Trump Has Begun His Total Personnel Warfare (Ep. 2410)
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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Trump signs executive orders restricting transgender troops, ends DEI practices in military; Justice Department fires key officials from Special Counsel Jack Smith's team; discussion on Trump personnel plan and appointments

In the latest episode of the Dan Bongino Show, titled Trump Has Begun His Total Personnel Warfare, Dan Bongino dives deep into the strategies and actions of the Trump administration as it prepares for significant shifts in personnel and policy. This summary highlights key discussion points, insights, and practical applications of the concepts presented in the podcast.
Introduction to Personnel Warfare
Bongino opens the episode by emphasizing the concept of "total personnel warfare." He argues that government is essentially comprised of people, and to enforce effective constitutional governance, it is essential to install individuals who share conservative and constitutionalist values. Key points include:
- The idea that government policy cannot merely exist on paper; "people are policy."
- The necessity of removing individuals who contributed to the dysfunction and policies of the previous administration.
The Importance of Appointments
The episode explores the urgent need for strategic appointments within federal agencies. Bongino mentions ongoing efforts to appoint key figures such as Kash Patel, underscoring the lack of time for delay or celebration once appointments are made. He underscores the point that the Trump administration must act swiftly to ensure efficacy. Some noteworthy appointments discussed include:
- Kash Patel's candidacy for FBI Director.
- Pete Hegseth's appointment as Secretary of Defense.
- Individuals appointed in crucial departments like Treasury and DHS.
Trump’s Recent Executive Orders
Bongino highlights significant actions taken by Trump in conjunction with the episode's discussions:
- The signing of executive orders that restrict transgender troops and eliminate DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives in the military.
- The implication that such orders represent a foundational shift in military culture and governance.
- The firing of dozens of officials linked to former Special Counsel Jack Smith's cases against Trump, indicating a purge of personnel perceived as adversarial.
The Role of Public Sentiment
The podcast stresses the importance of public support for Trump's agenda, acknowledging shifts in public opinion regarding immigration and political identity:
- Immigration has transformed from a Democratic stronghold into a Republican focal point, with recent polls indicating a 22-point lead for Republicans over Democrats on immigration issues.
- Bongino credits Trump's political acumen in making immigration a staple issue for Republican voters, demonstrating effective messaging and strategic framing of the debate.
Fighting Against the Left’s Narrative
A substantial part of the podcast is dedicated to how Trump and his team are countering the mainstream media's narrative and liberal frameworks. This discussion includes:
- Steve Miller's confrontational responses to liberal media inquiries regarding immigration enforcement, underscoring a no-nonsense approach to handling leftist framing.
- A critique of the emotional appeals used by the media, suggesting that "outrage" tactics are insufficient to sway the opinions of informed conservatives focused on results and outcomes.
Conclusion: A Call to Action
Bongino wraps up the episode by rallying listeners to engage more actively in the political process. He emphasizes the need for listeners to:
- Support key personnel like Kash Patel and the overall personnel strategy of the Trump administration through direct outreach and communication.
- Encourage decisive actions and stand against liberal bureaucracy that often stifles progress.
- Recognize the ongoing relevance of the principles laid out in the podcast and apply them in daily political discussions.
This episode is not only a rallying cry for supporters of Trump but also serves as a roadmap for navigating the current political landscape. Bongino's discussions highlight the importance of strategic personnel choices and emphasize the power of public engagement in shaping future governmental policies.
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. So I got three fingers up for those of you listening on audio only. Why do I have three fingers up? Any ideas? Because there were three words that matter. If you read the title of today's show, you'll get the cheat sheet. Total freaking personal warfare. Okay, that's four words. I threw a freaking in there, but it really doesn't count.
Total personnel warfare. Total personnel warfare. That's all that matters. If you don't understand that government isn't policy, yes it is, we live in a constitutional republic. You really believe that? A constitutional republic is a suggestion if people don't enforce it, right?
People are policy. You get constitutionalists and conservatives in there, you got a constitutional republic. You get Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Akami's in there. You have a suggestion of a constitutional republic. Sorry, total personnel warfare. Everybody has to go. If you were involved in the tyranny of the last four disgusting years of Biden or the prior aid of Obama, you got to go if you said nothing. Very sorry, Jack.
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This show is always a week or two weeks or sometimes months ahead of the news cycle. Why? Because we're not liberal media morons and we just process information. There's nothing special about what we do. We read, we process, we deliver to you in digestible forms. We told you a couple of weeks ago, actually, right after the election.
that QT time was over and that the only way to change the government was going to be to change the people. We can change the policy later, but we already have a constitutional framework to operate on. It just takes people that respect it. So I said, we've got to get rid of everyone. As you can see by this tweet by the great Julie Kelly, Politico, I'm putting up her tweet to give her some recognition rather than Politico because I can't stand them. But Politico is reporting that, quote, fear is gripping the Department of Justice.
