Fight, Fight, Fight (Ep. 2634)

All America, all the time, sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. So it's probably a good thing that I got out of the house this weekend. You know, listen, yesterday was a, to call it a rough week, electorally speaking. It's like a massive understatement, right? It's a terrible week. But sometimes I think you and I who are incredibly enmeshed in politics, we're like sports broadcasters around the Super Bowl. We know the offensive linemen, you know, the green team, whatever it may be. We know, we know his wife's name. Not everybody knows that. Some people just want to, you know, eat pizza and wings and watch the game, right? That's not us. So last week was tough. It was like it was a Super Bowl or like the mini Super Bowl, and our team lost. That I started early today, by the way, I see some of you in the chat because I've got a ton of stuff to cover. It was an incredibly fascinating news weekend. And I've got a lot to get to. But I got out in the real world this weekend, and I have a couple of thank yous, first for you, and then for a couple of people I met. And it reminded me again that, you know, although you and I are enmeshed in this every day, we still have a country to save, and a real world to live in, and a job to show up to, and a kid's baseball or volleyball game to go to. We still have obligations to our parents, to our neighbors. Not every single thing is DC elections about politicians. And I was reminded too that despite the warnings that we should all give up, go home, forfeit your country, the flag behind you, that brave men and women fought, died in blood for, lost eyes, limbs, arms, legs, their lives came home and boxes, I forget it, throw it out. I'm not doing that. And ladies and gentlemen, we still have two thirds of the government. There are three branches, the judicial and the legislative and the executive. We still run the executive branch, we're president Trump. We still have pretty healthy, although not perfect representation in the courts, including the Supreme Court. And for two more months in the lame duck, we still have the House and Senate, but we've been in far worse. A couple of thank you to the beginning, let me get to this version. Someone this weekend gave me something that I just can't take and I got to find you because I got to get this back to you, I just can't take it. It was incredibly nice, I'll tell you what I mean a second, hey, something's happening across America right now, people are waking up. People are waking up to the reality, they're bringing prepared, which I've discussed often, it's not optional anymore. And they're taking action. In fact, my Patriot supply scene, an unprecedented surge in Americans coming to them for emergency food they have, you want to be prepared, water filtration, backup power and other preparedness essentials. But here's something I want you to think about. 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They don't really make a difference. This isn't for them. This is for you. Thanks for supporting the show. I will never forget who got us here. Podnews put this out, we were ranked number eight. Apparently they just, a lot of these industry folks just started incorporating rumble. So obviously like, that's why we were lower on some of these things. So we were number eight, congrats to Steve Crowder, who I think came in number seven or something like that. But good for him. Also, PodTrack came out, number 14 in the country. Thank you so much. I genuinely appreciate you guys taking this journey with me. It means the world to me. And again, I will never forget who got us here. So big hat tip to the marginal army. Thank you again. Folks. So I was out this weekend and so many people came up to me. I was playing some blackjack this weekend. I'm not a huge gambler. I don't play big, huge money. However, I won this weekend, which is unusual. I am not in blackjack. I am. I don't know what is. I'm on like a last eight out of ten times I've played. I've dropped a big huge L. I won big this weekend, like really big. And it was amazing. It was the greatest shoe ever. And so many people came up to me. And again, you would think in humorous stand and, you know, if you live on X all day and you think X is a hundred percent representation of the real world, that there's so much anger at MAGA folks and people who support the president. I'm just telling you, like I, for every ten people, one person comes up and says, hey, you know, I don't like this or I don't like that. That's pretty good odds. So I met this guy. His nickname is Frankie. And I give him one of my coins. I saw him with him. A walkie brewers hat on and he came over and he was, I was having an adult beverage celebrating my winnings. And what? What's so funny? And the guy comes over and we're chatting. And I wind up giving him one of my FBI coins because he was just such a nice guy. I mean, really, unbelievably nice, his family too. And he says, listen, I've been holding on to this for years. His coin, he was a Navy chief and he gives it to me. And he's like, I'm not leaving until you take this and I don't want to take it, man. I so respect people in our military, like I elevate them above everyone else, everyone else. There's like, outside of my family, there's like God in our military and the law enforcement, I can't take it. So Frankie, if you're out there, I got to get you to get your coin back. I was so touched, but genuinely, it's for you. So thank you to Frankie too. I'll never forget who got us here, folks. And it reminds me that there is a real world of amazing patriots and heroes out there that deserve defending. Sometimes people make bad choices. I believe Tuesday wasn't only a bad choice, but a horrendous choice. But we've been here before and revolutions happen quickly. I told you this, the country picked Barack Obama twice in the first election when everybody thought there was a transformational shift in U.S. politics and so all over, Republicans go home. Barack Obama built a new coalition. They wrote books about it. You will never win an election again. Dirty days later, Rick Santelli at CMBC started the Tea Party Revolution and Barack Obama lost more seats than President Trump lost now. Revolutions happen fast. And one thing about President Trump, he's got two more years, is he is a no BS guy. He just, I bet gets thrown around a lot that term and people don't mean it. He was on 61 minutes with Ross do do that, if that's a, I'm sorry, and I know who he is, but I maybe say his name or whatever, that's not intentional. But he was on with Ross do that. He gave an extensive interview on 61 minutes. And one thing about President Trump is he's got two years left with massive executive power. He's got two months left with the House and Senate. If they get their asses back to DC and get something done, and we've got a relatively favorable court system of somewhat constitutionalist judges sometimes. Here he is on 61 minutes last night. And folks, I got to tell you whether you love the guy or hate the guy, at least he doesn't be SU. Hey, do you like your enemies? Like all these, oh, he's like, no, I really don't. You don't have to like his response, but you're going to get two more years of this. And it's going to be right in your face for all the people taking a preemptive victory lap that the president's finished. They said the same thing about other presidents of both parties and they finished strong. Like this said quote, I hate my opponents, and I don't want the best for them. Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comeing, Nancy Pelosi. Anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years, do you think you can do it? Well, then I wouldn't be real. I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that. Oh, yes, I could forgive. No, I don't think it's an easy question. I've found them to be extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country. I love our country far more than I can love people and people like that. Is the answer no? The answer is no. I want to be honest before the judgment. Before the judgment. No, I think there were very bad people. And I dislike. I can use the word hate. I do hate some of my enemies. I think they're they've been terrible. Look what they put me through the weaponization. I can't have died. Mr. President, Mr. President, you have had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime. And you are telling me you couldn't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies? After all, it's been given to you? I mean, it's such an easy answer. All I have to do is say, yes, I can't. I, again, I don't think it's an easy answer. So that's why can I be honest? I probably cannot do that now. Because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will. What would you, I'm asking, this is a question. Some of you'll get that, not assertion. Would you would you rather him lie to you? He, he just doesn't have it in him to be a fraud and put all these masks on. I say that for a reason. If you would rather him lie to you, you're just playing into the traditional bureaucratic DC swamp system. People have hated forever. People go to DC, say they're going to do something and they do the opposite. President Trump ran on public safety. He ran, he said many times, he was not comfortable with, I ran having a nuclear weapon. He has said multiple times, he was going to close the border. And even on issues, I am not fully aligned with him with. He did not lie about it. Tariffs, he is that you knew what you were getting. Correct? Why am I saying this? Because ladies and gentlemen, revolutions and politics happen fast. I told you Obama was elected and sworn in 30 days later, the Tea Party Revolution started. And two years later, he was totally wiped out. Completely wiped out. Revolutions happen quick because people don't like being lied to. He's not going to be SU. He doesn't have a mess to wear. However, the Democrats, you think you elected on affordability, the economy, my wallet, my healthcare, I'm telling you you got rug pulled and hosed. I'm going to prove it to you. You would rather be lied to vote for us. We're Democrats. We're going to fix the economy and affordability. Okay, they're not doing any of that. Matter of fact, it rarely even comes up in post election interviews at all. Folks, revolutions happen quickly. It's been less than a week since the election. Here's some early polling open source zones and exit count. I like to give a give you check them out. I'm going to follow. Here's an Atlas Intel poll just before election day and all that about the 2028 presidential primary. Rubio 45 JD 32, the Sanctus 4.5, Tucker Carlson 2.7, Trump Jr. 1.4, Ted Cruz 1.4, Glen Youngkin 1.1, Marco Rubio, at least in this poll, out about 10 plus points. But the Democratic presidential primary, I want to warn you, do not sleep on this guy, John, off down in Georgia. He gives me kind of political. He be GB's just like Obama did. He is a very charismatic, young kind of good looking messenger. He speaks moderately while acts liberally. He is a, he's a mask wearer, unlike President Trump. And he's a liar. AOC in second with 17%, but AOC is that kind of charismatic messenger you should be concerned about. The Trump endorsement, by the way, will be huge. Revolutions happen quick. presidential election season is here. I'm still getting over this week. There's no time for that. Dust off everybody. Dust off the feet, the fell on your butt, whatever harms it. Dust it off in no time. It's over. We're going to fix it now. It's over. We're going to fight. President still in charge. He got shot in the head. They tried to shoot him again in West Palm Beach. They've tried to kill the guy. They've tried to bankrupt the guy. They tried to put him in jail. We're not done. He's not done. He's out there giving interviews to people who don't even like him right away. Nobody's done. Nobody. And I'm certainly not done either. Not a chance. We have been here before. 10 times worse. You know, many people I told this this weekend, who came up to me at the black jack table. One guy came up to me like a freaking bodybuilder. It's like 300 pounds. Tattoos everywhere. He's like, "Hey, man. Love you. Show." I'm like, "Man, I use the same stupid joke all the time. Sorry if I've ever sent you." I'm like, "Hey, your nickname isn't tiny." I guess. I know. Cornie is too. I don't know what else to say. I had a glass of wine as a dude was jacked. And he's like, "Is it over?" I'm like, "It's never over. What do you mean over?" You know, I need you to look this up. Yo, poet and aess who said, "An enemy is not vanquished until he considers himself so." Think about what I just said or an aess you said. I'm just citing. You consider yourself vanquished and yes, it's over. I don't. And either do after 15 minutes, 38,000 people who've tuned in. That's a big audience. 15 minutes into the show. Sounds like 38,000 people don't consider themselves vanquished either. We fight to the last man, just like the Boston. He could have given up. He knew they're going to bankrupt them again. And folks, how do I know that this is going to end poorly? Because the Democrats are unhinged. They're doing what President Trump did not do. President Trump ran on an agenda. Some people didn't like that agenda. He ran on closing the border, understanding full well that even a lot of businesses that may traditionally vote Republican were going to be pissed because a lot of their cheap labor in fact had to go away and had to be deported. He understood that or else he wouldn't have done. He think he's dumb. He understood doing what he did in Iran was not going to go over well with a bunch of people who I don't know how to say. Didn't care about a nuclear weapon in Iran or didn't believe him. I don't know. I told you I value people's opinions on the matter. Be careful with our military. But he did it anyway. He did not light anyone. He ran as a public safety guy, crushed violent crime. That stuff happened. The Democrats ran on your wallet and affordability. And I promise you, they're going to do none of that. There is a now generational contrast opportunity in the next two years with President Trump in charge to say I'm not crazy like these lunatics. They ran on the economy. Look what I did on the economy versus what they're proposing. Here, receipts and coming. This is my block. I'm going to play forever. I thought this was about affordability. It was not. It is about stealing your health care. But I love my health care. My brother's in a union up in New York. He's like, you think they're coming after my health care? I don't think I know. How do I know? Because they say it. Here is Bernie Sanders, who is going to extract a pound of flesh for everyone, had to Peter Sullivan on X. Bernie's calling for a quote, immediate first step. Justin, that's a delayed first step. It does not. I thought the first step was affordability, Justin. It isn't. Okay. Here's Bernie Sanders immediate first step. Lowering the Medicare age to 55, which will promptly bankrupt Medicare or even quicker. A dental hearing and vision to Medicare, which will absolutely blow up your tax bill. And guarantee coverage to every kid, the age of 90, basically wiping out anything, some are close to preserving what you call Medicare now. And he wants to use reconciliation, i.e. just 51 votes to pass him. Here's Bernie on the issue. He's about in affordability. Check this out. It must be considered as a human right, not a privilege. That means passing Medicare for all legislation now supported by 66% of the American people. As an immediate first step, Democrats must lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 down to 55, expand Medicare to a confidential vision and hearing and guarantee universal healthcare coverage for every child from birth through age 19. All of this can be accomplished with 51 votes in the Senate through the reconciliation process. Good luck with that. You take your tax bill's bad now, now you're paying for your healthcare, you're paying for someone else's healthcare, you're paying for the entire country's healthcare and you're on the road to getting your healthcare canceled as you pay for everyone else's. I thought it was about affordability. Affordability's in what it was about. What do you mean? In affordability. That's what this was about. You get that? Affordability is one of the words. In affordability. That's what they have, I'm really sorry you got rugpulled. I am. People get suckered all the time, but it's time to wake up and listen to what's in front of your face. They're kicking you in the nuts with exactly what they're going to do. I told you this is the opportunity for a generational contrast where we can show how crazy what they proposed versus what they plan on doing versus what President Trump proposed and what he actually did. Look at he was the economy president. President, he ran as a businessman. Look at the jobs numbers. You don't have to believe them. It