This Deep State Stooge Can't be FBI Director (Ep.89)
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Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. The feds have declared full war on Matt Gaetz. Why Deep State stooge Mike Rogers should not be FBI director. FEMA whistleblowers reveal more political targeting against Trump supporters. The Young Turks' Cenk is turning MAGA

Maybe. The trans-identifying male congressman is trying to play the victim. Kamala vacations in Hawaii while America is on the brink of World War III. And a Georgia mom is arrested and charged for letting her child walk less than a mile unsupervised. All this on Bon Gino Report, early edition.

Something really strange happened yesterday related to the Matt Gaetz controversy and the potential release of an ethics report to derail his confirmation. I'm telling you guys, really, really strange.

The deep state does not want this man confirmed. But before I get into the specifics of what happened yesterday, I want to just give you guys a little summary of why this ethics report on Matt Gaetz, Gaetz's alleged trafficking of an underage girl is totally bogus, or at least all the evidence suggests that it is totally bogus.

The House Ethics Committee's report comes years after the DOJ dropped its investigation into Matt Gaetz because the case relied on two witnesses so unreliable that even the DOJ, which is again no fan of Matt Gaetz, knew that no jury would convict. The first witness, Joel Greenberg, has been dubbed one of Florida's most corrupt politicians. And this guy actually has a history

of fabricating vile lies, including actually accusing a political rival of his of sex crimes, which a judge later called downright evil. So he's already accused somebody falsely of sex crimes and actually been found guilty of it.

Greenberg faced 27 years in prison for a slew of crimes, including having sex with the same 17 year old, supposed 17 year old at the center of the Matt Gaetz allegations. And the woman, by the way, is now an OnlyFans and adult films creator. She's an online prostitute. Now Greenberg begged Gaetz for a pardon, but Gaetz refused. This is at the time of his charges, his 27 potential years sentence.

And when Gates refused, Greenberg swore revenge. And a cellmate of Greenberg actually testified that Greenberg had schemed to have the woman support his lies about Gates for potential financial gain. And Greenberg even verified, we know that he even verifiably paid this woman's legal bills.

So there's no evidence that Matt Gaetz knowingly had any involvement with the woman, this underage, supposed underage woman when she was not over 18. And ultimately, the DOJ knew that their witnesses were so unreliable that none of this would hold up in court. Now for the sketchy news from yesterday. You guys have a little rundown of what's going on. It's a complicated story, very strange. The New York Times reported yesterday that an unidentified hacker

had gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz. And the file is said to include sworn testimony by Gaetz's accuser who said that she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17, as well as corroborating testimony by a second woman who said that she witnessed this encounter.

i want you guys to drop a comment do you guys think that this is just some anonymous citizen hacker just a random a do-gooder who said i'm gonna expose matt gates because i'm completely unrelated to anybody in u.s intelligence whatsoever this is textbook deep state behavior i'm just gonna say that there's no chance that these are just random citizens this is just a random citizen hacker this is the permanent state

doing everything possible to prevent Matt Gaetz's confirmation because they're afraid. And it's a perfect example of if they wanted to, they would as well. Ian Carroll tweeted yesterday, they have, oh, somebody's all knows. Yeah, I agree, chat. You guys know what's up. And this is what's great about living in the era that we do. I think even five, no, maybe not five, 10 years ago,

We would have heard this story and thought maybe they're just anonymous hackers who are regular citizens and not involved with U.S. intelligence whatsoever. Maybe now nobody believes that. Now we are fully aware. Now we are awake. So Ian Carroll tweeted yesterday. He said...

They have, quote, anonymous hackers cracking the Gates case wide open in days. But five years later and not a single Epstein client or conspirator has been charged when they have all the tapes.

There's a reason the DOJ went after Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz with this bogus investigation in the first place. There's a reason they're doing it now. There's a reason they're trying to expose him now. Matt Gaetz, like Trump himself, is an uncontrolled figure who isn't afraid to go after the state. And the state's main objective in all of this is self-preservation. It's never about justice. If it were interested in justice, Jeffrey Epstein would be alive and his co-conspirators would also be in prison.

