Transcript of America’s Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (Ep. 2473)

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Not sure if this is Nicole Wallace approved. Um, unfortunately for— there she is. Unfortunately for, uh, for Nicole and, and for everybody, right? Honestly, um, even for me, I'm gonna have nothing to listen to later today. I listen to Dan Bongino Show every day.

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Listen, keep them— that's out of your mind. Okay, eyes up here. All right, listen, I listen to this show every day. For those of you don't know me, my name is Sean Farish. I host the show Ungoverned on LFA TV.

I always tell people I have the toughest job in the world because I stream at the same time as Dan Bongino. I didn't do that on purpose, just the way it is. The best part about it is though, I get a lot of people who tell me, oh my gosh, you know, you sound like Dan, it sounds like you listen to him a lot. It's true, and we're both live at the same time, so you can't accuse me of any stealing of his stuff. Okay, that's the best part about all that.

Um, but it's a good, good idea. Um, for those of you who don't know, I was, uh, the first time I listened to Dan Bongino, I was stuck in Memorial Day traffic on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Any New Yorkers in the chat understand the Tappan Zee Bridge? Um, you know, it's not the Mario Cuomo Bridge, it's still the Tappan Zee. I was sitting in traffic heading up to my friend's house.

I needed something to listen to. I needed something to take my attention off of the fact that there was some just absolutely awful traffic that I was sitting in. For those of you who've ever been in the car with me while there's traffic, you don't want to be in the car with me while there's traffic. I have done damage to my vehicle because of traffic. I actually punched the GPS screen because Google I was trying to be funny, was like, there's a slowdown ahead.

There it is, there's the, the tap and see. They say it's the Mario Cuomo Bridge. If you're not flipping off, uh, you know, if you're not flipping off the, the Mario Cuomo sign, um, on that bridge, you're not going over that bridge the right way. But I turned on the Dan Bongino Show for the first time ever on that bridge on the way up to a great Memorial Day weekend, and, uh, and that was the first time I'd heard him. He was flipping out about Spygate.

I said, this is unbelievable. This is my new favorite show. And that was 8 years ago. So now, 8 years later, I never thought that this would be possible, sitting where my favorite creator, content creator, commentator, you know, has sat before on his microphone. I'm eternally grateful for this opportunity.

I'll be with you here till tomorrow. Dan, today and tomorrow. Dan is back on Wednesday. But this is a really cool— this is a really cool moment for me. So I appreciate obviously being given this opportunity and I hope you guys enjoy um, everything that happens today.

We're gonna have— we have a good show for you prepped. So in good Dan Bongino fashion, being as how today is Monday, seeing as how today is Monday, we'll start with a little, uh, weekend update. Um, it was an incredible weekend. I'm in Tennessee now. Uh, my wife is in Tennessee as well.

She's back home. She's amazing, uh, with our 3 cats. I'm sure they're like, what is going on? They're used to me streaming in our own house. They probably hear everything going, I have no idea what's going on.

But over the weekend on Saturday, my wife and I— again, she's always there, everything that I do. And I know sometimes the situation may not be very comfortable, but she's just incredible. She was out there with me on Saturday. We were door knocking for a local candidate running for sheriff whose name is Kenneth Barrett. And this is me speaking for myself, not for anybody else here, but Kenneth is He's become a good friend.

His family, they're, they're an incredible group of people. And he's running for sheriff of Rutherford County, Tennessee. And the reason why we decided to get out there and pound the pavement for him, obviously, a year ago, right around this time, you know, we were swatted. We had a false SWAT call called into our home, guns drawn, the whole nine yards. And so we bumped into Kenneth at an event in November.

And, uh, started, you know, talking to him. I said, Brennan, look, he's running for sheriff. It's a very important position for us. She said, yeah, it's great. We started talking.

Well, it was a great conversation that I had with him. One of the things that I noticed about him was that he, um, paid attention to everything, not just I was saying, but because I had performed that night. I did a little bit at this event called T-Bones and Politics. It was a lot of fun. You know, we do a lot of— we have a lot of fun.

We were talking before the show about if I ever got selected for jury duty, this would be a great way to get kicked off the jury. He's guilty already. You could do whatever the hell you want. He's guilty. By the way, we're going to have so much fun tomorrow.

St. Patrick's Day. I've got a whole thing that's been playing through my head nonstop. You know, most people are like, I hear voices like in my head. It's kind of weird. Sometimes I hear Trump in my head.

It's strange, but it does happen. It's just a day in the life, I guess, a couple days in the life. When I first met this guy in November, Kenneth Barrett, very attentive to the people he was speaking to. Not just me, I was on the stage, the whole nine yards, but he was very attentive to so many people that he was talking to. And I picked up on that.

It's not just the campaign for him, you know, he's actively running to serve this community. 28 years in the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, so You know, obviously exciting to see that he's achieved many promotions and is all about leadership and accountability. The other thing that I noticed or that really caught my attention was one of the men he was with that night. When I told him that, hey, you know, you may have heard of me, you may have heard of us. If I give you my address, you may understand a whole lot more.

He said, oh, I remember that. I told him about this, the swatting. I remember that. He said, you know, what I found weird was because they called in a fake 911 call, said that I murdered my family, right? And they said that I was getting ready to commit suicide by cop.

And I heard the 911 call. We were able to get a copy of it. But he said the one thing that kind of stuck to him— this was a guy who was with Ken Barrett this night in November— was that there was only one call. None of my other neighbors reported hearing gunshots. So to him, that felt strange.

And, uh, and so I said, wow, you know, if it wasn't for this guy who picked up on that abnormality, that anomaly, there could have been a different scenario, a different outcome there. Um, there could have been aggressive knocking at my door. There could have been someone getting spooked. I have no idea, uh, how that would have gone. But, uh, when we, when we spoke to, uh, when we spoke to Kenneth and we spoke to his team and, um, and we spoke to this gentleman who basically told us that he picked up— I said, you know, this guy surrounds himself with good people.

And I, I think we're gonna we would do well by supporting him. We met with him a few more times. We bumped into him a few more times at a few more events. And so last Saturday, Brennan and I and a whole bunch of door knockers took to some neighborhoods in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and we knocked on doors because as Dan Bongino says, talk is cheap. It's the do that matters, right?

The do matters. And I was met with a lot of comments online that, you know, Oh, for an influencer to be out in the, in the real world like this is really significant. It's not a lot of people do that. You know, Scott Pressler and all this. It should not be like that.

It should not be like that. If you truly care about the country, if you care about things that are more than just clicks and views, then get out and do some work. And by the way, you know, this live chat, the live chat over at LFA TV, full of activists, full of people. We take calls every Friday, full of people who, you know, they want to make a difference in their community. I get calls.

I've got— we've got folks who are running for office in all different states, working on campaigns in all different states. That's how we take back the country. That's how we do this. That's how we actually make a difference. And so it kind of made me upset to hear that not a lot of people go out and do these things in the real world.

And maybe we could serve as an example that, hey, you can have some fun, you can get your steps in. You could do, you could do some, do some real work and make some change in the real world. I did get a few comments that were like, oh, did anyone recognize you on your, you know, when you're on their doorstep? Did you do Trump for a few people? Like, I did it for a few people, but nobody did recognize me.

And that's okay, you know? And that's why I think you deal with a bunch of these folks with huge followings that would never be caught dead knocking on a stranger's door campaigning for a local candidate, right? Not because they're afraid of having a conversation or because they don't wanna do a little hard work, but they're afraid of realizing this simple truth, that there is a real world out there. There is a real world out there offline, guys, where your clicks and your views and your hot takes and the clickbait and the doomerism, I call it deli counter politics, right? There's a real world where quite literally none of that matters.

I don't care if the person whose door I'm knocking on recognizes me online or not. That doesn't hurt my feelings. But for some, you know it would. For some, you know it would. How dare you?

How dare you? You don't know who I am. You're not genuflecting at the views that I put up on my podcast. I don't even want to talk to you. You're just not informed.

