The Dan Bongino Show - The New Rules (Ep 1457)

Episode Date: February 15, 2021

In this episode, I discuss the tactics we MUST adapt to defeat the radical left. I also address the disastrous new policies being pushed by the hapless Biden administration. News Picks: Cancel culture hits a fever pitch as tyrannical liberals smell blood in the water. Here’s what the Democrats were really hiding by changing their minds on impeachment witnesses. President Trump’s impeachment attorney absolutely destroys the media in this clip. Ted Cruz asks impeachment managers if Kamala Harris incited a riot.  Why corporations continue to surrender to the radical left. The defund the police fiasco fully collapses. Biden pushes a radical firearms confiscation measure. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. What have I said? What have I said over and over? If we don't adopt the left's tactics soon, there will be no tactics left to adopt because there will be no more people for the left to fight because we'll all be gone. We'll evaporate like an Alka-Seltzer tablet.

There will be no conservative movement, MAGA movement, libertarian movement, or Republican movement left. I've said it over and over. Going to dig into that today as Saul Alinsky's rules make another appearance on the show. Saul Alinsky, leftist organizer. His rules are actually quite effective. That's why we find ourselves in the box we are. I got that today.

I've also got some terrific video from the impeachment fiasco that broke really bad on the Democrat clown show on Saturday. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today. Get a VPN. Don't wait. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino show. Let's get right to it. So a little bit of cancel culture, a lot of video today. Also this block on inflation and the debt you're going to want to hear because it involves your wallet, your future,

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let's go. Here we go. Thank you. Good to be back on a Monday.ay all right let's get right into it with this video so um listen one of the great bennies you know the benny packages and work get some bennies health care whatever it is one of the great bennies of the trump years the trump presidency we're all missing right now is he taught us that the media are hostile enterprise when it comes to the truth largely not all of them, but most of them. And that you should use your microphones, all of them, that's not just Trump, all of us should use our microphone to immediately stop and fight back with a ferocity against false narratives. Use your microphones, whether it's your social media account, whether you're a governor of a large state in Florida like Ron DeSantis, whether you're Donald Trump with the biggest microphone in the

world, everybody should use their microphones to fight back immediately. Here is a perfect example from one of Trump's fantastic attorneys who did a spectacular job in the impeachment hearing on Saturday. Some of you may have seen this clip, some not. It's long. I just wanted to, this is just the end of it. I don't want to play the whole thing because it went viral this weekend. This is Michael Van Der Veen, one of President Trump's attorneys in the impeachment hoax. And again, a doctor of philosophy, PhD level course in a minute on how to deal with the media. Let me set it up quick. He's on an interview with CBS. And one of these alleged reporters is talking about how the Democrats in the impeachment hearing actually doctored evidence.

They added verified blue check marks to Twitter accounts to make the Twitter accounts appear more serious. Look, they're verified. This is a really important person. They actually changed the date on a tweet from 2020 to 2021 to make it seem like the tweet was connected to the january 6th a capital incident they actually doctored evidence and the report is like you know to be fair there's in other words like taking the edge off it like it's not a big deal van der veen shuts that stuff we're on terrestrial radio write down phd course on how to deal with the media check this out i will remind you that what i said was that for our viewers who have not been following all of the hours of of this trial to be clear about what you what you are speaking about and i understand

speaking about the house manager's failure to prove their case that's that that's what i'm telling you they weren't able to prove their case. You have won the acquittal of your client. And if you'd like to continue to talk about this conversation, we can have that discussion. But for me to ask a question. A slanted question that was set up to say it's okay for them to cheat. That was your question. Isn't it okay for them to cheat that was your question isn't it okay for them to cheat i didn't just a little bit you said to be fair it was only a check on the twitter that's what you said you gotta live by your words that's the problem the media has to

start living by the truth and not try to create a narrative. Michael Van Der Veen. Thank you for joining us. I do appreciate. Okay. I see you taking off your microphone now. That was President Trump's defense attorney, Michael Van Der Veen. Oh, oh. My man. There it is. Oh. Oh.

Hi, my man. There it is. Thank you for talking. See, Joe knows the radio rules. There's seven seconds of dead air, and they start going to the best of, because on terrestrial, right, Joe? Terrestrial radio, nobody likes us. So Joe's kind of mumbling in the background to make sure that all our affiliates who are on radio don't go to commercial or something else.

No, we're still here. That's how it's done. That's how it's done. I wish I had the cigar too, but that thing's kind of gross right now. Now people start sending me cigars. What do people do anything yeah oh no god

that's how it's done folks what how what's done so we can learn something from this i never ever like to do shows where we just put it out there and go hey that was great look they really wrecked him they did she he did wreck that journalist but notice how uncomfortable she is when she's confronted by the fact that she tried to frame a question to pitch a false narrative. And rather than answering the question, which affirms the false narrative, what does Mr. Van Der Veen do? He recorrects and reframes the question in the appropriate way and puts her entirely

on the defensive. Ladies and gentlemen, never answer a question from the media. That is not, in fact, a question. It's a statement. Never. That was not a question. She wanted to minimize the Democrats. You get what happened there?

