The Dan Bongino Show - News Out of Georgia (Ep 1426)

Episode Date: January 1, 2021

In this episode, I discuss the breaking news out of Georgia about the 2020 election and a troubling story out of Illinois about a school official.  News Picks:  Georgia court sets a hearing date for a serious election challenge. Apparently, cancel culture only applies if you’re a conservative. Small businesses are getting crushed while business giants prosper.  Chicago school board member gets busted on vacation while pushing for schools to remain closed.  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino so we have some developments in georgia about the election i think you're going to be interested in hearing about including finally some kind of an audit of these machines i think it has a lot to do with the video I played on yesterday's show of that expert witness at the Georgia Senate hearing about the 2020 election saying, hey, man, I hacked into one of the election machines at a polling location about the election going on right now in Georgia. And we were on the show yesterday. Joe and I, we were like, wait, what? So now I've got some developments on that. I've got some cancel culture stuff. Also video that I don't, can we say piss you off? We shouldn't say that.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to say it anyway. Video that will upset you. Maybe that's the family friendly way to say it. Coming out of New York city last night with new years of mayor Debalzio there. You're not going to want to miss that. Today's show brought to you by express VPN. Ladies and gentlemen,

get a VPN today. Protect your online activity from prying eyeballs. Surf the web in peace go to expressvpn.com slash bongino welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe of course it's friday so in your worst 1960s game show voice the greeting we've done every friday for the last year or so it's off to you buddy you take it from here it's friday yeah and it's also a new year uh good riddance 2020 joe before we get started i get to my first spot i'm gonna go through um my um my best of 2020 list everybody's doing them all right um so everybody queue it up joe get the sound bites and stuff ready. Here's our best of 2020.

Okay, there you go. That was the best of 2020. Now let's get to the show. You didn't miss anything, folks. In case you're listening on the radio, did I fast forward? That was the best. Of course, Joe doesn't actually have any cuts because there is no best of 2020.

We're all alive still. Most of us, if you're listening, you're alive. That's the best of 2020. You could probably, I didn like coordinate that with joe but you could probably read my mind where i was going with that i hope so you're not like wait what he's calling for what cuts are you talking about there's no best of 2020 cuts all right i know i keep saying i'm gonna get right to the point this is what i do i let's get to it today show brought to you by our friends in magic spoon with the new year we're all trying to eat better, but healthy breakfast doesn't have to be boring.

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There it is. The bell, the first bell of 2021 after that lengthy Best of 2020 segment. Took up a lot of time there. Let's get right There it is. The bell, the first bell of 2021 after that lengthy best of 2020 segment took up a lot of time there. Let's get right to the important stuff. So what's going on in Georgia? Remember that video I showed you yesterday about the expert witness at the Georgia Senate

hearing? The expert witness saying, hey, fellas, I kind of hacked into this voting location for the Georgia Senate runoff going on now, saying that they had connectivity to it and also saying these things aren't even supposed to be accessible to the internet. You know, polling locations and polling pads and stuff like that. Kind of a big deal. It was the guy was under oath.

So we'll assume he was telling the truth or trying to tell the truth or whatever. So that was kind of a big deal. That video won nuclear on Bongino Report. Yesterday, we played it on the show. So now we're finally getting, hopefully, a little bit of progress. Listen, is this going to turn out well for us?

I don't know. I'm not in the predictions business anymore. Predictions have all gone down the tubes. Who could have predicted what happened in 2020? But check this story out in John Solomon's site, Just the News, which is terrific. It'll be available in my show notes, also known as the newsletter,

bongino.com slash newsletter. Pennsylvania lawmakers appeal to McConnell. Georgia court sets hearing in latest election challenges. Frenzied actions pile up as January 6th deadline for congressional certification approaches. So what's going on down in Georgia? Well, remember that other video we had in Fulton County at the State Farm Arena? It's been going everywhere. They're, they're running commercials on it at TV. Remember where they took the ballots out from under the table after voters member vote count observers show. They left for the night.

Listen, there's no dispute that the vote observers, the election observers left. The reason they left again to give both sides of a story, which we do fairly in the media. Doesn't the reasons they left is up for grabs. The state of Georgia is saying we didn't order them to leave. The vote observers were saying, well, you know, we're not so sure.

