The Dan Bongino Show - The Media's New "Conspiracy Theory" (Ep 2216)

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

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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 i think uh gee tell me what you think of this some of the pre-show conversations are are just whether it's me and gee fighting over the value of modern day star wars remakes or you know evita's here today. Welcome back to Evita. We were talking about the bridge story and the media coverage. We should really run some of those as outtakes because some of it is just really, really good stuff. We have this really deep conversation about what we're going to get into

today about the bridge story just is, is a, I hate the word microcosm because it's so overused ironically like the word unique it's used too much which is really weird because it's supposed to be unique but the thing about the the microcosm of this bridge story when you think about it expands to this bigger media environment where there's this yearning on the mainstream goon media to go, oh, look, there's a bunch of conspiracy theorists on the right. And then as a counter to the conspiracy theorist right, air quotes, the left has to respond back by immediately calling something a conspiracy theory when they have no evidence whatsoever that this thing is yet a conspiracy theory.

That's confusing, man. I'm sorry. I promise it'll make sense. There is nothing. I told producer Jim, I was going to tweet this out. I didn't do it. Maybe I'll tweet it out later. You know, never play it safe because that's stupid,

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That's expressvpn.com slash Bongino. All right, so I want to start with something else first before I get back to this bridge story, because I just noticed it this morning. I had these guys throw it in the show maybe five minutes ago. You know, listen, I worked in a couple of White Houses. I worked for three presidents, but I was in the White House for two, both a Republican and a Democrat. Folks, the presidency is a very, very busy job. I promise you, as the president of the United States, you can always find something to do. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I feel like kind of a subject matter expert,

at least in this one area of presidential schedules, because when you show up early in the morning, right, and you're an agent, I'm not going to tell you what the push time is, because I don't want to give up their schedules, but it's early if you work in a day shift. It's like really early. You're leaving your house sometimes at three o'clock in the morning or four o'clock in the morning, depending on where you live. And you're tired. You get the presidential schedule. You read it every morning. It's always busy because the president has a lot of stuff to do like all the time. Not this president. Have you ever looked at this guy's daily schedule?

We're going to start tracking this. So you got chatsters. It's your show. You're in charge. you run the show. Are you cool with this? We're not going to do it every day, but I'm going to keep an eye on this. Tony, this is your new thing, okay? We got to look at this every day. Have you ever noticed this guy never has anything on his schedule? He's the freaking president. Can't you just maybe talk about China, maybe Russia, maybe Ukraine, inflation, school choice, abortion, taxes, capital gains, marginal rates, you know, M3 growth, money in the growth supply or growth in the money supply. Look at the way, put up the schedule. Look at this guy. Here's the guy's schedule. I never seen anything like this. And don't tell me I don't know. Again, I worked for two presidents, Obama and Bush in the White House, but Republican and Democrat, and they both bipartisan had really

busy days all the time because you're chasing them around the White House. We used to have a joke. We call it ring around the oval because you're running around the oval office chasing these guys. Look at this guy. Daily schedule. In the morning, the president received a daily brief. Daily schedule. In the morning, the president received a daily brief. The meeting will be closed press. What? What the?

What is this guy doing all day? What is he doing watching Ren and Stimpy episodes? Here, here, meeting Ren and Stimpy. What is he doing? Look at their little hands. Stimpy, you idiot. What is he doing all day? Does anybody know? We're going to monitor this guy.

Because this guy, I've never seen anything like it. He goes out on the road for two or three days. Did you notice the pattern? And then he's got like seven days off. What is this guy doing all day? UV light therapy? Holy shit, man. Get out of bed. I'm sorry. All right. Listen,

now I'm concerned. Yesterday, there was a huge tragedy. You know, we've learned some more about the bridge accident. You know, a big shout out to the people who did their best to save lives. Apparently, there was a Mayday call. Traffic was shut down. The cars they tragically again found in the water appear to be vehicles for the construction workers that were on the bridge. And you know, listen, we don't virtue signal on this show, but I think one of the things I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, because this is a working class guy's show and it'll

always be. Always. You understand? I grew up in a working class family. Brothers in electrician. I was a cop. My dad was a plumber. My mom worked in a checkout counter.

This is the working class guy's show, and it'll always be, and I mean that. You will always have a home here. To the construction workers out there, I was a cop. It's a dangerous job. You know the most dangerous job in America? Yeah, man, you got it. Construction. These guys were just filling potholes on the

bridge. They're dead now, six of them. Two managed to survive. So to all of you out there in the trades, you laborers, you craftsmen out there, construction workers, God bless you, man. men out there, construction workers. God bless you, man. They tragically died. But folks, it's incredible how, again, we're in this same death trap of stupid. There's a bunch of stuff from every angle of the political sphere where everybody's jumping to a conclusion when the solution to this problem is right in front of you. It's called the Bongino rule. It's not even my rule. I just jokingly call it that. It's basically called the common sense rule. Here's a better way to phrase this.

