Tucker and Dan Bongino React to the Trump v. Harris Debate

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become a member the greatest television event of the year we're proud to offer it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm really happy to be here thank you I know you this is this is one of those rooms where in fact this is not just one of those rooms this is one of those states where I I really feel like if I knew every person in here I would like every person in here I really feel that way I I evaluate people on the basis of my old factory senses I really try to be as close to my dogs as I possibly can and my dogs know instantly whether you're someone they want to have dinner with and I'm just getting a very strong Aroma of good people so thank you I'm sorry I'm a little distracted I'm a little distracted by last night's debate and I I know everyone has a different experience I'm sure everyone watched her many people watched but I woke up thinking just one thing comma Harris has a gun what how can that be allowed and by the way why is not not the headline on every paper in the world internationally from Frankfurt to Tokyo I mean k Harris has a gun and I'm about as pro gun as anybody could be I carry a gun I've hunted and shot my entire life I hunt with my dogs I could not be more Pro goun in fact I'm So Pro Gun I don't even talk about it because it makes me too emotional I don't think K Harris should have a gun and she's the only person I've ever said that about I just don't think she should should I don't believe in red flag laws I think we can make an exception for her a gun really no and is anyone going to ask what kind of gun and why she has it she has no idea what side the bullet comes out of like none I'd love to watch her assess it I spent an enor amount of time watching gun videos on YouTube you know like hickcock 45 there's gun reviews or whatever I can just imagine KLA Harris being like so that was my main thought about last night's debate I had a lot of other thoughts too some of them quite dark and um so dark that I was pondering it in the shower today um and I want to tell you what I thought because I I'm I actually felt like I came to some important conclusions you can judge for yourselves um and then I'll stop and get to the meet of the show with Dan banino who's such a wonderful person who's here I'm really honored to have Dan Bonino here um by the way at lunch today downtown you have some amazing restaurants in Tulsa and I ran into two great people um from Beverly Massachusetts what nice people and oh there they are right there and uh by the way Tulsa is such a nice town that she goes I want a picture oh I left my phone in the Uber and all of a sudden the Uber pulls up and This Woman's like you left your phone in the Uber here it is and I thought what other City no City I've lived in would any Uber driver say anything other than oh a new phone awesome go Tulsa but anyway they're like oh we're so glad to meet you but we really CL came to see Dan Bonino and I was like yes Dan Bono I love that anyway here's what I thought so I'm watching last night and I thought to myself um a couple of things one and I've made fun of KLA Harris since KLA Harris was dating Montel Williams I mean there's really there's really nobody I'm an I'm kind of an OG kamla Harris mocker um I've had more fun making fun of Kam Harris I will never stop I don't care if she becomes emperor of the Universe I will make fun of her I recall her Montel williams' side piece I will play the school bus video like I will never stop making fun of KLA Harris because it brings me such deep Joy um and I think we should do that it's a sign of life when we can laugh uh at someone like K harison she's inherently ridiculous um she's not Sinister and creepy like the guy she's running with I can't that guy I can't even laugh about that guy woo not babysit in my house but um sorry Tim Walls I know you want to you can't uh but watching KLA Harris last night actually made the hair on my arms go up because I realized something that I had felt before which is that she has no limits at all at all this woman has no limits whatsoever this is someone who is clearly not a person of Faith doesn't think God is watching thinks she is God has no kids so he doesn't care about you know the future in the way that people who have descendants I'm just being honest do care and feels like she can do anything actually and would do anything and I thought man I'm glad I'm not someone she hates because I could oh [Laughter] wait um because if I'm being totally honest she didn't seem like a buffoon last night at all she seemed like someone with a mission the mission is to take power the process for taking power is memorizing a series of lines fed to her by her friends in Hollywood she did it she's beautiful she's hardworking um and she's scary absolutely scary as hell and um she has a long track record of putting people she doesn't like in prison um as one of those people it gave me pause and um so I had a couple of quick quick thoughts like can I go anywhere no I'm American I'm not going anywhere I'm 55 I will die here buried with my ancesters I'm not going anywhere so I'm staying and uh and I mean that I mean that especially I don't know how much time you spend around rich people but there is like there is this kind of conversation that you hear if you're around rich people which is like well I'm going to so and so I'm going to so and so and it's like no actually there's something about burning your boats and my ancestors burned their boats hundreds of years ago actually here so like I literally am tied to this country as deeply as anybody can be but that's the right mindset no it's my country actually and you're not allowed to come in and just take it over you know what I mean and send in new voters from around the world world to like eat my cat and get you elected no I'm not doing that by the way the spirit of of hilarious resistance lives on the internet if you haven't looked up cat memes in the last 24 hours treat yourself it's like no matter how dark it gets there will always be somebody on Twitter who's just like a brilliant person like brilliant person who comes up with an even funnier uh save our cats meme anyway but I thought no I'm not going anywhere and and I thought you know this woman actually scares me for the first time you know it was it was funny to make fun of her when she was this person who no one has ever voted for or ever liked she has no fans anywhere and for those of us who grew up at a system based on the idea that you know in order to wield power you have to have the consent of the Govern do you remember that that was the actually the idea the country was founded on um that government has no legitimacy apart from the approval of citizens period because we own the country and they don't Comm Harris does not own the country the people who work for Comm Harris do not own the Country Federal bureaucrats don't own the country the mayor of your town doesn't own the country anybody who works for the government works for you because you own the country period and kind of like any other job you serve at the pleasure of the employer as I found out personally a year and a half ago and that's all right you know I wasn't mad about it that's fair that seemed fair to me the person who owns it gets to decide who works there right so you know that's just the most basic arrangement in the world if you catch your housekeeper stealing you she doesn't get to lecture you right you get to fire her because you're her employer and our government servants you know or they're our servants they belong to us because this country belongs to us period And so I've never really been afraid of any politician in my life because why would you be in your own country it's my country if I do something wrong and you can prove it then put me away that seems fair to me but you can't just hurt me because you don't like my politics or because I criticize you or because I point out that you're incompetent greedy and dishonest that's not allowed you can't put me in jail for pointing out that your friends killed Jeffrey Epstein sorry you're the criminal not me right so there's really never been a time where I felt like oo this is scary and it made me mad really mad really mad actually enraged me um and it was only after getting a text from one of my many children um who was like I think Trump did a great job and K's an idiot and everything's going to be fine that I calmed down a little bit but I and she may be right I hope so um but I did think like what are the perils to me to all of us in a moment like this and it's probably not going to jail I mean there are just too many 350 million people like we don't have the capacity to throw all the thought criminals in prison um we could throw some but not all most of us are not going to jail the real threat actually is a much deeper threat to ourselves so I have noticed for the past say 10 years I've been in in this roughly this business for almost 35 years it's really celebrated in the last 10 years where everyone who disagrees with the people in power is a bad person is some species of hater it's not just that you're wrong about tax rates or even gun control or abortion it's that you're you hate women or you're a racist or you know you're some species of bigot you're morally impaired and of course the irony is that in general the people they call those names are the best people in America actually you know they're the they're the most likely to help their neighbors no matter what their neighbors look like they're the most likely to leave the beleaguered waitress a big tip actually Studies have been shown have been done on this that show that people with our views are much more likely to give to charity much more how much do you think KLA Harris tips right around zero right and so actually it's a pure inversion of the truth it is a really dark lie it's an evil lie it's a sign actually of evil when you lie like that there's there are many different ways to lie and those of you who have children are familiar with a lot of them because kids lie and it's always a little bit shocking when you catch your four-year-old who's like the center of your life and the most beautiful pure being ever to exist and you catch that child lying because you know that's just part of what it is to be human we're all Fallen