The Dan Bongino Show - This Story Should Be Made Into a Movie (Ep 1446)

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

In this episode, I challenge the ridiculous notion that the populist GameStop revolt going on isn’t an “us versus them” moment.  News Picks: The new domestic “war on terror” is evolving i...nto a war on free speech.  Facebook is at it again. They’re trying to crush conservative news feeds.  The GameStop sage continues. Robinhood shuts out some Reddit traders.  Without a common set of unifying principles, the country is finished. Hunter Biden is still in business with his partners from China. The DOJ’s own paperwork shows that Parler is being unfairly targeted for the Capitol Hill incident.  This key player in the Spygate scandal hasn’t been disbarred.  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino so let me disabuse you with this notion right away if you're under the perception that this isn't a big us versus them fight what do i mean by that i was watching fox yesterday and one of my uh one of my colleagues over there made a comment that, you know, this whole thing that's happening with GameStop and Robinhood and hedge funds and retail investors, it's not really an us versus them fight. No, it is. Maybe not in the way people want you to believe it's an us versus them fight, but it most
Starting point is 00:00:38 certainly is. I want to cover that today. I want to cover what's really going on here. Again, kind of piggybacking on what I did yesterday on the show and give you a ton of examples as to how this collectivist, my overused word yesterday, according to the comments, cabal of elitist snobs is really marshalling their forces versus us, the rest of us, the normal, regular people who work for a living. It's going to be an important show.
Starting point is 00:01:08 By the way, right before we got in the air, Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary, she's like, yeah, the White House today is going to meet with a bunch of anti-hunger advocates. Anti-hunger? Is there like a constituency for hunger? Like, how are you? How do you get it to be an anti-hunger advocate? Is there anyone who's not an anti-hunger advocate?
Starting point is 00:01:24 Are there people out there clamoring for hunger? Like, we want hunger. I don't understand that. How do you become an anti-hunger? We're all anti-hunger advocates. I am definitely against hunger. I just want that out there right now. My gosh, talk about weaponization of the language.
Starting point is 00:01:41 All right, today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. Don't let big tech track what you do online. Get a VPN. Do what I do. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Let's get to it. I got a lot to get to. I got that GameStop story. I've also got a great article about the media, big tech government symbiote, how they're crushing all of us. They don't want ideas out there. It's important. All right. Today's show brought to you by, you always hear them at the beginning of the show, ExpressVPN. Big tech companies have a ton of power in our country today. You know that. And as private entities, they can operate pretty much as they choose. Protect your personal data from big tech with the VPN I trust for my online protection, ExpressVPN. I use ExpressVPN. My connection
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Starting point is 00:03:43 democracy. We are, in fact, a constitutional republic. But there are democratic principles embedded in a constitutional republic, voting, the ability to vote for representatives that then are supposedly interested in voting for their constituents needs. There are components of a democracy in a constitutional republic. So how is it that leftists have used collectivism to defeat collective action, which is what the essence of democracy is, right? The expression of power through collective action. Is that not what democracy is? We vote for stuff. We vote for people.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Those people do what is in our interest in a perfect world. Those representatives in Congress at the state, city, and county level. Everybody's happy. So how is it that leftists have used collective action to defeat collective action? Well, they've done it by bifurcating our society, as I said yesterday, into one side that allows to use collective action, operate like a hive mind, as I said yesterday, like the Borg, to defeat anyone who challenges their worldview, their pocketbooks, their political power, or anything else. Using collective action to defeat democracy. Disgustingly genius on their part.
Starting point is 00:05:02 We have to start employing collective action and leftist strategies to take back democracy, to take back our collective voice, and to take back the constitutional republic. And if there's one thing that an anti-democratic society like leftists now want, silencing free speech, bankrupting their ideological opposition,
Starting point is 00:05:24 rendering the MAGA movement politically powerless, attacking political opponents, acting imbecilic like AOC, accusing Ted Cruz yesterday of attempted murder. That's real, not a joke. But this is what happens when you employ a double digit IQ person in Congress, AOC. But the one thing anti-democratic forces hate the most is they hate the free flow of ideas. But why? Why? Leftists are socialists and collectivists at heart. Everything should be done through state power. Individual liberty doesn't mean anything. The whole essence of collectivism in its simplest, right? That's why when they use collective action to crush democracy, which seems again ironic, that's why they're so good at it. Their minds are wired to think like socialists. Everything
Starting point is 00:06:14 belongs to everyone. Everything is the commons. Individual liberty doesn't mean anything. Obviously, if you live by those principles, it makes it really easy to organize collectively to defeat and crush your ideological opposition. But one of the ways to do that and to stop your ideological opposition, your freedom fighters, your patriots, your individual liberty folks who believe in liberty and freedom. The best way to do it is to stop the free flow of ideas. Because ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing more dangerous than an idea. Now, it's hard to control an idea. Socialists don't have a hard time controlling materials. You know, what is socialism?
Starting point is 00:06:59 The government control of the means of production, right? The government controls the factories, controls the economy, controls the farms. That's disturbingly not that hard to do. You send your jackbooted thugs onto farms. You tell the farmer to turn over all the food and you take it. It's what happened in China. It's what happened in the Soviet Union. It's why hundreds of millions of people starve. Why do collectivists and leftists crush economies all over the world? Because governments come in like they did in Venezuela, take control of the oil companies, collective, collectively. They don't know anything about oil companies, drive the oil companies into bankruptcy and drive
Starting point is 00:07:36 the Venezuelan economy into poverty. Leftists are good at that, at taking over materials, factories, farms, everything, material things, taking it and destroying it. It's what leftists do best. They destroy. But it's very, very hard to control an idea. Why? Obviously, because you can't get your arms around it. It's not material.
Starting point is 00:07:59 It's not touchable. It's an idea. How do you know if people have it? You can't read people's minds. Yeah, that may be next. The leftists, you never know with their goals. The leftists have always had a problem controlling the spread of ideas. They've never had a problem controlling the spread of materials and material wealth.
