Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to
Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. They told you that good old, blue collar
Speaker 1: Joe is gonna be just a normal, everyday guy, one
Speaker 1: of the folks. He was gonna come back and run
Speaker 1: this presidency the way that you'd expect a sappy nineties
Speaker 1: movie about a president to do right. Just a guy
Speaker 1: who rolls up his sleeves, loves baseball, apple pie, and
Speaker 1: good old fashioned American hard work. But then you actually
Speaker 1: see what's happening in the country and you say, a
Speaker 1: whold on a second, this is not This is not
Speaker 1: what we were promised. This is novel. We were told,
Speaker 1: and some of us were predicting this all along, that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was, of course the trojan horse. He was
Speaker 1: the guy that the Democrats could convince enough voters in
Speaker 1: enough states. Oh he's not like the rest of all
Speaker 1: of those Democrats. He's not a left wing loon, you know.
Speaker 1: He's just a guy who's been around a long time,
Speaker 1: and he'll make sure that the country is nice and
Speaker 1: calm and everything goes just fine, total nonsense. We've already
Speaker 1: had a Texas judge halt Biden's executive order stopping deportations
Speaker 1: for one hundred days, and he cited the law that
Speaker 1: restrained Trump Right Administrative Procedures Act. You can't just make
Speaker 1: this huge shift in federal policy turning on a dime.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, what's good for the goose is good for
Speaker 1: the gander or the Biden, as the case may be.
Speaker 1: Turns out that the hashtag resistance judiciary against Trump sets
Speaker 1: some precedence, some very useful ones that are currently being
Speaker 1: applied against the Democrat president. So there will be howls
Speaker 1: of indignation, but this is the system we have. This
Speaker 1: is what we've got. So Joe Biden coming in and
Speaker 1: acting like there's no need for Congress or legislation on
Speaker 1: these issues, that's not going to fly right away. And
Speaker 1: if it makes its way up to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good shot, a pretty good shot
Speaker 1: in making sure that it doesn't go forward. Beyond that,
Speaker 1: I can't give you any guarantees. John Roberts is basically
Speaker 1: a liberal, Thank you, George W. Bush. Roberts is effectively
Speaker 1: a liberal on the Supreme Court. Is a Chief Justice,
Speaker 1: and he is someone who cannot be trusted on principle,
Speaker 1: on morality or on constitutionality. But I do think that
Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett is sound, and I think that Kavanaugh
Speaker 1: will probably apply the law even if it upsets the
Speaker 1: New York Times editorial page. Yeah, we're all seeing who
Speaker 1: Joe Biden really is. What has been done in this
Speaker 1: first week of the Biden presidency? Here we are, it
Speaker 1: has been a week. What has happened, Well, we've seen
Speaker 1: a whole slew of executive orders, far more than any
Speaker 1: other presidency at this point, meant to effectively replace the
Speaker 1: legislative prerogative of Congress with the unitary executive right, the
Speaker 1: one and only he is the guy. Big changes on
Speaker 1: immigration enforcement, changes like the Paris Climate Accord, the executive
Speaker 1: order on transgender protections, which is allowing now transgender male
Speaker 1: athlete to compete against women. That's a real big focus
Speaker 1: for the Democrats. They know that's critical all across the
Speaker 1: American heartland. That really keeps people up late at night
Speaker 1: that there have not been enough transgender males who have
Speaker 1: been able to compete in women's sports. That's just something
Speaker 1: that's very important to Democrats, and now we have this
Speaker 1: vendetta against the fossil fuel industry playing out. Federal agencies
Speaker 1: are going to stop all fossil fuel subsidies and also
Speaker 1: they're going to put a halt to drilling on federal land.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something, How different would this
Speaker 1: presidency be if you had had a president Bernie Sanders?
Speaker 1: I mean, really think about that. How different would this
Speaker 1: presidency be so far if you had had a president
Speaker 1: God forbid, Acasio Cortez. The answer is not very different
Speaker 1: at all. In fact, I think the executive orders that
Speaker 1: you've seen so far are largely in line with what
Speaker 1: you would have expected from an even more radical left president.
Speaker 1: You know, you would have expected this from somebody else
Speaker 1: along the way. And now when you start to dig
Speaker 1: into not only the orders but the tone of this administration,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're pushing forward with this impeachment knowing that
Speaker 1: it it's not going to actually have the desired effect
Speaker 1: of banning Trump from future office. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: They already held a vote, a procedural vote, thank you,
Speaker 1: Rand Paul, in which forty five senators. So this is
Speaker 1: just on constitutional. This whole thing is ridiculous, the joke
Speaker 1: forty five. So they're not going to get to the
Speaker 1: two thirds majority that if the process is constitutional, the
Speaker 1: forty five, you're not getting to a two thirds majority
Speaker 1: to convict. It's not going to happen. So then what
Speaker 1: the heck are we doing? The country is still suffering
Speaker 1: through a pandemic. But you know, some of this I
Speaker 1: believe is a distraction technique as well. Sure there's the
Speaker 1: ideological imperative that the left has to get this stuff
Speaker 1: done right away, right off the bat, to inundate this system,
Speaker 1: to flood the zone with all the left wing goodies
Speaker 1: they possibly can. I get that, But anybody who's seeing
Speaker 1: how this Biden administration actually functions with the COVID bonds,
Speaker 1: for example, with the vaccination programs, realizes, so we were
Speaker 1: sold the bill of goods. We being the American people.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. They're not better at this,
Speaker 1: they don't have some secret plan. They're not owe so
Speaker 1: much smarter than people who were in these jobs before them.
