1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is bucks first thoughts, the news you need to 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Perhaps the Biden team was never serious about 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: calls for unity because they certainly didn't last very long, 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: did they. As the nation prepares for the January twentieth 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: peaceful transfer of power, there's an air of menace hanging 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: over our nation's capital. Instead of pomp and circumstance, DC 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: is bristling with barbed wire and HESCO barriers and thousands 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: and thousands of National Guard deployed. What's going on here? 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to think that national healing is the Biden 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: Harris objective while their underlings transform the streets of DC 13 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: into a fortress on lockdown. You've no doubt heard the 14 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: media outlet's talking about how there will be more National 15 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: Guard deployed in DC than in Iraq and Afghanistan, two 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: theaters of war combined. They will share this continuously until 17 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: the moment Biden is sworn in, and then well afterwards, 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: because the whole purpose here is to heighten the public's 19 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: anxiety of the perceived risk of another insurrection. Oh what 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: was that insurrection the first time around? You might ask, 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: You mean the one that involved a mostly peaceful protest 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: that then did have a section of it devolved into 23 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: a riot and one police officer was killed, one protester 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: was killed by direct action of law enforcement and also 25 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: of participants, depending on which one we're talking about, And 26 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: they were trying to do what exactly. The belief is 27 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: that they were going to overthrow the government. That QAnon 28 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: Shaman or whatever walking around in a furry hat with 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: a spear was really going to see control of the Congress. 30 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody, including that guy, believe that's what 31 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: was going to happen. But you see, the theatrics that 32 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: are underway in DC are meant to exceed the actual threat. 33 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: We've talked about the Capitol Hill ride on January sixth. 34 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: It was lawless, it was awful, it was stupid, and 35 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: anyone who broke the law should be held to account, 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: But there was no real effort to overthrow the government 37 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: by force. Calling that an insurrection is an exaggeration, and 38 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: it's an intentional one. It's one with real consequences. The 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: unprecedented martial preparations for this inauguration are meant to look 40 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: as though they're preparing for a foreign military to invade 41 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: our nation's capital at any minute. What's the real threat here? 42 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: Internet chatter? Do you remember how we were told constantly 43 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: during the Obama administration about how there were an unprecedented 44 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: number of threats online against President Obama? And then you 45 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: also recall that there were people who somehow lost their 46 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: jobs for mere criticism of Obama or for crossing the 47 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: press when it came to Obama. Because they create a 48 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: climate of fear in which everyone gets treated as though 49 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: they're insurrectionists, as though they're far radical extremists. That's why 50 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: they exaggerate all of this all along. They expand out 51 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: the net. They want to capture everyone. Whether you're reasonable 52 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: or not, you get lumped in with the crazies. Right 53 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: and speech equals violence, you see, so your words have 54 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: to be suppressed. It's not enough merely to say we 55 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: can have political differences. You are no longer in this 56 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: country allowed to say what you think happened in the election. 57 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: They're saying, including the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, for example, 58 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: that that has not protected speech. Now, what's the formulation 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: they use for that. Well, if people can say that 60 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: they think the election was stolen, then people will act 61 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: on that. They'll be violent because of that, and so 62 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: we have to stop it. You see, this is what 63 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: they do. If people can say that they thought that 64 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: Barack Obama was a socialist and a bad president, a leftist, 65 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: then there'll be other people who decide to act on 66 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: that and write in threats, and the Secret Service then 67 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: has to investigate it. They lump it all together. They 68 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: treat it like it's the same. What an effective mechanism 69 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: of control. They're trying to show us right now what 70 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: the next four years are going to look like. That's 71 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: why there are photos of National Guard troops sleeping on 72 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: the marble floors of the Capitol Building. That's meant to 73 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: get all of this attention. Very few people have asked, 74 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: are these measures even necessary? Don't they have sleeping pads 75 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: and sleeping bags, and why are they on the cold 76 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: marble floor of the Capitol building. Doesn't that seem excessive? 77 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: But the implication is clear. The Democrats want America to 78 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: c DC as a city under siege, and that means 79 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: that you have to ask the next question, who is 80 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: it under siege? From Trump voters. Those are the optics 81 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: right now. That's what they want people to think and 82 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: believe about our nation's capital. They are setting up a 83 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: show of force commensurate with their overblown fears of this 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: recent right wing coup attempt from Trump voters. They've convinced 85 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: a large number of Democrats that these extreme measures are 86 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: necessary because unless they were to deploy twenty six twenty 87 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: seven thousand National Guard plus all the Secret Service and FBI, 88 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: unless they deploy all of them, another right wing faction 89 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: will attempt a second overthrow of the United States government. 90 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: Hold on a second. There wasn't a first attempt at 91 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: an overthrow of the government. There was a riot. There 92 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: was a protest that got out of control and turned 93 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: into in part, a riot in the United States capital 94 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: that did not last very long, was put down, and 95 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: for which people are being punished, in some cases punished severely. 96 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: Keep in mind, while all this is happening, that there's 97 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: actually no there's no intelligence or proof that such a 98 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: plot against our government is imminent. There might be some 99 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: online chatter from people who are upset about the twenty 100 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: twenty election outcome. They're venting, they're trying to get attention 101 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: from their buddies. But that's not a serious or credible threat. 102 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: And there are threats all the time. People who work 103 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: in media get threats. I get threats. What do you 104 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: do about this? You go on with life. Unless it's 105 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: credible and actionable, you can't worry about it. And yet 106 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: what we see here is the elevation of bits of 107 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: internet chatter to being an imminent threat to our very 108 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: system of government. That's what they want America to thing 109 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: in DC right now. And let's not forget the four 110 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: years of Russia collusion lunacy, since we're talking about conspiracy 111 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: theories here, that was mainstream among elected Democrats and their 112 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: corporate media lackeys, completely mainstream Russia collusion. You said it, 113 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: you got more clicks, more viewers. There was never any 114 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: punishment for this. There was never any backlash against it 115 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: from the system, from the elites, from the apparatus. Look, 116 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: let's be very clear, from a purely security based standpoint, 117 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: the military preparations this week in DC are an overreaction. 