1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. I know that 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: they're trying to just run out the clock at this point. 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: I know that the hope of so many Democrats, so 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: many people on the left, is that we will buckle, 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: We'll give in, give up. But as I've been saying 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: to you this week, it should be clear to all 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: of us that this has to be fought to the end. 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: We have to continue to push because we need to 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: know that what we're seeing with these results, that the 13 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: end status of all this is the best that we 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: could possibly do under the circumstances. Now, what do I 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: mean by that. Let's remember that the same people right 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: now who are telling you that it is a grave 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: and mortal threat to the system, the same people are 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: claiming that asking for recounts and bringing legal challenges are 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: undermining and destroying our system. They're the ones who used 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: cynically COVID as an opportunity to change our election in 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: an election year in ways that they knew would advantage them. 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: Democrats understood that election fraud is traditionally their thing. It's 23 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: an area where they excel and so if they remove 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: the protections that they removed the procedural hurdles to fraud 25 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: to irregularities, it would help them. That was why they 26 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: were so set on it, right, That was why they 27 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: believe so strongly in the need to protect everybody from 28 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: the danger of in person voting. There was no danger 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: of in person voting. There was an election in Wisconsin 30 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: at the height of the pandemic in the spring and 31 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: they couldn't trace any major spread to it whatsoever. And 32 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: keep in mind, we just had this election where there 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: was so much mail in voting and now we see 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: the virus is rampaging across the country, huge numbers of 35 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: people getting infected. Or really to believe that it was 36 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: that one day. It was election day where everything had 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: to change. But you can't do violence to the rule 38 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: of law. You can't undermine the rule of law itself 39 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: while claiming to be a protector of it. And that's 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: exactly what Democrats are doing. They decide that this is 41 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: not a year where the rules really apply, and then 42 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: they turn around and say obey the rules. This is 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: why the challenge in Pennsylvania is so important. There is 44 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: no constitutional basis or authority for what was done in Pennsylvania. 45 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: That much is clear. What's not clear is whether the 46 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: judicial branch will have enough people who still believe in 47 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: the rule of law in the Constitution, who were involved 48 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: in reviewing that decision to say sorry, there are procedures. 49 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: It's not like if they were unable to certify the 50 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania vote as it currently stands, the country would be 51 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: thrown into chaos and we can't know who the presidents know. 52 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: There is a process that kicks in. The founders thought 53 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: all of this through. There will be a president. We 54 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that. What we do have 55 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: to worry about is that we're just sitting around and 56 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: watching a steel happen before our eyes without even really 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: knowing if we took it all the way and if 58 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: we're able to at least show at least force them 59 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: to look you in the eyes and say, okay, yeah, 60 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: So we broke some laws, So we negated the Constitution 61 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania and changed the way that vote counts were done, 62 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: and who knows how many other places across the country, 63 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: all because of COVID. We did all that and tough, 64 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, we managed the steal. I at least want 65 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: to have the full facts. I at least want us 66 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: to know as much as we possibly can about what 67 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: they did, how they accomplished it. It's about this election, 68 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: and it's about the next election, which may well involve 69 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: someone that I know you all support for president running again, right. 70 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: I mean, if Joe Biden can run for president pretty 71 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: much continuously since the day I was born, then I 72 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that Joe Biden proves that 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: you don't have to you don't have to win every 74 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: competition to still end up being the president. Maybe again. 75 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: But all these things that we're seeing happening right now, 76 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: the big tech censorship, the efforts by the media to 77 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: just shut down all discussion about this election, the fix 78 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: has been in. The fix has been in. Is it 79 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: even really possible to say that this is an entirely 80 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: free and fair election? At this point, you might be 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: able to say that you were able to freely vote 82 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: for who you want. And maybe they didn't change vote 83 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: tallies or anything like that. Fine, but fair. They changed 84 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: the rules of the game while the game was happening. 85 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: In ways that they knew would help one side, and 86 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: they went around the established processes for that. And these 87 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: are people who have the Left and the Democrats abuse 88 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: process at every stage of the game. They abused the 89 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: process of the Department of Justice and of our law 90 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: enforcement agencies to mount what is still the most grotesque 91 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: political scandal of my lifetime, the usage of FAIZA and 92 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: FBI informants to target a president and a presidential campaign 93 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: as though they were spies, agents of a foreign power 94 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: working for an adversary, which no intelligent person could have 95 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: really believed. But what we found out is that we 96 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: have both liars and idiots at the top level of 97 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: the Obama era FBI, DOJ, intelligence community, the CIA. And 98 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: then they did an impeachment, the most laughably inept absurd 99 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 1: impeachment in my lifetime. They tried to impeach a president 100 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: over a phone call where no law was broken and 101 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: no action was taken, but Nancy Pelosi went with it anyway. 102 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: And remember all those long speeches they gave on the 103 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: floor of Congress. Oh, we need to get rid of 104 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: this president. It's about the constitution. You know, the all 105 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: started crying, Like Corey Booker, you know whenever he speaks. 106 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: But the constitution, it's about the constitution. You have to 107 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: get rid of this president because the constitution. Now that's 108 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: not true, that's not what is happening. It wasn't a 109 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: real review, real recitation of the facts in that instance. 110 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: But now here we are, we're being told, oh, it's 111 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: all a sacred process. You see. When it advantages them, 112 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,679 Speaker 1: when they think it's on their side, it's obey the rules. 