The Dan Bongino Show

Earthquake in California? (Ep. 2528)

80 min
Jun 3, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

Dan Bongino analyzes the California primary election results showing strong Republican performance despite mail-in ballot concerns, discusses the collapse of mainstream media trust at 19%, and interviews Vince Colonnese about the 2024 election landscape and the Democratic Party's problematic candidate slate.

Insights
  • Mail-in balloting creates structural vulnerabilities to fraud that even left-leaning outlets like the New York Times have documented, with rejection rates double those of in-person voting
  • Hyper-localized campaigns focused on immediate community issues (homelessness, fentanyl, fires) outperform national messaging because voters can verify claims through direct observation
  • Republican bench strength significantly exceeds Democratic alternatives, with candidates like Rubio, Vance, and Hilton contrasting sharply against Democratic slate including extremists and terror-adjacent figures
  • Independent media and citizen documentation via smartphones have fundamentally shifted the ability to fact-check political narratives in real-time, undermining traditional media gatekeeping
  • Trust in mainstream media has collapsed 53 points since 1972 (now at 19%) due to consistent dishonesty on major issues (Russia collusion, COVID, vaccines), creating opportunity for alternative platforms
Trends
Population exodus from blue states to red states accelerating, with California losing 500,000 residents in two years and New York/California losing combined six congressional seatsMail-in ballot fraud becoming mainstream political concern even among traditionally liberal outlets, shifting election integrity from fringe to mainstream discussionHyper-local issue focus replacing national partisan messaging as winning electoral strategy in traditionally blue strongholdsArtificial intelligence advancement becoming national security imperative rather than optional technology adoption, with asymmetric risk if adversaries advance firstIndependent media platforms (Rumble, X, podcasts) outperforming traditional broadcast networks in audience engagement and trust metricsDemocratic Party candidate quality declining with normalization of extremist positions (terror sympathizers, anti-Semitism, assassination culture acceptance)Republican primary process successfully filtering out extremist candidates while Democratic process amplifying themMainstream media institutions doubling down on failed narratives rather than correcting course, accelerating institutional collapseVoter behavior driven by observable local conditions rather than media narratives, particularly in urban centers experiencing visible declineCross-party consensus emerging on border security, crime reduction, and education curriculum concerns despite media attempts to frame as partisan
Topics
California Primary Election Results and Mail-in Ballot FraudMainstream Media Trust Collapse and Credibility CrisisSpencer Pratt and Steve Hilton Republican Performance in Blue StatesMail-in Balloting vs. In-Person Voting Security ComparisonDemocratic Senate Candidate Quality and Extremism NormalizationArtificial Intelligence National Security ImplicationsIndependent Media vs. Traditional Broadcast Network CompetitionPopulation Migration from Blue States to Red StatesHyper-Local Campaign Strategy EffectivenessBorder Security and Immigration EnforcementSchool Curriculum and Parental Rights DebatesCrime and Homelessness in Major Urban CentersElection Integrity and Ballot Harvesting PracticesRepublican vs. Democratic Bench Strength AssessmentFirst Amendment and Press Freedom Institutional Decline
Companies
CBS/60 Minutes
Scott Pelly anchor facing potential removal after biased interview with Moms for Liberty, exemplifying mainstream med...
NBC/MSNBC
Coverage of California election results acknowledging mail-in ballot fraud risks and vote counting delays
CNN
Man-on-street interviews failing to generate anti-Pratt sentiment, demonstrating disconnect between media narrative a...
New York Times
Published Adam Liptak article documenting mail-in ballot fraud risks, contradicting Democratic Party election integri...
Fox News
Kevin Cork coverage of California election results showing Republican overperformance in traditionally Democratic areas
Rumble
Independent video platform hosting Dan Bongino Show, representing 60-70% of audience despite exclusion from major pod...
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People
Dan Bongino
Primary host analyzing California election results, media credibility crisis, and national political landscape
Vince Colonnese
Guest discussing Democratic candidate quality, election integrity concerns, and Republican bench strength
Spencer Pratt
Reality TV personality running as Republican for LA mayor, achieving approximately one-third of primary vote
Steve Hilton
Former Fox host running as Republican for California governor, currently leading in primary results
Marco Rubio
Defended his role during Pakistan negotiations against Senator Jacky Rosen's false allegations
J.D. Vance
Leading fraud task force and Pakistan negotiations, representing strong Republican bench strength
Karen Bass
Underperformed in primary with less than 51% despite incumbent advantage in blue city
Scott Pelly
Conducted biased interview with Moms for Liberty, facing potential removal as example of media bias
Tom Homan
Visited ICE facility to verify conditions, debunking false claims about food quality and hunger strikes
Christina Wang
Posted chart showing media trust decline from 72% in 1972 to 19% in 2025
Adam Liptak
Authored article documenting mail-in ballot fraud risks, contradicting Democratic Party narratives
Peter Sainange
Guest interviewed about artificial intelligence economic implications and future workforce impacts
Hayley Caradia
Co-host of Scrolling with Hayley, appearing at noon weekdays on Rumble platform
Mark Wayne Mullin
Testified before Senate on death threats against ICE agents resulting from Democratic rhetoric
Jacky Rosen
Made false allegations about Marco Rubio attending party instead of Pakistan negotiations
John Fetterman
Only prominent Democrat speaking against party extremism, facing primary challenge from own party
Gavin Newsom
Referenced as failing to address California's homelessness, crime, and housing crises
Tom Segura
Discussed AI acceptance and integration into society despite generational resistance
Quotes
"If your blue utopias are so freaking wonderful, then why is the greatest thing about your blue utopia? How quickly you can escape?"
Dan BonginoEarly segment
"Less than one in five people believe you're getting the facts from a journalistic media enterprise whose only freaking job is to get you the facts."
Dan BonginoMedia trust discussion
"The more people you're forced to vote by mail, the more invalid ballots you will generate."
Election official (quoted from New York Times article)Mail-in ballot segment
"I have no experience screwing things up. Yes, good answer."
Spencer PrattElection night coverage
"You have to think of this like email. Email just happened whether you like email or not it didn't matter. We're gonna have to deal with it realistically."
Tom Segura (quoted)AI discussion
"If you don't have a Republican on the runoff race in November, the House of Representatives could fall to the Democrats just based on that."
