Elon Reignites Feud with Trump: Which Direction will MAGA Pick?

Summary

Louder with Crowder: Elon Reignites Feud with Trump – Which Direction will MAGA Pick?

Release Date: July 1, 2025

In this episode of Louder with Crowder, host Dan Bongino delves into the escalating feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, exploring the potential implications for the MAGA movement and the broader American political landscape. The discussion weaves through various topics, including the viability of a third party, the unique political stance of Cuban American immigrants, societal issues surrounding victim culture, and recent polls on American pride.

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1. Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump: Third Party Implications

The episode opens with Bongino addressing the rekindled tensions between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Musk's recent statements accusing Trump of being a "pedophile" have stirred significant controversy, prompting discussions about the future of Republican politics and the potential rise of a third party.

• Primary Challenge: Musk has vowed to primary Republicans who support the current administration's spending bill. Bongino questions the prudence of such actions, emphasizing the importance of maintaining momentum within the MAGA movement.

  [16:27] Dan Bongino: "I don't think that Elon Musk cares if it's best for America. I genuinely don't."

• Third Party Viability: The conversation then shifts to the historical impact of third parties in U.S. elections, referencing past candidates like Ross Perot and Ralph Nader. Bongino argues that a Musk-led third party would likely siphon votes from the Republican base, potentially harming conservative prospects in future elections.

  [18:15] Dan Bongino: "Third parties have been spoilers. They don't push this country forward; they just act as brakes."

2. Immigration Insights: The Case of Cuban Americans

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to examining why Cuban American immigrants consistently align with Republican and conservative values, distinguishing them from other Hispanic immigrant groups.

• Historical Context: Bongino outlines that many Cuban Americans fled communism in the late 20th century, leading to a strong anti-socialist sentiment. This historical backdrop fosters a deep-seated appreciation for American values of liberty and hard work.

  [36:12] Dan Bongino: "Cuban Americans are very loud, boisterous. They're also very hard-headed... They don't want to take advantage of America; they're coming here to become American."

• Economic and Social Success: Statistics are presented highlighting Cuban Americans' higher average incomes, lower unemployment rates, higher homeownership, and lower crime rates compared to other Hispanic groups.

  [49:23] Dan Bongino: "Cuban Americans earn, on average, 11% more than any other Hispanic group in the United States."

• Cultural Integration: The episode emphasizes the strong family units, high work ethic, and a collective gratitude for the opportunities in the U.S., which contribute to their distinct political behavior.

  [44:11] Dan Bongino: "They have very strong family units and a work ethic in general. That plays into it."

3. Societal Critique: Victim Culture and Accountability

Bongino critiques the prevailing culture of victimhood, arguing that various groups—including the LGBTQ community, feminists, and certain immigrant populations—foster a mentality of entitlement and lack of accountability.

• Handicapped Parking Debate: A heated discussion ensues regarding the misuse of handicapped parking spaces by overweight individuals, whom Bongino refers to as benefiting from a "fake victim culture."

  [11:08] Dan Bongino: "The fake victim culture creates actual victims. They end up with ballooning health care costs for other people."

• Health and Responsibility: The conversation extends to broader health issues, linking obesity and related diseases to societal attitudes towards personal responsibility.

  [06:54] Dan Bongino: "Nothing is ever your responsibility... These people are fat. That's not what we're doing right now."

4. Poll Analysis: American Pride and Party Affiliation

Bongino presents a new poll from American Pride, revealing a significant disparity in national pride between Republican and Democratic voters.

• Statistics Highlights:

  • Republicans: 92% of Republicans reported being proud to be American.
  • Democrats: Only 36% of Democrats shared the same sentiment.

  [30:22] Dan Bongino: "Republicans 92%, Democrats 36%. That's the biggest difference right now."

• Interpretation: He interprets these findings as indicative of a fundamental difference in how each party views the nation, with Republicans maintaining a higher level of national pride regardless of the political climate.

  [31:18] Dan Bongino: "One group of people, conservative, God-fearing, largely Republican Americans love this country regardless of who's in power and one does not."

5. Conclusion: The Future of American Conservatism

Wrapping up, Bongino underscores the challenges posed by internal divisions within the conservative movement, exacerbated by Musk's potential third-party ambitions and cultural shifts within immigrant communities. He advocates for a unified conservative front to preserve the values that he believes make America great.

• Call to Action: Encouraging listeners to analyze the motivations behind political figures and the importance of maintaining a strong, unified conservative presence to counteract the fragmentation caused by external influences like Musk.

  [60:28] Dan Bongino: "Is America the greatest country in the world? Yes and no. But if you're a Cuban American and you want to rip up your papers, we don't want you here."

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Notable Moments and Quotes:

• [06:49] Gerald: "The N word."

• [11:05] Captain Morgan: "I don't think so. But listen, I feel like..."

• [20:47] Dan Bongino: "The poll is not necessarily exclusive to Americans. I don't think it's very representative."

• [36:19] Captain Morgan: "We watched that live at a Buffalo."

• [53:11] Dan Bongino: "86% of Cuban Americans identify as white, even though a lot of them aren't."

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Final Thoughts:

This episode of Louder with Crowder offers a critical examination of current political dynamics, highlighting the intricate interplay between influential figures like Elon Musk and longstanding political movements such as MAGA. Through in-depth discussions on immigration, societal responsibility, and national pride, the show provides listeners with a perspective aimed at fostering informed and engaged conservative discourse.

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

Welcome to the lineup live on rumble, 9am Eastern to 7pm Eastern. You don't need to change that channel. You just keep watching for free all day and each show rolls into the next. Welcome Bongino army now coming in from Vince. Hope you enjoyed that show. Vince, of course, comes from the name Vincente in Latin, which translates to. All the Romance languages are based in Latin, roughly sherbet or sherbet. And how is it different from sorbet? I guess it's a common question in all languages, even back with the Latins. So we have a lot to get to. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are at it again. Mom, you gotta take care of your boys. Comes down to this. Would primarying every Republican right now be a good thing? Would it be good for America and a third party? Would that be good for the United States of America? And who do you think would would hemorrhage more votes, Republicans or Democrats? It's a new poll on American Pride that is very revealing as to who actually loves this country as it relates to political parties. And this is something I've wanted to talk about for a while. And since we have a talking with people coming up, you'll see a teaser here in a second during the fourth of July break. Why are Cuban American immigrants so different not just from other Hispanic immigrants, but any immigrants? Why are they the single most reliable Republican, conservative, pro America voting bloc in this country? Something kind of near and dear to my heart? I like a good sandwich. On with the show. And now for a message from Paco, the friendly home of hope. That's me, Mr. Jimenez. Mr. Jimenez. Paco, hi. Yeah, can you make sure that you and your guys get the bushes this time because last time you missed them and I really need to trim the hedges. See, I trimmed the bushes. I'm sorry for the mistake last time. That's fine. Would you or your crew like some Long Island Iced teas or Pepperidge Farm cookies? No, it's okay. Nothing I can get you? No, not for me. And even though it's because you are a very nice man, and when I say this, I mean no offense because you pay me very well and treat me very much like a professional. But I am not comfortable drinking from your glass or eating from your cooking jar because you are not straight. Click Rumble Premium and join now for 99 annually or $9.99 a month to get the entirely ad free experience and an ever expanding roster of content creators and free speech. Hey, I'm here in Dallas, Texas for the latest installment of Talking with people, just sort of gauging the temperature and seeing what people think about immigration in general and the deportations, ice. You know, I'm a fan. I'm thinking some are. Right now, immigration is a hot topic. Is America a better country than China? I think it is better.

[Captain Morgan]

I think it is definitely a better.

[Dan Bongino]

Place to, you know, have a better work life balance. What do you mean, your peace?

[Josh Firestein]

My people is like Mexican. I'm Mexican.

