Dan Bongino

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show, folks. I just put it in the chat. Siak. Stupid is a freaking choice. I can't say this enough. Why would you choose to be stupid and publicly advertise the fact that you are an imbecile? Why would you do that? Well, the answer is I don't like asking a question I don't have an answer for. Because you've surrounded yourselves with other imbeciles who've made the same choice who don't want to look like imbeciles so they don't surround themselves with smart people. They surround themselves with other imbeciles cuz they don't want to be called an imbecile. And another imbecile won't call you an imbecile because you know, you. They'll call you an imbecile too. That was a lot to open the show just as I. Whoa. It's like that. Oh, what is it? Milton Friedman said, hey, you know, people love big government because they think they're spending their neighbors money. But your neighbor thinks the same stupid people hang around other stupid people. And manipulators who aren't stupid but lie intentionally love to hang around stupid people because they know stupid people won't call them out. You saw what happened yesterday with that bombshell revelation in New Jersey and I get it, that term is incredibly over. Breaking bombshell. You know, we don't do that. We rarely do teases without telling you what they are. We don't like that. I think it's maybe good for audience retention. I think it's shitty for audience faith in your show. What happened yesterday in New Jersey with the communist governor having to admit that over 6,000 people were registered to vote who were completely ineligible to vote. I thought that never. Thought that never happened. We titled today's show I thought that never happened. You told us Democrats it never happens. So now it's not just that it happens, but now it's like, well, it's not happening that much. Really. 6,600 people. That's not a. Not a lot. I'm going to get to that. But stupid is a choice as well amongst the Unholy Alliance. I heard Senator Tom Cotton bring this up this morning on Fox and Friends. He brought this up. Republican Senator Tom Cotton brought up this morning the Unholy alliance hat tip, David Horowitz. We have been talking about now for days. They have the same goal. The Unholy alliance are the Commies, the libs. Lib. Commies. The same thing. That's one tranche of people. And the Islamophanatic terrorists. They're allied. Yes, they are allied. They have the same goal. The destruction of the United States. And they will use whatever entry point they can into your mind to get you to join them. They don't care. The Jews. You'll see. I'll show you. Epstein. Climate change, global warming, it doesn't matter. Whatever they think your soft spot is, they will hit you with it to get you to join the unholy alliance, the commies and the Islamophanatics. Stupid is a choice. 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And in the interest of candor and honesty, they tell you to never bring this up. But I always, because I want to just always show you guys, I'm just one of you have no special powers, make mistakes. My brain this morning was cooked. I was convinced at the end of our interview that it was, in fact, was it Thursday? Today is not Thursday. And not only was I. I was absolutely convinced it was Thursday. I have to.

Michael Alfonso

I had.

Dan Bongino

Have Justin, like, show me. I was like. And my geography was all over the map. Wyoming, Wisconsin. No, we should not put the bloopers back in the interview. We should not.

Jasmine Crockett

We should.

Dan Bongino

But maybe one day I'll show you what my brain was all over. But I promise you I'm good now. Some blackout coffee. You solve that. But again, I don't want you to think like this is a business free of errors. You screw up stuff like anything else. So let me just get right to this one. Little bit of a mild language alert here, folks. Your kids are listening. Scumbag Mamdani just gave up the whole game yesterday. Scumbag Mamdani is a piece of human garbage. This guy is an anti American Islamo Nazi and is a threat to everything America stands for. He is a lying sack of garbage. He is a total complete life loser who is just. He lies through his teeth to people because he's an Islamophanatic. That's what he is. He had insisted on the campaign trail running for mayor of New York. He had insisted. We're going to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu because he appeals to weak minded people here, Netanyahu in Israel and logic goes out the window. You're going to arrest a foreign head of state at the un? Really? We're going to arrest all of the tyrants that we allow into the country to talk at the un? Like, did you ever talk? And I'm not even suggesting Netanyahu's a tyrant. I'm just telling you. You know how many shitheads we let into the country to talk and negotiate at the UN? I. You know how many UN's I worked? I should have brought my pins. I got pins in my office from every Secret Service UN I worked. I got a whole boatload of pins sitting in my district. Little case here. It was asinine. Why am I bringing this up now? Because, ladies and gentlemen, stupid is a choice. Only idiots believe this moron that he was going to arrest Netanyahu he when he popped into New York for the only idiots believe that, they chose to believe it. The problem with imbeciles and idiots believing stupid stuff is when the stupid stuff becomes like a red line issue of passion for your voters. Like now they want to see handcuffs on this guy. Now mom dummy is forced to admit he's a scumbag liar, which is all he is. He's a piece of shit and he always has been. He's a showman. He's a carnival barker. Here's a mom dummy video. And how many times I've been telling you about the unholy alliance, the commies libs, same thing. And the Islamo nuts. I told you, they're all saying the same thing. We need the International Criminal Court. We need them to start arresting people like Donald Trump and Netanyahu and elsewhere. Here's Mamdani admitting it. He says, basically acknowledges he can't arrest Netanyahu. He was lying to you. He's basically saying, I'm a liar. I'm a lying scumbag. Because he is. But notice how he says, I really support this International Criminal Court. Really? You don't support U.S. courts. You support Krakistan arresting U.S. soldiers overseas in a, in a star chamber ICC court. Notice how he says anyone else in this clip. You think this is an accident? He's reading a pre prepared speech. It's not. Pay very close attention to this. Check this out.

Mamdani

There is a reason the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest. As human beings, we have spent generations building a shared understanding that there are crimes so grave they offend all of humanity. Anyone with their eyes, with their heart, with their conscience should recognize the devastation he has wrought and understand that he belongs before a court of law. As I've said, I agree with the ICC that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes as I do for anyone else charged by the icc. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant. With Benjamin Netanyahu came here, it is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to, to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large.

Dan Bongino

Notice he mentions it twice. Because I was a little foggy this morning. Justin had to correct me. Yes, I cut the video too early and he's like no, Dan, he doesn't only mention Netanyahu and anyone else. He's talking about Trump. Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, me, Cash, Todd, Blanche. He wants an extraterritorial, phony, fake star chamber court, a bullshit court that the United States does not recognize on a part to start arresting U.S. citizens outside of U.S. law for political crimes. That's why he said anyone else. And you notice he repeats it at the end. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. You don't always welcome anywhere, you piece of shit. And then he's like, and anyone else who's a war criminal, who do you think he's talking about? Folks, my point here is there are two type of leftist scumbags in the unholy alliance of communists and Islamophanatics. There are smart people. I don't mean that as a compliment. Smart people like Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren who know what they're doing and are lying to you and know it. And then there are Cyax, these stupid people who have made the choice to be stupid and believe this bullshit that Mamdani could have arrested then. Yeah, all you had to do was put it in. AI, can a foreign diplomat be arrested by the New York City Police Department on an ICC warrant? It would have said no. It's all you had to do. But you chose stupid, you freaking moron. And this guy's laughing at you, Mom. Dummy, the scumb bag is laughing in your face that you believed him. He's laughing at you. Gosh, I grew up in New York and I love my. I still have family in New York, a lot of them. Like most of my family. New York has a lot of good people, but folks, it's got a lot of bad people, too. How are you falling for this bullshit? This carnival barker, this freaking Times Square Folex salesman selling folkly glasses. Hey, look, opening up the jacket. How are you falling for this bullshit? He is a politician in the United States. New York City's in the United States, last time I checked. Calling for a court that we do not partake in that wants to arrest our president and other members of the Trump administration to arrest another foreign dig. And you're falling for this. You understand? You could be next right here. Put up that Wall Street Journal article again for like, the thousandth time. Why do you think Secretary of State Rubio is going balls to the wall now on taking on the International Criminal court? Quote, the ICC's allies signal they intend to target President Trump once his term ends? It's right there. They're not even hiding it. You think you couldn't be next. You want to subjugate US citizens to a bullshit star chamber court so that any US citizen, any politician, doesn't like when they travel anywhere overseas, some bullshit court can issue an arrest warrant and just pick you off and throw you in jail on a felonious mopery in the umpteenth degree. Is that a real charge there? No, that's the point. I cannot believe so many morons are fought. I really can't. Even the stupid left, I don't think they understand the hellscape they're creating. When the Kraplakistan court judges start indicting U.S. soldiers for every single. You know, in theater, kinetic action they take. Holy shit. And then all you got to do is remember, all you got to do is mention Israel or Netanyahu and everybody's like, I'm on board. I'm on board. Yeah, but this could mean you're arrest too. I don't care. I just hate Israel. Are you that crazy? Can you not think straight? You're free to hate Israel all you want. You realize you're being suckered here. And that's the entry point to your stupid brain. I have to show you this to kind of like lighten this up just a little bit because it's such a serious topic. But if you think I'm kidding, that there are two specific cabals of people who are manipulating you to do things that will destroy the United States, you've got really stupid people, the siacs who made the choice. And then you've got manipulators who are like Mamdani, who's not stupid and is lying. He knew he couldn't arrest Netanyahu. He just knows if he says Israel, Netanyahu, the Jews, a bunch of suckers will be like, this is great. Here's Jasmine Crockett, who is definitely. This is. This lady is a lieutenant in the CYAC army.

