The Dan Bongino Show - The Worst Press Conference Ever # 1023 (Ep 1023)
Episode Date: July 16, 2019In this episode I address the disastrous, Trump-bashing press conference by “the squad” and the real reasons they’re doing what they’re doing. I use some troubling video and audio to show the ...far-left for what it is. I also address Joe Biden’s huge political blunder and the re-emerging Obamacare Debate. News Picks:Shock poll reveals how unpopular these radical Democrats are. This NY paper is demanding that feckless NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio be removed from office. The ANTIFA terrorist responsible for the terror attach this weekend had AOC’s concentration camp language in his manifesto. Blue collar workers are turning on the Democrats. Some GOP operatives are revolting against this new fundraising tool. These statistics on defensive firearm usage debunk liberal talking points. Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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dan bongino ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the dan bongino show after the longest day
ever in the history of the i'm just kidding a lot of you work very hard for the dirt under
the fingernails you local three people out there carpenters steam
fitters tin knockers all you you you you grave diggers i was a guy worked in a cemetery once
it was like even a grave digger you guys work hard but yesterday not a sob story was a long day
i got some sleep i'm up raring to go got Got up in the morning, knocked out the show, got in a car, got to the airport, got to the
five, finished the five, sprinted back to the airport, JFK, got back home at like what?
1.30.
Interesting night after that.
Woke up this morning.
Woke up this morning.
Woke up this morning. Got the show together.
Producer Joe, we cannot introduce the show, of course, without asking you.
How are you today, my friend?
I like the Ramones.
I want to be sedated after all of that.
Jeez Louise.
Yes, I know.
I thought about it this morning.
Holy moly.
But I'm actually pretty feisty this morning.
Hey, you are.
I did a lot of the show last night.
Feisty.
Some new stuff creeped up this morning,
but I got a lot of it prepared.
I hope you enjoyed the five yesterday. We got interrupted a little bit.
Good job.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Nice work.
By the press conference,
which I'll address today,
by the squad,
which was an epic disaster of mammoth proportions.
All right, let's get right to it.
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Nice. Getting a little better okay as i have repeatedly stated to you on the show the left and their love affair with calling everybody a racist xenophobe misogynist
you don't like dogs kittens lizards whatever. Their love affair with identity politics, what we call the istaphobic phobophobes.
They will call you anything ending in an ist or a phobe.
Racist, misogynist, transphobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe.
That's their thing.
I have warned you again repeatedly
that this effort will eventually implode
and collapse on itself.
I don't say it in any kind of a celebratory way.
I'm just telling you it because it's a tactical fact. You know, Joe, I'm not saying it like,
oh, this is so great because the reason it's not great is because while it collapses on itself,
we will all have to deal with these lunatics on the left calling us all racist, xenophobes,
and everything else like they do and like they did with trump uh yesterday um this is going
to go on for a long time but i promise you it will collapse more evidence of what i'm telling you
that the left cannot detach from this and the reason they cannot detach from bogus charges of
racism misogyny xenophobia and uh and otherwise and of these other labels they put on you the reason they can't detach themselves from it ladies and gentlemen is because it works it's a gross label a disgusting
label nobody wants to be called nobody wants to be called a racist and the media will cover for
these disingenuous charges of racism when leftists hurl them at conservatives because the media are
full-time activists they They're not real journalists.
They never were.
None of them.
They don't do, well, not none.
There are some decent, let me,
I want to be more precise.
I don't want to be like a stereotypical idiot
like they do with us.
There are some decent journalists out there
who will call this stuff out.
Sadly, there are very few, to be precise,
because precision does matter.
But largely, the activists posing as journalists
in the media community will cover for
the left because they just hate conservatives folks it is no more complicated than that
identity politics charges and bogus charges of racism you know thrown at conservatives works
because the media will advance the charge and ruin people's careers and ruin their lives which
the media wants to do because they enjoy it because because they just don't like you. It's as simple as that. Now, I've argued repeatedly on the show that this effort will
inevitably implode upon the left because the left will find it too tempting when power is up for
grabs to not use the very same charges against themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, my predictions have absolutely come true.
We have seen Kamala Harris attack
Joe Biden during the presidential
debate, Joe implying
at least he's a racist, and she did it,
Joe, in the most unclever way possible.
You know, Mr. Vice
President, I'm not exactly saying
you're a racist, but you oppose
busing. You're a racist. That's what she's
really saying. Okay, let's get over that.
We had Mayor Pete Buttigieg,
Joe, who had a police shooting
incident in South Bend where he's the
mayor. Implications, again, that
he's a racist because he handled it poorly.
Folks, when power is up for
grabs in a Democrat primary,
all Democrats fighting for power,
the presidential nomination, which is
power, make no mistake, means power, the presidential nomination, which is power. Make no mistake.
It means power.
It means money.
It means donations.
It means influence.
It means the social media following, a cable news contract later if you lose.
There's big money in this.
The temptation to use charges of racism to destroy your opponent is too great.
It is a tactical weapon.
It is a tactical weapon it is a a devastating all i mean nihilistic weapon
and i told you they would implode now we've seen that folks it's happening now in hollywood too
where this endless search for new outrage campaigns and new people to accuse of racism transophobia uh what is it
transphobia i don't even i'm there's so many phobias and istaphobias and istaphobic phobic
phobias i'm losing track yeah right right i'm losing track of all the labels though
even in hollywood there is now a temptation to search for new outrage campaigns.