118 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: DC is the most heavily police and patrolled city in America. 119 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: Even during normal times, just try to cross the street 120 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: and jaywalk near a Capitol police officer under under normal circumstances, 121 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: and you'll see the ferocity with which even the most 122 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: mundane and trivial rules are forced in and around our 123 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: nation's capital. And it's understandable that there are some concern. 124 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 1: There's understandable that crowd control should be taken into account. 125 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: Let's also remember that in twenty sixteen, Antifa was running 126 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: riot through the streets of DC and there were no 127 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: major charges brought against them. They lit a limousine on 128 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: fire in our nation's capital in broad daylight on Inauguration Day, 129 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: and we're screaming, not my president. But that was just fine. 130 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: There was no real worry about that. According to the Democrats, 131 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: that was a mostly peaceful protest. Every American should feel like, 132 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: on a process level, the continuation of our political tradition 133 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: of the peaceful transfer of power is important and should 134 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: be supported, and it almost will be a peaceful, orderly event. 135 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: Whatever Trump voters think of the integrity of the last 136 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: election or the policies of the incoming administration, there should 137 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: be an understanding that this is how it goes right. 138 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: And I know our politics are messy. I know people 139 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: are angry right now, but we have ways to deal 140 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 1: with that. But what the Democrat Party is doing right 141 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: now is intentionally making the inauguration seem like it's occurring 142 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: under a state of actual siege of our capital, as 143 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: though this is eighteen twelve and the British are on 144 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: the way to burn down the White House. This is nuts, 145 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: and we know who they blame for this. This is 146 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: being done for political leverage and almost certainly is going 147 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: to be the justification for more aggressive surveillance, not against 148 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: actual extremists or people who are planning violence, but against 149 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: people with pro Trump anti Democrat views. You see, this 150 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: is part of the playbook. The Democrats are all posing 151 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 1: as aggrieved victims, now terrified for their very existence, so 152 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: that they can make real victims of their political opponents 153 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: later on. This, unfortunately, is likely to work, which means 154 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: it's a troubling time for the country. The people claiming 155 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: to be the oppressed, the people claiming to be the 156 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: ones that aren't allowed to share their politics publicly without fear, 157 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: are the ones who are actually doing the purges. They're 158 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: the ones who are actually shutting down news sites, shutting 159 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: down social media apps, and calling for boycotts and the 160 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: surveillance state to expand to keep an eye on their 161 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: political opponents. That's what's happening right now. We can all 162 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: see it. And that's why even the pretense of calls 163 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: for unity from the Biden Harris Camp ring hollow. You're 164 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure you 165 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart radio app or 166 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Absolutely, and it's so easily debunked. 167 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: It's simply false that thousands of dead people voted. It 168 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: is false that there were thousands of ballot signature signatures 169 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: that were fake. It's also false that dominion voting machines 170 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: switched thousands of votes. None of this is true. And 171 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: all Republican leaders have to do is to say that 172 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: the election was not stolen. And if they do that, 173 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: then they can calm down tension. All you have to 174 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: do is submit. Congressman Ted Loose says, all if it 175 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: was bending the knee, say everything you said was wrong, 176 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: and then we can have unity until we need you 177 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: to bend the knee again and admit that you're wrong 178 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: on something else. Well, why isn't that working better? I 179 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: don't understand why. Why isn't it really bringing everybody together? Gee, 180 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, Ted, Maybe some people still have questions 181 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: and they don't trust Democrats who lied about the last 182 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: election for four years and still do to this day. 183 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: All Right, they still continue with this nonsense, but it's 184 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: something that the left wants to hear. They want to believe. 185 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: The Democrats want to believe that they have extended a 186 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: hand to the other side and we're the ones who 187 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: are slapping it away. The Democrats want to believe that 188 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: it is conservatives who are being unreasonable in this whole 189 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: process and are adding fuel to the fire of our 190 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: political discontent, and the Democrats are just being great, open minded, 191 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: patriotic Americans, who you know, come on, we see what's 192 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: really happening. They're putting people on TV night after night, 193 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: day after day who are saying that Trump terrorists are 194 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: more dangerous than al Qaeda. We played that audio for 195 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: you yesterday. They're actually saying this stuff, that we should 196 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: increase the surveillance state to look at Trump voters, and 197 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: that we should scan the National Guard, we should vet 198 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: National Guard members for Trumpian sympathies. I'm not exaggerating here. 199 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 1: You go MSNBC some guy who used to be a 200 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: senior FBI official. If that's not terrifying enough, Figliutsi here 201 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: he has played thirteen. There's more and more evidence develops, 202 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: Andrea that there were active and former military and police 203 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: within that insurrections crowd. I think this is a very 204 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: valid precautionary measure, but I want to also caution that 205 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: this not be some false sense of security. Well, everyone 206 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: has been checked out by the FBI. Let's understand something, 207 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: and we learned it painfully during the insurrection. Though. Signs 208 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: of radicalization really are not that someone has a criminal 209 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: record or that someone is on a terrorist watch list, 210 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: but rather that they have online postings that indicate radicalization 211 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 1: and an intention for violence. The FBI doesn't have those 212 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: kinds of resources, nor do they have a time the 213 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: timeframe in this race against the clock to check out 214 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people's social media postings, nor may they 215 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: even have legal authority to do so. That's my concern. 216 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: I just want to point out that this this has 217 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: been widely reported. I should say this should have been 218 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: widely reported. It has been reported, but not nearly enough. 