WEBVTT - Lebron Bends Knee To Commies 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:15.960 You are entering the freedom hunt. Lebron James takes a 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.160 knee against the freedom of expression, the First Amendments. We'll 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.400 get into that, plus the leaky impeachment inquiry. ABC News 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.280 airs fake war footage, and Attorney General Barr Religious Freedom Warrior. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:30.880 We have that and more coming up on The buck 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.159 Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show, where the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.440 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:44.599 actionable intelligence. Mag No mistake American. Ready, you're a great 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:55.680 American Again, the buck Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.560 the buck Sexton Show. Everybody. Great to have you here 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.440 with me. Thank you so much for joining today. Oh my, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.680 we have a lot going on. The Democrat debate is tonight, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.640 so that's exciting for some people. I don't even know 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.920 if it's exciting for the Democrats, but I'll be watching. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.720 I'll be live tweeting a combination of insight and snark. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.160 So there's that to look forward to. We have a 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.080 couple of big news stories breaking today. We have I 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.320 left this out of our little open there, but we 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:31.200 found Hunter Biden, or rather one of the broadcast networks. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.800 I think it's ABC found Yeah, found Hunter Biden, and 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.759 he's not doing himself any favors. We'll discuss that. We'll 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.679 hear a bit from Hunter himself. Oh the most the 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.640 most wayward of Biden's that would seem Hunter Biden. But 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:54.520 the one thing that's gotten everybody really fired up today 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.760 is this Lebron James situation. Now, I'm sure all of 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.280 you know without me telling you, but just to put 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.800 it in the proper context, Lebron James is arguably the 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.359 best basketball player who has ever lived. Some of the 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.840 Michael Jordan fans out there are booing right now, but 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.960 you know what I mean. Lebron James a big deal. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.400 The guy is certainly worth hundreds of millions of dollars, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.919 probably already close to, if not surpassing, a billion dollars. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.240 He is a global sports icon, and he was really 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.040 anointed as one of the biggest athletes, most important athletes 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.920 in the world back when he was in high school. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.680 And he lived up to those expectations, which usually doesn't 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.280 seem to be the case. So Labron James is somebody 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:44.480 who has a tremendous audience, a huge platform, is wealthy 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.600 beyond any normal person's wildest imagination. He's also someone who 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.000 is woke. He's an individual who, depending on the day, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:03:00.359 will share his thoughts on politics, particularly issues that deal 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:07.959 would say, police violence and other assorted and sundry things 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.880 out there that he will have to continue to look at. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.800 I'm sure now that people are going to be focusing 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.560 even more on the issues of the day that he tackles. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:23.480 But Lebron James a guy who talks about things in 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.519 the political realm, and I had mentioned on this show 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.360 a week ago. I had mentioned that it would be 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:37.520 great if Lebron James would come forward and say something 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.640 in support of the supporters of the protesters in Hong Kong. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.320 It would be great if Lebron James stepped forward and 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.800 decided to speak in favor of freedom right. So he's 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.360 spoken about Black Lives Matter, he's spoken about police violence, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.160 He's spoken about different issues here. So this is an 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.880 opportunity given what happened, as we know, you had the 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:06.920 general manager of the Houston Rockets who criticized gently really 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.200 or didn't even criticize the Chinese. He just spoke in 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.960 support of the Hong Kong protesters. And what did Lebron 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.920 James decide to do. I asked last week, I said, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.320 where's Lebron, Where's the King? Where's the man himself perhaps 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.799 the single most famous, most powerful figure in professional sports today. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.120 You could certainly make that argument. The NBA's all about 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.200 weighing in on politics, telling us how woke they are. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.080 We know that they will they will protest, They'll support 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.200 people protesting the national anthem, you know, support taking a 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.000 need during our national anthem. They'll wear hoodies and solidarity 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.279 with Trayvon Martin, all these different very political acts, and 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.640 Lebron himself had even at one point, I'm trying to 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:56.119 find this tweet, Lebron had shown everybody just actually how 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.640 truly woke he is. Here here you go. This is 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.600 from I think about a yeah, from earlier this year, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.760 Lebron James injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.400 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:18.680 about things that matter. Wow, bold talk, strong words from 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.039 King James, as he is widely known. But then he 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.240 decided to speak on the China issue, and my, oh my, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.279 it was a disaster hit it. We all talked about 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.279 this freedom of speech. Yes, we all do have freedom 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.359 of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.200 negative that can happen when you're not thinking about others 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.400 and you only think about yourself. So I don't believe. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.080 I don't want to get into a word word or 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.799 sentenced feud with Darylum with Daryl More, but I believe 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.720 he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoken, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.760 and so many people could have been harmed, not only 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.760 financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually. So just be careful what 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.320 we tweet and we say and what we do, even 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:15.000 though yes, we do have freed them a lot of negative. Wow, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.039 Lebron James a man who will never have to worry 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.279 about putting food on the table, not just for himself, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.360 for his family, but his family's family's family's family, based 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.320 on the amount of money he has amassed, a global 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.800 icon who's in no danger of losing his job or anything. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.040 He could have just not said anything about this, I 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.600 asked last week. I said, Lebron is woke, he is 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.039 social justice aware. Now is the opportunity for him to 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.880 take a stand for people who could really use it. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.479 And by the way, the Chinese market is huge for 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:55.279 the NBA, but Chinese support Hong Konger's support for NBA 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.719 players like Lebron is also very very strong. It would 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.599 have meant a lot, just some words of solidarity. But 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.640 instead of that, what did we get Lebron James saying 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:11.760 that Moray, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, was 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:17.400 not educated on the issue when he said that he 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.680 was in support of freedom for the people of Hong Kong. Oh, No, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.960 quite the contrary. I think. I think the Houston Rockets 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:30.440 GM was right on the money, and I think that 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:37.720 people understand that, and Daryl Moray did exactly the right 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.240 thing from a moral ethical perspective, you can stay from 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.360 a business perspective, that wasn't a good idea. But Lebron 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.720 James comes forward to show us that all that social 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.480 justice stuff, you know, it's easy to take a knee 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.960 in the United States, It's it's easy to And don't 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.200 even get me started on Colin Kaepernick. That guy's a 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.120 backup quarterback. He's at a point in his career where 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.520 his value as a professional player is just not what 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.600 it once was, and all of a sudden, he takes 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.360 a knee and now he's like a Nike superstar. He's 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.040 a sports icon. Forget about the fact that he wore 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.040 the socks with pig police officers on them, and we're 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.280 just supposed to skip past that. Oh, he's a sports icon, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.400 all right. Lebron James, best basketball player in the world 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.680 right now, criticizes the guy who's speaking out in favor 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.800 of freedom in Hong Kong and claims that he is 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.200 not I believe Maury has a we're gonna talk about 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.840 being educated on the issue. Not that this means he 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.679 necessarily knows all that much about what's going on in 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.560 Hong Kong, but I think it's a good good shot. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.520 First of all, he was right with his tweet, and 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.160 More I think went to M I T. So I'm 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.560 a pretty good I'm gonna guess that he has a 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.200 good sense of what's going on. I think he has 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.400 an advanced degree from M I T. I think More 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.600 has a good sense of what's going on in Hong 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.360 Kong's situation. A lot of people are very disappointed in 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.320 Lebron James right now. I would say, let's be serious 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.280 about this, folks. Is it really a surprise? Is it 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.800 really a surprise that professional athletes who have the option. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.880 As far as I'm concerned to avoid politics and just 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.040 be professionals in what they do and share their opinions privately, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.200 but to use their public platform for political issues that 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.760 opens them up. That means now that anybody's allowed to 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.079 have an opinion, anyone's allowed to decide that they will 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.400 criticize what these players have to say. So Lebron James, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.880 Lebron James shows us whether he's really brave or not, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.960 and unfortunately came up quite short. And it also makes 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.360 a lot of people question, what about all these athletes 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.840 who are talking about justice and the need for the 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.720 need for fighting for what's right. And well, that's all 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.960 good when fighting for justice means you sell even more sneakers, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.720 you sell even more jerseys and tickets. But what about 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.240 the consequences, the economic consequences of fighting for justice when 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.600 it's when it's hard. Oh, I see, you know the 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.600 NBA has been telling players not to not to speak 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.680 on this issue. Lebron James speaks out on this issue 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.520 and says exactly the wrong thing. He had a week 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.360 to figure out what the response was going to be, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.240 and this is what he comes up with. There's a 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.719 bigger issue here. It's not just about Lebron James and 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.439 the NBA, although should we really have expected more? I 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:37.680 leave that to you. China, which is a situation that 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.400 President Trump has been tackling from the beginning of his presidency. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.600 We have a different feeling about how to deal with 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.400 China now going forward than we did in the past 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:51.320 because of Trump. China has tremendous influence over decisions that 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.400 my friends are affecting you and me right now. China 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:01.000 has control over parts of the media and the media 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.600 narrative here in America. And really there can be no 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:11.720 better example of just how culturally and economically influential China 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:17.080 is than to have a globally famous NBA superstar bend 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:23.480 the knee to Beijing's Communist Party for fear of losing 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:29.040 out on the almighty dollar. That sends a very strong message, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.680 doesn't it. And it sends a message I think also 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.840 about what our future is going to be unless we 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.280 wake up and accept that this is not going to 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.160 be easy, just like the trade fight that Trump has 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.160 started as not easy. The fight for the truth about China, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.760 what's going on inside of China, what that country is 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.199 doing around the world, that's going to become increasingly complicated. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.959 Journalists like to talk about how brave they are. Celebrities 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.000 always think that they're brave when they take political stance, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.200 but most of them are just idiots. But journalists think 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.960 that they're brave until all of a sudden ownership has 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.680 a different feeling about things. Then it changes rather rapidly, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.319 doesn't it. How does China influence us? How far does 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.880 that influence go? Oh, we'll get to that. So how 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:21.240 powerful and influential is communist China when it comes to 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:27.160 pop culture? We've seen that they can influence the NBA. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.720 We've seen that they can tell people what they can 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.400 and cannot say in this country, even when they're incredibly 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:41.400 wealthy and incredibly influential. Where else does this extend well, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.080 Some people picked up on a very big change recently 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.800 in the new Top Gun movie. For example, in that 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.720 Top Gun movie, you will recall well, in the original 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.760 Top Gun movie, Tom Cruise has a bomber jacket on 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.640 and on the back of that bomber jacket is a 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.520 flag that is the flag of I want people, and 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.880 that all of a sudden in the new version was 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.440 changed to a different flag, and a lot of people 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.320 notice this now why would that happen Because the biggest, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.280 really the biggest movie market by at least by ticket 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.439 sales in the world is a Chinese market. It's also why, unfortunately, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.240 we have all these horrifically bad superhero movies. Yeah, I'm 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.040 gonna say it, bad superhero movies that are made all 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.960 the time. That's right, Mark, you know, I'm right. Don't 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.199 don't give me that. This isn't like an old man thing. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.319 This is a truth. You are very very incorrect. Yeah, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.439 they make them this way because they can dub. They 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.080 can dub Thor and the Hulk and a Hulk smash 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.720 and the same thing in every movie, and people in 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.280 foreign countries will watch it doesn't correct. Yeah, well, who 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.880 you're gonna believe anyway? They change things because the Chinese 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.920 government censors will block movies. Most recent example of this, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.000 I mentioned Top Gun. So that's that's a US movie. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:03.240 But there's a movie that's a joint animated project of DreamWorks, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:09.800 the famous you know animated and I forget what they 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.400 even call. You know, the digital essentially makes the digital 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.360 cartoons that people know and love. It's done very very well. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:21.440 As a company. DreamWorks made this movie called Abominable, which 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.520 I've been thinking for a while, when is someone gonna 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.760 make a movie. But I was thinking a horror movie 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.280 as you as you know, I like bigfoot movies. We've 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.120 talked about that on the show before. I think there 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.760 should be more of them, and they should be better 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.600 and not Harry and the Hendersons. I don't want a big, happy, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:40.360 cuddly Bigfoot. But the movie Abominable is about a cute, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:45.640 cuddly cartoon, Yetti, which some of you think of I 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.840 think as a cooler company, right, don't they make the 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.560 coolers the little where you put the beer and the things? 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:57.720 Am I? Yeah, I know America. But also this movie 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:02.160 is about traversing across China and this young girl is 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.640 with the big Foot, has to take him, has to 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.920 take them back to I guess to Mount Everest. I 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:14.480 think it is. And sure enough Vietnam is very upset 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.760 because guess what dream Works did in this movie in 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.040 order to make sure that as a joint venture with 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.920 the Chinese, it would get approved by the censors. Oh, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.640 they showed the South China Sea, the you know the 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:35.880 seven dash line, the South China Sea. They showed that 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.760 as Chinese territory, and the only reason that they would 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.120 do this, the only reason that this would this would 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.840 happen is because they want to make sure they can 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.160 get around the sensors. I'm sorry. The nine da I said, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.200 the seven dash line, nine dash line, pardon me, is 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.080 that they want to get around the upset of the 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.640 Chinese government. This is happening now. All the time, there 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.360 was a a DJ, I believe recently, a famous DJ, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.280 which is still an amazing thing to me that that 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.800 even exists. I feel like I could be a famous DJ. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.280 I'll make a playlist, I will put it up on 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.040 Spotify or iTunes, and I will hit play and I 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.440 will then be a famous day. I don't know. I 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:19.800 don't know how. I don't know how it works. I 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.360 guess you gotta mix the beats and to all that stuff. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.000 I'm hip, I know, I know what the kids do. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.320 So I got to mix all the beats with all 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:34.960 the flavor. But this guy's a famous DJ. He tweeted 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.920 something about China, and now the Chinese government has banned 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.080 him for life as a result of this. I'm trying 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.720 to see if I can remember who exactly, who exactly 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.520 it was. Some of you might know dj Z band 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.960 I'm sorry, and he was banned for liking a South 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.720 Park tweet on Twitter. South Park's one of the few 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.560 comedic you know, comedic enterprises that will still make fun 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.600 of things you're not supposed to make fun of, which 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:11.520 is wonderful. It's very important part of society these days. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.160 There have to be people willing to make the jokes 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.719 that you're not supposed to make or else why are 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.320 we making jokes at all? But djz liked liked a 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.400 tweet from South Park about the making fun of China, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.239 and now he's banned Forever. You're going to see more 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.840 of this. People who speak out against China's policy in 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.560 Hong Kong who are famous are going to get banned. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.520 In fact, even people who aren't very famous might get banned. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.720 It just won't be a news story. It took me 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.280 months to get a visa to be able to go 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.440 to China. You know, the whole XCIA current news media 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:47.440 person thing didn't really sit that well with the Communist Party. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.639 Apparently this is a big fight, my friends, This is 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.760 going to continue. This shows you what kind of influence 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.680 China has. We're not worried about invasion, We're worried about 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.080 bending the knee culturally and Econ'm back Team Buck. I 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:06.159 wanted to bring in an additional voice here on Lebron James, China, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.359 the NBA, Hong Kong, all the stuff that we've been 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.200 talking about today so far on the show. We have 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.280 Clay Travis with us now. He is a nationally syndicated 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.800 radio host and author of the book Republicans Buy Sneakers two, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.440 which is definitely true. I'm a Republican, I buy sneakers. Clay, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.879 Thanks for coming on. Appreciate you having me. All right, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.040 so let's start with this. You you wrote a piece 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.800 for OutKick the Coverage where you lay out that I mean, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.359 I was saying this at the start. I don't follow 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.760 if you follow sports very closely and sports in the 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.919 intersection of politics. I do politics and occasionally when sports 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.520 happens to cross over into my world. But you take 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.240 the position in your piece that Lebron James has been 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:51.960 heralded as someone akin to the greatness of Muhammad Ali, 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.520 not just as a sports figure, but as a political figure, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.280 and you think that's unwarranted. Tell us why, Well, because 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.800 he's never really taken a stand on it anything that matters. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.720 And by what I mean there, when you look at 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.800 Muhammad Ali's history, the man faced imprisonment, he stood up 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.399 to the idea of a draft, he stood up to 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.480 the idea of a war, and as a result he 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:20.080 suffered severe consequences. But he took a stand on an 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.280 issue that was dividing the country in a major way. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.159 Lebron has never taken a stand in any way, and 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.359 that's why I wrote last week that this China situation 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.800 offered an opportunity for Lebron James. You know this because 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.639 you hear it all the time. There's much talk about 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.600 being on the right side of history. And for anybody 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.800 I'm a history major, I'm a long time history buff. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.720 Anybody who's spend any time studying history knows that very 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.320 often the idea that there's a right and wrong side 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.240 of history that is going to be determined during your 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.240 life is often incorrect. Sometimes it takes hundreds of years 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.480 to figure out exactly who was on the right and 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.720 wrong side of history, and byographies will consistently debate that 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.000 for many different issues. But we know that the right 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.639 side of history beens in the direction of democracy, ringom 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:15.119 of speech, human rights, basic individual freedoms are without a doubt, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.600 on the right side of history. So Lebron James had 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.359 an opportunity here to stand up to China and say, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.840 I believe that the one point four billion people who 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.560 live in China are entitled and should have the same 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.560 exact rights that I do in America today. I believe 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:35.760 in democracy. I believe in capitalism. I believe in something 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.640 as important as that. And if he had done so, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.600 that could be a crucible moment down the line for 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.520 his legacy. But in the meantime, you know that in 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.040 the long range he's going to be I believe, on 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.960 the right side of history because the winds of societal 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:54.720 change been towards the directions of capitalistic democracies. Instead, he 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.359 chose to shut up in durable and take communist dictator money. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.280 And if he had, we've been a capital If that's 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.639 all he cared about, or all the NBA it's cared about, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.680 I don't think this hypocrisy would be striking so many 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:12.480 as being so rank, so glaring, so difficult to stomach. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.080 Now do you think that that Lebron James. I mean, 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.800 look personally, it feels like a financial pressure from China 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.040 on him personally is that would be tough. Any financial 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.080 pressure on him is going to be a tough thing, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.320 or you could at least argue would be a difficult 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.080 thing to pull off. How much pressure can the Chinese 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:32.960 put on the NBA? I mean for someone like me, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.720 I I like basketball, I like the NBA. I haven't 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.000 watched a game probably in five years. So tell me 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.040 how big a deal is it for China to start 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:44.399 to slap down and either particular NBA players or just 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.840 NBA access into the Chinese market. Well, I think it's 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.600 a fascinating question, and one answer I would imagine that 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.719 China can sort of hint that is, we don't have 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.359 to pay you for the rights to your games. We 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.400 can do what we've done with the out of Western products, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.920 which is allow rampant piracy to occur in this country 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.400 such that we don't have to pay you anything substantial 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.240 for your rights, and the people who are NBA fans 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.040 in China, we can make it available to them without 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:18.119 going after the pirates and everything else associated with that. 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:20.560 But I think what you're hitting at is the key 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.760 is all of China's power in this scenario is derived 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:30.400 from financial related issues, and so the biggest the biggest 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.040 thing that is disappointing to me I think about Lebron 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.800 in general, is I don't know what your dollar figure is, 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.320 but I've pretty much reached it. Where if you told 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.200 me I could make twenty percent more, but I had 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.720 to say things that I disagreed with in order to 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.320 make that twenty percent more, I wouldn't do it, right. 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.800 I mean, my intellectual honesty is worth a lot more 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.800 to me than twenty percent more. Now, I worked as 0:22:57.800 --> 0:22:59.920 a lawyer, so if you told me, hey, I'll pay 0:22:59.920 --> 0:23:02.600 you a hundred times as much, I might be willing 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.879 to argue for anybody. Right. I've defended murders, I've defended 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.520 rapist you know. I look, that's part of the job, right, 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.639 But for what we do, to be in the marketplace 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.439 of ideas and be selling something I didn't believe in, 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.920 it's really disappointing to think that to sellout dollar figure 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.360 would only be about twenty percent more for somebody like Lebron, 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:25.160 especially if you've already made hundreds of millions of dollars. 