Speaker 1: That was just all pr marketing lies. Essentially, it just
Speaker 1: wasn't true. They've had to scramble to make it seem
Speaker 1: like their plan wasn't going to be just a continuation
Speaker 1: of the Trump plan that they also told us, in
Speaker 1: a just act of absolute dishonesty and hubris, that they
Speaker 1: had to start from scratch. So they lied about the
Speaker 1: previous plan. They overpromised on their plan. And now we
Speaker 1: see we've got we've got clowns in charge. Now you've
Speaker 1: got people clean and soaky and Biden and Harris. People
Speaker 1: don't know anything. They're not great administrators. They're on some
Speaker 1: vision for the country. The only thing that they really
Speaker 1: know they want to get done is whatever the Democrat
Speaker 1: apparatus tells them to do, and whatever the left wing
Speaker 1: activist base demands. Everything else can wait. Everything else is secondary.
Speaker 1: Your business, your livelihood, your safety of you and your family.
Speaker 1: COVID vaccinations are supposed to be protecting all of us.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration comes in like a bunch of bumbling buffoons.
Speaker 1: They're not making the situation better. But even when you
Speaker 1: listen to the rhetoric, when you hear some of what
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is saying out there, how different is it
Speaker 1: really from what you would expect from even the most
Speaker 1: far left wing members of the United States Congress. Here
Speaker 1: he is talking about how, And it's one of one
Speaker 1: of the favorite things that democrats and the left like
Speaker 1: to do. One of their favorite routines is to bash
Speaker 1: America to show how much they care about America. And
Speaker 1: ultimately it's about they think they're better than this country
Speaker 1: and they have to radically transform it to live up
Speaker 1: to their lofty ideals. But they do like to trash
Speaker 1: our past. They like to trash what we've been, what
Speaker 1: got us to this point as the wealthiest, most prosperous
Speaker 1: nation of the world. And you hear this even in
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's commentary here he is what he's talking about,
Speaker 1: how we don't live up to our principles Play six.
Speaker 1: We have never fully lived up to the founding principles
Speaker 1: of this Nation's the state the obvious that all people
Speaker 1: are created equal and have a right to be treated
Speaker 1: equally throughout their lives. And it's time to act now,
Speaker 1: not only because it's the right thing to do, but
Speaker 1: because if we do, we'll all be better off for it.
Speaker 1: For too long, we've allowed a narrow, cramped view of
Speaker 1: the promise of this nation to fester. You know, we've
Speaker 1: bought the views that America is a zero sum game.
Speaker 1: In many cases, if you succeed, I fail. If you
Speaker 1: get ahead, I fall behind. If you get the job,
Speaker 1: I lose mine. Maybe worst of all, if I hold
Speaker 1: you down, I lift myself up. This is the warmed
Speaker 1: over cultural Marxism that we all should have expected from
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Now I know it's Oh, that seems harsh. No,
Speaker 1: it's really not listening to what he's saying. America's a
Speaker 1: zero sum game. If I hold you down, I raise
Speaker 1: myself up. Is that really an accurate description of what's
Speaker 1: going on in this country? The explosion of wealth that
Speaker 1: has occurred in America over the last hundred years for everyone.
Speaker 1: I know the Left doesn't like to talk about this,
Speaker 1: but a person today who is living let's say, just
Speaker 1: at the poverty line, compared to what a person in
Speaker 1: America who was doing quite well for the time in
Speaker 1: terms of their actual wealth and access and living standards
Speaker 1: from one hundred years ago, it's not even close. We
Speaker 1: are much wealthier and more prosperous as a society. But
Speaker 1: envy is powerful politics and creating this perception that the
Speaker 1: only thing that's holding some people back is the other
Speaker 1: people in America who are oppressing them. That's very powerful
Speaker 1: as well for Democrats. It's in fact central to their
Speaker 1: overall governing philosophy because now you're going to hear a
Speaker 1: lot more about equity. You're gonna hear a lot more
Speaker 1: about the same outcomes, not the same opportunities, not the
Speaker 1: same rules, not the same playing field, the same outcome
Speaker 1: for individuals as a historical balancing HM, who's really going
Speaker 1: to be in charge of that? You're also going to
Speaker 1: see a return of the more brazen intersectionality discourse. Right. Remember,
Speaker 1: intersectionality is just a fancy way of the left saying
Speaker 1: that society is all just warring factions, identity groups, tribes
Speaker 1: of sorts. That's what society really is, gender, political race,
Speaker 1: you name it. Society is all about these different groups
Speaker 1: that are that are going after each other, trying to
Speaker 1: oppress each other. This is what intersectionality says. And the
Speaker 1: government's role is to decide who's doing too well and
Speaker 1: who's not and to start to balance that out. You
Speaker 1: want to talk about zero sum game. The Democrat worldview
Speaker 1: is a zero sum game. The Democrat view of their
Speaker 1: fellow Americans is exactly that if some people are doing
Speaker 1: too well, the answer is not to allow others to
Speaker 1: do well too. It's to bring down those who are succeeding.
Speaker 1: You're going to see a lot of this, although they're
Speaker 1: not going to bring down the billionaires because they're already
Speaker 1: well beyond the reach of government. They're already more powerful
Speaker 1: than the government in many cases. You talked about the
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley barons and Amazon dot Com. No, they're going
Speaker 1: to pull down people who are just beginning, are just
Speaker 1: beginning to enjoy the fruits of their labors. They're going
Speaker 1: to pull down the successful small businessman who maybe has
Speaker 1: been able to weather the pandemic so far, the lockdowns,
Speaker 1: everything else, but now needs to pay even more in taxes,
Speaker 1: even higher wages. They're going to pull down people that
Speaker 1: have been saving and saving and looking to buy that dream.
Speaker 1: How sorry, you got to pay more, pay your fair share.