Well, that's just that. We had a great time door knocking over the weekend, and we look forward to doing that again next weekend in Rutherford County, Tennessee. So if I do knock on your door, I'm not trying to sell you anything. Just trying to talk to you. And if you see me on your Ring camera, I promise I don't bite.

All right. So there it is. A little weekend update. You know, my wife and I had some— had so much fun up in, up in Rutherford County, Tennessee, back in— over the course of the weekend on Saturday. So it was a great time.

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And we get the bell. We love the bell. Let's get started. The main theme of this show, folks, America has enemies, both foreign and domestic. And that's the truth.

And that's the scariest part. We're fighting this battle on so many different fronts. And I want to start here. And I know a lot of people are immediately going to start getting mad. And I don't care because you know what?

I'm going to get the right people mad when I say this. This whole Israel Derangement Syndrome is not Israel Derangement Syndrome at all. It is turning into America Derangement Syndrome. Now, I want to start— let's go 30,000 feet. Okay.

30,000 feet. If you are obsessed with Israel, i.e., everything that happens to you, you're stuck in traffic, you step on a Lego, You know, your dog crapped on the rug, your steak came out and wasn't cooked properly. Maybe you bought a bag of expired, I don't know, from the— apparently that's all Israel's fault. It can't be anyone else's fault. There's no such thing as a— there's my wife in the chat saying she wished she could have been there.

We miss you too. There's no such thing as a coincidence anymore. If it rains, it wasn't actually rain. The Mossad must have hijacked a fire truck and sprayed the whole neighborhood. And if you don't believe that, you're serving up a fed slop narrative, blah.

It's just so tiring. But I have a question. I'm just asking questions, right? That's what they say. I'm just asking questions.

They're not asking questions. They're making statements. Okay, that's the biggest problem. They're making statements when they ask the question. Like the question, when did you stop beating your wife?

Well, you're making the accusation that you at one point beat your wife. There's no good way to answer that other than just flip those people off and move on. But I'm just asking questions. How does obsessing over Israel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, how does that make you America first? Because it seems like the first thing that you want to do is talk about another country.

I mean, it doesn't sound like you're America first to me. It sounds like you're America second, you're Israel last. Fine, whatever. But the very first thing you do is obsess over this country all day long. It's like, let's say in an alternate universe somewhere, right, that Bibi Netanyahu, the whole nation of Israel was like, all right, you know what?

All those people online are right. We shouldn't exist. Let's just, uh, let's leave. Let's go. We'll, we'll dissolve the nation of Israel.

We'll dissolve the state of Israel. We'll just go away. You guys would have nothing to do. Do you understand that? Nothing.

You would have no purpose. You would just be like drifting in a sea of irrelevance, just listless, without that one country to obsess over. All day long. It's literally your life's work. It is literally your life.

Your whole, your whole life revolves around blaming everything on that one country. It's the first thing you talk about. How come I never ever see any of these people who obsess over a foreign nation? How come I don't see them talking about passing the SAVE Act? The Save America Act.

I'm sorry, the president gets very mad if you call it the SAVE Act. You have to call it the Save America Act. We're going to do something. If you don't call it the Save America Act, we're going to treat you like the Ayatollah. And now there's more than one Ayatollah, and we keep bombing them.

It's called Whack-a-Mullah. We're whacking them. They pop up out of the hole, we whack them. Speak Truth, he's in our chat, right? He made a meme, and then somebody turned it into a video of Trump just with a huge hammer, just whack, whack.

You know, he was called the Supreme Leader. Khamenei. I call him Khamaniac. He was called the Supreme Leader. I now call him the Supreme Loser because he died like a dog.

Remember that press conference? He died like a dog. We took him out. No goats were harmed in the, uh, in the production of, uh, this operation. But you look at— how come, how come we don't hear anybody talking about these folks that are obsessed over a foreign country?

None of them talk about The SAVE Act, the Save America Act, none of them. Doesn't matter. Why? Because Israel's not involved. So these people are actually really, really— they accuse everyone else of being Israel first.

They're really Israel first because the first thing they talk about is Israel. It's annoying, isn't it? Right? You're like, I'm America first. Really?

How come you don't talk about America ever? You only talk about Israel. It's very strange. It could be the most— the Save America Act could be the most consequential legislation ever passed in our country. None of them have said a word about it.

None of them. All they want to say is, oh, nothing's happening, it's not going to pass, you're wasting your time. Well, at least we're trying, right? I mean, you could have told us that we were wasting our time knocking on doors in, uh, in Rutherford County over the weekend, but I think when, when our man wins the election May 5th right? Election Day is May 5th, early voting April 15th, right?

I think when, um, when we, when we win, I don't, I don't think it's going to feel like a waste of time. But here's the deal: people are so obsessed with the relationship that our country has with Israel, and that's fine. You could scrutinize a relationship that we have with a foreign country. Nobody's telling you you can't do that. I love this talking point.

This is a talk about we're not allowed to talk about— that's all you do is talk about it. What do you mean you're not allowed? If you weren't allowed, you'd be like in jail or something, right? There would be, there would be negative consequences. Now you have, uh, was it, is it Tucker who's saying, oh, the CIA is reading my text?

Well, maybe don't text, you know, your dinner plans to terrorists. That might be a good idea. Yeah, if you're not, if you're not, you know, chatting it up with the IRGC, they may not be reading your text. I'm not sitting here telling you that I, I love the surveillance state, but if you're talking to somebody who you know the government doesn't like, and for good reason, you know, they've called for the assassination of our president, they're responsible for thousands of American deaths over the last nearly 50 years, like, you know that when you speak to that person or that group that they are most likely, you know, those messages are most likely not going to be kept private. Let's be real.

Okay. But then again, is it actually happening? Remember when he said, I was detained in Israel's airport? We saw the video of him being detained and it was like, oh, selfie time. The hell?

I couldn't believe when I saw that. And there's people like, oh, you're, you're not reading the situation properly. You just don't understand. You know, like, whatever. Out of his mind.

Yeah, I think the CIA should investigate that toupee that's sitting on top of his head too, by the way. It's pretty nasty. Anyway, this Israel derangement, the fact that the United States has a good relationship with Israel, is turning into America derangement syndrome. I want to pull up this article on the, uh, on the Postmillennial. Did you hear about this kid, this TikToker, who apparently was like giving coordinates for Iran to strike U.S. and Israeli targets.

And like, yeah, he was on Google Maps. I get it. And it was that they say, oh, it's not just U.S. targets. It was, it was Israeli targets and it's open source stuff. But you've got this, this Ethan Levins, and I'm not going to play his video because, you know, why give it that?

Why give that the exposure, the video with the coordinates? Why? Further what I'm already telling you is a bad thing. But do you see, do you understand how this has evolved from being upset that we have a relationship with Israel to now putting our men and women in harm's way? Like, do you, do you understand?

How is, can I ask, how is that, how does, how does giving US military targets to our enemy? How does that fit into the America First platform? It's a serious question, and I've never gotten an answer from that. How does giving U.S. military targets to our enemy, who by the way regularly chants death to America, how does giving them coordinates to those targets, put America first. How does that fit into your America first platform?

Um, the answer is it doesn't. Even the slow-on-intake liberals— I call them soils— even those people understand, probably not a good idea, right? Probably not the nice thing to do, probably not the best thing to do. So you have this, and it's just, it's just bizarre. And there are people who, you know, take up this mantle of, you know, Israel Derangement Syndrome that I'm now drifting into America Derangement Syndrome, that think that this kid did nothing wrong.

Like, he— this is a problem and it should be investigated. If I had family in the military that were, you know, either attendees or technicians on those sites, I would be furious. So like, yeah, you're damn right that there should be an investigation. Into what this guy did. And if he broke any laws, well, then you prosecute him.

I don't know if he did. I don't know if he didn't. By the way, and I also like this, there are people who are saying Donald Trump starting a new war. It's a new war. Okay.

All right. And then they say, well, it's not— it's not treason. It's not treason because the United States isn't actually, isn't actually at war with Iran. I said, well, you just said that Donald Trump started a new war. So, so if Donald Trump started a new war, then you're telling me that we're not actually at war because you don't want this kid to get in trouble?

