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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Oh my, that's
Speaker 1: right here. We are at a point where we now
Speaker 1: see the numbers for a COVID case is higher than
Speaker 1: they've been since April. We're seeing spikes in hospitalization, we're
Speaker 1: seeing high levels of day to day deaths from COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: And the people who were celebrating over the summer in
Speaker 1: places like California, celebrating what a great success they were
Speaker 1: in stopping this virus because of their masking and their lockdowns,
Speaker 1: now have no answer other than lockdown even more, do
Speaker 1: more of what we've said you have to do for months,
Speaker 1: and just ignore the fact that anyone who's observing what's
Speaker 1: happening here could not come away from this believing that
Speaker 1: this stuff actually works. Now, that's not the same thing
Speaker 1: as saying that a mass cannot help you in any circumstance,
Speaker 1: or that if you stayed home and avoided all human
Speaker 1: contact you would be safe from the virus. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about government policy, government mandates, government's use of force to
Speaker 1: shut down your business and keep you in your home
Speaker 1: and limit your freedom of travel, your freedom to operate
Speaker 1: day to day. Is that working? Is it helpful? Or
Speaker 1: does it just make everything worse? Does it take out
Speaker 1: of individual hands the right to make your own health
Speaker 1: decisions for a pandemic that the government clearly, flatly, obviously
Speaker 1: cannot stop. Can it be any more obvious? At this point?
Speaker 1: What else has to happen? New York, California. Places that
Speaker 1: have been touting how we came together listened to the science,
Speaker 1: That's what they were saying. Ard, did we stop listening
Speaker 1: to the science suddenly in the last sixty days, No,
Speaker 1: we did not. Maybe there's another issue here. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: another problem. People are starting to see what's really happening here.
Speaker 1: They can't hide it from me anymore. So what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do is insist you obey and use force. They're
Speaker 1: going to send men with guns from sheriff's offices, local
Speaker 1: police departments, health department, and I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: armed or not, depends on where you are. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: going to send people with the force of the state
Speaker 1: behind them to make you do things that aren't even
Speaker 1: provable as good ideas. That's what they're going to do,
Speaker 1: and we're all supposed to accept this. Now. Now you
Speaker 1: might say, well, buck, the government does a lot of things.
Speaker 1: The government takes money for me in taxes. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: there are guarantees, you see, there are constitutional guarantees of
Speaker 1: due process, of equal protection of the free x size
Speaker 1: of religion, of freedom of assembly, and these have been
Speaker 1: completely trampled over by these idiot tyrants, who are overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: Democrats at the state and local level. They do it
Speaker 1: all across the country. It's terrible here in New York City.
Speaker 1: It's awful in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta. Name a city,
Speaker 1: a major city with Democrat control, and I'll show you
Speaker 1: a place that has shown no ability whatsoever to control
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, but wants even more authority, wants even more
Speaker 1: power now to make you submit, to make you obey.
Speaker 1: In stott An Island. This is one of the five
Speaker 1: boroughs of New York City, perhaps the least known, it's
Speaker 1: the least populated, and it has much more in common
Speaker 1: with New Jersey than Manhattan. Proper, great place. I like
Speaker 1: Staton Island a lot. They had a bar owner bar
Speaker 1: and restaurant for Max Public House. I spoke to his
Speaker 1: lawyer last night. They had a rally where they just
Speaker 1: gathered together and they said enough is enough. Here's what
Speaker 1: they did to Max Public House. They sent sheriffs in
Speaker 1: because this guy had said on social media, I can't
Speaker 1: continue to have my business destroyed, So they send sheriffs in,
Speaker 1: twenty of them. They arrested him. They arrested him and
Speaker 1: brought up multiple citations because he's in a red zone
Speaker 1: or an orange zone or whatever the color of the
Speaker 1: zone is. He's in a zone designated as too dangerous
Speaker 1: for indoor dining. But two blocks away there are other businesses,
Speaker 1: his competitors, who are in a more free zone on
Speaker 1: the same island, so they get to make money and
Speaker 1: feed their families. Max Public House does not. And he
Speaker 1: just says, this is capricious and arbitrary. This is bullcrap,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. There's no science to justify this.
Speaker 1: There's no Oh, look at the data, it'll tell you. No.
Speaker 1: This is idiot politicians who can't control this thing, who
Speaker 1: have been wrong at every phase of the pandemic, who
Speaker 1: only view the answer as one thing. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Every time they do more, they do more stuff, they
Speaker 1: have more power, more infringements, more dictates, more mandates, and
Speaker 1: so the backlash in Staten Island has begun. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: people gathered together there. What about other places, Well, you
Speaker 1: think of the states that have had the most extreme
Speaker 1: restrictions and have also been the states generally speaking with
Speaker 1: the worst COVID results. California perhaps an exception, which I
Speaker 1: think has more to do with climate, meaning that the
Speaker 1: weather or not climate change, the weather in California and
Speaker 1: the fact that people aren't as densely populated even in
Speaker 1: the major cities there as they are on the East
Speaker 1: Coast and in some of the central Midwestern cities like
Speaker 1: Chicago and Detroit. But the states with the worst records
Speaker 1: dealing with COVID are New York, Michigan, New Jersey. These
Speaker 1: are blue as blue can be places. Well, Michigan maybe
Speaker 1: a little less so, but Detroit is where most of
Speaker 1: the COVID cases we're happening, most of the fatalities, and
Speaker 1: California is now having a massive surge as we know.
Speaker 1: So we look at what's going on and we understand
Speaker 1: that the regulations, the rules that they put in place
Speaker 1: clearly have not had the intended effects, so you know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They want more regulations as a result.
