1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360
Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

2
00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,760
Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Clay Travis

3
00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:13,280
Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show on this Monday, tax Day, all

4
00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,759
Speaker 1: across America trying to get in those those forms, those

5
00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,119
Speaker 1: last benefit for those of us who pay taxes. I

6
00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,320
Speaker 1: think about what is at half of households and a

7
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 1: paying income tax, something like that. And we have a

8
00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,920
Speaker 1: lot to discuss with you today about the border, about crime,

9
00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,240
Speaker 1: the Democrats, taxes maybe a little bit not the most

10
00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,600
Speaker 1: exciting topic, but one that I think today at least

11
00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,000
Speaker 1: could get some people fired up. Why exactly is the

12
00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,120
Speaker 1: tax code thousands and thousands of pages? Why is it that,

13
00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,840
Speaker 1: Unlike in many other countries, we all live in fear

14
00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,920
Speaker 1: of an audit, in this inn audit. For most people,

15
00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,720
Speaker 1: it's one of the more terrifying things that can occur.

16
00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,960
Speaker 1: You know. It's like if you had a choice between

17
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,320
Speaker 1: waiting for some you know, some very serious health news,

18
00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,600
Speaker 1: or waiting to find out if you're about to be

19
00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,760
Speaker 1: audited by the IRS. I think people tend to put

20
00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,320
Speaker 1: those things in a similar category of anxiety. So here

21
00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,240
Speaker 1: we are, though, on tax Day, with a kind of

22
00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,040
Speaker 1: muted Democrat party all across the board. By the way,

23
00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,880
Speaker 1: Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate. I hope

24
00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,960
Speaker 1: you had a great Easter weekend, mister Travis. I trust

25
00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,360
Speaker 1: there were plenty of chocolate, eggs and other goodies in

26
00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:28,759
Speaker 1: the Travis household. The boys are super excited about about

27
00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,640
Speaker 1: Easter in general. They are obsessed. They have turned it

28
00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,520
Speaker 1: into a minor Christmas. They follow the Easter Bunny on

29
00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,240
Speaker 1: an app tracker. My seven year old obviously is driving

30
00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,120
Speaker 1: most of this, and so yeah, they were super excited

31
00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,000
Speaker 1: about it went well here. I know a lot of

32
00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,760
Speaker 1: people celebrating passover who are listening to us as well.

33
00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,520
Speaker 1: So I hope everybody had a fantastic weekend. And it

34
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,640
Speaker 1: is tax day, buck, and it is a brutal day

35
00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,480
Speaker 1: for a lot of our listeners who actually pay taxes,

36
00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,320
Speaker 1: unlike a lot of Democrat voters. Hopefully you didn't sing

37
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,360
Speaker 1: a happy Easter song on an airplane within earshot of

38
00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,079
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was very displeased with the singing

39
00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,120
Speaker 1: on her flight. You may have seen that one over

40
00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,240
Speaker 1: the weekend. Perhaps we can give you some more details

41
00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,480
Speaker 1: on that later, but I thought today we could just

42
00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,079
Speaker 1: begin to look at the way that the Democrats are

43
00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,079
Speaker 1: floundering on issues all across the board. Honestly, I mean

44
00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,160
Speaker 1: the border. We've got the latest border numbers. Will talk

45
00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,080
Speaker 1: to you about that crime way up here in New

46
00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,000
Speaker 1: York City, the place that is supposed to be because

47
00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,520
Speaker 1: of history, because of what had happened before. New York

48
00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,679
Speaker 1: was the city that in many ways led the charge

49
00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,200
Speaker 1: in normalcy, safety, cleanliness of the streets, I mean, making

50
00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,760
Speaker 1: everything function better as a city, you know, from bringing

51
00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,840
Speaker 1: down homicides to bringing up sanitation. New York was this

52
00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,880
Speaker 1: place that was a beacon in the nineties for the

53
00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,640
Speaker 1: rest of the country. And guess what the big lie

54
00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,640
Speaker 1: we were told for a long time. I remember this

55
00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,320
Speaker 1: clay was that the murder numbers were up and pretty

56
00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,040
Speaker 1: much everywhere across the country, shootings were all violent crime

57
00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,080
Speaker 1: was up because of COVID, which never made sense. But

58
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,880
Speaker 1: it was purely a delay tactic and what we've seen

59
00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,560
Speaker 1: to just hoping that something else would come up, or

60
00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,560
Speaker 1: really that the numbers would start to fall, right, it

61
00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,720
Speaker 1: was just don't allow people to talk about this, because

62
00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,079
Speaker 1: the longer they do, the more frustrated they'll become. So

63
00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,880
Speaker 1: act like it's COVID, even though that made absolutely no

64
00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,120
Speaker 1: sense from the very beginning. Clay, They've got a big problem.