I don't know. I feel like you can't hold both positions at once. Enemies foreign and domestic. And some of the folks that are in our country domestically are helping the enemies that we have in foreign countries like the IRGC, who regularly chant death to America. You know, I remember watching all these, you know, Free Palestine people over the course of the, you know, the last couple of years.

My favorite group, by the way, was Queers for Palestine. I was like, ah, you know, if you go and try that over in Palestine, do you know what's going to happen? Unfortunately, you're probably going to get thrown off of a building. You say, no, they don't do that over— yeah, yeah, they do. They really do.

They go do a Queers for Palestine march over in Gaza. Tell me how long your head stays attached to your neck. Probably not a long time. That's really graphic. Don't talk like that.

It's the truth. A lot of these people, it's like chickens for Chick-fil-A. It's out of control, totally out of control. But this American TikToker who did this ought to be ashamed. And there are people online acting like he didn't do anything wrong.

They all ought to be ashamed of themselves. But they're so, they're so deranged. They're so deranged by the relationship that the United States has with Israel that they have now taken up the mantle of because the United States is carrying out a joint military operation with Israel, everything about that operation is wrong and the United States is wrong and basically go Iran. That's where we're at. And it's exactly what the mainstream media has done as well.

And it's interesting because Dan has pointed this out for a long time that you have the doomer class, you have, you know, what I call them, the, the IDS, Israel deranged class and the left-wing media. And they're all using the same talking points and they're all doing the same things and they're all seemingly on the same side here. That's why, you know, the comment about it being infighting, right? Stop infighting. Oh, I'm not on the same team as a lot of these people who think the Death to America people are the good guys.

And, you know, the nation of Israel is the bad guys. And I'm not saying that the nation of Israel is perfect. I've got my issues. I'm not a big fan of, uh, of, of Bibi Netanyahu. He doesn't— do I have to be the fan of a prime minister of, of, of another country?

Not really. And they were a little too socially liberal for me on a lot of issues. That doesn't mean I don't want them to exist, and it doesn't mean I don't sympathize with the Israeli people, the folks over there who call that place their home, who have every right to defend themselves. Apparently you don't have the right to defend yourself. Well, let's move into this though, because you have, uh, the threats abroad, right?

The threats over in Iran, okay? Uh, the IRGC, the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military installations in the region. You have those Gulf states who are like, don't you shoot your missiles over here, right? It was like, uh, reminds me of that scene from, um, Independence Day Will Smith, where he's flying, he's in his, uh, I guess his F-16, and he got the aliens behind him and they shot this thing. Don't you shoot that green shit at me, right?

It was like, that's what these, uh, these other nations in, um, in, in the Gulf region are doing. They're like, don't you shoot your missiles over here, like, we're not the problem, okay? But you also have, because of, you know, the operation, and it's not just because of the operation, right? Epic Fury has Nothing to do with the fact that the people, you know, the regime in Iran hate us. They were chanting death to America before we launched Operation Epic Fury.

But you now have these threats that are starting to realize themselves here in our own country. Okay. In Michigan last week, there was a disturbing story about a man who drove his SUV into a synagogue, right? Again, there are a bunch of people on the internet who think this is a good thing because if you're doing something to attack Jews, you're taking up some cause that is somehow righteous. Um, every time you go down that road, it doesn't usually end in a good place.

Uh, I, I would say maybe we don't want to go down that road again. But let's roll with this one here. There's a story on the Postmillennialist. Michigan driver who drove his, uh, SUV into a synagogue had a brother who was a commander of Hezbollah, right? The terrorist extremist group out of Lebanon that is backed by— who are they backed by?

They're backed by Israel? No. Are they backed by Russia? Russia, Russia, Russia? No.

No, are they backed by, uh, Iran? Yeah, that's right, they're backed by the Iranians, the radical Islamic regime. That's who they're backed by. That's right. Hmm.

Of course. So you have a driver, uh, who's got a, um, I guess a Middle Eastern name, Ahmed or some sort of thing like that, driving his vehicle into a synagogue. Looking to hurt people, without a doubt looking to hurt people. Uh, his brother is a commander in the Hezbollah, Iranian-backed terror proxy group in the Middle East. And you got people saying, well, we don't— we don't— we don't know the motive.

Okay, so it was just a mostly peaceful car accident. Mostly peaceful. Actually, nobody died in this incident, which is good. Thank God. But that motive unclear.

Motive unclear. Well, you may not be able to determine a motive, but I think I can. The brother is in Hezbollah. The guy is upset about Israel's airstrikes and apparently thought trying to kill people in Michigan was going to solve the problem.

You have a very specific type, very, very specific type of people. All right. But here's the best part, okay? Because I have a— I say this all the time— the media is not your friend. Again, enemies foreign and domestic.

The mainstream media here, they're your domestic enemies. And I'm not encouraging violence for anybody. He wants to do violence, he wants there to be— no, I'm not a violent guy. I don't want there to be violence, but I do want to bring awareness to what's going on here. The media domestically is making it look like actual domestic terrorists are nice people.

And they've done this before, right? Remember the Washington Post? Austere religious scholar Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi passes away, dies. Look at this, Washington Post: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48. You can't make this up.

Here you go, Washington Post. Khomeini As a man with an easy smile and the love of poetry. I forgot about this one. That was a good one. Yeah, he's got an easy smile.

You know, he's just your friend you'd go on to have a beer with. And he loves poetry. To be or not to be. I got along well with William Shakespeare. Tremendous guy.

I called him Bill. He was a tremendous person.

Yeah, to leave your head on or to not leave your head on, right? We'll see what happens. It's unbelievable. Also got along well with Dr. Seuss. Do you know Dr. Seuss?

He's a tremendous person. I said to him, sir, we will not eat green eggs and ham, sir. We will not eat them, Lindsey Graham. We will not eat them in South Carolina or with the virus that came from China. We will not eat them with Mitch McConnell or the North American land whale known as Rosie O'Donnell.

We will not eat green eggs and ham. We will not eat them, Lindsey Graham. I got along well with a lot of these people. I love poetry, too. The difference between me and Khomeini is I'm still here and he's not.

He died like a dog. But the mainstream media— this driver, this terrorist, whatever you want to call him in Michigan— but check out how the New York— check out how the New York Times referred to him.

I can't read it with a straight face. I can't read— New York Times describes The suspected Michigan terrorist, he's just a quiet restaurant worker, no big deal. Yeah, he's just the kind of guy who'll bring out your steak, he's cleaning your table, he's pouring your drink. Just a restaurant worker. He's just like you and me.

Just a normal guy. Nothing to see here. Brothers in the, you know, as a commander for Hezbollah terrorist organization. No worries. Stop picking on the guy.

These people, they're out of their minds. And I feel like now they kind of, they kind of show it. Dan says the show your ass theory, and I, I've taken that a step further and said when they show us their asses, it's dirty and gross and unwiped. And people are like, that's not cool, like, don't talk like that. I'm like, I'm poking fun at them, okay?

Um, but this is, this is where we are with the mainstream media. You saw that from The Washington Post. With austere religious scholar. You saw the way they talked about Khomeini. Oh, he had a nice smile.

You see the way they're talking about this guy who tried to kill people in a synagogue in Michigan. I mean, he didn't know that there was nobody there, that he wasn't going to be able to actually hurt anybody. Just a quiet restaurant worker. Kind of reminds me of what— remember 2020? Fiery but mostly peaceful.

As the AutoZone behind the guy was like completely engulfed in flames. Here's another good one, by the way. This is, uh, uh, from over the summer, one of my all-time favorites from the mainstream media. Remember when Los Angeles was on fire, right? And there was like all the Antifa riots in the street.

People were throwing things at ICE vehicles. The National Guard was deployed and riots were declared and everything. And the media was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, it It's not a riot. It's not a riot. It's a protest.

It's mostly peaceful. And then there was this gem from a local ABC affiliate who described the activity in the street. It's just a bunch of people having fun. Let's roll that one. This is a— this is one of my all-time favorites.