The reporter, air quotes there, wanted to minimize the Democrats manipulating evidence in an impeachment trial. Manipulating evidence in an impeachment trial. Manipulating evidence in an impeachment trial. She wanted to minimize it. By the way, a tactic, Joe, in any criminal or civil trial outside of the Congress

that would get you immediately disbarred. Immediately disbarred and thrown off the trial. A mistrial declared immediately. She wants to minimize it. So she says, well, to be fair, and he doesn't take any of it who is that what's that inside what's going on in there we got like some we got like a green room inside here it's like chaos breaking that's how exactly how this you reframe immediately you

don't let the narrative go forward under any circumstances you stop it right there and reframe it. And notice one other thing he did, which was terrific. Green room chaos. He says at one point, he says, Michael Van Der Veen, citizen. Citizen. Well done, Mr. Van Der Veen. Good job. Van Der Veen did a spectacular job during the impeachment trial as well.

He did another thing. This is during the trial. That was an interview afterwards. Of course, President Trump, which we knew was going to be acquitted on these ridiculous charges, he was up there and he called out another thing that happened.

Here's the actual video from the impeachment trial with Mr. Van Der Veen, one of President Trump's lawyers again, calling out the left on how not only they manipulated evidence, but everything they seem to have is hearsay upon hearsay upon hearsay. It's a, hey, Joe, it's one of these. Tony heard from Bobby that Paula told Tony, Bobby said that he overheard Tony telling Bobby that Marie told, I'm running out of names, Isabel that Amelia told Guy that Drew told Joe that something happened. Now, Joe, what's the reason we don't allow hearsay in trials and we don't allow doctored evidence? Because it's probably a bad idea.

Because you have this thing, as Joe knows, called the phone game that by the time a quote gets to 62,000 people makes it into court it's not actually the same quote anymore someone tells someone the sky is blue by the time it makes it into this uh well by the time it makes it into into the courts the statement is i'm high as loo you're high as loo you've been smoking weed i said the sky is blue that's why we don't allow hearsay but that's not exactly what the democrats in addition to doctoring evidence did and now their second failed impeachment trial trump being now as the babylon b said accurate headline joe the most acquitted president in u.s history acquitted twice they based most of their case on reports they heard in the media not what actual people said

very weird good job by mr vanderveen calling that out to check this out first of all it's my understanding it's been reported uh that um mr mccarthy disclaims the rumors that have been the basis of this morning's antics, but really the rumors that have been the basis of this entire proceeding. This entire proceeding is based on rumor, report, innuendo. There's nothing to it, and they didn't do their work. Just like what happened with Mr. Lee two or three nights ago, work just like what happened with mr lee two or three nights ago some supposed conversation had happened and they had to withdraw that they had to back off of that because it was false it was a false narrative that's how it's done i i have to tell you folks i've never heard of

mr van der veen before maybe some of you know him or don't, but what a job. Unbelievably well done as they took it right back to the Democrats. Inciting violence. Inciting violence? What about your history of inciting violence? And the best case you can make is that someone heard that someone heard McCarthy said this, while McCarthy says, that's not exactly what I heard Kevin McCarthy they're talking about. Well done. Let me repeat what I said in the

beginning. If you're running for office, you're a conservative activist, you're on social media, you all have a microphone. If there is a lesson from the Trump era, I'll say it again. It is that you should use your microphone to always call out false narratives and never ever ask a question that is not a legitimate question, but a statement. Correct the statement and the false framing first.

Correct the statement and the false framing first. Van Der Veen just did it twice. Did you catch it? In the first interview, the reporter tries to frame the question as, well, they may have doctored evidence, but it's not a big deal. He's not answering the question about doctoring evidence until he addresses the reporter who thinks it's not a big deal. Very nice. Secondly, what does he do?

Did you catch it? Joe, are you catching it? Van Der Veen doesn't address the reports because the reports are inaccurate. It's hearsay. He addresses the fact that the Democrats have based their case on hearsay, which isn't even admissible, and he attacks the whole reports narrative. This guy is a genius, this Van Der Veen.