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.959 And by the way, especially if you've made those hundreds 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.200 of millions of dollars at the fount of democratic capitalism. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:35.080 To turn your back on that in exchange for platitudes 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:40.320 from your communist dictator leaders is to be really disappointing 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.600 and essentially blows up Lebron James's argument that he's more 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:47.439 than an athlete, or that he refuses to shut up 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.919 and dribble. Why did he go after Maury specifically? That 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:55.480 seems not only was Lebron wrong on this, he seemed 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:59.120 to really be doing the bidding of the Chinese if 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.440 the Chinese government had written his talking points. And I 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.879 think Shi Jinping said, you know, anyone who stands there 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.040 away in Hong Kong, we will annihilate them and grind 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.520 their bones to dust. So okay, so she goes a 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:11.359 little more to the mat on this stuff than than 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:13.959 even anybody in the NBA would fine, But if they 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:17.199 were trying to write plausible talking points for somebody in 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:21.760 the NBA, I think it would include Morey doesn't understand 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:23.720 the situation. I think that's one of the ways to 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:27.400 undermine the tweet that got this whole situation. It got 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:31.200 this whole ruckus started. So why do you think Lebron 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:33.399 went after More? Is there any personal beef there I mean, 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.560 these are things that I wouldn't know that you would know. Well, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.040 first of all, I think you're right in claiming that 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:41.919 this is a complicated issue. He followed up on what 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:45.359 Steve Kerr said last week, which was, Oh, it's almost 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.040 impossible to come up with an opinion on a situation 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:51.560 like this when the reality's pretty straightforward. You know, they're 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.879 either in favor of democratic protesters in Hong Kong, or 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.080 you're opposed to them and you believe in autocratic Chinese 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:02.280 rule of an authoritarian nature, or you don't. This is not, 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.080 you know, like so many issues that we confront on 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:09.399 a daily basis in American life, where okay, let's figure 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.719 out how the Second Amendment is going to apply in 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:14.960 twenty nineteen. Okay, I can see how that could be complicated, 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:17.119 and there could be a variety of different issues. To me, 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:22.359 what Darryl Moray said in terms of endorsing democracy is 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:25.040 the equivalent of saying cancer is bad. Right. I mean, 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:26.840 I'm sure there's some one or two people out there 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:29.240 who are like, you know, cancer is underrated in my opinions, 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:31.760 but in general, this is like I'm in favor of 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:34.520 clean drinking water, I'm in favor of kids having an 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.439 opportunity to go to school and get an education for free. 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:41.960 These are not controversial ideas in general, So I think 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:45.400 you're right. I think that Lebron has used Darryl Moray 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:47.879 as a target because one, it was his tweet that 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:52.000 set off this firestorm in China, but also because I 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:55.920 believe Lebron is trying to make this issue seem more 0:25:56.000 --> 0:26:00.320 complicated than it is and also make more a seem 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.600 less understanding of this situation. And by the way, really 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.879 what Lebron is doing, in addition to echoing communist talking points, 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:10.720 is he's echoing one of the NBA owners who is 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:12.800 Joseph's eye ob belously, he's how you pronounce his name. 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:15.560 But the Ali Baba guy who now owns the NETS, 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.600 it sounds like he's set down with Lebron and tried 0:26:18.600 --> 0:26:20.800 to brainwash him. And he's the guy who wrote that 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:24.960 Facebook post right about China's China's history and the territorial 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:27.159 integrity and how sensitive it is, and it was some 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:33.520 real whiny nonsense. Yeah, and it also essentially told Americans 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.800 that we shouldn't be concerned with democracy around the world. 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:38.639 And that's the big issue here, I think buck right 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:41.760 when you really break it down, is China has moved 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.600 from a country that was, hey, you want to show 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:47.320 you the new Avengers movie, well, we need you to 0:26:47.359 --> 0:26:50.280 cut these two minutes out in order to play in China, 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:53.160 and Disney and all the big companies acquiesced to those 0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:55.840 demands to get into the Chinese market. What they have 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:57.600 now started to do, and I think this is an 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:01.480 interesting pivot point for China is they are arguing, now, 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:06.159 American company, we don't care that your citizens have the 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.680 right under American law to have First Amendment freedoms and 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.280 say what they have said, if you want to do 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:17.560 business with us, you need to police your employees outside 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:20.600 of the bounds of our country with what they are 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.320 saying and doing. And that to me is a big 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:27.879 step by China outside of their terry. Now, that is 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:29.879 a really important point. By the way, this isn't if 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:32.000 you're going to come into our house, it's our rules. 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:34.800 It's you better do things in your house that we 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:36.919 want you to or else you'll never be welcome at 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:39.600 our house. Yeah. This is a big difference, right, I mean, 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:42.800 it's the difference between let's I mean and again I 0:27:42.840 --> 0:27:44.520 don't know that a lot of people have noticed this, 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:46.840 but that's why I think this is such a larger 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.560 battle on the grand scale, and why Lagron's decision here 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:52.520 is so disappointing. If you believe as I do, that 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:55.080 much of the twenty first century is likely to be 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.760 maybe a new Cold War, however you want to define it, 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:01.680 between America and China, the question is, do you believe 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:05.960 in a communist, authoritarian governments of vision for the twenty 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:10.199 first century as it expands beyond its territorial borders and 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:13.080 begins to try to influence the world, or do you 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:15.919 believe in the vision of a capitalistic democracy like the 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:18.920 United States and many of our allies. And Lebron James 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:22.280 has effectively said, I believe in the communist dictatorship vision. 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:25.760 And that is why this is so disappointing, because I 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:29.120 think we're starting to see the early shots being fired 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.439 in a global war of ideas, and Lebron has come 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:35.119 down on the side of the Chinese. Clay Travis, everybody 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:38.040 the book is Republicans, buy Sneakers too. I actually have 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.440 a copy. Highly recommend you all go out and get one. 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:43.000 He's also a nationally syndicated radio host. You can check 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:45.480 out his podcast. Clay, thank you so much for joining 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:47.600 us that we appreciate it. Appreciate it, my man. You 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:49.200 got a great show. I hear great things about it. 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:51.280 Look forward to seeing the politicon here in a few weeks. 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:56.000 I'm glad we managed to cover the Lebron James China 0:28:56.120 --> 0:29:00.800 Hong Kong controversy today because I think that it really 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:02.600 is and I agree with what our guests there Clay 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.280 Travis said, I think this is just going to continue 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:05.720 to get worse. I don't think that there's going to 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:09.600 be any reprieve here, and the Chinese, their leverage is 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:12.880 only going to become more potent as time goes on 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:15.160 unless we start to see this for what it is 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:17.920 and push back. And the Chinese have been playing a 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:21.480 long game here. They have these Confucious centers that they 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:25.880 fond all across America. These Confucius centers create this perception 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.720 of a China that many people argue is just not 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:30.840 and the way that China approaches the rest of the 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:32.840 world that's meant to lull us into a sense that 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:36.040 the Chinese have no ambitions beyond their own territory and 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:38.400 just want to be good trading partners, and they want 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:42.080 prosperity for their people and peace around the world. A 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:46.760 lot of very powerful propaganda. In fact, I believe that 0:29:46.840 --> 0:29:51.880 the China People's Daily, which is a or the China Daily, 0:29:52.640 --> 0:29:57.920 which is a publication approved by the People's Republic of China, 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:00.800 was for a time being added to The Washington Post 0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:02.760 when it was delivered to people's home some years ago 0:30:03.320 --> 0:30:07.920 as a special advertising bulletin kind of its propaganda. The 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:10.160 Washington Post was like, yeah, well, we'll take Chinese money 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:14.400 and distribute propaganda all over the world. So has been 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:16.760 going on. And then with Lebron James, yeah, I'm not 0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:19.320 surprised really, And the more I think about it, the 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:22.080 more sense it makes that this is This is a 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:25.760 tough issue for the NBA in that there will be consequences. 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:27.480 It's not tough to know which side to be on, 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.680 but it's tough as in, you could actually have some 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.400 bad things happen if you speak out against the Chinese. 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:35.880 Nothing bad is going to happen to anybody the NBA 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.320 for wearing a hoodie and solidarity with Trey von or 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:42.400 tweeting out about social justice or saying that you know, 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:48.800 Colin Kaepernick should be supported in his self indulgent protest movement, 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:51.840 all that stuff, all of it, right, that's that's easy. 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:54.920 In fact, that's brand enhancing. And you've seen that now 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:59.320 some of the more social justice aware things that were 0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:04.080 in all things that Nike has done, like putting Kaepernick 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:06.200 on I forget we're starting a campaign with them, I 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.800 forget what it's called. It's like the equivalent of putting 0:31:08.840 --> 0:31:10.640 him on a Wheaty's box. He's now a big sports 0:31:10.640 --> 0:31:15.160 hero for Nike. That has resulted in an increase in sales, 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:19.320 So there is really a financial upside. Not only does 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:21.400 it not hurt them to take these stands in the NBA, 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:24.520 there's a financial upside to it. Certainly a huge upside 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:28.720 for Colin Kaepernick. But you don't want to listen to 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.400 celebrities in general on these issues because I mean, you 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:33.880 should just listen to people who are knowledgeable and intelligent. 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.440 So if a celebrity happens to be knowledgeable and intelligent 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:39.320 on an issue, of course, but being a celebrity does 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:42.040 not mean as all. If you know, it means you 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:46.680 are neither knowledgeable nor intelligent. On its face, you could be, 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:49.560 but it doesn't mean you are. And another example is 0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:53.520 I mean Jane Fonda still out there, you know, hannoy, 0:31:53.720 --> 0:31:58.960 Jane still doing her thing. People listen, media gives her airtime. 0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:02.640 Here she is. Just in case you haven't heard enough 0:32:04.000 --> 0:32:09.360 scaremongering on climate change, let's hear from non scient taste. 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:14.400 I would argue non book reader Chain Fonda about climate change. 0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:18.360 Play clip seven. Please. The Inner Governmental Panel on Climate 0:32:18.400 --> 0:32:23.320 Crisis told us last year that we only have well, 0:32:23.400 --> 0:32:25.760 last year they said twelve years. Now it's eleven years. 0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:29.080 We have eleven years left to try to turn this 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:35.720 fossil fuel disaster around so that we don't completely pass 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:39.560 the tipping point and it becomes untenable, untenable to govern, 0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:43.120 untenable to have a stable economy or any kind of 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.560 human rights or anything. It's there's just going to be 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:49.280 one disaster on top of the other. But we do 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:53.160 have time. We have time, and it's going to require 0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:57.280 that people in every country all around the world organize 0:32:57.320 --> 0:33:01.960 and mobilize and if necessary, bring government to a halt. 0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:05.320 If we can't make them do the right thing. I mean, 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:09.840 it wouldn't have to be this radical and fundamental. If 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:13.320 the fossil fuel industry hadn't lied to us for thirty years. 0:33:15.000 --> 0:33:19.680 Fossil fuel disaster. That's interesting because what she refers to 0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:22.920 as a disaster, you could also look at as an 0:33:22.960 --> 0:33:29.920 objective observer and historian and see that fossil fuels have directly, 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:35.520 not just coincided with, but created the economic conditions for 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:40.440 more prosperity, longer lifespan, easier lives, better lives around the 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:47.560 world than any other series of scientific advances in human history. 