David Strom
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Hey, Target is no longer doing Pride Month. It's actually like USA Patriotism Month. It is just so exciting to see that the world appears to be healing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, that is what I have seen so far. You've got all these USA flag themed stuff. I'm going to have to go investigate. I have not been in a target for years for obvious reasons to be here in Minnesota. We saw a target go woke years and years ago, and they clearly went way, way, way over the top. where they were promoting transiting for toddlers, practically.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
And now you walk into a Target, and I'm sure that they have some sort of pride display hidden in the back of the store, but they are no longer front and center. And for that matter, most of the logos of all these companies, they went rainbow for a day. not rainbow for a month.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, you know, this is part of the culture war that we have definitely been winning. I mean, if you think about the past few years, it was so depressing because we seem to be losing on this front everywhere. Every major corporation all around the world, unless they were in the Middle East, of course, was promoting, you know, not just you know, pride, but trans pride.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
And, uh, you know, it had gotten to the point where you really felt oppressed and suddenly all that has evaporated in a year.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
I worry that it will, although, you know, because clearly the impulses are there. And more importantly, the personnel are still in most of these corporations. They're changing tactics, they're changing strategy. But ultimately, with these big corporations, they have to respond to the market and the market is no longer there. In fact, the market really was never there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
They just finally got punished. People got tired of it. And, you know, we have to worry that it could come back. But right now, there is no market for this outside, you know, a rump 20%.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, I think that it's a self-reinforcing trend. Although I do think that over the past decade and a half, and I'll explain this in a minute, there has been a cultivation of mental illness among children. But I think what happens is that people who tend to be unhappy, particularly people who feel
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
put upon naturally gravitate to the left because the left gives them an explanation for why they feel so happy. And like addicts who want enablers around them, people gravitate to, you know, the people who tell them it's not your fault or here, I'll help you out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
You know, I mean, the extreme leftists actually go out there with their harm reduction, which is, you know, in places like San Francisco, they're handing out drugs, they're handing out needles, they're handing out, you know, shots of vodka to alcoholics. And so they're cultivating that. But it's much worse in the schools.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, I think it goes beyond that. The misery itself is validated as proof that you are a better person. You know, how can you not be unhappy with so much unhappiness around the world if you are happy, healthy and well-adjusted? That proves and this is, by the way, in the academic literature where they they actually try to explain this phenomenon.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
They go to the fact that, well, conservatives are not empathetic, whereas liberals are empathetic, and therefore they are unhappy because the world is a bad place and there are bad people in it. So again, there's this circular validation. They start out with a tendency to be less happy, but then unhappiness itself becomes a virtue and something that should be cultivated.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
The most dangerous thing, though, is if you look at the literature, it's very clear that there has been this sharp upward tick in depression, anxiety and mental illness among children. And that directly correlates with the rise of what they call social and emotional learning, which is sold as teaching children resilience. But it does exactly the opposite.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
What it does is it teaches anti resilience. Every time you come up with an obstacle, it's somebody else's fault. And so, you know, you're being oppressed. Obviously, you're trans and you don't know it. And so there's this cultivation of anti-resilience in children, which has led to actually a dramatic increase in suicide rates over the past 15 years.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, we have actual data on this, because if you look again at this literature, one of the markers for people's life satisfaction and resilience itself is churchgoing. identifying with God. And again, this has to do with the fundamental question of whether the world is good or not. Not whether bad things happen.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
We all know that bad things happen and we all face mental health challenges at different parts in our life. I mean, mental health problems run in my family. The question is, what is your faith that you can overcome these things? To whom do you look? When you are facing trouble, are you looking to God who is trying to help you or are you blaming outside forces and feeling victimized?
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
And the thing about victims is it's not just that it's not their fault. I mean, a lot of times we face trouble. That's not our fault. The question is, is it some bad person's fault? Do you have to which is why the left is always about revolution. The solution is to overturn this oppressive system rather than turn inwards and to God.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
I am schizophrenic on this because if I were in Congress, I would almost certainly vote for the big, beautiful bill. Not because it's good, but because it is absolutely crucial to President Trump's moving on to the next step. He's got to resolve the budget problem. He has to deal with the debt ceiling. He is incorporating or making permanent parts of his agenda that go back to 2017 forward.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
At the same time, I think Elon Musk is right about the fundamental question about whether the debt is an existential threat. And whether or not Congress has the intestinal fortitude and foresight to address that problem. And so I think they're both right. Practically speaking, you have to pass this bill to get to the point where you can reform things.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
uh because if you are fighting about whether or not you're going to fund the pentagon whether you're going to fund basic services you can't fight about anything else and therefore reforms are only possible if you pass this bill but this bill itself if this is the last thing that ever gets done is You know, just a disaster.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
It's no bigger disaster than everything that's been done over the past, you know, 30, 50 years. It's just a continuation along a path that is going to end with the destruction of the United States of America. So I think it's differently, you know.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
Well, that's why I would vote for this bill, despite all the frustration that I and Elon Musk have with the fact that we're not addressing the most significant issues having to do with the budget. But this isn't going to I mean, that is not going to happen until you set a baseline for which you can cut.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
I mean, if we're in a position where and this is why, you know, I'm not angry that we have people like Chip Roy, Rand Paul, you know, and those guys talking about this, chastising Congress, moving the rhetorical ball forward. But they should not win this this particular battle because, you know, where you do this and whether you do this, it doesn't have to be in this bill.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
You know, this is the baseline from which you cut. But if you don't have that baseline out there, we're going to be having this argument about raising the debt ceiling, you know, whether or not we're going to fund the national parks and all of that stuff. And that distracts from the most important issue.
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
And it hasn't been talked enough about, but those... in fact i have a piece coming out today on this those medicaid cuts that the democrats are screaming about it basically is the medicaid equivalent of welfare reform i mean the people who are actually being kicked off they're two basic categories and the first category is illegal immigrants
The Dan Bongino Show
Are Trump's Budget Cuts Bills The Best Way To Do It? | Episode 57
uh and the second category is people who will not get off their butts and go to work i mean we're really talking about yes the 35 year old guy playing video games uh in his parents basement why should we you know write unlimited checks to these people who refuse to participate uh in the over you know contribute to this to the society