You want to know how slimy these people are? Yesterday, the Heritage Foundation's oversight project reported that a paper shredding truck, yes, a paper shredding truck arrived at the DOJ.

They're destroying evidence. We all know what's happening. The state doesn't want Matt Gaetz or Tulsi or anyone in this new admin to uncover the truth of their political targeting, their illegal surveillance, election interference, suppression of whistleblowers, black budget activities, blackmailing of prominent figures. And it's all going to come to light if Matt Gaetz is actually confirmed.

So they are trying to take this man down to save their own asses. I'm telling you guys, this story, it was textbook. And it was very, very disturbing. Frankly, it was disturbing to me that in the New York Times article, nobody even made that suggestion. There was no inquiry into who these anonymous hackers actually are other than just anonymous hackers. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, I have some really essential information for you all.

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I'm not going to lay out exactly why, but first I just want to show you guys a clip of former CIA director Michael Hayden saying that he's considering putting deep state surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden on a kill list, to which then FBI agent Mike Rogers, former FBI agent Mike Rogers, says this. Lots of things to comment on. Let me talk about the European award and his nomination. I must have made him

My darker moments over the past several months, I had also thought of nominating Mr. Snowden, but it was for a different list. Okay? I can help you with that. Oh, there's cameras here, too. I forgot about that. That was Mike Rogers saying, I can help you with that. And they all just laugh. Oh, it's so funny. It's not funny. It's not funny at all. It's scary. And what's even scarier to me is that they would laugh about it.

something as serious as that because you know that they just are completely above the law. They know that no matter what they suggest or say or do, there will be no consequences. These are the people that we're dealing with. That is who Mike Rogers is.

Sean Fleetwood wrote an excellent article in The Federalist titled "Americans Can't Trust Mike Rogers to Give the FBI the Reckoning It Needs." And I totally agree. This piece is wonderful. It details how Rogers assisted in writing and voted for the infamous Patriot Act, which of course empowered the federal government to conduct warrantless surveillance against normal American citizens. And then in 2005, NPR interviewed then Congressman Rogers,

And Rogers stated that, quote, no due process is subjugated in the Patriot Act, not one iota. And he said this in defense of the Patriot Act, not as an indictment on it. Rogers also has a history of defending federal phone and Internet surveillance programs, and he has lobbied for a long term extension of the Patriot Act in 2011.

Now, Rogers' wife, Christy Rogers, worked at a military contracting firm during Rogers' time leading the House Intelligence Committee. So she's working for a military contracting firm while her husband is leading the House Intelligence Committee. Right off the bat, chat, you guys know that seems like a little bit of a conflict of interest, wouldn't you say? I'd say yes, a little bit of a conflict.

That's Michael says it's like me saying your show is good. He has to he has to love the show He has to be a Duffy division fan now judicial watches Micah Morrison wrote a report on Christie's job and said that quote

The outlines of the story are more suggestive of right-doing, Washington style, an insider's game of covert operations and corporate profits played out in the gray areas of law and policy. In other words, this is dirty Washington tricks and money-making schemes from, again, people who are just sort of above the law, who act within the system to really abuse the system. As Sean Fleetwood puts it,

Rogers is a typical D.C. institutionalist who has spent his entire political career funding and safeguarding the very agencies being weaponized to target citizens. His priorities, his priority has never been nor will be the interests of everyday Americans who continue to suffer as a result of his disastrous decision making. We do not want Mike Rogers. This is who we want in charge of the FBI.

The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big. And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its Intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You're cops. Go be cops. Go chase down murderers.

and drug dealers and violent offenders. What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here? Looking for their next government promotion, looking for their next fancy government title, looking for their parachute out of government. So while you're bringing in the right people, you also have to shrink government.

And some people are saying, you know, abolish the FBI, abolish the FBI. Totally get that. Totally agree with that. That's the ideal. If we're not going to abolish the FBI, though, that seems like a great alternative. Kash Patel would be excellent in that position. By the way, if you're listening, I'm sorry I didn't say it. You just listen to Kash Patel, who is another person being considered for FBI director. And he is really the only good option here. He is he's he's the only one that can handle this very sprawling, very corrupted agency.