Speaker 1: Remember that Biden is a product of the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: This is Omamaism two point zero. The only difference here
Speaker 1: is that Joe Biden came along promising unity, normalcy, and decency,
Speaker 1: and what we're going to get is leftism, government overreach,
Speaker 1: and freedom under assault. That's the expectation we should all
Speaker 1: have for the next four years. This is the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Speaker 1: What many Americans didn't see her had simply refused to see,
Speaker 1: couldn't be ignored any longer. Those eight minutes and forty
Speaker 1: six seconds that took George Floyd's life opened the eyes
Speaker 1: of millions of Americans and millions of people around all
Speaker 1: over the world. It was the knee on the neck
Speaker 1: of justice, and it wouldn't be forgotten. It stirred the
Speaker 1: conscious and of tens of millions of Americans, and in
Speaker 1: my view, it marked a turning point in this country's
Speaker 1: attitude towards racial justice. A turning point in our attitude
Speaker 1: toward racial justice, he says of the George Floyd death
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This could be a speech given by any
Speaker 1: member of the Democrat Party, including the most radical leftist
Speaker 1: with the Democrat Party. And this is coming from the
Speaker 1: President of the United States. Let's recall that one thing
Speaker 1: we were not allowed to see was the previous eight
Speaker 1: to ten minutes or so a video before the incident.
Speaker 1: We were showed a tape that was edited and without
Speaker 1: knowing the full context, you were unable to come to
Speaker 1: a clear conclusion about whether there was excessive force used
Speaker 1: in the incident. When someone is saying I can't breathe
Speaker 1: and you have your knee on them, it's understandable that
Speaker 1: you would immediately want to pull your knee off that person.
Speaker 1: But if someone has been saying they can't breathe for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, including when you're walking them around and not
Speaker 1: putting any pressure on them, that would change your calculation.
Speaker 1: This is just a fact. But we didn't see the
Speaker 1: full video. We didn't see the full video, and we
Speaker 1: also haven't been able to get clear answers on the
Speaker 1: from the corner on the toxicology report as to whether
Speaker 1: he died of a fanatal overdose. This is also something
Speaker 1: that is being It is going through the courts right now.
Speaker 1: That officer has been charged. He's been charged with murder,
Speaker 1: and this is playing out in the courts as I
Speaker 1: speak to you. But what exactly did we learn about
Speaker 1: racial justice from that incident? I'm curious what does Joe
Speaker 1: Biden think the answer is, because there are incidents involving
Speaker 1: law enforcement with people of all races where there sometimes
Speaker 1: can be a questionable use of force. What did we
Speaker 1: learn from it. Well, one thing that happened as a
Speaker 1: result of it is that there was a police station
Speaker 1: and burned down in Minnesota in Minneapolis, that there were
Speaker 1: riots all across the country, that people who had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with George Floyd, who have never done a
Speaker 1: racist thing in their lives, had to lose their businesses,
Speaker 1: had had their stores ransacked, had to be terrified walking
Speaker 1: down their own streets because a mob demanding racial justice
Speaker 1: thought that they had a right to do it. And
Speaker 1: people suffered, and the whole country suffered, and it is shameful.
Speaker 1: It is shameful that there were not greater consequences in
Speaker 1: the election for the party that was backing all of this.
Speaker 1: But the demagoguery and the narratives and the lies were powerful,
Speaker 1: and it was all about defeating Trump. Nothing else mattered. Right,
Speaker 1: The pandemic was Trump's fault. People are saying that the
Speaker 1: Netherlands is coming apart at the seams right now. They've
Speaker 1: got huge violent protests in the streets over lockdowns. But
Speaker 1: COVID was all Trump's fault. There were media groups, media
Speaker 1: outlets that were running with that for months. People would say,
Speaker 1: President Trump, they would put people on TV. President Trump
Speaker 1: is personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID.
Speaker 1: You go back and see it August, September, October twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: They were saying that all the time it was all
Speaker 1: Trump's fault. This was a lie. These people are liars.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I see. I sit here and tell
Speaker 1: you the President was wrong when he went too far
Speaker 1: with the election results and what he could prove. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that because I'm honest. Because now we know
Speaker 1: now there is no cracking, There was no you know,
Speaker 1: we understand. We know now now. That doesn't mean there
Speaker 1: wasn't fraud. Don't misunderstand me. It's just we couldn't get
Speaker 1: to a place where we could prove the degree of fraud,
Speaker 1: or weren't able to present the proof of the fraud
Speaker 1: in court. But that's how the system works. The Democrats
Speaker 1: never go back and say, yeah, we were wrong about
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, we probably shouldn't have encouraged mobs and
Speaker 1: riding all across the country for the whole summer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Blaming Trump for hundreds of thousands of COVID deaths is absurd, disingenuous,
Speaker 1: and really evil. But you know, he had to do
Speaker 1: what we had to do to win. They'll never say that.
Speaker 1: They just move on to the next one, move on
Speaker 1: to the next target. It's despicable what's going on this administration.
Speaker 1: These aren't These aren't good ethical people. Joe Biden, don't
Speaker 1: be fooled. He's not some good, warm and fuzzy guy
Speaker 1: you can count on. Look at what he's been doing
Speaker 1: since he's in office. He doesn't have to sign all
Speaker 1: these executive orders, he doesn't have to attack the fossil
Speaker 1: fuel in history like some giant, hypocritical fraud. But that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing because this is who democrats are. Whatever
Speaker 1: it takes for power, they're so certain that they're the
Speaker 1: ones that need to be in charge. At how they
Speaker 1: get there, it simply doesn't matter. As long as they
Speaker 1: beat you and me. Everything is justified to this. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Shoe podcast. Make sure you
Speaker 1: subscribe to the pie cast on the iHeart Radio app
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Look in the weeks ahead,
Speaker 1: I'll be reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity, equity,
Speaker 1: and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started
Speaker 1: in the Obama Biden administration. That's why I'm sending the
Speaker 1: previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and
Speaker 1: abolish the offensive counterfactual seventeen seventy six Commission Unity and
Speaker 1: Healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm also issued in an executive order that will ultimately
Speaker 1: end the Justice Department's use of private prisoners. Private prisons
Speaker 1: an industry that houses pretail detrainees and detainees and federal prisoners.
