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War (Ep. 2631)

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War (Ep. 2631)

Dan Bongino provides a critical, historically grounded assessment of the recent midterm election results, rejecting any notion of a positive outcome. He stresses that while Democrats gained significant seats—including in key states like Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia—these results are not unprecedented; both parties have suffered similar defeats after winning presidential elections. Drawing from past events like the 2010 and 2014 midterms under Obama and Clinton, Bongino argues that such losses are common and not signs of national collapse. He highlights the dangerous ideological shift in the new Democratic Congress, warning that it will pursue radical policies such as Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and pushing DEI extremism, which he sees as a threat to American values and national security. He specifically criticizes candidates linked to extremist ideologies, including Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers and figures promoting anti-conservative policies, calling them national security risks. Bongino urges the Republican Party to avoid the wrong lessons by focusing on a battle plan: reducing government spending, shrinking the workforce, strengthening borders, and defending constitutional rights. He points to Florida as a model of conservative success through stable leadership and low taxation. Despite the losses, he remains optimistic, emphasizing that the GOP still controls the presidency and can regain Congress in 2026. He warns that celebrating the new Democratic gains is a mistake, as it reflects alignment with nihilistic and destructive ideologies. Ultimately, Bongino’s message is one of resilience, personal conviction, and strategic preparedness—reaffirming that the nation will survive and thrive through continued resistance to progressive extremism.