As Trump's new appointees waste no time purging the agency of rotten apples, quote, firing at least a dozen who worked on two criminal cases against him. Ladies and gentlemen, if there was ever, you know what's coming? What's coming? Does anybody know?
You ever see the Bruce Lee movies where after he kicks your ass and he punches you, he stops and flexes the biceps and the pose and he makes the face, he goes, whoa. Hi, you ever see that? You know what I'm talking about, right? Karate. He bought me Karate Man. Apparently, Karate Man is a Yu-Gi-Oh thing, too. Karate Man. If there was ever a Karate Man, it's here.
Folks, listen, Langer, Trump ain't fucking around. I don't know when you win the media and you clowns on the left and you, oh, look at that karate man, hit you. Karate man blowing up the shot again with karate man. Of course, a couple of people put a couple of rock'em's in there too. That's appropriate to rock'em's, we have the Donald Trump rock'em's on because I broke the actual thing. We have liberal screaming, Karen, or Margaret Rock'em saying,
These things don't break, man. Dammit, the ring broke, but these suckers are robust, man. The rock of suckers. Yes, this is how we fix this place. You are not gonna fix shit if we do what we did in 2016, where we change a bunch of policies and laws and then get a bunch of people in there who don't wanna, who wanna slow walk everything. We're not gonna change shit. Trump is not fucking around, man.
People are getting let go, left and right, and media folks and libs, get ready. We are in stage one of the FAFO agenda, and you're just F.O.ing now. There is a lot more F.O.ing that's going to happen. The F.O.ing hasn't stopped. It's not going to stop. The Trump administration is starting to realize, rock them, sock them robots. It's the only way to go.
You're gonna fall in there too, you dumb, is that a bad, is that like when Vince McMahon with the pin for Bret Hardy, they call him to match for you? They feel bad for, for blue, rock him, sock him, uh, robots lady. Margaret, she is here and anyone, Margaret. Yeah, sorry, Margaret. You gotta start getting rid of people. Okay, folks, on a serious note, I've tried to explain this before, but some people aren't understanding this.
Donald Trump can issue all the EOS he wants. The left fully understands and learned after 2016 that if you can get people inside the government to read the Donald Trump EO and just pepper their bosses with an endless list of questions about it, it's an Alinsky tactic of stalling and delaying. Nothing is going to happen.
There ultimately has to be people on the ground who will implement said policy. Let me just give you an example from just my direct experience because it's what I can speak to directly. Say the Secret Service changes a policy on where people can protest. If you're the side agent on the ground and you spend six weeks asking questions, well, what about outside the bike rack, inside the bike rack and the event? They're actually not going to change anything about the protest zone rule because you're not done peppering them with questions.
You've got to get rid of people. Here's another one. Susan Crabtree, exclusive and breaking. Trump administration cleans house at USAID for failing to follow Trump's executive orders. Yes! Yes!
People's elbow give Justin a shout out to him. This is how it goes down. Trump issued an executive order and he suspected, according to Susan, that people are conspiring to circumvent his EO on halting federal funds to oversee programs and DEI initiatives. Okay. They chose to what? They chose to fuck around. And Donald Trump had them find out.
We're not asking. Listen guys, I don't know what's going to happen in the midterms. I don't know what's going to happen in four years. I'm not some Eckert Tolgeye, however, the now is all that matters. The only power is a now, right? We live in the now. The present is just time flushing over us. We're always living in the present. And right now we're in charge. So right now we've got to do shit. And this is how shit gets done.
You want to keep messing around, you're going to find out because liberation day is here. And this is what it feels like.
I want to give you a quick update too on a very important case because Donald Trump and his team, I know, are demanding answers about this. And this is another reason we cannot let up on Cash Patel. The exact same heat you applied to get Pete Hegset to be Secretary Hegset, you have got to get for Cash Patel to be FBI Director Patel. We were never going to get answers about who the January 6 pipe armor was and the full identity and the full story about how an inside job, what if an inside job this was.
If we do not get cash in, here's Julie again at Julie underscore Kelly too. You should follow our next exclusive. New house arrest report into unsolved J6 pipe bomb reveals a once vigorous FBI investigation stopped in early 2021, despite initially devoting massive resources into finding the suspect. Now, now listen to this, listen to this, Bongino army. Are we right or are we right?
