The Dan Bongino Show - Is Putin Setting A Trap? (Ep 1716)

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

Biden’s speech last night was loaded with glaring errors and misstatements. In this episode, I address the lowlights. I also discuss the mystery of the Russian Air Force in Ukraine.  News Picks: If you’d consider donating to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, we would deeply appreciate it. Biden’s speech at the State of the Union was a mess. Russian supply lines are struggling to keep up. PolitiFact tries to “fact-check” Maria Bartiromo and falls flat on its face. A significant update on the election 2020 investigation in Wisconsin. This is the world’s first social media war. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One, he has control of one only a little bit, but by his appointments, he's indicated otherwise. He's done nothing but make the country worse. And yet the bar for him is so low that after that disastrous speech last night where he couldn't even seem to get out a coherent sentence, there are still people on the left. Oh, it wasn't so bad. It was inspiring. They're only saying that because they're measuring him by a standard. They measured no other president. Trump succeeded and did a lot of great things and got no credit at all because they didn't like his mean tweets because they set the bar ridiculously high i'm going to get to that today and update on the big question um in ukraine what the hell is going

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it wouldn't have been such a disastrous speech for the Pino. The Pino, the president name only. Now, of course, the media is telling you, oh, this is the greatest speech in the history of humankind. It was the equivalent of a Ronald Reagan speech. It was an equivalent of

an FDR World War II speech. No, it wasn't. As you can see by this Daily Mail article, you can read my newsletter. Just 41% of viewers reacted very positively to Biden's State of the Union, the lowest in 15 years since George W. Bush addressed Congress in 2007. By the way, that's a CNN poll. So I just throw that up there to show you again how the gaslighting never stops. Donald Trump gave a very, very good state of the union speech and everybody panned it on the left. Biden unquestionably gave a disaster of a speech last night where he couldn't even get out coherent sentences at points.

And of course the media is going to spin it to try to try to try to make you believe this. The speech was somehow majestic. Here are some of the lowlights. Let's get right to it. What the hell is he saying here? That they're never going to gain the heart of the lowlights. Let's get right to it. What the hell is he saying here? That they're never going to gain the heart of the Uranians? Who the hell are the Uranians? Are they from Uranus?

Who are the Uranians? Here, check this out. Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people. He'll never, he'll never stay in a certain level of freedom. And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world. Now, even though that the audio quality of that one's poor, it's for a reason. Whoever zoned in on that, you got to see Kamala Harris's face. Some people thought he said you'll never gain the hearts of the Iranians when he was clearly trying to talk about the Ukrainians.

But if you listen closely, he appears to say the Iranians. I don't know who, at least the Iranians are a people. I don't know who the Iranians are. And you can see Kamala Harris, if you're watching the show on Rumble, please watch it. There's a lot of good visuals.

You can see Kamala Harris whispering, Ukrainians, Joe, Ukrainians. It's not the Iranians. I don't know who the Iranians are. Maybe he does. This guy is, it's not the uranians i don't know who the uranians are maybe he does uh this guy is guy it's only the most important speech he's given of his presidency so far maybe figure out who the uranians are first sadly more of that coming i wish there weren't but the speech had no substance whatsoever to focus on so it really is just the show now. Here's another one yesterday. Joe Biden has a

very simple answer for inflation. One of the most persistent, persistent and pernicious problems we've had in our economy over the last year, year and a half year. Very simple solution for the problem. Joe, I wish I had thought about this first. If you're a business, don't lower wages. You just lower your costs. I mean, damn it. Why didn't I think of that? Here, check this out. Joe Biden's advice. One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poor. I think I have a better idea to fight inflation. Lower your costs, not your wages.

Gosh, man, Joe, it's so easy. Why didn't we think of that? I feel left behind. The arc of history left me in the past. I just would have thought about that. Of course, this is simplistic liberal nonsense. You never say and then what? So just lower your cost. Well, why are your input costs for your product if you're making socks and you're buying wool? Why is your wool or cotton so expensive for your socks? Well, because there's an outputter producing your inputs who has to pay employees more

because of the inflation in the economy. So if you don't lower your wages, right, to compete competitively in a meritocratic economy, you're going to wind up having inputs cost more because you get this wage spiral, inflation spiral. Does he not understand that? Of course he doesn't. He's Joe Biden.