219 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: Hashtag kill Mike Pence was trending for a while on 220 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: Twitter recently. Okay, that was a hashtag on Twitter, and 221 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: I just want to do do you think the FBI 222 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: is going to track down all those people? Do you 223 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: think they're all gonna all gonna face prosecution for a 224 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: threat against the federal official and interstate commerce? No they 225 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: are not. Oh wow, it's almost like there's a huge 226 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: double standard here. Political violence is something the left excelled 227 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: in through all of twenty twenty. But there was one 228 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: incident that they can attribute to the right at the 229 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: Capitol Building after the election in the beginning of twenty 230 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: twenty one. And we're supposed to forget who was burning 231 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: down buildings all summer. We're supposed to forget who was 232 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: rioting a atacking police. Attacking a federal courthouse is also 233 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: an attack on our system. For example. Yeah, I know, 234 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: it's not the Capitol Building, but it's also, you know, 235 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: not an outhouse in the middle of a field somewhere 236 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: that no one cares about. It's a federal building. They 237 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: try to light it on fire in Portland, but don't 238 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: you don't see any effort to Oh no, Antifa's just 239 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: an idea, they say, it's not even a movement. It's 240 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: not even a real thing. They're not scanning people social 241 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: media enough. What what'll get you, what'll get you tossed 242 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: off social media? What'll get you in trouble? These days? 243 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: You already know you can't say the election was stolen, 244 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: which is that that is First Amendment protected speech. But 245 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: you can't say it. If you do, they'll take action 246 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: against you. And how far a leap is it from 247 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: you are now kicked off social media to you are 248 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: now on the radar? I just have to remind you 249 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: of this. They used informants, they use used agents, you know, 250 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: people acting on behalf of the government to go after 251 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: George Papadopoulos. And they used FISA warrants on carter page. 252 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: What was that all about? Trying to get after Trump 253 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: and go after Trump people? But those are completely absurd, 254 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: fabricated cases, you don't think. And they paid no real 255 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: penalty for this. A few people the FBI lost their 256 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: jobs or their pensions. Nobody went to prison. Andy McCabe, 257 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: former acting FBI director, lied about it. No real consequences 258 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: for him. So what's the message. What's the lesson? More importantly, 259 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: what's the lesson that we take from this? They can 260 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: get away with stuff like this, but now they're they're 261 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: bringing pressure, they're mobilizing all across society for the suppression 262 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: of what you could say is Trumpist ideas. Okay, they're 263 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: they're trying to destroy Trumpist ideas, not even just repudiate 264 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: Trump the man. And so what are you even allowed 265 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: to say online? Are you allowed to say that the 266 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 1: Russia collusion investigation was a hoax? I'm saying it, But 267 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: is that now? Is that? Do independent fact checkers disagree 268 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: with me? They're gonna shut that down too. They're going 269 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: to rewrite the history. In fact, they're even telling us 270 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: they plan to rewrite our history. Play sixteen. They will 271 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: not write their history. We will write their history, and 272 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 1: their shame will last forever. They are carved like they 273 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: are carved, like etching into granite, granit onto history's list 274 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: of villains in this country, Mark Meadows, Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, 275 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: Josh Holly, Ted Cruz, Looe Brooks, and two man and 276 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: match it. There will be no forgetting, There will be 277 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: no forgiveness. We do not seek retribution, but we do 278 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: seek accountability and justice for an assaultant attack on the 279 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 1: government of the United States of America. They killed six people, 280 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: and for the first time in the history of our 281 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 1: count from one hundred and fifty years after the end 282 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: of the Civil War, the Confederate flag at long last 283 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: reached United States Capital. It was braided through the road 284 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: funda as this liberal fascistic mob desecrated the floors of 285 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives in the state. They don't get 286 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: to rewrite what happened. I want to be very clear. 287 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: They do seek retribution. Don't forget that. This is the 288 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Historically, 289 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: we will find out who he's beholden to, who pulls 290 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: his strings. I would love to see his phone records 291 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: to see whether he was talking to Putin the day 292 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: that the insurgents invaded our capital. But we now know 293 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: that not just him, but his enablers, his accomplices, his 294 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: cult members have the same disregard for democracy. Do you 295 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 1: think we need an eleven type commission to investigate and 296 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: report everything that they can pull together and explain what happened. 297 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: I do. Let me again to your point of who 298 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 1: is he beholden to? As I've said over and over, 299 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: as I said to him in that picture with my 300 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: blue suit right as I was leaving. What I was 301 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: saying to him, as I was pointing rudely at him, 302 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: with you, mister president, all roads lead to Putin. I 303 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: don't know what Putin has on him politically, financially or personally, 304 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: but what happened last week was a gift to Putin 305 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: because Puttin wants to undermine democracy in our country and 306 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: throughout the world. And these people, unbeknownst to them, maybe 307 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: are Putin puppets. They were doing Putin's business when they 308 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: did that at the incitement of an insurrection by the 309 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: President of the United States. So yes, we should have 310 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: a nine to eleven commission, and there is strong support 311 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: in the Congress to do that. You need to hear 312 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: this because this is what is going to happen. That's 313 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 1: hurry and Nancy Pelosi podcastle commission. Chardonay. Nancy strikes again. 314 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: She's sitting there with Hillary and they're having this chit 315 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: chat about Putin, Putin's role in this. She says she 316 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: wants to pull the president's phone records. You heard it. 317 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: Let's pull the president's phone records to see if he's 318 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: talking to Putin. On the day of what happened at 319 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. These people are insane. This has nothing to 320 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: do with Putin or Russia. Nothing. And yeah, you could 321 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: always make the case that any day that's a bad 322 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: day for America, any day of riots or lawlessness. And 323 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: we know this is true. China also benefits from that. 324 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: Any country that is an adversary of the United States 325 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: likes to see unrest, destabilization, dissension, you know, at the 326 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: deepest levels divisiveness. Yeah, they benefit from that. But that's 327 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: not you nique to the situation at all. On behalf 328 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: of Putin, really quwan'm shaman or whatever running around there 329 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: with the furry had on. He was doing this on 330 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: behalf of Putin unbeknownst to him though. Look, this is 331 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: one of the reasons that I was so and I 332 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: know people the initial reaction was, but buck, people are 333 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: so upset, they're so angry, And I said, I know, 334 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: but this is you know, it's it's like the boss 335 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: in all the movies. You know, this was really you 336 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: saw this a lot in nineties movies, nineties action movies. 