Where's this guy been? Can we hire this guy? Is it possible? Can we hire this guy? We can always use a good lawyer. Can we, Biz Ray probably went through the roof after this. It gets better. So lesson number one, use your microphone. Lesson number two, always, always correct false narratives before answering a question

about a false narrative. We all have to learn this. And we'll get to Alinsky's rules shortly too. Watch this video. Sorry, it's a lot of video, but it's important. I don't like to beat you over the head with video, but today it's critical. Rarely do we start the show with four straight, but that's going to happen today. President Trump's legal team also took the opportunity,

another excellent lawyer, David Schoen, who did a terrific job, to confront the second false narrative. President Trump incited violence on his January 6th speech. He did what? By calling people to march peacefully and patriotically. That's the actual transcript for President Trump's words. How that's inciting violence is beyond me. But if you're a liberal lunatic and your media allies, that probably makes sense to you because you're not sane. So again, instead of addressing that entirely false premise, he attacks the premise head on. That is it really President Trump

that was inciting violence? Maybe before we even get to that question, we should establish who's really inciting violence. And they went on with this six to 10 minute video, I don't remember how long, showing the Democrats calling for a fight, fight, fight, fight,

fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. And it actually inciting violence themselves. He does that. And then he did this. They took the opportunity, the Trump team and their lawyer, David Schoen, for the first time in a long time with a national audience. Why do I say that? Because it's the first time a national audience of people that were watching the impeachment hoax hearing on Saturday. Joe, this is the first time they've heard this.

First time they've heard this. They have been told for four years now, three years, no, four years, that President Trump, after the disaster in Charlottesville and the death of Heather Heyer, they have been told, and people believe it still, Joe, that President Trump said that there were very fine people on both sides. And clearly their narrative was this. The president Trump was talking about white supremacists, that they were very fine people. We call it us interested in the truth, the fine people hoax. Because that's not exactly what president Trump said. And they edited it. They edited the evidence again.

And David Schoen calls him out in this piece where I'm telling you the national audience for the first time is hearing the truth about the fine people hoax. Check this out. Well, this lie traveled around the world a few times, made its way into the Biden campaign talking points, and ended up on the Senate floor.

The Charlottesville lie. Very fine people on both sides. Except that isn't all, he said. And they knew it then and they know it now. Watch this. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me. Excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down excuse me? Are we going to take down?

Are we going to take down statues to George? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now we're going to take down his statue.

So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history. You're changing culture. And you had people and I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists. OK, that's probably the first time people across the country have heard that actual speech because they've been lied to by a propaganda media that wanted you to believe President Trump was referring to white supremacists as fine people, even though he very specifically and clearly in the unedited video, the undoctored video, not the one the Democrats who doctored the evidence used, clearly says, and I am not talking about these white supremacists or white nationalists, whatever he said exactly. He said they are to be condemned completely.

Those are just his words. Those are just his words. Again, an example of takeaway number two from today. Do not answer questions on false narratives. They're not questions, they're statements. By you answering the question, you play into their false narrative. Sean took the opportunity to correct that too. Let's go back to lesson number one, and I want to move on to Alinsky's rules and how they apply to what happened this weekend, where cancel culture are taking oral Dianabol right now.

That's a steroid. For those of you who don't remember the 70s and the bodybuilder Diana Ball era back then, where they probably chewed them like Tic Tacs. Cancel culture is metastasizing. But let me get to this one too. Our good friend Ron DeSantis, who we really love, who is absolutely terrific as the governor of Florida, shows you again how you can use a microphone, not play into media false narratives, and get it out there. Every one of you.

It's not just him. Get the truth out there and reestablish people in a bedrock home of truth and authenticity. This guy does it great. He is going to be a serious, serious contender in the future for the for national office, the presidency, maybe Senate afterwards, whatever he decides. Here's Governor Ron DeSantis using his microphone like we should all be doing to correct this false narrative that schools should be shut down because of some catastrophic risk to students from the coronavirus, which is inaccurate.

Check this out. We follow the evidence and the data. We didn't follow special interests. We didn't follow hysteria. We did what was right by students and families. And we're much better for that. And the fact that you're going to have schools that are going to be closed for this entire school year and probably even into the fall is a national disgrace. Florida led on education. We were there for our working parents. We were

there for our students. And we're going to continue to do that. And we are not turning back. As I said, use your microphone, correct the narratives. Ladies and gentlemen, if you answer the questions without correcting the narratives in advance, Trump called white supremacists fine people false. It's OK to doctor evidence. I'm just, I'm just, you know, to be fair. fair no to be fair is to not doctor evidence correct the narratives use your microphone use your microphone you have power now using social media and other platforms we did not have 20 years ago what were you going to do write a letter to the editor at the paper that was your best option you were lucky it got printed everybody has a

letter to the editor now you're the editor and social media is that tool. Use your microphone. It matters. All right. Now, next I want to get to cancel culture. Absolutely metastasizing. And I want to, importantly, because I never like to leave you without solutions. It's easy to complain. Everybody does it. I like to do it a lot. It's cathartic. Makes me feel good. But solutions matter, not complaints. We'll get to that in a second. Don't miss that block. Today's show also brought to you by our friends at Magic Spoon. Hey, growing up, we all know it. There's no one. I mean, cereal is one of the best parts of being a kid. Was it not? Maybe the best part. You read the back of the box in the morning. We had to give it up, most of us, because we realized, no, I did, because it was full of sugar and junk that

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but Joe had one of his pearls of wisdom again. We'll be covering at the end of the show. We will end today's show today. So you have to stay tuned to the end. I hate teasers, but it's true. It's a seven second video of our hero of the day. Don't worry, I won't sing Metallica again. I don't know, I might, it depends.