113 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: When the rules are in their way, they change them 114 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: and they look at us and say, what are you 115 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: going to do about it? So that's really the question 116 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: we're answering right now. It definitely seems to all of 117 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: us that this election was not on the up and up, 118 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: that there there were irregularities that has already proven, and 119 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: there's certainly a ton of evidence, because that's what a 120 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: sworn affidavit is, of fraud and fraudulent behaviors. They certainly 121 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: opened the doors as wide as they possibly could to fraud. 122 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: And now we're trying to find out what really happened, 123 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: and they don't want that to occur. They're already saying 124 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: you must call him president elect Biden. Well, no, they 125 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: actually got ahead of the process. With that the electoral 126 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: college has not met. We don't have to call him. 127 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: I don't care what CNN says. We don't have to 128 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: call him president elect Biden. Once the electoral College meets, 129 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: once those votes are at once the Congress certifies, Yeah, 130 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: then we've got a president president elect. He's getting sworn in. 131 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: That's how it happens. It's not because they say so. 132 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: But when you add all of this together, the change 133 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: in the rules, the social media suppression, the lies Nancy 134 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: Pelosi and others told about Trump defunding the Post Office, 135 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: the way that they created this unbelievable excess panic around 136 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: the Trump administration's response to COVID nineteen, the shutting down 137 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: of schools, Pelosi preventing aid from getting to people during 138 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: this period who need and deserve it. Because immiserating the 139 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: American people advantage the Democrats in this election cycle. Those 140 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: are the people that's the party that's going to lecture 141 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: us now on norms and protecting our sacred democracy. I 142 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: don't think so. I'm still not interested at all in 143 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: lectures about protecting our system from the liars who pretended 144 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: Trump was a Russian assett who betrayed America, from the 145 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: liars who pretended Trump needed to be impeached over a 146 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: legitimate phone call with the Ukrainian president. From the liars 147 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: who acted like Trump was running some scheme to destroy 148 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: the Post Office. These people are nuts. There is an unfortunately, 149 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: a sly, a conniving lunacy to all of this where 150 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: they will say and do anything to achieve power. And 151 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: I cannot mislead you. They may be successful in this 152 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: election process, but when you look at what's really happened here, 153 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: when you see and add it all together, it's a 154 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: reminder that even if we lose this fight, we continue 155 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: in this fight until we can't anymore. That is our 156 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: mission from now until we find out if it is 157 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: four more years or President elect Biden. The day is 158 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: not yet here, and we will continue to follow this 159 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: at every step. The Supreme Court may take up this 160 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania challenge. All it takes is one lawsuit in one 161 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: of these states to finally break through the wall of 162 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: this absurd election, and everything else feels like it will 163 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: start to fall into place after that. We'll see, but 164 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: we fight either way. Thanks for listening to The Buck 165 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information. From 166 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:32,359 Speaker 1: Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. This Georgia Secretary 167 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: of State Raffensburger. You know, this is when you see 168 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: that at the state level you get in politics, and 169 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: including plenty of Republicans, you just get clowns. You get 170 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: people that are you wonder how do they get this job? 171 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: Here he is making sure that we know, or we're 172 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: supposed to know that there's nothing to see here. Stop 173 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: asking questions about Georgia. And for anybody who's watching what's happening, 174 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: it can't really increase your confidence level in this upcoming 175 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: runoff election. Here's Rappensburger play four. It's been a long 176 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: thirty four days since the election on November third. We 177 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: have now counted legally cast ballots three times and the 178 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: results remain unchanged. As Secretary of State, I have worked 179 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: to secure the vote for all Georgians. On day one, 180 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: we outlawed ballot harvesting. We strengthened STIG nature match through 181 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: the GBI training, and move towards an audible paper ballot system. 182 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: I am the first Secretary of State to implement a 183 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: driver's license requirement for online absentee ballot applications, which strengthened 184 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: the security of our absentee ballot process. So he's telling 185 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: you there's nothing to see. Oh ok, yeah, I guess 186 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: we're all supposed to go away. You know who I 187 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: trust to be a fighter and to be an honest 188 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: guy in this. You know who I remember sitting down 189 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: with and doing interviews on Capitol Hill about how Russia 190 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 1: kaloo was a farce and a lie and we had 191 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of it. And that was 192 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: before everybody knew all this stuff about Struck and Page. 193 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: And you know who was in that fight, Jim Jordan 194 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: of Ohio, among others, Devin Newness. No one's ever apologized 195 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: to Congressman Devin Newness for being right on all the 196 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: Russia collusion hoax garbage. No, instead, they said he should 197 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: lose his committee assignments. He should he should be you know, 198 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: drummed out. He should be kicked out of Congress for 199 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: being right. Just like how Facebook and Twitter, these social 200 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: media sites, they're they're throttling me now for being right 201 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: on COVID. What I say ends up happening. What doctor 202 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: Fauci tells you is garbage. Just give it, Just give 203 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: it four weeks and you'll see it's absolute nonsense. Well, 204 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: here's Jim Jordan though, so so we're told by Raffensburger 205 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: of Georgia nothing to see here. Here's Jim Jordan's saying, 206 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: there's something I want to see. Play three. We had 207 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: a staffor I've said this many times. We had a 208 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: stafford who works for our office and for the Judiciary Committee, 209 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: who at her apartment she got her ballot. Four other 210 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: ballots were mail to her apartment that were people who 211 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: didn't live there. That is a recipe for disaster. And 212 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: all we're asking now is why won't some of these 213 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: Why won't Governor Kemp in Georgia, for example, Let us 214 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: recheck the signatures and actually find out the rejection rate 215 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: that mister Starr was talking about early It was it 216 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: was next to nothing this election. When you got forty 217 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: one percent of the electorate sending a mail in ballot 218 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: in that that defies any type of common sense. Does 219 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: anyone want to offer an explanation for that? These are 220 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: facts now, now we're talking facts. Jim Jordan's bringing this up. 221 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: You had almost forty percent of the electorate do mail 222 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: in balloting in Georgia, and you have a rejection rate 223 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: of something like point zero three percent. It used to 224 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: be more like two or three percent. So why is 225 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: it that this year ballots that came in through the 226 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: mail by a factor of you know, a hundred, were 227 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 1: less likely to be rejected. Oh, it's because we got 228 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,599 Speaker 1: in a pandemic. With all the problems and changes and 229 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: everything to going on, all of a sudden, are voting 230 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: processes became much more streamlined and safeguarded. Does anyone believe 231 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: that we're talking about a thirteen thousand vote margin difference? 