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You know, how does the media get let Biden get away with this garbage? That speech last night was just junk. It was just total junk. This is where you miss President Trump on Twitter who would be able in live time to refute Biden's endless garbage. I don't it's not even his garbage. What do you mean out of his garbage? Somebody. He clearly doesn't write anything himself now. And if he's capable of that, Biden, somebody just puts it a teleprompter and he reads the garbage.

I got that today. I've got some incredibly troubling video from the border. I mean, really troubling. You're going to want to see this because it's almost hard to believe Joe's already seen it. So he gets to cheat a little bit. And then I want to describe to you, I don't do a lot of foreign policy on the show, but what would a war with China look like? There is a really, really troubling report that leaked out of the Pentagon about what exactly a war with China would look like, how bad it could get.

And I want I don't want because it's Friday. I want to leave you any bad news. I'm going to give you the good, the bad and the ugly on the China story. There is some good news for us. So don't worry, I don't want to be apocalyptic today show. But you express VPN for peace of mind online, surf the web and peace. Get a VPN. Go to express VPN Dotcom Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino show.

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It's Friday.

I think we've only skipped that one or two times when the news was really bad. So good to know. Welcome, producers.

Yeah, we've got a couple extra guests listening to this show live today because we may have a live stream coming soon. I was probably supposed to tease that announcement a little more, but we're thinking about it. We're thinking about it. Appreciate your feedback. But let's get right to the news. Let's not let's let's get right to the news. Here's a video of last night's dreadful national address by Joe Biden. Just laden with garbage and lies. Again, they're not his lies because he can't think of that kind of stuff.

They're just pumped into a teleprompter for him and he just reads them. But here's Joe Biden ridiculously claiming that when the coronavirus outbreak, which is now a year, it's now a year since it was declared a global pandemic. Here's Biden last night claiming that the Trump administration, he doesn't mention him directly, he doesn't have to, that the silence and denials kind of led to this pandemic and that he would have done things totally different. In other words, Trump was totally saw, Joe, if he forgets about it.

Remember those press conferences with Trump? Those those never happened. And denials. Trump denied there was a coronavirus. What was he doing?

The press conferences for a lot of sake. Let me think that one through for a moment. So there were press conferences that were silent. What were they doing? Like sign language or something? I don't understand at the press conferences that actually happen and then denials. So they got up at the silent press conferences and said nothing. And just what wrote on a blackboard that we are denying the coronavirus.

This is ridiculous. Listen, abideth. A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked denials for days, weeks and months that led to more deaths, more infections, more stress and more loneliness. Photos and videos from 20 19 feel like they were taken in another era. The last vacation. Last birthday with friends, last holiday with extended family. Silence and denials. I'm going to show you a follow up video here about who was really silent and denying the what, and I don't think anybody anticipated what the impact of the coronavirus is going to care.

If you're a Democrat or Republican, a communist, a conservative, it doesn't matter. Even when the pandemic was declared a year ago today, I don't think anybody understood how bad it was going to get. Fair enough. I don't very few people, I think, understood the scope of what was going to happen. Yep, here's what's really weird, Joe Biden is clearly trying to suggest Trump was denying the existence of the coronavirus and the severity of it, but yet when it started to get ugly, the Democrats went back to playing the race card, the race card about coronavirus.

Listen for yourself. Check this out.

You know, since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak, we have seen not only the spreading of the virus, but also a rapid spreading of racism and xenophobia.

This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia.

And simply being Chinese in a crowded space is something that causes people to park like the Red Sea. Daring to cough or sneeze causes people to actually shy away from you.

There's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism where people are literally not patrón in Chinese restaurants.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry came out today and they are furious with the US. They feel like these travel restrictions were unnecessary. They call them an overreaction. You know, historically, travel bans tend not to work very well. They tend to be counterproductive.

Closing borders doesn't stop cases coming to your country. All these actions do is cause a culture of fear. They don't work.

You touched on people blaming Chinese for their eating habits and their culture.

What will quell the racism that you are seeing?

They're not parroting Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus.

This painful rhetoric has consequences. Restaurants across Boston's Chinatown have seen up to an 80 percent drop in business. And I believe this has everything to do with the rapid spread of misinformation and paranoia, misinformation and paranoia.

And you'd think she was talking about Joe Biden's speech last night, again, written for him by others because he's not capable of putting together thoughts like that in any kind of coherent way. It may have been inaccurate, this speech, but at least it was Kahir because somebody else wrote it for him, misinformation. So it was Trump who was silent about the coronavirus, despite the fact he had briefings about it and instituted a travel ban almost immediately. And it was Trump who was denying the impact of the coronavirus, despite Trump instituting a travel ban that Democrats.

