1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Friday Halloween edition of the Clay 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show play traveling today, perhaps picking 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 1: up a last minute costume. Take guesses as to what 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: he'll dress up as this year if he does it all. 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: But he'll be back with us on Monday. So it 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: is just me aka the Buckster, leading you on this 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: legendary journey of politics, news, national security, cultural commentary, all 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: the great stuff that we're going to dive into. Let's 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: just give you a sense of where we're going. We 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: have election day on Tuesday coming up. In fact, I 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: just voted. I meant to have the little sticker in 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: my hand. I just voted for the Miami Beach mayor. 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: As you know from listening to Shaw, I'm a Miami 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: Beach resident, and governance here has been quite good. They 15 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: have done things that have made the streets cleaner and 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: safer and better, and I am very pleased with a 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: lot of the major decisions that have been made. So 18 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: I was a vote for mayor minor, and I am 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: hoping that he is able to continue. But I'm just 20 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: saying I voted. I know it's an off your election, 21 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: but that makes it so much easier too. I'm saying 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: this in part to also perhaps poke. 23 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: I wouldn't say shame. 24 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: Poke, Encourage, remind, gently, nudge, are wonderful Virginia and New 25 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: Jersey and New York City listeners to make sure where 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: there's early voting, you're voting early. And if you can't 27 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: get there early, well at least get there on the 28 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: big day. 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: Right. 30 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: You gotta show up to care, if you care enough 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: about what's going to happen. 32 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: And I think that certainly in New Jersey. 33 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: The latest is that Chittarelli has made this a dead heat. 34 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: It is neck and neck with Cheryl there. Virginia is 35 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit tougher, tougher sledding, a 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: little bit more challenging, but still you gotta show up. 37 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: Jason mir is looking good for that Attorney General slot 38 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: and win some sears. Let's hope she can pull off 39 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of an upset there, but she's only 40 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: gonna do it afar. Virginia listeners go out and tell 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: all their friends and tell everyone they know. Make sure 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: you get out there and vote. 43 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: And then we have. 44 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Talked a lot about New York City. I'll give you 45 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,679 Speaker 1: some updates on the New York City Mayor's race. But 46 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: it's not looking so good. It's not looking so good. 47 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: And also some of you have been writing in to 48 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: say that I sounded like I was from New York 49 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: suddenly when we interviewed Curtis Sliwa that I was I 50 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: code switching back to New Yorker all of a sudden. 51 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I at least it would be authentic in 52 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: so far as I am from New York City born 53 00:02:59,600 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: and raid. 54 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: I didn't notice any difference. I'll have to go back 55 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: and listen to that. 56 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: I did switch sometimes when I was talking when I 57 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: told Clay, but I was switching on purpose to say 58 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: he better watch out in Benson. 59 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: You know he better watch out when he said. 60 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: Fall rock away Sheepshead Bay, Staten Island, particularly central southern 61 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: Staten Island. 62 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't sick. 63 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: Because he was talking a little bit rough about Curtis Sleewell, 64 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: and that's Sleiewa territory. 65 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: But yeah, you've never heard me do with a New 66 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: York accent before. 67 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: When I worked at the NYPD, they tell me that 68 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: I talked funny, So there you go, because they all 69 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: had New York accents and I did not, so I 70 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: can do it, though I could switch in and out. 71 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: Now we have that those races, I'll give you those details. 72 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: We also have. 73 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: The shutdown continuing. I think Democrats are going to lose, 74 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: but they're getting into that desperate mode where the end 75 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: is nigh for them politically and they're gonna throw anything 76 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: at the wall and see what sticks. They're gonna pull 77 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: anything out as they can. And then we've got some 78 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: more Kamala Harris trying to rehab her political chances, her 79 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: future in politics, which I do not think is strong 80 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: and I do not think is well. 81 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: As you know, Clay and I disagree on this one. 82 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: I think she's going to have to just. 83 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: Fade fade out, but she doesn't want to. I will 84 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: agree with anyone, including Clay, that Kamala Harris thinks she 85 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: should have a role in American politics going forward. It's 86 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: ego driven, though it's not based in the reality of 87 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: her chances and the future of the Democrat Party. So okay, 88 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: let's first just get a little bit into where we 89 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: stand on this government shutdown. First of all, I told 90 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,799 Speaker 1: you this is where things could get really messy pretty fast, 91 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: and that's when the air traffic controllers and the pilots 92 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: are saying, look, it's going to be really rough for 93 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: those who are trying to get around the country, trying 94 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: to fly when air traffic controllers say enough is enough, 95 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: and some of them are going to start calling in sick, 96 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: and there's going to be shortages. 