The Dan Bongino Show - You’ll Be Furious When You Hear About The “Stimulus” Bill (Ep 1420)

Episode Date: December 22, 2020

In this episode, I discuss the disastrous “stimulus” bill and the infuriating pork loaded into it.  News Picks: The massive spending bill is loaded with Pork! More on the “stimulus” bill. This is a really bad call by Attorney General Barr. A solid piece which explains the paths forward for the Trump team. President Trump met with members of congress planning on fighting election fraud.   California is going full socialist. Communist NY City Mayor doubles down on stupid.   Teacher’s unions are sabotaging your children’s futures. 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. Folks, another bad call, I think, by Bill Barr yesterday. I'm really sorry. I don't mean to pile on. I'm not into this calling people out for no good reason for effect kind of thing, but just a terrible call by the attorney general on the special counsel thing. I'm going to get to that. I also want to get through Trump. President Trump met with members of Congress yesterday who will object to the electoral college readout on January 6th. What does that mean for you?

What does that mean for the process? What does that mean for the election? I'll get to that. Most importantly, I'm going to start off today with our system of government. It's just, it's just entirely broken. It's entirely broken. Our system of government. It's just entirely broken. It's entirely broken.

Our system of elections, our system of spending taxpayer money, our system of spending fabricated, printed money. We just print like monopoly money. It's entirely broken. I've got a series of really good videos. One, a viral speech yesterday by Rand Paul that want nuclear on the floor talking about this and also making his return because they've been so popular by popular demand. A short clip by Milton Friedman explaining how this will inevitably lead to the collapse of the republic to inflation if we don't get our arms around it.

All right, let's get to it. Folks, today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. Protect your online activity from prying eyeballs. Surf the web in peace. Get a VPN. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today on this Christmas week? Fine, sir.

Hey, I'm doing well, man. And, you know, the clips we got today you sent to me are some of the best series of clips. You like them, right? That I've seen for this show. Yeah, I thought so, too. The Dinesh one's good, too. Dinesh D'Souza. We got Milton Friedman. friedman yeah we're gonna light it up the wedge you like to put a lot of work into today's show all right folks stay tuned that's the best tease ever joe armacost tease

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stupid idea that only stupid people would agree to. And fortunately for the people who like stupid people, the stupidest people amongst the stupid people crowd have been aggregating where? In government. The dumbest of the dumb managed to go and work as politicians and bureaucrats that run elections in governments in liberal states. That's totally broken. I think we can all agree. governments and liberal states. That's totally broken. I think we can all agree. But what else is broken? Folks, the republic is broken. I'm really sorry. The constitution was the greatest governing document in the history of humankind, but it has had some dreadful failures. I know you don't want to hear that, and I'm really sorry, but I have to break through. I love the founding fathers, their vision,

their bravery, doing what they did, but they never anticipated that such weak, gutless, spineless, visionless people would be elected to serve in our House of Representatives and in the Senate. Why am I so upset about this today? Because folks, economics is dead. We are on the absolute certain path to bankruptcy as a nation and nobody seems to care. What am I talking about? The porculus bill was passed yesterday. Stimulus bill, otherwise, there's no stimulus. The government doesn't stimulate anything. When are we going to stop with the language?

It's not stimulus. I don't care who said it. Mnuchin, some It's not stimulus. I don't care who said it. Mnuchin, some of your favorite Republicans. I don't care. The government doesn't stimulate anything. It's not possible for the government to stimulate anything because anything the government uses financially to stimulate, it has to unstimulate by taking financially from you. We're taking our money to give us our money.

So they passed this stimulus bill last night. I would urge the president to veto this disaster because it is loaded with pork and junk that has nothing to do with stimulation. Article in our show notes today. You can always access the show notes or the newsletter it's the same thing bongino.com slash newsletter please subscribe we get you the best news of the day take a little note here red state senator ted cruz is right congress labeled the end of the year spending bill covid relief to cover all the pork, Jennifer Von Lahr, Red State. Read this article. You want to see some gems that were in this stimulus bill?

Again, dreaded air quotes. From the Red State piece. This is all supposed to be stimulation. It says, of course, once the text of the bill was available, journalists, pundits, and lay people all delve into its contents and started itemizing all the pork in the bill from both sides of the aisle, claiming it was a COVID stimulus bill or a COVID relief bill. Okay, so let's go through this, Joe. Does this have to do with COVID? The Kennedy Center, 26.4 million. That's a COVID. What's the Kennedy Center? This Kennedy Center really seems to make every single time. This Kennedy Center, they have to be, Joe, would you not agree,

every single time this kennedy center they have to be joe would you not agree the most politically connected people in the history of humankind the kennedy the kennedy center 26.4 million that's in the domestic true the smithsonian is this i'm i'm reading that correctly is that a billion dollars a billion dollars for the smithson is that right i'm the Gallery, $154 million. National Arts and Humanities, $167,000. The Woodrow Wilson Center, $14,000. I'm sure this is good. And I'm like, does he COVID? Oh, here, wait, it gets even better. That's just the domestic poor.

Here's another one. Foreign countries. Egypt, what is that, $1.3 billion? I'm missing the commas. $700 million for for sudan ukraine got money israel nepal got money too that's always uh you gotta throw that nepal money in there too you know i can't do a covid relief nepal yeah i don't know maybe there's gonna be some some mountain uh some peeking to the you know the the top of mountains going on some nepalese

folks we're doing some stimulation for the Sherpas. I don't know what we're doing. I love Sherpas. But does that have anything to do with car? Are we, are we, are we, are the Sherpas getting like,

what is it? Tips for Sherpas? I don't understand what we're doing here. Folks, we don't have this money. Like that's the problem here. We don't have the money. Has anyone stopped for a moment?

