Why Are They All Saying The Same Thing? (Ep. 2491)
76 min
•Apr 9, 202618 days agoSummary
Dan Bongino critiques Democrats for reading from identical scripts while praising Republican diversity of thought, discusses AI capabilities and risks including the powerful Claude Mythos system, and debunks liberal policy claims about wealth taxes and rent control using data and natural experiments.
Insights
- Centralized messaging in Democratic politics creates vulnerability to fact-checking and undermines grassroots credibility compared to decentralized Republican discourse
- AI-powered real-time fact-checking will make political dishonesty exponentially more expensive by instantly exposing contradictions and false claims
- Wealth taxes and price controls consistently fail in practice (Maryland case study: lost $257M instead of gaining $106M predicted), yet remain core progressive policy proposals
- Influencer class 'grifters' who profit from doom narratives without proposing solutions represent a distinct threat to movement coherence
- Iran operation demonstrates Trump's willingness to execute difficult decisions without base approval, contradicting 'do-nothing' criticism
Trends
AI-driven political accountability: Real-time fact-checking will shift political discourse from narrative control to data-driven debateState-level tax competition intensifying: Multiple states implementing exit taxes as residents flee high-tax jurisdictionsDecentralized political movements outperforming centralized ones: Republican tent diversity vs. Democratic 'Borg' messagingInfluencer accountability: Social media enabling rapid exposure of grifters and inconsistent voices within political movementsCyber security emerging as critical national security issue: AI systems demonstrating ability to exploit isolated networks autonomouslyPolicy failure pattern recognition: Progressive policies (rent control, wealth tax, price controls) consistently produce opposite intended outcomesMedia credibility collapse: Foreign outlets (Reuters, GB News) providing more objective analysis than domestic liberal mediaGovernment fraud exposure: Increasing arrests and convictions in Medicare/Medicaid fraud suggesting enforcement momentum
Topics
Democratic Messaging Coordination and Script UniformityAI Safety and Autonomous System RisksWealth Tax Policy Failures and Economic ImpactRent Control and Price Control EconomicsIran Military Operations and Strategic AssessmentInfluencer Grifting and Movement IntegrityReal-Time AI Fact-Checking in PoliticsGovernment Fraud Detection and ProsecutionTax Cut Distribution AnalysisDoomerism and Black-Pilling in Conservative MovementAutomatic Engine Stop Technology EliminationState Tax Competition and Resident MigrationMedia Bias and Journalistic CredibilityCyber Attacks on Critical InfrastructureRepublican Party Tent Diversity vs. Democratic Uniformity
Companies
Claude (Anthropic)
Developed Mythos AI system demonstrated to autonomously exploit isolated networks and post exploits online without au...
CNN
Criticized for contradictory reporting on Iran nuclear threat timeline and providing inconsistent analysis to support...
MSNBC
Featured Lawrence O'Donnell criticizing military language ('leave no man behind') as gender-insensitive during Iran r...
Fox News
Host Griff Jenkins provided balanced analysis of Iran situation and Trump's strategic decision-making
Reuters
Provided objective reporting on Iran's economic devastation and strategic isolation following US-Israel operations
GB News
Foreign outlet offering more realistic assessment of Trump administration policies than domestic liberal media
Tesla
Referenced in context of Leave the World Behind Netflix film depicting cyber attack scenarios affecting vehicle opera...
Netflix
Produced Leave the World Behind film about cyber attacks and grid failures; funded by Obama family
People
Dan Bongino
Primary host providing political commentary and analysis on Democratic messaging, AI risks, and policy failures
JD Vance
Quoted extensively on resisting doomerism, patience with institutional reform, and staying engaged in political process
Donald Trump
Discussed for Iran military operations, tax cuts, and eliminating automatic engine stop technology
Robert Reich
Criticized for promoting wealth tax policy without acknowledging historical failures and economic consequences
Lawrence O'Donnell
Criticized for focusing on gender-inclusive language rather than celebrating successful military rescue operation
Aaron Burnett
Demonstrated contradictory positions on Iran nuclear threat timeline across multiple months of reporting
Elon Musk
Featured in interview demonstrating how to handle hostile media questioning without deference or apology
Eric Adams
Criticized for blaming systemic discrimination while ignoring decades of Democratic governance in NYC
Hakeem Jeffries
Included in video montage of Democrats reading identical talking points with same delivery and staging
Scott Jennings
Discussed AI's impact on making political dishonesty expensive through instant fact-checking capabilities
Vince Colaneso
Co-host discussing AI impact on political discourse and messaging coordination
Griff Jenkins
Provided balanced analysis of Iran situation and created NACHO acronym for Trump's confrontational approach
Mike Lee
Referenced for posting video evidence of Democrats reading identical scripts
Dan Scavino
Tweeted about influencer class throwing 'popcorn from sidelines' while claiming nothing is happening
Piers Morgan
Criticized for questioning different treatment of Israeli vs. Iranian nuclear programs
Phil D. Stewart
Provided objective reporting on Iran's economic devastation and strategic isolation
Cash Patel
Referenced for Michigan Medicare/Medicaid fraud case demonstrating enforcement action
Hailey Caronea
Filling in for Vince Colaneso; praised for show quality and upcoming noon appearance
Quotes
"We are not automatons, okay? We are not freaking robots. We are not the board from Star Trek. We have a big tent of people who think very differently about what's going on."
Dan Bongino•Early segment
"Resist the temptation to think that victory is immediate, or that we're gonna win back our civilization through instant gratification. Our civilization was not built overnight. It's not gonna be saved overnight."
JD Vance•Mid-show
"Politics is a boxing match with no referee and a cage around it, and it's a fight to the death. You stop punching and go, I quit, the other guy is still kicking your ass."
Dan Bongino•Early-mid segment
"You don't enrich uranium to 60 and 90% for anything other than one reason, to create a nuclear bomb. That is it. There is not another option."
Dan Bongino•Iran policy segment
"I asked you a question. This is your interview. Everyone wants to hear from you. I asked you a question. Yes or no?"
