The Dan Bongino Show - It’s a Trap, Again! (Ep 1957)

Episode Date: February 27, 2023

In this episode, I address the possibility that the new “discovery” about the Wuhan lab-leak may be another swamp/media distraction.  News Picks: The lab leak controversy explodes. Is it time ...for a national divorce? Are we looking at another Zuckerbucks scandal? The WSJ piece discussed in the show comparing Baltimore to Martin County, Kentucky. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino man i hate to quote admiral akbar from return of the jedi he's here so he'll probably like it but folks i'm telling you it's a trap again this lab story, it's a trap. It's a trap. Yes, thank you. I know it's a contrarian view. I know many of you are going to be upset at me because of this show today, but I'm obliged to tell you the truth. We're getting the double-barreled family friendly. I'm absolutely sure of it. I'll make the case for you today. Don't go anywhere. I think by the time we're done, you'll be less mad at me. Because I know, because you know I can't stand the hack goon media,
Starting point is 00:00:50 that we're so eager because they pumped this thing to hit them, that we're not looking at what's really going on. Stay tuned. Let's get to it. Friends, with so much chaos and danger in the world these days, I highly recommend, highly recommend you stock up on emergency food like yesterday. Listen, let's face it. If there's an emergency, you're going to need what? Food and water. You're going to rely on the government. Good luck on that. Go to mypatriotsupply.com. Stock up on their popular three-month emergency food kit.
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Starting point is 00:02:15 So here's the story that broke this weekend. Wall Street Journal, lab leak. Most likely the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. The energy department now says, well, what do you know? Oh my gosh, that is crazy. Holy Moses. It's like the first time I've heard that. Keith, you ever hear that leak from a lab?
Starting point is 00:02:34 Joe, are you stunned? That's weird. Wuhan coronavirus lab may have leaked a coronavirus in Wuhan. Where'd they get that? That they still, I don't, it's really a bananas theory. I don't know how any sane person would have thought that the Wuhan coronavirus lab may have leaked a coronavirus in Wuhan.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I mean, because there's so much evidence of a natural origin. I mean, they found all the pangolins. Oh, they didn't. That's right. There's zero, zero evidence for an alternative explanation. So I'm absolutely convinced that this leak of this story, pun intended, the leak of the lab leak story, look, it's from China, which we already knew. Folks, it's a huge trap. This is a distraction.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Don't hate me, please. I'm just telling you what's going on. You don't find it a little odd. China and Russia are in a Marvel team upup getting ready to start World War III. Every single mainstream media swamp, scientific narrative, fact-checker narrative on COVID collapsed this past week. Masks, vaccine uptake, myocarditis. And all of a sudden, like clockwork. Wow. Look at this, fellas.
Starting point is 00:03:47 The lab leak story's back again. The story we knew about, what, three years ago? Before we get to the distraction part, let's set the narrative. There you go. Bottom line up front. That's the whole show right there. But now I'm going to lay out the case for you. up front. That's the whole show right there. But now I'm going to lay out the case for you.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Let's backtrack a bit first about how the swamp goon loser hack media full of Soviet-style tyrants and losers. Believe me, I dislike them more than you do. Trust me. But we're being used right now. Let's backtrack a bit about how these goons in the media backtrack themselves into a corner with yet another humiliating defense of the natural origin conspiracy theory, because that's the real conspiracy theory that this originated from a pangolin or a bat because there's zero evidence. This is true. It could be. But there's no actual evidence. However, that a coronavirus leaked from a lab that studies coronaviruses in the area where the leak happened is Joe, what some people would call some.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Yeah. A limited group of people would call a clue. A clue. Not K-L-E-W, C-L-U-E. Now, why did they do this? He says it's my most astute observation since he's been here for the last year and a half, two years, however long he's been here now. Feels like forever. I mean that in a good way.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Why did the media decide to defend the natural origin conspiracy theory despite no evidence? Folks, I would love to give you a complicated explanation, but I would be lying to you. What I have been telling you for the last, what, five or six years now, you have to view every single thing in DC, in the swamp and with the media goons through this one lens and this one lens only. You ready? How do we kick Donald Trump in the balls?
Starting point is 00:05:54 That's it. There is no more complicated explanation about why the media defended a ridiculous natural origin conspiracy theory than that. If Donald Trump would have come out early, I promise you, on my name and reputation, if Donald Trump would have come out early and said, this is definitely a natural origin, there's no question.