doesn't really matter. Here's at Delta one. U.S. jobs report, smashers expectations. Employers added 165 K jobs in October, triple, the 59,000 expected, non-farm payrolls, unemployment went down to 4.1%, private payrolls up, wage growth up, September payrolls, the last revised up and other 60,000 jobs. Who do you think did this, the Democrats? Talking about canceling your private healthcare, who do you think did this? They're not even sworn in yet. There was a generational contrast opportunity, lunatics versus sanity. Talk and rug polls versus results and honesty. Again, they keep talking about during the prior to the election. Oh, we're running on your wallet, the economy. I'm sorry you got worked. We had a thing in Queens playing basketball, come out and shoot a nice three, train it in their face, Justin, you a basketball player tall. Like the form there, the elbow up. Train a three and someone's face might be, oh, dude, you just got worked. You got worked, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I feel bad. I feel bad for you. Definitely about impeachment. Here's Rokana wants to run for president. Biggest fraud in Congress, by the way. Biggest fraud in Congress, I've never seen a bigger phony fake than this loser. He's worked like hundreds of millions of dollars, congrats buddy, I'm a capitalist. And he's like, the million is a bit, he's the new Bernie Sanders, just dumber. Here's, here's, don't have your joke. Here's Rokana, I told you it was about affordability. When we get in there, impeachment, definitely impeachment. Because it works so well, the 47 other times they tried. It's some of you will get that. Check this out. - I'm impeaching Donald Trump, lower gas prices. - Well, we'll prevent him from continuing this war. I mean, the whole reason that we have high gas prices, - He's been impeached twice. And he is the president right now. And I'm not sure how either of the first two impeachments stopped him from carrying out a war. - Well, first of all, you may have Republicans now breaking, given that getting Donald Trump's endorsement hurts you more than helps you. You just had a historic white belt of the kind, it was like a new deal like a majority, or a something Lyndon Johnson had. We haven't seen this, or Reagan had. I mean, it was a white belt. So if you're a Republican senator, you want to keep your job in 2028. You probably aren't going to go just voting for Donald Trump. Things have changed. - This has been such an effective strategy before as Donald Trump kicked your ass in the 2024 election after 25 other impeachments, it worked out so great. But you didn't tell us that, right, Ro? You didn't tell us that, you and your party. Although you're crazy enough, you probably did. You told us this was about American wallets and gas prices and things like that. So you really believe you've convinced yourself that Americans want to sit through two years of congressional hearings, not about their wallet, but about Donald Trump getting impeached and Pete Hegg said, you've convinced yourself that's just a week after. Less than a week when he did that interview. Folks, you got worked if you voted for these people. Again, I'm sorry because it's gonna kick you in the ass too. I live here too. It's my country too. I'm really sorry you got worked. The attorney general's taken note of this, by the way, these endless threats. Not the impeachment, that's a process for that. But Alyssa Slotkin and others threatening basically to deprive people of their civil rights to engage in a political process by threatening to investigate them. The attorney general's taken notes. I'll show you what I mean coming up in a minute. If you think the Trump administration's taken any of this lying down, you're a, you, man, you got rug pulled again. Quick break, I'll show you what I mean. Every day our hero has answered the daily call to service, putting themselves on the line to protect their freedoms, our communities and our country. And behind every folded flag and retired uniforms of family, that continues to carry the weight of their sacrifice long after the mission is complete. Folds of honor, one of my favorite charities, exists to walk beside the spouses and children of fallen or disabled military service members and first responders by providing educational scholarships. It's a great charity. 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If you think the president, again, over his last two years, gonna sit back and listen to a bunch of hack-goon tyrant fascists up there on Capitol Hill threatening freaking college kids who want to go out and just express their constitutional right to speak out politically, you're crazy. There's a big difference between threatening impeachment, which is their right to do it. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but they can do it. And then threatening to basically imprison people in college who go and volunteer for a presidential campaign or Republican office holders, that is insane. Here's the attorney general on this weekend with a liberal outlet saying, eh, ah, you guys think you're gonna get away with this, man. You got rug pulled again, check this out. >> We are talking about investigation as part of their oversight role that is prescribed by the Constitution, which you know is very well laid out. Is that what you're talking about? >> Wait a minute, hold on a second. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait. >> No, no, no, no. They have a very unique role in oversight. I agree. Have you been listening to the rhetoric the past couple of days? You honestly think that all they're doing is talking about their oversight obligations when they're talking about going after basically every member of the cabinet. They're talking about impeachments, they're talking about going after companies, private companies who happen to have made investments in this country over the past couple of years. That is not oversight. I welcome oversight. >> So awesome. >> Oversight is exactly something they should be. You have an incoming chairman threatening, without they're not even in charge yet, saying lawyer up to anybody in particular. So if that doesn't bother you, if that doesn't bother your viewers, then we really need to kind of wake up in this country because it certainly bothers me. I thought, again, I thought this election was about your wallet and affordability. You got worked if you believe that, worked. And they're about to prove it to you. Who is they, the freaking insane DSA, Democrats, Socialists of America, AKA Democrats, Progressives, Liberals, Communists, Socialists. It's all the same thing. You think I'm kidding about Bernie Sanders who ran on this and supported candidates. He wasn't up at ran on this cycle. When supported gave out all this money to candidates, ran around the country talking about your wallet. And his first priority is to steal your healthcare and get your healthcare plan plan canceled. You think I'm making this up? Here he is again, he is not kidding. You will comply. I promise they will extract Socialists like Bernie Sanders from this Democrat majority, a pound of flesh from every member. They will terrorize their own members. If Medicare for all does not get a vote, which means for all, which means your healthcare plan if the Sanders bill passes is done. That will lead to in affordability. As you now have to get a back up plan for the crap government plan that's gonna be shoved down your throat like Ipecaxe here. Check this out. - I got a video this week calling on Democrats to pass Medicare for all legislation. Just a few moments ago, Democratic Senator Alec Adam Hamilton of Kansas told me, he doesn't think Medicare for all is the right approach. He doesn't think it will pass. Though he did say he wants to ensure everyone does have access to affordable healthcare. Will you have enough support from Democrats to pass it? - I think we will. As you know, there are well over 100 Democrats in the House and also what Medicare for all will getting more and more in the Senate. But most importantly, it's what the American people want. - This is what they, I thought you just told us the opposite. We were running on the economy and affordability in the wallet. Your team just told us the opposite. So now it's about the American people want their healthcare plans canceled. That worked out really well for Obama and Obamacare. He only lost 63 seats in the midterm elections for 63. You think this election was catastrophic on the House side for President