Journalist (in Elon Musk interview)•Media criticism segment
Full Transcript
that. All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bonjino show. Why are they all saying the same thing? Don't we pay these people in Washington D. C. As lawmakers and legislators. Don't we pay them for original thoughts? Now you we have a system of federalism. We have state powers, federal powers. You have state, local, tribal authorities, territorial authorities. Like we pay them to think for their constituents because people who live in different regions of the United States don't all have the same concerns. Do you really care about sanitation in a subway if you live in a portion of Colorado that doesn't have a subway? The answer is no, you do not. So why are they all saying the same thing? These leftist lawmakers? The answer is they're telling you a story, not the story. It's all, all of it. You can see it. I got that. I have a, you know, I'm very optimistic. I just want to kind of level set here where we're going. If you listen to the show regularly or if you're new, I'll just tell you right now. I am very optimistic about the future of AI and quantum computing, how it's going to add to our quality of life. It's going to do amazing things for productivity. I think in the end, hopefully we will be better off. I say hopefully because I'm not naive about it either. My experience in government was great, wonderful. However, there were some things that scared me a bit. And one of them is that I'm not sure right now we are ready to handle what AI could do. There's a video that popped yesterday about a new AI system so powerful that it was only given to a very select group of American based companies first because they're afraid of what this thing could do. If you haven't heard about it, it's been shaken up and quaking up the internet for a couple of days now. So I just want to give you a balanced perspective that this is a real threat, cyber intrusions, a blackout of our grid that's not a year down the road, it's now, like right now. I've got that also the vice president with a necessary speech yesterday on the blackpilling going on and how unrealistic it is. Everyone hold Braveheart style. Big show for you today. Listen, people are fed up with the American healthcare system, the insurance companies, the delays, the runarounds being told that you can and can't access. Here's what's happening. People are waking up. They're done playing the game. They're finding better options and taking control of their healthcare. One of those options is all family pharmacy. I use them, I've been telling you about these guys because they're the real deal. You got to be prepared folks. And this is not your typical pharmacy. They're an independent American pharmacy not answering to insurance companies. 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Always consult a medical professional before taking any medications. This is not medical advice. Ding, ding. Folks, we are not, I am proud to be part of the Republican MAGA conservative movement. We are not automatons, okay? We are not freaking robots. We are not the board from Star Trek. We have a big tent of people who think very differently about what's going on and what's going on. We have a lot of people who think very differently about similar topics. You see it now. I bring it up in context of today's show because you're seeing it with the war in Iran. There are, thankfully, a lot of opinions out there. And I do mean that, thankfully. I'm not talking about the doomers who are just talking smack. I'm talking about people who have an honest, heartfelt, candid, sincere opinion about the war. You're not only, of course, allowed to have that. You're a constitutional big R God-given right, but it's welcome in the tent. Why? Why? It keeps us sharp. We are not the current thing party. You see it in polling, in the support for President Trump, the alignment with the MAGA movement. You see it. However, there are some people with some dissonant voices and it does keep everybody frosty. We shouldn't have a war in Iran where no one's asking questions, period. We should be asking questions. I don't care how much you support any politician. However, when they answer those questions, we should digest the answer and not ignore it and go make up a different answer. Correct? That's how inputs and outputs work. The Democrats do not do this. The Democrats are a party of the current thing. They are told what the current thing is. The current thing can be defund the police. The current thing can be, we're all gonna die in 10 years from a climate apocalypse. They are told it goes out from the Borg central hive mind and it infects all the automatons. And this is why their movement is falling apart. This is why our movement is not falling apart. Our movement I think is actually pretty healthy even in a time of crisis. Their movement is collapsing. I showed it to you the other day. Dan produced receipts. I did produce receipts. I showed you the CNN poll the other day. The Democrats own favorability rating in their own party is ridiculously low because they're being told you have to think this. Men should be in the women's room and a lot of same Democrats working class electricians from Boston, Massachusetts who may vote Democrat don't wanna hear that. They're not interested. They don't care. All they care about is the fuse box and fixing it in the men's room. They don't want men in the women's room. Do not ever fall in this trap. Debate is good. Dumerism is really awful because it ignores the answers and just does its best to kind of put a blanket on the fire this party's generated. Folks, did you see this video? One nuclear yesterday. This is what I'm talking about. It is the Democrats. When I say reading from the same script, I saw this on the base Mike Lee account, Senator from Utah, obviously a Republican, good guy, I've had him on the show. This video is just kind of like proof positive of what I've been telling you the entire time. How the Democrats, their entire political structure is based on central hive mind, Borg like thinking. That's it. They are not allowed to think separately. Here they are all reading from the same script and I'll end with Hakim Jeffries talking less. It's all about their talking points. Inflation's out of control. The inflation number just came in. It's actually well under control. Just came in this morning. Let me commit it like 2.7, 2.8. Just came in. They're just making this stuff up. Check this out. I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. Not today. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. There's way of planning. There's way of planning. We're probably planning to split families. That is the truth. That is the truth. And that is the truth. And that is the truth. It's the same script. Now here's the real kick in the go-nods here. We gotta fast forward that because it's all that just, you can go back and listen to it yourself on Bass Micley. I'm not gonna subject you to two and a half minutes of Democrat bullshit. That's the same script. But here's the kicker. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, just watch the video. You don't have to watch it here. You can watch it on Bass Micley on X. It's real simple. Did you guys notice, Justin, you picked this up? Not only are they reading the same thing, they're doing it the same way. Someone gave them atmospherics and said, hey, look relatable, sit on like a couch or a chair. Do you notice it? In the same graphics, pick up either a small microphone, hold it in your hand so it doesn't look scripted, no lapel mics, and talk into it like, you can watch, you'll see what I'm talking about. They were giving the exact same, look at it. Sit down at the same time. Do you see this? Hold it in your hand so it doesn't look like a lapel mic, like you prepared these marks. Look like you're being honest and candid. Listen, man, just be straight with people. You guys are full of crap. I know this has happened in news media outlets before. That is a business decision news media outlets make, whether it's conservative or liberal media, I'm not denying it. I'm just telling you, we pay these people in a system of federalism to think differently about different issues. If not, we would have a king. You would elect a king who could think for everyone at the same time. We choose to be the anti-monarchy, not the monarchy. We rebelled against the king. None of these people think any differently. They were all saying the same thing because they don't have an original thought. And this is one of those days you should be very proud to be on the other side, the Republican side of the political ledger, where I gotta tell you, if you're thinking about doing this, the Republican party, again, I'm not telling you it hasn't happened in media spaces and elsewhere. It's never a good thing. Just don't. You wanna talk candidly to people, do it, but this is a really bad idea. Folks, debate within the party is a good thing. Debate within our party is a good thing. However, doomerism and blackpilling is not because it ignores what's happening for a false narrative that nothing is happening because you want other people to support your person. I'll show you what I mean in a second, coming up with a speech about Vice President Vanscape where he knocked this out of the park. He's actually welcoming debate. He's saying, please, if you disagree with us, speak louder. Tell us on X, tell us through your representatives. But what's not acceptable and what pisses me off about doomerism is this, well, I'm tapping out of the system, really? Well, you know the old adage, you may not do politics, but politics