And I've been saying this over and over again. Trump listens to us. Advocate to Trump on your socials for Kash Patel. Kat Turd was tweeting yesterday, hashtag only Patel. That's a really good place to start. We don't need corrupt Mike Rogers in charge of one of the most corrupt and abusive agencies. That is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for the status quo.

And we don't need that right now. That's not what this new administration is about. This is about change. This is about rooting out waste and corruption and empowering the people again.

Speaking of government corruption, James Comer revealed yesterday that his staff made contact with a new whistleblower who provided a credible account that a FEMA contractor visited the home of an elderly disabled veteran's family around October 10th. And while there, the female contractor recommended that this Florida family remove Trump campaign materials and signs from their house and yard

stating that his FEMA supervisors view Trump supporters as domestic terrorists. Now, the elderly homeowners were so frightened by this and afraid that they would not recover their loss, so they did remove the signs. Yet, nevertheless, FEMA did not return to their residence. So, FEMA...

A FEMA employee goes to their house, says, "Hey, I had to remove these Trump signs because my higher-ups, we view Trump supporters as domestic terrorists." And of course that the Frightened Family did just that, they removed the signs. It's unbelievable, unreal, such a great example of the politicization of our entire federal government.

Here is, and this is what really gets me because it's a lack of accountability once these people are exposed that really enrages me. Here is FEMA Director Deanne Criswell explaining that actually misinformation, not political targeting, is the real problem here. Take a listen.

We have seen over my last few years in this position, but even as my time as a local emergency manager, we have seen the amount of information being spread that's just inaccurate about FEMA programs, about FEMA policies continue to increase. We saw a big jump during Maui. We saw an even larger increase, and again on a scale that I have not seen during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, primarily being spread through social media channels. And have you undertaken any efforts to combat that disinformation?

So we do a number of things. We have an entire team of public affairs and external affairs experts that help us try to put positive information, correct information out. We establish a page. It's a standing practice for us to establish a rumor control page that we have done for many years through many administrations to put accurate information about the programs that FEMA is offering and the assistance that is available. So instead of acknowledging all of the

egregious delays from FEMA in the wake of these two hurricanes, Criswell blames misinformation. Instead of acknowledging and addressing alleged and confirmed reports that FEMA was discriminating against right-wing hurricane victims, Criswell blames misinformation. It's no wonder people don't trust you guys.

But then they say, oh no, it's the public and too much free speech online. That's the real problem here. To me, this is just a sign that there needs to be more severe. There needs to actually just be severe. There's not just more because there are none. There needs to be severe consequences for illegal behavior in Washington. Because like I said, there is none right now. It's another reason that we need Matt Gaetz. If this lady was actually afraid

that FEMA higher-ups labeling Trump supporters terrorists and instructing workers to avoid helping Trump supporters would lead to criminal prosecution, this woman would not be talking about misinformation. She wouldn't. She wouldn't be just smearing the First Amendment as some sort of defense. She would be doing everything she could to rectify the situation. Blaming misinformation is what authoritarians do. People...

who do not fear the law and who believe they can and should control the minds of the populace, those people blame misinformation. Not public servants genuinely accountable to the American people. And this woman clearly views herself as above all accountability.

All right, switching gears here. We discussed yesterday how Cenk from the Young Turks podcast reached out publicly on X to Elon Musk asking if he could help cut military waste. And Cenk actually gave a great suggestion after Elon Musk said, okay, any ideas I'm open to hearing. He said that generals should not be allowed to get a job with defense contractors for 10 years.

Maybe even if you're on the House Intelligence Committee, your wife shouldn't have a job with defense contractors as well. We could add that to the list, but I digress. These generals do authorize a ton of waste because they are going to get hired by those same defense contracting companies the second that they retire. So I thought that was a great suggestion from Cenk. Here was Cenk yesterday discussing this exchange. He said, I asked

I asked Elon Musk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said, what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democrat leader has never asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them. Now, Cenk, of course, like he said, he identifies as a populist leftist. He's highly critical of corporate power and the influence of big business on our government.