Mamdani

She.

Dan Bongino

You know, that's true. That's a good point. Jasmine Crockett may be so stupid, she didn't even make the choice. The choice was made for Jasmine Crockett said one of the dumbest things. In case you don't know her, she is a communist congresswoman. She recently ran for Senate. She got smoked. This is one of the dumbest people ever elected to Congress. And my gosh, that's saying a lot. I'm not sure. In an IQ test, she cracks 85. She's up on Capitol Hill yesterday. Lieutenant of the Cyax right Here says one of the dumbest things you've ever seen about the World Cup. Spain versus Argentina. If this makes sense to you, please tune out of my show immediately. I don't want you dumbing down the collective IQ of my audience. Check this out.

Haley Caradilla

That captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was playing for all these teams. And ultimately if you recall the last two teams it was Argentina and Spain. And it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina or actually against Argentina. Right. And why was that? Just give me an explanation if you could guess. If you'll just let them finish the answer.

Vince Colon

Spain had the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them.

Haley Caradilla

There's also a racist history that

Dan Bongino

I don't. I. Someone in the chat just said she's the two star general in the CYC army. Folks, I can't. That's a level of stupid. I can't. I don't even know where she was going with that. A largely Spanish speaking country. Argentina versus Spain. Another largely Spanish speaking country that there's. I. I don't even. Don't stop trying to explain it. You'll lose five or six IQ points. You need like that prevagen or something that brain compound like fish oil. And. Folks, I really love it when they say the quiet part out loud. Jasmine Crockett should have opened that up by just explaining that she's a very low IQ individual who has process. Process problems with inputs and in creating an output that makes logical and reasonable sense to any normal thinking human being. But some of these people are more clever. I cannot. I applaud Senator Cotton for bringing this up this morning folks. The biggest national security threat to America right now, the United States of America is the unholy alliance of lib commies and Islamophanatics. It's right in front of your face. I want you to watch this right? This is video and hat tip. I think Canary mission pull this out or DSA watch. They're both great by the way. Follows. I love it when they say the quiet part out loud. Here's a video they put out there. You're going to see some pictures in the beginning of all the. The unholy alliance member that chevalier. And you're going to hear this guy, Kyle Kalinsky, a total D Bag 0 loser. He basically admits it that the Islamo fanatics and the commies are all on the same team. And notice what he does. He uses the entry point. He thinks he can get into your brain. He brings up the Epstein thing. All of the code words are there for him to get onto your TikTok stream. To make sure you join the unholy alliance to destroy your neighborhood, your town and your country. I love when they say the quiet part out loud. Check this out.

Kyle Kalinsky

We're governed by dead eyed psychopaths and sociopaths and bloodthirsty imperialists. The US government and the Israeli government. They are the terrorists. They are the terrorists. They are doing terrorism. If Iran's off the table as a regional power, that means Hezbollah can't be funded, Hamas can't be funded, the Houthis can't be funded. Like the Shia Crescent falls and then you have nothing but regional domination for Israel. There's a reason why I call Israel and the US the axis of Epstein. Okay? There's a reason why I've said repeatedly that they're in the midst of creating the Fourth Reich. Because that sincerely is what they're doing. These are genuinely repulsive, disgusting, wretched, depraved human beings. And it is absolutely accurate to compare these people to the worst criminals in history. To Mussolini, to Adolf Hitler.

Dan Bongino

Does that guy dye his hair blonde? I guarantee you that guy's mom tells her friends she has no living children. I'm 100% sure of it. No, no, I don't know that guy. No, they said I made a picture. No, no, I don't know him. I don't know him. Do you see what he does there, Epstein? Class, Jews, the US and suckers fall for this. He's cheering for Iran, man. We can't have Iran go there. You mean a death to America crowd. We need to. What is he saying? We need to balance out the death equation. Like we got to make sure there are enough Iranians killing Americans to balance it. God forbid Hezbollah and Hamas are defunded. Those are terror groups. This is not what. It's not even the quiet part. They admit it. They hate you. They hate. This is a suckers game. The commies and the Islamo nuts both which would kill you in a second if you get in the way and are obstacle of them taking away your freedom and liberty would kill you in a second. They're laughing at you. Kopinsky and his and his and his Iceman blonde hair, Kopinsky. Mom, dummy. They're laughing in your face, young people. Jasmine Crockett, dancing guy, AOC they are laughing in your face, man. Democratic socialism. How many times I got to tell you their motto of the Islamophanatics which The communists are all on board with. First we get the Saturday people, then we get the Sunday people. They don't even give a damn about the Jews. They give a damn about civilization and destroying it. You're just being played, man. You're just being played. Democratic socialism my ass. You think. You think you get a vote in this? You know who Nikita Beer is at Twitter? I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to show you. This is an important post. Cuz it's going to prove the point I've been making to you over and over. Don't fall for psyops. They are moving into low IQ people like Jasmine Crockett with these propaganda psychological operations to get you to become part of the unholy alliance to destroy this place. They're telling you, you hear Kopinsky, Israel, us, Epstein. That's all they have. That's all they have. Join our movement. Join the stormtroopers for stupid. Become a general like Jasmine Crockett. I told you. This is going to become an increasingly growing cancerous problem if we don't cut it out. Now I want to show you this tweak coming up next. Hey. Patriot Mobile isn't just different because of its mission. It's actually built to outperform the other carriers. It's a great service. I have it, Paul. Paula has it. Guy has it. They offer premium priority nationwide service on any of the three major US networks. Helping you get the best possible coverage wherever life takes you. Works for me. Even in the tough spots around the country. Patriot Mobile. You can even have two separate networks on a single device, eliminating the need to carry multiple phones and giving you peace of mind. You just can't get with these other carriers. You need Internet on the go. Patriot Mobile's got you there. WI Fi hotspots. Hotspots connecting to multiple networks to keep you connected while traveling or working remotely like we do. They also offer international roaming and enterprise solutions for businesses that need dependable connectivity and US based support. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade switch from your home or office. It takes just a few minutes. And when you call Patriot Mobile, you'll talk to real people right here in America. Superior coverage, superior products, superior customer support. That's Patriot Mobile. So go today to patriotmobile.com dan or call 972-patriot. It's a great service. Check it out. Use promo code DAN for a free month of service. That's patriotmobile.com dan or Call 972 Patriot today. Thank you. Patriot Mobile. Okay, back to the show. I want to show you this in case you think all of this is organic and all this stuff you see, Jews, climate change, Israel, Netanyahu, Epstein, it's not organic. You're being played for a sucker.

Joey Bagadonis

And.