97 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: People will be waiting. 98 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: And I will agree with you when you're at the 99 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: airport and the plane is there and there's not a 100 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: cloud in the sky, and the whole country the weather 101 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: is fine, and you're told for staffing reasons your flight 102 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: is maybe delayed two or three hours, your flight is canceled. 103 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: Perhaps that is an enormously frustrating experience. Here is a 104 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: montage of the pilots and air traffic controllers. This is 105 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: cut twelve telling democrats open up the government. 106 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: Enough is enough. 107 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: The biggest way to ensure the safety, security and reliability 108 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: of our air national air traffic control system is to 109 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: pass a clean continuing resolution. 110 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 3: We are concerned that when our bros and sisters in 111 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 3: TSA and air traffic control are not receiving paychecks, that 112 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 3: they're distracted and that they erode on the margin of 113 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: safety that we rely on to go out and operate 114 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: our aircraft and do our job safely as well. 115 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 4: Every day that they go to work, they have not 116 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 4: only the weight of one of the most high consequence 117 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 4: jobs in the entire world. Now they're feeling, how do I. 118 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 2: Pay for my guests? 119 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 4: How do I put food on the table? 120 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 2: No one should have to work without being paid. 121 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 5: Congress owes it to the American people to get this 122 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 5: thing done, get a clean CR done, and get the 123 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 5: government back open. 124 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 4: Everyone knows the Vice President Congress is that this shutdown 125 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 4: needs to end. 126 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: Now. 127 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: It has to happen now. 128 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 4: These guys need to convene, say yes to that clean CR, 129 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 4: get this thing back on track, and again restore that 130 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 4: confidence in the American Republic as we. 131 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 6: Go into these very busy holiday seasons. 132 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: The White House puts that out and I think it's 133 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: very well done. 134 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: It's very straightforward Republicans. I'm not rooting for. 135 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: The Republicans on this one because I'm a Republican. It 136 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: is the obvious, sane choice of the two sides here. 137 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: The Republican we're trying to keep the government funded in 138 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: going Democrats are trying to do the impossible. It's not 139 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: the first time that Democrat policies involve squaring a circle, right, 140 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: not the first time, Like a man can be a 141 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: woman and it's a woman, but it's also a man 142 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: at the same time. They do this with some frequency. 143 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: But in this case they've shut the government down. They 144 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: made the choice, and they're turning to Republicans and saying, 145 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: why you shut the government down? 146 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: That is not okay. 147 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: They did this. We are all now working through this 148 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,239 Speaker 1: because of them. But they are taking some very bad 149 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: advice slash direction from Chuck Schumer, from Jeffreys and oh 150 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: yes this is cut eleven, Kamala Harris herself, play it. 151 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 7: We still have work to do to make America's healthcare 152 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 7: system deliver for all the people and not be a 153 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 7: function of how much money you have in your back pocket. Right, 154 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 7: and Democrats do come from that place of believing that 155 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 7: healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege 156 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 7: of those who can afford it. So how do you 157 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 7: get there? Well, part of how you get there immediately 158 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 7: on this issue of where we are with the shutdown 159 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 7: is to pull firm as they are doing. Part of 160 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 7: it has to be to continue to reform the system. 161 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: They don't reform the system. 162 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,239 Speaker 1: They have done one thing, and that is make health 163 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: care worse, make it more expensive, make it more complicated. 164 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 1: They have made it worse. That is the only thing 165 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: you can say about the Democrat head in healthcare. Every 166 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: promise that was made about Obama Care has been broken. 