The Dan Bongino Show - Stupid Things Libs Believe (Ep. 2552)

Episode Date: July 14, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:02 All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You know, when I was doing some of my advanced work in my second law enforcement job back in the Secret Service, they have this thing. And it would say on the prompter when the president comes out, V-O-G. And V-O-G, that's more of a staff thing than a security thing. But I would say to the guys, I'd be like, what's a V-O-G? I was a new guy.
Starting point is 00:00:32 Like, oh, voice of God, like small G-G. You know that voice that comes over on the PA system? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. So I said to the guys today, I was just talking to Andy, and Andy's really good at this like AI stuff, gifts of social, all these little bits we have. I said, we need a VOG that we'll just pop in the show with regularly, make it like a regular thing.
Starting point is 00:00:56 You know, stupid shit liberals believe. And you got to fade out, like reverse vocal fry. You have to like fade it out, like V-O-G style. So Andy's going to work on that for us. I just thought because, you know what, this is a segment in addition to the gifts, air quotes of socialism, which are really curses and plagues, that we can use a lot.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Because a recurrent theme of the Dan Bongino show, me, is exposing stupid shit lives, lives to believe. So I saw this tweet yesterday. I'm going to put up in a little bit. I'm going to get to it in a second. That, no, not a second, but, you know, a couple seconds there. And I'm going to just show you how crazy these people are like stuff they believe you could look up just like that. You choose not to, but you could look it up quickly and you just don't want to.
Starting point is 00:01:51 I got that. I'm going to expose this Roe Kana, this fool. And I got a guest for you today. Ami Kozak, hilarious. This guy's imitations. are absolutely priceless. You probably seen him on X. He does a damn bon Gino imitation too.
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Starting point is 00:04:41 S-I-C special agent in charge. It's a term for a SAC, a boss in the federal government, Secret Service, D-EA, FBI. It's S-I-A-C. Stupid is a choice. Don't be stupid. Nobody wants to be stupid. Everyone's going to look at you and make fun of you, like we do to liberals. But stupid is a choice.
Starting point is 00:04:59 So don't be stupid. And definitely don't be Tim Walls. Tim Walls was the probably worst pick for a vice presidential, a major party campaign in modern history. And that's saying a lot. We've had some bad ones. We had Prel guy, John Edwards, and others. You probably don't even remember him. We have had some really, really dreadful vice presidential picks, some on both sides of the aisle. This guy, Walls, who ran with Kamala Harris, was the worst. Governor of Minnesota, I mean an imbecile of the highest order. This is what stupid being a choice looks like. This guy's the governor of a major state like Minnesota. So he's got this case in front of him. We're an alleged sex offender, very serious charges of abusing this young lady. He's got the choice. Like, what do we do? Is this
Starting point is 00:05:46 guy deportable? No, let's not deport. Let's not deport him. Let's pardon him. But let's not only pardon a guy. Let's give a press conference and say, I can't think of a single reason why deporting a guy like this would make Minnesota safer. I could think of more than a single reason, but not abusing, allegation, but whatever, not abusing young girls is probably a good reason. This is what stupid being a choice looks like. Check this out. I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a
Starting point is 00:06:17 country he has not been to since he was a child. Fox 9 reports Vang's victim wrote a letter to the board forgiving him and they say that was a key factor in their move to part of a thing. Folks, this is not, do you really want to live in a world like this surrounded by imbeciles and morons and sub-60 IQ idiots? The problem of Walls is he's not a sub-60 IQ idiot. He's actually really smart. He knows what he's doing.
Starting point is 00:06:45 He's destroying his country, his country too, on purpose. Stupid is a freaking choice. Don't be stupid. There's an easy way to avoid being stupid. The easiest way to avoid being stupid is just to go and look things. up, it's not particularly hard. The problem is some of these people like Tim Walz are actually really smart and they don't want you to look things up. So they become charismatic messengers of bullshit. They become, you know, reverse Paul Revere's, right? The morons are coming.
Starting point is 00:07:19 These people are smart and calculating. Their biggest fear, and I'll address this later with Ami during our interview, is that the isolation from the truth, that's an essential component of gaslighting, to get people to believe bullshit. Black men are being unarmed. Black men are being mowed down by the thousands by cops. That's an actual number of people you can prove if that was true. You can look that up. The way to get people to believe this bullshit
Starting point is 00:07:43 is to encourage them to not look it up. Matter of fact, one of the components of gaslighting, getting people to believe untruths, is to, in fact, isolate them from the truth, keep them from the truth. Social pressure to not look it up and just say the talking point rather than do the actual homework.
Starting point is 00:08:00 This is what this looks like when calculating people try to isolate you from the truth. This Democrat Socialists of America, New York City co-chair, she went on Fox News. I don't know why just humiliate her. So I have no idea what she thought. I'm glad she did great. Now we can see it. However, she's asked a really simple question about border control immigration. This is not complicated, right?
Starting point is 00:08:23 Now she knows the answer to this question, but she doesn't want to give you the answer because she doesn't want to expose what stupid being a choice looks like, and open borders are stupid. It creates a massive magnet for illegal immigration, creates an incalculable national security problem. Open borders, like any moron with, forget sub 60, a sub 20 IQ can figure out, you don't just open the door to your house. You put a lock on the door so you choose who comes in and who doesn't. It works for a country too. Watch what she does when she's asked a simple question about open borders and illegal immigration. watch the deflection. You will see this common trait amongst liberals, socialists, progressives, communists.
Starting point is 00:09:04 You'll also see it with shitty Republicans too. They will never answer the question. They do this diversion tactic. It's a way to isolate people from the truth. The truth hurts when it comes to things like open borders. That's why they won't say it. Check this out. I really believe in open borders and not having deportations. That's just incredibly contrary to law enforcement and security. America has a really long history of welcoming working class immigrants. My grandmother and her mother came through Atlas Island and worked from Germany and worked as seamstresses. I mean, we believe that- But we have criminal illegal aliens in the country.
Starting point is 00:09:38 Don't they need to be removed? We believe that demilitarizing the border, that violent oppression of working-class immigrants who come here is not something that most Americans want. And I think the backlash to President Trump's policies really show that. Just answer the freaking question, Grace. Just answer the question. It's a simple question. It shouldn't be hard. But notice how calculating this woman's not stupid.
Starting point is 00:10:06 You can tell by the calculated tactical answer in response to a simple freaking question. Do you guys support open borders or not? It's a binary. It's a yes or no. Just answer the question. They can't because when the truth is ugly and they, know the truth is not popular amongst logical, reasonable people who are not going to agree to open borders, who are not going to agree to defund the police. They have to do the euphemisms word games.
Starting point is 00:10:34 And that's the way zombie lies stay alive. Now, I did not invent this term zombie lies. I am not a huge fan, obviously, of Bill Maher. However, I like to understand the left. And I believe, and I'll tell you, unpopular position or not, I don't care because it's true. I do believe that Bill Maher, although we share very few ideological components in common, overlap-wise, I do believe he at least makes an attempt to understand the right. It's not some reward. It's not me praising him. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:11:09 We don't need to do any of that. Forget it. Don't fall in love with people. Fall in love with ideas. But he went to have dinner with President Trump. I think he makes an attempt. He brought this up, this idea of zombie. Oh, look, she's not right now.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Check it out on Fox. They're covering this again from yesterday. Why, again, why do they all with the, every single time? Marr talks about zombie lies. You see that? Damn, fighting spills. You missed it. You got your trigger fingers too slow.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Zombie lies are lies that persist, despite the obvious ability of people to go look up and determine it's a lie. Again, thousands of black men are being shot by police officers unarmed every single year. You can look that up. How does this zombie lie persist? And it persists because of people like this, woman on Fox and others who isolate people from the truth and make people not want to do their homework.
Starting point is 00:12:04 There's about a minute of a segment he did on this. Again, it is worth your time. We've got to understand them because they're making no effort to understand us. Check this out. I want to save our country. We should follow the advice good liberals have given for decades and learn from other countries,
Starting point is 00:12:23 especially those beacons of progressivism like Canada, England, and Scandinavia. And I agree we should, as long as we're honest about the lessons we're learning, and as long as we're up to date on the current data, such as the unemployment rate in the U.S. is 3.8%. And in Canada, it's 6.1. And of the 15 North American cities
Starting point is 00:12:44 with the worst air pollution, 14 are in Canada. I'm not citing these stats, because I have it out for Canada. I love Canada and its people and always have. But I hate zombie lies. Zombie lies. That's when things change, but what people say about them doesn't. Folks, I can't really think of a better term.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Again, we don't have to agree on ideological components of why we believe in a political movement or not, but the term is quite accurate. zombie lies are everywhere. You know, hold that platinum thing I was going to do. Maybe we should jump right into it here. Here's a zombie lie. This is Mamdami, the communist mayor of New York City.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Saying something so ridiculous, again, you wonder how sane people fall for this bullshit every single time. There is this big, huge monster zombie lie out there that somehow socialism is more effective than capitalism as a system of order. organizing people into a system of government, that it's good for economic growth and prosperity and good for people. Sharing is caring. Barney the freaking dinosaur, we should all sit around and roasts moors and shit and sing together like that. Socialism's just sharing. Well, how come you don't share your stuff? Because socialism doesn't work because it defies the human incentive to take
Starting point is 00:14:16 care of your family and yourself before you'll take care of anyone else. It even works within your own family. Correct? You take care of your daughters and sons and spouse before you take care of your second cousin. Doesn't mean you don't like your second cousin. That is how God designed human beings. You can't fight it. But this zombie lie out there, as he refers to them, that somehow socialism has worked anywhere it's been tried, continues to persist because eloquent, charismatic messengers, like Mamdami and others, continue to insist the gullible people that this thing is the better system
Starting point is 00:14:58 and we'll show you, just don't look it up and don't ask us to show you, we'll just tell you, we'll show you. Here, this is Mom Dami here, bringing up this exact same point. Check this out. This process, I've been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist, Friedrich Hayek. If socialists understood economics,
Starting point is 00:15:13 they wouldn't be socialists. These past months have shown us anything. It is that socialists not only understand economics, just as well as the capitalist who came before, but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles. There is nothing fiscally responsible about balancing the budget
Starting point is 00:15:29 on the backs of working people. Okay, we can look this up, dude. You can just look it up. Matter of fact, ask Grock. This is a tool available to you guys and ladies too. This is not like a damn Bongino original. Oh, look, he's got this proprietary grok's over. No, it's out there for you too.