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:52.000 You do not have modern capitalism without fossil fuels. You 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:54.600 don't have. It doesn't exist. You do not have this 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:57.640 modern world of technological wonders that we all live in. 0:33:57.800 --> 0:34:00.600 But now the left in this country and much of 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:05.320 it around the world, has embraced this hatred of fossil fuels. 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:10.440 They're the enemy. They're gonna kill us all they say. Oh, 0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:13.360 and also the claim that we should bring governments to 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:17.000 a halt. There are a few people as clownish and 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:22.560 stupid as the protesters against climate the protesters who are 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:26.960 climate change activists against fossil fuels. In recent weeks, you've 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.359 seen things. They've spray painted buildings red. They do all 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:32.799 this crazy idiocy. I almost don't want to ever call 0:34:32.840 --> 0:34:37.920 them protesters. People in Hong Kong taking truncheons to the face, 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:42.040 getting sprayed and hit with rubber bullets and tear gas 0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:45.640 and standing up for basic human rights. Those are protesters. 0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:49.279 These climate change activists, they're really just engaged in a 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:55.520 kind of self indulgent virtue signaling. Theater Jane Fond is 0:34:55.560 --> 0:34:58.480 a part of it. Well, they found Hunter Biden everybody 0:34:59.520 --> 0:35:03.960 where Hunter. Remember Where's Waldo? That book when you were 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:05.920 a kid, you try to find Waldo with all the 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:09.520 people around him. Well, we're playing where it's Hunter. Turns 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.600 out they were able to get him. You have the 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:18.560 Democrat debate happening tonight, and it seemed that the Biden 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:22.399 handlers and assorted media strategists and all the other folks 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:26.880 who were involved in trying to prop up the Biden 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:28.520 situation here and make it look like it's not as 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:31.239 bad as we all know it is. They figured, Okay, well, 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:34.399 let's let's get ahead of this thing, because Biden's gonna 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:40.160 have to get even then, the pro Biden journos know 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:42.680 that he's gonna have to get some kind of question 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:44.799 about this tonight, so better to get ahead of it 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:49.239 and to have Hunter Biden establish that, you know, there 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:51.719 was nothing going on here, nothing wrong here. Everything is 0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:55.920 just fine. At least that's supposed to be the storyline. 0:35:56.040 --> 0:35:58.719 That's what we're supposed to take. And I want to 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:02.640 play this for you because there are problems even with 0:36:02.800 --> 0:36:10.920 Hunters very favorable, helpful to him interview right, the way 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:14.000 they ask him the most basic questions. He knows they're 0:36:14.040 --> 0:36:16.680 not going to come at him with anything, particularly though 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:18.400 the last questions like do you think it was a 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:20.600 good idea? They won't say. How can you tell us 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:22.239 that it wasn't corruption? I mean, you know, it's all 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:24.800 about how they framed the questions and posed the questions. 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:29.239 But here is Hunter Biden when asked on I think 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:33.040 it's ABC, right, ABC, CBS, NBC. It's all it's all 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.160 the same thing. I mean, they think it's not, but 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:38.319 I think it is. Here's what Hunter Biden says when 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:41.480 asked about whether he talked to his dad about the stuff. 0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:45.359 Oh please, let's let's know this. Let let's find out 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.600 what he said. Play five. I'm sorry, Play sixteen. I 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:51.080 want to get to the heart of it. Did you 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:55.399 and your father ever discuss you free as I said. 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:58.440 The only time was after a news account, and it 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:01.000 wasn't a discussion in anyway. There's no butt to this. No, 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:02.759 we never did. Your dad said I hope you know 0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.719 what you're doing. Hope you know what you're doing. I do, 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:06.840 And I said I do. And that was literally the 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:09.680 end of our discussion. Why because my dad was vice 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:11.920 president of the United States. There's literally nothing as a 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:17.640 young man or as a full grown adult that my 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:20.160 father in some way hasn't had influence over as it 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.399 does not serve either one of us. When he said 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:24.400 I hope you know what you're doing, what did he 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:27.120 think you were doing? Well? He wrote? The press reports 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:28.920 that I joined the board of Barisma, which was a 0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:33.520 Ukrainian natural gas company, and there's been a lot of 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:37.480 misinformation about me, not about my dad. Nobody buys that, 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.120 but it buys this idea that I was unqualified to 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:42.239 be on the board. What were your qualifications to be 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.319 on the board of Barisma? Well, I was vice chairman 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:46.759 of the board of Amtrak for five years. I was 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.600 the chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program. 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:52.040 I was a lawyer for A boy Schiller Flexner, one 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:54.839 of the most prestigious law firms in the world. You 0:37:54.920 --> 0:37:58.800 didn't have any extensive knowledge about natural gas or Ukraine 0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:02.040 itself though, No, But I think that I had as 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:03.840 much knowledge as anybody else that was on the board, 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.440 if not more. In the list you gave me of 0:38:06.440 --> 0:38:08.880 the reasons why you're on that board, you did not 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:10.759 list the fact that you were the son of the 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:13.560 of course. Yeah, what role do you think that lay? 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.359 I think that it is impossible for me to be 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:18.320 on any of the boards that I just mentioned without 0:38:18.360 --> 0:38:20.120 saying that on the sun of the Vice President of 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:22.680 the United States you were paid fifty thousand dollars a 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:25.359 month for your position. Look, I'm a privacy citizen. One 0:38:25.400 --> 0:38:26.960 thing that I don't have to do is sit here 0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:29.160 and open my kimono as it relates to how much 0:38:29.200 --> 0:38:31.719 money I make or make or deer didn't. But it's 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:39.240 all been reported. I gotta tell you, this was great, fantastic. 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:43.480 After all of the whining from libs about Trump and 0:38:43.520 --> 0:38:47.520 the emoluments clause, we have been led to believe through 0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:51.200 story after story in The Washington Post, the New York Times, 0:38:51.520 --> 0:38:54.080 I nobody even knew what the heck the emoluments clause 0:38:54.400 --> 0:38:57.000 was until they thought maybe they could get Trump on it. 0:38:57.120 --> 0:39:01.960 Right that if if, forarders are buying cheeseburgers and beer 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:07.200 at Trump Hotel in Dcy, that's constitutionally prohibited because they're 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:10.879 basically buying off the President United States. And I would 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:13.400 just say to all the Washington Post journos who were 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:17.880 running with this absurd theory, Oh, it's constitutionally not allowed 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:19.920 to get payments for foreign government. Yeah, they're allowed to 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:23.440 give you a big bag of money. They're allowed to 0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:26.680 be customers at a business that has expenses and payroll 0:39:26.760 --> 0:39:30.839 and that has countless other customers too. What leverage could 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:33.560 you possibly have there? Walk into the White House sometime, 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:37.160 try this one and say I have no foreign policy experience, 0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:40.359 but I did buy a cheeseburger a Trump Hotel last night, 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:42.279 and so I would like you to end this trade 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:45.560 war with China. See how that goes with you, See 0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:49.040 how that does. But this is what they were saying. 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:50.480 I'm not making it up. This is what they were 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:55.879 telling people. It's absurd, it's ridiculous. And yet now when 0:39:55.880 --> 0:39:59.719 you have Hunter Biden doing this interview, this is just 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:03.399 picture They'll left always talks about privilege. There is no 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:09.560 privilege like Brady politician child privilege, and this is bipartisan. 0:40:10.360 --> 0:40:15.040 It's true on all sides and both sides. I'm sorry, 0:40:16.400 --> 0:40:19.680 Braddy Politician. Child is a level of privilege. You get 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.359 to go to any college you want, if you're young 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:24.720 enough for that. You know, you get to be famous 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:26.759 and people will pay you to speak. Why why would 0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:31.480 anyone pay Chelsea Clinton to speak anywhere? Who cares? What 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:33.960 soon to be a congressional candidate. I can assure you, 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.480 Chelsea Clinton, and then after that senator and then after 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:38.560 that presidential Kenny, They're going to revive the whole Clinton 0:40:38.640 --> 0:40:40.560 dynasty around her. Who cares what she has to say 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:44.239 about anything? How has she proven that her thoughts are worthwhile? 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:51.000 Who cares what any politicians children have to say about anything? Well, 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:56.960 if they're particularly compelling, if they're legitimately interesting, good on 0:40:57.000 --> 0:41:01.359 their feet, good on certain topics. I'm persuaded. But that's 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:07.440 a case by case basis. Hunter Biden, however, is sitting 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:10.480 there and he's basically looking the American people the eye, 0:41:10.480 --> 0:41:13.759 and he's like, yeah, you know, I mean like I was, 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:16.040 I was just qualified as anybody else to be on 0:41:16.080 --> 0:41:22.480 the board of that company. Yeah, totally. Asking if he's qualified, 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:23.960 he said he was on the board of Amtrack. Oh 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:29.080 you mean Amtrack, the company that Joe Biden is linked 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.680 to as a politician as part of his brand, Joe 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.840 Biden takes the amtrack from Delaware to DC. You know, 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:40.480 Bupadah's blue collar Joe. That's the whole story. Oh oh, 0:41:40.520 --> 0:41:42.200 you mean that Amtrack thought it might be a good idea. 0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:46.280 I mean a company that is dependent upon the federal 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:49.560 government for its large s. Yeah, they're gonna put the 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.000 single US senator who probably rides that more than anyone else, 0:41:53.120 --> 0:41:55.040 rides that train more than nails, put his son on 0:41:55.080 --> 0:42:00.160 the board because because Hunter Biden so smart, I come on, man, 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:06.640 and his qualifications for this clearly nepotistic post. Are the 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:10.160 other posts of nepotism granted to him because of who 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:13.000 his dad is. This is what he's telling in the interview. 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:18.640 Oh my gosh, un Food Program. He's on the board 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:20.839 of the un Food Program. I'm sure that was really 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:25.560 strenuous work. And he was hired by a big DC 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:27.799 law firm. Well that had nothing to do with his 0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:32.360 last name. My friends, this is the this is the 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:35.799 embarrassment that the Democrats can They can pretend like it's 0:42:35.840 --> 0:42:39.480 not embarrassing, but when you look at the complaints, I mean, 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:42.799 the hypocrisy is what's just so difficult to stomach here. 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:45.440 You look at the way that they have talked about 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:49.720 wind about all things related to Trump, everything that Trump 0:42:49.960 --> 0:42:53.120 and his family have ever done in office out of office. 0:42:53.520 --> 0:42:58.080 You know, they believe that the trademarks that his children 0:42:58.080 --> 0:43:01.160 are getting approved around the world, that's elicit, that's wrong. 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:05.160 You know, the emoluments calls, Trump hotels, the businesses. They're 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:08.680 always worried about whether somebody in the United States government 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:10.600 is paying to stay in a Trump hotel. I mean, 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:15.239 that's just they're completely fixated on this stuff. Never come 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:18.600 up with anything but oh, under the Obama administration, the 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:21.480 vice president's son was getting paid off by a foreign government, 0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:26.480 and we're supposed to believe that that didn't at least 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:29.359 create the appearance you could say, well, there was never 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:32.439 a there was never an explicit agreement between Biden and 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:35.280 between hundred Biden and his dad that you know, borismo 0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:39.160 wouldn't get investigated or yeah, okay, but that's not that's 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:43.360 not how bribes necessarily work either, Folks. If a police 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:48.080 officer is, you know, pulls me over and I don't 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:50.239 know why he's pulled me over an hour to just 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:54.759 say well hello, officer, and I slid a crisp. I 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:56.840 was gonna say twenty, but then I'd really be in trouble, 0:43:56.920 --> 0:44:00.719 you know, a crisp one hundred dollar bill across the 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:03.960 top of the door as I have, you know, put 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:07.759 the window down. The officer's not going to say, oh, 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.400 that's cool. We didn't agree that. I'm just gonna let 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:14.440 you off because you're giving me money. So I'm just 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:17.360 gonna take the money and then make my determination. But 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:19.319 has nothing to do with you giving me money. That's 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:23.759 that's what's that's not going to happen. Paying off the 0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:27.720 vice president's son isn't about an explicit agreement. It's about 0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:30.160 the vice president's son is getting a lot of money. 