Trump. It was worse on the Obama. Political revolutions, ladies and gentlemen, happen fast. There's no time. There is no time for sitting back and nursing wounds. Remembering the kid, there are a little dirt in it or whatever. I don't know what the hell they did, we were kids. Put some robotus in it. That's it. It's time to get back up and go back to work. I don't know how we even survived. We used to drink out in the hose. They say now it's full of like chemicals. That was our thing. Remember, you used to wipe your hands on it. Disgusting towel rack and like to McDonald's. I remember McDonald's by me on Cooper Avenue. And Cooper Immurdle, the intersection for those who grew up in Glendale, Queens. They had a bar soap thinking of the bars. Imagine a bar soap was disgusting. How did we even live? No one knows cell phones. You'd leave the house in the summer. [BLANK_AUDIO] in the morning go play whiffle ball sponge bottle 10 o'clock at night. I don't even know how I ate. All I remember was like I got an onion roll with butter on it. That's what we did. Folks, these people on the left, you got freaking worked. They're so full of it. I got one more and I want to move on to something important separating the celebrations from our enemies. I told you this. There is a difference between people who pretended to be in our side, the pholex maggot people celebrating and being critical. Criticism is not only good but welcome. I mean, we didn't win on Tuesday. So something went wrong. Good valid criticism. I hope we'll get us in a better direction on messaging, on comms. Celebrations just tell you what I've been telling you for a while. There are people out there you should treat no different than Democrats in the media. They just hate you. Stop pretending they like you. They're telling you they hate you. Matter of fact, some of them told you to vote for this guy, Al Sayyad. Now proving to you that these people are totally full of full of it, completely full of it. What have Al Sayyad and Michigan, the new Democrat elect this guy, his history with the Muslim brother, which he now thinks is funny. A freaking terror group will be sitting in the United States Senate in less than two months. He had one of his big staple issues was this foreign aid stuff. We give it to Israel and people like, yeah, get rid of that man. Foreign aid. Israel. Whatever stance you have, it's a republic. You're free to argue. You won. Frankly, I don't think foreign aids are good idea either unless it strongly benefits us in the public safety space and we can prove some track record or success. I'd make the strong case to you that a lot of foreign aid is in fact wasted. However, I'm telling you the truth. Al Sayyad lied to you. He said it was all about foreign aid. Here he is on an interview now, now that he's passed the election. Oh, yeah. Oh, if foreign aid is great. Matter of fact, USAID, USAID, which President Trump is largely defunded, he wants to get all this money back so USAID can give it back to foreign countries. I thought he ran on the opposite. Justin, he said the Jews, Israel, foreign aid and everybody got suckered. Yeah, foreign aid. He just lied to you in his own words, told about foreign aid. Yeah, it's all about bringing back foreign aid. He just suckered you because he mentioned the Jews that a bunch of people fell for it. Sorry. Check this out. What was USAID formed by Congress actually made America a beacon for for people that some of the poorest people on the planet. And as I try to explain to Republicans, even if you have your amoral about this, it also kind of helped us get information to find out where ISIS was or to find out where the Chinese were trying to move or where the Russians were trying to move. I mean, food on the ground saves lives, but it also helps America. Can Congress get funding back to the poorest and the most disadvantaged people on the planet? I hope we do. And I'll tell you this, though, I also think that it's important for us to just be direct honest and specific about what we want to do. I believe in USAID, and I believe in USAID, because if you can stop disease from spreading and get people food, it ends up solving problems for you too, right? Right. I, I, I do that. Oh, what? Justin's right, by the way. That's the longest quay. Scarborough spit it out. Whatever you were going to say, just say it. Do you believe in Farnator? He took like 2000 words to ask that question. Do you notice how all you got to do is like mention the Jews or Israel and people will change their argument like that? Farnate is terrible. Ladies, gentlemen, I agree with you. A lot of Farnate, not a fact, I'd argue the majority of it is totally completely wasted. I'm not your enemy on the Farnate issue. I'm here to tell you that to El Sayed, the argument wasn't about Farnate. The argument was we don't like the Jews, and by my argument that Farnate should be wrapped up, he just said the opposite. I'm sorry, rug. You got rug pull. Now he's talking about bringing back USAID, which funds a bunch of non-governmental organizations overseas, which actively work against the United States. I don't want to check it out of the library. I'm not selling you a book. I don't borrow it from a friend, download it from the internet. I don't even care. My book, follow the money. The first chapter, insane in Ukraine. Just read the first chapter. You haven't got to read the book. Barred from a friend, get it from my, I promise you. I'm not selling your book. I don't need them. I don't care. Just read the first chapter of my book, follow the money, and you will see how devastating US support pre-war Ukraine was in going against and working against the United States. No one's going to debate me. I wrote a freaking book about it. That's not the point. The point is they all lied to you about everything. Foreign aid, Israel's the worst thing ever. What about foreign aid? Yes. Oh, that's the greatest thing. It's awesome. Sounds like you're not making a foreign aid argument. Sounds like you're making of the Jews. Jay, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry. What you're doing? You know, that's what you're doing. Please stop faking it. And I'm sorry, but a lot of people got hoes. Oh no, I was voting on foreign aid. No, you weren't. No, that'll definitely, yes. You're correct. I'm sure giving money to USAID, good point. Yes, it's going to do a lot for affordability and gasp. I'm going to do amazing. Right. Now, I told you, we have to separate people who are celebrating. They're not our friends, treat them like the liberal media and the commies. They forget it. You know who they are. When I got to waste a ton of time, we've already addressed this over and over. Okay. And there's nothing working people like yourselves want to hear less than a bunch of podcast bros fighting each other. Okay. Really, you have kids to worry about. That's why I don't waste a ton of your time on this. Separate the celebrations from criticism and analysis and necessary discussions about communications failures we had. How do we know that we're communications fans? Because we got smoked on Tuesday. We got smoked on a bunch of lies. We lost to a party that is the inaffordability party that is the inflation party. We lost to them. So clearly, we had some kind of communications failure and breakdown with some of these candidates and elsewhere. I'm not running, man. They ran. Something broke. This is why I say though, we cannot learn the wrong lessons from this. I've lived through this before. When Mitt Romney got smoked at Granted, a terrible candidate by Obama in the Obama reelect, I told you I was sitting in a group of conservative activists. Many of you know, wasn't some secret group. There was conservatives who meet to talk about conservative stuff. They were like, cabal of conservatives. Mother Jones wrote some piece about it. It was hilariously stupid. But a bunch of Republican that consultant types came in and we like laughed at them. They were like, don't ever talk about immigration again. That's why we love Trump ran on immigration. And one in Trump 45. Give me that nonsense. That would have been the wrong lesson. We would have lost again in 2016 with President Trump if we had learned the wrong lesson. And I have a bad feeling that's happening now. Folks, I've said to you a thousand times. Nobody I respect or follow is telling you and should ever tell you, oh, shut up on Iran. No, God forbid. When it comes to deploying our troops into combat, never shut up. Never shut up