Starting point is 00:06:17 I know it came from a pangolin. I swear on my life that the media would have said, Donald Trump's defending China. It is definitely leaked from that lab. Donald Trump sold this out to the communists, impeached this guy immediately. I swear on my life that would have happened. But because that didn't happen, and this happened in April 2020, the media, disregarding every single common sense piece of evidence that this leaked from a lab, the media took the opposite approach, that it definitely didn't leak from a lab. Take a look.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of this virus? Yes, I have. Yes, I have. And I think that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they're like the public relations agency for China. And this country pays them almost $500 million a year, and China pays them $38 million a year. And whether it's a lot or more, it doesn't matter. It's still they shouldn't be making excuses when people make horrible mistakes, especially mistakes that are causing hundreds of thousands of people around the world to die. Listen to me.
Starting point is 00:07:36 That is it. Please don't overthink this. If he would have said the opposite, it would have definitely been a lab leak and Donald Trump would have sold us out to China. Now, here's the media basically admitting it. Hat tip Tom Elliott over at the Great Grabian site. Here's a super cut. It's about a minute plus of media people basically admitting it, making this not about a pandemic that was going to wipe out millions of people, which is what the story should have been about, where it came from.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Listen to how the story is all about Donald Trump from the beginning. Proving my point. Take a listen. It's important to remember that part of the issue when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, both suggested they had seen evidence that this was formed in a lab and they also suggested it was not released on purpose but they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and so because of that that made this instantly political. The problem of the of the Trump of President Trump throughout the pandemic was because everything was so politicized. You couldn't possibly even raise this idea without becoming some kind of a crazy, wacky Trumper
Starting point is 00:08:50 who has, you know, spreading fake news. Only when Trump's pandemic hoax, just a bad flu, too much testing is the problem, BS failed and we were way behind on the fight against a deadly pandemic, they needed to distract China, a convenient target. Donald Trump had people talking about Donald Trump, including us, 24 hours a day. Under the Trump administration, every single day, as you rightly described,
Starting point is 00:09:16 we were dealing with the circus and P.T. Barnum. In the scientific community, there was almost a kind of allergic reaction to the suggestion of a lab leak because it sounded more like something that Donald Trump was trying to deploy as a political deflection to take attention off his own administration. He says, well, watch it, Joe. I don't know if you heard him. He goes, dude, it's not even sophisticated. It's just not. Whatever Trump said, the opposite was true. Hey, maybe we should look at ivermectin.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Ivermectin will kill you. Don't even touch it. What about hydroxychloroquine? That's cheap. That might work. Hydrox ban it everywhere. But everything is, hey, I don't know. I'm not sure these masks work.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Masks are the greatest thing ever. It's like a talisman. It has like voodoo-like powers against the virus. Now, the hilarious part about this whole thing, and why, again, keep in mind the headline of the show and the lead, because I don't want you to lose it. We're just backtracking a bit to describe how we got here with the whole lab leak thing. This is all a distraction right now.
Starting point is 00:10:18 The new evidence in the leak, I don't believe is really kind of new that it changes anything. Everybody's known the entire time that this thing leaked or the overwhelming probability is that this thing leaked from the Wuhan, China coronavirus lab. We got to re-up this, a little comedy break right here for the show. Here's Jon Stewart, who again is a devout liberal on Stephen Colbert's show, who is a lunatic liberal. Basically, this is a liberal admitting to another liberal.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Like, what are you, an idiot? Of course this thing came from Wuhan. Watch yourself. What do you mean by that? Do you mean like perhaps there's a chance that this was created in a lab? There's an investigation. A chance? Well, if there's evidence, I'd love to hear it.
Starting point is 00:11:04 There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That's just a little too weird, don't you think? And then they ask those scientists,'re like how did this so wait a minute you work at the wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab how did this happen and they're like a pangolin kissed a turtle
Starting point is 00:11:35 and you're like no i you you the name of your lab if you look at the name look at the name, look at the name. Can I let me see your business card? Show me your business card. Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan. Oh, because there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen? Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus. Okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Wait a second. What about this? What about this? Listen to this. Wait a second. All right. John. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Oh, my God. There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened? Like, oh, I don't know. Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean or it's the chocolate factory. Maybe that's it. That could be. I realize now the whole rest of the show is going to be red. Again, please understand everybody. Everybody knew from the beginning that there's almost no possibility of natural origin.
