The Dan Bongino Show - Why Today’s Elections Really Matter (Ep 1811)

Episode Date: July 19, 2022

I’m getting really tired of the RINO class destroying our movement. In this episode, I address the nation-wide implications of today’s elections. I also address the stunning results of a study on government handouts.  News Picks: The study on masks and microbes discussed in the show. The attacks on Christians are growing. Former Trump COVID Honcho Birx Admits to Deceiving the White House and Just Making Stuff up to Push Her Personal Agenda. DHS and ICE purchased vast quantities of cellphone location data: ACLU. Confidence in media at an all time low.  Biden’s poll numbers are humiliating. Reddit bans "anti-LGBTQ+ 'groomer' slur.” Report: Chicago Cops Forced to Stop Pursuing Carload of Murder Suspects. The Democrats are abandoning women in favor of wokeism on abortion. 1 big thing: A big economic mystery  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino big primary day in maryland today elections happening and there's something going on in that maryland primary that's more indicative of the national political environment than just a local race believe me uh nobody knows nobody knows Maryland politics better than me and Joe. Joe lived in it for decades. I ran there twice. But again, there's a bigger story there, and it leads into this. It's going to be kind of the opening part of today's show. I am really tired of being tired of the rhino class. Is that just a, oh, rhinos, rhino, Republicans in name only. There's a more complicated, nuanced argument here about what's going on. Involves a lot of the stuff happening in primaries all over the country. We're

going to get to that. Don't miss that today. Also, finally, the Biden administration getting called out, called on the carpet and just humiliated. They have no answer to just basic questions anymore. Got a lot for you today, including a Webster University professor I hadn't heard of before, who makes a brilliant point about why the elite class is giving you the double-barreled middle finger, how exactly they do it and keep their power. Don't miss it. If you're looking for a firearm, I wholeheartedly recommend Henry Repeating Arms. They make 200 models of rifles, shotguns, and revolvers in a wide variety of calibers and finishes. Plus, they have new releases throughout the year.

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You're going to love this company. Let's go. It's showtime, Dan. Yes, sir. It is big day in Maryland today. Primary for governor, for the congressional races. There are basically two competitive congressional seats in Maryland. I'm not going to get too deep into the Maryland weeds.

This is an international show, but it speaks to a larger argument about what's perceived as the rhino class and this new era of Republicans and what direction we should go in. I'm going to get to more about that later. Also, congratulations to my daughter, Isabel, who voted yesterday for the first time down here in Florida, filled out her ballot. So congratulations, Isabel. First time, very proud of you. She was eager to do it.

So I'll tell you who I'm supporting there too. But I'm tired of being tired of the rhino class. I've been tired of the rhino class for a long time. Folks, Trump and DeSantis both showed the way. They carved a path through this forest of political stupidity. And the path is clear to the other side. And yet some Republicans still refuse to take it. Things we had been told for generations in the Republican Party before Donald Trump came along.

You guys remember this? Oh, my gosh. Don't focus on immigration. Definitely don't focus on social issues. Stick to tax cuts. As if that was the only thing our party could ever talk about. Listen to me. I love tax cuts, okay?

Tax cuts are wonderful. It is not what the conservative movement is strictly about. We are a broad-based movement that supports life, educational choice, healthcare choice, economic freedom and liberty. Tax cuts fall under that rubric, but that's not everything. There was a bunch of so-called geniuses. I mean, self-proclaimed is probably a more precise way of saying it. Political geniuses and sycophantic grifters who told people for decades, I lived through it. I remember running in the cycles

when they told us, just don't mention anything but immigration. Donald Trump said, double barrel, middle finger here, family friendly version, of course. I'm running on that. We don't have borders. We don't have a country. Ron DeSantis doubles down here in Florida in what was a purple state, now turning very red, potentially very, very red in the future. DeSantis takes it, takes on the teachers unions, takes on the CRT racists. He takes on the identity politics people. He takes on big businesses that have corrupted

themselves, you know, kissing the ass of the left. He takes on the education infrastructure. He takes on the Democrats who wanted tax hikes down here. And what did he do? He winds up building on a coalition that barely got him elected the first time into what looks like is going to be hopefully a route here in November for him in reelection. Folks, it's a big deal. They showed us the way.

The rhino class that caved to this and said, listen, if we just kiss the butts of the Washington Post editorial column and the New York Times editorial column, they'll leave us alone. They'll say we're nice people. They will not say that. Do we believe?