about any issue that involves blood and treasure. All I ask is that we analyze it and come to an answer that helps us move the ball and don't get bogged down in full-lex mega people, changing their position every five minutes, depending on where the wind blows. President Trump and his team had to make hard decisions. Now, obviously, it's a valuable discussion to talk about how we communicated the goals in Iran. It is an extremely valuable discussion to have because it was not an insignificant portion of the electorate that voted on the issue. I believe it's been overstated. The importance of Iran dramatically, but it's not a relevant either. There are two valuable sides to this. But I want to play this for you again because folks listen to what I'm about to tell you. Book market, cut it, snip it, whatever you need to do. Poles are not a substitute for leadership. I'm sorry. You know exactly where I'm going with this. People in that cabinet read the exact same intel I did. I want to play this for you. I played it before. I had to tip the dogs a week in. One big over Ole Miss felt kind of bad. My niece goes to Ole Miss, and Rebs got banged up pretty good this weekend. But I'm just going to mention too casually that the Auburn Tigers defeated the Georgia Bulldog. I'm just throwing it out there. But okay, here is Kirby Smart, the coach, but this is serious. I want you to listen to this on leadership, because there are things people know, and no, it's not trust me, bro. There are things you just can't say for a reason. Active intel channels will get burned, the country will be put in danger, but you'd be vindicated. Yeah, you'd also cause a very dangerous, perilous national security situation. Sometimes you have to make decisions, and people won't fully understand, but you got to do it anyway. Check this out. If we truly want to be honest and upfront about leadership, you can't ignore the cost of leadership. Great leaders are willing to accept those costs. And I want to share quickly three of those things, three of the costs that are plastered on my desk right behind it that kind of caught me between the eyes last week. Number one, you will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about. Number two, you will be disliked despite your best attempt to do the best for the most. And number three, you will be misunderstood and won't always have the opportunity to defend yourself. Those are three costs that come for being a great leader. I promise you, he could go out, the president and others and tell you tomorrow, a whole bunch of stuff. He could declass fight. It would absolutely eviscerate intelligence channels we rely on every day to stop terror attacks and other things. But maybe his polls would go up, not telling you the communication. I saw this in the chat. You're correct. And I think they've acknowledged that the communications on the matter were not great, but they were not as terrible as other people were making them out either. Oh, the communications were awful all the time. No, folks, they weren't. There was a coordinated effort against you to make you believe that this was just done because president Trump was bored on a weekend. Even if you do believe the polls and you are one of these people who I don't need to be a leader. I just follow polls. The polls are you're overstating how the Iran war played into this to here. Here's a marine event. Medved, again, I'm just bringing the receipt, you're entitled to whatever opinion you want on the matter. And I encourage you to speak up and speak out on this marine event foreign policy, the war. Israel. None of that lost the election. And if the right keeps lying to themselves about the real reasons we lost, we're not going to win the next ones either. Here's a compilation of the poll data, see for yourself, chart V, adjust in heart. Here you go. Here's the actual data below. It wasn't irrelevant and it was played a role. But those of you telling all was the one decisive thing that screwed everyone over here. How many people called this specific issue crucial to live out? Republicans government corruption, 45%, 63% Democrats, damaging cost to living, 58% dams, 36% immigration, 27% dam, 47%. The Iran war, 45% dam, 20% Republican, AI data centers, 29%, 16% Republican. There's single top issue. Here's the list. The economy, democracy, immigration, healthcare, foreign policy below that, crime below that. Folks, these are just the numbers. I don't love the number sometimes either. I wish street crime was a bigger issue. You know, it was my entire life for the last year was reorienting the FBI towards a combat violent crime model. It wasn't, it just wasn't a huge issue. I think we've been so successful as a country, a crushing violent crime due to broken windows policing for a long time, that even though we dropped it to unprecedented numbers, I think that people just, it was like a fate of complete like, yeah, we're already doing a lot on crime. It's fine. It's your title to vote on what you want. But listen to me, polls are not a substitute for leadership. Play that. I just wasn't part of the show, but good call. Here's President Trump again, and let me just hark back to the beginning of the show, him on 61 minutes, telling you, honestly, hey, don't you like your enemies? You could get a cheap pass and to do it. And he's like, no, I don't. I'm not going to lie to you. Three is again, knowing what he knows, saying, hey, we lost, but I had a lead, and I do it again. Check this out. I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit, short term. And probably that's probably true, but at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again. Because long term, it's the only answer you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. I do. I mean, while you have no choice, I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more and I did it on that basis. You have no choice. You have to do it. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Friends, there is an argument out there, and I'm going to show it to you coming up again. And I don't like what other people are saying, I hate what people say, like show us what they're saying. So I am. I'm going to show you what they're saying. There is an argument going on by opponents of President Trump right now that the mistake he made was going to war without public support. Now I get it. You're probably like, stop right here. Yeah. Of course, that's the argument. That was, we should have got more public support. No, no, I'm not done. The argument is that we should have waited for a massive Iranian terror attack, a 9/11 style or Pearl Harbor type attack that cost thousands of, I'm not kidding. I'll show you in a minute. And then President Trump would have had public opinion on his side and maybe we could have salvaged the election or something. That's a thing insane. We could not wait for that. Now there's an irony there and some of you see where I'm going with this. Just like El Sayed who ran against foreign aid to Israel and then the second he won the election flipped his stance and said, Hey, foreign aid's great. Just not to Israel. So it wasn't about foreign aid. It was just about Israel. Just be honest about it. The very same people telling you that we should have waited for another Pearl Harbor and then the American people would be galvanized. You notice they're using the exact opposite argument. When it comes to Israel, again, is this an argument about the United States about it? It's incredible. The real MAGA crowd, we get accused sometimes of supporting another country first, yet our policies are about America and how they can help us. Your policies are all about Israel. You are the ones obsessed with this country, the size of New Jersey. You, they're using the exact opposite argument. You believe the Israeli government, they saw the signs on October 7th that did nothing. You just said the exact opposite about the United States, did you not? You just, please tell me you get this, go read their tweets. What argument isn't? Let a terror strike happen because it's good for public support, which is crazy. Or when a terror strike happens, like in Israel, everyone needs to go, I don't know, which one, just tell us what you're arguing. I can't debate someone who takes both positions, which, which one am I debating? Now, for those who, I'm going to get to this more in a second. I'm going to show you. I get receipts in coming. Case you think I'm making us up. Dan, that's crazy. No one's talking about