
In this episode, I cover a story that sickened me to my stomach, another high-profile arrest, breaking news from Mexico, and a special guest appearance by the great Shawn Farash.
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Dan Bongino
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show.
Sean Farish
All right.
Dan Bongino
I just need to, I just need to get kind of right into the show today. So you. It'll make sense in a moment. I usually, you know, being in the talk space and content space and doing briefings in all my prior jobs, I have these kind of well thought out paths. I want to go in a show, whatever. I can't say so much of that for the beginning of today's show. I really, I can't. It'll make sense in a minute. So let me just get right to it, folks. Sometimes, you know, talk about a perfect but unintended entrance into the show. Feel like the world is getting more unstable and chaotic every day. A lot of people do. Everywhere you look there's a crisis, a controversy, conflict, catastrophe. You can't control what happens out there, but you can control how you prepare for it. Reduce your anxiety about emergencies by preparing. I don't care what people call me, a prepper or anything else. You're damn right I prepare. And you should prepare too. 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I don't know what to call it. Some production Candace Owens is putting together called Bride of Charlie, an investigative series. And Seth says, what would Charlie have to say about this? And what would he think of his so called friends who can't summon the courage to say it for him? I've only been back four weeks. I'm. I'm just a guy, folks, okay? I'm not a superhero. I can't snap my finger and change everything. Just like I couldn't snap my finger and just jump back right into this. It takes weeks for me to transition from this, to go over to the government job and then to come back. You've got. I, I just, I'm just a guy. I, I don't. In four weeks I'm trying to triage myself. What I should talk about how not to Streisand effect things. I can't have conflicts with my prior job. I think you all understand what I mean. But this, this, this just can't be what this movement is. And if it is, I, I don't want. I just don't want any part of it. I just don't. I, I know we live in this artificial environment now for many people. Not, not. I'm not criticizing, you know, you and my chat and the army folks out, they've always been there for me. But we live in this artificial world of influencer culture and how morals and ethics have evaporated and everything is about how many views or. I've been in the business a long time. I can promise you we've never done sugar high view bullshit. But I'd rather have no audience. I would rather live stream to Guy, Josh, Andrew, Justin and Jasmine for a total of six live streamers than to be part of any movement that, that, that's, that's part of. I would tell You. You know the truth and say, Charlie was my good friend, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. Whether Charlie. Charlie was a lot of people's friends. I didn't own Charlie. Charlie. Everyone had a piece of Charlie. Charlie was like that. You out there, my listening audience who know Charlie, you know what I'm talking about. Charlie made everybody feel special. The man had the je ne sais quoi. And if I knew what the je ne sais quoi is, it wouldn't be called the je ne sais quoi. But it doesn't matter that I was his friend. It makes no difference. No human being deserves this. I want to be clear what I'm not saying, and I will never say, if you're not breaking the law, you have every right to speak out and make a fool out of yourself. That is what a republic is about. I've invested my entire business career in platforms that allow people to speak. I fully support that. I do not support any kind of censorship efforts at all. That's a full stop. I just want that out of the way right now. I'm not suggesting anyone else is saying that either, But, folks, this isn't part of any movement I'm familiar with. Oh, hey, man, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe this movement's evolved into something different and it's outgrown me and my friends of mine who, you know, always wanted to conserve generational truths. So be it. But I can't any longer. Look at this like this is some form of infighting. This is not infighting, because again, this kind of stuff is not in any movement I am a part of or want to be a part of. Not now, not ever. Just like I don't want to be a part of any movement that practices Jew hatred, racism, anti black, anti Hispanic, anti Muslim, anything else. I don't want to be part of that movement either. That's not a. I. I wasn't born into a movement. I was born to a mother and a father as a child with God, just like you.
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You choose to be part of a
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movement, there can be a tree house on a piece of property. You can walk the property and not get in the tree house. You choose to walk into the tree house. But I. I have a choice, too, and I don't want to be part of that. I don't want to be part of that. Folks, this last year, man, has been just. It's been one of those years of your life you'll never forget. Oh, we never. No no.
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You know, there are years of your
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life that are very forgettable. Everyone's.
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In some years, not a lot of stuff happens.
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Go to work, you're nine to five, you come home and then you have years where everything happens. It's like the world changes. What's that line that's been repeated so often? Decades go by and nothing happens. And then days go by and decades happen. I didn't make that line up. It's. Forgive me of the quote, but that was last year for me. About 30 years of my life happened in one year. But I can tell you a couple of hours that felt like decades. And it was sitting there on the campus where Charlie was shot in the neck and looking at that table. And it's one of those moments where just time doesn't seem real. Time's a consistent metric, right? A second is a second. Whether it happens now or happens an hour from now. It's still a standard measure of the chronological passage of time. No, it's not. Those weren't seconds. Those were hours. And it was weird because I didn't. I didn't really know how to process what was going on because everyone was staring at me and I didn't know. I just wanted a moment, you know?
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And all I could think about.
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All I could think about was Charlie's. The chill. The children. All I could think about is the children there. The daughter like, where's Daddy? That's all I. All I like. That's all I could think about. And I kept thinking about how when young children, sons and daughters lose their parents. All I kept thinking about in the seconds that seemed like hours, All I kept thinking about is that at what point does. At what point do they wake up and accept the fact that dad isn't coming home? Now we live in this view centric streamer eyeball culture that has a lot of positive benefits. But one of the downsides of it is information that's created is never destroyed. So once you create something like this Bride of Charlie or whatever it is, and I have no doubt millions of people watch it, she has an incredibly large audience. That's just a fact. Everything like a bunch of young kids and grandkids one day are going to see this. I'm telling you, man, that experience, there was never a time in the past year when I was there. And I had told him I'd worked through January, but there was never a time there. More that I felt like I needed to say something and couldn't, was sitting there on that campus at that scene. You know, yesterday I was covering on the show this, this show, I called it, you know, show your ass theory on the left. I said it kind of, you know, jokingly, something I brought up often. How the left has to, to prove their bona fides to their fellow anti Trump crazies, how they have to constantly one up themselves. Someone calls Trump a racist, someone says, he's not a racist, he's a racist and a fascist. And then someone has to say, well, you know what? I'm the real true anti Trumper. He's not only a racist and a fascist, he's a bigot, he hates Jews, and he was a founding member of the KKK or something. And it just gets the elevation of crazy becomes a mechanism to show your ideological purity, whether for or against anything. We're seeing this in people who are claiming the mantle of our side too, where it's not enough to suggest you had questions about what happened that day and how you have this. And then it's, well, they. And then it's, well, she did it, folks. We have to excise this cancer. Well, we'll kill the host. Listen to what I'm telling you. Whether you again, love my show, hate my show, love me or hate me, and I got a lot of people who really hate me. You can't deny the fact that. And I've been around this movement for a long time, been on the candidate side, the security side, the political appointee side, the radio side, the TV side, the podcast side. I'm a nomad. I like to do a lot of things and I like to do them quickly. Written a few books here or there. Who gives a shit? I'm telling you, having been here over a decade now in this, no movement can survive this. This. It can't. It can't. I want to bring up another point. I'm being very careful about how I discuss the family intentionally. You may have sensed that I mentioned yesterday that I don't talk about it much because of, again, the Streisand effect, the Francesca effect too, if you want to look that up. But we've had. And the reason I don't, by the way, is not because it's not interesting for all the wrong reasons. It's just I don't want to draw any more attention. We have had some rather significant security issues here as well. But folks, I'm 6 foot 210 pounds. Okay. I'm generally okay, I think. So we'll see. Even an old 51 years old, I don't walk around all Day terrified about my security situation. Maybe I should, but I don't. I'm nobody's victim. I chose a public life and sadly, this is a part of it. Erica didn't choose this, man. She didn't choose this. Imagine sitting there in your house and you find out from Twitter or, I don't know, a text or a phone call, or that your husband was just shot in the neck for the entire world to see on social media at a public, public event. I can't imagine that. I know you can't either. Then you got to go through this. And you got a bunch of absolute fucking lunatics sending her emails. You did it. Comments, tweets. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Go fuck yourself, you demonic fucking scum. For as much as I hate what just happened, I wish ill on. No one and everyone should restrain their emotions from the other side because they are not on our side. Everyone. Once you go down the road of violence, there's no turning back. There's always someone stronger than you, man. Always. There's a whole lot of people stronger than me. And I'm sorry if the language distracts from you, but I can think of no other New York way to say it than you. You deserve to feel the little licks of the flames of hell on every inch of your body. Fuck you. If there's an afterlife. Oh, and I believe there is. I believe in the second creation. I don't pretend to be the judge and jury, but I know you're not in it. I, I, I gotta tell you, I've been doing this for a really long time now. And as I said in the beginning of the show, I walked into this, into a dark forest. I had, I didn't know where it was gonna go. I did not have this all mapped out because I don't know what to say. People have tried being nice. People have tried screaming and yelling. People have tried a middle of the road approach. Nothing. Nothing works. Ignore it, it metastasizes. Address it, it metastasizes. I wish I had the answer. I can only make decisions for me. I can't make decisions for you as to what you want to watch or what you don't. This isn't about views or who's popular or who's this? I don't care. I'm just telling you I'm making a decision for me now. I don't want to be any part of that. If you're part of that, please leave. If it is, half my audience disappears tomorrow. Good riddance. Sayonara, motherfuckers. I don't want you. Nobody else wants you here. The people who watch this show don't want you here. Same people, and that is a majority of us, hate your guts. We don't want you. Nobody wants you. You were the spawn of Satan, I promise. Your parents, alive or dead, are looking at you now in horror that they spawned the demon. Your last name will live in infamy. Your kids will deny knowing you. I don't want anything to do with you. I see you out there. I know exactly what you're doing. You can just go. It's not an airport. You don't have to announce your fucking departure. Just go. I'm the anti clicks view guy.
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I don't want you.
Dan Bongino
Your views, your clicks, nothing.