Speaker 1: Here is the mayor of Los Angeles who's just telling
Speaker 1: you shut it down, shut it all down. Play six.
Speaker 1: The choices between us are stark, between health and sickness,
Speaker 1: between care and apathy, and yes, between life and death.
Speaker 1: For too many of the people that we love. My
Speaker 1: message couldn't be simpler. It's time to hunker down. It's
Speaker 1: time to cancel everything, and if it isn't essential, don't
Speaker 1: do it. Don't meet up with others outside your household,
Speaker 1: don't host a gathering, don't attend a gathering. And, following
Speaker 1: our targeted safer at Home order, if you're able to
Speaker 1: stay home, stay home. This is equivalent to a public
Speaker 1: official telling you you really just stop living your life.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind they'll say for a week or two,
Speaker 1: it's not a week or two, so the next sixty
Speaker 1: to ninety days do you want to make that trade off?
Speaker 1: Even more important question, do you think the government should
Speaker 1: be able to force you to make that trade off?
Speaker 1: Of the people listening to this, just Americans, you have
Speaker 1: a ninety nine point across all age groups believe it's
Speaker 1: a ninety nine point seven percent chance of surviving if
Speaker 1: you get COVID. Three out of a thousand people who
Speaker 1: get COVID could die from it, and that includes people
Speaker 1: in their eighties and nineties in that sample size. If
Speaker 1: you're under the age of fifty, your chance of dying
Speaker 1: from this is less than your chance of dying if
Speaker 1: you got seasonal flu. That's a fact. You want to
Speaker 1: you want to stay at home and and give up
Speaker 1: the next sixty to ninety days of living life. And
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do you think that's worked
Speaker 1: so far? Do you think that's stop this? They just
Speaker 1: keep trying to constrict, keep trying to put more pressure
Speaker 1: and just squeeze down on this. It doesn't work. It's
Speaker 1: obvious it doesn't work. They hope and pray, not that
Speaker 1: the kind of people that call for this stuff really
Speaker 1: pray in earnest, but they hope that you won't notice
Speaker 1: that You'll just be scared and you'll listen and you'll
Speaker 1: do as you are told. That's really what this is about.
Speaker 1: Do as you're told, peasant, don't ask any questions. That's
Speaker 1: what Garsetti wants. Yeah, people are scared, but there are
Speaker 1: other people who aren't scared. I go into an office
Speaker 1: every day. Every day, I'm traveling, I'm moving around the city.
Speaker 1: I go into an office every day. I try to
Speaker 1: be careful around older family members, and I'm very attuned
Speaker 1: to whether or not I have any symptoms. I get
Speaker 1: tested if I think there's a concern. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: the only thing that I think a reasonable person can do.
Speaker 1: And I'm in the most densely populated part of the country.
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of the biggest city in America
Speaker 1: that had the most COVID depths of any place in America.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I want to live my life,
Speaker 1: and I do. I'm not hunkered down. I go out
Speaker 1: to the stores, I go to my office every day. Now,
Speaker 1: I tape a TV show every day. Now, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and I don't want to stop. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that these idiots in charge have the
Speaker 1: right to make me stop. And as importantly, they're wrong
Speaker 1: about what will happen if they make me stop. Do
Speaker 1: we live in a free country or not? We're starting
Speaker 1: to have to ask this question, do we live in
Speaker 1: a free country? If your mayor or your governor can
Speaker 1: tell you you're not allowed to leave your home except
Speaker 1: under specifically defined circumstances. You certainly can't gather together with
Speaker 1: other human beings. You can't have a wedding, you can't
Speaker 1: have a funeral. You can't open your business, your restaurant,
Speaker 1: your shop, your store. The answers, we don't live in
Speaker 1: a free country. We need to face up to that.
Speaker 1: We need to look at this and deal with the reality.
Speaker 1: It's time to say enough. Not everyone's going to do it.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's going to push back, but you know what
Speaker 1: they can do. They can look down to Florida, where
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's some utopia down there, although weather
Speaker 1: is very nice, but they're doing better than New York City.
Speaker 1: They're doing better than California right now in this fight
Speaker 1: against COVID. No mask mandates, no mandates you want to
Speaker 1: wear a mask, wear a mask. But they're not having
Speaker 1: the government ram this down people's throats. They're not shutting
Speaker 1: down businesses all across the board, and they're doing a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Think about this, though, they should be
Speaker 1: much worse. According with the lockdowners say, Florida should just
Speaker 1: be oh my gosh, pandemonium for the pandemic, right, It's
Speaker 1: just it's not the case. Why Why is that? Why
Speaker 1: is that observable? I'm not telling you. This is not
Speaker 1: just my analysis. You can see it, look at the numbers.
