This Bongino Weekend Report compiles Dan Bongino's opening monologues from the week after the 2026 midterm elections. He argues that Republican losses were serious but not the end of the movement, and he draws on an old Rush Limbaugh recording to make the case for persistence.
Much of the episode criticizes Democratic candidates in Texas and elsewhere, particularly on affordability, with Bongino contending that their campaign promises conflict with what they later say. He also plays clips from guests and officials on energy policy, Medicare for all cost estimates, and planned congressional investigations, presenting these as evidence for his views.
Listeners get his framing of the results and the arguments his critics would need to answer.
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All America, all the time, on the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bongino Report PM. With Dan Bongino.
So I'll say this multiple times today throughout the show, that there's—there's not going to be any copium here, or any false hope, or pig lipstick, or whatever we'd like to call it about the election results that happened last night. There isn't. The election results last night, if you were a conservative Republican, uh, any kind of Republican, a MAGA Republican or whatever, were awful. They were not bad, they were awful. There was some glimmer of hope on ballot measures.
We're going to get into all of this today, but I would be doing you an enormous disservice out there telling you, like, "Oh, don't worry about it. Everything's going to be fine." Now, I think there are things we can do going forward, including a battle plan going forward I'm going to propose to you today that I think would solidify us for the next election, which is just in two years, and we can't just sit and give it up. "Oh, forget it, we're not doing that." Like, that's not my thing. I don't give up. I'm living to fight another day, and so are you. I know you are.
But I will put what happened last night in perspective and context, because it matters. Because I'm going to urge you frequently today to watch the political ecosystem right now, for the folks out there who are not critiquing or analyzing. That's not only fair, but welcome. When you lose an election, it doesn't do you any good. I just told you that, to sit back and go, "Hey, you know, Producer Jim, everything was great last night, nothing to fix, nothing to change." Analysis and critical thinking is important moving forward.
However, there is a difference between that and celebrating the destruction of the country that happened last night. Once you see the difference, I promise you will never look back. I have been warning you about some of these figures for a long time, and now you're seeing it today. But folks, understandably, I've been in the business about 15 years. I remember Election Night 2012, when Obama won reelection—we'll get into that in a little bit—I was on the ballot that night myself, in the state of Maryland, for the United States Senate race.
That night was the worst political night of my life. It was. The second worst was when Obama won the first time against McCain. I'd rank this probably third or fourth, which is bad, because, you know, both parties have taken a bath traditionally. I'm 51 years old, I'm not young. Bad things have happened. You know, Bill Clinton winning is horrendous. I mean, it was just a disaster. We had Hillary Carrie. I mean, I'm old enough to remember that. But fair enough, you may say, "Well, you've only been in the business 15 years, you're 51.
I may be a little older than you, and I'm looking for another opinion on the matter for someone who's been in the business a little longer." I say, "Okay, I've got one for you." Folks, the greatest of all time when it came to kind of a godfather of the conservative cause was Rush Limbaugh. No, no serious person disputes that. There's no wing of the Republican Party that would disagree with that statement that not only was he basically the founder of conservative talk radio, he was the 30-plus-year MVP of a game he created. There's never going to be another, ever.
Towards the end, when we lost Rush, tragically and way too fast, I told the story often about, you know, we inherited some of the stations he was on. I never say "takeover" for us, because nobody takes over for Rush, but we were on 12-3. We're now on, you know, 3-6 and sometimes later with you all. I used to say all the time, "There's no taking this man's place." There isn't. All I can do is do the best work I can do, and I hope you like it.
I can't replace him. But towards the end, I'll never forget, listening to the show, I don't know what I was doing, I was, like, shaving or something like that. It was his last show, and nobody knew it was his last show. And I remember listening to him sign off as if he knew, but no one else did. And one of my—one of my big regrets is that I just didn't, like, put the razor down and just listen better to hear Rush's last moments on the radio with us. But this was Rush towards the end. If anybody had earned the right, after 30 years of ups and downs in the Republican Party and elections, if anyone had earned the right to say, "I'm done.