Starting point is 00:12:58 This leaked from the lab. Everyone. Everyone. So why now did the story appear again? Oh, I don't know. World War III is right around the corner. The mainstream media, the scientific establishment,
Starting point is 00:13:13 the Democrat liberal media goons, every single narrative they put out there about COVID fell apart. What's a distraction? They're like, what can we do? What can we feed to the right wing? Let's just feed to them the lab leak thing again that we've known the whole time just when i thought i was out they pulled me back in every time every time now there were other mode there were other i want to be clear these are secondary
Starting point is 00:13:38 tertiary motives there were other motives to hide china's involvement in this, but I want to be absolutely clear. The primary motive was strictly because Donald Trump said it was likely leaked from a Wuhan lab. There were other, as with anything, there are other secondary motives. I mean, why do you rob a bank? That's your primary. To get money, right? But there are other motives too, right? There are other things like, well, I would have done this
Starting point is 00:14:08 but I thought the bank was easier, right? There are other motives too. I just want to get to this stuff quick because this is important. Here is the takeaway from a February of 2020 conference call. Keep in mind, COVID is just blowing up, right?
Starting point is 00:14:26 So they had this conference call. Fauci and Dr. Collins, Anthony Fauci and Collins, who were the primary people appointment in the Trump administration on COVID, they already knew it was most likely from a lab. Here's from this guy, Mike Farzan, the discoverer of the SARS receptor. Look at the highlights there. He's bothered by the furin site and has a hard time explaining that as an event outside the lab. Although there are possible ways in nature, he notes it's highly unlikely. They're noting it right there in a conference call. Folks, this is February, what, of 2023? No, of 2020. Do you understand they already knew this? They knew the overwhelming probability was this thing leaked from a lab. So why would Fauci, Collins, Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance, and others inside our
Starting point is 00:15:20 government, in addition to trying to attack Trump, why'd they try to make this thing go away? Here's Fauci, just a couple months after that February conference call. Again, he already knows this thing likely came from a lab. You just saw it. Here's Fauci on April 17th in a notorious presser. You're going to hear Trump, but they ask, Trump's given a presser, and this media guy's like, hey, about this lab leak thing. And he directs it at Fauci.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And Fauci comes in and basically squashes all common sense, suggesting this thing is natural origin of natural, despite no evidence whatsoever that's true. Take a look. Dr. Fauci, could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow man-made, possibly came out of a laboratory in China. There we go. Studied this virus. What are the prospects of that? There was a study recently that we can make available to you where a group of highly qualified
Starting point is 00:16:21 evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. So, I mean, the paper will be available. I don't have the authors right now, but we can make that available too.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Here's the crazy thing. There's an email the next day from Peter Daszak, who's involved with this group called EcoHealth Alliance that gets funding from you, the taxpayer, that's working with the Wuhan lab that likely leaked the virus.
Starting point is 00:17:06 Here's Daszak thanking Fauci for basically icing the theory that this thing may have come from the Wuhan lab that this guy's working with. And here's Fauci's response. Peter, many thanks for your kind notes. Best regards, Tony. Here's Daszak again. Here's Das Dashak all the way back in 2016 from talking with the National Institutes of Health. Dear Jenny, this is terrific. We're very happy to hear that our gain of function research funding pause has been lifted.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Cheers, Peter, President, EcoHealth Alliance. It's unbelievable. It's right. Do we have a silver platter? Maybe fake silver. It's right. A bunt.
Starting point is 00:17:44 It's a bunt. Here, we'll A bunt. It's a bunt. Here, we'll do it again. It's a bunt. This was such a bunt. Where were the media? The media had their heads up their ass like they always do because they lie to you. You think the media didn't know this? Sorry.
Starting point is 00:17:56 I'm sorry. I can't. Here's Fauci again. I got a lot to get through here. Here's Fauci again in this video clip promoting a ridiculous conspiracy theory that this thing is of natural origin, that there's an animal out there, the pangolin, the bat, the John Stewart joke, right? And that yes, the Chinese Communist Party found it and they wiped it out. No one found it. So it's it's in every keep in mind it would be in other animals
Starting point is 00:18:25 too but they've magically wiped out every single animal with evidence of this natural or this is how stupid this guy is take a look it was very likely and a host what the chinese did i don't have first-hand knowledge of that but the people who were reporting it who investigated what they did is they cleaned out the markets as soon as it turned out that it was clear that there were clusters coming from the market, which, you know, in typical fashion, I think, trying to make sure that things don't get pointed to them, they probably got rid of the animals that were the intermediary hosts there. Beijing acknowledges now that they don't think it originated in that market.
