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The Dan Bongino Show
Earthquake in California? (Ep. 2528)
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In this episode, I debrief the partial results of last night's elections in California and around the country. Plus, a viral moment involving Secretary Rubio and a strange and disgusting story out of NYC.
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All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Oh my gosh. Holy Moses. What happened in California yesterday? The answer is we don't know because California runs its elections like a third world country. Justin said they're expecting results in about six months, but then the general elections do get a bit. Exactly. Well, maybe not six months, but bad enough the other way it's center up. I don't like being too far from the flag. We got a special guest in the studio today. The almighty Lucy is here. Killer attack dog like Cujo. If you've seen Lucy, you get the joke. I didn't have the heart to leave the dog alone. I didn't have the heart to leave the dog alone. Today she was looking at me and we got some people like doing work around the house and all and she can like hang out with them, but she misses me and I had to bring her in the studio. I felt bad, you know, I never thought I'd be a dog person, but you know how it is, you get a dog and you become a dog person. It's like by osmosis. Folks, I said to you yesterday I was going to put together a collage. Well, not me, but the guys of liberals fleeing blue states. Given everything that happened in California, they said the guys came through in a clutch. He. Here it is. Justin, can we put this out on your Twitter? Here it is. In case for all the liberals out there saying no. These blue utopias everybody loves big government, welfare states, nanny states, mom, dummy, Communism, Lenin, Stalin, all of it, really. Experts. Project New York to lose two congressional seats in 2030. Got the blues New York, California lose combined six House seats after the census. Los Angeles needs nation and massive population exodus as breaking point hits golden state. California's population plummets for the first time since the pandemic as LA sees a staggering exodus. These places. Oh, there's more. Blue states have bled 2 trillion in wealth to red states. California loses 500,000 residents in two years. L A leads nation in massive population Exodus Folks, if your blue utopias are so freaking wonderful, then why is the greatest thing about your blue utopia how quickly you can escape a. I'm not sure. Can you please explain this to me? Listen Libs, for a moment, try to take the cotton like you know, out of your ears and put it in your mouth and just listen to me for a second. Why are you constantly telling us how wonderful your places are despite the fact that all people want to do is escape your places where you're in charge. Does that make any sense? Those are actual headlines. Some of them are from left leaning outlets. Sorry, I've got a lot of energy today. California even despite what looks like is going to be a mail in ballot disaster. I'm still optimistic about what I saw last night and I'm happy today because another big thank you to you, the Bongino army that despite being away for a year, despite the news environment being up and down, despite all the internal fighting, the Bongino army continues to produce. Thank you so much. Roadman is a great account to follow on X the podcast index for news podcasts. There you go. The Dan Bongino show again. Despite being away for a year, number eight in the top ten. Thank you so much. Now here's why this is interesting because it doesn't even factor in Rumble and that's probably 60 to 70% of our audience. It's Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon. Folks. Our video is exclusive to Rumble. The fact that we continue to perform well on these entities, Spotify, Apple, despite the video not even being there is freaking amazing. And a big hat tip to you. If this thing factored in Rumble, we'd probably be even higher. That's where our audience is. We're exclusive to video here. The audio product is over there. Thank you Bongino Army. You guys and ladies are terrific. We love you. Hey. Many Americans try weight loss shots but quit due to either cost or side effects or some of them just don't like injections. Instead, I chose lean when I needed to lose some weight from Brickhouse Nutrition. I lost over 30 pounds. No needles, no prescriptions. Go to brickhouse nutrition.com Dan use code Dan for 20% off. Try lean today. Results very not FDA approved. Today's show also brought to you by Birch Gold. I'm an investor in gold. Have been for a long time. You ever feel like the talking heads keep saying the economy's fine, but your grocery bill says something different? The economists and bureaucrats tell you inflation's under control. Then they fill up the gas tank. You fill up the gas tank, pay the insurance bill. You look at your retirement, think, hey, something ain't right. The same dollars don't seem to stretch as far. 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The leaf blower guy outside the studio. Did you hear that, folks in the chat? Did you guys catch that? Coming over the. It is a live show. So who said Michael Silverman chat. Lucy. Yes, Lucy is here. She. Did you hear it? Stop. Yeah, Jay Clovin. Stop the effing leaf. But wow, he's really mad about the leap. Oh my gosh. Poor guy's like working for. He's just blowing some leaves. Yeah, no. And yeah. See, everyone else says they didn't hear it. Okay, good. Nope, nope, nope. See, it is a live show. That mega chip. No thanks, guys. So thank you again to the Bongino army. And I've got a sneaking suspicion as to why the show continues to overperform despite significant obstacles. We have no mainstream media attachment whatsoever for the podcast. We own it. It's ours. We have a sales agent. But it's our product. The reason is, folks, we get you the truth and we bring you results. And if we mess something up, we tell you about it. But on the air 10 years, we've had a couple of flubs. We corrected them, we move on. The mainstream media cannot do that. You know that. Hello, Captain Obvious. I saw this tweet by Christina Wong yesterday. Made me laugh. Trust in the media. Trust in the media. Look at this. Justin, can you expand that a little bit? Because my eyes are terrible. Oh. All I know is the line goes down and down and down and down. If you were doing median mode analysis of central tendency and a regression line, that thing is going down a lot. The percentage of Americans who have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the mass media is down a staggering phenomenal 53 points from 1972 to. To 2025 and is now down at 19% think about that. Less than one in five people believe you're getting the facts from a journalistic media enterprise whose only freaking job is to get you the facts. And you wonder why shows like this continue to overperform, kick ass and take names. That's why media people, in some limited circles you would call this a clue that that less than one in five people thinks they can trust you do. Is this not a wake up call? Is this not a Remember Beavis about it? Kick me in the Jimmy. Is this not a kick in the nuts? How do you not see this? What, Andy? What is that a master's hat on? You have a golf or something like that? Imagine going to a golf course where only one in five people think the golf course is actually constructed white and gives you an honest score. No one would go to the golf course. They would fix the golf course. Hey, there's too many whatever divots. I don't know. I don't play golf. However, I just saw his golf hat on. Nobody would go back. You'd have to fix it. The media gives zero Fs. They don't care. They lie. They love to lie. They make no apologies for lying. They continue to lie. And you're seeing it now. I promise I'm going to get to California. But I got so much. The reason California happened the way it happened yesterday, the despite you being told that there's going to be a blue wave this year is precisely because the media has been covering up California's problems forever. I've never seen a more apropos story for this corrosive low level of trust in the media than what's happening at 61 minutes right now. Remember 61 minutes? They added a minute for you guys. Remember that in the chat. That's a hardcore P1 thing. 61 Minutes has this anchor, Scott Pelley. So they hired new leadership at CBS that's trying to make the network not crazy, which is really hard to make a major, you know, a major broadcast network like NBC, CBS or ABC not crazy. Why, guys? Because they've been doing decades of crazy. Because they're crazy. And you know, telling crazy people that they're crazy is usually not easy. Okay, so Scott Pelly is one of the craziest left wing anchors on tv. So it looks like he may be getting canned. Here's Scott Pelley and they think the left thinks this is journalism here. He was interviewing Moms for Liberty, a great group out there trying to do the right thing to bring some sanity to the education system and I want you to listen to these questions and you tell me if this is independent journalism we should trust or hackery and hence why 1 in 5Americans don't trust the media. Check this out. Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology. What ideology are they being indoctrinated into? Let's just say children in America cannot read. They often dodged questions with talking points. You're being evasive. 21% of students are reading unique being evasive. What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear? I think parents fears are realized. They're looking at these books where sexual discussions are happening with their children at younger and younger ages. Your critics say that you have an anti gay ideology. That is false. That is false. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have gay members. I think it's an effort to really try to marginalize us as an organization because parents are coming together across racial lines, across religious lines, across all of these different ways that we see Americans being divided. These guys are laughing inside. They're like, Justin's actually like this is considered a media interview. What indoctrination are you talking about? Gee, I don't know. They're giving kids books that depict like oral sex to a bunch of kids who are not even teenagers yet. Not even. But no, no, you definitely hate gays. Like, we should be teaching kids how to engage in various sexual activities in a. Wait, what? This is why you saw what happened in California last night. Because you can't tell a bunch of California Los Angeles parents, hey, there's no drug homelessness problem. The fentanyl floppers. There's no problem with indoctrination in schools when these parents are seeing these books come home and it's like, hey, here's how to perform this specific sexual activity. It's not the freaking Karma Sutra. It's kindergarten. Nobody believes you guys in the media anymore. If they believed you last night, Karen Bass would have ended the night with 51% of votes. She's the freaking mayor, folks. Do you know how hard it is to beat an incumbent in a blue city? To beat an incumbent, to have. She should have cleaned up and got 51% of the vote last night. She didn't. She barely edged out as of this morning, Spencer Pratt, who's running as a Republican in a total train wreck for Californians now. Caveat emp. Door man. Buyer beware, amigos. This is California with mass mail in balloting, which put up the New York Times piece, if you would if you trust mail in balloting, you're an idiot. Now I get it. The lefties are going to be election denier. You can take the double barrel middle finger and take both of them and write up your. Let's go back to the New York Times. The New York Times, the left wing New York Times calling out mail in balloting. Yes, I want you all stop what you're doing, go to your phones and look, especially if you're listening on Apple or Spotify. Okay. And thank you for following us there. I want you to tap this, type this. Excuse me, into your search engine error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises. Put it in quotes. Oh, look what pops up on your phone. A New York Times article by Adam Liptak. Yet votes cast by mail, they note in the New York Times, are less, less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth. Statistics show. Oh my gosh, that is correct. That's bananas. Election officials reject almost 2% of ballots cash by cast by mail. Double the rate for in person voting. That says double, Justin. So if you're in person voting and if you choose to vote by mail, there's twice the chance that it's fraudulent. That's what it says, even says in the article. Statistics show it says it right there. Right? Statistics show they interview this guy as election official, Mr. Sancho, who's famous on this show. We love you, Mr. Sancho, wherever you are. Quote, the more people you force to vote by mail, the more invalid ballots you will generate. This is the New York Times. New York Times. That's the New York Times, not the New York Post. That's left wing New York Times. Crazy how they used to hate mail in balloting until they figured it would work for them and now they love it. Oh no. Fraud, California. And I'll bring this up with Vince Colonnades later. We interview Vince every other Wednesday. Excellent host in his own right. When you combine mail and balloting, mass mail out balloting, in other words, everyone gets one in the mail. Everyone. And then ballot harvesting, where Joey Bag of Donuts can show up and grab your ballot from you. You don't know what they're doing with it. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got a witch's brew for fraud. That's just a fact. New York Times acknowledged it themselves. We. This article has become a running joke on the show. You know why? Because it's not funny. Because it's real. I said to the guys this morning, can you Guys pull that. They go. We know the New York Times are. It's in the Evergreen file. Right, that just like that. Because I love when left wingers. You should keep that screenshot on your phone. When left wingers go. You guys are exaggerating the problem really Is the New York Times exaggerating the problem too. So good news last night was an earthquake in California even despite what we know is going to be some amount of fraud. Thank you. You should save that. I like that. This is despite what we know is is going to be a statistic show a good amount of mail in balloting fraud. The Democrats still underperformed dramatically last night. Let's go. As Warner Wolfe used to say to the videotape, you grew up in New York. Here is NBC last night basically admitting what I'm telling you. NBC was this. Is this Kornacki from NBC? Here he is talking about everybody hold but Braveheart style hold. Because the mail in ballots, you know, things could change dramatically. Even though Spencer Pratt got roughly a third of the vote, he's not wrong because you can't trust mail in ballots. Check this out.
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Place update's not going to be huge. So if we largely have half the vote to come and it's going to be vote by mail and you've already given me now they've had three subsequent vote by mail updates. They're not huge, but they're not nothing. The pattern in them is Bass first, Rahman second, Pratt distant, distant third. Right. If that were to be the pattern with the remaining vote by mail, that's going to come in in days following the election. If it's 39, 36, 33, 20, something like that, which is what you're telling me these three roughly have been.
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She could erase that.
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Folks, this is why I'm. I'm giving you the good news, bad news. Now I know this is a hard conversation, but as I said to you yesterday, please listen to me here. This is very serious. I know it's a hard conversation, but I mentioned yesterday how the essence of conservatism being a conservative is having to tell people hard truths. We're not liberals. We don't make shit up. Defund the police, wear your mask. COVID vaccine is fantastic. We don't lie to people because it sounds cute. Okay, Okay. I don't want you to take this as an excuse not to vote. We don't have a choice. It's the system. In California we are stuck with because of Blue State madness. There is still a good chance he could finish in the top two. But this may be the one time I agree with, you know. Msdoc. What is it? Msnow Doc? Abc? Who the hell knows what it is now? This is one of the few times I agree with them that given the prevalence of fraud and errors in mail and balloting because of all the obstacle points to a clean election, I wouldn't be surprised if these vote counts over the next 10 days. 10 days. This is like a freaking third world country. In California the election should be done at 9 o' clock local time. The latest and the results should be in based on digital counting and all that. So the results should be in by 11. It should be over. We got to wait 10 days. This is third world bullshit. I don't trust it. I don't trust it at all. You already saw the New York Times article. However, here's the good news because this regardless of what happens going forward and we will obviously intensely follow it regardless. Folks, there was a massive electoral earthquake last night. I told you the reason it is important. Even if, and I hope they don't, but even if Spencer Pratt and in the LA Mayor's race and Steve Hilton, the Republican running in the Governor's race who was leading right now at the time of this live show in the morning, okay, even if they don't win in a general election runoff, okay, against their Democrats, Karen Bass and whoever Bakaria or Tom Stier, they need to be on the ballot because when you have a strong Republican on the ballot, even if they lose the they draw Republicans to vote who then vote down ballot for other Republican candidates too. Do you see what I'm saying? If you have a candidate, Joey Bag of Donuts running three, four lines down the top of the ticket is going to be the Governor's race, okay? Then you're going to see they call it down ballot as you go down. Again, if there's a congressional race in California that's competitive and there are a lot of them, there are Republicans receipts in California Republicans. If there's no Republican at the top of the ticket because it's too crazy, Democrats are just not going to show up. I'll prove it to you right now. Look what happened last night. I'm going to play this clip. This is Kevin Cork at Fox on the big board over there. He's talking about how look at what Steve Hilton did in la. Steve Hilton's running for Governor, not for LA mayor. Exactly. That's my point. Spencer Pratt drew so many people in into the LA election who voted for the Governor's race because they're California residents too. Obviously that even Hilton overperformed. We got to get these two guys on the ballot or we're going to lose congressional seats too. Check this out.
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Shocking. That's the only thing I can think of. But Sarah. 29. Look at that. Steve Hilton, 215,000 votes in Los Angeles County. That should tell you a lot about how a lot of people feel in the Southland about how things have been going and, and what they feel like might be the proper way to move forward. I'm gobsmacked by that number. Just for some perspective, let me share again, Orange county, this is what you would anticipate, right? 34 to 23, 16 for Tom Steyer. If you're Steve Hilton, you've got to be loving the fact that you're at 25% up in Santa Barbara County. But here's what I really wanted to draw your attention to. Sacramento County. Look at this. Now it's a government town. You know that Trace. So you would expect that Javier Becerra would do very, very well. Hilton well back, but not as far back as some people might have anticipated. But let me share this. If you go in and around Sac, boy, does Hilton really start to pick up numbers. And it's consistent right there. 36, 23. Pop over to Nevada again, same thing, 33, 21. It's going to be a very interesting night for Steve Hilton and I imagine for a lot of people who didn't anticipate he would do as well as he is doing.
