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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. We had a awesome night. You got

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Speaker 1: to meet a lot of our listeners as we celebrated

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Speaker 1: one year on the program last night in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to all who came out, and we are looking

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Speaker 1: forward to rolling into year two and continuing to be

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Speaker 1: voices for sanity in an insane world. Hope all of

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Speaker 1: you are having a good early start to your weekends

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Speaker 1: and we are certainly prepared to power you right into

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Speaker 1: that afternoon evening fun of Friday. But there remains, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the ongoing cloud of incompetence surrounding the Biden administration. As

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Speaker 1: we are speaking to you, the stock market, having one

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Speaker 1: of its worst weeks ever, is down one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty three points again today. It has been a real

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Speaker 1: drubbing that the stock market has been taking as our

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Speaker 1: overall national economy tries to come to grips with the

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Speaker 1: overall inflation rates. And I would just say this, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I think we're already in a recession. This is my prediction.

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Speaker 1: It didn't get a great deal of attention. But if

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Speaker 1: you looked when we had the three quarter rate interest

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Speaker 1: interest rate hike, three quarter point interest rate hike that

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Speaker 1: happened earlier this week, the Fed lowered its second quarter

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Speaker 1: predictions on GDP to zero zero point zero. The growth

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Speaker 1: rate had been point nine percent. It wasn't exactly a

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Speaker 1: sterling growth rate. But if they are now forecasting zero

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Speaker 1: point zero percent effectively, which is what they are, in

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Speaker 1: other words, just barely avoiding a negative number, it feels

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Speaker 1: to me like we are probably already in a recession.

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Speaker 1: We know that in the first quarter GDP went down

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Speaker 1: two conceptive quarters of negative GDP is a recession, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I think we're in a recession. I want to play

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Speaker 1: you this audio because Joe Biden finally did an interview

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Speaker 1: and he talked with the AP in the Oval office,

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Speaker 1: and he said that a recession is not inevitable. I think, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: we're already in a recession. Lee play cut seven here

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Speaker 1: for you, as CNN is even interacting here with what

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Speaker 1: is going on and saying, it definitely feels like we're

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Speaker 1: already in a recession. Nobody knows when or if there

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Speaker 1: will be a recession. At some point, there will be

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Speaker 1: because we live in an economy that has business cycles. Right,

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Speaker 1: we don't know if there's one now, If there's one

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Speaker 1: maybe some time next year. What we do know is

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Speaker 1: the markets are reacting like it. It's inevitable. And you've

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Speaker 1: got a majority of global CEOs now, according to the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, saying they think that we're either in

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Speaker 1: one or headed for one. That depends on where you live.

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Speaker 1: There's much more likely you'll see recessions in Europe than

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Speaker 1: in the United States. But no one knows for sure.

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Speaker 1: And the Fed is trying to navigate what it calls

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Speaker 1: a soft landing, trying to get out of this mess

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Speaker 1: without too much damage to the US economy. But issue

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Speaker 1: number one here is inflation. They're trying to get inflation

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but the Biden administration Clay doesn't get to

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Speaker 1: have it both ways. Six months ago, nine months ago,

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Speaker 1: how it was just a function of build back. Better,

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Speaker 1: just spend another five or six trillion. We're going to

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Speaker 1: get ourselves out of the ditch, the duldrums we had

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Speaker 1: been in. No, it turns out that the decisions they

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Speaker 1: and now they want to tell us that it was

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Speaker 1: its cyclical right. So six months ago Biden saying, look

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Speaker 1: market has just gotten crushed. You have less money in

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Speaker 1: your stock accounts in general than you did when Biden

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Speaker 1: took office. So that's eighteen months of gains wiped out,

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Speaker 1: and they want to tell you that this has nothing

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Speaker 1: much of the explanation they give now for the high

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Speaker 1: price of gas, which of course is the putin price hike.

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Speaker 1: Greedy oil suppliers, greedy refiner all this is crap and nonsense.

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Speaker 1: It's worth reminding people that six months ago Biden was

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Speaker 1: would make sure it's eliminated. And no more subsidies for

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Speaker 1: No more drilling non federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore,

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Speaker 1: no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period.

