The Dan Bongino Show - The New Media Era Has Begun (Ep 2000)

Episode Date: April 27, 2023

It’s over for legacy media. In this episode, I address the video that shocked the media ecosystem.  News Picks: Tucker melts the internet down with new video. The fictional world of Karine Jean Pierre. Actor Tim Robbins unloads on corporate media. Newsmax reports a surge in viewers after Tucker’s departure.  Biden caught with a cheat sheet at press conference. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved 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. Oh, my. Oh, my. We have another stacked loaded news day today. The video that I think is going to shake up the media ecosystem caught me by surprise as well last night at 8 o'clock, 8 p.m. We're going to get to that. Big announcement too, Joe. I don't know if you know this, but McGroin is back. Holden McGroin, welcome to the chat. We see you there.

Holden wants to run with me in 2028. We'll see. I'd like to hold my own grind, but if you're Holden McGroin too, it's kind of a McGroin, it's a McGroin conflict, isn't it? This show is already degenerated into madness. I got some economic news. I've got Kamala Harris playing Jenny from the block again. POTUS getting lost again. A lot of stuff to talk about. Please don't go anywhere. Again, loaded show today. Thanks everyone who joined us. Folks, first, let's get to this. Freedomforschool.com. We haven't heard from them for a while. This is an absolutely fantastic outlet here. Leftist propaganda,

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Yes, gosh, we've been together a long time, Joe. How about that, bro? You know, I feel like that's quite a sense of accomplishment. And we have to thank the people responsible, Joe. Yes, yes. And it's not us. It's the audience. You got it. I was going to put on a show no matter. And we have to thank the people responsible, Joe. Yes, yes. And it's not us. It's the audience. You got it.

I was going to put on a show no matter what, but if you all didn't listen, we wouldn't have 2,000 episodes. We wouldn't have even had 20. Joe was with me from the beginning. Joe worked for no salary. I didn't make any money. We did it as a passionate kind of work of activism.

Yep. It caught on. You all made it happen. And, made it, made it happen. And I want you to, you know, just a hat tip to Joe. Of course, the Gee 2 joined this later,

but Joe was the, Joe was the Lone Ranger, man, in the beginning. Me, him, and a basement and some moving blankets

and a RE20 microphone in Severna Park. That's how it all started. So thank you all. And I was a little horrified to know that Joe was unfamiliar with the Conan O'Brien skit.

In the year 2000. Joe did not know about that. If you've never seen it, give it a look. We should call it in the episode 2000. But let me get to this first because we got a lot of material to get to. Kamala, Kamala did it again. Kamala, what is with the Democrats and this fascination with talking down to black voters and minority voters and pretending to be like Jenny from the block? What is, can you just talk like you always talk? Do you have to constantly fake, like, look at me, man, I'm down. AOC did it. Joe Biden, put your back in change. AOC, what was she like?

Listen, listen, listen. Just talk like you normally talk. I get it, you're insecure. I get it, you're a loser. I understand that. So does everyone else. But you look like an even bigger loser when you pretend you're not a loser by talking down to people pretending they're losers here's kamala harris yesterday yo we ain't playing trying to

be jenny from the block check this out and so don't get in our way because if you do we're gonna stand up and we're gonna organize and we're gonna speak up and we're gonna say We're not playing that. Oh my gosh. Will you please stop this insanity, please? I'm sorry I started with this today on a down note, but you have no idea how much this infuriates me. I was a city kid. I actually grew up in New York City, okay? Grew up in an okay area, not the best spot in town, Not the worst. But there were a lot of bad people over there. I don't feel like you need to. Hey, look at these biceps. Let me flex. Yo, bro. Let me show you. Just be normal. Stop with the Jenny from the block routine. It is so pathetic. We're not playing. We get it. You're not playing. We get it.

You're not playing. We get it. We get it. Freaking insulting. Oh my gosh, dude. Please. Please just stop. I'm going to start talking to people in Boston like,

hey, wicked smart car. Dan, you don't talk like that. Yeah, but I'm in Boston. Yeah, but you sound like a moron. Do I? Just stop. Just stop. I shouldn't have

started here. Big mistake. I'm sorry, folks. Horrible mistake. I just... Door's open. It's like the mask thing. It drives Guy crazy. Because when I get in a mask, this stuff drives me freaking bananas. All right.

