The Bongino Brief - DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PSY OP!!!

Summary

Summary of "The Bongino Brief - DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PSY OP!!!"

Episode Release Date: January 11, 2025
Host: Dan Bongino
Podcast Network: Cumulus Podcast Network

In this compelling episode of The Dan Bongino Show, titled "The Bongino Brief - DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PSY OP!!!", Dan Bongino and his co-host delve deep into the pressing political and environmental issues plaguing the United States. The discussion centers on media bias, governmental mismanagement, particularly concerning the catastrophic wildfires in California, and critiques of President Joe Biden's leadership. Throughout the episode, Bongino emphasizes the importance of discerning truth from misinformation, urging listeners not to succumb to what he describes as psychological operations (psy ops) orchestrated by liberal factions.

1. Media Bias and Democratic Mismanagement

The episode opens with a vehement critique of media bias, particularly against Democratic governance. The co-host asserts that the media consistently protects Democratic officials from scrutiny while aggressively targeting Republican figures.

"Notice how whenever Democrats F something up, which is every single time because government sucks. It has no incentive to ever do anything right."
— Unknown Speaker [00:32]

This sentiment sets the tone for the discussion, highlighting a perceived double standard in media coverage. The speaker argues that while Republican failures are scrutinized and condemned, Democratic mishaps receive little to no backlash, fostering an environment where left-wing policies go unchallenged.

2. California Wildfires and Government Response

A significant portion of the episode focuses on the devastating wildfires in California, attributing the crisis to governmental mismanagement and inadequate water resource handling. The speaker criticizes both state officials and federal leaders for their inability to effectively address and mitigate the disaster.

"If these catastrophic apocalyptic fires happened in Texas, Florida or Mississippi, there would be ringing condemnation from every piece of scum in the media calling for public executions of governors, state, local mayors, officials..."
— Unknown Speaker [00:32]

The discussion underscores the speaker's belief that Democratic leaders, exemplified by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, are ineffectual in crisis management. The episode condemns their actions (or inactions) during the wildfires, suggesting a lack of genuine concern for affected citizens.

3. Critique of President Joe Biden's Leadership

President Joe Biden is a focal point of criticism, with the co-host labeling him a "sociopath" and accusing him of self-enrichment at the expense of the American people. Bongino and his co-host argue that Biden's leadership exacerbates national issues, including the current wildfire crisis.

"Joe Biden is a sociopath. He sees no consequence to his actions whatsoever. Everything is about Joe Biden. Enriching Joe Biden."
— Unknown Speaker [04:40]

The speaker further criticizes Biden's public demeanor, mocking his recent announcement about becoming a great-grandfather amidst the crisis, portraying it as out of touch and insensitive to the suffering of Californians.

"She always does this... a freaking gender reveal. Look, we popped a balloon. It's blue. What the. Nobody cares, bro."
— Unknown Speaker [04:40]

4. Donald Trump's Water Management Comments

The episode references remarks made by former President Donald Trump regarding California's water management issues. Bongino integrates these comments to support the narrative of governmental failures contributing to environmental disasters.

"You know, in Los Angeles, you can't get proper amounts of water, right? It's unbelievably expensive... The water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north."
— Donald Trump [12:42]

Trump's insights into water flow restrictions and their impact on California's agriculture and wildfire susceptibility are juxtaposed against the current administration's handling of the situation, reinforcing the episode's overarching critique of Democratic policies.

5. Bureaucratic Inefficiency and Government Size

Expanding beyond specific incidents, the co-host discusses the broader issue of bureaucratic inefficiency inherent in large government structures. The argument posits that expansive government agencies lack the incentives to perform effectively, leading to persistent mismanagement and public dissatisfaction.

"Government cannot work because there's no incentive for them to work because they steal your money and you can't fire them."
— Unknown Speaker [15:08]

Drawing from personal experiences in the Secret Service, the speaker illustrates the correlation between government size and problem magnification, emphasizing that Democratic preferences for bigger government exacerbate existing issues.

"When I was a young Secret Service agent... Big government, big problems. Little government, little problems."
— Unknown Speaker [15:32]

Notable Interactions and Highlights

Throughout the episode, Dan Bongino interjects with affirmations and reactions to his co-host's points, reinforcing the discussed themes and maintaining an engaged dialogue.

"That's a great point he just made."
— Dan Bongino [04:39]

Moreover, Bongino shares personal anecdotes, including his experience with a house fire, to underscore the severity of the issues discussed and to connect with listeners on a human level.