And he's critical of his own party for abandoning their principles and the working class at large.

Here is Cenk on Piers Morgan in just an incredible exchange with Professor Alan Lichtman. And Lichtman is a very famous guy, widely known for his keys to the White House election prediction model. And of course, this model utterly failed this time around with President Trump and Kamala Harris.

I think this is an excellent snapshot, this exchange between Allen and Cenk. It's an excellent snapshot of the struggle currently taking place in the Democratic Party. So it's a little bit longer. It's very entertaining. Take a listen.

don't blame the voters i think look we get into this discussion but what i think you're blaming the voters i think it's a terrible idea uh... and at look i debated uh... professor like the before i told him his theories about the keys were absurd i was right he was wrong i said he'd loses keys so you would not want to know what i'm wrong and that's a cheap shot and i won't stand for a while who won brother did not be one cheap one of the who want to make you a little bit in a total make a lot of denial i read your own

followers comments and they all trashed you every one of them and supported me yeah right right personal yeah come find out again make whatever point you want yeah yeah don't make it you don't know anything you don't know you attacked me personally so deluded right I've only been a professor 51 years on this program I've never been able to finish a book how many books have you published been an no because you're personally attacking me again

Say whatever you want, but I'm not going to stand for personal attacks. Okay, but brother, you got it wrong. You were preposterously and stupidly wrong. So, okay, all right, can I just finish a goddamn thought ever on this show? No, not if you're personally, I admitted I was wrong. I don't need you to call me stupid. Okay. Can I just say it's great to see you Democrats all getting along so well. Who taught you manners? It's lovely to see you. Can I get it to a goddamn point? We're just one right now. Shh.

Hey, Alan, you deserve a tall glass of shut-up juice, so can you just shut up for a second? And let someone who knows what they're doing in the classroom attack me. Make any point you want. I will not sit here and stand for personal attacks, for blasphemy against me. You don't need to do that. You don't blasphemy against you? What the hell are you? Are you Jesus Christ, you loser? Okay, can I just give the correct answer for once?

Oh, that was awesome. Michael was pointing out, he's like a little kid. Alan's just sitting there like this. He's so mad about being told that he was wrong about this election, and he was wrong. Cat Turd wrote, Cenk is so close to being MAGA, which is funny. This is a perfect example of the struggle that we're seeing on the left right now. You have the establishment unwilling to...

to change, unwilling to listen. And then you have Cenk, who I disagree with on pretty much everything, but to his credit is actually trying to self-evaluate here after this election. That's Harry Sisson. I would be a little more entertained by Harry Sisson if he wasn't so obnoxious. It is all of us during the video. Harry Sisson sucks though, and he's also somebody who does not believe in any kind of self-reflection at this time.

But the establishment of this Democratic Party, they are not listening. They're digging their heels in and they are pushing people like Cenk to take a chance on Trump. He's asking to join the Trump admin. He's asking to join Doge. That's crazy. That's crazy unprecedented.

It's it's a never-before-seen coalition that Trump is creating and it kind of I think transcends party lines It is a it is a movement that is at its heart rooted in in combating the corruption and the waste in our government and A lot of these social issues. We're just saying okay They're important but at the center of this admin at the center of this movement is

is the deep state because it's the most important thing at this time. We can't talk about anything else. We can't have any other conversations until we get back to the vision that our founding fathers had for this country. We have departed from it so greatly that we're pretty much unrecognizable.

And that's why you're seeing people like Cenk, who I don't agree with on anything, but who is a straight shooter. I think he genuinely believes what he believes. And he really wants to root out this corruption as well. This should be a bipartisan issue. And you're seeing it become that way, at least among alternative media, while the establishment types are continuing to dig their heels in. Now, not only is...

MAGA, anti-corruption. It's also the only party who can, I think, take a joke anymore. Here's Republican Senator Steve Daines yesterday in one of the funniest soundbites I've ever seen from a member of Congress. Hi, I'm Steve Daines. My pronouns are Republican majority. I have a simple message for Chuck Schumer and for Bob Casey. It's over.

