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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. Yeah, big announcement today. Big, huge, enormous, tremendous announcements out. Enough adjectives there for the announcement, the announcement side of the space. But it is it's a big announcement that really tremendous honor. Some of you probably know.

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Get to that in a second. Big, packed, loaded show today, like a seven layer sandwich. You got to crunch to get in your mouth. I got that. Ron DeSantis strikes again. Strikes again. The fantastic governor of Florida got that story. And kind of a quiet attack in a Second Amendment. Florida and the media never, ever letting a crisis go to waste today. Show by Express VPN. Thousands of my listeners have already secured their Internet and kept their online activity free from prying eyeballs.

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All right Joe let's go write it in.

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Yes the Rush Limbaugh bell in honor of the late great Rush Limbaugh. So my big announcement. Let me just say before I get to it, I am not. Replacing Rush Limbaugh? Well, I probably just gave away with the big announcement is I will be taking over the 12:00 noon Eastern time, 2:00, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Time block on many of your radio stations around the country. But out of respect for a legend, The Godfather. Brush, not just again, not the best player in the talkradio game for 30 years, not simply that this is a man who invented the national conservative talk radio game.

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Do you understand that he wasn't just the the the the Willie Mays or the Ty Cobb of his era. He invented the baseball game, as I've said many times. No one replaces that, no one replaces an icon like that. I will be. Taking over in that spot for, again, many of the stations across the country, it is an. Enormous. I don't even know if enormous is enormous enough of a word to describe to you what kind of an honor it is.

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Folks, I grew up on talk radio. I'm a conservative leaning, libertarian, libertarian leaning conservative. However, you want to phrase that today, because my thoughts and my ideas were largely formed by people like Rush Sean on the radio and the great one, Mark Levin, who's called the great one for a reason, who I'll note was offered the spot repeatedly again, because he's the great one. I just hope to be the good one Monday. But I am where I am because of them now, a couple notes on this again, folks.

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This is the honor of a lifetime. I grew up on talk radio. I'm not it would be like growing up again watching Mickey Mantle and Centerfield. And then one day they hand you a glove and I put me in coach. Remember that song, Joe? Remember that one? Janet who sang that? Was that John Fogerty?

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Because I always screw that CCR John Fogerty totally guessing that I can't believe that's even right. I'm probably wrong. Joe is probably just being nice to me. But then they give Joe a baseball mitt and they're like, Hey man, the mic is out today. You want to play center? And you're like, sure, whatever man put me in. It's really a I hope I get the honor of a lifetime. And there is just to be crystal clear, again, there's no replacing Rush.

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I just hope to honor his legacy and produce a quality. A quality product. Sorry, man, I think it's a little money. I can't believe this is even happening, you know, a quality product that you all enjoy. And I hope to build the same audience loyalty we built here on the podcast, on terrestrial radio. So a couple of questions I've received already from listeners who read about it yesterday. What's going to happen to the podcast?

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And the answer is absolutely nothing. The podcast is staying the same. Nothing changes where you get it doesn't change. When I say nothing changes, I mean nothing changes. The podcast you have now is going to be the exact same podcast when the show launches. OK, so I. I appreciate your loyalty. Again, it was a subject. Of course, it's always addressed. Are we going to continue to do the podcast or not? I'm not going anywhere on my podcast.

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You'll have this and then you'll have me for three hours live every day on your local station. But this is not changing. Joe and I will just be working a lot more. Yeah, which is OK with me. I'm a capitalist, Joe. I'm we're going to have to get him on like a fitness regimen to get ready for this. Like a brain fitness to keep up with you. Of course. I love Joe. I'm just kidding.

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I just wish we are. We have Joe. I'd say that because Joe and I have talked about this is going to be long that when does it start? Question number two, May twenty fourth of this year, obviously May twenty fourth. And then the third question, where do I listen. The great Paula Bongino, my business manager, also my wife, you know, business manager with benefits. Is there a movie. I was friends with benefits.

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Right, but you get it. Yeah. Love my wife. She will put a station finder on Bongino Dotcom, my website, as as we get closer to the date we will be on in most of your big city areas and hopefully most of the stations. And if not, call your local station if you if you so desire and ask him. All right, that's my announcement. Flawed. Shocked? Well, honored. Nothing wrong with being the good one either man, you know, that's the Goodwins cool, neither good ones that you know there will be and there'll never be another great one.

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But the good one, you're go with that. And I did get one more question from a quite a few friends of mine know Joe heard this, too, is a lot of friends of ours in the business have said, you know, oh, my gosh, you don't want to be. What was it? Sammy Hagar? You know, Sammy Hagar replaced David Lee Roth. Oh, yeah, folks, that's the chance you take. Chance you take is that you believe in what you're doing, you believe the truth carries the day, you believe the way you deliver it matters.

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You believe in a loyal audience that's going to follow you. And I'm a risk taker. Always have been. There is a huge risk in following an iconic Godfather talent like Rush Limbaugh. But I just hope to honor his legacy. I'm leaving it at that I'm a risk taker. Always have it. All right, get to the news because there is a lot going on. Never, ever let a crisis go to waste. The Democrats, you know, the thread on the sweater where you unravel the whole story, that the Democrats are like this.