Starting point is 00:15:48 You can just try it yourself. Here's a screenshot of my phone after I put this. You can try and put it in Grok yourself. You think I'm making this up. Can you list for me successful examples of socialism based on economic data? No. No large scale examples of pure socialism that produced sustained economic success by standard metrics like high GDP per capita, long-term growth,
Starting point is 00:16:10 innovation, or broad per prosperity comparable to advanced market economies. It's right there. It's right there. How in the era of instant information, exchange, the internet, a global economy, X, Grock, Gemini, chat, GAPT, anthropic, open AI, information at your fingertips. You've got them too, unless you're missing hands. I feel bad for you. Ask someone else to do it. Use Siri voice activation, whatever it may be. It's probably didn't kick off on my phone. Go ask Amazon's Alexa thing. Just ask them the same question. Why do you believe the lie? The answer is,
Starting point is 00:16:48 because you want to. You want to believe the lie. But isn't that more indicative of your deficit in kind of character than anyone else around you? You could look up the truth. You just choose not to. This is the tweet I was talking about yesterday. And this is a show, you know, I know, I say in this business you're excited about shows
Starting point is 00:17:15 a lot because you are is what I do for a living. I had to have been really excited to cover this because I saw this tweet yesterday and I thought this is the liberal summed up. You know what? Before we get to it, I'm just going to take a quick break here because I'm going to go through this. But this is from Midwestern Patriot
Starting point is 00:17:31 at MW Patriot Zero One about verifiably false things almost every progressive believes. They're verifiably false and they are easy to look up. You can do it yourself. Why do people choose to believe this stuff? Syak, kids. Stupid is a choice.
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Starting point is 00:19:00 It's a dot-net address at Americanfinancing.net slash Bongino. Americanfinancing. Dot net slash Bongino. Thank you, American financing. We appreciate it. So back to the tweet. This is what, this is a great, fantastic list by Midwark Western Patriot of stupid shit liberals believe VOG.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Thousands of unarmed black men are killed by the police every year. There's a transgender genocide happening right now in the U.S. Most black people don't know how to get an ID for voting. Real socialism hasn't been tried. The top 1% don't pay tax or pay very little. Progressive movement was responsible for ending segregation. Most of the Democrats down south changed parties in the 60s or 70s. Al Gore requested in 2000, a full statewide recount in Florida.
Starting point is 00:19:51 That one drives me crazy. Trump is a convicted rapist. Trump called white supremacist fine people in Charlottesville in 2017. So I thought, I'll do you libs of favor, okay? Because you don't want to look it up because stupid is a choice and you've isolated yourself from the truth because it's more comfortable to believe in these ridiculous ideas and hate a group of people based on fallacies
Starting point is 00:20:11 that is to do actual homework. We did it for you in the Dan Bonino show. I'll accept your gratitude later. You're welcome. Throw this up. So we put it up on the screen here. And here's a fact check of each of these 10 points from the ex post by Midwestern Patriot. First, thousands of unarmed black men are killed by the police every year. How many times have you heard this? I mean, listen, I got to tell you, if I'm black, you're running around terrified.
Starting point is 00:20:36 You think like some random cop is just going to show up and shoot you in the back for no reason because thousands of people are being mowed down. I'm concerned about any police use of force incident. I'm a civil libertarian. We had a robust process in the NYPD, Secret Service. In the FBI, we made sure it's a very serious thing to use force. However, this is not true. Verdict, false.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Police fatally shoot roughly 1,000 people per year in the U.S. and are killed at a higher per capita than whites, but the absolute number of unarmed victims are far lower. Over 2016 to 2022, there were 118 fatal shootings of unarmed black people. Total unarmed fatal shootings across all races are typically in the range to 50 to 100. thousands will require orders of magnitude of exaggeration. Disproportionate rates exist and warrant scrutiny, but the scale claimed is not supported by the data.
Starting point is 00:21:25 You can just look that up. It doesn't say it's not an issue. It doesn't say it's not a problem. It doesn't say it's not worth scrutiny. It just says, like, if you're going to claim that this is the number to exaggerate a problem, you're probably not going to get a solution to the problem because the problem you're saying exists at that level doesn't exist.
Starting point is 00:21:47 You just made that up. Here's another one. There's a transgender genocide. False, exaggerated, hyperbolic. It has a very specific meeting. Annual murders of transgender, gender diverse people in the U.S. are tracked in the low dozens. Folks, again, no one's suggesting that transgender people that they should suffer any violence or there's a genocide,
Starting point is 00:22:11 meaning they're being exterminated in mass, because of their transgender claim status? That's just not true. You can go and look it up, bro. It's not hard. The answer's right there. It's right there on the show. You can pause that screenshot
Starting point is 00:22:25 and you can even do it yourself. All right. So that's two out of ten. Two out of ten, maybe the other eight are correct. Most black people don't know how to get an ID. You've heard this often. We can't have voter ID. You know those black people.
Starting point is 00:22:39 They don't know how to get an idea. I'm like, this is a... Justin's like, dude, that sounds a little. like racistcy, I don't know, I thought so too. I thought it sounded kind of racist thee myself. Verdict, false. Surveys and studies show disparities in possession of government-based ID, with black Americans more likely than whites to lack one.
Starting point is 00:22:59 However, this does not mean most black ID or don't know how to get one. There's a way to figure this out. You can just ask black people, do you know where to get an ID? Ami Horowitz did a whole video unit. You can just go get. one, it's not hard. They can figure it out. Real socialism hasn't been tried. We hit this one before verdict, mostly false. It's been tried over and over again. And as we just indicated by the prior AI query on socialism, wherever it's been tried, it has failed because human beings need to work and want
Starting point is 00:23:38 to work and add value, but they want to create value in businesses and wealth and go to work and bust their ass and be coal miners or engineers or pilots because they want to benefit themselves and their family and build a nest egg for them. They don't want to work for other people who may or may not want to work. This is not hard. You can look this stuff up yourself. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Every single time this has been tried socialism, but it has a 100% success rate of failure.
Starting point is 00:24:05 I didn't even get into the details. Tens of millions of deaths, collapsed economies and political systems, hyper-influenced. shortages, mass immigration. This sounds lovely. If you're a moron, if you follow the SIAC rules, stupid's a choice. It's also a deadly one.
Starting point is 00:24:27 What about the top 1% don't pay taxes or very little? We know all that's bullshit. The top 1% pay an average effective federal income tax rate of 23% to 26%. They also pay roughly 40% of all the taxes for out of every $10 of tax. is paid by one out of 100 people of earners out there. You can dispute that.
Starting point is 00:24:47 You can say I want them to pay 100%. It's stupid. You're a moron. It would collapse the economy tomorrow. But at least you wouldn't be lying. You can look this up. It's right there, brothers and sisters. This one's hilarious.
Starting point is 00:25:02 The progressive movement was responsible for ending segregation. Are you shitting me? Do you know the history of the Republican Party? The Republican Party, founded in one of its bedrocks was destroying the slavery abomination in the United States. This is like history. It's not even 101. Like 101 suggests you have to get into school to figure it out because it's an organized class.
Starting point is 00:25:25 History 101. This is like just history. Like this is like Google, Grock, anything else, you can just put this in a search. Is Bing still a thing? I don't even know. Why was the Republican Party founded? Did the Democrats end segregation? Ladies and gentlemen, keep in mind what I'm?
Starting point is 00:25:42 I'm not saying because I'm not interested in creating my own series of zombie lives. I'm not suggesting to you now that every living Democrat now is responsible for Democrats in the segregation at its era who basically instilled Jim Crow and supported slavery. That's not the case. They use that against us all the time. Oh, the founding fathers, they didn't destroy slavery right away. So we're all guilty later. There's no such thing as generational guilt. You're not responsible for the sins of your fathers.
Starting point is 00:26:12 I'm not telling you that that the Democrat Party now is responsible. The Democrat Party back then was the slavery party. That's just a fact. Anyone telling you this, like, oh, be proud of the legacy of the Democrats. It was progressives who ended segregation are totally full of shit. They're just making that up. This is the Southern strategy BS. Most of the Democrats down south changed parties in the 60s or 70s.
