The Dan Bongino Show - Troubling News I Heard About The Biden Border Crisis (Ep 1477)

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

In this episode, I discuss an explosive tip I received about the crisis at the southern border. I also address another massive media correction about the 2020 election. Finally I address the secret wa...ys big-tech monitors you on the web.  News Picks: Trump was misquoted again, in a story about the Georgia 2020 election. Four hidden ways big tech sucks up your data.  Tom Cotton absolutely destroys Biden nominee during a hearing.  The hapless Brian Stelter humiliates himself yet again.  Gas prices continue to surge under Biden. Is inflation going to crush our economy?  The criminalization of free speech continues around the world.  Liberals want to give the corrupt media a enormous handout. 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. Loaded show, loaded show for a Monday. I got a tip about the southern border. The crisis, yes, the crisis, although the Biden administration wants to call it, they want to play the euphemisms game and call it everything but a crisis. It's a manageable situation, a small issue, a minor problem. No, no, it's a huge crisis. And I got a tip about it that really kind of quaked me a little bit, even though I don't get quaked often about stuff, especially when it comes to Democrats. You're going to want to hear that. I've also got this story about four ways big tech hoovers up,
Starting point is 00:00:44 vacuums up your data and sells it a couple of which I sent over to Guy to look at he's like I didn't even know they did that either did I and I have a bunch of investments in social media companies I didn't even know they were doing this also some fake news on Donald Trump shocker stunner again more fake news about Donald Trump that had to be retracted although from what i'm hearing cnn hasn't retracted it yet secure your digital rights today get a vpn do not wait go to expressvpn.com slash bongino welcome to the damn bongino show so loaded of a show today it's a two-pager i hope i can get to the mini crisis developing in florida right now yeah florida i'm
Starting point is 00:01:23 down here i want to tell you what's going on on the ground. So if we don't get to it, maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. All right. Today's show brought to you by our friends at ExpressVPN. Big tech companies have a ton of power in our country today. You'll be hearing about that on today's show. As private entities, they can operate pretty much as they choose. Protect your personal data from big tech today with the VPN I trust for my online protection. ExpressVPN. When I use ExpressVPN, my connection gets rerouted to their secure encrypted servers so these companies can't see my IP address at all. My internet activity becomes anonymized and my network data is encrypted. Nice. I recommend ExpressVPN to anyone who uses the internet, so basically everyone ever
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Starting point is 00:02:31 Producer Joe, let's go. And they're off. Yep. A little bit of a delay there. A little bit. A little bit. Just throw that in there. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:02:39 You don't want to trigger it. I was looking at the Kenny Bell. All right. You saw that? You know, the Kenny belt. All right. You saw that? Kenny belt always comes in handy. I got some video, Nancy Pelosi. This is about that crisis. I'm going to get to my tip in a second.
Starting point is 00:02:53 But Nancy Pelosi, who manages to squeeze two BS talking points into one one-minute clip about the obviously exploding crisis on the southern border. about the obviously exploding crisis on the southern border. That's not a mystery to anyone out there with a triple digit IQ who've cracked the hundreds in the IQ department, which is nothing to brag about, by the way. But if you're a liberal, it is these days. So here's Pelosi in an interview this weekend, asked about the immigration crisis at the border. She manages to squeeze in remarkably, Joe, two BS talking points in less than a minute
Starting point is 00:03:28 in this one minute block. And it just goes to show you how liberals never ever tell you the truth. They are, it's not that they're destroying, we know they've been destroying the country for 50 years. It's that the rate of change of the rate of the second derivative of their destruction of the country
Starting point is 00:03:47 has now picked up the pace even more. They're not content to just destroy it. They want it destroyed in this calendar year right now. They lie to you about everything. Here's Pelosi lying about the border and listen to the two things she squeezes in. I want you to focus on this.
Starting point is 00:04:03 She mentions Trump. Trump's not the president anymore. Last time I checked, I don't need a fact checker on that one. And second, she manages to blame the immigration crisis at the border on, wait for it. Climate change. Yes, of course. Such a natural. Again, squiggly doesn't equal signs of the line through the middle. Of course, the climate change has nothing to do with the immigration crisis. Check this out. What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children's interest. FEMA to the border in order to help facilitate the children going from one 72-hour issue into where they are cared for as they are transferred into family homes or homes that are safe for them
Starting point is 00:04:56 to be. So this again is a transition from what was wrong before to what is right. Of course, we have to also look to Central America and Mexico and the rest, the corruption, the violence, all of that. My most recent trip to the Northern Triangle, that would be Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, you saw the impact of climate change, mind you. These people were leaving because of the drought. They couldn't farm, and they were seeking other ways to survive. You just, it defies, I mean, everything that makes you a sane, rational human being in your everyday life when you're operating as normal, right?
Starting point is 00:05:43 It defies every one of the rules you use to do that. What is she doing? She just, they just make stuff up. They just make it up. So number one, she blames it on Trump and says it's, notice the use, the not so clever by half use of excess unnecessary verbiage to claim the crisis at the border is quote a transition from the crisis under Donald Trump. I'm going to show you an article in a minute proving to you that that's total crap and she's made that up. But secondly, I love how she pivots and she blames it on climate
Starting point is 00:06:17 change. I can guarantee you if you were to do an interview at the border with the, what is it, 100,000 people who tried to enter the country illegally in February, that less than 0, 0, 0, 1% of them would cite climate change as the reason. But whatevs, Nancy, you do you. So let's get to some actual data. And I'm going to give you the tip I got, showing you how bad this is, because I've never heard anything like this in 12 years in federal law enforcement. Never heard anything like it. Wall Street Journal article, because facts matter.
