The Left Gets A Smackdown in Court (Ep. 2238)

your host, Dan Bongino.

Okay.

So one of those Leo Getz moments, you know, okay.

I got to explain this a little better.

The iron law of contradiction.

I'm going to get to that.

I promise once it kind of sinks in, it's everything's going to make a whole bunch of sense.

But yesterday the case got so ridiculous, the Donald Trump Twinkies case up in New York.

The case has gotten so ridiculous, this NDA case, nobody knew how to talk about it on

cable news.

Did you see it?

The National Enquirer guy was named David Pecker and they were like, Pecker's standing

out.

I mean, on the stand.

I mean, the Pecker stand.

David Pecker.

I mean, I don't mean the Pecker.

I mean, this is how stupid this has gotten.

This is what happens when you let freaking lunatics run the country who decided it's

a good idea to take a former president, stick them in a dingy courtroom during a campaign.

You can only hope these losers are distanced from power and then prosecuted themselves

later for stealing away Donald Trump's civil rights.

I got a lot to talk about today, including my iron law of contradiction.

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Folks, I need to explain it better.

I will.

The iron law of contradiction.

What that basically means is whatever the left is taking a stand on, it's not on principle.

They're only doing it because you took the opposite stand.

And the minute that flips, they will go right back and do the opposite thing again.

I've got hardcore receipts as it relates to this Supreme Court case yesterday.

A very important one about presidential immunity.

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So, the Iron Law of Contradiction.

Got a whole bunch of emails yesterday.

The Supreme Court case was happening involving Donald Trump, one of the many criminal persecutions

of Donald Trump that lefties, I'm happy to say, is blowing up right in your face in the

polls.

It's a double barrel, maybe the triple, but we'll leave that for today.

The poor wooden hand needs a break.

But I got a bunch of emails yesterday.

The Supreme Court, the Democrats on the, because they are, Sonia Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ketanji

Brown-Jackson, I don't know what a woman is.

The Democrats seemed confused yesterday about the limits of presidential power.

I'm going to get to that in a second.

One of the things that came up is the idea of fake electors.

Let me just put this out there before we get to it.

If you're using the term fake electors and not alternate electors, you are playing right

into the Democrat trap.

There's no such thing as fake electors in this case.

They were alternate electors.

Donald Trump was concerned that the popular vote in some of these states was going to

go in his direction if they looked into what was going on.

So they had a slate of electors ready to go, which has been done many times.

They will take the opposite position.

But before I get to that, I wanted to show you this, Jeff.

Hat tip Evita, by the way, sent me this one.

The New York Times, which portrays itself as the paragon of journalistic integrity,

the old gray lady they call the old gray lady.

They used to be against things like, you know, civil rights violations and that kind of stuff.

So Evita sent me this little gem.

Here's the New York Times now.

Surveillance law section 702.

It keeps us safe, folks.

So this happened.

Now the New York Times is all in on government surveillance.

Now why would the New York Times be all in on government surveillance?

It's very simple when you think about it.

David Horowitz explained this once.

It'll explain everything I'm about to talk about in this section about how the left will

take a completely contradictory position depending only on what the conservative position.

We'll call it the anti anti-communist thing, because that's what he calls it.

You've heard it before.

Good.

If you haven't heard it before, get ready.

It's going to explain everything.

Folks, we're the anti-communist, correct?

We don't believe in collectivism.

We believe in individual liberty.

We are the anti-communist.

The left are the anti anti-communist.

The left doesn't care about principles.

They're full of shit.

They have no principles.

The left's only principle is what?

Power, abusing power, putting Donald Trump in prison.

They don't care about principles or anything, anything, anything even resembling a principle.

You're the anti-communist.

You're in their way.

Whatever you believe in, they will take the opposite position if they believe they can

use it to get you out of their way.

So the left, as Horowitz calls them, are the anti anti-communist.

Why does the New York Times now all in on government surveillance, running op-eds about

it?

Because, folks, the New York Times, their opinion writers and others, they see you as

an obstacle and they realize a valuable tool to get rid of you, the anti-communist, is

what?

Surveillance.

Surveillance.

The same government they used to lobby against, the ACLU and the left in the past, they used

to say they hated that stuff.

They hate nothing.

They hate being kept from power.

That is it.

It's the only thing they see as an obstacle is you.

We are the anti-communist.

They are the anti anti-communist.

They don't care about why do they support the Death to America Iranians who throw gay

people off buildings.

They don't care about them being gay or anything like that.

All they care about is using the Iranians to advance the political power of the United

States.