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They're not even pulling the thread. They're like this at this point, you know, like a tug of war. They do that on Fox over the Marines versus like the Navy and a tug of war. They're just unraveling this sweater completely. The Democrats. I'm not kidding because they can't. They can't just have the country melting down. It has to melt down for them at rapid speed. It's like the rate of change of the meltdown. They have to speed that up a little bit so they never, ever let a crisis go to waste.

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So what's the latest crisis the Democrats have had to take advantage of? Well, they have to create a race crisis out of everything Fox News story will have up in my newsletter. Bunji dot com, a newsletter please subscribe to that is free FOX News Democrats rushed to blame, quote, white supremacy for the Atlanta shootings. But police point to sex addiction. Robert Aaron Long, the 21 year old suspect, was reportedly motivated by a sex addiction. Now, I appeared on Sean Hannity's show last night and I discussed this, I want to tell you, because it's important why they're doing this, the why matters.

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Why do the Democrats there's no evidence right now whatsoever that this this suspect's activities were in any way related to white supremacy at all? No, none. None. If there's no effort, there may be. There isn't now. OK, so why would Democrats rush in front of the cameras to claim that guy who did that really awful thing over there? That guy is definitely motivated by white supremacy because as I can as I said last night, I'll tell you again, because it matters the way always matters.

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We haven't said that in a while, Joe. The why matters liberal radical Democrats in their efforts to destroy freedom and the constitutional republic, the Marxists, their initial way of doing it decades ago when the Soviet Union was still in existence or their initial way to try to do it was to create class warfare.

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Yes, they still do it now, but it was to say those evil rich people, they're eating you guys alive and the proletariat, you working class losers, you're getting destroyed by these greedy, greedy, wealthy folks. They are the worse. It was their way to create societal strife, take down freedom and liberty in the society. We do have this revolution, this communist Marxist revolution, where, of course, they'd be in charge. Well, what happened?

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Well, the long and short of it is that never really worked here.

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Don't get me wrong, the Democrats still try it. Class warfare is one of their staple items, right? One of the pillars of their their war on America house. Right. But ask yourself why the way always matters. Why did the class warfare struggle not really have the success they thought it would? After decades of trying?

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Because, folks, it's hard to make that argument in the United States because there are examples everywhere your kids, your friends, your neighbors, your friends, friends of people who just worked really hard and are living a decent life.

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So when liberals over decades and decades and decades who were Marxists tried to tell you all these evil rich people are destroying your life, they're taking everything from you, but you're looking around and you see tons of examples of your kids, your neighbors, whatever your friends getting ahead just by doing this simple formula, go to school, educate yourself, do well in school, work pretty hard and live a decent life. Do you understand how that argument kind of collapsed?

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Why does that matter now? Because the Y always matters, you're never going to be able to beat the Democrats strategically if you understand why they do it, that that didn't work, made them switch strategies. OK, guys, let's suggesting there was like an anti Justice League cabal of people who do what they just know this is their ideology. It's what motivates them. They probably sat around at their collective tables and said, hey, this class warfare struggle thing isn't working.

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Let's try something else. I've got an idea. Let's try this race struggle thing and let's make everything about white versus black, black versus Asian, Asian versus Hispanic. That's the way to do it. And let me tell you something. Pulling on that thread, so here was the class warfare. They're pulling and pulling the threads, fighting back a little bit, the sweater still together. So they're like, all right, this is too tough. How do we how do we dismantle this sweater?

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Faster race. Let's race. Let's stick everybody against you. There you go. The sweaters falling apart. It's happening right now. That is absolutely why the Democrats will always jump to a conclusion about something being white supremacy, a racially motivated, despite having no evidence at all, and despite the fact that it may stoke racial flames in the country. And you would think that would be a bad thing. Here's a screenshot from the Fox News piece of prominent Democrats with real profiles, again, trying to pin this really sick, grotesque attack on white supremacy despite having no evidence.

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That's actually true. Here's the dreadful Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I'm embarrassed to say she's from Florida. She says last night's gruesome shootings were the latest in a series of horrifying and escalating attacks on the AAPI community. We must continue to stand against white supremacy and work to stop Asian hate. Our words and actions matter, and xenophobia cannot be ignored any longer. White supremacy. She knows something. We haven't heard that yet. The police have his Corey Bush, newly elected congresswoman.

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She says at the end, we mourn those killed last night in Atlanta with you, we will dismantle white supremacy alongside you. Fascinating. Again, she must have access to some investigative detective work we don't have. Jamal Brown, newly elected congressman from New York. Too many police in our country are more concerned with protecting white supremacy than serving the communities that pay their salaries. There's a bit of a problem here. The problem is, no one who has any access to the investigation of this tragic shooting has said it was motivated by white supremacy like nobody.

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Actual investigators who were there. That's kind of a problem for your white supremacy motive when nobody's actually said that. Matter of fact, I'll continue with the Fox News piece. Here's a quote. Robert Ouran Long, the twenty one year old who authorities said took responsibility for the string of shootings Tuesday that left eight people dead, reportedly confessed that he has a, quote, sex addiction and that he viewed the massage parlors, that they were attacked as an outlet for him where he could be tempted.

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Quote, This is from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office Captain Jay Baker. Quote, He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. Where are the fact checkers on this, just checking. Can we have a moment of national unity once I know that's a lot to ask, but a moment of national unity once we're like us, this sounds really horrific. What happened?