By the way, if you're watching the video on rubble, you could see who that was. If you're listening on audio, that was AOC, CNN commentators Ayanna Pressley and other Liberal congresswoman from Massachusetts. They're the ones that isn't it incredible how what is Tucker Carlson? We say that Democrats are always accusing you of what they do themselves. Yes, it's on tape, dude. It's on tape. Everybody can watch it, it's on tape, the left, there are a thousand Supercuts out there, by the way, hat tip graybeard, the great Tom Elliott over graybeard for that supercute we had.

Joe had to cut that short, by the way, that goes on for another almost minute. Yeah, there are over a thousand good quality Supercuts from news busters and graybeard of Democrats not just saying the travel ban is racist coronavirus mitigation measures. Trump were doing a racist and xenophobic, not just those. There are other Supercuts we've played on the show. Joe remembers some of Nancy Pelosi, Bill de Blasio, New York City politicians, Joe Biden and others playing down the coronavirus.

They're endless. It's on tape. Don't allow them to rewrite history now showing you how, again, the Biden administration is entirely full of it, that Trump denied coronavirus and the severity of it they did. Even now, the Biden administration and their circle back press flak, Jen Psaki, are still not taking this seriously. Here's a video from yesterday. It's Fox News's Peter Doocy. He asks a simple question of Jen Psaki. He says, a press secretary, press secretary.

Are illegal immigrants crossing the border who test positive for coronavirus being prevented from coming into the country? What's the answer she gives where she pivot? And Joe is a yes or no answer, right? Pretty simple question. Yeah. If you test positive for coronavirus and you're trying to enter the country illegally, can you come in or not? It's binary, folks. It's binary. It's a yes or no answer. It's a zero or a one in digital format, OK?

There's no need to overcomplicate this. We don't need we don't need a Schrodinger's cat here. It's not it's a no quantum mechanics involved. She can't answer the question. Listen to her dance around this and try to blame the Republican governor of Texas. Check this out.

The other piece is as the question about the testing of migrants at the border or testing of migrants is there are coming across and we have DHS and FEMA have stepped in and work with local mayors, NGOs and public health officials in Texas to implement a system to provide covid-19 testing and as needed, isolation and quarantine for families released from Border Patrol facilities. Their proposal and agreement would cover 100 percent of the expense of the testing, isolation and quarantine. But Governor Abbott has decided to reject that.

So there are a number there's a lot of confusion about these issues. And I just wanted to provide a little point of clarity here.

It's hilarious. That's hilarious. You're trying to provide clarity by clarifying the clarity you were trying to provide is everything.

It was a yes or no question. And she dances around them. Well, here's how we're going to provide the funding for the testing and possible isolation and so so we are letting people in. Is that is that what you're saying? So people are entering the country illegally in violation of our laws, walking in illegally. They're not supposed to be here. And you are admitting them in. And then we're testing an isolating quarantine. So we're letting them into the country.

I thought this was a major national global pandemic, international catastrophe that they want to blame Trump on. Trump didn't understand the severity. Five hundred thousand people dead. Maybe we should secure the border and not let people in then who could be carrying the virus? Sounds like a good idea. No, sounds like a good idea. Or encourage them to enter the country the legal way so we can check who people are if they're sick or not. Maybe a good idea.

No, no, no. They want to dance around the question. And in case you're a liberal watching the show and you're saying, Dan, you're overdramatizing this crisis, there's only one hundred thousand people a month entering the country illegally. Not a big deal compared to the thirty thousand a month last year when Trump was in charge. Checking my math show, that's over three times. Yes, over three times. It's not a big deal. Look at this video.

There's not a lot of sounds which I'm going to talk you through it if you're listening on audio only. We got about 20 seconds of it. The video goes on a bit. Here is a video of a line, a packed crowd of people. You have no idea who these people are. You have no idea if they're a national security threat. You have no idea if it's a potential criminal threat. You have no idea who these people are.

What potential what what if they're if they're sick or they're not? You have no idea. Here is a line of people looking to enter the United States being smuggled into the country. Check this out. If this doesn't disturb you, I don't care about your party affiliation. I don't know what will. Look at this, how can you how do you watch that? Yeah, wow is right for all the wrong reasons, forward and backwards. Well, w o w what are we watching?

What are we looking at here? This is the United States of America. We have a legal immigration process, is it efficient? No, my wife went through it. Can we fix it? Of course we can always fix it. This is not national security. This is not a country. Remember, what's the definition of a country? Right. Well, if you had bullet points about what a country was, I think the first bullet point would be some defined national borders.

No, if you don't have national borders, you don't have a country. You have a suggestion. How is that a border, what you just saw? Please explain to me in twenty five words or less how that constitutes a border. That's not even a suggestion. Yes, I thought coronavirus was a big global pandemic we were all supposed to be terrified about to the point, we're locking down our businesses, driving our kids tragically in some cases to suicide by isolating them in quarantine so they can't talk to their friends despite the low risk.

