Here's What You Need To Know About The GOP Debate (Ep 2098)

And I'm just telling you objectively, last night was just not good. It was not good for the candidates, was not good for the moderators, not good for Fox. It was just not a good debate. I mean, that's pretty much universal, I'm getting that from just about everyone out there.

It was just not a really great debate. I mean, think about it, right? A great debate would help the network, the moderators, and would help the candidates, because it would be a good, healthy forum. Correct? Am I crazy?

I'm going to give you my reasons why, I'm going to base them in objective analysis. I can take my heart out of this for a minute and talk about it objectively, even though you know where my heart is. And I'm going to tell you why. I think last night went wrong for a lot of people. Folks. Omaha steaks, they have all the fall cravings covered.

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Showtime.

That was me.

So we're adjusting to, like, having this many people in the studio, so Guy did the showtime for Joe.

I just thought, Yeah, guys, I appreciate the effort. Guy guy, say it again, let's hear it again, let's give it one more shot.

What do you think? Audience? Say it again, it's showtime.

I love guy, all right. We'll mess with it for a couple days while we figure out this seating arrangement here in the studio.

By the way, quick studio update. So after the debacle yesterday, where I live in Martin County, Florida, that's trying to become the tax capital of the South by hiking the taxes down here. I haven't told you this. But they're also giving us some headaches with the studio. We were going to pour millions of dollars into this studio, but of course, you know, we're getting a bunch of headaches. So I'm really starting to reconsider relocating out of this place to somewhere else.

I'm not going to invest millions of dollars in a non-business friendly county that seems to be only concerned with fleecing taxpayers. So I'm starting to reconsider it, so I'll keep you updated. It may delay the studio opening, but this is not a business friendly county anymore.

It's just not, I'm not going to lie to you. So I'm never going to relocate. Build a multi-million dollar studio in a place that doesn't give a shit about business. I'm not going to do it. So quick update on that.

Right, we're not doing it, forget it.

That's guy, man, that's how Guy is. If he's talking about Star Wars, he'd be really excited. It's showtime, baby. He'd come in here and do a dance.

If this was a Star Wars show, you know it all, right. So about last night's debate, you know, it's true, man.

Listen, here's the thing about the debate. There were three components to a debate there's the candidate component, there's the network component, and then there's the moderator component.

Folks, this is one of those rare things where I think the moderators, or one of them at least, looked really bad, which made the network look even worse. The viewership apparently was not great. And then I don't think any of the candidates did what they needed to do to change the narrative. I think there were a couple that didn't necessarily hurt themselves last night. But I guess my point is, when you're in a race and folks, I'm just giving you the math.

Listen, you know where my heart is in the race. I've already said it, you wrote an opinion and I gave it to you. However, I like a lot of the candidates up there genuinely because of what they stand for and have done. I do.

So I feel like I can really be objective on this. I don't think anybody did what they needed to do to close what in some states is a 30 to 40 point gap between them and Donald Trump. I just don't. It looked like a race for number two. Now. Listen, Bob Costa is a left-leaning guy.

But I've met with this guy before, of all the left-leaning guys, he's not as crazy as most of them. I got a bunch of texts this morning saying this exact thing you may say, Oh, this is some lefty.

All right, fine, but I'm just telling you, I got almost the exact same text, some of the words verbatim out of this. This is Costa, he says. Listen, lots of angst tonight about my top GOP sources about the debate.

Donors are concerned. Flurry of texts, questions about where the race goes from here. They wonder, is anyone going to have a breakout moment? Meanwhile, Trump all but ignores the scene and shrugs off the indictments. Folks, they're not wrong. You have to ask yourself if you're a candidate.

What do I have to do to make a difference, right? And when you're up on the stage with seven people?

Honestly, three or four of them who have no business being up there at all. This should be three people on stage right now, right now, it should be Desantis, it should be Vivek and Nikki Haley, maybe Tim Scott.

Mike Pence has no business being up there. I'm sorry the guy is not polling significantly in any of the states. It is a waste of assets and time. You may think he's a nice guy.

You may think he's a mean guy, he doesn't belong on the stage. Chris Christie is just up there to be an asshole. That's all Chris Christie's doing. Chris Christie was given marching orders by his donors.

Go, be an asshole, that's all he does. He goes up there and says, dumb stuff. I'll show you what I mean. Do we have the Donald Duck thing?

Did I send that? that clip? I didn't send that? Well, good, I probably ignored it because it was so stupid.

He's like, We're going to call you Donald Duck, It's just dumb, it's just stupid. And then Doug Burgum Doug Burgum was the governor of North Dakota.