Starting point is 00:08:19 They can destroy that in the snap of a finger. They have. destroy that in the snap of a finger. They have. That is why we're in this spot now with this us versus them mentality, where the left is using big tech, big money, big business, big finance, banks, anyone they can get on their team to absolutely crush and suppress the spread of ideas because ideas throughout human history have done more damage to the leftist racket than anything else. Think about it. The ideas that have brought down leftism, Christianity, capitalism, democracy. Those ideas.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Those are the ideas that destroyed the Soviet Union. Those are the ideas. Christianity, what's Christianity's role in this? Well, it was Pope John Paul with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher that arguably was the genesis for the fall of the Soviet Union. lech Walesa the the labor movement in Poland and elsewhere around the former Soviet bloc these were ideas what's Christianity you can't touch it it doesn't have a feel to it it doesn't have a taste to it it doesn't have a smell to it doesn't have a sight to it yeah there are symbols but it's an idea. The left panics over ideas because at their
Starting point is 00:09:47 heart, they're totalitarians. They can control material things. They can take your Facebook page. They can take your money through taxation. They can take your money through confiscation. They can put you in jail like they've been doing to any of their political oppositions. They can spy on you and put handcuffs on you if you're Donald
Starting point is 00:10:04 Trump like they did in Spygate. But they can't stop an idea. But they'll try. And that's why they're panicking. Because they need to preserve their racket and keep any of these dangerous ideas like capitalism, democracy, liberty, and freedom from spreading. Why did I open up with this? democracy, liberty, and freedom from spreading. Why did I open up with this?
Starting point is 00:10:26 Because there's a movement right now that can crush and annihilate any truth tellers, anyone, you don't have to be conservative, libertarian, or Republican, anyone who does not toe right up to the leftist line. If you dare move and cross that leftist line and start telling the truth about who they really are, you will become a target yourself. Where did this all start? I was preparing for today's show. It's usually a 24-hour exercise, probably a little dramatic, 12 hours or so. It's probably more.
Starting point is 00:10:58 You do have to sleep a little bit. But I saw an excellent social media post by, was it, Logan from The Daily Caller? Sorry, I forget his last name. Price, is it? But a good, very good social media feed. And he brought up that, you know, it's interesting that the left is in overdrive trying to crush conservative news sites, conservative Facebook pages, Parler, other outlets that there are do when we were the ones telling the truth so the left's whole premise for trying to do this is that the conservatives are feeding misinformation that's inciting violence i'll get to that in a minute too how they're using that the weaponization of
Starting point is 00:11:35 language great piece by glenn greenwald fantastic i'll get to that in a minute but the right you guys are all promoting misinformation disinformation and violence and violence. You need to be stopped. Yet we've been right about everything. Here's just a few stories. Some Logan had in there and some I'll throw in too. You already know this. Conservative media, including this show, was right about the collusion hoax being in fact a hoax, which it was.
Starting point is 00:12:01 We were right about Spygate. The president's campaign was spied on. We now have the name of the spy, the payments to the spy, how he spied, how he worked with the FBI, how the FBI acknowledged they were spying on the Trump campaign, but the left still continues to insist that's misinformation
Starting point is 00:12:17 because they're morons and they're totalitarians. We were right about collusion, about Spygate. What about the WHO? It was conservative news outlets early on They're totalitarians. We write about collusion, about Spygate. What about the WHO? It was conservative news outlets early on that were warning about the World Health Organization that, hey, maybe they're not telling the truth about this whole virus from Wuhan.
Starting point is 00:12:41 It was conservative outlets. Remember we were called, remember that? i have a whole chapter in my last book follow the money a whole chapter on the who debacle and how it was conservatives who were warning people what about the hydroxychloroquine oh my gosh it's the deadliest drug known to humankind hydroxychloroquine. Really? There's no evidence of that. People in my family have been on that drug forever. In my family with zero side effects.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Now, all of a sudden, you're starting to see some medical paperwork saying, ah, maybe we were a little too harsh on that. Now? What about the COVID, the coronavirus? May have come out of a lab in Wuhan? Oh, you were called. It's a conspiracy theory. Remember that?
Starting point is 00:13:32 Remember the leftist media? That's a big conspiracy theory. You're all lunatics. Now as the evidence mounts that that's a possibility, a possibility, all of a sudden leftist media is like, oh, yeah, yeah, we need to, those conservatives who we're going to ban. Yeah, yeah, I still, that's misinformation. Yeah, but they said that months ago. No, no, no. It was misinformation when they said it.
Starting point is 00:13:52 But now when we say it, it's not misinformation. Yeah, but you're saying the same thing. Yeah, yeah, but we said it. We're leftists. We were right about the Hunter Biden story. Remember, that was a conspiracy theory. It was Russian disinformation until we found out after the election that, in fact, Hunter Biden has an active FBI case open up on him. Oh, now all of a sudden it's not misinformation. It was only misinformation when conservatives said it.
Starting point is 00:14:15 What about the warnings about Andrew Cuomo up in New York? the lauded golden calf, governor of New York, failure, epic failure of a human being who we warned about months ago, if not close to a year ago, was doing a terrible job. Hat tip, by the way, Janice Dean from Fox for staying on top of him the entire time. Now we find out from what?
Starting point is 00:14:41 People in the left-wing media who are forced to admit that Cuomo's government in New York may have under inflated and undercounted the massive number of tragic nursing home deaths in new york now all of a sudden conservative media the misinformation specialists who were calling cuomo out months ago for misleading people now all of a sudden we were right but we're the misinformation specialists why why are they trying to crush us because they want a monopoly over ideas and there's nothing been more dangerous to collectivists over time than ideas christianity capitalism democracy and the free flow of information has crushed nearly every collectivist empire or or not right away, but over time in the history of humankind.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I had a guy comment on one of my videos the other day. He said, when I said the desire to be free will always overcome the desire to push the beach ball underwater and keep human liberty and freedom extinguished. And some guy laughed. He said, tell that to the hundreds of millions who've died under Soviet regimes, China and elsewhere. Fair enough, fair critique. the hundreds of millions who've died under soviet regimes china and elsewhere fair enough fair
Starting point is 00:15:46 critique but i could also turn that argument on you look at all the tyrants and despots and disgusting filth throughout humankind that have tried to put the beach ball of liberty and freedom underwater ceausescu muss Mussolini, Hitler. The Soviet Union fell. I'm not telling you it's going to happen overnight. But it almost always happens. Cuba is one of those rare exceptions where they've managed to keep an iron grip over people for generations. Ideas have been dangerous to those regimes.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And the symbiote right now, the symbiote, one of our other viewers, I enjoy your emails and your communication, by the way, immensely. I hope you understand that. I read them, I get a kick out of them. I read as many as I can on video platforms, on social media.