Speaker 1: It's because the people who have been taking away your
Speaker 1: freedom this whole time and promising you safety in return
Speaker 1: have been lying to you. Thanks for listening to the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information
Speaker 1: from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. Michigan is
Speaker 1: one of the states that's been hit the hardest by COVID,
Speaker 1: mostly in and around Detroit, but Michigan overall has has
Speaker 1: had a tough time with it, and Gretchen Whitmer has
Speaker 1: been among the most extreme governors. She's one that wants
Speaker 1: to make her mark by telling everybody that they can't
Speaker 1: even go from one home they own to another home
Speaker 1: they own. Not allowed. Maybe you'll infect somebody in your
Speaker 1: car by yourself. Idiotic, of course. But there are people
Speaker 1: in Michigan as well as many other states, who are
Speaker 1: starting to see all of these failures, all of these shortcomings,
Speaker 1: and they've had enough. They're sick of it. In central Michigan,
Speaker 1: there's a guy who went on a rant on a
Speaker 1: local TV station. He's a restaurant owner who interrupted a
Speaker 1: local TV report. And I want you to is this
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a longer clip. I want
Speaker 1: you to hear the whole thing by this guy. Here's
Speaker 1: just an American. Here's a guy who showed up probably
Speaker 1: five thirty six o'clock in the morning. Restaurant hours are
Speaker 1: long and hard. He's been there, you know, scrubbing pots
Speaker 1: and pans, telling his staff they got to show up,
Speaker 1: they got to get the meal out, Fire up that chicken,
Speaker 1: get that burger, cook properly. They mean. It's restaurant work
Speaker 1: is hard, as friends of mine, people I know, will
Speaker 1: tell you at any opportunity. It looks glamorous on TV,
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of depending whether you're doing the
Speaker 1: chef side of it or the server side of it,
Speaker 1: a lot of long hours on your feet. It's not
Speaker 1: easy stuff. And to be a restaurant owner, you're in it.
Speaker 1: You're in that fight every day. You gotta deal with customers.
Speaker 1: You gotta deal with their whims and their fits. So
Speaker 1: when you've built a restaurant that's able to pay the bills,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're a success. You've beaten the odds.
Speaker 1: And this guy has a successful business that's being destroyed.
Speaker 1: It's being taken from him by tyrannical bureaucrats. And he's
Speaker 1: in Central Michigan. He's had enough and this is what
Speaker 1: he had to say. Play twelve, The details on the judges.
Speaker 1: No spy is everything? Okay, okay? Our government leaders have
Speaker 1: abandoned me. Are you? Are you the owner threety dollars
Speaker 1: of stimulus money? They gave it to who? Especially winter
Speaker 1: scrips and campaign donors. I'm Dave Morris. I owned the players.
Speaker 1: So what's going on? What's going on? You know what's
Speaker 1: going on? Tell me? You tell me. Hey, we got
Speaker 1: a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave
Speaker 1: it to special campaign donors. They gave it to special interests.
Speaker 1: They abandoned me, and they have put me in a
Speaker 1: position where I have to fight back. Okay, So do
Speaker 1: you feel that this is the right thing to do? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there
Speaker 1: was enough money to give every family, every family in
Speaker 1: this country twenty thousand dollars to go home for two months.
Speaker 1: They chose to give it to special interests and campaign
Speaker 1: donors the Kennedy Space Center, and they abandoned us, so
Speaker 1: you could have given me money. I glad to walk
Speaker 1: away for sixty days and let this virus settle down.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it a long Okay. Are
Speaker 1: you going to continue to violate the state's orders? Is
Speaker 1: a state order? This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy.
Speaker 1: This is a tyranny. What do you want to tell
Speaker 1: other restaurant owners who wake up? Stand up? This is America,
Speaker 1: be free. I got patriots coming out supporting me. Wake up,
Speaker 1: stand up, this is America, Be free. That's Dave Morris,
Speaker 1: restaurant owner in central Michigan. My government leaders have abandoned me.
Speaker 1: He says, that's true. They have mandated that he shut
Speaker 1: down his business. No more income, ruined, all the hard
Speaker 1: work he put into it gonna be he's falling behind
Speaker 1: on rant. I'm sure for the for the location, it's
Speaker 1: unlikely he owns it. Staff members that he might have
Speaker 1: trained and worked with have had to go and find
Speaker 1: other work, or perhaps they're at home on unemployment. It's
Speaker 1: a mess. And for what Because this works so well,
Speaker 1: Because shutting down human contact has stopped this virus in
Speaker 1: its track. Who believes that at this point, Who really
Speaker 1: thinks that's true based on what look at where we
Speaker 1: are now versus where we were before they were going
Speaker 1: into all these lockdowns. You're gonna tell me it's such
Speaker 1: a better situation. Notice that they can't decide depending on
Speaker 1: which news outlet you check at at any moment. If
Speaker 1: they see one area where cases have gone down a
Speaker 1: little bit in the last week, it's, oh, see, all
Speaker 1: of our lockdowns have worked. If they see that cases
Speaker 1: have gone up a little bit, it's all people didn't
Speaker 1: listen to us over Thanksgiving. There's no honesty in the
Speaker 1: assessment of these figures and numbers. There's no honesty in
Speaker 1: how they're looking at these lockdowns. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: Even a lot of conservative jurists and a lot of
Speaker 1: conservative politicians for sure, are cowards. There are constitutionalist judges
Speaker 1: who are cowards right now on this. Because nobody wants
Speaker 1: to be the one who says the government can't protect
Speaker 1: you from this virus. It will pretend and do a
Speaker 1: lot of damage by pretending. But it is up to
Speaker 1: you and your family to find what works best for
Speaker 1: you to protect yourself, to make your own decisions. You
Speaker 1: can listen to all these mandates. You can listen to
Speaker 1: everything they're telling you and go for an essential doctor's visit,
Speaker 1: go to the hospital because you have to get something
Speaker 1: checked out that has nothing with COVID and have a
Speaker 1: nosocomial infection. You could go to the grocery store and
Speaker 1: sure enough, somebody there's infected too, because this is the
Speaker 1: place where we're all gathering, and you can still get infected.
Speaker 1: I understand that they say this is meant to mitigate
Speaker 1: your chances of getting infected, but how much is that
Speaker 1: really working? And what's the cost mitigated? By what degree?
Speaker 1: I mean if I told you that your chance of
Speaker 1: getting COVID nineteen, I mean it went down by five percent,
Speaker 1: would it be worth all these lockdowns? Why can't we
Speaker 1: have a trade offs discussion? You're in the Freedom Hunt.
