1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Sexton Show kicks off right now. Lots of news, as 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: is always the case it seems on Mondays, but especially 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: as we get now just what twenty eight days from 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: an election. I think that's the math it is coming up, 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: my friends. We are going to give you the latest. 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris with a well, what is a blitzkrieg if 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: it goes really poorly? That's what she did with the 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: media all of a sudden. She's doing her best to 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: actually sit around and have people ask her questions. She 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: appeared on the View Colbert Howard Stern the Call Her 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: Daddy podcast. We shall discuss all of that here. Her 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: answers is what we're going to discuss, or what it 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: passes for an answer with Kamala Harris. Also going to 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: be joined second hour by our friend Sean Parnell, of course, 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: hosts the Battleground podcasts in the Clay and Buck Network. 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: He was at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania over 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: the weekend. I heard from attendees there that he'd look 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: to them to be eighty to one hundred thousand people. 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: I know the official number which was taken before everyone arrived, 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: was more like twenty five or thirty thousand, But it 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: was vast that I can tell you. The photos show 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: it was a vast turnout. We'll talk to Sean and 24 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: ask him he was there, talk to him about that. 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: I was watching Morning Joe this morning, Clay, and sure 26 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: enough he says that Trump is calling for civil war. 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: So we have seen the Democrats retreat into the guy 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: who has had to withstand two assassination attempts. If he 29 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: keeps this up, there could be political violence. And you 30 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: sit there and you say to yourself, Wow, not a 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: lot of self awareness from the Democrats. We've got that. Oh. 32 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: I'm here in South Florida, and unfortunately there is. We're 33 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: still covering and watching the aftermath, the building efforts, the 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: humanitarian aid and all the rest of it, and FEMA 35 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: and the failures thereof with Hurricane Helene. Now another hurricane 36 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: is barrowing toward Florida. Looks like it is on a 37 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: direct course right now for Tampa could turn left or right, 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: as we know, but we are getting prepared for that 39 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: here where I am, certainly, and a lot of my 40 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: fellow Floridians are, But Clay, I want to start with 41 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: this one because I feel like it's going to color 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: so much of all of our conversations from now to 43 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: election day. I think it is clear. You can make 44 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: the cases we do on the data, but it's really 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: just clear from the strategy of the Harris campaign at 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: this point that all of a sudden, they're doing all 47 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: these interviews. They were holding back, hiding her from the public, 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: They're doing all these interviews at once. You just said 49 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: to me, to give you credit for this, that the 50 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 1: news cycle is about to turn into a week of 51 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: severe weather coverage. That's just a fact. That's how this works. 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: Clay recognized that he's correct, and so it really then 53 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: is three weeks until election day for the Kamala campaign. 54 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: And here's my basic thesis to you, Clay. They are 55 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: losing and they know it. Yeah, I think that's right, 56 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: and let's unpack a little bit of what you just said. 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: It's also, by the way, the October seventh to one 58 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: year anniversary of the attack of all of the Hamas 59 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: terrorists on the innocent Israelis. We'll be talking about that 60 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: a bit as well. But look, the hurricane is barreling 61 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: towards Florida right now when it hits, and we went 62 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: through this a little bit buck, I think the timing 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: was almost exactly the same in twenty twenty two, except 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: it was a statewide race in Florida. Florida Governor Ron 65 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: DeSantis was up for reelection. Major storm hit in the 66 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: Fort Myers Naples area, created a monstrous amount of damage, 67 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: and Desantas was on the ground and phenomenal and his leadership. 68 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: So I am very confident that if you had to 69 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: pick a governor that you wanted to be in charge 70 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: of marshalling state resources and being able to handle whatever 71 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: nature brings to bear, it would be tough to beat 72 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis. So let's start there. But I think the 73 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: panics setting in because the reality is when this hurricane hits, 74 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: there's going to be about a week of full on 75 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: hurricane coverage, and that's going to take away from the 76 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: minute to minute coverage of the presidential election. I came 77 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: to say, coupled with the other you know, it magnifies it. 78 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: And we're still covering the hurricane aftermath. Yeah, with the 79 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: awful disaster and Helene that is still having an impact. 