Speaker 1: The executive order directs the Attorney General to decline to
Speaker 1: renew contracts with privately operated criminal facilities, a step we
Speaker 1: started to take at the end of the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: There's so much going on here, and it's it's even
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep it straight in my own mind
Speaker 1: as I talk to you, because my head is exploding.
Speaker 1: Let's start with this. What do you want to bet
Speaker 1: Joe Biden hasn't even read the seventeen seventy six Commission report. Well,
Speaker 1: what would you want to bet? At this point, I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering. I would bet a large sum of money
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden hasn't even hasn't even read the executive
Speaker 1: summary hasn't read the first page, whether horror or harmful
Speaker 1: or harmful and real, counterfactual or murder. This is what
Speaker 1: you get at the Trojan horse presidency. Here it is,
Speaker 1: there's your horse seed, Joe Biden trotting it out in
Speaker 1: front of the gate and the American people, at least, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty one or fifty two percent of us
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, said, Yeah, bring that horse inside
Speaker 1: the gates. Didn't work out well for the Trojans, did it.
Speaker 1: This is what we got now. Oh yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: such a moderate as he's sitting here spewing the usual
Speaker 1: left wing talking points about diversity and inclusion and equity.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Does it mean the racial entitlement
Speaker 1: state expands? Because he should just be honest about that.
Speaker 1: Does he mean that now affirmative action, which was just
Speaker 1: on the precipice of being ruled unconstitutional the next time
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court looks at it, it's getting there. It
Speaker 1: already had Sander Day O'Connor in a decision years ago. Right,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to phase this out in like
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty years because it's really not constitutional. But
Speaker 1: we like it for right now, so we'll kind of
Speaker 1: just go with it. They know it's in trouble, but
Speaker 1: what do they do. They go in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: They're going to use the whole force of the state, now,
Speaker 1: all the different powers that the executive branch holds, to
Speaker 1: push this even further. And this is a violation. They
Speaker 1: think they're upholding the most basic standards of America and
Speaker 1: all of this, but they're actually violating things like the
Speaker 1: equal Protection Clause, equality under the law, hiring people, advancing people,
Speaker 1: punishing people. Do any of those things based on skin
Speaker 1: color or general identity or preference. Giving people benefits or
Speaker 1: punishments based upon those things is immoral. It's wrong. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to spend some time here on this
Speaker 1: show talking about political philosophy. We're gonna have to reformulate
Speaker 1: some of the arguments of the past to fit the present,
Speaker 1: because right now we are up against it. With his
Speaker 1: Biden presidency, he is going to push for eighty percent
Speaker 1: of what a Bernie Sanders presidency would have on social issues,
Speaker 1: on cultural issues, and even increasingly you'll see on many
Speaker 1: economic issues. Although the difference with Biden and the reason
Speaker 1: he won and I mean that the actual reason he
Speaker 1: won is that the big tech corporations and the Fortune
Speaker 1: one hundred companies run by now lib activists who have
Speaker 1: taken over institutions in many cases if they didn't found them,
Speaker 1: that are devoted to social justice. They're all on board
Speaker 1: for Biden because they're gonna stay rich and powerful. Amazon's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine no matter what the tax rate is,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it doesn't they don't really care, and they've
Speaker 1: got armies of attorneys to fight anything that comes up anyway.
Speaker 1: So Amazon is above the government fray, they don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. It's you, it's me. It's the
Speaker 1: people who are trying to have freedom, autonomy and build
Speaker 1: a better life for ourselves, for our children, for future generations.
Speaker 1: We're the ones that are gonna have to carry this
Speaker 1: yoke put on our shoulders by the Biden administration of
Speaker 1: excessive government regulation. And now what you're seeing is the
Speaker 1: cultural Marxism really coming out. You know they're gonna be
Speaker 1: They're gonna be applying critical race theory to public policy
Speaker 1: on all issues. And look at this, the Biden administration
Speaker 1: would is only possible, Joe Biden only one because he
Speaker 1: could count on minority voters. And that's even during the primary. Right,
Speaker 1: you go back and look at this, it was it
Speaker 1: was it was minority Democrat voters who pushed Joe Biden
Speaker 1: to the front of the line among other Democrats. And
Speaker 1: now Joe Biden's giving payback. He's going to be expanding
Speaker 1: all these directives and orders. And this is it's fundamentally wrong.
Speaker 1: They can sit around and talk about the history or
Speaker 1: how there's been discrimination in the past and all that,
Speaker 1: and that is true. And they can talk about how
Speaker 1: there's inequality today and that is true. But it is
Speaker 1: not the government's job, nor is it possible to create
Speaker 1: a perfect equality among human beings, and attempts to do
Speaker 1: so only exacerbate inequality and undermine the law in the process,
Speaker 1: and undermine the foundational ideals of our law, that where
Speaker 1: all human beings were equal in dignity and worth and
Speaker 1: merit in the eyes of the law and in the
Speaker 1: eyes of God. That doesn't mean that we all end
Speaker 1: up with the same stuff. That doesn't mean that we
Speaker 1: all get to have the same jobs or or achieve
Speaker 1: the same level. And that's the most obvious statement in
Speaker 1: the world. But Democrats use it, they exacerbate it. They
Speaker 1: they twist the knife a little bit more. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: being held down by other people. I'm I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say this. You know, you have you have these concepts
Speaker 1: that are making their way through the culture all over
Speaker 1: the place. You know, even with things like the body
Speaker 1: positivity movement, A body positivity movement, no that they they'll
Speaker 1: tell people who are and I'm not talking about luck.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know I got a few extra LB's
Speaker 1: on me. I mean, you know, nobody's perfect, right, that's
Speaker 1: that's just being a person who loves himself and understands
Speaker 1: you know you're not. But I'm talking about whaten it
Speaker 1: gets to be a real health issue. And you know,
Speaker 1: I have my insecurities. I know a lot of people listening.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know men and women. You know, guys
Speaker 1: never talk about their physical insecurities. But you know everybody's
Speaker 1: got their their sore points or things they wish would
Speaker 1: we're a little bit different about them, you know, a
Speaker 1: little taller, a little a little stronger, a little skinnier,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. But the body positivity movement is
Speaker 1: is just a symptom of this broader mindset. It tells
Speaker 1: you even if you are dangerously overweight for your health.