And by anyone, I don't mean the conservatives and libertarians who watch my show who are actually smart. I mean the liberals who watch my show because I get your nasty grams. Have you stopped for a moment and ever said to yourself, this is why I said,

I just said before that economics is dead and common sense with it. We are on the certain path to bankruptcy. We are $27 trillion in debt as a nation that only produces about $22 trillion in wealth every year. We owe everything we produce in a year and then some, a $5 trillion tip, propina. Has anyone stopped the liberals and said, well, where is all this dinero, dough, money, bread?

Where is it coming from? Has anyone stopped? Well, Rand Paul did. Senator Rand Paul, who's one of the few principled guys left up on Capitol Hill, voted against this portulist disaster and gave a speech that quickly went viral yesterday on the floor. I can't play the whole thing. It's nine and a half minutes long, but I encourage you to listen to the whole thing because it's very good. Here's just a short clip of it where Rand Paul asked a kind of common sense question, right, Joe? Paula comments, where'd the money come from? Yeah. Paula says, that's right. It's common sense, right? I mean, we, you'd like to know, like if your daughter showed up in your house and she was 16 or 17 yesterday

with a suitcase full of a trillion dollars, that'd be a lot of suitcases. Your first question would probably be, hey, or like a bearer bond. Where'd that dough come from? So Rand Paul asked this on the house floor yesterday. Check this clip out. This is very, very good. This bill is free money for everyone. Proponents don't care if you're fully employed or own your own house or own your own business. Free money for everyone, they cry. And yet, if free money were the answer, if money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000?

Maybe these new free money Republicans should join the Everybody Gets a Guaranteed Income Caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody? Why not $30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it? The treasury can just keep printing the money. That is until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value. You know what's really crazy? When you talk about the pending collapse of the constitutional republic, if we don't do something, I'll talk about the pending collapse of the constitutional republic if we don't do something i'll talk about what can be done because i never want to leave you with a problem without a solution

in a moment but you know how it you how you've reached the point of no return and the point of maximum tragedy when the babylon b a satire site like the onion it's's a joke. It's meant to be satire. When the Babylon Bee headline is absolutely right and satire becomes real life. Here's an actual headline to Babylon Bee, not a joke. Americans excitedly anticipate getting paid with their own money. The Babylon Bee. It's a satire site. That's funny because it's true. We're all like, yes, $600 checks. From who? From us.

From us. Where did the money come from? Rand Paul asked a common sense question. Where'd the money come from? I got to start walking around with the show. Can we get a bigger studio? I really do. Old Glenn Beck style when he was on Fox at five o'clock. We need to do that. I need to start walking around because I have too much energy to do this show sitting down. That's why I'm always rolling around. It drives Paula crazy. She's like, stop moving.

You're ruining my shot. That's my fault, not hers. Where did the money come from? So folks, in order to make this simple, not for the conservatives, I'm very sorry, but for the liberals who watch my show, who never seem to ever ask this question, Rand Paul asked, where did we get this money? $600 going to show up in your mailbox? Wow. Where did it come from? I don't know. Well, it comes from three spots. That money the government sends you can come from you via your taxes.

Send the government 600 in taxes. They take a cut for themselves. They send you back your 600 plus what? 200 for them? Who knows? We can borrow it from foreign nations, which we've done. Say, oh, well, that doesn't sound too bad. Folks, they are not lending us this money.

They are capped out. Foreign nations, notably Japan, China, and the UK, some of our biggest foreign bondholders, haven't lent even a fraction of what you're getting in the mail. So if it ain't coming from taxes, because the tax base every year is like 2.4 to 2.5 to $3 trillion in total taxes paid to the government, and we're spending 5 trillion and the other 2 trillion isn't being made up by foreign governments. Then you should ask yourself if this bill was roughly 900 billion or another trillion, where did we get the money from? If it didn't come from taxes and it didn't come from foreign borrowing the answers were just printing it printing they don't like monopoly money hey here's a hundred

i'll write it on it it's called counterfeiting when you do it when the government does it it's called stimulus why is it when you do it it's a federal crime but when the government does it again it's called stimulus well when you when you do it, it's a crime because people sense the inherent unfairness of you going to view your computer and printing up $100 bills, correct? Folks, it's a very sensitive topic to me. In my prior line of work as a federal agent,

we investigated currency counterfeiting. That's actually how the Secret Service was founded, not to protect the president. That didn't happen until 1910. the Secret Service was founded, not to protect the president. That didn't happen until 1910. The Secret Service was found in 1865 to investigate counterfeiting because it was such a rampant problem. And people were like,

that doesn't sound fair. I have to work for my money. And some dude gets to print it. But when the government does it, we all clap and liberals bark like seals. This is so great. We're printing it. Well, what happens

when the governments print money? Governments, not just us. It's happening all over the world right now. Liberals don't see, and they see no downside to this whatsoever. Oh, it's government. They know what they're doing. They're printing it.

There'll never be a downside. Really? Because when you print money not backed up by value, just like when Joey Bagadona prints counterfeit bills in his house he hasn't worked for, what happens? There's an inherent asymmetry here. If everybody just started printing money in their homes, breaking federal law, and printing up $100 bills randomly, you would have a whole bunch of extra $100 bills, right, Joe? Yeah, that's right.

Because everybody would just start printing them. Yeah. And the problem is you wouldn't have that many products to suck up those $100 bills because the people printing them on their home computers didn't actually produce anything to get them. They didn't produce medicine. They didn't produce tables.

They didn't produce phones. They didn't produce pens, notebooks, gavels, St. Michael medals, rocks that the Giansantes gave me. They didn't do that. They just printed paper. So a whole lot of paper, paper you print in your house, is chasing the same number of products or less because nobody's producing any products, which makes what? Those products really expensive. It's called inflation. But again, when government does it, liberals are like, no, I'm sure they know what they're doing. Do they? Here's the great milton friedman we love milton friedman

i know he's been making a lot of appearances on the show but no one explains it better than milton friedman god rest his heroic soul here is milton friedman explaining the terror of inflation how inflation this is a long clip but i did one i'm looking at place and it's about a minute and so but this clippy this speech he gives is very long. He explains how inflation has collapsed empires and countries. The Weimar Republic, countries in South America, Chile entirely collapsed their economy. And it's a government phenomenon every single time.