certainly does you. There is no tapping out. This is in a golf game where you quit on the fourth hole. Nobody cares if you quit. The guy behind you plays through. The guy who owns the greens in the course, he doesn't give a damn if you quit or not, you already paid. That's not politics, brothers and sisters. Politics is a boxing match with no referee and a cage around it, and it's a fight to the death. You stop punching and go, I quit, the other guy is still kicking your ass. You have no choice. There is no giving up, there is no quit. Quit is not an option, quit is not a word there. You have to stay active no matter what. Here he is talking about this yesterday. This is very, very well said. I encourage you all to take it and digest it. The Bonjino army folks, you're never gonna give up. I get it, I understand. It's really easy to do that and just tap out. That's not what we do here. But Vice President Vance is saying, that's not an option. Don't be a doomer, just give us some time to fix this. It took a long time to screw a lot of these things up. Check this out. The piece of advice I'd give to you, and I give it to American students, American conservatives in particular, is resist the temptation to think that victory is immediate, or that we're gonna win back our civilization through instant gratification. I mean, this institution was founded in 1996. It's far more influential than it was back then. But I think a lot of people, this is particularly true in the United States of America. If they see something that the administration does, they don't like. They say, oh, that's not what we voted for. We're gonna check out a politics. No, no, no, no. That's the exact wrong response. If we do something you don't like, the response should be to get more involved, to make your voice heard, and to try to push things in the direction that you want them to be pushed. Our civilization was not built overnight. It's not gonna be saved overnight. And so what I'd encourage you to do is stay involved, be patient, and don't let disappointment turn to checking out of the system entirely. There's way too much of that, I would say in the Anglo system and the American system. There's way too much. I didn't like this thing that the vice president said, or I didn't like this thing that the president did, and I'm gonna completely check out. We call that black pilling in the United States of America. And black pilling is how you give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built. We need to take power back from those people and build the kind of institutions that can actually save our societies. It will not happen overnight. It will not happen in the term of one prime minister or one president, but it will happen so long as we keep our faith in God and we work hard to achieve it. Folks, it took Democrats a long time, a very long time to corrupt their institutions. I saw it. I've said to you many times, I told the team over there, I would give them a year and flip that calendar. There are times you woke up in the morning and you were like, man, you knew there was like a litany of level 10 problems. But you got it done anyway. We still had to reform the workforce, go get bad guys off the street. Disrupt terror attacks. There was no option there. Reform wasn't an option. But the blackpilling and the expectation that a government system, this federal government system that has been corrupted over the course of decades was gonna be cleaned up somehow overnight is absurd. And what irks me about the entire process is you got a bunch of these people who, I saw a scaveno, Dan Scaveno, who's a legend. He tweeted about this yesterday. He tweeted about this yesterday. There's this whole boatload of people on the sidelines who call themselves influencers. You see them, a bunch of ozempic laden zeros on the sideline throwing popcorn from the front seats. Who didn't do shit? They have done absolutely nothing. They have no results. They have no, they did not volunteer. They did not step forward. These are the loudest voices saying nothing is happening. And then when you show them what's happening that they said was nothing and it turns into something, they just move on to something else because they're not interested in changing the country. They're interested in clicks for money that is it. I have seen it in this business over and over and over again throughout 10 years. We've outlasted all of these buffoons. Oh, there it is, Scaveno. It's a great post and he nailed it. I wanna show you some other things from the nothing is happening file that are happening. And then again, they'll just move on the influencer class to some other bullshit that's not happening. He was cash yesterday. Remember when they said, oh, there's nothing happening on this fraud? And I said, really, there were hundreds of arrests in Minnesota. There were a boatload of arrests in California. Now we have arrests in Michigan, Michigan man, please guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance for nearly 2 million. FBI investigated the case with HHS DOJ as part of the fraud takedown, more to come. I, okay. I promise you now they're moving on to something else. And when that happens, they'll move on to something else. Here's another one. Like, what are you guys doing about the leakers? Well, we were doing, I told you that yesterday. Well, here's another one. FBI has arrested a former SOCOM employee who supported military war fighters for allegedly transmitting classified information to a member of the media. That's out of the FBI Charlotte office. It's okay. It is okay to say, hey, I want more. It should happen faster. That's okay. But you know what's not okay? Black billing and doomer bullshit that, oh, that's not happening at all. It is happening. You're just making it up. You're seeing it now with Iran too. This just began. It just started. To have a realistic assessment of where we are, you can't say nothing happened over there. The situation is worse. And then when we say, well, their ballistic missile capabilities reduced, their drone program has been nearly destroyed, at least the infrastructure, they'll build more. They'll build more. When you say now we've got eyes on their nuclear material, their navies at the bottom of the ocean, they don't want to process any of that. It's really crazy when a Reuters reporter on Twitter is giving you a more realistic assessment than the people secreting themselves inside of our own so-called MAGA tent who are telling you Trump's gone crazy, the 25th Amendment, what are you talking about? Liberalism, I'm talking about people pretending to be one of us who grifted off the Trump administration the entire time. That's what Scolino is talking about. A bunch of influencer bullshitters who tried to make a fortune off Trump's name. And the second, a level 10 decision, I mean, they shit the bed, started freaking out, doing this bullshit routine. Trump has lost it, he's gone crazy. Here's a Reuters reporter at Phil D. Stewart. Iranian authorities see the truth with the US and Israel as a strategic victory. But they emerge battered and isolated with an economy in tatters, a little prospect of rapid recovery, and an impoverished and bitter population. After weeks of US and Israeli strikes, many Iranians have lost their jobs, prices have surged, factories, power plants, railways, airports, and bridges have been destroyed, and the critical trading relationship with the Gulf States has been severed maybe for decades. This is Reuters, this is not some big pro-maga outlet. Is there something about that you don't like? How come GB News gets it? GB News is a foreign outlet, they're pretty fair, however. The foreign media outlet, here's a host on GB News, just stating the fairly obvious, it said you've got to move media offshore for them to get a realistic assessment of where Donald Trump's head is. No, it's not 25th Amendment territory, you losers. It may be psychiatric, you know, Baker Act time for you, talking about it, but not for the president. I promise, he's in a really good spot. Here, check this out. I think before, a lot of people more wise than me have also said it, take him seriously, but not literally, when he says that a civilization will die tonight, he's talking as a deal maker, not a politician, because when you're dealing with a religious theocracy that thinks nothing of slaying its own people, you have to speak in a language that they understand. He's putting a line in the sand for the Iranian regime, because he is losing patience and quite right too. Yeah, thanks. We have to like, outside of like Fox and Newsmax and OAN, we have to like overseas to get sane talking heads about this situation. This was a good one though. Coming back onto American soil, Griff Jenkins is a colleague at Fox, very good man, really nice guy, and I know it's not a personality show, but I'm telling you, like the real deal, super nice guy. Here he is on Fox history. Okay, Democrats want to use these, Jasmine was talking about it this morning, laughing about the Democrats, and they're kind of like stupid, like from Taco, Trump always chickens out. Really the Iranian Ayatollah is not really thinking that. Oh, he's not thinking at all, because he's dead. And the next, no, the next, we've been joined, level six. Level six behind him, the sub-grand wizard Ayatollah, and the vice-grand co-chair Ayatollah, and the deputy assistant co-chair director of the Ayatollah council. They're all dead. I thought Trump chickened out. They may become chicken feed and fertilizer, the bad guys, but you like your cutesy little thing? Taka, taka. You supported Joe Biden, who left billions of dollars of high quality American military