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Maybe we should all unite. Get to the bottom of this. Figure out what happened again to try to prevent these things from happening again. Democrats like, let's not do any of that. Let's jump to racial hatred immediately stoke the flames of the fire despite having any evidence whatsoever. Again, I see nothing from the fact checkers. You know, the fact checkers that stalk my site like lunatics all day on on Facebook to fact check everything out of my mouth.

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Where are the fact checkers on this one? Just asking. The answer is nowhere to be found. Also, where are the journalists who show you remember every time Trump opened his mouth, journalists would cite that without evidence? Remember this? Trump says without evidence, yes. Everything didn't matter what Trump said. If Donald Trump said his name was Donald Trump, they'd say Donald Trump, without evidence, claims his name is Donald Trump. Yeah, where's the where is the.

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Without evidence here. Where is the quarry bush, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jamal Brown, without evidence, imply shooter was motivated by, quote, white supremacy. Where is that guy? Was kind enough to pull this off the Internet. This was a search engine where I just put literally Trump without evidence. Here's just a couple of them. Trump repeats voting fraud claims without evidence. Trump without evidence, says if you count the legal votes, here's another one.

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Trump claims without evidence that millions voted illegally. Where's that now? Where where is where? Where is it? Where's that now? Where's that now? The answer is it's nowhere because the Democrats again threatened sweater, speed it up, no, no, no sweater left. It's not just the media, it's also commentators again, folks point stipulated because we're saying that this is a. An unimaginable tragedy, people died, they were murdered. People were killed.

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Can we just unite around like what happened? To maybe, again, prevent something like this in the future, can we just do that for a minute? Without taking the story somewhere it doesn't need to be and by the way, if it does go there, they do some homework on this guy, the Cherokee Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and outside of Atlanta, Georgia, comes to the conclusion was motivated by white supremacy. We will hit it on this show Stad.

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Because facts matter. But that's we don't have any of that now. Here's a quick video of a CNN appearance, this is Lisa Ling, and again, it's a tragedy. She has every right to be upset about it. Of course, everyone should be. But again, notice the implication here that this is motivated by some widespread and the Asian bias and the implication, again, about Trump and others. Can we just stick to the facts for once?

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Check this out.

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After this attack on the massage parlor, I saw people posting messages about solidarity and about standing up for Asian people. But how many people have to die for for this to really be taken seriously, for there to be more than lip service? I mean, there is real fear among Asian people about going outside of their own homes right now. Asian people are being scapegoated like they have for a century in this country. And and this has to stop. This has to stop.

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We cannot be continued to be scapegoated. And this is, frankly, a pattern of scapegoating that happens in this country. Yesterday, it was Muslim and Southeast Asian people. After 9/11, when there's an economic downturn, it's the Latin population. You know, it's always the black community being scapegoated for so many things. During the Cold War, it was gay people. This scapegoating of entire populations has to stop in this country.

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I don't even know what to say about that. Scapegoating blacks, Muslims, gay people. What we don't have any evidence that's actually what happened. We have evidence of an, again, unimaginable tragedy. Families lost, loved ones are gone forever, not another breath of oxygen. But what what does that have to do with this? Why are we always doing this? Why are we always eager to again partition the country up into our racial corners and pit everyone against one another when you have no evidence that was a motivation behind this crime?

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Here's another one, here's Jen Psaki. At the White House press briefing yesterday. Again, implying that Donald Trump citing that the coronavirus, which came from China, that's just a fact, Wuhan, China, implying here that this is what was behind this whole thing because again, they can't just stick to facts and say, let's get together with our Republican brothers and sisters and find out what happened in this case. And let's clean this mess up and make sure it doesn't happen again.

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No, there's none of that instantly make it a political argument. Why circling back and circling back to the beginning. Because their class warfare arguments just don't work that well in the United States, so they figure the quickest way to unravel the sweater. It's new race warfare arguments. Here's Jen Psaki implying that this was Trump who did this. Check this out.

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You know, I think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration, blaming, calling covid, the woman virus or other things led to, you know, perceptions of the Asian-American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have raised threatening and has elevated threats against Asian-Americans. And we're seeing that around the country. That's why even before the events of horrific events of last night, he felt it was important to raise this issue, elevate it during his first primetime address, why he signed the executive order earlier in his presidency.

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And he will continue to look for ways to elevate and talk about this issue.

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What does the coronavirus from Wuhan, China? Have to do with any of this. With any of this, the answer is nothing, she just made that up. She just made that up, randomly, made it up. You know, it's interesting how we have the South African variant of coronavirus that's called the South African variant. And yet when something happens in the United States to someone from South Africa, nobody goes, oh, my gosh, President Trump called it the South African very like, damn, that's dumb.

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It's no dumber than what you just said. You have no evidence whatsoever that these two things are related, the pandemic and this this crime, the series of crimes, none. She just made it up to five people in the corner get them to fight one another. It's all Democrats have. All right, let me get to my second sponsor on the other side of this, I want to address the big question here. Well, where are they learning this garbage?

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Where? And it relates to my Rhonda Santos to the rescue story, again, Iran does not assassinate its out of respect, somewhat mistyped as they want to. And again, I get a kick out of it every morning, as a matter of fact, and I say it so much I'm afraid of to say this ever comes on the show. I mistakenly get a call from Ron. That's not as I would not do that. You know, we did try to get him on the show.