It gets even worse with the POTUS. He never has any idea, President of the United States. He never has any idea where he is. I want to just hit on this for a second because something happened yesterday with the press. And I'm not sure which story is worse. The fact that the

president of the United States, Biden, got a question in advance from a reporter, which is a major league no-no in the media, or that he didn't get the question in advance and yet already knew what the reporter was going to ask. I'm not sure which one is worse. But before we get to that, you think Kamala's a problem? Here's the top of the ticket, the rotting bag of oatmeal in the White House. Biden never knows what he's doing or where he's going. Here he is at the end of a press conference with the president of South Korea. For the thousandth time, there's a freaking red carpet in front of you. Guy, have you ever been president of the United States?

No, you haven't. Stop it. You ever? No, Joe, you? Never, right? No, never. Let me ask you something. Tomorrow, they say Armacost, Guy Cohen, whatever.

We need you guys. Here, you're going to fill in. You're going to be president for the day. If you're at the end of the speech and there's a carpet in red in front of you, do you walk down the red carpet or do you go the other direction? You walk down the freaking red. That's why it's red. That's. Do you walk down the red carpet or do you go the other direction? You walk down the freaking red carpet. That's why it's red. Just go down the red carpet. It's right there, bro.

I got to calm down. Anyone got a Xanax or something for this show? I'm just, walk on the freaking red carpet. It's red. You idiot. It's freaking red. Here. It's freaking red here. It's a red carpet. This isn't hard.

The Secret Service and the staff, not only that, putting a freaking red carpet. They tell him before the event. They tell him he gets a card. It's not just him. I'm always fair on this. The Secret Service gives every president and the staff, hey, you will do this. You will make remarks. You will work rope line. You will walk the freaking red carpet. Look at this rotting bag of oatmeal in this video. He still don't know

i'm sorry i i just you can't believe we are a nuclear powered we are the strongest known country in the known universe right we don't know about any other country anywhere in any other planet that may harbor life. We're in. And this is the guy, the dude, he's like, where do I go? There's a freaking carpet in front of you, bro. It's red. Walk on the freaking red carpet. You got the South Korean president who could be in a potential nuclear war with Kim Jong-un. And he's like, look at this idiot. He doesn't even understand the guy. Kim Jong-un. And he's like, look at this idiot. He doesn't even understand. The guy, does he even speak English? He's like, dude, the red carpet.

Just walk on it. Oh my gosh. They're briefed on this. And I've said before, tranquilo, bro. Sorry about all the yelling. I've done this for years, okay? I don't have a lot of expertise in a thousand things, but I do have expertise in some things. a minute. They were like, oh, he's given instructions what to do. I've told you because I'm fair and I care about facts, even what involves these idiots. Every president gets that. Walk to podium, give remarks, walk right to left. That's not unusual. What's unusual is they give him the damn instructions and this idiot still

doesn't know what to do with a red carpet in front of him. Here's what happened yesterday. It's a big, the bigger scandal, the whole thing. Biden, of course, because he's a rotting bag of oatmeal. He gets this cheat sheet. Okay. Fox covered it at their website. Biden caught with crib notes, detailing a reporter's question prior to calling on her during the press conference. So there was a crib sheet on there and it had an LA Times reporter and her photo and it had the question. Now, the question she asked was not word for word, but it was definitely along that vein. So now the question becomes,

whereas I just admitted to you, put up the next story that this stuff, the Roosevelt Room story, this was a story up at Fox a while ago that Biden held up a note. It said, you enter the Roosevelt room, you take your seat. It's a story. I get it. I'm not like knocking anyone, but it's only a story because he showed the note. Every president gets that. Okay. So I'm going to give you the fair take. This is not unusual. Don't be, it's, it's, it hit Biden for that is unfair because Trump got this. They all get the same thing, right?

This thing, however, go back to the last one. This is unheard of. I've been the press agent. I worked in the White House for five years. You do not get questions from the reporters in advance. That is a major league no-no. Why? I mean, just think about why. Because if you're screening questions in advance, then the people who are asking questions, it makes the White House uncomfortable, which is, by the way, the sole freaking purpose of the media. Are you going to take those questions, Joe? No. Hell no. Because you know the questions in advance. You're going to call on Joey Bag of Donuts, who asks you, hey, we heard you're really wonderful. Can you tell us how wonderful on a 1 to 10 scale?