Would you try to solve a math equation with seven different variables missing? Or would you wait for the data to come in and go, it's probably easier to answer this question when I have the data? Here, let me give you a math problem. Tony, tell me if you can solve this. X plus Y plus Z plus A plus C minus X minus Y minus M and N equals nine.

Tell me every variable. You'd be like, what the hell kind of stupid question is that? But this is what happens in this media environment. Because there's money in engagement. Everybody wants to come out with a theory. It was a terror attack. It definitely wasn't a terror attack. That's a conspiracy theory.

It's a conspiracy theory. That's a conspiracy theory. Can you, why can't you just wait? Was it a terror attack? I don't know. It doesn't sound like one to me, but am I absolutely sure it isn't? No. So maybe just wait. How freaking hard is this? so maybe just wait. How freaking hard is this? I mean, shit, man.

How hard is it to wait like a couple of days and wait for the data to come in? It looks like an accident. However, when you get bullshit artists like the Rolling Stone, right-wingers already pushing conspiracy theories about the Baltimore Bridge Clubs. I got to tell you, now I get worried. These guys have been on the wrong side of every story. I was reasonably convinced yesterday it's an accident.

Now I'm like, oh shit, Rolling Stone's telling us it's a conspiracy theory about an attack. Who knows? Maybe we should look at that angle. That's how dumb these people are. Is it the same? By the way, hot tip viva who put this out there in a tweet is this the same rolling stone about remember this story rolling stone to pay 1.65 million to a frat over their discredited rape stories at the is that the same outlet

i think it is they're saying the same one or is it the same rolling stone pushing the trump pp hoax story? A timeline of the Trump-Russia scandal? What do you mean, the one that didn't exist? Folks, listen to me. There is nothing wrong with you waiting on a story. Don't ever play anything safe. Again, that's stupid.

But don't play it stupid either. You don't have to fall into these traps, these information traps. There are people on the left who would like nothing more than for you to jump to the conclusion it was a terror attack with no real hardcore evidence to come to that conclusion. There's also other people that want to call anyone asking a question like, hey, that is kind of odd that that happened. Oh, you guys are conspiracy theorists. Don't fall for either one of those. And one more thing I want to address on this, too. Stop falling into the no evidence trap either.

Sometimes I say the left is so bastardized and destroyed the word evidence that it's lost all meaning. When the left says there's no evidence at all of a terror attack, that's not what they mean at all. What they mean is there's no evidence to draw a conclusion. There's always evidence of something. The question is, does the evidence lead to a conclusion? If I think he robbed the local bank and he knows he didn't, my evidence could be, well, he lives next to the bank. That's think he robbed the local bank and he knows he didn't, my evidence could be, well, he lives next to the bank. That's evidence. However, it's not evidence enough to draw a conclusion. They do this all the time. They say there's no evidence Joe Biden was involved in the Hunter Biden conspiracy. Really? What about the bank records, the texts? That's

evidence. You may draw a different conclusion, but don't say there's no evidence. There's a lot of suspicious stuff that happened with this. Ask questions. Just don't fall into this media death cycle of stupid. Here's what I mean. Blaze Media, ship that obliterated the Baltimore Bridge, was involved in a previous collision. They know it managed by a DEI captive company.

I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but it's a legitimate thing to report on. Is it not? Folks, the media has fallen apart. It's an important story, but it's not an important story for the reasons some may think. Okay.

I get it. Like this is a, the first impulse is to just want to poke fun at the media because it's funny because they're so stupid especially what's going on with NBC but we have a real information crisis here we do and none of this is funny it's really set you know when I when I grew up the FBI I mean that's all I wanted to do all I wanted to be was an FBI agent. That is it, man. I, like, adored these guys, man. You showed me an FBI badge.

It was this guy, Pat, I'll leave his last name out. He used to come into my high school at Molloy and give a speech about the FBI. And, man, that was packed. That lecture was packed every time. He used to come into Mr. DiIorio's class because everybody idolized these guys. What happened to this agency? Institutions like the media and the FBI and even the upper ranks of our military

are falling apart. This is nothing to celebrate, man. This is only something to cry about. I mean, actually cry, but you get the point. This is nothing to celebrate. The destruction of institutions. there's nowhere to go for truth anymore here's the problem the left-wing media sucks so bad that even if evidence leading to a conclusion came out tomorrow with the the actual circuit that broke on the ship, they show it to you on TV.

This is whatever, the fuse that blew. You get the point. No one's going to believe them because Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow and bullshit Brian Stelter and everyone else for years told you there was a pee-pee tape, a collusion hoax, Trump wasn't spied on, the laptop was Russian, a face diaper hoax, Trump wasn't spied on, the laptop was rushing, a face diaper was going to protect you against COVID, take the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID, there was no lab leak.