Watch the brilliant Milton Friedman. Today, governments control the quantity of money. So that as a result, inflation in the United States is made in Washington and nowhere else. Of course, no government any more than any one of us likes to take responsibility for bad things. We're all of us human. If something bad happens, it wasn't our fault. And the government is the same way. So it wasn't our fault. And the government

is the same way, so it doesn't accept responsibility for inflation. If you listen to people in Washington talk, they will tell you that inflation is produced by greedy

businessmen, or it's produced by grasping unions, or it's produced by spendthrift consumers, or maybe it's those terrible Arab sheiks who are producing it. Now of course businessmen are greedy. Who of us isn't?

Trade unions are grasping. Who of us isn't? And there's no doubt that the consumer is a spendthrift. At least every man knows that about his wife. But none of them produce inflation for the very simple reason that neither the businessman nor the trade union nor the housewife has a printing press in their basement on which they can turn out those green pieces of paper we call money. Only Washington has that printing press, and therefore only Washington can produce inflation.

I just want to know, my wife's like, what? You spend way more than me. She strongly objects to the wife, which is true. If it wasn't for her, we'd be broke. I could get like crazy sometimes. which is true. If it wasn't for her, we'd be broke. I could get like crazy sometimes. Outside of that's genius. The government has the official printing press, but the actions they take are no different than if you were to have a printing press in your house and do the same thing. The government prints more money, either digitally or literally prints it through bills. It winds up in banks and circulation, and it chases products that nobody produced. You get money to produce products. You work in a furniture factory, you produce furniture, you get paid those bills and go out and chase other products people work for to produce.

That's not what happened when the government prints money. More bills, more money chases the same or even less products for nothing because nothing was created or done. And what do you get? You get massive inflation as more money chases less stuff. It's not hard. But when the government does a porculous bill, money it doesn't have through taxes, it hasn't borrowed and doesn't come from a rainy day fund. And they print it. Everybody says, no worries. They know what they're doing. Do they? Let me just rewind to the beginning where I told you the stupidest people among us in a country of 330 million, the dumbest among us all happened to get elected to Congress and the Senate and individual state houses at the same time. Not all of them.

There's a few good ones left, the Rand Pauls of the world. But if you were to take general IQ tests, I can pretty much guarantee you the dumbest of all of us, aptitude and achievement wise, happened to reside in elected positions in government. Economics is dead. That's why I keep playing these Friedman videos we have to bring it back or there is no hope a largely ignorant society of common sense rules of economics cannot possibly continue what did herbstein ben stein's for remember ben stein from uh fer Bueller? You know his dad, Herb Stein, was a very famous economist. Not a joke.

Herb Stein had this rule. What can't continue, won't. That doesn't sound like one. No, no, it's a genius rule. This can't continue, and it won't. What will happen? We will eventually collapse into an inflationary spiral, like what happened in Weimar and elsewhere, where business owners had to pay their employees three

times a day. Not a joke. Had to pay them in the morning because by the afternoon, the morning money was no good anymore. This isn't a joke. By the afternoon, they had to get paid because the afternoon money wouldn't be good in the evening. And then they had to pay them again in the evening because the afternoon money was no good anymore because it was worth something totally different. You think that's a joke? Look that up. All right. I got the solution coming up.

I don't like to propose problems to you and be apocalyptic without presenting to you some solution and path forward. But it requires people with guts, cojones, and smarts. And we don't have any of them in DC after the porkyless bill yesterday. Veto this thing. Take a stand now or we're not going to have anything left. I'll get to the solution in a minute. Let me get to my second sponsor. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a great gift for the holidays.

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about how stupid people elected to office are and how economics is dead. Well, we revive economics, one, by educating folks like Friedman has educated me. And I'm hopefully passing this on to you. But there is a solution to this. What's the basic problem with the government printing money? Well, I explained it to you before.

You print a whole lot of money nobody worked for. There's no value behind it. It's printed and it goes and chases the same amount of products. Medicine, school, tuition, products and services, fans, Kenny Bells, whatever. And those products get more expensive because there's more bills chasing them. It's not complicated math. Only for liberals. So the solution, if you're going to print money, which we've done, you can't unprint it. Sorry, folks. You can't unprint it. You can increase interest rates to

drive some of it up. But one of the things we can do is focus on producing more stuff. So more stuff will eventually even out the more money and we won't have dramatic inflation. I'm not suggesting that's the best idea. Printing money is still a horrible, awful, stupid idea. But now that it's been done,

we've got to fix it. So we've got to produce more stuff called an economics productivity. And Andy Kessler, who I love this guy's writing at the Wall Street Journal, it's really spectacular. I highly recommend it. K-E-S-S-L-E-R. He writes, I don't know, every other day, every third day column at the Wall Street

Journal, and they are always must-reads. He had this piece up at the Wall Street Journal, which addresses this very same point, how productivity and producing more stuff, more output with either less input or the same input will help eventually stave off this inflationary scenario. Well, the article isn't specifically about inflation, but I'm telling you, we have to produce more stuff

to basically chase all the money we're printing or everything's going to get really expensive and you will be drowned out and nations have collapsed. The article's called Andy Kessler, How Tech Got Ready for 2020. And he brings up a couple interesting phenomenons, how this awful year when it comes to coronavirus and just the election results, it's just been a bad year, folks. Not the worst year in human history. People tend to get a little dramatic.