but the way that kids lie is so instructive and so and I'm sure you've seen it like you come downstairs in the morning and like the Oreos are gone and your four-year-old comes down and you're like did you eat the Oreos and the four-year-old is totally ashamed to be caught because the four-year-old wants your love and acceptance and you know does not want you to be mad at him but he knows that he did it and so he tells a lie that's like three degrees off the truth he's like well I had one well there were 11 Oreos here Dylan like what happened to the other 10 I don't know I had well maybe two and like every parent has seen this and that's a very and you scold the child for lying because you want to raised honest children in fact that's really what you want out of life is honest children it's the most important thing honesty is the most important thing however it's an understandable kind of lie that's not the kind of lie that our leaders tell us the kind of lie the leaders tell us is the exact Mirror Image the photographic negative of the truth it's the opposite of the truth so if you caught KLA Harris and said KLA Harris did you eat those Oreos she would say no you did you ate those Oreos you racist and there's something very effective about that because it throws you off it's like wait these are the people so I'm 55 I grew up in a world that kind of thought Martin Luther King was on to something and we should judge our fellow Americans because they're are fellow Americans we're in this together we share this country we should judge them by what they're like as people and the Christians Among Us which in my childhood was most of us understood that God created all of us we're all created by God period so we all have that divine spark within us so you may be super annoyed at somebody but in the end God created him too so you can't write people off in the basis of how they look you can definitely write them off on the way they behave fair but not on how they were born that's unfair everyone understood that but people like KL Harris have created a system it's like pretty common to the system we claim or we claimed we hated where everyone is judged by their appearance and their genetics before any other Factor that's racist okay that's the definition of racist that's what we said we hated she did that and so for her to turn around and tell me or you who actually would like to live in a colorblind meritocracy which was like the promise of this country that you're the racist it's like no you ate the Oreos honey I didn't but there's something about that kind of lying that throws you off base it's like shocking it's like so stunning that someone could lie with that little effect like all of us like a normal person not even a good particularly good person like let's just say me you don't feel good telling a lie like your face Twitches or you kind of look down you can't make eye contact will you lie I watched Comm Harris last night you ate the Oreos and you're like wow maybe I did because nobody could make that claim unless there was a little bit of truth to it maybe I had one or maybe I was sleepwalking maybe I had a head injury did I have a stroke I remember this I remember being called the first time someone called me racist I was like huh first of all that's awful I don't want to be called that but I remember thinking about it am I a racist no actually I just don't like you and you're a rich white lady I don't think that's racism I just don't like you anyway after a while watching people lie like that and particularly watching them lie in the very specific way they do which is accusing you of moral crimes it can make you enraged and here's what can happen and I think this is part of the design it can turn you into a hater actually they call you a hater enough it will make you hate it will maybe not in a on racial lines or whatever but it'll fill you with hate to be attacked like that so unfairly and to watch people wreck a country that your ancestors built that they did nothing to build at all and to sort of give it away to the rest of the world give cell phones to people here illegally what there's nothing more insulting than that you know there's nothing more more insulting than that you can't afford a house but they're giving housing vouchers to someone who broke the law to get here what you you don't have to be you don't have to be anti-immigrant which I'm not by the way I'm hardly anti-immigrant that's just I'm against that cuz that's the most unfair and insulting thing anyone's ever done you're treating our country like like a rental car seriously like a rental car like you're scraping against you know barriers in the Walmart parking lot not in the oil like you don't care and that can fill you with hate after a while and I would argue because I do think this is spiritual I don't think any of this is political actually I think the goal is destruction the goal is lying for its own sake the goal is to break things actually there's no effort to build anything they're always telling you they're going to make a better Society okay go ahead by the way if KLA Harris like just fixed the roads made the DMV a little better you know what I mean dropped the price of Breakfast Cereal by a dollar I'd probably you I wouldn't like her I wouldn't agree with her on tons of issues but at it's like you're doing something you're making things a little better kind of hard to deny that I'm for Progress actually I think most of us are no it's only about destruction and part of the thing they seek to destroy is you from within they call you a hater in the hope that you'll become one that's true and you just can't let them you can't let them do that and so how do you and the reason the reason that you can't let them do that is not for some like abstract principle I mean again I'm a Christian I think it's that would be wrong but it's not just because I disagree with it ideologically it's because you don't want to live in hate and as someone who lived in DC for a long time I saw it I saw people I really loved and respected become completely consumed with hatred almost all on the left maybe some on the right but not that I can think of I'm sure there are um but the Trump thing I watched that whole thing and I watched people who were I'm thinking of one of my closest friends who was like a wonderful person nice family very smart way smarter than I am become so obsessed with hat hating Trump not disliking Trump or disagreeing with Trump or calling him orange all of which is fine you know it's kind of hilarious that's okay but actually hating to the point where his entire world revolved around hating this one guy to the exclusion of everything else including love and joy and I watched and I'm sure you've seen that maybe they don't have that in Oklahoma uh but in the other 49 states it's pretty common and you know a lot of it is just displacing your own unhappiness or frustration with being middle-aged or whatever the sadness of Life onto something else like there's that but it's also true on a much deeper level that hating itself is bad for you it does not help you at all doesn't help you achieve your goal goals and your first goal ought to be to love the people around you that is your duty okay that's your that's the reason you're here is to help people around you and you can't do that when you're filled with hate because you're completely distracted by this rage within you and it diminishes you um and so you have to keep that out because you'll become like them and if you become like them then what is the point of the exercise you might as well join them get a job at some private Equity Firm you know what I mean and just like be them um it's actually it pays a lot better to be them in the last election Bobby Kennedy just told me this it's a wonderful man by the way I didn't know what I thought but I I think a lot of him now he told me that in the 2020 election Joe Biden's voters I think there were several billion of them I can't remember the exact number um was two or three times the the population of the Earth voted for Joe Biden um but in this country just in this country Joe Biden's voters held 70% of the wealth in the United States and Donald Trump's voters held 30% so that tells you how the parties have completely inverted and so for working people or people who've been excluded from the current completely fake economy that they've created for themselves and their own enrichment it's it's Trump is the party for those people okay and so I guess if you wanted to be rich if you wanted to participate in the fake economy that doesn't actually make anything it just loots you would already be on their side but you're not because your conscience won't allow you to be so don't destroy yourself through hate and the other thing that they're all about is violence it's hurting people and you know I've been on the right my entire life and one of the things that I think we forgot is that it is absolutely wrong it is immoral in fact it is the greatest sin to kill people except in self-defense period and that's a pretty clear religious order actually it's in the books that we have that we refer to constantly and you can argue about what self-defense is and a lot of really smart decent people have and got a wide strike zone for that and I'm not judging anybody I'm only saying if you're taking Glee in shedding human blood you're a monster and you're serving a monster which is called Satan actually and you should never ever take joy in shedding human blood sorry it's kind of weird to feel like that's a controversial statement but it shouldn't be it's very obvious and it's terrible for you to worship the suffering of other people or violence or human sacrifice which they worship they had an abortion van outside their convention like it couldn't be clear so that's just killing for its own sake because you think you're you know going to be more powerful when you shed human blood so I think the response to them here's what I would argue the response to them whatever happens you cannot let them steal your soul and so the first thing to remember is that the only real way to judge how you are doing is not by living on the Internet or some social media media app or externalizing all of your fears and anxieties onto some politician or political campaign or whatever it's to look around to the people around you in your orbit the people for whom you're