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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Folks, being gone for the last four days, considering the weekend and the excellent, amazing guest hosting duties performed by Sean Farish, who I hope you guys loved him as much as I did. When I have a guest host, whether it was on the radio, we didn't do many guest hosts on the pod. I don't think we ever did.
But I don't watch the show a lot because there's a reason I'm gone. I actually watched the show with Sean day one. Yesterday, I only caught a little bit of it. I had something to do. But he's just an amazing guy. So I really appreciate you all tuning in. But I've got to tell you, you know, I was gone about 10 months or so.
And the four days felt almost as long as the 10 months because, again, the old line, right? That old famous adage that sometimes decades go by and nothing happens, and then days go by and decades happen? The last four days have been just crazy. I sent so much stuff. Ask my production team in the chat if you think I'm messing with you.
I sent so much stuff on Friday for the anticipated Wednesday show. These poor guys had to cut this whole show, and then it takes a long time, and then we had to throw it in the garbage because so much happened on Monday and Tuesday. I really wanted to get on the air last night because... Folks, this is going to be a really serious show.
I know, I mean, obviously every show is serious, but this is a really serious show because everything I have been warning you about, that there are people who may have had good intentions when they got inside the administration, but are in there now and are clearly setting themselves up for 2028. I've been warning you that not everyone's intentions are pure. Have I not?
And there is a deliberate effort right now by the doomers and the left-wing media, now you're seeing it, to fracture our coalition. Because they have, here's the fear. Now you're seeing it. I'm right again. You're seeing it now. The fear is when Donald Trump is gone and can't run, I mean gone, but gone and can't run again, obviously it's his last term.
That there's not going to be anyone to carry the mantle and the movement's going to fracture and they want to be the first ones out of the gate to pick up like what they think are the scraps from Longshank's table. I'm not telling you I agree with that. I'm just telling you that is what a lot of people are thinking. I'll show you a tweet in a minute that kind of sums it up.
I count I hadn't even seen before, but pretty much nails it. Don't trust your boy, Dan. Okay. I did what I said I was going to do there, came out, had obviously some turmoil there, but, you know, that's not the way to do it. That's not the way to do it. I'm really sorry, but that's not the way to do it.
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Chapter 2: How does Trump respond to Joe Kent's resignation?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the media's portrayal of Joe Kent?
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That's patriotmobile.com slash Dan or 972-PATRIOT, 972-PATRIOT and switch today. Fellas, let's go. So I know I was, it's probably annoying. My lips are really dry. I was in Colorado with the mountain air, beautiful state by the way, but my skin is really ridiculously dry because I'm used to the humid weather in Florida. So sorry about that. If it's really annoying, my apologies in advance.
All right. Let me put up this tweet. And this is what I'm talking about. I don't know this individual in a tweet, but doesn't make the tweet any less wrong. I saw this from an account called at the moderate case. It popped up this morning. I want you to listen to every word of this. Everyone stop your grinning and drop your lid and hot tip Bill Paxton and pay attention to this.
It is super important. Quote, Joe Kent immediately planning a podcast with Tucker Carlson after his resignation should come as no surprise. My thought is that many politicians are gearing up for the future of Trump and MAGA and exiting now, saving face and avoiding any public scrutiny for any political roles they may play in the future.
Kent was vehemently against Iran and continuously called them a threat, saying America needed to take military action years ago. But now, all of a sudden, quote, it's a war for Israel. Kind of weird. No. Let me put this out there in advance now. Can you keep that up on the screen? Because I'm not just the audience. If you listen on Apple and Spotify, you can go watch and it's up on the screen.
You can go to Twitter and check out at the moderate case yourself. I don't know the person. I'm just telling you what's said here is pretty accurate. Joe Kent served this country patriotically. That is a fact.
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Chapter 4: What does Joe Kent's resignation reveal about political motivations?
Those statements are beyond questioning. Joe Kent lost his wife in an incredible act of heroism and patriotism for this country. Period. Guys, when I say full stop, I mean full stop. However, that does not make every single opinion after that act of bravery and service and heroism on the part of him and his family. That does not make every opinion after that beyond questioning.
I never asked you to do that to me. Keep in mind, I haven't made one one millionth of the sacrifice, Joe. It's not even worth talking about. I wasn't even in the military. I wasn't even in the military. I lost a family member I hadn't even met, my uncle Greg, but I hadn't even met him. He died in Vietnam before I was even gone and it destroyed my family. I can't even imagine what that's like.