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Speaker 1: Well in Florida, Tuckers, you mentioned all businesses are open.
Speaker 1: We've had things like theme parks, beaches open for months
Speaker 1: and months. We have schools open, all K three twelve
Speaker 1: school districts, private schools, charter schools. We have sporting events,
Speaker 1: and I think that for me, I think, as you
Speaker 1: alluded to, a lot of these lockdowns have been very ineffective.
Speaker 1: They have huge negative consequences. And my view is that
Speaker 1: everybody's essential. Whose government to say that your job is
Speaker 1: not essential. I think it is essential. I think some
Speaker 1: of the stuff in March and April didn't work. I
Speaker 1: think you have to let people earn a living. And
Speaker 1: it's really not even government's role to say who could
Speaker 1: pick and choose. So we want everyone to have gainful employment.
Speaker 1: We want businesses to be able to operate so they're
Speaker 1: open Florida stool functions. As a as a relatively normal society,
Speaker 1: they are. You're hearing from RHND to scientist the governor.
Speaker 1: There is another way, friends, That's what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: they just ignore it because the people that have pushed
Speaker 1: these lockdowns they think they're so smart. Oh, they think
Speaker 1: they're so much smarter than all the rest of us. Oh,
Speaker 1: and they've got a bunch of Biden voting blue check
Speaker 1: mds who will say, will you listen to the science. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see with my own eyes what's happening. I
Speaker 1: don't need someone to tell me. Lost science. Looking at
Speaker 1: the most recent data coronavirus cases. Mind you, if you
Speaker 1: look at the fatality rate in New York is still
Speaker 1: far worse, far worse than Florida. But if you look
Speaker 1: at cases as of let me see yesterday, you got
Speaker 1: about eight thousand COVID nineteen cases in Florida, and you've
Speaker 1: got let me see here, yeah, eighty nine seventy five
Speaker 1: in New York. And you got eighty eight forty seven
Speaker 1: in Florida the last couple of days. And just to
Speaker 1: give you a sense of the numbers, so you got
Speaker 1: about the same number of cases in New York, same
Speaker 1: member case in Florida. And these are popula, These are
Speaker 1: states with close to the same population. Florida is actually
Speaker 1: more populous than New York by a couple of million.
Speaker 1: So what exactly is New York gaining in what way?
Speaker 1: Is New York doing such a great job with Orange
Speaker 1: zones and red zones and shutting down businesses? Cases are
Speaker 1: the same. So we are running the experiment right now
Speaker 1: in real time. Florida is run by people like Rhonda
Speaker 1: Santis who are saying, let's look at what's actually happening
Speaker 1: and deal with what we're seeing. In real life, New
Speaker 1: York is all go to Cuomo, I listen to to science.
Speaker 1: If you don't listen to me, you want your grandparents
Speaker 1: to die. Because I'm very sciency. I listened to a
Speaker 1: lot of science. That's what's going on. We all understand.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is think for yourself, and
Speaker 1: you will come to the conclusion that the people who
Speaker 1: have pushed these lockdowns are living in a fantasy. Remember,
Speaker 1: the alternative to lockdown is not go out to a
Speaker 1: crowded bar as soon as possible if you're a senior
Speaker 1: citizen and let people cough in your face. Right, they
Speaker 1: always set up this straw man. The alternative to lockdown
Speaker 1: is put out all the public health messaging you can
Speaker 1: about things people can do to try to mitigate, but
Speaker 1: then allow individuals to make choices, allow them to design
Speaker 1: whether they want to go to a restaurant and eat
Speaker 1: indoors or not, whether they want to go to a
Speaker 1: store and buy something or not. Life is at your
Speaker 1: own risk. That's the way we should be allowed to live.
Speaker 1: But that's certainly not what's happening right now. Now. We're
Speaker 1: having all these all these dictates and mandates just foist
Speaker 1: it upon us. We were under this terre unical yoke
Speaker 1: of idiots, idiots who think that they know so much
Speaker 1: more than they do about how to make this better.
Speaker 1: I would love to see the CDC director try to
Speaker 1: explain why Florida New York have about the same number
Speaker 1: of cases when one is you heard the governor. Schools
Speaker 1: are open, businesses are open. No mask mandates. If a
Speaker 1: business owner wants you to wear a mask, they can
Speaker 1: put up a wear a mask sign and that's a
Speaker 1: private premises And if they want that, fine, I'm not unreasonable.
Speaker 1: But you see in New York every business requires it
Speaker 1: as a function of law from the government. They didn't
Speaker 1: make a choice. Some of them might want it, some
Speaker 1: of them might not. You have to do it. See,
Speaker 1: that's the mandate part of this. That's the force you
Speaker 1: all based upon this highly specious argument that this is
Speaker 1: a game changer for stopping the pandemic spread. It's clearly
Speaker 1: not what happened in Los Angeles. Why is California exploding
Speaker 1: with cases? Oh they were. California was all about masks,
Speaker 1: all about masks. Remember why they would have mask gatherings
Speaker 1: for BLM protests or for Biden victories well, they were
Speaker 1: wearing masks. Oh, okay, what happened they stopped wearing masks? No,
Speaker 1: so what's their explanation for this? It gets colder out, Oh,
Speaker 1: human behavior changes because it gets a little colder. California
Speaker 1: is not that much colder. Saying so, what's their explanation.