Listen to me. Do we believe in our ideas or not? If we believe in them, then why aren't some of the rhino class Republicans in name only willing to fight for them? Remember my golden rule. Most Republicans on Capitol Hill are really Democrats. However, no Democrats are really Republicans. Don't ever forget that. Do we believe in our ideas or not? Our ideas mean something. Put meat on the bone. School choice. You deserve a choice. You pay for the schools. You deserve a choice on where you should go. You pay for them. It's not public money. You're the public. Healthcare choice. You should be able to pick your doctor, not the government. What does

a government bureaucrat give a crap about your healthcare for? isn't this obvious economic liberty not teaching divisive racist principles to kids these are things we believe in why would we not be willing to fight for them the problem is you've got this growing crop of candidates out there who think the milquetoast larry hogan approach up in maryland the republican governor of maryland who Joe knows well, so do I, that doing absolutely nothing conservative is going to work. That if we just sit there and play Republican, play Republican. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I'm not really a Republican. If I play Republican on TV and I say all the right things to the left,

that they'll leave me alone and accept me as one of them. They will not. The minute you're a threat to them, they'll call you a racist too. Wake up, bro. Do we believe in our ideas or not? And if you don't, then just get out of the party. Here's what I mean. Someone who's really, I got to tell you, getting on my nerves a little bit is Nikki Haley.

Nikki Haley, man, the former governor of South Carolina, again, self-proclaimed Republican. Just lick your finger and see what the winds are blowing. And Nikki Haley seems to change her mind. Loved Donald Trump when there was a position open for ambassador to the UN, prominent position, gave her a national profile. And then the minute Donald Trump did something, she just turns on him on a dime. Well, I guess Tucker Carlson picked up on this, too. This is a subject we've been talking about a long time. I don't want you to think this just started last night.

So is Tucker. I'm not trying to steal any thunder from him at all. Don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But a lot of savvy Republicans, Mark Levin included, and actual conservatives that they've caught on to this for a while, this grifter class that whenever they can latch on to someone to gain something personally, but not advocate their ideas, they will. And in the minute they see those people as not useful to their personal cause, forget about the conservative cause, they jump ship. Here's Tucker Carlson inson in a show lesson he's going to play a clip from a speech he gave in iowa talking about exactly that how nicki haley

responded after the george floyd incident which was a horrible incident but you didn't do it what is it we have to feel pain because of it here listen to every word of this check this out i'll never forget it as long as i live. And then she said, in order for healing to occur, what happens next must be personal and painful for everyone. I thought, really, why is that? And of course, what happened next was personal and painful for everyone. Our city's burned down and a lot of people died. And I thought, why should what happened between a cop and George Floyd outside a convenience store in Minneapolis be personal and painful to anybody else?

What are you even talking about? Oh, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're trying to please the people whose opinions you actually care about at the New York Times. That's just true. Doesn't mean she's a bad person. I don't think she is a bad person. I've always liked Nikki Haley. She was right here.

I'd tell her to her face. I like you. Don't want you in charge of anything. I've always liked Nikki Haley. She was right here. I tell her to her face. I like you. Don't want you in charge of anything.

Because the second things get intense, the second the other side really unleashes and starts yelling so loudly that you can't think clearly. I want a leader who can still think clearly. And Trump and DeSantis did that. The other side yelled and screamed, racist, fascist, Nazi, the same pool of insults they've hurled over and over. Instead of backing down, they doubled down. We need fighters, not fakers. We need fighters, not fakers. Folks, if you didn't listen to yesterday's show, I would deeply and sincerely appreciate it if you would. It's an important show. It was a show about signaling versus action.

The left has become the party of signaling they want to do something while actually doing the opposite. It was an important show. We got a lot of good feedback and it did very well. But I need all of you to listen to it. Because we have signalers on our side too. but I need all of you to listen to it because we have signalers on our side too. They signal they want to be conservatives while taking every opportunity to do anti-conservative stuff. The Liz Cheney's. And I've got to tell you, I like Nikki Haley too. Tucker's not wrong.

She never been crude or rude to me. I'll have her on my show. She's welcome on any time. I extend the invite right now. It'll be a fair interview, But my gosh, this constant back and forth over Trump's a bad guy, Trump's a good guy, Trump's a bad guy, when it seemingly leverages your own personal credibility is really getting a little old, the act. This is not a joke. If you're a faker, not a fighter, then please do us a favor and just exit stage right. Exit stage left. I don't care.

This isn't a joke. These people have targeted you. They don't like you. They're using you, Larry Hogan and others, and Nikki Haley. They're using you to divide the conservative movement. Do you not see it? Don't be a useful idiot. Here's an article that was sent to me by one of our listeners. It was Mitchell who always sends good stuff. Vice, Christian

nationalism drove these people out of their churches. What did I tell you? What was that show we did guys? Was it two weeks ago? Get yourself how Christian nationalism was going to be the next target. Remember that Joe, we did that show. Christian nationalist. You guys are, no one even knows what this is. It's a member of a nation in the United States who's a Christian. No one even knows what this term means. I'll tell you what it means to the left. Christians are increasingly voting for liberty and freedom on the conservative side. How do we make them the enemy? Do you not see what's happening? What's that? Oh, right after Roe. Yes. yes right after roe v wade all of a sudden those evil christians you got now and they've always hated

