The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - February 11, 2023

Episode Date: February 11, 2023

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That's not the story. It's not that government lies to us. It's that they become so comfortable doing it that, wouldn't you guys agree, it's almost a shocker now when the government says anything that's true. Whether,

I think he's like, yeah, whether it's COVID, vaccines, masks, domestic terrorist parents, Spygate, Russia hoax,

Nikki Haley's drapes. Don't laugh. Look it up. Hillary Clinton's emails, Russian pipelines, biolabs in Ukraine, Zelensky, Ukraine, Wardy impeachment. You start to wonder, like, when does the government media big tech symbiote ever tell you the truth? It's like second nature. Yes. Yes. Yes, it is.

It's no, it's first nature. It's not even second nature. It's first nature. These mothers never tell you the truth ever. Now, I have this theory I've been pitching for a long time. You guys can vouch for me on this. That whatever the fact checkers who have become a representative for all these people, government, big tech, the fact checkers are used to silence anyone who tells you the truth. Whenever they tell you a major story is false, you sadly, I do mean sadly, I'd like to hear the truth from actual fact checkers, right? You're almost guaranteed the story is true. I'm going to show you what I mean today with this bombshell story. But first, governments now, again, as I

said, openly, comfortably lying to you using search, Google search engines, social media and fact checkers to hide their just endemic now corruption. You have been bought and sold. China owns us. You have been entirely sold out. They lied to us about the balloon and all of that other stuff I told you before. So Biden, this is this is really fascinating. He gives an interesting interview yesterday and he's asked about this China balloon situation where he let this spy balloon traverse the entire country and our military facilities and did absolutely nothing about it. They never told anyone.

And then they hit the thing with an F-22 Sidewinder missile when it was out over South Carolina after it had already gotten all the information. So he's asked about it, and he said, folks, there's nothing better than when Biden gives up the whole story and slips. And he's too stupid to realize he even slipped. Take a listen to what he said about this. The idea that there was a dereliction of duty,

I think is a bizarre notion. China knows exactly what the deal is with us. This is what Joe was talking about. Joe was like, dude, you got some interesting clips. He just gave up the whole game. What did I tell you on my Fox show Saturday night? That the China balloon story is only a story because it's not a story. They've been doing it forever.

And Biden just slipped. Hey, you didn't shoot this thing down sooner. You know, is bad judgment on your part they ask him no no no don't worry china knows yeah yeah china knows china knows they've been spying on us we know china knows and china knows we know and we'll do nothing about it that's the story here here's another one right here daily caller in the news do not miss the newsletter today. Bungino.com slash newsletter. It'd be important later. Here's how much U S farmland has been bought up by China. Oh, they note in the piece that, uh, they bought up the farmland near land used for military facilities. Oh yeah. That's a, that's fascinating. Sure. Nobody knew about that. Joe, it's not like real estate deals to create a paperwork trail, right?

I mean, you bought your house on like a grocery store receipt, right? Someone just signed it. Thanks, Joe. Yeah, that's how it went down. It's no paper trail. It's not that anybody knew about this. But Joe Biden just told us,

gosh, I don't want to be right all the time. You are months ahead of the news cycle here. China knows, Joe Biden said. Of course course they know they've been doing it forever the ufo leak from the pentagon when it first came out joe me i'm not saying alien life does not exist i don't know that i'm incapable if you haven't traveled the entire universe i'm simply suggesting you the government's version of alien life and UFOs is a lie and is a head fake. The UFO story in that Holman Jenkins piece was clearly an effort to get you off the China's spying on Australia with drones they've been using around military facilities. And look at this shocker. Daily Caller, past Chinese spy balloons were classified as UFOs, officials say.

Oh, oh my God. Oh, Elizabeth, I'm coming. Get me the nitroglycerin pill. Gosh, I'm stunned. Danger, Will Robinson, danger. Again, kind of sounds like something we told you. So now that we've established firmly that the government will lie to you about everything, the latest incidents of lying is the UFO balloon surveillance story.

And we also established that Biden's too stupid to cover up anything, as I'll show you again in a few minutes, because he just admits it when he talks. Yeah, China knows. Yeah, of course China knows. They've been doing this forever and they know we know. They know we know. They know we know.