232 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: And I want to be very clear, even if we 233 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: only flip one state and it's not enough to change 234 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: the actual election outcome, it's essential that we make sure 235 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: we know if a state actually went read because the 236 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: next time around, would Democrats say there's no election fraud, 237 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: we can say, really, you had an entire state in 238 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: a presidential election that was determined initially by either irregularity 239 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: and or fraud. The precedent here matters, and the overall 240 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: contest matters. I understand that now I do have a 241 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: frustration that these fights weren't more at the forefront of 242 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: the minds of many GEOP officials before this happened. I 243 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: remember when I was in North Carolina in August give 244 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: giving a speech there to the Craven County Republicans Craven 245 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: County GOP and the guy who came up after me, 246 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: who was though one of the one of their GOP reps, 247 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: you know, state directors whatever he was, I forget his title. 248 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: He said, this election thing is they're kicking the door 249 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: wide open fraud. He knew. Now we did win in 250 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: North Carolina, but it was close, but he knew what 251 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: was going on. We needed to prepare more for it. 252 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: You know, Conservative media here, we were not ahead of 253 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: this enough. Honestly, we have to do a little bit 254 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: of introspection on this too, because we needed to have 255 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: challenges brought to some of these processes before the election. 256 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: I understand, you know, hindsight is twenty twenty, but this 257 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: was seen by people that were paying close attention. But instead, 258 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, we're all all focused in on Hunter Biden 259 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: for a while there. I don't mean to keep harping 260 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: on that story, but I just you know, I told 261 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: you that's not it wasn't going to make any difference 262 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: in the election, and it didn't make any different in 263 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: the election, and we went after that with everything everything. 264 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: Conservative media had all the biggest guns, all the biggest platforms. 265 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: I just think it was a strategic error. There were 266 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: other issues that would have been more important. But anyway, Georgia, 267 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: we have to know what happened in Georgia. We have 268 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: to continue to get answers here. And it does not 269 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: make me feel any better when we have incompetent state 270 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: officials saying just forget it, leave it alone. My friend 271 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: Sean Parnell is leading the charge in Pennsylvania here. He's 272 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: running for a congressional seat. But part of his lawsuit 273 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: if it's taken up by the Supreme Court. I know 274 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: Ted Cruise has said that if he's able to do, 275 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: if the court takes it. Ted Cruise has said he 276 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: will give oral arguments in favor of the petitioner's case here. 277 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: But Sean may be part of pushing over that first 278 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: big boulder of an illegitimate result in Pennsylvania. There's nothing 279 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: crazy about this. We have laws. The laws are to 280 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: be respected, and you cannot change laws in an election 281 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: because you say so because COVID is so scary. That's 282 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: not how the law works. Right. The same way, you 283 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: can't just shut down churches because you feel like it. 284 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: Because we have a First Amendment to the Constitution that 285 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: guarantees a free exercise of religion. You cannot override the 286 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: will of the Pennsylvania State legislature and say this is 287 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: how we're doing the election this year. This is a 288 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: matter of law. The same laws that we're following to 289 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: determine the outcome of this process say that you can't 290 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: change the process like they did in Pennsylvania. So we're 291 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: not giving up that fight at all. You're in the 292 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast from 293 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: more buck Head to Bucksexton dot com and remember to 294 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast. It has been months since there's 295 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: been real federal aid to people who are economically devastated 296 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: because of policies at the state end, in some cases 297 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,959 Speaker 1: the federal level that have made it impossible for them 298 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 1: to operate their businesses, have destroyed their their financial prospects, 299 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: and we haven't had any eight in months, and we 300 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: all know why. But you're going to see a massive 301 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: gas letting. Now. You're going to see people who will 302 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: tell you, oh, don't don't pay any attention to what 303 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: you know. Listen to us now here's what we know. 304 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: Democrats refused to allow that money, to allow that aid 305 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: to get out to the American people because they were 306 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: not the Republicans were not conceding to a Democrat wish list. 307 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: That is what happened. That is the reality of what 308 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: occurred and is continuing to occur. Nancy Pelosi, let them 309 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: eat Kate, Nancy chardonnay socialists. Hey ca't too much about 310 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 1: to chill you poor Papa. That Nancy Pelosi while she's 311 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: in her literal mansion, I mean an actual mansion in 312 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: San Francisco, and her twenty thousand dollars dual Viking freezers, 313 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: eating her fourteen dollars a pie and a pint Jenny's 314 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: ice cream. That Nancy Pelosi, who is using her authority 315 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: as the most powerful Democrat in elected office still in 316 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: the country, to block you, if you have been affected 317 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: by COVID economically, to block you from getting money the 318 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: government owes you. This is not and I think this 319 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: is ever needs me very clear on this. Anyone who's 320 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: getting COVID relief funds through the PPP program, for example, 321 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: and anyone's getting paid because they don't, they're out of 322 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: a job. Because of COVID. This isn't standing outside with 323 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: your hat in your hand saying, hey, can anyone help 324 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: me out? I've hit a rough patch. This is oh, 325 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: the government has taken from me, and now the government 326 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: needs to not even make me whole, but at least 327 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 1: give a little help here. Right. It should be like saying, 328 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: the government, you know, you know, accidentally we bulldoze your house. 