Starting point is 00:06:52 The Biden border mess. Notice the headline. Wall Street Journal, by the way, is just no fan of Trump most of the time. It doesn't say the Trump border mess. The headline is, as you can see on the screen right here, the Biden border mess. Migrants rush to enter the United States, creating a humanitarian crisis. Crisis, Joe, there they said it. Not transition, not minor problem, not small issue, dreaded air quotes for all, a humanitarian crisis. Let's go to the actual numbers because Pelosi says, Joe, it's not a crisis. It's a transition from the crisis under Trump to a better situation now.
Starting point is 00:07:28 I don't get what she's saying. Well, here are the actual numbers again, folks, because facts matter. And I like the fact that you watch my show and we can laugh. We can cry. We can hug. We can do whatever. Maybe not hug. I'm not much of a hugger, but you get the point.
Starting point is 00:07:42 But we will do actual facts. Reminds me of the guy in titanic there will be order here at the end there will be order remember the guy trying to get on the lifeboat we will do facts quote wall street journal about the actual border they're moving fema officials federal emergency management agency if they're moving to the border why would that be if it's not a crisis why would fema be at the border huh a little weird fema typically addresses unpredictable calamities like hurricanes but this border mess is man-made customs and border protection reported nearly 397 000 encounters with migrants on the southwestern border
Starting point is 00:08:22 in the first five months of fiscal 21, which began in October. Notice that, by the way, because Trump was still president for some of that. If you factor that out and just put January and February, half of which Biden was president and February was president, these numbers are even worse. But even factoring in part of the trump presidency when we had control over the border that's about 25 percent more than in the same period in 2019 you get the little trick that last part is really key it's about 25 percent more than that same five month period in 2019 when part of it trump was still president if you only factor in January and February the situation's even worse here look at this screenshot too again because numbers and
Starting point is 00:09:12 facts and stuff still matter at least on this show unaccompanied children are arriving in droves with CBP reporting nearly 9,500 encounters in February, a 61% increase over January. The Washington Post reports that more than 8,500 migrant children have facilities run by Health and Human Services, while another 3,500, quote, the highest figure ever are stuck at CBP stations waiting for a spot to open its shelters. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a full-blown calamity at the border.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Why? What is happening? Why does the Biden administration love every minute of this, along with liberal Democrats? Because, as I told you last week, getting to the point I want to make here, this is a strategy. The Democrats understand they've become the party of big business elites and big tech and connected insiders. The Democrats, as I told you on that show I did a couple weeks ago about Trump's positive effect on the GOP.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Remember that article we discussed in New York Mag by the liberal pollster? Yeah. Who said, yes, Trump was a net positive for the GOP. He brought back the working class voters and he's bringing in minority voters at levels they hadn't seen before with another Republican candidate. A liberal said that, by the way, folks, a liberal. Well, how does that relate to immigration? Because ladies and gentlemen, if the Democrats lose substantial portions of the minority population as their voting block and all they have left is young voters, big tech and big business. They can't win an election. So illegal immigration works great for them.
Starting point is 00:10:49 Sign them up to vote at motor voter programs around the country. Who's better than you? 397,000 illegal crossings a month. The country only has 330 million people. What better way to win elections than that? Dan, that sounds really horrible. Clearly, you're making that up. Am I? Because a couple of Republican politicians, you remember this one? For my older listeners who've been around a while.
Starting point is 00:11:16 You remember when a couple of Republican politicians put this theory to the test? The theory, in other words, that the Democrats want you to believe that, Joe, this is all about compassion. Oh, yeah. Climate change, all that other stuff overseas, over, excuse me, down south and overseas.
Starting point is 00:11:34 People should be able to come to the United States. Forget this whole border thing. It's a waste of time. It's all about compassion. So a couple of Republicans years ago, when I was still doing my show in the other studio, said, well, let's test that theory out. Let's put a stipulation in this immigration amnesty bill you guys had. This was very clever. That says, yeah, yeah, we'll look at amnesty for people in the country illegally
Starting point is 00:11:55 on one condition. People who come here illegally, if given amnesty, are not allowed to vote for 10 years. What happened? What happened? Remember this joke? The Democrats said, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want that. We don't want that. Wait, wait. I thought it was about compassion. What does voting have to do with anything? If you have to wait 10 years because you broke the law, which is, you know, I don't think we should have amnesty at all, just to be clear, but they But they understood the Democrats were full of it, so they made them take a vote on it. And the Democrats went, we're not doing it.
Starting point is 00:12:31 Because it has nothing to do with compassion. It has everything to do with the Democrats replacing lost middle class minority votes with votes from illegals they get when they can register them to vote in motor voter programs. It's as simple as that. Oh, no, they can't vote? No, screw them. Keep them back down south. That's their attitude. That's as simple as that. Oh, no, they can't vote? No, screw them. Keep them back down south. That's their attitude.
