In this episode of The Dan Bongino Show, Dan Bongino argues that Democrats are increasingly stoking generational and political hatred, citing clips from Democratic lawmakers and Scott Galloway's comments on boomers and housing. He criticizes a Montgomery County bill restricting recent ICE and CBP agents from county jobs and a proposed national wealth tax, presenting these as his own interpretation.
The show also covers the Microsoft outage, the AI chip race with China, an FBI fentanyl operation, and midterm election results. Listeners hear Bongino's arguments on these topics, along with his preparedness advice, though many of his claims are contested and rest on his own framing.
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Folks, the "Modern Democrat Party" has abandoned any attachment to reality whatsoever. The era of Democrat President Bill Clinton giving speeches—and this actually happened, you can look it up—where he says, and I quote, "The era of big government is over." Wait, did he say that? Yeah, I'm not a fan of Bill Clinton, obviously. I'm trying to make a larger point here. The era of "semi-reasonable" Democrats not speaking out about crazy things is, to say, over.
Can you imagine—just think of this, right? I'll ask you a question instead of making an assertion here. Some of you will get that. Can you imagine what would happen if anyone of prominence in today's Democrat Party—anyone. I'm not talking about your local councilman, I'm talking about national figures—gave a speech on a Democrat platform running for president, saying, "Hey, the era of big government is over." I'm laughing because that would never—it would never happen. Folks, the Modern Democrat Party, the one about to take power in a third of government, we still have the presidency.
The courts are not entirely out of control, although there are pockets that are in a lot of trouble, are completely embedded in the politics of envy and resentment. I'm going to show you today in the beginning of the show—I don't know what, again, you think you may have voted for or not voted for, whether you think it was legitimate or not legitimate—they're about to swear in in January. And I want to show you the bedrock principle these people run on. If it was one beehive, big hairy, audacious goal all these Democrats have, it is making sure you hate everyone around you.
No. Yes. Whatever category they put you in, they want you hated. Boomers, wealth creators, job creators, male, whites, young male, whites, young male, white women—it doesn't matter. They want everyone to hate you. I'll get the receipts coming up. By the way, I haven't gotten as much feedback on an intro to the show about a non-political topic in years as I did when I just casually brought up—and it was good feedback, by the way—that I was watching this Led Zeppelin documentary, and I was just...
it brought back memories of my childhood, how amazing Led Zeppelin was. I must have received, I don't know, 50 to 100 texts from friends. Man, they were so great. I know, they're awesome. To all you younger folks out there who want to hear some good music, go listen to some of the guitarists on Led Zeppelin. And then I mentioned this rapper from New York, Special Ed, which I swear only I listened to, I thought. And I got a bunch of texts on that too. My friend Brian reaches out. He's like, "I didn't know you listened to that." He goes, "I thought I was the only one."
I said, "No, you weren't. I got it made." That was the tune, man. Remember? Craziest things on this show sometimes. All right, big show. I got to show you some sound and video at the beginning of the show to make my point that I don't know where you think you're going with this with the Democrats, but their entire bedrock elevator speech is, "You should hate everyone around you and they should hate you too." It's bad. Hey, one of the best parts of my morning is that first cup of coffee. Weekend coffee, weekday coffee, it's all good.
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I'm barely there. I'm 51, but soon to be 52. So I'm in that bracket. The Modern Democrat Party wants younger voters, minority voters, and what they see to be their new coalition going forward. What they would call the old Obama coalition that they want to rebuild. They want them to hate you. Please do not casually cast this warning aside. I know you've been told by a bunch of clever marketing that the Democrat Party is the party of Social Security and, you know, they're going to protect senior benefits and all this.
I know that's what you've been told.
No, and we have what to give the American people: a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington.
Imagine this speech.
And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over.
Can you imagine? That's a real speech. That's not AI. That's over, folks. The Democrat Party hates you. I'm really sorry to have to pass the bad news. They are coming after your Social Security. They are coming after your assets. They are coming after your home. They want these younger kids to hate you. Folks, I'm on X and TikTok and these platforms all day. My job is to sound the alarm and see around the corner.
This whole thing out there with boomers—just look it up—is an envy effort from the modern Democrats. It's a massive marketing pitch to get older people to—to get younger people to hate you and get you to die quicker. I got the receipts coming up. If you think I'm BSing you, you're in for a really rude kick in the nads. This party wants nothing to do with affordability, your wallet, education, healthcare.
They are committed to one thing and one thing only: getting a younger generation of voters to completely hate and resent you and solidify a coalition of people suckling on the government for the rest of their life. And if they have to get them to hate you, they will. Folks, I'm getting concerned now because after watching the Kansas governorship drop to a Democrat—Kansas, I didn't say that wrong. We're not talking about the mayor of Chicago. We're talking about Kansas.
The Democrat Party, the D, is becoming the default setting, and Republican leadership is becoming the exception. Why that is, is a number of factors. The media constantly pumping down people's throats, this idea that Democrats care about them. They're the party of tolerance and coexistence. You know, entertainers who these kids look up to, constantly talking about, like, killing babies and all this stuff as if it's a sign of virtue.
Even sports, the whole athletics space, that's gone woke too. You get these stupid messages on NBA courts all over the country and all this crap. They're embedded in this all the time. But folks, there's a real consequence to this. You see it. Here's this guy. I can't play this clip enough because this is going to—should be played on loop from this point going forward. This is an example of what I'm talking about. How the media in conjunction with Democrats and others are successfully getting you to engage in a politics of pettiness, envy, and resentment.