Hate these people. I'm moving on. Screw it. Going to collect my check and move on," it was Rush. Producer Jim pulled this up, and this is a little over a minute of Rush Limbaugh at the end of—close to the end of his life. When things weren't going great for the Republican Party and the movement, you think Rush was ready to give up? Even if you don't trust me, I hope you trust him. Take a listen to this.
I think whatever form it takes, we will continue to fight for and to defend and to triumph. I know the odds are, I mean, they're stiff and they're steep. The American left is made up of a lot of people that hate this country. Hate is a very, very destructive frame of mind. It's a very, very destructive characteristic, and eventually it results in implosion.
You cannot—you cannot survive on hatred. You cannot sustain a movement based on it. We just need to be patient while being vigilant and continuing to fight for what we believe in, knowing full well that we can prevail. And while we may not have the golden goose idea right now for how to do it, there are countless people thinking about it, strategizing. We're not alone. You're not alone. You're not a singular individual all by yourself out there trying to fight these people by yourself.
There are 74 million-plus, and growing.
Folks, those are wise words from a wise man who had seen the vicissitudes, the ups and downs, the peaks and valleys of politics. Politics is a rough-and-tumble business. No, no, it is a rough-and-tumble business. Unfortunately for the Democrats, many of whom are talking about abortion, which is violence, and to many of them recommending street violence. One of them—I'll play a clip at the end of the show—a mainstream left-wing podcaster somehow implying Elon Musk should be treated like they treated spies and traitors to the United States.
It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. Folks, I just want you to be prepared going forward that there is no giving up option. Rush told us this often. He's been through this over and over. Folks, I've only been in this business—again, I was a candidate for the first time in the 2011-2012 election cycle. It was the first time I ran for office. I walked away from a position I loved in the Secret Service. It didn't work out. But that election night, when Mitt Romney lost, I got to tell you, man, I could not believe it.
I couldn't believe a president as awful as first-term Barack Obama not only won the first time, but managed to get reelected and reelected candidly in a rout. That race was called by 11:30. I had to give a speech that night. I lost the U.S. Senate race in Maryland to Ben Cardin, and it was, like, 11:30 at night. I'll tell you more about it a little bit later, but that was the single worst political night of my life. And I'm going to tell you something, folks. I gave that speech with a smile on, because the 500-plus people there who had volunteered for my campaign, who were at this watch party that night, they deserve some leadership too.
Folks, we got a problem, because a lot of the people who voted for these DSA and blue candidates around the country voted under the impression that the Democrats were going to fix gas prices and affordability. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not the plan. Jim is in the background shaking his head, like, almost comically laughing at people who fell for this scam.
I posted it this morning.
I know you did. I know you did. I saw that. Jim is from Texas, horrified at the results. Watch what's going to happen to your great state now that basically every state leadership position has been wiped out to a bunch of radical far-left Democrats. But again, even if you voted for these Democrats thinking they were going to be a fix on the inflation/diesel front, and you ignored the successes at the border on the crime rate, the GDP growth, the economy moving again, stock market gains, even if you—median household income up—even if you ignored all that. Folks, this is not what they were talking about last night after some of their election victories.
They were in no way, in no way, mentioning egg prices, diesel, except for a few candidates. Most of the Democrats who won last night were talking about absolutely insane things. Here is Talarico, who is going to be your incoming United States Senator in the state of Texas. Jim can't believe it. I mean, we here in the great state of Florida, we did not have a great night, but we had a better night than most. We lost some congressional seats too, but we won on a property tax initiative, the top of the ticket, from the Attorney General to the CFO to the governor to all of them.