80 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: We will be talking about quite a lot during the 81 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: course of today's program, but it takes away from the 82 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: back and forth of the presidential campaign and puts it 83 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: back on the natural disaster turf. The analogy I would 84 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: make right now as you look at Kamala Harris doing 85 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: the Call Her Daddy podcast, which is young women primarily 86 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: listening Howard Stern, which is according to their data, seventy 87 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: percent mail, and then the Sixty Minutes Interview, which is 88 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: airing tonight but which there are already snippets of and 89 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: it didn't go well. And then I believe Stephen Colbert, 90 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: and I think Tim Walls is also doing his own 91 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: sit downs. He got roughed up. I would argue pretty 92 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: bad by our friend Shannon Bream when he finally went 93 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: on Fox News, did not have good answers for most 94 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: of her questions because I just don't think he's that 95 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: bright of a guy, and he doesn't respond well to questions, 96 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: and neither does she. So the analogy that I would 97 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: make Buck is and congratulations to Vanderbilt Commodoores beating the 98 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: Alabama Crimson Tide. Buck and one of the biggest upsets 99 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: in the history of college football. Did you notice I 100 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: knew that was gonna happen. I always bet on my commodores. 101 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: You were all in on the commodoors. Congratulations. Unfortunately, Arkansas, Razorbacks, 102 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: Texas A and M Washington and Minnesota all got big 103 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: wins in top twenty five, top ten. But the reason 104 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: why I bring up football is one of the lessons 105 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: you learned from football is it's a little bit like 106 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: boxing or UFC buck in that styles make fights. That 107 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: is the way that you play in football or boxing 108 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: or UFC can be very different. And so you can have, 109 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: you know, a team that likes to run the ball, 110 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: you can have a team that likes to pass the ball. 111 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: You can have a defense dominant, offense dominant. Everything's different. 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: What is almost universally the case, though, is when you 113 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 1: have to abandon what you do well, what your game 114 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: plan is, things are not going well. And I would 115 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: say that they tried to be a running team with 116 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. They hid her. They kind of get into 117 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: a plotting campaign, a battle of inches, three yards in 118 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: a cloud of dust for those of you who know 119 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: running football old school, and suddenly they're behind by a 120 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns. They're looking up. The polls aren't moving, 121 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: and they're changing their strategy, and they're going to try 122 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: to come out and throw the ball all over the 123 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: field in a desperate a tempt to get back in 124 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: the game. And I think that's gonna make things worse 125 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: for her, Buck because you're already seeing these clips come around, 126 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: and we're gonna play some of you some of them 127 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: for you. She's first of all, not targeting the people 128 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: who are gonna be battleground voters. I was asking you 129 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: this off air, how many blue collar workers in in uh, 130 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, Michigan and uh and uh and and and 131 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: like like that longshoreman union boss like you. Yeah, I 132 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 1: love the Call of Daddy podcast. How many of those 133 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: guys or gals listen to call her daddy or Howard Stern. 134 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: To me, this is evidence of just being out of 135 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: touch with how to reach those people. They're not watching uh, 136 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: they're watching football first of all. And and I'll point 137 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: this out. I did the interview with Trump at the 138 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: Georgia Alabama game. We also invited throughout kick Kamala. We 139 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: would invite Kamala on this show too. She wouldn't do it, 140 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: But that's the audience she actually has to reach. She 141 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: needs to be persuading guys who watch football games. She 142 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: tried with Walls. It failed because everybody can see that 143 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: he's a fraud. But they are now panicked. They're falling behind. 144 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: And when you fall behind, you change what was working 145 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: at least a little bit, and you throw caution to 146 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: the wind. And I think she's going to fall further 147 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: behind because I think this exposes what she does the worst, 148 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: which is just respond to questions and look normal. At 149 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: some level in politics, there is that relatability issue or 150 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: the charisma I feel your pain from Bill Clinton. There's 151 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: the connection that you can have with your constituents or 152 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: your voters. And the issue I think that faces Kamala 153 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: Harris is that when you look at her as a 154 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: matchup in this election cycle, she is based on everything 155 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,719 Speaker 1: we can see so far, but also just I think 156 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: qualitatively or subjectively, it's clear she's a bad matchup for 157 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: where she has to do. I think that there is 158 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: a scenario in which Kamala Harris could, if she were 159 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: a better candidate, you know, run up the vote totals 160 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: in in some of the Democrats strongholds. Maybe or do 161 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: I think that maybe she could do better with you know, 162 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: some some minority voters in major urban areas. Yeah, but 163 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: that doesn't matter in this election, really, right, This is 164 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: what you're getting to. What matters is in the swing 165 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: states or the these the battleground states that are still 166 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: up there and and open up for grabs. Who is 167 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: she relating to? Who finds her? You know? Single, single mind? 168 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: Are single women who are career minded are already voting Democrat. 