Is it an 8 or 9? Joey, that's a great question. I'll answer that. It's a 9.7, sir, with a little bit of room for improvement. He clearly got the question in advance. Now, the LA Times, to give you all sides, these people say, no, we didn't submit this stuff in advance. Now, the LA Times, to give you all sides, these people say, no, we didn't submit this stuff in advance. Honestly, folks, I'm not sure which story's worse right now. I'm not sure. I'm really not. If the question was given to him in advance,

we now have a state-run media. If the question was not given to him in advance, which is a possibility, then you should be asking yourself, isn't that even worse that the White House works with these media people so symbiotically that they magically predicted who was going to ask what? She asks almost the exact same question from the outlet and gets called on first. I'm serious. Which one's worse, fellas? Which one's worse? That they're so connected at the hip that the White House can predict what's going to happen or that they screened it in advance? I don't know. I don't know which one's worse. By the way, hat tip David Marcus on Twitter for that exact question. He posed that. And I read that and I thought, this is an excellent point.

Equally so. Which one? Yeah. Equally that. And I read that and I thought, this is an excellent point. Equally so. Which one? Yeah. We're equally, they suck, right? Yeah, equally. They both suck, both of them. Now, of course, leave it to CNN. They entirely humiliate themselves, as always. Of course, instead of calling them out and saying, hey, listen, we're obviously leftist goons at CNN. We're hacks, we're losers. We're activists. But we are still media.

We shouldn't be screening our questions in advance because the White House isn't going to pick the tough ones. That's not where CNN went. Where did they go? They went with Republicans pounce, of course, because that's just mandatory that they do that. Listen to this clown show right here where they're like, hey, Republicans pounced on this one. Check this out. There was also a moment in that press conference where a photographer captured the notes that President Biden was holding in his hand. And there appeared to be one with the reporter that he was going to call on the first reporter he called on during that press conference. And now there are allegations about whether or not he had the question in advance.

What is the White House saying about what happened here? Well, Kaylin, it's not uncommon for the White House to prepare these types of briefing materials for the president, but it's the level of specificity that is in the spotlight in this moment. As you noted, that note card included the name and photo of a reporter and also a possible question. Now, it's worth noting that her question was not identical to what was on that note card. And the her outlet says that they did not submit any questions to the White House ahead of this press conference.

But we have seen the president in the past carrying around these note cards with details about the events, where he needs to go, the people that he's meeting with now this these types of moments are things that republicans have seized on especially as they have tried to highlight president biden's age again the story is never about the fact that the white house appears to be screening questions or or again to give you both sides or is able to almost perfectly predict them. Either one's bad. Either one's bad. That's not the story. CNN has to make the story, of course, about the Republican reaction to it, not the fact that it's a huge scandal, which it is.

Unbelievable, these ass-kissing losers in the media. Producer Jim from the radio show is like, bro, bro, take it easy. A lot of energy today. You got three hours. I am good. I'm good. I'm good for eight hours today.

I woke up this morning on freaking fire for this. I can't believe it, where we are right now with this whole media thing. All right, I want to move on because last night, I'm scrolling around the media dial at 8 p.m., seeing what's on, trying to spec out all the competition now that 8 p.mM's opened up over at Fox to see what's going on. And boom, the internet melts down yesterday. I mean the entire internet. Tucker Carlson, who looks like he's going to be fighting back.

You know, I like Tucker a lot. Tucker appeared on Twitter last night at 8 o'clock, and he launched a video that, relax him, lady, I'm telling you, I'm telling you is going to change the media ecosystem if it's not already changed. Folks, I said to you the other day on my show that there is a very small group of people on planet Earth who can be agnostic of the platform. In other words, people will follow them because they make news.

They don't cover news. The Howard Sterns, the Rush Limbaugh's of the day, Tucker. There are others out there, too. But it's a small group. Radio hosts. There's a small group out there. They are agnostic of the platform. I said that to you the other day, and now I've got the data to back it up.

Now, granted, to be clear, it's a small sample size. It's one video. But ladies and gentlemen, if it's any indicator, you will see I'm right. That the monopolistic platform days where you had to be here or here or here or over, people can follow you anywhere. Rumble, Twitter, all over the place. Here's what I mean. This is just the last minute and pay very close attention to the end of Tucker's first statement, first official statement. I mean, he had a couple jokes with the press. On Twitter last night, this is the last minute of what he had to say,

and I want you to pay very close attention to the last sentence he utters before he goes off of this Twitter feed last night. Check this out. Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it. Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state. That's a depressing realization, but it's not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won't last. They're brain dead. Nobody actually believes them. won't last. They're brain dead. Nobody actually believes them. Hardly anyone's life is improved by them. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't. The people in charge know this. That's why they're hysterical and aggressive. They're afraid. They've given up

persuasion. They're resorting to force. But it won't work. When honest people say what's true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. That's the iron law of the universe. True things prevail. Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope. See you soon. See you soon. As long as you can hear the words, there's hope. The world's different now, folks. Your ability to, quote, hear the words on multiple platforms is as large as it's ever been in human history.