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Trey, folks, listen to your brother Dan. I cannot emphasize in strong enough vocabulary here. If you do not have a Republican on the runoff race in November, the House of Representatives could fall to the Democrats just based on that. There are enough swingy seats in California. It could go down if no Republicans show up because they have no one at the top of the ticket to run for that. We could lose the House based on what happens with Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt. I'm not kidding. Why do you think national Republicans have such an interest in this race? Why do you think Republicans in Nebraska talking about party officials are so interested in what's happening in California? Because the whole nation's House of Representatives that votes on national international issues could revolve on what happens at the top of the ticket. I can't emphasize enough how important this is. I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to get back to this. I love it, by the way, when these liberal left wing outlets go out and do these man or Woman on the street interviews and they ask people questions and they don't get the answer they want. Hey, why did you vote? Why do you like that Spencer Pratt? The way to go? No, I don't like him. I hate him. Reality tv, no experience, effing things up or whatever. I love his line on that. You have no experience. He goes, yes, you're right, I have no experience screwing things up. Yes, good answer. CNN didn't get the answer they wanted. Then I've got another. Something weird happened at the Pratt event, the election night event. Did you see it? The glasses guy. Just. I don't know who this guy is. I got that coming up in a minute. Quick break. Hey, if you were a fan of the show in the last few years, you know my next sponsor, Beam B E A M. You know I've had issues sleeping in the past. I was always looking for a good product. I took it every night while I was away. Didn't matter what I was doing. It helps me sleep. It gets, it gets me some more deep sleep, which is important. Here's why. Before, dream sleep just didn't happen as easily. I had a tough time calming down from the day. Especially when I was doing late night media hits, Tossing, turning, dragging through the next day on caffeine. No good sleep is the ultimate life hack number one. Everything else a distant second. Now with dream, I sleep through the night, wake up clear headed and energized. Dream has a really powerful blend of all natural ingredients. Reishi, magnesium, L theanine, which I really love. Apigenin and melatonin. And it tastes incredible. Chocolate peanut butter is my go to flavor. I'm not alone either. Beam's improved over 28 million nights of sleep nationwide. That's a big number. Now that I'm back with Beam, I'm glad to be able to offer you all a nice discount again. Go to shopbeam.com bongino use code bongino and get my exclusive offer for up to 40% off Beam's dream Powder. That's with my discount code Bongino you can get their best selling dream powder for 40% off. Now's the season to show up strong, get a good night's sleep. Do it with something made by Americans for Americans. Do it with Dream. Shopbeam.com Bongino code Bongino take today's show. Also brought to you by. I don't know about you, but I'm a meat eater. I love me some steaks. I love some steaks. Steaks like the ultimate superfood for me, summer's almost here. It means warmer temperatures, trips to the pool and grilling in the backyard. And of course, father's Day on June 21st. Let's be honest, dad doesn't want another tire. Watch. Got enough? He wants a tender, juicy, delicious taste of his favorite steak, grilled to perfection. I like crust on it. That's why me from Omaha Steak. Such a great Father's Day gift. At my house, grilling is serious business. Justin's too. This year, surprise your dad with a premium Omaha steaks package. Do it, Justin. You can have the steak too, because it makes the whole day feel special and effortless. Omaha Steaks delivers premium meats for premium dads. Every steak is flash frozen and vacuum sealed at peak freshness so it tastes incredible when you open it and slap it on that grill. Plus, having high quality steaks on hand is just convenient for any summer cookout. This Father's Day, give the dads in your life something to savor. World famous Omaha Steaks. Go to Omaha Steaks.com get an extra $35 off with promo code BONGINO at checkout. That's OmahaSteaks.com get an extra 35 off with promo code BONGINO@ checkout. Terms apply. See Omaha Steaks.com for the tails. Get yourself some deliciousness with Omaha steak. Okay, so this happened on cnn. I love man on the streets, especially when they turn out the wrong way for left wing outlets. CNN interviews a woman. Hey, what's up with this Spencer Pratt? This is a great answer. Check this out. He's. He's a person. He's. He lives here.
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He knows what goes on.
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What do you think about Pratt's unconventional approach?
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I love it.
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What is it that you love about him? He's another Trump. You hear the contempt? Did you hear it, Justin? Everybody, what is it that you love about it? And it all goes all Scott Pelley. He's unconventional, just like Trump. I said that. Listen, they may not share a lot of policy prescriptions together, and I'm telling you, you got to sometimes don't make the perfect the enemy the good. If you can get a candidate like Spencer Pratt under the Republican banner who he's not going to be able to run as a traditional Tea party candidate. The numbers just don't favor him. But if he can hyperlocalize a race and focus on L A and L A s problems, folks will take it. I told you, even if you come out of this and go, I don't like Spencer Pratt at all, you're a Republican, Sandy. I don't like Spencer Pratt at all. I want a more, you know, right leaning guy. Fine. You folks, you got to show up and vote because again, if you don't get him on the ballot, you, we're going to lose races in California everywhere from, you know, SoCal to Northern California. It's going to screw up the whole national scene for you, too. Here's the video I was talking about. Something really weird happened at the rally last. He's got this guy behind him over his left shoulder. I don't know, maybe it's a Secret Service guy in me that notices this. He always, like, hyper attentive to surroundings and what we call, you know, arm's reach. You know, within the. When you're doing concentric rings of security around a protectee, anyone within arm's reach gets an extra level of vetting because you're within arm's reach. You can punch them, stab them, do whatever. This guy behind him, I don't know. I'm not saying it was a security threat. It's just awfully weird. Play this cut and I'll show you what happened. The city's failing most of Los Angeles. And now I'm in all these communities and I'm hearing everyone's issues.
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Excuse me, sir.
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You know. Yeah, thank you. Looks like Pratt knows something's up, moves away. And then you see, like the frame, there's the guy in the background again. Like, who is this guy? You see him over the left shoulder. Pratt's still doing the interview. Then you see, like, he disappears. I don't know if it was some security problem, but clearly his antenna went up. So I noticed that last night. Again, maybe it's just a remnant of, of the prior Secret Service background and anything Arm Reach program. And you got to. You got to be careful when you put someone within arm's reach of these guys. You see the guy over there? You see, he noticed something's up. And then I don't know if that's a security guy or staffer, but who knows? Could have been a friendly, but just something I picked up on. I love to throw these little things into the show. Okay. On the bigger picture, here's the good news. The doomers, the black pillar, they're all over. It's finished. We're going to lose. We're going to lose if you keep talking shit like we're going to lose. Stop blackpilling. People show up. Bring 10 people and we've got a shot. That's all I can ask for. No President does well in midterm elections. It rarely happens unless there's some global catastrophe which we don't want and some unifying incident. Okay, let's just be clear on that. However, on the margin it matters if we can preserve the House even by one or two House of Representatives seats and win back the Senate, or win the Senate even just lose the House by a little bit, which I'm not saying we want to, but it matters, then we're okay. We are not in the catastrophic position you think we're in. Here's CNN acknowledging this very fact that the slate of Democrat candidates running for the US Senate between Nazi tattoo guy Hassan piker ass kissing Abdul Al said in Michigan, this awful, awful slate of candidates all around the country. Talafrico who's running in freaking Texas is like a vegan 6 genders guy. I can't say this in Texas. I'm not even sure that's going to pass in Illinois, Texas. And you saw the picture of him the other day. Talofrico puts the cowboy hat on. Hey, look at me, I got the cowboy hat. Guys, ladies, you know how many times people have asked me to put like a cowboy hat on? You know why I don't do it? I love cowboy hats. But I mean unless it's like a costume or something at a Halloween party, I'm a New York guy, I wore baseball hats. I, I love cowboy hats. I think they're really cool. But I just don't want to be a poser. Talafrico. I think I'm more Texas than Talafrico and I freaking grew up in New York. This is their slate of candidates. Even CNN now is starting to acknowledge like hey, if you guys show up and vote in the Republican side, you got a pretty damn good chance of a successful night. It's not me saying it, it's them saying it. So don't let the doomers get in your melon there. Check this out back two months ago
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it was about a 5050 split right now Republicans again, it's close but Republicans
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are now slightly favored to take back
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the Senate, no doubt in part because of what is going on in Maine. Which just makes that path, which is
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already difficult, a little bit more treacherous.