Starting point is 00:26:41 verdict mostly false oversimplified folks don't you find it a little strange as the south moved from de facto racism to being very diverse and open it became more republican you don't think how how does that even marry up with common sense what do you think the south is a bastion of progressive deep blue values right now are you crazy are you smoking the crack pipe put it down it's really bad remember that commercial we were kids they played on a radio crack is wows crack is whack. Put it down. Put it down. Cracks no good. This one's kind of wonky, so I'll just, but you know the 2000 election? Like Bush stole the election in 2000. Listen, I'm no big fan of Bush presidency. I think we could have done a lot more. However, ladies and gentlemen, Al Gore never
Starting point is 00:27:30 requested a statewide recount Florida. You can look this up and was never ahead in any single ballot count ever. How the hell Bush could have stole Florida when Al Gore never took the lead at any point is beyond me. You just made that up. Again, you can look it up. You just don't want to because you want to believe bullshit. A stolen election narrative with no evidence to back it up. Trump is a convicted racist. We know this is false. Goes into the E.G. and Carol case you, they just made that up. Totally not true. And by the way, the Trump team will sue you and they'll win. It's because it's not true. So promote that bullshit at your own expense. And last, the fine people hoax verdict false. We know it's completely untrue. He actually said the opposite, that there are very
Starting point is 00:28:16 fine people on both sides. He's not talking about it. He was clear to put that in there, white supremacies. He was crystal clear. Again, you could just look this stuff up. You don't want to because Syac, man, stupid is a choice. Folks, this stuff is exhausting, man, but it's necessary. There's always a third party listening. I know I'm not going to get through to any hardcore liberals today because you choose to isolate yourself. Stupid is a choice. You've taken that road along time ago. There was a fork in the road. Don't be stupid, be stupid. You went down to be stupid road. It's hard to pull you back. It's hard to pull you back. And one of the reasons it's really hard to pull people back from that fork in the road on the be stupid path is because as you're walking
Starting point is 00:28:56 down the road, you've got other stupid liberals on both sides of the road with palm fronds and stuff, like waving you down and like spraying you with nice cool water and, you know, giving you nice chocolatey treats and everything. Oh, because they want you down the stupid path. They need You need you down the stupid path. It's hard to turn around and go, oh my gosh, I could keep walking. All these people are fetting us and they look at this. They love us. They're anointing us with oils and everything.
Starting point is 00:29:24 They need you to be stupid. That's why you see people like this Roe Kana who are appealing to leftists. Because when you're walking down the stupid path and you know everything you believe in is a lie, you don't want to be the emperor as no clothes guy. And you don't want to be exposed for having no clothes on yourself. So we all pretend we're not naked. Look at that fine robe, that tassel. That's not a tassel and not a tassel.
Starting point is 00:29:50 What's so funny? Jess, I'm talking about a tassel. That's not a tassel. That's not a tassel. No one wants to do that. Because then they're all going to have to look at each other. Man, a lot of tassels here. A lot of tassel.
Starting point is 00:30:03 No one wants to do that. That's why people like Rokana are embraced. The biggest fraud in Congress. Folks, there are worse Congress people, not many. but there are AOC, there are, there are worse. Rashida Talib. However, fraud-wise, this cat is number one. I've never seen a faker biggest, like I said yesterday,
Starting point is 00:30:25 this is the fakiest of fakers up on the hill. The guy doesn't have a shred of human decency. Here's his tweet he put up yesterday. Again, with the Bernie Sanders bullshit, the million of millionaires, and baby we can't stand these millionaires, going after the millionaires, despite the fact that millionaires are the ones
Starting point is 00:30:41 who were financing this entire, tax base. Here's this tweet. Wall Street folks are celebrating Elon Musk for creating 4,400 millionaires. Fine. Did any of them celebrate Joe Biden or chips and all this crap for creating? No, we didn't because Joe Biden didn't actually create anything. Joe Biden is a parasite. Our barometer should be opportunity and stability for the majority, not simply wealth for the few. He is the few. He is the few. And unlike our awesome Marines, the few the proud of the Marines, this guy is the few, but he's not, this guy's an idiot. He, Elon Musk creates 4,400 millionaires.
Starting point is 00:31:23 He's mad at Elon Musk for creating wealth for people in this amazing company and series of companies must create it. Yet when you look up, and again, when you go and you don't isolate yourself from the truth and you go to like a chat GPT, is Ro Kana a millionaire, you get a very weird answer for a guy who pretends to hate millionaires. Yes, based on publicly available financial disclosures, it's very likely Rep. O'Connor is a millionaire. Some of the, now these are guesstimates.
Starting point is 00:31:50 I know this because I see this about me. But they're probably not that far from the truth. One of them estimated a minimum net worth of about $27 million. Minimum, with most of the wealth attributed to his wife, whose family is very wealthy. I thought that would leave this up and say, I thought that was a bad thing. I thought millionaires were, I thought this is the few, the few, like the ice leaves terrible
Starting point is 00:32:11 millionaires. However, recent analysis of his 2024 financial disclosures indicate that the family's reported assets are in the range of 99 million to more than 300 million. Folks, listen, I love capital creation and wealth, but that's a lot of money. That's a lot of dough, man. I thought, bro. Okay, you can get rid of it. I thought you didn't like it.
Starting point is 00:32:35 You're a millionaire, a coordinator. a high-end analysis, 300 times over, low-end 27 times over? I watched this thing one time, this was it a video on X, or maybe it was a post, and the guy was saying he doesn't wish upon anyone more than like $150 million because after $150 million, like everything loses its value. For O'Conn is high-end destination, he's worth twice that. Everything's lost its value twice. I'm not telling you I agree with that.
Starting point is 00:33:05 I'm just telling you the guy's full of crap. He's a total fraud. But again, when you walk down the be stupid path, when you took the fork in the road, don't be stupid, be stupid. You don't want to be the one exposed for your tassel hanging out. And you don't want anyone to scream. Look, that's not a tassel. So we all pretend in our progressive movement, we, not me, I'm not in it.
Starting point is 00:33:27 But you all pretend to be stupid together. A perfect example is here's Rokana on Platter, hat tip the Great Maze Moron X. Now, Roe Kana, like everyone on this show, knew the guy had a Nazi tattoo. And I'm sick of the Platonters. It's not even about Platonters. It's not the point. The point is, stupid is a choice.
Starting point is 00:33:51 They chose to be stupid, a lot of voters. Or when walking down the stupid path with Platner and being told, hey, man, not only is that guy got a tassel hanging out, but he's naked. He's got a Nazi tattoo. Like, that's probably not a good idea. They all chose to be stupid and blind as well. Watch this clip from Maze Moore, side by sides of Roe Conner's evolving air quotes, because he knew the whole time, he's full of shit, position on Platner.
Starting point is 00:34:16 And you say to yourself, does this guy have a genuine bone in his body? The answer is definitely 100% not. Check this out. He was in a dark chapter of his life. He became an alcoholic, and there were years of acting in ways that he really regrets. And he asks for grace and redemption. And he thinks he's a changed person, a transformed person. I believe him. Those years that he came back were not the best years of his life.
Starting point is 00:34:42 Most of us have not led perfect lives. Raise your hand if you have. I mean, that may be some. Speaking on the record about their relationship, she said he left an AR-15 lying around his Capitol Hill apartment when he lived here, told her if anyone broke in he'd rape them to show he's dominant. Said he could be rough, and she described being grabbed by her shoulder. She described him pulling her arm as she was,
Starting point is 00:35:07 refusing to get out of a car. He had shameful parts of his life. Then he came back. He started an oyster farm. He was on the ocean for years. He found himself. I will say I got that call wrong. And if there's some self-reflection,
Starting point is 00:35:21 it is that we all need to see the signs earlier of people who may engage in domestic violence. Look, I wasn't the only one. You had Planned Parenthood. You had Senator Warren. You had the entire Democrat Party. But I did get that call wrong. He didn't get the call wrong.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Folks in the chat, are you buying this bullshit? Please tell me no. He didn't get the call wrong. He understood from the beginning this guy had a Nazi tattoo and a questionable past. You don't think congressional folks with their PACs and their coordinated lobby efforts understood how bad this guy was. He knew the whole time. He's full of shit. He didn't get the call wrong.
Starting point is 00:36:09 I promise you, if Plattenor's polls hadn't started to tank, he would be saying the same thing. This guy is a fraud, just like this Abdul al-Sayed character. This is the next disaster waiting to happen for the Democrats in Michigan. This guy is probably going to win the primary for a premier tier one United States Senate race in the state of Michigan. He is a huge problem. This guy cavorts around with a bunch of anti-American lunatic. has a questionable path, a past himself. This guy, some of his comments in the past are abhorrent.
Starting point is 00:36:47 And he's another fraud, too. Washington Free Beacon. Just put up the story about this guy. So here's body, Ungar Sargon. She's been on the show before. She says, tremendous reporting from the free beacon. Medicare for all candidate, Abdul Al-Saiad's millionaire wife, doesn't accept any insurance at her medical private practice.