Isn't even a conservative. He barely, if ever, supported anything conservative outside of a tax cut. What is he doing? No one even knows who he is. It's a waste of time.

Maybe if you had a debate between DeSantis Vivek, Nikki Haley and maybe Tim Scott, you could spend some time with these guys. And people who don't like Trump and listen, there are people out there, folks, I'm a Trump supporter, but there are people out there who aren't. Let's not be naive about it.

No, everybody doesn't love him, there are people who don't love him, and some of them are conservatives, and they like Desantis or they like someone else. If they're trying to make a choice right now, it's not helping. Last night was a mess.

What are the political narratives that make a difference? Come on, you guys already, you know this man, say, Come on, I'm so insulting.

I'm sorry, you know what I'm talking to, like the people, maybe, you know, who aren't getting. This isn't breaking through. The only political narratives that make the difference are ones that change your preexisting notion of who a candidate is, for the better or for the worse.

Change the political narrative, you get what I'm saying. If you love someone and they say something that makes you think better of them in a race, then you're really going to love them. If you love someone in a race. And they say something that changes the political narrative because it changes your perception of who they are and you hate them, then it's going to change momentum in the other direction. When you're static, like a sitting pile of water, it just breeds mosquitoes and stuff.

It's no good. Here's what I mean. First, the moderator on the moderator front, see Moderator network.

Why did Fox pick this lady? I am so confused why this Univision lady was there, she seemed to. She was asking questions that weren't questions at all, they were statements. Here, she is blaming the United States somehow for gun violence, ignoring the plague of gun violence in South American countries and some European.

I mean, this isn't even a. It's not even serious. Nobody should have even answered this question. They should have said, Ma'am, that's not a question. It's a ridiculous statement claiming the United States somehow has a monopoly on gun violence. It's so silly.

I absolutely refuse to answer it. The hell was this lady in the debate? For check this out. We're going to stay in the topic of crime because it affects all of us. GOVERNOR Burgum For the first time ever. A Univision poll found that mass shootings and gun safety are one of the most important issue for Latino voters.

Mental health concerns are not unique. What the f is that? What kind of stupid question is that it was just vetted by Fox? How did you let that question get out there?

She has no evidence to back that up at all. That is not unique to the United States at all. It's not even close. Has she traveled to South America? Does she have any idea what she's talking about?

Is she factoring in suicides? I mean, what is she even talking about? Here? It got worse. Here's the second question. Again, this is not a question.

This is a statement here. Check this out. According to Customs and Border Protection, about 90 percent of fentanyl is seized at official border crossings, and 57 percent of the smugglers are U.S citizens. How would you stop fentanyl brought into the country, mostly by U.s?

Citizens through ports of entry. There's two sides to this and we have to be very honest. Why again? Did they answer this question? Are you seriously blaming the fentanyl crisis on U.S citizens on an American network, knowing there's a border crisis?

Even if her data was correct, which I don't believe at all. Because how do you know how much fentanyl is coming into the country when you don't catch a lot of it? I don't know, fellas Joe, I'm just throwing a statistical question out there. If a bunch of fentanyl got into the country you didn't caught, how do you know it got into the country because you didn't catch it?

You don't know because you didn't catch it, because it's on the street. But again, what I'm stunned about is that these candidates even answered the question they should have been like, Again, Ma'am, with due respect, time out. Where'd you get your ridiculous statistics? 53 is smuggled by Americans. Where did you get that?

How would you know? A lot of the fentanyl in the country isn't caught in the smuggling process? So how would you know who the smugglers are if you don't catch them? I don't know, I'm just asking questions.

Holy Moses, this is the moderator. This is like a Republican-democrat debate. What kind of bullshit was that?

It just went down from here. Listen, this was not a good question. I'm sorry. It made a lot of the candidates uncomfortable.

This question did not go over well with anyone. DeSantis shut it down. I think he did the right thing. This really just did not reflect well on the night. But check this out. You on stage tonight should be voted off the island.

Let me ask you something.

I mean, I don't think she was trying to make anybody look stupid. It was probably, by the way, something that somebody behind the scenes drew up. You know, you're not sitting there writing all these things yourself. But it just didn't go over well and I thought DeSantis did a good job saying we're not going to. It turns out, by the way. Chris Christie, did you guys catch it?

Christie wrote a name down, and then Christie was like, Oh, I'm not playing this either. Did you see it? Did you?—Guy? did you see it? Did you?—Joe, you caught it?

Chris Christie writes a name down. He's like, Oh, I'm not playing, man, although you just did, but you just did. you just wrote a name down.

