Glue It To Them

The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino critiques the Democratic Party's promise of 'free stuff' and emphasizes that Republicans must stand for hard work, personal responsibility, and

Key takeaways

• Republicans should not compete with Democrats by offering 'free stuff'—this undermines core values of hard work and personal responsibility.
• The metaphor of 'seven-minute abs' illustrates how short-term promises (like free benefits) are unsustainable and misleading.

Main topics

• Republican values vs. Democratic populism
• The dangers of government-run healthcare

Notable quotes

"We're not the party of free stuff. We're the party of hard work, ingenuity, pulling yourself up and earning your place in the world."

"If you want to be a Republican, you're going to have to tell people difficult things. You can't take the easy path."

Conclusion

Bongino concludes that true political strength comes from standing firm

Transcript preview

Speaker 6 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 5 (0:10) So some of you have seen the movie Something About Mary. Have you seen it in the chat? You know it was one of the most famous comedies of all time. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller. It was one of those rare movies. I hate comedies. I don't watch comedies in the movies. I don't even like comedy shows. People are like, oh, this guy's hilarious. Watch this guy's comedy show and I'll sit Speaker 3 (0:30) there and I'll like look at Paul and be like, was that supposed to be funny? Like, I don't really get it, Speaker 5 (0:34) right? Something about Mary's one of those rare movies. I went to the movies and actually laughed. It had some really good lines in it. Everyone knows that scene too. But I was on, the reason I bring that up is I was on Jesse Waters' show last night and I brought up the fact that if we are going to be Republicans Speaker 3 (0:50) and stand Speaker 5 (0:50) for something, Speaker 3 (0:52) then we have to be clear what we stand for, even if it's difficult to have to explain to people. No, we are, this is hard to say to people. It is because it's not necessarily appealing to people who think free stuff is possible. We are not the party of free stuff. We're the party of hard work, ingenuity, you know, pulling yourself up and earning your place in the world. Like you may say, well, of course that's popular. No, it's not. There are some people who don't want that. They just want free stuff. We're not that party. So I bring up something about Mary because on the air last night, I thought of this whole seven-minute abs thing. When they're driving in the car, remember that video, seven Speaker 5 (1:30) -minute abs? Seven-minute abs is this stupid, like, infomercial video thing where you go, look at me, I got a washboard abs, it'll only take me seven minutes a day. Whatever, man. You want washboard abs? You're going to have to work your butt off. Diet, exercise, cardio, strength training. Speaker 8 (1:45) Seven-minute abs, whatever. The guy in the car is like, well, why not six-minute abs? That's the whole thing. If you want to be a Republican, you're going to have to tell people difficult things. You can't take the easy path and go, the Democrats are giving you free stuff. In seven minutes, we can do it in six because the Democrats are going to come back and go, what about five minute abs? We are not, never run on six minute abs from seven minute abs. We are never going to be the party that gives away free stuff. We're going to have to tell people difficult things. And the fact that some people Speaker 3 (2:17) out there will tell you, well, we can't do that. We can't win if we don't offer free stuff too. That treats you in my listening audience and elsewhere, that treats you like idiots. That you're just too stupid to understand that stuff isn't free. And I don't buy that. I will never buy that. And if you're looking for a show that's going to say that, hey, man, we need to out Democrat Democrats and just offer more free stuff, then seriously, it's no problem. Like this show is not for you. It's not. The reason this show for 10 years has remained popular, been on radio and TV and elsewhere, is because we don't do that. We don't do that. And we're not going to do that. Do the homework. Make these issues Speaker 5 (2:57) bleed for people. And I don't mean bleed like I Speaker 3 (2:59) said last night, like in a physically violent way. That's a Speaker 5 (3:02) Democrat thing, a liberal thing. Speaker 3 (3:03) I can keep it there. We don't need any of that crap. I mean, like, you need to make these issues feel for people, and it's hard work. Oh, you want government-run health care? You know they're Speaker 8 (3:12) going Speaker 3 (3:12) to Speaker 8 (3:12) cancel your health care plan, Speaker 1 (3:13) right? Wow, that hurts. That's going to bleed for Speaker 5 (3:15) me. You