I got a lot of complaints about my Metallica singing, how awful it was. But the video at the end of the day, Joe just said it right because he's clever and I'm not. Joe's like, hey, it's another guy who used the microphone. You'll see at the end of the show, our hero with a day. We'll decide on Metallica. I'm going through it in my head now. First, cancel culture. Cancel culture. First, cancel culture. Cancel culture. Metastasizing. And importantly, we're going to talk about how to get it back.

Just the News, John Solomon's site. Great piece today. Cancel culture hits fever pitch. Journalists, critics, actors, TV hosts, musicians in the crosshairs. Folks, really, I'm having a hard time going through all the examples of just the cancel culture episodes that have happened since Friday. I'm not kidding because it's gotten so bad. It's really tough to keep track. We've had reporters since just this last week, reporters, even at liberal rags canceled.

We had Gina Carano, excellent actress and a real American hero right now canceled from the Mandalorian on Disney+. I hope you canceled your Disney+, folks. What else? Oh, oh, The Bachelor. The Bachelor? The Bachelor dude? Is there, Joe, has there ever been a more like benign,

non-political dude than Chris Harrison at The Bachelor? Man. It's like, Tony, do you accept this rose what the what the hell is that do you accept this rose guy got canceled not a joke you may be laughing like come on Dan the Chris Harrison do you accept the rose guy you know his face you may not know his name yes he got canceled too John Solomon Solomon's piece, just the news. Quote, there's blood in the water, folks. Cancel culture is seemingly growing intolerance.

This is, I'm sorry, I hate when I cut myself off, but this is genius. May be related to several factors. According to Philip Smith, a professor of sociology at Yale University. Wow, Yale and an actual moment of brilliance here. Very strange how that happened. Quote, here's Philip Smith, this professor. I guess we can argue that there's an interaction effect between social media,

the psychodynamics of a brief moment of mob power, free-floating anxiety in our age that can latch onto something, and the pleasure of moral indignation, Smith told Just the News. Bingo! Just like Joe Biden when he said he was going to take your guns. Came through with that too. He's trying right now. We'll hopefully get to that later, if not tomorrow. That's important. Two critical takeaways

from that first screenshot in Just the News. A little hyper today, folks. That's okay. First, Joe, what did we talk about last week? We canceled culture. There's power in the mob. There's power. People crave power. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not complicated.

It may sound overly philosophical and metaphysical in some weird way. It's not. It's just a simple tautological truth and fact. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, to quote Lord Acton. People crave power. Why?

Because the same reason we crave Five Guys burgers, because it tastes good. Power just feels good. It leads to things like prestige, a padding of your ego ego it gives people who have sadly and i do mean sadly rather meaningless lives in many cases it gives a meaning and a cause mob power is even better because you can lose yourself in the cause without having to take responsibility

from its outcome. What do I mean by that? Quick story, if I may point a personal privilege here. When I was a police officer with the NYPD, one of the things they used to teach us in riot control training was that if you're looking at someone straight ahead of you and you're on that line holding the bike rack while people are ripping it, taking it apart and trying to attack you and riot, one of the best things to do is if you can get their name to look them in the eye and say, Robbie, calm down. This is brilliant. Why? Why does that matter? Why does a person in the middle of a riot care about having their name and being asked? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. One of the advantages of being in a mob, whether it's a cancel culture mob online or an actual mob in real life, is the ability to emote,

feel your power, so your rights, but not face any of the personal consequences. So you get lost in the collective action. When someone looks you in the eye and says your name specifically, it personalizes you again. It grounds you back in you rather than this collective mob that seems to take over where people just do stupid things. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, I've tried it multiple times. It works. It personalizes people.

It makes them realize what they're doing has consequences. Them, personally. They can't just blame the mob. I know it sounds crazy, but it works. There's power in a mob. Second point that Professor Smith there made is there's pleasure in it, ladies and gentlemen. There's not only power in a cancel mob, but there's pleasure in it. Joe, it's just a fact, right?

If you don't like doing something you stop doing it yeah a lot of things joe and i don't like we stop doing this show has evolved so much from the early soundcloud days you can only find those episodes there that it's probably unrecognizable to people if you just started listening to go back and listen why because joe and i didn't like stuff we're like that's good that's not good you just stop doing it you don't me and joe didn't sit down and go ah we don't like that segment let's do more of it nobody does that we're laughing but it's true so if you don't like canceling people and you get no sense of enjoyment out of it you would stop doing it but they don't it's only getting worse

that's why this is so dangerous but let's go all right now that we've set up the problem liberals they're radical leftist cancel culture acolytes love mob power number one and they get some sense of satisfaction from it number two how do we fight back and what's the the problem? Well, I can tell you first, let's first say what we shouldn't do. What not to do with cancel culture. Sorry, I choked myself there. He also suggested, this is the professor,

a blood in the water effect might be at play. One where folks pile on if they sense humiliation is possible. Quote, whatever the person being canceled says is turned against them and feeds the fire, he said. The best strategy is probably to say nothing and wait for things to go away. The opposite of what businesses are told about the need for an apology up front and right now. Public apologies, of course, are a hallmark of cancel culture. With rare exceptions, public figures often rush quickly to issue apologies on social media in an effort to forestall any more damage.