Everything they tell you is bullshit. That's why tomorrow, the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, could walk out there with Biden tomorrow and say, here is the broken computer system that led to the malfunction on the ship. And folks, yes or no, nobody's going to believe them because you lie all the time. Folks, there's a book out there. I'm not big on recommended books, but there's a book out there by Robert Greene. You guys know it?

The 48 Rules of Power. You know the book I'm talking about? It's a fascinating book. One of his rules is your reputation is everything. Folks, that's why on this show we have forfeited stories we could have run with. Matter of fact, I got beat up by one guy. You should have run with that story.

You could have changed an election. Folks, I did not have the tools to properly verify it and have a big enough stamp. I'm very sorry, but I don't ever need to be first. I need to be right. Your reputation is everything. Wars have been won on reputations. Businesses turn on reputations.

Guard your reputation with your life. The media violated that golden rule. That's why this NBC situation is just a nuclear bomb for their credibility. If you can't hire the most, I mean, Ronna McDaniel is the most down-the-middle, wavering, weak Republican you're ever going to see. If you can't hire Ronna McDaniel to represent, air quotes, the views of at least some Republicans on your network.

Your network is a freaking joke. This is turning into just another banner week for these idiots. And I have to tell you, shouting fraud's a bad thing, but I'm quietly sitting back and enjoying the hilarity of watching NBC self immolate again and watching all the normies out there who, no, no, NBC's a news network. Yeah, sure it is.

Yeah, okay, news network. That's, sure it is. So yesterday, Ronna McDaniel, for those of you who missed the story, forgive me if you're coming into this halfway through, Ronna McDaniel ran the Republican National Committee. About as centrist as an organization as you're going to get. All the normies go there, okay?

Ronald McDaniel's hired for $300,000 a year to be an NBC News contributor. No big deal. Fox had Donna Brazile. They have Jessica Tarloff, Marie Harf. They've got more. Harold Ford. They've got a whole bunch of lefties over there. That's what a news network does.

I've defended Fox a thousand times over that. The best part of Fox network does. I've defended Fox a thousand times over that. The best part of Fox is when I used to get in fights with Geraldo. That was my favorite time on the network. You want a boring network? I don't. I don't even work there anymore. I don't work for Fox. That was the best part of my day. NBC doesn't want that. NBC wants a bunch of freaking robots. That's not a news network. That's an opinion network. Just be honest. So I want to show you a video of, I don't know, poor Tony's here. Tony, let's see if he gets this. Key, maybe you'll get this. I see it on the screen right there, but I'm going to show you a video of ronald mcdaniel he i'm going to show you a video of ronald mcdaniel you got on the screen right there denying elections this is i i mean okay this is rough though i mean she's

definitely an election denier this is what about a 40 second video she colored her hair a little bit so blonde but there's 30 seconds there's a a 30-second video of Ronna McDaniel. Horrendous election denier. And this is allegedly one of the reasons that she may not have been a good fit on a liberal network. Okay. Check this out. Vote for honest elections so we, not a foreign adversary, choose our president. So we, not a foreign adversary, choose our president. Vote for the diverse, hopeful America we saw in last night's roll call.

And don't forget, Joe and Kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose. Take it from me. So we need numbers overwhelming so Trump can't sneak or steal his way to victory. I said to McDaniel, I mean, I got this crew. I mean, I'm going to have to start firing people. I told you to run and make that. Of course, that's Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, who's, by the way,

fetid on the left. I'm messing with him, of course. Remember, on the left, you can swear elections are stolen all the time. You have to get millions more votes. You can say it to overcome the cheating. You can talk about that all you want if your last name is Clinton.

Yet if you're Ronna McDaniel, who, by the way, I'm Yet if you're Ronna McDaniel, who, by the way, I'm in no way defending Ronna McDaniel because I don't know Ronna McDaniel. She's never reached out to me ever. I reached out to her once, I think, for a room at the RNC or a booth or something like four or five years ago, whatever the hell, when that was going on. I have no relationship with her whatsoever. None.

But this is obscene. You understand how the destruction of truth is happening before your eyes. And folks, it's not a good thing. I am as serious as a heart attack when I tell you they could trot out the broken computer on the ship tomorrow and nobody's going to believe them. And then what's going to happen is the left wing media people at NBC are going to blame the right and go look at these conspiracy theorists. They don't believe anything. We don't believe anything because of you idiots. have told us the truth about collusion, the laptop, COVID, the lab leak, voter ID, police use of force,

anything, we'd say, okay, we don't like these guys, but at least we know they're honest. I got more here. NBC, the network of like truth and justice. Yeah, okay, sure. Rachel Maddow, their history of bullshit, it's not just Hillary Clinton. Rachel Maddow, their history of bullshit, it's not just Hillary Clinton. The election deniers, the COVID deniers, they were all on the left. Take a quick break. I'll show you what I mean. Folks, we're all getting a sense we're being lied to. Did you plan this on purpose? I mean, what a place to insert a spot, right? We are being lied to. Nobody trusts anyone anymore. It's totally an accident that this spot runs right now. Even worse, it's hard to believe what anyone has to say about it.

