The Dan Bongino Show - The Golden Age Of Republican Politics (Ep. 2428)

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

In this episode, I discuss Kash Patel's confirmation as the 9th Director of the FBI and what it means for the agency and for America. I also cover the unprecedented level of success patriots are experiencing just one month into Trump's presidency, and how the culture has massively shifted in a short amount of time. Vance Optimistic That Russia–Ukraine Peace Is Coming Stephen Miller Vows to Mobilize "Full Might" of DHS, DOJ, and DOD for Mass Deportations SpaceX Makes History by Launching Rocket from Florida, Landing Booster in Bahamas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host Dan Bongino. You know, we had this long debate yesterday on the show and it spilled into the radio show and it's one of those great debates because it was never intended to happen. Now I got Guy doing the air squats too. Look at this. I folks, if I do 10 air squats before every show gets the juices flowing, now I got Guy doing the air squats too. Look at this. Folks, if I do 10 air squats before every show gets the juices flowing, now I got everybody doing it.

If you do, I watched this Dr. Rhonda feed on Twitter, Dr. Rhonda Patrick, she's really good with life hacks. She says, if you get up every hour or so and do 10 air squats, assuming you have good knees and you can and everything, that over time it has a real substantive effect on your body. That sucker works, man. Gets the juices flowing, everything even got ghee into it.

Do it. It works. It clears your brain right up. You don't have to do a ton of a man. Just bang those suckers out. So the best shows sometimes are the most unintended. And I did not yesterday intend at all to speak about this Carl Rove piece, if we should slow the winning down or speed

the winning up and take some victory laps. But it turned into this four hour debate. It was great. But now you're seeing why the rock-em-sock-em robots flood the zone, keep the winning going at a rapid pace is working. Folks, just a few months ago, we were told that if Trump wins, he's going to have a really hard time in the Senate.

There's going to be all of this Republican resistance to all his nominees. And yet what happened? Folks, Matt Gaetz left himself. He departed. That was it. Everything else has been, I mean, relatively smooth sailing. Hat tip to the Republican Senate for getting it done. I mean, you're always going to get your Murkowski and Collins holdouts. It's to be expected.

We've seen what they do, but we got cash through. So now you are going to see what real change is like. It's happening everywhere. It's happening so fast. It's like a celebratory moment that just never ends. It's like every morning you wake up and it's like, but what are the what's the thing they have like Boxing Day, right? And in the UK, is that like five days after Christmas

or whatever, I don't know, I only celebrate Christmas. But it's like Boxing Day every single day. It's like Christmas, and then it's by and then Boxing Day too and then Boxing Day, and now we're like in Boxing Day like 32, 33. You think that's funny, Tyler? We have a guest in the studio today. For those of you who have not seen my studio,

I got to see it for the first time yesterday. Tyler and his crew here. What's the name of your company? Hammercraft is a company. They built my... Tyler blew it up and absolutely crushed. Wait till you see my studio. Guy did a little video of my first reaction.

Evita's seen it too. I would do the karate man, but I got to save it. Wait till you see my studio. Guy did a little video of my first reaction. Evita's seen it too. I would do the karate man, but I gotta save it. I'm telling you, this studio is sick. Guy, is it crazy or what? You're all, some of you guys, especially the McGroin crew, you guys are coming. We're gonna have a big... Can you put it in?

All right, Guy's gonna put a picture in the phone. All right, let me get to the show because I got so much talk about cash is happening. It's going down. Reform is happening everywhere. It is just the golden age of Republican politics via MAGA. Thank you, President Trump. This podcast sponsored by Beam.

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get that Friday bell, the best bell of the week. Listen, man, I love doing this show. This is not a real job. Tyler's got a real job. This is a fake job. This is fake. I just talk for a living. You all, people, look at his studio.

Look at that. Look at the studio Who is that Michael get him off the screen Michaels way too handsome makes us all look ugly get him off the screen Put someone else in there put me or gee in there. We can't have Michael on this. Look at this guy Yeah, this guy like I look like a look like you know, they're looking for a new James Bond Everybody in the chat ship. Yeah, should do Michael? Should Michael be in the running for James Bond? And he's like seven feet tall too. Look at him. He got me. Look at this. This is why the audio does almost as well as the video. People are like, I can't see Bond. You know what I mean? I can't see it. You got to be serious, man. You can't put him in a picture. You see that studio

is crazy though, isn't it? Wait till you guys see what it's going to look like. Hopefully, Guy, what are we like a week or two away, Max? Yeah, we have to be, because if we don't get out of this studio soon, you don't even wanna know what's gonna happen. And this thing is totally falling apart. So Cash is back. Even CNN had a report on it.

So Claire Foren and Morgan Rimmer from CNN had to write this piece. Imagine how much this hurt Senate confirms Cash Patel as FBI's new director. This is the Kylo Ren more theory of politics. More, more, more. Just keep it coming every day. Folks, I wanna, on a very serious note, thank you, because the Republican Party did what they had to do. We're spreadsheets people, correct?