329 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: We're trying to build a bridge. Okay, Well, are you 330 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: going to compensate me for this in some way? Nancy 331 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: Pelosi says no, Sorry, bulldozed house guy, You're on your own, 332 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: at least for now, at least until after the election, 333 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: because miserable people will want to throw the bums out 334 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: in charge, and the biggest guy in charge is Trump. 335 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: As we know, it's not fair, but this is the 336 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: game they played. Unfortunately, it has worked somewhat. You have 337 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo's brother, Andrew Cuomo. It's really a terrifying political 338 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: figure at this point. I mean not that I'm scared 339 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: of him, but it's it's troubling to think that somebody 340 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: could be as delusional and as thuggish as Andrew Cuomo is, 341 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: the governor of New York I. Mean, at least Gavin Newsom, 342 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: you feel like you could always you could always buy 343 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: him off with a you know, a fancy bottle of 344 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: champagne and some foi gras, you know what I mean. 345 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: You could always like get him to sit down with 346 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: you and talk to you and if you were willing 347 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: to play the game his way. He's very transactional, right. 348 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo seems to believe his own bs. This guy's 349 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: nuts and his brother is running effectively a propaganda show 350 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: on behalf from New York. That's where CNN is based 351 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: out of his you know, the headquarters in Atlanta is 352 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: like a vestige of the past. It's really a New 353 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: York operation. And he's running this propaganda operation for him 354 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: and saying things meant to throw people off the truth here, 355 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: which is that it's the Democrats in transigence. It's there. 356 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: It's Nancy Pelosi's hostage taking that has prevented AID from 357 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: getting out to people. Here is here is Chris Cuomo 358 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: talking about the people without food right now, play seven. 359 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: Too many listened and wanted to believe that we were 360 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: rounding the corner. I told you then and you know 361 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: it now. Trump lied, This will be over by April. 362 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: Trump lied magically, vanished during the summer, disappear after the election. 363 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: They won't even talk about it. They all lied to 364 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: you because they thought it would work for them. And 365 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: it is worse than ever, especially since November, and so 366 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: is Trump. But I gotta tell you, the real onus 367 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: is no longer on that guy. He's never been in 368 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: the driver's seat. It's Congress. You step up whenever we ask. 369 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: I tell you, these people need help. There's a page 370 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: you can go, you can do it. You do it, 371 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 1: You do it amazingly. You max people out, you go 372 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: to the charity, you reach out, and you send us stories. 373 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: I don't have much, but I'll give what I can. 374 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: Where is that in our leadership? Where is that in 375 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: the people that we put there to do what we 376 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: can't do? Listen to all the all the outrage, all 377 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: the righteous indignation here from bro Cuomo doesn't name He 378 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: says leadership. Who who are we talking about? Republicans put 379 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: forward an agreement, a bill, a funding package. They're good 380 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: to go. They're like, let's go here, you go whatever. 381 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: I forget the exact number. Now, it's like eight hundred 382 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: billion dollars almost a trillion dollars and Nancy Palsi goes, now, 383 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: not enough, we want more. And remember she wants more 384 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: for things that don't have to do with COVID relief. 385 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: So this is the classic slimy journo game. It's the 386 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: Congress that's the problem here. No, no, not, it's the 387 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: Democrats in Congress. It's the Democrat Speaker of the House, 388 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 1: that is, she is. They are the reason that people 389 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: are not getting checks in the mail and have not 390 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: been since August. Notice how he says Trump lied, Trump 391 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: lied because you know, he said it would go away 392 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: at some point. I mean, look a lot of people 393 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: said a lot. And now he's going back the beginning 394 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Fauci said, don't wear masks. So and 395 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: he's a health expert. Fact, Fauci said, don't wear masks. 396 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: Don't ever forget that. They want you to forget theyn't 397 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: ever forget that because now they're ah, but the science says, 398 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: the science says, it's outrageous, outrageous. But he's talking about 399 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,199 Speaker 1: how things are worse than it's ever been. Yeah, and 400 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: we've been listening to idiots like his brother who runs 401 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: New York state because his last name is Cromo and 402 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: his dad was the governor before him. Nepotism is bad, folks. 403 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: I said it during I even said it during the 404 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: Trump administration, you know it, And a lot of very 405 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: few people are willing to say that out loud. It 406 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: was not helpful to me. We can get into that 407 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: another time. Not helpful. Some people in the Trump orbit 408 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: they hear that you say you don't like nepotism, and 409 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know you're not on the 410 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: Christmas list anymore. Just telling you a lot of people 411 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: a lot of cowardice on that point. Well, nepotism, Get 412 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: ready for it with if the Democrats come into power 413 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: here with Biden. Oh my god. You know you think 414 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: it was annoying to have Hillary Care back in the nineties, 415 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, the first lady put in charge of your healthcare. 416 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: Of course was a disaster. But you're going to have 417 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: that and then some and what are we gonna say 418 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: it's bad when you do it? No, that's what Democrats 419 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: do is I don't like a thing that you do, 420 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: but I'm allowed to do that thing. I refuse to 421 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 1: be that person. I refuse to be that person and 422 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: That's also why I'm calling out here this big speech 423 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: that Cuomo's giving. You know, while his brother is the 424 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: governor of New York, it is Democrats who are preventing 425 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: in the Congress, who are preventing aid from getting to people. 