The Dan Bongino Show - Liberals Are All In On Chaos (Ep 1267)
Episode Date: June 5, 2020In this episode I address the Democrats pushing to “defund the police,” and the chaos that would result from this nonsense. I also address the epic failure of Rod Rosenstein to account for the Spy...gate scandal. Finally, I discuss the incredibly economic numbers which may indicate we’re moving back to prosperity. News Picks: Finally, some good news on the economy. Hillary’s press secretary tweets “Defund the Police.” The inside story of the Tom Cotton op-ed in the New York Times. The left wants to defund the police? This is madness. Science is collapsing into a black hole of anti-Trump hysteria. Here’s the latest example. If protestors can march then why can’t churches re-open? Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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dan bongino ladies and gentlemen the defund the police movement is taking hold amongst the
democrats in case you thought it couldn't get any worse their support some of them for
antifa infanticide uh and north kore of the United States, open borders, outright chaos.
Now they're all in on, yes, defunding the police.
This is not a joke.
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I got all that and a lot more today.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
It's Friday.
You know, we haven't had Joe's 1960s game show voice,
because he's done it, but it's been a little subdued
because the last few weeks have been really bad.
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That was the first time that happened.
Well,
and one quick programming note,
we will be interviewing a Dinesh D'Souza today.
We will launch the show tomorrow for your weekend.
Listening Dinesh D'Souza,
who is terrific on his new book about socialism and the roots of the far
left.
So that will be launched
tomorrow morning, Saturday, interview show, Dinesh D'Souza. Check that out. Let's get right to the
show. Ladies and gentlemen, defund the police. As if we haven't heard enough and the left hasn't
done enough damage to this country, incentivizing racial division, the use of identity politics, sowing chaos, the promotion of groups like Antifa, the open backing in some cases of infanticide, open borders, outright criminality.
The far left is the single most destructive voice of force right now on this rock we live on, this globe.
That is not a joke.
Their new platform, this is's uh spokesman from the
campaign remember this clown brian fallon the infamous russian collusion hoaxer yeah this joker
this conspiracy theory promoting loon at brian e fallon on twitter he's a blue check mark you know
the blue check mark liberal brigade these are the people. Here is an actual tweet he sent out.
Defund the police.
So I asked Brian Fallon, Hillary's old, trying to hold back to preserve the integrity of the show in some fashion.
Hillary's old sycophant acolyte who has his lips surgically attached to her caboose.
Does that defund the police thing include the police officers and
agents that protect his dear leader hillary clinton just asking just asking now no no no no joe as
always that never includes the personal protection they benefit from from police officers that just
includes the underlings and the great unwashed like you and I who are entitled to police protection, right?
They're just not them.
You asked this clown.
I asked him.
He didn't answer yesterday.
I asked him on Twitter because he's a clown and a joker and a loser.
Yes, that's what he is.
I know it's Friday.
I try to keep the show a little lighter on Friday, but I'm sick of clowns like this.
When I asked him that question, does that include your dear leader, the boss there,
your boss, Mrs. Clinton, does she have the police officers and agents pulled from her protective detail too?
He didn't answer because of course he wouldn't answer because liberals are frauds.
You wake up every morning, your life is a total fraud.
You hate school choice, but you're sending your kids to elite schools.
You say you love high taxes while you pay your accountants to avoid every penny in taxes
you possibly can
because you're a fake.
You're a phony.
You're a fraud.
Your life is a joke.
It's an embarrassment.
You wake up in the morning
and look at yourself in the mirror
and you're horrified and angry
at the liar you are,
so you take it out on everyone else.
You want to defund the police,
yet at these protests,
when things break bad,
you're the first one
to call the police officers for help.
You want to defund the police while Hillary Clinton leverages the benefits of the personal security provided to her by the Secret Service and others.
I know I was in a support role for Hillary Clinton's protective detail when she was the first lady running for Senate.
She seemed to like that an awful lot.
Getting to skirt around traffic with the police lights. Remember that? The Scooby-Doo van and all that? I remember it. She was an awful
person. I'm sorry. I'm genuinely sorry. She's the only Britech D I've ever spoken of. She's an awful,
awful person. And so are all her spokespeople and sycophants.
Breitbart has an article up
and to be in the show notes today.
I encourage you to check it out.
You can always get our show notes,
bongino.com slash newsletter.
The newsletter we send out every day are the show notes,
best articles of the day.
Breitbart poll,
only 16% of Americans want to defund the police,
65% opposed.
Ladies and gentlemen,
if you are a Republican candidate
running for office in this election cycle,
let me be crystal clear on this.
Listen up, please.
And you don't make this one of the center points of your campaign.
That your opponents, the Democrats, some of their spokesmen want to defund the police.
You should be arrested for political malpractice.
And you should never run for office again.
To call this a fringe position is to be generous you think open borders is a fringe position wait till you walk into suburban soccer moms and other areas of the country
you know prosperous white black hispanic and asian neighborhoods and tell them hey i got an
idea we're gonna defund your police officers so the cars and homes you work for
and that your kid walking to school
not going to have any police protection.
Your property, your kids, everything else.
Once you start messing with people's kids,
their property, their homes, and their livelihoods,
let me tell you something.
Soccer moms become activists real fast
or right quick, as they say down south.
If you are a GOP candidate running for office
and you don't staple that defund the police thing
to every piece of campaign literature you drop off,
you should be guilty of political malpractice
and stop running tomorrow.
Now, we've had this ridiculous assertion
from the left somehow
because they're soft bigots, the left.
They are, many of them, not all,
but I'm talking about mostly the radical left.
I want to be clear about the distinction because I don't like the stereotype like they do
to us. The radical left, though, are psychos. They are nuts. Just follow them on Twitter.
