WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - The Ridiculous Cruz Control Distraction 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.520 you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.920 your podcasts. Oh my gosh, what are we gonna do? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:19.279 Ted Cruz? How dairy? How dairy? This is supposed to 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.400 be one of the biggest news stories in the country 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.040 right now, and it's an example of so many things. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.120 It's a it's a silly story that is being made 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.080 into something not silly at all. It's being used for 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.000 reasons that we do have to address, and we will. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.519 Here's the long and the short of it. The senator 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:43.360 from Texas went for a brief, I think two day 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.519 trip to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico, which is 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.199 not all that far from Houston. He went for a 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.240 trip to Mexico to get away from the cold and 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.920 the terrible storm and the power outages and the free 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.840 temperatures and everything that have been in Texas now. If 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.680 he were the governor of Texas, if he were the 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.720 mayor of Houston, if you were a state senator or 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.960 assemblyman or whatever, if you were the local dog catcher, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.959 I might understand people viewing this as some kind of 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:21.480 dereliction of duty. He's a United States Senator, his power 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.920 is all based in the federal government in DC. What 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.160 exactly is the awful crime here? I'm seeing Republicans that 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.319 are piling on. Does it look good? No, it doesn't 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.959 look good. I understand the optics of this are you know, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.640 you stand with your people as a politician, but some 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.240 of us recognize that that's also just not true. Politicians 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.880 actually live in mansions, they fly private They don't really 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.800 suffer the way the rest of us suffer as much 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.880 as they pretend they do. They don't. We're all going 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.560 to have big boy and big girl conversations about this, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.240 because that's how we roll on this show. Okay, whether 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.760 it's Nancy Loosie, John Kerry or Ted Cruise or Mitt 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.000 Romney or Donald Trump, they're not dealing with the same 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.040 old nonsense you and I are day in and day out. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.359 So we shouldn't we shouldn't allow anyone to go through 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.760 the pretense that that's not what's happening here. Okay. Oh, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.440 the other thing is they said that he left the poodle. Now, look, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.880 you guys know I love dogs. I love dogs. But 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.560 the poodle was apparently tended by a guard at their 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.600 fancy part of fancy house and a part of Houston, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.120 so there was someone there to tend to the poodle, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.000 and I believe on the day in question, the weather 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.320 was more like in the forties, so as long as 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.079 the poodle's indoors, it probably would be just fine, and 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.320 there's someone there to watch I think. I'm sure the 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.560 cruises didn't want to leave their poodle to freeze, but 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.200 that got a lot of attention to do. People were 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:01.560 tweeting it Peta and segment, this is animal cruelty. So 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.200 why am I telling you about this? Why are we 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.959 even talking about it? There are two things going on here. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.079 One and this is a lesser issue, but one that 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.359 I think we still need to spend some time on. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.160 Why do Republicans still think that it's worth throwing their 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.880 own under the bus for a pad on the head 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.079 from the Libs, even when it's obvious that it's a 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.720 political thing that's playing out. Why do Republicans still take 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.560 the position, you know, if we just throw if we 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.680 just throw ted cruise under the bus on this one, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.400 we're gonna look like people who have principles. Why didn't 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.600 the Democrats do that? You need the Democrats call out, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.440 you know, John Kerry for his hypocrisy when he flies 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.920 private to go get an award at a climate change conference. No, 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.120 we have to do that. They don't eat their own. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.720 We leave. We somehow think that that's a strategy that's 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.680 going to be effective. And I don't know what is 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.880 accomplished by this. Republicans need to understand the game they're in. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.960 The battle they're in right now. The other side, the 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:10.440 Democrat Party is trying to destroy the GOP. They're trying 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.320 to make it a permanent minority. They're trying to make 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.920 sure that the GOP in my lifetime never has power again. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.040 They're making structural changes to our system, to our country, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.440 to our demographics. They are going for it. That's what's 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.880 happening right now. And we think that we're gonna what 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:40.120 Curry favor with them. We're going to get some good 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.960 faith because we decide that Ted Cruz going to Cancoon 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.080 for a couple of days doesn't look good. I mean, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.240 did he break a law? Is there any ethics violation? 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.040 Did he? No? I don't think so. Is there some 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.040 rule that I'm not aware of that you have to 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.600 stay in place when there's essentially a natural disaster. I mean, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.520 that's what's happening in Texas. This is a this ice storm, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.279 this extreme temperature, extreme freeze is like a natural disaster. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.080 Are you supposed to stay in place just because you're 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.880 a member of the federal government, You're just supposed to 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.160 stay wherever you are? I mean, I wonder, really is 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.520 that the new rule. I also think it's it's funny 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.760 that there are so many people in the news media, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.200 specifically in New York, who are jumping all over ted 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.880 Cruz on this one. And I know that they went 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.760 out to the Hamptons, which is one of the ritziest, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.520 most expensive, fanciest places in the whole country. They went 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:39.040 out to the Hampton's. Oh yes, when COVID was ravaging 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.839 New York, and when BLM riders that they were encouraging 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:48.480 were terrifying this city and acting like total barbarians on 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:54.840 the streets, destroying windows, looting stores, when Antifa was going 0:05:54.960 --> 0:06:00.400 block to block, engaged in destruction and intimidation like the 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:05.159 vandals they are. There were all these very wealthy libs 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.440 who are all in favor of justice, of social justice, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.960 and they went right out to the Hamptons, which is 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.160 about a two hour drive from New York City out 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.000 to the beach. They're beautiful mansions there. They didn't have 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.560 to worry about it. Yeah, that's right, that's what they did. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.440 But were they were they supposed to sit and suffer 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.640 with all the rest of us during a global pandemic. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.360 They didn't think so. But Ted Cruise is the bad guy. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.760 That's one part of it. So Republicans stop throwing other 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.760 Republicans under the bus and thinking you're going to get 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.200 something out of it. From the other side, they laugh 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.839 at you. I actually think that Ted Cruise deserves criticism 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:53.440 here for one thing, and one thing only apologizing. Why 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.279 what is he apologizing for? What did he do wrong? 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.640 I mean, maybe you could say that they should have 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.200 made sure that little fruf rule whatever, the doggie was 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.960 nice and warm and safe. But they don't have to 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.840 stay in Houston while there's there's an extreme temperature situation there. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.000 That's not a requirement. And I know it's you could 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.560 say it's not fair, and maybe it's better to stay 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:19.960 with your people and stick it out with them and 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.480 everything else. But a lot of things are not fair. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.840 You know, I could tell you this. There are plenty 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.800 of times when I wish that I had a house 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.960 to go to a place in the Berkshires or a 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.000 place in Florida or something. When the pandemic was ravaging 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.320 New York City, I was stuck here. I was here 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.800 the whole time. Everyone was watching hospital ships floating up 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.200 the river and hospital tents getting set up in the 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.080 park where I grew up, playing Sports Central Park here 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.680 in New York. There was no sense of everyone has 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.040 to stay, and that you had four hundred thousand people 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.000 fled New York City. Everybody who could get out got out, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.559 but ted cruise in cancou And that's the real problem. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.400 You know. The bigger issue is here, though, and I'm 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.679 backloading this a little bit. I should have gotten this sooner. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:13.160 But the bigger issue here is how the media sees 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.000 is on this, and it is a great distraction technique 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.160 because they've trained their audience. They have the libs that 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:25.640 Democrats have been trained that Trump hatred is their daily 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.480 intellectual diet. Right, what are they fed by the news media? 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.640 Trump hatred? Trump is awful. Trump supporters are terrible, and 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.480 that's more difficult to manufacture now that he's not president anymore, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.960 down in Florida playing golf, hanging out. But Ted Cruise 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.959 is one of the next best options they can come 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.960 up with. So this allows them to focus on Ted Cruise. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:53.280 This is all about distraction. Focus on Ted so you 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.840 don't focus on Oge. I don't know the Cuomo disaster, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.560 which keeps getting worse all the time. Governor Cuomo in 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.240 New York now has a there's a watchdog group that's 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.640 making an allegation. I mean they have an analysis, They 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.240 have the data that says that Cuomo costs hundreds, maybe 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.559 even a thousand people to die in nursing homes who 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.800 would not have were it not for his order to 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.600 send COVID positive patients in the nursing homes. That's a 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.600 pretty big deal, isn't it. This is the Democrats hero 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.920 of the pandemic, really second only to Fauci, And we're 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.400 not given up until we expose the truth about that 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.680 little tyrant. But there are other stories too. They don't 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.120 want to focus on what's going on at the border 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.520 right now. What's the Bide administration planning for immigration policy 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.640 in this country? Well, effectively that there will be no 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.760 immigration enforcement, that the border will be de facto open. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.880 That's what's actually happening. That's what's actually going on. I 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.640 don't want you thinking about that. That don't want you 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.280 talking about it. They'd rather have you focused on Ted Cruz. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.520 I knew we get to reopen the country. Why can't 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.400 we just go back to normal life after we've been vaccinated? 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.040 Someone want to explain that, anyone really want to? Oh, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.960 because of the there's still a possibility, it's a very 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.160 small one. So now we're not allowed to we're not 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.080 allowed to be free of the COVID mitigation stupidities and 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.520 tyrannies because there's a very very small possibility of a 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:28.280 bad thing happening. These are the real issues right now, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.520 is the real things that are going on. And also 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.960 I think the increasing recognition that anyone paying attention is 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.920 having that Joe Biden wasn't up for this job before 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.480 he became president, and he's not up for this job 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:51.280 since he became president, and the institutional left, the apparatus 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.720 of the Democrat Party around him, is really calling the shots, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.240 and it is a progressive lunatic party. That's why you 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.640 have this Green New Deal pushed that's why you have 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.120 the open borders activity. That's where all this is coming from. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.400 And Biden's just going to rubber stamp it. He's just 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.400 along for the ride. Just you know, give him a 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.800 sippy cup, throw a blanket over his knees and tell 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.520 him that will get him some mittens if his hands 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:20.400 are cold. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:27.520 Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Why forward a farce? Now? 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.040 That takes us to a farce in full effect? Flying 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.480 Ted Cruz, He's been totally shamed, exposed for going full 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.520 Trump that means lying about leaving Texas for Mexico to 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.960 avoid the cold and avoid his duty to the Texans 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.559 he serves, and then denying what he obviously did, despite 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.120 tonight being outed by his wife. What is going on here? 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.120 You have the brother of the COVID tyrant of New 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.679 York going on TV calling out Ted Cruise and now 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.280 I understand. Look, I don't care what my job is, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.080 I don't care what money's on the table. I don't 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.160 care about Yet I would never never publicly criticize one 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.040 of my brothers, one of my family members. So I 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.080 actually can I actually can get to handle that Okay, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:21.439 I can, but I don't think anybody who's watching Chris 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.199 Cuomo can come away from this thinking anything other than Okay, 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.480 So this guy is gonna make a big deal. He's 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.200 gonna do the whole pearl clutching and performative outrage over 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:37.040 ted Cruise going on a family getaway to Cancun. And 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.520 yet he's not going to talk about the fact. And 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.640 I understand why, but it does affect the credibility of 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.080 him as a newsman that his brother was the worst 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.840 COVID disaster in terms of leadership in the entire country 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.840 of the last twelve months, no question. The guy that 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.000 he was having on for like a variety show and 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.800 they had the big you know, the big thing to 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.880 the nostril or whatever. Remember that they was all, ha ha, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.760 this is while COVID was killing thousands and thousands of 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.360 people in New York. And this is one of the 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.560 constructs the left would always deploy if they if you 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.160 started talking about something while Trump was was in office, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.560 he started talking about anything that they didn't want to 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.200 talk about or they didn't like, it was, oh, you're 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.040 gonna you're gonna discuss you know, how Trump got a 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.400 hole in one on the golf course while people are 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.959 dying of COVID. That was always the construct, right, the 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.120 same thing at CNN would do, which is the big 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.360 you know, blasting the number of death the number of 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.240 deaths on the screen every day for COVID. And then 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.160 when Biden comes into office and we can settle that 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.120 down a little bit. I think they've had it back 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.600 sometimes here and there, but it's not the same. I mean, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.240 they really were trying to make it seem like we 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.040 were living through the movie twenty eight days later. I 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.000 don't know if you've seen that, but just terrify everybody. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.160 We're living through a horror film because of Donald Trump. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.439 And and here's what I'm I'm not going to let 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.640 this go. There is nothing that Joe Biden has done 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.960 has made anything better. There's not a single decision you 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.559 can point to with regard to COVID. Remember one hundred 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.840 days of Maskinghoever, we have a hundred days of masking, 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.000 and I'm gonna do it. We're gonna mask for a 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.200 hundred days. That's that's that's putting on a mask, no 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:25.760 joke for not ten days, not fifty. One hundred days 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.760 of masking. So good old Joe Biden's gonna do. We're 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.280 gonna listen to science for one hundred days. I don't 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.320 know what we're gonna listen to one hundred and first day, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.760 something else, maybe a nice jazz too. And I don't know. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.160 Nothing he has done since becoming president can you point 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.280 to and say, oh, wow, that really has made things better. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.240 They've really improved, They've really made us safer. No, In fact, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.000 if anything, you can look at it and say that 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.640 they are always having to lower the bar. They're always 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.560 having to convince people that they're doing a better job 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.920 than they did right, or they're doing a better job 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.160 than they are. They're in the perception management game, not 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:18.840 the stopping COVID game. Look, the experts, they don't want 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.320 you to think about this. They don't want you to 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.920 come to the very obvious conclusion. The people who told 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.560 you that putting us all through misery, all this anxiety, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.440 all this stuff, the people who told you that that 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.760 was going to save a lot of lives lied and 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:36.080 they were wrong. That's it. Lockdowns failed. It's not just 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.240 me saying it now. It's Governor Ron to Santa's to Florida, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.960 It's people who have seen the numbers, who have had 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:47.320 to make the big decisions, lockdowns failed failed. Now they 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.240 can argue until they're blue in the face on the 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.240 lockdown or side about how, oh you know, the numbers 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.520 would have been so much higher. Yeah, look around at 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.160 what's gone on, Look at different states, look at the timelines, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:03.400 mass mandate business closures. How did it make any difference whatsoever? 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.680 We had months and months and months of lead time, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.240 with all kinds of social distancing and mitigation, everything in place, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.520 and then we just had right on schedule an explosion 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.280 of cases during the winter season, as was always the concern, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.720 and now here we are seventy percent. You got new 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.600 cases down seventy percent the last month. It's going away. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.920 It's going away. It's not gone, We're not safe and 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.720 all that stuff. Right, I'm not saying that this is 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.760 this is no longer a concern, but it is. Well. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.160 I mean, if something drops seventy percent and keeps going 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.200 down and down and down, isn't it accurate to say 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:44.440 it's going away? I don't know how long. But now 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.800 we have to have the fight with them about we 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.119 need to go back to normal life. No more masking, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:55.560 no more social distancing. We need to have an agreement 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.840 as a society. Enough is enough. We are going to 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.520 live our lives again. We're going to be normal human 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.399 beings again. We're not going to let these abject morons 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.320 who have been in charge for so long and who 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.200 have been terrifying everybody, and who get everything wrong. Fauci's 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.639 the best example, but there are thousands of them across 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.240 the country. We're not going to let them continue to 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.560 just be in a constant state of pedicat fere and 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.920 oh my god, no, we want our lives back. Enough. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:29.280 The little pettititotalitarians running around should be ashamed, ashamed of 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.840 what they've done to this country, ashamed of how wrong 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.680 they've been. You know, I haven't gotten anyet and not 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.040 a single apology from all the people said you just 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.000 want the children to die in schools. You're just you're 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.600 undermining masking by saying they're going to double mask. These 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.800 are all things people come at me with. No, I 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.879 was just right. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.840 Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.520 act or wherever you get your podcasts. Unless we hold 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.560 those responsible accountable for what they did. And yes, that 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.320 means Donald Trump, but it also means the junior senator 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.320 from the state of Texas, who I understand is vacationing 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.960 in Cancun right now when people are literally freezing to 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.600 death in the state that he was elected to represent 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.600 and serve. When Ted Cruz helps to incite that sedition, 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:24.920 seeks to overturn a lawfully, legitimately democratically decided election, he 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.600 is just as culpable for the insurrection, the coup attempt, 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.680 the deaths, including of Capitol police officers who are trying 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.160 to defend his life, in the lives of others who 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.920 serve in our capital. If these folks are not held accountable, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.360 Ted Cruz is not expelled, is not forced to resign, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.879 then what you have done is you have set the 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.959 precedent that it is okay to try to overturn an election, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.639 to try to overturn our government, and the proudest democracy 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.399 on the face of the planet will become a memory 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.480 if we do not fight for it right now. One 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.960 of the things you can always say for good old 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.320 Ted Cruise, one of the one of the things that 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.359 you can always remember and and I think it's it 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:14.040 speaks very well in his favor. Is all the right 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:20.200 people despise him. I mean Ted gets the libs angry, 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:25.680 hot and bothered, upset. He gets them into a fit 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:31.760 of rage. Really second only to Trump himself and maybe 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.399 some members of his immediate family, maybe Donald Trump Junior. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.440 But they hate Ted Cruise, they hate him. So that's 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.520 a good thing for for Ted from my perspective, and 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.360 that it means all right, he's definitely above the target. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.560 That's why there's so much flack going in his direction. Yeah, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.240 the optics look good of leaving your city to go 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.480 to Cancun with with your kids and the family, to 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.639 the rich Carlton for you know, for a weekend while 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.800 your city's going through a terrible storm and people lost power. Yeah, 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.760 I understand that in politics these things, these things are 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.600 considerations that people in positions of authority have. Did you 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.399 do anything wrong? Though? Is he a bad guy? I mean, 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.200 I'm gonna tell you this right now. I know, I 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.600 love New York City. If I could have gotten out 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.080 of here, let's say the weekend of Hurricane Sandy and 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.720 avoided the blackouts that affected my my apartment, my home, 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:32.040 and I probably would have done it right. Well, what 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.760 are you supposed to do. Are the people when there's 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.439 a hurricane coming who their cars line up for miles 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.160 and miles in the highway because they're trying to get 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.720 away from the hurricane. Are they being selfish? No, they're 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:48.520 taking care of themselves, which they should do right. In fact, it, 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.480 as you all know, it's even more than that. It 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.240 makes it easier for first responders to have less people 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:54.959 to have to tend to or worry about, you know, 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.760 and you know, evacuating an area means that it's it's 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.119 easier for with the emergency services to focus on certain 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:03.760 things that they have to and you know this is 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.399 so it's even more than that. But I'm just making 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.080 the point. What is it? I mean, it makes things better. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.480 I mean Ted Cruise has a phone, he has email, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.159 he can do what he's doing there. You know, if 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.120 you're a state representative or a city representative, I think 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:21.000 that's an additional level. I think there's something beyond. But 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.159 I mean if you're a you know, what is this? 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.280 What does this really mean? If you're the Secretary of 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.360 Housing and Urban Development and DC is about to get 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.199 hit with a really bad storm, Are you supposed to 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.720 just stay in DC or are you allowed to leave? 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.080 I don't, I mean, I don't. Look, I understand there's 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:42.040 tremendous suffering going on in Texas, but Ted Cruise staying 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.359 in Texas doesn't doesn't help anybody. I don't know. Maybe 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:47.880 maybe I'm missing something, but I do know that they 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.840 they want it. My point here is really that they 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.440 want to destroy him, and that speaks well to how 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:59.239 useful he is against the left. Clearly, Ted Cruise is 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.440 worthwhile in many respects, but the fact that he upsets people. 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.440 Look Beau Beto, who married into a family that's worth 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:11.680 like a couple hundred million dollars, that he understands the 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:19.040 struggle and he completely believes in our constitutional democracy and 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.879 how important and powerful it is that we represent the 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:29.320 will of like the vox populie. And now I want 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.560 to write a song that I I'm going to play 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.560 my guitar for you at Yeah, that's better, I think 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.240 I said a long time ago. That better a rouric. 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.320 You can just tell he's the guy in college who 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.600 was always pretending to be friends with your girlfriend and 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.760 then was always the moment you were going to get 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.600 a drink or something, pulling out his guitar to be like, 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.960 I just I'm feeling really sensitive right now and I 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:58.480 wanted to share this with you. That's betto rourke. I 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:02.240 can't believe the same as Bobby. It's Bobby O'Rourke. Everybody 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:09.120 is an irishman pretending to be a pseudo Mexican. That's 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.920 what you have with Betsurke. And at least at least 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:15.040 the Democrats didn't go for this guy ever. Forget the 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.879 Vanity fair cover because I'm like handsome and everyone like 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.560 just I was born for this. Sure you were, buddy, 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.240 Sure you were. I've been saying this for a long 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:30.320 time and I want everyone to remember it. Put this, 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.000 and you put this in your mind in a place 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:36.560 where you're just it's going to come easily to you. 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.600 You always got to know that our political class is 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:44.160 mostly a bunch of unimprefit, unimpressive, selfish fools who care 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.520 more about CNN hits and book deals than public service. 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:51.000