I mean, the Senator Ashley Moody, my congressman won. Florida managed to hold off a lot of the horde. But if you in Texas voted for this Talarico because he speaks nice or, I don't know, I'm not trying to be condescending or a jerk about it, I'm just genuinely asking. I'm not talking about radicals and commies and Islamo radicals that they voted for Talarico because he's a nut like them. I'm talking about if you were an on-the-fence moderate Republican or moderate Democrat who thinks that this guy is to be trusted. I want you to listen to Talarico himself on Fox News this morning with Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer when he's asked directly about packing the Supreme Court, defunding the police, and if Democrats can be trusted, including him.
And his answer is no. What do you mean, no? Like, no answer? No. His answer was no. Like, you can't trust me either. No, it wasn't? Okay. Listen to yourself. Check this out.
What about the DSA candidates who won who want to do things like defund the police? They want to end the filibuster. They want to add two states. They want to pack the Supreme Court. Would you continue to disavow all of that now that you've won?
Well, I don't think you should listen to anything a politician says. You shouldn't trust anything.
Including you?
A politician says. Yeah. What you should do is look at my record. That is what you can trust, because actions, in my view, speak a lot louder than words.
Folks, the best part about—and by best I mean worst—part about playing what we call sots in the business, sound on tape, of crazy Democrats talk is you only have to play sots of crazy Democrats talking. I don't need to add anything. I will. I will, because I warned a lot of people not to trust these folks. There is politics gets embedded in emotion, and it just pollutes everything. "Well, he speaks nice. I like his haircut or whatever it may be."
Well, his haircut was terrible too, but whatever. I shouldn't talk. I had, like, no hair, so what am I? But it doesn't matter. He's about to destroy the state of Texas, along with a radical far-left governor who's going to destroy or attempt to destroy every single thing you built. They lost Supreme Court seats there too. So what's the good news? The good news is we've been here before, and we've dusted off, and we've come back, and we won. That never happened. No, it did. I lived through 2020.
I lived through the Obama-McCain race. Many of you did too. I lived through Obama-Romney. I lived through Bill Clinton. I lived through Hillary Carrie. That's how I found Rush Limbaugh. I lived through 9/11. I've been through all of it, like many of you. We have always dusted off and lived to fight another day, because you have no other choice. But that's not why you do it. You do it because this country is a promise, a promise made to you by your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents, who handed down to you the most prosperous, powerful country in the history of sentient beings anywhere in the cosmos we know or don't know about.
We're not giving it up because James Talarico thinks there's 67 genders, and we sure as hell ain't giving it up to these lunatics either. This is insane. This is, again, after a couple of election night victories. Here's some Democrats in a room screaming about it's an A word, Jim. Affordability, right? No, it's not affordability? What's the word they're screaming about?
A boy.
Oh, a no, no, no. I think you got that wrong. Jim says it's abortion. I thought this was about affordability. I thought this was about affordability. Celebra I mean, again, celebrating this. I am adamantly pro-life. But even if you are pro-abortion, it's nothing to celebrate killing a baby. Except if you're a Democrat on election night telling everyone you were running on egg prices. Check this out.
ABORTION IS SO BAD, BABY!
Again, folks, the best evidence against the blue wave are the blue candidates that won last night. I've added commentary, but they speak for themselves. I've got more coming up on the show from Al Syed, Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota won the Senate race. I'm not only going after ICE, I mean one of the most vicious attacks on defunding ICE I've ever heard. This is after she won. You think they're going to moderate, start focusing on egg and diesel prices?
Good luck. But, folks, we've been here before. There's no good news. But the good news is we'll live to fight another day, because we always have and we always will. More coming up next. We'll be right back.
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I'll get to this group of voters I'm talking about in a minute, but there are people out there in the listening audience today that honestly believe that the economy now is somehow worse than it was under Joe Biden. There is zero metrics to indicate any of that is even remotely true, but they believe it. It's really hard evidence, and voted as such, of a psychological manipulation operation. This goes back, though. It's not new. There are people out there who believe, because they've been told by people in the media and others, that, for instance, police officers are out there by the thousands mowing down unarmed Black men and minorities in the street.
