Transcript of Trump Is “Flooding The Zone” (Ep. 2373)

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. It's not often I open up this show with a huge, enormous congratulations because you're like, whatever, get to the program, bro. We don't have time for your stuff. But I think this is important. Folks, someone very special to me works here. You know her well, the great Evita Duff Duffy. Just an unbelievably talented young woman who we brought on. She is on early edition with Evita on the Bongino Report channel. Many of you watch it. In case you missed the huge news yesterday, Yesterday, Avida's father, who is a Patriot and a real American... I mean, I want to talk about a pro-American MAGA guy. Former congressman, Sean Duffy, her dad, was yesterday selected to be the next Department of Transportation Secretary in President Trump's cabinet. You can see that right there. Pleased to announce former congressman, Sean Duffy. I got to say to the whole Duffy family, Rachel, who you all know from Fox & Friends, who is a Patriot in her own right, Avita and her dad. We got Michael here. Michael, of course, is married to Avita.

I said, How does it feel to have your father-in-law in the cabinet? I said, Have you ever been in a White House? He's like, No, never. I said, Well, get ready. You're going to go now. So big round of applause, clapping emojis in the God bless you all. And I do mean God bless you. May God and Jesus Christ give you the discernment to move forward. Everybody say a prayer for Sean. He's going to be responsible for the ports, the airports, the roads, the highways, and he is a great man. So I wanted to start the show today with a congratulations, folks. I got a big show. Unfortunately, after this little short break here, I have a little bit of bad news about international, not about me, but something really escalatory happened yesterday. Today that could end up really bad. Then we got the rest of a big show. I told you they were doing a flood the zone strategy. Hey, Beam Cyber Sales here. Bungino listeners, enjoy up to 50% off at shopbeam. Com/bungino. Use code Bungino. Don't miss Beam's biggest sale of the year. I told you they were going to flood the zone.

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Here's Putin himself. You're going to see the translator talking about this. Now, a lot of people out there saying, Oh, he's bluffing. Is that really a chance we want to take? There's no question the man has nuclear weapons and could potentially use them. Watch this. In the updated version of the document, aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the support of a nuclear state, is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on Russia. Russia will also consider the possibility of using nuclear weapons when receiving reliable information about a massive launch of means of aerospace attack and their crossing of our state border. This includes strategic and tactical aircraft, as well as cruise missiles and drones. That's what he's talking about, the missile attacks. Now, again, there's a lot of people out there, Well, what are we going to do? Not do anything because Putin said so? I'm not saying not do that. I'm saying I think the better tactical strategy was a strategy to wear the Russians out, like I. E. Afghanistan, when they had to leave there in humiliating fashion rather than rapidly escalating, risking another rapid escalation by a nuclear-powered enemy.

They have nukes, man. It's not going away. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's real. We can't just cavalierly treat this like it's just some throwaway decision, like we're tossing a penny in a fountain at Disney and making a wish. I'm just telling you to keep your eye on this. Michael just said it. It's clear Joe Biden does not have his cognitive faculties. Who is running this White House? And are these guys risking a potential escalation? I hate the World War III analogies, but something serious, like Putin launching a tactical battlefield nuke just because they're headed out to door to leave Donald Trump with a shit sandwich? Don't dismiss the possibility. Keep your eye on that story. I will, I promise you. This is a major, major, major thing. So you are always, folks, always on the Dan Bungino Show. Jim, producer Jim, Unflag it, please. I told you the flag it strategy that what Donald Trump was doing with his nominees, Gates, Hegset, Tulsi, Bobby Kennedy, and others, is he was putting forth folks who are going to be change agents, but we're going to cause controversy amongst the troublemakers on the left. I don't care if they're pissed off.

And I said he was doing it in the somewhat I went to... Folks, please, we've got a thousand of these, so we appreciate it, but please don't send any more Rock 'Em because really, I don't want you wasting your money. So here's the Rock 'Em. I just wanted you to know I beat Gee yesterday in Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em, Robot. So we gave him a little left here. So I told I told you it was the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot strategy. I actually like this game. Oh, that's the hand. I kicked his ass yesterday. Gee tried to mess with me with Rock 'Em Sock 'Em. So we are trading. Are you trading? Were you trading? I found a couple. There's five outside of the studio. I appreciate it, but we got it. We do. I need Gee trading like running up the steps in the art museum. I told you it was the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot strategy. That Trump strategy, which I is pretty brilliant, is to flood the zone, keep punching Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot style, and basically overwhelm the system so they can't focus on one particular nominee. Guys, listen, self-praise stinks.