337 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: There's this you know, smug jerk of a boss. And 338 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: this is often true in like the cop movies, and 339 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: you know the rogue police officer who's trying to get 340 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: the job done, and what he really wants is to 341 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: get up in the in the hero's face and just 342 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: antagonize him and be so you know, unfair to him 343 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: that he finally just you know, pops them one in 344 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: the face, punches them right in the jaw. And as 345 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: much as that may feel like it's a reaction that's 346 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: been building up over time, guess what. And it's hand 347 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: in your badge and your gun. You know, now your 348 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: job's in jeopardy and this smug bureaucrat gets what he wants. 349 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: I knew that this Capitol Hill riot was going to 350 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: be used to the maximum by the Democrats. The moment 351 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: that it started happening, I said, oh my god, what 352 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: is going on here? First of all, that it was 353 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: just it was just upsetting. It should not have happened 354 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: on any level as an American. But beyond that, I said, 355 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: they're they're going to take something that's you know, on 356 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: the scale of let's say, on the scale of insurrection, 357 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: one being a person standing on a street corner with 358 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: a sign that says, you know, overthrow America by himself 359 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: and ten being you know, battalion level armed insurgency guys 360 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: with machine gun and heavy weapons making a move to 361 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: secure government buildings and opening fire. Right, that's a ten. 362 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: That's a straight up coup. You know, this was like 363 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: a I don't know, a four or five maybe, and 364 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: they're treating it like it was a nine. That's the point. 365 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,719 Speaker 1: They're treating it like it went far beyond, like this 366 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: was we just barely maintained control of the Capitol. They're 367 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: grossly exaggerated, but I knew they would because there's political 368 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: benefit in it for them. And some of you saying buckets, 369 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: it's a two or three. You know, you understand what 370 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying that they've taken this and made it a 371 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: They've treated it like this was a Trump backed full on. 372 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: They're calling it an insurrection. I mean, you know what 373 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: that means. I mean, there's a reason we have something 374 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: called the Insurrection Act. It's to put down armed rebellions 375 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: within our own borders. That's what they The history that 376 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: Democrats are writing right now is they they just avoided 377 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: thousands of people on the Capitol on Capitol grounds that 378 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: they've said kidnapping and even executing members of Congress, you know, 379 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: opening fire and seizing the Capitol building and creating a 380 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: military confrontation. They're treating it like it's that's what happened. 381 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: That is not what happened. Okay, it was a riot. 382 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: It was people being stupid. They got rowdy, and some 383 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: people got hurt, some people got killed. Shouldn't have happened. 384 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: But this is not an open coup effort against the 385 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: United States government. But because they're setting that narrative in place, 386 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats are solidifying that narrative right now as they're 387 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: also taking power of the government. Their reaction to this, 388 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,959 Speaker 1: and this is what I'm trying to tell you, this 389 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to warn you of. Their reaction, 390 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: as unfair as it is, as wrong as it is, 391 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: is going to be based upon treating this as an 392 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: actual armed insurrection again the United States government, do you see, Yes, 393 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: we're going to argue against us and try to convince 394 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: as many of our fellow Americans as possible. Come on, guys, 395 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: it wasn't what they're saying it is. It was a riot, 396 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: it was wrong, but it wasn't a real concerted effort 397 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: called on by the actual president United States to overthrow 398 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: the government. But all the all the pieces they're putting 399 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: in place right now, all the things that they're talking about, 400 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: expansion of surveillance of their political opponents, changing laws and 401 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: statutes to focus more on right wing extremism. It's geared 402 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: toward that. They've now created a narrative and they're going 403 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,719 Speaker 1: to execut. Look what they were able to do with 404 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: Russia collusion. It was a fabrication. It was all based 405 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: on some guy collecting rumors from people that were Russian disinformation, 406 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: Christopher Steele, and they used this to go to the 407 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: They took this to the top of the FBI. They 408 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: had the FBI director, they had other people, they had 409 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: the CIA director, all spun up, all freaked out about 410 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: Russia using Trump as a pawn and there was there 411 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: must be deeper ties. You just heard Hillary and Pelosi. 412 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: Clinton and Pelosi talking about this on a podcast. I 413 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: can't believe Hillary Clinton has a podcast. What's a listen 414 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton? Good God, But they're still going with this, 415 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: this whole Putent's puppet thing. It was never true, it 416 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 1: doesn't exist, it's not real. But look what they were 417 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: able to do with that. Now they have something, make 418 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 1: no mistake about it. This gives them an opening, This 419 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: gives them an opportunity to push for the most tyrannical 420 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: suppression of conservative speech, ideas, and ideology in my lifetime. 421 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: That's what we're going into right now. That is the 422 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: storm that we are steering right into the center of. 423 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: And people still, I think, are stuck in a state 424 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: of belief. They can't imagine that their fellow Democrats would 425 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: really do that, or or perhaps they can't imagine it, 426 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: but they think that Trump has a plan and Trump 427 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: is going to swoop in and save us. No, we 428 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: have to take what Trump represented, and we have to 429 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 1: be the ones. We have to be the Americans who 430 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: represent those ideas and that style of pushing back against 431 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: the establishment, the swamp, and the elites. It's now on 432 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: all of us, you know Trump. You know. In ancient times, 433 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: sometimes they would send forward a champion. Have you ever 434 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: seen the movie the movie Troy with you know, Brad 435 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: Pain and a bunch of other famous actors. This was 436 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: this was practice sometimes where you would send forward a 437 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: champion and whoever won the battle would then the other 438 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: the other army would submit right and depending on whichever 439 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: side won that one v one battle. You know, I 440 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,959 Speaker 1: understand for a lot of people, Trump was the champion 441 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: sent out before the conservative and I'm speaking metaphorically here, 442 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: of course, the conservative army, so to speak. And he 443 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: was vanquishing foes left and right, and that was the perception. 