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Don't buy anything. Don't do anything. Don't touch anything. We do. Just go away.
Dan Bongino
I know you can't, because you have to spread your cancer everywhere. But we've got warriors in this audience too, who don't want to listen to your fucking bullshit either.
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Are we clear with each other?
Dan Bongino
You can just get the out. I want to tell you something too. For those of you who've lost hope, because there's an audience for this and it's not small. Do not delude yourselves. This is not a small audience. It's not. Folks, I'm a business guy, too. I have other shows. Bongino Inc. Is not just me. It's other people. I live in this space all the time. There is an audience for this stuff. It's sad. I wish we didn't live in a world where there was, but it's very real. But I want you to hold out this little glimmer of hope. I've seen this before. People do not want to be lied to. Folks. I'm sorry, but even morons don't want to be lied to. Because what winds up happening is the morons then go to some cocktail party and spout their moronic bullshit. And then everyone at the party starts laughing at them and the social isolation becomes too much. No. Yes. I'll give you an example. When I was a kid, I may age myself. Do you guys Remember Morton Downey Jr. Morton Downey Jr. Had this like shock jock type TV show and it exploded. If you don't remember who he is, you're actually making my point. If you're my age, even if you're not my age, you're still making my point. You know who Oprah Winfrey is, right? Yeah, I know Oprah. Exactly. Morton Downey Jr. At one point was doing ratings on this TV show and it'd be fights on the show. It was like pre Jerry Springer stuff.
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He was doing this TV show and
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the ratings at one point like rivaled like Oprah Winfrey. Like I never even heard of this guy. Well, the reason is an incident happened at an airport at the end. Some people said it was a hoax. He said it wasn't. He said he was attacked by some neo Nazis. A lot of people called bs. He since died. That was the end of Morton Downey Jr. And his show because a lot of people felt like, I'm being bullshitted here. I'll bring it up with Sean Farish later. But you see the same thing with Rachel Maddow show on MSNow or NBC. Previously, Rachel Maddow built a career off the Russia hoax. Russia. Everything was Russia screaming about Russia and all the fiction that was made about all the fables about Russia. Folks. That show for four years was killing it. I know I was in the business.
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People couldn't believe the ratings that thing was doing.
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I know she's left her nightly show. I don't know if she does a night, a week now, whatever. And she still has a relatively popular podcast. But she's nowhere near the presence she was in the liberal content space because eventually people get tired of being bullshitted. I want you to keep in mind that glimmer of hope eventually over time. I'm not going to say good content wins, but truthful content wins. That's good, Folks. I say this because I'm given my prior experience in both of the spaces. I am extremely concerned about the security situation developing with both the President, Erica and others. It's unfathomable how we live in a world where lunatics try to kill Donald Trump on a pretty sadly regular basis now. And then you've got other lunatics now out there spurring other crazies who may be able to or may be looking at doing the same thing to others. It's just un, unfathomable that you would, you would do that. This is no form of truth seeking, folks. Let's, let's not, let's not play the euphemisms game. This is about one thing and one thing only. Making your ego the center of the entire universe. How many of these incidents do we need to see? A guy just showed up in Mar? A Lago with a shotgun and a gas can was killed. President Trump was shot in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ryan Routh was just convicted of an attempt to assassinate him on a golf course. In Palm beach, folks, the Secret Service, through their protective intelligence, doesn't even expose to the public the litany of threats this president gets every single day. He's the most threatened man in the known cosmos. And we're still doing this. Bride of Charlie. There's no movement I want to be a part of, man. I'd rather have 20 viewers out there. Laura Trump was on. Lara Trump is obviously her father in law, President Trump, married to Eric. Lara Trump was on Fox discussing exactly this point. How much can one man possibly take? Is there ever a point where some of these lunatics are going to say, okay, now I've crossed a red line? I thought I knew the answer to that. I can't say that anymore. Listen to Lara Trump.
Lara Trump
Yeah, well, first of all, I want to commend the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. They did an incredible job. Obviously there were no innocent people who were harmed in this, but you're right, Ainsley. You know, I would like to say I'm surprised by this, but sadly I'm not because this is the third time in two years someone has tried to murder my father in law, our President of the United States. And you know, you would think that something like this would encourage everyone, Republicans, Independents and yes, even Democrats to stand up and say, you know what, we can't operate like this. This stuff isn't okay. It's been deafeningly silent from one side of the political aisle. And I will say I've heard a lot of Republicans come and speak out against this in the past 24 hours. Not a lot of folks from the left. And that is noted by almost everyone in this country.
Dan Bongino
How much more of this are we going to accept? It's not infighting, man.
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It's, they're not us. They are not part of us. They will never be part of us. These people out there, whether it anything from what's going on right now with this, with Candace and this bride of Charlie to this unbelievably serious and tragic now, you know, decades long case with Epstein where it's evolved from this unspeakable tragedy about what happened to Donald Trump eats babies,
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Folks. A compass doesn't work. You know, if we don't, we don't
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have a measure of true north. A movement that devolves into chaos, that
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has no barometer for what true north
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is, is always going to get lost
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in the forest, man.
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There's no, there's no way around it. You see what's happening? Do you see what's happening to this movement. People who realize they can't defeat it
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from the outside are practicing Yuri Besmanov's warnings about the old Soviet Union.
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Well, if we can't beat it from
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the outside, we might as well get some subversives from the inside to kill the host in an internal cancer. Well, I want to be the CRISPR immune technology that attacks that cancer and wipes it out. And if it's at my expense, Fine. But you've had people out there fighting this fight for a long time, folks. Seth Dillon, Ben Shapiro, Graham Allen. I will never forget that day, ever, sitting there. And I got to tell you, not in a thousand lifetimes did I ever think we'd be here having a conversation about a, quote, investigative series called Bride of Charlie. This is revolting. Ah, boy. I don't even know how to like, I could say I walked into the show, into the dark forest here. I've usually got a better idea of paths and segues and all that stuff, how you produce a show, but I don't know what else to say. I just don't. I do have a lot to get to, though. Obviously. It's a huge news day. There's just a ton of stuff going on. We got the State of the Union tonight on a more positive note. President Trump now has tens of millions of viewers and a captive audience to tell the country and the doomers and the liberal media and others about how the world is not collapsing. Okay, I use the analogy of a report card. A report card is only a good barometer of where you stand academically if it actually measures what you're doing. If a report card gave you all Fs and you got 100 on a test, you'd give up because there's no reason to study for a test you're going to fail anyway. In the other direction, if a report card gave you all A's and you got 60s on every test, it's a
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reason for you to keep being lazy because you know you're going to get
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an A even if you don't study.
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The only way a report card, which
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the State of the Union works as a tool is if we're honest and we don't fall prey to doomerism, but we don't fall prey to Pollyanna ish nonsense either.
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I'm never going to do that.
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The State of the Union tonight is a good opportunity to reset a lot of the doomerism out there that has been crushing, crushing enthusiasm for the party in the great country you live in. All Right. I'm going to take a break and get to some other things too. Something that happened yesterday in the media, folks. The overt efforts to attack masculinity and the overt efforts to push this DEI overly feminized culture are just. You're seeing it everywhere. And there's been a revolt against that too. The toxic masculinity argument. And you're seeing it. And it leaves me with a sense of pride that the America you and I both know built on pure unadulterated masculinity is back. I'll show you what I mean involves Pete Hegseth and some others. You see what I mean? Coming up in a second. Let me take a quick break and reset. I appreciate you all being here and hearing me out on that. That was important. Hey, I've been asked this question many times. How can I help protect my family without taking a life? So let me tell you about a product I've used for a while. Byrna. B Y R N A. I have a Burna. I actually have a couple. The guys have them too. Let me tell you. I trust it. Burna's less than lethal launcher fires powerful kinetic and chemical rounds that can incapacitate an attacker for up to 30 minutes. This could give you enough time to get away or call for help. Byrner's new compact launcher is about the size of a smartphone. It's easy to carry, easy to use, and there's no background check required. The burner CL by R N A burner CL fires at up to 400ft per second with serious stopping power and was designed to help with de escalation, not devastation. Byrna's proudly American, assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana. More than 750,000 Burna launchers are already in the hands of law enforcement and responsible citizens who want protection without tragedy. They said, I have a couple. If you believe in being prepared and you believe in restraint, Burna is for you. So go today and check them out and learn more. The website is byrna.com berna.com that's by r n a.com berna.com Go check it out, learn about it. I think you're going to like it. Our next sponsor today is Patriot Mobile. America is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary and the direction of the country is being decided right now. Our culture matters and whom we choose to support matters more than ever in the business space. Most wireless companies don't care who you are or what you believe. They just want your money. Patriot Mobile is different. They've been with us a long time. And for more than 12 years, Patriot Mobile has stood with Americans who believe freedom is worth defending. And they support the Christian conservatives out there and the movement when others stayed silent. So here's the deal. You don't have to give up quality or service when you switch to Patriot Mobile. They deliver premium priority access on all three major U.S. networks. So you get the same or better coverage than you have today. Think switching is a hassle? It isn't. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Their 100% US based customer support team can activate you in just minutes. Still paying off a device. Patriot Mobile even offers a contract buyout. This is a defining year. We gotta work together to save this country. Go to patriotmobile.com dan or call 972 Patriot. Use promo code DAN for a free month of service. That's patriotmobile.com dan or Call 972 Patriot and switch today. Thanks Patriot Mobile. We appreciate it. So yesterday, of course, when I talk about this leftist war against toxic masculinity, folks, is all bullshit. It is. I want to explain to you because
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I don't think this is.
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Sometimes you'll see people get caught on this question. Rarely.
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And it's not their fault.
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And I say people, I mean people who are on our side of the movement.
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They're asked, you know, you know, define
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cancel culture, define critical theory.
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And because the left keeps changing the meaning of it themselves, the answer they
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give sometimes may not be that fluid.
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And it's not their fault.
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It's just the left doesn't even know what it is.