Starting point is 00:16:38 I read your feedback on the show. Someone said, you keep talking about the symbiote, the Venom character, Eddie Brock in the Marvel comics. And they say, Dan, he's not a bad guy, the symbiote. Venom is an antihero. Fair enough. You got it. But still, the Eddie Brock-Venom symbiote, we have a symbiote right now trying to crush freedom, crush ideas, and crush conservatives. It's the media, big tech, government symbiote right now. Here's our first story. Newsbusters. The story will be in the show notes. Facebook overhauls platform. Will reduce political posts and newsfeeds. As if on cue. How does the symbiote
Starting point is 00:17:16 work? I just told you what it is. Media, big tech and big business and government all feeding off each other, like not so much parasites, but symbiotes. There's a difference. Symbiosis and parasitic activity are different. They feed, they benefit from each other. They don't suckle off each other and take each other's energy. They magnify each other's energy. magnify each other's energy. So how did media, media folks and big tech collude to stop ideas from getting out? Because ideas will crush their monopoly over what you should think. Well, here's a quote from the Newsbusters piece about how Facebook's now going to crush
Starting point is 00:17:56 political pages like mine. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently commented, one of the top pieces of feedback that we're hearing from our community right now is that people don't want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services. Really? That happened conveniently after CNN's hilariously named reliable sources newsletter, The Coffee Boy, George Costanza puts out at CNN, when they speculated on how major reforms to Facebook will target commentators, specifically popular conservatives. Quote, Zuckerberg didn't elaborate on how Facebook might reduce political content shown to users in their newsfeed.
Starting point is 00:18:34 CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote in the newsletter, quote, right wing pundits such as Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro have built digital empires largely driven by their Facebook pages. Will Zuckerberg move to put a dent in their business? Here's Darcy, media clown, joker, one of the dopiest human beings alive. And by the way, I'll show you about this clown in a minute. The biggest grifter in the media right now. How people have fallen for this utter, complete buffoon scam is unreal. Here's Oliver Darcy at CNN, who's bothered by me and my ideas because I exposed him as a fraud. He was on the wrong side of collusion. He was a hoaxer. He was on the wrong side of Spygate, on the wrong side of the coronavirus story, on the wrong side
Starting point is 00:19:19 of the HCL story, on the wrong side of Hunter Biden, and on the wrong side of Andrew Cuomo. So Oliver Darcy's embarrassed because he pretends to be a journalist when in fact he's a grifting buffoon. So instead of acknowledging his buffoonery and apologizing to the public for being such a moron, falling for the pee-pee hoax, what does Oliver Dopey do? Oliver Dopey comes out and calls for the suppression of people like me and Ben Shapiro and others
Starting point is 00:19:42 who exposed him as the fraud he is. Standard totalitarian authoritarian move. By the way, he's built our empire on Facebook. That's actually quite hilarious. Facebook, we're smarter than Oliver and Oliver's kind of embarrassed that he doesn't have one one thousandth of the following I do, but we built empires everywhere.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Crush one, another one will pop up. We're like the Hydra. Cut off one head, 62 more heads appear. I'm not kidding. He wants to stop us because he's a communist at heart, but he'll never do that, and it quietly drives him wild. It drives him absolutely wild. And Darcy in that piece where he says, you know, be a real shame if Facebook crushed their pages and tried to destroy their business.
Starting point is 00:20:33 This is the mob mentality of communists like Oliver Darcy, who's, by the way, a sniveling coward. If you saw him in person, he would run away from you and hide in a corner. But Darcy, who's a fraud, this is him practicing the mob mentality, where he walks into the deli in a mob-infested neighborhood and say, you know, it'd be a real shame if you didn't use our private sanitation here. Well, I don't need your private sanitation, Mr. Mobster. I have my own company.
Starting point is 00:20:58 It'd be a real shame if your place burned down. Well, what does that have to do with me using your sanitation company? I don't know. You figure it out. That's Darcy. It'd be a real shame if Facebook took their pages down. Well, what does that have to do with me using your sanitation company? I don't know. You figure it out. That's Darcy. Be a real shame if Facebook took their pages down. That one, I'll just start a new company like I always do and pocket more money. Seriously, I save everything because I'm prepared for the day when these people come after me. Unlike these other idiots out there on the liberal side. Here's Oliver Darcy who likes to employ, you know, the real shame tactic. It'd be a real shame if your place burned
Starting point is 00:21:32 down. Oliver Darcy, this is when he was at Campus Reform, is a former editor of digital media for Campus Reform where he was tasked with reporting on waste, fraud, and abuse taking place at our nation's college campuses. Additionally, Darcy was responsible for editing the website's video content and graphic design. Prior to joining the Leadership Institute, Oliver founded ExposingLeftist.com, a video-driven website dedicated to exposing the inherent failures found at the core of liberal philosophies. Ladies and gentlemen, this guy, I almost admire his grift. CNN is paying this utter buffoon because he failed. He failed in conservative media, trying to do the principal thing,
Starting point is 00:22:13 then decided to sell his soul, went over and basically did a big smoke job on CNN and got them to pay him after founding ExposingLeftist.com. What a buffoon. All right, let me move on. I want to get to my second sponsor, but I want to get to a warning and a serious warning and a fantastic piece by Glenn Greenwald.
