Doomerslop

The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino opens by condemning internal MAGA 'doomer' narratives urging supporters not to vote, framing them as coordinated subversion efforts akin to Soviet psychological operations. He

Key takeaways

• Bongino accuses 'Folex MAGA' influencers of being foreign-funded grifters using an 'extinction burst' tactic to suppress voter turnout ahead of the midterms.
• A clip from Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov is used to explain the 'better red than dead' subversion strategy aimed at destroying American conservatism from within.

Main topics

• Internal MAGA infighting and anti-vote narratives
• Foreign psychological subversion and Soviet tactics

Notable quotes

"Better Red than Dead. That's the ultimate purpose, the final stage of subversion..."

Conclusion

The episode serves as a mobilization directive for conservative audiences, blending economic rebuttals

Transcript preview

Speaker 8 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 1 (0:10) Yeah, get ready for it. Maybe we should start calling Fridays like Flamethrower Friday on the Dan Bongino Show. This may be one of those shows. Folks, it's for a reason. I promise you. You know, you know deep in your soul, down to your DNA. Speaker 1 (0:28) That I've said for years and years and years, like especially in that 30 to 60 day critical pre-election window, that what is perceived as Republican on Republican, what I would call political violence, not actual violence, but in some cases, maybe sadly, political violence is so completely counterproductive. It's why I've limited. Speaker 1 (0:55) the name calling because then it becomes about personalities and not about an issue. However, folks, this is now unavoidable. You now have people pretending again to be in our movement. You can Speaker 3 (1:09) be in whatever movement you want. It's a free republic. But we have a movement. It's called the MAGA movement. And you have people who've secreted themselves inside a movement now actively telling people not to vote. Speaker 1 (1:23) I know. No, we can't do it. I'm going to describe to you generally the contours of what's happening right now, what I know is happening right now, what's happening to the entire Trump administration and how you need to overcome this and just drown out the noise. Speaker 3 (1:42) We've all been through this before. We've been through it in primaries. I could Speaker 1 (1:47) argue with you, though, that was actual Republicans who just wanted a position of power and someone was in their way. What you're seeing now is not. A lot of this is money. Speaker 3 (1:58) It is money. It's not principle. I'm sorry a lot of you got sucked into this, Speaker 1 (2:02) especially some former friends of mine. I'm really sorry. Speaker 1 (2:06) A lot of people got sucked into this. I got that. And I got to tell you at the beginning of the show, because listen, it's not self-deprecating humor. It's just true. We definitely took an L on this one. Speaker 1 (2:17) No, not about that other stuff. We definitely dropped an L on this one. I'll explain it in the beginning. There's never going to be another like President Trump. There's just not. This guy's got a knack for these ideas. Talk about a guy who sees where the weather vane is going and knows how to get ahead of something. This guy just has instincts like no one else. I'll show you what I mean coming up in a second. Hey, make your wireless bill mean more with Patriot Mobile. It's a company I use for cell phone service. Get 50 % off all plans for three months. Go to patriotmobile.com slash Dan or call 972-PATRIOT. Thanks, Patriot Mobile. Today's show also brought to you by BrickHouse Nutrition. I'm a big fan of BrickHouse Nutrition. They were my original sponsor. They've been with me a long time. 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And Field of Greens promises that your next checkup, your doctor will notice your improved health. or your money back. Pretty simple guarantee. I got a 20 % discount for you to get you started. Check out Field of Greens today. It's my morning staple. It tastes delicious. One scoop, your favorite drink, put orange juice, water, whatever it may be, protein shake. Go to BrickHouseNutrition.com slash Dan. Use my code Dan. That's BrickHouseNutrition.com slash Dan. Code Dan. Check out Field of Greens and check out Lean while you're at it today. All right, fellas, let's go on Flamethrower on Friday. Today is going to be an interesting day. Folks, I can't have people out there telling people not to vote so we can hand the country to a bunch of communists. I'm going to play for you a video from a Soviet defector that should describe to you exactly now what's going on. I want you to remember this line. You'll hear it in the video. Well, better read than dead. In other words, if we have to align with our communist benefactors. and pretend to be Republicans in order to avoid our heads on the chopping block because we see the current thing and the current thing is socialism. We'll do it. We'll do it I've warned you about this for a long time. I just want to get to this first. Dropped another major L on this. Listen, you know my battle with the beast? Speaker 1 (5:08) You know, one of my prior jobs, I was a transportation agent with the Secret Service. We did the motorcades. And I told you the Beast is not what we call the limo. Speaker 3 (5:19) It's kind of like a thing. It was a joke. And we would laugh at the media people. The name has, I lost, I lost. You know why? The president likes the name. It's his limo. It's not mine. Speaker 1 (5:29) I have, I don't know. I don't, I drove it, but it's not my limo. The president loves calling it the Beast, but this happened last night in Oklahoma. It's not just about that. I guess the motorcade agent, what we call the TS agent, transportation section, had to make a call. They usually prefer helicopter to driving places because it's more