Speaker 1: They don't have one. They don't have one. Their explanation
Speaker 1: is mask up, shut up, do what you're told. That's
Speaker 1: all they have to say to you. And the CDC
Speaker 1: director is entirely unhelpful in this regard Play seven. The
Speaker 1: time for debating whether or not mask work or not
Speaker 1: is over. We clearly have scientific evidence. You couple that
Speaker 1: with social distancing, handwashing, being smart about crowds, doing things
Speaker 1: more outside than inside. These are critical mitigation steps which
Speaker 1: to many people seem simple and they don't really think
Speaker 1: you could have much of an impact. But the reality
Speaker 1: is they're very, very powerful tools. They have an enormous impact,
Speaker 1: and right now it is so important that we recommit
Speaker 1: ourselves to this mitigation as we now begin to turn
Speaker 1: the corner with the vaccine. But the reality is December
Speaker 1: and January and February are going to be rough times.
Speaker 1: I actually believe They're going to be the most difficult
Speaker 1: time in the public health history of this nation, largely
Speaker 1: because of the stress that's going to put on our
Speaker 1: healthcare system. Wait, but we're going to do all the mitigation.
Speaker 1: So how do you know it's going to be the
Speaker 1: worst winter we've ever had in public health? I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Notice this doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: How he says, it's very powerful tools. A very powerful
Speaker 1: tool is everybody masks up, everybody's social distances. And let
Speaker 1: you say one city and cases drop thirty percent, fifty
Speaker 1: percent within a couple of weeks. That's a powerful tool.
Speaker 1: Do you think does anyone think that's going to happen? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it slows the rate, not even the full duration,
Speaker 1: slows the rate of the spread, meaning the speed the
Speaker 1: velocity of spread by what five percent? Ten percent? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: how many businesses are you willing to bankrupt? How many
Speaker 1: suicides are you willing to you know, essentially push people
Speaker 1: toward how much depression and despair? And how many seniors
Speaker 1: die alone in hospitals, die alone in nursing homes because
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to see their loved ones. They haven't
Speaker 1: been able to for a long time. I just won't
Speaker 1: know at what cost for that five percent slower spread
Speaker 1: or ten And I'm making up the numbers we see.
Speaker 1: I tell you I'm honest when I say I'm just
Speaker 1: making I'm just taking guesses. That's what they are doing. Two.
Speaker 1: Don't you think if the CDC director and all these
Speaker 1: journals out there had clear evidence, don't you think that
Speaker 1: they would present it. We would all know what it is.
Speaker 1: Where is this where is this notice? He said, evidence
Speaker 1: not proof. I want proof. You're gonna have government mandates.
Speaker 1: You're gonna destroy businesses and ruin lives because you say
Speaker 1: you're protecting lives by having a government mandate to shut
Speaker 1: down some businesses. Remember it's not all businesses. If they
Speaker 1: did a full on lockdown, everyone must stay home. You
Speaker 1: cannot leave. We will arrest you on site. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would bring the spread down. You know, I'm sure within
Speaker 1: two weeks you'd see, you know, eighty percent drop or
Speaker 1: a seventy percent drop, maybe more. But here's the problem
Speaker 1: with that. Society would crumble. People would freak out. How
Speaker 1: do we get people what they need? How do we
Speaker 1: can how do we get essential day to day needs
Speaker 1: tended to if you can't even leave your home. We
Speaker 1: don't have the infrastructure for that. We have no way
Speaker 1: of getting everyone food. You're gonna tell people they need
Speaker 1: to starve for two weeks. It's lives at stake. Most
Speaker 1: Americans have a little reserves in the belly. They'll be okay,
Speaker 1: right now. I understand this is just a thought experiment,
Speaker 1: But think, think through it. Let's say we did that.
Speaker 1: Let's say we listen to them. We went to the
Speaker 1: most extreme possible version of the mitigation, as Fauci calls it.
Speaker 1: Two weeks. No one's allowed to leave their home. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be arrested on site. And we bring that curve
Speaker 1: way down. We crushed that curve. Then what happens, Okay,
Speaker 1: we did our two weeks. We did our two weeks,
Speaker 1: So then we now we can go out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Right now, we can start going to stores and weight
Speaker 1: and what happens then, oh, that's right. The virus starts
Speaker 1: spreading all over again. And they'll say, oh no, but
Speaker 1: let's try to you know, tight trait this. Let's try
Speaker 1: to try to mitigate this a little bit. Now does work?
Speaker 1: It's going to spread. The only way to get this
Speaker 1: thing to stop spreading, is to get human beings to
Speaker 1: not be in contact with each other and not live
Speaker 1: their lives at all. That's it, all this other stuff
Speaker 1: of oh, you can only go here, but you can't
Speaker 1: go there. You can wear a mask going to the
Speaker 1: bathroom in the restaurant, but not when you sit down
Speaker 1: to the restaurant. You can go to restaurant outside, but
Speaker 1: you can't go to a restaurant inside unless you're Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: And then you can go to French laundry with ten
Speaker 1: people because you're special. Right, we see what's going on here,
Speaker 1: We understand what's happening. Don't let them bully you into
Speaker 1: foregoing your own ability to think these problems through. You're
Speaker 1: in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
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Speaker 1: at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. President Trump
Speaker 1: spent forty five minutes giving a speech yesterday laying out
Speaker 1: all of his concerns and yes, allegations about voter fraud
Speaker 1: in this election. I watched it, and then I went
Speaker 1: and read through the transcript afterwards to make sure I'm
Speaker 1: as up to speed as possible. On absolutely all of
Speaker 1: what's happening here. I'm talking to people in the campaign
Speaker 1: legal team and others who are doing data crunching for them,
Speaker 1: because this is a lot of complicated issues, and I
Speaker 1: keep saying this time is not on our side. It
Speaker 1: is now the first week of December. This is going
Speaker 1: to be I'm just telling you, this is going to
Speaker 1: be over and done with based on the system right
Speaker 1: now before the new year. That's what's likely to happen,
Speaker 1: unless you get a judge between now and then to
Speaker 1: make a really big decision. Now, I think Pennsylvania, as
Speaker 1: I've told you, is the strongest place for there to
Speaker 1: be a real legal challenge that would either decertify the
Speaker 1: vote because it cannot be certified because they cannot prove
Speaker 1: that it has done fairly and legally. But I think
Speaker 1: that judge a judge will be very it'll be very
Speaker 1: very high barred or to meet. And like I'm just
Speaker 1: telling the truth I know right now and I want
Speaker 1: you all to be aware of this. There is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a squabbling from the scraps from the
Speaker 1: MAGA table going on in conservative media, and there are
Speaker 1: some people who figure it doesn't matter what I do
Speaker 1: between now and the end of January. All that really,
Speaker 1: you know, what I say, how wrong I may be,
Speaker 1: all that matters is that I seem like I'm the
Speaker 1: real fighter. Look, I'm telling you that Trump needs to
Speaker 1: fight this thing to the end. But I'm also realistic.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm coming at this with open eyes about
Speaker 1: the chances of success. They're not zero, but they're not high.