We thought they told us they were done for the night. So there's this video out there. These ballots come out after election observers leave, and they start getting counted. That happened in Fulton County. That was in State Farm Arena. That's important. Why? The screenshot from this piece, you'll see why now. It says, to the South, momentum was building among Trump supporters in Georgia after the GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee approved an audit of voting machines in Fulton County, the home to

Atlanta. That's where this whole State Farm arena ballots from under the table after observers left thing happened. They held a hearing where one expert claimed he could access voting machines that were not supposed to be connected to the internet. Folks, I would love to see an audit of these Fulton County machines. Listen, if nothing happened, I've said this repeatedly and I will say it again and I will go to my grave with this. I don't, obviously, obviously, I don't want voter fraud to have happened. Everybody wants an honest result. I've run for office. If you lose, you want to lose fair and square.

You don't want to lose and be cheated. If you win, you want to win fair and square. No one wants to be known as a guy who won by cheating. All right. Again, there's not virtue signaling. It's just common sense. If the Fulton County machines in State Farm Arena

and elsewhere are audited and everything comes back A-OK, or there is some fraud detected, but it's not enough to overturn the result, I'm not happy with the result, but that's fine.

But I don't understand if you're interested in transparency what the problem with an audit would be and why it took this long it's now it's unbelievable

I actually had to check the date last night was New Year's how stupid is that I actually had to check the date for a moment I forgot

it's January 1st we are recording this is not our show we recorded yesterday we produced the show today this is the show it is well

you're not supposed to say the time because we're on terrestrial it's whatever time you're listening to it on terrestrial radio. But it is January 4th. What took so long? An audit trail should not have been a big deal. If those state farm ballots that were counted

after election observers left were all legitimate, there were no recounts, there were no problems with the vote, fine. But I don't understand what the problem with an audit would be. Why would you want people to not have faith

in the results of an election? So that's some good news. Some semi-good news. We'll see what happens. Second, from the Just the News piece. Sorry, folks. The Superior Court in Fulton scheduled a hearing Monday and accepted an emergency petition from a group of Georgian voters

called Voter Georgia demanding a forensic inspection of November mail-in ballots. Sorry, chemo stuff's driving me a little crazy. You're cool, bro. We've just received notice that we will be granted, thanks, man, a hearing Monday, January 4th at 11 a.m. in our emergency petition to visually inspect and forensically examine all Fulton County mail-in ballots. Garland Favarito, one of the petitioners, told the Epoch Times.

This includes those processed at State Farm Arena and those that auditors detected as potentially fraudulent. Again, ladies and gentlemen, Monday, January 4th, a hearing. What the Hades took so long. If you have nothing to hide with this and you want people to have faith that there was a free and fair and an election built around integrity and an actual loss or a win, then you don't hide an audit trail and you don't avoid an audit trail. So now we're supposed to have an audit and we're supposed to have a hearing January 4th. We'll see how that turns out.

I'd still like to get an answer on that video that the so-called fact checkers have tried to debunk and yet haven't actually debunked anything in the video. Nobody questions the authenticity of it. Nobody questions the observers left. Nobody questions the ballots came out from under the table. Were they legitimate ballots? They could have have been of course they could have been could it have been fraud maybe worth checking out no insane that we're having to have this conversation if this were democrats by the way and joe biden Joe Biden had lost Georgia according to their tallies, and there was a video in a primarily Republican county of Republican and a Republican county, right, of we don't know, but people pulling ballots out from under the table while election observers left, there would be riots right now. People would be furious if there were no audit.

But because they think Trump lost Georgia, nobody really seems to care. All right, so I have an update. Check that article out. It's really important, folks. All right, are we doing on time here? Sorry, folks. It's been a little bit of a rough morning so far, so I hope you bear with me. But I told you, I'm going to never do a show if I don't feel ready to do it.