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Speaker 1: know a lot more about foreign policy than I knew

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Speaker 1: about um about the oil industry, Clay, Can he make

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Speaker 1: imagine how bad that montage is going to play in

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Speaker 1: many different jurisdictions right now, many different places. As people

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Speaker 1: to Joe Biden trying to now say, oh, we've got

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Speaker 1: to increase oil and gas exploration, We've got to do

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Speaker 1: the idea that he was going to stop that from happening.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just that Joe Biden has bad ideas,

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Speaker 1: And this is why the essence, this is why they're

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Speaker 1: panicked right now, because we're rapidly coming up on July.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's on their vacations right now during the summer, so

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Speaker 1: and again from a parenting perspective, what it really does

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Speaker 1: And I think the Biden White House compounds everything that

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Speaker 1: feeling economically. That's there. They can talk about eight million

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Speaker 1: not officially yet. We've been talking about a recession here

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Speaker 1: for months. But on top of that, there's something so

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Speaker 1: which is why I think playing back clips of what

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Speaker 1: price of gas now is obvious. Right. They did everything

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Speaker 1: and did obviously say that's bad, we hate that. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: But at least there is a clarity among Republicans with

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Speaker 1: we're gonna cut taxes, or we want to build the wall,

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Speaker 1: or we're going to do remain in Mexico, whatever it

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Speaker 1: may be. With Democrats, it's a game. They get what

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Speaker 1: the level of overdoses and cities and nation and wide

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Speaker 1: it because it's so obvious. Right, it's not a question

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Speaker 1: because to your point, they made disastrous policy choices, some

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Speaker 1: economy is not Biden's fall. Yes, I remember we were

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Speaker 1: and I think we should. I think we should probably

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Speaker 1: just you know, be open to free speech and and

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Speaker 1: the the thank you, the uh the slack did you

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Speaker 1: see it? You haven't even seen it. It's just like

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, like whatever, like just erasing trends people.

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Speaker 1: It's like he's not even talk what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Like you look at the internal It's it's almost like

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Speaker 1: get the closest thing you can get to being in

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Speaker 1: the minds of Twitter employees is the running real time

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Speaker 1: Slack channel discussion during Elon's speech where they're just you, oh,

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Speaker 1: so he's the worst. He's going to destroy everything that

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Speaker 1: matters in our society. Or he's saying, can we share

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Speaker 1: ideas and exchange thoughts and maybe try to defend the

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Speaker 1: First Amendment? I mean, they were in full on He's

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Speaker 1: not even announcing his pronouns. Meltdown. I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: this is a big interesting debate question. I would think

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Speaker 1: in the years ahead, how does the Democrat Party get

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Speaker 1: back to ever embracing free speech again? Because if you

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Speaker 1: consider the history of free speech, it's not one party

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Speaker 1: that owns it. It constantly is kind of shifting and cyclical,

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Speaker 1: and there's zeroed doubt that if you believe in free speech,

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Speaker 1: you have to vote Republican. Now, I don't even see

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Speaker 1: that as a remote argument that you could make in

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Speaker 1: favor of Democrats. COVID has accelerated it. But Democrats believe

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Speaker 1: that you have to have certain opinions on a variety

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Speaker 1: of issues, and if you you shouldn't be allowed to

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Speaker 1: share that buck. How do they ever get out of

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Speaker 1: that dogma? How do they return? I mean, it's to

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Speaker 1: me such because it seems to me that they are

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Speaker 1: continuing to paint themselves into a more and more remote

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Speaker 1: corner and restricting speech more every single day. So how

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Speaker 1: do they ever become they like to claim initially they

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Speaker 1: were the party of science. No, you're the party that

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Speaker 1: says you can pick your gender. But mainstream Democrat orthodoxy

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Speaker 1: now is to believe this is real that when a

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Speaker 1: baby is born transactivists say that sometimes doctors get it

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Speaker 1: wrong when they say, oh it's a boy or oh

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Speaker 1: it's a girl. Biology is real. Mainstream democrat progressive thought

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Speaker 1: requires you to believe now that biology isn't real. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how they return turned to sanity because they

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Speaker 1: have left their faculties so far behind. I mean, do

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Speaker 1: you have any idea, like, how do they get to

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Speaker 1: a point where they're not I'm trying to avoid cursing

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Speaker 1: totally and completely crazy. They have been kicking at the

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Speaker 1: load bearing walls of our civilization now for many years,

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Speaker 1: and they've been going after many of the day to

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Speaker 1: day mechanisms we have to maintain a free society of speech,

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Speaker 1: obviously being one of them. The mobilization of people behind

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Speaker 1: things that they don't understand at all and explicitly are

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Speaker 1: being lied to about im in covid IS and all

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Speaker 1: the lockdown procedures is I think, another another example of that.

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Speaker 1: But now the allegiance is to an authoritarian, an absolutist mindset.