[Chico]

In 1963, my dad came here on a banana bowl.

[Dan Bongino]

They come here and they go, you guys don't know how good you have it. Yes. Is America the greatest country in the world?

[Josh Firestein]

Yes and no.

[Dan Bongino]

This is the first generation of people who come here and say, yeah, but it's not that great. Thank you. I hope you and your husband do well and I hope that you get that citizenship. You guys can stay here. Thank you, man. Yeah, I think you're a working man with a family. Thank you, Chico. Appreciate it, brother. Thank you. Thank you for the opinion, brother. Be well, Sam. Glad to be with you. Yes. We will after Wednesday be on a little bit of a break here for 4th of July, doing some pre production and there'll be two installments of talking with people. Captain Morgan made me self conscious about my shirt right off the bat. Look, there's no good way to button this. Look, here's the thing. This is too much unbuttoned. And then if I go. Just one more button.

[Captain Morgan]

I complimented you.

[Dan Bongino]

Stop it.

[Josh Firestein]

Don't let him do that to you. You got a nice tan.

[Dan Bongino]

Now, look at this. You can't wear that.

[Josh Firestein]

You look like a dor. Yeah, unbutton that thing.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm unbuttoning it.

[Josh Firestein]

You got a nice tan. You got taco meat hanging out. I like it.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't even know what that means, but I appreciate it. Chest marks.

[Captain Morgan]

I complimented you on your. I said I like your shirt. I mean, they make you look.

[Dan Bongino]

Well, I don't like you.

[Captain Morgan]

Wow.

[Dan Bongino]

I love you.

[Captain Morgan]

It's got personal.

[Dan Bongino]

I love you, but I don't like you. Hey, question of the day. Whose third party would you follow? Do you want a third party? We're gonna get into that today. And if you're wondering the best way to stay in touch. Hey. It's a live show, weekdays, 11am Eastern. And you just tune in. It's like the old T Guide, only there's no family matters. Captain Morgan, how are you?

[Captain Morgan]

I'm doing well.

[Dan Bongino]

Good. And Tuesday, July 8, funny bone comedy club. And or way to step on his plug, Funny Bone Comedy club. And it's not all about you.

[Josh Firestein]

Tuesday, July 8th.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah. Tuesday, July 8th, in Orlando, Florida, the Funny Bone Comedy Club, Mr. Josh Firestein.

[Josh Firestein]

Hey, what's up? Happy Canada Day.

[Dan Bongino]

Come on. That's. I thought we were done with Gay Month.

[Josh Firestein]

No, no. We're gonna shotgun some maple syrup later.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a very. One of the most expensive heists ever in history was maple syrup. Really? Yeah. And trucks. It was like, 10 million bucks. Wow. Yeah. It's labor intensive. Have the Mexicans do that now.

[Captain Morgan]

Too cold.

[Dan Bongino]

I thought you meant we're too cold to go in that. That level of racism right off the bat. It's too cold for Mexicans to do the tap in the trees. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense.

[Captain Morgan]

So it's a great start.

[Dan Bongino]

Let's. Hey, before I go to this next one, this endorsement deal at Disney World with land whales, do you remember last week when Jamal Bowman said that racism was the reason that the black community deals with obesity and diabetes? I just. For those who you just. You. You have to see this. I'm a black man in America. The reason why heart disease. I'm white. I can't comment on. Listen to what I'm saying. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N word directly or indirectly every day.

[Gerald]

The N word.

[Dan Bongino]

Gerald's created a lot of fat black people.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm sorry.

[Dan Bongino]

Behind the scenes, you have inward cancer. Stop saying it. So and this leads into the next one you saw. We did a segment on that. Nothing is ever your responsibility. And by. In this case, I mean this man who claims to speak for the black community. Same thing with feminists, same thing with lgbt. Nothing is ever your fault. It's everyone else's fault. The rest of the world needs to change, but they need to fund your personal choices because it's not your fault. It's their fault. That's where we find ourselves. And I think that's what has people exhausted. When people refer to fatigue, whether it's black fatigue, whether it's lgbtq, AIP fatigue, feminism feminism fatigue. White broad fatigue. So now we go to these plus size, and let's just dish the term plus. Plus size means you're like, you know, an extra large. Like, you know, for women, would that.

[Josh Firestein]

Be like a size extra? That's the plus, right? Ear plus. Plus. Plus.

[Dan Bongino]

Right. For a woman, maybe that'd be like a size 8 or 10. I don't I don't know what the normal size is, but the we use the term plus size. We use curvy when these women cease to have curves. And it's not, hey, these people are fat. That's not what we're doing right now. It's these ladies are showing off their latest endorsement deal with Disney World. And we are enabling a culture that completely lacks accountability. And this may be the precise reason for the downfall of Western civilization.

[Paco]

Are you looking to rent a scooter for your upcoming trip to Disney World or Universal but you weren't sure where to begin?

[Josh Firestein]

Yes.

[Dan Bongino]

No.

[Josh Firestein]

I'll be in Orlando soon.

[Paco]

We range in sizes from 2x to 5x. Make sure you like this video and follow us for more plus size Disney tips and tricks.

[Dan Bongino]

Know us.

[Paco]

You know by now that we always recommend Gold Mobility when it comes to theme park scooter rentals. They have scooters to fit all of your needs.

[Josh Firestein]

Weird. Gold is a soft metal scooter that.

[Paco]

Can fit in your car or scooter with a higher weight capacity. Gold Mobility has what you're looking for. To make your experience even more comfortable. They've added some new premium accessories. We tried out the foldable canopy as demonstrated here by Ashley Vanna White. Maybe try some to assemble and provides much needed shade and protection from the Florida sun. Another accessory that we tried out is the insulated basket cooler. This cooler fits.

[Dan Bongino]

No. Of course you need a cooler to.

[Paco]

Keep your drinks and snacks protected from the heat.

[Josh Firestein]

Here's a thought. No snacks.

[Paco]

Carry your water and being able to keep it in the basket cooler.

[Dan Bongino]

That's where your medicine is supposed to go. Is the best.

[Paco]

It can also be removed.

[Dan Bongino]

The best would be not losing a foot with you.

[Josh Firestein]

As always.

[Paco]

Gold Mobility scooters come included with a standard fan cup holder and phone holder. Also Gold Mobility will deliver the scooters fan vacation rental. Their scooters have an amazing battery life and can withstand even the most jam packed park day. We have really put their.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, you have. I agree on that.

[Paco]

If you're in the Orlando or Anaheim area, look no further than Gold Mobility.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, okay. So this is also the problem. Technology has enabled. It's enabled people to survive who shouldn't survive. Like it's one thing to gain a little bit of weight and I get it. A little bit of mommy weight, a little bit of dad bod weight. I understand that in this case. Can you imagine putting that bitch on a pack mule? Kill me. So we put them on a scooter and we all have to. When you also also understand that it's a huge scam with handicapped parking. A lot of them are just obese people. And what do we end up with? This fake victim culture creates actual victims. The fake victim culture. Then you have someone who actually has a disability, maybe a disabled veteran who had his feet, who had his legs actually blown off. Maybe it's somebody who was born with hereditary condition and they actually could use that parking space. Also, when you fake victimhood, you know what else you end up with? You end up with ballooning health care costs for other people, and you end up victimizing American taxpayers. How about we just start with, okay, There are certain parameters of health, and you'll hear people say, like, well, what's healthy? We know you'll hear people say, what's normal? We have a general idea, but there's a pretty, pretty wide parameters. We're not saying that you can't be a little bit skinnier, that you can't be a little bit bigger. We're not saying that you can't be eccentric. I'm not saying that you can't be more reclusive. You can't be more outgoing, gregarious. What we're saying is let's frame our society into normal in a way that benefits society, where we all honor our responsibilities and duties and just exile them and let nature take its course. Does that. She said it protects you from. Does it protect her from a natural predator, a gym teacher? I don't.