Nothing to do with issues. Just hate the other guy, vote for us, and we'll give you a bunch of free stuff. Here is going to—this is going to be one of the lead members up on the Hill, this guy, Robert Garcia, in the oversight of government, which should be about legislative programs. This guy said this. This should be played from now to the end of time. He's, like, openly talking about being gay, a pitch to the identity politics crowd, and saying, you know, because I'm gay, I'm petty. He indicates nothing here that he's interested in legitimate oversight, only that he's interested in using government for his petty interest in attacking Republicans.
And nobody on the Democrat side seems interested at all in calling this out. Check this out.
It's because I'm like, I'm gay, but like, you know, like, like pettiness is a thing. Like, I'm—I am—I'm mad, you know?
A gay guy with a grudge is going to run the House Oversight Committee, and he's going to use the gavel in the most petty and vindictive way possible. Trump doing the YMCA is not going to help.
I talked about this on Will Kane's show yesterday. I do a pretty regular appearance over there. I brought this up. Notice the reason I'm playing this again is not that he was dumb enough to say that. He was. Man, it should be used by Republicans, independents, and sane people from now until the end of this two-year term for Congress because it shows you what they're about. He just admitted it. It's that the media is celebrating this. How did you get a party stapled to the idea of hate everyone around you, of envy and resentment, and not based in any ideas whatsoever?
By this. Here's another thing I saw this morning. Folks, they are the party right now, the Democrats, of political hate, generational hate, hate of success, hate of country. That's why you keep seeing stories like this pop up too. Loudoun County, Virginia, again. Here's a story, again, emerging out of Loudoun County, which has become a hotbed for political controversies, where apparently they want to teach second graders.
This is an effort to create generational hate and nation hate all at the same time. You should hate your country, despite the wonderful, amazing things we've done to give you this life you live right now, whether in second grade or graduating from a PhD program in college. They want you to hate this country, and they get them young. They get them young. Here's an effort to teach Thanksgiving. Some commentary on Fox and Friends this morning. As a, quote, "day of mourning?" Folks, this is not a freaking accident.
Check this out.
This is a holiday for America. It's about family. I'm not mourning on Thanksgiving. In fact, I was shopping yesterday. I'm getting all of my recipes together. I'm excited about it. We celebrate. We are thankful to live in the greatest country.
But now you have a second grader actually taking it.
Now I'm supposed to have Kleenexes at the table so we can mourn.
Yeah, and explain.
Yeah. Okay. These are second graders. They're teaching them to feel guilty about living in America and teaching them this lesson. They're too young for that. A. B. Now you're trying to inject all these progressive activism thoughts and opinions into our classrooms. Just tell them about Thanksgiving. You can tell them both sides. Tell them the experience, but tell them we're grateful to live in the best country in the world, and we're thankful.
Folks, I'm concerned. You know, I'm not going to smoke you up here. I'm concerned that—and I am an absolute advocate, a free speech absolutist outside of lawbreaking, terror attacks, and other things like that, and incentivizing criminal behavior. I am an absolutist for free speech. I've put my money where my mouth is. Again, I invest in platforms where people use the platform to attack me. You know, please stop the nonsense if you're going to claim otherwise.
Some of you know that, who attack me. You're on the platforms. I invest in this platform, so it's there for you to go and attack me. I am an absolute free speech advocate, but I'm also living in—this is not the multiverse of madness here, for the MCU fans out there. Some of you get that. I live in the real world. What is, like, the real world in MCU? Is it Earth 616 or something? Somebody tell me in the chat. What's, like, the one we're supposed to live in?
I live in that world, okay? And in that world, I was a Marvel guy. I was just—when I was a kid, I had all the comic books and stuff, you know? You know, listen, it's my thing. And I was a kid. It was my escape from, like, crazy stuff going on around me, from the chaos. I used to go sit on this broken Christmas tree we had in this crappy apartment and read Daredevil and Captain America and Secret Wars and stuff. Folks, in the real world, the constant—I saw someone in the chat—indoctrination of our kids to hate, resent, and envy their parents, their grandparents, success, successful people, the evil rich, to hate their country, to hate pilgrims, to hate Christopher Columbus, to hate anything, to hate our war heroes, to hate people in the military, to hate the police, to hate ICE and CBP.
Wait till—do not go anywhere. You want to see the craziest story of the week? I got this coming up too. You know, I hate stupid teases. I'm not doing this on purpose, but it's coming up, and I got to go in order. There's a bill out of the crazy state of Maryland I ran in, in the congressional district I ran in, in Maryland, which I almost won, which is crazy considering the lunatics. They want to ban ICE and CBP from being able to apply for any county jobs. That's how much they hate you. Whatever they're telling you. They're about affordability, coexistence, tolerance, healthcare for all.
They've lied to you. And I'm getting concerned because the growing chorus of media and entertainment folks, teachers, academics in your kids' ear all the time. Someone said in the chat, "It's indoctrination." You're correct. And you're like, "Oh, I teach my kid a lesson at home. I tell them every day about high taxes and we have to protect life in the womb." Folks, I'm sorry, but it's not enough. It's not enough. Maybe you talk to them for an hour, two hours a night at dinner. Everyone else has them for the rest of that time. It is asymmetric information warfare.
And I'm sorry we are losing. That is how the Democrat mechanism has become the default switch on the back of, like, the buzz light here. I know I've warned you about this now in probably 10 or 15 shows since I've been back on the air. If you are an adult, forget about 50, 40 or older, they are indoctrinating your kids not just to hate success or wealth, but to hate you too. I've only played four or five soundbites here. Here's another one. Here's Scott Galloway, that lunatic who said that awful stuff about Elon Musk, implying like he should be punished for treason or whatever he said.