Dan Bongino

And a lot of people you may have thought were your friends in the MAGA sphere. And I'm using the air quotes because they're not. They're paid goons and losers are being paid to promote dissimilar bullshit. Nikita Beer is one of the ponchos over at X who guards against this type of stuff. Put this out yesterday. Political accounts have been the biggest offenders of undisclosed paid promotions. I either getting money for shit and not telling you. This guy knows. We've been investigating cases of foreign influencer campaigns recently. Often this is important. This is important. Often the influencer accepting payment assumes it's just some American advocacy group. What did I tell you on yesterday's show, Justin? Folks, listen to your boy here. I'm telling you, listen to your boy, Dan. I've seen this on both sides where people have come in and shady groups of. They contact Paula, she runs the business, and they'll be like, hey, Paula's like, we're good. We're okay. Thank you. We're good. Hard pass. And then all of a sudden, later on you'll see like, oh, wow, Paula, check it out. A group that reached out. Look, they're in the news. They were up. We're never surprised. We're never surprised. The names they use. We Love America, the PAC or whatever it. Folks, it's bullshit. That's why this show. Did you notice when we came back, Justin, how many people were like, who tried to trash us when we were busting our ass to fix this, you know, massive problem that was going on within the DOJ and fba? Do you notice how many people who seemingly out of the blue, the nothing is happening people. Do you notice how they were. They went crazy like the first month to try to crush this, and then we exploded back onto the scene and now all of a sudden, most of them shut the.

Jasmine Crockett

Why?

Dan Bongino

Why is that? Because a lot of this was a money op. And when the money dried up, all of a sudden, they had no interest anymore. We crushed you. We crushed you. And I'll continue to crush you. Our audience kicks ass. Nobody was listening to your bullshit. Do you notice how all the bullshit responses you get to a tweet, anything with my name in it, do you notice how that's down like 90%? The minute they started crushing bots in these organized campaign weird Right, folks, it wasn't about me. It's about the Trump administration. Anyone? Anyone who doesn't align with their Unholy alliance agenda. Anyone? You ever take a job in politics and you have a name out there, you'll see exactly what I mean. Here's another one I want to show you this Unholy Alliance. Commies, Islamophanatics hat tip, Reagan battalion, who put this out yesterday. It's an account on Twitter. They've been exposing a lot of this commie shit for a long time. You know what? Can you put up the tweet first? I want to set this up for you. These are how. This is how dangerous these people are. The commies and the Islamophoanatics. Bernie Sanders, who for some strange reason, the biggest fake, phony fraud, climate change, flying around in private jets, millionaires and billionaires. He's a freaking millionaire. This guy is full of shit. He's a lying manipulator, just like that scumbag Momdani. But he's not stupid. He's hoping you're stupid. Bernie Sanders was a big supporter of Daniel Ortega.

Michael Alfonso

Who?

Dan Bongino

The Daniel Ortega? No, that's from the. That's from the DSA When? The one about the Daniel Ortega. Daniel Ortega is a commie scumbag who has just canceled elections. No more democracy in Nicaragua. I thought it was democratic socialism. That's what they told us, right, Justin? Democratic socialism. Everybody gets to vote. Sharing is caring. We Barney the big fat dinosaur roasting s' mores. Reagan battalion breaking Nicaragua's dictator Daniel Ortega. Democratic socialist folks announced today country will no longer hold election.

Vince Colon

How?

Mamdani

What?

Dan Bongino

What?

Jasmine Crockett

What?

Dan Bongino

I thought it was democratic. So say no more elections. Here's Bernie Sanders celebrating his role. Bernie's role in advising Ortega after commie scumbag Tyron Ortega took power. And praising the socialist dictator who has now abolished elections. Here's Bernie in his own words. Democratic socialism. Right? Check this out.

Jasmine Crockett

Socialist. The word socialism does not frighten me. And I think it's probably fair to say that the Nicaraguan government is primarily a socialist government. You may recall way back in. What was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba and everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world. All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society. But just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the people in their own nations feel the same way.

Dan Bongino

How do you find the sincerity of Sandinista leaders I was impressed.

Jasmine Crockett

I was impressed by Father De Scoto because he is a very gentle, very loving man. Watega is an impressive guy. Ernesto Cardinal is a funny looking guy. He's gray hair and he really does

Dan Bongino

remind you of a hippie, ladies and gentlemen. Please, God. Please God. Capital G. God, I swear to you in my audience I am not using my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ's name in vain. Please, God, wake these people up. Please God, I'm begging you. Pray for their souls, the stupid people who have fallen prey to this stuff. There is nothing democratic about democratic socialism. It is simply the taking of your property, your political freedom, your economic freedom, your education freedom, your health care freedom. This is not complicated. The evidence is present throughout human history. Put up that Wall Street Journal piece about the horrors of Mao Zedong. You saw that scumbag Hasan Piker. Oh, Mao Zedong. He isn't that bad of a guy. Mao Zedong, Really? We're going to read this, folks, get ready, put your food down, because this is some gross shit. You like Mao Zedong? Daniel Ortega canceling elections. I thought he was a democratic socialist scumbag. Bernie Sanders, who's a millionaire flying private jets himself. Scumbag Mamdani. Oh, we're going to arrest anyone else on ICC warrants too. Yeah. Here's who Mao Zedong is. Read this. Read all of it. 45 million dead, Freeman notes in the Wall Street Journal under Mao Zedong in the commies. According to Frank Dicketer, who described the results of his research into previously classified archives of local and national offices of the ccp. By the way, he wrote this in the New York Times. Freeman's quoting it. Between 2 and 3 million of Mao's victims in China were tortured to death or summarily executed for the slightest infraction. People accused of not working hard enough were hung and beaten. Sometimes they were bound and thrown into ponds. Punishments for the least violations, including mutilation and forcing people to eat excrement. Hassan. Piker. Dickhead. Scumbag. You want to answer for that, you piece of shit? Mamdani. Bernie. Justice, right? He said a little excess. Is this an excess too? One report, dated November 30, 1960 and circulated to top leadership, most likely including Mao, tells how a man named Wing Zhao had one of his ears chopped off, his legs tied up with iron wire and a 10 kilogram stone dropped on his back before he was branded with a sizzling tool. His crime? Digging up a potato. Oh, it gets worse. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village the local boss forced his father to bury his son alive on the spot. This freaking democratic socialism sounds awesome if you're a dickhead.

Jasmine Crockett

Folks.

Dan Bongino

I was in the New York Times. New York Times. Big right wing rag, right? New York, New York Times. Hasan Piker scumbag. Kyle Kopinsky dyeing his hair. You're going to listen to these dipshits? By the way, what's piker worth? By the way? Piece of shit. What's your worth? You hate capitalists and freedom. You want to drop 10 kilogram stones on people's back and have them bury their kids alive? Just a little bit of excess, scumbag. What are you worth? Maybe we should make you dig up a potato. Piece of shit. I'm so sick of these scumbags, folks. Every single one of them freaking redlined out with these assholes. And I'm tired of the stupid smart people who support them. Did you see this Nate Silver tweet that went nuclear yesterday? He's an election analyst. Some people like him, some people don't. Some people like me. Some people doesn't matter. This tweet went crazy yesterday. He did a little analysis of stupid smart people. Do you know the Dan Bongino stupid smart people rule? The most dangerous people on planet earth are not stupid stupid people. They generally know their limits. They can provide a lot of value. They know where to smart smart people are really good because they're smart. But they know they're. It's the neurosurgeon who doesn't try to change the oil into a car because he knows. He doesn't but he's smart. Stupid smart people think there's no bounds to their knowledge because They've got a PhD in basket weaving. Nate Silver in today's newsletter I argue that the sweet spot basically for the Democratic socialists are very college educated, 80% plus of a BA but not particularly well off. Household incomes are relatively low. Their class status is ambiguous. But they tend to be very liberal on culture as well as economics. Who is this? This is the Women's Studies PhD who because they add no value and are generally morons. Peter St. Ange has a great tweet up about this. How the lowest SAT scores for bas are in government in the education space. I'm just telling you the facts. Okay? I'm just giving you the facts. These are the stupid smart people. I've got a PhD in 14th century urban studies for you. Got a what? Is that even a thing? What the F are you talking about? But nobody will hire me. So what Happens. I'll talk to Michael Alfonso about this in a little bit too. People become bitter. This 28 year old Karen with a PhD and you know, 14th century urban studies for, you know, women. And they don't know what to do with that because there's nothing to do with it. So they get bitter. And as I brought up with the guest yesterday, they feel like they should be part of a European benighted, costumed aristocracy where because they went to school, they're entitled to a seven figure income. Now, the irony is, when you look at the same data for the MAGA movement and conservatives, it's populated by a lot of working class individuals who may or may not have a college degree but make a decent amount of money relative to their education. The h vac guy who starts his own business making 150k a year, why is he a Republican or a conservative or a MAGA guy? Because he busted his own ass and he didn't feel the need to spend 400 years in school. For 14th century urban studies, stupid smart people are the most dangerous people in the world. Read the First Circle by Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago, Capitalism and Freedom. Read the Theory of Creative Destruction by Schumpeter. The most dangerous people in the world are stupid smart people. And they appeal to overeducated under earners who provide no value to society. But they also appeal to people who generally choose stupid. Justin's correct. I'm not sure Jasmine Crockett chose stupid. It may have chosen her, but a lot of these people, they don't want to know because you tell them, hey guys, just look this up. Socialism, Mao Zedong, 45 million dead. They don't want to know. And when you expose their heroes here, Fox mom Dharmi admits New York City can't arrest Netanyahu. You could have looked this up, bro. You chose to be stupid and fall for this golden calf. It's on Fox right now.

