Transcript of The Bongino Brief - Doge's Next Target Has Been Identified!!!

Have you seen the news from some economists forecasting a depression by the year 2030? Some are even forecasting that Social Security and Medicare are headed to hit a breaking point. Our national debt and cost of living continue to rise. We could have a big problem. Help protect your family's future with gold from Birch Gold, held in a tax-deferred IRA. Text Dan to 98998. Get your free copy of the ultimate guide for Gold in the Trump era with a forward by Donald Trump Jr. Text Dan to 98998. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. You ever wonder this? This is the easiest poll ever. I tell Bongino, but I don't even want to waste your time on this one. You ever wonder how these freaking politicians get so rich? They have no life skills. They're only life skills while they have connections to other politicians or their daddy or mommy was a politician. They don't really know anything. They add no value. They didn't invent some big smart, super ridiculous AI tech company or send a rocket into space, and yet they're really rich. There's How many of you have this Doja account that put this out.

Nancy Pelosi, annual salary, $223,000. Networth, $202 million. I'm always a little skeptical of these networth figures because the ones about mine online are really off, and it's so easy to figure out if you just go to the publicly traded companies. However, I think we could both agree it's worth a lot of money. Mitch McDonald says his annual salary, $200, networth, $95 million. Chuck Schumer, 75 million. Elizabeth Warren, 67 million. Folks, divide these numbers by 10. Just pretend for a second, they're not even accurate. Say, Pelosi's worth 20 million, and McDonald's worth 9. 5, and Elizabeth Warren, 6. 7. Where the hell did they get this money, folks? That's actually not a bad point. I just watched Nosferatu. That's Should I? He's like, We may have to... Michael says, If you do the math, he's a math major. Maybe she worked a thousand years. Maybe? I don't know. The United States isn't that old, but whatevs. Who knows? He reminds me of an interview with a vampire. Let's down, I want some more. Remember that? Who knows what she was up to. But I'm going to tell you how this works. You ready? Some of you may have heard this segment before in a prior podcast, but if you haven't, you're making a big mistake if you don't listen again, because I want you to tattoo this on your brain, okay?

I was running for office a while ago. This guy Chuck Ecker, was the Howard County executive on a run in Maryland. We got in this conversation about how people in government get rich and why government just continues to grow despite the fact that everybody, sane person, hates big government. He said, Dan, you got to understand, buddy, there is no power in yes. There is only power in government bureaucrats telling people no. I got what he was saying, but I said, explain. I said, I want you to think about You're whatever. Say, there's something simple. You're a building inspector in a place. My dad was once. I'm not knocking him. If you have a tendency to corruption, there's no power in you approving everybody's building permits. If you're corrupt, you want to They know a lot so that people have to slip you some money under the table to figure it out, right? There is no power in yes, ladies and gentlemen. There's only power in no. That's why government likes to expand regulations and rules because it's more rules you have to obey that when you go to them, you're going to have to ask them, Am I following the rules by building this building?

You get the point? There is no power in yes. There's only power in no. That's This is how these people get rich. They lobby you to yes. Remember that line? There is a lot of money in lobbying you to yes. That's why dumb people get really rich. More in a minute, but first. Hey, one of my favorite traditions is choosing New Year's resolutions. We all get the opportunity to start the year fresh, set goals, tackle new challenges. This new year, I encourage you to learn something new. With Hillsdale College, they have more than 40 free online courses. More than 40 free online courses. Learned about the works of C. S. Lewis, Stories in Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, or the history of the Ancient Christian Church. With Hillsdale College's free online courses, they're It's really incredible. I've been enjoying lately American Heritage. It examines the history of America from the colonial era to the present, including the major challenges to the founder's principles and great controversies in America's history, including the current crisis of progressivism. They have centered around the meaning of those basic foundational principles.

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By forcing the CFPB not to do its job, President Trump, Elon Musk, and the author of Project 2025, Russ Vot, are giving Wall Street banks an unlimited get-out-of-jail free card so they can cheat working families, even while community banks continue to play by the rules. For any Americans who have money deposited at J. P. Morgan or Wells Fargo or any other of the giant banks, they should now know that there is no one on the job to make sure that those banks are not scamming you.

Here's the response from Senator Mike Rounds, where he asked a really simple question of Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell is running our Fed. I don't think he's doing a particularly good job, but they, of course, oversee the banking system in some respect. He's like, So this senator who's living in a Most truth, liberal Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell-type world, is suggesting that banks are now free to scam people. That's a serious charge. I mean, she is a US Senator, correct? Is there any actual evidence to back that up? And by the way, Powell is not even a Trump guy. I want you to listen to the answer because she just made it up, dude. Everything else, the Liberals do. Check this out. The suggestion that the ranking member has made here is that the big banks can now scam individuals right now. Any change in the laws regarding how they're supposed to be Are there any changes, the individual consumers out there or anything along that line? Law changes, no. I'm not aware of any changes. Any changes? Any rules that they would have to follow? Not that I'm aware of. Are they still audited and do they still have the regulators in watching all of their businesses just as they did before?

Well, they'd have all the regulators except for the CFPB. Very good. If, in fact, in the hypothetical, the CFPB weren't carrying that out. All right. I want you to digest what I told you yesterday in the podcast and the radio show. You are qualitatively better than them. The quality of your material on social media and elsewhere, this vast MAGA army, Bongino army, the conservative crew, the Tea Party, you're better than them. They lie about everything all the time because that's all they have. Then when they don't lie, what they do is they engage in emotional meltdowns by the idiocracy. Listen, we have dumbasses on our side, too. Okay, I get it. Get it, got it, good. We do. We have some people in the Republican Party who screw up all the time. I can mention names, but I prefer not to engage in Republican on Republican political violence right now because there's so much stupidity on the Democrat side. Here's what I'm talking about. Here's Jasmine Crockett, who is in Jim's dumbest member of Congress, a March Sadness thing. It's coming out soon. Jasmine Crockett is probably going to get a number one seat. She has rapidly moved up the ranks.