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Speaker 1: The allegiance has to be we tell you, and there's

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Speaker 1: almost as a leftist, a mechanized expectation of the response

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Speaker 1: is exactly what is being dictated. There is. There's no

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Speaker 1: thought process allowed, and that's why you get people. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we played yest day. People want to ban Air fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Didn't even know an Air fifteen is. Who cares? They

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Speaker 1: want to ban it because they were told that they

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Speaker 1: should ban it to save lives. Right, people should wear

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Speaker 1: two masks, maybe they should wear three. Should they get

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Speaker 1: two shots so they get five? No independent thought allowed

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Speaker 1: because the moment, the way they've set this up, the

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Speaker 1: moment that you allow for independent thought and the processing

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Speaker 1: of new information. As we keep I keep saying leftist,

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Speaker 1: but it's really as a Democrat who wants to be

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Speaker 1: in the center of the party, or wants to be

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Speaker 1: at the center of power in the party. If you

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Speaker 1: break from them on anything, you're conceding to Trump, to MAGA,

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Speaker 1: to white nationalism. That's the way it's all set up now.

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Speaker 1: So they've created an absolute binary where if you don't

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Speaker 1: accept everything that the apparatus tells you too, you are

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Speaker 1: playing into the hands on the other side, and that

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Speaker 1: I think has been growing over time. I think social

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Speaker 1: media has played a large role in creating that mindset,

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Speaker 1: and I think COVID has supercharged it in some ways.

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Speaker 1: So this state was finally able to be truly authoritarian.

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Speaker 1: And it was an experiment that I hope we never

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid we will at some point repeated, but an

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Speaker 1: experiment that showed how much people are willing to I

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Speaker 1: can never think of the mass American psyche the same

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Speaker 1: way after what we saw just with COVID. And now

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Speaker 1: what you see is that that extends to other areas.

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Speaker 1: Do that keeps on? Whatever I'm told I will do

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Speaker 1: doesn't end with COVID. And I'll point this out. Remember

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Speaker 1: that Democrats were trying to accuse Trump of being a

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Speaker 1: dictatorial authoritarian. There was never a better time if you

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Speaker 1: actually wanted to do that then the early days of COVID.

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Speaker 1: And remember what Trump did. He deferred almost exclusively. Probably

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Speaker 1: you can argue too much to local authorities rather than

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Speaker 1: federalizing anything. And Biden came in and took the complete

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Speaker 1: control of the government. It's absolutely critical. It's a distinction

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Speaker 1: that we should continue to hammer as well, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: people will say, oh, well, you keep pointing out how

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Speaker 1: bad COVID was, how bad the spending was, and the

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Speaker 1: shutdowns of the economies. I mean, I met with the

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Speaker 1: president in twenty twenty May of twenty twenty, really just

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Speaker 1: to talk about COVID, and he was this was May

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. This is early on. He says, we're

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Speaker 1: not doing lockdowns. We gotta get open up, we gotta

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Speaker 1: get going. It was the CDC apparatus and the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Blue States that kept getting crazier and crazier and locking

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Speaker 1: down and pushing. And then when Biden came into office,

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Speaker 1: it added the federal layer on top of that. But

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Speaker 1: it really you know, Trump only listened to Fauci for

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Speaker 1: about two months. Yeah, and that's where, honestly, I listened

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Speaker 1: to Faucci. I think a lot of people did initially

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Speaker 1: in those early days. And then we started to see

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Speaker 1: that the Emperor was wearing no clothes. But I just

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Speaker 1: want all of you to recognize that if Trump had

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Speaker 1: truly been a dictator, COVID offered him an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: be a dictator the likes of which we have not

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Speaker 1: seen in generations in this country. And what did he do.

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Speaker 1: He deferred to state and local governments rather than do

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Speaker 1: what Biden did, which is mandate that you get the

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Speaker 1: COVID shot or you don't get to work. I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm still furious about the fact that reasonable, intelligent people

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Speaker 1: don't make that argument. I gotta tell you, all the

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Speaker 1: enough personal information for any cyber hacker to open bogus accounts,

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Speaker 1: that will be joining us as well later on the program. Right, So, yes,

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Speaker 1: indeed got a stack show for you. I mentioned this

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Speaker 1: yesterday and we didn't really dive into it. But Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 1: who you would think, given that the current president is

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Speaker 1: that might be far too generous. But if this is

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Speaker 1: where Kamala Harris could really come through and kind of

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Speaker 1: why you have a vice president, Right, you have a

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Speaker 1: vice president if the actual president's health is or you know,

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Speaker 1: mental faculties are in question at a point in time,

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Speaker 1: you want to have a backup plan for leadership. That's