65
00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,640
Speaker 1: He might have seen over the weekend there was a

66
00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,960
Speaker 1: new pupole that came out. And it turns out, and

67
00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,960
Speaker 1: I think this is entirely unsurprising that the top three

68
00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:50,240
Speaker 1: concerns for African American voters crime, housing, the economy, crime

69
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 1: really at the top of the list, racism at the

70
00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,760
Speaker 1: very very bottom of the list. It just feels like

71
00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 1: one year in one year and change in biden Told

72
00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,480
Speaker 1: residency is just a catalog of failure so far. Yeah,

73
00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,160
Speaker 1: it's an unmitigated disaster on virtually every level for the

74
00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,120
Speaker 1: Biden administration and in particular Buck. If you look at

75
00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,360
Speaker 1: those numbers, it reflects what we've been saying on this

76
00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,520
Speaker 1: show for a long time. What do we say on Friday,

77
00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,359
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's approval rating among Hispanic voters is down to

78
00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,880
Speaker 1: twenty six percent. That's lower than it is for white voters,

79
00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,640
Speaker 1: and even for black voters. I believe it was down

80
00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,520
Speaker 1: to sixty five percent, which is an unbelievably low number

81
00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,880
Speaker 1: for historically a Democratic president to find himself in. And

82
00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,440
Speaker 1: it's because white, black Asian Hispanic people tend to have

83
00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,320
Speaker 1: the biggest similarities in thoughts when we're talking about eight

84
00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,919
Speaker 1: point five percent inflation. Buck and I had a situation.

85
00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,440
Speaker 1: I went and filled up my car, and we've talked

86
00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,520
Speaker 1: about how it costs over one hundred dollars now for

87
00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,159
Speaker 1: many of us out there to fill up our gas tank.

88
00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,520
Speaker 1: But the person right in front of me, and I

89
00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,279
Speaker 1: don't know who it was because I wasn't you know,

90
00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,400
Speaker 1: I didn't see who the car was that pulled out,

91
00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,520
Speaker 1: but they had bought one gallon for four dollars and

92
00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,840
Speaker 1: nineteen cents, and I, you know, I'm standing there looking

93
00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,560
Speaker 1: at it right before I'm taken out to fill up

94
00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,360
Speaker 1: my own and I'm thinking, how many people out there

95
00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,000
Speaker 1: are struggling to such a degree economically that they pull

96
00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,120
Speaker 1: up to the gas station and they cannot afford to

97
00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,159
Speaker 1: put more than one or two gallons of gas into

98
00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,480
Speaker 1: their car at a time. I think there's a lot

99
00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,120
Speaker 1: of people like that, and those people white, Black, Asian

100
00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,000
Speaker 1: and Hispanic. They're concerned about the economy and they're concerned

101
00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,760
Speaker 1: about crime, and it is the overwhelming focus I think

102
00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,720
Speaker 1: of everyone, and Democrats are failing across the board on

103
00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,520
Speaker 1: those two issues. Primarily, it does sound increasingly pathetic. Clay,

104
00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,679
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not really a good a good pitch

105
00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,880
Speaker 1: that the Democrats even can give for what they've done

106
00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,640
Speaker 1: that has gone well and fact, I think you could

107
00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,159
Speaker 1: draw a straight line between mainstream Democrat ideology, the base

108
00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,279
Speaker 1: of the Democrat Party, decisions that have been taken, and

109
00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,400
Speaker 1: disastrous results on crime, on the border, on inflation, on

110
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,360
Speaker 1: the economy, on lockdowns people are. One good indicator I've

111
00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,840
Speaker 1: seen is that the dominoes did not immediately fall right

112
00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,320
Speaker 1: after Philadelphia's mask mandate went into So far, I agree

113
00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,040
Speaker 1: it so far, but I thought by now you would

114
00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,960
Speaker 1: have seen some cities fall. I was worried that New

115
00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,840
Speaker 1: York was going to follow suit. I think that there's

116
00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,840
Speaker 1: concern about people being able to reason through this enough

117
00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,640
Speaker 1: after enough pointless suffering, which is what all the masking

118
00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,760
Speaker 1: and the lockdowns and everything it was pointless suffering. It

119
00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,360
Speaker 1: was really theatrical in its only purpose to show people

120
00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,200
Speaker 1: we're doing something, and then the alternatives are for them

121
00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,200
Speaker 1: to just create a whole separate narrative, whole separate storyline

122
00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,800
Speaker 1: for what's really going on, for what's really going on

123
00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,520
Speaker 1: in America to day. Here is a Democratic poster, for example, saying,

124
00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,400
Speaker 1: you know, we have to do Clay, the Democrats need

125
00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,080
Speaker 1: to pretend that Trump is on the ballot. Morale is

126
00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,320
Speaker 1: extremely low amongst the Democratic coalition. We are seeing cynicism

127
00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,080
Speaker 1: and frustration with a lack of with the perceived lack

128
00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,840
Speaker 1: of progress on the progressive agenda. And the truth is

129
00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,480
Speaker 1: Democrats have made significant progress on issues that are most

130
00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,920
Speaker 1: important to the Democratic base, but they are not telling

131
00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,520
Speaker 1: that story. And so, you know, a part of what

132
00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,560
Speaker 1: we have to do here in the mid term is

133
00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,040
Speaker 1: portray a message of unfinished business. And there's two sides

134
00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,240
Speaker 1: of that. A part of that unfinished business we have

135
00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,360
Speaker 1: to put Trump back on the ballot. But that means

136
00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,000
Speaker 1: that does not mean that we get to make every

137
00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,960
Speaker 1: Republicans seem like Trump. It means that we have to

138
00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,000
Speaker 1: literally explain that Republicans win the House and the Senate

139
00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, they will reinstall a Trump in

140
00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So so can I just point out

141
00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,840
Speaker 1: Clay that it's incongruous. I mean, he really gives away

142
00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,080
Speaker 1: the game with oh yeah, We've made a lot of

143
00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,280
Speaker 1: strides with the progressive agenda, which is just not true.