Listen to their own words, their own tweets. Look at their videos. You'll see for yourself.
They don't seem to believe that property matters. Oh, property, it doesn't matter. We don't need to
believe. We need to defend property, Joe. Lives matter. Property, forget about property. Really,
why don't you tell that to this Detroit father of five? Here's a local news video. Whose house
burned down? I don't know the circumstances. That's not the point. Whether it was burned down
because of a natural thing that happened, an earthquake, or because of a match in his house,
or for a riot. The point is irrelevant. The point I'm trying to make here is
the left's point to defund the police is,
well, if who cares about property rights, store owners,
don't worry, burn their stores down.
They'll just get everything back.
Don't you worry.
It's lives that matter.
Again, simplistic, nonsensical thinking.
Tell that to this father of five,
worked his whole life for his house and his van
as his house and van both burned down in front of his house listen to this i put my family first i put every dollar i got in the house
there's nothing left no like it's a lot of stuff that i want but i prioritize for my family every
dollar every dollar i get i put into my. And I take care of my kids.
It's devastating for me, but I mean, I'm a big boy, so I'm going to just keep it.
Get a little choked up watching that?
It's tough to watch, isn't it?
Yeah.
No, no.
The left told us because that man is black that he doesn't matter.
No, he's with us.
We can burn his house.
It's okay. That's what the left can burn his house. It's okay.
That's what the left told us, right?
It's okay.
Do you understand the soft bigotry and the hard racism of the radical left?
Because they go back and forth
between their soft bigotry,
where they don't outright say things,
but they hint to it.
The dog whistles on the left.
Going to put y'all back in chains.
Remember Biden?
Obama is the first clean black guy I've ever met.
Clean?
But he takes a shower?
And he can speak and he's articulate.
Really?
That's the first black man you've ever met who can speak?
Joe?
I suggest you find new friends.
But they go back and forth between that and hard racism.
Don't worry.
The black families are with us.
They're not worried about property stuff.
They're just worried about riot.
They want riots too, just like we do.
They do.
Why don't you tell that to that father of five whose house was burned down?
It's a GoFundMe form.
Seems to be working out okay in the GoFundMe.
Certainly didn't work out okay when his house was burned down and his work van too.
But keep telling black families
that about their personal security
and their police departments don't matter to them.
Keep talking to them
like they're substandard human beings
who aren't intelligent adults
capable of processing information for themselves.
Keep doing that, leftists.
Good luck.
Good luck with that.
And you'll be stunned when Donald Trump pulls 12 to 15% of the black vote. Idiots. Listen to me. You are being preyed
on in liberal cities. I said this last night on Hannity. I hope you all have been watching my
appearances on Hannity at night. I know Joe's been texting me and we've been talking back and
forth off the air.
And I appreciate his feedback.
It means a lot during the show and after the show.
But I said last night, I meant every damn word of this.
Liberals, you are American citizens too.
You are not my enemy.
You are my political opponents.
You are not my enemy.
There is a difference.
Yes.
Political opposition and the battle of ideas is fiercely American.
You are my political opponent, meaning you are on the opposite side of many issues I believe in.
You are not my enemy.
You are not.
I cannot be clearer about that.
I disagree with you on tax policy, healthcare policy, education policy,
abortion, firearms,
the interpretation of our constitution and everything else.
You are not my enemy.
You are citizens of this country
and I will defend your big R God-given rights
to my death.
And whatever platform I can do to do it.
I've said this about the media too.
I defend your right to act as journalists.
Unfortunately, that right encompasses the right to be stupid.
And you've taken us up on that with your collusion hoax and other things.
But I've never changed my mind on that.
You are not my enemy.
I'm speaking to you and I'm, for some of you watching my show, and I know you do, I've
seen it on Twitter where you criticize and hurl invective at me, and that's fine.
I can handle that.
Don't worry about it.
I'm speaking to you directly.
Your cities are being burned down and rocked by chaos.
Your sense of security and safety has disappeared.
Joe said, I believe it was Joe.
Joe said something to me once.
Joe, producer Joe.
And if I'm wrong, and this wasn't you, Joe, correct me.
But you said something to me, I believe last week, that you were traveling overseas or
something, and someone told you that the one thing different about the United States is
you wake up in the morning with this sense of security, like not everything's going to
disappear.
That was you who told me that, right?
That's so accurate.
And that there's always an expectation that tomorrow's going to be a little bit better. Right. But that's uniquely American. That was
Joe who told me that. That's been rocked completely. And as having traveled over 30
countries around the world in my prior line of work, he's, Joe's right. Whoever told him that's
a genius. That is uniquely American. Tomorrow will be better. We are safe and secure here
outside of limited examples. The chances of something really bad happening here. So that's
not how it is around the world. Everywhere else, they think the opposite. The chances of me waking
up tomorrow in a better situation are infinitesimally small. And the chances of me being
safe are even smaller. That's uniquely American. That's been wiped out. You liberal city residents, you're not my enemy.
You are being preyed on by Antifa, by rioters, and by criminals.
And you want to defund the police?
That thin paper, thin line between absolute chaos and civilization?
You want to defund and rip that paper in half, the police?
Are you insane?
Do you understand how nuts this is
got him sorry fruit fly thank you for all the recommendations about fruit flies i just got that
one that was weird in the middle but that happened but we had this fruit fly thing i'm getting rid of
them now but i'm not kidding. You are being preyed on.
Preyed on.
Not by protesters. You're being preyed on by a criminal element in Antifa.
What do you think is going to stop them?
The horde of Antifa people and outright criminals who have leveraged this protest to attack you,
steal your stuff, burn your buildings, and in many cases, attack you.
And in the case of some police officers, murder them.
I'm asking you a serious question here.
Who do you think is going to stand in the divide and stop them from coming for you?