Now agencies are refusing to cooperate with the House inquiry. Folks in the chat, what do you tell me what happened, please? You already know the answer. Why was it a vigorous investigation early on? Because they did not know not everyone investigating it knew it was an inside job. I'm telling you, I have a federal agent who was there. I have photos to prove it.
who was given instructions to go and be involved in this investigation and was, quote, told to stand down just days later once they felt they had some good leads because the FBI knows who this person is and it's an insider. They just don't want you to know who it is because it will blow up the entire January 6th insurrection narrative. You're going to start asking once you find out who really incited this, quote, insurrection.
Agencies are refusing to cooperate with the house inquiry. Gee, I wonder why. Listen, what is two thumbs and beats this dumbass news cycle every time? This cat, okay? I'm telling you, this is an inside job. Cash the freakin' check and take it to the bank. That's why they don't want you to know who it is. You want to find out? We got to get cash through. You want it buried forever? Let them bury cash.
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Immigration, cutesy time is over, borders shut down and I'm going to tell you some. We've got an absolutely incredible one, two punch of personnel of personnel or policy on the border front that are going to change this country moving forward. You change our border and get us back to a public safety secure border initiative moving forward. The entire country is going to change. Tom Holman and Steve Miller.
You want to talk about an incredible one-two punch for this FAFO administration? Watch Steve Miller yesterday, expose this Bush league media bullshit. They're already trying the narratives. Oh my gosh, some lady was crying because she wasn't allowed in the country illegally. So? Here's Steve Miller, and he exposes this reporter's tactic.
of framing the questions to elicit an emotional response. Folks in the chat, do we care about emotions? No. What do we care about? Fire it up. Who gets it first? What do we care about? I don't care about emotions at all. Who is it? Someone do it. Hell no. Hell no. What do we care about? Who's got it? Oh man, you guys are quick. Oh wait, I got one. Billy beans.
Maybe a moneyball thing going on there says outcomes. You are correct. And what is the outcome we want? We do not want illegal aliens in the country because it's illegal. Here's Steve Miller exposed in this hack. This is glorious to watch. This is how you handle left wing lunatic reporters. Check this out.
There's a report from Chicago that there are ice agents that were turned away from a Southside elementary school earlier today is targeting of schools, targeting of things like this, something that the administration is comfortable with and will continue with. I think the framing of the question is wrong. If there's a law enforcement activity that's taking place in the school, then that would be for the protection and defense of a child. As you know, there is an epidemic of child trafficking, labor trafficking in this country. When federal law enforcement officers are turned away from a school,
It is the act of turning them away that endangers the lives and safety of children. We've seen, as you know, half a million children trafficked over a four-year period in the United States. This administration is going to investigate every instance of child trafficking, labor trafficking, sex trafficking, child smuggling, and all the attendant crimes involved in that. And our message to every one of the country is to cooperate fully with immigration and customs enforcement so that we can end the scourge of child trafficking and child abuse that has been endemic these last four years.
I've got to give a shout out in the chat to Retro Whiskey, who has the line of the day so far in the chat, citing the new viral meme from yesterday from Vice President Advanced, which is, I don't really care, Margaret. Don't really care. You want to break the law? Oh, I'm going to hide that. Thank you, Retro Whiskey, kicking ass and taking names. Member of the Bongino Army. Love you guys. I don't really care, Margaret.
There's a way to not get locked up outside of a school or a hospital or even what do you think you're going to go hide in a school? So just to be clear, you're a criminal in the country illegally and parents want that person to hide inside their kid's school. If you believe that, you're as crazy as these liberal reporters talking to us, Steve Miller. We don't really care, Margaret. But thanks for asking.
People are policy. With people like Steve Miller in there who understand how to enforce the law and deal with left-wing lunatics, we can't lose. Combine that with Tom Holman, who is a gift to America. By the way, this guy is an unbelievably nice guy, a really good and decent human being. But that's not besides the point, because do we care? I care personally, but do we care for public policy? No! What do we care about?
outcomes, results, all we care about. Who's getting results? T. Holman. Here's Tom Holman yesterday doing an interview where this is great. The media again tries to frame the question like, my gosh, are we going to start deporting people on these deportation flights? Whose only crime is crossing the border illegally? Which is a crime, by the way. And Holman's like, yeah, yeah, by the way, there'll be more.
He thought he was going to back down. Not only does he not back down. He's like, oh yeah. Yeah. And by the way, we're going to open the aperture and it'll be even more. This is how you do it. This is how you rock them, sock them robot. This is how rock them, sock them happens. They hit you with something. You hit them with something even worse than when they hit you with. So they don't even know how to respond because they thought you were going to back down. Watch this.
I want to go back to those military flights going south. We, as you said, we have never seen that before. Is that going to be a constant commitment from the U.S. military every single day to take deportees out? Yes. So is this what we will see every single day ending in what the President has promised is millions and millions being deported?