We do not get emotional. When the Republican Party does bad things, we talk about the bad things and try to correct them to get them to be plus ones rather than minus ones. But when it's a plus one, you can't keep, what are they said old stupid, you know, you can't beat a dead horse. Well, you can, but the horse is dead. It doesn't make any sense, you know, to constantly just when they do something good, good, thank you for getting cash Patel through. And we didn't even need a tiebreaker, a tie breaking vote from

from Senator, excuse me, Vice President JD Vance. We didn't even need it. So you guys did that. I will make no mistake. You guys and ladies out there in the Bongino Army, in Bannon's Army, Charlie Kirk's little army out there, we're all that little, I didn't mean it that way, but we all kind of cross pollinate each other's shows. You guys did it out there. You guys got it done, and thank you very much Folks always always do what always measure the effectiveness how folks in the chat chime in it's your show, too Always measure the effectiveness of what you're doing Effectiveness of what you're doing

Why's Paula texting me during the show? Oh, ha she's sending me a picture of me in the studio she says you're so cute and it's date night, too Paula you're very distracting right now Tyler's like what the hell did I get myself into sitting in on this show he invited invited him to come up. I said, big mistake, big mistake. When you're here, right, Guy, what are the rules? You should put a sign on the door. You're part of the show no matter what. Always, every time.

Always measure the effectiveness of what you did by the response, especially of your crazy opponents like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who absolutely melted down, like melted down like you would put like one of those medals and it just like, you know, when it goes into like molten form, like Terminator 2, dude is losing it over cash because they know we're finally going to get

a good solid strong FBI again. And that's not what they want. That's not what they want. They want a weaponized political outfit, which is unacceptable. Check this out. ...the judiciary committee, what crimes it was that he was concerned about that caused him to plead the fifth. Cash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us and Republicans

who vote for him will rue that day. You will rue the day, rue the day. Evil will happen. I love how they say that as if bad things have not happened in the building behind them for the last about eight years that need to be cleaned up. Folks listen I've known Cash Patel a long time. I can tell you with absolute certainty, and there are a few things in life you can speak about with absolute certainty. Even if you ask a bunch of kids if they want homework,

you can't say with certainty one kid's not gonna go, I'll take some homework, I need to improve my math skills. Everybody's like, shut up, improve a bit home on your own. Take a Khan Academy class, whatever. I can tell you with certainty that Cash Patel is there for one reason. He is there to make the FBI great again. Folks, if we do not have a credible deterrent

to spies in this country, counterintelligence, to terrorists that are planning plots here openly, some coordination entity for both transnational and interstate crime, we're not going to have a country. Cash is committed to that and that only. If Sheldon Whitehouse or these other lunatics think he's going to whatever, pay back the favor or some stupid line like that and target them,

they're out of their minds. They're making that up to turn you. Please don't. He is there for one reason, to clean this place up. He is a deadly serious guy and he's got a mission in mind and he's got b-hags in his head. Big hairy audacious goals. Here's Senator Chris Murphy, another one, just always gauge the effectiveness of this. But have you, here let me, can I give you a kind of a counter example before we play

Chris Murphy? And by the way, I'm not suggesting at all that these people aren't good, but have you seen a similar reaction to the Energy Secretary? He's great, he's fantastic. But I think they understand the Democrats that something's gotta be done about energy so they're just leaving it alone.

They are terrified over, they've spent so much time on Cash Patel it makes you ask the question right or begs the question. I hate that term. What the hell are they worried about? Why are they so concerned? Check this out. You vote for Cash Patel more than any other confirmation vote you make. You will come to regret this one to your grave. Uh, no, we won't. It's so, why are they so dramatic too?

You get, you see the drama, you will regret this to your grave. He thinks like he's in a movie or something. Last night I was bored by the way, I watched a movie. You guys ever see that movie Sicario? I know it's been out forever kind of right? I didn't I never saw this movie before. Last night Paula absolutely loves is obsessed with mob movies and like drug cartel movies and like you know crime movies and stuff like that. Do you guys in the chat ever see that? A pretty good movie man I didn't sense a lot of like wokeness in it.

I don't know. It's been out forever. But is there a sequel to that? But I watched it last night. But this guy thinks he's in a movie. He thinks he's in like Sicaria. They're like, cut, you know, what's the board they're called? Anybody know?

I'm not a video guy. What's the clapboard or something? They're like, oh, they think they're in a movie. You will regret. No, they won't regret it. They won't regret it. They won't regret it. They're on the record supporting him because they know he's the change agent the FBI needs. Folks, how amazing would it be in four years to look back with a good, high quality, reformed

FBI free of woke culture and DEI that goes out and is making headline big arrests of real bad guys destroying your community? How great would that be? We can all sit there and be proud again. No one regrets anything, and no one's gonna regret anything. You know who's been on fire lately? This is, you know we love Mays Moore by the way on X.

