Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz? How dairy? How dairy? This is supposed to
Speaker 1: be one of the biggest news stories in the country
Speaker 1: right now, and it's an example of so many things.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a silly story that is being made
Speaker 1: into something not silly at all. It's being used for
Speaker 1: reasons that we do have to address, and we will.
Speaker 1: Here's the long and the short of it. The senator
Speaker 1: from Texas went for a brief, I think two day
Speaker 1: trip to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico, which is
Speaker 1: not all that far from Houston. He went for a
Speaker 1: trip to Mexico to get away from the cold and
Speaker 1: the terrible storm and the power outages and the free
Speaker 1: temperatures and everything that have been in Texas now. If
Speaker 1: he were the governor of Texas, if he were the
Speaker 1: mayor of Houston, if you were a state senator or
Speaker 1: assemblyman or whatever, if you were the local dog catcher,
Speaker 1: I might understand people viewing this as some kind of
Speaker 1: dereliction of duty. He's a United States Senator, his power
Speaker 1: is all based in the federal government in DC. What
Speaker 1: exactly is the awful crime here? I'm seeing Republicans that
Speaker 1: are piling on. Does it look good? No, it doesn't
Speaker 1: look good. I understand the optics of this are you know,
Speaker 1: you stand with your people as a politician, but some
Speaker 1: of us recognize that that's also just not true. Politicians
Speaker 1: actually live in mansions, they fly private They don't really
Speaker 1: suffer the way the rest of us suffer as much
Speaker 1: as they pretend they do. They don't. We're all going
Speaker 1: to have big boy and big girl conversations about this,
Speaker 1: because that's how we roll on this show. Okay, whether
Speaker 1: it's Nancy Loosie, John Kerry or Ted Cruise or Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney or Donald Trump, they're not dealing with the same
Speaker 1: old nonsense you and I are day in and day out.
Speaker 1: So we shouldn't we shouldn't allow anyone to go through
Speaker 1: the pretense that that's not what's happening here. Okay. Oh,
Speaker 1: the other thing is they said that he left the poodle. Now, look,
Speaker 1: you guys know I love dogs. I love dogs. But
Speaker 1: the poodle was apparently tended by a guard at their
Speaker 1: fancy part of fancy house and a part of Houston,
Speaker 1: so there was someone there to tend to the poodle,
Speaker 1: and I believe on the day in question, the weather
Speaker 1: was more like in the forties, so as long as
Speaker 1: the poodle's indoors, it probably would be just fine, and
Speaker 1: there's someone there to watch I think. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: cruises didn't want to leave their poodle to freeze, but
Speaker 1: that got a lot of attention to do. People were
Speaker 1: tweeting it Peta and segment, this is animal cruelty. So
Speaker 1: why am I telling you about this? Why are we
Speaker 1: even talking about it? There are two things going on here.
Speaker 1: One and this is a lesser issue, but one that
Speaker 1: I think we still need to spend some time on.
Speaker 1: Why do Republicans still think that it's worth throwing their
Speaker 1: own under the bus for a pad on the head
Speaker 1: from the Libs, even when it's obvious that it's a
Speaker 1: political thing that's playing out. Why do Republicans still take
Speaker 1: the position, you know, if we just throw if we
Speaker 1: just throw ted cruise under the bus on this one,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look like people who have principles. Why didn't
Speaker 1: the Democrats do that? You need the Democrats call out,
Speaker 1: you know, John Kerry for his hypocrisy when he flies
Speaker 1: private to go get an award at a climate change conference. No,
Speaker 1: we have to do that. They don't eat their own.
Speaker 1: We leave. We somehow think that that's a strategy that's
Speaker 1: going to be effective. And I don't know what is
Speaker 1: accomplished by this. Republicans need to understand the game they're in.
Speaker 1: The battle they're in right now. The other side, the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party is trying to destroy the GOP. They're trying
Speaker 1: to make it a permanent minority. They're trying to make
Speaker 1: sure that the GOP in my lifetime never has power again.
Speaker 1: They're making structural changes to our system, to our country,
Speaker 1: to our demographics. They are going for it. That's what's
Speaker 1: happening right now. And we think that we're gonna what
Speaker 1: Curry favor with them. We're going to get some good
Speaker 1: faith because we decide that Ted Cruz going to Cancoon
Speaker 1: for a couple of days doesn't look good. I mean,
Speaker 1: did he break a law? Is there any ethics violation?
Speaker 1: Did he? No? I don't think so. Is there some
Speaker 1: rule that I'm not aware of that you have to
Speaker 1: stay in place when there's essentially a natural disaster. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in Texas. This is a this ice storm,
Speaker 1: this extreme temperature, extreme freeze is like a natural disaster.
Speaker 1: Are you supposed to stay in place just because you're
Speaker 1: a member of the federal government, You're just supposed to
Speaker 1: stay wherever you are? I mean, I wonder, really is
Speaker 1: that the new rule. I also think it's it's funny
Speaker 1: that there are so many people in the news media,
Speaker 1: specifically in New York, who are jumping all over ted
Speaker 1: Cruz on this one. And I know that they went
Speaker 1: out to the Hamptons, which is one of the ritziest,
Speaker 1: most expensive, fanciest places in the whole country. They went
Speaker 1: out to the Hampton's. Oh yes, when COVID was ravaging
Speaker 1: New York, and when BLM riders that they were encouraging
Speaker 1: were terrifying this city and acting like total barbarians on
Speaker 1: the streets, destroying windows, looting stores, when Antifa was going
Speaker 1: block to block, engaged in destruction and intimidation like the
Speaker 1: vandals they are. There were all these very wealthy libs
Speaker 1: who are all in favor of justice, of social justice,
Speaker 1: and they went right out to the Hamptons, which is
Speaker 1: about a two hour drive from New York City out
Speaker 1: to the beach. They're beautiful mansions there. They didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it. Yeah, that's right, that's what they did.