But yet when it comes to the southern border, everybody's just allowed in. Forget the legal immigration process. No worries there. Are we checking people? Oh, I'm going to going to blame Governor Abbott. Are we letting them in the country? Maybe. Maybe not. We'll talk about that later kind of thing. I'll circle back. My gosh. I've got a tweet coming up next, I'm trying to rescue you from the bad news because I did get an email.

Guys like us in the news is so bad it's not all bad. We will. But sometimes we just need a punch in the gut to get up, you know, get up off the mat. And I think it's happened. And now I think we're going to see a root, a root for these open borders Democrats in 2022. But I do have a tweet up next. I'd like for you to check out from a pollster I trust I interviewed him on the show, Robert.

So good news out of Georgia.

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That's fair enough. Right. We need a fact check on that one, Dan. Yes, fair enough. Thank you. Thank you. On a Friday, I want to make sure we get that out there. Could have worked better. I mean, on the House side, that didn't work out too bad. But everywhere else, it was kind of a disaster. So, you know, we need a little bit of good news. So Robert, can Haley, who is a one of the few pollsters I trust, he works over at Trafalgar Group.

Do you remember we interviewed him on the show, Joe, before the election and he pretty much nailed everything.

Do you remember this guy? He he was very nice. You may not, but one of the things he brought up is I don't if you you produced it. So you at least you're honest. I like that about you. You never BBSes the audience. You don't have to because we don't do that here. This guy brought up a great point. I asked him on the show. I said, hey, Robert, why are your polls always so accurate while everyone else, these big polling outlets constantly blow it?

Remember, the polls show before the election, Trump's going to lose by 80 points. He's going to lose every state. He's going to lose Wyoming by ten. Everybody was like, oh, my gosh, here we go again with this stupidity. Well, he pretty much called it. And he said to me, this is interesting guy. Tell me if you find this interesting, OK? Because Joe's heard this before. You have not. Actually, Joe may not remember.

He doesn't remember. So, Joe, you tell me to because you don't remember, which is good. He said the polls are wrong because, one, you have this whole digital divide and stuff with cell phones versus landlines skewing towards an older audience. And he said sometimes people lie to pollsters, especially when it comes to Donald Trump. And I said, OK, Robert, so how do you get around that in your pulse? Fascinating. He said, because I asked the neighbor question.

I ask people why who their neighbor would vote for, because, you know, come on, you all know, right? If your neighbor is a Trump supporter, you know it right. That way you're not asking about them. So there's no reason for them to lie. You're asking about the net genius genius. So with that background, I trust this guy can put out a social media post yesterday talking about the Senate race coming up in twenty twenty two with Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker Hoerr, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Georgia bulldog legend legend Herschel Walker, my brother in law.

Is a doctor and a power lifter, which is a very weird combination. He's not weird, but a strange combo. You don't see too many doctors who are power lefties. My brother law, right. He loves following the fitness routine and all that other stuff like I do, he swears at Herschel Walker may be the most fit human being ever to walk the face of the Earth. He has some evidence to back it up to look at his poll.

Herschel Walker, forty seven point seven percent, Raphael Warnock, forty five point five percent. Finally, find a listen. It's a long way away. I don't want to overdramatize anything right now. Twenty, twenty two might as well be twenty forty seven in political terms right now. But some good news that we may finally get back some really good people with kahunas in the Senate, because, you know, Herschel Walker is is the real deal. He fought and may fight it like fifty years old.

Herschel Walker is that you can watch the video. It's crazy. How would this shape this guy's in? He was like, yeah, I'm just going to do m.a. OK, probably not the thing that decided. Forty seven Herschelle but when you're Herschel Walker, whatever it works for you, I like him. Oh man I love this would be love the guy.

I love the guy.

Please do it Herschel get in there and Donald Trump support him too which is good. Speaking of elections in primaries, Herschel Walker. You like that Segway?

I like that. I try to put that together.

So we've got we've got we've got eight Republicans who may need to hear from us right now, may need a primary threat themselves. Well, why? Well, if you subscribe to my newsletter, Bongino dot com newsletter, my free newsletter, I will send you these articles every day. Because of stories like this, we have to pay more attention to better candidates like Herschel Walker in primaries, Breitbart by the great LWR Hawkins, who writes on Second Amendment issues all the time.

Eight House Republicans vote for the Democrat gun control bill. Why is it? That whenever Democrats have some progressive agenda item, they get near unanimity and no one ever breaks the Democrat fortified front line. And yet when we need Republicans to stand united for simple things like the right to protect yourself without a gun confiscation measure, we always have some people who are just like Max, I'm going to vote with the Dems. It reminds me of my line that you should always remember.

It's Dan Bongino. Golden rule. I don't know. Joe's as two or three. Are you going to have to keep track of my golden rules?

It may be two or three. I don't know. We'll get Joe to keep this down in an official Dan Bongino library.