Speaker 1: People are welcome to criticize me, tell me that I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I hope those people, especially those who have been following
Speaker 1: me or known me for years, will come back if
Speaker 1: I'm right, which, as we all know well, and say it.
Speaker 1: But come back and tell me, Wow, you were right.
Speaker 1: We fought it. But your your prediction on the chances
Speaker 1: here and now, Why does it matter what the chances?
Speaker 1: It matters because we need to manage our expectations. We
Speaker 1: need to understand that this Georgia runoff on January fifth,
Speaker 1: we better damn sure get out there with everything we've
Speaker 1: got as conservatives. Every Republican in a state of Georgia
Speaker 1: needs to go out there and vote, and we need
Speaker 1: to make sure that there's not fraud going on there.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to We still have a battle
Speaker 1: to fight here. Friends. Even if Trump wins, We've got
Speaker 1: a battle to fight. There's a lot of stuff going
Speaker 1: on here. So now I'll let you hear from the President.
Speaker 1: This was This was part of his statement Play one.
Speaker 1: This may be the most important speech I've ever made.
Speaker 1: I want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts
Speaker 1: to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took
Speaker 1: place during the ridiculously long November third election. We used
Speaker 1: to have what was called election day. Now we have
Speaker 1: election days, weeks and months, and lots of bad things
Speaker 1: happened during this ridiculous period of time, especially when you
Speaker 1: have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege,
Speaker 1: the right to vote. As President, I have no higher
Speaker 1: duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States. That is why I am determined to
Speaker 1: protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault
Speaker 1: and siege. President saying here that it is his duty
Speaker 1: as commander in chief to make sure that he looks
Speaker 1: into this with everything that he can, that they do
Speaker 1: the due diligence the investigation, and they present facts both
Speaker 1: in a court of law and a court of public opinion.
Speaker 1: The president continued play two for months leading up to
Speaker 1: the presidential election. We were warned that we should not
Speaker 1: declare a premature victory. We were told repeatedly that it
Speaker 1: would take weeks, if not months, to determine the winner,
Speaker 1: to count the absentee ballots, and to verify the results.
Speaker 1: My opponent was told to stay away from the election,
Speaker 1: don't campaign, we don't need you. We've got it. This
Speaker 1: election is done. In fact, they were acting like they
Speaker 1: already knew what the outcome was going to be. They
Speaker 1: had it covered, and perhaps they did. Very sadly for
Speaker 1: our country, it was all very, very strange. Within days
Speaker 1: after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint
Speaker 1: a winner even while many key states were still being counted.
Speaker 1: The constitutional process must be allowed to continue. We are
Speaker 1: going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring
Speaker 1: that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal
Speaker 1: ballot is This is not just about honoring the votes
Speaker 1: of seventy four million Americans who voted from me. It's
Speaker 1: about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election
Speaker 1: and in all future elections. It is about that the
Speaker 1: president has a duty here despite what all the media
Speaker 1: is saying and their claims that he's he's crazy and
Speaker 1: this is insane and this is a coup. Whether you know,
Speaker 1: all the hysterics from them, I'm actually almost impressed that
Speaker 1: they haven't exhausted themselves with their Trump is destroying the
Speaker 1: Republic and all the hyper ventilating. You would think after
Speaker 1: a while it would just get tiresome from them, but
Speaker 1: it's but it's not. There is a case being presented
Speaker 1: today in Nevada about voter fraud alleged to have alleged
Speaker 1: to have occurred there. We've already seen the case presented
Speaker 1: in Michigan, and in Arizona and in Pennsylvania, and now
Speaker 1: it's battlefield Georgia that a lot of people are focused on.
Speaker 1: We stay in this fight, friends, win or lose. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the
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Speaker 1: Sexton dot com. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez is the ideological leader
Speaker 1: of the Democrat left. We all know this, right. She
Speaker 1: can do whatever she wants on social media all of
Speaker 1: a sudden world trend, and all the all the idiot
Speaker 1: leftists who think that MSNBC is really high, high level
Speaker 1: intellectual stuff. They say, yeah, AOC, she's great, she knows
Speaker 1: what's up, social justice, wokeness, all that stuff. Right, we
Speaker 1: know that that's it's just the way it is. But
Speaker 1: today this is, this is it's trending and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: AOC has AOC has opened a store online and this
Speaker 1: is my favorite one. This is all over sociopedia. Now
Speaker 1: she is selling a sweatshirt that says tax the rich. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: tax the rich, tax the tax the rich people. How
Speaker 1: much do you think AOC's tax the rich sweatshirt retails
Speaker 1: for right now? This is this is the AOC store.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's capitalism. Do you think she's gonna give,
Speaker 1: you know, half of the proceeds of this to underprivileged families?