This guy has a huge audience. Huge audience. They've got a show called Pivot with that nut Karen Switcher. This is not a small audience, guys. He's got a huge social media following. Here he is talking about—think about this, you evil boomers. Here he is pushing this agenda to get your kids to hate you, your grandkids to hate you, claiming, like, "Look at you living in that house. You busted your ass to buy years ago. And because the government spent a lot of money and the inflation devalued money, but in fact, asset value went up, which is no fault of your own.
A house is an asset, correct? It's real property. The value of the house went up because the government exploded the value of the dollar through inflation. You did nothing wrong. You did nothing wrong. You didn't have a choice to pay into Social Security. They took your money and stole it. You didn't have a choice in inflation. The government printed money. But now it's your fault that you're sitting on your house because you're, like, stealing it from your kids or something and that you should just die sooner. Please do not disregard what I'm telling you.
They want your kids to hate you. Take a look.
Senators on both sides of the aisle. And the Republican senators want to talk about income inequality and how young people aren't doing as well, and we've weaponized the incumbents have weaponized housing and college degrees and made it harder for younger people to kind of get on the ladder, if you will, and say, "Well, yeah, but the young people are about to inherit all this money." It just doesn't make for a healthy dynamic that your only means of buying a house is to kiss your parents' ass. It's just not. I mean, a lot of people don't have those parents. And it's also—and also, quite frankly, our parents are living too damn long.
Great. I'm going to get a house when I'm 80 and they're 100.
This is his podcast, the Professor G Pod. Folks, this guy does not have a small following. Listen to me, please. If you're 40 or older and you are voting Democrat thinking they're the party of coexistence, they're the party of non-coexistence because they don't want you to exist in a co with your kids or grandkids. They just want you to die. Hey, someone in there, G, one of you guys, find that clip from Obama.
I should have put this in the show earlier, where he says to just go and take the pill. Listen to me. The reason this show continues to succeed despite a 2000-front war against it, because I won't join this anti-Jew brigade that we hate the Jews nonsense, that's the only reason they go after this show. It's hilarious how they attack me, not people who are above me in the government chain. But we have two separate things going because I won't join that brigade.
It's almost comical to watch. The reason this show continues to succeed and defy all the odds after 10 years is because we see around these corners. I've been warning you about this anti-boomer narrative. It is serious. Can you imagine having risked your ass for a war you may or may not have supported in Vietnam, having had a grandfather who fought heroically in World War II to destroy fascism and the Nazis, and yet we never claimed the territory and just gave it back and left our blood and body parts and soldiers' dead bodies there?
And you're being lectured by some moron about how your 18-year-old kid should hate you because you stole the house you bought decades ago from him or her? Folks, I wish I was wrong about this, but I'm not. These liberals are not your friends. Remember this show.
Flags in the chat. You will remember this conversation, and you will rue the day that you voted for these lunatics because they're only going to get more radical moving forward. That Bill Clinton speech we played earlier is over. They're getting more radical now. They did something yesterday that completely flips the script on flags in the chat, please, on that affordability agenda. They said they weren't going to do this, and then they went around and did it. I got that, and then I got a video coming up next.
If this—I'm not trying to, like, tick you off here. I'm really not. But if this video doesn't do it, that flag over my shoulder means nothing to you. They now want to target ICE, CBP officials who may retire and look for a government job in Montgomery County solely because they worked for ICE and CBP, and it passed unanimously in crazy Montgomery County in Maryland, where I actually ran for Congress.
Watch. Receipts incoming.
The era of big government is over.
Good luck. Good luck giving that speech now. Keep that handy. Folks, it's Medicare's annual enrollment period right now. The one time a year you can make changes to your Medicaid coverage, Medicare coverage. I know with all the sales calls and mailers, it's easy to get overwhelmed and throw your hands up, but stay with me on this. 70% of people on Medicare never compare their options. They just let it ride. I get it. Medicare is confusing. My mother-in-law had a lot of questions and nobody to talk to. It is confusing. So we directed her over to Chapter. They really did amazing for her.
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Call Chapter today. Here's the number: 667-CHAPTER. Again, the number is 667-CHAPTER. Don't be the 70%. Check out Chapter today. 667-CHAPTER. Check them out. Thanks, Chapter. Okay, I want to show you this. And folks, this may boil your blood a little bit, but you need to see it. Don't look away. It's what I had to, like, double-check to see this was real. Even though I know Montgomery County well, like I told you, I ran for Congress. I told you the insanity was just the beginning.
Here's Eric D'Artree on X. Outrage erupts after Maryland's Montgomery County Council unanimously passed a bill that bans recent ICE and CBP agents from public-facing county jobs. I told you these people hate you. They hate this country. They hate its borders. They hate everything. Imagine swearing in to defend this country's borders, which we need to protect against criminals, narco-traffickers, child traffickers, terrorists. And now you're the subject of a ban by these lunatics in Montgomery County.
Here, you can watch the footage yourself. Check this out.
Expedited Bill 2926, Community Trust and County Employees Act, and the lead sponsor is Councilmember Mink and co-sponsor is Councilmember Jalando. The bill would restrict certain public-facing county departments from hiring for sensitive positions for certain applicants who are employed by the federal government after 2025 to enforce federal immigration laws.
Can I get a motion to approve the expedited bill 29-26 as amended? Moved by Councilmember Christensen, seconded by Councilmember Don Lucke. This is a roll call vote. Madam Clerk, can you please call the vote?