Dan BonginoCalifornia election analysis
Full Transcript
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Oh my gosh, holy Moses, what happened in California yesterday? The answer is we don't know because California runs its elections like a third world country. Justin said they're expecting results in about six months. But Dan, the general elections, exactly. Maybe not six months. But bad enough, or the other way, it's center up. I don't like being too far from the flag. We got a special guest in the studio today. The almighty Lucy is here, killer attack dog, like Kujo. If you see Lucy, you get the joke. I didn't have the heart to leave the dog alone. I didn't have the heart to leave the dog alone today. She was looking at me and we got some people like doing work around the house and all and she can like hang out with them, but she misses me. And I had to bring her into studio. I felt bad. You know, I never thought I'd be a dog person, but you know how it is you get a dog and you become a dog person with like biosmosis. Folks, I said to you yesterday I was going to put together a collage. Well, not me, but the guys of liberals fleeing blue states, giving everything that happened in California. I said, the guys came through in a clutch. Here it is. Justin, can we put this out on your Twitter? Here it is in case for all the liberals out there saying, no, these blue utopias, everybody loves big government welfare states, 90 States, mom, Dami, communism, Lenin, Stalin, all of it. Really? Experts project New York to lose two congressional seats in 2030. Got the blues, New York, California, who lose combined six house seats after the census. Los Angeles needs nation and massive population exodus is breaking point hits golden state. California's population plummets for the first time since the pandemic as LA sees a staggering exodus. These places. Oh, there's more blue states have led two trillion in wealth to red states. California loses 500,000 residents in two years. LA leads nation and massive population exodus. Folks, if your blue utopias are so freaking wonderful, then why is the greatest thing about your blue utopia? How quickly you can escape? I'm not sure. Can you please explain this to me? Listen, libs, for a moment, try to take the cotton, like, you know, out of your ears and put it in your mouth and just listen to me for a second. Why are you constantly telling us how wonderful your places are despite the fact that all people want to do is escape your places where you're in charge? Does that make any sense? Those are actual headlines. Some of them are from left leaning outlets. Sorry, I mean, I've got a lot of energy today. California, even despite what looks like is going to be a mail in ballot disaster, I'm still optimistic about what I saw last night. And I'm happy today because another big thank you to you, the Bongino army that despite being away for a year, despite your news environment being up and down, despite all the internal fighting, the Bongino army continues to produce. Thank you so much. Road MN is a great account to follow on X the podcast index for news podcasts. There you go, the Dan Bongino show again, despite being away for a year, number eight in the top 10. Thank you so much. Now here's why this is interesting because it doesn't even factor in rumble. And that's probably 60 to 70% of our audience. It's Spotify, Apple podcasts and Amazon folks, our videos exclusive to rumble. The fact that we continue to perform well on these entities spot Spotify, Apple, despite the video not even being there is freaking amazing. And a big hat tip to you if this thing factored and rumble, we'd probably be even higher. That's where our audiences were exclusive video here. The audio product is over there. Thank you, Bongino army. 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Did you guys catch that coming over the it is a live show. So I'm who said Michael Silverman in the chat Lucy. Yes, Lucy is here. She did you hear it? Stop. Yeah, Jay Clevin stopped the effing leaf leaf. But wow, he's really mad about the leap. Oh my gosh. Poor guys like working for you just blowing some leaves. Yeah, no. And yes, see everyone else says they didn't hear it. Okay, good. Nope. Nope. Nope. See, it is a live show. We have mega chip. No, thanks guys. So thank you again to the Bongino army. And I've got us. I've got a sneaking suspicion as to why the show continues to overperform despite significant obstacles. We have no mainstream media attachment whatsoever for the podcast. We own it. It's ours. We have a sales agent, but it's our product. The reason is folks, we get you the truth and we bring you results. And if we mess something up, we tell you about it. But on the air 10 years, we've had a couple flubs. We corrected them. We move on. The mainstream media cannot do that. You know that hello, Captain obvious. I saw this tweet by Christina Wang yesterday made me laugh. Trust in the media. Trust in the media. Look at this. Justin, can you expand that a little bit because my eyes are terrible. All I know is the line goes down and down and down and down. If you were doing median mode analysis of central tendency and a regression line, that thing is going down a lot. The percentage of Americans who have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the mass media is down a staggering phenomenal 53 points from 1972 to 2025 and is now down at 19%. Think about that. Less than one in five people believe you're getting the facts from a journalistic media enterprise whose only freaking job is to get you the facts. And you wonder why shows like this continue to overperform kick ass and take names. That's why media people in some limited circles, you would call this a clue that less than one in five people thinks they can trust you. Do is this not a wake up call? Is this not a member of Bivis about kick me in the Jimmy? Is this not a kick in the nuts? How do you not see this? What? Andy, you're the good. Is that a master's hat on? Do you have a golf or something? Imagine going to a golf course where only one in five people think the golf course is actually constructed white and gives you an honest score. No one would go to the golf course. They would fix the golf course. Hey, there's too many whatever divots. I don't know. I don't play golf. However, I just saw his golf hat on. Nobody would go back. You'd have to fix it. The media gives zero Fs. They don't care. They lie. They love to lie. They make no apologies for lying. They continue to lie. And you're seeing it now. I promise I'm going to get to California, but I got so much. The reason California happened away. It happened yesterday, despite you being told that there's going to be a blue wave this year is precisely because the media has been covering up California's problems forever. I've never seen a more apropos story for this corrosive, low level of trust in the media than what's happening at 61 minutes right now. Remember 61 minutes? They added a minute for this. Guys remember that in the chat? That's a hardcore P one thing. 61 minutes has this anchor Scott Pelle. So they hire new leadership at CBS that's trying to make the network not crazy, which is really hard to make a major, you know, major broadcast network like NBC, CBS or ABC not crazy. Why guys? Because they've been doing decades of crazy because they're crazy and you know, telling crazy people that they're crazy is usually not easy. Okay. So Scott Pelle is one of the craziest left wing anchors on TV. So it looks like he may be getting canned. Here's Scott Pelle. And they think the left thinks this is journalism. Here he was interviewing moms for liberty, a great group out there trying to do the right thing to bring some sanity to the education system. And I want you to listen to these questions and you tell me if this is independent journalism, we should trust or hackery and hence why one in five Americans don't trust the media. Check this out. They're going to send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology. What ideology are they being indoctrinated into? Let's just say children in America cannot read. They often dodged questions with talking points. You're being evasive. 21% of Hispanic students are reading on Green Devil. You're being evasive. What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear? I think parents' fears are realized. They're looking at these books where sexual discussions are happening with their children at younger and younger ages. Your critics say that you have an anti-gay ideology. Nothing could be false. That is false. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have gay members. I think it's an effort to really try to marginalize us as an organization because parents are coming together across racial lines, across religious lines, across all of these different ways that we see Americans being divided. These guys are laughing inside. Justin's actually laughing. This is considered a media interview. Why didn't Doctrination, are you talking about? Gee, I don't know. They're giving kids books that depict oral sex to a bunch of kids who are not even teenagers yet. Not even, but no, no, you definitely hate gays. We should be teaching kids how to engage in various sexual activities in a, wait, what? This is why you saw what happened in California last night because you can't tell a bunch of California Los Angeles parents. Hey, there's no drug homelessness problem. The fentanyl floppers. There's no problem with indoctrination in schools when these parents are seeing these books come home and it's like, hey, here's how to perform this specific sexual activity. It's not the freaking Karma Sutra. It's kindergarten. Nobody believes you guys in the media anymore. If they believed you last night, Karen Bass would have ended the night with 51% of votes. She's the freaking mayor. Folks, do you know how hard it is to beat an incumbent in a blue city, to beat an incumbent, to have, she should have cleaned up and got 51% of the vote last night. She didn't. She barely edged out as of this morning Spencer Pratt, who's running as a Republican in a total train wreck for Californians. Now, caveat emptor man, buyer beware amigos. This is