Starting point is 00:12:48 That's their attitude, the Democrats. That's exactly what they did. All right, here's my tip. So I get a couple texts, not just one, by the way, a few, from friends of mine, let's say at law enforcement, and they said,
Starting point is 00:13:02 you're never going to believe this. The border crisis is now so bad not only is fema down there as we saw at the wall street journal fema emergency i thought it wasn't our emergency i thought it was just a problem down there joe they're talking about sending secret service agents down there too on one to two week rotations wait what yeah i'm not messing with you now now no this is i spent 12 years in the Secret Service. As you know, sorry, I just, you know, I hate throwing that out there because it's annoying to you. All the listeners have heard it a thousand times,
Starting point is 00:13:29 but it's relevant to the story, obviously. You know, we've been detailed to assignments before. You know, we had that ridiculous thing where we basically took over security for the Mitt Romney run Utah Olympics. And I remember sitting out there midnights with this agent friend of mine in a car freezing my butt off, staying at the Okura Motor Inn,
Starting point is 00:13:52 like 50 miles from the Olympic Village for three weeks of my life. Couldn't, it was the worst assignment ever. Wondering what the hell are we doing here? We're supposed to protect the president and investigate counterfeit. And I'm sitting in the freezing cold guarding a bunch of Olympic people. Why are we doing here? We're supposed to protect the president and investigate counterfeit. And I'm sitting in the freezing cold, guarding a bunch of Olympic people. Why are we doing this? I have never in my life heard of Secret Service agents being sent to the southern border. Now,
Starting point is 00:14:15 why does that matter? Ladies and gentlemen, it matters because it is a huge, enormous story. You now have Joe Biden signaling to the world that the border the southern border is open by doing it there is now a multi-fold increase in the number of people coming to the southern border liberals listening this is simple logic please follow the program it's not hard trump did we have an immigration crisis at the border? Yes, but the numbers were far lower than we are now because Trump had signaled to the world, the border's closed. Enter the country legally or don't enter at all. You'll have to stay in Mexico even if you claim asylum. And if your case is adjudicated, you'll be allowed in.
Starting point is 00:15:00 People stopped coming in mass numbers into the United States illegally. Liberals, do you agree with it? Do you disagree with any of that? Is any of that hard for you to understand? Biden gets in office, signals to the world that we're going to change Trump's immigration policy. People who want to come to the United States are like, I don't have to wait in Mexico anymore. I'll be allowed into the United States illegally.
Starting point is 00:15:19 That sounds just awesome. The numbers triple almost overnight after Trump leaves office. Any of this again, disputed or hard for you to get? The crisis is now so bad, FEMA, which is supposed to be taking care of hurricane response and other things, is now wasting their manpower at the southern border for a crisis Biden created. And here's the irony and the reason I brought up the secret service and Biden's own secret service that protects Joe Biden because he's the president,
Starting point is 00:15:51 Biden's own secret service is now sending its agents off to the Southern border to try to stem a crisis Biden created at the expense of Biden's own security. I know what they'll say because I've been there. Oh, it's not agents detailed to Biden specifically. No, no, no, no, no. Please don't pull the dipsy. Do flip a rooski on me.
Starting point is 00:16:14 I was in there. I know exactly what happens. When Biden travels or moves out of the White House, he's supported by agents around the country who post and then elsewhere. When those agents aren't around to support protective details because they're at the southern border trying to mitigate a crisis Biden created, it creates a cascade of horribles. Please don't try the media people.
Starting point is 00:16:41 You want to argue with me about how manpower works in the Secret Service? Let's do it. Let I well the secret service let's do it let i well please let's do it i will humiliate you in front of all of your colleagues because you don't know what you're talking about i can tell you when this has happened before secret service agents at the southern border do you believe this unreal so these people are so stupid created this crisis all right let me get to my second at the southern border. Do you believe this? Unreal. These people are so stupid. Created this crisis. All right, let me get to my second sponsor.
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Starting point is 00:19:20 That's teeter.com slash Dan. Go today. You're going to love it. All right. dan that's teeter.com slash dan go today you're gonna love it all right showing you how the democrats are in an absolute panic over the immigration crisis uh i i was watching cable news this morning and here's how this came up and one of the stories on the program was while i was prepping for the show which i found hilarious folks you all know republicans pounce right you know republicans pounce republicans see You know what Republicans pounce, Republicans seize. You know what that is? It's when the media understands they're in the middle of a crisis involving Democrats.
Starting point is 00:19:48 And instead of making the story about the crisis the Democrats are involved in, Andrew Cuomo, Biden's immigration disaster, where they're sending secret service agents to the border. Not only that, they don't make the story about that. They make it about the Republicans' response to it. So Republicans pounce on Cuomo. Republicans pounce on crisis at the border. Republicans pounce on Obamacare failure.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Republicans pounce on Obama's tan suit. Remember that one? So just this morning, I saw it. I'm like, let me just put this in a search engine and see what comes up. This is an actual screenshot from my phone. Here are the top four when you put in Republican C's. New York Times, Republican C's on shuttered schools as a political rally. So Joe, it's not about Democrats keeping schools closed or opening the border or Cuomo. It's about Republican C's.
Starting point is 00:20:38 This is not a joke. This is not manipulated in any way. Here are the top four that came up. Number two, CNN. Republican sees on Biden's domestic policy nominees. Biden's nominees for his cabinet fall apart. And the story's about Republican seizing. Here's one. Here's an actual Republican see Senate. Okay, we'll give him a pass on that one.
Starting point is 00:21:02 I threw it in there just to show, honestly, I didn't want to mess with you. Here's the other one. Republican sees on nursing home deaths to weaken Democrats. Here we go. Never, this story
Starting point is 00:21:10 is never about the Democrats, Cuomo, immigration. It's always about Republicans pounce, Republicans seize. And they don't
Starting point is 00:21:18 even realize they're doing it. They don't even realize they're doing it. They are that elitist, these snobs in this bubble they live in. So watch. The story I saw this morning was Republicans seize on Cuomo to distract from something. It was like, oh, I can't take it
Starting point is 00:21:36 anymore. All right, moving on. Folks, the left, they're obviously obsessed with racial grievance, politics, identity politics. You know that. We've talked about it forever because it goes back to the Dan Bongino. Joe, do we have our rules? I think we had rule number one and two last week, Dan Bongino's golden rules. Dan Bongino's golden rule number three. I'm doing the Bob Dole, talking about myself in the third person, but I got it for this one. Rule number three, Dan Bonggino's golden rules are
Starting point is 00:22:06 the left uses identity politics because they can't run on anything themselves that would get mainstream support, right? Yeah. The left never runs on it what it really wants to do. You ever see a campaign signed for a leftist candidate that was honest?