169 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: This is this is why she's not doing any better 170 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 1: with women than Biden was, because if you were a 171 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: female Biden voter, you're already voting for Kamala Harris. There's 172 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: really no more room to grow, right, there's no more 173 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 1: room to run. White working class voters are the primary demographic. 174 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: I've been you know, pounding this drum all year. I mean, 175 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: this is just it's just demographics. It's just numbers. And 176 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: to your point about who she's talking to on the part, 177 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: you know, on these podcasts, I mean, Howard Stern, I 178 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: think you could argue that there's gonna be you know, 179 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: some working class people of all ethnicities lit but even 180 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: that buckets distributed on satellite radio like that is something 181 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: that I think is like a coastal elite than it 182 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: used to be. I think I think that's true. But 183 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has an inherent weakness in this as well, 184 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: and that I think that. Look, I think that men 185 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: could relate to Joe Biden because of the persona that 186 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden had crafted over forty years. I know he was, 187 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: you know, blue collar Joe. We know that it's a mirage. 188 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. It worked right, it was all, Hey, 189 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: you know, I'm an Irish charm and I shake hands 190 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: Kamala and this is I'm not saying this is fair 191 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: or right or whatever. We're just looking at the cold, 192 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: hard political calculations. You know, she doesn't have children of 193 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: her own, which people have pointed out, and that's a 194 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: choice that's fine for people to make. I'm not but 195 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: I think that a lot of women with kids look 196 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: at this and they're like, I don't know, you know, 197 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: unless they were already in on one side of the other, 198 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: I think that they have a hard time relating to 199 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. I think we're seeing that. And I think 200 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 1: that for a lot of men who feel economic stress, 201 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: which it's a lot of Like there's a lot of 202 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: people out there right it's a lot. 203 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: You know. 204 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: You and I have told the stories. How many kids 205 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: did you have and you're making like fifty grand chiving whatever? 206 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: And I two two when I was making forty grand, 207 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: and I got fired. I mean, it's not a good feeling. 208 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: And every lot of men and women out there who 209 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: have young kids know that feeling where you look around 210 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: you say, boy, this ain't good. I was. I remember 211 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: being in my thirties and living in a truly four 212 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: hundred something square foot apartment that smelled of cigarettes from 213 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: the previous owner. And I was happy to have it 214 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: because I couldn't even find an apartment in my budget 215 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: at the time. I mean, I know, and it didn't 216 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: have any money, and I know what that's like anybody 217 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: who's in that situation. I'm just bringing it up. Who 218 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: is right now feeling like, how am I going to 219 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: get it done? Kamala Harris does not make them feel 220 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: like she cares and has experienced this, because she hasn't. 221 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: That's why she's doing this whole You know, I come 222 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: from middle class family where we care about our lawns. 223 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris reminds them of the diversity consultant or educator 224 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: who maybe is telling them why they're getting their hours 225 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: cut back, or maybe is telling them that there's no 226 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: longer a place for them at the company, or that 227 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: they have to just you know, use different language in 228 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: the workplace, or whatever it may be. She doesn't resonate. 229 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: She is the DEEI or HR employee at your business 230 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: who constantly is sending emails on Indigenous People's Day that 231 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: you roll your eyes at. And Trump And I made 232 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: this analogy, Buck, if you work in a business, Trump 233 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: is the CEO or founder who is brash, who sometimes 234 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: says things that are out landish, but everybody loves them 235 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: when they actually meet him face to face. And who 236 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: do you like more in the company? You like the 237 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: brash founder, you don't like the DEEI HR investigatory hire 238 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: who's sending emails to ask whether or not people have 239 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: updated their email signature, wanting to have their pronouns. I'll 240 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: say this, you know, to be fair, if it were 241 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: Trump or Biden who walked into the lunch room at 242 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: any at a mechanic you know, at a mechanic shop, 243 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: or you know, in a in a hardware store or whatever, 244 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: walks in, slaps people there on the back, and it's like, 245 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: you know, hey, guys, what's going on? You have a 246 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: good weekend. They know how to do that. Kamala Harris 247 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: walks into that same room again. Just speaking of perception, 248 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: everyone feels like, are we using their proper pronouns? Is 249 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: everything okay? Are we okay? It feels like the hall 250 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: monitor that you don't want around you. These are the 251 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: intangibles that I think have been the problem with Kamala 252 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: all along, and that's why she got one percent of 253 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: the Democrat vote in the primary. Everybody, this hasn't changed. 