The United States government, they feel, is working for them.

Here's how it relates to yesterday's trial in the Supreme Court.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a big deal.

This case is huge.

A lot of cases in the Supreme Court are very important, but they're important for specific

groups.

I brought up the example yesterday on the radio show that a lot of times I'll argue

cases in front of the Supreme Court that involve fisheries.

They're important.

If you want to eat fish and not starve to death, you don't want to put a bunch of fishermen

out of business.

But let's be candid.

It affects a rather large portion of the economy, but a limited group of people in there.

This Supreme Court case here affects everyone.

It is about the limits of presidential power.

Now I want you to see in this clip coming up right here how Sonia Sotomayor, a Democrat,

obviously a far left, she's using an argument, but she's stating a premise in advance.

This is the, like, when did you stop beating your wife question.

She says to the Trump's team in front of the court, his legal team, well, you know, if

the president could do what he was doing, I mean, and he just appoints fake electors

to steal an election.

The idea of a fake elector is a premise with no justification.

They're alternate electors.

It's been done many times.

And Democrats have argued the exact opposite in the past, that alternate electors should

be allowed.

Matter of fact, not even far in the past did they argue that.

But now the Democrats are taking the opposite position, that presidential electors, if you

dare have a slate ready to go, alternate electors, which has been done many times, that this

could be a crime.

And she says that as a premise to the question.

Take a look.

Apply it to the allegations here.

What is plausible about the president insisting and creating a fraudulent slate of electoral

candidates, assuming you accept the facts of the complaint on their face?

Is that plausible that that would be within his right to do?

Absolutely.

Your Honor, we have the historical precedent we cite in the lower courts of President Grant

sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors

got certified in those two cases, which delivered the election to Rutherford B. Hayes.

The notion that it's completely implausible, I think, just can't be supported based on

the face of this indictment.

So you see the anti-communist and anti-anti-communist play going on here, the iron law of contradiction.

The Democrats are full of shit.

They don't stand for anything.

The New York Times and the ACLU and others told you for years, government spying, the

CIA.

This was all awful, terrible.

They had out them all the time.

Now they're all in.

Why are they all in?

Because they think they can use it to target you.

They don't care.

They don't care if they're flipping and doing a total 180.

They don't care at all.

Sonia Sotomayor there is actually implying that having a slate of alternate presidential

electors because you dispute the outcome of a state, which has been done many times, implies

in her question that that's some kind of nefarious activity.

Of course, she gets legally smacked around by Trump's lawyer because Sotomayor is not

that bright, which was awesome.

And I'll get back to the court case a little bit later, but this is about the contradiction

law here.

Look at his CNN piece, Van Jones and Lauren's lesson.

Two devout left.

Why Pennsylvania should take its time counting votes here, they argue the exact opposite

case.

And by the way, this is also tied to that Arizona thing where a bunch of folks in the

Trump orbit were just indicted for being what they call fake electors.

On that day, assuming the final count of the popular vote has not been certified, both

slates of Pennsylvania presidential electors, both slates.

How can there be two slates?

We've been told by Democrats that's a crime.

This is Van Jones and Lawrence Lessing, two lefties on CNN.

Both slates should meet in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Both slates should cast their votes by ballot.

And Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf should await the final resolution of the popular

vote count before he certifies which slate should represent the state.

Holy shit.

That sounds like what Donald Trump did.

Now, it's a crime.

People are indicted, though.

How the?

That's a crime.

Sonia Sotomayor is implying in the immunity case it was a crime, too.

But they argued for it a few years ago.

The iron law of contradiction.

Whatever you believe in, the anti-anti-communists will take the opposite position because you

were an obstacle to them and they will try to crush you with it.

They don't give a damn how it looks, how it smells, how it stinks, how it sounds.

They don't care.

This is what you're dealing with.

Here's another gem.

One more, and I'm going to get to some other stuff, including the disastrous GDP numbers

and hilariously how the left is trying to massage this thing.

Oh, we got to nuance them now.

Oh, yeah, nuance them.

Sure.

Now we got to nuance them.

Here's the young turds.

You ever hear of the young turds?

This is like one of the really popular goofball liberal shows.

They've been around forever.

I want you to watch these two morons, OK?

When the lab leak theory was thrown around that, hey, you know what, this Wuhan virus

that originated in Wuhan, where there's a lab that studies viruses like the Wuhan virus

that studies back coronaviruses, where there was an outbreak near the Wuhan lab, a lot

of smart conservatives were like, that sounds kind of suspicious, especially considering

the State Department has records of biosafety lab issues with this lab and it is the Chinese

Communist Party.