144
00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,400
Speaker 1: In fact, the only places where they've pushed with the

145
00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,280
Speaker 1: progressive agenda, things like schools, where they've had these big

146
00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,440
Speaker 1: fights over the Don't Say Gay bill, they're actually losing

147
00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,760
Speaker 1: ground now those battles are going against them. If they

148
00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,720
Speaker 1: were doing well and delivering for the American people, the

149
00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,840
Speaker 1: Democrat Party wouldn't then turn around and say, let's pretend

150
00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,680
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is on the ballot. Well, and it

151
00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,800
Speaker 1: didn't work in twenty twenty one, because that's what they

152
00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,680
Speaker 1: tried to do, and that was in short order after

153
00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,200
Speaker 1: Trump had been on the ballot. So now two years in,

154
00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,160
Speaker 1: you have to own whatever is going on, good or bad.

155
00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,760
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is responsible for it. You can't blame the

156
00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,360
Speaker 1: boogeyman of Trump. Now, that certainly may well be the

157
00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,240
Speaker 1: strategy in twenty twenty four. Buck, And that's actually one

158
00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,080
Speaker 1: of the things that concerns me about Trump running in

159
00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, which I believe he's going to do

160
00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,720
Speaker 1: and I think he should win. But Trump has to

161
00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,360
Speaker 1: run a different campaign in twenty twenty four than he

162
00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:03,480
Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen, he was the change agent.

163
00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,840
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four what Republicans need to run on is

164
00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,400
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was a disaster, and We're not going to

165
00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,200
Speaker 1: be a disaster. And my one concern about Trump in

166
00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:19,720
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is Republicans will have everything set up

167
00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,720
Speaker 1: to win. Will Democrats be able to argue against Trump

168
00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,440
Speaker 1: as opposed to defending Biden? Because what should be on

169
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,480
Speaker 1: the ballot in twenty twenty four is all of the

170
00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,640
Speaker 1: failures of the Biden administration. What Democrats you just heard,

171
00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,400
Speaker 1: they're trying to do it in twenty twenty two. I

172
00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,440
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna work. It didn't work in twenty

173
00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,360
Speaker 1: twenty one. But if Trump is on the ballot, does

174
00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,120
Speaker 1: Trump become the story as opposed to Biden failures? Because

175
00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,840
Speaker 1: if it's Biden failures, Republicans win. If it's Trump, maybe

176
00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,640
Speaker 1: possibly Democrats can be rallied enough even though things are

177
00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,840
Speaker 1: awful in the country and independence two, who might be

178
00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,680
Speaker 1: able to vote against Trump? That's my concern. Does that

179
00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,840
Speaker 1: make sense to you? Yeah? Yeah, And I think that

180
00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,439
Speaker 1: what we're seeing right now is a Democrat party that

181
00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,960
Speaker 1: is having to try to defend what is largely politically

182
00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,520
Speaker 1: just indefensible. I mean, no one thinks that the worst

183
00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,280
Speaker 1: inflation rate in forty years is something that you can

184
00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,319
Speaker 1: just wave a hand and pretend isn't there No one

185
00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,959
Speaker 1: thinks that, as you just pointed out, gas gas is

186
00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,280
Speaker 1: so expensive that it's really hurting people's budgets daily, weekly budgets,

187
00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,480
Speaker 1: Folks who don't have spare cash to throw around or

188
00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,280
Speaker 1: saying what the heck is going on here? And also

189
00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,559
Speaker 1: at some level, the bill for the lockdowns, which Republicans

190
00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,640
Speaker 1: in the early stage were somewhat complicit in but quickly said,

191
00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,160
Speaker 1: hold on a second, this wasn't a good idea. Within

192
00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,960
Speaker 1: a few months, certainly most of them were saying that,

193
00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,600
Speaker 1: and I mean the full on lockdowns, The bill for

194
00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,120
Speaker 1: lockdowns is coming to do with this with inflation. Biden

195
00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,640
Speaker 1: made it a lot worse by spending one point nine trillion.

196
00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this as a as almost an extra

197
00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,000
Speaker 1: size and where are they going to come at us, Like,

198
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,640
Speaker 1: where are they going to actually try to make gains

199
00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,040
Speaker 1: against the Republican Party based on results or based on

200
00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,960
Speaker 1: some narrative. It just feels like right now they're flailing.

201
00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,520
Speaker 1: There's nothing. This stuff isn't working. And I think that

202
00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,880
Speaker 1: between crime, the economy, and the border Democrats are heading

203
00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,680
Speaker 1: for a really brutal mid term, which should be in

204
00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,480
Speaker 1: a wake and I think for the whole country, and

205
00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,000
Speaker 1: there'll be so much political momentum that Joe Biden's note

206
00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,640
Speaker 1: able to turn around. You gotta remember, Barack Obama was

207
00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,679
Speaker 1: an almost messianic figure for Democrats. I mean, Barack Obama was,

208
00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,840
Speaker 1: by his own words, going to stop the rise of

209
00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,760
Speaker 1: the seas. Right, So even if the first two years

210
00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,960
Speaker 1: of Obamasm weren't all that great, there was this ability

211
00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,640
Speaker 1: to just say, but the great Barack Obama will save us,

212
00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,480
Speaker 1: and he is president, right, I mean, there was this

213
00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,840
Speaker 1: notion that all you needed was to give him more time.

214
00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,439
Speaker 1: No one thinks that Joe Biden's going to get better

215
00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,360
Speaker 1: with more time. Is he messianic in any way? Which

216
00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,040
Speaker 1: is so this is the problem they're facing. Well, not

217
00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,079
Speaker 1: only it's not even just Obama. Remember the shelackings that

218
00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,000
Speaker 1: Democrats took in nineteen ninety four and in two thousand

219
00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,199
Speaker 1: and ten, which I think are going to be similar

220
00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,840
Speaker 1: to what we're going to see in twenty twenty two.