You'll see this story in the Wall Street Journal today.
It's worth your time.
Identity politics and the Little Mermaid.
Yes, the Little Mermaid.
Even Ariel has been subjected to when I, yes, yes.
No, not Ariel.
What's the song from the Little Mermaid, Paula? Do you remember?
My daughter used to love that movie.
Isabel loved The Little Mermaid.
There's a song in it and she goes for
the princess. I've watched that movie a thousand times.
I can't even remember the song. The Little
Mermaid has been subjected to an identity
politics campaign. Ladies and gentlemen,
Hollywood is eating itself alive.
Now,
under the sea. Yes, that's Now, under the sea.
Yes, that's right.
Under the sea.
Yeah.
Paula to the rescue again.
Save me last night.
Um, this show is crazy.
Out of control.
I need a day for the wink, man.
You do, right?
We need like a special day.
So the power dynamics, dynamics though i want to be
clear on this because again the comment on the story is one thing but i need to give you some
color to it and understand what's going on the power dynamics in politics are different i just
explained to you why the left is eating itself alive with identity politics charges in other
words democrat versus democrat you're a racist you're racist. You're a transphobic racist.
You're a homophobic,
transphobic,
Islamophobic racist.
I can't come back from that fatal.
You know, it's over, right?
That's because they want power.
Kamala Harris wants to be
the president of the United States.
She needs to take out Joe Biden
and do it.
Charging people with racism works.
Period. Period.
Period.
Full stop.
Okay?
That is not the dynamic in Hollywood.
Hollywood, nobody is vying for the presidency.
Well, not yet, at least.
The reason people in Hollywood, and I'll explain.
I didn't forget the Little Mermaid, so I'll get to it in a second, but I want to set up
the different power dynamic.
What's going on in Hollywood is there is a social a social cachet a value a prestige it's a fake
prestige but joe up a chest puffery prestige yeah in being woke what the liberals call being woke
in other words being a social justice warrior who's aware of the sensitivities um who understands
the plight of victimized people around the world. So there's a hierarchy in wokeness.
And there's a constant effort to leapfrog.
Joe, where's Kamala Harris?
It wants political power, right?
The people in Hollywood want social power.
And there is no greater social power in liberal Hollywood than being the most woke, sensitive social justice warrior around.
Now, to virtue signal to others in Hollywood, you're woke and you get it and you're sensitive to this.
And you see all this victimization everywhere and you're a warrior for the cause.
You constantly have to seek out outrage campaigns and
fight against them what's the problem joe they're hard to find yeah in other words what i'm saying
is not that racism xenophobia transphobia islamophobia doesn't exist it does there are
people who don't like people bizarrely for all kinds of reasons unrelated to their character abhorrent nonetheless but it exists but in the united states of today
these exams these examples thankfully because we're a good people here
are very rare as brit hume said yesterday on brett bear's show racism, de facto, and de jure, open racism has been relegated to the most radical
pockets of society that are not accepted in polite conversation anymore.
I mean, think about it, folks. 50 years ago, 60 years ago, in some pockets of places,
you could go into a board meeting and probably say something openly racist and you may not be fired for it
now forget it we have entirely evolved as a society overall to relegate you get what i'm
saying joe do you relegate that to the insane pocket system where if you said that in a board
meet you're out you're done you're finished goodbye see you later we don't deal with idiots
like that right the problem with
finding these outrage campaigns is they're hard so you can't signal your wokeness and how much of a
social justice where you are because it's hard to find these cases so they have to go hunt them down
which requires in this search for social power and wokeness for them to eat each other alive
what happened with the little mermaid
so there's an actress named hallie bailey not hallie barry hallie bailey all right who's
apparently a very talented young performer who happens to be black who tried out for the role
of a live action little mermaid you know it was a cartoon it's going to be like they did with the
lion king and aladdin they're doing yeah you know what I'm saying. There's a live action. She tried out and due to her talents,
apparently got the part.
So some people didn't like it and said,
well, you know, she's black
and the Little Mermaid is white with red hair.
And the left erupted.
Oh my gosh, that's racist.
Why you guys can't say that?
She's a black actress trying to play the Little Mermaid.
Now, as the Wall Street Journal piece points out, that's awfully ironic because the left
made the exact opposite argument about actress Scarlett Johansson playing a trans person
in a movie called Rub and Tug, which she had to pull out of.
Follow me here.
It's a little complicated, but it is the perfect example about how
Hollywood can't even, they don't even
understand what their own rules are.
So in the Scarlett Johansson
case, Scarlett Johansson
is a woman.
She's playing a, I think it's a
trans woman in a movie called
Rub and Tug.
It's a family-friendly show. We'll leave the description
out there, right? Yeah. She's forced to pull out of the leave the description out there right yeah she's forced
to pull out of the movie no pun intended there she's forced to pull out of the movie because
hollywood says you're not a trans person okay so you should not play a trans woman or man in the
movie what well she's an actor it's called acting she's acting joe that's what acting
joe was not an actor joe was a performer at one point though but yeah she's acting yeah that's
your job yes so the holly let me just get this straight joe right i'm trying to digest this
whole thing daddy oh so the mo here i know dealing with their principles because they don't have it
he's confusing but so your principle now is when you're an actor,
you cannot play a part that does not fit exactly how you identify or who you are.