You think you can negotiate with these people?
Are you insane?
Folks, listen, I hate to tout my CV here.
I promise it's not to impress you.
I have looked criminals in the face
for over a decade of my life.
It's not a tough guy thing.
It's not a John J. Rambo quadrilogy.
I don't know how many of those even did.
You can't negotiate with these people.
Hard criminals are sociopaths.
They have no sense of empathy.
Listen to me.
They have no sense of empathy at all.
They don't see the world through your eyes.
They don't envision your pain.
Normal people do that.
You don't punch your friend in the face when he cusses at you
because you don't want to hurt him because you empathize. You see the world through his eyes
and you say, gosh, if I punch him in response to just a verbal taunt he's probably joking about,
that's going to hurt. And I know what that hurt feels like. Do you understand that sociopaths
don't do that? They don't do any of that. They don't care. Your pain is meaningless.
They will steal from you, hurt you, kill you if necessary. The police are standing in that divide.
This defund the police thing is the most tragically catastrophic decision I have ever heard by leftists to
promote in a public forum.
I want to get to one other component of this, how they cleaned up New York in a minute.
We got a loaded show today, though.
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Okay, one quick note on this. know i grew up in new york city
in the uh in the 80s and in i was a kid and i was born in 1974 i remember the mayor ed kotch
years they were a disaster i don't know if joe visited the new york back then but if you got off
the train station the griff remember the graffiti infested subways, which were, I mean, they were crime factories. If you went on the
subway, you actually expected to get robbed. Paula can tell you some stories from the subway days.
They were awful. But if you got off the subway stop in the middle of Times Square in New York,
you expected to be solicited by in no specific order.
Drug dealers, the three card Monty guys, prostitutes or some pimp somewhere.
It was only a matter of time.
It wasn't a question of it.
Paul, am I lying?
It was only a question of what order they came in.
Was it the pimp first?
If you were a woman trying to recruit you, was it the hooker? If you were a guy? Was it the drug dealer who wanted to sell you something?
Was it the three-card Monty guy trying to rip you off?
Or was it the like peep show guy who wanted you to,
they would give you flyers like,
come into our peep show.
It's the best peep show.
Times Square was disgusting.
It was a crime infested mess.
New York City was a failed city on the crime front.
Thousands of people per year were murdered in New York City.
It was a failed metropolis.
You want to defund the police?
You want to stop all of the progress they made?
Well, what happened?
Well, having been a cop during that era, that transition, what happened was Mayor Koch gave
way to Mayor David Dinkins, one of the worst mayors in the history of New York, up until
Bill de Blasio, who now is by far the worst.
It decayed the city under David Dinkins even worse.
And then Mayor Rudy Giuliani came into office.
And they implemented two strategies, folks.
This is critical.
Maybe I'll ask Dinesh D'Souza about this
on the interview show later.
They implemented what was called broken windows
and they implemented CompStat.
Broken windows was the theory
that if you cut off the small crimes and you arrested,
this is not revolutionary by the way, but the fact that we didn't do this was what led to
rampant crime and homicides in New York. If you cut off the small crimes, urinating in the street,
public drinking, jumping turnstiles, and you arrested those people and process them,
that you would stop the big crimes later. it wasn't a revolutionary idea to people who understood common sense it was however
follow me again why liberalism is the biggest cancer on the globe right now
it was malodorous to liberals because why joe liberals were like you're harassing me man i'm
just the squeegee guy police brutality bro
you harass me as i jump the turnstile it's no big deal city doesn't need that 50 cents or whatever
the train fare was back then in the 80s you get what i'm saying joe yeah police brutality man
right i'm just on the corner drinking it's no big deal yeah you were drinking in front of
somebody's house cussing and screaming making a scene getting drunk they have kids too
just peeing outside man yeah yeah you were peeing on somebody's grass there's kids were looking out
the window Giuliani came in with Bill Bratton the police commissioner and others, Jack Maple, who was the first deputy commissioner, Bernie Kerik later.
And they said, we're not doing this anymore. Because the attitude prior to broken windows
policing, I remember, I grew up in this. The attitude prior to that was, no, you let the
little crimes go. Because if you arrest the guy for jumping the turnstile, follow me,
you pull a cop off the street. And then if a robbery happens later, the cops are not going
to be there on the subway. Folks, the guy who jumped the turnstile was the guy who robbed the
subway. When they started issuing summonses and pulling people in for jumping turnstiles and minor crimes.
And they went to Times Square and started locking up prostitution rings and prostitution missions.
When they started locking up the three-card Monty guys for stealing people's money and fraud.
Locking up the drug dealers for slinging rocks here and there.
All of a sudden, the neighborhood cleaned up almost overnight.
It wasn't hard.
That's all going to stop when you defund the police.
We also did CompStat.
You know what CompStat was?
It was short for computer statistics.
Prior to CompStat, NYPD captains in precincts, they would go in, give briefings, and everybody
be like, yeah, my precinct's great. It's all wonderful. It wasn't wonderful. A lot of the
precincts in New York City were falling apart. They were chaos. So Giuliani said with Jack Maple,
let's do this CompStat thing. I want the computer statistics for every single crime in your
neighborhood. Folks, I lived through this as a police cadet. I remember it like it was yesterday. Commanding officers and executive
officers of precincts, when they found out they had to go to one police plaza in front of Giuliani,
Jack Maple, and the police commissioner and talk about not just their opinion of the precinct,
but the actual computer statistics about robberies, larcenies, everything,
computer statistics about robberies,
larcenies, everything,
they S-word their pants.
They were sweating like you wouldn't believe.
Because all of a sudden, Joe,
their fairy tales about,
my area's wonderful,
we're doing great.
They'd be like, really?
Because I see you had 16 robberies
on a corner of Flatbush
and 16th.