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nine. And Chuck Todd said seven. Okay. That's factually not going to work, but it doesn't matter to Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd had to get Ronna McDaniel fired because they don't want to hear from any Republican, no matter how weak or moderate. Then he has the folks. I mean, like seriously, like wheelbarrow those things in like this. Can we get a mini, can someone send a mini, no don't. Right across the desk. Here's what he tweets out. The issue isn't about ideology, it's about basic truth.

It's about truth at NBC. Do you believe this clown? Those trying to make this a left-right issue are being intentionally dishonest. This is about whether honest journalists are supposed to lend their credibility to someone who intentionally tried to ruin ours. We didn't ruin your credibility, asshole.

You ruined it yourself. Is this a serious tweet? This sniveling little muskrat, this little rodent. Here's Chuck Todd, by the way, you want to talk about ruining credibility? Here's a video of Chuck Todd getting the vaccine completely wrong, completely wrong, but it doesn't matter. He's still mad at you and blaming you because early on we dared to ask simple questions like, hey, before we shove this chemical into our arms, does it actually do what it says it does? And Chuck Dodd is like, you're the problem. Sniveling little rodent, you're the problem. And he's wondering why they have no credibility at NBC. Take a look.

Literally, the only people die are the unvaccinated. And for those of you spreading misinformation, shame on you. Shame on you. People are needlessly dying because of your misinformation. Think about it. I don't know how some of you sleep at night who are doing this for a living on television. You see how dramatic, too? I love these fake little drama queens like Sniveling Chuck Todd.

These guys are such posers. When I was a cop, we had a word for guys like this. We call them, they buff out. When they get so into the cop job, they think they're like Starsky and Hutch. You know? They can't let go. Listen, we used to poke fun at them. If you're a cop, you know, they can't let go of everything. We have. Listen, we used to poke fun. Or if you're a cop, you know what I'm talking about? The guy who can't stop, like flashing his badge everywhere. That's Chuck Todd.

He's got to over dramatize everything because he feels like he's acting in a movie. Shame on you. How do you sleep? And I'm surprised he didn't start crying. Shame on us. What for asking questions like, hey, man, you're asking me to stick that thing into my kid's arm, despite the fact that it may have been a little rushed. Maybe we should ask some questions. The Truth Network, NBC, Chuck Todd, Chuck Todd commenting on credibility and it being about truth. Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd commenting on credibility and it being about truth. Here's another one.

Moscow Maddow, Russia Rachel. Hat tip, Mays Moore on this one, by the way. Oh, no, this is her. I'm sorry. This is her condemning the hiring of Ronna McDaniel first. I want to set this up. Then I'll show you the next one. Rachel Maddow, again, another one,

who has been on the wrong side of every major controversy. Folks, there's a bigger point here. It's not just to make fun of these dipshits. Tie it to this bridge story. The reason no one believes anything is because of Maddow and Todd. If they told you the truth in the past, I'm serious, you would say, I don't agree with them, but they were fair. They called out collusion. They said the Hunter laptop was real. They were skeptical about masks and the vaccine. They didn't say cite science as an end game, but a process. Come on, be honest. If they had told the truth, you would disagree with them, but you would be like, okay, that dude's a straight shooter, okay? They're full of shit all the time. That's why this is hilarious. Her losing her marbles over a moderate Republican getting hired at the network. Watch this. I want to associate myself with all my colleagues, both at MSNBC and at NBC News,

who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll. Someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government. I mean, the pretension. attention. Her and Chuck Codd, you see it, just this air of I'm so much smarter than you smelly, deplorable Walmart shoppers. These are who these people are. Folks, listen, man, this is not a good thing. I mean, I laugh at it because if I don't laugh, I'll cry about this whole thing. But the disintegration of truth, not your truth. That's a liberal thing. I don't ever want to hear a conservative say my truth.

There's no my truth. There's truth. That's it. The disintegration of truth is their fault, not ours. We did not start this. We don't trust them because they earned it. Here's Rachel Maddow. This one's hat tip me.

It's more. It's a little compilation. Here's Rachel Maddow. This one's hat tip, Maze Morris. A little compilation. Here's Rachel Maddow from 2017 to 2024 on the wrong side of every major news story of our time. And yet we're supposed to trust her as some bedrock pillar of truth. We're supposed to anchor. This is such bullshit. Watch this. The bottom line of this dossier, the bottom line allegation, the point of it is that the Trump campaign didn't just benefit from Russia interfering in our presidential campaign. The point of this is they colluded, they helped, they were in on it. This is kind of a real story. The connections between the Trump servers and the Alpha Bank servers were real. They were covert communications that someone

was trying to hide, that the Trump Organization and Alpha Bank appear to have been trying to hide. Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus. The virus does not infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. We and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump. It is not out of spite. It is not a decision that we relish. It is a decision that we regularly

