The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Jan 30, 2021

Episode Date: January 30, 2021

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Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. So why is this GameStop story? Why is it an us versus them story? Because folks, the reason people are understandably, and me as well, really candidly pissed off

at the hedge fund Wall Street industry that's been funding Democrats and cycling people in and out of power in DC forever is because they have different rules than the rest of us. We have every right to be pissed off. And it's summed up incredibly in a piece in Life's Ed today by Stephen Pomper. And by the way, I saw this to be candid, open and honest, because I always am with you. There's an app called Meltwater and they send me an email every morning.

And when your name or a website pops up in it. So I found this article today because my name was in it. I'm not putting it in there, though, because my name is in it. I'm putting it in there because it's good. It'll be in the show notes, Bongino.com slash newsletter. Read it. It says, quote, No American unity is possible until people reacquire common American values. I have a screenshot I'll get through here for a minute, but this is why people are understandably pissed off at that retail investors who are using the Robinhood app got snaked by a bunch

of Wall Street hedge fund guys because the Wall Street hedge fund guys get to play by different rules. They short a stock for a company people believe in, GME, GameStop. They believe in it. They put their own money behind it. Whether they're wrong or not doesn't matter. It's on them. The Wall Street guy's logic is, oh, these people are stupid.

They're investing in a company. It's not worth anything. They're going to lose money. That's fine. They're free. Let free people lose money if they want. It's not your business. Shut your pie holes.

So what happened? As people are trying to either get into the game stop stock to buy more of it to defeat the short business on the hedge funds that are shorting it betting it's going to go down people are buying it betting it's going to go up why else would you buy it all of a sudden they get shut out of buying it on some apps out there that sounds kind of rigged doesn't it the wall street guys weren't shut out. In other words, they're playing by a different set of rules than the rest of us. Quote from the Lifeset piece. Glenn Beck and Dan Bongino have been banging a drum in a recent chorus that makes infinite sense. Unity is not possible

until the people of our nation restore our common values. Americans used to find uniting values in the principles contained within our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and supporting literature, the Federalist Papers, and others. Remember, the right has not changed their view of America and the striving to create a more perfect union. It's the left that's changed, striving to create a more socialist union. Amen, Brother Stephen. I've been warning you about this forever. And it's why the GameStop story isn't us versus them.

It's why the events of January 6th have troubled so many people like me who looked at that and said, there's no excuse for this. It should be called out immediately. It's not how we do business. And yet the left still attacked us. Look at the right inciting violence. How? How exactly was this show

inciting violence? How? Do you even watch my show or are you really that stupid like Oliver Darcy? Just go. I'm begging you on the left, the hacks that say this, to go back and view episodes over the years where we have repeatedly, multiple times, not to virtue signal anyone, but because I believe it in my heart and soul that the only path to a unified constitutional republic, unified in basic principles, not every single idea, there are going to be disagreements on taxes, on healthcare, on education. But we should be unified in basic things like free speech, the right to practice your religion openly, the right to petition the government, assemble and protest. Those should be basic ideas we all agree on. But the way to get any of that done is not through violence. I have said that repeatedly because it's right. And yet with the GameStop situation in January 6th, the left were the people sanctioning violence by Antifa and BLM, openly sanctioning it by in some cases saying, well, what's wrong with riots? These are peaceful protests as people were burning down cities. The left was doing that. to you that you calling us out over january 6th when we our principles have remained consistent i don't accept the violence of january 6th nor violence anywhere else and we've been consistent

on that it's you idiots that haven't done it and there's no unity going forward and it never will be until we can agree on that common set of principles that we should be talking out ideas not beating the snot out of each other until we we can agree on that unifying principle, there is no future. What, we continue to preach, as I've done in this show, nonviolence, while you punch us in the face? No, no, no. Stop talking about unity.

There will be no unity until we can all agree on a basic set of rules. You can't have a boxing match, an appropriate analogy right now, where one side comes in with a chainsaw, a knife, and no boxing gloves, and you come in with 20-ounce gloves and no headgear,

and he's trying to saw your arms off. That's not a boxing match because there are only rules that apply to one side. Wait, I have to box and he gets to use the chainsaw? That's not fair. Wait, the left gets to sanction BLM and Antifa violence? We call out violence everywhere and we're the bad

guys? Wait, the left gets to lie about collusion, Spygate, the WHO, coronavirus, Andrew Cuomo, Hunter Biden, chloroquine, Spygate, and everything else, and then gets to call us out for misinformation? Wait, the left and their hedge fund billionaires that donated the majority of their money to joe biden and the democrats because they provide a protective government cabal for them they get to sell their stock and trade their stock and buy their stock whenever they want but the but but the the mass the great unwashed masses like us we don't get to do the same thing and you're wondering people like on on on cable news and elsewhere are wondering why we were pissed off about this gme game stop story and we think it's an us versus them maybe that's why

because it is because it is an us versus them they have a different set of rules they do whatever they want and yet we have to abide by a separate set of rules. No violence is their fault, no matter what they do. Every piece of violence that happens is your fault, despite the fact that you've called for nonviolence and you had nothing to do with the actual violence. No, no, you've incited violence. How did I do that? We're talking about liberty, freedom, school choice, all that other stuff. That's inciting violence now. You are now a domestic terrorist.

Read the Greenwald piece if you don't think that's coming. One set of rules for the elite snobs and another set of rules for us. Enough of this trash. It will be one set of rules for all of us. And we are the ones on the side of that. And until we turn their rules back on them, they'll never change. They want to boycott, we got to boycott. They want to organize, we got to organize. They want to protest, we got to protest.

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