Who gives a shit about patting yourself on the back, Look at me. It was obvious to anyone paying attention. The disconnect, I think, is why he did it. I think we were one of the few shows to mention. They learned from what happened to Mike Flynn in 2016. They let the media focus on one guy. Now they're like, Boom, hit him with everyone. So of course, as I said, you were a couple of weeks ahead of it. New York Times, of all people, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann Confirming what I told you. They say, Gates may not be confirmed, Trump admits, but he's pushing him and others anyway. Why is he doing that? Well, they note, Mr. Trump has repeatedly swamped the system with provocations. That Banon memorably stated that their strategy for dealing with the news media was to flood the zone. Yes, I see red flags in the chat. We told you that's what they were doing. Just listen to us, and you're two weeks ahead of the cycle. Here it goes on. The flood the zone, rock 'Em, Sock 'Em, Robox, Keep Punching strategy has ensured... Look, look, look. That little focus stays on any single scandal.

Sidekick. Karate Man strikes again because karate man hurt on the inside. I told you, karate man style. Read it right there. The strategy has ensured little focus stays on any single scandal. Did your boy explain it to you? This guy. What did I tell you? The news programs are only an hour long. They cannot dedicate an hour to one person Wilson, if they're worried about Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi, Pete, Hagset, and Gates. They know the caravan moves quickly to the next and the next, creating an overall blurring and flattening effect. Trump has survived them all. Including felony convictions and being held liable for sexual viol, the scams. I told you. I want you to witness this perfect. This is perfect, too. Here's a clip from 61 Minutes, formerly known. Folks, why is it now renamed 61 Minutes? Because they added a minute for Kamala. So it was 60. They destroyed their brand. It's like the Redskins becoming the guardians. It's now 61 Minutes. Listen to this segment in the beginning of 61 Minutes, where they don't even know how to handle it. They're like, they bounce from Rubio to Pete to Gates, and notice how they can't spend any time on any one of them?

Your boy Danny Potts I told you, listen, and you'll be weeks ahead of these idiots in the media. Watch 61 Minutes. Check this out. The colonies are Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Pete Hegset, to lead the 3 million people of the Department of Defense. He's a combat veteran, most recently a morning show host on Fox News with no government experience. Former congressman Matt Gates for attorney general in charge of law enforcement. Gates has been investigated by Republicans for alleged drug use and sex with a minor, Gates denies those allegations. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. She sought a pardon for Edward Snowden, who leaked US secrets and now lives in Russia. And Robert Kennedy Jr. For Secretary of Health and Human Services, a skeptic of vaccinations. It's up to the new Republican majority in the Senate to decide whether these committees are equipped to represent the American- Did you see it? Did you see it? You see how they can't focus on any one thing? Michael just said it right. Michael's like, 61 minutes should have just said, Listen, all these pics suck. We don't like them. They don't know what to do.

They're like, Get this guy. I love the line, too, about Pete Hegset. They said, Pete Hegset has no government experience. Yeah, outside of working for our military and in combat and getting two broad stars. You're 100% correct, Scott. No government experience at all. I don't believe these assholes. Pete Heggsett has no government experience. What was he working for? A GI Joe? Who'd you think he was working for in the military? That's the government, you dumb ass. Waiting for Leslie Stal to show up. Sir. Sir. No government experience, sir. Besides You're putting your ass on the line in combat. You're right, no government experience at all. That is exactly right. Guy just nailed it. If he was a bureaucrat in the Pentagon, they would say he's got government experience, but he's got no combat experience, so he's definitely not relevant for this position. You understand there is no way in these assholes, skewed bubble in view of the world, there is no way to position yourself. That's why You ignore them. You make fun of them. You laugh at them. You mock them. You destroy their credibility. Use Saul Alinsky's rules. Ridicule is the most powerful weapon because there's no effective comeback, and that's why we use it in this show, and we use it so surgically.

We're in charge now. Do you see that Pew research thing that came out yesterday? I should have put it in the show. We're in charge now. You know Pew, that polling company? Where do people get their news? Who were two of the most trusted sources of news? This guy and Ben Shapiro. We're in charge now, kids. How does that feel, Bongino Army? We're in charge. Not 61 minutes. This flood the zone, Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em. I just destroyed one of the robots. The poor guy just knocked them down. The Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em robots. Keep punching, man. And the strategy is working. Maybe we should have him fight like Stimpy. Stimpy, J. C. C. Adam with the rock 'Em, sock 'Em Sock 'Em Roll. Folks, it is working beautifully. Hat-tip newsbusters. Watch this epic minute and 10-second meltdown. They don't know what to do. The second they freak out over one person, they got to move on to the next one. And always gage the effectiveness of a political battlefield tactic by the response of your enemy. If they're freaking out, what does that mean, folks in the chat? You know, Karate Man is Karate Man.