167 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Everything about this bill, which was a huge fight with 168 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: Republicans back in the first term of the Obama administration, 169 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: everything about it was either just wrong or a lie. 170 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: And now they're saying, well, if we can't continue, the 171 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: subsidies were put in place during COVID, so now we 172 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: have to continue. 173 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 2: At that level. They're all these ways. 174 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: What they're really doing is hiding a massive wealth redistribution 175 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: scheme and welfare state under the rubric of healthcare. Trust me, 176 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: they're not trying to make your healthcare cheaper. 177 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 2: Trust me. They aren't trying to do is. 178 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: What would be needed to make it easier for you 179 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: to see a doctor. That's not what they want to 180 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: make it so that states like California and New York 181 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: will continue treating illegals. Thirty percent of er visits in 182 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: New York City illegal alien. So we're essentially now the 183 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: soup kitchen and the sick ward for the whole world 184 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: seven billion people in counting. You show up here, you 185 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: get all this free stuff. And by the way, the 186 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: people who are actually here who have to work, create 187 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: the productivity to create the wealth that is then pillaged 188 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: by these Democrats in your name, of course, but their 189 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: own purposes. Yeah, they don't want to make that easier 190 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: for you. They don't respect that. In fact, if you 191 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: don't pay them what they demand, and it's never enough, 192 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: if you don't give them more of what you work 193 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: to create, they'll use the resources of the state to 194 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: throw you in prison. But the illegals, the people who 195 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: are scamming the system, the people who are entirely reliant 196 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: on the system, they are the primary constituency of the 197 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: Democrat party, which is a party of takers using government force. 198 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: That is the whole point. That is the whole premise. 199 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: Everything else to say about healthcare is a lie. Look 200 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: at your premiums. It's all gotten more expensive, it's all 201 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: gotten worse. Hey, look, John Fetterman, not sure how much 202 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: longer he's even going to be a Democrat. He's out 203 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: there saying that, I mean, this is just appalling what 204 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: Democrats are doing. And he said it in a Fetterman 205 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: way this has cut thirteen. Listen to his take on 206 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: the government shutdown. 207 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 6: For a Democrat, you know, we're not allowed to just 208 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 6: open this up. I mean, then our party has bigger 209 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 6: problems than I thought we might have already. It's like, 210 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 6: that's not controversial. Pay everybody, and you have our workers 211 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 6: here borrowed over a third of a billion dollars to 212 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 6: pay their own bills. 213 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: Like it's it's it's a failure. 214 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 6: And like I said to all of the viewers, I'm 215 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 6: apologizing that that we can't even get our together and 216 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 6: just open up our government. 217 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: Democrats are the ones Betterman's voted to keep it open 218 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: or to open it. Rather, Democrats are the ones who 219 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: have shut it down. They have decided that this is 220 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 1: the way it's going to go, and then they turn 221 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: around and say why is it happening like this? So 222 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: I think we're we're going to see eventually a Democrat 223 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: cave on this issue unless Republicans managed to snatch defeat 224 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:08,239 Speaker 1: from the jaws of victory. That is always possible for Republicans. 225 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: There is always a chance here. Although I will say 226 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: I was pretty heartened by Senator Thun who is not 227 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: usually the guy you'd think leading the William Wallace style 228 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: brave Heart charge for freedom, But he did seem pretty 229 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: agitated over what Democrats are doing here, because remember, they've 230 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: chosen to do this, but then they're lying about it. 231 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: Democrats have forced this shut down by making demands that 232 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: have nothing to do with specifically funding this government as 233 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: it is as it's supposed to be with a cr 234 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: with a continuing resolution. They want to hold the government's 235 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: funding hostage. But then they turn around and say it 236 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: is the Republicans who are shutting down the government. That 237 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: is a lie. And I do think that a majority 238 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: of the American people, at least those who are paying 239 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: attention to this, see that. I do believe that the 240 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: Democrats are losing. And once election day passes, come on 241 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Can I just my New Jerseyans. Sometimes us 242 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: New Yorkers, we give you a rough time. We treat 243 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: you like the cousin that perhaps gets a wedgie when 244 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: we see you at the holidays. But we love you 245 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: New Jersey, we really do. From a New Yorker to 246 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: my New Jerseyans out there, get out there and vote. 247 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: You can have a good governor who's going to end 248 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: the sanctuary state status of New Jersey. Who's going to 249 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: bring down the absurd taxes that you pay. There's so 250 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: much that will benefit you. Get out there and actually 251 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: do this. Get out there and vote. And for those 252 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 1: who say I already have, okay, well tell other people 253 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: remind I'm reminding friends here. I'm in Miami Beach. I 254 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: got friends who have forgotten that there's a mayor's election happening. 