0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:34.040 Does does that mean that maybe you're less likely to 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:39.600 be okay? As Joe Biden point man on Ukraine policy, 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:44.200 with an investigation of that company that results in people 0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:47.759 going to prison or bad things happening? Are there concerns 0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:51.200 then about dirtying things up, muddying up the waters such 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:53.880 that the Obama administration and anybody who worked for it, 0:44:54.000 --> 0:44:58.160 Any any diplomat, any any politician who was involved in 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:03.000 Obama's foreign policy. To making that administration's decision making in Ukraine, 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:05.279 they would have to know the Vice president's son is 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:06.600 on the board of that company. There's no way they 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:09.239 didn't know that, and this would have been talked about 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:13.280 in those circles working on Ukraine policy. That doesn't affect 0:45:13.280 --> 0:45:18.160 decision making, That doesn't matter to what they're trying to 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:22.400 accomplish here. I've got to tell you, it seems to 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:25.200 me that it would matter a whole heck them a lot, 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:29.279 depending on the circumstances, even absent an explicit agreement that 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:31.600 there would do. And I think about how stupid that 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.239 would be, would do We really have to pretend that 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:39.400 anyone thinks Hunter Biden might have sent an email to 0:45:39.480 --> 0:45:44.080 his dad like, hey, I know that you know, I 0:45:44.200 --> 0:45:49.000 know that we shouldn't be talking about this, but you 0:45:49.400 --> 0:45:52.000 got a big check or I got a big check 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.719 rather from his company, so you know, let's like back 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:58.320 off them. Of course, not even Hunter Biden is that reckless, 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:01.840 So you're never going to find that. But what we 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:05.120 have here is the admission that this was gross and 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:06.959 that's why you know he stepped down from the board. 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:09.160 It's a five year term. Wow, what a gig. By 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:11.800 the way, can somebody put me on the board of 0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:14.680 a Ukrainian natural gas company at fifty k a month? 0:46:15.280 --> 0:46:18.600 Sign me up ethics or no ethics man. Fifty k 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:23.720 a month for five years. That's really to do nothing, 0:46:24.320 --> 0:46:26.680 to be on the board, to be a figurehead. This 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:28.920 is the best no show job I've ever heard of, 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:34.320 well one of them, and now he's stepping down for 0:46:34.400 --> 0:46:36.160 But he didn't do anything wrong, you see, it's just 0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:39.319 the it's created. It's good. I love this, he said. 0:46:39.320 --> 0:46:43.160 This is the interview too. It has created a distraction. Oh, 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:45.000 a distract. That's a very nice way of saying. It's 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:52.240 created a massive cluster of a problem for Hunter Biden, 0:46:52.360 --> 0:46:55.759 for his dad, and so they know he's got to 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:58.040 back away from this. The gravy train has come to 0:46:58.040 --> 0:47:01.560 a stop, Hunter Biden. But you just you gotta love 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:06.960 the hootspa here, the willingness to look people in the 0:47:07.000 --> 0:47:08.919 eye and say, yeah, I was qualified for that board. 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:10.920 I don't know anything about Ukraine or natural gas, but 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:15.280 put me on the board of that company. Why should 0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:16.440 I be on the board of that company because you 0:47:16.440 --> 0:47:18.440 get on my dad's this famous politician. I'm on the 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:19.840 board of a lot of companies because of who my 0:47:19.920 --> 0:47:21.560 dad is. So, you know, we just wanted to we 0:47:21.600 --> 0:47:26.640 wanted to add this one into the mix. HM strikes 0:47:26.680 --> 0:47:34.160 me as a very shaky justification that much is for sure. 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:38.680 Will this change anything going into the debates? It no, 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.760 of course not. You know that they're going to pretend 0:47:40.800 --> 0:47:44.600 that Biden has answered all these questions and oh wait no, 0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:46.600 but he was asked specific We got one more here, 0:47:46.640 --> 0:47:50.399 he was asked about his relationship with his dad. And 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:54.400 here's also this Hunter Biden interview moment play fourteen. So 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:56.719 you think it's perfectly fine. And the Trump children have 0:47:56.840 --> 0:48:01.040 been criticized for doing similar sorts of that's that's I 0:48:01.040 --> 0:48:03.080 don't look unlike them. I don't spend a lot of 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:06.400 time thinking about them. I really don't. It's all noise, 0:48:07.440 --> 0:48:09.840 and what they do is they create just an enormous 0:48:09.840 --> 0:48:13.360 to them, not a noise. I have to then answer 0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:18.959 questions about accusations made by probably the most unethical group 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:22.720 of people that we've ever seen in this republic. You said, 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:27.200 no one votes or will vote for or against my 0:48:27.280 --> 0:48:29.840 dad because of me, and my dad knows that. Do 0:48:29.880 --> 0:48:32.400 you still believe that they know who my dad is? 0:48:32.600 --> 0:48:35.399 My dad doesn't have to defend me. My dad only 0:48:35.440 --> 0:48:39.239 has to love me, and my dad loves me n equivalent. Look, 0:48:39.360 --> 0:48:43.120 I know that after being able to get up after 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:45.600 bow died, say whatever the hell they want to say 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:50.440 about me. I mean, who cares. Look, I'm like, I really, 0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:54.000 like I've said, I've been through some stuff in my life. 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:58.760 I've been through some real, real stuff. This isn't real stuff. 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:02.520 It isn't it truly? Isn't that part of it? That 0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:06.960 Burnam and Billy Um, you know, say anything, do anything 0:49:07.040 --> 0:49:10.040 you want, you know. I mean, like, you know, Donald 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:15.000 Prince Humperdink Trump Junior is not somebody that I really 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:18.000 care about. I don't even know what that last thing 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:23.080 was whatever, But he's clearly trying to tell everybody how 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.440 this doesn't matter. He's doing a national TV interview on 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:28.440 the subject the Night of the Democrat Debates because it 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:30.680 doesn't matter, right, because it doesn't matter at all. I 0:49:30.680 --> 0:49:32.560 would just have I would just have. You also keep 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:36.200 in mind here that while he can invoke the ad, 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:39.160 the Biden family has had tragedies many family have had tragedies, however, 0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:43.839 so I don't think that that's a shield for elicits 0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:47.600 or unethical behavior. It wouldn't be for other it wouldn't 0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:52.160 be for other people. But keep in mind when he's 0:49:52.200 --> 0:49:55.960 saying that, oh, you know, this doesn't really matter and 0:49:56.000 --> 0:49:58.879 this is all all the nothing burger, which I agree 0:49:58.880 --> 0:50:00.440 with those who say that a nothing burger as a 0:50:00.480 --> 0:50:02.160 phrase is something we should probably phase out of the 0:50:02.160 --> 0:50:04.520 English language. Who came up with this? What is it? 0:50:04.640 --> 0:50:09.120 There's no such thing as a nothing burger. But remember 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:11.800 that his dad's administra, well, his dad as vice president 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:18.160 of administration, oversaw the spying on American citizens, right that 0:50:18.600 --> 0:50:23.600 was on on Obama and the vice president's watch spying 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:27.239 on American citizens using FIS, People like Carter Page, people 0:50:27.239 --> 0:50:30.839 like George Papadopoulos. What did they do to deserve all that? 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:33.759 What did General Flynn do to deserve to have his 0:50:33.800 --> 0:50:38.400 career destroyed, ruined, threatened with being sent to prison, threatened 0:50:38.400 --> 0:50:43.600 with bankruptcy? Did he deserve that this all? Oh, we're 0:50:43.640 --> 0:50:48.840 above this, this is nothing really because the vice president 0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:52.960 was part of the Donald Trump is a trader. Donald 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:58.239 Trump colluded with the Russians, lying chorus for a long time. 0:51:00.760 --> 0:51:05.040 The Vice president, his dad fights very dirty. When he 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:08.360 thinks it's in his interests, we'll really do harm to 0:51:08.400 --> 0:51:10.600 people in their reputations the moment that he thinks it 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:15.600 is the way that he needs to go. 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This video right here appearing to 0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:15.959 show Turkey's military bombing kurd civilians in a Syrian border town. 0:53:16.280 --> 0:53:20.279 The Kurds, who fought alongside the US against isis now 0:53:20.360 --> 0:53:24.320 horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish fact fighters on 0:53:24.480 --> 0:53:31.200 those very allies turns out that ABC News, which is 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:36.960 one of the biggest news operations in the country, aired 0:53:36.960 --> 0:53:42.879 footage of what they claimed was a frontline battle explosion 0:53:42.960 --> 0:53:50.799 between Syrian Kurds and the invading Turkish military. Unfortunately, it 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:55.560 was really from a nighttime machine gun demonstration at the 0:53:55.719 --> 0:54:03.040 Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. So, I mean, 0:54:03.320 --> 0:54:06.520 we all make geographic errors, but as those of you're 0:54:06.520 --> 0:54:10.400 listening to this show no doubt are already aware, Knob 0:54:10.480 --> 0:54:15.000 Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky is quite a 0:54:15.040 --> 0:54:18.600 ways away from the front lines of the Turkish Syrian 0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:22.879 fighting in Northern Syria or Kurdish fighting in Northern Syria. 0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:27.280 That's that's an issue, that's a problem. How could this happen? 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:30.880 You would say, well, there there of course that as 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:37.080 there's no dispute that this was a mess up. But 0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:39.520 then the issue becomes how could they make such a 0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:43.239 bizarre mistake? And this is going to tie in a 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:46.399 second to the way the media is covering everything going 0:54:46.400 --> 0:54:49.720 on in Syriah right now. It's because anything that looks 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:53.799 like it's mayhem and disaster and terrible right now is 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:57.160 going to be put on the air, is going to 0:54:57.200 --> 0:54:59.720 be shared with the American public because it is viewed 0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:04.280 at as damaging for Trump. Any bodies, any any mayhem, 0:55:04.400 --> 0:55:08.880 anything bad that is happening in Syria right now. The 0:55:09.000 --> 0:55:11.440 media has set this up so that is Trump has 0:55:12.360 --> 0:55:15.640 greenlit the invasion of Syria by the Turkish forces, and 0:55:15.880 --> 0:55:19.200 it's a desa everyone knows is a disaster, also terrible. 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:20.960 I'm here to tell you it's it's not the disaster 0:55:21.000 --> 0:55:24.200 they're saying it is. And I think in the end 0:55:24.239 --> 0:55:29.200 we'll see that Trump was right in terms of strategy. 0:55:29.320 --> 0:55:31.960 And I know that there's a very few conservatives even 0:55:31.960 --> 0:55:33.279 agree with me on this. I think Trump is right, 0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:35.840 and I will tell you why. But but first I 0:55:35.840 --> 0:55:41.440 would just note that here we have a circumstance where 0:55:41.440 --> 0:55:45.560 you have fake news effectively happening. Now they'll say it's 0:55:45.560 --> 0:55:49.880 an accident, fine, but once again, it's a major error 0:55:49.920 --> 0:55:54.400 of fact that happens to occur in a way that 0:55:54.640 --> 0:55:57.359 if it were true, it would have been useful for 0:55:57.440 --> 0:56:01.359 the Trump is terrible rat that the media's obsessed with 0:56:01.440 --> 0:56:04.080 right here, A huge explosion and all this terrible stuff 0:56:04.080 --> 0:56:08.359 happening on the in the Kurdish Turkish fighting in northern 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:10.280 Syria right now, it turns out it didn't really happen. 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:15.879 I would just note the following for you that the 0:56:15.920 --> 0:56:18.279 Syrian Civil War, which is what is still going on here. 0:56:18.320 --> 0:56:22.120 This is a civil war in a country with multiple 0:56:22.200 --> 0:56:25.960 factions inside the country, really dozens of factions inside the 0:56:26.000 --> 0:56:30.120 country vying for power and control. It is a place 0:56:30.200 --> 0:56:35.839 that involves foreign foreign governments taking sides and what then 0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:38.920 has become a proxy battle on Syrian soil. The Turks, 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:42.960 the Russians, the Iranians. Then you can't even name all 0:56:43.000 --> 0:56:45.600 the different foreign actors that are the Israelis occasionally show 0:56:45.680 --> 0:56:47.080 up and blow something up. I mean, a lot of 0:56:47.080 --> 0:56:50.879 people are very involved in what is going on here. 0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:56.200 And you also have a Sunni Shia schism that is 0:56:56.239 --> 0:57:01.440 the backdrop of this. Remember the all white minority in 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:06.400 Syria that the Assad regime is a part of is Shia. 0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:11.560 The majority of the anti Assad fighters are Sunni Arab 0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:14.680 and including many Sunni Arab jihadists and groups that are 0:57:15.120 --> 0:57:19.479 either directly or or indirectly affiliated with the Islamic State 0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:23.200 in al Qaida. So that's what's that's what's happening in 0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:29.440 this country. The Obama administration was leading on the Syria 0:57:29.520 --> 0:57:33.080 question for the international community. Over the course of I 0:57:33.120 --> 0:57:37.080 think it was let's say seven years, six or six 0:57:37.160 --> 0:57:40.200 or seven years, depending on how you calculated. But for 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:43.920 almost the entirety of Obama's president. He's certainly all of 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:47.680 the second his second term, Syria has been a disaster. 0:57:48.600 --> 0:57:51.880 You had half a million people and it's just an 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:56.000 estimate killed in the Syrian Civil War. And you have 0:57:56.160 --> 0:58:04.240 seen more outrage and dismay from the American journo establishment 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:08.520 in the last seventy two hours then you saw in 0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:12.360 the seven years before it, where Obama was the guy 0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:16.439 calling the shots in Syria. Notice how little coverage you saw, 0:58:16.480 --> 0:58:19.640 I would note of the fall of Rocca, the destruction 0:58:19.680 --> 0:58:22.040 of the Islamic state, things that happened while Trump was 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:27.640 in office, the eradication of ISIS or the near eradication 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:30.440 of ISIS. That yeah, there were news reports on it, 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:33.080 but it was never You never had anyone from the 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:38.280 national security establishment going on TV and saying, see, Trump 0:58:38.320 --> 0:58:40.840 does know something about this. Trump did have some idea 0:58:40.960 --> 0:58:47.120 of how to make this all stop. But now that 0:58:47.200 --> 0:58:52.280 there's a problem, now that there's an issue, everyone is 0:58:52.600 --> 0:58:58.000 viewing this as clear evidence that the president has no idea, 0:58:58.040 --> 0:59:03.640 what's going on? He's reckless destroying everything, and that's also 0:59:03.720 --> 0:59:06.160 just not true. The Vice President spoke out on this 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:11.120 in a number of fronts. Vice President Pence, and for example, 0:59:11.160 --> 0:59:14.280 here's what he had to say about the US position visa. 0:59:14.720 --> 0:59:16.600 As I've been telling you, the Turks are the ones 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:19.720 causing the problem here with our Kurdish allies. The Turks 0:59:19.720 --> 0:59:22.760 the ones you were saying we're going after them, and 0:59:22.920 --> 0:59:25.680 they don't have to do that. They could not do that. 0:59:25.960 --> 0:59:30.440 So why our administration, Why the Trump administration is being 0:59:30.520 --> 0:59:33.439 blamed for this is a question that I don't see 0:59:33.440 --> 0:59:36.440 nearly enough people attempting to answer. But here's what he 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:39.320 Here's what the Vice President says about the conversation with Turkey. 