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All America, all the time, sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. So I've been following the chat and someone asked in the chat just a few minutes ago if you want to scroll back, they said, "Dan, can you offer us something good about what happened last night?" And a brutally candid, honest and only appropriate answer is, "I can't, but I can offer you perspective and context." Folks, there's no pig lipstick analogy it's going to work here, okay? For me to tell you like last night was just apples and cinnamon oatmeal and it's going to be a-okay, is BS. However, I am here to tell you this. If you've been a listener of this show for the last ten years or so, you've been through this with us before. Andy and Josh are new here, Guy and Justin are not. We've been through actually worse. Remember the 2020 debacle with the mass mail-in balloting and that shady stuff that happened? Folks, do you remember the Obama re-elect, what a disaster that was when the whole world thought Obama was going to lose after the Obamacare debacle? I was there that night running for office myself. Is that in any way good news? No. But I am going to give you a battle plan moving forward. Because what you don't want to do from midterm losses that have happened before to both parties. Whether you believe it or not, it's not relevant, it's evidence. This has happened to both parties. What's really important is we don't learn the wrong lesson going forward from this because I lived through this before. I'll tell you what I mean. Big show today. Thank you for tuning in last time. Sorry about some of the audio problems. We had a bunch of stuff going on in the studio so the team was working through everything we could but I appreciate you all tuning in last night. We were at top 20 show last night, so thanks to everyone for going through that with us. 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I saw this analogy, forgive me, I forget who said it on Twitter, I never steal anybody's work, but someone made this analogy, it's more than it was brilliant. The Democrat Party, they are a top down almost military-like organization when it comes to voting. There is no dissent allowed. They're not interested in dissent. They will effectively like court marshal you politically. If you speak outside the lines as Haley Stevens and Federman have learned out, that is just how they work. They vote like an army. They got up and they dusted off and last night, there's listen, it was a drumming. I mean, there's no way to describe it any other way. There were Senate seats, we didn't even think we were in play the ring play. But we do need a battle plan moving forward because I think the people who voted, a matter of fact, I don't think I know, a lot of the people who vote, I'm not talking about the Islam or radicals and the Democrat fanatics, the progressives and the communists, this is exactly what they voted for. They voted for the destruction of the United States, please make no mistake. But the people on the fence who were like trying to send the GOP a lesson or something like that, I'm not sure you're prepared for the wrath these people, the progressives, liberals, commies and Islam or radicals are a brow to reign down upon you. They are not kidding. The country you had yesterday is going to be far different in, you know, it's 60 days when a lot of these people swear in. So again, there's no pig, lipstick, lipstick, pig. There's nothing to say about that. But there is a battle plan moving forward. And what people voted for, you know what they all that is about politics. If you voted to, you know, whatever, teach Republicans a lesson, you're about to get that lesson good and hard because they are not kidding around. I want you to watch this disturbing video because it, I've never seen or, or I can't even imagine a more appropriate time to play this. You've seen the video of KGB defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Besmanov before. But this clip is critical that you understand this. The Democrats and the people looking to, the nihilists that wanted to destroy the United States have been crystal clear in their strategy for a long time. It's to use a bunch of useful idiots to vote for them who fall for this stuff. It's their term, by the way. Get a bunch of people to vote for them. And as those people become yet less useful to them, throw them under the bus, too. What I'm getting at is what I just opened with the show that if you voted for this, thinking like this was going to lead to lower gas prices or inflation under control or men out of the women's room, folks, you're about to get a lesson good and hard from the Democrats. So they didn't mean any of that. They meant the opposite. And once you want, now that your utility with them is done, you speak out against it at all. They'll throw you under the bus, too. Check this out. The useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet socialist or communist or whatever system, when they get the solution, they become the worst enemies. That's why my KGB instructors specifically made a point, never border with leftists. Not about this political prostitutes, aim higher. This was my instruction. Try to get into a large circulation, established conservative media. But to eliminate the others, to execute the others, don't they serve some purpose, wouldn't they be- Not one. They serve purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in United States, all these professors and all this beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist Lenin has come to power, obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power, that will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot. Folks, I say this with no sense of acrimony whatsoever. People get hoes all the time in politics and believe things that aren't true. If you voted for this socialist regime that's about to take power in about a couple of months, once they're done with you, Bezmanov's not kidding, you will become their worst enemy. Because the second you speak out, you become an insider with information about how critically bad the situation is, about how that election worked. You become the biggest danger, not us. We've been saying this the entire time, they were always going to hit us. You become the biggest threat. You've been warned on that. I want you to watch something today too, this is fascinating phenomenon. I warned you about weeks ago. People out there swearing to you that the last two years, all of this horrible stuff happened and the things that you voted for, close, border, public safety, the reindustrialization of America, people who told you none of this happened, despite endless receipts and evidence that had happened. I want you to watch today, this is really important. I think today is going to be one of those exercises that's going to be clarifying and purifying for a lot of people. I don't, the criticisms of election strategy and candidate States are not only fair, but welcome. You know, you only get better as a party when you say, hey, here's what we did wrong in South Carolina. Analyzing an election and being critical is, again, not only fair, but welcome. I've said this a thousand times on the policy on Iran. You've heard it. You can go back and do a super cut of me telling you, I know where I stand on it. However, there are people when we put our soldiers and our military in harm's way that are rightfully so are very skeptical about doing so. They believe in Fox Conner's Rules of War too, but there are other people out there who are not, they don't care about the issue as much as they care about nihilism and destroying the United States. All I'm getting at with this is watch who's not analyzing today and watch who is celebrating. There's a difference. And I want you to ask a question of yourself, were these people ever with us, were they ever with us? If you think what happened last night is a good thing that somehow your children and grandchildren are going to inherit a more prosperous economic country, better health care, better schools, safer streets, a closed border, I'm really sorry, but you're deluded. Folks, before we discuss the results, again, someone asked me in the beginning, hey, can you tell us something good? No, but I can put a lot of this in context and perspective. Ladies and gentlemen, I promise you, I promise you on my integrity, we have been here before. The irony of this is so has, so have, excuse me, the Democrats, two Democrat presidents who left office with extremely high approval ratings on the Democrat side, Bill Clinton left office with high approval ratings, even overall, they left office with incredibly high approval ratings with the Democrats, got absolutely destroyed in midterm elections. Is this a good thing about last night, maybe we should have got this, no, but I hope it puts into context that Donald Trump is still the president of the United States for two years. In other words, we still have two out of the three branches of government. You have somewhat conservative appointees to the Supreme Court, somewhat, we always got Roberts to worry about Amy Coney Barrett that haven't been great, but we haven't been total losses at the Supreme Court and we also have the presidency and we can take back the house in just two years if we follow the appropriate battle plan and don't take the wrong lessons out of this. There's a lot of lessons, but don't take the wrong ones here. I want to chat GPT, please compare the losses from Obama and Clinton in the midterms to the losses of President Trump's party last night in the midterms. Here, show this. I want you to see the numbers. In case you think like this is unprecedented, nothing like this has ever happened, Obama and Clinton left office with extremely high approval, extremely high approval, despite getting totally completely wrecked, put up that chart. He was Clinton in '94, 54 house seats lost, eight Senate seats lost. He was Obama in 2010, 63 house seats lost, annihilation, I remember that well, six Senate seats lost. Now this is so far, this is going to get worse. I just want to prepare you, but Trump, 2026, at least 18 house seats and at least seven Senate seats. We'll see what happens in Mississippi and Alaska. The house seats are going to take a while, you get this ranked choice voting, California accounts for forever, California be counting through the presidential. But folks, we are not castrated, our nads haven't been cut off. The legislative branch last night, yes, was an election night, the buckle, no pig lipstick. But I'm not giving up on my country. Where are you going to go? I don't understand. We're going to do forfeit the country like, ah, man, I got kids, go and have grandkids. We've been here before. Now again, maybe you listen to the show and you're like, you know, I need a more elder statesman of the party, a limbaugh type. Victor Davis Hanson has been through far more election cycles than I have, although we've been here a long time. We have been through this before. The Obama reelect night was a nightmare, I had to tell you last night, if you watch the show, you could tell. I obviously felt terrible about it. I felt terrible about the results. Nothing compares to the Obama reelect, I was on the ballot in that election. I could not believe you won reelection. Here's Victor Davis Hanson, oh, again, putting this in perspective that midterm losses for the party in power, they're pretty common. They're never good for the party in power, but they happen a lot. We still have two of the three branches of government to preserve this beautiful republic. We still have. Check this out. It is the sure thing. And Donald Trump loses. We have historical presidents there. And Clinton, they did not have the house. They did not have the Senate where they done for for two years. No. Bill Clinton had, at one point, been 39% approval rating. He left office over 60. Obama had been down to 37 at one point. He left office at near 60. Now, of course, it's not good for an incumbent lane belt president in the second