Just lower your costs as if it's the flip of a switch. The guy's an imbecile, folks. I mean, one of the dumbest lines I've ever heard. Now, a couple of other things about this speech before I move on to some really important stuff. I just want to get this out of the way. The Democrats appear to not know the applause lines. I don't know if they've been coached. Hey, you want to clap here and don't clap here. But Joe Biden couldn't keep up with the script. I don't know what's going on. But here's Chuck Schumer. These are really cringy. So if you don't like cringy, which I'm not a huge fan of, I get it if you want to fast forward. But here's some cringy moments. Here's Chuck Schumer. He doesn't know if he's supposed to clap or not because of the American rescue plan. Here, watch this. Rescue plan.

The American rescue plan helped working people and left no one behind. This happened to a guy in front of me in church once, you know, Joe, if you don't go to church a lot, you don't know when to, you know, it's hard to know when to stand. Everybody just knows if you go to the same church a lot, you just kind of know they don't say, please stand. You'll just see people getting up. So there was this guy in front of me in the church. He must've gone to a different church, come to my church for the first time. And he kept getting up at the wrong time and then looking around again. That reminded me

of Chuck Schumer. He doesn't know when to stand. Am I supposed to clap? Am I not supposed to clap? Here's the cringiest moment of all, though. Here's Nancy Pelosi when Biden's talking about a very serious topic about people being exposed to toxic smoke pits. And Nancy Pelosi thinks this is like a laugh line or an applause line or something. I'm not kidding. Watch. This is absurd. Check this out. And our troops in Iraq have faced in Afghanistan face many dangers, one being stationed at bases breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits. Many of you have been there. Even he's like, what the heck is that?

That's not even. It's not like, you know, sometimes understandably, you know, you don't clap because you don't know if anyone else is going to clap, but it's an obvious applause line, right? Right, right. And the tax cuts generated, you know, more economic growth than we've seen in 20 years. And like one person claps and you get the Jeb Bush response, please clap, right?

That's not one of those times. You're talking about soldiers breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits and Nancy Pelosi's like. Throw the seals of fish right right the bargain all right this is embarrassing all right here's a i'm gonna get through this quick again because it's not the comedy show here today but this is the president united states folks and there's really nothing of substance to address in the speech. I hadn't addressed already yesterday. Everything I told you he was going to talk about, he talked about. He talked about all his crap plans, all his garbage nonsense.

We addressed it yesterday. None of it's going to happen. Here he is ending his speech yesterday. And he says, go get him. Did he mean like go get him? Because go get him and go get him are two completely different things. But it left a lot of people puzzled. Like who's him? Is there a him or is it an M or is it a him? Check this out. One America, the United States of America.

God bless you all. And may God protect our troops thank you go get him now mark my words fellas mark the day show time check uh wednesday march 2nd 9 a.m uh mark the time flagged it there will be a fact check on this tomorrow guaranteed because the fact checkers are total clowns and an embarrassment to humankind themselves, their family, their kids, their neighborhoods. Mark my words, there will be a fact check on this tomorrow that they know what Joe Biden meant because they can get in his head. Joe Biden can't get in his own head, but they know. They'll say, no, he meant go get him like EM. Maybe he did.

Somebody said, but maybe you will see a fact check on this tomorrow. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. I'm going to get to Saki in a minute beforehand because I'm going to get to some substance again. I know it's the beginning of the show. It's been a busy week. We got to cover the speech last time. There's really nothing of substance to cover.

A couple of other winners last night from Joe Biden. Verbal faux pas. The guy can't even seem to coherently get out of sentence. He was talking about a pound of Ukrainian people. Did he mean pound for pound Ukrainian people? I have no, I don't know, folks, your guess is as good as mine as to what Joe Biden means. At one point, he talked about investigating crime prevention. Did he mean investing in crime prevention? Again, I don't know. Your guess is as good as my guess. Another point, he talked about a wall high enough to keep out the vaccine.

I'm sorry. What? I didn't hear that. I don't know. I didn't hear that. To keep out the vaccine? I'm sorry. What? I didn't hear that. Joe, what? I don't know. I didn't hear that. Again, I can play you all the videos, but I don't.

We have a lot of subs. This is just. I know. I don't get it either. And then finally, he talked about the effects of climate change. You mean the effects? Yeah. All right. Enough of this of this speech was a disaster i mean clearly and again i'm just upset that although the trump administration over four years had

a lot of substance behind it some de-escalation peace deals in the middle east tax cuts great economic growth uh until he was sidelined by the pandemic which everyone would have been signed was sidelined by all around the world regulatory reform they had real tangible accomplishments there they were constantly knocked by people for presentation style oh no trump sucks because his presentations don't go we don't like his mean tweets yet. By the same standard, you have a guy with zero accomplishments at all. Since he's been in office,

he's been a disaster. Joe Biden on every metric whose prison station presentation style, excuse me, is far worse. Can't seem to get a word out without, you know, bumbling through it. And the media loves him.