"I've been through a house fire... it's one of the most awful things you will ever go through in your life. Nobody deserves that."
— Dan Bongino [15:04]

Conclusion

In "The Bongino Brief - DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PSY OP!!!", Dan Bongino and his co-host present a scathing critique of Democratic leadership, media bias, and governmental inefficiency, particularly in the context of the California wildfires. By highlighting perceived failures at multiple levels of government and contrasting them with comments from former President Trump, the episode encourages listeners to question mainstream narratives and remain vigilant against what Bongino describes as orchestrated psychological operations aimed at misleading the public.

Listeners seeking a critical perspective on current political and environmental crises will find this episode both informative and thought-provoking, aligning with Bongino's mission to tackle "the hottest political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric."

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

Do not fall for the psyop folks. You have a massive failure of the left wing model of big government right now going on right in front of your very eyes and the left is desperate to get you to shut up about it. Now I want to be absolutely clear. If these catastrophic apocalyptic fires happened in Texas, Florida or Mississippi, there would be ringing condemnation from every piece of scum in the media calling for public executions of governors, state, local mayors, officials, county commissioners and anyone else involved. But because Democrat liberal commies run California, gee, can we go a little bit out of order? Can you pull that Politico tweet up? What do you get? You get no condemnation of Democrats at all and you get a bunch of Republicans pounce stories Republicans unleash on never about the actual failures. Look at this Politico. Republicans are blaming Dem policies for the catastrophic wildfires tearing through Los Angeles. Republicans pounce. Republicans unleash. Republicans unload. Notice how whenever Democrats F something up, which is every single time because government sucks. It has no incentive to ever do anything right. It steals your money at the end of a barrel of a gun. There is nothing you can do about it. And whether government sucks or not, you never get a refund. It doesn't matter. Government never goes out of business. There's no pressure for it to go out of business. The media protects them from any bad press. Imagine being a restaurant that food poisons people every night and some review site like a Yelp or whatever deletes every negative review. That's the media. It's the best analogy I can ever give you. That's the media. To the business of government. It has no incentive to not suck. People are dead. The damage in Los Angeles and some of the surrounding areas is going to be so catastrophic when this is over. Despite repeated warnings that the fact that to this day, some, a lot, but not all, some media people are even coming around. You'll see what I mean in a minute. Are still protecting these Idiots. Meanwhile, if this was Ron DeSantis, I. I'm telling you, they'd be called Republic executions right now. It's absolutely disgusting. And then you got this loser in the White House who again, did nothing about this. California is a state in the United States. Joe Biden's President of the United States. Joe Biden could have asked questions about this like Donald Trump did. Fire management. It is still a big state. California is kind of important to the union. What Joe Biden do? Nothing. But he flew out there yesterday. And here is Joe Biden doing what Joe Biden does. How many times have I told you this, folks in the chat? How many times have I reminded you Joe Biden is what? Folks, I'm telling you, I know this from damn good sources. Trust me on this. I've always been candid about my sources, okay? Joe Biden is a sociopath. I'm telling you, he's a sociopath. He sees no consequence to his actions whatsoever. Everything is about Joe Biden. Enriching Joe Biden. And to everyone else, you get the double barrel middle finger. Here he is out there in California in one of the biggest catastrophes you're going to see in modern times in Los Angeles, and what does he decide to do? Announce ceremoniously and in a celebratory manner that he's a great grandfather. Joe, can I just be sure. Nobody gives a shit, bro. Nobody cares. Their house just burned down. What do you want to do, a freaking gender reveal? Look, we popped a balloon. It's blue. What the. Nobody cares, bro. Watch this. Good news is I'm a great grandfather as of today. I have a granddaughter many times pronounce baby girl, baby boy. So.

[Dan Bongino]

That'S a great point he just made.

[Unknown Speaker]

He always does this. I don't want to make it personal, given that all your houses just burned down, every childhood memory, all of your memorabilia, photos, your baseball card collection, the mom's jewelry you passed down, your engagement ring, your will and testament, your legal documents, your business records, all the. It's time for an announcement. Let's do a gender reveal. Boom, boom. It's a pie. Nobody gives a shit, bro. Nobody cares. No, I mean, nobody. Technically, that could be considered a hyperbolic statement. You're exaggerating. No, no, no. I don't even attend to such. Nobody cares in that area about you being a great grandfather. You to jump in the shower again, you slob. That's who this guy is. He's a sociopath. He can't get out of office soon enough. Less than two weeks to go, more in a minute.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

Least one member of the media. This is a Sky News reporter has decided to do some journalism and stop with the climate climate change. Really? That's funny. We thought it was the lack of water management and a bunch of dry brush in a fire prone area. I don't know, call me crazy, I'll be crazy. Here's the mayor of Los Angeles, which fellas, you hear she made it back to la. Yes, finally, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, another commie. She made it back. She was in Africa. What was she doing in Africa and Ghana? Who the hell knows?