To quote Joe Biden, who's going to now steal your guns again, bingo, bingo. Apologizing will do you no good, folks. It only feeds the sense of power and the sense of pleasure people gain from having that power overview. They don't care about the apology. Just gas did the rose guy from the battery. Do you accept this rose? Cancel culture is like double-barreled middle finger. Go stuck yourself

cancel culture cares about apologies no not at all so why do you do them because some pr person told me to do it do they have any actual evidence it works no they have none so why are you doing it? So let's talk about now how to fight back and how to win, because I just told you what not to do, which is if you feel like you're being canceled, listen, if you screw something up really bad, you know, you're like a serial killer and you're busted.

Yeah, you probably should be canceled. But for episodes like this, this new craze where everybody's canceled for everything do not apologize make no no it's a waste of your time why would you do it so I now just told you what not to do here's what we do was it Tommy boy I need a culture expert around here Joe's good with music but he's okay with movies but not that great is that a fair assessment Joee i'm not insulting him i'm not a movie guy you're not like joe's not mr movie yeah me i don't see either but i'm pretty sure chris farley god rest his soul and in tommy boy it may have been tommy boy or the one that came after that i i call it the that's your theory approach if you've seen the movie, you know where I'm going. Joe has no idea what I'm talking about. Either this is Paul or anyone else. In the movie, every time someone insults Chris Farley, who plays this happy dunce in the movie, who inherits this company from his dad and doesn't

know what to do with it. Every time someone insults him, he just goes, that's your theory. It doesn't mean anything, but it's the perfect response to everything. When you see the movie, you'll laugh and you'll think of this show. This is the new approach to cancel culture for everyone. No apologies. That's your theory. That's your response for everything. And laugh it off.

Oh, Dan, that doesn't work. Really? Let's go back to Saul Alinsky's rules. Saul Alinsky, famous radical leftist organizer, scion of the left. The left has used Alinsky's, what, 13 rules forever to organize very sophisticated attacks against conservatives, libertarians, and MAGA supporters. libertarians and MAGA supporters. What are his rules? Well, how does cancel culture work? Let's go back to Alinsky rule here. Number one, I'm going to go through three of them here. Here's number one of three we're going to talk about today. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. That's what they do, right? Gina Carano became a target Disney plus Mandalorian actress and who we believe to be a conservative.

She may, she may not be, but based on some of her posts where she does this crazy thing, Joe supporting Liberty and freedom and asking questions, you know, for Bowdoin amongst the cancer. I know very bad amongst the cancer culture crowd. So how did they do it?

Well, of the multitude of targets they had available that day, the radical left decided to pick Gina Carano, freeze it. Don't let her off the hook. Go to Twitter, fake book, all of your biased social media, non-section 230 compliant platforms. Freeze her in place and attack. Personalize it.

Tell stories about how Gina Carano, daring to ask questions about mask usage, has personally led to the death of your grandma, whatever. They probably make most of these stories up. Of course, the connection is totally ridiculous, but they make it personal. I used to say when I ran for office, the left is very good about making things bleed. Bleed, in other words, feel alive. Anything. Make it real. Make

it so you pinch it and it's like you can almost feel it. The left is great at that. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Polarize it. Create poles like like a magnet you're either with us or you're against us how do they do that folks it's genius and for you not to adopt the tactic you'd be foolish yourself you say things like disney plus continues to let gina Carano play Cara Dune in The Mandalorian and act and make a living as an actress. They are definitely anti-science and they're anti-Semitic too. Because Gina Carano posted a statement about the dangers of Nazi Germany in group thing. Well, that connection seems a little weird that she would be anti-Semitic warning about the effects of anti-Semitism.

It doesn't matter if it's real, folks. All that matters is you make it up and you make it convincing in your efforts to gaslight. Thank you, movie dude who sent me this. It doesn't matter if it's real or not. You just made it up. What matters is you polarize it. You're either with us and you fire Gina what matters is you polarize it you're either with us and you fire gina carano one poll or you're an anti-semi huh what the hell

so how do we take the tommy boy that's your theory approach to that well we go to one of solonitsky's other rules yeah this is the same set of rules quote olinsky a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag well if you don't answer and you don't apologize and people like Disney just ignore this, well, what happens? You've unfroze the target. Your polarizing isn't working. Either is your personalization. The tactic starts to drag on and it becomes a real drag because it gets boring after a

while. And it becomes a real drag because it gets boring after a while. Folks, if you're not memorizing Alinsky's rules and using them in this fight we're in now, you are making an enormous tactical mistake. For the moral failings of the man, his rules were genius. And memorizing his rules is the equivalent of a modern day SWAT analysis. Not SWAT like special weapons and tactics like police force. SWOT, S-W-O-T. For those of you who've gone to business school, it's one of the few things.