People were scratching their heads.

They're like, that sounds like it could have leaked from the lab.

What does that have to do with the iron law of contradiction?

Because you said it and Trump said it.

Hey, maybe this thing leaked from a lab.

This kind of sounds logical, right?

The morons on the left had to take the opposite position.

Why?

Because they believed it.

Why the iron law of contradiction?

Because you're in their way and they had to make you look stupid.

Now, all of a sudden, that that penalty is gone and Biden's in office and it's getting

really, really hard to ignore the obvious that this thing was a lab leak.

Now when they feel it's comfortable to walk away from the obvious contradiction they had

in the past to get you out of the way, now they all change their position.

They think we don't know.

Big hat tip.

Mays Moore.

I saw this video there.

This is great.

Check this out.

Everyone who believes in the conspiracy is saying that it came out of a lab in Wuhan

rather than through food at a market.

And he continued to push a conspiracy theory that has already been debunked by our intelligence

community.

This whole notion that the coronavirus was developed in a Chinese lab that has been debunked

is that I don't know who to trust.

Yeah.

Right.

I certainly don't trust reporters because reporters treated this in initially as if

it was nothing more than a crazy unhinged conspiracy theory.

Yeah.

So who do you trust?

Right.

You can't trust the legacy media outlets because that was their narrative.

It came out of the city that has a Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on

coronaviruses.

And that is an awfully large coincidence.

And and that's what I've thought throughout that that was an awfully large coincidence.

I know you get angry at this stuff.

Don't.

Don't.

Don't get.

Don't get angry or get angry.

But channel it into something productive, like wiping these people off the electoral

map.

It was obvious to anyone with half a freaking brain that the thing obviously came from Wuhan.

But what kills me is these people knew that they all knew that they're not dumb.

But the iron law of contradiction, whatever you say, they are going to say the opposite.

If Donald Trump would have come out and said, listen, I've got a solution for covid, I'm

dead serious.

I am.

It's just I am not me.

This is not intended to be humorous.

If Donald Trump would have come out, you know, and he would have said, folks, I have a solution

for this coronavirus outbreak.

The minute it started, everyone wear masks.

I promise you, as my name is Dan Bongino, the young turds, everyone else on the left

in the media would have mocked Donald Trump for even suggesting that this ridiculous face

diaper would stop a microscopic virus because of the iron law of contradiction.

You're in their way.

You all the time.

You know, I did a segment on the radio show yesterday how it's hard to reason with people

not interested in reason.

But the third party is always listening.

These are about 20, 25 percent, 30 percent of America right now.

It's sad.

The liberal movement is in the virus has infected these crazies.

OK.

But there are persuadable people out there and there's a third party listening.

I was talking yesterday about the power of the streets.

You have to understand, ladies and gentlemen, the left has understood this for a long time.

How do they keep people detached from reason?

They do it by this mass psyop.

They've done it forever.

The psychological operation the left is engaged in for decades, the street power.

They want piles of people in the street blocking traffic and doing as they do it for a reason.

It's meant to give you the false impression that despite the fact that your reason and

logic is telling you you're not crazy, the Ling Lee from a lab, when these people are

out in the street, they're on TV, regardless of the issue, kill the Jews, crowd Israel,

the Middle East, the Wuhan lab, the economy, it doesn't matter.

They want to give the impression that there's a mass movement out there and you may be the

crazy one if you start using reason to figure it out.

This is why they use the streets.

This is why these riots are going on right now.

This is why you're seeing these takeovers of the college campuses.

Believe me, the Middle East is a secondary issue to them.

The first issue is power and making sure, making absolutely sure you feel, you feel

like the crazy.

There's a way to beat them and it's to spread the word that they're the nutbags, not us.

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The misinformation bullshit, the lack of ability on the left to use reason in any way, shape,

or form, this is decades old.

This is not new.

It's not, to be generous to us, it's not unique to our generation, none of it.

It's been going on for a long time.

Even when objective numbers are released, ladies and gentlemen, the economy sucks, okay?

The economy is in bad shape.

Most of the growth from the economy, and I'm using the dreaded air quotes, is coming from

government spending, which is sucking money out of the economy before it puts it back

in and giving the government a cut itself as they pay everyone.

The GDP numbers came out yesterday.

This is the most important number in economics.

The number means, are we growing or not?

It's basically a measure of the national wealth.

Are we growing or not?

If your wealth is growing by 3% to 4% a year, you're doing damn good.

In 20 years, you're going to double your wealth.