that. They are. Yes, the communications on it were not great. However, people out there saying the administration's position was never clear why we did it. Folks, I'm sorry. It was. Maybe it should have been done better. Maybe it should have went out. Maybe they should have done a bigger prime time address from more specifics. We lost on the comms front, period. Because yes, the Iran war was a fact. I think they're exaggerating it, but taking the other position that had nothing to do with it is silly too. It's ridiculous. Don't talk to people like they're stupid. Because they're excited. They're going to treat you. I'm here to give you both sides of an argument and you decide. So it makes this show different. Here's Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This is back in March, long time ago in political time, in March. I want you to listen to the argument he makes and I'm going to give you some details. I'm comfortable giving you about why this decision had to be made now. Secretary is talking about it. Whether you agree with it or not, Rubio is not lying. I'm going to prove it to you too because another senator who's not necessarily always a friend of the administration either, on the Republican side, said the exact same thing. Check this out. There would come a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and it can inflict so much damage that no one can do anything about their nuclear program. They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. They can build 100 of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also have. They've been doing this for a very long time and by the way, they've been doing it under sanction. You see the attacks they're conducting right now? They're attacking airports. They're attacking hotels. They're hitting, not just military bases, they're attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military, and that's a weekend to run. That's in run despite years of sanction. Imagine a year from now, or a year and a half from now, the capabilities they would have to inflict damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayatollah is a radical, was a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis. of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one. Now, listen, if you're out there like, oh, he's just lying, making up, I can't help you. I'm sorry. I can't help you. I'm telling you he's correct. I'm going to play another clip in a second from Theo Vaughn's show, you know, Theo Vaughn the podcast or Senator John Kennedy, who, you know, I've had my disagreements with him. He definitely says what he feels like saying, saying the exact same thing over you all lying to you. They're making the argument here that they were putting together essentially a ballistic missile shield around their program, which we had a window to act or not. Once that window was over with, the consequences of taking out their nuclear program would have been casualties a hundred times what they've been so far. They've been limited every casualty is a horror, but they have been limited in this kinetic action against Iran. Now you think I was making that up about this alternate theory that we should have waited for Pearl Harbor? I'm not. This is Holman Jenkins addressing that exact issue. And again, he's not a huge fan of the Trump administration's communication on the Iran war. This isn't like some butt kisser here at all, quite the opposite. Holman Jenkins, Trump out ran his leash with the Iran war. This, he's discussing the same theory I told you was out there. If there'd been a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor and the American people wanted a demanded action, of course the story would have been different. But this wasn't the case here, and Mr. Trump knew it. He didn't try rallying the country to his war. He knew he wouldn't be able to, but he did it anyway. You think he did it because he wanted to lose the midterms? You think he did it because he wanted to see a bunch of Republican states get destroyed at the ballot box? I'm asking you a question. Why do you think he did it? You think he was bored on a weekend, eaten a double cheeseburger, and he was like, "Yeah, let's just go take out Iran." Rubio is telling you what happened. I'm telling you what happened. Senator Kennedy is telling you what happened. He is. Ladies and gentlemen, receipts in coming, because both of those arguments cannot be true. That you think the Israeli government failed their citizens because they failed to see October 7th fine. If there were systemic intel failures, vote them out. But it's weird how you're making the exact opposite argument here. Oh, we should let the same thing happen here because the polls would be better. You understand if you're making those two separate arguments, you're a fraud. Just like other podcasts, bros, we're like, "Man, Iran is trying to assassinate our president, assassinate the president. We should drop a new condom, actual words summed up." And then when we found out they were quickly rebuilding their nuclear stockpile and had a potential to build 10 to 11 nukes and surrounded with ballistic missile shields and drones, the whole story changed. This story is true, the answer is none of them. You're just making up a position. Polling is no substitute for leadership. Here's Senator Kennedy on the Ovan, telling you the exact same thing and quote, he says, "I saw the intel that Rubio told you. You don't have to like it, but at least they're telling you the truth, unlike these other frauds. Check this out." Our intelligence showed, and I've seen it, it's classified, but I've seen it, but I can give you a general outline. Our intelligence showed that Iran was building up its missile capacity, ballistic and cruise, and they were going to compile so many missiles and drones that they were going to turn to America and Israel and say, "We're restarting our nuclear weapons program. And if you try to stop us, we're going to destroy the rest of the Middle East. And by the way, our missiles can now reach London and Paris, Paris and Germany." These gentlemen, that's the exact same argument, some words verbatim, that Rubio used in March. No one's asking you, trust me, bro, they're telling you, you don't have to agree with it. This is the United States. You were entitled to vote however you like, petition your government, assemble against it. At least they're not lying to you like El Sayed, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer and others. Do we even play that Chuck Schumer thing? Did we skip that one? Remember the Schumer cut? Oh, I didn't get to. Okay, yeah, they said, sorry, it's my own rundown. At least they're not lying to you. I'm going to play. I'm going to go a little out of order. I'm going to play that next. I want to show you exactly what I mean. You were entitled to say, "So what, I ran, build a ballistic missile shield, a drone shield around their nuclear facilities, let them take control of the strait, start a regional war in the Middle East, explode gas prices to $47 a gallon, and then America, the American people, it'll pull better, and then you can go to war. You're entitled to say that. I completely disagree, but again, it's just weird how you use the exact opposite argument when it came to October 7th. It's almost like it's not an argument at all that you're just rug pulling people. Let me show you what I mean in a second with Schumer, who the Democrats don't have a message on the Iran War other than we should lose it. That's their only message." Quick break, last break, and I'll show you what I mean. What size is your digital footprints? Probably bigger than you know. Between social media, phone apps, emails, texts, and online forums, I've shared more personal information online that I ever realized and we've been docks a couple of times. It's not fun. Every sign-up profile and purchase creates opportunities for data brokers to collect and sell your information. That's why I like to lead me. I use them. They know your privacy is worth protecting. You sign up, tell, delete me exactly what information you want removed from people's search sites, and their experts take it from there. 