[Captain Morgan]

I don't think so. But listen, I feel like.

[Dan Bongino]

Josh, you guys are. You're viewing this. Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, I was just saying, you talk about the frame. I was like, well, luckily the gold scooter fits their frame.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Kind of. They were spilling out. They really were, you know, so annoying. You're right. They take up the handicapped parking spaces. It could be if we're an actually handicapped person.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Every time I hear a beep, beep behind me and I look and they don't have cerebral palsy, I'm pissed.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, absolutely.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, you better be. You better be.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Messed up.

[Dan Bongino]

I better see a hook hand or we're going to have some choice words for you.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, 100%. Look, I feel like we're doing these people a disservice. We are robbing them of a natural opportunity to get some steps and lose some weight.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes.

[Captain Morgan]

No scooters at the park. Unless you have, like, a missing limb or something. Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

Unless you have an actual disability. Yeah. Fat doesn't count as disability. No, I'm sorry. It doesn't. Since when did we have to make non contributing zeros comfortable? You're supposed to be. You're supposed to contribute to us. We have to start thinking, how do we build a country, a society off of. Insert group here that is in this country. And if we cannot build a country off of the then they shouldn't be accommodated. That's how it's worked since the beginning of time. We are now accommodating people who contribute nothing and take in order to purchase votes. Again, we're not just talking about people who might be a little bit overweight. I get it. There's also a huge difference between someone who's a lot overweight and is not expecting other people to accommodate and subsidize them.

[Josh Firestein]

And we're not sitting here going like, oh, look at these fat ladies. Oh, gross. We're going, hey, you can walk.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes.

[Captain Morgan]

And you need to.

[Josh Firestein]

You have the ability to walk.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes. Jesus Christ himself. Like, get up and walk a miracle. No, just use your legs. Just get off the scooter.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm not asking you to walk on water. I'm asking you to walk on concrete.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm asking you to use your perfectly functioning leg.

[Josh Firestein]

But it has a basket for my ice cream.

[Dan Bongino]

Why would they do that? You're. Imagine if they were in the crowd, like, Jesus, we need more. I thought I fed the 5,000. It's all gone already.

[Josh Firestein]

Where'd it go?

[Dan Bongino]

Screw your sins. I'm going home. It's not compassionate. All right, let's move on here to Elon Musk. The boys are at it again, guys. First question. Would you support a third party? Okay. And do you want Elon Musk to primary Republicans? Where do you line up on this right now? I think it's important to remember that Elon Musk implied that President Trump was potentially a pedophile, a sex offender, and then apologized. But we're back here now. So how far does your forgiveness extend? Or do you just think that Donald Trump is awful and he's accomplished nothing and this administration should be ousted? Let me know. I want to be clear about this. I was on Viva Fry and I think a couple of other shows. MAGA, to me, is just an extension of conservatism. Making America great again means returning us to the values that we seek to conserve life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Okay? So maga, to me, when people say, you're not maga, you're maga means what is the best thing to do for the United States of America right now in 2025? That's what we should be doing. Yeah. What is the best thing to do for this country right now and of course, sets us up for a better future. I don't think that creating a third party in a tantrum to pull away Republican votes qualifies. There's a lot of momentum right now, and I think losing it would be imprudent. So there's going to be, and I think CNN has been covering this slide. There's going to be a vote a rama again on the big beautiful bill, which is less beautiful right now because for some reason some Republicans don't want to boot illegal aliens off of Medicaid and off social. Yeah, it's weird, by the way. I don't know why Democrats are so mad about that. I thought they couldn't get it. So, final vote from the Senate expected today. That bill is likely to pass, of course, as any other bill. It ends up getting chopped up and it ends up getting warped. But Elon Musk didn't just discuss that. He vowed to primary any. And before we run this clip, any Republican who votes for the bill. Okay, that's a problem because you'd have to believe that Elon Musk is inherently more virtuous than all of these Republicans, to be clear. And here's the other problem. Just watch the glee with which CNN covers this kind of infighting.

[CNN Anchor]

We begin tonight with what President Trump calls his big, beautiful bill, which could be headed for a final vote in the Senate after a long day of debating amendments to it and perhaps for some Republican members staring into the abyss. On the one hand, the president over the weekend managed to drive one opponent of the bill out of seeking another term. On the other, Elon Musk has just weighed in on anyone voting yes, quoting him now, every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame. And if that weren't enough, he adds, and they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth. He reiterated his call from three weeks ago for a new political party and says he would start one a day after the bill passes. Rock meet Hard Place.

[Dan Bongino]

Someone wrote that?

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, they did.

[Dan Bongino]

Rock meet Hard Place. Got all of that one.

[Josh Firestein]

They told him not to say that before the show.

[Dan Bongino]

Like, don't say it. I'm going to say it. It's going to be good for us. It's going to work. So again, remember, Elon Musk apologized three weeks ago for saying that Donald Trump was a pedophile. And posting it for the world to see.

[Captain Morgan]

Can't just apologize for that. I'm sorry.

[Dan Bongino]

Now he's vowing to. Yeah, and now be clear. He's vowing to completely destroy President Trump's mandate. To be clear. Now, I am not asking you, is this bill perfect? I'm not even asking you, is this bill great. The question right now, if you are conservative or if you are maga, because people are using that as a litmus test now, is this good for America? Let's put the perfection of the bill on the shelf here for a second. Is it good for America for Elon Musk to primary people like Josh Hawley, Mark Wayne Mullen, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, Marsha Blackburn? Think about that. Is it? And he also made this other promise they didn't cover on cnn. He said, if this incense spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day. Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a voice. And what better voice for the people than a billionaire from bloodlines? That's exaggerated. But then he used the poll on X to justify it, saying, is it time to create a new political party? And 81% said yes and 19% no. Let me be clear about this. Do I think this is good for the United States of America? No. Because in the absence of data, we'd be speculating. We're not. We're not third parties. They've been spoilers. Okay? And they don't push this country forward. They just act as brakes. So in 2016, Trump versus Hillary, maybe have Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, they took some votes away from Hillary in swing states. Okay, that one's kind of fun. And who can Forget the Pepsi vs Coke rivalry in 1999 where RC Cola took 12% of the vote?

[Josh Firestein]

RC Cola is not a sponsor of.

[Dan Bongino]

Louder with Crowder.

[Josh Firestein]

RC Cola. We're still here.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Josh Firestein]

I didn't know about it sort of.

[Dan Bongino]

Then 2000 yet Bush versus Gore. Ralph Nader got 1.6% of the Florida vote. Right? George W. Bush won Florida by.05%. Now, obviously I'm. I would rather George W. Bush win than Al Gore, but that was a little bit of a mess. Then you look at 92. This is a big one. This is the most comparable to Elon Musk because you're talking about Ross Perot, who was a very, very wealthy man who believed he had the platform, he could make it work. This was Bush versus Clinton. Ross Perot obviously helped Bill Clinton get elected. He pulled significant how much of the vote did Ross Perot pull? It was a lot.

[Captain Morgan]

It was like 18.9%.

[Dan Bongino]

It was 18.9%, at least down here. So nowhere near enough to be elected, but absolutely enough to guarantee that Bill Clinton would get elected. Let me ask you this. Do you think that Elon Musk's third party, do you honestly believe that it will pull any votes at all away from the left? Cuz right now the left can't stop stepping on rakes. The left can't get it right. The left is destroying itself. And really, this is our. Your movement right now. To lose. That doesn't mean that it's perfection. But you would be giving the left a gift. If Elon Musk creates a party that pulls a comparable number, let's say, to Ralph Nader from the Republican Party. I get it. There are Rhinos. There are people who should absolutely be voted out. People who've made my list. Folks who don't want to take illegal aliens off of any type of social safety benefits. That to me is a national border, it's not a state border. You cease to be conservative, you cease to be maga. But to say that they are all the same. All right, now we have a third party. You think that they're going to be beyond any type of corruption. It's just swapping out one problem, one disease for another. All right, so the good news is we removed your cancer tape and replaced it with Parkinson's.