Yes. But you can see the numbers steadily increase the number of restaurants nationwide as we open up the aperture. Right now it's capturing public safety threats, national security threats. That's a smaller population. So we're going to do this on priority based as President Trump's promise. But as that aperture opens, there'll be more rest nationwide. I don't even know how to describe the greatness of what you just heard. How would they
totally kind of flat affect approach to completely unemotional. Martha Raditz is expecting him to say, oh no, we're not going to go after people who broke the law. I mean, unless you're like a rapist or a murderer because she thinks she's got him in the corner. Holman says the exact opposite and she has no idea how to respond.
Oh, no. Once we get to really, really bad people, we're going to go for the bad people, and then we're going to go to people who broke the law and said, you have to go back. You want to come back later? Maybe. But I doubt that too. You already broke the law coming here. She doesn't even know what to do. This is how Rockam Sockam works. She don't know what to say because she's so used to people backing down these
I'm not even going to tell you what it rhymes with. And the Republican Party was like, oh my gosh, no. We have to be the party of compassion. Bullshit. We have to be the party of results. That's what the American people voted for. I got another Tom home in clip coming up next. You may have seen Selena Gomez, who's an alleged celebrity crying all over. I don't really care about playing the stupid video. She can cry for whatever she wants. Like I said, all I care about is results. There's an easy way not to cry. Don't break the law.
And if you ever see Molly's game, by the way, one of my favorite movies, Molly's game, even though it's a bunch of left-wing lunatics, because I love playing cards. Molly's game, the lawyer tells her, don't break the law while you're breaking the law. Do you know what don't break the law while you're breaking the law in the legal space means? It means if you're going to break the law by crossing the border illegally, it's probably a good idea to not break the law like go commit a crime in a country. I'm just saying just an idea. Don't break the law while you're breaking the law.
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So, but celebrities are crying, Dad.
They're crying. We should allow rapists and murderers and terrorists in the country and millions of unvetted people in every single year because a famous singer allegedly, Selena Gomez is crying unlike TikTok or whatever. I mean, Selena Gomez should run for office on open borders if she'd like, but she'd rather cry on Twitter. So they asked Tom Holman about this on Fox News. And probably not the answer Selena Gomez was looking for. Check this out.
She posted a video sobbing. She was crying in it. She said, all my people are getting attacked with the picture of a Mexican flag. Again, she has now taken that down. But what do you say to those who are out there saying that these are everyday people, these are families that are being attacked and dragged out of their homes? How do you respond to that?
I don't think we arrested any families. We've arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line. And look, President Trump won the election on this one issue, securing our border and saving lives. This, what happened on our southern border last for us is the biggest national security threat this country's seen, at least in my lifetime, because we got over two million known Godaways. We got a 600% increase in sex trafficking. We got a record number of terrorists crossing the border on the terrorist watch list. We have quarter million Americans diving in pentagon across the open border.
We're going to do this job and we're going to force the laws of this country. If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law." That's what she can do. Selena Gomez is more than welcome to run for office. She can stop crying and put up some campaign signs. My guess is she won't. She just wants to cry. She deleted that, I guess. She, I wonder why. Wonder why she could have deleted that. Maybe she didn't get the response she was looking for.
Because the American public is sick of bullshit. That's why. And the open border. And they don't want to hear from freaking crying celebrities anymore. If they did, Kamala Harris would have won and she got her ass kicked. Folks, the rock em' sock em' is real, okay? Look, they even got a Trump face on this thing. Well, we kind of threw that in. Whatever. They don't know how to respond to media.
It's coming at them from so many different directions that they have these hour-long shows on CNN and MSNBC. I had a show on Fox, it was an hour. It's really about 42 minutes. And you count the intros and the outs. It's really about 40 minutes. Folks, in 40 minutes, if they've got 40 Donald Trumpios to talk about, what are you gonna do? Give them a minute each? They don't know what to do. I will say this though.
They are trying at least to focus right now, as I said to you yesterday on two things, keeping DEI alive and immigration. Yeah, they're spending a lot of time on other things too, but they're trying to focus on immigration. Why? Because folks, once they lose their demographic destiny, generational war,
to pump the country full of illegal immigrants so that they don't lose population in liberal states, lose the House of Representatives in the Electoral College. They talk about it all the time. We've already played the montage. They know it's over for them. So they are spending a lot of time on it, but they're losing. Folks, Donald Trump has done something absolutely incredible on immigration.
I will never forget being part of an activist group in DC. Some of you are in there and you know the group I'm talking about. Group of real ringers, great guys and ladies in there. We would go in and meet in Washington DC. After Romney lost, I will never forget some Hill staff or whatever coming up there and saying we should never talk about immigration. Again, the Democrats own this argument, it's over. Donald Trump did something absolutely amazing.