Councilmember Lucke.
Yes.
Councilmember.
I don't know. I'm almost at a very rare loss for words. Again, what have we said over the last week since the disastrous election night? I'm really sorry if you think you voted on your wallet, your healthcare, your kids' education, and what you got was a bunch of, "I hope your grandparents die quick because they stole your house when they bought it somehow. Hey, man, I'm going to cancel your union healthcare plan and stick you on Bernie Sanders' government healthcare.
By the way, Texas wants to already cancel school choice. Rip your kid out of the school. You're like, "If you happen to patriotically serve the United States government as ICE or CBP, you're banned from government jobs." Someone said in the chat, "There's a massive lawsuit here." There is. They don't care. They don't care. Watch what's next. Flag it in the chat. The insanity will not stop because it can't stop. The Robert Garcia's—I'm gay and petty and I'm going to come after Republicans and the Trump administration—they have no self-control.
They are like infant children. They cannot stop themselves. You are going to see going forward, anyone who served in a military leadership position under Pete Hegseth and President Trump, they'll be banned too. That'll be next. Then it'll be leadership of any kind of government law enforcement entity put in there by President Trump. I don't need their jobs, but if you did, good luck. That is next. Oh, here. Thank you. 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, or God bless you if you made it past 100.
They are teaching your kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids to hate you. This is not new. So if it's not new, why are you so worried about it right now? Because there used to be a lid on this stuff where Bill Clinton's era of big government over Blue Dog wing of the Democrat Party would say, "Hey, man, I'm a Democrat in Arkansas." Like, that's not going to fly down here. People don't want to hear that crap. They're about unions and other stuff Democrats used to say they were about. They're all wiped out. You've got Daria Lisa Chavalier, Zoran Mamdani, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Premiya Jayapal, Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren.
That's the core of the Democrat Party. There's no lid on the crazy anymore. Here, remember this with Obama? This isn't new. It's just geometrically worse now. Check this out.
Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.
Twice in case you missed it. You should just die, old people. Just die. Stop sucking up the resources. Resources. The resources you created. Who the hell do you think made this country so rich that we can take a pill or have a surgery? You did. This isn't me, like, generationally trying to kiss anybody's ass. It's the truth. I didn't fight in World War II when the entire freedom of the globe was at stake.
I didn't live through the Great Depression when you had to sit on a government cheese line. The biggest problem we have now in the United States is everybody's too fat. That's why we've got Reddit true tie and GLP-1s. GLP-1s. You know what your GLP-1 was in the Depression? The fucking Depression. Sorry, Jim. Mark that. That was your GLP-1. There was no food. Now you're going to shit all over our senior—oh, man.
This is radio. Sorry. FCC will clean that up for radio. You're going to shit all over our seniors now? You know what? They lived 10 times harder than you did. 100 times harder than you did. They bought that house in the '50s for $30,000 because the government hadn't yet, because of Democrats and liberals, and by the way, weak Republicans, printed a whole ton of money that devalued the dollar and made assets worth more than holding financial assets.
Don't you understand what happened? It's not their fault. They didn't volunteer for Social Security. You don't think now that it's bankrupt, looking in retrospect, a lot of these 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100-year-olds would have rather put their money in the stock market where it'd be worth 100 times as much? Folks, this is dangerous stuff, man. This is a corner I wish I didn't see around, but this has got to stop. The best thing you can do if you're 20 or 30, hell, if you're a teenager, is to sit down with your great-grandparents, if you're blessed enough to have them still alive, and ask them what they went through.
Ask them about the strong men that created good times and then the good times that are creating weak men. Ask them about it. Don't be patronizing to them. Folks, I'm not a grandfather. I'm not even close yet, but I will be one day. Can you imagine looking your kids in the eye, your grandkids, or your own kids, and they resent you and can't stand you because they're listening to some idiot's podcast who told them you're sitting on their house, the house that you bought?
Folks, this is dangerous stuff. I want to get back to this in a second to show the insanity, but I want to break it up. It is Friday with a little bit of semi-decent news. There is some sanity out there in some states. I wanted to congratulate while we're at it, South Dakota. Here's a Newsmax post. South Dakota, and along with my home state of Florida, withstood the blue tsunami. So it's not all crazy. There are pockets of sanity out there. So it's Friday. I don't want people too depressed. Read this, Newsmax. As most of the nation went Democrat in the election, South Dakota continued to vote red.
South Dakota was among the states that shifted the least towards Democrats. So congratulations. Anyone from South Dakota in the chat, you get a round of applause from us. Republicans won all nine statewide elections, just like we did in Florida, with Governor Larry Rodin being reelected with 64% of the vote. Senator Rounds trouncing an independent. Republicans have won 59 straight statewide elections dating back to 2008. So congratulations, South Dakota. I told you. There is some good news out there. Did I the Hegseth thing too, right?
I got that. Okay, good. I want to show you some more good news. We still have the executive branch of government, folks. All is not lost. The ship, yes, has taken on a lot of water. No doubt. No pig lipstick on the show. No glossing over the electoral ass-kicking last week. None. However, all is not lost. All is not even close to lost. We have President Trump for two more years, and we also have cabinet members who know what they're doing. Got a clip of Scott Bessent coming up, but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has done an amazing job over there.
I work with him. His efforts to clean up procurement, his efforts on the Golden Dome, his efforts on military recruitment. Ladies and gentlemen, divorce yourself from Pete's personality. I love Pete, and he's a good friend. But even if you don't like him and you don't like his—but you think he's too brash or whatever, I don't. I like Pete a lot. Like, a lot, a lot. He's a really good man. However, do results matter or not? Recruitment's up. We're building out the Golden Dome. His deputy, Feinberg and him, are cleaning up the entire process.