Speaker 1: The problem is not that you have a health problem,
Speaker 1: it's that society doesn't celebrate that. And you see this
Speaker 1: and then that same mentality just all You're gonna see
Speaker 1: this all throughout the Biden administration with everything. Why are
Speaker 1: people poor? Why are some areas suffering from high crime? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are systemic failures that we could talk about, but
Speaker 1: let's actually talk about them. Let's actually look at what's
Speaker 1: Why aren't public schools working? Why do some neighborhoods have
Speaker 1: higher crime? Did you say, well, there are some areas
Speaker 1: that have more problems and there are other places that don't.
Speaker 1: So let's just engage in a whole bunch of government
Speaker 1: tinkering without actually addressing what's going on, what's happening. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna make anything better. Right. You can put people
Speaker 1: on the cover of magazines who are dangerously I don't
Speaker 1: want to be clear. This is not an esthetic thing.
Speaker 1: This is a health thing, dangerously overweight, and as that
Speaker 1: somehow the problem is that society isn't celebrating this. You
Speaker 1: can tell people that, but we all know it's not true.
Speaker 1: But what it does is it tell some people it's
Speaker 1: not your fault, don't take personal agency, don't be in
Speaker 1: charge of your own destiny. It's other. Remember it's not
Speaker 1: even sympathy. Sympathy is fine. Sympathy for all kind, Sympathy
Speaker 1: for people that are struggling with addiction, that are in
Speaker 1: high crime neighborhoods that have come from broken family. Sympathy
Speaker 1: is a basic human necessity. You must be loving and
Speaker 1: supportive and kind to your family, human beings, or else
Speaker 1: what are you even doing here? But I'm talking about
Speaker 1: individual agency and responsibility. I'm talking about how we help
Speaker 1: empower people in our own communities and all across the
Speaker 1: country to live better, healthier, happier lives. And a first
Speaker 1: step in that is to convince everybody that it is
Speaker 1: in your control and there are not external forces that
Speaker 1: are all the cause of your frustrations and drawbacks and
Speaker 1: issues on an individual or community level. It is in
Speaker 1: fact in your hands to make positive change in your
Speaker 1: own life. I know this sounds a little bit like
Speaker 1: I'm doing a version of a self help radio show
Speaker 1: or something. You know, pay for everything in cash, don't
Speaker 1: ever use credit cards. You know I could do that
Speaker 1: for you too, you know, don't run up debt, payoff debt.
Speaker 1: I can do one of those shows. I trust me,
Speaker 1: I get all that stuff. But this is more important
Speaker 1: for us overall. I mean, I think it's necessary to
Speaker 1: understand that the way the Democrats, the way the left
Speaker 1: approaches everything is from a flawed understanding of human basics
Speaker 1: and essentials, of the way that individuals need to be
Speaker 1: making their own decisions and feeling agency and feeling responsibility
Speaker 1: for them. And be honest with yourself. One of the
Speaker 1: most important things. If I could go back in time
Speaker 1: and change one part of my mind mindset in my
Speaker 1: twenties and in and into my early thirties, even I
Speaker 1: would say, it would be hold yourself accountable and self correct. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean beat yourself up. It doesn't mean, you know,
Speaker 1: be overly harsh. It means what is true about what's
Speaker 1: going on? Am I a good you know, son, brother?
Speaker 1: Am I a good employee? Am I a good in
Speaker 1: my case you know boyfriend? Am I a good friend?
Speaker 1: To people? That's just shoubulate account of me and really
Speaker 1: think about these things. You know, Am I as healthy
Speaker 1: as I should be? A am I as productive as
Speaker 1: I should be? And this you're getting now to the center,
Speaker 1: to the essence of what it is to have a
Speaker 1: conservative mindset at America today, because ultimately it is on
Speaker 1: each of us as individuals. The collective, which is what
Speaker 1: Biden and the left are offering up now, is we
Speaker 1: will be in charge, and we will treat you as
Speaker 1: a member of a group, and then it will all
Speaker 1: be Everything that we're doing is based upon what group
Speaker 1: you fall into, and in the aggregate, some of you
Speaker 1: will be better off, others of you won't. But we
Speaker 1: decide what's fair and what's not. How far is that
Speaker 1: relief from the mentality of the politboro in the Soviet Union. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Biden has Soviet level powers and we're
Speaker 1: not all going to gulags. I'm not crazy. But if
Speaker 1: you're looking at the underlying mentality we talk about things
Speaker 1: like cultural Marxism, me talk about collectivism. They're looking at
Speaker 1: people as members of groups. They're not treating them as individuals.