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This feels like a platner tax right now in those overall stances to take the Senate.
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Folks, the Democrat Party, the Democrat party has completely lost its mind. While there's always intra party bickering on the right and I listen a lot of it is healthy. I said over and over, you've got the Iran crisis doomers out there. Things are as if the Iranians were enchanting. Death to America and we didn't wipe out the entire mullerocracy screaming this is the end. These are on our side. I get it. I believe me, I understand. I am not a huge fan of foreign interventions either. Having seen some different things, I have a different opinion. You're entitled to yours. I however, stop with the doomerism. You're going to vote for the Nazi tattoo guy, the fake vegan six gender guy, the Abu al Syed Doel El Sayed guy in Michigan running with Hasan Piker 10-7-Rape. I'm really going to change my mind or this guy put up the tweet from Libs a TikTok. This actually happened last night. Hat tip chai over there. Democrats just voted for Egyptian born Adam Hammami Hamawi for Congress. Listen to this guy's resume. He volunteered for a nonprofit which was discovered to be a front for Al Qaeda. According to Libs of TikTok lied under oath as a defense witness for an Islamic terrorist. Has close ties to Islamic terrorists who plotted to bomb the United States. China knows we have a major problem. Yeah. By the way, if you go to FOIA fan on X you you'll see they have the transcripts from the court case this guy was involved with with the Blind Sheikh. You can read them yourself. Democrats just voted for this guy to go to Congress. Folks, regardless of our internal fights which are healthy about tax policy, tariffs, abortion, guns, you only have two choices. Our side, which can continue to kind of move our party in a better direction and definitely wants to make America great again even if there's internal fights on how to get there. Or you can vote for people who supported like the Blind Shake, have Nazi tattoos and believe in six genders. That's it. I'm sorry. Call me a realist, a transactionalist, I don't really care. I said this over and over. What is your plan? What is your plan? The doomers and the gloomers all the time. Your plans to vote for what? Sit it out, let the terrorists take over. I can't. I can't with that shit. It drives me freaking bananas. You have no. You're. You're playing up to the left wing utopia fallacy that one day we're going to get this slate of perfect candidates that subscribes exactly to your ideological world beliefs. It's never going to happen. You're never going to vote ever. And of course we have the nothing is happening crowd which is just sickening at this point. I mean, when is this going to get, like, embarrassing for you all? I mean, at some point. I saw it again yesterday. Creep it up. We've made a joke about it on this joke because I think it's hilarious. And it goes to show you, after we saw what happened in these primary races and, and Trump's support in the primaries, a little bit of a setback last night. One candidate lost. I'll take 37 and one. That's still unprecedented for Trump endorsements. I think it was out of Iowa. Trump candidate just barely lost. He's 37 and 1. But nothing is happening. Crowds become a joke. You're a laughingstock. Nobody believes you. The success of this show, the success of the continued MAGA movement. Here's nothing is happening that happened yesterday from the FBI thing. News alert out of FBI Detroit. Two researchers with the NIH were charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the US and giving false statements to federal law firms. That sounds kind of serious. That sounds kind of serious. Another entry into the happening and the nothing is happening file scoop. Matt Boyle, FBI Director Patel is announcing Operation Summer Heat 2.0. Last year's Summer Heat, led by yours truly, will now be led by others, resulted in the following. They go through the numbers, folks. We left you the safest United States in US in modern US History. That's just a fact. It was not an accident. It was not a remnant of the Biden administration. It was Donald Trump's administration saying, clean up the damn streets. That's happening. That matters. People are alive right now because of a commitment to law enforcement. Now, you occasionally just, you know, I'm still friendly with, with some of the new team over there at the FBI. I will have chats with them about stuff and just bring stuff up. And I asked one of the leaders over there leading this new Summer Heat effort to clean up the streets again. I said, guys, do me a favor, and I mean this. I said, last year we produced the lowest crime rates in U.S. history, the lowest murder rate, the lowest number of murders in eons. I said, you can do me a big favor by making my version of this irrelevant. No, I'm serious. I said, your job now is to make summer heat 2.0. Make the rates even lower because no one cares about the second lowest rate. Make it about the Trump administration's effort. Not about any single person or any single team. Make it about you guys this year cleaning up the streets. I told him, please, no one is taking their eye off the ball so, yes, things are happening. More things are happening, too. This is one of those, you know, remember Roger scare with the screw. You know, screw around, f around and find out. We love Roger. That was where the video holds. The whole thing started about the fafo. There's a lot of fo ing happening. This was a video from Nick Sorter. Did you see this lunatic at one of these ice facilities? He thought it was a good idea, with cameras everywhere, to scream to a bunch of ice officials how he knows his family or something, and they're dead folks. Never a good idea. It will probably result in bracelets, that is handcuffs on you. This subject was arrested. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. The video tells a pretty interesting story, though. Check this out. Come on, children, your wife all day. Put your boy. I have your face. You're dead boys. To back up and put your stick down because I'm about that life. You said, come on. You said, come on, right? Yes, I have your face, mother. Ever you're dead. Meanwhile, the dude's like 5, 2, 100 pounds with 70 pounds of sand on his back. 1. Why is it always people who look like this who are always like, you know, the. The tough guys on the. It's the closet tough guys I worry about. When I was rolling in the jit schools and everything like that. It's like the quiet dudes you always had to wear. It was always like the wrestlers, too. They come in. In day one, you folks, you do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? Any you see the cauliflower ear wrestler guy, they never look like this, by the way, ever they come in, they're like 5, 10 or so, 210 pounds. Not an ounce of body fat on them. Like, hey, you ever do jiu jitsu or grappling? Nah. I've wrestled, though, for 10 years. The first thing you're thinking about, I don't care how long you've been rolling on the mats, you're like, oh, shit, this is going to be ugly. Dude's never had any grappling experience. You may win, you may catch him in an arm bar, triangle choke or whatever, but the wrestler's throwing you around for like 10 minutes. And you need like an IV when you're done, you're like, how the hell is this guy? Never grappled like that. It's incredible. Anyone ever do Brazilian Jiu jitsu, have the same experience? They never look like this guy. I see your face, mother. I know your. Good luck in court with the video. Everybody's innocent till proven guilty. That's how our system works. Good luck. Hope you got a good lawyer. Little guy syndrome. The chat. They love stuff like this. And by loving, I mean hated. They're always. This is. They always look like that every single time. Do you ever notice that? You ever go to these antifa rallies, whenever you take their mask off, they start crying for mommy. Biggest wusses I've ever seen in my life. Folks, the administration is dead set on using these four years to change the arc of history and to pull America, in some cases, for people who don't want it to be better in a better direction, even kicking and screaming. The team they have put together right now is not screwing around. Whether it's Vice President Vance on the fraud task force, whether it's Senator Rubio, they're done with the media, they're done with the left wing obstacles, they're done with the bs. They are moving on stuff. We're not even two years in and the country's been dramatically transformed. The border is under control. The safest streets you've ever seen. The Ayatollah is dead. Maduro's in prison. We're producing insane amounts of oil and petrochemicals. The entire artificial intelligence industry is blowing up. The stock market. Jobs are going to be created. Some will be destroyed, but some will be created. I got a segment on that coming up. This is. You've. There's never been a better time to be alive. Even Axios had a note at the other day. And I got to tell you, one of the rock stars of this administration, and again, a hello, Captain Obvious moment, has been a Secretary of State, National Security Adviser Marco Rubio here. He was up on the Hill yesterday, taken absolutely no shit from this hapless Senator Jackie Rose, who's like, hey, I saw you were at a party. He was at a party. He was not. There was no party. He was at. He's the Secretary of State, National Security adviser. His job is to be around the president. There was no party. Check this out. At a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President Vance to Pakistan for negotiations.