I've told you that a thousand times. I appreciate you sticking with me. We've been the number one conservative podcast this whole week, thanks to you. So I really appreciate it. All right, let me break this up a little bit because I want to get to some serious stuff next after this. But I'm going to play you some video that's probably going to upset you. Well, first, it'll make you laugh, then it'll upset you. But after that i want to get to the there's there's one major myth about big government i could dispel i want to do a segment on this that you're going to love and this is primarily directed at our younger audience on college campuses who have to defend freedom and liberty all the time you're not going to want to miss this segment coming up but before that this is last night a little bit of humor for you joe got to see this before of

course so andy cohen i don't know if you know andy cohen but he does those bravo shows andy's got the last night, a little bit of humor for you. Joe got to see this before, of course. So Andy Cohen, I don't know if you know Andy Cohen, but he does those Bravo shows. Andy's got the full one. You ever see those like Real Housewives of every city in America? That's Andy Cohen's production deal there over there. He does those shows on Bravo. So every year, I think this is every year, last few years on CNN, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper do a New Year's Eve special. And for some reason, I candidly don't understand. They start boozing it up on the air. I don't get that.

It's live TV. That could break bad really fast. I'm just saying, if you're down in bottles of Don Julio 1942 or whatever it is, or Casa Dragones tequila, you know, by hour two of that, that could get pretty ugly on TV. Now, Joe, who was a broadcast professional for probably 30 years, right? Things can happen on live radio and TV. And adding the component of alcohol consumption, wouldn't you agree, Producer Joe, could probably throw a curveball in there? Certainly. Or actually a monkey wrench into the machinery, a curve ball at the batter.

I'm just guessing. Maybe. Well, this is the kind of stuff that happens. This is hilarious. So Cohen, Andy Cohen last night, he's probably,

who knows how much he's had to drink, but he looks a little, let's just say buzzed. So he's on with Anderson Cooper, and they're talking about some other stuff. And I'll play the video of this in a minute afterwards. But Mayor de Blasio, communist mayor of New York who was shut down the entire city, was out there on TV last night after midnight when the ball dropped in Manhattan and was dancing up, no social distancing at all, dancing up a storm with his wife there. Kind of weird. I thought

we were supposed to social distance or whatever. setting a bad example for everyone and andy cohen who i'm guessing is a liberal i'm just guessing by the way i've heard him talk on bravo loses it on on on debalzio check this out this is hilarious 2020 is freaking gone so we flushed it down the toilet i definitely definitely do not need this. Like the fecal mess that it was. This is a little half. I like saying that. I'm glad I brought two bottles of this. Oh, my God.

Yeah. All right. All right. Oh, my God. That's how I felt when I saw Mayor de Blasio dancing just now. I just don't need to see that at the beginning of 2021. Do something with this city! Honestly, get it together!

God. Goodness. All right. Anyway. We've still got a lot of show. Tiptoeing back to Bravo in about 20 minutes. But while I have this platform, I got some other stuff I want to say too. You know, what did he say?

Would you lose Walter Cronkite? Well, when you lose Andy Cohen, again, I've seen him on Bravo occasionally. Andy Cohen, I'm reasonably confident, Joe, is not a conservative Republican, just based on what he said. I've heard some of his commentary in the past. When you lose Andy Cohen, he's like, got it together.

He said, it's over. Like when DeBalsio doesn't have Cohen in his corner. And that's the thing. Maybe the, I don't know what they're drinking there. Who knows? I don't know if it's moonshine, tequila, vodka. I have no idea. But Cohen's not faking it.

He has clearly got a blood alcohol level a little elevated there, if you know what I mean. And there you go. What do they say? En vino veritas, man. You know, the truth comes out. The truth comes out. They can't stand this guy either, de Balzio. And why?

Well, here's the video of de Balzio, communist mayor of New York City who has shut down the city, bankrupted all his restaurants, basically goes after the police department anytime he can, wants to steal your money, believes in socialism and redistribution. So while you're shut down and you can't make money in your restaurant, here's DeBalsio dancing up a storm on New Year's Eve

last night. Check this out. I'm sorry. It wasn't New Year. That was actually New Year because it was after the ball dropped. So my mistake, precision matters. There's the ball, Zio, right there. I'm sure he's having a great time while you're all going bankrupt in New York. Again, when you've lost Andy Cohen, it's pretty much over. Get it together. That was priceless, man. You know, listen, give me a favor, Joe.

Yeah. You know, can you cut that as a drop for us in the future? Absolutely. You know, we don't use them too much. We use them sparingly, which I always appreciate. It's very good. You know it. But we have Come On Man with Biden. Yes. We have Donnie Brasco, our go-tos. We have Muttley, which we haven't used in a while. But can you add Andy Cohen? Can you cut that for me today?