[Dan Bongino]

Who cares?

[Unknown Speaker]

She's taking a trip, you know, need a little vacation. I mean she's been mayor for so long. Dan, she was just. Exactly. She's in Ghana. Yeah, Ghana. But L. A s burning. Exactly. So she finally makes it back to her burning down city. She's like nero. Surprised she didn't come off fiddling off the plane. Here is a Sky News reporter finally doing a little bit of homework. And guys, wouldn't you agree?

[Dan Bongino]

You've seen the clip. Producer Jimmy too.

[Unknown Speaker]

At least she gives some very detailed answers as to where she was, why she stole money from the fire department, why there's been no fire management stuff. The answers, wouldn't you agree guys? Were very thorough. And she put to rest any.

[Dan Bongino]

Any allegations of mismanagement on her part. Check out these incredibly fine answers. Check this out.

[Unknown Reporter]

Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while Their homes were burning. Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars? Madam Mayor, have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?

[Unknown Speaker]

Now, I know what you're thinking. If you are watching live on Rumble at 11am Eastern, you saw the video. But if you're watching audio on demand later on, say, Apple or Spotify, you're thinking, why did GI Justin or Michael mess with the clip and edit out the mayor's responses? You said they were wonderful. They didn't. Folks, there are no responses. That is the audio. She sits there and I encourage you to watch the video because it's even worse. And as Justin we're watching this all day. We watch them together shows live, so.

[Dan Bongino]

You know it's not edited. We don't, like, cut the things in later.

[Unknown Speaker]

Justin's like, at least move your mouth and pretend you're going to answer some and, like you're thinking about something. She's sitting there, like, in stunned disbelief that anyone's asking her a question about her city birthday. How dare you? I am the mayor of Los Angeles. It's not my problem that the damn city's burning to the ground. And then you see how she storms down the jetway there. And that poor lady with the thing on her nose, she, like, nearly knocks that lady over. Get out of my way. We got to get away from the sky news guy. Listen, I don't know you, sky news guy. I don't know if you're a liberal or whatever. I don't really care. But you may be the first guy to ever ask questions. Look at this. Look. Watch this lady. She's got a little bandage on her nose, this lady. They can't bump this. Like, ok, let's get away from this guy quick. Here we go. Here's lady. Oh, get out of the way, lady. Beat it. Yeah, push it practically. If there was a door there, they push her right through it. They're like, get away from this guy quick. You never seen Karen Bass move so fast. Look at her. She's getting a good hamstring workout. Oh, get move fast. Is that an incline? Maybe get some calf work in, too. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump was right again about this. But because the media can't get their heads out of their ass and cover Donald Trump fairly. And they're so focused on the emotions of hating Donald Trump, not the actual problems Donald Trump brings up. Like, hey, we've got an inflation problem, right? Nazi. Hey, that thing in California, you never believe it. They're diverting a bunch of water from where it's needed. Water's running dry in certain areas of California. The farms have been complaining about it forever. You've got a dry fire problem in Los Angeles. Santa Ana winds. Those are brand new, by the way. Do you guys know about that? It's the first time it's ever happened.

[Dan Bongino]

The Santa Ana wins.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's a joke if I've never heard of those before. I'm not even a meteorologist. I've heard of the Santana ways. I don't even live on the West Coast. I live in Florida. I live in Steward. We don't have the Steward. Anna. Winds. I don't know what even. I know what they are. It's wind. And you think wind is good for stopping fires? You think. Matter of fact, there's an expression. You know what it's called, guys? They call it fanning the flames. You ever hear of it? Fanning, of course. Because they can't get their heads out of their ass. When Donald Trump brings up a problem, he's a Nazi, fascist, homophobe, transphobe. Instead of actually saying, hey, is that a real problem? Maybe we can fix it before people's lives are lit up in flames. Here is Donald Trump a while ago on the Joe Rogan show before the election, say, you know, California's got a real water problem. You know, fires, farms, all this stuff. Maybe we should look into that. The media was like, guy's definitely a Nazi. Check this out.

[Donald Trump]

You know, in Los Angeles, you can't get proper amounts of water, right? And it's unbelievably expensive and you might have a house in Beverly Hills. And they're actually thinking about rationing water. Can you believe it?