the jews the left so that's nothing new that that's just standard practice for the left right always now the anyone christians you're in there it is right here. I told you two, three weeks ago, this was going to be their next fight after Rome. Go watch that show too. The evil Christians. You don't see what's happening? If you believe in our ideas, fight religious freedom for everyone.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, everyone. If you don't believe in our ideas, then get out of the party, man. We don't need you. I'm seeing a lot of this now, especially in these primaries. These half-assers who get in there. Well, I'm a conservative, but it depends on the day or the direction the wind's blowing. It depends on the day or the direction the wind's blowing. The signaling on the left is nothing more than a patina,

a fraudulent patina of virtue. The left talks about, oh, green energy, helping the poor, equitable outcomes. They don't mean any of that stuff. They don't mean any of it. It's all a signal. It's a signal meant to deceive. It's a costume.

Finally, they got called out on it yesterday. I want you to watch this. James Rosen over at Newsmax did a great job. He's in the White House briefing room. And Jared Bernstein, who is an economic advisor to Biden, another fraud, Bernstein. The guy's an economist.

He knows what he's saying is BS. Rosen asks a pretty common sense question. You know, you guys are really weird. Prices of gas go up. You've got nothing to do with it. It's all Putin. It's out of your hands. Right, Joe?

That's what they're thinking. And then prices come down and Biden's like, hey, we did that. I thought you just said you had nothing to do with the prices. So Rosen calls him out. I want you to listen to the BS signaling crap answer. Bernstein is, hey, we're doing everything we can to lower gas prices. Really? What about drilling in Amwar, the North Slope, Gulf leases, SEC climate disclosures, all the thing you're doing to stop production? What does any of that matter? Here, check this out. Aren't you having it both ways, Jared? Because when the gas prices go up, it's got nothing to do with the president. When we see some decline, you want him to get the credit.

Look, I think that there's no both way thinking here at all. I think that there has been a consistent, I think, pressure on this White House to try to do everything it could to ameliorate inflationary pressures. And the president has reacted from the beginning, talking about how this was such an important priority to alleviate these pressures on behalf of the American people. So what did he do? He put his head down and got to work and got us to work to do everything we could to achieve that goal. you guys i'm just everyone guys ladies please for a second can we just do reason and logic for a minute stop the signaling and the masks and then the fakers versus the versus the real conservatives out there

the fakers versus the fighters if joe biden cannot possibly control the prices going up because he doesn't have his hands on any of the mechanisms of the economy, which is a lie that if he doesn't have his hands on any of those mechanisms, then how is he controlling it on the way down? Anyone, anyone is anyone care to answer that? Am I phrasing that right? Joe,

is that, is this confusing in any way? I sound like jared uh yeah we all sound like jared because he doesn't know what to say you you could not possibly stop prices from going up because your hands aren't in the price cookie jar but then you stuck your hands in the price cookie jar to bring the prices down i thought you said you couldn't get in the cookie jar now of course everything course, everything the Biden administration has done, they've done to increase, not decrease prices. I just mentioned them to you. Dumping leases in the Gulf,

preventing drilling in Alaska, North Slope and Amwar. The SEC and Gary Gensler currently right now pushing for massive climate disclosures across publicly traded companies so they can get sued for climate stuff. Meaning none of them will want to invest in oil and gas. Are we are we missing all this? Do you think we're stupid? Here, this is just what is today's just to be sure that I'm the 19th. OK, the 19th.

This is yesterday. The 18th. Checking my math. This is yesterday. Biden to declare could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week, sources say. They told the Washington Post, climate emergency. Do you really believe the climate emergency is produce more oil and gas? Come on, man.

Come on, guys, as Coach Stan used to say. Come on. They're not doing any of this. Everything they're doing is to make gas prices higher. So here's the truth. Stop the signaling and the rhino crap and the Democrat fighter versus faker stuff. Stop being a fake. The truth is Biden does.

I wish they didn't. But the executive office of the president does have power over the economy. They shouldn't in a constitutional public, but they do. And he has abused that power to make sure gas prices go up, not down. Here's John Kerry. John Kerry. Husband to Teresa Hines, Kerry. Guy who flies around the globe spewing carbon dioxide out of private jets.

Here's John Kerry, big phony and fraud, telling you basically to go pound sand, doubling down now on a transition to a green economy. And as you listen to this, I want to ask again a simple question to the fakers in the GOP out there and the signalers on the left. Transition to what? The technology isn't there. Do you understand? We only have the battery capacity around the entire globe right now to power the globe for 11 seconds. Remember that article we read a few weeks ago from the Wall Street Journal?