He's got a bunch of military leaders who just were not with the program, with this DEI, who are out. He's cleaned up a lot of what's happened in the Pentagon and the bureaucracy. He's done an amazing job. However, sometimes things happen. The reason I want to show you this story too and give you a little bit of optimism, it's not because it's a great story. You know the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier guarded 24/7 by heroic patriots. They're just an amazing cadre of people. So a member was not Pete. I want to be clear. The Secretary of War was a member of this party that was at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier had left.
You can see what happened or was a little loud. Watch what happened.
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Amen, brother. Good for you. Now, you may have seen this story, but I want to hit a different angle on this story because I saw it again on X, the social media platforms, TikTok, and elsewhere that your kids will be indoctrinated with. That is the Secretary of War, the senior official for the United States military underneath the Commander in Chief. That's it. This soldier bravely did his job. It was not the Secretary.
It was some other person. And it was not a great story. Now, someone wrote on X, and forgive me, I would put it up, but I don't remember. It was some liberal nutbag, so it doesn't even matter, but said, "Oh my gosh, if this happened under the Obama administration, it would be a national scandal." Well, there's a reason. I don't believe the Obama administration officials had nearly the respect for our military that this Secretary does. So this Secretary, the reason it wasn't even a national scandal, but reflects in the end, in the end, positively on our Secretary, is the Secretary of Work.
It has said, "Hey, I want that guy removed. I can't believe that." That happened on camera. That's not what he did at all. From X, here's the Secretary of War. We love our soldiers. We love standards. Well-done specialist. Carry on patriots. Here he is awarding a medal or citation to that exact same look at this. Folks, it's a different group of people in charge. The boats taken on water. Tuesday was a massive torpedo attack.
However, we have brave people patching up that hole and getting ready right now to get that thing seaworthy again. The Obama administration probably would have fired the guy or something. Here he is acknowledging the work of these amazing patriots. Folks, it's a different group of people in charge. We still have a foothold in two-thirds of government. The executive branch, the courts, there's trouble there, no doubt.
But imagine how much worse it would be if the Democrats were in charge of the Supreme Court right now, Democrat appointees. And we've got some problems in the House and Senate. It is not all lost, but I am concerned. I got two points of view on this. First, I'm concerned because the Democrat Party you have now is not the era of big government is over. As I said before, it is the party of hatred, envy, and resentment. And they're coming for you next. You better rip that stupid coexist bumper sticker off your car because if you're a boomer, they don't want you to exist.
If you're wealthy, they don't want you to exist. If you're successful, they don't want you to exist either. You pooled your money and saved your money and bought assets, a couple gold coins and IRA. You have whatever, baseball card collection, comic book collection. They want all that too. They hate you. And something they said they weren't going to do, they changed their mind. Put up Politico Playbook. This is the left-wing Bible email list comes out every single morning. Folks, they all swore, "Oh my gosh, Chuck Schumer, the current minority leader, soon-to-be majority leader of the Senate Democrats."
Schumer's party just won 56 Senate seats. Folks, it was a bad night for Republicans, but it was an amazing night for Democrats. You would think if you weren't crazy that for as nuts as Chuck Schumer is, and he's nuts, that one, he's really liberal, that this guy would be crowned. This guy they'd have pomphrons, like waving them into the kingdom. Oh, no, they already want him out because he's not crazy enough. And he's freaking crazy. Senator Chris Van Hallen, who had previously said that they weren't going to do this, is now officially challenging Schumer for the Senate majority leader spot in a new Congress.
He announced on MSNOW last night. In other words, you think the Democrat Party is crazy? Folks, apparently, they were not crazy enough. Listen, you are going to see Ben Shapiro said it on my show earlier in the week where he was a guest. You are going to see them step on rakes, the Democrats, left, right. Remember the old Tom and Jerry cartoons? If you haven't seen them and you're young, go check them out, whatever. Don't hate boomers.
Don't hate. Replicate. Replicate all the cool stuff we did, including Tom and Jerry cartoons. Tom and Jerry was awesome. Tom's always stepping on the rake. Every single time I was getting his ass kicked all the time. There's going to be rakes stepping everywhere with the Democrats because they think their mandate is hatred, wiping out successful people, and telling grandkids to ask their grandparents to die. That's not what you voted on. One of the things that does concern me, however, is they are going to push for a national wealth tax.
This is a little bit of a complicated topic, so I'm not going to hit every economic angle of it, but there's a piece at the Wall Street Journal I need you to pay attention to as to why they need a wealth tax. It's a really good piece. Put up the piece and then I'll get to it. I got a couple of screenshots from it. Here. The Democrats need to get at your assets. Keep this up if you wouldn't mind. Your assets, real assets. And I'm not just talking about financial assets. Matter of fact, divorce those. In other words, money in the bank and assets.
I'm talking about real assets. Baseball card collections, art collections, gold coins, your real estate, your corporate real estate holdings. They have to get at this stuff somehow because there's a pool of wealth there that you saved up your life to buy. Think about your house, right? The problem the Democrats have is they don't have enough money to tax the rich. So they want a value-added tax, and they would like to dump indexing on income tax brackets, but we don't have that in the United States yet.
They're going to push for it, but it would be a massive gusher of tax money stolen from the middle class because everything you buy would have a value-added tax at every level of production. It would be like a massive national sales tax. The indexing on income brackets, they want to get rid of that so that as inflation goes up and your wages go up with inflation, you're paying a higher tax rate even though you can't buy anything else because you can't keep up with inflation. So here, the journal notes, this is why the Democrats want a wealth tax. They want to tax your house, but I haven't sold my house.