You used to have to watch it on the ABC, NBC, or CBS nightly news. Joe remembers those days. Or if you didn't read about it in the Washington Post, the New York Post, or the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen, it didn't happen. The days of those people monopolistically controlling the information stream that reaches your eyeballs and your ears are over. Even Mediaite, a left-wing outlet, had to address this fact. Views of Tucker Carlson video posted on Wednesday surpassed viewers of old Fox time slot in less than an hour. Charlie Nash, Mediaite, it's in my newsletter today if you want to read it yourself, surpassed viewers of old Fox time slot in less than an hour. Charlie Nash, mediaite.

It's in my newsletter today if you want to read it yourself. Surpassed it. Folks, that video's at 12 million views. That's at 12 million views. Nobody's doing 12 million views at 8 o'clock anywhere. It's not just that. Media landscape was an earthquake last night with this video. It's not just that media landscape was an, it was an earthquake last night with this video.

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the one-button problem is going to be solved. Stay tuned. I know that's a lot. Another article in the Washington Times, Newsmax reports a surge in viewers after Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox News. We'll see what happens. That happened after Arizona too. A lot of people came back to Fox, but it looks like they've had a surge. 531,000 viewers at eight o'clock is not small potatoes. Ladies and gentlemen, Guy and Joe and I follow the cable news environment. Like I said, anyone who tells you you're not into ratings is lying to you. If you don't, then get out of the business. It's like being a car salesman and

saying you're not into selling cars. Am I into ratings? Yeah, because I'm into success. That matters. I follow this. 531,000, you can see it right there. That's a big number, man. That's a big number. We'll see if they can stick it out with big number, man. That's a big number. So we'll see if they can stick it out with that. I just want to show you as well. Again, I'm just trying to make the point here, not about Newsmax or any one specific place, even mine, but that you can be platform agnostic here. Your content can be in multiple different places. You're not limited to one avenue, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, anything. If you have good content, people have multiple ways to see you now.

Here, look at these numbers. Some important news. When I announced that we were separating, Fox and I, the Dan Bongino Show, 1.77 million people watched that. Folks, my launch on Fox was only 1.7 million people. That's a huge number. By the way, as Joe can tell you, because Joe is audio, Guy is video. That's just the video number. The audio number was a million too. Yeah. So folks, you're talking about close to 3 million people. It doesn't count Facebook or anything else. I'm not knocking anyone. I'm just telling

you again that you have multiple opportunities. The monopolistic platform days are over. The problem is the one button problem. A lot of folks, you know, 40 and older like me, we're not really that tech savvy. You may be, I'm not. I rely on Paula for all that stuff. Okay. I don't know how to, you know, I know I could figure out apps and stuff like that, but I'm, I'm not being self-deprecating for the, for the hell of it. I'm doing it because it's true. I like to hit a button, a power button and have my content on the TV. However, when you figure out how easy it is to just zip through a few buttons on an app, it becomes like second nature. The kids are used to it. I saw this on social media. It was some kind of crazy named account, but walk my aunt through getting rumble on her TV. It took a minute,

but she's thrilled now to see people like Dan Bongino and Steven Crowder. That's out there. And it's a funny name on this. That's why I put it out. But I see a bunch. I get these all the time. Showed my mom, showed my dad how to get you on Rumble, on apps, on the TV, on the computer, how to sling it. And once they figure it out, it's open season, man. It's open season. This new media ecosystem on Rumble and Twitter and elsewhere, it's going to transform the country, folks. It's going to take a little bit of time, but the monopoly on information is over. There is no more ABC, NBC, CBS cable news monopoly on information. There just isn't. A lot of these cable news companies are going to adopt. They're going to find apps. They're going to find SVOD.