I should have pulled it up for today. I didn't even think of it. We have the battery power. If you can find that deal, be up on the screen. Now, Justin's going to put it in. We have battery power to power the globe for 11.

What hours, days, months, seconds, seconds. Hold on. Let's do the test. Here we go,

guys. I'm going to put my alarm clock. Okay. Stopwatch. Here we go, guys. Let's do this. Here's how long John Kerry can power the globe for. If's do the test. Here we go. Guys, I'm going to put my alarm clock. Okay. Stopwatch. Here we go, guys. Let's do this. Here's how long John Kerry can

power the globe for if we make the transition. All right. It's running. Looking good. Still going. Looking good. Everything's great. Everything's great. 11. It's over. There it is. No more power. It's over. Lap one.

Yeah, we do a lap lot maybe we'll get another lap at it no no sorry we won't yeah sorry about that no good that's that's just not a blackout justin we had 11 seconds come on 11 seconds i mean you know what you could squeeze like a quarter of a netflix trailer in there. Almost got it. 11 seconds. That's what you got. You got 11 seconds. Transition to what? What are we transitioning to?

11 seconds of power? The technology isn't there. This is what signaling looks like versus reality. The real world we live in here listen to john kerry the challenge for all of us now is that no one country can solve this problem by itself we all have to be able to reduce the emissions we have to accelerate the transition we're behind we're not yet fulfilling the promises that we made in Glasgow. So we have our work cut

out for us. You're darn right you got your work cut out because there's nothing there. You understand your choice right now is between freezing to death and starving to death or using oil and gas. Do you understand that? Do you get that? And by the way, hat tip Armacost, he sent this article over this morning because we've been talking about solar panel technology folks i got no problem with solar panel technology i'm planning on using them in uh in my home but the hard reality is the technology and the recycling technology for the toxic chemicals hasn't caught up yet i'm hoping at the end of the 25 year plus cycle of mine, it does. Here, CFAC, the solar panel toxic waste problem.

Joe's like, dude, read this. Solar panels generate 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants. They also contain lead, cadmium, and other toxic, even carcinogenic, it means cancer-causing limbs, chemicals that can't be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. Worse, rainwater can wash many of these toxics out of the fragments of solar modules over time. Maybe we should have thought that through.

John Kerry. He's sitting around flying his private jets. You think he cares about this? he's sitting around flying his private jets you think he cares about this he john kerry's thought on this is he's he's taking the john maynard canes approach joe kerry that's why he's not worried about the pollution in the long run we're all dead that was a john maynard case they asked him if he was worried about the economy in the long run they got a long run we're all dead that's a john kerry approach folks the rebellion around the world is growing against the signaling of the left. Clean energy.

We're all starving, you dipwad. We've got farmers in the Netherlands, truckers in Canada. We've got the Trump crowd in the United States, the Brexit crowd in the UK. The rebellion against the elitist, bow-tie-wearing, foie gras-eating, leftist the elitist bowtie wearing foie gras eating leftist elitist snobs is growing but the question is if a tree falls in the woods as the old adage goes nobody hears it did it make a sound what does that mean i want you to listen to this guys is ralph schulheimer forgive me if i'm saying your name wrong he's on sky news talking about how the elites in the media are doing their best to stop you from seeing the rebellion against the elites happening around the world right now i'll tell you why it's happening

in a second listen to every second it depends right it depends also a little bit if you allow me to say this on on individuals and people like you i mean what i found most surprising is and you mentioned this also before there is a deafening media silence on on these protests right maybe i wouldn't call them yet uprisings but they're significant protests we're talking about you know 30 000 people in the netherlands no no you know that people say no it's not 30 000 it's 25 000 well that's still pretty significant so so and this was also the pushback i got it was a well ralph you inflated the numbers you know it's 29 000 and not 30 000. but you see something else happening and that's part of the inflated the numbers you know it's 29 000 and not 30 000. but you see

something else happening and that's part of the story i mean if you observe it in the united states in europe but all of a sudden there's all this worry again particularly in the in the political and media class about this information right to say oh we need to control this information we have to be careful about the information gets out there and this i think is part of this that that the best way to to prevent the pushback from from large numbers of people is if they don't know that anything is going on so if you have people say wait we want to organize we want to push back against it and you have this think about the situation about the trackers in canada right when they pulled their their bank

accounts when they they make sure that you know when go fund me put put their their their funding efforts so this is undermining precisely what you're saying right the possibility of those people to organize so this is it's not a conspiracy right i mean it's it's what interest groups what what you know these players do they see there is something coming that could be a threat to their power so they try to do something to undermine it this is is, I love that segment. I love it. This professor just nailed it. The media is not covering this. It's not covering it. They're covering it as a January 6th type insurrection rather than what it really is,

which is a people's rebellion against elitism and the signaling that's costing them their lives and their livelihood. Now, why are they doing it that way? Folks, gaslighting, gaslighting. I haven't mentioned it in a while. I know you're maybe tired of hearing it, but gaslighting is the key to driving a political narrative that's false. Gaslighting, what the media and the left do, the components of it are critical.