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Ron, if you're listening, I texted him. I don't know if he changed his phone number or he's just ignoring me like everyone else does, but we didn't hear anything back. I want you on the show. You're the man. We are the man right now. All right. So you like that picture, Borghese? Try to get him on on the blower to we need a mano. I'd like to start at reinstituting the interview segment of the show.

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Don't wait. Superimportant. All right. So again, where are they learning all this crap? Racial strife, teaching racial strife, teaching people to hate each other because of their skin color, teaching other people that their skin color is dispositive in their outcomes in life? Well, they're learning this in school.

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Please listen to yesterday's show where we discussed the story out of Loudon County, Virginia, which was deeply disturbing. Jeden like the story so much during the show, but I did. Parents are revolting in Virginia, I discussed that yesterday because their kids are being pumped full of this thing called critical race theory, let me sum up critical race theory for you, what it is and how dangerous it is. First, I'll give you the fancy pants, bow tie wearing, you know, love, high, high class, high class, elitist definition.

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What they want you to think it means critical race theory is this radical left this idea that knowledge is a construct of power, that the white male patriarchy. And the institutions they create. Create knowledge through their power, and therefore they should everything should be questioned, including even math, like two plus two equals four. I'm not kidding. That's not a joke. Put in critical race theory, math, critical race theory two plus two equals four if you think I'm kidding.

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The easier way to say that is that don't trust old white guys, that is that it shows that kind of sums it up, critical race there. And it's pretty much of it rather than the whole. Thank you. I'm just trying to, like, make this simple for the liberals who listen, who don't even understand critical race theory themselves. And the gist of it is don't trust people because of the color of their skin, which I thought was racist.

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I'm pretty sure it still is. But liberals seem to have changed. That whole thing is they divide people up.

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Parents are fighting back, including, as I discussed yesterday in Virginia, but so are some governors. Rhonda Satis to the rescue again. Here he is. I love this guy. Just the news story.

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It'll be in my newsletter again for you to read. Read the whole thing by Alex in Pittsburgh.

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Florida Governor Rhonda said this says state civics curriculum will not include critical race theory.

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Yes, let me be clear. He said there's no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money. The senator said. I love this guy. I love this guy. Can we get a little Ron decent, this doll? Can someone some of you guys clapping, Joe's clapping or can someone out there send a little Ron to Santa? We got all our we got our again, my man cat turd.

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We got my cat turd bug here. We got all kinds of stuff people send got out to the general watch. I got everything. Fox sent me a mug. We got I got that one too. Can we get around this. Maybe around the set. This mug. I'm kidding. Don't send because now I'll get you know how people say stuff like well get yes we will get one hundred Ron to say this but I love Ron. We need people with connotates cojones.

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He is in a basically fifty fifty leaning red state and he's incredibly popular because he takes common sense stands. We're not going to shut down our economy before a pandemic because people will starve. And I'm not going to teach my kids or allow other people's kids to be so be taught with with taxpayer money, critical race theory that teaches them to hate themselves because of the color of their skin. Good job, buddy. Where were the other Ron? This is what's the plural of Rhonda Santurce.

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Rhonda Zanti. Where are the other Rhonda Santae around the country? What's Larry Hogan doing in Maryland? Probably nothing. He's a big rhino. What are these other Republican governors around the country doing? I know Joe stuck with them up in Maryland. Sorry about that. Thankfully, it's his last term. What are they doing? Why aren't they going after this stuff? I thought you were Republicans. Why is it only the Santas out there? I take that back, it's not only the Santurce big, huge error, Kristi Noem is doing a great job.

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I've seen some movement from Abbott, although some there are others. I want to be very precise with my words. Kristi Noem has been doing great to. But right now, Disano, this is my guy, Ron, again, you got to come on the show, you've got to text me. You got my number. Come on.

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You do know he knows my numbers somewhere, maybe when you I don't know how it works when you become governor, a three year old cell phone, maybe if he didn't, if if that's not his number, Joe, some rando got a text from me the other day asking to appear in the Bongino is a real clear pitch dude, you know.

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There you go. Can you imagine that? Yeah, I know. I know. I can't get any clearer than that. I want the guy on my show. He's great. And the audience feedback I think would be spectacular. I'd be a great way to reintroduce the interview segment.

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All right. Moving on, next block of the show here. The Bongino rule applies again. What is the Bongino rule for my new listeners? We're going to have to describe this vocabulary to my new terrestrial radio audience who is not familiar with the podcast. So it'll be a little bit of a break in period. The Bungeni rule is is always wait 72 hours before an anti Trump story is published because you're almost guaranteed that that story is, in fact, fake news.

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And if you don't want to humiliate yourself and publish it right away because you will be forced to retract it, just wait to prescribe. Dan Bongino, 72 hour window. And at the end, if the story still has some meat and bones to it, you may be safe. Maybe even that's a stretch. But I'm giving you the minimum 72 hours. So what did we get? What am I talking about now? Well. I told you a while ago.

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That I had heard from a source, a serious source, this is someone with a well respected, media savvy bona fides, unchallengeable, an unimpeachable. That I had heard from someone, I don't have the details, I'm sorry, by the way, I'm not holding out on you again. I'm just telling you what they told me and gave me permission to share with clear. I don't have it. I'm not hiding anything. This person told me that the Hunter Biden laptop and what was on it, of course, the son of President Biden now.