California with mass mail-in balloting, which put up the New York Times piece if you would, if you trust mail-in balloting, you're an idiot. Now I get it. The lefties gonna be election denier. You can take the double barrel middle finger and take both of them and just write up your, let's go back to the New York Times, the New York Times, the left wing New York Times calling out mail-in balloting. Yes. I want you all stop what you're doing, go to your phones and look, especially if you listen on Apple or Spotify, okay? And thank you for following us there. I want you to tap this, type this excuse me into your search engine, error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises. Put it in quotes. Oh, look what pops up on your phone in New York Times article by Adam Liptak. Yet votes cast by mail, they note in the New York Times are less, less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting boot. Statistic show. Oh my God. That is correct. That's bananas. Election officials reject almost 2% of ballots cash, cash by mail, double the rate for in-person voting. That says double, Justin. So if you're in-person voting and if you choose to vote by mail, there's twice the chance that it's fraudulent. That's what it says. What it even says in the article, a statistic show. It says it right there, right? Statistics show. They interview the sky as election official. Mr. Sancho, who's famous on this show. We love you, Mr. Sancho, wherever you are. Quote, the more people you're forced to vote by mail, the more invalid ballots you will generate. This is the New York Times. That's the New York Times, not the New York Post. That's left-wing New York Times. Crazy how they used to hate mail and balloting until they figured it worked for them. And now they love it. Oh, no fraud. California. And I'll bring this up. We had Vince Colonese later. We interview Vince every other Wednesday. Excellent host in his own right. When you combine mail and balloting, mass mail out balloting, in other words, everyone gets one in the mail. And then ballot harvesting, where Joey Bagadonis can show up and grab your ballot from you. You don't know what they're doing with it. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got a witch's brew for fraud. That's just a fact. New York Times acknowledged it themselves. We, this article has become a running joke on the show. You know why? Because it's not funny because it's real. I said to the guys this morning, can you guys pull that? They go, we know the New York Times are it's in the evergreen file. Right that, just like that. Because I love when left wingers, you should keep that screenshot on your phone. When left wingers go, you guys are exaggerating the problem. Really? Is the New York Times exaggerating the problem too? So good news. The last night was an earthquake in California. Even despite what we know is going to be some amount of fraud. Thank you. You should save that. I like that. This is despite what we know is going to be a statistic show, a good amount of mail and balloting fraud. The Democrats still underperformed dramatically last night. Let's go as Warner Wolfe used to say to the videotape. You grew up in New York. Here is NBC last night, basically admitting what I'm telling you. NBC was this or is this Kornaki from NBC? Here he is talking about everybody hold Braveheart style hold because the mail and ballots, you know, things could change dramatically even though Spencer Pratt got roughly a third of the vote. He's not wrong because you can't trust mail and ballot. Check this out. The only place updates not going to be huge. So if we largely have half the vote to come and it's going to be vote by mail and you've already given me now, they've had three subsequent vote by mail updates. They're not huge, but they're not nothing. The pattern in them is best first, ramen second, Pratt distant, distant third. If that were to be the pattern with the remaining vote by mail that's going to come in in days following the election, if it's you know, 36, 33, 20, something like that, which is what you're telling me these three roughly have been, she could erase that. Right. Folks, this is why I'm giving you the good news bad news. Now, I know this is a hard conversation, but as I said to you yesterday, please listen to me here. This is very serious. I know it's a hard conversation, but I mentioned yesterday how the essence of conservatism being a conservative is having to tell people hard truths. We're not liberals, we don't make shit up. Defund the police, wear your mask. COVID vaccine is fantastic. We don't lie to people because it sounds cute. Okay. I don't want you to take this as an excuse not to vote. We don't have a choice. It's the system in California we are stuck with because of blue state madness. There is still a good chance he could finish in the top two. But this may be the one time I agree with, you know, MS do what is an MSNOW do see a B who the hell knows what it is now. This is one of the few times I agree with them that given the prevalence of fraud and errors in mail and balloting because of all the obstacle points to a clean election, I wouldn't be surprised if these vote counts over the next 10 days, 10 days. This is like a freaking third world country in California. The election should be done at nine o'clock local time, the latest and the results should be in based on digital counting and all that said the results should be in by 11. It should be over. We got to wait 10 days. This is third world bullshit. I don't trust it. I don't trust it at all. You already saw the New York Times article. However, here's the good news because this regardless of what happens going forward and we will obviously intensely follow it. Regardless, folks, there was a massive electoral earthquake last night. I told you the reason it is important even if and I hope they don't but even if Spencer Pratt in the LA mayor's race and Steve Hilton, the Republican running in the governor's race who was leading right now at the time of this live show in the morning. Okay. Even if they don't win in a general election runoff, okay, against their Democrats, Karen Bass and whoever to Baccaria or Tom Steyer, they need to be on the ballot because when you have a strong Republican on the ballot, even if they lose, they draw Republicans to vote who then vote down ballot for other Republican candidates too. Do you see what I'm saying? If you have a candidate, Joey Baga Donuts, running three, four lines down the top of the ticket is going to be the governor's race. Okay. Then you're going to see they call it down ballot as you go down again. If there's a congressional race in California that's competitive and there are a lot of them. There are Republicans receipts in California. Republicans, if there's no Republican at the top of the ticket because it's too crazy, Democrats are just not going to show up. I'll prove it to you right now. What happened last night? I'm going to play this clip. This is Kevin Cork at Fox on the big board over there. He's talking about how look at what Steve Hilton did in LA. Steve Hilton's running for governor, not for LA mayor. Exactly. That's my point. Spencer Pratt drew so many people into the LA election who voted for the governor's race because they're California residents too, obviously, that even Hilton over performed. We got to get these two guys on the ballot or we're going to lose congressional seats too. Check this out. Shocking. That's the only thing I can think of. But Sarah 29, look at that. Steve Hilton, 215,000 votes in Los Angeles County. That should tell you a lot about how a lot of people feel in the Southland about how things have been going and what they feel like might be the proper way to move forward. I'm gobsmacked by that number. Fists for some perspective. Let me share again, Orange County, this is what you would anticipate, right? 34 to 23, 16 for Tom Steyer. If you're Steve Hilton, you've got to be loving the fact that you're at 25% up in Santa Barbara County. But here's what I really wanted to draw your attention to Sacramento County. Look at this. Now, it's a government town. You know that trace. So you would expect that Javier Becerra would do very, very well. Hilton well back, but not as far back as some people might have anticipated. But let me share this. If you go in and around, sack boy does Hilton really start to pick up numbers and it's consistent right there. 36 to 23, pop over to Nevada again, same thing, 33 to 21. It's going to be a very interesting night for Steve Hilton. And I imagine for a lot of people who didn't anticipate he would do as well as he is doing trade folks. Listen to your brother, Dan, I cannot emphasize in strong enough vocabulary here. If you do not have a Republican on the runoff race in November, the House of Representatives could fall to the Democrats just based on that. There are enough swingy seats in California, it could go down if no Republicans show up because they have no one at the top of the ticket to run for that we could lose the house based on what happens with Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt. I'm not kidding. Why do you think national Republicans have such an interest in this race? Why do you think Republicans in Nebraska talking about party officials are so interested in what's happening in California? Because the whole nation's House of Representatives that votes on national, international issues could revolve on what happens at the top of the ticket. I can't emphasize enough how important this is. I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to get back to this. I love it, by the way, when these liberal left wing outlets go out and do these man or woman on the street interviews and they ask people questions and they don't get the answer. They want, hey, why did you vote? What do you like that Spencer Pratt? They're waiting. No, I don't like it. I hate them. Reality TV. No experience effing things up or whatever. I love his line on that. You have no experience. He goes, yes, you're right. I have no experience screwing things up. Yes, good answer. CNN didn't get the answer they wanted. Then I've got another something weird happened at the reprat event, the election night event. Did you see it? The glasses guy? It's just weird. I don't know who this guy is. I got that coming up in a minute. Quick break. Hey, if you were a fan of the show in the last few years, you know my next sponsor beam be a m you know, I've had issues sleeping in the past. I was always looking for a good product. I took it every night while I was away. 