term to lose the Senate in house, given the circus that we're seeing today with law fair and impeachment. There's no doubt that Donald Trump will be impeached, and there's no doubt that everybody around him will be subpoenaed. There will be investigations. He will not be able to get an appointee confirmed by a partisan Senate should he lose it. But if we look at the Clinton Obama precedence, it didn't bother them a bit. Obama and Clinton both face that again, is any of that good news? No, if V.D.H. is crystal clear, again, this isn't good news, but this has happened before. Anyone telling you anyone telling you like what happened last night is unprecedented in United States Republic party politics. I'm sorry. He's just lying to you. No, it's not good. There's nothing good about it. There were some minor bright spots, thankfully, my great state of Florida, you know, withstood the storm, not everywhere. We lost congressional seats too. But at the top of the ticket, we did quite well. I don't know what happened in Texas, but I want to remind you again, folks, we have been on here as not just a candidate and an activist since 2015. And I run for office, I ran for office for the first time in the 2012 election cycle. I want to show you some, these pictures are a little sensitive to me. They're not like weird or anything, but they're a little sensitive to me, but I want you to go through this with me because some, not many, but some of you may be new to politics. You may be first time Trump voters. You weren't really active in politics before you found this show. A lot of you may have lived through this, but not really have lived through this. For those in the chat, do you remember 2012 election night when just about every Republican was convinced that there was no way Obama would survive re-election? There's no way. Obamacare, total flop. The country was enmeshed in what was the beginning of a DEI woke nightmare. Obama was running around the country with all this. You didn't build that crap and all the sobibles, clingers and all this other people were like, this guy's going to lose. Now, Romney was not a great candidate, but I got to tell you, I was pretty convinced that night. At least Romney had a shot. He did not have a shot. He got smoked. Here's a couple pictures of election night. Dan, why are you in a suit with Aaron? Who is that little one? My daughter had just been born. That's my youngest. I ran for the U.S. Senate that night, and that was about, this is about 1130 at night. I believe the race had already been called for Obama. We had lost the U.S. Senate race in Deep Blue, Maryland. And folks, there were about 500 people there in a ballroom who had done a lot for my campaign. Just like you did a lot, came up short. But here's another picture of me, and I just want you to notice, I'm still smiling because I was happy. No, I had skin in the game. I was on the ballot. Ask your favorite SI program, who ran for Senate on the one the Republican primary in Maryland in 2012. You're going to see my name. I wasn't smiling because I was happy. I was smiling because I knew I was alive to fight another day. And then after Barack Obama, we got President Trump. And the rebellion began. I used to urge people in the Obama years after I lost myself. I had skin in the game and not election. That was a tough night to give that speech, but I did it and I did it with a smile. I used to ask people to be the unsilent minority. You're in the minority in the legislative branch of government right now, by far, but don't be silent about it. I want to show you something else, folks, because you want some perspective and say, well, you know, what do you know about what's really hard, Dan? Well, there's a picture, kind of a weird picture. Why am I showing you a picture of my neck? Well, if you're listening on audio, courage, you just go check this out and rumble. That was a picture, right? That was a picture I sent to my doctor friend. about an hour after shaving, where I noticed I had a big huge lump on the left side of my neck. I didn't think it was anything. I thought it was like a fatty tumor somewhere. I had been doing some grappling the day before and I got and choked out and I thought maybe it was a hematoma or something. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I got to tell you I didn't think anything of it. I just sent it to my doctor friend and he responded. Get over here quick. And I found out I had cancer that might. And it was it was a bad moment. Most of you, not all of you, but most of you are waking up today without a cancer diagnosis. Most of you are waking up today without a phone call that your kid was in a accident got hit by someone in a DWI. Most of you are waking up to really horrendous political news. None of it's good. But folks perspective and context matter. We'll live to fight another day. Last night did not work out for us. But I promise you we will live to fight another day. It is critically important after last night too that we do not learn the wrong lesson. This show was never about silencing people's opinions on any issue from inflation, a gas prices to Iran, people voted ever. I have a difference of opinion. I've said repeatedly you are entitled to yours. But none of those problems are about to be fixed at all by the incoming socialist Democrats. I keep bringing this up about learning the wrong lesson because if you haven't heard this story, I want you to remember this. After the 2012 Obama Romney reelect, where Obama won re-election, the fine he has, I will never ever forget. Listen to me. Beeman on me and this one. This is important. Never forget. I went to a meeting in DC with some very prominent conservative activists and some consultants came in to talk about what they thought was happening. They were just like consultants on them, but they were like, hey, here's our stroke of genius about how we don't repeat this disaster losing to Obama again. And the first thing they said was the Republican Party should never speak about immigration again. Everyone in the room was like, are you crazy? This is the worst advice ever. This is the lesson you took from that. In case you missed it, Donald Trump won the presidency just years later, running on a signature issue of Build the Wall, which he did. Not all of it, not though, he's effectively shut down the border, at least in the second term when they got rocking and rolling and finally got rid of the Biden regime and had public support behind him. I will never forget that night. Actually, it was in the day that meeting where that consultant told us that it is critical. We do not learn the wrong lessons from this. We still have two-thirds of the government. We have an opportunity in two years to hold the presidency and win back the house. Why am I not mentioning the Senate? Because folks, I told you the other day. This is the ugly part. I'll give you, there's no good. I'll give you the bad, the badder and the ugliest parts of last night. The Senate seats we lost last night and we're now stuck with for six years. We're stuck. There's nothing you can do. I have a path forward. So you want a bit of good news? I will give you a little bit of good news. I'm related to last night. There's nothing good about last night. But about the future of the party and the country, there is a path forward and there's a right lesson to take from last night too. It doesn't do me any good to sit here and tell you, oh, this is what went wrong without saying, okay, well, how are we going to fix it? We clearly fixed it after losing to Obama the second time. We won back a huge number of seats and President Trump upset the whole political world in 2016. 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And that's why I emphasize, don't ignore people who analyze and critique what happened last night. That's not dooming or blackpilling. Celebrating it, however, is and should hark back to my warning to you that these people were never on our side. They are the nihilists. They want this place destroyed too. So I think here are a couple of things we can do because there's another election that basically starts today, the presidential. That's critical. First, I think we have to, we have to ink some of these trade deals. It's clear that regionally that's a lot of broad-based tariffs. A lot of voters didn't like them. There are some targeted tariffs. I think we shouldn't can use for national security reasons because folks, the industrialization of America as I've discussed with President Trump yesterday, is a national security issue. If we cannot produce steel and medicines and drones on U.S. soil and relying on foreign partners and shipping lanes, it can be taken out. We're going to be in big trouble. But pursuing some trade deals at this point, I think would be if we can ink a couple and juice the economy to three to five percent each quarter, President Trump could leave office with 55-60% approval. We're already at those economic growth levels at 3.4. That came, so anyone telling you the economy is dead in a way, it's just lying to you. There are issues we're getting through, but anyone telling you the economy here is dead is just making that up. That's not true. So we should double down on that. Folks, number two, we can dramatically shrink the government workforce. It's clear at this point, President Trump is the chief executive of the United States government has broad-based powers to shrink the federal workforce. There is zero question amongst sane voters out there, even across the aisle, with working class blue collar Democrats, that government employment is out of control. The President has done a good job lowering the number of federal employees down to a more reasonable level. We need to now dramatically move forward. You want to talk about a mandate? Well, we'll give a mandate to that. Right now, we've got two years left. It's time to move on that quick. The lame duck session of Congress, where these Republicans, we still got time. They should take a look at dramatically cutting government spending. No more of this kind of nipping around the edges and this crap. Folks, there should be some dramatic cuts in spending. Throw the bill out there. Let the Democrats say no. At least get some template moving forward and send the message to the American people that you're serious about cutting spending or this inflation problem is going to be really hard to get rid of. Fourth, move on second amendment pro-life issues. I know there are old kind of establishment folks who are like, ah, nobody believes that. No, we believe in that stuff. Are we a constitutional conservative party or not? We've done some great work through regulations, but on the law front, things like constitutional carry on the pro-life front with these grotesque abortion drugs. It is time to move on those things. Get it out there. You've got a lame duck session to send the message to people. Well, this is what you missed because this is what they missed. They had the opportunity to do a lot of this stuff, a lot of the Republicans in the house and they didn't. Next, ladies and gentlemen, this make America a healthy again agenda is popular. And that's not the reason to do something, it's not because it's popular. The reason to do something in this case is because it's right. America's moving in a different direction. When it comes to health, the days of eating donuts and smoke in a cigarette with black coffee for breakfast are over. There are a large swath of voters out there who really care about what's in their food and their kids food, like a lot. They're interested in talking about things like raw milk. Oh, that's not an issue. Really go put that in X. Put, I hate raw milk. Watch what happens. This matters to people. It matters to me. I showed you that freaking picture of the damn tumor growing in my neck. You think I want to die? I'm worried about things like microplastics. Who cares about that? I do embrace this maha agenda. Fully, fully embrace it. Next, ladies and gentlemen, look at the Florida model if you are in the states. Florida was not great last night. We lost some congressional seats. But how the hell is it that my great state of Florida way, way overperformed? Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, ladies and gentlemen, that doesn't even make sense. The reason it makes sense is because we have had from Rick Scott to Ron DeSantis. We have had now 16 years of effective leadership where people in Florida are happy with their lives. They don't want to vote for Communists. The election was closer than we thought, but a win's a win, especially in this environment. Huge credit to both Rick Scott and DeSantis. I don't get it. I don't care about the primary stuff anymore. I'm just telling you, Byron Donald's won that race because people don't want to change direction in Florida. The Florida model works. What is the Florida model? It's very complicated, Justin. You know what it is? Don't tax people a lot of their money away. Work on whatever you can with school choice. Yes, keep the freaking liberals and their crap out of your state. Don't trans up the entire state. It's not hard. If you're in a red state, and you're not doing this stuff, and you got places like Ohio and elsewhere, where some of the leadership there at the state level is really not that conservative. There's going to be somewhat of a backlash. The Florida model for the states should be your default mechanism. Next, we got to finish the job in Iran. We have to. We have to, there's two options as I see going forward. Finish it, finish it quick, or keep control of the straight at this point and move the military operation back here, get the oil out. We have to. A lot of people have pissed off about it. I told you that folks, I saw a different data set. My opinion on the matter has been well vocalized on this show. You're free to agree or disagree. But I would not downplay the opinions of people who care greatly about putting our military men and women in combat. But my opinion on the matter has not changed. I'm not here to lick my finger and see where the winds blow. I have never been whatever a neocon or whatever label. Look at what I, you know, when I ran for office, my position's on stuff. But we've got to finish the job there. Next, we've got to clean up the tax code. Folks, we have to. Are we going to get a fair tax or a flat tax? We are not. We don't have the votes for that in the lame duck session. We don't. However, we can clean up the tax code significantly and just make it easier. So you don't have to pay an accountant $50,000 a year just to figure out how to pay your damn taxes. The regulatory costs alone are bankrupt in Americans. We have an opportunity in the lame duck and then the next two years do executive orders or tinkering around the edges here. Couple more. President Trump want to war on government red tape. I mean, want to war on it. He dumped four federal regulations for every new one and the new federal regulation was only to dump old ones. Let's make that 20. Let's get the federal register of what shower head you can use, how to flush your freaking toilet, low flow, faucet crap, all that your air conditioning unit that breaks after 10 minutes. Let's shrink that 50 to one. Next, our military. We've got to finance our military for these future fights, folks. The world isn't getting any less dangerous drone technology, golden dome, hypersonic missiles, space satellite warfare. These are very real threats. You don't want to wake up the day after tomorrow to find out a major American city got hit by a hypersonic missile and say, well, what did we do? Nothing. It's time to double down on the restructuring of our military. And last, lessons to take away from this, and the wrong lessons to not take away, is do not stop the crackdown on crime and the border. Do not stop. That would be completely the wrong lesson from this. There are Americans in blue cities that do not want their kids mugged. They don't want them raped. They don't want their homes invaded. Crime changes everything. Everything. I lived through the New York City, I mean, the murder years in New York City when Rudy Giuliani won re-election as a freaking Republican by 18 points cracking down on crime. Do not take your pedal off the gas at the border either. We cannot have 20 more million people into the country. Well, why would that happen? Folks, if you think for a second, now that these Democrats, these lunatics, Taloriko and others, El Sayed, that day one, I'm gonna go into the bad, the badder, and the ugly, 'cause I don't really have a lot of great news for you. I have an agenda. I think we have a good battle plan. I don't have a lot of great news for you last night, but we have been here before. And we will, we will live to fight another day because we have no other choice. The countries were saving that flag over my shoulder represents something greater than you and me. It's a promise you've made to your kids and grandkids. There's no giving up, none. Because this is your alternative. This was a segment I heard driving in this morning on Fox and Friends. Here are the candidates last night after winning the Peggy Flanagan and Minnesota and others. You would think they would say, "Hey, listen man, it's time to moderate a little bit." Oh no, they won't absolutely crazy last night. This is the contrast we're gonna be dealing with and even worse when they're sworn in in just two months. Take a look at this. I mean, we've told you throughout the campaign that a lot of these people were crazy, had radical policies, abolished ICE. Medicare for all is pretty much a popular thing when it comes to all of these candidates right now. That's, that may be the first vote that they asked for. And many of them walked away from it during the general election, but you saw during their victory speeches, they're back to those saying radical waves. We must unreg this economic system that only benefits the top 1%. We must pass universal healthcare. I will fight to abolish ICE and death. We will rip ICE apart. We will end Donald Trump's reckless war in Iran. We will pass Medicare for all once and for all. Money out of money in your Medicare for when they say Medicare for all folks, they're not joking, but listen, I voted Democrat. I'm in a union. I have a great plan. It's a Cadillac plan. Good luck. Well, Donald Trump will veto it. Yeah, what are you going to do when you lose him? Folks, you realize you just stacked the Senate with a bunch of far left lunatics who will have these seats for six years. In other words, the next president, if it's a Democrat, will have four years to shove down your throat, Medicare for all, and they mean all. They're not kidding. Oh, assuredly, there's a carve out in the Bernie Sanders bill for free market insurance. There is not any insurance plan that offers similar services to the government run healthcare. They're about to shove down your throat like syrup of freaking epicac. Look it up. Makes you throw up is illegal. The quote is unlawful. This means the same thing for the liberals listening. Do you think they're kidding? The night they won, you know, they're going to moderate a little bit. Oh, no. Oh, no. So it's important we cover kind of what happened last night. I'll call it the bad, the ugly and the really ugly because we got to know what we got to fix. And we can't know what we're going to fix if we're unrealistic about what happened. And again, we do the lipstick pig routine. We're not doing that. CEOs had a pretty decent summary last night of the catastrophic. at just about every level outside of Florida. They said the results speak louder than any words we can write. Democrats won Senate races in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Ohio, and perhaps Mississippi, maybe Alaska, in route to a 55 seat majority, which could be 57, which would be a catastrophe. Democrats won swing districts all across Red America, with the average margins of victory being roughly 13 points, coordinate of times. Dems appear headed for a 250 seat majority in 18 year high. That's not great. Well, it's going to cause a lot of intraparty warfare on the dem side, don't get to that in a second. A lot of shutdowns and things like that. Texas is now a Democratic state. They know this is Axios top to bottom, unthinkable merely months ago. Taloriko won, like it was Connecticut, numbers by state representative Agina, Hoseha became the first Democratic governor in 32 years. Florida governor DeSantis predicted on X the losses were so widespread and deep that the Republicans might not have a shot at the Senate until 2032. North Carolina, a mass last night, looks like a true blue state after Democrats flipped the Senate seat, likely ousted Hudson, the chair of the NRC, meaning he led the GOP drive to keep the house. He's out. He may be out too. North Carolina's congressional delegation could swing from 10 ours for Democrats to 5 ours and 9 Democrats. Georgia was even worse for Republicans when they lost all power at the state and U.S. Senate levels. You like that's just the bad part? Yeah, there's an uglier part. Folks, the ugly part is with 250 plus seats in the House of Representatives, where they only need roughly 218. An impeachment of multiple Trump administration officials is not only likely, but practically guaranteed. Justin popped his head out of the studio and said, give me a probability that, you know, you think there's going to be impeachments? I said 100%. It reminds me of that line from zero, dark dirty, people don't like certainty, whatever, 99.99 repeating decimal. But I thought the Democrats were in this for affordability. I'm sorry if you fell for that. Now I mean it. I'm sorry if you believe that. If you're a blue collar worker, I mean here, look at this. There's this blue checkmark that he saw in a Ladine on the campaign. They said affordability and gas prices. Day one, lawyer up. You think they're kidding? No, no, they're going to spend their legislative time up on the hill, fixing gas prices on affordability. But the Democrats, here's just a array of tweets from last night. From prominent Democrats, senators, Congress people, here's that marquee. They're going to need to plant new forests for all the subpoenas will be perfect. Justin, any mention affordability in there? Surely on the next one, Congresswoman, deal, you see whatever. Kristino, Mark Wayne Mullin, Steve Miller, Tom Homan, Greg Bavino, what's up? Clear your schedule. You think that's about affordability? Gas price. Yeah. Mark Wayne Mullin can talk about gas price. Ron Wyden, nothing lunatic. Because that was his tweet. Guys, the Senator, anything about affordability in there? Nothing about affordability, you know, Congressman Robert Garcia, lawyer up, all caps. He just wants to make sure, you know, he, I thought that's, let's say affordability in all caps. Congresswoman, whoever, and sorry, thank you, Mr. President, I thank you, will come in January with subpoenas, yeah, Justin says that there's surely an egg prices thing in there somewhere. They're talking about egg prices forever. They have 250 seats, gallons of beef you, so that, yeah, the beef is not coming gallons. But it was, what was the lady from the view, right, out of the world, right? Folks, this is kind of the ugly news, but also there is a lipstick pig moment in this. This is so ugly and there's guaranteed impeachment and subpoenas. They are going to blow up any midterm messaging they had in this presidential, where every single day, they're people running for president who will start announcing or soft announcing, probably this coming week, they're going to have to answer every day. How do you feel about the presidential impeachment going on, and they're going to have to defend this while the American people, if the problems aren't fixed, they're going to be, hey, did we just vote you guys in on affordability? Folks, they are going to shut down the government, they are going to push through every single crazy piece of legislation and the contrast going forward between President Trump stopping the horde of lunatics from taking over the country is going to be profound. This is the only small, sliver lipstick on this massive pig. Here's a