He's the greatest thing since, you know, sliced bread and microwave pizza embarrassing embarrassing here's peppermint patty his lead propagandist before the speech yesterday she was talking to dana perino on fox and i want you to listen to this answer because joe we've actually played this near verbatim exact answer before from other Democrats, not just Jen Psaki. She's asked about, listen, Putin's long-term has pretty much iced out his competition in the global fuel market. Putin's getting rich off us buying and others fuel and gas and oil from Russia. So why don't we just finish the Keystone pipeline here, which would ice out Russia over

here? We wouldn't have to buy stuff from anywhere. Listen to this dumb answer. It's the same answer you've heard a thousand times from Democrats. Well, it wouldn't be online tomorrow. Here, listen to this stupidity. The president shares the concern about any impact on gas prices, on energy prices for the American people. And that's why a range of options remain on the table he already recently tapped into the strategic petroleum reserve just last fall which had an impact but I would say that but the impact Jen that was pretty that was a blip but it doesn't last but they know the policies you mentioned I know senator senator cotton and others have mentioned these they are not policies that would address the issue at all.

This Keystone Pipeline, it would take years for that to have an impact on prices. Obviously, there are a range of reasons why the president opposes it, but it wasn't functioning, isn't functioning. It would take years. This woman is an idiot. She's either an idiot or a talented liar, and I'm really beginning to wonder if she's an idiot. I used to think she was smart and just very deceptive. A couple of things she says there, it wouldn't impact prices at all. And then she goes on to contradict herself saying, oh, it would, but it may take years.

Clearly, she doesn't understand how futures contracts work, how long-term planning works in the petro industry. She doesn't understand any of that, how capital investment works, none of it. Either that or she's a liar. The hard reality is investment keystone would impact prices relatively quickly. As the signal goes out, that investment in the oil and petro space is safe in the United States and projects that are viable immediately would get capital easier. She doesn't understand. Democrats talk to you like you're an idiot.

She then goes on to say, well, the strategic petroleum release that we're doing from our strategic reserves. Well, that'll help. Gee, Joe, did that happen overnight? Joe, do you think they built reserve capacity to store oil in our strategic reserve? You think they built that in 10 minutes? Like they were just bored? They were like, let's take a, it probably took a while, right? It took longer than that.

So a little longer. Thank you, Joe. Yes. So the long-term planning of a strategic petroleum reserve is a good thing, but medium-term planning over Keystone, which could be completed in a relatively brief timeline, comparatively speaking, is no good. The woman is an idiot.

Gosh, we have to deal with the stupid all the time. So, let me just switch gears. Let me just switch gears from serious to sarcastic to funny. But I need a little bit of a comedic break after this week of news. So, I want you to watch this before I move on to the Ukraine stuff. So, we can kind of dial the temperature down a little bit from these morons in the White House and in the media, too. So this aired yesterday on WTAE in Pittsburgh, a local television station, obviously. I would venture to say it may be the single funniest clip you will ever see on television.

clip you will ever see on television. You'll notice the broadcaster starts talking about this 71-year-old man who is arrested for trying to touch this girl somewhere. And if you're watching on Rumble, I want you to notice what makes it onto the screen as she's talking about this story. Check this out. It's not clear what may have been taken and no arrests have been made. A 71-year-old man is accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl at the Walmart in West Mifflin Sunday afternoon.

You got to see the face of the co-anchor as a picture of Joe Biden, State of the Union pops on the screen as the anchor talks about a 71-year-old man inappropriately touching a girl. Oh my gosh, folks, probably the funniest thing to ever air on live television that I've ever seen. Listen, if it turns out to be fake, it's still funny, but it's freaking hilarious. You got to please watch it on Rumble. It's really, really funny. All right. What do Mattel, Banana Republic, ButcherBox, and Glossier all have in common? They power their businesses with Shopify.

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Shop now at pcexpress.ca. So just before we dig into what's going on in Ukraine, the lies, the disinformation campaigns now are everywhere. Propaganda's everywhere. And I promise you, thank you for all the emails, people saying we appreciate you trying to sift through it. I can't promise you we won't get burned by it. We are doing our best.