responsible and responsibility occurs in my opinion in concentric circles and this is an act of God in the life of every human being God puts people right around you and then a little farther out around you and then will farther out and your job is to work from closest to you outward to make sure everyone's okay and well served moved and then when they are you move to the next Circle and then the next Circle and then finally when every single person who's related to you who went to school with you who works for you who works with you who lives down the street from you when they're all fine then you can send mosquito Nets to another country to help people you don't know but the first responsibility the reason you are here is to love the people around you hey it's Tucker Carlson I am not in the studio I'm in the and you can hear it in the audio probably I'm in the back of an SUV outside a hotel in Tulsa Oklahoma I think it's tuls okahoma anyway we're on the road for this monthlong tour and there is a lot going on in the world and the question is how do you understand what's happening I mean it's not all on Twitter sorry much as we love Twitter there are deeper Trends unfolding you probably sense that and it would be helpful to have some grounding in exactly what they are and if you're like me and you spend four years in college and didn't learn all that much where do you go to understand what's happening to your world well Hillsdale College in our opinion is one of the very few places left in the englishspeaking world where your kids can get a real education but not just your kids you they have free online classes completely free you can get them anywhere including in the back seat of an SUV outside a hotel in Tulsa Oklahoma and you'll know that when you go there go to Tucker for hillsdale.com and they have an amazing new course called Marxism socialism and communism Hillsdale is offering it doesn't cost you a dime and you can pull it up right on your phone if you want go to Tucker for hillsdale.com and the class Marxism socialism and communism and you'll have a much better understanding of what you're watching every day well it's true and it's obviously true someone just said preach that's the last thing I'm qualified to do I grew up an Episcopalian are you joking I don't even think that's allowed I'm not allowed to preach and I shouldn't be my job is to notice the obvious things and if God puts people right next to you your job is to serve them period and that's the way you measure success and happiness how is my spouse doing how are my children doing if you don't have a spouse or children you know bless you but there are still people around you you still have obligations and you have you know the potential for great joy it's not just obligation it's like that's what life is it's your relationships with people right next to you and if all of them are doing pretty well you're doing pretty well and just don't lose doesn't mean what happens to your country doesn't matter the country that your ancestors built that does matter it matters in a global sense this is the final Beacon of light to the world that's a fact it's not just some dumb cable news talking point that's a fact okay so that does matter history matters your role in history matters all that matters but the first thing that matters is how the people around you are doing so just don't forget that they want to make you forget that so I'm getting so spun up I'm getting Perry I'm put a little emergency Perry here and that's why they spend so very much time trying to divide you from the people closest to you that's why they're always encouraging you to insult your grandparents to Thanksgiving over one of their stupid policies literally how to have the conversation with Grandpa the racist anti-id vac guy you're trying to break apart my family you're a monster and a criminal we should say that anyone who tries to break apart other people's families is a monster and a criminal period that's the worst offense you could commit there's no worse crime than that actually and they do it out in the open the media does it don't I'm not even going to talk about the media they're clearly Servants of evil obviously but we we know that it's not even worth you know like whatever got it well I know that I've been 33 years in the media so I I can promise you that's true but don't let them divide you from the people you love which is another way of saying don't let them divert your attention from the things that really matter which are the people directly in front of you and the second thing that you should remember they're going to try and go you into violence now you could certainly make the case that in some cases it's Justified I've said this in public and I mean it when I was growing up if someone got creepy like sexual with your kid you got to punch him out period like that just wasn't allowed and so I don't understand why every school in the country has these therapists and nurses who are getting having creepy sex talks with your kids like why does why do people we the dads actually shut the school down over that shut the school down you not allowed to have creepy sex talks with my kids period under any circumstances and I don't care if you're some like heavys set nurse who's like oh I'm just doing it I I don't care you're a creep get out of here right now um that's just a fact I don't care I don't care how they describe themselves or tell you what they think they're doing or whatever lie they make up to justify what's actually happening which is creepy sex talk with your kids if it was a stranger in the park you'd punch him out so I'm just noting that I'm not advocating violence I guess what I'm saying is I CLE I it's very obvious to me that they are violence worshippers they've spent the last 20 years paying very close ATT attention every Federal agency with guns they're all about violence they love pointless Wars they love killing people for no reason in other countries just for the sake of it because it makes them feel powerful Hillary Clinton laughs as she talks about the murder of somebody really a human being I don't care who's dying no normal human being feels Glee at the death of another human being I don't care if he deserved it or not that's sick and your soul is rotted if you feel that way don't let your soul rot but that's how they are they worship violence and blood why they love abortion so and youth in Asia don't become that so if we get to a point in this country where things are really moving you know in the wrong direction in a threatening way you still should not commit violence you don't have to hurt anybody here's what you have to do you have to be willing to be hurt that's the truth you do you have to be willing to stand up and say I'm not going to put I'm not going to hurt anybody but I will put it all in the line and that actually changes things I can think there's one sort of famous leader in first century Palestine who did that um and there have been you know subsequent leaders who followed his example if you want things to change you have to make sacrifices and those do not have to include hurting other people physically I'm sorry they don't but they do include being willing to be inconvenienced or punished and the and the question at that point arises well how serious are you about it does it really matter to you if you actually felt your family was threatened what wouldn't you give up in order to protect them would you give up your safety and your convenience I think you would so just be prepared to do that and the last thing I will say before turning it over to my friend Dan banino is that you have to keep your sense of humor it's so important it's bomb for the soul to laugh and I have a terrible tendency to uh go right to sort of bitter nasty mockery I'm not recommending that that's a reflection of my own disease soul that I can't just make normal jokes I have to make fun of KLA Harris of all the things she's done the fact that she was Monte williams' side piece is the first thing I go to cuz it's like hilarious I don't think that's a virtuous thing to do I'm a little ashamed that I do it so is my wife as she's pointed out many times but the capacity to laugh at what you're seeing around you and especially laugh at yourself to note how inherently ridiculous you are so important and I worked in a business my whole life of people who are really smart and talented and high Achievers television um but the one thing they didn't have was the capacity to laugh at themselves because they could not admit how inherently absurd they were and I always wanted to mandate as a rule all the TV networks I worked at where every male anchor would have to have mounted a fulllength mirror outside his shower and I just felt like that would solve the problem immediately because and I'm including myself in this like there's no way as a man that you can all of a sudden catch sight of yourself naked lumpy furry this kind of lopsided primate and take yourself that seriously like you kind of know you're not God I don't know I I don't have a ton of mirrors in my house but occasionally I'll be on the road in a hotel and I'm like what the hell is that oh that's me well I'm absurd aren't I I can't believe my wife bless my wife never mentioning that uh to me women are so great they're the best um but it's so and it you know obviously there's horror and attempt to spray the mirror with shaving cream to make the images stop but after I calm down I'm like I'm so glad I saw that because I've been restored to reality I put myself in perspective in the world you know one of the saddest things about modern society is the light that our cities Emmit at night prevent us from seeing the stars and when you can't see the stars it's not just because I'm interested in astronomy which I'm not I am interested in perspective very much and we live in a rural area when I look up at night the first thing I think is boy am I insignificant I actually don't think I'm the center of the universe and it slowly Dawns on me like I don't think I'm the most important thing and it's good to know that because I'm not actually and humor is a really great shortcut to that understanding if you can laugh at yourself if you can laugh at the situations around you you have instantly put it into perspective and the important perspective is this is just a blip on a timeline that goes on