Speaker 1: But were they were they supposed to sit and suffer
Speaker 1: with all the rest of us during a global pandemic.
Speaker 1: They didn't think so. But Ted Cruise is the bad guy.
Speaker 1: That's one part of it. So Republicans stop throwing other
Speaker 1: Republicans under the bus and thinking you're going to get
Speaker 1: something out of it. From the other side, they laugh
Speaker 1: at you. I actually think that Ted Cruise deserves criticism
Speaker 1: here for one thing, and one thing only apologizing. Why
Speaker 1: what is he apologizing for? What did he do wrong?
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could say that they should have
Speaker 1: made sure that little fruf rule whatever, the doggie was
Speaker 1: nice and warm and safe. But they don't have to
Speaker 1: stay in Houston while there's there's an extreme temperature situation there.
Speaker 1: That's not a requirement. And I know it's you could
Speaker 1: say it's not fair, and maybe it's better to stay
Speaker 1: with your people and stick it out with them and
Speaker 1: everything else. But a lot of things are not fair.
Speaker 1: You know, I could tell you this. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of times when I wish that I had a house
Speaker 1: to go to a place in the Berkshires or a
Speaker 1: place in Florida or something. When the pandemic was ravaging
Speaker 1: New York City, I was stuck here. I was here
Speaker 1: the whole time. Everyone was watching hospital ships floating up
Speaker 1: the river and hospital tents getting set up in the
Speaker 1: park where I grew up, playing Sports Central Park here
Speaker 1: in New York. There was no sense of everyone has
Speaker 1: to stay, and that you had four hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: fled New York City. Everybody who could get out got out,
Speaker 1: but ted cruise in cancou And that's the real problem.
Speaker 1: You know. The bigger issue is here, though, and I'm
Speaker 1: backloading this a little bit. I should have gotten this sooner.
Speaker 1: But the bigger issue here is how the media sees
Speaker 1: is on this, and it is a great distraction technique
Speaker 1: because they've trained their audience. They have the libs that
Speaker 1: Democrats have been trained that Trump hatred is their daily
Speaker 1: intellectual diet. Right, what are they fed by the news media?
Speaker 1: Trump hatred? Trump is awful. Trump supporters are terrible, and
Speaker 1: that's more difficult to manufacture now that he's not president anymore,
Speaker 1: down in Florida playing golf, hanging out. But Ted Cruise
Speaker 1: is one of the next best options they can come
Speaker 1: up with. So this allows them to focus on Ted Cruise.
Speaker 1: This is all about distraction. Focus on Ted so you
Speaker 1: don't focus on Oge. I don't know the Cuomo disaster,
Speaker 1: which keeps getting worse all the time. Governor Cuomo in
Speaker 1: New York now has a there's a watchdog group that's
Speaker 1: making an allegation. I mean they have an analysis, They
Speaker 1: have the data that says that Cuomo costs hundreds, maybe
Speaker 1: even a thousand people to die in nursing homes who
Speaker 1: would not have were it not for his order to
Speaker 1: send COVID positive patients in the nursing homes. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal, isn't it. This is the Democrats hero
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, really second only to Fauci, And we're
Speaker 1: not given up until we expose the truth about that
Speaker 1: little tyrant. But there are other stories too. They don't
Speaker 1: want to focus on what's going on at the border
Speaker 1: right now. What's the Bide administration planning for immigration policy
Speaker 1: in this country? Well, effectively that there will be no
Speaker 1: immigration enforcement, that the border will be de facto open.
Speaker 1: That's what's actually happening. That's what's actually going on. I
Speaker 1: don't want you thinking about that. That don't want you
Speaker 1: talking about it. They'd rather have you focused on Ted Cruz.
Speaker 1: I knew we get to reopen the country. Why can't
Speaker 1: we just go back to normal life after we've been vaccinated?
Speaker 1: Someone want to explain that, anyone really want to? Oh,
Speaker 1: because of the there's still a possibility, it's a very
Speaker 1: small one. So now we're not allowed to we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to be free of the COVID mitigation stupidities and
Speaker 1: tyrannies because there's a very very small possibility of a
Speaker 1: bad thing happening. These are the real issues right now,
Speaker 1: is the real things that are going on. And also
Speaker 1: I think the increasing recognition that anyone paying attention is
Speaker 1: having that Joe Biden wasn't up for this job before
Speaker 1: he became president, and he's not up for this job
Speaker 1: since he became president, and the institutional left, the apparatus
Speaker 1: of the Democrat Party around him, is really calling the shots,
Speaker 1: and it is a progressive lunatic party. That's why you
Speaker 1: have this Green New Deal pushed that's why you have
Speaker 1: the open borders activity. That's where all this is coming from.
Speaker 1: And Biden's just going to rubber stamp it. He's just
Speaker 1: along for the ride. Just you know, give him a
Speaker 1: sippy cup, throw a blanket over his knees and tell
Speaker 1: him that will get him some mittens if his hands
Speaker 1: are cold. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow
Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Why forward a farce? Now?
Speaker 1: That takes us to a farce in full effect? Flying
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, He's been totally shamed, exposed for going full
Speaker 1: Trump that means lying about leaving Texas for Mexico to
Speaker 1: avoid the cold and avoid his duty to the Texans
Speaker 1: he serves, and then denying what he obviously did, despite
Speaker 1: tonight being outed by his wife. What is going on here?