They should. —you know what happened, dude, tell me if I'm not crazy. Someone should have walked up on stage like a bouncer and grabbed it. Be like, you see, he played.

He played the game. Everybody's going to ask now who is the name? You know? It just didn't go over well, but again, you see it.

There you go, you see it right there. See, you know, that's the first thing I caught. Thank you good call guy.

You saw that, folks in the chat. I didn't even play it at all. Cool, I'm not playing the game. This guy, he's the designated asshole.

You ever see that show? Designated survivor, you know? In the event of an emergency, you get a designated survivor in the government. Christie's the designated asshole. That's what he's got to do.

He's the jerk on stage, he's got to be the jerk, the call of Donald Duck, I get it. Trump uses nicknames, too.

That's just not funny. I mean, I'm not saying every one of Trump's nicknames was a huge hit, but some of them were just funny. The little Marco low-energy gem Donald Duck was just dumb, it was just stupid.

All right, here's where it, just like I said, doesn't look good for the network. It wasn't really a the debate was not a great night really for anyone. It was like a trifecta.

And it's going to happen. I mean, listen, the debate was on rumble, too. It's a platform I own a good chunk of, so don't think I'm like, throwing someone under the bus. Oh, those Fox guys screwed up.

And we were on rumble, too. I don't think it was a great night for us either. Candidly, I don't think that many people were interested. So again, I'm not, don't tell me, like, Oh, you're just bitter.

I'm not bitter at all. I've already told you I still got friends there, good people, and I'm just giving you my honest opinion about what happened. It just wasn't a good night.

Sometimes we have shitty shows and we tell you yesterday's show was no good, today's show is fiery man, I'm loving today's show. Here. This is. I mean, this doesn't help at all.

So this is.

They start screaming over each other. I got two cuts of this, I want you to tell me again. Viewing this as an open-minded Republican voter who hasn't selected a candidate yet, that's who they're talking to.

Does any of this change your mind? Take a listen. We're not a perfect nation. We're founded on the pursuit of perfection. That is what makes America great.

And that is why we will end it once we win this election. I have to jump in here. I'm sorry there's one person on this. This is infuriating because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have.

And what you've got?

Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say because I can't believe they hear. You've got a TikTok situation. What they're doing is these 150 million people are on TikTok.

That means they can get your contacts they can get.

All right, he played the wrong one. That's Nikki, Haley and Vivek going at it, but I'll cover that too. Yeah, hold on, just keep that....

Hold that thought for a second, because I was going to go into this anyway. The problem I find with that one, I'm a little bit out of order now, but whatever, we'll go back to that in a second is. Haley and Vivek are clearly playing for the number two spot.

In my humble opinion, and I'm not saying this based on any inside information.

I'm telling you what I think their candidate's thinking, not what I want. So if you're a DESantis guy, don't come screaming down my throat, I'm just going to block you or mute you for stupid. Because I'm not saying you should drop out or anything like that, I'm simply suggesting I think Nikki, Haley and Vivek's campaigns think Desantis is done, that's what I think they think.

You got me. I think they think his campaign is done. The reason Vivek and Nikki Haley are going out of it over TikTok, it doesn't matter. They'll make up anything. To fight each other right now is they're fighting for the number two spot. Right now. They think DeSantis is going to drop out, I don't think he's going to do that, but they think he's going to.

I think he's got enough support to stay in at least till South Carolina, and if he shows a competitive second in a couple of these states, a lot longer. But I think that's exactly what they think, and I'm trying to explain to you what I think. Went on with that, too. Now back to this.

This is the screaming over it. I got two cuts of this. None of this helps any of the candidates. Again, How does this change your mind about a candidate on the stage? It doesn't.

Take a look.

That happened all night. And listen again, you can sit there and fault the moderator, but the reality is nobody gives a shit about the moderator. They don't. They're going to do what happened to 1,000 debates Congress races, Senate races, local races.

This happens everywhere. Every candidate has an incentive to try to get their point in. And the longer they talk, they figure someone's going to shut up first and this is what happened. So this is not so much on the moderators, it's just on the candidates.

This doesn't help anyone. It happened again later here. Check this out.

Oh, you're on a roll. I asked you. If we had two Jeez, we're going to have to start canning people. Anyone in the chat want a job? anyone in the chat applying.

We need a new associate producer. I'm kidding, all right, I just asked you. We have another one of these.

You said yes, no, you didn't. you said yes. you definitely said yes. I heard you say yes.

Vivek at one point said this too in the New York Times. This is how, you know, Vivek was causing some trouble because the New York Times jumped all over it, New York Times. Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder.