for who knows how long it does End by the way I just don't know when but um that kind of lets everybody know you feel that but the most important thing about about humor is there's nothing that your opponents hate more than being laughed at because they think they're God and when you laugh at them it is like hitting the Wicked Witch of the West with a garden hose they just melt into this cackling pile of witch clothes they can't stand it if you make fun of them you disempower them because you tell the truth about them and the truth is they're absurd they may be evil but they're also stupid and we need to say that out loud and in fact it's the Saving Grace if they were evil and smart we'd be in serious trouble but no they're kamla Harris they may have dark intentions but she's still dumb and I just thank God for that every day so with that I want to I want to introduce Dan banino who from my experience spending the day in Tulsa i' I've learned everybody knows Dan bunino everyone's wearing his awesome t-shirts everyone seems to love him so I just want to add very quickly my perspective on Dan bongino whom I worked with I knew Dan ban I actually had Dan banino on when he was running for office when he just left the Secret Service and then I became his cooworker and then I became his friend which I am now I would say two things about Dan bino Dan bino is one of the smartest people I've ever met actually Den banino has the ability to boil down what's happening incredibly complex things into the perfect distillation like he can tell you exactly what's happening in one phrase and he does it in a queen's accent Queen's New York accent which is just absolutely the greatest and the second thing I'll tell you about Dan bun you you probably already suspect is he's one of the toughest human beings in the world for real not just cuz he can do 50 one arm push-ups which he can um ask him what his pull-up record is I haven't even bothered it's a lot no I mean in a much more significant way he's tough inside and you know that the measure for most men is how you deal with your employer cuz it's one thing to like you know be the tough guy in the bar at your own dinner table you know Dad's pretty tough one thing about Dad is he's pretty tough okay yeah okay Dad slow down but what's your attitude at work if your employer is like you know I want you to do something and violates your conscience and no one's around there's no one around your wife doesn't know you're not humiliated in front of your loved ones it's just like go ahead and do this thing and like everything will be cool what you know what's your answer you know just sort of violate your own moral code no one will know and I just happen to know for a fact that Dan bongino's response was like what get bent no no next and so Dan bino is definitely the kind of guy who would have a lot of trouble holding a job in the media business in fact it would be impossible and so Dan banino has made his own media business which has been wildly successful and I'm proud to be his friend on the base of that and many other qualities ladies and gentlemen Dan banino wow oh man I'm glad you're here what a crowd good to be here with you brother and I'm glad you're here I think you took work off to be here which I'm really grateful for um but I've waited all day I think you're the first person I've asked this what did you make of that debate last night well I here's what I I usually have to you know the banino rule yeah who listens to my show [Applause] I so we've got a few everybody so there's two or three there's two my my my statistics of course and my math skills are terrible but what do I always tell you with the Bonino rule I say give it about 24 hours to let a story Brew so I generally like Tucker we'll go and listen to what most of the jerk Wads in the mainstream media have to say and then I naturally assume the opposite is true right so when I heard this morning after watching the debate and doing the live show any of you guys tune in our live stream yeah man we kicked some ass did you see that we were like number five in the world we beat all these billion dooll media companies in my attic in a studio it's like falling apart serious with like wires hanging out of the ceiling we did that well you all did it for us and we appreciate it so I get up in the morning and having run for office and having been on TV and in radio I realized you know when you run and you got skin in the game that everything you know about politics is probably wrong from the candidate side it's only two things anyone know what it is man you my homies here my man brother I love this guy I'm going to come back I if my knee wasn't bad jump off the stage and hug you it's two things if you listen to my show and if anyone tells you it's anything different than these two things promptly dismiss them as ignorant morons politics are snapshots and sound bites that's it guys like me and Tucker and all of you politically active Patriots you guys don't need to be convinced you guys don't need a white paper to understand that high marginal tax rates suck and all you don't need that okay the Americans out there who are busy and I don't hold anything against them who are busy and working in at soccer games right they see a picture and they see a sound bite and they hear a sound that's it so when I woke up this morning I noticed that do the snapshots and sound bites lens I'm looking at the snapshots of kamla Harris and I'm like someone going to show me the good one she's like no I'm say did what what the hell was it the Thinker pose like from the famous statue K who's never been no as a thinker she's like the school bu and the greatest clip ever Trump with Tucker and then they get on the school so I'm like okay where's the snapshot everyone has a snapshot remember even George W bush he was dating he was debating Gore and Gore came over remember he gave him the look and he that was the snapshot right where was the SN SN shot so the media is telling me it was this big resounding Victory president kamla Harris ladies and gentlemen everyone go home and I'm like okay there are no snapshots so I'm going to have to clean this up for my audience who's some of them may believe this BS and then I said well clearly there'll be a sound bite I won't take advantage of my opponent's Youth and inexperience uh the 1980s called for their foreign policy back there's going to be one of those right and I noticed something something there wasn't it's like magic and you know why because the leftwing media goons have a problem right now and the problem is Elon Musk they did not want to I'm serious and it's a real problem they did not want to spread the BS sound bites around because they were all fake none of them were re they were all inauthentic nonsense you know the fine people thing we've heard it the blood bath we've heard that too there's no sound bite either so sorry I promise I'll keep my other answers tighter but long-winded answer to it very simple question that debate was at best a push and if it's a push and Trump is ahead which I believe he is then I take it as a W for us so don't believe the Hy for 35 years Liberty Safe has been the number one manufacturer of safes made in this country americanmade from start to finish they make high quality gun safes I've got one Vault doors home safes handgun vaults whatever you need to protect the things you value and again I can tell you from personal experience these guys know what they're doing I use Liberty saves 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you know don't you see you know whatever but um and the closer you are and the more emotionally invested you are you know the more emotional you are about it but um I didn't see any moment in that where someone's like I'm really not sure who to vote for oh I'm voting KLA Harris yeah I think when you run for office and you see this too you start to figure out too that political narratives that the mainstream media tell you are damaging are typically not the only damaging political narrative or what would have hurt Trump last night because I I believe he's ahead now is there going to be some cheating and scamming yeah in a fair election I believe he's ahead so if he's ahead all he had to do was push last night but we were told he lost I went on my show today and said he didn't so if he lost there had to be a damaging and destructive politic IAL narrative the only damaging and destructive political narratives are ones that do this one thing they change your pre-existing notion of who a candidate is right I I'll give you a quick example right that's smart that's right you hear a story about Ted Cruz in a strip club it hurts that's going to ding him up that's not his reputation everybody believes him to be a far different guy which he is that's a damaging story yet you hear that story say like some country singer who's a real party or something runs for office and you hear he was in a strap a strip club last week is it going to ruin it's not going to do anything that's why all those stories about Donald Trump people had already seen him on the Howard Stern Show talking about being a young single guy in New York like none of it hurt so I ask you if Trump got hurt last tonight what changed your mind good luck that's why everybody's quiet because you know I'm right but what changed your mind about kamla Harris well 28% of Voters say they don't know who kamla Harris is well who is she after last night yeah you in the front row what who is she oh she I don't know she's The Thinker lady what did she tell you last night that change your mind nothing nothing so how did we lose I I agree with your point I think there were a couple moments and I think you and I I mean you you're like you are the master debater you have to say those words if you listen to my show you know don't say them fast I've called worse you are the man you have to say if you but you did this for a living on TV in front of 4 million people a night you're it's our instinct to go gosh you had it like go for it and I get it 100% there were a couple answers that probably could have been tighter but I I've I feel pretty good I'm not cocky about it I don't want to hear any talk about a red wave you're going to get kicked in the nuts again if you keep talking about that but I feel sorry I put a cup on but I I just like I feel pretty good last night was at Basta push it's