very ugly part. We got some couple of pieces of good news at the end, but that was, the more personal than anything. This was the DSA, the communist on their ex account, the Democrat Socialist of America last night. Folks, actual communists are now sitting in state and local and territorial positions, actual communists that would destroy the United States in a minute. Here's the DSA taking a victory lap. Over 50 DSA victories tonight, prove socialism can win in the United States. This is a real tweet. Workers deserve more and a reality where all of us live with dignity and hope is closer than we think. Just like the Soviet Union, guys, you know, that's how that went down. Everybody live with dignity. If they weren't dead or killed or in a gulag. They know the job's not done though. Tomorrow we continue organizing, fighting and winning for the working class. I told you, these people are an army, not a political party. And you should treat them as such. Now, who's the leading candidate or one of them right now? The Democrat side for the presidency, hair gel out in California, who's run his state into the ground. That's why all these Californians are moving to, you know, Texas and New York and screw in up Texas politics, too, because of Gavin Newsom. Here's Gavin Newsom caught on, I don't know if he knows he's being recorded or not. Hat tip town hall for this one. Here is you, you know, this guy, remember, he is going to run for president. In case you think, oh, this is hysterical, nonsense, all this stuff, the Democrats, despite all the evidence from their post campaign win speeches and tweets, they're really going to focus on affordability. They're not going to go full coming in the United States. Really? Listen to Gavin Newsom of this town hall video. Again, I don't know if you think he knows he's being recorded. This is some lady, like, pretending she's a socialist and wants him to go far left. And listen to his answer. He's all for it. Check this out. On your boater and a lot of us, like, we want to see the Democratic Party move forward. You know, we don't want more Kamala Harris. We want, you know, more, I guess, Democratic socialist politics. Like, where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going? I think it's, I mean, I think no one is arguing to manage the status quo or fail more officially. So I think that the, the DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, non incremental change is very much going to be the dominant. I mean, that's going to be mainstream, Democratic absolutely, no question on my mind. He can't play in the margins anymore. The whole, the system's broken, it's completely unbalanced and you can't, we can't manage to decline. We have to completely reimagine it. Folks, there he is again with a completely reimagine line. Didn't remember they used that before? What was that about? Like, oh, yes. Defund the police. No, we don't mean defund. We mean reimagine. What does reimagine mean? It means taking funds away. Doesn't that mean defund, reallocated resources? That means defund. Correct. No, no, it doesn't mean defund. You see the euphemisms game they play where they use these like cute little phrases. The guy wants to put you in the Soviet gulag. He's saying about reimagining government, oh, this is mainstream now, socialism. I thought we voted for affordability. The Soviet Union was very affordable because everybody died from starvation. That was it. It was affordable in death. Gravesites, they throw you in the backyard. Folks, this is the very ugly part. I believe we have an actual national security threat getting ready to be sworn in in the United States Senate, too. I think you know where I'm going with this. I have more than this coming up in a second and this fraud, Rokana, this absolute fraud. The biggest phony fake clown in Congress is out there now celebrating that wokeism is back. This is where you vote. I thought it was affordability. All they're talking about is lawyers, subpoenas, woke be in back and celebrating communism in the United States. This is what they're talking about. This isn't moderating after game day. Who's celebrating this? If you are, you would never ever with us. I knew that. I've been trying to warn you for a long time. Folks, quick break and I'll show you this video. 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This is not, if you voted for this guy, to teach the Republicans a lesson, you're about to get a lesson and good and hard. I want you to listen to this debacle from last night. Check this out. My name is Abdul Rahman Muhammad Sayyid. And I am so proud and honored to stand here as your Senator-elect from the Great Santa Michigan. So, Mike, enjoy your retirement. JD. Hi, baby. There is this delicious irony in the fact that your constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. So, after JD swears me in in January, you could just go on and call me Senator. What a classless piece of human waste this guy is. Again, we're celebrating this today and you're pretending to be on our side. Not criticizing or analyzing. Not only fair, but welcome. Can't fix a party, you don't criticize or analyze. That's our job. It's a party supported by people, those people or us. You're celebrating this today? Forget the fact that Al Sayyid is an absolute clown and buffoon with the personality of a speckled-toed sloth. The guy is a freaking national security threat. His family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are beyond disturbing. That is a terror group for those of you who don't know. Committed to the destruction of the infidels. I don't care what podcast the Stan told you. I told you they're not on our side. Us meaning the United States. This guy is a national security threat. You want to talk about the very ugly? I'm concerned and you should be too. I didn't spend decades in the government trying to protect both Democrats and Republicans to have a guy like this get in classified national security briefings. Sorry, you're not teaching anyone a lesson with this guy. Or this guy too. I thought this election was about, again, affordability and gas prices. Remember the eggs or whatever they were complaining about eggs? This is Rokana, the biggest fraud in the House of Representatives. I can't stand this guy. He is one of the most dangerous members of Congress because he's so full of its unbelievable people fall for this guy's routine. He's out there trying to pretend to be some bridge-building moderate. Mike told you he was the biggest cancel culture guy after January 6th, Rokana. Go look it up. And he claimed to be the free speech guy. This guy is like Dave Jolly, the guy who ran for governor in Florida. He will tell you anything. He'll tell you he's a freaking tea party guy if you think so, it'll get him elected. He claims he goes on Fox and pretends he's like the moderate guy. Here he is celebrating DEI is back. That was his actual tweet. Here's the video he put with it. Check this out. The eye is back is America celebrated diversity and inclusion, likely three black governors, the first Latina governor in Texas, the first Muslim American senator, the first gay senator. I love this America. I thought this was affordability guys. Josh affordability, that's what they said, right? They said affordability. Now what DEI is back? So just to be clear, if you're a white male or female in this country, white males, primarily, we're back to being openly discriminated against because Rokana's declared it so. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I told you, live to fight another day because you have no choice. You're gonna have your kids grow up in a country where this complete life loser Rokana and El Sayed are telling your kid who just happens to not have enough melanin in his skin or be the select minority religion of the day they prefer, that they're the outcast all of a sudden? No, no, no, no, no. Folks, we fought way too hard for this stuff. You want cancel culture back, it's coming. You want DEI back, it's coming. Folks, I lived through it. I was in the first dump of the Twitter files. I was banned by YouTube and Google and every single woke organization on Planet Earth. I lived through this, so did my production team. No, we're not going back to that. We're not going back to that. You want to see something even more disturbing? 'Cause we haven't focused on a lot of state level races. Do you remember this clip we played a while ago of a candidate in Queens, New York? Folks, that was my home. It's also where Donald Trump called home. I grew up in Queens, New York. When I was a kid there, it was an amazing place. This is a New York state senate candidate speaking a while ago, who won her race last night from Queens, New York, Abur Kawas. Here she is talking about terror attacks in 9/11 in the United States. With the couple of people did something, yeah, they did. They murdered 3,000 plus innocent people and nearly tried to decimate the United States economy, national security situation, create a national security and public safety nightmare. We're still living with. They definitely did some, won the race last night for a New York state state senate seat in Queens. Check this out. - The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, have all, and Islamophobia have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, right, to take resources for other people. And so this is like a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9/11. And so a lot of times when people are asking us to respond about, you know, attack, right, when if we look back like historically, right, you know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, right, a lot of times because of US policy or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that, but then also that the idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I kind of find like reprehends. - You were talking about the very ugly from last night. What, this is celebrating this today, just to be clear, you're not critiquing or analyzing, you're celebrating this. With El Sayed and a new Texas senator in office who thinks God is non-binary, who was like a vegan who isn't sure about if we should be eating meat in freaking Texas. Do you ever heard of what a longhorn is, even know what that is? I'm gonna see another one. Here's Scott Galloway. Scott Galloway, I want you to keep in mind as you're watching this insane clip where he seems to imply that physical violence against Elon Musk would somehow be acceptable because what, he had a different political opinion on you? Scott Galloway, the reason I play this clip, I've mentioned him before. This guy is a mainstream figure on the left. I'm not, it doesn't mean he's not crazy. The idea is he says he were nuts. I'm telling you like he's accepted as like a mainstream guy. Hillary Clinton and them love him. He's not like some fringe guy, oh boy, that guy. This guy speaks for a large swath of the Democrat party. He said this publicly. I'll say this guy comments on business and other stuff. This is probably the craziest quote from last night. But notice the reaction from the host in the audience. It's not horror. The reaction's like, yeah, this is kind of acceptable. Listen to this. - We have begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West. And you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West. I don't even know how to respond to that. Folks, for the record for the just in what? 5,460 second time. There is no political violence option. There isn't. Forget it. Forget it. It's not a thing. It's a thing. And you may have watched the road or some of these apocalyptic movies. That is not a thing. If the Democrats, again, I say again because this is their thing. Why do we embrace Antifa? President Trump is still the chief law enforcement officer in this country. And I know for a fact, because I was involved in the first successful Antifa prosecutions in U.S. history, you're going to start inciting violence and go to the streets against our beateness, not out of people. You're going to jail. What the hell is he implying there? Seems pretty clear. I told you, I