If you don't follow him, follow him. We gotta share the wealth folks in the conservative MAGA ecosystem. It's really important. It's not about me. It's about all of us. I need you all to go to X today. Formerly Twitter. Follow Mazemore. M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E. I mentioned him before. I don't even know if it's him or her. Maz, you got to send me a DM. I keep saying him or her, I don't know. But really great account for video. Maze put this up yesterday.

You know who is absolutely on fire with these nominees? I mean, this guy's success record is 100%. He's really, I've never seen a guy kick ass and take names like this. The success record is 100% of failing. He has succeeded 100% of the time and failed. That's freaking hard, man. That's hard.

Even a really terrible major league hitter. You know, like the guy, the pitcher? The pitchers are never really good hitters because they don't practice that much. They'll be batting like 150. That means, you know, 150 times out of 1,000, they at least got a hit. This cat, Adam Schiff, is killing it.

He has succeeded and failing every single time. Here is Adam Schiff on all of the quote controversial Trump nominees. Check this out. It is up to us today to say no. No to this nomination. No to Pam Bondi. RFK is not the best or the brightest. He will not bring back Camelot or make America healthy again.

Tosie Gabbard is a walking five alarm fire and must be rejected. Must be. Owen is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Cash Patel. This political hack does not deserve to be in this building. Dude's on fire. You know, I dig that Bailey Zimmerman music. I had a lot of pop culture references today for the show. I think it's because I'm in a particularly good mood today. If you only knew. You ever hear that House on Fire song?

It's one of his oldest songs. This guy's on fire. Just like the Bailey's. That house on fire. He is on fire shift. Well, 100% success rate of failing. Why is Adam's shift so worried? Folks, I strongly encourage you to go back and take another look today at the Russia collusion hoax. I know it's a story that's old and a lot of people want to move on. I'm going to be straight

with you. I don't want to move on. We had the FBI in conjunction with the Department of Justice, officials in Congress, foreign governments and intel people, fabricate a story, invent a story that could have caused and done serious long-term harm to international relations with a nuclear-powered foe. It's kind of a big freaking deal. I'm not letting it go. And you should listen to me. This is going to be very important in the coming days. I'm not letting it go. And you should listen to me. This is going to be very important in the coming days. I'm not letting this go. I want to find out what happened because it can never happen

again. Not to a Democrat, not to a Republican, not to a Libertarian, not to any United States citizen. You do not get to alter or try to change the course of electoral politics by fabricating a story, hijacking the justice system then to give the patina of truth to a fake story. You don't get to do that. Why do I bring that up now? Because who is the ringmaster of that circus? Yes, Adam Schiff. And no, I'm not letting it go.

And you shouldn't either. Folks, the system Adam Schiff and others used to weaponize and hijack the DOJ, portions of the FBI, and the global intelligence community to combat Donald Trump and his agenda, and the American people who voted for him in 2016, was this FISA system, this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act system, which needed some reform and still does. This is one of the reasons the Democrats are really freaked out. No one understands the system better than Cash.

He's been in the government. He's been on the prosecutorial side. He has seen how our defense system works, our intelligence system, law enforcement system. He has a broad kind of bird's eye view of how all these entities tie into each other. Why is that a bad thing? It's a bad thing for the Democrats.

You understand how they thrive on the opaqueness of government? That's why they hate the Doge. They don't want a guy in there who knows how, you know, the gizmos fit together to make the machinege. They don't want a guy in there who knows how the gizmos fit together to make the machine work because then when the gizmo breaks and they broke it he's going to be the guy to fix it. They don't want that. They don't want any of that. They like it when everything's a dark box. Here is Cash on the Sean Ryan show, a really excellent show by the way, highly recommended, discussing a while ago

FISA reforms and potential abuses of the system. Check this out. Chris Ray was caught last year illegally using 702 collection methods against Americans 274,000 times. 274,000 times 274,000 times not my number. It's in the report that they wrote the FISA court wrote it and Then the FISA court and there was this big fight about 702 reauthorization. I know might not be appealing to your audience But it was a big fight this this year to say we want FISA reform and FISA did need reform We exposed it and we gave you a bunch of reforms during Russiagate and it never got implemented.

So because the budget of FISA was up, this cycle, we demanded Congress fix it. And do you know what the majority in the House, where the Republicans did? They bent the knee, they reoffed it. Why, why? I don't know, I asked them. And they said, oh no, we're just doing it for another year.