That means you are doing the right thing and you should move forward and move forward fast. Check this out. Eight years ago, Donald Trump promised to deliver to his administration the best people. He delivered the worst people to ever work in a presidential administration, and now he is delivering even worse people. Matt Gates is literally the worst pick in the world for attorney general. People at the Justice Department who just use the word insane. Simply gobsmacking. I mean, how could he? This is a crazy pick. This is a dangerous pick. He will turn the Department of Justice into a petting zoo. We've seen people today, our fellow reporters, crying, hugging in the hallways. This appointment is really striking fear and trepidation in the hearts of the career civil servants over there. No one is endorsing this. Chelsea Gabbard, insofar as she is known at all, is known as a spreader of Syrian and Russian disinformation. Russian television, which is a propaganda machine, has joked that she's a Russian asset. I don't know that for a fact, but that is something they've talked about. They don't know. They've lost control. Most of you, I assume in the chat, right?

You're parents, you have kids. A lot of you do. Some may, some may not, but you've been a kid at some point, obviously, all of you. You know what it's like to deal with kids around that kindergarten age where they develop their first sense of autonomy? They know they're distinct from their parents. What do you mean? If you ever had a newborn, the newborn has no sense of self at all. All it knows is how to poop and how to... Mommy, it's time for food, so I cry. There's that moment, the kindergarten, where they really start to develop that sense of, I'm a separate, distinct person, and if I do this, I'll get what I want. And that's why they melt down because they haven't learned how to control their emotions. That's the media. It may seem like a really odd analogy, but I think you guys in the chat here, you know it's true. They're like a bunch of kindergarten aid children who have no emotional control at all. They can't say, Well, Congresswoman Gabbard is an experienced former presidential candidate with a serious political and military resume, and we may not agree with some of our foreign policy positions, but given that, she's serious person.

What do they got to do? A Tulsi Gabbard is a Putin asset as if they haven't tried the Putin asset tactic with who guys? Every single person they agree with ever. It's because they're children. They're little tiny five-year-olds and six-year-olds. They have no emotional control, bowel control. They wear diapers all day. And that's why we're here to decimate their credibility credibility. And that's why Pew Research has this guy and the Bongino army as the most trusted source in news, or one of them in America. We win, you assholes in the media lose every time. Why? Because we're two weeks ahead of the news cycle. Did we not tell you to flood the zone strategy? He says, My credibility will be ruined with Pew if I start publicly talking about my Star Wars takes. I disagree. I disagree. You're both wrong. My Star Wars takes a real, yours are fake. Real, real shit, he says. They are really... No, yours, you guys are. You're too biased. These guys are like fan boys. You can't have that. Here's our next mission, and we're going to get to this after the break. I need your help on this.

It may happen soon, so keep your eyes open. By the way, just breaking just a few minutes ago, Howard Lutnik, who is the CEO of Kanner Fitzgerald, a major investment house that, by the way, lost hundreds of people on 9/11. Howard's got an amazing story. He's just been selected as Commerce Secretary, so he is the nominee. Should get through confirmation, no problem. For disclosure, folks, Howard was a business partner in Rumbel. I owe you that. I like Howard as the pick. It's distinct from my professional relationship with him, but I've known Howard for a long time, and no one knows business as well as him. I think he'll be a relatively uncontroversial pick. I mean, a controversy is fabricated bullshit by the left. You get the point. But I need a favor on this. Folks, we need Cash Patel at FBI. As far as I'm concerned right now, he is the only guy who knows where the bodies are buried and can go in there and clean that mess up. We got to get cash through. I'm going to go into that next, and I'm going to show you why this guy gets it. Quick break.

We'll get back to that segment. Fbi reform is absolutely critical. We don't reform the FBI. All this other stuff is going to be meaningless because they're going to come after you next. Hey, for over 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider, standing behind their service and their values as a company. They're an example of putting the cause ahead of profits. It's why I'm proud to partner with them. Right now, you can get their Every Friday Matter special, but you can get it today. Patriot Mobile is giving away a brand new smartphone when you make the switch. Patriot Mobile offers exceptional nationwide coverage, giving you access to all three major networks without your dollars funding the left. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, your sporting company believes in free speech, religious freedom, the sanctity of life, the Second Amendment, and more. Their 100% US-based customer service team makes switching easy. Keep your number, and for a limited time, get a free smartphone. How do you do it? Go to patriotmobile. Com/dan or call 972 Patriot, and use promo code Friday. Again, that's a free smartphone. Offer is eligible only with the promo code Friday.

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I want you to see they're too focused on intelligence now and not on shoe leather old-school police work. Here's a video of Cash Patel. He's on a podcast. This is why we need this guy at FBI. He totally gets the problem while these other guys are just glossing over it. Check this out. The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big. And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I'd break that in and out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the Deep State. And I take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You're cops. Go be cops. Go chase down murderers and rapists and drug dealers and violent offenders. What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here? Looking for their next government promotion, looking for their next fancy government title. Who was that? Was that Anita who pinned in the chat, We want cash? Guys, ladies, I need you. I know cash well.