Speaker 1: You have the brother of the COVID tyrant of New
Speaker 1: York going on TV calling out Ted Cruise and now
Speaker 1: I understand. Look, I don't care what my job is,
Speaker 1: I don't care what money's on the table. I don't
Speaker 1: care about Yet I would never never publicly criticize one
Speaker 1: of my brothers, one of my family members. So I
Speaker 1: actually can I actually can get to handle that Okay,
Speaker 1: I can, but I don't think anybody who's watching Chris
Speaker 1: Cuomo can come away from this thinking anything other than Okay,
Speaker 1: So this guy is gonna make a big deal. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do the whole pearl clutching and performative outrage over
Speaker 1: ted Cruise going on a family getaway to Cancun. And
Speaker 1: yet he's not going to talk about the fact. And
Speaker 1: I understand why, but it does affect the credibility of
Speaker 1: him as a newsman that his brother was the worst
Speaker 1: COVID disaster in terms of leadership in the entire country
Speaker 1: of the last twelve months, no question. The guy that
Speaker 1: he was having on for like a variety show and
Speaker 1: they had the big you know, the big thing to
Speaker 1: the nostril or whatever. Remember that they was all, ha ha,
Speaker 1: this is while COVID was killing thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: people in New York. And this is one of the
Speaker 1: constructs the left would always deploy if they if you
Speaker 1: started talking about something while Trump was was in office,
Speaker 1: he started talking about anything that they didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about or they didn't like, it was, oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna discuss you know, how Trump got a
Speaker 1: hole in one on the golf course while people are
Speaker 1: dying of COVID. That was always the construct, right, the
Speaker 1: same thing at CNN would do, which is the big
Speaker 1: you know, blasting the number of death the number of
Speaker 1: deaths on the screen every day for COVID. And then
Speaker 1: when Biden comes into office and we can settle that
Speaker 1: down a little bit. I think they've had it back
Speaker 1: sometimes here and there, but it's not the same. I mean,
Speaker 1: they really were trying to make it seem like we
Speaker 1: were living through the movie twenty eight days later. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen that, but just terrify everybody.
Speaker 1: We're living through a horror film because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And and here's what I'm I'm not going to let
Speaker 1: this go. There is nothing that Joe Biden has done
Speaker 1: has made anything better. There's not a single decision you
Speaker 1: can point to with regard to COVID. Remember one hundred
Speaker 1: days of Maskinghoever, we have a hundred days of masking,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do it. We're gonna mask for a
Speaker 1: hundred days. That's that's that's putting on a mask, no
Speaker 1: joke for not ten days, not fifty. One hundred days
Speaker 1: of masking. So good old Joe Biden's gonna do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna listen to science for one hundred days. I don't
Speaker 1: know what we're gonna listen to one hundred and first day,
Speaker 1: something else, maybe a nice jazz too. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: Nothing he has done since becoming president can you point
Speaker 1: to and say, oh, wow, that really has made things better.
Speaker 1: They've really improved, They've really made us safer. No, In fact,
Speaker 1: if anything, you can look at it and say that
Speaker 1: they are always having to lower the bar. They're always
Speaker 1: having to convince people that they're doing a better job
Speaker 1: than they did right, or they're doing a better job
Speaker 1: than they are. They're in the perception management game, not
Speaker 1: the stopping COVID game. Look, the experts, they don't want
Speaker 1: you to think about this. They don't want you to
Speaker 1: come to the very obvious conclusion. The people who told
Speaker 1: you that putting us all through misery, all this anxiety,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, the people who told you that that
Speaker 1: was going to save a lot of lives lied and
Speaker 1: they were wrong. That's it. Lockdowns failed. It's not just
Speaker 1: me saying it now. It's Governor Ron to Santa's to Florida,
Speaker 1: It's people who have seen the numbers, who have had
Speaker 1: to make the big decisions, lockdowns failed failed. Now they
Speaker 1: can argue until they're blue in the face on the
Speaker 1: lockdown or side about how, oh you know, the numbers
Speaker 1: would have been so much higher. Yeah, look around at
Speaker 1: what's gone on, Look at different states, look at the timelines,
Speaker 1: mass mandate business closures. How did it make any difference whatsoever?
Speaker 1: We had months and months and months of lead time,
Speaker 1: with all kinds of social distancing and mitigation, everything in place,
Speaker 1: and then we just had right on schedule an explosion
Speaker 1: of cases during the winter season, as was always the concern,
Speaker 1: and now here we are seventy percent. You got new
Speaker 1: cases down seventy percent the last month. It's going away.
Speaker 1: It's going away. It's not gone, We're not safe and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Right, I'm not saying that this is
Speaker 1: this is no longer a concern, but it is. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, if something drops seventy percent and keeps going
Speaker 1: down and down and down, isn't it accurate to say
Speaker 1: it's going away? I don't know how long. But now
Speaker 1: we have to have the fight with them about we
Speaker 1: need to go back to normal life. No more masking,
Speaker 1: no more social distancing. We need to have an agreement
Speaker 1: as a society. Enough is enough. We are going to
Speaker 1: live our lives again. We're going to be normal human
Speaker 1: beings again. We're not going to let these abject morons
Speaker 1: who have been in charge for so long and who
Speaker 1: have been terrifying everybody, and who get everything wrong. Fauci's
Speaker 1: the best example, but there are thousands of them across
Speaker 1: the country. We're not going to let them continue to
Speaker 1: just be in a constant state of pedicat fere and
Speaker 1: oh my god, no, we want our lives back. Enough.