Would you mind? Absolutely. Will do. Get it together. Thank you. Folks, that could be a classic, an instant. And Joe, I'll give you discretion. If you see one of those moments to drop an andy cohen you just drop it folks please watch the video because his facial reactions cohen are even better rumble.com slash bungeen if you want to watch the video check that out all right you know what before i get to this segment let me remove where we only have two sponsors today don't worry uh not a lot of spot not a heavy spot load for today's show on New Year's, but they're both great sponsors.

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And if there was one big issue, I would get out of the way and say, government is in it to help the little guy. They are not. Government is in the business of crushing the little guy always. You don't believe me? Look at this Just the News story. It'd be up in the show notes, available in my newsletter today, bongino.com slash newsletter, if you'd like to check it out. Government forced shutdowns, right? Amazon, Bongino.com slash newsletter, if you'd like to check it out. Government-enforced shutdowns, right? Amazon, Walmart saw profits surge. Joe, am I reading that right? Profits surge in 2020

as small businesses decimated by the pandemic. Retail giants have filled the void left by shuttered shops and consumers scared to venture out. So we have governments shutting down small businesses, restaurant owners, telling people they can't go out,

telling people they can't do this and that, and what happens? Government that's supposedly in it for the little guy actually destroys the little guy while retail, and ladies and gentlemen, I'm a capitalist.

I don't have any beef against Walmart or Amazon doing what capitalists do. I do have beefs with them doing non-capitalist liberty things, but I don't have a problem with them making money. That's not the point. The point is this. I want you to look at this from the, just the news piece.

Amazon's blowing up right now. It's you, the mom and pops out there trying to earn a living and feed your kids. You're the ones getting screwed over. Quote, just the news. Amazon's third quarter earnings for this year, the most recent available, report an operating cash flow of $55 billion for the preceding 12 months, up from $35 billion for the same period in 2019. Net sales increased 37% to $96 billion in the third quarter, compared with $70 billion

in the third quarter of 2019. The company said while its operating income, its overall profit increased nearly 94% from 3.2 billion to 6.2 billion. Wow. That's really great for Amazon. Disclosure, I do have Amazon stock. It's in a portfolio of mine. Good for Amazon.

They seem to be doing great. But isn't that kind of weird how the same government that claims to be looking out for your best interests in a pandemic would shut you down, created a golden opportunity and a runway, Joe, for the Amazon plane to take off and then take all your business away from you as you were shut down? I thought government was in it for the little guy.

I'm confused. Now, of course, drawing a contrast, well, government's supposed to be in it for the little guy. You're telling me Amazon is not the little guy. Government created a runway for Amazon to take business away from little guys that were shut down. Well, what exactly happened to the little guy? That's the only way to show the contrast, right?

Well, let's see from the, just the news piece. What actually happened to small businesses? Oh, it ain't good. It ain't good, folks. It ain't a word in this case. Small businesses have throughout 2020 suffered significant widespread closures as a result. Yelp's September 2020 economic impact report found that the number of small businesses that had closed permanently in the U.S. had increased approximately 165% from April to

September, rising from about 37,000 to roughly 98,000. Every one of those small businesses, there's a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister, a friend, a cousin, or whatever, sitting at a table at night with his head in his hand, wondering what happened, wondering how his entire life got thrown away so fast. Everything they put their time into, your clothing store, your sandwich shop, your bagel shop, your electronic store, whatever it is, you got buried because they shut you down. And when they shut you down, what happened? People went on their phones and computers and did what they always do. They go to Amazon.

A lot of those people now, maybe, listen, ladies and gentlemen, creative destruction's a thing. Businesses go in and out of, businesses are created and destroyed all the time. That's not what happened here, folks. Let's be crystal clear. We're not talking about liberty and freedom. We're not talking about economic liberty and Joseph Schumpeter's creative destruction where bad businesses go out of business and good businesses take their place.

Are we crystal clear, Joe? If I missed this, stop me as the audience on BuzzFeed. That's not what we're talking about. We are talking about businesses now going out of business in this pandemic that were perfectly fine, had great products, had good people, had dedicated workers. They were put out of business by the government who then shut them down, who then gave an avenue to places like Amazon and Walmart. And I'm not knocking them to take the business away. And some of those customers will then never come back.