I promise you, it doesn't mean anything. What's my theory on appointees and politicians? I'm all about the spreadsheet. I like cash personally. I've had a few beers with cash. We'll hang out. No matter what happens, cash and I are going to be friends. I promise you on my word, that has nothing to do with what I'm telling you. This is strictly a spreadsheet thing. There is no one else out there available with the balls and the knowledge. Who had to be Sean Ryan show, by the way, another great podcast. That's where Cash was on there. Who said what he just said? The intel function has gotten out of control. They're not chasing bad guys anymore. They're chasing intel cases. And a lot of these intel cases are on political targets like Moms for Liberty and others, when they should be out there locking up bank robbers, freaking terrorists, people who cross state lines and kidnap people, people involved in massive bank frauds. How do they keep missing stuff? How do they keep missing these massive scams that a Bitcoin guy who screwed over a bunch of Bitcoin? How do they keep missing this? The answer is because they're focused on the wrong thing.

That clip sums up exactly what we need to do. We need to break up the Washington, DC headquarters mindset with the FBI. Oh, we got to be close to the power centers. Why? You got to be close to the criminals so you can lock them up. Send them out across the country. You don't want to do it? Fine. Resign. See you later. Cash is the guy. How do we know cash is the guy? Folks, how many times do I got to say this? And that sounds like the old repetitive broken record? Always measure the effectiveness of a pick by the reaction. If the left isn't melting down, you can basically assume that that's the wrong guy. Eric Dautry tweet, Just in. Former FBI agent warns Cash Patel would deal, massive damage to the agency, according to The Hill. Putting someone like Cash Patel in his FBI director, I believe, is extremely dangerous because his resume isn't traditional. What does that say? That should say to you what? Double down. Accelerator, foot, RPMs, 2,000, 3,000, 9,000. Foot to the gas pedal. Folks, start making a stink on social media. Listen, politicians watch that stuff. I'm serious.

Get them trending. We need cash. I have no inside information on this at all. I will say this, I did speak to some people, because I owe you honesty, in the Trump orbit, UFC. They just asked me, who do you... They didn't ask. Obviously, I'm not picking anyone. It was President Trump. I have nothing to do. I'm just saying, they asked me my personal opinion. I said, Hey, there's nothing I'm going to tell you I haven't said to my audience. I think Cash Patel is the guy. So I owe you some honesty on that. And that's what I've said publicly. It's what I've said privately. He is the guy. Sixty-one minutes will absolutely freak out. They'll have another segment about Sean Duffy and Cash Patel. Sean Duffy has no government experience in transportation. You understand he's a lawyer, a prosecutor, and a multi-term congressman from a state that, I promise you, has some significant transportation interests. You know, like bridges and roads and airplanes. Cash Patel is a Nazi. Wait, we're still talking about Sean. No, we're moving on. He's a fascist. Cash Patel. Cash Patel is He's Pol Pot. He is? What are you...

This is next. Flood the zone. Flooded. Flood the zone. Break the dam. Folks, do not back down on any of these people. Do not let them, Mike Flynn, any of these people. Don't let them do it. Yeah, by the way, he put up a picture, folks. The optics are obvious. This man is definitely a hardcore white supremacist. There is zero doubt. Look at that. I mean, look at the way he looks, right, Gee? The way he's looking off to the right. And then the melanin level of his skin is definitely not high enough to- He didn't even have a Nazi tattoo. You're correct. I mean, we need to scour his body for tattoos, folks. Not in a creepy way. If he has an American flag, he's definitely a Nazi fascist. I mean, Pete has a tattoo celebrating God. Forget it. You got to get them out. Can't have God tattoos and crosses and stuff. I mean, Guys, ready? I'm going to eliminate myself from the secret service right now. I'm going to show you some. You guys ready for this? I didn't even think of this. Gee, you ready? I don't want to be creepy.

Okay, you guys ready for the... Justin's now leaving. He can't work for it. Folks, I have a cross on my right shoulder. I don't know if you've ever seen this. Justin's leaving right now. Michael's like, I can't support this fascism. Gee's like, I'm definitely out of here. Guy's like, You're coming for me next after the show. I got a cross right here. I'm out. So now, media people, you can report, I will never, ever have anything to do with the Trump administration. I didn't even think of this, bro. I'm going to make this even worse for you right now. Folks in the chat, just be honest. It's over, right? Just put it, It is over. This is even worse. This is a definite sign of a fascist Nazi. There's an eagle for America. You can't look at... You can't have that. I'm not showing you my... I'm not flexing. Look at me. I promise you. Look at that. There's no flexing going on. It's an eagle. You cannot... I'm done. I am out. A cross and an eagle? What the... Holy shit. Get that dad, Ponjito. He is definitely an authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist Nazi. Folks in the chat say, Get him out.