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So it's hard for the right, you know, it's almost like what's that old
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line about what is about, about porn,
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you know, you know it.
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When do you see it? It's hard to describe.
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That's, that's canceling.
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It's like porn for the left.
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You know it when you see it too. But the one way I heard it
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described, and forgive me, you know, I always had to, but I, you know, I'm 51, I don't remember everything I've read attribution wise over the course of the last 40 plus years.
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The best way I've ever heard it described is that these people on the
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left view this faux war because they really don't mean it. Toxic masculinity. They don't believe any of that crap. It's just nonsense. It's a proxy war for them because
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they believe that the white male patriarchy
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is the source of power. That's where the power resides, and that all knowledge derived from that is simply a construct of power. Now, that's.
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That's not exactly how I read it,
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but that's how I've kind of tattooed it on my brain over the years.
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And that's how you get these stupid
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ideas amongst the dei, progressive commie left, neo commie left, where they say things like, well, math is racist.
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No, math is math, folks. Five plus five equals ten. It doesn't matter what your race is. Now if you're listening, today you go,
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Dan, you know, again, hello, Captain Obvious.
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No, it's not Captain Obvious to the left.
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The left knows five plus five is ten.
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But again, if it's taught to you by a member of the white male patriarchy that is the nucleus of what they consider power, then every single bit of knowledge extracted from that power should be questioned. Does it make sense now? That's why they pump this bullshit down your throat about toxic masculinity. It's to get you to question what they consider is the nucleus of all
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power, the white male patriarchy. Folks, it's all bullshit.
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I'm not going to try to explain
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what the white male patriarchy is because
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there's no such thing. I happen to be white. I happen to be male. I'm not part of any treehouse club
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while we're talking about infighting versus outfighting
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that says sign up here for your patriarchy card. Nobody knows what they're talking about.
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Trying to get the language under control after opening up with that tirade.
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Nobody knows what they're talking about. That's why it's hard to describe. And people get crossed up all the time. Tell me about DEI Critical race theory. You know, there's a thousand definitions because the left doesn't even know what I mean.
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The white male patriot. What is lefty, Dear lefty, What's the white male patriarchy? Who's the member? Who's not? Oh, you are.
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You have all the power. Power in the world. I was born to a mother who worked in finest supermarket at 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue at the checkout counter for $3 an hour. What the hell source of power was that?
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Oh, you have power now. You a microphone.
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No one gave me this shit. We started a podcast in my basement, me and producer Joe, God rest his soul. We got 100 listens and we thought it was the greatest thing ever. That's why you see these constant attacks on America. Getting back to respecting and adoring.
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What got us here?
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Masculinity. That doesn't Diminish the role of great women in society. But it doesn't. It fairly acknowledges the role that great men have had. I bring it up because you saw, of course, the fake.
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And it was fake.
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The fake outrage.
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I was on Fox last night talking about it over cash, drinking a beer in the locker room.
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They invited him in.
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He was.
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Folks, as I said last night on Fox, I don't give a damn.
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He loves the usa, loves hockey.
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And as I said last night, I
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guess he loves beer. I thought he was a bourbon guy. They invite him in the locker room. We have a huge footprint in Olympic security. There's a lot of things that were going on that he can't even talk about. And that's why he's. I, you know. And I have to be careful too, what I say. But there's a reason he was there,
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whether you believe it or not. Again, I thought, I don't give a shit.
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Get the fuck out.
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I don't care. You don't have to believe it.
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You weren't there.
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I'm not really interested. The point is the outrage. And by the way, you have the right to an opinion on it.
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I don't like you should have done it.
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Fine, that's your opinion.
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Great.
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I don't care. The outrage is fake. I'll prove it to you. Because it's not about him. It's about attacking every single member of the Trump team that engages any of this type. Behavior that celebrates manhood, testosterone, bravery, courage, strength. Any of these attributes you would associate with traditional masculinity. They've got a bash all the time. Sometimes a guy just likes sports, wants to drink a beer.
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Here's what I'm talking about.
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So I saw this tweet pop up
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on my timeline yesterday. I wanted to vomit. This is Amora C. Sullivan. As a Marine, I learned to put mission first and focused on winning our nation's wars. Well, thank you for your service. I mean, it doesn't mean your opinion's valid. If the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, wants to be a third rate fitness influencer, he should go do that and let a qualified adult run the Pentagon.
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What's the big brouhaha about this time?
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First it was cash drinking a beer.
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So Pete, who's by the way, 45
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years old, did a motivational video working out with the guys where he benched bench press, obviously £315.
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Which if you know Pete.
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I don't know what Pete weighs.
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He's pretty tall.
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He's taller than me.
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Maybe he's about 210. That's pretty darn impressive, folks.
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Listen to me. I've been lifting a long time.
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I benched 315 when I was like 21. I don't even think I could bench 225 anymore. That's. And we're about the same weight. I'm just a few years older. That's pretty freaking impressive. It doesn't matter if it was impressive. Who's back? The Daily Yeast author, remember from the other day, Anabella Ruskiglioni, who I'm pretty sure can't bench 3.1 pounds. Pentagon Pete can't stop posting cringe workout videos. Why does it bother you that the Secretary of War, to instill a culture of pride in physical conditioning and to lead from the front, is posting videos meant to motivate the others out there who maybe don't want to work out
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or in our fighting force?
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Oh, I don't do it. Now he's saying, look, if I'm doing it, you have to do do it, too. If I'm going to run the place, then you're going to do it too. It's. The point is, it's all bullshit. I promise you. If that was Joe Biden.
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Forget Joe.
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If that was Joe Biden benching 100 pounds, they would have been like, my gosh, look at this guy. Look at the vitality. He looks like a young Lou Ferrigno. Remember, Joe Biden fell. When he fell off the bike, they were sitting there, they were like, oh, my God, look at the athleticism as he couldn't get. If he would have been able to get his feet out clips, he would have jumped up and done a complete backflip, folks.
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They hate every single thing America stands for. And America has been built on this bedrock of hell to the. Yeah, we are going to be aggressive. We are going to be entrepreneurial. We are going to take risks.
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Those are all attributes that have been
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associated with traditional versions of manhood.
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And when you're a leftist and you
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believe the white male patriarchy is the source of all power, is the nucleus of all power. And that knowledge comes from that.
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Every bit of knowledge that comes from
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the patriarchy needs to be questioned.
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Whether it's math or not, this is the kind of stuff you engage in.
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Anabella Riscaglione, who didn't know a damn thing about the President's Daily Brief and humiliated herself.
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And yet another stupid article.
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This is what the US Is really about. Did you see the US Men's hockey team? No. I know the victory you Saw that. So the US Men's hockey team, which just won the gold against Canada in an unbelievable performance.
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And, you know, is it a comparison
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of Miracle on Ice? Probably not. Miracle on Ice was a miracle. There's no way a group of college kids should have beat the Soviet team. No way. There's no.
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There's no way.
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It'd be like you hitting a home run off Roger Clemens.
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And, I mean, you like the person
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in the chat right now who's never
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played baseball in your life. That's the equivalent of what happened with the Miracle on Ice. But there's no taking away that this was an amazing moment for a great country and that the players could not have handled it in any more of a patriotic or dignified manner. God bless him. But showing you like this is a hell yeah moment. And sometimes it's okay to, like, crack
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a beer or do whatever you, you
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know, celebrate a little bit. We don't have to be a bunch
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of stiffs all the time.
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The US Team, because of the snowstorm
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in the northeast, they were supposed to fly back to jfk. That got diverted to an airport I know all too well.
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Miami. Well, one thing about Miami, which you
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fellas might know, maybe not. Miami's quite a party town. I spent a lot of time in Miami, Paul, and I. I love Miami. It is my second favorite place on earth, next to my home. If you haven't visited and you're a conservative, please come down. If you're a liberal, place is closed. No more new. No more new admittance. Sorry.
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They decided to pop into a club.
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The USA Hockey team.
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And good for you guys.
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I know the stiffs out there.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I party in a club.
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Yes.
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And this is what happened when they popped in the club. Check this out. Now, that's me. Some America. And that's what Annabella Risciglione, the Daily Yeast, and all these leftist lunatics are so, so eager to destroy. Folks, it's an imperfect country. That's fairly obvious. Look at that chat blowing up. You guys are going to melt the chat down. Look at that chat. American flags everywhere. God bless you all. I love being part of this. Amen, brother. I can't even stop it now. I was trying to stop. Hold on. Let me hear that. Chris Broyles. I said K R I S B R O Y L E S. Look at that chat, man. You're gonna. You're gonna cause, like, a technical meltdown at Rumble. Oh, you guys are the best.
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That's why I love being here.
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That's why I never worry about all this stuff, man. I don't. I don't worry about it. I am just always honored to live in this amazing country at this amazing time. To haven't served multiple times and to just be surrounded by amazing people like you and just have. You just let that thing roll, man.
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Look at, look at that chat. We haven't had that chat fly like
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that in a long time, man.
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Chris gonna call me from Rumble. Be like, they melted the chat again.
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People love this country. I love this country. And there's so many good things happening.
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All we need is a report card. Not everybody needs an A, but not everything's an F either. We got the State of the Union coming up tonight. It's the opportunity for you all to stand up and clap and go, my gosh. We've got, you know, China building a nuclear arsenal, the Russians in a war in Ukraine. We've got all this stuff going on. Congo, Rwanda, you've got UAE versus Saudi
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and all these places.
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You've got drug wars. And you know what? The United States is still kicking ass and taking names. It's incredible. You are. You have been blessed to be born in the. Think about this. In the most incredible country at the most incredible time. There isn't, folks, there has not been a person born before you had is that has ever been born into a world so wealthy thanks to the production, power and military might of this amazing
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country we call the United States of America.
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And you damn well better be proud of it. I'm proud, bags. That's pension 315. I'm actually quite jealous in the most manpanion kind of way. I'm damn happy that cash down to brusky.
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Good.