It's hard to report on this in live time using the Bongino rule, 24 to 72 hours, wait for any story to kind of flesh out. It's hard to do that in the middle of a war where information changes by the second. But we're doing our best. We are doing our best to sift through the propaganda. But it's not just lies and disinformation on the Ukrainian or Russian side either. It's disinformation from our own people and lies.

It's just everywhere. But I want to address this question first. What does Ukraine look like going forward? Folks, this is a question I don't think a lot of people are pondering right now, obviously because of the acute situation we have with death and destruction induced by Putin over there in Ukraine. But even if there was a peace deal tomorrow, I heard a woman on, she was on Fox yesterday. I think it was a mom. I'm sorry, I was actually shaving and I kind of passively heard it. But she was saying, you know,

how do we go back to our homes now in Kharkiv, which is very close to the Russian border? It's a good point. I mean, their country was just invaded by russia they're sitting there within not even long distance missile range i mean just the you know a truck fired missile range of russia how do you go back to your homes with the constant threat of being bombarded at any given moment i mean the chances of the russian uh empire being defeated right now, being defeated and wiped out like the Germans and the Japanese were in World War II is zero to none and none left town. So Ukraine going forward, what does this look like?

Folks, these are really uncomfortable questions. I mean, has it become a de facto client state of Russia just because of its proximity there and the fear of the people of living next door to this nuclear-powered giant? I mean, put yourself in their shoes. Say you lived in Florida and Georgia was bombarding your state every single day and you lived in the panhandle. How do you go back to school? What does Ukraine look like going forward? It's a fair question. None of the answers are particularly easy. Folks, again, the lies and the disinformation campaigns are everywhere. And they're not just from Russian sources or Ukrainian sources or Democrats and

liberals are coming from everywhere. A guy who's just disappointed me to no end is John Bolton. Listen, President Trump was not perfect. I think we all understand that. He was very imperfect, like I am and you are as well. He's a human being. He has motivations like everyone else. But the hard reality is I don't want to date President Trump. I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in the president who get things done. And he did get things done. Now, notice how John Bolton in this clip on Newsmax, one lies because he's what he is. He's a liar. And secondly, after he lies, he gets into President Trump's his perceived mental state about how what Trump didn't or wanted and didn't want to do it. Joe, the point I'm trying to make here, maybe poorly so, is I don't care why President Trump did what he did. What I care about is that he did it.

Right. You want a guy like George W. Bush who talks a big game about this and that and doesn't do it in the conservative side? Or a guy like Trump who behind the scenes is maybe grumpy and indecisive about things, but then eventually does it? I want the guy who does it, and indecisive about things, but then eventually does it. I want the guy who does it, not the guy who talks about it. Here's John Bolton blatantly

lying about the Nord Stream 2 sanctions in the Trump administration. Check this out. I mean, he took a very tough stance against Russia. I'm surprised you don't think that he would have handled this better than Joe Biden. No, he did not. He did not. We didn't sanction Nord Stream 2. We did. We didn't sanction Nord Stream 2. We should have. We should have brought the project to an end. We did impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs and several others because of their sales of S-400 anti-aircraft systems to other countries. But in almost every case, the sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it and saying we were being too hard.

This guy is a buffoon, the mustache. This guy is a buffoon. He's complaining that Trump complained about stuff. Folks, you heard that goes on, by the way, for about five more minutes. And the entire clip is John Bolton suggesting that although Trump did things to Russia that Biden hasn't and Obama didn't, that caused significant problems from Russia and dissuaded them from an attack on Ukraine, that Trump's a bad guy because he maybe didn't want to do it right away. This guy is a buffoon. And did you notice what he said there? He said, well, Trump didn't sanction Nord Stream 2. Really? Here's an article by the BBC. Nord Stream 2, Trump approved sanctions on Russia gas pipeline.

This is one of the stupidest smart people you've ever seen. You know my warning about stupid smart people, right? I can't say it enough. Stupid, stupid people are not dangerous. Because stupid, stupid people know they're stupid. I'm sorry. I don't know an easy way to say it. Stupid, smart people who outrun their skis all the time

and mistake their experience or degrees for actual smarts are the most dangerous people in the world. This is a guy, Bolton, who would walk you into World War III tomorrow. What a loser. Trump pulled us out of open skies, pulled us out of the INF treaty. Those things happen. Russia wanted those treaties, not us. Russia. They benefited Russia more than us. Killed the Russian mercs in the Syrian battlefield, Trump and his administration. Largest loss of life in American hands in decades. Sanctioned Nord Stream 2. Expanded Magnitsky. Those things happened. What do I give a damn if Donald Trump was one day wanted it and then the next day didn't, but eventually did it?