Ask the people who fought in the trenches of World War I if it was the worst year. This doesn't even come close. It was bad, really bad, but it wasn't anywhere close to that. Ask the men and women of Pearl Harbor if this was the worst year in human history. Not. Shockingly, shockingly, the coronavirus is obviously a massive human tragedy, folks. But we have to be able to look at least through some kind of positive lens or we'll all be depressed all the time. A lot of technology was forced upon us by this epic human disaster. And Kessler addresses it in a piece. And this leads into productivity, how we learned how to produce more services really fast because we had to. He brings up a couple of things, how our technology in the United States is still better than anywhere else.

He says streaming via Netflix and a dozen of the other services was ready, and then some. People sat home. These home entertainment systems were ready for it he says next year major major studio films will appear simultaneously simultaneously in theaters and on streaming services previously unthinkable you say all right well that's entertainment stuff that's not that important dan what else are we producing he says well the ready list stuff of you know it was ready with the pandemic was amazing contactless payments through Apple Pay. He says, though, Apple Pay didn't work well with masks. Meal delivery, grocery delivery, retail logistics,

e-billing, ticketless travel, airport security line cutting retinal scans, motion sensing Purell dispensers. Amazon was ready with essentials. But six weeks to deliver a book? He goes, yes, I've heard of Kindle. And weirdly, ballpark crowd noise sold to video game companies was sold back to teams,

all accidentally ready. The point Kessler's making is that we are still the United States. And despite the mass of stupid people that have all aggregated on Capitol Hill, amazingly, the dumbest among us all happened to be in Capitol Hill at one time. Amazingly, the dumbest among us all happened to be in Capitol Hill at one time. The United States is full of entrepreneurs and hardworking patriots who have still figured out ways, even in a pandemic, to produce stuff people value. Everything from entertainment to Major League Baseball teams valuing crowd noise to make the experience seem genuine.

Contactless payments. People have figured it out. You don't have to touch stuff where the viral transmission could touch your hand. People can just wave their phones. Retinal scans at airports. I have that. Paula, what's it called?

The thing we do at the airport with the retinal scan? What's that thing called? Do you remember? The line. Gosh, I can't think of it. I have it. I love it. It's the greatest thing ever. You go up to the TSA line. They have a special line. You put your eyeballs or your fingerprints down. Boom, right there. You don't even have to show your driver's license. All this stuff was ready. so the bad news all the stupid people have decided to vote on a bill where we're going to print money we don't have that are going to chase products the semi good news clear yes clear i love clear i love that it's the greatest thing ever the good news even though these idiots are

printing money we don't have we We can still minimize the consequences. There will be consequences. The Daniel Day-Lewis, there will be blood, make no mistake. Remember that movie? It was a great movie. But we can minimize the blood loss by producing services and products in enough quantities in this entrepreneurial great society

that we at least minimize the effects. Try them to leave you with some good news. I just wish we didn't have so many stupid people in D.C. The dumbest among us. Yeah. I mean, by chance, you'd think at least a few smart people would make it up, just by pure chance alone. What are the odds that all of the dumbest people all are up on Capitol Hill?

It's just incredible. It really is. That's why I said, people, I love it when people, you know, poke fun at me online for losing elections. They never ran it. They've never run for office ever. It happens all the time. It drives Paul a nut.

It does. They, right? They always respond to me back on Parler or, you lost three elections for us yeah yeah okay i've lost a lot of things in life i didn't get into medical school either i struck out a lot my first year of little league we've also started 100 million dollar companies the most successful podcast behind ben shapiro on the planet uh bogino report others life is full of failures folks i got news for you but i get in the ring and i throw punches while you sit on the planet, Bogino report, and others. Life is full of failures, folks.

I got news for you, but I get in the ring and I throw punches while you sit on the sideline like a bunch of cowardly chumps you are, the criticizers, and throw popcorn at the guys actually boxing for a living.

You can plant a big wet one on my arse. My man. Sideline, criticizers. I love them love yeah nah best thing that ever happened seriously was me losing that race by it was like obi-wan kenobi you strike me down we will get strong this show has given us a platform we would have never had up there in that mess of imbeciles. Listen, I covered this yesterday. Moving on. Bill Barr is, I don't want to pile on. He's done a lot of good things and I respect the man's gusto and guts. He has done some good things and we shouldn't deny that. But a series of just, I think, misstatements and really bad choices

are plaguing his last days. I think his last day is the 20, 23rd. What's today? The 22nd. So tomorrow these, of course, the attorney general, there are liberals listening who don't know that. Here's another one at the epic times. You can read the story again in the show notes. Bill Barr says he has no plans to appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. Why? By Tom Ozermack, epic times. Again, I don't mean he said, I, i i i have a lot of respect for the man i i think his hearings up on capitol hill he had a lot of guts he's made a lot of good calls but i covered a lot of yesterday his statements about the cia i think we're maybe i'm reading them wrong i don't know watch yesterday's show you'll see what i mean i don't want to relitigate that but

why are we not naming a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case? We know there's an active FBI investigation. We know now that there's a strong possibility that Joe Biden will become the next president. Dan, you're conceding. I'm not conceding anything, folks. You listen to my speeches or my show. I'm just telling you what the probabilities are. If you don't like that, I'm very sorry. I'm not conceding anything. We need to fight and fight

and fight. It's what we do on this show. But there's a strong likelihood that the father of the man under investigation, Joe Biden, father of Hunter Biden for the liberals who missed it, will appoint an attorney general to oversee the case against his own kid. Why would we not appoint a special counsel again? If you could explain to me, as a sentient, free-thinking being, how that is not a conflict of interest that would require a special counsel under the Democrats' own rules for special counsels, I'm open to hearing it.