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I love man on the streets especially when they turn out the wrong way for left wing outlets CNN interview interviews a woman hey what's up with this sponsor Pratt this is a great answer check this out he's he's a human person he's he lives here he knows what goes on what do you think about Pratt's unconventional I love it approach I love it what is it that you love about it he's another Trump you hear the contempt did you hear it Justin everybody what is it that you love about it and it all goes all Scott Pelly he's unconventional just like Trump I said that listen they may not share a lot of policy prescriptions together and I'm telling you like he can't you gotta sometimes don't make the perfect the enemy of the good if you can get a candidate like Spencer Pratt under the Republican banner he's not going to be able to run as a traditional tea party candidate the numbers just don't favor him but if he can hyper localize a race and focus on LA and LA's problems folks will take it I told you even if you come out of this and go I don't like Spencer Pratt at all if you're a Republican saying I don't like Spencer Pratt at all I want a more you know right-leaning guy fine you folks you gotta show up and vote because again if you don't get him on the ballot we're gonna lose races in California everywhere from you know SoCal to Northern California it's gonna screw up the whole national scene for you too here's the video I was talking about like something really weird happened at the rally I say he's got this guy behind him over his left shoulder I don't know maybe it's a secret service guy in me that notices this you always like hyper attentive to surroundings and what we call you know arms reach you know within the when you're doing concentric rings of security around a Birtecti anyone within arms reach gets an extra level of vetting because you're within arms reach you can punch them stab them do whatever this guy behind him I don't know I'm not saying it was a security threat it's just so awfully weird play this cut and I'll show you what happened the city's failing most of Los Angeles and now I'm in all these communities and I'm hearing everyone's issues your problems excuse me sir uh yeah thank you looks like Pratt knows something's up moves away and then you see like the frame there's the guy in the background again like who is this guy you see him over the left shoulder Pratt still doing the interview then you see like he disappears I don't know what was some security problem but clearly his antenna one up so I noticed that last night again maybe it's just a remnant of of the prior secret service background and anything harm reach program and you gotta you gotta be careful when you put someone within arms reach of these guys you see the guy over there you see he notices something's up and then I don't know if that's a security guy or a staffer but who knows could have been a friendly but just something I picked up on I love to throw these little things into the show uh okay on the bigger picture here's the good news the doomers the black pillar this is all over it's finished we're gonna lose we're gonna lose if you keep talking shit like we're gonna lose stop blackpilling people show up bring 10 people and we've got a shot that's all I can ask for no president does well in midterm elections it rarely happens unless there's some global catastrophe which we don't want and some unifying incident okay let's just be clear on that however on the margin it matters if we can preserve the house even by one or two house of representative seats and win back the senate or win the senate even just lose the house by a little bit which I'm not saying we want but it matters then we're okay we are not in the catastrophic position you think we're in here's CNN acknowledging this very fact that the slate of democrat candidates running for the u.s senate between nazi tattoo guy Hassan piker ass kissing Abdul al-sayed in michigan this awful awful slate of candidates all around the country talifrico who's running in freaking texas is like a vegan six-genders guy I can't say this i'm in texas I'm not even sure that's gonna pass in illinois texas and you saw the picture of him the other day talifrico puts the cowboy hat on hey look at me I got the cowboy hat guys ladies you know how many times people have asked me to put like a cowboy hat on you know why I don't do it I love cowboy hats but I mean unless it's like a costume or something at a halloween party I'm a new york guy I wore baseball hats I love cowboy hats I think they're really cool but I just don't want to be a poser talifrico I think I'm more texas than talifrico and I freaking grew up in new york this is their slate of candidates even CNN now is starting to acknowledge like hey if you guys show up and vote in the republican side you got a pretty damn good chance of a successful night it's not me saying it it's them saying it so don't let the doomers get in your melon there check this out two months ago it was about a 50-50 split right now republicans again it's close but republicans are now slightly favored to take back the senate no doubt in part because of what is going on in main which just makes that path which is already difficult a little bit more treacherous this feels like a platner tax right now in those overall sances to take the senate folks the democrat party the democrat party is completely lost its mind while there's always intra-party bickering on the right and I listen a lot of it is healthy I said over and over you've got the iran crisis doomers out there everything's are as if the iranians were enchanting death to america and we didn't wipe out the entire mullahocracy screaming this is the end these are on our side I get it I believe me I understand I am not a huge fan of foreign interventions either having seen some different things I have a different opinion you're entitled to yours however stop with the doomerism you're gonna vote for the nazi tattoo guy the fake vegan six gender guy the abuel sayed dual l sayed guy in michigan running with a son piker October 7th raid but i'm really gonna change my mind or this guy put up the tweet from libsett tick tock this actually happened last night had tipped chai over there democrats just voted for egyptian born adam hamami hamawi for congress they listen to this guy's resume he volunteered for a non-profit which was discovered to be a front for al-qaeda according to libsett tick tock lied on the oath as a defense witness for an islamic terrorist has close ties to islamic terrorists who plotted to bomb the united states chai knows we have a major problem yeah by the way if you go to foya fan on x you'll see they have the transcripts from the court case this guy was involved with with the blind shake you can read them yourself democrats just voted for this guy to go to congress folks regardless of our internal fights which are healthy about tax policy tariffs abortion guns you only have two choices our side which can continue to kind of move our party in a better direction and definitely wants to make america great again even if there's internal fights on how to get there or you can vote for people who supported like the blind shake have nazi tattoos and believe in six genders that's it i'm sorry i call me a realist a transactionalist i i don't really care i said this over and over what is your plan what is your plan the doomers and the gloomers all the time your plans to vote for what sit it out let the the terrorists take over i i can't i can't with that shit it drives me freaking bananas you have no you're playing up to the left wing utopia fallacy that one day we're going to get this slate of perfect candidates that subscribes exactly to your ideological world beliefs it's never going to happen you're never going to vote ever and of course we have the nothing is happening crowd which is just sickening at this point i mean when is this going to get like embarrassing for you all i mean at some point i saw it again yesterday creeping another happening we we've made a joke about it on this show because i think it's hilarious and it goes to show you after we saw what happened in these primary races and trump's support in the primaries a little bit of a setback last night one candidate lost i'll take 37 and one that's still unprecedented for endorsements i think it was out of iowa trump candidate just barely lost he's 37 and one the nothing is happening crowds become a joke you're a laughing stock nobody believes you the success of this show the success of the continued maga movement here's nothing is happening that happened yesterday from the fbi thing news alert out of fbi detroit two researchers with the nih were charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the us and giving false statements to federal lovers that sounds kind of serious that sounds kind of serious another entry into the happening and the nothing is happening file scoop matt boil fbi director patelle is announcing operation summer heat 2.0 last year summer heat led by yours truly will now be led by others resulted in the following they go through the numbers folks we left you the safest united states in us in modern us history that's just a fact it was not an accident it was not a remnant of the biden administration it was donald trump's administration saying clean up the damn streets that's happening that matters people are alive right now for because of a commitment to law enforcement now occasionally just you know i'm still friendly with uh with some of the new team over there at the fbi i will have chats with them about stuff and just bring stuff up and i asked one of the leaders over there leading this new summer heat effort to clean up the streets again i said guys do me a