And they know we'll do nothing about it. I want to dig in now. This is going to get heavy. We have your britches, folks. This is going to be a good one. Now, what I call the symbiote, if you're a regular listener to the show, you probably know already, but I'll explain again for new folks who are here. Symbiote is like, have you ever read comic books, that Eddie Brock Venom character in the Spider-Man series? It's this alien life form that takes over this human being's body and they work together symbiotically to fight crime and then fight themselves. And it's like an anti-hero

Venom, right? Well, the government does this too. It has a symbiote too. They work together to increase each other's power. It has a couple of symbiotes, Google and search engines, social media companies, fact checkers, and deep state bureaucrats. It's a symbiote. It's one big functioning organism that exists solely to protect the fact that people like Biden covering up for China's spying are completely sold out to China through his son, Hunter Biden. Now, why would the deep state symbiote cover that up? Because they're all in bed with China, and they don't want their grift to be given up either. It's no more complicated than that. China pays them off somehow.

Business access, money in some cases, diamonds, art sales. They don't want to give up the money. So they cover all this up. They cover up everything. And the symbiote works together to make stories that make the regime look bad go away. It was an absolute bombshell by Seymour Hersh, which I'm going to get to in a second at Substack, about who blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what happened and how they attacked the truth tellers in that story is a perfect example of how the symbiote

works. Let me just address this again. The Holman Jenkins story, where he addresses the second part of his story about how the government apparently can't find truth anymore and has become so adept at using false information to solve problems. In other words, the government has a problem.

They have to hide that we've been sold out to China, okay? So rather than tell people the truth, the Hunter Biden laptops have really been sold out to China, okay? So rather than tell people the truth, the Hunter Biden laptops really have been sold out to China, what they do is they use lies. And he goes into a number of examples here, Holman Jenkins. I suggest you read the piece, the Steele dossier. He mentions the UFO thing too.

This is what the government does. As Joe said, it's just second nature to them. They just lie all the time now about everything. Do not trust anything they say. Matter of fact, read what they say and you'll know the opposite is true. Remember when the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was sabotaged, an explosive device went off? The Nord Stream 2 pipeline goes from Russia to Germany. The reason the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was so strategically relevant, especially given the Ukraine crisis going on now,

is because other pipelines traveled from Russia through Ukraine and sent their natural gas to Europe through Ukraine. Ukraine got transit fees and got money from that. And also Ukraine, obviously, given that the pipeline was on their land, could have sabotaged the pipeline. The Russians didn't like that.

So they built a pipeline under the Baltic Sea called Nord Stream 2 that went right to Germany to bypass Ukraine to say, middle finger to Ukraine, look, we're going to sell this stuff direct. Now, Donald Trump didn't like the Nord Stream pipeline. Matter of fact, he spoke out against it often because it gave the Russians a strategic advantage in the energy space. Now, Joe Biden, interestingly enough, and their team saw the Nord Stream as a threat, too. They saw it as a threat multiple times. That's a fact. So when the Nord Stream pipeline was bombed, we had said on the show months ago when it happened, again, weeks ahead of the action, if not months, why would the Russians do it? Ladies and gentlemen, you know, we talked to a lot of people, and I'm not going to pretend there's some like deep clandestine sources that were underseas divers that did it themselves. But I talked to a number of people with experience in

the Intel justice, Intel, Intel justice and law enforcement space who said it makes no freaking sense. Why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline? What did the Russians get out of it? Oh, well, they could say the U S did it and bomb us. Well, they could just bomb us anyway. It didn't make sense. Now, if they're doing this in our name and we pay for our taxpayer dollars, with our taxpayer dollars for our military, then I think we're entitled to know what's going on. Or if you're going to leave it quiet, leave it quiet and at least don't lie to us

when we suggest, hey, we may have been involved in this. You get my point, folks? I get I don't need to know everything. Dan Bongino doesn't need to be briefed on every single classified situation. I'm not even, that would be hilariously stupid to suggest. I'm simply suggesting that me as an opinion guy, when I look at the situation that's now public, everybody knew it was bombed. It wasn't a secret. And I say, hey, listen, because this could escalate into World War III, I think we may have had a role in this that maybe just shut up and don't attack me as a conspiracy theorist when I'm right. Well, it appears from the Seymour Hersh piece that I may have been right. A bombshell substat called How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline. This thing set the Internet on freaking fire yesterday. took out the Nord Stream pipeline.