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So Andrew Huberman is not a political guy. Let me just say that. Have you heard of him? Yes or no in the chat. I'm just kind of curious as to how many people know who this guy is. He runs a totally, do you know who he is? Tony? Well, Tony's a big health nut too. Evita, you know Huberman? You see Evita knows she does the cold plunging videos. She's seen the cold plunging video. Most of my life hacks come from him and Gary Brekka. The stuff I talk about on the show, yeah, good. A lot of people know. Cold showers in the morning, collagen,

magnesium supplementation, my sleep hacks, everything from houseplants in the room to sleep better at night, to oxygen therapy. I'm obsessed with it. I don't want to die. I had that cancer thing. I didn't like it. I gave it two thumbs down. I don't want to get that again. I want to stay alive. I got from this guy. He's got an amazing show. It's really, really good. Folks, I can't emphasize it enough. This guy has nothing to do with politics at all. He doesn't mention it. He doesn't talk about it. However, and just so you understand the undercurrent of this story that most of the people in the media missed, because conservatives generally, of course there are always going to be some liberals who are into health and fitness. I don't want to stereotype a group of people.

But because conservatives are generally more interested in fitness and this other stuff, while a lot of liberals are lazy bums who don't want to go to work every day, Huberman has a large audience that you could probably classify as right-leaning. Of course, what does that mean, folks? It means you had to take them out. Here is New York Mag, New York Magazine, whatever the hell it is, Andrew Huberman's mechanisms of control. It's an article about his like ex-girlfriends. And it turns out folks get ready for it.

This guy's a man. I don't know. I don't know if I can listen to this guy's show again. It turns out that a couple of ex-girlfriends or friends, one of them said he's flaky and doesn't respond to things. Oh my God. Yeah. Really? Is that, is there a search warrant being served at his home right now by the FBI? Is Peter Stroke involved? He doesn't respond to things. Folks, I got bad news for you. This expose could be done on me tomorrow. I've already told you, if you're in any way, shape, or form putting me on a pedestal, do not do it. You've heard me say a thousand times, I promise I will

disappoint you. I am not worthy of anyone's adoration or anything. I hope you like the show. I've got a job to do. I love my job. I'm glad I can be here for you. I am just a dude. There's nothing special about me at all. I'm flaky too. People send me, people know because I talk to a thousand. There's nothing special about me at all. I'm flaky too.

People send me, people know because I talk to 1,000 people online every day. Probably 900 of them I forget to respond back to. Is this really worth a takedown piece at New York Mag? However much you can't stand these people, it's not enough. Here's Salon, Chauncey DeVega. Forensic psychiatrist on the physical signs of Donald Trump's mental decline, changes in movement or gait. So again, the same people who said, you know, you can't diagnose Joe Biden's mental condition if you're not his doctor, have people diagnosing his mental condition for Donald Trump.

Right. No analysis whatsoever of Joe Biden'siden's gate you know the skip the jet folks you've seen it you know the joe biden skip when he does the skip on the grass and he looks like he's gonna fall every time no analysis of that whatsoever folks these people are crazy but a bit of good news before I move on to speaking to Biden to this election update. Their credibility is shit. It's garbage. Nobody is listening to these people anymore.

Just look at the polls. People trust the three-card Monty Times Square guy before they trust anyone at MSNBC, Salon, or New York Mag. Zero credibility at all. And my guess is you've only made Andrew Huberman stronger, as he now realizes if he's smart. Andrew, you don't know me. I don't know you. But I've been at this game a long time.

We have a really popular show, too. You don't need my life advice. You're a freaking neuroscientist. I'm just going to tell you something, having been in this space. Stick to what you're doing. Don't touch the politics. But I'm telling you right now, the media from this point on is your enemy. And I hope you understand that.

Do not try the Mitt Romney approach where you try to, like, kiss their asses and write. You will get burned every time. Trust me, brother. every time. Trust me. All right. Election update. This is a big, big, big, but not widely known story. But it's super important. Folks, politics are snapshots and soundbites.

But it's also the ability to fund an operation to get your soundbites and snapshots out there. I'm not going to tell you money's not an important part of it. It is. I want to play for you this MSNBC clip. This is a very important story, and it may not seem it as I play it, but I promise you I'll diagnose it for you and tell you why it's important. Come on, break it down.

Coming up in a second. It's about small donors. I want you to listen to this because my experience in politics, this is one of the few spaces I actually did this. Check this out. Small donors, and these are people who give $200 or less. The Biden campaign is significantly lagging the Trump campaign in this one category. And that that is very different than what happened in 2020 in the cycle where this is the full cycle for 2020, where the Biden campaign substantially outraged Trump among small donors. So there is a shift here, and it may reflect the enormous passion of Trump's base

and some of the issues Biden may be having with his small donors. I get it. Could that clip be any drier? We have, what, 123,900? I'm surprised it didn't drop to like 85. I get it. It's a dry clip. You're like, who cares? Oh, you should. That is a huge deal. Why? The Biden team is out there bragging about all this money they have. Folks, the problem with not having small donors and being what they would call top heavy in politics, where your big donors come in, is if you're a big donor who has millions of dollars, you are subject to the same finance restrictions as everyone else. I don't know what the limit is now. Say it's $5,500 one person can give, okay?