Mamdani

Told you.

Dan Bongino

It's a live show. You're falling for this Bernie Sanders bullshit too. The guy is a millionaire. Railing against millionaires, folks. I'm a capitalist. I love making some money. I love giving away money too. I love business. I love it all. I love the risk of it. I love the challenge of it. Bernie Sanders is saying, no, no, no. Government should take over all of that. Just not my money. Bernie Sanders. Also, you have to pay attention to the entry points. Again, I'm not telling you. I want to be very clear about what I'm saying because I don't want any confusion about entry points into your brain to get you into the unholy alliance. Epstein is a very serious issue. Israel is a serious issue. We should openly analyze our relationship with every foreign country, Israel included, to see what works for America. Notice no logical, reasonable person saying otherwise. You know, our climate is a very serious issue. I, you know, I hate the idea that there's tons and tons of plastic in the ocean. I mean, these are things we should, we live here. They don't care about any of that. That's not my, my point isn't that it's serious. I mean, or not serious, it's serious. Point stipulated, that's over. All of those things are serious. My point is that they don't care about any of what I just said. They don't care about Epstein, Israel, climate change, none of it. Cuz they don't act that way. They care about using it as an entry point to get into your brain to join them in the unholy alliance to destroy America. Hat tip, Western Lensman. For this video, here's Bernie Sanders in a campaign speech railing about climate change. And then just seconds later, you'll see Bernie Sanders on Fox News talking about, yeah, I take private jets. You think I'm going to wait with the smelly people? I thought you cared about climate change and carbon emissions. Clearly not enough to impact your own behavior, you phony scumbag. Check this out.

Jasmine Crockett

Change is not a hoax, but an existential threat to our planet. Transform our energy system away from fossil fuel. You and you run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. The only way you can get around to the talk to 30,000 people. Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United? Waiting? You know what? 30,000 people are waiting. That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past, we're

Vince Colon

going to do it in the future.

Dan Bongino

Folks, he doesn't even apologize. He just said no apologies. If this scumbag had any human dignity, like mom dummy, he would just say, I lied to you about Netanyahu and I lied to you about climate change. He would just say it like he doesn't have any human dignity. Do you think there are businessmen out there flying around the country working, you know, multimillion dollar deals for cancer drugs and building materials that can make housing cheaper? That their lives aren't important? They would love to be out there on private jets. You think they're not important too they would love it. What about firemen going out to do like some smoke jumping job for a wildfire? Maybe give them the private jet, but. But you don't because you're full of shit. He doesn't even apologize. He gave you this, bro, the New York double barrel. He doesn't care about you. You're being sucked. All they're doing is finding your soft spot in your armor and they poke right in whatever they think will appeal to you. They don't care about any of this stuff. And that's why you get things like what happened yesterday. You get this massive rally on the left to try to appeal to stupid people against the SAVE Act. You're seeing it now. Here's the, here's the pitch, the entry point to the stupid people. It's racist and Republicans hate women. How black people are too dumb to get a driver's license and women are too dumb after they get married to figure out how to change your name. That's really took Paula just a few minutes. She's pretty smart. Pretty smart. If Jasmine was here, I think I heard it. Really not hard. That's their. That's their pitch to you. And stupid people fall for it. Stupid people fall for it. Senator Mike Lee from Utah has been doing just incredible work on trying to drag this Save America act across the finish line. We need this, folks. We need. And I'm tired of like the rhino class too, playing this down. I mean, I really appreciate a lot of these older, right leaning papers like the Journal, but I don't think they understand the gravity of this situation. Faith in the system is falling apart. It's a big deal. And it's not fake. It's not a conspiracy. It's not made up of anything. My time in government hardened me on this. Here's Mike Lee talking about the SAVE Acts. And the only reason you'd oppose this is because you want to cheat. It's not hard. I agree with him 100%. Check this out.

Vince Colon

Think that there's only one legitimate reason to oppose this. I have yet to hear a legitimate

Dan Bongino

argument against the bill. Which begs the question, do they really

Vince Colon

just want to make it easy to

Dan Bongino

vote so badly that they're willing or even enthusiastic to just make it easier to cheat? Folks, we had a. Again, I'm not overselling it. If you think I'm overselling it, put it y in the chat. Yes, you're overselling. Using the word bombshell. Of course I'm talking about the New Jersey report. If you missed the New Jersey bombshell, that came out yesterday. Man, you missed a doozy. Democrat communist governor gets up and gives a speech about how over 6,000 people. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. What is it, McGroyne that said yes or there? Did you get that thing backwards? McGregor, you may have to ban this pressure. I'm getting your opinion valid here. 6,600 people were registered to vote who were totally prohibited from voting. Illegals and others. I thought that. I thought this wasn't an issue. I thought it wasn't a problem. Let's go to Scott Jennings. I know this is two parts, Justin. I'm a little bit out of order, but Scott Jennings was on CNN last night. Again, I'm not sure stupid is a choice for Abby Phillips. She is the left wing host of the CNN show. Thank God Scott Jennings is there to impart upon her like the minimal amount of knowledge her small brain can process. But here's Abby Phillips last night about this report. I love how the argument changes. Do you notice the goalposts moving? Voter fraud is nonexistent. Okay, it's existent, but it doesn't change any elections.

Abby Phillips

We.

Dan Bongino

Okay, it's existent and it may change elections, but not that many. They just keep changing the goalposts every single time because they appeal to stupid people. Here's this exchange last night. I want you to listen to this. How these people have to just beg, borrow and steal to make you believe that it's a burden on you to show a piece of ID to vote. Check this out.

Scott Jennings

What's your tolerance for this?

Abby Phillips

My hold on. This is not about tolerance. This is about widespread. Or is it something that is relevant, rare.

Scott Jennings

If you're pounding him over the word widespread, I just would ask you, what is your tolerance for any fraud at all?

Abby Phillips

Is it widespread?

Scott Jennings

Absolutely. Over 6,000.

Abby Phillips

What is your bar for what?

Scott Jennings

She said? And my bar is I want no tolerance. I have zero.

Abby Phillips

So what is your tolerance for America, by the way?

Scott Jennings

This isn't the only place.

Kyle Kalinsky

This is.

Abby Phillips

What's your tolerance for American citizens whose valid voter registrations are invalidated by incorrect databases? What's your tolerance for that?

Scott Jennings

I don't have tolerance for. For any mistakes in the electoral system, including putting non citizens on the rolls.