Let's call it number two for today. Because the first golden rule is what, that Republicans may not solve all your problems, but Democrats almost always caused them, that's rule number one. So no rule number two is this that most Republicans are really Democrats, but no Democrats are really Republicans. Do you like my you like the guy like you give me a thumbs, how can you write us that? Wanted to say we got them numbered in the future.

Just, you know.

So here's what I mean by that. So you had this gun confiscation measure. Explain what it is in a minute. And unlike. You know, the Democrats, which vote like a unified front, they lock shields, these eight Republicans decide to be a good idea to vote for a bill that's going to be used to confiscate your firearms if it goes through. So let's go through who they are. Here is the motley crew of people who can't get their heads out of their cabooses.

We first have Vern Buchanan of Florida. Oh, no, it overturns thinking. Hey, Vern, remember Vern? Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Maria Salazar, Florida. Big disappointment there. Andrew Garbarino of New York, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Fred Upton, a consistent disappointment on the Second Amendment in Michigan, Carlos Gimenez of Florida. And the well, Adam Kinzinger is not really a can we make can we change that? Can we get our guy can you send me an email?

That's actually seven Republicans, Adam Kinzinger calls them, say he's not even a RINO. Adam Kinzinger is a full blown Democrat. So it's actually seven plus one. He calls himself a Republican. So EWR safe, but he's really a Democrat. So seven plus one.

Now, why does this bill matter and what does it do? Ladies and gentlemen, can I tell you a little story why this matters, would you mind? I've been involved in the Second Amendment movement for a long time. Matter of fact, one of the ways I entered onto the political scene from the activism side was I gave a viral speech in Annapolis, Maryland. Joe knows well a long time ago. Remember that. And everyone, this is I lived in America.

This has to be at least Joe and I weren't even doing the podcast yet. But I know Joe well. Maybe seven years ago, Michael Palka from The Blaze at the time found the speech on YouTube or something like that. It was a speech at Annapolis for a for a Second Amendment rally when Maryland member Joe Marilena was trying to take everybody's guns, which they're always trying to do, the speech went nuclear. Michael Michael Palka called me. I was at my daughter's event.

And he's like, Hey, is Michael Poca from The Blaze? Did you give this speech? I said, Yeah, that's me. He's like, man, this is good. We're going to send out an email boom. I was on like Fox about. And I mean, that's how this whole thing started. Folks, one of the things I've always warned about is Democrats want to institute universal background checks not because they care about background checks. Ladies and gentlemen, please stop the nonsense.

That's what this bill would do, is institute universal background checks. It's not about that, folks. Listen to me and please listen. Clearly, I was a police officer and a federal agent for over a decade of my life. Criminals don't go do background checks, do you understand why can we possibly can we might hit the pause button here, temporary fake pause. You know, I paused, but with the. Why don't. I know liberals listen.

This is hard for them. I wish we could use the Jeopardy sound here. Why don't criminals go through background checks to get firearms? Why, why, why do you think why do you think that is? Because criminals can't buy guns with a background check, because there's a question, are you a criminal? Basically, they don't. They get them off the street. Are you? Is that hard for you to figure out, do you think?

A universal background check. So to be clear, is the system now, if you buy a firearm from a gun, show FFL, a federally licensed firearm salesman, anywhere, you have to go through a background check. It doesn't matter if it's at a gun show. There's no gun show loophole. That's a liberal myth is everybody understand that it's a licensed firearm dealer, which most people at gun shows are not all, but most. There's a loophole for gun shows.

If you go to a gun supply store that ninety nine point nine percent, yes, it fell. You have to go through a background check. The only time you don't is that, say, you're a farmer out the Midwest, you want to give your shotgun to your kid, you don't have to do a background check. You just give it to him. It's your firearm. So why do the Democrats want to make Farmer Jones go to a background check to give his firearm to young Farmer Jones?

Why would they want to do that by. Think about it, think about it, knowing this will do nothing to stop criminals because criminals can't get guns from legal firearm dealers, so they buy off the jail, do nothing, nothing. Why would they want to think it through? I'm sorry to play the interactive games with the audience, but the more I probe your mind, the more you'll figure this out and will own it forever because they want to list.

I underlined it and put an arrow. Take a look at it right there, big arrow. They need a list. How are they going to confiscate your guns if they don't have a list of who owns them? Well, then, what is universal, universal background checks have to do with that? I thought they'll stop criminals. How would they stop criminals? Criminals don't get background checks now because if they did, they wouldn't be allowed to buy the gun, huh?

Yeah, true. How would universal background checks establish a list so they know who's house to go to when they want to take your guns? That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Yeah. So did that they were going to spy on President Trump during the campaign and that happened. Because, folks, the list would be meaningless if private the private sales were allowed, if I'm allowed to sell my firearm or give my firearm to my father or one of my brothers or my wife.

Then the list is kind of useless. Why would it be useless, Joe? Because they could knock on my door and say, Dan, do you have that firearm we noticed you bought from so-and-so gun works a few weeks ago? And what could I say, Joe? No, I don't have it. I sold it. Well, if there's a universal background check, they'd have to know who you sold it to. They want a list. And the only way to get a list is not to give you an out.