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That what was on it? Was really, really gross and I mean, beyond the implication, there have to be careful what I say for legal reasons because I haven't seen it. But the implication there was by gross, they meant like the stuff we've already seen, the photos of the drug use and the, you know, the material downstairs, his material, that that's nothing compared to what's on this laptop.

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If the implication, again, being that it's. Really? Deeply disturbing that when you see it. You can't unsee it. I'm being very serious. The I have to be careful how much I, I say, because I don't want to jump ahead of the story and be dramatic when that's going to come out. I don't know. I don't have it. If I had the photos, I would obviously release them. I don't have them. I'm just telling you what I know because people.

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Damn, when are you going to break that story? When I get it. Why do I bring that up now? Well, I'm just teasing it to tease it, I'm bringing it up now because it's really weird how the DNI, director of national intelligence under the Biden administration, now has just released this report. And yesterday they were all over the fact that, hey, the Hunter Biden laptop story, Joe, maybe Russian disinformation. I'll show you that in a second.

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All right. Why would they do that? Think this through, everybody. Think, Joe. Come on. Let's get our collective thinking caps on. Put them on. As my fifth grade teacher used to say, Miss Jill Feather, they put your thinking caps on kids. Why would this DNI under Joe Biden release this thing now? Maybe because they know what's on that unabiding laptop and they're trying to get out ahead of the story story, try to get ahead of it.

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And they're going to say now anyone pushing this stuff out there is doing Russia's bidding. You are definitely an agent of Vladimir Putin if you wish you well. What's the problem with that? As you'll see from this story by Beckert Adams in The Washington Examiner. No. A newly declassified report doesn't prove the Hunter Biden laptop laptop story was Russian disinformation. I'm trying to give you the bottom line up front, because I'm going to show you in a few examples of this how when the report came out yesterday, yes, the media was all over it.

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If you push this Hunter Biden laptop story, it is Russian disinfo. No, it wasn't. There's no evidence of that at all. I have this segment entitled Why Do I Always underline it's me, I'm on the line for me, me do it just because it's like habit at this point. That's why I titled this segment In My Head How Disinformation Campaign Start. This is how the left, because fact checkers don't fact check the left. And media people don't say things like without evidence, this is how the left promotes disinformation by claiming what conservatives are doing are disinformation.

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Does that make sense? The left is going to promote a story. If you show the Hunter Biden pictures when they come out that you are doing Russia's bidding, they're going to claim you are promoting Russian disinformation. Right? That story is actually disinformation. Right. I'm very sorry to be confusing. I know you get it, but that's actual disinformation. The left always accuses you of what they're doing themselves. It was a story from yesterday about this same topic by Dan Châtelet, the Washington Examiner headline.

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This is from the DNI report. Russia, quote, heavily amplified Hunter Biden stories during the twenty twenty election U.S. intelligence report. You read the headline. You're like, oh, my gosh, we talk about Hunter Biden. It's Russian disinformation. Yeah, but you dig into the story and Caitlin clears it up.

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He says, quote, Controversy surrounding the son of President Biden became fodder for Republicans and conservative media in the run up to the November contest, a report released on Tuesday by the National Intelligence Council. Does not say any report about Hunter Biden was fabricated by the Kremlin. Did he just say does not say yeah, he just said that, but rather they were spread with the help of a Russian government effort aimed at denigrating Hunter, Biden and the Democratic Party in favor of Donald Trump.

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So it doesn't say anything about the laptop. That's really weird. That's really weird. So there's two takeaways from this I need you to grasp and run with. Number one, they are trying to get out ahead of this this Hunter Biden laptop, which I've heard again from a source, is devastating that they're trying to get out ahead of it. So when you put it out there, they will say you're promoting Russian disinformation, Russian stooge. Secondly, they're trying to tie this DNC report this without evidence, literally without evidence.

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They're trying to tie it to the Hunter Biden laptop, despite the fact the laptop is never mentioned. Here's the actual DNC report from the National Intelligence Council. Russian state media trolls and online proxies, including those directed by Russian intelligence, published disparaging content about President Biden, his family and the Democrat Party and heavily amplified related content circulating in US media, including story centered on his son. You see laptop, 109 laptop anywhere in there now, of course, you know, they're just making that story up.

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That's not in the DNA report, folks, it's not there, they just made it up, and the reason they're putting this story out there is to get ahead of what's coming. And it's going to be bad. By the way, before I get to the tweets that tried to pump this whole talk about the laptop and you're a Russian stooge narrative, it's convenient how this didn't get much attention. Joe actually wrote this one down. Here's a piece of the DNA report.

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Cyber assesses that China did take some steps to try to undermine President Trump's reelection effort, huh?

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I didn't hear anything about that. No, no. Yeah, of course you did, because that would reflect poorly on Joe Biden. So that's kind of weird how that's in the report, too. And that's not getting a lot of media coverage. How China apparently tried to help Joe Biden and undermine President Trump. Yeah, that's in the report, too. But you're not going to really see that anywhere. What you are going to see is things like this, the pumping of disinformation.

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Here's the strategy, how leftist disinformation campaigns work. First, they accuse you of disinformation. They pump the disinformation and then they correct it later when no one's paying attention. Don't believe me. Here's a tweet. I believe this tweet has now been deleted by a Patrick Tucker. He is at Def Tech Pad.