Starting point is 00:37:06 And you already know he's going to blame while lying to his team. APEC, the Jews did it. Here's the Free Beacon Report. Now, listen, I trust their reporting, Colin Anderson. It's not our reporting. But this doesn't strike you on the stupid path. Like, hey, man, that's not a tassel. He's walking down the path going, look at my gorgeous robe while he's sitting there naked.
Starting point is 00:37:27 Here's my gorgeous robe. Medicare for all. Everyone should have government health care. The government's so great at doing health care and driver's licenses and everything else. Everyone should have it. Hey, your wife doesn't accept it. I'm not talking about me, bro. I'm not talking about me.
Starting point is 00:37:42 I'm talking about you, Ro Khanna, walking down to run. We really got to go after these millionaires wearing his class warfare robe. Look at this. I'm a class warrior. And then he takes it off and they're like, hey, bro, it says tattooed on his chest.
Starting point is 00:37:56 I'm worth $27 to $300 million. Everybody's like, look, that's not a tassel, man. That's not a tassel. Folks, these people are fucking frauds. Do you have that News Nation thing about Platner and Combalt? Harris too that I skipped over before you play that one is important i want to show you this too how by the way this doesn't only impact us folks i'm not trying to help the democrats they're beyond help they're not
Starting point is 00:38:22 listening if they're going ab ab ab ab ab all they hear is charlie brown's teacher i'm not trying to help these idiots i'm just trying to warn you like these are dangerous candidates we do not want to win primaries these are dangerous candidates who want the destruction of the united states from the inside we have to do everything in our power to stop it some may be saying well good let them win You know, he's the worst candidate in the race and maybe the Republican in Michigan has a shot. Folks, no, that is not where this party is going. They've gone full psychopath.
Starting point is 00:38:51 And to the Democrats out there, they don't care about you either. This whole platinum race, right? You would think they would have learned from the Kamala Harris debacle that when you try to shove a substandard candidate down people's throats like Kamala Harris, the bus, the wheels on the school bus are going round. We don't want to be burdened by the mistakes.
Starting point is 00:39:09 You just said that five minutes ago. Oh, sorry, it's a number. the prompter again. The woman was an idiot. You're the border czar. You haven't gone to the border. I haven't gone to Europe either. Are you the Europe czar? No, I'm not. So who gets this shit about you? That's not the question we asked you. Kamala Harris was legitimately stupid. Kana's not stupid. That DSA chair, New York City on Fox isn't stupid. Plattner wasn't stupid either. Kamala Harris was genuinely dumb. So the Democrat Party at the time decided when spaghetti brains went down.
Starting point is 00:39:42 They decided to shove Kamala Harris down everybody's throat. And even the Democrat voters didn't like it. She got absolutely destroyed. Now, you would think they would learn the, if you're missing a live show, you're missing an opportunity to win the weekly contest. You're also missing Justin's little, like, thingies. He tore us in there.
Starting point is 00:40:03 The school box goes right, right, right. There it is. Sorry, everything goes in reverse. Can we do that one more time? I just want to see it one more time. I got to go the opposite way. I need to. The school bus goes right.
Starting point is 00:40:20 The Democrats hate it. And they're doing it again with Platner. Democrats, listen to me. Stop being isolated from the truth and choosing stupid. Your party hates you too. They don't give a shit about what you think at all. They are going to shove a candidate down to your throat, Maine, despite the fact you picked the other guy, however vile he was,
Starting point is 00:40:40 and they don't care. They have learned nothing because they don't want to learn. anything because they choose stupid and they don't want to be told it's not a tassel. Check this out. How do progressives and establishment Democrats avoid a messy internal battle over the replacement nominee with so little time on the clock? Well, this is such an important race because I think a lot of people have pointed out the fact that this looks reminiscent of what happened in different ways, but with Kamala, that somebody was basically suggested and ordained into an opportunity without out there being a runoff and a race and proper voters opinion on who should be the person.
Starting point is 00:41:18 I mean, the voters did pick Grand Platiner, and unfortunately all the surrounding drama led him to dropping out of the race. They don't care. Democrats, I'm not your friend. We're pretty clear on that, correct? But to sane Democrats out there, sane Democrats, it's a shrinking crew, but they're still there. I'm not your enemy either.
Starting point is 00:41:38 I'm a citizen like you are. Do you understand? Like, your party hates you, too, correct? we've had our own revolt within our party on principles. It was called the Tea Party Rebellion, and it actually worked. It dragged our party back to sanity. You claiming like some people have on the left, well, this is our own Democrat version of a Tea Party.
Starting point is 00:42:01 Bullshit. We actually have some successes. We had the BCA, which led the, and by the way, the Tea Party was the precursor to the MAGA revolution. passionate grassroots back, more attention to working folks. We still have people in Congress. We still have Rand Paul. We have Ted Cruz.
Starting point is 00:42:22 We have Mike Lee. We have others. We have a lot of House of Representatives members. This is a rebellion for what? Fake tassels, if you know what I mean? Because nothing you say is true. We just expose you guys with the tweet. Every single idea you've gassed let your people into believing that some, you know,
Starting point is 00:42:40 big anchor moment for your part. Rich don't pay taxes. Cops are shooting a bunch of unarmed black men. It's all bullshit. That's not a revolution for truth. That's a revolution of lies. And to distract you, one of the tools they always use. What is it?
Starting point is 00:42:54 Some of you in the chat note, this is just, and the suckers fall for it every single time. It's freaking exhausting, exposing this stuff. The second people start to wake up and start to look things up, like, really, did the Democrats, when their party, was their party founded on destroying slavery? No, their party was determined to keep. All of a sudden, you see this wake-up moment that Donald Trump did this.
Starting point is 00:43:18 He broke a lot of people from the doldrums out. They brought him out and, like, shook him. And they finally, like their eyes opened up, clockwork orange style. What happens after that? The Democrats always cry the same thing. What do they do? Yes, who just said it? Squatch mom.
Starting point is 00:43:36 You're a race. They do it every time. And suckers fall for this. Stupid people fall for this. There it is. We're racist. No dims here. There you go.
Starting point is 00:43:48 This is why I love the show. It's like a big interactive voice. Like a big family here. Here's representative, Gabe Vasquez, claiming that outdoor spaces in the United States, outdoor spaces, you know, like Yellowstone and stuff like you've been in the news. You saw the whole bison video with the guy. I hope that guy's okay, man.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Don't mess with the bison. I've been to Yellowstone. Don't get up close to wild. to wildlife. It's just never a good idea. I made that mistake with the bear thing. I told you the story the other day. Folks, anybody can go to Yellowstone. There's no sign up at the front, white people only. I check, Justin, I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal, correct? Not to mention unethical, highly immoral, and very evil. I haven't seen that. Have you guys been to Yellowstone or any national park? Do you ever seen only white people outside? You have not. He's like, no, I haven't seen that.
Starting point is 00:44:39 That doesn't matter. Here's Rep Gabe Vasquez. This is how you keep people on the stupid path. Fork in the road, don't be stupid, be stupid. How does so many people wind up on the stupid path? Because they're angry because they're told that outdoor spaces are just too white. This was a real thing. This actually happened.
Starting point is 00:44:56 Check this out. Spaces that have been traditionally wide will no longer be white. Secret spots will no longer be secret. And hunters and anglers and hikers and everybody in between will look different. And so not only should you be okay. with that. Not only should you tolerate that, but you should embrace that and you should welcome a new set of outdoor users with open arms. Is anybody not embracing a set of outdoor users with open arms? I mean, this guy just made this problem up. This is like a new problem we're going to have
Starting point is 00:45:28 to put in our stupid shit, libs, bullet. That black, Hispanic, Asian people and minority groups somehow don't like outdoor spaces? You know, I, folks, I want to say something so bad. I, yeah, Justin's like, I campaign for office. He's at an outdoor space? All right, it's a green screen.
Starting point is 00:45:58 Robert Reich. I campaign for office. I like to do stuff, okay? I'm like a nomad. I bounce around. I ran for office. I enjoyed it. I had a good time.
Starting point is 00:46:09 It didn't work out, but I really did. I loved it. I met so many people. I learned so much about other people and myself. You run for office, stir your name on a ballot, good for you. Either party. It takes a lot of balls to do that, right? I campaigned in Maryland.
Starting point is 00:46:23 The state of Maryland, you can look it up yourself. Don't take my word for it. Has a really significant large population of minority voters, both black and Hispanic, Baltimore, Prince George's County, other counties around Maryland. I went to a ton of outdoor spaces on weekends, get-togethers, barbecues, They had like sorority fraternity things where they would throw out and they would let people like talk.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Even if they were like get together like college alumni associations. Folks, I promise they were not all white. Like this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. It's like the people who say stuff like this like rep Gabe Vasquez. Has he ever actually been out campaign? How did he win his seat? I could give you. Where's that?
Starting point is 00:47:11 You know, you guys have never met this guy. Brandon, you know who you are. He was one of my best campaign volunteers. You can vouch for me on this, correct? We went to a ton of outdoor events with people in outdoor spaces. Okay. Don't be stupid. Stupid is a choice.
Starting point is 00:47:32 You don't have to make that choice. You can make the choice. I don't want to be dumb. All right, folks, switching gears, but this is really important. I want to get to this story, especially given my background on this, the magnitude of leaks. emanating from people who like ticks have still buried themselves in the administration. They're not easy to find.