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I'm damn proud that President Trump continues to rack up W's despite two fake impeachments, 62,000 fake criminal investigations, massive weaponization against them, and just about every single piece of the media telling you he's a fascist, racist Nazi every day. I'm proud of him. Given the double barrel middle finger to all of these dipshits and still racking up a win loss record like we've never seen.
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Folks, elections are about choices, man.
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Elections are about choices.
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That's a stupid cliche.
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Yeah, because it's true. An election is a choice. Sometimes binary, sometimes more than that. But in a republic, elections are about choices.
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Why am I saying the fairly obvious?
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Because those choices have to be made on results, not on talk. They have to be made on results. And he is going to have the opportunity tonight to lay out some of those results.
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So hopefully you can make a choice in November about what direction you want the party to go in.
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Those are going to be imperfect choices. Some of you out there, and you know who you are, have really shitty
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congressmen who are on the ballot. I'm not talking about Democrats. I don't vote for Democrats ever. Period. End the story.
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Some of you have bad congressmen.
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You just do. They're rhinos.
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They're fake Republicans. I'm telling you, the alternative in this level 10 choice you have, we have a shitty choice and a shittier one is a Democrat who's going to impeach a president and screw the whole country
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up for the next two years.
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So I can't have anyone fall prey
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to a report card that's all Fs and doomerism. And here's what I mean. The Democrats are more than happy to do this through their media outlets at the New York Times and elsewhere.
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I saw this piece.
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I mentioned it yesterday, but there was
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so much in this disgusting, horrifying piece
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out of the New York Times, so much gaslighting. Yeah, leave that on the screen for a minute.
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That I wanted to just do a
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segment on this, just briefly before we get to Sean Farish the piece.
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I rarely would send you that in
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the New York Times, but I encourage
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you to actually read this just to
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see the insanity we're dealing with.
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The piece is titled Trump Claims a
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Historic Turnaround for the U.S. here are the facts, folks.
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This piece is nuts. Every single Trump W. And I'm not.
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I'm not going to go through every
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single one they address.
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I'm going to go through about four of them.
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Every single huge, enormous Trump W they have an explanation for. That's absolute horseshit. If this was so easy to do to get inflation down from Biden's 9% peak, then why didn't Biden do it? If it was so easy to get the crime rates and murder rates, not the same thing.
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Murders a crime, but not all crimes
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are murder to historic low levels we've never seen in American history, then why didn't Team Biden do it? Let's go through this piece one by
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one because I want you to be able to dissect this bullshit piece by piece.
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Here's their explanation on inflation.
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This is freaking hilarious. They're talking about how Donald Trump inherited the worst inflation in the history of the country. Now we have almost no inflation. They say that's false. Inflation is slowed under President Trump and they call him Mr. Trump. I mean, President Trump, but not by
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drastic margins, he's claiming. And the prices are still increasing above the 2% set by the Federal Reserve. So if you're a lunatic or a doomer and you read that, you're like,
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oh, wow, like President Trump really didn't
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do anything about inflation. But I remember inflation hitting 9% under Joe Biden and it's leveled off at about 2.4% now. So listen, I'm not a math major, but I'm reasonably confident 2.4 is less than 9. Anyone in the chat disagree?
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I'm not.
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There's some charts up on this too. And you'll notice like a pattern if
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you can actually do data analysis or if your eyeballs even work. Wow.
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You'll notice that in June of 2022. Do you guys know who the President was just in 2022?
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I don't remember
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June. In June of 2022, during the Biden presidency.
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Justin's confused. He's like, I wasn't ready for that question. He forgot him. He's got his hoodie on in there. Looks like he just got off a
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weekend bender in June of 2022. This is the New York Times own chart to debunk that Trump has not been like a warrior against inflation. You see 9.1%. It's their own chart, bro. Just look at it. And then you see The Trump years. January 2026. Who's president.
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Yeah.
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2.4, 9.1. 2.4. 9.1, 2.4. This their own chart. How do you explain. I don't understand how you explain it. How are you looking at this chart if you're a liberal lunatic and not thinking, wow, Trump's got a point. Is inflation zero?
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No, it's not zero.
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And the New York Times. See, because I'll give you the truth, I'm not going to bullshit you like
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the New York Times.
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The Fed does set a target of 2% inflation.
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I think it should be 0%. That's not my call.
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The Fed sets it at 2, so it is above at 2.4. And Biden, it was not Biden. It was 9. Can you not do math? Believe it or not, this article gets even worse. This article should. The President. If I were the President, I would whip this article out of my pocket at the State of the Union tonight and point to the New York Times own charts. Here was a Biden peak. Here's inflation. Now here's the job numbers.
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They're like, you know, President Trump really end up in that great on jobs.
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And then in the Actual graph. I am not bullshitting you. These are the graphs in the New York Times piece, is why I'm encouraging
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you to read it.
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In the actual piece, it says more people are in the workforce, but the percent employed is flat under Trump. So in other words, despite massive deportations of illegals who should not have been here, tens of millions of people and President Trump leave this chart up a second. Shrinking the federal government workforce, which was a necessary downsizing, by 10%, quote, more people are still in the workforce. It's right there in their own chart. Oh, you're right.
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He's been terrible about jobs, shrinking the
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government workforce, deportations of illegals, and yet more people are in the workforce now. It's their own chart. Bro,
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I swear to you, if I was the president, I would whip this thing out and be like, look, fellas,
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this is your own chart. This is.
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This is your own chart.
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It gets better.
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Something I was involved in with many other partners under the president's leadership. It's not about you.
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The murder rate and the crime rate, why would that be important? Well, the number one rule of the damn Bongino show is don't get freaking dead. Because if you're dead, you're dead. When you're dead, there's no coming back. You know why? So coming back because you're dead.
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So they give this quote about, with Donald Trump in an NBC interview about crime being a mess in the past. It's the lowest crime we've had in 100 years, since 1900.
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Day night. This is exaggerated. President Trump has a point. Andrew, you laughing at this like I am
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this.
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They note. So President Trump say you get a victory lap on crime. Then they state, this is their words, not mine. President Trump has a point that homicides are projected to reach a 125 year low in 2025. And broader categories of crime, too are projected to decline. They don't. Here's the caveat. But that did not represent a Stark reversal from 2024. Wait, wait, it gets better.
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Put up the next one about the property crime. The charge of.
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It's the New York Times own piece. Here's the headline in the graph in the piece. I'm sorry, man, this is freaking hilarious. Homicides expected to hit a historic low, but were declining before Trump took office. Look at the numbers. You see this dramatic dip at the end? That's the Trump presidency for the presidency for the liberal dipshits. I can't read a chart that at the end, all the way over there at the end of the Screen. Those are the Trump years. 25 into 26. And not only do you see a drop, but you see a percentage drop that's never been seen in American history. So, in other words, Trump comes into office and historical crime trends due to police technology were going down.
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No doubt you see it in the chart yourself.
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However he comes into office, I want
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you to think about something.
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Do you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns?
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I don't want to, like, try to sound like Captain Smarty Pants, but you know what I mean.
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When you go into a neighborhood, I'll
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give you an example. I'm not going to say what place, but when we were doing an FBI op, I don't know, I'll call it Operation Bluetooth. That wasn't the name of it, but
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we went in early and we basically
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cleaned this place out.
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We did a felony warrants operation with
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the locals and probably locked up a couple hundred people in a relatively small place.
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And, folks, the crime rate collapsed dramatically almost overnight. Because not a lot of people commit crime. It's not a big mystery. The point is, we went back in later and I'll never forget, was it
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the police chief or the mayor who called. We did a lot of these ops,
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and he's like, hey, guys, we appreciate the help and we welcome it, but we're running out of bad guys to catch. That's the whole point. Donald Trump came into office with crime trending down over decades and still managed not only to make it the lowest it's ever been, but the percentage drop is also the biggest percentage drop we've ever seen. And they still can't give him credit for it. You may say, well, what about, like, property crime and all that other stuff? Okay, you'll go to the New York Times on piece. I'm telling you, the President should keep this in his pocket. Whip this sucker out tonight and use this piece.
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Put up that piece there about property.
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It says not only are, like, homicides gone down, but these are general crimes, too, that have gone down.
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There's another piece on that, Property crimes.
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It says while the Council on Criminal justice did not release estimates for violent or property crimes for 2025, this guy that they're citing here believes preliminary data shows declines in those broader categories, too. This is the Times. Trump sucks. Here's all his. Here's all the things he did really well, though, that we're telling you he sucks about.
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One last one and I'll move on.
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Here he is on the border. They're trying to attack him on his border successes saying this is as big
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a deal as you think.
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That ladies and gentlemen, is called a chart, a bar graph. Look at the chart. If you listen on Apple and Spotify, I'll give you the headline of the chart. You don't even need to look at it. This is in the New York Times own piece, Trump sucks on the border headline Illegal border crossings are sharply down under Trump. This is their own peace man.
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It's their own peace.
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If I were a conservative,
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a MAGA
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movement person, a libertarian, I would print
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this New York Times piece or bookmark
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it and keep a copy with me
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and hand it out to your liberal friends.
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I said can you guys explain all this to me? If Trump's report card is all Fs, how come the New York Times giving them all A's and telling you they're all Fs? How come?
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How come that's happening? How come that's happening?
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You see why I get so pissed off at the doomers out there?
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I'm all about accountability and transparency. There are a lot of things that still have to happen. We got three more years.
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But you're never going to gauge your academic or professional workforce success by giving everybody Fs all the time because someone pissed in your freakin Cheerios and you didn't get a job or whatever.
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It's freaking frustrating man.
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And what's the alternative? What are you going to vote for in November?
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Are you going to vote for the Democrats?
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What are the Democrats offering you? You want to see how bad it is for the Democrats right now? In case you think there's some blue dog viable alternative that better represents my worldview. Unless you believe in weaponized government, high taxes, government run health care and sitting in an emergency room all day because you can't find a freakin doctor dying of an infection. That party ain't for you, man. Do you guys know this clip is.