The world is healing, the Republican Party is getting braver. We're laughing at the left's lunacy. And it's not just some anon posting a meme online. This is a senator.

making fun of the gender insanity that just a couple years ago nobody would dare touch it's huge again like i said the world is healing and to that point representative nancy mace has been very brave introducing a bill that would prevent men from using women's bathrooms in the capitol in response to a new transgender identifying male representative-elect sarah mcbride coming to congress

And I want to go through somebody who has not been quite so brave, Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson. This is his response to being asked whether Sarah McBride is a male or a female. Take a listen. Mr. Speaker, is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman? Hmm.

Look, I'm not going to get into this. We welcome all new members with open arms who are duly elected representatives of the people. I believe it's a...

A command that we treat all persons with dignity and respect and we will and I'm not going to engage in in silly debates about this There's a concern about the uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This is an issue that Congress has never Had to address before and we're gonna do that in deliberate fashion With member consensus on it and we will accommodate the needs of every single person. That's all I'm gonna say about that Okay, so he didn't answer the question

And he didn't answer whether this man is a man or a woman. Kind of a cowardly response. Molly Hemingway wrote on X, this would have been a good opportunity for Johnson to explain that Sarah McBride is a man who would like to be treated as a woman. And so there are concerns about private facilities for women in the Capitol complex. And after having many responses like Molly Hemingway and much more, I think,

severe critical ones from people like Matt Welsh and Michael Knowles, Mike Johnson decided to backtrack and actually stand up for biological reality. Here's what he said. Hello everybody. I just want to make a statement for all of you here and be very clear. I was asked a question this morning at the Leadership Gaggle and I rejected the premise because the answer is so obvious.

For anybody who doesn't know my well-established record on this issue, let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.

That said, I also believe, that's what scripture teaches, what I just said, but I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity. And so we can do and believe all those things at the same time. And I wanted to make that clear for everybody because there's lots of questions, but that's where I stand. I've stood there my whole life and those are facts. All right. I mean, I wish you would have said that initially, but I appreciate the answer. And that's what public pressure does. If we hold our leaders accountable, we put an end to this insanity.

We don't allow them to be cowards because they'll get voted out of office if they do that. So a great example of what public pressure can do, the power of it. And meanwhile, Nancy Mace has been incredibly strong through this entire process. Here she is sparring with an ABC reporter.

The question is, with your piece of legislation about banning women from using. Yes. My question to you is. It doesn't go far enough. You have said that it was created in response to Congresswoman-elect McBride. 100%. And should legislation be created targeted at one specific person? It doesn't mention anyone in the legislation. But you've said it was aimed at her.

No, I have said it's a result of this. I'm not going to allow biological men into women's private spaces. I will stand in the brink and stand in the way of anyone on the radical left who thinks that it's okay for a penis to be in a women's locker room or a bathroom or a changing room. Hell no.

No, I'm not going to stand for it. And the speaker said it would be in the House rules package. If it's not, I'll be ready with a motion, a privileged motion to force a vote on this. This is not OK. I'm a survivor of rape. I'm a survivor of sexual abuse. And I'm not going to allow any man in any female private space. End of story. And by the way, I'm getting death threats from men pretending to be women. Why is it that these crazy people, the insanity, the radical left are willing to kill women?

women over over and hands right to be in a women's restaurant speaker johnson has said she her Johnson has said he wants to treat every new member with the words dignity and respect he forcing this congressperson to go into a male restroom is that dignity and respect

Forcing women to share private spaces with men is not dignity and not respect. I'm absolutely going to stand in the way of anyone who thinks it's okay for a man to be in our locker room, in our changing rooms, in our dressing rooms, in women's bathrooms. And in fact, if you agree with that, you're crazy because that's not okay. It's not okay. Really impressed with Nancy Mace and the way

that she is taking on the press, that she is taking on the Democratic Party. And she shouldn't be doing this alone. Every GOP member should be joining her in this fight. This should be a united front standing with Nancy Mace. I wish that they would all join her. Meanwhile, Sarah McBride, I believe this man's actual name is Tim, but he's legally changed it to Sarah. This man is attempting to play the victim throughout all this. And he wrote on X,

Every day, Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully. I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness. No, Sarah or Tim, you are not engaging respectfully yourself. This is a man forcibly trying to enter women's spaces via emotional blackmail.

