it. I'm telling you my explanation is real. Stacey Abrams knows full well that this position is radical and will not win her any votes in what still is a red-leaning state in Georgia. She knows that. The people who would have voted for her before because they believe in partial birth abortion and infanticide are not voting Republican no matter what. She is not winning any votes with this, but she does it anyway for the same reason you destroy the Coke machine. It's not rational.

The same reason you hit the elevator button multiple times, thinking the elevator is going to come faster. You know it won't work, but you do it anyway because you can't control it. You thought you'd be rewarded. The elevator never came. So the body, the mind just takes over and you have another ridiculous, irrational response. You know, again, when I was in, gosh, when I was in graduate school, strike that. I hate when people say that.

Just pretend I didn't say that. But when I was in graduate school and we would do these research with the research with thirsty rats, If you dip or train a rat to get water who's super thirsty and then all of a sudden after a dipper train, right, you make them thirsty and then you hit the dipper and no water comes out. They go crazy.

Folks, I said they will hit that dipper like there's no tomorrow. They will like their little rat arms will fall off slamming that dipper so hard. It's an extinction burst. They're engaging in irrational behaviors because their brains can't stop them. They expected a reward they never got.

That's the Democrats right now. That's the Democrats. No limits on abortion up to nine months. That is crazy. Let me get to one. Oh, I didn't give out the number. Darn it. I always forget. 844-484-3872. If you want to call and join the show, 844-484-3872, 844 for the USA. I take your calls in the next segment. See, if you give it out too late, it's not enough time for people to call. An idiot. I do that all the time. Jim, I need a reminder, like a chyron. What's that? Oh, the board's full. Oh, good. Well, you called pretty quick. Good job, folks. Let me get this one last point about my Democrats showing their rumps

theory. That's what they do. They don't know what to do. They're so used to winning. Trump changed everything. It's not deification of Donald Trump. I'm not, you know, I don't golden calf anyone. It's just, he unquestionably changed the operating principles of how the traditional conservative movement worked. They were used to apologizing and moving on when the left did a narrative shift, but there's going to be a big narrative push going forward. It's a war on Christianity, war on Christianity, a war on Christians, and I'll add people of faith. I don't want to limit it to just Christians.

Folks, with Roe v. Wade going down in flames, these attacks are going to get worse. I've been covering this story about the war on Christianity intensely because it is the next narrative coming in our direction. I want you to be prepared for something. I'm a sinner. I say it is the next narrative coming in our direction. I want you to be prepared for something. I'm a sinner. I say it all the time because it's true.

We all are. There are none of us who have the ability to fully and wholly strike temptation from our lives. In that, we share that in common with the people attacking us. What we don't share in common as Christians and people of faith is although we acknowledge sin, we also recognize that what makes us people of faith is a striving to be better, a striving to not repeat the same mistakes, to stay on that path where you believe redemption,

genuine redemption is possible when you recognize a sin and do your best to not repeat it. That makes us different from them. The reason this war on Christianity, especially in light of the road decision and the Dobbs case, is going to get uglier. As the left quietly knows, I say quietly because in their heads, they won't say it, but they quietly know what they're doing is wrong. They don't actually believe that infanticide is a moral good. They don't believe that the termination of human life is some ethical high ground we should all strive to reach.

I can prove it to you. You ever see those people on the corner that show pictures of an, uh, or on college campuses, pictures of what an abortion looks like. Well, you see what the left does. They violently, violently go and rip them down. Why? Why? If this is some kind of moral virtue, terminating lives in the womb, why would you want to rip down the pictures of your work? It's because they know it's wrong. And whereas we're all sinners, and we're sinners striving to do better,

they're sinners looking for permission to continue their sins. And they don't want the foil. They don't want the foil of having people out there who recognize the immorality of this and strive to be better because it makes them feel worse. And by making them feel worse, they start to hate themselves. And this rage develops. They're really angry at themselves. They're not angry at you.

You're the vehicle. They're angry about who they are. I'm telling you, believe me, I'm telling you this. Please trust me on this one. They are angry and they rage at themselves. They take it out on you. They'll scream and throw things at you and rip your signs. But they're really angry at themselves.

Because that sign reminds them of who they are, not who you are. Don't ever forget that. Thanks for sticking around and listening to this special podcast episode. We really hope you enjoyed it and you have a great July 4th. We'll be posting more special episodes for the next two days and we'll be back with our normal daily podcast shows

this Thursday, July 7th. You just heard Dan Bongino.