221
00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,960
Speaker 1: In November, those shelackings occurred with really skilled politicians in office.

222
00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was able to triangulate his way back to

223
00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,640
Speaker 1: re election by nineteen ninety six. To your point, Obama,

224
00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,760
Speaker 1: whether you love or hate him, really skilled politician being

225
00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,360
Speaker 1: able to work his way back towards reelection in two twelve.

226
00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,520
Speaker 1: Does anyone think that Joe Biden is a shadow of

227
00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,840
Speaker 1: Barack Obama or Bill Clinton in terms of communication and

228
00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,240
Speaker 1: the presidency? In other words, does anyone think that when

229
00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,040
Speaker 1: this shelacking happens, Joe Biden can pull the Democratic Party

230
00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,680
Speaker 1: out of this hole? I don't, which is why I

231
00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:55,920
Speaker 1: think he's actually not going to run. But I can't

232
00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,720
Speaker 1: be down. I don't think and we all know that

233
00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,080
Speaker 1: politicians at that level are only universally egomaniacs. I'm gonna

234
00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,200
Speaker 1: say it on both sides. Do you do need somebody

235
00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,199
Speaker 1: with a very beyond healthy ego usually to run for president,

236
00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,760
Speaker 1: to run for some of the highest offices. I don't

237
00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,559
Speaker 1: think Joe Biden thinks that he's a shadow of the

238
00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,200
Speaker 1: politician that Barack Obama or Bill Clinton were for the

239
00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,640
Speaker 1: Democrat Party. So this is why what have they got

240
00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,439
Speaker 1: right now? But I also feel like there must be

241
00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,160
Speaker 1: there must be some kind of political offensive that they're planning.

242
00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,440
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen it yet. I mean, we know

243
00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna talk about Trump. We know they're gonna talk

244
00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,760
Speaker 1: about white supremacy and things like that. A lot of

245
00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,200
Speaker 1: class warfare stuff will come up to They'll try to

246
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,640
Speaker 1: play the old Joe Biden. He's just hanging out with

247
00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,000
Speaker 1: his lunch pale with all the union workers. Sure he

248
00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,079
Speaker 1: is guys with his like multi multimillion dollar properties that

249
00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,960
Speaker 1: he owns all over all over the Eastern Seaboard. He's

250
00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,079
Speaker 1: just just like everybody else. Because right now, Clay, I mean,

251
00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,360
Speaker 1: I you gotta wonder, it's almost like the mercy rule

252
00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,440
Speaker 1: might have to be called in after this election, Like

253
00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,720
Speaker 1: you know, we can't hold another one until the Democrats

254
00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,440
Speaker 1: get their act together. Six months, just a little bit

255
00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,440
Speaker 1: over six month months till the red wave. If your

256
00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,320
Speaker 1: cell phone service is a Verizon AT and T or

257
00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,800
Speaker 1: T mobile, chances are your monthly bills are never going down.

258
00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,880
Speaker 1: Why would they. You've shown you'll pay any price increase

259
00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:13,319
Speaker 1: they throw your way, and you'll just live with the

260
00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,080
Speaker 1: pain of that increased cost. A lot of people barely

261
00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,480
Speaker 1: even pay attention to those little price raises they do, right,

262
00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,960
Speaker 1: But there's an alternative, a smart alternative. It won't cost

263
00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,280
Speaker 1: you at all in terms of quality of service, but

264
00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,640
Speaker 1: it will mean you get to keep more of your

265
00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,400
Speaker 1: money along with keeping your cell phone and your cell

266
00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,560
Speaker 1: phone number. The company is called pure Talk. They have

267
00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,000
Speaker 1: the same exact five G coverage. Is one of those

268
00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,600
Speaker 1: big guys, but their plans save you money. Case in point,

269
00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,080
Speaker 1: the average family on a pure Talk plan saves over

270
00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,320
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars a year with pure Talk. Their plan

271
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,200
Speaker 1: gives you unlimited talk, text, and six gigs of data

272
00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,160
Speaker 1: for just thirty dollars a month. That's right, you get

273
00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,200
Speaker 1: a limited data and still save a lot of money

274
00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,200
Speaker 1: every month. So all you have to do right now

275
00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,600
Speaker 1: from your cell phone dial pound two fifty say pure

276
00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,480
Speaker 1: Talk save an additional fifty percent off your first month.

277
00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,000
Speaker 1: You can literally be switched over to Pure Talk service

278
00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,360
Speaker 1: in less than ten minutes. Dial pound two five zero

279
00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:16,200
Speaker 1: and say the words pure Talk Welcome back. Ed Clay

280
00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,720
Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton show as bad as things are, Buck,

281
00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,200
Speaker 1: I was thinking, as we went to break with the

282
00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,080
Speaker 1: economy with the eight point five percent inflation that we're

283
00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,760
Speaker 1: currently seeing, which is the highest in forty years, can

284
00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,280
Speaker 1: you imagine where we would be if Joe Biden had

285
00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,840
Speaker 1: actually gotten what he wanted, which was this five trillion

286
00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,880
Speaker 1: dollar plus additional federal spending from build back better. I mean,

287
00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,560
Speaker 1: as bad as things are for the economy right now,

288
00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,640
Speaker 1: you basically had Joe Mansion and Kursten Cinema, two senators

289
00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,240
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party who kept this from happening, because remember,

290
00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,760
Speaker 1: it passed the House, and there were people who said,

291
00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,000
Speaker 1: even when Joe Manchum was trying to dial back how

292
00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,800
Speaker 1: much they were spending, Hey, there's no way that we

293
00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,600
Speaker 1: should be Now is the time to spend. Remember they

294
00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,720
Speaker 1: tried to argue buck, oh, this will actually make inflation better.