[Captain Morgan]

Oh, that. That's not better.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, a lot of people live with Parkinson's.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, they do.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Michael J. Fox is killing it.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, that's. I mean, you don't want to take a soda from them.

[Captain Morgan]

Just let me touch on the poll really quickly. I. I like that.

[Josh Firestein]

Market. Why don't you slide up and down.

[Dan Bongino]

It there really quickly? You must have confidence.

[Josh Firestein]

You wrap your leg around that thing and climb on up.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, I work with children and I know it. Listen, I got some money here. The poll that Elon Musk put out, I like that he gets the one.

[Dan Bongino]

You want to touch.

[Captain Morgan]

And there's a lot of. Yeah, thank you. I like that there are a lot of people that participate, but how many of those people are American?

[Dan Bongino]

Right.

[Captain Morgan]

The poll is not necessarily exclusive to Americans. I don't think it's very representative.

[Dan Bongino]

And we've been very clear too, that these polls are informal in the past.

[Captain Morgan]

And somebody else said support for another third party today. This may have been Mark Mitchell. 20% support on election day. Less than 1%.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah. In theory, it always Turned Abraham Lincoln and the wigs. Shut up.

[Josh Firestein]

And you said, you said how many people would have pulled from the left? You know, I would think it would pull quite a bit if it wasn't Elon Musk doing it.

[Dan Bongino]

Maybe. Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Is they really grew to hate him in the last year.

[Dan Bongino]

Absolutely.

[Josh Firestein]

They really hate him.

[Dan Bongino]

They will only pull from the right. So in pragmatic terms, it can only serve to lose Republicans elections, both the bad Republicans and the good Republicans. I know what you're gonna say. There are no good politicians. Also, let's also keep this dynamic in mind. People say, well, who are you gonna trust? Someone who's not in D.C. or lifelong politicians. Yeah, but that doesn't apply to Donald Trump, though. Yeah, it doesn't. It really doesn't. He was before Elon Musk. He was the guy who was not a politician. And that's why people wanted to give it a shot. Say, hey, let's give this. Let's give this businessman a try. And by the way, has built companies in a very different way from Elon Musk. But we'll get to that. So now Donald Trump. Trump has said that he's pretty much done with Elon Musk writing, Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history. By far. Is it may or by far. He may get more than anyone. He may by far absolutely does. And without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more rocket launches, satellites or electric car production in our country. Would save a fortune. Perhaps we should have Doge take a good hard look at this. Big money to be saved. And then Elon Musk responded. And this is what he's saying now. He's saying, I'm literally saying cut it all now. But here's the thing. He's saying, cut it all now. Sure. Here's my problem with Elon Musk. He says it after he's gotten his bag. He says it after he's. When people talk. When Bernie Sanders says tech oligarchs or he's talk. He's not all wrong now. He ignores the meta, Facebook X before Elon Musk, Google, Alphabet. He ignores all Apple, Microsoft, Amazon. He ignores all of it. And lasers in on one tech example. But I will say this. When I'm thinking of an oligarch, I'm thinking of someone who pretty much has to work hand in hand with government so their business receives favoritism. Unlike the mom and pop shops, I can't think of anyone who qualifies more than Elon Musk. So, okay, this year Tesla spent a few hundred thousand dollars, couple hundred thousand dollars lobbying for EV policies. But just last month, Tesla Energy posted on X abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America's energy independence and reliability of our grid. And then Elon Musk amplified a post calling the ending of solar subsidies to be unjust. So only a month ago, just to be clear, guys, you may, and no matter where you line up, truth does matter. Check the references. Elon Musk a month ago, wants your tax dollars to fund and subsidize a non functional technology. As far as what we would need solar to do you want to put solar panels on your house? Absolutely. Individually, to run a city. Can't be done. Right now if you look at the businesses that Elon Musk has gone in, you look at electric cars, subsidies, you look at AI, you look at things like Neuralink, you look at what he's doing in exploring space, you look at solar energy, all of them require, if not subsidies, at least tax breaks and big government contracts. He hasn't started a restaurant franchise, he didn't start selling a toy he's never really even ventured into with any type of great commitment, a business venture that wouldn't require working hand in hand with government. My issue is that I just don't think it's honest because a month ago he was telling you can't be mad about Solyndra and say, yeah, yeah, I want to follow Elon Musk's party because he's pro liberty. Keep in mind his companies have received $38 billion in subsidies and contracts over the last two decades. A third of Tesla's profits are basically from selling regulatory credits. And here's the thing too, what you have to understand is, hey, you know how you guys hate a lot of green, require these sort of EPA regulations in your car, like that auto shut off button that just bothers everybody. Yeah, it's terrible for your car. Big reason that the V8s went away and some of the new emission standards. Right. You know that a big part of that is Elon Musk. A big part of that is, is people pushing for green electric cars. And so they were all too happy to try and drive gasoline cars and manufacturers out of business by making it so cost intensive that everyone goes, all right, I guess we'll go to electric. I get that. Elon Musk has said now I've supported ending all EV credits because it would be advantageous for Tesla. Sure, But Tesla wouldn't have ever become Tesla if not for that let's be really clear. And if you want to look at his history of political support, okay, you want to join the. You're maga. I'm conservative. Let's say you're conservative. You're a maga. You want to join the third party and support the man, Elon Musk, the party created by the man who supported in 2004. I believe that he pushed for John Kerry in 2007, supported the Republican Congressional Committee, but also Obama, Hillary in 2011, the DNC, Obama, 2015, Hillary. You look at 2020, Biden, 2022. You guys may have forgotten this. And I like DeSantis. He bought X. And the very first thing he did was try and push DeSantis. So when people say he's the one who made President Trump to be the president, like it was a coronation from Elon Musk. He tried it with DeSantis. It didn't work. This is a guy who has a long standing history of supporting Democrats, of supporting leftist policies, of supporting subsidies, and maybe now he's turned over a new leaf and he believes in free market enterprise, but he wasn't a month ago. You want to join that third party. Do you think that's what's best for America in 2020? I don't think that Elon Musk cares if it's best for America. I genuinely don't. I really don't think that he's looking at this saying, this is what's best for America. Because even if you think this bill sucks, you still would be able to come to the conclusion it's not best for America to get rid of all Republicans. The only sort of stopgap that we have and. Josh, are you. You okay? You okay over there, Josh?

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, yeah, sorry. I just feel really tired. I haven't been getting much sleep.

[Dan Bongino]

What's going on? You up all night playing at the Dungeons and Dragons or Snakes and Ladders?

[Josh Firestein]

No, no, I just. I've been having nightmares recently and just flashes of the past, you know, just. Yeah, like July 4th coming up and.

[Dan Bongino]

Everything is like PTSD from. You mean like Afghanistan?

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, no. I would just keep having nightmares about the July 4th party last year that Gerald had when he kept making everybody watch his football reels from Notre Dame.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes. Yeah, he did the same thing to me in 2020.

[Captain Morgan]

You said you wanted to see the tapes.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, sarcastically like, hey, yeah, we totally want to watch your football reels. And, yeah, your wife's potato salad's amazing.

[Dan Bongino]

No one wants to watch your tapes. Grapes to see you with Your knee. Go. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Here, Josh, hold on a second. Yeah, Try this. This is a CB distillery.

[Captain Morgan]

Can you catch it this year?

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, I cut that.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, it'll help you relax.