Get him out. The jury He has ruled. You are ineligible. Ineligible. You are definitely a fascist, white supremacist. I'm losing track of all the names. The podcast will go on. Subscribe to Locals, and maybe we'll give you that. Maybe we'll do to Heraldo for you. Oh, I got more. Oh, wait. Wait. Wait, Justin, come over here. I need your help for this one. Yes, there's one more. I didn't even think it is. Yeah, come here. I need your help. Justin, because I can't reach because of my bad shoulders. I have a tattoo at the top of my back. I'm going to turn around. Justin, I hope you're cool. Don't file an HR complaint. But just put us down a little. Can you see it in the back? You see it? Yeah. Okay, can we show the audience? I'm going to turn around a little bit. I'll turn around this way. Here, come around this way. This one, this tattoo is definitely, definitely an eliminated. I'm done after this one. Folks, hold on. Justin, show them. Yeah, in the foot of that. Can you see it? Do you see... Folks, that's a Jesus fish. I am out.

Justin's leaving right now. I'm like, Justin, we met in a Catholic church. He's out. I'm a religious fanatic. I got a cross, a Jesus fish, and an eagle. Holy shit. Everybody off the show. What have we got? 162,000. Everybody out. Everybody out. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Who wants to watch a crazy religious fanatic like that? Do you ever experience an irritation? Do I ever experience irritation when I shave? I see where you're going with that. Because according to a recent study, two-thirds of men expect some irritation when they shave. That was clever. Only when I shave Bye bye. No, folks, I got to take a short break because I'm losing my mind. Only this show. We got a new sponsor in the Bongino Army. I need you to hook them up because they're here for you. Two-thirds of men expect some irritation when they shave. There's little information on how to prevent irritation, only how to treat it. It's why Hensen Shaving wants to change the shaving industry. Not do gimmicks like subscriptions, but do ground-breaking research. Here's the secret. Even the cheapest dollar store disposable razor will give you a reasonably smooth shave.

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Folks, the bottom line is we have a number of effective constitutional tools. If Gates and say, maybe a Cash Patel or a Pete Hegset are obstructed, we have a number of mechanisms to get these guys through, and we should use them. Why? Because cutesy time is what, folks? Cutesy Time is over. You want the Cutsy Time show, you got to go somewhere else. Cutsy Time is over a long time ago, 2:1 War Room. They don't do Cutsy Time either. Here's a great segment on how to get these guys through. Check out this minute. It's worth your time. But for Cash, there's some There's all this concern that, Oh, they can't get confirmed. Talk about you got two... Trump's got two alternatives, and he said you just did the one in 1998, that he's going to use the Vacancy Act. But yours is actually more aggressive. What can President Trump do to get Gates confirmed and to get Patel confirmed if he needs it? Well, before I unpack the Recess Appointments Clause a little bit, Steve, let me say this. It's even better than that because you can combine the two tools. You could Recess, appoint somebody, and then that lasts basically for two years until the end of the next session of Congress, each session being a year.

Then you can tack on another 210 days as acting after that under the Federal Vacancy Reform Act. The tools are additive, like a Kerpal synergy. Coming back to the Recess Appointments Clause, the President has had this power since the founding of the Constitution. Hundreds and hundreds of recess appointments have been made in our history, including by modern presidents. For some reason, surprise, surprise, the media and a lot of the never-trumper types want to pretend that this is not a power that the president has, or if he exercises it, the sky comes falling. None of that is true. Folks, cutesy time is over. There is nothing even remotely controversial about recess appointments. I described it to you over the last few days. It's not complicated. You've got two houses in Congress. You've got the House of Representatives, you got the Senate. If they go in recess, meaning we're leaving, going back to our districts to do district work, which, by the way, happens all the time, happens all the time, the President is allowed to make a recess appointment because you can't have government seats empty all the time. There is nothing even remotely controversial about this.

You don't want Gates on the first run? Go in a recess and we'll appoint him for 210 days. Or the vacancy, Use the Vacancy Act or like Jeff Clark said, and Mike Davis, we'll back them up back to back. Obama did recess appointments. Trump did them. Clinton did them. Bush did them, and not even a few. I mean, it was a lot. There is nothing controversial here. I'm really sick of these swampy-ass Republicans who wouldn't even have their jobs without President Trump and the down-ballet effect of you guys showing up and pulling the lever or filling in the bubble for them, complaining and whining about everything. Some of you voted a Supreme Court nominee who doesn't even know what a freaking woman is. You've got Javier Becerra at HHS, the crazy congressman from California, who has no experience in HHS Health and Human Services This is it all. I'm really sorry, man, but cutesy time is over. Cut the bullshit and just get it done. You need people right now who understand the enemy is that way. They're in the trench. There's a war going on for freedom. Fact, you don't understand it. Get the hell out of the fight.