would leave you with a little bit of good news because there actually was some last night on the ballot measures front. There was very little good news. Even in Florida, we did lose some congressional seats and the races were a little closer than we would have liked. However, Florida historically did perform that way before President Trump, Rick Scott and then DeSantis, who had won big. But Florida races were always close, again, it's not a lipstick thing, it's just true. So I hope we're not back to that. But Florida lost some seats too. But ultimately, Florida did seem to be a bulwark against insanity. I can't believe Texas fell. I'm really kind of stunned by that. I mean, especially with Tala Rico was one of the worst candidates I've ever seen. But the ballot initiatives last night were important because again, folks, everyone out there telling you like, "Oh, people voted for socialism and communism." Yes, the fringes, Lambo radicals and commies did. But there are other people out there who are not as deeply enmeshed in politics like you are. They really believed that they were voting for Democrats to change things on affordability. They're about to get it good and hard and it ain't going to feel good. There's not going to be any, you get the point. It's raw. You're about to get it. But proving to you that the country is not crazy, in other words, don't forfeit the country. Yeah, it was a bad election night. We've been through this before. We all lived through 2020 together. We remember that whole mess with the ballot mail-ins and all that crap, Pennsylvania. We lived to fight another day and what happened? We won. There's just nothing else to do. The flag over my shoulder is a promise. It's a promise, not a suggestion. Remember that? That was election night. That was producer Jim and I, Smileyland. That was me interviewing Congress from NASA, it was on the show last night. That was us celebrating, folks, 500,000 people watched that night. We had a good night. He was Kyle G, from Kyle G. He's pouring some down who we are, and I remember that shot went down hard. I'm not really used to shooting straight to Kila, like the usual little bit of soda there or what. We came back in one. Don't tell me we haven't been here before. We were here in 2020, just six years ago. And we came back in one. I'm not giving the, I'm not giving the, I'm not forfeiting to the lunatics. Here's just a quick hit from Fox last night on ballot initiatives. Some measures last night, men and women's sports, we did really well. Guys in the women's room out, men and women's sports lost. We had some great moves in North Carolina and Ohio on voter ID. Only citizens can vote. Looks really good in Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia. Here's Fox about the men in the women's room and men and women's sports issue. Folks, even in states we got annihilated like Ohio, voters still said, nah, we're not doing that. Democrats are going to try to do it. Voters are going to be like, wait, we just voted against. I thought it was about affordability. Check this out. So voters across the country took to the polls to make their voices heard and in different states across the country, they faced similar ballot measures. For example, transgender students in school sports and Nebraska voters approved the initiative 442 banning males in female sports and Colorado proposition 134 has still not been called. That would ban transgender students from participating in school sports teams that align with their gender identity. A similar question in Washington measure 638 prohibit students who were assigned male at birth from competing with their against female student athletes K through 12 sports. That measure has not yet been called either. Arizona's prop 318 has been called the state already barbed biological boys from playing in girl sports. This approved measure will now include intramural sports, private leagues. It will also bar biological girls from playing on boys teams. More states are also green lighting voter ID proposals in Arkansas, only US citizens who show a form of photo ID and are 18 years old can vote in North Carolina. A photo ID is required for mail and ballots in Ohio voters approved a measure to add voter ID requirements to the state's constitution. That will make it harder for the state government in the future to repeal them. West Virginia changed the language and now specifies that only US citizens are allowed to vote in elections. Again, receipts matter. Was there anything good about last night? No. Has the country gone completely crazy? It is not. How do you explain the disparity in the ballot measures versus the candidates? Dan, but they voted for candidates who want to put men in the women's room and on women's sports teams. Folks, there is a knowledge bias here. If you're watching this show, 67,000 people right now and thank you. It's good to have you here. I knew people would show up because they want an explanation too. You are extremely politically informed. I say this as a compliment and not a backhanded one. You are actually the worst judge of a political environment. How could they do that? How could the wealth tax in California, which looks like it's going to go down in flames? How does Florida pass an amendment that needed 60% of against property taxes and then we simultaneously do bad in candidate races? The answer is because a lot of these Democrat candidates are just really good at messaging BS. Socialism is not cool. It's free stuff. What does it like free stuff? And you're like, that sounds dumb. It sounds dumb to you because you're really smart on the issues. There are people out there who saw campaign commercial. They're like government free healthcare. That sounds great. I don't have to pay for healthcare anymore. I told you, you think that's true. You're going to get a good, hard, raw, even California. The country is not crazy. We had a lot of candidate issues. The messaging was not great. Certainly, I could argue strongly to save act and now pushing hard around that and that did not come from the White House. The president pushed as hard as he could. I mean, he only true social posted about it a hundred times. But ladies and gentlemen, we still have two years left. I got up this morning and I bet a lot of you know, I post that X post every morning, right? I put the date outside of like solemn days and things like that. It's November 4th. Streets are safe for borders secure, re-industrializing America again. You know what I added this morning? Donald J. Trump is still your president. We still have the ideological balance and the courts. The legislative branch of government was a wash last night. Are we going to just sit back for the next two years, let them destroy our businesses, our kids, our education system? I'm not. I'm not doing any of that. And you're not either. You wouldn't be here this morning. That's the biggest crowd we've had in forever. You wouldn't be here this morning if you woke up this morning giving up. Folks, I'm going to tell you something and you guys, Justin, you and G-live through this. We had some of the largest amount of interest in my show. I'm trying to say this the right way was after really bad nights like 2020 where people were just looking for answers and how to dust off. I told you, I gave you what I think is a battle plan. You've got a lame duck session and you've got two years of the Trump presidency ahead. Obama took a far bigger beating in his midterm. Clinton took a similar beating in his midterm and they pushed their stuff. Now it's time pedal down 9,000 RPMs. Live to fight another day. There are many other choice. What would I want one? I don't want other choice. I love to deal with Greenland, but I'm not moving there. I'm not moving to Canada. I'm not moving to Mexico. I'm staying right here in the, the sun's out today in Florida. I'm going to tell you something too. Last night was bad news, but I just want to repeat again after showing you that picture of my neck. Many of you in the chat have been there. Some of you in this chat out of this 60 plus thousand people and God bless you with strength of lost kids, spouses, parents to diseases. Some of you have lost friends to horrific crimes. Some of you know, friends who bed their homes invaded while they were home as bad news. Last night was political bad news. There's [BLANK_AUDIO] open wound, but we can treat it. We have antibiotics, we have stitches. It's going to be painful. We're going to have to stop the bleeding, get that clot powder, whatever they have, but we have the tools to do it. Now we just have to get up, dust off and do it, and pay very close attention to the people celebrating this today. I hope going forward that now a lot of you will see what we were warning you about. They're not on your team. They never were. All right, we still do our comment of the day. This is always some good news. So we give away once a week, which should help hope hopefully someone out there, $1,776. We pick a comment of the day every day, and then we select the weekly winner from that pool. The official rules at bongino.com/1776. The comment of the day, the day after election day today is Rich Amar. Never surrender. Never give up. It's not who we are. It's not what we do. Thank you, Rich, and thank you, Rush. We don't give up. They don't give up. We don't give up either. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. Thanks again for tuning in last night. I really appreciate it. We were at the top 20 stream. Thanks to you. We appreciate you being here. Going to be a rough couple of weeks. We'll get through it. Make sure you check out Sean's show at 1 o'clock today, all times Eastern rumble.com/Sean. You show a vincis morning at a huge crowd at 8 a.m. rumble.com/vincs. Haley at noon. You download the free rumble app or you can watch on the web rumble.com/bongino. Check out the show. Join the live stream every day. We really appreciate you. Appreciate you having to the people who voted. Thank you. Thank you for showing up. We really appreciate it. I'll see you back here tomorrow. Hey there, I'm Vince. I'm Haley Karenia. I'm Sean Farish. Host of Vince. Host of scrolling of Haley. Host of Sean Farish Live. You can always catch my show right here. Right here on the Bungina Report channel live 8 a.m. Eastern weekday mornings. New and weekdays. One p.m. Eastern time. And if you miss it, no worries. The show will always be right here and anywhere you find the podcast. Thanks for watching. And thank you for your attention to this matter. [Music]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Dan Bongino emphasizes that last night’s election results were not a victory but a setback, offering context rather than positive reassurances.
  2. Historical precedent shows that both major parties have faced massive midterm losses after election victories, especially under Democratic leadership, including Obama and Clinton.
  3. The Democratic gains in key states reflect a radical shift in ideology, with many new lawmakers promoting socialist policies like Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and dismantling border security.
  4. Bongino warns that the incoming Democratic Congress poses a national security threat, citing candidates like Abdul Rahman Sayyid and Rokana, who are linked to extremist ideologies and DEI extremism.
  5. He stresses that the party must avoid learning the wrong lessons by focusing on a clear battle plan: cut spending, reduce government size, strengthen border and crime policies, and defend constitutional conservatism.
  6. The Florida model is presented as a successful example of conservative state governance, emphasizing anti-transparency, low taxation, and strong leadership.
  7. Bongino condemns the celebration of radical left policies, stating that the new Democratic leadership is not moderating but actively advancing destructive, un-American agendas.
  8. Despite the losses, he remains confident in the long-term future of the nation, asserting that the GOP still holds the presidency and two branches of government and can regain power in two years.