Vivek Ramaswamy, New York Times This is false. Being transgender is not a mental health disorder. Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria or psychological distress as a result of the incongruence between their sex and their gender identity. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis in the Psychiatric, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and can be given to children, adolescents or adults.

How the hell is that? A fact check? How is it false? You just said the same thing twice.

Speaking of which, it was a really bad day for the Biden administration yesterday as it emerged that the Biden House in Delaware was the recipient address of a quarter million dollar payment from a Chinese Communist party-connected individual. Quarter million bucks. Here's clown show Ian Sams works for the Biden team. Imagine arguing that if someone stayed at their parents house and listed their address for work and got a paycheck, the parents are responsible, and the parents somehow worked for the employer. This community note is awesome.

They note that he didn't even live there. Hunter Biden, He lived in California, and the funds transferred happened well before the pandemic. Yes, bad day for team A-hole in the White House, really bad day.

Just wrapping that segment up, not a good night for anyone. I don't believe for the network, for the moderator, really, for rumble, for the candidates. I just don't think it helped.

And at this point, a lot of these candidates have to seriously think about dropping out. I'm going to tell you why, just fast, folks. Every amount of money donated to them is a dollar that's not going to go to a serious candidate. Every shoe leather hour walked by a volunteer for a candidate who has no shot is wasting time for a candidate that does.

It's time for Doug Burgum, whatever his name is, Pence, Chris, Christie and even Tim Scott to consider dropping. I know Scott wants to stay till South Carolina. He's not moving in the polls, they're not doing anything. It's time to go like yesterday.

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Okay, as if the really, really bad, awful week for Biden and the Democrats. Polls, inflation numbers, real wage numbers, everything's getting worse for the Biden team. Couldn't get any worse. I ask you always, Is it bad enough yet, ladies and gentlemen? is it bad enough yet?

Let's take a chat, wait, chat, poll time. Do you think it's bad enough yet that people are going to change their voting behavior in the next election? Let me offer a vote. Chatbot guy, can you add more?

Hold on, I'm going to put one in now, watch me.

See, you're with me, you are with me. Yes, simpatico baby.

We have an ESPN mind link, it's a joke, I get it, it's ESPN, we got a mind link going.

It's not bad enough yet. What's going to be the watermelon? The rubber band on the watermelon? It's exposed. The answer Hell, if I know.

I don't know, but I'm telling you, it's going to be something like this. 95-year-old veteran kicked out of a nursing home. 95. A hero.

To make room for who illegals that broke the law. This guy put his life on the line to defend. I want you to listen to this guy and see how far our country has fallen into the abyss. This is a disgrace.

Check this out. Very disgraceful what they did to the people in the island shores. Because they gave us time to get out, but they never said when, and they never said they were going to get us out.

And then one day, there's a thing on the board, notice on the board, you got to be out by March 15th. I think that gave us like a month and a half to find out where we're going to go. I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb because I'm not that fast.

If it wasn't for my daughter, they would have been on the curb.

But that's what happened.

And that was it. I said, No, no, no, no, you're not moving me, and they said, Yes, yes, yes, we are. And everything was done behind closed doors.

We didn't have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because there wasn't enough time. You know, I'm trying to ease up on the language after yesterday because I just I'm like, losing my mind. But someone in the chat said it, so pardon me for a moment, but fucking disgraceful.

Absolutely disgraceful, you know, my grandfather Frank is. I don't have a lot of heroes, but he was one of them. He was a tough Italian kid from New York, he was kind of a pool hustler. When he was younger, worked in a fish store, He went over to fight in World War II.

He named my dad after he named my father, John, after his battle buddy, who died.

My grandfather fought in the battle of the bulge and he came back. A different guy. He was a young, kind of brash Italian kid from New York with the slick back hair. Pool hustler guy. He was a cool cat, you got to see the pictures of him when he was young, he was a slick looking dude, man.

With the you know, the tank top on back in the you know what I'm saying, I love my, you know what I'm talking about. I love my grandfather man. He was just the greatest guy ever, but he came back a different guy, man.

He wouldn't talk about World War II, wouldn't talk about the battle at all. When Saving Private Ryan came out, people would ask him. We called him pop, pop pipe because he smoked a pipe. Remember pipes, tobacco in the pipe?

He was a cool cat man. This guy could have been in, like, one of those 50s noir movies, you know? He'd just sit there smoking the pipe. You ask him about World War II, he's, I won't talk about it.

That's who those guys were, man, that was a different generation now. This guy was a veteran of Korea, the war in Korea.