Could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.

I have nothing to say. It's just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn. All right, let's take it step by step here. So you don't want to deploy law enforcement because it's just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn. Okay, so a bunch of people having fun is not a reason to call law enforcement.

You're right. But can I ask how the cars started burning in the first place? Who did the cars get together? Because these cars are getting smart these days. You have Tesla could like drive themselves, these Waymos and whatever.

Right? Did the cars like organize before that and be like, yo, you know what would be really cool? Let's light ourselves on fire, right? Like, let's just— people will really love to come watch us burn. Did the cars meet and decide to do this consciously?

No. Who lit the cars on fire? Guy on ABC? Who did it? Someone answer that question for me.

If it's just a bunch of people having fun Watching, like they're at a bonfire. It's like you're at your friend's house, there's a big bonfire and you're having fun, you're throwing stuff in there, whatever. You know, I turn fire green once. Did you know that, disclaimer, like don't try this at home, even though I always do it. If you take roach killer, it's a boric acid, the boric acid base, like the powder, and antifreeze, and you mix it together, I'm not encouraging anybody to do this, but I'm telling you this is what happens.

You mix it together and you throw it in a fire, it turns green. Ask me how I know that, because I did that. Actually, one of the first times I met my wife, I flew down to Florida and I was like, "Brennan, I'm gonna turn your fire green." We were in your backyard. She's like, "What are you talking about?" I said, "We gotta go to Home Depot. I gotta get boric acid roach killer.

I gotta get some antifreeze and we'll do it." And it was really cool. It was like, you ever see Game of Thrones where the wildfire, it was like that, really cool. I'm a little bit of a pyromaniac, just a little bit. It's fine. I've never gotten burned.

Well, I've gotten burned, but I've never gotten burned severely. Anyway, a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn. That's the way the mainstream media characterized what you saw on your screen. It was a riot. It was terrorism.

It was destruction. It was not peaceful. Maybe it was fun. It was probably a little fun, you know, for those guys in the moment. But they're saying don't deploy law enforcement because something bad may happen to the people who lit the cars on fire.

Good. Put them in jail. Bunch of people having fun watching cars burn. Late night TV, by the way, the mainstream media, as we said, enemies foreign and domestic. They are a domestic enemy propagandizing the American people on behalf of our foreign enemies.

Of course, the late-night TV hosts, hey, they don't want anything. They don't want anything to do with Operation Epic Fury because Donald Trump did it. If Joe Biden meandered his way into Iran, right? Hey, look here, folks, we're going, we're gonna go to war with Iran, and, uh, we're gonna, uh, uh, anyway, if Joe Biden did it, they'd be saying, look at him, he's such a decisive president, he's taking He's taking action against the Iranian regime. Stunning and brave.

94% of on-air time following Operation Epic Fury are these late-night hosts mocking the United States. Okay, you could agree with the war. You could disagree with the war. That's fine. We live in a country that abides by the First Amendment.

I love the First Amendment. Okay, free speech. Congress shall make no law that abridges that. I love it. Say what you want, have your opinions, it's no problem.

Okay, but can we, can we get back to at least this mindset, right? The September 12th, 2001 mindset, right? The day after 9/11, where we may not know, we may not agree agree on what the next steps are going to be. We may not agree on what the best path forward is going to be. But can we please agree that we love our country?

Can we please put down the politics for just a second and go the route of like Toby Keith and be like, let's put up— let's put a boot in their ass, right? And just show them who's boss. Like, is it too much to ask? Is it? And apparently it is.

These— and this is why nobody watches these late night shows. Colbert is about to go. Kimmel was crying after the whole Charlie Kirk fiasco, right, where he tried— he attempted to blame conservatives for it, which was out of control. Can we at least get to a point, please, where like we just agree that we still live in the greatest country in the world I feel like that question, if you asked a room full of people in, let's say, California or New York— not to say that there's no support in those places, because there's plenty of support there. I came from New York.

I know there's a lot of support there. Um, well, if you've got like a college campus, like, America is the greatest country in the world, America is the great— and they'd be like, well, no, it's not. No, no, no, it's not. It's not the greatest country. Really?

Where's better? Why don't you live there? Where is a better country, and why don't you live there if this place is so bad? This goes to a larger theme, by the way, where lies tend to spread faster than the truth. This gets into the whole online situation that we were talking about before, why a lot of people decided they didn't want to— a lot of, a lot of people online decide they're going to take up this mantle of everything that, you know, Israel does is bad and everything that the United States does, if they're doing it with Israel, is also bad.

And then they come up with this bizarre thing that like we're owned by that country and it's just crazy. Absolutely crazy.

Lies spread faster than the truth. You look at a guy like a Nick Fuentes, for example. Okay. I hate giving him airtime. I hate talking about him.

But you got to point this out because there's a lot of people. What is it, 45,000 people watching? Thank you so much for being here at 10:42 Eastern time on a Monday morning. I appreciate you guys all giving, giving us your time. I appreciate your time.

Okay. These people don't appreciate your time. These online shock jocks, that's all they're doing. A lot of people tune in to these people. A lot of folks will tune into a guy like a Nick Fuentes or whatever, and they're not doing it to get enlightened.

They're not doing it to get informed. Like, why do I listen to the Dan Bongino Show? Because I know I'm getting information that has been vetted, that has been researched. You know, he has the Bongino rule. He doesn't want to be first, he wants to be right.

I respect that. There's not a lot of people who are like that anymore. There are some I try to do it as well, okay, with what we do on LFA TV. But there's not a lot of people who are like that. They'll hear something and they'll run.

And then it gets even worse than that. Then there's just folks that are making things up, like that story about Erica Kirk, right? They're like, Erica Kirk was recruiting girls for Epstein. It wasn't her, it was somebody else. And that spread all over the internet.

Look, again, if you have issues with how she's Handle Turning Point, whatever. Voice your opinion, but stop making things up. If you really have all these great, you know, ironclad, bulletproof arguments, then why do you have to lie all the time? Well, it's because it's— I call it shock jock culture. It's like Howard Stern.

A lot of people would tune into Howard Stern not because they were being informed or enlightened. It's morning radio. Generally, you don't get informed or enlightened on morning radio anyway. But they were just, they were waiting for what crazy thing he was going to say next. And that's what a lot of these people are doing now online.

You're being entertained, and that's fine if you're looking for entertainment, that's fine. But the craziest part, like in the example of Fuentes, this is a guy whose followers will go out there and accuse people of covering for pedophiles. And, you know, oh, you don't want to hold anybody accountable. And, you know, all of this stuff. Meanwhile, Nick himself on a live stream, his own words, said that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't actually a pedophile because 14- and 15-year-old girls are sexually mature.

He said that. I'm not making it up. It wasn't AI. He said it. That's literally somebody running cover and defending behavior that we would refer to as pedophilia.

These people don't have principles. They're not standing, "I'm America first. I wanna put our country first." But I talk about Israel all day long before I talk about anything going on in America. It's like in Kentucky, Thomas Massie. I take heat from his people online too.

You know, remember the big beautiful bill and he was raising all the concerns about the spending levels and the big beautiful bill. Fine. But do you understand that in May of 2023, and you could look this up, I'm not making it up, I don't do that. Do you understand that in May of 2023, Thomas Massie was the deciding vote in the House Rules Committee on something called, ironically, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which suspended the debt ceiling under Joe Biden until the end of his term? Did you know that he was the deciding vote?

Oh, you didn't know that he was the deciding vote? Yeah, the House Rules Committee voted 7-6 to advance that piece of legislation to a full vote in the House. He voted for it. Now, his defenders— and he would tell you the same thing— he, by the way, he blocked me on social media, which is hilarious. But he would say, well, I was told I was going to get spending cuts.

Yeah, but you didn't get those cuts. So either you were played or you used that as a way to get yourself some cover with your own supporters. What principles? If there was ever a chance for you to stand on your principles and make a point, Mr. Massey, in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, if there was ever a chance to do it, you could have done it. You had all of the power consolidated in the palm of your hand.