It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire. It doesn't matter if you're Bill Gates or Gates Bill. You're still subjected to the same limits. You think Bill Gates drips out $200 donations? He writes the maximum check in the beginning. The point I'm trying to make is Joe Biden doesn't have any organic support on the ground, and all of his money that he raised is probably already there. Nobody can give anymore.

The $200 donor folks can keep giving and giving and giving 200, 400, 600, 800, a thousand up to say whatever the limit is now, 5,600, whatever it may be. They can keep giving. What's the second problem Biden has? That all of his money, it's like a mushroom. All of his money may have been top-heavy. There's no roots there. Folks, my experience in politics, people who give less than $200, the $10 donor, the $15 donor,

they are worth 1,000 times more than their $10 donation. Folks, their $10 donation, just being candid, it's not going to do much. You'll buy a couple of maybe door knocker things you leave on. Maybe that's it. That's not the point. Listen to me here. The guy or the woman who takes the time to go to your website and put in his credit card for a $5 and $10 donation

to all those middle-class folks out there doing that. They are going to be the ones that would run through a freaking fire to vote for you. Not Bill Gates. That Donald Trump is outpacing them is a huge story in small donors. I would rather 1,000 small donors than one billionaire. And you would too. Folks, they were the most active people in my campaign. And for those out there, oh, Dan, I did lose.

We also ran in a race. No Republican ever came within 15 points. We won on election day and lost on a recount. How? We had thousands and thousands of small donors. And if you look at the pictures of that campaign, they're out there knocking on doors every day. Biden's in real trouble, folks.

Real trouble. Does that mean there's going to be a red wave? We're not talking about this. Not on this show. But he's in even more trouble because RFK, as predicted, by the way, what is two thumbs and doesn't let you down? This guy, we got to get RFK out of the race.

He's going to steal Republican votes. That's really funny. RFK picked his running mate yesterday, a lifelong Democrat. Good luck with that. Hope that's working out for you. Why do you listen to other people? I know you don't, you're here, but why, why? You want to listen to the guy who ran, who's been there and been

involved in political campaigns or some other bullshit artists. I think it's going to, I heard a guy yesterday on TV. I think RFK is going to siphon votes from Donald Trump. Really? Anyone in the chat? You got, I got a pretty diverse diverse political audience anyone in the chat yes i'm voting for rfk over trump or no not a chance in hell anyone anyone we've got 126 000 people in the chat right now it's pretty good sample size if you take anyone is anyone vote for rfk the answer is hell to the no. I'm not going to steer you wrong, man. RFK is a Democrat.

So is his running mate, a Democrat. Nobody's leaving to go vote for RFK from Trump's. I mean, you're going to get stragglers, but it's not going to be anything on the level that they're going to leave for this. Also, back to the dementia thing. The reason that Salon now is running this article about Donald Trump and his walk and how he may have dementia.

It's funny how everybody's a doctor now. Everybody's free to make a diagnosis again. It's because the dementia Joe thing is starting to stick. Everybody realizes now that this guy can't spit out a coherent sentence. How do I know that? Always look at this, the chat going crazy. No F-notes, always a few F-notes

in there. The dementia thing is starting to stick, folks. You doubt me? Look at that. Are there any yeses in there? Bocino. Any yeses at all? Again, folks, we got 126,000 people. If your strategy's true, that

RFK's going to hurt Trump, where are they? There's not even one? Come on, man. I want you to listen to this. Karine Jean-Pierre calls into a radio show. Did you hear this? We had to cut some of it out. It's like two minutes, so we had to chop it up a little bit. The radio host, this guy's got balls of steel. I don't know this guy

at all. He's like, hey, man, listen, you know, I've talked to people on the street and all, and they wanted me to ask you this question. Does Joe Biden have dementia? Folks, this is causing real damage. That's why Salon wrote that article about Trump. They're trying to do to flip a room. Listen to part one of this. Listen to her response.

Check this out. When I told a number of people that I was talking to you today, it was interesting, though. They all said, would you please just ask her, does the president have dementia? So before I move on from that, does he? Mark, Mark, I can't even believe you're asking me this question. That is a credibly offensive question to ask. But you know people ask it. Wait, oh, let me, no, no, no, no, no. Mark, you're taking us down this rabbit hole. Let me be very clear about this. For the past several years, the president's

physician has laid out very, in a comprehensive way, the president's health. This is a president, if you watch him every day, if you really pay attention to his record and what he has done, you will see exactly how focused he's been on the American people, how historic his actions have been. And so I'm not even going to truly, truly really, you know, take take the premise of your question. I think it is incredibly insulting. And and so we can you know, we can move on to the next question. So clearly, folks, you want to let me give you a strategy, OK, to analyze the political environment and not fall into sucker traps. OK, here's the best way to do it. Always gauge the effectiveness of your political attack by the response of your political opponent.