favor and i mean this i said last year we produced the lowest crime rates in us history the lowest murder rate the lowest number of murders in eons i said you can do me a big favor by making my version of this irrelevant no i'm serious i said your job now is to make summer heat 2.0 make the rates even lower because no one cares about the second lowest rate make it about the trump administration's effort not about any single person or any single team make it about you guys this year cleaning up the streets i told them please no one is taking their eye off the ball so yes things are happening more things are happening too this is one of those you know remember roger's scare with the screw you know screw around f around and find out we love roger that was where the video holes this whole thing started about the f a f o there's a lot of f o-ing happening this was a video from nick sorter did you see this lunatic at one of these ice facilities he thought it was a good idea with cameras everywhere to scream to a bunch of ice officials how he knows his family or something and they're dead folks never a good idea it will probably result in bracelets i.e handcuffs on you uh this subject was arrested everybody's innocent till proven guilty the video tells a pretty interesting story though check this out my boy i have your face you're dead you said come on you said come on right yes mom now i have your face mother ever you're dead meanwhile the dude's like five two a hundred pounds with seventy pounds of sand on his back why is it always people who look like this who are always like you know that the tough guys on the it's the closet tough guys i worry about when i was rolling in the jit schools and everything like that it's like the quiet dudes you always had to wear it was always like the wrestlers too they come in and day one you have folks you do brazilian jiu-jitsu any you you see the cauliflower ear wrestler guy they never look like this by the way ever they come in they're like five ten or so two hundred ten pounds not an ounce of body fat on them like hey you ever do a jiu-jitsu or grappling nah i've wrestled though for ten years the first thing you're thinking about i don't care how long you've been rolling on the mats you're like oh shit this is going to be ugly dudes never had any grappling experience you may win you may catch them in an arm bar triangle choke or whatever but the wrestlers thrown you around for like 10 minutes and you need like an ivy when you're done you're like how the hell is this guy never grapple like that it's incredible anyone ever do brazilian jiu-jitsu have the same experience they never look like this guy i see your face mother ever i know your friend good luck in court with the video everybody's innocent don't prove him guilty that's how our system works good luck hope you got a good lawyer little guy syndrome the chat they love stuff like this and by loving i mean hate it they're always this is they always look like that every single time do you ever notice that you never go to these antifa rallies whenever you take their mask off they start crying for mommy biggest wooses i've ever seen in my life folks the administration is dead set on using these four years to change the arc of history and to pull america in some cases for people who don't want it to be better in a better direction even kicking and screaming the team they have put together right now is not screwing around whether it's vice president vance on the fraud task force whether it's senator rubio they're done with the media they're done with the left-wing obstacles they're done with the bs they are moving on stuff we're not even two years in and the country's been dramatically transformed the border's under control the safest streets you've ever seen the aya toll is dead maduro's in prison we're producing insane amounts of oil and petrochemicals the entire artificial intelligence industry is blowing up the stock market jobs are going to be created some will be destroyed but some will be created i got a segment on that coming up this is you there's never been a better time to be alive even axios had a note at the other day and i gotta tell you one of the rock stars of this administration and again a hello captain obvious moment has been a secretary of state national secure advisor marco rubio here he was up on the hill yesterday taken absolutely no shit from this hapless senator jackie roe's like hey i saw you were at a party he was at a party he was at there was no party he was at he's the secretary of state national secure advisor his job is to be around the president there was no party check this out at a party with president trump in miami instead of accompanying vice president vance to pakistan for negotiations what party was i at i was at a party it's publicly reported and there's photos there but what party no no no but you're gonna say that i'm gonna answer it i'm gonna answer that question that's an absurd statement i was not at a party my paragraph he can answer people are gonna slander me i'm gonna answer it uh secretary rubio you're 100 percent inaccurate and a hundred percent wrong here's why number one the vice president of the united states was there and he wasn't confirmed by saying he was elected by the american people okay he is the second in line of the presidency united states he was president present mr wittkoff is the president's envoy for negotiation for peace deals mr kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions they were the team that we sent to pakistan i was not at a party where i was is next to the president because in the midst of those negotiations i was in communications with them and in fact i think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions i went into a back room i came back out and spoke to the president and was constantly updating him on that evening i spoke to mr kushner and our negotiating team and mr wittkoff on at least six occasions including twice on a secure line from from the phone they had access to over there so you don't know what you're talking about you're just thinking he has a floor i know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your tiktok video but it's not true and it's not real that's not what happened okay i'm the national security advisor and secretary state i was co-located with the president in the midst of a high stakes negotiation so that i could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world i was where i needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in pakistan led by the vice president folks i can't say this enough especially to the black pillars and doomers who think the magamoon movement is dead we have never had a better bench in contrast winky winky nod nod with the democrats the democrats future is aoc bernie sanders liz waran premier jaya pal nazi tattoo guy vegan six genders texas talif rico this is all they've got i'm not telling you someone can't emerge like barack obama did i'm just telling you like the best candidate the democrats have is i would argue i'm not a democrat would never vote for one so i'm just be clear on that is probably fetterman and they want him out they're trying to primary him now contrast that with the republican bench marco rubio incredible jd cleaning up byron donalds brandon gill the list goes on and on and on of republican candidates who are just just have the gift the jenice quat and the democrats find themselves amazingly on the wrong side of every single issue crime drug use homelessness illegal immigration try explaining to a local three electrician in new york i did a hit on wil kane show yesterday and one of the topics i wanted to bring up but we didn't have enough time was how there's this the new proposal if you were naturalized in other words you're not a u.s citizen but became one through the immigration process everybody tracking there's a proposal in congress that if you were a naturalized citizen who got citizenship later in life and enter convicted of an act of terrorism that you should automatically have your citizenship revoked some of you are listening to this like josh probably going that doesn't happen automatically no it doesn't this should be a bill that gets 99 votes in the senate amazingly the democrats will always find themselves on the wrong side of every issue because their bench are the aoc nazi tattoo guy in in main they are pulling this party in an unsustainable direction here's what i'm talking about this ice facility debacle in new jersey that's going to destroy the reputation of the hapless new jersey governor mikey sherrell who was supposed to be a moderate who's now realizing that appeasing the antifa five foot two lunatics like this guy i know your family in your face mother ever that appeasing these guys is probably a bad idea the left will fall for anything here's a report out of uh what is it ms dnc that at the ice facility in new jersey that the antifa lunatic violent anti first amendment mob is lined up that's what antifa is here's a report that there's a hunger strike there no hunger strike they're just making this up the liberals will fall for anything they're stupid and the left wing of their party knows it check this out ms now can confirm that multiple arrests were made on sunday night meanwhile family visitation at that facility has now resumed hundreds of detainees have been engaged in a hunger strike alleging expired food denied medical care and retaliation against those who do speak up for its part the department of homeland security says there is no mistreatment inside that facility there is no hunger strike they're just making it up there is no mistreatment some of these people are probably eating better than some of you out there folks this is just made up it's not real it's like jackie rosen marubia i heard you were at a party she's just making that up no surely it's based in something no it's not tom homin actually went to the facility our borders are actually does border stop unlike com lars you ever been to the border i've never been to europe either maybe you should go to the border you're the freaking borders are tom homin has actually done some of the work here is assisting in the