You could have said, I'm not voting to suspend the debt ceiling. Do it another way. You didn't do that. Instead, you all, you know, Kevin McCarthy promised me something. Yeah, he's never lied before.

And then voted for it on the floor of the House, and that added $1.5 trillion to the national debt. This is the spending and fiscal conservative and spending hawk known as Thomas Massie. Did you know these people don't have principles? Ro Khanna, he's another one. Him and Massie just doxxed an innocent person a couple of weeks ago in the Epstein files, right?

4 people had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. They were members of a police lineup. They doxed them. Oh, they must be covering for somebody in there. It's unbelievable.

And then Massie and all these guys get upset that their names are on the master list when that's exactly what their, uh, what their bill called for. Just crazy, right? They expect it. They expect us to be dumb. They treat us like the mainstream media treats the American people.

They think we're stupid. You guys aren't stupid. That's why you're here, okay? You guys aren't stupid. Don't let them play you.

Because they're trying to. Because they're trying to, folks. I just want to— I want to be clear at the goal of what we're doing here. Obviously, I like to entertain, you know, I do my bits online and all that, um, but my primary goal, first and foremost, activism is in my DNA, all right? Back in 2020, when Andrew Cuomo's boot was on our neck in New York.

That was it. Okay, yeah, I was on the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2018 listening to Dan. He's talking about how he was an activist and how he ran for office and knocked on doors and grinded his way to the top. It's an inspiring story and did so with integrity.

But it's the activism thing that really— I've always wanted to, to do. I don't care if I'm the the best or the top or the most views, or we have the most people at our things. I just want to win. I just want to make a difference, a positive difference. That's why my wife and I were out door knocking for sheriff, okay?

And I saw so many comments online. This is the way we all have to do this. If you understand, if everybody just says— we, Dan and I talked about this last week— if everybody just does 10 houses each just to your neighborhood, you know, like, we probably would never lose elections ever again. Even with the crazy amounts of shenanigans that are played with the vote, my goal is to give people information, give people a little bit of motivation. And I'm not asking you to do things that I'm not doing.

That's the difference between what you're going to get here and what you'll get somewhere else. I say go out and door knock for candidates, and what did we do? We went out and door knocked for candidates. And now there's gonna be people, oh, you just did that so you could say you did it. Well, at least I did it.

That's not why we did it. We did it because we believe in the candidate. I want to win. I want to keep power out of the hands of people who want to do us harm. I want to win elections at the federal level, at the state level, at the county level, at the HOA level.

I don't live in an HOA. If you do and your HOA president is one of those crazy Karens who fines you for the weed being a little too, too tall, draped over the sidewalk. Replace her. Do something, right? Get out and make a difference.

This is how we win. And that's my goal. My goal is to win. Right now, we're dealing with a situation with these Democrats. They've got about a 4.5-point lead in the generic ballot going into the 2026 midterms.

My good friend Chase Bose, he joined my show on LFA TV this morning. He's a young— you guys got to look this kid up. 20 years old, uh, on Instagram he's at political.predictions. 20 years old, super smart. I met him at that event that I met Kenneth Barrett at too.

He has a 98% accuracy rate predicting political races, even that special election here in Tennessee, or back in Tennessee because I'm not in Tennessee right now. Back in Tennessee, Tennessee's 7th Congressional District. He nailed that rate. Political dot predictions. His name is Chase Bose.

The kid is unbelievably talented, unbelievably bright. He's one of us in terms of, you know, politics, but he keeps it straight and gives it to you. Just gives you the numbers, right? Straight on, whether it's good news or bad news. So we were talking about the Senate.

We're talking about the House. Check him out. But the fact of the matter here is this 4.5-point or so deficit that Republicans have in the generic ballot, it's not insurmountable. We can win if we focus on just that— winning. I always ask this question, you know, James Carville made it.

He made a— he made a— he came up with a phrase, right? It's the economy. I think it was him. It's the economy, stupid. Right.

Well, I kind of took that and turned it on its head a little bit. I say it's your community, stupid. Do you know anybody? Could you like go into your phone? I check your phone.

Anyone in your, in your contacts who, if you ask them the question, do you want to live in a safe community or an unsafe community, would answer with, I want to live in an unsafe community? I don't know anybody who wants to live in an unsafe community, not assault. Well, if that's the case, and that's really one of those 80/20— it's probably a 95/5 issue. There are 5% of people are like, yeah, I want to live in an unsafe community because like, uh, I get the chance to like be in a tough neighborhood. And good for you, it's not good for your family, right?

It's a 95/5 issue. You understand that the Democrats, right? The Democrats are the ones that are making your communities less safe, whether it's them at this point advocating for illegal alien sex offenders and drug dealers and gang members and foreign terrorists, etc., to remain in your neighborhood, or it's them leaving the Department of Homeland Security unfunded. I just flew down here. Luckily didn't have any problems.

But you're seeing this all over the place on, you know, on the media, social media, these lines because TSA agents aren't getting paid. So they're getting new jobs. And by the way, this is going to have downstream effects. When this shutdown ends, you're still going to have problems because a bunch of TSA agents took new jobs. Not that they're just going to come back.

They're gone. Hundreds of them. They are leaving the Department of Homeland Security unfunded. And I think it's starting to have an impact on maybe some more folks in the center, maybe some more folks, you know, in the middle, and especially some folks on the left. It's having a bad impact on them.

Let's go back to the Schumer siesta, right? Remember the first shutdown with the sombrero memes, which were hilarious, where the Democrats and the left-wing media acted like they couldn't do basic math. How many votes do you need to pass that legislation in the Senate right now? You need 60. There are 53 Republicans plus John Fetterman, who, you know, sometimes votes with us, sometimes he doesn't.

So you needed 6 more Democrats to join. Republicans were all voting in favor of passing it. The Democrats were the ones holding it back and withholding the government funding and shutting the government down back in the summer and the, uh, in the early fall of 2025 during the Schumer siesta. The same thing is happening here at the Department of Homeland Security with this funding bill. It's the Democrats that are leaving it unfunded.

Republicans are all voting to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The Democrats are not doing it because ICE hurt their widdle feelings. Oh, they're deporting all of our friends and all of our voters and all of these people who we imported over the last 4 years. Well, boo freaking hoo. They're not supposed to be here.

Let me ask, let's do another practical example. This is a pretty, a pretty easy example. You have a house, an apartment, wherever the place is that you sleep, okay? Whatever it might be. When you go to bed at night, do you just throw your front door wide open?

Anybody who could walk in could walk in. Animals, people, bugs, whatever it might be. Do you leave it open or do you lock it? Because I lock our door. You know, we— there's people who are out for us too, so we have to take extra precautions, especially after what happened last year.

But for these people who don't want to get rid of these illegal aliens, they have no legal right to be in our country, period. No legal right. Just like somebody, if they decided to say, well, I'm not a, I'm not a, a home invader, I'm not an intruder, I'm not a burglar, I'm just an undocumented resident of your house. No, you're not. You're not supposed to be here.

You're trespassing. Get out. You would go— Nancy Pelosi will call the cops, right? Nancy, if you, if you show up to Nancy Pelosi's house, as somebody did to her husband, they would call the police. Because you're not legally supposed to be there and you have no legal right to be there.

So the Democrats are, A, hypocrites on that one because you're not going to see them putting up any of these people in their home. But B, look at the Department of Homeland Security. You have an elevated terror risk in this country, right, with the rumor of sleeper cells, drones, these attacks. You've seen 4 radical Islamic-inspired attacks since epic fury began. The Austin shooting, the New York City nail bomber, the situation up in Michigan, and that situation in Virginia at Old Dominion University.

And you have the Democrat Party saying, "Eh, Homeland Security is not important." Well, I think the tide is starting to turn there. The lines at the airport are inconveniencing people, which is the least of our problems. But there are threats in this country. There are attacks in this country And maybe these attacks weren't planned, but they're being planned now because the Department of Homeland Security is currently not funded. The mainstream media is actually starting now to push back on, on some of these Democrats, which is interesting.