Starting point is 00:19:08 Well, it may not have originated in the market, but it certainly could have. Folks, do you understand how dumb this guy is? Please get what he's suggesting. Joe, tell me if this makes sense. So Fauci's suggesting that the Chinese Communist Party has evidence that this happened naturally and they had nothing
Starting point is 00:19:28 to do with it. That they didn't in fact create a super virus that would kill millions of people. And that they wiped the evidence out of the natural origin so that you would think it was from the Wuhan. This guy's a doctor.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Dude, this guy went to medical school. And instead of fact checkers pouncing, we'll get to that later on this, about how stupid this ridiculous conspiracy theory is, what did they do? They fact checked all of us and banned us from talking about the obvious, that the freaking thing came from the lab. Let me get to the media response in a minute, because it is. And believe me, I get that they're using us right now. Do not forget the lead here. This is a distraction. I totally understand they're using us, but I'd be remiss if I did not cover the media's reaction, because they're tools. But they can't use us if I expose them in the beginning. Again, it's not going to be a trap when I warn you about the trap, but I do want to cover what they did. First, Helix Sleep. You're going to need a good night's sleep after this show. Today's show is brought to you by helixsleep.com, H-E-L-I-X, helixsleep.com slash Dan. Sleep, listen, as you get older, is critical. That deep, deep healing sleep.
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Starting point is 00:21:47 Thanks, Helix. Great mattress. Get some Zs. Of course, here was the media response when we all pointed out the obvious, that this was likely from a Wuhan lab. You've probably already seen it. We had the Washington Post in February of 2020. Again, just Paulina, Ferozi, just hacks and goons and losers.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Senator Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed. It's just hilarious. The New York Times, of course, jumps right in. The hapless loser, Alexandra Stevenson. Senator Tom Cotton repeats a fringe theory of coronavirus origins. PolitiFact, of course, had to jump in. I mean, this is all regime, straight up communist propaganda. They had no evidence. Archive fact check. Tucker Carlson guessed. There's a debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab. It was never debunked. Of course, they're liars. These people are hacks and goons and life losers and zeros, and they're straight up tyrants. And I'm going to tell you something and I mean it. They are dangerous. These are very dangerous people. I will defend to my own doom and
Starting point is 00:22:50 destruction their ability to be a free media. I will. But that freedom unfortunately gives them the ability to be a-holes and liars. And they take us up on the opportunity every time. Of course, the scientific establishment piled on too, because the scientific establishment is not based in science anymore. Our culture is collapsing, science and everything else around it. These are the flat earthers. Here was the Lancet in February of 2022. Their statement in support of the scientists and public health officials
Starting point is 00:23:22 and medical professionals of China combating COVID-19. in support of the scientists and public health officials and medical professionals of China combating COVID-19. The Lancet, a once respected, now hilariously ridiculed mockery of a scientific journal, said we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories, suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin, falling right in line. Here was the editor-in-chief of Scientific America, by the way, a Laura Helmuth, by the way, in a tweet also suggesting this was some ridiculous conspiracy theory attacking Robert Redfield. Folks, we're in a post-truth society. I just want you to understand that. Last week, the numbers on the podcast last
Starting point is 00:23:59 week were outrageous. I don't even know what to say to thank you enough, but I think the podcast blew up a lot last week because we just so eviscerated the idea last week that you can trust anything, anything coming from the government, public health officials, the new science woke establishment and the media, nothing, nothing, almost everything they're telling you is a lie. Now let's get to what I discussed in the beginning of the show. Why are you so confident, Dan, that we're being played, that this is a trap, that this is a distraction? I want you to listen to the main propaganda minister for the administration on national security items, Jake Sullivan. Keep in mind, Jake Sullivan, embarrassingly, still holds a prominent post in the Biden administration, despite being one of the lead purveyors of the peepee hoax. I could play the video, but honestly, I'm out of it. You all know it. Jake Sullivan was
Starting point is 00:24:55 one of the lead Russia collusion hoaxes. That the guy has not been laughed out of public service, humiliated in his community, that his family hasn't disowned him. It's stunning. Not only has none of that happened, he's still the spokesman for the Biden administration on national security matters and this other stuff. It's liberal privilege at its finest. Here's how I know we're being played. Here's Sullivan on the CNN show this weekend, the CNN show this weekend.
Starting point is 00:25:20 And I want you to pay attention to two specific things in this clip. Number one, he emphasizes that the new Department of Energy study that leaked air quotes this weekend about the lab leak, that that was the Biden administration's idea. Secondly, I want you to watch how he gives a really shady kind of open-ended answer to keep us all distracted while World War III breaks out and every single COVID narrative falls apart. Listen for yourself. A classified intelligence report from the Department of Energy concludes that the coronavirus pandemic most likely did not emerge naturally, but it did come from a laboratory leak. Did the coronavirus pandemic start in a lab? Is that what you believe now? Well, Dana, there is a variety of views in the intelligence community. Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other.