Donald Trump not only stole the immigration argument from the left, but he stole it and made it an issue. We're now up by 22 points on, goes to show you that even Republican so-called experts sometimes don't have their finger on the pulse like a business guy like Donald Trump.
Here's CNN's Harry N. Yes, I said that right. CNN's Harry N having to acknowledge the obvious that Donald Trump did something incredible on immigration and you're witnessing it in live time. They made it a Republican issue. Instead of a defensive issue, check this out.
What am I saying? I just want to know how different things are from where we were when Donald Trump first took office and how much more the American people are on the side of Republicans than they were eight years ago. So trust which party more on immigration. You go back to April of 2017. Look at this. The Democrats held an 11 point advantage over Republicans. So Americans were not liking what Donald Trump and the Republican Party was doing back at the beginning of his first term.
Look at where they are now, though. Paul out, just in the last week, after Donald Trump took office, which party you trust more in immigration, look at the margin Republicans are putting up here. A 22-point lead over Democrats. You rarely see issues in which the American people side so much with one party over the other. But on the main issue that Donald Trump has been pumping up and Republicans have been pumping up since the beginning of his term, just that begin just one week ago, Republicans lead overwhelmingly on this.
Folks, it's an opinion show, obviously, the Dan Bongino show. But I'm never gonna leave you out there stranded. I'm not gonna have you go to your friends and go, hey, Donald Trump took the immigration issue from the Democrats and ran with it. Really, how do you know that? I'm guessing, I'm not guessing. I just cited to you a poll aired by CNN, by an actual polling outfit that exists. That's real. A scientific poll or whatever.
that shows Donald Trump, even if the margin of error is five points, he's still up by 17 on the immigration issue. We took an issue we were always on the defensive with, and Donald Trump made it a Republican asset. He is the first president to do that in our time. Not Reagan, not George H.W., not W., certainly not Gerald Ford, Nixon, no one. He made it a Republican issue.
Folks, the man's got political skills. You don't have to like them. Nobody cares. The numbers matter. My opinion's great. I hope you're here for it. The bottom line is I just backed it up with data showing you even if the margin of error is double, we're still up by 10 points in immigration because of Donald Trump.
Folks, Secretary Hegsetz is not effing around either. He got right to work yesterday. The other thing they're trying to prioritize is preserving DEI, because if merit starts to embed itself in our prior capitalist economy, which Biden tried to destroy, the less battle plan is finished.
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We have to marshal the forces. Anita, speak the truth. The McGrine crew, the P1 radio listener crew. I need you all to get together and start right now emailing and calling respectfully please because we're also it's counterproductive. I know you know that. I'm not your dad. I'm not your preacher.
Please get an email, get not a form email, form emails or bullshit and just say, I would like to know where you are on Cash Patel. We strongly support him for FBI reform, something very simple. Please, I need you to do this. You want to reform the government, then we have to partake in it. We can't just be observers. We have to be in the boxing ring fighting, not watching the match. Here's what happens when you get a guy in there. Secretary Heg says, first, a ceremonial walk into the Pentagon as the Secretary of Defense.
This is the F.O. portion of the F.A. F.O. agenda. Check this out. And as the Secretary of Defense it's an honor to salute smartly as I did as a junior officer and now as the Secretary of Defense to ensure these orders are complied with rapidly and quickly. Every moment that I'm here I'm thinking about the guys and gals in Guam in Germany
Fort Benning and Fort Bragg on missile defense sites and aircraft carriers. Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting. We're going to hold people accountable. I know the Chairman agrees with that. The law floaters of the President of the United States will be executed inside this defense department swiftly and without excuse.
We will be no better friend to our allies and no stronger adversary to those who want to test us and try us. So Mr. Chairman, thanks for welcoming me today. I look forward to serving the troops, the warriors of this department. It's the honor of a lifetime and we're going to get to work. God bless you all. You see what happens with Liberation Day? See what happens when this Banjino Army decides we're going to get something done and not just talk about getting something done.
These orders will be executed swiftly and effectively. And I noticed Renegade X 117 and Nero Bastiat. I like that. You both picked up on something. Some of you may have picked up on as well. Secretary Haggseth referred to these military facilities by their proper names. Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, because that's what they are.
Not their names like fourth piece love and happiness. I'm even going to measure it. And that's not the name. It's Fort Bragg and it's Fort Benning. That wasn't an accident, by the way. Secretary Higgsette is a very, very, very smart guy. That was not an accident.
This is a section, I'm gonna, can we get a little liner for this? Can we put something together? Can we get a so much winning alert thing? Ladies and gentlemen, again, this is the so much winning, like Rockam Sockam part of the show again. Started out with it, I can't get over how much winning. There's so much winning happening. People are you tired of the winning? Are you shitting me? Am I tired of winning? We are just stage one of FAFO. How many stages are there? I don't know, bro. I don't, yeah.