process and actually helping said you know what i'm gonna go check out the facility i thought there was a big hunger strike and the food was like poisoning people they were all eating a loaf you know you guys know the loaf you guys have a if you're a cop you know what the loaf is anyone that cops in the chat police officers in the chat some people don't like the term cops i don't care it was like i don't mind it at all i was cops cops in the chat you know what the loaf is look it up they're not eating a loaf here's tom homin he says i went to the facility i eat this stuff i eat the food it's not the loaf check this out democratic law makes them a moral day making false allegations about the facility about the food and medical care hunger strikes i went into that facility i went to the medical i went to outdoor recreation indoor recreation i even made a surprise visit this weekend and walked into the cafeteria and ate the same meal that the detainees around me were eating and i made sure my tray equal dirt tray i had i had spaghetti and meat sauce i had beans i had i had green beans i had a bread and rolls i had drinks i had dessert the food was good it's all a false premise there was never a hunger strike the congressman said oh people aren't hunger strikes no they weren't they may not be eating in the cafeteria but what i found out they're ordering food from the commissary eating in their cells doesn't sound like a hunger strike to me chat was lighting up we had a couple people who know what the the loaf is like yes holiday statistic in the chat says leftovers pressed into like a loaf like up and when i say leftovers when it's not like leftovers like prime ribs you know cuts and stuff like it's pretty disgusting there's a bunch of police officers in the chat who know what i'm talking about folks they're magically on the wrong side of every single issue see that's why i love the chat the best part about a live show you just like a big family everybody gets in right your show too that is why you know we weren't live for a long time we weren't live we've been on the air over it's 11 years now we we were recorded we were like live to tape for probably nine of those years and chris from rumble said dan you got to go live man he's like even on cable news people don't get to interact with the program like you're watching fox i i do fox i love it but you don't get to like chat in the show he's like you got to go live people love it and we've been addicted ever since you were of course once in a blue moon you run into technical problems internet outages and stuff but it's worth every second because you get this instant feedback on the show i love it speaking of instant feedback i see a lot of people in the chat because i hang out there in the morning i tend to read a lot of the stuff i didn't get to chime in this morning only because i was interviewing with vince and it was going just great i wanted to keep it going because of interviews with vince coming up in a little bit it's amazing vince colonnades check him out but one of the things i see in the chat is a lot of fear about ai now again i am a conservative i'm not here to bullshit you like the left okay tolerance coexist all their bullshit bumper stickers when they you know throw gays off roofs or whatever okay i don't do that yes artificial intelligence is going to be hugely disruptive there is no doubt the issue and i'm i i just strongly encourage you to just hear me out put aside your priors on this the issue with artificial intelligence is like splitting the atom once the atom is split and other enemies of the united states can get and build a nuclear weapon because the technology is there pandora's box has been open you can either build one yourself or you can die i could make a strong case to you given my background in the tech space and coming out of the fbi that if we don't rapidly accelerate the advancement of these tools and let our foreign you know adversaries do it first folks reminds me a rocky three apollo create the rocky there is no tomorrow i'm not sure people understand the danger ai can present to us if it's asymmetric and others break barriers first i can't go into too much detail without telling you like the lights could go out i i need you to trust me on this we don't have a choice we don't have a choice i saw this clip on the hat tip joe rogan show he does a tom segura and they're talking about this how like you almost have to think of this although the technology is far more potentially productive but can be dangerous if we don't handle it you have to think of this like email email just happened whether you like email or not it didn't matter like people just that it just integrated itself into the economy and we're gonna have to deal with it realistically check this segment out so good one there's been a recent spat of commencement speeches you know i've seen it where they people talk about ai and crowd the kids are freaking out they're booing yeah i i think that i think it's they're misguided men i really do it's not that i'm oh yeah fucking ai's awesome i think you are a bit misguided and a little delusional if you don't accept the reality that this is here this is not going away so when when like somebody goes use it to benefit you like learn learn don't reject learning and you boo i i think it's it's the you're set you're setting yourself up you know it's not saying oh my god isn't it great that if this were to take all of everybody's jobs but it's like this isn't this is like getting mad about email right it's like it's not going away man work animal in the chat has a new mcgrine name someone should steal it right now loafing mcgrine that's it that was as is beautiful the mcgrine almost every mcgrine name's already been taken loafing mcgrine that was just genius that's genius these guys are like man they said to me this morning the stuff you send over these guys are like it's like mildly schizophrenic like you you just love to pull stuff from all over the place i do i do i never intended this show ever at any point to be all politics all the time because the world is not all politics all the time yeah you could argue there's a big political component to ai because there is however i never intended it to be that way i'm just telling you as an investor in the space and having been in the national security space we don't have a choice folks it's here there is actually no choice there is no choice we have to get ahead of this or we're going to be in big trouble speaking of which i sent him this yesterday because i saw this you know moving around online and i thought what the hell is going on with like manhole stories around the globe is right did you see first there's a story in new york i'll get to in a second about these dudes just like randomly popping out of manholes at 2 a.m and i got caught on streetcams but then i see this wrong this is every new yorker's biggest fear are you from a big city new york or elsewhere tell me it's not your biggest fear it's like walking over one of those street grates and it collapsing or you step on a manhole cover this is from brazil and this happens this poor lady looks like she like hit her face on it too check this out on her phone don't ever step over in the manhole oh oh then it looks like it like hits her fingers on the way down to oh oh oh my gosh then look at her it's a poor lady i don't even know brazil what kind of lawsuit system towards system they have but this is every single big city resident tell me it's not tell me it's not your worst nightmare and this is like your second worst nightmare it's 2 a.m whatever late night at work you're strolling out for a subway sandwich like a juicy small a out in chicago remember that remember that one and you see teenage mutant ninja turtles do you see the story out of new york manhole covers 2 a.m a bunch of people popping out would like look like excavating mining tools or something check this out people climbing out of this manhole and what are they doing in the new york city sewer system one two three seven all together can be seen coming out at this busy intersection in the very early morning hours on friday some with shovels in their hands and flashlights and it was a similar scene in another neighborhood of brooklyn on thursday according to police a car dropped the group off at 11 p.m about three hours later they climbed back out during friday's incident police say the crew picked up this manhole cover and went down at 1 a.m they believe they were looking for valuables that people flushed down the drain it's a dirty business and it's also a crime underneath new york city a sprawling underground network of more than 7500 miles of sewer lines the department of environmental protection warning it can be extremely dangerous between toxic chemicals and flooding risks but there were no injuries during these incidents according to the nypd why is it a crime to go into a manhole it's it's dangerous it's the same as jay walking or walking down the middle of a highway so if they choose the wrong one they could end up in real trouble they could be electrocuted they could be overcome there's gas lines down there there's electrical lines down there now friends of mine nypd assured me they are looking into it they haven't found anything related to terrorism or anything like that it may just be people trying to you know scrap wire or things like that but folks do you have any idea what is in the new york city sewers where do you think all that stuff you flush goes where do you think about the phantom zone that is disgusting but where a hazmat suit or something like that that is freaking gross i saw that i'm like what the hell you know what it reminded me of you guys ever see the batman movie the bane when they're down beneath the sewer system the entire time and they wind up blowing up all of god that's the first thing that reminded me of by the way if you want a great summary of where ai is going we interviewed heritage economist peter sainange last week we got a ton of amazing feedback on that interview that is still up obviously at rumble rumble.com slash banjino don't miss that it's one of the better interviews we've done in a long time