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All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show.

**Dan Bongino** (0:10)
You know, there's a lot of timeless wisdom with people who've been around politics for a long time. I'm not talking about the knuckleheads and swamp rodents and all that stuff, but there are a lot of people who are in politics for the right reason. They want to be there because they really believe we can change the arc of history for the better.
I'm not talking again about everybody running for office, but people behind the scenes, activists.
When you run for office like I did, you wind up crossing paths with a lot of these people. I'm going to tell you some, any bit of timeless wisdom I get that I can pass on to you, I always will. Because we are the leaders we've been waiting for. It's not about me. This is just one microphone. You all have your own microphones too. No, I don't. Yes, you do.
You have your ex accounts. I only got 100 followers. That's a lot of people. There's 100 people who could see your posts every day. I only got a couple hundred friends on Facebook. Good enough for me. You have your own microphone. It may not be an RE20 microphone, microphone like this, but it's certainly a microphone. You have one too.
Snapshots and soundbites, a piece of wisdom passed on to me. Politics are pictures and soundbites. That's it.
White papers are great. Research papers are fantastic. I'm not against them, but the hard reality is people live busy lives and they just don't have the time to read all that. Make it a snapshot or a soundbite and it'll be digestible. Another thing I've told you in politics that helps in the messaging front is always ask a question rather than make an assertion. If you can ask a question, why do you believe higher taxes work? Rather than saying higher taxes just don't really work. People who believe higher taxes are a good thing just shut you down the minute you make an assertion. When you ask a question, their brain cannot stop wanting to answer it. And it makes them think more. Always ask a question rather than make an assertion. Another piece of wisdom that was passed on to me, which I'm going to get to in the beginning of the show, because the premise of today's show is, ladies and gentlemen, Karma is catching up to all these people. The liars, the frauds, the grifters, the socialists, all of them, the islamo fanatic nuts, it's catching up to them right now, is we are actually winning the messaging war now. Something I never thought I'd ever be able to say about Republicans. I'm sorry. We were just never really good at this. Our ideas always won. People say they like higher taxes but don't pay them. So our ideas won. If people like higher taxes, they pay them and they don't. So they're full of crap. So why do we lose elections sometimes? Because our messaging was just not tight. And one of the reasons, this is that last piece of timeless wisdom, assertions versus questions, snapshots, soundbites.
A lot of the big donors to the Republican Party used to call candidates and get in their ear, I'm going to donate a million dollars to a PAC, but here's how I think we, a lot of these folks in the past were from commodities industries.
Finance, not so much a commodity, but finance, petrochemicals, and there was really no need for fancy marketing. Like, what are you going to say? You're like, buy, you know, buy Citgo versus this guy. I mean, you know what? It was, it's gas.
A lot of the people who donate to Democrats, Hollywood people, artists, you may not like them, but they're very creative and they thought of better messages. That's totally turned now. It's totally turned. The left is turned into NPC robot automatons and the right is turned into the creative messaging people. You got the dilly folks, you got meme people out there, Spencer Pratt tearing it up with AI ads. It's totally turned. We are winning the messaging war. Receipts matter. You see people backtracking right now.
Hassan Piker, I'm getting off of X. Listen, I got off X for a while. I'm not mad for getting off X. I'm just saying if you're proud of what you're doing. Elon bought it, I came right back. I mean, it was a great opportunity for me.
I'm gonna show you how we're winning and how we can keep winning because this stuff matters. All the grift and doom all the time. Sometimes talk about stuff with a smile. We're winning the messaging war. Receipts incoming. Hey, food security should never depend on perfect weather. Flawless supply chains or fully stocked grocery shelves. Ain't that for sure. We got hurricanes coming in. You better be prepared. Extreme weather and drought can hit crops. Transportation and supply chain disruptions can slow delivery. Livestock disease can put added pressure on the system. Let me just throw something in there while we're talking about preparedness. There's a killer article in the Wall Street Journal at the day, no pun intended, about how a food virus, an ag virus or something, if it would have a global impact, there are going to be a lot of people starving. Get prepared today. You can't control every threat, but you can control how you're prepared. I've been working with My Patriot Supply for a long time. I have probably a six-month-plus supply of food in my house for me and my family. It's really important because things eventually will go sideways. We all live through COVID. We've been through hurricanes. You don't want another AI-created ag virus out there. That's why they're doing something they've never done before at My Patriot Supply. They're offering their best-selling four-week emergency food supply kit, a buy one get one, 50% off. These kits deliver 2,000 calories a day. That's not starvation rations. That'll keep you alive and healthy, long-lasting shelf stable meals. They're easy to store and simple to prepare. Don't put this off. Strengthen your food security today at preparewithdan.com. Don't wait. preparewithdan.com is the website. preparewithdan.com. Prepare today. Don't wait. All right, fellas, let's go. I know it wasn't a record for my longest open before, but it's getting up there. I know Justin and Guy were already thinking of a segue. You know what's great about messaging? Message how important it is for your food supply to be secure. Very good, except I did it myself. Folks, we are winning the messaging war. Let me just play this first, because, again, receipts matter. Anyone can say anything. The difference between this show and everyone else's show is we produce actual receipts that are real. Some of you will get that. Actual receipts.