I'm sorry, Mr. Barr, this is a bad call. You'll obviously disagree. I think this is a terrible, destructive call. There is no question in my mind that if Joe Biden walks into the White House, he will do everything in his power. I don't care what Jen Psaki, his spokeswoman, said. Everything in his power to obstruct the investigation into his son. So it was a-okay to appoint a special counsel to look into the pee-pee

hoax and the collusion hoax. Everybody knew was fake from the start that dragged on for three years with this Bob Mueller fiasco. But it's not okay to appoint a special counsel to look into the potential president's son who's under investigation by the FBI now? How is that? New rules, ladies and gentlemen. The Democrats wanted the new rules. Remember my new rules show? The old rules are gone. Finally have the Constitution. The Democrats don't care about the Constitution. A Constitution only matters if it constitutes a series of principles that both sides abide by. What does a Constitution matter if half the country says it doesn't matter?

I don't understand. I'm not kidding. I don't understand. I'm not kidding. Fidelity to the constitution only matters if everybody agrees it constitutes something. A set of guiding principles, laws, and regulations and rules we abide by. The left doesn't care. So if the left has thrown that out and now likes the appointment of special counsels which i agree are a terrible idea but the other half of the country the libs folks they don't agree they think special counsels for political punishment are a terrific idea okay those are your rules new rules are we're going to take your rules and shove them up your caboose. You think special counsels are a great idea, despite the fact that they are probably extra constitutional and violate separation of powers?

We'll play by those rules too. When your guy's up and he's being investigated, time for a special counsel. When you're ready to go back to the old rules, I'm all ears. Until then, take your rules and swallow them like the syrup of Ipecac. They wanted this. They wanted these new rules. So let's give them to them.

Whoever, I think Jeff Rosen is going to be the new acting attorney general for the next month or so. Don't leave without appointing a special counsel for Hunter Biden. They're rules, folks, not ours. They like their new rules. Let's see how much they really like their new rules.

let's see how much they really like their new rules. Because the only way to go back to the old rules is to make liberals feel the effect of their new rules and say, you know what? I think I'd like the old rules better where we had a constitution and actual separation of powers that protected all of us. That sounded really good. But they won't know it sounds good until what sounds really

bad, which is a special counsel investigating their guy. All right, let me get to my third sponsor and I want to get to this next piece because it's important. I want to explain to you what's going to happen. There are members of Congress looking to challenge the January 6th reading out of the electoral college votes, how this is going to work. None of these paths are good, folks. That's why I keep talking about probabilities, and I'm not going to mislead you. I don't give up or concede anything, but I'm not going to mislead you. We'll get to that next. All right. Today's show brought to you by our friends at HIMSS.

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and important safety information. Remember, that's 4hims.com slash Bongino. Check it out. Don't wait. Sorry, I've been watching Paula's response. I'm telling you, it's a great company. All right, moving on we got to get you on camera it is a must i have so many people asking like when is miss paula going to get on camera it will happen we're eventually going to build out a new studio we've

finished up our tech so uh we'll eventually build out a new a bigger studio where i could walk around and we can get a cat. She has a camera. She doesn't want to do it for now, but I'm convincing her slowly based on audience feedback because her responses sometimes are absolutely priceless. All right, let's go back. Epic Times has a piece about this. So very serious topic. Some congressional leaders met with President Trump at the White House yesterday.

They plan on contesting what's going to happen on January 6th. What happens on January 6th? Why does it matter to you? I'll get to it. Let me just get this headline. Jack Phillips at the Epoch Times. Read the piece. Be in the show notes today.

Mark Meadows, President Trump's chief of staff. Trump met with several congressional members on fraud and they, quote, will fight back. What does that mean? Well, let's dig into the piece and find out. What does that mean? Well, let's dig into the piece and find out. One member of the Senate and one member of the House are needed to challenge a state's electoral college votes. No senator has definitely confirmed they would challenge the electoral college votes. This readout happens on January 6th, an important date, folks. although senator-elect tommy tubberville in alabama and senator ran paul from kentucky

have both suggested they may join house member mo brooks and other gop house representatives what does this mean very simply on january 6th there is a reading in the house of the presidential electors and their votes 50 states have confirmed those slates of electors. Some states or the Republican Party have sent an alternate slate, but the states have confirmed their electors. Those will be read out up on Capitol Hill. There is a process, though. A House member can object to that slate of electors.

Say Florida has 29 electors. They're going to go for President Trump because President Trump won Florida. Those 29 electors have signed ballots, have signed their presidential elector statements. Someone can challenge that, can challenge the slate of electors. Now, let me read out to you from the National Constitution Center what happens if a, now, just to be clear,

Joe, if I'm not explaining this well, you know it's your obligation to stop me. A House member can object, but in order for that objection to be formally lodged, a senator has to do it too. So they need a House member and a Senate member all right okay

what happens then well let's go to the national constitution center constitutioncenter.org and here is it what happens objections to individual state returns must be made in writing by at least one member of the senate as i just said and house of representatives both you can't have one it's not an either or it's both if an objection to that slate of electors meets these requirements the joint session recesses and the two houses the house and the senate separate debate the question in their chambers for a maximum of two hours the two houses then vote separately to accept or reject the objection. They then reassemble in joint session and announce the results of their respective votes.

An objection to a state's electoral vote must be approved by both houses in order for any contested votes to be excluded. Folks, this is where the probability part comes in, which I owe to you. I don't owe you any dishonesty for the sake of effect. No matter who gets up and objects to a state, say Michigan, where there was fraud. Was there enough fraud to overturn the state's electoral vote? We don't know that, but there was unquestionably fraud in Michigan. So say a House member and a senate member object to those state electors and say no even though they went to biden the states

confirmed that we're objecting that's great and i think that fight should continue but what happens joe it gets debated for maximum of two hours two hours yeah they have two hours to debate it and the house and Senate vote on it. Ladies and gentlemen, the House is controlled by Democrats. Nancy Pelosi controls the House. They are not going to agree to that. That's not giving up.