Starting point is 00:22:34 I just showed you how media works with big tech, right? Oliver Darcy writes in his newsletter. Oh my gosh, Dan Bongino's Facebook page. That's misinformation. Really Oliver? They called you out all of a sudden Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are like,
Starting point is 00:22:46 wow, we really got to crush those political commentators. They all feed off each other. And then Mark Zuckerberg gets protection from rackets like CNN and then don't attack them later. Weird how that works. I'm going to get this article next by Glenn Greenwald about the weaponization of language
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Starting point is 00:24:55 Try PowerXL.com. Use promo code Bongino. All right, back to the show. So I just showed you how the media, people like Oliver Darcy, anti-civil liberties, anti-free speech totalitarians like him and the coffee boy at CNN, try to squelch any idea that challenges their hegemony over ideas.
Starting point is 00:25:15 And their ideas are wrong, ironically, and ours were right. But I told you it was a symbiote and government was involved in that too. Well, government is involved. Oliver Darcy's obviously some kind of a leftist, the totalitarian, that's what they are these big tech companies obviously are totalitarians twitter celebrated when parlor got crushed facebook's crushing anyone who's a conservative and tries to put out any kind of political idea people would like so obviously they're all
Starting point is 00:25:42 totalitarian so they share one big hive mind. But how does government get involved? This piece by Glenn Greenwald and his sub stack, please subscribe to it. Glenn is not, Glenn is a classical liberal, not a leftist. In other words, he believes in liberal ideas. He is not a conservative. Again, I want to be clear so you understand.
Starting point is 00:26:01 So you don't think on this show that all we do is celebrate conservative ideas. We'll actually cross the aisle when people have something substantive to say. Because Glenn's a smart guy. Glenn Greenwald's Substack. Go to Substack and subscribe to his stuff. It's amazing. This will be up at BonginoReport.com today as well.
Starting point is 00:26:18 And if you want to read it, I always have an ask. Again, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for apologizing, but I don't like asking you stuff. It drives me crazy when people ask me to do something please go to my newsletter and subscribe i will send you these articles every day we will not spam your inbox it's bongino.com slash newsletter and you'll see this amazing piece of work glenn greenwald the new domestic war on terror is coming no speculation is. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
Starting point is 00:26:52 So the Rahm Emanuel, former Obama chief of staff, the Rahm Emanuel theory has always been never let a crisis go to waste. Well well the left is using the events of january 6th of course to initiate a new domestic war on terror and they've been actually pretty open about it they're not hiding it ladies and gentlemen this is the weaponization of language which fills out the symbiote government big tech and big business and media. The government is now using the incitement of language, the incitement of violence language and verbiage to tag anyone they disagree with,
Starting point is 00:27:34 with in fact, that incitement to violence label. And with that incitement to violence label, there is going to be an effort by the same government entities, government entities to use and weaponize government to shut you down and investigate you from the Greenwald piece. It's a long piece, but it is worth your time.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Quote, neoliberalism and imperialism do not care about pseudo fights between the two parties or the cable TV bickering of the day remember what i told you yesterday this is not republican versus democrat this is the elite bowtie wearing class that are all benefiting and massaging and sniffing each other's hair them big business big tech banks big banks the whole robin hood class government bureaucrats in the swamp versus the rest of us. It's nothing to do with Republican versus Democrat. Let me read that opening line again and it'll make sense because Greenwald recognizes this. Neoliberalism and imperialism don't care about the pseudo fights between the two parties or the cable TV bickering of the day.
Starting point is 00:28:39 They don't like the far left or the far right. They don't like extremism of any kind. They don't support communism and they don't support neo-Nazism or some fascist revolutions. They care only about one thing, disempowering and crushing anyone who dissents from and threatens their hegemony.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Sounds like something I told you in the beginning of the show. They care about stopping dissidents. All the weapons they build and institutions they assemble, the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA, oligarchical power exists for that sole and exclusive purpose, to fortify their power by rewarding those who accede to their pieties and crushing those who do not. Sometimes when you're on TV, they do a clap test to make sure the lip sync is good. Is the sound coming over right? I actually would clap faster,
Starting point is 00:29:48 but my elbows and shoulders don't work. You're damn right, Glenn Greenwald. Don't get lost in this Republican versus Democrat fight. As I've said to you often, the Republicans are not the answer to your problems. However, currently, the Democrats are the cause of your problems. Meaning we have to focus on ideas and strategy and how to implement those ideas and strategy and not get lost in,
Starting point is 00:30:21 well, let's dump the Republican Party label and call it the Patriot Party. It doesn't matter what you call it. You're still getting lost. It's interesting how people say, I don't believe in the Uniparty. Democrats and Republicans are all the same. I'm going to start a third party. You're doing the same thing. You're getting lost in the label and losing the strategy. You have to learn to act collectively like i said the beginning of the show how do you learn to act collectively by division how it's not if they're the opposites you've done a 180 i want to learn to emulate the left act collectively fight for liberty and freedom
Starting point is 00:30:57 fight back against the totalitarian bowtie wearing crowd the elitist snobs that are that have us all under ideological attack every day trying to squelch us. And we're going to get this done how? By dividing our forces? It makes no sense. We have to fortify our political power. It's the ideas and the strategy.
Starting point is 00:31:21 It's not the label. The ideas and the strategy matter. and the strategy. It's not the label. The ideas and the strategy matter. It'll only be an election cycle or two before they take over and monopolize the Patriot Party too. Don't get lost in the label. Focus
Starting point is 00:31:36 on the strategy. I discussed in the show two days ago, not yesterday's show, but the day before, how we're doing it now. We're learning, sadly, how to boycott, too. I wish economically boycott. I wish we didn't have to do it.
Starting point is 00:31:51 It's stupid. It is. It's economically inefficient. But the left is destroying the economy and boycotting good conservative companies and companies that are just free speech companies, like Parler, which I was a part of. and companies that are just free speech companies, like Parler, which I was a part of, they're just doing it to crush them, not because they're not economically efficient companies,
Starting point is 00:32:09 or they don't provide a service, but because they don't like them. The only way to fight that back is to act collectively and do the same thing. I talked about how conservatives are starting to fight for seats on boards in companies. I'll get to that at the end, too. Leftists have done that for decades. We've let them do it.