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What party was I at?
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I was at a party, publicly reported,
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and there's photos there.
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But what party? No, no, no, no. But you're going to say that. I'm going to answer it.
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I'm going to.
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That's an absurd statement. I was not at a party.
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If I finished my paragraph. All right, he can answer.
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People are going to slander me. I'm going to answer. Secretary Rubio, you're 100% inaccurate. And 100% wrong. Here's why. Number one, the vice president of the United States was there and he wasn't confirmed by the Senate. He was elected by the American people.
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Okay?
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He is the second in line to the Presidency of the United States. He was President. President. Mr. Witkoff is the President's envoy for negotiation for peace deals. Mr. Kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions. They were the team that we sent to Pakistan. I was not at a party. Where I was is next to the President because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them. And in fact I think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions I went into a back room, I came back out and spoke to the President and was constantly updating him. On that evening, I spoke to Mr. Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Woodkoff on at least six occasions, including twice on a secure line from the phone they had access to over there. So you don't know what you're talking about.
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Senator Rosen, he has a floor.
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I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true and it's not real. That's not what happened. Okay. I'm the National Security adviser and Secretary of State. I was co located with the President in the midst of a high stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world. I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan led by the Vice President.
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Folks, I can't say this enough, especially to the black pillars and doomers who think the MAGA movement is dead. We have never had a better bench. In contrast winky winky nod nod with the Democrats. The Democrats future is aoc, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Premier Jayapal, Nazi tattoo guy, Vegan, six genders, Texas Talafrico. This is all they've got. I'm not telling you someone can't emerge like Barack Obama did. I'm just telling you like the best candidate the Democrats have is. I would argue I'm not a Democrat, would never vote for one. So I just be clear on that is probably Fetterman. And they want him out. They're trying to primary him now. Contrast that with the Republican bench. Marco Rubio, Incredible JD Cleaning up. Byron Donalds, Brandon Gill. The list goes on and on and on of Republican candidates who are just just have the gift. The Genesee Quoi. And the Democrats find themselves amazingly on the wrong side of. Of Every single issue. Crime, drug use, homelessness, illegal immigration. Try explaining to a local 3 electrician in New York. I did a hit on Will Cain show yesterday and one of the topics I wanted to bring up but we didn't have enough time was how there's this, the new proposal if you were naturalized, in other words you're not a US citizen but became one through the immigration process. Everybody track it. There's a proposal in Congress that if you are a naturalized citizen who got citizenship later in life and then are convicted of an act of terrorism that you should automatically have your citizenship revoked. Some of you are listening to this like Josh probably going that doesn't happen automatically. No it doesn't. This should be a bill that gets 99 votes in the Senate. Amazingly, the Democrats will always find themselves on the wrong side of every issue because their bench are the AOC Nazi tattoo guy in Maine. They are pulling this party in an unsustainable direction. Here's what I'm talking about. This ICE facility debacle in New Jersey that's going to destroy the reputation of the hapless New Jersey governor Mikey Sherrill who was supposed to be a moderate who's now realizing that appeasing the antifa to 5 foot 2 lunatics like this guy. I know your family. In your face mother. Ever that appeasing these guys is probably a bad idea. The left will fall for anything. Here's a report out of. What is it Ms. Dnc that at the ICE facility in New Jersey that the antifa lunatic violent anti first amendment mob is lined up. That's what antifa is. Here's a report that there's a hunger strike there no hunger strike. They're just making this up. The liberals will fall for anything. They're stupid and the left wing of their party knows it. Check this out.
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Ms. Now can confirm that multiple arrests were made on Sunday night. Meanwhile, family visitation at that facility has now resumed. Hundreds of detainees have been engaged in a hunger strike alleging expired food, denied medical care and retaliation against those who do speak up. For its part, the Department of Homeland Security says there is no mistreatment inside that facility.
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There is no hunger strike. They're just making it up. There is no mistreatment. Some of these people are probably eating better than some of you out there. Folks, this is just made up. It's not real. It's like Jackie Rose in Marubia. I heard you were at a party. You she's just making that up. No, surely it's based in something. No, it's not. Tom Homan actually went to the facility. Our border czar actually does border stuff, unlike Kamala Harris. You ever been to the border? I've never been to Europe either. Maybe you should go to the border. You're the freakin border czar. Tom Holman, who's actually done some of the work here, is assisting in the process and actually helping said, you know what? I'm going to go check out the facility. I thought there was a big hunger strike and the food was like poisoning people. They were all eating a loaf, you know. You know the. You guys know the loaf? You guys haven't. If you're a cop, you know what the loaf is. Anyone? Cops in the chat. Police officers in the chat. Some people don't like the term cops. I don't care. I don't mind it at all. I mean cops, cops in the chat. You know what the loaf is? Look it up. They're not eating a loaf. Here's Tom Homan. He says, I went to the facility, I ate this stuff. I ate the food. It's not the loaf. Check this out.
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Democratic lawmakers on Memorial Day making false allegations about the facility, about the food and medical care. Hunger strikes. I went into that facility. I went to the medical. I went to outdoor recreation. Indoor recreation. I even made a surprise visit this weekend and walked into the cafeteria and ate the same meal that the detainees around me were eating. And I made sure my tray. Equador tray. I had spaghetti and meat sauce. I had beans, I had green beans. I had bread and rolls. I had drinks. I had dessert. The food was good. It's all a false premise. There was never a hunger strike. The congressman said, oh, people are on hunger strikes. No, they weren't. They may not be eating in the cafeteria, but what I found out, they're ordering food from the commissary. Eating in their cells.
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Doesn't sound like a hunger strike to me. Chat was lighting up. We had a couple people who know what the. The loaf is like. Yes. Holiday statistic in the chat says leftovers pressed into like a loaf. Like a. And when I say leftovers, when it's not like leftovers like prime rib, you know, cuts and stuff. Like it's pretty disgusting. There's a bunch of police officers in the chat who know what I'm talking about, folks. They're magically on the wrong side of every single issue. See, that's why I love the chat. The best part about a live show, he's like a big family. Everybody gets to interact. Your show too. That is why I. Joe, you know, we weren't live for a long time. We weren't live. We've been on the air over. It's 11 years now. We, we were recorded. We were like live to tape for probably nine of those years. And. And Chris from Rumble said, dan, you gotta go live, man. He's like, even on cable news, people don't get to interact with the program. Like, you're watching Fox. I do Fox. I love it. But you don't get to like, chat in the show. He's like, you gotta go live. People love it. And we've been addicted ever since. Of course, once in a blue moon, you run into technical problems, Internet outages and stuff. But it's worth every second because you get this instant feedback on the show. I love it. Speaking of instant feedback, I see a lot of people in the chat. Cause I hang out there in the morning. I tend to read a lot of the stuff. I. I didn't get to chime in this morning only because I was interviewing with Vince and it was going just great. I wanted to keep it going because of interviews. Vince coming up in a little bit. It's amazing. Vince Colonnades, check him out. But one of the things I see in the chat is a lot of fear about AI now, again, I am a conservative. I am not here to bullshit you like the left, okay? Tolerance, coexist. All their bullshit bumper stickers. Why they, you know, throw gays off roofs or whatever, Okay? I don't do that. Yes, artificial intelligence is going to be hugely disruptive. There is no doubt the issue. And I just strongly encourage you to just hear me out. Put aside your priors on this. The issue with artificial intelligence is like splitting the atom. Once the atom is split and other enemies of the United States can get and build a nuclear weapon because the technology is there. Pandora's box has been open. You can either build one yourself or you can die. I can make a strong case to you, given my background in the tech space and coming out of the FBI, that if we don't rapidly accelerate the advancement of these tools and let our foreign, you know, adversaries do it first, folks. Reminds me of Rocky 3. Apollo Creed to Rocky. There is no tomorrow. I'm not sure people understand the danger AI can present to us if it's asymmetric and others break barriers first. I can't go into too much detail without telling you, like, the lights could go out. I need you to trust me on this. We don't have a choice. We don't have a choice. I saw this clip on the Hat Tip Joe Rogan show. We does it Tom Segura. And they're talking about this how, like, you almost have to think of this. Although the technology is far more potentially productive, but can be dangerous if we don't handle it. You have to think of this like email. Email just happened. Whether you liked email or not, it didn't matter, like people just that it just integrated itself into the economy and we're going to have to deal with it realistically. Check this segment out. It's a good one.