If Karine Jean-Pierre wanted, if this wasn't doing any damage, she would have laughed off the question. The reason she responded the way she did is because this line of attack is what you need to double down on, that this guy's not cognitively there. Here's just a quick follow-up. She goes this big long rant about how great joe biden is

and the guy's really having none of it she then just hangs up the phone in the middle of the interview causing her boss another devastating news cycle and another example of another lesson about politics let me warn you about right now so we can learn stuff the streisand effect don't do this the streisand effect is when remember when this. The Streisand effect is when, remember when Barbara Streisand told people, don't take pictures of my house. And then hundreds of photographers showed up taking pictures of her house. Corrine Jean-Pierre just should have done the interview, said goodbye. Thank you very much for your time. Instead, she hung up and now everybody's listening to this interview about dementia. Joe, listen to this.

Because the president took action, we see we are in a different place than we were a year ago on gas prices. Eggs, milk, seafood products, all the important groceries. Those costs have gone down because of what this president has been able to do. And with that, thank you so much, Mark. Have an amazing, amazing day. Wow. Wow. She. Wow. Wow. I mean, Mark, is this you? Listen, I am nominating you to get a press corps badge and you need to go to the White House.

I'm sorry, but you asked three, four incredibly salient, important questions that are all front of mind. Nothing out of bounds. No baba booing or anything like that. Right. And you did it exactly right on. And I don't understand. I don't understand the the fragility of this person. Listen, I'm just advising you as an activist, a potential candidate or just a good, solid conservative. A lot of you have big followings on Twitter and Rumble, get the whole McGroin crew. I mean, you guys got your own posse yourself out there. The Streisand effect is real. If something is going on that is bad for you and your message, like the dementia narrative, which is bad for Biden, the worst thing in the world you can do is fight back harder against it. Just do the

interview. Say thanks for your time. We appreciate it. Hang up. This woman's an idiot. She's so bad at her job. She had a meltdown. And now that thing went nuclear on Twitter yesterday. It's been all over the place. By the way, did you see this? Sorry, but this is a bit of just comic relief here. This is how crazy our politics has gotten. Did you see this video Sorry, but this is a bit of just comic relief here. This is how crazy our politics has gotten. Did you see this video out of Boston? I've been holding this for a couple of days. I'm glad I got to it because I would be remiss if this one in that file he and I put together every year, stuff we never got to. There's a couple of liberals up in Boston who are doing this presser and the press people there, whatever, liberal group, whatever they may be. And they're demanding that the church is there. Give them money for reparations.

Did you hear this? In case you think I'm nuts, this is not a joke. Listen to this yourself and you be the judge. We call on the white church in Boston to join us in supporting a black reparations movement. Standing in solidarity, clergy leaders from across the city of Boston gathered for an interfaith multiracial meeting at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Roxbury, Nubian Square. They're here to ask the religious community to atone for black Boston suffering and support black reparations. And we are coming, as Dr. King said, to get our check. We're coming to get it from who? To get our checks from who?

For me? Why? Why do our checks? From who? From me? Why? Why do I owe you a check? I don't even know you. I've never met you in my entire life. What do I owe you a check for? I owe you a check for a historical abomination that you were not a part, you were, the people who are, both the victim and oppressor are long dead, but I have to pay you for it. Why would I pay you for it?

If I can prove some lineage of something that happened to me seven generations ago in my bloodline or whatever, does someone else have to pay me? Where does that end? How about this? We're not giving you anything, and I'm not giving you anything, and I will be part of no church that gives you anything either. This isn't hard. Let me tell you something. You want to alienate 80% of the United States population?

Let's do victim lineage where we all go back generations to find out how families and communities were wrong and ask people who had nothing to do with it to pay for it now. Good luck with that. A couple more stories I want to get to. Man, I've been warning you about this Biden obsession with AI and artificial intelligence. Why? Because as a good friend of mine who I speak with often reached out, said to me recently, Dan, you're nailing this story. Biden wants control over artificial intelligence, ladies and gentlemen, and their team, not because they're afraid it's going to lie to you. They're afraid because it's going to tell the truth. I put this segment up after that

because the left is obsessed with racial narratives. This Wall Street Journal piece by Ted Cruz and Phil Graham is really good. Biden wants to put AI on a leash. I want you to notice the code words they use for the reasons the government should take over and regulate AI. reasons the government should take over and regulate AI. Quote, racial equity and support for undeserved communities. AI must improve environmental and social outcomes, mitigate climate change risk, and build equitable, clean energy economies.