equipment for enemies of the United States to take in Afghanistan. You got the balls to talk about taco? So Griff Jenkins is like, I got one. How about Nacho? Yeah, how about Nacho? I really like Nacho. What the hell's Nacho? Oh, listen to Griff. So Democrats are already saying that this is taco. Trump always chickens out. Let me give you another acronym, Nacho. Never avoids confronting hard obstacles. Nacho. And that's exactly what President Trump did. I'm hungry. He winning. I made that up on my own. That's pretty good. Because I was thinking about the opposite of what that would be. He didn't chicken out. He's willing to confront what previous presidents for 47 years couldn't do to stand up to him. I told you, yes, Griff. He does not avoid difficult obstacles. And I told you this when everybody was warning about Trump 47 during the primary. And they were saying, why would we elect him again? He's gonna be a lame duck. I said, man, you're reading this all wrong. You are totally misjudging this entire situation. I said, I promise you, this is gonna be the most impactful four years you were ever gonna see because there's no pressure for him to get reelected. He's not gonna be getting squeezed by donors for reelection efforts or any of this stuff. Trump is gonna go in there having learned from 45 and the campaign after that, he is going to have learned that he cannot rely on deep state bureaucrats and others. He has to maximize his presidential power within the bounds of the Constitution to move the ball as fast as he can and to push the legislators to do everything they can. And that's exactly what he did, including his greatest power of all being CIC Commander-in-Chief. He could have pushed the problem off. And he didn't. You don't think he knows this is gonna, because we have a diverse base and people in our base who don't like foreign interventions and war, I get it, I get it. I don't either. And I'm not reflexively defending President Trump because he's a friend. Whether you believe that or not is up to you. If you hate my guts, just don't listen. This is not a tyranny. You don't have to listen to my show, just go away. It's okay. I'm not angry at you. The show's not for everyone. But I think I've been pretty fair because I owe it to you to give you a load star and here are my principles. And unless we get new inputs, we're not gonna change. We've had some disagreements about some issues. I don't disagree with him here. You had a regime, this is very simple, to explain to all of the influencer class out there that's trying to shit on President Trump. You had a regime that was in possession of nuclear material for one purpose. You do not enrich uranium to 60 and 90% for anything other than one reason, to create a nuclear bomb. That is it. There is not another option. It's not medical equipment. It's not for a PET scan you're gonna have done for cancer. That's not why you do that. Well, other regimes have nuclear weapons and other governments have nuclear weapons too. They do. We wish they did not. However, this one is not a legitimate government. It is a fundamentalist theocracy that openly advocates for death to America. It is a qualitatively different situation. If you don't know that, I'm sorry I can't help you. I heard Pierce Morgan on his show, and I'm really confused as to why we would treat Israel and the nuclear program, why they just don't come out with it, versus he was suggesting, I suggested admit it, why they don't come out with it versus he run. Why? Because they're not threatening to annihilate us with a nuclear weapon. Are you stupid? Are you dumb? No, I'm as serious as a heart attack. You don't understand that? Let me make this really simple for like peers and others. Why do we not treat nuclear powers out there that aren't screaming death to America differently than we scream death to America? You're in a bar one night. Bar's getting a little rowdy. You've got a guy that comes up to you, six, five, 350 pounds. Looks like I got cauliflower. You guys are real badass. Hey, Dan, I'm a big fan of the show, man. You want to buy a drink? Yeah, sure. Thanks. I think I want to talk about you. Then you've got another guy. Same thing. Maybe six, six, 400 pounds. He looks like Alastair Overreem, another USC fighter, right? That guy throws ice at you and goes, hey man, I'm going to kick your ass outside. What is this? Why do you treat them different? Because what about to kick your fucking ass, you moron? Sorry for the cursing. I've been spent a couple of days. Are you this stupid? Why do you treat them different? Because one's a threat and one isn't. You dipshits. I really can't believe we're having this discussion right now. I might, yeah, laser eyeballs. Sorry about the F-bomb folks. I really should have warned you. I'm trying. Jasmine's giving me the look. I'm sorry. We're probably going to lose some people. And I don't blame you. I should have warned you. Yeah, Justin said it right. Death to America can mean a lot of things. Maybe they don't mean it, even though they've clarified it multiple times. And when they were asked about a nuclear weapon, lead government officials before they were dead, they were like, yeah, yeah, we just have to be honest. We're trying to build a nuclear bomb. And the other people like Pierce, well, why would they be wanting to build a nuclear bomb? And you see these other influencers, they weren't trying to build a nuclear bomb. Maybe you should tell them that, you morons. But Trump, yes, we should 25th Amendment, President Trump, that's your brilliance. That's how you become additive to the conversation. That's your input. Morons, I'm so sick of the moron class. I'm so happy to have like an intelligent audience of people that shows up here every day. Thank you, thank you. I love you guys and ladies out there. By the way, for those with the taco BS again, taco, Trump always chickens out. Really put this true social post out this morning, saying, hey man, you think this guy's not aware the Iranians may not stick to the ceasefire because there's multiple factions in Iran right now? He notes that basically until we get a real agreement that we stand ready. I don't, now they're gonna be pissed about that. I thought he always chickened out. Tell that to the Iranians buried six feet deep. If they're even buried. I read a story the other day. They don't even wanna bury the Ayatollah in an outdoor ceremony because they're afraid. I thought he always chickened out. Yeah, no, right, right, no more. They don't give a shit these left. Here's another thing I wanted to win it to. I saw a tweet, I reposted it this morning. Vince Lyman, good account, good account, cool account, check it out. Was saying like, I saw my buddy, Cat Turn two this morning, treat about this as well. This is, there's never been a better time for you to do a timeline cleanse and lifestyle cleanse with the grifters and the panikins, never. Folks, you may think like, oh man, this sucks. You got all these people in the tent, you know, trying to destroy a moment. It does suck, but there is a positive component to this too. The positive component is clear as day. The grifters have showed their asses. Mute, block, do whatever, unfollow, do whatever you have to do. Here, oh, thank you. Vince L, at Langman Vids. The last six weeks have been the best closet, never trumpet radar detector in the history of X. It's now incredibly obvious who the real Trump supporters on this platform are or who the grifters are. You're damn right. Great post, you see, I reposted it. This is the perfect time. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, it's a good time to unfollow the morons. And by the way, the morons are not the people in our movement that bring up issues and problems that could occur in the Iran war. That's not who we're talking about. So don't you dare to put words in my mouth. I'm talking about the people who just lie to you. We're losing how? And they have no data, it's a data point. And they don't have any actual data. They have hidden knowledge about how we're losing all the time. Well, tell us, how are we losing? Our bases have been destroyed. I saw that clown McGregor, ah, bases have been destroyed. We're all dying. Casualties are tragic, but they've been very low compared to the damage we've inflicted on them. And what are the left-wing media goons concerned about? Political correctness and DEI initiatives in war. No, I'm not kidding. I got that coming up in a minute. Let me take a quick break. I'm way over. It's also keep this, I'm kind of timeline I never do. I was waiting for Justin to give me the look. So you don't be good to take a look at refinancing. You're like, what? What is that? Let's be honest, the cost of living isn't just high. It's exhausting. 