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It's a little over a minute but it's worth your time. Sorry for the sniffles there. I'm not sick. It's very cold in here. It's like 45 degrees intentionally. You guys know Fareed Zachariah from CNN?
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This guy is a CNN guy, he's
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obviously like a lefty.
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I saw this segment yesterday, I debated putting up. This is Fareed Zachariah talking about Democrat big city policies and how all the promises they've made are just falling apart. This was on cnn. This is your alternative. They're turning on their own people. They're like hey man, this mom dummy has been in office just a little bit. You're asking for all this money for all these people and you're producing shit and garbage. This is not the Dan Bongito show.
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Well, it is.
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This is free.
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Zachariah, check this out.
Fareed Zakaria
Zoran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.
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A mandate for a city we can afford.
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Last week he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York City's budget has ballooned in recent years, and much of it has happened as the city has been losing the one thing that makes big government easier to find, finance people. New York City's population fell sharply amid the pandemic, with a 5% decline from April 2020 to July 2022. The arithmetic is brutal. A larger bill is divided among fewer payers. New York already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum for high earners. The combined state plus city income tax reaches 50 14.776%. Add federal taxes and the combined marginal rate can exceed 50%, reaching roughly 55% on certain investment income. Zoran Mamdani's basic instinct is correct focus on affordability, especially housing. But not by providing government subsidies. These only seem to have driven up the cost of rent, as subsidies naturally do. The city's rental assistance spending rose from 263 million in fiscal year 2020 to 1.34 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year. That is a five times increase in a handful of years. And housing costs only got worse. Matt Iglesias persuasively argues that the city should make it easy and routine to just build abundant market rate housing. That will bring in more people, expand the tax base, fill the schools and increase local gdp.
Dan Bongino
Why am I playing this now? I'm playing this now because I always like to have tendons and ligaments tie the show together. Because people think in narratives. They do, they think in stories. And the story should make sense. And it should have chapters, but it should make sense. You know, I talked about in the beginning of the show how what's perceived to be infighting on the right has to be out fighting. These people cannot be a part of this movement if they are. I have to become. I don't become my own movement. I don't care. I just don't want to be a part of that.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
But I don't want you to think
Dan Bongino
that any of this is. Anyhow, there's nothing new under the sun, folks.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Political fighting, intra party, extra party is as old as time itself. You're allowed to have different ideas I don't believe in any way in censorship, but I played this clip because I don't want you to think like this is an exclusive problem on the right.
Dan Bongino
And I say that with air quotes because some of these people, like I said, aren't on the right. They're just pretending to be.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
The left is having this very same problem. You know, when you. You know. Was that Friedman told Walter Williams, when you talk about liberty, talk about it with a smile. You live in the greatest country on earth. There are problems to fix. There's no need to live with this black cloud, like, oh, this is the worst thing ever. Everything's falling apart. Nothing's falling apart. We're going to be fine in the end. People always seek truth in the end, but the left is having the same issue. They keep promising people things are going to get better as things get worse. And just like Morton Downey Jr. Or Rachel Maddow's ratings, eventually, over time, people get tired of being lied to. No, they don't. Yes, they do. It takes time, a long time, but it happens. New York City's not there yet. They're not, Dan.
Dan Bongino
They won't get there.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
They will. It may not be in the next 10 years, but I promise, when things
Dan Bongino
get bad enough, they will.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Remember that shirt we used to have? Are things bad enough yet?
Dan Bongino
They're not bad enough for people in New York yet.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Don't tell me it's not going to happen. I lived it. I lived in New York. I worked there as a police officer in the Giuliani years. Giuliani ran for mayor in New York.
Dan Bongino
Yeah.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
He won. No, he didn't. He lost. He did. Yes. Go look it up. He ran against Stinkins. David Dinkins. They called him Stinkins. Worst mayor ever. He lost the first time. People were like, how did he just lose? The city, folks, was 10 times worse
Dan Bongino
than it is now.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
And then after he lost, things got
Dan Bongino
bad enough, he comes back, he wins,
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
and then he wins reelection against Ruth Messenger, I think, by like, 18 points. In New York, a city that was like 10 to 1, Democrat to Republican, everything I told you, whether it's podcasts,
Dan Bongino
political life goes in that scallop pattern. You have your ups, you have your downs. But conservatism is the idea that you have this regression line that constantly goes up as you conserve the benefits and
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
the power
Dan Bongino
of good ideas resistant to time. You stick with that, good ideas resistant to time, and keep it as your true north and your compass, you're going to be fine. You're going to deal with a lot of bullshit. You deal with a lot of haters, a lot of Twitter superheroes, a lot of scumbags. But in the end, your compass works and theirs doesn't.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Things will change.
Dan Bongino
They always do. Just not now. New York City wasn't ready, but they will be. It may take two terms Imam da me for them to realize it, but you're going to get it exactly what you vote for, and you're going to get it good and hard. I want to play this one last piece of video because speaking about getting the message out there, one of the things the Republican Party has not been particularly good about over the decades I've been involved, involved is we've not been particularly good at messaging. I know that it's overused, that term messaging, but it's overused because it's a constant problem. The Republican Party's had this problem over the years of like, walking into a methadone clinic and talking about the Laffer Curve. I said this often. A friend of mine gave me this example once. It's not mine.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
The Laffer curve is true about marginal tax rates.
Dan Bongino
Laffer not like laughing, like Lafferart. Laffer. Laffer, you can look it up.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
But people in a methadone clinic, in a drug crisis don't want to hear about the freaking Laffer Curve. We've been really terrible at this. We don't make issues bleed. People have to feel them.
Dan Bongino
It has to have almost a tactile kind of touch to it.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
The Democrats are just really good at
Dan Bongino
this, playing on people's intentions and their lack of results. That's why they win a lot.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
They never win on results. They don't have any. Every place they're in charge basically sucks.
Dan Bongino
The master of this, however, is Donald Trump. Nobody knows how to use messaging to get a point across.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
And messaging is a real thing, folks.
Dan Bongino
People have to feel an issue to be motivated to vote on it. And I applaud him for making this illegal immigration issue that has plagued our country for decades very real and him finally fixing it. It was a very emotional event yesterday. It was on the same time as our show. I know a lot of people are watching it and watch later on demand, but he had a bill signing at the White House involving illegal immigration, and he had a Palm beach county police officer up on the state floor of the White House who gave just an unbelievable, just quick, brief speech. This is just a snippet of it, but you should listen to this. Check this out.
Ethan Carreri
My name is Ethan Carreri. I'm a police officer in Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former New York City police officer. While serving the New York City Police Department, I personally arrested Jose Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child. A few months later, I saw his face again in the news. After he viciously murdered Lake and Riley, I did my job. I put him in custody. The system failed. No detainer, no accountability, no deportation. And an innocent American life was taken. If you enter our country illegally, there will be consequences. Under this administration, the American citizens must always come first to Lake and Riley's family. Your loss should have never happened. We owe it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, secure our border and protect innocent lives.
Dan Bongino
God bless you, sir. You're darn right. And thank you for your service. And thank you, President Trump, for allowing us to hear from this fine gentleman. That's how it's done. We're human beings, folks. We're not Tesla robots. Okay? God blessed you with a set of emotions and feels or whatever you want to call them. It's a gift, only you're like that. You have all the AI you want. It feels nothing and it never will. It can fake it, it can simulate it, but I promise you, what you felt when you listened to that was very real. There's no faking anything. I hope to hear more of that at the State of the Union tonight, which we'll obviously cover in detail tomorrow. I have coming up next for you, a guy I know a lot of you in the chat really love, Sean Farish. I want you to look him up on X and Rumble. He has his own show on Rumble called Ungoverned. It's Sean with a W N S H a W N Farish. F A R A S H. I promise you will. You're going to love this guy. You may have known, you may have seen him in some of the Trump impersonation videos, but he's far deeper than Trump impersonations. That's just a small fraction of what he does. So I've got him coming up, standing by. So stay tuned. Get ready for one of the best interviews you're going to see in a long time. A guy's fantastic, folks. I've been on the inside, seen how a lot of these government programs work. There's a lot more broken than you can even imagine. One of the most broken systems I've addressed often on the show is Medicare. Most people think they're getting accurate information. Some Medicare agents might push Medicare Advantage plans, cuz that's where the commissions are not because they're actually best for you. That's why I'm telling you about chapter, Chapter C H A P T E R. Chapter doesn't work for big insurance. And they don't take marching orders from Washington. They're independent. They can help walk you through every option. Original Medicare Supplement Advantage, Part D. And they tell you exactly what you gain, what you give up, and what it really costs. One woman, Jill, said her chapter advisor showed her options she didn't even see on Medicare's own website. Does that sound like a system that's working to you? It's not. It's broken. If you want more clarity, here's what to do. Dial £250 on your phone and say, medicare Help. The average senior who connects with chapter saves about $1,100 a year just by getting honest advice. You can't beat that. So if you're on Medicare or getting close, don't guess. Dial pound 250 and say, Medicare help. That's pound 250 and say Medicare help. What a pleasure to Ed. Welcome to the show. Not a good friend, a great friend, a patriot. He's funny, he's insightful. He is a. An up and coming rock star in this conservative content space, my good friend, Sean Farah. Sean, welcome to the show.
Sean Farish
Thank you, Dan. So, so excited. And I really appreciate you having me today. I'm excited.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Well, I hope to make this a
Dan Bongino
more regular segment because, you know, when I, when I first met you, and I want you to talk about this a little bit, just how you kind of jumped into the podcast and content creation space, you know, everybody said, oh,
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
he came out of nowhere.
Dan Bongino
You know, I used to tell people, yeah, I'm an overnight success that took 12 years or whatever it is. It's not the way any of this works.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
You plugged away.