Abby Phillips

So then why are we not keeping the same energy for that as we are for this?

Scott Jennings

I do have energy, as you know. I've come out here and long argued that every time we don't clean up the voter rolls that every time a non citizen makes it onto the voter rolls, it invalidates some legal.

Abby Phillips

What about, what about when an American is not allowed to vote? When they are eligible to vote?

Scott Jennings

I don't have any tolerance for that either.

Vince Colon

American citizens.

Scott Jennings

But American citizens are invalid, validated

Abby Phillips

using a system that a federal judge recently found was actively removing US Citizens from the voter rolls based on inaccurate information. Why are you comfortable with that system being used to check the voter rolls?

Scott Jennings

This is a convenient deflection for you. This is the worst possible story that could happen for Democrats right now regarding the debate over the same act.

Dan Bongino

Folks, I have so much to say about this and I just, I want to just. If you do the prolonged sigh, it calms you down a little bit. Abby Phillips, I genuinely don't think, like, stupid is a tr. I think she's just incompetent and has a very low iq. She makes an argument that defeats her own argument and doesn't even know it. She says one, she uses the tactic of deflection, which Jennings points out. She addresses Nothing about the 6,600 people ineligible to vote who made it on the voter rolls admitted by communist governor of New Jersey Mikey Sherrill. She completely avoids that altogether and goes, well, what. Whenever you hear, well, what about, you need to do what Jennings does, which is say, no, no, no, no, we're not doing the deflection. We're addressing this. I'll address what you say after. But we need to stick to the point. She can't. She then goes, well, what about people who were inadvertently kicked off voter rolls due to some administrative mistake? Yeah, and Jennings, like, good, we should, we should fix that. If that happened, no matter what, if it was one person or 6,000 people, fine, we should fix that. And I'm sure that problem is going to be remedied. And we are all for open access, just secure access to the ballots. So just to be clear, I'm suggesting you. We should fix what you brought up, even though it was a deflection. But I bring up 6,600 illegals registered to vote and you're not interested in a fix like the SAVE Act? Oh, Abby. Abby Phillips is not smart. She makes an argument that defeats her own argument. Folks, these people just want to cheat. That is it. Mike Lee is 100% correct. Now, I want to show you something in case you may be some moderate Democrat who, I don't know, you're. You.

Mamdani

You.

Dan Bongino

You see the stupid ramp coming off the highway and you're thinking about, don't take it. Don't. You thinking about it. You're like, Exit 62 here we come. Whatever. Don't do it. Let me show you something interesting. Put up that Grok thing. This is a screenshot of my phone. You can look it up yourself. Use the same words. Whatever. I put this in Grok earlier, 6,600 people could have voted that were ineligible and were illegal to vote. Again, I thought that didn't happen. Abbey. Phil. No big deal. Whatever. How many New Jersey state elections, including the following races, were decided by 100 votes or less? State races, county offices, municipal offices, school board elections, local ballot questions. That's the exact question I put in Grok. I want you to read the answer because I thought this didn't impact. Oh, no big deal. 6,600 people. The short answer is no one knows the exact number because they don't maintain a statewide database that indexes contests by winning margin. That said, based on the volume of elections held in New Jersey, a reasonable estimate. Reasonable. State legislative races, about five to 15 races were decided by 100 votes or fewer over the past 10 years. County offices, roughly 10 to 30. Municipal offices, 200 to 500 races. School board elections, 150 to 400 races. Local ballot questions, 50 to 100 measures. That's just in 10 years. 6,600 ineligible voters on the rolls.

Michael Alfonso

Now.

Dan Bongino

Does a lot of this stuff that's happening in Georgia and Arizona and elsewhere starting to make sense again? Tell me, fat comedian guy, tell us how nothing's happening because, you know. You know. Tell. Tell me again. Now do you understand why President Trump decided, you know, last Thursday night to give the speech about this? I thought nothing was happening. I thought that's the Democrat talking. No voter fraud. Well, there's voter fraud, but it's no big deal. All right, but it's a big deal. But it's just a few races.

Vince Colon

All right?

Dan Bongino

It's actually a lot of races, but people are prevented from voting because they're black and can't get a license. What? And you fell for this? If you're missing the live stream, one, you're missing out on comment of the day, but two, you're missing Justin's like live action, just foray into adventurism on his own show. He's taken over. He's gonna take the Justin show right now. So Scott Jennings had asked the great Maze more on X. One of my favorites, if not my favorite. Follow aze m a Z e M O O R e on X. Scott Jennings knows about Maze more too. Scott said a mays can you do a little super cut? You got that tweet of basically people saying that this was no big deal, voter fraud doesn't exist and no illegals on the ballot. Here's Scott. He's quote, tweeting Jake Sherman about the Mikey Sherrill announcement. Need a Mazemore supercut of every Dem on cable claiming this never happens is voter fraud stuff, right? Mazemore, of course, complied. Wonderful account. Here is the supercut of the emotionally and intellectually challenged Abby Phillips, who couldn't even answer the question and tried to deflect and defeated her own argument arguing with herself about this exact thing. Here's the supercut. Check this out.

Abby Phillips

He's been in office for a full year now. They have not come up with any of this purported evidence. You guys are in search of something that there's been no evidence exists. New Jersey is double checking its voter rolls tonight after a Software error added 6,600 non citizens to the voter roll. The suggestion that this is fraud suggests that these people were trying to vote. Sometimes what happens is that when state systems are incorrect, people receive information and they are confused. Where some people who are ineligible to vote are not aware that they're ineligible to vote. I do think it's whether it is widespread or not, really, I do think that the numbers actually matter,

Michael Alfonso

Folks.

Dan Bongino

Do you see what happens? Can we just like circle back to the beginning of the show? The Unholy alliance, the commies and the Islamo Nazis take advantage of two groups of people. The two take advantage of two. The two groups of people they take advantage of are stupid. People who have made the choice to be stupid or have had it imposed upon them like Jasmine Crock. Because they know they'll fall for anything. They know. They know they'll fall for anything. They also take advantage of charismatic messengers who are liars and manipulators. Scumbag. Momdani. Total scumbag. He may try to arrest me up in New York City too. That's how crazy these people are. You don't have to be stupid though. It's a choice. I just told you. Even if you're a low IQ idiot. I like Jasmine Crockett. You can just go to Grok OR Gemini or ChatGPT or Claude or whatever and ask the question yourself. It's not hard. There's a surrogate brain ready to do the thinking for you. You just choose not to use it. One of the things that drives me crazy is we've got the Unholy alliance, the commies and the Islamophanatics trying to destroy the United States. Destroy it. They are a national security threat to the United States. Their protection racket is the left wing media, and their propaganda racket is the education system. There's actually four legs to this stool, folks. What's driven me nuts since I've been back on the air is watching from the other side, the left wing media. The right wing media is pretty good. Sometimes we get stuff wrong, too, but the left wing media, I would see something in the morning that we were privy to, and then I would read about the New York Times, Washington Post version of what we saw. And folks, it was night and day. It was not the same thing. This drives me bananas when I see stuff like this because what am I gonna do? I can't just give up classified information to show you. Reporter Joey Bagadonis at the New York Times, an idiot. But I'm telling you, 90% of what you read is either fabricated bullshit or some propaganda version of the truth. President Trump was in the Oval yesterday. He was talking with the reporters out there. And it's almost comical listening to this reporter cite some supposed information she has about Iran and President Trump's like, well, how do you know that? Like, I've gotten brief, as, you know. Do you know something I don't know? And she has no answer at all. Well, I'm sorry, are you going to tell us? This drives me. I'm not telling you. Don't ask questions I want to say at all. I'm just saying most of what you read, unsurprisingly, is total, complete horseshit and it's just made up. They have no idea. Check this out. Well, they continue to attack our allies.

Joey Bagadonis

You don't know what the dialogue is behind the scenes that they want to meet desperately to try and end it because they're getting decimated. You don't get that when you listen to your fake station. But you don't know. You don't know anything. So you know something that I don't know. You know something I don't know.