That's just not true. There are clearly instances we've seen videos of them and coverage of them of unnecessary and illegal sometimes, and sometimes immoral as well, sometimes all three, uses of force by law enforcement. It is nowhere near the number the American liberal believes it is. It's a psychological operation to get you to hate the police, to defund. That's it. That's it. Simple as that. I say this about this small group of people I really I'm being candid here. I sympathize with, because there is a crop of voters out there that's small percentage-wise, but not insignificant in raw numbers, that voted in Texas and elsewhere because they really believe that the incoming whatever it may be, communist governor of Texas there's a communist governor in Texas?
Yes. In just over a month, there's a group of people out there who think they voted for affordability and change, but they don't really understand what that change is. I'm not telling you you're stupid. I'm not down. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you've been told things by a crop of media people who are in love with a pernicious deadly ideology called socialism that led you to believe things you may have voted on that aren't true.
The Democrats ladies and gentlemen, I promise you, the Democrats coming into office in Texas, coming into office in California, all around the country. You even got some congressmen coming into office in Florida, where I live. The people coming into office don't give a damn, a hoot, drop an F-bomb in there if you need to, about affordability. What they care about and that they want to make it worse.
I've got some audio coming up later in the show. A DSA member, Democrat Socialist of America in leadership, was on Martha McCallum yesterday, and she's like, "Yeah, that cost Medicare government-run health care for all of $47 trillion, basically doubling our national budget over 10 years, and deficits." She's like, "Yeah, that's made up." It's like other kids did it. Remember the old Beavis and Butt-Head thing? Mr. Anderson would catch them. That was other kids. That's their argument.
They don't care about any of this stuff. Okay, you claim to have the receipts. Your show is based on evidence, facts, and data. Incoming? Incoming. Here is a this guy is going to be a chairman of a committee, a very powerful committee in Congress. His name is Robert Garcia. All this lunatic has been tweeting about for the last two days, from the election abomination the other day to now. Again, this guy is a far-left Democrat.
This is not a fringe guy up on Capitol Hill. He is in a leadership position. All he has been tweeting about and talking about is how they cannot wait to get up there and address afford what was that, Mike? No, Mike. Mike's cut me off there. No, it's not about affordable, Mike. It's not correct. Jim's giving me, like, the you know the sign, like, cut on the set? Like, the across-the-throat thing with the fingers pointed at you? What is it's not about what is it?
That would be a good time for Tiffany.
That would be a good thing. That would be a good time for Tiffany. No, he's not talking about affordability. He was a presser this guy gave the other day. So if you voted, again, for the Democrats, thinking, "Oh, this is great for my diesel bill, great for my farm," good luck. Here's what you're going to get: endless hearings, lawyer up, lawyer up. I love this fake tough-guy act. Lawyer up. Nobody's scared of you. Not me, not anyone else in the Trump administration.
Do what you got to do, man. I knew when I swore in for that FBI spot, I knew I was going to go through 10 years of your garbage. Bring it, man. And nobody's afraid of you. Here's Robert Garcia on what they're going to focus like a laser on, their words, on day one. Check this out.
We're going to be focused like a laser on the Trump family and ensuring that people know that their corruption and grift is hurting the American public. They are stealing your money, and they're stealing your hard-earned labor, giving it to themselves and their billionaire donors and friends, while you and your family are having a hard time filling the gas tank or paying the mortgage bill. That's our first major investigation, and that investigation starts on day one of a new House majority.
Now, I'd like you to notice in that sound bite, sound on tape, whatever you'd like to call it in the biz, that there is no mention whatsoever of diesel prices, gas prices, affordability, a growing economy, union wages, prevailing wages, anything like that. They want to focus on the Trump family because they've never done that before. They have never it's not like the Trump family hasn't been harassed for the last 10 years since Donald Trump came down the escalator or Trump and it was a very effective strategy.
I hope you sense the dripping sarcasm as people voted them out of office in droves in 2024. I was on Will Kane's show yesterday on FOX, and he said, "Dan, do you think they're going to do this again, knowing how it's so badly backfired on them in the past, these endless investigations and hoaxes and fake scandals against the Trump team?" I said, "Well, you can't explain this to a bunch of children." That's what the Socialist Democrat Party is now, because that's what they are. They're socialists and they're children. And it's really kind of an insult to children.