Why do I care? What a buffoon this guy is. He's just a liar. We didn't sanction Nord Stream 2. Now, speaking, we're showing you what an imbecile this guy is, Bolton. Maybe he should reserve his harshest criticism for Biden. It would be fair, he criticizes, but he seems to have this vitriol towards Trump because he got exposed as a know-nothing by Trump. Speaking of sanctions, which Bolton just lied about,

what are Biden's sanctions? What are they doing? Well, Matt Lee, who's an actual reporter over there at the State Department, Matt Lee asked some questions of the hapless Biden State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, who is a total buffoon. So Ned Price got up there

and Matt Lee's like, hey, listen, I looked at these sanctions by the Biden administration. And, you know, you put out this big glowing statement and there's this thing in there, Joe, all the exemptions of the sanctions. And Matt Lee brings up a really good point. Like everything seems to be exempted from the sanctions.

So what's the freaking point? And listen to Ned Price try to spin this. This is great. Check check this out i've seen the list of exemptions and it's frankly huge can you give us an example of the kinds of talks that now are no longer going to take place you're asking me to uh are we talking about cultural exchanges or what i mean because look at the list of stuff that's exempted you start with the jcpoa you go to climate you go to covid you go to anything having to do with consular affairs what you will see anything that the seventh floor thinks is significant enough which could be anything so i'm just wondering what is it you will see you will see arctic council in

there you will see every single you will see a focus on our core national security interests. Every international organization, you know, contact with the Russians at every international organization is carved out. It's exempted from this. Matt, I'm not sure this is going from the ICAO to the to the to the Arctic Council to the OSCE. We are going to pursue. So what has been banned or halted because of this directive? We are going to pursue what is in our national security interest. Some of the things you just listed stop caring about our own security, the well-being, the welfare, the safety, the security of the American people.

Great question by Matt Lee. So you have sanctions, but it appears to be everything but what the Arts Council. So what we're not trading in Russian or United States in exchange programs now. to the United States in exchange programs now? Again, do you want a guy who is presentation style you don't agree with, Trump, but the results you do? Or do you want a guy like Biden whose presentation style is a disaster and the results are even worse? I'm just asking.

Now, getting back to the war in Ukraine here here because there's a lot of important stuff here folks my prior line of work right we had an agent specifically dedicated to logistics on foreign trips typically that they came out of the transportation section um because transportation involves logistics i was in the transportation section I did two tours there on the president's detail. I bring it up because logistics are everything. Matter of fact, the logistics assignment on an overseas protection advance for the president was widely considered to be the most difficult thing you would ever do. A little inside baseball in the Secret Service.

If you wanted to get promoted on the detail or get a lead advance and become one of the A-teamers on the detail, if you didn't do an overseas logistics assignment in my day, you were pretty much precluded from moving up the ranks because it was considered the, how would you describe it? It was considered the ultimate test of your ability to deal with stress. I did it in Frankfurt, Germany. I was a logistics guy. And ladies and gentlemen, it's a major pain in the caboose.

You're dealing with getting personnel in, getting supplies in, getting room and lodging for people. You're dealing with getting weapons in. You're dealing with customs. It is a monster pain in the ass. Vehicles, we fly helicopters in. Now think about it. That's just for one presidential visit.

Now, imagine the logistics involved in an invasion of a foreign country. Magnify that times what? 100? 1,000? 10,000? If you don't have your logistics nailed down, you don't have an operation. Protection, war, anything. Logistics are number one.

Beans and bullets, man. The Russians have not seemed to figure that out. Here's a great article by Mike Glenn in the newsletter. I encourage you to read it. Lack of fuel and food hinders the Russian advance on Kiev, Pentagon says. A senior defense official said the Russian column headed into Kiev has faced greater resistance than expected, and not just from a vigorous Ukrainian resistance. Quote, what we're seeing are columns that are literally out of gas, and now they're starting to run out of food for their troops, the official told reporters at the Pentagon. We're only on day six of the invasion. Now, again, to not fall into the propaganda trap from either side, I'm not going to

lie to you. I don't like being lied to either. These problems are overcomable. They're not impossible to overcome. The problem is they've stacked up three deep on these highways somewhere that getting these fuel trucks in and getting supply lines established again are going to be bottled up by the Russians' own need to get out of the way of their own supply lines established again are going to be bottled up by the Russians' own need to get out of the way of their own supply lines. I mean, it seems like they haven't even thought through the basics of this damn thing. Having said that, they seem to have outrun their air cover. Why is that a big deal?