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There's been a recent spat of commencement speeches.
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You know, I've seen it where they.
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People talk about AI in the crowd. The kids are freaking out. They're booing.
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Yeah, I. I think that. I think it's. They're misguided, man. I really do. It's not that I'm. Oh, yeah, AI is awesome. I think you are a bit misguided and a little delusional if you don't accept the reality that this is here. This is not going away.
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So when.
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When, like, somebody goes, use it to benefit you. Like, learn, learn. Don't reject learning. And you boo. I, I think it's. It's the. You're set. You're setting yourself up. You know, it's not saying, oh, my God, isn't it great that if this were to take all of everybody's jobs? But it's like, this isn't. This is like getting mad about email, right? It's like, it's not going away, man.
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Work animal in the chat has a new McGroy name. Someone should steal it right now. Loafing McGroin. That's it. That was. That's just beautiful. Almost every McGroin name's already been taken loafing McGroin. That just genius. That's genius. These guys are like, Dan, they said to me this morning, the stuff you send over, these guys are like, it's like mildly schizophrenic. Like, you're. You just love to pull stuff from all over the place. I do, I do. I never intended this show ever at any point to be all politics all the time. Because the world is not all politics all the time. Yeah, you could argue there's a big political component to AI because there is. However, I never intended it to be that way. I'm just telling you, as an investor in the space and having been in the national security space, we don't have a choice, folks. It's here. There is actually no choice. There is no choice. We have to get ahead of this or we're going to be in big trouble. Speaking of which, I sent him this yesterday because I saw this, you know, moving around online, and I thought, what the hell's going on with, like, manhole stories around the globe, right? Did you see? First there's a story in New York I'll get to in a second about these dudes just, like randomly popping out of manholes at 2am and they got caught on street cams. But then I see this. Ronald, this is every New Yorker's biggest fear. Are you from a big city and New York or elsewhere? Tell me it's not your biggest fear. It's like walking over one of those street grates and it collapsing or you step on a manhole cover. This is from Brazil. And this happens. This poor lady looks like she, like, hit her face on it, too. Check this out on her phone. Don't ever step over in the manhole. Oh, oh. Then it looks like it, like, hits her fingers on the way down to. Oh, my gosh. Then look at her. It's a poor lady. I don't even know Brazil. What kind of lawsuit system tort system they have, but this is every single big city resident. Tell me it's not. Tell me it's not your worst nightmare. And this is like your second worst nightmare. It's 2am Whatever, late night at work. You're strolling out for a subway sandwich, like juicy small A out in Chicago. Remember that? Remember that one? And you see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Do you see this story out of New York? Manhole covers, 2am A bunch of people popping out with, like, look like excavating mining tools or something. Check this out.
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Why are people climbing out of this manhole? And what are they doing in the New York city sewer system? 1, 2, 3, 7 altogether can be seen coming out at this busy intersection in the very early morning hours on Friday. Some with shovels in their hands and flashlights. And it was a similar scene in another neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday. According to police, a car dropped the group off at 11pm about three hours later, they climbed back out. During Friday's incident, police say the crew picked up this manhole cover and went down at 1am they believed they were looking for valuables that people flushed down the drain. It's a dirty business, and it's also a crime.
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Crime
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underneath New York City, a sprawling underground network of more than 7,500 miles of sewer lines. The Department of Environmental Protection warning it can be extremely dangerous. Between toxic Chemicals and flooding risks. But there were no injuries during these incidents, according to the nypd. Why is it a crime to go into a manhole?
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It's. It's dangerous. It's the same as jaywalking, walking down the middle of a high highway.
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So if they choose the wrong one, they could end up in real trouble.
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They could be electrocuted. They could be overcome. There's gas lines down there. There's electrical lines down there. Now, friends of mine, nypd, assured me they are looking into it. They haven't found anything related to terrorism or anything like that. It may just be people trying to, you know, scrap wire or things like that. But, folks, do you have any idea what. What is in the New York City sewers? Where do you think all that stuff you flush goes? Where do you think about the Phantom Zone? That is disgusting. But wear a hazmat suit or something like that. That is freaking gross. I saw that. I'm like, what the hell? You know what it reminded me of? You guys ever see the Batman movie the Bane, when they're down beneath the sewer system the entire time and then they wind up blowing up all of goth? That's the first thing that reminded me of. By the way, if you want a great summary of where AI is going, we interviewed heritage economist Peter St. Ange last week. We got a ton of amazing feedback on that interview. That is still up, obviously, at rumble. Rumble.com Bongino. Don't miss that. It's one of the better interviews we've done in a long time. And one of my favorite interviews is coming up in just a minute. Vince Colonnace. You know him, he's on every day at 8am rumble.com Vince tearing it up. He owns that morning spot on Rumble. We'll get to him in a minute. Hey, quick question. How much control do you actually have over your money right now? Serious question. Technology's changed everything. Now it's changing how money works. Crypto started as a niche, but it's gone mainstream. Faster payments, more control, fewer middlemen. It's not hype. It's where things are going. And getting started today is easier than you think. With Rumble Wallet, you can buy Bitcoin, hold dollar back stablecoins, even own digital gold backed by real gold, all in one place. Setup is simple. It connects with Moonpay so you can use your debit card, credit card, or bank account and be up and running in minutes. It was really easy for me to set up. It's not just about the amounts, about getting in early and understanding what's coming next. And once you're set up, you can even tip your favorite Rumble creators directly. Now, do you got to do this right? Scan the QR code or click the link in the description and download Rumble Wallet. Rumble Wallet. From there you can set up your wallet. Just tap buy and you're in the game. Go to your favorite app store, download the Rumble Wallet app. It is really, really easy to use. Control your money. Take control of your money. Keep control of your money. Get started with Rumble Wallet today. Rumble Wallet's a technology provider only and not a custodial service. See terms@wallet.rumble.com
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Back to the show. Our partner here in the conservative content creation business, hopefully bringing the truth to America when you need it, Vince colonnace. He's@rumble.com Vince dominates that 8 o' clock spot in the morning on Rumble. Vince, welcome back to the show. Always good to have you.
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Thank you, Dan.
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So yesterday I saw this tweet pop up. Christina Wong put it out. It was about trust and in the media, unsurprisingly. You know, you and I have been covering the dreadful media ecosystem for a long time at an all time low. Now you got this new 60 Minutes story where Scott Pelley, a liberal provocateur pretending to be a journalist, looks like he's out. I played some video of him earlier in the show. You know, Vince, trust in the media is at an all time low because the media earned it. I mean, whether it was the collusion hoax or the lies about COVID or masks or vaccines, I mean, it's not like they've been some bastion of truth.