Starting point is 00:32:22 They've taken over corporate boards everywhere. They're trying to do it right now with Exxon. Look at GM. GM just announced yesterday, we're getting away from gas-powered cars, moving to full electric. Good luck with that. I have GM stock. I got to get rid of that. I'm just waiting. I'm just waiting for the capital gains, the long-term capital gains. Greenwald is right. Stop getting lost in the labels and everything else. The elites and the
Starting point is 00:32:50 bowtie-wearing class, they don't care about Democrat versus Republican, so why do you? They care about unifying, getting board seats, boycotting people that don't matter, crushing free speech, magnifying media voices that lie to you, and crushing media voices that tell the truth.
Starting point is 00:33:07 How are you fighting back? We're dividing our forces into a third party. That'll never work. That doesn't make any sense. We got to recognize the problem in the strategy. Before we can defeat people who are trying to crush freedom and Liberty. We have to learn to spread our ideas. I brought up on Wednesday's show as well, not to repeat the material, but how the left
Starting point is 00:33:34 wants to destroy conservative truth tellers on social media and on the internet. They're going down the value chain, get people pulled off servers. You saw what happened with Discord and Reddit. Robinhood stops trading yesterday of a stock, incredible, a stock that free people wanted to buy. A lot of reasons for that, but it happened. Subreddits being pulled down where people are telling the truth about what they want to do about stock buys. So what are we doing? We're learning. We're learning to use blockchain and other things to distribute information over the entire world internet what are they going to do shut the whole internet down people said don't give many ideas they can't they can't do that it's not possible
Starting point is 00:34:13 they can try it's not possible we're learning now i opened up the show by telling you listen this isn't us versus them fight. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It is. And I know the commentator who said it, he's a smart guy and I'm not knocking him, but he was talking about the GameStop situation. I want to explain that again in a minute in simplified terms of what's going on, because I think still some folks don't understand why this GameStop story and the GameStop stock, I think their ticker is GME. It's a bigger story than just a stock and some hedge funds versus some retail Joe average investors like us. It's bigger than that. It isn't us versus them story.
Starting point is 00:34:56 Let me get to my third sponsor first. I'm going to talk about why this matters, what happened. Paula loves this story, by the way. Candidly, so do I. I'm going to give you it in a nutshell, the finances of it, because it's fascinating. And the Daily Wire folks, they have a movie out right now, Run, Hide, Fight. They've got a movie production studio, good for them. They need to pick up the rights to this GameStop story. It's amazing. All right, folks, today's show also brought to you by friends at Podium. In the face of change,
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Starting point is 00:37:11 shorting stocks and going long on stocks. You know, it's not necessarily the worst thing. Listen, I said to you yesterday, I'm not going to pile on and say, eh, hedge funds are about Bernie Sanders. Hedge funds are terrible. A lot of some of the things
Starting point is 00:37:22 hedge funds do really are terrible. Like shorting a stock and then going on TV and trash mouthing a stock to make sure the stock goes down so you make money in your short. That's pretty anti-American. But shorting a stock is usually a counterparty. Shorting a stock, meaning you're betting it's going to go down, which probably isn't the greatest thing to do if you're doing it for nefarious reasons. But if you're shorting a stock because the company really isn't doing well, then maybe it's a market signal to other people invested in the stock that, hey, maybe you should get out too. And remember, there's always a counterparty.
Starting point is 00:37:58 So for a lot of shorts, there's people who've gone long, short, long. People have gone long, bet the opposite. They bet the stock's going to go up. So someone's on a counterparty to that on a lot of these transactions. But why is this an us versus them? Because, folks, the reason people are understandably, and me as well, really candidly pissed off at the hedge fund Wall Street industry that's been funding Democrats and cycling people in and out of power in Dc forever is because they have different rules than the rest of us we have every right to be
Starting point is 00:38:30 pissed off and it summed up incredibly in a peace and life set today by stephen pomper and by the way i saw this to be candid open and honest because i always am with you um we there's an app called meltwater and they send me an email every morning. And when your name or a website pops up in it, so I found this article today because my name was in it. I'm not putting it in there, though, because my name is in it. I'm putting it in there because it's good. It'll be in the show notes, Bongino.com slash newsletter. Read it. It says, quote, no American unity is possible until people reacquire common American values. I have a screenshot I'll get through here
Starting point is 00:39:05 for a minute, but this is why people are understandably pissed off at that retail investors who are using the Robinhood app got snaked by a bunch of Wall Street hedge fund guys because the Wall Street hedge fund guys get to play by different rules. They short a stock for a company people believe in, GME, GameStop, they believe in it. They put their own money behind it. Whether they're wrong or not doesn't matter. It's on them. The Wall Street guy's logic is,
Starting point is 00:39:34 oh, these people are stupid. They're investing in a company. It's not worth anything. They're going to lose money. That's fine. They're free. Let free people lose money if they want. It's not your business.
Starting point is 00:39:45 Shut your pie holes. So what happened? All of a sudden yesterday, as people are trying to either get into the GameStop stock to buy more of it, to defeat the short business on the hedge funds that are shorting it, betting it's going to go down. People are buying it, betting it's going to go up. Why else would you buy it? All of a sudden, they get shut out of buying it on some apps out there. That sounds kind of rigged, doesn't it? The Wall Street guys
Starting point is 00:40:09 weren't shut out. In other words, they're playing by a different set of rules than the rest of us. Quote from the Life Set piece. Glenn Beck and Dan Bongino have been banging a drum in a recent chorus that makes infinite sense. Unity is not possible until the people of our nation restore our common values. Americans used to find uniting values in the principles contained within our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and supporting literature, the Federalist Papers, and others. Remember, the right has not changed their view of America and the striving to create a more perfect union. It's the left that's changed, striving to create a more socialist union.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Amen, Brother Stephen. I've been warning you about this forever. And it's why the GameStop story isn't us versus them. It's why the events of January 6th have troubled so many people like me who looked at that and said, there's no excuse for this. It should be called out immediately. It's not how we do business. And yet the left still attacked us. Look at the right inciting violence. How? How exactly was this show inciting violence? How? Do you even watch my show? Or are you really that stupid like Oliver Darcy?