This is why Michael's a math major. He's kind of funny sometimes, too. I just asked the question, well, how dumb, how stupid. In the agendas, FAFO, and I'm asking you how many stages of FAFO, Michael's like, did you not pay attention to the findout? You're gonna find out.
There could be 72 stages of F.O. There could be 7,200. I'm not tired. I'm not tired. Keep it coming, man. I am an endless spool of energy. I was sick last week. Don't give a shit. I was on a plane. Did a show from a plane. Don't care. We will keep going on this podcast no matter what. So I'm going to give you a little more winning alert.
Eric Daughtry, breaking yesterday, U.S. health officials ordered by the Trump administration to stop working with the dreadful communist World Health Organization immediately. Remember the ones who tried to hide the COVID thing?
How many times we got it? This guy's poor guy. This red guy and he's like, can I have a break? You can't. You cannot have a break on this show. I'm tired of the one. I'm not tired. You're not tired of the one. I'm not tired of the one. Here's another one. Epic times. Trump signs executive orders restricting transgender troops, ending military DEI practices.
Look, Roddy Man's easier when your lungs aren't infected with the deadly postulating postulateums that I have been from the deadly bioweapon sprayed on all of us, the inauguration. By the way, pure, poor Justin came down with the inauguration. He wasn't even at the inauguration. He has some ridiculous X-Men like Wolverine immune system. Justin says it's only his left nostril. I don't know how that is. They're all like, it goes all connected up there, but whatever.
The winning continues. You want to be out of action for 12 months because you want to cut body parts of it? You do you, but you don't get to take up military time and services doing it because there's an opportunity cost there and you're not lethal if you're in the recovery room, okay?
Thank you. Period. Have a nice day. The D.E.I stuff you heard about from Pete. Here's another just absolute gem Fox News. Are we tired of the winning? The answer is held to the no, we're not tired. We are not tired of the winning.
not stopping. DOJ fires more than a dozen key officials on former special counsel. I'd say special tyrant Jack Smith's team. That's glorious. You thought you had a job. You were going to sit there, weaponize the federal government and get taxpayer dollars. Nah, don't think so, kids. Sorry. Matter of fact, the winning gets even better.
I love this guy, by the way. I don't know if you know this guy, Ed Martin. He is the interim, the United States Attorney for Washington, D.C. What did he do? Imagine how much it pained the Washington Post to write this headline. He launches a probe of the January 6th, prosecutions. Talk about flipping the script.
You want a weaponized government? We'll see. Ladies and gentlemen, I guess we will find out, as Michael said, how many stages of this FAFO agenda.
Red Rocker, by the way, Donald Trump has side control right now for you, Bruce Andrew-Jitsu guys. Michael, you know, side control? Maybe I would do the neon belly, but the knees don't bend. But he's definitely dominating in side control right now. He's doing the elbow shivering in the neck, too, which is really, that really hurts. That's considered cheap. Here's another one.
Hat tip maze more on this one. Great account to follow on X, M-A-Z-E, M-O-O-R-E. Fantastic follow. Got to give shout outs to people folks. We're not the only ones out there. And a lot of people steal maze more's content. It is not right. I see it on Twitter next all the time. It's their account over there. Should cite it.
But it's just interesting now, all of a sudden, that Ed Martin's going to be looking into the prosecutions of the weaponization of government during January 6th, how the Democrat story is now changing. And there is no better example of a fraud on weaponized government than Adam Schiff. Watch this about 30 seconds and you'll see what I mean. Again, Hatib may more, check this out.
On the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. Very strongly in favor of indicting the president when he is out of office. I don't think the incoming president should be threatening his political opponents with jail time. That's not the kind of talk we should hear from the president in a democracy.
This is why you ignore left wing and media, imbecile commentary on all this stuff. They are frauds, phonies. They have zero credibility. You do exactly what home and did at the beginning of the show on that interview. You guys are going to deport people for breaking a lot. Yeah, it's actually more, more than you think, actually even more people. That is how you handle this.
more Kylo Ren more style. We get a lot of play with that on X. People love the Kylo Ren more. They love it. Because Liberation Day has arrived, folks.
Rock this shirt everywhere. It'll piss off your liberal friends if you have any left. Do me a favor. How many people in the chat? You Bonjino Army members out there. How many people go to the gym? The gym is the best place to wear this because liberals, you won't usually see a lot of liberals in the gym because they're not into work and stuff like that.
They are allergic to the gym and lifting weights and everything like that. But you will see a few. The good thing is you'll have a lot of backup because even in liberal cities like 60% of the crowd will be people at least leaning a little conservative. Liberation day, it is arrived. Store.bongino.com. What? Oh yeah, look at that. You can move the camera and up like that. Look at you guys. Nice.