Speaker 1: There are consequences that come with that. There's an undermining
Speaker 1: of the rule of law. Their belief, of their belief
Speaker 1: in fairness is that there are people who are so
Speaker 1: above the rest of us in their conception of what
Speaker 1: is necessary for society to be fair, that they should
Speaker 1: just have the right to make those decisions and balance
Speaker 1: it out as they see fit. Do you trust any
Speaker 1: human being with that kind of power. The Biden administration
Speaker 1: is going to be pushing this. This will be central
Speaker 1: because this has been a major project of the cultural
Speaker 1: and political left in America for the last sixty years
Speaker 1: to create a country where we are no longer individuals,
Speaker 1: we are part of a collective, where socialism is no
Speaker 1: longer a dirty word, and where lectures about diversity and
Speaker 1: inclusion and all these very amorphous and constantly shifting concepts
Speaker 1: are out there and we're never really able to pin
Speaker 1: down what do you what what does this mean, and
Speaker 1: how does this apply? And what are the underlying principles.
Speaker 1: It's just diversity and inclusion. Lots of flowery language about this,
Speaker 1: and then it's well, we're going to only give money
Speaker 1: from the federal government to certain groups. We're going to
Speaker 1: prioritize certain minority groups for the vaccine. Remember that discussion
Speaker 1: in the New York Times. Democrats were trying that for
Speaker 1: a little bit and then it faded away. That was
Speaker 1: a little too egregious. But Biden said in a recent speech.
Speaker 1: They're going to focus their federal relief efforts for COVID
Speaker 1: on minorities and communities of color, as if this isn't
Speaker 1: just an America problem where lots of people, including minorities
Speaker 1: and communities of color, of course, are suffering terribly, and
Speaker 1: they're suffering because morons like Biden told them that the
Speaker 1: government would make it all better. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lesson there. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow
Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. But you know we've
Speaker 1: all seen, of course, the transmission. It's just not happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, in Chicago, the teachers union voted this weekend
Speaker 1: to continue remote learning. They were about to open town
Speaker 1: of Montclair, New Jersey. This story came across public schools
Speaker 1: were scheduled to reopen for hybrid learning for elementary school kids.
Speaker 1: It would be a first day of going to school
Speaker 1: in person since March of last year, ten months, but
Speaker 1: then they scraped plans at the last minute after the
Speaker 1: local teachers union refused to return to classrooms. Brown, why
Speaker 1: do you think that the unions in many cases are
Speaker 1: overruling what the studies show. I don't think unions are
Speaker 1: over ruling studies. I think what you're seeing as schools
Speaker 1: that haven't made the investments to keep the students safe.
Speaker 1: I mean again, the Wisconsin city were classrooms of twelve
Speaker 1: on average, So that requires a lot more classrooms, a
Speaker 1: lot more teachers, or you know, other kinds of arrangements
Speaker 1: to get them small potting students very carefully. So we
Speaker 1: need to do the things to open safely. Most of
Speaker 1: the teachers I talk to they want to be back
Speaker 1: in the classroom that they just want to know that
Speaker 1: it's safe, and we as a country should make the
Speaker 1: investments to make it safe. It's safe, it has always
Speaker 1: been safe. The data has always shown that it is safe.
Speaker 1: But the teachers unions run the Democrat Party effectively, so
Speaker 1: Biden's chief of staff won't cross them. It's very clear
Speaker 1: there was a choice here to side with millions of
Speaker 1: children across the country who have been denied the right
Speaker 1: to learn, to grow, to develop, to be with their peers,
Speaker 1: to escape the psychological prisons they are put in by
Speaker 1: being denied those normal lives, or to side with the
Speaker 1: teachers unions that at the end of the day want
Speaker 1: more investments, which is a code word for money from
Speaker 1: the taxpayer for whatever the heck they want to spend
Speaker 1: it on. Now they're saying filtration systems for the air
Speaker 1: or some nonsense, really, so that the teachers unions members
Speaker 1: can zoom from their couch and order Uber eats while
Speaker 1: they're quote teaching. That's what's really going on here. We
Speaker 1: all see it, we all know it. This is your
Speaker 1: new Biden administration, same as the old Obama administration, isn't
Speaker 1: it very similar approach to everything? And Biden is, as
Speaker 1: I've pointed out, a product of that administration. So why
Speaker 1: should this be in the least bit surprising. Yeah, teachers
Speaker 1: unions get what they want. Kids get left out in
Speaker 1: the cold, or in this case, left at home to
Speaker 1: be miserable and its cases near suicidal because they've had
Speaker 1: almost a year now of being stuck with stressed out
Speaker 1: parents who don't who aren't able to, you know, make
Speaker 1: this better for them. There's no social interaction for these kids.
Speaker 1: They at a critical stage of development and it's being
Speaker 1: stripped from them by lazy, cowardly, self indulgent adults who
Speaker 1: make bad policy decisions and then double down on it afterwards.
Speaker 1: That's what you're seeing here. The schools never should have closed.
Speaker 1: The fact that we're still even having a conversation about this,
Speaker 1: and that the Biden White House is backing this up
Speaker 1: just shows you how corrupt, disingenuous, and grotesque the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party is. When they say it's about the children, what
Speaker 1: they mean is it's about the adults who pretend it's
Speaker 1: about the children, and they just hope they can fool
Speaker 1: enough Americans so there are no political consequences for this.
Speaker 1: The schools should be open. They should have been opened
Speaker 1: all along. We all know it, but not to Biden
Speaker 1: White House, not Chief of sta Ron Klain. No, it's
Speaker 1: about investments. You see, more of your money for the teachers' unions.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show Podcast. Join the conversation
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Speaker 1: If we are about to try to impeach a president,
Speaker 1: where is the chief justice? If the accused is no
Speaker 1: longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him?