And that is exactly what Nancy Mace articulated. And we cannot let these individuals, again, emotionally blackmail the public into doing things that are wrong, into denying biological reality, into putting women in vulnerable situations. No, that's not respectful. That doesn't uphold human dignity.

And here's the thing, this is a losing issue for Democrats. Why do you think AOC took the pronouns out of her bio? The trans agenda is not a winning issue. Per the Neapolitan Institute, 72% of voters think that it should be illegal to provide children under 18 with puberty blockers, drugs, and or surgery to help them transition.

and only 19% of voters think changing gender identity should be taught in schools. Only 18% of voters think kids should be given puberty blockers who are going to transition. Only 13% of voters want boys competing in girls sports. Yeah, so 18% of voters are crazy. 13% of voters crazy when it comes to the sports issue. But again, I mean, you're always going to have crazy people.

The vast majority of Americans are not supportive of this. But Democrats are doubling down on these bad ideas. The Rolling Stone ran an article this week titled, "We need to talk more about trans people, not less." And the piece reads that,

In the wake of the election, some have said that Democrats need to talk less about transgender people. That's exactly wrong. They and we need to talk more, more about real trans lives, real science and real values, and less about disinformation and lies. And this gets to what we were discussing with Cenk, I think. We can't wave, you can't wave the pride flag while representing Wall Street and big government and expect people to vote for you.

In fact, the trans issue only adds to the alienation many voters feel from the Democratic establishment. Trans identity only really is fully embraced by celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Busy Phillips, whose children have fallen victim to it. But the reality is that the vast majority of Americans find the transing of children and the invasion of women's spaces by men to be disordered and wrong. It is neither a motivating nor a unifying issue for the Democratic electorate.

But by all means, liberals, listen to the Rolling Stone. Carry on with your self-destruction. It's better for us. All right, I have a little update for you all on our girl Kamala Harris. This woman...

Kamala blew through nearly $2 billion, spiraled the Democratic Party into an existential crisis, and now she's fled to Hawaii for a two-week vacation. And what's really funny is that Kamala made all these promises to the voters, right? "Just elect me and I'll do all of this, enact all this change, it'll be like a utopia America." And now we're on the brink of World War III, and Ukraine has launched long-range missiles into Russia, and Kamala's just jet-setting off to Hawaii.

She really cares so much about the American people. You can see the love for America in the eyes of this woman who's on vacation in Hawaii. What a joke of a candidate she was. And I hope the Democrats despise her just as much as I do because she truly is a symbol of the left's downfall. All right, this next and last story is absolutely crazy to me. Police in Georgia recently arrested a mother because her 10-year-old son decided to take a walk of less than a mile into town.

While the mother, Brittany Patterson, was driving another child to the doctor, her son, Soren, went for this walk unaccompanied. And when Patterson couldn't locate her son, she didn't think it was a problem because he was probably exploring in nearby woods or had gone to see his grandmother. But the boy was actually walking from the family's rural home into the village of Mineral Bluff, which is...

less than a mile away with a total population of 307 people, 370 people. So very, very small little town. Now, a random woman stopped Soren on the side of the road as he was walking to see if he was lost. But the boy said, no, I'm fine. But the woman nonetheless called police and a female deputy sheriff got in contact with Brittany, the mother, to reprimand her. But Brittany said she wasn't concerned because, again, this was a short walk from her house and her son knows how to get home.

And then later in the evening after this incident, the deputy returned with a colleague, put Brittany in cuffs and transported her to a cell where she was photographed, fingerprinted and dressed in prison clothing. The mother said she couldn't comprehend what was going on as she had done the same thing as her son had many times when she was growing up in the same area and nobody had ever arrested her mother for letting her walk down the road.

Brittany had to pay a bail bond of $500 to get out of jail and is now charged with reckless conduct with a reckless conduct count, which could bring a $1,000 fine and one year imprisonment.