255 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 5: You know. 256 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 2: I'm like, well, yeah, that's right, it's going on. We 257 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 2: live here and the. 258 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: Decisions that have been made have been really of major 259 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: impact for us who live in this area. So for 260 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: any of my Miami Beach people listening, get out there 261 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: and vote. I mean, I voted for minor I highly 262 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 1: recommend you do the same. But unless you want things 263 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: to turn into mayhem here again. 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That's s A b r E Radio 289 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: dot com or call eight four four a two four 290 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: safe eight four four eight two four Safe. 291 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 8: Making America great Again isn't just one man, It's many. 292 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 8: The Team forty seven podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in 293 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 8: the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the 294 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 8: iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 295 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: Welcome back into clay Buck and we have some guests 296 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: coming to join today. I want to tell you our 297 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: friend Carol Markowitz special Halloween guests here. Will they be 298 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: in costume for their radio appearances? 299 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 2: I don't know. 300 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: Perhaps Carol Markowitz and Miranda Devine will be with this. 301 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: Two great ladies, Great ladies. Miranda Vine just interviewed Jadie 302 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Vance for her show pod Force one. We'll talk to 303 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: her about that in some detail. And Carol Markuit's got 304 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: a lot to discuss with her about NYC and these 305 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: other elections and whatever else is on her mind. But 306 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: I mentioned Senator Thun who is apparently, from what I 307 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: understand what I gather, gentlemanly generally not very very feisty, 308 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: but that has changed recently. He has decided that what 309 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats are doing is just too much with this shutdown, 310 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: and here he is play seventeen. 311 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 5: I think their leadership is in a box. You've got 312 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 5: the New York mayoral election coming up, You've got all 313 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 5: these left wing groups that are clamoring for attention and 314 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 5: to fight with Trump, and I just think the Democrat 315 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 5: leaders are scared and threatened by all this outside noise 316 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 5: and afraid to open up the government. So if this happens, 317 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 5: I think it happens through the rank and file Democrats 318 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 5: who come to the conclusion that this isn't anybody's best interest. 319 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 5: And I think that's going to happen, Becky. It's always 320 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 5: a matter of time. I mean, like I said, I've 321 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 5: been through a few of these, and there isn't anything 322 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 5: instructive about it. Nobody wins. This is just a stupid exercise. 323 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 5: It needs to end, and as sooner the better. 324 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: Indeed, all true, and I think Democrats are going to 325 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: end up on the wrong well they're already on the 326 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: wrong side of it, but I think that they're going 327 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: to suffer politically somewhat from this. Although people forget and 328 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: people are often too easily misled on who's responsible for what. 329 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: We'll get into more coming up here to second. 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A little bit of a departure from 349 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: the political stories of the day for a second here. 350 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: Although this certainly has a lot of politics involved the possibility, which. 351 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 2: Is now starting to look more and more like a probability, that. 352 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: There will be strikes by our military inside of Venezuela. 353 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: This would be something. 354 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: As you know, we have already had about a dozen 355 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: kinetic strikes, missile attacks really on drug vehicles of one 356 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: kind or boats, but also submarines, right, so different kinds 357 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: of nautical vessels. So that's going on already, and international 358 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: waters are getting blown up. Senator Rampaul is very upset 359 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: about this. It is quite aggressive. But you have to 360 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: look at this as we don't want people dying from 361 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: fence and overdoses anymore. That fenthanol gets to US shores, 362 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: people take it, they die in large numbers. Enough is enough. 