They'll be fine. But the monopoly on the cable channel and the television box through your cable box and bunny ears is dead. It's over, man. I want to show you an example of what I mean by this, how the monopolies on the flow of information are going to absolutely destroy the left. So this happened yesterday. Randy Weingarten, one of the top 10 most dangerous people in the country for your kid's future, right? Randy Weingarten, who will do, she is one of one of the largest teachers unions in the United States, was absolutely pushing to keep your kids out of school for the longest time. Now that that is blowing up in her face as furious parents revolt around the country, school board elections, governor's elections, and they're

pissed off about their kids being depressed. Weingarten's trying to change history. So she's trying to use the Fred Siegel triad I talk about in his book, Revolt Against the Masses, how when the Democrats want to get a message out, they use congressional committees, activist groups like the teachers union and the media. Well, while they still have those two, congressional committees and activist groups like the teachers unions, they don't own the media anymore. So I want to play the clip and I'll show you what I mean. Here she is yesterday, absolutely gaslighting everyone that she somehow wanted schools open, which is total bull. And you know it. Check this out.

We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools, but we also knew that people had to be safe. And maybe it's because I live in New York City. I live near a hospital. Every other minute there was an ambulance. There was terror. Our members were terrified. Others were terrified. And what we were simply looking for was clear scientific guidance and when we couldn't get it we did it ourselves and we worked with doctors and we worked at others and we just tried to get it out there okay that's some tier one level bull right there they don't own the media anymore. Twitter is a major source of

journalist information. Hell, I use it sometimes for show prep. Community notes strikes back again. Community notes, if you're not on Twitter, is a feature where the Twitter community can fact check. This was attached to Randy Weingarten's statement by the Twitter community can fact check. This was attached to Randy Weingarten's statement. By the Twitter community. Weingarten is misrepresenting her prior positions. She called attempts to reopen schools. In the fall of 2020. Quote reckless, callous and cruel. And look at all them links.

Look at that. Look you can read the articles yourself. So weird. It's like she's full of crap. Because she is. They don't own the media ecosystem anymore is. They don't own the media ecosystem anymore, man. They don't own it. Tucker showed you last night what's possible. Community Notes shows you today. And to show you how they try to fight back, here's the left trying the triad again.

The triad of congressional committees. I was going to say communists. I mean, congressional committees, the media and activist groups communists. I mean, congressional committees, the media and activist groups, really it's kind of a Freudian slip, but not, right? Here's Jamie Raskin, radical leftist from Joe State of Maryland, right? Just a lunatic.

Here's Jamie Raskin trying to, again, gaslight America that Randy Weingarten wanted to open schools, even though she's clearly, clearly lying. Here's Raskin and he cites, get a load of this, his citation, not the citations in the community notes, which are real.

He cites Joe Randy Weingarten's op-ed in the New York Times. Here, check this out. And you gave a specific blueprint to reopen schools in November and you continued all of this even after the CDC released its operational strategy in February of the next year. And when I went back to Google this to confirm my memory, I found nothing but a bunch of op-eds.

You wrote demanding school reopenings across the country, countless speeches and articles about your advocacy. Here's one I found in the New York Times about you with the headline, and I'd like to submit it for the record, the union leader who says she can get teachers back into the schools. Get that crap out of here. She cites her op-ed in the New York Times. That's what I'm going to do, Joe. You know, if I got caught robbing a bank, I'm going to write an op-ed saying I didn't rob the bank and then introduce that in court as evidence. I didn't rob the bank.

It's an op-ed in the New York Times. Yeah, but you wrote it, Dan. It doesn't matter. It's in the New York Times. Of course, she got totally wrecked by school choice advocate, great guy, Corey DeAngelis, who then again tweeted this out, all these headlines about the teachers unions trying to keep the schools closed. You could read them yourself. Powerful teachers union, influence CDC on school reopenings, email shows. Forget the school stuff for a second. Oh, that's an important issue. The point of today's show is clear. The days of monopolistic control of the media

through linear channels and go here at this time or you'll get nothing, are over. They are over. Community notes, Twitter video, Rumble video. There are thousands of options out there for people to consume content on the web. It's over. All you've got to do is figure them out. All you've got to do is figure them out. I want to show you another video coming up next of John Kennedy, a Senator from Louisiana who I've grown to like a lot because he has very direct questions. He put an abortion,

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They cannot control the messaging anymore. We can use the triad too. Conservative activists, the media and congressional committees. In this case, a Senate committee which had a hearing and they had a radical abortion activist up there. And, you know, the Democrats want to run on the abortion issue. They want to make us look like radicals. John Kennedy paid back the favor. We're radicals.