Starting point is 00:26:15 A number of them have said they just don't have enough information to be sure. Here's what I can tell you. President Biden has directed repeatedly every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of this question. And one of the things in that Wall Street Journal report, which I can't confirm or deny, but I will say the reference to the Department of Energy, requested that the national labs, which are part of the Department of Energy, be brought into this assessment because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. And if we gain any further insider information, we will share it with Congress and we will share it with the American people. But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question. That's all's all i needed to see that's all i needed to see i saw that i knew we're all being played it's a trap it's a total distraction i can't confirm or deny he says so
Starting point is 00:27:16 again we keep talking about it i can't he could have confirmed it right away i mean it's a department it's already leaked out right he makes sure that everybody keeps talking about it. And then Sullivan goes on to tell you that President Biden specifically ordered this study from the DOE and the National Labs. He did it. Nothing these people do, they do by accident. Everything has a purpose. It leaked this weekend conveniently to distract us from all of this stuff that just happened in the last few weeks, summed up by an actual medical doctor. I trust Marty McCurry, who you've seen on Fox. Convenient distraction from this, and I quote McCurry, MD. Over the last few weeks, meta-analysis studies from highly respected researchers found that,
Starting point is 00:28:07 one, masks have no impact on the epidemic trajectory. That was from Cochran. That natural immunity is greater than vaccine immunity, or the same from the Lancet. Three, vaccine mandates did not increase vaccination rates from GMU. Vaccine mandates did not increase vaccination rates from GMU. And four, myocarditis is up 28 times after vaccine than COVID itself, a Hoag study. 28 times myocarditis. All of a sudden, there's a leak, guys.
Starting point is 00:28:36 There's a leak. Joe, a leak about a story we know to be true three years ago. It's almost like they it's almost like they had that just to get them ready to go. Yeah. Oh, let's get everybody in the conservative ecosystem to talk about that. Again, why are we talking about it doing that? Because I need you to stay focused on this stuff too, which we're talking about right now. But I can't if I don't expose the trap. But I can't if I don't expose the trap. Now, it's also convenient that actor Woody Harrelson went on SNL this weekend and seemingly went off script and exposed the public health big pharma symbiote committed to jamming shots in your arm that may have devastating side effects we're still unaware of. He told this to a very, I mean, SNL gets a huge audience on Saturday night. Woody Harrelson, pretty well-respected member of, I guess, the liberal left.
Starting point is 00:29:37 I don't know his personal politics, but liberal left, Hollywood, you know, Fauci community. They repeat the narrative too, right? The idea of the renegade actor is long gone. Maybe Woody Harrelson broke the mold. He said this, and weird. This story pops up this week, and again, to distract us. Check this out. So the movie goes like this. The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians
Starting point is 00:29:59 and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartels drugs and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea? Again, so strange. Like Woody Harrelson comes out with that. All these studies come out debunking pretty much every single stupid commie regime narrative. And all of a sudden, a leak comes out saying, hey, look, China did it. China did it, which we already knew. It's almost like it's a distraction. I got more on this coming up in a second, including the obligatory Republicans pounce.
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Starting point is 00:32:06 Again, it's like Dr. Marty McCurry said in the tweet. It's almost like every single mainstream media hack goon Soviet narrative on COVID fell apart at one time and we needed a distraction. It's almost like this Wall Street Journal Lancet story, the same Lancet, by the way, that came out and defended those ridiculous assertions of a natural origin. Alyssa Finley, who's a great writer by the way, that came out and defended those ridiculous assertions of a natural origin. Alyssa Finley, who's a great writer at the Journal, she was three years late. The Lanset recognizes natural immunity after people were forced to take the shot. Folks, they're in a, what I'm going to call, and I encourage you to adopt the term if you'd like, they're in the death spiral of dishonesty now.
Starting point is 00:32:47 We're in a post-truth society now. With great respect, I need you to understand the fact that you can trust nothing from these people anymore. Nothing. The media, politicians, D.C., public health, swampy Republicans, communist Democrats, trust nothing. I don't mean to sound in any way conspiratorial. I think I backed it up with research and I backed it up with facts. Trust nothing coming from these people. The death spiral of dishonesty, you know what it is? It's like when a white lie turns into a really catastrophic situation. You tell a little white lie to your parents, your parents follow up,
Starting point is 00:33:26 and then you've got to lie about the lie. And then you've got to tell a bigger lie about the lie embedded within the lie to cover for the lies. All of a sudden it turns into a total catastrophe and a really horrible situation as trust completely breaks down. Do you understand that's the death spiral of dishonesty we're in now with the media? The media doesn't know what to do anymore. They need to defend the regime and attack Trump at all costs. However, they know they're lying. So they have to continue to double down on the lie and cover for the lie. One of the means they do that is via stories like Republicans pounce and other ones, which I'm going to get to in a second. But they're distracting us from stories. The reason this thing leaked this weekend, they're distracting us from stories like this.