It doesn't matter. It's wealth, not income. They note these two tools, income tax bracket creep and consumption tax revenue, aren't available to American politicians. They were rejected in the '80s, okay? So the Europeans have this stuff, and we don't have a national consumption tax. We may eventually adopt one, but that's a political process of years, and the fiscal crunch to steal more of your tax money is now. They go on. This is why they love a wealth tax. That leaves a wealth tax, which should be understood as political shorthand for a manifestation of asset price inflation.
Here, a central consideration is that the value of US household assets has risen to 921% of personal income. The ratio has been on a consistent, steady upward trajectory from around 550% at the start of the '80s. What is this saying? Let me translate for you very simply. If you are one of these evil boomers, they want your grandkids and kids to hate you. Obviously, I'm being tragically sarcastic. The reason household assets have risen as a percentage of your personal income is because of massive Democrat, liberal, and weak Republican government spending for decades that have put pressure on the dollar, caused massive inflation with all these porculus stimulus bills and all this other stuff.
And when inflation goes up, so do the value of assets denominated in that currency. In other words, if the dollar loses value and you have a home priced in dollars, that means your house is worth more because the dollar lost value, so it takes more dollars to buy the same freaking house. The Democrats want to punish you for that, although you did nothing wrong. It's the same house you bought in the '50s. Well, you did some upgrades, maybe fixed the kitchen or the bathroom.
It doesn't matter. They want to wipe you out. I thought I voted on affordability. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you got hostile. The era of big government is over. Good luck, Bill. Try running on that again. Folks, expect them to make another big push at a national wealth tax, which will destroy you. The economy will be finished. Expect them to take a run at a value-added tax, and expect them to try to wipe out indexing the brackets too so you get hit by all three at one time.
But I thought I was voting on affordability. Good luck with that. All right. I want to get to this segment too. You know what? Let me take a quick break here. The last break because I want to get to this, and this is really important. I want to be careful. The show gets clipped a lot, which is okay. I don't mind. Clipped means they take short clips of the show, but they always leave out the setup, and it becomes some apocalyptic, right, Daily Mail story where it's like, "Former FBI Deputy Director said the world's going to end tomorrow. Kang the Conqueror." Some of you will get that.
I'm not saying that. I'm just telling you in this next segment, I'm concerned. I'm concerned, and I think you should get prepared. I'm not panicking. Please don't panic. I'm not suggesting Thanos has got the Infinity Stones. I'm just telling you what I've always told you. I'm concerned, and I'll show you what I mean in a second.
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Hold. Everybody hold. We don't know what happened with Microsoft. They're saying it was like some patch, or I don't know when the hot wash comes out in the end, what this is actually going to be. They're saying to be clear, to be clear, to be clear. Microsoft is saying it is not a cyber AI SI-assisted attack. So I'm going to do the bongino rule.
However, this is a clip from Fox. I'm not as much concerned right now about the reason it happened. I am, but I'm concerned more about it happened. And I'm going to tell you something I haven't said yet, but I've been slowly implementing in my life that I think will help when the inevitable cyber attack does happen. And again, I'm not suggesting this was one. Microsoft is saying it was not.
The result, it's still a catastrophe. Here's a Fox report on what happened. Check this out.
18 hours later, it seems like Microsoft Office is starting to come back online after millions across the world lost access.
Todd Piro joins us now with the latest.
Tech giant has been working to fix the issue that has disrupted businesses, schools, and governments in at least 74 countries, of course, including ours. The services impacted include email, Teams, and Copilot. Company says the outage was not caused by a cybersecurity breach, but rather that the Microsoft servers responsible for establishing secure connections became overwhelmed, causing them to stop processing requests.
Okay. Again, we will apply the bongino rule where we wait 24 to 72 hours. Frankly, however long it takes to get all the facts and data and input to form a responsible output, I don't ever want to be first on a story. I want to be right on a story. If you can be first and right, great, but I'd rather be right than first. However, everywhere I go now, I'm not kidding like that. I've had a lot of viral clips in my life, some good, some bad. A lot of those hits with Haraldo.
We used to have FICE people I'd see, "Oh my gosh, that thing with Haraldo." I have never, in public, been asked more questions. Friends, families, neighbors, friends of neighbors, friends of friends, family members of friends and neighbors, neighbors' dogs, neighbors' dogs, cats, cats, dogs, and hamsters. They're all like asking me, "Hey, Dan, what the hell, man? You got me scared with this." Be prepared, and you don't have to be scared. That's the point. I've been saying this forever. Now, as it relates to Microsoft, folks, do you know what the Internet of Things is?
Look it up, IoT. The Internet of Things is this ecosystem of items out there. You may not realize are connected to the Internet, but they are. Some of them are obvious, your smart TV, but some of them aren't. There's a horrendous story about an aquarium in a hotel. It was connected to the Internet. I guess the hotel didn't realize the extent of the connection. Patches weren't there. Hackers snuck into the freaking aquarium, wound up stealing a bunch of data from the hotel.
The IoT, I encourage you to look it up, Internet of Things, is affecting just about every new appliance you have in your house. I'm asking you to be prepared. I already talked about the obvious. Have 30 days of food. Get yourself some canned foods. Get yourself some good old-fashioned spam. Get yourself some rice. Get some water. There's no need to not have it. You don't like it? Get some canned tuna. Just eat it in six months and replenish it again.