254 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: They're panicked. Things are going good. Go vote early. I'm 255 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: just gonna keep saying it next twenty eight days, every day, 256 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: go vote, Go vote early, get it done. Things are 257 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: looking good, but we're gonna stay focused on it. Also, 258 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: gonna stay focused on the one year anniversary here of 259 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: October seventh. Clay mentioned it. You know, we have been 260 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: deeply emotionally moved here, all of us by what happened 261 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: that day, the worst massacre of the Jewish people since 262 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists killed twelve hundred Israelis, took more 263 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: than two hundred and fifty hostages, and now over one 264 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: hundred are still waiting to be returned home, either alive 265 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: or perhaps passed away because of what was done to 266 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: them in captivity by these terrorists. This is where we 267 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: have to stand with our allies in Israel, and this 268 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: is where the IFCJ comes in. The Israeli people still 269 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: need the support of those like you and me around 270 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: the world who believe in their right to exist, to 271 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: defend themselves and believe in the defensive civilization and the 272 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: fight against these barbarous terrorists. IFCJ is there helping on 273 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: the front lines providing assistance to the Israeli people. Your 274 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: gift of one hundred and fifty dollars helps the Fellowship 275 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: provide food and other necessities to families in Israel that 276 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: have to hide in bomb shelters, have to prepare for 277 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: the next incoming rocket attack. 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Hurricane Milton update 288 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: in the last few minutes. It's now a Category five. 289 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: Reading from the news service Tampa Bay. Buck. If the 290 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: storm stays on its current track, it will be the 291 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over one 292 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: hundred years. This again, this is News Tampa Bay, National 293 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: Weather Service, Tampa Bay. Please evacuate if told to do so, 294 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: complete all prep before tomorrow night. Tampa Bay. We're gonna 295 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: get into this. Buck has typically avoided major hits because 296 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: of the location of the area of Florida there based 297 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: on how hurricanes typically come in. But this one is 298 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: very strange in that it's moving west to east in 299 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: a way that you typically don't see a trajectory like that. 300 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: We may have some meteorologists out there or hurricane experts 301 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: that can speak to this, but I know because I 302 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: lived in the Caribbean and we've got place in Florida. 303 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: I have had one long time there. I've been pretty 304 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: well verse, paid a lot of attention to hurricanes over 305 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: the last twenty years. Buck, I haven't ever seen a 306 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: trajectory like this one coming through the Gulf. Yeah, we're 307 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: gonna watch this one as it comes in, and we're 308 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna be batting down the hatches here in South Florida. 309 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: So all of you across Florida listening, Uh, I'm right 310 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: here with you. It's gonna it's gonna be. It's gonna 311 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: be tough. Look, our nation's systems are experiencing a lot 312 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: of failure these days. I mean, just look at what's 313 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: going on with all the femas situation. Some of the 314 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: top researchers at Stansbury want you to know that there's 315 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: some broader trends at work here now. Stansbury's a financial 316 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: research firm. They produce reports on the state of our 317 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: nation's economy. They recently put out in a report you 318 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: need to know about. It's about how strange so called 319 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: accidents are happening across America and why we've seen reports 320 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 1: of nine one one call centers going offline, red reports 321 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: of a plane falling apart mid flight. One of the 322 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: big reveals was the number of train accidents last year. 323 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: Some forty seven hundred in all. Learn what so many 324 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: big accidents are now taking place in America and exactly 325 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: where and when the next big accident is most likely 326 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: to occur. Go to America disaster dot com for the 327 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: full story and hear this report explain to you for 328 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: free America disaster dot com. That's America disaster dot com. 329 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: Welcome back into Clay and Buck Kamala Harris finally doing interviews. 