Starting point is 00:47:55 They're not impossible, but they're not easy to find because what happens in the federal government is a lot of people have access to information, sometimes in the thousands. Now, as the information makes itself up the hierarchy and a limited number of people see it, obviously the more sensitive information is, the less people see it. I mean, it's fairly obvious. it's a little bit easier to figure out who may have done it. However, when you get to information, that's a national security information and is pretty widely disseminated, it's really difficult to find out who leaked it.
Starting point is 00:48:29 The leak about President Trump and the flight back home on Air Force One from Turkey was inexcusable, inexcusable. And people are sincerely pissed about it and should be. Who knows what else leaked out? It's like the countermeasures on Air Force one leak out, too. Like this is a really serious story. This, I think, is going to be the line going forward where within the bounds of the Constitution and the law,
Starting point is 00:49:00 they're going to have to go all in on this because you can't have this information. And the reason I bring it up is Secretary War has been doing a great job. He's pretty pissed off too. Secretary Pete Hague said he put out a video yesterday about a new task force. They're starting with the FBI about this specific stuff, leaks of national security information from the military. It's about time. It's definitely about time.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Like this, it's going to be a lot of effort. It's going to take up a lot of manpower. But you can't run a government like this. Check this out. It's critical that we provide the Department of Justice and other partners in federal law enforcement, including the FBI, with actionable information as quickly as possible. And that's why the Department of War and the Department of Justice have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute leaker. I'd like to thank acting Attorney General Blanche for his help in this important project. I'm proud that our departments are working together closer than we have ever before, committing manpower and new resources to protect our warfighters and their operations.
Starting point is 00:50:01 We were doing this for a while. I know with the Pentagon, with far more employees, it's really, really difficult. I get it. You know, the media has been beaten up cash forever. and attacked us too for, you know, going after leakers early. We just don't care. Like, we're not interested in your opinion. They're sensitive information.
Starting point is 00:50:22 And you're not an authorized media representative. The rules are clear. By the way, Pete's been doing an amazing job. The Pentagon and the Department of War is a huge, huge enterprise. Huge enterprise. And I vouch for Pete early. I think he's doing an amazing job. And I'm going to tell you, we've been talking about the Republican bench.
Starting point is 00:50:42 The Democrat bench is absolute shit. You got Roe Kana. Total garbage. AOC. I mean, these people are just idiots who chose stupid a long time ago. Gavin Newsom, hair gel guy. I mean, these guys run in a failed state of California. J.B. Pritzker running the failed state of Illinois.
Starting point is 00:50:56 People can't get out of there quick enough. Like, their bench is really thin, right? Our bench is fantastic. You got Pete out there. Pete's name doesn't come up that much. And I have not addressed politics with him at all. He's busy. I don't like call him.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Hey, Pete, how do you feel? But I think Pete Hague said this kind of like one of the, I think Scott Besson's another one, like with these kind of ninjas and the administration, ninjas with politics, where if they wanted to come out and run, they could make a real dent.
Starting point is 00:51:23 Pete's one of them. You saw yesterday another just incredible moment as, and this is the reason I bring this up in terms of Hanks'S leadership and the new Department of Warren to President Trump. Folks, we work with them a lot on a lot of things, counterintelligence, counterterrorism cases. They're obviously the action arm
Starting point is 00:51:40 of our military, obviously. So we had a good relationship with the Department of War over there. We would meet with them a lot. There are tons of change agents over there, Pete brought in. And one of the things you saw yesterday, play this on VO if you could. The use of unmanned basically underwater drones,
Starting point is 00:51:59 or in this case, on-water drones. Did you see this video against this Iranian base? Folks, this is the kind of stuff. They moved at light speed, man. When I was there, like the whole drone thing, whether they were underwater, whether they were in the aerial, whether it was land-based drones. I mean, they are moving at light speed.
Starting point is 00:52:17 I'm going to tell you, as the enemies of the United States proliferate and start mouthing off and screaming death to America more, more. If they want to unleash hell, they will. And it's not going to end well for you because he's just showing you a sliver of what they're capable of. Another rock star in the administration is Rubio. Folks, I've warned you over and over. Do not fall prey to this dumbing down of the United States and our Constitutional Republic,
Starting point is 00:52:44 the finest governing system in the history of planet Earth, into this globalist bullshit. Well, we should submit ourselves to things like the International Criminal Court. That's some bullshit right there to get some crazy communist in whatever, some Kriplakistan country judging our soldiers
Starting point is 00:53:03 for a war theater exercising. No thanks. That's a stupid choice that will result in the destruction of the United States. We're not about, the international criminal court because we have courts. They're called U.S. courts and the military has its own system of justice. I told you, Rubio's been kicking ass and taking names too.
Starting point is 00:53:24 Check out this piece in the Wall Street Journal. Now he's like, you know what, with this ICC, you can take it and stick it up your ass. Justin's like, that's not really in the title. Well, it's close. Wall Street Journal opinion, Marco Rubio, why we're dismantling the ICC. America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution. Yes, Marco Rubio. Yes, Marco Rubio.
Starting point is 00:53:47 Thank you. You are correct. Why would we submit ourselves to the Kriplakistani system of justice? Why would we do that? The answer is only stupid people would do it because they believe in a dumbing down egalitarianism that we should all be equally tyrannical and stupid. No, we shouldn't.
Starting point is 00:54:09 You do that on your own. Bernie Sanders, you want to submit yourself, to judgment to the Krapakistani ICC member go ahead have fun brother leave the United States renounce your citizenship say I want to subject myself to the ICC I'm not doing that and neither are members of our military putting their asses on the line overseas
Starting point is 00:54:27 having to worry about the Kri-Pakistani guy at the ICC no good should I play this video next it's kind of hey just so we're clear I debated playing this but it is the all-star game tonight I got Ami Kozak coming up in a minute great interview I really debated play, but I, it's a make America kind of funny again moment, but it's not funny, but I can't stop laughing at it. So I think this may be an indictment of me.
Starting point is 00:54:59 I may be showing some character floor here. And unlike most hosts that lie to you and tell you how great the whole talk, I mean, I just got to tell you the truth. I couldn't stop laughing about this last night. I said this to the guys, the All-Star Games tonight. I love baseball. But, you know, when you're playing baseball, you got to be very careful, especially about the tassel.
Starting point is 00:55:19 You like how I fit that in there? You know what I mean? It kind of hurts if you get hit in the tassel region, especially with a baseball that feels like a freaking rock. I feel really bad for this guy, but I got to tell you, I laugh. I shouldn't laugh, but I did. It's a poor umpire.
Starting point is 00:55:35 Check this out. Listen to the sound effects. Oh, gets hit in the nuts right there by a foul ball one time. Oh, we gets hit again. This poor guy. This poor guy, someone give him a cup. Here he is that this is not a replay. This is the third.
Starting point is 00:55:55 Look at this. Listen to this sound. Oh my gosh. Stop left. It's not funny. Sir, I'm not, this is not this poor guy. I'm, what are the chances? What are the chances getting here?
Starting point is 00:56:13 No, no Muttlies. No, this is not the time. I have to be a responsible show host. I'm forbidding Mottley's in the chat. Now, because of course, I can't forbid anything because this is a show that believes in free markets, capitalism, a constitutional Republican representative. Of course, Streisand effects, saves no Muttles.
Starting point is 00:56:31 You're going to get a quadrillion Mottles in the chat. It's not funny. It's not funny. Sir, we wish you well. We wish you well. I hope the Tassel region. Why you put... What the hell does he have to...
Starting point is 00:56:50 Things like this Robert Rice clip. They just randomly inserted. I got Ami Kozak. Wait. Oh, producer Jim's texting me right now. Jim, it's not hilarious. He just texts me as, it's not. This is not funny, Jim.
Starting point is 00:57:10 Remember the old days, Jim? When they had the umpire thing, they had out with the shield, they would hold the shield. Someone get that guy a shield, man. Please. That third time, he was like, Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:57:26 I also have for you today, because you know this show, we laugh. We cry sometimes. Hopefully not often. We debunk liberal bullshit. But we also like to make you healthy again, too. I haven't played one of these in a while. Dr. Rhonda making an appearance. I told you about these exercise snacks.
Starting point is 00:57:41 You want to stay healthy? You got to get up and move. Here is our Make America Healthy again moment of the day just for you. You know we love you guys. Check this out. We see that people that do three minutes of it, The three minutes of this breathless, so it could be walking uphill for three minutes. It could be playing with your cat with your grandkids for three minutes, right?
Starting point is 00:58:04 Three minutes a day. So we're at nine minutes a day. This is where I get the 10 from. We're at nine minutes a day. Those individuals have a 40% reduction in cancer-related mortality, 40% reduction in all-cause mortality, and a 50% reduction in cardiovascular-related mortality. This is even in people that are not identifying as going to the gym and exercising. If you were to ask them, do you exercise them?
Starting point is 00:58:27 would say no, because they don't count those moments. They don't count when they're playing tag with their kids or grandkids. They don't count when they're, you know, going fast up the stairs to get to work. But it does count. Exercise and the way our body adapts to this exercise doesn't, it doesn't matter if you go to the gym or not, right? It just matters that you're doing it. Our guys do it. Everybody jumps into the 100 squats a day.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Check with your doctor. My name and having a heart attack, okay? I'm just telling you, you got to move. The body was designed to move. You don't move. It's like rust. You're like the Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man. You're going to get the oil out. You got to move, man.