Summary:

Dan Bongino provides a critical, historically grounded assessment of the recent midterm election results, rejecting any notion of a positive outcome. He stresses that while Democrats gained significant seats—including in key states like Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia—these results are not unprecedented; both parties have suffered similar defeats after winning presidential elections. Drawing from past events like the 2010 and 2014 midterms under Obama and Clinton, Bongino argues that such losses are common and not signs of national collapse.

He highlights the dangerous ideological shift in the new Democratic Congress, warning that it will pursue radical policies such as Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and pushing DEI extremism, which he sees as a threat to American values and national security. He specifically criticizes candidates linked to extremist ideologies, including Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers and figures promoting anti-conservative policies, calling them national security risks. Bongino urges the Republican Party to avoid the wrong lessons by focusing on a battle plan: reducing government spending, shrinking the workforce, strengthening borders, and defending constitutional rights.

He points to Florida as a model of conservative success through stable leadership and low taxation. Despite the losses, he remains optimistic, emphasizing that the GOP still controls the presidency and can regain Congress in 2026. He warns that celebrating the new Democratic gains is a mistake, as it reflects alignment with nihilistic and destructive ideologies.

Ultimately, Bongino’s message is one of resilience, personal conviction, and strategic preparedness—reaffirming that the nation will survive and thrive through continued resistance to progressive extremism.