426 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: Republicans have already said, all right, we've got the aid number, 427 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: let's go. Wouldn't something be better than nothing? No, Pelosi's 428 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: holding people are suffering. There's no need for people to 429 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: suffer at the level they have been financially. But it 430 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 1: helps Pelosi, it helps the Democrats. So they just continue 431 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 1: this game, and they have all these mouthpieces in the media, 432 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: and we are in some ways more outgun than ever. Now. 433 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: You don't think that it's a coincidence, right that in 434 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: this election year with all these rule changes, and oh 435 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: Biden is the president, don't ask any questions, he's the 436 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: president elect. Social media throttling right now, social media shutting 437 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 1: people down for wrong think is more aggressive. And it's 438 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: not since I talked to you about this, yes or 439 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: in the show. I want to be very clear, I've 440 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: been reaching out to other friends of mine and I 441 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: haven't asked if I can use their names. A lot 442 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: of people that you know in conservative media right now 443 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: are having the same problem either about election related stuff 444 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: or COVID. So the two biggest issues of public policy 445 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: in American politics right now are the targets of unprecedented 446 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: suppression campaigns. Right now, when it matters. You think it's 447 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: an accident. Yeah, maybe in three months or six months, 448 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: Facebook will stop throttling people like me who are raising 449 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: questions about the COVID lockdowns. Here's a very simple fact. Friends, 450 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: California has had months and months of preparation and patting 451 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: themselves in the back. I'm talking about the leadership, now 452 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: News and others for what a great job they did 453 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: crushing the virus, flattening the curve. They can't flatten Jack 454 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: squat right now. Why the people who are saying it 455 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: is because we're not doing what we're told are imbeciles 456 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: who cannot observe what is going on around them. That 457 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: is just that is a lie. There is no change. 458 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 1: I'm here. The only day I'm gonna be very clear, 459 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: the only day where I saw people all of a 460 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: sudden forget about distancing, forget about masks, was Biden declaration 461 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: of victory Saturday. That's when you and everybody dancing in 462 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: the street. Yay Biden, everything's gonna be better. Now, what's 463 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,479 Speaker 1: gonna be better? We're gonna sell out to China. We're 464 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: gonna bend the knee of the Chinese Communist Party. What 465 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: exactly is going to be better when Joe Biden is 466 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: in charge? Oh, we're gonna have somebody who points a 467 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: climate changes? Are so many people both lack real meaning 468 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: in their lives just going to say it and also 469 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: just have no ability to think for themselves against the 470 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: pressure of outside forces. And people who fall into those 471 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: two categories. If those two things are true about you, 472 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: you're a leftist, you're a democrat. It's just the way 473 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: it is. But they continue to try to shut us down, 474 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 1: prevent us from speaking. I won't ever let it go 475 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: that they were telling us even two three years ago, 476 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: there was no suppression of conservative ideas on social media. 477 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: You remember that. Ah, that's right, just the incrementalism. Okay. 478 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: They kept saying it until we proved it a little more, 479 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: a little more. It was a conspiracy theory, according to 480 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: left wing news sites, that there was any suppression of 481 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: conservative ideas. Now straight up they're saying, yeah, no, we 482 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: hired a bunch of lives to fact check you. And 483 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,239 Speaker 1: really what they're doing is putting missing context flags on 484 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: your post. So now now you you're not actually reaching 485 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: your audience anymore. This is no different. Understand this is 486 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: no different than if if Google started saying, you know what, 487 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: we really don't like your views, so we're just gonna 488 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: you think you're you're sending out to an email list, 489 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: you know, your blog or your thoughts, whatever it may be, 490 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: and it's actually just going into a trash bin somewhere. 491 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: We're not. We're not showing it to anybody. That's what 492 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: they're doing. You said, Well, hold on a second. I 493 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: thought terms of service. I thought this was a business. 494 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: I thought there were there was an agreement here, there 495 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: was an implicit understanding. Yeah, well too bad, Sorry, what 496 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: are you gonna do? That is the America we live 497 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: in right now. We are in a fight on many fronts. 498 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: I feel like people are are losing a little bit 499 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: of the fire and the belly right now. On the right, 500 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: we are in a fight on many fronts. Speech freedom 501 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: being suppressed and attacked by the social media companies by 502 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: these lockdowns. The left wants to just completely suppress further 503 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: investigation of this election. If they get their way, I mean, 504 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: what are we doing here? What do you think is 505 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: going to be left? If they can just steamroll us 506 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: on all these issues? We got to dig in. You're 507 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 508 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: Get more from Buck by following him on social media 509 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I was 510 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: talking to you about all the different fights that we 511 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: have underway right now. There's one that I think you 512 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: need to be prepared for as well. And this is 513 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: not as high a priority as the others, but it 514 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: factors into all of them. It's a part of all 515 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: the other ones. And that is the complete rewriting of 516 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: Russia collusion by the people who did it, by the 517 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: media who work entirely wrong on it. It'll take time, 518 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: it'll be a process. But they were all a bunch 519 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: of liars, and they destroyed objective journalism as a concept. 520 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: It's a lie, it's a joke, it's not doesn't exist 521 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: in this entry. There is no industry. There can be 522 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: people who are objective journalists, there is no industry of 523 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: objective journalism. It does not exist. And I'm not even 524 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: really sure that truly objective journalism exists. But there are 525 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: good faith journalists. They do exist. But good faith journalism 526 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: is a joke. There is no such thing. But you 527 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: know the old aphorism, is it an aphorism maxim Whatever 528 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: history is written by the victors, you'll hear people say, 529 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: this history is written by the victors. They are going 530 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: to if we have this Biden administration coming into power, 531 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: they are going to do everything that they can to 532 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: completely whitewash and rewrite the history of this Russia collusion. 533 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: I mean the election of course, for sure, it's all 534 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: going to be crazy. Yeah, so there were five thousand 535 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: votes mistabulated in Michigan by a software glitch, and yeah, 536 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: they wouldn't let us do the signature match. And yeah, 537 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: they change the they change the election process in Pennsylvania, 538 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: violation of the Constitution, you know, all these things. But 539 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: with all that, with all that, there'll at least be 540 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: I think, some some record of what really happened. But 541 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: with Russia collusion, it's going to be Soviet style, Soviet 542 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: style whitewashing of history. They're going to completely change the 543 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: whole thing. They're gonna say, oh, you know, we just 544 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: never really got to the bottom of it. That that's 545 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: how they'll they'll open the case back up when they 546 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: feel like they're in a position. They've got the megaphone, 547 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: and we won't have the ability to have the DJ 548 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: step in and speak truth to people. The DJ will 549 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: be full at the top level and throughout. Let's be honest. 