330 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: Now you might say, what's the big deal? Why does 331 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: that really matter? Well, because it is quite clear that 332 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: the strategy of this campaign for the first what's seven 333 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: or eight weeks? I guess, I mean depending on when 334 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: when did she effish all? I would say she all 335 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: the way up to the debate. Buck, she basically talked 336 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: to no one, and even after the debate she didn't 337 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: do much. This is this week is going to be 338 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: more active for her for interviews than any week since 339 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: she ascended to the nomination in July twenty. First, there's 340 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: no world in which you change that strategy so suddenly, 341 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: so late in the game unless it's not working and 342 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: their internals are showing that it's not working. And I 343 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: want to remind everyone it is really just unseemly and 344 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: also quite condescending to hide a presidential candidate for the 345 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: American people and just hope that the media can do 346 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 1: her dirty work for her. That was the strategy. That's 347 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: what they were planning to do. It's not working, so 348 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: they're changing it up. So let's take some time here 349 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: to delve into hm, why was that her strategy in 350 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: the first place. Why do the people around Kamala who 351 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: make a living trying to get people to win elections, 352 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: why were they like, you know, let's just leave out 353 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: the interviews. Let's start with this. Kamala is talking about taxes. 354 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: This is going to be fun. This is cut eight. 355 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: She was on sixty minutes with Bill Whittaker. And you 356 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: know what, just listen, listen in listen, in close. Kamala's 357 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: making it all makes sense. 358 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 4: My plan is about saying that when you invest in 359 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 4: small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you 360 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 4: strengthen America's economy. All businesses are part of the backbone 361 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 4: of America's economy. 362 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: But pardon me that a vice president, the question was, 363 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: how are you going to pay for it? 364 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 4: Well, one of the things I'm going to make sure 365 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 4: that the richest among us who can afford it, pay 366 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 4: their fair share in taxes. It is not right that 367 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 4: teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax 368 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 4: rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations. And I plan 369 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 4: on making that fair. 370 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: But we're dealing with the real world here. But the 371 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: real world includes how are you going to get this 372 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: to Congress? 373 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 4: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of 374 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 4: folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about 375 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 4: because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about. Their 376 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 4: constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses. 377 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: Oh my, he is a parody of political rhetoric. I 378 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: mean everything that she says, every statement she makes in 379 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: responds to questions about decisions. What are you going to do? 380 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: It's you know, there's great things in America and economy, 381 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: middle class fair. None of this adds up to anything. 382 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: And this is why she wasn't doing interviews before. Also, 383 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: I'm so sick of some arguments that are made that 384 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: are just so fundamentally dishonest. Firefighters and nurses and teachers 385 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: don't pay a higher tax rate than billionaires. That is 386 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: a lie. And let me explain why. First of all, fuck, 387 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: do you know the number? Only half of Americans even 388 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: pay federal income taxes, So we're talking about immediately, nobody 389 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: there ever talks about this. Over half the number is 390 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: now of Americans never pay a dollar in income taxes. Now, 391 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: so security taxes, if you have a job, sales taxes, 392 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: those things are paid. But we're talking about income taxes, 393 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: which is what she's talking about here, So immediately you 394 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: can take half of the entire United States population off 395 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: the board when it comes to income taxes. What she 396 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: is saying and trying to argue here is billionaires pay 397 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: a lower tax rate. That's only true if you look 398 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,479 Speaker 1: at unrealized capital gains, which are not actual dollars that 399 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: they have translated into cash. And this is a radical 400 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: proposition that has become a major Democrat talking point, and 401 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: there needs to be more pushing back on it because, 402 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 1: and this is important. You might be sitting out there saying, 403 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: I'm not a billionaire. I don't care if they talk 404 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: about unrealized capital gains. Do you own a home, because 405 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: what they're saying is that one day somebody could look 406 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: at your home and they could say, hey, yeah, you 407 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: bought that house forty years ago for one hundred thousand dollars, 408 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: but now it's worth six hundred thousand dollars. You have 409 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 1: an unrealized capital gain on your home of five hundred 410 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and we want to tax that because keep 411 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 1: this in mind, as soon as they establish that unreal 412 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: capital gains are permissible, do you think that's gonna end 413 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: taxing it? That is, do you think it's gonna end 414 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: with billionaires? Has anything ever ended with billionaires? Though? Once 415 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: they get democrats The proposition that money that you haven't 416 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: realized and for people out there who don't know what 417 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, if you have an asset like the 418 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: house is a good example that you haven't sold, but 419 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: it's worth more than you paid for it, that is 420 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: an unrealized capital gains. If you sell that home, at 421 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: some point, you would have to pay the tax on 422 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: the dollar amount that you have made. Billionaires, oftentimes buck 423 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: cannot sell their shares in their companies because that's where 424 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: most of the wealth of billionaires comes. They found a 425 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: company like Elon Musk, they own a certain percentage of 426 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: the company. They can't sell the stock and retain the ownership. 