Speaker 1: You think that she's got or more? You think that
Speaker 1: this is just being run out of the kindness of
Speaker 1: our heart. No, I'm sure she's gonna make millions off
Speaker 1: of this. She's a brand now, AOC is a brand,
Speaker 1: and I think that she recognizes that she wants to
Speaker 1: be a a very powerful democrat for a long time
Speaker 1: to come. And you need money. I always think of
Speaker 1: AOC as appelacion derogene control, which is the French for
Speaker 1: where a wine comes from. If you ever see AOC,
Speaker 1: there used to be a great little French place, probably
Speaker 1: gone now in the West Village called AOC. So you
Speaker 1: can either have it be Alexandro Ocasio Cortez or appelacion control,
Speaker 1: either one both aocs. And she's selling this sweatshirt for
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars. Sixty five dollars, that's an expensive sweatshirt,
Speaker 1: brucer mark. Have you ever bought a sixty five dollars sweatshirt?
Speaker 1: Certain ones? Yeah, okay, so you tell me that's not that.
Speaker 1: That seems kind of pricey to me. That seems like
Speaker 1: I could probably get a Polo sweatshirt or something kind
Speaker 1: of fancy for that. It's reasonable for something with a
Speaker 1: logo or something on it. Shore, I guess, okay, so breaday,
Speaker 1: but we will hold up. But see that's a perfect point,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're buying that, I was gonna
Speaker 1: says Jersey, But I don't want you to throw things
Speaker 1: at me. If you're buying that sweatshirt at Mets Stadium,
Speaker 1: they're taking a big It's you're not just paying for
Speaker 1: the sweatshirt. You gotta pay for the name usage and
Speaker 1: the profit and everything else, right, so you're getting so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's what I would assume if you were,
Speaker 1: if you were buying from one of them. Don't they
Speaker 1: sell like gear at the stadiums right, So if you're
Speaker 1: buying a stadium sweatshirt, it probably sixty five or seventy bucks. Yes,
Speaker 1: even online, that's what they retail for you. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but this is a tax the rich sweatshirt. I can
Speaker 1: assure you it doesn't cost or sixty dollars to make this.
Speaker 1: She's doing this to make a profit. Oh that's great,
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars. Let me see what other gear is.
Speaker 1: She's got tax the rich drink water and don't be racist?
Speaker 1: What else do we have? Student debt with a line
Speaker 1: through it? And the Green New Deal. It's like a
Speaker 1: painting of her with the Green New Deal. I love it.
Speaker 1: I think I think AOC for our side is great.
Speaker 1: I think the more people could see this, the better,
Speaker 1: the more they come to understand that this is someone
Speaker 1: who is elevated among Democrats, a person who I think
Speaker 1: if you sat in a room with her and tried
Speaker 1: to solve relatively simple problems. You would say, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this woman is an imbecile. But she's one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful Democrats in the country. And I mean, this
Speaker 1: is somebody who thinks that it's a great slam on
Speaker 1: her critics to say that she won some kind of
Speaker 1: a science award in high school. Yeah. Yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: you have millions and millions of followers, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you this right now, and you
Speaker 1: may not like hearing this, but but you will. You
Speaker 1: will listen to me say it, and most of you
Speaker 1: will know it's the truth. And don't give I can
Speaker 1: already feel heads shaking across the country because you know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. You know what I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: Okazio Cortez could very well be the Democrat president of
Speaker 1: the United States at some point in the future. I
Speaker 1: know you don't want to hear it, but it's true
Speaker 1: because it's all about the story, the media, the narrative.
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. Joe Biden thinks he just won
Speaker 1: the presidential election. The media has already declared him the winner.
Speaker 1: If they can make Joe Biden president, they can make
Speaker 1: anybody president. That's what they're thinking. Why do you think
Speaker 1: there's so much jubilation. One of the big issues for
Speaker 1: the media, One of the big problems they had in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen was that Trump's victory seemed to be a
Speaker 1: repudiation of the media's ability, in its own mind to
Speaker 1: be able to declare who should win the presidency and
Speaker 1: to make it so, to make it happen. Oh, Kazi
Speaker 1: Cortez tweeted this out. Republicans are freaking out because we
Speaker 1: don't use slave wage labor for merchandise that funds grab
Speaker 1: roots organizing. What's the difference between Trump's merchant ours ours
Speaker 1: is made in the USA? Yeah, but Trump is a
Speaker 1: capitalist AOC. Trump is trying to make a profit. His
Speaker 1: ideology is I am trying to run a business. AOC's
Speaker 1: ideology is I want to take money for everybody else
Speaker 1: to give it to preferred constituencies using government force, while
Speaker 1: I get to be a millionaire. AOC, if she's not
Speaker 1: already worth over a million dollars, which I'm sure she is,
Speaker 1: is going to be worth millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Politics and celebrity are now one and the same. Right
Speaker 1: politicians have turned into I mean at a high level.
Speaker 1: Politicians are all now celebrities with countless ways to monetize,
Speaker 1: and that's what they do. And not only in shady
Speaker 1: ways like Joe Biden and his son and China and Ukraine. Right,
Speaker 1: we all know about that, but in more standard ways.
Speaker 1: They give you a book deal, doesn't matter how many books.