Starting point is 00:22:21 No. I'm going to hike your taxes, put your kid in a crap school you can't choose a choice otherwise for No. I'm going to hike your taxes, put your kid in a crap school you can't choose a choice otherwise for, and I'm going to take your healthcare and turn it over to a government bureaucrat and we're going to open the borders. Do you notice the left never actually runs
Starting point is 00:22:35 on what they're going to do, but they do it anyway? So how does the left win elections? They win elections because of golden rule number three and Dan Bongino's rule of politics, right? Golden rule number three is the left wins elections because they don't tell you what they're going to do. They just tell you the other guy hates you so much because they're all racist, xenophobes, misogynists, and transophobic,
Starting point is 00:22:56 istophobic, phobophobes, that if you don't vote for us, they're going to come after you. You get it? You have to understand this because once you learn to see it, you can never unsee it. It's true. They never run on what they actually want to do. They run on we're protecting you from the evil Republicans because they're all racist. That's why this stuff works. You're going to see it here.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Here's a video of Tom Cotton, who does an excellent job as a senator, I think. Some stuff I disagree, but he generally does a pretty decent job. Tom Cotton is talking to an obama nominee republicans pounce cotton pounces on a biden nominee you get it you like a little segue there so tom cotton is interviewing vanita gupta who is a biden nominee for a position in the doj I spoke in front of Congress about police reforms and Vanita Gupta was there and said some stuff that was so hilariously stupid. I couldn't believe it came out of her mouth in public. So she is going to be one of Biden's nominees for the DOJ. She may get through. And she believes in this. Everybody's a racist theory. So I want you to watch this video where Tom Cotton says, well, everybody's a racist and
Starting point is 00:24:06 has this implicit bias. Well, who are you biased against? Watch the dance. Watch the dance. Watch the dance she does. She doesn't mention anything specific. She will never mention who she's biased against. It's just you, Joe, and everyone else she's running against. Check this out. Last summer, nine months ago, you were in front of this committee and Senator Corden said, do you believe that all Americans are racist? You replied, yes, I think that we all have implicit biases and racial biases. Yes, I do. So Ms. Gupta, I ask you, against which races do you harbor racial bias? Senator Cotton, I do not. The yes was to say that all of us have implicit bias. This was an exchange also that Judge Garland had with Senator Kennedy during his hearing.
Starting point is 00:24:57 I believe that we all have implicit bias. It doesn't mean that we are harboring any racism at all. These are unconscious assumptions and stereotypes that can get made. And I remember that summer in the exchange with Senator Cornyn that we were discussing systemic racism and implicit bias. And my response was to say that all of us have implicit bias. Well, to be precise, you said we all have implicit biases and racial biases. That's all. Every single American you accused of implicit bias and racial biases. That's all. Every single American, you're accused of implicit bias and racial bias. So I'm asking you again, against which races do you harbor racial bias?
Starting point is 00:25:31 I am quite aware that I know that I hold stereotypes that I have to manage. I'm a product of my culture. I'm a product. It's part of the human condition. And I believe that, you know, one of the reasons I believe that all of us are able to manage implicit bias, but only if we can acknowledge our own. And I am not above anyone else in that matter. I think implicit bias is something that is part of the shared human condition. Step up. Step up, Vanita. No, I'm serious.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Step up. Have some guts and step up. no i'm serious step up have some guts and step up joe if if vanita gupta hard leftist by the way hard leftist if vanita gupta gets into the doj we're all in trouble if vanita gupta really believes that we're all harboring this racial bias all of us we're all racist right all of us wouldn't it be really bold of her then to step up should answer the question vanita gupta who specifically are you racist against she should say you know if she's honest um i don't know i'm i i have a i'm racist against hispanic and black folks. You are. Wait, you are? You are. Really? Because we're not.
Starting point is 00:26:50 I'm not saying she is. I'm just saying she's saying everybody's a racist and her. Yet she provides. Now, why does she not provide any specifics? Why does she not do that? Well, because she doesn't do it because she doesn't believe it because it's not true i don't believe it about her but she won she's afraid because if she answers that specifically say she says i'm biased against asians i don't know whatever it may be you understand now if she gets confirmed to this position, Joe,
Starting point is 00:27:26 how she opens herself up in any business transaction with someone who's Asian to a lawsuit for admitting she's biased against him. So she doesn't want to do it, but she wants to accuse everyone else of it. Now, how does this work? And by the way, I don't believe Vanita Gupta is a radical leftist. I don't believe that. I don't know her. And unlike liberals, I judge people on their actions, and I don't know Vanita Gupta is a radical leftist I don't believe that, I don't know her and unlike liberals, I judge people
Starting point is 00:27:46 on their actions and I don't know Vanita Gupta if I saw her being racist against Hispanic or someone who is black or Asian, I'll call it out as true I don't know her, I've never seen that so unlike liberals, I don't make blind accusations that everybody's a racist
Starting point is 00:28:02 but me they do that but notice how this implicit bias without ever admitting anything specific right works for them she specifically says well i manage it and so you don't really see anything like she's basically saying like oh i manage implicit bias so i don't act racist anywhere okay well either does anybody else i know i don't have any friends who i go out with them to lunch and they're like oh my gosh your wife is colombian dan i'm not eating with you guys i'm out of here i'm going to a different table i don't i mean i don't see that so oh oh now you're in people's heads now you're in people's heads you see how that works for them joe they don't have to prove anything because they can't
Starting point is 00:28:52 right they can't overt acts of racism in our society thankfully which has evolved significantly from its founding and from the dreadful Jim Crow era, overt acts of racism are so frowned upon and so rare now that the left has to say, Oh no, no, Joe, it's not what they do or what I do. It's what's in their heads.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Well, Vanita, what, what, what, right. Thank you. I needed it.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Cause I'm not sure everybody's getting it. So Cotton says, okay. Tom Cotton says to Vanita, well, what's in your head? Who exactly are you racist against? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I manage it. I manage it.