I learned a lot in business school. It's one of the few things you can use to develop a matrix, to develop strategies for your business. And it works if you do it right. The S and the W in SWOT analysis stands for strengths and weaknesses. And the essence of a SWOT analysis is how to leverage and take advantage of your strengths to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate threats. But it's also how to mitigate weaknesses to forestall opportunities others may have and to cut off threats.

to forestall opportunities others may have, and to cut off threats. Learning Alinsky's rules fits into the SWOT matrix. One, you can use the rules because they work as a strength. But secondly, one of your weaknesses, you've been subjected to the rules. We've been picked, polarized, and canceled. If you knew the rules in advance and that's a weakness, you can mitigate the threats from it because you know what's coming and you know how to make the tactic drag on and make it a drag. Folks, I'm sorry.

This is not like me trying to put myself on some kind of faux pedestal, but there are not enough people in the conservative content creation space right now talking about this. There's a lot of complaining going on, but there's not a lot of like, well, what are they doing? How is it their strength? How is it a weakness for us? How do we make it our strength? And how do we mitigate the weakness by having it used against us? That's tactics. And once we expose the weakness of their position, Gina Carano is an anti-Semite, totally, completely fabricated, made up. She is an anti-anti-Semite. That was the point of her post. Once we expose it, how fake and phony, and we don't apologize, and we make them drag it out over and over and over, it will do what? It will expose the weakness of their position that they thought was a strength,

position that they thought was a strength, their ability to cancel people. Which brings up Olinsky rule number three today. We're going to, there's a lot of them, but we'll cover just three today. Don't ever forget this one. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. It's a strength for our ideological opponents, us thinking they can cancel us at any minute, even though their power is a bunch of kids in their basement on social media tweeting to Disney.

But what happens when that's exposed? And when a company with guts, unlike Disney, doesn't cancel a Gina Carano, and they realize not only doesn't it not affect their bottom line at all, but they'll probably get new viewers on Disney Plus if they hadn't done what they did, because people would be like, wow, that was pretty cool. They stood up to the mob for once. It'll dismantle the house of cards these leftists have been living on the entire time, which is their faux power. Their power is not real. It's fake.

Because they live by the Alinsky rule that power is not what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. And too many people for too long think this is actual organized leftist power. It's a joke. All right, let me get to my third sponsor sponsor and i want to get to a very important story and i got the video our hero of the day i'm leaning heavily towards the not singing metallica because i can't take any more joe and i were laughing joe's actually professional singer not me the most unprofessional of singers ever all right today's show this is producer joe's absolute favorite sponsor our friends friends at Rock Auto.

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No way. There's laundry on the field, folks. Did I not? Joe, you're here. Paula, you've been here. You know the deal. What is the one criticism I had of the Trump administration? The debt and deficits were exploding. The government's spending money. It doesn't happen. So please, I don't know what other conservatives did. A lot of them called it out too.

Not me. I have been consistent on this from day one, so I'm not going to accept that at all. We are in real trouble, like serious trouble. Washington Examiner, federal deficit to hit 2.3 trillion in 2021, the second largest shortfall since World War II. Folks, this is kind of a big deal. Why? I don't know how to explain this in any simpler terms. From everyone out there across the political spectrum who is seemingly unconcerned about this debt and thinks this modern monetary theory stuff is real. Modern monetary theory, also known as MMT, for obvious reasons, MMT says, don't worry, we'll just print our way out of it. That's the gist of it. No problem at all. Really?

So you're telling me that the government paying both people and vendors to provide government services with money we don't have. That's what a deficit means for the liberals listening, that we spent over two trillion dollars that did not come into the government. So we spent it, but we didn't have it. So what did we do? We just made the money up. You're telling me there's no downside to that whatsoever? Oh, sane people like Joseph Sternberg at the Wall Street Journal beg to differ. He's like, hey, what this inflation debate misses. Inflation.

Focusing only on consumer prices allows economists to miss all the other social danger signs of bad prices. Folks, this is a brilliant piece. I'm going to get to three screenshots, but it's important because what is going on here? There are some economists out there who prefer the printing of money endlessly, who are saying, oh, don't worry. You know, in the past, we could print money and it obviously led to inflation. Why? Inflation is a very simple phenomenon, folks.

You print a lot of money and you don't make more goods for the money to buy, then more money is chasing the same goods. So if there's one Kenny Bell right here, it's the Kenny Bell. Want to see the Kenny Bell? Kenny Bell. There it is. If we're not making more Kenny Bells because the economy's struggling

and no one's working to make Kenny Bells, but we're printing more money to buy Kenny Bells, then the one Kenny Bell out there can get more money, can fetch more money at a higher price because there's more money and not buy Kenny Bells, then the one Kenny Bell out there can get more money, can fetch more money at a higher price because there's more money and not enough Kenny Bells. It's not hard to understand. Liberals have a tough time with this though.