Folks, not that this is going to happen, but our air-to-ground attack planes, our A-10s and things like that, if this, God forbid, and believe me, God forbid, turned into a full-blown war, they could take out this entire supply line in a day or two. There doesn't seem to be any, you know what I'm talking about, there doesn't seem to be any Russian air power overseeing and providing overwatch for this massive convoy. I'm really, I'm actually stunned at their incompetence here, given their experience in Syria and elsewhere.

And in Chechnya, they seem to have really screwed this up. They can fix it. Not a reason, ah, Ukrainians have won. That's ridiculous too. Haven't won anything yet. Got a long road ahead, but I'm going to get to that next, the air power things. That's a big question. Whether in the game or in life, the right coverage can make all the difference.

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They're not even, it's not even in the ballpark. Forget about that chapter. It's not even in the same book. So a lot of people are starting to wonder, is Putin, this is why I titled the show, you know, is Putin playing game with us here? Is Putin playing possum? Reuters has a stunning act of actual journalism for once. Reuters has a story. What happened to Russia's Air Force?

U.S. officials and experts are stumped. I'm pretty stumped, too. I mean, we don't even take the president into an area without overwatch. We don't provide a 360 degree bubble above, below and around. Why are the Russians exposing their entire invasion convoy on this road to Kiev with very little air power to cover it? So they have some possible answers here. Not very good. They say instead, Ukrainian Air Force fighters are still carrying out low level defensive counter air and ground attack sorties.

Russia is still flying through contested air airspace ukrainian troops with surface to air rockets are able to threaten russian aircraft and are creating risk to russian pilots trying to support ground forces there's a lot of stuff that they're they're doing that's perplexing said rob lee a russian military specialist at the foreign policy research institute he thought the beginning of the war would be the maximum use of force. So I should say there's no answers in there at all. They seem confused. Thank God for experts, folks. But there is an argument here.

The argument is one I've heard from Colonel McGregor, who will be on my show this week, who a lot of people don't seem to like, but I want all opinions on the matter. Colonel McGregor seems very pessimistic about Ukrainians' chances here. And that's fine. If he believes that I want his professional opinion, it's wrong, it's wrong. But what he's been going with is this kind of hearts and minds scenario. Probably a poor way to phrase it, but what they're suggesting,

and it's maybe an answer to the Russian Air Force dilemma here, is are the Russians holding back because Putin thinks he's ultimately going to have to lord over this region with a puppet government? He doesn't want to destroy the infrastructure, which China is going to be able to would have to leverage at some point as well. So maybe in conjunction with his Chinese partners, they don't want to destroy the infrastructure of a place they plan to lord over and use. Right. Makes sense. But the problem with that hearts and minds scenario that, oh, they're trying to win the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians by not using the Russian air force to decimate Ukraine, right? You get it? The problem with that is when you talk to McGregor and others,

and maybe I'm reading them wrong, I'll have the chance to explain himself, is that, and then in the next breath, they say, well, if the Ukrainians continue to fight back, they're basically going to go scorched earth and destroy the Ukrainian army from the air and wipe out the entire city. Well, then you don't have a hearts and minds scenario. So it's a hearts and minds battle until it's not? You guys understand what I'm saying? I don't get that. Yeah, yeah. I don't get that.

Like in Iraq, we did our best to avoid civilian targets the entire time we were there. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. But we didn't flip on a dime when things got ugly and drop a nuke on Iraq going, ah, F it. We're just going to drop a nuke. Screw it. It's not working. You either have a hearts and minds strategy or you don't.

You're either trying to win over the population you plan to lord over or you don't. That's the problem I have with that. And that's why I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on with the Russian Air Force. Because it's clear now after day six and seven that they're running into significant problems. They're going to have to stop it now and activate their Air Force or they're going to find themselves in real trouble as their supply lines start to get picked off as they get stranded a lot of commentary on this stuff unfortunately a lot of commentary that just doesn't make sense to me on its face all right moving on i get a lot more to get to uh you know it's hard to do a week without this uh it's time for a fact checker

clown show sorry that's the radio show i always forget that the radio show oh he's gonna make one for us we do fact checker clown show we love jim is this thing which i always forget fact checkerer Clown Show continues over at PolitiFact, which we call PolitiFarce on the show because they're an embarrassing, humiliating mess of humankind. Here are two of the dumbest fact checks you'll ever see in your life. I mean, even for PolitiFact, which is a humiliating, embarrassing, democratic propaganda factory. So Maria Bartiromo on Fox stated on February 22nd, 2022 in a TV segment, we have doubled our oil imports from Russia in the last year. So the complete moron dunces at

PolitiFact, Jakob Reyes, they graded that as mostly false. If you'll notice in the next slide here on PolitiFact, the next photo, it says the U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year, but Russia accounts for only 3% of overall U.S. crude oil imports in 2021. Jakob Reyes. I wonder if he has a certificate like Bill McCarthy, who said, I stated the healthiest cities in America. Never stated any such thing. Never stated it. Words never exited my mouth. I've offered, I'll offer $100,000 to anyone who could show me the Fox episode where I stated that and said that.