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But again, listen to their messaging on the Iran war, where it appears to Democrats you just elected on affordability saying we need to get out of Iran, have not in any way told you the truth that if we were to do that without finishing the job and allow them to build a nuclear program, there will be another 9/11 or Pearl Harbor and a regional war far worse than you can imagine, the second they flipped the switch on a nuclear device, they don't care. Schumer basically said it, he can't even answer the question like should we witness thing or not? Check this out. So the good thing that Iran, and I think you would agree with me, epicenter of terrorism in the world since 1979, is it good that their military infrastructure is being degraded in the degree that it is? Yes or no? It's, you can't because it's a premature question. What is going to happen in the next several months? No, no, I can ask that question. That's right. No, no, no, no. I can't. So you have a military side that, but I can show you my chart, but I think I threw it away. You have the military side, you have the political side, I'm simply asking on the military side, is it good? Regardless of whether we agree with going in or not, is it good that Iran's military infrastructure has been seriously going to have to tell you, Joe, first, you can't, what's going to happen three months from now? Is it worth it? Oh, let me answer the question for everybody in America. The answer, yes. It's good that the terrorist regime, their military has been, and capabilities have been degraded radically. Can you imagine freaking Joe Scarborough being the voice of reason? Someone in the chat, forgive me, I want to try to stop it, but I missed, it goes fast. Someone in the chat just said, imagine a nuclear-armed Iran, like North Korea. You think we're going to go and clean up the strait? They would own the strait forever. They'd be like tolls in the strait, nothing gets out, but Iranian oil, the Saudis are screwed, everyone's screwed. You even, you're talking about a mixture here. You want to talk about a witch's brew? Who's the thing Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Senator Kennedy we're talking about? Folks, the intel was not wrong. The intel on the Iraq war was pretty horrendous. I ran for office against a lot of what happened over there. I'm not taking any lectures from people who never put their name on about Neokha, me and Neokha. That's hilarious. That is so dumb. I mean, anybody can go out in the internet and look up how I've spoken. about foreign interventions. You were looking at a ballistic missile shield around a program where we would be under global blackmail by the Iranians and the straight forever. They're professed interest in missile technology, other missile technology, which we do not have a great defense against, was a prescient, present, and dangerous threat. Their lethal plotting to try to kill President Trump and other political leaders in the United States was a source of endless global instability if their plans succeeded. Their drone program to basically own the straight just through cheap drones. It would not just drop a couple grenades on a tanker. The insurance cost would explode. Gas would go through the roof. Combine that with the Iranian regime's desperation to stay alive and their disgusting grotesque death to America ideology. And ladies and gentlemen, we can argue all we want about the comms and we should. Maybe the communications weren't great on it. I think the evidence is there. The polls weren't great, although not as dramatic as everybody tells you. But the end goal. I'm not letting a 9/11 happen, folks. I did a year up there. The year I could do. And I'm going to tell you something. I don't care if this audience, I mean it. If the audience drops to five listeners, me Justin Guy, Andrew Josh and Jasmine, whatever. Five or six. I don't care. If you think I was going up there and reading polls on the Intel, I was reading and I was going to let your kids get murdered in a 9/11 style attack or a Pearl Harbor style attack or a hypersonic missile strike in a year because I was afraid of coming out and being somewhat unpopular. You can take that and shove it right up because you're crazy and you don't know a thing about me. And I'm telling you right now the president wasn't doing it either. Here's Marco Rubio again, repeated just the other day. That other clip was from March. Repeating the same clear and concise comms on this issue. Him, the president, others, would we do it again? Yes, would we change the comms? Yes, we changed the process. I think a lot of the delays and the stops definitely didn't play well with the American people. Don't put a timeline on it and don't stick to it. I get that. But here he is again, on leadership being painful sometimes, polls are not leadership. Leadership is leadership. Check this out. The president of the United States identified a very real threat with this country that existed for a very long period of time and he has rested and he has rested. He didn't know oftentimes the right thing to do for the country. The trending different challenges is the security of our country. Doing it isn't necessarily a factor there. But necessary, at the end of the day, I think to tin all agree, adding there's life partisan, ever hopeless bipartisan, making it out and more, but there used to be side partisan acknowledge that a nuclear Iran would be completely unacceptable and dangerous for the United States. Not just this, we're not just middle east, the whole world and the United States. So I think the president took on something that other presidents have failed to be. And sometimes when you do the right thing, I don't know if it's popular or not, but it's the right thing that you don't presidents are elected from do their hard things. Sometimes typical things, but necessary things. And now you see why. Similarly, polling shows Marco Rubio with significant support. Polling is not leadership, folks. And if you think for a second, that Rubio or president Trump or cash or rat cliff or me or anyone else in the national security leadership team now and in the first year, we're going to let freaking Pearl Harbor happen because whatever we get to go out and give a cool speech afterwards like it's a freaking Netflix movie, you're crazy. No, I mean you're actually crazy. But then it dinged your reputation. I just told you I don't care. I don't mean I don't care. Like it doesn't bother me. I mean, I don't care. Like obviously I don't care because I don't care enough to change my behavior because I know we did the right thing. I'm absolutely certain. If I cared about that opinion enough, I would give you the cheap lines. Maybe we should have waited for 9/11. Everyone would have been behind this. Kind of look like heroes. That's not leadership, man. I gave you both sides of the argument. However, now it's up to you to decide. This is the receipt show and the true show. I never tell you how to think. I just give you the information to process it yourself. Here are the inputs, form an output. You heard all of that. Rubio, Kennedy, me, Schumer, and you're still convinced we should have let them construct a nuclear weapon. You're entitled to that opinion. I think it's wrong. You think I'm wrong. That's what the Republic's about. But this show gives you both sides. I want to give you both sides of another argument going on now too. Folks, if you're on X and social media as much as I am, and I'm on it a lot, the show prep takes a long time. For every hour of content, it's probably close to four, five hours of preparation. If you're doing it right, if you're just lazy, it's no prep at all. But I send stuff all weekend or morning or night. There's a bunch of folks out there, including Van Jones. This is going to surprise you. Van Jones, who is a Democrat, was an Obama guy. But Van Jones occasionally will say something that makes a lot of sense. I'm not a big supporter of Van Jones. I don't know him. I don't think we've even ever met. But this one, pretty viral this weekend. It was Van Jones. I think he was on CNN talking about this influencer war and how they use social media to basically rug pull the American people and get them to believe it was all about affordability when, in fact, it wasn't. And people on Republican side are like, look, man, the Democrats are so good at this. I'm just telling you, I'm going to give you both sides of this. And both sides are this. Are influencers really influencing you? Or are the influencer days numbered as people wake up to the grift? Folks, I'm leaning more towards the latter. I don't buy any of this. This is Van Jones. I think selling himself engaged in massive exaggeration for effect. Maybe they had some effect in certain places. My humble opinion, I don't