444 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you that Trump is no 445 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: longer in that position. We don't we don't have one 446 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: person standing in the front of the rest of the movement, 447 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: who is blazing the trail, who is pushing back, and 448 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: who who is invincible. We had a sense that Trump 449 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: was invincible. I understand politically they could not stop him, 450 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: and now they just did. And we can talk about 451 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: the election and integrity and and the media and the 452 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: suppression of the Hunter Biden story and the suppression of 453 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,719 Speaker 1: the truth about COVID lockdowns, all these different things, and 454 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: we will, but we also need to take stock of 455 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: where we are right now. Who's standing for conservative values 456 00:28:54,200 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: ideas constitutionalism in this country? Right now? You are to 457 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: all of us, there is no hero, There is no 458 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: champion right now who is the great defender of any 459 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: of this. Perhaps one will emerge, but in the meantime, 460 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: it's on you. It's on me, and it requires us 461 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: to understand exactly what we face from the opposition, because 462 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: they are mobilizing to use the apparatus of the state 463 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: to use the media's bitterness about Trump for four years 464 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: you Interestand they don't just want dominance in the ratings back. 465 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: They don't just want the ability to be the narrative creators. 466 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: They want payback. They want to go after people that 467 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: they think stole their glory from them for years. Here, 468 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: that's what's happening. This is why all the DP platform 469 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: and everything else that's going on is something we must 470 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: pay attention to. And of course, while they do all this, 471 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: there are still some who are pretending that, yeah, Democrats 472 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: are calling unity. I will say this, if you submit, 473 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: you will be unified in a sense. You'll just give 474 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: up who you are as part of that unity. That's 475 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: the choice they offer. You just admit that everything you 476 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: believed in was wrong. Every vote that you cast for 477 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: the last four years, or every idea that you shared 478 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: that was in any way echoed by or perhaps you 479 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: were echoing Trump, Trump's ideas. Anything you did with that, 480 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: you have to pay penance for that. Now you have 481 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: to repudiate it, you were totally wrong, bend the knee, 482 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 1: beg forgiveness, and they're hoping you don't figure out that 483 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: they still want to destroy you even after you do 484 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: all that. But maybe they'll let you think you've got 485 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: unity for a day or two. But they still want 486 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: to make you give up that part of yourself, abandon 487 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: those ideas, admit you were wrong and you were less 488 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: than for thinking what you did. That's that's the unity 489 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: the left is calling for right now. So you do 490 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: have a choice. I have a choice. We all do. 491 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: I could turn right now on the whole Trump movement. 492 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, become one of these celebrated former conservatives. 493 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: You know, I'd spend six months. Oh, I'd get a 494 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: book deal. I'd spend six months going on MSNBC and CNN. 495 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: That oh buck, you all of us, What made you 496 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: come to realize that everything Trump ever said or stood 497 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: for was awful and evil and wrong? You know, tell 498 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: us more about this. Liberals at home saying he's still 499 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: disgusting and I hate him, but this sex and guy 500 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: at least woke up the Trump Now, I say no, 501 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't back off the ideas. I don't 502 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: back off what the movement stood for one bit. I 503 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: just have never put that much stock or faith in 504 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: any one man or any one persons as the embodiment 505 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: of a political movement. This is a movement, It is 506 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: not a cult, and the movement continues on. That's where 507 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: our focus has to be. Now, what are the ideas 508 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: that really mattered? What can we do to support them today? 509 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: Because the other option is submit, bend the knee, you know, 510 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: and if you want tell, tell all your liberal friends 511 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: about how you've you've totally changed your outlook here, and 512 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: they'll patch you on the head for a day or two, 513 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: and then a week later they'll still think that you're 514 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: some some rube, some easily fooled buffoon who fell, who 515 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: fell for the Trump spell. I say, no, bring it, 516 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: We're not done yet. You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks 517 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the 518 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: latest from Buck at buck Sexton dot com. And so 519 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: I just want Senator Schumer to understand that he is 520 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: the right person at this time for this moment to 521 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: deliver the relief that hopefully President elect Biden and Vice 522 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: President Lex Harris will bring forward with the support of 523 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer so that we can heal 524 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: this country, and he is well poised to do that 525 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: job extremely well. Yeah, Schumer. When I think heal the nation, 526 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: when I think bring everybody together, the first name that 527 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: comes to mind is Chuck Schumer. Sure, that's one way 528 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: to go, That's one approach with all of this. Let's 529 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: let's hear from the man himself. He's telling us let's heal, 530 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: but first, let's just continue to trash the former president 531 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: in place seven. Well, it's tremendous responsibility, and there's so 532 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: many things we have to do to make this country better. 533 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: We have to recover from all of the treatise that 534 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: the Trump administration has left, but even more important than that, 535 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: we have to recover from the COVID crisis and then 536 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: move America forward so that every working person, every family, 537 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: every person in America feels they have a real chance 538 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: to advance. That has been that feeling hasn't been very 539 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: strong in the American people over the last while, and 540 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: we must do everything we can in our power to 541 00:33:53,280 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: restore it. Well, I'm glad Biden's in the White House 542 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: either way, But the bottom line is I will as 543 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: Majority leader I'll try to help him get his agenda done. 544 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:16,280 Speaker 1: Schumer in charge, Pelosi in charge, Biden Harris in charge. 545 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna hear the Biden administration is 546 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: going to be a hyphenated administration. You know, people take 547 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: a hyphenated name once they marry something. And you know, 548 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, that's not not not, not 549 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: my move. And again I've never been married. But it's good. 550 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: It's not just the Biden administration. It's gonna be the 551 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration because she's gonna have a much larger 552 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: role in this. Because I still believe they're gonna pass 553 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,399 Speaker 1: this off to her. I don't know how soon I've 554 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: said to you, maybe before the mid terms, but the 555 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,919 Speaker 1: more I thought about it, it it might make more sense 556 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: to win until after the mid terms and that way. Yeah, 557 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: and Biden at one point said he was only gonna 558 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 1: run for one term. This has now been all forgotten, 559 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: but there was a there was time at which he 560 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: was kind of admitting, yeah, I'm really old and I 561 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: don't know if I can do this, but you know, 562 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: I'll pass it off term two. Now it's oh no, 563 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: he's gonna last all eight years. I just don't think. Look, 564 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: the percentages are not on his side that he'd be 565 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: in a physical capacity to go eight years from where 566 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: he is right now. But you see this, there's this 567 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: generation of politicians who never, never want to not be 568 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: important and be powerful, never want to let it go. 569 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: They'll they'll be the one you know, they'll they'll go 570 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 1: into their hundreds if they can. I mean Pelosi certainly 571 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: is one of them. Same thing with Joe Biden. This 572 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: is Buck's first thoughts. The news You need to get 573 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure you 574 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 1: subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. 