We don't need you. You're sucking up oxygen for someone else. And what are you doing? You're pointing your gun sideways at the trench at the guy who's shooting that way at the enemy. Folks, this is political It's a circle trench warfare. You doubt me? You see this video? You probably saw it, but I'm going to play it again. Here is a Bucks County Commissioner in Pennsylvania. They're fighting over unquestionably illegal ballots. Here, I'll show you they're illegal. Put the Adoptory tweet up first. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has now ordered them again to stop counting illegal ballots that were not signed. They're illegal. There is no question about it. There is no debate about it. They are I'm going to say legal ballots. Here's the Bucks County Commission publicly on video. You think we're playing cutesy time still? Like a double-barrel middle finger to you losers. I'm just going to count them anyway because I just really don't care. Watch this. We reject all three categories categories of these ballots. Your motion is to reject or dismiss the challenges in this category in front of you? Correct. I'm not going to second that, mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a precedent by a precedent by a precedent by a precedent by a precedent by a in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want.

For me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention to it. Folks, the saddest thing is that's not fake. Justin didn't edit that. That's not AI. That actually happened. You're worried about Matt Gates, that he parties. I'm not interested in that right now. I'm interested in saving the Republic. Folks, sorry, I just want to update the check. Can we have a candid conversation about something? I'm hesitant to do this because it sounds It sounds like I'm lecturing people, and I'm in no position to do that. Matter of fact, the whole purpose of this is I'm not lecturing people because I'm in no position to do it. But for those of you out there who may be new to politics and still idealistic, who don't get it yet, well, Matt Gates is accused of this and this and this. By the way, they're accusations. It doesn't mean they're real. It means they're accusations. Trump was accused of being a Russian asset, so was Tulsi Gabbard. That's not real either. Even if every single accusation was true, folks, a lot of powerful, great men who've changed the world. I got news for you, man.

I'm not saying they are or aren't. I'm just telling you, a lot of them have been really bad men. When you're in the secret service as long as I was and you're sitting around the power centers, but you're not in them, you're just why you're like a fly on the wall, but you see it. Folks, I'm telling you, man, a A lot of these people are really bad people. They are. All I'm trying to say to you is if you're using good or bad as a metric to appoint people who could change the country for the better, you're going to lose because they're all bad. So forget it. Your only metric at this point should be who is going to use the tools of the Constitution to move our country in a better direction. A fair criticism you can come back with is, Well, Dan, you're a Christian, right? Shouldn't we at least try to find good people? Here's my answer. Yeah, but you're not going to. Because anybody seeking that power, I'm sorry, but they're mostly bad people. Sorry to tell you that, man. You get on the other side of this, you'll see what I'm talking about.

All you can do is appoint people who will do the right thing, even if they don't always do the right thing in their personal life. I hope that sinks in. I want to show you a great clip from my friend Lisa Booth. She was on Fox yesterday. You know all that talk from the Democrats, election deniers, all this other shit, Condemning us for calling out the shenanigans in 2020. Remember if you even mentioned Pennsylvania, what happened in the 2020 election that I believe was stolen from President Trump, and I believe Pennsylvania was at the forefront of it with all their illegal last rules changes? They told you, Don't talk about that. You're not even allowed to bring yourself. Where the hell was Governor Josh Shapiro, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, when one of his commissioners is openly talking about violating the law? The answer is he didn't say shit until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court spoke out, and then he gave a milk toast segment. Here's Lisa Booth bringing up that point, that all these big frauds, Oh, you guys are election deniers. They have an actual election denier who just admitted it publicly, and nobody said a word.

You want to still play cutesy time with these people? Not me. Watch this. Beyond that, you can go back to the 2008 Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Al Franken did come back, but it was a 0.02% difference. 225 votes was the difference. So there is no path for Senator Casey here. What he is doing is small and petty. It is wrong. Also, where is Governor Josh Shapiro in the state of Pennsylvania? This is a state issue. He's ignoring county commissioners, openly saying, not only am I breaking the law, but I'm bragging about it. I'm rubbing it in your face. Where is he? So shame on you, Josh Shapiro. If you think about running in 2028, we're looking at you, buddy. He didn't say anything, the governor of Pennsylvania, the Democrat. I thought they were, You've got an actual election denier in a public position. Folks, this woman needs to be investigated and potentially criminally charged if she broke the law. No dialing that back. If the new incoming Justice Department does not start making serious investigations and potential arrests, you're going to see stuff like this. Freaking ridiculous. You still think it's cutesy time, too?

Who in the chat lives in Arizona? Your governor is the single most pathetic politician anywhere in the country. I have never seen someone so weak in my life. She reminds me of Gretchen from Mean Girls. She is so inappropriate for the position. I have never, ever seen a figure this week in public office, ever. Katie Hobbes is a disaster. How is this woman, the governor of a critical border state like Arizona? It escapes me. But on to the cutesy time thing. You're mad at Matt Gates. You've got a Bucks County Commissioner openly saying, We're going to steal an election or try to on video. And you've got Katie Hobbs, the Democrat Communist Governor of Arizona right here suggesting in this clip that, you know what? If they come in, Tom Homan and the new border chief, if they come in with President Trump and try to clear the state out of illegals that are destroying the state of Arizona, that she's not only going to object. She's going to do everything to basically violate the law and help the illegals at the expense of the citizens of Arizona. You still want to play cutesy, Tom?