427 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: And what they're trying to say is, oh, you have 428 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: to pay tax on money that you haven't actually put 429 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: in your pocket. That's the argument she's making there. You 430 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: have a high level of sophistication and knowledge of the 431 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 1: tax code than you know, the average people do. Play 432 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: maybe I do as well. I mean, these are things 433 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: we started to talk and think a lot about. I 434 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: bring that up because notice how with Democrats they'll talk 435 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: about fair share, what's fair, They're really just playing to 436 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: the politics of envy. They're not going to no matter what. 437 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: We have millionaires who listen to this show, we have 438 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: people in public housing who listen to this show. Yes, 439 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,959 Speaker 1: and guess what. Democrats aren't going to make the lives 440 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: of those who are financially struggling better with these plans 441 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: because that never they never do. That's always the false promise. 442 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: But it appeals to certain people to think that the 443 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: reason that they aren't where they should be financially. You 444 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: and I have opened guys with no assets and no money. 445 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: The reason that they do this is because it appeals 446 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: to the politics of envy. Why do they never talk 447 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: about just making the tax code far simpler than it is. 448 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it's thousands and thousands of pages long, tens 449 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: of thousands. I think when you add you know, the 450 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: various you know things, you can sort of tack onto 451 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: it into the mix. Why isn't the tax code like 452 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: a page long? You know? Ted Cruz was talking to 453 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: this actually when he's running in twenty sixteen. If they 454 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: made it really simple and everybody could understand the numbers, 455 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: there would be less room for social engineering, socialism, and 456 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: political nonsense lying about what's really going on the one 457 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: percent in this country. I think the top one percent 458 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 1: pays twenty twenty five percent. Look at that number, it's 459 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: an insane amount. I mean, so, so the top one 460 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: percent of in terms of income tax are paying about 461 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five. I think the top, the top 462 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,719 Speaker 1: fifty percent pay all of the taxes. Okay, so if 463 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: you're in the bottom fifty percent of earners, you're basically 464 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: paying no income taxes, as you pointed out, But also 465 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: like this is just well, what are they really what 466 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: are they really gonna do? They're gonna give you what, 467 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: They're going to give you more subsidies for Obama, I'm 468 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: a care exchange for a healthcare plan that's not very good. 469 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: That's increasingly looking more like Canada with wait times and 470 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: carve outs and not giving you the network you want. 471 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: I mean, what are they really going to do. They're 472 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: going to wipe away you know, gender studies degrees at 473 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: second and third tier colleges wiped way that the debt. 474 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: I mean for gender studies degrees. You know, none of 475 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: this is going to make the lives of the American 476 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: people better. The American people actually just want government to 477 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: get out of the way. What was so amazing about 478 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: Calvin Coolidge. Everyone's like, oh, you got to fix everything. Oh, 479 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: the tax rate was too high, there was too much regulation, 480 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: and the government was in the way. He's like, hey, 481 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Let's let the business of the 482 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: American people be business. It's a great line. I will 483 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: also point out to your argument on tax code. Nobody 484 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: knows what they owe. Think about the system we have 485 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: created where the government won't tell you what you owe, 486 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: but will tell you if you pay something different than 487 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: what they think that you owe, they will put you 488 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 1: in prison. I'm sorry, Like, you can be a genius 489 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: and buck to your point. The more complicated your tax 490 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: return gets, the more you recognize I could go higher 491 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: This is not an exaggeration. I could go higher ten 492 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: highly skilled accountants to handle my twenty twenty four tax return, 493 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: super smart, brilliant guys, and all ten would give me 494 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: a different amount of what taxes I owe, every single 495 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: one of them. Now, some may be close, some may 496 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: be far apart. Ten brilliant accountants. If you have the 497 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:40,719 Speaker 1: most skilled, talented, well educated accountants in America and you 498 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 1: give them a tax code like mine and say, hey, 499 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: just tell me what I owe, and they all come 500 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: up with a different number, it's a pretty good sign 501 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: that the tax code is broken. And I think many 502 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: of you out there feel it. And so when I 503 