We're just going to kick the can down the road. I'm like, OK, so the other year you're doing it for is an election year. We showed you how they abused FISA once already. And then now you know about Chris Ray and all these other FISA abuses. But you trust the director of the FBI, this guy Chris Ray, who went before you and said, no, don't worry We fixed everything. We're good and They gave him more spy powers. I

Can't answer that one and I can't I couldn't get on board with that that legislative fix Folks, I want you to understand something Pregnant pause was not intentional. I just want to give you a second because this is really important. People are policy within the government. People are policy. Words, constitutions, laws and regulations are meaningless if you don't swear to your oath and mean it. I mean there are a thousand examples of what I'm talking about. I am a constitutionalist. That matters to me no matter what. Even at my own expense it matters to me. You have to follow the law. If everybody just decides what law when to when, it's like the four-way stop sign.

Come on, most people, you shouldn't, but they roll through those, the other guy will stop. That's not the way this is supposed to work. You have a director or someone else in charge of the FBI that loosely interprets search and seizure and the Constitution and your right to privacy, then folks the policy's meaningless. The person's interpreting it to mean something completely different. The Constitution is not a suggestion, period. And the man in charge of now the FBI is the director, and damn that sounds good, Director Patel. Thank you. God, I don't use his name in vain. Believes in that document. Believes, yeah, it'd be easy to weaponize and target your political

opponents. That's not what we do. That's not what we do. That's not what we'll ever do. That's not what this party stands for. The left wants to embrace old school socialist style weaponization of government then you own that because it ain't us. You can stick that on your damn bumper sticker because it ain't going on my car and it sure as hell ain't going on Cassius either. Folks the left has a real problem with civics these days. So on a lighter note, it is Friday. This may be, I'm gonna play it a second, take a quick break, but I'm letting the guys, we're trying to work in a more collaborative manner

to do the show because these guys have great ideas and I feel bad, so I don't like I kind of icing them out of the content. They've been putting together some really great stuff. We all think alike anyways, doesn't really matter. But I absolutely insist that this go with it. Stephen Miller has been putting on a clinic, the deputy chief of

staff, chief of staff from Trump, an absolute clinic on TV in the press room. Did you see him? Schoolhouse rock the press yesterday on civics. Stay tuned. This is probably guys, if this isn't in videos of the year, at the end of the year, I'll be deeply offended. Guy, just so you know, Michael, take that that down buddy. This has got to go in there Hey

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Hey, on that note, I'm gonna get to this in a second, I promise you, but. So I was watching this movie last night, they said Sicario with Paul, it was very good. Hey, on that note, I'm gonna get to this in a second, I promise you, but. So I was watching this movie last night, they said, Sicario with Paul, it was very good. About this drug trade and this whole thing going on. And there's a scene in the movie, I'm not ruining it for anyone, I haven't seen it, it's already old,

but where the Punisher guy, I don't know actor's names, the guy who acts as the Punisher, Jazz John something, and he's choking this lady, he's trying to kill her, and he's mounted on top of her and choking her, what we call in jujitsu, the finger choke, you know, you've seen it, you're on top of it. Ladies out there, guys too,

that is the easiest choke in the world to get out of. And you have no idea how many people wind up either dying or getting assaulted or passing out because of it. Take a jujitsu class or a grappling class, even if you take two or three of them and ask them first day, can you show me how to get out of the finger choke? Cause I had to do a tutorial for Paula last night.

I had to, cause I'm like, you're never, you're not going out like that. Little weave under the arm, buckle them right down. You gotta learn how to get out of that stuff. Ladies, gents, it's really important. I just, sorry, just throwing that in there. You know, I like to throw a life hacks in. That's one of them. Take a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class. Seriously, take the intro class. It's usually free. You'll learn in that first class.

Say how do we get out of the finger choke? Okay, moving on. Stephen Miller going all time schoolhouse rock on the media. Now keep in mind, I'm when I tell you this, I mean, the media in the press room knows how the presidency works. They're just playing dumb. They're pretending to not understand that Donald Trump is the unitary executive. He is the only figure, him and the vice president, on the ticket, elected nationally, correct?

Is the, for the lefties in the chat, is the attorney general elected nationally? Nope. What about the elected nationally? Nope. What about the FBI? Nope. CIA? Nope. Secretary?

Nope. Somebody that don't, no, no, no, no one. Just Donald Trump and JD Vance on the ticket. But when you are elected by the electoral college nationally, you appoint people to implement your policy. Here's the media in the press room pretending they don't know this talking about the Doge and Stephen Miller, an absolute masterclass, kicking ass and taking names.

Check this out. Here he is on how the executive works. This is great. Check this out. A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation. Right? Judges are appointed, members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. Just one man, and the Constitution, Article

2, has a clause known as the Vesting Clause, and it says the executive power shall be vested in a president. Singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for.

So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote for radical reform under energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers in the Department of Justice say they don't want to change. What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy

by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people. You see the, you see why this segment's important? Folks forget the people in the press room, okay? The liberal media people in the press room know what Stephen Miller's talking about. That's not why what he did there is important. I promise you there are liberals and maybe even swampy Republicans and others out there who've never heard that before. You know how I know this?