So we've got NBC, we've got CNN, and we've got CBS all starting to push back on some of these Senate Democrats about the fact that Homeland Security has been unfunded for about a month. Let's start with Kristen Welker on with pencil neck. He's a pencil neck. It's an engineering miracle, that big watermelon head held up by a teeny tiny pencil neck. You guys know I left a voicemail on his, uh, when he was in Congress.

I left him a voicemail like that. He got censured. I forgot what it was for. I think it was because he lied about the Russia stuff and the impeachment hoax. And I said, you got shifted, you shifty shift, you got censured.

But I recorded myself doing it because I didn't need him running to the mainstream media being like, Donald Trump is bullying me. Oh my gosh, it was so— but YouTube loved that and everywhere loved that. Let's go to Kristen Welker with Shifty Schiff. Remember when Dan used to scream Shifty, by the way? Hey, Shifty!

Remember that? It's one of my favorites. Let's go to Kristen Welker and Adam Schiff. This was on NBC over the weekend talking about the DHS funding. DHS not being funded for a month now.

Just this week, we saw terror attacks in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk, Virginia. This morning, the CEOs of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, talking about the importance of American security in the airways. Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding? With the threat of terror attacks looming during this conflict? Well, Kristen, as you know, we offered vote after vote, resolution after resolution, even as recently as this week, to reopen those agencies, to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down.

So Adam Schiff is saying the Republicans voted down the, uh, funding bill that Republicans voted in favor of. And interesting though, that he's being pressed. So if you read between the lines here, you kind of read the tea leaves, you say, okay, so the mainstream media is pressing Adam Schiff on why the Department of Homeland Security is currently not funded, and he's attempting to blame Republicans like none of you guys and gals in the chat And any of you folks who are listening on Apple Podcasts and Spotify all over the place and all over the world, or really, you know, in our country especially, they act like you guys can't count to 60. It's insulting. It's incredibly insulting.

Here we go. Let's go to, let's go to CNN. Remember Spartacus? Cory Booker? He's got a slight case of atrophy.

You guys know what atrophy is? One eye looking at you, one eye looking for you, right? Letitia James has that problem too. Um, that was a good— that's Jason King who's in our chat. He was the first person to tell me that one.

That's a good one. We call her Sasquatch, by the way. But, um, Jake Tapper, Cory Booker, Spartacus— remember he, remember he did that like fake filibuster over the summer and his suit was definitely too tight. One of the buttons there, you could hear it screaming from the video. It was like, oh, It looked like it was gonna— like a deadly weapon.

Jake Tapper pushing, uh, and pressing Cory Booker, uh, on the same DHS funding issue. Isn't it time for Democrats to reopen and refund DHS? So first of all, Democrats have tried multiple times to try to get TSA, CISA, the Coast Guard funded. Republicans have refused time and time again to fund. Yeah, they want the whole agency.

I want the whole agency. Yeah, they want the whole agency. Do you guys admit— did you guys hear him admit it? Yeah, they want the whole agency. We don't.

We don't want the whole agency funded. Yeah, he listed all the things— TSA and Coast Guard and all that. The only thing he didn't list was ICE. ICE is already funded primarily. Most of their funding is already locked in place through the big beautiful bill.

This is a stunt. Guys, this is them trying to look like they're resisting. There he is. Look at that. Look at that suit.

That button is holding on for dear life. That button, you see it dead center? If— look at that. Now, if you were standing in front of him, you're going to want to get out of the way, because if that thing pops off, you could get seriously hurt. That button was like, oh, help me!

I could hear that button screaming from here. His life has never been the same. He did a valiant— he served valiantly, that button. All right, let's go to CBS now. Margaret Brennan, who is the famous, famous, uh, I don't really care, Margaret, with J.D.

Vance. Remember, like, right after they won and she was like, oh well, some of these illegal aliens, some of these people, uh, they're not bad people. He says, I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want them in I don't want them in our country. Well, here's Margaret Brennan, a hack, a total hack, with Mark Warner on CBS talking about the DHS shutdown.

We have airline CEOs faulting Congress for not paying TSA agents. I've got video of TSA workers on food lines because they just missed their second paycheck. Half paycheck last time, full paycheck this Friday. Why can't your leaders break this deadlock?

Marvin, I think we should. And what we have offered is let's pay TSA, let's pay FEMA, let's pay the National Guard. I mean, I'm sorry, the Coast Guard. Let's pay CISA. I'd even say let's pay Customs and Border Patrol.

If we can't agree on ICE reforms, let's pay everybody else.

Then why aren't you doing that? You could say, hey, I think we should do this. And then it's like if you have a flat tire and be like, we should change the tire. Well, no, no, no, no, we can't change the tire. Well, you just said we should.

I know. Why'd you say we should change the tire? Because tire's flat. Okay, so then change the tire. No, we don't, we don't want to do that.

There's Republicans want to do— what? So there it is. So the talking points are out now that, oh well, the Democrats are trying to fund everything but ICE. Not true. Even Tapper, Tapper, who's not our friend, was like, yeah, they want to fund the whole agency.

And Booker was like, yeah, they want to fund the whole agency, meaning they don't— the Democrats don't want to fund the whole agency. It's insane. Finally, and again, and this, this goes into a lot of— well, it kind of, it kind of coincides with what we talked about in the beginning of the show, right? These people who are putting America second in favor of talking about a foreign country all the time. The Democrats, obviously, over the course of the last 4 years or so, 2021 to 2025, prioritized illegal aliens over everybody else.

Okay. I mean, you gave them free food, you gave them free housing, free transportation, free healthcare. Bernie Sanders loves that healthcare. We will not have $15 an hour Bernie, crazy. He's a— I love that cranky communist sometimes, you know.

He's such a— he's such a— remember the meme with him with the mittens where he was like, it's cold out here, I'm not used to this even though I came from Vermont. Now they prioritized the illegal aliens, they prioritized all these folks who, you know, are not supposed to be in this country to begin with. And now they're, they're putting you in harm's way. Listen, I'm not going to tell you that I'm the biggest fan of TSA, and there are a lot of people who I respect in the space, content creators, hosts, etc., who have— I've heard them make the argument that TSA is unconstitutional. That's fine.

We can have that discussion. But while going through TSA is a requirement to get on an airplane, I would like to have that agency funded. If we think it's unconstitutional and we want to eventually get rid of it, you could follow the process to do that. The fact of the matter is the Democrats don't care that they're putting you in harm's way, and they actually diverted and allocated a ton of funding during the Biden years right, to go to DHS for illegal aliens. Here is one of my— one of Dan's favorites too, an overall great guy, Mase Moore.

It's M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E on X. The man, the absolute man, a legend. Like, I feel like he's like the internet watchdog. If you said something and then you changed your mind on that something, right, somewhere down the road, like, within, within a short period of time and didn't explain it. He's going to be like, well, here's you in 2021 and here's you in 2025.

He does a great job. Maysmore found this clip, put this one up, of Alejandro Mayorkas in, uh, during the Biden years talking about all the funding that's going to DHS for these illegals. But the Democrats couldn't give a damn about funding DHS right now to keep you safe amid all these terror threats. Let's roll this clip. We are bolstering the capacity of local governments and NGOs.

Last week, we announced the distribution of an additional $332 million to support communities along the south— southern border and in the interior of our country. We now have the shelter and services program that we in the Department of Homeland Security will control. FEMA is going to be playing a pivotal role in our shelter and services program that is poised to distribute $363 million dollars to cities and communities in need of funding. We're grateful, uh, to Leader Schumer and Congress, uh, for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program funding, uh, in the omnibus, uh, this past December of $800 million. A lot of money going to the bad hombres, and now they're holding money back from DHS, and You, whether you're left, right, center, up, down, north, south, east, west, whatever color you are, whatever planet you're from, if you're in the United States of America, you are right now a victim of this nonsense that the Democrats are putting you through.

Again, enemies foreign and domestic. And you may have some enemies that were once foreign that are now domestic. That we have less resources funded that can possibly stop them from killing Americans. Thanks to the Democrats. Now, the problem is not enough people know about that.