That's not conceding anything. That's just hard political football. I think the fight continues. I think the fight should continue. I support their efforts to do it. But the hard political reality is unless some Democrats fold, which they won't

because they hate this man, they're just going to shut it down. I wish I had better news for you there. But I'm not going to shut it down. I wish I had better news for you there, but I'm not going to make it up. But the fight does matter. It always matters. You know, just real quickly before we move on, I got a couple more stories I want to get to.

They're important. A little different than yesterday's show, which was very long and lengthy, but spelled out the whole Spygate thing and why Barr is wrong. Folks, two things that haven't been explained to me about this election cycle and why I'm not, because you may ask, you know, some liberals, fair enough, if you watch my show, you may say, Dan, why are you still refusing to concede this election?

Because ladies and gentlemen, I haven't had two electoral abnormalities explained to me in any sufficient way that satisfies my curiosity about the results. Number one, how is it that signature match verification was at some of the lowest points we've seen in modern times, despite the fact that historic numbers of people voted through the mail, where the only verification process was your signature on a ballot. You never showed up and showed an ID at a polling location. You literally signed a ballot, you got in the mail and gave it to your mailman. How is it that in an election where untold historic numbers of people, their only authenticating feature on their ballot was their signature? Historic numbers of people did their only authenticating feature on their ballot was their signature. Historic numbers of people did that, and yet signature matches where they found a problem with it was at the lowest level in modern history. That doesn't make any sense. More people use signatures to authenticate and less people screwed it up. It doesn't make sense.

In an election where more people use mail ballots, you think historic numbers of people would have screwed it up based on statistical data we have from elections past where we know how many people, 1% to 2%, typically screw up a mail ballot. It wasn't 1% to 2%. In some states, it was 0.3%. That doesn't make any sense. 0.3%. That doesn't make any sense. First time people vote by mail and magically more people succeed at it? Does that make sense to you? That has not been explained to me sufficiently.

Second, the roll-off phenomenon. How historic numbers of people in inner cities voted for Joe Biden at the top of the ballot and skipped all of the other races on the ballot. A logical explanation would be some of those votes were probably fraud. Why does that mean fraud, Dan? Because if you're going to vote fraudulently and you need to overcome a big voting deficit, you don't have time to fill out every single ballot, every single election on the ballot. You just vote for Biden at the top because that's your primary concern and you mail it

in. Historic numbers of people only voted for Biden and never voted on any other election on that ballot. It doesn't make sense, folks. The Democrats are in no eager rush to explain it to anyone. All right, got one final sponsor, and I want to get this. I got a little bit of a cut from my turning point speech, which a lot of, I don't usually play my own stuff, as you know, it's rare, but I got a really nice email from a gentleman who lost his son. It was very touching. Me and

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if you are one of our audience members in a blue state, and we have many of them, we do a lot of diagnostics on our audience and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, demographic studies to see who's listening, where, uh, we don't know your name, but we can tell where the URLs or the IPs are from. We have big audiences in California and New York, ladies and gentlemen, emulate snake Plissken and escape from New York and L.A. as soon as you can. But please don't vote the crap you voted in up there down here in states like Florida or Ireland.

The increasing peril. I have this right there. Joe, poor Joe is the increasing peril of living in liberal states. It's happening by the minute. Not a joke. What am I talking about? This article being the show notes. Check out John Solomon's cool site. Just the news dot com. Some California lawmakers want to impose a wealth tax with far-reaching tentacles. Okay, that's not news in California. California wants to tax wealthy people. You're like, Dan, how's that breaking news? No, no, no.

Listen to how this spectacularity works. They not only want a wealth tax, if you go to California, you have like a rental, an Airbnb, and you stay there for more than a certain amount of time, look at what they're going to do to you. Check out this piece. Read this Just the News piece. This is like a horror show. Their wealth tax proposal that was pushed this year applies to up to a 0.4% tax on the amount of a state resident's net worth, not your income, your net worth, over $30 million. The proposed bill would have made those who spend more than 60 days in California a year subject to some level of this wealth tax. The amount of

the person's wealth subject to the tax would depend on the amount of time spent in the state during the prior 10 years. And under the proposal, even leaving the state would not free the taxpayer or the burden because anyone who'd been subject to the tax in the preceding 10 years would still be subject to some level of the tax for up to 10 years. Ladies and gentlemen, do not visit. I don't know what to tell you. I'm very sorry for our friends there. If you are a person who's been successful and you are going to stay in California and this thing passes, evacuate as soon as you can. I am very sorry, but I cannot recommend with a straight face that you go to these places. You say, Dan, you said liberal states, not state. California is bad enough.

You know I love our California friends. My buddy who's the manager in the restaurant, I never say where because I don't want libs to burn it down. I love you all. Viewers and listeners, I love you, but please get out while you can if you're a conservative. I'm serious. The place is a disaster area. New York too. What about New York? Check out this video by the communist mayor of New York City, de Blasio, who's not even hiding his Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin allegiance at this point.

What's the very core tenet of socialism? From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. In other words, redistribution of wealth, right? That's what socialism is. Socialism, communism, it's the same thing. Only pseudo intellectuals want you to believe there's a difference. There isn't. Right. This is not stealth edited. This is actually the mayor of New York City going full

Vladimir Lenin right now talking about socialist principles. Check this out. We need to profoundly change the distribution of resources. I like to say very bluntly, our mission is to redistribute wealth. A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use. We have been doing this work for seven years

to more equitably redistribute resources throughout our school system. That means pre-K for all, 3K for all, advanced placement course. He's not even hiding it. This is an actual principle of communism. The redistribution of all. He's not hiding it. He's like, matter of fact, when Fox called him out for it,

he gave another thing. He's like, Fox is right. I really want to redistribute your wealth. So a couple of things here I thought about. Being this show is heavy on economics. We go back and forth. Spygate, Hunter Biden, economics. That's what's different about this show.