Starting point is 00:59:02 You got to move. Trying to keep everybody healthy and laughing a little bit. Jim never texts me during the show. You must have really liked that. All right. You guys got our comment to the day. You know we have our 1776 club. We just want to give away money because we love you.
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Starting point is 00:59:40 Today's comment of the day is Secretary of Warren, the Secretary of Riz, although you missed the two. You got to throw the two Zs and the Riz. The Secretary of Riz. So we now have the Riz captain, correct, President Trump, the Riz lieutenant. I know. We're like totally Bogartin. Like the kids, the 18 and 20-year-olds are language now. Whatevs, man? It's like, sure, for charisma.
Starting point is 01:00:05 We have our Riz lieutenant in Secretary Rubio. And now you've got the secretary of Riz, Higg said. He's had the Riz for a long time. Very charismatic guy. We love Pete. There you go. There's our comment of the day. Last sponsor here, take a quick break.
Starting point is 01:00:21 And we're going to get to our guest, Ami Kosek. Guys, hilarious. We're going to talk about everything. We're going to talk about the grifters out there, too. The grifting. and the grifting bombs and what's the difference between the bots and how to see it. So it's going to be a good interview. Check that out. Hey, the stakes couldn't be higher right now.
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Starting point is 01:01:53 You know, I always say again, I'm excited about all the interviews. We don't do a lot, so I only try to bring you the best guess. And I got to tell you, this guy has been just an absolute, just a feast for me of laughter, and I need it, and he's really challenging times. Ami Kozak, at Ami, K-O-Z-A-K, across all platforms. It's got some touring dates coming up for stand-up. Folks, I'm telling you if you want to smile. Listen to him.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Ami, welcome to the show. Good to be with you, Dan. Thanks for having me, sir. So I found you on X. Someone sent me a clip. You were doing a Tucker. And I was like, my gosh, that is an eerie, eerie imitation. And then you did the Dan Bongino, which I got to tell you, I mean, I thought was amazing.
Starting point is 01:02:43 And let me tell you what happened. I'm sitting there. And I don't know, I'm like brushing my teeth or something. And you know how on X and other platforms on the 4U page it just auto scrolls? So I don't know what I was listening to. But I hear this other clip and I'm not really paying attention. I'm like, wow, I don't remember saying any of that. Like, is that me?
Starting point is 01:03:00 And it was you doing my voice. My wife didn't think it sounded like me. I thought I did. But have you always, is this like some talent you've had since you were a kid or something? Because it's really eerie. The rumor is that people at Turning Point USA put out an AI generated video of you using me. So that's what the conspiracies. No, the Jews did it.
Starting point is 01:03:19 The Jews did it. I've always done it. Yeah. I mean, ever since I mean, I grew up in, you know, a family that was a, very supportive of, you know, comedy in like the Borsh Belt Catskills Jewish community, which you do a lot of schick. You imitate your parents, friends, community leaders, teachers, all that kind of stuff. So at a very young age, I started goofing around imitating people and I would, you know, kind of channel their personas and get a massive reaction. And I'd be like, wow, there's some kind of
Starting point is 01:03:47 mutant superpower going on here. And, you know, I have a pretty good musical year. I'm musically trained and visually, you kind of get a sense of what, you know, everyone's got their own little key signature and style. And I was always able to crack that at a very young age. And it's done well for me. No, it's incredible. I've had so many people, some of your content. You got to get this guy in the show. I'm like, I know. I know. I thought of it before you. I'm like, I loved. I found this stuff. It's he's incredible. You know, one of the reasons I think it's important, though, is, listen, there's a lot of very serious things going on. You and I get that, whether it's health care policy, you know, the conflict in Iran, geopolitics, tax policy, economics, inflation. Like, it's all serious stuff.
Starting point is 01:04:25 and we all treat it seriously. However, it doesn't hurt to like when you talk about liberty, as was said to Walter Williams, like talk about it with a smile, like laugh once in a while too. But in the world of politics, as Saul Olinsky, the dreaded Saul Olensky is noted, but he's accurate. Humor is a powerful weapon because there's no natural comeback for it. And anyone who tells you when they're being poke fun at, they like it outside of a roast maybe is probably bullshitting.
Starting point is 01:04:53 So it's a really powerful weapon. to get people off and you use it like a surgical scalpel. Yeah, you know, it's funny. The impression I did of you was just somebody requesting it on the spot. So I hadn't really done it, you know, I kind of had the little bit of your range style. It's like these people, ridiculous people, you know, I started doing it like that. And then all of sudden, there it is. New impression unlocked.
Starting point is 01:05:13 So I was very happy about that. But I find that, um, I find that comedy has a way of, uh, being very revealing and clarifying because laughter in a way is a form of agreement subconsciously, because people do it involuntarily and we live in a world where you know everybody's reacting to things and giving takes but comedy shows it doesn't just tell you know and in the commentary at everyone's talking and giving you know different takes on things different opinions on things and making persuasive arguments or not such persuasive arguments but the reason comedy is so persuasive is it shows you not just tells you it's revealing something and if you're laughing at it in a way even if it's an
Starting point is 01:05:49 exaggerated form of something you're revealing something that is somewhat resonant and true and whether you hate the person doing it or disagree with their actual politics. If you're laughing, you're conceding the point. Yeah. And what you do through your, your bits, which again, are really funny. He's an ad-hami Kozac with a K, go check it out. Please, it's worth your time on X. What you do better than anyone is I think you expose using humor, this problem we have with this invasion of our movement. Now, the left has never believed anything that's true. there's the page up right there for those of you watch it live the left we did a segment earlier in the show stupid things liberals believe you know black men are being mowed down by the thousands by
Starting point is 01:06:35 cops you know uh the richest richest one percent pays zero tax like you can just look this up dipshits like you can look it up like it's not real you can argue about the rate they but that's just not real and it drives me crazy but okay see i get a little nuts like masks prevent COVID I say all the time. Like, if the mask was a condom, it'd be like every woman you had sex with got pregnant and you're still wearing, like, it doesn't work as a freaking prophylaptic for prophylactic. Stop believing stupid shit. What bothers me is people on the right or claim to be part of our movement are using this inversion of logic technique that's used on the left all the time. Where you have an answer, like this, a bank was robbed in Martin County. We know who did it.
Starting point is 01:07:20 We have video. We have DNA. You've done. taken a sea of facts and got an answer. The inversion of logic is flipping it's on its head, taking the answer and introducing a bunch of irrelevant, stupid, unrelated facts and confusing people. When you use humor, though, to expose that, it's like it hits even worse because you realize the silliness of the whole thing. Sorry for the long-winded intro, but no, that's important. I totally agree. I think it's, I think that's why the term woke right is actually very appropriate, because essentially they're both using the same mechanism of you know disregarding evidence and having conclusions that they've already drawn and then looking for anything in a narrative that can
Starting point is 01:08:07 support set conclusion so both sides on the woke left and the woke right are operating based on a narrative the woke left has decided society is racist uh we live in a patriarchy uh colonization apartheid all these kind of like buzzwords they use and then they look for any story that supports such a narrative and ignore, say, all the white people who've been killed by police or anything that goes against that because they've already got a conclusion. They've got a narrative they're sticking to. They've got a script. And on the woke right, it's the same thing. It's not controlled by white men. It's controlled by Jews. And any which way we can find, whether it's something that may be a true statement or an observation that can support a set conclusion, they're not
Starting point is 01:08:43 using evidence to arrive at a conclusion. They've arrived at a conclusion first and use any kind of random little tidbits information to support or come up with a pattern or come up with a narrative. And that's why it's the exact same tactic and really framework by which they view the world on both sides. They have a certain set of conclusions, a certain lens by which they view everything through. And so they'll just find anything that can support that rather than what logical, reasonable people do, which is look at a bunch of evidence and arrive at a conclusion, whether it's a convenient one or not. And so they're just using the same MO, the same tactics. And like you said, like evidence to the contrary is disregarded. It doesn't matter. So they really don't,
Starting point is 01:09:21 They're operating purely based on emotion, based on something that they feel is a, you know, a convenient excuse not to take accountability for their own failings, their own life. And I think what happened on the right was that, you know, for a long time, the right was united around being anti-left, defeating the libtards, defeating the craziness of the woke left. And then what they did was they used that victory. And now the victories of the culture with free speech. And now what do you do? Now you actually have to, you know, Jordan Peters says that you have to bloody clean your room, you know, and better clean. your room before you go out and try to change the world you know it's like well but the problem with that is when you win then you have to look to yourselves and say okay i can't blame i can't scapegoat the left
Starting point is 01:10:01 anymore for my problems or the uh oppressive free speech tyrants who are trying to hold me back now i can say whatever i want so now i actually instead of just rights i have responsibilities what do i do in that case and most people when it's a choice between blaming themselves and blaming others they seldom blame themselves and taking accountability's hard so they have to look for the next thing they can and challenge the next enemy, the next thing to go against the grain. And you can't go left because you fought them as long. So you just go further right and find the next sacred cows you can't talk about. And it's the Jews. And so it's just now an evasion of responsibility cuts both ways on the left and the right, you know? And you know what kills me about this is
Starting point is 01:10:34 you know, I know you do comedy and stuff. But we both know like where this goes is nothing funny about like this is, you know, this the Jews did it. The blacks did it. The Hispanics did it. The Asians did it. I mean, we've seen. It's not like you can. can't just crack a freaking textbook. Hey, is this ever happened before the mass extermination of people based on collective guilt? Nah, really? Try chapter one of a 50 chapter. I mean, really, bro, seriously?