I bet you, again, we say Delhi counter-politics, these politics in the real world, right? Not enough people know that the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have funding right now. If you went into a supermarket, I bet and went up to the deli counter, you got people waiting for their boar's head. Okay. And you ask the man, the woman, whoever it is, right at the, you know, online with you.

Hey, did you, did you, do you hear the Department of Homeland Security hasn't had funding? They'd be like, what? No, I didn't know that. Folks, educate people, educate your friends, educate your family members. You don't have to do a hard sell.

Okay, you don't have to have them commit to voting for Republicans in the midterm on the spot. They just need to be armed with information, real verifiable information, facts. The Department of Homeland Security is currently not funded. People, these people in the airports are going without paychecks. That's not fair to them.

And it's not fair to us that in a period of a period of time where we're pretty damn vulnerable, but the Democrats don't seem to care and are leaving a very, very important part of our government left without the resources and funding it needs to operate. It's not good, not at all. And the media, up until this point where we had these little bits of pushback, haven't cared at all. Could you imagine for just a second If the script was flipped and the Department of Homeland Security was not funded under Joe Biden and there was a terror threat, what the media would be doing? Five-alarm fire.

You know, their hair would be set ablaze. They would be crying. I'm sure Martha Raddatz would find something to cry about because she cries all the time. I'm sure you would see— I mean, and by the way, they would be right to be upset. That the Department of Homeland Security isn't funded amid a terror threat.

They're not upset now because it hurts their friends. This is a— it's just a group of people who I just can't stand. I say we don't hate them enough. Hate's a bad word. I'm not encouraging people to be violent, but please, please be a part of the growing movement of people who are shutting these clowns off and not giving them the eyeballs that they need, the mainstream media.

Speaking of the media, which we've been talking about just about this entire time, and enemies foreign and domestic. You guys ever heard of this group called Antifa? I think we've all heard of them. Now, according to, you know, Gerald Nadler, who pooped himself I think once or twice— it was very interesting, right? I mean, that little waddle that he did off the stage that one time, there's no other explanation other than something was happening that wasn't supposed to be happening.

On the backside of Uranus. Okay, I mean, that's just— it's embarrassing. But Gerald Nadler, he called Antifa a myth. Joe Biden called it just an idea on the debate stage. Remember that?

Antifa is just an idea. It's not a group. It's not an organization. It's just, it's just, just, just an idea. I no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly.

Here's Nadler. Look at this. I mean, look at this little Waddle. And you got spitting Nancy Pelosi up there. She can't keep her teeth in her mouth.

But you look at— look at Nadler. Look at that. Who walks like that? I have something coming out. It's not— it's not a situation you want to be in.

Thankfully, I've never been in that situation. I know getting old is tough. Maybe that's what happened. But it's interesting. But Nadler, Antifa's a myth.

Um, Biden, Antifa's not real. It's an idea, not an organization. Well, 9 members of the idea— this is on Breitbart— were just convicted of providing material support to terrorists. A Texas jury— we love Texas, everything's bigger in Texas, it's a tremendous place— a Texas jury just crushed Antifa. The ICE facility ambush that took place in July of 2025, 9 guilty verdicts.

Federal jury in Texas returned a guilty verdict on all 9 defendants, all of them charged in the July 2025 attack, which, by the way, featured an officer being shot in the neck. He survived. Thank God he survived. But I thought this was just an idea. I thought this was— this wasn't an organization.

They only have like matching uniforms and matching signs and, you know, they all coordinate what they're going to wear and they all happen to show up at the same time at the same place all the time. And there's usually some guy with a drum, which I don't understand. I don't know what they're trying to do. If they're trying to LARP as like Revolutionary War, you know, but like the Patriot, you know, where they drum and they walk in step with the, with the beat. I'm not sure what that— what the deal is with the drum.

But they seem to be remarkably coordinated for them to not be an organization. Anyone else find that weird? I find that weird. But it's funny. So 9 Antifa terrorists who— the leader of this group distributed weapons to this group, okay?

They were convicted on these terrorism charges because the administration has classified Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. And I think some of it has been, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but some of the activity surrounding Antifa, the financial activity and otherwise, some of those funders and folks aligned with them around the world have been designated as FTOs, foreign terrorist organizations, which obviously now gives the Department of Justice and a lot of these prosecutors a little bit more ammunition, a little bit more standing when they go after these people. 9 of them have been found guilty. This is the first time ever that these Antifa terrorists have been found guilty, uh, with terror charges. And here's the Washington Post: 'Texas jury convicts protesters.' Protesters?

They shot an officer in the neck! Protesters? Oh, they charged a bunch of protesters with plotting an Antifa attack. There was an attack! They shot a guy.

They caused damage to a bunch of the property out there. What do you mean, protesters? It's like the New York Times did it too. Protesters accused of Antifa— accused of Antifa ties. Accused?

Convicted. It's in your own freaking headline. It says found guilty of support for terrorism. Yes, that's terrorism. Waging war against law enforcement is terrorism.

And I will tell you firsthand that Antifa is a bunch of terrorists. Now, before I do that, because you see this, I want to roll this clip from Tom Elliott. It's a bunch of people, mainstream media and otherwise, saying that Antifa isn't a real thing. It's a boogeyman. It's the monster under your bed.

It's the monster in your closet. It's Sully from Monsters, Inc., right? He's coming out of your closet to scare you, but it's not actually real. There's no real monsters. He— this bunch of people saying it's not real, then how did these 9 people who are Antifa members get convicted?

Let's roll this Tom Elliott clip. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. Like, I don't even know what Antifa is. There is no group.

It's not even like far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited. It isn't an organization. It is a— it is in many ways mythology. It's not like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, you know, sort of defined terrorist organizations with leadership that led— that, you know, leads violence.

It's not a highly organized movement. It's a moniker. It's an— it's— it's It's not a unified group like the Proud Boys are. Things like Antifa are things that are thought up. It's all in this guise of going after Antifa, which is nothing.

There's no organization called Antifa. Nobody's a member of Antifa because it doesn't exist. They are just declaring into existence something that doesn't exist. There is no Antifa organization. So maybe that's good for social media.

But it really is nonexistent. They exist on the internet. There's no organization. It's not real. There's a guy, I am Antifa, getting arrested.

But it's not real. Yeah, look at that. I'm Antifa. It says it on his shirt. It's not real though.

Don't worry about it. Nothing to see here. Yeah, these guys are going to like this. These aren't the droids you're looking for. Somebody's got to do something about Antifa and the left, because this is not a right-wing problem.

This is a left-wing problem. This is a left-wing problem. Antifa is an idea, not an organization. You got it. Yeah, yeah, that they've taken the Obi-Wan Kenobi Jedi mind trick, okay, to another level.

Not only are they telling you that these aren't the droids you're looking for, they're now telling you you're not even looking for droids. You're looking for something completely— go look for something else. Move along. By the way, Return of the Jedi was on last night on FX. I just have to say, you know, I feel bad doing this in Dan's absence, but I have to— the Ewoks are not more annoying than Jar Jar.

I have to say it. I just have to say it. Jar Jar is the— Jar Jar is the most annoying character. I don't like the Ewoks. And I do find it interesting that, you know, Palpatine in the Death Star is like, well, I sent a legion of my best troops and they got beaten by, you know, teddy bears throwing rocks.

But beside the point, I did watch Return of the Jedi last night. It was always, always fun to watch that. Let me tell you a little story. I had a personal run-in with Antifa. This is real.

Again, activism is in my DNA. I loved it. We did something in 2020, the Loud Majority did. We called it the Fifth Avenue Filibuster, right? So we took a massive caravan of about 300 to 400 vehicles into New York City with the Trump flags on it in the 2020, uh, election cycle.

Trump was sick with the China virus. The China virus, think about it, it came from China. Went quick detour. You know what I found weird about the China virus? It was interesting, um, the toilet paper thing, right?