Starting point is 00:29:32 You mean like everybody else manages it? You mean like everyone else on planet Earth who's a good and decent person has a bias towards everything, but just manages it? So if everybody's managing it and there's no or relatively few overt acts of racism, why do you keep calling everyone a racist? She's not even smart enough to pick it up. She's not smart enough to pick it up. She doesn't get it.
Starting point is 00:30:02 She doesn't get it. Joe, I'm glad you picked up what I was putting down there. She can't point to mass acts of racism in the country. So what does she do? She says she can basically read people's minds, but don't read mine, Tom Cotton. What a phony. Speaking of race, I want to get this other video of George Costanza over at
Starting point is 00:30:28 CNN. We can't call him Mr. Potato Head anymore because Mr. Potato Head's not a mister anymore. But I want you to watch this too because Brian Stelter over at CNN is one of the legendary useful idiots in the media. I really mean it. I mean, listen, it's obvious I don't like him. He doesn't like me. But I don't look for Brian Stelter clips on the show because he's generally annoying. But it's so easy to use because he, unlike other media folks on the left who are a little more savvy about being useful idiots for tyrants, Stelter's not.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Stelter's just an overt useful idiot because he's really dumb. So here's a clip of Stelter this weekend on the hilariously named show, Reliable Sources, that used to host Michael Avenatti on this show. And I want you to watch how Stelter, again, uses the race tool. It's a clip about him criticizing Tucker Carlson. Stelter says Tucker Carlson's the new Donald Trump. Okay, whatever that means. Stelter's not bright enough to even know what that means. But notice how he talks about Tucker stoking, quote, white rage. And he uses it to push kind of in a backdoor way, but he's not clever enough to make it a little
Starting point is 00:31:45 more cryptic. He's using his attack on Tucker and white rage to push for media censorship because he's a useful idiot for tyrants. Listen to the clip, listen to what he does, and you'll see how he tries to be, again, clever, but he's not smart enough to be clever. Check this out. Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump. clever. Check this out. Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump. Tucker has taken Trump's place as a right-wing leader, as an outrage generator, as a fire starter. And it's all happening on Fox,
Starting point is 00:32:13 just like Trump's campaign did, which means Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are ultimately responsible. I mean, think about all the ways these two men are similar. Every day, Carlson is throwing bombs, making online memes, offending millions of people, also delighting millions of others, tapping into white male rage and resentment, stoking distrust of big tech in the media, generally coarsening the discourse, never apologizing for anything, and setting the GOP's agenda. Sounds like a recently retired president, right? Again, a useful idiot, but why does it matter? Damn, why do you put Stelter on your show?
Starting point is 00:32:56 He's a moron. I get that a lot. Well, we know that. But I put him on the show because useful idiots, tyrants, socialists, communists, who have destroyed and decimated people's real liberty and freedom. I mean, touchable, tangible liberty and freedom where you can go and work and take custody of money for work and take your kids and move them to a school you choose and control your own health care and not be subjected to torture and political imprisonment by communists. Those communists have always implemented their agenda
Starting point is 00:33:25 using really stupid people defined as useful idiots by the socialists themselves. People too stupid to realize they're being used as tools. Stelter is one of those primary useful idiots who uses his vehicle on CNN to attack cable networks, which is fine. I attack CNN, I'm doing it now. But notice, I'm not pushing for the deplatforming of CNN and Brian Stelter.
Starting point is 00:33:48 It's useful morons like him pushing for the deplatforming of Fox because he doesn't like the opinions of Tucker Carlson. And I'll show you how dangerous this stuff gets in a minute. I'll put up right after this quick spot here. I want to put up an article by Legal Insurrection about how hate speech laws are now evolving, folks. This is getting dangerous. I've been warning you about this for years. Hate speech coming now to a neighborhood near you next. All right. Our third sponsor today, our friends at Brickhouse Nutrition. Listen, life's about habits. This year, we've been more focused than ever on our health. So what are you
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Starting point is 00:36:13 launch every morning go to bongino.com slash newsletter to subscribe um check it out it's free of course legal insurrection scotland we need another william wallace moment freedom you're fighting for the scraps from long shanks table scotland's controversial hate crime bill criminalizes statements made in the privacy of one's own home huh don't worry people like brian stelter probably love stuff like this let's see what this law actually does statements made criminalized in the privacy of your own home and you don't worry. People like Brian Stelter probably love stuff like this. Let's see what this law actually does. Statements made criminalized in the privacy of your own home. And you don't think we're headed down a slippery slope. Where do you think exactly this is going to go here?