295
00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,400
Speaker 1: If they had spent that five trillion dollars that they

296
00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,800
Speaker 1: wanted to spend in five trillion dollars, probably not even

297
00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,400
Speaker 1: a full calculation of what they were going to be spending.

298
00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,240
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how much worse place we would be in?

299
00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,480
Speaker 1: And it kind of draws back in again. And I

300
00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,840
Speaker 1: don't know the answer, but I do wonder if Republicans

301
00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,440
Speaker 1: and a lot of them are listening to us right

302
00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,920
Speaker 1: now in the state of Georgia, had been able to

303
00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,080
Speaker 1: win one of those Senate seats, how much different does

304
00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,240
Speaker 1: things look even with this eight point five percent inflation

305
00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,840
Speaker 1: that we have now. I think if the Democrats had

306
00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,240
Speaker 1: gotten what they want, buck, we're talking about ten or

307
00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,040
Speaker 1: twelve percent inflation as we talk right now. What if

308
00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,120
Speaker 1: the Republicans had won just one of those Senate seats,

309
00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,600
Speaker 1: what is inflation right now and more five percent? And

310
00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,760
Speaker 1: we should have one, Yes, at least one of those

311
00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,800
Speaker 1: Senate seats. That was really a self inflicted by the GOP,

312
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,400
Speaker 1: A lot of infighting, a lot of lack of strategic

313
00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,440
Speaker 1: imperative and discipline in that moment in time after the

314
00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,199
Speaker 1: twenty twenty election. It was very frustrating. But yes, to

315
00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,880
Speaker 1: your point, Clay, things are so absurd that Joe Biden

316
00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,600
Speaker 1: got in the habit of doing his loud whisper thing

317
00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,600
Speaker 1: and reduce inflation. He would say, it would reduce inflation

318
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,840
Speaker 1: to spend trillions of dollars additionally, beyond the trillions of

319
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,080
Speaker 1: dollars in the federal budget as it stands right now,

320
00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,960
Speaker 1: we just dodged. I mean, look, I know a lot

321
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,120
Speaker 1: of you out there listening to us right now are

322
00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,920
Speaker 1: struggling that one gallon of gas that had been bought

323
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,320
Speaker 1: right before kind of crystallized for me as I was

324
00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,359
Speaker 1: getting ready, I drove down to Birmingham. Met a lot

325
00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,679
Speaker 1: of listeners by the way down to Birmingham over the weekend.

326
00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,359
Speaker 1: But as bad as the Democrats have made the economy,

327
00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,680
Speaker 1: they came close to making it infinitely worse. They cannot

328
00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,920
Speaker 1: have any more power at all as we're all deal

329
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,480
Speaker 1: with the fallout from what they created. In the meantime,

330
00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,320
Speaker 1: trying to save you money right now with our guy

331
00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,000
Speaker 1: Mike Lindell. Right now, he has got the lowest price

332
00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,680
Speaker 1: ever on Giza dream Sheets. They are sixty percent off,

333
00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,800
Speaker 1: coming in at just thirty nine ninety nine. With the

334
00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,040
Speaker 1: promo code Clay and Buck all my Pillow products, you

335
00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,600
Speaker 1: get a sixty day money back guarantee with him. Here's

336
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,720
Speaker 1: how you get signed up. Go to my pillow dot

337
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,439
Speaker 1: com click on Radio Listeners Specials to check out the

338
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,080
Speaker 1: flash sale on the Giza dream Sheets. Thanks to our promo,

339
00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,879
Speaker 1: you'll also get a copy of Mike Lindell's book for

340
00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,160
Speaker 1: free with your purchase. Remember to use the code Clay

341
00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,400
Speaker 1: and Buck. You can also call eight hundred seven nine

342
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,440
Speaker 1: two thirty two sixty nine. Get hooked up now sixty

343
00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,439
Speaker 1: percent off the Giza dream Sheets. All you have to

344
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,439
Speaker 1: do is go to my pillow dot com. Use the

345
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:55,359
Speaker 1: code Clay and Bucks. Do it today. Welcome back to

346
00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,120
Speaker 1: Clay and Buck eight two eight eight two on those

347
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 1: lines you want to chat with us. We're covering a

348
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 1: lot of ground today because there's some interesting stories percolating,

349
00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,439
Speaker 1: not one dominant headline all across the board. Although I

350
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,919
Speaker 1: do think that the failures of the Biden regime in

351
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,480
Speaker 1: a number of capacities deserve a whole lot more attention.

352
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 1: Something will certainly be doing here and on the issue

353
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:26,679
Speaker 1: of crime. Something that I feel is a reality in

354
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 1: New York that is in escapable right now, and I'm

355
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,880
Speaker 1: sure it's true in other place is as we've discussed,

356
00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,920
Speaker 1: let's call it, last roughly twelve months in pretty much

357
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,800
Speaker 1: every major American city where there were a couple of

358
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,960
Speaker 1: cities Claire where I said, I hadn't pulled the numbers,

359
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,479
Speaker 1: the data, and we still should do that. I'm wondering,

360
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,560
Speaker 1: what's what's happened in Tampa, what's happened in Miami? But

361
00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,920
Speaker 1: every other major city I can think of has been

362
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,399
Speaker 1: going through a rough time, and we know why this is.