Because when the media came out with their first talking point against Elon and the Doge, and they said, no one elected Elon Musk, if you follow the news like we do, I mean, it's my job. I don't know. I have a fake job. It's not a real job. You know, it's not. But I love politics. I will go to X and truth and these TikToks and Snapchats and I'll see what people are talking about. I follow, I don't want to tell you because I don't want to block me, but I follow liberal accounts. You can see them. They thought this was a great, great talking point because they're taking advantage of people on the left who are really ignorant of what Stephen Miller just said. You get what I'm saying?

They were like, this is a good one. Tell them Elon's not elected. Nobody's elected in the executive branch except the president, vice president. I mean, no one, like actually no one. The president runs the government just like the CEO runs a company He appoints people and hires people to do stuff. The CEO isn't paying the taxes He may have to sign off on it, but you think he's sitting there going What is the capitalized deduction rate on the depreciation schedule on the life of FIFO

or he doing that man? The president doesn't do everything. He appoints people. The president's to be had guy. The big hairy audacious goals guy. Liberals are praying. I'm sorry to say this folks, especially the liberals who listen to my show, I know you're there, you troll my chat.

Well, it's just fine. I mean it, we're free speech people, go right ahead. Just don't threaten anyone. They are taking advantage of liberal stupidity. Liberals actually, well, Elon wasn't elected, so he can't do anything, even if the Doge people are government employees. He can't? How does the Secret Service protect the president?

I'm just giving you a personal example. You think the president's overseeing the security, hey, we need a post stander here, I'm gonna be button hooking around here. Remember when you were kids playing football, you draw on your fingers, right, remember? You'd be like, Johnny, Michael, did you ever do this? Johnny, you're going to go here, you're going to button hook Tony, you're going to hit the fly route in the end zone. You think the president's doing that in his

protection? Because nobody can do anything without the president. That's what they're saying. The Secret Service wasn't elected. Nobody's doing that. They're preying on your stupidity. They're doing that. They're preying on your stupidity. That's why what Stephen Miller's doing is so important. This is like a government 101 class from the bully pulpit every single day where people like me get to go, hey, listen to this.

Because there's, I promise, after all the P1s out there, I'm sorry that I have to play for you, stuff that's fairly obvious, but it's important you take that message and send it to your liberal friends. And when they say, hey, Elon's not elected, take that cut. It's not mine.

It's the White House's. Take that cut and say, Elon's not elected. Say was Merrick Garland elected? What about Javier Baccaria? Here, let me send you the Stephen Miller clip about how our constitution works. Thank you. All right. Clip coming up next is important.

Folks, red pillings happening everywhere. I was just at Aveda sitting here today too. And I said to Aveda, Aveda is rubbing off on me. She knows a lot for, I mean, like a ton of stuff. And she really, really understands the Breitbart rule that politics is downstream of culture. Like her show, that's why her show is taken off because she covers it better than anyone because she's fought these fights, whether it was the vaccine at her college. I mean, Evita is 20 going on 80 and I don't mean looks. I mean, look, watch it rumble.com slash Evita. She's just been through these fights before rumble.com slash Evita, E-V-I-T-A. So she's rubbing off on me because I see these stories on her show and I'm like, damn, I got to cover

more of this culture stuff. I'm so into the mechanics of politics, 10, 10 and 10. So JD Vance spoke, vice president Vance at CPAC yesterday. And this is really important what he said about this war on our young men. It is a disgrace what's happening. And I want you to listen to it because it's an extremely important message that I not tell you about JD Vance. I'm sorry. I don't really, it's not self praise folks.

I just please trust me. I'd known this guy. He is a freaking rock star. This guy is probably the best political candidate we've seen since a guy named Donald J. Trump. You ever heard of him? Amazing. You ever notice he's never caught off guard? Ask him anything.

Ask him anything. Ask him about how he feels about five prime, three prime DNA strands. And he's like, you know what? Let me tell you, that's the one direction you're going. Watch this coming up next. Last break and we'll get right back to it. Hey, when it comes to protecting your family, it's not just about having a firearm. Lethal force isn't the answer for every situation. Imagine an imminent threat comes to you and your family.