want to tax the wealthy and tax the rich? What happens when they leave your state? The tax base collapses and you've got no money for your public schools, for your fire department, your police department. You didn't really think of that, did you? You love Democrats and socialism. You Speaker 3 (3:29) know they want to get rid of school choice, right? You just got your kid into a good school financed by your own tax dollars where you finally got your kid in a good school. You know they're going to rip him out of there, right? You got to make this stuff bleed, man. It's hard work. We're not going Speaker 5 (3:42) to out Democrat the Democrat. Forget it. Also, folks, I am thoroughly enjoying the continued crash out by the pillars out there as every day now they get exposed as more things are happening. They promised you would never happen and people are bailing by the thousands. I watch this stuff. I see not all of it, but a good amount of it on X. To watch all these people on X be like, hey, man, you know, you guys just lied to us. You told us all this stuff about this person. This wasn't happening. To watch it is just glorious. Speaker 1 (4:13) So thank you all. for believing in the truth and staying true north with us. We appreciate it. All right, loaded show for you today. A couple of big thank yous and a viral post on X about the Trump administration that really has gone crazy and I need you to see it before the midterms. Hey, I never realized how much my mattress was affecting my sleep until I finally made a change. Years ago, I switched to Helix, H-E-L-I-X. I chose the Midnight Luxe mattress. 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Audience Speaker 3 (6:09) Archivist Judy, I think I did a show on this years ago called like seven minute abs. because this was just on my mind last night at a Jesse show. And you know, listen, when you're sitting there in the studio, bang, bang, bang, going, like sometimes this stuff just pops in my head. Last night was one of those hits. I get off the air, like a hundred people text me. Dude, that was awesome. I don't even know where that came from. Thank you, Jesse, for letting me rock and roll though. I appreciate it. I just want, and I can't Speaker 5 (6:32) hit one on forever. Big thank you to Barrett Media, by the way. Great outlet. We love reading their content over there. Barrett Media covering Garrett Speaker 3 (6:39) Seawright does a great job there. Dan Bongino adding, new morning radio show, Westwood One, 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. Again, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. with me and Sean. So we're taking Speaker 5 (6:49) over the Ray. We're on like seven hours between Vince, Sean, and I now. We really appreciate it. Thank you to the program directors who are picking up the show. We'll get you a station Speaker 1 (6:57) finder. We're just adding them by the minute. It really doesn't make any sense to put it out right now, but we will get that to you. So thank you so much. Why? Again, because this show brings receipts. That's why it's growing despite all the nonsense, AstroTurf stuff on X. Obviously, receipts matter. People wouldn't be picking up the show if it wasn't a popular show, and it wouldn't be expanding if it didn't need to expand because more people demand it. So thanks so much. Folks. Getting back to something I've said over the last few days, and I want to, please forgive me, I will say this, because bringing receipts sometimes means being self-critical as well. The show has been doing great. Thanks to you, we're expanding. But one, I did get it. It was, I don't know if it was an email or I read an ex post the other day. And someone said, hey, Dan, sometimes on your show, you will repeat something a lot. And I guess the person, it wasn't, it was said in like a critical way, which is okay. I like to hear this stuff. But folks, that's not, that's a feature. That's not a glitch. Speaker 5 (8:06) You know, when you're marketing or trying to sell someone a product, in this case, I'm trying to get across to you this product of conservatism as a better path forward. It requires, you know, marketing will tell you seven to 20 times Speaker 3 (8:17) before an idea sets in. The Democrats are really good at this. So I told you about this kind of critical post for a reason that that is the feature of the show. That may not be for everyone, and that's okay. But the reason socialism sticks, despite its documented record of failure, torture, imprisonment, starvation, it's never worked anywhere, is because Democrats repeat it over and over and over again through kids in kindergarten, through 12th grade, in universities, the entertainment community, Hollywood, sports. They hear it over and over. The way to combat that message is, again, to do the hard work. And sometimes you got to hammer a message home. That is not a bug. It is a feature