Speaker 1: Private citizens don't get impeached. Impeachment is for removal from office,
Speaker 1: and the accused here has already left office. Hyperpartisan Democrats
Speaker 1: are about to drag our great country down into the
Speaker 1: gutter of rancor and vitriol, the likes of which has
Speaker 1: never been seen in our nation's history. Instead of doing
Speaker 1: the nation's work with their new majorities in the House,
Speaker 1: the Senate, and the executive branch, Democrats are wasting the
Speaker 1: nation's time on a partisan DTA against a man no
Speaker 1: longer in office. It's almost as if they have no
Speaker 1: ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump. Without
Speaker 1: him as their boogeyman, they might have to legislate and
Speaker 1: to actually convince Americans that their policy prescriptions are the
Speaker 1: right one. Democrats are about to do something no self
Speaker 1: respecting senator has ever stooped to. Democrats are insisting the
Speaker 1: election is actually not over, and so they insist on
Speaker 1: regurgitating the bitterness of the election. Rand Paul on fire.
Speaker 1: Look at the senator from Kentucky lightening up in Congress,
Speaker 1: just dropping truth bombs, doing what he's got to do.
Speaker 1: What the heck is this all about? You know, the
Speaker 1: Democrats did this before, Remember with Nancy Pelosi almost exactly
Speaker 1: a year ago. I remember, right before the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: Pelosi was playing this game where she was demanding that
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, as sentiment jority leader at that time, change
Speaker 1: the rules to fit Pelosi's whim or else she wouldn't
Speaker 1: transmit the articles of impeachment. And the whole thing was absurd.
Speaker 1: They knew they weren't going to have the votes, they
Speaker 1: knew it wasn't going to be closed. So what's the
Speaker 1: point of it? Why do it? And they're doing it again.
Speaker 1: Trump has broken these people. They are emotionally, they are
Speaker 1: psychologically unwell because of the Trump presidency, and they haven't
Speaker 1: all of a sudden been cured because he's no longer president.
Speaker 1: That much is obvious. This is why they want to
Speaker 1: continue to drag this out. This is why they will
Speaker 1: not let this go, even though there's nothing, nothing to support.
Speaker 1: If their real goal is unity, this is laughable. And
Speaker 1: even if their goal is accountability, how will it force
Speaker 1: accountability to hold a vote that won't end up doing
Speaker 1: anything against President Trump? What's the former president Trump? Of course?
Speaker 1: What's that going to achieve? Nothing? This is spiteful, it's vindictive,
Speaker 1: it is childish. Democrats won the presidential election, and we
Speaker 1: can all complain about it. We can hold our own
Speaker 1: theories and our own beliefs about it. That's fine, But
Speaker 1: Joe Biden as president. They won, and now we are
Speaker 1: living in an America where the people in power are
Speaker 1: somehow it seems almost even angrier than when they were
Speaker 1: out of power. They're certainly more willing to take actions
Speaker 1: like this. They're happy to do it, to bring a
Speaker 1: second impeachment against the president, against former President Trump, it's
Speaker 1: an absurdity. But they are also, I believe, trying to
Speaker 1: show their base exactly what this Biden presidency's going to
Speaker 1: be all about. Even Lindsay Graham is willing to say
Speaker 1: at this stage. Now you know, I know, Lindsay He's
Speaker 1: probably gonna appear on Fox News any minute telling us
Speaker 1: he get to the bottom of the Russia collusion case
Speaker 1: or whatever. He's sure he is. But here he is
Speaker 1: telling everybody that Biden's a disappointment, and he's right. Play
Speaker 1: ten and Joe Biden's been a huge disappointment thus for
Speaker 1: not only on policy but on the idea that I'm
Speaker 1: going to bring the country together. How easy would it be,
Speaker 1: Sean for Joe Biden to say it is bad to
Speaker 1: impeach a president after they leave office. Enough already with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, let's look forward. So it tells you a
Speaker 1: lot about Biden's ability and desire to bring us together
Speaker 1: by the fact that he's sitting on the sidelines and
Speaker 1: his only comment has been I don't think they have
Speaker 1: the votes. They don't have the votes. So what's this
Speaker 1: all about. What's the point, what's the purpose? Why go
Speaker 1: through this charade? Well, Democrats have Trump's arrangement syndrome, but
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's calls for unity didn't even last a week before.
Speaker 1: It was laughable. I mean, none of us believed it
Speaker 1: from the outset, but now it's demonstrable. It's it's clear,
Speaker 1: it's provable to anybody who's paying attention that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has no interest whatsoever in unity, simply wants to toss
Speaker 1: some red meat into the cage of rage filled leftists
Speaker 1: snarling over the prospect of one more chance to go
Speaker 1: after Orange Man bad. That's amazing how much somebody who
Speaker 1: comes along, who does not bow to them and is
Speaker 1: not afraid of them upsets them. That was really Trump's
Speaker 1: greatest sin of all, wasn't it that he just said, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not scared of you. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to allow the left wing machine to dictate how I speak,
Speaker 1: what I say, and what I do. Now, that's not
Speaker 1: to say that Trump wasn't sometimes badly served by his
Speaker 1: own advisors and made some decisions that I disagree with.
Speaker 1: But he didn't bend the knee to the left when
Speaker 1: they demanded it. And that alone was a revolutionary act
Speaker 1: in America today, just to say no, you can say
Speaker 1: the worst imaginable things about me, and they did about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. They said the worst things possible, A traitor,
Speaker 1: a rapist, a criminal, crazy, they said everything, and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep on coming and keep on fighting.
Speaker 1: And now they have to try to destroy the memory
Speaker 1: of that because do you know what their greatest fear is,
Speaker 1: And I've been thinking about this for some time now.