I don't even know if that's a street.
Right.
You had another 32 GLAs on Van Sindren.
On Pennsylvania and Sutter, you had three rapes, four assaults, and six robberies.
That doesn't sound like your story you're telling us.
They were like this.
Wait.
Here, Paula.
Paula loves it.
Here we go.
Here comes the napkin.
This thing's been used. They were like this. Wait, wait. Here, Paula. Paula loves it. Here we go. Here comes the napkin. This thing's been used.
They were like this.
What do you mean?
I can't tell a fairy tale anymore?
No, no.
Now we're going to ask you to answer for actual, actual crimes.
So once CompStat came in, you only had to get reamed out one time.
The next time you came back, these COs and XOs went
back to the precincts and said to their cops, I remember it, to sergeants, lieutenants, and the
cops at roll calls, hey, fellas, get to that corner right now. We've had that robbery. Giuliani knows
about it. We've had 10 robberies here. I want 10 cops out there tonight. There ain't going to be
another robbery on that corner tonight.
And all of a sudden, as if magic, Joe, the crime rate in New York City was halved and then halved again.
And we went from 2,000 homicides a year to 300.
Amazing.
And you want to defund the police.
Good luck with that message.
Good luck with that message in the general election.
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Okay.
So finally, some good news.
I was glad to hear Joe give us a nice, robust It's Friday today because we needed it.
You don't want to end Friday always on a down and dour note.
We are the United States, as I've said to you before.
The sheer probability equation this country makes no sense.
What do you mean, Dan?
That's offensive.
No, it's not offensive.
It's a compliment.
We shouldn't even exist, folks.
The probability of the United States existing as an experiment was slim to none.
How did we win a
revolution against the world's greatest empire in the Brits? How did we do that? How? How did we
survive a civil war, the War of 1812, where I'm telling you, some people would argue we were saved
by a rainstorm in DC. How? Because I believe this country has been touched by the hand of God. I'm
not kidding. This is not some spiritual
hyperbole where I'm trying to indoctrinate anyone. I believe it. I'm a believer. Lord Jesus Christ is
my savior. I'm a sinner too. I've reconciled that and I'm trying to be a better person.
But ladies and gentlemen, this country was touched by the hand of God. I'm convinced we
will come back. We have come back from all of these punches in the stomach.
Finally, some good news today.
You can see it, Breitbart.
Again, these stories available at the show notes,
bongino.com slash newsletter.
Check them out.
The unemployment rate's still unacceptably high at 13.3%,
but unemployment has fallen despite the pandemic,
despite the riots.
Unemployment fell to 13.3%. The economy added an
astonishing, eye-opening 2.5 million jobs added. Added. You may say that's incredible considering
50% of the country is engaged with liberal and rhino governors who are still, for some bizarre
reason, permitting rioting and outdoor
protesting, but not legitimate businesses from opening. How they explain that, I don't know.
Vote accordingly in the next election. Folks, this is a staggeringly high job number.
I have to tell you, I am an optimist at heart. I did not see 2.5 million. I thought we
were going to lose probably a smaller number, 200,250. I did not see us adding 2.5 million
jobs. And believe me, I'm an economic optimist. The good news here is we are going to need this
increased productivity to suck up a lot of the money that's been printed in the form of the PPP
and a lot of the stimulus and the money that's been pumped into the economy. Never forget,
folks, you pump a lot of money into the economy and you don't start producing goods for people
to buy with them. Well, what happens? That money has to go somewhere. All that extra money is
chasing the same amount of goods. More money, same goods means higher prices. You understand why, right?
It's pretty simple.
Yeah.
You have $100 and 100 shares, you can charge $1 a share.
You have $1,000 and 100 shares, you can charge $10 a share.
Inflation, it's always a monetary phenomenon everywhere.
Once you start producing more shares, you can start to suck up that extra money with
actual products. So we are going to need this, but we are going to see massive inflation. This is a good
sign. Smile a little bit today. The numbers are still ridiculously high, tragically high,
but I believe the turnaround has begun. And the pressure, by the way, on blue state governors to
open up is going to be ridiculous. I ask you a simple question if you live in a blue state, and I want you to answer honestly,
please. I know the conservatives will, so it's almost rhetorical for them. But for the liberals
watching, this is a serious question. Because again, you're not my enemy. You're my opponent.
I think you say really dumb stuff a lot, but you are not my enemy. You probably think I say
dumb stuff. That's fine. That's what happens. That's the friction of politics.
But I'm going to ask you a serious question.
I'd like you to ponder it.
Is this a deadly virus worthy of a shutdown or not?
If the answer is yes, then why are you supporting public protests?
Well, Dan, that's a bigger issue. This is important.
Protesting is important, even if it is a deadly virus and we're all going to die.
But saving people's livelihoods and their business despite known safety precautions,
mask wearing, hand washing, some form of distancing, that's not important.
So just to be clear, you throw all that out of the window because you believe protests
are important.
But when it comes to saving people's livelihoods, their businesses, that's not important at all.
The virus is only dangerous if you open your business, but not if you protest.
If you're pulling at your hair right now as a conservative trying to figure out why liberals think what they do, the answer is they don't.
This is purely a political play.
These protests they believe they can use for political advantage,
and they believe the economic lockdown, which will bankrupt you,
they can use for political advantage too.
That's why they hold two seemingly contradictory positions.
Deadly virus, everybody stay in your house.
Not deadly virus, everybody come out and protest.
Those aren't contradictory because that's not what they mean.
Economic lockdown hurts President Trump. Protests
hurt President Trump. That's all they think. Tragically sad and awfully true.
By the way, Paul Krugman, what a clown. Do you see Krugman noted Nobel Prize winning far left
activist masquerading as an economist? Paul Krugman tweeted out this morning about the jobs numbers.