0:59:39.320 --> 0:59:43.720 Play eleven please. President Erdwan reached out and requested the call, 0:59:45.040 --> 0:59:49.520 and President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the 0:59:49.600 --> 0:59:52.480 United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, 0:59:53.200 --> 0:59:57.160 to implement an immediate cease fire, and to begin to 0:59:57.200 --> 1:00:01.920 negotiate with Kurdish forces Syria to bring an end to 1:00:02.040 --> 1:00:07.920 the violence. They're saying, cut it out, saying that what 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:12.040 the Turks are doing is opposed by this White House 1:00:12.040 --> 1:00:15.880 opposed by the Trump administration, and Turkey is showing us 1:00:15.880 --> 1:00:18.080 as I have been saying, they're not really an ally. 1:00:18.120 --> 1:00:19.960 They certainly shouldn't be a NATO, but they're not really 1:00:20.040 --> 1:00:24.560 an ally. The Turks do not do what is helpful 1:00:24.600 --> 1:00:27.560 to our interests in cases where yes, they have their 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:30.360 own interests. I understand that, but they don't need to 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:32.080 be going after the Kurds like this right now. They 1:00:32.080 --> 1:00:34.120 don't have to be doing it. There's not some imminent 1:00:34.200 --> 1:00:37.160 danger to Turkey from the Kurds, but they are highly 1:00:37.200 --> 1:00:42.160 sensitive to this issue, and you know, this gets back 1:00:42.200 --> 1:00:44.520 into decades and decades of fighting, and so they don't 1:00:44.560 --> 1:00:50.400 want to listen to us. There are sanctions now against Turkey, 1:00:50.440 --> 1:00:54.360 so we are taking economic action, economic action against the 1:00:54.360 --> 1:00:57.800 Turks against what is at least still officially a NATO ally. 1:00:57.840 --> 1:01:00.320 Here's what the Vice President said play twelfth. Please, the 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:05.400 sanctions that we're announced today will continue and will worsen 1:01:06.200 --> 1:01:12.240 unless and until Turkey embraces an immediate cease fire, stops 1:01:12.240 --> 1:01:17.520 the violence and agrees to negotiate a long term settlement 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:20.800 of the issues along the border between Turkey and Syria, 1:01:22.240 --> 1:01:24.280 saying you better negotiate its use fire also is going 1:01:24.320 --> 1:01:27.560 to be economic pain for the Turks. So good. This 1:01:27.680 --> 1:01:30.760 is the right move for the administration, and this is 1:01:30.760 --> 1:01:35.240 something that everybody needs to understand is being handled in 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:38.560 a way that I think he's responsible for this White 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:40.919 House right now, given the realities in the ground. But 1:01:41.000 --> 1:01:43.240 I want to step back just from the because the 1:01:43.280 --> 1:01:45.680 storyline is that we told that we basically told the 1:01:45.680 --> 1:01:47.360 Turks to invade. That's not true. We didn't tell the 1:01:47.400 --> 1:01:49.400 Turks to invade. We knew the Turks were planning. I'm 1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:53.520 probably doing this. We've been asking them not to. But 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:55.520 Trump wanted to move US troops out of the way 1:01:55.560 --> 1:01:57.080 because he doesn't want to get in. He doesn't want 1:01:57.080 --> 1:01:58.760 them to at some point they'd be in the middle 1:01:58.800 --> 1:02:01.920 of this. People think that fifty US soldiers we already 1:02:01.920 --> 1:02:05.200 had the Turks fire, they say, accidentally in the vicinity 1:02:05.240 --> 1:02:08.200 of our soldiers. At some point, US troops are not 1:02:08.320 --> 1:02:11.240 enough to deter these factions from going after each other. 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:14.160 And then and then we start getting involved, we start 1:02:14.160 --> 1:02:18.640 getting deeper than The national security establishment in this country 1:02:18.880 --> 1:02:21.000 does not want to learn the lesson of the last 1:02:21.040 --> 1:02:23.720 twenty years, which is that we do not want to 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:28.240 be in Muslim majority countries in the Middle East or 1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:32.120 South Asia, that do not want a US military presence there, 1:02:32.200 --> 1:02:35.680 that are in the midst of fighting, that have major 1:02:35.720 --> 1:02:38.080 problems with terrorism. We don't want to be in charge 1:02:38.080 --> 1:02:39.840 of rebuilding their societies. We don't want to be in 1:02:39.920 --> 1:02:45.200 charge of placating their various factions within the population. We're done. 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:47.760 We don't want to do it anymore. And that's why 1:02:47.920 --> 1:02:55.440 I just note with some with some agitation there's this, 1:02:55.680 --> 1:02:58.320 the way they're reporting on this is to just all 1:02:58.360 --> 1:03:00.640 make it about how much these other factions are gaining 1:03:00.680 --> 1:03:02.640 and how much of a win it is for them. 1:03:02.680 --> 1:03:05.560 Here's the New York Times front page today, Russian troops 1:03:05.640 --> 1:03:10.360 move in as US troops exit Syrian region. The Russian 1:03:10.360 --> 1:03:13.120 Defense Ministry said that its military police were patrolling territory 1:03:13.160 --> 1:03:16.840 between Turkish and Syrian forces, and then right below that, 1:03:16.920 --> 1:03:20.520 Russia savers US missteps in Syria and sees his opportunity 1:03:20.800 --> 1:03:24.000 if we're gonna talk abou Russia savoring missteps in Syria. 1:03:24.240 --> 1:03:28.760 Russia completely outplayed the Obama administration on this issue and 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:32.280 managed to save the There was a time when Assad 1:03:32.360 --> 1:03:33.720 really looked like he was going to be He was 1:03:33.760 --> 1:03:37.439 gonna be done. He was gonna get Arab springed, if 1:03:37.440 --> 1:03:40.760 you will. It was very a very close fought thing 1:03:40.760 --> 1:03:42.200 for a while, but then the Russians came in, the 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:44.280 Iranians came in, and they propped him up. They backed 1:03:44.320 --> 1:03:46.760 him up when it was absolutely critical for the Assad 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:51.600 regime to stay in power. But now we're being told, oh, 1:03:51.600 --> 1:03:55.320 look at all this, all this bounty that has been 1:03:55.400 --> 1:04:00.840 left for the Russians because the Trump administration has moved 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:04.840 some US troops from this border region. Okay, well, now 1:04:04.880 --> 1:04:07.200 the Russians are going to be dealing with this. This 1:04:07.360 --> 1:04:09.560 is not some area of great strategic interest to the 1:04:09.680 --> 1:04:13.600 United States. This is not Oh no, they've seized these 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:16.280 oil fields that will be funding their government forever, and 1:04:16.320 --> 1:04:20.160 what will we do. We'd rather have these other, these 1:04:20.160 --> 1:04:23.760 other players in charge of this territory. We don't want 1:04:23.800 --> 1:04:25.560 to be the ones that are policing this. We don't 1:04:25.600 --> 1:04:27.200 don't want to be the ones that are keeping these 1:04:27.720 --> 1:04:33.400 combatants from each other's necks. The Syrian government has moved 1:04:33.400 --> 1:04:35.640 into some of these areas, and I've been saying, nobody 1:04:35.720 --> 1:04:38.280 wants to say this, nobody wants to admit this out loud. 1:04:38.480 --> 1:04:44.240 Assad has won the Syrian Civil War, his regime endured, 1:04:44.360 --> 1:04:48.480 he stayed. That was the plan all along. There is 1:04:48.720 --> 1:04:52.240 no plan, realistic plan for him to be gone. There's 1:04:52.280 --> 1:04:56.880 no international pressure to speak of that's has a prayer 1:04:57.040 --> 1:04:59.240 of having a Sad stepped down or anything else. No, 1:05:00.240 --> 1:05:03.640 so the Assad regime is staying. So given that they're staying, 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:09.080 would we rather have Assad trying to prevent the resurgence 1:05:09.120 --> 1:05:12.080 of Ices which is anti Assad? Is you know, the 1:05:12.200 --> 1:05:16.880 enemy of my enemy, my friends, you gotta remember it. 1:05:16.920 --> 1:05:19.320 So now we got the Russians, we got the Syrians 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:24.880 of the Assad regime rather and the Turks all staring 1:05:24.960 --> 1:05:28.520 at each other across the battlefield, and we don't have 1:05:28.600 --> 1:05:30.120 US troops that are right in the middle of this, 1:05:30.160 --> 1:05:32.120 and we're being told that this is a huge loss. 1:05:33.760 --> 1:05:35.960 Now what we want is these other players to take 1:05:35.960 --> 1:05:39.560 control of this area. Let the Russians try to figure 1:05:39.600 --> 1:05:41.360 out how to keep the Turks from fighting with the 1:05:41.480 --> 1:05:46.640 Kurds from fighting with the Syrian national government. Is it 1:05:46.760 --> 1:05:50.440 going to be something that works out well for no, 1:05:50.520 --> 1:05:52.920 of course not. I mean, the Russians are brutal and 1:05:53.480 --> 1:05:58.000 they've been bombing. They bombed civilians indiscriminately in the Aleppo campaign, 1:05:58.080 --> 1:06:00.320 and they've done all kinds of things in Syria that 1:06:00.760 --> 1:06:06.880 are horrific, but it's not our fight ultimately. And people say, oh, 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:09.080 but there's gonna be a resurgence of ISIS. Yeah, maybe, 1:06:09.760 --> 1:06:11.680 if there's a resurgence of ISIS, we'll have to deal 1:06:11.720 --> 1:06:15.480 with it. But there's never going to be some certification. 1:06:15.800 --> 1:06:18.840 There's no international bodies, there's no group that comes together 1:06:18.920 --> 1:06:22.160 says ah ISIS is finally gone. ISIS is the jehottest 1:06:22.240 --> 1:06:27.200 ideology in a region that has been riddled with extremism 1:06:27.240 --> 1:06:29.280 for as long as anybody can remember. You can argue 1:06:29.280 --> 1:06:32.160 stretching back for centuries, really over a millennium. If we're 1:06:32.160 --> 1:06:34.240 really going to talk about it, there's going to be 1:06:34.240 --> 1:06:38.840 extremism there in some form for the foreseeable. There's still 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:41.880 Alkaidi to the Arabian Peninsula operating in Yemen. There's still 1:06:41.880 --> 1:06:45.520 Boko Haram in Nigeria. There's still name your you know, 1:06:45.720 --> 1:06:49.560 the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayf and the Philippines. 1:06:49.560 --> 1:06:51.520 If you have these terrorist groups all over the world, 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:55.760 do we all say, oh, no, but we need to 1:06:55.800 --> 1:06:57.680 be there because no, I mean, we maybe help the 1:06:57.680 --> 1:06:59.520 host government try to deal with it a little bit. 1:06:59.560 --> 1:07:05.400 But we're not leaving a thousand troops everywhere where there 1:07:05.400 --> 1:07:09.439 happens to be the possibility of or an ongoing jihadest threat. 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:14.920 We'd rather work through allies, partners, or even enemy states 1:07:14.960 --> 1:07:17.720 that just happened to share our interest in suppressing that 1:07:17.880 --> 1:07:22.520 terrorist entity. We should be honest about this stuff. What 1:07:22.720 --> 1:07:24.440 is the I keep saying, what is the alternative? All 1:07:24.440 --> 1:07:26.560 these people are talking, We're gonna leave. We're gonna leave 1:07:26.640 --> 1:07:29.880 US troops in this part of Syria for the next 1:07:30.200 --> 1:07:32.760 decade to what end. There's not going to be a 1:07:32.800 --> 1:07:35.080 political settlement. There's no there's no negotiating with the Assad 1:07:35.120 --> 1:07:37.960 regime over this. This isn't critical territory for them. It's 1:07:37.960 --> 1:07:40.919 not like they can't function, their government can't function. We're 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:45.720 going to operate an independent Kurdish Statelet what right right 1:07:45.760 --> 1:07:48.400 on Turkey's border in Syria? We're going to be in 1:07:48.520 --> 1:07:52.160 charge of that. What was the what was the game 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:55.040 plan here? Oh, negotiate some kind of a political settlement. 1:07:55.040 --> 1:07:56.400 This is what people say when they have nothing else 1:07:56.400 --> 1:08:02.040 to say. There wasn't gonna be any political settlement. So look, 1:08:02.120 --> 1:08:04.480 I know I've got a somewhat alternative or contrarian point 1:08:04.480 --> 1:08:06.640 of view on this, but also spent a lot of 1:08:06.640 --> 1:08:08.320 time in a rock, a lot of time in Afghanistan 1:08:08.480 --> 1:08:11.160 thinking about this, working on the stuff for the CIA. 1:08:11.480 --> 1:08:15.520 I know these arguments. I've seen what happens. No one 1:08:15.640 --> 1:08:18.639 saying that that Trump is the most eloquent in making 1:08:18.640 --> 1:08:23.400 the case, but he understands get out, the mission is done. 1:08:24.000 --> 1:08:26.160 That's the lesson that we should have learned in Afghanistan 1:08:26.320 --> 1:08:28.640 and did not, and I'm hoping we've learned it now. 1:08:28.680 --> 1:08:31.719 For Syria. We are in the fight of our lives. 1:08:32.240 --> 1:08:35.720 Everything is on the table in twenty twenty. They think 1:08:35.760 --> 1:08:38.120 so too, because they think if they lose in twenty 1:08:38.200 --> 1:08:41.639 twenty that they're gonna have to the rules are gonna 1:08:41.680 --> 1:08:45.000 be fair, and they're never gonna win again. And they're right. 1:08:45.800 --> 1:08:50.800 If we win in twenty twenty, they're done forever. But 1:08:50.920 --> 1:08:54.439 it's scary for us too because if they win, literally 1:08:54.479 --> 1:08:57.479 it could be the end of the world. Literally, it 1:08:57.560 --> 1:08:59.280 could be the end of the world. That there probably 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.720 could win. That's that's really all I have to tell 1:09:01.760 --> 1:09:05.640 you about the Democrat debate tonight. That's Tom Steyer. The 1:09:05.720 --> 1:09:09.679 fact that that guy made a billion dollars is stunning. 1:09:09.760 --> 1:09:11.759 Just goes to show you. You give me a total 1:09:12.200 --> 1:09:15.240 political nincome, poop and make a billion dollars. So there's that. 1:09:15.760 --> 1:09:19.200 There's plenty of those running around. Uh yeah, the world 1:09:19.280 --> 1:09:23.879 might literally end? How how is it possible? I can't 1:09:23.920 --> 1:09:28.680 exaggerate how much the Libs and the left exaggerate in 1:09:28.720 --> 1:09:32.559 these political discussions because they're saying things that, well, how 1:09:32.600 --> 1:09:35.120 do you go beyond the world will end? If your 1:09:35.160 --> 1:09:38.759 political party wins, the world will end? Is there anything 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:42.760 more terrifying than that? Or is there a level? You know, 1:09:42.800 --> 1:09:44.680 can you take the dial to eleven? Is there is 1:09:44.680 --> 1:09:48.000 there anything that's that's bigger than the world will end? 1:09:48.040 --> 1:09:50.439 Of course not. This is why they when I say 1:09:50.439 --> 1:09:54.559 these people are shrill hysterics, I mean it. And that's 1:09:54.600 --> 1:09:57.840 really the that's the Democrats slogan for the night's debate, 1:09:58.200 --> 1:10:00.840 vote Republican and the world will end and you hate 1:10:00.840 --> 1:10:03.960 everything and you're terrible. Well gee, that's really that's really 1:10:04.120 --> 1:10:07.840 helpful conversation, isn't it. Lives among the militant secularists are 1:10:07.840 --> 1:10:14.000 many so called progressives. But where is the progress? We 1:10:14.080 --> 1:10:16.479 are told we are living in a post Christian era. 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:22.200 But what has replaced the Judeo Christian moral system? What 1:10:22.520 --> 1:10:25.080 is it that can fill the spiritual void in the 1:10:25.120 --> 1:10:29.479 hearts of the individual person, and what is the system 1:10:29.560 --> 1:10:35.160 of values that can sustain human social life. The fact 1:10:35.280 --> 1:10:39.320 is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing 1:10:39.360 --> 1:10:43.439 the role of religion. This is not decay, this is 1:10:43.560 --> 1:10:49.880 organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the 1:10:49.960 --> 1:10:55.240 forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and 1:10:55.360 --> 1:10:59.800 academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional that 1:11:00.160 --> 1:11:05.280 he is, Bill Barr, the Attorney General, is an excellent lawyer, 1:11:06.360 --> 1:11:09.040 but he's also as we just heard, and I would 1:11:09.080 --> 1:11:11.040 really recommend that you go if you have the chance, 1:11:11.080 --> 1:11:13.960 and watch or listen to that entire speech that he 1:11:14.000 --> 1:11:18.479 gave earlier in the week. He's also somebody who really 1:11:18.600 --> 1:11:26.360 understands the spiritual crisis of our current moment. You have 1:11:26.520 --> 1:11:28.960 a left wing in this country that as I know, 1:11:29.000 --> 1:11:30.720 there are a lot of Democrats who they think of 1:11:30.720 --> 1:11:34.440 themselves as very religious and very spiritual. But the leadership 1:11:34.520 --> 1:11:38.560 of the progressive left, as he says, what progress have 1:11:39.040 --> 1:11:44.200 they made in spiritual areas other than the concerted effort 1:11:44.200 --> 1:11:49.880 to destroy religion. The leadership of the left is atheist, 1:11:50.960 --> 1:11:53.600 at least in their policies, in their vision of the 1:11:53.680 --> 1:11:57.760 role of government in people's lives, and the leadership of 1:11:57.800 --> 1:12:03.519 the progressive left also views Judeo Christian values as not 1:12:03.560 --> 1:12:07.280 just in anachronism, but a threat, and threats must be 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:09.840 dealt with, Threats must be destroyed. You can't allow that 1:12:09.920 --> 1:12:13.400 to continue on. You can't have an ongoing in the 1:12:13.520 --> 1:12:17.479 background possibility of a resurgence, let's say, in American culture 1:12:17.560 --> 1:12:22.120 of Judeo Christian values. I say, I've always been and 1:12:22.160 --> 1:12:24.040 I'm honest with you about who I think is impressive 1:12:24.040 --> 1:12:27.439 and who is not in this administration, and who I 1:12:27.479 --> 1:12:32.040 believe has competence, and who is a buffoon, because unfortunately 1:12:32.040 --> 1:12:33.280 there have been a lot of those in the Trump 1:12:33.560 --> 1:12:38.240 White House. Bill Barr is a very smart guy, and 1:12:38.320 --> 1:12:42.160 he understands what's really going on here and the point 1:12:42.160 --> 1:12:44.479 about pop culture being marshaled in a way that the 1:12:44.520 --> 1:12:50.080 forces of the left in pop culture are specifically actively 1:12:50.280 --> 1:12:55.240 working toward the destruction of what had been the moral 1:12:55.280 --> 1:12:57.479 fabric of this nation. You see it happening all the 1:12:57.479 --> 1:13:03.120 time all around you. Left never takes a position that 1:13:03.640 --> 1:13:06.920 at least not not in recent memory, that Christian beliefs, 1:13:07.000 --> 1:13:11.640 Christian values, Judeo Christian beliefs and values should be supported, 1:13:12.280 --> 1:13:16.040 should be treated with any not just not deference, any respect. 1:13:17.360 --> 1:13:19.760 And the moment that I think really will stick out 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:23.000 in a lot of people's minds was when Beto O'Rourke, 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:28.280 who is clearly a man who is trying to punch 1:13:28.400 --> 1:13:31.880 way above his weight in any presidential contest. He's just 1:13:32.000 --> 1:13:35.600 not like that, like smart, really, but he's just like 1:13:35.840 --> 1:13:38.479 really into himself and was like born to do this, 1:13:38.640 --> 1:13:43.160 and so he thinks he should be president. But when 1:13:43.200 --> 1:13:49.040 Beto said that churches that advocate for, say, traditional marriage, 1:13:49.520 --> 1:13:52.679 should lose their tax exempt status, he was giving voice 1:13:52.720 --> 1:13:55.760 to what the progressive left believes in this country just 1:13:56.120 --> 1:13:58.679 has not been willing. They have not been willing to 1:13:58.720 --> 1:14:01.519 openly take that position because they don't want to suffer 1:14:01.560 --> 1:14:03.720 the political consequences. But that's not the same thing as 1:14:04.960 --> 1:14:08.160 rejecting this. That's not the same thing as saying that 1:14:08.240 --> 1:14:13.000 it should never happen. They're waiting for the moment in 1:14:13.080 --> 1:14:17.200 time when they can do it without fear of reprisal. 