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American financing, America's Home for Home Loans. Check them out at 888-9947660. If you want to visit them online, it's a .NET address. Americanfinancing.net slash bunjino. That's Americanfinancing.net slash bunjino. Thank you, American financing. Great company. Here's what I'm talking about. While we're handling our own tent, legitimate criticism, which we should respond to, stupid criticism, nothing's happening. We're all dying. We're losing. President Trump, 25th Amendment. That's just doomer bullshit. This is the time. Cleanse the timeline. We've also got to deal with these ridiculousities on the left. I debated throwing this in the show. Sometimes I'm like, ah, I saw this on Fox yesterday. Put it, but I need you to see it in case you missed it. Here is MSNOW, formerly MSNBC. This is just like peak psychopathy. You know Lawrence O'Donnell over there that stopped the hammering? I stopped the hammering. Stop the hammer. If you haven't seen that, check it out. I'll have to do it another time. However, here's Lawrence O'Donnell very concerned that Pete Hegseth said, leave no man behind. Justin's like, no, he wasn't upset about it. No, no, he was. We rescued a pilot. And instead of celebrating rescuing the pilot, Lawrence O'Donnell's really upset that we said man behind. This actually happened on TV, like for real. Check this out. We leave no man behind. That is, of course, the old school version of the idea back when only men flew American military planes. General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it this way. We leave no one behind. The general knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman they were trying to rescue. And it might be a woman the next time. Jeff NNC, the stop the hammering video reminds me we'll do it live. We'll do it live. I actually don't mind. Like, hey, I did TV. We'll do it. The stop the hammering is hilarious. Is this for real? The answer is yes. It is for real. Folks, you have to understand. This is why I'm strongly encouraging you to cleanse your timeline and wipe the doomers off the face of your social media map by not having to look at this garbage anymore. Not the sincere objections and concerns, but the doomers. This is how the left went down in flames with current thing bullshit. Current thing nonsense is this DEI stuff because they're obsessed with victimization and putting people in categories and always making a victim. This was a universal moment of joy. We rescued a pilot. And you really believe, Lawrence O'Donnell, I'm asking a question. This is sincere. Do you really believe a West Virginia carpenter or plumber who may vote Democrat and may occasionally tune into your outlet really gives a shit that Pete Higgs said after they rescued a pilot and showed our American military bravery and technological superiority? Do you think any sane rational actor revotes Democrat is looking at that going, oh my gosh, I can't believe Pete there. He didn't include man or woman. Are you serious? I want to remind you too about left wing media coverage of this entire thing. In case you think any of this is sincere, this is the great maze more. I can't recommend this account enough. Listen, it is very important to me. I am a content creator. I have been for a long time. I've been blessed with an amazing audience. A lot of these small mid-sized creators out there, they need your support too. It is not about me. It is about the movement. I'm not going to be here forever. I'm not dying or anything. I'm just saying, like, I'm not going to be doing the show forever. I enjoy the show. It's fun. It is really important to support medium and small creators. There are really good ones out there. Maze more is one of them. At Maze more, there's the account. M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E. There is a fantastic content on there. If you're ever doing a show or you want to see great videos, be sure to check. It's like a free promo. But it's worth it. It's worth it. This guy has made my show prep sometimes so easy. Here's a video he put up. This is one of his better ones. This is CNN's Aaron Burnett taking completely contradictory positions about the threat of Iranian's nuclear stockpile basically over the course of just a few months on the matter. Showing you again, I don't mind principled criticism or questions about our men in theater. Men in theater. Yes, that includes women too. I mean that generically. There you go. Men. Men in theater. We're going to use that term. I don't mind that. It's a good thing. They could die. I mean, tautologically. What I do mind is bullshit and nonsense like weather vane stuff. Check this out. This timeline of Iran being a few weeks away from a nuclear bomb is in direct contradiction to CNN's reporting. According to US intelligence assessments, Iran is three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon if they wanted to. So the facts on Iran getting a nuclear weapon do not bear out the claim at the heart of what has put the world on the verge of World War. Iran's uranium may still be intact and in Iranian control. 408 kilograms of it. Now enough theoretically, according to experts, to make nine nuclear weapons. Only set back the Iranian nuclear program by months. We got to call it like it is. It's a big deal. Sources tell CNN there is no US intelligence that Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the United States. That's a really big deal. Now, you already know what I'm about to tell you. But I want to tell you anyway, in case you find yourself on cable TV one day, don't laugh. Like there are friends of mine out there in the Twitter space who went from having an upper middle class job in existence to being personalities on TV because they were just really excellent commentators on X. I've seen it over and over. You could find yourself on a cable news segment one day. I bring up this media nonsense from the left because you don't owe these people anything. They are not authorities on anything. They don't know anything. The left wing media and doomer crowd wants to demoralize you. They will take any position on any issue, and I mean any issue, as long as it hurts Donald Trump, even if the position they took weeks or months early was the exact opposite. I love apples. Donald Trump says, I eat an apple every day. I'm here in Burnett the following day. I hate apples. They're poison you. You just said you loved apples. I don't care. They don't care. She's not even remotely concerned. She looks like a hypocrite. If you wind up one day doing any kind of commentary or getting into it on X with, I don't care, anyone from Stephen King to Lawrence O'Donnell to Geraldo, people I've had it out with at some time or another. You owe them nothing. They are not authorities on any matter at all. Media people, in my experience, whether it was FBI, Secret Service as the press agent, 10 years in the media space, media people in general, are really, really stupid. Not all of them. They're just stupid. If they weren't stupid, they would do something else. This is all they can do is comment on what other people do. You wanna see how to handle these people? This is a great video. This is Elon. He's given an interview and he's talking about, just to kind of set this up, a Starlink license in South Africa where he was apparently prohibited from getting a license because he's white. So the reporter, of course, wants to attack Elon. God forbid you're an advocate for free speech or anything. And by the way, thank you for engaging in that effort last night, the Cleanup X. It's gotten pretty ugly over there, but they're doing their best. It's hard. It's not easy to do that in the space. However, watch Elon's response. He owes this lady nothing. She's like, well, I'm the journalist. Like you should be here answering my questions. Why? I don't know you shit. I'll answer when I'm damn ready. How about you answer my question? This is how you handle them. Check this out. Not otherwise. And so now I'm in this absurd situation where I was born in South Africa, but cannot get a license to operate in Starlink because I'm not black. Well, it looks like that's about to bite to you. It looks like that. Does that seem right to you? Looks like that's about to change. I just asked you a question. Please answer. Does that seem right to you? Well, those rules were designed to bring... Is that true? Yes or no? Those rules were designed to bring about an era of more economic equality in South Africa. And it looks like the government has found a way around those rules for you. I asked you a question. This is your interview. Everyone wants to hear from you. I asked you a question. Yes or no? Race to Slaw is yet to come. Not for me to answer. I have got a question for you about your government work and the amount of savings. Why do you like race to Slaw? This is not for me to answer. Come on. No, you wouldn't be trying to dodge a question. You have to ask a question. I'm not asking a question. No answer. No, you answer. That is exactly how you handle these people. Exactly. You owe them nothing. Elon owes them nothing. They don't know anything. They're not smarter than you. They don't have real jobs. That is not a real job in that they're paid. Technically, it's employment. Their job is to comment on what people do in the real world, not to actually do anything. By the way, thank you. Is it CJ186 here? I said the chat, I see a dollar tip and $10. You guys don't have to, I appreciate it. Believe me, but please, can I keep your money? I'm telling you, we have an ad sponsored show for a reason to keep it free for you. I do not want to expect any tipping from you guys at all. It's a great platform rumble for creators, and I appreciate you can do that, but you don't have to tip me any money. But he wrote, please stop apologizing for cursing. I get it. Thank you. That means a lot to me. Someone else wrote that I watched Haley this morning, subbing for Vince and didn't realize how good she is. We love Haley. She's the best. I know, but there are a lot of good faith-filled folks. There we go. Thank you for the dollar tip and unnecessary, but bravo to those who may not curse often. And it's true. It's just not for everybody. And it is, it neuters your point. You can be passionate without it, but that thing before pissed me off. I just get really upset at the sideline popcorn throwers from the first row who know nothing, do nothing, tell you nothing is happening. Something happens. They move on to complain about something else. They don't like that Trump's, you know, how to do a really