[Josh Firestein]

See, I like that. Yeah, it's unlike Gerald when he played Ohio.

[Dan Bongino]

I never get a good night's sleep and get through the July 4th weekend. It's made actually with. It's all lab tested. Premium hemp grown right here in the United States. No fillers. It's not a novelty item like a lot of CBD out there. There's a 4th of July selling at 50 off you using the promo code Rumble. At checkout. Go to cbdistillery.com and use a promo code Rumble.

[Josh Firestein]

So this will help me sleep?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, so.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, I shouldn't take it now then?

[Dan Bongino]

No, you shouldn't take it. No, no, don't do that.

[Josh Firestein]

Put it in mind.

[Dan Bongino]

Take it. If he tries to sit you down in front of the projector and make you watch his tapes again.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, yeah, that'd be. Skip right through it.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, exactly.

[Captain Morgan]

And next time you're going to try to give me a zinger, make sure you realize that Ohio and Ohio State are two different schools.

[Dan Bongino]

Jerk. He got all you. Look at that one. That must.

[Josh Firestein]

Sorry, I kind of have a nightmares.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. He served his country. Yeah, he served his country. What'd you ever do? You're chasing. Not chasing a pig skin over there on a field. He was being shot at by hajis. Huh?

[Gerald]

Okay, big chief.

[Josh Firestein]

I kept looking at Gerald's tight end.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way, best way to. Best way to follow us here is download the Rumble app. Download the Rumble app and follow me on there. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're watching these clips anywhere else, we're live weekdays, 11am Eastern. But we also have some special clips or special live streams and you don't get spammed. Do not be beholden to the algorithms of these other social media ghettos. Here's something that's very telling to me. Another story. All references available links in the description. New Gallup poll shows that American pride is at its lowest in years. But there's more to it than that when you look at this, and it's very telling. So 58% of adults are extremely or very proud to be Americans. That's down nine points from last year. But when you look at the party difference. Okay, I'm gonna do Republicans first. First in 20. Yeah. 2001, I guess. When we're comparing this here, 2001. Are you proud of your country. Republicans 90% today, Republicans 92%.

[Josh Firestein]

Nice.

[Dan Bongino]

Democrats in 2001, 87% Democrats today 36%.

[Captain Morgan]

Wow.

[Josh Firestein]

Holy cow.

[Dan Bongino]

So the entire is Democrats and the entire change is Democrats depending on who is in power. Even when you look at polls that were conducted during Barack Obama and even Joe Biden, you find a much higher rate of proud to be American amongst Republicans. Which when people say the two party system, man, party loyalists. No, no, no, you mean Democrats are party loyalists because if their party is not in power, they don't care about this country. Republicans are still proud of this country. They're not proud of the direction of the country. Country. One group of people, conservative, God fearing, largely Republican Americans love this country regardless of who's in power and one does not. That is what's most telling about this poll. Americans are not less proud. Right now Democrats are moping like whiny little bitches.

[Josh Firestein]

I couldn't have said it better by.

[Captain Morgan]

The way, on that chart. I don't know. Bring that chart back up. The last one that you pulled up. Look where most of the dip happens. Most of the dip happens around the time of Donald Trump. This is a Donald Trump thing. You hate Donald Trump so much that you will literally turn on your country essentially by saying I'm not proud of. That's not completely turning on your country, but might as well be. It's close enough for me.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Captain Morgan]

Where you basically will just throw everything that is good about this country out. And by the way, look at the 16 through 19 years. They were very good years for us other than the ginned up controversies, the things he didn't actually say or the Russia strawman thing that you guys were throwing out there about Donald Trump being I guess a Manchurian candidate or something like that. That none of that actually was true. And you guys bought all of it. Republicans didn't. And you know what? You didn't see a huge spike in Republicans when he came in office. Like we're staying very either way.

[Dan Bongino]

Speaking of hating their own country right now on cnn they're covering environmental groups sued to block controversial new migrant detention center in Florida Everglades. I hope that the environmentalists chain themselves to a tree in a swamp. And it's a self solving problem.

[Captain Morgan]

It really is.

[Dan Bongino]

They don't even want us to deport violent criminals. So in other words, maybe the Democrat pride in America would be higher if we kept more MS.13 members. Think about that.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't even see what's controversial about it, especially for an environmentalist. Yeah, like they are creating a safe haven, you know, environment, a major reserve. Maybe they're feeding these alligators.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And what's so controversial about alligators surrounding a prison? Are you suggesting that they should be allowed to escape?

[Dan Bongino]

Right. I don't understand. That's a very good.

[Josh Firestein]

The alligators aren't dangerous to anybody except for the people who work there, go in and out every day.

[Dan Bongino]

Exactly. And they would have a vested interest in maintaining the health of the alligator population.

[Josh Firestein]

It'd be one thing if they were like, hey, alligator, alligator, alligator. Alcatraz has alligators in the prison. That'd be one thing. There's a swimming pool. Swim at your own risk.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, no, that's absolutely right. I don't think. I don't think they're alligators.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, we could think about it.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't know if they were in the prison, if they'd, like, have separate alligator and crocodile gangs because we often lump them in, but they may see themselves as very different.

[Josh Firestein]

Hey, dog, I ain't no crocodile.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, come on, man.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm an American alligator.

[Dan Bongino]

Let me guess. We all look alike to you?

[Josh Firestein]

Even alligators are more proud to be American than Democrats.

[Dan Bongino]

Yes, they are. Yes, they are.

[Captain Morgan]

They eat American.

[Dan Bongino]

They do sometimes.

[Josh Firestein]

Sometimes they eat.

[Dan Bongino]

You think there's some alligators right there at Disney World? Seeing those two on hover rounds like.

[Josh Firestein]

No, because they. Because they like the chase. That's too easy.

[Dan Bongino]

That's easy. Come on, Carl. It's not even sporting.

[Josh Firestein]

It's all fatty meat.

[Dan Bongino]

Remember how bad you felt after he ate that kid during the fireworks. You're not gonna feel good about yourself. Oh, be proud.

[Josh Firestein]

You're an American alligator, for crying out loud.

[Dan Bongino]

Come on. Come on.

[Josh Firestein]

What does the father think?

[Dan Bongino]

Speaking of people who are proud, I've been wanting to do this segment for a while, and there's a talking with people coming up. Next week we're doing two installments where I noticed a very, very stark contrast between some immigrants. And I discussed the issue of deportation. ICE with Chinese immigrants, Mexican immigrants. And there was a Cuban American who himself was an immigrant, but his parents were. And the contrast between him and Chico, who you'll see who is Mexican, was. It was night and day. And I want to be clear about something here. This is something I've wanted to study for a while. Cuban Americans are the most consistent conservative Republican voting bloc in the United States of America. And as far as consistency, it's not even close. Some of you say I'm biased because, you know, the lady I love is part Cuban. And I've also learned quite a bit about their culture. But this is something I've discussed for a long time. You can go back to me in 2009 and say, okay, what is it that makes them so different? And I think I figured it out. But before I get into that, and I want to lay the case out for you, and maybe it'll. Maybe your American pride will well up inside you when you see this and you see how proud a lot of these people are and how grateful they are for this country. First off, I love Cubans because I find them very funny. Their accent funny, their culture is funny. And I don't think anything crystallizes it better than this genetic freak show. Yoel Romero not giving a rat's ass in his victory speech at a UFC fight.

[Gerald]

I want to say something. Maybe I'm trying English. So sorry. I know the people don't understand me, but I'm trying to.

[Josh Firestein]

Thanks for trying.

[Dan Bongino]

Hey.

[Gerald]

Hey. Usc. Hi, Miami. Hi, Florida. Listen, people, listen, listen, listen. What happened to you? Usa? What happened to you? What's going on? You forget? For the best of the best of the world, the name is Jesus Christ. What happened to you? Wake up. You say go. Go back for you.