interesting that you said um that the the Twitter that X that Elon Musk is a pivotal figure in this election can you flush it out a little bit so I'm reading this article you know The Washington Post the the the Democracy dies in the dark it's it's always the opposite of course as noted of what they're saying do you believe they are literally an iron curtain over information the point of the Washington Post is to hide reality from you is to tell you that your eyes are lying to you isn't it hilarious like they had the balls to put that on like their Mast head like democracy dies at the Washington Post like that's hilarious I'm reading this piece the other day and uh the headline is you know it's the thousandth piece with the same title Elon musk's misinformation about the elections that threatened theocracy from the people who promoted the Russia hoes the hunter Biden's laptop with Russian disinformation hoax it was kind of hilarious and I I thought and I know Tucker you and I actually discussed this on my show when you were kind enough to come out at the RNC I thought to myself like folks you know the demons are a real man Evil's a very real thing evil is a very real thing I was talking to this gentleman who runs a pro-life advocacy group this guy Dan who we advertises on our show too and we're talking about a group of people right now who talk about the craziest things like castrating kids in schools showing them porn I you know what you said before I've heard you say many times you're right like this is the kind of stuff 30 years ago you'd be beaten up by the parents or arrested doing and everybody would celebrate you and the thing about Elon that has them so threatened is Elon has provided a platform for the first time and elon's not he's a self- admitted not conservative he's just not a liberal either that has them genuinely threatened because the Liberals built this thing they built essentially this new Global almost like Cosmic Town Square with starlink right they built this Cosmic Town Square which they thought mistakenly was going to create a monopoly over ideas for the next generation of kids and what happen this this Tony Stark like billionaire comes in and buys the platform and says listen I'm not really a conservative but those are crazy and I'm going to let you conservatives talk and the entire world melted down I mean there is nothing that frightens the liberal right am I crazy they what what is the liberal's biggest fear the Liber the modern liberal is biggest fear is the community note there is nothing the liberal hates more than being embarrassed because they're not used to it listen you worked at at CNN with crossfir these people you know how they are they are so used to being at these bis cocktail parties they're so used to having the fuagra FED to them and people kissing their ass that remember the old adage was don't mess with people who buy ink by the barrel no one me people mess with the cops before they mess with the media and now nobody respects him people are like ah D Well Community know you're dumbass and they look stupid and they don't know how to respond Elon has changed everything the whole game has changed and they don't know what to do so I I would say um I would put a little finer point on and say I've been around rich liberals every single day of my life until 4 years ago when I just decided I'm never going to be around them again I I did my time but I spent 51 years around Rich liberals and I think the secret that they're hiding they don't hide the weirdness of their sex lives or the chaos of their personal lives that's all known the one thing they don't want you to know is that they're mediocre that they're they don't have any skills actually they can't really do anything and so they built this entire universe of nonprofits and colleges and government bureaucracies all designed to give them employment wealth and status when in fact they don't deserve any of it because they're totally useless people actually they can't do anything they're not impressive they're dumb and I know that because I know them I'm not guessing about this and I think social media have allowed us to see who they really are so like you know Hillary Clinton is like an not an impressive you know she's evil or whatever and she's worshiping baale in her spare time and all true but really she's like not very smart she's never had an original thought she's totally benol if you asked her like her deepest thought would be like today is the first day of the rest of my life like she's got to kind of bumper stick her IQ she's an idiot actually they all are idiots and social media allows everyone to know that and so they just can't wait to put people like you in prison so you'll stop pointing it out you know that that that's just brilliant you do you ever you ever you know you know Fred SE he you know we passed but he revolt against he was my editor actually for years wonderful man man he has an amazing book I can't recommend enough it's called revolt against the masses and it's a history of what Tucker just said you pointed that out just beautifully and you segue nicely from social media but the gist of the book is very simple that what Tucker said is accurate these people hate everything meritocratic or anything involved in a meritocracy precisely because they have no merit they are completely mediocre people who yearn for this new aristocracy of ideas where because they said something and they've got an NGO label next to them that you're supposed to default to it's true and under the even mildest of scrutiny from a former cop who grew up in Queens who asked a simple question like there's a peee tape out there it's kind of weird no one's seen it right right like Donald Trump drinks Diet Coke for breakfast and it was a major story in the Washington Post like you there's a pee PE tape out and they're like how dare you ask that question I'm part of the ideological aristocracy you you weren't you a cop and an agent what is yeah I worked for a living I had a real job I have I have kids I'm sorry you didn't but I mean you having worked with these idiots that's a brilliant point that in social media you're exposed to their IM facility every single day and they hate it and Elon won't give the the buffer mechanism of deleting your account and he allows you to go back and forth with him you know but it's I didn't used to think this I always thought because I worked in the media and people would always say they hated the media and I'd be like all right but it's not that big a deal that the media is run I completely changed my view but it's the actually it's people speaking is is the thing that upsets the most yeah you can unleash physical hell on a city you can destroy our largest city New York City through unrestrained immigration and people are literally defecating on the sidewalk and getting raped in the subway and it's like not a big deal to them but if you say something out loud that exposes their lies they actually want to kill you that is the one thing they can't stand so my question to you as someone who just left the media and built his own media God bless you for that once again like how long can they tolerate you honestly cuz what you do is not just inconvenient to them it's like the thing they hate most like they stay up late thinking about you yeah I wrote a whole chapter in this last book um about basically giving a middle finger to these these these it's it's not just leftists by the way it's swampy Republicans too I I hope you all understand that later don't don't think for yeah yeah I mean listen that you you know you expect stupidity from the Liberals but what Tucker's getting out with this they don't want you to speak he's 100% spot on and it's the swampy right too and um you know how long will they let me speak it's I say all the time like the most dangerous guy in you know probably cliche but whatever but it's true uh cliches always have an element of Truth they wouldn't be cliches right the most dangerous person in the world is someone with with actually nothing to lose and you know I had this weird moment I want to be maob and I'm not going to be like Danny Downer but you know when you get something something like cancer and they're like hey man you could like die and stuff and that's not cool and not you know who's got where's my don't get dead guy here I what is sure like that's there you go don't get dead brother what's the number one rule of the danam banino show don't get dead so when some right and liberals do things that help you get dead but so does cancer cancer will help you get dead quick so don't get it it sucks so when you survive something like that and you realize gosh man you know like I know I have an expiration date but I was hoping it wasn't like week or anything like that right it changes everything and they tried to stop me I got involved early with early with parlor because I knew Twitter under Jack was a train wreck and it took $3 trillion doll companies to take me down you know we were the number one app in the world not in news not the in the world we built that thing from 200,000 users to 20 million in the year I was involved and it took Apple Google and Amazon to take me down and I got to tell you something I looked at my wife when it happened cost me a lot of money and I put a lot of Sweat Equity into that and I was now they tried and I was very upset I mean we my wife and I cried a lot about it because we really you know we thank you and I said what do you do next so after spending a couple days thinking about like how how do I stick it to them and this is the chapter where I wrote it I wound up having a conversation with this guy Chris and he had this company called Rumble it was largely just like a lot of pet videos and Chris asked me he said you think you can do with Rumble what you did with parlor I said you're damn right I can I said give me one more shot to stick it to these people and I'll tell you something last night I saw some statistic I think it was on live search app that 133% of the digital video traffic last night in the United States was Rumble and I thought to myself holy [ __ ] you believe that it's we were doing pet videos you know 5 years ago and thanks to his so you you you can't let them win Tucker ever and you know they took us down and then they said well what if they come get you on the servers so we were like okay let's build our