575 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 1: Harsani time everybody our friend David Harsani from National Review 576 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,319 Speaker 1: in the mix Good or Nashview dot com to read 577 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 1: his latest David Good to have him. Man, let's jump 578 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,919 Speaker 1: right into the free speech issue. I do not think 579 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: it is even a little bit of an exaggeration. In fact, 580 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: I would just pause it right now that this is 581 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: the most dangerous time for the suppression of speech in 582 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: the country in my lifetime. I think even more so 583 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: than post nine to eleven because of the implications of 584 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 1: what's being said right now. What do you make of it. Yeah, 585 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think it's the worst time 586 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: for free speech since maybe Withdrew Wilson in the First 587 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: World War, Suedition Act and stuff like that. I think 588 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: that people have figured out a way around the First 589 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: Amendment suppressed millions of people and the things that they say. 590 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I have any sort of good, 591 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: you know, ideas and how to stop them. But I 592 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: do know that people who are whose inclination is to 593 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: shut down speech do not care about free expression. They 594 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: don't care about the First Amendment. I think I've noted 595 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,319 Speaker 1: this on the show before, but simply saying I believe 596 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,279 Speaker 1: in the First Amendment doesn't mean anything if you don't 597 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: believe in the values that gird all of that. Lots 598 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,839 Speaker 1: of places don't have a First Amendment. That doesn't mean 599 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: we don't believe in their freedom of speech as well. 600 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: It's a value that we share, but we don't share 601 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 1: it anymore. We have CNN and Oliver Darcy and other 602 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,399 Speaker 1: people like that. We're just authoritarians who want to shut 603 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: down their competitors. I want to shut down people who 604 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: say things they don't like, and the media is the 605 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 1: biggest defender but I think the Democratic Party's pretty bad, 606 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,799 Speaker 1: and I think it both's very poorly moving forward. I 607 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: think there are people, I think there are a lot 608 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: of powerful corporations and voices who would very much like 609 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: to return to a time when they're well, I mean, 610 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,239 Speaker 1: they don't view it as I think people have gotten 611 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 1: used to Fox News being dominant in ratings, for example, 612 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: in cable. But there are a lot of folks out 613 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: there who remember, you know, if you work at CBS 614 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: News or something, you remember that there was no Fox 615 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: News until nineteen ninety six, and we could go back 616 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: to a country in which there is no full spectrum, 617 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: district abution conservative cable channel. I mean they're they're already 618 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: also going after Newsmax and and Oan and pressuring the 619 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: cable providers with and unlike Fox. Those are those are 620 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 1: two channels that they might actually be successful trying to 621 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: get them to get carriage pulled. I mean that's and 622 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: and other cable personalities are calling for this. They of 623 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,759 Speaker 1: course they are, yeah, and listen, I don't you know. 624 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: The argument is these people are saying dangerous things like 625 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,919 Speaker 1: the election was stolen. First of all, I don't care 626 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 1: that they're dangerous things. I think you'd be able to 627 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 1: say whatever you want, whatever you want as want, and 628 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 1: if if you're saying something that's slander, someone should sue you, 629 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: you know, or or or whatever. So I don't care 630 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: if there's a cute and non cable network, right, I 631 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 1: think they deserve to be on the air now people, 632 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: because people are always like trying to make, you know, 633 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: offer some line on what's acceptable or not. That's not 634 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,919 Speaker 1: the point. It's a neutral principle. I am for free 635 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 1: speech and just because it's difficult to defend doesn't mean 636 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,759 Speaker 1: I'm not for it. And the idea that we and 637 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 1: like you mentioned, they're going after o an or whatever 638 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: it's called, but they're also going after podcasts. I saw 639 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,480 Speaker 1: I think I forget where it was USA today at 640 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: a piece about how podcasters are finding a like a 641 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: loophole in which to speak about certain things. Is that 642 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 1: a loophole to speak about certain things? You're just an 643 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,319 Speaker 1: authoritarian censor the loophole. There is an no loophole. The 644 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,240 Speaker 1: loophole is the one that they are using to shut 645 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: down speech they don't like. And so anyway, it's just 646 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,720 Speaker 1: a dangerous way to think about the world. To start 647 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: saying this is acceptable and this isn't you know, people 648 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 1: always mentioned yelling fire in a theater. You can yell 649 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,800 Speaker 1: fire in a theater. That was from a Supreme Court 650 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 1: decision around World War One that allowed Withdrew Wilson to 651 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: throw social anti weere socialists into jail. Yeah, Shank v. Us. 652 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: It was pure authoritarianism and the Holmes the Holmes decision 653 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: was an abomination. But people still yell this like it's 654 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: an argument ender. I know. So anyway, so we're in 655 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: degree is yeah, I mean, I look, I'll give you 656 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 1: an example even today. You know how I feel about lockdowns, 657 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 1: and I'm sorry it is. My view of this has 658 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: always been if we're even having and I just mean 659 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: in general society is even having a debate about how 660 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,799 Speaker 1: effective lockdowns were, that means they weren't effective. Because we 661 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 1: got put into this with the belief that it would 662 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,399 Speaker 1: be it would be, it would be clear. I mean, 663 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: you saw the Atlantic and all these different experts, these 664 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,840 Speaker 1: people were writing in major journals and publications back in 665 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,080 Speaker 1: May and June. You know, we'd have a sixty percent, 666 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: eighty percent reduction in the virus. And now you look 667 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: at places like California all time record, right. I mean, so, 668 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: if it's not obvious that lockdowns are really effective, they're 669 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,839 Speaker 1: clearly not effective enough to justify and by the way, 670 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 1: I would argue even an even more extreme position than that, 671 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 1: but clearly not effective enough to justify the abuse of 672 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: power and authority. But but here we are. I was 673 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: just trying to tell I was just trying to tell 674 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: people my thoughts on this, and and David I got 675 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: a I got dinged on on Facebook for writing after 676 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: covid let's match and put this in quotes after covid 677 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:16,520 Speaker 1: let's mask up during Flu season two. It's already starting. 