So Joseph Sternberg at the Wall Street Journal is like, hey, we're in real trouble here, folks, because we've seen inflation literally take down countries in the past. We're going down the same road and nobody seems concerned about it at all. So we just print more money to pay for stuff we don't have. Excuse me, to pay for items we don't have the tax base to support. He says, quote, pay attention to this. This is not a joke. Something

extraordinary is breaking out at the moment. A debate about inflation. The trigger is this $1.9 trillion stimulus bill Biden and the Capitol Hill Democrats intend to ram through on a party vote. The sum, ladies and gentlemen, is so outlandish that it's making even veteran spendthrifts nervous. This is a quote from Larry Summers. Larry Summers, who was Clinton's Treasury Secretary. I did some work for him in the Secret Service. This guy is no conservative. He is as left these days

as it gets. He wasn't always, but he is now. This is even a leftist saying this. He says, quote, there's a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation. This is a leftist saying, hey, dudes and ladies, this is probably not a good idea to print $2 trillion to pay for stuff we don't have the money for

through the government. That doesn't sound good because the $2 trillion is going to find its way into an economy and there's not enough gavels and Kenny Bells out there to scoop up. Kenny Bell rings for everyone. Scoop up, and we need like a Kenny Bell buffer to absorb all this money.

Ladies and gentlemen, history is flashing red sirens right now. The sirens are going, and nobody is paying attention. Here, second screenshot from the Sternberg piece. the sirens are going and nobody is paying attention here. Second screenshot from the Sternberg piece. Insight emerges from a browse through Ferguson's 1975 history of Germany's hyperinflation. When money dies, that was the name of it. The run up in consumer prices was only part of the way the monetary excesses

of the early 1920s destroyed German society. Other evils abounded. In other words, what he's saying in this next paragraph is looking only at prices, consumer prices, how much the Kenny Bell cost without focusing on where inflation and money printing destroyed society elsewhere is dumb. He goes on. This is what happened when it took down the Weimar Republic. Middle-class investors found the value of an income from their capital wrecked by a phenomenal bid up in prices for financial assets whose nominal gains masked inflation-adjusted plunges. I'll translate in a minute. Financial disorders stoked growing unease, bordering on panic on the part of a bourgeoisie that had relied on its capital investments to

fuel German economic growth and fund its consumption. What are they saying there? This guy's saying, we've tried this in history, the mass printing of money and what happened in Germany that led to its collapse and really a 30, 40 year stretch of disaster. He talks about there was such a panic to get yield and returns on your money as your money got inflated away, that people started chasing other assets, that their nominal gains in those assets couldn't even keep up with the inflation. Simple example. You keep your money in a bank account. Inflation eats away its value. As prices go up and up and up, it takes you more money to buy the same stuff. So if you keep your money in a bank account that doesn't grow as fast as inflation,

you can't buy stuff anymore. So what were people doing? Chasing crazier and crazier projects, speculative projects, hoping to get the return on the next whatever, Facebook or something. And even the nominal returns. Hey, I gained 10% today on my investment in Facebook or whatever, the new Facebook, whatever it may be. Great, inflation was 20%. You actually lost money.

He goes on. A consequence of these chaotic financial markets was a new boom in speculation. The economic miseries of the era were not uniformly distributed, folks. Kind of sounds like something happening now. And the divergence between new classes of haves and have-nots stoked political and personal resentments alongside rampant corruption. Any of this sound familiar? The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? We got a people, GameStop folks fighting against hedge fund managers? Sounds really weird, right? In other ways, too, faint but eerie echoes

of the Weimar era are starting to sound. A curious phenomenon at that time was the emergence of not geld, or emergency money, forgive me if I'm not saying that right, printed by local governments or larger corporations to facilitate commerce amid the collapse of the national money. Is Bitcoin the Notgeld of our day? Elon Musk might think so, given Tesla's recent $1.5 billion bet in alternative currency and his tweet contending bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money ladies and gentlemen absent the opportunity of any reliable investment opportunity because your money's withering away and you're afraid to invest in anything that doesn't give you double digit returns to make you more money than the money you're losing because of inflation. You will have rampant chaotic speculation, financial chaos, and the chasing of yield and increasingly bizarre projects that will eventually lead

to the collapse of everything. Wall Street Journal piece today, the pandemic spending hangover, federal debts reached 100% of GDP even before Biden plans become law. Look at this screenshot. In case you think the printing of money has some kind of an asymptote and we've reached the top, it doesn't. It's getting worse. Look at this screenshot. We have spent more on the, we're spending more right now in the last few years than the entire accumulated debt from the entire time of the Obama era.