Speaker 1: The little pettititotalitarians running around should be ashamed, ashamed of
Speaker 1: what they've done to this country, ashamed of how wrong
Speaker 1: they've been. You know, I haven't gotten anyet and not
Speaker 1: a single apology from all the people said you just
Speaker 1: want the children to die in schools. You're just you're
Speaker 1: undermining masking by saying they're going to double mask. These
Speaker 1: are all things people come at me with. No, I
Speaker 1: was just right. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: act or wherever you get your podcasts. Unless we hold
Speaker 1: those responsible accountable for what they did. And yes, that
Speaker 1: means Donald Trump, but it also means the junior senator
Speaker 1: from the state of Texas, who I understand is vacationing
Speaker 1: in Cancun right now when people are literally freezing to
Speaker 1: death in the state that he was elected to represent
Speaker 1: and serve. When Ted Cruz helps to incite that sedition,
Speaker 1: seeks to overturn a lawfully, legitimately democratically decided election, he
Speaker 1: is just as culpable for the insurrection, the coup attempt,
Speaker 1: the deaths, including of Capitol police officers who are trying
Speaker 1: to defend his life, in the lives of others who
Speaker 1: serve in our capital. If these folks are not held accountable,
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz is not expelled, is not forced to resign,
Speaker 1: then what you have done is you have set the
Speaker 1: precedent that it is okay to try to overturn an election,
Speaker 1: to try to overturn our government, and the proudest democracy
Speaker 1: on the face of the planet will become a memory
Speaker 1: if we do not fight for it right now. One
Speaker 1: of the things you can always say for good old
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise, one of the one of the things that
Speaker 1: you can always remember and and I think it's it
Speaker 1: speaks very well in his favor. Is all the right
Speaker 1: people despise him. I mean Ted gets the libs angry,
Speaker 1: hot and bothered, upset. He gets them into a fit
Speaker 1: of rage. Really second only to Trump himself and maybe
Speaker 1: some members of his immediate family, maybe Donald Trump Junior.
Speaker 1: But they hate Ted Cruise, they hate him. So that's
Speaker 1: a good thing for for Ted from my perspective, and
Speaker 1: that it means all right, he's definitely above the target.
Speaker 1: That's why there's so much flack going in his direction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the optics look good of leaving your city to go
Speaker 1: to Cancun with with your kids and the family, to
Speaker 1: the rich Carlton for you know, for a weekend while
Speaker 1: your city's going through a terrible storm and people lost power. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand that in politics these things, these things are
Speaker 1: considerations that people in positions of authority have. Did you
Speaker 1: do anything wrong? Though? Is he a bad guy? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this right now. I know, I
Speaker 1: love New York City. If I could have gotten out
Speaker 1: of here, let's say the weekend of Hurricane Sandy and
Speaker 1: avoided the blackouts that affected my my apartment, my home,
Speaker 1: and I probably would have done it right. Well, what
Speaker 1: are you supposed to do. Are the people when there's
Speaker 1: a hurricane coming who their cars line up for miles
Speaker 1: and miles in the highway because they're trying to get
Speaker 1: away from the hurricane. Are they being selfish? No, they're
Speaker 1: taking care of themselves, which they should do right. In fact, it,
Speaker 1: as you all know, it's even more than that. It
Speaker 1: makes it easier for first responders to have less people
Speaker 1: to have to tend to or worry about, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, evacuating an area means that it's it's
Speaker 1: easier for with the emergency services to focus on certain
Speaker 1: things that they have to and you know this is
Speaker 1: so it's even more than that. But I'm just making
Speaker 1: the point. What is it? I mean, it makes things better.
Speaker 1: I mean Ted Cruise has a phone, he has email,
Speaker 1: he can do what he's doing there. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're a state representative or a city representative, I think
Speaker 1: that's an additional level. I think there's something beyond. But
Speaker 1: I mean if you're a you know, what is this?
Speaker 1: What does this really mean? If you're the Secretary of
Speaker 1: Housing and Urban Development and DC is about to get
Speaker 1: hit with a really bad storm, Are you supposed to
Speaker 1: just stay in DC or are you allowed to leave?
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean, I don't. Look, I understand there's
Speaker 1: tremendous suffering going on in Texas, but Ted Cruise staying
Speaker 1: in Texas doesn't doesn't help anybody. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'm missing something, but I do know that they
Speaker 1: they want it. My point here is really that they
Speaker 1: want to destroy him, and that speaks well to how
Speaker 1: useful he is against the left. Clearly, Ted Cruise is
Speaker 1: worthwhile in many respects, but the fact that he upsets people.
Speaker 1: Look Beau Beto, who married into a family that's worth
Speaker 1: like a couple hundred million dollars, that he understands the
Speaker 1: struggle and he completely believes in our constitutional democracy and
Speaker 1: how important and powerful it is that we represent the
Speaker 1: will of like the vox populie. And now I want
Speaker 1: to write a song that I I'm going to play
Speaker 1: my guitar for you at Yeah, that's better, I think
Speaker 1: I said a long time ago. That better a rouric.
Speaker 1: You can just tell he's the guy in college who
Speaker 1: was always pretending to be friends with your girlfriend and
Speaker 1: then was always the moment you were going to get
Speaker 1: a drink or something, pulling out his guitar to be like,
Speaker 1: I just I'm feeling really sensitive right now and I
Speaker 1: wanted to share this with you. That's betto rourke. I
Speaker 1: can't believe the same as Bobby. It's Bobby O'Rourke. Everybody
Speaker 1: is an irishman pretending to be a pseudo Mexican. That's
Speaker 1: what you have with Betsurke. And at least at least
Speaker 1: the Democrats didn't go for this guy ever. Forget the
Speaker 1: Vanity fair cover because I'm like handsome and everyone like
Speaker 1: just I was born for this. Sure you were, buddy,
Speaker 1: Sure you were. I've been saying this for a long
Speaker 1: time and I want everyone to remember it. Put this,
Speaker 1: and you put this in your mind in a place
Speaker 1: where you're just it's going to come easily to you.
Speaker 1: You always got to know that our political class is
Speaker 1: mostly a bunch of unimprefit, unimpressive, selfish fools who care
Speaker 1: more about CNN hits and book deals than public service.