Speaker 1: The greatest fear of the Democrats have is not that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will come back. It's that Trump's central point
Speaker 1: of defiance against the left wing machinery will metastasize throughout
Speaker 1: our society. It will spread all over the place. People
Speaker 1: will realize, Hold on a second, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be this way. I don't have to live in fear
Speaker 1: of saying one thing that upsets the woke left. I
Speaker 1: don't have to obey their dictates and repeat things that
Speaker 1: they say are true that I know are untrue on
Speaker 1: fear of losing my livelihood or losing the respect of
Speaker 1: the public being destroyed. If that idea were to spread
Speaker 1: further all across America, that would be very, very damaging
Speaker 1: for the wokeness, for the left, And that's their greatest fear,
Speaker 1: is that everybody will see Hold on a second. If
Speaker 1: Trump can stand up to this, who else can? And
Speaker 1: not just one person this time around? How many other
Speaker 1: people all across the country are in a position. Not
Speaker 1: everyone's in the position. And make no mistake about it,
Speaker 1: there as some people out there who are listening to
Speaker 1: this who may be saying, you know, buck, if I
Speaker 1: if I poke my head above the above the fence
Speaker 1: line here, if I step out of line, I might
Speaker 1: lose my job. I might my kids might be harassed
Speaker 1: in school, you know. To them, I say, don't charge
Speaker 1: the machine gun nests without a plan. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be everyone. Look at what Trump
Speaker 1: was able to do. Now he's also a famous billionaire,
Speaker 1: I get it. But one person was able to have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of impact on this conversation, how many
Speaker 1: of the rest of us are able to do so.
Speaker 1: If it spreads, it becomes a much bigger problem for
Speaker 1: the left, and that's why they have to impeach and
Speaker 1: impeach and impeach. That's why they have to keep the
Speaker 1: pressure on. They want a collapse of that basic trump
Speaker 1: ethos of I will fight back. That's they're they're fondness
Speaker 1: of the left just wants us to go to go
Speaker 1: to a place where they get to do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: And we say, wow, that's really unfair, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're cheating or they're they're really nasty and they have
Speaker 1: double standards, they're hypocrites. But but you know, we play nice.
Speaker 1: If we do that, the country continues, it's lurched towards
Speaker 1: the left. We end up in a collectivist state of
Speaker 1: national disrepair, and we become a cautionary tale in centuries
Speaker 1: to come. I know we don't usually talk about timelines
Speaker 1: in that way, but you know, we are the fall
Speaker 1: of Rome, so to speak. We are a nation and
Speaker 1: a people that will will not continue as we are,
Speaker 1: will become something else, weaker and able to be dissolved
Speaker 1: from within. Because what holds us together so we can
Speaker 1: stand up and fight against this, or we can just
Speaker 1: accept that the Left gets to make make its dictates reality.
Speaker 1: And that's also why there's so much pressure in the
Speaker 1: realm of speech right now. That's why the First Amendment
Speaker 1: is under such sustained assault. Tulsi Gabberd was on Tucker
Speaker 1: Show last night talking about this play too. It isn't
Speaker 1: simply government officials in our intel and law enforce agencies.
Speaker 1: It's also private businesses. It's these giant tech monopolies. What
Speaker 1: can the rest of us do to protect ourselves to
Speaker 1: keep free speech alive in a moment when it's being
Speaker 1: crushed all around us. First of all, keep speaking. I
Speaker 1: think this is the most important thing at a time
Speaker 1: when there is so much fear and threats, and the
Speaker 1: kind of fomenting of fear that we're seeing coming from
Speaker 1: the likes of John Brennan. Take a stand. We must
Speaker 1: all take a stand and unite around these principles in
Speaker 1: our constitution and continue to speak freely, whether it be
Speaker 1: in person, on the street corner or on these virtual
Speaker 1: public squares, these town squares that exist online. You know,
Speaker 1: big tech is culpable in this in that they are
Speaker 1: using their monopolistic power to pick and choose whose voices
Speaker 1: are heard and whose voices are squelched, whether it's based
Speaker 1: on who they agree with, disagree with, political affiliation, who
Speaker 1: you voted for, or whatever. I think there are alternative platforms.
Speaker 1: I've got one on Tulsi dot locals dot com. It's
Speaker 1: a place where people can come and speak freely and
Speaker 1: have open dialogue and conversation around different issues based on
Speaker 1: respect and this appreciation for our constitutional rights and freedoms.
Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbert of Hawaii is a really interesting political figure
Speaker 1: in this moment in American history, and it's because you
Speaker 1: know why so many Democrats hate her because she doesn't
Speaker 1: hate Republicans. That's not allowed. She doesn't agree with Republicans,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't hate them. She does not despise Trump voters.
Speaker 1: She does not despise people on the right who have
Speaker 1: a different view of policy and governance. She actually talks
Speaker 1: to them, she tries to explain her point of view.
Speaker 1: That's not allow that's really anathema to the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to do that. It's crush, destroy control.
Speaker 1: That's what you're seeing with the social media companies We've
Speaker 1: gone from them pretending they were not censoring to promising
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't censor so in such a part as
Speaker 1: in fashion, to yeah, we're a bunch of part As
Speaker 1: an activist, what are you gonna do about it? That's
Speaker 1: been the transformation of the tech monopoly approach to free
Speaker 1: speech in America. What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 1: That's what they're telling you. We don't have a very
Speaker 1: good answer yet, but we should at least understand where
Speaker 1: we stand. And Tulsei Gabbard and Tucker they're having that conversation,
Speaker 1: making it clear to everybody that this is only going
Speaker 1: to get worse until we can finally have enough of
Speaker 1: an opposition to this that they feel there's a downside,
Speaker 1: there's enough of an opposition of this where they will
Speaker 1: feel the pain in a business sense and they'll stop.
Speaker 1: And that means that we're going to have to do.
Speaker 1: There's a whole movement that has to be built here
Speaker 1: among conservatives to oppose this stuff. It's going to take time,
Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot of effort, but that's
Speaker 1: the only way. Otherwise it's render Otherwise it's Romneyism. I
Speaker 1: know what side of this I stand on. I know
Speaker 1: what side of it you stand on.