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That's an interesting handle for Twitter, he says, citing this report. In case you're still wondering if the Biden laptop story came from the Kremlin, the DNI is newly reclass. The unclassified report says yes.

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No, it doesn't say that literally anywhere. And what's hilarious is he takes a screenshot of it and it still doesn't say that he's just making this up, this guy. And it doesn't matter because liberals sometimes aren't that bright, which is why sometimes I mean, a lot of times almost all the time. And they spread that around and retweeted on Twitter. No one fact checks it. Twitter doesn't delete it. The media doesn't say without evidence. And then a couple of days later, they delete the tweet and go, my bad, sorry.

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Here was Chris Hayes, who again spread this around to from MSNBC, Chris Hayes, the host that night, Chris Hayes, he had to delete his tweet to that matter, had already made its way around. He said deleted the above tweet because the DNC report doesn't mention the laptop. Thanks, Chris. Thanks. Maybe read the report before you tweet it out. Just throwing that out there. For all you media folks on the left, maybe you should read the report and then comment.

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The verdict is in. That's correct. Read, report first, comment on report later, not comment on report, read, report afterwards. But again, this is how disinformation works. Leftist disinformation accuse Republicans of disinformation. Put out a fake news story, pump it into the wazoo of all of America when the wazoo are full, delete the tweet a few days later and pretend nothing happened. Don't worry, no fact checker. You Twitter won't ban you.

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Nobody. They'll leave you alone. You want another example of this? Here's the dreadful Aaron roupas at Vox Vox with a V, not Fox, I always have to say that because people get confused. Look at this headline again on the pumping disinformation and then wait a few days. And here's this is a real headline at Vox. Republicans revive one of Trump's most notorious immigration lies. This is a Republicans pounce show. This is Republicans revived. Republicans revive one of Trump's most notorious immigration lies.

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They're attacking Biden with fact free claims about terrorists crossing the southern border.

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Oh, hey, Aaron roupas, who's always had a Aaron's always had a difficult time with things like the facts and all writes that article. Liberals believe it. Republicans pounce on the border. You'll never unsee. Republicans pounce when you learn to see these headlines. Republicans revive hit tactic on Biden. There are no terrorists crossing the border. Really. Here's an axios story.

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Just hours later, scoop for people matching terror watch list arrested at the border. Man, that's the Kenny Bell, they're not ringing it, you know what, it's hitting up. That's a little better. You know what it is?

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I got a I got a little thing from a listener that's really cool. It's like a rock stone carveout thing. And the Kenny Bell was brushed up against it. That's kind of weird how Vox and is saying something that Axios refutes just hours later, by the way, Axios no bastion of right wing values, just throwing that out there. Turn the page for I realize who our next sponsor was. All right, Patrick Mobilier, good friends. That's how fake news works, folks spread the fake news like manure on your lawn.

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Wait a few days for it to stink. Then delete the maneuver if you can digitally and pretend like nothing happened. Why do you all the time it's pathetic, all right, and the other side is break. We've got two important stories. We are going to get to one quick story about what's happening in Florida, another attack on the Second Amendment and the lesson. It's not just the Second Amendment important. We know that it's never, ever, ever elect Democrats to any position ever, because they will always do messed up stuff.

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I got to be careful with the rest of your radio. And then I got this tax story quick. And we will end today with a just awesome video from the legendary Tommaseo. All right. Let's get to it today. Show Batebi Friends also at Patriot Moments. All right. I got to start writing more notes on page two, just like I'm taking on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Patriot Mobile is taking on the mobile provider swamp, and they have some spectacular news to share with you.

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Go to Patriot Mobile dot com slash and Patriot mobile dot com slash Dan or call nine seven two Patriot today. All right. So additional evidence why elections matter and I'm not ever giving up on elections ever, you know, again, I'm sorry, some of you who listen to the show were disappointed with my houra attitude of it's annoying to you. I understand. It's not like I don't realize that election integrity is a big deal. We talk about it all the time, but I'm not giving up.

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I'm sorry. Remember? And as you know, a famous quote, an enemy is not vanquished until he considers himself. So if you consider yourself vanquished, that's up to you. I don't I just refuse additional evidence why elections matter, all of them. And why it is not good enough, this is a really big problem on the Republican side to go and vote on Election Day and only vote for the top of the ticket. It happens all the time.

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The phenomenon, even as a name, it's called Rohloff, Rohloff, not Rollan, like a deodorant. People go in, they vote for the president and they don't do anything down ballot and it rolls off 100 percent of people who vote vote for the president, roughly, maybe ninety nine ninety, vote for the Senate race, 80 for the congressional race below that. Sixty five for the state senator, sixty for the state delegate, by the time you get down to the city council, maybe 20 percent of people who showed up to vote vote in that race.

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No good. We have to stop this. You have to vote the entire ballot all the time. And again, Republicans may not be the solution to all your problems. I'm no big fan of the Republican establishment either, but the Democrats are definitely the cause. How does that relate to this attack on the Second Amendment? Read this article by dotcom slash newsletters in my newsletter today. If Republicans want to keep concealed carry permits open after Nicky Friede close them by Renzo Downey, Florida politics.

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Let me tie it all together for you now, Nick Freed is a Democrat. And a liberal one, if that elected statewide in Florida. Which is. Unbelievable how she got elected, so we have a Republican governor, Ron DeSanctis, who you obviously know, we talked about it before, it can be tie this all together, circle and back and circle it back together. Do we have this Republican governor who's spectacular and stuck in his cabinet? There is a Democrat who's a total disaster.