You have to lie about something. Oh, transition to green energy. It's going to be wonderful. It's not there. You have to lie confidently. John Kerry has no problem with confidence. Believe me, just ask him. He's the smartest guy in the room. Just ask him. You have to lie often. You see it every day. We cover this topic of signaling two, three times a week. But the most important part of gaslighting is you have to isolate people from the truth. you have to reframe and hide stories which go against this elitist narrative and that's what they do they frame these people's rebellions as insurrection in an effort to turn the story around and do a fliparoo and make you hate these people or they just outright make the story go away that's exactly what they're doing by the way

uh correction earlier in the show. If you saw that Wall Street Journal piece, Guy pulled it up. It's, this is a major mistake, Joe. I'm sorry. John Kerry is right. John Kerry is right. The transition.

Yeah. Yes. Guy just corrected it. It's the world doesn't have enough battery capacity for 11 seconds. It's not 11 seconds, folks. Oh, crap. John Kerry's right.

Yeah, I know. It's embarrassing. that it's 75 seconds don't worry you've got a minute and 15 seconds of power so we got chris corris stand we stand corrected we stand corrected you have a minute and 15 seconds problem solved joe the 11 came from apparently what is it in in 2030 we'll be able to power the world for 11 minutes. 11 minutes. So you'll get a few Netflix trailers in. A minute 15, you may get half a Netflix trailer. We stand corrected. John Kerry nailed it.

Let's get that transition on the go. It's what happens when you do things from memory. I reversed the 11.75. But don't worry. Problem's all fixed. We've got 75 seconds of power worldwide don't worry folks everything's good all right let me move on to my next story here's the great news there's great news to all this the signaling and the rhino class yeah the great news is

you're waking up many of you been awake for a long time but you're starting to wake up those around you too i don't mean does that sound like kind of a condescending? I don't mean I'm not talking to you. Obviously, if you're here, you guys have gotten the message for a long time, but the people around you who are on the fence and a group I think of often are union workers. My brother's a local three electrician in New York. I'll never forget him telling me during the 2016 election with Trump that most of his buddies never voted for a Republican their entire life. And he said, Dan, you'll never believe it. I went to the union hall, whatever it was, all these guys are voting for Trump. There is a mass awakening happening right now.

I don't want you to walk around with your head down. I mean, we got to fight and we got to stay in this fight all the time against signaling and woke ism and all of it. But you are winning the disinformation merchants. Their credibility is being shredded. How anyone on the left can paint this kind of stuff as a win. Their efforts at gaslighting are not working. I do numbers. I do data. I do facts. I back everything up. Here, Washington Examiner, Paul Bedard. You can read all this in my newsletter today, bongino.com slash newsletter. We'd appreciate it if you subscribe. Helps me communicate with you directly.

Are we winning? Numbers say so. Confidence in the media at an all-time low. 11% for TV news. 11%. One out of 10 people trust what they hear on CNN or MSNBC, these other left-wing outlets. 11%. You're winning.

You're seeking your sources of truth from fact merchants, not disinformation merchants. Here, number two, poll number two. Numbers matter. Zogby, the base abandons Biden. Terrible numbers. Again, Paul Bedard. Folks, opinions are like, mm, holes, right? Everybody's got one.

Numbers matter. I do numbers. We're winning. We're winning this fight. All right, I've got a big announcement coming up next. I'm very excited about. Let me get to my next sponsor. I got that.

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the Maryland race. I've been asked to comment on this. You know, I don't get too knee deep in a lot of these primary races because as I've said often, and I'll say again, what's my line, guys? Why do you care what I think? I'm glad you care what I think about the issues because I studied them. But the hard reality is you have the ability

to evaluate candidates too. I'm more than happy to opine on it. But I think, you know, endorsements, I don't mind doing them. I just, you can figure it out on your own. You're all smart. I, endorsements there, there, I, I, I don't mind doing them. I just, I, you can figure it out on your own. You're all smart. I think endorsements are kind of, and in some ways they can be condescending. I, again, I tell you, well, this is one for you. You should do. I like these people. I'll tell you why. I'm going to, I'm happy to do it. So the governor's race in Maryland,

big primary today, Kelly Schultz, who, you know, Joe's probably had some dealings with through the radio station up there. And Dan Cox, a state delegate. Cox is the Trump-supported candidate. Kelly Schultz has the support of Larry Hogan. She was a cabinet secretary. Listen, I like Kelly. I've known Kelly a long time. She's a Western Maryland legislator. She's got some good conservative bona fides. I like Dan as well. Dan definitely punches above his weight for the conservative cause in Maryland. Dan's a good candidate. I think both of them stand a pretty decent chance given that the Democrat side is a mess. But my problem is

we don't need another Hogan clone. Larry Hogan in Maryland as a Republican in the eight years he's been in office here, close to eight years soon, has done absolutely nothing for the Republican cause. Nothing. Matter of fact, you talk to some conservatives in Maryland. If you're not all Hogan all the time, he's actually gone after some Republican. He's done nothing. He's barely a thing for the conservative cause. So we don't need another Hogan clone.