But folks, we live in a world where if you're in a position of power, what you do matters and what you say matters. And you're open to questioning just like I was. There are a lot of people out there right now. You see people, they take shots at us all day. Some one of them I'll address later is not even true. It's like totally made up. I'm not trying to shut anybody down or anything like that.
But that does not make your opinion necessarily valid if you're basing it on things that are just not true. I did an appearance last night with Laura Ingraham. And I'm going to tell you something. The conclusions drawn in Joe Kent's resignation letter. This was some war for Israel and Iran is not a threat. Folks, I got to tell you something.
I don't know what intelligence he was reading to come to that conclusion. He clearly had a different opinion in the past repeatedly in podcast appearances and tweets where he indicated was a threat. I mean, I don't know how you would come into that job with having drawn the conclusion already in podcast appearances and in your tweets that Iran's a threat.
Read the intel, which he had access to, especially the foreign stuff. And then come to the conclusion Iran was not an imminent threat. Ballistic missile technology, the explosively formed penetrators, their drone technology advancing at a rapid rate, their anti-ship ballistic missiles, the shield they were building around their nuclear program.
Even though their sites had been destroyed, they still had nuclear material over 400 kilograms. They were clearly looking to reconstitute. How do we know that? Because the intel was everywhere. There is no way to miss this. And not to mention, the president takes out their military enrichment facilities for nuclear weapons in Midnight Hammer.
He, by the way, gives them like between Trump 45 and Trump 47 and his prior statements, like two decades of warning that he's really not happy with this.
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Chapter 5: How does Dan Bongino view the threat of Iran?
He finally takes them out, thinks, OK, now maybe they'll have their moment and they'll wake up and realize this isn't going to work. And they don't. They double down. What do you want the president to do? Let them build a nuclear weapon and destroy us? Is that even how how much more imminent do you need? Folks, we're in a war right now.
We are in a war right now that's been going on for decades between the civilized man and the savage. The savage who attacked us on 9-11, the savages who inspired people who attacked us over the past few months, the savages who've engaged in terror attacks from San Bernardino to Palm Springs to Detroit, all the way across the country to New Orleans.
We are in a civilizational war of a group of Islamo-radical fanatics, call them what they are, whose motto is first we get the Saturday people and then we get the Sunday people. They don't give, listen to me, they don't give a shit what you think. You can look them right in the face as a Christian, Catholic, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, it doesn't matter, and say, I'm with you, brother.
And you know what they're going to say? Off with his head. They will still kill you. They don't give a shit. Dan, why do you support our continued relationship with the Israelis in the region? Because they've been mowing the lawn for us for freaking 20, 30 years.
It's a strict national security transaction from a guy who has spent a ton of time in the region, been on the federal law enforcement side, been on the counterterror side. And I've seen this body of intelligence. You know how many briefings we've got on this issue? You never get a briefing saying, hey, you better be careful for those Jewish terrorists that are coming for you and the president.
We were in the Secret Service. You never get that briefing. Yet whether it was Indonesia and what was it, Jamaat Islamiyah, there were all these Islamo-radical groups. All you would do is get briefings. ISIS, AQAP, Al-Qaeda, KH, Hezbollah. I mean, it goes on and on and on. You have two sides. The off with your head side and the other side, like, please don't cut our heads off.
This is not complicated. But these people have such vile hatred that they're willing to have their own heads lopped off to prove some silly point. It is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Folks, they say this all the time. I'm not Jewish. I'm Christian. However, there's a group of people want to kill me and a group of people who don't. Kill me? Don't kill me. Kill me?
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the term 'civilizational war'?
Don't kill me. Which side? Anybody have an answer? Which side are you guys going to pick? It's unanimous. I've taken a vote. They're like, we just would rather rely with the people killing the people who want to kill us. Okay. The problem is, and these are always difficult because you get the bots. You see them in the chat now. We hate the Jews. We get it.
You're a guy in a room, you know, probably tentacle porn in the background. You're Pop-Tart in front of you with 600 different phones lined up on a wall. Someone's paying you. We hate the Jews. We get it. We get it. You think we're not on to the bot bullshit? You think we don't know what's going on? You think I'm new at this? You think I haven't seen this before? I'm trying to help you.
I promise. It's fairly obvious when you're in that job I was in, you get to see things. Do you really believe that? You really believe like Donald Trump is being dragged around and dog walked by the Israelis? If anything, he's called out the Israeli government. Gosh, we've taken shots at Israeli government officials over and over. How many times we play that Ehud Barak video like 10 times?
That knucklehead over there. Here's the problem we have now. The problem in the movement, because it's not our movement, okay, is you have the Mansur Olson problem. Pay attention. This is important. Mansur Olson on collective action. You should look this up. M-A-N-C-U-R. I think it's O-L-S-O-N. Mansur Olson.