363 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: I am not seeing a lot of outrage from the 364 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: American people over this. And we have set a precedent 365 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: in the past where executive action for counter terrorism has 366 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 1: resulted in strikes, including in countries sovereign nations with whom 367 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: we are not at war, Pakistan being the most of it, 368 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: but also Yemen and so all you So we have 369 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: been striking enemies in countries without a declaration of war 370 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: for a long time and those are essentially terrorists involved 371 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: in ongoing plotting, and that's enough to take them out. 372 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: So in this case, you look at the transportation of 373 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: massive amounts of a very lethal drug. I understand that 374 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: people can take it for a while and not die, 375 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: but they can take it one time and die. And 376 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to be addicted to 377 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: it and take it until they die. And it's horrendous 378 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: and it's a scourge. It's destroying family and communities and 379 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: it's awful. And so I have not seen very much 380 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: in the way of pushback by the American people. I've 381 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: seen Senator Rampaul and a handful of others. Well, the 382 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: Trump haters don't like it in Congress because they don't 383 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: like anything Trump does. Like we say, Trump could cure cancer, 384 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Democrats would be pro cancer. 385 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:25,120 Speaker 1: But this would be an expansion beyond just the strikes 386 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: against vessels in international waters to attacks in Venezuela. Miami 387 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: Herald a left wing paper here in my hometown, but 388 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: there's some good reporting on occasion. Here's what they write. 389 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:44,959 Speaker 1: At a military base in eastern Venezuela's Caribbean coast, radar 390 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: screens sit mostly dark generators hum sporadically, parts are stripped 391 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: from grounded aircraft, and officers communicate on personal cell phones 392 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: because the armies radios no longer work. Just a few 393 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: hundred miles north, the Caribbean Sea is bristling with US warships, 394 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: stealth jets, and high tech drones. In what analysts describe 395 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: as the region's largest show of force in half a century. 396 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: Washington has deployed one of the most powerful naval forces 397 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: the region has seen in decades, an aircraft carrier, several destroyers, 398 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: a submarine, f thirty five fighter jets. 399 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 2: And swarms of armed drones. 400 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: On the other side, Maduro's war machine struggles to stay alive, 401 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: undermined by corruption, neglect, and fear. So here you have, 402 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: lining up across the battlefield from each other, the most 403 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: formidable military on the planet under the auspices of the 404 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: Department of War no longer the Department of Defense. It's 405 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: going to take me a while to be able to 406 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: make that switch that you don't have to keep reminding me. 407 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: I promise, I'll try. I guess Secretary of War. 408 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: Is now the title as well. I did see a 409 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: funny meme going around that hegset didn't want to be 410 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: called secretary because that's too wimpy, but that was a joke, 411 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: as my understanding. So here we have the Maduro regime 412 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: in the weakest military position it has been in perhaps 413 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: in the twentieth century, the socialist destruction of their economy, 414 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: and the elite's reliance on illegal drugs just to keep 415 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: it all, you know, the importation of legal drugs in 416 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: the United States. Essentially, Venezuela is a failed state and 417 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: a narco state, and this administration, the Trump administration, has 418 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: had enough. And there's a lot of reporting coming out 419 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: now that the Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela 420 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: that smuggle drugs, that these are part of the international 421 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: cartel activities that lead to the deaths of large numbers 422 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 1: of Americans through overdoses through poisoning, and the Trump administration 423 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: is preparing to take action against them. There is very 424 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: little that Venezuela would be able to do to even 425 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: defend its most important military facilities. Essentially, Venezuela is hollowed 426 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: out as a regime already, so this would not be difficult. 427 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: And now it's interesting because we've had a Trump administration that, 428 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: on the one hand, has always stayed very clear in 429 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: its philosophy of non intervention. In Trumpian terms, no stupid wars, 430 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: no stupid wars, but no stupid wars under Trump has 431 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: not meant no military action against our enemies. These are 432 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: different things. It is in fact possible, say to take 433 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: par art in the destruction of Iran's nuclear facilities without 434 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: starting World War three, as some were saying. It is 435 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: in fact possible to take out a terrorist mastermind in 436 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: custom Solomani, among many others, to take him out with 437 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: a strike by the Trump administration in Baghdad and Iraq 438 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: and not have Iran irrupt into some broader Middle Eastern conflict. 439 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: These are things that Trump administration has done, and has 440 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: done effectively and successfully, and for which there has not 441 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: been some price that we have paid. So now we 442 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: look at the case of Venezuela, it is one thing 443 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: to go after these these Venezuelan military facilities. Remember, the 444 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: military and the regime are part of the drug trafficking. 