Where's the wealth distribution center? Anyone? There isn't any. Of course, the wealth distribution center sane people unlike bill de balzio didn't not a mistake not sic i liked it b2 the wealth distribution center joe is called a job the wealth is quote distributed because jo Joe goes to work every day. Joe contracts out with us, provides us services. We then pay Joe upon an invoice where we redistribute our own money to Joe for services provided. It's called a job, a J-O-B, a J-O-Bizzle, a job.

A wealth distribution center is a job. Wealth is not distributed. It's earned. That's a communist saying. Literally. One more point on this. one more point on this. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason redistributing other people's earnings doesn't work is because nobody goes to work to pay for somebody else. For the liberals listening,

because you're really dopey. I'm not kidding. And I get that. Really dopey. I'm not kidding. And I get that. I was a graduate student in neuropsychology at the City University of New York. Because I hate when people talk about their education. But this story has a purpose. It's not to tout my educational bona fides. Nobody cares.

But we did a lot of experimental psychology. We would use animal studies and typically it was with these mice. And you have to dipper train mice. Those of you who've done experimental psychology, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You get them thirsty, you put them in a cage with water and there's a dipper. A mouse doesn't by instinct hit the dipper. They don't know what the dipper is. So when they're thirsty, they want water. So what do you got to have them do?

When they get closer to the dipper, you reward them. And then closer to the dipper and then you reward them. And eventually they put their little mouse paw on the dipper and they hit the dipper and water comes out. And then what do you see the mouse do? The mice. They hit the water all day. That takes a long time to dipper train a mouse. It does.

Some of the students in the class, it would take them weeks. It's not instinct. They don't just figure it out. Oh, look, there's a metal handle. I mean, water comes out. handle him he probably water comes out i never once never once joseph saw a mouse who was thirsty learned to dipper train to give water to another mouse i never saw that happen i never once was like the mouse was like okay i hit this dipper and joey the mouse gets what this is great let me hit the dipper all day it'll never he'll never hit the damn dipper and Joey the mouse gets what? This is great. Let me hit the dipper all day. It'll never, it'll never hit the damn dipper.

We're no different. Human beings don't go to work to pay for someone else's car. We don't do it. It just doesn't happen. That only happens with communists where it doesn't happen. And people starve to death because they're not going to farm their fields to feed government bureaucrats and not their own family. If you're an experimental psychology student and you dipper train the mouse to give water to another thirsty mouse, email me. I'd love to hear your story because it's never happened ever.

Write that paper up. We'll put it on the show in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Maybe they'll take it tomorrow. DeBolzio thinks you go to work to pay for someone else's kids because he's that stupid. Now,

this is best summed up. This is what Joe was talking about by these videos. We're getting to all these today because Joe liked them and he gave the greatest tease ever. Not planned at the beginning of the show. Here's the great Dinesh D'Souza, one of the smartest men. I've had him on the show twice in my interview series. Explaining a terrific analogy of why redistributing someone else's efforts never, ever works. Analogies are great. Check this out. He talks about three children fighting over a flute. He says that one of them, Carla, made the flute.

A second one, Anne, believes that she is the best flute player and therefore deserves the flute. And a third, Bob, who is the disadvantaged one. Bob has never had a flute, and therefore he claims that he's the most deserving recipient of the flute. And essentially Amartya Sen goes, these people all sort of have a claim. He goes, the claim of Carla is the libertarian claim of ownership by creation. is the libertarian claim of ownership by creation. The claim of Anne is the utilitarian claim that it would maximize happiness to enable the person who plays the flute best to have the flute. And of course, Bob's claim, you can call it the sort of leftist claim or the progressive claim, the victimology claim. And Amartya Sen's point is, to whom should we assign the flute? And I want to zoom in here on the word we, because you notice what's really going on is Amartya Sen has silently transferred ownership of the flute from the person who made the flute to the state. To whom should we? Somehow

he suddenly has a say in who gets the flute. But let's think about it. How did the flute come to be in the first place? Carla made the flute. It's Carla's flute. Absent Carla, there wouldn't be a flute. So there's no question of redistributing the flute. Flutes don't fall from the sky. Flutes aren't allocated in some original distribution. Flutes are created just as wealth is created. And what de Blasio means by wealth redistribution is confiscating wealth from the people who created it, giving it to people who didn't create it in exchange for their votes. That's the progressive ploy. Amen, brother Dinesh. Beautifully stated. The flute story. Who has the entitlement, air quotes, to the flute? It doesn't matter. The person who

created it created the flute. And if they don't create more flutes, there'll be no flutes. If you start taking their flutes and giving them to people who didn't make the flutes, there'll be no more flutes left. It doesn't matter who you think should have the flute. All that matters is you'll have no more flutes left the minute you take it from the person who actually created it and gave it to someone else. That's all that matters. It'll be the end of flutes, like it was the end of people eating regularly in communist countries when they instituted confiscation of their farm goods and everybody starved to death in the great famines. Because you're not going to farm your land to feed someone else. because you're not going to farm your land to feed someone else.

You'd rather be dead. And they were, by the hundreds of millions. But keep it up, the ball's EO. Great job, Dinesh. By the way, Dinesh has a terrific video account on Rumble. You know, I'm an investor in Rumble, but he has these videos up there. They're really good. Subscribe to his account on Rumble, in addition to mine, if you don't mind. It's really good. He has videos like this everywhere. There aren't many better explainers than Dinesh. Okay, folks, we're

going to end the show on a little bit of a happy note. So I was at the Turning Point USA conference, the Student Action Summit this weekend in West Palm. And I put this speech up, by the way, on my Parler account this morning, right before I do these exclusive teases of the show. I'm at D. Bongino on Parler, if you'd like to follow me. But I put this whole speech up thanks to Rich Cementa, who put it on his account, and I just retweeted his link to his Rumble account.