So again, if I could dispel one major myth about government, it's that they're in it for the little, they're not in it for the little guy. Why? Why is government not in it for the little guy? Well, let's think about this using logic and reason, something the left never does. What does government exist to do joe remember um chuck ecker the howard county executive oh god rest his soul from maryland yeah we've told this story well when i was running for office in maryland he was a county executive for howard county and i ran into an event one time and we got talking about big government. And he said something to me. Some of you heard this on the show before. Some of you haven't, some of our newer listeners. We were talking

about big government. And he said to me, you know, Dan, government will always grow. There's nothing you can do in a free society and a not free society. It doesn't matter. Government grows no matter what. And I said, yeah, I know that, Chuck. I understand. He said, Dan, you know why government always grows? He said, because there's no power in yes. It was brilliant. Brilliant. There's no power in yes. When you're a government bureaucrat, people naturally crave power. If you tell people, yes, you can open a business, you mean I don't need a license or anything? No, no, just open a business.

Do your thing. When you tell people, yes, there's no power in it. There's only power in what? No. Because then people have to come to you to get to yes. And when people have to come to you to get to yes. And when people have to come to you to get to yes, what do they do? Lobby you, maybe a campaign donation.

Maybe if you're Hunter Biden, you kick up 10% to the big guy, Papa Joe. There is, do you understand this? This is, if there was ever a golden rule, if there was one thing said to me in my time running for office that transformed the way I looked at it, and I don't mean to say transform, but really distilled it down to one sentence, that was it. There is no power in yes.

There's only power in telling people no. How do you get to no? Why is government not in it for the little guy? Because what does government do? Government gets to know because they exist to create obstacles obstacles are the nose a license to braid hair why do i need a license to braid hair because we want hair braiding lobbyists to come to us and give our democrat lobby uh or whatever

our democrat constituency money so we can get elected. So it's not a joke, by the way. There are some states where to braid hair, you need a license. What the hell? To do it professionally, you need a license. What's the downside of braiding hair wrong? Someone comes back like, hey, I don't like my braids.

It's not a joke. You can put it in a search engine yourself. They want unions of hair braiders to then come to the democrats and say here's a boatload of money so we can get to yes so we can braid hair there is no power in yes there is only power in no and the way you get to know is by creating obstacles to people shutting their businesses down and making them kiss your butt to open up again. How are obstacles dealt with? Ladies and gentlemen, they're dealt with with lawyers and lobbyists, a bunch of lawyers and lobbyists that then go to these powerful county commissioners,

congressmen, state reps, state senators, senators whatever they may be and they spend all day at cocktail parties eating their foie gras lunches having their two martini lunches kissing their butts isn't it great to have your butt kissed all day to try to get you to yes hey i'd like to open up a business yeah go ahead open there's no power in that no no you're gonna need a light well who controls the license commissioner joey bag of donuts well now let's get into the table you ever what yeah you ever see that movie casino yeah yeah most people have seen you know bob uh crazy bob deniro's in it but the movie's supposedly based on a true story and there's that one scene where deniro's running a casino in like 1970s Las Vegas when it was like the Wild West out there.

And he's got to hire this incompetent buffoon who's like the nephew of a county commissioner. The guy winds up screwing everything up, costing the casino a fortune. Yeah, yeah. De Niro fires the guy. Ace. He plays Ace in the movie. De Niro's crazy, but he plays this guy Ace in the movie. Then he was crazy. But he plays this guy, Ace, in the movie. Apparently he's a real person. After he

fires the kid, the county commissioner comes in with the Stetson hat and sits down, like throws his feet up on the desk and he says, I think we can find another position for him. And he's like, no, he's got to go. And all of a sudden, what happens? Ace can't get his license to operate the casino.

Because there's no power in yes. Government is not in it for the little guy. Amazon and Walmart are exploding because Amazon and Walmart have lawyers and lobbyists that know how to get to yes and have a lot of money to pay for yes when you don't. Mom and pop sandwich shop down the block. Papa's hoagies. When I was a kid growing up, we had a deli in the corner, Nino's. They had Nino's and Tommy's in Glendale.