Starting point is 01:11:01 Like, this is like we know where this goes. And that's why, you know, I've dedicated my life and my show to stopping all this bullshit. And I'm glad most people in our movement do. It's a very small pocket. There's a lot of bot stuff out there. It's not all bots, but it is. And the latest example of this inversion of logic and reason we've seen. A guy I can't stand.
Starting point is 01:11:20 I'm just being candid about it up front. I'm going to tell you, I'm not even pretending to be objective here. Ro Khanna is the biggest phony in Congress. He may not be the worst congressman. You've got AOC. I mean, it's tight. It's tight. You know, every year, like, he's always up there in, like, the final four of morons.
Starting point is 01:11:38 But he's definitely the biggest fraud. He puts on this, like, bipartisan, moderate act, and he's totally full of shit. Goes over to Israel. He's like, oh, my God. Gosh, look at what happened. The Israeli ambassador comes out, lists out like, hey, man, you know, typically in our country, you coordinate with it, like you wouldn't any country. Like, no one just randomly shows up here and just like walks into some sensitive military.
Starting point is 01:12:03 It's just so ridiculous. You did a little thing on him the other day. But this guy drives me freaking crazy. Total inversion of logic. Yeah. And I think, I think what's going on is, you know, on the Democratic side where you know, the sad thing about what's going on on the right is that in that victory that's kind of being squandered with the infighting and people who aren't able to like act on principle and the people who are abusing free speech and confusing the ideas of just because now we're more free culturally to say what we want doesn't mean there's non-judgmentalism. Free speech goes both ways. But with all that infighting, the left is very focused on political victory and they're succeeding at the local levels. DSA is making, you know, strides and victories. You have to have the people are looking and seeing. sort of the extreme versions of the left, the Marxist Mamdani types, and they're saying,
Starting point is 01:12:53 okay, we got to focus here. So there's this virtue signal going on where they're presenting it as bravery to be able to stand up to Israel so they can appeal to the Marxist left that detests Israel and America and the West, but they're saying, look, I can stand up to them, but really it's a form of cowardice in the face of the worst elements of their own party. The same thing happened with Rahm Emanuel recently. He's like, look, I can stand up to Israel too. So we You can vote for me. I'll be, I won't be, you know, just a coward in the face of Israel doing Israel's bidding. I can stand up to them. But what that really is an admission of is I'm too scared to stand up to the worst elements in my own party. So I'm going to say, hey, hey, hey, you know, whether it's, whether it's, you know, Rokana or all these other people who are trying to say like, no, no, no, don't hate me.
Starting point is 01:13:37 Hate them. I'm with you guys. I'm with you guys. Even though I'm a rich, elitist, you know, classic legacy politician. Like, it's sort of like the teacher who's begging the students to love them. You know, the substitute teacher comes in and says, pick me, trust me. I'll be on your side. I'll be on your side. I'm just as woke Marxist as you are, even though I'm worth $240 million. So I'll make up and manufacture some drama in Israel so I can look like some crusader who's on the same bandwagon as the people who celebrated on October 8th after October 7th in the streets.
Starting point is 01:14:06 Rather than calling those people out and drawing clear lines in the sand, the left is kind of doubling down. and they have a very much easier time sort of collectivizing because they're all into that whole revolutionary Marxist spirit. So they're all going to get behind one single idea, which is anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-America in a way. And that's what he's trying to appeal to. So under the guise of looking brave in the face of Israel and the democratic support of Israel historically to stand up to that, he's actually being a total coward in the face of, you know, really anti-Western, not just anti-Israel, anti-American elements in his own party. And they don't want to face that on the Democratic side.
Starting point is 01:14:41 So they're trying to make it seem like, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll go this way. I wonder how it'll work in the long run. But they're very politically focused. And they're, oh, they've always been wussies in the face of their own demographics of their own party because they're so desperate for polling and winning and victory. So the older Democrats are trying to be like, we're cool like you guys, like you young guys. Yeah, yeah, I can hate Israel too. Let's do it, you know.
Starting point is 01:15:02 And, you know, the almost like tragic, tragically comical part of this whole thing is, you know, I hear some critics, my mind. And believe me, I got a lot of them. And they'll say, oh, well, you just don't want to be critical of Israel. I'm like, you know, brother, like, just go look at my show. Like, I've done, gee, remember that whole thing we used to do on Ehud Barak? How Ahud Barak would talk about, like, leftist organizing. I mean, we did entire segments exposing leftism in Israel.
Starting point is 01:15:30 Like, I don't get any of it. That's just totally made up. It is nothing to do with geopolitics. It is everything to do with collective guilt. By the way, on my life, I would make the same argument. if you said that about black Americans. Like, well, black Americans, I don't like, wait, wait, do you know every black American?
Starting point is 01:15:46 No, you don't. So you don't actually know what you're talking about. You met one guy and you're extrapolating from one interaction about an entire group of people because of the melanin level in their skin. That doesn't work any different because of people's choice of faith. I've been very critical all of that.
Starting point is 01:16:00 There's a very strong leftist movement in Israel. That's quite dangerous, even in their own country, but dangerous to ours too. That's a legitimate criticism. But notice I don't go like, Damn the Jews. Like, that's just for stupid people. Now, just kind of segueing to this because it is related.
Starting point is 01:16:17 You know, you and I are on social media a lot. We probably do a lot of scrolling, show prep and all of this. You have to. It's our business now. We have to know what people are thinking and where they are. Not all, but a lot of this is a grift. You know, people ask me all the time, like, how much of this is bots? I don't know, 25, 30 percent.
Starting point is 01:16:34 Not all of it. I hate when people say Twitter isn't real life. No, it is. It's not 100% real life. But I promise you. There are very real people who really are driven by hatred and other things. But you and I are there a lot. A lot of this is a grift.
Starting point is 01:16:49 There are certain things. Like if you were to post tomorrow, you know, I'm Ami Jose. I hate the Jews. I promise you like you would get a coordinated series if we love you, Omi responses. A lot of it is a grift. But you know, you see it, correct? A lot of this is a grift.
Starting point is 01:17:06 You probably see it on social like I do, the coordinated response stuff like that. Yeah, I think it's interesting, especially what you said about, you know, people coming after you, like, oh, you just don't want to be critical of Israel. There's something, there's such an evasive maneuver there and something so disingenuous about as if the people criticizing you for that have only just been critical of Israeli policy. It's like, give me a break. You guys, what Israel's up against is annihilation surrounded by radical jihadist regimes that want to seek its destruction, people who are like internal within Israel and external. all these different regimes and entities that want to destroy it plus people in the west that want to see it dismantles and destroyed and you defend against that and suddenly it's like well why don't you criticize set policy because we're not having the same conversation it was as if like there was a person who was just being targeted in the street um and people were trying to kill this person at on all levels at every level constantly at all on all sides and you defend it against then you're like hey how come you're not criticizing his ideas and you're like well because the stakes are a little different yeah i can create you criticize the idea is that's for a separate context and a separate conversation. There's no one more critical of Israel than Israelis who live there. But what you're defending against is what we're all defending against is like a country's right to defend itself, a clash of civilizations, civilized people versus barbarism. So when you defend civilization somehow, you don't want to be critical of their policies. Being critical of their policies is a is a display of civilization. They're at war right now with something else. And so we're trying to protect a country's ability to be self-critical, to be free, to to be democratic. And so it's so disingenuous and people try to point to, look who doesn't want to
Starting point is 01:18:44 be critical of Israel. You guys aren't being critical of Israel. You're seeking its destruction. That's not criticism. That's genocidal radical jihadist language and talking points of manipulation. But back to your point about Twitter in real life, I mean, listen, I find it fascinating that the more these people double down and triple down and get possessed by this country, the size of New Jersey in the Middle East, you prove our point, you know, that, you know, you're not. You You're singularly obsessed with blaming Israel for all of these problems, for framing it as Israel dragging America into all these things, as if a country of nine million people can control a country of 300 million people,
Starting point is 01:19:19 the strongest country and economy and military the world's ever known. And you're saying it's the tail that wags the dog. I mean, you prove our point. The people who are Israel first are Israel's critics and haters, not its supporters. Yeah, it's, I mean, it's all they talk about. We're talking to Ami Kozak, Ami's house, this is podcast. He's at Ami Kozak across all platforms. has some touring dates coming up, so stand by for that.
Starting point is 01:19:43 You brought up a good point over there that I've addressed with my audience for the last 10-plus years we've been doing this show. You said there are some of these people you're going to negotiate with, whether it's about Israel, the Jews, tax policy, tax the rich, DEI stuff. A lot of these liberals, as we addressed earlier in the show today, they just believe stupid shit because they want to. It's not a lot of people, but there's always been a small subset of the human population, that will drink the Kool-Aid.