own server farm and then someone said to me and that's what we dead in Rumble now we have Rumble cloud and then someone said to me Dan they're going to cancel you processing like Stripes going to come after you I said how hard is it to start a Processing Company they were like it's hard I said let's start one and it's great we have parallel economy and then they said the book publisher the bush they're definitely not going to publish any of your books so I looked at my wife and I said she's backstage I'm like how hard is it you think to publish books very hard I'm like go start a publishing compan so I publish my own books now FD people whatever they tell you you can't do you go do it and then you you start your own company and then you get your own advertisers that's how you do it you pulled a Leo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street just don't defraud anyone I'm not leaving I'm not leaving I will haunt you tell these liberals I will haunt you sons of [ __ ] for the rest of your lives on this planet there you YouTube decided to cancel me YouTube sends me a letter and an email we're canceling you you said MK don't work they said you got to pull this video down I said I got a better idea we're just going to I'm going to cancel you idiots and I'm going to go advocate for a platform and then Rumble went and sued him later for like screwing them up like this screw these people don't ever let them beat you down ever ever whatever they tell you not to do you do times 10 look at my sister clapping up my sister's here for Kelly wave to everyone there she is and then and then my brother-in-law Chuck too let me I used to sleep on Kelly's floor in our house in Seldon because we didn't have any air conditioning in the other room remember that they were like put a few blankets down it's a hard floor that was it it was awesome good to see you what is the HR department your company say when you talk like this Paula Paula is the HR department Paula what does HR say when I talk like this once in a while I'll come down there were a couple times I was doing unfiltered like this fox show and you know some stuff would like there was like some always like a little squeeze sometimes and and I'd come down and she'd be like you did it again didn't you I'd be like yeah yeah I did one more time sorry do do you think like in your heart of hearts deep deep inside when you were working for the company you just mentioned that you did you think to yourself maybe I don't have like a super long future in corporate media I I I knew it I knew it I I knew it I just listen man I I can't work for anyone I'm to0 for this crap you know like I have a set of ideas and things I'm going to say and I I really don't I don't really give a damn about having some like moral or ethical sensor over me you know there's a lot of things on my show I wish I could change I met a lady on the photo line super nice she's obviously here she's in the the VIP thing and she's like Dan you know I love your show but you really have to like stop curse I said you know I'm I'm with you I I I know she's right like I love Jesus man I love I love Jesus Jesus doesn't like when people C but there's a part of me that really is hard to dig out you know and and it's this New York part of me and when I'm dropping like a massive F-bomb believe me I'm not proud of myself I got kids too I mean my U you know sometimes I think gosh like my my 12-year-old is probably watching this going God please don't but I'm just a really passionate guy and did you talk like that growing up up at the tennis club in P Beach or no listen brother I learned how to swim in a fire hydrant in a corner of 64th Place in Merlin like this you know so yeah I don't even know where that is that's like Kelly does ke Kell Kelly does she used to come out visit my our parents so Kelly's on my she's my sister I've grown up in her forever but we don't actually share any biological relationship my parents got divorced very young so she's always taking care of me so she would visit her dad in the city and then my dad would come and get us so in order to save the ride my father would then pick her up at my house and drive her back to Long Island after he dropped this off so yeah man he I mean we we grew up above a bar in a cockroach infested apartment so I always get a kick out of it when some you know liberal you know bag tells me like you don't know what it's like to be one of us really bro are you serious like I was one of you before you were ever one of you like you have no idea you know when what when was your and then you you know you worked famously for the federal government um when did your views become what they are now so I was a cop in New York and I was never ever um a liberal ever but I was definitely a left leaning independent and I had a bumper sticker on my Ford Escort it said question authority like that was my I never trusted anyone it's the only thing that kept me from being a Democrat I was never a Democrat have never voted for a Democrat never registered Democrat but when I became a cop I knew con the conservative path was the only way you can only walk into so many generational broken homes where the grandmother the mother and the kids are living in this same rent controlled you know bug infested apartment and no nobody has a job you can only walk into that home a hundred times before you say man if this is the government helping like don't help me please whatever you the old Reagan adage right I'm from the government I'm here please stop helping please God I'm not using his name in vain at all stop helping people and you know I that's when I started to really see the light and then since you know I I'm always comfortable talking to you as a friend I mean it was you know my mom it was hard I mean um sorry I don't mean to be a buzz but I just lost my mom and you know she uh thank you brother I needed that um my my mom um I get a call recently it was not that long ago and um you know I I she had fallen down the stairs and died unexpectedly but my mom was uh she loved me but the system broke her man it just broke her I mean she she was this really powerful strong woman who had been through so much and I just watched this Decay over time and the problem is the government was always trying to help her was on snap and all these programs and all of these things and when you tell people it's okay not to add value to the world and be productive then I've got news for you A lot of people will just stop being productive and it really hurt I mean I tried to save her so many times and I mean outside of the just trauma of losing her when I did it was so unexpected the part that still gets me now is I really always thought I was 5 minutes from saving her I swear my wife could tell you I was like this time is it like I'm going to get it this time and we're going to turn this ship around and can't save her now you know and I'm telling you that's what the government does to people it's why I'm so passionate like you about this cause me my wife and I used to sit back at 8:00 I've told you this personally you know it's true cuz I've told you many times and your monologue on Fox was must SE it was the only thing the only thing only thing I would sit there and like be pegged to the screen I watched the other guys but it was like that was a my white boat like get the popcorn out man CU it was always something I learned that wasn't insightful and I I I got that you feel the same way I do like I'm not passionate about I'm not running for office folks I don't need any more money I've invested a whole bunch of Stu life is good I am on the air every day as an evangelist for this cause and that is it I don't care if I ever get another sponsor it's to warn people that government is a cancerous plague in your life that outside of our military aun functioning court system and a local government for some roads and traffic lights there is nothing these people will do for you that will not destroy you in the end it's [Music] terrible thank you for sharing that I think it's absolutely true I I don't want that to be true but they don't have a single success actually not one so you know you judge the tree by its fruits I want to ask you specifically about something that has bothered me for the past 6 weeks that we do not talk about at all and you are uniquely positioned to comment on it and that's the attempted assassination of trump and I will stop there what was that do you think man I you know I I was at a congressional hearing with some members of Congress who actually cared about it Eli Crane and some others not necessarily some of the leadership who not saying they don't care they just seem don't really it's just weird like the former president potentially next president United States was shot in the head on live television a guy was murdered in front of his kids and the stories disappeared into like the Superman 2 Phantom Zone you know you remember they send Zod to the it's like that's the story it's like out there for and you're like no one nobody knows who the guy was working with if anyone no one there's not not a social media picture is surfaced to this kid at all so someone asked me was this an inside job or was this intent and I never say anything I can't back up ever because then my credibility is at stake and I'm never going to be a sensationalist about it but I will tell you this layered incompetence is intent correct I'll give you an example right can can you repeat what you just said one more time layered incompetence is intent exactly so so my brother-in-law is a doctor right he's smart guy if if he's a doctor right and if he goes to the mall on 110 degree Oklahoma City day and he's he's drunk sorry Chuck he's not a drinker but say he's smart cat right's sitting right there and he's drinking and he's blowing through traffic lights and he's got some young kid he babysitting in the car and then he walks in the mall leaves him there and the kid dies did he intend to kill him no but there is so much layered incompetence we presume intent so when you're a secret service agent like I was for 12 years who's done I mean highlevel Hot Zone protection operations everywhere from Afghanistan to Indonesia you know I've got the receipts to back it up and that's why they never mess with me you ever notied not a single person has come out from the Secret Service and been like no that guy's messing you