363
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,960
Speaker 1: There was a decision made largely pushed by the political

364
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 1: pressure of the BLM movement to star art being a

365
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:06,679
Speaker 1: whole lot more permissive, not only about violent crime, shorter sentences,

366
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: bail reform laws, things of that nature, but just day

367
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,200
Speaker 1: to day crime. I mean, shoplifting has been almost legalized

368
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 1: in some major American cities, with predictably disastrous consequences, along

369
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,360
Speaker 1: with turnstile jumping and public urination. All these these are

370
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,760
Speaker 1: lessons that we're learned in major cities in the eighties

371
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: and the nineties, and Democrats decided, you know what, let's

372
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 1: just try it again. Let's just see what happens when

373
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 1: we abandon law and order in the name of social justice.

374
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 1: Criminal justice gets sidelined for social justice. And the Mayor

375
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: of New York, who I have been a skeptic of

376
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: from the beginning and find deeply disappointing, a few months

377
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 1: in Eric Adams says that it is actually they're gonna

378
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,439
Speaker 1: try this clay. They're just gonna see what will what

379
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 1: will fly? You know, They're gonna try all kinds of stuff. Here.

380
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 1: He is telling everybody that it is Republicans who are

381
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,680
Speaker 1: of defunding the police or wanting to because they won't

382
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: pass build back back. You've heard the narrative beforehand about

383
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: defunding the police. Let me tell you what the defunders

384
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 1: of police are. Those are those who did not vote

385
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,640
Speaker 1: on the Buildback Better bill. Money was in that bill

386
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: for police officers. We have twenty four hundred ATF ages

387
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 1: in our country, only eight are in New York. We

388
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: need to double that amount. We need to go after

389
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: the golds guns needs to put ahead to ATF in place,

390
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: put in place a real gun tracing program, and then

391
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 1: we have to be preventive. Many of these generational social

392
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: problems have become the pipeline to violence. And the only

393
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 1: thing that is beating that pipeline is the pipeline of

394
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: guns that are coming in out inner cities. This is

395
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 1: all politics. This is not actually law enforcement expertise speaking

396
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 1: in any capacity. Clay. We could even just look at

397
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: the Regent shooting on the New York City subway, which

398
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: not a lot disappeared from the news, a lot of

399
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: coverage of a mass casualty terror attack on the New

400
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 1: York City subway system, but a few days ago. I

401
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 1: also tried to find the victims to see who was

402
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: targeted by this. I can only find two. They still

403
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: haven't released the identities of the victims of that attack,

404
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 1: at least that I've been able to find, which I

405
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: think is noteworthy. But Clay he bought his firearm legally.

406
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 1: So what what? What exactly is Eric Adams put aside?

407
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,400
Speaker 1: How stupid to build back? Better? Plan? Is? In general?

408
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: How would that have actually affected crime in the city

409
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: over the last six months? How would have affected the

410
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 1: last the incident last week? The answer is not at

411
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: all at f Aidens wouldn't wouldn't have done a damn thing.

412
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: We're going back in time, and for those of us

413
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 1: who remember a high crime New York City, a high

414
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: crime basically every city in America, there was a fear

415
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 1: that things were going to get worse in the nineteen nineties.

416
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: You remember this. And the one thing that Joe Biden

417
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 1: might have gotten right in his entire career was the

418
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 1: nineteen y four Crime Bill, which really legitimately brought back

419
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 1: down crime. And we continued to ride the legitimacy of

420
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: that bill, which was passed Democrats and Republican said, crime

421
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: is a disgrace. Let's solve it. And this is important.

422
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: Being concerned about people being in prison for too long

423
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: is a luxury of a low crime era, and what

424
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,719
Speaker 1: happened time after time after time was people said, oh,

425
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 1: we're punishing criminals too much. And as all the DA's

426
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: started to lead, you know, this guy's been arrested, the

427
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: one who shot on the subway twelve times, buck nine

428
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: times in New York and three times in New Jersey.

429
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: And I understand that the three strikes in Your Out

430
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: Crime Bill, which basically said, hey, you'd commit three felonies,

431
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: you're gone, there were people who got caught up in

432
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 1: that and ended up getting jerk honey in sentences as

433
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: a result. But as a group, we put people who

434
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: were violent behind bars, and crime came down for the

435
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: rest of us. And now those same people back out

436
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: on the streets, not suffering any sort of significant consequences

437
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: for their criminal behavior, and all of us are bearing

438
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 1: the price. And I'm just gonna tell everybody this, and

439
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: I know that everyone's gonna like to hear it, but

440
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: it's true. Trump administration got caught up in some of

441
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 1: this stuff. We're gonna be honest about this. Let's be

442
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: honest about this. Trump administration was pushing the First Step Act.

443
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: The Trump administration after b Now, when I say caught

444
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: up in some of this, maybe they're maybe they were

445
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: five percent or ten percent as caught up as the

446
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: you know, the ninety or ninety five percent of this

447
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: was Democrat policies and ideas. But this became fashionable on

448
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: the right as well for a while, not just when

449
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: I say Trump administration, I mean that more generally, also

450
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: with the GOP, the Trump White House, but also a

451
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: lot of people in GP were talking about criminal justice reform.

452
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,479
Speaker 1: This became fashionable for a while, and it was always

453
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: we're locking up too many people for non violent drug offenses.