Starting point is 00:34:11 I'm convinced. Fox News, Russia ditches their nuclear security arrangement amid the China visit and a dangerous decades ahead, an expert warns. Folks, we're on the cusp of World War III here. I'm sorry to tell you, if you watch my Fox show this weekend, I think we made a pretty damn compelling case. Every narrative falls apart. What do they do? They feed you red meat to the lions. Look, lab leak, China did it. And then when it comes out, of course, the media,
Starting point is 00:34:41 which knows we're going to humiliate them too they have to do republicans pound the hill republicans jump on lab leak report call for action against china by again the hapless laurence avorsa i mean they just it's, it's jump, leap, pounce. It's just so predictable, folks. So predictable. All right. There's a lot more to talk about. They've got us distracted, of course. But the media, they're an intergalactic laughingstock. They're nothing but communist agitprop people. Your disdain for them should be thorough and complete. And you should understand that pretty much everything they tell you is a lie to tell you a story, not the story. I found this hilarious.
Starting point is 00:35:33 CBS News. Media organizations demand January 6 videos Kevin McCarthy shared with Fox News' Tucker Carlson. Look at the date on this. It's important. February of 2023. So January 6th happened years ago, the insurrection, air quotes, right? And yet it's weird, Joe. No one in the media wanted to get a hold of the actual library of videos on it. They only wanted the videos vetted through Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, and Adam Kinzinger and the January 6th committee. They only wanted those
Starting point is 00:36:12 videos. There were no real calls systemically amongst the media to release the real truth, right? Now it's so strange. Kevin McCarthy gives the library to Tucker Carlson. And all of a sudden, the media wants the videos. Listen, as you know, I was not a huge supporter of McCarthy for speaker. But again, I have to give the man some credit. This was a genius checkmate. Give it to Tucker. Watch the media now.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Loser. Oh, we wanted to. Oh, you didn't want it. Now you want to. So weird. So weird. Total, total genius move. Played them like a fiddle. Trust nothing you hear from these people. Okay. So last week, I told you how all of your major problem, all the macro problems, I should say, the major macro problems in your life, pretty much all of them, the genesis of the government. Government is a rotting cancer in your life. It is. The Republican Party has danced around this too long. Ronaldagan called it like it was in the 80s and won landslides telling you
Starting point is 00:37:26 that government is your problem i discussed an article last week and a uh a listener i have the best listeners ever finally found it i'm gonna i'm gonna get to that article in a minute cool because she yes she found it which was amazing you very much. But every big macro problem, in other words, not your problems in your marriage or your kids having a tough time with soccer. Those are personal problems. Every macro problem, the economy, healthcare, bankrupt social security, bankrupt Medicare, failing public schools, every one of them is caused by government. Every one of them. I'm going to make this case for you in a minute. And I'll show you how the whole government thing fell apart also with the COVID thing. It ties right in.
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Starting point is 00:39:25 metastasizing cancer in your life. And the media covers it all up because they're agit propagandists. I just wrote down a few things. Think of your big macro issues. The government has no answers for and is contributing to the problem. Debt, failing public schools, Medicare, social security, our healthcare crisis, our energy crisis. Why am I talking about this now? Not just because of that article. I saw this article pop this weekend. I thought to myself, again, we are staring in the face of not only World War III and the collapse of every government narrative on COVID, but a major energy crisis in this country is right in front of our face. The endless Green New Deal, cow farting class, AOC and their push to disconnect our grid from sources of electricity like coal,
Starting point is 00:40:14 nuclear and natural gas that actually work and to plug into a solar grid that only works when the sun is out is causing a major crisis that everybody knows about right now. And nobody's doing anything. You doubt me, you can go to the journal and read this piece yourself. SOS for the U.S. electric grid. The PJM interconnection, which is huge, by the way, they're sounding the latest alarm that fossil fuel plants are shutting down without adequate replacement power. What's the political class doing? They're sounding the latest alarm that fossil fuel plants are shutting down without adequate replacement power.
Starting point is 00:40:46 What's the political class doing? They're yawning. I don't know, Joseph. That sounds to me like a problem. Yeah. Shutting down plants and power plants. You put energy into your house and there's no replacement for that. It's right there in front of your face.
Starting point is 00:41:03 What's government doing? They're making it worse because they're a malignant cancer. They cause every problem in your life. And the way they distract you, just like they distract you with Republicans pounce and other stuff, is with identity politics and race where they pit us against each other. That's why I don't believe that poll that came out this week. There's some poll that came out this week.