Speaker 1: And the moment you recognize that, everything starts to make
Speaker 1: more sense. These people don't care about you. Better O'Rourke
Speaker 1: doesn't care about you. And look, I think that there
Speaker 1: are politicians who care about the country. You know, I
Speaker 1: think I think Ted Cruz cares about America being a constitutional,
Speaker 1: rule of law republic that is the greatest country of
Speaker 1: all time. I do believe he cares about that and
Speaker 1: loves it the way it is now, not loves the
Speaker 1: vision of the country that he would create if he'd
Speaker 1: say where the president like some of these Democrats would.
Speaker 1: But no, do I think that Ted Cruse sits around
Speaker 1: worried about every individual person. This is this is a fallacy.
Speaker 1: This is a fallacy, and this is a fallacy that
Speaker 1: has played out all through the COVID lockdowns. These government
Speaker 1: officials they don't really care about you. They care about themselves.
Speaker 1: They don't actually care about you. Right, They do things
Speaker 1: and they respond to public pressure, but ultimately it's about
Speaker 1: them whether whether you live or die, whether you freeze
Speaker 1: or stay warm, they don't really care. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you the truth. It's just numbers on a page to them.
Speaker 1: That's why accountability is so necessary. That's why the public
Speaker 1: pressure that comes as a result of failure that results
Speaker 1: in the loss of lives, for example that that Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo had, is so necessary. He's not going to bed
Speaker 1: at night I assure you, Governor Cuomo is not going
Speaker 1: to sleep at night distraught over the loss of New
Speaker 1: Yorkers from from his not just from COVID, but from
Speaker 1: his nursing home order. Not once he tells himself, I
Speaker 1: know this, this narcissistic, self obsessed mentality. I've come across
Speaker 1: it many times. It's actually very common in media to
Speaker 1: be to be honest with you, a lot of those people,
Speaker 1: a lot of people walking around thinking and they're amazing.
Speaker 1: But he goes to sleep and I thinking that he
Speaker 1: did a great job, and that you know, to make
Speaker 1: an omit, you have to break a few eggs, and
Speaker 1: even if mistakes were made, he's still awesome and he's
Speaker 1: to be praised actually for what he's done. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's his attitude, I can assure you has it
Speaker 1: feels no more no sense of uh, no sense of
Speaker 1: real responsibility, of any personal responsibility whatsoever for any of
Speaker 1: these things that have happened. So I've got to tell you,
Speaker 1: it's amazing to watch all this amazing to watch all
Speaker 1: this stuff play out. Here's a New York Times supporter.
Speaker 1: This guy's he's a he's a smug little fellow, but
Speaker 1: he's one of the better writers over there that you'll
Speaker 1: you'll come across. I know, I know some of them. Look,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of bright liberals. They're just wrong and
Speaker 1: have bad judgment and suffer from internal deficiencies of character.
Speaker 1: That's really the problem with so many liberals. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're they're great at you know, great at multi variable calculus,
Speaker 1: and they have big vocabularies and they've checked all the
Speaker 1: right boxes to go the right institutions. Um, but they're
Speaker 1: all I gotta listen to Faucia. You know, there's just
Speaker 1: there's something lacking. There's some core courage that is absent
Speaker 1: in the in the rural mentality and the liberal mindset.
Speaker 1: Obviously not for everybody, but it's a common thing. And anyway,
Speaker 1: here's this guy talking about the great bully, Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating, Nicole. You know, if you looked at the
Speaker 1: first nine or eight years of his career in the
Speaker 1: government's office, you would be hard pressed to find any
Speaker 1: official in the state of voicing any public criticism of
Speaker 1: this man. People were afraid of him. He held a grudge.
Speaker 1: He was very smart, he was very effective, and if
Speaker 1: you crossed him he would pay you back. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of politicians in New York who can tell
Speaker 1: you off the record about a similar conversation that they've
Speaker 1: had with him over the years, and more than a
Speaker 1: few reporters. So the fact that this is coming out,
Speaker 1: that there are lawmakers in his own party who feel
Speaker 1: compelled and empowered to speak out and challenge him, is
Speaker 1: itself a fascinating development and one that points to the
Speaker 1: intensity of this moment in this crisis and front of
Speaker 1: the concerns people at which I think they're legitimate about
Speaker 1: how the governor handled the nursing home debts in the
Speaker 1: middle of a pandemic. So he's actually a bully. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows it. He's always been a bully. He's a bad guy,
Speaker 1: and he was allowed to get away with this nursing
Speaker 1: home catastrophe because Democrats lack well we're just saying lack
Speaker 1: internal character. The Democrats in charge were scared of this guy.
Speaker 1: They didn't like him. And look, he's just the governor
Speaker 1: of New York. I mean, I know that's that's some
Speaker 1: authority in one state. But he's not. This isn't Genghis Khan.
Speaker 1: He's not going to show up and burn down your
Speaker 1: whole village and impale everybody on stakes like, calm down, right,
Speaker 1: not that big a deal, but terrified of him, terrified
Speaker 1: of Governor Cuomo. Oh okay, I thought he was a hero.
Speaker 1: I thought we should all tear up about what a
Speaker 1: great job he did defeating the menace of COVID. You
Speaker 1: mean that was all b ass? Huh? You mean that
Speaker 1: was all nonsense? Yeah, but the media took took some
Speaker 1: time to figure that out. Wasn't easy for them to
Speaker 1: get to that point. And what had to happen here
Speaker 1: was that Donald Trump had to lose. First notice that
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty one and we're finding out how many
Speaker 1: enormous lies were told in twenty twenty in order to
Speaker 1: make sure that Joe Biden would win the election. Whatever
Speaker 1: they had to say, whatever they had to do, they
Speaker 1: were willing to do. And sadly that dishonesty's paid off
Speaker 1: for them so far. You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. To get
Speaker 1: the latest from Buck at buck Sexton dot com. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's two issues. One is how do we
Speaker 1: get them back. I think the good thing that President
Speaker 1: Biden has done is he's pushing. He's pushing, he's asking
Speaker 1: the right questions, he's setting deadlines, and he's mobilizing agency
Speaker 1: like the CDC to issue guidance, guidance that then Senator
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and I called for back in the summertime.