They've got to the BLS, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics,
and put out the job numbers.
Jeez Louise.
Joe, even Jason Furman, Joe.
Obama's economic czar.
Obama loves Jason Furman.
Furman's a leftist.
Furman tweeted back to Krugman, this is ridiculous.
Krugman, in the dumbest conspiracy,
the BLS, the government employees,
who, you know, they all love Trump,
government employees.
I mean, are we serious?
That government employees fudge the numbers
to help Trump.
Folks, we're in like Looney Tunes territory.
I hate to say it because it's becoming cliche,
but TDS is a very real thing.
The Trump derangement syndrome, level six, the highest level possible. I hate to say it because it's becoming cliche, but TDS is a very real thing.
The Trump derangement syndrome level six, the highest level possible is a very real thing. And if you don't believe it, just read Krugman's delirious tweets this morning.
They got to the.
Now, they didn't get to Joe Biden biden joe biden has uh gotten to himself um joe biden ladies and
gentlemen listen i armacost and i have said this often it's really sad to watch i'm not kidding
i'm not you know faking empathy uh he's a human being like anyone else his policies are awful
they're wrong um i don't have a personal gripe with Biden.
Wish he'd keep his myths to himself sometimes.
Kind of gross.
But I really don't have a personal beef with the man.
It is sad to watch this, though.
This is a man, I'm not kidding, in serious cognitive decline.
You may say, Dan, that's not fair.
You know what, ladies and gentlemen?
It wouldn't be if he was a local neighbor of mine and I was embarrassing him on my show.
That's not what's happening.
This is a man running to be the commander in chief of our military to take hold of our nuclear stockpile and make decisions that could potentially destroy you, destroy your kids' education, your health care.
I'd like to know that he has his mental faculties. I believe it's a fair question.
And candidly, I'm not negotiating. I don't really care what leftists think about that.
You're not going to pressure me or anyone else from talking about this ever. You're wasting your
time. Trust me, you're wasting your time. I genuinely don't care what you think about it.
I've showed you repeated examples of this, how he doesn't seem to even remember what he's talking
about in the same paragraph, not hours later where he re-mentioned, he just loses himself
in mid-sentence. Here's Joe Biden yesterday with an activist and an actor. He's doing one of his
podcasts, which Paula remarked on this morning, gets remarkably low viewers. I'm pretty sure our show is bigger than Joe Biden's. I'm not pretty sure. I know it is.
Here's a video of Biden in less than a minute seeming to lose himself and literally repeats himself three times.
Check this out. The act of protesting. Should never be allowed to over overshadow the reason for the protest.
The act of protesting should, you know,
should never be allowed to overshadow the reason for the protest in the first place.
And what I worry about tomorrow night in Wilmington, for example,
there's a lot of really good people.
I'm going to be out.
I'm not going to be here.
I'm going to be up in Pennsylvania.
But tomorrow night, what I worry a little bit about is you and many other are going to be out of, I'm not going to be here. I'm going to be up in Pennsylvania. But tomorrow night,
what I worry a little bit about is you and many others are going to be out there protesting legitimately for change. But we can't allow protesting to overshadow the purpose of the
protest. Paul is like looking, shaking her head. Folks, it's sad to watch.
I'm not even kidding.
I'm not messing with you.
I'm not looking to pile on this guy.
I have no interest in that personally.
Politically, of course.
That's what we do.
He is not there.
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you'll notice not only does he repeat himself
three times because he forgets what he said,
even worse, he's looking down at notes.
In other words, he has notes in front of him and still repeats himself three times.
I sincerely doubt the note he's looking at says, say three times the exact same thing
back to back.
Folks, I'm not kidding.
It said the guy is not there.
He is not there.
Are you telling me with a straight face?
By the way, the decline at that age, sadly, can be dramatic month by month.
Are you suggesting to me in four years, this is going to be the president of the United States?
You better seriously reevaluate your candidate, Democrats.
I'm very sorry.
I'm talking to the reasonable, persuadable ones out there.
The radical left, they don't care.
They just hate Trump.
They'll vote for anyone.
They'll vote for a box of mashed potatoes. They don't care one bit. They just hate Trump. They'll vote for anyone. They'll vote for a box
of mashed potatoes. They don't care one bit. They just hate Trump. I'm suggesting to persuadable
Democrats with a head on their shoulders, are you serious? You want this guy? All right. Got a lot
more to get to. So I didn't get to the Rod Rosenstein segment yesterday. I had to abbreviate
a bit because of time constraints on the show.
But there's an excellent article that came out today in the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly,
the great Kimberly Strassel, does terrific work over there, about the disastrous hearing
by the former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was a key spygate plotter.
He signed the warrants to spy on President Trump, And Rod Rosenstein basically impaneled the Mueller team,
selected Bob Mueller to go and engage in the witch hunt.
There is no bigger player in this scandal than Rod Rosenstein.
He's central to everything.
This is a terrific piece by Kim Strassel.
Rod Rosenstein knew nothing.
The FBI withheld crucial information from him.
Why didn't he ask any questions?
The FBI withheld crucial information from him.
Why didn't he ask any questions?
Ladies and gentlemen, Rod Rosenstein, I can make a strong case to you,
was the one man who could have put a stop to all this nonsense.
He could have put a stop to the Spygate scandal,
the spying on President Trump through the FISA courts in his campaign.
And he could have put a stop to the absolutely dreadful, disastrous Mueller probe,
which was based and grounded in a hoax that they knew was a hoax, the collusion hoax. Rosenstein knew it was a hoax.
He's claiming, no, he knew nothing. Now, I could go through the whole piece, but I have two screenshots just to show you this was the acting attorney general of the United States. The FBI
agency worked for him in the chain of command in our
justice department. And his best defense as to why he allowed a spying scandal to go on in a
presidential campaign and Mueller to be appointed to investigate a hoax that didn't exist, collusion.