Is that the rule?
So Scarlett Johansson is not trans so she can't play a trans man in this movie.
That's your principle.
And they only did it why joe because the people in hollywood that turned this outrage campaign on scarlett johansson they didn't really
mean it they they wanted to signal to the public yeah we are woke look how woke we are we are
sensitive to the needs of the trans community we have social social power. Right, yeah, right. You cannot play someone
you don't fit exactly the mold of.
But then when it comes
to a black actress,
who, by the way, earns the part,
who's playing a white cartoon character,
and then some other people said,
well, the character's white with red hair,
the left went crazy.
No, no, no.
She should be able to play whoever she wants.
She's an actor.
Yeah.
An actor. Even the Journal, by the way, which is a pretty moderate
mainstream outlet.
The Journal's like, I don't get it.
Like, what are the rules?
Do white
actresses have to paint white parts?
Black actresses, black...
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care who plays what.
I don't care.
I don't get into this,
oh, is James Bond going to be black or white or his Spanish?
If you're a good actor, rock and roll, bud.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter.
I always thought that talk of idris elba being james
bond was pretty cool i'm not virtue signaling anyone oh you're doing i don't care he's a good
actor and he looks pretty tough on screen don't care it's the left that cares but ironically when
the left's own rules you have to be exactly the role are applied to this new thing the left goes crazy that people
don't like it
there is no consistency
because it's a signal
system of wokeness now
what's really going on here
now Joe as the ombudsman did that
make sense the story that made perfect
sense the left is upset that some
people are complaining that a black
actress is
playing a white cartoon character at their convenience because they're that yes but then
they're also complaining that scarlett johansson's not trans is playing a trans part and she has to
pull out that's right the rules are different here's the reason joe they don't mean any of
this it's all disingenuous in the scale of virtue signaling and wokeness you have to signal
your social power it seems to them if they complain about the complaints about the little
mermaid role that they're being sensitive to the black community uh-huh i know it's hard to figure
out folks but i'm telling you it is the the takeaway from this story yeah and it's going to play into the the squads press i
got footage on don't go anywhere i've got some unbelievable video from that i'm going to get
into that too is this is what happens when you engage and marry yourself this is the takeaway
to identity politics as your only political weapon it is only a matter of time before virtue signaling and power
hungry politicians, Hollywood
elitists and others, use that same
tool against other
people to gain either social
or political power, even when
the rules are completely inconsistent.
You must play exactly the part.
Someone complains. She's not playing
exactly the part. That's racist!
That's racist! I thought you just said you had to play the part that's racist that's racist that i thought
you just said you had to play the part exactly that is racist now you don't believe me that
this is gonna this is gonna entirely implode into a remember joe do you ever watch the wwe
growing up was the wwf back then yeah. Remember like the, I forget what they call those matches
where everyone would go in the ring
like a Royal Rumble
and the last guy standing,
there'd be like 40 guys in the ring
and the ham and eggers would get thrown out first.
Like, you know, remember like Iron Mike Sharp?
He used to,
Iron Mike used to get beat up by everybody.
Iron Mike Sharp be the first guy thrown out
and then the last guy would be like Hulk Hoganogan and andre the giant or something this is what you have to understand
that this love affair with the left and identity politics this is a royal rumble where sooner or
later everybody's going to get thrown out of the ring everybody there will be nobody left standing
nobody because it will it is cannibalistic by nature they will start
just like the royal rumble accusing everybody and anybody at any time of being a racist because they
have fallen in love with the tactic you know you doubt me listen to this 10 second clip of some
knucklehead on msnbc making now a universal declaration about every Trump supporter in the world.
You're all racist now.
If you're supporting Trump, you are a racist at this point.
I'm not afraid to say it and no one should be.
Dude.
Vegas Tennell.
By the way, who named this guy Vegas Tennell?
Vegas Tennell.
You have no moral authority whatsoever, Vegas Tennell, to be calling people around the country racist.
None.
You haven't met them.
You don't know them.
You don't know the reasons they vote for Trump or don't vote for Trump.
You have no idea.
You're an idiot, Vegas Tennell.
And you saying that is disgusting and gross.
But that's what liberal idiots do.
They engage in gross, stereotypical rhetoric like this. Meanwhile, we have a woman, Ilhan Omar,
AOC and others, who engaged in one of the most vile attacks I've seen in my lifetime in that
epic fail of a press conference yesterday happened while I was on the air on the five.
And I'm sure Vegas Tenhold said nothing about that. if he has vegas send me an email i'll happily put it on the
show you can issue a statement condemning ilhan omar for her by the way statements that require
no interpretation openly anti-semitic attacks on jewish people openly not even hiding it. I'll wait for your statement on that. Of course you won't issue it.
You're all racist now, folks.
Yeah.
This tactic, by the way, Joe,
remember worked so well in the Hillary campaign?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Remember that one?
You're all deplorables.
Oh, yeah.
The left never learns because they can't.
Let me tie this up now.
Just bring it back to the beginning.
They can't and they can't get away from these racist charges of racism and xenophobia.
These identity politics tax.
They can't because they have no self-control and because it works.
But ladies and gentlemen, it is a long-term disaster.