They can't. These people are just liars and idiots. The U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia last year. That's what they're saying. And then they go, the U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year. That's what they're saying. And then they go, the U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year. Same fact check. Here's another one.

Gets worse. PolitiFact had a great day yesterday. Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia. He says, Virginia is one of only a handful of states that actually taxes our veterans' retirement. They rate that as half true. And their ruling is it's half true because 15 states tax military pensions. That's a minority, but certainly more than a handful. Now these are

these morons. Wait, who is that? Go back. Warren Fiske. Thanks, Keith. Warren Fiske. Warren Fiske and Yaka Breas. Two morons. I got to imagine your parents every day are humiliated. They spawn such losers. These are these idiots. This is what they do. Tell me again how we should, anyone should take PolitiFact seriously ever. Whenever you see PolitiFact get involved, know that the Democrats are bothered by something and they need PolitiFact to come in and rescue them.

It's embarrassing. All right. One quick request before I move on. I want to get to Lavrov, a wired photo, and Trump on Maria Bartiromo this morning. We raised an enormous amount of money. We far surpassed our goal for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It is coming to an end in the coming days,

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radio show yesterday. Here's what I mean. There's a Reuters article that kind of sums it up. They're talking again. Here's Sergei Lavrov, who is their mouthpiece. He's the Baghdad Bob of Russia, except this guy actually means what he says sometimes. Russia's Lavrov says a third world war would be nuclear and destructive. You know, I think that seems fairly obvious to many. But folks, the constant Russian talk right now between Putin and Lavrov about the use and moving around of nuclear weapons around the world to target people is deeply disturbing. And I can't emphasize to you enough that people on our side,

this is why I'm trying to tell you, please avoid the propaganda, who are suggesting it's a bluff, ignore it. That is insane. Okay? It is the, read the book, The Black Swan, if you want to understand what I mean. When you're talking about, he talks about how the natural world, it really controls for black swan events. You have a forest fire in an undisturbed natural forest. Eventually it burns its way out. Folks, with human created problems, when black swan

events happen due to the modern information exchange, things can get out of hand quickly, like the mortgage crisis, where a couple of people couldn't afford their homes, which turned into a thousand, which turned into a hundred thousand, which turned into a global recession. We created that crisis because of the information exchange. Everybody said around the world, buy mortgage-backed securities, they're so wonderful. And with the spread of information technology, all these other companies got pressured into doing it. My problem with nuclear wars, it's one of these black swan events too. Yes, the chances of it happening are infinitesimally small.

The problem is the consequence is death and global annihilation. For you to say it's an infinitesimally small probability of it happening so we should ignore it is crazy. The Russians are talking about nuclear war for a reason. Whether it means they want a nuclear war, will engage a nuclear war, I don't know. I don't think so. But they're clearly doing it for some strategic reason, and we shouldn't discount the fact that this is actually an option on their table. Doing it is idiotic. All right, enough on that. On to another story on the tech front. We haven't spoken about

a lot of tech stories this week because of the primacy of the Ukraine-Russia crisis right now and the importance of that story. But there are more things going on. Ladies and gentlemen, turn off Google as quickly as you can. I've warned you about Google. I don't just say it because we're trying to excise Google from our life in my war with YouTube and Google ads. Google is an evil company. Google is, is it is excising it from your life is difficult but doing it is necessary right now i saw this article in wired magazine about google employing new technology that can now read your body language without cameras wait what oh yeah oh yeah using a radar type system to see if quote you, you're sitting at your desk. If the TV show, if a TV sees you leave the couch to answer the front door, it can now they're looking, working on technology.

It'll pause the TV and resumes playback when you sit back down. What if our computers took more social cues from our movements and learn to be more considerate companions? It says they're working on this radar technology, basically in your house, which would observe and see what you're doing and your movement patterns. Folks, get Google out of your life. Are they storing this data? Do you want Google to know where you're moving around your house?