His best answer is, I don't know nothing. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know nothing. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So let's go into what he didn't know.
This was the acting attorney general of the United States.
Libs, again, keep telling us how we're supposed to have this wonderful faith in a benevolent government.
Now you know why I'm conservative?
Remember that Father Bob Sirico line I told you about from the Acton Institute?
Greatest line I've ever heard. It's not that government's too big it's that government's too stupid you want to keep placing your faith in government you go right ahead they don't know
anything here's what Rod Rosenstein the acting attorney general of the United States didn't know
while he was allowing a spying operation
and a witch hunt to go on
that nearly destroyed our country.
Quote, Strassel's piece,
Mr. Rosenstein didn't know
that the Hillary Clinton campaign
and Democratic National Committee
funded the Christopher Steele dossier,
which formed the bulk of the accusations
against the Trump campaign.
Kind of an important fact, no?
Not for Rod.
Not for Hot Rod.
He also didn't know that the FBI in late 2016
had interviewed colleagues of Christopher Steele
who cast doubt on his credibility.
Kind of important.
Also, no?
Not for Hot Rod.
Not for him it ain't.
He also didn't know that Mr. Steele's primary source had disavowed the dossier's central elements by January of 2017.
Five months before he appoints Bob Mueller.
Important to know.
Not for Hot Rod.
Not for Hot Rod.
Remember Jerry Maguire?
Rod in Rod we trust. The wide receiver. In rod we trust the wide receiver in rod we trust no in
in broad liberals trust not me even the rod rosenstein supporters that thought he was a
white hat are now changing their minds they're like this guy's either the biggest clown to ever
be the acting attorney general so stupid he didn't think to ask basic questions like,
hey, I'm signing off on a warrant to spy on President Trump's campaign.
Is this information real?
Joe, is the audience on buzzman here?
Is that question out of line?
Absolutely not.
No, it's on target.
Okay, thank you. I just need someone to verify.
So we're spying on a presidential campaign.
He's like scratching his head with a paper-made pen or whatever.
Is this information real?
No, it's not.
Actually, the person who Christopher Steele produced it,
his source said it's fake.
Hot Rod didn't seem to ask that quite.
Think about how that conversation would have went
he didn't know though don't worry he didn't know he don't know sergeant schultz of our time right
i don't know nothing i don't say rod rose there's hot rod so hot rod sitting down
and when andy mccabe and jim comey you think at some point he says okay well this sounds um
joe i know me and joe are just two numb nuts idiots a radio producer and a dopey former cop
like me i mean we're i know we don't with double digit iq neanderthals me and joe but i'm just
trying to wonder how this would have won we're just two idiots but these are two geniuses
apparently right rosenstein mccabe these are the elites right I'm just wondering
how this conversation would have went so he's got Comey and McCabe in a room and they're proposing
spying on a presidential candidate and I'm thinking how a normal person would handle this
they would have said uh uh you're talking about spying on a presidential okay am I am I right
yeah am I clear on this yeah yes yes sir we are okay um that's kind of a big
deal right and meanwhile mccabe and and comey the answer probably be i would guess joey um even they
would have to acknowledge yeah but it sounds like a kind of a big deal right so then i would guess
the third question would be and we're spying on said presidential campaign um why
well we have this dossier okay oh all right wow interesting you have so they have joe they have
something okay it's a start here it is i actually took a note yesterday to mention a bongino brief
our new flash briefing because i didn't want to forget to ensure here's the note for you so
let's pretend this is the dossier so they go like this real dramatic because comey and mccabe you know they're super patriots and they always think they're in a mission impossible movie so let's pretend this is the dossier so they go like this real dramatic because comey and mccabe
you know they're super patriots and they always think they're in a mission impossible movie so
let's do the drama if you want to watch on youtube let's act this out they have the dossier rod
rosa signs on the other side of the table where paul is over there they go so you have a dossier
let me can i do the drama? Watch. Watch. Watch.
You know how, you ever see in the movies, Joe, when like there's a transaction
and you know what I'm talking about, right? Like in the
movie Heat or something, I got information
and they do it real dramatic.
Paul is even
zooming out with the camera. And Rosenstein
is like this. And he's got to be dramatic too.
So Rosenstein is on the other side of the table.
Let me go. Here I am on the other side of there let me go here i am on the other side here you know
president trump got pb'd on in russia
oh my gosh mike what's on the back side i hope it's not a cuss word the back side no that's
windows it says i was doing doing Hannity last night.
I want to remember to bring up broken windows.
I didn't do it, so I ripped it.
Now it just says windows.
Here's Rosenstein.
PP in Russia?
Oh my gosh.
We got PP, folks.
Now you think he's reading it all serious,
Mission Impossible style, and he's like,
hey, Jim, Andy,
did President Trump actually get pee-peed on in Russia?
Is this real?
But no.
No, Hot Rod didn't ask.
He just read the pee-pee dossier.
He was like, yeah, this sounds good.
Let's spy on him.
Sounds great.
Hoorah.
In Rod we trust, baby.
What a dunce.
What a dunce.
It gets worse. The Strassell piece
is excellent, by the way, but
I can't put the whole thing, but here's a second
screenshot. More of what, you know, in Rod
we trust, we didn't know. Or Rod Rosenstein says he didn't know. I don't believe a lot thing, but here's a second screenshot. More of what, you know, in Rod we trust, we didn't know.
Or Rod Rosenstein says he didn't know.
I don't believe a lot of this, by the way.
Rosenstein wasn't told that the FBI recordings of George Papadopoulos and Carter Page provided exculpatory information.
For liberals, meaning information that they were innocent.
Kind of important before you target them for being guilty of collusion, right?
No, no, not for hot Rod, not Hot Rod we trust.
Rosenstein also wasn't told that the FBI had moved to drop the case against Mike Flynn,
who became White House National Security Advisor from its investigation in early January
for lack of any evidence of collusion.
Kind of important, Joe, no?
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
Kind of a big deal.
Yep.
Rod we trust, baby.
Hot Rod.
Brilliant lawyer.
He also wasn't made aware of the recent exculpatory evidence the Justice Department had turned over in the Flynn case.
Jeez.
Hey, Clown Joe.
What?
Hey, Clown Joe.
PP?
We've got PP tapes.
What a moron. What a moron.
What a dunce.
Now you know why I'm a conservative, largely libertarian on a lot of issues?
Never forget the Father Bob Sirico line.
It's not that government's too big.
It's that it's too stupid.
It's that it's too stupid.
The mucus is building because I'm crying,
tragically laughing at the stupidity of the media people who bought into this and the so-called government elites that run our country.
The head of the FBI and the acting head of the Justice Department
fell for the pee-pee dossier and never bothered to ask if it was even real.
Oh, what a bunch of morons.
Can't take the stupid anymore.
All right, I want to get to this tech tyranny story because this
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So folks, as I said, this tech tyranny is really wearing on me.
Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and elsewhere have become the new public space.
They're the new public space where the old town crier used to go.
That's how people communicate. A lot of people are getting their news from Facebook now. Unfortunately, these tech
tyrants are run by far left liberals who candidly can't stand you. They think you're the enemy.
They are. That is exactly what, that is 100% what they believe. I wanted to put up this Wall Street Journal story, again, to show you how bad this is getting.
Facebook, who had said they previously were not going to censure,
censure, excuse me, President Trump's tweets,
and not going to start actively policing President Trump's Facebook posts.
Facebook is looking at an about face right now.
It says, Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg's credibility test.
Facebook CEO faces renewed pressure
to take down Trump's posts.
Folks,
they're going to cave.
You are going to have a president of the United States
who is going to be
edited,
edited out of the public
space by these tech tyrants.
Folks, I keep putting these stories out there
because I can't express to you enough
how important it is that you do something about it.
We tuned out from CNN and MSNBC years ago.
We chose Fox News.
We tuned out from CNN.com
and we chose things like the Drudge Report
before he abandoned us.
Now I hope you use our site, Bongino Report,
but it's up to
you. We found Conservative Review, Breitbart, our website, others, where we got real news.
You have to do something. Action matters. I know you know that. It's not a lecture. You don't need
a lecture from me. Talk is cheap. Please go over to Parler. Check them out. P-A-R-L-E-R. It is your alternative to Facebook
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member long before that, since 2018. I'm humbly and with the greatest of respect asking you to
download the app or go to parler.com and set up an account and do something. When we leave in mass,
Facebook and them are going to do an about face quickly,
but by then it'll be too late. It's time to make them the MySpace of our time. Remember MySpace?
A lot of you are like, what's that? Exactly. The ones who know MySpace know what I'm talking about.
The ones who don't know what I'm talking about, you're my point. What's MySpace is exactly the point. It was Facebook before Facebook.
In essence, not the same company.
Let's make Facebook the MySpace of this generation.
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Do something.
This is going to get a lot worse.
I'm not kidding.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been dying to get to this show, excuse me, this
topic for the last few days. I had said to you on the show, we have a personal relationship with
Plaquenil hydroxychloroquine in this house for a number of reasons. So the story is very sensitive
to me. Hydroxychloroquine was touted as a potential treatment for the treatment of coronavirus. I
told you from the start, we're only doing the science on this.
We're not doing media hysteria.
What happened with hydroxychloroquine?
Well, what happened was President Trump
made the air quotes mistake.
He didn't make them.
I'm being sarcastic to show you how silly the liberals are
of mentioning something about hydroxychloroquine
in a press conference and touting the fact
that it may work as a treatment.
Ladies and gentlemen, the liberals lost their mind.
As Joe put out for our 15 second clip that runs nationwide, when we covered the yesterday,
whatever president Trump says, the left is on the other side of it.
No matter how asinine and ridiculous it makes them look.
Our 15 second clip this week is going to be a Joe's selection, by the way, where I said,
if president Trump were to tout the benefits of oxygen, liberals
would put plastic bags over their heads
and they would start touting the benefits of
inhaling carbon dioxide. Don't do that,
please. It will kill you.
But liberals don't care.
They've lost their minds.
Science, reason,
human health has been thrown
out the window in favor of TDS
level six hysteria.
You don't believe me?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Lancet, a previously, previously respected medical journal, no more,
the Lancet, was touting a study suggesting that hydroxychloroquine was very dangerous.
Look at this.
30% increase in heart arrhythmias.
Don't touch this stuff.
This is really horrible.
The media went wild.
Why?
Because Trump had spoken positively about hydroxychloroquine.
God forbid that happens, Joe.
So the Lancet rushed out a study saying,
look, this stuff is dangerous.
It's interesting because, like I said,
Paul has been on it for years
with absolutely no side effects at all.
Now that's maybe sui generis to her,
but we kind of have some personal experience with it.
It's not going to be lectured by anyone.
But the media lost their minds.
Oxygen, oxygen sucks.
Trump said it's good.
Hydroxychloroquine, we got to make sure
nobody gets this treatment, even though it may save your life. So the Lancet rushed this study out,
showing how dangerous this was. The study gained so much prominence that sadly,
trials with hydroxychloroquine that could have saved people's lives were stopped.
Don't. Look at this study. It's so bad. President people's lives were stopped don't look at this study it's so bad president trump's crazy he's gonna kill people he's gonna get people killed
now we find out even the left-leaning guardian the guardian you know the guardian not a right
leaning outlet folks the guardian the lancet has made one of the biggest retractions in modern
history how could this happen?
It's interesting how the Guardian asks and answers its own question.
They don't even know it.
They had to retract the study about hydroxychloroquine.
It appears to be a fraud.
But of course, left-wing media outlets jumped in.
And I said they asked and answered because the answer is, how could this happen?
The answer is obvious. Because they were looking to make president trump do a face plan is that not
obvious joe is that not clear to you i mean yeah they they were looking to stick at the president
trump trump said hydroxychloroquine's good put out a study saying it kills people is the study real
well just like rod rosenstein i don't know it's a joe here we go again let's do the drama they
had the study fake study just like the pp dossier don't know. Joe, here we go again. Let's do the drama. They had the study.
Fake study, just like the pee-pee dossier, right?
Here they are.
They're going over to the Lancet journal.
Paul is zooming out.
She never does this camera work.
And the Lancet people, they got the pee-pee study.
They're like, pee-pee?
Hydroxychloroquine?
This is great.
Publish it.
Is it real?
We'll ask those questions later.
Don't worry.
Just like the pee-pee dossier.
We'll figure out
if it's real later.
Don't worry.
As long as it reflects
bad on Trump
and the pee-pee,
just print it.
Spy on him.
We'll figure the rest out later.
So the pee-pee Lancet study,
they're like,
put that in there too.
Is the study real?
No, it's not real,
but we'll figure that out later.
The Washington Post loved this, by the way.
You know, the Washington Post, Joe, democracy dies in the darkness.
You know, that's their motto.
They are the darkness, by the way.
But the Washington Post, this is the serious newspaper, Joe.
Remember, you and I are just two dopes.
Yeah.
We're just two idiots, a cop and an old radio guy, two morons.
What do we know?
That's us.
Washington Post
are the smart people, folks.
Oh, yeah.
They fell for the pee-pee study.
Headline,
Washington Post,
anti-malarial drug,
hydroxychloroquine,
touted by President Trump,
is linked to,
leaked,
talk about a Freudian slip,
the pee-pee,
the pee-pee study.
It's linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients.
Study says,
yeah,
I'm just like you printed the collusion hoax based on the dopey dossier.
Maybe you should have looked at that study first.
Every folks,
everything is corrupted now.
I mean,
I don't mean to listen.
I don't mean this in a sour way.
And you may say, how did you just said every, it is, everything is corrupted. Science I mean, I don't mean, listen, I don't mean this in a sour way. And you may say, how, Dan?
You just said, it is, everything is corrupted.
Science, our politics, our culture.
What else do I have here?
Because I want to talk about something here for a second.
Do I have anything else I desperately need to get to?
Six, no, no.
Okay, good.
I don't want to leave you on a sour note on Friday.
And I'm not saying this to
artificially cheer you up. I absolutely mean this. Folks, we're hitting rock bottom. Our science has
been corrupted. Our culture has been corrupted. Everything's been corrupted. Religious institutions,
even some components of Christianity. I had a conversation with a priest once that baffled
me about why he didn't speak
out. I'm not kidding. Why he didn't speak out against abortion. He said, well, not everybody
in the congregation is pro-life. I was like, what? Believe me, it was not an isolated example,
sadly. Everything's been corrupted. Our economy, science, economic theory, it's just pathetic.
A Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman,
engaging in childlike conspiracy theories.
You're like, this is just insane.
Our tech tyrants corrupting our social media ecosystem.
Like, Dan, it's Friday.
Where's the good news?
The good news is this.
Ladies and gentlemen, everything is cyclical.
It is.
Joe remembers pretty well the awful 70s and early 80s.
They were bad.
Were they not, Joe?
I was a young kid.
You were a little older than me.
Yeah, I was in the middle.
They were bad.
Yeah, you remember Stagflation, Jimmy Carter, Gas Lines.
Yep.
The humiliating Iran hostage drama.
We thought we'd hit the bottom.
I was young, but I do remember it well. We did. We thought we'd hit the bottom i was young but i do remember it well we did we thought we hit bottom even american cars were awful we couldn't even build a car what do we have joe
what was it the vespo whatever cars like the pinto remember the pinto i mean it was bad america had
hit the bottom the pinto let's use the pinto my father had one he had a red one for a reference
point for when we hit bottom when the first pinto came off the line i love ford i have a raptor now
greatest truck i've ever had i love it but when the pinto wouldn't you agree joe rolled off the
assembly that was the word american hit rock bottom that was it in that era that was it when
that car started that was it and ladies and gentlemen started, that was it. And ladies and gentlemen, what happened?
Just two or three years later, Ronald Reagan, he's in the midst of his presidency.
Everything starts to turn around.
And we had probably the greatest 10, 15-year run in our history.
Candidly, even into the Clinton years.
Even into the Clinton years with the economy and the tech boom.
I'm not saying Clinton did anything great for you.
I'm just saying everything runs in cycles.
I think we're at an inflection point.
I'm not kidding.
I think it's ready to turn around.
We may have a few more months, maybe a year more, some struggles here,
but I think we're really on the verge of some really spectacular things in the future.
think we're really on the verge of some really spectacular things in the future.
Revolutions in the sharing economy, material sciences, gene therapy,
vaccines for some deadly viruses. I think we're on the verge of some special stuff.
I think we'll finally get a hold of government spending when this ends as people realize the hole we've dug ourselves in. We may be on the verge of something special. I'm not kidding.
Smile a little bit today. These numbers, we may be turning around. It can't get much worse. I know that
doesn't sound like the most optimistic thing, but I mean it. I think we hit the bottom. I think the
Pinto ignition's been started. It's been rolled off the assembly line and the Ford Mustang comes
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