If you grew up in Glendale and Liberty Park, you know exactly what I'm talking about. They were two competitors. There was Tommy's Deli and Nino's. Nino's was on one corner. Tommy's was on the other. I preferred Tommy's, whatever. But Tommy, Tommy had like three employees. Tommy doesn't have an army of lobbyists like Amazon to get to yes. City inspector comes in

and shuts him down, says, eh, health-related stuff. Sorry, buddy, you're out of business for a few months. Amazon can fight back. So can Walmart. They stayed open. How come you didn't? How come? Government, that's how come. Government, who's supposedly in it for the little guy. Government only exists to create obstacles. Big companies, big tech companies, big pharma companies. And I don't mean big in an insulting way. Again, I'm a capitalist. I don't fault people for creating business models that function. I'm simply stating a fact, a tautology. Big companies will have big budgets and those big budgets will enable them to hire lawyers and lobbyists who can get politicians to yes while you're stuck at no. Never understood why people believe this fairy tale that government is somehow in it for the little guy. Let me get to point two here. So problem one, talking about this myth

about government being in it for the little guy. Problem one is what does government do? They create obstacles. There's another problem here. The other problem with government is bureaucrats and politicians are human beings. That, nothing, wow, transformative statement. No, it's not. But folks, even though what I said is there's nothing bold about it,

of course they are. People seriously forget that. What is it, Federalist 51? If men were angels, right, we wouldn't need government? Oh, yeah. But listen, we forget that. Their incentives, people you put in power, government, are not yours. They're human beings driven by their own quest for power, for money, for fame, for notoriety, for influence.

They can be greedy, mercenary, gluttonous, just like everyone else. There's nothing special about politicians. So number one, they exist to create obstacles, but number two, they're only human and their incentives are not yours. So you should be asking yourself if their incentives are not your incentives, then why exactly would you give them dominion over your life? Would you give them power over your life? Why would you do that? would you give them power over your life why would you do that what do i mean joe was kind enough to cut this video clip from wgn right joe wgn i believe this is in uh chicago or illinois i want you to watch this story for a moment it's about i don't know

45 50 seconds or so you want to see how people you put in power over your life when you think big government is your savior, how their incentives aren't your incentives? This is a school board official, a video about a school board official who wants schools to remain shut down, but seems to live by a different set of rules herself. Check this story out.

Sarah Chambers is on the union's executive board as an area vice president. As recently as today, she tweeted to rally special education teachers not to return to work Monday because it's unsafe. But just a few hours earlier, Chambers posted a picture on Instagram that appears to show her poolside in Puerto Rico and talking about going to Old San Juan for seafood. Post also mentions that she previously had COVID, got a negative test result, and consulted her doctor before traveling. Both Chambers and the teachers union have not responded to our request for comment. Since we reached out, though, Chambers has deleted her Instagram account. The Chicago teachers union is threatening the possibility of a strike if the district pushes ahead with plans to reopen school buildings. So just to be clear, this official with some

authority, some school board official, Sarah, whatever her name is, she doesn't think your kid should be back in school, but she's out there posting on instagram an account she subsequently deleted photos of her on vacation and the story is even more tragic after that she says you may be thinking oh well this she's had no automatic out joe she said well i already had covid so i probably have some kind of immunity so it's okay for me to travel. Oh, so just to be clear, your individual circumstances matter for your life and you can do what you want, but thousands of others, individual circumstances, kids who may have had COVID and parents who could go back to school, no problem, who probably have the same immunity you have, their circumstances don't matter.

Only yours do. Do you now get the why big government is a, I'm trying to desperately to keep this show family friendly these days they can't possibly the people in power align their incentives with your incentives because they don't know anything about you just like you don't know this woman had covid you get what i'm saying jo, please tell me this makes sense. Dude, yes. To me, yeah. They have no idea.

She's making a blanket decision, this school board official. None of you should go back to school despite having no idea about your circumstances, risk tolerance, history with COVID, whether you've been vaccinated, whether you're susceptible to it or not. She has no idea. She then lives by a different set of rules, goes on vacation, and then cites her individual circumstances as the excuse. No, no, but I'm okay. Yeah, but I'm okay too.

Yeah, yeah, but I'm in charge and I didn't know you were okay because I'm in charge. That's the point. Let me do my thing and let you do your thing. You made my point, not your point. Their incentives are not your incentives. They will never be your incentives. Whether it comes to policy based on your kids' schooling, their incentives are to get paid as school board reps

and to keep power and to put obstacles in your way to get people to kiss their butts, to have them get to yes from no. That's their incentive. What's your incentive as a parent? To get your kid a darn education. That's your incentive. Those incentives, ladies and gentlemen, are not even remotely aligned.