Starting point is 00:41:30 Just go. I'm begging you on the left, the hacks that say this, to go back and view episodes over the years where we have repeatedly, multiple times, not to virtue signal anyone, but because I believe it in my heart and soul that the only path to a unified constitutional republic, unified in basic principles, not every single idea, there are going to be disagreements on taxes, on healthcare, on education, but we should be unified in basic things like free speech, the right to practice your religion openly, the right to petition the
Starting point is 00:41:59 government, assemble and protest. Those should be basic ideas we all agree on. But the way to get any of that done is not through violence. I have said basic ideas we all agree on. But the way to get any of that done is not through violence. I have said that repeatedly because it's right. Because it's right. And yet with the GameStop situation in January 6th, the left were the people sanctioning violence by Antifa and BLM, openly sanctioning it by, in some cases, saying, well, what's wrong with riots? These are peaceful protests as people were burning down cities. The left was doing that. And I argued to you that you calling us out over January 6th, when our principles have remained consistent. I don't accept the violence of January 6th,
Starting point is 00:42:42 nor violence anywhere else. And we've been consistent on that. It's you idiots that haven't done it. And there's no unity going forward. And it never will be until we can agree on that common set of principles that we should be talking out ideas, not beating the snot out of each other. Until we can agree on that unifying principle, there is no future. What? We continue to preach, as I've done in the the show nonviolence while you punch us in the face? No, no, no. Stop talking about unity. There will be no unity until we can all agree on a basic
Starting point is 00:43:16 set of rules. You can't have a boxing match, an appropriate analogy right now, where one side comes in with a chainsaw, a knife, and no boxing gloves, and you come in with 20-ounce gloves and no headgear, and he's trying to saw your arms off. That's not a boxing match because there are only rules that apply to one side.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Wait, I have to box and he gets to use the chainsaw? That's not fair. Wait, the left gets to sanction BLM and Antifa violence? We call out violence everywhere and we're the bad guys? Wait, the left gets to lie BLM and Antifa violence. We call out violence everywhere and we're the bad guys. Wait, the left gets to lie about collusion, Spygate, the WHO, coronavirus, Andrew Cuomo, Hunter Biden, chloroquine, Spygate and everything else.
Starting point is 00:43:55 And then gets to call us out for misinformation. Wait, the left and their hedge fund billionaires that donated the majority of their money to Joe Biden and the Democrats because they provide a protective government cabal for them they get to sell their stock and trade their stock and buy their stock whenever they want but the but but the the mass the great unwashed masses like us we don't get to do the same thing and you're wondering people like on on on cable news and elsewhere are wondering why we were pissed off about this gme game stop story and we think it's an us versus them. Maybe that's why. Because it is.
Starting point is 00:44:31 Because it is an us versus them. They have a different set of rules. They do whatever they want. And yet we have to abide by a separate set of rules. No violence is their fault, no matter what they do. Every piece of violence that happens is your fault, despite the fact that you've called for nonviolence and you had nothing to do with the actual violence. No, no, you've incited violence.
Starting point is 00:44:57 How did I do that? We're talking about liberty, freedom, school choice, all that other stuff. That's inciting violence now. You are now a domestic terrorist. Read the Greenwald piece if you don't all that other stuff. That's inciting violence now. You are now a domestic terrorist. Read the Greenwald piece if you don't think that's coming. One set of rules for the elite snobs and another set of rules for us. Enough of this trash.
Starting point is 00:45:19 It will be one set of rules for all of us. And we are the ones on the side of that. And until we turn their rules back on them, they'll never change. They want to boycott. We got to boycott. They want to organize. We got to organize. They want to protest.
Starting point is 00:45:37 We got to protest. It's the only way. Now, let me explain this GameStop story a little bit on a little bit of a lighter note. It is a Friday. It's been an interesting week. How did this start? And I've been doing a lot of homework on this story. So again, in a nutshell, GameStop is a stock. A bunch of big hedge fund guys on Wall Street shorted it. They bet it would go down. It's very simple. A bunch of big hedge fund guys on Wall Street shorted it. They bet it would go down. It's very simple. A bunch of retail investors figured out that their short positions, in other words, their bets that the GameStop stock would go down. A bunch of little guys figured out that they'd overplayed their hand on betting the stock
Starting point is 00:46:19 would go down and bet it would go up. And the little guys won. Let me walk you through step-by-step how this started. This is a really amazing story. You know what? Should I get to my, let me get to my last sponsor because this is a fascinating story. I can explain it to you in five, 10 minutes,
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Starting point is 00:48:10 Promo code Dan. Never go to the post office again. Okay. So how did this GameStop thing start? This story is incredible. Well, talking about the little guy versus the organized elite bow tie wearing crowd, there was a little guy on Reddit a while ago. This just didn't happen yesterday.
Starting point is 00:48:29 I can't say what his handle was on Reddit because there's an expletive in it, but let's just say it started with deep. It was interesting. This guy on Reddit a while ago, again, this didn't happen yesterday. He posted on Reddit in this Wall Street bets forum. He posted basically his long play on gamestop remember shorting a stock means you're betting it's going to go down that's what you're doing i'll explain you in a second how that works simply but going long on a stock means you're betting it's going to go up so you acquire the rights to buy it at a certain
Starting point is 00:49:02 price you think the stock's going to go to $1,000 and it's currently at $500. You go long on it and you buy the option to acquire the stock at say, whatever, $550. Great for you because you think it's going to go to $1,000. So if you can buy it at $550 and it does go to $1,000
Starting point is 00:49:20 and you can sell it at $1,000, you just made yourself $450 for each option. Pretty nice, huh? That's the reverse of a short. So this guy, let's call him Deep on Reddit, he posted his long play on GameStop. Apparently, a lot of people thought that was kind of funny in this subreddit forum. And we're like, dude, why are you investing in GameStop? It's,
Starting point is 00:49:45 it's a retail store that buys and trades and sells and video games. When most people are getting their online gaming. Now they're not trading in actual cartridges anymore. It's not Atari. So people kind of mock this guy again. Let's call them deep. Well, deep knew something.