Dan Bongino
You do a very, very, I mean, a scary good Trump impression to the point where every time Donald Trump would actually call my radio show, I would ask producer Jim, is that real or is that Sean Farish? I swear you laugh, but you know it's true. I can't even tell the difference. But you have a show@rumble rumble.com LF. Look up Sean Farris, Sean with a WN and you can find his amazing podcast.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
And you've been kind of branching out
Dan Bongino
into content creation and you do an amazing show. You fill in for Vince.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
How did it all start?
Dan Bongino
How'd you get into the space? Tell us.
Sean Farish
Well, I'll tell you what. So the I've told this story before, and everyone loves it. The Dan Bungino origin story for me was I was stuck in traffic on the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, and I was so mad, I needed something to listen to. And that was the, the first time I listened to your show. And you were flipping out, going, nuts, Spy. He's a spy. Spy. I'm sitting there going, this guy's great. And then I'm also sitting here saying, but this is, this is almost sounds a little unbelievable. But you know what you do? You bring the receipts, right? So I'm sitting there going, well, he's got the receipts. I'm going to listen to, like, everything that Dan Bongino says. I'm going to. I'm a new listener to the show. And so that's, that's where it started for me in terms of how I was introduced to your content and why I bring that up and is because when Covid hit New York, you know, you had the phrase, talk is cheap. The do matters. And everybody in, in New York was very, very upset with how Andrew Cuomo was, was treating us. You know, boot was on the neck. We had curfews. Essential versus non essential workers. He's doing these long, drawn out press conferences. I was sitting at work. I worked in a paint store at the time. I took my Bluetooth speaker and broke it. I threw it across the store. When I heard him use the term new normal, I said, I want absolutely no part of that. You know, it scared the crap out of me thinking, oh, what the new normal is going to be? We can't go out. We can't be with our friends. Ten people or less. What are we doing? And so I decided to start posting on Facebook. You know, hey, everybody, meet me at this parking lot. Let's, let's just, you know, put flags in our cars and we'll do like, you know, these birthday parades, right? Because you couldn't have birthday parties. And instead we did these, you know, these Trump Caravans. They were doing them with the boats on Long Island. So I said, let's just do them with cars. You know, I'd seen some of these boat ones. And I said, oh, why don't we all just, why don't we just go for a drive? And we did it. I thought, you know, 15, 20 people were going to show up. It was going to be a cool little thing. 300 vehicles showed up, and it turned into this massive movement. The next we. At the. Two weeks after that, our second one, we had 5,000 vehicles showed up. We did it, we did one down Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. We put 10,000 on the road going from, you know, you know, Long Island, Valley Stream, or basically not Valley Stream. It was about, I don't know, Seaford, Seaford train station, all the way down to Montauk. We had a plane flying around the Lighthouse. It was so cool. And it was because of that movement that we started to kind of push back against Cuomo and support Trump in 2020 that I got really involved in hands on grassroots activism. We were knocking on doors for a. To get a New York City councilwoman. She's a councilwoman now. Vicki Palladino on the ballot in March.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I know Vicky.
Dan Bongino
She's a rock star with Vic.
Sean Farish
She's amazing. So we were knocking on doors to get signatures to get her on the ballot. And a friend of mine says, sean, you got to go on TikTok and do that Trump thing you do. And I said to him, I said, jimmy, that's China. We don't do. I get along well with China, but I don't want to deal with China. He goes, no, you got to deal with China. Go on there now. And so I started making these videos, and it was all because of that, right? So, you know, for me, it started because I decided, you know, like you said, talk is cheap. The do matter, so get in and start doing. And. And it created this great thing. And by the way, you know, that. That movement, we called it the Loud majority because why be silent if there's more of us than there are of them? And, you know, we flipped school board seats, county executive seats, so there was a lot of stuff that went on there. It's still rolling today on Long Island. Friend of mine, Kevin Smith is running it. You know, he was a co founder of mine, and it's a great story there, too, but that's really how it all got started. And we decided, because we were getting banned all over the place, YouTube, Facebook, that we would do three days a week, Kevin and I, and keep our group, the folks who are following us, informed. And I modeled it essentially after, you know, what you were doing, right? You know, we did show notes, email, and we did it on Rumble and made sure nobody was there. So there's a lot of. There's a lot of kind of watching what you did and how you built this extremely successful operation and saying, look, you know, let's just copy and paste it and let's make it work. And I'll tell you what, it worked. And, you know, six years later, now it's a. It's amazing to see, you know, how far your show has gotten. Number one live stream in the world. It's awesome. And the opportunities that are coming my way, I'm just so grateful, so blessed to be given every opportunity. It's awesome.
Dan Bongino
Well, Sean, you know, the best way for you to pay that back is not to pay it back to me because I don't deserve it because someone gave it to me, too. It's to find another great, strong, conservative personality and lift them up. You know, I always appreciate it when people say, hey, thanks for the advice. Thanks for taking my call on this. Take the whole model, run with it. You deserve it. I'm not entitled to this entire audience. I'm just grateful they're here. But you're going to find someone yourself one day who's really talented, who maybe has a couple hundred viewers, and you think this person deserves 10,000 or 100,000
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and lift them up, too.
Dan Bongino
You know, really, that's the way to build a movement and not just make it about yourself. If one for Levin and Hannity and others who gave me a shot early on when I was a big nobody, I wouldn't be in the position to help you. So the greatest thanks in the world is to lift up others. It's, as you know, it's not about us.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I want to get into some serious
Dan Bongino
stuff because you have some. Like I said, you're an activist. I know a lot of people may know you from your Twitter at Sean, again with a WN at Sean. Underscore farish.
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Far as how did the Trump impersonation thing even start?
Dan Bongino
I mean, did you just, like, do impersonations or did you just one day do it at a party and someone was like, dude, that's creepy. Good, because it is. It's really, really like, I can't tell the difference side by side.
Sean Farish
So it's, it's funny you mentioned, like, doing it at a party, right? So I was, I was, I was actually selling DirecTV, you know, the satellite way back in the 2016 election cycle and face to Face, you know, contrary to what many people may think, I was definitely a class clown in college, in high school, and I went to school for radio. I did a lot of people's, you know, voices and their projects and all that. But I'm selling DirecTV and I would get customers. I'm on Long island, and they'd be talking to me and saying, if I switch, you know, am I going to be able to keep Fox News? And I knew at that point, this is probably a conservative. So I would just look them dead in the eye, face to face. What. What are. What's the worst they're going to do? They're going to tell me no. Okay. They're probably going to tell me no anyway. You know, you got to go through a bunch of rejection to get the sale. So I looked them. I look them in the eye, and I would just go, do I look like somebody who would make you watch the fake news? We're going to make sure you have Fox News. It's going to be great.
Dan Bongino
You're going to love it.
Sean Farish
And they're like, whoa, what was that? I said, I don't know. You want it or not?
Ethan Carreri
Not.
Sean Farish
I'm saving your money. It's a great deal, you know, and so. And it was. I did it in there. I got out of selling cable because that kind of went by the wayside with streaming and all of those things, and started doing that with paint. You know, I was working for a paint company and selling. Selling paint. I said, you know, it puts itself on the wall. It's the greatest. You look at it, it puts itself. You're not even gonna have to try. It's beautiful. You look like Michelangelo. I got along well with Michelangelo.
Dan Bongino
I don't even need paint. I buy paint from. I just painted my house. I painted again.
Sean Farish
My contractors were.
Dan Bongino
All.
Sean Farish
The contractors were all, like, blue collar guys. You know, they were so. They were like, this is great. Trump's great. I would bump on. I would bump into some of these guys at rallies and stuff. It was just awesome. So, you know, that's kind of how it became a thing. And then, as I said, we were door knocking. Get a candidate on the ballot. Vicki, who's amazing, I mean, who has been just an absolute, like, firecracker every single day. And, you know, a friend of mine told me, go on TikTok and do it. And I did it. And that's where it explained, exploded. And then people came to my Twitter and. And it's been like that for six years. But that's how it all got started. I was doing it selling. I did it at a work event. We were bowling. Somebody threw a strike. I told them, you knocked the pins down like Rosie o' Donnell at an old. You could eat buffet. You know, by the end of the night, they were like, all right, that's enough. Because some of them weren't, you know, Trump fans. But it was.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
That's how we did it.
Sean Farish
It was. It was just kind of a fluky Thing. And now it's a thing. It's awesome.
Dan Bongino
You've made it, you know, you made it work for you as an entree, as an. Excuse me, as. As an entrance into the space. And that's kind of what happened with me early on. And, you know, people would call me from Fox or whatever and ask for commentary on Secret Service stories. And eventually I said, you know, that's great. I'm happy to do that. But, you know, like you, I have other interests, and if you guys want me to comment on it, fine. And then that's how the whole thing just exploded. And you had Mark and Sean and others give me a shot, and it just blew up from there. Let me get to a. A serious topic I really wish we didn't have to get to. But I. I've seen you take in a. Taking multiple very brave stands against what's going on with this. And I'm using air quotes here, if you're listening on Apple or Spotify, against what's called infighting. Sean, a lot of what's happening right now, and I addressed it earlier in the show, whether it's just the ruthless attacks against Erica Kirk. I mean, I don't even know if ruthless is an adequate term for the almost satanic nature of what's going on right now, the demonic nature. But, Sean, this is. This isn't infighting, okay? We have to think of a party, okay? You're free to have any idea you'd like as long as you don't break the law in a republic.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
But we have to think of our
Dan Bongino
party like a clubhouse almost. And the clubhouse has rules. You don't want the rules too strict or no one's going to join. And you don't want them to lose
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
because then you're going to get people
Dan Bongino
who are joined, who are cancer, to the clubhouse, don't pay the dues, don't want to do any of the work, don't want to clean the clubhouse or whatever it is. So you have to find that balance. The balance is clearly tipped in the other direction with a lot of people who at this point, it's clear only here to kill the host. This is not infighting. These people should be treated no different than the New York Times, the Washington Post or anyone else. They are not allies. These are enemies 100%.