They're not even in the same cosmos. Do you understand that? even in the same cosmos. Do you understand that? So why would you give this person power over you if her incentives are to screw you over? It's not even her fault. I'm not talking about her decision to go to Puerto Rico. That is her fault. I'm talking about the incentives. That is simply the structure of human beings. They are rational maximizers. They will maximize their own benefit at your expense. She's not in it for you. So why give her power? Now, you know why I talk about things like school choice, despite the fact it doesn't poll even in the top 10 of issues most of the time? Economic choice, their economic incentives aren't yours. Their healthcare incentives aren't. You

want government-run healthcare because you believe with a straight face that bureaucrats like this, their incentives are to keep you healthy? You actually believe that? Why would you believe that? They don't know you. They don't care. Why do you believe that? I don't understand. A faceless bureaucrat vacationing in Puerto Rico or whatever, you think she cares about your kid's education and her fellow bureaucrats on the healthcare side of Chicago or Illinois or the federal government that they care about your health, your cancer treatments, your diabetes, your insulin injections? You think they care about you?

Why do you think that? I mean, it's almost delirious. All right. Let me get to my last story, folks. And I should have said happy new year and making a new show. Happy new year. I hope you all have it. Let's hope 2021 is better. Obviously the best of segment was really exhausting in the beginning. So I think I tweeted that out. Someone didn't get the joke yesterday. I was on parlor and Twitter and I was going to put on Facebook too, but I was doing the elliptical yesterday, trying to get a,

get a little sweat. I'm trying to sweat these chemicals out of me and not chemical. I'm not like a drug addict. It was the chemo stuff. And I, I put on a, on parlor. I'm trying to sweat these chemicals out of me. I'm not like a drug addict. It was the chemo stuff. I put on Parler, I said, here's my best of 2020 list with a colon at the end. Some people didn't get the joke. They're like, damn, where is it? I'm like, that's the list. There's nothing there. That is the Parler, the best of 2020. Most other people got it. It's been a rough year. Happy happy new year. Let's hope 2021 will be better. I'm always an optimist. Here's my last story. This will be up in the show notes too.

Folks, I've warned you about cancel culture, how cancel culture is not about and has never been about principles. It has nothing to do with trying to be anti-racist or anything like that. Cancel culture is a power play. People who can't succeed in a meritocracy, a capitalist system where you have to work for a living to get ahead and obtain money and influence and power and all of that kind of stuff in a meritocracy, people who can't do that because they're losers, what do they do? They have to find power other ways, typically through manipulation, chicanery, outright fraud, or attaching themselves surgically to the caboose of liberal movements and becoming cancel culture people because there's power in that.

The ability to cancel someone, how we think it's disgusting, but liberals love it. They find power in that because they can't find power anywhere else. Here's the problem with cancel culture. I'm going to get to this Breitbart story. And liberals, you better take note. Here's a warning for you. It is only a matter of time before cancel culture comes for you.

You may be thinking, not me. I'm a liberal. I'm safe. You sure? Why don't you check out this Breitbart story? Be in the show notes today. But ladies and gentlemen, there's a library of material out there on people who are, let's not call them liberal, but let's call them not conservatives. You better be careful that that library of material doesn't come back and bite you too.

Breitbart. Rapper, Democrats Ossoff and Warnock featured at a campaign rally, has a history of degrading women online by Ashley Oliver, Breitbart. The rapper's BRS Cash, I have not heard of him, Cash with a K. Don't know the guy. Never met him. Don't listen to his stuff. I'm not even going to mention what he wrote in some of his tweets because it's pretty gross and disgusting.

Involves treatment of women that, and by the way, it's not one of those things where you're like, oh, don't be a snowflake. No, no. It's disgusting. That's why I'm not reading it because there are younger folks who listen to the show. What this guy BRS Cash tweeted. He was on the stage with Warnock and Ossoff.

Like, hey, these are my guys. Is it a national scandal that this guy BRS Cash, this rapper happened to tweet some totally disgusting things about women? Again, I'm not talking about like, oh, you're being too sensitive. I'm talking about when you read it, and if you read the Breitbart piece, you'll be like, huh? Was on the stage with Ossoff and Warnock.