Starting point is 00:50:04 Paul, you like in the story already? Deep knew something that other people didn't know. Why don't you go back and listen to yesterday's show where I saw in the beginning, I told you in the beginning, how knowledge is a good thing in markets, right? If a company's failing and you own a stock, you'd want to know that, right? That knowledge is power. But what happens when there are knowledge asymmetries? Free markets fail. If organized bowtie-wearing groups of elites that hate you have access to information you don't have, then they can take advantage and use that information, say they know. That's the whole essence of insider trading, right? If you get wind the company's going to fail in an insider
Starting point is 00:50:42 trading scheme and you sell the stock before everyone else does you make out like a bandit while the great unwashed all of us get screwed or as someone called them on youtube yesterday because i said the smelly people a lot which i did he called us the smellies while the smellies get screwed knowledge asymmetries are a cancer to free markets but what happens when the knowledge asymmetries are not knowledge contained in the elite side of the fence, but when the great unwashed, all of us, we start figuring things out first. Oh, all of a sudden, the elite snobs on the other side of the fence. Remember, it's a bifurcated society. They don't want to be with us. The elites start getting really upset. Well, Mr. Deep had some knowledge other people didn't have. What was the knowledge about GME? Everybody was laughing at him. Like, dude,
Starting point is 00:51:38 you're betting GME stock's going to go up? What an idiot. They sell games nobody buys and sells games anymore ha what a buffoon not so much turns out that our friend deep on reddit he'd done kind of a deep dive into gamestop and had some knowledge that the elites were either too stupid to figure out or just kind of gaffed off. He knew GameStop had assets. They had some cash. And that they weren't as broke and bankrupt as everybody said they were going to be on the short side. The big, super smart hedge funds
Starting point is 00:52:18 that said they were going to go bankrupt. So Deep went long and bet the price would go up. Again, people kept mocking him and mocking him well what else did he know knowledge knowledge strategy he not only knew that gamestop had cash and had some assets so they probably weren't going to go bankrupt right away like the short sellers thought but he figured out that the short sellers were so aggressively trying to crush GameStop that they had taken short interest about 300% of the float. I don't want to get too technical here.
Starting point is 00:53:01 But they had shorted the stock. These super smart, being sarcastic, of course, bow tie wearing elitist crowd. They had shorted and bet against GameStop so much while talking it down, hoping the stock collapsed and the company went bankrupt so they'd make a fortune at your expense.
Starting point is 00:53:21 That they'd taken so many short positions that the available stock to short, their short positions were about 300% of the float, the stock available in the market to purchase. Well, what's the problem with that? Well, when you short a stock, follow me here, Paul, if this gets confusing, stop me. And Joe, take it off mute and stop me right away if it's so confusing. When you short a stock and you bet it's going to go down, it's very simple how it works. You short it. It means you pay a small price to borrow the stock, essentially, from someone.
Starting point is 00:53:54 So you borrow the stock. Let's say it's a $20 stock and you borrow it for whatever, a dollar. You don't buy it. You borrow it. There's a difference, right? You then sell it right away, pocketing $20 plus the dollar you paid to borrow it, right? Minus the dollar, excuse me. So if you're doing that, betting the stock's going to go down dramatically, say cut in
Starting point is 00:54:14 half. So again, you borrowed it at $20, right? You paid a dollar to borrow. You sold it right away. Put the 20 in your pocket. You borrowed it, meaning you have to give it back. Well, if the stock goes down like you thought it was by taking your short position, say it goes down to $10 and it was 20 when you bought the option.
Starting point is 00:54:32 Well, now when you have to give the stock back, you make a fortune. Why? Because you just go buy the stock back for $10. You were right. It went down. And you give it back to the person you borrowed it from. But you only bought it for $10. You sold it for $20.
Starting point is 00:54:49 Your profit's $9, right? Well, Dan, wouldn't it be $10? No, because you had to pay $1 to borrow the stock. Again, I'm just trying to use easy numbers here. Does that make sense? Joe, we good? Paula? So what's the problem?
Starting point is 00:55:04 Well, the problem here is you borrowed the stock and then sold it. So if the stock fails to go down, you have to give the stock back. You borrowed it. Well, what happens when you borrowed the stock for a dollar and you sold it? It's gone for 20. So you have the 20 in your pocket. Yet, let's say the stock goes up to $300 plus, like GameStop did, which was trading below 20 at one point. You have to go back in the open market
Starting point is 00:55:32 and buy the stock to give it back. But how do you do that? You only have $20 in your pocket. The stock's now 300. The answer is you go bankrupt, like a lot of these hedge funds were close to doing. After they lost billions of dollars having to reacquire stocks they borrowed they thought were going to go down that not only went up but went up a whole lot. How does this go back to our friend Deep?
Starting point is 00:56:01 Well, our friend Deep on Reddit realized that they had shorted the stock so much that the available stocks to buy, we call the float, right? They had shorted about 300% of the float. So he figured out in his head, not only is GameStop in a decent cash position or not so bad, but sooner or later, these people positioning in Wall Street for a crash in the stock and who bought all these short positions, they're going to have to go back and buy back the stock they borrowed and sold. But ladies and gentlemen, they shorted it so much, there wasn't enough stock to buy. They shorted positions about 300% of the available stock. Make sense?
Starting point is 00:56:45 Kind of creates an issue, right? about 300% of the available stock. Make sense? Kind of creates an issue, right? Because then when they had to pay to buy the stock that had gone up dramatically, now they're bidding against each other to buy back the stock they borrowed because there isn't enough stock to buy, which drove the stock even higher. Now they're in a panic. Deep looks like a genius.
Starting point is 00:57:09 Deep took the long position. Long position means you bet the stock was going to go up. It keeps going up and up and up because all these idiots who took the short position now had to go buy back a stock. There wasn't enough stock to buy. Deep figured it out that there wasn't going to be enough stock, that they shorted 300% of the available stock, and they're all bidding against each other in a panic to get the stock, to buy it, to pay it back to the person they borrowed it from before it goes up even more and they lose even more money. As they were competing to buy the stock, not only amongst hedge funds that had shorted it,
Starting point is 00:57:46 but amongst retail investors who were buying the stock too, betting it would go up, driving the stock even higher. Deep understood something. I say, I don't know who this guy is. No idea. Never met him again. I'm not vouching for anyone.