The Obama era. The biggest spender ever in human history before the Trump era when we had a lot of debt and deficits too. The entire deficit during the Obama first term was only 5.1 trillion. We're already getting to that in the next couple years. Holy Moses, are we in trouble all right i gotta get to my video but i gotta buy our final sponsor of the day

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and get to the Daily Mail story, please? I got a couple videos of this liberal, you know, crazy person calling for a truth commission, but I'm going to have to get to that tomorrow. You know what?

Involves Potato Head, too, over at CNN, so I don't want to get, I don't want to go redline today. I need to, like, get back down to earth, work out after the show and kind of, like, center, you know?

Story up in the show notes today. Please subscribe to my show notes, bongino.com slash newsletter. Let's just communicate with you directly. Showing you again what I've been warning you about for, I don't know, five to seven years now, as long as I've been doing this show, that liberalism is an all-consuming forest fire and a metastasizing cancer on the collective caboose of the entire globe, not just the United States. And the only way to show liberals the devastating effects, sadly, of their own religion, because that's what liberalism is, is to actually impose real material losses on them from their allegiance to this outrageous

anti-American system of government known as liberalism. What do I mean? It's sad, folks, but some people, you just, you can bring them to the water, but you can't make them drink it. They will die of thirst. Liberals are like that. Remember the whole defund the police movement? Sure. Joe, did we not warn about that?

Yeah. Did we not warn about the stupid? Did we not say, this sounds really dumb? This sounds really stupid. So you have big cities known for high crime, sadly, many of them. And your solution is to defund and get rid of the police officers keeping a lid on the high crime. Who told you that was a good idea? Dopey liberals, because that's what they do best, say dopey things. idea. Dopey liberals, because that's what they do best, say dopey things. Well, sadly, and believe me, I mean sadly, people get hurt here. This is not a joke, but we have warned you you would get hurt. We warned you, did we not? If you defund your police, you will see an explosion in crime,

and in the areas you live in you will get hurt we warned you please don't do it did it anyway daily mail with the longest headlines in human history what happened in minneapolis we warned you there's no time for shouting fraud by the way none it's a time to be deadly serious daily mail headlines so much for defund the police. Minneapolis to spend $6.4 million recruiting more officers following a sharp rise in crime and up to 200 cops quitting after the George Floyd riots and $8 million in budget cuts. I can't take it. I can't take it.

I can't take it. I can't take it. I cannot believe that you needed to be warned about defund have their homes burglarized, their businesses burglarized. That all had to happen before you started to say to yourself, liberals in Minneapolis, maybe those crazy conservatives aren't so crazy and maybe taking away our police officers was not a good idea. Getting goosebumps here because it's one of the saddest damn things i've ever seen i'm not kidding i am this is not a joke i warned every one of you with it over you know decade of my life spent in law enforcement the federal and local level that this was going to result in real people suffering real material losses some of them their lives, and you did it anyway.

And now you find yourself back at square one trying to rehire police officers who quit. Just a shame. And you'll go move out of Minneapolis and bring your stupid ideas elsewhere. Just please stay out of Florida. Please, I'm begging you. Please stay out of Florida. We got a good thing going down here in Florida. Please stay where of Florida. Please, I'm begging you. Please stay out of Florida. We got a good thing going down here in Florida. Please stay where you are.

All right, let me leave you with some good news because it's been kind of a Debbie Downer show today. Sorry about that, but I got to warn you. I ran into a lady, by the way, at the fair this weekend. She says, I had to take a few weeks off from your show after the election. I said, no, you got to get back in the fight. I'm sorry. Everybody, we need to dust off.

This one doesn't straighten out that much. It's hard to do. So here's some good news. Here's a guy in Australia. This is maybe the greatest clip I've ever seen. Here's this guy. I don't know who this guy is, but he's outdoors, outdoors folks, for those of you listening on audio. And he's got a pretty thick Australian accent. This was on their Seven News channel there. And some guy with a microphone on like a 30-foot long stick, because I guess he's kind of triple social distancing or whatever it is. Sir, don't you realize there's a lockdown happening right now? That's probably a British accent more than an Australian one, but whatever. I don't really do those two up.

And the guy's like had enough of this. So if you're not watching this, the video, I have to tell you, is a lot better. But you'll hear a little thump at the end. I'll explain what happens on the other side of this. if you're not watching this the video i have to tell you is a lot better but you'll hear a little thump at the end i'll explain what happens on the other side of this check this guy out here's our hero of the day did you realize there's a lockdown can't wait for some of these things you're gonna be good at dude so for those of you listening on audio don't be reporter he says i i he very very thick australian accent right here he's my i can't wait for these and he says some kind of food i don't know what he's talking about like are they hot dogs or sausage i don't know what he's cooking on this barbecue right now but the guy thinks it's a good idea to stick the microphone guy just

swats the microphone right away like he's not there. That gentleman, microphone swatting guy, as Joe said, everybody use your microphone. Joe was accurate. I use mine. Use your microphone. That is our hero of the day, whoever that guy is. He's had enough of this BS. Well done.

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