Why isn't it a national scandal? You may say, Dan, you're refuting your own point. You're saying eventually that this is going to come for liberals, but it hasn't because this isn't a national scandal. No may say, Dan, you're refuting your own point. You're saying eventually that this is going to come for liberals, but it hasn't because this isn't a national scandal. No, no, no, no, no. Ladies and gentlemen, these tides have turned, and this is going to happen soon. And why?

Because movements that are based in principles are naturally self-limiting, right? When you reach an endpoint and you reach that principle and that principle and that principles your movement eventually peters out and when i say peters out i don't mean disappears i'm confusing in it joe let me give you a hard example so you understand what i mean yeah straighten out when you see an obvious wrong i mean an obvious moral stain or blemish and you see movements develop around it j Jim Crow in the South.

People get behind it. They see it's a moral and ethical stain on our society. People get behind taking it down, which we did. You understand that? People understood that no sane society of moral and ethical people can exist with it. There was never any separate but equal. No one was equal in that separation. But the movement over time,

to end Jim Crow, the movement, not the civil rights movement, but that ended because we got rid of it. Thank God. It was based on a principle and a sound principle that this is wrong. There's no separate but equal. They this is wrong. There's no separate, but equal.

They weren't equal. It was no separate besides. There's nothing about separation that was ethically responsible or moral either. You get what I'm saying? This movement. Now a cancel culture is not that I just told you it's not based in any principles. We can prove it because if people are canceled,

according to cancel culture, because mistakes they made in their youth, then how is Joe Biden not canceled for openly campaigning with a Ku Klux Klan member? It's not a joke. He did that. Robert Byrd, the photos are out there. He celebrated the man at his funeral. So why isn't Joe Biden canceled? Because it's not based in principles, cancel culture. It's just based in power. What does that mean? And why is that going to boomerang on the left because folks eventually the movement does peter out because you run out of conservatives to attack because conservatives are pretty responsible folks and you know outside you're not going to have a library of conservatives to continue to cancel

once you're done with your library of conservatives to cancel, you have to move on to others. And then what happens? Well, you like the power. You like the ability to cancel people. I'm telling you right now. Market, January 1st, Friday, 2021. BRS Cash and others, you've been warned. It is only a matter of time before these leftists come for you.

All of those at library of rap songs we've had out there, dropping N-bombs, calling women the B-word, and the H-word, if you know what I mean. I'm not going to say it on the show. You know where I'm going with this. I'm telling you right now, you are not going to be able to run from that. You're not going to be able to say, oh, we were talking about the, I've heard this before, about how people talk in the streets and the rhythm.

That doesn't make it right. A lot of things are said in the streets that aren't right. The fact that you put them in a song and glorify it, it doesn't make it any righter. I'm telling you, once you start down this road to cancel culture, it is eventually going to consume everyone, them included. You need historical examples throughout human history? Look at every movement that started like this, right? Where eventually the movement consumed itself. You see it all the time.

What do I always tell you? Famous last words in the French Revolution, right? While you were sitting under the guillotine. Wait, I'm on your side. There are no sides in this. Because Joe, there is no, a side means there's a principle. There is no guiding principle to cancel culture other than the quest for power.

And people who do this and cancel people and feel empowered by it and strengthened by it, they love it and they feed off the notoriety. Look what I did. I canceled this famous guy or eventually going to need new targets. And I'm telling you, people out there in the athlete community,

the entertainment community, the music community, they're coming for you next. Make no mistake. This is just the beginning. All right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in and a little bit of an abbreviated New Year's Day show. I hope you have a really happy new year.

Just a couple of thank yous. I really appreciate my whole team working really hard for the whole year. It's been a great year for us. We finished the year this week. We were, I mean, to be fair, Ben Shapiro is always number one. He was on vacation this week.

So give Ben a shout out. We were the number one conservative podcast this fair, Ben Shapiro is always number one. He was on vacation this week. So give Ben a shout out. We were the number one conservative podcast this week. But thank you. It felt good. Even though, you know, Ben was on vacation, he had best ofs. So I like Ben. He's a friend.

But thank you. It's a real honor. I appreciate you being with me. I hope 2021 that we can continue growing the show. You mean a lot to me. It's been a busy year for all of us, obviously with the health and everything and everything going on with you at home.

I really appreciate it. I'll see you all on Monday. Good day, sir. You just heard Dan Bongino.