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Speaker 1: the whole notion of a vice president, and Kamala could

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Speaker 1: really be stepping out here and showing everybody just how

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Speaker 1: much competence and how much skill she brings to bear

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Speaker 1: in a leadership role. And right now some people are saying, well,

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Speaker 1: hold on a second, she's going to be running some

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Speaker 1: kind of a task force to end online bull That

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Speaker 1: seems pretty vague. She didn't exactly solve the border crisis

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Speaker 1: in factiviously the most recent border numbers, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's like the worst that it has ever been, or

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Speaker 1: close to it. It's the worst certainly we've seen in

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Speaker 1: about twenty or thirty years. Here is the White House spokesperson,

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Speaker 1: Court Jean Pierre, when she's asked, how is the Kamala

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Speaker 1: Task Force different in a sense from the Biden Ministry

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Speaker 1: of Truth? The Online Policy task Force set the Vice

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Speaker 1: President's leading that's getting kicked off today. On a background

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Speaker 1: call last night, we were told that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be different from the Disinformation Governance SPORT. I mean that

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Speaker 1: it's going to focus on illegal conduct online. But the

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Speaker 1: memo creating it was a little bit broader and mentioned

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Speaker 1: and I'm quoting from the document quote online harassment, abuse

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Speaker 1: and disinformation campaigns targeting women and LGBTQBI plus individuals who

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Speaker 1: are public and political figures. Could you clear up the

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Speaker 1: disinformation charge us? So I would need to talk to

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Speaker 1: her team. I was not on the background call, so

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Speaker 1: that specific language that you're providing to me, we just

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Speaker 1: have to check in with her. I can't say more

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Speaker 1: because I wasn't on the background call. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: White House spokesperson has no idea how to answer any question,

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Speaker 1: and she's not really involved in anything. But the alarming

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Speaker 1: aspect of this is that, in theory, this is the

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Speaker 1: White House officially announcing that the Vice President and people

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Speaker 1: who are working for her are going to be monitoring

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Speaker 1: what people say online and doing what, demanding that social

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Speaker 1: media accounts that are being sarcastic or mean too prominent

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Speaker 1: individuals shouldn't be allowed to do that. This is a

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Speaker 1: really strange concept for the government to be involved in.

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Speaker 1: And this is why Alex Berenson's lawsuit to me Buck

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Speaker 1: is so potentially eye opening. Is he's reached the discovery

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Speaker 1: stage in his lawsuit against Twitter. And remember it wasn't

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Speaker 1: very long ago that Jensaki was coming out and saying

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Speaker 1: we are working with all these big tech compan to

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Speaker 1: flag information that we don't like and basically demanding that

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Speaker 1: these social media companies take down this information, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, everything Alex Berenson said ended up pretty much

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Speaker 1: being true. And you would think given the problems that

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Speaker 1: the show, that everybody is dealing with, really dealing with

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Speaker 1: day in day out, they would get much greater priority

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Speaker 1: and focus from a White House that is in battled. Right.

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Speaker 1: The White House agrees that these are problems because they're

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Speaker 1: seeing in the polling. They know they can't ignore the

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Speaker 1: issues of inflation and the price of gas, all the

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Speaker 1: things we're constantly talking about, and yet they're setting up

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Speaker 1: the vice president somehow, they take the time to set

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Speaker 1: up a vice presidential online task force that mentions harassment

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Speaker 1: and the targeting of the lgbtq I A plus communities

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Speaker 1: never ending. We basically have all twenty six letters that

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Speaker 1: political statement here. The acronym is too long. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: come from an acronym culture at the CIA. The acronym

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Speaker 1: is too long, folks. We need a better word. Or

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Speaker 1: a better acronym for it, because it's getting out, it's

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Speaker 1: getting out of control. But online harassment claim, does anyone

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Speaker 1: think that Kamala Harris or this White House is going

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Speaker 1: to be able to deftly handle online harassment without it

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Speaker 1: being the government effectively censoring people that they don't like,

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Speaker 1: or what is the recourse? Our censorship certainly is part

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Speaker 1: of it, But do we really have an effectively people

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Speaker 1: sitting in the White House all day looking at things

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Speaker 1: that are being sent to prominent people on their social

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Speaker 1: media accounts and investigating it. And in what world do

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Speaker 1: we think this is something that should be focused on.

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Speaker 1: We can barely protect our Supreme Court justices from assassination attempts,

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Speaker 1: and we're expected to believe that Kamala incompetent Harris is

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Speaker 1: going to handle this. Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on

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Speaker 1: the front lines of truth h