445 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: This is now a state enterprise for Venezuela. And it 446 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: is such a reminder for the American people right now 447 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: of what socialism really does, what social justice economics and 448 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: politics results in what the obsession with class envy. When 449 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: you put bad faith, left wing populis in charge. 450 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 2: What do they do? 451 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: They destroy like a plague of locusts. They destroy your society. 452 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: Venezuela has crazy inflation, it has empty store shelves, it 453 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: has horrific crime. There's essentially no meaningful law enforcement. It 454 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 1: plays the mess. This was the third wealthiest country in 455 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere after the US and Canada. 456 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 2: Into the nineties. 457 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: This is a country that has Venezuela has larger proven 458 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. I know that sounds impossible, 459 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: but you can just grocket. I'm gonna start and crocket 460 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: instead of Google it, and then I gotta make that switch. 461 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: No more, no more Google crocket. They have the largest 462 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: proven oil reserves, or larger than Saudi Arabia. So this 463 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 1: should be for all intents and purposes, this should be 464 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 1: a wealthy, prosperous country. And it has been that in 465 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: the past, relatively speaking. But people took over who said, 466 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: your life, you the peasants, you the have nots, you 467 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: the poor, Your life will be great if you just 468 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: put us, the left wing radical socialists in charge. We 469 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: will take from them and give to you. Now, to 470 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: do that, we have to be able to violate our 471 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 1: own laws. We have to violate property rights, we have 472 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: to violate contracts. So you're really you, meaning the the 473 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: Venezuelan landless and the peasants. You have to be willing 474 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: to create a monster. Chavez den Maduro. You create a monster, 475 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: but the monster promises it will be your monster. You're 476 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: going to empower this government, in the case of Venezuela, 477 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: to be able to run roughshod over decency, fairness, its word, contracts, 478 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: the law, morality. It'll do whatever it has to do, 479 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: but it's going to take care of you. Just create 480 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: that monster, give it power that one time. This is 481 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: the story we've seen play out in all of these 482 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: socialist dictatorships. This is the story we've seen play out 483 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: everywhere that's really communist in its ethos. Guess what happens. 484 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: The monster is in charge, and then the monster doesn't 485 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: care about the silly poor people who voted for it. 486 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: In fact, it makes them poorer, It makes their lives worse, 487 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: It enriches itself, and then it eats and tears down 488 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: and destroys everything else. Keep itself in power, it is 489 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: only self interested. The socialist, the revolutionary elite, all of 490 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: these places, including Venezuela, they become entirely self interested. 491 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 2: It's supposed to be all about other people. 492 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: And guess what, as soon as they have the power, 493 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: the elites, the new elite, after railing against the old elite, 494 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: that all they care about is staying. 495 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 2: In power in their own perks. 496 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: Is exactly what has happened in Venezuela. And I also 497 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: want to remind you, because I've been following this story, 498 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: you can tell I get passionate about i'men falling. For 499 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: a long time, I had my daddy had a family 500 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: friend of ours who found out that his family was 501 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: being dispossessed and all their property was being seized by 502 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: watching Chavez do his TV show, The Dictator Chavez now 503 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: the Dictator Maduro would do this, I think it was 504 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: called like Alo mister Presidente or something. 505 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 2: They would do this. 506 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: Long like almost like like a long Moore radio show, 507 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: but it was on TV. They would take callers and 508 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: my dad did this guy who's what was watching? Like, Yeah, 509 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: oh that family, We're gonna take all their stuff. You know, 510 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: they're capitalists. Their pigs. 511 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 2: We're going to take all their stuff and to flee 512 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 2: the country. 513 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: Like I said, create the monster, because it's going to 514 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: be your monster, right, the people who are upset, the 515 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: people who want more stuff. Never works, never works, In fact, 516 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: it makes that makes them worse off. And they've traded 517 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: their own decency, they've traded their own ethics to get 518 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: something that they never end up getting. And then the 519 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: populace just become even more desperate and angry. 520 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 2: And this is the story. 521 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: It plays out over and over again because it's really 522 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: it's not about socialism, it's not a social or political science. 