Starting point is 00:58:00 All I'm telling you is he knew something. There was a knowledge asymmetry there. Knowledge asymmetry is the elite bow tie wearing crowd has taken advantage of for years. The inside baseball game up on DC, they know better than us so they use it to screw us.
Starting point is 00:58:18 The stock game, they've known better than us for years. The rules and regulatory game, they've known better than us. They've used it against us. the bowtie class they have used knowledge asymmetries knowledge they had and acquired in some cases illicitly against us forever and now when a little guy deep goes and just gets knowledge himself legally legally, by the way, from all I know, just looks at the GameStop float, looks at the short positions, looks
Starting point is 00:58:51 at GameStop's cash, and uses it against the big guys, and engages in this initiative that starts a popular revolt against short sellers, Wall Street and everyone goes crazy. Facebook is now shutting down groups that discuss the game stop stock when the subreddit was shut down one of the server companies pulled the server the sec is investigating i'm hearing federal law enforcement's involved the biden administration is following it following following what follow follow following what following the fact that some joe average investor investor on Reddit figured out that the big guys were really stupid and used his knowledge to win in a game they've been using against us forever? And all of a sudden, this is a national scandal?
Starting point is 00:59:41 All right, two quick stories before we go for the day. So let me just conclude by saying it isn't us versus them the us versus them is that the rules that apply to us don't apply to them they make up their own rules and then screw us and then we use their rules against them knowledge asymmetries boycotting they get pissed off and they push the beach ball under the water because they're totalitarians and they try to crush our ideas because if an idea spreads like Christianity, capitalism, democracy, and other powerful ideas, that means the end of them and their totalitarianism
Starting point is 01:00:13 and they hate it. They hate real warriors for liberty and freedom. For everyone. They hate that. They use collectivism to defeat collective action for their enemies, ideologically. I want you to read this story because it's a concern. Again, moving on. It's in the show notes today.
Starting point is 01:00:34 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very serious thing, and I am praying, and I do mean praying. I don't say that as some kind of a joke or some kind of throw-in. If we are attacked by an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse device, we are going to be in a world of trouble. And I really hope I'm hearing people in the government are starting to take this more seriously. But my issue with it is there are people in the government taking it more seriously. Because they're in the government and they don't know what they're doing because they're in government. New grid threat. Russia deploys a first
Starting point is 01:01:06 strike weapon and china's ready to read this piece by paul bedard washington examiner folks the russians are preparing apparently preparing a um electromagnetic pulse weapon that can defeat a lot of our mechanisms we are trying to build to stop it an electromagnetic pulse weapon would basically end most of humanity as we know it it's an atmospheric explosion that atmospheric explosion from this weapon would cause an electromagnetic pulse obviously called an emp that emp would fry just about any electrical circuit out there, not protected by some form of what a Faraday cage or else, or, or the, or typical type device.
Starting point is 01:01:50 Well, what would that mean? That would mean a failure of the U S electric grid where the pulse was detonated. And basically the starvation of probably 60 to 90% of the United States of America, probably within nine months to a year. You may say, Dan, that sounds like an existential threat yeah it is and people need to take it really seriously they are not kidding around
Starting point is 01:02:13 another story not in the show i just want to bring up showing you again how exxon even exxon uh you know a natural resources company you would think Exxon would be immune to leftist pressure, being that they provide some of the energy we need. Well, Exxon, their planning board, and other changes amid activist pressure. Story at the Wall Street Journal about how groups connected to California pension funds,
Starting point is 01:02:42 in other words, pension funds, that are made wealthy by your tax dollars are now pressuring a private company to give board seats to people who abide by leftist principles. I warned you. Different set of rules for them. You work for the government,
Starting point is 01:02:57 you get to do whatever you want on the activist front, including pressuring private industry to raise your gas prices. Fascinating how that works. Another guy who seems to live by different rules, Daily Caller, Hunter Biden, continues to hold the stake in a Chinese private equity firm record show, despite reports that he was planning to divest.
Starting point is 01:03:16 Andrew Kerr, the Daily Caller. This story, where's this been on the nightly news? That the son of the president of the United States, involved in the shadiest of deals with known enemies of the united states is still financially involved with a chinese communist party connected company over uh in china or alleged to be connected to the chinese communist party isn't this where's the media coverage of this? Nowhere.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Different sets of rules, as long as you're the bow tie wearing class. You have that video? Show's going to go on. One final video. This is a video of, this is where we're going right now with masks as well. Again, if you're on that side of things,
Starting point is 01:04:04 it's not just one mask now. Now they want you to wear, they want you to triple mask. Pretty soon it'll be 10 masks. Reminds me of that segment. Joe, remember, remember the segment, what was it? Seven minute abs from something about Mary? So remember that Paula? Seven minute abs. I got an idea. Six minute abs. Six minute. This is it. One mask isn't good. Not even two. They're talking about triple masking now. Triple mask. Why not 16 masks? I mean, what are they going to recommend next? Plastic over your head? Seriously, don't follow their triple masks. Can you even breathe in that? Look at this video segment. Check this out. The experts keep telling us that wearing masks is really about protecting others from ourselves
Starting point is 01:04:42 in the event that we are contagious. But, you know, if other people aren't wearing their masks or they're wearing them improperly, we need to protect ourselves. So experts say you can double up with a tight weave fabric mask for added protection. Now, Virginia Tech researchers found that doubling up these cloth masks increases the efficacy from 50 to 75 percent a three-layer mask could block up to 90 percent of the particles folks that may be true but has anyone considered why that is you know a 10-layer mask could probably block 100 of particles along with the air that comes with it suffocating you to death like is anybody looking at the downside of decreased oxygen flow of course that would work why not quadruple mask i mean again it's just like you watch this stuff like is anybody thinking any of this through anymore
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