ever noticed no one sou night they don't even dare because I'll just whip out the remember this oh you weren't there for that were you you didn't see that okay so how how was he put on the ax like how are you walked out on stage at all when there's an open threat how does a guy with a rangefinder manage to subvert an entire layered you know million dooll security plan how is it you don't set up a security room so you don't have to ask me was it an inside job or not because the truth is I don't know I don't know insiders I'm an outsider but I can tell you for a fact layered incompetence is intent and although it is relevant obviously if someone on the ins side knew about this and I find it very suspicious that we know nothing about this shooter at all I mean we know everything if you God forbid you were to you know shoot a Democrat which of course it's do not I am absolutely resolutely against political violence if you were to God forbid do that I promise you the media would be talking to the neighbors and everything but why don't we know anything about this this this shooter this killer why you think I'm stupid there's something going on here and layer incompetence is absolutely intent well okay so layered incompetence is intent persistent indifference is approval so if nobody cares that Donald Trump was just shot in the face 6 weeks ago that lets you know they approve of it no I mean nobody said you don't find it odd either I mean folks think about it right there was a debate last night the first one since the former president better than probably 5050 shots going to be the next president is on stage how many people brought up did he was shot in the head no listen this is there's nothing even remol but I I got to tell you man imagine again God forbid was Democrat I protected a Democrat I protected Bill Clinton Barack Obama George W Bush was like a Democrat sandwich I we don't kill our political leaders period but you both know God forbid someone had done the same thing to kamla there would have been moments of Silence rituals would have been held before there would have been a seven-minute montage of videos they would have brought out like every single first responder who was there would have been honored there would have been a closing statement about it Donald Trump was shot in the head not in the house on days of like 1954 this just happened this just I just saw a movie a few weeks ago when his thing I mean it's I was coming out of a movie when I heard it happen it you you're the you're 100% correct like the indifference to a man getting shot in the head on live television and no one even mentions it at the debate when I said to you before brothers and sisters man the the demons are real evil is real it's not some fake thing you've seen a I can't explain it I don't know what the hell it is I'm not your preacher I'm not your philosopher it's is it some quantum mechanics thing is it entanglement is it every good you know particle has an entangled I have no idea I don't know what it is but because I don't know what it is doesn't mean it isn't there my dog doesn't understand physics it doesn't mean it's not real it's real and the fact that not a single person brought up last night David mu I mean what was with was this guy kidding me Trump's debating three people last night and then you get this L Lindsay whatever her name is that they didn't even have the courtesy to say you know Mr President you know uh we want to acknowledge what what happened to you we feel really terrible from the family at ABC thank you for coming out tonight it would have been a moment where I think even you and I can't stand ABC would have been like all right whatever like at least they said it not a not a word not a freaking word about it guy got shot in the head on TV and by the way he's been amazing he don't even talk about I I'm not a name dropper I promise it's stupid and you look like a [ __ ] when you do it and don't ever don't there's two things don't ever do don't ever tell anyone your education cuz then you're probably an idiot and don't ever name drop but in this case it's important I spoke to him the next day after that now maybe two days I want to be precise and this guy man was like nothing happened I was like hey Mr pres I was calling about something I never call him ever ever so he whatever I do trust me he picks up cuz I never call I said to him man being a secret service guy you know shot in the head on that like I can't I'm horrified you know we let you down he was like yeah that sucked man shot in the head he was I heard the bullet wizard by and then he was like I think he went on like ask me about like Egg McMuffins or something like he's just like that you know him like he's just the most he any other politician would have done a national day of remembrance guy got shot in the head on live TV and he's like yeah man really sucked hurt my ear I gotta wear his bandage that's just who he is man sorry had had to throw that in there what had said I completely agree with that and in fact I mean his first reaction to getting shot that night was I can't believe how Brave everybody at the event was they didn't run right nothing about and I thought hear this guy's been attacked as a narcissist among many other things a threat to democracy and his first concern conc ER is for everybody else and he's impressed by their bravery I mean just quite amazing but I do think and I don't want to get dark about it or whatever but the fact that I mean for example last night at the debate he said to K Harris like you've attacked me as a threat to democracy not just to someone you disagree with or the opposing your you know your opponent but as like an actual threat to the United States and its continued existence maybe you inspired the guy to shoot me in the face and was just like oh stop complaining oh shut up it's just a 223 it's not a big deal you feel like they're they're for violence I mean I don't know how else to interpret that a normal person is horrified by someone getting shot by the way if K Harris got shot in the face I would be totally opposed to that I'm against shooting people in the face I just am and I don't like her at all but but they're not against it that's what I'm saying but but but what you're you know I we I think you and I always ask people to bring facts and data and we call we had joking the call receipts on the show like what you just said isn't even remotely controversial I mean that the left I'm not going to stigmatize all Democrats but that the modern left the progressive liberal radical left worships violence as a political tool of Oppression is not even remotely controversial if you just read the news I mean you had people am I crazy like you all saw it so BLM and antifa decid it's a goodidea idea to start burning down American cities which ironically were mostly liberal it's like wowan you know you ever hear that you know the dog you know why dogs like generally they won't they you put a dog in a in a cage to train them because they won't like [ __ ] in their own Den kind of thing not liberals like they will right there like you can't train them they're burning their own cities down and you've got Ali hold on they didn't have a Cho I mean I'm not the first one to note you you know try that in a small town it actually won't work it it will not it's not it's not it's like you've got this like you're so correct because you've got this like Stockholm syndrome with liberals who are like if I don't let another angry liberal burn my liberal City down then I'm part of the problem too you're like what are you always this stupid like did you just hear yourself you idiot so it's like they're burning the cities down we're all watching this I mean you and I were on the air when this is going down and Ali veli from MSNBC I'm pretty sure it was Ally he's like it's a mly peaceful there's a building in the background bro it's burning and there's people like yeah this is great like there is zero dispute the left glorifies violence zero we don't have this problem at all people ask me all the time oh political violence what January 6 don't don't Riot don't hit cops it's not hard wait what's the problem oh you're shocked at my answer that's fascinating because Kamala Harris according to the FBI was almost killed by a pipe bomb and the only people covering it are freaking conservatives not you you you told me I'm supposed to be concerned about violence on January 6 I'm the only one talking about it outside of a few other reporters like Julie K they love violence they love it and here's the reason here's the reason don't ever forget this this is the most frightening part about the modern liberal see we're all God-fearing Patriots in this room so you have a builtin emergency break on your behavior right your values do not come from the Constitution they're only protected by this document but they come from God with a capital G that's a different power but it but it gives them it creates an asymmetric War for us and it does and you should never forget get this because of that emergency break God there are things you won't do to other people you just won't you will not go and punch Tucker Carlson or me in the face you won't do it because not because someone told you not to do it but because God is imbued you a sense of values and you just won't do it the modern secular liberal has no emergency break at all when the Socialist talks about the ends justifying the means they're not kidding the means mean nothing to them so political violence for them is totally justifiable because there's no moral compass there's no emergency break and if they say well if we put shock troops in the street we'll own the streets scare the hell out of the conservatives and we'll engage in a group of heckers vetos where they won't even speak out then how's that not a W for us and in their perverse Minds that calculus makes perfect sense it's it's it's it's it's it's their Credo it's how they live you just have to understand it or you'll always get your ass kicked by it so what what they're doing is kiting vandalism against the country it's purely destructive it's not creative all they're building nothing they're only tearing things down they pull down statues they replace them with nothing except the homeless so um you ask who would do that who commits vandalism where does that impulse come from the rage and of course it comes from