[Dan Bongino]

Go.

[Gerald]

Go for Jesus. Not for gay Jesus, people.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, There was some controversy where people thought. He said, not for gay Jesus.

[Captain Morgan]

We watched that live at a Buffalo.

[Gerald]

No for gay Jesus.

[Captain Morgan]

If you say gay Jesus.

[Gerald]

No, I say no for gay Jesus.

[Captain Morgan]

Wait, he's not for gay Jesus.

[Gerald]

I know for gay Jesus. Are you for gay Jesus?

[Captain Morgan]

No, I don't think so.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not for gay Jesus. No. Are you for gay Jesus? I said no.

[Josh Firestein]

Hello. Who's gay Jesus?

[Dan Bongino]

William, I had enough of you.

[Gerald]

We don't allow your people in my place.

[Dan Bongino]

So let me give you some numbers. All references available. You can check the Link in description. 70% of Cuban Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2024. 70% white, isn't it? Yeah. Non Hispanic whites, 55%. Whoa.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, wow.

[Dan Bongino]

Another example, because some people got tricked by about all demographics shifted, but 88% of Cuban Americans voted for Ronald Reagan.

[Josh Firestein]

Dang.

[Dan Bongino]

Just to be clear. Again, a very stark contrast in handling Cuba. So 70% in 2024. 88%. 55% of non Hispanic whites. Why are Cubans different from other Hispanics in this country? I know they're not Latin American, obviously, but we'll just use the term Hispanic here. I have a theory. And then the more research that I did and the more time I spent with some of these people, I Said, okay, that makes sense. So kind of three key points. Number one, they have fled communism, meaning they. They're not coming here to make a little more money like a lot of people from Mexico or some people in South America, they actively fled communism. A government that was persecuting them for their viewpoint, for their political views. And. And this, by the way, happened in recent memory. Right? So you have people here who lived through communism and got away from it. Number two, they have very strong, very patriotic family units and a work ethic in general. So that plays into it. And then point three, and this is something that kind of dawned on me as we were researching this. If you are a Cuban American and you flee communism and you flee the persecution and the executions, and you only see one party here in the United States supporting the root ideology, socialism and communism of the horrors that you fled, you want nothing to do with them. A Cuban American who came here in the 1960s who sees a Che Guevara shirt, how do you think a Jew fleeing Europe if you were wearing a Hitler shirt would feel? And then how do you think that Jew would think if he saw only Democrats wearing Hitler shirts and saying, Hitler was a good guy? Cuban Americans experience when they come here, they do not view Che Guevara as a mascot for a shitty metal rap band. So let me go through these key facts point by point, and it also, I think, gives us a good idea as to when we're talking about which immigrants to accept. Of course, skill is important, but I think we should have a litmus test. I think we should have a litmus test as far as, do you love this country? Is it the greatest country in the world? How, how patriotic we think they'll be, how much we think they'll contribute. So key fact one, again, they've had direct contact with communism. For those of you who don't really know, the Cuban revolution happened in 59, and between 59 and 80, about 375,000 fled to the United States, mostly in Florida. And that revolution, by the way, Che Guevara and then the Castros, and you put them on a crappy little T shirt, these people are living with that memory right now. And Cuba is still a totalitarian dictatorship. So even people who flee other countries, for example, like Vietnam, that has changed where it's not nearly as bad. You have things being produced in Vietnam. No, that's not the same thing with Cuban Americans. And when we talk about the remittance tax, you don't need to worry about Cuban Americans. They don't want to send a dime back up. You know why? Because they know it goes straight to the government. Very, very different. They fled communism. They want nothing to do with it. And they're grateful for the place that provided them the opportunity. And let me explain to you because I've heard so many wealthy, privileged white Americans blame the United States for the rest of the world. Cuba is a pair. It can grow anything. And by the way, they have two of the world's biggest trading partners, in Soviet, Russia and China. So they shouldn't need the United States for any. If communism worked, Cuba would be perfect, to be clear. But let me show you what Cuba actually looks like, despite what Michael Moore tried to sell you and Sicko. And we'll get to that in a second. 90% of Cubans in Cuba, they live in extreme poverty. But you may not understand what that means here in the United States. So imagine someone coming here where they hear people bitching about poverty. And you have people with cable television, cell phones, air conditioning, three bedroom apartment, basic toiletries like soap, toothbrush. They cost 150% of the average monthly income in Cuba.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh my, my gosh.

[Dan Bongino]

And I know I have these people. I've spent quite a bit of time with these people. One lady was a doctor in Cuba and her family would have to trade the bar of soap day to day in each house so they could bathe themselves. Basic food is 325% of the average monthly income in Cuba.

[Josh Firestein]

So you have to make some choices, right?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, you have to make some choices, some hard choices. And we'll get to the strong family units. They communicate this to their children, like you.

[Gerald]

Hey, hey. You complain because you don't get. You have to drive Corolla. I have no soap.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, it's a very hard thing to argue.

[Gerald]

You have toilet paper to wipe your hands, huh? Don't complain.

[Dan Bongino]

So what else do we see in Cuba? Well, you guys talk about persecution here. Let me tell you what that looks like in Cuba. Just in December, Cubans were jailed for protesting the awful living conditions by the government that was added to Cuba's current thousands of political prisoners. Also, extrajudicial killings, torture, still really common in Cuba. What, today? Yeah. From 59 to 2016, 11,000 Cubans were killed under Fidel Castro. And that doesn't include the up to 78,000 who may have died trying to simply flee the regime. And what's so funny here too is when you see socialists like Bernie Sanders or AOC or American socialists or communists, is there are often pot smoking hippies Right. In a drum circle or intelligentsia. The first thing that happens in communist regimes is they get rid of art, is they get rid of free expression. You think that in Stalin's Russia or in Cuba they're gonna keep. It's a labor based ideology. They have no use for artists.

[Josh Firestein]

Cuba doesn't have a Banksy.

[Dan Bongino]

They do not have a Banksy. They actually. The regime censors or bans music that teams subversive at all. So Gloria Estefan songs are censored. To be clear, there were times when people, they came in, if you had a saxophone and you were jailed. So people here who think they'd be living more free because of the redistribution can only take place if you work for the government, period, nonstop. It requires that UBA contribute. Here's something else that you see with Cuban American immigrants. And by the way, if you're Cuban, comment Cuban American here, comment below. And this is what we can use more of. Zero tolerance for American victimhood. I will say it borders on racist.

[Captain Morgan]

But, but, but it's not.

[Dan Bongino]

If you spent. They don't, they don't view Cuban blacks the same way. But American blacks here, they are intimidated 0% when they hear people here complaining. Imagine you couldn't afford a bar of soap. You couldn't afford a can of Spam. If you went out and protest, there's no Black Lives Matter. Some are of Life, Summer of Love protests. If you say, I don't like the government, you disappear forever. And you come here and this is what they'll hear. Someone going, man, I have to. Man, I have to steal to survive.

[Gerald]

Hey, you have soap. You have a floor. You have soap, a floor. If you steal for new sneakers, I can steal because I have no soap, no floor. You choose to be a piece of shit, that's your choice.

[Dan Bongino]

They see people here. Even in the worst case scenario, doesn't matter if you're from East St. Louis, if you're from the worst area of Detroit and they go, my God, you have no idea how good you have it. And they're not coming here to take advantage of America and send the money back. They're coming here to become American. Very different from a lot of other Latin Americans, Mexican Americans. You can even see it in the UFC event.

[Gerald]

Hey, I sorry, I don't speak English.

[Dan Bongino]

But I try, right? Guys who fight from Ecuador, guys who fight from a lot of, they don't.

[Captain Morgan]

Try and speak English at all.