of this show. And it's not for everyone. That's okay. This show is not for everyone. Speaker 3 (9:02) This is a republic. You Speaker 1 (9:04) can watch whatever you want. I'm glad you're here. I'm honored you're here. I love you all. But one of the messages I've been repeating over the last few days is if a policy is effective and really good, whatever it may be, Speaker 3 (9:17) school choice, tax hikes, which I don't think, then you shouldn't have to hide it from people. Does your policy survive first contact with actual people when you tell people what it is? Why are the Democrats always hiding stuff? The Republicans Speaker 8 (9:32) and the MAGA administration right now, the Trump administration, don't do that at all. I'm going to talk to Vince Colin A. Slater as my guest. You all love Vince. But this idea that the Trump administration, nothing happened, you're just not, you're either being, you're either deliberately lying, Speaker 5 (9:49) which in that case, I can't help you. That's just evil and you're on your own. You're just lying to people for some kind of perverse reason. Maybe you've been paid to. Maybe you're just too stupid not to lie. I don't know. Speaker 8 (9:59) But there are other people out there who claim like, I don't know what the Trump administration did. And I'm like, did you look it up? I say that because we don't hide our results. Donald Trump Speaker 3 (10:12) and his record should be on the ballot in the midterms. Here's the post I was talking about. And, you know, we're going through pre-production in the show today. And Guy's back today. And Guy's like, what do you want me to do with this tweet? It's so long. And I said, Guy, I don't know, just like scroll through it. This is a viral post by Rod Martin that's gone just crazy. And it's a list of Donald Trump accomplishments. And Guy said, which ones do you want to highlight? I said, I'm going to scroll to the top for a second. He's at Rod D. Martin. Trump's top 25 achievements, the list every conservative should know and use. We have an election coming up. Like, this is the stuff that happened. You want to win an election, keep this up and say, tell people what you did, here it is, and tell people what the other side is going to do, which is really bad. Steal your healthcare, steal your firearms. Here's a couple of them. Just scroll down. Just stop randomly right here. Number one, he made the border a real border again. Yeah. He reversed mass migration. Scroll down a little more. Stop anywhere. All right, right there. He secured $18 trillion and announced investment commitments to the United States. He made reshoring and reindustrialization real, not a slogan. Guy, Justin, scramble the wheel again like it's one of those game shows and then stop randomly. Oh, look, here we go. He broke the deep state's power to defy the elected branches. He ended the nationwide injunction abuse going on by the courts. He got men out of women's sports and restored biological reality. Just one more. Let's throw one. Just stop anywhere. He drove China out of the Caribbean. He forced NATO to stop freeloading and increased defense spending by 250%. It goes on and on. Just go to his tweet. Speaker 8 (11:52) At Rod D. Martin. Everybody's been spreading this around on X. Because I guarantee you, you're going to read this. And even someone like me who was in Speaker 3 (12:00) the Trump administration. In the Trump administration. Again, being candid with you. I'm not here to pretend I'm above it all. Even I'd forgotten about some of this stuff. Whereas the Democrats Speaker 8 (12:12) don't want their policy to survive first contact. So they hide it from you. The Trump administration is openly saying, yes, run on our record. Here's our record. Here it is. Speaker 8 (12:24) There's a ton of other stuff in there, too. Manufacturing Speaker 3 (12:27) is back. Inflation is not perfect, but it's gotten better from the Biden administration. Crime was absolutely crushed. Speaker 8 (12:37) Violent crimes had historic lows. Like, it's everywhere, man. We're not, nobody's running from this stuff. Does Speaker 3 (12:45) your policy survive first contact with voters? The answer in the Rod Martin tweet, based on the virality of it, how nuclear won on Xs, yeah, people like this stuff. Speaker 3 (12:56) Here's a post by Kash Patel, friend of mine. Obviously, I can't claim to be completely objective on this. But, you know, we heard from the liberal media and the doomers. You know, Patel and the FBI crushed violent crime, but they took away, Justin, you remember this one? They took assets away from counterterrorism and Chinese Communist Party espionage. We did? That's news to me because we upped those assets. Now we find out that they announced a major disruption of a global botnet and hacking platform used by the Chinese Communist Party. Whatever, man, nothing. I guess nothing's Speaker 8 (13:29) happening. Everything