It's like they bang their head against the desk, knowing it hurts. The banging the head was the endless weaponization of government, the attacks on Trump through the fake scandals. And what happened? It hurt. They got smoked in the presidential election. They lost the House and the Senate. So now they say, "Oh, well, we're going to come back with a different message: affordability." But then they have this thing in the financial fraud business called the rug pull. The rug pull is when they, like, people set you up for a big fall. This is what the Democrats did to you. They rug pulled you because now they won the election, no doubt.
No lipstick on that pig, folks. We're not doing pig lipstick here. But now that they've won, the rug has been pulled, and they're switching the argument now to, "We don't give a damn about affordability or any of that. We really just want to do what we did over the last 10 years," which is wasting Congressional Hill Capitol Hill, Congressional and Senate side, valuable time on endless stupid hearings. Nobody's surprised. Nobody's scared. It's concerning only in the lawyer up. I've already got lawyers. You think I don't think about this stuff?
We think we're stupid like you guys? Everybody's already got a lawyer because we know we're going to have to deal with you idiots. I don't know about affordability. It's nothing to do with affordability. This is why I opened up the show and said what I said. I'm being genuine. I really feel bad for you if you were a roughneck, a coal miner, and you don't have time to get knee-deep in white papers. You're out there working for a living, busting your ass, and thank you for doing that, feeding your family.
But if you voted for Democrats and Democrat Socialists, especially the ones that are about to take over the state of Texas, and you think they cared about any of the stuff they told you about, I'm sorry, you got rug pulled. Here is the soon-to-be majority leader of the Texas House because the Texas they retained the Senate, right? But I think the Texas Senate still read, thankfully. But the Texas House the Texas House, I can't believe I'm saying these words, has now switched to blue. That carbon dioxide leaving my body and saying those words, it's really I can't believe I'm saying this.
This is the incoming majority leader in freaking Texas. Long horns, guns, God, liberty, like the beacon of freedom for planet Earth, not just the country, is Texas. They even say it like you ask people in Florida where they're from. They're like, "Yeah, Martin County, whatever, Palm City, whatever." You know, when you ask people from Texas, you know what they say? "Texas." And they say it with a freaking attitude: cowboy boots, cowboy hats.
That's badass. I come from New York City. I can't pull off a cowboy hat. Look for it. You'd laugh at me. I'd laugh at myself. That's a badass look. And you got this guy, Gene Wu, coming in to be the most powerful House of the Texas House member. Here's Gene Wu in Texas. Here he is talking about how basically DEI is back in Texas. I can't believe this, man. And talking about something Jim, Mike, and I have addressed on this show for four, what, five years we've been doing it?
I don't even know. It's been a long time. That Democrats put you in boxes they determine you to be and not you determine yourself. Democrats only talk about people in the collective. In other words, how you think of yourself is irrelevant. So what Democrats do is they put you in a box: Black voters, Hispanic voters, union, divorced, stay-at-home moms. And they talk to you in a way where that becomes your thing, that you're a Black voter, not that you're an American citizen, but that you're Black or Hispanic first, as if your values are different than someone who's White or Asian.
They're not. The reason they do this and they put you in this box is because they want you to believe the evil conservatives and Republicans are, in fact, coming after you as the oppressors. I've said this. If you listen to my show, you know it. I've said this for 10 years we've been on the air. Here is Gene Wu, incoming lunatic, soon-to-be majority leader of the Texas House, telling you the exact same thing, that basically we're going to think of you like a box we put you in, and we're going to do this DEI oppressor stuff to get you to not think about yourself, but think about government first.
Check this out.
And it's not just Latinos. It's not just Asians. It's not just African Americans. It's everybody. Right? Our country and the forces that be, the powers that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure that those groups are never united, that they always see each other as enemies and as competitors without ever realizing that they share one thing in common, that their oppressors all are the same.