So there were these people that were hoarding, you know, the toilet paper And in New York, there were some folks who were hoarding the toilet paper in the store and then selling them in the parking lot at a premium outside the store. Like, I love capitalism, it's great. But they were like, "I need 48 rolls of toilet paper. I need 96 rolls of toilet paper to survive 15 days to slow the spread." And I was the only person in New York who was like, "If you need 96 rolls of toilet paper to make it through 2 weeks, You have a much bigger problem than COVID. Yeah, I was just about to say, like, you must be Jerry Nadler.

That's all. Or you have a family of like 40 people. But anyway, so during the COVID era, you know, 2020, Trump had COVID, and, uh, we did— we called it the Fifth Avenue filibuster, but we weren't calling it that online. We were saying we were going to go do a caravan past Gracie Mansion. All right, um, I even had the NYPD, their like intel guys, fools.

They called me and he said, oh, this is Officer So-and-So with the New York Police Department. I said, cool, name and badge number. I got to make sure you are who you say you are. He was like, what? I said, you got to do that, I'm not telling you anything.

So we verified him, um, and he's like, what was that about? I said, well, we're not going to Gracie Mansion. So he's on the phone going, well, that's not what your event says online. I I said, I know. The reason why my event says we're going to Gracie Mansion online is 'cause that's where I want the bad guys to go.

He's like, wow, that's real smart. How long you been doing this? I said, a couple weeks. But it was a dummy route. So we said we were going to Gracie Mansion and New York City's Antifa group was posted about, we're gonna meet these guys 'cause we were also doing a food drive.

We wanted to bring food into a food pantry in New York City 'cause we were like, look, Republicans aren't bad. We're feeding the people that AOC thinks don't exist. But they were like, well, we'll help you with our food drive. So Antifa in New York City on that weekend, October 4th, they were planning on lining the sidewalks where we were supposed to be with frozen cans of tuna fish that they were going to try and throw through our windshields. It's not a joke.

Like, that was not a joke, man. It's not a joke. It was on, like, in their forums. We had people who were infiltrating and keeping up on it. So this NYPD intel guy was like, okay, so if you're not going to Gracie Mansion, like, where are you going?

I said, we're going, we're going to Trump Tower, and we plan on stopping, and, uh, you know, all that. So, uh, we fooled them with the dummy route. Well, Antifa was very upset that morning that we were coming into the city. Somebody did something. I don't know, one of them must have got my phone number because my phone that morning was getting texts.

I mean, I'm talking about hundreds of texts every couple minutes, to the point where I could not send a text message off my phone. So they were trying to screw with our communications. Okay, these people are not— it's not just an idea. Ideas don't do that. People and organizations and groups do that.

Okay, um, but we got into New York City. They were waiting for us at Gracie Mansion. They were very unhappy that we didn't show up there. And so then of course I'm driving home and I do a little video driving my truck home after we had dropped a bunch of food off at a food pantry and a bunch of cases of water off at St. Patrick's Cathedral, right, to say, hey, not only are we coming in here stopping up traffic for a little bit, but we're doing something good also. The food pantry was in AOC's district.

I said, well, today we have done more for this district than AOC has done her entire time in Congress. But on my way home, I took the video out and I was like, yeah, it was a dummy route. You guys all went to Gracie Mansion. Sorry we missed you, but you know, dummies tend to fall for dummy routes. They didn't like that, so then they doxed me and I started getting death threats.

Again, these are terrorists. These are not— it's not ideas. Don't do that. Groups do that. Organized groups do that.

Really, really just nasty, nasty people. and I'm happy to see that precedent has now been set to start holding some of these guys accountable on terrorism charges. It's a very nice thing to see. Alright, I wanna leave you with some good news. Obviously we're getting close to, to the end of the show today.

Iran appears to be caving on the Strait of Hormuz. They said that the only ships that are not allowed through the strait at this time are US and Israeli ships. US and Israeli ships don't use the strait very often, according to this piece on RedState. So that is some very good news as we see it there. Hopefully the overreaction to all of this war in the Middle East with the gas prices starts to settle.

I think a lot of it honestly is there's some manipulation involved. I think it's ridiculous. Um, hopefully it starts to settle as the Strait of Hormuz starts to open up. And here's some really good news. So for those of you who watched, uh, the Olympics, uh, and I'm wearing my, uh, my Islanders hat— I'm a big Islanders fan, let's go Islanders— I'm sure I'll get some messages about that.

Rangers? I had some guy in the airport actually in Nashville, I was like, oh, I didn't know there were any Islanders fans left. And I was like And you are? He goes, I'm a Rangers fan. I said, so could you remind me who won the season series this year?

Uh, that's right, we swept you guys. Let's go Islanders. It's all good. Um, I'm a big hockey fan, and I've become an even bigger hockey fan over the course of the last couple years because those seem to be the athletes that are the most connected and most relatable to what, like, how normal people are. You kind of see what I'm saying?

Like, they, they make In terms of their salary, it's like they're like the lowest paid of the 4 major sports in the country. And their leanings, the common sense, they're proud to be American, all this. They work hard, they grind. Like the life of a hockey player is not cushy. I remember there was this one media guy who was like, "Oh, it's just a white, these white guys with these cushy jobs." The dude who won the game for the US, Jack Hughes, he lost his teeth in the game.

Like the teeth are on the ice still. Okay, but you saw the U.S. women and they beat Snow Mexico in the Olympics, right? They beat Canada in overtime. You saw the U.S. men, Team USA, Connor Hellebuck, Jack Hughes, all of them, they beat the Snow Mexicans, the Canadians, in the gold medal round in the Olympics. And so now the Paralympics are going on and the United States Paralympic team beat Canada again.

That is the Triple Crown in Olympic hockey. Let's go USA! I listened to it on my way to the studio today. I will be listening to it all day today. I will not be listening to it tomorrow because I have a rule about listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd before getting on an airplane, obviously because the majority of that band died in a plane crash.

We don't want to do any bad vibes, but I'm listening to it all day today. Fire up Freebird If it was up to me, you know, they have all these people who want to kneel for the national anthem. I would make it punishable by, I wouldn't say death, but like something very inconvenient, maybe itching powder or something. If you kneel for the national anthem, you get like itching powder poured in your bed. But I would make the live version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird our new national anthem of the country, which means you would have to stand for all 13 minutes and 47 seconds.

I think that's how long it is. I might be me wrong, but it's a long song. That would be the new national anthem. You don't know how good you had it for just a quick Star-Spangled Banner. Anyway, thank you, John.

I don't know if you're a baseball guy, but we just beat Canada on Friday in the WBC as well. So this may be unpopular, I hate the World Baseball Classic. I love the World Baseball Classic. I think we can't be friends anymore. That's it, this relationship's over.

That's it. Justin is— he's my mortal enemy now. I don't like the World Baseball Classic, but I'm rooting for Team USA. But, uh, yeah, we beat Canada in that sport too, right? Yeah.

And they also lost to the Dodgers. And Canada just never wins anymore. Okay, hey, if you're from Canada, just understand, on my, on my show at LFA TV, we have some Canadians. They're nice, but we call them 51s because 51st state. If you're a 51, understand, you would win if you were a part of our country, but I'm kind of getting a little cold feet here Bringing in this nation full of a lot of liberals and Frenchies, you know, it's like maybe we'll do territory status where like your senators and all that, they don't count or anything like that.

Well, like kind of like what Puerto Rico does. Anyway, USA, love it. Congratulations to the US hockey team and the Paralympics and the US baseball team, World Baseball Classic. I hope they win that tournament, and the sooner that tournament is over, the better, at least for me. I don't like it.

I want my regular season. Season to start. Go Texas Rangers! Anyway, I want to say thank you to the entire team here for making this possible. I am back here tomorrow.

Uh, Dan is back on Wednesday. It is St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. We're gonna have a lot of fun with that. Uh, I've got a— I got a special shirt that I'm gonna wear specifically for Nicole Wallace because I know she's the shirt judge. I don't know if she's gonna like it as much as she likes some of Dan's shirts, but I will be back here tomorrow.

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