Speaker 1: The other part of this, though, that I think we're
Speaker 1: not planning enough, is about what's going to happen when
Speaker 1: they do all go back to school. And that's where
Speaker 1: Senator Michael Bennett from Colorado and I have authored a
Speaker 1: letter to the Department of Education pointing out to them
Speaker 1: that we can't just put kids back in school as
Speaker 1: if they're learning and social and emotional development has not
Speaker 1: been severely interrupted. And this problem is particularly acute with
Speaker 1: regard to math and science education. So it's a workforce
Speaker 1: issue and a workforce development issue as well. Always be
Speaker 1: on guard for libs who want to hide in an
Speaker 1: argument in undue complexity. Right. I've always told you to beware,
Speaker 1: be wary of bureaucrats who hide in the flabby folds
Speaker 1: of the bureaucracy. And nobody's really accountable for anything, and
Speaker 1: nobody really makes any actual decision. But somehow the bureaucracy
Speaker 1: does make decisions as a whole, and they can be
Speaker 1: really bad and have a negative impact in a lot
Speaker 1: of people's lives. When whenever you're hearing any Democrats these
Speaker 1: days talking about school reopen you'll notice it just turns
Speaker 1: into you know, Biden. First of all, this is this
Speaker 1: is representative Katie Porter, and you know what she's saying
Speaker 1: here is absurd. Biden's not pushing for anything. You can
Speaker 1: just say, opened the schools full stop, and then he
Speaker 1: pushing would be Hey, guys, we can't look like we're
Speaker 1: owned by the teachers unions at the expense of kids,
Speaker 1: because that's what's true. We can't have that. It looks bad.
Speaker 1: So open the schools now, please. I'm I'm the leader
Speaker 1: of the party. I'm Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden. I'm
Speaker 1: the leader of the party. Man I yell o, yell,
Speaker 1: I read half a properer. Start to get tired. It's
Speaker 1: time to feed the ducks and anyway, he could really
Speaker 1: push them, but he doesn't. He does it. Uh the
Speaker 1: whole it's really complicated. We can't just put kids back
Speaker 1: in school, as Katie Porter says, wrong, you can because
Speaker 1: plenty of schools have already done it. They've already done it.
Speaker 1: It's fine. This is why there's no argument. There's there's
Speaker 1: no discussion anymore. This is just people who are just
Speaker 1: babbling babbling. This is COVID anxiety and teachers union power
Speaker 1: grab combined. That's all it is. But what about what
Speaker 1: about what no open the schools, all of them, all
Speaker 1: across the country. Isn't it remarkable when you when you
Speaker 1: think about, it's right there. For Joe Biden, it's right there.
Speaker 1: All he has to do is get Democrats to stop
Speaker 1: being crazy. Agree that once you're vaccinated, there's no no
Speaker 1: basis to make you social distance or lockdown anymore or
Speaker 1: or mask up. That's that's that's completely unreasonable. And agree that,
Speaker 1: you know, once cases get down to less than five
Speaker 1: thousand a day, whatever it is across the nation and
Speaker 1: continued downward trajectory, you know we're gonna just be back
Speaker 1: to normal. Everybody, go back to your lives. The explosion
Speaker 1: of capital, investment, activity, travel, wrestling. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, guys. I am just like ready to
Speaker 1: live life. And it's it could be amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could have a feeling of American Renaissance. Right now,
Speaker 1: after being just locked away for a year, what came?
Speaker 1: What was the decade after the Spanish fluence, the Spanish influenza,
Speaker 1: Well what came. That's the Roaring twenties. Remember there was
Speaker 1: parties and music and people living and loving and laughing.
Speaker 1: And I know I sound like I'm doing a movie trailer,
Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. All they have to
Speaker 1: do is just stop worshiping at the false idol of
Speaker 1: Fauciism and we could all have that, and we can
Speaker 1: have it. I mean, if I were in charge, I
Speaker 1: would say, honestly, if I were Joe Biden, and I
Speaker 1: mean if I were a Democrat, I mean, obviously, if
Speaker 1: I were in charge of bucks X, and I'd say,
Speaker 1: this is all crazy. No more of this. Vaccinate people, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're on everyone. Make your own decisions about social distancing
Speaker 1: and masking. Be as safe as you think you need
Speaker 1: to be. Stay home if you want to stay home.
Speaker 1: But no more rules, no more mandates. Certainly not the
Speaker 1: federal level. I mean, I know he can't control everything
Speaker 1: in the state, but I would push the states to
Speaker 1: entirely open up too. I'd say, at a minimum, you
Speaker 1: got to be as open as Florida at a minimum.
Speaker 1: Everybody and anyone who's not doing that as absurd. But
Speaker 1: even if I was Joe Biden, I'd say by May
Speaker 1: it's over, America reopens. But they won't because they're crazy.
Speaker 1: This is bucks first thoughts, the news you need to
Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure
Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart ASP or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. And then it also depends on what you
Speaker 1: mean by normal. Do you mean what does some form
Speaker 1: of normality mean? Well, obviously we have very stringent public
Speaker 1: health measures in two Now if you're going to ask,
Speaker 1: is what about getting back to a situation where you
Speaker 1: can have theaters that might be able to have below capacity,
Speaker 1: that restaurants, indoor dining can be happening, but with moderately
Speaker 1: diminished capacity. That's going to be somewhere between the fall
Speaker 1: and the end of the year. If you say, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, wait a minute, I really want to know
Speaker 1: when it's going to get to us close to normal
Speaker 1: that you almost don't know the difference between what it
Speaker 1: was before. Maybe you're going to still have to wear masks.