1:14:17.520 --> 1:14:21.200 And Betto really just gave away the game a bit 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:26.040 early on all of this. And that's why I think 1:14:26.080 --> 1:14:29.200 now when we have these these conversations about is what's 1:14:29.200 --> 1:14:32.719 the difference in the left and the right. The American 1:14:32.840 --> 1:14:35.679 left wants to put the government in place of God. 1:14:36.280 --> 1:14:40.439 You can still have your private God or gods, you know, whatever, 1:14:41.800 --> 1:14:44.760 whatever that may be, or you can still worship Mother 1:14:44.880 --> 1:14:48.120 Earth in private. Well that when they actually want as 1:14:48.120 --> 1:14:50.920 a function of public policy, because climate change activism is 1:14:51.000 --> 1:14:54.040 the religion. Why why is climate change activism catching on 1:14:54.120 --> 1:14:59.120 so much? Why do so many people react as though 1:14:59.160 --> 1:15:04.080 they've been personally affronted, They have been as human beings, 1:15:04.080 --> 1:15:07.840 they have been undermined, they've been assaulted by the questioning 1:15:08.080 --> 1:15:12.120 of what is inherently a scientific debate. Why do they 1:15:12.120 --> 1:15:16.920 get so mad, call you a deny her even sometimes 1:15:16.960 --> 1:15:21.200 publicly say that you should be banned from raising doubts 1:15:21.240 --> 1:15:23.920 about climate change. This is all straight out of a 1:15:24.040 --> 1:15:27.920 true believer of a religion, and a religion that has 1:15:27.960 --> 1:15:30.280 not matured to a level where it has its own 1:15:30.960 --> 1:15:37.519 sense of purpose and it's it's sense of its destiny 1:15:37.600 --> 1:15:40.759 such that it doesn't feel the need to be constantly 1:15:40.800 --> 1:15:44.519 forcing people to go along with what it says or else. 1:15:46.840 --> 1:15:49.040 But climate change has been catching on so much because 1:15:49.120 --> 1:15:52.240 there is a spiritual crisis in the country. Why do 1:15:52.280 --> 1:15:55.719 people why should we What do we exist for? Oh? Sure, 1:15:55.800 --> 1:15:59.759 we exist because we want to be woke, We want justice, 1:15:59.760 --> 1:16:07.200 social justice. Of course, we will not rest until transgender 1:16:07.240 --> 1:16:11.880 athletes can compete against women in every sport, at every level, 1:16:11.920 --> 1:16:15.880 all the way down to grade school. These are all 1:16:15.920 --> 1:16:20.599 political purposes, but that doesn't really give people enough meaning. 1:16:21.880 --> 1:16:25.640 No one person is necessary for any of that. We 1:16:25.720 --> 1:16:29.519 can exist because we're part of some great collective, which 1:16:29.520 --> 1:16:34.320 the left certainly believes, and that collective action is a 1:16:34.560 --> 1:16:37.240 motivating force in our day to day lives, and that 1:16:37.240 --> 1:16:39.960 we should just take satisfaction and pride in being a 1:16:40.040 --> 1:16:44.360 part of the great mass that is leveraged by the 1:16:44.439 --> 1:16:47.559 apparatus of the political left in this country to achieve 1:16:47.600 --> 1:16:51.800 certain ends. Yea, you know, part of that, part of 1:16:51.800 --> 1:16:56.720 that entity, however you want to describe it. That's not enough. Ah, 1:16:56.760 --> 1:16:59.439 So you need something that is truly existential, a fight 1:16:59.479 --> 1:17:02.880 between good and evil, you know, between heaven and hell, 1:17:02.920 --> 1:17:06.599 between God and the devil. But you can't actually use 1:17:06.600 --> 1:17:09.720 any of those things because that's religion. So where do 1:17:09.760 --> 1:17:12.880 you come up with now, Oh, well, humanity will go 1:17:13.040 --> 1:17:18.439 extinct unless we harness the collective that I was speaking 1:17:18.479 --> 1:17:22.080 about before and understand that that that our purpose as 1:17:22.160 --> 1:17:25.000 human beings now, according to the climate change activists, is 1:17:25.040 --> 1:17:32.600 not a relationship with God. It's not achieving our spiritual 1:17:33.840 --> 1:17:37.400 destiny of trying to become good people that are worthwhile 1:17:37.479 --> 1:17:39.960 and that do God's will here on earth, and none 1:17:40.000 --> 1:17:42.400 of that stuff. That's all like Old Testament, New Testament, 1:17:42.439 --> 1:17:47.519 you know, you know whatever, it's ah, we exist for 1:17:47.600 --> 1:17:51.240 the purposes of saving the future generations of this planet 1:17:51.760 --> 1:17:55.880 by empowering a super government to change every aspect of 1:17:55.880 --> 1:17:58.960 our life, to stop putting CO two, which is less 1:17:58.960 --> 1:18:01.080 than one percent of the APT sphere in the air. 1:18:02.640 --> 1:18:08.960 That's why we exist. That's shallow stuff. It's also not true, 1:18:09.000 --> 1:18:13.439 but we'll put aside the scientific, the scientific gaping holes 1:18:13.640 --> 1:18:16.439 on all that theory. This is why it's catching on 1:18:16.479 --> 1:18:19.080 so much now. It is a religious belief for people 1:18:19.120 --> 1:18:20.920 who think they're too smart for religion. I think I 1:18:20.960 --> 1:18:23.400 said that recently on Fox and all media matters, and 1:18:23.479 --> 1:18:26.599 all these groups got all upset because it's true. If 1:18:26.600 --> 1:18:30.320 it were silly, if the people that we're so into 1:18:30.360 --> 1:18:35.080 climate change. Weren't offended by the truth of the statement. 1:18:35.120 --> 1:18:36.960 They would ignore it because of who would care? But 1:18:37.040 --> 1:18:40.400 what I say is true, and what the Attorney general 1:18:40.439 --> 1:18:45.519 here says about the forces the militant secularists of the left, 1:18:46.439 --> 1:18:50.240 they view this as the ultimate spiritual battle of our 1:18:50.280 --> 1:18:56.800 age is to eradicate spirituality. The ultimate moral quest for 1:18:56.840 --> 1:19:03.360 the progressive left today is to troy the moral teachings 1:19:03.400 --> 1:19:08.360 that have been the bulwark of much of human civilization 1:19:09.280 --> 1:19:14.040 for millennia. Now destroy all that kick at the load 1:19:14.080 --> 1:19:21.360 bearing walls of Judeo Christian Judeo Christian ideology, morality, ethics, 1:19:22.479 --> 1:19:26.120 kick at the load load bearing walls of Western civilization, 1:19:26.160 --> 1:19:30.559 and see what happens. This is what the progressive left 1:19:30.640 --> 1:19:32.799 is doing in this country, or this is how they're fighting, 1:19:32.840 --> 1:19:36.960 this is what they're striving for all the time. We 1:19:37.080 --> 1:19:40.120 can sit back and allow it to happen and wonder 1:19:40.680 --> 1:19:43.960 why there'll be not just lost generations, but perhaps lost centuries, 1:19:43.960 --> 1:19:48.559 perhaps a new dark ages of militant secularism descending upon 1:19:48.680 --> 1:19:52.840 this country and many others with it. Or we can say, 1:19:52.840 --> 1:19:58.519 perhaps there is wisdom, there's wisdom in Judeo Christian teaching 1:19:59.360 --> 1:20:01.640 worth fighting for as a matter of public policy, not 1:20:01.680 --> 1:20:05.880 just as personal spiritual belief. I think the Attorney General 1:20:05.960 --> 1:20:09.080 is really onto something. I think he knows exactly what 1:20:09.160 --> 1:20:12.599 he's talking about here. I wish he would run for something. 1:20:12.760 --> 1:20:15.280 You know, what I'm concerned about is an impeachment inquiry 1:20:15.320 --> 1:20:18.720 that's moving forward, that's denying the president and his administration 1:20:18.800 --> 1:20:22.400 due process. If we want to exercise oversight, which is 1:20:22.400 --> 1:20:25.200 our responsibility in Congress, you don't have to label it 1:20:25.280 --> 1:20:28.200 an impeachment inquiry. If you do, I certainly hope that 1:20:28.280 --> 1:20:31.559 Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer will put a vote on 1:20:31.600 --> 1:20:33.720 the floor of the House and just like the three 1:20:33.760 --> 1:20:36.720 other impeachments in our nation's history, to ensure that the 1:20:36.760 --> 1:20:39.679 American people know where each and every member of Congress 1:20:39.720 --> 1:20:43.200 stands in moving this inquiry forward. Otherwise we're just having 1:20:43.240 --> 1:20:48.200 committee hearings and people coming in and directing our own oversight. Yeah, 1:20:48.240 --> 1:20:51.600 they're manipulating this whole process in ways that couldn't be 1:20:51.600 --> 1:20:56.920 any more obvious. They're weaponizing this whole impeachment inquiry mess 1:20:57.040 --> 1:20:59.280 against the President of the United States in ways that 1:20:59.320 --> 1:21:02.640 are dishonor us, that are unfair. No transparency, all this 1:21:03.360 --> 1:21:07.080 secret stuff going on, and but you know, think about 1:21:07.120 --> 1:21:10.760 what the real play is here, Adam Schiff and his 1:21:10.840 --> 1:21:15.160 shifty Democrat colleagues. I should be more clever than that, 1:21:15.200 --> 1:21:19.000 but it was close enough. They tell us that they 1:21:19.040 --> 1:21:22.599 have to have secrecy, they have to protect these witnesses. Oh, 1:21:22.680 --> 1:21:25.559 we could never find out who the whistleblower is. Oh good, 1:21:25.640 --> 1:21:29.240 heavens not until they sign their six figure book deal 1:21:29.280 --> 1:21:31.320 and get on the speaking circuit. That then we can 1:21:31.360 --> 1:21:34.559 know who the whistleblower is. Oh maybe, and perhaps after 1:21:34.600 --> 1:21:37.559 the next election then you'll definitely, I think, find out 1:21:37.560 --> 1:21:39.360 who they know who the whistleblower is. This person's not 1:21:39.360 --> 1:21:42.200 going to stay secret forever, and by their own choice, 1:21:43.560 --> 1:21:49.679 I would say that they want secrecy until they don't. 1:21:50.840 --> 1:21:55.640 They want the protections of They want the protections of 1:21:55.680 --> 1:21:59.320 the process, but not the protections for others in the 1:21:59.400 --> 1:22:05.479 process that come from transparency and accountability. So what we 1:22:05.600 --> 1:22:10.360 have here, my friends, is the Democrats showing us who 1:22:10.400 --> 1:22:12.360 they really are on this process and what they're really 1:22:12.360 --> 1:22:15.400 planning to do. They don't want people to know what's 1:22:15.400 --> 1:22:17.280 going on behind closed doors, but then they'll have a 1:22:17.640 --> 1:22:23.120 very clear series of leaks. Most recently leaks involving the 1:22:23.160 --> 1:22:29.719 testimony of the former US ambassador to Ukraine, a series 1:22:29.720 --> 1:22:35.960 of leaks, So information can certainly get out from behind 1:22:35.960 --> 1:22:40.840 closed doors, but we can't have open access to any 1:22:40.880 --> 1:22:43.360 of it, so we can't really know what we said. 1:22:43.400 --> 1:22:46.040 We can't know who was asking what and what the 1:22:46.080 --> 1:22:48.120 games are the Democrats are playing here, which is why 1:22:48.120 --> 1:22:51.720 I have to say a representative Matt Gates, when he 1:22:51.760 --> 1:22:57.479 calls this a clown show, is most certainly onto something. 1:22:57.560 --> 1:23:00.920 Play clip nine, please, So this morning we see further 1:23:00.960 --> 1:23:05.080 evidence that Adam Shift's clown show of an impeachment proceeding continues. 1:23:05.320 --> 1:23:09.080 Adam Schiff lied when he said that he and his 1:23:09.120 --> 1:23:12.439 team and not had contact with the whistleblower. He lied 1:23:12.880 --> 1:23:16.559 when he read a false transcript into the record as 1:23:16.840 --> 1:23:22.160 Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Indeed, and doesn't get 1:23:22.280 --> 1:23:26.599 much better after that, impeaching the president for this Ukraine 1:23:26.920 --> 1:23:29.439 Ukraine phone call. Some people have started to catch onto 1:23:29.439 --> 1:23:31.519 this because I know that you know you deal with 1:23:31.520 --> 1:23:33.840 this initial as a conservative, as somebody on the right, 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:37.000 you try to assess things as they are, not as 1:23:37.000 --> 1:23:39.240 you wish that they would be. That's the emotionalism of 1:23:39.280 --> 1:23:41.800 the left. But when something like this comes up, you say, well, 1:23:41.800 --> 1:23:43.880 hold on, maybe you know did Trump? Did Trump really 1:23:43.880 --> 1:23:45.559 make a mistake here? Did you do something bad? A 1:23:45.600 --> 1:23:49.200 lot of people on the right that I know, I 1:23:49.240 --> 1:23:52.240 think fell victim too. Well, if so many people are 1:23:52.280 --> 1:23:55.040 so outrage about this, there must be something wrong. More 1:23:55.080 --> 1:23:57.200 are starting to come around to my opinion, which is 1:23:57.960 --> 1:24:00.680 people do things for a personal benefit in politics all 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:03.599 the time, and that's why we have to have very 1:24:03.640 --> 1:24:07.599 clear lines separating out what is corrupt from what it's 1:24:07.640 --> 1:24:12.120 just politics, because otherwise things can get very messy very quickly. 1:24:12.720 --> 1:24:15.679 You know, you can accept a million dollars in cash 1:24:15.800 --> 1:24:18.519 for signing a bill, but there are a lot of 1:24:18.560 --> 1:24:21.400 ways if people can funnel cash to you for doing 1:24:21.400 --> 1:24:24.160 what you want or what they want you to do 1:24:24.439 --> 1:24:28.000 as a politician, that are totally illegal. And so just 1:24:28.080 --> 1:24:32.760 because the president would benefit politically if there was an 1:24:32.800 --> 1:24:37.000 investigation of Joe Biden and his son going on in Ukraine, 1:24:37.000 --> 1:24:41.839 it does not mean that that is illicit or illegal. Sorry, 1:24:42.720 --> 1:24:45.320 there's a there's a legitimate basis and this is why 1:24:46.360 --> 1:24:48.360 all along haven't I haven't moved from this position. There's 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:52.000 a legitimate basis for inquiry into the dealings that the 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:56.000 Biden's had in Ukraine or the Obama administration, and if 1:24:56.080 --> 1:24:59.600 that happens to upset Democrats, that's just too bad. We 1:24:59.640 --> 1:25:02.240 see how, we see how the Democrats are investigating everybody 1:25:02.240 --> 1:25:07.840 and anybody whenever they want and not apologizing at all. 1:25:09.400 --> 1:25:13.479 So get ready tonight for I think I think a 1:25:13.479 --> 1:25:15.479 lot of I think a lot of Democrats actually are 1:25:15.479 --> 1:25:18.360 going to be on the same sheet of music here 1:25:18.400 --> 1:25:20.320 in this debate. They're going to say, and some of 1:25:20.360 --> 1:25:22.519 you will be watching the debate probably as I'm as 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:27.360 you're hearing this, but they're gonna defend Joe Biden on 1:25:27.400 --> 1:25:31.200 the Ukraine thing because that's that's a liability for the 1:25:31.200 --> 1:25:35.519 Democratic Party. That's a bigger thing. Corruption isn't just about 1:25:35.560 --> 1:25:39.080 Joe Biden. Corruption is about the Democratic Party and the 1:25:39.080 --> 1:25:44.400 Obama administration, which is still held up as without scandal. 1:25:44.479 --> 1:25:47.000 Forget about Benghazi and Fast and Furious and the IRS 1:25:47.080 --> 1:25:50.559 targeting remember the Remember when the IRS was targeting the 1:25:50.560 --> 1:25:54.400 opponents of Barack Obama's administration. The thing that completely happened 1:25:54.560 --> 1:25:58.000 on the record, we know it, Andy, I'm going to 1:25:58.040 --> 1:26:01.320 prison for that. Anything really bad happened to anybody as 1:26:01.360 --> 1:26:04.360 a result of that. Nah in election year, by the way, 1:26:04.720 --> 1:26:07.840 in an election year, you have the irs going after 1:26:07.960 --> 1:26:11.400 Obama's political opponents. This is just this is what happened. 1:26:12.560 --> 1:26:16.360 But we're supposed to be outraged. We're supposed to be outrage. 1:26:16.439 --> 1:26:18.120 Oh and they said it was it was just decisions 1:26:18.120 --> 1:26:20.080 made at the field level. You know, its decisions made 1:26:20.080 --> 1:26:22.599 by the field offices. It wasn't anything from up top. Sure, 1:26:23.840 --> 1:26:26.679 but Joe Biden asking for some kind of investigation of 1:26:28.320 --> 1:26:30.879 I'm sorry, Donald Trump asked him some kind of investigation 1:26:30.920 --> 1:26:33.720 of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden. That's considered to be the 1:26:33.800 --> 1:26:36.479 worst thing that anybody's a worse than water gate, which 1:26:36.479 --> 1:26:39.679 is a phrase that is so abused. It really now 1:26:39.680 --> 1:26:42.400 that has no meeting. It would have to quickly be 1:26:42.439 --> 1:26:44.720 worse than worse than Watergate or else nobody will pay 1:26:44.760 --> 1:26:50.240 any attention to it. Here's a Senator Amy Klobischer, by 1:26:50.240 --> 1:26:52.840 the way, she's gonna If you're looking for somebody's gonna 1:26:52.840 --> 1:26:54.679 break out tonight, I think it might be her. Actually, 1:26:54.840 --> 1:26:56.479 media is trying to set her up for a big 1:26:56.560 --> 1:26:59.840 run here, and she's definitely in contention for a vice 1:26:59.840 --> 1:27:03.400 presidential running slot. I think in this they need to 1:27:03.400 --> 1:27:07.160 appeal to Midwest the crazy libs on the coasts. Here's 1:27:07.160 --> 1:27:10.920 a klobaschart talking about why impeachment exists. Play six. We 1:27:11.200 --> 1:27:16.639 literally have a president who is using immigrants as political pawns, 1:27:16.640 --> 1:27:20.040 belittling people who don't agree with him, destroying our democracy 1:27:20.080 --> 1:27:23.879 with dark money and voter suppression, and allowing a foreign 1:27:23.920 --> 1:27:28.559 country to make mincemeat of our democracy. And by the way, 1:27:28.720 --> 1:27:31.800 if you want to know why we have impeachment provisions 1:27:31.800 --> 1:27:35.400 in the Constitution, look back at what James Madison said 1:27:35.439 --> 1:27:39.960 at the Constitutional Convention. He said that he feared that 1:27:40.040 --> 1:27:43.800 a president would betray the trust of Americans for a 1:27:43.840 --> 1:27:47.679 foreign power. That was the reason he gave, and that 1:27:47.800 --> 1:27:51.360 is why those proceedings have begun in the House of Representatives. 1:27:52.680 --> 1:27:58.200 Destroying our democracy with dark money. She says, how like, 1:27:58.400 --> 1:28:04.080 what all these charges, all these these phrases that are 1:28:04.120 --> 1:28:09.120 trotted out, They're sounds so profound. It's just all sound 1:28:09.120 --> 1:28:13.040 and fury signifying nothing, my friends, But you already knew that, 1:28:13.160 --> 1:28:15.479 which is what the Democrat debates tonight will be. Donald 1:28:15.479 --> 1:28:18.120 Trump in twenty sixteen said he was going to make 1:28:18.160 --> 1:28:22.439 America great again. And what was Hillary Clinton's response? America 1:28:22.520 --> 1:28:25.639 is already great. Remember that, and that did not work. 1:28:25.840 --> 1:28:28.560 That was not the right answer. We have to acknowledge 1:28:28.560 --> 1:28:30.800 the depth and the severity of the problems that are 1:28:30.880 --> 1:28:33.960 racking our communities. But then we need real solutions that 1:28:34.000 --> 1:28:36.920 will actually improve our own lives. Donald Trump got some 1:28:37.000 --> 1:28:40.160 of the problems right, but his solutions were the opposite 1:28:40.200 --> 1:28:42.920 of what we need. I'd still tell you I think 1:28:43.040 --> 1:28:45.320 Yang and I know he probably hated what he just said. 1:28:45.360 --> 1:28:48.000 That's fine, because I think the President has shown us 1:28:48.000 --> 1:28:50.040 that he does understand some of the solutions, because look 1:28:50.120 --> 1:28:51.920 what's been going on in the country, Look what's been 1:28:51.920 --> 1:28:56.360 going on with the economy. But Yang and Tulsi Gabbard 1:28:57.080 --> 1:29:01.080 are people who the Democrats that they cannot accept them. 1:29:01.120 --> 1:29:04.559 You know why, because there are reminders that you don't 1:29:04.560 --> 1:29:10.320 have to be a sanctimonious, shrill, pandering lunatic to be 1:29:10.360 --> 1:29:13.920 a Democrat, or maybe that you shouldn't have to be 1:29:13.960 --> 1:29:16.760 those things to be a democrat. And the reason that 1:29:16.800 --> 1:29:20.840 Tulsi and Yang are so upsetting to the democratic establishment 1:29:20.880 --> 1:29:25.360 is that they're a reminder of what could be. Tulsie 1:29:25.360 --> 1:29:27.240 and Yang are both individuals that I disagree with on 1:29:27.280 --> 1:29:31.200 a whole range of issues, but they seem like decent 1:29:31.240 --> 1:29:33.000 people who are trying their best and who are willing 1:29:33.040 --> 1:29:36.120 to listen to the other side, which separates them from 1:29:36.200 --> 1:29:40.719 the rest of the Democrat crew. Tom's I cannot believe 1:29:40.880 --> 1:29:43.040 Tom Styer is going to be on that stage. Just 1:29:43.240 --> 1:29:47.160 a climate change radical, that's what he is. I mean, 1:29:47.240 --> 1:29:51.439 he is to climate change what you know what al 1:29:51.479 --> 1:29:53.920 Qaeda is to jehotism. I mean he is a client. 