You might throw Iron Mike Sharp out of the ring,
but eventually you're getting thrown out of the ring too.
It's only a matter of time.
We're witnessing it now.
Okay, I've got some really, really great video of,
and by great, I mean awful,
of this epic fail of a press conference
yesterday by the squad, showing how they just completely lied, and their utter refusal to
condemn a terror attack, basically, on American soil, which is just hard to believe.
All they had to do was do it, so stay tuned for that.
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we really appreciate it all right moving on so yesterday the squad had a presser and uh
let me just discuss first but the squad some of the things they said that are outrageous i don't
want to play the whole thing because it's uh there were moments of it that were just bizarre yeah but ayana presley who
is a congresswoman uh and probably the least known member of the squad from massachusetts just based
on name id ayana presley opened up by talking about how powerful these four uh democrat congresswomen
are saying the squad is powerful and it's large well there's some polling out there that seems to
indicate quite
the opposite ladies and gentlemen uh bongino.com in the show notes today please read it ouch
internal dem poll reveals aoc omar wildly unpopular ladies and gentlemen the squad which is uh for
some reason decided they're going to attack donald trump with bizarre uh racism charges listen
whether you like the tweets or don't like
the tweets, I'll bet the president going back would have worded it differently. I would. No one,
I guess I said yesterday on the five, no one wants to be called the racist folks. OK, you know,
I don't buy into all these charges of 4D chess all the time. No one wants to be called the racist.
Having said that, the president is categorically not a racist. That is an absurd comment. I've met
the president. It's just stupid. But the media feeds off it. But AOC and Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib indicated
they have some kind of political power. They may have some messaging power on Twitter,
but remember, they put forth the Green New Deal. How many votes did they get?
They got zero. Yes, zero. As in the absence of value, as in one minus one. They got zero votes.
That's some power, Joe.
Zero?
Put that in comparison.
My bill, the Dan Bongino bill, to make the Dan Bongino show
the official podcast of the conservative movement,
that bill got as many votes as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal.
I'm not kidding.
You may be saying there was a bill.
No, it got no votes.
There was no bill.
But it got the same amount as the actual bill, which was the Green New Deal, which is zero.
The Dan Bongino Show, as the official podcast of the conservative movement, got the same
amount of votes as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, which is zero.
That's some power there.
Their effort to stop the, yes, stop.
I said that right.
Stop funding of the border crisis and get these kids and these facilities at the border up to snub.
They tried to stop that because that's what they do because they don't want to help the kids at the border.
You know how many votes they got on that?
Four.
Four. They tried to stop it. They tried to block the bill and the border. You know how many votes they got on that? Four. Four.
They tried to stop it. They tried to block the bill
and it was those four.
The squad. Now, on the
Bongino.com piece, which is fascinating,
there was a poll taken and it leaked.
Believe me, the Democrats are now with someone.
Joe, who do
you think leaked this, by the way?
Now, let me just give you a little background.
So, here's the top line takeaway takeaway the poll was devastating aoc and ilhan omar have some pretty
substantial name id in the party so that's a good thing in other words people know who they are right
the worst thing in politics is nobody knowing who you are right right even worse il Ilhan Omar's favorability, Joe, was 9%.
Nine?
Not nine, zero.
Right.
Nine.
Nine percent.
AOCs was in the can, too.
I don't remember, but it was far, far.
I think it was something in the 30s.
It's in the piece.
Their favorability was awful.
Now, those numbers wouldn't be bad if nobody knew who they were
but people know who they are and they don't like them right so you got four votes just you four in
the squad four out of 435 members of congress on your effort to stop border raid you got four
all four of you talking to each other you got zero zero, the same amount I got on the damn Bongino bill
on your Green New Deal.
Your favorability is at 9%.
You have no allies
in Congress on the Hill at all.
Only in the media,
nobody listens to you anymore. Been completely
disregarded by sane members of the American
public. And her first comment,
Ayanna Pressley, when she goes, the squad is
large. We have power. No, you really don't thank you not to mention blue collar workers are turning
on these uh proponents of these ridiculous programs like the four members of the squad
here's another interesting piece that's in the show notes today encourage you to read
american miners god bless you work for a living in one of the most difficult jobs out there.
American miners are now turning on the Green New Deal.
Head of the Miners Union in the Hill calls Green New Deal's main goal, quote, almost impossible.
You have nothing.
You have a nice Twitter following.
That is it.
You'll sell a book.
You'll get a Netflix documentary.
You have done nothing to actually implement the change you think you're implementing.
This is all bluster, folks.
It's all bluster.
I tell you this not to insult them, but to tell you that our efforts to highlight their ideological inadequacies and their ignorance about economic policy are working.
Some of you questioned me, which is fine.
I leave my email for the show
because I want to hear what you have to say.
Paula, how many emails do we get?
Stop talking about AOC.
You're giving her a megaphone she doesn't need.
We got these emails all the time.
No, folks.
What they want to do is creep under the radar
and be ignored and And then boom,
this is how people like the socialist government in Venezuela take over class warfare, rhetoric,
rhetoric, boom. Next thing you know, we get a Maduro or a Chavez elected and we're looking
at the implementation of socialist policies. They're opening, they're openly running on this
stuff. The way you challenge it and break them down is by calling them out and driving down their political capital, which me and many others, I'm not taking credit for this at all.