Speaker 1: That likely will be as the President said, by the
Speaker 1: end of the year. By Christmas, you still wear a
Speaker 1: mask still Christmas. This little lunatic says, what still wear
Speaker 1: masks through Christmas? So if this year, folks, and let
Speaker 1: me tell you something you think they're really going to
Speaker 1: tell you in mid December? Okay, everybody, take your masks off.
Speaker 1: What have I been telling you? If they get their way,
Speaker 1: you will be under mask mandates in blue states and
Speaker 1: in federal federally controlled areas. That means airplanes, that means
Speaker 1: any federal government property. You will be under a mask
Speaker 1: mandate until the summer of twenty twenty two. That's what
Speaker 1: we are heading for. I know these cowards. I know
Speaker 1: these idiots. I know what they're gonna do. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it doesn't come to that, because enough people are
Speaker 1: just gonna say there's basically no real risk of COVID
Speaker 1: out there once enough people are vaccinated. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: We're not going to do this anymore. The only way
Speaker 1: this ends is mass public non compliance, or you can
Speaker 1: wait until the summer of twenty twenty two. Those are
Speaker 1: those are your options. You can have mass non compliance
Speaker 1: or you wait till summer twenty twenty two. Basically, let
Speaker 1: me put it this way. When we get to the
Speaker 1: point where I can walk through my lobby in New
Speaker 1: York City and some jackass who watches too much MSNBC,
Speaker 1: who said, who pulls out his phone and video taste
Speaker 1: because this book sucks that he's not worth a mass.
Speaker 1: He's literally putting lives in danger until every other person
Speaker 1: around him would be like, hey, man, stop being an idiot.
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have COVID, He's probably already been vaccinated.
Speaker 1: No one's died of COVID in New York who wasn't
Speaker 1: over ninety in the last month, Like, calm down until
Speaker 1: that happens. This keeps going okay until that happens. This
Speaker 1: continues on. It's just the nature of the mass hysteria
Speaker 1: we're going through. And and notice even when when Fauci's
Speaker 1: talking about this, what do you mean by normal? I mean,
Speaker 1: what does normal even mean? You know, it's almost luck
Speaker 1: if you were to ask a little Bill Clinton, You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's normal? It's like, I don't know. I mean for
Speaker 1: some people, normals like you know, staying home on a
Speaker 1: Friday night, eating a pizza, watching a movie. For me,
Speaker 1: normalst like watching one of those all lady mud wrestling
Speaker 1: competitions at a bar where they've also got one of
Speaker 1: those mechanical bulls, and all the ladies, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they've got bikinis on or something. But that's normal,
Speaker 1: I mean, right, Normal can be a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different things. Normal can be whatever you say it is.
Speaker 1: What we mean is no more lockdown, tyranny, no more
Speaker 1: mitigation mandates, none of this. That's normal. Normal means life
Speaker 1: the way we lived it. While fifty thousand people a
Speaker 1: year we're dying from the flu, and we were like, look,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna leave your life. No one can
Speaker 1: guarantee you safety. The flu is out there. Do your best.
Speaker 1: See what happens. I had a good friend from the
Speaker 1: media business a few years ago die of the flu
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. It can happen, die swine flu,
Speaker 1: you know, but we didn't. We don't shut down. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a terrible, tragic story. It was a heartbreaking
Speaker 1: to all the people that knew were really well. But
Speaker 1: you you look at whether society is willing to accept
Speaker 1: that things like things like flu debts are going to happen.
Speaker 1: The answer was yes. But with COVID. We've set up
Speaker 1: this completely unrealistic expectation that we're going to get to
Speaker 1: a place where no one has to worry at all
Speaker 1: about this. And you know how they're going to keep
Speaker 1: this going because the case load is going to keep
Speaker 1: going down and down. More and more vaccinations, the caseload
Speaker 1: is going to go down and down and down, and
Speaker 1: then you know what, they're going to start talking about
Speaker 1: the new variants. So what's going to happen? And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you please listen to me because I know that
Speaker 1: this is I know that they're going to try this.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll be successful. But as the
Speaker 1: case is declined nationwide from COVID nineteen, which is already down,
Speaker 1: they're already down seventy percent in the last month from
Speaker 1: the peak. I mean, if this was a stock, you'd
Speaker 1: be if you know, if you had your life savings
Speaker 1: in this as a stock and you look at the trend,
Speaker 1: you'd say, oh my gosh, I'm going bankrupt, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's just going down, down, down, And this is
Speaker 1: great news. Why isn't there more excitement about this? Why
Speaker 1: isn't Joey, Why aren't you seeing people on CNN, the
Speaker 1: lead story should be COVID cases down seventy percent. Guys,
Speaker 1: this is great, this is great. We're really moving, We're
Speaker 1: really moving in the right direction. I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: I keep seeing stories about how, you know, maybe you
Speaker 1: got a quadruple mask. You know, maybe you gotta put
Speaker 1: on eight masks. What now we're gonna double mask now
Speaker 1: when cases are down seventy percent from the peak already,
Speaker 1: now they're telling us to do this. They just they
Speaker 1: just want to control. They can't help it. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been micromanaged by a boss. It's one of the
Speaker 1: worst things that you can go through an employment. It's actually,
Speaker 1: in a lot of surveys, the number one reason that
Speaker 1: a person will leave a job. It's not the pay,
Speaker 1: it's not the hours, it's not the work itself. It's
Speaker 1: their first line manager. The quickest way to destroy somebody's
Speaker 1: destroy somebody's will to show up for a job is
Speaker 1: to just bother them on every little thing. Do this,
Speaker 1: do that, make this change? Make that just micro management
Speaker 1: is toxic. It's it's it's the you know, it's the rancid,
Speaker 1: the rancid pete, a piece of you know, red meat
Speaker 1: that falls falls right in the center of your soup
Speaker 1: from the refrigerator, right as you're a bad That's what
Speaker 1: micro management is. You go, oh, man, that's gross. I
Speaker 1: can't eat this now, you know it's it's the it's
Speaker 1: the crusty band aid in your hamburger. There you go
Speaker 1: and you just find you go, ah, micro man, I
Speaker 1: know that was gross. Sorry, some of you are probably eating. Uh.