Starting point is 00:41:24 I don't want to get distracted, but you guys see this thing?'t believe that poll that came out this week. Some poll that came out this week. I don't want to get distracted, but you guys see this thing. There's this poll that came out this weekend. I don't know, like 20, 30% of black Americans don't like white people. And it got, you know, Scott Adams got into it and others and, you know, everybody's free to have it. I swear that I'm telling you that poll is another distraction. I'm telling you, I don't trust these people. They always need us constantly kicking the crap out of each other, rhetorically, and they prefer violence. I don't believe any of it. The race thing is always their backdrop to avoid you talking about what I just said. Look here while what's right in front of your face is the real problem, which is what? I just said it. Government, it is a freaking cancer. Here is the piece that I talked about. It's in the show notes today, bongino.com slash newsletters. We go from the newsletter show notes. It's the same thing. Please read this,
Starting point is 00:42:21 please. It's from 2015. It is one of the best articles i ever read about how the government liberals and media goons and even swampy republicans will always use race to distract you from the fact that government is killing you this happened when joe knows as well we were in maryland at the time when the baltimore riots were going on the freddie gray right oh man william mcgurn you remember that well, wrote this piece, Baltimore is not about race. It's about government-induced dependency. Brilliant piece.
Starting point is 00:42:54 Race is the distraction. He notes this, McGurn, that African-American inner-city communities suffer disproportionately from crippling social pathologies that make upward mobility difficult. And they do. It is in large part because they have disproportionately been on the receiving end of a five decade long progressive experiment in government beneficence. In other words, leave that up for a second. We just simplify that.
Starting point is 00:43:21 Wherever government goes and starts spending money, hell followscgurn goes on how do we know this he goes because when we think about this when we look at a slice of white america that was showered with the great society good intentions and benefits appalachia we note the same dysfunctions appalachia excuse me we note the same dysfunctions greater dependency, more single parent families, and the absence of good private sector jobs that only a growing economy can create.
Starting point is 00:43:51 This is a simple but absolutely genius way to sum up the rotting malignant cancer of government in your life. The left wants to tell you that racism is the cause of your poverty in Baltimore. Yet Appalachia, which is primarily white, and McGurn notes in the piece at this time, voted overwhelmingly for Romney. The government's heavily involved there. And it's weird.
Starting point is 00:44:18 They have the same problems. It's almost like white, black, or indifferent on race. It doesn't really matter wherever a government is the rotting cancer and hell follows he says in another part of this to put this all this war on poverty in perspective he says it's worth comparing the progress in inner city baltimore and rural martin county kentucky over the past half century, with South Korea over the same time. While the Great Society's billions were creating a culture of dependency, South Korea, with its emphasis on trade and global competition,
Starting point is 00:44:54 rose from the ashes of a terrible war to become the world's 12th largest economy. Every macro problem in your life, ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, is caused by the rotting cancer of government. And it's time for the GOP to wake up to that. Speaking of that, a lot going on today. I'm going to take the contrarian view on something again that you may not like, but I owe you the truth. This video has been going around this weekend.
Starting point is 00:45:23 this video has been going around this weekend. So El Salvador has taken action against a very serious gang problem, MS-13 and other gangs, which have destroyed the country. So a video came out this weekend and I saw a lot of conservatives who were celebrating this. What is it, Bukele, the president of El Salvador?
Starting point is 00:45:44 Like, oh, look at this guy. He's so tough. He locked up, what, 60-something thousand El Salvadorian gang members. They threw him in a prison in the middle of desert. They put out this video about it. Listen, nobody wants bad guys in jail more than me. I mean, I've actually worked in law enforcement, unlike a lot of media goons who just talk about it.
Starting point is 00:46:02 However, folks, I kind of believe in this thing called liberty and freedom. And just like I will condemn and call out the communist tyrannical press, the alternative, which is a lack of freedom for the press, is far worse than a press that are liars and tyrants. You're already living in communism, not the communism the tyrant press wants to usher in once you dump freedom of the press. A lot of conservatives were celebrating this video. I'm not one of them. Again, I want bad guys in jail, folks, but there were some very serious concerns of what's going on in El Salvador. It doesn't have a lot to do with due process. They're just rounding people up at this point.
Starting point is 00:46:43 You sure we want to get on that team? Listen this news report you could see some of the video that made its way around the internet this weekend check this out it looks like a sea of skin and tattoos these images released by el salvador's government shows the transfer of about 2 000 inmates stripped to their shorts and with their heads shaved to what's been dubbed the country's new mega prison. It just opened. It's believed to be the largest prison in the Americas with a capacity for 40,000 people. And it's the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that's caused the country's prison population to soar. Human rights organizations have reported that innocent people have been caught up in the law enforcement campaign.