He kicked this guy out of a hotel for a bunch of illegals. What's the rubber band moment? Folks? I don't know, but surely it's right around the corner? And I'm telling you, when it happens, it's going to happen fast.

So get ready. These political revolutions, they happen gradually, just like bankruptcies, and then all of a sudden stay frosty. And by the way, what was the number guy? 88%?

88 of the chat agrees with me that no, it's not bad enough. Yet. We could still lose this next election in a landslide. Even now. I'm telling you right now, if you think for a second, Oh, these people suck so bad, we're going to steamroll them. You've got another thing coming. We ain't there yet.

We're getting there, though. Do you see this? Here's a Venezuelan woman putting her infant child through Concertina Wire. See, the thing about Concertina Wire is you're not supposed to go through it. That's why it's supposed to hurt if you go through it.

So I'd recommend to everyone like the way to not get hurt through Concertina Wire is don't go through Concertina Wire. It's kind of like an outlet on the wall, like the outlet on the wall. If you stick a fork in it, it's going to shock you and you could die and short out your whole house. So just don't do it. So the thing with Concertina Wire is the way to not get hurt is to not get hurt by not going through the wire.

Look at this video. They've got to walk to the initial.

What?

I mean, really.

We didn't make the woman walk through the Concertina wire, did we? This is not someone, an armed guard, sitting there, going walk through the Concertina Wire. Why are they doing it? Because Joe Biden has set up a set of incentives and they don't think they'll be kicked out. No one walks through Concertina wire with their infant or crawls through it, risking shredding their skin, their hair.

No one does that if they think they're going to be kicked out immediately when they get to the other side. Joe Biden did that.

What's the moment, ladies and gentlemen? I have no idea, but we got to be getting there soon. Is it bad enough yet for Biden to step aside? I don't know, but yesterday was not a good day either. The impeachment hearing's going on right now.

Honestly, so far, it's not, I mean, it's okay, there's nothing you haven't heard before, however, a lot of people, if they're going to cover this impeachment hearing and they cover it in mainstream media. There's going to be a lot of people on the left who are seeing this stuff for the first time. I just got a couple of things that came out about the Biden team yesterday. And I got the greatest video ever. Of them doing what they do, all the time accusing Trump of what they do and watch the mainstream media just suck it up.

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Here is a.

Yeah, you guys are fine, you guys all right, here we go, okay? Here is an email from the AUSA assistant United States attorney involved in the case, Leslie Wolfe, where she says, And I quote, there should be nothing about political figure one in here.

Apparently protecting Joe Biden against the Fara evidence What is the Fara Evidence Foreign Agent Registration Act? It sounds like Joe Biden's f'd folks, Joe Biden is being protected by the Department of Justice.

This email is devastating. Wait, keep that up a second. The assistant United States attorney, or the United States attorney on this case, Leslie Wolfe, in an email, was dumb enough to say. Political figure one, by the way, is Joe Biden. Nobody questions that there should be nothing about political figure one in here.

Why is she concerned about Joe Biden being mentioned in conjunction with FaRa evidence? Why the judges ruled? Because Biden would be? That's why, ladies and gentlemen. It appears Joe Biden was selling access to his name and information to his son and was not registered as a foreign lobbyist.

That is why Leslie Wolfe doesn't want Biden's name in anything with a fara charge political figure. One, it's right there. Oh, look. This emerged yesterday, too, from Hunter Biden's Apple iCloud backup. Here's Hunter Biden.

Bullshit, James, all around, bullshit. Explain to me. One thing Tony brings to my table that I so desperately need that. I'm willing to sign over my family's brand, he notes later. The keys to my family's only asset.

I thought they weren't selling access, I thought I thought they weren't, I thought they weren't selling.

We haven't done this in a while. Time for the Let's Go Brandon Bell. We haven't used this in a long time. Thank you to the person who sent that.

It's right there, it's right there talking about selling access, it's right there. You know, I'd run it again today.

No evidence, the evidence is kicking you in the balls, media goons, it's right in front of you, you dipshits.

Here's another one that came out yesterday. Proving my point again that this isn't a Biden scandal as much as it's what, what is it? what is it? an Obama scandal?

There's a lot of this stuff happened when he was the president under Obama. Oh, look at this, one of Obama's border guys. John Sandweg emails Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden's partner, asking about how they can expedite a Burisma Executives visa into the United States. Burisma, the company Joe Biden's kid worked for.

Why is Biden's guy? Why is Obama's guy doing that? That's Obama's guy. Why are they doing that? The answer is because Obama knew the entire time what was going on.

The only question is, did Obama profit from this, too?