I wouldn't dare be that pretentious.
Me and many others, Rush, Mark Levin, Hannity, have managed to drive their approval into the ground because now people know who they are.
Of course, moments like this don't help either.
This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congresswoman leaving the hearing yesterday,
being asked by Rebel TV, this is their video, hat tip to them,
video. Hat tip to them.
Asking her if she's willing to condemn the Antifa terrorist attack
this weekend in Tacoma, Washington.
Watch her answer
or lack thereof.
Will you condemn Antifa for the attack in Washington?
It's easy
to condemn a terrorist attack.
Will you be condemning Antifa?
They firebombed an American facility.
Will you condemn them?
Excuse us, we have to get to the mini.
Will you be condemning them?
Do you feel like you have some responsibility in the attack with your rhetoric about concentration camps?
Are you responsible? Do you feel ashamed?
How hard is that? Now, listen, because we actually do facts here, unlike the left AOC, Ilhan Omar and others who lie so effortlessly and fluidly all the time about the president and conservatives like vegas tuland or whatever his
name was ill uh aoc did issue a statement later to the daily caller saying yes she basically
condemns antifa good good for her i have no reason to hide that um but joe how hard was that in that
question to answer that you had an antifa member engaged in a terror attack who tried to blow up an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington,
who was killed by the police officers in the process of the attack.
An Antifa member, by the way, who in his manifesto, as you'll see in this Daily Caller piece I'll put up in a minute,
an Antifa member who incorporated in his manifesto AOC's concentration camp language
when AOC referred to detention facilities
as concentration camps.
Now, Joe, by the left's own logic,
right, that conservatives incite
violence by talking
about liberty and freedom. Okay, whatever.
This guy, this terrorist
actually incorporated
AOC's language into his manifesto.
So by the left's own rules, is she
responsible?
Now, because we're principled here and we're not lunatics
like the left, of course she's not.
As I said before about the
Virginia shooter,
shout out Steve Scalise and the ball field,
idiots are
responsible for their own idiot
criminal actions, okay?
End of story.
But those are our rules because we're principled,
but that's not the left's rules. The left's rules are if you were a Tea Party member
seven years ago and you go out and kill someone, the Tea Party's responsible.
So how is AOC by the left's rules, not mine? How is AOC not responsible for this then?
The answer is they don't have rules. They don't have,
they just made it up
to attack conservatives only.
So I believe she was forced
to issue that statement.
But Joe, how hard is it
when a microphone's in your face
that you condemn Antifa
and the terror attack?
Yes.
Is that hard?
Yes.
Thank you.
Joe just did it.
There you go.
Lickety split.
Two seconds.
It's not hard
my gosh no conservative had any issue at all with that maniac in charlottesville that ran
that lady down you condemn it unequivocally yes in the strongest possible terms
as trump said condemn completely.
Of course, that's always left out because the left are liars.
We're not.
I'm not going to misframe.
I'm just telling you she couldn't answer the questionnaire for some bizarre reason.
Now it's not just her.
Ilhan Omar, another member of the squad, is asked the same question by Rebel TV.
And here's her answer or lack thereof will you condemn the
antifa attack in washington over the weekend it's easy to condemn terrorism will you condemn it
antifa firebombed a facility in tacoma over the weekend it's an ice facility
will you condemn them for that i mean can firebombing a concentration
camp is kind of a laudable thing if it actually is a concentration camp you must be happy that
they did it no are you pleased should more people do it it's easy to say no
here i think this is it it's really easy to say no. It's really easy to say no.
How hard is this?
How hard is this?
She was asked at the presser.
I got video of the presser.
I'm not done with that, so stay tuned.
I just want to get to that last.
But she was even asked at the presser yesterday.
Well, if you condemn Al Qaeda, she couldn't even do that.
How hard is this? how hard is this how hard is this joe that we have to engage in this silly ridiculous exercise i'm going to do it
just for the sake of showing liberal lunatics how easy this is white supremacy bad racism bad transphobia xenophobia misogyny
popophobia cataphobia phobophobia phobophobia bad all bad very bad bad yes caveman joe gets it. Bad. B-A-D. It's all bad. Now, Al-Qaeda, very bad.
Antifa terrorists, very bad.
Hold on.
Hold on a second.
Stand by.
Because this is difficult.
I got to do diagrams here.
Okay, look.
And I need a Sharpie to do this.
Look.
Bad.
Bad.
This is not good.
How hard is this?
This is not complicated.
I can't do it with a pen because you can't see.
But this is them.
Wait, let me do this again, Joe.
Hold on.
This is a...
Is Antifa bad?
Come on, cricket guy.
This is not hard.
Joe, seriously, is this hard?
If a guy came up to you on the street,
you're getting a little bit of a public profile now.
People know who you are.
If a dude came up to you on the street,
a liberal lunatic, and plunged the mic in your face and said,
Joe, is white supremacy bad?
Would you be like, hold on.
Hold on.
I got to think about this.
Give me a second.
Bad.
Bad.
Bad.
Bad.
Bad.
It's bad.
It is bad.
It is.
What is hard here?
This is the left.
These people, we're supposed to take the squad seriously.
Can you condemn Antifa?
Hold on.
Let me think about this.
