Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show.
Folks, something absolutely magical happened last night. And no, I'm not talking about, you know, the Seahawks defensive performance or anything like that. I'm still on kind of an NFL hangover from the whole, you know, debacle with Kaepernick and all of that. But something magical happened last night, and I don't want you to kind of undersell it in your own cerebral cortex.
What Turning Point USA did yesterday with the halftime show, make no mistake, was a complete cultural revolution. I'm not going to spend the whole show today talking about this because you're going to see a lot of it on other shows and elsewhere, and I got a ton of stuff to talk about. You saw there was another Epstein document dump yesterday that people have been going through.
Also, Elon Musk's got a really important – message out there on censorship and this DSA thing that's going on in Europe. I'm very concerned about this coming here and really just disrupting the free speech environment in the United States completely and then making the concrete harden. So I've got a lot to get to, but what happened yesterday was a complete cultural shift.
It was a seismic event, like a punctuated equilibrium type event for technology, for free speech, for the pro-America crowd that's been crapped on for years by these entertainment organizations. Absolutely huge. All right, I get to that. And a big thank you last week was amazing. Guys, 8 million views. And ladies out there, I'd like to leave you out. 8 million views last week on Rumble.
We added tens of thousands of new subs at rumble.com slash Bongino. We're trending number one on Spotify for seven straight days. Thanks to you. I so deeply appreciate it. I will never, ever take you for granted. It's been an honor both to serve you over there in D.C. and back here on the microphone. I appreciate it. Let's get to today's show. Today's show brought to you by Brickhouse Nutrition.
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Chapter 2: What cultural shift occurred during the halftime show?
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It's not a substitute or alternative for care from a healthcare provider. On this Monday morning, after the big game yesterday, let's... So Turning Point did something absolutely magical, as I said. Ladies and gentlemen, they basically beat the NFL.
Okay, maybe they didn't have, I think the Super Bowl estimate, correct me if I'm wrong in the chat room if you saw it, but I think the estimate of viewers was something in the neighborhood of 120 plus million, which is ridiculous. I mean, there's no event on television cable streaming that's ever going to beat the Super Bowl in the number of raw viewers. That's just not going to happen.
However, when Turning Point first announced this alternative halftime show, because Sad Bunny was the performer announced for the NFL, a guy who's like ice out and all this other lefty crap that, you know, good hardworking. They just want to watch a freaking football game. They don't need a political message from some performer who has no freaking idea what they're talking about.
Bro, seriously, just sing or rap or do your thing or whatever, man. You got a political statement to make? Go vote. Nobody really gives a shit about your opinion. I'm sorry. So they picked Sad Bunny. I got to tell you something. I didn't know a single damn song by Sad Bunny. I heard that... Did you hear the Gasolina song? I've heard that song. I thought that was Pitbull.
I didn't even know that was Sad Bunny. So I'm listening to this. The guy's doing his thing. I'm like, this show just sucks. I mean, I'm sorry, guys. A bunch of friends of mine messaged me this morning, and they said, hey, Dan, you know, a lot of my conservative friends like this guy. Great. I'm not telling you not to like him. It's a constitutional republic. Like who you want.
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Chapter 3: What were the viewer statistics for the halftime show?
The best thing about this second term is there's no pressure for him to run for reelection, and he can do what he needs to do without having to worry about people... pulling and tugging on him in every different direction. He is going to do it. And this is going to be, after he learned a lot of things in 45 in that term, this is going to be the most transformative presidency of your lifetime.
And it turns out it's true. The guy's never changed, though. He was always like this. I saw this on X. I pulled this cut. This was Donald Trump decades ago on Oprah's show. Remember Oprah Winfrey? It was like the biggest show ever. Oprah Winfrey. Everybody watched Oprah. Everybody watched Oprah. This was Donald Trump on Oprah Winfrey's show. I want you to listen to him.
Before he ran for president, he is the exact same FO guy now he was back then. Absolutely nothing has changed. The consistency is remarkable. Check this out. Last year, criticizing U.S. foreign policy.
What would you do differently, Donald?
I'd make our allies, forgetting about the enemies, the enemies you can't talk to so easily. I'd make our allies pay their fair share. We're a debtor nation. Something's going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can't keep going on losing $200 billion. And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade.
If you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell something, forget about it, Albert. Just forget about it. It's almost impossible. They don't have laws against it. They just make it impossible. They come over here. They sell their cars, their VCRs. They knock the hell out of our companies. And, hey, I have tremendous respect for the Japanese people.
I mean, you can respect somebody that's beaten the hell out of you, but they are beating the hell out of this country. Kuwait, they live like kings. The poorest person in Kuwait, they live like kings. And yet they're not paying. We make it possible for them to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us 25% of what they're making? It's a joke.
This sounds like political presidential talk to me. And I know people have talked to you about whether or not you want to run. Would you ever?
Probably not. But I do get tired of seeing the country ripped off. Why would you not? I just don't think I really have the inclination to do it. I love what I'm doing. I really like it.
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Chapter 4: How does the media narrative impact public perception?
There's one outside in Stewart right now. They've got it. It's like Scarecrow in the Batman movies. Death by exile. Did... You would think that by, oh my gosh, this is crazy. Well, thank you, MRDDMIA, Mike Davis on X. This is handled for decades. JAG attorneys have served in U.S. attorney's offices as special assistant U.S. attorneys to help with backlogs of cases.
They aren't woke, pain in the ass Biden AUSAs who illegally decide whether to prosecute criminals based on their political party. Folks, again, friends don't let friends do media bullshit. Don't let that one get anybody. Here's another one. Scott Jennings, who does great work. He was on CNN last week. And the Democrats want this. Trump is trying to steal elections now.