678 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: Just a few voices here there are in support of 679 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 1: this comment, but it will grow and grow until mask 680 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 1: up forever. It's the polite thing to do, is the 681 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: new mantra. There are people right now who are starting 682 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: the you know, guys, we probably should actually wear masks 683 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 1: after this, because it's so effective and we want to 684 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 1: stop the flu as well. Look what we've done to 685 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: flucases in this country. I'm making an argument about a 686 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: future policy. I'm not even negating or questioning mask effectiveness. 687 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that. And I get a you know, 688 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: this is dinged for you know, you have to go 689 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,640 Speaker 1: to the CDC for more information. And the way this 690 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,799 Speaker 1: works now is I'm I'm going to be shadow band 691 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: on Facebook for the next month for what for pointing 692 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: out what is true? There are people advocating for masking 693 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,520 Speaker 1: even after the mass vaccination happens. The argument for masking 694 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 1: after you've been vaccinated is insane, but people are making 695 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,320 Speaker 1: that argument still. Yeah, I mean, I don't even understand, 696 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 1: Like you can't say the election was stolen, Like why 697 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: can't I say those words? It's ridiculous. But I'm a 698 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,439 Speaker 1: mask thing. I mean, I'm pretti radicalized on this now 699 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 1: in the sense that I'm sorry that I supported any 700 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 1: lockdowns ever at all. I mean, I just don't think 701 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: the government has the right to tell you not to 702 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 1: go to church or not to go to your business. 703 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,400 Speaker 1: If people want to lock themselves down, that's their business. 704 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: If people want to tell you not to want to 705 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 1: tell you to wear a mask in their place of business, 706 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 1: that's fine. But I shouldn't be forced to do it, 707 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 1: you know, to be fined if I'm walking in the street, 708 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,600 Speaker 1: et cetera. There's just no government has no power to 709 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,879 Speaker 1: do that. And I mentioned it again on this show. 710 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: You have governors who act like dictators, and I mean 711 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 1: that in the most literal sense. In the Roman Empire, 712 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: they had dictators and times of emergencies that have full 713 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,839 Speaker 1: power to do whatever they wanted. And that's exactly what 714 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,759 Speaker 1: we have now for almost a year in states in 715 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,640 Speaker 1: Michigan and Virginia and in other states New York. It's 716 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,680 Speaker 1: just an American and I just can't believe that the 717 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: Supreme Court allows them to do that. There is just 718 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,399 Speaker 1: no precedent for it in American history. I'm furious as 719 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,400 Speaker 1: well that not only has there been all this overreach 720 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,880 Speaker 1: and as you point out, the tyranny of these governors 721 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,920 Speaker 1: and primarily Democrat governors, although there are some Republican governors 722 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,000 Speaker 1: that have really been way too willing to go along 723 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,000 Speaker 1: with the the Fauci consensus on this stuff. That guy, 724 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 1: doctor Fauchi, I mean, I don't care what anybody says. 725 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,760 Speaker 1: He's a disaster. I mean, this guy is not helpful, 726 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,280 Speaker 1: his ideas are not sound, he does not have good judgment, 727 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: but he's used as this he's almost this uh you 728 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,640 Speaker 1: know this you know, superhuman figure that we all if 729 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: you challenge him, You're this guy was wrong about the 730 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,399 Speaker 1: risks and spread of HIV for years in years when 731 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,840 Speaker 1: he was a top public health authority about that. That That 732 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: was decades ago. He's been wrong about this time and 733 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,439 Speaker 1: time again. But you see in Europe, David like, there 734 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,880 Speaker 1: was just a protest in the Netherlands and there's a 735 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,319 Speaker 1: photo of a guy jumping on this police machine that's 736 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,800 Speaker 1: essentially like a water cannon, you know, anti protest vehicle, 737 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,680 Speaker 1: and he's he's on the windshield. This protesters jumped on 738 00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 1: the windshield. He's, you know, putting out the middle finger 739 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: to the sky. And I was like, where is that 740 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:34,480 Speaker 1: in this country? They've had huge anti lockdown protests in Spain, 741 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,560 Speaker 1: in Germany, in the Netherlands, I mean, in the UK, 742 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, thousands of people gathering together. Here in America, 743 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:42,960 Speaker 1: we just sort of sit around like, yeah, you know, 744 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 1: maybe one day the vaccine, Well, what's it gonna take. 745 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. That's an interesting that's an interesting thought. 746 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,080 Speaker 1: Maybe people are less inclined to listen here as it 747 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,399 Speaker 1: is in many places, So I don't I don't know. 748 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,760 Speaker 1: You know, when you have urban areas with tons of people, 749 00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:00,719 Speaker 1: it probably becomes more you know, apparent or maybe they're 750 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 1: enforcing it or harsher, but those are just guesses. I 751 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,200 Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't know why Americans aren't more 752 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 1: upset by this. I think they've been. There's a lot 753 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 1: of scare mongering going on. And again, I'm not diminishing 754 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,799 Speaker 1: what's happened. We know what's happened. Hundreds of thousands of 755 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,400 Speaker 1: people have died. But the idea that we should just 756 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 1: shut everyone down when mostly this is a disease that 757 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,120 Speaker 1: affects older people, we could have protected them, We could 758 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,160 Speaker 1: have protected other, you know, parts of the population that 759 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,000 Speaker 1: we're suceptible to it and allowed us, you know, allowed 760 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,880 Speaker 1: the economy to move on and to go on, and 761 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,400 Speaker 1: it just didn't happen that way. And you're right with 762 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,640 Speaker 1: Saint Fauci. You know, my problem with him isn't even 763 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,800 Speaker 1: that he's wrong about a lot of things. My problem 764 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,600 Speaker 1: is that he treats people and American citizens as children, 765 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,440 Speaker 1: like he will tell us, you know, oh, I had 766 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:49,520 Speaker 1: to say that what was it? Herd immunity is going 767 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,359 Speaker 1: to be at sixty five percent, because I didn't want 768 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,319 Speaker 1: to scare people and say it was ninety like that's 769 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,879 Speaker 1: not up to you. You're a public official, you need 770 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,440 Speaker 1: to tell us the information that you have and then 771 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,839 Speaker 1: we make decisions. This is why him when people say 772 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,000 Speaker 1: scientists should be running things, scientists do not balance out, 773 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: you know, in their thought process, all the things that 774 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,600 Speaker 1: go on in society. It is dangerous to allot run things, 775 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,000 Speaker 1: to allow them to lie to people. Saint Fauci David 776 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,680 Speaker 1: the the the original sin for me of Saint Fauci 777 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,680 Speaker 1: was and I do not I believe this is bs. 778 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,120 Speaker 1: I do not believe that this is even really true. 779 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: He was dismissive about the public wearing masks, and we're 780 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,839 Speaker 1: told because he didn't want us to all run out 781 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: and buy the N ninety five masks and there wouldn't 782 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,759 Speaker 1: be enough for healthcare providers. That