1:29:54.000 --> 1:29:59.880 He is a hardcore believer, and yet he's gonna be 1:30:00.280 --> 1:30:02.880 I think guy's worth a billion dollars. I don't even 1:30:02.880 --> 1:30:05.000 want to say. You know, he's got plenty of money 1:30:05.000 --> 1:30:06.760 to buy books and actually read them, but he'd rather 1:30:06.800 --> 1:30:08.439 just talk about how we're going to save the world 1:30:08.479 --> 1:30:13.720 from CO two. Do you have a Corey Booker who 1:30:14.360 --> 1:30:16.400 is at this point, I think he's really playing for 1:30:16.439 --> 1:30:21.280 a VP slot. The media loves him, there's all this 1:30:21.640 --> 1:30:26.799 there's always this very fawning support from the media about 1:30:26.840 --> 1:30:30.599 about him, but it just never really translates. Uh. Kamala 1:30:30.600 --> 1:30:35.280 Harris totally underperforming in this election cycle. Yang is Beetiger 1:30:35.360 --> 1:30:41.000 in California, her home state. Bernie just had a heart attack, folks, 1:30:41.000 --> 1:30:44.200 so well, you know he's not up for this. He's 1:30:44.200 --> 1:30:46.519 too old, he's not up for this. I'm sorry. I know, 1:30:46.600 --> 1:30:49.439 we're you know, we're supposed to think Bernie's this cuddly 1:30:49.479 --> 1:30:51.280 fellow and it's all gonna be fine, and he's a 1:30:51.320 --> 1:30:54.000 cuddly comi and it's gonna think the money from the 1:30:54.280 --> 1:30:56.439 rich people, because it's the pool people. And when the 1:30:56.520 --> 1:30:59.000 rich people have enough money, the pool people could know 1:30:59.160 --> 1:31:01.760 that they can enough money to who and nine tax 1:31:01.800 --> 1:31:04.200 worth that's not that high the billionaires. You know, the 1:31:04.240 --> 1:31:06.799 whole thing, right, we know, his whole his whole stick, 1:31:07.080 --> 1:31:12.720 the whole spiel. It's just it's not gonna work. And 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:20.040 then you have Biden, Biden running around trying to convince 1:31:20.040 --> 1:31:23.280 people that he's not part of really a world class 1:31:23.360 --> 1:31:28.040 grifters scheme with his son. Not quite at Clintonian levels, 1:31:28.080 --> 1:31:33.080 but it's still it's still certainly high. And you know 1:31:33.680 --> 1:31:35.639 the problem with Biden is people ask the question why, 1:31:35.640 --> 1:31:38.439 and there's never a good answer why Joe Biden, because 1:31:38.479 --> 1:31:41.439 he's not Donald Trump. That's not enough, not even for 1:31:41.520 --> 1:31:43.920 crazy Democrats, really, well for some of them, but not 1:31:43.960 --> 1:31:49.559 all of them. Elizabeth Warren, Wow, you know she was 1:31:49.600 --> 1:31:53.599 a she was a school teacher in the Midwest, and 1:31:53.640 --> 1:31:59.720 then she became a professor of law Harvard University. And 1:32:00.040 --> 1:32:03.720 you know what needs to happen in this country. We 1:32:03.800 --> 1:32:09.080 need we need the big money and politics to just 1:32:09.360 --> 1:32:14.720 go away. You think there's al this is. It's like 1:32:15.360 --> 1:32:20.639 America is being hectored and lectured by a really annoying 1:32:20.760 --> 1:32:24.120 kindergarten teacher all the time or a librarian who's just 1:32:24.680 --> 1:32:29.479 no talking in the library and makes it a really 1:32:30.680 --> 1:32:36.080 bad environment for studying. That we got Yang, who Yeah, 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:37.800 I don't make fun of Yanks. Yang's cool. I think 1:32:37.880 --> 1:32:39.680 Yang's all right. I don't I don't really have and 1:32:39.840 --> 1:32:42.400 I don't like his ideas on policy for the most part, 1:32:42.439 --> 1:32:46.200 I think that the universal basic income is a terrible 1:32:46.280 --> 1:32:49.960 idea that would just be uh. It would just result 1:32:50.040 --> 1:32:53.360 in fifty one percent of the country voting themselves more 1:32:53.439 --> 1:32:55.519 universal basic income all the time, which is not going 1:32:55.560 --> 1:32:58.479 to be good, not gonna be good for anybody. Then 1:32:58.520 --> 1:33:01.879 you know what to think about Beato. Who is the worst? 1:33:02.920 --> 1:33:05.120 The worst of all of the counternates right now is 1:33:05.160 --> 1:33:11.040 Patu Rourke. And then you had Kloba Shar. I have 1:33:11.200 --> 1:33:15.479 to work on my Klobishar. She kind of sounds like 1:33:15.600 --> 1:33:21.519 this she's from a Midwest state and the Democrats need 1:33:21.600 --> 1:33:25.800 her support. And then you ohen Castro is still in 1:33:25.800 --> 1:33:29.479 the mix. I didn't realize that. Castro perhaps most famous 1:33:29.560 --> 1:33:35.040 for his suggestion that taxpayers fund the transgender Sir, I'm sorry, 1:33:35.280 --> 1:33:41.519 fund the abortions of transgender illegal aliens. Thank you for 1:33:41.600 --> 1:33:48.800 that contribution to public discourse, Julian Castro. Thank you. That's 1:33:48.840 --> 1:33:52.040 your Democrat field tonight, folks. So as you are listening 1:33:52.040 --> 1:33:54.080 to this, you may be a bit ahead of the debater. 1:33:54.200 --> 1:33:57.920 It might be a bit after definitely worth watching the 1:33:57.960 --> 1:34:01.439 buckster do his tweet thang during the during the debates. 1:34:01.560 --> 1:34:04.080 That'll be fun, for sure, if you can check that out. 1:34:04.320 --> 1:34:06.920 And I think that if you're asking, if I'm asking for, 1:34:06.960 --> 1:34:08.800 it's fun to throw predictions out there because if I'm wrong, 1:34:08.800 --> 1:34:10.320 we'll just forget about it. But if I'm right, I'll 1:34:10.320 --> 1:34:12.360 play it back for you in the air. I think 1:34:12.360 --> 1:34:16.760 you're gonna see Klobascher have a good night. And no 1:34:16.800 --> 1:34:19.200 matter what happens, the media is gonna say this standout 1:34:19.280 --> 1:34:25.040 is Lushapith Warren. Oh gosh, am I really gonna be 1:34:25.200 --> 1:34:30.360 the next president of the United States? Yeah? Maybe, folks, 1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:54.040 Maybe Hey, Team buck it's time for roll call maxbook 1:34:54.080 --> 1:34:56.400 dot com slash buck sections that will pick off the 1:34:56.439 --> 1:35:02.280 work call tonight. We also have Team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot 1:35:02.280 --> 1:35:05.719 com if you want our email address. That is how 1:35:05.920 --> 1:35:10.840 we roll John kicking it off tonight, Hey Buck, got 1:35:10.840 --> 1:35:14.839 a story, might want to look into reporting on fake news. 1:35:15.000 --> 1:35:17.200 It should be breaking everywhe it's barely getting any traction 1:35:17.240 --> 1:35:21.799 with the mainstream media. I'm not surprised. Over the weekend, 1:35:21.840 --> 1:35:25.040 ABC got caught red handed when they claimed they mistakenly 1:35:25.080 --> 1:35:27.439 aired a video at a machine gun range in Kentucky, 1:35:27.840 --> 1:35:31.519 saying it was from the Turkish offensive in Syria. They 1:35:31.560 --> 1:35:35.799 even called it slaughter in Syria. The clip aired multiple 1:35:35.800 --> 1:35:38.400 on multiple ABC shows before ABC pulled the video. The 1:35:38.400 --> 1:35:40.400 machine gun range is called Knob Creek. If you have 1:35:40.400 --> 1:35:42.400 any questions, please let me know. Keep up the good work. 1:35:42.439 --> 1:35:46.400 Shields high, John, Well, John, thank you, my man. As 1:35:46.400 --> 1:35:48.400 you probably know at this point, we did talk about 1:35:48.400 --> 1:35:50.840 that on the show, and I even told you why. 1:35:50.840 --> 1:35:52.640 I think, Yeah, it was a mistake. They didn't mean 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:56.519 for it to happen, But the climate for such an 1:35:56.520 --> 1:36:02.439 egregious error to happen is enabled by the desire to 1:36:02.520 --> 1:36:04.479 run with any story that is damaging to Trump as 1:36:04.560 --> 1:36:06.960 quickly as possible. No need for fact checking, no need 1:36:07.000 --> 1:36:14.080 for diving into it beyond that. Michael, hold on, let's 1:36:14.080 --> 1:36:18.000 go here, Tim, Tim, Sorry, Michael's didn't come up on 1:36:18.040 --> 1:36:20.799 the screen. Here, Buck, Your Warren is getting pretty good, 1:36:21.400 --> 1:36:24.960 but you need to add the annoying wavering that she 1:36:25.080 --> 1:36:30.960 has in her voice. For Trudeau, just take your current Warren, 1:36:31.880 --> 1:36:36.640 drop it an octave and throw in some Canadian pronunciations. 1:36:40.560 --> 1:36:46.439 Do Trudeau by doing Warren but lower octave and Canadian pronunciations. 1:36:46.160 --> 1:36:49.559 That might be that might be closer than what we 1:36:49.640 --> 1:36:51.880 do right now for Trudeau, which is a fake accent 1:36:51.920 --> 1:36:54.160 for him because he does not sound as cool at all. 1:36:54.880 --> 1:36:58.400 But I like it. Nonetheless, maybe we should say that 1:36:58.439 --> 1:37:03.439 I am justin Trudeau, was brother Jean Pierre Trudeau, the 1:37:03.520 --> 1:37:08.200 true power behind the cicerone in Kinada. Yeah, we have 1:37:08.240 --> 1:37:10.160 to create just a random character. It's like to keep 1:37:10.160 --> 1:37:12.439 doing a stupid French accent. That might be kind of fun. 1:37:13.120 --> 1:37:17.799 Monsieur Trudeau, he's time for you to go. You should 1:37:17.800 --> 1:37:21.679 not be the Prime minister off kinda da because singing 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:24.360 in an accent. Really, I mean, we could probably do 1:37:24.439 --> 1:37:26.839 like a whole holiday special. It's like you're taking everything 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:30.040 people complain about and you're putting it into one jingle bells. 1:37:30.200 --> 1:37:32.760 Trudeau smells, Oh, we do this all day. That's what 1:37:32.800 --> 1:37:36.400 we'll be doing holidays when we take off a special. 1:37:36.920 --> 1:37:40.719 Buck sings to holiday hits. Calnder via a Leisha Birthward 1:37:40.920 --> 1:37:46.679 have a holly jolly Chrishmash. I could do it, we could. 1:37:46.680 --> 1:37:49.360 We could make the Bernie. Oh we got Bernie Sanders 1:37:51.080 --> 1:37:54.920 sleigh bells ringing in the You know Bernie Sanders would 1:37:54.920 --> 1:38:01.599 sing dradeal dradeal dradel produce Sir Mark, well he would. 1:38:01.880 --> 1:38:08.080 Oh yes, I forgot huge fair point. All right, Kristen 1:38:08.240 --> 1:38:14.160 is next here. Um, I heard you say today that 1:38:14.840 --> 1:38:17.160 the day for Pluto, but you didn't give the name 1:38:17.200 --> 1:38:23.280 of the channel. Two forty eight is the channel. Two 1:38:23.320 --> 1:38:29.960 forty eight is a channel on Pluto TV. Um, there 1:38:30.000 --> 1:38:32.200 we go. Please do check it out, folks. It's fun, 1:38:32.280 --> 1:38:34.040 by the way, it's not you know, you should watch 1:38:34.160 --> 1:38:36.759 the first, First, and foremost, which is our new channel 1:38:36.760 --> 1:38:39.080 on Pluto. But you know there's there's like lots of 1:38:39.080 --> 1:38:40.680 stuff on Pluto as so it's a great app to 1:38:40.720 --> 1:38:43.719 have and your number one destination on the Pluto TV 1:38:43.760 --> 1:38:46.719 app should be the first me my Man, Jesse Kelly. 1:38:46.840 --> 1:38:50.839 Other fantastic people are soon going to join the First 1:38:51.080 --> 1:38:55.720 Revolution on on Pluto TV, but we cannot name them 1:38:55.800 --> 1:38:57.920 quite yet, but they will be fantastic. We have we 1:38:57.960 --> 1:39:01.320 have all the we're getting. We are actually bring out 1:39:01.360 --> 1:39:04.160 all the best people, all the best people. Don't worry 1:39:04.160 --> 1:39:06.000 about what Trump says about the best people. We're bringing 1:39:06.040 --> 1:39:11.720 on the best people. Mark Right's bark. Happy Columbus Day. 1:39:11.800 --> 1:39:14.320 Oh wait, there's a push to be rid of Columbus. 1:39:14.720 --> 1:39:17.479 Be careful what one wishes for. Does that mean no 1:39:17.520 --> 1:39:21.360 more Columbus Day parades or Columbus Day sales? Can't really 1:39:21.400 --> 1:39:23.519 change another name because without Columbus it would just be 1:39:23.600 --> 1:39:27.280 another day. Yeah. Well, they're trying to say that it 1:39:27.280 --> 1:39:32.080 should be Indigenous People's Days. So I don't think that's 1:39:32.080 --> 1:39:35.680 going to catch on because it's the day that right, 1:39:35.720 --> 1:39:37.840 it's that it was picked for Columbus. So I don't 1:39:37.880 --> 1:39:40.679 think that no one anyone's gonna be on board really 1:39:40.720 --> 1:39:44.320 for switching that over, or at least not necessarily. And 1:39:45.360 --> 1:39:47.760 there were people that were throwing paint red paint on 1:39:47.800 --> 1:39:51.559 Columbus statutes, so forget where that happened. It's so stupid. 1:39:52.640 --> 1:39:57.000 You know, we should all just understand that every single culture, 1:39:57.200 --> 1:40:01.400 and every religious group and every ethnicity, judged by the 1:40:01.439 --> 1:40:07.400 standards of today, in the fifteenth century, would have been xenophobic, racist, bigoted, 1:40:07.439 --> 1:40:11.480 and evil, okay everybody everywhere. There was no like tolerant 1:40:11.680 --> 1:40:14.719 by the standards of today. There was no tolerant culture. 1:40:14.880 --> 1:40:18.719 There was no you know, multiculturalism and diversity, these things. 1:40:18.720 --> 1:40:24.080 You had absolutist tribalism, religious wars. I mean, this is 1:40:24.080 --> 1:40:26.920 what was going on. So why are we just gonna 1:40:26.920 --> 1:40:28.240 be This is why I brought up what was going 1:40:28.240 --> 1:40:30.880 on in the New World before it became the New World. 1:40:31.640 --> 1:40:35.439 You had Native American tribes warring against each other, taking 1:40:35.439 --> 1:40:38.720 over other tribes, enslaving other tribes, murdering each other. I mean, 1:40:38.840 --> 1:40:41.920 this is human history folks everywhere. So why do we 1:40:41.920 --> 1:40:45.000 pretend that, you know, oh, we can't celebrate this culture 1:40:45.120 --> 1:40:51.000 or this individual because bad things happened. You know, look 1:40:51.040 --> 1:40:53.920 look at this stuff, and Muhammad was a war lord. 1:40:54.520 --> 1:40:58.680 Does that mean that Islam is now completely you know, 1:40:59.160 --> 1:41:02.880 beyond the paliph us to talk about I'm just I'm asking, 1:41:02.920 --> 1:41:05.080 I mean, why is why is that? Okay, Mohammed was 1:41:05.840 --> 1:41:10.680 uh you know, had there were captives of the of 1:41:10.760 --> 1:41:14.880 the earliest Islamic tribe, the Islamic faith who were murdered. 1:41:14.880 --> 1:41:16.640 I mean all kinds. Anyway, you know, we can talk 1:41:16.680 --> 1:41:18.599 about this stuff all day. But I'm warden Roll called 1:41:19.200 --> 1:41:23.800 I'm getting fired up late in the show, Wayne Buck, 1:41:23.840 --> 1:41:26.200 thank you for your incisive analysis of politics. I need 1:41:26.280 --> 1:41:29.920 to ask you, have you heard Dana Lash is Elizabeth Warren? 1:41:31.560 --> 1:41:34.960 It's really it's the best. I mean, I'm gonna have 1:41:35.040 --> 1:41:37.080 to hear it because i don't know if it's better 1:41:37.080 --> 1:41:39.439 than mine. I'm just gonna you know, and I love 1:41:39.640 --> 1:41:42.720 I love Dana Lash, But is ear Elizabeth Warren better 1:41:42.800 --> 1:41:45.080 than mine? That is a question for the ages we 1:41:45.120 --> 1:41:47.000 will have to see. Have you heard her? Elizabeth? Ward? 1:41:47.400 --> 1:41:48.920 You look at you're moving over here to tell me 1:41:48.960 --> 1:41:51.040 you have no just doing work. Oh, you're just working 1:41:51.360 --> 1:41:53.559 keeping the show in the air, doing that thing I do. 1:41:53.680 --> 1:41:55.960 Please keep doing that. It's helpful when we have a 1:41:56.000 --> 1:41:59.160 show that is still in the air. But yeah, maybe 1:41:59.200 --> 1:42:04.160 maybe Dana and I can have a Warren off. Wow, Dana, 1:42:04.320 --> 1:42:08.320 I would like to challenge shoot, who a Warren versus Warren. 1:42:09.720 --> 1:42:11.760 I'll have to invite her on the show just for that. Yeah, 1:42:11.760 --> 1:42:16.000 we might, we might might have a conversation in Warren 1:42:16.640 --> 1:42:22.400 warren Ese. Warren is, Um, we could do that. Let's see, 1:42:23.080 --> 1:42:26.120 we've Douglas writing, Buck, why isn't the renaming of Columbus 1:42:26.200 --> 1:42:31.200 Day to Indigenous People's Day a prime example of cultural appropriation? Douglas, 1:42:31.280 --> 1:42:35.600 the answer to your question is that it is impossible, 1:42:35.640 --> 1:42:41.840 according to the social justice Left, for Western for people 1:42:41.880 --> 1:42:48.120 to appropriate Western European culture. Appropriation is only one way 1:42:48.200 --> 1:42:51.200 thing that can only happen when people who are in 1:42:51.240 --> 1:42:55.799 a position of power over another people take their stuff. 1:42:55.840 --> 1:42:57.519 That's what they would say. The same way that there 1:42:57.520 --> 1:42:59.439 are many people on the left who now argue that 1:42:59.600 --> 1:43:04.200 race is m is only possible when a group that 1:43:04.479 --> 1:43:09.680 generally or systematically dominates another group engages in negative behaviors 1:43:09.720 --> 1:43:14.320 toward that group. But a group that is, in terms 1:43:14.360 --> 1:43:21.160 of intersectional dynamics, the the oppressed cannot be the oppressor, 1:43:22.560 --> 1:43:25.280 which is also, by the way, nonsense. But nonetheless, this 1:43:25.360 --> 1:43:27.200 is what people say. I'm just telling you what they say, 1:43:27.920 --> 1:43:33.439 just telling you what's going on. Hey, Buck, Tom pe here, 1:43:33.880 --> 1:43:36.720 love your post and your broadcast appearances. Keep up the 1:43:36.720 --> 1:43:39.040 good work. Well, Tom Pete, thank you so much, my man. 1:43:39.080 --> 1:43:42.600 I appreciate it, you have the family my warm regards, 1:43:42.640 --> 1:43:45.400 and I appreciate the kind thoughts about what we're doing 1:43:45.479 --> 1:43:51.080 here in the show. Irene, very good assessments of Biden 1:43:51.080 --> 1:43:54.680 and Biden Junior. It drives me crazy that the dim 1:43:54.720 --> 1:44:02.120 Democrats cannot see the hypocrisy. All right, I am with 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:08.080 you on that one Foe show, Alan, hey Buck. Why 1:44:08.240 --> 1:44:13.880 aren't the famous people who were on the board of 1:44:13.920 --> 1:44:16.479 directors of tharn Nos being talked about since they were 1:44:16.520 --> 1:44:19.280 not qualified to understand what Tharonos was doing. They were 1:44:19.360 --> 1:44:21.800 just as guilty as Biden son of not having the qualifications. 1:44:21.800 --> 1:44:23.679 I'm guessing there are a lot of people on Tharnos 1:44:23.680 --> 1:44:27.360 board that have no qualifications outside their contacts. Well, Alan, 1:44:27.400 --> 1:44:28.800 I mean, I think you can make the argument that 1:44:28.840 --> 1:44:33.240 a secretary of state gives our former secretary of state 1:44:33.280 --> 1:44:37.799 gives a certain degree of gravitas and also useful business 1:44:37.800 --> 1:44:41.880 connections and perhaps even strategic insight. You could argue those things, 1:44:43.400 --> 1:44:47.800 but that's different. That's a different situation than what Hunter 1:44:47.880 --> 1:44:50.120 Biden would be, which is just a guy who's related 1:44:50.120 --> 1:44:52.400 to a guy who who's all those you could arguers 1:44:52.400 --> 1:44:55.240 are all those things, but yeah, company boards. Look, there 1:44:55.240 --> 1:44:57.519 are ways that people pay people off without doing the 1:44:57.520 --> 1:44:59.519 bag of cash under the table and board seats is 1:44:59.680 --> 1:45:02.439 very good way to do it. By the way, there's 1:45:02.439 --> 1:45:05.920 a sketchy Ukrainian company out there that's looking for somebody 1:45:05.920 --> 1:45:07.760 to sit on the board for a fifty k a month, 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:12.960 buck Sexton. This fantastic option. Fantastic option for the board seat. 1:45:14.240 --> 1:45:16.280 Talk to you tomorrow's team, Shields high