Is This The October Surprise?

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Is there an October Surprise coming? Now, the overwhelming majority of people listening to the show know exactly what I'm talking about. The elections in November. The October Surprise is a tactic used by politicians across the aisle. It's not just a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. There's always some big surprise before a midterm or presidential election. Pretty much always. 90% plus. Where some bombshell, dreaded air quotes, gets launched in October to alter the election. A Russia hoax or some crazy story. Donald Trump's the spawn of aliens from the planet Jupiter or something like that.

What's going to be the October Surprise this cycle? If there is one. Now, again, I cannot predict the future. I'm not Johnny Carson's Karnak dating myself. But I have some ideas of things that could happen, positive and negative. So you're prepared because it's better to know or at least be prepared to ingest the information than to be surprised, blindsided, find out after the election it was fake. Like the Russia nonsense crap. And by the way, for those of you who tell you the Russia hoax was not launched before the election, BS, I've shown that and debunked that theory a thousand times, that article from what was it, the New Yorker or elsewhere. They don't give me that crap. I've already debunked that. Got that. An important note on something that involves me personally. And then it but it may involve you too. It's the only reason I bring it up. And third, I just want to address what's developing in some of these SEC schools with the death of these students and why I didn't address it yesterday or the day before. I try to live by the Bongino rule and we still don't know what happened. However, regardless of what happened, I just want to briefly chat about that because I have very close family members of mine in SEC schools. So we'll get to that. Folks, make All Family Pharmacy your go-to pharmacy with 500 plus medications, physician review and fast delivery to your door. They make it simple. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com/bongino.

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First, folks, this involves me, this situation personally. We have a very kind of sad because it speaks to the state of our politics and how some people have just gone so crazy. We have a pretty sad security situation developing with us. I don't like to bring up my personal situation, but I only bring it up because you, as people on X with a platform now, even if you have a couple thousand followers, that's a whole lot of people. A lot of you are seeing this too. There are people who become so enraged from their shrinking political power, shrinking audiences, whatever it may be. I don't know if they need some reason to live and their shrinking audience is taken away, the only power they thought they have. They're crashing out, raging out, and we're getting all kinds of threats from lunatics, from some of them are liberals, some of them I'm not so sure, talking about there's Luigi's everywhere, referencing Luigi Mangione and others, involved in that case at the drug executive up in New York, of course.

Folks, listen, man, some of the people promoting this stuff are really pathetic.

One of them in particular, you can look it up yourself has an extremely questionable history with adult-like website-type stuff.