Starting point is 00:36:54 The legislation creates a sweeping new offense of quote, get a load of this one, Joe stirring up hatred. How exactly is Stelter not doing that with accusing Tucker Carlson, basically being a racist on a nationally televised program? How is Stelter not stirring up hatred how exactly is stelter not doing that with accusing tucker carlson basically being a racist on a nationally televised program how is stelter not stirring up hatred i'd like to know getting back to it liable for prosecution will be anyone who quote behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening abusive or insulting
Starting point is 00:37:20 or communicate such material if he or she intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on the group being defined by reference to race, color, nationality, including citizenship or ethnic or national origins. Or if a reasonable person would consider the behavior or the communication of the material to likely result in hatred being stirred up against such a group. Holy Moses, do you not see where this can go? Anytime anyone objects to anything out of your mouth, they can just say, hey, I think because I'm a reasonable person, it's going to stir up hatred against another group. Even journalists, you should be locked up, put in prison, maybe tortured too. These are the kind of lunatics we're dealing with. They only want free speech that's convenient for them.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Yet when Stelter goes and stirs up hatred against Tucker Carlson and accuses him of being a racist on his television, stirring up white rage, nobody cares about that. Useful idiots abound. All right, let me move on because this is another important story. Amazingly, we are still, we are back again to Trump, the fake news about Trump. He's not even in office anymore. We are back to the fake news about Trump and the 2020 election. They just can't stop, which is really tragically hilarious because media folks keep accusing conservatives of fake news about the 2020 election as they continue to promote fake news about the 2020 election. Article in the Washington Examiner, again, in my newsletter today,
Starting point is 00:38:52 bongino.com slash newsletter. Please read it. All weekend. Did you not hear about if you went to drudge and elsewhere, the now left-leaning drudge? What did you see, Joe, all week? Trump, on the phone, pressured another Georgia election official. Pressured him again. Put him in jail. Lock him up. Maybe waterboard him just to get the answers out of him.
Starting point is 00:39:16 And I'm like, really? Trump was on the call with another Georgia election official? Pressuring him? That sounds really bad. My gosh. Well, of course, because the Dan Bongino 72-hour rule now applies,
Starting point is 00:39:26 which is what? Never, ever trust the media on a Trump story. Make sure you wait the 72 hours before you report on it, like I did, almost forced to
Starting point is 00:39:35 over the weekend. Because what'll happen? In that 72 hours, maybe 8.2 out of 10 times the media will be forced to retract the story and correct it because it's all a lie. Here we go again.
Starting point is 00:39:48 So we heard over the weekend that President Trump told a bunch of, excuse me, a Georgia election official, you better find the fraud. You'd be a national hero if you did. In other words, insinuating that he was pressuring them to find fraud in Georgia. Well, it's not exactly what happened. Again. Washington Examiner. However, the audio of the recording,
Starting point is 00:40:12 the audio recording, excuse me, shows that early reports in January about that call based on anonymous sourcing. Oh, anonymous sources were wrong again. Shocker. Misquoted Trump. Again. In those reports, Trump was quoted as saying Oh, anonymous sources were wrong again. Shocker. Misquoted Trump again. In those reports, Trump was quoted as saying and urging Watson, the Georgia election official, to, quote, find the fraud.
Starting point is 00:40:33 And if she did so, the investigator would be, quote, a national hero. Oh, by the way, I don't even know what's wrong with that. If Trump thought there was fraud and was asking someone to try to find it, I don't understand what's really wrong with that. But even then, I get it how the left would be like, oh my gosh, it's pressure. It's the president. All right, whatever. The problem is they just made the quote up because that's not exactly what happened. Matter of fact, it's not what happened at all. So the Washington Post and CNN both reported on this. CNN reported on the Washington Post story, which is how the fake news game works, Joe.
Starting point is 00:41:09 Anonymous sources told us Trump said this, reported in the Washington Post. Then CNN reports on the Washington Post report about the anonymous source. And then of course the whole thing falls apart because the anonymous source was lying, which only happens all the time. Back to the examiner piece. Well, the Washington post hitting the brakes
Starting point is 00:41:26 i know it's geese stuck that hitting the brakes uh sounder in the piece last week it's very funny the washington post stuck in a long correction note to the top of its report which don't worry folks if you're not listening to this show you'll hear nothing about because the story already served its purpose right trump was encouraging election officials to find the fraud you've already heard it so it doesn't matter the correction you'll hear nothing about because the story already served its purpose, right? Trump was encouraging election officials to find the fraud. You've already heard it, so it doesn't matter. The correction, you'll hear nothing about. Here's the correction. Trump did not tell the investigator to, quote, find the fraud.
Starting point is 00:41:55 Okay, well, that's interesting. Or say she would be, quote, a national hero if she did so. Folks, that's the whole story, that he said those two things he didn't say. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, asserting she would find, quote, dishonesty there. He also
Starting point is 00:42:14 told her that she had, quote, the most important job in the country right now. The story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump. When is it going to stop? When's it going to stop? If our media today had any capacity for self-reflection whatsoever, any capacity to look in the mirror when they wake up in the morning and say,
Starting point is 00:42:45 what am I doing wrong and how can I do it better? They would realize, number one, that we make fun of them for their Republicans pounce, Republicans see stories because we know exactly what they're doing. And they keep doing it because I don't think it's that they don't care. I think they live in a bubble and they don't even know they're doing it. And the second thing is you'd say, okay, Joe, we've been burned on anonymous sourcing about Trump 82.6% of the time. Yes. So maybe before we write the story on Trump and what he said, maybe we'll find another
Starting point is 00:43:20 source and see if it's actually true. Or Joe, here's a crazy idea. Maybe we'll actually wait for the recording to come out and listen to it ourselves. Ladies and gentlemen, they can't do it. They simply cannot do it. These are, you understand these are not serious people. They have no commitment to excellence. They have no commitment to improvement in their everyday work. They have no commitment to any credo or ethos. The only thing they're committed to is ideological advancement, attacking Donald Trump, and making Republicans look stupid. These are not serious people, and I'm telling you, they should be roundly ignored at every opportunity. I can prove it. They can't.