Oh, the Obama team didn't know anything. Oh, really do? We have to introduce this article again at the Wall Street Journal? You know what? I bring up this article so many times?

I said to Guy and Jim in a rundown yesterday, I said, Hey, remember that Wall Street Journal thing? Jim texted me in like two minutes, you mean this one? Look at this.

Hunter Biden's Ukraine work raised concerns with Obama officials. GOP-led probe confirms two Obama officials raised concerns to the White House in 2015. Joe, what year is it?

It's 2023, right? Yeah, so it's a while ago. So, back in 2015, Obama people raised concerns about Hunter Biden serving on the board of Burisma while his dad was leading policy efforts in the country, a Senate investigation found. It's almost like this everything I've told you on the show, it's almost like everything I've told you is all coming true. We don't have to, we have to just unflag and stuff now.

Unflag left and right.

Now you're probably saying, but he's a Scranton kid, man, Joe Biden. He's a working kid. He's a working class guy, man, he's one of us. This guy hates you.

Joe Biden is a grifter, loser, kid-sniffing, woman-feeling, bribe-taking, plagiarizing loser. That's what he's always been, that's what he will always be. He is a gross, disgusting human being. Just check out the diary of one of his kids.

I don't even want to talk about it because it's that disgusting. He is a freaking weirdo, you understand, he's a weirdo. And in case you think, the grifting and the bribe-taking and the brand selling and all of this stuff is new. Hat tip Mays on Twitter.

I saw this yesterday on their account doing some show prep. Here's Tom Brokaw. I think this is from 2008. Joe Again, that's a while ago, correct? Is that even before 2015??

It is, yeah, Joe's checking the mail. Yeah, he checks out. this is from Yeah, me, too. That's from 2008..

Here is 2008.

Tom Brokaw A raging lefty, a raging lefty questioning Biden about another deal where he appears to have been bought off with his son Hunter. In case you think any of this is new, check this out. Your son being hired right out of law school by a big company here in Delaware that is in the credit card business MBNA. He got about $100,000 a year, as I recall.

You received $214,000 in campaign contributions from the company and from its employees. At the same time, you were fighting for a bankruptcy bill that MBNA really wanted to get passed through the Senate, making it much tougher for everyone to file bankruptcy. Senator Obama was opposed to the bill. Among other things, you couldn't, in fact, claim that you had a problem because of big medical bills. You voted against an amendment that would call for a warning on predatory lending.

You also called for?

You opposed efforts to strengthen the protection of people in bankruptcy. This has been an issue that you've heard about before. Your son was working for the company at the same time.

In retrospect, wasn't it inappropriate for someone like you? In the middle of all this? To have your son collecting money from this big credit card company while you were on the floor, protecting its interests? Absolutely not. My son graduated from Yale Law School. The starting salary in Wall Street was $140,000 a year if you went to lawyer.

Options he had, he came home to work for a bank. Surprise, surprise.

Folks, this guy has been scum his entire life and everybody knows it. This clip has been out there since 2008. The guy's a garbage person, he's always been garbage. He is a sociopathic, bribe-taking, brand-selling loser.

By the way.

Thank you, I am like, new record folks, 86,000 people.

86,000 people watching fill the College Football Stadium, 87,000 people. I haven't even let me refresh.

87,000.

I love you guys so much. I love you guys man. thank you. See, you know what?

God works in funny ways. I had a rough week, man, I've been super depressed and a funk sold out, betrayed by people I trusted. And what you guys, the Bongino Army man, comes to the rescue every time.

Found out today We sold something like 4,000 more books last week, too. You guys are just you're the best man. I would give you a pound and a harp, but my elbows don't work, so just know it's there, I have to pretend.

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That'd be freaking bananas.

Listen, on a serious note, we got this bribe-taking, kid-sniffing loser in the White House, right? We better start getting serious. And by the way, this is tough medicine time that applies to everyone Biden, Newsom, Desantis, Scott, Donald Trump, everyone.

Folks, we better start getting really serious about this China thing, because if this thing goes down, they are not effing around China. Right now. I've been warning you, Jim, do you know what number we're up to? Jim? Can you text me 4786 or something? I can only warn you so many times how much trouble we're in with China if this war breaks out.

I say that as a man ignorant of the consequences myself, because I'm not a stupid, smart person. Okay, stupid smart people don't know the limits to their own knowledge. I understand I've not been to war, I don't know the horrors of war, I'd rather not.

No one, only an idiot, wants to go to war.

A brave person may want to defend this country, but no smart person wants to go to war. If you can avoid it, you should.