Donald Trump appeared on my show a week ago today. I want to thank him for doing that. He discussed the SAVE Act and getting a federal role in elections here to make sure we have some stable system of rules, okay? The media, of course, freaked out. Donald Trump, fascist, monarch, no King's Day, whatever. He's trying to steal elections.
The Democrats have been talking about stolen elections forever. They are totally full of shit. Every election they've lost at the presidential level, they've accused someone of stealing it. They still think Al Gore beat George W. Bush. They still believe this. I lived through that one. I remember. I go into that story for days. Al Gore definitely won Florida.
Al Gore was never ahead on a single vote count in Florida ever. Go look it up. Donald Trump stole with the Russians the 2016 election. These people are full of shit. They're the stolen elections party. And then when we point out obvious things, and I'll address this with Congressman Byron Donalds coming up in a little bit.
The SAVE Act that would stop people from stealing elections, they freak out. So it's important you understand the bunk this stuff. The Democrats are the party about hysterical stolen election narratives. They've been doing it forever. Check this out. We talked a little bit about, you know, people believing that elections have been stolen. It's not just 2020.
A majority of Democrats in this country think the 2016 election was stolen. And I suspect a great many Democrats still think 2004 and 2000 were stolen as well.
A majority of Democrats think the 2016 election was stolen. Hold on a second. What Ashley just said. Your poll, your poll, Democrats.
Dan, if you walked into a Democrat political dinner tonight and said, Russia did not steal the election, you'd be floundered.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of freedom of speech on assembly rights?
Just think about this. Just think of, let's walk through just like mechanically, let's walk through the logistics of this. If you did not have the freedom to speak out, I'm not talking about like defamation and threats to people's lives. I'm talking about just, you know, common sense freedom of speech, not violations of the law. Fairly obvious, everyone knows what they are.
If you don't have that, what is the freedom to assemble? Another big R, God-given right matter. You can assemble, but you can't say anything? There, assemble, but hand over your mouth.
Chapter 6: How is gerrymandering affecting representation in Virginia?
What's the point of assembly if you can't say anything? I got the freedom of religion, but I can't actually say anything in the church or the synagogue or the mosque or whatever? You don't have freedom of speech. Nothing else matters. Freedom to petition the government on what? You're not allowed to speak about anything. Freedom of speech is the bedrock to all of this, all of it.
You don't have that, everything else falls apart. That's why I thank the Lord, and I don't use his name in vain, for platforms like Rumble every day. And then, you know, X, I mean, there's always going to be issues and growing pains, folks. I understand that.
Chapter 7: What is the significance of the SAVE Act for election integrity?
But if we didn't have this, who the hell knows where we'd be right now? This country would be a mess. Do you remember the days, guys, ladies, you remember in the chat when you were watching the show early, every day our Facebook page would get some like random left-wing quote fact check. I say quote because it was an opinion check. Do you remember the bans on YouTube?
Remember I was banned from YouTube for telling you that masks don't stop COVID? Do you remember that? No apologies, by the way. Folks, we have to play hardball in this era, political hardball. I'm not talking about immoral or unethical things, but political hardball is necessary.
Chapter 8: How does AI influence the future of the economy?
These people are not screwing around. They are absolutely, absolutely committed to the aggregation and abuse of power. This is what they do. They will lie. They will cheat. They will steal. They can't stop. They don't care about principles at all. Principles don't mean squat to them. The receipts are everywhere. Here is the new governor of Virginia. I want to put up this tweet.
Abigail Spanberger. who, by the way, ran as some kind of faux moderate. We all knew that was total crap. She now gets into office as the governor of Virginia, and they're carving up the state to steal away the voice you have in the Virginia State House, State Senate, and the House of Representatives. You have no voice in Virginia anymore.
They were trying to wipe out congressional seats for Republicans in a state that votes between 45% to 48% Republican. You would think 45%. Let's go with the minimum. They say it's 45. So roughly 45 to 48% of the seats should be Republican seats, correct? No. They've gerrymandered the place to death. But here was Spanberger in a tweet talking about gerrymandering before she got in office.
This is what I'm telling you. People don't give a shit about principles. This is the good news for Virginia and the country. Gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy and weakens the individual voices that form our electorates. Opposing gerrymandering should be a bipartisan priority. Really? Thanks, Abs, for saying that. I really appreciate it. Pretty declarative statement, correct?
Gerrymandering, bad, really bad. I'm Abigail Spanberger. Vote for me. Here's Abigail Spanberger laughing it up as they sign on to this referendum to carve Virginia into, I believe, a 10 to 1 Democrat to Republican state, gerrymandering the districts. Here it is, laughing it up. This is great. That's not Gee adding that in. They think this is hilarious. You want to play nice with these people?
The Indiana Republicans who refuse to redistrict their state, I don't understand, like, oh, we're doing it by principle. What principle? What principle, I don't understand, is guiding you? I don't understand what principle is guiding you here. We are going to lose the country if we can't move on this stuff. If they do it, then we should do it.
We're never ever going to win another House of Representatives election if we let every time a Democrat governor gets in state, they wipe out the entire Republican population of the state or close to it like they're doing in Maryland and Virginia, and then you don't respond. I told you these Alinsky rules work. May not have been a good guy, but the rules make a difference.
We got Congressman Byron Donalds coming up in a little over 30 minutes. We're going to talk about the SAVE Act. We've got to save our elections. Election integrity matters. If they're going to play hardball with elections, we've got to play hardball too. The thing is, we're on the right side of the moral arc of history.
Ladies and gentlemen, large majorities of people, black voters, Hispanic voters, white voters, support voter ID because it's common sense. The Democrats are having a really hard time framing this because it's really tough to BS people on an argument that, hey, when you show up to vote, you should probably prove who you are. It's not complicated. This was making its way around Twitter last week.
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