550 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: A lot of lib lawyers who lie, as a fun alliteration, 551 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: a lot of lib lawyers who lie in the Department 552 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: of Justice, regardless of the administration. But we won't have 553 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: anybody who will step in and say, no, this new 554 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: narrative about Russia collusion is nonsense. I can't believe we're 555 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: bringing this back up. They will resurrect it and pretend 556 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: like they were right all along. That's what I'm warning 557 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: you about. And I know right now that seems like 558 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: come on, buck, No, yes, they will. You will start this. 559 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: It will be slow and at first they'll come up 560 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: against some resistance, but they will resurrect it. They will 561 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: bring it back and they will say we were right 562 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: all along with Russia collusion. We just haven't proven it yet. 563 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: I remember, these are the same people who tell you 564 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: that any questions about an election that was in an 565 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: unprecedented pandemic with an incredible amount of changes and forced 566 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: irregularities in the system. If you ask anything about that, 567 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: you're a conspiracy theorist. But if you decide that years 568 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: after the the Russia collusion mess was shown to be 569 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: the fraud that it is, Oh we need a second 570 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: look at this, that's what they'll do. You'll see, You'll 571 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: see this whole industry of people who are resurrecting that 572 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: Trump was a Russian asset. I know right now, it 573 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: sounds so crazy that it can't it will happen. So 574 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: this is also why social media giants crushing descent online, 575 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,479 Speaker 1: which is just they are the greatest threat to free 576 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: speech in America today. They should be the greatest protectors 577 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: of it, but they're run by leftists. They're run by Libs, 578 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: they're owned by libs. They are socially pressured. You know, 579 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: the people that are in the in the actual rank 580 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: and file of Facebook and Twitter, they're all a bunch 581 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: of urban libs, you know, coastal elites, and they are 582 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: the biggest threat to free speech and to a functioning 583 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: society based along democratic norms that exists in America today. 584 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 1: The social media platforms It's true, you're in the freedom hunt. 585 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast from more buck 586 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: head to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to 587 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: the podcast. Is an entrepreneur, a visionary, a seer, a 588 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: man who's been in a lot of different games and 589 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: knows how to play them. Our friend James al Tutres 590 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: back podcast host check out his latest podcast whenever you can. 591 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: James appreciate you joining us. Man Buck once again always 592 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: happen to join the show. So tell me this. What 593 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: do you see happening going into this what feels like 594 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: it will be a long cold winter of particularly small 595 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: business discontent. What do you think? You know, I think 596 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: small businesses are in trouble. You know, during this pandemic, 597 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: during the lockdowns, we've gotten addicted to Amazon. You get 598 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: paid money and you instantly send it to Seattle. It 599 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: no longer survives in your community. It no longer usually 600 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: money would circulate in the community. And that's what makes 601 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: communities prosperous. It's it's called the velocity of money in 602 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: economic term, but it's what makes communities prosperous is that 603 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: people spend in their local stores. That as that's that's 604 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: a trend that started fifty years ago that we started, 605 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: you know, giving money to the big chains. But now 606 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: it's firmly set where we just send all of our 607 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 1: money to Amazon, no questions asked, and that's going to 608 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: have a horrific effect on local communities. So what do 609 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: you think should do that? Do you think the opportunities 610 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: for entrepreneurs go ahead, go ahead? But no, you go ahead, 611 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs go Do you think the opportunities for entrepreneurship though, 612 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,959 Speaker 1: are going to be plentiful for online entrepreneurs? Like more 613 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: things moving online means more opportunities for entrepreneurship. Is there 614 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: anything that we could do that we're I mean, obviously 615 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: there's the PPP program, which has stalled out since August, 616 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 1: But you know, how how can people either on their 617 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: own or how could if the government was trying to 618 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: be helpful, what could be done to help us adapt 619 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 1: during this period? Because here's my concern. I'm already seeing 620 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 1: all these posts about just beloved neighborhood businesses, restaurants, stores 621 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: that are closing all over New York City. It's the 622 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: same things happening out in Los Angeles. Same thing is 623 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: going to be happening You know, I think I think 624 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: it hits the big cities first, because they've been pretty 625 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: pretty extreme on the lockdowns, and now they're already they've 626 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,839 Speaker 1: already been in California lockdown for a few weeks. How 627 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 1: can places try to, you know, or how could they 628 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 1: be assisted in the adaptation, James, so that they could 629 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: at least get through this very difficult period. It's an 630 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: interesting question because I think you have to think out 631 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 1: of the box, and nobody wants to do that. You 632 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: have to make some tough choices. For instance, New York 633 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: City owns twenty seven hospitals. Well, New York City is 634 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: not in the hospital business, so they they provide good healthcare, 635 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: but they lose money on it every single year, and 636 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: New York City can no longer afford to lose money. 637 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: New York City is gonna be at one hundred billion 638 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: dollars in the hole next year, so you have to 639 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: start considering things like should we sell the New York 640 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,279 Speaker 1: City Hospital system for whatever thirty forty billion dollars in 641 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: payback a lot of New York City debt. That would 642 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 1: go a long way, but it's a very unpopular choice. 