Starting point is 00:44:00 All right, moving on, because this is another really important story. Obviously, something that matters to me greatly, given my investments and involvement in a parallel tech economy, because I'm so terrified about what big tech is doing to this country. They're war, now war. It's not even a battle anymore. They're full-blown war on free speech, and they're full-blown war on your privacy. This was the piece I sent to Guy, he was reading it through and he's processing the stuff for screenshots so they fit in the screen for the show. And he's reading them to me. He's
Starting point is 00:44:29 like, wow, this is good. I'm like, all right, this is great. I'm glad you like it. Now I know it's a good story. So be available in our newsletter. Again, check it out, but it's an important one. Read through the whole thing. Four hidden ways big tech platforms suck up your data. Listen, again, my involvement in the tech industry, I've warned you about this repeatedly. There are big problems ahead, ladies and gentlemen. The very hallmark of a free society is what? What is it? It is the distinction between the private and public self. If citizens of a country feel that everything they do is being monitored, there's no private self at all.
Starting point is 00:45:08 You're being watched in your house. You're being watched when you talk to your friends. You're being recorded when you speak on the phone. How is that not the hallmark of tyranny and totalitarianism? How? There's no private you at all. Everything is monitored by a big brother type government system that knows and surveils and watches
Starting point is 00:45:25 everything you do for, they want to monitor dissidents. They want to evaporate away your freedom. They want to know your economic activity. How is that any different than what big tech is doing now? Here's number one, Facebook, quote from the examiner story the largest social media company in the world collects information on its 2.4 billion monthly users even when they're not on the platform by tracking their browsing history including the news they read pornography they watch websites they shop at and more ladies and, you want a private self?
Starting point is 00:46:06 You want to do stuff that's not illegal, but you want it in the privacy of your own house? You know, go to websites, whatever, do your thing. Oh, you thought you were doing that in private? Eh, sorry. Using a tool called off Facebook activity, Facebook users can see all of the external browsing data the platform secretly collects without notifying anyone. You're not even on the platform. Since August of 2019, Facebook allows users to see the vast amounts of external data collected about them that previously no one had access to. Oh, thank you. Thank you. That's a positive. You guys are so great. Thanks for
Starting point is 00:46:50 allowing us access to our own data. That's really spectacular. Let me get to my fourth sponsor here, but you think Facebook's it? Excuse me. You think that's it? The article was titled, Excuse me. You think that's it? The article was titled, Four Ways Big Tech Watches You Here. Four, not one, four. There are three more.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Google, Amazon, online ad trackers. I'll get to those two and you'll realize, again, the distinction between the private and public self, which is the very hallmark of a free society. What you do in private, as long as you don't break the law, is your business. It ain't all cute. It ain't all pretty, but it's private.
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Starting point is 00:49:22 last. Legacybox.com slash Bongino. My daughter, Isabel, is going to be horrified I showed that baby picture of her on the air, but it's okay. It's okay. It's a cute picture. All right, getting back to this article. So folks, it's always concerned me again, and that's incentivized me to explode my involvement in investments in a parallel big tech economy. Just how much surveilling of you is being done. Here's another takeaway from the examiner piece. Look at what's Google, Google's up.
Starting point is 00:49:51 Do you ever heard folks of sensor vault? No, I haven't either, but you're going to hear of it now, Joe quote, Washington examiner. Some of Google's user data even makes it into the hands of law enforcement. Do it that way. Wait, wait, a database called sensor vault which stores detailed user location
Starting point is 00:50:13 data indefinitely uh the data is so precise one deputy police chief police chief told them told the writer that that it, quote, shows the whole pattern of life. Doesn't sound like you have a private cell phone anymore. The location data is collected by cell phone towers and GPS signals.
Starting point is 00:50:36 Even when people are not making calls. Is that you highlighting all this stuff, by the way? By the way, those highlights are good. I like them. Keep doing it.
Starting point is 00:50:43 But Guy highlights stuff. I'm like, I didn't highlight that. But it's good. I like them. Keep doing it. But Guy highlights stuff. I'm like, I didn't highlight that. But it's good. I like it. Keep it. Because this is clearly what he finds interesting. And he's a professional producer. Even when people are not making calls or using Google Apps. Google says that users have to opt in to location
Starting point is 00:51:00 data collected in SensorVault, but the search giant makes it difficult not to opt in. Sounds like kind of a trick. And many users may not understand that they've even done so. All right. So we got Facebook monitoring your online activity. Even when you're not on Facebook, you ever wonder how you're in your house and you're like searching for something, whatever it may be. I was searching for, they have these bars you can use for pulleys in a gym. I don't know what they're called, but I was looking for it.
Starting point is 00:51:32 And you know what's weird? No joke. I go to Facebook and I'm scrolling and it appears right there. It's called like Easy Grip or something like that. I'm like, this is crazy. This is crazy. So Facebook's following stuff even off the platform google basically has a homing device on you and everywhere you go huh folks it's your private i know these are uncomfortable things to say but how comfortable are you with the entire planet
Starting point is 00:51:59 basically at some point having a you know knowing where you go every single minute of the day at some point, knowing where you go every single minute of the day. Law enforcement can get access to that too, just in case they need it. So it's not just Facebook and Google. You're like, it gets worse? Of course it does. Amazon. I feel like my life has gotten significantly better, by the way, since I stopped using Amazon for purchases. Really, I've been going to individual websites and I feel a lot better about my life.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Just saying, you do you. Amazon also uses online tracking tools, this is from The Piece, to follow customers' online behavior on other websites, even after they leave Amazon. Another Gee highlight. Another Guy highlight. The retail giant does not disclose the name or identity of users to advertisers, but it nevertheless serves user ads on a brand's behalf by leveraging the user's past behavior, often without his or her knowledge. Again, please tell me where the private self ends and the public self begins. You know, I can candidly tell you 20 or 30 years ago when I was in my 20s and even longer, you know, an even longer time period when I was in my teens,
Starting point is 00:53:12 I always felt like when I walked in my front door, put the key in and walked in my house and closed the door, that what I did inside was mine. I owned it. I wasn't being watched by anyone. The hallmark of a private self. You don't have a private self in a totalitarian regime. How do you feel about your private self after these three big swings and misses by Amazon, Google, and Facebook? Oh, there's one more. I told you there were four.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Online ad trackers. Large third-party online tools such as Add This and Share This offer deceptively simple services that allow websites to integrate social media share buttons on their site to allow content to be shared on Facebook, Twitter,
Starting point is 00:53:58 and other online platforms. A large number of websites take advantage of the simple plug-in share tools, and this allows the companies to track and profile website visitors and make money off this data. Folks, again, a lot of companies out there do this. But if it's done with your consent and overt consent, I don't think it's a privacy catastrophe.