Sean Farish
You know, a lot of these folks are, whether it was in June, you know, and making these, these declarations that we were going towards with Iran. Some folks even told members of our military to take a dishonorable discharge because she didn't like the way certain people were talking about Israel and Iran. I could not believe. That's like a felony. If you're in the military and you get dishonorably discharged, that basically is like a felony. It affects your rights to own weapons. And why? Because some podcaster told you to do it and you thought it was this righteous battle to. To. To undertake. It's not. You're going to throw your life away doing that. And a lot of people have, have, you know, been served this. I call them outrage addicts. Right? Because they are literally addicted to being upset about something. They couldn't even go 24 hours after our hockey team won without complaining that Cash Patel drank a beer. They don't know that Cash Patel is a hockey player. That he grew up on Long Island. That, yes, he is a New York Islanders fan, which makes me very happy because I'm a New York Islanders fan, too, hence why I'm wearing the hat. But, you know, I'm looking at this and I'm watching these people, and you mentioned, like, the locker room, and I love sports. Big sports guy, you know, sometimes you get what's called a locker room cancer, right? It's some guy who is not in it because of the team. He's in it because he wants the ball. He wants to take every shot, he wants every at bat. You know, he wants the story to be about him, him, him, him, him. And. And you have to get rid of somebody like that because they're not helping the team win. And unfortunately, you know, the term cancer is a very serious disease. But. And you know this better than anybody when you're fighting cancer, you know, sometimes some healthy tissue has to be, you know, impacted negatively at the. When you're fighting it, because if you don't, it's going to kill you. Right? So there is some push and pull. There is some give and take. And I'm not saying that everybody who has an opinion different of mine is a cancer. We know exactly who we're talking about here. It's folks that no matter what happens, they stub their toe in the morning, it's Israel's fault. You disagree with them, you're paid by aipac.
Dan Bongino
Right?
Sean Farish
Right. I mean, how many times have I been told. And I'm at the point where, like, hey, I wish it was true. I mean, folks, let me tell you, if I was taking money from some foreign country, there would be signs, okay? There would be a lot of signs. But I'm talking about it. It's in this way where there are folks who are just like you mentioned, you know, living off of the host. So they put themselves out there as some sort of truth seeker and then they cherry pick details they can show, construct a narrative. They're proven wrong. We did not go to war with Iran, we did not go to war with Venezuela. And yet there were people. World War three, World War Four. We're up to like World War Eight at this point where they're hyperventilating over all these things. When you say, treat them no differently than the New York Times. The New York Times, we laugh at them, we mock them, we shame them, we criticize them, because they have no credibility. They said Trump was colluding with Russia. That wasn't the case when all the facts came out. Right. So why are we not treating these people the same way, who are telling you that X, Y and Z is going to happen and then X, Y and Z doesn't happen. And then when you ask them, hey, why, why didn't you address the fact that you were wrong, that X, Y and Z didn't happen? They're like, oh, you're clearly paid by insert country here. And it's ridiculous. And unfortunately it is, it is radicalizing a bunch of people. I mean, the story now, the details now about this guy outside of Mar a Lago is that he was very upset about the Epstein files, which is a very serious case. I'm upset about some of the details in there, too. But there are folks that are literally commenting in my feed saying that Donald Trump ate children. And I'm like, how did we get here? It's not even zero to 60. It's like zero to 120 like this. And I said, show me the proof. And I get memes and I get yelled at. And I'm like, okay, so you don't have it, so don't say it, because you're kidding. Killing what we tried to build for 10 years. I mean, a lot of these people weren't out there on the streets, knocking on doors, doing the stuff that you did. Doing the stuff that I did. A lot of, a lot of us, though, that are sitting here trying to defend it and keep these people from, from sinking it and running it into the ground have put a lot of blood, sweat and tears. We got the death threats. You know, I got swatted last year here in Tennessee. My wife is still shaken up from something like that over a year ago. Something that should never happen to anybody. And, you know, we've been through it. We've been put through the wringer. And we're certainly not going to sit there and watch these people who have never done a thing like that in their lives construct these nonsense narratives off of, you know, maybe, maybe a nugget of truth here or there. But they twist these facts and they twist these, these talking points and they are as, as you said, no different than the fake news in the New York Times. So people say, oh, stop the infighting. It's not infighting because who I'm confronting is not on my side. And I shouldn't have to say that over and over again. Just look at the way these people are behaving. They're behaving no differently than the New York Times. They're even taking some of these left wing fake news narratives and acting as if they're the truth. It's insane. You know, you see the New York Times flipping out that you and Cash had all these personnel changes at the FBI. And then they come back and they're saying, well, nothing's happening. Well, the New York Times is upset about it. Something clearly is happening, happening. You know, so these people that have hijacked or attempted to hijack and they're getting shut down now are a cancer. And in order to treat the cancer, you have to remove the cancer from the healthy body. And we'll regrow that healthy tissue. And if we lose some good people on, you know, in this fight, I hope they come back. But we are not going to sit here and handle it with kid gloves and do nothing and let this thing just grow into some movement and around ideas that I don't recognize. So, you know, to these, to these folks who are like, oh, stop talking about this person or that person or this one or that. No, I'm going to keep talking about it until people realize that they're full of crap and stop trusting them because they have no credibility for the sake of pushing this movement, you know, into 20, 28 and beyond. That's my mission. And I know that's the mission of a lot of other people.
Dan Bongino
Yeah, that's really, really well said, Sean. And they will come back. You know, it takes a lot. You know, as I said, when I finished up my year there at the, at the bureau and came back into the content creation space here, back to the business world, you know, it was tough to sit back and watch all this and stay quiet. But you have to, when you agree to take a position in an administration, Democrat, Republican or anything else, it's not about you. You don't, you put that all aside. But I'm a pretty vocal, you know, New York Italian guy. And I can't, you know, I didn't have. I was not a monarch and the power to change the world by myself. But I'm damn proud of the work we produced inside there. But to sit back and watch this just amazing movement that I got involved with just before the Tea Party and through that whole thing. I've been through a lot of these fights before. What I have found over time is there's always going to be. And Guy, you know, we've had this conversation. He's been with me a long time, Guy and Justin the longest.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
You're always going to get this kind
Dan Bongino
of scalloped pattern with your show and your content. And I tell content creators, even yourself, I think we may have had this conversation all the time. Do not get obsessed with the short or even the medium term.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Keep a lodestar of truth, real truth.
Dan Bongino
I don't mean truth in like Plato or Socrates, but I mean truth like, do not bullshit your audience for a short term sugar high because I promise you, over time you're going to reach an asymptote and any audience is going to collapse when they accept I've been bullshitted to.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I'll give you an example on the
Dan Bongino
left about what I'm talking about. Maybe it'll make more sense because everybody can relate. You don't get conservative, quote, infighting there. Rachel Maddow is a perfect example on msnbc. Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, I think, gets her hired or whatever it is. She starts out with this small audience at MSNBC, explodes at one point, she's rivaling Hannity's audience at 9:00'. Clock. I remember being over Vietnam with Fox.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
You're like, I can't believe this woman's doing all these ratings.
Dan Bongino
And what was her core thing, Sean? Russia, Russia. It was all a hoax.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
And the audience ate it up. Ate it up, Sean, for four or five years until they didn't.
Dan Bongino
And then her ratings didn't totally collapse.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
She's not nonexistent, but she's nowhere near the perch. I get it.
Dan Bongino
She's not doing every night. I understand. I factor that in. I want to be realistic.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
But eventually even dumb people get tired
Dan Bongino
of being lied to. They want to go to a shoot show to learn something, not to be bullshitting all the time.
Sean Farish
That's right. You know, she's waving the tax returns. We got them, we got him. She reads them. Nothing. You know, my simple analogy is like, you know, we get mad Right? And people get really, like, they take it personally when, like, the TV weatherman gets the forecast wrong. You know, he says, you're getting 15 inches of snow, and you get like, 20, and you're like, this guy should be fired. Well, we should really treat the media the same way. If you tell me it's raining outside, I better. When I open up my. My, my window and I look outside, I better see rain falling or I'm not going to trust you. And that's what Maddow did. She was like, it's pouring. It's pouring outside. Go look. And you look and it's a beautiful day. And you're like, oh, what am I. Why am I listening to this person? She's waving the tax return. She's talking about Russia, all these things. And that's why, you know, over time, you said long term, her ratings collapse again. She's not nobody. She'll always probably be somebody. She will have fans, whatever. Fine.
Dan Bongino
Good for her.
Sean Farish
By the way, I'm a capitalist, too, you know, hey, you create an audience. You demand attention. You got. You've got a microphone, you've got a show, you got people who want you. By all means, capitalize on it. I'm not going to tell you not to. I may not agree with you, but I'll always defend your right to do it, right to speak, even if I think you're full of crap. But, you know, it's. It's one of these things, right, where it's like these. These folks, they promised me that it was raining. They promised me that something was happening. They promised me that, you know, that. That we were going to war. They promised. Promised me that. Oh, you. Soon enough, you'll see the truth. And every time we get to one of their. Either deadlines or these. These, you know, points of inflections, right, where they're like, oh, here. Here it comes. Here comes the. That. You know, that pivotal moment, they're always wrong, right? Say what you want about how. How Erica Kirk is running Turning Point. You want to. You think you could run it better, start your own Turning Point. But to attack her at the personal level and to attack her and to insinuate that she had something to do, and I just really, that's. That's where you want to go. So if anyone wants to talk about stopping the infighting, pointed at people who are doing that, that's doing nobody any good. You want to be critical of how she's running the company, whatever, you could. You could do that. But don't Levy, these nonsense personal attacks. You know, she's been through something that I hope I never have to go through.
Ethan Carreri
Right.
Sean Farish
I hope nobody has to go through what Erica Kirk has been through over the course of the last few months. And all of this on top is just adding insult to injury, for lack of a better term. So, you know, whether it's that, whether it's constantly coming at Trump, everything, you know, you can't be happy no matter what. You wake up, you need your fix of outrage in the morning, you drop it in your coffee and you make sure that. Make sure not a moment goes by that you're letting everyone know that you're mad about something. I couldn't imagine living like that. Like, I'm a New York jets fan, Dan. I have every reason to be mad every single day. Even I walk around smiling.