Chapter 7: What are the challenges of addressing lone wolf terrorism?
He has this... theory on collective action, that when you get an issue where there's a concentrated interest between a group, a small group of people, but rather diffuse costs to everyone else, the small group of people can do amazing things. And I don't mean amazing being good or bad. I mean amazing in a qualitative way. They can move mountains. Think about like,
Unions, for example, they have a concentrated interest. They want this tax benefit that's going to benefit them. No one else in the general public is following this tax benefit, but there we go. Thank you, guys. Mansour Olson's theory of collective action. Rational individuals often fail to cooperate to achieve common goals, even when it's in their best interest.
Collective action is the opposite. Think of working. I'm not knocking unions. I'm just saying they have a concentrated interest in bettering their union and their salary. You're not following this every day. The cost to you is diffuse. You don't even, you've never even heard of the story. To them, it is real. This is the problem we have with people trying to infiltrate our movement.
You have this small army of less than probably 1% of the movement and their bots, which make it seem like it's like 10%. It's not. We've seen it ourselves. It's like 1% movement, but they collectively want to blame everything on the Jews because they hate the Jews. That's it. All rationality has gone out the window.
And because you're working in your everyday life, you don't have time to follow this stuff on Twitter all day. You just see it happening in here like there's infighting going on. And then you see, I saw this this week, we got some knuckleheads on our side again, like, hey man, we got to stop the infighting. Stop the infighting. The movement's being hijacked by...
Fucking lunatics, pardon my language. I don't know about you, but I've been through the Tea Party. When we realized like the GOP had lost its focus and we thankfully pulled it back, we had some successes out of that. I wish they would have stayed long-term. We had the BCA and other things. I don't know about you, but like I said, I put my name on a ballot.
It didn't work out, but I just had the fucking balls to do it. You got these people who are going to stop.
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Chapter 8: How does Dan Bongino suggest we respond to threats against America?
We should just let these people hijack the party with crazy stuff like the Jews and Israel did everything. They have this one concentrated interest, Israel. That's it. That's it. I care deeply about the issue from the national security perspective. I said it many times. However, it's one of a hundred things I'm interested because I am America first. That's the real America first.
And the real America first is picking allies where the relationship benefits us and prevents our freaking heads from getting lopped off. That's fucking America first, bro. All right, so more cursing. I just got to stop that. I'm sorry. I know people listen with kids.
The problem with a lot of this discourse, folks, is everything to the collective action group, the insiders, who all they care, everything is about Israel, everything. Everything is Donald Trump has no agency at all. Donald Trump is so weak that Israelis are dragging him around. Have you even been in a meet? Do you have any idea what's going on? I'm telling you, like, I've been there.
You're so full of shit, you have no idea. He's probably the one president, if anything, who questions everything as a spreadsheet. He has no ideological predicate to this at all, other than how does this benefit us? And again, these people saying, like, oh, it's in fire. I saw it this weekend. peace than one nuclear. Like, oh, we got a problem. No, no, we don't have a problem.
It's not us with the problem. You got people trying to take our movement and steal it. The party is lost its way. I've said a thousand times, if this is going to be a movement stigmatizing an entire group of people because you just don't like them, count me the f*** out, man. No way. I ain't part of that. All America, you're damn right.
Cut your heads off or kill the people who cut your heads off. That's it. You got a bunch of dipshits trying to steal the movement who, by the way, have never done anything. Just ask him a simple question. Have you ever actually been in a national security briefing? Have you ever held a clearance? Have you ever actually been in law enforcement? Have you ever been in a counterterrorist base?
The answer to every single one of those questions with these chuckleheads is no. So why? I don't understand why you give a shit about their opinion. Why does it matter? They know nothing. They're allowed to have it. A lot of them are very charismatic. They pretend they know stuff. They've never actually been ever in a briefing. They don't know anything about how any of this stuff works.
It is unbelievably frustrating. Folks, I've lived through the Tea Party thing. The party did lose its way. And we brought it back and got a lot of great people in there. It's losing its way now, too, if this is going to be the way forward. Now, I'm going to say again, Joe Kent is a friend of mine and has been a friend for a long time. I've had him on his show.
But my job here is not to have friends. On the outside, I can have friends. My job here is to tell you the truth. And if we blow it, we blow it, and we'll correct it. His history of service and sacrifice, again, is beyond question. As a matter of fact, a photo of me and him working together, we went and had a meeting over at NCTC. I mean, you know, he smiles.
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