523 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: It's really about manipulating human emotion and human envy. And 524 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: that's why they've destroyed Venezuela. Now what's Trump going to 525 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: do about this? Well, it looks like we're about to 526 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: take out anything that's involved with the drug trade. Can 527 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: the regime stay in power with all of that gone 528 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: and destroyed? And won't it also show everybody, Hey, not 529 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: only is the Madure regime corrupt and criminal, but they're inept, 530 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: they're weak, they're not even good at being dictator. They're 531 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: not even good at trampling on all of your rights. 532 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: They're pathetic and then do something rise up and replace them. 533 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 2: Is it better? Who is it? I don't know, but 534 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: it certainly seems possible. By the way. The story I 535 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 2: told of Venezuela as i'm here in South. 536 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: Florida, it's the same story with Cuba under Castro, same story, 537 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: same story, although in that case, I think you could 538 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: even say it was just more about brute force. It 539 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: was just they overthrew the government to the force of 540 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: arms and pretended they were going to help the poor 541 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: and just made everybody poor except that people in charge 542 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: in the Castro regime. 543 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: This is the truth of how it works. 544 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, far too often in Latin America, Trump going after 545 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: it's very much If you have not seen clear in 546 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: Present Danger, you know I'm a big Tom Clancy fan. 547 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen the movie or read the book, 548 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: it feels a little bit like life imitating art here, 549 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: because I think this is where we're going, where we're 550 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: gonna have really serious and it's gonna be more than 551 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: what you see even in clear and present danger. 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And I can tell you the voter turnout 593 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 9: is on presidential levels and people are out there voting. 594 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 9: But also people have to realize too, you know, they're 595 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 9: told about the mayor. We have city council races. We 596 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 9: also have six ballot initiatives. Know on every single one 597 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 9: of them, they want to turn over all the power 598 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 9: to the maya. And he can. That means man Danny 599 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 9: gets in, he can build a housing project in your neighborhood. 600 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 9: And people just have to get out there, know on 601 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,879 Speaker 9: all those ballots. But I'm going to tell you something else. 602 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,879 Speaker 9: You just brought up Venezuela. Let's remember that legal who 603 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 9: murdered that beautiful girl Lake and Riley Jose Antonio or 604 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 9: Barris from from Venezuela, and they what their criminals over here? 605 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 9: You know, Buck, I'm telling you, I'm out here, I'm 606 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 9: seeing the people, and I'm gonna throw my cards on 607 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 9: the table. 608 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 2: I'm going for Curtis Lee woom I love where your 609 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 2: head's at. 610 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: Would be quite a quite a coup if Curtis pulls 611 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: us off. Thank you for calling in, Josh, appreciate you. 612 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 9: Uh. 613 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: Ozzie in California? 614 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 2: What's up, Ozzie? 615 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,240 Speaker 10: Yeah? 616 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 9: All right. 617 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 10: I like to make two quick points. One about the 618 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 10: marriage race, and that is why does the conservative always 619 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 10: have to drop out? People were calling for Slee Whood 620 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 10: because he didn't have enough votes and Clomo had more. Well, 621 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 10: the problem is if Clomo were to win, he would 622 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 10: do a terrible job, just like he did as governor. 623 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 10: And I don't know why he's running anyway. He was 624 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 10: at the highest position he now he wants to go 625 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 10: to a mayor, but he'd do a terrible job. 626 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 3: And the problem is. 627 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 10: Is after he got out, everybody would say, as they do, 628 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 10: I'm a Democrat party going left. Oh, we gotta have mom, Donnie. 629 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 10: We didn't get the buses, we didn't get this, and 630 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 10: that we gotta have them, Donnie. So that's gonna be 631 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 10: worse and worse if. 632 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 2: I got you. 633 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,760 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Ozzie. We're actually at time appreciate 634 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 1: you calling it from California. Look the argument that has 635 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: been made, and obviously Clay has been much more on 636 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: this because I think Cuomo is horrible too, but I 637 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 1: meaning as well as Mundani. The argument Clay's making is 638 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: if you think Cuomo is the lesser evil, then sleewood 639 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: dropping makes it more likely Cuomo will be able to win. 640 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: A lot of you reject that, and you want a conservative, 641 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: you want a Republican to be in the race, no 642 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,240 Speaker 1: matter what, you want him to have a shot. 643 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:36,720 Speaker 2: We'll see. 644 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: The good thing is we'll actually find out what happens 645 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 1: and who's right and what the numbers were, and we'll 646 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: get into more of this coming up in just a minute.