There's another hot race over there in Maryland, Congressional District 6. Why is this interesting to me personally? Anyone? Anyone? Joe, you know? Why would Maryland Congressional District 6 be interesting? Because what has two thumbs and ran in Maryland District 6?

This guy, I ran in that seat, almost one horseshoes and hand grenades. Of course, almost doesn't matter, but we lost by one point. No candidate has come within 15 points of winning that since the district, however, has been recut to be more favorable towards Republicans.

So whoever wins this primary on the Republican side as a damn good shot of winning that seat, Matt Faldi, good man, volunteered on my campaign. Like him a lot. He was a writer for Free Beacon. Young guy, 25, but very energetic. He's running against Neil Parrott, another good man. A established conservative in Maryland, has been fighting the cause for a long time. They're both good candidates. I like Neil a lot. I think Neil's got kind of a leg up. It's kind of a youth versus experience side. I voted yesterday in Florida.

If you live in Martin County, I am supporting Stacey Hetherington for Martin County Commission. John Snyder, a fantastic delegate down here. Doug Mustapik in his fight to get on the commission versus the dreadful Sarah Hurd. Jennifer Russell for school board and Amy Pritchett. That's who I'm supporting. And if you live in Martin County,

I think they're great candidates. Do your own homework, as I said, but I think they're terrific. And they're definitely, in my opinion, the best candidates. But again, you do your own homework on that. Okay. Moving on. That's what's going on today. My daughter, again, voted for the first time. Very proud of that. Folks, the elites, the foie gras class, the bow ties, the cocktail party lunch crowd can't stand you. The double-barreled family friendly,

that's kind of their slogan. They should put that on campaign signs just like this. You know, smile and stuff like that. That's their campaign slogan. They really can't stand you. No, I mean it. They really can't stand you. No, I mean it. They really can't stand you. So when I read stories like this, I saw this the other day. I had no time to get to it in yesterday's show. I thought to myself, if there was a better example of kicking

you in the nads, I haven't yet found, the charter school battle. So charter schools, which primarily benefit middle and lower income folks who can't afford to send their kids to private school, right? Can we just stop their logic reason? I know liberals, you're foaming right now, wetting the diapers and all. Stop for a second. Stop wetting yourself. Stop foaming.

It's disgusting. Clean yourself up. Clean it up. The white stuff, it's gross, okay? And just listen to me. If you're rich, what do rich people do at schools? They send their kid to the best school. A lot of times the best schools are private schools because the free market works.

They don't care about the cost. It's not an option for middle and lower income folks who are not only paying taxes for the public schools, but then also have to pay sometimes prohibitively high tuition for private schools, which they can't afford. Charter schools have emerged as an option. They are public schools. They're just not subjected to teachers' union rules, which will destroy them because teachers' unions, sadly, not teachers, teachers' unions,

really hate the kids, really hate the kids. I mean, you are public enemy number one to the teachers' union, right? So the charter schools have emerged as a great option, not for the Bideniden administration they want to make sure they stick it to you man as hard as possible so this wall street journal article charter schools win a washington battle the biden administration wanted to alter rules for federal funding for charter schools to make it basically impossible to open it layered upon them all kinds

of restrictive rules the sole purpose was to stop them because parents, Democrats and Republicans, minorities, everyone got together and there was a massive outcry. They eased up on the rules a little bit. Now, note this. Democrats on the Appropriations Committee in the House are seeking to codify elements of the department's rules in their new 2023 budget, which a committee approved June 30th on a party line vote. Committee Democrats also seek to subject charter schools to an extreme level of oversight of their COVID relief dollars. Scrutiny the legislation would spare traditional

schools. Listen to me. They hate you, okay? Do you understand? Everything they do is viewed through the lens of how does this increase or decrease our power charter schools do what why do they hate charter schools and kids trying to get an education so much it's not because they're born hating them it's because the teachers unions donate the majority of their money overwhelming amounts of money to democrats which helps democrats stay in power so when the teachers union says something, they get down on their knees, the Democrats, and they kiss the ass of the teachers union,

kids be damned. That's it. Don't overthink this. It is no more complicated than that. It gets in the way of the Democrats' power and they are corrupt. They don't care. They don't care if your kid gets a crap education.