Listen, they talk about this openly. Check this out. Would you, as governor, allow state police and National Guard to carry out mass deportations? We will not be participating in misguided efforts that harm our communities, and I've been incredibly clear about that. So you disagree with mass deportations and the fact that the president-elect says that's what he's going to be working on day one? Well, I think that That those efforts are going to divert needed resources that we need here on these drug interdiction and smuggling and trafficking efforts to keep harm out of our communities. Wait, what? So illegal migrants who are using these illegal trafficking trails across the border to shuttle drugs and children for sex trafficking, that getting those illegal migrants and shutting those things down is going to divert resources from investigations into drug and sex trafficking? If you're scratching your head going, what the... Did you just say, This woman is a freaking idiot. She is a moron. Now, all of a sudden, by the way, Katie Hobbs is saying, Hey, immigration is a state Arizona issue, not a federal issue. That's fascinating. Because when Arizona under Republican Governor Jan Brewer, remember this?

In introduced SB 1070 so that Arizona could use their state laws to shut down illegal immigrant trafficking? The same lefties said, No, no, no, including the ACLU. Immigration is a federal issue, not a state issue. And they called it the show me your papers law. Here's the ACLU statement on it. You can see it yourself in case you think we're fudging the numbers on this. Amazing how their position changes, right? When you want it to be a federal issue because there's a Republican governor in Arizona trying to shut down illegal immigration, you call any law, show me your papers. No, that's a feds problem. There it is right there. Show me your papers. But now that Katie Hobbs wants the border in Arizona opens, she's like, It's not a federal issue. No, it's my issue. These people are disgusting liars. They are garbage. You want to play cute with these people? What are you, insane? These people are running rough shot over the country. Folks, that woman wins re-election. Evacuate the state of Arizona as soon as you can. She is A moron. She is getting people killed right now with her open border policies, and it's disgusting.

Folks, people are policy. I need you to understand that. You know, fair enough. You're listening on Apple, Spotify, you're in the live chat, watching us live, watching us on demand. A fair criticism of the show today may be, Dan, you're spending a lot of time on people and appointees, Hegset, Gates, Tulsi, Cash Patel. Why? Folks, if there's one lesson I learned in the government as a political candidate, and now 10 years in podcast and radio and TV. Believe me, I've been there. It's that people are policy. Do you understand that? No, Dan. Policy is policy. No, it isn't. Prove it. Okay. Supreme Court said that Joe Biden cannot use the federal treasury to pay off people's student loans. Did he do it? He did. Why did he do it? Because Joe Biden is a person who's a Communist liberal who doesn't care about the policy. I'm not suggesting ignoring policy is a good idea. I'm telling you that policy is often open-ended and open to interpretation. You have people who can interpret policy the right constitutional way, you're going to get good policy. You have people like Joe Biden who view it through a Communist lens, they're going to use that policy to do anything.

That's why people in these positions, the right people, are so critical. You get a deep stater, they're going to view it through a deep state lens and do deep state stuff and use the policy as an excuse. You want to shut the border down and ice out people like Cammi Katie Hobbs, worst governor in the country? That's why we got this guy. We got to fight for him, too. Borders are, so he should be okay. Tom Homan. Here's Tom Homan talking about the border priorities. This is what we're doing. If you're not going to cooperate and you're going to break the law, you may find yourself under investigation. Listen to this. As far as the deportation operation, we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats because they pose the biggest danger to the United States. He's got three rails. We'll do the deportation operation with the priorities I just talked to you, out of the gate. That'd be the priorities. Second thing is secure that Lock that border down and catch release and secure the border. The third rail is we got over 300,000 missing children. Over half a million children been trafficked into the United States.

This administration released them to unvetted sponsors, and they can't find 300,000 them. Based on my three and a half decades, some of these children are in forced labor. We already found some in forced labor. Some are in forced sex trafficking. Some of them are pedophiles. We need to save these children. That's going to be a third rail. People are policy, man. You get a guy with home A woman viewing it through a constitutional Section 212F perspective where we can exclude the President, any class of aliens for any reason for any amount of time, he's going to interpret that policy to mean exactly what it says it means. You can't come in. You can't come in. Because when you let people in and you interpret that to mean, Oh, you know what? That means I can also unrestrict it and let anybody in, you're going to get incidents like this. Did you hear this abomination yesterday at the Lake and Reilly trial in Georgia? The suspect in the case is on trial for the murder of Lake and Reilly. Here's testimony in the trial. It's just quick, where one of his friends says that, yeah, they were brought into the country and were flown to Georgia by the Biden Ministry.