And an out for a lot of people, not an out to avoid the law, but now, you know, they people die, they get sick, they get older, they don't feel like they can control or secure their guns anymore. They give them to sons, fathers, daughters, brothers, whatever it may be, a transfer. As long as it's legal, you're not allowed to give them to criminals. That's illegal, right? Everybody knows that.

Right. Liberals don't, of course, are just figuring this out now. But if they could trace every single transfer of every single firearm, they know exactly where to go for the firearms when gun confiscation comes.

And that sounds like a case, if I can pass it there, we got to use our left this voice for now, is it really? Here's a video of Joe Biden, asked a question by Anderson Cooper a while ago if they were going to come and take people's assault rifles, which basically means every single firearm out there in Democrat lingo. And here's Joe Biden's answer.

You may want to check this out to to gun owners out there who say, well, Biden administration means they're going to come for my guns. Bingo. You're right. If you have an assault weapon.

Here we go again. And here we go, Armacost.

That's correct, my man. You don't. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to take our word for it.

Just take Almighty Joe Baeza word bingo thingo if you have an assault weapon. Interesting how I showed you that video last week of me debating in Maryland when I was running for office years ago. The attorney general of Maryland, who didn't seem to know what an assault weapon was either. Did the other guy on the panel in that video I put out there, he was trying to tell me how he wanted to take your assault weapons, but couldn't define exactly what assault weapon.

I love that video still. All right, I'm going to exit this segment, but I can't do it without you understanding this one final time. The only reason the only reason they want universal background checks is to get a list to make sure they come for your gun next. Everybody got it. Put an exclamation point at the end. All right, here's what's coming up on the other side of this break here. I've got a video of an insurrection in Portland, why there was an insurrection last night.

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Yeah. The New Jersey generals from the US fell. How did I not remember that.

Which was owned by Donald Trump. Trump Great. Great. Paul Armacost. That's where you earn the big bucks. That's why Armacost is worth millions. Millions because of you. Because I'm just kidding. The IRS will come for the money. He didn't report all his income. That's a great Paul. Good point. Played for Donald Trump's New Jersey generals. All right. Just a quick video here before I move on to the China story. There was an insurrection yesterday in Portland Antifa, the pro fascist terror group Antifa that stands for anti fascist folks.

Come on now. What did I tell you? Every time the left, they're good at names. It was a pro fascist terror group. They only call themselves anti fascist because stupid people in the media believe they're dopey title. So, yeah, there was an actual insurrection last night in Portland. You won't hear anything about it because there were no Trump supporters involved in this. But here is a video I'm going to play. As it said, there's not much sound to it, so I have to talk over a little bit.

But they literally tried to. And, you know, I hate that word. They tried to burn down the courthouse in Portland last night. Check this out. This is just fascinating. Why it's not a front page story in The New York Times, The Washington Post or at these other legacy media outlets. Why are we not seeing this story? There's an actual fire here, as you can see in the video, a fire in the front of the Portland courthouse that the Antifa people were trying to send while there were people inside.

Now, Joe, last time I checked, that's really not a good idea. That's very dangerous. And I highly recommend nobody ever do that. Now, why that's not a story, again, is quite obvious, because if there was one person with a maggot, it would be all over the front page of the news. Probably only going to hear about it from Andino, who does reporting on Antifa and shows like this. All right, we're moving along at a nice pace here.

What do you think he gets on me? Sometimes they say, well, something it's. I can't help. Some stories just I feel the love. All right, so remember the good, the bad and the ugly, the old Clint Eastwood movie. We're going to do a different movie. We're going to do The Ugly, the bad and the good. I read this story about China and what a war with China would look like. The stories up at Yahoo!

News, you can find it on Bongino Report.com, also on my newsletter, Mangino Dotcom Slash newsletter, and I strongly encourage you to read it.

The headline alone should scare. Clean your gastrointestinal tract, you'll be good for days. It's the equivalent of journalism Metamucil. Here is the headline at Yahoo! News. Quote, We're going to lose fast US Air Force Hell, the war game that started with a Chinese biological attack by James Kidd.

Feel the contributor, the Yahoo! News. Folks, it's not a joke, so we're going to start with the ugly part first. About our relationship currently with China. People's Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party is clearly preparing for war with the United States. You never know that because we're too busy worrying about Pepe Lupu and Gina Carano in the Mandalorian. We're not occupied with anything like global thermonuclear war. God forbid we did something like that. So here's the first screenshot about what a war.

I want to be clear on this. Given our current posture, our current force alignment, how we're prepared for global warfare now, how these experts think it would go, here's a quote from a military analyst talking about what would happen in our war games.