Dan Bongino

Well, tell us.

Joey Bagadonis

I will tell you. They want to desperately meet. And until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest in you.

Dan Bongino

I don't want to belabor this point. I'm just telling you this drives me freaking bananas. However little faith you have in the media, you should have less. I saw it over and over again. One of these days, when this stuff is declassified, I'll be able to show you a side by side. Here's what you read in the New York Times. Here's what's now declassified. And I'll be able to show you how it's either completely made up or they take one sentence totally out of context for the entire report and they blow up a story and say Trump's a loser. It is so bad. If the experience, if anything, was just worth that alone to watch. Media people beclown themselves. Folks, I'm really happy we were finally able to. You know, we have rules for the contest. If you want to see the rules direct comment of the day contest, go to bongino.com 1776 the rules are simple. Just join the live stream every day. If your comments picked, it goes into a weekly drawing. We pick a winner once a week. You get $1776. That's all you got to do. So we had to go through the process and we finally found and we got a winner just in week one. Oh, look at this. There's fireworks and everything. Look, there's a whole presentation. Did you do that? Those are real fireworks in the studio right now. You see that? The winner is R. Barrage 69. The comment was Dan using an X Files reference like his crew uses Star wars references. That's why I love this podcast cast. Thank you. Congratulations. I hope you spend it well. $1,776. We'll get to week two when we go through the whole process. And we have a comment of the day today as well. This guy's like moving over there. Justin, what's our comment of the day for today? 1776 Club. You see it right there? It is. Borg tank. It's. It's not happening. But it's good that it is, right? Yes. We haven't said that in so long. That was a Michael Anton thing. You gotta be this Borg tank. You're a hardcore P1 there. And I think the Borg thing comes from. Oh, Lucy's here, folks. Lucy has arrived. Lucy. Lucy. It's not happening. The Democrats say this all the time about the voter fraud. It's not happening. But it's good that this is their thing. Voter fraud's not happening. By the way, I'll be on Will Cain later Laura Ingraham show tomorrow. I should probably announce that stuff. You want to check that out, folks? You know, I'm not a big gambler, but I've been having a lot of fun looking at Marketplace predictions for everything from politics to sports. And Kalshee is where I get the best insight on predictions from sports to politics to finance or any variety of markets people are monitoring. Kalshee.com is a bookmark you need. I Featured them in my last election special. They were spot on. Our president was elected as predicted. Kalshee.com K A L S H I is one of the only places where you can trade on real world events in all 50 states. States. Click the link in the description, get a free $10 credit when you trade $100. It's not just politics or economics. They've got markets on everything from sports to pop culture to climate predictions. Calshi has a pulse on what the world thinks will happen. Click the link in the description, get a free 10 credit when you trade $100. Go to Cal.comBongino Cal.comBongino you must be 21. The purchaser must be president in the state where the trade is placed. See important disclosures@calshi.com, calSHI subject to US regulatory oversight by the CFTC. I'm really excited to welcome this show. A guy you know really well from the Dan Bongino show now running for Congress. Listen, throwing your name on a ballot, Michael, it's a lot of guts, man. The old Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena speech. Michael Alfonso, running for Congress in Wisconsin. Michael, welcome to the show. Good to see you again.

Michael Alfonso

Thank you so much for having me. You know, Dan, I always credit you with my start in the political world. Everyone always asks me, what experience do you have? Well, I was produced one of the biggest podcasts in the country, so.

Dan Bongino

Well, we miss you. And listen, I'm really proud of you. I know what it's like to run for Congress. I hope your result was different. I'm always proud of the fact though, that I threw my name on a ballot. But one of the things I noticed right away, I was like, man, you really leaned out. And I said, let me guess because I'd been there before. I said, the campaign trail, if you're really campaigning, I mean, you're not, but other candidates, you know, maybe some in your race, they're lazy, they sit and they do a couple of TikTok ads and they're done. If you're really campaigning, gripping and grinning, going to the parades, the barbecues, knocking on doors, you're out all day, all day. You're dehydrated, there's no bathrooms around. You're just like in a real pinch. I'm not surprised. You said, I lost like 10, 20 pounds. I'm like, man, you look really lean. So tell everybody what it's like to get out there and really do the groundwork and the gripping and grinning you need to do to win.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah, so when I was working for you, I was £200. I'm now 160. When you're out on the campaign trail, you do not have time for anything. You are either driving to something, you're talking to someone on the phone, you're knocking a door, and, you know, this district, the Wisconsin 7th, is actually the biggest district east of the Mississippi. And I always like to put this in perspective. I've driven 50,000 miles in nine months. So that's circumnavigating the globe twice.

Dan Bongino

So, Michael. Yeah, I've been there. I know what it's like. I ran in Maryland Congressional District 6, which goes from the mountains all the way down to the urban areas of Montgomery County. And you know, when, if you do it the right way, which I know you're doing now, knocking on a bunch of doors, you really do learn a lot about people. It's inevitable. It's almost by osmosis. Even if you had zero interest, even if you were a terrible candidate and you didn't care, you can't talk to thousands of people and not learn a lot about them and yourself. When you're hitting those doors and you're chatting with people, I would imagine cost of living comes up, I would imagine, you know, healthcare comes up, you know, crime. But what do you hear specifically in Wisconsin? Most of all from the folks who are, who are gripping your hand, you know, shaking your hand and saying, hey, I need your help with this.

Michael Alfonso

The number one thing is, what is Congress doing? They haven't done anything. What are they doing? Where's the SAVE Act?

Dan Bongino

Where are.

Michael Alfonso

I mean, it's ridiculous. Every door I knock on, they're saying, president Trump is amazing, we love him, but Congress is not backing him up. And when I listen to the media, all I hear is, apparently Donald Trump has falling approval numbers. And all of this. I don't know where that is, because every single person I talk to, it's Congress with the falling approval. They love President Trump.

Dan Bongino

We're talking to Michael Alfonso, running in Wisconsin District 7. The website is Alfonso for Wisconsin, Alfonso4Wisconsin.com you know, Michael from the show, Michael, speaking of the SAVE act, huge issue. You know, again, you were, you worked here on the show, you would see a lot of the emails. There were a lot of things we'd mentioned. You remember that? You can tell right away, Correct. When they hit, you just see a bunch of emails. Dms, you're on Twitter. You're like, Dan, whatever you said yesterday about whatever, the death penalty, boom, it exploded. I have never Ever seen public support amongst moderate Democrats, moderate Republicans, libertarians, MAGA people, old school conservatives, new school conservatives. The far left wants to cheat, so get them out of it. But I have never seen grassroots support like I have for the SAVE Act. Now obviously I know what you support, I get that. But the reason I bring it up is I was talking to a very prominent official up on Capitol Hill. He's definitely not a swampy. And he said, Dan, you'll never believe it. He goes, a lot of the guys up here, even on the Senate side who've been around forever, they don't see it. They think this is just like an Internet issue, like a fringe issue. I said, are you like, do you ever get out and talk to people? Please disabuse politicians of that notion that this is some fringe issue. The SAVE Act.

Kyle Kalinsky

Yeah.

Michael Alfonso

I mean we've been hearing there's almost 20 million illegals in this country. Now we're finding out that just from four states, Democrat states that turned over their voter rolls, about 250,000 illegals were registered to vote. Now they were very clear, the person that told me this, that we can't be sure that they're voting. They're voting. We know that they're voting. Who registers to vote if you're not going to vote? 250,000 people in four states. Wisconsin went for Trump by 20,000 votes. When he lost in 2020, he lost by 20,000 votes. With this number is really concerning. This is changing elections and the Democrats main argument is they're not voting. This won't make a difference. Okay, great. Let's pass the SAVE Act. Nothing will change. It'll be great.