Let's just keep walking and pretend I didn't get this question.
They just attacked the facility with bombs and rifles.
Bad,
bad.
It is bad.
This is not hard.
Oh, asked to condemn Alqaeda at the press conference ilhan omar she does this like this convoluted answer the al-qaeda bad they kill people it's bad no one's accusing
you of being responsible for anything al-qaeda's bad it doesn't matter if you're
muslim jewish christian hindu it doesn't matter they kill people it's bad this is not hard it's bad
where's cricket guy
they go that's their answer
holy crikey
I don't know
I don't know
what you're gonna do
alright I gotta
I forgot that video
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Hold on.
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feeling chipper okay getting back to the uh the presser yesterday which was again a total disaster
so here is ilhan omar at the press. Who she thinks she's convincing with this little
mini monologue she goes on
here is outrageous. She spouts
off a series of three lies
so effortlessly, you wonder
like, does she know she's lying? Does she just not
know the facts? Or is she just doing what
she does, trying to impugn the integrity of people?
This is a little spicy. I want to warn you there.
Oh, yeah. You know what? That's a good point.
I'm sorry to break in, pal. Thank you, Joe. This is a little spicy. I want to warn you there. Oh, yeah. You know what? That's a good point. I'm sorry to break in, pal.
Thank you, Joe. No, no, no, no, no. That is your, that's why you're the best producer in the business. The language in this, it's a family-friendly show, ladies and gentlemen, is a
little salty. So we'll give you a three countdown. If you have kids listening, you may want to turn
this down. This is Ilhan Omar. we'll do it three two one this is a
president who's called black black athletes sons of bitches this is a president who has called black
people who come from black and brown countries shitholes this is a president who has equated neo-Nazis with those who protest against them.
Okay, all lies.
All made up.
He did not.
And again, thank you, Joe, for that.
But for those of you who tuned down because you had kids in the car, whatever, that's fine.
Just know this.
It was Ilhan Omar reciting a list of horribles that allegedly President Trump said.
I say allegedly because he didn't say any of it.
When he called athletes who kneel in disrespect of our national anthem, let's say SOBs, you know what that means.
He was not calling black athletes SOBs.
He was calling athletes who kneel in disrespect
of our national anthem. By the way,
which many Americans agree with,
his position, SOBs.
You don't like the salty language by the
president? Fine.
But Ilhan Omar suggesting that
he was targeting people because they were black
and not because they were kneeling
is a lie.
But that's what Ilhan Omar does.
She just made it up.
She ends off, of course, with the Charlottesville slur
that somehow the president was equating neo-Nazis
with Antifa protesters at the Charlottesville rally.
He was not.
He was crystal clear in his statement,
as we've discussed on this show a thousand times,
when he addressed the murder at Charlottesville, that he, quote, completely condemned the neo-Nazi
crowd that showed up and the guy, of course, that killed the woman, I believe her name
is Heather Heyer.
Folks, just look it up yourself.
You don't have to take my word.
Libs, I get it. I know
you love misinformation
and you enjoy being misinformed,
but
whereas we treated AOC
fairly by
disclosing that she made a statement
to the Daily Caller later condemning Antifa,
because she did.
Do I think it was genuine? No,
I don't. It's because she couldn't say it.
I mean, if she was genuine, she just would have come out
and said it. I think
she found herself in a political box, given that
her own statements were used in this manifesto
as we see in this Daily Caller piece.
I think she found herself in a box.
The Daily Caller piece, by the way, will be up
at the show notes today. Antifa member
who attacked ICE Center echoed AOC's concentration camp language in his final manifesto by Pete Hassan.
It'll be in the show notes.
I think she found herself in a political box.
But honestly, folks, that's a prediction.
I'm speculating based on AOC's past behavior.
I can't get in her head.
But I'm giving you both sides of it and allowing you to make the decision yourself
if you think aoc was genuine the left will never do that with trump this is a sitting member of
congress ilhan omar who was openly and blatantly lying about what the president said about the
charlottesville murder openly he did not say that you You can read it yourself.
I completely condemn the white supremacist.
What part of that did you miss?
The answer is she didn't miss any of it.
She's just a liar.
She's just a liar.
It's as simple as that.
She has built her career of accusing other people who oppose her radical far-left vision of the United States.
She has built a career of accusing them of racism, circling right back to where we started.
Why? Because it works.
And the media will not call her out.
How is it that someone at that presser yesterday did not say,
Representative Omar, that is not in fact what the president said?
You're just making it up.
Joe, I assure you, on this show, if we would have shown that AOC piece by Rebel TV without the context of her later comments to the Daily Caller, some lunatic at Media Matters or else would be like, they left out the context.
The Bongino Show.
Yeah.
They will do none of that with the President of the United States because they're not interested.
They're not doing journalism.
It's activism full time okay unbelievably
obamacare returns oh this is like um yes yes it's back it's back now i know joe is always
privy to see the clips before the show of course as a general idea joe
never knew where i was going on the audio only show in the past because i you know once once
in a blue moon i'd send over clips now that we know more joe kind of sees room so remember jaws
three like jaws one was a classic jaws two was all right by the time jaws 3 3d came around and jaws 4 like the revenge it was really ridiculous
right so obamacare 1 was pretty awful obamacare 2 after the supreme court upheld it was even worse
obamacare 3.0 is the equivalent of jaws 3d which was the worst well no jaws 4 was the
jaws 3d was bad i waited online to see that too when movie theaters
only had one movie in a movie theater i waited online my dad and we were like what just happened
remember the old 3d it was the worst thing there's that one scene where they shoot the harpoon and
it's like this show is not 3d so you won't see my finger coming at you like that it was so bad
now you would think after seeing jaws 3 3d that you wouldn't make a Jaws 4.