This was my idea, by the way. I just want to say Paula had 90% ideas of Paula. She'll probably hate me for saying this. I love her to death. You know what? We've got to do another shirt. We've got to celebrate the election. But I don't like to just randomly throw shirts on. When Donald Trump said we're going to declare this liberation day, I said, that's it. That's it. All right. Cute see time's over. I've got to talk to you about something serious here, right? Justin's like, what?
spoke about in my weekend update yesterday, which I do on Monday. Some guy got all pissy with me, by the way, send me this Facebook thing.
And I'm like five minutes in and you tell us about a weekend. It's the freaking damn Bonjito show. I spent five minutes on Monday talking about things I think are interesting. And I'm all week, we talked for four hours between radio and podcast about every single political, how many political issues we get to already today? Polling, FAFO, Miller, Holman, Julie Kelly, January 6, USAID, Pete Hegset, WHO, we cover the issues. I want you to know who I am. We spend 20 hours a week here together, okay?
So if you don't like it, I'm sorry. It's an airport. You don't have to announce your departure. Find a different show where they just read headlines. I'm that's on me, okay? He's dead, right? No, it definitely was evolved, definitely. He didn't like the game this week. That's okay. I love our Tennessee crew, but that guy clearly didn't like the show. But I was down in Auburn this weekend, or I live in Florida, but we all know like South Florida is not the most southern place on planet Earth. It's Northern Florida is.
Folks, I really love the South. And you guys and ladies out there, I just, I'm really envious of everything you're about. Your emphasis on faith, on family, on community. It is complex in its simplicity. Does that make sense? And I'm not trying to write bullshit poetry or sound overly verbose. It's elegant in its simplicity.
I'm really envious of you all. I have a point to this though. It's not just to reminisce about my weekend that I spent in Auburn and how lovely the people were to me and how I just feel like it's become just this adopted home. By the way, if you're not considering sending your kid to Auburn University or Alabama or another place like that, then you're making a huge mistake. Auburn is a magical place and your kid should be visiting there.
They respect free speech. They love God down there. I give a speech down there. It's not a single protester that shows up, not one. It's a packed house, not one. But whereas this queen's born Yankee can tell you that, these media people hate you. They do. And it's really disgusting to watch.
They think because you speak with a Southern accent that somehow you're stupid, you're backwards, they do. They don't understand how deep and complex you really are. Let me tell you something. When the shit hits the fan, I want a Southern to with me next to me. I don't want one of these media losers. Did you see this clip from Margaret, the new Karen, Brennan, and JD Vance? I didn't play this one yesterday.
I want you to listen and watch the disdain in her voice and the look on her face as she talks about people from Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama. She talks about you like you guys need FEMA. You're just too stupid to figure this out on your own. You don't, you doubt me? Watch this yourself. Check it out.
expertise that some of these states just don't have. The Mississippi, the Kentucky, the Alabama's be able to do this for themselves
Well, the president, to be clear, is not saying we're going to leave anybody behind. He's saying that the way that we administer these resources, some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level, we've got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most. But these are the- You believe that shit? You really believe?
that these strong southern families that have relied on. God, community, church, and you really believe in an emergency? They're calling up DC, looking for some obese overweight DC bureaucrat to come down and save them. You sure about that? Margaret? And by the way, this isn't a geography thing. I'm going to be candid with you. It's not about the South.
Because we have people in the Midwest and all over the country, we have people in upstate New York and farms like this. It is not about the South, it's just that the South can be very self-reliant. This is a battle against self-reliance. It has everything to do with the war on the Second Amendment and everything. The Left doesn't care about guns, they have their own bodyguards with guns. They don't, they pretend to. They don't want you to have a gun because they want you reliant on the government for everything, including your protection.
The left hates self-reliance because you cannot institute a system of collectivism and communism if people like people in the South and the Midwest are not dependent on the government. But I want you to watch these two videos and I want to ask you a very simple question. If an emergency hits the fan,
Do you want a FEMA rep showing up? Or do you want this kids from Indiana? But it doesn't matter. Or do you want the John Deere kid showing up? You know who this kid is? If you haven't seen, I'll take this kid any day over some monstrosity bureaucrat from Washington DC. Watch this. Oh, it was like an actual backhoe, like the one over there, but it was a can. It ran pretty nice.
Is that a bit bigger? One? Is that a bit bigger? Is that the same size? That's a 4.75 like there. So that's 75 horsepower? 75 horsepower. That's a new model. Just come out with it. Back in the fall. Oh, I said, that'd be a nice machine to have. 75 horsepower? Yeah, it's got a nice price tag on too. Somewhere around 50,000. That's only a seat.