Dan Bongino

Michael, I noticed behind you over your left shoulder you have a picture of Washington crossing the Delaware. A an iconic photo. I had a great guest yesterday on America. On America 250 and the greatness of America. But you know your in laws. Rachel's got an amazing story. We all know Rachel from Fox and Friends of course, but you know, Rachel was a conservative before. It was cool and hip. To be a conservative on MTV you have to be my age. That was way before your time but I promise it's not before mine, you know and to have a female Hispanic conservative at the time was like a one in a million shot. But with America 250 coming up now you being a younger candidate, which I have no issue with and I, you know, if you can articulate the issues, which you can, good for you. But this socialism appeal which is the antithesis of America, it's The antithesis of freedom and liberty, of free markets, of, of, of patient directed healthcare, of school choice, the government controls. All that in socialism that's gotta concern you right now amongst your generation that hey, this thing is really moving and we can't ignore it, this cancer of socialism.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah. And you know my grandparents actually came to this country from Cuba, so I know a lot about socialism. Let's call it what it really is, it's communism because that's what it becomes. And wherever these ideas start to pop up their heads, you see violence. I mean what happened to Charlie Kirk is a direct correlation to what's happening now. The left paints us as Nazis, paints us as racists and then they shoot us. This idea, these ideals, they're not, you know, these peace loving, oh let's help somebody. No, they turn violent and they already have. And I think this is why it's so important to have younger representation. I know, you know, in Florida you guys got have Maxwell Frost, another young lefty, total communist. And the right hasn't picked their next champions yet. And the problem is young people have always struggled starting out. I don't, I don't blame the older generation for looking at us and saying you guys need a little, you need to work a little bit harder. But the thing is these young people used to figure it out by age 30, age 40, they get their first job and it starts working out. They're not, we need to win younger people because in 20 years you're going to be stuck, stuck with us.

Dan Bongino

Michael, I'd love to get your thoughts on this. Talking to Michael Alfonso, candidate for Congress, Wisconsin 7 and I don't census from you at all any kind of animosity but that, this, we have to be careful with the messaging here. Messaging matters, it does. This is the, a generation reared on TikTok and Snapchat short form messaging. And if we don't adjust that, we're going to get smoked. Being angry at them is not going to fix any of this. We have to understand like why. There's a great piece in the Wall street yesterday in the op ed column and it's Future View where they ask a bunch of students about socialism and a couple of these, these, these young men and women say the same thing, like it's not that socialism is necessarily appealing, it's that they feel like they got screwed over. And I think it's up to us, incumbent upon us and guys like you running for office to say you know what you did, but it's not that you got screwed over. It's who did it that we need to fix. It's the government you got screwed over with a shitty education, pardon my French there. Because the public school system is garbage. That's the government run school system. Your health care is expensive. Why? I thought Obamacare was going to fix it. The Democrats just shut down the government because Obamacare is too expensive and they needed more money. You know, they argue about like the bank bailouts. Bank bailouts, like that's a big government thing. Yeah, some establishment Republicans too, but that is not a conservative principle. Like that was them. The financial crisis, the Community Reinvestment act, this is all big government. So I always say to them, hey, younger voters, I'm not mad at you. I'm totally with you. You got screwed, the government screwed you and we're going to fix it. Not the socialists that are going to introduce more of the broken leg.

Michael Alfonso

And young people just care about having a job where they can support a family and being able to buy a home. That's their only two issues that they care about. And the thing is the left has a plan for them. How would you like free health care? How would you like a free house? Now we know that that doesn't work, but we need the right to start talking about this. President Trump won young people because he talked just about this. He said, hey, you guys can't get good jobs because we have horrible trade deals with Mexico and Canada and China, you name it. We need to talk to the young people. They're not crazy, they're just uninformed. And I really, really think it's important to look at, you know, these young people and say, they are Americans. They are going to be the next generation. And it's our job as Republicans to actually deliver results for them. We have no one to blame for this rise of rise of communism besides the rhino Republicans who do nothing when they're actually in power. Can you blame the young people who look at the right and say, yeah, they didn't fix it either. So time to give the Democrats a shot.

Dan Bongino

Yeah, and I really encourage everyone to read that piece Future View where you hear these young men and women talk about themselves. I mean, if you've been indoctrinated and, you know, like you, you know, you've been in colleges, in the education system, you've seen it like you're told from eighth grade, kindergarten through 12 and ending college, if you decided to go that, you know, socialism is the answer. It's about sharing and caring and Barney the fat dinosaur, like, that's not what it's about. I'm sure your parents from Cuba can explain to you what it's about. It's about torture, death, destruction, government confiscation, stealing private property, stealing your wealth, shutting down your farms. I showed a clip earlier in the show. I showed a piece from the Wall Street Journal yesterday as well, documenting the horrors of Mao Zedong. You know, people being forced to bury their children alive for, like eating a potato that was unauthorized. Like this happened, that the torture and deprivation and the starvation of this. So I'm glad you're calling that out. I think young people need to hear it. But I want to ask you about this as well. So you got President Trump's endorsement. I mean, listen, when I ran for office, I've said this on my show repeatedly. Endorsements really didn't mean much. I mean, back in the day, an early Sarah Palin endorsement may move the needle a little bit and got you on a. But really, nobody cared. Nobody votes for. They just don't. Except Trump. President Trump's endorsement record is insane. I don't even know what it is. 99 to 1. But that's just, you know, even eliminate races that were a fait accompli. It's still ridiculous. It's like 50 or 70 to 0 at that point or whatever. What was that like? How'd you find out? And that must have moved the needle for you. Yeah.

Michael Alfonso

So, you know, I had a bunch of interviews with, you know, his lower level staff, and then finally I did actually get to sit down with him in the Oval Office. And I've never been to the Oval Office. I'm a kid from northern Wisconsin. I've been out of the country one time going into the Oval Office, talking to the President of the United States. But not just any president. President Donald Trump. I've never been more nervous in my entire life. He grilled me for an hour straight. I didn't know how it went. And then I was on the flight home and didn't hear anything, didn't know anything. He didn't call me, he didn't say anything. And he just put it out on Truth Social. He's one of those guys that just shoots from the hips. And anyone that knows him knows he doesn't give people warning. He does what he does and you got to roll with the punches.

Dan Bongino

That's what I love about him. I mean, listen, brother, we share this in common. The same thing happened with the FBI job. I mean, we had just had some general conversation. Not even with him. I had had him, you Know, with cash. And it just come up and I really just kind of sat there and I don't know what it was a month later, I'm sitting there on a Sunday night, you know, I'm, I'm falling asleep. It's like past my bedtime, at like 7:20 at night, I'm hitting old and I see my phone ring. It says Trump. I'm like, what the hell is this about? And he, he is a, you know, what is that joke? Decider. He's a decider. When he wants to do it, he just does it and he takes his inputs, he forms an output and he's just ready to rock and roll. So listen, I'm sure that's gonna move the needle huge.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah, you know, I've seen a lot of this. Now the more politicians you see, they have a laundry list of consultants and everybody else who, well, maybe you should say it this way, maybe just the advice world. And President Trump doesn't listen to any of that. He just does what he thinks is best. And it's so refreshing to see a decision not take six weeks. It just happens. He makes the decision and now it's, how do we implement it now?