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She's amazing. It's gonna be at 6 p.m. Eastern time. You're gonna love this show. It's coming real fast I promise really fast. Maybe I like next week We move at light speed now, you know, given the success of a Vita show We now got a model so thanks for supporting everything we do I'm trying to give you a whole bunch of stuff to choose from All right. Here is vice president Vance at CPAC on a message on the war on boys folks We cannot have this the left has been doing this forever on boys. Folks, we cannot have this. The left has been doing this forever. They have been trying to destroy the idea of strong masculine men because it is a proxy for their war on traditional objective big R God given rights values. They don't like that. They I'm getting

along with it. Simple as this. They want your values coming from the state. They don't want your values from dad. They don't want husband and wife mutual respect. They want everybody weak and compliant. And the best way to do it is to destroy our boys. And it's a freaking disgrace. Listen to this. And I think, you know, you asked me,

my message to young men is, I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is, don't allow this broken culture to send you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends,

or because you're competitive. But our cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody into, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women. And we're gonna help with our public policy

to make it possible to do that. Leah, Leah Hunt says in the chat, this guy's top notch. Isabella, Isabella, I love masculine men. Hey, good. Listen, is this, can we, could Donald Trump have made a better choice? Could he have made a better choice than Vice President Vance? No, I'm serious. Can you throw someone out there you think would have been better now that you have a good data set? You've now got the entire campaign and election and over a month of him as Vice President.

I'm not telling you things can't break bad in the future. I'm just telling you, given the data set you have now, could he have made a better choice? Come on, the answer is clearly no. The Vice President is a fantastic messenger. And Andrew Breitbart was absolutely correct when he said the politics are downstream of the culture. Folks, you can elect all the great politicians you want.

If it's the freaking Tower of Babel and the culture is broken and we're disrespecting our young boys, we're making our young women, I have two daughters feel insignificant that they're victims all the time. Oh, look, these toxic patriarchal men are gonna ruin your life.

Really? I got two powerhouses right here. Aveda's married to Michael. Michael works here. Guys, these guys are running the whole show, these guys run this whole thing by themselves. She's now the 34 on this Triton Top Sharks. It's a pairing. It's a pairing. It is an additive thing. You can't have weak men. They're trying to rot

this culture out because they know then that the politics doesn't matter, that people are going to fill a hole and they want that hole to be filled with government. It's why they hate religion. There's a killer op-ed, I think it's Barton Swain in the Wall Street Journal, about exactly this from yesterday. How this liberal wrote this book about how religion was basically destroying our culture and politics.

And now this same liberal is admitting that he was wrong, but he's admitting he was wrong for all the wrong reasons. The gist of the whole thing, to keep it simple, is that once you create that vacuum, you divorce people from God, bigger values, a higher cause. You divorce them from dad and the brother and the sister, and you tell them the family don't matter, and the patriarchy's always coming for you,

and you're a victim, bro, and everybody's hurting you all the time, and everybody's, and you're looking over your shoulder all the time. You're never going to live your freaking life man. You're going to constantly be doing karate man defensive moves instead of taking the world by the freaking balls and going and doing big things. I just said to Tyler we were talking before the show he's sitting in here man. There it is.

It's called It's All Evangelical's Fault again by Barton Swain. Read it. A liberal atheist blames liberalism and woes on religious Trump supporters. Read the article. It's worth your time. I just said to Tyler, man, listen, young kids, whenever we were at book signings,

parents would come up to me and say, have you got some advice for my kid? I'd say, I do. Big people do big things. Little people do little things. Do big things. When you're constantly a victim And you believe this liberal bullshit that everybody's coming for you all the time and you can't beat it You will be defeated before you even started the game play the damn game

Play the game get in the game and give it your best effort The worst thing that can happen is you come out at the end and you drop an L once in a while. It happens and you dust off and you get back up and you play tomorrow's game even harder and you learn from your damn mistakes. I'm not your preacher, but big people do big things. Small people are victims. Small people are victims. Manifest good things, folks, and good things will happen. God gave you a brain that thinks positively for a reason. Use it. He gave you vision. Your dog doesn't have vision.

I love my dog. Your dog doesn't think about being the king of all dogs. He doesn't even understand what that means. Do big things. You see this? The red pilling of everyone's going on everywhere. You know what, Guy? Can we play the national anthem here? I know the game didn't turn out like we expected, but that's fine. USA hockey team put on a great effort. Lost in overtime to the Canadians. Good for you for getting in the damn game. We're proud of you. We'll always be proud of you. Defendant America and we love you.

But showing you how the red pilling and the culture's changing and everybody's starting to understand that values don't come from government. Values come from something more important than that. Here was the national anthem. We'll play a little bit of this at last night's game. You may not hear the actual singer because everybody's singing with him. Check this out. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the glare, the bombs bursting in air. You guys, can I give you a little piece of life advice

for the new fathers out there? When you're at home in your house and you're watching this on TV, this amazing moment, stand up, let your kids see. Take your hat off, put your hand on your heart. I know, I know in the Bungino Army, a lot of you do that already, but when I'm in my house, it's not some show, it's not a virtue signal.