I want you to listen to what she says. Put aside, I know you're going to laugh in advance, but pretend this is a serious person for a second. She's making the case here or attempting to that we should not have people with a tech background go in and analyze the government's technology because why? The government that's probably using smartware from 1980 is better at tech stuff than the actual tech companies? This is the hill you want to die on. The answer is yes. Here, check this out.

If you are trying to conduct audits and figure out where the waste, fraud, and abuse is, I don't know why you would go to some tech guy. In fact, it was only techies that were sitting there at inauguration. We didn't have auditors. I would welcome auditors to to come in and do forensic audits. In fact, he sat there in the oval office yesterday, and he admitted that he was lying, and he was using his propaganda machine to do it when he said that we sent millions of dollars to Gaza for condoms. That was a lie. So let me tell you something. The gentlelady's time has expired. It's time for us to do our job and rein in this rogue actor known as refinement. The gentlelady's time has expired. The gentlelady's time has expired. The gentlelady's time has expired. The gentlelady's time has expired.

So you don't want technology people to come in and actually observe the technology used to pay out $7 trillion of government spending. You guys work here, right? When we brought... We brought Jasmine, not Jasmine Crockett. We have a Jasmine. She's actually smart. One of the first things I asked her What did you do? You guys remember the inventory thing? Folks, we have, seriously, four or five people that work here. That's it. We're not spending $7 trillion. But on Gino Inc, we said, Hey, we have a lot of equipment for road shows, and some of the stuff was missing. Can we get an inventory system? And you know what we did? We're going to use technology. This is a $7 trillion government. And this DIPWAD wants to make the case that we can't have tech people analyze the tech. I will never forget. My first few days being an agent. I had left the NYPD, which had its own technology problem, of course, government. We had these things called TNAs, time in attendance records. Tna can mean a lot of things. This is not an Eric Swalwell segment. It was time in attendance. We had these TNA things.

You'd fill them out, and we would punch them in this computer on this program called Smartware or something. I went home to Paula, who was my girlfriend at the time, and she was a database developer. I said, Do you know what Smartware is? She's like, Isn't that from the '70s or something? I go, Yeah, we use it in a secret service. She laughed. She couldn't believe it. She was like, Why? I'm like, Because it's the government. That's why. But Jasmine Crockett does not want actual tech people going in there. Why? Why? Put up that thing again about the networth. Because folks, there are a lot of really stupid people getting really rich off government payouts, the gravy train, the influence operation. The reason they don't want you picking up the rock and saying, Hey, man, let me look under this and see what's living under there, is because they know when you see that the government bookkeeper is corrupted and stealing money, that you're never going to trust the bookkeeper again. Listen, I got to make this point again today because it's really important. I've been getting a lot of questions on Rumble and Facebook and Twitter and elsewhere.

A lot of people have been asking me this. The essence of the question is this. Dan, if you follow the money and a lot of these politicians are getting really rich off government, shady, fraudulent, maybe criminal payouts, then I don't understand why they wouldn't actually like the Doge, because the Doge would clean up fraud, and it would be eventually, when they get back in power, more money for them, right? If you're a criminal and you have a mob bosses fight all the time, it's not that they're objecting to mob behavior. They're the mob, too. It's like, they don't want the mob taking their money. Fair question, correct? Why would government people getting rich off government not want at least some fraud being detected so that it's more money for them? The reason is what I just told I'll tell you. Once people see, possibly for the first time, with this dynamic duo, like the Wild Samoans from the old WWF of Trump and Elon, how bad the government has been spending your money What do you think is going to happen with Social Security recipients who are told in 10 years, Hey, we can't afford to pay you your full payout anymore.

You get it now? You see what's going on? You got people on Social Security their entire life who busted their ass. Listen, folks, the program was designed poorly. Put that aside a second. The program was designed poorly, but you got people who busted their ass their entire lives. You got a guy who worked in a coal mine for 30 years, probably got a black lung. He finally retires. Maybe he enjoys five years of retirement, maybe he sees it goes on a vacation once I'll tell you something. He was a crazy person. I busted his ass. He paid into this crap-broken system forever. And all the money's gone? They're going broke in 10 years. Don't take it for me. Read the Social Security Actuary's own report. You see why they're so afraid now of turning the rock over? There will be a freaking revolt in this country of seniors and Medicare recipients when they find out of dollars over decades were wasted on fraud, scumbag schemes, mob tactics, and all this other crap. So they'd rather just make the whole thing go away. Don't ever forget, folks, It's the same... Sorry, I know I got a lot to get to, but I love this government stuff, like cracking the whole government code for you.

There's a reason the adage in DC, a program for the poor is a pro-poor program, is real, too. Why Why do people who are really rich, why do they need social security? I'm talking about really rich folks. I'm not talking about people who even make a millionaire. I'm talking about people who make 10 millionaires. You ever wonder that? You don't need it. You leave that as a tip in a restaurant. Why do even liberals... Think about this. I'm going to give you a second. Some of you in the chat may have heard this before. You may know this. Why do liberals themselves even fight for the fact that rich people should get Social Security? The reason is a program for the poor is a poor program. Why? Because they know rich people... You ever hear this, Michael? They know rich people have a lot of influence in Congress, and they know that they will fight to keep the program alive as long as they get to dip into the pot, too. They don't give a shit if the program goes bankrupt. All they care about is that they control the money. That was a clip from the Dan Bongino show.

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