Speaker 1: The good authors, you know, the established brands that are writing,
Speaker 1: you know, thriller novels that sell you know, a million,
Speaker 1: two million copies each and all this they at publishing
Speaker 1: houses they pay for giving someone like AOC a book
Speaker 1: advance that's large. Look, she'll sell books too, but they'll
Speaker 1: give her more money than she's worth because it's a
Speaker 1: prestige thing for the big publishing houses. It's about the
Speaker 1: prestige that they bring to it. So yeah, Republicans are
Speaker 1: freaking out. Now, we're not freaking out. We just think
Speaker 1: it's funny. We think it's funny because she's supposed to
Speaker 1: be so anti capitalist. And like I've told you, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you that AOC will be within the next if
Speaker 1: she's not already, there'll be a report that comes out
Speaker 1: in the next four years. Right, So we'll say the
Speaker 1: next presidential administration. You'll find out that AOC, who's what
Speaker 1: thirty years old, close to it, is worth five to
Speaker 1: ten million dollars at least at least, so she's going
Speaker 1: to be very rich at a very young age, running
Speaker 1: around telling everybody about how bad rich people are and
Speaker 1: how they need to be taxed more and even more
Speaker 1: than that. I mean this is great because really AOC
Speaker 1: is going to turn into an experiment of liberalism in
Speaker 1: real time. We'll see that she says all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and just like Elizabeth Warren and these other phonies, but
Speaker 1: when there's an opportunity for her to make some make
Speaker 1: some extra cash, she not only is gonna jump on it,
Speaker 1: she's gonna want to pay the lowest possible tax rate
Speaker 1: she can, and she'll pay you know, elite accounting firms
Speaker 1: to do that for her. But she wants your taxes
Speaker 1: to go up, kind of like the way these democrats.
Speaker 1: You're starting to see a pattern here, aren't you. They
Speaker 1: want you to mask up all the time, don't eat indoors,
Speaker 1: don't eat outdoors at restaurants, don't see your family over holidays,
Speaker 1: because your sacrifices are for the greater good. They don't
Speaker 1: want to make sacrifices because that's no fun. Sooc in
Speaker 1: many ways is the perfect the perfect Democrat in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: She's exactly what the Democrat Party is all about now.
Speaker 1: An enormous, enormous media profile, fame, lots of money, and
Speaker 1: Marxism And how do those things all go together. Well,
Speaker 1: you have to be an enormous hypocrite and ignor Ramis
Speaker 1: and not really care about what's happened in history because
Speaker 1: of policies like this and what will happen in the future,
Speaker 1: because you'll be insulated. She'll still be cold. She could
Speaker 1: author policies and congress in the future that will bankrupt
Speaker 1: whole industries, which is what she wants to do with
Speaker 1: the Green New Deal. She's never going to go bankrupt.
Speaker 1: She'll always be rich. If you knew, if you were
Speaker 1: guaranteed a life of financial luxury, wouldn't it be so
Speaker 1: tempting if you were an unethical person, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: so tempting to use the the suffering of other people
Speaker 1: who are striving and working hard and building, but to
Speaker 1: take more from them so that you look like a
Speaker 1: good person. You want to give it to those who
Speaker 1: haven't been able to make it happen. Yet, I mean,
Speaker 1: are we really to assume there are so many fundamental
Speaker 1: flaws and Marxist logic and so many contradictions in the
Speaker 1: way they approach the world. Are we really to assume,
Speaker 1: for example, that everyone works just as hard, that everyone's
Speaker 1: just as talented. I can tell you I'm in the
Speaker 1: media business now, and there are some people who have
Speaker 1: an incredible work ethic, and there are other people who
Speaker 1: are pretty lazy. And unless the lazy people are really lucky,
Speaker 1: which does happen, they tend not to have the same
Speaker 1: career trajectory as the people that work really hard. Should
Speaker 1: we redistribute the money among people in the news business
Speaker 1: and in journalism, No, they they would never want that, right,
Speaker 1: That's no good. Also, you'll notice that journalists in particular,
Speaker 1: they usually have this cut off around two hundred, two hundred,
Speaker 1: fIF thousand dollars for people they say is rich. That's
Speaker 1: because to be a journalist at a at a pretty
Speaker 1: prestige publication, and to just be yet another journalist there,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to make more money than that. Usually,
Speaker 1: if you work in the New York Times these places,
Speaker 1: you kind of top out around two hundred two fifty
Speaker 1: and that's if you're pretty good. So rich has to
Speaker 1: be more than that. And the people that are shaping
Speaker 1: perception all the time at these publications, they want, you know,
Speaker 1: rich starts at like five hundred k, because unless you're
Speaker 1: an executive or you have other things going on, other
Speaker 1: sources of income, you're you're not going to make that
Speaker 1: working at a newspaper, right, But you can't make one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty grand two hundred grand. You can make
Speaker 1: that working at think tanks, so that that never counts
Speaker 1: as rich. You'll notice that that's not really rich. Although
Speaker 1: eventually what you find with the Marxist logic of people
Speaker 1: like AOC is that it has to be the workers.
Speaker 1: The workers do bear the burden of the taxes because
Speaker 1: there's so many more of them. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: take every penny, every penny, not just a tax rate
Speaker 1: of people in the one percent made in any given year,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't be able to pay the federal You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to pay for the federal budget that year.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be able to do it. But AOC and
Speaker 1: the other leftists, they assume that there are these government
Speaker 1: there are these structural impediments between people that must only
Speaker 1: be addressed by the government, and therefore they're in the
Speaker 1: position of a kind of deity. They get to determine
Speaker 1: what you get, how you get it, when you get it,
Speaker 1: kind of like with COVID lockdowns, you're seeing how it
Speaker 1: all ties together.