[Dan Bongino]

No, not all Cubans. Cuban Americans speak English, but they certainly try. They want to be American. This brings us to key fact number two here, because you know this, I've talked about this with Gay William, whose mom, you know, every Cuban, I know Cuban American has like three or four jobs, every single one. So they have very strong family units. And in doing research here found out that Cuban Americans often have a three generation family and they don't put their elderly in nursing homes, they often live with them. 78% of Cuban Americans are Christians and that means that they're living in proximity with the next generation. You often don't see this with people who fled other, let's say totalitarian or communist regimes. They often don't educate the next generation. One or two generations removed and they start becoming Democrats or they start becoming socialists because they don't know. Cuban Americans are very loud, boisterous. They're also very hard headed where it doesn't matter if you go, well, actually I think Bernie said, you know, say.

[Gerald]

His name in my place. Socialistics, kill your father, we're not going to talk.

[Dan Bongino]

Socialists get out and they take the hinges off your door so you have no privacy. They're out of their mind. But they make sure, yes, they make sure they're bringing their kids in. With Western values. It's a difference in gratitude versus entitlement. It's a difference in gratitude for the opportunity which by the way, this is unique. Now, now this would have been descriptive of all immigrants, all immigrants up until the middle of the 20th century. Now it really just describes Cubans, Cuban Americans, most people, they're not nearly as grateful as they used to be. All immigrants in the United States used to be very. If you were to ask German, Irish, Polish, Italian, Jewish migrants in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, hey, is this the greatest country in the world? Of course, absolutely. Every single one would answer yes or, or they would have left and gone back because they didn't expect to come here, say that this country wasn't great and stay. Cuban Americans want to be here. They don't want to take the money and send it back. They're seeking America not to take advantage of America. When you talk about work ethic, the average salary in Cuba is about $2,000, $16 a month. Do you have any idea? And this is why again, spending a lot of time with these people, when you explain to them the concept of overtime, they come from a country where you work as long as the government tells you and you get what you get. I have a family member who actually one of their family was a doctor in Cuba, died in the fields on a farm. You farm now, said the government, when they flee that, boy, are they grateful to be able to make more if they work more. We have Americans here, work who bitch about work who bitch. And these people go, wait, wait a second. If I work more, I can make more. Well, then why wouldn't I work more? They typically work harder here in the United States than almost any other immigrant demographic. You literally have to make them go home.

[Gerald]

Hi. Hi. Watch it. I'm trying to do my job.

[Dan Bongino]

And the thing is, Pedro's not even mad. It's just the way he talks.

[Josh Firestein]

No, I was scared, though. I left.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, I get it. We know they're very boisterous people. Compare them to other Hispanic groups. And again, you can check all of these references. Cuban Americans earn, on average 11% more than any other Hispanic group in the United States. Cuban Americans have a far lower unemployment rate rate than not only other Hispanics, but the national average other Hispanic groups. Their unemployment rate is 4.7. National average is 4.23% for Cuban Americans. Wow. I'm not saying that we need to mass import Cuban Americans, but this is a group that we should study. In other words, if we're going to frame our immigration policy, we should look. Wait. Who are the people who are making more, who are contributing more, who are more employed? When compared to other Hispanic immigrant groups, Cuban Americans have less poverty, higher homeownership, more bachelor's degrees, and less crime. As a matter of fact, Little Havana has a lower crime rate than both Florida and the national average at large. And I just say this because they don't view themselves as the rest of Hispanics. They police their own. And by the way, they also don't do this kind of crap.

[Josh Firestein]

Yep, and those are significant differences, too. It's not just like, barely enough, like barely more.

[Dan Bongino]

Right.

[Josh Firestein]

Barely more homeowners, barely more on unemployment rate.

[Dan Bongino]

It's a very stark, huge contrast. And the other thing is, when they've sort of been inoculated because they were raised in communism, a lot of them, or their parents were, and they've been educated about the perils of communism. And so there's a little bit of inoculation that takes place against the Marxism here in the United States. Like identity politics, the cultural Marxism. 86% of Cuban Americans identify as white, even though a lot of them aren't.

[Josh Firestein]

And in 2006, most of them are darker than tan.

[Dan Bongino]

They're darker than tan. 55% of Cuban Americans said that discrimination against Hispanics is not a major problem, meaning a majority. So fewer Cuban Americans said that anti Hispanic prejudice than any other Hispanic group profiled. Again, these are not small differences. And I will tell you this Cuban, they're very hard headed, they're very loud, they're very boisterous because they just don't have time to listen to complaints if they view it as illegitimate. I've noticed that about them. If you're like, well, hey, go work.

[Gerald]

Hard, things will work out for you.

[Dan Bongino]

That's it. That's how they view it. They don't want to listen to your bitching. They view themselves as very, very different from any other Hispanic immigrants. And they're a very intense people where they want to sort of separate themselves. They sort of make everything their own. Just look at their dubbed version of beloved children's cartoons. The ones that they run wise. That little rodent. Here I am, wise guy. Come on out.

[Gerald]

Hey f you. I'm trying to sleep.

[Dan Bongino]

I work hard all day.

[Gerald]

We don't come to this country to be bothered by pussycats like you.

[Dan Bongino]

Okay? Here, just try it.

[Gerald]

I go kill your whole family.

[Dan Bongino]

Mother. They're intense.

[Captain Morgan]

They're not violent unless pushed towards it.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh yeah, they are. They are then. They are. They have no problem stepping in if they view someone as being wronged. Yes. And they don't just go, oh, brown my te. If you were being. If you're being punked by some people of color, okay. And there was a Cuban family and they knew that you were good people. They would, hey, hey, what do you do? You act like animal. And they would go after them. They don't. It's not like World Star, it's their fourth of July. In areas that have a lot of Cuban Americans, it's gaudy. It's just flags and fireworks and just. I've never seen a more proud group of people to be American. That doesn't mean that we mass important because hey, Cuba sucks as a country. But they will tell you that's the big difference too. People from Mexico will tell you, Mexico is good. You know, America is good. They will say Cuba's awful is where.

[Gerald]

Dreams go to die. America is great.

[Dan Bongino]

I love. Right? They do not tell you actually Cuba. They'll say it's beautiful and it's been ruined.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

It's a very different group of people because they appreciate it. Here's another key fact, fact number three, and this one really stands out to me. Cuban Americans can be. They're fleeing communism, they're fleeing socialism. And this is why I say don't interrupt the left when they're making a mistake. They see when they land here, only one party supporting socialism and communism. And here's the thing, for white people to argue this. White liberals, you have to argue that Cuban Americans are stupid. That's the only argument you can make. You have to argue they don't know it's different. They don't know what social. They don't know what democratic socialism is. Maybe they do, and the people who lived it, maybe you don't. So they see one group, Democrats, liberals, supporting the root cause of the absolute horrors that they fled. And they go, who's that?

[Gerald]

I'm not with that guy.

[Dan Bongino]

Here you go. Imagine you come here from communism and you see that.

[Josh Firestein]

And so now, after all these years.

[Dan Bongino]

One thing is clear. The Cuban people have free universal health care. Thanks, Michael Moore. They become known around the world as having not only one of the best health care systems, but as being one of the most generous countries in providing doctors and medical equipment to third world countries. Didn't ask any talking, of course, but hip hop mogul and his songbird wife, Jay Z and Beyonce. So last week, the fun couple were trailed by pop culture through the streets of Havana. The two were celebrating their fifth anniversary.

[Captain Morgan]

You may recall way back in, what.

[Dan Bongino]

Was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba and everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world. All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them health care.

[Captain Morgan]

Totally transformed the society, right?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Benidos, Cuba.

[Captain Morgan]

Hello.

[Josh Firestein]

Yo. He's impressed. Yo soy Conan o' Brien.