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Yeah, it's an institution that has totally abandoned the whole reason we have the First Amendment. The founders had a brilliant idea which is put the First Amendment in place, guarantee the freedom of the press so you could hold the powerful accountable without any fear or favor. And instead what's happened is as a part of this world of like access journalism, everybody's underbid each other. They don't have any sort of moral compunction whatsoever and they're just lying about everything in order to maintain access to the riches or the power the parties that they want to be at. And what gets lost in all of this? The truth. The truth gets lost in all of it. And so the media is one of these institutions in our country that has lost so much trust, Dan, because they just keep lying and people know that they're lying. That's one of the beauties of social media, is that we can now tell that they're lying because we can have open conversations. It's how Donald Trump has won multiple presidential elections is because we didn't really need the media to tell us what was happening. The rest of us can have this conversation on our own.
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And Vince, you know, Americans are really, it's not a talking point. It's true. They're very forgiving. I mean, you see people come back in sports and entertainment and academia and politics who've had, you know, devastating personal scandals in their life. And if people feel like they're generally sorry and they mean it, they, they welcome, not only welcome them back, they welcome them back with open arms. I mean, I think of that baseball player that was at the Hamilton guy. I mean, this happens all the time. People understand struggles. All the media has to do is come out and say, listen, we really botched Russia collusion. Ok, There was no there there. We really botched Covid, like bad, like bad bad. The mass debacle, closing schools down, you know, nonsense about the vaccines, banning people for free speech. And I promise, like, it's not going to save them from everyone's anger. But a good portion of Americans would be like, all right, maybe, you know, there's a new road ahead, we'll open the door to it. Let's see what happens. But they just won't do it. Even despite overwhelming evidence they were wrong.
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You know, I think it's always helpful to personalize the analogies here so people can understand it at a basic level. Like, Dan, you're a husband, right? Obviously you're a husband. If you ever get into some sort of disagreement with your wife, let's pretend that this has ever happened, that you've ever disagree with Paula. Do you just ride it out and continue to tell her she's wrong forever? Is that how it works? Or do you ever come to her hat in hand and go, you know what, you're right, I screwed up. I got, I got a little hot headed or something like you admit it. Because what you're trying to do is restore the integrity of the relationship. You're coming to a realization that matters. You care about the health of this relationship as a husband and you restore it. And this works for not just individual husbands and wives. It works for big institutions that require trust as the thing that they're selling. So if the media comes to you, hat in hand goes, you know what? We screwed that story up. We should have done better. That helps to generate a sincere and deep relationship with that outlet. But instead they're so drunk on power they're so full of themselves and they're so completely insecure about their hold on power that they will never admit that how frequently wrong they've been. And that's why so few people are even interested in listening to them anymore.
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And their, their power is dissipating. And I want to tie that to my. The second issue I want to bring up with you, which is obviously the races in California last night. Listen, but by any measure, this is supposed to be a blue wave year. If you listen to the media, everybody's mad at Trump and MAGA and Republicans and conservatives. You know, we're, we're itching for the days of Joe Biden again or whatever nonsense you hear in the media. And yet last night, as of me and you recording this interview, it looks like Spencer Pratt's gonna pull about a third of the vote, maybe more. Who knows? The mail in ballots. Steve Hilton, the Republican in the governor's race, is currently running number one. I mean, if the media's version of reality were true, they shouldn't even be in the top five. I mean, you had Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democrat, spend an untold fortune. I hear from friends in California, that's all they see, is Tom Steyer ads everywhere. And yet Steve Hilton, Republican, former Fox host, is running number one. So there's some disconnect, but I'll just say too. Are you worried about the mail in balloting in California? I mean, this is like third world stuff. Oh, we won't know the results for like three months or something or whatever.
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They have legalized ballot harvester harvesting in California. Ballot harvesting is when third party political operatives get to handle ballots. And they legalized it in the state of California, which is one of the primary vectors for fraud. And no one would disagree with that. Jimmy Carter wrote about mail in balloting in the beginning of this century. He said that it was one of the primary vectors for fraud, which is why we should limit mail in balloting. The president will reflect on that. He'll say that from time to time. He said Jimmy Carter said that and then the media will attack him. No, he didn't. Yes, he did. The Car Carter Baker Commission concluded that mail in ballots are a huge problem for, for elections everywhere. And in California in particular, 80% of the election is done with mail in ballots. It's 80%. It's crazy. So, yeah, am I worried? Big time. Which is why if you pay attention to the way both Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton were talking even last night, as the numbers were looking good for them, you could hear it in their voices that they do have lingering concern about. About the way that the next, perhaps weeks are going to play out. So keep your eyes on that. But let me start with the hope. Go back to the hopeful note that I just heard you make, which is that the. The. The decision for so many California voters to opt for guys like Hilton and Pratt is a massive indictment of the failure of Democrats. It should not be this close. If Democrats were some big success, if they were all as happy and greasy and fun as Gavin Newsom pretends to be, then there'd be no. There'd be no chance for a Republican to break into such a Democrat stronghold. And yet these guys are breaking in. Why? Because Democrats. Because California is in a desperate situation. The. The richest Californians just saw their houses burned down and they can't rebuild them. The poorest Californians are living among human feces and needles and animal torturers, and they recognize the despair that's going on in places like Los Angeles. And. And as a result, people are truly looking for an alternative. In a way, this is a fantastic test of your famous assessment. Is it bad enough yet? And for so many Californians, the answer to that is a resounding yes. Now, is it enough Californians, and is it enough Californians to overcome the fraud that everyone suspects is very likely so dominant in California? We'll see. But, man, I really got to hand it to these guys. You know, you and I both constantly are asking American citizens to see stay in the fight. And I'm looking at a guy like Spencer Pratt, who, as far as I could tell, has never been interested in politics at all until politics became interested in him, you know, before it started destroying his life. And then you got a guy like Steve Hilton, who is an immigrant to this country, loves this country, adopted this country because he really sees its value. What a story. 250 years later, a former Brit may be the vehicle to save Manifest Destiny in the United States. I just think these are great stories, and I love that these guys are actually in the fight.
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You know, Vince, there's a takeaway from the Pratt race that I got to tell you. I'm almost, like, ashamed I haven't brought up sooner. I keep talking about the value of snapshots and sound bites and painting contrasts. However, the oldest politic political axiomatic truth in the business is all politics are local. I got to tell you, I learned this the hard way in one of my races. This a really hard way. It's been said since the beginning of time. There Is a lesson for activists and candidates out there. You should take from this segment. Me and Vince right now. Pratt did something genius. Not only did he use, you know, the social media and stuff in a way we haven't seen since the Trump campaigns, but he hyper localized the race. He was very honest. Listen, those issues are all important. You know, foreign relations, geopolitics, you know, nuclear weapons are all very important or existential in some cases. That's not what I'm running on. I'm running on animal torture, homelessness, the fentanyl flop, cleaning up the streets and fire victims. He hyper localized it, and there was just no way with the explosion of independent media and people with cell phone cameras, for them to say, hey, what Pratt's talking about is not happening. That's not. It wasn't exaggerated. They saw it themselves.