Now, Joe Biden, after seeing Obamacare 1 and 2.0, you would think he would run from very specific statements attached to Obamacare,
which have now been entirely discredited, debunked and used as basically talking points by conservatives to bash the failed obamacare
what do i mean this is clueless hapless sloppy joe up on the stage talking about his health care plan
and in the most tone deaf statement ever he says this how many of you have when you were working like
you're and you may still be working many of you how many of you like your
employer-based health care did you think it was adequate now if I come along and
say finish you can't have it anymore well that's what Medicare for all does
you cannot have it period number one there's a hiatus spot in between, by the way,
how long it's going to take. So I'd leave people the option. If you like your health care plan,
your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If, in fact, you have private insurance, you can keep it.
Again?
Oh, dude. oh dude i'm like look at me this is not i did not i promise you it's not like me sniffing onion paula used to work at the u.s open and she used to cut onions in the tennis room we used to work
and he used to make her cry there are no onions on the table here i promise the desk is polluted
with stuff i mean here we go. Red flag.
Wait, wait, wait.
Where's our Jose?
There's the cricket guy.
Holding five yards.
Joe Biden.
That's actually a 15-yarder.
First down.
What the?
Probably the worst political health care line in human history used by a politician.
If you like your plan, you can keep it.
Aired by Obama, debunked even by the activists at the Washington Post and PolitiFact,
who had it like the lie of the year at one point.
And Joe Biden, the most tone-deaf politician in the history of the United States,
who told him this was a good idea?
I mean, this is like the Dewey wins headline.
Like, putting it up again the next day.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, Dewey wins.
Look at this.
You didn't win, Dewey.
You don't put it up again.
You don't go back to the if you
like your plan you can keep it because you
couldn't. It was a lie.
If you like your plan you can keep
your plan. Yes.
Yes.
That was beautiful. Yes.
That is like George H.W.
Yeah. George W.W. yeah George W.
using his dad's line
read
my
lips
no
new
and then it's the
doing it again
people in the crowd
because the Republicans
are generally savvier
than some of these
liberal lunatics
if you said that
if George W.
43
repeated the dreaded
read my lips line
people would have been like, chewing their fingernails.
See, my elbows are so bad, I can't even reach my mouth.
You don't say it.
That's a perfect example.
You don't say it.
You just don't.
But this guy is so tone deaf, Sloppy Joe.
He goes up, there's this, if you like your plan, Mike, you keep it.
I can't believe that...
Oh, now.
There's a lot of ranting going on.
Let me just explain
to you quickly for your new listeners why
this is such an epic disaster for him.
Folks,
there's still confusion over
what Obamacare is
and why you couldn't keep
your plan if you liked it.
It is bedrocked in two principles.
You must understand to understand why Obamacare is a disaster.
It is as big of a disaster as Medicare for all and government run health care,
because over time, Obamacare won't work because it can't because of these two things
number one community rating obamacare instituted a pricing a forced pricing model
the ratio of health care costs for older i'll explain it don't worry in a second just roll
with me the ratio was instituted roughly three to one meaning obamacare said you cannot charge older sicker people more than three times
what you can charge younger folks ladies and gentlemen older sicker people cost about five
times you get what i'm saying yeah if a If a product costs $100 and the government says you can only charge 50,
somebody loses money.
So the insurance companies
who were paying five times the cost,
not three times,
what did they do?
They upped the price on everybody else,
including you
and the younger folks out there.
The money had to come from somewhere there were bills to be paid
that's what community rating is a price control system are you tracking me it had a three to one
ratio not based on what the costs were just based on what the obama people said they'd be
if a corvette costs five times as much as a Chevy Volt and the government comes in and
says you can only charge three times, they lose money on Corvettes.
How does Chevy make the money back?
They charge more people for the Volt.
They charge them higher premiums on the Volt or costs.
It's as simple as that.
That's why your healthcare costs went up.
It is no more complicated than that.
When those costs went up, some of these insurance companies couldn't offer those plans anymore
because people didn't want to pay them.
So if you liked your plan, you couldn't keep it.
That's a myth.
Problem number two with those.
So community ratings, number one.
Number two, they instituted
this thing called guaranteed issue where you had to offer insurance with some restrictions but
basically at any time well what's the problem with that well as the costs went up for the
chevy vault of insurance plans because every the chevy vault had to eat the cost for the Corvette now.
As the costs went up for all of us, people started to drop out of insurance plans because they didn't want to pay them. My premiums went through the roof. So what happened, Joe?
With guaranteed issue, people got savvy. They said, so let me get this straight.