secure and it's quicker. It's not complicated. However, if there's a really low ceiling and bad weather, the lift is going to get called off and you're going to have to drive, which sometimes causes a lot of headaches because you've got to shut down roads you didn't anticipate. President went to Oklahoma yesterday. It was really crappy weather. I guess the Secret Service told him, hey, you know, sorry, Mr. President, we may have to axe this thing Speaker 3 (6:07) or we're going to have to drive. President said, get me in the beast. We're driving. And he tells the story. I love it. Check this out. We Speaker 8 (6:13) were in Texas trying to get Ken Paxton elected. We have to do that. We can't have Telefrico. We can't have we can't have the other guy. Ken was a great, great. Attorney General, he's done a great job. We got to get him elected. So I was in Texas. And they said, sir, I think we're going to have to cancel Oklahoma. The weather is terrible. Speaker 8 (6:38) You can't take the helicopter, sir. You can't take the plane. I said, what can I take? Well, it's a very long drive. I said, how long? They said, it could be long, sir. I said, how fast does the beast travel? They said we could go close to 100 miles an hour. I said, get your asses in that car. We're going to open the whole thing. Speaker 1 (7:04) We're going to Oklahoma. Speaker 1 (7:07) Guys, I need consideration for top 10 clips of the year. I know this is maybe a little bit of a stretch because there's so many other bangers he's got out there. No, no, Speaker 3 (7:17) no. Guy says, okay, I'm putting it out to the chat. Guy says good, but Speaker 1 (7:22) a hard no on that because we can't make the whole list. Well, we probably could. He's got enough of them, but there are other folks out there too, Brandon Gill and others. However. I want consideration for top 10 video clips. Yeah, I just like this one. Maybe it's my bias towards the whole beast thing, even though I had to drop the L on that. And someone said in the chat, new rules, Dan, Trump wins, you lose. Speaker 3 (7:42) You're correct. You're correct, man. Yes, yes. Look, banger. Yes, yes. I said, get your asses in the car. Speaker 1 (7:50) I love that. I love that. Thank you. Gee, you lose again. Folks, me and Guy have this ongoing dispute about stuff. He's almost always wrong on this. He's a great producer. He just, he's got a bizarre way of always picking the wrong side of the chat. Speaker 3 (8:05) It is. He's the reverse Jim Cramer. It is the reverse Guy. Everything Guy says about the chat, I'm telling you, it's always wrong. It's always wrong. Yes. I don't even Speaker 1 (8:17) think there's a single no in there. Thank you. We're just asking for consideration. I'm not telling you it's done. All right. Listen, when you talk about liberty, talk about it with a smile. It is a Friday. So I don't want to depress you all. However, I do have to tell you something right in the beginning of the show here. That's important. Speaker 1 (8:34) Because it's very relevant to what's happening. And some people have asked, why is this going on with all of these people we thought were our friends coming after you? Folks, they're not your friends. I unfortunately found that out the hard way. Matter of fact, they are your enemies. They're even worse than your enemies because your liberal opponents like the Rachel Maddows and others who are outwardly telling you they can't stand you, they can't stand your movement and fighting against you. These are people who have a lot of people coaxed and hoaxed into believing they're their friends and then are stealing money from their wallet while they're there. We've been going through a lot on the back end. This is not some, I'm nobody's victim. I don't need, want, or care for anybody's sympathy at all. That's not why I'm telling you this. We have been under a full-blown assault here. To the people who are doing it, And you know what you're doing. Speaker 1 (9:31) We know. what you're doing too? Speaker 1 (9:36) And if you're that group doing it, trying to destroy all of us with your attempted infiltrations, I want you to know we can do stuff too. If you saw the volume of threats and the attacks on this entire business here, folks, you would be really you would think we were we were like Idi Amin. The problem is, as I told you, I was the first person with any kind of a profile to do my term of service and exit the Trump administration, which they hate. That's why they're telling you not to vote. You can see it. There's an entire network of people out there doing it. It's coordinated messaging. And they move on Speaker 3 (10:22) from one current thing to the next. Well, what's happened is they've failed to mute MAGA enthusiasm for the president Speaker 1 (10:30) and the party he represents. So now what you're seeing is an extinction burst of behavior. I've explained this before. An extinction burst in psychology, look it up, is when you put a dollar or a couple of dollars in a Coke machine, the Coke doesn't come out. And what do you do? You start kicking and screaming the machine. In other words, you expected a reward for your $2. You expected a Coke and you got nothing. So they expected a reward monetarily for suppressing voter enthusiasm. It's not working. We're Speaker 3 (10:59) now 30 days out and they're in a full blown extinction burst. Don't you find it weird? Podcast to stand just in the past few days, all switched from one narrative to the next, all seemingly at one time. You think this is all for free? Speaker 3 (11:16) Folks, they're trying to distract you in mutant enthusiasm. The extinction burst has begun. They are desperately latching on to power because the benefactors that are paying a lot of these people off, if they can't produce the expected result, which is the destruction of the MAGA movement from the inside, they're just going to stop paying them. They are latching on to power. You can hit me and attack me all you want, suggesting somehow