[Dan Bongino]

That's all the Spanish I can really memorize.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, you got it. Hola. There you go.

[Dan Bongino]

There you go. It was hollow.

[Josh Firestein]

Are these Cubans cheering for an American president?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah. Hi.

[Gerald]

I hear rumor he's going to shoot.

[Dan Bongino]

Fidel, take us back. And they're just waiting and he leaves.

[Gerald]

He's gone now. He do nothing. No touch you.

[Dan Bongino]

So I'm telling you, believe me. And please comment below if you have an experience. And I'm not saying that they're perfect. They can be obnoxious and loud and boisterous. Let me give you a more extensive list. Barack Obama visited Cuba in 2016, right? He canceled the wet foot, dry foot policy that allowed Cubans to flee the United States. And he did this before Cuba had really reformed anything. Ilhan, Omar, Pramila, Jayapal. In 2024, they went on a secret trip to Cuba, met with Cuban officials. I know you're saying, just a few examples. Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, they visited Cuba as Special guests of Fidel Castro in 91 and talked about how he wasn't all that bad. Michael Moore, right. He brought Americans to a Cuban hospital for a PR stunt in that movie. Sicko. Robert Redford traveled in 2000, 2004 to present the movie the Motorcycle Diaries to Che Guevara's family. A totalitarian dictator who would have committed genocide if he wasn't such a retard. Steven Spielberg was critical of US sanctions on Cuba. You know who's not most? Cuban Americans. He met with Fidel Castro for eight hours in 2002 during a visit. Katy Perry went in 2015 and said this. She said, it's Disneyland for creatives minds. Yeah, till they jail you for playing the trumpet, you stupid bitch. Danny Glover visited the country a bunch of times, advocated for the release of 5Q Cuban spies caught in the United States. And then Bob Dylan's first broad, Susie Rotolo. She met with che Guevara in 1964. And I remember her saying, what they're telling you is not actually accurate. You are fine to protest so long as you do it properly. And they don't mean nonviolently. They mean you can't protest the government. And then the prick in chief himself, Tom Morello, rage against the machine. While using Che Grande Guevara as the mascot. This guy wrote a lengthy eulogy for Fidel Castro. So here's one thing. Most people don't know who Che Guevara is. You can go back to our great diktoff that we did on dictators throughout history. Che Guevara. If you're a Cuban and you come to the United States and you see a Che Guevara T shirt. Death like a Jew coming to the United States Post World War II, seeing Hitler on a shirt.

[Josh Firestein]

Fidel Castro's eulogy shouldn't have been longer than a hot.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gerald]

Oh, you know to write.

[Dan Bongino]

I help. I write.

[Gerald]

Oh, Fidela, so sorry. Fuck you.

[Josh Firestein]

They couldn't get a Cuban to write it, right?

[Dan Bongino]

No, exactly. They couldn't get a Cuban to write it. And they go, no, Che Guevara. It's just. It wasn't implemented properly. It wasn't. And then they. But then they could remove themselves from Fidel Castro and we know what he's done. And they still have to praise Fidel Castro.

[Captain Morgan]

What if they see this shirt? They're not gonna think this is.

[Dan Bongino]

I designed that shirt when I was 14 years old because I had Cuban immigrant friends who educated me on Che Guevara. It is remarkable. Yeah, you can go get [e-mail] and YouTube said, we're not allowed to sell that shirt. Just imagine. Do you guys know Che Guevara? To give you an idea, not only was he racist, not only was he justice homophobic, not only was he anti artist. To be clear, in 64 he told the UN General assembly that executions, by the way, that were taking place without trial would completely continue unabated. He said, we must say here something that is well known truth that we have always asserted before the whole world. Executions. Yes, we have executed people. We are executing people and shall continue to execute people as long as it is necessary. Well, guess how long it's necessary according to people like Che Guevara. As long as anyone protests what they were doing, right? And so Cuban Americans get here, they flee that they're grateful to be here, and they see a bunch of entitled piss ants who aren't, who wear the face of the man who turned their country into a totalitarian hellhole, killed their relatives, and then they become the most consistent conservative Republican voting bloc in this country with higher incomes, higher levels of education, lower levels of poverty, lower levels of crime than their state or country at large. Now, the problem is most people don't want to say this because we want to go. Oh, everyone's, everyone's saying, right? Immigrants who want to come here. No, no, hold on a second. Are they not seeking a better life anymore than Mexican Americans? Okay, why do they make more? Why do they work more? Why do they have lower crime? Why can't we ask these? Oh, is it racist? Aren't both Hispanic? And by the way, this applies to black Cuban immigrants too. Plenty of those there, if you guys don't know. Cubans just don't really view them. They just view them as cub Cuban Americans. They have a problem with black Americans because they have a problem with Black Lives Matter. They have a problem with entitlement. They have zero tolerance for antifa. They have zero tolerance for someone who's wearing a Che Guevara shirt. Not saying that any culture is perfect. What I am saying is that when people try and throw at you, oh, you must be racist because it's the color of their skin. No, no, they're not all the same. And Cuban Americans will tell you right away that they are not all the same. And in doing this, talking with people on the street, that you will see in the coming weeks, next Monday, I believe, and then another installment the Monday after that, it's pretty clear to see Cuban American, Mexican American, who do you want in your country? What do you mean, your people?

[Josh Firestein]

My people are Mexican.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm Mexican.

[Chico]

In 1963, my dad came here on a banana boat. My mom became American since in 1988. My mom had.

[Dan Bongino]

She's Cuban. Yes.

[Chico]

And growing up our whole lives in Los Angeles, California, survival, Surrounded by a lot of immigrants, surrounded by a lot of, you know, ethnicities, surrounded by a lot of culture. They still said, it doesn't matter what that Sundays. You're still 100% American. The country comes first.

[Dan Bongino]

Is America the greatest country in the world?

[Josh Firestein]

Yes and no.

[Dan Bongino]

That's the big difference when people talk about we're a nation of immigrants. And that's true. But, you know, the Italians, the Irish, the Poles, but all those people came to this country, and every single one would say, I came to the greatest country in the world, and I'm grateful to be here. And if not, they went back and left. This is the first generation of people who come here and say, yeah, but it's not that great.

[Chico]

I mean, they understand what they left and they understand what they're gaining.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Chico]

And they're willing to put in the effort and the work into what they're gaining versus what they never had.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Chico]

And I think that's really good. You know, it's the only country that we know of that nobody wants to leave, but they want to talk as much crap as they want about it.

[Dan Bongino]

I know. What's your duty to this country? I guess no.

[Josh Firestein]

Broke the law, work hard.

[Dan Bongino]

Maybe when we go premier, the papers. Yeah. He guesses. And maybe if they give him the papers. Oh, so Cuban Americans. The answer is, like my parents said, they owe this country everything.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

Literally everything.

[Josh Firestein]

Maybe if they give me the papers.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

How about I rip up your freaking papers?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, you know, oh, here's one paper. It's a Greyhound ticket.

[Dan Bongino]

That's exactly. I told him. Oh, if you don't think it's. We don't want you here. Why? Yeah, we don't want you here. Here's the other thing that I will say. He didn't view it as racist. He understood. He understood my point of view, and it was respectful. But we don't want you here. That's where I am now. If you don't want to be here, we don't want you here. How do I know if you want to be here? You say, this is the greatest country in the world. Otherwise, go to that country. Speaking of papers, I know that many of you out there are. Now, we're going to continue, of course, on Rumble Premium But I know that many of you are not yet Rumble Premium members and sometimes it's a little bit tough to do. And so it's time. Well, hold on. Be ready. It's time for Reverse Super Chat. So you've heard of Super Chat where it's like you send in money. We don't do that here. You can either join or not. But we do Reverse Super Chat where we give you free stuff.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Captain Morgan]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Captain Morgan]

Just hit it.