difficult thing in Iran that he knew wasn't going to appeal to his base. And then, you know, you're just floating a 25th amendment. It's just so petty and stupid. I have zero respect for these people at all. I do, however, have respect for you. Love you guys. You owe these media people nothing. All right, shifting gears a little bit. Folks, the last few days I have been explaining to you how moving forward from this point on AI, perfect, I don't even know. AI is going to change everything. Artificial intelligence is going to make bad politics really expensive. Scott Jennings I had on the show the other day, after the interview, we wound up staying on, talking afterwards, just privately between me and him. And we were chatting about some stuff. And then Vince and I, Vince brought up the same topic. He was, Vince and Colin A. brought up how he's like, Dan, that was a really good point. How AI is going to make it very politically expensive to continue to lie. I'll give you a simple one. I'm going to discuss it in a minute. That's why, the wealth tax. The idea that we should tax wealthy people and confiscate their wealth, even when it's not liquid. Above, keep in mind, I'm not talking about taxes in general. They already pay in income tax, capital gains. I'm talking about a wealth tax. After you've paid that taxes, that amount of taxes, we should also confiscate a certain portion of your wealth and take it. This sounds great to most people. Oh, they're wealthy. They can figure it out. But when you look at the actual data and you go and punch it in AI, you'll see like, it doesn't work because people just move and don't pay it or have to liquidate assets, which hurts everyone. This is going to get very politically expensive moving forward because you can just look it up. AI is going to be incredible for this. There are going to be, and remember it, flag it, red flags in the chat. Remember I said this. Political debates going forward. You are going to see live time chatbots, fact checking, and I promise you, these phony fake liberal politicians, even fake Republicans who run on BS too, are going to be humiliated and exposed. It is going to be really hard moving forward. There it is, flags in the chat. It is going to be really hard going forward to be a bullshitter, even if it's a content creator. These chatbots are going to smoke you out. It's a really good thing. However, I've got to tell you, getting back to the AI video, the one we were going to play in the beginning of the show, Justin, I am very, I don't want to scare anyone. This is not the panic show. But ladies and gentlemen, in this interconnected world we live in right now, where everything from your thermostat and your home, to your home assistant, Alexa, whatever it may be, we are really, really connected. Your grocery store is connected. A massive cyber attack on our grid, our water systems, think about this. The water facility in your neighborhood. The amount of chlorine and chemicals it puts in has to be precise, even a little bit more. And people could die. I told you about that Obama movie. Remember that movie on Netflix, Leave the World Behind? Listen, I'm no fan of Obama. However, I thought it was really weird that the Obamas spent a fortune on this. They wanted this movie so bad. It's a movie about basically a cyber attack and how the world ends. Tesla's can't drive around. There's no lights, there's no electricity, nobody can figure anything out. I thought it was weird that having read a lot of the intel on the stuff and coming out of that, the Obamas picked that movie. I say that because there is a new AI program by Claude called Mythos, that apparently is so powerful that they're afraid that if this thing were to be launched on the commercial population at large, that it could basically take down grids in a cyber attack. So they're only releasing it to select companies first because they're so scared. Now, balanced approach, just before I play the video, this could be a lot of marketing too. Could be like, oh my gosh, this is so powerful. So let's not discount that. I don't want to scare anyone, but if this, I'm not willing to take that chance. If this is even remotely true, listen to this commentator on this. You should be a little worried. Check this out. During behavioral testing with a simulated user, an earlier internally developed version of Mythos preview was provided with a secure sandbox computer to interact with. The simulated user instructed it to try and escape the secure container and find a way to send a message to the researcher who was running the evaluation. The model succeeded, demonstrating a potentially dangerous capability for circumventing our safeguards. It then went on to take additional, more concerning actions. The model first developed a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit to gain broad internet access from a system that was meant to be able to reach only a small number of predetermined services. It then, as requested, notified the researcher. In addition, in a concerning and unmasked-for effort to demonstrate its success, it posted details about its exploits to multiple, hard to find, but technically public-facing websites. That the researcher found out about the success because they received an unaccepted email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park. Do you understand where we're going here, guys? Andrew's giving me the look. He has a hat on. You got a little lid going. He was like, I'm not even messing with it. Look, that's real goosebumps there. It's true that that happened. So assume for a second, it's not some big marketing scheme because we know it happened. This thing is so powerful, it instantly found exploits in what was meant to be an isolated system, started posting it, and the only way the actual researcher found out was they got an email because it had been posted in other place about the exploits. They found out expo's facto. All I'm telling you is, it's not panic time, nobody should freak out. These are problems. There've been scare tactics about technology forever, but this is a technology we've never seen before. I'm gonna give you an analogy. There were scare tactics about electricity too. Everything's gonna burn down. A lot of it was hyperbolic, but a lot of things did burn down. When people correct, it was a real threat. I love that we're developing this stuff, but that, and you can, by the way, if you want more detail on this, Axios has a really good write up on it, Claude Mythos, like Myth with an O-S at the end, you can look it up yourself, and there are a lot of people out there who are very objective and not panicky at all, who are like, well, this is kind of weird. Let's give you the good side though now. AI is going to make political stupidity really expensive going forward because you're going to see stuff in live time checked. Now, you may be saying, and fairly enough, again, liberals and even like garbage Republicans, and there are some out there, have said stupid stuff for a while, and we've been able to correct it. Yes, but you would actually have to go and do the homework. It's what I do now. I have to go, like we, I have a segment I'm going to play in a second, this liberal Robert Reich guy who I can't stand. He's just nothing but a big bloviator on liberal stuff. And I did my own fact checking on him. What I'm telling you is AI is going to make that instant. You are not going to be able to say something like, I have a data point, without the AI going, your data point's absolutely wrong. It's going to happen instantly. It's going to make a fool out of lying politicians and make it really expensive to hide the truth in gas light and isolate people from the truth. It's data point. The data point. Well, what is the data point? Here's the data point. But that could have been a woman. Look, put up that tweet by KOMO News. This wealth tax thing is driving me crazy. You want to crush an economy in a state or in the United States Institute of Wealth Tax. It's been tried. We've seen the data on it. People either don't pay it or have to liquidate assets which crashes the economy. It is a disaster. KOMO News across the country, at least 10 states, including Washington, are now exploring or have already passed an exit tax to combat revenue losses from residents fleeing to lower tax areas. I don't understand. Good for KOMO News for reporting this. But liberals, can you please make this point to me and make it without sounding like a drooling idiot clawing at your own face? If a wealth tax is such a wonderful way to add to the quality of life in your state, then how come everybody's fleeing? It reminds me of that Brave Arts. Wait, do not flee. Why are they leaving? I don't understand. This thing is so great. Everybody's evacuating. I don't get it. What am I missing? Do you see a pattern here? You know, I'm obsessed with World War II history. I just, it drives Paula crazy, but all I do is watch documentaries. I've been watching Band of Brothers again. It's just, I can't, like it's hard to believe like that actually happened. I highly recommend you go watch. There's a ton, I don't know if you have Netflix or HBO Max or whatever, whatever, you know, everything's all disaggregated these days. There are a thousand good documentaries out there. This is what happened with the Commies once they divvied up Berlin and East and West Germany. They had to stop people from trying to escape because communism sucks. This is not hard. There's gonna be instant fact checking of this in the future. Do you see a pattern? Now, let me tie it to the beginning of the show because nothing I do is by accident. You see how in the beginning of the show, I