these people told you, the doomers, the grifters, the bums, the liberal media and the communist goons about nothing happening is just a lie. Speaker 3 (13:41) Yeah, we crushed violent crime. And yeah, we crushed the Chinese Communist Party espionage efforts. And yes, we've crushed a bunch of terror networks. Do you see what happened yesterday with the State Department and Antifa? You realize the Trump administration is the first one to successfully prosecute Antifa? You probably missed that too if you're on the doom and gloom side. Nothing is happening. That's why it's just really rewarding to watch this mass exodus on X from the Doomer Grifter crowd. Like, hey, you have no idea how many emails we get. Speaker 5 (14:10) We should have listened to you, man, when you told us this stuff was going down. Let me show you what I mean here. Here's another thing. I love hearing Speaker 3 (14:17) from them that, you know, nothing's happening on the deep state public. OK, well, we'll have to see about that, I guess. When the four years are up and all of these things, which take some time, I wish they didn't sometimes, but they do. It's the right way to do it. When that body of work is done, we're going to compare your predictions versus the results. It's not going to end well for you're going to look like a moron. And even more people are going to realize what a grifter and fraud you are. But however. I hear this all the time. What are we doing about political corruption? Well, there have been a ton of cases from Gavin Newsom's office to Kathy Hochul to a whole boatload of Speaker 5 (14:54) cases reworked, BLM to SPLC. Not so much public corruption in that case, but you get the point against some of these people using their politics for illicit gains. Here's another addition to the nothing is happening file. Here's a couple of arrests that came out Speaker 3 (15:09) of the Massachusetts area for massive, massive fraud. A hat tip, Nick Shirley, Cam Higbee, and others who exposed a lot of this stuff. Again, people told you nothing's going to happen. These fraudsters never get locked up. We're up to like 200-something arrests just at the federal level alone. And Speaker 5 (15:27) now we see this happen. Yes, so you can add this to the nothing is happening file. Check this out. This Speaker 2 (15:31) morning we arrested Massachusetts State Representative Francisco Paulino. who represents the 16th Essex District, which includes the cities of Lawrence and Methuen, for pandemic unemployment insurance fraud, pandemic loan fraud, and money laundering. He is charged in an 11-count indictment that was unsealed today. A grand jury in Boston also returned an 11-count indictment charging the sitting mayor of Lawrence, Brian DePina, with pandemic loan fraud and money laundering. As many of you know, Mayor De Pina was arrested last week on a criminal complaint. He is alleged to have stolen approximately $1.5 million in public taxpayer money. Money he used to fund his mayoral campaign, pay his personal tax liabilities and pay off personal loans. Speaker 5 (16:23) Hat tip Nick Sorter for that video. They're getting that up there. Again, folks, I know people are telling you and there's like a movement, MPC movement on X to be brainless, that the Trump administration Speaker 3 (16:34) is not doing anything. And then they just move on to the next doom and gloom complaint just to get you to not vote and demoralize you. Speaker 1 (16:42) Don't let it happen. Don't let it happen. Speaker 1 (16:47) Nothing is, I hear this all the time. Folks, we are winning. We are winning. I want you to make no mistake about this. And yes, I Speaker 3 (16:55) will show you big time receipts coming up right now. If the liberal media, if their liberal allies, if the commies and the socialists, the Islamo fanatics in conjunction with their Doomer Grifter pillars, if they were winning, if they were winning, it would reflect in a poll. A poll is a measure of public opinion, correct? So a receipt would be if the doom and gloom crowd and the Trump administration is not doing anything, there's nothing to vote for, a crowd was winning, then it would reflect on intra-party approval for President Trump. Correct? Is Speaker 8 (17:27) anything I'm saying? Anyone in the chat dispute this? If Republicans, if there was Speaker 3 (17:32) a real genuine movement within the party telling you how awful things are, nothing's happening. If it actually had any grip, they would have won some primaries. They won none of them. They got smoked. And Donald Trump's approval rating within the Republican Party is at historic highs. So I Speaker 8 (17:50) don't understand, like at some point, are you ever going to produce a receipt to try to grab back the audience you're losing with the constant dooming? Because people aren't stupid. People are not stupid. When CNN is forced to admit this again in a poll, you