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Why? Because people showed up in the governor's race and voted for the governor and some of them and the Republicans skipped the agriculture race. Department of Agriculture and Nikki Friede wound up winning in a sliver. I covered this race at length at the time because I told you, what was this three years ago when it happened that she got elected. Remember the show, Joe, where we talked about this and we were like, I do. She's going to come after your guns.

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She's a huge Leyb. That's what she's doing now. Well, what happened? Well, she runs the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services statewide elected office, incredibly. And they're using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to basically shut down your ability to get a concealed carry permit. And they're using all kinds of fancy stuff like, well, you can't get fingerprints, so there's going to be delays and we can't refund people money. My buddy Blazin Golia, whose it was a statewide legislators, like, that's crap.

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We're bringing in a new bill and you're going to start opening up concealed carry permits again. Do not elect Democrats, do not Rohloff ever in any spot anywhere. You got to vote down ballot because you get people like Mickey Freed in statewide offices like she has in Florida now who are trying to stomp on the dissent agenda and get in a way of you in your ability to defend yourself. No good. I'm not having it. I'm not having it.

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And neither should you read this story. No more Rohloff, can we make that like a monster of the show? Can we make that show you keeping track of the rules? Right, d'Amboise guided by general rule number four. No, it should be four. Right, OK. I know it's for the other three. I always forget what I to hear. But number four, no more Rohloff. It is our responsibility, mine. The Paula, everyone.

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To show up on Election Day with a sample ballot or whatever, ready to rock and roll. And get everyone down the ticket, because then you get Nicky Freeden office screwing up Florida or trying. Not having it not here. All right, good, we get a little bit of time this last block of the day, but an important one nonetheless. I told you my tax show on was that Tuesday was Tuesday, right. Not a big hit with the audience.

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I was a little surprised. I love economics. I continue to talk about it in the future. It's just my passion because it describes so much. It's not just about. Taxes or. Marginal benefits to work or marginal tax rates or the Laffer Curve or Housers law or anything. It's not just about that. Economics is fascinating because it describes so much more about who we are and what we value. How. Then you don't need to get philosophical.

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I'm not it describes who we are and what we value because economics describes what we're willing to pay for, things we value and. All the talking points in the world and all the emotion in the world are not going to get around the fact that people work hard to obtain money and use that money to purchase things that they value, not that you value that they value. So I love economics. And after I said on yesterday's show, the Tuesday show wasn't a big hit because it was really wonky on taxes and stuff, a whole bunch of people emailed me.

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The good friends of mine, they said then, I love that show. I think you should do more of that once and all. So just giving you the back and forth at your show, I always kind of break down the fourth wall and tell you how the feedback is going. When we hit it, we hit it. Sometimes we don't. I'd like you to listen to it anyway. It's an important show. Why? Because of this.

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Again, in the newsletter today, Democrats will pass a huge tax increase on a party line vote.

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Republicans are warning Susan Frico in The Washington Examiner, what are they going to do while the Democrats are going to try to use reconciliation? Say, reconciliation. That's a that's a budget measure, how are they going to do that to pass through a massive tax increase? You know, the Senate split 50 50 right now, but Kamala Harris would be the tiebreaker, the vice president. If they can do reconciliation and use that process, yes, they will hike your taxes.

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Ladies and gentlemen, is the saying goes, be afraid, be very afraid. This is not a joke. They'd have to get mansion and cinema, too, but I think they'll get them. I don't trust either one of them. They pretend to be moderate Democrats, I don't buy that routine at all. Your estate taxes are going to go up, your corporate taxes are going to go up, your income taxes are going to go up. Now, I got an email from a regular email after the show.

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Since we don't have a caller segment, we will with the new Dan Bongino show, Circle Back Terrestrial Radio 12 to three come and May. Fourth, we will you'll be able to call. But as a substitute for calls on the podcast, I'd like to read audience emails and a guy who emails me often, very smart guy, Ben Ben, as we'll call them. When I discussed the tax hikes coming on Tuesday show email me and I was quite surprised, he was like, Hey, Dan, you know what, I don't care anymore.

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Basically, the gist of it was let these rich people pay more taxes. I get it, I understand your frustration. He's like, I'm done with it, you want to vote in big government people and we should all pay for. It's hard to hard to argue with that logic. And I'll tell you now, having grown up, not that poor, it's not a sob story, but not well off. I think that's pretty fair to say.

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My wife, having grown up very poor, having been middle class by an economic measure for a long time, and now, you know, we do pretty well, thanks to you. Yeah, I can absolutely afford a tax hike, I promise you, it won't affect my lifestyle at all. Dad, you can't say that you're a limited government libertarian, conservative. Yeah, I am. But I believe in facts, I'm just not going to change my life much or they'll take a lot of my money away, I obviously don't support it.

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If you listen to Tuesday show, it's a disaster. But because I can afford it. And people who are a lot wealthier than me can afford it. That doesn't answer the key question and the key question is this, but is a tax hike good for the country? All the other stuff is just emotion. Rich people can if I can afford a lot of things, I can afford a Corvette, I don't have one. I have a Raptor.