If you'd like to watch the whole speech, it's about 20 minutes long. I poured my heart into it, and I appreciate all the young warriors out there who showed up for the conference. But there was one part where the reason I mentioned this, this is about two minutes or so, hat tip to Breitbart who put it on their social media account. A lot of hat tips, sorry folks, but it's the right thing to do. Breitbart seemed to like this part. I was talking about my unfortunate cancer diagnosis. I'll be

okay. It's not a sob story for anyone, but how it made me reflect on things. And I brought up this piece of life advice that I got from The Black Swan, a book from Nassim Taleb. It's in his book. And the piece of life advice I discussed about collecting opportunities, but not chasing trains. Play the clip and I'll get to why it's important because i'm always asked the best piece of advice ever people come up to me dan what's the best piece of advice you got for my son and i say collect opportunities but never ever chase trends check this out you know most of you know i i was diagnosed with cancer recently it really sucked to say the least that wasn't the best day of my life but um you know it's one of the reasons I came out today

and I wanted to thank you all. Things look different when you get news like that. I know a lot of you in this room, sadly, have been touched by it. Family members, sadly, some of you here yourselves. Thankfully, it's treatable and I think I'll be okay. I'm about a month into treatment now. But everything... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I appreciate it. I do appreciate it. I will say this. The scare it gave me, your most valuable gift you've been given by anyone, outside of life, your life in general, by the God of God, our creator, is time. Don't screw it up. You all are young. You have the opportunity to go out there and collect vast troves of

opportunities. You collected an opportunity by coming here. The book, The Black Swan, one of the best pieces of advice you'll ever read is collect opportunities, but don't chase trains. Collect every opportunity you can to meet someone, to talk to someone, to seed an idea, to go take an extra class, to read an extra book. Don't waste a moment of your time. You have an expiration date. And one of these days you'll have to come to reckon with that. Don't think because you're young that you can waste the time now. You can't. You're the warriors on the front lines of liberty. You have a fire in your heart so much greater than some of your fellow students out there who don't get that fight because you chose to do something and collect opportunities.

But don't chase trains either. Meaning the train gets there at eight and you got there at 801, then damn it, that's your fault. And you screwed up. If you're chasing the train, you screwed up. Best life advice I ever read. It's a powerful book by Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan. I talked about it so often. And if I could sum it up in a sentence, it's exactly that. I give this advice to anyone who ever asks. Collect every opportunity you can. Time is your most valuable gift. I know it's said often,

but we do have an expiration date. But you never think about it until you get a diagnosis of a disease you think could be fatal. Luckily, mine is treatable. But it didn't have to be. And we didn't know that for a long time, me and Paula. And all of a sudden, you start to realize that time is the one thing you can never, ever buy back.

Doesn't matter how powerful you are, what title you you have how much money you've inherited or earned it makes no difference you can't buy one second back not all the money on planet earth will earned or unearned can buy back even one second of time not one don't waste it talib's advice in his book, he talks about, he was trying to get some characteristics of these unbelievably successful people. Sure, sure there had to be something. They were the best looking, the smartest, the most athletic. What was it about them? They had the wealthiest parents. He tried to find common characteristics of these unbelievably successful people and he couldn't find it in the book. But you know what he found? The one thing they all did, these incredibly successful people across science, medicine, entertainment, education, it didn't matter. They all collected opportunities and didn't waste time. every opportunity, an opportunity to read a book, to read another article, to take another class,

to educate yourself, to stay an extra hour at work, to produce that one extra product, to think through on a weekend that one new idea you had. Everybody's got a plan. Plans don't mean squat. Who implements the plan? It does something about it. The do matters, not the talk. Don't waste your time. Collect every opportunity to learn from someone else. To go to a conference, to seed your mind with a new idea. Don't waste a second of it ever. Especially if you're young. Because that expiration date's not looking down your neck.

It's not breathing over your shoulder. You don't think it's real. Trust me, it's very real. I learned that the hard way. This year, you will see your life totally different. Collect every opportunity. Don't waste a second. You can't buy it back no matter how much you earn, no matter how much you're worth. No fancy car. There is no tradings. There's no tradebacks, nothing. That second's lost. It's gone forever. But do not chase trains. He tells a story in a book, Talib, about a friend.

And they would come to a different conclusion, but I always took away from that. If you say you're going to do something, then you damn well better do it. If that train comes at eight o'clock and you arrive at 801, that is your fault. As I said in the speech, you blew it. No one else. Don't ever chase a train. You know what time it's going to be there. Be there five minutes early and get there every day. You committed to going to college. You committed to a project and you damn well better finish it. I only had one rule with my daughter with sports. When she signed up for the season, I don't care how bad it got. She was playing that season out no matter what. And she knew that rule. Don't chase trains. The train comes at eight. Be there at 755.

No excuses. Collect every opportunity. Don't waste time. Thanks for all the feedback on the speech. I really appreciate it. Again, you can watch the whole thing on my Parler account. I linked to Rich Cementa's Rumble account, so I deeply appreciate it. Hey, please check out our new aggregator, our alternative to the now left-leaning Drudge Report, BonginoReport.com. You can get all your news of the day there. And we really appreciate it. The website's just exploded. Best conservative news of the day. Hat tip, Matt Palumbo, who does it. We've got some news there too coming up. And also, if you'd subscribe to my Rumble account, I'd really appreciate it. Rumble.com slash Bongino, where you can watch the video version

of this show. We're almost at a million subscribers. Thanks for all your loyalty to the show, folks. I really appreciate it. We don't chase this show. We're almost at a million subscribers. Thanks for all your loyalty to the show, folks. I really appreciate it. We don't chase trains here. We show up every morning for you because you're mad at us. Thanks a lot. See you tomorrow. You just heard Dan Bongino.