And another thing, there's also power in the ability to say no, and there's power in the ability to give away people's money. They love giving away people's money to Democrats. There's power in it. You can buy influence. Influence is a precursor to power, the ability to buy influence. They don't care that the giving away of other people's money destroys the economy and the motivation to work. It doesn't matter. We always bring receipts. Another Wall Street Journal piece, the high cost of free money. So there's this Harvard study that came out where they wanted to study this universal basic income type thing where people just get money from the government,

which is weird because where does the government get money from? The same people they're giving the money to. So they studied these handouts. Now, liberals will tell you, oh, these handouts, Joe, they free people up. They don't have to think about the little things anymore, and they can go and be their higher selves again, signaling the patina of giving a damn. Well, what actually happened? Well, the study noted that the handouts increased spending for a few weeks, but had no observable positive effect on any individual outcome. Oh, that's weird.

We were told the opposite. Bank overdraft fees, late payment fees, and cash advances were as common amongst cash recipients to handouts as in a control group that didn't get the handout. However, handout recipients fared worse on most survey. Wait, am I reading that right? Well, is that a handout? So they got, quote, free money from the government, and yet they fared worse on most survey outcomes. They reported less earned income and liquidity, lower work performance and satisfaction, more financial stress, sleep quality and physical health, and higher levels of loneliness and anxiety than the control group that didn't get the handouts. There was no difference between the two cash groups.

Some got more cash, some got less. Bottom line is, no matter how much cash you got, you sucked afterwards. That's the bottom line. Does it matter? You think the Democrats are going to talk about this? The liberals, oh, we care about you and equity and the poor and the little guy. You don't give a about the little guy. The more you give to the little guy, the more they, quote, fare worse on most survey outcomes. Because there's power in giving out money. You can buy votes and influence, influence the precursor to power. And you know it.

You know it. You're destroying these people's it. You know it. You're destroying these people's lives. You know it. That's why I always tell you there's a difference between misfeasance and malfeasance. Misfeasance is someone falls on the sidewalk in front of you, you don't help them up. Malfeasance, someone falls on the sidewalk in front of you and you kick them in the face as they get up. Motive is the difference. One person's lazy. The other person actively wants to hurt this person.

That's the Democrats. They are actively hurting you. You think they don't read the Wall Street Journal op-ed column? You think they haven't seen this study? They know they're hurting you. They know they're hurting you. And they do it anyway. I want to get to a Milton Friedman video in a minute that explains this beautifully.

Please don't go anywhere. I got that. And then this economic conundrum we find ourselves in here, which is very explainable. If you understand basic economics and liberalism. All right. So as we explained before, giving away money to people makes their lives worse. Why? Because people and human beings like to see a behavior with a reinforcement. That's how operant conditioning works. People like to work and be rewarded for it. When you're given money for doing nothing, it does. It depresses you. It destroys your life. The data is all over the

place. You can't just give away people's money for doing nothing. Milton Friedman explained this beautifully in this classic clip. Check this out. And when you spend your own money on yourself, you're very careful of what you spend it on and you make sure that you get the most for your daughter. And when you spend your own money on somebody else, you're very careful that you don't spend too much. You try to keep down the amount you spend, but you don't worry very much about what the other fellow is getting from it. You don't pay anything like as much attention to the gifts you buy for other people as to

the things you buy for yourself. Or you can spend somebody else's money, as when you're spending the government's money. I say the government's money, the taxpayer's money, which the government has control of. Now you're spending somebody else's money. Let's say you're spending your boss's money. You're out to lunch on an expense account, but you're spending it on yourselves. You're very careful that you get good things for your money. You try to have a good lunch and pick the right things, but you're not very much worried about whether you get the cheapest...

Spend all you want. Spend all you want, and you'll be careless. Now, what happens when you spend somebody else's money on somebody else? You're a distributor of welfare funds. Well, you're interested in making your own life as good as you can. You're not going to be anything like as careful in spending somebody else's money on somebody else. Spend other people's money on other people,

neither cost nor quality matter. You ruin their lives, you ruin the economic efficiency of the economy. They don't care, folks. They're destroying the education system in a pursuit of power and the influence and the money of the teachers unions. And they're destroying the economy because distributing money gives them influence and power. Now let's tie education, power, and the economy all together. Let's tie our education system dysfunction to the economy right here in this piece. Let's tie our education system dysfunction to the economy right here in this piece.

So I read this yesterday and it made sense to me instantly. Not that this isn't puffery. I'm not patting myself on the back. If you understand basic economics and you're a conservative and not a nut, this story made sense right away. It was from Axios. The story was about this big economic mystery out there about why. And it makes sense in the beginning that it's a mystery. If you don't know what you're talking about. Why is GDP going down, our gross domestic product?