Right? The oppression comes from one place. And I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.
I warned you. I warned you before the election. I hope you took it to heart. Some did not. But I'll say what I said as I opened up the segment. My genuine, candid sympathies are with you. Not if you were a socialist who voted for this stuff, but if you were in that small group of Democrats and independents that voted Democrat for Gene Wu and others and Robert Garcia, and you really thought they were going to fix your job, the economy, or any of that, I'm sorry, but you got rug pulled.
We'll be right back.
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Political revolutions happen fast, man. Really fast. I'm not here to cope with you. I'm here to hope with you. But hope needs to be based on a plan and some evidence that there is an avenue out that will give you hope. This is not a highway with no exits. We have exits every two years called elections. We've got one less than two years away now for the presidency, the entire House of Representatives. Again, a bunch of state elections coming up.
It's less than two years away. So hope about what? What do you mean, hope? Folks, revolutions happen fast. They happen so fast. I'm going to show you coming up in the show. Many of you out there are like, "Okay, what are you talking about?" Do you remember the Barack Obama victory, the first victory he had against John McCain, where the Republicans could not have been more depressed? I said it, but I'll say it before. I'll say it again. They're one of the worst political nights of my life, if not the worst. Folks, it was only 30 days later that something happened, and the revolution already began.
But I want to hit on right here another topic. So I'm going to talk about political revolutions, how quickly they happen in the snap of a finger. For anyone thinking it's over, countries lost, what are you talking about? We still have the Supreme Court. We have the federal judiciary with a number of Trump appointees from '45 and '47. We still have the presidency. We still have, obviously, the entire cabinet with it. What are you talking about? Over? Nothing's over. Nothing's over. Remember Rocky? Here's why I think this political revolution is going to happen fast. Ladies and gentlemen, no backseats. Now, again, I may be dating myself at my ripe old age of 51.
Not old, but not young. I got my music card right here on my desk. Jim, can you vouch? What is this card?
Mattingly.
No, incorrect. It is the greatest first baseman of all time.
Oh, God.
Don Mattingly. Stop with your nonsense. Now, this is a soft spot with Jim who believes it's Keith Hernandez or whatever, New York first baseman. But it is a card. I'm not kidding. So that's it. It's in a piece of plastic. It is the Diamond Kings Don Mattingly card. And right next to it is Bucky Dent in action. That was my favorite player, him and Donnie Baseball. Why am I bringing up baseball cards? Because we were kids. We used to trade baseball cards all the time. And then what happens? Like a week later, like Don Mattingly went on a run. He hit like something like eight Grand Slams or six Grand Slams in one season, and then never hit another Grand Slam again.
They have this great week. And you're like, "Oh, my God. I can't believe I trained that Don Mattingly traded it. I want it back." There are no backseats. There's no backseats. You can't trade back the card. So if you are an on-the-fence voter, an independent, a moderate Republican, or a moderate Democrat, and you voted for this crop of incoming Democrats thinking you were getting jobs and affordability and gas prices, I'm very sorry. I'm deeply apologetic. I mean this that you didn't listen to the show because I warned you they are not running on any of that. No, but they said they were. Exactly.
They've got what they say. But that's never what they do. It's called a rug pull. The rug pull. Like, don't be on the rug because you're going to. There are no give-backs. You are about to get hosed like you've never seen. No, no. But they told us about affordability and stuff. I know that. I get that. I get that's what they told you. Here's James Carville. This guy, the only reason I'm playing Dan, Carville's a left-wing consultant. He wasn't elected to any fair enough. Fair enough. The only reason I'm playing this clip because James Carville was probably the lead political consultant for Bill Clinton's second term when he moderated a lot.