I like, I like this. Got stabilizers. So if you're digging something really hard, you don't. I love this. I love this young man. Young man. God bless you, John, dear kid. I want that kid showing up. I don't want no FEMA person there. You see why in the South and the Midwest, they hate you? You think that kid's dependent on a government handout?
You think that kid's looking for FEMA when an emergency hits? He's pulling up in his John Deere tractor. How old is that? I don't even know how old that young man is. Nine? Ten? He'll figure it out himself. That's why liberals hate that kid. This is who the liberals want showing up in an emergency. She's pictured from last week. They want David Muir, the ABC news guy, with the fire jacket, with the clothespin, so he looks nice and tailored on TV. That's who they want to show it up.
I'll take the John Deere kid any day of the week and seven times on Sunday. You want media people and liberals showing up at an emergency, folks, media people can't even do freaking journalism. And I can't think of a better time to highlight their malfeasance.
Because this reporter who called me the other day, he asked me, Dan, you've been doing this now for 10 years. The podcast was started in 2015. So it's our 10 year anniversary. And actually, he's in like February, I think. We should do a big thing for that. It's February is our actual 10 year anniversary. He said, what stories resonate the most? Tell me if I'm wrong. I said, you know, my audience loves the most when we expose you media buffoons. And he laughed. I said, no, I'm not kidding.
There's no better time than now. The media criticizing you folks in the South. Brock Stars, God-fearing parents, moms, and dads, than to play this little montage. Maybe the media should stay out of emergency planning, government spending, and everything else, and actually try to do journalism first. Here's the media about their predictions about elections. You can see how right they always are. Check this out.
He's not going to be president. He is not, Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States. Take it to the bank. Okay. I guarantee you. All right. All right. I think if he's become the president, he'll make it great because the state's already. I think that man will be president in the United States right about the time that spaces come down filled with dinosaurs and red caves. I'm not like Tom. Take it from me. How about that? And then of course there's Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
Donald Trump. Just last week he confirmed the national review that he is again considering a run in 2016. Do it. Look at me. Do it. I will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country which does not want you to be president but which badly wants you to run.
So when you stand and deliver that State of the Union address in no part of your mind or brain, can you imagine Donald Trump standing up one day and delivering a State of the Union address? Well, I can imagine it.
in a Saturday night skip. I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president. He will never be president of the United States. And we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket next. I know you don't believe that, but I want to go on.
I just the suggestion to the media folks out there, if you don't want to be a laughing stock, then stop making yourself a laughing stock. I saw the hapless Chris Silliza today put out on Twitter that he can't believe he was so misled and that Donald Trump was right about the lab leak and Fauci was wrong.
Chris Elizabeth, the same guy who in the infamous Washington Post headline with Aaron Blake from back in 2016 during the election, wrote Donald Trump's chances of winning are approaching zero. Why is the Dan Bongino show the number one live stream in America pretty much every day? Ladies and gentlemen, the formula is not complicated.
keep people entertained, keep them educated on the issues, keep the information flowing, and don't bullshit them. It's really not hard. Why are people tuning out of the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Chris Saliza, MSNBC, and others? Because they're tired of your bullshit. You can't lie to all the people all the time.
Want to see another story we're out ahead of? We've been out ahead of for years. When I say we, I mean, the entire Republican movement, not specifically me, the whole climate change thing is a great article by Barton Swain in the Wall Street Journal. Why climate change ideology is dying? Folks, it's pretty simple. Just like I told you, why do people tune into the damn Longino show? Because we tell you the truth. Why is climate ideology dying? Because no one actually believes it.
You know, it's why aren't the moguls and executives who claim to be unnerved by climate science given up their carbon heavy lifestyles and living in caves or living in simpler dwellings and mansions? If these progressive VIPs and media, politics and entertainment believe sea levels are ready to rise, why do they keep buying properties and mark this vineyard bar Harbor, Provincetown, Santa Monica and Malibu? Because they don't believe any of this shit. That's why. Folks, they're lying to you.
And it's up to us to expose them. Now, the media guy who asked me a question about what stories resonate with my audience, and I told him largely stories about how awful the media are.
I think he was a little confused as to why. And one of the reasons is I don't think they're used to being held to their own standard. So the fact that I take Alinsky's rules, notably Alinsky rule number four, and I make the media live up to its own standards, if you're going to call us out for misinformation and disinformation when we're right, we're going to call you out and hold you to that standard when you're not right, which is often. What's all Alinsky's rule number four? Suggest you memorize it.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. The rule is every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this, because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. Media people want to talk about climate change? We're going to lose our coastline? Why do you live there? Because you really don't believe it. Media wants to talk about misinformation. Why do you keep bullshitting people? We'd like to know.
make them live up to their own rules because they can't and they won't.
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