Now, it says, At that point, the trend in our war games was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster. We do these war games all the time with China and now we're losing quick after the twenty eighteen war game. I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff and telling them that we shouldn't play this war game scenario of a Chinese attack on Taiwan again, because we know what's going to happen.

The definitive answer is if the US military doesn't change course, we're going to lose fast. In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli. Think about that. Let me put a time out here to. Time out from the sidelines. I am not taking a stance on if we should intervene for Taiwan or not, we can cover that on another show. There's a whole big show about the libertarian approach to foreign interventions, which I think, you know, I lean towards.

And the both Democrat and Republican hawkish establishment think we should intervene in every place all over the world. Table that for a second. I'm just asking you to assume if policy leaders, the president does decide to engage in a war with China over Taiwan, what would happen? Well, in that first piece, he suggests our current force alignment, we would get crushed fast. And what's our current force alignment, our posture, our strategic battle plan to fight back?

It would be to use our bases and ports overseas to use them as a forward launching bases and ports to go and hit back. Military analysts saying, yeah, we'd probably get crushed pretty fast. Because the Chinese are prepared for that. And are engaging in access denial exercises where they will deny us access from those ports to go and defend Taiwan again, assume it happens because this would be really bad and the Chinese are already preparing for it. So that's the ugly part that as of right now, our current forced alignment, these military analysts are saying we would, quote, lose fast.

That sounds really bad because it is. Screenshot number two from the Yahoo! Piece. This is the bad part. I'll start with the good part of the bad part. The good part of the bad part is we're figuring this out, military analyst Joe, and they're developing a different strategy, saying, hey, maybe investing all our assets in ports and forward operating bases and launching from there is not going to work. Maybe we need to be more nimble and focus on denial for Taiwan from the start, from China keeping Taiwan and the and the strait free and clear.

So here's part two where they talk about how if we were to engage in a more nimble operation, what we would do, how this might result in the Chinese reevaluating their situation quickly if they attacked. I want to check this out quote from the piece. This is about their new strategy. So the good part of the bad is we have a new strategy. The bad part of the bad is we still haven't implemented it. Quote, The strategy strongly favored large numbers of long range mobile strike systems to include anti ship cruise missile batteries, mobile rocket artillery systems, unmanned mini submarines.

That's an interesting idea. Mines and robust surface to air missile batteries for air defense. A premium was put on surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for early warning and accurate intelligence to enable quick decisions by policymakers and a more capable command and control system to coordinate the actions of this more dispersed, nimble force. So, again, the good side of bad, we're working on a new strategy so we don't get crushed by China, the bad part of the bad is we still don't have that strategy implemented.

You doubt me? Part three from the piece on a sober note, one of the analysts who note pointed out that blue team force posture tested in the recent Moorgate the blue team is up in the recent war game. Its not the one reflected in current Defense Department spending plans. We're beginning to understand what kind of US military force it's going to take to achieve the national defense strategy's goals, he said. But that's not the force we're planning and building today.

That that that doesn't sound good. Listen, you can be. I don't want to call myself a noninterventionist, but I definitely lean towards a more libertarian approach to global foreign interventions. But preparedness is not a bad thing, preparing. I mean, come on, can we all just get it out of the way? Like obviously a military is of a consensus national interest, right? We get that. But why would we even if we never have to use it, which would be a good thing, why would we prepare for yesterday's war rather than tomorrow's what?

I don't understand the sense in that. So we know what we have to do to hopefully never have to never have to engage in this fight with China over Taiwan. We know that. But we're not doing it, why? Because we're preparing for the land wars of yesterday. It gets even worse. Here's another really incredible piece by Jamie McIntyre in The Washington Examiner. Again, be in my newsletter today, Bongino dot com slash newsletter to access it.

What US war with China about Taiwan would look like. It's not good, folks, it's obviously not good at all, it's why we should act then you're still talking the bad stuff if you got. No, no, no. There's a good or not good, but less bad portion of all this from the Washington Examiner piece. Here's the problem we would have even if we engage in this new strategy, Joe, more nimble, quicker responses in the street, not relying on ports and bases, having access denial ourselves from Taiwan, being able to take out Chinese transportation vessels across the strait, trying to land on Taiwan.

Even if we engage in all that, Beijing can't possibly give up here. This is a great, great analysis from Jamie McIntyre and this examiner piece. He says, quote, Beijing's Beijing's biggest problem is that once it's in a war that it's sold to its citizens is vital. It's on what they call death ground, and politically it can't afford to accept defeat. They must continue to fight, argued this military analyst Hennelly, who said Beijing, lacking a clear victory even if we stop them, would resort to an economic and military blockade of Taiwan.

That because of the island's proximity to China and its thickly forested mountains on its eastern coast away from China, China could maintain indefinitely. Now you see why even the good news is bad news. So if the United States decided to engage in a war with Taiwan to stop the invasion with China and sank nearly every boat trying to cross the straight from China into Taiwan, Taiwan could very easily engage in an economic military blockade and starve Taiwan to death at relatively little cost to them in great cost us if we were defending them.