believe it. Now, the results, they won. They definitely, but they had in many cases, I think a group of candidates who just rug pulled people and got people so pissed off. I'm not sure the social media ecosystem had the effect Van Jones is saying at that. I heard the same thing. The exact same argument was used to say Donald Trump stole the election through Russian Facebook ads. And that was crap too. Check this out. Now it can be told, how did we win the narrative on affordability? With just these nice little Democrats out there writing for office and going to, no, the Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There's something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message, a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.88 million hit on Twitter every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured out the Republicans could not understand it wasn't bots. It was actual human beings. The most effective online organizing campaign called the American Accountability Network flew under the radar screen. Never been told. And they were talking about the issue or they were saying you need to like Democrats to deal with this. Driving the kitchen table will affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing and what that meant was everywhere you go, people were talking about affordability and they were talking about kitchen table issues. Folks, I'm not telling you that online discussions about affordability and how the now government healthcare lose the war in Iran, Democrats, host you and they had no effect. I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you after elections, it is common for the consultant class to overstate the effect they had. Folks, they did it against Donald Trump. The whole Russia hoax, remember Russia put Facebook ends and Wisconsin flipped the whole election. Meanwhile, you asked people, did you ever see this Facebook end? They're like, no, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm telling you, I think he's engaged in hyperbole. They want to sell this product again. They want to seem important. Here, I'll bring in a totally different receipt on this. Folks, my humble opinion on the matter, where do you stand then? I think the days of influencers influencing people's decisions are coming to an end. Why? Folks, we've been at this now for, I mean, Twitter's been around what, 10 years plus? People now are starting to see that a lot of what they see on the interwebs, social, TikTok, Snapchat, and elsewhere is crap. It's paid for. I hope you're arguing on next this weekend about it. People are smart. This is treating voters like their idiots. I think some people just saw gas prices go up and voted for a change. I'm realizing the change was back to high gas prices under the Democrats. Here, I'm going to throw a random clip. I've not had to. I was like, "Gummy, I'd actually put this up." Here's a guy. He works for a company or owns a company that produces like a Shirley Temple mix or a Margarita mix or something. He's like, "Hey, man, we got this post from, was it Kylie Jenner who probably has like four trillion followers, you know, one of the Jenner ladies?" He's like, "I thought my company would just blow up." He's like, "I didn't get one single Amazon inquiry. I'm just telling you folks, the days of influencers with no life experience whatsoever, telling you you're too stupid to think for yourself, let me be your surrogate brain. They're over." Man Jones is way overstating that. Here, check this out, Kylie Jenner. He posted us in her story the other day. And it was like the best story post that I could ever hope for. She literally took our competitors, Shirley Temples and our Shirley Temple, tried all three, said that ours is by far the winner and that she said, "Winter winner, bloom Shirley Temple is the best Shirley Temple on the market." This was just impromptu. Totally. Totally organic. We had never spoken to her team or anything like that before. We didn't get one Amazon search. We did not see one pickup in sales from this Kylie Jenner post. If this was four years ago, we would be sold out in 24 hours. We'd be sold out in 12 hours, right? There's something going on where people are done buying things that these celebrities have told us to buy once they've told us to buy the 30th thing. Had tipped the ice coffee hour podcast, folks, I cannot agree with this guy more. There is a fracturing happening. I call it the talking head market, call it influencers. I don't really care what word you use. There are people who've got a documented history of telling people the truth. They have a work history. They've lived in the real world. They have maintained and done very well. I told you this show continues to plug along for 10 years because we don't get crazy. We don't say stupid, we can't back up. People are exhausted of the influencer class with no life experience whatsoever telling you how to think about things. That's a totally unrelated marketing opportunity, but what he said is accurate. Four or five years ago, when people didn't understand a lot of this was a grift and paid for, they were like, "Oh, wow. That's cool." And a product sold out in a minute. Those days are over. You have to build credibility with an audience. It's why I thank you in the beginning for keeping us constantly up there. Do you know how many times people are pushing us to, "We get all kinds of DMs and stuff. Talk about this. Talk about that." We'll talk about what we want. What I think this army of listeners out there is interested in to more effectively develop outputs based on proper inputs. Someone's going to tell me what to talk about. There's no amount of money you can pay me to tell me what to talk about either, ever. Someone from what we have to talk about doesn't pull well because polls are not leadership. Listen, one topic I want to bring up today too. A lot of folks are asking me my opinion about the shakeup at the White House over the weekend. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles out, Steve Miller in gets promoted from Deputy Chief of Staff to Chief of Staff. He was President Trump discussing the matter, saying, "After the election, we got to make some changes. Not at all in common happens in every presidency. I wouldn't over exaggerate the importance of this or not, either. But check this out." He decided to make that decision. Yes, I wanted to make a change. I think Susie has done a very good job, great job, but I just wanted to make it. Stephen's been great, and we got to make, we got to make more. Sometimes they don't have to make more. Ladies and gentlemen, again, I got a ton of inquiries this weekend. A lot of press people want to talk, I ignored, I think all of it. I think Steve Miller's got his finger on the pulse. Steve Miller understands the MAGA base. Steve Miller certainly understands the comms component of it, and Steve Miller has most importantly, if you're the Chief of Staff, the trust of President Trump. I think Susie and I obviously had some disagreements. Susie was always pleasant, kind to me. I think she was very careful in how the White House operated, and I think President considered that a valuable asset. But it's ultimately, as I said to you, after the shake-ups happened early, Pam, Tulsi and others, and I'm not suggesting some of them may have been pushed out some may have left. I don't know. I'm not in the President's head. I'm just telling you, the President is the President. He was elected. I served at the pleasure of the President and so did everyone else, and when he wants to move on, he's going to move on, and that's how he rolls. He's loyal to the American people. I think Steve Miller's going to be an excellent pick, and I think he's going to work out great. That was a big show today. It was a big crowd, too. It was 47,000 people, so thank you all for tuning in. Again, thank you for pod news, pod track. Really appreciate the Bon Gino Army, always showing up every day. Make sure you check out Sean's show at what, we don't have a winner today, do we? No, no winner to add. I'm going to forget the comment of the day, or rip someone off. Someone's got a shot at $1,776. How do you win? Join the rumble chat every single day, rumble.com/Bon Gino or download the rumble app it's free. If you're picked for the comment of the day, once a week, we pick a winner $1,776. Bon Gino.com/1776176 for the official rules. The comment of the day today is BS Whisker, BS Whisker. 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