Can you imagine this? This prime suspect in the case was like, airlifted into a state, and is now the suspect in a horrific murder? These are the people you're dealing with. You want to play cue with them? No, they. You actually said this under oath. Listen to this. How did you get to Athens? In New York, we asked in Manhattan. In New York, we asked, we asked, In Manhattan, we requested for humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta. What else could you possibly want to hear, folks? That's an under oath testimony by a witness in the case that the suspect in a atrocity, the brutal murder of this young woman, was flown into the state by your President and his team. People are policy, and I don't want you to forget these other folks to their appointing. Lee Zeldin at EPA, Brenda Kahr, chairman of the SEC. They are all going to be critical. It's not about palace intrigue. These appointees, these are major, major positions. You're interested in free speech, censorship, internet growth, AI? This guy, Brandon Kahr, Trump nominated yesterday. The SEC is a rock star. His name is going to get lost in this with Gates and Hegset and Tulsi and Bobby Kennedy and others.

But this is huge. Here he is up on Capitol Hill just a little bit ago talking about the disastrous broadband rollout where you paid billions of dollars and they haven't connected a single freaking home. This guy's a huge advocate for breaking up the censorship cartel. This guy could be one of the top five most important appointees yet. Watch this. In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the administration's signature $42 billion effort to extend Internet service to millions of Americans. It's now been 1,039 days since that program was enacted. After all of that time, not one person has been connected to the Internet. Not one home, not one business, not even one shovel worth of dirt has been turned. It gets worse. No infrastructure builds will even start until sometime next year at the earliest, and in many cases, not until 2026. These guys are important. I think I made my point. People are policy, and don't neglect guys like that. We've got the high-profile names that are on the marquee and the billboard. But these guys are important, too, and women out there. We're going to transform government, folks. I'm telling you, the culture has changed.

The culture. What did Breitbart say, politics is downstream of culture? The culture is changing. You've got these guys. No, this isn't Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots doing the Trump dance. You know the Trump dance he does? Everybody's doing the Trump dance. The culture is changing. Nobody's taking a knee anymore in the NFL. I may actually start watching it. You got people doing it. You got Brock Bowers doing it, and he got the team trying to screw him over. But I'm seriously considering watching the football again now. Now you got people doing the Trump dance. You got John Jones doing the Trump dance. The culture is changing. It is critical. Don't neglect this. Judge Jeanine, did you hear it last night? Did an incredible segment on the Five on this. She did about two minutes. This is only about a minute of it, but she's talking about this pivotal inflection point we're at right now, where now, where we've been the minority, the aggrieved minority for a long time, censoring us, sticking shots in us, telling us to do this and do that, wiping our Facebook accounts out, fact-checking, fake fact-checking us. We're now winning. They're now becoming the minority.

We're winning. Listen to this. Media doesn't deserve to be trusted. Maybe the media deserves exactly what they've gotten because they did lie to us. They to us about Russia collusion. They got themselves Nobel Peace Prizes and all kinds of prizes. They didn't give them back. We found out there was nothing to it. We were in each other's throats for four years over this nonsense. You know what? What's happening now is people are feeling good because they have literally extricated themselves from this legacy media. They've moved on to social media because they recognize that the legacy media is in with big tech, is in with the Democrat Party, and it's not doing anybody any good. But what we're seeing right now is how the Democrats boxed us. We were in this box, and you were in that box, and we were in this box. Now, all of a sudden, Trump gets elected. It's one box, all All the edges have fallen off the boxes. We are happy. You've got footballers, and you've got golfers, and you've got prize fighters, and they're all doing the dance. Maybe because these guys who eight years ago may have taken a knee, the truth is they know when they go home that their family is suffering in the big cities, that their families aren't being protected because of cashless bail and because of the fact that there are illegals who aren't vetted who are in this country.

Folks, please don't write this off. That is a brilliant take by Judge Jeanine. She is 100% correct. Don't laugh off the Trump dance thing. I've told you this for a long time. It's not about athletes like, oh, great, athletes are in. I'm sorry. I appreciate, guys, but a lot of these guys relate to the game. That's not the point. We'd rather have you on the field than not, even if you get in in the fourth quarter. The point is they're sending a signal to the rest of the world that it's okay. It's okay to come out of the house. I heard Hope Hogan say last night on Laura Ingram, Terry Balea, that he said he used this word. I'm not saying that he said. He said, I was a coward for a long time. I voted for Trump, but I didn't want to say anything. I was afraid of my business, but I'm not anymore. You're going to see more people coming out. Celebrate the fact that you were the first mover. But folks, please don't shut them out. Some people take longer to see the light. That's just the way it is. You guys were courageous from the start, and I applaud you.

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