He gave a speech about the era of big government being over. Go look it up. That was a Bill Clinton speech. He's a freaking Democrat. Carville told him, quote, "It's the economy, stupid." Carville, a Democrat, told him, "You got to stop focusing on all this stupid crap." He had the Sister Soldier moment, and he got Bill Clinton to leave office despite the in the bathroom back there with Monica Lu. I can't even tell you what their kids don't ask your parent what that is. But despite all that, he leaves office with 60% approval and a growing economy because he did not do crazy stuff. So here is James Carville lecturing the Democrats coming in now that, "Hey, guys, listen.
You better stop this DEI crap, weaponization of government, endless impeachments, subpoenas, and you better focus on, quote, 'the economy, stupid,'" which I told Bill Clinton. I'm just kidding. I just can't sound Mike, that's all he says, right? That all I can sound no, not even a little bit. So it's the economy, stupid guy himself is now saying, "You better get them rat bastards up there send out them subpoenas." You think the Democrats it's the economy, stupid guy flipping?
You think this guy, if he flips, every single other one is not going to rug pull you? Hey, man, it's how we say. Don't listen to me. Listen to them. Check this out.
The main thing a Democratic base wants, I can report this to you, it's not Medicare for all. It's not DEI. It's not any of that. What they want is to humiliate Donald Trump. That's right. The Democratic base, more than anything, wants to humiliate that son of a at every point that we possibly can. We want to watch him wither in anguish, in misery, in pain. We already started. We had a good start on November 3rd.
Comes subpoena power, drag them all up there. If it moves, subpoena it and follow the money. And for God's sakes, follow that idiot kids that he has. Follow the idiots that are surrounding him. Follow the people in the United States government that are engaged in treasonous behavior, i.e., dressing children as Russian soldiers. And not only enough to fire Pete, drag him before the committee. Subpoena the general.
Subpoena the admirals. Subpoena the people in the Defense Department to show what an idiot this mother is.
Folks, what do they say all that? In their own words, narrator. In their own words, this is the it's the economy, stupid guy telling you, "We better get those rat bastard kids up there." Oh, okay. I thought it was affordability. I thought it was the economy, stupid, or something like that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you got hosed. I'm sorry you voted maybe in Texas or in Minnesota for Peggy Flanagan, who's like, "We're going to put Isaac jail."
I thought this was about cleaning up the fraud in Minnesota with the Learing Center. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what it's about.
They elected the fraud.
They elected the fraud. But he was a lieutenant governor. They put the rubber stamp on it. So you're like, "Okay, okay. It's Carville. He's a little crazy now. He's getting a little older." The rage in Cajun or whatever they call it, rage in again. No big deal. He wasn't elected. And he doesn't know much about anything anyway. Well, here's a guy. Maybe you're saying something. Well, it's definitely about gas prices. I mean, we elected the Democrats, who we always know. Right, Mike? We always know the Democrats have been the party of lower gas prices and producing if you police, if you don't get the joke, I can't help you.
The Democrats' motto is keep it in the ground. Keep what in the ground? The gas and the fuel and the oil. That's their actual motto. Keep it in the ground. That's why they sue everybody. So the Democrats will do nothing but make gas prices 10X worse if they can. Here's a guy on Fox News, and he's like a trade rep for the Petrochemical Oil and Gas Association. He brings up so you may say, "Oh, whatever, Dan. He's a lobbyist." Fine. Fair enough. You may trust him or not trust him. I don't really care. He's a trade rep. The point he makes up, the point he makes on the show here is absolutely accurate.
Here he is talking about how we are in the gas industry. If you elect Democrat, keep it in the ground. Higher fuel price Democrats. We hate petrochemicals. We can move. Why can't we move from Texas? Because the freaking oil is in the ground in Texas. What are you going to do? Horizontal fracking from freaking Florida to Texas? It doesn't work that way. The oil is in Texas, in the Permian, and elsewhere.
So if they tell you to keep it in the ground, it's going to stay in the ground, and your fuel prices are going to go up. Folks, you got to listen to this point because there are people who swore they were voting on gas prices who were about to get rug pulled and rug pulled hard. Totally ass over decal. Check this out.