There's, you know, there's rules of war, the Fox Connor rules of war, and I encourage you to remember these things. You can look them up. Fox Connor was a famous military strategist.

Never go to war alone, never go to war for long, and never go to war unless you absolutely have to. If you remember those three rules, you'll be a-okay, and it's not an oversimplification.

There's a reason for all three of those rules. This thing with China is about to get ugly, and if it gets ugly, look at this report in the Army War College. Is this in the newsletter today? Bongino.com slash newsletter?

Read it, man. Because we better do everything we can to stay the hell out of this war, unless we absolutely have to. They're predicting a sustained rate of casualties sustained, not acute of 3,600 per day.

Do you have any idea the transformational change to society that would cause?

3,600 people a day.

Folks, they will be mostly men. I want to tell you something that happened to me when I was an agent overseas. True story. Believe it or not, I noticed a lot of guys when I was the whip in TS.

The whip is like the guy who runs the transportation section, T.S. we do the motorcade. So I went back as kind of like a quasi-supervisor. There's a GS-14 who runs the unit, the whip is the guy who's like the sergeant.

So I went back as the whip, which was a great honor. The TS whip was kind of a cool thing and I loved it. But we had this trip to a lot of these European countries, Ukraine and elsewhere. Forget if it was Bush or Obama, it doesn't really matter.

And I noticed all these young single guys volunteering to go drive the cars over there. So I'm like, why does everybody want to go to Budapest? Joe's already laughing, He knows where this is going. Did I tell you this, or you just know this by instinct?

Oh, you got an idea? Well, apparently the women over there are absolutely stunning. I've never been to Budapest, I haven't been to Ukraine. I didn't know this.

So all these guys were. It was hard to get people to drive overseas on some of these trips. But it was like I had like five spots and like 700 volunteers or something exaggerating, but not that much. So I said to one of the guys, who's a big history buff and it's just unrelated, that he was a history buff. But he happened to know the answer. I'm like, man, why are all the guys volunteering to go on this trip?

He's like, My gosh, you ever seen? like the women over there? I go, No, I haven't. He's like, They're like, stunningly beautiful, like, stunningly beautiful. Well, I said, Oh, really.

And he goes, You want to know why? I said, right there, he's going to tell me some weirdo thing, he said. During World War II, he said, a lot of the men that were sent to the front lines, that the casualty numbers were just obscene, obscene. Men were dying by the tens of thousands in the week. It was a meat grinder.

So what happened is there were very few men available when the war was over. So only the best looking women, you know, found a guy to start a family with. And that's why, listen, I don't know if any of this is true or not, all I'm telling you is mass scale casualties like this. Wiping out a population of young men that are literally going to create the next generation is going to cause a demographic time bomb like you've never seen in your life. There will be nobody to pay taxes.

There will be nobody to marry and start families. This would be a freaking disaster like you have never seen, and I don't think anybody. And 89, 972, holy shit, we're almost there, 90,000. Can we do it?

Can we do it for the first time? Listen, no one is even considering the fact that we could lose this war. You have all these people out there, we've got better technology and ships. Yeah, we do.

We've got a more competent navy, even though they've got larger ships, we have better combat training than they do. We've been in war, they haven't. Yeah, they've been in a skirmish on their India line over there with them.

But that's about it. They haven't been in war like we have. We've got a badass military, but ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake, we could lose this war.

We ran out of Afghanistan, Joe Biden embarrassed our military, making us run out of Afghanistan like that. To people that don't have one one-millionth of the capabilities of the Chinese army, we could lose this. Everybody needs to get that in their head.

We're teaching sex changes and CRT and wokeism, bullshit, you know what? They're teaching death, death. They're teaching how to dance with Lady Death every single day.

We could lose.

Do you have that? Yeah, do you get that? Pull up the Wall Street Journal article, though, first, the next one about the China thing.

Because this is important. If we lose, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to see the United States living under essentially a Chinese occupation.

No, that's never going to happen. Are you sure? That's never going to happen? I hope it doesn't. I pray it doesn't. We've got a badass military.

And I think the chances are we would win, but that's not a chance I want to take if we can avoid this.

China just passed a law. This is an actual article. Folks, I'm not screwing around. Benjamin. Q China's getting ready to pass a law against hurt feelings.

This is real if you wear a t-shirt or clothing. That quote bears symbols in public, detrimental to the spirit of the Chinese people and hurts the feelings of the Chinese people. The legislation, by the way, doesn't even classify what counts as offending them. You could be subject to detention for 15 days in jail or police custody.

What 90 freaking thousand people. Holy shit, the greatest day ever. I love you guys so much.