means this would be 783 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 1: like someone telling you, as a doctor, don't take that 784 00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: antibiotic because I'm worried that somebody else who might need 785 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,239 Speaker 1: it more to say their life, won't have it. That 786 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,280 Speaker 1: is what he did. That is immoral, It is wrong, 787 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 1: but he gets this pass on it. He gets this 788 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,600 Speaker 1: pass and you know what the truth is. It's because 789 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,200 Speaker 1: he knew that the data up until then, and he 790 00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,200 Speaker 1: knew that the science up until then did not support 791 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 1: the trade off of what he now tells us is obvious, 792 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,200 Speaker 1: but he can't say that, so he says, oh, I 793 00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,759 Speaker 1: made this what this idea that he lied to us 794 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,759 Speaker 1: for our own good about masks? This is awful. But 795 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,760 Speaker 1: people think that this is an excuse like their children, 796 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,759 Speaker 1: and and you know, and and there's there's a piece 797 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,680 Speaker 1: in the Times I think today or yesterday where they 798 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,760 Speaker 1: talk about vaccines and how a lot of these public 799 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,520 Speaker 1: officials in government are downplaying the effectiveness of vaccines for 800 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,960 Speaker 1: I don't know why, because they think that, you know, 801 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: people are gonna act I responsibly or whatever. That's not 802 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,760 Speaker 1: up to them. We act. This is a free country 803 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,839 Speaker 1: or was, and we can act in any way we 804 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,799 Speaker 1: feel like within the law. And it's not for them 805 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 1: to treat us like children. The next it's also it 806 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,279 Speaker 1: also go ahead, go ahead, dated policy because yeah, I'm sorry, 807 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,799 Speaker 1: because politicians are not as bright as everyone thinks. I 808 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,319 Speaker 1: hope and or I mean, I hope they don't think that, 809 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,359 Speaker 1: but they aren't bright, and they make policies on what 810 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,520 Speaker 1: foult she says. The governor of Michigan is not bright. 811 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,280 Speaker 1: She just does whatever Foult She says, so if he's lying, 812 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,920 Speaker 1: she's basing public policy on his lies, and that's dangerous 813 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: or not just him, other CDC officials and government officials. 814 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,640 Speaker 1: And we're speaking to David Harsani of National Review. Read 815 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,879 Speaker 1: his latest. He's a clear thinker and he actually cares 816 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,840 Speaker 1: about free speech at National Review dot com. David, the 817 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,040 Speaker 1: next the next fight, And you're already seeing the start 818 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,160 Speaker 1: to happen because this CAMS comes up in that New 819 00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,960 Speaker 1: York Times article, This idea that we should all mask 820 00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:23,120 Speaker 1: up after we're vaccinated, that is rooted in a premise 821 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,320 Speaker 1: that they'll start to lose control of making people mask 822 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,600 Speaker 1: and so maybe then we'll all be safer if we 823 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 1: all mask until we're all sure. But but on an 824 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:38,080 Speaker 1: individual basis, it is irrational. It is irrational to tell 825 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,560 Speaker 1: someone they have to wear a mask after they've been 826 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,480 Speaker 1: vaccinated because of I mean, in the Fiser trial, one 827 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,560 Speaker 1: out of thirty thousand people actually got sick, didn't die, 828 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,640 Speaker 1: got sick with COVID after being vaccinated. If you have 829 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,040 Speaker 1: a one in thirty thousand chance of getting sick, which 830 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,080 Speaker 1: means a one and thirty thousand chance of even getting 831 00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,359 Speaker 1: it and passing it to anybody else. So now that's 832 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,200 Speaker 1: not you know not, you still have to work. These 833 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:06,319 Speaker 1: people are insane. I mean, this is crazy. They like 834 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,919 Speaker 1: to control you, and you know they're gonna say, why 835 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,240 Speaker 1: is you know, why is it okay to fifty thousand 836 00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 1: people a year die of flu and we can just 837 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 1: stop flu and put masks on as if we're supposed 838 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,839 Speaker 1: to walk around being safe from all things all the time. 839 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,319 Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. As soon as I get that vaccine, I'm 840 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,839 Speaker 1: not wearing a mask anymore. I hate wearing a mask now, 841 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,799 Speaker 1: and I don't think it's good for society to wear 842 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,000 Speaker 1: a mask. I don't want to get into the specifics, 843 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,160 Speaker 1: but just interactions with people are weird. No, it's dehuman 844 00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:37,160 Speaker 1: It dehumanizes, it dehumanizes all of us. There's a reason 845 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,840 Speaker 1: why the Taliban dresses women like beekeepers. There's a dehumanization 846 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,880 Speaker 1: to the depersonalization of your appearance in this way. It 847 00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: is not good for society, and I mean this is 848 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,399 Speaker 1: a I'm gearing up for this fight. I'm gonna get 849 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,520 Speaker 1: banned from social media for it, though, David, I'm gonna 850 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,160 Speaker 1: get kicked off of platforms for saying post vaccine, you 851 00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,319 Speaker 1: should not have to mask, and Fauci, if he had 852 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 1: any any guts whatsoever, would say that. But we still 853 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,800 Speaker 1: have about forty percent of New York City schools closed 854 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,239 Speaker 1: down because he doesn't have the guts to say it's 855 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,520 Speaker 1: outrageous that they still have schools shutdown. He won't he 856 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,600 Speaker 1: doesn't want to offend the lib CNN watching consensus. But 857 00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,640 Speaker 1: have you have you noticed the psychs a shift in 858 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,800 Speaker 1: sort of the shutdown stuff since Biden won the election, 859 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,080 Speaker 1: with Cuomo saying we can't go on doing this forever 860 00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,120 Speaker 1: and oh yeah, for liberals, I think you're going to yeah, 861 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,160 Speaker 1: I think now because it's not useful to them. And 862 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,520 Speaker 1: people call me a conspiracy theorist about that this, but 863 00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,279 Speaker 1: I don't think I am. I think that you'll see 864 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,960 Speaker 1: people being more positive, putting more positive spins on things, 865 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,960 Speaker 1: wanting to open things up. They don't want the economy 866 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,799 Speaker 1: failing under Biden, and but they do want to keep 867 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 1: controlling you. So I think that will be interesting, especially 868 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: with the masks. But more than that, the speech. The 869 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,640 Speaker 1: speech bothers me more than anything. There's no reason I 870 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,680 Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to say the election was stolen because 871 00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,360 Speaker 1: you know what, maybe it was maybe one day it 872 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,839 Speaker 1: will be and what I can't say those words because 873 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,600 Speaker 1: it offend someone. It's it's it's also this sort of 874 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,160 Speaker 1: they've used the Capitol Riots to sort of smear everyone. 875 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,160 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper does it all the time on seeing it 876 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,960 Speaker 1: to smear everyone as some kind of radical conspiracy theorists 877 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,919 Speaker 1: for having any questions that do not comport to his worldview. 878 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,000 Speaker 1: And h and it's it's it's it's a way to 879 00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,040 Speaker 1: sort of chill debate. And I think it's it's it's dangerous. 880 00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,040 Speaker 1: R Sonny. We're in this. We're in this one together, 881 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,080 Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you so much for joining us National 882 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,960 Speaker 1: Review dot Com. Read David's latest, please support his work, 883 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,120 Speaker 1: follow him on social media before both of us get 884 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,000 Speaker 1: kicked off. David, thanks so much. Thank you,