can pretty much take it to the bank because they're not pro-Trump. Speaker 3 (18:07) I think that's fairly obvious. There is no constituency for crapping on the administration's accomplishments over the last year and a half. There's none. It just doesn't exist. Receipts incoming. Check this out. You Speaker 6 (18:22) know, sometimes we have these polls and you know, they're favorable polls or approval polls and they're in the moment, but I just love this one. Okay, the president Republicans most admire is Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say, 53 % say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that much, Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18 % and then Abraham Lincoln. who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this? This is six, seven times as many. Donald John Trump at 53 percent, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at 8 percent. And the Elon polls showed that he was the greatest president as well. Speaker 3 (19:09) Again, at some point. Aren't you obligated to produce some evidence that your hypothesis is in fact an accurate metric for the real world? Speaker 5 (19:23) Justin's like, Dan, stop with like evidence and science and data and facts. Like, no. Speaker 3 (19:30) If you just keep saying it, Trump sucks. RFK sucks. JD sucks. Rubio sucks. Hegseth sucks. Like at some point, are you going to produce evidence Speaker 8 (19:40) that that's actually a thing? Just laugh at these people. It's become a clown show. It's become a clown show. It's like the people on X who post every day. Dan Bongino is irrelevant. Doesn't matter. Then why are you posting about me every day? Girl, don't go away mad. As Motley Crue said, just go away. It's okay. Thank you. Every day I see, it's hilarious to watch. Just make fun Speaker 3 (20:10) of these people. Speaker 8 (20:11) You Speaker 3 (20:11) may say, well, all right, Donald Trump's really popular. Good results, viral tweet, 25 huge accomplishments is probably more than that. But it's reflecting in the congressional generic ballot where Republicans are just getting killed. People prefer Democrats because this whole flock of Republicans thinks Donald Trump sucks, despite no evidence that's actually true. OK, we just pulled this poll tracker 2024 on X. An active vote poll, generic congressional ballot. Oh my gosh, there's only like, what, a three-point difference? Democrats 51%, Republicans 48%. I thought it was a massive, massive Speaker 8 (20:49) shift. I thought the Democrats were up by like 50 points. We were getting killed. We were getting crushed. This is probably roughly within the margin of error. Folks, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't get into red wave, blue wave predictions. I tried that once. Bad idea. Stupid. There's an election coming up. You need to go out and vote. That's it. I'm just telling you, like people telling you, we're going to get crushed. We're going to lose 600 seats. There aren't 600 seats. Doesn't matter. We're going to lose them anyway. That these people are probably lying to you. Speaker 8 (21:25) Remember my 10-10-10 rule. Speaker 3 (21:28) It is up to you to go out and vote, but not by yourself. That's not going to win an election. I'm sorry, there are very few elections decided by one vote. Many are decided by 10. It's happened. It's happened, but it's rare. Can we agree? But your vote matters. But your voice matters even more. Email 10 people, 10 friends of yours. Put it on one email. You don't have to send 10 separate emails. Hey, guys, you getting ready to vote? Here's whatever. I live in Martin County, Florida. Here's how to vote in Martin County. Make 10 social media posts and call 10 of your friends or just meet up with 10 of your friends. Speaker 5 (22:02) Are Speaker 3 (22:02) you voting? You know how to vote? You registered? Oh, I don't want to get into that stuff. I don't want to lose freight. You want to lose your country? Because, folks, this is our job. The Democrats do this all the time. You do the 10, 10, and 10. We have right now, it's only 10, 22 if you're watching live. We have 40,000 people watching right now, 20 minutes in, despite the Clancy thing being on TV. We Speaker 8 (22:27) filled an entire football stadium full of people. If all of you just went out and did the 10, 10, and 10, not only will we not lose, we could win and hold the House and the Senate. In the end, votes matter. And don't tell me it's not possible. Remember the Speaker 3 (22:44) midterms, the Joe Biden midterms. Do you guys remember this? I know you guys do. I warned everybody. There was all this talk. Folks in the chat, who remembers this for our P1s? I warned you over and over. Stop the red wave talk. Remember, like, Joe Biden sucks. There's going to be a massive red wave. I said, don't do it. Don't do it. Because if there is a red wave. People who are on the margin about voting are