[Unknown Reporter]

I can believe.

[Donald Trump]

I was in the farm court country with some of the congressmen. We're driving up a highway and I say, how come all this land is so barren? It's farmland and it looked terrible. It was just brown and bad. I said, but there's always that little corner that's so green and beautiful. They said, we have no water. I said, do you have a drought? No, we don't have a drought. I said, why don't you have no water? Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north. More water than they could ever use. And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured.

[Unknown Speaker]

Of course, Donald Trump came out yesterday again. He was up on Capitol Hill and brought up the fact that protecting the smelt. If you're asking what is the smelt, it's this little fish he's talking about. And Justin just said it, right? The media reports the following. Donald Trump hates fish. He really can't stand. He wants all the fish dead. Grouper, trout, all of them. Kill them damn fish. He's a Nazi homicidal fish holocaust guy. He wants fish dead. Instead of saying, you know what, that crazy guy. It's actually not so crazy because what he just said was going to happen with the barren land and the water problems resulted in a catastrophe where now five people are dead and that's going to grow, by the way. And basically significant portions of Los Angeles were entirely wiped out, by the way. Do you notice how the MAGA crowd and I want to applaud you guys.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean this, you know, again, a hefty dose of sarcasm as part of the show, but not this segment.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want to genuinely applaud you for not falling into the trap.

[Dan Bongino]

These lunatic evil liberals do that.

[Unknown Speaker]

When there's some shooting in a red state. They're like, look, you deserve that. Evil gun owners, nobody deserves this. I don't care who the hell you voted for.

[Dan Bongino]

I've been through a house fire.

[Unknown Speaker]

It is not about me.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not trying to do the Joe Biden on you.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm just telling you it is one.

[Dan Bongino]

Of the most awful things you will ever go through in your life. Nobody deserves that.

[Unknown Speaker]

We live in a republic.

[Dan Bongino]

You're free to vote for who you want.

[Unknown Speaker]

Unfortunately, those votes have consequences. Bureaucratic mismanagement is not a Democrat problem.

[Dan Bongino]

It is a Democrat and Republican problem.

[Unknown Speaker]

However, bureaucratic mismanagement is a bigger problem with Democrats. For a very simple, easy to define common sense, Occam's razor reason. If government bureaucracies can't work because there's no incentive for them to work because they steal your money and you can't fire them, you can't. The media protects them. Then Democrats, which prefer bigger bureaucracies and bigger government are going to have bigger problems. When I was a young secret Service and you know, my boss told me about big criminal cases we used to work, he'd say, I'm going to warn you Big cases, big problems. Little cases, little problems. Big government, big problems. Little government, little problems. I'm not telling you Republicans are going to fix all your problems. We screw up a lot of crap ourselves. I'm simply telling you you keep picking the Democrats that prefer bigger government and your problems are going to continue to get bigger. And they don't get any bigger than your house burning down and your neighborhood. Look at this by the way. This little compilation running out of water.

[Dan Bongino]

Fire hydrants in Los Angeles. His headlines. I saw this on Mike Cernovich's account as a California resident. It's been cover covering this.

[Unknown Speaker]

How the hell do you run out of water? Do you understand? A fire hydrant exists for one reason. It has no other purpose than to distribute water for a fire. That's why it's called a fire hydrant, not a milk hydrant. It's there to stop fires. It only has one purpose. They can't even figure out how to get water from from a fire hydrant. And you continue to support these idiots. This isn't the time to bullshit. It is the time to talk about it before your house and neighborhood burns down. Next. It's a fire hydrant. You can't even figure out how to get water out of a fire hydrant. That's how stupid government is. You know what? You know what? Governments become a suggestion of goodwill. Government's a four way stop sign. No one actually stops at it because you think the other guy that's government. They think someone else will fix it. So it's just a suggestion. They're going to do things right. No one stops at a four way stop. They don't. They roll through. The other guy will stop. That's what government is. One big freaking four way stop sign. We don't worry, someone else will stop. I don't need to do it. I my job safe. Fire hydrants are like gun free zone signs require. Right. That's how well they work. Right? Justin said right. The fire hydrants in LA are like gun free zone signs. Again, they're suggestions of a solution. See, we'll fix you during a fire. Except there's no actual water in it. Just like the gun free zone side. So that was a clip from the Dan Bongino show. You can watch the full show on Rumble. All you have to do is go.

[Dan Bongino]

To rumble.com bongino where we go live every weekday at 11am eastern time. Hope to see you there.