My gosh, it's Friday. Is there good news again? There's never really good news, but there's less bad news. And the good angle to this is the Chinese Communist Party, which tortures and imprisons its citizens, which sterilizes wiggers and imprisons them in concentration camps. It's the largest surveillance state in the world and tries to intimidate all its enemies. They're going broke. Kind of hard to invade Taiwan when you may have a hard time feeding your population in the future.

No, no, seriously. Wall Street Journal Joseph Sternbergh today, power of Profits, Beijing's Pension Dilemma. The Chinese badly need places to invest savings, but the necessary reforms endanger the party's rather complicated title and not so much, but. The point of the story and I'll show you a screenshot from it in a second, which matters is China's going broke. Because China is living in a demographic time bomb. The communists in China who are really not that bright, but also to be a communist, you can't be that bright.

And that's the whole part of being a communist. You're kind of stupid. That's why you're a communist. Didn't really figure out that a one child policy, you know, that one child you're allowed to have one kid or which is really grotesque human torture on a mass scale, the extermination of life and forced abortions because you're allowed to have one child in China. They didn't really figure out that China's one child policy would lead to a demographic time bomb where their older population, they can't work anymore, needs to be supported by the income and productivity of a younger population.

The math doesn't work out because you don't have a younger population because you were only allowed to have one kid.

Right. Yeah, I know you think it's right, me, too, because you and I are taking like. With someone at the table when these communists thought of this and saying, like me and Joe just said, like, that doesn't really sound like a good idea, that kind of sounds really, really immoral, obviously, but it sounds mathematically kind of dumb. You've got a bunch of older people who can't work anymore after a certain age, they need younger people in a growing economy to work and support them because they can't they can't go tell a field, you know, skills diminish as you get older.

Yeah, I got a good idea. Let's wipe out our younger population by instituting an immoral, unethical, sinful one child policy. And no one at the table said, I object or like Tom Cruise in a few good men. I strenuously object. No, no one thought this was a bad idea. You want to see a little more about the demographic time bomb? Quote from the Sternbergh piece, Why is Beijing having a pension problem, because they don't have a choice.

It's now a truism that China will grow. Don't ever forget this line, that China will grow old before it grows rich. Write that down, tattoo it on your brain. Pretty hard to invade Taiwan when you grow old before you ever get rich enough to do it. The pension system where that abstraction becomes a reality has this elderly dependency ratio, right? This is an important number. The number of people over sixty five per one hundred people aged 15 to 64 is approaching developed country levels at 17 and rising.

It's twenty five in the US compared with India's nine point eight, Vietnam's eleven point four. What does that mean? Quick translation. China's getting old. You may say, well, then the United States is higher in that ratio. Yeah, but here's the difference. China's per capita income, a proxy for the resources for which these workers can support those older retirees, is only one six to one fourth the level of a developed country like ours, folks, they didn't get rich quick enough to support their older and dying population.

Again, that makes it very difficult to plan a global thermonuclear war and global domination. They are going broke start. Haven't done the flip through in a while. All right, let me get to my last sponsor and tell you what's on the other side of this break here, I got a lot of questions about podcasting. I just thought this was an interesting piece to kind of close on a Friday. Joe gets them all the time to give. You'll have to.

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My answer is. Yeah, I have some advice. It's really, really, really hard. So I saw this article as my little change of direction for my show. We usually focus, obviously, on politics.

But there was this article at Amplify Media will be in my newsletter today again.

But you know that newsletter, if you're thinking about it and I'm not telling, you know you know, Joe and I a long time ago, people ask me why I got into it. The answer is I read an article on a weekend. I had lost an election. It was really difficult. And I wanted to stay involved and I wanted to be an activist. And there were no radio shows available for me at the time. I was doing a lot of guest hosting and I read an article about six years ago or so about how these younger kids were not listening much to the car radios anymore.

What they were doing is they were just either Bluetooth thing or hard connecting in their phones to the car radio and then listening over the speakers to podcasts. And I thought iPod can remember six years ago, iPod. Everybody knew a podcast were, but it wasn't a phenomenon.

It is now. So I called Armacost. I'm like, anybody you want to do a podcast with me? I was like, Yeah, whatever, man. Let's try it out. That's really how it started. It was no more complicated than that. I mean, it would cost me about ten thousand bucks to buy equipment. Joe and I did it in this little closet in my basement, as I told you earlier in the week. But people say to me, how hard is it?

So if you read this article, you'll see this screenshot and they talk about this thing called getting on the shelf, basically the shelf space for podcast, which is a kind of fancy industry lingo term for. How much stuff are people going to listen to a week and how do you make sure your show is part of it? He says, let's stick with simple math, this is a quote from the piece, there are roughly two million podcasts out there in podcast land and the average weekly listener has room for five on, let's say, their podcast.