within happy people don't do that happy people sort of enjoy the flowers they don't set them on fire I do think the main difference between left and right in this country it's not political it's fundamental it's one group is happy and the other group is truly miserable they hate themselves and therefore you so by the way people who hate themselves have no problem hating you be very afraid of people who hate themselves like KL Harris when that camera came on her at the at the open I me spent my life on TV I can tell see fear instantly she was terrified and she kind of pulled herself together but she was afraid how do you stay happy you're on the happy team not to get too personal but like what is your program for staying happy you know um I'm not a happy guy no I'm not I love my wife a lot I talk about her all the time in the show she's become kind of a semi celebrity just for my show and her like crazy date night stories but you know that you ever read the book The Natural not the mov the movie's good but the the book the malamud book and there's a line where Roy hobbs' girlfriend says to Roy you know that uh we all live two lives the one we learn from and the one we live after that that's a great line but it's the second part she says it really matters she says the real path to happiness is through suffering and she's right now there's a lot of like bio chemical reasons beyond the scope of this conversation that I won't bore you with about dopamine and all this other crap but God gave you a really intricate happiness reward system but the only way to access it so that it feels good that really feels good that it's deep not liberal happiness Coke blow crack drinking heroin whatever I'm talking about true happiness where you feel you can die one day satisfied make no mist mistake and listen to what I'm telling you this is the best advice you're ever going to get not because it came from me but because someone gave it to me and it was genius it's only through suffering so people ask me like I joke about this cold plunge thing I have which sucks in the morning like nothing you've ever you ever jump in 40° water at 6:00 in the morning every morning and just sit there and freeze you know why I do it anyone have any idea because it sucks that's why that's why I do it because it sucks no I'm serious yeah there's cold shock proteins and all this stuff your brain is intricately wired by the intelligent intelligent Creator to have to earn every ounce of Happiness my wife and I have a date night on Friday night that's the one night a week me and her let loose and you know what I earn that I'm up every morning working out jumping in a damn cold plunge I'm 50 years old I'm falling apart I'm sitting there squatting deadlifting sweating I'm done with my show I'm up from 6:00 I bang out work from what 10: to 3:00 p.m. right back to show prep the next day right in the sauna my wife comes she doesn't do the cold punch she hates it she only does she'll do the I sit in 190 degrees for 30 minutes why do I sit in it because it sucks that's why and you know what when you're done with it you ever listen to Goggins David you should be doing things that suck and you know what your Friday nights with your wife are going to be the greatest gift you ever got because you know why because it doesn't suck and you're so used to everything sucking so am I happy no six days a week I'm freaking miserable but I am as happy as a pig in a [ __ ] pile on Friday night and I love my life and I'm not suicidal and I love Jesus I love my life I love it and you'll love it too do things that suck don't be a liberal seek out the fake stuff fake phony stuff that's what they do that's why they hate themselves everything is fake and artificial praise for each other stupid oped they right so what do they do they're all smoking dope and weed all day be getting up at who the hell gets up at 10:00 in the morning 10:00 in the morning I'm done with my day 10:00 in the morning your ass up sorry that is so awesome I just I just love that thanks man so take us out with where you think the country is in a year and where you think the people in this room are in a year you described your listeners not just as people who tune in but as part of a movement where is that movement in a year you know I I'm I'm worried about the country I'm I'm worried because having lived through well let me I was young with the Reagan Revolution I don't want to pretend I was active in politics when I was 10 um you know I was born in 74 but I did live through it and I became fascinated by it at the time so having lived through that and then having lived through Rudy giuliani's New York I have it this expression again if you're listeners you know what it is and the question I ask everyone I know the country is blessed and touched by the hand of God I know it I know Evil's real but I know good is real too I do I know God is real like I feel it I believe and it it's an article of faith I can't prove it to you I can't pull a spreadsheet out of my butt and say hey here it is but I'm telling you this country is different we should not have survived the Revolutionary War the odds were 5,000 to one we were to win that against the British Empire we were saved in the War of 1812 some historians will tell you by a thunderstorm I mean we shouldn't have won that either we we should have never survived the Civil War and been more prosperous we we shot each other it was the it was gruesome then we survive the hippies I mean how the hell who survives that I mean we should not be here and it's not only I mean we've spent the country into Oblivion we have you you know I hate the word literally right I can't stand it but we have like non-figurative morons running this place and not only are we still here but where the most powerful Empire in the history of the known Cosmos now it's not even closed and you're like so forgive me but that is not by power of human beings alone there's some Divine something Divine about the United States it's special I mean it I'm that's that's some talking point Brothers I'm not running for off this the the problem I have is it's all cyclical like I said to you before an unintentional segue like think of the country as a collective organism it has to do things that suck in order to enjoy the good times and unfortunately we do a lot of things that suck so having lived through giuliani's New York and Reagan's United States I ask people all the time do you think it's bad enough yet because we'll always Churchill said it right given you know given the all the opportunities in the end the United States will always do the right thing right we'll always figure it out but it has to get bad enough and what makes me worry Tucker is I just don't think it's bad enough yet I don't wish suffering on anyone but I just told you I bring suffering on my own life because I know it makes the good times that much better and I know in New York I live this I live through I think 2500 people were murdered in the city you have any idea how that's like Afghanistan like under the Taliban and everybody in New York was like oh this is it they're definitely going to elect a Republican they were finding a two three dead bodies a day Giuliani runs and I don't know if you guys remember what happened everybody's like oh he won no he didn't no he lost did you know that he and everybody's like how what how the hell did you he lost in a sliver did David dinkin they called him David 1989 yeah he lost no one in New York could believe it they were like what the hell has to happen what has to happen well I'll tell you what happened 25 500 more people were murdered for four more years people died like actually died brutal deaths and in truan Ran again and he won in a close race and then he ran again four years later after cleaning the city up I lived through it you know what he won by in a city where the registration Advantage was 10 to1 Democrats and Republican he won by 18 points go look it up 18 points so my I'm optimistic because I know there's a Divine hand of God touching this place I'm just afraid we're not even close to bad enough yet and anyone telling you oh yeah it's bad enough people are going to wake up we had inflation it was you know 9% nine under Jimmy cardi you had mortgage rates it were 15% people have to suffer it's not you I know what you're thinking you're out there thinking what me and Tucker are thinking we want to just wake them up go you don't have to do this cold plunge thing there's a way out of this it's called like don't get dead and don't be an [ __ ] like this isn't hard here's the general rule don't kill people in the street try to give as little money of the government as possible control your own health care and like don't cut my kids genitals off when they're young like this isn't hard and they're like they're like no no they're like but Dan we got to try it first okay I can't stop you D go ahead I don't know I don't I don't think we're I know we'll save ourselves I just don't know if we're there yet next time we meet I would like a not in a live setting but a very detailed description of your Friday night but in the meantime Dan bunino you guys hear my my updates on Monday on the show right they're pretty crazy don't ever come out with me on Friday night I we've actually been like thrown out of bars and stuff on I'm a you know Kid Rock has that song get tossed in the mix throw it out of bars I've actually lived that like it wasn't my fault though I promise I didn't do anything I didn't do I didn't do anything I totally believe you danino thank you you got amazing thank you so much thank you I appreciate it thanks a lot you guys that was a [Music] lot the big tech companies censor our content I hate to tell you that it's still going on in 2024 but you know what they can't censor Live Events that's why we are hitting the road on a fall tour for the entire month of September Coast to Coast we'll be in cities across the United States we'll be in Kansas City with Megan Kelly Witchita with Charlie Kirk Milwaukee with Larry Elder Rosenberg Texas with Jesse Kelly Grand Rapids with Kid Rock Hershey Pennsylvania with JD Vance Reading Pennsylvania with Alex Jones Fort Worth Texas with Roseanne Bar Greenville South Carolina with Marjorie Taylor green Sunrise Florida with John Rich Jacksonville Florida with Donald Trump Jr you can get tickets at tuckercarlson.com hope to see you there