I let my daughter, I tell my daughter every time, stand up, heels together. I wish my elbow bent a little more, unfortunately it's a little below my heart. Put your hand on your heart, chin up, none of this, whether it's when they do it or no. Let your kids see it. Let your boys see it. Let your little girls see it. You see that national anthem on a college game, a pro game, a hockey game, I don't care what it is, an equestrian match. You snap those heels together, you stand up straight, get your gig line in order, put your chin up,

hand over your heart, and you don't move until that song is done. And let your kids see it. That's how we change the culture. We change the culture. The politics takes care of itself. I promise you the politics takes care of itself. I promise you.

And thank God we got a president proud of America again in the office. Did you hear his phone call yesterday? He loves this. This is, he will choke me out, finger choke. He doesn't know I know the solution for it. He will finger choke me if I don't put this in the show. Here's Donald Trump talking to the hockey team before. The guy, I'm telling you, man, he is just on it

all the time, everywhere. He loves this country. Check this out. Well, I'll talk to the guys if they're around. Yeah, they are. I'm gonna walk into the locker room right now now and you can speak to the guys firsthand. Mr. President, can you hear me? I can.

You guys are really talented. I have great respect for hockey players. I'm a hockey fan. I love hockey. The talent, the skill that you have is crazy. And just go out and have a good time tonight. And I just want to wish you a lot of luck. You really are a skilled group of people. It's an honor to talk to you and get out there and there's no pressure whatsoever.

I can tell you honestly every person in here, players, staff, management, coaches, we are all proud Americans and we want to represent our country the best way we can and do our best to bring in a win tonight. Thank you again on behalf of everybody. You just go out and have a good time. You're going to win and we love America and we love you guys. We'll be watching tonight. Bring it home. Thank you.

Folks, you know, I worked in the White House, man. The president's time is valuable, really valuable. I'm not sure you even understand how I mean, really valuable. People would if they could pay millions of dollars for sit downs with the president, they would. The president never misses a moment to tell people representing the United States, athletes, whatever academics, anyone, how much he cares about them when he's up there and talking to him.

He loves this country. And it's so evident if you just listen to the guy and he is having this downstream effect that Andrew Breitbart had talked about over politics where it's okay to love America again. Not only is it okay to love America again, you can do it proudly and openly and you don't have to worry. I mean, I heard that story after the election. What was it? Was it Dana Perino or someone saying on Fox? They were walking around Manhattan.

They saw people walking around MAGA hats for the first time. Like, people were afraid. Nobody's afraid anymore. The red pilling is everywhere. He's like, everywhere? He's like, what about Buttigieg? Buttigieg? Him too?

Guys like to the left of Lenin. He says he's got evidence that even Buttigieg... I'm not kidding. Here's Buttigieg a while back talking about equity and buses or something like that. I'm going to play that with this clip you're just going to hear from the other day where even Buttigieg is starting to realize that the Schatz doctrine, you'll see what I mean in a second, may be the way to go. In other words, do really liberal stuff,

but you better not talk about it like that anymore because the culture's changing. Check this segment out first. Meantime, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has not commented on the near collision, though he did comment on Transit Equity Day, which was happening at the very same time the planes in Austin almost collided.

Watch. I love that image of the doors opening on the bus or the subway car representing doors opening in so many other areas of life if you can get to where you need to be in an equitable way. So in an equitable way we got equitable buses you got to make sure the buses fit into your whatever LGBTQIA, BIO, PC, 2 plus 1A ideological identity politics. You're like what are you talking about? It's a freaking box with four tires, bro. What are you talking about?

That is pre, pre 2024 election Donald Trump. So Donald Trump gets elected. The culture is now rapidly changing, detoxifying itself of toxic masculinity and all this PC crap woke bullshit, right? And I want you to listen to Pete Boot Edge Edge, how he's talking now. And let me just tell you in advance,

he's not really red-pilled. This is the Schatz doctrine, hold that thought. Or as KJP calls him, the Schwarz doctrine, okay? They're starting to realize right now that the culture war is turning and turning rapidly. So listen to the way this really, really liberal guy, because he's going to run for president 100 percent the next election. Yeah, so do I.

I hope so too. Him and Kamala Harris would be an amazing ticket. Amazing. Winky, winky, not, not. Listen to how he talks now. Check this out. We cannot go on like that. We cannot.

I also think that we believe in the values that we care about for a reason. And this is not about abandoning those values. It's about making sure we're in touch with the first principles that animate them. What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people's different experiences and making sure no one's mistreated because of them? Which I will always fight for.

Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced. And it is how it is how Trump Republicans are made if that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions, but doesn't actually get at what we're what actually matters here, what's actually at stake. Okay, this is the edutainment portion of the show at the BDP. Education plus entertainment.

That's what matters, right? There is this thing going around the Democrat Party. Write this down because you're going to see it everywhere. They're calling it the Schatz Doctrine after Brian Schatz, the Senator who KJP called shorts. So we'll call it the Schatz Doctrine, right? The Schatz Doctrine is this. Do really crazy liberal stuff, transgender sex changes in the military, all this other like really woke far left crazy stuff, right? Do it, but don't talk about it like Portlandia, which is that TV show about like liberal crazies. I never watched it, but I assume because I've had a look it up. That's the Schatz doctrine. So I say this because I know what you're thinking. Why are we talking about elections? Because folks, the midterms are right around the corner.