that like we were in this for anything other than principle. I left this very lucrative, fantastic career in the media space and in the business space I was in to go work for a $200,000 salary in the government. Well, by the way, I wound up paying DC more in freaking taxes than I even did for the salary. It's a joke. It's humiliating and stupid. You know that. Speaker 3 (12:09) But they've figured out that if they can get a group of people to follow the leftist approach, the current thing, men in the women's room, whatever it may be, and they can get them to latch onto it, no matter how self-destructive it becomes to the movement, left or right, then they're going to go down there. I wanted to show you an example of the power of the current thing. Imagine getting people to mutilate their own bodies, cut off reproductive organs, healthy body tissue, because you fell for a current thing on X. This is the same thing metastasizing on the right right now. It's the same thing. Here is a Paul Street on X. He says, this data never ceases to amaze me. In 2005, very few people received any of these trans-related genital surgeries where you cut off body parts. In 2025, it was 4,184. And the shift in age distribution is staggering. Surgeries on 18 to 25-year-olds were almost non-existent in the noughts. Now they dominate every other age group by a large factor. This is the data. People cutting off healthy pieces of their body in a massive clump, a massive spike, because it was a current thing on the left. Many of these people will develop psychosocial problems later. They're mutilated forever. Folks, do not underestimate the power of this. There is a grifting class on the right being paid to instill this cancerous malignancy on our side. And for a small group of people, it's working. But the problem is for the larger group of yous out there. in this audience and elsewhere, it's not. I'd love to tell you like, oh, I'm fighting this alone. I'm not. There are others out there who've been fighting back too against this stuff. Speaker 3 (13:51) And thankfully, we have something a lot of these grifters Speaker 1 (13:55) and zeros don't. We have a massive audience and distribution that drives them crazy because they know they can't stop it. You hit us with a pinprick, you know, we hit back 10 times harder. That's the problem. That's why you see a lot of this stuff focused on me. I want to show you this too. More evidence. Put up that X post by Matt Forney. Folks, what Speaker 3 (14:17) they're doing is not working. And the people paying a lot of these people off to be Folex MAGA are starting to realize they wasted their money and now they've got to double down and Speaker 1 (14:27) pick the latest current thing. The early voting data suggests that Democrats are underperforming in Ohio and North Carolina, while Republicans are underperforming in Virginia, which shouldn't surprise anyone given President, hold on, keep that up, but this is me, not 40. Virginia shouldn't surprise anyone. President Trump dramatically shrank the federal workforce, contrast to Speaker 3 (14:47) the nothing is happening crowd. A lot of them live in Virginia. None of this is surprising. It's too early to make a call, but there's absolutely no evidence of a blue wave. This is why you're seeing the crash out. Is this making sense now? You think that these people, all of a sudden you're like, wow, it's so weird. Like overnight, I thought these people were our friends. So did I and a lot of others until the checks started getting written and then they sold out as quickly as they could. Speaker 1 (15:15) I want you to watch this clip from KGB defector. It's one you maybe haven't seen before. Yuri Bezmenov. He talks about the tactic. Folks, please bookmark this. Speaker 3 (15:27) It's not mine. So just take it. Put it out there on X. This is what's going on. There are foreign governments out there who understand the worst thing for them right now is President Trump keeping a Republican majority for two more years to advance an America first agenda at their expense. So they know they can't beat us from the outside. They're being humiliated in Iran and elsewhere right now. They're being destroyed. Even the New York Times had to acknowledge it yesterday. The Iran war is not going like the Iranians thought. They're bankrupted. They have no money. They can't get any oil out. We've effectively blockaded their blockade. We get our oil out. They don't get theirs out. We're upwards of 85 or 90 percent of the pre-war oil and the rest of the 10 percent is Iranian oil. We don't want them to sell. Their tankers at sea are drying up. They've got a few more days. They are screwed. They are trying now desperately. to pay off people on the inside. These foreign governments because they're telling them hey better red than Speaker 1 (16:27) dead Join the current thing the current thing is socialism at least there's good money here And we'll help you destroy the country from the inside the audio is not great. It's an older clip It's about a minute, but pay very close attention to this you've been warned you want an explanation for what's going on here It is check this out Speaker 6 (16:46) is not to fight at all. Speaker 6 (16:51) but to subvert anything of value in the country of your enemy until such time that the perception of reality of your enemy is screwed up to such an extent that he does not perceive you as an enemy and that your system Your civilization and your ambitions Speaker 6 (17:11) Look to your enemy as an alternative. If not desirable, then at least feasible. Speaker 6 (17:19) Better Red than Dead. That's the ultimate purpose, the final stage of subversion, after which you can simply take your enemy without a single shot being fired. If the subversion is successful, this is basically what subversion is Speaker 3 (17:37) Folks, this is the most obvious subversion operation you've ever seen. The countries may differ in specific cases that are running a lot of