and one of my favorite interviews is coming up in just a minute vince colonace you know him he's on every day at 8am rumble.com slash vince tearing it up he owns that morning spot on rumble we'll get to him in a minute hey quick question how much control do you actually have over your money right now serious question technology's changed everything now it's changing how money works crypto started as a niche but it's gone mainstream faster payments more control fewer middlemen it's not 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custodial service c terms at wallet dot rumble dot com welcoming back to the show our partner here in the conservative content creation business hopefully bringing the truth to america when you need it vince colonace he's at rumble dot com slash vince dominates that eight o'clock spot in the morning on rumble vince welcome back to the show always good to have you thank you dan so yesterday i saw this tweet pop up christine and wong put it out it was about trust in the media unsurprisingly you know you and i've been covering the dreadful media ecosystem for a long time at an all-time low now you've got this new 60 minutes story where scott pelly a liberal provocateur pretending to be a journalist looks like he's out i played some video of him earlier in the show you know vince trust in the media is at an all-time low because the media earned it i mean whether it was the collusion hoax or the lies about covid or masks or vaccines i mean it's not like they've been some bastion of truth yeah it's an institution that has totally abandoned the whole reason we have the first amendment the founders had a brilliant idea which is to put the first amendment in place guarantee the freedom of the press so you could hold the powerful accountable without any fear or favor and instead what's happened is as a part of this world of like access journalism everybody's underbid each other they don't have any sort of moral compunction whatsoever and they're just lying about everything in order to maintain access to to the riches or the power or the parties that they want to be at and what gets lost in all of this the truth the truth gets lost in all of it and so the media is one of these institutions in our country that has lost so much trust and because they just keep lying and people know that they're lying that's one of the beauties of social media is that we can now tell that they're lying because we can have open conversations is how donald trump has won multiple presidential elections is because we didn't really need the media to tell us what was happening the rest of us can have this conversation on our own and vince you know americans are really it's not talking point it's true they're very forgiving i mean you see people come back in sports and entertainment and academia and politics who've had you know devastating personal scandals in their life and if people feel like they're generally sorry and they mean it they welcome not only welcome them back they welcome them back with open arms i mean i think of that baseball player that was the hamilton guy i mean this happens all the time people understand struggles all the media has to do is come out and say listen we really botched russia collusion okay there was no there there we really botched covid like bad like bad bad the mass debacle closing schools down you know a nonsense about the vaccines banning people for free speech and i promise like it's not going to save them from everyone's anger but a good portion of americans would be like all right maybe you know there's a new road ahead we'll open the door to it let's see what happens what they just won't do it even despite overwhelming evidence they were wrong you know i i think it's always helpful to personalize the analogies here so people can understand it at a basic level like dan you're a husband right obviously you're a husband if you ever get into some sort of disagreement with your wife let's pretend that this has ever happened that you've ever disagreed paula do you just ride it out and continue to tell her she's wrong forever is that how it works big or do you ever come to her hat in hand and go you know what you're right i screwed up i got i got a little hotheaded or something like you admit it because what you're trying to do is restore the integrity of the relationship you're coming to a realization that matters you care about the health of this relationship as as a husband and you restore it and this works for not just individual husbands and wives it works for big institutions that require trust as the thing that they're selling so if the media comes to you hat in hand goes you know what we screwed that story up we should have done better that helps to generate a sincere and deep relationship with that outlet but instead they're so drunk on power they're so full of themselves and they're so completely insecure about their hold on power that they will never admit how frequently wrong they've been and that's why so few people are even interested in listening to them anymore and their their power is dissipating and i want to tie that to my the second issue i want to bring up with you which is obviously the races in california last night listen to it but by any measure this is supposed to be a blue wave year if you listen to the media everybody's mad at trump and magan republicans and conservatives you know we're itching for the days of joe biden again or whatever nonsense you hear in the media and yet last night as of me and you you know recording this interview um it looks like spencer pratt's going to pull about a third of the vote maybe more who knows the mail-in ballots steve hilton the republican and the governor's race is currently running number one i mean if if the media's version of reality were true they shouldn't even be in the top five i mean you had tom steyer the billionaire democrat spend an untold fortune i hear from friends in california that's all they see is tom steyer adds everywhere and yet steve hilton republican former fox host is running number one so there's some disconnect but i'll just say too are you worried about the the mail-in balloting in california this is like third world stuff like well we won't know the results for like three months or something or whatever this is an election it's a selection they have legalized ballot harvesting in california ballot harvesting is when third party political operatives get to handle ballots uh and they legalized it in the state of california which is one of the primary vectors for fraud and no one would disagree with that jimmy carter wrote about mail-in balloting in the beginning of this century he said that it was one of the primary vectors for fraud which is why we should limit mail-in balloting the president will reflect on that i'll say that from time to time he said jimmy carter said that and then the media will attack him no he didn't yes he did the carter baker commission concluded that mail-in ballots are a huge problem for for elections everywhere and in california in particular 80 percent of the election is done with mail-in ballots it's 80 percent it's crazy so yeah am i worried big time which is why if you pay attention to the way both spencer pratt and steve helton were talking even last night as the numbers were looking good for them you could hear it in their voices that they do have lingering concern about the way that the next perhaps weeks are going to play out uh so keep your eyes on that but let me start with the hope go back to the hopeful note that i just heard you make which is that the the the decision for so many california voters to opt for guys like helton and pratt is a massive indictment of the failure of democrats it should not be this close if democrats were some big success if they were all as happy and greasy and fun as gavin nuisim pretends to be then there'd be no there'd be no chance for a republican to break into such a democrat stronghold and yet these guys are breaking in why because democrat because california is in a desperate situation the the richest californians just saw their houses burned down and they can't rebuild them the poorest californians are living among human feces and needles and animal torturers and they recognize the despair that's going on in places like os angeles and as a result people are truly looking for an alternative in a way this is a fantastic test of your famous assessment is it bad enough yet and for so many californians the answer to that is a resounding yes now is it enough californians and is it enough californians to overcome the fraud that everyone suspects is very likely so dominant in california we'll see but man i really got to hand it to these guys you know we you and i both constantly are asking american citizens to stay in the fight and i'm looking at a guy like spencer pratt who as far as i could tell has never been interested in politics at all until politics became interested in him you know before it started destroying his life and then you got a guy like steve helton who is an immigrant to this country loves this country adopted this country because he really sees its value what a story 250 years later a former brit may be the vehicle to save manifest destiny in the united states i just think these are great stories and i love that these guys are actually in the fight you know vince there's a takeaway from the pratt race that i i gotta tell you i'm almost like ashamed i haven't brought up sooner i i i keep talking about the value of snapshots and sound bites and painting contrast however the oldest political axiomatic truth in the business is all politics are local i gotta tell you i learned this the hard way in one of my races a really hard way it's been said since the beginning of time there is a lesson for activists and candidates out there you should take from this segment me and vince right now pratt did something genius not only did he use you know the social media and stuff in a way we haven't seen since the trump campaigns but he hyper localized the race he was very honest listen i'm those issues are all important you know foreign relations geopolitics you know nuclear weapons are all very