FAQs

Dan Bongino stated that while there was no good news from the election results, the outcomes are not unprecedented. He emphasized that both parties have faced similar midterm losses in the past, citing Obama and Clinton as historical precedents. He argued that the results are a reminder that the country still has two branches of government and a path forward.

Dan Bongino describes the Democratic Party as operating like a military organization, with no room for dissent. He claims they use 'useful idiots' to vote for them, then discard them once their usefulness ends. He warns that such behavior indicates a long-term strategy of destabilizing the U.S. and that critics of their policies are at risk of being 'thrown under the bus'.

Dan Bongino believes impeachment of Trump administration officials is not only likely but practically guaranteed due to the Democrats' new majority in Congress. He sees this as a major political development that will lead to widespread investigations and a significant shift in the legislative agenda, particularly in areas like healthcare and government spending.

Dan Bongino warns against learning the wrong lessons from the election results. He emphasizes that the party should not abandon key conservative policies like border security, government spending cuts, or support for the Second Amendment. Instead, he recommends a proactive battle plan focused on economic growth, reducing federal workforce, and targeting national security threats.

Dan Bongino identifies actual communist and socialist candidates, like those from the DSA and Senator Abdul Rahman Muhammad Sayyid, as a national security threat. He warns that these individuals, especially those with ties to extremist groups or radical ideologies, are now in positions of power and represent a dangerous shift toward policies that could destroy American values and institutions.

Dan Bongino dismisses the claim that Democrats are focused on affordability, stating that their actual agenda includes radical social policies like Medicare for All, defunding police, and promoting DEI at the expense of public safety. He argues that these policies contradict any real commitment to economic affordability or stability.

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