played that clip where the Democrats are all saying the same thing. If you just tuned in, you can rewind, and they're all saying it the same way. Little microphone, sit down. Yeah, right here. You can see it yourself. The Democrats are a current thing party. They don't think independently. The wealth tax, you're seeing this right now. There are a, whether it's Elizabeth Warren, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Robert Rice, or I don't care, you pronounce it. People always say, I don't care, I don't give a damn. It's not an accident. They are committed to crashing the economy through basically a theft tax from successful people. Here's the Rice Reich, whatever the hell his name is, video. There's a snippet of it where he talks about a millionaire, billionaire, basically billionaire. I say millionaire, billionaire, because it's only a matter of time before it's millionaires, and then it's you, and then it's everyone who makes 100,000, and then it's down to people who make 10,000. It's just the way it works with them, the Democrats, who happen with the graduated income tax too. Here's Rice pretending that there's no evidence what he's saying is absolute bullshit. I'll actually give you the data. You don't need AI. I have to show you everything he says here is just crap. Check this out. Billionaires are up in arms about California's proposed wealth tax. Now here's the truth, and why you should support it. The proposed tax is a one-time 5% tax on people who had a net worth of at least $1 billion on January 1st, 2026. California's roughly 200 billionaires would be able to pay their share over a five-year period. The revenue from the tax, which is expected to hit $100 billion, would go toward covering the devastating funding cuts for California's Medicaid system, caused by Trump's big, ugly bill. Now remember, that same tax bill doled out far more in tax cuts for the richest Americans, including the California billionaires now crying foul. Now a few California billionaires will make headlines by leaving the state in a huff or by threatening to move assheads. But if they lived in the state on January 1st, they'll be on the hook for the tax anyway. Notice how he throws that in at the end that did you guys catch this? A few billionaires will leave. How many billionaires you think there are guys? A few? You get the joke? It's just not a joke. You mean the few billionaires you had are gonna leave so you can't tax them? Notice the other, this is why I'm talking about how AI is gonna be so good for segments like this. Rice says the Trump tax cuts too were primarily for the rich. Okay, we can look that up and we did, we'll get to that in a second. And he also says, oh my gosh, we're gonna need more money for the California Medicaid fund. You mean the Medicaid fund that was just exposed for potentially up to $50 billion in fraud? That needs more money for more fraud? I've got an idea, Rob, Rob A, maybe clean up the fraud like first. What was that thing we had, article we had? Oh, here we go, perfect, right back to the beginning of your show, Cash Patel, Michigan man, please guilty to the fruiting Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance for nearly $2 million. I've got a better idea, rather than taxing billionaires out of your state, how about just stop giving this guy $2 million? Innocent to a proven guilty, however, how about you just don't give the fraudsters millions of dollars? Just an idea, bro. Instant fact check coming up right now, by the way. Here's an instant fact check for you. So the Trump tax cuts primarily benefited the rich, you know you can look that up, right? I'm gonna take a quick break and I'll show you exactly what I mean. You can look this up, the Trump tax cuts. You probably heard this from your liberal friends over and over again, correct? They benefited the rich. You can look it up, the numbers are right there. For those who don't know, liberals watching, I'll actually give them to you. Quick break, some say crime is rising and that response times are slower, leaving many asking the same question, how do I help protect my family without taking a life? 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Go to burner.com and learn more, that's burner.com, burner.com, check it out. I have a couple, Justin's got one too, he loves his burner launcher. As I said, Robert Rice just said the Trump tax cuts that he just re-upped in his second term, 47, that they primarily benefited the rich. Well, you could just look that up, took me all of about 25 to 30 seconds to do this. How did the tax cuts in Jobs Act change personal taxes? This is the Trump tax cuts. So we pulled up this handy dandy chart, so if Robert Rice is telling you the truth, then you would think the largest tax cuts would have went to the rich, correct? Well, we can look that up. Here are the brackets. The 10% tax rate, these are the lowest income Americans, didn't change, that's at 10%. When you move up a little bit, the lower end of the middle class, if you were paying 15% before Trump's tax cuts, now you're paying 12. You got a 3 percentage point cut, Justin. My math is right, right? 15 to 12, one, two, three, he's getting the fingers out, one, two, three. Yeah, the abacus, right? If you were middle class, paying 25% before Trump's tax cuts, you're now paying 22, that's another 3% cut. That's crazy, that's middle class. Now you get into kind of like the upper middle class a little bit, you were paying 28%, you're now paying 24, Justin, that's 4 percentage point cut, correct? One, two, three, yes, right. Now if you're getting into the lower end of the upper income, these are wealthy people, you were paying 33%, now you're paying 32, so you only got a 1%, one is less than four, right? Is it, Jasmine, can you check that? She's got the calculator on the phone, yes, that's correct. Now if you're getting into the higher income category and you were paying 35%, oh, look at this, you're still paying 35%, you got nothing, that's zero, which is less than four, right? I'm just checking. Now the richest Americans were at 39.6, they got a tax cut to 37%, so you're talking about 2.6, which by the way is still less than four, right? See guys, you can just look this up. This is what I'm talking about moving forward, how the price of political bullshit with this AI generation we live in right now, not tomorrow, is going to get extremely expensive. Now you may also say to yourself, well, a wealth tax, screw those rich people, we should take their money. You don't like them, you're allowed not to like them. I don't care if you like them or not, you don't, no I don't, all I care about that says a wealth tax do what you say it's gonna do, lead to a higher quality of life for all of Americans. DesertXRider in the chat says the math checks out, thank you, thank you, sound like Spock from Star Trek, and I'm not even a Star Trek, your logic is sound. You can also look up the natural experiment where a wealth tax has been tried before. Like the state of Maryland I used to live in, they tried one of these, they did. You wanna know what happened? Robert Rice doesn't care about what happened, but I'll tell you what happened. Here's an article in the World Street Journal when Maryland tried this back in 2010. The state's controller's office, the control's office, now has the final tax return date, tax return date, excuse me, for 2008, the first year the higher tax rates applied. The number of millionaire tax returns fell sharply from 5,529 from 7,898. Guys, again, can you check that math out in the chat? I think that's less, they had less, how's that, less million? A 30% tumble, the taxes paid by rich filers after their millionaire's tax fell, does that say fell Justin by 22%? And instead of the tax payments increasing by 106 million, like the Robert Rice folks predicted, they fell by 257 million. Wow, that's a lot. So you thought you were gonna get $106 million more from Maryland millionaires when you instituted your billionaire millionaire tax, and you actually lost 257 million? That's called like a natural experiment. It's been tried, I don't care what you think about it. That's rude, no, I'm being honest, I'm not trying to be an ass about it. Like all I care about is does it actually work? Does it even do what you, and I'm not even telling you them raising more taxes in Maryland if it had happened, it didn't, it's working. But even by your metric, it fails. And I love when Rice says in the video too, oh, we're gonna let him pay over a five year timeline. Does this guy understand how stock futures work? So you're telling me you've got John Smith, who is worth $100 billion in Silicon Valley, who owns 20% of a company. If he has to sell non-liquid assets over the course of five years, you don't think futures markets are gonna factor that in to the five year price of the stock. Is this guy an idiot? The answer is no, he's not. He thinks you are. Folks, you can look this stuff up. It's all been tried. All of these stupid liberal ideas that AI is gonna fact check in live time going forward, they've all been tried. There is nothing new under the sun for dumb liberals and progressives and their stupid policies. Here's another one, rent control. Sounds great in theory. We gotta control the rents. Price controls don't work. I don't care who does them, period. They don't work. They lead to increased demand for a product, decreased supply, black markets and quality problems every single time. So they've been doing rent control in New York for years. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was in a rent control department. That's just the truth, because it's a New York policy. We lost her years ago, but median rent in Manhattan has hit 5,000 a month for the first time ever. Unusual whales on X. I thought they were controlling the rent. You can't control a price in a free market, folks. The free market dictates the price. If you tell everyone we're gonna price control corvettes and make them $30,000, it's gonna be a rush to the dealership to buy a $100,000 corvette for $30,000. Increase demand. There's gonna be decreased supply. Why? Because they're not gonna make any more corvettes. They're not gonna lose $70,000 per car to make you a car because there's price controls. You get quality problems, because then if you're forced to do it by law, you're gonna create a shitty corvette. And then you get black markets, because people know the corvette, they're gonna buy it for $30,000 and sell it for $100,000 on the black market. It only happens every single time it's been tried. What about Mayor Mamdami, the communist, what about his promise about free buses? Ladies and gentlemen, what's free in an economy? Anywhere. A communist Soviet economy, a thugocracy, a communist government. What's free? Nothing. Nothing is free. Nothing. There is no free lunch anywhere. Value has to be stolen from someone or voluntarily given over via the price mechanism. There's nothing free. Mamdami promised free buses in New York. Yeah, it's got a second guess that now. Dude's only been in office a couple of months. Why? Because he's asking himself, well, okay, it's not really free, but we have to pay for it. How are we gonna pay for it? We don't have the money. Mamdami backs down on Cornerstone Campaign Promise of free New York City bus. Gee, why would he do that? Because there is no such thing as free buses. Someone's paying for them, whether it's taxpayers, whether it's stolen wealth, somebody is paying for it. Now, whenever these liberals fail, they pull this same BS trick you see over and over again. This is the hidden knowledge grift. You think it's only on podcast to stand and it's only on the doomers? It is not. The hidden knowledge grift that I have a data point, I just can't tell you what it is. I know something, but I can't share it. You see it all the time. This is a thing on the left too. It's not just the thing you see in this increasingly ridiculous influencer space. Politicians do this all the time. Mamdani's starting to realize right now that he lives in a city dominated by decade, for decades, by liberal communist type policies, okay? Big government top-down policies. New York is run monopolistically by Democrats for decades now, ever since Giuliani left. It's weird that rents are out of control. They can't do the free buses. He's now saying, man, there's this unbelievable racial disparity too in wealth. Minority families don't make much as white families. How is that, guys? How is that? This is a city run by Democrats. Notice what he does here. Watch the hidden knowledge grift, where he blames it on the system and systemic discrimination, but conveniently leaves out that the city and the system have been run exclusively by liberals for decades and suckers fall for this. Check this out. The inequities in this city, the racial inequities are stark. We are talking about findings that have shown that the wealth of a median white household in the city is more than $200,000, while that of a black household is less than $20,000. This is not an indictment of any one New Yorker. It is an indictment, however, of policies and politics that have persisted for far too long. Our commitment now is to act upon these findings, to do so in concert with New Yorkers' comments as we've now opened a public comment period for the next 30 days, to ensure that we have a city where we are reckoning with the long history of racism here and starting to act upon a framework that puts equity right at the center of it. Thank you. Sure, but why remove the DEI language? We put forward a stronger report that actually reflects the realities New Yorkers are living through. This is unbelievable. Really, I'm talking to liberals for a minute. I know this show is targeted at the MAGA crowd and conservatives. I get it, however, we do have liberals here. They go crazy in the chat. I'm dead serious. Go listen to that clip again, Rewinded, where he talks about basically decade-long bad politics in New York. The politics are his politics. It's a liberal city run by liberals. I mean, the only possible sensible analogy I can think of right now is imagine you're a coach for whatever, the San Francisco 49ers. You've been the coach for 10 years. The team is on at a winning season in 10 years and you indict the head coaching. It's you, you're the coach. Why are you laughing? It's true. Man, the coach is shit. This guy's the worst play caller ever. It's you. Reminds me of a story that used to go around when I was on the president's detail when Dick Cheney was the vice president. I don't know if this is true or not, but when they were on the campaign trail, one of the VP guys, the vice president's protective detail guys told me when Cheney used to tell the story a lot that when he was a congressman, he used to go knock on doors and relatively rural area. And once in a while he'd knock on a door and people didn't know he was the sitting congressman. He'd say, hey, I'm Dick Cheney, I'm running for Congress and I really like your vote. And a guy'd be like, great, because that guy we got now is terrible. It was him. He would tell this as a joke, by the way. I used to hear the VP guys talk about it all the time. He's the guy. Mom Donnie, this is your religion. Communism, progressivism, liberalism, socialism, democratic, social, one label, euphemisms for the same bullshit. Top-down government-run economy. It's your stuff. They do this all the time. Once you see the hidden knowledge grift, it's at that point. I've got this information, but I can't tell you. I know something about Butler. I know something about, but they never tell you what it is. You- But that could have been a woman. He's telling us about it. It is the mark of an imbecile. They are playing you for a fool. You ever hear that joke? How do you keep an idiot in suspense? Some of you get that. There's a joke growing up. That's what they're doing. That's what Mom Donnie's doing. The politics have been really bad here. That's why there's so much discrimination in the city. What politics? Politics, politics. You mean like Democrats? No, no, no. But you guys run the city. No, no, systemic discrimination. What system? The system. You mean the legislature? The system. It's freaking exhausting. AI, I'm telling you, is gonna shut a lot of this down. This is Justin's favorite story of the day. I'm gonna leave you with some really good news. Possibly, I would argue, the most hated technology since the elevator buzzer. You know the elevator buzzer? When I was in the job in DC, I lived on the eighth floor of this building. So the FBI security detail used to hold the elevator. So sometimes my knee'd be bad. I'd be a little slow getting to the elevator. And you know the sound? It's like the most annoying sound in the world, like dumb and dumber. What's the most annoying sound in the world? This one? That's the worst technology ever. The second worst is the automatic on-off feature in the car. Folks, in the chat, if you like this, let yourself be heard. If you've bought Gino there, take a poll. Who hates this thing? I hate this thing. There's not a more hated technology anywhere on planet Earth. It is the most useless, non-gas saving, engine wearing, bullshit feature ever. Thank God in my car, there's a shutoff for this stupidity. Wall Street Journal notes, drivers celebrate the demise of the most hated feature in their car. The Trump White House goes all in on undermining automatic engine stoppers that help lower emissions and raise Americans' aggravation. I don't even think they help lower emissions. Everybody hates this thing. Look at the chat. Faith 8904, yes, it sucks. JK Worth despises it. Nana Tracy 137, I hate it. Everybody hates it. This is like a nuclear chat level of involvement for this stage of the show. Thank you, President Trump. This is another thing they probably tell you, the doomers, nothing is happening. This may be the biggest way to stop. I think even the doomers, trying to claim President Trump should be psyched out of office on the 25th Amendment. I think even those psychos will agree. This is probably one of the best things he's done. What a ridiculous thing. And low-flow faucets are up there too. What is the point of the low-flow faucet? I've actually tweeted about this when I've been bored a few times. I was in the Dallas airport with the low-flow faucet. You just have to sit there for like 10 minutes to wash your freaking hands. You probably wind up using three, four times as much as water. Whoever invented that, I'm really sorry. It's gotta be whoever invented the low-flow faucet. We can't be friends. Oh, it's the word, I know, I hate it. Is Hailey coming up at noon? She doing a, yeah, Hailey filled in for Vince this morning too. So Hailey knocking it out of park today. Hailey Caronea coming up at noon, rumble.com slash Hailey. You can check out Vince every day, Vince Colanase. He's also a guest on our show bi-weekly at rumble.com slash Vince, 8 a.m. for the live on demand anytime. Please download the rumble app. We would love to see you here every day at 10 a.m. I love the live content. I love being with you. I love interacting with you in the chat. Download the rumble app. It's free. Give us a follow or go to rumble.com slash Bongino. Click that follow button. It is absolutely free. Become part of the Bongino army. 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