important existential in some cases that's not what i'm running on i'm running on animal torture homelessness the fentanyl flop cleaning up the streets and fire victims he hyper localized and there was just no way with the explosion of independent media and people with cell phone cameras for them to say hey what pratt's talking about it's not happening that summer it wasn't exaggerated they saw it themselves it's harder to lie about the things you can see it's harder to lie about the things that you see firsthand isn't it uh when you when you see it happen in front of you you're like what are you lying to me about i'm watching this homelessness everywhere this fentanyl needles everywhere human waste everywhere this city's in despair all my neighbors are moving out nobody can afford to live here anymore when it's happening to you directly it's very hard for somebody to lie to you from a distance about it if it's far away if it's overseas if it's in the middle east it's easier to manipulate people about that because it's distant from them that's the case in which by the way and i i love how you just assessed that get these cameras that capture these images that's the role that independent journalists play so i might not be in say new orc new jersey i'm not i'm not new orc new jersey but thanks to guys like nick sorter and hulio rosa i can see the insurrection that's happening outside of that immigration facility i can see with my own eyes and so can so many americans across the country one of the game changing elements of social media independent media what you and i are able to do now is that you're able to bring images directly into people's homes that are brought directly from the source it's not the media distortion filter it's not the lies that were constantly being fed by the press it's it's instead something more real authentic and genuine and and when you watch that you're like people are no i don't want men and women's sports look at that that dude just broke that woman's orbital bone are you serious no i can't i just saw that with my own eyes that can't happen our borders can't be open look at these people coming across it these fox news drones are catching millions of people coming across the border when you see those images or if you live in those communities that goes a long way and it's hard to lie about something that's that's that's close to you i mean there's no one better to comment on this by the way we're talking to vince colonnay he appears here bi-weekly every other wednesday i go on his radio show uh every wednesday after that so once a week we're on each other shows he's at rumble.com slash vince every day at 8 a.m eastern time on demand anytime his show is just exploding regarding the senate map coming up listen the democrats are really trying to expand the senate map for control of the senate they're looking at texas with talafrico there uh in iowa but they've got some problems themselves i've said and listen of course it's in opinion it's subjective but it's based on objective fact i've seen a lot of bad candidates on both sides okay i have i've never seen a slate of candidates in a collective pool the united state senate democrat side as bad as the democrats are running this time vince they're usually better at this uh the grand platner debacle i mean they don't even know what to do with this guy how do you there are disqualifying things and then there's like things people will accept and then there's like a freaking nazi stormtrooper tattoo you know you've got this guy in new jersey hamawi who apparently was a character witness for the blind shake who want to blow up the world trade center i mean i've never seen uh you know abuel al abuel al sayed michigan running with hasan piker you know the social murder october 7th rape apologist guy this is a really genuinely awful group of candidates like i've never seen before i get it's an opinion but those are facts i just told you that they're based on and they're captivated by the extremists in their party they're scared to death of their own extremists they don't want to upset them so they're gonna just count of them every single time we've seen it play out over and over and over again uh which is why that that's how they end up with these awful candidates it's it's pretty disgusting and um and and it's why it's so it's so rare to hear john fetterman's like the only guy in the whole party who seems to be ever saying anything relatively moderate like hey maybe it's maybe it's crazy to align ourselves with extremists maybe it's crazy to open our borders maybe it's crazy to bring in all these terrorists who hate the country maybe that's crazy and and they want to drum him out they want to get rid of that guy they're trying to primary him out of the senate now because he's saying common sense things so i mean this is yet another sign i i've talked to you before about this why we need election integrity because if you have a credible election system where voters actually get a say it actually moderates the extremism it gets rid of that nonsense but in the absence of that with with the with the elections being as problematic as they are in the united states and a democrat party being as scared as they are of their own base you have one political party that's fully dedicated unfortunately to an extremism that is that is echoing throughout its base now dan is not just the candidates it's the voters democrat voters are have a massive problem we you know charlie kerrk was killed by one of these guys they have an assassination culture on the left 50 of their voters think that is acceptable to kill their political opponents this is there's something very very dangerous uh going on and when when you've got a bunch of people who are part of an assassination culture selecting candidates that's how you end up with people who are involved in terror attacks or justifying them getting on the candidate slate for democrat party yeah and i agree with what you said having you know been an observer of democrat party politics from outside the party obviously i'm not a democrat but i'm i'm not you know naive about it either i will watch clips from ms dnc and cnn and elsewhere just to be sure i know what they're talking about it's incredible how there's always this there's always been this this healthy i think internal fight in the republican and conservative movement about especially things like foreign interventions foreign wars it is healthy because it keeps everyone in check even about taxation like we all agree in generally low tax rates but you've got some people pushing for you know you had uh rubio and holly and for more tax credits for families and things like that and you get other people disagree my point is that the republican party disagrees with that about a lot of things and when we sense any kind of brewing factional identity politics hatred there's always a quick and decisive movement to get rid of it i mean you've already seen it you've seen it in the primary process here the problem which i think you just aptly summarizes i don't see that on the democrat side outside of fetermann and maybe josh gotheimer i've not seen a single prominent democrat outside of those two who's really come out and been like hey man we got a problem like a character witness for the blind shake like we really shouldn't have him in in a primary we should like make a concerted effort to make sure this person does not win and represent them they want to run as an independent that's still right to do it if they didn't commit a crime and they can qualify yes you get what i'm saying but but what they're saying is this is our club the democrat club and this guy's okay to come in there even despite his terrible cv i just i mean at this point like if you can't be honest about what's happening then we need somebody else in that position of of influence or power uh and uh like i here's a here's something i'm troubled by uh dan this morning on my show uh mark wane mollin is the dhs secretary and yesterday yesterday he pretty he gave pretty good testimony before the senate he confronted senator chris murphy a democrat over the fact that chris murphy keeps comparing ice agents to nazis and brown shirts and all sorts of things in and he accurately said to chris murphy he goes look you're leading to a bunch of attacks on these guys what there's death threats that have grown like crazy threats to their lives i agree with that but he kept couching and mark wane mollin kept couching it when he said it he goes but i know you don't mean that but that's the effect of your words i know you don't mean that but that is the effect of what you're saying and i'm and i want to tell mark wane mollin stop it you know chris murphy is smart enough to know what he's doing he does mean it he knows that his base is out of control he knows that he's breathing life into this violence stop making excuses for him i know you just left the united states senate i know you have a collegial attitude towards the guys you just worked with you're trying to be decent to him but you're being soft you're being too soft you just need to be blunt just say it like it is don't offer excuses for him don't try and intuit his intent or anything like that just say it outright you're leading to death threats against these people and you should be ashamed of yourself we need truth telling and we need it all the time because in the absence of truth telling this country will descend into chaos you have to have people who are willing to tell the truth as blunt as necessary yeah we're in a bad spot i mean i'm when i saw that glindale lady in texas 35 talk about you know whatever internment camps for zionists she got 40 percent of the vote i thought to myself this is clearly a new low until homahoe last night it really is dangerous i mean that's not an opposition party that's like a death cult and it's frightening folks he's vince colonace he's on every single day live join us live chat the most popular program at that hour 0800 eastern time rumble.com slash vince you can go there anytime watch it after that no problem at all and he's on the radio from noon to three 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