643 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: We could sell the Port Authority in New York City, 644 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: we could start selling assets. The other thing is, there's 645 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: an idea I've been playing around with, which is, let's 646 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: put in place a negative sales tax, meaning instead of 647 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 1: being charged money for shopping locally, which is what happens now, 648 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,959 Speaker 1: Like you buy potato chips at the deli, you're charge 649 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,880 Speaker 1: an extra six or seven percent sales tax. Let's give 650 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: people money who shop locally. Maybe that's implemented with crypto 651 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 1: or bitcoin somehow. The implementation is not important, but if 652 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: you shop locally, you should get extra money. It is 653 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 1: only worth that's only has value if you use that 654 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: extra money again shop locally. That's why I suggest using 655 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 1: another currency to implement this, or some kind of Let's 656 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,839 Speaker 1: call it New York City Bucks. So everybody gets New 657 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 1: York City bucks when they shop at a local store, 658 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,440 Speaker 1: a mom and pop store in New York City. And 659 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: maybe that's redeemable one for one for US dollars in 660 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: ten years, So for ten years you're encouraged to shop 661 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 1: locally with these Again, I'll put it in quotes, New 662 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: York City Bucks, something like that, like creative out of 663 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 1: the box solutions. You're not gonna you're not gonna solve 664 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: things like they're doing now in New York City. You're 665 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: not gonna solve things by shutting down businesses. You're not 666 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,959 Speaker 1: gonna solve things by raising taxes. Yesterday, yesterday, Goldman Tax 667 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 1: Asset Management left for Palm Beach, Florida. And in the 668 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,919 Speaker 1: same article I read seventy other financial firms left for 669 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: other places. And what does that mean. Some people might 670 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: look at that and say, oh, yeah, well the wealthy 671 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 1: should leave, good riddance. Well, they happen to be the 672 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: ones who pay the taxes that afford the teachers, the 673 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: trash collectors, the EMT, healthcare workers, the transit workers, the police, 674 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: the fireman, you know, all the services that New Yorkers 675 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,839 Speaker 1: have grown to depend on and love. That's the New 676 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: York City pays for that via taxes. And right now, 677 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 1: tourism taxes are down, property taxes are down. Income taxes 678 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: are going to be a disaster in twenty twenty one, 679 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,360 Speaker 1: and a half a million people have moved out of 680 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: New York City is in the past few months, So 681 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,360 Speaker 1: that's kind of the long and short of it. Speaking 682 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,239 Speaker 1: of James Altucher, he's a podcaster, author, and an entrepreneur 683 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,360 Speaker 1: and James, I know you're in New York City. Now, 684 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: did you get any sense that people this time around 685 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 1: who maybe are let's just say they don't they don't 686 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: share my politics. There are people who are Democrats, are 687 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,160 Speaker 1: more left wing. Do you think they're recognizing more or 688 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,480 Speaker 1: are you getting any sense that they're starting to see 689 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,440 Speaker 1: that the people in charge don't know what the hell 690 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: they're doing and they can't actually fix this and we 691 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 1: need to come up with other ideas. Yes and no. 692 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean I have yet to me a single person 693 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: who voted for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who magically is 694 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,759 Speaker 1: finishing his second term in office, So somebody must have 695 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: voted for him, but nobody will admit voting for him. 696 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: And so that's the yes. But the no is you know, 697 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,840 Speaker 1: everybody is you know, has the exact same politics that 698 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: they have before. They think that they're liberal and conscientious 699 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: towards others, and yet you know, in private, I find 700 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: I find New Yorkers to be very much against progressive 701 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,439 Speaker 1: ideas or creative ideas that will actually help the city 702 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 1: that they live and help the people in the city. 703 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,759 Speaker 1: You know, of course, the virus is affecting a lot 704 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,160 Speaker 1: of policy decisions. But we have to remember that the 705 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 1: virus and the economy are two different beasts, and you're 706 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 1: going to as you fight the virus more and more 707 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,319 Speaker 1: depending on how draconian the policies get, you're going to 708 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: risk ruining the economy and ruining the city in the 709 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: long term. And that's people don't seem to realize that. 710 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: I think people with a certain kind of politics don't 711 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,799 Speaker 1: really seem to understand the importance of basic economics. Yeah, 712 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: and we're speaking of James al Tutor, podcaster, author, and host. James. 713 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: I think that if people understood that, there are a 714 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: lot of businesses that have already had a really bad 715 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,799 Speaker 1: year that are way behind on their rant that and 716 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: I have had to layoff employees in some cases. I've 717 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,920 Speaker 1: read about and heard about places that have had to 718 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,759 Speaker 1: layoff employees multiple times already. So they've already had two 719 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 1: rounds of sorry, everybody go home. The first time they 720 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: might have gotten PPP. Second time they might not have 721 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,640 Speaker 1: had you know, they might have had to get rid 722 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: of half their staff. Or and if they're going to 723 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,040 Speaker 1: close indoor dining, for example in New York, they've already 724 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 1: closed it. In Los Angeles, and this for you know, 725 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,800 Speaker 1: anyone anywhere else, this is coming to them too, or 726 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,640 Speaker 1: what's gonna Because the pressure works in such a way 727 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,160 Speaker 1: that when one city gets more extreme, another city government 728 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,920 Speaker 1: also usually democrats in charge, are going to say, well, 729 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,320 Speaker 1: we don't want to be the ones who seem like 730 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 1: we're reckless, right, so Philly and Dallas and you know, 731 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,920 Speaker 1: name a place. The only exception of this has been Florida. 732 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,880 Speaker 1: But anyway, I'll get to Florida in a second. It 733 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,440 Speaker 1: seems to me that people need to be made to 734 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,800 Speaker 1: understand that we don't have ninety days here of just sorry, 735 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: your business is shut down, because it's going to be 736 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: much worse this time around than even was the first 737 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: time around, because they're already hurt. They're already the businesses 738 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,719 Speaker 1: are already kind of wounded, if you will. And the 739 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,359 Speaker 1: issue is a lot of smart people don't seem to 740 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,000 Speaker 1: grasp what the common may I shouldn't say coming. But 741 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,640 Speaker 1: the main street person is dealing with the bar owners. 