Dan Bongino
Okay, so how, brother, I got one more question for you, but how do you do it?
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
You know, when I knew this team
Dan Bongino
was actually like, I don't believe, you know, jinx, Jinx. I don't believe in that.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Except for the Jets. I mean, they pick up Aaron Rodgers.
Dan Bongino
It was a three years ago and I'm watching this. Was it Sunday Night Football? I'm not a Jets fan or anything. I just pop it on. I want to see Aaron. Aaron Rodgers comes out with the flag. I'm like, so great. And what was it?
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
The second play of the game blows his Achilles.
Dan Bongino
I'm like, I. This team, this.
Sean Farish
Give him credit. Was four plays okay, I'm sorry.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I mean, did you not think the same thing? And I'm thinking of. What is it Fireman Vinnie? That guy J. Fireman Ed, is it?
Dan Bongino
Yeah, Fireman Ed. I'm thinking, my gosh, I'm from New York. Everybody's Vinnie or Jimmy or. And I'm like, this poor team is jinxed. I really do feel terrible.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
You know who's not jinxed?
Dan Bongino
Matter of fact, he's the opposite of jinxed. He's unjinxed, this president.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Last question.
Dan Bongino
We got State of the Union coming up tonight.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Sean, again, what bothers me about again,
Dan Bongino
the air quotes in fighting is there's clearly subversive folks here who are not here for accountability.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I. Let me, let me be on the
Dan Bongino
record for the umpteen thousand time.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
I love and adore accountability.
Dan Bongino
You can't have a republic without it. Nobody gets a set of straight A's for everything, all the time.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
However, you also have to have a report card that adequately measures progress, or else you're not going to know what to work on or not. If everybody gets an A, I don't need to work on anything. However, if everybody gets an F and meanwhile you scored 100 on a test, you give up because there's nothing. What else you want me to do? We have this doomer crowd out there
Dan Bongino
after the golden year, the border violent crime down, murders, the safest America ever.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Inflation finally being tamed, gas prices low, mortgage prices just dipped below 6 back down to 2022 levels, GDP numbers. So we had a little bit of a setback with the shutdown finally getting back on track. 3, 3 and 4, even 5% projections coming up. I mean this has been, you know, government workforce down 10%.
Dan Bongino
It goes on and on. I put it out in a tweet,
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
you know the deal. But just to sit there and shit on this all the time, that's not an accurate assessment of where we are either.
Sean Farish
No. And like I said, it's an addiction for some of these people. Cuz it feels good to be mad. It's insane. I look at this and I'm like, all you're doing is complaining. Criticism is not complaining. Right. You want to criticize the way let's for example, some people didn't like the way Minneapolis was handled after all of the stuff with Bovino coming out and Homan going in. And you want to say you would have done it differently, fine. But don't call this administration a failure because you disagree with one of their moves, the drug campaign, you know, the actual war on drugs. Taking out these, you know, these boats. We say row, row, row your boat and right down to Davy Jones locker. By the way, I got along well with Davey, he's a tremendous guy. But you know, you look at that campaign, you look at Maduro, you look at Iran, you look at the border, it's a perfect border. It's literally perfect. Nobody people are coming, but they're not getting released in. It's more secure than Conor Hellebuyck in the, in goal for, you know, for the United States in the Olympics. Nothing's getting through. $21 trillion of foreign investments in our country because of the tariffs, you know, to have these businesses and companies set up plants here, put Americans to work, a real living wage instead of these, these you know, crumbs going to illegal aliens. Right? Which is weird. The Left is like 1860s left, right, Democrats. If we free the slaves, who's going to pick the food? And then it's like, you know, 2026 left. If we deport the illegals, who's going to pick the food. Same people, by the way. Same people, right? But these folks that are just. It's awful. These folks that are just. Every day, not a minute goes by without them having a broadcast to the world that they're not happy. And it's like a. It's like a habit now. It's like a bad habit. You know, it's like any other bad habit you have. You drink too much, you smoke too much, you do this. These people are outraged too much and it feels good. They whip people up. I call it enragement farming. They whip people up on social media because it gets them views and likes and clicks and oh my gosh, you might be onto something. It's all about the money for these people. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. So I hope a lot more people see it. Call it out. Don't be afraid of the backlash. There's going to be backlash, but you're fighting the good fight.
Dan Bongino
Yeah, man, I agree. I think we just. I don't need rose colored glasses, however. I don't need, you know, total blackouts either. I just want clear lenses so I can analyze what's going on, what we can fix, where we can stick some more, you know, mortar for the brick, where there's too much mortar. Wait, I mean, that's what we need to do. It's not a report card if everything's an F, but it's not a report card if everything's in A either. Sean, you're amazing. Such a great guy, folks.
Guest/Co-host (possibly a producer or regular contributor)
Please give him a follow.
Dan Bongino
You can find him on Twitter ewn Sean with a WN underscore farish F A R A S H if you're listening on Apple and Spotify. If you're watching, you can see his name on the screen. Also, you can find his show on Rumble. It's called Ungoverned. It is@rumble.com lfatv he is a good man. He's been a great friend. And Sean, like I told you, I'd love for you to come and guest host the show sometime. I just want the audience to see you and just, you know, become familiar with you of I because you're such a great guy, you deserve a huge, huge megaphone. So I appreciate you coming on today. This won't be the last time.
Sean Farish
Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. That was a lot of fun.
Dan Bongino
You got it, Sean. There you go, folks. One of my favorite guys in the movement, just an absolute rock star, Sean Farish. Check him out. Also, if you wouldn't mind doing us a favor? You know, we hate to ask, but it's really important. Rumble.com Bongino it's been a year since we've been able to build our following back up. We're up to 3.62 million followers on rumble. It's free. You don't have to pay anything. Just go to rumble.com bongino rumble.com bongino Click that Subscribe button. You can join us every day in the chat. We like to interact with people. Sometimes I get in the chat early. Rumble.com Bongino goes live at about 9am show goes live the chat goes live at about 9am or so. Show goes live at 10am eastern time and you can watch it on demand anytime. And please give us a follow on Apple and Spotify. Been having a great run there, adding new subscribers, kind of building back that audience again after a year away. So we really appreciate your support in that. Thank you so much folks for tuning in. Check out Haley coming up at noon on Rumble and Vince at 8am rumble.com Vince check them out as well. I will see you back here tomorrow. We'll be covering the State of the Union obviously happening tonight. Don't miss that show tomorrow. Be here live tomorrow 10am See you then.
Sean Farish
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Date: February 24, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino (Cumulus Podcast Network)
Guest: Sean Farish
This episode tackles what Dan Bongino describes as the most disturbing thing he’s seen in the conservative movement in a long time. Bongino expresses his outrage over an onslaught of infighting, conspiracy-driven attacks, and personal smears, particularly surrounding the "Bride of Charlie" series and the targeting of Erica Kirk. He broadly critiques the rise of toxic online culture on both sides of the political spectrum, and frames the episode as a rallying call to defend the movement’s integrity and return to first principles.
The show oscillates from emotional tributes to fallen friends, to sharp rebukes of the current information climate, to prideful defense of traditional American values, with several spotlights on recent news cycles, media manipulation, and cultural skirmishes. The second half features an extended conversation with activist and commentator Sean Farish, focusing on grassroots activism and handling destructive elements within the movement.
“No human being deserves this… It doesn't matter that I was his friend. It makes no difference.” (05:30 — Dan Bongino)
“You were the spawn of Satan, I promise. Your parents, alive or dead, are looking at you now in horror that they spawned the demon.” (21:00 — Dan Bongino)
“Eventually over time... even morons don’t want to be lied to. Because what winds up happening is the morons then go to some cocktail party and spout their moronic bullshit. And then everyone at the party starts laughing at them…” (22:30 — Dan Bongino)
“Sad to say, I’m not surprised…this is the third time in two years someone has tried to murder my father-in-law, our President of the United States.” (27:47 — Lara Trump)
“They hate every single thing America stands for. And America has been built on this bedrock of hell to the yeah, we are going to be aggressive... we are going to take risks.” (45:01 — Dan Bongino)
“If this was so easy... how come Team Biden didn’t do it?... Trump comes into office, and historical crime trends... go down even harder. And they still can’t give him credit.” (53:03, 59:41 — Dan Bongino)
“Elections are about choices, man… Sometimes binary, sometimes more. But in a republic, elections are about choices. Why am I saying the fairly obvious? Because those choices have to be made on results, not on talk.” (51:04 — Dan Bongino)
“Some folks make these declarations... told members of our military to take a dishonorable discharge... because some podcaster told you to do it? And you thought it was this righteous battle?” (87:50 — Sean Farish) “There are folks who are literally commenting... that Donald Trump ate children. And I’m like, how did we get here?” (89:40 — Sean Farish)
“I would rather have no audience... than be part of any movement that’s part of this.”
(05:00 — Dan Bongino)
“Once you go down the road of violence, there’s no turning back.”
(13:10 — Dan Bongino)
“I’m the anti-clicks/view guy.”
(21:00 — Dan Bongino)
“Eventually, even dumb people get tired of being lied to.”
(95:53 — Dan Bongino)
“Criticism is not complaining… But just to sit there and shit on this all the time, that’s not an accurate assessment of where we are either.”
(100:48 — Sean Farish)
This episode stands as a passionate call for integrity, truth, and moral clarity within the conservative movement. Bongino and Farish both urge listeners to reject destructive elements—whether from grifting outsiders or ideological opponents—while remaining dedicated to honest self-assessment and the American “true north.” The interplay between media narratives, cultural battles, and movement politics forms the backbone of a show that is part therapy, part polemic, and part strategy session for the American right.
This summary is designed to serve as a comprehensive stand-in for the episode, capturing the full range of arguments, stories, and emotional beats for both regular listeners and newcomers.