Do you support abortion right up until birth? Like right up until birth. Babies being born right now. Do you kill it? That's a pretty simple answer if you're a sane person, right? Like right up until birth. Baby's being born right now. Do you kill it? That's a pretty simple answer if you're a sane person, right, Joe? The answer's, well, that's horrible. I mean, that's like murder, right? Pretty simple answer. No, no, no. And the answer's no, Joe. Not if you're a radical abortion activist. The answer is that's a really difficult thing. So let me put a word salad together. Here, take a look yourself. Do you support it being legal to abort an unborn child up to the moment of birth?

Senator Kennedy, it is not a yes or no question. I support women like Ms. Zyrowski. No, ma'am. I think it is a yes or no question. If there were a law, I'm just trying to understand your perspective, and I'm not accusing you of this. Of course not. But, you know, people sort of talk around this issue. If there were a bill that said that a woman has an unfettered right to abort an unborn baby for any reason up to the moment of birth, would you vote yes or would you

vote no? Senator Kennedy, I refuse to be shackled by your question. What I have answered is that there are conditions that occur during pregnancy. You don't know whether you would vote yes or no? There are conditions during pregnancy that mean after 10 weeks, 14 weeks, 20 weeks, 24 weeks. You see, we can do that, too. We can do that, too. You want to run on social issues, lefties, and try to paint us in a corner? We'll paint you in a corner, too. You think it's convenient to run on Republicans or abortion extremists? You want to abort babies while they're being born? You can't answer that question?

Because that sounds to me like a homicide. That's what it sounds like to me. We can do this too. Right, I got a stacked show, so I got to get some more. So I got a news roundup for you here. Some quick stories, and then we'll get back to Nikki Haley,

who I don't need to preface this. I like Nikki Haley, but it doesn't need to preface this. I like Nikki Haley, but it doesn't matter if I like her. I don't even care. It doesn't matter if she likes me or I like her. I'm kind to everybody when I see them in person because I don't want to be a jerk, but I have a responsibility to you, okay? The audience, not to Nikki Haley or anyone else. And she said something yesterday in a Fox interview, so patently absurd that honestly, I really think it's time for her to pull out of the presidential race at this point. I'm serious.

I think it's that absurd. I'm going to get to that. But just a quick news roundup and some stories because I'm not going to be able to. I'm not going to be here tomorrow. I'm very sorry. We had to take a day off. It's nothing major. It's not an emergency or anything like that.

But we're not going to be here tomorrow. So I got to get this stuff out today. Ladies and gentlemen, how do you feel about this bananas story in the wall street journal? The IRS is taking some of the $80 million a billion, excuse me, billion dollar windfall in Austin powers moment they got from Congress. And they're looking at apparently now a pre auditing system. Oh, oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is a great idea. This is a great idea up there with pouring bleach in your eyes, meaning a really bad one. You can read the article yourselves called cooking the IRS study books. They're looking at apparently this tax filing system

and it's going to make the tax collector quote the first and last arbiter of how much Americans owe. In other words, you can go opt into this system and the IRS is going to figure out in advance what you owe rather than you telling them what you owe. Now, folks, the potential for this becoming mandatory is rather large. Can you imagine a pre-audit, a pre-audit, which will probably... Now, I say this how crazy as I can see the lefties. Well, you don't want to pay your taxes? No, liberals don't want to pay their taxes. They're the worst. You want to go through the John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, and others who've had issues in this regard, right? Okay, they don't want to pay their taxes. That's not the point. You're telling me the same government that couldn't even do an Obamacare website is going to pre-audit you and tell you what you owe?

Oh, and they're going to err on your side, I'm sure. I'll take a hard pass on that. Thanks. Here's another one. Red State. Hey, the GOP did it. You may not like all of it. I certainly didn't, but they passed the debt ceiling bill. GOP passed it out of the house. So now I just want you to understand going forward, you can see the coverage by bond sheet, red States in the newsletter, any shutdown of the government now or default it's in the Democrats hands. They control the Senate. They control the white house. Thank you. Have a nice day. Your call now, fellas. There's a default, some kind of interest rate risk you did it you did it wasn't the greatest plan in the world all right i want to get to this nicki haley video in a minute let me get to my

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correct? But you're always welcome here. You're supporting Nikki Haley, you're welcome here too. However, if any one of those people does something dumb, I'm going to call it out because it's my job to you. I don't work for these campaigns. I don't think Trump not competing in the debates is a good idea. Personally. I said that yesterday. All right. On the DeSantis thing. However, I think this battle with Disney is not just about DeSantis. It's about Florida legislators too. It always, oh, DeSantis, DeSantis. But the Florida legislature has taken on Disney and it's the right thing to do. Disney had a special carve out in the state of Florida.

