This Is What Inaction Looks Like (Ep. 2496)
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino | Cumulus Podcast Network
4.6 • 62.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All America all the time. |
| 0:05.0 | Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bonjino Show. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, ladies and gentlemen, there is a cost to inaction. |
| 0:14.0 | And I think the problem with some people who call themselves leaders, |
| 0:20.0 | presidents or politicians, |
| 0:22.9 | whoever they may be, one of the biggest problems is they don't play to win any game, they |
| 0:28.4 | play not to lose. |
| 0:29.9 | So they say to themselves, you know, we've got this country. |
| 0:34.1 | Let's just, I'm not even, you'll figure it out in a second, but let's say country X. And this country is threatening our country. Let's just, I'm not even, you'll figure it out in a second, but let's say country X. |
| 0:38.6 | And this country is threatening our country with a device that could end our country as we know it |
| 0:45.2 | economically, financially, kill millions of people. They're trying to acquire this weapon that |
| 0:51.2 | would do this to us, country X. They have clearly stated their ambitions to do said things. |
| 0:56.5 | So they're not bullshitting. |
| 0:57.7 | They've already said like we want to do this and have taken actual steps to acquire |
| 1:02.3 | said weapon to annihilate us. |
| 1:06.3 | However, because this has been going on for decades in a stop-start manner, you see this |
| 1:16.1 | kick the can down the road to use the sad cliche, however, it's true. |
| 1:20.4 | It kicked the can down the road effect. |
| 1:21.8 | Well, am I going to take a political hit over this if I do something? |
| 1:26.3 | I will. |
| 1:27.9 | But I should do it because it's the right thing. |
| 1:30.6 | But it's not the easy thing because I'll take a political hit. |
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