Dan Bongino

Yeah, he's. Listen, man, if he's got something in his head and he feels he's a very transactional guy. And some people, when I say that, they say, well, what do you mean transactional? I mean, he looks at politics as a spreadsheet. If he sees the net present value of a decision, long term is going to be positive, but may take some, some sacrifices over time, he's going to do it. He's not really interested in consultants. Like, well, your polls may move tomorrow, but, well, is it better for the United States in the long run? And he does it, he'll take a chance. He's the biggest risk taker I've ever seen in politics and I really admire that. Speaking of politics, one of the things you may be asked to vote on if you win the congressional. Talking to Michael Alfonso, running in Wisconsin Congressional District 7 is a ban on stock trading for insiders. Now, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm torn on this for. I like to give people, both sides. I don't just about the talking points on it. I'm, I'm for that almost, but I'm, I'm hesitant and here's why. Let me just spit it out. You have a lot of people in Congress who are, you know, like yourself. They're not millionaires and billionaires. They're working class Guys, they, you know, they're, they don't have some potted, you know, a million dollars sitting there. And if they're invested in a couple of stocks here and there and you got. As long as you're doing it ethically and there's no conflict of interest, you know, okay, great. The problem is you always get people who are going to take advantage of that, and I think that's the greater concern. How do you feel about trading as stocks by people in Congress, given all the ethical constraints? I'm not suggesting they have to sell them all. I mean, but there should be at least some completely detached blind trust while you're in there.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah, I'm completely against any new purchasing of stocks. That's it. Pause. No more. You are a public servant. Your job is not to enrich yourself, it's to serve the public. And something I've said a lot, you know, I don't know if this will actually get passed. A lot of people want to vote against it. I will never trade a stock in my personal capacity, nor will my wife, which is a reference to Nancy Pelosi, who. She doesn't trade the stocks, her husband does. But I actually think it's a great way to implement term limits, so to speak. You know, people are going to be in office long enough and they're going to say, ah, I'm going to get out of here because, you know, I want to start doing something great. We don't want you there for 50 years. Congress was always supposed to be get in, get out. And I actually think it's a good way to get term limits almost sort of a table attached to it by default.

Dan Bongino

Yeah, term limits is another issue I brought up before, and there's a lot of ups and downs that my concern, and you may experience this as a new congressman, is it's like, you know, going to college for the first time. You're like, well, I've been to school K through 12. But you never been to that school. You got to learn where, you know, the buildings are, like, where who I have to go to for academic support, where these folks hours things are, or I may need some extra tutoring or whatever it takes a little bit in Congress learning the mechanics of how the operation works. I've only heard this from others. I don't pretend to know what, but they've said it's complicated, may take a term or two. So that's the only thing that makes me a little hesitant. I am. I have changed my mind significantly on term limits based on what's going on now. I mean, we have AI. We can figure it out pretty quickly. But I just, I worry that congressional staffers become empowered then because they understand the mechanics better than a constantly evolving group of congressmen. You're just general thoughts on that.

Michael Alfonso

You're totally right. And I think you actually need term limits for the bureaucrats as well, making sure that there's not this secret side of things that's just there all the time. But the way I look at it is I say if the President of the United States, the most important role in our, our entire government, has term limits, I think Congress can have it, too. 435 members. Most of them don't know what to do even 10 years afterwards. So we're not really losing much.

Dan Bongino

And Michael, another thing about term limits that always gets me is if it was a federal law, you know, it would likely apply to, you know, federal unless the state and individual states comply. And like I mentioned, blind trust. Were there rules about that that still exists, but, you know, tighten it up and everything like that. However, you can still, even if you say you really love politics, you may be a really great public servant. You may be, you know, I love what Donald Trump's done. You know, I don't agree with every decision, but most of them more than I have with any other president we've had in a while. You know, what if he wants to go back and, you know, someone wants to go back and serve as a state legislator after being a US Senator or a congressman of Wisconsin. Nobody's stopping you like the people of Wisconsin. It would probably, you know, they probably restricted the federal, if it was a federal law, unless, you know, states did it on their own, too, there's nothing stopping you. So I see really no downside to this. See, don't give me the whole like, well, what if they're a good public servant? Good. Go back and be a state senator, Go run for governor. No one's stopping you from doing that.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah. And, you know, our government was written to have the states be far more powerful than the federal government. So one of the things I want to do if I get into office is make most of the decisions the federal government does. Give it back to the states and then you can go serve at the state level. I mean, the state senators, the state assemblyman, they're your neighbors. I'm running in a district where there's 750,000 people I've met, I think almost every single person in the district, but really, I probably haven't even Made a dent. The further away your government gets from you, the more tyrannical it gets. You know, you look at county board members, even the Democrats aren't that bad. But then you look at the Maxine Waters, the Nancy Pelosi, they don't feel any duty to serve you. They don't care about you at all.

Dan Bongino

That's, and I encourage everyone to look this up. That's the principle of subsidiarity. The best government you're going to have is the most responsive. And the way to make it the most responsible responsive is to reduce it to the closest, most granular level possible. I mean, think about it. If you had a, it's obviously a hyperbolic example, but if you had a state representative or a city council member, whatever it may be, and he only had 20 constituents in his district and only 12 of them vote, Michael, you're damn well paying attention to every one of their concerns. Cuz one vote flipped the whole election. You're right. You get a congressional district which is by federal standards still small, 750,000. But let's be honest, I mean, if you're an out of touch guy, really doesn't give a damn. Like someone calls you and goes, hey, I got a problem with this zoning thing. You're probably like, yeah, whatever, call Joey Bag of Donna, I don't got time for this today. You're going to find time if government's smaller and closer. Michael, while we're close. Sorry, go ahead. You got a comment on that?

Michael Alfonso

I was just going to say I was talking to a sheriff just the other day and I won't mention which one it was, but he's a little bit of a lefty. Do you think he's not going to come to your door if you call 911, you better believe he'll be the first one.

Dan Bongino

Yeah, you're damn right. That's accountable. Government is the closest and the smallest, most granular level possible. Michael, when's, when's the primary? How can people find you, support you? How are you? Well, first, how are you feeling about the race? And then give us the mechanics of it.

Michael Alfonso

You know, the race is going well, you know, with President Trump's endorsement, that helps a lot. But I am always 10 points down in my own head because you never want to get cocky. You can't let anything be taken for granted. But you can find all about the campaign and issues page@alfonso forwisconsin.com. the primary is August 11th and actually early voting starts next week.

Dan Bongino

Yeah, early voting. I mean, I wish we had, you know, voting was tightened up across the country. But early voting is a thing. It's here, and it's totally counterproductive to not take advantage of it. I say to people all the time, folks, I get it. I'm not a huge fan of, you know, three week, two week, one week. I don't mind a couple days. I get it. However, God forbid, something could happen. Your kid gets sick, your dog gets sick, you get sick. A thunderstorm keeps you in your house. The Democrats bank their votes early. We are stuck with this system. Unfortunately, we have to play ball with rules we're not really fond of. But it's really important you bank your vote early. I get it. I understand it. But we're never gonna change the system if we don't elect guys like Michael. Correct. So it's counterproductive to wait. If you can bank your votes. Bank your votes. It's Michael. Oh, excuse me. Alfonso4wisconsin.com. Michael, congratulations on running a great race. Listen, I told you we had sent a text exchange. I said, listen, man, you know, I'm proud of you. Throw your name on a ballot, it takes a lot of balls. It does because it's totally public. It's the greatest meritocracy out there. It takes a lot of guts to do it. A lot of people will talk about it, and they're now because they're afraid, you know, I'm. Win, lose, whatever. Hey, man, listen, life is about meritocracy. I'm proud of you. You ran a great race, and I hope everything works out for you.

Michael Alfonso

Yeah. And, you know, I just want to take one last second to thank the Dan Bongino Show. I mean, nothing has changed more in my life than when I started working for you guys. You're the best bosses in the world. I missed you every day you were at the FBI. I missed you still. And I missed the McGroins so much.

Dan Bongino

Oh, they're the best.

Michael Alfonso

Anita was the best. Jim, the producer over in Dallas guy. Justin. I know you got some new producers now. I haven't met them, but really it is a family over there. Haley as well, Vince. So thank you guys so much. You guys are amazing patriots. You're saving the country. You really are.

Dan Bongino

Oh, thanks, brother. They miss Evita too. I obviously want to keep this about you, but please send our love, our support, big hugs, Rachel and Sean as well. Good friends of us. I obviously want to make this segment, though, about you, but you do have a great, great, kind of almost unprecedented support network. And I'm Sure. By the way, hopefully when you win the race that you'll have that support network. You're going to have like the greatest advisors ever. So Michael, good luck in the race and don't be a stranger. We'll, hopefully we'll, we'll see you on the other side of this.

Mamdani

All right.

Michael Alfonso

Good to see you. Thank you so much.

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