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: see arguments like Kamala is saying, oh, teachers, firefighters, and 504 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,479 Speaker 1: nurses pay a higher rate than Elon Musk, it's a 505 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: lie and it's a dirty, rotten Why that's designed, as 506 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: you said, Buck, to create economic disunion in this country 507 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: and make people envious and anti capitalistic, and designed to 508 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: sow discord in the country and make people think that 509 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: they're getting taken advantage of. And when you really dig 510 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: into this a little bit more, what you find is 511 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,719 Speaker 1: that what matters to people, to you know, the middle class, 512 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: which is also what even constitutes middle class. There's a 513 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: lot of debate over this, right, you just mean everyday Americans, 514 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: people who work, or people who are homemakers and have 515 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: an earner in the household that you know, just just 516 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: everyday Americans. You know what makes their life harder and 517 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: makes it harder for them to pay their bills. Inflation? 518 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: You know what creates inflation, excess government spending. This is 519 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: as and so while she's talking about the taxes, she's 520 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: really just trying to move poor government policy onto the 521 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: shoulders of high earners, fellow Americans who are doing well financially. 522 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: And again, while I understand the politics of envy are 523 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: very powerful for Democrats, and they think with emotion, not 524 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: with numbers, Clay, the best thing that they could do 525 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: is actually have the kind of economy that Donald Trump 526 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: presided over, in which unemployment was super low. You see, 527 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: by the way the government, I mean the jobs are 528 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: just created a huge portion of its government jobs. Yes, 529 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: whichever one needs to know. These government jobs they're actually 530 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: non sorry I used to have one. They're non productive 531 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: to the economy. They're effectively attacks on all of us, 532 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: and the government is increasingly just a jobs program for 533 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: people who might have trouble getting jobs somewhere else. There's 534 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: a lot of important work done in government. Not saying everybody, 535 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: but the expansion of government is proceeding at a pace 536 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: where this is now burdensome on the American people. But 537 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: this is the kind of stuff that if you pay attention, 538 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: you look at what's happening in the economy, you'd understand 539 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has no idea. 540 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 4: She has no idea. 541 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,479 Speaker 1: She lives in a six million dollar mansion in Brentwood 542 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: because her husband's a rich lawyer, like she doesn't. She's 543 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: not in the struggle. When do you need The last 544 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: time was that Kamala Harris has had to worry Clay about, 545 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: you know, the rent check bouncing before she started sleeping 546 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: with Willie Brown. Honestly, once he gave her, once he 547 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: gave her four hundred thousand dollars in state jobs, she's 548 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: never had to worry about paying for what she needs 549 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: for the rest of her life. I mean, that's the truth. 550 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: Thanks she was twenty nine and he gave her four 551 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: hundred k, which you think about thirty years ago, four 552 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: hundred K is a lot of money. 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Yes, I believe he spoke at one 633 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: point in the rally as well. He'll tell us what 634 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: that was like. But also you know he is a 635 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: Western Pa born and raised guy has run for office 636 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. Knows the ropes there very well. He's gonna 637 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,959 Speaker 1: tell us exactly where things stand, what he's hearing about 638 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: the internals of the campaigns. Because I really do think 639 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: if you could tell me right now, Trump has Pennsylvania 640 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: in the bag, and it's assume it's true. I think 641 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: Trump has the election in the bag, right, that's yeah. 642 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: If he's one Pennsylvania, I would get I would think 643 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: the odds would go ten to one or one to 644 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: ten that he would win the whole thing. Whatever, one 645 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: to ten, one to ten, he'll win the whole thing. 646 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: If I do agree with you, if you told me 647 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,439 Speaker 1: right now, hey, Clay, you get an insider peak at 648 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: one state results. If you gave me Pennsylvania, we'd be 649 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: able to come on and tell you exactly what's going 650 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: to happen in the election. Because if Trump wins Pennsylvania, 651 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: then this race is effectively over. Now, you need to 652 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,919 Speaker 1: go vote in North Carolina. We know that they're not 653 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: making it easy, particularly for those of you in Western Carolina. 654 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: With the response, you need to go vote in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan. 655 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: I think one of the best arguments Trump has made 656 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: is we need to make this race too big to rig. 657 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: You need to make it such an overwhelming victory for 658 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 1: Trump that even Kamala and the Democrats who are going 659 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: to try to put all the shenanigans and rig jobs 660 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: in place, that they can that even they can't deny 661 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,720 Speaker 1: the tidal Way. We'll talk about that with Sean Parnell 662 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,760 Speaker 1: next we come back. Appreciate all of you