If it's growing by less than that, you're not going to double your wealth as quickly, okay?

What's a good GDP number?

A good GDP number is like 2.5%, 3% right now.

A great number would be 4%.

Anything below 2% sucks.

It's an objective number, okay?

The suck factor is real.

Here's David Asman on Fox yesterday about these horrendous GDP numbers.

I want you to see again how the media, they're experts in reframing to make sure that their

liberal allies are protected.

Even an objectively shit number.

Check this out.

These GDP numbers were shocking.

We were expecting a 2.4% growth.

The actual came in at 1.6%.

Correct.

Huge loss.

With rising inflation, even the Fed is admitting that inflation is not only sticky, but it

seems to be going in the wrong direction.

That adds up to stagflation.

I know, and I was preparing myself for your using that word because that's something we

haven't seen since the 1970s.

I know most of you know it, so forgive me.

I'm not trying to talk down to anybody, but do you remember what stagflation is?

Stagflation was the basically disintegration of the Phillips curve.

This idea that there was a trade-off between unemployment and inflation.

As unemployment went down, inflation would go up.

The whole idea is as the economy got hot, that inflation would go up.

More people would start trying to buy stuff and drive up the prices of things.

That was dismantled in the Jimmy Carter era, where for one of the first times in modern

U.S. history, we saw a disconnect there.

We saw unemployment high and inflation high at the same time.

A bunch of liberal economists were like, man, that doesn't make any sense.

The Phillips curve, like a Phillips screwdriver.

It's really important you understand this because a lot of dopey leftists still believe

this.

For one of the first times in modern American history, under Carter, we saw inflation and

unemployment go up at the same time.

And they were confused.

They were like, wait, if unemployment's high and people aren't making a lot of money, then

how is inflation hot because people aren't going out and buying stuff?

What they didn't understand is there's a total disconnect between these two things.

Inflation is related to the money supply, and unemployment has a multitude of factors,

OK?

Right now, although the unemployment numbers are relatively low, labor force participation

is not great, and most of these jobs are going to people who are illegally in the country.

The economy sucks.

So we're starting to kind of tilt back into these stagflation days where we have a stagnant

economy and inflation's going up at the same time.

That's what he's talking about there.

But of course, here's left-wing Axios to the rescue.

Now, if there was a 1.6% GDP number that came out of the Trump years, I can guarantee you

this headline would have been, I mean, total apocalypto, man.

You ever see that movie?

They would have been like cutting people's hearts out.

They've been screaming, the cataclysm is here.

It's over.

Everyone go out and prepare today.

Get your potassium iodine pills.

The drama, it's true.

The drama would have been so dramatic, right?

Am I kidding?

It would have been insane.

But because it's Biden, the liberal media is very good at what I call reframing stuff.

So we talked about the iron law of contradiction in the beginning.

They'll do the opposite of what you do and then switch it around later if they don't

really care.

Reframing is critical.

They've got to, any time it's a, watch this, watch this now.

You'll see it.

Any time it's a Democrat or a liberal president and an economic number is bad, it's always,

they need it in context or there's nuance to it.

We need to look deeper or deeper dive.

If it's a Republican, they don't give a shit.

1.6% GDP.

You suck.

The economy's collapsing.

Here's what I mean.

Axios.

The good and the bad inside the worse than expected GDP report.

Oh, there's a good in that?

They know the economy's slowing down.

Gee, really?

Thank you.

It's amazing.

But the outlook is not as bleak as the GDP headline figure suggests.

Really?

It isn't?

Instead, the report, folks, tells a nuanced story where things stand.

Always nuance.

You know why it matters.

The 1.6% annualized growth rate confirms the economy is not reaccelerating to start 2024.

And they go into this big, long explanation about why it isn't such a bad thing.

You know, I was putting together the show and I sent this to Tony.

Did I not, Tony?

I said, scrap this because it's not even worth it, folks.

I was going to put up for you five or six screenshots of GDP numbers that were better

than 1.6% on the Republicans, 2, 2.1, better than this.

And this headline's basically like, why the economy sucks, why this president's, you know,

grabbing moose nuts, why this guy is a piece of shit.

I could have, I'm like, you know what?

Forget it.

You get the point.

The economy is garbage.

Everybody knows it.

Union workers know it.

People out there know it.

Truck drivers know it.

HVAC guys know it.

Plumbers know it.

Rail workers know it.

Everybody knows it.

Rich guys, poor guys, middle-class guys, everybody knows it.

The only people who don't know it, and they're desperately trying to tell you that you're crazy,

that you're crazy, this is the power of the streets, is the media.