Speaker 1: Micro management is awful. Why do people do it? Why
Speaker 1: do people do it? Um? There there are a few reasons.
Speaker 1: One is the false belief that one can fully control
Speaker 1: the another person to the point where you can make
Speaker 1: them perfect. Parents do this to kids too, right. Parents
Speaker 1: are hyper critical. Parents are just so destructive to kids.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen it, I've been around it. I
Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid, I had some friends
Speaker 1: whose parents were just you know, always on them, always
Speaker 1: on them, and and it creates its own real anxiety
Speaker 1: disorder in a sense. You know, nothing's ever good enough,
Speaker 1: nothing's acceptable. But if they think that, if they just
Speaker 1: keep on poking, if they keep on prodding, if they
Speaker 1: keep on telling do this, do this, do this, they'll
Speaker 1: achieve something better and they'll get credit for it. Right,
Speaker 1: they will benefit from this. That's one reason. But then
Speaker 1: there's also maybe an even more deep seated reason for
Speaker 1: why people like to micro manage, to dictate to just
Speaker 1: to make to make everything about you something they can
Speaker 1: tinker with and change and alter and fix and just
Speaker 1: poke and poke and poke, the same reason why people
Speaker 1: kind of like bullying. People like to tell other people
Speaker 1: what to do. People like power. They like that sense
Speaker 1: you do this because because because I say so. You
Speaker 1: do this because I'm in a position to make you
Speaker 1: do it. And there's an addiction among the Democrat mentality
Speaker 1: in America, among the collectivists left the Democrat Party to
Speaker 1: make people do stuff. They want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the team that gets to tell everybody what they
Speaker 1: can do about everything. And it's and it's a psychological addiction.
Speaker 1: The same way that bullies at turn out like bullying.
Speaker 1: This whole thing about oh, bullies are just insecure us.
Speaker 1: No bullies like it. And that's why you actually do
Speaker 1: have to punch them in the mouth. Sometimes. It's the
Speaker 1: truth for all the kids listening. The bullies don't get
Speaker 1: tired of bullying you. They don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 1: Actually makes them feel better. They like bullying. They enjoy it.
Speaker 1: That's why you gotta punch them in the mouth. That's
Speaker 1: why all the dad's out there, teach your kid honestly,
Speaker 1: if they're not that cordinted or strong, palm strike is
Speaker 1: a really way to go, really good way to go
Speaker 1: as well. I'm just saying. My uncle's in law enforcement
Speaker 1: when I was much younger, showed me we practice palm
Speaker 1: strikes many a time. They don't look at they don't
Speaker 1: look as cool, you don't feel as manly. Definitely gets
Speaker 1: the job done. But anyway, bullies enjoy bullying, and people
Speaker 1: enjoy micromanaging. They like it, they're addicted to it. And
Speaker 1: these democrats right now, for people of that mentality who
Speaker 1: are also in charge, who who like power in the
Speaker 1: first place, they've just it's like they've been awash in
Speaker 1: this newfound dictatorial authority. They don't want to let this go.
Speaker 1: They don't want things to go back to normal, where
Speaker 1: you get to just remember the old America, the pre
Speaker 1: COVID America, where you still sometimes I mean, your words
Speaker 1: you can't say, and things you can't do. But like
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you could kind of
Speaker 1: stick up your middle finger and be like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: This is still America. You know, remember that America has
Speaker 1: been gone for a year and there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who don't want it to come back. And
Speaker 1: that's what that that's driving a lot of the mentality
Speaker 1: around COVID and the lockdowns because they they're going to
Speaker 1: do things like say, what's normal. What's normal? That means
Speaker 1: life before COVID. That's what normal means. Fauci, you're idiot.
Speaker 1: We all know what it means. Mask up till the
Speaker 1: end of the year. This guy's going to try to
Speaker 1: tell you to mask. When COVID cases nationwider in the
Speaker 1: month month a month in the low thousands, it's three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million people in America, he'll still mark,
Speaker 1: here's your prediction market down. We'll have ten thousand COVID
Speaker 1: cases in a month, and we'll have that on average,
Speaker 1: let's say June, July, August, which would be by the way,
Speaker 1: that would be great that the cases of drops because
Speaker 1: members has a ninety nine point eight percent survival rate.
Speaker 1: So do the math. Ten thousand cases you basically have,
Speaker 1: you know, one in a thousand people die from COVID.
Speaker 1: It means you're gonna have a you know, ten people
Speaker 1: a month are gonna die from COVID at something like
Speaker 1: That's that is not far off, and I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna feel like a miracle. It's gonna be amazing and
Speaker 1: I can't wait. We will get there, it will happen.
Speaker 1: But while that's happening, it's still gonna be like, you know,
Speaker 1: the new variants, the new variants are out there, and
Speaker 1: you know, you got a mask in case the new
Speaker 1: variant is like really new, and like it's like the
Speaker 1: two point zero version with all the FireWire port and
Speaker 1: all the you know, the biggest screen, more expensive. Of course,
Speaker 1: the new version of the COVID is gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: you bet a special order that one. That's what we're
Speaker 1: heading for. It's going to be the new variants. That's
Speaker 1: what they're gonna tell us, watch and see and please
Speaker 1: get ready to join me in a movement of mass
Speaker 1: non compliance soon. I can't tell you when. We got
Speaker 1: to wait for the right time, but there's going to
Speaker 1: have to be. I'm just not doing this bullcrap anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do it. And if you're
Speaker 1: going to arrest me or find me, you go for it.
Speaker 1: But I'm just not going to comply