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You know, I can afford a Lincoln Navigator, but I, I don't I have a Raptor. What is what is me being able to afford this tax, I have anything to do with the real question, which should be what is a tax hike good for the country? Is it going to grow the economy and make people more prosperous? I thought that was the question. What people can afford or not is totally irrelevant to the real question. Which they're lying about.

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Here's Joe Biden in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, quick video of him reiterating the lie, saying again that people who make over four hundred thousand dollars a year who can afford it, they're the only people who are going to be affected by this tax hike. That's just a lie, which I'm going to prove in a second. And I'll get to Tommaseo. And again, keep in mind, it doesn't matter if they can afford it. What matters is, will it work?

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Here's Joe Biden. Anybody making more than four hundred thousand dollars will see a small to a significant tax increase. If you make less than four hundred thousand dollars, you won't see one single penny in additional federal tax.

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All right. There's Biden again repeating the lie that only people who make four hundred thousand dollars will have their taxes raised. But here's Jen Psaki being asked that the White House press conference yesterday to clarify that. And Jen Psaki is now admitting that it's not only people who make four hundred thousand dollars. If you make two hundred thousand dollars, this will, in fact hit you, too, if you're in a family that makes four hundred thousand dollars. But that's not what Biden said.

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They can't even keep their story straight. Check this out.

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It depends on how much money you make. Are you a billionaire? Then you may pay more in taxes than someone making, you know, family making four. Twenty five. You know, there's going to be a range in any tax proposal. He talked about this on the campaign trail and his he talked about it during this interview last night, in part because it's on his mind about how to ensure people are paying their fair share and that we are looking for revenue funds to continue to build back better.

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But I don't have a timeline for you. And when you'll hear more, it's just something that he has long had a commitment to. And I expect in the coming months or sooner than that, you'll hear more about his next stages of his agenda. But this is certainly part of what's on his mind and what he would like to work with Congress on notice how she doesn't answer the question.

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The question was asked specifically about, well. Biden specifically said, if you make four hundred thousand dollars or less, your taxes will not go up, but that's not true. If you make two hundred thousand and your wife makes two hundred thousand or your husband, then, yes, your taxes will go up. Now I get it, I get it, you're going to email me. So what a family makes four hundred thousand, they're really wealthy. They can afford to pay it.

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That's not the point. The point is, does it work? Now, what you'll see is you'll see Biden shortly guaranteed market marked the time and the date. You will see Joe Biden say, ladies and gentlemen, trickle down economics has never worked. They always go back to this talking point when they want to hike taxes on wealthy people again with no consideration if it actually works or not, to produce prosperity. They don't care. They just want to punish rich people because that's what they do.

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And they'll say trickle down economics has never worked. Biden will do it just like Obama did it when he pushed through his tax hike. What's the problem with trickle down economics, Joe? No. So, Joe, don't say anything. Get to show what's the problem? What's the problem? Trickle down economics. He does not put him on the spot. They did that on purpose. The problem with trickle down economics, ladies and gentlemen, is it's fake.

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There's no such thing as point Thomas sole legendary economist, has made repeatedly. Obama and Biden will cite trickle down economics doesn't give the rich tax cuts. That's crazy. We got to hike their taxes because when you give them tax cuts and you say it's going to trickle down, that doesn't work. There is no such theory of economics called trickle down. If none. Do you understand that Thomas Sowell has this as had this ongoing bet with America? What do you say he will like?

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He has challenged any economist to produce the theory of trickle down economics and no one can do it. Watch this segment. This is absolutely terrific. Here's Tom Edsall being interviewed about Obama's tax hikes. When Obama said what Biden's going to say, trickle down economics doesn't work. Check this out.

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President Obama in December of last year, the market will take care of everything they tell us. Jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everyone else. In April of this year, during the Bush years, the wealthy got wealthier. But prosperity didn't trickle down in July this past summer. Barack Obama, we've tried it their way. It didn't work. We were told that prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down, close quote.

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Where does this trickle? Where does this phrase trickle down come from? Oh, I don't know. It was as far back as the as the first as the Roosevelt administration. There is absolutely it is an incredible thing. It's there is a non-existent theory that is constantly being attacked. Some years ago in my newspaper column, I challenge anybody to cite any economist outside of an insane asylum who had ever made that argument. Nobody ever came up with a single person.

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So when Barack Obama says in this past July, quote, we were told that prosperity Mutola nobody told him. Nobody, no economist has ever held. No politician has ever said it. I don't know of anybody who's ever said it. In fact, when I put this out and I went out a nationally syndicated column, various people wrote me and said, well, so-and-so said that, so-and-so said it, but find me the person who said it. I don't want to hear how you said that BS to find me B and show me where he said it.

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And that was years ago. Not one example has been offered.

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I'm here to help, folks, when Joe Biden and his Democrat liberal lieutenants start pushing this tax hike and they start saying what Obama did, that trickle down economics doesn't work. What's your first question? Again, I'm here to help by giving you the great Thomas Tommaseo. Your first question. B, can you show me the economic theory of trickle down economics like me, the economic literature.

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I'll wait. I just watch them or or watch them crash and burn.

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There's no such theory. It's made up. It's fake. There's no such theory of trickle down economics. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. And again, what an incredible, unbelievable honor to be coming to a radio near you, May 24th, 12th, the 3:00 Eastern time, noon to three. I will keep you updated and please subscribe to my video. So nothing's happening. The podcast, it's not changing or follow my video show, whatever word works for you.

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