742 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,360 Speaker 1: I own a bar in New York City. So the 743 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 1: bar owner, the restaurant owner, the clothing store owner, these 744 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,960 Speaker 1: people are suffering. There are restaurants that have been in 745 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,960 Speaker 1: business for generations or stores that have been business for 746 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,920 Speaker 1: generations that are now bankrupt, that are out of business, 747 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:58,359 Speaker 1: and it's only going to get many times worse during 748 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,719 Speaker 1: the winter months with none of these stores and restaurants open. 749 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,280 Speaker 1: At least in the late spring and in the summer, 750 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,839 Speaker 1: there was outdoor dining in places like New York City 751 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,960 Speaker 1: and in la and restaurants survived barely because of that. 752 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 1: By January first, it's estimated that up to ninety percent 753 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,480 Speaker 1: of the restaurants in New York City might shut down 754 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,000 Speaker 1: and be bankrupt for good. Not only that the eviction 755 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,920 Speaker 1: moratorium is over. On January first, one in four New 756 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,920 Speaker 1: Yorkers haven't paid rent since March. And again this is 757 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,840 Speaker 1: not just New York City, this is many cities. But 758 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,080 Speaker 1: to your point about other cities, not the first tier 759 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: cities are in big trouble. They've spent massively on providing 760 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,960 Speaker 1: great services to their citizens and all that money is 761 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,920 Speaker 1: gone and those services are in trouble. But a lot 762 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,800 Speaker 1: of people now are fleeing the New York's and Las 763 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 1: for Austin, Park City, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Nashville. 764 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,279 Speaker 1: So these second tier cities there's going to be a 765 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: lot of opportunity both in real estate and entrepreneurship. Silicon 766 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,480 Speaker 1: Valley is a ghost town at the moment because in 767 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: part it's moving to these other cities and it's dispersing, 768 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,640 Speaker 1: which is not a bad thing. It's it's about time 769 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,520 Speaker 1: this happens. This was long du and it's just accelerating 770 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,839 Speaker 1: a trend that was already going to happen. And you 771 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,319 Speaker 1: believe strongly that the virtual trend that we're seeing here. 772 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: I mean, the big question that I see from people, 773 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,360 Speaker 1: and I think it's an interesting argument, is one we'll 774 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,920 Speaker 1: travel return to in a way that it's close to 775 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,520 Speaker 1: at least what it was before. Because there are some 776 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,759 Speaker 1: who say, well, people aren't gonna flying for meetings the 777 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,040 Speaker 1: same way because the zoom calls. I think there's some 778 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,799 Speaker 1: truth that there's all in person is still better and more. 779 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,319 Speaker 1: I think it has more impact than zoom if we're 780 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: really looking at this, especially, you know, if you're going 781 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,760 Speaker 1: to ask somebody to give you one hundred thousand dollars 782 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,080 Speaker 1: for your startup or a million dollars for your startup, 783 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 1: if you can be hand you know, hand to hand 784 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,319 Speaker 1: in person handshake that that's still going to be better. 785 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,400 Speaker 1: But also I think there'll be an explosion of people 786 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,000 Speaker 1: that want to once the virus is finally there's vaccinations 787 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,560 Speaker 1: that want to travel, that want to get out there 788 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,400 Speaker 1: and do things. So there's that part of it. But 789 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,360 Speaker 1: then also what does it mean for real est state, 790 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,880 Speaker 1: for commercial realist state for places? You know? Yeah, I 791 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: think people are gonna still want to have offices, but 792 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,520 Speaker 1: I think office space is going to be at much 793 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: less of a premium. I think officers are going to 794 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,359 Speaker 1: be smaller, but you know, it's going to be more 795 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,480 Speaker 1: of a gathering space and less of a you know, 796 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,759 Speaker 1: sock me into my cubicle, right, I mean, how do 797 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,960 Speaker 1: you see that playing out? So travel and offices? Right? 798 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 1: So travel, I agree with you better to be in 799 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,919 Speaker 1: person for meetings that are across the country. However, it's 800 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,120 Speaker 1: obviously not very productive to spend you know, days of 801 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,880 Speaker 1: your life traveling from New York to La say, and 802 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: then traveling back just for one or two meetings. So 803 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,799 Speaker 1: what's going to happen is we are going to see 804 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,600 Speaker 1: probably about a thirty to fifty percent reduction in business travel. 805 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm absolutely convinced of this. Of course, I'm just predicting 806 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: and you know, being a pundit here, but this is 807 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,040 Speaker 1: a natural thing that's going to happen. You said that people, 808 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,319 Speaker 1: of course enjoy and it's better for face a face. 809 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,080 Speaker 1: That's true, but it's not what companies are going to want. 810 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,240 Speaker 1: Companies are already used to saving the money of reduced 811 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,520 Speaker 1: travel and not that much of a reduction in productivity. 812 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 1: There's been a lot of research on this the past 813 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,920 Speaker 1: few months. There's there's a significant benefit in productivity happening 814 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,640 Speaker 1: right now and that's not going away. And companies are 815 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,839 Speaker 1: going to be able to save costs. Like you said 816 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,000 Speaker 1: on real estate, they're gonna maybe many industries are going 817 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,000 Speaker 1: to switch to a hybrid model. Come in one or 818 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,880 Speaker 1: two days a week, share your desk with somebody who's 819 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:29,919 Speaker 1: coming in the other one or two days a week, 820 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:34,640 Speaker 1: and we could reduce office space. Now, office space architecture 821 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,279 Speaker 1: is going to change as well. Desks are going to 822 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:37,840 Speaker 1: be a little bit more spread out. There's going to 823 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,560 Speaker 1: be no more open area floor plans. There's going to 824 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,520 Speaker 1: be more cubicles and offices now because protection from future 825 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,680 Speaker 1: viruses and pandemics, like just because this virus is over 826 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,920 Speaker 1: We're now aware that viruses and flus and pandemics exist, 827 00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,319 Speaker 1: just like Asia has been aware for the past couple 828 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,480 Speaker 1: of decades. So that's going to significantly And let's not 829 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,040 Speaker 1: forget us again. Bandwidth has changed for the first time 830 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,359 Speaker 1: ever for one of these catastrophes. Bandwidth is now good 831 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,640 Speaker 1: enough ten times faster than it wasn't two thousand and nine. 832 00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,600 Speaker 1: Bandwidth is good enough for you and I to have 833 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,040 Speaker 1: as many meetings as we want at high quality bandwidth 834 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:20,839 Speaker 1: for the screens, So four K screens, so I see 835 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,319 Speaker 1: remote is here to stay. It might not be to 836 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,120 Speaker 1: the level it is now, but you're not going to 837 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,799 Speaker 1: see one hundred percent full buildings. You're not gonna be 838 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,720 Speaker 1: see air travel the way it was. It's all different. 839 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,480 Speaker 1: Where James working, folks go to spaces are going to 840 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,040 Speaker 1: be sorry, go ahead, No trying to promote your podcast working. 841 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,799 Speaker 1: Where should folks go to listen? Oh yeah, but James 842 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,319 Speaker 1: Alteratra show. But I always like coming on Buck Sexton show, 843 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,560 Speaker 1: So listen to me. Here there we go, James. I'll 844 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,200 Speaker 1: twot you everybody. James, thanks so much, Thank you, Buck. 845 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:52,840 Speaker 1: Thanks again.