The Dan Bongino Show

consequences are what humble us. What gives us pause when we're about to make a rash mistake?

Our losses teach us about the limits of humanity and those who do not learn from the wisdom of those losses in part are usually setting themselves up for an even bigger disaster.

The liberal essence, the liberal world order that rules the West has been so dominant for so long that our elites cannot imagine a scenario where there are serious and lasting consequences to the decisions they make.

our ruling class has an unbroken string of victories reaching beyond their living memory and they can't imagine a world where they are not the undisputed masters of the universe.

Any evidence of failure is only an indication that they are not applying sufficient pressure. You fail, you screw up, double down.

consequences are what humble us. What gives us pause when we're about to make a rash mistake?

Our losses teach us about the limits of humanity, and those who do not learn from the wisdom of those losses in part are usually setting themselves up for an even bigger disaster.

The liberal essence, the liberal world order that rules the West has been so dominant for so long that our elites cannot imagine a scenario where there are serious and lasting consequences to the decisions they make.

our ruling class has an unbroken string of victories reaching beyond their living memory, and they can't imagine a world where they are not the undisputed masters of the universe.

Any evidence of failure is only an indication that they are not applying sufficient pressure. You fail, you screw up, double down.

The Black Swan, Joe's favorite book. That's a joke for those P1s, you know what I'm talking about. It is a good book though by Nassim Taleb.

And selfishly, I'll plug my book, The Plot Against the King. Please buy it.

Plot against the king. Let's get a plug for the book. Plot against the king by Cash Batali is a good friend. The show go pick it up. Plot against the king.

Cash Patel, the book is The Plot Against the King. Please go pick it up.

The epithet is the name of a fictitious KGB spy who infiltrated the government in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan suit.

He wrote he writes his fiction books one of them called Those Who Remain you may have heard this quote before Michael Anton uses it a lot to hard times create strong men Strong men create good times good times create weak men and weak men create hard times

How many times do we mention his book? The socialist guide to the idiot's guide to socialism, whatever. I forget that. It's a great book. He's very smart.

I've ironically sold more books for this guy and he sold for himself.

To call it an eye-opener, I'm getting goosebumps now talking about it. Call it an eye-opener, maybe understatement of the day.

It's available for pre-order now. I have seen it, I've read it. I am publishing this book with partners here.

It talks about what happened to him after Hunter walked into his store, his Mac store and left the computer behind. Folks, it is an eye-opener with some details you haven't heard before. They are disturbing. It shows you the power of the deep state.

American Injustice, My Battle to Expose the Truth by John Paul Mac Isaac

Available for pre-order now. You will not be disappointed. Please check it out.

Oh, so you want to put This Book is Gay and Out of Darkness and We Are the Ants in your library, whatever they are, books with the topics many school districts believe are just not appropriate for kids.

Jason Matera is an author. He wrote a book called Hollywood Hypocrite.

He wrote a book in '64 called 'One-Dimensional Man,' sold 300,000 copies in the first year.

He explains what the real source of inequality is.

I don't think it's the marriage as such or the library cards as such. I think it's that there are lifestyle choices that have been made.

And the comparison I made was between if you look at the poverty rate among blacks, it was a 22 percent and among whites was 11 percent. But among black married couples, it was 7.5 percent.

So it's not so they not only do better than blacks as a whole, they do better than whites as a whole. And so it's so it's lifestyle choices.

And these are not kids who are skimming the crown cream. They're kids chosen by lottery. They don't even test them for ability. They don't even look at their academic records. They take them into the schools and they have hard work and they make it clear at the outset and they don't tolerate a lot of nonsensical behavior. And these kids are doing incredibly.

You can see here's the cover right here. You can pick it up now. It's coming out January 25th, but you can preorder wherever you get your books. American Muckraker, James O'Keefe.

This is kind of an open book question for you here, but what's wrong with journalism in the 21st century?

In this book, I talk about, I wasn't in DC on January 6th. I was in a hotel, or I wasn't on the Capitol grounds. I was in a hotel room and I was meeting with a source, someone inside the Customs and Border Patrol.

What the FBI did was unconscionable, okay? It was a disgrace. They came to my apartment with a battering ram. They're putting American journalists now in handcuffs.

I talk about this in American Mock Raid, the object of persecution is persecution.

I feel like I'm fulfilling my, this is my lifelong calling to be a children's book author and it feels wonderful.

the left has had a monopoly on the indoctrination of kids for a long time. I consider this the unindoctrination process, the back to reality process.

it's called Johnny the Walrus because it's not about an actual walrus, it's about a little kid who pretends to be a walrus and then his mom is progressive and woke and so she learns from society that she's supposed to respect her son's self-identity. And so she tries to raise him as a walrus, as sort of a trans walrus and at one point takes him to a doctor to look into getting a medically transitioned into being a walrus.

the book, it never says the word transgender in the book.

I'm not only a bestselling children's author, I am and this was very unexpected. I'm a bestselling LGBT author.

the left has had a monopoly on the indoctrination of kids for a long time. I consider this the unindoctrination process, the back to reality process.

the book, it never says the word transgender in the book.

I'm not only a bestselling children's author, I am, and this was very unexpected. I'm a bestselling LGBT author.

It's about a little kid who pretends to be a walrus and then his mom is progressive and woke and so she learns from society that she's supposed to, you know, respect her son's self-identity. And so she tries to raise him as a walrus, as sort of a trans walrus. And at one point takes him to a doctor to look into getting a medically transitioned into being walrus.

It's a real book. It's not a joke. It's called Johnny the Walrus is blowing up the charts. It's literally a bestseller.

I read his book, The Blue Book, which he wrote about the economy of the