Thank you, 90,000, 100,000. Here. Here's what foreign governments are putting out for recruiting videos.

I'm not suggesting these aren't malicious, a-hole governments with armies that would do bad things, I'm simply telling you, our military right now, despite the bravery of these awesome men and women, is teaching them bullshit about castration, cutting boobs off, wokeism pronouns. While this is the kind of stuff foreign governments are teaching, watch this.

It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms. I also marched for equality. I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age to marry my other mom with such powerful role models. I finished high school at the top of my class, and after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it.

A way to prove my inner strength. I'm U.S Army Corporal Emma Malone-Lord, and I answered my call. What the fuck is that you're going to go to war with these people with that bullshit?

Folks, this is the one thing. You know, everything's political, I get it, but my gosh, with the Democrats, can we link shields on this one thing?

Okay, we'll fight about all this other stuff. We think you guys are effed up doing this stuff in the schools, you think it's great, we're going to fight about it. Can we just leave the military out of it so we stay alive?

Can Democrats and Republicans on this? Just one thing link arms and go, listen, we got to train our guys to be badasses and go and kill bad guys like, That's it, dance with Lady Death fellas, that's it. Can we just agree on this?

Of course not, because Democrats are nihilists and they want to destroy every single thing they touch, and they know when they wreck sports and the military. Every ounce of masculinity will be drained from this society, and it will collapse on top of itself under its own pressure. Fact.

All right, let me end on a good note Today 91, we're going to get 92. This is freaking crazy. I should keep this going into the radio show.

We'll get to 100,000.

Six figures for the first time, right? I should blast right through to the radio show, What do you think, folks?

We should just keep it going the whole time during the radio show, that'd be awesome.

But stop at us, right? I want to add this is kind of some good stuff. It's been a lot today, a lot and yesterday was heavy and I appreciate everybody reaching out. Man, so many people saw my Instagram about me being a bit of a funk. And you know, I'm nobody's victim, man. I'm out looking for something like, Oh, you know, you need to understand.

You don't need to understand you got your own problems, you don't need my problem, but I'm always going to be frank with you. And that's why I was kind of banged out the last few days. Man. I just so many fake phony Republicans.

It's pathetic, but this was kind of hilarious. You see Matt Gaetz on CNN, Abby Phillips, who's turning into like a laughingstock. She's been on the show, What? Like, four or five times in the last few weeks.

This woman on CNN is just not really bright, she keeps going on the air, she doesn't even do basic homework. This clip with Matt Gaetz is priceless. And by the way, I just want to tell you, there is no educational value in this clip whatsoever.

It's just funny and I just hate CNN. Check this out. You did vote against the Defense Appropriations Bill this week that no, I didn't the rule.

Abby, Abby, this is going to be a very embarrassing moment when the internet corrects you on this. I voted for the defense rule both times.

Well, I stand corrected. Congressman, appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you so much. thank you.

Bro, come on, that's freaking funny, dude. All she had to do was go to the roll call and look, this isn't hard. She thought she had a gotcha moment, ended up looking like a freaking idiot on the air. What do you know about a TV show?

I don't know, I only had the number one TV show on Saturday night for two years, a little bit, literally number one. You got to do your homework. We screwed up one time and it wasn't even me.

It was a graph that I didn't even know was on the screen. It's because you do your homework. Gates is going to make a twofer on today's show. This I got to tell you, whether you love Matt Gaetz or you don't love Matt Gaetz, this is freaking hilarious. He's on the floor at Congress.

He's giving a speech about Bob Menendez, the Democrat senator who's alleged to have taken a bribe in gold bars.

Brother, this is one of the funniest things I think I've ever heard on the House floor about the state of the country. We're in, where you can't even bribe a guy, right? Because of inflation. Now, take a listen. Our record in this country right now is $33 trillion in debt, facing $2 trillion annual deficits. We're in so much debt.

We're driving up deficits so fast, we are devaluing American money so rapidly that in America today, you can't even bribe Democrat senators with cash alone. You need to bring gold bars to get the job done, just so that the bribes hold value.

KEITH You know, we're doing that at the end of the year. Sorry folks, I had to talk into my end of the year show. You got to put that. That is a definite entrant into the end of the year.

Maybe quote of the year, Maybe we'll do categories, clip of the year, quote of the year, funny moment of the year.

Touching moment of the year, right? That's got to be it. That is freaking hilarious. Good job, Matt Gaetz.

Sometimes a little bit of comedy. What's the Saul Alinsky rule? Folks? Ridicule, there's no answer for it, ridicule these people.

What do we got now?

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