454
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: That's not really the case when you look at what

455
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: the drug offense is actually usually involved. Drug offenses are

456
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: often easy to prove, and so federal prosecutors will say, well,

457
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: we'll get you on the drugs. Well, we're not even

458
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: going to go after the weapons possession. We're not even

459
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: going to go after the violent gang assault or whatever

460
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: the other charges may be. So all you see for

461
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: an individual are possession of you know, x, ounces of

462
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: filling the blank with with illegal with illegal drug. We

463
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 1: weren't actually locking up a whole lot of people for

464
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: decades for just having a bag of marijuana. And I

465
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: think that started to become the perception that was pushed

466
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: by a lot of people to get I mean, Clay,

467
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: why else do we have all these We had all

468
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: these criminal justice reform laws going into effect twenty eighteen,

469
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, and then the BLM movement came

470
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: about the undermining of police as racist. You know, I

471
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: think we have to take stock and look at how

472
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,360
Speaker 1: this whole thing happened. Yeah, the progressive prosecutors are out

473
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: of their minds, but obviously, and they have to be

474
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: dealt with first. But there were some Republicans that were

475
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: a little a little off on this one. I'm just

476
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: gonna say it, a little off. Well, and again the

477
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: consequences of I think you have to combine this with

478
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: social media, buck because what happens is there's one social

479
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: media video that goes viral. And this is frequent for

480
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: many different issues, but certainly, as it pertains to George

481
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: Floyd that video, instead of people saying, okay, let's find

482
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: out whether or not these police officers are responsible for

483
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: committing a crime and prosecute them, as occurred, immediately, the

484
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: idea became, we have to destroy the entire policing system

485
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: and all police are awful and not worthy of our respect,

486
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: and that is what the argument became. I mean, I'm

487
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: sitting here right now doing the show buck in my

488
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: OutKick fund the Police t shirt, it says fund the police.

489
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: That actually became a slogan because defund the police, which

490
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: is fundamentally the dumbest slogan in the history of modern

491
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 1: American politics, became what democrats wanted to run on. And

492
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: there were so many people who were afraid of being

493
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: called racist in the wake of the George Floyd of

494
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: tape that they weren't willing to say, Hey, let's pause here,

495
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: do we really need to tear down the entire criminal

496
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: justice system? In an effort to try and respond to

497
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: this video, here's former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton,

498
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: famous for being a part of the bringing crime down movement.

499
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: Here in the city of New York. Here is the

500
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: scales right now. It's tipped very heavily in favor of

501
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: the reforms of the progressive left, well intended, some needed,

502
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: but tip too far. And what we have as a

503
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: result is is growing fear of crime, is growing, actual

504
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: amount of crimes evidence in almost every major American city

505
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. It just went too far towards

506
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: the left. And what you see now is the areas

507
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: of real challenge and the areas of real problems in

508
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: America from a policy perspective, wide open border, way too

509
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: much spending, obviously way too much COVID restriction from my

510
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: perspective as well, but also permissiveness toward crime and criminality.

511
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: These are maladies of the left. These are things that

512
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: you can trace directly to the ideology of one major

513
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,719
Speaker 1: political party of this country. And look, I try to

514
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: hold everybody accountable for their decisions. And that's why I'll

515
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: say some Republicans, I think we're a little too favorable

516
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: toward this, but it's you know, it's a ninety ten proposition.

517
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: This is ninety percent Democrats responsibility and maybe five or

518
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: ten percent Republicans pushing for the madness that we're suffering

519
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: through major cities right now. Positive is buck people forgot.

520
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: But we know how to fix this, and it's a

521
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: matter of making those fixes happen. That's what the nineties

522
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: were about, right, fixing many of these social ills. Now

523
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: is there the political wherewithal to actually fix them. That's

524
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: why we need to have a way and slide in November,

525
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: because that will change. It'll crystallize a lot of Democrats

526
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: into recognizing how much they overreached. Yeah, it would be

527
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: good if we could get to a place where somehow

528
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: I see this all the time on social media, clay

529
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: where there's a video of police officers that are trying

530
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: to tell someone you know, you can't block traffic where

531
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: you can't. What you're doing is illegal, and there's this

532
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: attitude of vote, well, I'm just not getting arrested today, yeah,

533
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: and then the cop will say you're under arrest and

534
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: they say no, no, sorry, until people understand that that's actually,

535
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: in itself, that is the problem. Right if you think

536
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: you can just wrestle with cops because you don't feel

537
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: like getting arrested today, and some portion of the public

538
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: goes along with you and says, yeah, if you don't

539
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: feel like getting arrested, no problem, go for it. See

540
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: if you can escape. We are going to have lawlessness

541
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: in a way that really makes people unsafe and makes

542
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: our society miserable. Every single violent police encounter, virtually, every

543
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: single one of them, would not exist if the initial

544
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: person just complied with police officer request period. Comply. I

545
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: said it to my kids all the time. Your dad

546
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: is an attorney. If your constitutional rights are violated, you

547
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: get an opportunity, thankfully in this country, to defend yourself

548
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: against any way that you might have been mistreated. But

549
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: if you don't comply with the police officer, things get

550
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: worse in a hurry. I don't know why every parent

551
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have this conversation. It is remarkable that if you

552
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: told somebody, hey, I want to have a module in school,

553
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: just a module, not even a full class where we

554
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: teach kids about you know, if you have to have

555
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: an interaction with police, here's the here's how to go

556
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: about it safely. You know your rights, here are your rights.

557
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: Here's what they can do, here's what they can't do.