What the hell does artificial intelligence have to do with AI? The answer, nothing. Here's what's going on. Listen to me. Take this in, ingest it, ingest it's what's going on. Listen to me. Take this in. Ingest it. Ingest it. And remember this narrative. Because this is the truth.

They are afraid AI is going to tell you the truth. And their racial narratives are going to fall apart. If a super intelligence reports on the actual police brutality incidents, what happens with voter ID, the Democrats, what the rich actually pay in taxes. If AI tells people the truth and it becomes the new trusted news source because you can't trust Chuck Todd or Rachel Maddow. See how we did that there? because you can't trust Chuck Todd or Rachel Maddow.

See how we did that there? All of a sudden, you're going to have an unbiased media source out there that's going to discredit every liberal lying narrative you've ever heard. School choice steals from public schools. The rich don't pay enough in taxes. Black people can't get voter ID. Police are randomly hunting black men down in the streets. None of that is true. The Biden team is terrified. Climate change is going to kill you all in 10 years. That artificial intelligence is going to tell people the truth. Not a huge fan of where

artificial intelligence is going right now because of the security risk. But I'm going to tell you something. If we can control the risk side of it, ladies and gentlemen, it may be the greatest revolution in news you have ever seen. There's nothing the modern liberal hates more than the truth. Here, perfect example. Elizabeth Warren getting wrecked by community notes. She tweeted this bullshit out. Jeff Bezos shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

Hashtag tax the rich. Jeff Bezos does not pay anything close to a lower tax rate than a public school teacher. The average teacher salary, community notes notes, is $66,000 at a 22% federal tax rate. Yet those who make over $609,000 are taxed at 37%. The 8.2% rate Elizabeth Warren's referring to is from a 2021 White House study that includes income not presently taxed as part of federal law. Carol Roth makes it even easier to understand in this tweet thread. The White House, of course, is lying to you. This is why Joe Biden wants to control AI.

Here's the study where they get that bullshit number that the rich pay a lower rate than you do. The White House notes that the average federal individual income tax rate by America's 400 wealthiest families, using a relatively comprehensive measure of their income. That includes income from unsold stock. Oh, okay. Oh, you mean so? If you hold stock you haven't sold, therefore it's not income.

The White House has randomly declared it as income. What if the stock loses money? Oh, don't worry about that. You see how they just made that up? Nobody pays stock, capital gains on a stock they haven't had a capital gain from. No one, not the rich, not the poor, not the middle class. But notice how the White House lies to you. They're terrified AI is going to tell you the truth. Carol Roth in her tweet says, this is how Google piles on. She notes, this is what Google looks like when you query a query,

what tax rate do millionaires pay? Google, of course, plays right into the narrative. According to the White House study that I just told you was bullshit, they note that the rate is 8%. That's not the rate. Nobody pays that rate because nobody pays taxes on a stock they haven't sold. Here's the Google search results too. Look at this, all of this left-wing crap. Now do you see why they're so terrified, so scared that artificial intelligence is going to take over and become a bedrock source of news? They have had no, folks, they are absolutely terrified of people speaking truth.

Look at this Fox News story. Here's another one. They cannot have you out there anchoring people in reality. New York judge imposes a gag order on Trump in the brag hush money case. Why? Donald Trump is the biggest microphone in the world and they just can't stop censoring people. I want to end with this quick video today. Michael Schellenberger, just about a minute. He's got a great video he put out yesterday in his social media account. This is Schellenberger talking about how these lefties and the 60 Minutes people, they cannot stop censoring AI, censoring you.

The left's biggest enemy is the truth. That's why Chuck Todd was so afraid a Republican, however weak, and Rachel Maddow were going to work at NBC. Listen to Schellenberger talking about how they're not going to stop. They're going to double down on censorship moving forward. Check this out. The Supreme Court last week, Justice Katansky Brown Jackson expressed unironic concern that the First Amendment restricts the government's ability to censor. Justice Jackson. So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways. And everybody from the New Yorker to the New York Times to NBC are suggesting that the only people

who worry about government censorship are Trump supporters, which is obviously false. The 60 Minutes segment in particular was shocking. Leslie Stahl never mentioned the mass censorship of accurate information about COVID's origins, about COVID vaccines, or the lockdowns. She falsely suggested that shining a light on the censorship activists was tantamount to their persecution. There are people who make the accusation that going after these researchers, misinformation researchers, is tantamount to harassment. And she suggested that if the government didn't do more to censor misinformation, Trump supporters would overthrow the government, which is truly a form of disinformation

aimed at scaring people into giving up our first and most fundamental freedom. We're going to end as we began. There's not your truth and my truth. There's only the truth. And the truth is the biggest enemy of the left. That's why they hate AI. That's why the Ronald McDaniel thing is bothering them.

That's why they want to shut Trump up. And that's why they want to censor you. You are on the right side of history on this. There is no your truth and my truth. There's only the truth. Folks, thanks so much for tuning in. I love that you watch the show on Rumble. We've been blowing up here, 130,000 people today.

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