Starting point is 00:54:28 I mean, think about it. There are some things we do where we voluntarily forfeit our privacy for convenience, right? I mean, a lot of you in Florida have a SunPass. Up in the Northeast, you have an E-ZPass. You probably realize that not paying for the toll on a bridge using cash, that you're probably being tracked and that people know where you went and what bridge using cash, that you're probably being tracked and that people know where you went and what bridges you crossed, but you did it because it's convenient.
Starting point is 00:54:50 Some websites do that and other places do that. And if you opt into it, then it's not a problem. You have a choice. What I don't like about this story is not necessarily that it happens, that it happens in kind of a really cryptic, almost sleazy way behind the scenes. Where the private and personal self dissolves and you don't even know it. Again, you want a camera in your house? You want Big Brother watching you all the time?
Starting point is 00:55:15 Literally like the show Big Brother? That's your choice. You had fun doing it, playing in a reality TV show for the world to watch. But it's not your choice. It's not a reality TV show it's totalitarianism at its worst because there's no private self folks i want to end with this story because i'm out of time and let me just tease quick what i have tomorrow because uh i didn't get to the florida thing i'm sorry but there's a mini crisis
Starting point is 00:55:42 brewing in florida right now. It's really important. I'm not kidding. You can't even try to buy a home in Florida right now. You'll see what I'm talking about. I want to get to that. And tomorrow I've got some developments on these police reform bills, which are an unbelievable assault on your local police department and will end really badly.
Starting point is 00:55:58 But this is an important story. I want to make sure I give a minute too. So a controversy broke out this week, this weekend, back to the Tucker Carlson segment. He's become a real newsmaker. Tucker Carlson questioned whether having pregnant women in military, certain military positions was a good idea or not.
Starting point is 00:56:18 Tucker Carlson's a free American citizen on open, you know, FCC airwaves where he's allowed, well, actually it's cable news. So it's, he's on Carlton. So it's different, but he's on a cable news national show. He's allowed to question. I know someone else screwed that up once before we called him out, but he's allowed to have an opinion. He's allowed, right?
Starting point is 00:56:37 Air quotes, like we're still allowed to do that. Well, Brian Stelter doesn't think so, but Tucker Carlson's conversation about the readiness of our military and having women in certain roles in the military elicited quite an interesting response, including a tweet from this gentleman I noticed this weekend. He's Ben Lemon. There's a command sergeant major, Ben Lemon. He quote tweets Tucker Carlson after they people at the Pentagon went after Tucker Carlson for daring to suggest that military readiness might be impacted with women in certain positions. He's again, we do live in a free constitutional republic. I thought he's entitled to his opinion about what is best and what is not for our military. You don't have to agree with the opinion.
Starting point is 00:57:23 But generally, the Pentagon doesn't go after civilians who express an opinion about the military. That seems to have gone out the window, too. You sensing the theme of the show today? Attacks on free people, attacks on free voices, attacks on your privacy. Now attacks by military people on free citizens who have a policy disagreement about the direction of the military. This is not a joke. This is a social media post by this command sergeant major, Ben Lemon, who I don't know. I'm just reading his words.
Starting point is 00:57:53 He tweets at Tucker Carlson and says, hey, the Department of Defense didn't attack your show. We absolutely disagree with you. Trust me, you'd know it if the dod attacked you it's a doctrinal term um is this really is this really happening you will find no bigger supporter of the men and women in our military than me but is there really a senior military official using a social media account we can all see using his account to almost like an availed threat so if you knew if we were attacking you'd know it is this really happening is there really an organized Pentagon response? By the way, this is not the only tweet,
Starting point is 00:58:47 folks. There was a tweet by an official account of a Marine Expeditionary Force. There were releases by senior members of our military apparatus attacking Tucker Carlson for daring to suggest that he had an opinion about the readiness of our military. Is this really happening? Again, you will find no bigger supporter than me. And I certainly think opinions amongst the working men and women of our military would strongly differ from a lot of their leadership. But listen, I'm just one man and I'm going to give my opinion. And to any Pentagon leader listening, show's got a lot of, it's got a big audience. If you are listening or if you wouldn't mind sending this to your friends who are in leadership at the Pentagon, this is a really, really bad idea.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Civilians are absolutely entitled to criticize military policy. We finance our military. Many of us volunteer for the military. Many of us have volunteered for law enforcement positions, which would put us in danger also. This is not a police state. This is a free constitutional republic, a representative democracy with a civilian-led
Starting point is 01:00:08 military thank you for your service sincerely from the bottom of my heart it takes a tremendous amount of bravery to even sign up and pledge your life for the life of another but that does not absolve you or anyone else for criticisms justified or not. In a free country, I strongly, I get it, you're probably going to gaff me off and that's fine because many of you probably think, what does he know? I strongly, strongly recommend you reconsider public and social media attacks on free citizens who have rendered an opinion about our military. Let the politicians handle that. This is a really, really bad idea. And veiled threats are an even worse idea. This can only go to one place and it sure is. Ain't a good one. All right. Thanks again for tuning in folks. I really appreciate it.
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