Poor Joe has heard this a thousand times you have to
issue me due to obamacare and the insurance company says you have to issue me an insurance
plan at almost any time yeah uh-huh that's right so you're telling me if i get in a motorcycle
accident tomorrow and i don't have insurance i can basically call from the hospital and get
insurance it's a little bit of a dramatic example but it's roughly the contours of what happened
people waited till they got sick and then called the insurance company so now you have to offer me
insurance that's not insurance that's a welfare program that's not insurance insurance is when
you insure against a future problem not a current condition that is not insurance you get it you
can't not have car insurance get in an accident
then call geico and go i need insurance that's not the way it works so what happened sick people
jumped in at the last minute when they got sick took all the health care money they hadn't been
paying premiums at all from the health insurance companies who then had to do what joe pass those
costs off even more to other customers that's why your premiums are through the roof obamacare was a disaster
it can't work because it won't work and no you will not be able to keep your plan if joe biden
doubles down on obamacare where you couldn't keep your plan in the first place
joe that was your finest moment by the way read my lips thank you sir i
really your finest hour you've had a lot of fine time but that was your finest hour on this year
you've had some good comedy moments some good skit moments but on your material i could not
think of a better example than re it would be this is like, coming out there and repeating to read my lipstick, thinking you're going to get a different response.
Yep.
So now.
All right.
Finest, I just want to get this quick.
Showing you again how little AOC knows about anything on the health care whole storyline here.
AOC tweeted this yesterday.
Absurd, ridiculous.
Showing again how little she knows about anything
she tweeted about how we're rationing health care in the United States by price check this out it's
just absurd AOC doesn't know anything so basically what she's suggesting here here's the tweet
verbatim she says GOP often cries at guaranteeing health care in the U.S. will force us to ration it
thing is we're rationing care now people wait too long to see a doctor if they go at all because they can't afford paying
cash or because their insurance is too pricey.
It's time for Medicare for all.
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason people are waiting for doctors now is precisely because
of the government involvement.
We don't have a price system.
The government intervenes and pays for about 40 to 45 percent of health care in the united states
now when the government pays for it the third party payer effect which i can't talk about enough
on this show kicks in when the government pays for something not the patient the patient knows
he's not paying or she and doesn't care about the price the doctor or hospital knows the patient's
not paying and doesn't care about the price either
because they'll take what they can get because they're not getting it from the patient.
This is not hard. The third party payer effect is real. The reason we have an out of control
pricing, and by the way, she's completely wrong about the way I'll get to this daily signal story
in a second. We'll wrap up the show on that. But ladies and gentlemen, the third party payer
effect will always interrupt
cost cost will be out of control and quality will be terrible you're not paying now some people have
emailed me and they're confused they said well dan isn't health insurance a third party payer
the health insurance company is paying for your health care no they are. It is not a third-party payer model there.
It is, but not to the degree government is.
When you are paying for health insurance, you are paying for a service.
In other words, think about it in the car analogy.
When you go in and you say you crack a headlight in your car,
you go in and you pay for the headlight to be replaced.
When you pay for car insurance,
you are paying for a service.
You are paying for peace of mind
to hedge against the risk of being bankrupted
by a major accident.
You are not paying for car repairs.
Joe, please tell me this makes sense.
Yeah, we're cool.
We're cool, yeah.
Joe's car insurance for collision is not car repairs.
He's paying for a service.
Right.
God forbid Joe's in an accident.
Joe does not want to be bankrupted by having to replace the whole front end of his car.
So he's paying for a service that will come in and cover the costs.
He is not paying for car repairs.
When you pay for health insurance, you are not paying for health care.
When you go into CVS and buy Airborne or some product because you have a cold, when you buy aspirin, Advil, you're paying for your health care when you go into cvs and buy airborne or some product because you have a cold
when you buy aspirin advil you're paying for your health care when you pay for real true health care
outside of the government's intervention which we don't have now you are paying for insurance
against being bankrupted by a catastrophic medical condition we don't have that we don't have that because the government mandates that insurance
companies pay for health care not insurance i know that's convoluted but it is the government's
intervention in the insurance market that have instituted third-party payer effects that have
infiltrated the insurance market in the united states. That's why it doesn't work. Because of the government.
Because health insurance companies can't act as health insurance.
They have to cover eyeglasses, doctor visits, colds, sniffles.
Your health insurance should be covering life-changing conditions.
Everything else should be out of pocket and prices would come down.
Like they do in the collision business.
But the government has mandated insurance companies
act as third-party payers.
So you're right and you're wrong.
Yes, insurance companies,
the third-party payer effect is real,
but it's because the government mandates it.
They are the problem.
And by the way, AOC's comment,
as you'll see in this Daily Signal piece,
which is up in the show notes,
this is a good one,
about rationing in the United States, is again guided by her ignorance
of the economics of the situation.
Always.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Daily Signal, 63,000 Canadians a year, an article by Kevin Pham,
it's titled American Healthcare Treats Canadians Who Cannot Wait.
63,000 Canadians a year flee Canada
where they have, quote, free healthcare,
government healthcare.
63,000 that we know about
to come have surgery in the United States.
Why?
Because 40% of them,
less than 40% of them,
receive surgical and specialist care
after four weeks.
Less than 40% get to see a specialist after four weeks.
What's the number in the United States, even with our broken system?
70% after four weeks see a specialist.
So AOC's wrong again.
She doesn't have the data.
30 percentage points more people get to see a specialist after four weeks here,
even in our busted system than they do in a single payer system in Canada.
She just doesn't know the numbers ever.
She just makes it up.
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