Yeah, it's going to cost a little extra money, but it's worth reducing the anxiety. But if you have appliances that are a little older but still work and are not connected to the IoT, Internet of Things, I would not throw them out. Folks, if you've ever been to my house, very few have, some who are friends of mine, I noticed my brother-in-law watches the show every day. He was one of the guys who texted me about Led Zeppelin. He's been at my house.
You know I have a 1990s refrigerator in my garage. Not an accident. Things break, I get it repaired. I'm not telling you to have a backup of every single thing. I'm just telling you. A couple Faraday bags to protect against EMP stuff, a couple of older appliances, a freezer or refrigerator, some backup power generation if you can, maybe some solar panels on your house, batteries. These are just common sense things to have.
Here's a couple other things. And again, this is not the panic segment. You don't have to go out and get all this tomorrow. I'm not suggesting, again, Thanos and the Infinity Stones are going to snap tomorrow and half of us are going to be dead. Is it 6:16? Jim says it's 12:18. I don't know. We need to check. Google says, "Oh, Jim, you may be wrong for the first time ever." You know what a POTS system is? This is where I need you all in the chat. POTS stands for Plain Old Telephone System.
I haven't had that in years. Well, if you have access to one, you may want to keep it. They're hard. Even a lot of the ones you think are POTS systems are just VoIP or elsewhere. You can keep a POTS in your business, a plain old telephone line. If it's available, not even available in a lot of places anymore, I would keep it. A fax machine. Well, a fax machine. Folks, some of these businesses hit. Don't laugh. Some of these businesses who got smoked in this Microsoft outage are currently doing business right now by fax.
You got an older one sitting around? I wouldn't throw it out. I also want to bring up this relationship with the NVIDIA story too. NVIDIA is a different story. Jensen Huang left, the CEO. You know there's the key man contract out there. A lot of people, a lot of companies are invested in a key man. Think Jobs, Musk, companies that are almost not eponymous with anybody, eponymous in mission. What's Tesla and SpaceX without Elon Musk? The answer is no one's going to know until there's no more Elon Musk.
Hopefully, no time soon. Well, we're testing that with Jensen Huang now. So not only should you not throw out some older appliances, if you have them, I'm not suggesting you scour the earth for an old blender, but you should also probably have a redundant email system. That's going to cost money. I know. I get it. I don't love a lot of these liberal companies, but if you're exclusive, I saw even my friend, a great one, Marco Vincent. He was making a joke about my AOL emails, the worst.
Hey, I wouldn't get rid of it. They're far more likely to attack Microsoft and Gmail than they probably are AOL or Yahoo because not that many people use them anymore. I wouldn't get rid of it. Redundancy. Look at this. Thank you, guys. This is not even in the show. Well, it is now. Japanese workers returned to fax machines during an ongoing outage. See, I'm not making this up. We're going full analog, said workers forced to ditch PDFs.
If you can get paper copies of your financial statements, print them out. Well, you could forge them. It's better than nothing. What happens if a cyber attack happens to your bank and it's three, four months before they know where your assets are? I'd like to know what I have and what I don't. Folks, there's nothing more anxiety-producing than worrying about not being prepared. When people ask me in the street, "Did you mean what you said?" Yes, I did. Why aren't you more worried?
Because I'm prepared. That's why. I don't have every single contingency because you don't know what's going to happen in an emergency, but I have food, water, power, power generation. I bring this up because, folks, listen, we're in a fight with the CCP on AI. And if we don't stay at least a few months ahead of them, a few months is a long time in the AI space. It's an enormous amount of time. When you're talking about developing SI, superintelligence, three months is an eternity.
If we can maintain that couple-month, three-month to six-month lead on China, Russia, and our adversaries, we're going to be in pretty good shape because anything they can do, we can do quicker. Here's Scott Bessent yesterday about how this entire NVIDIA scandal has people in the administration asking a bunch of questions about why their orders weren't followed through to stop advanced chips from going overseas to suspect companies. It's an important clip. Check this out.
Have you been frustrated, Secretary Bessent, by potential delays with this?
Well, Becky, I am frustrated when President Trump made it very clear that China should not receive any NVIDIA chips above H100s. And so any leakage is very frustrating because it hurts our great companies and the AI race gives the Chinese an advantage.
All we need is a few months, folks. And candidly, that's probably all we're going to get, given the frontier models versus the open models, open weight models. Open weight models, anybody can manipulate. They can pull the guardrails down. The frontier models, what you know as like ChatGPT, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude Fable, all of these, there are more guardrails built in. We have got to keep the lead. Even if it goes down to a month, a month is a long time.
We cannot give our best assets and high-powered chips to countries that would kill us in a minute if they could. We cannot do that. It's Friday, so I've got some more good news for you. We have not updated in a long time the nothing is happening file. We've really got to build out that bookcase, man. That bookcase is stacking up quick. I know the doomers who are celebrating that the communists are taking over. I told you, there's a difference between critical analysis of why we lost, which is not only necessary but welcome, versus people who are celebrating who hated you the entire time.
I tried to tell you. I tried to tell you they hate your guts. The nothing is happening file continues to grow. This happened yesterday, a huge hit. This is my successor to the Deputy Director spot, Chris Rea. He was up there with Attorney General Todd Blanche yesterday. Folks, this is not a small thing. Fentanyl is killing your kids, killing a lot of your kids, not just a few of them. There is a war going on in the administration against FTO drug traffickers, killing your kids.