This thing set the internet on freaking fire yesterday. He notes the New York Times called it a mystery, but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret until now. More in a minute, but first, quick break. Again, today's show brought to you by Omaha Steaks. This Valentine's Day, fall in love with flavor when you save on delectable, delicious dishes and tantalizing taste from Omaha Steaks

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Visit omahasteaks.com. Use promo code Bongino at checkout to get that extra $30 off your order. Use promo code Bongino, B-O-N-G-I-N-O at checkout. Minimum order may be required. It's worth your time. Check it out, Omaha Steaks. Thanks, Omaha Steaks. How did they do it? Well, according to Hirsch and his sources, last June, Navy divers operated under the cover of a widely publicized NATO exercise, BALTOPS-22. They planted remotely triggered explosives that three months later destroyed three of

the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning. Holy. Really? Really. Holy. Really. As I said, it was pretty obvious we did it, but we're at least involved in it from the start.

You don't need to confirm that to me. Our military, you owe me nothing. But I would really deeply appreciate it that if we discussed it, given the fact that it's kind of important towards fending off nuclear Armageddon, that you don't attack me as a conspiracy theorist. But they just can't stop. Oh, this piece gets better. Apparently, in order to hide this operation, which is questionable ethically at best, for members of Congress, which, Joe, how many branches of government do we have? Three, I thought, right? Is it four, three? Three last time I checked, yeah. branches of government do we have? Three, right? Is it four, three, three last time I checked?

Yeah. Can you, it's three, three branches. Oh, so the, oh, so the president's not the, oh, there's okay. That's good. So there is another branch of government called Congress, Congress encompassing the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. So Congress is supposed to know about these covert operations, but the Biden administration, of course, because they make their own rules and make it up as they go along,

the Biden administration said, ah, screw that stuff. Here's what we're going to do. This is where the Hersh article gets fascinating. So apparently they wanted to use these Navy divers. Navy, which, by the way, incredibly talented. So hat tip to you all. Yeah, man.

But, oh my gosh, I mean, these operations. But the divers were navy only hirsch notes why does that matter they were not members of american special up american special operations command whose covert operations must be reported to congress and briefed in advance to senate and house leadership called the gang of Eight. The Biden administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place in 2021 into the first months of 2022. They were. They were doing everything to avoid leaks. That's kind of interesting. So do you get what they're doing here? If they would have used SOCOM, any special operations branch, our SEALs, these underwater divers, rather than traditional

Navy divers, they would have had to report it. So they didn't want to report it because the Biden administration are sleazy slime balls and they want to do everything outside of the rules, so to say, and protocols. So they're saying, oh, we wanted to avoid leaks. That's really strange because do you remember when Joe Biden, right before the Ukraine invasion, publicly said this? If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it. How will you do that exactly since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control?

We will. I promise you we'll be able to do it. Joe, they wanted to keep it a secret. Wow. It's like saying, I'm trying to think of an analogy. You know, you got a Super Bowl this Sunday. So obviously you want your offensive game plan to be kept secret from the opposing team's defense. So it's like discussing your first 21 plays on TV a week before the Super

Bowl. Then go, we need to keep this secret, folks. So Joe's not really good. Not Armacost, not Biden, that is. Joe is very good at keeping secrets. Joe Biden is not. So why do you say that? And then I'm like, gosh, this Seymour Hersh piece just nails it.

Now it makes a world of sense. Part three, Seymour Hersh piece just nails it. Now it makes a world of sense. Part three, Seymour Hersh's piece. I got to give the Biden team credit for this one. They are sleazeballs, but they're good sleazeballs. Like they're really good at being sleazy. Hersh notes that the plan to blow up Nord Stream was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation, as we discussed before, requiring Congress be informed, was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation,

as we discussed before, requiring Congress be informed, to one that was deemed a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. military support. Oh. Under the law, the source told Seymour Hersh, there was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. All they had to do now is just do it. But it still had to be secret

because the Russians have superlative surveillance of the Baltic Sea. Now it makes perfect sense. You picking up what Hersh is putting down? Biden probably said that on purpose, folks. Long

before they blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Why? So that they could go to Congress. It wasn't covert. We already said it out in the public what we were going to do. Again, they're sleazeballs, but they're really good at being sleazeballs.

The Hearst piece, folks, is amazing. It's in the newsletter today, bongino.com slash newsletter. I can't recommend in strong enough terms that you read it. He goes into exactly that, how Biden's leak of, which stunned the media that he would say this, promising that we have ways to take out a key strategic pipeline that connects to our, one of our international partners, Germany. Remember Russia was on one side, but Germany was on the other. Why would he say that?

Now you know. So he could, in a sleazeball way, not inform Congress of an operation that could set off World War III.