In other words, why is the economy not growing as much? Why is it not producing as much? It contracted the last quarter. Libs, I'm going to take this slow, okay? So economy shrinking. Yet what's weird is the unemployment rate continues to go down meaning more people are entering the workforce now joe pretty common sense here right how is it we are producing less while working while more people are working right yeah kind of a mystery right well it would be if you weren't a liberal, right? Well, it would be. If you weren't a liberal, if you're a conservative, it makes perfect sense. How does this tie education or education dysfunction to the economy?

Let's just work through the Axios piece first. I'll make this quick. They note, hey, by the numbers, U.S. payrolls have expanded this year by an average of 457,000 jobs a month. The total number of hours worked in the private sector has been rising as well. Rose at a 2.5% annual rate. Interesting. They note that being the case, you'd think economic output would also be rising, right? More people produce more stuff.

Fair enough. They note instead GDP fell at a 1.6% annual rate in the first quarter. And it looks likely to show slow growth or further contraction in quarter two part two of this gets even better axios is confused like if we take those numbers at face value it suggests a collapse in american productivity the country's now working less to make more labor productivity fell at 7.3 and 7.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter the worst reading since 1947. They note that this is a big crisis. They just answered their own questions. Then they try to explain it away, which is fair enough.

I don't want to get, it's actually a pretty fairly written piece. I don't want to pile on them too much. You see where I'm going with this? Why would more people working be producing less stuff in the worst collapse we've had in productivity, a measure of the stuff we produce since 1947, not 1974. So when I was born, 1947. Folks, it's because our education system is totally collapsing. We are producing a bunch of workers who don't have any freaking skills. we are producing a bunch of workers who don't have any freaking skills.

You can have all, listen, these guys are very talented. Even Justin, who just, Joe's been doing this his whole life. So he's a lot younger, but in Guy's younger life, this is what he's been doing. Justin's brand new. He'd been doing this like a year since he's been with us. And even then, not full time. Picked it up like that. Had almost run a show the other day by himself.

He had to learn, so he was eager eager to learn the education system's not doing that i can produce 75 podcasts a day if gee joe and justin can't get the show on the air am i producing anything the answer is no i'm notivity is everything. It's not something, it's everything. The ability to generate output, products and services from the same or lesser inputs is everything. It is collapsing. Again, I want to pile on Axios. I don't like to do what they do to us. It's actually a relatively benign piece. But the answer is obvious. We are producing a bunch of people who don't have the skills to build stuff anymore.

Because we've sold out to the teachers unions insisting that schools become centers for identity politics and CRT rather than an instructional vehicle to teach people how to fit in a value-added workforce. Is this hard? This is what you want? And the answer on the left is yes, this is exactly what they want. And the answer on the left is yes, this is exactly what they want. They want a generation of social justice warriors advancing their ideological cause at the expense of the economy and the national security of the United States, which will become a second-class world power in a couple of decades if we don't arrest this immediately. All right, folks, one last segment I want to wrap. Let's make this quick.

This is today in liberal cannibalism. You know, they can't stop beating themselves alive. Am I beating this up too much? We already did yesterday's headline of the week, so we won't do any kind of fake stingers for that, but I can't tell you enough

that the ship's going to turn around because liberals will eat themselves alive. They're out of victims on the right. We don't listen to them anymore. I just built parallel economy, did that whole story. We're done with them. So now they're starting to eat their own. Here's our headline of the day. Watch the examiner. Abortion rights advocates steer clear of the term women. Apparently they're having a real problem now because they don't want to upset the trans community by calling abortion a women's rights issue women. Apparently they're having a real problem now because they don't want to upset the trans community by calling abortion a women's rights issue.

So now they're like, what do we do? The answer is what they're doing is really starting to piss off women. I told you they would eat themselves alive. Here is even more evidence of how the abortion debate has caused an internal rift. Keep in mind, they're not attacking Republicans. They're attacking themselves.

Women, the black community, why? Large portions of the black community vote Democrat. I wish more voted for Republican. We're getting there, but we're not there yet. The black community, many, I don't speak for everyone, not Malcolm Nance, but I knocked on a lot of doors in Prince George's County. One of the wealthiest black counties in the entire country in Maryland when I ran for office. A lot of doors. Extremely conservative people. Joe, can you vouch? Extremely conservative.

Go into a black church in Maryland, you're going to hear very, very conservative stuff. Spent a lot of time there. Kamala Harris having a big problem now, trying to figure out how to speak to black

audiences who are very religiously conservative about abortion. So notice what she does here. Again, the most offensive thing I've seen in a long time, comparing abortion to slavery. Check this out. We know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies. Just disgusting.

Disgusting. I mean, absolutely disgusting. Can you imagine if you're a black voter, abort your kid, or you're some kind of slavery supporter? Disgusting. All right, folks, don't miss tomorrow's show. I'm going to add this story. It's going to be, if you want to read it, check out my newsletter today. Bongino.com slash newsletter.

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