I have to look at places like what happened in California or what happened in Colorado. And the absolute worst thing that could happen to the United States economy would have California-style energy policy implemented in Texas. We saw that, and it would have direct consequences for the US economy when you take a $27 billion industry like ours in Texas and you begin to heavily overregulate it. What you just mentioned with regards to methane regulations and other things, that's exactly what happened in other states. When we saw that clean sweep of Democratic elections take place in Colorado, for example, in 2019, we've seen a 40% reduction, a 25 to 40% reduction in production in Colorado.
My big fear, and I've said this to my Texas friends, is what happens if Texas becomes Californicated, for example. Like, if you're a business in California and you don't like being regulated, you pick up and you move to Texas, okay? But as our industry, we have to go where the actual resource is. And so it's not like we have that particular luxury. What happened in Colorado, what happened in California is the oil and gas industry moved to where the resource was, which was Texas. We don't have any other place to go. So we have to actually watch this one very, very carefully.
That's why alarm bells were going off yesterday morning when everybody woke up after the election results were in.
Again, discount the guy. Oh, he works for the petrochemical industry. Fine. I don't care. Dispute what he said, not who he I don't know the guy. I never met him. He's on with I think it was David McDowell on Fox.
Tim Stewart.
Tim Stewart. Thank you, Jim. But dispute what he said and do it without laughing at yourself. Is the oil and the gas in the ground in Texas or not? So how are you going to deregulate it from Florida? You can't. If the Democrats in Texas, which they will, with your new communist governor, say, "Keep it in the ground," you can just stop the Derek's going today. Roughnecks be out of a job, fields drying up. You can't move the business.
It's not like you can do one of these X-Men Magneto things. Let's put some metal in the oil in the ground and Magneto will suck it up and move it to Florida. The homophobe no, no, that's not the way any of this works. Folks, they don't even have a plan. This is the craziest part of this whole thing. They don't even have a plan. This lady is not some fringe figure in the DSA. She's like the head of the National Democrat Socialist of America. I think her name is Megan Romer, yeah.
She's not some local yokel sitting in a bar going, "Oh, socialism." He's like that drunken guy from The Simpsons or something. If you were the head of a movement, Communist Socialist of America, and you're suggesting upending the American healthcare system and you're voting on lower healthcare prices, don't you think it's imperative on you if you're going to steal people's free market healthcare they bargained for with their employer? Don't you think it's imperative to at least understand the mechanics of how it works?
Folks, they have no idea. Here's this lady, Megan Romer on Fox News with Martha McCallum. Martha McCallum, there's a number out there from actual economists who've looked at it. Now, you can dispute the number all you want. Fair enough. But your obligation then is to produce your own number and say, "Well, here's what I think my plan to destroy the healthcare system is going to cost." Ladies and gentlemen, not only should I have a number, she doesn't even care about the number. She's like, "Yeah, I'm not really here for that. I'm just really here to destroy your healthcare system." Check this out.
It will cost money to provide healthcare to everyone.
So that's $47.4 trillion, Medicare for all.
Yeah, it's a made-up number.
Yeah, well, you say it's a made-up number, but it was done by economists. So this number is 49 trillion. What's your number when you add up everything on that list? What number did you come up with?
The numbers are there's no one solid number. That number is going to shift as we pass various things.
So just give me a basic number for your wish list.
That number is outrageous.
What's your number for your wish list? Because you have to figure these things out on the fly.
I'm not going to give you a solid number. That's not what I'm here to do.
You heard it from her mouth. You don't need me to repeat what she said. She said it herself. If you voted on affordability, the it's the economy, stupid guy is telling you they're going to do the opposite. If you voted on gas prices, the Texas Democrats are about to keep it in the ground. You're about to get worked. If you voted on healthcare and, quote, "Free, cheaper healthcare for all," the people proposing to steal your healthcare now and cancel your plan for another plan don't know how the plan works and don't even know what it costs. I'm sorry you got rug pulled.
We'll be back soon.
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