Starting point is 00:47:30 That includes dozens, they say, who have died in police custody. Listen, I'm obviously not some bleeding heart liberal. If you are a gang member who is engaged in illegal gang activity, then you should get due process and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I was not a believer in criminal justice reform or bail reform. Even when Donald Trump did it, I was clear on that and consistent on it from the start. Go watch the shows. I do not believe in dumping cash bail. However, I do believe in liberty and freedom in due process.
Starting point is 00:48:07 And with that comes complications. Media people who lie, criminals who are going to commit crimes. I don't believe in Tom Cruise minority report arresting people for thought crimes. And I just encourage you to celebrate crime crackdowns, but be very careful when those crackdowns may involve crackdowns on liberty too. Remember, the media loves useful idiots. I'm not suggesting you're one of them, but liberals do this all the time. They fall right in the trap. It looks like a propaganda video to me.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Be careful. Okay, just a couple of kind of quick stories I want to get to before we go. And this is kind of one of those like Dan Bongino PSA things, public service. If you have an iPhone, this is like a really big deal. I'm hearing this from a lot of people and the story popped in the Wall Street Journal this weekend.
Starting point is 00:48:59 Folks, there's a huge criminal enterprise out there that steals your entire digital life off your iPhone. And it's ridiculously easy. There's a Wall Street Journal piece called The Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life. If you have an iPhone, you know you have Venmo information on there. You have your Apple wallet, email, photos, videos, passwords, everything. Your entire life is on your phone now. So these stories they know are piling up all over the nation about this, what they call incredibly low tech trick, because it is. You're in a bar.
Starting point is 00:49:34 A thief is, they call it shoulder surfing. They're just looking over your shoulder. You're probably drinking a few, not paying attention. And they're watching you a thousand times. Tap your password in. Maybe the face ID doesn't work, whatever it may be. They want you to access a certain app. They just watch you do it. And then you turn around, you put it in your pocket, and they steal your phone and punch in your password, and then they steal everything, which they note in
Starting point is 00:50:02 this second screenshot from the piece has some pretty remarkable consequences. They can, within seconds, change the password associated with the Apple ID, lock you out of your own account, and basically steal everything in the iCloud, looting your financial apps, taking your passcode, and making it possible for you to unlock or access your own phone. access your own phone. I'm just telling you as a public service, as your friendly neighborhood, not Spider-Man, Dan Bongino, please watch your phone, man. It is your entire life. You're sitting at the ATM, putting in your password. You should be doing the same thing in a bar out there in public, looking over your shoulder and elsewhere. Be very careful. Finally, one last point. Strategy-wise, having run for office gives me kind of a different perspective of things. Having run for office and lost, I think actually gives me a better perspective on things than had I won. Again, my next book is entirely about my failures. I learned more from my failures than I did all my
Starting point is 00:51:00 successes combined, right? One of the things I told you is the way to keep the media off guard, because they are an enemy of the truth. I think we made that point during the show. We don't need to relitigate that. The way to keep them off guard is to constantly hit them with new stuff. What did I tell you about the next president? I said, if the next president's a Republican, and I hope it's either DeSantis, Trump, or some Republican out there, it's not this guy now, right? I said, the first hundred days, you need to hit them every day with something new. Fire someone, new executive order. Because why? Just tactically speaking, they'll never get their sea legs.
Starting point is 00:51:34 You ever stand in a really busy ocean and you get hit by a wave and the second you get another wave hits you, you get disoriented fast. There, Joe, you're laughing because the same things happen to all of us. But folks, we've said this before. If you're a P1 listener, you know what I'm talking about. DeSantis gets this. Here, political playbook, the leftist Bible, they say it today. DeSantis on how to stay on offense and disorient the media critics. He knows if you're not on offense, you're basically a sitting duck. You let these people come and take pot shots at you all the time. But it's hard for them to keep up with you when you're constantly doing new things and
Starting point is 00:52:06 leading on different issues. And we pretty much kept that pace throughout my entire tenure as governor, DeSantis said. Bingo. Republicans, print that up, put it on your wall. That's the way you hit these people. You fire someone, then while they're complaining about that, you fire 10 more people the next day. When they're complaining about that, you fire 100 the day after that.
Starting point is 00:52:29 They won't know what to do. They're too stupid. They're too busy defending the natural origins conspiracy theory of the coronavirus. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. Busy show today. Don't be distracted by this story. Remember, keep your eye on the prize. Masks don't work.
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