Everybody knows it. It's not a freaking mystery. And they had a special carve out. They were getting their asses kissed by the government. Everybody used to say down here in Florida, don't mess with Disney. I know, I ran down here. And they took that special carve out and started getting involved in far left politics. Folks, I got to tell you, I'm really sorry, but some people are making a political

issue out of this because of the primary. Oh, DeSantis should end this war with Disney. Hell to the F, no, he shouldn't. No, he shouldn't. I'm sorry. This is an existential fight for the role of corporate America in a culture war, rotting our country from the inside out like a damn cancer. And if you don't get that, then it's freaking disqualifying. I'm sorry. And I think Trump made a mistake too about this one. This is a real fight with these people. This is a real fight. Here's Nikki Haley yesterday. Oh, Disney, whatever.

Come to our state. Oh, yeah. Bring all the wokeness over there. Rune South Carolina, too. This is just dumb. I'm sorry. Check this out. You know, as governor, I took a double digit unemployment state and I turned it into an economic powerhouse.

Businesses were my partners, because if you take care of your businesses, you take care of your economy, your economy takes care of the people and everyone wins. And so that's the way we dealt with it. We are South Carolina was a very anti woke state. It still is. And if Disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands of jobs to South Carolina and bring the billions of dollars with them, I'll let them know. I'll be happy to meet them in South Carolina and introduce them to the governor and the legislature that would that would welcome it. No, no, no. With due respect.

Governor, we do respect. That is garbage. You should immediately, immediately retract that. If you don't understand how the conservative fight right now with corrupted, woke, big business is the fight, then you belong nowhere near the White House or the cabinet for that matter either. I can't support anyone like that. You know, I try to stay out. I tell everyone,

you're all welcome here. Supporting Vivek, Tim Scott, whatever. You're all welcome on this show. Everybody deserves a fair shot. And by the way, I'll extend the invitation to Nikki Haley. She wants to come on my radio show.

I will give her a fair hearing. I will not interrupt her. But that is nonsense. The days of the Republican Party, listen to me, man. Focker, be me in the eyes. That's an O for you folks out there, right? The days of Republican Party folks surgically attaching their ass to big business no matter what and the Chamber of Commerce are freaking over. Done. No more free passes. No more tax handouts. No more bootlicking. No more ass kissing.

No more back rubs. It's over. We are a conservative movement that supports capitalism. That means merit. That doesn't mean the government kisses your ass, gives you special carve outs, gives you back rubs. None of that is capitalism. That's crapitalism, okay? And if you don't get that, then you don't belong in the race.

They had a special carve-out in the Reedy Creek District. That's a fact. They used that for years to insert themselves into Florida politics at our expense. And then they took it to fight a culture war, suggesting or implying somehow that it's okay to sexually indoctrinate our kids at a young age. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That is disqualifying. She needs to retract that immediately. You know what?

While we're on the topic of merit, I'm going to skip around. Giannis? Oh, I see his name wrong again. Such a terrible. I don't, folks, I'm messing with you. I follow college sports. I don't listen to nothing about the NBA. I'm actually embarrassed because I grew up a Knicks fan. John Starks, Anthony Mason, Charles Oakley, Patrick Ewing.

And I couldn't tell you a single starting player on the Knicks, even though they're still even in the playoffs. I know they're in the playoffs. So it's embarrassing. But this is great. I don't know this guy, Giannis, but a reporter asked him a question about,

Hey man, you got, did they lose or something? And he's like, you know, is this a failure? Did you waste your time? And the answer,

I rarely play these entire things. It's not that long, but you need to listen to this and show it to your kids where he's like, ask the reporter, like, what are you an idiot? It's a failure. Let me tell you what failure looks like. I got a whole book coming out about this. So this topic fascinates

me how people constantly fall and the chumps stay down and the winners get back up. Listen to this. Do you view this season as a failure? Oh my God. Okay. Because I'm not that up. You asked me the same question last year, Eric. Okay. Do you get a promotion every year on your job? No, right? So every year you work is a failure. Yes or no?