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It's harder to lie about the things you can see. It's harder to lie about the things that you see firsthand, isn't it? When you. When you see it happen in front of you, you're like, what are you lying to me about? I'm watching. There's homelessness everywhere. There's fentanyl needles everywhere, Human waste everywhere. This city's in despair. All my neighbors are moving out. Nobody can afford to live here anymore. When it's happening to you directly, it's very hard for somebody to lie to you from a distance about it. If it's far away, if it's overseas, if it's in the Middle east, it's easier to manipulate people about that because it's distant from them. Them. That's the case. And which, by the way, and I love how you just assessed that. Get these cameras that capture these images. That's the role that independent journalists play. So I might not be in, say, Newark, New Jersey. I'm not. I'm not in Newark, New Jersey. But thanks to guys like Nick Shorter and Julio Rosas, I can see the insurrection that's happening outside of that immigration facility. I can see it with my own eyes, and so can so many Americans across the country. One of the game changing elements of social media, independent media. What you and I are able to do now is that you're able to bring images directly into people's homes that are brought directly from the source. It's not the media distortion filter. It's not the lies that we're constantly being fed by the press. It's. It's instead something more real, authentic, and genuine. And when you watch that, you're like, people are like, no, I don't want men in women's sports. Look at that. That dude just broke that woman's orbital bone. Are you serious? No, I can't. I just saw that with my own eyes. That can't happen. Our borders can't be open. Look at these people coming across it. These Fox News drones are catching millions of people coming across the border. When you see those images or if you live in those communities, that goes a long way. And it's hard to lie about something that's. That's that close to you.
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I mean, there's no one better to comment on this. By the way, we're talking to Vince Colonnades. He appears here bi weekly every other Wednesday. I go on his radio show every Wednesday after that. So once a week we're on each other's shows. He's@rumble.com, vince, every day at 8:00am Eastern Time, on demand, anytime. His show is just exploding. Regarding the Senate map coming up, listen, the Democrats are really trying to expand the Senate map for control of the Senate. They're looking at Texas with Talafrico there in Iowa. But they've got some problems themselves. I've said and listen, of course it's an opinion. It's subjective, but it's based on objective fact. I've seen a lot of bad candidates on both sides, okay? I have. I've never seen a slate of candidates in a collective pool. The United States Senate Democrat side, as bad as the Democrats are running this time, Vince, they're usually better at this. The Graham Platner debacle. I mean, they don't even know what to do with this guy. How do you. There are disqualifying things and then there's like things people will accept and then there's like a freaking Nazi stormtrooper tattoo. You know, you've got this guy in New Jersey, Hamawi, who apparently was a character witness for the blind sheikh who want to blow up the World Trade Center. I mean, I've never seen, you know, Abu Al Abdul Al Sayed in Michigan running with Hasan Piker, you know, that social murder October 7th, rape apologist guy. This is a really genuinely awful group of candidates like I've never seen before. I get it's an opinion, but those are facts. I just told you that they're based on.
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And they're captivated by the extremists in their party. They're scared to death of their own extremists. They don't want to upset them. So they're going to just cow to them every single Time. We've seen it play out over and over and over again, which is why that's how they end up with these awful candidates. It's, it's pretty disgusting. And, and, and it's why it's so. It's so rare to hear. John Fetterman is like, the only guy in the whole party who seems to be ever saying anything relatively moderate. Like, hey, maybe it's. Maybe it's crazy to align ourselves with extremists. Maybe it's crazy to open our borders. Maybe it's crazy to bring in all these terrorists who hate the country. Maybe that's crazy. And, and they want to drum him out. They want to get rid of that guy. They're trying to primary him out of the Senate now because he's saying common sense things. So, I mean, this is yet another sign. I've talked to you before about this, why we need election integrity. Because if you have a credible election system where voters actually get a say, it actually moderates the extremism. It gets rid of that nonsense. But in the absence of that, with, with, with the elections being as problematic as they are in the United States and a Democrat party being as scared as they are of their own base, you have one political party that's fully dedicated, unfortunately, to an extremism that is, that is echoing throughout its base. Now, Dan, is not just the candidates, it's the voters. Democrat voters have a massive problem. You know, Charlie Kirk was killed by one of these guys. They have an assassination culture on the left. 50% of their voters think that it's acceptable to kill their political opponents. This is, there's something very, very dangerous going on. And when, when you've got a bunch of people who are a part of assassination culture selecting candidates, that's how you end up with people who are involved in terror attacks or justifying them getting on the candidate slate for Democrat Party.
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Yeah, and I agree with what you said, having, you know, been an observer of Democrat Party politics from outside the party party. Obviously I'm not a Democrat, but I'm not, you know, naive about it either. I will watch clips from MSDNC and CNN and elsewhere just to be sure I know what they're talking about. It's incredible how there's always this, there's always been this, this healthy, I think internal fight in the Republican and conservative movement about especially things like foreign interventions, foreign wars. It is healthy because it keeps everyone in check, even about taxation, like, we all agree in generally low tax rates, but you've got some people pushing for, you know, you had Rubio and Hawley and for more tax credits for families and things like that. And you get. Other people disagree. My point is that the Republican Party disagrees with that about a lot of things. And when we sense any kind of brewing, factional identity politics, hatred, there's always a quick and decisive movement to get rid of it. I mean, you've already seen it. You've seen it in a primary process here. The problem, which I think you just aptly summarize, is I don't see that on the Democrat side. Outside of Fetterman and maybe Josh Gottheimer, I've not seen a single prominent Democrat outside of those two who's really come out and been like, hey, man, we got a problem. Like a character witness for the blind shake. Like, we really shouldn't have him in. In the primary. We should, like, make a concerted effort to make sure this person does not win and represent our. They want to run as an independent. That's their right to do it if they didn't commit a crime. And they can qualify. You get what I'm saying? But what they're saying is this is our club, the Democrat club, and this guy's okay to come in there, even despite his terrible cv.
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I just, I mean, at this point, like, if you can't be honest about what's happening, then we need somebody else in that position of influence or power. And here's something I'm troubled by, Dan, this morning on my show. Mark Wayne Mullen is the DHS secretary. And yesterday, yesterday he pretty. He gave pretty good testimony before the Senate. He confronted Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, over the fact that Chris Murphy keeps comparing ICE agents to Nazis and brown shirts and all sorts of things. And he accurately said to Chris Murphy goes, look, you're leading to a bunch of attacks on these guys. There's death threats that have grown like crazy threats to their lives. I agree with that. But he kept couching it. Mark Wayne Mullen kept couching it. When he said it, he goes, but I know you don't mean that, but that's the effect of your words. I know you don't mean that, but that is the effect of what you're saying. And I'm. And I. And I want to tell Mark Wayne Mullen, stop it. You know, Chris Murphy is smart enough to know what he's doing. He does mean it. He knows that his base is out of control. He knows that he's breathing life into this violence. Stop making excuses for him. I know you just left the United States Senate. I know you have a collegial attitude towards the guys you just worked with. You're trying to be decent to him, but you're being soft. You're being too soft. You just need to be blunt. Just say it like it is. Don't offer excuses for him. Don't try and intuit his intent or anything like that. Just say it outright. You're leading to death threats against these people and you should be ashamed of yourself. We need truth telling and we need it all the time. Because in the absence of truth telling, this country will descend into chaos. You have to have people who are willing to tell the truth as blunt as necessary.
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Yeah, we're in a bad spot. I mean, I'm when I saw that galindo lady in Texas, 35, talk about, you know, whatever, internment camps for Zionists, she got 40% of the vote. I thought to myself, this is clearly a new low. Until Hamau last night, I it really is dangerous. I mean, that's not an opposition party. That's like a death cult. And it's frightening. Folks, he's Vince Colonnace. He's on every single day Live. Join us Live Chat, his most popular program at that hour, 0800 Eastern Time, rumble.com Vince, you can go there anytime. Watch it after that, no problem at all. And he's on the radio from noon to 3 Eastern all over the country on big, huge, prominent radio stations, including we always got to give a shout out because we both got our start there, the great WMAL. You can listen to him@wmal.com every day. Vince, thanks a lot. I'll see you next Wednesday on the radio show.
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Thank you, Dan. Can't wait.
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I'm Vince.
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You can always catch my show right here, right here on the Bongino Report live, 8am Eastern weekday mornings, weekdays at noon.
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If you miss it, no worries. The show will always be right here.
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