So they'll listen to it. This is what their research says. The tyranny of a podcast getting on to that shelf is brutal and staying there with so many great choices is equally challenging. Smart phones are loaded with great intentions of downloaded podcasts, sadly, that are never listened to. Going forward, he says, the challenge for a podcast is being good enough to get on the individual's shelf through a combination of really good content, differentiation, differentiation, findability and awareness.

So there's some research in here that shows that people will listen to really no more than five shows. In a week and eight episodes, not eight episodes each, eight episodes total. So if you're one of their five shows and you're getting all five, you're doing pretty good. People are listening in Monday through Friday. More likely, people listen to five shows and they listen to two of one, too, of another one or the other. You get it.

How do you get on the shelf? Five shows and eight episodes out of millions? He says getting space on the shelf isn't easy. I say that just to give you an idea and perspective, because I do get a lot of phone calls on this. How hard is it? The answer is really hard and it's why. Just a sincere. Honest, heartfelt Segway here, I want to thank you. Our listeners and viewers, you are awesome and the fact that on your shelf space you have chosen our show, Joe Paula GI Drew helped this out for a while.

Everyone has been involved. I'm really I can't thank you enough. It is truly an honor that you have chosen us as one of your five shows and eight episodes a week, and we hope to never let you down. We put a lot of work into this. A lot. Even in these really pretty dreadful news cycles, which I agree with you, I agree, I know it's tough. We all miss Trump. Me too. One more note on this.

You'll see in the show host Axios, the pandemic sped the shift to digital media. So the bad news is it's hard to get onto people's shelves. The good news is if you read this Axios article in the show notes, digital products are growing like crazy digital products, while radio and linear linear TV. In other words, cable news. You're struggling a little bit, so I was going to. All right, I told you I'd read this comment from yesterday's show.

I saw this on one of our platforms. It was quite hilarious. So I yesterday I discussed the movie WarGames from the 80s. Shall we play a game where I did the computer voice? If you see the movie, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, you probably think, what was that horrible digitized voice and just tried to sneak in the show. So this was a comment from the show. At first I thought this guy was serious.

I don't know why I'm as a little foggy when I read it. I fell asleep on my couch.

He says, Dan, I'm surprised that you did you say and use a computer accent. I think that's insulting to all computers and devices that use an operating system that is not technologically correct. Yes, I hope you'll be more careful in the future. Dude, I didn't put your name up because you didn't give us permission or where you posted. Very nice. Very nice. That was definitely offensive. One hundred percent. We will never do that again.

The PC police. I'm sure that computers and technology devices that don't have a cleaner Siri type voice are really going to be. We'll probably get canceled tomorrow. Well done. Listen, I did not make that up. That's an actual comment, not a joke. All right, it is Friday going to wrap the show up here, but I wanted to read you a quick quote. I was on Hannity last night and I was on with Geraldo, who thankfully is not running for Senate from Ohio.

I was like as a Republican, maybe he's a Democrat, but as a Republican. So that's good news. But I was on last night and the topic of cancel culture came up and it came up in the context of this story. About a school I discussed yesterday on the show called Grace Church School that is now banning the word mom and dad, you're supposed to use folks instead. It's just, you know, it's insane. And I said on Sean show last night that this is a deliberate plan.

Now, people like the administrators of Grace School are really largely useful. Idiots are not part of some global cabal. They're just not smart enough to figure out they're being used as useful idiots. But it is a leftist plan. Don't mistake it to control the language, because when you control the language and you ban the term mom or dad or Merry Christmas or whatever it is. When you control the language, you control everything, the debates over how can you debate the benefits of faith if you're not even allowed to use the word Christmas without being called the racist or a bigot, I'm serious.

It's a serious question. There's a reason the left does this, the organized left understands if they control the language, the fights over reminds me of an old expression about Brazilian jujitsu. He who controls the hips controls the fight. Well, he who controls the language, oh, my gosh, he just said he natsheh he who controls the language, controls the fight, fights over before it starts. So I was reminded of a great quote by since past freedom fighter Solzhenitsyn, who I've spoken about his books often The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle, just tremendous books about dissidents who fought for freedom in the Soviet Union under penalty of torture, death, bankruptcy, starvation.

Here's a quote I'm going to leave you with on this Friday. The simple step of a courageous individual. Is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. Don't take part in a lie. No matter what. Just don't do it. Don't take part in the lie, you'll regret it the rest of your life. I say that to all those parents out there stuck and surrounded by these liberal tyrants trying to indoctrinate their kids, just don't take part in a lie because it is a lie.

Hey, thanks for tuning in. You know, I know the news is not popping lately, and I do sincerely appreciate your loyalty. It's why I read that story at the end. It matters a lot that we're on your show. So thanks a lot. I will see you all on Monday. Please follow us. Our video show, you can watch that video on immigration in the beginning at Rumball Dotcom Bongino. It's free. Go check that out.

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