I'm just going to tell you that everyone in the FBI has to work everything. National Security Branch, Crime Cyber, everybody has to be familiar with everything. But everyone in leadership in the FBI under President Trump had their own special interest item. For me, it was drones. I was obsessed with drones. I had a meeting probably two, three times a week on drones alone. Anyone who worked there can tell you that. Cash's thing is fentanyl. Director Kash Patel is obsessed with cleaning up this fentanyl plague in the United States.
I've never seen a guy do more meetings on fentanyl. Yesterday, there was Operation Tornado, 350 arrests in 14 different countries on this fentanyl trade. That's why overdoses are at an all-time low on fentanyl. This is real stuff, really happening. Let's keep the momentum going through the lame duck and through the next two years. Check this out.
Today, we're proving once again that the dark web is not beyond the reach of law enforcement and that there is no safe haven for criminals who traffic this poison. The FBI is honored to join our law enforcement and prosecutorial partners today as we announce the results of Operation Tornado, the most expansive coordinated enforcement action ever conducted under the Joint Criminal, Opioid, and Darknet Enforcement Initiative, also known as J-CODE.
Folks, and more things are going to continue to happen while the executive branch of government, i.e., the Trump administration, its Department of Justice, its FBI, its DEA, its US Marshals, its Pentagon, its United States military, more things are going to happen. I told you we have a generational opportunity to create a contrast over the next two years. While the Democrats go forward with an increasingly lunatic, radical message, "We want your grandparents dead. They're stealing your house from them.
We're going to steal their healthcare. We want a wealth tax. We want open borders. We're going to defund ICE. We're going to arrest ICE. We're going to ban ICE from county jobs." While they continue to do this, if we continue to plow forward and produce results, not talk, not cheap BS, but actual results, the American voter, folks, they're not stupid. They will figure it out. They will. We just have to produce results. The rebuilding of trust in the Republican Party has got to start one step at a time. You're not going to finish this race in a week.
But the lame duck would be an amazing opportunity because buyer's remorse is going to set in when the Democrats, and I promise you they will, massively overstep in Kansas, Texas. These are red areas. It is going to happen. Here is a successful red state governor, Sarah Sanders. You know her former press secretary, governor of Arkansas. Here is Sarah Sanders saying exactly that on Fox last night, that the buyer's remorse is going to kick in and kick in quick because the Democrats can't control themselves.
They're like kids. Check this out.
Explain Texas and Governor Abbott, who I think did a great job in the state.
Texas is, it is honestly heartbreaking to see. Governor Abbott has done a phenomenal job. He was one of the leaders in the country on helping secure the border, has done a great job over the last 12 years on delivering for the people of Texas. We've seen the entire dynamic of that state shift. And I think there's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse because people are going to see how much more difficult and how much harder life is under Democrat leadership.
If you don't believe me, just look at what's happened on the West Coast in places like California and Oregon and Washington, where they have broken economies and people are fleeing those states and moving to places like Arkansas and Texas. I think in January, you're going to have a lot of people who wish they had elected the freedom-loving, Christ-centered people that you had like Governor Abbott that were leading the state of Texas.
Couldn't agree more, folks. The buyer's remorse is going to be quick. It's going to be nasty, and it's going to be I mean, there are going to be furious voters out there. If you cross the aisle and you voted for Democrats thinking they were about reinforcing quality healthcare or education rates, you are about to get kicked in the nails like you've never seen. You better put a cup on, man. And it better be a good one. Folks, the opportunity to rebuild trust in the Republican Party starts now, not tomorrow.
It starts yesterday. There is no time for crying or whining. I am mildly optimistic, and I say mildly because a lot of United States senators that were not up for election in this cycle or survived on the Republican side, like Ashley Moody, I think very quickly got the message that, "Holy Moses, whatever we did or didn't do, it was bad." I say that because here's Senator Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania, who won in a what I would argue is a purple, if not blue state, Pennsylvania.
But Dave McCormick won his seat. This is a valuable seat we don't want to lose. McCormick gets it. He's like, "We have 60 days where we're still in charge of the United States Senate. Are we going to do it? Are we going to get stuff done in these 60 days? Or are we going to cry and pack our wounds with gauze and go away and take our toys from the sandbox?" We're not. There are three things I want you to listen for here. If they can do these three things, if they can do these three things, it'll be a small, but not insignificant step towards rebuilding some trust with Republican voters who either didn't show up or, God forbid, crossed the aisle.
He talks about getting judges confirmed, permitting reform, which I told you is a huge deal. You can't build anything in the United States because the left sues over everything. And third, a reconciliation government spending bill where at least we can get our military funded so we don't all get killed. Do these three things, and it'll be a small, but not insignificant step. Check this out.
The Republican majority in the Senate has the opportunity to confirm about 24 of President Trump's judicial nominees. Will that happen?
Yeah, we took a real thumping. We had a meeting on the midterm elections. We had a meeting Tuesday of the Senate conference, and we agreed we're going to work every day needed to try to get those priorities advanced. Top of the list is judges, very important. Second is permitting reform, a huge thing for our economic leadership, our energy security and national security. And the third thing is a reconciliation 3.0 package, which could do a number of things, but most important needs to fund defense and the resupply of many of the critical capabilities we need.
It's a dangerous world, and we can't defund defense at this critical time in our national security.
I can't, and I will not overstate this at all, like this is going to save the Republican, but it is not. There is going to have to be a massive rebuilding. The House was destroyed last Tuesday. We're up to like brick two out of 20,000 bricks we need to start building back. But I'm not giving up anything, and neither are you. We've been here before. We lost to Obama twice. Then we kicked his ass in the midterms. We've been here before. We've got a country to save.
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