558
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: That is crazy to militarianism. But teaching kids about pan

559
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: sexualism and thirty seven different genders is science and is necessary.

560
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: This is the modern left for you folks. Look, there's

561
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: something to be said about joining voices together and what

562
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: you collectively believe in. That's one of the benefits of AMAK,

563
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: the Association of Mature American Citizens. This is an organization

564
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: meant to offer both a unified voice and benefits that

565
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: come from being part of an association created to improve

566
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: quality of life for its membership. AMAC is right. Our

567
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: nation faces unprecedented challenges. Election integrity is one, border security

568
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: is another. The never ending change the way we're governed

569
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: with ever changing mandates related to COVID restrictions is obviously

570
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: yet another. You know how liberals respond to these issues.

571
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: They want to implement more government and take away your

572
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: individual liberty. AMAC has worked tirelessly to push against the

573
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: left and will keep doing so. They're going to remain

574
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: steadfast through the midterms and beyond. AMAC offers members exclusive benefits,

575
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: a great magazine, and most important, a strong conservative voice

576
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Stand with AMAC and join us today

577
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: at AMAC dot us slash freedom. That's AMAC dot us

578
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: slash freedom. Join AMAC today, Welcome back in play Travis

579
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: Buck sex to show closing out the first hour. Appreciate

580
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: all of you hanging out with us. By the way,

581
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: there's a New York Times editorial up Buck that says

582
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: from Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, Democrats must pass their

583
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: stalled agenda or brace for big losses in the midterms.

584
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: The big losses in the midterms are happening no matter what.

585
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: Here's my concern, Buck, that Democrats might recognize that no

586
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: matter what they passed, they're getting She'll whacked. But they

587
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: also may recognize that Republicans are not going to have

588
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: enough of a majority in the House or the Senate

589
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: to be able to overturn what a pass while they

590
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: have the majority, while they have the Senate, while they

591
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: have the House, and while they got the White House,

592
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: and so whatever they pass would be an effect for

593
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: multi years because it's difficult to overturn something. And so

594
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're just going to throw their hands up,

595
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: Buck and say, you know what, that argument I think

596
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: is untrue from Elizabeth Warren. I don't think it's going

597
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: to change what's going to happen in the midterms. I

598
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: think she probably recognizes that. But what's going to change

599
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: is the power to implement any of these policies. And

600
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: they might just say, screw it, we're gonna have a

601
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: big tax take, big tax increase. We're going to spend

602
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of your money while we can, because otherwise,

603
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: starting next year, we won't be able to. We should

604
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: never underestimate the democrats willingness and shamelessness in scapegoating. They're

605
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: doing a horrible job. We know that that's obvious. The

606
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: numbers all show it. They're not doing a good job

607
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: with the economy, with crime, with the border, and we

608
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: have the biggest war going on now. Look, it's prudent's fault,

609
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: it's not Biden's vault. But we do have all these

610
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: international institutions and the UN and US leadership on the

611
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: world stage, all these things they talk to us about,

612
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: and we weren't able to stop a Russian invasion before

613
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: it occurred. So I think that's all. It didn't happen

614
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: under Trump. I think that's also noteworthy. But the scapegoating

615
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: clay that means that they'll say, oh, are you having

616
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: trouble buying gas? It's because of those greedy corporations. Are

617
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: you having trouble making ends meet? It's because the rich

618
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: don't pay their fair share. Forget about the fact that

619
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: it is government policy that drives inflation. It is inflation

620
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: that now means that the average American is working an

621
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: extra month for free. Basically, I mean, you're looking at

622
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: an eight percent reduction in your wages for the year

623
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: compared to I know, inflation is usually about two percent.

624
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: But real inflation, which is a whole other conversation of

625
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: what you really need, not just what's in the CPI basket,

626
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: is higher than eight percent, no doubt, I mean, and

627
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: it is a that is my concern now that Democrats

628
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: are going to turn from Hey, let's try to find

629
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: a way to win some elections in the mid terms too.

630
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: We're done for Let's pass what we can while we

631
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: still can. Could happen is a challenge. I think that

632
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: might well happen. Well, Dan, and Oklahoma has got some

633
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: thoughts for us. Dan, what's up, my men? Good afternoons, sir,

634
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: Thank you. I look at it's interesting you say that

635
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: Democrats are maybe worried and going to give up. But

636
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: I don't think they're hold on, hold on. We didn't

637
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: say they're going to give up. I think they're gonna

638
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: fight super dirty, but go but go And I don't

639
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: think Clay thinks they're giving up either, but go ahead. Yeah. Well,

640
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't

641
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: think they fear elections. They don't fear anything that they

642
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: do because of our election integrity just isn't there. When

643
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: when they know that they can have ballots just waiting

644
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: in the wings, and liberal justices willing to let them

645
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: bring all these ballots in. I don't think they fear

646
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: what they're doing because they know that the elections aren't aren't.

647
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna I understand that. I understand that

648
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: concern in the wake of twenty twenty I certainly do.

649
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get destroyed in twenty twenty two.

650
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 1: We have to and as a result, to Dan's point,

651
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: try to pass with we can. Well, there's like an

652
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: election premium that we have. There's you know, we have

653
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: to win by so much that they can't cheat enough

654
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: to make up the difference. That's how we have to

655
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: view it. And I don't think it's gonna be remotely close.

656
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: And I think they're coming to those understandings, which is

657
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: why I'm concerned they're going to try and pass some

658
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: crazy bills in the next couple of months. Sleet Travis

659
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth