The Dan Bongino Show - The Real Reason Behind Biden's War On Easter (Ep. 2219)

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

In this episode, I expose the agenda behind Biden's "Trans Day of Visibility" and the war on Easter and Christianity. The U.S. Already Soaks the Rich Roosevelt Elementary Delenda Est Religious-themed designs banned from White House Easter egg art contest 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 he always tells me like stop talking like everyone can you know hear you when this show goes i'm like yeah that's the point he was like are you ready like all dramatic i'm like i should say something really dramatic like kind of of a Chuck Norris Invasion USA video. Like I was born ready. I was born super drunk, you know, very melodramatic almost. Or sometimes they'll say like, don't be nervous. That's another long story I'll tell you sometime. But the radio host was like, hey, Dan, don't be nervous.

I'm like, I'll try. I'll try. I promise. I'll try to hold it all together. Man, I got a big show for you today. No, today is not a recognition of the day after the trans day of visibility. And as always, I have some comments on these things, but I want to take this thing again from a different angle because I think a lot of people are missing the point. And let me just tell you the point up front.

The trans day of visibility on Easter was a huge success for the white house. And the left, you're probably like, Oh, why? Why? I was cleaning the chimney. We don't have a chimney.

Why? It was huge. I'm not kidding. That's not an April fool's job. And by the way, there'll be no April fool's jokes on it. It's already old on Twitter. And we're not doing any of that.

Everything's going to be straight today. I get it. But that's not the show. It's not the cutesy time show. I'm dead serious. It was a huge success. I'll explain to you why. Coming up.

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And I want to give you just a quick weekend update, all right? Ladies and gentlemen, there is power, real power, the ability to move things, money, attention, culture. There is real power in attention. The trans day of visibility was a success if you understand the dynamics of power. visibility was a success if you understand the dynamics of power. But here's the big caveat emptor, buyer beware. That works the other way too.

If attention is a priceless commodity that really matters, you have the ability now to use the attention game too. Stay tuned. Quick weekend update. It was Easter. One Savior, Jesus Christ. He is risen. And it was an amazing day.

I just got a couple thoughts on this. Went to church yesterday. Father Marty tore it up, as always. He's great. He called out the Trans Day of Visibility, which more preachers and pastors need to do. But the place was packed, which I love to see. But there's a lot of people I saw on Twitter and social media and chatsters, you know, I was talking to you guys early this morning, like nine o'clock or so. I mentioned something about the churches being packed. A lot of people kind of respond to that, and they're like, well, you know,

some of these people only show up at Christmas and Easter. Okay, you're right. You're not incorrect. That was me. What has two thumbs and used to do the same thing? This guy. It's not funny. I don't know.

It's messed up. You're practicing Catholic. That means you can practice Catholicism. It means do this in memory of me, not like say this in memory of me or watch it on TV. You have to go. But that was me for a long time. And you know what?

Every time I went to church on Easter and Christmas only, everybody welcomed me. And folks, keep in mind, no one knew who I was from Adam. I was just a Secret Service guy or a cop. And eventually I came around to my faith. For some, faith is a long journey. For some, it's not. For some, they just find it right away. But Jesus's voice, God's voice is always there. Sometimes people just don't want to listen and it takes a while. So to the, you know,

birth and resurrection folks like I was, be patient with them. Don't be angry about it. And I'm not saying you are. I'm just saying there's a lot of, you know, folks on Twitter, I just saw a lot of these people clogging up the parking lots. That's great. You know what I love to hear in church? Crying babies. And I love to see people there on Christmas and Easter. They'll come back eventually.

Just give them some time. Crying babies are great. It's God's flock. I love crying babies in church. Bring them all. Who do you think is going to be the next generation? I want to say one more thing. Because there's a lot going on in my life right now.

Lost some people, gained some people, really lost one person. And folks, listen, I had an amazing time this weekend with some friends of mine and my family. There's nothing like true friends, man. There's nothing like loyal friends that'll be your diehards. Nothing. That means more to me than ever this week. They'll make your entire life different. And I spent Friday night, my wife and I went out with my daughter who's back from college. You know, I have two daughters, no sons, but two daughters. And we went out and my wife and I had a couple glasses of, you know,

not too much, thankfully, but let's just say fermented drinks or whatever. So my wife and I were just having a good time. We came back and we were sitting around the house and we were playing some music and my daughters came out to sit with us. Totally unexpectedly. My wife usually just and I just hang out on the couch and talk and stuff. We listen to some tunes and it turned out to be, I got choked up like a wuss, man,

but it turned out to be one of the greatest nights of my life, man. My, my wife, I was like DJing on my phone, playing songs for my kids from when my wife and I were kids. Then I played them like some Taylor Swift stuff and I know the words to like every song. It was just an amazing night, man. Just singing songs with my kids, stuff we used to do before these phones got in the way.

And I was a long weekend update folks. Sorry to, that's not for everyone, but the power of friends and family, man. It's glad to be off the phone for a while. All right, let's get to the real stuff. Folks, I need you to understand that the proclamation on the Transgender Day of Visibility launched by the White House, which you can see here up on the screen, that was launched on Easter Easter was a huge success. Because if you understand the left, this is where the show is going to diverge from a lot of the stuff you're seeing and, you know, cable news and elsewhere.

I'm not knocking anyone. I'm just saying they only have a short time to discuss this stuff. And the aim of the Transgender Day of Visibility, the Transgender Month, the Pride Month, Trans Weekend, recognition of trans kids, trans kids awareness, trans kids pets awareness, the Trans Trans Parents Cousins Kids Day of Awareness, your uncle's trans friends week of awareness, The Tuesday, first Sunday of every month, trans. All this stuff is done for a reason. Does the left, chatsters, does the left do anything by accident? Chatsters, the answer is no. They do nothing by accident. Why does the left have 700 awareness days for every single thing out there you can possibly imagine? Because attention is power. It is power.

Listen to me. Listen. Attention is power. You don't understand that. You don't understand politics, okay? Attention is power. Attention is power. Attention is the ability to call attention to a cause, and it is also the Trans Day of Visibility is March 31st every year. It was just a coincidence it fell on Easter. Okay. That doesn't mean the White House had to send out an official proclamation from the White House that, by the way, actually worked there,

unlike some of these other morons commenting. Do you understand this probably had to be vetted by, like, 10 or 15 people? Not a single person thought, maybe Easter's not the best idea. Maybe, like, wait a day. Did anybody think that? Did anybody think that? Did anybody say? You know, it's the holiest day of the Catholic calendar. Jesus rising from the dead and all.

Maybe not the best day for the trans day of visibility. Maybe just send out a happy Easter. And maybe we can do the trans day of visibility tomorrow. And say yesterday was the trans day of visibility, maybe just send out a happy Easter and maybe we can do the trans day of visibility tomorrow and say yesterday was the trans day of visibility. Hey, they did it on purpose. Not the day, this proclamation.

Now, therefore, Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority, I love this, vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, it's all official, to hereby proclaim March 31st, 2024 as the Transgender Day of Disability. Now, I want you to think about the weighing of equities here.

Equities. There are at least 20 people who had to approve this. Not a single person did the basic weighing of equities math. You know what the weighing of equities math? You don't know. We can't be friends, okay? The weighing of equities. If you're a politician, almost anything you say is going to piss some people off, right? And it's going to make some other person happy. You put out a thing, you want to pay off student loans. Of course, a bunch of people who borrowed for college and paid off are going to love it,

while you hate it because you got to pay someone else a student loan. That's politics. I wish it weren't so ugly, but it is. If you stand on principle, however, you do the right thing, not the easy thing all the time. The crazy thing about this is the right thing was the easy thing. This is the nuttiest thing I've ever seen. A lot of times in politics, the right thing and the easy thing are like this. Almost never is the right thing and the easy thing like this. But this one was like this.

The right thing to do was to just wait a day. And it was also the easy thing to do, because think about it. Did someone in the White House go, hey, you think there are a lot of Catholics in the country? Tony, any idea? Probably a few. Tony's like, yeah, maybe a couple. Evita, this is your, you met a few?

A lot, yes. She writes, but she got an article up a bunch, you know,.com about this. You know, is Catholic at all? Evita even likes Latinin mass i can't follow my latins are very good but she loves the latin mess which is great i just i lose track of stuff sometimes i'm having trouble my brain is getting punchy after all the boxing right there's a couple of catholics here and there a few in the house right now nobody said like

right now? Nobody said like, okay, we can do the trans day of visibility tomorrow. And maybe even in the trans community, which is small, a few people be upset. We waited a day, but let's send this out at Easter and let's take off the entire population of Catholics in the United States. Nobody cared. Why? Because this is what they wanted to do. Please, I hope you understand this. Provoking you is the point. Why, Dan? Why would they want to provoke you? Because they want a reaction.

They want a reaction, not a reaction. I should have said that, right? But you just said the same thing. No, I a reaction. I should have said that, right? But you just said the same thing. No, I didn't. They want a reaction, not a reaction. They're looking for a specific reaction. They want you to fire back some thing about trans people being this, that, whatever, so they can use it to go to the trans community and go, look at these people that hate you. You got to understand how the Democrats work, okay? The Democrats don't work by getting you to vote for them because nothing

they want for you is popular. Everything they want for you sucks. It does. If it didn't suck, California and New York wouldn't be leading the globe in a mass exodus. Correct? This is like the liberal heaven, and yet everybody wants out. Okay? The whole Democrat thing, give us your money, send your kids to crap public schools, and let the government run your health care. None of this stuff is popular. The only way they win elections is by getting you to hate Republicans

more. They provoke you to get a reaction, a specific reaction. And when they don't get it and they just get people who respond back disgusted, which you should that they did this on Easter, then they're upset and shocked. Hence the White House's reaction, where they tried even a little bit to dial it back. Because attention is power, always, every time. If you doubt me, you're going to be on the wrong end of the political stick every time. Folks, you got to take note on here. This is not an accident. None of this was an accident. And I want to credit the Trump team for responding immediately. I get it.

I'm a Trump supporter. I understand some Republicans aren't, you know, a lot of Democrats aren't. I'm giving you an honest take here, however, that nobody understands better than the Trump team, the idea of snapshots. I can't say it enough. How snapshots and sound bites create contrast. Short sound clips and pictures create contrast. It wasn't but an hour or so before the Trump team

had this thing up and running, a response to the trans day of visibility. And I want you to understand, all of this is done on purpose by the White House, but the Trump team plays the attention game better. Watch this. As we remember the suffering and death of God's only son and his glorious resurrection on the third day.

On Easter Sunday, we proclaim with joy, Christ is risen. Now, again, that works the other way too. Is Trump provoking people? He is because he's looking for a reaction, not a reaction. What's the reaction he's looking for? He's looking for a bunch of deranged leftists. This is how the game works to respond back. What? We don't like Jesus. Jesus, because then he can highlight that. You get how this works? He's just better at it than they are. Folks, I want to also point out, Evita told me this before we came on the air today,

that the White House is very selective, by the way, the Biden White House, about what they put out on their Spanish-speaking channel from the White House. Did you notice in the Spanish-speaking channel where I got news for you, a lot of Spanish-speaking Americans, they love Jesus like Dan Bongino does. I hate talking about myself in the third person, but what the hell. All right. I love Jesus. I love me some Jesus.

A lot of Spanish-speaking voters do too. Kind of weird how the whole Trans Day of Visibility didn't make it over there. I want to prove to you too, attention is power. Please, man, I'm telling you, if you take a lesson from me, take this one. If you can command attention, it is the greatest power in the world. I'm not going to say who, because I don't want this to sound like some kind of, well, whatever. I'm just going to tell you this. Let's say a person I know very well, who is wealthy by our standards, but not wealthy by rich people's standards. You get what I'm

saying? He still knows how much money is in his bank account. Super rich people, they don't even know. Because he's very influential and people follow him and he can command attention, he sits at the table with billionaires and nine out of ten times all they want to do is talk to him and take pictures with him. Why? Because they're really rich and powerful, but nobody knows who they are.

And it drives them bananas because they can't command attention like he can. Attention is power. The Democrats do this on purpose. The day of visibility stuff is not an accident. It's designed to provoke. And I want you to remember these people on the left can't stand you. Here, I'll prove it to you. Attention's power. Just think I wrote this down. This is just in the last week. Things you've seen that some people on the right go, gosh, why are they doing that? They're really just pissing a bunch of people off. One we just talked about, the Trans Day of Visibility, the Gaza ceasefire protests, right? Everybody's like, what are they doing? They're blocking Biden going to the State of the Union. They're sitting there in New York City traffic, blocking traffic,

ticking people off. It doesn't make any sense. What about the environmental people? You see the video at St. Patrick's Church. I'll get to that. The St. Patrick's, they're doing a mass and a bunch of environmental people are like, whatever, stop cow farting or whatever. And everybody's like, why would they do that? They're ticking people off. You're asking that question. You don't know the golden rule, which is. Attention.

It's power. Every time, every time. I'm going to take a quick break, but I want to play this video for you first. This is John. Forgive me, John, for saying your name wrong because I like this. John Amanchuka, him and his son. No truer words have ever been spoken. It's about a minute but this guy's great he talks about preachers

and pastors this obviously doesn't apply to Father Marty who went for it yesterday which is great but you got to speak up on this stuff cutesy time's over I respect priests who do the right thing but we're all human and you got to make some choices too

got a life changing election coming up. I get the whole Taylor rule, whatever that stuff, Johnson, whatever, all that stuff. But you got to get with the program. Listen to this. Listen, I'm not shocked one bit that the Obama-Biden administration, yes, I said that the right way, that they made Easter Sunday the

National Transgender Day. I'm not shocked by that because we know what they stand for. The question is, what are Christian churches going to do tomorrow? Will your pastor mount the sacred desk and act as if he doesn't know what is going on or will he address the issue and say something about him will he play politics and say you know we're not called to judge and we shouldn't say anything about these issues and we just need to love like Jesus and serve the community well what is your preacher going to say and I'll be the first to tell you this. If you're a pastor, doesn't say anything about this, find a new church, like quickly go online and find another church because you really need to, because your pastor is woke. He's, he's a hundred% correct.

You need to find a new church then. I'm sorry. If you go into a church where the pastor can't speak out against the Trans Day of Visibility memo on Easter, you're in the wrong church. I will never forget talking to a Catholic priest when I was up in Maryland. I asked him, why don't you speak out more about the whole abortion thing?

And he goes, well, you know, we got a lot of people in here who are pro-choice. I said, one, it's not pro-choice, it's pro-abortion. I'm like, what? That was it. That was the last time I was in that church. That happened. That happened. Speak out. Power. Attention's power. Attention's power. Pastors of the world. You don't need any lectures from me. I'm a sinner, okay? I ain't at the top of anyone's moral totem pole. If I am, find a new totem pole. However, I'm telling you right now, that's your job. That's your job.

I said to a friend yesterday, I ran into Justin, intern Justin. His family was in church. And I said to Justin, I was talking about Father Marty's homily yesterday. I said, you know what, if you're sitting there in church and you're a little uncomfortable, he's doing it right. You should be in church because we're all sinners, right? And we should be a little uncomfortable. Right, Evita?

We should all be sitting there when they're talking about sin like, oh, shit, I did that. Not that you should be proud of it, but anyone who wants to make you feel good in church, find a new pastor, I did that. Not that you should be proud of it, but to anyone who wants to make you feel good in church, find a new pastor. I'm sorry. It's not feel-good time. It's not feel-bad time, but it's feel-right time. And sometimes feeling right ain't feeling easy. You should be a little uncomfortable in there. It's the way this is supposed to go down. Rules are uncomfortable. If they were rules and they were easy to follow,

we wouldn't need rules, right? Why would you need rules then? Anyone need a rule to breathe? Rule no more and breathe. Why don't I need a rule? Because you just do it. Why do people need rules? Because people don't like to follow rules.

I'm pointing the finger at me. All right, I got to take a quick break. I got a lot more ahead. They're provoking you, by the way, for a reaction. I'll show you what I mean in a second. They want the reaction because that's what they run on. Americanfinancing.net. Hey, a lot of us are struggling to keep up with everyday bills.

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None of this is principle, okay? None of this is principle. Like, oh, you Republicans don't like trans people or gay people of that. And folks, these people support an Iran deal where they take people who are gay by like the belt and they throw them off buildings. Okay. The Democrats don't have any principles. None of this is about principle. okay? We're the ones who say gay, straight, trans, black, white, Spanish, Muslim, Persian, Sunni. We're all children of God. I have my religion. You have yours. We all have God-given rights.

You practice them in your way as long as we don't violate us. That's a conservative thing. The left doesn't care. There was this faux outrage this weekend. This is a pretty cool account I follow on Twitter. I meme zero. I meme, therefore, I am. It's a pretty cool account. And the Democrats lost their mind this weekend over some random guy on a highway who had some sticker of this Joe Biden thing. Did you see this? The picture appears to be Joe Biden, like tied up or something in the back of a flap. It's a stick or on the back of the truck. Right? So the Democrats of course lost their mind.

Now, again, proving to you, there's nothing to do with principle at all. This guy, I mean, therefore I am, he's got a great tutor.

Didn't Kathy Griffin show a picture with a bloody Trump head, like cut off with like fake, but I don't know what that was like candied syrup or something. Are you guys serious? I mean, we could play for you the montage if I wanted to waste your time of what a Johnny Depp, Madonna,

it's celebrities, singers, Maxine waters, people. If you see them, you get out of your car and you tell them they're not welcome here. They don't care about any of that. They're just making this up.

This has nothing to do with any of this crap. They're trying to provoke you. They want a reaction. That's the whole point. They do this because they want a reaction. Reaction and attention is power. This is their battle against religion, too. Look at this Fox article.

Religious-themed designs banned from the White House Easter egg art contest. Really, folks? Easter has become this cause celeb to attack. They want you specifically to do something crazy. They want someone to go and do something violent. Look, look at those guys are so awful. That's why I always tell you, I beg of you, I implore you as my friends and my family on this show, nothing, nothing like friends and family, nothing. Nothing. Please don't give them the reaction they want. Surprise them with the reaction they don't want, which is pointing out

the hypocrisy. Wait, Dan, you always tell us hypocrisy doesn't matter. It's hierarchy. It doesn't. The radical left is hierarchical. They don't care about hypocrisy because it doesn't matter. But the third party listening always does. That's why it's important to point hypocrisy out, even though that's not the left's guiding ethos. That's not how they're operating. They don't care about hypocrisy. They care about hierarchy. They're in charge and they'll abuse their power because that's what leftists do. But the third party is always listening. So how do we fight back? Well, folks, the rules are the rules. The rules that work for human beings work against liberals too. We can do the same thing. The provocation attention game,

we should be getting a reaction as well. Because if we get the reaction we want, then we can use the same game and say, look at these crazy leftists. Look what they did, folks. And ladies and gentlemen, there's always a third party listening. Your reaction should be to expose, expose these people and pin them down. should be to expose these people and pin them down. Follow Saul Alinsky's rules. The left loves him. The left loves Alinsky's rules for radicals.

And one of them is to isolate the target. Make sure you don't let them off the hook. Why do you think I started with 20 minutes on the Trans Day of Visibility despite you hearing about it all day on Twitter? Because I'm not letting it go today. Why would I do that? We can play the same game they can. Attention is power.

And the ability to provoke is power. They provoked us. Now we'll provoke them back. And now we'll see how they respond to my show. I want to show you, though, how eventually this stuff always wins out. He highlights this segment I'm going to play for you next. Listen, I'm not a fan of Bill Maher, period. Again, I play his clips once in a while for one reason only,

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promise I won't get to because you know what? Trump is right. He just said it. Trump is the master of the provocation principle, right? But you guys are good at it too. What happened with masks? Who are you masks guy? You're not going to get COVID.

I'm talking to my buddy this weekend, the orthodontist, Arvin. I love this guy. He's my best buddy. And it was a group of people and we're all chatting and laughing, having a good time on Easter. And I said with the masks, I said, apply the condom rule to masks. Whenever I say that, people go, what's the condom rule? No, I mean it.

So every single person who wore a mask got COVID. It's got a 100% success record of you getting COVID. Let's say 99. We'll give it, like, some leeway. Nearly every human being wore it being imagine you wear a condom and not only are you not like preventing say pregnancy or disease,

everyone you gets pregnant and you get an STD. Tony, is it not a good... Would you rethink your use of that device? Would you be like, hmm, maybe that's not a good idea? Tony's like, I'm not touching that. Is it not accurate?

You're saying about the mask and a condom, they're both prophylactic devices. Yet everyone who uses it gets this thing you're supposed to protect against. What did you do? You poked them. And you poked them. And you provoked them.

Show us the science. Show us the science. And eventually you got them so crazy that what did they do? And we got pictures of it. They showed up on the beach. In the water with masks on. And everybody was like, shit, these are the dumbest people on planet Earth. And the third party saw it.

What is that? It was Bill Maher clip. You won on the provocation principle. Listen to Maher talk about it. Honestly, I can play this whole thing. It's about a minute, 20 seconds, but love him or hate him. This is true. Watch this.

I get it that we didn't know exactly what was happening at the beginning of COVID and some mistakes were inevitable. But four years on, I'm tired of hearing, well, we didn't know. No, we didn't. But some people guessed better than others. And the people who got it wrong don't seem to want to acknowledge that now. Some people said closing schools for so long was pointless and would cause much worse collateral damage to kids. And they were right.

Thank you. Don't be afraid. Four years ago, the Daily Beast ran a story with the headline, Bill Maher pushes Steve Bannon Wuhan lab conspiracy theory, which was typical of the mainstream media at the time. Of course, it wasn't a conspiracy theory and it wasn't owned by Steve Bannon. And now everyone, including the Biden administration, admits there's at least a 50-50 chance that the virus could have begun in the lab in Wuhan that was doing gain-of-function research on that virus. Duh. on that virus. Duh. But I don't see a lot of retractions being printed. Yeah, when COVID hit, we did a lot of stupid things because America never reacts. It only overreacts. Ubers look like those Orthodox Jews who wrap themselves in saran wrap in case their plane flies over a grave.

We washed the mail. You did that, folks. You provoke them into a response. The same thing with vaccines. And it's now backfiring. The provocation principle and the ability to command people's attention, Donald Trump is 100% correct, epitomizes that. You can play this game too.

I want to show you a couple more examples of what I mean because I always bring the receipts about how the provocation is the point, how they want to hurt you. These people really don't like you. This has nothing to do with principle. If there's one thing I could break down with people who are new to politics and listening to this show who may be converted leftists, I was talking to another dentist friend of mine yesterday who used to be not so much a leftist but was a Democrat,

and once he had that wake-up call, he's now an evangelist for our cause. Once you wake up to the fact that the left, the liberals specifically, aren't just bad politics, bad ideology, and bad economics, but that these people really want to hurt you. They want to destroy religion and they want you actually hurt. Once you wake up to that, there's no going back, folks. They want to take your guns, put your kids in crap schools. I read this yesterday. Again, liberals who were running out there, oh, we're all about the kids and equity and DEI and inclusion, and we got to give people an opportunity,

and you awful Republicans are screwing these kids over. If we're screwing people over, how is it that just about every liberal city has a bunch of crap public schools and you still don't want kids to have a choice? Look at this story out of ABC News, out of Oakland. Oakland's black and brown students lag behind state levels for reading and math.

Oakland, is that a big conservative city? Evita, last time I checked, it was a, not conservative, Oakland, right? I'm not, anybody have a, there's no, no one's, that's, last time I checked, it was not conservative. Oakland, right? Anybody have a... There's no... No one's... Last time I checked, it was very liberal. It was very liberal. They note that the data suggests liberal city, liberal city. You guys looked that up, Oakland. And are there any Republicans elected in Oakland anywhere? The data suggests only two in 10 black and brown students are reading at grade level, which is actually 14 percentage points below the state average,

which is already terrible. And just 1 in 10 are doing math at grade level. That's some equity. DEI, that's some equity there. And that's 10% below the state average. And that the math proficiency is unchanged since, don't worry, 2015. It's not like they've had almost 10 years to fix it. But no, don't worry. Don't worry, 2015. It's not like they've had almost 10 years to fix it. But no, don't worry. Don't worry, folks. They love, they love equity, diversity, inclusion.

They love it. They're all about the equity. Oh yeah, sure they are. I read this story too this weekend. These people hate you. No, Dan, they just dislike us. No, they don't. They really hate you. And when I say you, I'm talking about liberals. Liberals? Liberals hate other liberals? Yes. A lot of these people vote for liberals in liberal cities who turn around and give them the double barrel, middle finger Lerowski. I read this story. I showed it to my wife. I'm like, Paula, what would I tell you? I said, you know, it's like a truth or fiction thing. If I told you the story, do you think this is true or fiction? She's like, that one's tough. Cause I think you

may be making this up. I said, what have I told you? There was this school right in Michigan and it had like a ceiling problem, but it was a classic building structure had been in the community for a while. And because the school had had low attendance, the locals said, hey, let's fix the ceiling and get this building occupied. And a bunch of local Democrats said, no, we need to knock that building down. And everybody started asking questions like,

why do you want to knock the school down? The building's fine. It needs a couple of repairs, but it's okay. And they're like, no, no, just knock it down. Well, why do you want to knock it down? Well, it turns out because there was a charter school operator interested in taking over the building and turning it into a charter school

to give kids in this struggling neighborhood an opportunity to go to a good school. And what did the local Democrats say? Knock it down. Knock it down. Hey, Jim, this may be a, what is it, a Bucky Powder Maker opportunity here? Shoot it down.

Shoot that school down. I said, Paul, is that story real? Is that story real? She's like, yeah, I don't know. So I showed her the Wall Street Journal. I go, no, it's real. Roosevelt Elementary. It's enriched the community for 104 years.

They know a three-story structure with a beautiful Art Deco facade and it educated generations of local students. But in 2022, they had some ceiling problem and the school had to close for a bit. So the school district there, which owns the building, voted on March 18th to demolish it. But not because of student safety.

District officials fear it may someday be used for a charter or private school. Oh, you can't have that. That's, you can't have that. That's, you can't have that. Are you crazy? So they'd apparently, they know, rather destroy a historic community landmark than risk the possibility that families

will have alternatives to the district's educational offerings. Ladies and gentlemen, these people hate you. Hate you. It's not that they don't like you. These people hate you. Hate you. It's not that they don't like you. These people hate you. They need you to understand that. They are trying to provoke you for a reason because they have this hatred of you. The media does it as well, ladies and gentlemen. One of the things in the chat and on Twitter and truth and stuff that I avoid ever is ever insinuating that the media does this stuff by accident. The media lies to you because

they're part of the provocation principle. The media lies to you for one simple reason. You know because they can. Hierarchy. They're in charge. You're not. The media lies to you because they can. Do you know this guy, Constantine Kissin? This guy's got some banger clips out there. Really, really good.

We played quite a few of them. He's doing a little back and forth Q&A. This is a longer segment. I cut it into two relatively brief manageable clips, but he talks about right here, first contact with the media, how when this awakening happens, this is why I brought up the story of the dentist friend. When your first contact with liberalism in the media happens, when I say first contact, that awakening moment where you realize, holy Moses, I've been lied to forever, right? There's no going back ever. Here, Constantine Kissin in this little Q&A, listen to this, this is really good.

He sums this whole thing up about first contact with the media, how you'll never trust them again, using the Charlottesville hoax. How amazingly there are still people out there who believe Donald Trump in that Charlottesville speech, who completely condemned white supremacists. I could play, I'm not even going to bother. I played it a thousand times. You can go look it up, listen to it yourself. Incredibly, there are still liberals out there who believe the lying, hack, goon, socialist, commie media that Donald Trump praised white supremacists in Charlottesville.

You can go listen to it. You can go, but they don't want to because they like being lied to because provocation is the point. Watch part one of this. People should go and look at this. And many people, even in our circle, still believe this. The idea that he said, for example,

that there are fine people on both sides. This isn't true. You can go and watch the video in which he condemns those people. He says they should be condemned. Absolutely. But what they did is they quoted him out of context and then they presented it. And they did this over and over and over and over again. Why did they do it? Because they're not willing to accept that somebody might disagree with them. And if they keep doing this, we are going to get to a very dangerous place very quickly. So in a free marketplace of ideas, one would expect that we would be able to say, here's video, Trump says this thing, here's another version of it.

And that free exchange should, in theory, bring the truth to the surface. That's at least a textbook case that so much of us are familiar with. You know, there's the famous basketball, not basketball, baseball player in theory, bring the truth to the surface. That's at least a textbook case. Yeah, well, you know, there's the famous basketball, not basketball, baseball player in America, Yogi Berra, who was known for his witticisms. And he said, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Well, you know, there's nothing like a good Yogi Berra-ism. That place is too crowded.

Nobody goes there anymore. I loved Yogi, okay? Yogi was great. He actually managed the Yankees for a little bit. Not the most successful managerial run, but he's right. In theory, that should work. But in the real world, it takes time. That's why I played the Bill Maher clip first.

Because I want to assure you, because what Constantine Kitson is saying is right. There is going to be this latency period where the media bullshit narrative kind of settles a little bit, but the latency period is getting shorter and shorter and shorter. The Charlottesville hoax went on, folks, seriously for years. It's still going on now, but that's why I bring up almost to the point where I get it. Some of you in the chat are like, I get it, enough, Ray,

but there's not enough because there's a point. The bloodbath thing, that lasted, what, five minutes? Five minutes before we laughed at them because provocation and attention is a business for us too. We brought attention to your lie. We provoked the left into responding and defending something they categorically knew was fake, which made even more people go back and watch the speech and go,

yeah, you know, Trump didn't say that. We are starting to turn the tide on this disinformation war. The disinformation war is being waged against us. Here's a quick part two. It'll short a couple, worth your time again. Where he talks about how there is no faith in media that survives this first contact. And our job, our duty moving forward,

is to expose these people and pin them down and not let them off the hook. That's why I objected to all these folks saying, oh, let that stuff go. No, don't let it go, ever. That's not your job to let it go your job is to provoke these people back and get them to defend the indefensible like wearing a freaking mask and a beach in the middle of the ocean so we can take a picture of them and go look at these guys don't

be him check this out we have a mainstream media which is dying. It's dying for a reason. And the reason is that they have discredited themselves over a long period of time by spreading things that later turn out not to be true and driving these narratives. I wrote a thread on Twitter that went viral on the subject that I later made as a video, and it's a chapter in my book as well. It was called Why Don't They Believe Us? And the reason people are increasingly not believing the mainstream media is the arrogance with which they have purported

these lies on the publics of the Western countries. I think what is required is a little bit more humility and admitting wrong. And I always say this to someone who increasingly has interactions with people in the mainstream media, giving interviews, et cetera. No personal, you know,

no faith in the mainstream media survives first contact with the mainstream media. It does not. And remember, it's the latency period that matters. It's getting shorter and shorter and shorter. How these people just, it's an endless litany of bullshit

they got away with for 50 or 60 years. That first we put up with, then we stopped, then we challenged. Now we take it back and we provoke them too. You make up a BS narrative, we keep it in the news to highlight your stupidity. By the way, producer Jim has a dumbest members of Congress. He had the tournament of 64. Jim, I think we're down to two.

AOC versus Swalwell. I'm actually stunned Swalwell survived Ilhan Omar and Adam Schiff. But in honor of Jim's tournament of 64, dumbest member of Congress, he's at J.J. Verde. That's the actual bracket. He's at JJ Verde, V-E-R-D-I on Twitter and Truth. You can vote. There's just, I think, a day left.

AOC versus Swalwell. There were thousands upon thousands of votes for this stuff. I'm really stunned AOC and Swalwell made it to the end. Not AOC, but Swalwell. But in honor of Eric Swalwell, he was one of his appearances this weekend. You know they want to take your guns, right? They want to take your guns. Why? Because they want to

provoke you. They want you in danger. They want to make sure they screw over the police at the same time you're not armed so that you can become a sheep because they like sheep because they like people scared. Socialism and communism flows from this wellspring of fear every single time. Here's Swalwell on this weekend trying to argue about taking your guns. I want you

to pay attention to the rhetoric. None of this stuff ever goes challenged by these left wing media types. Check this out. I'm curious if you are less concerned or more concerned about the possibility of political violence in 2024, largely because folks are paying attention and we are having these conversations more consistently. But at the same time, they seem to be growing the threats. Much more concerned. We're still a country that's armed to the teeth, right? The most dangerous people have access to the most dangerous weapons in this country. The violent rhetoric is we saw just yesterday from the former president's truth account where he's glorifying violence continues to go up.

And one one part of this that really concerns me is that the Department of Justice, you know, who is charged with investigating these threats, they are overwhelmed because the investigators are being threatened. So the people who would be typically investigating someone who's threatening an elected official, you know, or a poll worker, that FBI official, that U.S. attorney is also being threatened. So this is just an attempt, as I said, to overwhelm the system. And that makes me very nervous seven months out. Just to be clear again how they want to make sure like you get the double barrel, they got a guy on TV, credibly accused of having a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy,

a guy who lied on TV about a fake Russia collusion scandal for five years. He's on TV arguing to take your guns away, despite the fact that the crime epidemic in America is largely relegated to liberal cities, even liberal cities in red states where liberals run them, right? He's arguing to do all that, and there's no pushback whatsoever. This guy's taken seriously. Hence, although Guy said he's getting blown out by AOC, is this true? That's why he's a finalist. It's still, he should still be honored that he may be the runner up for the dumbest member of Congress. This is the left and we should highlight it too. A couple other things I want to get to before we rock and roll today. This is probably

the funniest story I think I've seen in a long time, because when I read it, I'm like, no way. I thought it was kind of a joke. This is real, right? It's a real headline. So you know how Democrats for years have been about, Tony, remember growing up MTV, like rock to vote. You remember that you watch MTV? That was a whole bit rock to vote, register everyone to vote. How many times have I told you, you want the open border crisis to stop? You want voter registration drives to stop? I don't. I don't. I'm just saying, you want them to stop? Get those items to lean Republican. If illegal immigrants all swore tomorrow they vote Republican, bro, that border would be locked up tomorrow. it wouldn't be a single illegal in the country

the rock to vote voter registration is a good thing i'm saying i'm just telling you and i mean it you want if you're one of these guys say you you're one of these people you hate voter registration i don't want anyone just make sure people you register register republican because you can't tell them how to register. And all of a sudden, it'll slow down. Ah, come on. You're just pulling at it. No, no, I'm not. Washington Post.

Democrats spar over voter registration as worries over young and minority voters grow. You see what's going on here, folks? When you register people to vote, you can't tell them how to register. You know, the many of you in the chat have done that. The reason Democrats do it is they'll go to places like colleges. You'll never see Democrats registering voters at a gun show, rarelyly. Now we'll do that. We'll go to football games, college football games, gun shows,

churches, but you still, if someone says, Hey, I'm going to register to vote and vote Democrat. They do their thing. Democrats are smart. They would go all these places.

They thought they would find a bunch of Democrats. What's the problem. They're going to minority communities and colleges and stuff, and these kids are registering Republican. Watch. Tony, you'll see it next. They'll come out with a new thing. Unrock the vote.

De-register. And they'll make it a Democratic thing. Folks, listen, we're having some problems at the poll. The lines are too long on election day. And liberals will be like, yeah, they believe the Russia hoax is so stupid. They'll say lines are too long on election day. So if you're not going to vote for our guy, maybe you should unregister. And all the liberals will be like, that's a great idea.

Democracy. This is defending democracy. That'll be their new thing. These people are full. They're full of it. They only want to register Democrats. Reminds me of that line when Al Gore and George W. Bush were fighting over the 2000 election. And the Bush team had a good point.

I'm no Bushy. I think you understand that. However, he's far superior than Al Gore, that lunatic, Mr. Jet flying fake environmental guy. The Gore team kept suing over the election not to count votes. That's what they told the public. They only wanted to count Al Gore votes. Look at the lawsuits. Go back and look at the 2000 election. They wanted to count votes in areas where they thought Gore would win votes. They didn't want to count votes, just Gore votes. That's how these people are. The biggest phonies you've ever seen. Speaking of phonies, I told you I keep track of the White House schedule,

even on the weekends. So there's a thing coming up in November. And you guys know that Thanksgiving. Yes, he's correct. That is actually, I think, uh, I think it's a November. I think that it hasn't changed in a while. There's this thing called an election. So, you know, you would think this guy who's down in swing state polls, um, and down in national polls and it's getting crushed pretty much everywhere. Joe Biden would get off his lazy ass and start campaigning. I mean, it's a great weekend to go out and meet people and atone for your dopey email

on the trans day of visibility on Easter. So I looked and I saw in Playbook, what's happening today? This was this weekend. Biden and VP Kamala Harris have nothing on their public schedules. Not even Kamala Harris. Nothing the whole weekend. Absolutely nothing. I told you I'd keep track of this.

Have you ever seen two lazier candidates than this? Ever? I certainly haven't. You know what? Go to the New York Post article. I got something that's tax stuff I'm going to have to get through tomorrow. I'm talking about gaslighting on taxes. I just want to show you this New York Post story about Beyonce.

This is kind of funny. Did you see this story? I don't usually do this culture stuff. It's not really my bag of donuts on the show. I think you know this if you're a longtime listener. I just kind of wanted to laugh at this one because I was listening to some country yesterday. Beyonce revives a dying genre with the instantly timeless country album, Cowboy Carter. Listen, man, I don't listen to Beyonce.

I heard the song. It's not bad. It's cool, whatever. Beyonce is a new album. A dying genre? Beyonce revives a dying genre country? Page Six, Nicholas Houtman? A dying genre.

Have you ever heard of Luke Holmes, Morgan Wallen, Riley Green, Parker McCollum? Anyone? You ever heard of that guy, Morgan Wallen? I've been to a few concerts. He sold a couple albums here and there. One or two. He's only like, I think his song was Spotify streamed like 42 trillion times. Revives the dying genre.

Listen, Beyonce, you do you, man. A good song, whatever. You want to sing country? I love country. Have at it. I'll listen to it, whatever. It's good stuff. A dying genre. Good call. Page six. You nailed that one, Nicholas Hellman. Totally spot on. Absolutely correct. Nobody's listening to country anymore. Nobody except everyone except Nicholas Albin, who clearly didn't do even a little bit of research before. What is this? America's favorite music genres? Who sent you this? Rock, number one. Oh, number two, country. Country, I thought it was dying. I thought it was done. It's only 42% of the music. I thought it was done.

It's only 42% of the music. It's dying. It's a slow, painful death, folks. It's dying. Maybe you should put a mask on. All right, man. I got to bolt. Got to do the radio show in a few minutes. Hey, man.

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