No. Every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal, right? Which is to get a promotion, to be able to take care of your family, to be able, I don't know, provide a house for them or take care of your parents. You work towards a goal. It's not a failure. It's steps to success. You know, and if you've

never... I don't know. I don't want to make it personal. So there's always steps to it. You know, Michael Jordan played 15 years won 6 championships the other 9 years was a failure that's what you're telling me

I'm answering your question, yes or no? ok, exactly so why are you asking me that question? it's a wrong question there's no failure in sports you know there's good days, bad days some days you are able to be successful. Some days you're not.

Some days it's your turn. Some days it's not your turn. And that's what sports is about. You don't always win. Some other people is going to win. And this year, somebody else is going to win. Similar as that. We're going to come back next year, try to be better,

try to build good habits, try to play better, not have a 10- day stretch with playing bad basketball you know and hopefully we can win a championship so 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we didn't win a championship it was 50 years of failures no it was not

it was steps to it you know and we were able to win one hopefully we can win another one oh my gosh is that refreshing in a world full of entertainment and sports star lunatics, wusses, woke-tarians, morons, and LeBron James types, right? To have a guy, I don't care about his politics, not even interested. I know nothing about the guy.

He says he's really good. I don't know. Didn't even say his name right. I don't really care. What he just said there is magic. And you should play that for your kids. You plow ahead. You get off your ass. You fall on the mat. You get knocked out. You get back up. If you can still fight, you fight. You lose a game. You don't go crying in the corner like a

wuss bag, taking your jersey off with your freaking Kleenex, stop the whining. Get back in the weight room the next day and start moving the steel and better yourself so you can freaking win. Everybody fails. Everyone. Everyone. There isn't a single organism

on this rock we call Earth that hasn't taken a major L, a loss in some point in their life. You know what separates the winners from the losers? Not losing. Winners lose too, all the time. All the time. It's the losers get back up

and they don't let the failure define them. I've been fascinated by this topic for the last year of my life. How many successful people took major losses in their life? Folks, play that for your kids, man. Play that for your kids. Play it on loop. Amazing. All right, just a couple more stories. GDP number came in today. It's important for your wallet. Not good, folks. GDP is slowing down, slowing down dramatically. Came in at 1%. Folks, that's bad. We're not even hitting anywhere close

to even inflation. The economy's not growing at the rate of inflation. This is awful. The estimate was 2%, which is equally awful. The previous quarter was 2.6%. This is bad news. Jobless claims not looking any better. A mild improvement, but hovering near 17-month highs. I'm not your financial advisor, folks. I'm just telling you, we're in for some rough roads if we don't get this guy out of the White House and get a hold of this debt ceiling quick. Really rough road. All right, let me wrap on this today.

Rick Scott, who's a senator from Florida, he put out this ad. He's been really aggressive in going after Biden. I personally appreciate it because he's putting a lot of his efforts into it. And he represents Florida. I don't think he's running for president. I'm not sure. I mean, he hasn't announced anything. But Biden is running for four more years. He wants to finish the job, Biden. And he wants more of this.

And Rick Scott asks in this ad he put together, well, more of what? More of this? Even though this report was higher than expectations, it is perhaps no surprise to Americans who know and have been feeling inflation is painfully high. Folks in the bread industry are warning that prices could rise another 35%. I still think we have a very serious inflation problem in this country. That's been the work of my first term. Brand new update from the gas pump. Prices there hitting another record this week.

The rise in record gas prices has been relentless. It's a regressive tax inflation. Those who can least afford it are the ones that get it. Because we all pay the same thing for gas, no matter pretty much how much money we make. We're still a country that believes in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity. What a stupid son of a bitch. Just crossing and migrants I spoke to this morning saying they haven't had any interaction with U.S. immigration authorities.

They just walked right in. Have you ever seen anything like this? Nothing. It's the RCD thing we've ever seen down here. These numbers are still exploding through the roof. They're still at 20 year record highs. Scenes of complete chaos as people clamor to be evacuated. America's longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. There is only one person to hold responsible and that is President Biden. If this isn't failure, what does failure look like exactly?

It looks like failure looks like exactly that. That's exactly what it looks like. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a rotting bag of oatmeal in the White House. You can't even figure out where the freaking red carpet is. You want four more years of this disaster? Spread the word, man. Get out and vote. Register now.

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