Starting point is 01:20:11 It doesn't really matter that the Kool-Aid's poison and the 10 people prior have died. They're convinced that when they drink it, they're going to go meet the unicorns or whatever. It's a small subset of people, but they're there. So you brought up like debating these people is useless. You're really not going to change their mind. But I think the reason you and I still do it,
Starting point is 01:20:30 I don't want to answer for you though, is there's always a third party listening. That's the purpose of your podcast and mine. That's the third collective third party. And when they see the reason, I think you and I in the logic we just displayed. Like, yeah, man, I've been very critical of Israeli politician. I mean, brutally critical if you just watch some of my shows, especially the leftist ones. And I don't think by any means, like Benjamin Nodh, Netanyahu's above criticism.
Starting point is 01:20:57 There's nothing to do with that. I think third party people hear that and they go, well, that's kind of reasonable. I could fact check that myself and just putting a search engine, Bongino, Barah. He's right. He's not kidding. Like, he's clearly against colloquial. collective guilt because it uses a weapon to exterminate people. So that third party listening is really important, but you're really correct in that you're probably not going to get through
Starting point is 01:21:19 to the hardheaded leftist or just the collective guilt people because they just hate and hates a powerful motivator. Right. And I think what it is is, I mean, it's always ironic because, I mean, the one country and people you can't criticize seem to be over the last three years, the most criticized, scrutinized people and state and nation state on earth and Israel historically. UN, the most sanctions and, you know, condemnations in the UN is Israel. Like, and they ignore every other regime and country on earth. That's so much worse. So it's just a funny thing that these constant people who say, you can't criticize Israel,
Starting point is 01:21:51 have built audiences, platforms, and careers off of doing just that. But what I will say is in the internet theater, you know, it's a more complicated, more nuanced thing because there's a lot of performative avatars of people that, you know, they put themselves online and people are sort of, some people are following it almost for the kind of sheer entertainment value of it all. You have your heroes, you have your villains. There's this thing they're watching and it's a concentrated minority of people that can make a lot of noise. That's the power of social media and you can manufacture this consent, this idea that look what everybody's agreeing on. Look whatever, look what's happening. You lift the hood and you find out that
Starting point is 01:22:26 some of it's organic, some of it's manufactured. There's like red pill account with this blonde with a cleavage that turns out it's based in Pakistan. So there's an element of that going on there. And there's this give and take. But I do agree with you that for the most I still am optimistic that there's a movable middle that is sort of watching all this rather impartially because people who are like taking care of their families and have jobs and responsibilities aren't following every last line of Tucker Carlson's most recent episode or like stupid thing that Fuentes has thrown out there or you know they're not as engaged at that granular level and we can kind of misread the room and say how well Twitter is maybe a reflection of real life or a sort of warped exaggeration of things and I still think you got to open tell the truth and speak the truth and combat this stuff because it can while it may be a concentrated minority and still a minority that might believe this nonsense and sort of their people who are sort of cult followers following it that's enough to sort of really have you know political consequences downstream in the culture and can change things and then you can find a whole population of people finding themselves under bad leadership bad policies in a culture that's been poisoned even though none of not everyone was necessarily on board even the majority and that's probably that's happened historically time and time again So you have to be on the front lines in combating it. And, you know, these concentrated minorities of people who are on the virtuous side and on the villainous side, social media kind of amplifies that. So, yeah, for that movable middle that's seeing this, I always think, you know, what's that?
Starting point is 01:23:55 The moral arc in the end bends towards justice or truth. I forget the phrase. But at the end of the day, you keep telling the truth. And even when it's not popular, a lot of times there's this confusion, well, you know, Candace Owens is popular. Her show is growing. I'm like, so what? What does that have to do with what's true and not true? The appetites of people following their stuff,
Starting point is 01:24:12 it's a lot of mommy slewed, sipping wine, watching a soap opera like serial killer drama. That doesn't tell me anything about the virtue of her show or the substance or the facts or what's valuable about it. So people confuse virtue and popularity all the time. Everyone's after it a little bit in this space. We're all building audiences, but the question is, what are you building your audience around?
Starting point is 01:24:30 And I think if you stick to building it around truth and integrity, in the long run, you win, even if you have short-term losses. And for them, even if they have short-term gains, in the long run, they lose. You know, I'm just an optimist, a hopeful optim. I always have been. I probably said the same thing. Twice, hopeful and optimism, the same thing.
Starting point is 01:24:48 I almost did the Ibram-Kendi definition. Like, what is racism? It's a racist-y-racist thing. We play that clip on the show all the time. So forgive me for saying that hopeful and optimism. However, it was really easy to gaslight people in the 60s and 70s and even the 80s when you had ABC, NBC and CBS. and if Cronkite and Brokaw and Jennings and Brinkley and others didn't bring it up in front of a national audience,
Starting point is 01:25:14 it just didn't happen. So the way to gaslight people and get them to believe things that are incorrect, one of the components of it, in addition to lying, but lying confidently and lying often, is isolating people from the truth. That's getting, and again, this optimism I have is based on this. Twitter and these other platforms have a lot of downsides. Hey, even rumble. You get people going, say,
Starting point is 01:25:37 crazy stuff. I'm a free speech advocate. You're allowed to say crazy stuff. As long as you don't break the law, threaten people, whatever, it's basically fair game, correct? But it is really difficult to say crazy stuff now and isolate people from being exposed for saying crazy stuff. I mean, because of the ongoing trials of, I, you know, I haven't had a role in it. I've stayed quiet. I think it's just the right thing to do and let the process play out. But it is getting more difficult to say increasingly crazy things like, you know, the space lasers are going to zap us all without someone going out there and going, okay, do you actually have any evidence?
Starting point is 01:26:13 Can you show us what you're talking about? Your thoughts on that? Yeah, I know. I think these things come in waves. And at a certain point, like saying the craziest thing you could say was considered edgy and brave and cool. It was sort of like testing the new waters in a post-Trump 2024 election. It's like, hey, Elon bought Twitter.
Starting point is 01:26:33 We're free now. we could say whatever we want. And so there's this like, you know, adolescent growth phase that like the, you know, the culture goes through where people self-correct for that and say, okay, before we couldn't say anything, we couldn't talk about any subject
Starting point is 01:26:49 without being called a racist, sex, sex, homophore, whatever. Everything was off limits. And now everything is on limits. Let's transgress. Let's be naughty. Let's say anything and everything. And if any criticism comes our way for holding such bizarre positions
Starting point is 01:27:00 or saying such atrocious things, we'll just use the free speech card. Hey, free speech. Hey, free speech. So it was an abuse and a misuse of the principle because free speech means we can criticize you back. You know, you can't just have it your way. So I think there was a, but I think that's getting very tired. I think people are like exhausted with the, the benefit of the conspiratards and people who don't base anything in facts, logic or evidence is eventually like in the beginning, it seems edgy and crazy. Wow, you're onto something touching all the third rails. I can't believe it. But when nothing ever materializes and you can't produce a shred of evidence or facts to back up what you said, Now you've established a pattern of bullshit and your credibility. It takes a little bit of time for credibility to wear out because in the beginning, everyone can sort of say, what do you want? What do you know that we don't know?
Starting point is 01:27:45 It turns out nothing. You just have dreams and make up things and are just off self-aggrandizement and audience capture and are just trying to do it for that reason. But it takes time for a pattern to establish by nature. So now they've seen the pattern. I think like it comes in waves. Everyone's like, okay, I think we need to get back to like, who do we really trust here? Who's actually providing material results, evidence that's making my life better?
Starting point is 01:28:08 I went through that playful, crazy phase of saying whatever, and where did it leave me? It left me alone in my basement still following a bunch of beta males online, live streaming a bunch of bullshit who have no wives, no family, no careers. Do I really want to model myself after that? A lot of the audience for this is like young kids who feel a little bit lost and disoriented in sort of right-wing victory. What do they do now? It used to be you had a common enemy and now like, what do we do? And I remember like coming across some of these groipers at Amfest and when you challenge them a little bit through the talking points and you you like you know debunk the script they're kind of left saying, ah, I'm like, you guys are all about being alpha males and successful and winning.
Starting point is 01:28:44 And I'm like, and all you do is follow these people who demonize success and successful Jews like and say it's all exploitation and, you know, it's the same thing that the left does. So people are going to have that kind of, you know, coming to the truth moment where they're like, I'm tired of this pattern of BS that's been like, you know, I kind of see. through it. Eventually, you start to go, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they start to, I think, self-correct, hopefully. That's my optimistic side to say, like, well, everyone's like, Candace has to stop. She has to stop. I'm like, keep going. Keep going. Because you're doing a good force. I agree with your premise there. 100% bad. It does take time to, you would think it would happen quickly. Like, you just say something so outrageous and people draw a red line and say enough. But it, it doesn't. I got to run, but I saw it with Rachel Maddow at MSNBC.
Starting point is 01:29:35 Like you can only tout the Russia hoax and Trump's tax returns. And it's coming like tomorrow. It's come. I've got you now. Like we're almost there. You can only do that so many times. But you are correct. It is not a plus minus.
Starting point is 01:29:49 There's a gradual kind of regression line. And eventually you get more people and more people. And then you're just left with like only the hardcore. Like, wow, that cherry Kool-Aid is really good. despite the dead bodies. Then you're only left with that crowd. And then you start to kind of, you know, Ami Kozak, Ami's House is the podcast.
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