The police have offered to drop charges if Brittany agrees to work with the Division of Family and Children's Services to create a, quote, safety plan for her son that would include a GPS tracker on his phone. But Patterson is saying no because she doesn't believe she did anything wrong. And she didn't. And I got to tell you all, I am perplexed by this expectation that every parent must be a helicopter parent or they're unfit to be a parent.

i'm the oldest of nine who grew up in the north woods of wisconsin you know what my mom would tell me and my siblings growing up go play outside and for hours and hours without ever coming home my siblings and i explored the woods by our house we visited neighbors in our rural neighborhood all day the only thing we ever really worried about were the bears

And this freakout got me thinking of that video about Gen Xers that I love. Mikey, let's play that video. Gen X!

Folks are the toughest people that currently exist in our world today. Nobody catered to us. Nobody gave a flying flip where we were or what we were doing. We had to be home when the streetlights came on. We climbed water towers. We hopped fences we shouldn't have. We committed crimes and nobody knew.

Now, the video is funny and it somewhat pokes fun at Gen X, but there's a lot of truth to it. Gen X was far less supervised than Gen Z and Gen Alpha and to a lesser extent Millennials. And Gen X grew up tougher.

Now, am I suggesting that if you live in the south side of Chicago where there's tons of gun violence that you should just let your kids roam the streets unsupervised? No, context is everything. I grew up in a rural environment. Brittany and her son live in a rural environment near a very small town. These are different from major urban centers. But in today's world, those nuances get lost. And what we're left with is a culture of relentless helicopter parenting.

There was a time when parents didn't have the ability to track every move that their kids made via their phones. And honestly, that was a good thing. Constant overprotection and scheduling every moment of your child's life is stifling. It prevents them from developing independence and creativity. Kids need boredom. Exploration is key to growth.

And no, I'm not advocating for just letting your kids raise themselves, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. This is why I'm grateful that I came from a very large family. My mom simply didn't have the time to track all of her children's every move or entertain us constantly, and that was okay. We played together, we found ways to entertain ourselves, but not many young people have that same experience growing up today.

Here's Abigail Schreier explaining to Joe Rogan how this shift to helicopter parenting has really negatively impacted my generation. And one of the hardest, most worrisome parts of this generation is that they have the lowest sense of efficacy. They report an external locus of control, meaning they don't think they can improve their lives.

See, millennials thought they could do anything, right? They are the Mark Zuckerberg generation. And that's why we had so many tech founders in that generation. We're not seeing that with these young people. They don't want to be in charge. They're afraid and they feel they don't feel up to it. I talked to there's a friend of mine. I talked I call every year on her birthday and she's a research scientist, cell biologist.

And every year she invites kids to her lab for an internship who are top kids, pre-med graduates from college before they go on to med school. And she said to me in the last decade, when I called her this year for her birthday, she said to me, "I can't believe you're writing about this generation. They are so different." And I said, "Tell me why." She said, "I'm seeing the smartest, most prepared kids."

And they're afraid to run their own experiments. They tell me they're getting ready. They're working on their skills. They're not yet up to it. And they constantly report to me about their mental health. As I watched that, I couldn't help but think, first of all, it's bad for them as just developed adult human beings as Abigail was laying out. But I also thought that

Isn't Gen Z almost perfectly primed to be more submissive to an authoritarian government? I think there's a connection between the normalization of government overreach and the way that kids are raised today. A few generations ago, the very concept of disinformation and the government assuming the role of arbiter of truth would have been laughable. Warrantless surveillance on Americans?

That would be a scandal, not a mundane part of everyday life. The idea that only establishment-approved experts can dictate public health policies, run the DOJ, or control national intelligence would have seemed absurd, especially with the corruption that we know exists in these centers.

If future generations are going to have a chance at pushing back against the encroaching threats of administrative overreach and surveillance, helicopter parenting needs to end. And that's all I have for you guys today. If you are listening on Apple or Spotify, make sure to rate and review this podcast. I'm here live on Rumble, 9 a.m. Eastern time, five days a week. I'll see you all tomorrow.