Think about this. Between Google Maps, Google Search, Google Ads, they understand your buying habits. They understand your moving patterns. They understand your moving patterns. They understand potential medical conditions on what you search for. They understand who your friends are based on your search and internet activity. You can understand what your business interests are. Folks, excise Google from your life. Google is an evil company. And now they could possibly look at through this growing technology when you're sitting there at your couch, when you're moving around, are they storing this data?

Now they don't really know where you're moving outside. They know where you're moving inside too. So yes, bottom line, excise Google from your life. I can't even imagine in the future as it gets worse, the portfolio of information they're going to have on you. Metrolinks and Crosslinks are reminding everyone to be careful as Eglinton Crosstown LRT train testing is in progress. Please be alert as trains can pass at any time on the tracks. Remember to follow all traffic signals. Be careful along our tracks and only make left turns where it's safe to do so. Be alert, be aware, and stay safe.

Okay. With regard to what's going on in Ukraine right now, the obvious question is why we ceded the international fuel and oil market to Vladimir Putin to let him finance his terrorist attack on Ukraine. Why did we do that? Because the left is suicidal. That's why we did that. Here's Donald Trump this morning on Maria Bartiromo show asking this exact same question. Check this out. Get them the weaponry that he needs and he's got to open up the oil. He's got to open it up and he's got to open it up today, not tomorrow. Got to open up the oil and you'll get the prices down and that'll affect inflation tremendously. But it'll also affect russia because

you got to stop paying russia right now okay let me put it a different way stop paying russia immediately don't buy oil from russia again i like to tie the show together inside outside forward back put a little sandwich on it right here right here's the sandwich we're going to cover the bread here the bread in the beginning was biden's failures at the end we're going to talk about Trump here because I ask you the question again, do you want a guy you don't like his presentation style or you claim to in Trump? We don't like his tweets who actually got stuff done and seems to see the situation clearly for what it is. We are paying Russia for oil. We have here to enrich them to go and attack other countries as a nuclear power. Is he the only one who gets this? I don't like his tweets.

Who cares? Why do you care? Again, you want to date the guy? Yet you want this other buffoon whose presentation style is even worse and results are far worse. This makes sense to you? Is he the only guy seeing this clearly right now? Man, is it frustrating. We are paying this guy to attack other countries for oil we have here, jobs we could build here. All right, moving on. Last story because it's an important one. Just the news. Please read this. In my newsletter today, bongino.com slash newsletter. Folks, there was a special council in Washington, excuse me, Wisconsin, they uncovered a bombshell yesterday. 91 nursing homes in Wisconsin had 95 to 100% voter turnout in 2020. Folks, if these numbers turn out to be accurate and to be crystal clear here, it's not every single nursing home.

So that percentage may go down. We don't want to fall into affirmation bias on our side either. These are just the 91 they looked at. They look at, say, 191, it may go down. But the pattern up to this point is extremely suspicious by any reasonable measure. So Phil Klein, who's the director of this group, the Amistad Project, conducted its own investigation into nursing home turnout rates in the 2020 election on behalf of the Wisconsin Voter Alliance. He said on Tuesday, quote,

it's quite remarkable. There's private money that flows in. Government hired voter navigators go after nursing homes and suddenly 90 some odd nursing homes in Wisconsin have 100% turnout, even if people who unfortunately, due to their health conditions, are unable to read, think, or contemplate voting. Read the piece. Down further

in the piece, they discuss having videotaped depositions of family members of some of these residents of the nursing homes, folks, family members saying that they are not capable of voting the people they have in the nursing home, either due to their psychological mental state, either due to their health and their ability to comprehend. Folks, how the hell in these nursing homes are you getting 90 plus percent voter turnout amongst the population where just due to chronic health conditions, people, some may not have the faculties to vote. What happened here? Regardless of your feelings about the 2020 election,

do you want free and fair elections or do you not? We can't have this happen again. Why is the media not covering this? If this was a scandal involving a potential Hillary Clinton win in 2016, this would be the biggest scandal on the media, on the front page of every newspaper on 60 Minutes on Sunday. These are questions we have to consider. And I want these bows, I want these ribbons tied up at the end.

I want these things finished, and I want answers, and you should want them too. I want it fixed. A bunch of Zuckerbucks flow into Wisconsin for a turnout effort. All of a sudden, people in nursing homes who can't vote may vote. Sounds incredibly suspicious to me. And Democrats should be concerned about this too. Fidelity to the Constitution and belief in the outcome of the elections is a central hallmark of a constitutional

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