No, they're not. Yeah, they are. They're less than two years away, which in political, reverse dog years, everything is like a factor of seven, not times seven, right? It's right around the corner. You are going to see this in swing districts everywhere outside of like say Jasmine Crockett's district or you know a D plus 20 district you're going to see Democrats talking like this now talking like moderate Democrats even talking like Republicans in many cases. Listen to me brothers and sisters it's an act look it up the Schatz doctrine. This Brian Schatz is telling everyone this. Just talk like a normal person but still do crazy stuff. So for those of you out there still on the fence who may have just tuned into my show it's an act. The Republican agenda what we're doing is

not an act we're doing it. The Democrats you're hearing from this is, it's all an act. Don't fall for this. Here, I'm going to jump ahead. Here's a Jasmine Crockett. This is what I mean. First, I'll put that interactive polls thing up. I put this up yesterday. Democrats in Congress are now at an all time low in approval in Quinnipiac, which is not some right wing polling outfit.

Okay. They're at 22% approval, nearly 70% disapproval now Why is that happening because they do crazy stuff? They're gonna try to talk their way out of this now But the problem is they're still gonna have people like Jasmine Crockett Bernie Sanders AOC and Elizabeth Warren to deal with who are out there still saying crazy stuff Because her and AOC are doing what I call the show your ass theory.

There is still money in crazy stuff and saying crazy stuff. So you're going to see more you're going to and by the way, you're going to see AOC and the squad start to object at all the airtime she's been getting. But Jasmine Crockett needs to keep it up. There's the poll right there. Here's Jasmine Crockett on her take on government money, your tax dollars and quote handouts. Maybe one of the most offensive things you've heard in a long time. Keep this lady on TV though. She's great for us. That is check this out.

Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that? Listen, he's just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey, we want to give you a refund, but Congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that. The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times.

This was a time in which hopefully we won't ever go through again. We had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. The bad part is that I don't know if it's once-in-a-lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York, here recently, and if we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling us to do, or we don't want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two, three, or four pandemics because

of their incompetence. So no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you I'm sorry In the business of giving out. Yes Yes, thank you. Play it again. Play it again. Sorry. Everything's always bad You're not in the business of giving out money. We're not in the business of Thank you. Play it again. Play it again. Sorry. Everything's always bad. You're not in the business of giving out money. We're not in the business of... Hold on.

Just keep that on hold for a second. There's one other thing I want to address about this, and I'm really, I'm seriously begging the Democrats in order to hold on to your very valuable to us Republicans 22% approval rating, which is great for us, terrible for you. You may say, well, what are the Republicans? Well, they're 40%, which isn't great, but it's a whole lot better than 22. Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump's as far ahead of both of those. Right.

Please keep this woman on TV. I'm begging you. I'm imploring you. Please. She is the best messenger for the Schatz doctrine, absentee saying crazy stuff because she wants to do crazy stuff, but she says it too. She cites experts during COVID as an example of like a model we should replicate. Do you realize the experts got everything wrong?

Did you see that Yale? Was it the Yale paper going around about spike protein elevations in people with quote long COVID? I encourage you to read it. It's pretty freaking scary stuff if the robust results say, turn out to be robust and repeatable. It's really frightening. Did some of you see it? This sprite, you should look up the Yale Researcher report in the Spike Purge, it's all over the news. I'm applying the Bongino rule to everything

because unlike Jasmine Crockett, I actually believe in science. And the experts she keeps citing were wrong, folks, about almost everything. Masks didn't work. Vaccines didn't stop the spread of COVID. Didn't even stop you from getting COVID. No, it did not come out of a pangolin

who mated with a butterfly who got bit by a mosquito. None of that happened. not come out of a pangolin who mated with a butterfly who got bit by a mosquito. None of that happened. Everything they told you was wrong. Droplets, aerosols, everything they got wrong. They got, and they publicly bragged about it. And then she goes on to say, we're not in the business of giving you, but like it's their money.

This is a woman with no life skills whatsoever amazingly gets elected to Congress and is lecturing you hardworking Americans, black, white, Asian, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, it doesn't matter, they love identity politics, lecturing you about we're not in the business of giving you your money back when we find overpayments and fraud?

Democrats, please keep this woman on TV. I'm serious. I'm not kidding. There is no better advocate for what you're going to do than this one. I know you're going to try to hide it. Shatz doctrine us. I get it. But now we're exposing the Shatz doctrine on the biggest live stream in conservative politics. It's all an act. Everything she just said, Jasmine Crockett, is everything the Democrats think. Bank on it. All right, folks, thank you so much.

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